Chapter Summaries

Yunhua completed the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation, beginning the advancement of Purple Moon Mountain and its surrounding Spirit Veins. Yang Tianyou’s parents then successfully reached Foundation Establishment, but their conversation left him determined to find a way to improve their cultivation prospects.

• Yunhua finished the Formation, dividing the Yang Household’s lands into a core region, an Inner Domain, and an Outer Domain as Purple Moon Mountain began to grow.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou she had asked a friend to obtain the Void Crystal, while the Yang Household continued gathering the remaining materials for the Fierce Ghost Cave Secret Realm.
• Feng Yuezhi learned that the Yang Household was advancing many Spirit Veins and wondered how it could afford the lavish expenditure.
• Yang Tianyou used his Contribution Points and made Body-Protecting Talismans to help his parents attempt Foundation Establishment; Duan Hongyu and Yang Qiongchu both succeeded.
• Yang Tianyou worried that his father’s limited talent would hinder his future cultivation, but Duan Hongyu and Yang Qiongchu counseled him to accept the limits of the Immortal Dao and preserve the Yang Household Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou promised to remember his father’s charge, yet remained determined to find a solution to his parents’ cultivation problems.

The Yang Household held its first Lineage Grand Competition, where Yang Xuanyang surprised spectators by defeating Yang Xuanguang with a kitchen-cleaver Law Artifact. Yang Xuanwu also impressed with his exceptional combat skill, and the competition ended with three realm champions crowned.

• Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu announced the start of the Yang Household's first Lineage Grand Competition before invited guests and household members.
• Yang Xuanyang defeated Yang Xuanguang in the opening duel, using his Dragon-Slaying Saber and a Law Technique to disarm him and win.
• Yang Tianyou watched Yang Xuanwu dominate the Middle Qi Refinement arena despite his low cultivation and slow progress.
• After seven days, the martial competition ended with Yang Xuanyang winning Early Qi Refining, Yang Xuanwu winning Middle Qi Refinement, and Yang Xuanting winning Late Qi Refinement.

After the Yang Household’s first Lineage Grand Competition ended, Yang Tianyou gathered three promising youths to teach them the Dao. He began expounding on the Dao of Heaven and Earth and the Blade Dao, then challenged them with a demonstration involving a piece of Black Iron.

• The Yang Household held a seven-day literary competition, and Yang Xuanyang, Yang Xuanwu, and Yang Xuan Ning achieved notable results in Spirit Cuisine, Alchemy, and Talisman Crafting.
• Yang Dangkai awarded the competition’s winners, who received prizes and opportunities for instruction from the hall masters, Yang Haoyu, and Yang Tianyou.
• Three days later, Yang Tianyou invited Yang Xuanyang, Yang Xuanwu, and Yang Xuan Ning to hear his teachings and urged them to remain diligent.
• Yang Tianyou expounded on the Dao of Heaven and Earth, then explained the Blade Dao to Yang Xuanyang.
• Yang Tianyou placed a piece of Black Iron on the ground and asked the youths whether he could strike it without damaging it.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu witnessed Purple Moon Mountain’s Spirit Vein advance to the Third Tier, strengthening the Yang Household’s cultivation resources and defenses. Two years later, Yang Tianyou gathered the materials needed for Yunhua to refine Heavenly Wolf Pills and left for Crouching Ox Pass to help Wolf Ancestor break through.

• Yang Tianyou explained his insights into the Blade Dao, Dao of Combat, and Talisman Dao to Yang Xuanyang, Yang Xuanwu, and another youth over two days and a night.
• Seven months later, the Spirit Vein on Purple Moon Mountain advanced to the Third Tier, forming a third Spirit Eye beneath the Spirit Medicine Garden as Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu watched.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu received what seemed to be a blessing from the Will of Heaven and Earth, then discussed reclaiming a Spirit Field near the new Spirit Eye.
• The Third-Tier Spirit Vein increased Purple Moon Mountain’s Spiritual Qi by thirty percent and empowered the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation to withstand several Golden Core Cultivators.
• Two years later, Yang Dangmo returned from a barter conference with a Third-Tier Demon Wolf Inner Core, completing the resources Yang Tianyou needed.
• Yang Tianyou took the demon wolf materials and other precious resources to Crouching Ox Pass to ask Yunhua to refine Heavenly Wolf Pills for Wolf Ancestor.

