Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan learned twelve pill formulas from Rao Baoyue and returned to the Trading Base, while a surge in herb purchases and pill sales led the Pill Alliance to suspect the Myriad Pill Tower or someone within its ranks. The alliance ordered an investigation into Zhang San, the Trading Base intermediary who handled the mysterious trade.

• Du Shu advised Yue Dongli to expand Pindanpin through guest Alchemy Masters and cooperation with smaller alchemy organizations, prioritizing market growth over profit.
• Rao Baoyue taught Tang Yan the Chaos Rebirth Pill formula, and Tang Yan refined six high-grade pills; she then gave him twelve formulas and explained how to earn contribution points.
• Tang Yan accepted an alchemy mission but avoided aggressively earning contribution points, then found the Trading Base empty the next day because its shopkeepers were holding goods for a later discount.
• Mysterious buyers drove up herb prices across several regions, while pill prices rose and the Pill Alliance's revenue fell as more high-quality pills entered the market.
• Kong Jingmei told Lin Jiuyuan and the Elders that the herb buyers had appeared at the Trading Base and that Zhang San handled their dealings, prompting Lin Jiuyuan to order an unrestricted investigation.

Tong Chengxian reported his success in trading for pills and was promoted by Xu Mao, while Yingyu reunited with Feng Chenye and Meng Yao and told them how Tang Yan had saved her. Tang Yan collected a large order from ten shopkeepers, planning to use the resulting trade to draw out the Divine Clan, as a ghostlike figure followed him toward the Pill Alliance.

• Tong Chengxian gave Xu Mao the pills he had acquired, earned a promotion to Four-Star Copper Envoy, and received a drop of Divine Liquid.
• Yingyu visited Feng Chenye and Meng Yao, accepted Meng Yao’s jade token, and revealed that Tang Yan had saved her with a Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill.
• Feng Chenye and Meng Yao agreed to visit Tang Yan, and Yingyu joined them as they flew toward the Pill Alliance.
• Tang Yan met ten shopkeepers at the Trading Base and accepted their large stocks of medicinal ingredients and spirit stones in exchange for discounted pills.
• Tang Yan headed for the Pill Alliance to fulfill the orders, while a ghostlike figure followed him.

Tang Yan was pursued by the Pill Alliance and prepared a false identity as Zhang Wuji, a successor of the long-destroyed Pill Transmission Mountain. After the Enforcement Hall arrested him, his fabricated Identity Token convinced Hall Master Tao Tianye that he was likely genuine, and Tao Tianye apologized while sending the Token to the Alliance Leader for verification.

• Tang Yan evaded a pursuer with the Stars-Shifting Array, refined pills in God's Domain, and sent supplies to his courtyard using a Rainbow Mountain Magpie.
• Tang Yan made an Identity Token and returned to the Trading Base, where he delivered the shopkeepers' pills before two Enforcement Hall men arrested him.
• Liao Lan checked Tang Yan's face for a disguise, while Tao Tianye searched his Storage Ring and questioned his identity.
• Tang Yan claimed to be Zhang Wuji, the Left Guardian of Pill Transmission Mountain, and recounted the sect's destruction by the Demon Sect three thousand years earlier.
• Liao Lan found Tang Yan's Identity Token, and Tao Tianye became convinced it might be genuine, untied Tang Yan, and sent it to the Alliance Leader for verification.

Tang Yan used his supposed identity as Zhang Wuji of Pill Transmission Mountain to explain the sect’s history to Lin Jiuyuan and secure the Pill Alliance’s cooperation. After flirting with Rao Baoyue to build trust between the sects, he followed her to Clear Sky Peak, where she asked whether he would spank her.

• Lin Jiuyuan verified Tang Yan’s Token, apologized for the Enforcement Hall’s actions, and invited Pill Transmission Mountain to trade directly with the Pill Alliance.
• Tang Yan said Pill Transmission Mountain had survived in seclusion for three thousand years, now numbered about a hundred, and could not reveal its location because of a blood feud.
• Tang Yan proposed courting Rao Baoyue as a way to build trust between their sects, and Rao Baoyue invited him to visit Clear Sky Peak every two days.
• Tang Yan agreed to visit Rao Baoyue and explained their supposed bond as quantum entanglement while they shared tea.
• Rao Baoyue asked Tang Yan whether he would spank her big butt.

