Recaps

Yang Tianyou brought Yang Xuanye and the Shadow Hall clansmen to Haiyuan City to prepare the Yang Household’s expansion into the Chaotic Sea. The clansmen began gathering intelligence while Yang Tianyou and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators worked to secure an island and build connections.

• Yang Tianyou met Yang Xuanye and the Shadow Hall clansmen, praised their service, and promised to rotate them home in twenty years as the Lineage grew.
• Yang Tianyou took the group aboard the Bianhe Boat and traveled to Haiyuan City.
• Yang Tianyou rented a courtyard and assigned the Qi Refining clansmen to gather information about the Four Symbols Nine Trials and report it to Yang Xuanye.
• Yang Tianyou and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators split up to buy an island, acquire resources, and make connections in Haiyuan City.

Yang Tianyou searched the Sea Abyss Pavilion for a suitable island to rent for the Yang Household but found none that met his needs. He left undecided, weighing the dangers of remote islands against the cost of upgrading one himself.

• Yang Tianyou visited the Sea Abyss Pavilion to find an island for the Yang Household.
• A Sea Abyss Sect disciple showed Yang Tianyou a chart of the islands and suggested renting a First-Tier island and upgrading it.
• Yang Tianyou realized that upgrading a rented island would ultimately benefit the Sea Abyss Sect, while renting a suitable existing Tier 2 island remained difficult.
• Yang Tianyou left without renting an island and worried that an island on the Outer Periphery would be vulnerable after he left the Chaotic Sea.
• Yang Tianyou considered disguising himself as an Evil Cultivator to seize an inner-region island, but rejected the idea to protect the Yang Household's principles and future.

Yang Tianyou taught Yang Xuanye how to pursue the Yang Household’s claim to Coiled Snake Island without secretly instigating the Fu Household’s destruction. They left for the island to wait for the Fu Household’s injured cultivator to flee toward Sea Abyss Island.

• Yang Tianyou read intelligence that the Fu Household had lost its Foundation Establishment ancestor and that its remaining cultivator was gravely injured, drawing other lineages’ interest in Coiled Snake Island.
• Yang Xuanye proposed letting rival Foundation Establishment Cultivators attack the Fu Household, then saving some of its direct descendants so the Yang Household could control the island through them.
• Yang Tianyou rejected secretly provoking the attack, warning that the plan could leave the Fu Household with cause to turn against the Yang Household later.
• Yang Tianyou taught Yang Xuanye to favor open schemes when developing the lineage, while using covert methods only for minor matters.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Xuanye set out for Coiled Snake Island to wait for the Fu Household’s injured cultivator to flee toward Sea Abyss Island.

Fu Renli fled Coiled Snake Island with the Fu Household, but the group was ambushed at sea by rival cultivators who fought over their boat and survivors. Yang Tianyou and his companions killed the attackers, leaving the surviving Fu Household cultivators in his care.

• Fu Renli ordered the Fu Household to gather its supplies and flee Coiled Snake Island after an Evil Cultivator disrupted his healing.
• A group of cultivators trapped the Fu Household's Flying Boat at sea, and Fu Renli abandoned his people before the fake monk Old Man of a Hundred Transformations killed him.
• The Old Man of a Hundred Transformations and other Foundation Establishment Cultivators fought over the Flying Boat while a young couple tried to rescue Fu Household members.
• Yang Tianyou used concealed Starlight to kill two hidden cultivators, then directed his companions in defeating the remaining attackers, including the Old Man of a Hundred Transformations.
• Yang Tianyou approached the surviving Fu Household cultivators and told them they were safe.

After securing Coiled Snake Island as a foothold for the Yang Household, Yang Tianyou traveled with five Foundation Establishment cultivators to Four Symbols Island for the Four Symbols Nine Trials. On the journey, he heard about the many powerful geniuses expected to take part, leaving him to reflect on how crowded the realm’s ranks of talent were.

• Yang Tianyou left Yang Xuanye to restore Coiled Snake Island, and three days later Yang Xuanye had repaired its defenses and Spirit Fields and begun integrating its people and surviving Fu Household cultivators.
• Over the next two years, Yang Xuanye established a stable commercial network, and Yang Tianyou decided his work on Coiled Snake Island was complete.
• Yang Tianyou booked six tickets at Sea Abyss Pavilion and traveled with five Yang Household Foundation Establishment cultivators to Four Symbols Island.
• In the Flying Boat’s social hall, the Wang Surname Cultivator listed prominent Foundation Establishment geniuses expected at the Four Symbols Nine Trials.
• Yang Tianyou listened to the reports and concluded that the gathering held an overwhelming number of cultivators capable of fighting Golden Core opponents.

