Chapter Summaries

After the Secret Realm barrier shattered, Xu Yan True Person forced Yang Tianyou, Xuan Gu, and Zhang Daoyuan to help him in exchange for sparing the other cultivators and providing resources. The three sealed their agreements with Heavenly Dao Blood Contracts, and Xu Yan True Person sent them each a Storage Ring of cultivation supplies.

• Xu Yan True Person used the Secret Realm's Origin Power to bind the cultivators, sparing only Yang Tianyou, Xuan Gu, and Zhang Daoyuan, and demanded their help.
• Yang Tianyou agreed to help in exchange for his clansmen's lives and at least a hundred thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones for his Lineage.
• Xu Yan True Person and Yang Tianyou signed a Fifth Tier Heavenly Dao Blood Contract, binding their agreement before the Will of Heaven and Earth.
• Xuan Gu and Zhang Daoyuan agreed to the same terms and signed their own Heavenly Dao Blood Contracts with Xu Yan True Person.
• Xu Yan True Person sent each of the three a Storage Ring containing cultivation resources worth a hundred thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.

Yang Tianyou entrusted Yang Dangmo with the Storage Ring and warned the gathered Cultivators not to plot against him before entering the Central Volcano with Xuan Gu and Zhang Daoyuan. There, An Ming revealed the blood contract and sent the three into separate formation spaces to fight for a chance to survive.

• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Dangmo instructions to distribute the Lineage’s resources if he died and to hide their clansmen underground until his return.
• Yang Tianyou demonstrated his power by cleaving a nearby mountain, then departed for the Central Volcano.
• Xu Yan True Person forced Zhang Daoyuan into the crater, and Xuan Gu and Yang Tianyou followed, arriving on a platform beside a crimson palace.
• Yang Tianyou used his Great White Gold Eyes and heard a demonic voice and an old voice as Xu Yan True Person revealed himself as An Ming.
• An Ming invoked the Heavenly Dao Blood Contract and ordered the three to enter separate formation spaces to defeat their opponents.
• Zhang Daoyuan entered the middle opening, then Yang Tianyou and Xuan Gu entered the remaining openings.

Yang Tianyou fought Xu Yan True Person’s powerful formation-created incarnation in the Formation Space, enduring its relentless Sun Flame and inexhaustible Spiritual Power. He defeated Xu Yan True Person with his Falling Star Divine Ability, then looked toward the top of the Formation Space.

• Yang Tianyou entered the Formation Space and faced a young, powerful manifestation of Xu Yan True Person.
• Xu Yan True Person attacked with Solar True Gang, flame weapons, and relentless Sun Flame, while Yang Tianyou countered with his Twin Blades, Starlight, and Scarlet Bright Demon Fire.
• Yang Tianyou discovered that pure flame Qi continuously replenished Xu Yan True Person’s Spiritual Power.
• Yang Tianyou used Falling Star to restrain Xu Yan True Person and strike through his golden crystal defenses, shattering his body and defeating him.
• Yang Tianyou put Starlight away and looked up at the top of the Formation Space.

Zhang Daoyuan and Xuan Gu fought Xu Yan True Person in separate Formation Spaces, while An Ming waited for his chance to escape and claim Yang Tianyou’s body. After Xuan Gu sacrificed himself to fulfill the Heavenly Dao Blood Contract, An Ming sealed the Demonspawn away and entered Yang Tianyou’s body, unaware that Yang Tianyou seemed to have a plan of his own.

• Zhang Daoyuan summoned Patriarch Shangqing to possess him and wielded Golden Core-level power, but collapsed after destroying Xu Yan True Person at the cost of severe backlash.
• An Ming saw two fiery red vortexes go dim and decided to wait for the final fight to end so he could preserve more of his Soul Power.
• Xuan Gu detonated a Forbidden Artifact inside his heart, killing Xu Yan True Person and sacrificing himself to fulfill the Heavenly Dao Blood Contract.
• When the last vortex went out, An Ming sealed the Demonspawn in the palace and left it trapped while he went after Yang Tianyou’s body.
• Yang Tianyou asked An Ming to spare his Spirit Beasts, and An Ming entered the space between his brows; Yang Tianyou then grinned at Zhiming and revealed that he had wondered what An Ming wanted.

