Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen visited Sound Valley to give Su Lingyin a mass of Tunling Clan Bloodline Power and asked her to join the battle against the Soul Hall. Three days later, the Pill Tower Alliance set out in force, splitting its army between the Human Hall and Heaven Hall.

• Ye Chen brought Dan Chen to Sound Valley and asked Su Lingyin to help fight the Soul Hall.
• Ye Chen showed Su Lingyin the substance he had extracted from the Nihility Devouring Flame, and she identified it as likely Tunling Clan Bloodline Power.
• Su Lingyin accepted the bloodline energy and promised to leave with Ye Chen after three days.
• Ye Chen assembled the Pill Tower Alliance army in Sacred Pill City and opened a Space Gate toward the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan led one-third of the forces toward the Human Hall, while Ye Chen took the rest toward the Heaven Hall.

Ye Chen led the Pill Tower Alliance to Heavenly Absolute Peak to confront the Soul Hall’s Heaven Hall, where Hun Miesheng and six other Dou Saints emerged to meet them. Ye Chen challenged Hun Miesheng over how many Soul Clan experts had come to support him, as both sides prepared for battle.

• Ye Chen arrived at Heavenly Absolute Peak with the Pill Tower Alliance and a powerful force of Dou Saints, puppets, and hidden reinforcements.
• Zi Yan wanted to charge into the Heaven Hall, but Ye Chen said the Soul Hall had already come out to meet them.
• Hun Miesheng and six other Soul Hall Dou Saints emerged from a Space Tunnel in a cloud of Black Mist.
• Xuan Kongzi recalled how Hun Xuzi had betrayed the Pill Tower and helped the Soul Clan kill its former Tower Master.
• Hun Miesheng recognized Ye Chen’s Five Star Dou Sheng strength and inferred that he had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Ye Chen asked how many experts the Soul Clan had sent to face the Pill Tower Alliance.

Ye Chen accepted Hun Miesheng’s challenge and fought him to test his power after subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Their clash ended with both fighters unharmed, leaving the battle between them unresolved.

• Hun Miesheng challenged Ye Chen to settle the grudge between Soul Hall and the Pill Tower, and Ye Chen accepted.
• Ye Chen surprised Hun Miesheng with his speed and physical strength, then activated his Thunder God Body.
• Hun Miesheng unleashed his Soul Extermination Sword, whose deathly energy tore through the sky.
• Ye Chen countered with the World-Ending Thunder Fist, sending a massive black lightning dragon into the sword image.
• The two attacks collided in a tremendous explosion, and Ye Chen and Hun Miesheng remained unharmed.

Ye Chen and Hun Miesheng began their full battle after an evenly matched probe, and Ye Chen battered him with powerful soul and dragon techniques. Hun Miesheng survived by revealing a Sub-Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Ye Chen unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, but Hun Miesheng countered it with Ten Thousand Souls Worship, and their collision forced the surrounding fighters to retreat.
• Ye Chen struck Hun Miesheng six times in succession with True Dragon Shading Heaven Hand, leaving him bloodied and badly injured.
• Zi Yan and the spectators wondered whether Ye Chen had won, but Hun Miesheng laughed as he emerged from the dust.
• Hun Miesheng revealed that a Sub-Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame had absorbed much of Ye Chen's attacks and kept him alive.

Ye Chen’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame overwhelmed Hun Miesheng’s Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and began refining it. With Hun Miesheng’s trump card suppressed, Ye Chen unleashed three more powerful attacks against him.

• Hun Miesheng sent the human-faced Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame to trap and devour Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged and blasted apart the Black Flame prison.
• Jing Lian trapped the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and began refining it, severing its connection to Hun Miesheng.
• Ye Chen told Hun Miesheng that the Heavenly Flame battle would soon be decided and launched three more attacks at him.

