Chapter Summaries

The Purple Moon Army battered a Spirit Tribe fortified pass, using the attack to train its troops as the defenders struggled to hold their formation. After three hours, the army withdrew, leaving the pass in ruins and the Yang Household youths eager to join its ranks.

• The Spirit Tribe’s Defensive Formation withstood the Lihuo Guixu Pearl, but the Purple Moon Army’s White Tiger Roaring Sky Formation soon attacked the pass.
• The Yang Household youths cheered for the Purple Moon Army as it struck the barrier and practiced its battle formations.
• After an hour, the barrier neared collapse, and the White Tiger formation gave way to smaller squads that continued the assault.
• General Huangyu ordered the Spirit Tribe soldiers to attack the squads, but the Purple Moon Army’s formations held firm against the counterattack.
• Three hours after the assault began, the Purple Moon Army withdrew, leaving the pass and its defenders battered, while Yang Household youths considered joining the army.

After returning from the military drill, Yang Xuanwu attended the Yang Household’s five-year Lineage Small Meeting and learned how much the Lineage had grown during his absence. The leaders settled several affairs, including trade with the Demon Race and how their youths should compete against the Luochuan Sect, and the meeting ended with instructions to preserve good relations.

• Yang Xuanwu returned the youths to the Lineage, where Yang Yuhao and many others resumed cultivation to prepare for the Lineage Grand Competition.
• At the Small Meeting, Yang Xuanwu saw that the Lineage had more than twenty Golden Core cultivators, including Yang Yuqi and Yang Yujin, who had formed Purple Golden Cores.
• Yang Dangkai reported that the Lineage ruled over seven million people directly, governed more than thirty million in total, commanded over three thousand cultivators, and earned 1.1 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones in annual net income.
• Yang Tianjiu proposed expanding trade with the Demon Race, Yang Tianyun raised concerns, and Yang Tianyou approved the Commerce Hall handling the matter.
• Yang Tianyou instructed the Lineage to have its people hold back against Luochuan Sect disciples at the Grand Competition if they gained the upper hand, in order to maintain good relations.

The Yang Household’s Decennial Lineage Grand Competition drew cultivators from across the region, and its Three Heroes impressed the spectators. After True Person Tianyun proposed sparring matches between the Yang Household and Luochuan Sect disciples, the Yang Household deliberately lost several early bouts to conceal its strength; Yang Taixuan then entered the arena to face Song Chang.

• Yang Tianyou opened the Yang Household’s Decennial Lineage Grand Competition, which ran for half a month and showcased the Three Heroes’ talent.
• True Person Tianyun proposed sparring matches between Luochuan Sect disciples and the competition’s winners, and Yang Tianyou agreed.
• Yang Household participants followed their father’s instruction to win few and lose many, allowing a Luochuan Sect boy to claim the first match.
• The Yang Household won only three of the early Qi Refining matches, leading spectators to underestimate its strength.
• Yang Taixuan entered the arena for a Late Qi Refinement match against Song Chang, a Song Household member at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

Yang Taixuan and Yang Taishi lost their matches, while Song Chang provoked Yang Taishan after trying to invite Yang Taixuan to tour Purple Moon Mountain. The Qi Refining Realm matches reached their final stage, where Yang Taishan faced Jian Chenzi, a young prodigy with an Innate Sword Body, and the duel began.

• Song Chang defeated Yang Taixuan after breaking through his defensive light curtain, and Yang Taishi comforted his upset younger sister.
• Song Chang invited Yang Taixuan to tour Purple Moon Mountain, but Yang Taishan rejected him, prompting Song Chang to insult the Yang Household and leave.
• Yang Taishi lost to an elite Luochuan Sect disciple, while Luochuan disciples debated whether the Yang Household was concealing its true strength.
• Yang Taishan took the stage to face Jian Chenzi, whom True Person Tianyun praised for comprehending Sword Intent.
• Jian Chenzi privately urged Yang Taishan to use his full strength, then drew his sword and attacked him with a long blade of white Sword Gang.