Yang Tianyou learned that An Ming had died by the Heavenly Book’s power, then rescued the wounded Zhang Daoyuan before meeting the sealed Xu Yan True Person. Xu Yan True Person stabilized a Spatial Rift for Yang Tianyou to use in ten years, giving him a chance to enter the Secret Realm and claim its Origin and treasures.

• Yang Tianyou discovered An Ming’s vacant face on the Heavenly Book’s Mirror page and left the collapsing Formation Space.
• Yang Tianyou found Zhang Daoyuan badly wounded in the middle Formation Space and dragged him outside before the three vortexes exploded.
• Yang Tianyou entered the fiery red palace and told Xu Yan True Person that An Ming was dead.
• Xu Yan True Person stabilized the Spatial Rift at Spirit Beast Peak and explained that it would let Yang Tianyou enter the Secret Realm after ten years.
• Xu Yan True Person offered Yang Tianyou the chance to refine the Secret Realm Origin and take the Three Blazing Flame Furnace and other treasures.

Yang Tianyou learned Xu Yan True Person’s life story: after losing his family to a Demon Wolf, Xu Yan rose to become a powerful cultivator, only for a Demonspawn to massacre his sect and seize control of his body. Xu Yan sealed the Demonspawn in the Secret Realm, but his Heart Demon An Ming later joined it, and Xu Yan revealed that the Demonspawn was tied to the Heavenly Demon beneath White Sky Mountain.

• Xu Yan True Person lost his family to a Demon Wolf, was rescued by the Three Blazing Flame Palace Supreme Elder, and began cultivating with an Extreme Spirit Root.
• Xu Yan rose through the cultivation ranks and brought the Three Blazing Flame Palace to prosperity before a Demonspawn awakened within him and slaughtered the sect and Three Blazing Flame City.
• Xu Yan regained control briefly, moved the sect’s buildings and Spirit Mountain into the Secret Realm, and used the Three Blazing Flame Furnace to seal the Demonspawn inside his body.
• After Xu Yan altered the sealing Formation to preserve the sect’s legacy, his Heart Demon An Ming emerged, joined forces with the Demonspawn, and manipulated the Secret Realm to incite killing and seek a new vessel.
• Yang Tianyou left the Palace as Xu Yan explained that the Demonspawn was his own reincarnated vessel, likely created by the Heavenly Demon sealed beneath White Sky Mountain.

Yang Tianyou left the Secret Realm with Zhang Daoyuan and reunited with the other surviving Cultivators, while confirming that Xuan Gu had fallen. Outside the Secret Realm, news of the trial provoked Golden Core Cultivators to attack Yang Haoyu, and Feng Yuezhi intervened as the Yang Household rushed to her aid.

• Yang Tianyou carried the unconscious Zhang Daoyuan out of the Central Volcano and handed him over to the Corpse Yin Sect after explaining that he had suffered backlash from the Spirit Possession Technique.
• Yang Tianyou gave Chen Shuang Xuan Gu’s broken Identity Token and said that Xuan Gu had fallen; Chen Shuang sensed the Ember-Extinguishing Pearl and accepted that her senior brother had chosen his fate.
• Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household and the other surviving forces toward the open Secret Realm Portal to leave.
• After learning what had happened in the Secret Realm, Lin Yan True Person, the Goldwater Sect’s Golden Core Cultivator, and Qingye True Person attacked Yang Haoyu, who defended herself with the Kun Earth Cauldron and a shield.
• The Yang Household charged in aboard the Purple Moon Boat, and Feng Yuezhi blocked Lin Yan True Person’s Law awl with a cyan saber.

Yang Tianyou emerged from the secret realm into a tense gathering of sect leaders and discovered that Luochuan Sect had come to investigate Xuan Gu’s death with its Heart-Questioning Grand Formation. True Person Yan Yuan confronted him and used his Sword Momentum to force him to his knees.

• Feng Yuezhi, True Person Bai Long, and True Person Wang Tuo intervened to stop Golden Core Cultivators from attacking Yang Haoyu, and True Person Yunting ended the standoff.
• Yang Haoyu invited Feng Yuezhi, True Person Bai Long, True Person Bai Xuan, and True Person Wang Tuo to visit, while Lin Yan True Person and the other hostile cultivators discussed making the Yang Household pay for their losses.
• True Person Yan Yuan arrived with the Heart-Questioning Grand Formation, saying that Xuan Gu’s Soul Lamp had gone out and that the Luochuan Sect’s Grand Elder had ordered the investigation.
• Yang Tianyou emerged from the secret realm, met True Person Yan Yuan’s demand to identify himself, and instinctively released his Blade Intent.
• True Person Yan Yuan unleashed his Sword Momentum, forcing Yang Tianyou to his knees.