The Soul Clan intervened to rescue Hun Miesheng and the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame, but Zi Yan killed several attackers while the survivors escaped. After the Heaven Hall fell and Jing Lian finished absorbing the Sub-Flame, Ye Chen learned that Soul Clan Experts had ambushed Yao Chen and the others during their attack on the Human Hall, targeting Xiao Yan.

• Soul Demon Old Man and the Soul Clan Dou Shengs attacked to rescue the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and Hun Miesheng, but Zi Yan killed three of them and the rest fled.
• Elder Zhu drove off Soul Demon Old Man, while Ye Chen discovered that Hun Miesheng had escaped by abandoning his body and stopped the others from pursuing the Soul Clan.
• Ye Chen explained to Zi Yan how he had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Jing Lian finished refining the Sub-Flame before giving Ye Chen a powerful Black Bead.
• Ye Chen led the army to flatten the Heaven Hall and found that many of its stored Soul Origins had been consumed, likely by Hun Miesheng.
• A report revealed that Soul Clan Experts had ambushed Yao Chen and the others during their attack on the Human Hall, with Xiao Yan as their target.

After the Pill Tower Alliance defeated the Soul Hall, Ye Chen examined the unconscious Xiao Yan and found that his soul was undergoing an unstable change. He prepared to use the Soul Origin recovered from Human Hall to help Xiao Yan awaken, while Gu Xun'er vowed to protect him.

• Ye Chen guessed that the Soul Clan had ambushed Xiao Yan to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then led his people back after the Pill Tower Alliance destroyed the Soul Hall.
• The Central State celebrated Ye Chen's victory as the end of the Soul Hall and the beginning of the Age of Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen examined Xiao Yan at the Heaven Star Mountain Range and found his body recovering, but his soul was unstable and could not safely be treated by outside intervention.
• Gu Xun'er pleaded with Ye Chen to stabilize Xiao Yan's soul and swore she would not let anything happen to him.
• Yao Chen produced the remaining Soul Origin taken from Human Hall, and Ye Chen decided to refine it and have Xiao Yan absorb it to help him awaken.

After months of seclusion and tending to his family, Ye Chen received word that Cai Die had emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python. The chapter ended with Ye Chen and Cai Die gazing at each other again in the Beast Region.

• The Yan and Lei Clans invited the Yao Clan to form a small Three Clans Alliance after the Soul Clan obtained the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade.
• Ye Chen sent Qing Lin to the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe to guard against Huang Tian targeting it.
• Ye Chen emerged from months of seclusion with his Soul Realm still at Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, then spent time with his family.
• Ye Chen raised Ye Zhong from Five-Star Dou Zun to Mid Half-Saint with Ninth-grade Pills, strengthening him to oversee the Ye Family.
• More than half a year later, Cai Die emerged from seclusion, and nine-colored light and bloodline pressure filled the Underground World.
• Ye Chen and Cai Die saw each other again, and she smiled at him.

After Cai Die emerged from seclusion as a Five Star Dou Sheng, she revealed that the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Ancestors’ Remnant Souls let her fight opponents at the Six Star level. Ye Chen and Cai Die settled in Sacred Pill City as the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon approached, and Ye Chen considered the danger of the Soul Clan’s coming attack.

• Cai Die tested her new strength against Ye Chen, then told him she had reached the early stage of Five Star Dou Sheng.
• Cai Die explained that the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Ancestors’ Remnant Souls had attached themselves to her and allowed her to fight a Six Star Dou Sheng.
• Ye Chen comforted Cai Die by promising to look for a way to repair the Ancestors’ souls and revive them.
• Ye Chen and Cai Die settled in Sacred Pill City while Ye Chen anticipated the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon.
• Ye Chen reflected that the Soul Clan would attack an Ancient Race openly and wondered whether getting involved would put him in danger.

Ye Chen met Su Lingyin, who asked him to help obtain more Tunling Clan Bloodline Power from the Nihility Devouring Flame. She revealed the bloodline could return Origin Substance to the outside world and offered to help Ye Chen rapidly grow stronger in exchange for the complete Tunling Clan Royal Bloodline, leaving Dan Chen stunned.

