Chapter Summaries

Yang Yusheng and the allied forces of the Qiongqi Realm and Lu Wu Realm broke the Nine Phoenix Realm’s defenses at Yan Lake and routed its army. Three days later, Yan Lake was clear of living Nine Phoenix Realm powerhouses.

• Yang Yusheng ordered the Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm forces to attack the Defensive Barrier around Yan Lake.
• Xiao shattered the barrier after repeated hammer blows, and the Nine Phoenix Realm army charged into battle.
• Yang Yusheng and Yang Xuangang led the Purple Moon Army’s First and Second Legions to annihilate two Nine Phoenix Realm corps.
• Xiao destroyed a War Fortress while Shu used his sonic attacks to disrupt the Nine Phoenix Realm forces.
• The allied forces routed the Nine Phoenix Realm army within a day, and three days later no Nine Phoenix Realm powerhouses remained alive across Yan Lake.

After the Lu Wu Realm helped the Qiongqi Realm reclaim territory from the Nine Phoenix Realm, the Yang Household received resources and land for its part in the campaign. At Great White Residence, Yang Tianyou presented his wife with a Supreme Yin Nether Spring suited to her constitution.

• Yang Yusheng and Yang Xuangang left Yan Lake with the Purple Moon Army to help clear Nine-Phoenix Realm remnants along the Qiongqi Realm's eastern coast.
• Over the next half month, the Qiongqi Realm and Lu Wu Realm retook territory and sealed six Large Realm Gates, while their probing attack on the World Interstice failed.
• The Qiongqi Realm delivered resources and territory to the Lu Wu Realm as agreed, and the Yang Household received resources and land equivalent to five commanderies.
• Yang Tianyou took a Supreme Yin Nether Spring from a Storage Ring and offered it to his wife, explaining that it suited her constitution.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua prepared to advance Yunhua’s treasures, while Yang Tianyou selected Yang Xuanye to lead the Yang Household’s new Qiongqi Realm branch. Yang Xuanye received his transfer and warned the Purple Moon Archipelago elders to curb their corruption before the stricter new Clan Chief arrived.

• Yunhua examined the Supreme Yin Nether Spring and decided its Yin Sha Qi could strengthen the Cold Moon Immortal Sword without harming her, since her True Spirit had grown powerful through her past-life inheritance.
• Yang Tianyou agreed that Yunhua could advance both the Cold Moon Immortal Sword and the Ice Soul Divine Pearl, then ordered two Sixth-Tier ice-attribute Spirit Materials from the Alliance Treasury.
• Yang Tianyou considered candidates to lead the Qiongqi Realm branch and settled on Yang Xuanye.
• Yang Xuanye told the Purple Moon Archipelago elders that he had been transferred to the Qiongqi Realm as Clan Chief and that a new leader would take his place.
• Yang Xuanye warned the elders that the incoming Clan Chief had a bad temper and would punish corruption, while some elders remained unconcerned.

Yang Xuanwu traveled through Dongyue City and saw how Qiongqi Realm cultivators abused and killed mortals, deepening his understanding of the realm’s Devil Cultivators. After two Nascent Soul cultivators tried to ambush him outside the city, he crushed them and disappeared.

• Yang Xuanwu observed the misery of Qiongqi Realm mortals and reflected on how the realm’s cultivators exploited them.
• Two Devil Cultivators watched Yang Xuanwu in Dongyue City and planned to kill him for a Blood Elixir.
• Yang Xuanwu left the city after gathering Martial Dao resources, and the two cultivators attacked him a hundred li away.
• Yang Xuanwu revealed his many Apertures, caught the fleeing Devil Cultivators, and crushed them to death.
• Yang Xuanwu vanished, and two strands of Divine Sense from Dongyue City searched the area before withdrawing.

Yang Xuanwu arrived at a Martial Dao Heavenly Stele and learned how it had grown in power and suppressed the Seven Great Fiend Demons for sixty thousand years. As he approached, he prepared to make the most of his first chance to comprehend the Martial Dao.

