Recaps

Yang Tianyou studied the realms beyond Void Refinement, then used his Primordial Power to turn his illusory spirit abode into a Grotto Heaven. He discovered eight beings developing as Innate Life within it, concealed them, and named the new world the Great White Realm.

• Yang Tianyou learned how Integrated Body, Tribulation Transcendence, ascension, and the Earthly and Heavenly Immortal realms worked.
• Yang Tianyou spent his accumulated Primordial Power to transform his illusory spirit abode into a real world a hundred li across.
• Yang Tianyou saw that the new world had nine sixth-tier Spirit Veins with the potential to become Immortal Veins.
• Yang Tianyou discovered eight signs of life underground and recognized them as Innate Life.
• Yang Tianyou used the Grotto Heaven's origin power to nurture and conceal the eight beings.
• Yang Tianyou named his new world the Great White Realm, making the name a law known to all who would be born there.

Yang Tianyou led the strengthened Yang Household and its allies in preparing to conquer the Nine Phoenix Realm, whose leaders chose to defend their strongholds and wait for the Realm Gate to shrink. A month after the invasion began, agents planted inside the Nine Phoenix Realm sabotaged its defenses, and its supposedly impregnable line collapsed in less than half a month.

• Yang Tianyou ordered the Yang Household to mobilize its army, logistics, hidden disciples, and allies for the next stage of its plan.
• The Nine Phoenix Realm's leaders learned that the Yang Household had assembled forces from the Three Great Realms and resolved to defend their Spirit Veins and Perilous Lands until the Realm Gate shrank.
• A month later, Yang Tianyou commanded the armies of the two realms to attack the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou's agents inside the Nine Phoenix Realm acted together, causing its defensive line to collapse in less than half a month.

Yang Yusheng’s First Legion finished sweeping the Ten Thousand Demon Continent while Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s purge of spies deepened a feud between the Nine Phoenix Emperor and Prince Wu Feng. As Yang Tianyou’s forces pressed the Eastern King Sect, Daoist Taiyi summoned its Old Ancestor, whose arrival left the Lu Wu Realm cultivators fearing defeat.

• Yang Yusheng led the First Legion toward the Nine-Phoenix Continent after annihilating the enemy forces on the Ten Thousand Demon Continent.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s arrests and appointments angered Prince Wu Feng, and Kunwu’s complaint to the Nine Phoenix Emperor triggered a publicized quarrel between them.
• Yang Tianyou learned from Zhiming that the Eastern King Sect’s battle was nearing its final stage and took the Purple Moon Boat there.
• Yang Xuanwu’s forces continued wearing down the Eastern King Sect until Daoist Taiyi prepared the Summoning Altar and called upon the Old Ancestor.
• The Eastern King Old Ancestor descended in a display of lightning and golden light, lifting the sect’s morale and alarming the Lu Wu Realm cultivators.

The Eastern King Old Ancestor arrived to defend the Eastern King Sect and clashed with Yang Tianyou, whose Reincarnation Blade matched the Old Ancestor’s Ten Thousand Beasts Thunder Dao. The Old Ancestor withdrew and offered the Eastern King Sect’s submission, asking Yang Tianyou to spare his disciples.

• Daoist Taiyi apologized to the Eastern King Old Ancestor, who reassured the sect and summoned a Thunder Qilin against the Lu Wu Realm army.
• Yang Xuanwu ordered the Void Refinement Legions to activate their defensive formations, but the Thunder Qilin’s strike gravely injured many soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou arrived and challenged the Eastern King Old Ancestor with his Reincarnation Blade.
• The Old Ancestor unleashed the Ten Thousand Beasts Thunder Dao, and his power clashed with Yang Tianyou’s reincarnation ability until both were worn down.
• The Eastern King Old Ancestor stopped fighting and offered the Eastern King Sect’s submission in exchange for Yang Tianyou sparing his disciples.

Yang Tianyou brought the Eastern King Sect over to his side and led the allied armies to besiege the Nine Phoenix Imperial City. After Nine-Phoenix Kunwu destroyed the city’s defensive formation, the city fell, Prince Wu Feng died fighting, and Yang Tianyou stood over the conquered imperial capital.

