Recaps

Tang Yan was exposed as an impostor while the Immortal-Gathering Palace pursued him through the wilderness, and he used poison, a signal flare, and a bluff about an Ancient Magic Artifact to stall Grand Elder Qin. The chapter left Tang Yan surrounded as Lord Tao urged Qin Shi to capture him despite the threat of the Artifact Pavilion.

• Lord Tao recognized that Tang Yan was not Liu Xiongchao, while Elder Qin and the others discovered that Spirit-Dispersing Powder had weakened their True Qi.
• Tang Yan attacked a Heavenly Leaf Protector, then fled as the poisoned Immortal-Gathering Palace members pursued him.
• Grand Elder Qin caught up and struck at Tang Yan, who fought back with Qi Meridian Transformation, Flame Burst Palm, and the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame before escaping again.
• Tang Yan launched a Signal Flare toward the Imperial City and claimed that his fan was an Ancient Magic Artifact given to him by Shen Shan of the Artifact Pavilion.
• Qin Shi hesitated to attack because of Tang Yan's claimed ties to the Artifact Pavilion, while Lord Tao urged him to seize Tang Yan and verify his identity later.

Tang Yan fought Qin Shi and the six Heavenly Leaf Protectors in the Southern Suburbs, using the battle to hone his skills despite suffering severe injuries. As an Imperial Family expert approached, Qin Shi struck Tang Yan in the back and ordered a retreat, believing he had killed him.

• Yu Juechen spotted a Reach the Summit signal flare while flying toward the Imperial Palace and shouted an emergency warning to Tang Yan and Old Du.
• Lord Tao's deduction prompted Qin Shi to attack Tang Yan, who threw his folding fan as a feint and broke Qin Shi's fingers with his heavy sword.
• Tang Yan exchanged blows with Qin Shi, adapting his tactics as he fought despite the gap in their strength and accumulated wounds.
• Qin Shi called on the six Heavenly Leaf Protectors to attack Tang Yan together, leaving him badly injured and close to losing consciousness.
• An oppressive presence approached, and Qin Shi ordered the Protectors to pin Tang Yan down before striking him in the back with a full-powered blow.
• Believing Tang Yan could not survive the strike, Qin Shi ordered his group to retreat.

Tang Yan lay near death after an assassination attempt, and Elder Ling could offer little hope of saving him. Zi Yun, Du Shu, and Yu Juechen threatened the Imperial Family unless it identified the attackers and protected Tang Yan, leaving the palace officials under pressure to act quickly.

• Elder Ling told Qing Xuan and the others that Tang Yan had suffered severe external and internal injuries, and that only a mysterious power sustaining him offered hope.
• Zi Yun demanded that the Imperial Family investigate the attack and warned that Purple Bamboo City would crush the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion if it failed to protect Tang Yan.
• Zi Yun ordered everyone to remain in the courtyard until the would-be assassins were identified, while Qing Xuan promised an answer within three days.
• Du Shu threatened to move the Reach the Summit Shop out of Tingxiang, putting the Imperial Family’s finances and military position at risk.
• Yu Juechen threatened to have the Rakshasa Gate destroy the Left Chancellor and then the Imperial Family if anything happened to Tang Yan.

Tang Yan lay unconscious with shattered heart meridians while the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron slowly supplied Spiritual Qi to keep him alive and heal him. Little Dot guarded him from anyone approaching, and the chapter ended with Qing Xuan’s group learning that Tang Yan was stable as a report arrived.

• The emperor ordered his people to avoid clashing with Tang Yan’s camp, cooperate with its demands, and investigate the attack using the Imperial Family’s intelligence resources.
• Qing Xuan declared that anyone plotting against Tang Yan was an enemy of Tingxiang and ordered a thorough investigation while the group waited for him to recover.
• Little Dot tried to use its blood essence to heal Tang Yan, while the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron gradually restored his shattered heart meridians with Spiritual Qi.
• Tang Yan realized the cauldron was limiting its Spiritual Qi because his weakened body could not withstand more, and he waited calmly as it repaired him.
• Little Dot blocked Elder Ling from examining Tang Yan, then told Zi Yun that Tang Yan was safe and should not be disturbed.
• Elder Ling confirmed that Tang Yan was in no immediate danger, and a member of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion hurried into the courtyard with a report.

