Recaps

Tang Yan and Gao Bufan prepared to destroy the Zhong Family, then launched a midnight attack and used promises of safety and rewards to persuade its people to surrender. As nearly half the Zhong Family’s forces abandoned the fight, Zhong Qingheng faced the collapse of his family’s unity.

• Tang Yan told Gao Bufan to offer pills to the participating families and announced that their cooperation prices would return to market rates before they agreed to attack the Zhong Family the following night.
• At midnight, Gao Family forces converged on the Zhong Family compound, where Zhong Qingheng rallied his clansmen with promises of rewards for fighting.
• Tang Yan announced the attackers’ superior numbers and offered the Zhong Family’s non-direct-line members safe surrender and Reach the Summit Association pills for their contributions.
• Two martial artists surrendered first, prompting many others to follow and gather beneath the Bai Xi Tree.
• Zhong Neng accused Zhang Danian of betraying the Zhong Family, but Zhong Qingheng let him leave and Tang Yan urged the remaining people to choose their families’ survival over loyalty.

Tang Yan led the destruction of the Zhong Family, then prepared for Mingyou Valley’s approaching force by concealing the victory and planning to impersonate Zhong Family members. Meanwhile, Zi Yun and her companions encountered Su Ruyan after defeating a pack of Earth Wolves.

• Tang Yan ordered the remaining Zhong Family members killed, and the Gao Family divided the spoils while Tang Yan claimed the medicinal ingredients.
• Tang Yan told Gao Bufan to consolidate the Gao Family’s forces and watch Mingyou Valley, then learned its Grand Elder was approaching with seventy experts.
• Tang Yan ordered the Gao Family to hide the Zhong Family’s destruction and arrange for Gao Grand Elder to impersonate Zhong Qingheng before he began refining a Spirit-Raising Pill.
• Zi Yun, Fang Xuan, Yu Juechen, Jing Wuhen, and Yang Jiayi defeated an Earth Wolf pack and collected its Beast Cores.
• Su Ruyan arrived with more than ten people and asked Zi Yun’s group to give her the Earth Wolves.

Fang Xuan refused to hand Su Ruyan the Earth Wolves for free, so she took them and he proposed a bet to win their full value back. He began a contest of copying six poses, leaving Su Ruyan surprised by the first pose’s difficulty but confident she could outlast him.

• Fang Xuan refused Su Ruyan’s request for the Earth Wolves and demanded an exchange of equal value.
• Su Ruyan’s companion seized the Earth Wolves, and Fang Xuan proposed a bet to settle their value.
• Fang Xuan challenged Su Ruyan to imitate six movements and hold each pose as long as he did.
• Fang Xuan performed the first form of the Extreme Six Forms, and Su Ruyan discovered the contorted posture made it difficult to use her true qi.

Fang Xuan defeated Su Ruyan in a contest of endurance using the Extreme Six Forms and accepted her Earth Tier Upper Grade Scour Heaven Whip manual as his reward. He realized the whip suited him, while Su Ruyan left without learning why his anger had suddenly faded.

• Fang Xuan used the Extreme Six Forms, and Su Ruyan endured the poses until she stumbled during the fourth form and lost.
• Su Ruyan offered Fang Xuan five Fourth-Tier Pills, but he asked for something else, so she gave him the Scour Heaven Whip manual.
• Fang Xuan felt that the whip was the weapon that suited him and thanked Su Ruyan, who left after refusing to remember his name.
• Su Ruyan secretly overheard Yu Juechen teasing Fang Xuan about falling for her, then listened as Zi Yun asked Fang Xuan why he had stopped resisting when she took the Earth Wolf.
• Fang Xuan asked his friends whether they understood him, but he had not yet explained his change of attitude.

Fang Xuan abandoned the sword to practice the whip, and his rapid progress convinced his friends he had found a weapon suited to him. In Southern Wilderness City, Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong disguised themselves as members of the Zhong Family to ambush Mingyou Valley’s envoys.

