Recaps

Yang Tianyou and the others harvested valuable resources from an island, then followed Wang Shan’s secret method toward the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall. After evading Blood Beasts in the perilous depths of the Blood River, they reached the hall’s island.

• Yang Tianyou and the others killed a two-headed tiger Blood Beast, gathered the island’s resources, and escaped aboard the concealed Flying Shuttle.
• The group counted spoils worth 160,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, credited Zhiming’s Detection ability, and agreed to give the White Cloud Sect a generous share.
• Wang Shan sensed the direction of the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall, and Yang Tianyou steered the Flying Shuttle toward the Blood River’s middle layer.
• As the group descended, Zhiming warned them of a Spirit Transformation Blood Beast, and Yang Tianyou changed course to avoid it.
• The group entered a mist-shrouded island and carefully avoided numerous powerful Blood Beasts with help from Zhiming and Wang Shan.
• Yang Tianyou and the others reached the location of the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall.

Yang Tianyou and his companions entered the Myriad Forms Sect’s Formation Space and reached the Inheritance Hall, where they discovered its Nascent Soul Dao Soldier guardians and vast stores of resources. After finding twelve warehouses of low-tier Spirit Materials and fields of spirit medicines, Yang Tianyou suspected that more valuable treasures lay deeper inside.

• Wang Shan opened the entrance to the Formation Space, and Yang Tianyou sent a Third-Tier Puppet inside to check for danger before the group entered.
• The Demonic Youth and the wounded Cloaked Man arrived at the mountain and opened the entrance after Yang Tianyou and his companions had gone inside.
• Yang Tianyou’s group reached the Inheritance Hall, where two Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers inspected Wang Shan and permitted them to enter.
• Inside the Grotto-Heaven Law Treasure, Yang Tianyou and his companions explored warehouses filled with low-tier Spirit Materials and saw spirit medicines growing in the Spirit Fields.
• Yang Tianyou estimated that the twelve warehouses held about five million Middle-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of materials and said that more precious resources might be hidden deeper in the hall.

Yang Tianyou and his companions guarded Wang Shan as he rapidly refined the Inheritance Hall, but two suspicious cultivators arrived before the process was finished. Yang Tianyou recognized that both newcomers were puppets and attacked the Demonic Youth as the Cloaked Man struck back.

• Wang Shan used the restriction in his mind to begin refining the Inheritance Hall, and Yang Tianyou estimated that he would finish within an hour.
• Yunhua worried that the Mountain and River Hall would demand a share of their gains, but Yang Tianyou claimed he could counter the Heart Demon Oath.
• Zhiming warned Yang Tianyou that two cultivators were approaching the Inheritance Hall, so Yang Tianyou and Yunhua went outside to meet them.
• The Demonic Youth called Yang Tianyou and his companions little bugs, and Yang Tianyou probed him with a remark about taking over another's body.
• The Demonic Youth ordered the Cloaked Man to attack, and Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought back after Zhiming identified the Cloaked Man as a puppet.
• Yang Tianyou used the Black-and-White Pearl to lock down the space around the Demonic Youth.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought the Demon Puppet Venerable, whose greed for their rare talents made him determined to capture and refine them as Demon Puppets. Yang Tianyou took on the strongest attacks while relying on his extraordinary recovery, and the Demon Puppet Venerable prepared a powerful Forbidden Artifact to test it.

• The Demon Puppet Venerable recognized Yang Tianyou and Yunhua's exceptional Golden Cores and Half-Saint physiques, then resolved to refine them into Demon Puppets.
• Yang Tianyou, Yunhua, Yang Danglong, Yang Tianxue, and Zhiming combined their attacks against the Cloaked Man, while the Demon Puppet Venerable sent Fourth-Tier puppets and talismans into the fight.
• After Yunhua's injuries worsened, Yang Tianyou asked her to channel Love That Topples Cities into him, forming a Black-and-White Daoist Robe that raised his combat strength to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Yang Tianyou fought the Cloaked Man and two Fourth-Tier puppets at once, sustaining severe wounds that quickly healed as the Demon Puppet Venerable grew alarmed and increasingly eager to claim him.
• The Demon Puppet Venerable brought out a Fourth-Tier High-Grade Forbidden Artifact, believing Yang Tianyou's recovery would keep him from being killed by it.

