Recaps

After the Ye Household’s resistance devastated the Divine Wind Clan, Feng Cang split the survivors into smaller groups to escape Xuan Province. He fled into Qing Province, while the Yang Household and other powers hunted down the remaining Nine Phoenix Realm Experts for their treasures.

• Feng Cang assessed the Divine Wind Clan’s losses at Yuanping Mountain and ordered the survivors to split up and flee.
• Yang Yusheng ordered the major powers to form layered encirclements and kill the wounded or weaker Nine Phoenix Realm Experts.
• Feng Cang escaped the blockades and vanished in a mountain range in Qing Province.
• The Yang Household killed three Spirit Transformation cultivators and many lower-level Divine Wind Clan cultivators, claiming their treasures and wings.
• The Fire Spirit Palace and other major powers joined the hunt for the remaining Divine Wind Clan survivors.

After the Yang Household helped defeat the Divine Wind Clan in Xuan Province, it claimed territory and resources before preparing to send troops to Mo Province. The wounded Feng Cang entered Purple Moon Commandery, unaware that the Yang Household had detected him and possessed the hidden White Tiger Boat.

• Yang Yusheng watched the Divine Wind Clan forces fall in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, and the Yang Household recovered their wings for crafting Law Treasures.
• Yang Yusheng joined representatives of six Province-Level Powers to divide Xuan Province’s spoils, then sent the Yang Household’s mining teams to collect resources from its territory.
• True Lord Wan Lei ordered the forces in Xuan Province to muster within ten days and help drive the Divine Wind Clan Army from Mo Province.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Yang Yusheng to lead the Purple Moon Army to Mo Province with reinforcements and a large Fleet of Cultivators.
• Zhiming detected the injured Feng Cang entering Purple Moon Commandery, and Yang Tianyou prepared to trap him with the Yang Household’s hidden strength.

Yang Tianyou inspected the White Tiger Boat after it had been repaired by more than seventy percent, then used it to capture Feng Cang. With Feng Cang unconscious and defeated, Yang Tianyou ordered his clansmen to return to the clan.

• Yang Tianyou saw that the White Tiger Boat had been repaired by more than seventy percent and summoned it into his Dantian.
• Feng Cang healed in a cavern in the Deep Dark Rift Valley and planned to travel to the Frostthunder Region to seek thunder vein essence.
• Yang Tianyou arrived aboard the White Tiger Boat and trapped Feng Cang beneath its barrier.
• Feng Cang crashed into the barrier, then attacked Yang Tianyou with his hammer and Talismans.
• Yang Tianyou’s tiger paw shattered Feng Cang’s defenses and rendered him powerless, and Feng Cang lost consciousness.
• Yang Tianyou held Feng Cang’s soulless shell and ordered his clansmen to return to the clan.

After defeating Feng Cang, Yang Tianyou examined his spoils and considered how to use them to strengthen the Yang Household. He planned to repair the Firmament Record and distribute Spirit Vein Essence among the Lineage’s elites, while his wife approached a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation.

• Yang Tianyou sent the White Tiger Boat back to the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm for repairs and resolved to invest more resources in restoring it.
• Yang Tianyou broke the restrictions on Feng Cang’s storage Law Treasure and found vast wealth, including the Firmament Record, Spirit Vein Essence, and Sun Lotus.
• Yang Tianyou decided that the damaged Firmament Record could become the Lineage’s guardian treasure once the Four Symbols Alliance’s Artifact Refining masters repaired it.
• Yang Tianyou chose to distribute Spirit Vein Essence among the Lineage’s elites rather than use it immediately to advance the Purple Moon Mountain Spirit Vein.
• Yang Tianyou planned to use the Fifth-Tier Upper-Grade Spirit Vein Essence to improve the Great White Saint Body and give lower-grade portions to Xuanwu, Xuanyang, and others.
• Yang Tianyou expected his wife to reach Nascent Soul Great Perfection soon and believed Spirit Vein Essence could help her break through to Spirit Transformation.

Yang Tianyou coveted the Golden Sun Lotus and ordered the Yang Household to seek the Ye Household’s refinement method before reshaping Feng Cang’s soul into a puppet. After learning the Divine Wind Clan’s overwhelming strength from Feng Cang’s memories, he completed the puppet as Yunhua advanced to Nascent Soul Great Perfection and prepared for a Spirit Transformation breakthrough; Yang Tianyou then turned his attention to the battle unfolding in Mo Province.

