Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen completed the refinement of a Dragon Blood Supreme Pill and raised its quality by adding his blood, triggering three-colored pill lightning. Xiong Zhan endured the lightning while Ye Chen protected the finished pill, which emerged in the form of a lively little dragon.

• After nearly twenty days of fusing the medicinal power, Ye Chen caused the Star Chen Cauldron to erupt and formed a two-colored thundercloud.
• Ye Chen added a bead of his blood to the pill, and the thundercloud gained a third color as Xiong Zhan realized the lightning would be dangerous for Ye Chen.
• Xiong Zhan took on the three-colored pill lightning, repeatedly striking the bolts while they battered his body.
• When the lightning ended, Ye Chen caught the crimson light from the cauldron with Soul Power and revealed a lively Little Dragon pill.
• Xiong Zhan hurried over and eagerly asked Ye Chen whether the pill had succeeded.

Ye Chen left the Pill World after gathering medicinal materials and successfully refining a Rank Eight Pill for Xiong Zhan. Back with Xuan Kongzi, he learned the Pill Tower had defeated the Soul Hall in the Yin Mo Mountain Range and continued planning to subdue the Three Thousand Blazing Flames.

• Ye Chen took selected medicinal materials from the Pill World and told Xiong Zhan to aim for an Eighth Grade breakthrough before they met again at the Pill Gathering in five years.
• Ye Chen considered the threats facing the Xiao Family and planned to prepare for obtaining the Three Thousand Blazing Flames by strengthening his Dou Qi and Soul Realm and stockpiling pills.
• Ye Chen returned to Xuan Kongzi's office and reported that he had refined a Rank Eight Pill for Xiong Zhan.
• Xuan Kongzi proposed that Xiong Zhan serve Ye Chen after the Pill Gathering for five years as compensation for the pill.
• Ye Chen asked about the Pill Tower's battle against the Soul Hall, and Xuan Kongzi said the Pill Tower had won despite Xue He using the Blood River Grand Formation.

Ye Chen refined Xuanxin Pills and entered seclusion, while the Three Great Heads built a Space Tunnel connecting Misty Mountain Valley and the Ye Family. After breaking through to Three-Star Dou Zong, Ye Chen used a pill to advance again, ending the chapter as his cultivation surged.

• Ye Chen refined two Xuanxin Pills over ten days and entered seclusion to increase his cultivation.
• Golden Cauldron Venerable repaired the Ye Family's Space Tunnel, and Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi built another tunnel connecting Misty Mountain Valley to the Ye Family.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Rank Eight Pills to Queen Medusa Cai Die and Xiao Yi Xian, prompting Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi to give them greeting gifts as well.
• Ye Chen broke through from Two-Star Dou Zong to Three-Star Dou Zong after a month in seclusion.
• Ye Chen swallowed a Xuanxin Pill and used the Star Divination Art to absorb its medicinal strength.
• One month later, Ye Chen's body trembled as his cultivation rose again.

Ye Chen extracted Earth Core Soul Marrow and harmonized it with Pill Spirit Paste and Gastrodia Jade Stone Essence to make Soul Liquid. He hoped the Soul Liquid could help his grandfather, Ye Zhong, reach the Spirit Realm, but Ye Chen still lacked a soul secret art he could pass on to him.

• Ye Chen bored into the Earth Core Jade Marrow with Starfire and collected its Earth Core Soul Marrow while the trapped little snake raged at him.
• Ye Chen estimated that half the marrow would be enough to raise his Soul Power to the Spirit Realm Middle Stage and considered how Ye Zhong might break through to the Spirit Realm.
• Ye Chen prepared the Gastrodia Jade Stone Essence by refining away its outer stone and exposing the pale paste inside.
• Ye Chen combined measured amounts of Earth Core Soul Marrow, Pill Spirit Paste, and stone essence in a jade bowl.
• Ye Chen added a final drop of stone essence, and the ingredients settled into a jade-green, vitality-filled paste.

Ye Chen used Earth Core Soul Marrow to strengthen his soul, advancing to the Spirit Realm Middle Stage. He then asked Xuan Kongzi for permission to subdue the Three Thousand Blazing Flames.

• Ye Chen drank blended Earth Core Soul Marrow and endured severe pain as his Soul Power rapidly grew.
• Spiritual Energy merged with Ye Chen's soul, raising it to the Spirit Realm Middle Stage and letting him sense activity within a hundred meters.
• Ye Chen went to Xuan Kongzi's office and explained that he had obtained Earth Core Soul Marrow while being pursued by the Soul Hall.
• Xuan Kongzi praised Ye Chen's good fortune and asked why he had been improving his cultivation so quickly.
• Ye Chen asked Xuan Kongzi to let him try subduing the Three Thousand Blazing Flames.

