Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan retaliated against Medicine Valley’s herb supplier, Hundred Herb Plain, then visited the Sword Sect and reconciled with Meng Tingxiao. He accepted Meng Tingxiao’s gift of a Pill Cauldron and was asked what had brought him there.

• Yao Zhonglou returned to Medicine Valley and realized Tang Yan had lured him away so he could target Hundred Herb Plain.
• Tang Yan and Nie Fan attacked Hundred Herb Plain, forcing Bian Miming to agree to supply Reach the Summit and harvesting the plain’s medicinal herbs.
• Tang Yan warned Hundred Herb Plain to continue supplying Reach the Summit, then sent Nie Fan back to Donglai Island while he went to the Sword Sect.
• Tang Yan revealed his identity to Meng Tingxiao, who apologized for his past suspicion and offered him a fine Pill Cauldron.
• Tang Yan accepted the Pill Cauldron, and Meng Tingxiao asked what important matter had brought him to the Sword Sect.

Tang Yan allied the Sword Sect with Reach the Summit’s allies and entered Medicine Valley’s Spirit Tempering Pagoda disguised as a Sword Sect disciple. After the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed the pagoda’s Dao Resonance power and advanced Tang Yan to early-stage Transcendent Grade, he persuaded the Sword Sect group to leave, and Zhai Xuanhui denounced Medicine Valley’s treatment of them.

• Tang Yan offered to set up a Mountain-Guarding Formation for the Sword Sect in exchange for access to the Spirit Tempering Pagoda, and Meng Tingxiao agreed and accepted a secret alliance with Reach the Summit’s allies.
• Yao Zhonglou visited Hundred Herb Plain, heard about its losses, and promised Medicine Valley would compensate it if Reach the Summit failed to pay for the herbs.
• Four days later, Reach the Summit’s allies secretly confirmed their alliance at the Sword Sect, and Tang Yan joined the Sword Sect disguised as a young disciple heading to Medicine Valley.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron secretly absorbed Dao Resonance power from the Spirit Tempering Pagoda for seven days, raising Tang Yan from Saint Level Ninth Grade to early-stage Transcendent Grade.
• Tang Yan persuaded the Sword Sect disciples to leave after eight days, and Zhai Xuanhui confronted Yan Xu and the Grand Elder before declaring the Sword Sect would not return to the pagoda.

Tang Yan tried to uncover a way to destroy Medicine Valley while two unfamiliar Transcendent Grade experts arrived at Donglai Island searching for a lost treasure. When they tried to claim the Dao-Spirit Tree, Tang Yan trapped them in a strange space where they could not use their powers.

• Tang Yan ordered Shen Tingqin to make a public visit to Medicine Valley and demand compensation as part of its proposed peace talks.
• The Windblade Divine Eagle warned Tang Yan that two unfamiliar men were approaching Donglai Island, and he found they could bypass the Illusion Formation.
• Tang Yan let the two early-stage Transcendent Grade experts onto the island, where they used a pearl to search for ruins and followed its glow to Zi Yun's Courtyard.
• Tang Yan secretly warned Little Dot and Zi Yun to evacuate, and the visitors searched the courtyard and its passage to the sea without finding the ruins.
• The blue-robed man claimed the Dao-Spirit Tree as his sect's lost treasure and moved to take it.
• Tang Yan triggered the turtle's ability, sending both visitors into an unfamiliar space where vines restrained them and they could not use their Spirit Power or Natal Gods.

Tang Yan learned about the Spirit Wilderness Realm and the coming Canghai Palace Ruins, while Medicine Valley’s peace negotiations with Shen Tingqin collapsed over his demand for compensation. Shen threatened Medicine Valley after insisting on ten thousand ninth-tier medicinal herbs, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Tang Yan questioned Hong Qi and Tao Kuan, learned that factions from the Spirit Wilderness Realm were searching for the Canghai Palace Ruins, and ordered them to report any discoveries.
• Tang Yan told Fang Xuan what he had learned, instructed the Windblade Divine Eagle to search more widely, and began setting up a stronger Illusion Array.
• Shen Tingqin arrived at Medicine Valley to negotiate, and Yao Zhonglou sent the Eighth Elder, Kang Kaijia, to represent the valley.
• Kang Kaijia offered to release the Divine Origin Sect members and compensate Shen Tingqin with pills, but Shen demanded ten thousand ninth-tier medicinal herbs or equivalent treasures.
• Shen Tingqin rejected further compromise and threatened Medicine Valley if it refused his demand, leaving Kang Kaijia unable to secure peace.

