Chapter Summaries

After discovering that the Fierce Ghost Cave passage had carried him across more than a thousand li, Yang Tianyou proposed using it as a route from the Yang Household’s Purple Moon Mountain to the Ice Crystal Pool. Yang Haoyu agreed to invest heavily in turning the cave into a Secret Realm, and they went to ask Yang Tianshi how to preserve the passage.

• Yang Tianyou emerged near the Ice Crystal Pool and inferred that Spatial Power had made the Fierce Ghost Cave passage a shortcut across more than a thousand li.
• Yang Tianyou envisioned using the completed Secret Realm and its passage to reach the Ice Crystal Pool from Purple Moon Mountain and attack the Ice Crystal Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan from behind.
• Yang Tianyou concealed and covered the cave entrance before returning to the Fierce Ghost Cave.
• Yang Tianyou told Yang Haoyu about the passage and his plan, and Yang Haoyu recognized the opportunity but noted the Yang Household first needed enough strength to match the Ice Crystal Pool.
• Yang Haoyu decided to invest a million Spirit Stones to advance the Fierce Ghost Cave into a Secret Realm, then went with Yang Tianyou to seek Yang Tianshi’s advice on preserving the passage.

The Yang Household tallied the riches seized from Fierce Ghost Cave and decided how to defend and develop the nascent Secret Realm. As Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou prepared to leave, Fengling arrived carrying a little black dog, and Yang Tianyou ordered him to follow.

• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou discussed the rare materials needed to preserve the Spatial Passage and decided to offer Yunhua Moonlight Cold Crystal as an advance betrothal gift.
• The Yang Household elders tallied their spoils, including Moonlight Cold Crystal, Yin-Soul Liquid, Cold-Yin Spirit Water, Soul-Gathering Stones, and an Azurefrost Iron mine, with profits estimated at seven to eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Yang Dangmo volunteered to stay at Fierce Ghost Cave and oversee its defenses and development, and Yang Haoyu agreed to let Yang Tiankang stay there to cultivate.
• The Yang Household took most of the Cold Yin Water and Yin-Soul Liquid and gathered mature spirit medicines while leaving resources behind to keep producing.
• Fengling arrived carrying a little black dog, and Yang Tianyou ordered Fengling to follow him.

Yang Tianyou discovered that the little black dog Fengling brought back was a rare Nine-Eared Dog whose bloodline could be awakened by gathering special kinds of Qi. Yunhua gave it a wisp of Extreme Yin Qi, awakening a vision of a Divine Beast and raising the dog’s cultivation to first-tier middle-grade.

• Yang Tianyou returned to Purple Moon Mountain, then went to Crouching Ox Pass and examined the little black dog beneath the Red Maple Tree.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yunhua the Moonlight Cold Crystal as an advance betrothal gift, and she gladly accepted it.
• Fengling brought the little black dog to Yang Tianyou, and Yunhua identified it as a Nine-Eared Dog descended from the bloodline of Diting.
• Yunhua explained that the Nine-Eared Dog needed nine kinds of Qi to fully awaken its bloodline, but only two or three were needed for its early cultivation.
• Yunhua gave the dog a wisp of Extreme Yin Qi, and a Divine Beast apparition appeared as its cultivation advanced to first-tier middle-grade.

Yunhua crafted the Heavenly Moon Spirit Gathering Formation and assessed the Fierce Ghost Cave Secret Realm, giving Yang Tianyou a plan to upgrade it and preserve its Spatial Passage. Yang Tianyou arranged for the Yang Household to gather the required resources, then installed the formation at the Wolf Pool, transforming it into a Moonlight-rich cultivation ground.

