Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua made Demon-Transforming Pills that suppressed the Devil Qi in Yang Qiongchu’s body, then Yang Tianyou used Yin-Soul Liquid to strengthen his True Spirit. He prepared defensive artifacts and medicines for Xuanyin and Zhiming’s coming breakthroughs and tribulations.

• Yang Tianyou brought the materials for the Demon-Transforming Pill to Yunhua, and they refined three Third-Tier Middle-Grade pills together.
• Yang Tianyou gave a pill to Duan Hongyu, who administered it to Yang Qiongchu and saw his Devil Qi gather in his middle Dantian as his complexion improved.
• Yang Qiongchu woke after three days, easing Yang Tianyou’s concerns about his father.
• Yang Tianyou consumed Yin-Soul Liquid and strengthened his outer True Spirit past a minor bottleneck.
• Yang Tianyou collected materials for Third-Tier Talismans and asked the Old Ancestor to make defensive Law Artifacts for Xuanyin and Zhiming.
• Yang Tianyou asked Thirteenth Brother to prepare third-tier healing and Qi-replenishing medicines for the beasts’ tribulations, and Thirteenth Brother promised to deliver them within a month.

Yang Tianyou crafted two Third-Tier Lower-Grade Glazed Golden Armor Talismans as protection for his upcoming tribulation. Three months after the Yang and Feng Households announced their marriage, Yang Tianwang and Feng Yueling married, and Feng Yueling was welcomed into the Yang Household.

• Yang Tianyou used Scarlet Bright Demon Fire, Ruoqing's Ice Qi, and the Jade Register Heavenly Book to craft two Glazed Golden Armor Talismans from three sheets of Blank Talisman Paper.
• Yang Tianyou assessed the defenses he had prepared for tribulation, including the talismans, a Defensive Formation, Law Artifacts, medicine, the Spirit Vein, and the Star-Chart Disk.
• Golden Core Cultivators and representatives from across Luochuan Commandery attended the Yang and Feng Households' wedding celebrations at Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Tianwang welcomed Feng Yueling from the Cloudglow Sect's Flying Boat, and the couple held their wedding ceremony at Lineage Square.
• Feng Yueling paid respects to Yang Haoyu, who gave her a Tier 2 Supreme-Grade Law Artifact golden hairpin; Feng Yueling asked Yang Tianwang to put it in her hair, marking her place in the Yang Household.

After the Yang and Feng Households joined forces through marriage, the Purple Moon Trading Company expanded its coalition, and Yang Tianyou prepared Xuanyin and Zhiming to advance to the Third Tier. Xuanyin began his tribulation at Wolf Pool as dark clouds gathered over Purple Moon Mountain.

• The Yang and Feng Households formalized their alliance, with the Feng Household receiving a twenty percent share of the Purple Moon Trading Company’s profits.
• Yang Tianyun and Yang Lihe welcomed Yang Xuanli, whose two Spirit Roots and emerging Earth Attribute Half-Spirit Physique surpassed her parents’ talent.
• Yang Tianjiu supplied materials and an Earth-Soul Flower, and Yang Tianyou returned from Crouching Ox Pass with three Demon-Transforming Pills and two Earth-Soul Pills.
• Yang Tianyou consumed the Earth-Soul Pills, raising his True Spirit Strength to the peak of Middle Golden Core, then ordered preparations for Xuanyin and Zhiming’s breakthroughs.
• Yang Tianyou brought the seven Spirit Beasts to Wolf Pool, where Xuanyin refined the formation core and began his Third-Tier breakthrough, drawing dark clouds and thunder over Purple Moon Mountain.

Xuanyin broke through to the Third Tier and endured its Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation with the help of formations, treasures, pills, and vitality from Yang Tianyou and the other Spirit Beasts. After Xuanyin succeeded and received the Qi of Creation, Yang Tianyou told Zhiming it was his turn to attempt a breakthrough.

