Chapter Summaries

Shang Zhongwen and the other participants destroyed the Otherfolk Sect, earned points and rewards, and returned to Heaven-Covering Valley. The Desolate Clan’s Seventh Elder confirmed that the second phase of the Holy War Ruins would open in twenty days, with a minimum entry requirement of lord-rank ninth-grade.

• Shang Zhongwen killed two guards, earning the first points as the participants gathered to attack the Otherfolk Sect.
• The burly man defending the sect used archers and Gatlings against the attackers, but Qu Changxing set up a barrier that let them break the sect-guarding formation.
• The participants stormed the Otherfolk Sect and fought for eight hours, killing its leaders and receiving ranking rewards and points to exchange for prizes.
• The aged voice announced that the first phase had ended and that the next phase would begin in twenty days, requiring entrants to be at least lord-rank ninth-grade.
• The participants returned to Heaven-Covering Valley, where the Desolate Clan’s Seventh Elder confirmed the next phase’s opening and warned that lord-rank entrants could face danger.

The Divine Origin Sect withdrew into hiding after Medicine Valley secured its cooperation, while Tang Yan created a combat-training world in the Water-Moon Pearl. In Moonlit City, Feng Chenye told a captivating story to seek news of his missing friend and vowed to search the Spirit Wilderness Realm until he found her.

• Yao Zhonglou gave Shen Tingqin medicinal ingredients, and Shen agreed to hide the Divine Origin Sect in the Black Swallow Mountains and end its Spirit Pet business.
• After Shen Tingqin departed, Yao Zhonglou ordered the Divine Origin Sect's cultivation residences destroyed and arranged for the rescued children to be tested and sent home or to Medicine Valley.
• Tang Yan set up a teleportation formation in Heaven-Covering Valley, left a Void Child Pearl, and created a world of combat challenges inside the Water-Moon Pearl for Reach the Summit's martial artists.
• Feng Chenye told the guests at Listening Wind Tower a lively story about Ye Fan, then showed them a portrait of his missing friend and asked for clues.
• Feng Chenye explained that he had searched the Lower Plane and would keep searching the Spirit Wilderness Realm city by city until he found her.

Feng Chenye received a lead on Meng Yao’s whereabouts, while rumors engineered by Tang Yan further damaged Medicine Valley’s reputation. With the Holy War Ruins opening soon, Tang Yan prepared an attack on Medicine Valley and secured the Spirit Shaman Clan’s support.

• Feng Chenye told the Listening Wind Tower patrons that he was searching for Meng Yao, then left while spreading his stories to cultivate literary qi.
• Yingyu gave Feng Chenye a Jade Token he could use to ask the Thousand Connections Pavilion for help finding Meng Yao, and Feng Chenye gave her his own token in return.
• Medicine Valley’s reputation briefly improved after it announced that it had severed ties with the Divine Origin Sect and destroyed it, but new rumors soon accused it of secretly sheltering the sect and using children as cultivation resources.
• Tang Yan recognized that the rumors had achieved his goal and told Fang Xuan to keep promoting "Holy War Ruins Season Two" as he prepared for the upcoming ruins opening.
• Tang Yan told Zhu Jingkong and Lei Yu that Reach the Summit would attack Medicine Valley, and both leaders vowed to bring the Spirit Shaman Clan’s fighters and take part in its destruction.

Tang Yan gathered Northern Spirit Realm’s powerful figures at the Holy War Ruins and used God's Domain to reveal Medicine Valley’s crimes before sending them to attack its mountain gate. The assault began with Shang Zhongwen killing two guards and taking the lead on the points ranking.

• Tang Yan briefed Zhu Jingkong and Lei Yu on the plan to capture Yao Zhonglou, then asked Fang Xuan to prepare a proposal for governing Medicine Valley.
• Tang Yan arrived at Heaven-Covering Valley and secretly activated a formation, drawing 360 attendees into God's Domain.
• The Human Emperor exposed the Divine Origin Sect’s and Medicine Valley’s abuse of children and their plot to deceive the Northern Spirit Realm.
• The Human Emperor declared a holy war against Medicine Valley, explained its trials and rewards, and transported the participants to Medicine Valley’s mountain gate.
• Shang Zhongwen killed two Medicine Valley guards, earned 102 points with the first-strike bonus, and appeared at the top of the ranking as the other experts charged forward.