Ye Chen persuaded the Three Thousand Burning Flame to enter his body, but the flame seized control and began absorbing the scattered fire to strengthen itself. Xuan Kongzi attacked to stop it, then halted when the possessed Ye Chen warned that his disciple could die.

• Xuan Kongzi saw the Three Thousand Burning Flame awaken without going berserk and realized it was communicating with Ye Chen.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame agreed to Ye Chen’s proposal and transformed into Origin Fire, which Ye Chen drew into his body.
• The flame spread through Ye Chen, then pulled the scattered fires into him as it took control and declared itself free.
• Xuan Kongzi summoned a thousand-zhang Soul Giant and launched a devastating attack at the possessed Ye Chen.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame stopped Xuan Kongzi by threatening Ye Chen’s life while secretly absorbing fire to build its strength and escape the Star Domain.

Ye Chen let the Three Thousand Blazing Flames invade his soul space, then watched as it seized his body and used its power to rapidly raise his cultivation. When the flame spirit pushed him to the brink of injury, Ye Chen activated the Star Vein Diagram and revealed the overwhelming Starry Sky Dragon within it.

• Ye Chen recognized that the Three Thousand Blazing Flames intended to take over his body and retreated into his Star Vein Diagram.
• The Little Fire Dragon absorbed its original flame power through Ye Chen's body, raising his cultivation toward Nine-Star Dou Zong while Ye Chen encouraged it to keep going.
• The Little Fire Dragon prepared to force a breakthrough to Dou Zun despite the damage it would cause Ye Chen's body.
• Ye Chen accepted the prompt to replace the Star Vein Diagram with the perfect fire spirit body.
• A gigantic Starry Sky Dragon appeared and swallowed the stunned Little Fire Dragon, which remembered the similar dragon that had marked it in the past.

After refining the Three Thousand Blazing Flames and changing his Star Vein Diagram, Ye Chen gained immense physical and soul power, leaving Xuan Kongzi stunned. Ye Chen assessed his new strength and looked forward to testing it in a fight with Xiong Zhan.

• Ye Chen's Star Vein Diagram changed, returning his lit Star Palaces to Star Veins and raising his basic attributes to one thousand each.
• Ye Chen released a soul aura so powerful that Xuan Kongzi wondered if it surpassed his own Soul Power, though Ye Chen remained in the Spirit Realm.
• Xuan Kongzi concluded that Ye Chen's achievements might surpass his teacher's and recalled Yao Chen, who had once given the Pill Tower similar hope.
• Ye Chen judged that his physical strength alone rivaled a Dou Zun and could contend with Queen Medusa's strength.
• Ye Chen decided that if he met Xiong Zhan again, he would gladly have a fist-to-fist battle with him.

Ye Chen absorbed the remaining Purple-Black Flame in the Star Domain, fused the Three Thousand Blazing Flames with his Starfire, and broke through to Dou Zun. Afterward, he checked his Star Vein Diagram and found that the evolved diagram offered powerful bonuses but required far more star power to complete.

• Xuan Kongzi watched as Ye Chen's absorption of the Star Domain's fire energy resumed and realized Ye Chen was preparing to break through to Dou Zun.
• Ye Chen summoned a fire dragon that devoured Purple-Black Flame, then fused the Three Thousand Blazing Flames with Starfire to create the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame.
• Ye Chen awakened as a Dou Zun and demonstrated his new strength by twisting the space before him with his grip.
• Ye Chen added his Star Vein points to the Dragon Head Star Region and reviewed the increased bonuses and the greater effort needed to complete his evolved Star Vein Diagram.

After subduing the Three Thousand Blazing Flames, Ye Chen refined the Star Domain’s remaining energy and advanced his strength and abilities. He then refined the Vajra Bodhi Pill for Golden Cauldron Venerable, impressing the Pill Tower elders with a Four-Colored Pill Lightning.

• Ye Chen asked Xuan Kongzi to let him use the Star Domain as a cultivation ground, and Xuan Kongzi agreed while warning that it would soon run out of energy and collapse.
• Ye Chen absorbed the flames and remaining star power in three months, stabilizing at the peak of One Star Dou Zun and lighting the tenth Star Palace of the Dragon Head Star Region.
• Ye Chen left the ruined Star Domain through a Space Tunnel and decided to return to the Ye Family after refining the promised Vajra Bodhi Pill.
• Ye Chen refined the Vajra Bodhi Pill at the Pill Tower, drawing a lightning cloud that grew from three-colored to four-colored.
• Mu Rong, Qiu Ling, the Cao Clan Old Ancestor, and the Dan Clan Old Ancestor watched Ye Chen’s pill lightning and marveled at his alchemy skill.

