Chapter Summaries

The Blood Moon Secret Realm advanced to Profound Grade, allowing Wolf Ancestor to reach the Sage Manifestation Realm. He postponed his Heavenly Tribulation and traveled to White Wolf Mound, where he began facing it as the wolves gathered to watch.

• The Blood Moon Secret Realm absorbed the Blood River and void energy until it advanced from Yellow Grade to Profound Grade, triggering sudden enlightenments among Yang Household Cultivators.
• Wolf Ancestor gained insights into the Dao of Heaven and Earth, reached the Domain Realm, and advanced to Sage Manifestation as the secret realm’s origin power surged into him.
• Wolf Ancestor postponed his Heavenly Tribulation and told Yang Tianyou he would face it at White Wolf Mound to keep his identity hidden; Yang Tianyou gave him pills, Law Treasures, and Formation Discs.
• Three days later, Wolf Ancestor gathered the wolves at White Wolf Mound and summoned a Blood Moon as dark clouds and thunder heralded his tribulation.
• Bai Feng Wolf King reassured White Wolf King that the Golden Tortoise Shield would protect Wolf Ancestor, and the first lightning bolt struck.

The Wolf Ancestor endured the Sage Manifestation Tribulation and Heart Demon Tribulation, becoming a Sage Manifestation powerhouse. White Wolf Mound then expanded rapidly, growing into one of the Savage Wilderness Great Domain’s foremost powers.

• The Wolf Ancestor used the Golden Tortoise Shield to withstand the Sage Manifestation Tribulation Lightning while foreign powerhouses gathered to watch.
• The Wolf Ancestor defeated the Heart Demons with his Blood Moon and formally advanced to the Sage Manifestation Realm.
• The Wolf Ancestor absorbed ninety-three strands of Qi of Creation, then welcomed the gathered powerhouses to a banquet at White Wolf Mound.
• White Wolf Mound expanded its territory and recruited demons, with the Yang Household secretly placing Purple Moon Wolves among its members.
• Over ten years, the Blood Moon Wolf Guards grew from three thousand to more than ten thousand, and White Wolf Mound surpassed the Azure Flame Spirit Lion Clan in strength.

Yang Tianyou strengthened his influence over the Mountain and River Hall and cultivated at the Great White Residence, breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage. He then advanced his White Emperor Indestructible Body to the Second Heaven, manifested a towering giant form, and gained the power to roam the Three Great Realms with few able to threaten him.

• Yang Tianyou had infiltrated the Mountain and River Hall and secured the secret allegiance of more than half of its Commandery-Level Powers.
• Yang Tianyou absorbed a tide of Spiritual Qi and broke through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage.
• Yang Tianyou refined Sixth Tier Star Essence and Geng Metal Divine Jade to advance his White Emperor Indestructible Body.
• Yang Tianyou grew to twenty-four hundred zhang tall and discovered that Heaven and Earth Manifestation had come naturally to him.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that only a Void Refinement expert skilled in soul-killing Divine Abilities could likely kill him.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Sage Manifestation Realm in body cultivation, while Yunhua reached Spirit Transformation Great Perfection. He advanced his Annihilation Blade and then began focusing on breaking through his Law Power cultivation to Sage Manifestation.

• Yang Tianyou explained the paths Body Cultivators could take in the Sage Manifestation Realm and how his White Emperor Indestructible Body and dual cultivation shaped his own path.
• Yunhua congratulated Yang Tianyou on his breakthrough and told him the Heavenly Stele Stone Milk Xuanwu had brought back helped her reach Spirit Transformation Great Perfection.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua spent a few days together before entering seclusion, with Yunhua honing her cultivation and Yang Tianyou studying the Blade Dao.
• Yang Tianyou unleashed the Annihilation Blade in the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s Blade Domain, where it devoured the Blade Qi and demonstrated its power to decay body, soul, and will.
• Yang Tianyou reflected that his body cultivation and Blade Dao had advanced, then took another drop of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and continued cultivating toward Sage Manifestation in Law Power.