After Tang Yan nearly died, the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron healed him and helped him advance two grades to Heaven Tier Third Grade. Meanwhile, the Imperial Family learned the Immortal-Gathering Palace had joined the conflict, and Yu Juechen returned to the Rakshasa Gate having reached the Heaven Tier.

• A spy reported that seven mysterious experts from the southwest had attacked Tang Yan, and Ye Haohao identified their leader as Qin Shi, Grand Elder of the Immortal-Gathering Palace.
• Zi Yun vowed to avenge Tang Yan and left for Purple Bamboo City, while Yu Juechen departed for the Rakshasa Gate and Du Shu also left the Imperial City.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron consumed eighteen spirit herbs, healed Tang Yan, and released spiritual qi that raised his cultivation to Heaven Tier Third Grade.
• Yu Qingyun heard that Yu Juechen had returned and summoned him to the martial arts platform.
• Yu Juechen greeted his father and announced that he had reached the Heaven Tier.

Yu Juechen returned to the Rakshasa Gate as a heaven-tier expert and asked his father, Yu Qingyun, to lead an attack on the Immortal-Gathering Palace after Tang Yan was gravely wounded. After hearing how Tang Yan had changed Yu Juechen’s life, Yu Qingyun understood his son’s loyalty and ambition to remain with Reach the Summit and pursue greater horizons.

• Yu Qingyun discovered that Yu Juechen had risen from the ninth grade of the profound tier to the heaven tier, but Yu Juechen said he had no intention of taking over the Rakshasa Gate’s affairs.
• Yu Juechen asked to lead the Rakshasa Gate Elite against the Immortal-Gathering Palace because its assassins had gravely wounded Tang Yan, and Yu Qingyun warned him of the Palace’s hidden strength.
• Yu Juechen called Tang Yan his brother and credited him with helping him overcome his cowardice and advance to the heaven tier.
• Yu Juechen recounted his experiences with Tang Yan, and Yu Qingyun came to recognize Tang Yan’s loyalty and the debt the Rakshasa Gate owed him.
• Yu Juechen told Yu Qingyun he hoped to stay with Reach the Summit and venture beyond the Lower Plane without regrets, leaving his father shaken by his son’s ambitions.

Yu Juechen and Zi Yun persuaded their fathers to support Tang Yan, and both groups set out for the Imperial City. In Miaoye City, Du Shu proposed an alliance between Reach the Summit and the Wonderful Elixir Workshop, then stunned its leaders by offering them only ten percent of profits from pills made with his formulas.

• Yu Qingyun agreed to consider supporting Tang Yan after Yu Juechen urged him, and thirteen Azure Cranes flew from Rakshasa Gate toward the Imperial City.
• Zi Yun told Zi Xian she wanted to send troops against the Immortal-Gathering Palace, and he agreed to join the expedition; seventeen spirit beasts then departed Purple Bamboo City for the Imperial City.
• Du Shu gained an audience with Ji Li and the elders of the Wonderful Elixir Workshop by presenting bottles of pills.
• Du Shu identified the Explosive Spirit Pill and Frenzied Origin Pill, claimed he had many more formulas, and proposed taking over the Heavenly Pill Palace's market within a month.
• Du Shu offered the Wonderful Elixir Workshop sixty percent of western-region profits from its existing pills, but only ten percent of profits from pills made using his formulas, provoking three powerful auras.

Du Shu tried to persuade Ji Li and the Wonderful Elixir Workshop to cooperate with Reach the Summit Pill Shop, offering at least six rare pill formulas in exchange for ten percent of the profits. He revealed that Reach the Summit was already driving the Heavenly Pill Palace from the Imperial City, leaving Ji Li and the others worried that the Heavenly Pill Palace would target their market next.

• Du Shu argued that specialty pills had repeatedly shifted the market and revived the Wonderful Elixir Workshop, proving that new formulas could change its fortunes.
• Du Shu offered the Wonderful Elixir Workshop at least six rare pill formulas and identified himself as the shopkeeper of Reach the Summit Pill Shop.
• Ji Li questioned whether a ten-percent profit share justified the extra work for the workshop’s alchemy masters.
• Du Shu explained that Reach the Summit had Imperial Family support and was close to saturating the Imperial City’s pill market after forcing the Heavenly Pill Palace into retreat.
• Du Shu warned that the Heavenly Pill Palace would turn against the Wonderful Elixir Workshop if driven from the Western Region, and said Reach the Summit planned to expand beyond that region.