Yang Tianyou endured True Person Yan Yuan’s Sword Intent and the Luochuan Sect’s demand to question those who returned from the Secret Realm. Tongming blocked the Heart-Questioning Grand Formation from exposing Yang Tianyou’s secret, leaving his ability to reenter the Three Blazing Flame Palace concealed.

• True Person Yan Yuan pressured Yang Tianyou until True Person Yunting intervened and made him withdraw his Sword Intent.
• True Person Yan Yuan demanded that the returning Cultivators enter the Heart-Questioning Grand Formation, but Nine Swords True Person and True Person Bai Shi objected.
• True Person Yunting persuaded the Cultivators to accept three questions instead, and True Person Yan Yuan chose Yang Tianyou to go first.
• Tongming told Yang Tianyou that its power could block the formation as he entered it.
• Yang Tianyou truthfully denied causing Xuan Gu’s death or obtaining the Three Blazing Flame Palace’s inheritance.
• Tongming suppressed the formation’s influence, allowing Yang Tianyou to deny that he could enter the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm again.

Yang Haoyu defended the Yang Household from demands for its Secret Realm spoils by sharing resources with allied Golden Core forces. As the group traveled home, she told Yang Tianyou that Demon Dao cultivators had devastated the Lineage and left his father Yang Qiongchu gravely wounded and unconscious.

• True Person Yan Yuan questioned the Secret Realm cultivators, found no trace of its Origin, and watched the portal vanish before leaving in anger.
• After the Luochuan Sect departed, Lin Yan True Person and the Goldwater Sect demanded ten million Spirit Stones from the Yang Household.
• Yang Haoyu refused and gave Feng Yuezhi, True Person Bai Long, and True Person Wang Tuo two million Spirit Stones' worth of resources each, gaining their public support.
• The allied cultivators accompanied the Yang Household as they left the Southern Forbidden Secret Forest, while Yang Tianyou remained calm about his earlier humiliation by True Person Yan Yuan.
• Yang Haoyu told Yang Tianyou that three Demon Dao Golden Core cultivators had killed eight Foundation Establishment clansmen, sixty-nine Qi Refining clansmen, and a hundred thousand mortals.
• Yang Haoyu revealed that Yang Qiongchu had survived an attack at Bianhe Mountain but was gravely wounded by Devil Qi and remained unconscious.

Yang Tianyou discovered that Devil Qi had nearly destroyed his father Yang Qiongchu’s body and soul, and learned that a rare Spirit-Washing Sacred Water was the only complete cure. Tongming found a way to suppress the Devil Qi for several years with Demon-Transforming Pills, giving them time to seek the sacred water.

• Yang Tianyou examined Yang Qiongchu and learned the Devil Qi had entered his soul, leaving him unable to advance beyond Foundation Establishment even if treated with Spirit-Washing Sacred Water.
• Yunhua explained that the Luochuan Sect had run out of Cleansing Spirit Pill materials, and Yang Tianyou suspected the Great Elder’s Line was blocking their access.
• Yang Tianyou released Tongming and the other Spirit Beasts to inspect his father, and Tongming said Demon-Transforming Pills could suppress the Devil Qi for eight or nine years.
• Yang Tianyou planned to use the Yang Household’s ties to the Spiritvoid Pavilion to find Spirit-Washing Sacred Water, while Yunhua agreed she could gather materials and refine the pills within a month.

Yang Tianyou discussed his father's injuries and the Devil Cultivators' threat with Yang Haoyu, then proposed expanding the Yang Household's departments and upgrading its Spirit Veins and defenses. Yang Haoyu agreed that stronger defenses were essential, though the plans would consume most of the resources they had gained.