Yunhua broke through to Sage Manifestation, revealing a Celestial Maiden Dharma Form and awakening an inheritance called the Western Florescence Marvelous Myriad Qi True Scripture. Yang Tianyou prepared to help her face the Heavenly Tribulation before she integrated her Taiyin cultivation into the new method.

• Moonlight enveloped Great White Residence and froze Purple Moon Mountain as Yunhua began her breakthrough.
• Yang Tianyou and Yang Haoyu discussed Yunhua’s cultivation and decided not to conceal the Yang Household’s strength.
• Yunhua manifested the Celestial Maiden Dharma Form after reaching Sage Manifestation.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that she had gained insights into the Immortal Dao and the Western Florescence Marvelous Myriad Qi True Scripture.
• Yang Tianyou hurried to the Lineage treasury to select treasures for Yunhua’s Tribulation Transcendence.

Yunhua underwent her Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation at the Purple Moon Wolf Pool, using her Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form and Life-Bound Law Treasures to overcome the lightning and Heart Demon Tribulation. She successfully ascended to the Sage Manifestation Realm.

• Yang Tianyou prepared layers of Defensive Formations around the Purple Moon Wolf Pool for Yunhua's tribulation.
• Yunhua activated the Ice Crystal Mysterious Armor Formation to withstand the first twenty-seven bolts of Tribulation Lightning.
• Yunhua summoned her Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form and shattered the next several bolts with its power over heaven and earth.
• Yunhua wielded the Ice Soul Divine Pearl and Cold Moon Immortal Sword to defeat the final two bolts of the Four-Nine Tribulation Lightning.
• Yunhua broke through the Heart Demon Tribulation with her Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form and ascended to the Sage Manifestation Realm.

After Yunhua attained the Sage Manifestation Realm, Yang An'nan and Yang Anping pursued resources to advance their Five Elements Sha Origin Art and prepare for the coming war. They targeted the Five Elements Spirit Tribe’s Tianyun Cave, a resource site in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.

• Yunhua overcame the Heavenly Tribulation and received congratulations from the Yang Household and visiting Sage Manifestation powerhouses.
• Yang An'nan cultivated the Five Elements Sha Origin Art and considered the resources needed for himself and Yang Anping to reach the Nascent Soul Realm before the next war.
• Yang An'nan decided to hunt members of the Five Elements Spirit Tribe for their blood, souls, possessions, and bodies, which could also produce valuable Five Sha Origin Liquid.
• Yang An'nan and Yang Anping used intelligence available through the Shadow Hall to choose Spirit Tribe resource-gathering sites instead of heavily defended settlements.
• The brothers set their sights on Tianyun Cave, where more than five hundred Spirit Tribe cultivators and a two-hundred-strong Cultivator Legion guarded valuable resources.

Yang An'nan and Yang Anping raided three Spirit Tribe resource sites, then returned to the Qiongqi Realm with enough resources to pursue breakthroughs. Yang An'nan reached the Nascent Soul Realm first, followed three years later by Yang Anping, and both gained standing in the Yang Household.

• Yang An'nan and Yang Anping broke Tianyun Cave's Protective Formation, defeated its defenders, and escaped with their spoils before the Spirit Tribe Patrol Envoys arrived.
• The brothers raided two more distant Spirit Tribe resource-gathering sites, then Yang An'nan persuaded Yang Anping to stop and return through a Realm Gate.
• Yang An'nan and Yang Anping sold their resources, bought two Nascent Soul Formation Pills and Spirit Items, and entered secluded cultivation.
• Yang An'nan broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and Yang Anping followed three years later.
• Yang An'nan's standing in the Yang Household rose, and he helped Yang Anping obtain a good position.

Yang Xuanyang cultivated in the Blood Tribulation Sea until he reached the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, then killed a Hundred-Eyed Black Blood Ao while driving off powerhouses who tried to steal his prey. Nine months later, he stood over the sea as its waters parted, wondering about the Blood Demon Cave Abode.

