Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan discovered that Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable was a damaged remnant of a Divine Soul and helped her refine a Primal Chaos Soul-Replenishing Saint Pill. After restoring her youthful appearance and most of her memories, she revealed that she still remembered little about pill formulas.

• Tang Yan recognized Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable as an incomplete, hostile Divine Soul and offered to obtain the ingredients for her pill.
• Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable repeatedly tricked Tang Yan and slapped him, then explained that Duan Guyuan had devoured most of her Divine Soul three thousand years earlier.
• Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable warned that her remnant would not last until the Secret Realm reopened, so Tang Yan offered to refine the Primal Chaos Soul-Replenishing Saint Pill himself.
• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to refine two pills, astonishing Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable with his speed and technique.
• Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable took one pill, regained her youthful appearance and most of her memories, but said her memories of pill formulas had not returned.

The Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable passed her inheritance to Tang Yan before vanishing, and the God-Shocking Courtyard collapsed, alarming the sect elders. After Tang Yan returned from Spirit Cliff Cave, the competition results placed him nowhere near first, prompting Ge Zhengyan and the other disciples to challenge the tally.

• The Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable gave Tang Yan her full inheritance and urged him to follow the righteous path before disappearing.
• The God-Shocking Courtyard collapsed after Tang Yan emerged, and Lin Jiuyuan ordered that Tang Yan be restrained and questioned when the passage reopened.
• Tang Yan told Ge Zhengyan and the other disciples a partly truthful account of the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable, then accepted medicinal herbs collected by the twelve pill peaks.
• Tang Yan left Spirit Cliff Cave and was summoned by Rao Baoyue as fourteen powerful auras fixed on him.
• Lin Jiuyuan announced the competition results, but Tang Yan was absent from the top individual rankings despite the herbs he had gathered.
• Ge Zhengyan and the other disciples insisted Tang Yan's points had been tallied incorrectly and asked Lin Jiuyuan to investigate.

Lin Jiuyuan and the elders interrogated Tang Yan about secretly refining herbs from the Spirit Cliff Cave Secret Realm and entering the forbidden God-Shocking Courtyard. Tang Yan defended his actions and recounted inheriting the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable’s legacy, then agreed to a search of his Divine Soul.

• Lin Jiuyuan dismissed the disciples and brought Tang Yan to the Heart-Examining Hall for questioning.
• Lin Jiuyuan accused Tang Yan of hiding herbs, but Tang Yan claimed his Natal God refined spiritual objects and showed that he carried no Storage Space.
• Tang Yan refined a Beast Core and planted a living nine-curved spirit ginseng, convincing the elders that he had no hidden storage treasure.
• Tang Yan said the refined herbs had helped him defeat the Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable and save over five hundred disciples.
• Tang Yan explained that he entered the God-Shocking Courtyard, found the Medicine Spirit Heavenly Venerable, gave her soul-wisdom grass, and received her inheritance before the courtyard disappeared.
• Lin Jiuyuan told Tang Yan the elders would search his Divine Soul, and Tang Yan agreed.

Tang Yan was placed in the Heart-Examining Hall for ten days after the elders confirmed his memories and rewarded him for his deeds. Meanwhile, Tong Chengxian discovered that Zhang San had vanished after he promised his superior a large supply of pills, leaving him in a desperate predicament.

• Lin Jiuyuan searched Tang Yan's memories, confirmed his account, waived his punishment, and awarded him an Immortal Artifact while ordering him to remain in the Heart-Examining Hall for ten days.
• Rao Baoyue refused the elders' attempts to recruit Tang Yan and asked them to help find Undying Wood for Leng Shi's pill.
• Elder Xiao brought Tang Yan books and told him that Feng Chenye had found Meng Yao.
• Tong Chengxian returned to the Trading Base with resources to buy pills, but Shopkeeper Qin told him that Zhang San had been missing for twelve days.
• Shopkeeper Qin explained that the shopkeepers suspected Zhang San was an alias used by a disguised medicinal ingredient merchant to sell spirit herbs.