Shen Tingqin negotiated an alliance with Medicine Valley, while Tang Yan prepared for the Canghai Palace ruins and joined Heavenly Enchantress on an island where the secret realm was about to open. The chapter left the other factions facing a threat from the three strongest sects, which claimed control of the ruins and its entry slots.

• Shen Tingqin negotiated with Medicine Valley and agreed to an alliance in exchange for three hundred and fifty medicinal herbs.
• Tang Yan completed a new illusion array on Donglai Island, and Heavenly Enchantress arrived after the formation hid the island from her.
• Shen Tingqin brought six saint-level experts to Reach the Summit, where Tang Yan implanted Soul-Thought Gu in them and forbade their cultivation methods that harmed children.
• Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress followed a lead to the island where fourteen factions had gathered for the Canghai Palace ruins, and Hong Qi reported the factions’ strengths and positions.
• The island trembled, a dock appeared, and a ship approached as the secret realm began to open; Bai Chaogen then allied Xiaoyao Peak with Myriad Beasts Valley and the Long River Sect to claim control of the ruins and threaten resistance.

Tang Yan persuaded Guan Zirong to unite nine sects against Xiaoyao Peak, threatening the alliance that had secured Xiaoyao Peak, Myriad Beasts Valley, and the Long River Sect access to Canghai Palace. As the assembled powers confronted Xiaoyao Peak, Bai Chaogen called for everyone to stop so he could speak.

• Tang Yan approached Guan Zirong and urged him to lead an alliance against Xiaoyao Peak while promising to spare Myriad Beasts Valley and the Long River Sect.
• Guan Zirong secured Zhuo Shuilan's support and united nine other sects, each expecting three places in the ruins.
• Guan Zirong publicly accused Xiaoyao Peak of greed and called on the allied powers to drive it out.
• More than a hundred people stepped forward against Xiaoyao Peak, while Ning Changzhou and You Anling hesitated over whether to honor their alliance.
• Bai Chaogen realized the conflict threatened Xiaoyao Peak's access to the secret realm and shouted for everyone to stop so he could speak.

Guan Zirong and Tang Yan negotiated their way onto the ship bound for the Dragon Palace, where the arriving cultivators encountered a golden dragon guarding the treasures. The dragon condemned the Human Clan for coveting Dragon Clan riches and filled the hall with overwhelming pressure.

• Bai Chaogen offered thirty places to the other sects but demanded that Tang Yan be excluded; Tang Yan accepted the deal and chose to find another way in.
• Guan Zirong secured thirty-one places for his side, while Tang Yan obtained a place from You Anling by offering pills and renowned weapons.
• Tang Yan and the others boarded the enormous ship, which sailed through fog and submerged beneath the sea.
• The ship arrived at the Dragon Palace, where the group found a dry hall filled with spiritual qi, rare treasures, and two chests of Spirit Stones.
• As the cultivators rushed toward the treasures, a gigantic golden dragon appeared and threatened them with its draconic might.

Tang Yan endured the Golden Dragon’s Divine Soul pressure, seized its treasures, and defeated it to open the passage. After he saved the group, a woman accused him of causing the ordeal and demanded compensation, so Tang Yan killed her.

• The Golden Dragon’s pressure forced everyone except Tang Yan to their knees, but Tang Yan discovered its attacks could not physically harm him.
• Tang Yan took the Spirit Stones and Heavenly Treasures, raising his cultivation to Transcendent Grade Late Stage.
• The Golden Dragon unleashed a lust-inducing power, and Tang Yan struck it with All Living Beings before refining its weakened Divine Soul with the Spirit-Seizing Art.
• The Golden Dragon’s defeat opened a stone passage, and the group recovered from the enchantment as Heavenly Enchantress withdrew from Tang Yan.
• A high-bunned woman accused Tang Yan of causing the women’s suffering and demanded his Spirit Stones, so Tang Yan beheaded her with Ninefold Mountain.