• Yang Tianyou decided to have the Yang Household negotiate with the Ye Household for the method to refine the Golden Sun Lotus into a Sun-Illuminating Divine Pearl.
• Yang Tianyou studied Feng Cang’s memories and learned about the Divine Wind Clan’s bloodline hierarchy, Feng Cang’s royal status, and the great races of the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou used the Creation Brush over six days to reshape Feng Cang’s soul and restore him as a Spirit Transformation Late Stage puppet.
• Yunhua broke through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection, and Feng Cang awoke and recognized Yang Tianyou as his master.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yunhua fifth-tier mid-grade spirit vein essence to support her planned breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Yang Tianyou turned his attention to Mo Province, where a great battle was beginning to unfold.

The Lu Wu Realm’s alliance launched its war to block the Realm Gate, with Wan Lei True Lord and the Divine Wind Clan’s Feng Li beginning the battle. The Storm Griffin’s speed threatened the allied fleets, so the powers divided their forces to restrain it while continuing their assault.

• Feng Li put the ten Divine Wind legions on alert as Yang Yusheng prepared the Purple Moon Army and warned that the battle could claim Sage Manifestation cultivators.
• Wan Lei True Lord formed his Sage Manifestation Dharma Form and struck Feng Li’s Divine Wind legion with the Thunder God Whip, which met the Wind-Thunder Griffin head-on.
• The Sage Manifestation experts and allied forces engaged the Divine Wind legions, and Yang Yusheng led the Purple Moon Army in an attack.
• A Storm Griffin evaded the Fire Spirit Palace’s golden attack and tore through the Qin Household fleet’s defenses, killing over a thousand Qin clansmen.
• Yang Yusheng and True Person Ziyang proposed splitting the allied fleets between restraining the Storm Griffin from a distance and attacking it nearby, and the powers agreed.

Yang Yusheng’s forces destroyed one Divine Wind Army Corps, and a powerful Human Race cultivator’s saber strike killed Feng Li and routed another. With True Lord Wan Lei and other Sage Manifestation experts supporting them, the Lu Wu Realm forces wiped out the remaining Divine Wind Army Corps and secured the Realm Gate.

• Yang Yusheng’s forces killed the Storm Griffin and destroyed the first Divine Wind Army Corps, then joined nearby allies against another corps.
• Feng Li ordered the remaining Divine Wind Army Corps to retreat toward the Realm Gate, while True Lord Wan Lei tried to stop the Wind-Thunder Griffin.
• Feng Li’s formation blocked True Lord Wan Lei’s Heavens-Shrouding Hand, but the Eight Desolations Saber Saint’s Blazing Ba Huang Saber shattered it and killed Feng Li.
• The Lu Wu Realm forces pressed their advantage, and the remaining eight Divine Wind Army Corps were wiped out.
• True Lord Wan Lei and two other Sage Manifestation experts guarded the newly rebuilt fortress outside the Realm Gate, while Yang Tianyou welcomed the prospect of collecting Divine Wind Wings.

Prince Wu Feng ordered the Nine Phoenix Realm to intensify its attacks on the Lu Wu Realm while monitoring its strongest cultivators. The Eight Desolations Saber Saint told Yang Tianyou that the Alliance had learned to predict Realm Gates and planned counterattacks, including one in the Purple Moon Archipelago in eight days.

• Prince Wu Feng heard reports of powerful Lu Wu Realm cultivators defeating Nine Phoenix Realm forces and ordered their Hunt List rankings and traces of Qi updated.
• Prince Wu Feng ordered the Bai Ze Clan to monitor Old Man Zhui Dao and the Sacred Martial Emperor, and commanded the tribes to intensify their attacks on the Lu Wu Realm.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint told Yang Tianyou that Yunhua was close to breaking through and that a Medium Realm Gate would appear in Spirit Commandery in two months.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint explained that the Alliance's Heavenly Mechanists could now predict Realm Gate locations and that the Alliance planned to counterattack the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint said a Medium Realm Gate would appear in the Purple Moon Archipelago in eight days, and Yang Tianyou welcomed the chance to earn Merit for the Yang Household.