• Xuanyin broke through to the Third Tier as dark clouds gathered over Wolf Pool.
• Xuanyin used the Five Elements Origin-Returning Formation to block the first five bolts of Tribulation Lightning before the Formation shattered.
• Xuanyin used a Glazed Golden Armor Talisman and the Heavy Mountain Shield to withstand the sixth and seventh bolts, then survived the eighth with its wings.
• Yang Tianyou and the other six Spirit Beasts sent Xuanyin vitality through the Star-Chart Disk, helping it recover before it endured the final bolt.
• Xuanyin received eighty-nine wisps of Qi of Creation and returned to Yang Tianyou, whose cultivation was strengthened by Xuanyin's breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou praised Xuanyin and told Zhiming to prepare for his own breakthrough.

Zhiming safely transcended his Heavenly Tribulation, strengthening the Yang Household alongside Xuanyin. Elsewhere, the Red Dust Saintess breached the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm and took the imprisoned Xu Yan True Person away.

• Zhiming used the Five Elements Origin-Returning Formation and a Heavy Mountain Shield to withstand all nine bolts of his Heavenly Tribulation, advancing to the Third Tier with little injury.
• Zhiming absorbed ninety-four wisps of Qi of Creation and returned to Yang Tianyou with forty percent of his Law Power remaining.
• The Yang Household gained two Golden Core Level powerhouses and became better protected by its upgraded Spirit Vein and Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation.
• The Red Dust Saintess pierced the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm’s defenses and located Xu Yan True Person in the Central Volcano palace.
• The Red Dust Saintess used the Myriad Forms Void-Breaking Shuttle to break Xu Yan True Person’s formation and carry him away.

Over two years, the Yang Household rebuilt its strength, expanded its alliances and departments, and Yang Tianyou reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection. With the Four Symbols Nine Trials approaching in three years, he planned to travel to the Chaotic Sea early and establish a secret foothold for the Lineage.

• The Yang Household gained eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators and thirty-eight Spirit Root children, while its conflict with the Goldwater Sect intensified and claimed several members.
• Yang Tianjiu secured cooperative relationships with the Cloudglow Sect, the Wang Household, the Corpse Yin Sect, the Yi Sword Sect, and the Seven Absolutes Sect, expanding the Yang Household's influence through the Purple Moon Trading Company.
• The Agriculture Hall developed an early method for breeding subordinate Exotic Insects, while the Beast Taming Hall and other departments advanced their work and cultivated new specialists.
• Yang Tianyou completed his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and decided to focus on his Daos rather than pursue Golden Core before the Four Symbols Nine Trials.
• Yang Tianyou told Yang Haoyu he wanted to travel early to the Chaotic Sea, gather intelligence, and establish a secret foothold for the Lineage.
• Yang Haoyu agreed to send thirty Shadow Hall cultivators and let Yang Qiongchuan, Yang Tianxue, Yang Tiankang, Yang Xuanyang, and Yang Xuanwu accompany Yang Tianyou, while warning him to be cautious.

Yang Tianyou left for the Chaotic Sea with five Foundation Establishment cultivators after spending a month with Yunhua. Meanwhile, the Demon Sea withdrew from the Northern River Region, and news of Lin Yingyue’s role in the retreat reached Luochuan City, where Yang Tianyou had arrived.

• Yang Tianyou spent a month with Yunhua at Crouching Ox Pass before leaving for Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou and five Foundation Establishment cultivators set out for the Chaotic Sea on Xuanyin, while the Shadow Hall clansmen traveled ahead through Luochuan City.
• Lin Yingyue told Chen Qiaosheng that the Demon Sea would retreat in half a month, while revealing that his greater plan aimed to disrupt the Lu Wu Realm’s rules for someone he cared about.
• The Ten Great Demon Sects withdrew from the Northern River Region, and the Immortal Dao inflicted heavy casualties on the Foreign Races, though five Spirit Transformation cultivators also died.
• Yang Tianyou heard the retreat discussed in Luochuan City and admired Lin Yingyue’s ability to challenge Sage Manifestation as a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Lin Yingyue used a damaged Compass to set the Lu Wu Realm’s Spatial Power in motion, causing Heavenly Origin Zi to foresee a coming demonic calamity. Two months later, Yang Tianyou departed Luochuan City aboard a Wind-Thunder Boat bound for the Chaotic Sea.

