Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou tracked down the Wang Household as they mined a large Jade-Profound Stone vein, intending to negotiate for part of it. After learning the Wang Household was closely allied with Yunhua and the Yang Household, he abandoned his plan to threaten them, and Wang Qingshan invited him to help mine.

• Yang Tianyou received word of a second-tier upper-grade mineral vein and set out with several members of his Lineage.
• Wang Qingshan and the Wang Household mined the Jade-Profound Stone vein, while Zhiming detected valuable resources at its heart and confirmed the nearby cultivators' strength.
• Yang Tianyou sent a Warrior Puppet into the Wang Household's Concealment Formation to make contact with Wang Qingshan.
• Wang Qingshan explained that his household was close to Yunhua and the Yang Household, leaving Yang Tianyou embarrassed about his plan to demand half the vein.
• Wang Qingshan invited Yang Tianyou to help the Wang Household mine the vein.

Wang Qingshan and Yang Tianyou considered an alliance when the Lin Household and Yi Sword Sect arrived to seize the Jade Xuan Stone vein. Wang Qingshan faced their leaders across the defensive Formation, while Yang Tianyou weighed whether the Yang Household should intervene.

• Wang Qingshan and Yang Tianyou recognized that their households could benefit from cooperating over mining.
• Yang Tianyou spotted more than thirty Foundation Establishment Cultivators approaching the vein and warned Wang Qingshan.
• Wang Qingshan identified the Lin Household and Yi Sword Sect, whose factions opposed the Wang Household’s allies within the Luochuan Sect.
• Yang Tianyou assessed the enemy’s greater numbers and considered whether the potential rewards justified a fight.
• Wang Qingshan searched his Lineage members for signs of the Lin Household’s Gu insect techniques, found nothing, and ordered them to guard the Formation.
• Lin He demanded that Wang Qingshan surrender the vein and swear to serve the Lin Household for a month, while the Yi Sword Sect’s Spirit Sword Master stood beside him.

Yang Tianyou joined forces with Wang Qingshan against the Lin Household and Yi Sword Sect, then arranged a three-round contest over the ore vein and an Elder Token. Wang Qingshan won the first round by enduring Chen Cheng’s sword formation, leaving Yang Tianyou’s side ahead.

• Yang Tianyou recognized the battle over the ore vein as a chance to protect the Yang Household’s Elder Token and helped Wang Qingshan drive off Lin He and Spirit Sword Master.
• Yang Tianyou and Wang Qingshan agreed to a three-person contest, with an Elder Token and the ore vein at stake against Dark Nether Iron and an Elder Token.
• Lin He and Spirit Sword Master chose Chen Cheng to fight first, and Yang Tianyou persuaded Wang Qingshan to take the round.
• Wang Qingshan fought Chen Cheng with White Stone Mountain and the Sovereign Emperor Shield, blocking the Water-Fire Two Principles Origin-Returning Sword Formation.
• Chen Cheng conceded after his sword formation failed to break Wang Qingshan’s defenses.

Yang Tianyou entered the second duel against Lin He and faced his two powerful Gu Insects and a vicious Law Artifact. He crushed the centipede and cut through the spider’s silk as Lin He’s Bone-Eroding Netherwind Bottle unleashed its attack, leaving the duel unresolved.

• After Wang Qingshan won the first duel, Yang Tianyou volunteered to fight the second round, and Lin He accepted the challenge.
• Lin He sent his Thousand-Foot Fire-Pincer Centipede and Mountain-Binding Spider to attack Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou used his One-Qi Capturing Hand to seize and crush the centipede, while his blade light severed the spider silk.
• Lin He brought out his Bone-Eroding Netherwind Bottle and unleashed its deadly wind at Yang Tianyou.
• Wang Qingshan worried about Yang Tianyou, but Fengling showed no concern, and Yang Tianwang explained that the wolf thought Lin He’s attacks could not hurt his master.

Yang Tianyou defeated Lin He, seized three valuable Gu insects, and secured an alliance with the Wang Household. The chapter ended with both households swearing oaths to partner in the increasingly chaotic secret realm.