Xu Bai and Tang Yan used the Human Emperor’s illusion to convince the factions that Medicine Valley was a demonic sect, prompting them to attack. Xu Bai broke the Mountain-Guarding Formation for points, and the assault overwhelmed Medicine Valley as Yao Zhonglou faced three transcendent fighters.

• Zhuang Zhile accused Medicine Valley of demonic cultivation, and Tang Yan’s harmless lightning strike made the attackers believe Qin Donghai’s oath had triggered heavenly punishment.
• Cen Shushan and other allies joined the assault, while Yao Zhonglou realized the Holy War Ruins were real and warned the attackers to withdraw.
• Shang Zhongwen received a hidden quest to hold off Yao Zhonglou with Heavenly Enchantress and Earth Baleful Intent while protecting the others.
• Xu Bai took control of the formation’s core and shattered the Mountain-Guarding Formation, earning eight hundred points and taking the lead.
• Tang Yan urged the attackers to charge into Medicine Valley, and Shang Zhongwen, Heavenly Enchantress, and Earth Baleful Intent blocked Yao Zhonglou’s spear strike.
• Qin Donghai organized Medicine Valley’s defense, but the overwhelming force of the attackers left its core leadership unable to fight, with Yao Zhonglou as the sole exception.

Tang Yan helped defeat Yao Zhonglou and secured Medicine Valley’s surrender to Reach the Summit. After the Holy War Ruins mission ended and its rewards were distributed, Tang Yan watched the participants leave, intending to let them discover the truth about the battle themselves.

• Tang Yan secretly implanted Soul-Thought Gu in Qin Donghai and the other Medicine Valley members while Yao Zhonglou fought Heavenly Enchantress, Shang Zhongwen, and Shen Tingqin.
• Shen Tingqin revealed his strength and disrupted Yao Zhonglou’s attempt to escape, but Yao Zhonglou killed him and shattered his opponents’ momentum.
• Tang Yan struck Yao Zhonglou with sword qi, trapped him in his god’s domain, and defeated him after sealing his spirit power.
• Yao Zhonglou recovered enough to offer Medicine Valley’s surrender to Reach the Summit, and the Human Emperor announced that the second phase had ended.
• Heavenly Enchantress and the other top-ranked warriors received prizes and returned through a transfer station to Heaven-Covering Valley.
• Tang Yan watched the participants depart from a mountaintop and kept the truth of the staged mission secret.

Tang Yan arranged Reach the Summit’s takeover of Medicine Valley and prepared to move the organization inland. After Fang Xuan departed to establish a base there, Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit, while the Shen father and son reacted to intelligence about the takeover.

• Tang Yan told Fang Xuan to announce that the Human Emperor had created the Holy War Ruins and caused Medicine Valley’s downfall, then approved Fang Xuan’s plan to integrate Medicine Valley into Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan went to Medicine Valley and ordered its management to announce the merger, allowing those unwilling to join to leave after receiving compensation.
• Qin Donghai told Medicine Valley’s managers that the sect would remain part of Reach the Summit permanently, and most accepted the merger while eighteen managers stayed behind to leave.
• Tang Yan planted Soul-Thought Gu in the eighteen departing managers and told Qin Donghai to assure Medicine Valley’s allies that they would support Reach the Summit.
• Tang Yan inspected Medicine Valley’s warehouses, selected useful treasures and materials, and returned to Reach the Summit as Fang Xuan set out for Medicine Valley with the Seventh Elder and Nie Fan.
• The Shen father and son read intelligence gathered by their spies and stared at each other in shock.

After Medicine Valley was destroyed, sects promoted the claim that the Human Emperor had turned the Holy War Ruins illusion into reality, while Feng Chenye sought Meng Yao’s whereabouts at Thousand Connections Pavilion. A divination directed him due north, and he stayed to offer the old diviner a story.