Yang Tianyou survived Demon Puppet Venerable’s Blood-Transforming Poison Needles after breaking through to Blade Force and recovering with help from the distant Spirit Beasts. With the Inheritance Hall refined, Wang Shan seized control of the Formation Space and killed Demon Puppet Venerable and the Demon Slave.

• Demon Puppet Venerable trapped Yang Tianyou with the Demon Slave and Nascent Soul Puppets, then unleashed the Blood-Transforming Poison Needles.
• Yang Tianyou broke through to Blade Force, but the poison needles pierced his defenses and covered his body in poison.
• Six Golden Core Spirit Beasts sent Yang Tianyou their vitality through the Star-Chart Disk, allowing him to suppress the poison and resume fighting.
• Yang Tianyou drove back the Demon Slave and two Nascent Soul Puppets while using an Illusion Technique to distract Demon Puppet Venerable.
• After Demon Puppet Venerable prepared another Forbidden Artifact, the Formation Space’s flaming palm appeared and killed him.
• Wang Shan used the Inheritance Hall’s power to burn the fleeing Demon Slave to charcoal, leaving the two uncontrolled Nascent Soul Puppets motionless.

After Yang Tianyou defeated the Demon Slave, he and his companions secured the Inheritance Hall and discovered its hidden resources and a one-way teleportation route out of the Blood River Secret Realm. Yunhua warned that using it would expose their secret to the Eight Directions Forces, so they decided they needed to leave through the main entrance.

• Yang Tianyou collected the Demon Slave’s spoils and reunited with Yunhua, and they agreed to investigate the enemy after leaving the Secret Realm.
• Wang Shan emerged from the Inheritance Hall, shrank it into a portable treasure, and revealed its vast stores of techniques, treasures, Spirit Stones, and two Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Inheritance Hall and recognized how greatly its resources would strengthen the Yang Household.
• Wang Shan explained that the Formation Space could teleport them out of the Secret Realm and shield them from Heart Demon Oath backlash, but could not send them back in.
• Yunhua warned that using the hidden exit would alert the Eight Directions Forces to their special passage, so they needed to leave through the main entrance.

Yang Tianyou’s group sent one Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldier out of the Blood River Secret Realm with the Inheritance Hall and other treasures, while the rest prepared to leave by another route. Demon Puppet Venerable began investigating Yang Tianyou and his companions using clues from their fighting techniques.

• Yunhua suggested using the Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers to carry the treasures out ahead of the group, avoiding suspicion and reducing the burden of Yang Tianyou’s Heart Demon Oath.
• Wang Shan awakened the Dragon Tortoises, gave one the Inheritance Hall, and ordered it to hide underground until the Yang Household members found it.
• Wang Shan activated a Teleportation Formation, sending the Dragon Tortoise to a nameless valley in southwest Mo Province, where it burrowed three thousand zhang underground and went to sleep with the Inheritance Hall inside its shell.
• Demon Puppet Venerable ordered his forces to investigate Yang Tianyou and his companions, recording Yang Tianyou’s combat methods and sending them through the Blood-Slaying Dao’s intelligence channels.

Yang Tianyou’s group decided to remain in the secret realm for half a month to avoid suspicion after the Dragon Tortoise left. Meanwhile, the Red Tree Clan invaded the Blood River Secret Realm, trapping a Golden Peng and alarming the Blood Race as two precious Blood Sources neared completion.

• Yang Tianyou agreed to keep his group in the secret realm for another half month, and they planned to leave the island for a safer area.
• Red Tree branches spread across the Blood River, trapped a Nascent Soul Golden Peng, and began taking over the secret realm.
• The chapter described how refined Blood Qi formed Blood Jade and eventually produced rare Blood Sources that could aid a breakthrough to Sage Manifestation.
• Several Blood Race members watched two Blood Sources nearing stabilization when a middle-aged member arrived and reported the Red Tree Clan’s invasion.
• The Blood Race members were shocked, since they believed the Red Tree Clan’s seeds had all been destroyed tens of thousands of years earlier.

The Red Tree Clan invaded the Blood River Secret Realm and trapped Yang Tianyou and his companions as they tried to escape. After rescuing Old Man Taiwu, Yang Tianyou persuaded him to become a Guest Elder of the Yang Household.

