Chapter Summaries

After taking control of Windfire Ridge, Tang Yan learned of its feud with Medicine Valley and secured cooperation with Windfire Ridge’s allies by offering upgraded pills and sharing resources. He then began reorganizing Windfire Ridge to match Reach the Summit’s standards.

• Tang Yan questioned Windfire Ridge’s leaders and learned that Medicine Valley had stolen the Bixue Pan Peach intended for Zhuang Yingshui’s pill, leaving the Overlord Spear Sect dependent on Medicine Valley to prolong his life.
• Tang Yan reassured Windfire Ridge’s allies that their relationship would remain unchanged and offered them upgraded pills, specialty pills, and points for purchasing them.
• Tang Yan promised the Peerless Divine Pills would be available in three months, and the allies agreed on the details of their cooperation before leaving satisfied.
• Tang Yan distributed Windfire Ridge’s resources among the Artifact Pavilion and other factions, and Xu Bai, Shen Jihong, Feng Yongjian, and the Su and Lan families pledged support for Reach the Summit.
• Xu Bai requested more guidance on formations, and Tang Yan invited him to visit Reach the Summit after half a month.
• Tang Yan assigned Windfire Ridge’s senior leaders tasks to align its pill quality, alchemy development, and rules with Reach the Summit.

Tang Yan visited the Overlord Spear Sect and repaired its legendary Nine-Dragon Spear after discovering it displayed in the Famous Spear Hall. The chapter left Steward Qian testing the restored weapon, whose condition appeared to have returned to that of a renowned arm.

• Tang Yan arrived at the Overlord Spear Sect and toured its grounds with Steward Qian while waiting for the sect leader.
• A young disciple carried an injured junior sister to the Medicine Pavilion, and Tang Yan used silver needles to stabilize her before the group went inside.
• Qian Jindou showed Tang Yan the Famous Spear Hall, where Tang Yan found the broken Nine-Dragon Spear of the sect's founder, Zhuang Shenxing.
• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame and a Spirit Power mold to reforge the spearhead without melting the shaft.
• Tang Yan handed the repaired spear to Qian Jindou, who channeled Spirit Power into it and felt its smooth, powerful response.

Tang Yan repaired the Nine-Dragon Spear and gained a brief insight into spear intent before saving Zhuang Xueyi from a fatal cultivation backlash. After learning that Tang Yan’s silver needles had kept his daughter alive, Zhuang Zhile thanked him and brought his disciples to apologize.

• Tang Yan repaired the Nine-Dragon Spear, and the weapon sent him a thought that gave him a slight insight into spear intent.
• Zhuang Zhile gained an insight into softness within strength while practicing beside the river, then rushed to the Medicine Pavilion after hearing that Zhuang Xueyi had suffered a backlash.
• Zhang Yannian found nine silver needles sealing Zhuang Xueyi’s heart meridians and Dantian, and realized they had preserved her life until he could treat her.
• Meng Zijian and the other disciples accused Tang Yan of harming Zhuang Xueyi, but Zhang Yannian explained that Tang Yan’s needles had saved her.
• Zhuang Zhile thanked Tang Yan and led Meng Zijian and the others to apologize for their earlier insults and attack.

Tang Yan repaired the Overlord Spear Sect’s Nine-Dragon Spear, received Heavenly Wisdom Bamboo, and examined Sect Master Zhuang Zhile’s comatose father, discovering that he had been poisoned. After the treatment only slowed the poison, Zhuang Zhile asked Tang Yan to help find a cure and offered him access to the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda.

• Tang Yan reassured the Overlord Spear Sect’s juniors, and Zhuang Zhile confirmed that Tang Yan had restored the Nine-Dragon Spear.
• Zhuang Zhile rewarded Tang Yan with Heavenly Wisdom Bamboo and asked him to examine his father, Zhuang Yingshui.
• Tang Yan bought medicinal ingredients from the sect and then found that Zhuang Yingshui had been poisoned and was near death.
• Tang Yan used silver needles and a Heavenly Dipper Evil-Suppressing Pill to suppress the poison, but explained that the treatment could not cure it.
• Tang Yan suggested investigating where Zhuang Yingshui was poisoned or finding rare medicines, and Zhuang Zhile revealed that Medicine Valley had stolen a Bixue Immortal Peach intended to save his father.
• Zhuang Zhile asked Tang Yan to accompany the sect to investigate the poisoning and offered protection, a reward, and cultivation in the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda.