• Shen Shan ordered his people to support the claim that the Human Emperor had made the illusion real, and Xu Bai and Cen Shushan also backed that account.
• Feng Chenye arrived at Thousand Connections Pavilion and searched its records for Meng Yao, but found no information about her.
• At the pavilion’s fifth floor, an old diviner cast a divination for Feng Chenye and told him to head due north to meet Meng Yao if fate allowed.
• The divination caused the old man to suffer a backlash and spit blood, so Feng Chenye offered him his Storage Ring in gratitude.
• The old man found little of value in Feng Chenye’s possessions, and Feng Chenye offered to tell him a story about divination.

Feng Chenye’s story inspired Profound Pupil to break through to the heavenly mechanism rejuvenation realm, while Fang Xuan completed Medicine Valley’s reorganization and Reach the Summit prepared to move there as its new base. Tang Yan offered support to his allies, and Lei Yu chose to remain with Reach the Summit as an Alchemy Master.

• Feng Chenye told Profound Pupil a story about Qin Luo, whose journey helped Profound Pupil understand his Dao and enter the heavenly mechanism rejuvenation realm.
• Profound Pupil returned to his former stooped appearance and ordered an attendant to investigate Feng Chenye.
• Fang Xuan reported to Tang Yan that Medicine Valley’s reorganization was complete and its departments would report to Reach the Summit’s Decision Hall.
• Tang Yan called a meeting and announced that Reach the Summit would relocate to Medicine Valley in Central Province.
• Tang Yan told Zhu Jingkong that the Spirit Shaman could return to Black Crow Cliff and offered to help Lei Yu rebuild the Azure Nether Fire Domain.
• Lei Yu declined to rebuild his domain and asked to remain in Reach the Summit as an Alchemy Master.

Tang Yan returned to Tingxiang to reunite with his grandfather, Tang Ling, before setting out for the Spirit Wilderness Realm to search for his parents. After catching Tang Ling up on his adventures, Tang Yan offered to bring him to Northern Spirit so they could meet regularly.

• Tang Yan told his allies to relocate and hold Northern Spirit while he went to visit his grandfather and then investigate the Spirit Wilderness Realm.
• Tang Yan said goodbye to Zi Yun, left her the Dao-Spirit Tree and half his Spirit Stones, and traveled to Tingxiang.
• Tang Yan found Tang Ling playing a blindfolded guessing game with seven women, and Tang Ling recognized him by touch before seeing him.
• Tang Yan and Tang Ling reunited emotionally, then Tang Ling sent the women away and took his grandson to the study to hear about his past two years.
• Tang Yan explained that he planned to search the Spirit Wilderness Realm for his parents and offered to take Tang Ling to Northern Spirit so they could see each other often.

Tang Yan moved his family and trusted aides to Northern Spirit, then left Medicine Valley and returned to the Spirit Wilderness Realm. There, Rao Baoyue recognized him as the man who had taken Little Meatball and confronted him at the passage entrance.

• Tang Ling consulted Uncle Mo, then arranged for the Tang Family to move to Northern Spirit while Tang Yan visited the Imperial Family and declined the emperor's hint about marrying Qing Xuan.
• The Imperial Family escorted the Tang Family through the passage, and the group reached Medicine Valley after two days of flight.
• Tang Yan said goodbye to Zi Yun on Donglai Island, tried to take one of the white steamed buns with him, then kicked it back to the island after hearing its cries.
• Rao Xinliu joined her sister Rao Baoyue at the Spirit Wilderness Realm passage, where Rao Baoyue explained that a mysterious man had taken Little Meatball and that she was guarding the entrance to catch him.
• Tang Yan entered the Spirit Wilderness Realm disguised as an old man, but Rao Baoyue recognized her mark, demanded he reveal himself, and confronted him about Little Meatball.

Tang Yan explained his misunderstanding over Little Meatball and traded the Greenwood Divine Bow to Rao Baoyue for a temporary exchange. Rao Baoyue then bound him with the Wings-Together Palm, named him her fourth disciple, and took him toward the Pill Alliance.