Fang Xuan and the others searched for Tang Yan in the Spirit Wasteland, while Tang Yan left the Pill Alliance and began alchemy lessons under Rao Baoyue. The chapter ended with Rao Baoyue assigning him to practice on his own and ordering him to bring back several gifts from the Trading Base.

• Tong Chengxian waited three more days for Zhang San at the Trading Base, but Zhang San never appeared.
• Fang Xuan led five companions from Reach the Summit toward the Spirit Wasteland to find Tang Yan, disguising Zi Yun, Little Dot, and Little Meatball along the way.
• In Cocoon City, Fang Xuan reasoned that Tang Yan might have fallen into the Demon Sect's hands and decided to search for him in Scorpion City.
• Lin Jiuyuan released Tang Yan from the Pill Alliance's Heart-Examining Hall, and Rao Baoyue took him to Clear Sky Peak as her prisoner and student.
• Rao Baoyue demonstrated how to refine Gathering Essence True Yang Pills, then told Tang Yan to master the recipe by practicing alone before she would teach him alchemy.
• Tang Yan offered to buy Rao Baoyue gifts at the Trading Base, and she requested materials for clothes and shoes, wine, and a jade leaf purple clay wine set.

Tang Yan returned to the Trading Base as Zhang San, supplied the waiting pill dealers with pills, and invited Tong Chengxian and Shopkeeper Qin to drink in White Parasol City. The three arrived at Cloudtop Pavilion, where eighteen Heaven Tier women appeared to serve them.

• Tang Yan refined Gathering Essence True Yang Pills and prepared Frost Crystal Spirit Tea before finding ingredient substitutes that reduced the Void-Quelling Qi-Boosting Pill's cost by thirty percent.
• Tang Yan arrived at the Trading Base as Zhang San, announced that he could supply Gathering Essence True Yang Pills, and collected the dealers' stockpiled ingredients.
• Tong Chengxian gave Tang Yan a large batch of ingredients and a hundred high-grade Spirit Stones, and Tang Yan promised to fulfill the order.
• Tang Yan collected Shopkeeper Qin's ingredients, bought Monkey Wine and fine fabrics, and asked him to commission drinking vessels and tableware made from Jade Leaf Purple Clay.
• Tang Yan refined and delivered pills to the dealers, then invited Tong Chengxian and Shopkeeper Qin to drink in White Parasol City.
• Tong Chengxian led Tang Yan and Shopkeeper Qin to Cloudtop Pavilion, where a female steward brought them to the ninth floor and summoned eighteen Heaven Tier women.

Tang Yan strengthened his business ties with Tong Chengxian and Shopkeeper Qin, then secretly captured Tong Chengxian in God's Domain and established control over him. He returned to the pavilion with Tong Chengxian, left Shopkeeper Qin to the beauties, and departed before the sect grew suspicious.

• Tang Yan hosted Tong Chengxian and Shopkeeper Qin, gave Tong Chengxian Frost Crystal Spirit Tea, and advised both merchants to prepare high-grade resources for future orders.
• Tang Yan dismissed the beauties, promised Tong Chengxian a better purchase price, and revealed that his disguised identity was Zhang Wuji and that he had early Dominion Realm strength.
• After Tong Chengxian drank wine, a hidden formation activated and Tang Yan transported him into God's Domain, where he severely wounded him and established a connection with a glowing green speck.
• Tang Yan gave Tong Chengxian a pill and returned with him to the table, where Tong Chengxian claimed they had discussed business privately.
• Tang Yan left the pavilion, while Tong Chengxian persuaded Shopkeeper Qin to take the beauties to the private rooms.

Tang Yan used Tong Chengxian as a hidden pawn while returning to Clear Sky Peak and spending a quiet few days improving his cultivation and pill knowledge. In Scorpion City, Fang Xuan and his companions decided to join the Demon Sect to search for Tang Yan, but failed to negotiate with either major pill power and turned their attention to the Pure Pill Workshop.

