Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan prepared Reach the Summit for Medicine Valley’s impending attack while its allies gathered at the base. He uncovered a Soul-Settling Ice Stone inside Dao Comprehension Cliff and then joined Shen Shan and the others for tea, knowing Medicine Valley would arrive the next day.

• Yao Zhonglou agreed to lead thirty Saint Level cultivators against Reach the Summit, and Medicine Valley prepared to depart in five days.
• Fang Xuan told Reach the Summit’s allies that Tang Yan expected Medicine Valley to attack and had summoned them to deter it and buy time for an evacuation.
• Shen Shan and the other allies chose to remain at Reach the Summit, though most doubted Medicine Valley would truly start a war.
• Tang Yan set up teleportation formations at pill shops and medicinal suppliers, then learned from Ju Shanhai that Yao Zhonglou would arrive by noon the next day.
• Tang Yan dug into Dao Comprehension Cliff and discovered a Soul-Settling Ice Stone, which he placed in the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron.
• Tang Yan joined Shen Shan and the others for tea, keeping to himself that Medicine Valley’s forces would reach their gates tomorrow.

Tang Yan persuaded his allies to withdraw before Medicine Valley arrived with an overwhelming force to attack Reach the Summit. As Medicine Valley battered the sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation, Sword Sect Master Meng Tingxiao demanded answers about Tang Yan’s actions in the Heavenly Selection Secret Realm, and Tang Yan began a soul search to provide an account.

• Tang Yan explained that Medicine Valley intended to destroy Reach the Summit and urged his allies to retreat, assuring them he had an escape route.
• Thirty-two Saint-Level experts, 106 high-grade Lord-Rank experts, and Yao Zhonglou surrounded Reach the Summit, while Shen Shan and the others watched from a distance.
• Tang Yan rejected Xi Ziduan’s accusations and accused Medicine Valley of using them as a pretext to eliminate a rival pill organization.
• Yao Zhonglou attacked the Mountain-Guarding Formation and ordered the others to break it after Tang Yan insulted him.
• Meng Tingxiao questioned Tang Yan about impersonating Zhu Zhao and True Person Moon Shadow, then called Yao Zhonglou a dumbass at Tang Yan’s request.
• Tang Yan asked Meng Tingxiao for a Soul-Searching Pearl and instructed Fang Xuan to search his divine soul for the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month.

Tang Yan used a fabricated soul-searching memory to convince Meng Tingxiao of his innocence, then secretly returned to Reach the Summit and disabled its formation after the sect had evacuated. Medicine Valley entered the empty sect and searched for hidden passages, while four experts were put to sleep after finding a turtle buried behind a boulder.

• Tang Yan staged memories showing himself trying to protect Sword Sect disciples and leaving before the massacre, persuading Meng Tingxiao that he was innocent.
• Tang Yan announced that Reach the Summit would withdraw from the Northern Spirit Realm, then left with Fang Xuan and the others before secretly returning to the sect.
• Tang Yan disabled the Mountain-Guarding Formation, allowing Yao Zhonglou and Medicine Valley's forces to enter the seemingly deserted Reach the Summit.
• Medicine Valley searched the sect for Tang Yan and possible secret passages, while Xu Bai reassured Shen Shan that the formation had been shut down only after everyone escaped.
• Lü Zhaofeng and three other saint-level experts found a turtle buried behind a boulder, and its blinkiness made them drowsy.

Tang Yan and his spirit beasts ambushed and killed four Saint Level experts, then trapped Medicine Valley’s forces behind Reach the Summit’s Mountain-Guarding Formation. After escaping, Tang Yan reached Medicine Valley and destroyed its front hall with a sword strike.

• Tang Yan and his spirit beasts ambushed and killed four Saint Level experts at Little Nether Peak before escaping with the Stars-Shifting Array.
• Cen Shushan told the gathered experts that spirit beasts had killed the elders, and Yao Zhonglou vowed to tear Tang Yan apart.
• Yao Zhonglou failed to break Reach the Summit’s Mountain-Guarding Formation, even after using a Heavenblood Pearl, and the trapped forces attacked it together.
• Shen Shan, Su Kuo, Zhuang Zhile, and Feng Yongjian praised Tang Yan’s judgment and asked Xu Bai about commissioning similar formations.
• Tang Yan hid the spirit beasts at Three Peaks Cliff, traveled near Medicine Valley with the Void Child Pearl, and used Ninefold Mountain to destroy its front hall.