• Yang Tianyou accepted the Eastern King Sect’s allegiance and was named its grandmaster, while the Nine Phoenix Emperor learned that his allies had defected.
• Yang Tianyou assigned the Eastern King Sect to restore order, then surrounded the Nine Phoenix Imperial City with armies from the Lu Wu and Qiongqi Realms.
• Yang Tianyou offered the Nine Phoenix Emperor surrender, but the emperor refused and rallied his clan to defend the city.
• The allied armies battered the city for half a year, but its innermost defenses held until Nine-Phoenix Kunwu betrayed the clan and destroyed the formation’s core.
• Prince Wu Feng killed Nine-Phoenix Kunwu and charged the invading armies, but Yang Tianyou killed him as the city fell.
• Yang Tianyou stood atop the conquered imperial city, marking the arrival of a new era.

After conquering the Nine Phoenix Realm and securing the Qiongqi Realm’s submission, Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household’s heaven-worship ceremony and received Heaven’s Mandate. The Lu Wu Realm defeated the other realms’ weakened Wills of Heaven and Earth and began devouring their worlds.

• Yang Tianyou allowed the looting of Nine Phoenix Imperial City for three days while ordering protection for its Spirit Veins and high-grade Spirit Trees, and learned that most of the Qiongqi Realm’s upper ranks had agreed to join the Lu Wu Realm.
• The Yang Household built altars in the Lu Wu, Qiongqi, and Nine Phoenix Realms, and three months later Yang Tianyou performed a sacrifice asking Heaven to grant the Yang Household its mandate.
• Heaven’s Mandate was granted, and Yang Tianyou saw the Yang Household’s Fortune rise while sensing the authority of heaven and earth.
• At Yang Tianyou’s request, the Lu Wu Realm’s Will of Heaven and Earth fought the weakened Nine Phoenix and Qiongqi Wills, defeated them, and bound both realms to begin devouring them.
• Heavenly Dao merit transformed the Lu Wu Realm and its cultivators, while Yang Yusheng, Wuhuang, and many others prepared to break through; the surviving factions of the defeated realms thanked Yang Tianyou and pledged obedience.

Yang Tianyou used his Heavenly Dao merit to reach Late-Stage Void Refinement, while the Great White Grotto Heaven expanded only slightly. With the Will of Heaven and Earth set to force cultivators to ascend, he ordered the Yang Household to establish the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty within half a year.

• Yang Tianyou exhausted his Heavenly Dao merit and prepared Spirit Items, reaching Late-Stage Void Refinement as his Void Realm expanded to a diameter of seventy thousand li.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that expanding the Great White Grotto Heaven required Primordial Power and decided to wait for future Realm Wars rather than seize it from the other interfaces.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Void Refinement cultivators would ascend in half a year and Mid Sage Manifestation cultivators in ten years, then summoned the Yang Household's upper echelon.
• Yang Tianyou found that many Yang Household members had become Void Refinement experts and that Yunhua had also reached Late-Stage Void Refinement.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Yang Household to establish the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty within half a year and warned that anyone who opposed them should be killed without mercy.

The Yang Household swiftly subdued resisting powers and established the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty, using the Investiture of the Gods to distribute divine positions and bind allies to its rule. Yang Tianyou became Imperial Lord, and the dynasty began with its foundations firmly secured.

• The Yang Household crushed more than a hundred resisting powers, prompting other forces to avoid opposing it.
• At Great White Palace, Yang Tianyou led the gathered powers in an offering to heaven and earth and founded the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty.
• Yang Tianyou revealed the Investiture of the Gods and offered Heavenly Mandate Fruit Positions to those who served the dynasty.
• Yang Tianyou kept Great White Grotto Heaven's more valuable Fruit Positions for core Lineage members while granting Lu Wu Realm positions according to merit.
• Yang Tianyou became Imperial Lord, named Yunhua empress, and invested more than twenty Yang Household members and thirteen figures from major powers as Deities.

Yang Tianyou established Reincarnation in Great White Grotto Heaven and the Lu Wu Realm, organizing its Underworld and directing souls toward reincarnation. He then planned how the Imperial Dynasty would be governed after his ascension, leaving the story with Yunhua and him ready to ascend.

