Chapter Summaries

The Yang Household expanded its Academy and specialized halls, with Yang Tianxue, Yang Lihe, and Yang Tianyun each strengthening their departments through distinct teaching and management styles. Yang Tianshi’s experimental Formation Hall caused repeated disasters, so Yang Haoyu moved its research to a valley on Purple Moon Back Mountain.

• Yang Tianxue took charge of Purple Moon Academy and strictly trained the Yang Household youths, whose strong results earned her the hall master position.
• Yang Lihe became Agriculture Hall Master, using his skills as a Tier 2 Insect Master and Spirit Plant Master to boost Spirit Field harvests and household income.
• Yang Tianyun led the Alchemy Pill Hall and patiently trained alchemists, helping increase pill production without lowering quality.
• Yang Tianshi returned from Bianhe Mountain to lead the Formation Hall, where his researchers’ uncontrolled experiments caused repeated explosions.
• Yang Haoyu assigned the Formation Hall researchers a valley on Purple Moon Back Mountain so they could continue their experiments away from the rest of the mountain.

The chapter surveys the Yang Household’s departments, describing their leaders, operations, and recent growth. It ends with Yang Haoyu reforming Wolf Pool so any Yang Household Member under twelve could qualify by passing three trials, regardless of Spirit Root aptitude.

• Yang Dangmo’s absence left Artifact Refining Hall’s three senior masters to handle routine matters, while the understaffed Talisman Hall struggled to meet its targets.
• Duan Hongyu led Spirit Cuisine Hall in developing popular dishes, and Yang Dangkai managed the Attendant Hall’s assignments and assessments.
• Yang Tianjiu expanded the Purple Moon Trading Company into a coalition of more than twenty lineages across several counties.
• Yang Danglong expanded Shadow Hall’s intelligence network and began recruiting youths with Spirit Root aptitude to train as death soldiers.
• Yang Haoyu changed Wolf Pool’s entry rules after Yang Xuanwu defeated a stronger cultivator, allowing members under twelve to qualify by passing three trials regardless of aptitude.

Yang Tianyou and his companions crossed the Tree Demon forest to steal Life-Origin Fruits, then escaped the enraged demons and a swarm of Purple Crystal Poison Bees. Half a month later, the battered group traveled underground while Yang Tianyou tended to his injuries.

• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang surfaced after discovering a lair of Tree Demons blocking their underground route through the Poisonous Marsh Jungle.
• Yang Tianyou led the group past the sleeping Tree Demons under Concealment Talismans and spotted a Life-Origin Tree bearing more than a dozen fruits.
• Yang Tianwang left with Fengling and Yuan Ba while Yang Tianyou and Wolf Ancestor stole seven or more Life-Origin Fruits each.
• The Life-Origin Tree awakened and summoned the Tree Demons, but Yang Tianyou blasted a path through their roots with a Thunderfire Urn-Gold Bomb and escaped with Wolf Ancestor.
• After a day and night of pursuit by the Tree Demons, Fengling accidentally killed a demon insect and drew a million Purple Crystal Poison Bees after the group.
• Half a month later, the battered Yang brothers and their Spirit Beasts traveled beneath the earth as Yang Tianyou treated his injuries.

After surviving the Poisonous Marsh Jungle, Yang Tianyou and his companions reached Luochuan City, where he learned the Luochuan Sect had defeated the Green-Nosed Iron-Horned Lion Race and ended the fighting at Luochuan Pass. After resting and resupplying, Yang Tianyou set out with his companions to cross the Luochuan River.

• Yang Tianyou and his companions escaped the Poisonous Marsh Jungle after surviving repeated dangers, including an encounter with a Golden Core Demon Beast.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang entered Luochuan City and were amazed by its size, crowds, and thriving Mortal population.
• At the Qingjiu House, Yang Tianyou overheard Luochuan Sect Disciples say the sect had wounded the Blue-Nosed Iron-Horned Lion King, invaded the Savage Wilderness Great Domain, and secured compensation and territory from the Green-Nosed Iron-Horned Lion Race.
• Yang Tianyou considered the sect's victory and the Grand Elder's past role in making things difficult for Yunhua.
• After half a month of rest and resupplying in Luochuan City, Yang Tianyou and his companions boarded their Flying Boat and headed across the Luochuan River.