Tang Yan bluffed Qin Donghai into believing Yao Zhonglou was dead, rescued Leng Ye from Medicine Valley, and returned to Reach the Summit. Yao Zhonglou and his trapped forces remained stuck in the formation as crowds gathered to watch them struggle.

• Tang Yan visited Medicine Valley, claimed Yao Zhonglou was dead, evaded Qin Donghai and the elders, and discovered that they had lost Leng Ye from their dungeon.
• Qin Donghai ordered elders to investigate Reach the Summit and seek formations that could prevent Space Movement.
• Tang Yan healed Leng Ye, told him Reach the Summit and the Spirit Shaman Clan had relocated safely, and sent him to Bridge Capital Inn in Sky Wild Goose City.
• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit and secretly summoned the Earth Azure Lion to wait underground nearby.
• Spectators flocked to watch Yao Zhonglou and the trapped experts struggle to break the formation, and Qin Donghai sent fifteen Saint Level experts and a hundred Lord Rank experts to help.

Tang Yan ambushed Yao Zhonglou but managed only to injure him before escaping, then evacuated Lin Dongxue and Wan Fei to Donglai Island as Medicine Valley destroyed Reach the Summit’s old base. After Tang Yan planted the Dao-Spirit Tree at the new base, Lin Dongxue’s admiration for him helped her break through to seventh-grade Xiantian.

• Tang Yan and the Gold-Entwining Green Vine Beast ambushed Yao Zhonglou, whose counterattack damaged a distant mountain before Tang Yan escaped with his Spirit Beasts.
• Tang Yan visited the Artifact Pavilion, told Shen Tan that Medicine Valley would soon break Reach the Summit’s formation, and took Lin Dongxue and Wan Fei to Donglai Island.
• On the seventh day, Yao Zhonglou’s forces shattered Reach the Summit’s formation and razed its Southern Wilderness base.
• Tang Yan reunited with his companions at Reach the Summit’s new base on Donglai Island and introduced Lin Dongxue and Wan Fei to Zi Yun, now a dragon.
• Tang Yan planted the Dao-Spirit Tree in Zi Yun’s courtyard, and Lin Dongxue broke through from sixth-grade to seventh-grade Xiantian while thinking of him.

Heavenly Enchantress reached the ruined Reach the Summit with a captured Gravity Domain Elephant, then learned that Tang Yan had trapped Medicine Valley’s forces. Meanwhile, Medicine Valley’s leaders suspected a spy had exposed their plans and began investigating the leak.

• Lin Dongxue broke through, possibly because of the Dao-Spirit Tree, and Tang Yan set up a Pixiu Locking Spirit Formation on Donglai Island.
• The Northern Spirit Realm mocked Medicine Valley’s failed assault on Reach the Summit, while the Star-Gazing Pavilion profited from demand for defensive formations.
• Heavenly Enchantress carried a Gravity Domain Elephant to Three Peaks Cliff, found Reach the Summit’s mountain gate in ruins, and went to Hanguan City to seek Tang Yan.
• Dou Xili told Heavenly Enchantress that Reach the Summit had defeated Medicine Valley’s assault and that he did not know where Tang Yan was; she left a note asking to contact him.
• Yao Zhonglou declared that Medicine Valley had a spy, and Qin Donghai ordered an investigation while warning the elders not to attack Reach the Summit’s Pill Shops.
• After the others left, Yao Zhonglou and Qin Donghai considered whether the spy was among the council of elders, and Qin Donghai vowed to uncover the culprit.

Tang Yan arranged for Reach the Summit to expand its Pill Dao teachings discreetly, then investigated Medicine Valley and ordered an exposed spy to defect. He met Heavenly Enchantress at Three Peaks Cliff, bought her Gravity Domain Elephant, and sent her to Donglai Island with it.

