Chapter Summaries

As the war with the Nine Phoenix Realm intensified, the Yang Household had to choose members for a dangerous infiltration mission. Yang Tianyou selected twenty-two cultivators and arranged their supplies, sending them off with a warning to stay safe.

• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master outlined plans to seize World Interstice territory, recover the four Large Realm Gates, and send experts into the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou considered the Yang Household’s wartime obligations and the dangers of choosing members for the mission.
• Yang Tianyou called for volunteers, and every household member present stepped into the center of the Discussion Hall.
• Yang Tianyou selected twenty-two members, including Yang Danglong, Yang Tiankang, Yang Qiong Chuan, and Yang Tianxue, to enter the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• The selected members chose supplies from the household’s provisions, and Yang Tianyou urged them to be careful.

Yang Tiankang and other Four Symbols Alliance experts infiltrated the Nine Phoenix Realm, but the Explosive Flame Divine Ape ambushed them, killing or capturing many, including Yang Qiongchuan. Yang Tiankang escaped across the Ten Thousand Demon Continent, massacred a Demon Race city, and fled into the sea with a Nascent Soul pursuer close behind.

• True Person Qingyan and the Four Symbols Army seized the Realm Gate and sent Yang Danglong, Yang Tiankang, and other infiltrators into the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• The Explosive Flame Divine Ape destroyed their decoy Flying Boat and attacked the scattered infiltrators, killing eight Yang Household members and capturing one.
• Yang Tianyou watched Yang Qiongchuan’s Soul Lamp go out, and Yang Haoyu urged him to act as he continued holding the space between worlds.
• Yang Tiankang used Wang Shan’s Thousand Illusion Mask to evade the Demon Race and make his way toward the coast.
• Yang Tiankang slaughtered more than ten thousand inhabitants of a Demon Race city before fleeing into the sea as a Nascent Soul Late Stage Explosive Flame Divine Ape pursued him.

Yang Tianxue recovered from her injuries in the Yanling tribe under Yan Kong’s care, then began cultivating in seclusion. When a demon tiger attacked her, Yan Kong fought to protect her and transformed into an Explosive Flame Divine Ape.

• Yang Tianxue collapsed after escaping the Demon Race and was rescued by Yan Kong, a half-demon boy from the Yanling tribe.
• Yan Kong cared for Yang Tianxue as she recovered, and she learned about his tribe and the status of half-demons in the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianxue entered seclusion to heal with a pill, drawing Spiritual Qi that attracted a demon tiger.
• The demon tiger sent Changgui to attack Yang Tianxue, but her Golden Core protected her while she was unable to fight back.
• Yan Kong attacked the demon tiger with his hunting knife and was badly wounded, but he survived its blow.
• As the demon tiger moved to attack Yang Tianxue, Yan Kong transformed, revealing the presence of an Explosive Flame Divine Ape.

Yang Tianxue saved Yan Kong from the Tiger Demon and offered to teach him cultivation after the attack devastated his tribe. Elsewhere, Yang Danglong arrived on the Giant Spirit Continent, met Jiang Yuan, and took the boy as his disciple.

• The Tiger Demon defeated Yan Kong and charged toward the Thatched Cottage, but Yang Tianxue used Law Power to drive him away while she rescued Yan Kong.
• The Tiger Demon destroyed the Thatched Cottage and rampaged through the Half-Demon tribe before fleeing; Yang Tianxue later found the tribe devastated and failed to catch him.
• Yang Tianxue healed Yan Kong, and he asked whether he could cultivate and become as strong as she was; she agreed to teach him.
• Yang Danglong emerged from a Spatial Rift in the Azure Feather Mountain Range and saw a giant of the Giant Spirit Tribe carrying a boar.
• Yang Danglong revived the dead grandfather's body long enough to speak with Jiang Yuan, then buried the grandfather with the boy.
• Jiang Yuan became Yang Danglong's disciple, and Yang Danglong gave him the 'Supremely Firm Pure Yang Qi' manual after identifying his Lesser Yang Spirit Body.

