Recaps

Tang Yan recovered his cultivation with the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, rebuilt the Tang Family Guards, and used his growing skill in alchemy to secure money and influence. After selling a valuable formula to the Wonderful Elixir Workshop, he followed an injured woman out of the city.

• Tang Yan awakened in the body of a dissolute young master with a destroyed dantian, and the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron gave him the Supreme Pill Canon.
• Tang Yan fooled Qin Changdao and Lin Dongxue with a poem, then beat Liu Yuan in a fight and borrowed Ge Ming’s pill cauldron to refine pills.
• Tang Yan advanced in cultivation, took command of the Tang Family Guards, and won their loyalty with demanding training and promises of rewards.
• Tang Yan struck Liu Quan after he insulted Tang Ling, and Tang Ling warned him that the City Lord’s Residence could become a threat.
• Tang Yan gave Lin Xiao a Scarless Pill, then sparred with Lin Dongxue and improved her Cloudflow Sword before reaching Yellow Tier First Grade.
• Tang Yan persuaded Mo Yanjun to continue leading the guards and gave them First Spirit Pills, while the Liu Family plotted to have Liu Zhi kill him at the Mid-Autumn Martial Contest.
• Tang Yan sold the Meridian Tempering Powder formula to Ge Ming for one million taels and a thirty-seventy profit split, then followed a powerful injured woman out of the city.

Tang Yan strengthened himself, helped the Tang Family crush the Four Seas Gang, and won the literary contest before holding his own against Liu Zhi at the Mid-Autumn Gathering. Afterward, Tang Ling revealed the truth about Tang Yan’s parents and gave him the Flame Burst Palm technique left by his mother.

• Tang Yan killed Bai Qing and rescued the poisoned Zi Yun, then helped restore her strength while his own cultivation advanced.
• Tang Yan presented Madam Lin with a Youth-Preserving Pill, then honed Phantom Shadow Steps while fleeing and ultimately killing a Nether Leopard.
• Tang Yan refined a Dantian-Expanding Pill, advanced to yellow tier sixth grade, and led the Tang Family Guards in defeating the Four Seas Gang.
• At the Mid-Autumn Gathering, Tang Yan won the literary competition with his poems, including “Man's Way.”
• Tang Yan defeated Liu Xing and faced Liu Zhi, enduring his full-power strike with the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame and surviving twenty moves.
• Tang Ling told Tang Yan that his mother came from a powerful family, that his father had gone to search for her, and that the Tang Family had fled to Cloud City to hide.
• Tang Ling gave Tang Yan the jade slip containing his mother’s Flame Burst Palm technique, and Tang Yan studied its three forms.

Tang Yan strengthened himself through dangerous training in Cangyun Mountain, then returned to Cloud City and secured a place in the Eastern Region Tournament. After helping the Tang Family recover and prepare for his absence, he set out with Liu Zhi and Lin Dongxue for Fang City.

• Tang Yan studied Flame Burst Palm, settled the Tang Family’s debt with the Wonderful Elixir Workshop, and bought herbs and the Thousand Mountains Fist at auction after provoking Qin He into an unaffordable bid.
• Tang Yan developed the Thousand Mountains Fist’s later punches, strengthened his cultivation with the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, and left Cloud City to train in Cangyun Mountain.
• Tang Yan battled wolves and trained beneath a waterfall until he shattered it with the Thousand Mountains Fist, then rescued Wan Fei and Chang Ying from Green Wolf’s gang and received their mountain map.
• Tang Yan challenged the Fire Apes for days, entered the Combat Realm and broke through to Profound Tier, then defeated the Fire Ape King and mastered five punches and Flame Burst Palm.
• Tang Yan returned after two months, challenged Liu Zhi at the Cloud Platform, and defeated him with the seventh punch of the Thousand Mountains Fist.
• Lin Xiao provisionally selected Tang Yan, Lin Dongxue, and Liu Zhi for the Eastern Region Tournament, while Tang Yan gave Old Master Tang pills that healed his injuries and helped him break through to Earth Tier.
• Tang Yan equipped the Tang Family with pills and instructions for his absence, then departed with Liu Zhi and Lin Dongxue after learning that stronger contestants awaited them in Fang City.

Tang Yan escorted Lin Dongxue through Cangyun Mountain, killed Liu Jing, and led Cloud City’s challenge in the Slaughter Tower, where he reached the sixth floor and won a public wager against Yu City. As the Eastern Region Tournament approached, Tang Yan trained with Lin Xiao and met Shen Shan, whose grandson he offered to help with a cultivation method for his Ice Marrow Body.

• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue traveled through Cangyun Mountain, where he trained her against spirit beasts and killed Liu Jing when he attacked them.
• Tang Yan advanced to Profound Tier Third Grade, and he and Lin Dongxue reached Fang City and reunited with Lin Xiao.
• At Slaughter Tower, Tang Yan defeated Yu City’s challenge by reaching the sixth floor, then made Su Wei declare Yu City inferior to Cloud City.
• Tang Yan refined the Soul-Refining Flame he found on the tower’s sixth floor, strengthening the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame and gaining the ability to temper his soul and affect an enemy’s mind.
• Before the tournament, Tang Yan sparred with Lin Xiao, chaining attacks and countering Lin Xiao’s martial skills until Lin Xiao had to exceed the agreed limit.
• Tang Yan accepted Lin Dongxue’s tournament wager and later visited Slender Moon Lake, where he met Shen Shan and his grandson.
• Tang Yan diagnosed the boy’s Ice Marrow Body and told Shen Shan that he already had a cultivation method that could turn the boy’s cold constitution into an advantage.