Chapter Summaries

Shanhai found Yang Tiankang in the Endless Abyss, where he had inherited Sword Saint Helian Tian’s legacy and cultivated near the Beacon-Fire Sword. Yang Tiankang used Spirit Vein Essence to break through to Spirit Transformation, then left the Abyss with Shanhai to meet Yang Danglong on the Giant Spirit Continent.

• Shanhai entered the Endless Abyss and followed the Void Worm through Spatial Interlayers while searching for Yang Tiankang.
• Shanhai reached a hidden Secret Realm, where Yang Tianyou took control of his body and reunited with Yang Tiankang.
• Yang Tianyou gave Yang Tiankang Spirit Vein Essence to help him break through, and the brothers discussed the Lineage’s situation.
• Yang Tiankang overcame the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and the Heart Demon Tribulation, reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Yang Tiankang left the Endless Abyss with Shanhai, and a month later the three Yang Household Members met in a city on the Giant Spirit Continent.

Shanhai and Yang Tiankang built up a Water Tribe settlement before breaking their forces into smaller groups to evade the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty. Nine years after entering the Nine Phoenix Realm, they resumed plundering Spirit Vein Essence and gathered enough to upgrade the Yang Household’s Spirit Vein to the Sixth Tier.

• Shanhai and Yang Tiankang left Yang Danglong on the Giant Spirit Continent to develop an intelligence network while they traveled to a Water Tribe Settlement.
• Yang Tiankang reunited with Ni Xian'er and She Cailing, and he and Shanhai began recruiting Water Tribe cultivators under the influence of Sword Saint Helian Tian’s inheritance.
• The Water Tribe Settlement expanded, drew the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s attention, and suffered a major attack after Yang Tiankang and Shanhai split their forces into smaller groups.
• Nine years after entering the Nine Phoenix Realm, Shanhai chose islands in the seas as targets for another round of Spirit Vein plundering.
• Shanhai and Yang Tiankang evaded the Lava Behemoths and Fire-Bathing Tribe ambushes, collecting enough Spirit Vein Essence to upgrade the Yang Household’s Spirit Vein to the Sixth Tier.

Shanhai gathered Spirit Vein Essence through a Demon Leopard puppet and sent it to Purple Moon Mountain, allowing Yang Tianyou to advance the Yang Household’s Spirit Vein to the Sixth Tier. The advancement brought Heaven and Earth’s Reward to the Lineage Ancestral Hall, and Yang Tianyou planned to conceal the resulting Fortune with Primordial Power.

• After the Bai Ze Clan failed to divine Shanhai’s whereabouts, the Nine Phoenix Realm’s factions strengthened their Spirit Vein defenses but abandoned the pursuit.
• Shanhai sent Yang Tiankang back to the Water Tribe and traveled alone to the Ten Thousand Demon Continent.
• Shanhai used the Formless Insect to control a Golden Core Realm Demon Leopard and refine it into a Mirror Spirit Puppet.
• The Demon Leopard entered the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation during a Demon Race assault, and its Storage Ring of resources was delivered to Purple Moon Mountain afterward.
• Yang Tianyou used the Spirit Vein Essence and prepared resources to advance the Purple Moon Mountain Spirit Vein to the Sixth Tier.
• Heaven and Earth’s Reward entered the Thick Earth Cauldron, and Yang Tianyou considered using accumulated Primordial Power to conceal the Lineage’s additional Fortune.

Yang Tianyou revealed the Yang Household’s newly advanced sixth-tier Spirit Vein to Guizhenzi and sought a way to unleash the White Tiger God-Slaying Saber’s full power. After the Yang Household obtained the Geng Metal Annihilation Array, Guizhenzi installed it on Purple Moon Mountain, leaving its defenses with formidable offensive power.

• Yang Tianyou asked Guizhenzi to set up an Offensive Formation for the White Tiger God-Slaying Saber, and Guizhenzi said it required a sixth-tier mid-grade Formation and abundant Spiritual Qi.
• Yang Tianyou revealed that Purple Moon Mountain’s Spirit Vein had advanced to the Sixth Tier, and Guizhenzi suggested obtaining the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master’s Geng Metal Formation Disc.
• Yang Tianyou arranged to seek help from the Eight Desolations Saber Saint, while the Yang Household gathered resources through Shanhai and its other channels.
• The Yang Household traded a vast quantity of resources for the Geng Metal Annihilation Array, and Guizhenzi reorganized Purple Moon Mountain’s Formation system.
• Guizhenzi sent Tongming and Yang Tianshi back to Formation Valley after their Formation questions strayed into unusual topics.
• A month later, the Geng Metal Annihilation Array’s golden radiance spread over Purple Moon Mountain, and Yang Tianyou watched it resonate with the White Tiger God-Slaying Saber in the Spirit Pond.