Yang Tianyou sent Feng Cang and resources to support Yang Xuanwu in the Purple Moon Archipelago while keeping most of the Yang Household’s forces ready for the coming battle in Spirit Commandery. The Lu Wu Realm Alliance launched an invasion of a medium World Interstice, where its vast fleet met a powerful coalition from the Nine Phoenix Realm, which realized it faced a formidable enemy.

• Yang Tianyou ordered Feng Cang to take the Fire God Dao Soldier and resources to the Purple Moon Archipelago and deliver them to Xuanwu.
• Feng Cang arrived on Purple Moon Island, where Yang Xuanwu received the Storage Ring and wondered how Yang Tianyou had subdued him.
• Wuhuang led the Four Symbols Alliance and allied forces through the Realm Gate, with Yang Xuanwu and the Yang Household Fleet among them.
• The Lu Wu Realm forces encountered a Human Race army and its War Fortresses from the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Leaders of the Five Poisons Sect, Ten Thousand Ghost Valley, White Flame Tower, and Yama Sect saw the Lu Wu Realm Fleet in a bronze mirror and realized they had underestimated their opponents.

The Yang Household fought the Five Poisons Sect in the World Interstice, relying on Feng Cang and the Fire God Dao Soldier to dominate the high-level battle while their lower-level forces struggled. Yang Xuanwu held off two powerful Nascent Soul foes, who sprang a deadly trap around him.

• The Yang Household and the Five Poisons Sect charged into battle, with the Yang Household holding the advantage in high-level fighters but facing stronger lower-level forces.
• Feng Cang destroyed a Five Poisons Sect War Fortress and drew the attention of three Spirit Transformation cultivators, then fought the sinister middle-aged man and his venomous creatures.
• The Fire God Dao Soldier used the Myriad Fires Furnace to suppress the other two Five Poisons Sect Spirit Transformation cultivators and their venomous creatures.
• Yang Xuanwu held off a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator and a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator while fighting with the Four Symbols Sacred Spear and Battle Intent Furnace.
• The two Five Poisons Sect Nascent Soul cultivators released a Three-Legged Golden Toad and a colorful spider, which attacked Yang Xuanwu from behind and sealed off his escape routes with venomous silk.

Yang Xuanwu fought off two Five Poisons Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators, breaking through in the Dao of Combat and killing one. He returned injured but unchallenged to his side’s War Flying Vessels.

• Yang Xuanwu’s inner armor released a blade light that severed the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s legs, and he killed the Five-Colored Spider with a spear strike.
• The two Five Poisons Sect cultivators attacked Yang Xuanwu together, but he kept fighting despite his worsening injuries.
• Yang Xuanwu’s Battle Intent Furnace and Dao of Combat broke through, rapidly increasing his combat strength.
• Yang Xuanwu pierced the Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator’s forehead, killing his body and forcing his Nascent Soul to flee.
• The surviving Five Poisons Sect cultivator fled, and Yang Xuanwu returned to his War Flying Vessels without anyone daring to attack him.

Feng Cang and the Fire God Dao Soldier defeated the Five Poisons Sect forces, helping the Lu Wu Realm win a major victory and seize control of many World Interstices. After the war spread and both sides suffered heavy losses, Yang Tianyou sensed that his wife had finally broken through.

• Feng Cang and the Fire God Dao Soldier killed the Five Poisons Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators and routed their thirty-thousand-strong army.
• Yang Xuanwu led the Yang Household in attacks on enemy flanks as the Lu Wu Realm's forces turned the battle into a rout.
• The allied Nine Phoenix Realm army retreated after losing more than forty percent of its forces, and fewer than thirty percent escaped through the Realm Gate.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan, the Southern Sea Witch Tribe, and the Three Great Demon Kingdoms seized World Interstices, prompting Prince Wu Feng to order more troops into battle.
• After half a month of fierce fighting, the Lu Wu Realm's position improved, and Yang Tianyou sensed that his wife had broken through.

Yunhua broke through to Spirit Transformation at Wolf Pool and successfully passed both the lightning and Heart Demon Tribulations. Her breakthrough made her the Yang Household’s first Spirit Transformation cultivator.

