Recaps

The Nine Phoenix Realm Alliance assigned a Void Refinement Legion to watch Purple Moon Mountain after weighing its dwindling forces against the Yang Household’s growing strength. On Purple Moon Mountain, Yang Tianyou rewarded the Lu Wu Army commander and considered the Yang Household’s future ambition to establish an empire and eventually seek an Immortal Court.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm Alliance approved transferring a Void Refinement Legion from the Qiongqi Realm to station outside Purple Moon Mountain and sending fifty Sage Manifestation combatants to replace the lost force there.
• Yang Tianyou treated the Lu Wu Army commander, Daoist Friend Li, and assured him the procedure would not harm him.
• Yang Tianyou gave the commander one Storage Ring containing Liu’s promised payment and another holding resources worth at least five hundred thousand Upper-Grade Spirit Stones for the Lu Wu Army.
• The commander accepted the gifts and thanked Yang Tianyou on behalf of the Lu Wu Army’s soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou considered using the Yang Household’s growing influence to unite the Lu Wu Realm, establish Heaven’s Mandate Empire, and ultimately seek the position of an Immortal Court.

Yang Tianyou assessed the Divine Wind Clan’s spoils from the Battle of Purple Moon and summoned the leaders of the allied Province-Level Powers to divide them according to Merit. The Yang Household kept most of the valuable treasures, while the Heavenly Separation Palace began choosing from what remained.

• Yang Tianyou decided to give the Wind-Evolving Thunder Wings to Sixth Brother and use the other three Sixth-Tier Supreme-Grade Law Treasures to strengthen Purple Moon Mountain’s Clan-Guarding Formation.
• Yang Tianyou found two Sixth-Tier Spirit Trees among the spoils: the Cloudsky Fruit Tree and the Sunflame Stone-Pattern Tree, both formerly belonging to the Qiankun Holy Land.
• Yang Tianyou invited the leaders of the eleven Province-Level Powers to Purple Moon Mountain to distribute the spoils according to Merit.
• The Silver-Tailed Sky Cat King admired Yang Tianyou, while Zhiming noticed her interest and planned to tell his Mistress.
• Yang Tianyou displayed the spoils list, marking the treasures selected by the Yang Household, and offered the rest for exchange with Merit.
• Yang Tianyou gave Tianli True Person of the Heavenly Separation Palace first choice, and Tianli True Person selected treasures for his sect.

Yang Tianyou told Yunhua that he could not yet remove the karmic and destiny restriction preventing them from having a child, but promised he would do so after advancing to Void Refinement. At the True Martial Sacred Land, Old Man Zhui Dao announced that he expected to make his breakthrough in twenty years.

• Yunhua teased Yang Tianyou about his popularity with women, and he reassured her that she was the only one in his heart.
• Yunhua asked Yang Tianyou why she still could not have a child, and he explained that her restriction was bound to both Karma and Destiny.
• Yang Tianyou promised Yunhua he would remove the restriction after reaching Void Refinement, and she worried about the dangers of ascending to the Great Thousand Worlds.
• Old Man Zhui Dao summoned the True Martial Sacred Lord and told him to inform the Alliance that he expected to make his breakthrough in twenty years.
• The True Martial Sacred Lord was delighted that Old Man Zhui Dao was finally preparing to advance.

Yang Tianyou and the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master discussed Old Man Zhui Dao’s planned breakthrough to Void Refinement and the danger it would pose to the True Martial Sacred Land. Yang Tianyou refused to provide Heavenly Stele Stone Milk but offered the Purple Moon Army’s future Void Refinement combat power in exchange for the Yang Household’s requirements, which the Alliance accepted.

• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master told Yang Tianyou that Old Man Zhui Dao was expected to attempt a breakthrough to Void Refinement in twenty years, potentially changing the course of the war.
• Yang Tianyou warned that the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces would likely converge on the True Martial Sacred Land when Old Man Zhui Dao broke through, and that several Void Refinement Legions could overwhelm its defenses.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master asked Yang Tianyou for thirty or forty drops of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk to upgrade the True Martial Sacred Land’s Spirit Vein, but Yang Tianyou refused.
• Yang Tianyou offered the Purple Moon Army as a source of Void Refinement combat power and said it could reach that level within twenty years if the Alliance met the Yang Household’s requirements.
• After reading Yang Tianyou’s message through a Communication Law Treasure, the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master agreed to the requirements.

Yang Tianyou secured the Alliance’s help in deducing two Seventh-Tier Battle Formations and planned to build up the Yang Household’s Purple Moon Army into a Void Refinement Legion. After harvesting remnant souls for Talisman Soldiers, he recognized that the army still needed far more Weapon Sha Qi, which would require further bloody battles and sacrifices.

• Yang Tianyou persuaded the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master to gather Fifth-Tier and higher Formation Masters to deduce the White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Formation and Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation, and to provide a Sixth Tier, Supreme Grade Defensive Formation Disc.
• Yang Tianyou promised the Purple Moon Army would gain Void Refinement combat strength within twenty years and said ten thousand soldiers would reach Four Symbols Island within ten days.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Yang Xuanli to take the Second Legion to Four Symbols Island, directed the Artifact Hall to build Sixth-Tier War Flying Vessels from Solar Essence Gold, and commanded the Purple Moon Army to resume bloody battles.
• Yang Tianyou refined Revolving Wheel Soul-Gathering Talismans, then used them to gather remnant souls around Purple Moon Mountain and produce Soul Liquid.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that soul materials were nearly sufficient for twenty Sage Manifestation White Tiger Talisman Soldiers, but the Purple Moon Army still needed more Weapon Sha Qi and would have to expand and suffer further casualties.

Yang Tianyou expanded the Yang Household’s military preparations, overseeing the refining of War Flying Vessels and making Talisman Soldiers as the war dragged on. Nearly twenty years later, he completed the final White Tiger Talisman Soldier, forged from the Weapon Sha Qi gathered at the cost of the Purple Moon Army’s heavy losses.

• Yang Tianyou visited Artifact Refining Valley, where Yunhua said the three War Flying Vessels would be completed in about three years.
• Yang Tianyou realized the Yang Household could build twenty Sixth-Tier War Flying Vessels in twenty years and decided to prioritize strengthening the Lineage before pursuing cultivation breakthroughs.
• Yang Tianyou returned to the Great White Residence and began refining Divine Wind Clan Talisman Soldiers, postponing White Tiger Talisman Soldiers until he had enough Weapon Sha Qi.
• Eighteen years later, the Nine Phoenix Realm mobilized its forces as tensions rose over Old Man Zhui Dao’s impending breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou completed the last of twenty Mid-Grade Sixth-Tier White Tiger Talisman Soldiers after the Purple Moon Army’s hundred thousand new recruits dwindled to just over ten thousand survivors.

Over nearly twenty years, Yang Tianyou's changes and the Yang Household's investment helped the lineage expand its cultivation forces, warships, and high-rank cultivators. The chapter ended with the lineage's rising Fortune reflected in three Sacred Body prodigies and the inheritance chosen for each.

• Yang Tianyou helped eight Yang Household members reach Sage Manifestation, while refining Sage Manifestation Talisman Soldiers and strengthening the Purple Moon Army into a Void Refinement Legion.
• The Yang Household refined twenty-one Sixth-Tier War Flying Vessels and obtained the Great Sun Golden Bowl Formation to protect Purple Moon Mountain.
• Zhiming's tally showed that the lineage had gained eighty-nine Spirit Transformation cultivators and seven hundred sixty-two Nascent Soul cultivators over the twenty years.
• The Yang Household produced three Sacred Body prodigies: Yang Zixu, Yang Zikun, and Yang Zifei.
• Yunhua imparted part of the Western Florescence Marvelous Myriad Qi True Scripture to Yang Zikun, and the elders decided Yang Zifei would learn the Heavenly Dance Heart-Bewitching Great Art.

