Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou passed the Aptitude Trial with an exceptional overall rating, then endured the Fortune Trial’s deadly hail and received an average rating. He left the trial alive, though the chapter revealed that many cultivators had died and that the Four Symbols Nine Trials served the sect’s interests.

• Little True Person Yueyang received a poor Karma Trial rating and was expelled after demanding another test.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Aptitude Trial and earned an exceptional overall rating, including exceptional soul aptitude and cultivation rating.
• Yang Tianyou entered the Fortune Trial, where overwhelming pressure trapped him as freezing hail battered and injured him.
• Many cultivators died in the Fortune Trial, and the formation took their storage Law Artifacts into the secret realm’s treasury.
• After half an hour, the pressure and hail stopped; Yang Tianyou expelled frozen blood and received an average Fortune Trial rating.

Yang Tianyou passed the Perseverance Trial by walking thirty thousand zhang through darkness and earned a Supreme evaluation. After returning to the Palace, he reunited with Yuan Ba and Ruoqing, who had earned a fortune treating cultivators suffering from the cold.

• Yang Tianyou summoned Yuan Ba and Ruoqing and sent them to treat injured cultivators for payment while he entered the Perseverance Trial.
• Yang Tianyou walked through ten thousand zhang of darkness, endured loneliness and despair, and continued onward until he reached thirty thousand zhang.
• Yang Tianyou emerged with a Supreme evaluation under the name Xiu He and discovered that ten days had passed.
• Yang Tianyou spoke with Chan Master Jiesha, who praised his appearance, and introduced himself as Xiu He.
• Yuan Ba and Ruoqing returned with a Storage Bag containing resources worth an estimated thirty to forty thousand Spirit Stones, and Yang Tianyou encouraged them to continue.

Yang Tianyou earned a Supreme rating in the Comprehension Trial after mastering the Dark Dust Shadow Manifestation Technique in eighteen days. He entered the first battle trial at Ding Gate, where his four Bonded Spirit Beasts defeated the ten Ironblood Hounds, leaving him ready to face the remaining trials.

• Yang Tianyou mastered the Dark Dust Shadow Manifestation Technique and received a Supreme rating in the Comprehension Trial.
• The Guardian Deity General observed Yang Tianyou and considered whether he could qualify as a Core Disciple and gain part of the White Tiger Lineage's inheritance.
• Yang Tianyou rested, then entered the Ding Gate battle trial, which required him to survive an encirclement of Ironblood Hounds.
• Yang Tianyou summoned Yuan Ba, Fengling, Ruoqing, and Black and White, and each Spirit Beast engaged Ironblood Hounds.
• Black and White, Fengling, Yuan Ba, and Ruoqing defeated their opponents, while Yang Tianyou watched without intervening.

Yang Tianyou and the other Yang Household members faced trials in the Four Symbols Palaces, each relying on different strengths to survive. Yang Tianyou defeated successive Ironblood Hound waves, while the others passed or continued their trials.

• Yang Tianyou and the four Spirit Beasts killed twenty Ironblood Hounds, with Yang Tianyou defeating twelve himself.
• A new wave of fifty Ironblood Hounds appeared before Yang Tianyou in the Bing Battle Trial.
• Yang Xuanyang fled silver-gray crabs in the White Tiger Palace and complained that his strength had been sealed.
• Yang Tiankang endured the Vermilion Bird Palace’s silent darkness and received a Supreme rating in the Perseverance Trial.
• Yang Xuanwu forced a female Cultivator to surrender in Battle Trial Yi, then rested without answering her questions.
• Yang Tianxue held off ten Ironblood Hounds long enough to pass Battle Pass Ding, while Yang Qiongchuan won an arena platform after a grueling fight.

Yang Tianyou and his four Spirit Beasts survived the Battle Pass Ding’s brutal fourth wave of Ironblood Hounds and withdrew with a Supreme rating. After reaching White Tiger Palace, they recovered from their severe injuries by sharing life force through the Star-Chart Disk.

