Chapter Summaries

Old White Wolf broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and he and Wolf Ancestor challenged Iron Lion Ridge, securing territory for White Wolf Mound. Yang Tianyou reviewed the Yang Household’s growing network of hidden forces and continued to monitor Demon Puppet Venerable through Dao Disciple Yesang.

• Old White Wolf absorbed Spiritual Qi, endured the lightning tribulation with the Golden Tortoise Shell, and passed the Heart Demon tribulation to become a Spirit Transformation combatant.
• A month later, Wolf Ancestor and Old White Wolf fought Iron Lion King and Iron Lion King's Queen; though the pair were at a disadvantage, they emerged unscathed, and White Wolf Mound claimed half of Iron Lion Ridge's remaining territory.
• Wolf Ancestor helped Purple Moon Wolves infiltrate White Wolf Mound's upper ranks as the group attracted new followers and grew into a hegemon.
• Yang Tianyou reviewed the progress of White Wolf Mound, the Hidden Dragon Sect, Dao Disciple Yesang, and Luochuan River Dragon King as the Yang Household's four hidden forces.
• Yang Tianyou noted that Demon Puppet Venerable remained hidden in a secret realm, so he had Dao Disciple Yesang monitor him while advancing his position in the Blood-Slaying Dao.

Yang Tianyou learned why Long Qian joined the Grand Elder’s faction and became curious about the Eastern Sea Dragon Tomb. In the Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Palace, Long Qian prepared to enter the Dragon Tomb and vowed to reclaim what he had lost.

• The chapter explained how Long Jue schemed against Long Qian, leading to his bloodline being stripped and his banishment from the Eastern Sea.
• After recognizing that Long Huan had sought his removal to benefit Long Jue, Long Qian joined the Grand Elder’s faction, which valued his inherited Dragon Tomb quota.
• Yang Tianyou wondered about the Eastern Sea Dragon Tomb.
• Long Chen asked Long Qian whether he felt confident about entering the Dragon Tomb.
• Long Qian declared that he would reclaim everything he had lost in the ancestral land.

The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan gathered at the Dragon Tomb, whose resources and inheritances could help prepare them for the Interface War. After the Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier opened the Portal, the Luochuan River Dragon King and the other chosen Flood Dragons entered for a ten-year stay.

• The Flood Dragon Clan traveled across the Eastern Sea to the Dragon Tomb near the Vast Sea Abyss.
• The chapter described how the Flood Dragon Clan defended the Eastern Sea from Sea Beast Tides and gained valuable resources from the battles.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King presented the Elder Council’s decision to open the Dragon Tomb to the Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier.
• The Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier inspected the scroll and opened the Dragon Tomb’s Portal.
• The Grand Elder urged the chosen Flood Dragons to make the most of their ten years inside, and the Luochuan River Dragon King entered with the others.

Yang Tianyou used Zhiming’s power to help the Luochuan River Dragon King overcome his poor resource allotment and gather a vast haul from the Dragon Tomb. After finishing the work, the Luochuan River Dragon King set his sights on the True Dragon Road, the tomb’s greatest opportunity.

• The Flood Dragons divided the Dragon Tomb’s gathering grounds, and Long Jue mocked the Luochuan River Dragon King before he flew away without answering.
• The Luochuan River Dragon King found that his assigned area held fewer resources than the others, reflecting the clan’s tacit suppression of him.
• With Yang Tianyou’s permission, the Luochuan River Dragon King used Zhiming’s power to locate hidden Spirit Items across his territory.
• After a year, the Luochuan River Dragon King had gathered nearly every resource in his area and amassed enough to cultivate to Spirit Transformation Great Perfection.
• The Luochuan River Dragon King decided to head for the True Dragon Road to pursue its inheritances and other rewards.

Yang Tianyou helped the Luochuan River Dragon King prepare to attempt the True Dragon Road while the Yang Household strengthened its forces and launched its final campaign in the Leling Archipelago. After capturing the archipelago’s islands in a year, the Yang Household gathered before Leling Island with an army of one hundred thousand.

