Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan removed the foreign soul from Zi Yun and reassured her about reaching human form, then completed the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art after days of training with Heavenly Enchantress. Impressed by his new defenses, Heavenly Enchantress bought the body art from him for thirty ninth-tier spirit herbs.

• Tang Yan used Nurturing Nether and Spirit-Seizing Art to extract the foreign soul from Zi Yun, then refined it in the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron.
• Zi Yun told Tang Yan that the Dragon Clan grew stronger by devouring essence blood, and she later revealed she could transform after reaching Saint Level.
• Tang Yan and Zi Yun spent the night together on Little Nether Peak, while Reach the Summit kept her transformation into a dragon secret.
• After five more days of training under Heavenly Enchantress's blows, Tang Yan completed the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art and withstood most of her strength.
• Heavenly Enchantress bargained with Tang Yan for the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art, paid him thirty ninth-tier spirit herbs, and received the technique.

Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress traveled to Heaven-Covering Valley to enter the Dark Realm, learning about its deadly, unpredictable trials along the way. After advancing their cultivation and gaining a warm welcome from the Desolate Clan, they activated the passage and vanished into the Dark Realm.

• Heavenly Enchantress explained that the Dark Realm opened every ten years, ran random games with valuable rewards, and could kill many entrants.
• Heavenly Enchantress studied Tang Yan's Five Elements Tyrant Body Art, but Tang Yan corrected her training and gave her a Phoenix-Crying Nine-Turn Pill.
• Heavenly Enchantress advanced to ninth-grade Saint Level, while Tang Yan rose to seventh-grade Lord Rank, and they agreed to trade spirit herbs for pills.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress reached Heaven-Covering Valley, where the Desolate Clan welcomed them and waived their passage fee.
• Heavenly Enchantress and Tang Yan infused the last petals of their flowers with Spirit Power and disappeared through the altar into the Dark Realm.

Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress entered Spirit Realm No. 30, where demon catchers had to spot disguised demons on Changning Street and earn enough points to survive. Tang Yan used careful observation to expose disguised demons, and the chapter ended with his score rising to thirteen after he struck the street’s paving stones.

• Tang Yan chose the alias "Dragon Knight" and met Heavenly Enchantress, whose alias was "Shameless Tang Dog," in the gathering hall.
• The Spirit Realm announced its hide-and-seek rules, including the point penalties and rewards, then transported the demon catchers to Changning Street.
• Tang Yan reasoned that demons’ disguises would contain flaws, and Crooked-Mouthed Saint earned the first-kill bonus by spotting a six-petaled plum blossom cake.
• Tang Yan noticed the street was paved with brittle shasong rock, struck the stones with his Demon-Slaying Sword, and revealed they were disguised jingxuan stone, raising his score to thirteen.

Tang Yan taught Heavenly Enchantress to identify demons disguised as ordinary restaurant items, while she lost points by striking at innocent targets. After another demon catcher was erased for a mistaken attack, Tang Yan found a clue about the chef’s pastries and urged Heavenly Enchantress to test a full jar of salt.

• Heavenly Enchantress lost a point by killing a beggar, while Tang Yan explained that demons had disguised themselves as items around the city.
• Tang Yan gained points by destroying demon-disguised dishes, a potted plant, and jars of Ancient Overlord liquor, explaining the clues he had noticed.
• Heavenly Enchantress lost a point by attacking the head chef’s paper box of pastries, and the Spirit Realm announced that Unfettered Vagabond had been erased for reaching zero points.
• Abalone-Selling Lord ignored Tang Yan’s warning and struck the paper box, causing the Spirit Realm to erase him as well.
• Tang Yan realized the pastries were meant for the woman washing vegetables, then pointed out a full jar of salt and told Heavenly Enchantress to give it a try.

Tang Yan helped Heavenly Enchantress identify evil demons and build up her points before they accepted the Listening Spring Manor mission to distinguish the real Madam Dou from a Chaos Heavenly Demon impersonator. The mission began with the two identical women appealing for help, and Kongshan Wuwang volunteered despite having only nine points.