Yunhua completed three Heavenly Wolf Pills, which Yang Tianyou brought to the Wolf Ancestor to support his breakthrough. After half a year of preparation, the Wolf Ancestor survived all nine Tribulation Lightning bolts and advanced to the Third Tier.

• Yunhua refined three Third-Tier Lower-Grade Heavenly Wolf Pills using her Yin-Yang Spirit-Tempering Method.
• Yang Tianyou brought the pills to the Wolf Ancestor, who swallowed one and prepared to break through.
• Half a year later, the Wolf Ancestor began his tribulation as Yang Tianyou, Yang Haoyu, and the others gathered to watch.
• The Wolf Ancestor endured the first eight bolts of Tribulation Lightning by counterattacking and tempering his body.
• The Wolf Ancestor used Purple Moon Divine Light and his body to withstand the ninth bolt, advancing to the Third Tier.

After Wolf Ancestor’s breakthrough gave the Yang Household two Golden Core combatants, Yang Tianyou urged Yang Haoyu to join forces with the Feng Household against the Three Rivers Sect. Yang Haoyu agreed to prepare for war, and Feng Yuezhi set out to meet the Yang Household as he sensed a major upheaval approaching.

• Three months after Wolf Ancestor’s breakthrough, Yang Haoyu discussed the flourishing Spirit Medicine Garden and the Lineage’s future with Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou revealed that Red Cloud True Person planned to sell the Three Rivers Bowl to fund an attempt to break through to the Middle Golden Core realm.
• Yang Tianyou argued that the Yang Household and Feng Household could destroy the Three Rivers Sect and seize its holdings now that the Yang Household no longer needed its support.
• Yang Haoyu agreed to prepare the Lineage for war and told Yang Tianyou to proceed with the meeting at Crouching Ox Pass.
• Feng Yuezhi studied the Yang Household’s letter, then told Feng Qingyang to guard the Household while he attended the meeting himself.

The Yang Household and Feng Household agreed to destroy the Three Rivers Sect and divide its assets. A month later, the Yang Household prepared a large force and covert operatives for the attack, while the Wolf Ancestor waited in ambush outside Three Rivers Mountain.

• Yang Haoyu told Feng Yuezhi that Red Cloud True Person planned to trade the Three Rivers Bowl for a Spirit Item, then proposed that the Yang and Feng Households destroy the Three Rivers Sect.
• Feng Yuezhi agreed after concluding that the Yang Household wanted to seize the sect’s resources, and the two households negotiated a roughly equal division of the spoils.
• The Yang Household and Feng Household assigned the Three Rivers Sect’s fixed assets to the Yang Household and its movable treasures to the Feng Household, with adjustments to balance their values.
• A month later, the Yang Household sent two flying boats carrying its Golden Core forces, Foundation Establishment cultivators, Qi Refining cultivators, and Spirit Beasts toward the attack.
• The Wolf Ancestor prepared to lie in wait outside Three Rivers Mountain, while Yang Dangmo led Shadow Hall forces to block escapees and infiltrate Three Rivers City for assassinations.

The Feng and Yang Households launched a surprise assault on Three Rivers Sect, striking its weakened Sect-Protecting Grand Formation with their Golden Core cultivators and Flying Boats. Red Cloud True Person emerged to defend the sect, but the combined attack continued and left the Formation close to breaking.

• The Feng and Yang Households met a hundred li from Three Rivers Mountain and concealed their approach with an array shield.
• Yang Haoyu, Feng Yuezhi, and Feng Qingyang attacked the Vajra Sumeru Formation with their Law Treasures and Divine Abilities.
• The Gale Wind Saber, Kun Earth Cauldron, and Three Thousand Sword River battered the Formation until its light dimmed and it nearly shattered.
• Red Cloud True Person awoke, stabilized the Formation, and used his Red Gourd to disrupt the attackers’ rhythm.
• Feng Yuezhi ordered the assault to continue as the cultivators aboard the five Flying Boats joined in, bombarding the Formation with their weapons and formations.

