Recaps

Tang Yan and Du Shu faced the Precious Pill Pavilion’s accusations that Reach the Summit had stolen its Pill Formulas, while Tang Yan challenged Yang Xia to provide evidence. Zi Yun arrived to stop the Pavilion’s attack, and Tang Yan then pressed Han Gong to honor their month-old agreement.

• Du Shu defended Reach the Summit against Yang Xia’s accusations and mocked the Precious Pill Pavilion for using crooked tactics.
• Yang Xia claimed the Pavilion’s Pill Formulas had been stolen from its secret chamber and threatened to attack Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan challenged Yang Xia to produce evidence and declared that Reach the Summit could refine any pill available at Azure Dragon Academy.
• Qin Guang ordered the Precious Pill Pavilion’s men to charge, but Zi Yun appeared and barred them from crossing a golden line.
• Tang Yan used Zi Yun’s authority to taunt the Pavilion’s men and drive them away from the shop.
• Tang Yan reminded Han Gong of their month-long agreement, leaving Han Gong pale and hesitant.

Tang Yan defeated Han Gong in one move, then exposed Xue Xiao’s betrayal and watched Han Gong get beaten by Yang Xia’s men. After Tang Yan invited him to join Reach the Summit, Han Gong blamed him for the humiliation, and Tang Yan called him a coward for avoiding the real source of his pain.

• Tang Yan defeated Han Gong with a single redirecting move and told him his reactions were too slow.
• Tang Yan suggested that Xue Xiao had been with Yang Xia, and Yang Xia confirmed the affair by revealing an intimate detail about her.
• Han Gong charged at Yang Xia, but Yang Xia’s men beat him, and Yang Xia took Xue Xiao away.
• Tang Yan asked Du Shu to invite Han Gong to join Reach the Summit, and Du Shu brought the injured Han Gong to the base.
• Han Gong blamed Tang Yan for his humiliation, but Tang Yan said he was blaming the wrong people and called him a coward.
• Han Gong admitted Tang Yan might be right, then said people found it easy to talk when they did not bear the pain themselves.

Tang Yan rallied Reach the Summit and persuaded Han Gong to join, then learned that his killing of Chu Mo and Qiu Shao had earned him a massive bounty on Ming City's Kill Ranking. Azure Dragon Academy's elders vowed to protect him as the academy braced for assassins.

• Tang Yan reminded Reach the Summit of its past hardships and promised its members support, convincing Han Gong to join in exchange for a chance to restore his dignity.
• Tang Yan told Han Gong he would be strong enough to storm the Precious Pill Pavilion within half a year, and Qin Fang asked Fang Xuan to show him around.
• Tang Yan tried to give Little Dot to Zi Yun, but the creature clung to him, so Zi Yun left it in his care.
• In Ming City, Qiu Haoran learned that Azure Dragon Academy students had killed Uncle Guan and the Chu Family fighters, while Qiu Minghui threatened retaliation if an academy elder had intervened.
• Xiao Cangshan told Azure Dragon Academy's elders that Tang Yan had killed Chu Mo, Qiu Shao, and their allies, prompting the Chu and Qiu Families to issue a Must-Kill Mission.
• Xiao Cangshan ordered the elders to guard Tang Yan, and they promised to protect him as the bounty threatened to draw assassins to the academy.

Tang Yan brought Little Dot into the Nine Nether Fire Sea, where the creature remained comfortable even on the Fourth Level as Tang Yan began cultivating toward a breakthrough. Meanwhile, a richly robed old man and Han Zhao planned to draw Tang Yan out by targeting his friends, and another young man sought out Leng Ning.

