Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou ordered Purple Moon County’s Foundation Establishment Lineages to commit more than half their cultivators to the coming Cold Tide War and revealed a tempting Merit Ranking. As the Human Race prepared for war, Iron Lion Ridge gathered its Foreign Race forces to mobilize as well.

• Huang Yuhai brought Huang Tiantu, his gifted son-in-law and chosen successor, to meet Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou ordered every Foundation Establishment Lineage to commit more than half its cultivators and told them to assemble at Purple Moon Plaza when summoned.
• Yang Tianyou presented a Merit Ranking filled with Cultivation Resources and announced a county-wide Demon-Cleansing Operation before the war.
• The Foundation Establishment Cultivators agreed to obey Yang Tianyou and examined the Merit Ranking.
• At Iron Lion Ridge, the Iron Lion King’s forces gathered, including Demon Beasts and experts from the Blood Race, Barbarian Tribe, and Spirit Tribe.

The Wolf Ancestor attended Iron Lion Ridge’s war council as the Human Race prepared to invade, while secretly looking for a chance to send intelligence back to the Lineage. Three years later, the Cold Tide War began, and the Yang Household led a huge fleet of Flying Boats from Purple Moon City toward Evil-Suppressing Pass.

• The White Wolf King revealed her devotion to the Wolf Ancestor, who had become ruler of White Wolf Mound after defeating her and accepting her voluntary surrender of the throne.
• The Iron Lion King convened the Foreign Races’ leaders after learning that Luochuan Commandery was clearing out Evil Devil Cultivators and mobilizing for war.
• The Iron Lion King’s Queen urged the leaders to coordinate their deployment, and the Wolf Ancestor listened while preparing to relay intelligence to the Lineage.
• Three years later, more than a hundred War Flying Vessels assembled at Purple Moon Plaza, including the Yang Household’s Fourth-Tier Mid-Grade flagship.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the fleet carrying Purple Moon County’s cultivators to depart for Evil-Suppressing Pass.

The Yang Household deployed its forces for the Cold Tide War, splitting its fleet between Evil-Suppressing Pass and Crouching Ox Pass while leaving key defenses at home. In Blackblood City, Si Fan learned of the Yang Household’s powerful war fleet and urged the Blood Race leaders to exploit his hidden presence to launch a surprise attack.

• The Yang Household sent Yang Dangmo and Yang Tianshi with Yuan Ba, Xuanyin, and two thousand cultivators to reinforce Crouching Ox Pass, while Yang Tianyou led the main fleet toward Evil-Suppressing Pass.
• Yang Haoyu and Yunhua stayed behind with Fengling and Ruoqing to prepare a surprise attack on Ice Crystal Pool, while Golden Core cultivators guarded Purple Moon Mountain and Purple Moon City.
• The Lord of Blackblood City welcomed Si Fan, who had arrived from Iron Lion Ridge with reinforcements to help defend against the Yang Household.
• The Lord of Blackblood City received intelligence that the Yang Household’s fleet included a Fourth-Tier Mid-Grade War Flying Vessel and numerous other vessels at Evil-Suppressing Pass.
• Si Fan reassured the Blood Race leaders and proposed using the Yang Household’s ignorance of his arrival to strike by surprise and possibly counterattack into Purple Moon County.

Si Fan gave the Lord of Blackblood City a Fourth-Tier True Blood Pool and arranged for nearby forces to send reinforcements against the Yang Household. At Evil-Suppressing Pass, Yang Tianyou prepared a defensive strategy and hinted that intelligence about the Blood Race had shaped his plans.

• Si Fan reassured Blackblood City’s leaders that his support gave them a chance to resist the Yang Household’s Fourth-Tier Flying Boat.
• Si Fan gave his nephew, the Lord of Blackblood City, a Fourth-Tier True Blood Pool, which he refined into his Blood Soul Essence Core.
• Si Fan ordered three Golden Core Blood Race members to seek reinforcements from Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, Ice Crystal Pool, and the Greenrock Tribe.
• At Evil-Suppressing Pass, Yang Tianyou told the Foundation Establishment Cultivators to rely on the Flying Boats and the pass’s Defensive Formation before deciding their next move.
• After the others left, Yang Tianyou told Little True Person Yueyang and Yang Xuanyun that the Blood Race was dangerous and that Wolf Ancestor and Zhiming’s intelligence had helped the Yang Household avoid a costly mistake.

