Recaps

Tang Yan, a renowned alchemist from Earth, was reborn as the disgraced Tang Family young master after the original Tang Yan’s dantian was destroyed. He went to face his grandfather, Old Master Tang, who berated him for his crimes and wasted talent.

• Old Master Tang grew angry while writing and ordered someone to summon Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan awoke with the memories of his former life and learned he had possessed the body of a dissolute young master whose dantian Liu Zhi had destroyed.
• Tang Yan changed out of his bizarre gold-trimmed robe and told Xiao Cui to bring him normal clothes.
• Tang Yan went to the rear courtyard and greeted Old Master Tang.
• Old Master Tang scolded Tang Yan for attempting to rape Lin Dongxue, failing, and disgracing the Tang Family.

Tang Yan struggled with his ruined dantian until the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron appeared in his sea of consciousness and taught him the Supreme Pill Canon. He began cultivating again, while Old Master Tang wondered whether his grandson had truly changed.

• Tang Ling scolded Tang Yan and warned him not to stir up trouble, while Uncle Mo noted that the young master seemed different.
• Tang Yan went to the Library Pavilion and studied books on medicinal herbs, geography, and history before returning to his courtyard.
• Tang Yan realized he needed to regain his strength and tried to cultivate, but his dantian initially showed no response.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron appeared in Tang Yan's sea of consciousness, transmitted the Supreme Pill Canon, and Tang Yan began gathering a warm current in his lower abdomen.
• Uncle Mo told Old Master Tang that Tang Yan had spent the day reading, and Old Master Tang ordered him to keep watching his grandson.

Tang Yan endured a painful night of cultivation, reaching Origin Tier Third Grade and deciding to protect the declining Tang Family. When the city lord’s residence and the Wonderful Elixir Workshop demanded an explanation over his earlier altercation, he confidently went to meet them.

• Tang Yan rushed outside and jumped into the lake to cool his burning body as his true qi tempered his meridians.
• Old Master Tang heard the splash, learned Tang Yan was bathing in the lake, and gave up hope that his grandson had changed.
• After a night of cultivation, Tang Yan reached Origin Tier Third Grade and resolved not to let anyone destroy the Tang Family.
• Tang Yan learned he needed an alchemy cauldron but had only thirty taels a month after his grandfather confiscated his spending money.
• Uncle Mo told Tang Yan that the city lord’s residence and Wu Xuan of the Wonderful Elixir Workshop had come to demand an explanation.
• Tang Yan rejected the idea of pretending to be ill and strode toward the front hall to face the visitors.

Tang Yan faced accusations from the City Lord's Manor over his alleged harassment of Lin Dongxue and invented a heartfelt story to defend himself. Wu Xuan and Qin Changdao challenged him to prove his story by reciting the poem he claimed to have written.

• Qin Changdao demanded that the Tang family explain Tang Yan's alleged harassment of Lin Dongxue, and Tang Yan entered the hall to answer him.
• Tang Yan denied the accusation and appealed to Wu Xuan to judge whether Qin Changdao was unfairly berating him.
• Tang Yan claimed he had loved Lin Dongxue since childhood and had approached her to give her a poem he had revised thousands of times.
• Tang Yan's story briefly unsettled Lin Dongxue and Wu Xuan, while Old Master Tang was astonished by his convincing performance.
• Wu Xuan asked Tang Yan to recite the poem, and Qin Changdao warned him against plagiarizing.

Tang Yan stunned the Tang household and the City Lord’s party by writing an elegant lyric that convinced Lin Dongxue of his devotion. Lin Dongxue withdrew the City Lord’s Residence’s complaint and left with the poem as evidence, while Tang Yan realized he had impressed everyone too much.

• Tang Yan announced that he would confess his feelings to Lin Dongxue and asked for brush and ink.
• Tang Yan wrote the title and lyric with masterful calligraphy, leaving Lin Dongxue, Wu Xuan, Qin Changdao, and the Tang elders astonished.
• Wu Xuan urged Lin Dongxue to let the matter go, and Lin Dongxue agreed to forgive Tang Yan this once.
• Lin Dongxue ordered Qin Changdao to take the written lyric as evidence, then left with him and Wu Xuan.
• Old Master Tang and Uncle Mo stared at Tang Yan in disbelief, and Tang Yan worried that he had taken his act too far.

Tang Yan asked Old Master Tang for money to begin alchemy, but received only two hundred taels and went out to buy herbs. On the street, he let Liu Yuan provoke him into a bet that could humiliate the Tang Family.