• Yang Xuanyang broke through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage after cultivating for twenty-five years in the Blood Tribulation Sea.
• Yang Xuanyang used the Demon Eye Blood Bow and Dragon-Slaying Saber to severely wound a Hundred-Eyed Black Blood Ao.
• An unknown powerhouse attacked Yang Xuanyang and tried to seize the beast, but Yang Xuanyang wounded him with a blood arrow and forced him to flee.
• Yang Xuanyang killed the Hundred-Eyed Black Blood Ao and absorbed its essence while the watching powerhouses called him the Blood-Slaughter Venerable.
• Nine months later, Yang Xuanyang watched the seawater part and wondered whether the Blood Demon Cave Abode had appeared.

Yang Xuanyang entered the Blood Demon Cave Abode and inherited the Blood Demon Elder’s treasures and cultivation legacy. He gained control of the cave abode and began cultivating the Blood Demon Rebirth Divine Ability, preparing for the Interface War with a powerful means of survival.

• Yang Xuanyang used the Demon Eye Blood Bow to open the Blood Demon Cave Abode and entered it.
• Yang Xuanyang explored the cave abode, discovered a peak Sixth-Tier Low-Grade Blood Dragon Tree, and bowed to the Blood Demon Elder’s remains.
• The Blood Demon Elder’s legacy revealed how the Demon Eye Blood Bow had led Yang Xuanyang to the cave abode after nearly thirty years.
• Yang Xuanyang collected the surviving treasures in a Storage Ring and examined the Blood Demon Undying Scripture.
• Yang Xuanyang refined the Blood Demon Cave Abode’s control core and began cultivating the Blood Demon Rebirth Divine Ability.

Yang Xuanwu comprehended the Divine Sun Finger at the seventh Martial Dao Heavenly Stele, triggering a response from all seven steles. The divine light reached the Martial Ancestor in the Immortal Realm, who sent a smaller version of himself to finish his unfinished business and meet the disciple he had never seen.

• Yang Xuanwu entered the vision of Tuo's suppression and watched the Martial Ancestor defeat the Fiend Demon with the Heavenly Stele.
• Yang Xuanwu recognized the Martial Dao Divine Ability as the Divine Sun Finger and spent three years comprehending it.
• Yang Xuanwu passed the final Heavenly Stele, causing all seven steles to tremble and send divine light into the heavens.
• The divine light reached the Martial Ancestor in the Immortal Realm, and he realized his old arrangement had been triggered.
• The Martial Ancestor formed a smaller version of himself from his Qi and Blood and sent it to finish his unfinished business and meet Yang Xuanwu.

The Tianwu Sect’s leaders learned that the Martial Ancestor might be returning after the seven Martial Dao Heavenly Steles sent divine light into the sky. Fearing he would punish the Five Great Lineage for monopolizing the sect and suppressing Martial Dao, they began considering killing him.

• The seven Martial Dao Heavenly Steles sent divine light into the sky, alarming the powers throughout the Qiongqi Realm.
• Tie Cangliu told the Five Great Lineage that the Martial Ancestor had once promised to descend when the Heavenly Steles’ light soared.
• The elders celebrated the Martial Ancestor’s possible return until Chu Yun warned that he might condemn the Five Great Lineage’s tyranny.
• The Ye Household’s Clan Chief suggested that the Martial Ancestor could be killed, and most of the Five Great Lineage’s elders did not object.

After Yang Xuanwu passed the Seven Heavenly Steles’ trials, he learned that his achievement had summoned the Martial Ancestor back to the Qiongqi Realm. The Martial Ancestor descended before the gathered experts, who recognized him and bowed in greeting.