• Tang Yan tested the tavern's salt jars, helping Heavenly Enchantress gain a point by striking the jar he identified as suspicious.
• Tang Yan explained why a scarlet phoenix robe was not an evil demon, then guided Heavenly Enchantress to a mirror demon and helped her reach twenty-first place with thirty-two points.
• The Spirit Realm announced the mission at Listening Spring Manor, where a Chaos Heavenly Demon had taken Madam Dou's appearance to plot against General Dou.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress arrived at the manor and saw the two identical Madam Dous argue while the household struggled to tell them apart.
• The Spirit Realm warned that hunters who failed to identify the real Madam Dou within the time limit would lose ten points, and Kongshan Wuwang volunteered despite having only nine.

Kongshan Wuwang and The Cicada Knows Not of Snow both failed to distinguish the real Madam Dou from her impostor, leaving Tang Yan to attempt the task. Tang Yan asked for General Dou's young son to be brought out, but the chapter ended before he explained his method.

• Kongshan Wuwang's Vast Righteousness Bowl failed to work in the Spirit Realm, so he questioned both Madam Dous but could not find a discrepancy.
• Kongshan Wuwang accused the left Madam Dou without evidence, and Mr. Luo stopped his sword and sent him flying; the Spirit Realm erased him when his points reached zero.
• The Cicada Knows Not of Snow proposed a Blood-Drop Kinship Test, but Mr. Luo demonstrated that unrelated people's blood merged in water, costing him ten points.
• Tang Yan accepted the challenge after Heavenly Enchantress asked whether he could solve it.
• Tang Yan asked for Madam Dou's son to be brought out, and a maid led the young child before the gathered crowd.

Tang Yan exposed the false Madam Dou by testing which woman would release Young Master Dou first, then killed the fiend and earned points. After trading points and returning to Changning Street, he faced the start of the second round, when the fiends came alive and the humans had to hide.

• Tang Yan had the two Madam Dous pull Young Master Dou until the woman on the right released him, revealing herself as his birth mother.
• Tang Yan explained his reasoning, killed the false Madam Dou, and received praise and a hundred points from Master Dou.
• After the spirit realm awarded Tang Yan points for killing a Chaos Heavenly Demon, he traded sixty-six points to other demon hunters for spirit herbs and materials.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress resumed hunting fiends on Changning Street until the first round ended.
• The spirit realm announced that the fiends had come alive and gave everyone half the time it takes to drink a cup of tea to hide; Heavenly Enchantress asked Tang Yan where they should go.

Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress searched for a hiding place in the Spirit Realm and squeezed together into a water jar as evil entities hunted the demon hunters. When their points began falling and others died, Tang Yan suspected the leaderboard revealed a safe hiding place and cautiously opened the jar to investigate.

• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress searched several buildings, found their occupants dead, and chose to hide in a water jar inside a teahouse.
• Heavenly Enchantress asked Tang Yan to stay with her, so they squeezed into the same jar and waited for the evil entities to arrive.
• The Spirit Realm announced that Zhaozhao had been killed, then Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress began losing points as a suffocating force pressed on them.
• Tang Yan watched other hunters' points and noticed Plum Blossoms at Zero Degrees had kept all eleven points, leading him to suspect their hiding place was safe.
• Tang Yan gave Heavenly Enchantress point coins for protection, opened the jar, and cautiously looked outside with her.

Tang Yan discovered that staying hidden could limit the fiends’ attacks, then found the Sky Wolf Brush in the bookshop and used it to kill a Demon General. After rescuing Heavenly Enchantress, he prepared to hunt more fiends.

• Tang Yan deduced that moving alerted the fiends, told Heavenly Enchantress to stay in the vat, and went to find Plum Blossoms at Zero Degrees.
• Tang Yan found a verse from the Heavenly Selection Secret Realm and discovered that the Sky Wolf Brush could slay demons and vanquish evil.
• When the bookshop became unsafe, Tang Yan brought Plum Blossoms at Zero Degrees outside and killed a Two-Winged Demon Lizard with the brush, earning the Spirit Realm’s first-kill reward.
• Tang Yan cleared the waterweed fiends from the teahouse courtyard and rescued Heavenly Enchantress from the vat.
• Tang Yan declared that they would slay demons.