• Tang Yan showed Rao Baoyue and Rao Xinliu Little Dot and Little Meatball playing together, then explained why he had left Little Meatball behind.
• Tang Yan offered the Greenwood Divine Bow, and Rao Baoyue agreed to a temporary exchange for Little Meatball.
• Rao Baoyue struck Tang Yan with the Wings-Together Palm and ordered him to serve her for ten years, briefly activating the curse to demonstrate its pain.
• Rao Baoyue revealed she was a Thirteenth Elder of the Pill Alliance and named Tang Yan her fourth disciple; Rao Xinliu was the Fifteenth Elder of the Formation Alliance.
• Tang Yan learned about the Pill Alliance and its alchemy ranks, then Rao Baoyue tied him to her sword and sped toward the sect.

Tang Yan arrived at the Pill Alliance's Clear Sky Peak and met Rao Baoyue's three eccentric disciples. Rao Baoyue learned that they had failed their duties and ruined her undying wood, then ordered all four disciples to enter the upcoming Spirit Cliff Cave competition.

• Rao Baoyue showed Tang Yan the Pill Alliance and gave him an Identity Token before introducing him to Sun Long, Tong Banzhi, and Yan Biao.
• Sun Long reported that Clear Sky Peak had missed its missions, lost half its resources, and let Rao Baoyue's purple silver lotus and undying wood die.
• Rao Baoyue kicked Yan Biao after learning he had pulled up the undying wood, then ordered all four disciples to compete in the Spirit Cliff Cave contest.
• Yan Biao bragged that he had swapped Clear Sky Peak's undying wood with Spirit Splendor Peak's, then revealed he had left the live tree unplanted for seven days.
• Rao Baoyue saw that the undying wood was dead and reflected on how her poor teaching and disciple choices had led to her predicament.

Rao Baoyue assigned Tang Yan responsibility for managing Clear Sky Peak’s chores and keeping Tong Banzhi and Yan Biao in line. After learning about the herb garden and sect duties, Tang Yan visited the Scripture Pavilion to study the Spirit Wilderness Realm.

• Rao Baoyue put Tang Yan in charge of Clear Sky Peak’s duties and made him responsible for his senior brothers’ conduct and missions.
• Tang Yan followed Sun Long to the spirit herb garden, learned how to care for its 403 varieties of herbs, and accepted responsibility for the work despite the limited spirit liquid.
• Sun Long showed Tang Yan the sect’s halls, mission requirements, disciple rankings, and resource rules.
• Tang Yan asked Sun Long about the disciple rankings and monthly allowances, then chose to visit the Scripture Pavilion to study medicinal herbs.
• An old man at the Scripture Pavilion explained how Tang Yan could borrow up to three books for a month, and Tang Yan used his token to enter.

Tang Yan surveyed sect missions, ordered Yan Biao to start completing them, and broke through to the Middle Dominion Realm after the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron released its accumulated power. He began studying Spirit Wilderness Realm medicinal materials to rebuild his Pill Dao knowledge from the ground up.

• Tang Yan borrowed three books on medicinal materials, then browsed the Mission Hall and chose Class D missions as the most achievable.
• Tang Yan found Yan Biao roasting a wild boar in a pill cauldron and learned that he and Tong Banzhi had ignored sect missions because the penalties seemed useless.
• Tang Yan told Yan Biao that he had been assigned custody of him and Tong Banzhi and ordered them to complete missions, threatening to have Tong Banzhi cuddle Yan Biao to sleep.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron released spirit power, and Tang Yan broke through to the Middle Dominion Realm, gaining a stronger dantian and a natal god with rudimentary spiritual awareness.
• Tang Yan began carefully studying his borrowed books, accepting that he had to learn the Spirit Wilderness Realm's medicinal materials before advancing in the Pill Dao.

Tang Yan discovered that the Eye of Truth let him quickly learn medicinal plants’ properties, then finished appraising Clear Sky Peak’s garden. He returned to find Rao Baoyue beating Yan Biao, and after she also struck Tang Yan, he escaped the courtyard while Tong Banzhi pursued Yan Biao.

• Tang Yan used the Eye of Truth to identify the medicinal properties of the golden spirit seed and heaven-mending zhi, realizing he could rapidly learn about unfamiliar plants.
• Tang Yan revived a dying purple silver lotus in the Chaos Space, replanted it, and finished appraising the medicinal garden.
• Tang Yan returned to find Rao Baoyue beating Yan Biao with the Undying Wood after Yan Biao had tampered with it.
• Tang Yan tried to calm Rao Baoyue, but she pinned him down and beat him before letting both disciples go.
• Yan Biao praised Tang Yan for rescuing him, then fled Tong Banzhi’s courtyard in his underpants while Tang Yan went to study.