Tang Yan met Rao Baoyue as Guardian Zhang, but she teased and pressured him until he handed over the Meridian-Forging Mountain-Breaking Pill formula. He tried to leave after rejecting her, only to learn she still had a Wings-Together Palm mark on him and could track him.

• Rao Baoyue showed Tang Yan a Dragon Pillar and questioned him about the Meridian-Forging Mountain-Breaking Pill, and he explained how its formula reduced costs by twenty-five percent.
• Rao Baoyue offered to marry Zhang Wuji in exchange for the formula, and Tang Yan gave it to her when she agreed to let him kiss her.
• Tang Yan changed his mind about kissing Rao Baoyue, declared that he was ending their relationship, and tried to leave after giving her the formula as compensation for Elder Rao.
• Rao Baoyue stopped Tang Yan with her aura and questioned his insult, while he invoked the Pill Alliance’s reputation to pressure her into letting him pass.
• Rao Baoyue revealed she had not erased the Wings-Together Palm mark, and Tang Yan froze before babbling incoherently as she demanded he repeat his threat to spank her.

Tang Yan tried to escape punishment from Rao Baoyue by confessing his supposed love and reciting poems, and she let him leave. She later summoned him again and began questioning his identity and the source of his pills.

• Tang Yan accused Rao Baoyue of leaving his Wings-Together Palm intact, then resumed his true appearance when she ordered him to.
• Rao Baoyue threatened to punish Tang Yan with the Fascia Gun, so he claimed his affection for her was genuine and described how it had grown.
• Tang Yan recited poems comparing Rao Baoyue to a verdant mountain and the moon in his heart, and she dismissed him after telling him to forget his feelings.
• Rao Baoyue reconsidered her unanswered questions and summoned Tang Yan back to her courtyard.
• Rao Baoyue asked Tang Yan how he changed his appearance, then questioned who he was and how he obtained the Meridian-Forging Mountain-Breaking Pills.

Tang Yan revealed his extraordinary alchemy ability to Rao Baoyue, who warned him to keep it secret and put him to work refining pills for the sect. The next day, Tang Yan reunited with Feng Chenye and met Meng Yao and Yingyu, and the gathering turned into a contest of absurd poetry.

• Tang Yan used the Heaven-Earth Creation Flame to refine a hundred Gathering Essence True Yang Pills before Rao Baoyue, revealing that his alchemy ability went beyond the inheritance he had claimed to receive.
• Rao Baoyue warned Tang Yan that the Demon Sect might capture him as a Pill Slave, then taught him the Pill Alliance's formulas and ordered him to refine two thousand pills of each for the sect.
• Rao Baoyue watched Tang Yan rapidly produce the pills and realized how far his Pill Dao talent surpassed her own.
• Feng Chenye, Meng Yao, and Yingyu visited Tang Yan, and Feng Chenye explained how he had joined the Academy and met Meng Yao.
• Tang Yan and Feng Chenye exchanged ridiculous poems, while Yingyu struggled to contain her reaction and Meng Yao glared at them.

Tang Yan reunited with Feng Chenye and Meng Yao, arranged for his friends to search for his missing parents and companions, and bid the three farewell with a poem that strengthened Feng Chenye and Meng Yao. He later met with Guan Zirong and returned to the Trading Base in disguise, where he pretended his partnership with the shopkeepers had ended and invited Shopkeeper Qin and Tong Chengxian to drink.

• Tang Yan accepted Yingyu’s invitation to the Mystic Maiden Sect’s Immortal Pool and asked Feng Chenye to investigate his missing parents, Fang Xuan, Du Shu, and their companions.
• Feng Chenye told Tang Yan he planned to visit the Thousand Connections Pavilion and travel with Meng Yao; the three departed after Tang Yan recited a parting poem that filled the area with literary qi.
• Rao Baoyue heard Tang Yan’s poem from Clear Sky Peak and praised his spirit.
• Guan Zirong visited Tang Yan, revealed he had found no clues about Tang Yan’s parents, and stayed to talk before leaving the next day.
• Tang Yan skipped two trading days, then disguised himself as Zhang San and told the shopkeepers that the Pill Alliance had ended their partnership.
• Tang Yan bought Monkey Wine from Shopkeeper Qin and invited him and Tong Chengxian to close their stalls and go drinking.

