Recaps

Xu Yan traveled to the Peerless Pavilion at Thousand Star Lake to temper his state of mind amid its beautiful martial artists, while carefully avoiding unnecessary expenses. After claiming the public dancers could not move him, he entered a private chamber to test whether one of its beauties could stir his heart.

• Meng Chong drove Meng Shushu toward Green Forest City, reassuring him that he would honor their bargain and not steal his treasures.
• Xu Yan deposited spiritual medicine at Heavenly Treasure Pavilion in Lanping Commandery City and decided to visit Seven Stars Academy to study Inner Domain martial arts.
• Xu Yan chose to travel to Thousand Star Lake and use the Peerless Pavilion's beauties to temper his state of mind.
• At the Pleasure Boat, Xu Yan refused the attendant's tea and pastries, then told the manager that the public dancers could not move him.
• Xu Yan agreed to enter a private chamber and pay only if he was satisfied, then watched a beauty play the zither and dance for him.

Xu Yan used Xie Lingfeng’s name to enter Peerless Pavilion and temper his state of mind against increasingly powerful bewitching arts. After resisting the courtesans of its famous towers, he reached the Pavilion’s top floor and sat beside its Grandmaster-level courtesan, whose influence began to stir him.

• Xu Yan resisted a courtesan’s bewitching arts, then left her room without paying after claiming he had only listened to a song.
• Xu Yan traveled across Thousand Star Lake, repeatedly entered Pleasure Boats for free, and inspired other martial artists to demand the same treatment.
• Xu Yan claimed to be Xie Lingfeng to avoid Purple Flower Tower’s entrance fee, then used Xie Lingfeng’s name and promise of a sword strike to gain access to Peerless Pavilion’s famous towers.
• Xu Yan resisted the combined bewitching arts of the courtesans at the ten famous towers and arrived at Peerless Pavilion’s main building.
• Xu Yan heard the Grandmaster-level courtesan call to him, flew to her courtyard, and sat beside her as her fragrance and bewitching aura began affecting him.

Xu Yan fully mastered Clear Sword Heart after resisting the plain-clothed woman’s bewitchment at Peerless Pavilion. He discovered that a bounty had been placed on Su Lingxiu, claimed to know her whereabouts, and led two black-robed Grandmasters away from Thousand Star Lake.

• Xu Yan calmed his heart amid the woman’s bewitchment, completed his Mountain River Sword Intent, and fully mastered Clear Sword Heart.
• Xu Yan asked the plain-clothed woman to let Xie Lingfeng temper his state of mind, then declined her offer of a gift and left Peerless Pavilion.
• Xu Yan saw Peerless Pavilion’s bounty for Su Lingxiu, recognized her portrait, and claimed he could lead the pursuers to her.
• Xu Yan demanded the reward upfront, negotiated with Peerless Pavilion’s steward, and learned that the client had sent two black-robed Grandmasters.
• Xu Yan led the two Grandmasters away from Thousand Star Lake while claiming he had once seen Su Lingxiu treating someone’s illness.

Xu Yan accepted Spirit Crystals from two black-robed men who wanted Su Lingxiu's whereabouts, then killed one and robbed both before letting the survivor go. Meanwhile, Meng Chong retrieved Meng Shushu's stored sledgehammers and Spiritual Medicines in Green Forest City and returned them safely.

• Xu Yan took one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals from two black-robed men and led them to a desolate region, where he revealed he had no intention of helping them find Su Lingxiu.
• Xu Yan killed the peak Grandmaster with a golden dragon, bound the late-stage Grandmaster, and took his possessions and Spirit Crystals.
• Xu Yan let the surviving black-robed man leave after learning that the Seventh-grade Spiritual Medicine was waiting at the Peerless Pavilion, then secretly followed him to track down his backers.
• Meng Shushu gave Meng Chong storage receipts and promised him three Eighth-grade Spiritual Medicines as payment for retrieving the deposited items in Green Forest City.
• Meng Chong collected two heavy sledgehammers and the three Spiritual Medicines from the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, then returned them to Meng Shushu.
• Meng Shushu took the sledgehammers and left in his carriage after the transaction was complete.