• Yang Tianyou warned Fengling and the other Spirit Beasts as fifty Ironblood Hounds surrounded them, then killed the pack with his Great White Heavenly Blade.
• More than a hundred Ironblood Hounds, including twenty at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, attacked, and Yang Tianyou and the beasts suffered severe injuries while fighting them.
• Yang Tianyou destroyed the White Tiger Mark and withdrew from the pass, leaving the remaining hounds behind a protective barrier.
• The screen awarded Xiu He a Supreme rating for Battle Pass Ding, and Yang Tianyou and the Spirit Beasts appeared in White Tiger Palace.
• Yang Tianyou gave the injured beasts Wound-Healing Pills and took Golden Wind Jade Dew Pills as the Star-Chart Disk drew life force from Xuanyin, Zhiming, and Tongming to heal them.

Yang Tianyou entered Battle Pass C, where challengers had to survive a month in a hostile hunting ground with their cultivation sealed and compete for Merit Points. After arriving in the grounds, he encountered two venomous snakes and prepared to fight them using his unsealed Blade Intent.

• Yang Tianyou joined Battle Pass C after recovering and learned that the five thousand challengers would be sealed to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement, with the lowest thousand erased and the top two thousand five hundred passing.
• Yang Tianyou noticed Huayu, Zhuyan, Youjue, Lei Ming, and Changqing Daozhang among the confident challengers.
• The Formation transported the challengers into the Hunting Grounds, where Yang Tianyou found his cultivation, body, Spiritual Awareness, and Storage Bag sealed.
• Yang Tianyou realized that the grounds rapidly consumed his physical strength and Spiritual Qi, and that he would need to hunt Demon Beasts to replenish himself.
• Two aggressive First-Tier Middle-Grade venomous snakes attacked Yang Tianyou, who prepared to strike them with his Major-Completion Blade Intent.

Yang Tianyou pursued a Supreme Rating in the Hunting Grounds, adapting to its shrinking boundaries, rising demands on his stamina, and the Giant Beasts that hunted top-ranked Cultivators. With help from his Bonded Spirit Beasts, he took first place, killed Youjue, and left the trial with a Supreme Rating.

• Yang Tianyou learned that killing a Cultivator awarded him half their Merit but caused the Four Symbols Sect to seize their Storage Ring, while the shrinking Hunting Grounds and escalating power drain made survival harder.
• After Yang Tianyou and Zhuyan fought to a standstill, a Giant Beast pursued Zhuyan, and Yang Tianyou released Fengling and his other Bonded Spirit Beasts to hunt for Merit.
• Yang Tianyou drove off Youjue when he tried to obtain Black and White, then learned the Nether-Seeking Ghost Detection Technique from Tongming to track him down.
• Yang Tianyou and his Spirit Beasts trapped Youjue in the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation and killed him.
• Yang Tianyou followed the Formation's power out of the Hunting Grounds and received a final rank of first and a Supreme Rating.

After recovering, Yang Tianyou entered Battle Trial Yi and learned that he needed to defend an arena repeatedly to earn a high rating. He won his first match against Li Chang and remained in the arena as the trial continued.

• Zen Master Jiesha removed the resentment clinging to Yang Tianyou after he killed Youjue, and Yang Tianyou gave him a Buddhist Scripture in thanks.
• Three days later, Yang Tianyou resumed the trials and chose Battle Trial Yi, whose arena-defense rules he had learned from other cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou entered an empty arena while nearby cultivators discussed his victory over Youjue, but none volunteered to challenge him.
• The Formation selected Li Chang as his opponent, and Yang Tianyou quickly overcame his attack with his Twin Blades and Magnetism Power.
• Yang Tianyou won the match, and Li Chang introduced himself and invited him to visit Drifting Flower Island.

Yang Tianyou continued his winning streak in the Four Symbols Nine Trials, building momentum for his Blade Dao before facing Little True Person Yueyang. He overcame Yueyang’s illusions, mental attacks, and defenses with a full-force strike, leaving his victory announced by the arena.