• Yang Tianyou, Tongming, and Yang Tianshi prepared the formation and supplies for Yunhua’s tribulation at Wolf Pool.
• Yunhua broke through to Spirit Transformation, manifesting her Primordial Spirit and gaining immense power over Divine Sense and Spiritual Qi.
• Yunhua activated the Taiyin Black Lotus Formation to withstand the Three-Nine Tribulation’s twenty-seven lightning bolts.
• Yunhua passed the Heart Demon Tribulation, absorbed nine strands of Qi of Creation, and completed her breakthrough.
• The Yang Household members cheered as Yunhua became their first Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Yang Tianyou and the Mountain and River Hall mobilized their forces to defend the Realm Gate in Spirit Commandery, while Yunhua cultivated and reforged her sword. After the armies entered the World Interstice, they encountered the Fire-Bathing Tribe, and Yang Tianyou prepared for a difficult battle.

• Yang Tianyou gave Yunhua the Ice-Spirit Mystic Jade Pearl and Taiyin Cold Iron, and she chose to refine the Cold Moon Immortal Sword before the Realm Gate opened.
• Yang Tianyou recalled Feng Cang and the Fire God Dao Soldier and ordered the Yang Household and its allies to prepare for war as forces gathered in Spirit Commandery.
• The Realm Gate opened above a canyon in Mohe County, and Ziji High Person led the Mountain and River Hall's fleet through first.
• Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household's fleet into the Realm Gate after the Mountain and River Hall had passed through.
• In the World Interstice, Yang Tianyou spotted the Fire-Bathing Tribe and recognized that the coming battle would be difficult.

The Human Race and the Fire-Bathing Tribe began a fierce battle in the World Interstice as Yang Tianyou defended the fleet’s flank and confronted a Lava Behemoth. He killed the Fire-Bathing Tribe leader with the Life-and-Death Wheel Seal while the battle continued around him.

• Venerable Liuchuan led fifteen thousand Mountain and River Army soldiers into battle against the Fire-Bathing Tribe.
• Yang Yusheng raised a signal, and the Yang Household fleet formed a massive barrier that withstood the Lava Behemoths’ lava attack.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua left the Flying Boat to face the behemoths, with Yunhua taking the right and Yang Tianyou confronting the left.
• Yang Tianyou cut through four lava columns and severed the horn of the Lava Behemoth with the Great White Heavenly Blade.
• Yang Tianyou used the Firmament Record’s Eight Trigrams Profound Light Shields to block the attacks of three Nascent Soul cultivators and the behemoth.
• Yang Tianyou struck the Fire-Bathing Tribe leader with the Life-and-Death Wheel Seal, consuming his body and extinguishing his soul.

Yang Tianyou defeated the remaining Fire-Bathing Tribe Nascent Soul experts and killed a Lava Behemoth, while Yunhua suppressed her Spirit Transformation opponents. The Purple Moon Army and Four Symbols Army remained locked in a difficult battle against the Fire-Bathing Tribe legion.

• Yang Tianyou killed the last two Fire-Bathing Tribe Nascent Soul experts, using the final expert’s own hammer to shatter his body before extinguishing his soul flame.
• Yang Tianyou absorbed the Lava Behemoth’s lava pillars with the Life-and-Death Wheel Seal, knocked the beast from the sky, and killed it with a second blow.
• The dead Lava Behemoth became a mountain and yielded a huge flame crystal containing fourth-tier supreme-grade Spirit Material.
• Yunhua suppressed two Fire-Bathing Tribe Spirit Transformation experts with her Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword and had already slain a fifth-tier Lava Behemoth.
• Yang Tianyou saw that the Purple Moon Army and Four Symbols Army were at a disadvantage against the three-thousand-strong Fire-Bathing Tribe legion, though their formations let them hold their ground.

Yang Tianyou used the Star Annihilation Forbidden Artifact to devastate a Fire-Bathing Tribe legion and create an opening for his armies. The remaining enemy soldiers were wiped out by Yang Yusheng’s formations, shifting the battle in their favor.

