Vol. 8Inheritance and Resolve

Tang Yan gained powerful legacies, strengthened his alliances, and advanced his plans against the Divine Clan while learning that his mother was imprisoned on Heavenly Punishment Mountain. In the Heavenly Wailing Ruins, he inherited the Human Emperor’s power and accepted responsibility for protecting the Human Clan’s future.

  • Tang Yan defeated the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable, secured his allegiance, and inherited the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable’s legacy.
  • Rao Baoyue took Tang Yan to Clear Sky Peak as her student after the Pill Alliance released him.
  • Tang Yan sealed the Earth Abyss passage, expanded his pill trade, and began his God-Hunting Plan while concealing his identity.
  • At the Mystic Maiden Sect, Qinglan summoned nine young women after Tang Yan said he loved someone else.
  • Tang Yan strengthened the Pill Alliance, defeated the Myriad Pill Tower’s challenge, and maneuvered against the Divine Clan as Du Shu’s reforms gained approval.
  • Lin Dongxue reunited with Tang Yan and joined the Sword Alliance, and Tang Yan learned that his mother was imprisoned on Heavenly Punishment Mountain.
  • Tang Yan led the group through the Heavenly Wailing Ruins, where he and his companions received several sages’ inheritances.
  • After completing the Pill Sage’s test, Tang Yan inherited the Human Emperor’s power and accepted the duty of protecting the Human Clan’s future.
Chapters 701–800 Read from Ch. 701

Arc 29Spirit Cliff Cave Trials

Tang Yan entered Spirit Cliff Cave with his senior brothers, gathered herbs, and defeated the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable before inheriting the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable’s legacy. After the Pill Alliance questioned and released him, Rao Baoyue took him to Clear Sky Peak as her student while Fang Xuan’s party searched for him.

  • Fang Xuan organized a search for Tang Yan in the Spirit Wasteland, while Tang Yan, Tong Banzhi, and Yan Biao entered Spirit Cliff Cave with the other disciples.
  • Tang Yan entered the forbidden God-Shocking Courtyard, encountered the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable, and fled after she slapped him.
  • Tang Yan led his companions through the cave, sharing medicinal ingredients and helping them earn points while the Pill Alliance elders watched.
  • Tang Yan and his companions captured a ghost-faced spirit ginseng and traded pills and spirit stones for herbs and spoils from other disciples.
  • The disciples uncovered the Resurrection Coffin, and the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable emerged and activated a formation that killed those marked by it.
  • Tang Yan fought the Heavenly Venerable, defeated him with help from Filial Son, and compelled him to dispel the Killing Formation and swear allegiance to the Human Clan before sealing him in the coffin.
  • Tang Yan gathered a Soul-Wisdom Grass and returned to the God-Shocking Courtyard, where he refined the Primal Chaos Soul-Replenishing Saint Pill for the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable and received her inheritance.
  • Lin Jiuyuan investigated Tang Yan’s missing herb points, verified his account by searching his memories, and released him after ten days in the Heart-Examining Hall.
  • Fang Xuan led a party toward the Spirit Wasteland to find Tang Yan, while Rao Baoyue took him to Clear Sky Peak as her prisoner and student and taught him to refine Gathering Essence True Yang Pills.
Chapters 701–72525 summaries Read

Arc 30The God-Hunting Plan

Tang Yan expanded his pill trade, sealed an Earth Abyss passage, and built new ties with the Pill Alliance while concealing his identity. He set his God-Hunting Plan in motion and ended the stretch at the Mystic Maiden Sect, where Qinglan summoned nine young women after learning he loved someone else.

  • Tang Yan supplied discounted pills to merchants, concealed his strength from Tong Chengxian, and used God's Domain to establish a connection with him.
  • Tang Yan and five core disciples sealed the Earth Abyss passage at Mingqiu Ridge, where Tang Yan exposed Gu Lingdi's demon fox and defeated the demons guarding the abyss.
  • Tang Yan rescued Yingyu with a Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill, reported the Demon Sect's plan, and became a True Inheritance Disciple under Rao Baoyue.
  • Du Shu and Yue Dongli opened Pindanpin in Scorpion City, and its promotions drew crowds as the shop rapidly gained customers.
  • Tang Yan used the identity Zhang Wuji to secure trade with the Pill Alliance, gave Rao Baoyue a cost-saving pill formula, and revealed more of his alchemy ability to her.
  • Feng Chenye, Meng Yao, and Yingyu visited Tang Yan, while Tang Yan asked Feng Chenye to investigate his missing parents and the whereabouts of Fang Xuan and Du Shu.
  • Tang Yan told Tong Chengxian that the Pill Alliance president planned to defect, prompting Tong Chengxian to hurry to Niuhuang Ridge as Tang Yan pursued his God-Hunting Plan.
  • After Profound Pupil divined that Tang Wutian was in the Southern Region, Tang Yan visited Qinglan about the Immortal Pool, and she summoned nine young women when he said he loved another woman.
Chapters 726–75025 summaries Read