• Yunhua gave Yang Tianyou the Heavenly Moon Spirit Gathering Formation and said she had asked a friend about obtaining Void Crystal and Spatial Fragments from the Luochuan Sect.
• Yunhua examined Fierce Ghost Cave for three days and estimated a ninety percent chance of upgrading the Secret Realm and a seventy percent chance of preserving its Spatial Passage with two pieces of Third-Tier Upper-Grade Void Crystal.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yunhua a Moonlight Cold Crystal to exchange for Luochuan Sect Contribution Points and received a list of materials for the Secret Realm Advancement Formation and Spatial Passage Stabilization Formation.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Tianjiu funds and a Jade Slip listing the required resources, and Yang Tianjiu promised to gather them within seven years without drawing outsiders' attention.
• Yang Tianyou installed the Heavenly Moon Spirit Gathering Formation with a Moonlight Cold Crystal at the Wolf Pool, causing moonlight to descend in dense streams and turn the pool's water silvery.

The Yang Household strengthened the Wolf Pool with a moonlight formation and began raising spirit fish while Yang Haoyu prepared to advance her Kun Earth Cauldron. After the cauldron became the Lineage’s first third-tier Law Treasure, Yang Haoyu entered seclusion to refine its Spiritual Power and cultivate a Divine Ability Prototype.

• The Heavenly Moon Spirit Gathering Formation increased the Wolf Pool’s Spiritual Qi, and the Yang Household stocked it with three varieties of spirit fish.
• Yang Haoyu raised her True Spirit to Golden Core level and set out to advance the Kun Earth Cauldron using a third-tier upper-grade earth-attribute Spirit Item.
• Yang Tianjiu acquired Yellow Jade Spirit Soil, while Yang Dangmo returned from the Fierce Ghost Cave and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Yang Haoyu and the Lineage’s Artifact Refining Masters used Flaming Blaze True Fire to advance the Kun Earth Cauldron, completing the Yang Household’s first third-tier Law Treasure.
• Yang Haoyu entered seclusion to refine the Spiritual Power returned by the Law Treasure and cultivate the Arms and Armor Divine-Penetration Technique.

Yang Tianyou advanced to the Foundation Establishment Third Layer and crafted a Spirit-Ascending Talisman while preparing for Zhiming’s breakthrough. The chapter ended with Yang Tianyou’s family welcoming Yang Xuanyang, a talented young relative whom Duan Hongyu had brought home and taught to cook.

• Yang Tianyou completed his seclusion, reaching the Foundation Establishment Third Layer and improving his Blade Intent and Great White Gold Eyes.
• Yang Tianyou sent Zhiming to retrieve materials from the Lineage treasury, then told him they would go to the Wolf Den in three days so he could attempt a breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou refined the materials and successfully crafted a Spirit-Ascending Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou’s parents returned home with Yang Xuanyang, an eight-year-old boy with Gold and Water Two Spirit Roots who ranked twenty-sixth in the Xuan Generation.
• Duan Hongyu explained that she had raised Yang Xuanyang, taught him cooking, and helped him become a first-tier low-grade Spirit Chef.

Yang Tianyou learned that the Yang Household’s ten-year tribute to the Three Rivers Sect was due and called the neighboring households together to discuss it. He took charge of the gathering in place of the secluded Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu, leaving the households waiting to hear his decision.

• Yang Tianyou agreed to give Yang Xuanyang pointers on the White Tiger Constellation Exposition.
• Zhiming broke through to Tier 2, and Yang Tianyou discovered that his hearing could detect sounds hundreds of miles away and deep underground.
• After receiving notice that tribute was due, Yang Tianyou summoned the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining households formerly under the Three Rivers Sect to discuss it.
• Representatives from eight Foundation Establishment Lineages and twenty-five Qi Refining households gathered at the Purple Moon Pavilion, where Huang Yuhai publicly declared the Huang Household’s loyalty to the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou entered the hall, announced that he would preside in place of Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu, and silenced the gathering.

Yang Tianyou persuaded Dragon Valley County’s households to reduce their tribute to the Three Rivers Sect and deliver the rest to Crouching Ox Pass, signaling their growing alignment with the Yang Household. At the Three Rivers Sect, Qi Guijie urged Red Cloud True Person to preserve friendly relations with the Yang Household while the Feng Household remained a threat.