• Yang Tianyou used Starlight to break Lin He's defenses, sever his arm, and force him to surrender.
• Yang Tianyou made a Heart Demon Oath to spare Lin He in exchange for the Thousand-Foot Fire-Pincer Centipede, the Mountain-Binding Spider, and the Formless Insect.
• Lin He handed over the Gu insects and left with the Lin Household, while Spirit Sword Master acknowledged Yang Tianyou's strength and departed with the Yi Sword Sect.
• Yang Tianyou gave Wang Qingshan the Profound Nether Stone and accepted Wang Qingshan's offer of eighty percent of the Jade-Profound Stone Mine.
• Yang Tianyou and Wang Qingshan agreed to partner their households and had their cultivators swear Heart Demon Oaths.

After Yang Tianyou defeated Lin He, Shangguan Hong planned to gather allies against the Yang Household, while Yang Tianyou and the Wang Household mined a Jade Mystic Stone vein and found a treasure that could improve his Body Cultivator Aptitude. The chapter ended with Shen Luoyu agreeing to Yang Tianyou’s conditions for the Cloudglow Sect to receive an Elder Token.

• Shangguan Hong dismissed his disciples’ doubts and proposed joining forces with several powers, including the Lin Household, against the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Jade Mystic Stone vein with Wang Qingshan and discovered a pool of Millennium Jade Mystic Stone Marrow that could raise his Body Cultivator Aptitude to the Golden Core Level.
• Wang Qingshan offered to give Yang Tianyou the Wang Household’s share of the marrow, and Yang Tianyou instead agreed to split the remaining Jade Mystic Stone evenly between their households.
• After the excavation, Wang Qingshan asked Yang Tianwang for an Earth Vein Rock Rhino offspring, and Yang Tianwang agreed.
• Hong Qing told Shen Luoyu that Yang Tianyou would give the Cloudglow Sect an Elder Token if it accepted his conditions, and Shen Luoyu agreed to them and his proposed plan.

Feng Lieyang rejected the Goldwater Sect’s proposal to attack the Yang Household and chose to ally with Yang Tianyou instead. Meanwhile, as violence spread through the Secret Realm, An Ming revealed that the Two-World Sealing Formation could be breached from outside by three peak False Core cultivators.

• Feng Lieyang dismissed his clan’s eagerness to fight the Yang Household, warning that the Feng Household lacked the strength to survive the conflict and would risk retaliation from the Goldwater Sect.
• Feng Lieyang decided the Feng Household should side with the Yang Household, hoping to form an alliance and expand together; Yang Tianyou received his message and was surprised by Feng Lieyang’s resolve.
• Over three days, the spreading force in the Secret Realm intensified the cultivators’ emotions and sparked battles that killed hundreds, while Demon Beasts also attacked one another.
• Xu Yan True Person explained that the Two-World Sealing Formation could not be broken from within without Sage Manifestation, but An Ming revealed that the three souls could escape if three peak False Core cultivators released them from outside.

Yang Tianyou’s forces ambushed Shangguan Hong’s army with hidden formations and a devastating barrage, killing most of the Cultivators in a single strike. After the survivors were overwhelmed, Yang Tianyou killed Shangguan Hong, ending the battle with his forces victorious.

• Shangguan Hong led more than three hundred Cultivators toward Yang Tianyou, while Yang Tianyou prepared an ambush with the Yang, Wang, and Feng Households.
• Yang Tianyou’s forces concealed their formations and weapons, and he told them to target the Goldwater Sect and Lin Household while sparing the Cloudglow Sect and Yi Sword Sect.
• Yang Tianyou triggered eight restraining Formations, and Shen Luoyu and Zhao Hongying attacked the Lin Household while Spirit Sword Master led the Yi Sword Sect away.
• The God-Slaying Crossbows, Great White Blade Formation Talismans, and other attacks killed about eighty percent of the enemy army; Lin He died, and Kong Jingyang was gravely wounded.
• Yang Tianyou’s forces surrounded the survivors and killed them, and Yang Tianyou beheaded Shangguan Hong.