• Yang Tianyou defeated a middle-aged woman in Daoist robes with Starlight and continued fighting as no cultivators volunteered to face him.
• After sixteen consecutive matches, Yang Tianyou’s growing confidence and imposing presence drew notice from the cultivators below the stage.
• Little True Person Yueyang challenged Yang Tianyou, and the two began their seventeenth match.
• Yang Tianyou’s attack damaged Yueyang’s life-bound shell, and he resisted the Mirage Spirit Pearl’s mental shock before advancing through Yueyang’s sound-wave attacks.
• Yang Tianyou used his armor to withstand the Blue Urn Drum and then tore through Yueyang’s water curtain and shell with a powerful saber strike, winning the match.

After earning seven Supreme Ratings in the Nine Trials, Yang Tianyou entered the Four Symbols Tower for Battle Trial A. He met Yang Xuanyang and learned how the other Lineage members had fared before facing a Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer blade phantom on the tower’s first floor.

• Little True Person Yueyang exchanged Communication Talismans with Yang Tianyou after losing their match.
• Yang Tianyou won thirty consecutive arena battles, earned a Supreme Rating, and rested before attempting the final trial.
• At the Four Symbols Tower, Yang Tianyou reunited with Yang Xuanyang and learned that Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang had earned Supreme Ratings.
• Yang Tianyou encouraged Yang Xuanyang, then entered the tower as his nephew watched in anticipation.
• On the first floor, Yang Tianyou faced a formation phantom wielding a heavy blade and beginner-level Blade Intent.

Yang Tianyou fought his way through the Trial Tower and cleared its eighth layer by defeating an early Golden Core opponent with the Star-Chart Disk and his Falling Star Divine Ability. The results screen then showed Xiu He in eleventh place for clearing the eighth layer.

• Yang Tianyou swiftly cleared the first six layers and defeated the seventh-layer opponent after fifty exchanges.
• On the eighth layer, Yang Tianyou faced an early Golden Core figure with Great Achievement Blade Intent and activated the Star-Chart Disk to raise his strength.
• Yang Tianyou used Falling Star to strike the figure while defending against its massive Blade Gang with the One-Qi Capturing Hand, Great White Blood Armor, and Twin Blades.
• Yang Tianyou survived with minor injuries and cleared the eighth layer of the Trial Tower.
• The screen of light updated to show Xiu He in eleventh place for clearing the eighth layer.

Yang Tianyou failed his first attempt at the Four Symbols Tower’s ninth floor, then forced a breakthrough to Perfected Blade Intent and returned to defeat Xiu He. His victory cleared the ninth floor and put his name in third place on the tower’s rankings.

• Yang Tianyou challenged the ninth floor but admitted defeat after a fierce fight with an Early Golden Core opponent wielding Perfected Blade Intent.
• Yang Xuanyang helped Yang Tianyou tend to his wounds, and Yang Tianyou entered the Blade Prison to train his Blade Intent.
• After two months of training, Yang Tianyou broke through to Perfected Blade Intent and spent half a month recovering.
• Yang Tianyou challenged the ninth floor again, used his Great White Domain to restrain Xiu He, and killed him with the Twin Blades.
• The tower announced Yang Tianyou’s Supreme evaluation and ninth-floor victory, placing Xiu He in third place on the rankings.

Yang Tianyou passed the Four Symbols Tower’s trials, joined the Four Symbols Sect as a White Tiger Saint Son Candidate, and explored the sect’s resource list. He learned he could use five of his Retainer slots to bring his kinsmen into the sect.