• Tang Yan entered the Nine Nether Fire Sea with Little Dot, who followed him inside and endured the heat without discomfort through the Fourth Level.
• Tang Yan realized Little Dot was extraordinary, then began cultivating as his aura started to fluctuate near a breakthrough.
• A richly robed old man reviewed Tang Yan's record and discussed his rapid rise and the threat he posed with Han Zhao.
• Han Zhao suggested watching Tang Yan's friends, and the old man ordered surveillance of Lin Dongxue, Wan Fei, Yu Juechen, Fang Xuan, and Du Shu.
• A young man bribed a student for directions to Leng Ning's dormitory and hurried toward Room 604.

After breaking through, Lin Dongxue followed Leng Ning outside to settle an old grudge, only to realize too late that Leng Ning had led her into an ambush. Surrounded by the Chu Family of Ming City, Lin Dongxue learned they planned to capture her to lure Tang Yan out.

• Lin Dongxue confronted Leng Ning, who challenged her to fight outside the Azure Dragon Academy.
• Leng Ning disguised herself and led Lin Dongxue away while Du Shu learned they had left and gathered a group to follow.
• Lin Dongxue spotted Leng Ning's disguise and tried to escape, but attackers emerged and blocked every route.
• The Chu Family's Third Elder revealed that the ambush aimed to capture Lin Dongxue and draw Tang Yan to them.

Lin Dongxue fought the Chu Family forces to keep them from using her to threaten Tang Yan, killing and wounding several men before collapsing from her injuries. As her consciousness faded, she wrote that she wanted to be Madam Tang again in her next life.

• Lin Dongxue refused to let the Chu Family use her to lure Tang Yan and killed two guards who attacked her.
• Lin Dongxue fought four earth tier third grade opponents and killed one while taking several sword wounds.
• Lin Dongxue continued fighting despite her injuries, killing another man and severely wounding one more before falling.
• The Third Elder kicked Lin Dongxue, and she used her blood to write, "In my next life, I'll be Madam Tang again," before losing consciousness.

Tang Yan returned from the Nine Nether Fire Sea to find Lin Dongxue mortally wounded after the Chu Family attacked her, and he could not revive her. After discovering she had fought to keep the Chu Family from using her as a hostage, he swore revenge and began preparing Reach the Summit for war against the Chu Family in three months.

• Tang Yan reached Earth tier fourth grade in the Nine Nether Fire Sea and headed out to gather medicinal materials for pill refining.
• The Chu Third Elder ordered his men to attack Du Shu and the others, but retreated when three signal flares drew the Azure Dragon Academy’s senior figures toward them.
• Du Shu and Wan Fei gave Lin Dongxue pills to stop her bleeding, but she remained lifeless as they waited for Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan arrived and spent two hours trying to revive Lin Dongxue with pills, True Qi, and medicinal materials, but she did not wake.
• Tang Yan found a note clenched in Lin Dongxue’s hand and realized she had fought to avoid being used as a hostage against him.
• Tang Yan ordered Fang Xuan and Du Shu to recruit and train martial artists, then vowed that Reach the Summit would march on Ming City and destroy the Chu Family in three months.

Tang Yan led Reach the Summit against the Chu Family, attracting Yang Jiayi and other powerful recruits with a promise of rapid cultivation. Little Dot revived Lin Dongxue with its five-colored blood, but Tang Yan discovered she needed a rare Divine Soul Pill to awaken fully.

• Yang Jiayi joined Reach the Summit after Tang Yan promised to raise him to the peak of earth tier ninth grade within three months.
• Tang Yan put Fang Xuan in charge and carried Lin Dongxue into the forest to grieve and find her a resting place.
• Little Dot bit its paw and fed Lin Dongxue a drop of five-colored blood, restoring warmth and faint breathing to her body.
• Tang Yan found that Lin Dongxue needed a Divine Soul Pill to awaken, but he lacked its three rare main ingredients.
• Tang Yan vowed to find the ingredients and awaken Lin Dongxue within half a year, while Little Dot lay exhausted from its sacrifice.

Tang Yan cared for the weakened Little Dot and learned that Lin Dongxue had returned to life but needed her soul essence restored. He then rallied Reach the Summit’s members to pursue greater strength and began their punishing training.