Tang Yan led the demon hunt in Spirit Realm No. 30, claimed the top all-realm ranking, and arranged for Heavenly Enchantress to take second place in exchange for rewards. After choosing Immortal and Spirit Artifacts and spending his remaining points on dragon essence blood and spirit herbs, he returned to Heaven-Covering Valley.

• Tang Yan cleared the demons in Spirit Realm No. 30, earned 659 discretionary points, and offered to exchange points with demon hunters who had fewer than ten.
• Tang Yan transferred 447 points to Heavenly Enchantress, who rose to second place on the all-realm leaderboard and received the Void Pearls and Linglong Pagoda as rewards.
• Tang Yan chose the Dao-Spirit Tree and Heaven-and-Earth Mirror, while Loves Little Strawberries received the Divine Shield Armor.
• Tang Yan exchanged points for Black Dragon Essence Blood, Azure Dragon Blood Essence, and spirit herbs.
• Tang Yan was transported back to the altar in Heaven-Covering Valley.

Tang Yan returned to the Desolate Clan with Heavenly Enchantress, who went to buy Black Spirit Paste but was seized after Huang Benjiang tried to extort her. Tang Yan revealed their friendship, disciplined the clan elders, and left Heaven-Covering Valley with her.

• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress returned to the Desolate Clan, where she asked him to wait while she went to buy Black Spirit Paste.
• Huang Benjiang demanded ten Ninth Tier spirit herbs for a bottle, then ordered guards to seize Heavenly Enchantress when she refused to pay.
• A guard told Tang Yan that Heavenly Enchantress had been captured, and Tang Yan entered the hall to find her bound on the floor.
• Huang Benjiang released Heavenly Enchantress and apologized after Tang Yan condemned his conduct and declared her his friend.
• Tang Yan ordered Huang Liang and Huang Benjiang to accept punishment, warned them to restrain the clan, and left Heaven-Covering Valley with Heavenly Enchantress.

Tang Yan helped Heavenly Enchantress make a high-quality Extreme Passion Pill and sent Medicine Valley a clue about the Spirit Shaman Clan. At Reach the Summit’s closing ceremony, he invited the students and their sects to cooperate with or join the school.

• Tang Yan refined the Extreme Passion Pill for Heavenly Enchantress in the time it took to drink a cup of tea, and she planned to use it to cultivate her Charm Technique before practicing dual union with him.
• Heavenly Enchantress gave Medicine Valley a clue that Zhu Chen might be in the Miasma Marshland, and Tan Xuebo returned her payment for the Divine Void Pill.
• Qin Donghai ordered Medicine Valley to watch the marshland’s perimeter and spread the news so outsiders could investigate before the valley sent its own forces.
• Heavenly Enchantress told Tang Yan that she had delivered the message, and he arranged to cultivate with her after the Pill Dao School finished.
• Fang Xuan held the school’s closing ceremony, where Tang Yan praised the students’ progress and invited them and their sects to cooperate with or join Reach the Summit.

Tang Yan finished teaching the Pill Dao academy, then practiced Dual Cultivation with Heavenly Enchantress, helping her master the final step of her Charm Technique. He advanced to ninth grade Lord Rank while she reached Transcendent Grade, and she decided to make him her Dao companion.

• Tang Yan concluded the academy session, and the Alchemy Masters thanked him as Zhu Jingkong and Lei Yu discussed Reach the Summit Academy's prospects and challenged each other to a manure-hauling contest.
• Tang Yan visited Heavenly Enchantress, who explained how they would use the Extreme Passion Pill and Dual Cultivation to complete her Charm Technique.
• Heavenly Enchantress swallowed the pill, endured the surge of emotion and desire, and mastered their control with help from Tang Yan's Divine Soul Power.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress cultivated through the night, raising Tang Yan to ninth grade Lord Rank and Heavenly Enchantress to Transcendent Grade.
• Heavenly Enchantress realized Tang Yan had been hiding his strength and decided to make him her Dao companion, offering to grant him any request.