At the Jiufeng Imperial Clan’s court assembly, Prince Wu Feng and the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince argued over which realm to target in the Interface War. The Nine Phoenix Emperor sent Prince Wu Feng to attack the Lu Wu Realm with Yankun as his vanguard, and Wu Feng departed with his forces.

• Prince Wu Feng urged the Nine Phoenix Emperor to concentrate their forces against the resource-rich Lu Wu Realm.
• The Nine Phoenix Crown Prince argued that the weaker Qiongqi Realm was the better target, exposing the rivalry between his faction and Prince Wu Feng’s.
• The Explosive Flame Demon Kingdom’s Left Commander suggested having the two princes each lead an attack, drawing Prince Huo Wu’s anger.
• Prince Wu Feng revealed his Half-step Void Refinement strength and asked to lead the Lu Wu Realm campaign with a vanguard.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor appointed Yankun as vanguard commander and ordered Prince Wu Feng to depart at once for the Lu Wu Realm.
• Prince Wu Feng left the hall with his followers, including Jiufeng Huangge.

The Nine Phoenix Emperor revealed his plan to make Prince Wu Feng and the Lu Wu Realm weaken each other while he reaped the benefits, but Prince Wu Feng had his own strategy. The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master learned that the Nine Phoenix Realm was attacking both the Lu Wu Realm and the Qiongqi Realm and considered exploiting the apparent split.

• The Nine Phoenix Emperor told the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince to intensify the attack on the Qiongqi Realm so Lu Wu Realm experts would go to its aid and later be caught between both armies.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor revealed that he had reached the half-step Void Refinement Realm and promised the crown prince the throne after he ascended to the upper realm.
• Prince Wu Feng told Prince Huo Wu that he had accepted the Lu Wu Realm campaign as part of his plan to break free from the emperor's control.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master received reports that Prince Wu Feng was attacking the Lu Wu Realm and the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince was attacking the Qiongqi Realm, then sent the news to the alliance's upper ranks.

Yang Anping and Yang An'nan fought the Mountain Demon Kingdom's forces while Yang Xuanyang protected them and demonstrated his power. Meanwhile, Yang Tianyou broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Yang Anping and Yang An'nan joined forces to kill two Ox Demons after Yang An'nan saved Yang Anping from a Black Cat Demon’s sneak attack.
• A Mountain Giant Python put the brothers in a trance, but Yang Xuanyang severed its tail with one strike and claimed it as an ingredient.
• Yang Xuanyang praised the brothers and left them to continue honing themselves in battle.
• The armies withdrew after a bell rang an hour later.
• Yang Tianyou swallowed a Heavenly Chaos Wondrous Method Pill and broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage as news arrived that Prince Wu Feng would lead an army against the Lu Wu Realm. Preparing for war at the World Interstice, he gathered the Yang Household’s forces and secretly equipped two Mountain Pythons with Forbidden Artifacts.

• Yang Tianyou’s White Emperor Indestructible Body advanced to Lower Divine Ability Perfection, and he learned that Prince Wu Feng would lead an army against the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang Tianyou used the Jade Register Heavenly Book to contact a Mountain Python spy in the Mountain Demon Kingdom and gave it an order.
• Yunhua led three thousand soldiers to the World Interstice, where Yang Dangmo, Yang Yuqi, Yang Yujin, Yang Xuanyun, six other Nascent Soul Cultivators, and two Dragon Tortoise Dao Soldiers joined them.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua and the others that he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, then assigned tasks for the coming battle.
• Yang Taishan, Yang Taishi, and Yang Taixuan fought three Mountain Pythons while two Golden Core Realm Mountain Pythons quietly received Forbidden Artifacts.

The Yang Household launched a prepared assault on the Mountain Demon Kingdom’s city defenses, and Yang Tianyou held off the Mountain Giant Python leader while the Purple Moon Army gained ground. Yunhua’s Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword then struck the city and split the leader in two, leaving the battle at a decisive turning point.