After Zhiming returned with intelligence on Blackblood City, Yang Tianyou assessed the enemy’s strength and planned a campaign to destroy its forces. The Yang Household would defend Evil-Suppressing Pass while striking Ice Crystal Pool and surrounding Blackblood City, where its hidden combat strength could give it the advantage.

• Zhiming returned from a valley near Blackblood City and reported intelligence about its forces, defenses, and resources to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that Blackblood City’s Nascent Soul fighters and fortified base made a direct offensive too risky, especially without several of his Bonded Spirit Beasts and Yunhua.
• Yang Tianyou planned for the fleet to hold Evil-Suppressing Pass while the Old Ancestor and Yunhua attacked Ice Crystal Pool and Greenrock Tribe from behind.
• Yang Dangmo and Yang Tianshi would lead twenty Flying Boats to help the Cloudglow Sect fight Ten Thousand Blades Mountain.
• After the other forces drew Blackblood City’s defenders into battle, Yunhua and the Golden Core Cultivators would surround the city, allowing Yang Tianyou to use his Bonded Spirit Beasts and Love That Topples Cities to kill Si Fan.

As the Foreign Races Army attacked Evil-Suppressing Pass, Yang Tianyou learned that Si Fan and the Lord of Blackblood City planned to ambush the Yang Household, but chose to let the Purple Moon Army gain battle experience. The Purple Moon Army fought fiercely and drew the Redblood Army's attention, setting up a confrontation.

• Yang Tianyou used Zhiming to locate Si Fan and the Lord of Blackblood City, who were hiding nearby and planning to wait for the Yang Household to weaken before ambushing it.
• The Foreign Races Army and the Human Race forces exchanged massive attacks at Evil-Suppressing Pass, suffering heavy casualties on both sides.
• Yang Yusheng led the Purple Moon Army into battle in a Third-Tier Upper-Grade War Flying Vessel, using the White Tiger Roaring Sky Formation to strike and the Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation to withstand concentrated attacks.
• Black and White and Yang Xuanyun helped the Purple Moon Army withdraw and return to battle, allowing its coordination and fighting spirit to grow.
• The Redblood Army locked onto the Purple Moon Army from ten li away, and Yang Yusheng and his soldiers raised their weapons to meet it.

The Yang Household forces fought a bloody battle against the Foreign Races at Evil-Suppressing Pass while gathering souls and Blood Sha from the battlefield as resources. Three days later, Blackblood City continued sending cannon fodder to exhaust the pass’s Spiritual Qi and the Yang Household’s Spirit Stones.

• The Purple Moon Army and Redblood Army clashed in formation, wounding each other before withdrawing to recover after half an hour of fighting.
• Yang Xuanli used a Life Fruit from Xiao Qi to heal and replenish her Spiritual Power, then surveyed the battlefield with her Extreme Flame Spirit Eye.
• Fifty Yang Household Members collected Foreign Races’ remnant souls with Soul-Gathering Pearls, while Blood Sha Returning to Origin Formations absorbed the battlefield’s Qi of Blood Sha.
• Three days later, Blackblood City kept sending low-tier Demon Beasts and Blood Servants to wear down the Yang Household’s strength and resources.

The Human Race launched a planned counterattack at Crouching Ox Pass while four Golden Core experts used a secret Spatial Passage to strike Ice Crystal Pool from behind. The chapter left the battle at Ice Crystal Pool beginning as its three Golden Core guardians charged at the intruders.

• Feng Yuezhi and Yang Dangmo discussed the war plan, while Yang Dangmo concealed the Yang Household’s Spatial Passage from the Feng Household.
• The Human Race attacked from Crouching Ox Pass, where its Golden Core fighters and Third-Tier Puppets overwhelmed the Foreign Races’ experts and routed their army.
• Yang Tianshi formed three Control Formations that trapped the Foreign Races’ Golden Core fighters as Feng Qingyang and the others pressed their attack.
• Yunhua, Yang Haoyu, Fengling, and Ruoqing traveled through the Blood Moon Secret Realm and emerged behind Ice Crystal Pool.
• Yunhua and Yang Haoyu broke Ice Crystal Pool’s defensive barrier with their swords, and the four Golden Core experts entered the stronghold.
• The Ice Crystal Tiger King, its mate, and a Golden Mastiff Beast charged to defend Ice Crystal Pool.

