Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan invited Old Sun to become chief instructor of Reach the Summit and learned that he was Lei Yu, a former domain lord whose family and sect were destroyed by Medicine Valley. Tang Yan offered to help restore Lei Yu’s soul and shelter him, and Lei Yu agreed to join Reach the Summit.

• Tang Yan offered Old Sun the chief instructor position and revealed that he had Spirit Baleful Orchid, but Old Sun hesitated because of his feud with Medicine Valley.
• Old Sun revealed that his real name was Lei Yu and recounted how Medicine Valley destroyed the Azure Nether Fire Domain and killed his family after he released Nurturing Nether to escape.
• Tang Yan offered Lei Yu a sixth-tier Soul-Filling Spirit-Shaping Pill, a place to recover within Reach the Summit, and future support against Medicine Valley.
• Lei Yu accepted Tang Yan’s offer, and Tang Yan told him to wait outside the city while they prepared to travel secretly to Southern Wilderness City.

Tang Yan delivered powerful pills to Lei Yu and attended the Ten Thousand Treasures Garden exchange gathering, where he bought large quantities of medicinal herbs. The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron then led him to a stall selling two sets of eighth-tier herbs.

• Tang Yan gave Lei Yu a Soul-Filling Spirit-Shaping Pill and a sixth-tier Profound Light Essence Condensation Pill, and Lei Yu recognized the first as an Immortality Pill.
• Tang Yan told Lei Yu to disguise himself, leave the city, and wait by a mountain stream south of the city while Tang Yan attended the exchange gathering.
• Tang Yan and Gao Jinsong entered the Ten Thousand Treasures Garden, where Gao Jinsong warned Tang Yan to be cautious when buying medicinal herbs.
• Tang Yan bought the herbs at a stall for 12.3 million taels, then paid another thirty million taels for the stallholder's additional seventh-tier herbs.
• Tang Yan bought more high-tier medicinal herbs from stalls throughout the garden until the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron guided him to a stall displaying two sets of eighth-tier herbs.

Tang Yan uncovered a scam involving a dying Dragon Turtle Tree and stallholders who framed customers for breaking its enchanted pot. After discovering that the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron could revive the tree, he offered the stallholders a way to cooperate.

• Tang Yan examined the Dragon Turtle Tree and discovered that its pot shattered when he picked it up, exposing the tree's failing condition and the formation that had concealed it.
• The stallholders accused Tang Yan of damaging their tree and demanded compensation while the crowd watched.
• Tang Yan used his power to make the woman name Light Dust Peak, but the man claimed the pair belonged to the Magpie Blade Sect.
• Tang Yan put the Dragon Turtle Tree into the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron's Chaos Space and saw it regain vitality, then watched it wilt again after he removed it.
• Tang Yan told the stallholders he could offer them a safe way to cooperate and invited them to talk.

Tang Yan bought twenty-eight defective high-tier spirit herbs from Yu Sance and Wang Zilian, gaining their promise to seek Light Dust Peak’s approval for a supply arrangement. After storing the herbs in Chaos Space, he noticed Essence-Locking Jade at a roadside stall and recognized that it could preserve future shipments.

• Tang Yan negotiated with Yu Sance and Wang Zilian, offering to buy their defective spirit herbs and proposing they help secure his organization a share of Light Dust Peak’s herbs.
• Tang Yan agreed to pay fifteen percent of the herbs’ value and bought twenty-eight plants for three hundred million taels of silver.
• Yu Sance identified himself and Wang Zilian, promised to seek his sect’s approval for cooperation, and learned that future herbs should be sent to Reach the Summit in Southern Wilderness City.
• Tang Yan placed the herbs in Chaos Space, where the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron began restoring them.
• Tang Yan sensed an obstruction in his spirit power, spotted Essence-Locking Jade at a roadside stall, and realized it could preserve spirit herbs.

Tang Yan bartered for Essence-Locking Jade, escaped an old man’s attempt to threaten him by invoking the Mo Lineage’s protection, and spent the next two days shopping at the Exchange Convention. On the final day, he came across a Star-Gazing Pavilion formation-breaking challenge with a whip among its prizes.

