Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen woke to find that Dragon Phoenix Power from Zi Yan had greatly strengthened his body, and Zhu Li explained the power of his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor. Ye Chen asked to visit the Void Thunder Pool to train his Nine Revolutions Thunder God Art, and Zhu Li arranged for Hei Qing to take him there.

• Ye Chen discovered that his strength and constitution had each increased by one thousand points after Zi Yan awakened and infused him with Dragon Phoenix Power.
• Zhu Li told Ye Chen that Zi Yan had returned to seclusion to absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s energy.
• Ye Chen asked Zhu Li for the location of the Void Thunder Pool so he could temper his body with its thunder.
• Zhu Li explained that Ye Chen’s Dragon Phoenix Power could form Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and let him withstand attacks from Eight- or Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Zhu Li arranged for Hei Qing to take Ye Chen to the Void Thunder Pool and promised to watch over the girl with Jade Serpent Three-Flower Pupils.

Ye Chen entered the Void Thunder Pool to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Thunder God Art and strengthen his Heavenly Demon Puppets. After reaching the seventh revolution, he headed deeper into the pool to try to condense the complete Thunder God Body.

• Hei Qing brought Ye Chen to the Void Thunder Pool and agreed to guard outside while Ye Chen cultivated.
• Ye Chen entered the thunder pool and released eleven Demon Puppets, whose bodies absorbed the lightning and began to grow stronger.
• Ye Chen cultivated under the heavenly thunder until his Nine Revolutions of the Thunder God reached the seventh revolution, allowing him to form a twelve-zhang Thunder God Body and rise to Seven-Star Peak Dou Zun.
• Ye Chen decided to enter the pool's pitch-black depths to complete the thirty-six-zhang Thunder God Body.

Ye Chen completed the Nine Revolutions Thunder God Art in the Thunder Pool, devoured a Thunder Python, and advanced to Seven Star Dou Zun before leaving with Hei Qing. Deep in the Thunder Pool, an unknown figure fled from more than a dozen bolts of Black Demon Lightning.

• Ye Chen stopped before the Black Demon Lightning and used the Thunder Pool to cultivate his three Heavenly Demon Phoenix puppets while completing the final two revolutions of the Nine Revolutions Thunder God Art.
• Ye Chen's completed Thunder God Body transformed him into a thirty-six-zhang Thunder Giant as the Thunder Pool's energy poured into him.
• A silver Thunder Python with black scales emerged from a Thunder Vortex, and Ye Chen bit off its head and devoured it completely.
• Ye Chen's Dou Qi cultivation rose to Seven Star Dou Zun, and he recalled his puppets before hurrying out of the Thunder Pool.
• Hei Qing transformed into a Black Dragon and carried Ye Chen away, while an unknown figure fled from the depths pursued by more than a dozen bolts of Black Demon Lightning.

Ye Chen and Hei Qing returned to East Dragon Island, where Ye Chen found that elders had gathered to protect it while Zi Yan remained in seclusion. After Qing Lin emerged from seclusion stronger, Ye Chen prepared to leave for the Pill Pagoda, and Zhu Li promised to send Hei Qing to his succession ceremony in a month.

• A Silver-Haired Elder fled the rioting Void Thunder Pool and headed deeper into the void.
• Ye Chen and Hei Qing returned to East Dragon Island, where Ye Chen noticed that powerful elders had gathered.
• Elder Zhu Li welcomed Ye Chen and introduced two powerful elders in white robes.
• Qing Lin emerged from seclusion after refining the Nine-Headed Heaven Snake's soul and reached Six-Star Dou Zun.
• Ye Chen learned that Zi Yan would remain in seclusion, then decided to return to the Pill Pagoda.
• Zhu Li promised that Hei Qing would represent Zi Yan at Ye Chen's Pill Pagoda Chairman succession ceremony, and Hei Qing took Ye Chen and Qing Lin back to the Pill Region.