• Tang Yan fed Little Dot a Qi-Restoring Pill, then brought Lin Dongxue to Zi Yun and asked her to search for three rare ingredients to nourish Dongxue’s soul.
• Tang Yan told Zi Yun he would fight the Chu Family to the death, and she decided to join Reach the Summit.
• The next morning, Du Shu introduced sixteen new members as Tang Yan gathered Reach the Summit’s guardians and Alchemy Masters.
• Tang Yan challenged the members’ complacency and urged them to aim beyond the Azure Dragon Academy and become peerless experts.
• Everyone stepped forward to accept his harsh training, and Tang Yan announced that Purgatory officially began.

Tang Yan brought Zi Yun into Reach the Summit and began putting the group through his deceptively difficult Extreme Six Forms. The chapter left everyone exhausted but continuing the training, while Tang Yan motivated the Alchemy Masters with the promise that perseverance could make them fifth-tier alchemists.

• Tang Yan introduced Zi Yun as Reach the Summit's newest member and told everyone she would train alongside them.
• Tang Yan demonstrated the six Extreme Six Forms, and no one stepped out when he asked who thought they could not do them.
• The students and Alchemy Masters struggled to hold the first form, while Tang Yan refused to let Du Shu and You Butong quit.
• Tang Yan urged the Alchemy Masters to persevere by promising that those who continued could become fifth-tier alchemists.
• After the group completed the first three forms and grew exhausted, Tang Yan ordered them to begin the sequence again.

Tang Yan put Reach the Summit through exhausting Extreme Six Forms training, using pills to help them recover and improve. After Han Gong broke through, Tang Yan split the group between alchemy fundamentals and sparring, where he urged the martial cultivators to fight without holding back and called out their openings.

• Tang Yan made Reach the Summit repeat the Extreme Six Forms, and the members collapsed in succession before taking Explosive Spirit Pills and Qi-Restoring Pills to recover.
• Tang Yan drove the group through more rounds, and Han Gong advanced from earth tier fourth grade to earth tier fifth grade.
• Tang Yan assigned the Alchemy Masters to practice alchemy fundamentals and the martial cultivators to spar with opponents no more than one grade apart.
• Tang Yan told the martial cultivators to stop holding back, explaining that exposing one another's weaknesses in training could save their lives in battle.
• Tang Yan called out openings for Fang Xuan, Shen Qingle, and Yu Juechen to exploit against their sparring partners, then advised the fallen Wan Fei to kick Yu Juechen in the crotch.

After a week of intense training, Tang Yan consolidated his earth tier fourth grade strength and successfully refined a Dragon Snake Pill. He then returned to the training grounds to teach Reach the Summit's Alchemy Masters, who had doubted what they could learn from him.

• Tang Yan trained Reach the Summit's members for a week, helping them break through bottlenecks while his own strength improved.
• Tang Yan left Fang Xuan to supervise the group and went to the secluded chamber to refine a Dragon Snake Pill.
• Tang Yan used the Supreme Pill Canon to fuse the ingredients and successfully made an emerald-green Dragon Snake Pill.
• Little Dot woke and tried to get the pill, but Tang Yan fed it an Explosive Spirit Pill instead; Little Dot ate it and went back to sleep.
• Tang Yan checked that the members were still training, then explained to Reach the Summit's Alchemy Masters how differences in technique and speed affected the quality and risk of pill refining.

Tang Yan demonstrated a rapid method for refining superior-quality Fast-Acting Qi-Boosting Pills, inspiring the Alchemy Masters to practice under his guidance. He then swallowed a Dragon Snake Pill at the Nine Nether Fire Sea and, after eight hours of painful cultivation, advanced to Earth Tier Fifth Grade.