• The Yang Household raised its War Flying Vessels and began an assault on the Mountain Demon Kingdom’s city defenses.
• Yang Tianyou met the Mountain Giant Python leader with the Great White Life-and-Death Blade, while the armies clashed below and the Purple Moon Army charged under Yang Yusheng.
• Yang Tianyou’s pressure forced the Mountain Giant Python leader to call in three allies, and the Yang Household gradually gained the upper hand.
• The Mountain Giant Python leader prepared to retreat, but two explosions erupted inside the city as Yunhua’s Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword rose from the earth.
• Yang Tianyou slowed the leader with a burst of righteous yang Qi, allowing Yunhua’s sword light to cleave the city wall and the giant python in two.

Yunhua and Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household’s assault, killing the Mountain Giant Python leader and breaking the Mountain Demon Kingdom’s defenses. After the enemy commander sacrificed thousands of soldiers to escape through the Realm Gate, the Yang Household conquered the World Interstice and built a new city wall.

• Yunhua killed the Mountain Giant Python leader and broke the city wall’s defenses, while Yang Tianyou slew three Nascent Soul giant pythons.
• Yunhua and Yang Tianyou joined their powers to form a black-and-white sword, and Yang Yusheng led the Purple Moon Army in a combined attack against the enemy’s giant python formation.
• Yang Tianyou used the Creation Brush to redirect the black hole’s devouring force toward the Mountain Demon Kingdom’s formation.
• The giant python Commander sacrificed three thousand corps soldiers to strengthen the thousand-zhang python, which escaped through the Realm Gate.
• The Yang Household drove out the remaining Demon Race forces, conquered the World Interstice, and built a city wall near the Realm Gate.

Yue Kui used the Mountain Demon Kingdom’s withdrawal from a World Interstice to spite Prince Wu Feng, while Wu Feng prepared a coordinated war against the Lu Wu Realm. The Nine Phoenix Realm launched its attacks, and the Yang Household prepared to defend its World Interstice.

• Yue Kui praised the Mountain Python Commander for saving his clan’s legion and decided to leave the World Interstice for the Green Mastiff Demon Kingdom to reclaim.
• Prince Huo Wu told Prince Wu Feng that the Mountain Demon Kingdom and its allies had surrendered more than a dozen World Interstices, and Wu Feng dismissed their actions as an attempt to provoke them.
• Prince Huo Wu reported that the armies would be ready in half a month, and Prince Wu Feng ordered infiltrators to sabotage the Lu Wu Realm and assassinate its notable young experts when war began.
• The Nine Phoenix Realm’s legions set out for the Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm, and the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master saw the war break out across the fronts.
• Yang Xuangang, Yang Xuanyang, Yang Xuanyun, and the Yang Household forces prepared to defend their World Interstice behind its fortified city wall.

Yang Xuangang’s army trapped the Black Sha Hyena vanguard in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation and destroyed it with Death Qi, while the Nine Phoenix Realm’s main force advanced through the Realm Gate. Battles spread across the Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm, where the Nine-Phoenix and allied armies emerged to fight the demons.

• Yang Xuangang waited until a thousand Black Sha Hyenas crossed the Realm Gate, then ordered his army to attack with the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.
• Yang Yuqi’s refined Death Qi poured from the Gate of Death, killing the trapped Black Sha Hyenas and strengthening the formation.
• The Azure Mastiff Lion general ordered the Nine Phoenix Realm’s main army through the Realm Gate, leaving his clan’s legion to bring up the rear.
• Battles erupted across the Lu Wu Realm as the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master and other alliance leaders sent Sage Manifestation reinforcements to defend their homeland.
• In the Qiongqi Realm, Xiao shattered the Nine-Phoenix True Fire with his hammer, and Sage Manifestation experts and armies from the seven races entered the realm to battle the demons.

The Divine Wind Clan overran Mo Province, prompting the Lu Wu Realm’s leaders to plan a counterattack and deploy thirty hidden Sage Manifestation experts. Meanwhile, a vast Demon Rat tide devastated the Azure Flame Spirit Lion Clan’s territory and devoured a Spirit Transformation-level lion.