Tang Yan agreed to help Zhuang Zhile investigate the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda and find a cure for his father, then returned toward Reach the Summit with his captives. He learned of a dangerous island full of treasures and Spirit Bodies from Gu Changquan, and beat Tao Yuchan when she tried to charm him.

• Tang Yan agreed to visit the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda after handling matters at Reach the Summit, and Zhuang Zhile explained how his father had been poisoned in the Miasma Marshland.
• Tang Yan left with Tao Yuchan and Gu Changquan, restored their awareness, and threatened to torture Gu Changquan for plotting against Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan used a Soul-Thought Gu to make Gu Changquan reveal the location of an island filled with Magic Treasures and hostile Spirit Bodies.
• Gu Changquan admitted to another scandal involving his father's concubines, and Tang Yan slapped him after recalling the Soul-Thought Gu.
• Tao Yuchan tried to use her Charm Technique on Tang Yan, but he grabbed her by the throat and repeatedly slapped her face.

Tao Yuchan and Gu Changquan tried to use a Charm Technique to escape Tang Yan, but their attempt ended with Gu Changquan getting beaten and gagged. Tang Yan brought the captives back to Reach the Summit, where their public display strengthened the visitors’ respect for the faction.

• Tao Yuchan suspected Tang Yan preferred men and secretly taught Gu Changquan her Charm Technique as a possible means of escape.
• Feng Chenye learned that Meng Yao might be in the Spirit Wilderness Realm and decided to search for her himself despite Elder Fan’s objections.
• Gu Changquan achieved minor mastery of the Charm Technique overnight and tried to seduce Tang Yan, who punched him and gagged both him and Tao Yuchan.
• The Overlord Thunder King Roc returned to Reach the Summit with Tao Yuchan and Gu Changquan hanging from its talons.
• Visiting Alchemy Masters recognized Gu Changquan and, seeing him captured, grew more wary of and impressed by Reach the Summit.

Tang Yan avenged Qiu Feng, prepared for the miasmic marshlands, and visited the Artifact Pavilion, where he received a newly forged heavy sword and began repairing damaged renowned weapons. After successfully repairing the first sword, he felt a strand of sword intent enter his body.

• Tang Yan announced that Windfire Ridge would submit to Reach the Summit and handed Tao Yuchan and Gu Changquan over to the sect members, who killed them in revenge for Qiu Feng.
• Tang Yan prepared pills, lectured visiting alchemists, checked on Zi Yun, and taught Xu Bai about formation martial dao true meaning.
• Shen Shan presented Tang Yan with a nine-thousand-jin heavy sword, which Tang Yan named Ninefold Mountain, along with other weapons forged from heavenly arms mine.
• Tang Yan told Shen Shan and the others he planned to accompany Sect Master Zhuang into the miasmic marshlands to find an antidote for the former sect master, despite their warnings.
• Tang Yan took five damaged renowned weapons into a secluded chamber and successfully repaired a broken sword using the heaven-earth creation flame.
• A faint strand of sword intent entered Tang Yan's body after he tested the repaired sword.

Tang Yan repaired more renowned weapons, then entered the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda to cultivate and broke through to Lord Rank. He settled on the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron as his Natal God and discovered he could refine pills without an ordinary cauldron.

• Tang Yan repaired four more weapons, agreed to split future repair profits with Shen Shan, and left for the Overlord Spear Sect.
• Zhuang Zhile told Tang Yan that Pei Guang would join their trip to Miasma Marsh, then led him into the Yang Pagoda to cultivate.
• After seven days of cultivation, Tang Yan broke through the King Rank barrier and began forming his Natal God.
• The weapons Tang Yan had repaired, the Yin-Yang Treasure Pagoda, and the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame each appeared as possible Natal Gods before the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron claimed the position.
• Tang Yan entered Lord Rank, learned his Natal God's smelting and suppression abilities, and used a flame cauldron to refine seven Profound Light Essence Condensation Pills.

