Recaps

Tang Yan struggled against the Famous Sects while Lin Dongxue suspected Skeleton was secretly holding back and might be Tang Yan. Her discovery was interrupted when the Other Races attacked the Dao Sect, forcing its defenders to turn their attention to the invading army.

• Tang Yan fought to escape the encirclement, while Lin Dongxue noticed Skeleton repeatedly passed up chances to wound his opponents.
• Lin Dongxue tested her suspicion by stumbling into Skeleton’s sword, and Skeleton avoided seriously injuring her after Venerable Kong'an intervened.
• The Demon Race Grand Elder arrived with an army of Other Races and announced that they had come to help Skeleton destroy the Dao Sect.
• A guard reported that the army included thirty-six Heaven and Earth Realm fighters and two hundred Entering the Dao Realm fighters, outnumbering the defenders in top-level combat power.
• Li Yangqiu and Lu Ruiqing sent Lin Dongxue to fight the invading army while Lu Ruiqing stayed behind to hold Skeleton back.

Tang Yan, disguised as Skeleton, fled after overwhelming Lu Ruiqing, leaving the Dao Sect to face the Other Races without him. As the battle turned against the Human Clan, Xia Jiazi attempted to assassinate Bingxiang but was caught by his counterattack, and his saber threatened to kill her.

• Skeleton unleashed a powerful sword tide against Lu Ruiqing, then escaped while Lu Ruiqing struggled against the lingering force of the attack.
• Skeleton jumped into a river and concealed his aura, evading Lu Ruiqing and Lin Dongxue as they searched for him.
• Lu Ruiqing returned to the Dao Sect without finding Skeleton, and Li Yangqiu urged the defenders to hold out until reinforcements arrived.
• The Other Races raged at Skeleton for abandoning their joint attack, while the Dao Sect's disadvantage in numbers led to mounting casualties.
• Xia Jiazi used her Charm Technique to approach Bingxiang and strike at his throat, but he stopped her sword with an ice lotus.
• Bingxiang countered with a saber that broke Xia Jiazi's sword and came down toward her head.

Tang Yan, still disguised as a skeleton, slaughtered the Other Races’ forces and revealed his identity to Lin Dongxue when she called his name. The chapter ended with Lin Dongxue embracing him as he gently stroked her hair.

• Tang Yan killed the ice elephant, Lan Mo, and Di Yan, then slew thirty Heaven and Earth Realm fighters from the Other Races.
• Lin Dongxue recognized Tang Yan by his familiar swordsmanship and decided not to reveal that she knew him yet.
• Tang Yan and the Dao Sect experts defeated the remaining Other Races and pursued the skeleton as he fled toward the river.
• Lin Dongxue cried out Tang Yan’s name, causing him to stop and turn back.
• Lin Dongxue embraced Tang Yan, and he gently stroked her white hair.

Tang Yan returned to the Dao Sect as a skeleton, cleared up the suspicions surrounding his actions, and helped Lin Dongxue become a Heavenly Venerable. He left the sects with a plan to deter the Other Races before the Great Age arrived.

• Tang Yan confirmed his identity, and Lin Dongxue advanced to Heavenly Venerable after he touched her.
• Tang Yan explained that he had absorbed bone power from the Mausoleums to strengthen himself, and the sect leaders agreed to clear up the misunderstandings about him.
• Tang Yan told Rao Baoyue that he might reconstruct his body once his cultivation reached Great Completion, then joined the others at the Dao Sect.
• During a remote meeting, the sects celebrated Tang Yan's return and discussed the Other Races' attack and the approaching Great Age.
• Tang Yan advised the sects to watch and seal Earth Abyss Passages, stay alert, and follow the Demon Sect's arrangements; he and Lin Dongxue planned to destroy one of the Nine Clans with the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner.

Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue told his family and allies that he was alive, then traveled to the Immortal Wood Clan to unleash the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner. The banner devastated the Royal City, and the Immortal Wood King recognized it and appealed to its hidden human attackers.