• Fang Xuan told Zi Yun and the others that he had always wanted to use a weapon other than the sword and began practicing the Whip Technique with a vine.
• Fang Xuan’s whip skills and cultivation advanced rapidly, stabilizing his Heaven Tier Third Grade cultivation within two days and preparing him to break through to the middle stage.
• Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong changed their appearances, with Gao Jinsong posing as Zhong Qingheng and Tang Yan as Zhong Yu.
• Tang Yan reasoned that Mingyou Valley intended to seek the Zhong Family’s cooperation and planned to use the Zhong Family identity to lure its people into an ambush.
• Tang Yan told Gao Jinsong that their plan could kill dozens of Mingyou Valley’s elites without losing a single soldier.

Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong used a Zhong Family impersonation and poisoned feast to ambush Mingyou Valley’s delegation, killing Grand Elder Ming Xin and his followers. Afterward, Tang Yan warned Gao Jinsong that Mingyou Valley would likely retaliate and urged the Gao Family to watch them closely.

• Gao Jinsong agreed with Tang Yan’s plan to ambush Mingyou Valley’s delegation by pretending to be the Zhong Family.
• Gao Jinsong welcomed Ming Xin and his party to the Zhong Family residence, where Tang Yan served poisoned food and wine.
• Tang Yan revealed that the Zhong Family elders were dead and ordered the disguised Gao Family fighters to attack Mingyou Valley’s people.
• Ming Xin found his true qi sealed by the poison, and Gao Jinsong revealed his identity before killing him.
• Tang Yan divided the captured valuables with Gao Jinsong and told him to warn the Gao Family to monitor Mingyou Valley for further moves.

Tang Yan consumed the last drop of Azure Dragon Blood Essence and advanced to Xiantian Second Grade. Meanwhile, Fang Xuan and his companions encountered Mingyou Valley’s party in the forest and decided to harass them to buy Tang Yan time.

• Tang Yan swallowed the Azure Dragon Blood Essence, endured its violent power, and advanced the qi aspect of the Qi Meridian Transformation to the late middle stage and his strength to Xiantian Second Grade.
• Fang Xuan’s party overheard Mingyou Valley’s Fourth Elder Ming Ge discussing the Grand Elder’s attack on the Gao Family and the order to capture Tang Yan alive.
• Zi Yun worried that Mingyou Valley’s powerful party threatened Tang Yan and Reach the Summit, so Fang Xuan proposed following them and causing trouble.
• Fang Xuan and his companions concealed themselves along the route, and Fang Xuan wailed that everyone in Mingyou Valley would die.

Fang Xuan and his companions frightened Mingyou Valley’s force with ghostly cries, slowing its journey to Southern Wilderness City. When Fourth Elder Ming Ge finally uncovered Fang Xuan, he confronted him, and Fang Xuan pretended that Ming Ge had rescued him.

• Fang Xuan, Zi Yun, Yu Juechen, and Jing Wuhen used eerie voices to frighten Mingyou Valley’s search parties and send them hurrying toward the city.
• Tang Yan received the Gao Family’s report, guessed that his brothers were behind the ghostly cries, and set out for Southern Wilderness Forest.
• Near Southern Wilderness City, the voices warned Mingyou Valley’s people not to enter, prompting Ming Ge to lead them back to search again.
• Ming Ge kicked apart a rock and exposed Fang Xuan, then angrily accused him of frightening the group.
• Fang Xuan acted delighted and asked Ming Ge whether he had saved him.

Fang Xuan tried to draw Mingyou Valley away from his hidden companions, but Zi Yun and the others emerged to fight beside him and were badly wounded. Just as Zi Yun faced death against nine heaven tier ninth grade experts, Tang Yan arrived, defeated them, and confronted Ming Ge.

• Fang Xuan mocked Ming Ge and fled to draw Mingyou Valley away, but Ming Ge's men struck him down and wounded him.
• Zi Yun, Yu Juechen, Jing Wuhen, and Yang Jiayi left hiding to fight alongside Fang Xuan, but Mingyou Valley quickly overpowered them.
• Ming Ge lusted after Zi Yun and sent his experts against her; she fought desperately and killed one man before nine attackers cornered her.
• Tang Yan appeared as Zi Yun was about to fall, held her up, and left all nine Mingyou Valley men gravely wounded.
• Tang Yan gave Zi Yun and the others pills, mocked Ming Ge for having feared weaker opponents, and provoked Ming Ge into unleashing his aura.