A little monkey used his divine eye to inspect Yang Tianyou’s Fortune and was struck down by the power behind one of its pillars. Yang Tianyou sensed a brief disturbance and noticed that the fourth page of the Jade Register Heavenly Book had nearly awakened.

• The little monkey pierced the formation barrier with his Netherworld-Seeing Divine Eye and examined Yang Tianyou’s Karma and Fortune.
• The little monkey discovered two enormous pillars of Purple Fortune connected to Yang Tianyou, and one pillar manifested a divine being accompanied by a great dog.
• The great dog’s distant power struck the little monkey, turning his fur white, weakening his cultivation, and sealing most of his divine eye.
• A majestic rooster found the little monkey unconscious and wondered who could have injured him at Spirit Beast Peak.
• Yang Tianyou felt a brief premonition, sensed the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s fourth page stir, and wondered who had been plotting against him.

Yang Tianyou’s forces wiped out the Lin Household, Goldwater Sect, and Three-Leaves Sect, earning the Yang Household respect from the major powers. Afterward, Yang Tianyou and his allies divided the spoils, leaving the Yang Household with the largest share.

• Yang Tianyou’s group killed Kong Jingyang and eliminated the cultivators from the Lin Household, Goldwater Sect, and Three-Leaves Sect.
• Xuan Gu and the Luochuan Sect leaders praised Yang Tianyou’s strength and strategy, then focused on exploring the secret realm.
• Zhang Daoyuan, Jiang Xiong, Chu Yun Tian, and Fairy Yanxiao instructed their disciples to avoid fighting the Yang Household and negotiate when possible.
• Yang Tianyou explained that the seized resources were worth more than ten million Spirit Stones and proposed dividing them among the four allied powers.
• Yang Tianyou assigned forty percent of the spoils to the Yang Household, thirty to the Cloudglow Sect, twenty to the Wang Household, and ten to the Feng Household, and the leaders agreed.

Yang Tianyou used the resources he had obtained to prepare a Minor Teleportation Talisman, hoping it would help him escape the Central Volcano during the final trial. While making the talisman, he entered a state of sudden enlightenment and his understanding of the Talisman Dao soared.

• Yang Tianyou selected mostly raw materials, including a Space-Escaping Rat’s hide and Essence Blood, which he planned to use for a Minor Teleportation Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou reasoned that the talisman’s hundred-li teleportation could give him a chance to escape the Central Volcano, then prepared to make one.
• Yang Tianyou spent several days making Purification Talismans and preparing the rat hide, blank talisman paper, and Spirit Ink.
• Yang Tianyou invoked the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s power and began drawing the Minor Teleportation Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou entered a world of Talisman Marks and experienced sudden enlightenment, greatly deepening his comprehension of the Talisman Dao.

After attaining a breakthrough in the Talisman Dao, Yang Tianyou crafted two Minor Teleportation Talismans and demonstrated that he could draw talismans in the void. When the Nine Great Legacy Grounds opened, he entered the Spirit Beast Hall with Yang Tianwang and reached a rare beast at the peak.

• Yang Tianyou completed two Minor Teleportation Talismans during sudden enlightenment and learned to draw talismans in the void through his own comprehension.
• Yang Tianyou realized the Nine Great Legacy Grounds had opened and sent Yang Dangmo and the others to the Artifact Refining Hall.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianwang used their tokens to enter the Spirit Beast Hall and found Spirit Beast Peak inside its Formation.
• Yang Tianwang stopped at a barrier halfway up the mountain while Yang Tianyou continued upward with his Elder Token.
• Yang Tianyou passed through the final barrier and encountered a Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken.

Yang Tianyou defeated the Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken and formed a pact with it as his Bonded Spirit Beast. The rooster then led him to an unconscious old monkey whose presence matched the strange power Yang Tianyou had sensed, but the monkey fainted again when it saw him.