• Tang Yan advised Artifact Forest's Qi Yiyang and Xiang Xiaoyu on adding blacklist, whitelist, text-message, and video features to the Heavenly Communicator.
• Lin Dongxue told Zhong Jinxiu and Tang Wutian that Tang Yan was alive, and Tang Yan sent his parents a message explaining his borrowed-bone rebirth and plans.
• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue contacted Zi Yun, Fang Xuan, and the others, then left the Dao Sect for the Immortal Wood Clan.
• Lin Dongxue used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner near the Immortal Wood Royal City, and its smoke killed thousands of Immortal Wood Clan members, including ten guards.
• The Immortal Wood King and other powerful cultivators tried to suppress the smoke with the five elements, but failed, and the king recognized the banner and called out to its hidden human wielders.

Lin Dongxue helped the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner devastate the Immortal Wood Clan’s Royal City while Tang Yan left to seek bone power. As the Human Clan used the victory to pressure the other races into a non-aggression treaty, Rao Baoyue told Little Dot that Tang Yan had returned to life.

• Lin Dongxue killed the Immortal Wood King, and the unrestrained black smoke engulfed experts and swept through the Royal City.
• Lin Dongxue explained to Tang Yan why she could bear the destruction, then stayed behind while he went to the Artifact Forest and collected supplies from the city.
• The major sects announced Lin Dongxue’s rise to Heavenly Venerable, the defeat of the nine-race alliance, and the end of the hunt for Skeleton; the Demon Sect then used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner’s threat to frighten the other races.
• Lu Fengzong urged the other races to sign the Great Age Non-Aggression Treaty, but they stalled, so the sects decided to wait for Tang Yan to make the call.
• Yan Biao mistakenly told Little Meatball that Tang Yan had died, and Rao Baoyue kicked him before reassuring Little Dot that Tang Yan had come back to life.

Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner against the Divine Clan, only to be caught in an explosion that destroyed the Royal City. After Lin Dongxue recovered, Tang Yan discovered the banner had lost its power, while Lu Fengzong questioned Du Shu about whether Tang Yan would surrender the Human Emperor’s Throne.

• Tang Yan advised Qi Yiyang to negotiate peace agreements with the other races and use the banner’s remaining power to deter those who refused.
• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue went to the Divine Clan after learning it had rejected cooperation, then activated the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner in the Royal City.
• The Divine Clan’s explosives detonated beneath the city, killing countless people and badly injuring Lin Dongxue while Tang Yan shielded her.
• Tang Yan used a Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill to heal Lin Dongxue and found that the explosion had destroyed the banner’s mark and power.
• Lu Fengzong told Du Shu he resented Tang Yan’s rise, and Du Shu argued that Tang Yan would give him the Human Emperor’s Throne if he demanded it.

As the Great Age began, the Five Clan Lords broke free from their imprisonment, while Rao Baoyue used Tang Yan’s pill test to reach the Sage realm. As the sects prepared for the weakening barriers between races, Feng Chenye abandoned his unfinished book and chose to fight.

• Du Shu persuaded Lu Fengzong to keep pursuing the Human Emperor’s position and test the renowned sects’ sincerity.
• On the eighteenth day of the second month, the Great Age began with a storm of Dao Resonance Qi, and the Five Clan Lords broke their chains and vowed revenge on the Human Clan.
• Rao Baoyue used Stone Orchid Leaf to complete the Dantian Meridian Reviving Pill formula, understood the Pill Sage’s lesson, and entered the Sage realm.
• Meng Yao told Feng Chenye that the barriers between races would soon disappear and described the sects’ defensive preparations and plans for the Eastern and Western battlefields.
• Feng Chenye realized he wanted to fight alongside his friends, threw his unfinished manuscript into the lake, and abandoned writing his book.

Feng Chenye became a Literary Sage, Meng Yao reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and Tang Yan promised to marry Lin Dongxue after the war, helping her become a Sage. Meanwhile, Zi Yun urged the Dragon Clan to ally with the Human Clan, but the Dragon Lord favored attacking the Human Clan first.