Tang Yan slaughtered the Mingyou Valley fighters after they threatened his brothers, leaving the valley severely weakened. On the way back, he noticed Fang Xuan’s unusual cultivation and learned that Fang Xuan had a romantic connection with Su Ruyan of the Su Family.

• Tang Yan defeated Mingyou Valley’s Fourth Elder and killed several fighters, rejecting the elder’s offer to end their feud.
• When Ming Ge ordered his fighters to seize Zi Yun and the others as hostages, Tang Yan killed everyone from Mingyou Valley.
• Tang Yan explained to Jing Wuhen, Fang Xuan, and the others that he had killed them for their past crimes and because they threatened Reach the Summit’s brothers.
• On the way back, Tang Yan sensed that Fang Xuan had reached a realm of strength within softness and asked whether he had encountered a fortuitous opportunity.
• Yu Juechen, Yang Jiayi, and Jing Wuhen told Tang Yan that Fang Xuan had a romantic connection with Su Ruyan of the Su Family, and Yu Juechen suggested proposing marriage.

Tang Yan teased Fang Xuan over his feelings for Su Ruyan, then returned to Southern Wilderness City and told the Gao Family that he had wiped out Mingyou Valley’s forces. He explained why the city was safe for now, and Gao Bufan asked whether Reach the Summit would buy high-grade medicinal ingredients.

• Yu Juechen, Yang Jiayi, Jing Wuhen, and Zi Yun convinced Tang Yan that Fang Xuan had fallen for Su Ruyan, and Tang Yan praised her fairness and restraint.
• Fang Xuan accepted Tang Yan’s approval of Su Ruyan, while Jing Wuhen and Yu Juechen teased him about the difference in their status and strength.
• Tang Yan brought Ming Ge’s head to the Gao Family and confirmed that he had killed every member of Mingyou Valley’s force.
• Gao Jinsong warned that Ming Wenshan’s higher Xiantian strength remained a threat, but Tang Yan explained that Mingyou Valley’s weakened state and watchful enemies made an attack on Southern Wilderness City unlikely.
• Gao Bufan promised to spread news of Mingyou Valley’s losses, then asked Tang Yan whether Reach the Summit needed high-grade medicinal ingredients.

Tang Yan learned about Southern Heart City's Exchange Convention and prepared to attend with Gao Jinsong, while his companions stayed behind to cultivate and Du Shu unexpectedly reached Heaven Tier. Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong arrived in Southern Heart City aboard the Flowing Cloud Roc, hoping to find valuable goods at the convention.

• Gao Bufan told Tang Yan that the Exchange Convention would be held in Southern Heart City in half a month, and Tang Yan arranged to travel with Gao Jinsong.
• Tang Yan's companions declined to attend so they could cultivate, and Fang Xuan and the others asked him to look for weapons, martial skills, and information about pill factions.
• Tang Yan discovered that Du Shu had reached Heaven Tier without realizing it and warned him to stop cultivating if he noticed anything unusual.
• Tang Yan asked Du Shu to provide silver for the convention, then left Southern Wilderness City with Gao Jinsong three days later.
• Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong traveled aboard the Flowing Cloud Roc and arrived in Southern Heart City three days later.

Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong arrived in Southern Heart City, where Tang Yan learned about the costly exchange gathering hosted by the Mo Lineage. While exploring the city, Tang Yan overheard the Fate Pill Sect trying to buy Old Sun Tou’s pill formulas and became intrigued by the old alchemist’s low-cost methods.

• Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong entered Southern Heart City and discussed the Ten Thousand Treasures Garden exchange gathering and its million-tael entrance fee.
• Tang Yan settled at an inn, explored the city alone, and failed to find a whip he wanted at two weapon shops.
• Tang Yan stopped outside the Ordinary Pill Shop after hearing an argument over Old Sun Tou’s unusually cheap pills.
• Old Sun Tou explained that he reduced pill costs by using cheaper ingredients, while a Fate Pill Sect representative accused him of disrupting the market.
• The Fate Pill Sect representative offered Old Sun Tou twenty billion taels for his pill formulas, but Old Sun Tou refused and said he planned to recruit disciples.
• Tang Yan listened from outside and wondered why Old Sun Tou would keep the formulas when he appeared to be a lone third-tier Alchemy Master.