• Su Lingyin visited Ye Chen at the Pill Tower and asked about the Black Bead he had sent her.
• Ye Chen confirmed the bead came from the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and warned that obtaining more would mean confronting the flame and the Soul Clan.
• Su Lingyin explained that the Tunling Clan could return what it devoured as Origin Substance, and said the Black Bead had changed her bloodline.
• Su Lingyin offered to help Ye Chen rapidly increase his strength if he helped her obtain the complete Tunling Clan Royal Bloodline.
• Dan Chen was dumbfounded by her mother's proposal.

Ye Chen agreed to bring Su Lingyin to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, where he expected a dangerous confrontation, and went to Ancient Dragon Island to strengthen himself before it. He entered the Void Thunder Pool with Zi Yan and passed her thunder-tempering techniques to try cultivating there.

• Ye Chen learned that Su Lingyin’s strength had fallen to Five Star Dou Sheng Peak and asked her to prepare to attend the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon with him.
• Su Lingyin worried that acting during the Medicine Canon would bring the Yao Clan’s experts against them, but Ye Chen told her to follow his arrangements.
• Dan Chen left with her mother before telling Ye Chen what was troubling her, and Ye Chen decided to seek additional protection for the coming danger.
• Ye Chen went to Ancient Dragon Island to enter the Void Thunder Pool, while the reunited Ancient Void Dragon Clan began summoning its older-generation experts with the Dragon Emperor Order.
• Zi Yan asked whether she could cultivate in the Void Thunder Pool, so Ye Chen transmitted the Nine Revolutions of the Thunder God and Thunder God Body techniques to her.

Ye Chen brought Zi Yan to the Void Thunder Pool to cultivate the Thunder God Body, and she rapidly reached the One-Patterned realm. In the Black Demon Lightning region, Ye Chen discovered that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame could devour lightning and feed some of its energy back to him, so the trio began absorbing it in earnest.

• Ye Chen explained the Thunder God Body to Zi Yan and took her into the Void Thunder Pool to cultivate.
• After three days of drawing in the pool's lightning, Zi Yan reached the One-Patterned Thunder God Body.
• Zi Yan withstood a strike of Black Demon Lightning, so Ye Chen took her deeper into its region and the two began refining it.
• Ye Chen summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and discovered that it could devour Black Demon Lightning and pass some of its energy to him.
• Ye Chen, Zi Yan, and Jing Lian began absorbing the Black Demon Lightning, with Jing Lian spreading its flames through the sky to draw in more bolts.

Ye Chen and Zi Yan discovered Nine Profound Golden Lightning trying to gain spiritual wisdom in the Void Thunder Pool, and Ye Chen helped it by drawing off and sealing much of its power. He used his and Zi Yan’s vital blood to begin giving the weakened lightning dragon a physical body, leaving it inside a cocoon.

• Ye Chen reached the seven-patterned Thunder God Body, while Zi Yan cultivated to the six-patterned level, and neither advanced their Dou Qi realm.
• Ye Chen and Zi Yan followed a surge of lightning deeper into the Void Thunder Pool and found the legendary Nine Profound Golden Lightning gathering its spirit.
• When the lightning’s backlash threatened to destroy its emerging spiritual wisdom, Ye Chen persuaded it to let him draw off some of its power and sealed the energy dragon in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Ye Chen placed the sealed Golden Light Lightning Dragon inside his body for later refining, then asked Zi Yan for a drop of her vital blood.
• Ye Chen and Zi Yan added their vital blood to the weakened lightning dragon, which entered a large cocoon as it began transforming into a physical lifeform.

Ye Chen and Su Lingyin traveled to the Medicine Clan for the Medicine Canon, where Ye Chen’s reputation drew attention from the assembled guests. After Elder Yao Wanhuo challenged him to compare their alchemy skills, Ye Chen agreed to meet him at the event.