Tang Yan and the others entered a Dragon Palace hall where golden Spirit Stones and a Golden Dragon led to a deadly trial. After realizing the stones fit a hidden dragon-shaped design, Tang Yan announced he could get everyone out if they handed over every stone.

• Tang Yan killed the woman from Myriad Beasts Valley, and Guan Zirong defended him against Ning Changzhou and Bai Chaogen’s accusations.
• The group entered the next hall, where a Golden Dragon appeared, displayed itself, then vanished as flames erupted from dragon heads along the walls.
• Everyone seized the golden Spirit Stones from the wall, while Tang Yan noticed they resembled dragon scales and could not be used for cultivation.
• As the hall heated up and attacks failed to stop the flames or break the walls, Tang Yan pressed a Spirit Stone onto the hidden dragon design and realized the trial was a puzzle.
• Bai Chaogen and a woman in yellow blamed Tang Yan for not slaying the dragon, but Tang Yan challenged Bai Chaogen and demanded that everyone give him all their Spirit Stones.

Tang Yan assembled the Golden Dragon puzzle in the Great Hall, but discovered that the fragments needed Spiritual Qi replenishment. After the woman in yellow from Xiaoyao Peak admitted to hiding three Spirit Stones, Tang Yan made Bai Chaogen pay a thousand mid-grade spirit stones to continue.

• Tang Yan collected everyone's golden Spirit Stones and used his experience with the Golden Dragon to assemble its fragments on the wall.
• As the heat weakened the group's shields, the Golden Dragon appeared nearly complete, but Tang Yan found that three scales were missing.
• The woman in yellow admitted she had kept three Spirit Stones, and Tang Yan used them to resume the puzzle, but the fragments would not stick.
• Tang Yan explained that the failed attempt had depleted the fragments' Spiritual Qi and demanded a thousand mid-grade spirit stones from Xiaoyao Peak.
• Bai Chaogen gave Tang Yan the payment under pressure from the crowd, and Tang Yan replenished the fragments so the golden Spirit Stone stayed in place.

Tang Yan completed the hall’s trial, collected the golden spirit stones, and faced Bai Chaogen’s accusation that he had stolen Xiaoyao Sect’s spirit stones. After inspectors found no stolen stones in his Storage Ring and Tang Yan stripped to prove he carried none, he took Bai Chaogen’s wager and led everyone onward.

• Tang Yan finished the golden dragon image, then severed the dragon’s head and collected the golden spirit stones, opening the passage.
• Bai Chaogen and Xiaoyao Sect members blocked Tang Yan and accused him of taking their spirit stones, while You Anling and Guan Zirong defended him.
• Tang Yan offered to let his Storage Ring be inspected, wagering that Xiaoyao Sect would pay him one thousand middle-grade spirit stones if the stones were not found.
• The Man in Purple and a Xiaoyao Peak disciple inspected Tang Yan’s Storage Ring and found no stolen spirit stones, though they were stunned by his wealth.
• Bai Chaogen accused Tang Yan of hiding another Storage Space, so Tang Yan stripped to prove he carried nothing and claimed the wagered spirit stones.
• Tang Yan dressed, took back his Storage Ring and the Heaven and Earth Bag, and urged everyone to continue through the ruins.

The group entered a vast hall where treasures hung from a giant dragon statue, then tested the dangers and restrictions involved in claiming them. Guan Zirong obtained an upper-grade spirit artifact, and the survivors began eyeing the immortal artifacts higher up the dragon.

• Bai Chaogen claimed a famous weapon at the dragon’s base, but an invisible barrier stopped him from flying higher.
• Feng Qi tried to take a pagoda-shaped treasure halfway up the dragon and was cut in half by a gale.
• Tang Yan advised Heavenly Enchantress to wait, while other martial artists tested the risks; several died or were injured, and each person appeared limited to one treasure.
• Guan Zirong summoned his natal god, a golden-lit black-and-white bear, and endured repeated gales to seize an ancient zither.
• Guan Zirong identified the zither as an upper-grade spirit artifact and confirmed that the treasures farther above were likely immortal artifacts.