• Yang Tianyou left Yang Haoyu and the others to cultivate in Great White Grotto Heaven and traveled beneath the Lu Wu Realm to test his Reincarnation projection.
• Yang Tianyou sent the Six Paths of Reincarnation into the Lu Wu Realm, where it gathered remnant souls from the three great realms and began to grow.
• Yang Tianyou divided Great White Grotto Heaven into heavenly, mortal, and netherworld realms, appointed King Yama and over a thousand underworld officers, and adjusted the flow of souls into reincarnation.
• Yang Tianyou entrusted management of Great White Grotto Heaven to Yang Haoyu and tuned the Reincarnation projection in the Lu Wu Realm to sustain a cycle.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua he would remain Imperial Lord after ascending and appoint Yang An'nan and Yang Anshi to lead civil and military affairs, with a Puppet guarding the palace.

Yang Tianyou and more than a hundred Void Refinement experts ascended from the Lu Wu Realm, leaving Yang An'nan to lead the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty. Yang Tianyou arrived at the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm’s Seventh Heaven, where his powerful arrival drew the attention of faction recruiters.

• Yang Tianyou led more than a hundred Void Refinement experts, including members of the Yang Household, in ascending from the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang An'nan took charge of the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty, and the transition proceeded without major upheaval.
• Yang Tianyou worried about Yunhua, Yang Xuanwu, and the others before arriving in the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm.
• At the Ascension Platform in Long'an Circuit, a Blazing Fire Island envoy recruited a burly Mid Sage Manifestation Body Cultivator after warning him away from the Wang Household.
• A pillar of light announced another ascender, and the recruiters suspected the newcomer had reached Void Refinement in a lower realm.

Yang Tianyou ascended to the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm at Late Stage Void Refinement and passed his tribulation with ease. He chose the Three Origin Hall over more powerful factions and traveled with its envoy, True Person Yulei, who explained the realm and the hall’s cultivation arts.

• Yang Tianyou revealed that he had reached Late Stage Void Refinement after contributing to an Interface War, then prepared to face his tribulation.
• Yang Tianyou defeated the Six-Nine Tribulation Lightning with a single fist and emerged unharmed.
• Yang Tianyou declined invitations from powerful factions, including the Dragon-Tiger Palace, and chose the Three Origin Hall.
• True Person Yulei accompanied Yang Tianyou in a flying carriage and described the Three Origin Hall’s cultivation canons and Divine Ability.
• True Person Yulei explained that the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm was among the Three Thousand Great Worlds where cultivators could ascend to the Immortal Realm.

Yang Tianyou joined the Three Origin Hall as a Guest Elder and settled in the Seventh Heaven, while Yunhua and Yang Tiankang established themselves as Rogue Cultivators in the Sixth Heaven. Yang Xuanwu arrived alone in the Eighth Heaven and injured himself when he reflexively struck someone who greeted him.

• True Person Yulei explained the Spirit Realm's domains, contests for standing, and the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm's Nine Heavens to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou arrived at the Three Origin Hall and met Earth Origin True Person, who appointed him Guest Elder and provided him with a mountain peak, followers, and provisions.
• Yang Tianyou accepted the duty of patrolling the borderlands every ten years and settled at the Three Origin Hall.
• Yunhua and Yang Tiankang ascended to the Sixth Heaven as Rogue Cultivators, while Yang Tiankang set out to find Sword Saint Helian Tian's secret residence in the Fifth Heaven.
• Yang Xuanwu arrived at the Divine Martial Dao Ascension Platform in the Eighth Heaven, where a woman embraced him and he broke his own bones with a reflexive elbow strike.

Yang Tianyou revealed that he was a seventh-tier Talisman Master, earning greater rewards and a flood of commissions from Three Origin Hall. He accepted more than a hundred orders and remained confident he could complete them ahead of schedule.

• Yang Tianyou spent three years building relationships in Three Origin Hall before making seventh-tier talismans with the Creation Brush.
• Yang Tianyou showed his low-grade seventh-tier talismans to the hall master, who recognized his potential to become an eighth-tier Talisman Master.
• The hall master doubled Yang Tianyou’s benefits and arranged for the sect to provide five sets of materials for every talisman he delivered.
• After the hall master confirmed Yang Tianyou’s skill, word spread through the sect, and elders and Dharma Protectors began bringing him talisman commissions.
• Yang Tianyou accepted more than a hundred orders despite his attendant’s warning, confident that his high success rate and the Creation Brush would let him finish quickly.

Yang Tianyou completed the Three Origin Hall’s Talisman orders far faster than expected, then resisted pressure to join the sect while preparing to establish the Purple Moon Yang Household. He began advancing his Life-Bound Law Treasures in Soul Bewildering Marsh, where Void-Shattering Master approached and was ambushed by Yang Tianyou’s Spirit Beasts.