• Yang Xuanwu approached the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele on foot with reverence.
• He saw the Merit Golden Light surrounding the stele and recalled that the Martial Ancestor had created seven steles to suppress the Seven Great Fiend Demons.
• He reflected that the steles had grown through absorbing the power of heaven and earth and that Heavenly Punishment prevented anyone from damaging them.
• Yang Xuanwu felt the pressure and heard heavenly sounds grow stronger as he drew nearer to the stele.
• Yang Xuanwu reminded himself that a first visit offered the greatest chance for insight and continued forward.

Yang Xuanwu endured the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele’s pressure, opened more than eight hundred Apertures, and touched the stele to enter an epiphany. As he comprehended its inheritance, several greedy Yang God experts planned to seize him once its protection disappeared, while Yang Kun stood against them.

• Yang Xuanwu advanced to within a thousand zhang of the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele using only his Aperture Opening cultivation and without opening his Apertures.
• Yang Xuanwu opened his Apertures one after another, surpassing eight hundred as he reached out and touched the Heavenly Stele.
• The Heavenly Stele’s clear heavenly sound filled Yang Xuanwu’s mind and plunged him into an epiphany.
• Yang Kun warned several greedy Yang God experts not to attack Yang Xuanwu, but the goateed old man proposed waiting for the stele’s protective layer to withdraw before seizing him.

Yang Xuanwu advanced along the Martial Dao Star Road, where contemplation strengthened his Immortal-Martial Path and his Martial Dao Will fused with his soul, bringing him close to the Yang God Realm. He chose to preserve his Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit and continue the Immortal-Martial Path, then reached the road’s end and entered an immense earth-yellow star containing a Martial Ancestor inheritance.

• Yang Xuanwu saw that the stars represented Martial Dao Divine Abilities and resolved to pursue the Martial Dao’s full potential.
• As he contemplated the principles of the Martial Dao, his Martial Dao Will took shape and fused painfully with his soul, turning it pure gold.
• Yang Xuanwu realized he had taken the first steps toward the Yang God Realm but worried that his current physical realm could not withstand his Yang God.
• Yang Xuanwu decided to keep his Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit separate and continue along the Immortal-Martial Path, planning to unite his Apertures before fusing his Yang God with his body.
• Yang Xuanwu reached the deepest part of the Martial Dao Star Road and saw an immense earth-yellow star that he recognized as a reward left by the Martial Ancestor.
• Yang Xuanwu plunged into the earth-yellow star to claim its inheritance.

Yang Xuanwu witnessed the Martial Ancestor use Mountain-Splitting to smash Mang and then comprehended the Divine Ability for four months beneath the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele. When he awoke and the Stele’s protection vanished, the waiting Yang God cultivators moved to seize him while Xiang Lin restrained Yang Kun.

• Yang Xuanwu watched the Martial Ancestor destroy the Heaven-Supporting Mountain Pillar, crush Mang with Mountain-Splitting, and pin the fiend beneath a stone stele.
• Yang Xuanwu comprehended Mountain-Splitting while Yang Kun and three Yang God cultivators waited outside the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele’s protective layer.
• The goateed old man assigned Xiang Lin to restrain Yang Kun while he and the dark-skinned man seized Yang Xuanwu.
• After another month, Yang Xuanwu opened his eyes, and the Heavenly Stele’s protective layer broke apart.
• The goateed old man shouted for the attack, and Xiang Lin sent emerald vines to surround Yang Kun.

Yang Xuanwu was rescued from three Yang God experts by the Stele Guardian and was recognized as eligible to become the Martial Ancestor’s Registered Disciple. The Guardian explained the rewards and duties of the title, while Yang Kun eagerly tried to attach himself to Yang Xuanwu.