• Tang Yan reviewed Tong Chengxian’s memories, learned about the Divine Clan’s ranks and Niuhuang Ridge Branch, and decided to leave the Divine Envoy in place while planning how to capture the branch.
• Tang Yan returned to Clear Sky Peak with clothes and Monkey Wine for the Female Demon, praised her outfit, and claimed he was still learning to refine the Gathering Essence True Yang Pill.
• Tang Yan put Spirit Stones into the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron and reached the late Supreme Venerable Realm, then spent several peaceful days studying, trading, and improving pill formulas.
• Fang Xuan and his companions agreed to join the Demon Sect if necessary to find Tang Yan, and Du Shu and Heavenly Enchantress tried to negotiate with the Myriad Pill Tower and the Pill Alliance.
• After both negotiations ended with Du Shu and Heavenly Enchantress being beaten out, Du Shu suggested investigating the Pure Pill Workshop, and two young people arrived at its courtyard gate and knocked.

Du Shu and Fang Xuan secured a partnership with Yue Dongli to revive the Pure Pill Workshop, leaving Du Shu to begin reorganizing its business. The chapter ended as Tang Yan was reading at Clear Sky Peak when someone knocked at his gate.

• Du Shu and Fang Xuan visited Yue Dongli and proposed taking over the Pure Pill Workshop's operations with new pill formulas and a plan to restore its business.
• Yue Dongli negotiated their share of the profits down from sixty percent to forty percent, and both sides signed a detailed cooperation agreement by dawn.
• Du Shu ordered the Pure Pill Workshop to close its shops in three cities, recall its alchemy masters, and focus on expanding its Scorpion City shop.
• Tang Yan was reading in the courtyard at Clear Sky Peak when a sudden knock sounded at the gate.

Tang Yan led five core disciples to investigate an Earth Abyss passage at Mingqiu Ridge and chose a Demon Refining Pot as his Immortal Artifact reward. After Gu Lingdi adopted a white fox, the group entered a vast, mist-shrouded abyss, where Gu Lingdi ordered Tang Yan to descend alone and check whether it was the passage.

• Ma Shanjing delivered a mission briefing assigning Tang Yan to lead five core disciples in sealing an Earth Abyss passage at Mingqiu Ridge.
• Tang Yan redeemed his reward for the Spirit Cliff Cave mission and chose a Demon Refining Pot from the Immortal Artifacts.
• Tang Yan met Duan Yin, Gu Lingdi, Jia Shijian, Gu Ronggen, and Zhang Bang at the Main Peak and led them toward Mingqiu Ridge.
• At the cave entrance, Gu Lingdi fed and adopted a little white fox while Tang Yan and the others prepared to investigate.
• The six entered the cave and found a huge, dark abyss fed by water seeping through the rock walls.
• Gu Lingdi ordered Tang Yan to descend into the abyss alone and call the others if it was the Earth Abyss.

Tang Yan led the team into the fog-filled abyss, where hidden spikes carrying deadly poison attacked them from the mist and rock walls. He protected the Core Disciples, exposed the demons’ hiding place, and identified the creature he dragged from the wall as a Mountain Vine Strength Demon.

• Tang Yan warned the team about the dangers of the abyss, but Gu Lingdi dismissed his cautions as they descended.
• Tang Yan blocked poisoned spikes aimed at Jia Shijian and Duan Yin, then helped the team defend against attacks from the fog and rock walls.
• Tang Yan used a formation to clear the fog and noticed that the spikes continued to target the group despite their concealed auras.
• Tang Yan found movement inside a rock wall, drew out a tentacled demon, and used it to shield himself from incoming spikes.
• Tang Yan recognized the demon as a Mountain Vine Strength Demon.

Tang Yan exposed and killed the white fox demon that had been guiding Mountain Vine Strength Demons, then led his group deeper into the mist. After discovering Black Pine Demon poison mist, he prepared to contain it as ten armed demons appeared before them.

• Tang Yan used a Wind-Fire Grand Formation to clear the mist and identified Gu Lingdi’s white fox as a demon that had revealed their position.
• Gu Lingdi refused to surrender the fox, so Tang Yan defeated her and cut the fox in two when she held it up to protect herself.
• Tang Yan pulled a Mountain Vine Strength Demon from the rock wall and used the Demon Refining Pot to capture it and the fox, confirming the fox was a demon.
• Tang Yan’s group descended farther after the mist gathered again, and no more spikes attacked them without the fox guiding the demons.
• Tang Yan noticed Black Pine Demon poison mist corroding their shields and warned the group not to let their shields break.
• Ten black-scaled demons carrying Mystic Weapon sabers appeared before Tang Yan and his companions.