Meng Chong delivered Meng Shushu’s hammers, killed a Grandmaster who ambushed him, and persuaded Meng Shushu to compensate him with two Seventh-grade Spiritual Medicines. After learning that Meng Shushu was a renowned medicine scout being hunted for a Sixth-grade Spiritual Medicine, Meng Chong returned to intervene, but a peak Grandmaster arrived as the fight escalated.

• Meng Chong accepted a hundred Spirit Crystals to deliver Meng Shushu’s hammers and collected three Eighth-grade Spiritual Medicines from him.
• A Grandmaster ambushed Meng Chong while he brought the hammers to Meng Shushu, but Meng Chong killed the attacker with one punch.
• Meng Chong convinced the injured Meng Shushu to settle his supposed life-debt with two Seventh-grade Spiritual Medicines.
• After spotting more Grandmasters heading toward Meng Shushu, Meng Chong returned and overheard that Tian Jin had betrayed Meng Shushu over a Sixth-grade Spiritual Medicine.
• Meng Chong decided to save Meng Shushu because he was a skilled medicine scout, then watched as a peak Grandmaster arrived to join the pursuit.

Meng Chong rescued Meng Shushu from three Grandmasters who were pursuing him for the keys to a treasure land of Spiritual Medicines. After killing the pursuers with one saber strike, Meng Chong secured an IOU from Meng Shushu and claimed a share in the treasure land, leaving Meng Shushu suspecting he had been swindled.

• Meng Shushu killed Tian Jin while escaping the black-robed Peak Grandmaster and two other Grandmasters, then fled with the treasure land keys hidden in his hammers.
• Meng Chong searched Tian Jin's corpse for Spirit Crystals and waited along the route Meng Shushu was forced to take.
• Surrounded and badly injured, Meng Shushu offered Meng Chong two Sixth-grade Spiritual Medicines to save him, and Meng Chong agreed to intervene.
• Meng Chong drew his saber and killed the black-robed Peak Grandmaster and the other two Grandmasters with a single strike.
• Meng Chong made Meng Shushu sign an IOU for a Storage Bag, telling him to use the debt as a goal to strive toward.
• Meng Chong declared that the treasure land and its sacred medicines belonged to both of them, leaving Meng Shushu bewildered.

Meng Chong and Meng Shushu set out to raid a Spiritual Medicine Treasure Land guarded by a powerful dark force, while Su Lingxiu gained insight into tempering her Evergreen Bone. Li Xuan received Xu Yan’s feedback and advanced his Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers, leaving Su Lingxiu on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Meng Chong forced Meng Shushu to take a rare healing pill, and Meng Shushu gave him the key to a Spiritual Medicine Treasure Land that might contain a Fifth-grade Spiritual Medicine.
• Meng Chong and Meng Shushu headed for the treasure land after learning that a hidden dark force with many Grandmasters was pursuing Meng Shushu.
• Su Lingxiu began adjusting the Evergreen Pill formula, and Kou Ruozhi reported the spread of Martial Dao in the Border Wasteland before Su Lingxiu told him to establish the Evergreen Pavilion.
• Li Xuan explained the Evergreen Bone to Su Lingxiu, who found insight among her flowers and began to break through as warm currents formed in her bones.
• Xu Yan’s cultivation at the Peerless Pavilion gave Li Xuan feedback that advanced his Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers to great completion, filling his vision of the mountains and rivers with illusory life.

Li Xuan received repeated reports that Xu Yan and Meng Chong were killing Grandmasters in the Inner Domain, and Meng Chong’s feats earned him the God Slaying Saber divine technique. Su Lingxiu broke through into the Qi and Blood Realm as the first Pill Doctor Martial Artist, while Li Xuan awaited the unexpected feedback triggered by her breakthrough.

