Chapter Summaries

The First-Generation Imperial Lord descended into the Nine Phoenix Realm and attacked the hidden Lu Wu Realm Devil Cultivators in the depths of the void. Though some escaped, the Nine Phoenix Emperor declared the Demon Dao threat largely defeated, and the seven great races prepared to invade the Lu Wu Realm.

• The Nine-Phoenix Clan welcomed the First-Generation Imperial Lord as he emerged from a Spatial Passage above Nine Phoenix Imperial City.
• The First-Generation Imperial Lord split the Devil Cultivators’ palace, killed several of them, and engulfed the void in Purgatory fire.
• A demon shadow and an Escape Light broke through the flames and fled, so the First-Generation Imperial Lord pursued them into the void.
• The First-Generation Imperial Lord returned after the Immortal Realm Laws pulled him back, and the Nine Phoenix Emperor reported the Devil Cultivators’ losses and the Red Dust Demon Venerable’s grave injuries.
• The seven great races set aside their disputes and began mobilizing for a full-scale attack on the Lu Wu Realm once the Realm Gate opened completely.

After the Nine-Phoenix Clan’s First-Generation Imperial Lord routed Lin Yingyue and the other Demon Dao cultivators, Yang Tianyou prepared the Lu Wu Realm for an imminent invasion and proposed a risky counterattack. The Alliance entrusted him with full command of the coming battle, which he believed could bring victory and strengthen the Yang Household’s standing.

• Yang Tianyou ordered the Purple Moon Yang Household to evacuate core mortals and low-rank cultivators to several protected locations, while the Lu Wu Realm’s powers prepared escape routes and convened an Alliance meeting.
• At Four Symbols Island, the Alliance leaders recognized that the Nine Phoenix Realm could now attack the Lu Wu Realm with its full strength.
• Yang Tianyou proposed sending many Void Refinement combatants across realms to lure out Nine Phoenix Realm experts, claiming he was certain he could kill them.
• The Sacred Martial Emperor and other Alliance leaders accepted the risk, and the Spiritvoid Pavilion Master proposed giving Yang Tianyou full command of the battle.
• Yang Tianyou accepted command and vowed not to disappoint the Alliance.

Five years later, the Nine Phoenix Realm Alliance debated whether to rescue five Void Refinement combatants surrounded in the Qiongqi Realm. Six clans overruled the Nine Phoenix Emperor’s plan to abandon them, and twelve combatants, including Prince Huo Wu, went to reinforce the Qiongqi Realm.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces entered the Lu Wu Realm through the expanded Realm Gates and found no resistance.
• The Alliance received word that more than a dozen Lu Wu Realm and Qiongqi Realm experts had surrounded five Nine Phoenix Realm combatants in the Qiongqi Realm.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor argued that the Alliance should leave the five combatants behind and focus on conquering the Lu Wu Realm, while the Sky Fox Saintess urged the clans to send reinforcements.
• Daoist Taiyi backed the Sky Fox Saintess and proposed sending twelve combatants, prompting five other clan leaders to support aid for the Qiongqi Realm.
• Six of the seven clans agreed to send support, and twelve Void Refinement combatants, including Prince Huo Wu, entered the Qiongqi Realm.

Yang Xuanwu awakened the Martial Ancestor, who destroyed the Nine Phoenix Realm’s seventeen Void Refinement combatants before returning to the Immortal Realm. Yang Xuanwu and Yang Tianyou then discussed the danger posed by the Eastern King Sect’s Immortals and Gods and the time they had to prepare.

• Yang Tianyou assessed the arriving Nine Phoenix Realm reinforcements and sent Yang Xuanwu a voice transmission to activate the restriction in the Heavenly Stele Space.
• Yang Xuanwu activated the restriction, and the Martial Ancestor emerged from the Spirit Lake and appeared on the battlefield.
• Prince Huo Wu ordered a retreat, but the Martial Ancestor trapped and destroyed all seventeen Nine Phoenix Realm Void Refinement combatants.
• The Martial Ancestor spared Yang Tianyou because he was Yang Xuanwu’s kinsman, then spoke privately with Yang Xuanwu and returned to the Immortal Realm.
• Yang Xuanwu warned Yang Tianyou that the Eastern King Sect’s Immortals and Gods remained a threat, and Yang Tianyou said they had three or four hundred years to prepare.