• Yang Tianyou asked the household representatives about the Three Rivers Sect, the Purple Moon Trading Company, and reducing their tribute, prompting them to weigh their loyalties.
• Li Yuanqi chose to leave the matter to the Yang Household, and the other household representatives followed his lead.
• Yang Tianyou arranged for the households to reduce the tribute by thirty percent and deliver the remaining seventy percent to Crouching Ox Pass over the next half month.
• Qi Guijie told Red Cloud True Person that the households had paid Fairy Yunhua the reduced tribute and advised the sect to maintain friendly relations with the Yang Household.
• Red Cloud True Person went into seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to Middle Golden Core, and Qi Guijie asked which cultivators would accompany him to visit the Yang Household.

After Fairy Yunhua’s backing forced the Feng Household to accept the Yang Household as a Golden Core power, the Yang Household completed its first Tier 2 Supreme-Grade Flying Boat, the Purple Moon Boat. Yang Tianyou learned that the heavily armed vessel was built for transport and head-on combat.

• Yang Tianyou saw Qi Guijie off and recognized how the Yang Household’s increased strength had changed his attitude.
• Feng Yuezhi revealed Fairy Yunhua’s powerful connections and inherited resources, then ordered the Feng Household’s subordinate lineages to treat the Yang Household as a Golden Core power.
• Feng Yuezhi told Feng Qingyang to continue suppressing the Three Rivers Sect, since Dragon Valley County could not accommodate three rival powers.
• Yang Dangmo and the Artifact Refining Masters completed the Purple Moon Boat after several years of work, and Yang Tianyou came to inspect it.
• Yang Dangmo explained the boat’s formations, weapons, and Black Iron Ram, while Yang Tianyou concluded that it was a combat-focused vessel suited to crushing large groups of enemies.

Purple Moon Town held its annual Spirit Root Testing Assembly as its population and the Yang Household’s influence continued to grow. The testing uncovered a little girl with a natural Ice Spirit Root, and Yang Tianyou took her to Purple Moon Mountain while Yang Haoyu prepared for her impending tribulation.

• Purple Moon Town’s population had grown to nearly 196,000, and the Yang Household held its annual Spirit Root Testing Assembly for children aged six to eight.
• Yang Tianxue and Yang Tianwang oversaw the assembly, expecting the six-year gap since the town’s rebuilding to yield a new generation of children and potential cultivators.
• As the testing continued, a Spirit-Testing Mirror displayed an ice-crystal lotus before a little girl, prompting Yang Tianxue to take her from the square and fly toward Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Haoyu sensed the Heavenly Tribulation forming and used a secret method to delay it, estimating that she had another month to prepare.
• Yang Tianyou received Yang Tianxue’s message, arrived at the mountain, confirmed the girl had a natural Ice Spirit Root, and took her back with him.

The chapter explained the cultivation potential of Spirit Roots and equivalent physiques, from False Spirit Roots to the exceptionally rare Extreme Spirit Roots. It left the Yang Household’s seventeen gifted youths ranked by aptitude, with the girl bearing an Ice Spirit Root identified as the most talented.

• The Yang Household’s testing assembly found seventeen youths with Spirit Roots, including one with an Ice Spirit Root, three with Dual Spirit Roots, five with Three Spirit Roots, five with Four Spirit Roots, and three with Five Spirit Roots.
• The chapter described False and True Spirit Roots and explained how Yang Tianyou’s Golden Eyes and later refinement of the Essence of the Five Metals improved his aptitude.
• The chapter outlined the advantages of Mutant Spirit Roots and Heavenly Spirit Roots in cultivation and breakthroughs.
• The chapter explained that Yin and Yang Spirit Roots were the two types of Extreme Spirit Roots, with powerful innate abilities and exceptional chances of advancement.
• The chapter stated that Extreme Spirit Root bearers appeared only about once every sixty years across the Lu Wu Realm and were fiercely sought by major factions.

Yang Haoyu prepared to break through to the Golden Core Realm while the Yang Household arranged training for the newly discovered Ice Spirit Root disciple Yang Xuanyun. With the Lineage gathered at Wolf Pool, Yang Haoyu formed a Golden Core but continued cultivating to improve its rank.