• Lin Yingyue poured Demon Dao Law Power into the Compass, setting currents of Spatial Power across the Lu Wu Realm and bringing three points of light closer together.
• Heavenly Origin Zi used his Life-Bound Essence Blood to investigate the changed celestial signs and murmured that the three stars’ convergence would bring a demonic calamity.
• The Seven Stars Sacred Lord hurried to Heavenly Origin Peak, and three days later the Seven Stars Sacred Land summoned its Grand Elders to discuss an urgent matter.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Tiankang arranged passage on a Luochuan Sect Wind-Thunder Boat and discussed Tiankang’s Earth Sha Crystal.
• Two months later, Yang Tianyou boarded the Wind-Thunder Boat as it departed Luochuan City for the Chaotic Sea.

Yang Tianyou studied the Cangji Plateau’s Magnetism Power during the Wind-Thunder Boat’s crossing, then learned about the Chaotic Sea’s tangled powers and the Sea Abyss Sect’s protected island. The boat reached the Chaotic Sea and continued toward Sea Abyss Island, the sect’s destination.

• The Wind-Thunder Boat crossed the Cangji Plateau, and Yang Tianyou sensed its Magnetism Power and decided to study it during the passage.
• Twelve days later, Yang Tianyou finished crossing the plateau and saw the Chaotic Sea spread out below the boat.
• Yang Tianyou recalled that the Chaotic Sea’s competing native and foreign powers had kept it divided since the Four Symbols Sect perished eight thousand years earlier.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Wind-Thunder Boat was headed to the Sea Abyss Sect, whose Heaven-Patrolling Treasure Mirror and formations made Sea Abyss Island a famously safe refuge.

Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household traveled through the lawless Chaotic Sea and reached Sea Abyss Island, a protected trading haven ruled by the Sea Abyss Sect. They arrived safely and headed inland, where strict rules forbade fighting.

• Yang Tianyou witnessed the Chaotic Sea’s violence and realized that its lack of order offered dangers and opportunities for ambitious forces.
• Three days later, a storm swept across the sea, and Yang Tianyou and Yang Tiankang watched a colossal Xuan Whale feed on sea creatures.
• After another month, the Wind-Thunder Boat reached Sea Abyss Island, a vast island rented out to various forces under the Sea Abyss Sect’s protection.
• Yang Tianyou led five Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Yang Household off the boat and followed the Lineage’s directions inland.
• Yang Tianyou and his group learned that anyone who fought on Sea Abyss Island would be killed by its protective power, while disputes could be settled outside.

Yang Tianyou brought Yang Xuanye and the Shadow Hall clansmen to Haiyuan City to prepare the Yang Household’s expansion into the Chaotic Sea. The clansmen began gathering intelligence while Yang Tianyou and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators worked to secure an island and build connections.

• Yang Tianyou met Yang Xuanye and the Shadow Hall clansmen, praised their service, and promised to rotate them home in twenty years as the Lineage grew.
• Yang Tianyou took the group aboard the Bianhe Boat and traveled to Haiyuan City.
• Yang Tianyou rented a courtyard and assigned the Qi Refining clansmen to gather information about the Four Symbols Nine Trials and report it to Yang Xuanye.
• Yang Tianyou and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators split up to buy an island, acquire resources, and make connections in Haiyuan City.

Yang Tianyou searched the Sea Abyss Pavilion for a suitable island to rent for the Yang Household but found none that met his needs. He left undecided, weighing the dangers of remote islands against the cost of upgrading one himself.