• Ye Chen declined Cai Die’s offer to accompany him and left with Su Lingyin, whose strength shocked the Pill Tower delegation.
• Ye Chen and Su Lingyin reached the Medicine Clan’s entrance in the Shennong Mountain Range and entered the Medicine Realm.
• Guests on the way to the Medicine Clan discussed whether Ye Chen could claim the title of the continent’s foremost alchemist.
• Yao Wanhuo welcomed Ye Chen and Su Lingyin and escorted them toward the Medicine Canon.
• Yao Wanhuo suggested exchanging alchemy pointers, and Ye Chen accepted his challenge.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Medicine Canon event begins on Medicine Mountain, with the Yao Clan displaying its strength.
• Elder Shennong arrives, recognized for his Alchemy skills and control over the Spirit Flame.
• Hun Xuzi of the Soul Clan appears uninvited, challenging the Yao Clan's hospitality and expressing interest in the title of the Continent's Number One Alchemist.
• Tension builds between Ye Chen and Hun Xuzi, with both harboring hostile intentions towards each other.

Character Developments

• Ye Chen is recognized as the President of the Pill Tower and its true controller, impressing Elder Shennong.
• Hun Xuzi reveals his interest in the title of the Continent's Number One Alchemist and his intention to stay for the Medicine Canon event.

Significant Themes

• The competition and rivalry among Alchemists, particularly between Ye Chen and Hun Xuzi.
• The tension and hostility between the Yao Clan and the Soul Clan, with the Medicine Canon serving as a stage for their interactions.

Character Interactions

• Ye Chen and Elder Shennong exchange pleasantries, with Elder Shennong expressing admiration for Ye Chen's accomplishments.
• Yao Dan and Hun Xuzi engage in a tense exchange, with Yao Dan warning Hun Xuzi about the consequences of breaking the Yao Clan's rules.
• Ye Chen and Hun Xuzi engage in a silent standoff, with both harboring hostile intentions towards each other.

Ye Chen began practicing alchemy under the Ye Family Old Ancestor's guidance, using his Starfire to refine ingredients for Blood Coagulation Powder. After repeated failures and a few successes exhausted him, the ancestor sent him to rest, and Ye Zhong emerged from the shadows.

• Ye Chen prepared the Medicine Cauldron with Starfire, maintaining its temperature under the Ye Family Old Ancestor's instruction.
• The Ye Family Old Ancestor gave Ye Chen a formula for First Grade Blood Coagulation Powder and explained its three ingredients and refining requirements.
• Ye Chen's Starfire nearly burned the first Blood Coagulation Grass, but he calmed the flames before it was destroyed.
• Ye Chen relaxed after receiving praise, and the Starfire burned the Blood Coagulation Grass to ash.
• Ye Chen tried refining more ingredients, succeeding only four or five times in more than ten attempts as temperature fluctuations ruined most of them.
• The Ye Family Old Ancestor noticed Ye Chen's fatigue, told him to rest, and Ye Zhong stepped out from the shadows after watching him practice.

Ye Chen and three other Grandmaster Alchemists competed to refine Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills, but Hun Xuzi sabotaged the others to secure enough energy for himself. Ye Chen stole Hun Xuzi’s pill embryo and completed his own pill, sealing it after it survived the tribulation while Hun Xuzi was driven back.