• Yang Haoyu met Yang Yuner, and Yang Tianyou identified her as Yang Xuanyun, a descendant of Yang Haokong placed in the Xuan generation.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou reviewed the resources and safeguards prepared for her breakthrough and arranged for Yang Xuanyun to study the Ice Jade Cold Soul Art at the Yang Clan Academy.
• Yang Tianyou proposed a transparent ranked cultivation system and a triennial Qi Refining competition, and Yang Haoyu approved the plan.
• A month later, the Yang Household gathered at Wolf Pool as Yunhua stood guard and Yang Haoyu began her breakthrough.
• Yang Haoyu swallowed the Golden Core Formation Pill and formed a Lower Vehicle Ninth-Rank Golden Core, then continued circulating her Cultivation Method to raise its rank.

Yang Haoyu formed a Fifth-Grade Middle Vehicle Golden Core and began facing the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation above Wolf Pool. She survived the first six bolts using her Kun Earth Cauldron and a Glazed Golden Armor Talisman, while three bolts remained.

• Yang Haoyu formed a Fifth-Grade Middle Vehicle Golden Core, and the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation gathered over Wolf Pool.
• Yang Haoyu faced the first five bolts, using the Kun Earth Cauldron to block them until the Law Treasure was knocked away and badly damaged.
• Yang Haoyu activated a Third-Tier Lower-Grade Glazed Golden Armor Talisman to withstand the sixth bolt.
• Yang Haoyu remained unharmed after the sixth bolt as the Thunder Tribulation continued.

Yang Haoyu endured the final Golden Core Thunder Tribulation bolts with talismans, formations, and the Arms and Armor Divine-Penetration Technique. After surviving the ninth bolt, she announced that the Purple Moon Yang Household had become a Golden Core Household.

• Yang Haoyu used a Glazed Golden Armor Talisman and the Arms and Armor Divine-Penetration Technique to withstand the seventh Tribulation Lightning.
• Yang Haoyu activated the Deep Abyss Thick Earth Formation to block the eighth Tribulation Lightning, then took a Spring-Returning Mystic Origin Pill to repair her meridians.
• Yang Haoyu prepared eighteen Tier 2 Law Artifacts and used the Arms and Armor Divine-Penetration Technique against the ninth Tribulation Lightning.
• Yang Haoyu survived the ninth bolt amid shattered Law Artifacts and declared the Purple Moon Yang Household a Golden Core Household.

Yang Haoyu’s successful breakthrough made the Yang Household a Golden Core force and sent Dragon Valley County’s households scrambling to respond. As visitors arrived to congratulate her, she considered when to hold a Golden Core Banquet.

• Yang Haoyu overcame her Golden Core Tribulation, received forty-nine wisps of Qi of Creation, and announced that the Yang Household would flourish.
• Feng Qingyang and Red Cloud True Person recognized the consequences of Yang Haoyu’s breakthrough and left their confrontation outside Purple Moon Mountain.
• The Yang Household spread news of the breakthrough across Dragon Valley County, prompting Liu Changsheng to plan a visit and Huang Yuhai to prepare congratulatory gifts.
• The Zhou Household worried about its old feud with the Yang Household, though one elder argued that the Feng Household’s three Golden Core cultivators would protect them.
• Yang Haoyu gave Yunhua an ice-blue bracelet, and Yunhua asked when she would hold a Golden Core Banquet.

Yang Haoyu planned a Golden Core Banquet five years later so she could help Wolf Ancestor advance to the Third Tier, while Yunhua offered to refine pills for him. She summoned the visiting households in turn, leaving the Zhou Household until last, and met them with a show of pressure.

• Yang Haoyu set the Golden Core Banquet for five years later and explained that she intended to help Wolf Ancestor break through to the Third Tier.
• Yunhua said her Alchemy would soon reach Third-Tier Lower-Grade and offered to refine pills from gathered spirit medicines for Wolf Ancestor.
• Yang Tianyou summoned the Liu Household and then the Huang Household to meet Yang Haoyu, and both returned pleased.
• After three hours, Yang Haoyu summoned the Black Iron Town Zhou Household last, and Zhou Xiandao led two Foundation Establishment cultivators into the inner hall.
• Yang Haoyu said nothing as the Zhou Household bowed, then used her Law Power to press down on them.