Tang Yan used a secret meeting with Shopkeeper Qin and Tong Chengxian to make them believe the Pill Alliance planned to defect to the Myriad Pill Tower, hoping to draw out Tong Chengxian’s powerful backers. Elsewhere, Feng Chenye learned that his friends were in the Southern Region, while Ling Jiangliu confronted the Scorpion City Pill Shop’s manager over its falling revenue.

• Tang Yan told Shopkeeper Qin and Tong Chengxian that the Pill Alliance president planned to defect to the Myriad Pill Tower, and Tong Chengxian offered to bring his own sect into negotiations.
• Tang Yan returned to his sect while Tong Chengxian hurried to Niuhuang Ridge, as Tang Yan hoped to lure out Tong Chengxian’s superior and advance his God-Hunting Plan.
• Profound Pupil divined that Tang Wutian was in the Southern Region and that Du Shu and Fang Xuan were likely there too, though the latter divination injured him.
• Ling Jiangliu arrived at the Myriad Pill Tower’s Scorpion City shop and reprimanded Shopkeeper Han because its revenue had dropped thirty percent in half a month.

Ling Jiangliu investigated Pindanpin’s growing popularity and realized its success might stem from more than its low prices. Tang Yan arrived at the Mystic Maiden Sect to discuss his reward for saving Yingyu, and Immortal Maiden Qinglan summoned nine young women after learning he was not betrothed but loved someone.

• Han Yuchuan blamed the Pure Pill Workshop’s marketing tactics for the Myriad Pill Tower and Pill Alliance losing revenue, and Ling Jiangliu agreed to watch the market before deciding whether to hold him responsible.
• Ling Jiangliu saw Pindanpin advertisements, heard children singing its jingle, and listened to a storyteller praise its mission and affordable pills.
• Ling Jiangliu observed Pindanpin’s crowded shop and began to suspect its popularity had causes beyond low prices.
• Tang Yan used the Void Child Pearl to meet Immortal Maiden Qinglan at the Mystic Maiden Sect and modestly asked for a reward connected to the Immortal Pool.
• Qinglan asked whether Tang Yan was betrothed, and after he said he loved another woman, she clapped and summoned nine young women.

Tang Yan faced a seduction test devised by Qinglan and the elders of the Mystic Maiden Sect to judge whether he could be trusted around the women entering the Immortal Pool. He resisted the nine charm cultivators for an hour and a half, earning permission to enter the pool, while Yingyu wondered whether she could only become his sister.

• Qinglan arranged for nine charm cultivators to tempt Tang Yan and keep him in the courtyard until their meeting the next day.
• Yingyu and the elders watched Tang Yan through a bronze mirror as Qinglan explained that the test would protect the sect's disciples and their reputations.
• Tang Yan recognized the women's charm techniques, refused to leave because they pleaded that Qinglan would punish them, and read a book behind a Spirit Power shield.
• After Tang Yan remained unmoved for an hour, Yingyu declared that he had passed, but Qinglan ordered the Sixth Elder to intensify the test.
• Tang Yan ignored the stronger charms for another half hour, so Qinglan and the elders concluded that he did not like women and agreed to let him enter the Immortal Pool.
• Yingyu felt relieved that Tang Yan had passed, then wondered if she could only be sisters with him.

Tang Yan entered the Mystic Maiden Sect's Immortal Pool after passing a test of self-control. When the disciples tried to tempt him into turning around, he stayed true to his promise, while their teasing escalated into a contest to see who could make him look.

• Immortal Maiden Qinglan revealed that the sect had tested Tang Yan and told him he could enter the Immortal Pool the next day.
• Tang Yan entered the pool at Jade Peak, sat facing away from the other disciples, and waited for it to activate.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron absorbed the pool's spiritual qi as the disciples discussed why Tang Yan had been allowed into the pool.
• A group of disciples teased Tang Yan and splashed him, but he refused to turn around, mindful of their reputations and his promise to Qinglan.
• The woman with the teardrop mole announced that Tang Yan liked women, prompting the disciples to compete over who could make him turn around.

