Recaps

Tang Yan protected Reach the Summit through Medicine Valley’s assault, expanded its alliances, and rose to Transcendent Grade while gaining the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner. The arc ended as factions gathered to enter the Canghai Palace Ruins and Bai Chaogen’s coalition threatened to seize control.

• Tang Yan prepared Reach the Summit for Medicine Valley’s attack, evacuated his allies, and lured the invading forces into a trap before destroying Medicine Valley’s front hall.
• Tang Yan exposed the Divine Origin Sect’s use of abducted children and Medicine Valley disciples as cultivation tonics, helping Yao Zhonglou lead an assault that left Shen Tingqin wounded and fleeing.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress captured Shen Tingqin, and Tang Yan arranged defensive formations for his allies while establishing a sale agreement with the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
• Tang Yan trained with Heavenly Enchantress and helped Lin Dongxue advance, then accepted Buddha’s challenge, comprehended God’s Domain, reached Saint Level Seventh Grade, and received the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner.
• Tang Yan struck Medicine Valley and Hundred Herb Plain to secure medicinal herbs, then allied Reach the Summit with the Sword Sect and secretly advanced to early-stage Transcendent Grade in the Spirit Tempering Pagoda.
• Tang Yan trapped Hong Qi and Tao Kuan after they searched Donglai Island for ruins, learned that factions were seeking the Canghai Palace Ruins, and ordered them to report what they found.
• Shen Tingqin negotiated an alliance with Medicine Valley for three hundred and fifty medicinal herbs, and Tang Yan implanted Soul-Thought Gu in six of his Saint-Level followers while forbidding methods that harmed children.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress reached the island where fourteen factions had gathered as the Canghai Palace secret realm began to open, and Bai Chaogen united Xiaoyao Peak, Myriad Beasts Valley, and the Long River Sect to claim the ruins.

Tang Yan used the Holy War Ruins to defeat Yao Zhonglou and bring Medicine Valley into Reach the Summit. With the new alliance established, he left Northern Spirit to visit Tang Ling before investigating the Spirit Wilderness Realm.

• Tang Yan led the cultivators through Canghai Palace, where he defeated the Golden Dragon, obtained its treasures and Verdict, and escaped with the others before the ruins collapsed.
• Tang Yan used the Water-Moon Pearl to create the Holy War Ruins and directed the resulting campaign against Medicine Valley, while he and his allies spread accusations about its ties to the Divine Origin Sect.
• Tang Yan gathered hundreds of fighters at Heaven-Covering Valley and transported them to Medicine Valley, where they broke through its defenses and attacked under the Human Emperor’s declaration of holy war.
• Tang Yan secretly implanted Soul-Thought Gu in Medicine Valley’s members, defeated Yao Zhonglou, and kept the staged nature of the mission hidden as the fighters returned to Heaven-Covering Valley.
• Tang Yan arranged Medicine Valley’s merger into Reach the Summit, selected useful treasures from its warehouses, and prepared to relocate the organization to Central Province.
• Tang Yan told his allies to hold Northern Spirit while he visited Tang Ling, then left Zi Yun the Dao-Spirit Tree and half his Spirit Stones before traveling to Tingxiang.
• Tang Yan reunited with Tang Ling and told him he planned to search the Spirit Wilderness Realm for his parents, offering to bring his grandfather to Northern Spirit.

Tang Yan took charge of Clear Sky Peak, learned the Spirit Wilderness Realm’s herbs and alchemy, and built alliances through his formations and stories. As Meng Yao and the academy’s scholars faced the Demon Calamity, He Muyang began plotting against Tang Yan, who sought Chen Yu’s cooperation.

• Tang Yan entered the Spirit Wilderness Realm, revealed Little Meatball to Rao Baoyue, and agreed to serve as her disciple in exchange for Little Meatball.
• Rao Baoyue put Tang Yan in charge of Clear Sky Peak, where he studied medicinal herbs, revived the purple silver lotus, and improved the hot spring and herb gardens with formations.
• Tang Yan made Yan Biao and Tong Banzhi complete sect missions, defended Yan Biao against five disciples who had abused a Cloud Tiger, and helped both senior brothers improve their pill refining.
• Tang Yan learned treasure-pill techniques from Ling Guangshan, then secretly refined Immortality Pill-grade Mountain-Breaking Pills and sought herbs and formulas through trading.
• Profound Pupil ordered Feng Chenye’s books mass-printed, and Feng Chenye’s rising literary qi helped Meng Yao and the academy’s scholars reinforce the seal against the Demon Race.
• Meng Yao read Feng Chenye’s books and invited him to the Academy, but withdrew the invitation when the Demon Race attacked the seal again.
• Tang Yan entertained Duan Yin with Feng Chenye’s stories, secured a contract to work in Cloud Ease Peak’s herb garden, and marked 183 new herbs there.
• As the academy prepared to defend the seal, He Muyang ordered Lü Haijiao to investigate Tang Yan and find a way to ruin him, while Tang Yan approached Chen Yu to seek cooperation.

Tang Yan expanded his pill and formation businesses while confronting the Spirit Flame Peak disciples who had mistreated him, then cleared his name and gained the sect’s Spirit Herb Garden commission. As he prepared for Spirit Cliff Cave, he pursued a way to counter the Divine Clan and continued failing to find Rao Baoyue a Heavenly Garment Card.

• Tang Yan defeated Chen Yu, unlocked new medicinal varieties in the Spirit Herb Garden, and began trading pills and ingredients with Shopkeeper Qin and Tong Chengxian.
• Tang Yan installed irrigation formations at several peaks, but Yu Yiwu and his disciples bullied him and forced him to accept an unfair contract.
• Tang Yan broke through to the Supreme Venerable Realm, killed Lü Yuanjun and Yu Yiwu, and took their belongings while keeping his involvement hidden.
• Tang Yan learned that Tong Chengxian belonged to the Divine Clan and sought knowledge of the clan, while Feng Chenye reunited with Meng Yao and helped seal the Demon Suppression Abyss.
• The Enforcement Hall investigated Tang Yan, but found no evidence against him, and Song Anchang and He Muyang later tried to force a soul search, and Rao Baoyue arranged an examination that revealed Tang Yan had been wronged.
• Rao Baoyue punished the Spirit Flame Peak disciples, and Tang Yan asked to manage the sect’s Spirit Herb Garden, and the Grand Elder secured him the commission, while Ji Xingsi disciplined the accusers.
• Tang Yan expanded his pill sales, developed cheaper and more effective pills, and arranged for Drunken Divine Pills to counter the Divine Clan as he prepared the four disciples for Spirit Cliff Cave.
• Tang Yan brought Rao Baoyue Monkey Wine and a Dragon Pillar but still lacked the Heavenly Garment Card she demanded, so she struck him and told him to keep looking.