• Yang Tianyou completed more than four hundred batches of Talisman orders in thirty-seven years, astonishing the Three Origin Hall and prompting its leaders to try to recruit him.
• Yang Tianyou deflected the Three Origin Hall’s invitations, met up with Zhiming and the other Spirit Beasts, and took them out of Sanyuan Market to advance his Life-Bound Law Treasures.
• Yang Tianyou chose Soul Bewildering Marsh for the advancement, and the Twin Blades and Starlight devoured the gathered Spirit Items as Treasure Tribulation Lightning gathered overhead.
• Zhiming detected nine approaching Void Refinement Cultivators, including the notorious Void-Shattering Master, and Yang Tianyou ordered the Spirit Beasts to attack him.
• The Formless Insect and Void Worm trapped Void-Shattering Master as he tried to flee, and Yuan Ba appeared before him with a flaming fist.

Fengling and the Spirit Beasts killed Void-Shattering Master, while Yang Tianyou defeated Zhang Old Devil and the other Void Refinement cultivators who tried to seize his newly forged Spirit Treasures. After returning to Sanyuan Market, Yang Tianyou examined the spoils and recognized the Jade Void Golden Codex as a page from a legendary Heavenly Book.

• Fengling and Yuan Ba attacked Void-Shattering Master, who escaped the initial encirclement but was trapped and killed by Tongming's Spatial Corridor Formation.
• Tongming collected Void-Shattering Master's treasures as the two Life-Bound Law Treasures completed their tribulations and became powerful low-grade Spirit Treasures.
• Void Refinement cultivators attacked Zhang Old Devil to seize Yang Tianyou's treasures, but Yang Tianyou killed them all with his Twin Blades and left the Soul Bewildering Marsh.
• The Sanyuan Hall Master decided that Sanyuan Hall should maintain a good relationship with Yang Tianyou even though he did not intend to formally join the sect.
• Yang Tianyou gave the Shadowspace Cloak to Fengling and identified the Jade Void Golden Codex among the spoils as a page from the Heavenly Book, which recorded an Unrivaled Divine Ability.

Yang Tianyou attended a three-prefecture Talisman Masters' Exchange Gathering, acquired an Azure Cloud Talisman Stone, and agreed to help Yang Chenzi explore a dangerous cave abode in a region of shattered space. After spending two years crafting a fast White Peng Talisman Soldier, he set out to meet Yang Chenzi and the other Void Refinement experts.

• Yang Tianyou kept the Jade Void Golden Codex and Shadowspace Cloak, then had Zhiming sell his other treasures for crafting materials.
• Daoist Fengyue invited Yang Tianyou to the Talisman Masters' Exchange Gathering on Mingfu Mountain, where the gathered masters discussed news and shared their Talisman Crafting experience.
• Yang Tianyou won Yang Chenzi's Azure Cloud Talisman Stone in the treasure exchange, then agreed to help explore a cave abode in a region of shattered space.
• Yang Tianyou crafted a mid-grade Seventh Tier White Peng Talisman Soldier over two years and waited for Yang Chenzi's signal.
• Yang Chenzi summoned Yang Tianyou three years later, and Yang Tianyou arrived on the White Peng at a cliff where Yang Chenzi, Granny Tianhua, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions were waiting.

Yang Tianyou joined Yang Chenzi, Granny Tianhua, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions to explore a collapsed Heaven-Tier Secret Realm hidden inside a floating island. After detecting the dangerous core of its fiery inner region, Yang Tianyou used Zhiming to discover a chained treasure called the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace.

• Yang Tianyou met Yang Chenzi and the others, signed their exploration contract, and traveled with them to the concealed realm in the floating island.
• Yang Chenzi explained the realm’s spatial hazards and Fire Demons, while Yang Tianyou detected dangers and guided the group safely toward the inner region.
• The group divided up to search for resources, with Yang Tianyou taking the center and keeping watch for threats.
• Yang Tianyou summoned Zhiming, whose vision revealed the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace bound by eighty-one chains in the realm’s core.

Yang Tianyou and his companions explored the Inner Periphery, where he discovered the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace and the group fought increasingly dangerous Fire Demons. After they escaped the core area and its Body Integration Fire Demon, Yang Chenzi prepared to divide their spoils while Yang Tianyou resolved to find his wife and claim the furnace.