Yang Tianyou arrived at Four Symbols Island and explored its central city, including the Eight Desolations Arena. After hearing that two fairy geniuses were fighting publicly, he joined the crowd and saw the women facing off.

• Yang Tianyou and his clansmen reached Four Symbols Island and flew to its central region.
• Yang Tianyou visited the Eight Desolations Arena, watched two Foundation Establishment cultivators fight, and chose not to enter the arena himself.
• Yang Tianyou learned that two fairy geniuses were fighting in the outer arena and followed the crowd to watch.
• Yang Tianyou saw a woman in red and a woman in blue standing opposite each other on the grassy field.

Yang Tianyou watched Fairy Danzhu defeat Fairy Qingxuan and sensed that Qingxuan was hiding a powerful ability. He then brought his clansmen to the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds and entered a room to access its anonymous marketplace.

• Yang Tianyou used his ocular technique to judge Fairy Qingxuan as stronger and sensed a hidden Divine Ability Prototype within her.
• Fairy Danzhu defeated Fairy Qingxuan after three hundred exchanges with the Fire-Separating Heart-Piercing Needle, while Qingxuan wondered who had been watching her.
• Yang Tianyou led his clansmen from the arena to the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds, a vast market protected by the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation.
• Yang Tianyou entered a pillar, paid ten Spirit Stones to open an unoccupied room, and found a meditation cushion, a luminous pearl, and Fragrant Incense inside.

Yang Tianyou explored the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation’s Spiritvoid Trading Grounds, buying several items for himself and the Yang Household. He placed bids on Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi for Nine Qi and left his Spirit Stones while awaiting the sellers’ response.

• Yang Tianyou entered the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation and examined the shops and stalls in the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds.
• Yang Tianyou bought two Quarter-Hour Life-Burning Pills and four other Spirit Items, including materials for the Old Ancestor, Ruoqing, and the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Myriad Treasures Pagoda and saw that the Azure Lord Sword had received a highest bid of 45,600 Upper-Grade Spirit Stones but remained unsold.
• Yang Tianyou found Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi, two of the Nine Qi needed to awaken Nine Qi’s bloodline, and raised the bids to 4,600 and 2,900 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Tianyou placed 7,500 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones on a tray in the formation and departed while waiting for the sale results.

Yang Tianyou received a Spiritvoid Token, collected two Spirit Items, and used the Spiritual Qi gained from Zhiming’s improvement to prepare for a future breakthrough. More than half a year later, the Four Symbols Secret Realm began opening, and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint intervened when a Sage Manifestation cultivator attacked its entrance.

• Yang Tianyou received a one-star Spiritvoid Token after spending more than one hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones at the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds.
• Yang Tianyou collected the Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi, and Zhiming’s Bonded Spirit Beast rose to peak Third-Tier Lower-Grade, giving Yang Tianyou pure Spiritual Qi to save for his Golden Core breakthrough.
• More than half a year later, the Four Symbols Secret Realm opened in the sea east of Four Symbols Island, revealing its passage and the phantoms of the Four Symbols Divine Beasts.
• A Sage Manifestation cultivator reached for the realm’s entrance, but the Guardian Deity General emerged and struck at the Heaven-Shrouding Hand with his halberd.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint unleashed a vast river of blades against the Heaven-Shrouding Hand, and the two combatants vanished from sight while the Guardian Deity General remained at his post.

Yang Tianyou entered the Four Symbols Secret Realm under the alias Xiu He and chose the Cause and Effect Trial. His karma shattered the trial’s copper mirror, but the Guardian Deity General intervened and assigned him an Extreme evaluation.

• The Guardian Deity General announced the Four Symbols Nine Trials, their rules, and the ban on fighting before the cultivators entered the Secret Realm.
• Yang Tianyou arrived in a White Tiger palace, registered as Xiu He, and learned that the trials tested combat strength, aptitude, comprehension, fortune, karma, and perseverance.
• Yang Tianyou chose the Cause and Effect Trial and sat beneath a copper mirror that traced the threads of his karma.
• A silver-lit wing emerged from a purple karmic pillar and shattered the copper mirror, drawing the Guardian Deity General’s attention.
• The Guardian Deity General arranged the disrupted trial light into an evaluation that rated Xiu He’s Cause and Effect Trial as Extreme.

Yang Tianyou passed the Aptitude Trial with an exceptional overall rating, then endured the Fortune Trial’s deadly hail and received an average rating. He left the trial alive, though the chapter revealed that many cultivators had died and that the Four Symbols Nine Trials served the sect’s interests.