• The Luochuan River Dragon King set out to challenge the True Dragon Road, hoping to become a Dragon Mound Guardian with Yang Tianyou’s help.
• Yang Tianyou decided to support the Luochuan River Dragon King and prepared to end the Yang Household’s prolonged war in the Leling Archipelago.
• Yang Danglong broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, followed by Yang Xuanwu, Yang Tiankang, Wang Shan, Yang Yusheng, Yang Xuanyun and Yang Tianshi.
• Yang Tianyou sent Fengling, Ruoqing, Yuan Ba, Xuanyin and Black and White with three thousand Lineage Cultivators to reinforce the Leling Archipelago, while Madam Red Butterfly mobilized to resist them.
• The Yang Household’s five armies defeated resistance and captured the islands under Madam Red Butterfly’s control, swelling their forces from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand before Leling Island.

The Yang Household defeated the Flower Butterfly Sect at Leling Island, then joined the other great powers in conquering the Spirit-Suppressing Sea Region. Three years later, Yunhua accepted an invitation to the Four Symbols Alliance Assembly while Yang Tianyou remained in seclusion.

• Yang Xuanwu ordered the Purple Moon Army and the Yang Household forces to attack Leling Island, and Madam Red Butterfly led its defenders in resistance.
• The Purple Moon Army revealed its overwhelming strength, breached Leling Island's defenses in three shichen, and forced Madam Red Butterfly to surrender.
• The Yang Household renamed Leling Island Purple Moon Island, and the Four Great Powers conquered the eight Commandery-Level Powers and ended the war for the Spirit-Suppressing Sea Region.
• Yang Tianyou read the battle report and entered death seclusion.
• Three years later, Yunhua received the Eight Desolations Saber Saint's invitation to the Four Symbols Alliance Assembly and replied that she and her husband would attend.

The Luochuan River Dragon King endured the True Dragon Road, experienced an epiphany, and passed the Dragon Gate with Yang Tianyou’s help. The Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier recognized him as the new generation’s Dragon Mound Guardian and rang a golden bell.

• Yang Tianyou watched over the Luochuan River Dragon King as he struggled along the True Dragon Road, while Long Jue and the Flood Dragon Crown Prince competed to lead the other Flood Dragons.
• Five years later, Long Jue and the Flood Dragon Crown Prince lost consciousness and were expelled, leaving the Luochuan River Dragon King alone on the road.
• After enduring repeated trials, the Luochuan River Dragon King entered an epiphany, and the True Dragon Road’s golden energy transformed and strengthened him.
• Yang Tianyou partially controlled the Luochuan River Dragon King’s body and reached the Dragon Gate, where he waited for the epiphany to end.
• A month later, the Luochuan River Dragon King awoke and leaped through the Dragon Gate, then absorbed Flood Dragon Blood Qi in the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• The Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier discovered that the Luochuan River Dragon King had passed the trial, declared him the new generation’s Dragon Mound Guardian, and struck a golden bell.

The Luochuan River Dragon King absorbed the Dragon Transformation Pool’s blood and broke through to Spirit Transformation Late Stage, nearly pushing his unstable foundation too far. Rescued by the Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier, he took his throne as the new Dragon Mound Guardian and began receiving the inheritance of past Guardians.

• The Nine Dragons Bell rang, and Flood Dragons across the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace hurried to Dragon Island to witness the emergence of a new Dragon Mound Guardian.
• The Luochuan River Dragon King absorbed dragon-shaped Qi and Blood in the Dragon Transformation Pool, rapidly increasing his bloodline and cultivation.
• The Luochuan River Dragon King broke through to Spirit Transformation Late Stage, but further absorption threatened to destroy his foundation.
• The Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier lifted the Luochuan River Dragon King from the pool before he reached his limit and brought him to the palace throne.
• The Luochuan River Dragon King took the Inheritance Dragon Pearl and began receiving the inheritances of past Dragon Mound Guardians.

The Luochuan River Dragon King examined the three Sixth Tier mid-grade Saint Treasures granted to the Dragon Mound Guardian. Outside the Dragon Tomb, the Flood Dragon Clan learned that Long Qian had become the new guardian, reshaping the clan’s factional balance.

