Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyun recounted how Yang Lihe risked his life to help her and earned her love, and Yang Haoyu approved their marriage after Yang Lihe passed the Heart-Questioning Grand Formation's test. After their wedding, the Yang Household expanded its alliances and strengthened its operations, while Yang Tianjiu’s Wealth Dao was revealed.

• Yang Tianyun told Yang Haoyu how Yang Lihe repeatedly entered Perilous Lands to obtain spirit medicines for her, and how his devotion won her heart.
• Yang Tianyun explained that Yang Lihe gained a Gu Dao inheritance and Foundation Establishment through a dangerous expedition, then offered its treasures and the Great Wilderness Gu Scripture as betrothal gifts.
• Yang Tianyou returned with Yang Lihe, who passed the Heart-Questioning Grand Formation's test, and Yang Haoyu promised to preside over their wedding in half a month.
• Yang Lihe and Yang Tianyun married, and the Yang Household's wealth and tolerant traditions drew more Rogue Cultivators to Purple Moon Town.
• Three Foundation Establishment Lineages deepened their cooperation with the Yang Household, while Yang Tianjiu busied himself with Commerce Hall work and accumulated Wealth Qi through his Wealth Dao.
• The Yang Household enforced quotas across its Four Halls and assigned Attendants to supervised groups, accelerating its development and benefiting the Liu Household as well.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Lihe discussed the Hundred-Poison Golden Silkworm Gu before Yang Lihe married Yang Tianyun and joined the Yang Household. Afterward, Yang Tianyou traveled to Crouching Ox Pass and reunited with Yunhua.

• Yang Lihe explained the strengths and uses of the Hundred-Poison Golden Silkworm Gu and the Autumn Leaf Locust, and Yang Tianyou declined to refine one so another clansman could benefit.
• Half a month later, Yang Haoyu officiated Yang Lihe and Yang Tianyun's wedding on Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Lihe and Yang Tianyun visited the Yang Household Ancestral Hall, where Yang Lihe was entered into the Clan Genealogy as fifth in the Tian Generation.
• After seeing the weddings, Yang Tianyou set aside his cultivation and carried the Yang Household's monthly supplies to Crouching Ox Pass.
• Yang Tianyou reunited with Yunhua, who asked whether he had missed her, and he agreed.

Yang Tianyou learned about the Four Symbols Constellation Treatise and the secret realm trials tied to the Four Symbols Sect’s legacy. After discovering the realm would open in twenty-four years, he decided to enter and try his luck.

• Yang Tianyou woke to find Yunhua attempting to cook mud carp, but her meal failed, so he prepared Spirit Cuisine for them.
• Yunhua gave Yang Tianyou a Jade Slip containing all four methods of the Four Symbols Constellation Treatise and explained the Four Symbols Sect’s history.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that cultivators who practiced the treatise could attempt the secret realm’s nine trials for free, while others had to pay.
• Yang Tianyou asked when the Four Symbols Secret Realm would open, and Yunhua said it would open in twenty-four years.
• Yang Tianyou declared that he would enter the secret realm and attempt the trials.

Yang Tianyou switched to the White Tiger Constellation Exposition and cultivated it to the Foundation Establishment realm. Meanwhile, Yang Haoyu learned that the Zhao Household Remnants would travel to Ba Commandery and prepared to send Yang Tianyou and Wolf Ancestor to intercept them.

• Yang Tianyou used the Third-Tier Spirit Vein beneath Crouching Ox Pass to cultivate the White Tiger Constellation Exposition, transforming his Spiritual Power and gaining platinum Spirit Marks.
• Yang Qiongye told Yang Haoyu that the Zhao Household Remnants planned to take the Cloudglow Sect's inter-commandery Flying Boat to Ba Commandery.
• Yang Qiongye explained that Hong Qing could help place cultivators aboard the Flying Boat because his master was assigned to guard it.
• Yang Haoyu decided to send Yang Tianyou and Wolf Ancestor to intercept the Zhao Household Remnants and began preparing a Forbidden Artifact.
• After four months of seclusion, Yang Tianyou reached the Foundation Establishment realm in the White Tiger Constellation Exposition and strengthened his physique, especially his bones.