• Tang Yan told Fang Xuan to have Qin Yue'er compile the Pill Dao teachings into books and seek cooperation with frontier alchemy sects while remaining cautious.
• After reading a Ninth-Tier message, Tang Yan learned Medicine Valley was hunting Reach the Summit and investigating a mole, so he ordered the Seventh Elder to defect with Cui Tong and his followers.
• Tang Yan traveled to Three Peaks Cliff and reunited with Heavenly Enchantress, teasing her about her feet before she made him praise their sweetness.
• Heavenly Enchantress showed Tang Yan a captured Gravity Domain Elephant, and he paid her twenty Ninth-Tier Pills for it.
• Tang Yan told Heavenly Enchantress to contact him discreetly at Donglai Island and persuaded her to carry the elephant there in exchange for a favor.

Tang Yan learned that the Divine Origin Sect abducted children and drained their blood to fuel its cultivation, then infiltrated the sect to investigate its leaders and seek a way to destroy it. After finding the protectors cultivating in blood pools, he followed a young attendant toward Qiu Feng Protector’s hall.

• Tang Yan seized Qian Hun and learned that the Divine Origin Sect had used children as blood tonics for over five hundred years, turning some survivors into spirit pets.
• Qian Hun revealed the sect’s powerful leadership, prompting Tang Yan to decide he needed Medicine Valley’s help to destroy it.
• Tang Yan reached Heaven’s Shore Mountain, disguised himself, and entered the forbidden grounds beneath the Divine Origin Sect.
• Tang Yan discovered a Blood Clan statue and saw Protector Chun Liu and her subordinates cultivating in a blood pool.
• After finding similar blood-pool practices in the other protectors’ halls, Tang Yan followed a young attendant heading toward Qiu Feng Protector’s hall.

Tang Yan impersonated a sect protector to send two men toward Medicine Valley, then traveled there and abducted Qin Donghai’s Seventeenth Young Master. Medicine Valley learned of the kidnapping and began pursuing the culprit while investigating the Seventh Elder’s disappearance.

• Tang Yan disguised himself as Qiu Feng and sent Jing Shiqi and Zhuo Wensou to capture Medicine Valley disciples as cultivation tonics.
• Tang Yan arranged for Fang Xuan to receive Venerable Tianmei, then used a Void Child Pearl to travel to Profound Frost City.
• Tang Yan followed Qin Donghai’s young son and his two King Rank guards, then attacked them as they flew back toward Medicine Valley, killing the guards and trapping the boy.
• Medicine Valley elders discussed the missing Seventh Elder, who had taken his direct-line members and sect assets, and ordered an investigation.
• Medicine Valley disciples reported that the Seventeenth Young Master had been captured, prompting the Grand Elder and Fifth Elder to pursue the culprit while the Second Elder and Eighth Elder organized an investigation and ambush.

Tang Yan arranged to draw Medicine Valley into a campaign against the Divine Origin Sect, while he and Heavenly Enchantress planned to ambush the survivors. After Medicine Valley uncovered the sect’s crimes through a soul search, Qin Donghai ordered an immediate assault.

• Fang Xuan welcomed Heavenly Enchantress to Donglai Island after she delivered the Gravity Domain Elephant, and she agreed to wait for Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan captured Qin Gengxin and hid him before following two Divine Origin Sect members as they approached Medicine Valley.
• Medicine Valley’s Eighth Elder defeated and captured Jing Shiqi and his companion when they attacked a group of young people.
• Tang Yan explained the Divine Origin Sect’s crimes to Heavenly Enchantress and recruited her to ambush the sect’s master and whichever side survived his fight with Yao Zhonglou.
• Qin Donghai’s elders searched Jing Shiqi’s soul and discovered that the Divine Origin Sect abducted children and used Medicine Valley disciples as cultivation tonics.
• Qin Donghai ordered the Fifth Elder to issue the Medicine King Order and summon Medicine Valley’s Saint-Level allies to attack the Divine Origin Sect.

Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress watched Medicine Valley confront the Divine Origin Sect, then Tang Yan secretly used a Soul-Thought Gu to provoke the battle. As the Divine Origin Sect fell into a losing fight, Shen Tingqin escaped despite being badly wounded.

• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress hid near Heaven's Shore Mountain as Yao Zhonglou led twenty Saint Level experts to confront Shen Tingqin.
• Yao Zhonglou revealed Jing Shiqi's memories implicating the Divine Origin Sect in abducting Medicine Valley disciples, but Qiu Feng Protector denied the accusation.
• Tang Yan implanted a Soul-Thought Gu in Qiu Feng Protector, who blurted out that Shen Tingqin had used Essence Blood from captured Medicine Valley disciples and urged him to flee.
• Qiu Feng Protector attacked Yao Zhonglou and was killed, prompting Yao Zhonglou to order the Divine Origin Sect's forces slaughtered.
• Shen Tingqin fought Yao Zhonglou but was overwhelmed as the battle turned against his outnumbered sect.
• Shen Tingqin used a Cloud-Piercing Cloak to flee, taking a spear strike and escaping severely injured.

Tang Yan tracked the wounded Shen Tingqin with help from the Spirit Shaman Clan and arranged a surprise attack at his hideout behind a waterfall. The Heavenly Enchantress struck first, but Shen Tingqin recognized that she was only newly Transcendent and prepared to fight back.

• Yao Zhonglou failed to catch Shen Tingqin, while Xi Ziduan found no evidence that the Divine Origin Sect had harmed Medicine Valley disciples or the seventeenth young master.
• Yao Zhonglou suspected that Reach the Summit had stirred up the feud, ordered the Divine Origin Sect members kept alive, and called for an investigation.
• Tang Yan collected Shen Tingqin's blood and recruited Zhu Chen to track him using the Spirit Shamans' secret arts.
• Zhu Chen used Wind-Riding Talismans to speed their journey to Heaven's Shore Mountain, where he tracked Shen Tingqin to a cave behind a waterfall.
• Tang Yan and his companions concealed themselves as the Heavenly Enchantress and the Blood Moon Demon Fox attacked Shen Tingqin, who recovered his composure after sensing her strength.

Tang Yan defeated Shen Tingqin with Heavenly Enchantress, then set out to protect Reach the Summit’s allies by building Mountain-Guarding Formations. After finishing the allies’ defenses, he arranged for the Star-Gazing Pavilion to sell the formations and planned to return in seven days.

• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress subdued Shen Tingqin, and Tang Yan sent him back to Reach the Summit with Zhu Chen.
• Tang Yan told Heavenly Enchantress he would set up formations for their allies, and she agreed to wait for him at Reach the Summit after catching spirit beasts.
• Tang Yan visited the Overlord Spear Sect and built a Mountain-Guarding Formation for the sect with Zhuang Yingshui and Zhuang Zhile’s support.
• Over the next month, Tang Yan completed formations for his allies and proposed that the Star-Gazing Pavilion sell them for a twenty-percent share of the profits.
• Tang Yan set the price at two hundred Ninth Tier spirit herbs or equivalent materials, then buried a Void Child Pearl and returned to Donglai Island.

Tang Yan heard Fang Xuan’s reports on Reach the Summit’s expansion, Hundred Herb Plain’s suspicious delay, and Venerable Tianmei’s arrival before visiting Heavenly Enchantress. After their dual cultivation advanced her to the Transcendent Grade Middle Stage, she explained the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art’s history, and Tang Yan asked to borrow it so he could study it for loopholes.

• Fang Xuan told Tang Yan that Reach the Summit had distributed its academy handbook, opened pill shops in three cities, and was investigating Hundred Herb Plain’s failure to deliver herbs.
• Fang Xuan reported that Venerable Tianmei had arrived with a Ninth Tier Windblade Divine Eagle and that Dongxue had taken over Tang Yan’s courtyard.
• Tang Yan implanted a Soul-Thought Gu in the Windblade Divine Eagle, paid Heavenly Enchantress ten pills, and left the island with her to practice dual cultivation.
• After two days, Heavenly Enchantress advanced to the Transcendent Grade Middle Stage while Tang Yan remained at Lord Rank, Ninth Grade.
• Heavenly Enchantress told Tang Yan that the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art had been created by Liu Hui to help Jiang Li and that almost no one else had ever practiced it successfully.
• Tang Yan asked Heavenly Enchantress to lend him the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art so he could study it for loopholes.

Tang Yan sparred with Lin Dongxue, whose swordsmanship and cultivation advanced during their fight. He then gave her the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art and asked whether she wanted to practice the secret method on the side.

• Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit and surprised Lin Dongxue with a playful sword attack, prompting them to spar over the sea.
• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue exchanged sword techniques for half an hour, and Lin Dongxue unleashed her powerful move, The Sword Can Be Me.
• When Tang Yan stood still rather than dodge, Lin Dongxue stopped her attack and injured herself with the backlash; Tang Yan caught her and gave her a healing pill.
• Lin Dongxue realized she could redirect her sword strike, created My Sword Has Regrets, and advanced to Xiantian Ninth Grade.
• Tang Yan gave Lin Dongxue the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art and asked if she was interested in practicing it on the side.

Tang Yan helped Zi Yun advance her cultivation, cultivated with Lin Dongxue until she reached King Rank, and arranged mountain-guarding formations for two sects. After repairing five thousand weapons and treasures on Buddha-Suppressing Island, he watched the Buddha open its eyes.

• Tang Yan gave Zi Yun two drops of Azure Dragon Blood Essence, and she advanced to the Ninth Grade of King Rank overnight.
• Lin Dongxue cultivated the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art with Tang Yan and reached King Rank, though she felt embarrassed afterward.
• Tang Yan chose the Blazing Flame Palace and Profound Zen Monastery for mountain-guarding formations and led a team to install them.
• Tang Yan returned to Buddha-Suppressing Island and repaired weapons and Magic Treasures, sensing the island's Buddha Qi grow denser.
• After Tang Yan repaired exactly five thousand items, the Buddha opened its eyes.

Buddha told Tang Yan that the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner would threaten the Human Clan when the Great Age arrived and tested whether Tang Yan would accept responsibility for stopping it. After Tang Yan chose to step forward in an illusion, Buddha praised him and granted him a glowing lotus to contemplate.

• Buddha explained how he had suppressed the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner and warned Tang Yan that his power would fail when the Great Age began in four or five years.
• Buddha urged Tang Yan to become the key figure in resolving the banner's threat, and Tang Yan agreed to guard it.
• Buddha broke the statue's suppression and sent Tang Yan into an illusion of the banner's smoke killing humans, where Tang Yan first tried to flee.
• Tang Yan decided he could not abandon the Human Clan and stepped forward, shattering the illusion.
• Buddha praised Tang Yan and presented him with a glowing lotus, which Tang Yan touched.

Tang Yan learned the God's Domain ability, reached Saint Level Seventh Grade, and suppressed the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner with the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame before taking it for himself. After returning to Donglai Island with weapons for the Faction, he learned Hundred Herb Plain had again refused to supply medicinal herbs and decided to handle the matter himself if necessary.

• Tang Yan comprehended the Buddha's God's Domain art, created and controlled a world, and rose to Saint Level Seventh Grade.
• Tang Yan tested the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner with his Divine Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation, but the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame suppressed it and removed its owner.
• The Buddha gave Tang Yan the banner, warned him it could only threaten the race of its first target, and handed him a Buddhist Sect token before leaving Buddha-Suppressing Island.
• Tang Yan collected the renowned weapons and fragments, returned to Donglai Island, and gave Fang Xuan a thousand renowned weapons for the Faction.
• Fang Xuan reported that Hundred Herb Plain was deliberately withholding herbs, and Tang Yan ordered him to wait for the next delivery before taking action.
• Three days later, Wind-Chasing Hall reported that Hundred Herb Plain had again refused to supply medicinal herbs, claiming production was insufficient.

Tang Yan attacked Medicine Valley to draw out Yao Zhonglou, then escaped when he failed to find him. He returned repeatedly to harass the valley and steal its treasures, leaving Medicine Valley in chaos.

• Tang Yan traveled with Nie Fan to Hundred Herb Plain, hid him, and used a Void Child Pearl to enter Medicine Valley.
• Tang Yan collapsed Medicine Valley’s front hall and fought Qin Donghai and four elders, holding them off with Magic Treasures despite their combined attacks.
• After an hour of fighting without finding Yao Zhonglou, Tang Yan escaped, and Qin Donghai ordered the Second Elder to increase the search for Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan used a Wind-Riding Talisman and Phantom Shadow Steps to evade his pursuers, repeatedly reentered Medicine Valley, and mocked its people while taking treasures and Spirit Herbs.
• Tang Yan entered the Spirit Tempering Pagoda but left without cultivating, while his antics threw Medicine Valley into uproar.