• The Red Tree Clan breached the Dark Space, prompting the Spirit Transformation Blood Race members to prepare for battle, while Spirit Transformation powerhouses rushed into the Secret Realm.
• Yang Tianyou and his clansmen escaped the Blood River's middle layer, but Red Tree branches blocked their routes and pursued them.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the group to return through the Inheritance Hall's Formation Space, then switched to a stronger Flying Shuttle and escaped the branches' pursuit.
• Yang Tianyou's group found Old Man Taiwu surrounded by Red Tree branches and rescued him aboard their Flying Shuttle.
• Yang Tianyou invited Old Man Taiwu to become a Guest Elder of the Yang Household, and Old Man Taiwu agreed out of gratitude.

Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household beneath the Blood River to avoid the expanding Red Tree Clan while waiting for the Eight Great Forces to intervene. There, they found abundant Spirit Materials and spent seven days gathering treasures.

• Yang Tianyou considered using the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace to break through the Red Tree Clan’s barrier, but decided to conserve it and head deeper into the Blood River instead.
• Yang Tianyou reassured the group that an agreement barred Sage Manifestation powerhouses from intervening before the Two-World War.
• The Flying Shuttle reached the bottom of the Blood River, where Zhiming detected a piece of Fourth-Tier Lower-Grade Blood Jade.
• The Yang Household decided to search the depths for more treasures and spent seven days collecting Blood Jade and other Spirit Materials, including valuable Immaculate Spring Water.

Yang Tianyou’s group followed an injured Blood Race member fleeing Spirit Transformation Red Trees through the Blood River Secret Realm. After Yin Wuqi self-destructed and destroyed many pursuing branches, Yang Tianyou used a spatial Talisman to seize an opportunity and returned to the Flying Shuttle, declaring that they had struck it rich.

• Zhiming detected Spirit Transformation Red Trees fighting in a concealed space, but Yang Tianyou initially ordered the Flying Shuttle to retreat rather than approach.
• Zhiming sensed two Blood Race members fleeing the Red Trees, including one badly injured fighter heading toward them, and Yang Tianyou ordered the shuttle to follow from a safe distance.
• Yin Wuqi fought the Red Tree branches for a day while trying to escape, but his strength dwindled until the trees bound him.
• Yin Wuqi detonated his Blood Soul Essence Core, blasting apart the surrounding Red Tree branches and clearing part of the Blood River.
• Yang Tianyou activated a Fourth-Tier High-Grade spatial Talisman, vanished, and reappeared aboard the Flying Shuttle covered in wounds and rejoicing over their haul.

Yang Tianyou used the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace to devastate the island and break through to the Inheritance Hall, then escaped with the True Blood Pool. He split from Yunhua to hide the pool and its route, leaving Yunhua to return to Qin Province with the recovered treasures.

• Yang Tianyou sent a concealed Formless Insect onto the island with a Void Worm's Insect Molt, then used the Void Worm's Spatial Exchange to swap the molt for the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace.
• The furnace exploded on the island with force that evaporated the Blood River within a hundred-li radius, killed countless Blood Beasts, and gravely wounded the Spirit Transformation Red Tree.
• Yang Tianyou led the group through the blast's Core Area, cleared away weaker Red Trees, and entered the Formation Space through Wang Shan's Portal.
• Wang Shan activated the Teleportation Formation, sending Yang Tianyou and the others to a cave in southwest Mo Province.
• Yunhua used her Essence Blood and the Illusion God Pearl to conceal the True Blood Pool from the distant Blood Race Sage Manifestation for a month.
• Yang Tianyou set out for the Chaotic Sea with one Dragon Tortoise to deliver the True Blood Pool, while Yunhua took the other Dragon Tortoise and the Inheritance Hall treasures toward Qin Province.

The Blood Race tried to identify who had taken the missing Blood Source and suspected the Ye Household, while Ye Wuyou investigated the Blood River Secret Realm. After discovering that it produced Blood Sources and that the Blood Race could enter it, Ye Wuyou decided to investigate further before telling the other Eight Directions Forces.