• Tang Yan claimed he wanted to go into business, and Old Master Tang gave him two hundred taels with a warning not to waste it on drinking and brothels.
• Tang Yan gathered valuables from his room and went into the city with Xiao Cui to look for low-grade herbs.
• Liu Yuan mocked Tang Yan and tried to provoke him into attacking first so he could humiliate the Tang Family.
• Tang Yan challenged Liu Yuan to a bet, offering his two hundred taels against Liu Yuan's two thousand and agreeing to kowtow once if he lost.
• Xiao Cui warned Tang Yan that Liu Yuan was baiting him, while Liu Yuan urged him to fight.

Tang Yan tricked Liu Yuan with a fake magical treasure and beat him unconscious, winning two thousand taels and disgracing the Liu Family. He bought medicinal ingredients and headed with Xiao Cui to Wonderful Elixir Workshop to refine medicine.

• Tang Yan challenged Liu Yuan to a fight and tossed his folding fan into the air to distract him.
• Tang Yan kicked Liu Yuan in the abdomen, then beat him unconscious before he could fight back.
• Tang Yan found two thousand taels on Liu Yuan and left with Xiao Cui as the crowd gossiped about the fight.
• Tang Yan sent Xiao Cui to Hundred Herbs Hall for ingredients while buying a different set of medicinal herbs at another shop.
• Tang Yan told Xiao Cui they were going to Wonderful Elixir Workshop to refine medicine, and she noticed he seemed different from before.

Tang Yan visited the Wonderful Elixir Workshop and pressed its chief elder, Ge Ming, to sell him second-grade pills. After briefly appraising a bottle of Qi-Gathering Pills, Tang Yan declared them genuine but offered only three thousand taels, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Tang Yan asked the shop assistant about pills that increased true qi and demanded second-grade pills, claiming he had plenty of money.
• Ge Ming emerged and offered Tang Yan a bottle of three Qi-Gathering Pills for a hundred thousand taels.
• Tang Yan inspected the pills by sniffing them through a small gap in the bottle.
• Tang Yan said the pills were genuine but offered Ge Ming three thousand taels for them.

Tang Yan impressed Ge Ming by identifying flaws in his pills and the cause of a failed batch from their scent, then asked to borrow a pill furnace. The chapter ended with Tang Yan offering Ge Ming all the pills he refined if his payment proved unsatisfactory.

• Tang Yan explained that Ge Ming's three second-tier pills had been salvaged from a botched batch, and Ge Ming gave them to him for free.
• Ge Ming guessed Tang Yan wanted a pill to restore his destroyed dantian, but Tang Yan said he had come to discuss business instead.
• Tang Yan followed Ge Ming into an inner room and asked to borrow a pill furnace for four hours.
• Ge Ming agreed, but asked what the Wonderful Elixir Workshop would gain from the deal.
• Tang Yan said he would pay after refining a batch of pills and offered Ge Ming all of them if Ge Ming was unhappy with the payment.

Tang Yan borrowed Ge Ming’s pill cauldron and successfully refined twelve pills, then gave Ge Ming a recipe for curing his fire poison. The chapter ended with Ge Ming rushing after Tang Yan and calling him “Brother Tang,” shocking everyone in the shop.

• Ge Ming led Tang Yan to the pill chamber and lent him his custom-made cauldron for four hours.
• Tang Yan used the Supreme Pill Canon’s true qi to refine twelve emerald-green pills in three hours.
• Tang Yan wrote Ge Ming a recipe for the Ice-Snow Clear-Flame Pill and explained that it could remove Ge Ming’s fire poison after seven doses.
• Ge Ming recognized that Tang Yan’s diagnosis matched his condition and was overcome with excitement at the prospect of a cure.
• As Tang Yan and Xiao Cui left, Ge Ming rushed outside calling for “Brother Tang,” leaving the shop assistant and customers stunned.

Tang Yan accepted Ge Ming’s pill cauldron and returned to the Tang Family, where he tried to cultivate with Initial Spirit Pills. The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron swallowed most of the pills, then released a surge of spiritual energy that overwhelmed Tang Yan’s damaged meridians.

• Ge Ming gave Tang Yan the pill cauldron he had borrowed, and Tang Yan accepted it in return for a promise to help Ge Ming if needed.
• Old Master Tang scolded Tang Yan for fighting Liu Yuan, then warned him to be more careful because his dantian was destroyed.
• Tang Yan swallowed an Initial Spirit Pill, but the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed all of its energy.
• Tang Yan swallowed more pills, and the cauldron consumed the first several before allowing five pills’ worth of energy to flood his meridians.
• As Tang Yan tried to guide the overwhelming energy through his damaged meridians, the cauldron opened and released an even purer stream of spiritual energy.