• The Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken challenged Yang Tianyou, and they fought fiercely until he defeated it.
• The Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken agreed to become Yang Tianyou’s Spirit Beast, and after recovering, formed the Great Unity Demon-Spirit Pact with him.
• The Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken asked Yang Tianyou to help its gravely injured monkey friend, and he followed it to the Palace.
• Yang Tianyou recognized the old monkey’s presence as the source of the strange power he had sensed and gave it an Azurewood Rejuvenation Pill.
• The old monkey woke, saw Yang Tianyou, and immediately fainted again.

Yang Tianyou recruited the old monkey as his seventh Bonded Spirit Beast and completed the White Tiger Seven Mansions. Their pact linked the fortunes, destinies, and life forces of Yang Tianyou and all seven beasts, leaving him eager to use their shared power.

• The old monkey explained that Yang Tianyou's spirit beasts included a Nine-Eared Dog and a Soul Wolf Descendant, but refused to identify the Heavenly Dog after a murderous presence warned him to stop.
• Yang Tianyou told the old monkey he needed a monkey-type Spirit Beast to complete the White Tiger Seven Mansions, and the old monkey agreed after Yang Tianyou swore not to treat him as a tool.
• Yang Tianyou and the old monkey formed the Great Unity Demon-Spirit Pact, completing the bond with Yang Tianyou's seventh Spirit Beast.
• Yang Tianyou saw a Star-Chart Disk link his destiny and karma with his seven Spirit Beasts, while the Jade Register Heavenly Book and its bronze ding reinforced the connection.
• Yang Tianyou tested the pact by having Fengling heal Zhiming's wound through shared life force, then planned to use the pact to protect the group and support its fighters.

Yang Tianyou named the Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken Xuanyin and the old monkey Tongming, then asked Tongming how he had reached Spirit Beast Peak. Tongming explained that a Spatial Rift had brought him there, but it was closing and he no longer had the strength to cross it; Yang Tianyou learned that formations could stabilize such passages temporarily.

• Yang Tianyou asked the old monkey and the Phoenix-Tailed Heavenly-Sound Chicken whether they had names, then named them Tongming and Xuanyin.
• Yang Tianyou asked Tongming whether his arrival on Spirit Beast Peak meant the Secret Realm had a second passage.
• Tongming showed Yang Tianyou a Tier 2 Void Worm and explained that he had followed it into a Spatial Rift before getting lost and finding his way to Spirit Beast Peak.
• Tongming told Yang Tianyou that his diminished realm prevented him from crossing the rift again and that it would close within a few years.
• Tongming explained that formations could stabilize Spatial Rifts temporarily, though the world will eventually mended them.

Yang Tianyou learned how Spatial Rifts and Two-World Wars worked, then discovered he could borrow Tongming’s Void Worm to use Spatial Exchange. The Void Worm shed a shell that gave him an additional escape option as the dangerous final trial approached.

• Tongming explained that small Spatial Rifts were natural and could be stabilized, while large rifts could connect worlds and lead to devastating Two-World Wars.
• Yang Tianyou considered claiming the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm for the Yang Household if the Luochuan Sect failed to obtain it.
• Tongming said the Void Worm’s Spatial Exchange required a bond, but Yang Tianyou found he could borrow the ability through their Shared Destiny.
• Yang Tianyou learned he could exchange positions within three hundred li and ordered Tongming to make the Void Worm shed its shell.
• Tongming’s Void Worm shed the shell needed for Spatial Exchange, giving Yang Tianyou another means of escape alongside his Minor Teleportation Talisman and Star-Chart Disk.

Yang Tianyou refined the Spirit Beast Hall, gathered most of Spirit Beast Peak’s beasts and resources, and then reunited with Yang Tianwang and Yang Dangmo. At the Artifact Hall, he learned that the Yang Household had obtained a powerful Weapon-Refining Pool, while three such pools could be combined into a Fourth-Tier treasure.