• The Red Tree King learned that humans had taken one Blood Source, while the Blood Race's Sage Manifestation members discovered the other was being carried west at roughly Nascent Soul Great Perfection speed.
• The Blood Race members suspected the Ye Household and decided to contact its leaders about trading for the Blood Source without revealing too much.
• Ye Wuyou received the Blood Race's vague, threatening message and inferred that the Blood River Secret Realm held a valuable treasure, so he flew there to investigate.
• Ye Wuyou entered the Dark Space, found traces of the stolen Blood Source and the battle between the Blood Race and Red Tree Clan, and concluded that the realm could produce Blood Sources and that the Blood Race could enter it.
• Ye Wuyou chose not to inform the other Eight Directions Forces yet, deciding to investigate the Blood Source's destination and prevent the Red Tree Clan from keeping the realm.

Demon Puppet Venerable attacked the Yang Household on Coiled Snake Island, demanding to know its connection to Yang Tianyou and vowing to destroy the family. The island’s defenders survived his opening attacks with serious injuries and several defensive treasures, but Demon Puppet Venerable continued his assault.

• Demon Puppet Venerable shattered Coiled Snake Island’s protective formation with a single blow, killing dozens of household members.
• Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang confronted Demon Puppet Venerable, who asked what Yang Tianyou was to them and threatened to destroy the island and the Yang Household in Qin Province.
• Demon Puppet Venerable’s cauldron severely injured Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang despite their strongest attacks.
• Yang Xuanye and Long Li used two fourth-tier Defensive Talismans to block the cauldron’s next attack, while Demon Puppet Venerable recognized the Yang Household as remnants of the Myriad Forms Sect.
• Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang activated a Defensive Formation engraved on a fourth-tier Flying Shuttle, stopping Demon Puppet Venerable’s renewed attack.

The Demon Puppet Venerable overwhelmed the Yang Household forces on Coiled Snake Island, killing Long Li and destroying their Fourth-Tier Flying Shuttle. As the household faced certain defeat, Yang Xuanwu unleashed the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace, destroying the island and killing the Demon Puppet Venerable.

• The Demon Puppet Venerable deployed a Fourth-Tier High-Grade Flood Dragon Puppet, which overwhelmed Yang Tiankang and Yang Xuanwu's Fourth-Tier Flying Shuttle.
• The Flood Dragon Puppet destroyed a War Flying Vessel, killing Long Li and three hundred Yang Household Members, and Yang Xuanye attacked it in grief before Yang Tiankang urged him to protect the survivors.
• The Flood Dragon Puppet smashed the Flying Shuttle, severely injuring Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang and leaving the household unable to fight back.
• Yang Xuanwu brought out the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace, and the Demon Puppet Venerable fled as he sensed danger.
• The Furnace's blast devastated Coiled Snake Island, destroyed the Flood Dragon Puppet, and vaporized the Demon Puppet Venerable and his Nascent Soul.

Yang Xuanwu learned that Demon Puppet Venerable had attacked the Yang Household and that Yang Tianyou was heading to the Chaotic Sea. With the Blood Race closing in, Yang Tianyou summoned the Eight Desolations Saber Saint, who took him and the Blood Source toward Four Symbols Island.

• Little True Person Yueyang told Yang Xuanwu that his clansmen had been rescued, while Yang Xuanye’s Golden Core had survived but he would need to reconstruct his body to keep cultivating.
• Little True Person Yueyang identified the attacker as one of Demon Puppet Venerable’s Demon Puppets, and Yang Xuanwu vowed revenge.
• Yang Xuanye told Yang Xuanwu that the Lineage had made an enemy of a Spirit Transformation Devil Cultivator and that Yang Tianyou was already on his way to the Chaotic Sea.
• Yang Tianyou contacted the Eight Desolations Saber Saint because the Flying Shuttle was too slow and the Illusion God Pearl’s concealment would soon fail.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint appeared aboard the Flying Shuttle, examined the True Blood Pool and Blood Source, and transported Yang Tianyou toward Four Symbols Island in a Golden Blade Light.

Yang Tianyou brought the Blood Source to the Eight Desolations Saber Saint, who removed the Blood Race’s tracking presence and warned him about an ambush near Four Symbols Island. The Blood Source was set to be refined into Sage Manifestation Pills, while the Blood Race expert lost its trail.