• Yang Xuanwu was attacked by the goateed elder and the dark-skinned burly man, but the Stele Guardian blocked their assault with the Mountain-Splitting Divine Ability.
• The Stele Guardian warned the attackers not to touch Yang Xuanwu, and they withdrew, vowing to wait for him outside the Tianbei Mountain Range.
• Yang Xuanwu thanked Yang Kun for helping him, while both men wondered why the Stele Guardian had intervened on his behalf.
• The Stele Guardian declared Yang Xuanwu qualified to become the Martial Ancestor’s Registered Disciple because he had opened more than a thousand apertures and comprehended the Mountain-Splitting Divine Ability.
• The Stele Guardian explained that the title offered Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and could lead to becoming the Martial Ancestor’s Personal Disciple and Tianwu Sect’s Next Sect Master, in return for carrying on the Martial Dao legacy.
• Yang Kun was told he could not become the Martial Ancestor’s disciple, then clung to Yang Xuanwu and called him his little brother.

Yang Xuanwu accepted the Martial Ancestor’s Registered Disciple status and entered the Heavenly Stele, where he received ten drops of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk. He left the Heavenly Stele and gave Yang Kun one drop, then began meditating beneath it while Yang Kun talked about the ongoing interface war.

• The Stele Guardian explained that only a Personal Disciple could take on the Fortune of the Martial Dao in the Qiongqi Realm, then asked Yang Xuanwu to accept Registered Disciple status.
• Yang Xuanwu accepted, entered the Heavenly Stele with the Stele Guardian, and received permission to cultivate there but not to bring others inside.
• Yang Xuanwu collected ten drops of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk from the lake of Spirit Liquid, then the Stele Guardian sent him back outside.
• Yang Kun asked Yang Xuanwu to sell him some Heavenly Stele Stone Milk, and Yang Xuanwu gave him one drop as thanks for his help.
• Yang Xuanwu sat down to meditate beneath the Heavenly Stele while Yang Kun suggested waiting for the interface war to let them leave.

Yang Xuanwu’s reinforcements arrived as Yang Yusheng led the Purple Moon Army First Legion against the three Yang God experts. The Vermilion Bird Divine Beast broke their coordinated assault and left the battle in the army’s favor.

• Yang Xuanwu left the Tianbei Mountain Range with Yang Kun and faced the three Yang God experts waiting outside.
• A Vermilion Bird Divine Beast carrying Yang Yusheng and the Purple Moon Army arrived, and Yang Xuanwu identified the experts as their targets.
• Yang Yusheng ordered the Purple Moon Army to kill the intruders and thrust his spear to begin the attack.
• Xiang Lin restrained the Vermilion Bird with vines, the dark-skinned man charged it, and the goateed elder fired a blood-powered arrow from his devil bow.
• The Vermilion Bird burned away Xiang Lin’s vines, set the dark-skinned man ablaze, and tore the goateed elder’s arrow apart.

The Purple Moon Army trapped and overwhelmed three Yang God experts after they tried to seize the rewards for Lu Wu Realm’s powerful young cultivator. The three offered compensation, but when Yang Yusheng rejected their first payment and they threatened to fight, the army resumed its lethal attack, forcing them to beg to negotiate.

• The Purple Moon Army deployed the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation and used its Death Gate to corrode the three Yang Gods with death Qi.
• The goateed elder suffered severe injuries and lost much of his combat strength after the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast destroyed his arrow and the Death Gate further damaged him.
• The three Yang Gods admitted defeat, and the goateed elder offered a Sixth Tier Divine Blood Crystal while his companions presented other treasures.
• Yang Yusheng refused the compensation as insufficient, and the dark-skinned man threatened to fight, so Yang Yusheng reopened the Death Gate and ordered the Purple Moon Army to strike to kill.
• The goateed elder, unable to withstand the attack, pleaded with Yang Yusheng to stop and discuss a price they could pay.

Yang Yusheng settled the Purple Moon Army’s conflict with three Yang Gods and returned with their treasures, including the Demon Eye Blood Bow. Yang Tianyou received the bow and Heavenly Stele Stone Milk, then sensed that the demonic weapon suited Yang Xuanyang’s cultivation technique.