Bai Chaogen’s fellow disciple Fan Zhongru died trying to claim an Immortal Artifact, but Tang Yan calmly endured the dragon’s lightning and advanced to the pearl at its throat. His shield shattered as he took another step toward it, leaving everyone watching to wonder whether he could survive and seize the treasure.

• Bai Chaogen sent Fan Zhongru upward to claim an Immortal Artifact, but five thunderbolts destroyed his defenses and killed him.
• Other Dominion Realm experts tested the lightning and retreated after a single strike, while Tang Yan was the only one who had not yet tried.
• Tang Yan ascended the dragon without slowing and reached its head, where he chose the blinking pearl at its throat as his target.
• Tang Yan raised a shield and advanced through repeated lightning strikes, reaching within two steps of the pearl.
• A thick bolt shattered Tang Yan’s shield, but he took another step toward the pearl as the onlookers watched.

Tang Yan took the pearl from the dragon and discovered a sword hilt embedded in its head. As the Great Hall’s treasure trial grew more dangerous and threatened to trap or kill everyone, he agreed to risk his life to slay the dragon.

• Tang Yan endured a lightning strike, took the pearl, and noticed a sword hilt in the dragon’s head before descending.
• The dragon roared, removed the restraint on the group, and began another round of treasure grabbing; Bai Chaogen was badly injured by the stronger attacks.
• Guan Zirong suspected that every survivor had to obtain a treasure before the next round and that the group might need to slay the dragon to escape.
• Tang Yan told the group that the sword hilt might be the key, and the sect representatives begged him to take the risk; Heavenly Enchantress objected.
• Tang Yan entrusted his final wishes to Heavenly Enchantress and declared that he was willing to go fight the dragon.

Tang Yan endured the killing intent surrounding the sword embedded in the dragon’s head and was drawn into a duel with the Sword Saint’s spirit. After learning the Sword Saint’s history and receiving his sword Verdict and the Dragon-Slaying technique, Tang Yan returned to the dragon’s head and attacked the giant dragon.

• Bai Chaogen accused Tang Yan of pretending to risk his life for favors, but Guan Zirong, Zhao, Yin, and You Anling defended Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan climbed onto the dragon’s head and tried to pull out the sword, enduring killing intent that terrified everyone below.
• Tang Yan entered a realm where he fought a mysterious swordsman without spirit power, relying on technique and sword moves.
• The swordsman revealed himself as the Sword Saint, who explained that his sword had suppressed the Dragon Vein and that Tang Yan’s Comrades in Arms move had awakened him.
• The Sword Saint gave Tang Yan Verdict and taught him Dragon-Slaying before vanishing into Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan returned to the dragon’s head, drew the sword, and unleashed Dragon-Slaying against the giant dragon.

After leaving the Canghai Palace ruins with the Eye of Truth and Water-Moon Pearl, Tang Yan began plotting to use the pearl against Medicine Valley. He then spotted a woman in green holding Little Dot and attacked her after she claimed to have killed Zi Yun; when she shattered his sword strikes, Tang Yan trapped her in a powerful formation.

• Tang Yan collected the treasures from the dragon, escaped the collapsing Canghai Palace with the others, and parted ways with them at the island where they had first boarded.
• The Eye of Truth attached itself between Tang Yan’s eyebrows, and he learned it could see through truth and illusion; he also identified the Water-Moon Pearl as an artifact capable of creating a world and setting its rules.
• Tang Yan considered using the Water-Moon Pearl to gather Northern Spirit experts and kill Yao Zhonglou, then decided to head to Heaven-Covering Valley.
• Tang Yan saw a woman in green holding Little Dot and accused her of stealing his Spirit Pet; she said she had killed the demoness Tang Yan believed was Zi Yun.
• Tang Yan attacked the woman with Ninefold Mountain, but she dissolved his sword strikes and shattered his All Living Beings Sword Qi with a golden palm.
• Tang Yan activated a powerful formation around the woman in green, whose expression changed as the crushing force closed in.