Yang Tianyou returned to Dragon Valley County and learned that Yunhua had protected the Yang Household from the Feng Household while he was away. After reuniting with her, he helped her prepare to refine the family’s precious pills, and the chapter ended as she lit the furnace.

• Yang Tianyou returned to Purple Moon Mountain and told Yang Haoyu about the journey, the Blood Jade Lotus, and the rare medicines they had gathered.
• Yang Haoyu explained that the Feng Household had attacked the Yang Household and Three Rivers Sect after the fighting at Luochuan Pass ended, and that Yunhua had stopped its assaults on the Yang Household by challenging Feng Yuezhi.
• Yang Tianyou went to Crouching Ox Pass, thanked Yunhua for protecting his family, and promised to repay her for the rest of his life.
• Yang Haoyu entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to Golden Core.
• Three months later, Yang Tianyou assisted Yunhua as she prepared to refine the pills, and Yunhua fired up the Red-Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Yunhua and Yang Tianyou refined Gold-Pattern Qi-Nourishing Pills with the Yin-Yang Spirit-Tempering Method, then began preparing to make Foundation Establishment Pills. The chapter leaves them ready to refine the pills that the Yang Household had spent months gathering ingredients for.

• Yunhua used opposing True Fires to refine nine Golden-Pattern Pears into eight Gold-Pattern Qi-Nourishing Pills, while Yang Tianyou assisted her.
• Yunhua explained that her grandfather's Yin-Yang Spirit-Tempering Method increased pill-making success rates, and she and Yang Tianyou continued refining.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou finished processing thirty-eight Golden-Pattern Pears into thirty-four Gold-Pattern Qi-Nourishing Pills.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou prepared to refine Foundation Establishment Pills from fifteen Life-Origin Fruits and the supplementary medicines the Yang Household had painstakingly gathered.

Yunhua refined Foundation Establishment Pills and Blood Jade Limb-Rejoining Pills with Yang Tianyou, completing the medicine needed to restore his fifteenth brother’s severed arm. Yang Tianyou prepared to leave Crouching Ox Pass, and he promised to marry Yunhua after he broke through to Golden Core.

• Yunhua refined thirteen Foundation Establishment Pills, and Yang Tianyou put them away for the Lineage.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou refined three Blood Jade Limb-Rejoining Pills from a Blood Jade Lotus.
• Yunhua explained that the pills could restore Yang Tianyou’s fifteenth brother’s severed arm and described how high-tier pills could develop into living beings.
• Yunhua asked whether Yang Tianyou was leaving Crouching Ox Pass, and he admitted that he had to return to the Yang Household.
• Yunhua comforted Yang Tianyou, who promised to marry her when he broke through to Golden Core; she said she would wait for him.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Foundation Establishment Second Layer while Yang Tianwang restored his severed arm and began a Foundation Establishment breakthrough. Yang Tianyou arrived at Yang Tianwang’s residence as the seclusion continued longer than expected, leaving him worried about his brother.

• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Tianwang a Blood Jade Limb-Rejoining Pill, and Yang Tianwang regrew his left arm, which he promptly broke while showing it off.
• Yang Tianyou delivered pills and Lineage Contribution Points to the Old Ancestor, then entered seclusion to cultivate with Spirit Stones, a talisman, incense, and a Gold-Pattern Qi-Nourishing Pill.
• After a year of cultivation, Yang Tianyou broke through to the Foundation Establishment Second Layer and found that Ruoqing had reached the peak of first-tier superior-grade.
• Yang Tianyou went to Yang Tianwang’s residence, where Household Members were waiting outside as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi gathered over the courtyard.
• Yang Tianyou grew worried because Yang Tianwang had been in seclusion attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment for three days.

Yang Tianwang broke through to Foundation Establishment after bonding Giant Mountain as his spirit beast, and Yang Tianyou celebrated with him. Yang Haoyu later explained Golden Core grades to Yang Tianyou and revealed that she planned to enter the Fierce Ghost Cave again to improve her limited prospects.