Tang Yan visited Old Sun’s pill shop and identified the ingredients and unusual properties of Old Sun’s supposedly fake Ten Thousand Celebration Pill. Impressed by Tang Yan’s knowledge, Old Sun asked him to examine another pill, leaving Tang Yan to inspect it.

• A man from the Fate Pill Sect pressed Old Sun to sell his pill formulas, but Old Sun insisted he would trade only for a seventh-tier spirit herb that caught his eye.
• Tang Yan entered the shop and asked to buy a Ten Thousand Celebration Pill, then declared that Old Sun’s pill was not genuine because it lacked fire bone grass.
• Tang Yan explained how Old Sun had replaced fire bone grass with six lower-tier ingredients, producing a pill with greater medicinal potency than a genuine Ten Thousand Celebration Pill.
• Old Sun was stunned by Tang Yan’s insight, while the Fate Pill Sect man secretly memorized the formula details.
• Old Sun asked Tang Yan to inspect another pill, and Tang Yan sniffed it twice before setting it aside.

Tang Yan visited Old Sun’s pill shop and deduced the secrets behind his search for a medicinal herb and his hidden past. Old Sun was left astonished by Tang Yan’s insight and uncertain cultivation, while Tang Yan assured him they had no grudge.

• Tang Yan identified the pills as mid-grade Spirit Elegance Pills and said their ingredients had been substituted.
• Old Sun sent the finely dressed man out, then told Tang Yan he needed a seventh-tier medicinal herb that grew in moist places.
• Tang Yan used his perception to discover Old Sun’s soul injury and guessed that he needed spirit baleful orchid.
• Tang Yan laid out nine deductions about Old Sun, including his former alchemy rank, damaged soul, hidden identity, and desire for revenge.
• Old Sun was shocked that Tang Yan had correctly uncovered his secrets but could not discern Tang Yan’s cultivation or background.
• Tang Yan introduced himself and assured Old Sun that they had no prior connection or grudges.

Tang Yan invited Old Sun to become chief instructor of Reach the Summit and learned that he was Lei Yu, a former domain lord whose family and sect were destroyed by Medicine Valley. Tang Yan offered to help restore Lei Yu’s soul and shelter him, and Lei Yu agreed to join Reach the Summit.

• Tang Yan offered Old Sun the chief instructor position and revealed that he had Spirit Baleful Orchid, but Old Sun hesitated because of his feud with Medicine Valley.
• Old Sun revealed that his real name was Lei Yu and recounted how Medicine Valley destroyed the Azure Nether Fire Domain and killed his family after he released Nurturing Nether to escape.
• Tang Yan offered Lei Yu a sixth-tier Soul-Filling Spirit-Shaping Pill, a place to recover within Reach the Summit, and future support against Medicine Valley.
• Lei Yu accepted Tang Yan’s offer, and Tang Yan told him to wait outside the city while they prepared to travel secretly to Southern Wilderness City.

Tang Yan delivered powerful pills to Lei Yu and attended the Ten Thousand Treasures Garden exchange gathering, where he bought large quantities of medicinal herbs. The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron then led him to a stall selling two sets of eighth-tier herbs.

• Tang Yan gave Lei Yu a Soul-Filling Spirit-Shaping Pill and a sixth-tier Profound Light Essence Condensation Pill, and Lei Yu recognized the first as an Immortality Pill.
• Tang Yan told Lei Yu to disguise himself, leave the city, and wait by a mountain stream south of the city while Tang Yan attended the exchange gathering.
• Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong entered the Ten Thousand Treasures Garden, where Gao Jinsong warned Tang Yan to be cautious when buying medicinal herbs.
• Tang Yan bought the herbs at a stall for 12.3 million taels, then paid another thirty million taels for the stallholder's additional seventh-tier herbs.
• Tang Yan bought more high-tier medicinal herbs from stalls throughout the garden until the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron guided him to a stall displaying two sets of eighth-tier herbs.