• Yang Yusheng made the three Yang Gods sign a Cause-and-Effect Contract, accepted their treasures, and let them leave through the Life Gate.
• Demon Eye explained that he gave up the Demon Eye Blood Bow because it drained his Origin Power and threatened his life.
• Yang Yusheng greeted Yang Xuanwu, who entrusted him with Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and a Jade Slip for Nineteenth Uncle before heading toward the Boundless Marsh with Yang Kun.
• A month later, Yang Tianyou examined the Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and the Demon Eye Blood Bow at Purple Moon Mountain, concluding that Yang Xuanwu’s opportunity lay with the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele.
• The Demon Eye Blood Bow attacked Yang Tianyou with Demonic Thought and Devil Qi, but his Great Perfection Blade Force subdued it.
• Yang Tianyou noticed that the bow’s presence matched Yang Xuanyang’s Blood Prison Demon-Slaying Canon.

Yang Tianyou tested the Heavenly Stele Stone Milk, confirmed that it greatly accelerated cultivation and strengthened foundations, then planned its distribution among the Yang Lineage. He continued training the Annihilation Blade in the Dao Comprehension Space, convinced that perfecting the technique would let him attain Blade Domain.

• Yang Tianyou consumed a drop of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and found that it directly fueled his cultivation while stabilizing his foundation.
• After five days of cultivation, Yang Tianyou estimated that one drop could carry him to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage and decided how to distribute the remaining drops.
• Yang Tianyou assigned four drops to Zhiming to refine into pills for Yang Xuanyang, Yang Yusheng, the Bonded Spirit Beasts, and the Lineage's chosen.
• Yang Tianyou sent Black and White to deliver the Demon Eye Blood Bow to Yang Xuanyang in the Qiongqi Realm, then returned to cultivation.
• In the Dao Comprehension Space, Yang Tianyou used the Annihilation Blade against a surging river of blades, but his will-body shattered.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that perfecting the Annihilation Blade would bring him to Blade Domain.

At Spirit Immortal Island, Yang Xuanye gave his son Yang Yuhao five precious Stone Milk Pills and warned him to keep them secret. He then summoned Yang An'nan, whom he regarded as a promising and loyal talent worth nurturing, giving Yang An'nan a chance to gain the Lineage's support.

• Yang Yuhao told Yang Xuanye that Yang An'nan had arrived, and Yang Xuanye gave his son five Fourth-Tier Peak-Grade Stone Milk Pills from the Lineage.
• Yang Xuanye warned Yang Yuhao that the pills could attract dangerous enemies if their existence became known.
• Yang Xuanye explained to Yang Yuhao that Yang An'nan's shrewdness, ruthlessness, and loyalty made him worth supporting despite his poor aptitude and humble beginnings.
• Yang Yuhao praised Yang An'nan and told him to make the most of Yang Xuanye's summons.
• Yang An'nan entered the palace, excited that Yang Xuanye's attention might change his fortunes.

Yang An'nan received a Shadow Hall Elder's token and a secret assignment from Yang Xuanye to take control of the Kunyuan Sect. He planned to exploit a fabricated cave-abode discovery to kill an elder and destabilize the sect, leaving him poised to begin the operation.

• Yang Xuanye gave Yang An'nan a Shadow Hall Elder's token and a Jade Slip containing his assignment, promising the token permanently if he performed exceptionally well.
• Yang An'nan learned that he was to secretly take control of the Kunyuan Sect and make it a Yang Household foothold within Chenke Gate's territory.
• In Kunyuan City, Yang An'nan explained to Yang Anping that they would sow discord between the sect master's faction and the elders' faction, then exploit the resulting imbalance to gain influence.
• Yang An'nan planned to use Shadow Hall personnel and intelligence to pressure the weaker faction and gradually place Yang Household members inside the Kunyuan Sect.
• Yang An'nan arranged for a false report to announce a Nascent Soul Late Stage Rogue Cultivator's cave abode on Yufeng Mountain, where he intended to kill an elder from the Kunyuan Sect's elders' faction.

