Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou crafted powerful Talisman Soldiers and life-saving talismans during two years of seclusion. With three years left before the fourth stage of the Realm War, he emerged with new forces and resources prepared for the conflict.

• Yang Tianyou refined materials and created Bai Gang, a Sixth-Tier Upper-Grade White Tiger Talisman Soldier whose strength rivaled a Late Sage Manifestation expert.
• Yang Tianyou made thirteen more White Tiger Talisman Soldiers, bringing the new total to fourteen, but nearly exhausted his Weapon Sha Qi and Soul Liquid.
• Yang Tianyou spent two more years making three Divine Wind Talisman Soldiers, Revolving Wheel Soul-Gathering Talismans, and Undying Phoenix Talismans.
• Yang Tianyou emerged from seclusion with three years remaining before the fourth stage of the Realm War began.

Yang Tianyou prepared to plunder high-level resources when the Realm War resumed, while Yan Kong passed the Heavenly Demon Forbidden Land’s tests and received his freedom. Shanhai then organized the Yang Household’s group to raid major powers for spirit veins and spirit medicine.

• Yang Tianyou found that Heavenly Stele Stone Milk had become less effective and decided to seek high-level spirit medicine and Spirit Vein Essence before the Realm War resumed.
• Yang Tiankang, Yang Tianxue, and Shanhai watched Yan Kong defeat the golden ape, and Shanhai explained that Yan Kong’s bloodlines were becoming unbalanced as his Explosive Flame Divine Ape bloodline grew stronger.
• Yan Kong passed the golden ape’s tests and followed him into the gray mist to receive the Heavenly Demon Forbidden Land’s legacy.
• Shanhai received Yang Tianyou’s orders to raid major powers after the Fourth Stage of the Interface War began, using Formation-Breaking Talismans, space-attribute Spirit Items, and the Beacon-Fire Sword.
• Yang Tiankang, Yang Tianxue, and Shanhai began choosing targets on a map of the Nine Phoenix Realm, and Yan Kong joined them after emerging from the gray mist.

Two years later, Yang Tianyou prepared for Shanhai and his allies’ operation in the Nine Phoenix Realm while reviewing the Yang Household’s vast growth over the past decades. He left confident in the Lineage’s strength and resources, though its plans for higher cultivation still depended on taking what it needed from the Nine Phoenix Realm.

• Yang Tianyou stored the Formation-Breaking Talismans and considered how his Sixth-Tier Formless Insect, alongside the Void Worm and Nine-Phoenix Kunwu, could aid Shanhai’s operation.
• Yang Tianyou noted that Nine-Phoenix Kunwu had gained the Nine-Phoenix Clan’s trust and might be sent to hunt Shanhai and the others if they caused trouble in the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Yang Household’s Lineage had grown to more than two million Cultivators and urged his clansmen to have more children.
• Yang Tianyou reviewed the Household’s military growth, including fifty-three Sixth-Tier War Flying Vessels, repaired War Fortresses, and a Purple Moon Army capable of fighting at the peak of Early Void Refinement.
• Yang Tianyou noted the Lineage’s new Sage Manifestation Cultivators, Sacred Body prodigies, Spirit Veins, and prosperous cities, while recognizing that its ambitions for higher cultivation depended on seizing resources from the Nine Phoenix Realm.

The Nine Phoenix Emperor offered the other clans an additional thirty percent share of the Nine-Phoenix Secret Realm in exchange for their support in the Realm War. The Sky Fox Old Ancestor refused to commit forces because the Red Dust Demon Venerable’s Devil Cultivators were devastating the Demon Race, leaving the other six great clans to prepare to attack the Lu Wu Realm without them.

• The Nine Phoenix Emperor offered another thirty percent share of the Nine-Phoenix Secret Realm, leaving the Nine-Phoenix Clan with only twenty percent.
• Daoist Taiyi, the Fire Spirit Tribe's Grand Elder, the Fire-Bathing Tribe's Clan Chief, the Giant Spirit Sage, and the King of the Divine Wind Clan pledged armies and Void Refinement combat strength for the war.
• The Sky Fox Old Ancestor refused to send many forces because Devil Cultivators were attacking the Demon Race.
• The Giant Spirit Sage described how the Red Dust Demon Venerable's forces had devastated the Ten Thousand Demon Continent and forced the Sky Fox Old Ancestor to defend it.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor accepted the Sky Fox Old Ancestor's refusal and vowed that the six great clans would take the Lu Wu Realm with their combined strength.