• Yang Tianyou told Yang Haoyu that Yang Qiongchu was stable but would likely never reach the Golden Core Realm, and vowed to avenge him.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu speculated that the Devil Cultivators were preparing to retreat from Mo Province and Xuan Province as a bitter winter approached.
• Yang Tianyou proposed investing Spirit Stones and trainees in the Shadow Hall and Commerce Hall, and establishing an independent Beast Taming Hall led by Fifteenth Brother.
• Yang Haoyu called for upgrading the Lineage's Spirit Veins, and Yang Tianyou proposed raising Purple Moon Mountain's vein to Third-Tier Upper-Grade and strengthening the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation.
• Yang Haoyu warned that upgrading the Spirit Veins and formation would consume eighty percent of the resources from the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm.

Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu arranged defenses against the Goldwater Sect and planned a marriage alliance with the Feng Household through Yang Tianwang. Afterward, Yang Tianyou considered how to strengthen his True Spirit and joked that his Spirit Beasts should learn trades to support themselves.

• Yang Haoyu explained that the Yang and Feng households would defend Yellowstone Market together while the Cloudglow Sect watched the Three-Leaves Sect.
• Yang Haoyu predicted that the Goldwater Sect would rely on intimidation and border provocations rather than start a war.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu agreed to strengthen ties with the Feng Household through a marriage alliance and chose Yang Tianwang as the groom.
• Yang Tianyou gave the Thousand-Foot Fire-Pincer Centipede and Mountain-Binding Spider to Yang Lihe to raise, then returned home and released his seven Spirit Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou worried that his True Spirit might not grow enough to sustain his planned Life-Bound Spiritual Objects and wondered if his Spirit Beasts could learn cultivation arts to become self-reliant.

Yang Tianyou assigned his seven Spirit Beasts different Cultivation Arts based on their talents and interests, then gave Tongming and Xuanyin Law Artifacts. After the others left, he prepared to use Kun Origin Qi and Great Profound Spirit-Communing Qi to awaken Zhiming’s Diting Bloodline.

• Yang Tianyou assigned Yuan Ba the Artifact Refining Dao, Xuanyin Musical Harmonizing, Tongming the Formation Dao, Fengling Spirit Cooking, Ruoqing brewing, Black and White Gu Insect Mastery, and Zhiming alchemy.
• Yunhua welcomed Tongming and Xuanyin and gave them each a Tier 2 Supreme-Grade Law Artifact.
• Yang Tianyou warned the Spirit Beasts not to disturb the Old Ancestor or steal fruit from the Spirit Medicine Garden, then let them use his Lineage Contribution Points.
• Fengling left with Ruoqing, while the other Spirit Beasts went off to pursue their plans; Yang Tianyou asked Zhiming to stay.
• Yang Tianyou sent five wisps each of Kun Origin Qi and Great Profound Spirit-Communing Qi into the space between Zhiming’s brows to awaken his bloodline.

Zhiming’s bloodline enhancement raised his cultivation to the peak of the Second Tier, prompting Yang Tianyou to consider letting him and Xuanyin advance to the Third Tier. Yang Tianyou and Yunhua also planned a trip to stabilize the Spatial Rift leading to the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm, while Yang Tianyou reconsidered when to use Spirit Items to strengthen his True Spirit.

• Kun Origin Qi and Great Profound Spirit-Communing Qi enhanced Zhiming’s bloodline, causing Diting’s phantom to appear as his cultivation surged.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua that bearing ten Life-Bound Spiritual Objects strained his True Spirit, and they discussed finding Spirit Items to strengthen it before his Golden Core breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou explained that a Spatial Rift connected the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm to the Lu Wu Realm and gave Yunhua a Jade Slip showing its location.
• Yunhua agreed to travel with Yang Tianyou in three days to stabilize the Spatial Rift using Void Crystals.
• Zhiming finished his enhancement at the peak of the Second-Tier Upper-Grade, and Yang Tianyou considered raising his True Spirit Strength now so Zhiming and Xuanyin could break through to the Third Tier.
• Yunhua asked whether Yang Tianyou had previously taken a Spirit Item to raise his True Spirit Strength.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua planned to raise his True Spirit Strength before traveling to the Chaotic Sea, while the Yang Household put newly acquired resources to work and reorganized its halls. The chapter ended with Yang Lihe visiting Yang Tianwang to inspect the Spirit Beasts and find a contract beast for his future grandchild.