• Li Xuan’s Clear Sword Heart reached Completion and touched the Heart Sword Realm, while feedback reported Xu Yan killing a Grandmaster and Meng Chong killing one with a punch.
• Further feedback reported Meng Chong killing three Grandmasters in succession and Xu Yan killing several Grandmasters and Half-step Grandmasters, shaking Thousand Star Lake.
• Su Lingxiu focused on cultivation, completed Evergreen Bone and organ refinement, and prepared to enter the martial path.
• Meng Chong killed five Grandmasters in succession, earning Li Xuan the God Slaying Saber divine technique, which attacked consciousness and spirit souls.
• Su Lingxiu’s Vital Energy strengthened the plants around her as she broke through into the Qi and Blood Realm, becoming the first Pill Doctor Martial Artist.
• Golden light appeared after Su Lingxiu’s breakthrough, but the feedback did not come from her entry into martial cultivation.

Li Xuan received breakthroughs in his Medicinal Dao, spiritual bone, and martial abilities through feedback from his disciples. As Xu Yan killed a Grandmaster and Meng Chong remained pursued, Xu Yan tracked his enemies to a Thousand Star Lake branch and attacked it.

• Su Lingxiu entered martial dao, granting Li Xuan mastery of Medicinal Dao, while his three bones merged into an Innate Indestructible Spiritual Bone.
• Xu Yan comprehended the profundity of true qi and reached the Great Achievement stage of the Innate Realm, while Meng Chong improved his movement technique and Great Sun Golden Body as a Grandmaster pursued him.
• Xu Yan killed a Grandmaster with one palm at Seven Stars Academy, and Li Xuan received feedback that his strength had surged.
• Xu Yan followed the black-robed man to a branch on Thousand Star Lake and discovered two Grandmasters and two Half-step Grandmasters there.
• Xu Yan killed Twenty-Seven with one palm, then drew his sword and unleashed Mountain River Sword Intent against the four attackers.

Xu Yan killed two Grandmasters and two Half-step Grandmasters who had attacked him, then ignored the Peerless Grandmaster’s demand for an explanation and returned to search the island courtyard. The Peerless Grandmaster restrained herself from pursuing him after her disciple warned that he was too fast and that provoking him could bring trouble.

• Xu Yan lured the two Grandmasters into his golden dragon attack, killed them, and then slew one Half-step Grandmaster with Mountain River Dragon's Roar after the fighting destroyed his spirit notes.
• The remaining Half-step Grandmaster fled to the Peerless Pavilion for help, but Xu Yan caught and killed him before the Peerless Grandmaster could intervene.
• Xu Yan argued that the killings had not sullied Thousand Star Lake, dismissed the Peerless Grandmaster, and sped away without answering for his actions.
• The martial artists mistakenly identified Xu Yan as Xie Lingfeng and assumed the Peerless Grandmaster had spared him out of regard for Sword Venerate Cliff.
• Xu Yan returned to collect the scattered spirit notes, then went to ransack the island courtyard and planned to visit Seven Stars Academy.
• The Peerless Grandmaster wanted to punish Xu Yan, but her plain-clothed disciple urged her to leave him alone because he was too fast and might be connected to powerful Xie Tianheng.

Xie Lingfeng condensed his inner qi into true qi and traveled to Du Marquisate after learning its people believed he had rescued Du Yuying and sent him betrothal gifts. He suspected Xu Yan had used his name, but Du Yuying's maid Cui'er mistook the real Xie Lingfeng for an impostor and called for the guards to kill him.