The Feng and Yang Households destroyed the Three Rivers Sect after breaking its formation and killing Red Cloud True Person. They divided the sect’s spoils, with the Yang Household paying the Feng Household Spirit Stones to balance their shares.

• Qi Guijie and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators burned their Essence Blood to strengthen the Vajra Sumeru Formation, giving Red Cloud True Person a chance to flee.
• Feng Yuezhi used the Clearwind Diagram to help break the formation, while the Purple Moon Wolf Ancestor ambushed Red Cloud True Person and joined Feng Yuezhi, Feng Qingyang, and Yang Haoyu in killing him.
• Yang Tianyou and the other cultivators killed the weakened Three Rivers Sect elders and disciples, while Yang Xuanwu and Yang Xuanting distinguished themselves in battle.
• The Feng and Yang Households conquered Three Rivers City and divided the Three Rivers Sect’s assets, cultivation texts, Divine Abilities, and mortals.
• The Yang Household gave the Feng Household 180,000 Spirit Stones to balance the assets and another 80,000 for its share of the Divine Abilities.

News of the Yang Household and Feng Household destroying the Three Rivers Sect spread through the cultivation world, prompting major forces to take the Yang Household’s upcoming Golden Core Banquet seriously. Yunhua told Su Qianya to warn Song Xuhui not to attend, while revealing she felt bound to Yang Chen across lifetimes.

• Cultivators at the Huafeng Black Market discussed the Three Rivers Sect’s destruction and the Yang Household’s strength, prompting Seven Absolutes Sect disciples to report the news.
• Seven Absolutes True Person ordered the Seven Absolutes Sect to send a respected elder with generous gifts to the Yang Household’s Golden Core Banquet.
• Golden Core forces across several counties upgraded their representatives and gifts for the banquet after learning of the Yang Household’s power.
• Su Qianya asked Yunhua about Song Xuhui’s plan to attend the banquet, and Yunhua warned that she would break his legs if he came.
• Yunhua told Su Qianya she felt her fate had been linked with Yang Chen’s through lifetime after lifetime, and Su Qianya hinted she would be free in two years.

The Yang Household hosted a grand Golden Core Banquet on Purple Moon Mountain, welcoming cultivation lineages and powerful Golden Core guests. The chapter ended as Fairy Yunhua and Su Qianya arrived with an exceptionally valuable gift, drawing attention to Su Qianya’s exalted status and talent.

• The Yang Household opened its expanded mountain grounds to guests for True Person Haoyu’s Golden Core Banquet.
• Liu Changsheng, Huang Yuhai, and Zhuang Beisheng arrived with their households and received prominent seats, while other lineages sat farther back.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Dangmo led the Yang Household’s twenty-seven Foundation Establishment cultivators into the venue, impressing the guests with the household’s growth.
• Golden Core guests from several major powers arrived and presented gifts to True Person Haoyu.
• Fairy Yunhua and Fairy Su of the Luochuan Sect arrived with a Third-Tier Middle-Grade Law Treasure among their gifts, and the guests recognized Su Qianya as a Heavenly Spirit Root talent and Nascent Soul seed.

Yang Haoyu's Golden Core Banquet brought together eighteen Golden Core guests, and she expounded the Dao before the cultivators began trading resources. At the Foundation Establishment barter gathering, Yang Tianyou displayed powerful Spirit Items and opened bidding with a Blazing Heavenly Sword Talisman.

• Yang Haoyu arrived with the Wolf Ancestor and officially began the banquet, where nearly a thousand guests bowed to her.
• Yang Haoyu expounded the Dao of Earth and Artifact Refining, and the other Golden Core Cultivators later shared insights and discussed the Dao among themselves.
• The Yang Household organized a barter gathering for Foundation Establishment Cultivators while the Golden Core guests discussed the Dao.
• Yang Tianyou presented twenty Spirit Items, including the God-Slaying Crossbow and several rare Talismans, impressing the gathered cultivators with his skill and talent.
• Yang Tianyou explained the items and invited offers for the Blazing Heavenly Sword Talisman.

Yang Tianyou traded all twenty Yang Household Spirit Items at an exchange gathering, obtaining mostly raw materials and several rare treasures. He ended the session by trading the God-Slaying Crossbow to a Seven Absolutes Sect Cultivator for a Puppet and Frost Stones.