Tang Yan uncovered a scam involving a dying Dragon Turtle Tree and stallholders who framed customers for breaking its enchanted pot. After discovering that the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron could revive the tree, he offered the stallholders a way to cooperate.

• Tang Yan examined the Dragon Turtle Tree and discovered that its pot shattered when he picked it up, exposing the tree's failing condition and the formation that had concealed it.
• The stallholders accused Tang Yan of damaging their tree and demanded compensation while the crowd watched.
• Tang Yan used his power to make the woman name Light Dust Peak, but the man claimed the pair belonged to the Magpie Blade Sect.
• Tang Yan put the Dragon Turtle Tree into the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron's Chaos Space and saw it regain vitality, then watched it wilt again after he removed it.
• Tang Yan told the stallholders he could offer them a safe way to cooperate and invited them to talk.

Tang Yan bought twenty-eight defective high-tier spirit herbs from Yu Sance and Wang Zilian, gaining their promise to seek Light Dust Peak’s approval for a supply arrangement. After storing the herbs in Chaos Space, he noticed Essence-Locking Jade at a roadside stall and recognized that it could preserve future shipments.

• Tang Yan negotiated with Yu Sance and Wang Zilian, offering to buy their defective spirit herbs and proposing they help secure his organization a share of Light Dust Peak’s herbs.
• Tang Yan agreed to pay fifteen percent of the herbs’ value and bought twenty-eight plants for three hundred million taels of silver.
• Yu Sance identified himself and Wang Zilian, promised to seek his sect’s approval for cooperation, and learned that future herbs should be sent to Reach the Summit in Southern Wilderness City.
• Tang Yan placed the herbs in Chaos Space, where the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron began restoring them.
• Tang Yan sensed an obstruction in his spirit power, spotted Essence-Locking Jade at a roadside stall, and realized it could preserve spirit herbs.

Tang Yan bartered for Essence-Locking Jade, escaped an old man’s attempt to threaten him by invoking the Mo Lineage’s protection, and spent the next two days shopping at the Exchange Convention. On the final day, he came across a Star-Gazing Pavilion formation-breaking challenge with a whip among its prizes.

• Tang Yan outbid an old man for the Essence-Locking Jade by trading two Spirit Transformation Pills, then refused to give the jade to the old man.
• The old man threatened Tang Yan and secretly marked his shoulder, but fled when a Mo Lineage protector arrived.
• Tang Yan convinced the protector that he was in danger and checked into the Mo Bai Inn for protection.
• Tang Yan returned to the Exchange Convention over the next two days but failed to find a whip-type weapon for Fang Xuan.
• On the convention’s final day, Tang Yan approached the Star-Gazing Pavilion stall and saw its formation-breaking challenge and five prizes.

Tang Yan studied the Star-Gazing Pavilion’s treasure chest formation and repeatedly attempted its maze until he deduced all eight gates and opened it. A dazzling light burst from the chest, leaving its contents unknown.

• Tang Yan learned that the Star-Gazing Pavilion had invited people to solve the formation on its founder’s treasure chest, which had resisted opening for ten thousand years.
• After another challenger failed, Tang Yan studied the formation and persuaded the pink-clad girl to make him try.
• Tang Yan repeatedly paid to attempt the puzzle, using each failure to identify the formation’s auspicious and inauspicious gates.
• Tang Yan deduced all eight gates and guided the ball through the formation until it fell into the Gate of Life.
• The treasure chest opened, and a dazzling light burst from inside.

Tang Yan obtained a golden Light Pearl and five treasures after opening the Star-Gazing Pavilion patriarch’s chest, then arranged for Su Ruyan to take the Azure Frost Sword and Sky-Splitting Whip to Reach the Summit. He disguised himself, erased the mark on his shoulder, and left the city, but the black-robed old man used a strand of his hair to track him.