After completing his Cultivation Method change, Yang Tianyou returned from seclusion and learned that Fengling had brought back a mutated ice-blue pheasant with exceptional potential. He decided to make it a Bonded Spirit Beast, named Ruoqing, and planned to return to Purple Moon Mountain.

• Yang Tianyou tested his strengthened physique, then read a message from the Old Ancestor and decided to prepare to intercept the Zhao Household Remnants.
• Fengling returned with a half-dead ice-blue pheasant after missing Yang Tianyou's summons, and explained that it had defeated a stronger feline Demon Beast.
• Yunhua examined the pheasant and discovered that it had gained a powerful bloodline and potential after an ice-attribute Spirit Item caused an Acquired mutation.
• Yang Tianyou chose the pheasant as one of his Bonded Spirit Beasts and named its species the Mysterious Ice Pheasant and the individual Ruoqing.
• Yunhua teased Yang Tianyou about naming their future children, then urged him to hurry back to Purple Moon Mountain.

Yang Haoyu showed Yang Tianyou the God-Slaying Crossbow, a powerful Forbidden Artifact designed to strike both body and soul. Its Earthheart Furnace made it usable within ten breaths, but each shot consumed the crossbow and a hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Half a month later, Yang Tianyou received Yang Haoyu's message and used Starlight Escape to reach the summit of Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Haoyu revealed the God-Slaying Crossbow, which had given Yang Tianyou a sense of deadly danger before she lowered it.
• Yang Haoyu gave Yang Tianyou the crossbow and explained that its God-Slaying Arrow could destroy a body and shoot a soul with the force of a False Core Cultivator's full-strength strike.
• Yang Tianyou learned the crossbow normally took too long to activate, so Yang Haoyu had built an Earthheart Furnace to fire it within ten breaths.
• Yang Haoyu told Yang Tianyou that firing the crossbow required a hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, leaving him stunned by its cost.

Yang Tianyou prepared concealment and escape Talismans for an ambush on Zhao Zongkun, then traveled with Yang Tianwang and Wolf Ancestor to Cloudglow City. The group reached the city in disguise and approached its guarded entrance to begin their mission against the Zhao Household Remnants.

• Yang Tianyou crafted three Dark Silence Talismans and two Xun Wind Escape Technique Talismans to support the planned ambush.
• Yang Tianyou joined Yang Tianwang and Wolf Ancestor, and they traveled underground on the Earth Vein Rock Rhino toward Silver River County.
• The group crossed into Silver River County, changed their appearances, concealed their presence, and flew toward Cloudglow City.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang admired Cloudglow City and spoke about the future of their Lineage, while Yang Tianwang privately worried that his crippled body would keep him from seeing its rise.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang headed for Cloudglow City's gate, where an ancient mirror inspected entrants and the city's defenses were maintained against Devil Cultivators.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang entered Cloudglow City and met Hong Qing, who had arranged to hide them aboard a Cloudglow Sect flying boat. The brothers boarded the boat ahead of the Zhao Household, with Hong Qing guiding them to his room.

• Yang Tianyou used his Blade Intent to cut away the turbid Mortal World Qi as he and Yang Tianwang crossed Cloudglow City to its protected central district.
• Yang Tianyou reunited with Hong Qing, congratulated him on reaching Foundation Establishment, and agreed they would call each other brothers.
• Hong Qing explained that he would bring Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang into the Flying Boat Inner Cabin three shichen later, before the Zhao Household could board.
• Yang Tianyou gave Hong Qing a Storage Bag of Spirit Stones to help cover any expenses, and Hong Qing accepted it.
• Hong Qing led Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang onto the Cloudglow Sect's Cross-Commandery Flying Boat, where the two guards let them pass without question.