• Tang Yan outbid an old man for the Essence-Locking Jade by trading two Spirit Transformation Pills, then refused to give the jade to the old man.
• The old man threatened Tang Yan and secretly marked his shoulder, but fled when a Mo Lineage protector arrived.
• Tang Yan convinced the protector that he was in danger and checked into the Mo Bai Inn for protection.
• Tang Yan returned to the Exchange Convention over the next two days but failed to find a whip-type weapon for Fang Xuan.
• On the convention’s final day, Tang Yan approached the Star-Gazing Pavilion stall and saw its formation-breaking challenge and five prizes.

Tang Yan studied the Star-Gazing Pavilion’s treasure chest formation and repeatedly attempted its maze until he deduced all eight gates and opened it. A dazzling light burst from the chest, leaving its contents unknown.

• Tang Yan learned that the Star-Gazing Pavilion had invited people to solve the formation on its founder’s treasure chest, which had resisted opening for ten thousand years.
• After another challenger failed, Tang Yan studied the formation and persuaded the pink-clad girl to make him try.
• Tang Yan repeatedly paid to attempt the puzzle, using each failure to identify the formation’s auspicious and inauspicious gates.
• Tang Yan deduced all eight gates and guided the ball through the formation until it fell into the Gate of Life.
• The treasure chest opened, and a dazzling light burst from inside.

Tang Yan obtained a golden Light Pearl and five treasures after opening the Star-Gazing Pavilion patriarch’s chest, then arranged for Su Ruyan to take the Azure Frost Sword and Sky-Splitting Whip to Reach the Summit. He disguised himself, erased the mark on his shoulder, and left the city, but the black-robed old man used a strand of his hair to track him.

• A golden Light Pearl flew into Tang Yan’s sea of consciousness, and he found the patriarch’s Storage Ring in the chest.
• The Second Elder recognized the ring, gave Tang Yan all five prizes as compensation, and hurried away with the other Star-Gazing Pavilion members.
• Su Ruyan asked Tang Yan for the Azure Frost Sword, and he gave her the sword and Sky-Splitting Whip to take to Fang Xuan at Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan admitted he was keeping the other three treasures, then disguised his face and erased the mark on his shoulder before leaving the city.
• The black-robed old man noticed the mark had vanished, cast a spell on a strand of Tang Yan’s hair, and vanished while looking south.

Tang Yan and Lei Yu were ambushed by Zhu Jingkong, the Spirit Shaman Clan Chief, who wanted the Essence-Locking Jade and decided to kill them to eliminate a future threat. As Zhu Jingkong strangled Tang Yan, Tang Yan warned that the jade could not change the Spirit Shaman Clan’s fate.

• Tang Yan retrieved Lei Yu and learned that Lei Yu’s soul was recovering and his former cultivation had been at eighth-grade Lord Rank.
• Zhu Jingkong intercepted Tang Yan and Lei Yu in the air and demanded the Essence-Locking Jade.
• Tang Yan tricked Zhu Jingkong with a bag of white powder, then fled and fought him with Lei Yu, but Zhu Jingkong overwhelmed them both.
• Lei Yu recognized Zhu Jingkong and proposed giving him the jade, but Zhu Jingkong explained that he intended to kill Tang Yan and use Lei Yu’s head to build ties with Medicine Valley.
• Zhu Jingkong grabbed Tang Yan by the neck, and Tang Yan told him the Essence-Locking Jade could not raise the Spirit Shaman Clan’s cultivation ceiling.

Tang Yan persuaded Zhu Jingkong that the Spirit Shaman Clan could overcome its soul-related cultivation limits by strengthening and repairing its members’ souls, then proposed using the Nurturing Nether Spirit Flame to make pills. Zhu Jingkong agreed to retrieve the flame with Tang Yan and form an alliance with Reach the Summit, while Tang Yan later examined the mysterious golden bead in his sea of consciousness.