Arc 31The Pill Alliance and the Sword Alliance

Tang Yan strengthened the Pill Alliance, thwarted the Myriad Pill Tower’s challenge, and maneuvered against the Divine Clan while Du Shu began reforming the Tower. Lin Dongxue reunited with Tang Yan and joined the Sword Alliance, while news that his mother was imprisoned on Heavenly Punishment Mountain left Tang Yan resolved to grow stronger before acting.

  • Qinglan let Tang Yan enter the Immortal Pool after he resisted the sect’s charm test, and his cauldron consumed its Spiritual Qi as he broke through to late Nirvana Realm.
  • Tang Yan compensated Qinglan with the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art, joined Rao Baoyue in recruiting disciples and making plans against the Divine Clan, and helped secure a Chief Disciple position in the Pill Alliance.
  • Du Shu joined the Demon Sect and took charge of the Myriad Pill Tower, proposing branding, customer-service, and alchemy-master development reforms that Lu Fengzong approved.
  • Tang Yan and Rao Baoyue captured Xu Mao and Flying Thunder, learned the Divine Clan’s secrets, and arranged a plan to draw its Great Guardian into a trap.
  • Tang Yan and Clear Sky Peak defeated the Myriad Pill Tower’s disciples in a pill-refining contest, while the Divine Pills Association’s apparent defection helped set the Divine Clan plan in motion.
  • Tang Yan defeated Jun Ting in a sword contest, while Lin Dongxue defeated Qin Wei and later reunited with Tang Yan before agreeing to become Lu Ruiqing’s disciple in the Sword Alliance.
  • Tang Yan trained Lin Dongxue, gave Zi Yun the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art, and learned from Lin Jiuyuan that the Otherworld Ruins and Heavenly Punishment Clan had imprisoned his mother on Heavenly Punishment Mountain.
  • Tang Yan agreed to wait for the sect’s support, recruited a hundred Inner Sect Disciples for Clear Sky Peak, and set out with two women for the Sword Alliance as Du Shu’s reforms won approval.
Chapters 751–77525 summaries Read

Arc 32The Heavenly Wailing Ruins

Tang Yan led the group through the Heavenly Wailing Ruins, overcoming guarded paths and awakening several sages whose inheritances went to him and his companions. After completing the Pill Sage’s test, Tang Yan received the Human Emperor’s inheritance and accepted the responsibility of protecting the Human Clan’s future.

  • Lu Ruiqing made Lin Dongxue his disciple, then sent Tang Yan and nine others into the Heavenly Wailing Ruins under Jun Ting’s command.
  • Tang Yan reorganized the group’s defenses, killed Feng Qi, and led them through the Blood Rain Swamp’s hidden weapons and Thunderclap Stones.
  • Tang Yan exposed the threats in the Sleeping Forest, defeated the Void Beast’s ambush, and brought the group to the Sword Saint Hall.
  • Tang Yan awakened the Emotion Sword Venerable, who gave him the Red Dust Sword and her inheritance for Lin Dongxue, while Jun Ting broke through to the Entering the Dao Realm.
  • Tang Yan crossed the Divine Punishment Thunder Domain in handmade protective suits, absorbed the Spirit Flame, and began studying the Pill Sage’s incomplete formula.
  • Tang Yan buried more than five million remains in the Land of Bones, then led the group through the Blood Lake, Buddhist pagoda, Literary Sage’s Study, and Free and Unfettered Temple as his companions received inheritances.
  • Tang Yan solved the Pill Sage’s missing-herb question with stone orchid leaf and received the Pill Dao inheritance, but the Human Emperor interrupted his breakthrough and named him successor.
  • Tang Yan accepted the Human Emperor’s charge, absorbed his power and inheritance, and advanced to the peak of the Heaven and Earth Realm.
Chapters 776–80025 summaries Read
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