Tang Yan advanced from the third to the seventh rank of the origin tier overnight, then challenged the Tang Family guards' discipline at their Drill Grounds. After provoking them with the family authority token and calling them cowards, he faced a defiant guard demanding to know what gave him the right to call them useless.

• Tang Yan endured cycles of spiritual energy repairing and damaging his meridians, then woke to find he had advanced four ranks to the seventh rank of the origin tier.
• Tang Yan visited the Tang Family's Drill Grounds and found Mo Yanjun leading about a hundred guards who treated him with disdain.
• Tang Yan mocked the guards' training, and Mo Yanjun told him to leave the Drill Grounds as the guards joined in.
• Tang Yan silenced the guards with his Pill Emperor presence, criticized Mo Yanjun's failure to notice him, and displayed the Tang Family's authority token.
• Tang Yan ordered the guards to form ranks, called them cowards and useless trash, and warned they would die if Cloud City's four great lineages went to war.
• A burly, dark-faced guard stepped forward and challenged Tang Yan to justify calling them useless.

Tang Yan rallied the Tang Family guards to train harder by exposing their stagnant cultivation, demonstrating his own limits, and promising rewards for advancement. After the guards accepted his strict training rules, Old Master Tang watched from a tower and asked what the speech would do to their strength.

• Tang Yan confronted Chang Tie and the guards about their unchanged training and lack of progress, warning that danger was rising in Cloud City.
• Tang Yan carried a 120-jin log 130 meters without using true qi, earning the guards’ respect and applause.
• Tang Yan promised higher wages, pills, and opportunities for their children to guards who advanced, and all 120 men stepped forward to accept his demanding training.
• Tang Yan imposed strict rules and ordered the guards to run ten laps carrying 350-jin logs, with no lunch if anyone failed or delayed.
• Old Master Tang and Uncle Mo watched from a distant tower, where Old Master Tang asked what effect Tang Yan’s speech would have on the guards’ strength.

Tang Yan trained relentlessly, strengthened the Tang Family guards, and advanced to eighth-grade Origin Tier, but he needed money for pills to help his men break through. He went out to seek funds while Tang Ling and Uncle Mo secretly followed to protect him from the Liu Family.

• Tang Ling and Uncle Mo realized Tang Yan’s methods had won the guards’ loyalty and could help the Tang Family rise among Cloud City’s great lineages.
• Tang Yan trained with a hundred-jin sandbag, refined Meridian Tempering Powder to repair his meridians, and discovered that an Initial Spirit Pill dissolved into spiritual energy instead of being absorbed by the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron.
• After a month of increasingly intense training, Tang Yan reached eighth-grade Origin Tier, while most of his guards approached a bottleneck that could lead them to Yellow Tier.
• Tang Yan decided he needed more than ten thousand taels of silver to buy ingredients for Initial Spirit Pills, so he set out with Xiao Cui to find money.
• Tang Ling and Uncle Mo disguised themselves as old merchants and followed Tang Yan, determined to protect him from the Liu Family.

Tang Yan found a rare Spirit Whirlpool Fruit at a street stall and bought it from an old man for a hundred taels, despite the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron’s eager reaction to it. As he prepared to return home, Liu Yuan confronted him with three companions, and Tang Yan humiliated him with a sharp retort.

• Tang Yan sensed the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron stirring and traced its reaction to an old man selling herbs beside the road.
• Tang Yan spotted a Spirit Whirlpool Fruit hidden in the old man’s basket and paid him a hundred taels after learning his grandson needed treatment.
• Tang Yan handed the Spirit Whirlpool Fruit to Xiao Cui and warned her to keep it safe from the cauldron’s apparent hunger.
• Liu Yuan arrived with two guards and a young man in blue robes, and Tang Yan mocked him over their previous fight.
• When Liu Yuan began to curse, Tang Yan silenced him by saying people might think they were close and mistake him for someone as tasteless as Liu Yuan.

Tang Yan was cornered by Liu Yuan and Liu Quan, but revealed that he had recovered his cultivation when he defeated Liu Quan in a fight. Tang Ling publicly defended his grandson and took him back to the Tang Family estate, while casting a meaningful glance toward the City Lord's Residence.

• Liu Yuan challenged Tang Yan to fight, and Liu Quan demanded that Tang Yan kneel and kowtow when he refused.
• When Liu Quan insulted Tang Ling, Tang Yan became furious and tricked Liu Quan into turning around before slapping him four times.
• Liu Quan attacked Tang Yan, but Tang Yan dodged his punch and struck his dantian with Origin Tier Eighth Grade true qi.
• Tang Ling arrived too late to intervene, then slapped Liu Yuan and warned the Liu Family not to harm Tang Yan again.
• Tang Ling grabbed Tang Yan and took him to the Tang Family estate, glancing toward the City Lord's Residence as they left.