• The Luochuan River Dragon King identified the Heavenly Radiance Dragon-Scale Armor, Purple-Gold Tyrant Dragon Spear, and Reverse Scale Guardian Token, while Yang Tianyou marveled at the Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan’s wealth.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King and the elders learned from the Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier that Long Mie, Long Guang, and Long Jue were not the new Dragon Mound Guardian.
• The Clan-Guarding Dragon Soldier showed the Flood Dragons Long Qian refining the three treasures, and the clan erupted in disbelief and envy as Long Chen rejoiced.
• Flood Dragons who had once looked down on Long Chen surrounded him with flattery, while the Grand Elder saw an opportunity to use Long Qian’s connection to strengthen his faction.
• The Eastern Sea Flood Dragon King allied with the Second and Fourth Elders, leaving the Third Elder Lineage isolated as the clan’s former three-way balance became two opposing peaks.

After nearly ten years of seclusion, Yang Tianyou reviewed the Yang Household’s growth and prepared a Far-Ocean Trade Fleet to open trade with the Eastern Sea. The fleet set out on a long route across the Eastern Continent, while three young Cultivators aboard discussed their plans and private cargo.

• Yang Tianyou reached the upper reaches of the Nascent Soul Early Stage, considered the profits of Eastern Sea trade, and reviewed reports on the Yang Household’s expansion.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Fifth Granduncle had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm and that the Four Symbols Alliance Assembly would take place in four and a half years.
• One year later, the Yang Household launched a fleet of twenty-four Flying Boats, escorted by two thousand Purple Moon Army soldiers and accompanied by Yang Tianyou, his wife, Yang Tianjiu, and the Fire God Dao Soldier.
• Yang Tianyou studied the fleet’s route, which would cross several provinces and the Sun-Moon Empire before reaching the Eastern Sea in about half a year.
• Yang Anping and Yang An'nan spoke with Han Ping about his hometown in Gaochang Commandery, and then the three exchanged figures for the private cargo they had brought aboard.

Yang An'nan faced the risk of losing everything after buying a huge quantity of Purple Moon Commandery resources to sell in the Eastern Sea. He relied on the voyage succeeding to repay his debts and continue cultivating, while keeping his ruthless past hidden.

• Yang An'nan told Yang Anping and Han Ping he had brought far more private goods than they had, but refused Yang Anping's offer to help sell them.
• Yang An'nan returned to his room and reflected on how he had borrowed heavily to buy resources for the voyage.
• Yang An'nan knew failure would leave him struggling to repay his debts, since the Yang Household could force him into penal labor.
• Yang An'nan hoped his plan would succeed and recalled that he had secretly killed and robbed traveling merchants to support his cultivation.

Yang Tianyou’s Far-Ocean Trade Fleet crossed the Sun-Moon and Grand Mystery Empires before reaching the Eastern Sea, where the Luochuan River Dragon King had prepared Huanghua Island for the Yang Household. The chapter ended with Yang Tianyou and Yang Tianjiu meeting Long Chen and the Reverse Scale Army to begin the island’s trade arrangements.

• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua discussed the Incense Divine Dao, the empires, and the powerful Old Ancestors of the Lu Wu Realm as the Fleet entered the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Yang Tianyou presented the Duke of Ying Zhang Household’s Transit Guarantee, allowing the Fleet to cross the Sun-Moon Empire without obstruction.
• After entering the Grand Mystery Empire, Yang Tianyou praised its open and tolerant character, and he and Yunhua discussed visiting the Black Dragon and Hanwu Empires after their Eastern Sea business.
• The Fleet reached Huanghua Island, which the Luochuan River Dragon King had seized from the Flood Dragon Clan and given to the Yang Household as a trading island.
• Long Chen welcomed Yang Tianyou and introduced the Reverse Scale Army; Yang Tianyou then presented Yang Tianjiu, who would oversee the transaction, and the Yang Household members followed Long Chen inland.