Yang Tianyou confirmed that the Purple Moon Army had become a Void Refinement Legion and prepared to send it to the True Martial Sacred Land while keeping its strength hidden from the Mountain-Moving Army Corps. Two months later, Old Man Zhui Dao began his breakthrough as four enemy Void Refinement Legions assembled to kill him.

• Yang Tianyou watched the Mountain-Moving Army Corps threaten Purple Moon Mountain and resolved to destroy it without revealing his army's full strength before Old Man Zhui Dao's breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou told the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master that the Purple Moon Army had become a Void Refinement Legion and would go to the True Martial Sacred Land after training in the Secret Realm.
• Yang Tianyou said that he and his wife would join the battle and asked the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master to keep the Teleportation Formation unobstructed.
• Two months later, Old Man Zhui Dao began breaking through above True Martial Sacred Mountain as sword energy tore through the clouds and sea.
• The commanders of the Giant God Army Corps and Radiant Phoenix Army Corps declared that Old Man Zhui Dao would die, while the Lava Army Corps joined the four-legion force gathered against him.

The Nine Phoenix Realm’s four Void Refinement Legions attacked the True Martial Sacred Land as it summoned an upper-realm Old Ancestor, while the Lu Wu Army and the newly completed Purple Moon Army arrived to defend it. The True Martial Sacred Lord used the Spirit Possession Technique, and Tianhai True Lord descended to confront the attackers.

• The Lu Wu Army Commander challenged the Radiant Phoenix Army Commander, and the Purple Moon Army arrived as a genuine Void Refinement Legion.
• The Jianming Army Commander attacked True Martial Sacred Mountain to stop the upper-realm summoning, but the Lu Wu Army Commander and Radiant Phoenix Army Commander clashed before the strike could land.
• The True Martial Sacred Lord blocked the Jianming Legion’s sword river with the Five Elements Pure Yang Sword and used the Spirit Possession Technique.
• Yang Tianyou recognized Tianhai True Lord as the Old Ancestor descending from the upper realm and sent Yu Qi to help the True Martial Sacred Lord.
• Tianhai True Lord answered the True Martial Sacred Lord’s plea by summoning a vast blue ocean against the Jianming Legion.

The Nine Phoenix Realm leaders watched the battle at the True Martial Sacred Land and discussed the upper-realm reinforcements and weapons backing their forces. There, Tianhai True Lord and three other forces fought separate opponents, while Old Man Zhui Dao’s breakthrough remained the Nine Phoenix Realm’s objective.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm leaders learned that Tianhai True Lord had descended with a realm-breaking object and discussed whether the Lu Wu Realm could contact its own Tribulation Transcendence Old Ancestors.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor and Daoist Taiyi reassured the leaders that Heavenly Immortals rarely interfered in lower-realm affairs, and Daoist Taiyi claimed their peak-grade Sixth-Tier Talismans and Forbidden Artifacts would secure victory.
• At the True Martial Sacred Land, Tianhai True Lord drove back the Jianming Legion, but the Lava Army Corps arrived and engaged him in battle.
• The Lava Army Corps used its Seventh-Tier Battle Formation to summon a Lava Behemoth, while Tianhai True Lord countered its attacks with Heavenly One Heavy Water.
• The Lu Wu Army Corps fought the Radiant Phoenix Army Corps, using divine light and white chains to restrain its speed.
• The Jianming Legion fought the True Martial Sacred Lord, whose Five Elements Pure Yang Sword and borrowed divine power blocked its sword attacks; the two sides remained evenly matched.

Yang Yusheng’s Purple Moon Army clashed with the stronger Giant God Army Corps while Yang Tianyou and Yunhua left to reinforce the True Martial Sacred Land. Their departure left Yang Haoyu to defend Purple Moon Mountain against the Mountain-Moving Army Corps, whose assault the clan’s formations and Solar Warships initially withstood.

