Recaps

Yang Tianyou helped his family secure a share of a Spirit Mine, won recognition in a duel, and advanced his cultivation while working at Purple Moon Pavilion. After years of trading and crafting talismans, he arrived with Fengling at the Golden Moon Pavilion for an auction featuring rare Body Cultivator resources.

• Yang Tianyou joined Yang Tianxue and Yang Tianwang in claiming the Wu Earth Yellow Apricot Fruits and uncovering a Wood-Born Copper mine, then helped defeat the rival cultivators guarding it.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Purple Moon Mountain, awakened the Great White Golden Pupils, and learned that the Yang Household needed allies to protect its interests.
• Yang Tianyou represented the Yang Household in the mine-share duels, defeated Liu Siyu, and helped the family win ten percent of the ore vein while uniting the Yang, Liu, and Zhuang Households against the Cold Tide.
• Yang Tianyou traveled to Yellowstone Market, accepted a purchasing-steward position at Purple Moon Pavilion, and traded with talisman makers at an Exchange Gathering.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Tianyun an Alchemy Cauldron, continued crafting talismans, and reached Late Qi Refinement over the next three years.
• Jinge invited Yang Tianyou to the Golden Moon Pavilion auction, and Yang Tianyou arrived with Fengling after saving more than four thousand Spirit Stones.

Yang Tianyou helped the Yang Household and Zhao Household uncover and sell the Dragon Valley Sect’s inheritance, then returned to Purple Moon Mountain as a First Succession Rank member. As the Cold Tide approached and hostile cultivators struck the Yang Household, he set out to avenge his clansmen.

• Yang Tianyou won several auction lots, then tracked the Zhao Household ambushers to Dragon Valley Hall and escaped Zhao Tingshen’s attack.
• Yang Dangmo and Yang Tianyou entered Dragon Valley Hall with the Zhao Household, explored its inheritance, and divided its treasures and scriptures.
• Yang Tianyou arranged for Jin Lianri of the Gold and Silver Alliance to buy Dragon Valley Hall, earning the Yang and Zhao Households a large payment in resources.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Purple Moon Mountain, accepted the Yang Household’s First Succession Rank, and joined discussions about preparing for the Cold Tide and countering Zhao Leicong.
• Yang Tianyou shared resources with relatives and Fengling before entering seclusion, reaching Qi Refining eighth layer while Fengling became a First-Tier Superior-Grade Azure Wolf.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Cold Tide was nearing and that Darkblood Old Devil had killed Yang Household cultivators and left Yang Tianwang gravely injured and missing an arm.
• Yang Tianyou received intelligence from Yang Qionggao and set out to hunt Darkblood Old Devil in revenge.

Yang Tianyou hunted down Darkblood Old Devil, claimed treasures from a hidden Fire Vein, and prepared for the Cold Tide while the Yang Household uncovered the Zhao Household’s plot. As the Cold Tide began, the Northern River Region mobilized for invasion, and Yang Tianyou traveled with the Yang Household to Crouching Ox Pass.

• Yang Tianyou found Little Willow Village slaughtered, tracked Darkblood Old Devil to the mountains, and killed him with Fengling’s help.
• Yang Tianyou and Hong Qing opened a Fire Vein formation, collected its treasures, and shared the spoils before parting as friends.
• Yang Tianyou tracked Zhao Yunxiao, captured him, and learned from Yang Haoyu that the Zhao Household planned to enlist the Black Sha Sect against the Yang and Mu Households after the Cold Tide.
• Yang Tianyou nurtured the Immortal in the Flame into Yuan Ba, advanced his cultivation, and refined the Essence of the Five Metals to strengthen his Golden Spirit Armor.
• Yang Tianyou arranged for Jinge and the Gold and Silver Alliance to buy the Yang Household’s Cold Tide resources, then watched the Cold Tide arrive.
• The Six Desires Red Dust Sect invaded the Northern River Region, and the Three Rivers Sect ordered the Yang Household to send cultivators to the defense.
• Yang Haoyu led the Yang Household’s forces north to Crouching Ox Pass, where they joined an alliance of Foundation Establishment Lineages.
• Yang Tianyou explored the trading streets at Crouching Ox Pass with Fengling and Yuan Ba and asked an acquaintance to gather items he needed.

Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household through raids on Barbarian and Blood Race settlements after Crouching Ox Pass fell, then returned to Dragon Valley County and began a Foundation Establishment breakthrough. Enemies attacked the concealed Fire Vein during his breakthrough, and Yang Tianyou emerged to kill the Ice Crystal Saber-Toothed Tiger while Wolf Ancestor remained under attack.

• Yang Tianyou helped defend Crouching Ox Pass, then led Wolf Ancestor and Yang Household cultivators on raids against Barbarian villages as attacks by the nonhuman races intensified.
• Yang Tianyou and his allies rescued Liu Changqing’s group from Barbarians, but learned that Crouching Ox Pass had fallen and enemy armies were advancing toward Dragon Valley County.
• The Yang Household and Liu Household raided Black Creek Town, where Yang Tianyou stole refined Black Iron and Black Iron Essence before escaping the Crimson Blood Guard.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing ambushed the pursuing Crimson Blood Guard, but their blood sacrifice summoned a powerful Blood Race man who gravely wounded the group until Yunhua intervened.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Dragon Valley County, reunited with Yang Haoyu, revealed that he had comprehended Blade Intent, and received a Shadow Hall token and a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Yang Tianyou met Yang Danglong at the Huafeng Black Market, memorized the Shadow Hall roster, and entered a concealed Fire Vein to begin his breakthrough using a Five-Element Conversion Formation.
• Yang Tianyou formed liquid Spiritual Power and Foundation Establishment Spiritual Sense as enemies attacked the Fire Vein, breaking the formation and exposing him during his breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou killed the attacking Foundation Establishment cultivator and defeated the Ice Crystal Saber-Toothed Tiger with Yang Danglong’s help, while Wolf Ancestor continued fighting three opponents outside.