Tang Yan explained his restored cultivation with a fabricated story about a mysterious master, and Tang Ling accepted it. After discovering that the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron could revive the Spirit Whirlpool Fruit, Tang Yan planned to use a Scarless Pill to prevent the City Lord's Residence from turning the scandal over Lin Dongxue against the Tang Family.

• Tang Ling questioned Tang Yan about his restored cultivation, and Tang Yan claimed a mysterious old man had healed him and taught him cultivation methods.
• Tang Ling believed Tang Yan's story and warned him to keep the master's existence secret, then vowed to protect him from the City Lord's Residence.
• Tang Yan collected the Spirit Whirlpool Fruit from Xiao Cui, and the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed it and revived it inside the cauldron.
• Tang Yan tested the cauldron with ordinary herbs, found that it only accepted the spirit herb, and decided to save the fruit for refining a pill.
• Tang Yan anticipated that the Liu Family would use rumors about Lin Dongxue to provoke the City Lord's Residence and threaten the Tang Family.
• Tang Yan recalled that the City Lord's wife had facial scars and decided the Scarless Pill could help him deal with the City Lord's Residence.

Tang Yan visited Lin Xiao at the City Lord's Residence and claimed his recovered cultivation came from a mysterious master. When Lin Xiao learned that Tang Yan's Scarless Pill could remove scars, he called him back, thinking of his wife's scars.

• Lin Xiao discussed Tang Yan's restored dantian and cultivation with his wife, then summoned Tang Yan to the front hall.
• Lin Xiao confronted Tang Yan about previously claiming his dantian was destroyed, and Tang Yan said his master had restored it and given him cultivation.
• Tang Yan offered Lin Xiao a Scarless Pill and described its low grade and difficult refinement.
• Lin Xiao initially dismissed the pill, but Tang Yan mentioned that it could remove scars and preserve youthful beauty.
• Thinking of his wife's scars, Lin Xiao called out, "Young Master Tang, wait!"

Tang Yan gave Lin Xiao a Scarless Pill to help Madam Lin, then returned to the City Lord’s Residence with Lin Dongxue and Wu Xuan, who questioned him about his cultivation and watched Lin Dongxue practice her sword technique. The chapter ended when Wu Xuan asked Tang Yan to share his opinion of Lin Dongxue’s performance.

• Tang Yan gave Lin Xiao the Scarless Pill, explaining that he wanted to repay Lin Dongxue’s kindness, and Lin Xiao accepted it for his wife.
• Tang Yan left the City Lord’s Residence and ran into Lin Dongxue and Wu Xuan, who had just arrived; Lin Dongxue invited him back inside to serve as a sparring partner.
• Wu Xuan asked Tang Yan how he had recovered his cultivation, and Tang Yan claimed that his master had repaired his dantian.
• At Dongxue Pavilion, Lin Dongxue demonstrated the Graceful Sword Technique while Wu Xuan watched and Tang Yan considered his own lack of martial arts training.
• Wu Xuan noticed Tang Yan nodding during the demonstration and asked what he thought of Lin Dongxue’s swordsmanship.

Tang Yan sparred with Lin Dongxue and used her attacks to repair and refine the Tang Family’s Cloudflow Sword. After an hour, he had turned the fight around, and Lin Dongxue raised her strength to the yellow tier, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Wu Xuan suggested that Lin Dongxue use Tang Yan as a sparring partner, and Tang Yan agreed in exchange for ten thousand taels of silver if he lasted an hour or forced her to use yellow-tier strength.
• Tang Yan borrowed Wu Xuan’s sword and began using Lin Dongxue’s attacks to uncover flaws in the Cloudflow Sword.
• As the sparring continued, Tang Yan steadily improved the technique, surprising Wu Xuan and beginning to counter Lin Dongxue despite her increase to origin tier ninth grade.
• After an hour, Tang Yan’s Cloudflow Sword had grown powerful enough to stop Lin Dongxue from breaking through, so she unleashed yellow-tier strength.

Tang Yan defeated Lin Dongxue in a spar, but Wu Xuan accidentally injured him while trying to intervene. He gained a promise of Wu Xuan’s visit and twenty thousand taels from Lin Dongxue, then returned home and began preparing to strengthen the Tang Family.