Tang Yan used his swordsmanship and exceptional close-combat skills to kill all ten Black Generals as his group descended toward the bottom of the abyss. Meanwhile, in Mingqiu Ridge, a Demon Sect man confronted a Mystic Maiden Sect woman who had followed him and attacked her with the power of a Nirvana Realm expert.

• Tang Yan explained the Black Generals’ defenses, then Duan Yin tested one with a punch and failed to move him.
• Tang Yan killed the leading Black General by redirecting his sword around the demon’s defenses and cutting his neck.
• Tang Yan used the Heavy Sword to defeat the Black Generals’ close-range attacks and killed two more, astonishing the onlookers.
• Black General Number Four ordered a retreat, but Tang Yan stopped the demons and killed all ten before collecting their corpses in the Demon Refining Pot.
• Tang Yan told Duan Yin and the others they were near the bottom of the abyss and led them onward.
• In Mingqiu Ridge, a Demon Sect man confronted a Mystic Maiden Sect woman who had tracked him, then attacked her with a palm strike that trapped her retreat.

Tang Yan sealed the Earth Abyss passage with his companions, then discovered a Demon Sect assassin attacking Yingyu and rescued her. While searching Yingyu’s Storage Ring, he found Feng Chenye’s token, engraved with “Ye” and “Fengyun.”

• Tang Yan killed the Black General that emerged from the barrier and led his companions in sealing the Earth Abyss passage.
• Tang Yan lured out and killed five Mountain Vine Strength Demons, then prepared to return with his companions to turn in the mission.
• After hearing fighting nearby, Tang Yan concealed himself and saw a cloaked Nirvana Realm man cut Yingyu in half and threaten to assault her.
• Tang Yan killed the cloaked man, refined his Divine Soul, and took his Storage Ring before asking Yingyu about her last wishes.
• Yingyu asked Tang Yan to bury her and warn the Mystic Maiden Sect that the Demon Sect was using Earth Abyss passages to target disciples.
• Tang Yan searched Yingyu’s Storage Ring and found Feng Chenye’s token, marked “Ye” and “Fengyun.”

Tang Yan used the Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill to restore Yingyu’s body, then returned to the sect and completed his mission. On Mid-Autumn Festival, he asked the Female Demon for permission to go home, but she demanded he prove he had mastered the Gathering Essence True Yang Pill first.

• Yingyu told Tang Yan how she had given Feng Chenye a Thousand Connections Pavilion token to help him find Meng Yao.
• Tang Yan recalled the Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill formula, refined five pills, and used one to heal Yingyu’s severed body.
• Yingyu offered Tang Yan a Mystic Maiden Sect token, and they agreed she would send word when the Thousand Connections Pavilion learned Feng Chenye’s whereabouts.
• Tang Yan and his senior brothers and sisters returned to the sect, where he reported the Demon Sect’s plan and completed his first Sect Mission.
• Tang Yan asked the Female Demon to let him go home for Mid-Autumn Festival, but she ordered him to refine the Gathering Essence True Yang Pill to prove his claim that he had mastered it.

Tang Yan returned to Reach the Summit after impressing Rao Baoyue with his pill refining and learned that Fang Xuan and several companions had gone to the Spirit Wilderness Realm to find him. At the Mystic Maiden Sect, Qinglan learned how Tang Yan had saved Yingyu and decided to repay him by inviting him to the Immortal Pool.

• Tang Yan refined six high-grade pills for Rao Baoyue, who suspected he had been hiding his skill, then dismissed him until the next day.
• Tang Yan used the Void Child Pearl to return to Reach the Summit and learned that Fang Xuan had gone to the Spirit Wilderness Realm with Du Shu, Lin Dongxue, Zi Yun, Heavenly Enchantress, and Lei Yu.
• Tang Yan praised Yu Juechen for managing the faction and reunited with Reach the Summit's core members.
• Yingyu told Qinglan how Tang Yan had saved her with a Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill made using a ghost-faced spirit ginseng.
• Qinglan decided to repay Tang Yan by inviting him to the Immortal Pool, which would open the following month.