Yunhua and her allies defeated the Demon Beasts at the Ice Crystal Pool, then attacked the Greenrock Tribe with their Flying Shuttle. They breached its barrier and overpowered the defenders, leaving the tribe silent.

• Yang Haoyu, Yunhua, Fengling, and Ruoqing released their Puppets and fought the three Golden Core Demon Beasts.
• Yunhua killed the Ice Crystal Tiger King, his Mate, and the other Middle Golden Core Demon Beast, then slew several fleeing Demon Beasts.
• Yunhua and her companions flew to the Greenrock Tribe and used the Flying Shuttle’s Meteorite Falling Star Formation to break through its barrier.
• Three Golden Core Barbarians and three thousand warriors charged Yunhua and her companions to defend the tribe.
• Yunhua and Yang Haoyu fought the Barbarian Golden Cores while Fengling, Ruoqing, and the Puppets battled the army, leaving the Greenrock Tribe silent.

Yuan Ba and Xuanyin nearly killed Batum with a puppet explosion and two Great White Blade Formation Talismans, but Batum wounded Yuan Ba in a desperate self-destruction. Xuanyin and Yang Tianyou used the Star-Chart Disk and Life Qi to restore Yuan Ba, who was left to continue the battle with a warning to be careful.

• Yuan Ba and Xuanyin forced their puppets to withstand Batum's attacks, and Yuan Ba ordered one to self-destruct, badly scorching Batum.
• Yuan Ba and Xuanyin unleashed two Great White Blade Formation Talismans that tore through Batum, leaving him with an arm, a leg, and an eye lost.
• Yuan Ba and Xuanyin joined their remaining puppet in attacking Batum, but Batum grabbed Yuan Ba and detonated himself.
• Xuanyin escaped the blast and sent Life Qi to Yuan Ba through the Star-Chart Disk.
• Yang Tianyou used the Star-Chart Disk to inspect Yuan Ba, while he and the other Bonded Spirit Beasts supplied Life Qi and Wound-Healing Pills.
• Xuanyin gathered Yuan Ba's remains and used Law Power to restore his body, and Yang Tianyou withdrew after warning him to be careful.

The Yang and Feng Households wiped out the Foreign Race Golden Core Cultivators at Crouching Ox Pass and sent reinforcements toward Blackblood City, while Yunhua and Yang Haoyu captured the Greenrock Tribe for its resources and labor. At Blackblood City, the Yang Household maintained its defense as Tongming intercepted messages, and the war continued to drain the Foreign Races far more heavily than the Yang Household.

• Yang Dangmo and the Feng Household’s cultivators killed all six remaining Foreign Race Golden Core Cultivators at Crouching Ox Pass, though Feng Lieyang and Feng Lieqing were gravely injured.
• Yang Dangmo left Yang Tianshi and the injured Feng cultivators to guard the Ice Crystal Pool, then led Feng Yuezhi, Feng Qingyang, and a large force toward Blackblood City.
• Yunhua and Yang Haoyu seized the Greenrock Tribe’s resources and kept its surviving members alive to serve the Yang Household.
• Tongming used his Netherworld-Seeing Divine Eye and a ritual altar to intercept Message Lights from the west as a blue light approached from the Western Sky.
• At Blackblood City, the Yang Household continued its defensive strategy while its resources sustained the formation and the Foreign Race forces suffered far greater casualties.

Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household Fleet in an assault on the Foreign Races Army, and the Suppress Evil Boat’s firepower devastated the enemy and drove its troops into a rout. The Fleet reached Blackblood City, where Yang Tianyou faced the Lord of Blackblood City while secretly intending to seize the True Blood Pool.