Wu Zhenzi and a Mingjing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator broke the barrier around a cave abode, then barred Rogue Cultivators from entering. Yang An'nan and Yang Anping waited until a Great Demon killed the sect disciples and opened the Portal, then joined the Rogue Cultivators rushing inside.

• Wu Zhenzi and a Mingjing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator combined their attacks to break the cave abode's Formation barrier.
• The Kunyuan Sect and Mingjing Sect entered the cave abode and blocked Rogue Cultivators from following.
• Yang An'nan considered exploiting the conflict between Rogue Cultivators and the Qiongqi Realm's great powers, while Yang Anping urged him to act.
• After waiting for more than half a shichen, Yang An'nan spotted a Great Demon approaching the cave abode.
• The Great Demon killed the disciples guarding the Portal and blew it open, allowing the Rogue Cultivators, including Yang An'nan and Yang Anping, to rush inside.

Wuzhenzi and a Mingjing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator entered the cave abode, where a demon ambushed them and killed Wuzhenzi. Three days later, Kunyuan True Person considered how the loss weakened the elders' faction and strengthened his own control of the Kunyuan Sect.

• Wuzhenzi and the Mingjing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator looted the cave abode and tried to break the Palace's Formation barrier to reach its treasures.
• A demon attacked, and Wuzhenzi and the Mingjing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator fled, abandoning their disciples.
• The demon destroyed Wuzhenzi's Golden Sha Scissors, crushed him, and scattered his Nascent Soul.
• Three days later, Kunyuan True Person convened with the sect, grieving publicly while recognizing that Wuzhenzi's death left the elders' faction weakened.
• Kunyuan True Person anticipated that control of the Kunyuan Sect's resources would help him advance his cultivation and eventually dominate the sect.

After Wu Zhenzi’s death, True Person Kunyuan used the weakened elder faction to seize key positions in the Kunyuan Sect. Yang An'nan engineered a conflict between the factions, killed True Person Kunyuan, and took control of the sect.

• True Person Kunyuan avoided hunting Wu Zhenzi’s killer and pushed through a vote that gave the Law Enforcement Hall leadership to his faction.
• Over the following months, the Sect Master Faction took control of many sect interests and positions while the elder faction lost ground.
• Yang An'nan told Yang Anping he planned to assassinate Wudaozi and frame True Person Kunyuan to escalate the faction conflict.
• An assassin gravely wounded Wudaozi, and rumors and fabricated evidence convinced many elders that True Person Kunyuan had ordered the attack.
• Yang An'nan used the resulting turmoil to bring more Kunyuan Sect cultivators under his control and killed True Person Kunyuan when he tried to seek help from Chenke Gate.
• Yang An'nan gained control of the entire Kunyuan Sect.

Yang An'nan and Yang Anping discovered the Five Elements Sha Origin Art and decided to use the Five Elements Spirit Tribe’s blood and souls to cultivate it, while Yang An'nan earned a Shadow Hall Elder position. In the Blood Tribulation Sea, Yang Xuanyang followed the Demon Eye Blood Bow to a fortuitous opportunity and destroyed a Ten Thousand-Toothed Blood Whale, which his weapons devoured.

• Yang Anping and Yang An'nan studied the Five Elements Sha Origin Art and planned to use the Five Elements Spirit Tribe as its catalyst.
• Yang Xuanye appointed Yang An'nan a Shadow Hall Elder, and Yang Anping celebrated his new status.
• Yang Xuanyang entered the Blood Tribulation Sea with the Dragon-Slaying Saber and Demon Eye Blood Bow after the bow indicated a fortuitous opportunity.
• A Ten Thousand-Toothed Blood Whale attacked Yang Xuanyang, and he used the Demon Eye Blood Bow and Dragon-Slaying Saber to kill it.
• The Dragon-Slaying Saber, Demon Eye Blood Bow, and Yang Xuanyang absorbed the whale's blood, soul, and Sha Qi, leaving Yang Xuanyang regretting that he had not saved meat for Spirit Cuisine.