Tang Yan advanced to the sixth grade of Lord Rank, then traveled with Zhuang Zhile and Pei Guang toward the Spirit Wilderness Realm, where his words helped Pei Guang gain insight. At the realm’s entrance, Feng Chenye sent Elder Fan away before teleporting inside, leaving Elder Fan to realize he had done so out of concern for his safety.

• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron helped Tang Yan reach the sixth grade of Lord Rank, and he met Zhuang Zhile and Pei Guang.
• Tang Yan and his companions departed the Overlord Spear Sect on Overlord Thunder King Rocs, and Tang Yan explained his views on the Heavenly Dao to Pei Guang.
• Pei Guang gained insight into the Great Dao and thanked Tang Yan for helping him find a direction for his cultivation.
• Feng Chenye reached the Spirit Wilderness Realm entrance with Elder Fan, then ordered him to return and took his Barrier Pearl.
• Feng Chenye teleported into the Spirit Wilderness Realm, and Elder Fan realized he had sent him away to keep him from being endangered before rushing to call after him.

Tang Yan, Pei Guang, and Zhuang Zhile entered the Miasma Marshland to search for a cave, where they encountered deadly beasts, poisonous mist, and a swarm of Carapace Ants. After escaping the insects, they realized how dangerous the marsh was and continued with greater caution.

• Tang Yan and his companions boarded an Overlord Thunder King Roc at a Trading Base and flew into the Miasma Marshland to search for a cave deep in the southwest.
• Pei Guang detected a seventh-tier spirit beast near a Jade Green Grass, and Tang Yan gathered the herb before killing the lurking Red Python Lizard.
• Pei Guang used poison-testing ash to reveal dangerous mist near a Flash Orchid, and Zhuang Zhile retrieved the herb behind his spirit power shield.
• More than ten thousand Carapace Ants attacked Zhuang Zhile, corroding his shield and resisting his attacks until he escaped with Pei Guang and Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan identified the insects as seventh-tier Carapace Ants, and the three continued through the marsh after escaping the swarm.

Tang Yan and his companions encountered the Heavenly Enchantress guarding a rare Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass in the Miasma Marsh. To avoid revealing his escape technique and creating trouble, Tang Yan agreed to let her beat him, and she began pounding his back.

• Pei Guang warned Tang Yan and Zhuang Zhile that the dangers increased as they traveled deeper into the marsh.
• The trio found a Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass guarded by a deadly natural formation, poisonous miasma, and armored ants, with the Heavenly Enchantress nearby.
• Zhuang Zhile identified the Heavenly Enchantress as the fourth-ranked Top Ten Expert, and Pei Guang urged the others not to contest the herb.
• The Heavenly Enchantress tried to approach the herb, lost her way in the formation, and retreated when armored ants attacked her.
• The Heavenly Enchantress targeted Tang Yan to vent her frustration, but Tang Yan chose not to flee and agreed to let her beat him.
• Tang Yan lay face down, and the Heavenly Enchantress began raining punches onto his back as Zhuang Zhile and Pei Guang watched tensely.

Tang Yan endured the Heavenly Enchantress’s beating while claiming he could break the formation around the Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass. He guided her through the swamp to the herb, where she grabbed it and faced a swarm of Carapace Ants.

• Tang Yan provoked the Heavenly Enchantress into striking harder, using the blows to temper his Five Elements Tyrant Body Art.
• Tang Yan explained the swamp’s formation and bargained for the herb’s non-flower parts in exchange for guiding her through it.
• After two hours of beating, Tang Yan told the Heavenly Enchantress to enter the formation alone and promised to guide her by transmitting his voice.
• Tang Yan directed the Heavenly Enchantress along a safe route until she reached the Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass.
• The Heavenly Enchantress gathered the herb, alerting the Carapace Ants, and fought through their swarm to escape.

Tang Yan, Pei Guang, and Zhuang Zhile found the cave where Zhuang Yingshui had been attacked, only to be trapped in poisonous webs alongside Heavenly Enchantress. Tang Yan freed the group with his Heaven-Earth Creation Flame and confronted Heavenly Enchantress, who tried to seduce him into rescuing her.