• Yang Yusheng deployed the Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation, and the Giant God Army Commander’s first thunder-hammer strike damaged its shell but failed to break through.
• The Giant God Army Commander reshaped his hammer to pierce defenses, prompting Yang Tianyou to warn that the Purple Moon Army could not hold much longer.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua teleported away to reinforce the True Martial Sacred Land, and the Mountain-Moving Army Commander learned that the Purple Moon Immortals had left Purple Moon Mountain.
• The Mountain-Moving Army Commander led his army in an assault on Purple Moon Mountain while Yang Haoyu activated the Clan-Guarding Formation and raised the Great Sun Golden Bowl Formation.
• The Mountain-Moving Army Corps repeatedly charged the golden bowl, but its defenses held with the support of twenty-one Solar Warships and the Sixth-Tier Upper-Grade Spirit Vein.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua joined the battle at True Martial Sacred Mountain to help the Purple Moon Army hold off the Nine Phoenix Realm's Void Refinement Legions while Old Man Zhui Dao advanced. Their spatial and illusion Divine Abilities helped Yang Yusheng wound the Giant God Army Corps, but its commander revealed a Forbidden Artifact.

• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua used their combined abilities to support the Purple Moon Army, and Yunhua struck the Giant God Army Corps with Taiyin Divine Light.
• The Giant God Army Commander knocked the Purple Moon Army away and attacked the Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form with a thunder hammer, but Yunhua evaded it using the Western Hua Divine Statue.
• Yang Yusheng bound the Giant God Army Corps with Xuanwu Abyss-Suppressing while Yunhua trapped it in an illusion with the Marvelous Luo Incantation.
• Yang Yusheng changed formations and wounded the giant god with a Winged White Tiger strike, but a Talisman brought the commander back to his senses.
• The Giant God Army Commander produced and activated a black-and-red Forbidden Artifact covered in falling-star patterns.

Giant God used the Falling Star Fire Bomb against Yunhua’s Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form, then battered the Xuanwu Divine Beast until its shell cracked. Yunhua and Yang Tianyou intervened to protect Yang Yusheng, but exhausted their Law Power and faced Giant God’s next attack as the Purple Moon Army returned to battle.

• Giant God unleashed the Falling Star Fire Bomb at Yunhua’s Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form, devastating the surrounding land.
• Giant God broke through the Xuanwu Divine Beast’s defenses and cracked its shell with repeated Thunder Hammer strikes.
• Yunhua struck Giant God with Taiyin Divine Light and Myriad Qi Divine Flame while Yang Tianyou helped hold him off.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou exhausted their Law Power and retreated, leaving them unable to withstand Giant God’s descending hammer.
• The Purple Moon Army finished recuperating and rejoined the battle.

Yang Tianyou unleashed a devastating Annihilation Blade against the Giant God Army Corps after the Nine Yang Demon Sha Talismans and Falling Star Fire Bomb battered the Purple Moon Army. The strike badly wounded the Giant God and left his army weakened, giving Yang Yusheng a chance to attack.

• Yang Yusheng used Xuanwu Abyss-Suppressing to restrain the Giant God, but the commander fired a Nine Yang Demon Sha Arrow that pierced Xuanwu and killed over a thousand Purple Moon soldiers.
• The Giant God commander used another Nine Yang Demon Sha Arrow against Yang Tianyou and Yunhua, but Yunhua protected them with Western Hua Divine Statue.
• Yang Tianyou reversed his Primordial Power and turned the Creation Brush into a blade, unleashing the Annihilation Blade at the Giant God Army Corps.
• Yang Yusheng ordered the Purple Moon Army to burn their Essence Blood and bind the Giant God, forcing the commander to use his remaining Falling Star Fire Bomb and Nine Yang Demon Sha Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou's Annihilation Blade cut through the explosions, split the Thunder Hammer, and severed nearly half the Giant God's body, killing twenty percent of its soldiers.
• Yang Yusheng seized the opening and bit into the Giant God's right leg with the Xuanwu Divine Beast.