• Yang Tianwang emerged from seclusion as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and told Yang Tianyou that he had bonded Giant Mountain during his breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou warned Yang Tianwang that the risky choice could have jeopardized his breakthrough, then offered to celebrate his success at the Purple Moon Pavilion.
• Yang Tianyou visited Yang Haoyu, who tested his knowledge of Golden Core grades over tea.
• Yang Tianyou explained the nine grades of Golden Cores and their differing chances of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Yang Haoyu said her second-class Foundation Establishment limited her to an eighth-grade Lower Vehicle Golden Core, so she intended to enter the Fierce Ghost Cave again.

Yang Haoyu explained the Yang Household’s costly past expeditions into Fierce Ghost Cave and why she intended to return. She revealed that she had discovered Yin-Soul Liquid in its Inner Domain and planned to use it to strengthen her True Spirit and advance her cultivation.

• Yang Haoyu told Yang Tianyou that the Yang Household had discovered Fierce Ghost Cave during a Cold Tide and described its dangers, treasures, and origins.
• Yang Haoyu recounted how Yang Canglang’s first expedition lost cultivators and Purple Moon Wolves but brought back Soul-Gathering Stones that later became the Soul-Swaying Bell.
• Yang Haoyu described her second expedition seventeen years earlier, when she led the Lineage into the Inner Domain and escaped with Yang Dangmo and Wolf Ancestor after the others died.
• Yang Tianyou connected the losses from the second expedition to the Yang Household’s current shortage of suitable candidates for its Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Yang Haoyu revealed that she had found a large quantity of Yin-Soul Liquid and intended to strengthen her True Spirit, upgrade the Kun Earth Cauldron, and cultivate the Arms and Armor Divine-Penetration Technique.

The Yang Household prepared for an expedition into the Fierce Ghost Cave in six months, strengthening its defenses and expanding its Foundation Establishment ranks. Ruoqing broke through to Tier 2, while Yang Tianyou began training to advance his Blade Intent.

• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou decided to lead eight Foundation Establishment cultivators into the Fierce Ghost Cave after six months of preparation.
• Yang Haoyu gave Yang Dangkai and Yang Qiongye Blood Jade Limb-Rejoining Pills and Foundation Establishment Pills, and both soon broke through to Foundation Establishment.
• The Yang Household assigned elders and Tier 2 Purple Moon Wolves to guard its holdings while it gathered supplies for the expedition.
• Ruoqing broke through to Tier 2, gained the ability to speak, and strengthened Yang Tianyou through their pact.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Blade Prison and shattered three treasured blades, absorbing the pure Blade Intent they released.

Yang Tianyou refined streams of Blade Intent in Blade Prison while crafting Talismans, gradually advancing his Great White Blade Intent. After three months, he reached Minor Accomplishment Blade Intent, whose power could fight independently against Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Yang Tianyou learned that treasured blades of his own grade offered the best balance of improvement and recovery time, and that refining three streams of Blade Intent together saved several days.
• Yang Tianyou spent about fifty days refining the three streams from second-rank low-grade treasured blades and made various Talismans while he recovered.
• After three months of cultivation, Yang Tianyou's Blade Seed changed, sending Blade Intent through his Formation and drawing Spiritual Qi into hundreds of blades above his courtyard.
• Yang Household members mistook the display for a powerful Law Technique and praised Yang Tianyou before the blades dispersed and he continued cultivating.
• Three days later, Yang Tianyou's Blade Intent became half-tangible and reached Minor Accomplishment, gaining the ability to fight independently against Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Yang Tianyou assessed his improved combat strength and finished preparing for the Yang Household’s expedition to the Fierce Ghost Cave. With the cultivators armed and supplies distributed, Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu led the party underground to begin the attack.

• Yang Tianyou estimated that his Minor Achievement Great White Blade Intent had increased his combat strength by forty to fifty percent, allowing him to threaten Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators.
• After two months of drawing Talismans, Yang Tianyou set out with hundreds of Talismans prepared for the expedition.
• Yang Tianyou met the Yang Household elders at Purple Moon Mountain and distributed Talismans according to their strengths and needs.
• Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu presented sixteen powerful Forbidden Artifacts, while Yang Tianshi received four Formation Discs to deploy during the expedition.
• Yang Tianyou chose a Thunderfire Urn-Gold Bomb and a Wind-Thunder Pot, and Yang Haoyu ordered the party to depart.
• Yang Tianwang released Giant Mountain, and the Yang Household began traveling underground toward the Fierce Ghost Cave.