• Feng Chenye cast aside his manuscripts, declared that scholars should take up arms, and absorbed Literary Qi to enter the Sage Realm; Meng Yao dried and gathered his pages before she attained the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Lin Dongxue asked Tang Yan if she could become Mrs. Tang after the war, and Tang Yan wrote a promise to marry her; Lin Dongxue then broke through to the Sage Realm.
• The Dragon Lord returned to the Dragon Clan, learned that Zi Yun had inherited Sacred Dragon Jin Qi's power, and ordered the clan to investigate the continent and prepare to join the other races against the Human Clan.
• Zi Yun urged the Dragon Clan to cooperate with the Human Clan, arguing that an alliance with the other races would lead to endless infighting after the Human Clan's defeat.
• The Dragon Lord rejected Zi Yun's proposal, judging that attacking the weaker Human Clan was safer, while Zi Yun insisted that the Dragon Clan should negotiate with the Human Clan instead.

Zi Yun opposed the Dragon Lord’s plan to seize Human Clan fortune, while secretly buying time for the Dragon Clan to choose its allies. After the Spirit Rain ended and the Human Clan gained powerful new Sages and Heavenly Venerables, its leaders debated who should command the coming war, leaving Tang Yan’s nomination challenged by Lu Fengzong.

• Zi Yun confronted the Dragon Lord over his plan to exploit the Human Clan’s decline, and Ao Jin and Ao Zheng helped prevent the disagreement from becoming a civil war.
• Zi Yun privately told Ao Zheng that their clash was meant to appear as internal strife and give the Dragon Clan time to consider a Human Clan cooperation proposal.
• When the Spirit Rain ended on the twenty-fifth day of the second month, barriers between the races vanished and powerful races began annexing their neighbors.
• The Human Clan produced eight Sages and twenty-three Heavenly Venerables during the Spirit Rain, including the unexpectedly advanced Du Shu.
• At a council in the Artifact Forest, Qi Yiyang nominated Tang Yan for the Human Emperor’s Throne, and the sects voiced their support.
• Lu Fengzong argued that the Demon Sect should retain leadership and nominated himself for the throne.

Tang Yan accepted the Human Emperor's Throne after Lu Fengzong yielded his claim, and Lu Fengzong pledged the Demon Sect's allegiance before breaking through to the Sage Realm. As the allied forces prepared their battle plans, Du Shu revealed that he and Fang Xuan were members of Reach the Summit, whose leader was Tang Yan.

• Lu Fengzong left the Great Hall after the others favored Tang Yan for Human Emperor, but Tang Yan stopped him and offered him the throne.
• Tang Yan explained that the Human Emperor should serve the people, persuading Lu Fengzong to abandon his obsession and pledge the Demon Sect to Tang Yan.
• Lu Fengzong's Martial Dao shackles shattered, and he advanced to the Sage Realm as the gathering congratulated him and named Tang Yan the Flame Emperor.
• Tang Yan called for Fang Xuan to join the meeting, and Du Shu introduced him as Reach the Summit's Deputy Gang Leader and revealed Tang Yan was its leader.
• Du Shu explained how he and his fellow Reach the Summit members had come to the Spirit Wilderness Realm, joined the Demon Sect, and worked to unite it with the Famous Sects.

Fang Xuan presented the Human Clan’s strategy for surviving the Great Age, emphasizing alliances, trade, military displays, and a carefully timed defense. As Qi Yiyang negotiated with the Dragon Clan, Ao Zheng rejected the invitation to join the Human Clan’s camp.

• Lu Fengzong and Lin Jiuyuan discussed Du Shu and Tang Yan’s past, then Tang Yan asked Fang Xuan to assess the situation.
• Fang Xuan proposed winning over the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan, trading with resource-rich races, and displaying Human Clan strength to deter enemies.
• Fang Xuan explained that the Human Clan should delay activating the Shield, use Heavenly Communicators to track other races, and detonate them after securing allies; the sect leaders approved a battle plan.
• Zi Yun defeated the Dragon Lord and pressed him to support joining the Human Clan’s camp, while Ao Zheng received a request from the Human Clan to negotiate.
• Qi Yiyang urged Ao Zheng to join the Human Clan’s camp, but Ao Zheng argued that the Human Clan’s fortune had run out and rejected the proposal.