• Yang Tianyou assessed the battlefield and saw that the Fire-Bathing Tribe threatened the right flank and outmatched the Four Symbols Army and Purple Moon Army.
• Yang Tianyou killed a Lava Behemoth’s opponents, then hid Star Annihilation inside the wounded beast and sent it toward the enemy legion.
• Yang Yusheng combined the Four Symbols Army and Purple Moon Army into the Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation, slowing the three thousand Fire-Bathing Tribe soldiers as the Lava Behemoth arrived.
• Star Annihilation exploded, immobilized the legion, killed half its soldiers, and opened a vast black hole that threatened the survivors.
• Yang Yusheng changed the formation into the White Tiger Roaring Sky Formation, and its attacks killed the remaining Fire-Bathing Tribe soldiers.

The Yang Household and Mountain and River Hall armies joined forces to attack the Fire-Bathing Tribe, while Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought on the right flank. Yang Tianyou survived a near-Sage Manifestation fireball and returned to battle after recovering, as both sides suffered devastating losses.

• The White Tiger and Ten-Thousand Mountains formations attacked the Fire-Bathing Tribe from both sides, driving its Magma Giant back toward the Realm Gate.
• The Fire-Bathing Tribe leader ordered his warriors to hold their ground until their remaining people could retreat through the gate.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua killed several Spirit Transformation powerhouses before a smaller Magma Giant struck them with a powerful fireball.
• Yang Tianyou shielded Yunhua and endured the fireball, his body repeatedly burning and regenerating as his blood began to turn platinum.
• Yunhua took the injured Yang Tianyou to a flying boat and gave him a Purple Sun Spirit-Replenishing Pill, allowing him to recover and advance his White Emperor Indestructible Body.
• Yang Tianyou returned to the battlefield and saw that the Yang Household, Mountain and River Hall, and Fire-Bathing Tribe had all suffered immense casualties.

Yang Tianyou and his wife helped break the Fire-Bathing Tribe’s formations, and the Human Race wiped out the enemy forces in the World Interstice. Afterward, Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household mourned the enormous losses and named relatives and companions who had fallen in battle.

• Yang Tianyou and his wife joined Qinghuan True Person and Old Ancestor Wang, then broke the Magma Giant’s defenses with their combined divine ability.
• Qinghuan True Person and the allied forces shattered the Fire-Bathing Tribe’s formation, and the Human Race slaughtered the legion on the right flank.
• The Mountain and River Army and the Four Symbols Army destroyed the Magma Giant, while the Human Race wiped out the remaining Fire-Bathing Tribe forces and secured the Realm Gate.
• Yang Yusheng presented Yang Tianyou with the casualty report, which listed heavy losses among the Yang Household and its subordinate forces.
• Yang Tianyou grieved over the names of fallen clan members as Yang Xuanli mourned her father and son, Yang Taixuan mourned her brother, and Yang Tianwang mourned Giant Mountain.

After the Yang Household suffered heavy losses in the battle, Yang Tianyou disputed the spoils with Ziji High Person and demanded a larger share. When negotiations failed, Yang Tianyou sought arbitration from the Four Symbols Alliance, while Ziji High Person mobilized his own connections to oppose him.

• Yang Tianyou told Yang Yusheng to renegotiate the spoils agreement with the Mountain and River Hall.
• Yang Tianyou and Ziji High Person argued over how to divide the spoils, but Ziji refused to raise the Yang Household's share from thirty percent.
• Yang Tianyou left the negotiation and told Yunhua he would request arbitration from Alliance Headquarters.
• Yang Tianyou cited the Four Symbols Alliance and its connections, including allies among the Flood Dragon Clan, as leverage in the dispute.
• Ziji High Person learned of the arbitration request and contacted his old friends, confident the Mountain and River Hall's connections would prevail.

At Alliance Headquarters, Yang Tianyou and Ziji High Person brought their postwar dispute over benefits to a vote. Mountain and River Hall initially gained broad support, but the Yang Household’s votes surged after powerful sea clans and Seven Stars Sacred Land backed it.

• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master opened arbitration on the postwar benefits dispute between the Yang Household and Mountain and River Hall, and Yang Tianyou summarized the battle while Ziji High Person called for a vote.
• Representatives from several sacred lands, regional powers, and former enemies of the Four Symbols Sect voted for Mountain and River Hall.
• The Four Symbols Alliance supported the Yang Household, but its support appeared insufficient until the Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan cast its vote for Yang Tianyou’s side.
• The Southern Sea Flood Dragon Clan, Golden Scale Clan, and Mirror Turtle Clan also supported the Yang Household, sharply increasing its votes.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord unexpectedly voted for the Yang Household, leaving Northern River Region powers and Ziji High Person stunned.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord told the Heaven and Earth Sacred Lord he was repaying a favor, then recalled Heavenly Origin Zi’s prophecy about the Purple Moon.

The Yang Household won the arbitration after numerous major powers supported it, securing an equal share of the postwar benefits. The Alliance meeting then began with a proposal to concentrate and protect mortal populations, a plan Yang Tianyou already supported and had begun implementing in Luochuan Commandery.

• The Seven Stars Sacred Land, the Yu Household, the Treasure Pill Pavilion, and the Heavenblood Demon Kingdom joined other powers in supporting the Yang Household, pushing its vote count past the Mountain and River Hall's.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord told Yang Tianyou he supported the Yang Household to build a connection, and Yang Tianyou promised to repay the favor.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master declared the arbitration concluded under the Yang Household's terms, granting an equal division of postwar benefits.
• Ziji High Person, embarrassed by the outcome, left his projection in True Person Ziyang's care and returned his mind to his true body.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master opened the Alliance meeting and proposed concentrating mortal populations and lower-level Demon Race members in selected commanderies for protection.
• Yang Tianyou agreed with the relocation plan and noted that the Yang Household had already moved nearly all mortals from Luochuan Commandery to Purple Moon Commandery.

The Alliance settled plans to support the Water Tribe of the Nine Phoenix Realm, hold a Heavenly Prodigy Assembly in ten years, and distribute resources from the Lu Wu Secret Realm according to established rules. The meeting ended with the secret realm set to open in half a month and the Alliance exchange scheduled to begin six months later.

• The Alliance approved cultivation methods and scarce resources for the Water Tribe in exchange for its intelligence, assistance, and support for Lu Wu Realm infiltrators.
• The Alliance set the Heavenly Prodigy Assembly for ten years later, during the anticipated period of confrontation between the realms.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord restated the rules for collecting and exchanging Lu Wu Secret Realm resources, including limits and increased Merit costs for additional Origin Crystals.
• The Alliance confirmed that the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master would lead a group into the secret realm in half a month and that resource exchanges would open six months later.
• The Alliance discussed several more items and concluded the meeting.

Yang Tianyou secured half the World Interstice spoils for the Yang Household, then arranged for the resources to strengthen the clan and its army. The chapter ended with Liu Yanyi informing him that Liu Siyu had died of her battle injuries.

• Yang Yusheng announced the Alliance’s ruling that the Yang Household could take half the spoils, and Venerable Ziyuan accepted the decision.
• Venerable Ziyuan refused the Xiang Household’s request for a larger share, widening the rift between the Mountain and River Hall and its subordinate powers.
• Yang Yusheng told Venerable Ziyuan that the Yang Household’s fleet was ready to take on half the World Interstice’s defense.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the spoils placed in the Clan Treasury and asked Yang Yusheng to gather the Purple Moon Army commanders’ requests for cultivation resources.
• Liu Yanyi told Yang Tianyou that Old Ancestor Liu Siyu had died from her injuries and had sent him a handkerchief.

Yang Tianyou mourned old friends and reconnected with Jinge over drinks before turning to the Yang Household’s postwar plans. With its resources and influence greatly increased, he decided to expand the Purple Moon Army and grow the Lineage’s population, leaving the Household poised for rapid development.

• Yang Tianyou reflected on the friends he had lost, then sent Black and White to invite Jinge for a drink and went to pay respects to Liu Siyu.
• Yang Tianyou and Jinge drank beneath the moon and reminisced about their youth; after Jinge passed out, Yang Tianyou danced with Yunhua at the cliffside.
• Over the next ten days, the Yang Household compensated its fallen members and the Four Symbols Army, distributed resources to its subordinate forces, and settled its postwar affairs.
• Yang Tianyou assessed the Household’s expanded income and concluded that its resources could support a major increase in strength.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Purple Moon Army expanded from eight thousand to thirty thousand and planned to increase the Yang Household’s Cultivators from 140,000 to 300,000.