• A Blood Race Sage Manifestation expert sensed that the Blood Source had entered the Chaotic Sea and went to wait outside Four Symbols Island.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint brought Yang Tianyou to his home, where he broke the restriction on the True Blood Pool and concealed the Blood Source from the Blood Race.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint told Yang Tianyou that a Blood Race expert had been waiting to ambush him, and urged him to act cautiously.
• Yang Tianyou offered half the Blood Source in gratitude, but the Eight Desolations Saber Saint proposed trading one Sage Manifestation Pill for his alchemist’s favor and supplementary ingredients.
• The Blood Race expert sensed the Blood Source vanish and left Four Symbols Island empty-handed.

Yang Tianyou arrived at Sea Abyss Island and promised the Yang Household would eventually avenge the attack on Coiled Snake Island. After learning that the Sea Abyss Sect treasury held a Nirvana Pill that could restore Yang Xuanwu’s Sixth Uncle, he asked Little True Person Yueyang to arrange a meeting with his father, Mo Chengkong, who appeared before they could contact him.

• Yang Tianyou left Four Symbols Island and met Little True Person Yueyang and Yang Xuanye outside Sea Abyss Island.
• Yang Tianyou comforted Yang Xuanye and vowed that the Yang Household would avenge the Demon Puppet Venerable’s attack.
• Yang Tianyou thanked Little True Person Yueyang for protecting the Yang Household survivors and considered giving him a Spirit Pearl in return.
• Yang Tianyou visited the injured Yang Xuanwu and promised to find a Nirvana Pill to reconstruct his Sixth Uncle’s body.
• Little True Person Yueyang said the Sea Abyss Sect treasury held Nirvana Pills, and Yang Tianyou asked him to arrange a meeting with his father.
• Mo Chengkong appeared beside Little True Person Yueyang as he was about to activate his token.

Yang Tianyou traded a small bottle of Immaculate Spring Water for pills from Mo Chengkong to help his clansmen, then gave most of his remaining supply to Yueyang for his Bloodline Metamorphosis. After watching their bond, Mo Chengkong and Fairy Nishang decided to strengthen ties with the Yang Household and Four Symbols Sect ahead of the Two-World War.

• Yang Tianyou offered Mo Chengkong Spirit Items, and Mo Chengkong kept the Immaculate Spring Water before giving him a Nirvana Pill and a Snow Lotus Pill.
• Yang Tianyou gave the Snow Lotus Pill to Yang Xuanwu and sent him into seclusion to regrow his severed limb.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yueyang most of his remaining Immaculate Spring Water and promised him a Spirit Transformation-level Mirage Clan Spirit Pearl.
• Mo Chengkong and Fairy Nishang watched Yang Tianyou and Yueyang, and Mo Chengkong admitted that Yang Tianyou valued his bonds.
• Mo Chengkong and Fairy Nishang agreed to strengthen cooperation with the Yang Household and Four Symbols Sect before the Two-World War.

Yang Tianyou rebuilt Yang Tiankang’s body, exchanged for a Mirage Clan Spirit Pearl for Yueyang, and met Wuhuang, the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s eldest disciple. After Wuhuang shared her master’s powerful wine with him, Yang Tianyou woke in a pool while Wuhuang hung upside down nearby.

• Yang Tianyou used Immaculate Spring Water to help Yang Tiankang rebuild his body and left Yang Xuanye and Little True Person Yueyang to watch over him.
• Yang Tianyou exchanged 2,000 Elder-Level Contribution Points for a fifth-tier low-grade Mirage Clan Spirit Pearl for Yueyang.
• Yang Tianyou met Wuhuang, who explained that she was the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s eldest disciple and was waiting for a Sage Manifestation Pill.
• Wuhuang dug up her master’s Drunken Immortal Brew and shared it with Yang Tianyou and the Iron-Eating Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou passed out after drinking, and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint confronted Wuhuang over the stolen wine.
• Yang Tianyou awoke in the Spirit-Awakening Pool and saw Wuhuang hanging upside down from a bamboo stalk.

Yang Tianyou secured the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s support and received a token to mobilize the Eight Desolations Arena’s forces. He then led the Yang Household to Divine Sword Island, where the Sea Abyss Sect completed the handover and the lineage established its new base in the Chaotic Sea.