Yang Taishan and Jian Chenzi fought to a draw in a fierce Qi Refining battle, but the Yang Household lost the later Foundation Establishment matches to the Luochuan Sect. Yang Tianyou urged his clansmen to endure their temporary defeat, rewarded them with Contribution Points, and vowed that the Yang Household would eventually control Luochuan Commandery.

• Yang Taishan and Jian Chenzi used their Law Techniques and artifacts in a prolonged battle that ended in a draw.
• The Luochuan Sect won the subsequent Foundation Establishment matches, and the Yang Household lost the sparring competition.
• Yang Tianyou told the dejected clansmen that the Lineage had shown weakness because it was still weak and urged them to endure temporary losses.
• Yang Tianyou awarded the sparring participants Contribution Points, and the clansmen cheered as they left.
• Yang Tianyou watched the Luochuan Sect depart and vowed that the whole of Luochuan Commandery would eventually belong to the Yang Household.

Over the years, Yang Tianyou cultivated the White Emperor Indestructible Body and advanced to the Late Golden Core Realm, while he and Yunhua prepared for the Blood River Secret Realm. Yunhua then broke through to Golden Core Perfection, leaving the couple poised for their next steps.

• Yang Tianyou completed the White Emperor Indestructible Body, testing its powerful defense and rapid healing before returning to seclusion.
• Five years later, Yang Tianyou broke through to the Late Golden Core Realm.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua that True Person Shi Chong had arranged two Golden Core slots for them, and they agreed to enter the Blood River Secret Realm before contacting Thirteenth Uncle to keep their Hidden Dragon Sect connection secret.
• Yang Tianyou trained in the Blade Prison while Yunhua cultivated toward Golden Core Perfection.
• Yunhua took a Realm-Breaking Pill and, a month later, broke through to Golden Core Perfection.

Yang Tianyou and his wife traveled to the Blood River Secret Realm, where the first entrants faced grave dangers and the Eight Directions Forces imposed strict entry rules. As cultivators gathered outside the realm, the Blood Race and the Red Tree Clan separately opened routes into it, revealing plans to claim its resources and make it their own.

• Yang Tianyou and his wife left Purple Moon Mountain for the Blood River Secret Realm, while the chapter explained the Eight Directions Forces’ entry quotas, tribute rules, and reasons for keeping their low-rank cultivators out of the first wave.
• Yang Tianyou and his wife arrived at the blood mist in the Guangli Plains and settled in a cave abode as they waited for the entrance to open.
• Yang Danglong, Wang Shan, and Yang Tianxue arrived with the Hidden Dragon Sect’s three Golden Core places, and Yang Danglong planned for them to reunite with Yang Tianyou using a tracking Law Treasure after entry.
• At the Blood God Hall, the Blood Race powerhouses opened a Spatial Passage toward the Blood River Secret Realm to retrieve Blood Path Origin Crystals and the hidden Blood Source.
• In the Red Tree Marsh, the ancient tree ordered the Red Tree Clan to enter through a Spatial Rift, transform the land, and establish a new home in the Blood River Secret Realm.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua entered the Blood River Secret Realm, where they were separated by the spatial distortion. After a Blood Beast swallowed Yang Tianyou, he discovered how to find and destroy its Blood Core, leaving the beast dead in the river.

• The Golden Roc Clan and human cultivators prepared to enter the Blood River Secret Realm, and Yang Tianyou and Yunhua passed through the gateway with their tokens.
• The secret realm’s spatial distortion separated Yang Tianyou from Yunhua after they entered.
• A Late Golden Core Blood Beast swallowed Yang Tianyou, but he protected himself and cut his way out with the Twin Blades.
• Yang Tianyou saw that the Blood Beast healed from its wounds unless its Blood Core was shattered, then used his Gold Eyes to locate the core.
• Yang Tianyou broke through the Blood Beast’s whirlpool, exposed its Blood Core, and destroyed it with his blade.