• Xie Lingfeng successfully condensed his inner qi into true qi and wondered how to advance his cultivation and sword dao without a suitable technique.
• Hu Shan brought Xie Lingfeng gifts and a letter from Du Yuying, whose account described him defeating Grandmasters and escorting her safely home.
• Xie Lingfeng and Hu Shan suspected Xu Yan had used Xie Lingfeng's name and set out for Du Marquisate to investigate.
• Du Yuying eagerly awaited Xie Lingfeng's arrival, believing he had come to propose, and sent Cui'er to welcome him.
• Cui'er hurried past Xie Lingfeng and Hu Shan, then accused Xie Lingfeng of impersonating the young master and ordered the guards to kill him.

Xie Lingfeng was mistaken for an impostor at Marquis Du's Mansion and fled with Hu Shan before setting out for Peerless Pavilion. Meanwhile, Du Yuying returned to Seven Stars Academy, where Xu Yan arrived seeking its martial arts collection and skipped the first level of its Martial Arts Stage.

• Cui'er accused Xie Lingfeng of impersonating Young Master Xie, and Yan Kuan attacked him before hearing his explanation.
• Xie Lingfeng and Hu Shan fought off Marquis Du's Mansion's Grandmasters and escaped Du Prefecture, then headed for Peerless Pavilion after learning Xu Yan had visited it.
• Du Yuying learned the supposed impostor had escaped and decided to return to Seven Stars Academy, hoping her teacher had found a way to address her condition.
• The chapter described Seven Stars Academy's influence, martial arts legacy, and challenge system, where visitors advanced through the collection by winning matches at its Martial Arts Stages.
• Xu Yan arrived at Seven Stars Academy to study its collection and, finding the first-level challengers far beneath his strength, skipped their stage and continued upward.

Xu Yan challenged the Seven Stars Academy's stage guardians without following their rules and defeated each opponent with overwhelming ease. After he defeated Cheng Yuanhong and Hu Biao with a single palm strike, he continued to the seventh level, where its guardian acknowledged his strength.

• Xu Yan ignored the first four Martial Arts Stages and defeated their guardians with flicks of his finger without stepping onto the stages.
• Xu Yan told Cheng Yuanhong that rules were for the weak and offered to kneel for three days if he could not defeat him with one palm strike.
• Xu Yan unleashed a golden dragon with one palm, which changed course and struck Cheng Yuanhong down, then continued climbing as news of the victory spread through the Seven Stars Academy.
• Hu Biao challenged Xu Yan on the sixth level, but Xu Yan knocked away his hammer and sent him flying with another palm strike.
• Xu Yan reached the seventh level, where the guardian acknowledged his talent and strength and said he had the qualifications to disregard the rules.

Xu Yan defeated the Seven Stars Academy’s sword-path Grand Instructor with one palm, then challenged Ding Yan and the ninth-level guardians. He struck Ding Yan with Mountain River Dragon's Roar, leaving Fu Yuntian and the onlookers stunned as the challenge continued.

• Xu Yan shattered the old Grand Instructor’s Heaven and Earth Cold Light with one palm and advised him to focus his sword path on speed, ruthlessness, and sharpness.
• Leng Qiu watched Xu Yan’s defeat of the Grand Instructor and wondered whether his sword talent rivaled Xie Lingfeng’s.
• Xu Yan reached the eighth level, where Ding Yan agreed to spar, and proposed replacing the ninth level’s Grandmaster guardian with ten Peak Grandmasters if he won.
• Great Supervisor Fu Yuntian agreed to arrange the ten Peak Grandmasters if Xu Yan defeated Ding Yan with one sword strike, while warning that access to the ninth-level classics required further conditions.
• Xu Yan drew his sword and used Mountain River Dragon's Roar, disorienting Ding Yan and stopping the blade an inch from his throat; Ding Yan admitted defeat.

Xu Yan defeated ten peak Grandmasters at Seven Stars Academy and entered the Archive Pavilion under the name Xie Lingfeng. After studying the ninth-floor techniques, he requested a discussion of martial dao and was joined by a group of Grandmaster Realm Martial Scholars.