As Sacred Pill City filled with powerful guests ahead of the succession ceremony, Earth Heart Elder visited the Pill Pagoda and gave Ye Chen a Space Token for the Space Trading Fair. After welcoming more senior powerhouses, Ye Chen left the Pill Pagoda to relax, but Dan Xuan hurried up to him and urged him to come along.

• Powerful figures from Hidden Sects and other factions arrived in Sacred Pill City, and visitors recognized Earth Heart Elder of the Earth Travel Sect.
• Earth Heart Elder met Xuan Kongzi and gave Ye Chen a Space Token that granted privileges at the Space Trading Fair.
• Ye Chen and Xuan Kongzi received numerous senior powerhouses who had come for the Pill Pagoda succession ceremony.
• After finishing with the guests, Ye Chen left the Pill Pagoda, and Dan Xuan found him and hurriedly asked him to come along.

At the Dan Family Manor, Su Lingyin proposed that Ye Chen marry Dan Chen, then offered him Sound Valley’s support as he prepared to inherit the Pill Pagoda chairmanship. Ye Chen had not yet answered her offer when she explained that he would struggle to control the Pill Pagoda and face a major crisis.

• Dan Xuan told Ye Chen that Dan Chen’s mother, the Sound Valley Master, wanted to see him, and explained that Dan Chen was his clan uncle’s daughter whom his father had raised.
• Ye Chen reunited with Dan Chen and Yin Wu at the Dan Family Manor and noticed Dan Chen’s cultivation had improved.
• Dan Chen led Ye Chen to meet her mother, and Su Lingyin proposed that he marry Dan Chen, who she said was willing.
• Dan Chen fled in embarrassment, leaving Ye Chen alone with Su Lingyin.
• Su Lingyin warned that Ye Chen would have difficulty gaining control of the Pill Pagoda and offered Sound Valley’s full support to help him through the coming crisis.

Ye Chen rejected Su Lingyin’s offer to arrange a marriage with Dan Chen and learned that the Soul Hall might send a Dou Saint to disrupt his Pill Tower succession ceremony. Su Lingyin gave him a Spatial Jade Slip for help, then revealed she was a Three-star Dou Saint, leaving Ye Chen wondering if he had been too hasty to refuse her earlier offer.

• Ye Chen told Su Lingyin that he would not marry Dan Chen as part of a deal and would only pursue her if they fell in love.
• Su Lingyin warned Ye Chen that the Soul Hall would likely use a Peak Dou Venerate as bait while sending a Dou Saint to attack the succession ceremony.
• Ye Chen thanked Su Lingyin and resolved to prepare for the possible attack.
• Su Lingyin gave Ye Chen a Spatial Jade Slip and promised to help if he could not handle the enemy.
• Ye Chen learned that Su Lingyin was a Three-star Dou Saint and privately wondered whether he should have accepted her offer.

At the Pill Pagoda succession ceremony, Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi announced their joint retirement, leaving Ye Chen to take over as its new leader. Ye Chen began a public pill-refining demonstration to prove he was worthy of the position.

• Crowds and powerful factions gathered in Sacred Pill City for the Pill Pagoda succession ceremony.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi announced that they would all step down from their positions as Titans.
• Yao Chen reacted with surprise at the three leaders' decision, while Xiao Yan asked him about it.
• Xuan Kongzi told Ye Chen that the rest was up to him, and Ye Chen confidently stepped onto the alchemy platform.
• Ye Chen summoned his Star Chen Cauldron, released his Purple Brown Fire Dragon, and began refining medicine before the assembled crowd.

Ye Chen neared completion of an unusual pill refinement, drawing starlight into his Star Chen Cauldron as the spectators struggled to understand his method. Yao Chen recognized Ye Chen’s technique as Stars Gathering Power, Fire Dragon Condensing Pill, just as the fire dragon plunged into the cauldron.