Yang Tianyou, Yang Danglong, Wang Shan, and Yang Tianxue fought their way through the Blood River Secret Realm and reunited, while Yunhua escaped an attack by Red Tree branches. The group headed to meet her, bringing together the separated companions.

• Yang Tianyou killed a Late Golden Core blood beast, collected its core, and followed the direction indicated by a token.
• Yunhua fought off surrounding Red Tree branches with her Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword and escaped.
• Yang Danglong killed an Early Golden Core blood beast and flew to find Yang Tianxue.
• Yang Tianxue and Wang Shan discovered a sleeping Nascent Soul-strength blood beast guarding three Nine-Leaf Blood Spirit Grass plants, then withdrew to meet Yang Danglong.
• Yang Tianxue, Wang Shan, and Yang Danglong reunited, then met up with Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou and the others traveled to meet Yunhua, and her figure came into view.

Yang Tianyou and his companions reunited, learned that the Red Tree Clan had entered the Blood River Secret Realm, and went to investigate a floating island. They killed its sleeping Nascent Soul-level Blood Beast, while a Yun Hai Sect cultivator approached from the east.

• Yang Tianyou and the others exchanged accounts of their encounters in the Blood River Secret Realm, and Yunhua reported finding members of the Red Tree Clan there.
• Yang Tianyou decided the group would visit the floating island and attack its two-headed Blood Beast if it was manageable.
• Yunhua used the Illusion God Pearl to conceal the group, while Wang Shan examined the treasure and found its power came from the Mirage Clan's bloodline.
• Zhiming detected a Yun Hai Sect Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator flying toward them and located treasures on the island.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua struck with Love That Topples Cities as Yang Danglong and the others attacked from a Flying Shuttle, shattering the sleeping Blood Beast's Blood Core and killing it instantly.

Yang Tianyou and the others harvested valuable resources from an island, then followed Wang Shan’s secret method toward the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall. After evading Blood Beasts in the perilous depths of the Blood River, they reached the hall’s island.

• Yang Tianyou and the others killed a two-headed tiger Blood Beast, gathered the island’s resources, and escaped aboard the concealed Flying Shuttle.
• The group counted spoils worth 160,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, credited Zhiming’s Detection ability, and agreed to give the White Cloud Sect a generous share.
• Wang Shan sensed the direction of the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall, and Yang Tianyou steered the Flying Shuttle toward the Blood River’s middle layer.
• As the group descended, Zhiming warned them of a Spirit Transformation Blood Beast, and Yang Tianyou changed course to avoid it.
• The group entered a mist-shrouded island and carefully avoided numerous powerful Blood Beasts with help from Zhiming and Wang Shan.
• Yang Tianyou and the others reached the location of the Myriad Forms Sect’s Inheritance Hall.

Yang Tianyou and his companions entered the Myriad Forms Sect’s Formation Space and reached the Inheritance Hall, where they discovered its Nascent Soul Dao Soldier guardians and vast stores of resources. After finding twelve warehouses of low-tier Spirit Materials and fields of spirit medicines, Yang Tianyou suspected that more valuable treasures lay deeper inside.

• Wang Shan opened the entrance to the Formation Space, and Yang Tianyou sent a Third-Tier Puppet inside to check for danger before the group entered.
• The Demonic Youth and the wounded Cloaked Man arrived at the mountain and opened the entrance after Yang Tianyou and his companions had gone inside.
• Yang Tianyou’s group reached the Inheritance Hall, where two Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers inspected Wang Shan and permitted them to enter.
• Inside the Grotto-Heaven Law Treasure, Yang Tianyou and his companions explored warehouses filled with low-tier Spirit Materials and saw spirit medicines growing in the Spirit Fields.
• Yang Tianyou estimated that the twelve warehouses held about five million Middle-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of materials and said that more precious resources might be hidden deeper in the hall.