Ye Chen visited Misty Valley after winning over the Pill Pagoda's Great Elders, intending to see his family and help Xiao Yi Xian condense a poison pill. He reunited with Song Chun'er, Alita, and Qing Lin, while the Ye Family's young disciples were settling into the valley.

• Xuan Kongzi prepared Ye Chen to succeed him as Pill Pagoda Titan and considered stepping down to focus on alchemy.
• Ye Chen left Sacred Pill City for Misty Valley to visit his family and help Xiao Yi Xian condense a poison pill.
• Ye Chen found Ye Family disciples building houses in Misty Valley under Ye Chi's direction.
• Alita tried to teach Qing Lin to fight, but Qing Lin explained that Ye Chen had taught her to let her enslaved magical beasts fight for her.
• Ye Chen arrived at the Inner Valley and reunited with Song Chun'er, Alita, and Qing Lin.

Ye Chen returned to the valley with a way to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Body of Calamity and a Heaven Tier Low-Level cultivation method for Qing Lin. After revealing that he had reached One Star Dou Zun, he agreed to help Queen Medusa break through and offered her a crystal-like spinal bone that stirred a powerful reaction in both Medusa and Qing Lin.

• Ye Chen told Song Chun’er, Alita, and Qing Lin that he had prepared the Poison Pill Method materials and brought Qing Lin a Heaven Tier Low-Level cultivation method.
• Ye Chen summoned Xiao Yi Xian and Queen Medusa from seclusion, and Medusa asked what realm he had reached.
• Ye Chen revealed that he had advanced to One Star Dou Zun, leaving Queen Medusa and the others stunned.
• Queen Medusa asked Ye Chen to help her break through to Dou Zun, and he agreed.
• Ye Chen produced a crystal-like spinal bone from the remains of a likely Ninth-tier Magical Beast, and both Queen Medusa and Qing Lin were captivated by it.

Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family with Xiao Yi Xian to help her resolve the Poisonous Body of Calamity, while Qing Lin began cultivating with the Nine Revolutions Heaven Snake Treasure Record. Lin Xiu delivered the items he had obtained in the Black-Corner Region and reported that Ye Xinyue wanted Ye Chen to visit Jia Nan Academy.

• Ye Chen helped Qing Lin begin cultivating with the Nine Revolutions Heaven Snake Treasure Record, which also aided her Jade Serpent Three-Flower Pupils.
• Ye Chen brought Xiao Yi Xian through the Space Wormhole back to the Ye Family to prepare to condense her poison core.
• Lin Xiu gave Ye Chen a Storage Ring containing the Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse and the Heavenly Demon Puppet production method.
• Lin Xiu reported that Earth Demon Old Ghost had resisted handing over the method at Demon Flame Valley but had yielded after Retainer Hu Tian intervened.
• Lin Xiu told Ye Chen that Ye Xinyue was secluding herself to break through to Dou Wang at Jia Nan Academy and had asked him to visit her about something important.

Ye Chen advised Ye Zhong to pursue an Eighth Grade Alchemist breakthrough and then began treating Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Body of Calamity at the Yang Fire Ancient Altar. He drove the poison throughout her body into her lower abdomen, where the three fused Strange Fires bound it in place.

• Ye Chen urged Ye Zhong to exchange for a Soul Cultivation Method and use the Earth Core Soul Marrow to attempt advancement to an Eighth Grade Alchemist.
• Ye Zhong agreed to focus on the exchange, while Ye Chen arranged the Ye Family’s affairs and learned that Qin Yan was cultivating to break through to Dou Zun.
• Ye Chen brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and warned her that forcing the Poisonous Calamity Gas together would be painful.
• Ye Chen fused the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Sea Heart Flame into a purple-green Merged Strange Fire.
• Ye Chen used the flames to drive the poison from Xiao Yi Xian’s body into her lower abdomen and bound it there with a ring of fire.

Ye Chen used the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to help Xiao Yi Xian neutralize the Poisonous Calamity Gas and begin forming a poison pill. Xiao Yi Xian started compressing the poison-gas vortex, and Ye Chen waited for the process to finish.