• Yunhua explained that Yang Tianyou could use another Spirit Item to raise his True Spirit Strength, and he sent Yang Tianjiu a message to gather suitable items.
• Yang Tianjiu received the message in Purple Moon City and planned to use the Lineage’s upcoming Spirit Stone allocation to call in favors.
• Three days later, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua traveled to Yangcheng Commandery to stabilize the Spatial Rift as the Yang Household’s departments put their new resources to use.
• Yang Dangmo installed the Crimson Sun Weapon-Refining Pool in the Artifact Refining Valley, where Yang Household Artifact Refining Masters fed it resources to speed the gathering of Crimson Sun Power.
• Yang Lihe visited the Agriculture Hall’s Gu Insect Masters, then went to the Beast Hall, where Yang Tianwang was managing the Spirit Beast handover.
• Yang Lihe asked to inspect the Spirit Beasts so he could choose a contract beast for his daughter’s child.

After the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm, the Yang and Feng Households prepared to formalize a marriage alliance, while the Goldwater Sect planned attacks against them. Meanwhile, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua continued their journey across the desert, leaving the Three-Headed Sand Python behind.

• Feng Yuezhi, Feng Qingyang, Feng Tingwan, and Feng Lieyang agreed that Feng Yueling would marry Yang Tianwang, choosing her over Feng Yuexi because she would better fulfill her role in the Yang Household.
• Wang Xingyan ordered Wang Yuxuan to bring congratulatory gifts to the Yang Household for the wedding, citing the Wang Household's ties to Yang Tianyou and the Yun Household.
• The Goldwater Sect Master ordered disciples to provoke Yellowstone Market and injure or kill Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Yang and Feng Households within three months.
• On the eighth day of their journey, Yang Tianyou discussed the Three-Headed Sand Python with Yunhua, who explained that it had not pursued them solely because of the Flying Shuttle's speed.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua stabilized the Spatial Rift in Falling Sun Ridge and returned to Purple Moon Mountain. After Yunhua left, Duan Hongyu warned Yang Tianyou about the loneliness immortality could bring, but he resolved to fight for what he cherished.

• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua found the Spatial Rift in Falling Sun Ridge and passed through the barrier to reach it.
• Yunhua used a Formation Disc and Void Crystal to stabilize the Spatial Rift for several hundred years.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua returned to Purple Moon Mountain, where Yunhua departed for Crouching Ox Pass.
• Duan Hongyu told Yang Tianyou that immortality could leave him isolated as the people he loved grew old and died.
• Yang Tianyou understood his mother's concern but resolved to fight for the things he could not bear to lose.

Yang Tianyou drank the Millennium Jade Mystic Stone Marrow to improve his Body Cultivator Aptitude while a contest between the Goldwater Sect and the Yang and Feng Households unfolded outside Yellowstone Market. Yang Tiankang defeated the Goldwater Sect’s Kong You, bringing the match score level.

• Yang Tianyou drank the Millennium Jade Mystic Stone Marrow and began refining it to improve his Body Cultivator Aptitude.
• Chu Fei’s fireball defeated Feng Liekuang, giving the Goldwater Sect the first victory in the three-part contest.
• Kong You entered the arena and challenged the Yang and Feng Households, while Chu Fei urged him to cripple or kill his opponent.
• Yang Tiankang faced Kong You and used his Earthly Sha Sword-Condensing Technique and Minor Achievement Sword Intent to overpower him.
• Kong You conceded after being wounded, and the Yang and Feng Households celebrated their victory.

Yang Xuanwu defeated Zhu Tianxing in the deciding bout, giving the Yang and Feng Households victory over the Goldwater Sect. After improving his physique with Jade Mystic Stone Marrow, Yang Tianyou met Yang Tianjiu to collect the Demon-Transforming Pill materials.

• Yang Xuanwu fought Zhu Tianxing and killed him with a spear strike, winning the contest for the Yang and Feng Households.
• The Goldwater Sect left Yellowstone Market after losing two of the three bouts, while the Yang and Feng Households celebrated their victory.
• Yang Tianyou consumed the remaining Jade Mystic Stone Marrow, further tempering his physique and improving his Body Cultivator Aptitude.
• After eight more days of seclusion, Yang Tianyou went to Purple Moon Town and gave Yang Tianjiu a flask of Spring Gauze Wine.
• Yang Tianjiu handed Yang Tianyou a Storage Bag containing the materials for the Demon-Transforming Pill, and they shared the wine before Yang Tianyou left.