Yang Tianyou’s coalition fought the Nine Phoenix Realm’s armies across four battlefields, with the True Martial Sacred Lord sacrificing himself to trap the Jianming Legion. As the Nine Phoenix Realm gained the advantage and Yang Tianyou prepared to intervene, a terrifying presence rose from True Martial Sacred Mountain, signaling that Old Man Zhui Dao had broken through.

• Yang Tianyou held back his remaining Primordial Power while the Purple Moon Army and his wife suppressed the wounded Giant God Army Corps.
• Tianhai True Lord gained the upper hand against the Lava Army Corps, while the Radiant Phoenix Army Corps overwhelmed the Lu Wu Army Corps and the Jianming Legion faced the True Martial Sacred Lord.
• The Jianming Army Commander used Taiyi Soul-Slaying Forbidden Tomes and Ten Thousand Swords Immortal-Slaying Talismans to attack the True Martial Sacred Lord.
• The True Martial Sacred Lord burned his lifespan and soul to repel the soulflames, then used the Demon-Perishing Tribulation Art and True Martial Demon-Sealing Technique to imprison the Jianming Legion.
• As the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces gained the advantage, Yang Tianyou prepared to use his remaining Primordial Power, but a terrifying presence rose from True Martial Sacred Mountain.

Old Man Zhui Dao broke through to Void Refinement and turned the battle against the Nine Phoenix Realm legions. He killed the trapped Jianming Legion with his Yin-Yang Void Realm and Great Grinding Disc.

• Old Man Zhui Dao's breakthrough forced the Radiant Phoenix Army Commander to use a Military Dao Forbidden Technique and flee toward the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou, Yang Yusheng, and the Lu Wu Army held the Giant God and Lava Army Corps in place while the Jianming Legion remained trapped in the Demon-Sealing Prison Cage.
• Old Man Zhui Dao entered the cage and spread his Yin-Yang Void Realm, suppressing the Jianming Legion's strength.
• The Jianming Army Commander sacrificed more than ten thousand soldiers to form a giant blood sword, but Old Man Zhui Dao caught it between the halves of his Yin-Yang Great Grinding Disc and shattered it.
• Old Man Zhui Dao closed the grinding disc around the weakened Jianming Legion and ground it to death.

After destroying the Giant God and Lava Army Corps, Old Man Zhui Dao moved to support other battlefields while devil cultivators launched a surprise attack on the Green Mastiff Demon Kingdom. They devastated the Ten Thousand Qingshan Mountain Range and then teleported to the Spirit-Extinguishing Demon Kingdom.

• Yang Tianyou and Old Man Zhui Dao destroyed the Giant God Army Corps, and the gathered powerhouses soon wiped out the Lava Army Corps, though the Radiant Phoenix Army Corps escaped.
• At the Ten Thousand Qingshan Mountain Range, Lin Yingyue waited for the True Martial War to begin while Xu Yan True Person reflected on Blade Venerable Great White and his plans to visit Purple Moon Mountain.
• Lin Yingyue led the devil cultivators in an assault on the Green Mastiff Demon Kingdom, using the Compass to unleash Void Turbulence and disrupt its Spatial Teleportation Formation.
• Qiao Sheng held off the Qing Ao Lion King as the Heavenly Corpse Old Ancestor released his refined corpses and the devil cultivators slaughtered the mountain range’s inhabitants.
• The devil cultivators broke the Defensive Formation and reduced the Ten Thousand Qingshan Mountain Range to a wasteland before Lin Yingyue led them through a Formation to the Soul Bewildering Marsh in the Spirit-Extinguishing Demon Kingdom.

The Nine Phoenix Realm’s leaders debated how to respond to their losses and chose to focus first on eliminating the Devil Cultivators. In the Lu Wu Realm, the war turned decisively in its favor, and Old Man Zhui Dao thanked Yang Tianyou and his wife with Dao Enlightenment Tea while explaining how he had broken through.