Qi Yiyang offered the Dragon Clan a chance to become one of humanity’s auspicious beasts, and an Engraving Realm Pearl showed the dragons the Human Clan’s formidable fighters. The demonstration ended with Human Emperor Tang Yan’s sword strike seeming to cut through the projection, leaving the Dragon Clan shaken as it weighed alliance against revenge.

• Qi Yiyang offered Ao Zheng a place for the Dragon Clan among humanity’s auspicious beasts and asked for a response within three days.
• Zi Yun released the Dragon Lord after the Dragon King ended his contact with the Human Clan, and the Dragon Lord reproached her for restraining him.
• The Engraving Realm Pearl arrived at the Dragon Clan and displayed the strength of Human experts including Lin Dongxue, Buddha Wuwang, Kong Baifeng, and Feng Chenye.
• The Dragon Clan watched nine Sages and twenty-two Venerables attack a skeleton identified as Human Emperor Tang Yan, who ignored them and struck toward the dragons through the projection.
• The dragons realized the sword strike was an illusion, but its speed and force left them alarmed about opposing the Human Clan.

The Dragon Clan agreed to ally with the Human Clan after seeing Tang Yan’s sword intent, while thirty-six other races prepared to invade. As the war began, Tang Yan slaughtered the Ancestral God and the forces accompanying him at Tingfeng Abyss.

• Zi Yun proposed an alliance with the Human Clan, and the Dragon Lord and the other dragons agreed after watching Tang Yan’s sword strike.
• Engraving Realm Pearls deterred many races, and the Dragon, Phoenix, Colorful Deer, Dream Tapir, and Heavenly Hou Clans joined the Human Clan’s side.
• Fang Xuan learned that thirty-six races had assembled an invading force of seventy-four Saints and 197 Heavenly Venerables under the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The Human Clan raised a barrier with eastern and western entrances, then sent its elites through hidden openings to engage the arriving invaders.
• At Tingfeng Abyss, Tang Yan fought the Ancestral God’s force, killing a God King, seven Heavenly Venerables, and finally the Ancestral God.

Tang Yan and the Human Clan’s forces used Heavenly Communicator intelligence to ambush the Other Races, while Fang Xuan secretly intercepted their communications and fed them false orders. The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God mistook the fabricated reports for victories and believed their forces were weakening the Human Clan, leaving the commanders confident as the real battle approached.

• Tang Yan reported killing two Sage Realm cultivators, seven Heavenly Venerables, and sixteen Heaven and Earth Realm cultivators, then set out for Great Wilderness Slope.
• The Other Races lost ten Saints and twenty-eight Heavenly Venerables as Human Clan fighters used their Heavenly Communicators to track and ambush them.
• Fang Xuan asked Xiang Xiaoyu to intercept the Other Races’ Heavenly Communicator signals and trained liaison officers to send false orders in the Nine-Tailed Fox’s name.
• Fang Xuan directed Human Clan elites, including Tang Yan, toward the locations named in the fabricated messages so they could attack the scattered forces.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God each heard false reports that the Human Clan was being defeated and concluded that their forces would soon overwhelm it.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and Blood God received more supposed reports of Human Clan fighters being killed and grew confident about the coming clash.

After the Human Clan exploited the Heavenly Communicators to mislead the Other Races Allied Army, the scattered forces regrouped and launched an assault on the eastern battlefield. Tang Yan halted their charge with a hundred thousand Mountain-Piercing Cannons, and the chapter ended as the allied army’s shield cracked under the bombardment.

• Blood God discovered that false intelligence had lured the Spirit Puppet Race into an ambush, then his Heavenly Communicator exploded and devastated his army.
• Nine-Tailed Fox activated the God-Summoning Order, drawing the scattered allied forces east; Fang Xuan also sent human forces to the eastern Battle Zone.
• Little Dot and Little Meatball insisted on going east, so Yan Biao carried them toward the battlefield on a flying Magic Treasure.
• Blood God joined Nine-Tailed Fox, and the leaders counted heavy allied losses before Nine-Tailed Fox ordered an attack on the human entrance.
• Tang Yan ordered a hundred thousand Mountain-Piercing Cannons to fire, and their barrage cracked the allied army’s joint Shield and began causing casualties.