• Yang Tianyou found the high-grade Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace guarded by three powerful Fire Demons, then marked resources and buried a shed Void Worm skin for spatial transfer.
• Yang Chenzi and the others encountered high-tier Fire Demons as they explored, while Yang Tianyou's group defeated the ones that attacked them and fed them to Great White Grotto Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou and his companions lured a giant flame python into two formations and killed it, allowing Yang Chenzi to obtain its Principle Crystal before the Fire Demon horde arrived.
• The group fought their way out of the Secret Realm after encountering a Body Integration bull-headed Fire Demon, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Couple suffered severe injuries.
• Yang Chenzi deactivated the Concealment Array and announced that the group would divide the spoils, while Yang Tianyou resolved to find his wife and obtain the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace.

After a dangerous treasure hunt, Yang Tianyou learned that Yunhua was being pursued by the Huchen Sect and rushed to rescue her. He found her exhausted in the desert, sent her to recover inside his Grotto Heaven, and flew toward the enemy warship as his power surged.

• Yang Chenzi divided the Secret Realm spoils among Yang Tianyou, himself, the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions, and Granny Tianhua, then parted warmly from Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou gave his gains to Zhiming, ordered him to intensify the search for Yunhua, and entered seclusion to study the Blade Dao.
• Yunhua rejected Young Master Jingyu's advances, and after she killed him when he tried to seize her, the Huchen Sect sent cultivators to pursue her.
• Zhiming reported Yunhua's peril to Yang Tianyou, who traveled to the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty with the Void Worm and eventually found her in the desert.
• Yang Tianyou placed Yunhua in his Grotto Heaven to heal and charged toward the pursuing warship, while his Grotto Heaven's origin began empowering him with immense power.

Yang Tianyou rescued Fairy Yunhua and fought the Huchen Sect pursuers, killing Yanyun Fairy and two other Body Integration Cultivators along with their Void Refinement allies. Afterward, he used the destroyed warship to replenish the damaged Great White Grotto Heaven and stabilize it.

• Yanyun Fairy learned that Yang Tianyou was charging toward the Huchen Sect forces, and he unleashed a colossal Life-and-Death Blade against their warship.
• The Life-and-Death Wheel destroyed the warship’s defenses, and Yang Tianyou fought Yanyun Fairy and the other pursuers across the desert.
• Yang Tianyou used Reincarnation to daze the three Body Integration Cultivators, then killed them with his Heavenly Blade and wiped out the fleeing Dharma Protectors.
• The Huchen Sect discovered the deaths and, led by Old Ancestor Chenhu, suspected another Tribulation Transcendence faction before issuing a warrant for Yunhua and investigating the culprit.
• Yang Tianyou found that the battle had severely depleted his Spirit Beasts and Great White Grotto Heaven, so he fed the ruined warship into its black hole and restored stability.

After recovering from their injuries and gathering the spoils from Yanyun Fairy and the other cultivators, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua returned to the sea of fire to claim the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace. They destroyed the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon inside the Great White Grotto Heaven, and Yunhua became the furnace’s master, learning of its former master’s inheritance cave abode.

• Yang Tianyou kept the three Body Integration Cultivators’ corpses for future Talisman Soldiers and fed the Void Refinement cultivators and other materials to the Great White Grotto Heaven, restoring its Origin Power.
• Yunhua healed in the Great White Grotto Heaven over the course of a year, then reunited with Yang Tianyou before he returned to the Three Origin Hall.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua went to the sea of fire, where Yunhua revealed the Myriad Qi Divine Flame and attracted the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace Artifact Spirit, who explained that an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon remained sealed inside the furnace.
• Yang Tianyou persuaded the Fencang Furnace Artifact Spirit to enter the Great White Grotto Heaven, where the black hole bound and refined the Ninth-Tier Heavenly Demon into Primordial Power.
• Yunhua used her Essence Blood to become the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace’s master, and Fencang told them about the Demon-Sealing Chains and his former master’s inheritance cave abode in Blackstone Prefecture.

Yang Tianyou secured a Ninth-Tier Spirit Vein in Blackstone Prefecture without breaking its protective Dragon-Locking Well, then claimed a store of ancient treasures. After a century of cultivation, he comprehended the Power of the Blade Dao Principle and learned that Great Zhao was preparing to invade Great Zhou.