At the Lu Wu Realm Alliance headquarters, Yang Tianyou revealed that the Nine Phoenix Realm was committing more than twenty Void Refinement combatants to an all-out invasion. The Alliance leaders began assessing their defenses, and Yang Tianyou concluded that the Western Continent was the likeliest target.

• Yang Tianyou told the Alliance leaders that the Nine Phoenix Realm’s six great clans would deploy more than twenty Void Refinement combatants, while the Demon Race was held back by allies from the Demon Sea.
• Yang Tianyou explained that the Nine Phoenix Realm could rebuild its armies by using a Military Dao Forbidden Technique and was willing to sacrifice many soldiers to win the war.
• The Alliance leaders discussed their limited forces, the possibility of seeking help from Senior Heavenly Lord, and their resolve to defend the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang Tianyou assessed the six major regions and judged the Western Continent to be the easiest breakthrough point for the invading army.
• The Yinyue Empress’s face changed drastically when Yang Tianyou identified the Western Continent as the likely target.

The Alliance planned to reinforce the Western Continent against a likely Nine Phoenix Realm attack, and Yang Tianyou arranged to obtain Spirit Vein Essence from Lin Yingyue. Lin Yingyue gave Shanhai enough essence to upgrade the Western Continent’s Spirit Vein, then wondered about Shanhai and the power that seemed to protect him.

• The Alliance leaders agreed to strengthen the Western Continent’s defenses, with Lanke Temple at their heart, after concluding it was the Nine Phoenix Realm’s likeliest invasion route.
• Yang Tianyou swore that only four drops of Heavenly Stele Stone Milk remained, then proposed trading with Lin Yingyue for Spirit Vein Essence.
• Yang Tianyou said the Yang Household would contact the Devil Cultivators, and the Alliance leaders approved.
• Lin Yingyue met Shanhai in the void and gave him a Storage Ring containing enough Spirit Vein Essence to raise the Western Continent’s Spirit Vein by one tier.
• After Shanhai departed with the Void Worm, Lin Yingyue questioned his origins and the force that warned him not to attack.

The Nine Phoenix Realm invaded the Western Continent through the Realm Gate, where the Lu Wu Realm’s allied forces tried to cripple its legions before they could assemble. After the Nine-Phoenix Army emerged and forced a retreat, the invading forces gathered and advanced toward Lanke Temple.

• At Lanke Temple, Yang Tianyou and the Alliance leaders discovered the Buddhist Sect’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation and agreed to conceal its fluctuations from the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Half a year later, the Realm Gate expanded to twenty-four thousand meters, and the Nine Phoenix Realm’s Giant Stone Legion charged into the Western Continent.
• Yang Tianyou and the allied armies attacked the invading legions, severely damaging the Giant Stone Legion, the Lava Army Corps, and the War Demon Legion, but ten Void Refinement Legions passed through the gate.
• A nine-headed Flame Divine Phoenix emerged, spreading a vast sea of fire, and Yang Tianyou ordered the Lu Wu Realm’s forces to retreat.
• The Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces did not pursue the retreating armies; they assembled beyond the Realm Gate and advanced toward Lanke Temple.

The Lu Wu Realm’s leaders divided up the Nine Phoenix Realm’s Void Refinement forces, while the Yang Household and its allies launched raids across enemy territory. As the Nine-Phoenix Army reached Lanke Temple, Old Man Zhui Dao stepped forward to engage it.

• Yang Tianyou reported that the Nine Phoenix Realm had deployed twenty-three forces with Void Refinement combat power, and Lu Wu Realm leaders assigned opponents among their armies and sects.
• Venerable Dikong pledged that the Buddhist Sect would hold off nine Void Refinement opponents, and Yang Tianyou promised to support him after defeating his own foes.
• Yang Tiankang, Shanhai, and their companions destroyed a Sixth-Tier Spirit Vein in Flame Sun City, killed an Explosive Flame Divine Ape, and continued raiding the Ten Thousand Demon Continent.
• Lin Yingyue’s Demon Sea Devil Cultivators destroyed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Kingdom’s capital and escaped the Sky Fox Old Ancestor, while Yang Tiankang’s group exploited the turmoil to plunder Spirit Veins.
• Yang Xuanwu and the Qiongqi Realm’s forces attacked the Nine Phoenix Realm’s encampment and won repeated battles while other Qiongqi fighters disrupted enemy forces.
• At Lanke Temple, Old Man Zhui Dao enveloped himself and the Nine-Phoenix Army in his Yin-Yang Daoist Robe to carry out the plan.