• Little True Person Yueyang received a poor Karma Trial rating and was expelled after demanding another test.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Aptitude Trial and earned an exceptional overall rating, including exceptional soul aptitude and cultivation rating.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Fortune Trial, where overwhelming pressure trapped him as freezing hail battered and injured him.
• Many cultivators died in the Fortune Trial, and the formation took their storage Law Artifacts into the secret realm’s treasury.
• After half an hour, the pressure and hail stopped; Yang Tianyou expelled frozen blood and received an average Fortune Trial rating.

Yang Tianyou passed the Perseverance Trial by walking thirty thousand zhang through darkness and earned a Supreme evaluation. After returning to the Palace, he reunited with Yuan Ba and Ruoqing, who had earned a fortune treating cultivators suffering from the cold.

• Yang Tianyou summoned Yuan Ba and Ruoqing and sent them to treat injured cultivators for payment while he entered the Perseverance Trial.
• Yang Tianyou walked through ten thousand zhang of darkness, endured loneliness and despair, and continued onward until he reached thirty thousand zhang.
• Yang Tianyou emerged with a Supreme evaluation under the name Xiu He and discovered that ten days had passed.
• Yang Tianyou spoke with Chan Master Jiesha, who praised his appearance, and introduced himself as Xiu He.
• Yuan Ba and Ruoqing returned with a Storage Bag containing resources worth an estimated thirty to forty thousand Spirit Stones, and Yang Tianyou encouraged them to continue.

Yang Tianyou earned a Supreme rating in the Comprehension Trial after mastering the Dark Dust Shadow Manifestation Technique in eighteen days. He entered the first battle trial at Ding Gate, where his four Bonded Spirit Beasts defeated the ten Ironblood Hounds, leaving him ready to face the remaining trials.

• Yang Tianyou mastered the Dark Dust Shadow Manifestation Technique and received a Supreme rating in the Comprehension Trial.
• The Guardian Deity General observed Yang Tianyou and considered whether he could qualify as a Core Disciple and gain part of the White Tiger Lineage's inheritance.
• Yang Tianyou rested, then entered the Ding Gate battle trial, which required him to survive an encirclement of Ironblood Hounds.
• Yang Tianyou summoned Yuan Ba, Fengling, Ruoqing, and Black and White, and each Spirit Beast engaged Ironblood Hounds.
• Black and White, Fengling, Yuan Ba, and Ruoqing defeated their opponents, while Yang Tianyou watched without intervening.

Yang Tianyou and the other Yang Household members faced trials in the Four Symbols Palaces, each relying on different strengths to survive. Yang Tianyou defeated successive Ironblood Hound waves, while the others passed or continued their trials.

• Yang Tianyou and the four Spirit Beasts killed twenty Ironblood Hounds, with Yang Tianyou defeating twelve himself.
• A new wave of fifty Ironblood Hounds appeared before Yang Tianyou in the Bing Battle Trial.
• Yang Xuanyang fled silver-gray crabs in the White Tiger Palace and complained that his strength had been sealed.
• Yang Tiankang endured the Vermilion Bird Palace’s silent darkness and received a Supreme rating in the Perseverance Trial.
• Yang Xuanwu forced a female Cultivator to surrender in Battle Trial Yi, then rested without answering her questions.
• Yang Tianxue held off ten Ironblood Hounds long enough to pass Battle Pass Ding, while Yang Qiongchuan won an arena platform after a grueling fight.

Yang Tianyou and his four Spirit Beasts survived the Battle Pass Ding’s brutal fourth wave of Ironblood Hounds and withdrew with a Supreme rating. After reaching White Tiger Palace, they recovered from their severe injuries by sharing life force through the Star-Chart Disk.

• Yang Tianyou warned Fengling and the other Spirit Beasts as fifty Ironblood Hounds surrounded them, then killed the pack with his Great White Heavenly Blade.
• More than a hundred Ironblood Hounds, including twenty at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, attacked, and Yang Tianyou and the beasts suffered severe injuries while fighting them.
• Yang Tianyou destroyed the White Tiger Mark and withdrew from the pass, leaving the remaining hounds behind a protective barrier.
• The screen awarded Xiu He a Supreme rating for Battle Pass Ding, and Yang Tianyou and the Spirit Beasts appeared in White Tiger Palace.
• Yang Tianyou gave the injured beasts Wound-Healing Pills and took Golden Wind Jade Dew Pills as the Star-Chart Disk drew life force from Xuanyin, Zhiming, and Tongming to heal them.

Yang Tianyou entered Battle Pass C, where challengers had to survive a month in a hostile hunting ground with their cultivation sealed and compete for Merit Points. After arriving in the grounds, he encountered two venomous snakes and prepared to fight them using his unsealed Blade Intent.