• Yang Tianyou visited the Sea Abyss Pavilion to find an island for the Yang Household.
• A Sea Abyss Sect disciple showed Yang Tianyou a chart of the islands and suggested renting a First-Tier island and upgrading it.
• Yang Tianyou realized that upgrading a rented island would ultimately benefit the Sea Abyss Sect, while renting a suitable existing Tier 2 island remained difficult.
• Yang Tianyou left without renting an island and worried that an island on the Outer Periphery would be vulnerable after he left the Chaotic Sea.
• Yang Tianyou considered disguising himself as an Evil Cultivator to seize an inner-region island, but rejected the idea to protect the Yang Household's principles and future.

Yang Tianyou taught Yang Xuanye how to pursue the Yang Household’s claim to Coiled Snake Island without secretly instigating the Fu Household’s destruction. They left for the island to wait for the Fu Household’s injured cultivator to flee toward Sea Abyss Island.

• Yang Tianyou read intelligence that the Fu Household had lost its Foundation Establishment ancestor and that its remaining cultivator was gravely injured, drawing other lineages’ interest in Coiled Snake Island.
• Yang Xuanye proposed letting rival Foundation Establishment Cultivators attack the Fu Household, then saving some of its direct descendants so the Yang Household could control the island through them.
• Yang Tianyou rejected secretly provoking the attack, warning that the plan could leave the Fu Household with cause to turn against the Yang Household later.
• Yang Tianyou taught Yang Xuanye to favor open schemes when developing the lineage, while using covert methods only for minor matters.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Xuanye set out for Coiled Snake Island to wait for the Fu Household’s injured cultivator to flee toward Sea Abyss Island.

Fu Renli fled Coiled Snake Island with the Fu Household, but the group was ambushed at sea by rival cultivators who fought over their boat and survivors. Yang Tianyou and his companions killed the attackers, leaving the surviving Fu Household cultivators in his care.

• Fu Renli ordered the Fu Household to gather its supplies and flee Coiled Snake Island after an Evil Cultivator disrupted his healing.
• A group of cultivators trapped the Fu Household's Flying Boat at sea, and Fu Renli abandoned his people before the fake monk Old Man of a Hundred Transformations killed him.
• The Old Man of a Hundred Transformations and other Foundation Establishment Cultivators fought over the Flying Boat while a young couple tried to rescue Fu Household members.
• Yang Tianyou used concealed Starlight to kill two hidden cultivators, then directed his companions in defeating the remaining attackers, including the Old Man of a Hundred Transformations.
• Yang Tianyou approached the surviving Fu Household cultivators and told them they were safe.

After securing Coiled Snake Island as a foothold for the Yang Household, Yang Tianyou traveled with five Foundation Establishment cultivators to Four Symbols Island for the Four Symbols Nine Trials. On the journey, he heard about the many powerful geniuses expected to take part, leaving him to reflect on how crowded the realm’s ranks of talent were.

• Yang Tianyou left Yang Xuanye to restore Coiled Snake Island, and three days later Yang Xuanye had repaired its defenses and Spirit Fields and begun integrating its people and surviving Fu Household cultivators.
• Over the next two years, Yang Xuanye established a stable commercial network, and Yang Tianyou decided his work on Coiled Snake Island was complete.
• Yang Tianyou booked six tickets at Sea Abyss Pavilion and traveled with five Yang Household Foundation Establishment cultivators to Four Symbols Island.
• In the Flying Boat’s social hall, the Wang Surname Cultivator listed prominent Foundation Establishment geniuses expected at the Four Symbols Nine Trials.
• Yang Tianyou listened to the reports and concluded that the gathering held an overwhelming number of cultivators capable of fighting Golden Core opponents.

Yang Tianyou arrived at Four Symbols Island and explored its central city, including the Eight Desolations Arena. After hearing that two fairy geniuses were fighting publicly, he joined the crowd and saw the women facing off.

• Yang Tianyou and his clansmen reached Four Symbols Island and flew to its central region.
• Yang Tianyou visited the Eight Desolations Arena, watched two Foundation Establishment cultivators fight, and chose not to enter the arena himself.
• Yang Tianyou learned that two fairy geniuses were fighting in the outer arena and followed the crowd to watch.
• Yang Tianyou saw a woman in red and a woman in blue standing opposite each other on the grassy field.