The Sacred Martial Emperor and three allied rulers held off the Eastern King Army, while Buddhist fighters and other Lu Wu Realm forces engaged the Nine Phoenix Realm. Yang Tianyou and Yunhua faced the Divine Wind Army Commander, who survived Yunhua’s powerful sword strike by sacrificing soldiers and prepared to use two talismans.

• The Sacred Martial Emperor and the rulers of the Sun-Moon Empire, the Hanwu Empire, and the Grand Mystery Empire formed a golden star and restrained the Eastern King Army.
• Venerable Dikong and a Buddhist Sect Tribulation Transcendence Old Ancestor entered the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation, which drew nine Nine Phoenix Realm Void Refinement combatants inside.
• The Wind-Thunder Griffin attacked Yang Tianyou and Yunhua, but Yunhua used the Western Hua Divine Statue to merge their presence with the sky and avoid harm.
• Yang Tianyou urged Yunhua to use her Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword, and her strike forced the Divine Wind Army Commander to sacrifice three thousand soldiers to withstand it.
• The Divine Wind Army Commander noticed Yang Tianyou and Yunhua’s weakened presence, doubted whether it was a trap, and took out two Wind Blade Heaven-Rolling Talismans.

Yunhua and Yang Tianyou lured the Divine Wind Army Commander into attacking, then used the Marvelous Luo Incantation and a prepared ambush to destroy the Divine Wind Army Corps. Elsewhere, the Purple Moon Army fought the Giant God Army Corps with the White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Formation.

• Yunhua repeatedly countered the Divine Wind Army Commander's storms with the Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword, making the Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form appear to weaken.
• The Divine Wind Army Commander attacked Yang Tianyou and Yunhua, and Yunhua trapped his army with the Marvelous Luo Incantation.
• Yunhua's Cold Moon Immortal Sword killed eight thousand Divine Wind Clan soldiers, and her Myriad Qi Divine Flame cut the corps' strength in half.
• The Divine Wind Army Commander tried to flee, but Yunhua used the Ice Soul Divine Pearl's Taiyin Divine Light to immobilize the corps, and the Yang Household destroyed it.
• The Purple Moon Army fought the Giant God Army Corps with the White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Formation, which Yang Yusheng controlled using the Military Sha Sacred Body.

The Purple Moon Army battled the Giant God Army Corps while Yang Tianyou and his wife destroyed the Divine Wind Army Corps. Yunhua and the others trapped and devastated the Giant God formation, which was ultimately destroyed.

• Yang Yusheng used the White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Formation to break the Giant God Army Commander's shield, but the commander retaliated with a Falling Star Fire Bomb that the Purple Moon Army extinguished using the Xuanwu Suppressing Sea Formation.
• Yang Tianyou and his wife feigned weakness, then used the Marvelous Luo Incantation to rout and wipe out the Divine Wind Army Corps.
• The Giant God Army Commander tried to withdraw, but Xuanming Qi slowed the Giant God while Yunhua immobilized it with the Marvelous Luo Incantation.
• Yang Yusheng changed the Purple Moon Army into the White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Formation, whose attack killed more than a thousand Giant Spirit Tribe soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou and his wife engulfed the Giant God in Myriad Qi Divine Flame, killing another two thousand soldiers before the Purple Moon Army and the couple destroyed the weakened Giant God Army Corps.

Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household shifted the battle by destroying four Nine Phoenix Realm forces and crippling another, but the Water Tribe was lost after the Giant Stone Legion used a blood sacrifice. Yang Tianyou then moved his allies into the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation to support the Buddhist Sect before the enemy’s strongest forces could intervene.

• Yang Tianyou sent Yang Yusheng to support the Water Tribe and led his wife to help the Witch Tribe, ordering the use of the Military Dao Forbidden Technique.
• Yang Yusheng sacrificed five thousand clansmen to strengthen the Purple Moon Army, but the Giant Stone Legion Commander also sacrificed five thousand and made his legion’s defenses nearly unbreakable.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Yang Yusheng to leave the Water Tribe and support the Ten Thousand Nations Legion, while the Giant Stone Legion killed the Water Tribe and then withdrew.
• Yang Tianyou used Primordial Power and the Creation Brush to unleash the Annihilation Blade, helping Yunhua and the Witch Tribe destroy the Fire Spirit Army Corps.
• The Purple Moon Army and the Lu Wu Army Corps destroyed the Flame Spirit Army Corps, bringing the Yang Household’s total to four defeated enemy Void Refinement combatants and one crippled force.
• Yang Tianyou led the Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form and the allied forces into the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation to support the Buddhist Sect.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua fought a Nine-Phoenix Clan expert inside the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation. Yunhua’s Myriad Qi Divine Flame devoured the Four-Headed Phoenix’s Nirvana Fire, and Yang Tianyou turned his attention to another Nine-Phoenix Clan combatant.