• Ye Chen summoned Jing Lian to help refine nearly ten thousand medicinal materials, while Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhuo, and Elder Shennong also prepared their pills.
• After a day of extraction, the four alchemists drew Heaven and Earth Energy into their cauldrons, but the Yao Clan’s formation blocked their storms to protect Medicine Mountain.
• Hun Xuzi used the Nihility Devouring Flame to steal the energy gathered by Yao Wanhuo and Elder Shennong, while Ye Chen secretly sent Jing Lian to seize Hun Xuzi’s pill embryo.
• Ye Chen forced back Hun Xuzi’s attack with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Yao Wanhuo and Elder Shennong stopped Hun Xuzi from retaliating.
• Ye Chen re-refined the stolen embryo, produced a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, and sent it through the pill tribulation.
• Jing Lian sealed the pill inside a milky-white lotus, and Ye Chen knocked Hun Xuzi back with Dragon Fury as he tried to steal it.

After Ye Chen won the alchemy contest, Hun Xuzi revealed the Soul Clan’s assault on the Yao Clan and helped the Nihility Devouring Flame besiege the Medicine Realm. As the Yao Clan’s formation and summoned Medicine Emperor remnant soul faltered, Ye Chen decided it was time to act.

• Medicine Emperor recognized Ye Chen as the Continent’s Number One Alchemist, but Hun Xuzi interrupted the closing ceremony and demanded the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Ye Chen told Su Lingyin the Ancient Jade opened Tou She Ancient God’s cave abode and suspected the Soul Clan was behind the Ling Clan and Stone Clan’s destruction.
• Hun Xuzi unleashed hidden strength, defeated Yao Wanhuo, and prevented the Yao Clan and visitors from escaping the Medicine Realm.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and spread Black Flame across the Medicine Realm, devouring its people as the Yao Clan activated the Hua Tian Medicine Array.
• Medicine Emperor summoned the Yao Clan’s Medicine Emperor remnant soul, but the Nihility Devouring Flame weakened it with one strike.
• As the Grand Formation neared collapse, Ye Chen flew into the sky and announced that it was time for them to act.

After the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Image shattered to injure Nihility Devouring Flame, Ye Chen used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to trap Hun Xuzi and help defend the Yao Clan. Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed Black Flame Creatures from the Tunling Clan, and as the Yao Clan began sacrificing its experts to break the sealed space, Ye Chen and Su Lingyin drew the creatures into the array.

• The Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Image struck Nihility Devouring Flame, then shattered, leaving the Yao Clan exposed when its great array broke.
• Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to fight, while Ye Chen summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and trapped Hun Xuzi inside it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed swarms of Black Flame Creatures, which Elder Shennong identified as members of the Tunling Clan.
• Yao Dan realized the Soul Clan meant to seize the Yao Clan’s bloodline and urged the clan’s Elders to self-detonate to preserve its descendants.
• Su Lingyin and Ye Chen drew the Black Flame Creatures into the Heaven Refining Ancient Array as Yao Clan experts self-detonated, damaging the sealed space.

Yao Dan and the Yao Clan sacrificed themselves to help Ye Chen, Elder Shennong, and a handful of survivors escape the Medicine Realm, while the Soul Clan seized the Yao Clan’s Ancient Jade. After escaping, Ye Chen planned to unite forces against the Soul Clan, but a saber-wielding figure watched the group from a nearby mountain.

• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan experts to keep self-detonating, and they opened a rift in the Medicine Realm’s spatial seal while battling Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan reinforcements.
• Yao Dan asked Ye Chen and Elder Shennong to preserve the Yao Clan’s surviving bloodline, and they agreed to help the younger members escape.
• Ye Chen used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to lead Yao Tian, Yao Ling, Su Lingyin, Elder Shennong, and others through the rift as Yao Dan and Yao Wanhuo held off Hun Jing and Hun Yan.
• Yao Dan unleashed a final self-detonation to cover the group’s escape, and Hun Jing recovered the Yao Clan’s Ancient Jade from the blast site.
• Ye Chen and the survivors reached safety outside the Shennong Mountain Range, where Yao Tian vowed to repay Ye Chen and agreed to join his effort against the Soul Clan.
• Elder Shennong agreed to accompany Ye Chen to the Pill Tower, but a figure carrying a Dark Red Ghost Head Great Saber watched them from a nearby peak.