• Earth Heart Elder reflected that the Earth Travel Sect had sent Ye Chen a precious Space Talisman in hopes of building ties with him.
• Xuan Kongzi told Yao Chen that he had given Ye Chen pill formulas and let him choose what to refine, while Yao Chen and Xuan Yi exchanged an emotional glance.
• Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi suspected Ye Chen was refining a Seven Treasures Soul Cleansing Pill, but noticed he had used more ingredients than the recipe required.
• Ye Chen stood as his cauldron hummed, and stars appeared in the sky, overpowering the sunlight.
• Ye Chen summoned a fire dragon that swallowed the stars and absorbed their power before plunging into the cauldron.
• Yao Chen recognized Ye Chen’s method as Stars Gathering Power, Fire Dragon Condensing Pill.

Ye Chen refined a pill that summoned Black Demon Lightning, and he used his Heavenly Dragon Armor and a giant form to resist its strike. As the lightning clash collapsed the surrounding space, a mysterious voice unleashed a blood-devouring technique on weaker experts nearby.

• Yao Chen and the other alchemists realized Ye Chen had used the Method of Condensing Objects to Contain Pills and raised the Three Thousand Blazing Flames’ energy grade with the Starry Phenomenon.
• A pillar of light rose from the Star Chen Cauldron, and Black Demon Lightning gathered above the arena, signaling the birth of a Ninth-grade Pill.
• The first bolt of Black Demon Lightning struck Ye Chen, whose Heavenly Dragon Armor took the blow but failed to stop it from hurting him.
• Ye Chen grew into a thirty-six-zhang giant and punched the next bolt of lightning, causing a destructive storm that collapsed the space around them.
• A cold voice invoked the Blood Transformation Great Method and Great Blood Devouring Art, causing the blood of nearby experts below Dou Zun level to flow backward.

At the Pill Tower, Blood River attacked the square while Ye Chen’s pill tribulation ended and his Ninth-grade Pill tried to escape. Ye Chen destroyed the chains Soul Hall had used to seize it and secured the pill, while Soul Hall’s larger plan remained unclear.

• Blood River used the Blood Transformation Great Method to attack the square, but Xuan Kongzi and other Pill Tower experts suppressed him.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan not to act rashly, and Xuan Kongzi realized Soul Hall was targeting Ye Chen’s pill.
• Ye Chen’s pill tribulation ended, and the Fire Dragon inside the Star Chen Cauldron burst apart as the Ninth-grade Pill fled in dragon form.
• Black chains emerged from shattered space and bound the pill dragon before Ye Chen could catch it.
• Ye Chen used Heavenly Dragon’s Wrath to erase the chains, and the freed pill flew into his palm.

The Deputy Hall Master of Soul Hall arrived at Danta during the Pill Gathering, prompting Ye Chen to reveal his ability to summon a powerful Golden Dragon. The Soul Avatar gauged the dragon’s strength and learned that Ye Chen’s trump card was an energy construct rather than a true Dragon Race expert.

• The Deputy Hall Master of Soul Hall appeared in a Soul Avatar, and Xuan Kongzi, Old Man Gui Xuan, and Danta’s other experts confronted him.
• Yao Chen identified Old Man Gui Xuan as an ancient Danta guardian who had once guided Xiao Yan through the Pill World.
• The Deputy Hall Master challenged Ye Chen to summon the Dou Sheng-level dragon, while Xuan Kongzi warned Ye Chen that the Soul Avatar was a genuine Dou Sheng.
• Ye Chen used Dragon Soul True Body to summon an enormous Golden Dragon, and Danta’s elders raised a protective barrier over Sacred Pill City.
• The Deputy Hall Master judged that the Golden Dragon was an energy construct at roughly peak One-Star or Two-Star Dou Sheng strength and concluded that he had learned Ye Chen’s trump card.

Ye Chen destroyed the Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master's Soul Avatar, but Soul Hall's attack on the Pill Tower continued when Blood River tried to slaughter the ceremony's hundreds of thousands of spectators. An unknown Dou Sheng powerhouse killed Blood River and saved the crowd, and Ye Chen told Xuan Kongzi she was one of his elders.