Yang Tianyou and the Lu Wu Realm forces learned that the Martial Ancestor had killed all seventeen of the Nine Phoenix Realm’s Void Refinement combatants, but Prince Wu Feng attacked Purple Moon Mountain in grief and fury. Yang Tianyou returned and wounded Wu Feng, then asked Yunhua to use the Myriad Qi Divine Flame to hold him off.

• Yang Tianyou collected the remains and storage treasures of the Nine Phoenix Realm combatants before heading to the Lu Wu Realm with Yang Xuanwu and the Qiongqi Realm’s Void Refinement fighters.
• The Spiritvoid Pavilion Master told the Lu Wu Realm’s leaders that the Martial Ancestor had killed all seventeen Void Refinement combatants outside the Heavenly Stele.
• Prince Wu Feng transformed into his true form and repeatedly rammed Purple Moon Mountain’s formation, vowing to avenge Prince Huo Wu.
• Yang Tianyou arrived and struck Prince Wu Feng with three linked blade lights, breaking his flame-crystal defense and injuring him.
• Yang Tianyou asked Yunhua to use the Myriad Qi Divine Flame against Prince Wu Feng while he supported her with Primordial Power.

Yunhua used the Myriad Qi Divine Flame and Western Hua Divine Statue to counter Prince Wu Feng, forcing him into a close-range battle that became a stalemate. As Yang Tianyou and Prince Wu Feng secretly prepared decisive attacks, reinforcements from the Lu Wu Realm fought across the battlefield below.

• Yunhua’s nine fire dragons devoured Prince Wu Feng’s Phoenix Fire, and she used the Western Hua Divine Statue to evade his Phoenix Cry.
• Prince Wu Feng charged into close combat, while Yunhua spread the Myriad Qi Divine Flame to suppress his bonded Phoenix Fire and balance the fight.
• Yang Tianyou hid behind Yunhua and gathered Primordial Power as Prince Wu Feng waited for an opening to unleash his clan’s secret treasure.
• Yang Tianyou had sent Yang Tiankang, Shanhai, Yang Tianxue, and the others back to the Lu Wu Realm to reinforce its strained defenses.
• Old Man Zhui Dao and Yang Tiankang confronted the Nine-Phoenix Army Corps, while Yang Xuanwu and the fierce-beast Kings Xiao, Shu, and Tuo fought among the Void Refinement combatants.

Prince Wu Feng unleashed the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s hidden power, but Yang Tianyou and Yunhua stopped his attack at the cost of severe injuries. The two sides withdrew by mutual agreement, leaving the Lu Wu Realm celebrating its victory and the Nine Phoenix Realm in despair.

• The Lu Wu Realm’s forces adopted a defensive strategy as the Nine Phoenix Realm’s offensive stalled.
• Prince Wu Feng activated the dynasty’s hidden reserve of power and transformed into a black Phoenix surrounded by devastating flames.
• Yunhua used her Myriad Qi Divine Flame to engage Prince Wu Feng, while Yang Tianyou struck him with the Annihilation Blade.
• The collision severely injured Yang Tianyou, Yunhua, and Prince Wu Feng, and its destructive tide killed cultivators across the battlefield.
• The two sides’ leaders retreated, and Prince Wu Feng led the Nine-Phoenix Dynasty’s army through the Realm Gate.
• Yang Tianyou declared victory as the Lu Wu Realm celebrated and the Nine Phoenix Realm’s forces withdrew in low spirits.

After their defeat outside the Realm Gate, the Nine Phoenix Realm leaders agreed to seek an alliance with the Lu Wu Realm to divide up the Qiongqi Realm. Meanwhile, cultivators at Alliance Headquarters celebrated their reprieve from the war, and many broke through their bottlenecks.

• The Nine Phoenix Realm leaders rejected another attack on the Lu Wu Realm, and Prince Wu Feng said nothing in response.
• The Nine Phoenix Emperor proposed joining forces with the Lu Wu Realm to conquer the Qiongqi Realm, and Daoist Taiyi and the other leaders supported the plan.
• The leaders agreed to wait before contacting the Lu Wu Realm and to keep their intentions from the Qiongqi Realm.
• Cultivators at Alliance Headquarters celebrated the end of the fighting, and waves of breakthroughs swept through the gathering.