• The Nine Phoenix Emperor proposed committing every Void Refinement Legion to invade the Lu Wu Realm after the Realm Gate expanded again in thirty years.
• The King of the Divine Wind Clan and other leaders opposed risking all their legions, and the leaders agreed to ask the Bai Ze Clan to perform a deduction while prioritizing the elimination of the Devil Cultivators.
• Old Man Zhui Dao traveled across the Lu Wu Realm after the True Martial War and drove the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces back, giving the Lu Wu Realm the advantage.
• Old Man Zhui Dao visited Yang Tianyou and his wife at Great White Residence and offered them one jin of Dao Enlightenment Tea in thanks for their help.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Old Man Zhui Dao had refined the entire Dao Enlightenment Tea Tree to accelerate his breakthrough.

Yang Tianyou traded twenty drops of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk to Old Man Zhui Dao for treasures, helping True Martial Sacred Land prepare to advance its Spirit Vein. After Old Man Zhui Dao left to return to the Southern Sea, Yang Tianyou arranged for the medicines and Pills before entering seclusion.

• Old Man Zhui Dao asked Yang Tianyou for Heavenly Stele Stone Milk to help advance True Martial Sacred Land’s Spirit Vein.
• Yang Tianyou agreed to provide twenty drops in exchange for treasures from Old Man Zhui Dao’s Storage Ring.
• Yang Tianyou selected mostly high-grade spirit medicines and told Yang Yuqi to take them and Zhiming to refine more Pills.
• Old Man Zhui Dao thanked Yang Tianyou, took the Heavenly Stele Stone Milk, and hurried back to the Southern Sea to advance the Spirit Vein.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Seclusion Chamber.

Yang Tianyou spent twenty-four years in seclusion strengthening his cultivation and Blade Dao in preparation for the Nine Phoenix Realm’s expected retaliation. After breaking through to Mid Sage Manifestation and reaching Great Achievement in the Domain Realm, he sparred with Yunhua and was forced to admit defeat before turning their reunion into an embrace.

• Yang Tianyou weighed the Lu Wu Realm’s military disadvantage against the Nine Phoenix Realm and resolved to strengthen himself and the Purple Moon Army.
• Yang Tianyou swallowed Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and cultivated with the White Emperor Blade Canon.
• After twenty-four years, Yang Tianyou broke through in cultivation and advanced his Blade Dao to Great Achievement in the Domain Realm.
• Yunhua and Zhiming congratulated Yang Tianyou, and Zhiming said he could now advance to Late Sage Manifestation.
• Yang Tianyou challenged Yunhua in the Martial Practice Ground but could not overcome her powerful Divine Abilities and admitted defeat.
• Yang Tianyou scooped Yunhua into his arms, and she playfully scolded him.

Yang Tianyou crafted powerful Talisman Soldiers and life-saving talismans during two years of seclusion. With three years left before the fourth stage of the Realm War, he emerged with new forces and resources prepared for the conflict.

• Yang Tianyou refined materials and created Bai Gang, a Sixth-Tier Upper-Grade White Tiger Talisman Soldier whose strength rivaled a Late Sage Manifestation expert.
• Yang Tianyou made thirteen more White Tiger Talisman Soldiers, bringing the new total to fourteen, but nearly exhausted his Weapon Sha Qi and Soul Liquid.
• Yang Tianyou spent two more years making three Divine Wind Talisman Soldiers, Revolving Wheel Soul-Gathering Talismans, and Undying Phoenix Talismans.
• Yang Tianyou emerged from seclusion with three years remaining before the fourth stage of the Realm War began.

Yang Tianyou prepared to plunder high-level resources when the Realm War resumed, while Yan Kong passed the Heavenly Demon Forbidden Land’s tests and received his freedom. Shanhai then organized the Yang Household’s group to raid major powers for spirit veins and spirit medicine.