• Ye Chen destroyed the Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master's Soul Avatar, and the Deputy Hall Master warned him to expect Soul Hall's prepared gift.
• Blood River used the Great Blood Devouring Art to kill spectators and unleashed his Blood Transformation Great Method, threatening the crowd with blood-colored Dou Qi.
• A white-robed woman crushed Blood River and dispersed the blood sea before vanishing.
• With the crisis over, Ye Chen entered the plaza and told Xuan Kongzi that the woman was one of his elders, whom he had asked to guard the ceremony.

After Soul Hall’s attack exposed the Pill Tower’s weakness in high-level combat power, Chairman Ye Chen proposed creating a Retainer Council to strengthen its defenses. He planned to recruit Peak Dou Venerates and Half-Saints by offering them access to his Ninth-grade pill refining skills.

• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi discussed Soul Hall’s strength and warned that the Pill Tower remained outmatched in Saint-level experts.
• Old Man Gui Xuan said the Small Pill Tower’s ancestor was monitoring Soul Hall’s Hall Master, but urged the Pill Tower to remain cautious of the Deputy Hall Master and the Three Great Heavenly Venerables.
• Ye Chen said the succession ceremony had revealed the Pill Tower’s lack of readily deployable combat forces.
• Ye Chen proposed forming a Retainer Council and recruiting Peak Dou Venerates and Half-Saints to serve the Pill Tower.
• Ye Chen offered Mortal Saint retainers an annual opportunity to have him refine a Ninth-grade Pill, and Old Man Gui Xuan agreed that the reward could attract experts.

After taking over as Pill Tower Chairman, Ye Chen began reorganizing the Pill Tower and asked Song Qing to consider competing for the final Candidate for Giant position. He explained that Song Qing’s choice could determine whether the Song Family remained among the Five Great Clans.

• Ye Chen accepted responsibility for choosing a replacement among the Five Great Clans and began planning the Venerable Council and the other Candidate for Giant position.
• Hei Qing asked to join the Pill Tower’s Venerable Council, and Ye Chen accepted him as a temporary member.
• Ye Chen summoned Song Qing and explained that Cao Ying already held one Candidate for Giant position, leaving one position open.
• Ye Chen told Song Qing that becoming a Candidate for Giant could lead to him becoming a Pill Tower Titan, but the Titan’s clan could not remain among the Five Great Clans.
• Ye Chen warned Song Qing that if he competed for the position, the Song Family would probably not be chosen as one of the Five Great Clans.

Song Qing chose to represent the Song Family in the selection for the Five Great Clans, while Ye Chen prepared to form a Venerable Council and learned that Xiao Yan and Yao Chen had left for the Eastern Region. Nalan Yanran then sought Ye Chen’s help with Yun Yun’s bid to become the Flower Sect Leader, and he welcomed her into his office to hear the details.

• Song Qing declined to compete with Dan Chen and chose to represent the Song Family in the Five Great Clans selection.
• Ye Chen gave the evolved Heavenly Demon Puppets and his remaining resources to Ye Zhong, then learned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen had left Starfall Pavilion for the Eastern Region.
• Ye Chen ordered Great Elder Qiu Ling to announce the formation of a Venerable Council for candidates with Peak Dou Venerate-level combat strength.
• Ye Xinyue told Ye Chen that Nalan Yanran had come seeking help because Yun Yun was competing for the Flower Sect leadership.
• Ye Chen had an Elder bring Nalan Yanran into Pill Tower and reassured her before asking about Yun Yun’s rival.

Ye Chen learned that Yun Yun faced a Flower Sect challenge requiring a male companion and arranged for Hei Qing to help her. After they left for the Flower Sect, Ye Chen anticipated using the Tianming Sect’s retaliation as an opening for the Pill Pagoda to intervene.