Shanhai used Primordial Power to temper Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s bloodline ahead of the Phoenix Festival. Kunwu emerged as a four-headed phoenix, and Shanhai left Flamewing City to avoid the Sage Manifestation powerhouse likely to arrive.

• Guizhenzi took the Spirit Materials Yang Tianyou had given him and left Purple Moon Mountain.
• Shanhai visited Nine-Phoenix Kunwu in Flamewing City and began using Primordial Power to improve his bloodline.
• Over two years of secluded cultivation, Shanhai tempered Kunwu’s bloodline inside a giant Phoenix True Fire egg.
• Flames and a Nine-Phoenix phantom appeared over Flamewing City, and Kunwu emerged as a four-headed phoenix.
• The city lord rejoiced at Kunwu’s transformation, while Shanhai lamented losing most of his Primordial Power and slipped out of the city.

As the Phoenix Festival began, Yang Tianyou observed the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s ceremony through Nine-Phoenix Kunwu and confirmed that the Jiufeng Imperial Clan was the Heavenly Mandate Race Thirteenth Brother had mentioned. The chapter ended with Yang Tianyou seeing Heaven’s Mandate behind the festival.

• A Nine-Phoenix Clan powerhouse brought Nine-Phoenix Kunwu to Nine Phoenix Imperial City, where the Crown Prince welcomed him and gave him resources and a mansion.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu spent a year cultivating in seclusion while he waited for the Phoenix Festival.
• The Phoenix Festival began with a divine Nine-Phoenix’s fire blessing the imperial city and its people.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor and the dynasty’s leaders worshipped the Nine-Phoenix totem as representatives from the other six continents watched.
• Yang Tianyou used the Fortune Cauldron and Netherworld-Seeing Divine Eye through Nine-Phoenix Kunwu to see Heaven’s Mandate and confirm the Jiufeng Imperial Clan’s identity.

Yang Tianyou realized the Phoenix Festival was secretly transferring factions’ Fortune to the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty, strengthening its claim to Heavenly Heart Authority, and resolved to find proof of its hidden Fruit Positions. Nine-Phoenix Kunwu then dominated the Nascent Soul demonstrations and Dao discussions, earning the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince’s favor and a place among the leading candidates for the best Nirvana Pools.

• Yang Tianyou learned that the Phoenix Festival’s offerings secretly conferred the attending factions’ Fortune upon the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty, increasing its recognition from the Heavenly Heart.
• After the lengthy sacrificial ceremonies, the Phoenix Festival’s martial demonstrations and Dao discussions began on the fifth day.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu defeated Nine-Phoenix Hongji in the arena, overcoming her Phoenix form and Nine Heavens Phoenix Feather Dance.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu also outperformed Nine-Phoenix Hongji in their Dao discussion, further establishing his reputation among the Nine-Phoenix Clan.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu excelled in the remaining Nascent Soul Late Stage events, and the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince prepared to secure him one of the best Nirvana Pools.

After enduring the Nirvana Pool for a year with Shanhai’s help, Nine-Phoenix Kunwu awakened Five-Headed Phoenix aptitude and became a prized figure in the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty. The Nine Phoenix Emperor granted him the title of Dynasty Highness, bringing his rise to prominence and strengthening the Imperial Lord’s faction.

• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu entered a highest-grade Nirvana Pool and used the Dao Comprehension Space and Shanhai’s aid to withstand its pain and absorb his bloodline insights.
• As the other geniuses left the Nirvana Pools, Nine-Phoenix Kunwu remained for a year, alarming the Sage Manifestation elder and the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu emerged with Five-Headed Phoenix aptitude, and the elder informed the Nine Phoenix Emperor.
• The Nine Phoenix Crown Prince celebrated Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s pure bloodline and took him to meet the emperor.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor conferred the title of Dynasty Highness on Nine-Phoenix Kunwu, making him a sought-after figure across the Nine Phoenix Realm.