• Tang Yan explained how to refine and fuse medicinal ingredients more efficiently, then produced six superior-quality Fast-Acting Qi-Boosting Pills in less than half an hour.
• The Alchemy Masters inspected the pills and were astonished by their quality and Tang Yan's speed.
• Tang Yan encouraged the Alchemy Masters to improve their ingredient control step by step and gave them detailed practice instructions.
• After guiding the Martial Artists in their cultivation, Tang Yan went to the fourth level of the Nine Nether Fire Sea and swallowed a Dragon Snake Pill.
• Tang Yan endured intense pain as his Dantian and meridians absorbed the surrounding Fire Spirit Power.
• After eight hours of cultivation, Tang Yan broke through to Earth Tier Fifth Grade.

Tang Yan advanced from earth tier fifth grade to ninth grade in the Nine Nether Fire Sea, while the Chu and Qiu families planned to target him and Azure Dragon Academy. He returned to find Zi Yun had trained their companions hard, raising their strength as the group prepared for what came next.

• Tang Yan entered the fifth level of the Nine Nether Fire Sea and spent a week cultivating until he reached earth tier sixth grade.
• The Chu and Qiu family heads discussed luring Tang Yan out of Azure Dragon Academy and threatening the academy's students in the Unowned Forest.
• After two months of cultivation, Tang Yan reached earth tier ninth grade and decided he needed outside training to stabilize his foundation.
• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit and found Zi Yun rigorously sparring with a young man and training the others.
• Tang Yan saw that Yang Jiayi had reached earth tier ninth grade, Zhao Sen had advanced to ninth grade, Yu Juechen to seventh, Wan Fei and Fang Xuan to sixth, and Han Gong to eighth.

Tang Yan learned that the Soul-Calming Flower and other needed ingredients would be auctioned in Ming City, but insisted on scouting the Chu Family alone before bringing Reach the Summit there. Meanwhile, Reach the Summit exchanged much of its wealth for Star Value and then offered rewards for information about Lin Dongxue's contacts, stirring Azure Dragon Academy.

• Du Shu told Tang Yan about the upcoming Gold-Digging Auction House auction in Ming City, and Tang Yan ordered him to exchange Star Value for silver to prepare for it.
• Yang Jiayi, Zhao Sen, Yu Juechen, Wan Fei, and Fang Xuan volunteered to go to Ming City, but Tang Yan ordered the group to keep cultivating while he investigated the Chu Family alone.
• Rumors spread at Azure Dragon Academy about the Chu Family's bounty on Tang Yan and his plan to destroy the family, while students considered joining Reach the Summit.
• Reach the Summit exchanged Star Value for silver at a rate of one Star Value per hundred taels, drawing a huge crowd and spending more than half its assets.
• Reach the Summit posted a notice offering pills and other rewards for information about who had contact with Lin Dongxue two and a half months earlier, causing an uproar at Azure Dragon Academy.

Tang Yan rewarded a student for information suggesting Lin Dongxue had gone out with a woman resembling Leng Ning, and he suspected Leng Ning had hurt Dongxue again. At Azure Dragon Academy, Chu Jiang confronted Dean Xiao Cangshan about his son's death, with the Qiu Family head beside him.

• News spread that Tang Yan was offering valuable pills for leads about Lin Dongxue, and public opinion of Reach the Summit improved.
• A student told Tang Yan he had seen Lin Dongxue go out with a woman two and a half months earlier, then received ten each of four kinds of Peerless Divine Pills.
• Tang Yan suspected Leng Ning had hurt Dongxue and vowed to make her answer for it.
• Chu Jiang and the Qiu Family head arrived at Azure Dragon Academy, where Chu Jiang demanded that Dean Xiao Cangshan explain his son's death.

Chu Jiang and Qiu Minghui failed to force the Azure Dragon Academy to hand over Tang Yan, then plotted to exploit his faction’s Reach the Summit. Tang Yan traveled in disguise to Ming City to obtain the Soul-Calming Flower, where a woman framed him for molesting her.

