Recaps

Tang Yan gathered ores, allies, and new abilities in the Secret Realm, while his actions helped expose a plot against him and awakened his resolve to follow the Nine Sages. After the realm closed, Medicine Valley and the Sword Sect clashed over the deaths of their disciples, and Tang Yan prepared to teach alchemy to thousands at Reach the Summit.

• Xiang Yun seized the Spirit Stone mine and defeated Luo Kai and Nan Yue, but Tang Yan arrived, killed Xiang Yun and the Medicine Valley disciples, and continued opening mines to sell access and mining tools.
• Tang Yan opened several mines through his writing, gathered spirit ore, and used Feng Chenye to draw miners into paying for entry and pickaxes.
• Tang Yan tricked Yan Xu into identifying Zhu Zhao as the cloaked attacker, then rescued Zhu Zhao when Yan Xu defeated and captured him, and he also gave Zi Yun a golden dragon inheritance.
• Tang Yan absorbed the Ancestral God's legacy and reached ninth-grade King Rank, while Lin Dongxue passed the Blood River's heart trial, gained the Otherworld Flower, and comprehended the Sentimental Dao.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron destroyed a hidden Soul-Thought Gu meant to influence Tang Yan, and Tang Yan opened the Nine Sages' battlefield by declaring he would uphold their aspirations.
• Tang Yan named his sword strike All Living Beings, the Secret Realm closed, and Zhu Zhao escaped Medicine Valley's pursuit while Nan Yue invited Tang Yan to visit the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
• Reach the Summit arranged an alchemy training program for local factions, while the Sword Sect marched on Medicine Valley over the deaths of its disciples and Meng Yao ended her connection with Feng Chenye.
• Yao Zhonglou confirmed that Medicine Valley had framed Zhu Zhao and killed ninety-nine Sword Sect disciples, then negotiated compensation and an alliance, and Tang Yan agreed to teach the first class for 6,200 students.

Tang Yan exposed Windfire Ridge’s plot, brought the ridge under Reach the Summit, and strengthened ties with the Overlord Spear Sect. After reaching Lord Rank, he joined Zhuang Zhile and Pei Guang to search the Miasma Marshland for a way to save Zhuang Yingshui, where they encountered deadly creatures and a swarm of Carapace Ants.

• Tang Yan tracked Tao Yuchan to Windfire Ridge, learned the ridge had arranged Qiu Feng’s murder and the theft of the Spirit Transformation Pill formula, then returned to confront its leaders.
• Tang Yan defeated Gu Yuanqing using a hidden formation, forced Windfire Ridge to submit to Reach the Summit, and arranged new pill-making and trade agreements with the ridge’s allies.
• Tang Yan restored the Overlord Spear Sect’s Nine-Dragon Spear, saved Zhuang Xueyi from a backlash, and discovered that Zhuang Yingshui was near death from poison linked to the Miasma Marshland.
• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit with Tao Yuchan and Gu Changquan, and the sect members killed them in revenge for Qiu Feng.
• Tang Yan repaired several renowned weapons, then cultivated in the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda and reached Lord Rank with the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron as his Natal God.
• Tang Yan, Zhuang Zhile, and Pei Guang entered the Miasma Marshland to seek medicinal herbs and investigate a cure for Zhuang Yingshui.
• Tang Yan collected Jade Green Grass and helped Zhuang Zhile retrieve a Flash Orchid, then the three escaped an attack by more than ten thousand seventh-tier Carapace Ants and continued through the marsh.

Tang Yan joined Heavenly Enchantress in the Dark Realm, where he uncovered demons in a deadly game and gained powerful rewards. After returning, he expanded Reach the Summit and used the Netherweb Ghost Spider to ambush Medicine Valley, whose leaders prepared to strike the Spirit Shaman Clan.

• Tang Yan and his companions explored the Miasma Marshland, where he guided Heavenly Enchantress to the Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass and later freed her from a poisonous web.
• Tang Yan and the group killed no Netherweb Ghost Spider, but Tang Yan bound it as his servant and used its puppets to lure Medicine Valley into its cave.
• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit, supported plans to build its faction, and helped Zi Yun accept her dragon form as part of the sect.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress entered the Dark Realm, where Tang Yan exposed disguised demons, solved Madam Dou’s identity, and used the Sky Wolf Brush to fight the unleashed fiends.
• Tang Yan earned rewards and points in the Dark Realm, then confronted Huang Benjiang after he had Heavenly Enchantress bound and forced him to apologize.
• Tang Yan helped Heavenly Enchantress master her Charm Technique through cultivation, while the Netherweb Ghost Spider killed Tan Xuebo and his Medicine Valley party in its cave.
• Tang Yan approved another Pill Dao School session, strengthened Zi Yun with Azure Dragon Blood Essence, and began cultivating with Black Dragon Essence Blood.
• Medicine Valley’s leaders discussed the missing expedition and proposed attacking the Spirit Shaman Clan with four Saint-Level Allies.

Tang Yan and Reach the Summit faced Medicine Valley’s escalating efforts to undermine and attack them while Tang Yan pursued the mystery of the Buddha statue and the transformed spirit beasts. After Medicine Valley exposed Reach the Summit’s refuge through Leng Ye, Tang Yan began evacuating the faction to Donglai Island and called on allies to buy them time.

• The Fourth Elder and Medicine Valley’s forces were trapped and killed by the Netherweb Ghost Spider, after which Yao Zhonglou investigated the cave and Tang Yan led the spider to the Heavenly Enchantress in exchange for spirit herbs.
• Tang Yan trained ninth-tier spirit beasts, expanded Reach the Summit’s Pill Dao School, and defeated Xi Ziduan in a public pill-refining contest, drawing Medicine Valley’s hostility.
• Medicine Valley tried to provoke Reach the Summit and search its grounds, but Tang Yan trapped Cui Tong’s party in illusions and later uncovered a planned attack involving several factions.
• Tang Yan and the Heavenly Enchantress defeated the Medicine Valley force at Three Peaks Cliff, where Ju Shanhai revealed the planned assault, and Tang Yan then defeated Nie Fan and arranged an attack on Tidebirth Pavilion.
• Tang Yan learned that Medicine Valley planned to isolate Reach the Summit by recruiting alchemy factions, restricting ingredients, and using assassins, so he chose Donglai Island as a hidden fallback base.
• On a nearby island, Tang Yan learned that the Spirit Bodies were trying to release the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner and destroyed them with the Divine Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation before repairing the island’s weapons.
• Tian Shuiyun captured Leng Ye, whose memories exposed Tang Yan’s sheltering of the Spirit Shaman Clan, and Medicine Valley prepared to attack Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan led Reach the Summit’s evacuation to Donglai Island, kept its pill shops operating through centralized distribution, and asked allies to show support while Shen Shan gathered the Artifact Pavilion’s people to help delay Medicine Valley.