• Xu Yan asked to fight ten peak Grandmasters, then defeated them all on the ninth level of the Martial Arts Stage, leaving Ding Yan as the last opponent standing.
• Fu Yuntian suspected Xu Yan was Xie Lingfeng, while the witnesses spread news of the fight through Seven Stars Academy and Seven Stars City.
• Xu Yan introduced himself as Xie Lingfeng to gain access to the Archive Pavilion's ninth floor, and Leng Qiu hurried off to warn his Senior Brother about the apparent impersonation.
• Xu Yan read through many ninth-floor classics, found most of them unimpressive, and asked to discuss martial dao with Seven Stars Academy's Martial Scholars.
• Fu Yuntian brought more than a dozen Grandmaster Realm Martial Scholars to meet Xu Yan, and they sat down to begin the discussion.

Xu Yan explained True Martial Dao to Seven Stars Academy’s Martial Scholars, leaving them shaken by how their own cultivation compared. He left for Seven Stars City to refine his True Qi and, after meeting Leng Qiu, secured a secluded courtyard belonging to Sword Venerate Cliff.

• Xu Yan listened to the Martial Scholars describe Inner Domain cultivation and recognized that their system lacked the deeper foundations of True Martial Dao.
• Xu Yan taught the Martial Scholars about Skin Tempering, Bone Refining, Organ Refining, the Qi and Blood Realm, and the Innate Realm; their discussion left them questioning their own Martial Dao.
• Xu Yan left Seven Stars Academy, where crowds mistook him for Xie Lingfeng, and headed toward Seven Stars City to complete the separation of his True Qi.
• Leng Qiu of Sword Venerate Cliff confronted Xu Yan for using Xie Lingfeng’s name, but Xu Yan insisted that he had permission and asked Leng Qiu to tell Xie he had made him famous.
• Leng Qiu brought Xu Yan to a secluded Sword Venerate Cliff courtyard in Seven Stars City, where Xu Yan planned to cultivate while waiting for Xie Lingfeng.

Xie Lingfeng visited Peerless Pavilion, learned that Xu Yan had gone to the Seven Stars Academy, and rushed there to reclaim his name after Xu Yan used it to enter the academy’s Repository. Meanwhile, Xu Yan refined his True Qi, reached the peak of the Innate Realm, and prepared to break through to Innate Great Completion.

• Xie Lingfeng met the woman in plain clothes at Peerless Pavilion and resisted her strange bewitching technique before leaving without learning Xu Yan’s whereabouts.
• Xie Lingfeng received a Flying Kite Communication letter revealing that Xu Yan had passed the Seven Stars Academy’s nine levels, defeated ten Peak Grandmasters, and used Xie Lingfeng’s name to enter the Repository.
• Xie Lingfeng set off for the Seven Stars Academy to clarify his identity, while the woman in plain clothes asked Granny Yao to accompany her there.
• Du Yuying learned that Young Master Xie had arrived at the Seven Stars Academy and sent Cui’er to find him.
• Xu Yan successfully split and recombined his True Qi, increasing its purity and strengthening his Dragon Subduing Palm.
• Xu Yan absorbed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and advanced directly to the peak of the Innate Realm, judging that he could now defeat Fu Yuntian.

Xu Yan reached the peak of the Innate Realm, taught Leng Qiu an improved Ten Thousand Rivers Sword Technique, and studied at the Seven Stars Academy’s Sutra Repository. After Xie Lingfeng’s name was mistaken for his own, Xu Yan announced himself as Sword God Xu Yan, then faced Yin Hong’s accusation and challenge.

• Xu Yan taught Leng Qiu his improved Ten Thousand Rivers Sword Technique and told her he would be at the Seven Stars Academy’s Sutra Repository.
• Yin Hong returned to the Seven Stars Academy after breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm and went to the Sutra Repository, still resentful toward Xie Lingfeng.
• Xie Lingfeng and Hu Shan waited outside the Repository, where Du Yuying and others mistook Xie Lingfeng for an impostor until Xu Yan emerged and recognized him.
• Xu Yan revealed his identity as Sword God Xu Yan after Xie Lingfeng encouraged him to build a reputation, surprising Du Yuying and the gathered students.
• Yin Hong accused Xu Yan of deceiving the academy and tried to attack him, but Fu Yuntian suppressed his aura; Xu Yan then challenged Yin Hong to strike him.