• With help from his Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts and the Star-Chart Disk, Yang Tianyou refined the Spirit Beast Hall in ten days.
• Yang Tianyou and Xuanyin swept Spirit Beast Peak, collecting its Spirit Beasts and most of its resources while leaving the Outer Periphery untouched.
• Yang Tianyou contacted Yang Tianwang, who complained that a Five-Colored Rooster had sent him flying, and the brothers headed to the Artifact Hall.
• After waiting two days outside the Artifact Hall’s Formation barrier, Yang Tianyou reunited with Yang Dangmo and learned the Yang Household had gained Artifact Refining materials, texts, and the Crimson Sun Weapon-Refining Pool.
• Yang Dangmo explained that the Crimson Sun, Morning Star, and Cold Moon Weapon-Refining Pools could combine into the Fourth-Tier Lower-Grade Lesser Celestial Circuit Star Weapon-Refining Pool, though none of the three Golden Core Forces would readily surrender its pool.

Yang Tianyou and the other Elder Token holders entered the Three Blazing Flame Palace's Sect Treasury and began searching its numbered storerooms. After claiming three Void Crystals from storeroom nine, Yang Tianyou headed for the unopened twelfth portal.

• Yang Tianyou led nine Yang Household Members through the secret realm to the Sect Treasury, where cultivators from the major powers gathered with all nine tokens.
• Xuan Gu led the token holders in opening the barrier, and Yang Tianyou entered the treasury with the other False Core experts.
• Yang Tianyou opened storeroom ten and found that most of its pills and spirit medicine had deteriorated over time.
• Yang Tianyou and Zhang Daoyuan jointly opened storeroom nine, where Yang Tianyou used the Great White Blade to seize three Void Crystals before Zhang Daoyuan could reach them.
• Yang Tianyou offered Zhang Daoyuan the remaining resources in the storeroom, and Zhang accepted.
• Yang Tianyou noticed that storerooms one and twelve remained unopened and headed for number twelve.

Yang Tianyou and three other cultivators discovered valuable Earth Attribute treasures in the twelfth Portal’s Sect Treasury and agreed to settle their claims through combat. Yang Tianyou defeated Fairy Yanxiao so decisively that she surrendered, leaving the other pair’s match and the final contest for the treasures unresolved.

• Yang Tianyou spotted Fourth-Tier Mid-Grade Kun Origin Qi in the treasury and wanted it for Zhiming’s bloodline awakening and Old Ancestor Yang Haoyu’s Kun Earth Cauldron.
• Yang Tianyou, Zhang Daoyuan, Fairy Yanxiao, and Song Shaojie swore Heart Demon Oaths and agreed to fight in pairs, with the winners facing each other for the treasures.
• After they moved outside, Song Shaojie chose to fight Zhang Daoyuan, while Yang Tianyou faced Fairy Yanxiao.
• Fairy Yanxiao tried to bewitch Yang Tianyou, but he broke the technique and pressed her with his Silver Moon Disk and Twin Blades.
• Yang Tianyou damaged Fairy Yanxiao’s sword with a powerful slash, and she surrendered after another attack struck near her neck.

Yang Tianyou stopped fighting after Fairy Yanxiao conceded, then watched Zhang Daoyuan defeat Song Shaojie in the contest for the Kun Origin Qi. Zhang Daoyuan declined to spar with Yang Tianyou, handed him the prize, and Yang Tianyou left to seek Xuan Gu in the core area.

• Fairy Yanxiao admitted defeat, and Yang Tianyou accepted her surrender before discussing the nearby fight with her.
• Yang Tianyou predicted Zhang Daoyuan had a slight edge over Song Shaojie as the two fought with their Law Artifacts and summoned creatures.
• Zhang Daoyuan used the Spirit Possession Technique to strengthen himself, gained the advantage over Song Shaojie, and won when Song Shaojie conceded.
• Fairy Yanxiao urged Zhang Daoyuan and Song Shaojie to fight Yang Tianyou, but Zhang Daoyuan refused and gave Yang Tianyou the Fourth-Tier Middle-Grade Kun Origin Qi.
• Yang Tianyou agreed to the division of the remaining supplies and left to find Xuan Gu in the core area.