• Yang Tianyou discovered the Dragon-Locking Well and the Ninth-Tier Spirit Vein it restrained, then decided to leave the formation intact until he was strong enough to free it safely.
• Yang Tianyou met Lanying, the Azure Floating Shadow Formation’s spirit, and collected the treasures preserved in the formation’s hall before moving it into the Great White Grotto Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou spent a hundred years cultivating and making Talismans at Three Origin Hall, then comprehended the Power of the Blade Dao Principle.
• Zhiming reported that Great Zhao was massing troops near Great Zhou and Great Chen, while Great Zhou’s Court issued Conscription Orders and appointed Ji Chengwu to command its army.

Yang Tianyou volunteered for the Great Zhao war to earn Military Merit and rebuild his Lineage, using his newly revealed Blade Dao Principle to win the support of Three Origin Hall’s elders. As the armies gathered, Yang joined the Azure Cloud Prefecture Vanguard Army, while Grand Marshal Ji Chengwu’s plan to attack Jiangbei City met fierce resistance.

• Yang Tianyou asked the Sanyuan Hall Master to assign him to the Front Line so he could earn Military Merit and advance through battle.
• Yang Tianyou revealed his Blade Dao Principle, prompting the Earth Origin True Person and Human Origin True Person to welcome him as a junior brother and offer help securing a position.
• With Heavenly Origin Old Ancestor’s assistance, Yang Tianyou joined the Azure Cloud Prefecture allied forces’ Vanguard Army as a reconnaissance specialist and headed for Golden Pool City.
• Aboard the Yellow Dragon Boat, Ji Chengwu proposed attacking Jiangbei City, but his advisers objected because its defenses and the risk of encirclement made the assault dangerous.
• Ji Chengzong complained after the meeting, while Ji Chengwu said Li Shentong’s absence from the Front Line would leave him free to seize military power.

After five years of preparation and three years of fighting at Golden Pool City, Yang Tianyou led a scout unit behind Great Zhao’s lines to ambush reinforcements for Yun Hai Mountain. He destroyed two warships with his Blade Dao Principle, shared the spoils with his cultivators, and planned to rest before striking again.

• Yang Tianyou and the Azure Cloud Prefecture army defended Golden Pool City against Great Zhao’s opening assault, and the battle settled into a prolonged routine.
• Yang Tianyou received orders to harass Great Zhao’s reinforcements and used Zhiming’s intelligence to find a unit headed for Yun Hai Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou led his cultivators behind enemy lines and ambushed two warships with a peak-grade Seventh Tier killing formation.
• Yang Tianyou split both warships with his blade and his forces wiped out the surviving Zhao cultivators before collecting the spoils.
• A Great Zhao Body Integration Cultivator examined the battlefield, recognized the Blade Dao Principle, and warned nearby legions to guard against sneak attacks.
• Yang Tianyou shared much of the spoils with his cultivators and told them to rest for three days before their next ambush.

The Flood Dragon Emperor Ao Bing weighed Great Zhou’s request for aid against Great Zhao’s rising power while Yang Tianyou’s attacks on Zhao’s support troops prompted plans to counter him. After Zhiming advanced to Body Integration and scanned the battlefield, Yang Tianyou gave Muyunzi intelligence he called the Law Treasure that would defeat Zhao’s army.

• Ji Chengwu persuaded Ao Bing to provide Great Zhou with Spirit Items, and Ao Bing explained to his Second Prince why the Flood Dragon Clan should remain neutral for now.
• The Second Prince admitted that Great Zhao had tried to win him over and argued that the Flood Dragon Clan should join the stronger dynasty.
• After Yang Tianyou ambushed another Great Zhao support team, Zhao’s commanders concluded that a Heavenly Mechanist was guiding his attacks and arranged to bring in experts and hide Body Integration Cultivators aboard warships.
• Yang Tianyou helped Zhiming pass his tribulation and advance to Body Integration, then asked him to scan the Golden Pool City battlefield.
• Zhiming surveyed Zhao’s defenses, troop movements, resources, and hidden strength, giving Yang Tianyou precise intelligence for a planned victory.
• Yang Tianyou delivered a Jade Slip to Muyunzi and called it the Law Treasure that would defeat the Zhao army; Muyunzi was shocked by its contents.