• Chu Jiang accused the Azure Dragon Academy of helping Tang Yan kill his son, while Qiu Minghui demanded Tang Yan be handed over and threatened the academy.
• Xiao Cangshan refused to surrender Tang Yan and warned Chu Jiang and Qiu Minghui that the academy would retaliate if they broke the Heaven Tier pact.
• After leaving, Chu Jiang and Qiu Minghui discussed a scheme involving Tang Yan’s Reach the Summit faction.
• Du Shu gave Tang Yan 1.8 billion taels of silver and three million taels of gold, and Tang Yan told him to watch Leng Ning while he went to Ming City for the Soul-Calming Flower.
• Tang Yan disguised himself and entered Ming City, where a woman tore her own clothes and accused him of groping her as six men approached.

Tang Yan saw through San Hu’s gang’s staged accusation and turned their extortion attempt against them. After defeating two of the men, he forced the woman and the rest of the gang to hand over their valuables.

• Tang Yan called out San Hu and his companions for pretending that he had molested the woman in order to extort him.
• Tang Yan revealed that San Hu and the woman were not siblings and accused them of having been together earlier.
• San Hu attacked Tang Yan, who slammed him headfirst into the ground until he lost consciousness.
• Zhao Heng charged Tang Yan and was also knocked unconscious after Tang Yan struck him repeatedly.
• Tang Yan demanded the woman’s necklace and bracelets, then took the gang’s storage artifact and ordered everyone else to surrender their possessions.

Tang Yan robbed Sanhu and Zhao Heng, then learned about Ming City's powers and the rules for entering the Gold-Digging Auction House. At the auction, he became interested in the Capture Fist after the Qiu Family bid on it.

• Tang Yan searched Sanhu and Zhao Heng, took their valuables, and warned their companions to surrender anything else they carried.
• Tang Yan asked an inn waiter about Ming City's major powers, the Chu Family's rumored Heaven Tier experts, and the price of admission to the auction.
• Tang Yan cultivated with an Explosive Spirit Pill while Little Dot slept, then paid for entry to the Gold-Digging Auction House.
• Wen Chen opened the auction, and bidders drove the price of the Capture Fist up to five hundred and seventy thousand taels.
• Tang Yan saw that the Qiu Family had bid on the Capture Fist and decided he suddenly wanted the cultivation method.

Tang Yan challenged the Qiu Family and the Chu Family at the Gold-Digging Auction House, paying steep prices for treasures he wanted. He won the cold flame flower after the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron reacted to it, leaving the two families angered by his bids.

• Tang Yan outbid the Qiu Family for a cultivation method at six hundred thousand taels, then ignored Grand Elder Qiu's warning.
• Tang Yan let the Yun Family win two Spirit Storage Pills, then bid two million taels for warm jade fruit to help save Lin Dongxue.
• Grand Elder Qiu threatened Tang Yan over the warm jade fruit, but Wen Chen reminded him to respect the auction house's rules before Tang Yan won the bidding.
• Tang Yan stayed silent through four items, then bid two million taels for the cold flame flower after the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron stirred.
• The Chu Family yielded the cold flame flower to Tang Yan, while Yun Liu chose not to compete against his high bids.
• Tang Yan received the cold flame flower and sensed its properties with his consciousness.

Tang Yan won the Soul-Calming Flower before the auction began bidding on Blood Spirit Essence. The final treasure’s owner, Young Master Ye, objected to receiving silver and demanded that Jin Mo find treasures that would please a woman instead.

• Tang Yan noticed that the Cold Flame Flower energized his meridians and stored it in the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron.
• The Chen, Zhang, Chu, and Yun Families competed for the Soul-Calming Flower until Tang Yan won it with a bid of thirty million taels.
• Wen Chen introduced Blood Spirit Essence, and the Chu, Yun, and Qiu Families began bidding with silver.
• Young Master Ye chastised Jin Mo for accepting silver bids instead of seeking treasures that would make a woman happy.
• Jin Mo left Young Master Ye’s private room, regretting that he had tried to court the favor of such a demanding patron.