Rao Baoyue told Rao Xinliu that she could no longer refine the Essence-Burning Life-Extending Pill because its main ingredient was gone, putting the Pill Alliance and her family’s reputation at risk. After Tang Yan returned late from visiting his grandfather, Rao Baoyue gave Rao Xinliu a Dragon Pillar she had saved for her.

• Rao Baoyue welcomed her sister Rao Xinliu, who had come to collect the Essence-Burning Life-Extending Pill, and admitted that the main ingredient was gone.
• Rao Baoyue explained how Tang Yan and Yan Biao’s actions had caused the ingredient’s loss, while Rao Xinliu feared the consequences for Leng Shi and the Pill Alliance.
• Rao Xinliu admired the formations in Rao Baoyue’s hot spring courtyard and learned that Tang Yan had designed them and possessed talent for formations.
• Tang Yan said farewell to Tang Ling and Uncle Mo, then returned to Clear Sky Peak half an hour late after spending lunch with his grandfather.
• Rao Baoyue gave Rao Xinliu one of two Dragon Pillars she had saved for her.

Rao Baoyue learned that Tang Yan had tricked her into using the Dragon Pillar as a weapon, ruining her reputation, and confronted him. She stopped just before striking him when he promised to find undying wood, then accepted a specimen he claimed to have bought at the Trading Base.

• Rao Xinliu explained to Rao Baoyue what the Dragon Pillar really was and warned that her reputation was probably already ruined.
• Rao Baoyue blamed Tang Yan and used the Wings-Together Palm to summon him to the hot spring courtyard.
• Rao Baoyue confronted Tang Yan about the Dragon Pillar and raised it to punish him when he refused to tell the truth.
• Tang Yan promised he could find undying wood, and Rao Baoyue stopped the Dragon Pillar before it struck him.
• Tang Yan gave Rao Baoyue a specimen of undying wood and claimed he had bought it at the Trading Base.

Tang Yan reconciled with Rao Baoyue, agreed to study alchemy under her while continuing to seek his missing parents, and received a promotion to True Inheritance Disciple. Meanwhile, Yue Dongli led a flamboyant Pindanpin promotional parade through Scorpion City.

• Rao Baoyue explained that she had targeted Tang Yan over the undying wood, settled their grievances, and offered to erase his Wings-Together Palm mark.
• Tang Yan told Rao Baoyue he would study alchemy under her but needed to search for his missing parents, Zhong Jinxiu and Tang Wutian.
• Rao Baoyue advised Tang Yan to cultivate and use the Pill Alliance's resources to help find his parents, then promoted him to True Inheritance Disciple.
• Tang Yan went to Main Peak to register and considered earning contribution points by pursuing Tong Chengxian and the Divine Clan.
• Yue Dongli led a parade in Scorpion City advertising Pindanpin's grand opening with floats, promotional slogans, and a catchy song.

Du Shu launched Pindanpin in Scorpion City with steep discounts and group-buy promotions, drawing a huge crowd and earning a profit on opening day. He and Yue Dongli planned to build a loyal customer base, recruit alchemy masters, and expand into other cities.

• Du Shu spread Pindanpin's name across Scorpion City with advertisements and a catchy shop song before its August 19 opening.
• Tang Yan offered the Trading Base shopkeepers discounts on their next two exchanges and completed their orders before returning to the sect.
• Pindanpin opened with membership cards, group-buy discounts, and a buy-five-get-one-free promotion, prompting customers to form groups and sing the shop song as they bought pills.
• Pindanpin's accountant reported opening-day sales of 76,468 low-grade spirit stones and a gross profit of 6,600 spirit stones.
• Du Shu told Yue Dongli that Pindanpin would build repeat business through its member cards, recruit alchemy masters from rival shops, and prepare to expand into another city.