• Yang Tianyou traded a Blazing Heavenly Sword Talisman for seven-thousand-forging gold essence and a Thunderfire Urn-Gold Bomb for a Jade Marrow Fruit.
• Yang Tianyou exchanged seventeen Spirit Items for gold essence, medicines, Demon Beast Inner Cores, and other Artifact Refining materials.
• Yang Tianyou traded a Great White Blade Formation Talisman to a Rogue Cultivator for three-color spirit soil, a Dragon-Tiger Golden Pagoda, Horizon Boots, and an Xun Wind Escape Technique Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou exchanged a Glazed Golden Armor Talisman for fallen star silver to upgrade his life-bound Law Artifact, Starlight.
• Yang Tianyou traded the God-Slaying Crossbow to a Seven Absolutes Sect Cultivator for a Second-Tier Upper-Grade Law Artifact Puppet and two Frost Stones.

Yang Tianyou traded for several valuable Spirit Items at the Foundation Establishment Barter Conference, including a cursed Three-Legged Fire Crow that Zhiming sensed held powerful inherited energy. After the guests departed, Su Qianya examined Yang Tianyou and recognized his exceptional potential, while Yunhua introduced her as a close friend.

• Yang Dangmo offered four Law Artifacts for cultivation medicines, Spirit Gold, or Artifact Refining materials, and most of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators took turns trading.
• Fairy Li offered four Spirit Items, including Purple-Rhyme Obstacle-Breaking Pills, Geng Metal Crystal, an ice-attribute Demon Beast Inner Core, and a weakened Three-Legged Fire Crow.
• Zhiming told Yang Tianyou that the power inside the Three-Legged Fire Crow was inherited energy rather than a Curse, and Yang Tianyou traded four talismans for all four of Fairy Li's items.
• The barter conference ended, and Yang Tianyou spent several hours socializing with friends and other guests before they departed over the following days.
• After True Person Xuanling left, Su Qianya assessed Yang Tianyou's Blade Intent and Divine Ability Prototypes and concluded that he had extraordinary potential.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that Su Qianya was her close friend, and Yang Tianyou greeted her more warmly.

Yang Tianyou bonded with the dying Three-Legged Fire Crow and helped it transform into a curse-wielding Spirit Beast named Black and White. Over the following years, the Yang Household expanded its cultivation and business, while Yang Tianyou advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

• Yang Tianyou trusted Zhiming’s judgment, formed a bond with the Three-Legged Fire Crow, and brought it into the Dao Comprehension Space to comprehend its curse power.
• The Three-Legged Fire Crow recovered and transformed into a Curse Crow; Yang Tianyou named it Black and White, and it pledged itself to him.
• Yang Tianyou’s fifth brother-in-law, Yang Lihe, reported that the Spirit Peach Tree had advanced to Second-Tier Upper-Grade and borne thirty-six unripe spirit peaches.
• Yang Tianjiu expanded the Purple Moon Trading Company into all thirteen counties of Luochuan Commandery, while five Yang Household cultivators advanced to Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Tianyou broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage after taking a Purple-Rhyme Obstacle-Breaking Pill, gaining the strength to challenge a False Core Cultivator.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Yang Tianyou strengthened his defenses and life-bound Law Artifacts, then created a powerful new Divine Ability called Falling Star. He left seclusion eager to test his strength and found Zhiming and Black and White playing Go in the courtyard.

• Yang Tianyou formed the Great White Blood Armor from his Blood Qi and the powers he had combined, giving himself Tier 2 Supreme-Grade defense.
• Yang Tianyou spent half a month refining Twin Blades and Starlight, raising both life-bound Law Artifacts to Tier 2 Supreme-Grade.
• Yang Tianyou combined Star Power and Magnetism Power into the Divine Ability Prototype Falling Star, a devastating attack that consumed most of both powers.
• Yang Tianyou spent another half month immersed in the Unseen, wondered whether he could defeat a False Core Cultivator, and left his seclusion.
• Yang Tianyou found Zhiming and Black and White playing Go in the courtyard and recalled that he had lost to them before.