The Human Clan’s Mountain-Piercing Cannons devastated the invading army but exhausted their ammunition, leaving Tang Yan and the defenders to face a much stronger enemy in battle. After the Nine-Tailed Fox trapped Tang Yan in black sludge and the Human Clan suffered mounting losses, Fang Xuan told Lin Dongxue to lure the Other Races into a forbidden zone like the Heavenly Wailing Ruins Secret Realm.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox rallied the Other Races after the Mountain-Piercing Cannons ran out of ammunition, while Tang Yan and the Human Clan launched their counterattack.
• Tang Yan assassinated enemy experts from the shadows until the Nine-Tailed Fox trapped him in a bowl of black sludge that resisted his sword and Heaven-Earth Creation Flame.
• The Human Clan suffered heavy losses over two days as the Other Races continued slaughtering its defenders.
• Lin Dongxue contacted Fang Xuan for a way to break the deadlock, and he urged her to draw the Other Races Allied Army into a forbidden zone.
• Lin Dongxue accepted Fang Xuan’s plan and said she would organize it.

Lin Dongxue began sealing the forbidden zone while Tang Yan remained trapped, but Little Dot and Little Meatball rescued him with their five-colored divine blood. Tang Yan broke free and turned the battle against the Other Races, then entered the Fate-Killing Chessboard; with Du Shu and the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable joining him, the Human Clan won.

• Lin Dongxue persuaded the five auspicious races to help raise the forbidden zone and used a pearl to begin sealing the area as the Other Races attacked.
• Little Dot and Little Meatball flew into the black mist and poured their five-colored divine blood over Tang Yan, allowing the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron to restore his body.
• Tang Yan shattered the sludge prison, killed several enemy leaders and Heavenly Venerables, and had Kong Baifeng trap the fleeing allied army behind a formation.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox invoked the Fate-Killing Chessboard, and Tang Yan entered the game after demanding that the Other Races submit to the Human Clan.
• Du Shu and the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable joined the Human Clan's side, strengthening its black dragon until it defeated the white dragon after seven days and destroyed the Other Races Allied Army.

In Peace City, Feng Chenye and Meng Yao joked about the Human Clan’s flourishing life and upcoming weddings before debating the ending of Feng Chenye’s story. The novel concluded with Old Three explaining the ending and thanking readers, while promising possible side stories.

• Feng Chenye and Meng Yao walked through Peace City and discussed Du Shu’s success, Fang Xuan’s strict management, and the upcoming weddings.
• Feng Chenye played a prank on Meng Yao with a finger snap, and she teased him about readers criticizing his story’s ending.
• Feng Chenye defended his choice to end The First Sage of Pill Dao with An Ran’s peaceful life, and Meng Yao reassured him that the ending was good.
• Old Three explained the choice to end the story through supporting characters, reflected on the novel, and thanked readers.
• Old Three invited readers to suggest side stories and wished them happiness.

Yan Biao's diary recounted his life on Clear Sky Peak, from being beaten by Master and bonding with Tang Yan to surviving a chaotic war. It ended with Yan Biao learning that Master was marrying Tang Yan and getting beaten for calling her his younger sister-in-law.

• Yan Biao recorded hunting and eating a red bird, then getting beaten by Master when she discovered it was the bird she had asked about.
• Master left on a long trip, and Yan Biao celebrated until she returned with Tang Yan, who became his friend and defended him.
• Tang Yan exposed an extortion scheme, taught the disciples alchemy, and later helped them escape Spirit Cliff Cave.
• Yan Biao grieved after hearing Tang Yan had died, then recorded that Tang Yan was alive and had become the Human Emperor.
• After the war ended, Yan Biao learned Master was marrying Tang Yan and was beaten for calling her his younger sister-in-law.