Yang Tianyou and his companions guarded Wang Shan as he rapidly refined the Inheritance Hall, but two suspicious cultivators arrived before the process was finished. Yang Tianyou recognized that both newcomers were puppets and attacked the Demonic Youth as the Cloaked Man struck back.

• Wang Shan used the restriction in his mind to begin refining the Inheritance Hall, and Yang Tianyou estimated that he would finish within an hour.
• Yunhua worried that the Mountain and River Hall would demand a share of their gains, but Yang Tianyou claimed he could counter the Heart Demon Oath.
• Zhiming warned Yang Tianyou that two cultivators were approaching the Inheritance Hall, so Yang Tianyou and Yunhua went outside to meet them.
• The Demonic Youth called Yang Tianyou and his companions little bugs, and Yang Tianyou probed him with a remark about taking over another's body.
• The Demonic Youth ordered the Cloaked Man to attack, and Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought back after Zhiming identified the Cloaked Man as a puppet.
• Yang Tianyou used the Black-and-White Pearl to lock down the space around the Demonic Youth.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought the Demon Puppet Venerable, whose greed for their rare talents made him determined to capture and refine them as Demon Puppets. Yang Tianyou took on the strongest attacks while relying on his extraordinary recovery, and the Demon Puppet Venerable prepared a powerful Forbidden Artifact to test it.

• The Demon Puppet Venerable recognized Yang Tianyou and Yunhua's exceptional Golden Cores and Half-Saint physiques, then resolved to refine them into Demon Puppets.
• Yang Tianyou, Yunhua, Yang Danglong, Yang Tianxue, and Zhiming combined their attacks against the Cloaked Man, while the Demon Puppet Venerable sent Fourth-Tier puppets and talismans into the fight.
• After Yunhua's injuries worsened, Yang Tianyou asked her to channel Love That Topples Cities into him, forming a Black-and-White Daoist Robe that raised his combat strength to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Yang Tianyou fought the Cloaked Man and two Fourth-Tier puppets at once, sustaining severe wounds that quickly healed as the Demon Puppet Venerable grew alarmed and increasingly eager to claim him.
• The Demon Puppet Venerable brought out a Fourth-Tier High-Grade Forbidden Artifact, believing Yang Tianyou's recovery would keep him from being killed by it.

Yang Tianyou survived Demon Puppet Venerable’s Blood-Transforming Poison Needles after breaking through to Blade Force and recovering with help from the distant Spirit Beasts. With the Inheritance Hall refined, Wang Shan seized control of the Formation Space and killed Demon Puppet Venerable and the Demon Slave.

• Demon Puppet Venerable trapped Yang Tianyou with the Demon Slave and Nascent Soul Puppets, then unleashed the Blood-Transforming Poison Needles.
• Yang Tianyou broke through to Blade Force, but the poison needles pierced his defenses and covered his body in poison.
• Six Golden Core Spirit Beasts sent Yang Tianyou their vitality through the Star-Chart Disk, allowing him to suppress the poison and resume fighting.
• Yang Tianyou drove back the Demon Slave and two Nascent Soul Puppets while using an Illusion Technique to distract Demon Puppet Venerable.
• After Demon Puppet Venerable prepared another Forbidden Artifact, the Formation Space’s flaming palm appeared and killed him.
• Wang Shan used the Inheritance Hall’s power to burn the fleeing Demon Slave to charcoal, leaving the two uncontrolled Nascent Soul Puppets motionless.

After Yang Tianyou defeated the Demon Slave, he and his companions secured the Inheritance Hall and discovered its hidden resources and a one-way teleportation route out of the Blood River Secret Realm. Yunhua warned that using it would expose their secret to the Eight Directions Forces, so they decided they needed to leave through the main entrance.