Tang Yan automated the Spirit Herb Garden’s watering, proved his medicinal-herb knowledge at the Scripture Pavilion, and was ordered to rebuild Clear Sky Peak’s ruined hot spring while Rao Baoyue was away. The chapter ended with him resolving to do the job properly before she returned in three days.

• Rao Baoyue destroyed the hot spring in anger over Yan Biao’s behavior.
• Tang Yan designed an Irrigation Formation that watered the spirit herbs according to their needs, though his spirit liquid would soon run out.
• Tang Yan returned three medicinal-herb books and impressed the Scripture Pavilion’s old man by answering his questions, then borrowed three more books.
• Rao Baoyue summoned Tang Yan and ordered him to restore the hot spring within three days, warning him not to let his third senior brother urinate in it again.
• After Rao Baoyue left on business, Tang Yan decided to rebuild the hot spring properly.

Tang Yan renovated Rao Baoyue’s hot spring courtyard while continuing his studies, and Rao Baoyue later mistook its new cliffside view for a scheme to spy on her. She realized the courtyard wall still concealed the spring only after striking Tang Yan with Wings-Together Palm and leaping off the cliff to investigate.

• Tang Yan enlarged and lined the hot spring, improved the courtyard landscaping, and replaced the eastern wall with an illusion formation that preserved privacy from outside.
• Tang Yan returned books to the Scripture Pavilion, answered the keeper’s questions, and borrowed three books on geography, ores, and Beast Kings.
• Rao Baoyue returned to Clear Sky Peak frustrated that the undying wood she needed for Leng Shi’s life-extending pill had already been used.
• Rao Baoyue admired Tang Yan’s renovation, then suspected he had removed the wall to let someone spy on her and struck him with Wings-Together Palm.
• Rao Baoyue leaped off the cliff to search for a hidden peeper, then noticed the tall courtyard wall blocking the view from outside.

Tang Yan sought to sell Peng Jia a formation that would automate watering Mist-Hidden Peak’s spirit herb garden, but Peng Jia reacted angrily when Tang Yan confronted him about docking the workers’ pay. Their negotiation ended with Peng Jia suspecting Tang Yan was threatening him.

• Rao Baoyue discovered the cliff wall was an illusion and relaxed in the hot spring, where she found a mind-calming formation beneath the pool.
• Tang Yan noticed his spirit liquid was running low and traveled to Mist-Hidden Peak to investigate its herb-garden work.
• A blue-robed disciple told Tang Yan that Peng Jia routinely docked the workers’ wages using various excuses.
• Tang Yan offered to build a formation that would automate watering and proposed a monthly price of at least one hundred low-grade spirit stones.
• Tang Yan offered to pay Peng Jia fifty spirit stones a month for Pill Dao instruction and confronted him about cheating the workers.
• Peng Jia’s expression darkened as he accused Tang Yan of threatening him.

Tang Yan persuaded Peng Jia to pay him to install a formation that tended Mist-Hidden Peak’s Spirit Herbs, then studied the herbs and activated the formation. After buying Spirit Liquid from Peng Jia, Tang Yan asked who managed the other peaks’ herb gardens.

• Tang Yan warned Peng Jia that the elders knew about his affairs and convinced him that a formation would improve herb care and protect him from blame.
• Peng Jia agreed to pay Tang Yan a hundred and twenty Spirit Stones monthly, then inspected the formation Tang Yan had used at Clear Sky Peak.
• Tang Yan examined Mist-Hidden Peak’s Spirit Herbs, studied the medicinal properties of three hundred and thirty-six kinds, and set up the formation.
• The next morning, the formation accurately watered the Spirit Herbs, and Peng Jia paid Tang Yan a hundred and twenty Spirit Stones.
• Tang Yan returned the payment to Peng Jia and bought some of his saved Spirit Liquid at a discount, then asked who managed the other peaks’ herb gardens.