Tang Yan resisted the Mystic Maiden Sect disciples’ attempts to tempt him and reached enlightenment in the Immortal Pool. He broke through to the late Nirvana Realm, but his Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron drained the pool’s Spiritual Qi, leaving Qinglan and the Elders watching him.

• Tang Yan questioned his desires and turned away from the women, refusing to open his eyes despite their efforts to tempt him.
• When Hong Xue challenged his motives, Tang Yan explained his insight into desire and white-bone contemplation, entering a profound state of enlightenment.
• Qinglan and the Elders watched a replay of the women’s teasing and praised Tang Yan’s restraint and insight.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron devoured the Immortal Pool’s Spiritual Qi, and Qinglan ordered the other disciples to leave once the pool was drained.
• Tang Yan broke through from the Supreme Venerable Realm to the late Nirvana Realm and realized that his cauldron had consumed all the pool’s Spiritual Qi.

After Tang Yan drained the Mystic Maiden Sect’s Immortal Pool, Qinglan accepted the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art as compensation and began cultivating it with him. Impressed by its benefits, she arranged for Tang Yan to reside at the sect and visit when he could, while Xu Mao learned that his plan to obtain pills through the Pill Alliance had failed.

• Tang Yan admitted that he had absorbed all the Spiritual Qi in the Immortal Pool and offered pills or the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art as compensation.
• Qinglan rejected Tang Yan’s offer of pills, proposed that he take a sect disciple as a Dao companion, and accepted the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art after Tang Yan declined.
• Qinglan took Tang Yan to her courtyard and cultivated the Ice Heart Jade Pot Art with him for a day, finding that it improved her Spirit Power and Divine Soul and loosened her Martial Dao shackles.
• Qinglan arranged for Tang Yan to live in the Mystic Maiden Sect and visit when he could, and the Sixth Elder responsible for the Charm Cultivators later slipped into his courtyard.
• Tong Chengxian told Xu Mao that the Pill Alliance had forbidden Zhang San’s faction from selling pills, ending their trading route, then said there was still a chance to turn things around.

Xu Mao tested Tong Chengxian’s loyalty, then agreed to recruit the disgruntled Pill Alliance president into the Divine Clan. Meanwhile, Du Shu outmaneuvered the Myriad Pill Tower’s price war, and Ling Jiangliu ordered men to bring him in.

• Tong Chengxian told Xu Mao that the Pill Alliance president was preparing to defect, and Xu Mao tested Tong’s loyalty before agreeing to approach the Pill Alliance.
• Ling Jiangliu approved Han Yuchuan’s plan to slash prices against Pindanpin, while Han promised to increase the Myriad Pill Tower’s sales.
• Yue Dongli told Du Shu about the discounts, and Du instructed him to buy up the promotional pills and resell them through Pindanpin with purchase limits.
• Ling Jiangliu discovered that Pindanpin had been buying the Myriad Pill Tower’s discounted pills and blamed Han Yuchuan for helping its rival.
• Ling Jiangliu concluded that Du Shu was behind Pindanpin’s success and ordered his subordinates to bring Shopkeeper Du to him.

Tang Yan demonstrated his late-stage Nirvana Realm cultivation and exceptional pill-making ability to Rao Baoyue and the Pill Alliance elders, earning direct promotion to Chief Disciple. The Alliance Leader agreed to search for Tang Yan’s missing parents, while Rao Baoyue was ordered to recruit thirty disciples and Tang Yan prepared to take on Grade A missions.

• Tang Yan visited Rao Baoyue and revealed that he had reached the late stage of the Nirvana Realm and could refine Profound Pills.
• Tang Yan refined six Immortality Pills, convincing Rao Baoyue to summon the Alliance Leader and elders to witness his skill.
• The Alliance Leader and elders agreed to make Tang Yan a Chief Disciple without using one of the twenty slots and praised Rao Baoyue’s teaching.
• Rao Baoyue asked the Alliance Leader to use the sect’s resources to find Tang Yan’s missing parents, and he agreed to investigate.
• The Alliance Leader ordered Rao Baoyue to recruit at least thirty disciples, and Tang Yan offered to help teach them.
• Tang Yan told Rao Baoyue that he intended to take on several Grade A missions.