Du Shu pressured Ji Li into an agreement between the Wonderful Elixir Workshop and the Reach the Summit Pill Shop, promising the Workshop markets across five kingdoms. When Du Shu revealed that Reach the Summit was led by Tang Yan, Wu Xuan recognized the name and described the Tang Yan she knew, leaving Du Shu stunned.

• Ji Li negotiated with Du Shu and agreed that the Wonderful Elixir Workshop would receive a twenty-percent share from pills made with Reach the Summit's formulas.
• Du Shu presented a contract requiring the Workshop to refine Reach the Summit's requested pills, then promised that it could expand into the markets of all Five Kingdoms.
• Wu Xuan questioned Du Shu about the alliance, and he explained that Reach the Summit sought to suppress the Heavenly Pill Palace and the Left Chancellor's forces.
• Wu Xuan asked who led Reach the Summit, and Du Shu said its leader was Tang Yan, the source of its pill formulas.
• Wu Xuan described Tang Yan as the seventeen-year-old eldest son of the Tang Family in Cloud City who studied at Azure Dragon Academy, and asked Du Shu whether he resembled the Tang Yan he knew.

After learning that Tang Yan had been attacked, the Wonderful Elixir Workshop pledged a permanent partnership with him and prepared to oppose the Heavenly Pill Palace. Tang Yan awoke from his injuries and asked the Crown Prince for a secluded place to cultivate.

• Wu Xuan recognized Tang Yan as her old friend, and Du Shu told her and Ji Li about the assassination attempt against him.
• Ji Li committed the Wonderful Elixir Workshop to a permanent alliance and ordered its Alchemy Masters to practice the fundamentals fifty thousand times while Du Shu arranged for the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion to screen them.
• Du Shu hurried back toward the Imperial City with information about the workshop’s Alchemy Masters, while Wu Xuan and Ji Li praised Tang Yan and his associates.
• Tang Yan awoke with Little Dot beside him, and Jing Wuhen told him that Zi Yun and Yu Juechen had gone to seek support from their lineages.
• The Crown Prince, Qing Xuan, and Elder Ling visited Tang Yan; after examining him, Elder Ling found no serious lasting injury.
• Tang Yan asked the Crown Prince for a place to cultivate, and the Crown Prince suggested a secret chamber.

Tang Yan used the Crown Prince’s secret training ground to practice the Azure Fire Thunder Formation, repeatedly enduring true qi backlash until he successfully formed and unleashed it. After seeing that it dented the profound-heart copper wall, he used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to repair the damage before anyone noticed.

• The Crown Prince led Tang Yan to a hidden Imperial Family training ground and left him to practice there.
• Tang Yan studied the Azure Fire Thunder Formation and repeatedly failed to balance its flames and lightning, suffering true qi backlash.
• Tang Yan finally formed the Azure Fire Thunder Formation and blasted the profound-heart copper wall, leaving a half-inch dent.
• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to soften and smooth the dent, then cooled the wall so it looked intact again.

Tang Yan recovered from cultivating with Azure Dragon blood essence and helped Du Shu plan a commercial campaign against the Heavenly Pill Palace. After learning that the Left Chancellor’s allies commanded a large military force, Tang Yan requested information on the Xu and Chu Families, setting his sights on the Imperial Family’s remaining opponents.

• Tang Yan endured the pain of consuming a second drop of Azure Dragon blood essence and emerged from cultivation with a powerful aura in his bloodline.
• Du Shu asked Mo Wei to investigate the Wonderful Elixir Workshop’s Alchemy Masters for spies, and Mo Wei assigned the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to review more than three thousand files.
• Tang Yan advised Du Shu to conceal the partnership between the Wonderful Elixir Workshop and Reach the Summit Pill Shop until the Heavenly Pill Palace shifted its focus to the Eastern Region.
• Mo Wei told Tang Yan that the Imperial Family had subdued Tingxiang’s peripheral factions but faced the Left Chancellor’s military strength, including the Xu Family’s two hundred thousand troops and the Chu Family’s one hundred and eighty thousand.
• Tang Yan asked Mo Wei for all available information on the Xu and Chu Families, despite Mo Wei’s warning that confronting them could lead to armed conflict.