• Tang Yan blocked Lin Dongxue’s yellow-tier sword attack and stopped his blade at her throat, but Wu Xuan struck him and sent him crashing into a cypress.
• Wu Xuan gave Tang Yan a healing elixir, while the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron suppressed his restless true qi and eased most of his injuries.
• Tang Yan challenged Wu Xuan over injuring him, then arranged for her to visit the Tang Family and offer martial arts guidance instead of accepting compensation.
• Lin Dongxue honored their wager by giving Tang Yan a banknote worth twenty thousand taels, and he left the City Lord’s Residence in a carriage.
• Tang Yan returned to his quarters, wrote a list of medicinal ingredients, and sent Xiao Cui to buy them.

Tang Yan refined all the medicinal ingredients, advanced to Yellow Tier First Grade, and awakened the heaven-earth creation flame from the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron. At the Drill Grounds, he rewarded Chang Tie for reaching Yellow Tier and encouraged the guards to keep advancing before Mo Yanjun approached him.

• Tang Yan finished refining the medicinal ingredients, then broke through to Origin Tier Ninth Grade and advanced again to Yellow Tier First Grade as a deep-blue heaven-earth creation flame appeared in his dantian.
• Tang Yan learned the Fire Control Technique, tested the flame by burning two herbs to dust, and discovered that using it drained all his true qi.
• Tang Yan went to the Drill Grounds, where the guards welcomed him warmly after a month of hard training alongside them.
• Chang Tie demonstrated that he had reached Yellow Tier First Grade, so Tang Yan raised his monthly pay to two hundred taels and gave him a five-hundred-tael reward.
• Tang Yan promised further pay increases for the guards' breakthroughs and told them to report their progress to Captain Mo Yanjun.
• After Tang Yan dismissed the guards, Mo Yanjun approached him quietly.

Tang Yan encouraged Mo Yanjun to remain captain of the Tang Family Guards and gave him First Spirit Pills to help the guards advance. Meanwhile, the Liu Family plotted to kill Tang Yan at the Mid-Autumn Gathering, unaware that he was preparing to auction pills at the Heavenly Treasure Auction House.

• Tang Yan persuaded Mo Yanjun to keep leading the Tang Family Guards, gave him First Spirit Pills for the guards, and urged him to cultivate toward the Heaven Tier.
• Liu Wuhui reprimanded Liu Quan for underestimating Tang Yan, while Liu He and Liu Jing discussed Tang Yan's unexpectedly restored dantian and strength.
• Liu Wuhui, Liu Jing, and Liu He planned to provoke Tang Yan into fighting Liu Zhi at the Mid-Autumn Martial Contest so Liu Zhi could kill him.
• Tang Yan, unaware of the plot, disguised himself and went to the Heavenly Treasure Auction House to auction three First Spirit Pills.
• An old man at the auction house assumed Tang Yan was from a minor Lineage and doubted he had pills worthy of an auction.

Tang Yan failed to convince an auction house to accept his First Spirit Pill, then devised a new way to make money by offering the Wonderful Elixir Workshop a formula for Meridian Tempering Powder. Ge Ming reacted with shock to the valuable formula, and Tang Yan expected powerful lineages to compete for it.

• Tang Yan described the First Spirit Pill’s effects to an old man, but the man dismissed it, so Tang Yan left without making a sale.
• Tang Yan thought of a long-term business plan and went to the Wonderful Elixir Workshop, where he noticed a beautiful, dangerous woman and realized she was injured and still too powerful to provoke.
• Ge Ming welcomed Tang Yan and thanked him for the earlier elixir formula, while Tang Yan credited his unnamed master.
• Tang Yan offered to sell the Wonderful Elixir Workshop the Meridian Tempering Powder formula, which could improve Origin Tier martial artists’ meridians.
• Ge Ming jumped up in shock at the offer, and Tang Yan anticipated that lineages would compete to obtain the powder.

Tang Yan negotiated a deal with the Wonderful Elixir Workshop to sell the Meridian Tempering Powder formula and share the profits. After leaving the workshop, he followed the woman in white as she left Cloud City.

• Tang Yan offered the Wonderful Elixir Workshop the formula rights for one million taels and a thirty-seventy profit split, with the workshop receiving seventy percent.
• Ge Ming examined the Meridian Tempering Powder, confirmed its effects, and agreed to Tang Yan's terms.
• Tang Yan and Ge Ming signed the contract, exchanged the formula and payment, and agreed to work together.
• The woman in white asked Ge Ming to refine third-tier, high-grade pills, then left when he said he could not.
• Tang Yan followed the woman through the city and continued after her when she left through the gates.