• The Divine Wind Clan routed the Eight Great Forces’ armies, poured through a Medium Realm Gate, and slaughtered Mo Province’s civilians.
• After nine Realm Gates opened, the Alliance Headquarters agreed to seal the gates, hunt infiltrators, and invade the Nine Phoenix Realm in retaliation.
• Thirty concealed Sage Manifestation experts split into three groups and departed through Teleportation Formations.
• More than ten million Demon Rats poured into the Azure Flame Spirit Lion Clan’s territory, reducing mountains and Spirit Veins to wasteland.
• An Azure Flame Spirit Lion attacked the Rat Tide with Demon Fire, but a silvery streak wounded him and the rats swarmed over and consumed him.

True Lord Wan Lei and the Sage Manifestation experts sealed a Realm Gate in the Azure Flame Spirit Lion Clan’s territory, then left the clan to handle the remaining rat tide. At Iron Lion Ridge, the Iron Lion King sent the Mad Lion Crown Prince to safety before he and his queen died defending their people, killing one of three Spirit Transformation Heaven-Swallowing Mice and reducing the rat tide by half.

• True Lord Wan Lei led nine Sage Manifestation experts in cutting through the rat tide and sealing the Medium Realm Gate.
• True Lord Wan Lei assigned two experts to help the Azure Flame Lion King guard the gate and ordered the rest to support other places, refusing to help clear the remaining rats.
• The Iron Lion King ordered Iron Lion Ridge to defend itself against millions of demon rats, including Heaven-Swallowing Rat Clan elites.
• Three Spirit Transformation Heaven-Swallowing Mice attacked Iron Lion Ridge, and the Iron Lion King and his queen struggled to hold back their devouring and spatial abilities.
• The Iron Lion King sent the Mad Lion Crown Prince away in the Ice Immortal Chariot while he and his queen stayed to fight.
• The Iron Lion King and his queen died after two hours of battle; one Heaven-Swallowing Mouse was killed, two were gravely wounded, and the rat tide fell from four million to two million.

Yang Tianyou mobilized the Yang Household to defend its territory and support White Wolf Mound against the Rat Tide. As the battle began, the Wolf Ancestor used his Blood Moon power to turn hundreds of thousands of Demon Rats against one another.

• Yang Tianyou ordered forces to defend Luochuan Island and Purple Moon Commandery and sent Yang Yusheng with an army to support White Wolf Mound.
• Yang Household members organized intelligence, logistics, supplies, and defenses as the Lineage prepared for war.
• The Wolf Ancestor reassured the Old White Wolf that reinforcements were coming as six million Demon Rats approached White Wolf Mound.
• The Yang Household fleet arrived, and the Wolf Ancestor summoned the Blood Moon Wolf Guards while the Old White Wolf activated White Wolf Mound’s golden defensive barrier.
• The Wolf Ancestor merged with the Blood Moon and caused hundreds of thousands of Demon Rats to attack and kill one another.

Yang Yusheng and Wolf Ancestor led the Yang Household Fleet and White Wolf Mound in a counterattack that devastated the Rat Tide. The surviving Demon Rats retreated, while the defenders wiped out those trapped in the formation and prepared to clear their territory.

• Wolf Ancestor held off four Spirit Transformation Heaven-Swallowing Mice while the Yang Household Fleet charged its War Flying Vessels.
• Yang Yusheng formed the Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation as three million Demon Rats attacked, and a hidden Heaven-Swallowing Mouse infiltrated the Purple Moon Boat before the Fire God Dao Soldier refined it in the Myriad Fires Furnace.
• The Fleet's volley killed a million Demon Rats, and Yang Yusheng trapped the survivors in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation as the Fire God Dao Soldier fought the remaining Spirit Transformation mice.
• After the Rat Tide began retreating, Wolf Ancestor refused to pursue beyond White Wolf Mound's defenses and led its powerhouses to aid the Fleet.
• The combined forces killed the remaining Spirit Transformation Heaven-Swallowing Mice and wiped out the million Demon Rats trapped in the formation.

After the northern campaign, the Lu Wu Realm faced a Divine Wind invasion in Mo Province while Nine Phoenix Realm forces ravaged Xuan Province. Ye Wuyou failed to secure reinforcements for the besieged Ye Household, leaving it isolated and in danger of destruction.