Tang Yan led the Imperial Guards to the Xu Family, alarming the emperor and Crown Prince, who prepared to support him. After Xu Zhen obstructed them at the residence, he brazenly declared that the Xu Family would rebel.

• Tang Yan took ten Imperial Guards, including Kun He, to the Xu Family, dismissing Kun He's fears about General Xu's power.
• The Crown Prince and Qing Xuan told the emperor about Tang Yan's move, and the emperor ordered Ye Haohao to support Tang Yan and put their forces on battle readiness.
• Tang Yan struck a guard who tried to stop them and led the Imperial Guards into the Xu residence.
• Xu Zhen refused to summon his father or cooperate, while Xu Family members watched the confrontation with contempt.
• Kun He accused the Xu Family of defying the Imperial Family and asked if they meant to rebel, and Xu Zhen replied, "So what if we rebel?"

Tang Yan confronted the Xu Family over its defiance and brought General Xu Chuan to the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion for questioning. He presented evidence of Xu Chuan’s crimes and demanded that he acknowledge them.

• Tang Yan threatened to have the Xu Family razed if General Xu did not appear, and Xu Chuan came out to meet him.
• Tang Yan ordered Xu Chuan to accompany him to the Imperial Palace, and Xu Chuan agreed and dismissed the people who tried to stop him.
• Tang Yan took Xu Chuan into a secret chamber and questioned his loyalty to the Imperial Family and alleged ties to the Left Chancellor.
• Tang Yan gave Xu Chuan a scroll documenting troop diversions, missing supplies, refusal of an imperial levy, and aid to the Left Chancellor.
• Tang Yan warned Xu Chuan that the Xu Family faced execution and demanded to know whether he acknowledged his crimes.

Tang Yan persuaded Xu Chuan to abandon the Left Chancellor by exposing the danger of his plans and promising him a chance to serve the Imperial Family again. Xu Chuan agreed to help, and Tang Yan ordered General Chu brought to the palace as the Imperial City grew tense.

• Tang Yan questioned Xu Chuan about his motives for joining the Left Chancellor and explained how the Left Chancellor planned to use him as cannon fodder.
• Tang Yan gave Xu Chuan evidence of the Left Chancellor’s crimes and claimed the Emperor had trusted him to protect the Imperial Family.
• Tang Yan offered to erase Xu Chuan’s damaging record if he returned to the Imperial Family and fought the Left Chancellor, and Xu Chuan accepted.
• Xu Chuan suggested that Tang Yan also persuade General Chu, and Tang Yan asked for Xu Chuan’s cooperation.
• Tang Yan left Xu Chuan waiting in the palace, then ordered Kun He to bring General Chu there.
• The Imperial City grew tense after the heads of both great military families were summoned to the palace.

Tang Yan secured support from Purple Bamboo City and the Rakshasa Gate, then laid out a plan to strengthen imperial authority and bring down the Left Chancellor. He accepted the emperor’s offer to become Tingxiang’s Imperial Preceptor after Qing Xuan urged him to agree.

• Zi Xian and Zi Yun arrived to support Tang Yan, and Zi Yun scolded him for recovering so quickly.
• Yu Qingyun tested Tang Yan by asking what brotherhood meant, and Tang Yan described brothers as those who stood by one another through hardship and success.
• Zi Xian declared Purple Bamboo City’s alliance with Tang Yan, and Yu Qingyun pledged the Rakshasa Gate’s support as well.
• Tang Yan announced plans to suppress the Heavenly Pill Palace within three days and gather evidence against the Left Chancellor within five days.
• The emperor offered Tang Yan the title of Imperial Preceptor, and Tang Yan accepted after Qing Xuan urged him to do so.

The Left Chancellor’s Residence was surrounded after the Imperial Family accused the Left Chancellor of rebellion and other crimes, while the Reach the Summit Pill Shop’s success had crippled the Heavenly Pill Palace. The Left Chancellor sought refuge with the Immortal-Gathering Palace, but Tang Yan and the Crown Prince confronted him and Qin Shi outside the residence.