• Tie Cangliu ordered the Tianwu Sect’s disciples to prepare for battle in case the Martial Ancestor moved against the Five Great Lineages.
• The Stele Guardian told Yang Xuanwu that he had become the Martial Ancestor’s Personal Disciple and that the divine light signaled the Martial Ancestor’s descent.
• Experts from across the realms gathered beneath the spatial vortex as the Tianwu Sect’s elders waited tensely.
• An hour after the divine light appeared, the Martial Ancestor stepped out of the vortex and declared that he had finally returned to the Qiongqi Realm.
• Experts recognized the Martial Ancestor, and the Tianwu Sect’s disciples and the gathered crowd bowed to pay their respects.

The Martial Ancestor refused to interfere in the Nine Phoenix Realm’s invasion and entered the Qiongqi Secret Realm to confront Qiongqi. He overwhelmed the Fierce Beast with his prepared powers and began refining the realm, leaving Qiongqi to face death in the Solar Furnace.

• The Martial Ancestor dismissed the experts’ pleas to destroy the Nine Phoenix Realm, then vanished from their gathering.
• The Xuanxin Sect Master and other experts pressured Tie Cangliu to persuade the Martial Ancestor to intervene, and Tie Cangliu promised to try without revealing how little contact he had with him.
• The Martial Ancestor arrived in the ruined Qiongqi Secret Realm, where Qiongqi tried to avoid fighting and offered to spare the Tianwu Sect.
• Qiongqi attacked the Martial Ancestor, but his punch shattered its enormous head and his Divine Sun Finger drove back the black moonlight.
• The Martial Ancestor formed a Solar Furnace around the secret realm and explained that Qiongqi had to die for its destruction of the realm and the living beings within it.
• Qiongqi begged for its life and insisted that the realm’s inhabitants owed it, while the Martial Ancestor intensified the Solar True Fire.

The Martial Ancestor refined the Qiongqi Secret Realm and freed the Seven Great Fiend Demons from Qiongqi’s control. At the Seven Heavenly Steles, he accepted Yang Xuanwu as his personal disciple and explained how Qiongqi had secretly manipulated the realm.

• The Martial Ancestor refined the Qiongqi Secret Realm into a golden sphere after killing Qiongqi’s consciousness.
• The Seven Great Fiend Demons lost their immortal bodies but gained free souls, and they thanked the Martial Ancestor for sparing them to resist the Nine Phoenix Realm’s invasion.
• At Rising Sun Plain, Tie Cangliu grew hostile toward Yang Xuanwu as the Martial Ancestor appeared and praised his nearly three thousand opened apertures.
• The Martial Ancestor named Yang Xuanwu his personal disciple, and Yang Xuanwu knelt to accept him as Master.
• The Martial Ancestor brought Yang Xuanwu into the Heavenly Stele Space and explained Qiongqi’s plot, the Heaven’s Mandate, and the creation of the seven steles.

The Martial Ancestor explained the Realm War, the limits on Immortals interfering in lower realms, and the great status of Heavenly Immortals. He left Yang Xuanwu understanding that the White Sky Heavenly Lord was unlikely to intervene in the war.

• The Martial Ancestor told Yang Xuanwu that he had spent the past month killing Qiongqi, whose plan to consume the realm had been disrupted by the Realm War.
• The Martial Ancestor warned Yang Xuanwu that Nine Phoenix might possess a powerful Heavenly Mandate Race capable of defeating several realms.
• The Martial Ancestor explained that Immortals and Gods needed a connection and usually a Heavenly Edict to descend and interfere in lower realms, and that unauthorized intervention could bring punishment.
• Yang Xuanwu asked about the White Sky Heavenly Lord, and the Martial Ancestor explained that only Heavenly Immortals could bear the title of Heavenly Lord.
• The Martial Ancestor described Heavenly Immortals as rare and powerful, then said the White Sky Heavenly Lord was unlikely to answer a summons or interfere in the Realm War.

Yang Xuanwu received the Martial Ancestor’s teachings about his lineages, senior disciples, and the Heavenly Stele World-Suppressing Mystical Art. After awakening, he discovered the Martial Ancestor had left him a colossal sphere of Solar Essence Gold.