Two years later, the Huanghua Island Market prospered and the Yang Household expanded its trade across the Eastern Continent. On a deserted island, Yang An'nan killed three Cultivators who tried to claim a hidden cave abode's treasures and then departed.

• The Huanghua Island Market flourished, while the Luochuan River Dragon King's resource trade brought the Yang Household great wealth.
• Yang Tianjiu and the Yang Household Commerce Hall Cultivators secured trade agreements and opened more than a dozen Purple Moon Merchant Association branches.
• Three siblings discovered a Foundation Establishment Cultivator's cave abode on a deserted island and broke its damaged formation.
• As the younger brother reached for the corpse's Storage Ring, Yang An'nan emerged and killed all three siblings with his Sword-Ray.
• Yang An'nan collected the spoils, burned the siblings' bodies, and flew away.

Yang An'nan returned to Huanghua Island after years of killing cultivators for resources, and Yang Anping accepted that he could not dissuade his brother. A year later, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua visited Four Symbols Island, where Yunhua bonded with an Iron-Eating Beast cub named Yun Bai.

• Yang An'nan told Yang Anping he would keep killing for resources until he was caught, and Yang Anping offered to help him despite the risks.
• Another year passed, and the Yang Household's trade fleet departed under the escort of three thousand Reverse Scale soldiers sent by the Luochuan River Dragon King.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua left clan matters to Yang Tianjiu and traveled through the Black Dragon Empire and Hanwu Empire before reaching Four Symbols Island.
• Yunhua admired the Iron-Eating Beast at the Eight Desolations Arena, and Wuhuang offered her one of Big White's cubs.
• Yang Tianyou named the cub Yun Bai, and Yunhua completed a Blood Contract with her.

Yang Tianyou settled into the Eight Desolations Arena and learned about the Four Symbols Legacy’s participants and their varying ties to the Four Symbols Sect. The chapter ended with him understanding why the Soaring Phoenix Tower, despite its history, remained a loyal core faction.

• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint returned with Fairy Qingyu, a Grand Elder of the Soaring Phoenix Tower and a Sage Manifestation powerhouse, and introduced her to Yang Tianyou.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint gave Yang Tianyou a Jade Slip listing the assembly’s participants, and Yang Tianyou studied it.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Four Symbols Legacy’s members fell into four categories: inheritors who founded factions, factions brought in by an inheriting disciple, factions left behind by fallen or ascended disciples, and inheritors who remained Rogue Cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Rogue Cultivators were generally the most loyal, while the Soaring Phoenix Tower, Eight Desolations Arena, and Yang Household were all core members for different reasons.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Fairy Qingyu was the Vermilion Bird Lineage Master, bound by the Saint Son succession rules and a Heavenly Dao Oath passed down through generations.

At the Four Symbols Alliance Assembly, the Eight Desolations Saber Saint warned that two Middle Thousand Worlds would border the Lu Wu Realm within fifty years, making a devastating Interface War unavoidable. He urged the gathered factions to unite, as one enemy world was a top-tier realm with Late Sage Manifestation experts and the war offered no path of surrender.

• Half a year later, Cultivators flocked to the Eight Desolations Arena for the Four Symbols Alliance Assembly, where the Four Symbols Legacy planned to confront the coming upheaval.
• Guizhenzi, the Eight Desolations Saber Saint, Fairy Qingyu, and Yang Tianyou sat at the head of the assembly, while some Golden Core factions wondered why Yang Tianyou held such a high seat.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint said two Middle Thousand Worlds would border the Lu Wu Realm within fifty years and that an Interface War would follow.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint recalled that the previous Interface War destroyed sixty percent of the Lu Wu Realm's Sacred Lands and devastated its populations and races.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint revealed that one approaching realm was a top-tier Middle Thousand World with many Late Sage Manifestation experts, then warned that the factions had to unite.
• Yang Tianyou understood that surrender was impossible in an Interface War, where the worlds' inhabitants would have to fight until one side was destroyed or the worlds ceased to border each other.