• Cultivators outside the Four Symbols Tower praised Xiu He’s trial results, while Yang Xuanyang, Yang Tianxue, and Yang Xuanwu celebrated Yang Tianyou’s success.
• Yang Tianyou accepted the Four Symbols Sect’s invitation, signed a Heavenly Dao Contract, and received the status of White Tiger Saint Son Candidate with 50,000 Elder-Level Contribution Points.
• Yang Tianyou teleported to the Contribution Hall and examined the sect’s powerful Cultivation Methods, including four Void Refinement methods and the Four Symbols Sacred Scripture.
• The Guardian Deity General told Yang Tianyou that only sect disciples could cultivate the methods and that he could select ten Retainers whose methods he would fund.
• Yang Tianyou showed the Guardian Deity General images of his five kinsmen, who were approved for different disciple ranks at the cost of five Retainer slots.

Yang Tianyou learned about the Yang Household members’ disciple ranks and the value of his Elder-Level Contribution Points, then brought his relatives to the Contribution Hall to browse its resources. The chapter ended as they examined the exchange list and Yang Tianyou discovered the vast range of cultivation resources available.

• The Guardian Deity General explained the Yang Household members’ disciple ranks and their Contribution Point allowances to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou learned that only four Candidate Sacred Sons could exist and compared his status to that of a crown prince’s grandson.
• After Yang Tianyou vouched for his relatives, the Guardian Deity General transported the five Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Contribution Hall.
• Yang Tianyou explained the situation and showed his relatives the resource exchange list, leaving them astonished by its offerings.
• Yang Tianyou browsed the list and found cultivation methods, divine abilities, spirit fruits, and resources for modifying Spirit Roots.

Yang Tianyou spent his 50,000 Elder-Level Contribution Points on cultivation resources, techniques, and materials for himself, his family, and his Spirit Beasts. He left with plans to strengthen the Yang Household and prepare for his Golden Core breakthrough in the Four Symbols Secret Realm.

• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Four Symbols Sect's exchange list and considered how its restricted canons could still be studied by his seven Spirit Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou chose cultivation methods and resources for himself, the Old Ancestor, Yang Qiongchu, Yang Xuanye, Yang Xuanwu, and other members of the Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou exchanged for sections of the Four Symbols canons covering the Hundred Cultivation Arts, relying on his Spirit Beasts to learn them for the Lineage.
• Yang Tianyou bought Heavenly Spirit Grass for Golden Core Formation Pills and Earth-Soul Fruits to strengthen his True Spirit Strength before his planned breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou spent his remaining points on Xuanfang Wood, Soul-Nourishing Flowers, Spirit Beast advancement and bloodline resources, and attribute-matched Demon Beast Inner Cores, using all 50,000 points.

After receiving resources and learning the Four Symbols Sect’s history, Yang Tianyou weighed how to use his inheritance without exposing himself or endangering his Lineage. He decided to return home with three clansmen while leaving Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang in the Chaotic Sea to advance within the sect and protect the Lineage.

• Yang Tianyou received a Storage Ring containing fifty thousand Elder Contribution worth of resources and learned from the Guardian Deity General how the Four Symbols Sect nearly collapsed eight thousand years earlier.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Fire Phoenix Fairy had founded the Soaring Phoenix Tower and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint had inherited the Xuanwu lineage and established the Eight Desolations Arena.
• Yang Tianyou rejected bringing his weak Lineage to Four Symbols Island because it could be swallowed by a powerful ally and his Candidate Sacred Son identity might expose the inheritance.
• Yang Tianyou decided to return within four years for his agreement with Yunhua but leave Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang in the Chaotic Sea with Yang Xuanye.
• Yang Tianyou planned for Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang to cultivate on Coiled Snake Island, advance in sect status, and help the Lineage eventually build ties with the Eight Desolations Arena and the Soaring Phoenix Tower.

Yang Tianyou distributed cultivation resources, then led his companions to White Emperor Lake, where Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tiankang began modifying their Spirit Roots while he refined Earth-Soul Fruits in seclusion. After the Four Symbols Nine Trials ended and cultivators received their rewards, Little True Person Yueyang searched the crowd for Xiu He but did not find him.

• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Xuanwu Four Symbols Spirit Root resources and scripture, gave Yang Tiankang Three Talents Spirit Root resources, and offered smaller resource sets to Yang Tianxue, Yang Xuanyang, and Yang Qiongchuan.
• Yang Tianyou distributed resources to his seven Spirit Beasts and brought everyone to White Emperor Lake, where the others chose palaces for secluded cultivation.
• Yang Xuanwu entered a Body-Refining Furnace to modify his Spirit Root, and Yang Tiankang began the same painful process.
• Yang Tianyou refined an Earth-Soul Fruit, planned to consume more and later use a Soul-Nourishing Flower, then entered seclusion.
• The Four Symbols Nine Trials ended, cultivators received evaluations, Contribution Points, and exchange lists, and Little True Person Yueyang looked for Xiu He without finding him.

Yang Tianyou finished preparing his bonded talisman and reunited with his clan members at White Emperor Lake after the Secret Realm closed. Fengling and four other Spirit Beasts then passed their Third Tier tribulations, bringing Yang Tianyou closer to Golden Core.

• The Four Symbols Secret Realm closed after its month-long departure period, and the Chaotic Sea's half-year event ended.
• Yang Tianyou's Five-Element Spirit-Transforming Talisman absorbed eighty-one pieces of Xuanfang Wood and began forming the foundation of a Grotto-Heaven Talisman Artifact.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Yang Tiankang's Spirit Root modification had succeeded and heard how Yang Xuanwu and the others were progressing with their new cultivation methods.
• Fengling, the Ice Phoenix, Black Crow, the Fire Ape, and the Golden Monkey triggered Tribulation Lightning at the same time above White Emperor Lake.
• The five Spirit Beasts each passed their tribulations and absorbed the Qi of Creation, while five streams of pure Spiritual Qi surged into Yang Tianyou and brought Golden Core within reach.

Yang Tianyou used the Four Symbols Sect’s Constellation Pool to absorb the White Tiger Constellation’s power and reforge his body with help from his seven Third Tier Bonded Spirit Beasts. He emerged with a Great White Half-Saint Body and decided to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Yang Tianyou asked the Guardian Deity General to open the Constellation Pool and entered with his seven Bonded Spirit Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou and his beasts took their places on the White Tiger Star Pillars, and he used the White Tiger Constellation Exposition to draw down the constellation’s power.
• Yang Tianyou endured three days of painful refinement while the energy of his seven Third Tier Bonded Spirit Beasts strengthened his body and soul.
• The Guardian Deity General and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint watched Yang Tianyou’s progress, and the Eight Desolations Saber Saint predicted he could reach the threshold of a Saint Body.
• Yang Tianyou completed his transformation into a Great White Half-Saint Body with Saint Bones and decided he could advance to the Golden Core Realm without a Golden Core Formation Pill.

Yang Tianyou gathered his power and broke through to the Golden Core realm, forming a Nine-Pattern Purple Golden Core before overcoming all nine bolts of tribulation lightning. He collected his Qi of Creation and prepared to use it to improve his life-bound Law Artifacts and Five-Element Spirit-Transforming Talisman.

• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint and the Guardian Deity General watched Yang Tianyou's breakthrough and anticipated that his Half-Saint Body and Perfected Blade Intent would produce a powerful Golden Core.
• Yang Tianyou absorbed his Spiritual Power, Qi and Blood, soul power, Divine Ability Prototype, Blade Intent, and Spiritual Qi into his forming Golden Core.
• Yang Tianyou condensed the core into a Nine-Pattern Purple Golden Core, swallowed it, and merged it with the core in his Dantian.
• Yang Tianyou blocked the first seven tribulation bolts with Law Techniques, caught the eighth with One-Qi Capturing Hand, and split the ninth with Great White Heavenly Blade.
• After the tribulation clouds dispersed, the Jade Register Heavenly Book brought Yang Tianyou over a thousand strands of Qi of Creation, and he collected the ninety-nine strands that belonged to him.
• Yang Tianyou decided to use the Qi of Creation to improve Twin Blades, Starlight, and the Five-Element Spirit-Transforming Talisman.