Yang Tianyou used Nie Qing'er's blood to track the Zhao Household Remnants as they boarded the Cloudglow Sect's Flying Boat to leave Luochuan Commandery. He and Yang Tianwang waited nearby as the boat departed, then continued their journey toward Ba Commandery while Yang Tianyou reflected on the adventure.

• Yang Tianyou used the Blood Soul Altar and Nie Qing'er's blood to locate the Zhao Household Remnants near the Cloudglow Sect's Flying Boat.
• Zhao Zongbin comforted his clansmen as they prepared to leave Luochuan Commandery, while Nie Qing'er worried that the Yang Household had not abandoned its pursuit.
• The Zhao Household members boarded the Flying Boat at White Cloud Plaza, celebrating their chance to rebuild their Lineage in Ba Commandery.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang confirmed the Zhao Household had boarded and discussed ending their long blood feud.
• The Flying Boat departed, and after a day of travel it passed through Silver River County into Seven Ultimates County.

Yang Tianyou crossed the Luochuan River aboard the Cloudglow Sect’s Flying Boat and learned about the local Flood Dragon Clan before the vessel reached the dangerous Poisonous Marsh Jungle. Under True Person Bai Xuan’s protection, the boat crossed the jungle and entered Ba Commandery.

• The Flying Boat encountered a flood dragon traversing the Luochuan River, forcing its Formation to accelerate and flee.
• Hong Qing explained the Flood Dragon Clan’s cultivation, strength, and cautious relationship with the Luochuan Sect to Yang Tianyou.
• The Flying Boat crossed the Luochuan River without further trouble and approached the Poisonous Marsh Jungle, a perilous region inhabited by evil cultivators and venomous creatures.
• True Person Bai Xuan appeared at the bow and spread his Golden Core pressure around the Flying Boat as it crossed the jungle.
• After six hours, the Flying Boat passed through the Poisonous Marsh Jungle and entered Ba Commandery.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang pursued the Zhao Household Remnants after they left the Flying Boat in Ba Commandery. As the Zhao family headed toward Xuanshui City, Yang Tianyou decided to ambush them before they could reach its Golden Core Cultivator.

• Yang Tianyou tracked the Zhao Household Remnants with the Blood Soul Altar while the Flying Boat crossed Ba Commandery.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang left the Flying Boat, summoned Giant Mountain, and pursued the Zhao family underground.
• Zhao Zongkun and Zhao Zongbin decided to rest in Xuanshui City and learn about the Xiang Household before approaching it.
• Yang Tianyou realized the Zhao family was heading for Xuanshui City, where a Golden Core Cultivator guarded the city.
• Yang Tianyou sent Yang Tianwang and Yuan Ba ahead to block the Zhao family while he prepared to ambush them with Wolf Ancestor and Fengling.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang ambushed the Zhao Household's Flying Boat and killed Zhao Zongkun, the Zhao Household's last Foundation Establishment Cultivator. After taking control of the boat, Yang Tianyou slaughtered the remaining Zhao Household Cultivators, including Nie Qing'er and her infant, leaving the feud's final bloody confrontation behind them.

• Yang Tianwang stopped the Zhao Household's Flying Boat, and Zhao Zongkun offered Spirit Stones while revealing his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation and the Gold-Piercing Falcon.
• Yang Tianwang ordered Giant Mountain and Yuan Ba to attack, while Zhao Zongkun summoned the Sea-Covering Tower to meet Giant Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou struck Zhao Zongkun with the God-Slaying Arrow, killing him as Yang Tianwang and the others engaged the Gold-Piercing Falcon and trapped the Flying Boat.
• Yang Tianyou took control of the Flying Boat, where Nie Qing'er begged him to spare her infant and revealed that she had been the Yang Household's hidden agent.
• Yang Tianyou killed Nie Qing'er and her infant, then killed Zhao Tingfeng and slaughtered the remaining Zhao Household Cultivators aboard the Flying Boat.