• Daoist Yuming agreed to begin refining the Sage Manifestation Pill in three days, while Wuhuang offered Yang Tianyou a token to mobilize the Eight Desolations Arena’s forces.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Sea Abyss Island, gave Yueyang the Spirit Pearl, and led Yang Xuanwu, Yang Xuanye, and more than three hundred lineage members away by Flying Boat.
• Yang Tianyou’s group arrived at Divine Sword Island and identified it as the Yang Household’s new base in the Chaotic Sea.
• Sea Abyss Sect Cultivators welcomed Yang Tianyou’s group and completed the handover of Divine Sword Island.
• The Sea Abyss Sect Cultivators withdrew, leaving the Yang Household in full control of the island.

Yang Tianyou exchanged two Sage Manifestation Pills for powerful Dao Soldiers and resources to strengthen the Yang Household ahead of the Two-World War. The chapter ended with Wuhuang returning with a Storage Ring full of the chosen resources.

• Yang Tianyou had Yang Xuanwu recruit more cultivators, and the Yang Household began developing Divine Sword Island.
• Wuhuang told Yang Tianyou that the Eight Desolations Arena had refined three excellent Sage Manifestation Pills.
• Yang Tianyou agreed to lend the two remaining pills’ value toward renting the Water-Fire Dao Soldiers from the Eight Desolations Saber Saint for three hundred years.
• Yang Tianyou spent his remaining Contribution Points on Cultivation Resources for the Yang Household, while the Eight Desolations Saber Saint kept the two pills in the Sect Treasury for possible future exchange.
• Wuhuang returned with a Storage Ring filled with the resources Yang Tianyou had selected.

Yang Tianyou prepared an explanation for escaping the Blood River Secret Realm and arranged for his relatives and Old Man Taiwu to leave for Divine Sword Island under disguised identities. After returning to the Lineage with two powerful Dao Soldiers, he received a visit from True Person Shi Chong and began to reveal the token given to him by the Eight Desolations Saber Saint.

• Yang Tianyou decided that Yang Danglong, Yang Tianxue, Wang Shan, and Old Man Taiwu would fake their deaths and go to Divine Sword Island in the Chaotic Sea.
• Yang Tianyou flew back to Purple Moon Mountain with the water and fire Dao Soldiers and revealed their overwhelming power to the group at Great White Residence.
• Yang Tianyou explained his plans for Divine Sword Island, and Yang Danglong, Old Man Taiwu, and the others agreed to go there.
• Yang Tianyou arranged for the group to leave quietly and announced that he and Yunhua had narrowly escaped the Blood River Secret Realm.
• True Person Shi Chong visited Great White Residence, questioned how Yang Tianyou and Yunhua had survived, and Yang Tianyou produced the token from the Eight Desolations Saber Saint.

Yang Tianyou used a token bearing the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s full-powered strike to make True Person Shi Chong reconsider his attitude toward the Yang Household. Back at Great White Residence, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua discussed their Four Symbols Sect backing and agreed that Yunhua would wait fifteen years to use the Taiyin Crystal before attempting her Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Yang Tianyou showed True Person Shi Chong the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s token and explained how he and his wife had survived the Blood River Secret Realm.
• True Person Shi Chong dropped his questions about the secret realm, addressed Yang Tianyou as Brother Great White, and resolved to tell the sect to change its attitude toward the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua returned to Great White Residence and discussed using their Four Symbols Legacy connections as protection, despite the enemies their ties might attract.
• Yang Tianyou said the Yang Household’s defenses would soon be able to deter even a Great Perfection Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that refining the Taiyin Crystal would take about fifteen years, after which she planned to begin her Nascent Soul breakthrough.

After the deaths of its senior leaders, the Hidden Dragon Sect appointed Yang Qiongchuan as sect master and shifted to a defensive strategy. In Xuan Province, Ye Wuyou suspected the Yang Household had obtained the Blood Source but decided not to expose the secret, considering how he might approach them instead.

• Yang Qiongchuan became the Hidden Dragon Sect's sect master, while Yang Xuanying and Yan Xia Ke became its Grand Elder and Second Elder.
• The Hidden Dragon Sect adopted a cautious approach, and Yang Qiongchuan drove back hostile forces that tried to exploit the deaths of its leaders.
• Ye Wuyou considered how a restriction on the Blood Source could reveal which force had obtained it, and concluded the Yang Household was a likely candidate.
• Ye Wuyou decided not to announce the Blood Source because the risk of making a powerful enemy outweighed the likely reward.
• Ye Wuyou resolved to mention only the discovered Dark Space at the upcoming gathering and to sound out the Yang Household for clues.