Yang Tianyou rejected the Nine Phoenix Realm’s proposal to divide the Qiongqi Realm, while Yang Xuanwu publicly pledged to defend it and became its co-ruler. The Three Great Realms entered a long peace, until strange winds and clouds stirred over Purple Moon Mountain two hundred years later.

• Yang Tianyou declined to join the Nine Phoenix Realm’s plan to carve up the Qiongqi Realm, saying the Lu Wu Realm needed to recover and had deep ties with its neighbor.
• Yang Tianyou arranged for the Nine Phoenix Realm’s proposal to become public and declared the Yang Household’s opposition to it.
• Yang Xuanwu swore before Qiongqi Realm cultivators that he would protect the realm, earning their support and becoming its co-ruler.
• Yang Tianyou feigned anger over Yang Xuanwu’s actions, while the Nine Phoenix Emperor and other leaders mistook his refusal for virtue.
• The Three Great Realms avoided another large-scale war, and two hundred years later, winds and clouds surged over Purple Moon Mountain.

Yang Tianyou broke through to the Void Refinement Realm and discovered that the Jade Register Heavenly Book had merged its opened pages with his Spirit Abode, transforming it into a living, world-like space. He realized this might let him evolve a Grotto Heaven ahead of time.

• Yang Tianyou condensed his Dantian and used the Metal Element Dao, Star Dao, and Blade Dao to open a Spirit Abode, successfully reaching Void Refinement.
• Yunhua told Zhiming that Yang Tianyou had broken through, and Zhiming began his own advancement.
• The Jade Register Heavenly Book revealed an embryo of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then sent its opened pages into Yang Tianyou's Spirit Abode.
• Yang Tianyou woke from a period of unconsciousness and found his Spirit Abode filled with mountains, rivers, plants, animals, and human figures.
• Yang Tianyou realized the merged Heavenly Book had brought its abilities into his Spirit Abode and considered using Primordial Power to form a miniature Grotto Heaven.

Yang Tianyou studied the realms beyond Void Refinement, then used his Primordial Power to turn his illusory spirit abode into a Grotto Heaven. He discovered eight beings developing as Innate Life within it, concealed them, and named the new world the Great White Realm.

• Yang Tianyou learned how Integrated Body, Tribulation Transcendence, ascension, and the Earthly and Heavenly Immortal realms worked.
• Yang Tianyou spent his accumulated Primordial Power to transform his illusory spirit abode into a real world a hundred li across.
• Yang Tianyou saw that the new world had nine sixth-tier Spirit Veins with the potential to become Immortal Veins.
• Yang Tianyou discovered eight signs of life underground and recognized them as Innate Life.
• Yang Tianyou used the Grotto Heaven's origin power to nurture and conceal the eight beings.
• Yang Tianyou named his new world the Great White Realm, making the name a law known to all who would be born there.

Yang Tianyou led the strengthened Yang Household and its allies in preparing to conquer the Nine Phoenix Realm, whose leaders chose to defend their strongholds and wait for the Realm Gate to shrink. A month after the invasion began, agents planted inside the Nine Phoenix Realm sabotaged its defenses, and its supposedly impregnable line collapsed in less than half a month.

• Yang Tianyou ordered the Yang Household to mobilize its army, logistics, hidden disciples, and allies for the next stage of its plan.
• The Nine Phoenix Realm's leaders learned that the Yang Household had assembled forces from the Three Great Realms and resolved to defend their Spirit Veins and Perilous Lands until the Realm Gate shrank.
• A month later, Yang Tianyou commanded the armies of the two realms to attack the Nine Phoenix Realm.
• Yang Tianyou's agents inside the Nine Phoenix Realm acted together, causing its defensive line to collapse in less than half a month.

Yang Yusheng’s First Legion finished sweeping the Ten Thousand Demon Continent while Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s purge of spies deepened a feud between the Nine Phoenix Emperor and Prince Wu Feng. As Yang Tianyou’s forces pressed the Eastern King Sect, Daoist Taiyi summoned its Old Ancestor, whose arrival left the Lu Wu Realm cultivators fearing defeat.