• Ye Chen placed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core in Xiao Yi Xian's poison-gas vortex.
• Ye Chen tempered the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva with the Purple Green Flame and discovered it had produced a Bodhi Seed, which he put away.
• Ye Chen applied the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to Xiao Yi Xian, restoring vitality throughout her body.
• Ye Chen channeled the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva into the vortex, where its vitality neutralized the poison gas's deathly aura.
• Ye Chen urged Xiao Yi Xian to circulate her Dou Qi and compress the poison gas, and she began forming the poison pill.

Two months later, Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian traveled through Bone Transformation City, where they found a Thousand-Year Tuckahoe Branch. Ye Chen explained that he was heading to Jia Nan Academy and the Jia Ma Empire to check on the Snake-People Race for Cai Die, leaving Xiao Yi Xian feeling envious of Cai Die’s special place in his life.

• Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian left Bone Transformation City’s largest medicinal material shop with a Thousand-Year Tuckahoe Branch that the shopkeeper had failed to recognize.
• Ye Chen reflected on Xiao Yi Xian’s rise to One Star Dou Zun after the Poison Pill’s creation released the energy stored in her body.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked why Ye Chen was traveling to the Northwest Continent, and he said Xin Yue had invited him to Jia Nan Academy.
• Ye Chen told Xiao Yi Xian he would visit the Jia Ma Empire and check on the Snake-People Race while Cai Die remained in seclusion.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she felt she fell short of Cai Die, and Ye Chen teased her about whether he treated her poorly.

Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian spent a romantic night together before traveling to Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy. They arrived as students gathered to enter the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, and the crowd parted for them.

• Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian reminisced about their time together in Green Mountain Town and grew closer during a quiet night at the inn.
• The next morning, Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian set out for the Northwest Continent and reached Jia Nan Academy in less than a month.
• Xiao Yi Xian wondered how Junior Sister Xinyue’s cultivation was progressing, and Ye Chen teased her as they approached the academy.
• Students gathered outside the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, but the crowd opened a path when someone appeared behind them, silencing a student who had complained.

As students gathered to enter the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Xun'er watched anxiously as a disturbance erupted inside and forced everyone to evacuate. Deep beneath the tower, invisible flames battered a barrier raised by more than a dozen elders, leaving the crisis unresolved.

• Star Pavilion arrived at the tower, where Hu Jia told Xiao Xun'er that joining the faction had protected them from older students.
• The chapter revealed that Xiao Yan had joined the Medicine Gang, while Hu Jia and Xiao Xun'er joined Star Pavilion and Wu Hao joined Wolf Fang.
• The tower doors opened, but a sudden tremor made the energy inside churn violently, and an aged voice ordered everyone inside to evacuate within ten minutes.
• Xiao Xun'er briefly showed a golden flash in her eyes, then left the tower grounds with Star Pavilion as the faction's senior sister organized the evacuation.
• Deep beneath the tower, invisible flames surged toward the top, but more than a dozen elders' Small Space Barrier held against them in a violent stalemate.

Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan entered the space beneath the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to investigate the Fallen Heart Flame, but its sudden attack left them struggling to escape. Ye Xinyue weakened it briefly with Heavenly Cold Qi, but the flame roared and began surging with power again.

• The Inner Academy elders sealed the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the tower, then heard violent crashes from below and Great Elder Su Qian realized someone had entered the tower's depths.
• Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan confronted the Fallen Heart Flame's enormous Flame Python, and Ye Xinyue decided they needed to flee.
• The Flame Python charged the two women twice, forcing Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan to dodge its attacks.
• Ye Xinyue threw an ice-blue Jade Bottle and released Heavenly Cold Qi, which briefly weakened the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame let out a furious roar, and its energy surged as the surrounding temperature rose again.

Ye Chen reunited with Ye Xinyue and met her friend Zi Yan after rescuing them from the Fallen Heart Flame’s attack. He freed Zi Yan and won her over with a pill, while the Flame Python remained sealed nearby.

• The Fallen Heart Flame erupted, trapping Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan as the Flame Python attacked them.
• Ye Chen stopped the Flame Python and its flames with a spatial seal, then emerged from the void and reunited with Ye Xinyue.
• Ye Chen praised Ye Xinyue’s rapid cultivation, and she explained how her methods and resources had helped her progress.
• Ye Xinyue introduced Zi Yan as her good sister, and Ye Chen released her from the spatial seal.
• Ye Chen gave Zi Yan a Seventh Grade Instant Qi Pill, which she swallowed without trouble.
• Ye Xinyue asked Ye Chen what he planned to do with the sealed Flame Python.