Yang Tianyou watched Fairy Danzhu defeat Fairy Qingxuan and sensed that Qingxuan was hiding a powerful ability. He then brought his clansmen to the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds and entered a room to access its anonymous marketplace.

• Yang Tianyou used his ocular technique to judge Fairy Qingxuan as stronger and sensed a hidden Divine Ability Prototype within her.
• Fairy Danzhu defeated Fairy Qingxuan after three hundred exchanges with the Fire-Separating Heart-Piercing Needle, while Qingxuan wondered who had been watching her.
• Yang Tianyou led his clansmen from the arena to the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds, a vast market protected by the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation.
• Yang Tianyou entered a pillar, paid ten Spirit Stones to open an unoccupied room, and found a meditation cushion, a luminous pearl, and Fragrant Incense inside.

Yang Tianyou explored the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation’s Spiritvoid Trading Grounds, buying several items for himself and the Yang Household. He placed bids on Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi for Nine Qi and left his Spirit Stones while awaiting the sellers’ response.

• Yang Tianyou entered the Zhoutian Void Profound Formation and examined the shops and stalls in the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds.
• Yang Tianyou bought two Quarter-Hour Life-Burning Pills and four other Spirit Items, including materials for the Old Ancestor, Ruoqing, and the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Myriad Treasures Pagoda and saw that the Azure Lord Sword had received a highest bid of 45,600 Upper-Grade Spirit Stones but remained unsold.
• Yang Tianyou found Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi, two of the Nine Qi needed to awaken Nine Qi’s bloodline, and raised the bids to 4,600 and 2,900 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Tianyou placed 7,500 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones on a tray in the formation and departed while waiting for the sale results.

Yang Tianyou received a Spiritvoid Token, collected two Spirit Items, and used the Spiritual Qi gained from Zhiming’s improvement to prepare for a future breakthrough. More than half a year later, the Four Symbols Secret Realm began opening, and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint intervened when a Sage Manifestation cultivator attacked its entrance.

• Yang Tianyou received a one-star Spiritvoid Token after spending more than one hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones at the Spiritvoid Trading Grounds.
• Yang Tianyou collected the Yunxiao Pure Qi and Divine Marrow Bone Qi, and Zhiming’s Bonded Spirit Beast rose to peak Third-Tier Lower-Grade, giving Yang Tianyou pure Spiritual Qi to save for his Golden Core breakthrough.
• More than half a year later, the Four Symbols Secret Realm opened in the sea east of Four Symbols Island, revealing its passage and the phantoms of the Four Symbols Divine Beasts.
• A Sage Manifestation cultivator reached for the realm’s entrance, but the Guardian Deity General emerged and struck at the Heaven-Shrouding Hand with his halberd.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint unleashed a vast river of blades against the Heaven-Shrouding Hand, and the two combatants vanished from sight while the Guardian Deity General remained at his post.

Yang Tianyou entered the Four Symbols Secret Realm under the alias Xiu He and chose the Cause and Effect Trial. His karma shattered the trial’s copper mirror, but the Guardian Deity General intervened and assigned him an Extreme evaluation.

• The Guardian Deity General announced the Four Symbols Nine Trials, their rules, and the ban on fighting before the cultivators entered the Secret Realm.
• Yang Tianyou arrived in a White Tiger palace, registered as Xiu He, and learned that the trials tested combat strength, aptitude, comprehension, fortune, karma, and perseverance.
• Yang Tianyou chose the Cause and Effect Trial and sat beneath a copper mirror that traced the threads of his karma.
• A silver-lit wing emerged from a purple karmic pillar and shattered the copper mirror, drawing the Guardian Deity General’s attention.
• The Guardian Deity General arranged the disrupted trial light into an evaluation that rated Xiu He’s Cause and Effect Trial as Extreme.