• Tang Yan explained to Zhu Jingkong how strengthening and repairing souls could help the Spirit Shaman Clan overcome its cultivation limits.
• Tang Yan proposed using the Nurturing Nether Spirit Flame to refine pills, and Lei Yu said he could track it down but that a high King Rank expert would be needed to capture it.
• Zhu Jingkong agreed to return to Western Shaman, meet Tang Yan in half a month, and join him in retrieving the Spirit Flame; he also gave Tang Yan three talismans.
• Zhu Jingkong proposed an alliance between the Spirit Shaman Clan and Reach the Summit, and Tang Yan accepted while both agreed to keep the clan’s potential and Lei Yu’s whereabouts secret.
• Tang Yan and Lei Yu traveled toward Southern Wilderness City, discussed the Northern Spirit Realm and Lei Yu’s revenge, then stopped to rest for the night.
• Tang Yan entered his sea of consciousness, studied the mysterious golden bead, and touched it with his Divine Sense.

Tang Yan received Guanqi’s Heart Formation legacy and returned to training, while Su Ruyan brought two Exchange Convention prizes to Reach the Summit. Fang Xuan offered her the Azure Frost Sword in exchange for staying with the faction for two years, leaving the decision to her.

• Guanqi’s legacy gave Tang Yan mastery of the Heart Formation and three powerful techniques: Star-Shifting Formation, Divine Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation, and Heaven and Earth Great Millstone.
• Tang Yan tested his ability to deploy and withdraw formations instantly, then swallowed two Profound Light Essence Condensation Pills as he neared third grade.
• Su Ruyan arrived at Reach the Summit with three attendants, and Yu Juechen teased Fang Xuan before Su Ruyan kicked him to the ground.
• Su Ruyan delivered the Azure Frost Sword and Sky-Splitting Whip, prizes Tang Yan had entrusted to her for Fang Xuan.
• Su Ruyan asked to buy the Azure Frost Sword, and Fang Xuan offered it in exchange for her staying at Reach the Summit for two years, with pill supplies and a guarantee she would reach third-grade King Rank.

Su Ruyan joined Reach the Summit under a two-year agreement to reach third-grade King Rank, while Tang Yan brought the disguised Lei Yu into the faction and began steering Du Shu toward a new business idea. The chapter left Du Shu to consider Tang Yan’s hint about turning Specialty Pills into blind boxes.

• Fang Xuan and Du Shu showed Su Ruyan their pills, and she agreed to join Reach the Summit under a contract with conditions on both sides.
• Tang Yan introduced Lei Yu to Fang Xuan and Du Shu, explained that Medicine Valley was hunting him, and arranged for him to use the alias Cheng Xin as an assistant alchemy instructor.
• Fang Xuan told Tang Yan that Su Ruyan had arrived and signed the agreement, and Tang Yan encouraged Fang Xuan to win her heart.
• Tang Yan told Du Shu about the Star-Gazing Pavilion charging people to try to open its ancestor’s locked treasure chest, hinting at a blind-box business using Reach the Summit’s Specialty Pills.

Tang Yan agreed to prepare a secret strike against Mingyou Valley, while Light Dust Peak considered supplying him with dying spirit herbs. At the Star-Gazing Pavilion, Qu Changxing revealed that the Patriarch's Formation had been broken and presented a handbook whose contents baffled the elders.

• Fang Xuan warned Tang Yan that Mingyou Valley was recruiting experts and proposed joining forces with the Mo Lineage to destroy it.
• Tang Yan ordered Reach the Summit to strengthen its defenses and prepare for a secret attack on Mingyou Valley in half a month, then left for Southern Heart City.
• Tang Yan instructed Du Shu to buy Light Dust Peak's dying spirit herbs and set up a formation to preserve their remaining life force.
• Yu Sance told He Xinghui about the buyer in Southern Heart City, and He Xinghui ordered the seriously ill herbs delivered so he could assess the buyer's intentions.
• Qu Changxing summoned the Star-Gazing Pavilion elders and showed the Pavilion Master the patriarch's thumb ring and handbook after the Patriarch's Formation broke.
• The Pavilion Master displayed the handbook to the elders and asked how much they understood.