• The Martial Ancestor promised to use his avatar, sustained by the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele, to stop the Nine Phoenix Realm’s Immortal and God ancestors if Yang Xuanwu could counterattack.
• The Martial Ancestor told Yang Xuanwu about the Tianwu Sect, the Divine Martial Dao, and his senior disciples, including Ninth Senior Sister Tantai Ling.
• The Martial Ancestor passed the Heavenly Stele World-Suppressing Mystical Art to Yang Xuanwu and left a golden sphere for him with the Stele Guardian.
• The Martial Ancestor gave Yang Kun a fortuitous opportunity, then sealed his avatar inside a statue in the Spirit Lake.
• Yang Xuanwu woke, studied the mystical art’s powers, and recognized the golden sphere as a thousand-foot-diameter piece of Solar Essence Gold.

Yang Xuanwu began forming the Seven Martial Alliance Academies to unite the Qiongqi Realm’s Martial Cultivators and challenge the Tianwu Sect. As the Tianwu Sect prepared to compete for recruits, Yang Xuanwu set out to build a neutral academy network that could strengthen the realm’s Martial Dao and gather its Fortune.

• Yunhua received news and mobilized the Yang Household to spread the Martial Ancestor’s Personal Disciple’s call to establish the Martial Alliance.
• Yang Xuanye announced across the Qiongqi Realm that Martial Cultivators could join the alliance by passing an assessment at one of the Seven Martial Dao Heavenly Steles.
• Tie Cangliu and the Five Great Lineage leaders rejected the alliance’s challenge and ordered the Tianwu Sect to open its Scripture Repository and recruit Martial Cultivators on a grand scale.
• Yang Xuanwu planned seven main academies around the Martial Dao Heavenly Steles, with the Seven Stele Guardians serving as inspectors to keep the system neutral.
• Yang Xuanwu intended to expand the academies across the Qiongqi Realm, spread martial arts, and bear the realm’s Martial Fortune.

The Martial Alliance grew rapidly as the Seven Martial Dao Heavenly Steles drew Martial Cultivators away from the Tianwu Sect, whose efforts to retain them were undermined by internal divisions. Eighteen years after Yunhua reached Sage Manifestation, Yang Tianyou completed tempering his Law Power and stood on the threshold of Sage Manifestation.

• The Seven Martial Dao Heavenly Steles supplied rich cultivation resources, abundant inheritances, and protected sites that helped the seven martial academies develop quickly.
• Martial Cultivators, including defectors from the Tianwu Sect, joined the Martial Alliance in large numbers, while Tie Cangliu and the sect elders worried over their losses.
• Tianwu Sect elders considered attacking the Yang Household, but Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm powerhouses prevented them from acting against it.
• The Tianwu Sect lowered its requirements and gave up some Five Great Lineage privileges to attract recruits, but members of the Five Great Lineage forced it to abandon the policy.
• The Tianwu Sect's broken promises further strengthened Martial Cultivators' resolve to join the Martial Alliance, which grew into a powerful force over several years.
• Eighteen years after Yunhua broke through to Sage Manifestation, Yang Tianyou finished tempering his Law Power and reached the threshold of Sage Manifestation.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Sage Manifestation Realm and formed the White Emperor Dharma Form as a starry phenomenon covered Purple Moon Mountain. With his tribulation supplies ready, he set out for Wolf Pool to complete his advancement.

• Yang Tianyou absorbed Heavenly Stele Stone Milk and pushed through the gates to Sage Manifestation.
• Starlight descended over Purple Moon Mountain, and Yang Household members gathered at the Great White Residence, where Yunhua confirmed that Yang Tianyou had broken through.
• Yang Tianyou condensed the White Emperor Dharma Form, an imperial figure riding a White Tiger Divine Beast and wielding a long saber.
• Yang Tianyou emerged from seclusion and told Yang Haoyu that he would fully attain Sage Manifestation after transcending the tribulation.
• Yunhua said she had prepared the Spirit Items, and Yang Tianyou led the household members toward Wolf Pool to transcend the tribulation.