• After Heavenly Enchantress took the Phoenix-Crying Jade Grass and refused to give Tang Yan its roots, Tang Yan continued searching the Miasma Marshland with Pei Guang and Zhuang Zhile.
• The next day, Pei Guang found a large cave entrance, and the three entered to investigate whether it was where Zhuang Yingshui had been attacked.
• A hidden web trapped Tang Yan, Pei Guang, and Zhuang Zhile in a chamber, where poisonous transparent threads began seeping toxins into their bodies.
• Tang Yan used his Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to burn through the webs and free himself and his companions.
• Tang Yan recognized the poisoned Heavenly Enchantress, freed her mouth, and resisted her seductive attempts to persuade him to release her.

Tang Yan rescued Heavenly Enchantress, took most of her supplies, and secured her oath to help him five times in exchange for curing her poison. As the group searched for the Netherweb Ghost Spider, they became trapped between collapsing passages and corrosive Green Liquid.

• Heavenly Enchantress gave Tang Yan her Storage Ring, and he took her spirit herbs, materials, Magic Treasures, and Martial Skills while leaving her weapons and pills.
• Tang Yan cured Heavenly Enchantress with a Heavenly Dipper Evil-Suppressing Pill after she swore to help him five times and never become his enemy.
• Heavenly Enchantress warned Tang Yan, Zhuang Zhile, and Pei Guang about the Netherweb Ghost Spider, and agreed to cooperate in exchange for its gallbladder and venom sac.
• Tang Yan led the group deeper into the cave, where his Heaven-Earth Creation Flame burned away several waves of spider silk.
• After the group chose a cave passage, Green Liquid poured in from both sides and overhead, corroding their shields as the passage behind them collapsed.
• The four joined their shields and tried to retreat, but found the way back blocked; they charged forward and discovered that path was blocked too.

Tang Yan used the Wind-Chasing Cloud-Brushing Fan to escape the poisonous tunnel with Heavenly Enchantress, Zhuang Zhile, and Pei Guang, then led them toward the Netherweb Ghost Spider. They found the spider in a venomous pit and began fighting it, leaving the battle underway.

• Tang Yan offered to use his one-use Wind-Chasing Cloud-Brushing Fan in exchange for five favors, and Heavenly Enchantress swore an oath to repay him.
• Tang Yan transported the group back to the tunnel fork, and the four entered the right-hand passage in search of the Netherweb Ghost Spider.
• The group reached a vast pit filled with poisonous liquid, where spider silk attacked Tang Yan and dragged him toward the pool.
• Heavenly Enchantress, Zhuang Zhile, and Pei Guang tried to rescue Tang Yan, and Tang Yan burned through the spider silk with the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame.
• Zhuang Zhile, Pei Guang, and Heavenly Enchantress combined their attacks to force the venom and spider silk back into the pool, revealing the Netherweb Ghost Spider.
• Heavenly Enchantress urged the others to keep attacking, and the three Saint Level experts launched another round of strikes at the spider.

Tang Yan and three Saint Level experts fought the Netherweb Ghost Spider in its cavern, only to be trapped inside a corrosive silk cage. As their defenses failed, Tang Yan revealed he had another plan involving his Wind-Chasing Cloud-Brushing Fan.

• The Netherweb Ghost Spider used its speed and webs to attack, and Heavenly Enchantress identified Pei Guang and assigned him, Zhuang Zhile, and herself roles in the assault.
• Pei Guang cut an opening in the web, while Heavenly Enchantress and Zhuang Zhile charged the spider; Tang Yan collected venom from a nearby pool as the battle continued.
• Heavenly Enchantress severed one of the spider’s legs, and Zhuang Zhile pierced one of its eyes, but the cavern shook as a hidden cage of dark cyan spider silk enclosed them.
• The spider’s cage contracted and corroded their shield, while Zhuang Zhile’s golden bell and Pei Guang’s other Magic Treasures failed to stop it.
• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to burn the silk, but the cage drew in energy to resist the flames, and the golden bell shattered.
• Tang Yan secretly told the others he would use his Wind-Chasing Cloud-Brushing Fan to take them behind it before they struck the spider together.