• Yang Tianyou joined Battle Pass C after recovering and learned that the five thousand challengers would be sealed to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement, with the lowest thousand erased and the top two thousand five hundred passing.
• Yang Tianyou noticed Huayu, Zhuyan, Youjue, Lei Ming, and Changqing Daozhang among the confident challengers.
• The Formation transported the challengers into the Hunting Grounds, where Yang Tianyou found his cultivation, body, Spiritual Awareness, and Storage Bag sealed.
• Yang Tianyou realized that the grounds rapidly consumed his physical strength and Spiritual Qi, and that he would need to hunt Demon Beasts to replenish himself.
• Two aggressive First-Tier Middle-Grade venomous snakes attacked Yang Tianyou, who prepared to strike them with his Major-Completion Blade Intent.

Yang Tianyou pursued a Supreme Rating in the Hunting Grounds, adapting to its shrinking boundaries, rising demands on his stamina, and the Giant Beasts that hunted top-ranked Cultivators. With help from his Bonded Spirit Beasts, he took first place, killed Youjue, and left the trial with a Supreme Rating.

• Yang Tianyou learned that killing a Cultivator awarded him half their Merit but caused the Four Symbols Sect to seize their Storage Ring, while the shrinking Hunting Grounds and escalating power drain made survival harder.
• After Yang Tianyou and Zhuyan fought to a standstill, a Giant Beast pursued Zhuyan, and Yang Tianyou released Fengling and his other Bonded Spirit Beasts to hunt for Merit.
• Yang Tianyou drove off Youjue when he tried to obtain Black and White, then learned the Nether-Seeking Ghost Detection Technique from Tongming to track him down.
• Yang Tianyou and his Spirit Beasts trapped Youjue in the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation and killed him.
• Yang Tianyou followed the Formation's power out of the Hunting Grounds and received a final rank of first and a Supreme Rating.

After recovering, Yang Tianyou entered Battle Trial Yi and learned that he needed to defend an arena repeatedly to earn a high rating. He won his first match against Li Chang and remained in the arena as the trial continued.

• Zen Master Jiesha removed the resentment clinging to Yang Tianyou after he killed Youjue, and Yang Tianyou gave him a Buddhist Scripture in thanks.
• Three days later, Yang Tianyou resumed the trials and chose Battle Trial Yi, whose arena-defense rules he had learned from other cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou entered an empty arena while nearby cultivators discussed his victory over Youjue, but none volunteered to challenge him.
• The Formation selected Li Chang as his opponent, and Yang Tianyou quickly overcame his attack with his Twin Blades and Magnetism Power.
• Yang Tianyou won the match, and Li Chang introduced himself and invited him to visit Drifting Flower Island.

Yang Tianyou continued his winning streak in the Four Symbols Nine Trials, building momentum for his Blade Dao before facing Little True Person Yueyang. He overcame Yueyang’s illusions, mental attacks, and defenses with a full-force strike, leaving his victory announced by the arena.

• Yang Tianyou defeated a middle-aged woman in Daoist robes with Starlight and continued fighting as no cultivators volunteered to face him.
• After sixteen consecutive matches, Yang Tianyou’s growing confidence and imposing presence drew notice from the cultivators below the stage.
• Little True Person Yueyang challenged Yang Tianyou, and the two began their seventeenth match.
• Yang Tianyou’s attack damaged Yueyang’s life-bound shell, and he resisted the Mirage Spirit Pearl’s mental shock before advancing through Yueyang’s sound-wave attacks.
• Yang Tianyou used his armor to withstand the Blue Urn Drum and then tore through Yueyang’s water curtain and shell with a powerful saber strike, winning the match.

After earning seven Supreme Ratings in the Nine Trials, Yang Tianyou entered the Four Symbols Tower for Battle Trial A. He met Yang Xuanyang and learned how the other Lineage members had fared before facing a Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer blade phantom on the tower’s first floor.

• Little True Person Yueyang exchanged Communication Talismans with Yang Tianyou after losing their match.
• Yang Tianyou won thirty consecutive arena battles, earned a Supreme Rating, and rested before attempting the final trial.
• At the Four Symbols Tower, Yang Tianyou reunited with Yang Xuanyang and learned that Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang had earned Supreme Ratings.
• Yang Tianyou encouraged Yang Xuanyang, then entered the tower as his nephew watched in anticipation.
• On the first floor, Yang Tianyou faced a formation phantom wielding a heavy blade and beginner-level Blade Intent.