• Reach the Summit Pill Shop expanded across the Fragrance-Hearing Kingdom and drove customers away from the Heavenly Pill Palace.
• The Left Chancellor, Wu Qi, and Qin Shi discussed their losses, and Qin Shi pledged the Immortal-Gathering Palace’s support for the Left Chancellor.
• Imperial Guards announced charges against the Left Chancellor and declared that the Imperial Army, Xu Family Army, and Chu Family Army were arresting him.
• The Left Chancellor decided to flee to the Taiyue Kingdom, while Qin Shi invited him and Wu Qi to join the Immortal-Gathering Palace.
• The Left Chancellor, Wu Qi, and Qin Shi left the residence and found it surrounded by the Imperial forces, with Tang Yan and the Crown Prince at their head.
• Qin Shi threatened Tang Yan and demanded that the forces withdraw, but the Crown Prince declared that he would show the Immortal-Gathering Palace no courtesy.

Tang Yan helped the Imperial Family defeat the Left Chancellor and the Immortal-Gathering Palace’s forces, then arranged to travel to the Northern Spirit Realm to deal with Mingyou Valley. He left Tingxiang’s allies preparing an immediate joint attack on the Immortal-Gathering Palace.

• Zi Xian and Yu Qingyun joined the Imperial Family against the Left Chancellor, and Du Shu ordered an attack before the Left Chancellor could speak.
• Tang Yan accused the Left Chancellor of treason and offered his troops a chance to surrender; nearly all laid down their weapons, and the Left Chancellor killed himself.
• The Imperial Army wiped out the Left Chancellor’s remaining followers, and Tang Yan ordered Qin Shi and the other seven Immortal-Gathering Palace fighters beheaded.
• Tang Yan told Zi Xian and Yu Qingyun that he would prepare Reach the Summit’s affairs before going to the Northern Spirit Realm to address Mingyou Valley and Zi Yun’s situation.
• Tang Yan arranged for Purple Bamboo City and Rakshasa Gate to coordinate with the Imperial Family against the Immortal-Gathering Palace, with the attack to begin the next morning.

Tang Yan entered Qing Xuan’s secret realm to cultivate in the Four Directions Myriad Spirit Formation, but the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed nearly all the Spiritual Qi. After a month of training and consuming pills, Tang Yan reached Heaven Tier Fourth Grade, and the cauldron finally released a torrent of pure, fire-attributed Spiritual Qi into him.

• Purple Bamboo City and the Reach the Summit Pill Shop issued wanted notices accusing Lord Tang of abducting Zi Yun and stealing pill formulas, making Tang Yan the target of enormous bounties.
• Tang Yan stepped onto the formation’s central stone platform as the four great spirit beasts opened their mouths and poured Spiritual Qi toward him.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed the Spiritual Qi faster than Tang Yan could, leaving him unable to gain any from the formation.
• Tang Yan cultivated for a month in the secret realm and used pills to raise his strength to Heaven Tier Fourth Grade.
• When the spirit beasts’ mouths closed, the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron released a torrent of pure, fire-attributed Spiritual Qi into Tang Yan.

Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron to rapidly advance to Heaven Tier Eighth Grade and discovered it could extract pure Spiritual Qi from pills. After arranging for the Tang Family to move to the Imperial City and saying farewell to his companions, he entered the Northern Spirit Realm and landed in the dangerous Desolate Forest.

• Tang Yan cultivated on Spiritual Qi from the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, reached Heaven Tier Eighth Grade, and learned that the cauldron could draw pure Spiritual Qi from pills while retaining most of their medicinal efficacy.
• Tang Yan arranged for the Tang Family to relocate to the Imperial City and told the emperor, Fang Xuan, Yu Juechen, and the others from Reach the Summit that he was leaving Tingxiang for the Northern Spirit Realm.
• The emperor explained the three ways to enter the Northern Spirit Realm and warned Tang Yan about its dangers, then sent the Crown Prince and Elder Ling to escort him to the passage on Qingle Peak.
• Tang Yan activated the passage and vanished into it as his companions watched; Fang Xuan urged Reach the Summit to cultivate until they could reunite with him.
• Tang Yan emerged in a forest beyond the passage, recalled that he had to cross the Desolate Forest to reach the Northern Spirit Realm, and strapped Mìxuán Iron to his back before setting out.

Tang Yan trained in the Desolate Forest while carrying mìxuán iron, then became trapped in a haze of despair among strange gray stones. He resisted the stones’ black smoke by recalling his allies and purpose, and ended with renewed resolve to fight for his future.