Prince Wu Feng and Prince Huo Wu discussed the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s plans to attack the Lu Wu Realm, while Yang Tianyou learned the origins of the Divine Beast Domain and the Nine-Phoenix Clan’s Heavenly Mandate status. Yang Tianyou decided to expose the dynasty’s concealed strength after war resumed and began arranging a scapegoat to deliver the information.

• Prince Huo Wu complained about the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince’s good fortune, and Prince Wu Feng urged him to focus on conquering the Lu Wu Realm.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu used his access to the Scripture Repository to uncover secrets about Deity Fruit Positions and the history of the Three Great Realms.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu learned that worlds in the Divine Beast Domain formed from the corpses of Divine Beasts and Fierce Beasts killed in an ancient war.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Nine-Phoenix Realm had formed from the body of a Nine-Phoenix Divine Beast, making the clan her blood descendants and a Heavenly Mandate Race.
• Yang Tianyou decided to expose the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s concealed strength after war began again and told Shanhai and Nine-Phoenix Kunwu to prepare a scapegoat.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua learned that the Realm Gates would expand in two or three years and reviewed the Yang Household’s preparations for war with the Nine Phoenix Realm. Decades of military investment, growing wealth, and rising numbers of gifted and powerful clansmen had made the Yang Household one of the Lu Wu Realm’s strongest powers.

• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua that the Alliance Headquarters had reported unusual activity at Realm Gates and expected them to expand in two or three years.
• Yang Tianyou had strengthened Purple Moon Mountain’s formations and built the Purple Moon Army into a force of more than thirty-six thousand soldiers, while stockpiling White Tiger Talisman Soldiers for the coming war.
• Yang Tianjiu’s Purple Moon Trading Company, the Yang Household’s halls and other ventures, and resources from the Nine Phoenix Realm had kept the Clan Treasury exceptionally well stocked.
• The Yang Household’s growing Fortune brought forth gifted clansmen, including Yang Shengyu and Yang Shengjun, whom the family groomed for future service in the Purple Moon Army.
• The Yang Household’s cultivator population rose above four hundred thousand, with more than ten Spirit Transformation cultivators, over two hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators, and more than a thousand Golden Core Cultivators.
• With its army, Talisman Soldiers, formations, and other reserves, the Yang Household reached the peak among Province-Level Powers and surpassed some weaker Sacred Lands.

As the Second-Stage War approached, the Yang Household and the realms prepared for the Realm Gates to open, while Yang Tianyou secretly sold the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince’s plans to the Qiongqi Realm. Two years later, the Eastern Sea Realm Gate began expanding, signaling that the invasion was starting.

• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua advanced to the Middle Stage of Spirit Transformation, bringing the Yang Household close to the strength of a Holy Land-level Force.
• Prince Huo Wu reported the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces and curse preparations to Prince Wu Feng, who refined their plans to attack the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang Tianyou learned the Nine Phoenix Crown Prince’s plans to attack the Qiongqi Realm from Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s memories and sold them to the Qiongqi Realm through Shanhai-controlled Experts.
• The Qiongqi Realm traded scarce resources and its curse, Blood Sha, and Martial Dao inheritances for aid from the Lu Wu Realm Alliance; the Yang Household put the inheritances to use.
• After two years of preparations across the three realms, the Eastern Sea Realm Gate expanded rapidly above the sea.

The Nine Phoenix Realm launched a karmic curse against the Lu Wu Realm, while the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master prepared the Alliance’s defenses as the Eastern Sea Realm Gate expanded. When a Mid Sage Manifestation Nine-Phoenix emerged, the Eastern Sea Dragon King’s formation and the assembled forces drove it back with grievous injuries.

• Nine-Phoenix Realm experts performed the Karmic Curse-Slaying ritual, killing several weaker Lu Wu Realm geniuses despite the Alliance’s preparations.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master dismissed the curse’s limited impact and ordered the Alliance to keep its Spatial Teleportation Formations and Sage Manifestation combatants ready.
• The Eastern Sea Realm Gate expanded as the Lu Wu Realm assembled its armies and War Fortresses, including the Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan’s greatly strengthened forces.
• A Mid Sage Manifestation member of the Nine-Phoenix Clan emerged from the Realm Gate, and the Eastern Sea Dragon King ordered the surrounding formation to attack.
• Azure Flood Dragons and the Eastern Sea forces struck the Nine-Phoenix, bursting several of its heads and forcing it to retreat grievously injured.