At the auction, Jin Mo revealed that the Blood Spirit Essence belonged to a young man who wanted to trade it for an unusual treasure to please his beloved. Tang Yan defended the young man from the Chu Family’s Grand Elder, then watched as a woman realized the gemstones on the young man’s clothes surpassed her own offerings.

• Jin Mo stopped Wen Chen’s auction and announced that bids had to be unusual treasures suited to winning a woman’s favor, rather than silver or ordinary valuables.
• The Chu Family’s Grand Elder mocked the proposed exchange, and Tang Yan rebuked him by praising the Blood Spirit Essence owner’s devotion and refined tastes.
• A richly dressed young man emerged from a private room, invited Tang Yan for a drink, and confirmed that he owned the Blood Spirit Essence.
• The young man offered to trade it or other treasures for a suitable item, regardless of its value.
• A woman presented polished gemstones, but the young man asked her to compare them with the jade on his clothes; she recognized a Starlight stone and admitted she had made a fool of herself.

Tang Yan persuaded an infatuated young master to trade his Blood Spirit Essence for a Youth-Preserving Pill by claiming it would help win over the woman he loved. The old man inspecting the pill praised its extraordinary quality, though its promised effects remained unverified.

• Tang Yan mocked the treasures brought for appraisal while privately coveting several of them.
• After the young master suggested castrating every man to make himself unique, Tang Yan redirected him toward offering his beloved a beauty-enhancing pill.
• Tang Yan presented a Youth-Preserving Pill and persuaded the young master that preserving his beloved’s beauty would make an ideal gift.
• The young master traded his Blood Spirit Essence for the pill, while Tang Yan swore that his claims about its effects were true.
• The old man examined the pill and praised its flawless appearance and masterful shaping.

Tang Yan helped Feng Chenye secure a Youth-Preserving Pill and gave him a romantic poem to win over his beloved. After Feng Chenye befriended Tang Yan and invited him to the Northern Spirit Realm, Tang Yan revealed his identity as the man hunted by the Chu Family of Ming City.

• The old man examined the Youth-Preserving Pill and accepted it, while Feng Chenye thanked Tang Yan for helping him.
• Tang Yan advised Feng Chenye to use a poem and a carefully staged riverboat farewell to win his beloved's favor.
• Tang Yan recited a poem about Bamboo Bridge, impressing Feng Chenye and the people in the auction house.
• Feng Chenye invited Tang Yan to drink and urged him to visit the Northern Spirit Realm, then gave him a jade token bearing his name, Chenye.
• When Feng Chenye and the old man recognized Tang Yan's name as that of the man pursued by the Chu Family of Ming City, Tang Yan revealed his true appearance.

Tang Yan asked Feng Chenye to help him obtain the divine soul grass and twin harmony fruit needed to awaken Lin Dongxue. After Tang Yan revealed his connection to Shen Shan, Feng Chenye and Elder Fan agreed to approach the Artifact Pavilion for the rare herb.

• Tang Yan explained that he wanted to settle his feud with the Chu Family and Qiu Family himself, then asked Feng Chenye to help find ingredients to awaken Lin Dongxue.
• Elder Fan said the Fengyun Clan had twin harmony fruit and that the Artifact Pavilion likely possessed divine soul grass, which would be difficult to obtain.
• Tang Yan gave Feng Chenye Beauty Pills, Origin Qi Pills, and Blood-Coagulating Pills, and told Elder Fan he was an Alchemy Master trained by a departed master.
• Tang Yan showed them Shen Shan's Artifact Dagger and asked Feng Chenye to deliver a letter to the Artifact Pavilion seeking divine soul grass.
• Elder Fan learned Tang Yan had helped cure Shen Shan's grandson, Shen He, and promised that he and Feng Chenye would visit the Artifact Pavilion and secure the needed ingredients.