The Yang Household reached Fierce Ghost Cave and concealed their arrival as Yang Haoyu removed the safeguards she had placed there. Yang Tianshi and Fengling entered the cave ahead of the others, revealing its expanding secret-realm space and the creatures within.

• Yang Tianyou reflected on Fierce Ghost Cave's potential to become a Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and its value to the Yang Household.
• Yang Haoyu led the group to the Thousand-Li Mist Forest and then to the ordinary-looking entrance of Fierce Ghost Cave.
• Yang Tianshi activated the Heavenly Net Illusory Spirit Formation, hiding the group and cave from outside observers.
• Yang Haoyu explained the Mirage Pearl and removed the precautions she had left in the cave passage.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Tianshi and Fengling Dark Silence and Invisibility Talismans, and they entered the cave to scout ahead.
• Yang Tianshi saw the expanding cavern, yin-attribute spirit medicines, a pale-red stream, sleeping Fierce Beasts, and drifting Vengeful Ghosts and wandering souls.

The Yang Household launched its assault on Fierce Ghost Cave after Yang Tianshi and Fengling secretly reached the narrow passage and prepared a formation. The first ambush killed four Tier 2 Fierce Beasts, though Yang Tiankang and Yang Lihe struggled against a stronger target, and a Jackal Fierce Beast charged toward Yang Tianxue.

• Yang Tianshi and Fengling surveyed the passage between Fierce Ghost Cave’s Outer Periphery and Inner Domain, then set up a formation with a Formation Disc and eight flags.
• Yang Haoyu led the elders and Spirit Beasts into the cave, split them into teams, and had them conceal themselves while choosing targets.
• Yang Tianyou gravely wounded an Alligator Turtle Fierce Beast, while Ruoqing and Yuan Ba froze and killed a serpent Fierce Beast before helping Yang Tianyou finish the turtle.
• Yang Haoyu injured the three-headed Monster Insect, Yang Dangmo killed a leopard Fierce Beast, and Yang Tianwang and Yang Tianxue killed a rat Fierce Beast.
• Yang Tiankang and Yang Lihe discovered they had ambushed a Second-Tier Middle-Grade lizard Fierce Beast, which fought back with speed, armor, and Sha Qi flames.
• A Jackal Fierce Beast charged toward Yang Tianxue while she and her partner were occupied, but Yang Tianyou remained confident because they had not yet used their talismans or Forbidden Artifacts.

Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household cultivators used Talismans and their abilities to slaughter the Fierce Beasts and vengeful ghosts in the Outer Periphery of Fierce Ghost Cave. As they finished the fight, a False Core Fierce Beast awakened in the Inner Domain, threatening to attack them from the other side of the Spirit Jade Wall Formation.

• Yang Tianxue and Yang Tianwang killed a Second-Rank Middle-Grade Fierce Beast with a barrage of Talismans and a Blade Formation Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou warned the Yang Household cultivators to finish quickly as a False Core Fierce Beast awakened beyond the Spirit Jade Wall Formation.
• Yang Tianyou unleashed a dozen Talismans, killing or wounding most of the Fierce Beasts and eliminating the vengeful ghosts and wandering souls around him.
• Yang Haoyu rang the Soul-Swaying Bell, trapped a Monster Insect Fierce Beast in the Kun Earth Cauldron, and burned it to death before using flames to attack more enemies.
• Yang Tiankang used the Earth Sha Sword Scripture to cut down dozens of Fierce Beasts, while Yang Tianxue and Yang Tianwang killed the two Second-Rank Low-Grade Fierce Beasts attacking them.