• Nalan Yanran explained that the Acting Sect Leader demanded Flower Granny’s sealed Dou Qi from Yun Yun and arranged a contest where the Acting Sect Leader could fight alongside the Six-Star Dou Zun Evil Flower Demon Lord.
• Ye Chen realized that Yun Yun needed a male companion for the contest, while his position as Pill Pagoda Chairman prevented him from stepping in himself.
• Ye Chen summoned Hei Qing, an Eight-Star Peak Dou Zun, and told him to keep the Acting Sect Leader alive but kill the Evil Flower Demon Lord.
• Ye Chen sent Hei Qing, Nalan Yanran, and Ye Xinyue to the Flower Sect, with Ye Xinyue representing the Ye Family.
• Ye Chen expected the Tianming Sect to retaliate after Hei Qing killed its powerful ally, giving the Pill Pagoda a chance to intervene.

Yun Yun faced Hua Jin and the Evil Flower Demon Lord over the Dou Qi seal left by Flower Granny, while Nalan Yanran and Ye Xinyue brought Hei Qing to help her. Hei Qing killed the Evil Flower Demon Lord with a single slap, leaving Hua Jin and the Flower Sect elders stunned.

• Yun Yun told Hua Jin she had no interest in leading the Flower Sect and challenged her to take the Dou Qi seal if she wanted it.
• Hua Jin called on the Evil Flower Demon Lord to fight Yun Yun, and Yun Yun said she had no partner to call upon.
• Hei Qing arrived with Nalan Yanran and Ye Xinyue, who introduced him as Yun Yun's male companion and explained the ruse to Yun Yun.
• The Evil Flower Demon Lord attacked Hei Qing after Hei Qing mocked him.
• Hei Qing struck the Evil Flower Demon Lord once and killed him, leaving his body crushed in a palm print on the plaza.

Ye Chen asked Su Lingyin to let Dan Chen take the Pill Pagoda Titan candidate assessment, but Su Lingyin hesitated because of Dan Chen’s dangerous soul-sucking ability. She revealed that the ability came from her bloodline and began explaining how it had led to Dan Chen’s father’s death.

• Ye Chen visited Dan Chen and Su Lingyin to propose that Dan Chen take the Small Pill Tower assessment for the vacant Pill Pagoda Titan candidate position.
• Su Lingyin questioned whether exposing Dan Chen to the Pill Pagoda elders would put her at risk, while Ye Chen argued that the Pill Pagoda’s support could help her.
• Su Lingyin demonstrated a soul-sucking ability far stronger than Dan Chen’s and told Ye Chen that Dan Chen inherited it from her bloodline.
• Su Lingyin explained that her bloodline awakened when she became pregnant, nearly draining Dan Chen’s father of his Soul Power and life force.
• Su Lingyin said she sent Dan Chen’s father back to the Dan family, where he died within a year, and sent newborn Dan Chen to be raised there to protect her.

Ye Chen learned that Su Lingyin and Dan Chen carried the bloodline of the long-extinct Tunling Clan, whose powers could devour life force and Soul Power. He warned that the Soul Clan might target them if their identities were exposed and proposed that Dan Chen become a Pill Pagoda Titan to gain resources and protection.

• Ye Chen asked Su Lingyin about her bloodline, and she explained that her Tunling Clan heritage had nearly vanished over time.
• Su Lingyin revealed that she had awakened the Tunling Clan's devouring abilities but found no inherited memories, and she said Dan Chen would likely need to reach Dou Sheng to live normally.
• Ye Chen realized the Tunling Clan had been a dangerous race and recalled that the Soul Clan's Nihility Devouring Flame had devoured its last leader.
• Ye Chen cautioned Su Lingyin that the Soul Clan could endanger her and Dan Chen if they discovered their identities.
• Ye Chen urged Dan Chen to become a Pill Pagoda Titan for the resources and safety she needed, and promised to protect her.