• Yang Yusheng led the First Legion toward the Nine-Phoenix Continent after annihilating the enemy forces on the Ten Thousand Demon Continent.
• Nine-Phoenix Kunwu’s arrests and appointments angered Prince Wu Feng, and Kunwu’s complaint to the Nine Phoenix Emperor triggered a publicized quarrel between them.
• Yang Tianyou learned from Zhiming that the Eastern King Sect’s battle was nearing its final stage and took the Purple Moon Boat there.
• Yang Xuanwu’s forces continued wearing down the Eastern King Sect until Daoist Taiyi prepared the Summoning Altar and called upon the Old Ancestor.
• The Eastern King Old Ancestor descended in a display of lightning and golden light, lifting the sect’s morale and alarming the Lu Wu Realm cultivators.

The Eastern King Old Ancestor arrived to defend the Eastern King Sect and clashed with Yang Tianyou, whose Reincarnation Blade matched the Old Ancestor’s Ten Thousand Beasts Thunder Dao. The Old Ancestor withdrew and offered the Eastern King Sect’s submission, asking Yang Tianyou to spare his disciples.

• Daoist Taiyi apologized to the Eastern King Old Ancestor, who reassured the sect and summoned a Thunder Qilin against the Lu Wu Realm army.
• Yang Xuanwu ordered the Void Refinement Legions to activate their defensive formations, but the Thunder Qilin’s strike gravely injured many soldiers.
• Yang Tianyou arrived and challenged the Eastern King Old Ancestor with his Reincarnation Blade.
• The Old Ancestor unleashed the Ten Thousand Beasts Thunder Dao, and his power clashed with Yang Tianyou’s reincarnation ability until both were worn down.
• The Eastern King Old Ancestor stopped fighting and offered the Eastern King Sect’s submission in exchange for Yang Tianyou sparing his disciples.

Yang Tianyou brought the Eastern King Sect over to his side and led the allied armies to besiege the Nine Phoenix Imperial City. After Nine-Phoenix Kunwu destroyed the city’s defensive formation, the city fell, Prince Wu Feng died fighting, and Yang Tianyou stood over the conquered imperial capital.

• Yang Tianyou accepted the Eastern King Sect’s allegiance and was named its grandmaster, while the Nine Phoenix Emperor learned that his allies had defected.
• Yang Tianyou assigned the Eastern King Sect to restore order, then surrounded the Nine Phoenix Imperial City with armies from the Lu Wu and Qiongqi Realms.
• Yang Tianyou offered the Nine Phoenix Emperor surrender, but the emperor refused and rallied his clan to defend the city.
• The allied armies battered the city for half a year, but its innermost defenses held until Nine-Phoenix Kunwu betrayed the clan and destroyed the formation’s core.
• Prince Wu Feng killed Nine-Phoenix Kunwu and charged the invading armies, but Yang Tianyou killed him as the city fell.
• Yang Tianyou stood atop the conquered imperial city, marking the arrival of a new era.

After conquering the Nine Phoenix Realm and securing the Qiongqi Realm’s submission, Yang Tianyou led the Yang Household’s heaven-worship ceremony and received Heaven’s Mandate. The Lu Wu Realm defeated the other realms’ weakened Wills of Heaven and Earth and began devouring their worlds.

• Yang Tianyou allowed the looting of Nine Phoenix Imperial City for three days while ordering protection for its Spirit Veins and high-grade Spirit Trees, and learned that most of the Qiongqi Realm’s upper ranks had agreed to join the Lu Wu Realm.
• The Yang Household built altars in the Lu Wu, Qiongqi, and Nine Phoenix Realms, and three months later Yang Tianyou performed a sacrifice asking Heaven to grant the Yang Household its mandate.
• Heaven’s Mandate was granted, and Yang Tianyou saw the Yang Household’s Fortune rise while sensing the authority of heaven and earth.
• At Yang Tianyou’s request, the Lu Wu Realm’s Will of Heaven and Earth fought the weakened Nine Phoenix and Qiongqi Wills, defeated them, and bound both realms to begin devouring them.
• Heavenly Dao merit transformed the Lu Wu Realm and its cultivators, while Yang Yusheng, Wuhuang, and many others prepared to break through; the surviving factions of the defeated realms thanked Yang Tianyou and pledged obedience.