Yang Tianyou fought his way through the Trial Tower and cleared its eighth layer by defeating an early Golden Core opponent with the Star-Chart Disk and his Falling Star Divine Ability. The results screen then showed Xiu He in eleventh place for clearing the eighth layer.

• Yang Tianyou swiftly cleared the first six layers and defeated the seventh-layer opponent after fifty exchanges.
• On the eighth layer, Yang Tianyou faced an early Golden Core figure with Great Achievement Blade Intent and activated the Star-Chart Disk to raise his strength.
• Yang Tianyou used Falling Star to strike the figure while defending against its massive Blade Gang with the One-Qi Capturing Hand, Great White Blood Armor, and Twin Blades.
• Yang Tianyou survived with minor injuries and cleared the eighth layer of the Trial Tower.
• The screen of light updated to show Xiu He in eleventh place for clearing the eighth layer.

Yang Tianyou failed his first attempt at the Four Symbols Tower’s ninth floor, then forced a breakthrough to Perfected Blade Intent and returned to defeat Xiu He. His victory cleared the ninth floor and put his name in third place on the tower’s rankings.

• Yang Tianyou challenged the ninth floor but admitted defeat after a fierce fight with an Early Golden Core opponent wielding Perfected Blade Intent.
• Yang Xuanyang helped Yang Tianyou tend to his wounds, and Yang Tianyou entered the Blade Prison to train his Blade Intent.
• After two months of training, Yang Tianyou broke through to Perfected Blade Intent and spent half a month recovering.
• Yang Tianyou challenged the ninth floor again, used his Great White Domain to restrain Xiu He, and killed him with the Twin Blades.
• The tower announced Yang Tianyou’s Supreme evaluation and ninth-floor victory, placing Xiu He in third place on the rankings.

Yang Tianyou passed the Four Symbols Tower’s trials, joined the Four Symbols Sect as a White Tiger Saint Son Candidate, and explored the sect’s resource list. He learned he could use five of his Retainer slots to bring his kinsmen into the sect.

• Cultivators outside the Four Symbols Tower praised Xiu He’s trial results, while Yang Xuanyang, Yang Tianxue, and Yang Xuanwu celebrated Yang Tianyou’s success.
• Yang Tianyou accepted the Four Symbols Sect’s invitation, signed a Heavenly Dao Contract, and received the status of White Tiger Saint Son Candidate with 50,000 Elder-Level Contribution Points.
• Yang Tianyou teleported to the Contribution Hall and examined the sect’s powerful Cultivation Methods, including four Void Refinement methods and the Four Symbols Sacred Scripture.
• The Guardian Deity General told Yang Tianyou that only sect disciples could cultivate the methods and that he could select ten Retainers whose methods he would fund.
• Yang Tianyou showed the Guardian Deity General images of his five kinsmen, who were approved for different disciple ranks at the cost of five Retainer slots.

Yang Tianyou learned about the Yang Household members’ disciple ranks and the value of his Elder-Level Contribution Points, then brought his relatives to the Contribution Hall to browse its resources. The chapter ended as they examined the exchange list and Yang Tianyou discovered the vast range of cultivation resources available.

• The Guardian Deity General explained the Yang Household members’ disciple ranks and their Contribution Point allowances to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou learned that only four Candidate Sacred Sons could exist and compared his status to that of a crown prince’s grandson.
• After Yang Tianyou vouched for his relatives, the Guardian Deity General transported the five Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Contribution Hall.
• Yang Tianyou explained the situation and showed his relatives the resource exchange list, leaving them astonished by its offerings.
• Yang Tianyou browsed the list and found cultivation methods, divine abilities, spirit fruits, and resources for modifying Spirit Roots.

Yang Tianyou spent his 50,000 Elder-Level Contribution Points on cultivation resources, techniques, and materials for himself, his family, and his Spirit Beasts. He left with plans to strengthen the Yang Household and prepare for his Golden Core breakthrough in the Four Symbols Secret Realm.

• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Four Symbols Sect's exchange list and considered how its restricted canons could still be studied by his seven Spirit Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou chose cultivation methods and resources for himself, the Old Ancestor, Yang Qiongchu, Yang Xuanye, Yang Xuanwu, and other members of the Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou exchanged for sections of the Four Symbols canons covering the Hundred Cultivation Arts, relying on his Spirit Beasts to learn them for the Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou bought Heavenly Spirit Grass for Golden Core Formation Pills and Earth-Soul Fruits to strengthen his True Spirit Strength before his planned breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou spent his remaining points on Xuanfang Wood, Soul-Nourishing Flowers, Spirit Beast advancement and bloodline resources, and attribute-matched Demon Beast Inner Cores, using all 50,000 points.