Yang Haoyu forced the Zhou Household to pay compensation, maim two cultivators, and swear an oath, settling their grievance while asserting the Yang Household’s new power. A month later, she and Yang Tianyou planned to strengthen the household, whose annual net profit had surpassed one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

• Zhou Xiandao offered compensation and an oath, but Yang Haoyu demanded four hundred jin of Black Iron and one severed arm from each of his two Foundation Establishment companions.
• Zhou Xiandao severed the two cultivators’ arms, and the Zhou representatives swore an oath and agreed to deliver the Black Iron within three months.
• Yang Haoyu declared the grievance settled and invited the Zhou Household to the Yang Household’s Golden Core banquet in five years.
• Yang Tianyou reminded the gathered household representatives of the banquet, and news of the Yang Household’s treatment of the Zhou Household spread, prompting other households to prepare gifts.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou discussed upgrading their Spirit Vein and sending an expedition to bid on a Third-Tier Ironback Azure Wolf Inner Core.
• Yang Tianyou calculated that the Yang Household’s annual net profit had exceeded one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, surprising Yang Haoyu.

The Yang Household celebrated its rise to Golden Core status with stipends and planned its first Lineage Grand Competition, strengthening its business and clan organization. Yang Dangmo later returned from an auction with a Third-Tier Ironback Azure Wolf Inner Core and three rare Wolfblood Fruits, after inviting the Wave Moon Sect to the Household’s Golden Core banquet.

• Yang Haoyu approved extra stipends for Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining clansmen to celebrate the Yang Household becoming a Golden Core Household.
• Yang Tianjiu expanded the Purple Moon Trading Company by securing six cooperation agreements, while Yang Dangkai and Yang Tianxue organized the first Lineage Grand Competition for the following year.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou approved the competition plan, including five places for inner hall Attendants, and the announcement spurred clansmen to prepare.
• Yang Dangmo and others traveled to Wave Moon County for an auction, where the Yang Household bought a Third-Tier Lower-Grade Ironback Azure Wolf Inner Core for forty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Yang Dangmo secured three Tier 2 Supreme-Grade Wolfblood Fruits for twenty-eight thousand Spirit Stones, visited the Wave Moon Sect with an invitation to the Golden Core banquet, and returned with Yang Tianwang and Yang Qiongchuan.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and mastered Magnetism Power, greatly increasing his combat strength. He then strolled through the Spirit Medicine Garden with Zhiming and inspected the Spirit Peach Grove.

• Yang Tianyou used a Second-Rank Low-Grade Spirit-Ascending Talisman to break through to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer.
• Yang Tianyou mastered Magnetism Power and tested its effects on a First-Tier Law Artifact.
• Yang Tianyou worked out three ways to use Magnetism Power: enhancing his Law Artifacts, restraining opponents’ artifacts, and strengthening his body with Magnetic Essence True Body.
• Yang Tianyou carried Zhiming around Purple Moon Mountain and entered the Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Spirit Peach Grove, where the Yang Household cultivated peach trees, including a Second-Tier Middle-Grade tree he had brought back himself.

Yang Tianyou toured the Yang Household’s Spirit Medicine Garden and Talisman Hall before joining Yang Haoyu and Yunhua to establish the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation. The Formation began promoting Purple Moon Mountain’s Spirit Vein and strengthening the household’s defenses.

• Yang Tianyou inspected the Spirit Medicine Garden’s valuable plants and trees, including the Life-Origin Fruit Tree.
• Yang Tianyou visited the Talisman Hall, where he guided Yang Xuan Ning and other Talisman Makers and considered Yang Xuan Ning as a future successor.
• Yang Haoyu told Yang Tianyou that Yang Tianjiu had gathered the resources needed for the Formation, and Yunhua arrived to set it up.
• Yunhua used the Earth Spirit Pearl, Spirit Soil, and forty-two Spirit Veins to establish the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation around Purple Moon Mountain.
• The Formation was set to raise the Spirit Vein to Third-Tier Lower-Grade within a year, expand Purple Moon Mountain over thirty years, and suppress hostile cultivators within three hundred li.