• Yang Tianyou collected the Demon Slave’s spoils and reunited with Yunhua, and they agreed to investigate the enemy after leaving the Secret Realm.
• Wang Shan emerged from the Inheritance Hall, shrank it into a portable treasure, and revealed its vast stores of techniques, treasures, Spirit Stones, and two Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Inheritance Hall and recognized how greatly its resources would strengthen the Yang Household.
• Wang Shan explained that the Formation Space could teleport them out of the Secret Realm and shield them from Heart Demon Oath backlash, but could not send them back in.
• Yunhua warned that using the hidden exit would alert the Eight Directions Forces to their special passage, so they needed to leave through the main entrance.

Yang Tianyou’s group sent one Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldier out of the Blood River Secret Realm with the Inheritance Hall and other treasures, while the rest prepared to leave by another route. Demon Puppet Venerable began investigating Yang Tianyou and his companions using clues from their fighting techniques.

• Yunhua suggested using the Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers to carry the treasures out ahead of the group, avoiding suspicion and reducing the burden of Yang Tianyou’s Heart Demon Oath.
• Wang Shan awakened the Dragon Tortoises, gave one the Inheritance Hall, and ordered it to hide underground until the Yang Household members found it.
• Wang Shan activated a Teleportation Formation, sending the Dragon Tortoise to a nameless valley in southwest Mo Province, where it burrowed three thousand zhang underground and went to sleep with the Inheritance Hall inside its shell.
• Demon Puppet Venerable ordered his forces to investigate Yang Tianyou and his companions, recording Yang Tianyou’s combat methods and sending them through the Blood-Slaying Dao’s intelligence channels.

Yang Tianyou’s group decided to remain in the secret realm for half a month to avoid suspicion after the Dragon Tortoise left. Meanwhile, the Red Tree Clan invaded the Blood River Secret Realm, trapping a Golden Peng and alarming the Blood Race as two precious Blood Sources neared completion.

• Yang Tianyou agreed to keep his group in the secret realm for another half month, and they planned to leave the island for a safer area.
• Red Tree branches spread across the Blood River, trapped a Nascent Soul Golden Peng, and began taking over the secret realm.
• The chapter described how refined Blood Qi formed Blood Jade and eventually produced rare Blood Sources that could aid a breakthrough to Sage Manifestation.
• Several Blood Race members watched two Blood Sources nearing stabilization when a middle-aged member arrived and reported the Red Tree Clan’s invasion.
• The Blood Race members were shocked, since they believed the Red Tree Clan’s seeds had all been destroyed tens of thousands of years earlier.

The Red Tree Clan invaded the Blood River Secret Realm and trapped Yang Tianyou and his companions as they tried to escape. After rescuing Old Man Taiwu, Yang Tianyou persuaded him to become a Guest Elder of the Yang Household.

• The Red Tree Clan breached the Dark Space, prompting the Spirit Transformation Blood Race members to prepare for battle, while Spirit Transformation powerhouses rushed into the Secret Realm.
• Yang Tianyou and his clansmen escaped the Blood River's middle layer, but Red Tree branches blocked their routes and pursued them.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the group to return through the Inheritance Hall's Formation Space, then switched to a stronger Flying Shuttle and escaped the branches' pursuit.
• Yang Tianyou's group found Old Man Taiwu surrounded by Red Tree branches and rescued him aboard their Flying Shuttle.
• Yang Tianyou invited Old Man Taiwu to become a Guest Elder of the Yang Household, and Old Man Taiwu agreed out of gratitude.

Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household beneath the Blood River to avoid the expanding Red Tree Clan while waiting for the Eight Great Forces to intervene. There, they found abundant Spirit Materials and spent seven days gathering treasures.

• Yang Tianyou considered using the Heavenly Sun Flame Furnace to break through the Red Tree Clan’s barrier, but decided to conserve it and head deeper into the Blood River instead.
• Yang Tianyou reassured the group that an agreement barred Sage Manifestation powerhouses from intervening before the Two-World War.
• The Flying Shuttle reached the bottom of the Blood River, where Zhiming detected a piece of Fourth-Tier Lower-Grade Blood Jade.
• The Yang Household decided to search the depths for more treasures and spent seven days collecting Blood Jade and other Spirit Materials, including valuable Immaculate Spring Water.