Tang Yan and his companions subdued the Netherweb Ghost Spider, gathered ingredients to cure Zhuang Zhile’s old sect master, and devised a plan to lure Medicine Valley into the cavern. After Tang Yan refined the antidote and the group left the Miasma Marshland, Heavenly Enchantress questioned his resistance to her Charm Technique and asked whether he had time for something.

• Tang Yan and the others ambushed the Netherweb Ghost Spider, and Tang Yan used a Soul-Thought Gu to bind it as his servant.
• Tang Yan collected bile, venom, and essence blood from the spider, then healed it; he also took the Profound Azure Spiderweb.
• Tang Yan proposed using Heavenly Enchantress’s reputation and lifelike puppets controlled by the spider to lure Medicine Valley into the cavern.
• Zhuang Zhile made puppets of Zhu Jingkong and the Spirit Shaman Clan’s elders while Tang Yan refined a Jade Dew Emerald-Clear Pill to cure the old sect master’s poison.
• The group left the Miasma Marshland, and Tang Yan told Heavenly Enchantress his divine soul power had overcome her Charm Technique.
• Heavenly Enchantress asked Tang Yan whether he had time, and he replied that it depended on what she wanted him for.

Heavenly Enchantress recruited Tang Yan to join her in the Dark Realm, and he agreed on the condition that she return to Reach the Summit as his sparring partner. Back at the faction, Tang Yan heard Fang Xuan and Du Shu's plan for investing its growing profits in security and cultivation resources.

• Heavenly Enchantress offered Tang Yan a share of a dual union cultivation opportunity if he helped her seek Heart-Burning Grass in the Dark Realm, while Zhuang Zhile warned him against going.
• Tang Yan agreed to enter the Dark Realm with Heavenly Enchantress and required her to return to Reach the Summit and spar with him beforehand.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress left the Miasma Marshland, parted from Zhuang Zhile's party, and returned to Reach the Summit.
• Heavenly Enchantress was surprised to learn that Reach the Summit taught alchemy to outsiders, and Tang Yan explained why he shared theory rather than pill formulas.
• At the Decision Hall, Fang Xuan and Du Shu told Tang Yan about the faction's operations and proposed spending its profits on materials, hired experts, and better cultivation resources.

Tang Yan strengthened Reach the Summit, monitored Zi Yun’s worsening condition, and spent the following weeks cultivating his body and repairing weapons. Twenty days later, Zi Yun’s scales turned purple-gold as she endured a violent, painful transformation.

• Tang Yan backed Fang Xuan and Du Shu’s plans to build a Tiger-Wolf Army and said he would travel to the Spirit Wilderness Realm to reunite with his parents.
• Tang Yan observed Zi Yun’s increasingly violent Divine Soul and placed a formation above her courtyard for protection.
• Tang Yan trained his body with Heavenly Enchantress, who explained that their cultivation method required self-control and that she was preparing to break through a bottleneck.
• Tang Yan repaired sixty-three damaged weapons and commissioned the Artifact Pavilion to make a whip from the Profound Azure Spiderweb.
• After twenty days, Zi Yun’s scales spread over her body and neck as Little Dot fed her pills; she suffered intense pain as something seemed ready to emerge from within her.

After transforming into a dragon, Zi Yun tried to leave Reach the Summit to avoid endangering her friends, but Tang Yan’s formation brought her back and he welcomed her home. The sect accepted her and kept her identity secret, while Tang Yan’s curiosity about her dragon body triggered a storm of lightning.

• Zi Yun discovered she had become a dragon and feared that the members of Reach the Summit would reject her or be endangered, so she flew away with Little Dot.
• After Zi Yun flew across the sea, Tang Yan’s formation returned her to Reach the Summit, where he told her that the sect would always be her home.
• Tang Yan embraced Zi Yun, and the members of Reach the Summit welcomed her dragon form with curiosity rather than rejection.
• Tang Yan classified Zi Yun’s identity as a sect secret, assigned Little Nether Peak to her as a forbidden area, and arranged for Little Dot to collect her cultivation pills.
• At Little Nether Peak, Tang Yan examined Zi Yun’s body and remarked on her missing breasts, causing lightning to strike around the peak.