Yang Tianyou and his companions divided the spoils from defeating the Zhao Household Remnants and Gold-Piercing Falcon, including a valuable Flying Boat and Golden-Pattern Pear Tree. They reached Huai River City to wait for a return trip and ended the chapter at a Spirit Cuisine restaurant, where Yang Tianyou agreed with Fengling’s complaint that the waiter had ordered too little food.

• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang counted the Zhao Household’s spoils, including a Third-Tier Lower-Grade Fire Attribute Flying Sword and a Tier 2 Supreme-Grade Bianhe Boat.
• Yang Tianyou explained that the Yang Household owned a damaged Third-Tier Law Treasure robe and examined the Golden-Pattern Pear Tree and its ripe pears.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Bianhe Boat’s Thousand-Feather Sky-Piercing Formation and said it would remedy one of the Yang Household’s shortcomings.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang traveled to Huai River City and settled into a pavilion while they waited for the Cross-Commandery Flying Boat’s return trip.
• At the Golden Goblet Tower, Fengling ordered nearly every dish on the menu, and Yang Tianyou later agreed with the beasts that the waiter had ordered too little food.

Yang Tianyou supported Yang Tianwang’s hope of regrowing his severed arm by agreeing to pursue a Blood Jade Lotus at the Huai River Auction. The auction began, and its first lot sold for fifty-three thousand Spirit Stones.

• Yang Tianyou paid the restaurant bill, tipped the waiter on Fengling’s behalf, and bought Ba Commandery gifts while strolling around Huai River City.
• Yang Tianwang told Yang Tianyou that an upcoming auction would feature a Blood Jade Lotus, the main ingredient for a pill that could restore his severed arm.
• Yang Tianyou agreed to help Yang Tianwang buy the Blood Jade Lotus, saying the brothers’ contributions to the Lineage justified using its resources.
• Half a month later, Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang entered the Huai River Auction House and took a private room reserved for Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• The auction opened, and a Foundation Establishment Cultivator won the first lot of Poria Water Restoration Pills with a bid of fifty-three thousand Spirit Stones.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang attended the Huai River City auction, where Yang Tianyou bought several items and the brothers waited for the Blood Jade Lotus. Xiang Yun bid first for the lotus, seeking to strengthen his Mount Tai Python, and promised Lin Jun a favor in return for his help.

• The Molten Fire Spear and Smoke Cloud Pearl were auctioned off before the sale moved on to mostly Tier 2 Spirit Items.
• Yang Tianyou bought a Dark Moon Netherwolf Inner Core, a Fire Attribute ape Inner Core, Starfall Iron, Blank Talisman Paper, and Spirit Wine, while Yang Tianwang bought a Fire Attribute Spirit Fruit for Yang Dangmo.
• After three days of bidding, the Blood Jade Lotus came up for auction, and the Yang brothers prepared to bid.
• Xiang Yun bid twenty thousand Spirit Stones for the Blood Jade Lotus, which he wanted to raise his Mount Tai Python's bloodline.
• Xiang Yun rebuked Lin Jun for suggesting he invoke the Xiang Household's name, then promised to recommend Lin Jun's household for authority in Sishui Town.

Yang Tianyou won the Blood Jade Lotus at auction, while Xiang Yun and Lin Jun plotted to rob him and his companion. As the auction continued, Yang Tianyou recognized a Heavenly Evolving Stone among the finale lots, and bidding began for it.

• Yang Tianyou outbid Xiang Yun for the Blood Jade Lotus at thirty-six thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xiang Yun asked Lin Jun to identify Yang Tianyou, then recruited him to help rob the outsiders and divide their remaining resources.
• Yang Tianwang warned Yang Tianyou that their spending might attract trouble, but Yang Tianyou said the Cloudglow Sect's Flying Boat would soon give them a Golden Core Cultivator's protection.
• The auctioneer introduced a Heavenly Evolving Stone containing the Lower First Stage Divine Ability Heavenly Net Divine Palm and one empty slot, then opened bidding at ten thousand Spirit Stones.