• Yang Yusheng and the Wolf Ancestor wiped out the remaining Demon Rats in White Wolf Mound and captured Iron Lion Ridge, gaining access to valuable mineral veins.
• A Realm Gate opened in Mo Province, and a hundred thousand Divine Wind clansmen established a foothold; True Lord Wan Lei and the defenders reached a stalemate as the Lu Wu Realm waited for reinforcements.
• Nine Phoenix Realm experts devastated Xuan Province, killing two Spirit Transformation cultivators and eight Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Ye Household and destroying the Hanging Star Sect.
• Ye Wuyou received pleas for aid from the Hong Household, the Li Household, and the White Jade Tower, but he could not spare enough experts to protect them.
• Ye Wuyou sought help from neighboring powers and the Yang Household, but they declined or delayed; Yang Tianyou promised to shelter the Ye Household's members on Four Symbols Island if the household fell.

The Divine Wind Clan devastated Xuan Province and prepared to attack the Ye Household while the Lu Wu Realm Alliance remained tied down at the World Interstice. True Lord Wan Lei refused to divert forces from the Realm Gate, leaving the Divine Wind Clan’s assault on Yuanping Mountain poised to begin.

• The Divine Wind Clan ruined the Hanging Star Sect’s mountain gate, extracted its Spirit Veins, and tortured the Hanging Star Sect Old Ancestor.
• Feng Cang ordered the Divine Wind Clan experts to destroy the Hong Household, the Li Household, and the White Jade Tower before gathering their forces to attack Yuanping Mountain.
• At the World Interstice, True Lord Wan Lei and seven Sage Manifestation experts held the Realm Gate against a hundred-thousand-strong Divine Wind Clan army.
• A scholar-dressed Sage Manifestation expert urged True Lord Wan Lei to help the Ye Household, but Wan Lei said the army and Realm Gate posed the greater danger.
• More than fifty Spirit Transformation experts and a large force of lower-level cultivators descended on the three Commandery-Level Powers outside Yuanping Mountain as Wan Lei remained at the Realm Gate.

The Ye Household prepared to defend Yuanping Mountain as the Divine Wind Clan and other Nine-Phoenix Realm Experts launched their assault. Yang Tianyou watched the battle unfold, intending to sacrifice the Ye Household to weaken the Divine Wind Clan before moving to destroy its survivors and claim resources.

• After the Hong Household and three Commandery-Level Powers were destroyed, Ye Wuyou ordered the Ye Household to prepare its defenses and resolved to fight for Merit rather than retreat.
• Feng Cang led more than forty Divine Wind Clan Spirit Transformation cultivators and other experts in an attack on Yuanping Mountain.
• The Yang Household and other major powers watched without aiding the Ye Household, having helped drive the Divine Wind Clan into Xuan Province to wear down its strength.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Yu Sheng to ready troops and Fire God Dao Soldiers at the Bai Province–Xuan Province border to help exterminate the Divine Wind Clan after the Ye Household fell.
• Yang Tianyou also ordered resource-gathering preparations and instructed Zhiming to watch Purple Moon Commandery for Nine-Phoenix Realm Experts above the Golden Core realm.

The Nine Phoenix Realm forces broke the Ye Household’s defenses and fought a three-day battle at Yuanping Mountain. As the nearly defeated Ye Wuyou detonated the Sun-Illuminating Divine Pearl, Yang Tianyou ordered the other powers to close the net.

• Feng Cang led the Nine Phoenix Realm assault, and Ye Wuyou used the Firmament Record to defend the Ye Household after its barrier fell.
• Ye Wuyou activated the Sun-Illuminating Divine Pearl and fought off fourteen Spirit Transformation experts, while the Ye clansmen battled desperately around him.
• After three days, the Nine Phoenix Realm forces had devastated Yuanping Mountain and nearly wiped out the Ye Household.
• Ye Wuyou detonated the Sun-Illuminating Divine Pearl, killing more than half of the Divine Wind Clan members surrounding him and severely wounding the survivors.
• Feng Cang survived with grave injuries, and Yang Tianyou ordered the other powers to draw in the net.