Tang Yan told Rao Baoyue about his plan to lure Divine Clan envoys into a trap and asked her to pose as the president. In the Southern Region, the Demon Sect attacked the Yue estate to recruit Du Shu, who agreed to negotiate only if the Yue Lineage was spared and the terms suited him.

• Tang Yan explained that he had controlled Divine Clan Copper Envoy Tong Chengxian and arranged to meet Silver Envoy Xu Mao at Pengtian Ridge, asking Rao Baoyue to impersonate the group's president.
• Rao Baoyue approved the plan, and Tang Yan informed Tong Chengxian that the president would travel to the Southern Region in three days.
• Ling Jiangliu welcomed Ye Xingye and his reinforcements, and they soon surrounded and attacked the Yue estate to take Shopkeeper Du.
• Du Shu threatened to kill himself, forcing Ye Xingye to halt the attack, then demanded that the Demon Sect spare the Yue Lineage and offer acceptable terms before he joined the Myriad Pill Tower.

Du Shu joined the Demon Sect to save the Yue Lineage, then warned Yue Dongli to leave Scorpion City. Meanwhile, Tang Yan and the Female Demon captured Silver Envoy Xu Mao and learned about the Divine Clan’s western network, leaving them planning to lure out Gold-Rank Envoy Flying Thunder.

• Du Shu joined the Demon Sect, urged Yue Dongli to take the Yue Lineage out of Scorpion City, and left with Ling Jiangliu’s group.
• Yue Dongli defended Du Shu from the Yue Lineage members who accused him of abandoning them, then agreed to leave that day.
• At the Demon Sect’s headquarters, Du Shu asked Ling Jiangliu for information on prominent alchemy organizations in the Spirit Wilderness Realm.
• Tang Yan and the Female Demon met Tong Chengxian at Pengtian Ridge, where they ambushed and captured Xu Mao.
• Tang Yan used a secret mind-control art to make Xu Mao reveal the Divine Clan’s hierarchy and the location of its Western Region base.
• Tang Yan planned to send Xu Mao back to report that he had recruited defecting Alchemy Masters, hoping to draw Flying Thunder out and capture him.

Tang Yan helped Rao Baoyue negotiate the Divine Pills Association’s possible defection to the Divine Clan while hiding his control over Xu Mao and Tong Chengxian. After arranging a follow-up meeting, Tang Yan erased the envoys’ memories, and he and Rao Baoyue returned to Clear Sky Peak.

• Tang Yan instructed Rao Baoyue to negotiate with Xu Mao as the president of the Divine Pills Association.
• Xu Mao revealed that he represented the Divine Clan and offered protection, resources, and a Gold Envoy position in exchange for the Association joining them.
• Rao Baoyue demanded divine-soul oaths from Xu Mao and Tong Chengxian, a meeting with their Great Guardian, and a guarantee that the Association could leave safely if cooperation failed.
• Xu Mao and Rao Baoyue agreed to meet again on October tenth, after Rao Baoyue staged her death during a dangerous mission.
• Tang Yan erased Xu Mao and Tong Chengxian’s memories of being controlled and replaced them with memories of the negotiation.
• Rao Baoyue confronted Tang Yan about his secrecy, then told him to return with her to Clear Sky Peak.

Du Shu explained how Pindanpin won customers in Scorpion City and negotiated a position managing the Myriad Pill Tower. He accepted Ma Tengyun’s terms and became its head shopkeeper, with plans for its development still to come.

• Lu Fengzong asked Du Shu why Pindanpin had succeeded, and Du Shu said its marketing had convinced customers it offered the best value.
• Du Shu proposed expanding across the Spirit Wasteland and partnering with other alchemy powers, impressing Lu Fengzong with his ambitions.
• Lu Fengzong summoned Ma Tengyun and offered Du Shu a role managing the Myriad Pill Tower; Du Shu demanded a share of profits, but Lu Fengzong refused.
• Du Shu asked for sole authority over the Tower’s operations, and Ma Tengyun agreed to grant him control after an initial period of reporting and oversight.
• Ma Tengyun appointed Du Shu head shopkeeper and asked how he planned to develop the Myriad Pill Tower.