Tang Yan rejected Heavenly Enchantress’s attempt to trade her nine conditions for marriage, then sent the Netherweb Ghost Spider to ensnare and kill Medicine Valley’s expedition in the Miasma Marshland. A month later, Reach the Summit’s leaders reviewed their progress and learned that Tan Xuebo and his party had vanished, leaving Medicine Valley likely to investigate again.

• Tang Yan refused Heavenly Enchantress’s offer to become his wife and insisted she still owed him all nine conditions.
• Tang Yan refined pills while the Netherweb Ghost Spider displayed Spirit Shaman Clan puppets to lure Medicine Valley into the Miasma Marshland.
• Tan Xuebo, Chang Chunxi, Hou Zhijie, and their fifty-four companions entered the spider’s cave, were trapped, and were killed by the Netherweb Ghost Spider.
• The ghost spider hid the dead Medicine Valley members’ Storage Spaces and absorbed their blood and vital energy in the venom pool.
• At a Reach the Summit meeting, Qin Yue'er reported progress in developing the pill division, and Lan Qi described recruitment and intelligence work.
• Lan Qi told Tang Yan that Tan Xuebo and his party had disappeared in the Miasma Marshland and that Medicine Valley might send another force.

Tang Yan strengthened Reach the Summit’s alchemy network, gave Zi Yun Azure Dragon Blood Essence that raised her to Sixth Grade King Rank, and began cultivating with Black Dragon Essence Blood. Meanwhile, Medicine Valley prepared to attack the Spirit Shaman Clan after several of its members disappeared in the Miasma Marshland.

• Tang Yan approved a second Pill Dao School session and proposed contracts that would bind alchemy organizations to Reach the Summit while allowing their Alchemy Masters to remain in their factions.
• Tang Yan gave Fang Xuan pills, including Ninth-Tier Pills, and suggested hiring powerful experts as lecturers.
• Tang Yan gave Zi Yun Azure Dragon Blood Essence, and after cultivating for two days she grew to one hundred feet and advanced to Sixth Grade King Rank.
• Zi Yun refused Tang Yan’s offer of Black Dragon Essence Blood and returned it so he could use it to cultivate; Tang Yan later swallowed it and began practicing Qi Meridian Transformation.
• Medicine Valley’s leaders discussed the disappearance of the Sixth Elder, Chang Protector, Hou Protector, and four hall masters, then the Fourth Elder proposed attacking the Spirit Shaman Clan with four Saint-Level Allies.

Six Saint-Level cultivators entered the Ghost Spider Cave to find the Spirit Shamans, but deadly venom and spider silk trapped them in collapsing passages. After escaping in Yi Xizhou’s Armor-Piercing Ship, they spotted Zhu Jingkong, then faced an enormous dark azure net falling over them.

• The Fourth Elder led five other Saint-Level cultivators and twenty King Rank martial artists from Medicine Valley to the Ghost Spider Cave.
• The six entered the cave while the crimson spider waited, then became trapped by surging venom and collapsing rock in the first passage.
• The Third Elder used the Earth-Piercing Lotus to bore an escape tunnel, but the venom destroyed the treasure.
• The six entered a second passage and used the Third Elder’s Heavenly Astral Shield while clearing the collapsed route, but spider silk and venom overwhelmed their defenses.
• Yi Xizhou brought out the Armor-Piercing Ship, which forced through the rubble and carried the six above a poisonous pit, where they spotted Zhu Jingkong and his companions.
• The Fourth Elder ordered Yi Xizhou to pursue Zhu Jingkong, but an enormous dark azure net dropped over the Armor-Piercing Ship.

Medicine Valley lost six Saint Level experts to a Netherweb Ghost Spider, prompting Yao Zhonglou to investigate and discover that the Spirit Shaman Clan had been framed. At Reach the Summit Base, Tang Yan sensed the spider’s distress signal and rushed to its aid.