After Xiang Yun sensed that Yang Tianyou had killed members of the Xiang Household, Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang fled Huai River City before the household could act. Pursuers chased them into the sky, but Yang Tianyou’s escape talisman helped him outrun some while Xiang Yun’s faster shuttle continued after them.

• After the auction, Xiang Yun visited Yang Tianyou and sensed the Xiang Household bloodline, accusing him of killing someone from his household before leaving.
• Yang Tianyou realized Xiang Yun had detected his killing of Zhao Tingfeng and his son, and decided he and Yang Tianwang had to flee Huai River City.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang left the city on a Flying Boat as several hostile cultivators followed them.
• Yang Tianyou used a Xun Wind Escape Technique Talisman to boost the Flying Boat’s speed and leave three Foundation Establishment pursuers behind.
• Xiang Yun passed the pursuers on his faster Flying Shuttle, while they abandoned the chase rather than risk confronting him.

Yang Tianyou and his companions ambushed Xiang Yun, using Giant Mountain, talismans, and Wolf Ancestor’s Purple Moon Divine Light to restrain the powerful Foundation Establishment Late Stage Body Cultivator. Yang Tianyou seized the opening to strike at Xiang Yun’s neck with the Great White Heavenly Blade.

• Yang Tianyou prepared for the fight and ordered Yang Tianwang, Giant Mountain, Wolf Ancestor, Fengling, and Yuan Ba to help counterattack once the Xun Wind Escape Technique Talisman ran out.
• Yang Tianyou launched the One-Qi Capturing Hand as Giant Mountain slowed Xiang Yun’s Flying Shuttle with a gravity field, but Xiang Yun’s blood-mist python struck Giant Mountain and weakened the field.
• Xiang Yun broke through the One-Qi Capturing Hand and charged Yang Tianyou with the Overlord Spear, forcing Yang Tianyou to defend himself with talismans and the Nine-Tiger Golden Bell.
• Yang Tianyou was blasted backward and bloodied, while his talismans trapped Xiang Yun in a blade formation and wooden vines, and Giant Mountain’s gravity sphere further restrained him.
• Wolf Ancestor struck Xiang Yun with the Purple Moon Divine Light, giving Yang Tianyou time to activate the Blood-Explosion Technique and slash at Xiang Yun’s neck with the Great White Heavenly Blade.

Yang Tianyou killed the badly wounded Xiang Yun after surviving his desperate counterattack. Meanwhile, Fengling and Yuan Ba defeated Lin Jun, leaving both opposing Foundation Establishment cultivators dead.

• Yang Tianyou wounded Xiang Yun with Starlight, blinding him and stabbing his heart and neck, but Xiang Yun unleashed a jade-white attack in a final counter.
• Yang Tianyou used Yunhua's jade pendant to summon her frozen palm, which canceled out Xiang Yun's attack.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Xiang Yun and beheaded him while he could barely resist.
• Fengling and Yuan Ba coordinated their attacks and severely wounded Lin Jun, who retreated in fear.
• Fengling's Wind Blades and Yuan Ba's staff struck Lin Jun from both sides and killed him.

After killing Xiang Yun and Lin Jun, Yang Tianyou fled in the Bianhe Boat while Xiang Tianlong tried and failed to track him. Yang Tianyou and his companions reached the Poisonous Marsh Jungle and went underground to avoid attracting attention.

• Yang Tianyou gathered the spoils, burned Xiang Yun's and Lin Jun's bodies, and escaped aboard the Bianhe Boat.
• Xiang Tianlong sensed Xiang Yun's death, left his seclusion, and sent Xiang Qian to report it to the Lineage's Law Enforcement Hall.
• Xiang Tianlong found Xiang Yun's belongings and tried the Ten-Thousand-Li Grudge-Locking Technique, but Yang Tianyou was already beyond its range.
• Yang Tianyou spent thousands of Spirit Stones powering the Thousand-Feather Sky-Piercing Formation as he fled more than ten thousand li.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang reached the Poisonous Marsh Jungle, put away the Bianhe Boat, and rode Giant Mountain underground.