• Yang Tianyou found that Heavenly Stele Stone Milk had become less effective and decided to seek high-level spirit medicine and Spirit Vein Essence before the Realm War resumed.
• Yang Tiankang, Yang Tianxue, and Shanhai watched Yan Kong defeat the golden ape, and Shanhai explained that Yan Kong’s bloodlines were becoming unbalanced as his Explosive Flame Divine Ape bloodline grew stronger.
• Yan Kong passed the golden ape’s tests and followed him into the gray mist to receive the Heavenly Demon Forbidden Land’s legacy.
• Shanhai received Yang Tianyou’s orders to raid major powers after the Fourth Stage of the Interface War began, using Formation-Breaking Talismans, space-attribute Spirit Items, and the Beacon-Fire Sword.
• Yang Tiankang, Yang Tianxue, and Shanhai began choosing targets on a map of the Nine Phoenix Realm, and Yan Kong joined them after emerging from the gray mist.

Two years later, Yang Tianyou prepared for Shanhai and his allies’ operation in the Nine Phoenix Realm while reviewing the Yang Household’s vast growth over the past decades. He left confident in the Lineage’s strength and resources, though its plans for higher cultivation still depended on taking what it needed from the Nine Phoenix Realm.

• Yang Tianyou stored the Formation-Breaking Talismans and considered how his Sixth-Tier Formless Insect, alongside the Void Worm and Nine-Phoenix Kunwu, could aid Shanhai’s operation.
• Yang Tianyou noted that Nine-Phoenix Kunwu had gained the Nine-Phoenix Clan’s trust and might be sent to hunt Shanhai and the others if they caused trouble in the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Yang Household’s Lineage had grown to more than two million Cultivators and urged his clansmen to have more children.
• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Household’s military growth, including fifty-three Sixth-Tier War Flying Vessels, repaired War Fortresses, and a Purple Moon Army capable of fighting at the peak of Early Void Refinement.
• Yang Tianyou noted the Lineage’s new Sage Manifestation Cultivators, Sacred Body prodigies, Spirit Veins, and prosperous cities, while recognizing that its ambitions for higher cultivation depended on seizing resources from the Nine Phoenix Realm.

The Nine Phoenix Emperor offered the other clans an additional thirty percent share of the Nine-Phoenix Secret Realm in exchange for their support in the Realm War. The Sky Fox Old Ancestor refused to commit forces because the Red Dust Demon Venerable’s Devil Cultivators were devastating the Demon Race, leaving the other six great clans to prepare to attack the Lu Wu Realm without them.

• The Nine Phoenix Emperor offered another thirty percent share of the Nine-Phoenix Secret Realm, leaving the Nine-Phoenix Clan with only twenty percent.
• Daoist Taiyi, the Fire Spirit Tribe's Grand Elder, the Fire-Bathing Tribe's Clan Chief, the Giant Spirit Sage, and the King of the Divine Wind Clan pledged armies and Void Refinement combat strength for the war.
• The Sky Fox Old Ancestor refused to send many forces because Devil Cultivators were attacking the Demon Race.
• The Giant Spirit Sage described how the Red Dust Demon Venerable's forces had devastated the Ten Thousand Demon Continent and forced the Sky Fox Old Ancestor to defend it.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor accepted the Sky Fox Old Ancestor's refusal and vowed that the six great clans would take the Lu Wu Realm with their combined strength.

At the Lu Wu Realm Alliance headquarters, Yang Tianyou revealed that the Nine Phoenix Realm was committing more than twenty Void Refinement combatants to an all-out invasion. The Alliance leaders began assessing their defenses, and Yang Tianyou concluded that the Western Continent was the likeliest target.

• Yang Tianyou told the Alliance leaders that the Nine Phoenix Realm’s six great clans would deploy more than twenty Void Refinement combatants, while the Demon Race was held back by allies from the Demon Sea.
• Yang Tianyou explained that the Nine Phoenix Realm could rebuild its armies by using a Military Dao Forbidden Technique and was willing to sacrifice many soldiers to win the war.
• The Alliance leaders discussed their limited forces, the possibility of seeking help from Senior Heavenly Lord, and their resolve to defend the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang Tianyou assessed the six major regions and judged the Western Continent to be the easiest breakthrough point for the invading army.
• The Yinyue Empress’s face changed drastically when Yang Tianyou identified the Western Continent as the likely target.