The Nine Phoenix Realm’s assaults met fierce resistance at several Realm Gates as the Alliance prepared defenses against further expansions. Yang Tianyou feared his household would be targeted if the gates fell, so he used a Talisman Formation and the Acquired Fortune Cauldron to inflate the Fortune of factions he wanted to use as scapegoats.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm sent repeated waves of powerhouses through the Eastern Sea Realm Gate, but Eastern Sea defenders and War Fortresses drove them back and inflicted casualties.
• The Witch Tribe and allied forces defended the Witch Island and Hanwu Realm Gates, while the True Martial and Lanke Realm Gates remained quiet.
• The Alliance Headquarters dispatched legions to Medium Realm Gates nearing expansion, and Yang Tianyou learned that the Mo Province Realm Gate threatened the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou decided to arrange scapegoats in case the Realm Gates fell and prepared a Talisman Formation in his Seclusion Chamber.
• Yang Tianyou used the Acquired Fortune Cauldron to create fragments that raised the apparent Fortune of Shanhai Hall, the Deep Sea Black Whale Clan, and the Water Spirit Clan.
• Ziji High Person briefly sensed danger while watching the battlefields, but the unease passed.

The Nine Phoenix Realm’s offensive spread across the Lu Wu Realm as the Eastern Sea and Mo Province became major battlefields. Yang Tianyou withheld crucial intelligence until the fighting grew chaotic enough to trap the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s Direct Lineage forces.

• After heavy losses, the Nine Phoenix Realm established a foothold outside the Eastern Sea Realm Gate, and Prince Wu Feng sent in the Mobile Forces.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master rushed reinforcements to the Eastern Sea, where armies from both realms fought across a vast sea battlefield.
• The Alliance Headquarters diverted forces toward the Eastern Sea, while the Divine Wind Clan launched its full assault through the Mo Province Realm Gate.
• Over the next ten days, Nine Phoenix Realm forces captured Realm Gates and devastated territories across more than half the Lu Wu Realm, but suffered greater losses among their Sage Manifestation experts.
• Yang Tianyou kept his decisive intelligence secret until the war became chaotic enough to isolate the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s Direct Lineage forces.

The Divine Wind Clan bypassed the Eastern Continent’s defensive lines and launched an assault on the Yang Household and Mountain and River Hall. Ziji High Person led the Mountain and River Hall’s forces into battle as the enemy attacked the sect gate, leaving the ancient sect on the brink of being overwhelmed.

• The Alliance Headquarters ordered its forces to retreat behind six connected defensive lines after the Divine Wind Clan gained the upper hand in Mo Province.
• The Divine Wind Clan sent elite squads past the defenses to target the Yang Household and Mountain and River Hall because of their abundant Fortune.
• Ziji High Person requested reinforcements, prepared the sect’s defenses, and urged the Mountain and River Hall disciples to fight rather than despair.
• Ziji High Person led the Mountain and River Army and a Sixth Tier War Fortress out to face the Divine Wind Clan’s Sage Manifestation powerhouses.
• The Divine Wind Clan’s remaining Sage Manifestation and Spirit Transformation powerhouses attacked the Mountain and River Hall Gate with a torrent of Wind-Thunder Power.

Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household out to meet a powerful Divine Wind Clan force before it could attack Purple Moon Mountain. The White Tiger Boat was badly damaged in its battle with Feng Xiao, while the rest of the clan’s forces moved to their assigned positions.

• Yang Tianyou assured Yang Haoyu that the Yang Household could defeat the attackers and told her to control Purple Moon Mountain’s formation with the Water-Fire Dao Soldier.
• Seven Divine Wind Clan Sage Manifestation experts and more than sixty Spirit Transformation experts arrived on Wind-Thunder Griffins, and Yang Tianyou rallied the Yang Household and Purple Moon Army.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua led the White Tiger Boat out with the Purple Moon Army’s first legion, while the other two legions formed its wings and Yang Xuanwu stayed behind with Talisman Soldiers.
• Feng Xiao ordered four Sage Manifestation experts to fight Yang Tianyou’s group and sent the remaining two, along with Spirit Transformation clansmen, to attack Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought Feng Xiao using only Spirit Transformation Great Perfection power, but Feng Xiao’s attacks badly damaged the White Tiger Boat.

Yang Tianyou, Yunhua, and the White Tiger Boat caught Feng Xiao off guard and inflicted several severe wounds on him. Feng Xiao recovered enough to launch a powerful counterattack, while Yang Tianyou relied on the other battlefields to decide the fight.