• Yang Tianyou asked Venerable Dikong to divide the battlefield and help isolate the enemy combatants.
• Yunhua attacked the Four-Headed Phoenix with illusion and divine-light techniques, while Yang Tianyou wounded him with an Annihilation Blade strike.
• Yunhua bound the Four-Headed Phoenix with Myriad Qi Divine Flame dragons that devoured his Phoenix True Fire, then split him in two with the Supreme Yin Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Yang Tianyou suggested testing the Myriad Qi Divine Flame against Nirvana Fire, and Yunhua’s flame consumed it completely, killing the Four-Headed Phoenix.
• Yang Tianyou fixed his gaze on another Nine-Phoenix Clan expert empowered by a Nirvana Heart.

Yang Tianyou and Yunhua used the Myriad Qi Divine Flame to defeat the remaining Fire Dao experts in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation, then Yang Tianyou demonstrated his Great White Soul Seizure Technique on the last surviving Void Refinement fighter. The Thunder Dao cultivator became his obedient servant, and Venerable Dikong agreed to Yang Tianyou’s proposal.

• Yunhua sent the seven-colored fire dragons against a Nine-Phoenix Clan expert and a Fire Spirit Tribe expert, killing both and confirming the flame’s power against Fire Dao opponents.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua attacked a Fire-Bathing Tribe expert, whom Venerable Dikong trapped inside the formation before the dragons devoured his Earth Core Fire and killed him.
• Venerable Dikong and the other allies eliminated their opponents, leaving only a Thunder Dao cultivator, who knelt and begged for mercy.
• Yang Tianyou stopped Venerable Dikong from killing the Thunder Dao cultivator and used the Great White Soul Seizure Technique to control him.
• Venerable Dikong recognized the power of Yang Tianyou’s soul technique, and Yang Tianyou privately proposed something that made him agree.

Yang Tianyou and the Lu Wu Realm reinforcements turned the battle against the Nine Phoenix Realm by crippling and destroying the Eastern King Army and killing several enemy Void Refinement combatants. After Old Man Zhui Dao lost his body, the Nine-Phoenix Army Lord retreated, leaving the surviving Lu Wu Realm cultivators victorious on the battlefield.

• The Thunder Dao Cultivator Liu Changqing emerged from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation and struck the Eastern King Army, then revealed Yang Tianyou, his wife, Venerable Dikong, and the Tribulation Transcendence Arhat.
• Yang Tianyou and the four other Void Refinement combatants grievously damaged the Eastern King Army while the Lu Wu Army Corps and the Witch Tribe emerged to engage the Nine Phoenix Realm forces.
• The Golden Star helped destroy the crippled Eastern King Army, and Yang Tianyou and the others killed two more Nine Phoenix Realm Void Refinement combatants.
• The Nine-Phoenix Army burned Old Man Zhui Dao's body to ashes, but the Heavenly Maiden Dharma Form rescued his remnant soul as the Lu Wu Realm forces intervened.
• Yang Tianyou and the Old Black Dragon prepared to attack the badly wounded Nine-Phoenix Army, but its Lord ordered a retreat.
• The surviving high-level cultivators of the Lu Wu Realm surveyed the devastated battlefield and smiled in relief.

After the Fourth-Stage War devastated both realms, the Nine Phoenix Realm turned its attention to the Devil Cultivators, preventing it from concentrating on another invasion. Yang Tianyou learned the war was over and prepared to use the coming decades to recover, while the Thunder Dao Cultivator’s body remained available for refinement.

• The battle at Lanke Temple left both realms badly weakened, and the Lu Wu Realm had only enough remaining strength for at most one more full-force battle.
• After the Red Dust Demon Venerable and the Celestial Person Sword Immortal killed the Sky Fox Old Ancestor, the Nine Phoenix Realm’s leaders ordered each region guarded and spatial treasures refined.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor took out his Cosmic Silver Crystal after Daoist Taiyi refused his request, preparing to use the treasure against the Devil Cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Lin Yingyue, Chen Qiaosheng, and their allies had escaped an ambush, but the Nine Phoenix Realm had suffered further losses and could not focus on the war.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that the Fourth-Stage War was over for now, planned to use at least fifty years to recover, and checked on the restored Old Man Zhui Dao before leaving the Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Yang Tianyou had preserved the Thunder Dao Cultivator’s body after destroying his consciousness, leaving it ready to be made into a Puppet or Talisman Soldier.