After three years of household growth, Yang Tianyou traveled to Crouching Ox Pass to ask Yunhua to arrange a Formation for the Fierce Ghost Cave Secret Realm. Yunhua broke through to Middle Golden Core, then outlined the Formation upgrades needed for the Secret Realm and the Purple Moon Boat.

• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Yang Household's growing cultivation, trade, and resources, then toured Purple Moon Mountain and saw the Purple Moon Boat nearing completion.
• Yang Haoyu asked Yang Tianyou to invite Yunhua to set up a Formation at the Fierce Ghost Cave Secret Realm and discuss Formations for the Purple Moon Boat.
• Yang Tianyou reached Crouching Ox Pass and waited while Yunhua remained in seclusion.
• After two months, Yunhua's breakthrough stirred Crouching Ox Pass's Spiritual Qi, and she emerged a day later as a Middle Golden Core cultivator.
• Yang Tianyou asked Yunhua about the Secret Realm Formation, and she said she could set up a Third-Tier Middle-Grade Formation once she stabilized her cultivation.
• Yunhua explained that the Purple Moon Boat needed upgrades to three Formations and nine supporting Tier 2 Formations to become a top-class Third-Tier Lower-Grade Flying Boat.

Yunhua and Yang Tianyou stabilized the Spatial Passage and completed the Formation that advanced Fierce Ghost Cave, bringing the secret realm’s energies into order. After learning how small it would remain beside the realms of the wider Immortal Dao, they returned to Purple Moon Mountain and helped upgrade the Purple Moon Boat’s Formations.

• Yang Tiankang welcomed Yunhua and Yang Tianyou to Fierce Ghost Cave and showed them the well-run domain.
• Yunhua used two Void Crystals to stabilize both exits of the Spatial Passage with a Third-Tier Middle-Grade Two-Yi Rotation Formation.
• Yunhua completed the advancement Formation, separating Fierce Ghost Cave’s energies and setting the secret realm on course to form in just over twenty years.
• Yunhua explained that Fierce Ghost Cave would become only a low-ranking Yellow-Grade Secret Realm, prompting Yang Tianyou to reconsider his pride and the scale of the Immortal Dao.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou returned to Purple Moon Mountain, where Yunhua and Yang Haoyu spent more than a month advancing the Purple Moon Boat’s Formations.

At the Yang Household’s five-year Lineage Assembly, Yang Haoyu reviewed its shortcomings and heard Yang Dangkai report its rapid growth in cultivators, spirit beasts, income, and administrative departments. The assembly then turned to planning the Lineage’s future development.

• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianyou arrived at the Discussion Hall and took their seats as the Foundation Establishment elders greeted them.
• Yang Haoyu praised the Lineage’s progress, warned about disorganized departments and clansmen who tarnished its reputation, and opened the assembly.
• Yang Dangkai reported that the Yang Household had 387 cultivators, 530,000 mortals, a large population of spirit beasts, and an average annual net income of 220,000 Spirit Stones.
• Yang Dangkai listed the Lineage’s halls and their leaders after explaining its administrative structure and sources of income.
• Yang Haoyu moved the assembly to its second agenda item, inviting suggestions for the Lineage’s future development.

Yang Haoyu and the elders approved plans to strengthen the Yang Household’s combat training and develop elite clansmen, then considered Yang Tianjiu’s proposal to hold Golden Core-level auctions. The chapter ended with Yang Haoyu authorizing the auction plan, supported by a deal to obtain Third Tier Spirit Items from the Spiritvoid Pavilion.

• Yang Xuanwu proposed building a Trial Tower to improve Wolf Pool clansmen’s combat abilities, and Yang Tianyou backed the plan.
• Yang Haoyu ordered the Lineage to build the Trial Tower after completing the Purple Moon Boat and established the [Three Moons and Three Stars] system, with free Foundation Establishment Pills as rewards.
• Yang Xuanyang asked about receiving recognition in both combat and the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, and Yang Haoyu said dual honorees could receive two rewards.
• Yang Tianjiu proposed a Golden Core-level auction and explained that the Spiritvoid Pavilion would supply the Yang Household with one Third Tier Spirit Item each year under a cooperation agreement.
• Yang Haoyu approved the auction plan and promised that the Lineage would support Yang Tianjiu, even if she had to refine more Third Tier Law Artifacts herself.