• The Divine Wind Clan pressed the Yang Household across the battlefields, while the Yang Household drew the enemy forces apart.
• Yang Tianyou called for Yunhua to strike, and the Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts formed a constellation Formation that raised his strength to Early Sage Manifestation level.
• Yunhua struck Feng Xiao with the Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword, Ice-Spirit Divine Light, and a second attacker wounded him with Heavenly Blade.
• Yang Xuanyang took control of the White Tiger Boat and joined Yang Tianyou and Yunhua in landing three more wounds on Feng Xiao.
• Feng Xiao used lightning and Gang Wind to defend himself, then unleashed a storm of thunderbolts at Yang Tianyou and his wife as Yang Tianyou smiled.

Yang Haoyu unleashed the White Tiger God-Slaying Saber to devastate the Divine Wind Clan forces attacking Purple Moon Mountain, then sent Yang Xuanwu and the Mobile Forces to pursue the survivors. Yang Xuanwu began fighting the wounded Spirit Transformation clansmen, killing their strongest fighter with a spear thrust.

• Yang Haoyu received Yang Tianyou’s counterattack signal and empowered the mountain’s Formation with the Sixth-Tier Spirit Vein.
• The White Tiger God-Slaying Saber struck nine times, killing one Sage Manifestation clansman, fatally wounding another, and bringing down most of the Spirit Transformation attackers.
• Yang Haoyu replenished the Spirit Vein with Spirit Stones and ordered Yang Tianshi’s Formation Hall cultivators to stabilize the Geng Metal Annihilation Array.
• Yang Haoyu sent Yang Xuanwu and the Lineage’s Mobile Forces out aboard the Purple Moon Boat, which trapped the seven surviving Divine Wind clansmen.
• Yang Xuanwu defeated the gravely wounded Spirit Transformation Great Perfection clansman by knocking away his halberd and piercing his throat with the Four Symbols Sacred Spear.

Yang Xuanwu and the Purple Moon Army wiped out the Divine Wind Clan forces around Purple Moon Mountain after revealing the White Tiger Talisman Soldiers they had kept in reserve. The chapter ended with Feng Xiao and the remaining Sage Manifestation cultivators dead, while the Yang Household secured a decisive victory.

• Yang Xuanwu killed the remaining Spirit Transformation cultivators, then ordered the Talisman Soldiers to collect the spoils and withdraw to Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Yusheng unleashed the hidden White Tiger Talisman Soldiers, strengthening the Purple Moon Army as it counterattacked and killed one Wind-Thunder Griffin.
• Yang Xuangang and Yang Xuanli trapped three Wind-Thunder Griffins in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, where the White Tiger Divine Beast battered them.
• Feng Xiao tried to reach the trapped clansmen, but Yang Tianyou and Yunhua struck him with their combined Life-and-Death Blade, leaving him badly wounded.
• The Purple Moon Army killed the three trapped Sage Manifestation cultivators and surrounded Feng Xiao, who failed to escape or self-detonate.
• The Yang Household suppressed Feng Xiao with the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation and killed him with a saber strike.

After defeating the Divine Wind Clan invaders at Purple Moon Mountain, Yang Tianyou led the Purple Moon Army First Legion to aid Mountain and River Hall, whose defenders were close to collapse. As Ziji High Person neared death, Yang Tianyou finally rushed into the battle, while Ziji High Person mistook him for Alliance reinforcements.

• Yang Xuanwu warned Yang Tianyou that Mountain and River Hall was on the verge of falling, so Yang Tianyou left Yang Xuanwu and the Old Ancestor at Purple Moon Mountain and took Yunhua and the First Legion to Lan Province.
• Feng Ji grievously wounded Ziji High Person, while Divine Wind Clan forces battered Shanhai Hall's War Fortress, the Mountain and River Army, and Mountain and River Hall's gate.
• Yang Tianyou reported to Alliance Headquarters that his forces would aid Mountain and River Hall, causing the headquarters to cancel its assigned reinforcements and send them elsewhere.
• Yang Tianyou deliberately slowed the White Tiger Boat as Ziji High Person burned through his lifespan fighting Feng Ji.
• When Ziji High Person was nearly spent, Yang Tianyou sped toward Mountain and River Hall, alarming Feng Ji and making Ziji High Person believe the Alliance's reinforcements had arrived.