Xu Yan challenged Yin Hong to a wager and blew the Grandmaster apart with one palm at Seven Stars Academy. He claimed Yin Hong’s Canglan Island as his prize and left with Xie Lingfeng and Du Yuying to celebrate.

• Xu Yan mocked Yin Hong and proposed wagering that he could kill him with one palm, while Fu Yuntian agreed not to punish him if he succeeded.
• Xu Yan demanded Yin Hong’s Spirit Notes as the wager, then learned that Yin Hong’s Canglan Island held more than a million Spirit Crystals.
• Yin Hong unleashed his full strength, but Xu Yan’s golden Dragon Subduing Palm shattered him and ground his remains to ash.
• Fu Yuntian recognized that Xu Yan had broken through in strength, and Xu Yan confirmed that the martial principles he had discussed with the Martial Scholar were genuine.
• Xu Yan agreed to join Xie Lingfeng and Du Yuying at a quiet place in Seven Stars City and asked Du Yuying to tell him where Canglan Island was.

Xu Yan watched Xie Lingfeng defeat Seven Stars Academy’s young Grandmasters, including its foremost prodigy Ping Dong, and collected a fortune from a wager. At a gathering afterward, Xu Yan heard a rumor about a bald Sword Venerate Cliff martial artist being hunted and recognized that the news concerned his junior brother Meng Chong.

• Xu Yan left Seven Stars Academy, but Xie Lingfeng challenged every student under thirty after they mocked him.
• Xu Yan and Hu Shan arranged a wager, and Seven Stars Academy’s students bet that Xie Lingfeng would lose.
• Xie Lingfeng defeated several Grandmasters and then beat Ping Dong, the academy’s foremost young prodigy.
• Xu Yan collected the winning Spirit Crystals and exchanged them for larger-denomination notes, bringing his total to eight hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.
• At a teahouse, martial artists discussed outdated rumors that a bald Sword Venerate Cliff member was being hunted by a Grandmaster.
• Xu Yan realized the rumors referred to Meng Chong and angrily demanded to know what Grandmaster would dare hunt his junior brother.

Xu Yan learned that Meng Chong was being hunted and rushed toward the Yan Kingdom border, while Meng Chong and Meng Shushu reached the medicine haven at Heavenly Hammer Mountain. After Meng Chong killed the Grandmasters guarding its entrance, he faced a Half-step Grandmaster as the fight continued.

• Xu Yan learned that Meng Chong was being hunted under Hu Shan's name, accepted intelligence tokens from Xie Lingfeng and the woman in plain clothes, and flew toward the Yan Kingdom border.
• Du Yuying returned Xie Lingfeng's letter, resolved to become wealthy enough to win Xu Yan's attention, and watched him leave with Hu Shan.
• Meng Chong and Meng Shushu traveled to Heavenly Hammer Mountain, where Meng Shushu said a medicine haven containing rare Spiritual Medicines lay hidden inside the mountain.
• Meng Chong entered the forest guarding the haven and killed five Grandmasters who tried to stop him.
• A Half-step Grandmaster arrived with two black-robed figures, and Meng Chong killed one of them while withstanding the Half-step Grandmaster's attack.
• Meng Chong unleashed repeated Heaven and Earth Hegemonic Saber strikes against the Half-step Grandmaster, who drew a curved saber and attacked him with a storm of saber radiance.

Meng Chong drove off a Half-step Grandmaster by claiming to be Xie Lingfeng, then helped Meng Shushu uncover eight Earth Spirit Roots. When a black-robed Grandmaster tied to Su Lingxiu’s enemy arrived, Meng Chong fled with Meng Shushu and used him to block the pursuer’s attacks.