Tang Yan battled a powerful green-dressed woman, seized what he believed was her spirit pet, and forced her to flee. He discovered he had grabbed the wrong lookalike, failed to find the woman again, and set off for Heaven-Covering Valley.

• Tang Yan trapped the green-dressed woman in layered formations and attacked her with sword qi infused with the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame.
• Tang Yan stole the White-Faced Dough Ball, detonated his formations, and used his domain to restrain the woman, but a Buddha phantom shattered it and she escaped with a talisman.
• Tang Yan returned to Donglai Island and found Little Dot safe with Zi Yun, realizing he had grabbed the wrong creature.
• Tang Yan searched the sea with Heavenly Enchantress for the green-dressed woman, but they could not find her.
• Tang Yan gave the White-Faced Dough Ball to Heavenly Enchantress and headed for Heaven-Covering Valley.

Rao Baoyue guarded the Spirit Wilderness Realm passage while searching for Yan Tang, then Tang Yan arrived at Heaven-Covering Valley and prepared a fabricated Holy War Ruins to draw Northern Spirit experts into a future attack on Medicine Valley. He finished setting up the illusion, intending to lure participants into a real assault later.

• Rao Baoyue questioned returning Canghai Palace Ruins explorers and learned that Yan Tang and a woman were still in the Northern Spirit Realm.
• Guan Zirong identified Yan Tang and described the pair’s actions in the ruins, while he and the other cultivators vouched for Yan Tang’s character.
• Tang Yan told Huang Liang to announce the Holy War Ruins, opening in half a month, and invite factions except Medicine Valley.
• Tang Yan activated the Water-Moon Pearl and built an illusion portraying participants as Human Clan warriors tasked with defeating the Aberrant Clan.
• Tang Yan planned to use a later Holy War Ruins season and a teleportation formation to send unsuspecting experts to Medicine Valley.

Tang Yan launched a plan to turn Northern Spirit against the Divine Origin Sect and Medicine Valley, while preparing to take over Medicine Valley. As public outrage spread, Yao Zhonglou ordered Medicine Valley to publicly break its alliance with the Divine Origin Sect while secretly considering its eventual destruction.

• Tang Yan explained his Holy War Ruins plan to Fang Xuan and instructed him to expose the Divine Origin Sect’s crimes, blame Medicine Valley, and prepare to take over it.
• Tang Yan brought White-Faced Dough Ball to Zi Yun’s courtyard, where it met Little Dot, and gave Zi Yun a bottle of golden dragon essence blood to strengthen her before his journey to the Spirit Wilderness Realm.
• After Shen Tingqin signaled that the Divine Origin Sect was ready, Tang Yan told Fang Xuan to begin spreading reports about its crimes, and public condemnation swept Northern Spirit before turning against Medicine Valley.
• At Medicine Valley, Qin Donghai warned Yao Zhonglou that the sect’s alliance with the Divine Origin Sect had damaged its reputation and business prospects.
• Yao Zhonglou ordered Medicine Valley to publicly sever its alliance with the Divine Origin Sect, secretly tell Shen Tingqin to lie low, and destroy the sect if a suitable opportunity arose.

Ye Zhenpeng negotiated with Shen Tingqin to help the Divine Origin Sect disappear in exchange for spirit herbs, while Tang Yan joined the invited fighters as the Holy War Ruins expedition began. The group arrived at the Different People Sect and learned its history and their mission to attack it for points and rewards.

• Ye Zhenpeng warned Shen Tingqin that public outrage threatened the Divine Origin Sect and urged it to relocate and lie low.
• Shen Tingqin agreed to let Medicine Valley stage an attack on Heaven's Shore Mountain as cover for the sect's departure, demanding two hundred ninth-tier spirit herbs.
• Ye Zhenpeng accepted the terms and left to report to Yao Zhonglou.
• Tang Yan disguised himself among fewer than three hundred fighters gathered at Heaven-Covering Valley for the Holy War Ruins expedition.
• The fighters entered the ruins and arrived before the Different People Sect, where an aged voice recounted Fang Hui's betrayal and instructed them to attack for points and rewards.