• Tang Yan killed a Lanlan Tiger while burdened by mìxuán iron and continued fighting spirit beasts as he traveled through the Desolate Forest.
• After half a month of training, Tang Yan reached a field of gray stones and stopped to consider his goals and the dangers ahead.
• Black smoke seeped from the stones and intensified Tang Yan’s exhaustion, filling him with doubts about competing in the Northern Spirit Realm.
• Tang Yan remembered his abilities, the members of Reach the Summit, and his father’s efforts to reunite their family.
• Tang Yan shouldered the mìxuán iron again and released the imposing aura of a Ninth-Tier Alchemist, vowing to overcome whoever stood in his way.

Tang Yan broke through his Heart Demon in the rocks, comprehended a sword strike called “Comrades in Arms,” and reached peak Heaven Tier Eighth Grade. He then discovered Mingyou Valley surrounding Family Head Xiao and his wounded companions over a Thunderclap Leopard cub, just as Family Head Xiao threatened to kill the cub rather than surrender it.

• Tang Yan’s enlightenment let him unleash a sword strike that destroyed twenty-five boulders, and he reached peak Heaven Tier Eighth Grade.
• Tang Yan named his new sword strike “Comrades in Arms,” fed Little Dot a Frenzied Origin Pill, and crossed a field scattered with human bones.
• Tang Yan concealed his aura and found Mingyou Valley surrounding Family Head Xiao and two wounded companions, with several of their men dead nearby.
• Tang Yan recognized the cub behind Family Head Xiao as a Thunderclap Leopard and learned that Mingyou Valley’s leader, Ming Kunshan, demanded it.
• Family Head Xiao threatened to crush the cub if Mingyou Valley attacked, while Ming Kunshan threatened to make him suffer if he killed it.

Ming Kunshan threatened Xiao Buyu and his companions to seize the Thunderclap Leopard cub, but Tang Yan intervened with a powerful formation. Tang Yan faced Ming Kunshan while Xiao Buyu secretly warned him to flee and protect the Xiao Lineage.

• Ming Kunshan threatened to disgrace and cripple Xiao Buyu and his companions unless they surrendered the Thunderclap Leopard cub, then mocked Xiao Buyu by threatening to take his wife.
• Xiao Buyu refused to accept Ming Kunshan's insults and vowed to fight him, so Ming Kunshan ordered his people to attack the three men.
• Tang Yan ambushed Mingyou Valley with a formation that injured several people and stepped out of hiding.
• Ming Kunshan questioned Tang Yan, who mocked him and threatened to smash him with the iron plate on his back.
• Ming Kunshan recognized the plate as Mìxuán Iron, and Xiao Buyu secretly urged Tang Yan to flee and warned him to tell the Xiao Lineage to leave Southern Wilderness City.

Tang Yan tricked Hu Fan into lowering his guard, then killed him and another Mingyou Valley fighter before the group could react. The remaining fighters attacked Tang Yan, while Ming Kunshan raged at the deaths of three Heaven Tier Experts.

• Ming Kunshan tried to persuade Tang Yan to stay out of Mingyou Valley's affairs, but Tang Yan insulted him and his men.
• Ming Kunshan ordered Hu Fan to kill Tang Yan, and Tang Yan learned Hu Fan was a Heaven Tier Ninth Grade fighter.
• Tang Yan claimed he could cure Hu Fan's private problem, then lured him close and killed him with a sudden sword strike.
• Tang Yan used Phantom Shadow Steps and killed another fighter, then the remaining Mingyou Valley fighters attacked him.
• Ming Kunshan realized three Heaven Tier Experts had been killed and furiously cursed Tang Yan.

Tang Yan fought Ming Kunshan’s forces while secretly giving Xiao Buyu pills and directing him to wait for a chance to strike. After Tang Yan unleashed a powerful sword technique that wounded many attackers, Xiao Buyu rose from his feigned weakness and attacked from behind.

• Tang Yan held off Ming Kunshan and nearly thirty opponents, though his stamina gradually waned.
• Tang Yan gave Xiao Buyu two pills and told him to recover before ambushing the yellow-clad heaven tier ninth grade expert.
• Tang Yan drew the attackers’ attention with his Comrades in Arms sword technique, which blasted him back and wounded more than ten enemies.
• Xiao Buyu seized the opening and raised his saber against the attackers from behind.