• Si Fan and the Lord of Blackblood City planned to resist the Fleet, retreat to the city, and lure it into a sneak attack, relying on their hidden Nascent Soul combatants.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Fleet to attack, and the Suppress Evil Boat unleashed its weapons, killing more than ten thousand Foreign Races troops.
• The Fleet’s attacks overwhelmed the enemy as its Formation Shield repelled the Foreign Races’ counterattack, and the remaining troops began to rout.
• Yang Tianyou advanced to within thirty li of Blackblood City and watched the hidden Si Fan as the Fleet continued forward.
• The Lord of Blackblood City faced Yang Tianyou from the city gatehouse, while Yang Tianyou resolved to kill him and take the True Blood Pool intact.

The Lord of Blackblood City challenged Yang Tianyou to a duel, hoping to use the True Blood Pool’s power to kill him or damage Human Race morale. Yang Tianyou accepted and fought him before the armies, while his allies watched from nearby.

• The Lord of Blackblood City discussed his plan with Si Fan, and Zhiming overheard and informed Yang Tianyou.
• The Lord of Blackblood City taunted Yang Tianyou into leaving the Suppress Evil Boat and accepting a duel.
• Yunhua and the others watched from a distance as Tongming assured her that the Spirit Beasts’ proximity would preserve Yang Tianyou’s combat strength.
• Yang Tianyou and the Lord of Blackblood City exchanged Divine Abilities, then fought at close quarters, matching each other’s strength.
• Yang Tianyou battled with his Twin Blades against the Lord of Blackblood City’s Blackblood Sword, whose wounds inflicted blood poison.

Yang Tianyou used the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation to trap and kill the Lord of Blackblood City, then joined Yunhua to grievously wound Si Fan and finish him with the Vajra Ape Puppet. With both Blood Race leaders dead, Yang Tianyou led the Human Race Fleet in an attack on Blackblood City.

• Yang Tianyou trapped the Lord of Blackblood City in the Seven-Star Heaven-Sealing Formation and killed him with the Great White Heavenly Blade while Yunhua and the others intercepted Si Fan.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua unleashed Love That Topples Cities, badly injuring Si Fan.
• Yang Tianyou and the Vajra Ape Puppet attacked Si Fan together and killed him after he tried to flee.
• The Human Race Fleet cheered Yang Tianyou’s victory as despair spread through Blackblood City.
• Yang Tianyou led the Human Race in a gathered attack against Blackblood City.

Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household captured Blackblood City, then rushed to Barrier Mountain Pass to stop the Windfire Eagle King from escaping. After Yang Tianyou killed the Demon Beast, the forces at the pass defeated the remaining Golden Core Demon Beasts, leaving Ten Thousand Blades Mountain as the last great Foreign Race stronghold.

• Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household overwhelmed Blackblood City, killing its defenders and the six Golden Core reinforcements before the Blood Race army’s Blood God Phantom was defeated.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua took a fourth-tier Flying Shuttle with the Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts toward Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, while their measures kept the mountain from learning of Blackblood City’s fall.
• True Person Yunxia pursued the retreating Windfire Eagle King from Barrier Mountain Pass to keep him occupied until Yang Tianyou arrived.
• The Windfire Eagle King tried to flee toward Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, but Yang Tianyou intercepted him with the Flying Shuttle and killed him with the Great White Heavenly Blade.
• Yang Tianyou attacked Ten Thousand Blades Mountain while Yunhua joined True Person Yunxia to hunt the remaining Demon Beasts; eight were slain, and one escaped the encirclement.

At Luochuan Pass, the Blood Wolf King defeated Tongqi True Person in a duel, demonstrating his overwhelming strength. News then arrived that the Yang Household had captured four of Iron Lion Ridge’s major border powers and killed Si Fan and dozens of Golden Core-level combatants.

• The Blood Wolf King challenged Luochuan Pass, but the human Golden Core cultivators hesitated after he had slain a Luochuan Sect elder.
• Tongqi True Person accepted the challenge and trapped the Blood Wolf King with his Demon-Sealing Chessboard.
• The Blood Wolf King used the Blood Moon Secret Realm’s power to destroy most of the formation and defeat Tongqi True Person.
• The Blood Wolf King returned to the Foreign Races’ ranks, where the White Wolf King and Riftwind Two-Headed Wolf praised him.
• A report announced that the Yang Household had taken Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, Ice Crystal Pool, Greenrock Tribe, and Blackblood City, killing Si Fan and dozens of Golden Core-level combatants.