The Yang Household elders cleared the Outer Periphery of the Fierce Ghost Cave and prepared an ambush at the Inner Domain’s Spirit Jade Wall Formation. When the False Core Serpent Fierce Beast and its army charged through, Yang Haoyu ordered the hidden Forbidden Artifacts detonated, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Yang Dangmo, Yang Lihe, and the other Yang Household elders used Talismans and techniques to defeat the Fierce Beasts and Vengeful Ghosts in the Outer Periphery.
• Yang Tianshi reinforced the Spirit Jade Wall Formation while Yang Tianwang revealed that sixteen concealed Forbidden Artifacts were ready to explode.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Dangmo recognized the False Core Serpent Fierce Beast that had killed Yang Household cultivators eighteen years earlier, and the group prepared to avenge them.
• The Serpent Fierce Beast smashed through the weakening Formation, leading more than two hundred Fierce Beasts and Vengeful Ghosts toward the retreating elders.
• Yang Haoyu ordered the Forbidden Artifacts detonated, and all sixteen exploded at once with the force of powerful Foundation Establishment attacks.

The Yang Household fought the Serpent Fierce Beast and the remaining creatures in the Fierce Ghost Cave. Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu killed the Serpent Fierce Beast, and the Yang Household cleared the cave.

• A thunderous explosion killed or wounded most of the Fierce Beasts and Vengeful Ghosts, but the Serpent Fierce Beast charged the Yang Household members.
• Yang Haoyu summoned the Bianhe Boat, and Yang Tianshi activated three Formations as the boat rammed the Serpent Fierce Beast and sent it crashing into a crater.
• Yang Haoyu rang the Soul-Swaying Bell while Yang Tianyou bound the Serpent Fierce Beast with Wooden Cage Talismans and froze it with Yunhua's jade pendant.
• Yang Haoyu struck the frozen Serpent Fierce Beast with a Third-Tier Flying Sword, gravely wounding it, while Yang Tianyou activated three powerful Talismans.
• Yang Haoyu used the Ten Directions Annihilation Talisman to pierce the Serpent Fierce Beast's head, and Yang Tianyou's Vermilion Bird Talisman burned it.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu helped the other Yang Household Foundation Establishment Cultivators kill the remaining creatures, and the Yang Household took the Fierce Ghost Cave.

Yang Tianyou discovered the Yin-Soul Liquid’s origin and glimpsed a treasure at the mountain’s summit before Huang Fen attempted to possess him. The Jade Register Heavenly Book destroyed and absorbed Huang Fen, then opened its second page and revealed the Divine Mirror.

• Yang Haoyu, Yang Tianyou, and Yang Tianshi entered Fierce Ghost Cave’s Inner Domain and found the Yin-Soul Liquid at the Serpent Fierce Beast’s mountain lair.
• Yang Tianyou used his Great White Gold Eyes to see the mountain’s Yin Vein produce the Yin-Soul Liquid, Soul-Gathering Stone, and a mysterious silver moon above the summit.
• Huang Fen launched a surprise body-possession attack and entered Yang Tianyou’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Huang Fen charged at Yang Tianyou’s True Spirit but was dissolved and assimilated by the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s jade-white halo.
• Yang Tianyou opened the book’s second page, which displayed the character “Mirror” and transformed into a bronze Divine Mirror bearing Huang Fen’s lifeless image.

Yang Tianyou recovered from the Golden Core Cultivator’s possession, and he, Yang Haoyu, and Yang Tianshi discovered a Moonlight Cold Crystal in Fierce Ghost Cave. After finding a hidden passage that might lead outside, Yang Tianyou flew into it to investigate, while the chapter also described the Ice Crystal Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan’s Ice Vein and its Thousand-Year Black Jade.

• Yang Tianyou woke after erasing the Golden Core Cultivator who had tried to possess him, and Yang Haoyu tested his identity before accepting that he was himself.
• Yang Tianyou, Yang Haoyu, and Yang Tianshi reached the mountaintop and found a pool of cold yin water with a human-head-sized Moonlight Cold Crystal floating at its center.
• Yang Haoyu collected the Moonlight Cold Crystal and ordered Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianshi to keep its discovery secret.
• Yang Tianshi suggested that the Cold Tide and the Yin Vein had drawn the Moonlight Cold Crystal into Fierce Ghost Cave, prompting the group to search for a passage to the surface.
• Yang Tianyou spotted a dark opening in the stone wall, received Yang Haoyu’s agreement to investigate it, and flew into the sloping passage with Concealment Talismans.
• The narration described how the Ice Crystal Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan transformed an ordinary Spirit Vein into an Ice Vein that produced Thousand-Year Black Jade.