The Star-Gazing Pavilion realized Tang Yan might be the only person capable of interpreting its founder’s manual and sent Qu Changxing to find him. Meanwhile, Tang Yan chose a strategy for dealing with Mingyou Valley and began cultivating the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art with elemental materials as he traveled toward Southern Heart City.

• The Pavilion Master rebuked Qu Changxing for failing to learn Tang Yan’s identity and ordered him to find the young man and invite him to the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
• Tang Yan decided that working with the Mo Lineage was the best way to handle Mingyou Valley and studied the rewards he had received from the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
• Tang Yan mastered the Sword Shadow Without a Trace diagram and began practicing the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art, using elemental materials to speed up its body tempering.
• Qu Changxing’s investigation in Southern Heart City linked the formation-breaker to Su Ruyan of the Su Family, so he hurried to the Su Family.
• Tang Yan descended into Southern Heart City on the Flowing Cloud Roc shortly after Qu Changxing departed.

Tang Yan tried to persuade the Mo Lineage to join Reach the Summit in destroying Mingyou Valley, but Mo Jianming hesitated over the danger posed by Mingyou Valley’s supreme elder. A crisis at the Yin-Yang Abyss then forced the Mo Lineage to contain deadly Yin Nether Qi, while Tang Yan secretly fed some of it to the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron.

• Tang Yan appealed to Mo Jianming to join Reach the Summit in punishing Mingyou Valley, offering five Xiantian martial artists and a hundred high-grade Heaven Tier martial artists.
• Mo Jianming refused to commit, citing Mingyou Valley’s remaining strength and the threat of its King Rank third-grade supreme elder, Ming Ze.
• A Mo Lineage disciple reported that the Yin-Yang Spring had turned Yang Qian Qi into Yin Nether Qi, seriously injuring twelve people and sending the deadly qi spilling from the abyss.
• Mo Jianming and the Mo Lineage elders activated the Heavenly Dragon Shield to seal the abyss, while Tang Yan secretly let the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorb a wisp of black smoke.
• Mo Jianming ordered the elders to watch the Yin-Yang Spring and prepare to evacuate if the Yin Nether Qi spread, but faint sounds soon came from the shield.

Tang Yan entered the Yin-Yang Abyss to stop the Yin Nether Qi from destroying Southern Heart City, while the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed the deadly qi and released Spiritual Qi that rapidly increased his cultivation. Above, the qi’s spread stopped, but the Mo Lineage still did not know whether Tang Yan had succeeded.

• Mo Jianming explained that the Yin-Yang Spring’s balance had broken and ordered the Mo Lineage and Southern Heart City to prepare to evacuate.
• As the Heavenly Dragon Shield cracked, Tang Yan brought out the Blazing Flame Fan and entered the breach, declaring that he would risk his life to protect Southern Heart City.
• Inside the abyss, Tang Yan found a mysterious black plaque near the spring, but an immense force repelled his attempt to take it.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron devoured the Yin Nether Qi and released pure Spiritual Qi, which Tang Yan used to advance from Xiantian Second Grade to Xiantian Fifth Grade.
• The Yin Nether Qi stopped spreading across the Mo Lineage’s rear courtyard, and the Grand Elder said Tang Yan had bought Southern Heart City time, though his success remained uncertain.

Tang Yan absorbed the Yin Nether Qi in the Yin-Yang Abyss, exposed Mingyou Valley’s role in the crisis, and secured the Mo Lineage’s alliance with Reach the Summit. He began secretly transporting the disguised Mo elites out of Southern Heart City to prepare a surprise attack on Mingyou Valley.

• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron to absorb the Yin Nether Qi, advancing to Xiantian Ninth Grade and retrieving a black Token from the spring.
• Tang Yan pretended to be weak and claimed his Treasure Fan had been destroyed; Mo Jianming rewarded him with the Heaven Concealing Garment.
• Mo Lianshan identified the Token as the Yin Dragon Command, and Mo Jianming realized Mingyou Valley had caused the Yin Nether Qi outbreak and agreed to join forces with Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan proposed disguising the Mo Lineage’s elites as Reach the Summit members and secretly sending them out of the city while Mingyou Valley believed the Mo leaders were in seclusion.
• Mo Jianming sealed the Yin-Yang Abyss and announced that the Mo elites had entered secluded cultivation; Tang Yan then used the Stars-Shifting Array to transport the first seven disguised members away.

Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit, checked on Zi Yun, and bought a large batch of troubled spirit herbs from Yu Sance and Wang Zilian. After preparing for several days, he received the arrival of a dark-robed elder, signaling that it was time to set out with the Mo Lineage.

• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit and learned that Du Shu was away while Zi Yun had advanced to late-stage first-grade Xiantian.
• Zi Yun told Tang Yan that she had repeatedly dreamed of undergoing strange, inhuman mutations, and he checked her pulse and gave her Calm-Heart Pills.
• Yu Sance and Wang Zilian brought Tang Yan hundreds of spirit herbs, and he paid 780 million taels of silver and asked them to keep supplying problematic herbs.
• Tang Yan spent the next several days refining pills and tempering his body as the Mo Lineage members arrived at Reach the Summit.
• After Tang Yan asked the Mo Lineage to wait two more days, a dark-robed elder wearing a bamboo hat appeared, and Tang Yan prepared to set out.

Tang Yan led Reach the Summit and its allies to campaign against Mingyou Valley, while secretly relying on concealed experts and Zhu Jingkong’s protection. Mingyou Valley learned of the approaching force but wrongly concluded the Mo Lineage could not intervene, leaving the two sides on course for battle.

• Tang Yan asked Zhu Jingkong to watch over the expedition secretly and intervene if Reach the Summit members faced mortal danger.
• Tang Yan gathered 150 people from Reach the Summit, the Gao Family, and the Mo Lineage, announced their goals, and led them toward Mingyou Valley.
• Reach the Summit issued a proclamation against Mingyou Valley, drawing attention across the Southern Wilderness.
• Tang Yan privately told Gao Bufan that their party had a King Rank martial artist and enough concealed Xiantian experts to outnumber Mingyou Valley’s forces.
• Ming Zhongtong reported that the expedition would arrive in two days, while Ming Lihai dismissed its strength and Ming Wenshan concluded the Mo Lineage was too occupied to join the conflict.

Mingyou Valley planned to exploit the Mo Lineage’s injuries and crush Reach the Summit, while Tang Yan’s march drew attention from allies and observers across the realms. As the campaign continued north, Su Kuo learned that his daughter was among the forces heading toward Mingyou Valley and rushed to act.

• Ming Wenshan ordered Mingyou Valley to watch Reach the Summit and the Mo Lineage, then crush Reach the Summit if it came alone.
• A subordinate told Shen Shan that Tang Yan was leading Reach the Summit and the Gao Family against Mingyou Valley without outside support, and Shen Shan agreed to go help him with Lin Dongxue and Wan Fei.
• Elder Fan told Feng Chenye that Tang Yan was in trouble, and Feng Chenye eagerly set out to help his brother.
• A guard reported to Su Kuo that Reach the Summit and the Gao Family had called for a campaign against Mingyou Valley and had no outside support.
• After hearing that his eldest young lady was the Xiantian Ninth Grade cultivator among the forces, Su Kuo ordered the flying mounts prepared.

Tang Yan led Reach the Summit to attack Mingyou Valley, where the hidden Supreme Elder Ming Ze revealed himself and struck at Tang Yan with a King Rank Third Grade attack. The chapter ended with spectators expecting Tang Yan to die, just as Shen Shan arrived too late to intervene.

• Ye Liangchen learned Tang Yan was heading to Mingyou Valley and decided to go watch, while Zhuo Feng said Shen Shan and Feng Chenye were also on their way.
• Tang Yan prepared Reach the Summit for battle and arranged the Mo Lineage's Xiantian fighters to guard against Ming Ze's ambush.
• Ming Wenshan and Tang Yan exchanged insults before ordering their forces to fight.
• Tang Yan used a mental attack and Sword Qi to badly wound Mingyou Valley's Sixth Elder, Ming Lihai.
• Ming Ze appeared to save Ming Lihai and unleashed a full-powered palm strike at Tang Yan as Shen Shan and the spectators watched.