• A golden Light Pearl flew into Tang Yan’s sea of consciousness, and he found the patriarch’s Storage Ring in the chest.
• The Second Elder recognized the ring, gave Tang Yan all five prizes as compensation, and hurried away with the other Star-Gazing Pavilion members.
• Su Ruyan asked Tang Yan for the Azure Frost Sword, and he gave her the sword and Sky-Splitting Whip to take to Fang Xuan at Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan admitted he was keeping the other three treasures, then disguised his face and erased the mark on his shoulder before leaving the city.
• The black-robed old man noticed the mark had vanished, cast a spell on a strand of Tang Yan’s hair, and vanished while looking south.

Tang Yan and Lei Yu were ambushed by Zhu Jingkong, the Spirit Shaman Clan Chief, who wanted the Essence-Locking Jade and decided to kill them to eliminate a future threat. As Zhu Jingkong strangled Tang Yan, Tang Yan warned that the jade could not change the Spirit Shaman Clan’s fate.

• Tang Yan retrieved Lei Yu and learned that Lei Yu’s soul was recovering and his former cultivation had been at eighth-grade Lord Rank.
• Zhu Jingkong intercepted Tang Yan and Lei Yu in the air and demanded the Essence-Locking Jade.
• Tang Yan tricked Zhu Jingkong with a bag of white powder, then fled and fought him with Lei Yu, but Zhu Jingkong overwhelmed them both.
• Lei Yu recognized Zhu Jingkong and proposed giving him the jade, but Zhu Jingkong explained that he intended to kill Tang Yan and use Lei Yu’s head to build ties with Medicine Valley.
• Zhu Jingkong grabbed Tang Yan by the neck, and Tang Yan told him the Essence-Locking Jade could not raise the Spirit Shaman Clan’s cultivation ceiling.

Tang Yan persuaded Zhu Jingkong that the Spirit Shaman Clan could overcome its soul-related cultivation limits by strengthening and repairing its members’ souls, then proposed using the Nurturing Nether Spirit Flame to make pills. Zhu Jingkong agreed to retrieve the flame with Tang Yan and form an alliance with Reach the Summit, while Tang Yan later examined the mysterious golden bead in his sea of consciousness.

• Tang Yan explained to Zhu Jingkong how strengthening and repairing souls could help the Spirit Shaman Clan overcome its cultivation limits.
• Tang Yan proposed using the Nurturing Nether Spirit Flame to refine pills, and Lei Yu said he could track it down but that a high King Rank expert would be needed to capture it.
• Zhu Jingkong agreed to return to Western Shaman, meet Tang Yan in half a month, and join him in retrieving the Spirit Flame; he also gave Tang Yan three talismans.
• Zhu Jingkong proposed an alliance between the Spirit Shaman Clan and Reach the Summit, and Tang Yan accepted while both agreed to keep the clan’s potential and Lei Yu’s whereabouts secret.
• Tang Yan and Lei Yu traveled toward Southern Wilderness City, discussed the Northern Spirit Realm and Lei Yu’s revenge, then stopped to rest for the night.
• Tang Yan entered his sea of consciousness, studied the mysterious golden bead, and touched it with his Divine Sense.

Tang Yan received Guanqi’s Heart Formation legacy and returned to training, while Su Ruyan brought two Exchange Convention prizes to Reach the Summit. Fang Xuan offered her the Azure Frost Sword in exchange for staying with the faction for two years, leaving the decision to her.

• Guanqi’s legacy gave Tang Yan mastery of the Heart Formation and three powerful techniques: Star-Shifting Formation, Divine Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation, and Heaven and Earth Great Millstone.
• Tang Yan tested his ability to deploy and withdraw formations instantly, then swallowed two Profound Light Essence Condensation Pills as he neared third grade.
• Su Ruyan arrived at Reach the Summit with three attendants, and Yu Juechen teased Fang Xuan before Su Ruyan kicked him to the ground.
• Su Ruyan delivered the Azure Frost Sword and Sky-Splitting Whip, prizes Tang Yan had entrusted to her for Fang Xuan.
• Su Ruyan asked to buy the Azure Frost Sword, and Fang Xuan offered it in exchange for her staying at Reach the Summit for two years, with pill supplies and a guarantee she would reach third-grade King Rank.