The Eight Desolations Saber Saint warned the Four Symbols Legacy’s Alliance Conference about the coming Interface War and the possibility of powerful enemies entering the Lu Wu Realm. The conference established the Four Symbols Alliance, with the Yang Household securing a deputy leader position after giving up substantial benefits.

• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint explained that the Interface War would close the ascension passage and could eventually allow Void Refinement experts to enter the Lu Wu Realm.
• The Eight Desolations Saber Saint reassured the gathered cultivators that their realm had many powerful experts, would establish the Lu Wu Realm Alliance in fifteen years, and faced a weaker third interface.
• A month later, the Four Symbols Legacy’s Alliance Conference established the Four Symbols Alliance and chose the Eight Desolations Saber Saint as leader, with Fairy Qingyu and Guizhenzi as deputy leaders.
• The Yang Household secured the remaining deputy leader position after surrendering connections, resources, business shares, and favors to other forces.
• The conference assigned the alliance’s other posts and pooled resources to fund cultivator legions, War Flying Vessels, treasures, and formations.
• The Four Symbols Alliance publicly announced its establishment, drawing attention across the Lu Wu Realm as a new Holy Land-level force.

The Lu Wu Realm’s factions chose Four Symbols Island as the neutral site for their alliance headquarters, and construction began alongside the Four Symbols Alliance’s palace. The decision brought new protection and prosperity to the Chaotic Sea, while factions traded territory and resources on a vast scale.

• The Four Symbols Alliance’s white jade headquarters stood on Four Symbols Island as construction began on a much larger purple-gold hall for the Lu Wu Realm alliance.
• After months of disagreement over where to hold the Alliance Conference, the realm’s factions selected the neutral Spiritvoid Pavilion on Four Symbols Island as their headquarters site.
• The factions sent craftsmen and specialists to build a hall that the Eight Desolations Saber Saint said would withstand powerful attacks and conceal its discussions from divination.
• The Eight Desolations Arena retained only thirty percent of its former territory on Four Symbols Island after other factions claimed the rest, though the island began expanding through their efforts.
• The headquarters decision drove up land prices and prompted factions across the Lu Wu Realm to exchange Chaotic Sea waters and islands for territory and Spirit Veins elsewhere.

Yang Tianyou advanced his Star Dao, perfected the White Emperor Indestructible Body, and used a Supreme Firmament Mystic Origin Pill to strengthen his cultivation. Ten years later, as the Lu Wu Realm prepared for the Interface War, he directed the Yang Household to concentrate its population and defenses around secure strongholds.

• Yang Tianyou broke through to Minor Achievement in the Force Realm in his Star Dao and perfected the White Emperor Indestructible Body at the Lower Second Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou swallowed a Supreme Firmament Mystic Origin Pill and unleashed a surge of power after half a day of cultivation.
• Ten years after the Four Symbols Alliance was founded, the Cold Tide arrived amid a lull in conflicts as factions prepared for the Interface War.
• Yang Dangkai reported that the Yang Household had grown to 160,000 cultivators and more than thirty million mortals with Yang blood.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Yang Household to end its childbirth incentives, restrict entry for outsiders, and build twelve fortified cities for its bloodline members.
• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Household's defenses, including its upgraded Sixth-Tier formation and White Tiger Boat, which could help protect or evacuate its members.

Yunhua broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage as Four Symbols Island expanded into a vast cultivation hub. The Lu Wu Realm Alliance Conference convened, beginning with the Frostthunder Region’s representatives, and the account moved on to the Eastern Continent’s powers.

• Yunhua broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage at Great White Residence.
• Yang Tianyou saw that Four Symbols Island had grown several times larger after fifteen years of reclamation, with powerful Spirit Veins drawing in Spiritual Qi.
• Powerful cultivators arrived at Four Symbols Island, and the Lu Wu Realm Alliance Conference officially began a month later.
• Venerable Shuanghan represented the Frostthunder Region, whose powers included the White Sky Sect, the Snow Clan, and the Wind-Thunder Divine Eagle Clan.
• The conference’s regional seating proceeded clockwise from the Frostthunder Region to the Eastern Continent.