After the Yang Household and its allies conquered territory from Iron Lion Ridge, Luochuan Sect prepared to exploit the victory while Iron Lion Ridge struggled to respond. Luochuan Sect mobilized against Iron Lion Ridge, and the Iron Lion King chose to prioritize that threat over reclaiming lost land.

• True Person Beigong announced that the Yang Household, Cloudglow Sect, and Feng Household had conquered the four Foreign Race factions, and Luochuan Sect ordered its forces to attack Iron Lion Ridge.
• True Person Beigong invited Golden Core Cultivators to help defend the newly conquered territory, and fifteen cultivators from various factions volunteered.
• The Three-Eyed White Snake King, the Violent Bear King, and Lord of Zhou Ping, Yuanlong, urged the Iron Lion King to send troops to retake their lost territory.
• The Iron Lion King judged that he could not weaken his forces against Luochuan Sect and sent ten Golden Core combatants to help defend the three factions instead.

Yang Tianyou hosted the Luochuan Pass Golden Core Cultivators and explained how the Yang Household would lease frontier resources to allied forces in exchange for help defending the newly conquered territory. Meanwhile, the Luochuan Sect fought the Iron Lion King at Iron Lion Ridge and secured control of the Ten Thousand Li Gobi after he retreated.

• Yang Tianyou thanked the fifteen Golden Core Cultivators from Luochuan Pass at a banquet in Blackblood City.
• Yang Tianyou’s allies received free use of portions of the conquered territory for one hundred years in return for helping guard the frontier, while the Yang Household kept four of the five counties.
• The Luochuan Sect assembled its forces and attacked Iron Lion Ridge, where the Grand Elder battled the Iron Lion King with the Luochuan Banner and Ice Immortal Chariot.
• The Wolf Ancestor used the Secret Realm’s power to strike the Song Household Old Ancestor with Nascent Soul combat strength, then withdrew after another Nascent Soul combatant intercepted the Old Ancestor’s attack.
• The Iron Lion King retreated after a day of fighting, leaving the Luochuan Sect in control of the Ten Thousand Li Gobi and its resources.

After the Cold Tide War ended, the Yang Household reorganized its new territories and defenses. Yang Danglong then led a fleet in Mo Province as it prepared to attack White Ape Mountain, where he revealed a way to breach its defensive formation.

• The Yang Household gained four counties, developed Ice Pool County, and stationed cultivators there to secure its control.
• Yang Tianyou turned the Three Passes into cities and deployed three fleets to defend the expanded northern border.
• In Qingyuan Commandery, the Human Race army’s advance into the Savage Wilderness Great Domain stalled after Foreign Races attacked its flank at Illusory Sound Valley.
• Yang Danglong led the Hidden Dragon Sect and three allied Golden Core powers after receiving orders to attack White Ape Mountain.
• Yang Danglong presented two third-tier middle-grade Formation-Breaking Talismans to help the fleet breach the mountain’s defensive formation.

Yang Danglong and Wang Shan revealed the Hidden Dragon Sect’s Formation-Breaking Talisman and Thousand Illusion Mask to their allies as tools for infiltrating White Ape Mountain. After demonstrating the mask’s convincing disguise, Wang Shan entered the mountain disguised as a white ape.

• True Person Wanshi praised Yang Danglong’s Third-Tier Middle-Grade Formation-Breaking Talisman, and the assembled Golden Core Cultivators discussed using it against White Ape Mountain.
• Wang Shan showed the Thousand Illusion Mask and explained how it could copy a living being’s appearance, presence, and some memories.
• Wang Shan used the mask to transform into a spirit serpent, and Mister Shuijing’s Azure-Eyed Spirit Eye failed to detect the disguise.
• Wang Shan revealed that he planned to infiltrate White Ape Mountain and coordinate with the attacking forces from inside.
• Wang Shan entered White Ape Mountain disguised as a Second-Tier Upper-Grade white ape after its Golden Core guards and relatives confirmed his identity.