Yang Tianyou used his Heavenly Dao merit to reach Late-Stage Void Refinement, while the Great White Grotto Heaven expanded only slightly. With the Will of Heaven and Earth set to force cultivators to ascend, he ordered the Yang Household to establish the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty within half a year.

• Yang Tianyou exhausted his Heavenly Dao merit and prepared Spirit Items, reaching Late-Stage Void Refinement as his Void Realm expanded to a diameter of seventy thousand li.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that expanding the Great White Grotto Heaven required Primordial Power and decided to wait for future Realm Wars rather than seize it from the other interfaces.
• Yang Tianyou learned that Void Refinement cultivators would ascend in half a year and Mid Sage Manifestation cultivators in ten years, then summoned the Yang Household's upper echelon.
• Yang Tianyou found that many Yang Household members had become Void Refinement experts and that Yunhua had also reached Late-Stage Void Refinement.
• Yang Tianyou ordered the Yang Household to establish the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty within half a year and warned that anyone who opposed them should be killed without mercy.

The Yang Household swiftly subdued resisting powers and established the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty, using the Investiture of the Gods to distribute divine positions and bind allies to its rule. Yang Tianyou became Imperial Lord, and the dynasty began with its foundations firmly secured.

• The Yang Household crushed more than a hundred resisting powers, prompting other forces to avoid opposing it.
• At Great White Palace, Yang Tianyou led the gathered powers in an offering to heaven and earth and founded the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty.
• Yang Tianyou revealed the Investiture of the Gods and offered Heavenly Mandate Fruit Positions to those who served the dynasty.
• Yang Tianyou kept Great White Grotto Heaven's more valuable Fruit Positions for core Lineage members while granting Lu Wu Realm positions according to merit.
• Yang Tianyou became Imperial Lord, named Yunhua empress, and invested more than twenty Yang Household members and thirteen figures from major powers as Deities.

Yang Tianyou established Reincarnation in Great White Grotto Heaven and the Lu Wu Realm, organizing its Underworld and directing souls toward reincarnation. He then planned how the Imperial Dynasty would be governed after his ascension, leaving the story with Yunhua and him ready to ascend.

• Yang Tianyou left Yang Haoyu and the others to cultivate in Great White Grotto Heaven and traveled beneath the Lu Wu Realm to test his Reincarnation projection.
• Yang Tianyou sent the Six Paths of Reincarnation into the Lu Wu Realm, where it gathered remnant souls from the three great realms and began to grow.
• Yang Tianyou divided Great White Grotto Heaven into heavenly, mortal, and netherworld realms, appointed King Yama and over a thousand underworld officers, and adjusted the flow of souls into reincarnation.
• Yang Tianyou entrusted management of Great White Grotto Heaven to Yang Haoyu and tuned the Reincarnation projection in the Lu Wu Realm to sustain a cycle.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua he would remain Imperial Lord after ascending and appoint Yang An'nan and Yang Anshi to lead civil and military affairs, with a Puppet guarding the palace.

Yang Tianyou and more than a hundred Void Refinement experts ascended from the Lu Wu Realm, leaving Yang An'nan to lead the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty. Yang Tianyou arrived at the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm’s Seventh Heaven, where his powerful arrival drew the attention of faction recruiters.

• Yang Tianyou led more than a hundred Void Refinement experts, including members of the Yang Household, in ascending from the Lu Wu Realm.
• Yang An'nan took charge of the Purple Moon Imperial Dynasty, and the transition proceeded without major upheaval.
• Yang Tianyou worried about Yunhua, Yang Xuanwu, and the others before arriving in the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm.
• At the Ascension Platform in Long'an Circuit, a Blazing Fire Island envoy recruited a burly Mid Sage Manifestation Body Cultivator after warning him away from the Wang Household.
• A pillar of light announced another ascender, and the recruiters suspected the newcomer had reached Void Refinement in a lower realm.