Yang Tianyou refined Liu Changqing into a Thunder Dao Puppet powered by the Heavenly Thunder Cauldron, giving the Lineage another source of Void Refinement-level combat strength. He checked on Yunhua’s control over her Myriad Qi Divine Flame and received gifts and supplies that highlighted the Yang Household’s growing influence.

• Yang Tianyou used the Creation Brush and the Great White Soul Seizure Technique to bind the Heavenly Thunder Cauldron inside Liu Changqing’s preserved body and control the resulting puppet.
• Yang Tianyou tested the Thunder Dao Puppet’s lightning attacks and movement, then left the Martial Practice Ground satisfied with its power.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that she had mastered a secret method to suppress her Myriad Qi Divine Flame for several decades and expected to control it with her own strength after reaching Late Sage Manifestation.
• Zhiming brought Yang Tianyou gifts from several forces that thanked the Yang Household for Yang Yuqi’s healing, along with Sixth-Tier Spirit Vein Essence and newly refined Three-Turn Primordial Yang Pills.
• Yang Tianyou inspected the Spirit Vein Essence and noticed the crystalline, three-marked pills in the jade bottles.

Yang Tianyou used the Three-Turn Primordial Yang Pill and Spirit Vein Essence to advance his cultivation, then broke through to a Void Refinement body and perfected his Blade Domain. He left the chapter having demonstrated a domain that could shred everything across thirty thousand li.

• Zhiming explained that the Three-Turn Primordial Yang Pill could accelerate Yang Tianyou's cultivation, and Yang Tianyou ordered Yang Tianjiu to acquire ingredients for greater production.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua entered seclusion, and Yang Tianyou used Spirit Vein Essence and Three-Turn Primordial Yang Pills to cultivate.
• After forty-two years, Yang Tianyou reached Late Sage Manifestation, while his Star Dao and Metal Element Dao advanced to Minor Achievement in the Domain Realm.
• Yang Tianyou broke through to a Void Refinement body, then entered the Dao Comprehension Space to pursue Blade Dao perfection.
• Yang Tianyou shattered the Blade Dao frenzied dragons with his three Blade Dao Divine Abilities and achieved Blade Domain Great Perfection.
• Yang Tianyou unleashed his Blade Domain across thirty thousand li, shredding everything within it into dust.

After fifty years of growth, Yang Tianyou strengthened the Yang Household with new Talisman Soldiers and assessed its formidable forces. He decided to begin preparing the Lineage to seek the Heavenly Heart Authority, starting with sacrifices to Heaven and Earth.

• Yang Tianyou spent three years refining Talisman Soldiers, adding dozens of Sixth-Tier Talisman Soldiers to the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou asked Zhiming for a report on the Lineage, which had grown to 3.6 million members and gained eight sources of Void Refinement combat strength.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the Solar Warships and the new Heavenly Sun Roaming the Sky Formation had further strengthened the Yang Household.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that the Yang Household was now the strongest force in the Lu Wu Realm and held the greatest influence over its Karma and Destiny.
• Yang Tianyou decided to pursue the Heavenly Heart Authority, beginning by offering sacrifices to Heaven and Earth.

Yang Tianyou and the Lu Wu Realm leaders prepared defenses for the approaching final stage of the Interface War, while he weighed the growing threat posed by the Devil Cultivators. In the Nine Phoenix Realm, the Alliance leaders favored retreating to defense, but the Nine Phoenix Emperor instead vowed to summon the Old Ancestor’s avatar and attack the Devil Cultivators.

• Yang Tianyou offered Primordial Power at the ancestral hall, then left to continue the Yang Household’s campaign in the Interface War.
• At the Lu Wu Realm Alliance meeting, Yang Tianyou argued that the Nine Phoenix Realm was too pressured by the Devil Cultivators and the Qiongqi Realm to commit a large force against them.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Lu Wu Realm leaders to build defenses at major Realm Gates and privately considered placing an insider among the Devil Cultivators.
• At the Nine Phoenix Realm Alliance meeting, the Fire-Bathing Tribe Chief and Daoist Taiyi urged the leaders to stop attacking and switch to a defensive strategy.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor rejected the proposed retreat, declared that he would summon the Old Ancestor’s avatar to exterminate the Devil Cultivators, and ordered the races to prepare for war.