• The Netherweb Ghost Spider trapped and killed six Saint Level experts, then absorbed their bodies and took their Storage Spaces.
• After the guards reported the deaths, Qin Donghai told Yao Zhonglou what had happened, and Yao Zhonglou went to the Miasma Marshland.
• Yao Zhonglou entered the spider’s cave, fought through its silk and venom, and severed one of its legs as it escaped through a hidden passage.
• Yao Zhonglou found puppets in the cavern and concluded Medicine Valley had been set up, identifying the Netherweb Ghost Spider and Heavenly Enchantress as leads.
• Tang Yan emerged from cultivation with his Qi Meridian Transformation near great completion, sensed the Netherweb Ghost Spider’s distress signal, and hurried toward it in disguise.

Tang Yan brought the Netherweb Ghost Spider to the Heavenly Enchantress and exchanged it for five Ninth Tier spirit herbs, warning her that Medicine Valley would soon target her over the deaths of its experts. The Heavenly Enchantress learned that she had become a lead in Medicine Valley’s investigation, and Tang Yan told her to leave the Glazed Cloud Abode and stall for time.

• Tang Yan found the Netherweb Ghost Spider, learned it had killed Medicine Valley’s Sixth Elder and six Saint Level experts, and realized Yao Zhonglou had also encountered it.
• Tang Yan led the spider to the Glazed Cloud Abode after letting it be seen in the surrounding area, then offered it to the Heavenly Enchantress in exchange for five Ninth Tier spirit herbs.
• The Heavenly Enchantress used the Linglong Pagoda to seal the Netherweb Ghost Spider inside and celebrated acquiring the powerful spirit beast.
• Tang Yan warned the Heavenly Enchantress that Medicine Valley would investigate her after losing seven Saint Level experts and might search her soul.
• The Heavenly Enchantress accused Tang Yan of shifting the danger onto her, and Tang Yan advised her to leave the Glazed Cloud Abode and stall for as long as possible.

Tang Yan persuaded Heavenly Enchantress to hide for up to three years and capture ninth-tier spirit beasts while he worked to strengthen his forces. Medicine Valley blamed the Netherweb Ghost Spider for seven saints’ deaths, grew suspicious of Heavenly Enchantress, and failed to find her at the Glazed Cloud Abode.

• Tang Yan convinced Heavenly Enchantress to travel in hiding and capture ninth-tier spirit beasts in exchange for pills, promising Medicine Valley would no longer threaten her within three years.
• Fang Xuan and Lan Qi told Tang Yan that three Medicine Valley elders and four saint-level allies had died in the Miasma Marshland, and Tang Yan ordered them to monitor Medicine Valley and locate ninth-tier spirit beasts.
• Tang Yan went to Dao Comprehension Cliff and began teaching martial artists while seeking insight to break through to saint level.
• Yao Zhonglou told Medicine Valley’s leaders that a Netherweb Ghost Spider had lured the seven saints into a trap, and the elders decided to investigate the spider and question Heavenly Enchantress.
• Medicine Valley investigated nearby factions after reports of a Netherweb Ghost Spider, but the Grand Elder found Heavenly Enchantress absent from the Glazed Cloud Abode and the sect avoided searching for her openly.

Tang Yan acquired and concealed an Earth Azure Lion for Reach the Summit, while Du Shu visited the Autumn Pill Sect to discuss business cooperation and invite its alchemists to the Reach the Summit Pill Dao Academy. The chapter ended with Sect Leader Qiu Guangqiong asking whether her sect could study at the academy without entering a business partnership.

• Tang Yan met Heavenly Enchantress at Three Peaks Cliff and bought the captured ninth-tier Earth Azure Lion for ten Ninth-Tier Pills, giving her reports on spirit beasts in return.
• Tang Yan implanted a Soul-Thought Gu in the Earth Azure Lion, brought it back to Reach the Summit, and ordered it to stay hidden underground.
• Du Shu arrived at the Autumn Pill Sect with two Lord Rank guards to discuss cooperation and invite its Alchemy Masters to the academy’s second term.
• The Autumn Pill Sect elders told Du Shu that Sect Leader Qiu Guangqiong had gone to choose a first-tier Snow Monkey spirit pet from the Celebrated Treasures Pavilion.
• Qiu Guangqiong returned, heard Du Shu’s proposal, and asked whether the sect could study at the academy without cooperating with Reach the Summit.