• Meng Chong endured the Half-step Grandmaster’s saber attacks, then claimed to be Xie Lingfeng of Sword Venerate Cliff and frightened the man into retreating.
• Meng Chong and Meng Shushu unearthed eight Eighth-grade Earth Spirit Roots near the grotto.
• A black-robed Grandmaster arrived with the Half-step Grandmaster, and Meng Chong recognized the newcomer as an enemy of Su Lingxiu.
• Meng Chong fled with Meng Shushu as the Grandmaster pursued them, then carried Meng Shushu on his back to intercept a saber strike.
• Meng Shushu shattered the weakened blade-ray with his brush but was injured by its shockwave, while Meng Chong widened the gap and continued fleeing.

Meng Chong fled a relentless black-robed Grandmaster with Meng Shushu, using Earth Spirit Roots and pills to keep moving until his Great Sun Golden Body reached minor mastery. As they headed toward the Great Yue Kingdom, Xu Yan received news of the chase and found Meng Chong’s golden radiance approaching.

• Meng Chong tied Meng Shushu to his back and fled the black-robed Grandmaster, repeatedly making Meng Shushu block the weakened force of the Grandmaster’s attacks.
• Meng Chong escaped through cities by invoking the names Hu Shan and Xie Lingfeng, then broke through his movement technique and used Earth Spirit Roots to sustain his flight.
• After three days of pursuit, Meng Chong reached minor mastery of the Great Sun Golden Body and struck the Grandmaster with a powerful slash, but failed to injure him.
• Meng Chong decided to keep fleeing toward the Great Yue Kingdom in case more Grandmasters joined the hunt, while worrying about his junior sister’s powerful enemies.
• Xu Yan learned that Meng Chong was being hunted, gathered intelligence from the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, and hurried toward the Great Yue Kingdom.
• Xu Yan spotted Meng Chong’s golden radiance from a lofty peak and rushed to meet him.

Meng Chong and the wounded Meng Shushu fled two black-robed Grandmasters until Xu Yan arrived and killed both with his new sword technique. Xu Yan joined them on their way back to the Spiritual Medicine treasure land at Heavenly Hammer Mountain, eager to claim its medicines and any wealth guarded there.

• Meng Chong carried the badly wounded Meng Shushu while two black-robed Grandmasters pursued them, and Meng Chong worried that more enemies might appear.
• Xu Yan arrived, killed the first pursuing Grandmaster with Myriad Phenomena of Mountains and Rivers, Sword of All Life, then intercepted and killed the second.
• Xu Yan collected both Grandmasters’ valuables and learned that Meng Shushu was a renowned spiritual medicine scout, then asked him to earn money for a Storage Bag.
• The three turned back toward Heavenly Hammer Mountain, and Meng Shushu explained that its treasure land might contain rare Fifth-grade or half-step Fifth-grade Spiritual Medicine.
• After traveling at full speed, Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Meng Shushu reached the Yan Kingdom and saw the mountain shaped like an iron hammer.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong killed the Grandmaster guarding Heavenly Hammer Mountain and his six men, then entered the hidden grounds of a spirit-medicine sect. They found fields of rare Spiritual Medicines and began harvesting them.

• Xu Yan confronted the mid-stage Grandmaster, while Meng Chong killed the six black-robed martial artists guarding the grotto.
• Xu Yan defeated the Grandmaster despite his secret martial art, took his spirit notes, and wondered where the man's organization was based.
• Meng Shushu used a tiny hammer key to open the grotto's hidden stone door, and the three entered the passageway.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Meng Shushu discovered the mountain's concealed spirit-medicine fields and confirmed that the medicines included rare varieties.
• Meng Shushu dug up an Earth Moon Bamboo Shoot and began explaining how to harvest and preserve Spiritual Medicines.