Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou ascended to the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm at Late Stage Void Refinement and passed his tribulation with ease. He chose the Three Origin Hall over more powerful factions and traveled with its envoy, True Person Yulei, who explained the realm and the hall’s cultivation arts.

• Yang Tianyou revealed that he had reached Late Stage Void Refinement after contributing to an Interface War, then prepared to face his tribulation.
• Yang Tianyou defeated the Six-Nine Tribulation Lightning with a single fist and emerged unharmed.
• Yang Tianyou declined invitations from powerful factions, including the Dragon-Tiger Palace, and chose the Three Origin Hall.
• True Person Yulei accompanied Yang Tianyou in a flying carriage and described the Three Origin Hall’s cultivation canons and Divine Ability.
• True Person Yulei explained that the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm was among the Three Thousand Great Worlds where cultivators could ascend to the Immortal Realm.

Yang Tianyou joined the Three Origin Hall as a Guest Elder and settled in the Seventh Heaven, while Yunhua and Yang Tiankang established themselves as Rogue Cultivators in the Sixth Heaven. Yang Xuanwu arrived alone in the Eighth Heaven and injured himself when he reflexively struck someone who greeted him.

• True Person Yulei explained the Spirit Realm's domains, contests for standing, and the Heavenly Mountain Great Thousand Realm's Nine Heavens to Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou arrived at the Three Origin Hall and met Earth Origin True Person, who appointed him Guest Elder and provided him with a mountain peak, followers, and provisions.
• Yang Tianyou accepted the duty of patrolling the borderlands every ten years and settled at the Three Origin Hall.
• Yunhua and Yang Tiankang ascended to the Sixth Heaven as Rogue Cultivators, while Yang Tiankang set out to find Sword Saint Helian Tian's secret residence in the Fifth Heaven.
• Yang Xuanwu arrived at the Divine Martial Dao Ascension Platform in the Eighth Heaven, where a woman embraced him and he broke his own bones with a reflexive elbow strike.

Yang Tianyou revealed that he was a seventh-tier Talisman Master, earning greater rewards and a flood of commissions from Three Origin Hall. He accepted more than a hundred orders and remained confident he could complete them ahead of schedule.

• Yang Tianyou spent three years building relationships in Three Origin Hall before making seventh-tier talismans with the Creation Brush.
• Yang Tianyou showed his low-grade seventh-tier talismans to the hall master, who recognized his potential to become an eighth-tier Talisman Master.
• The hall master doubled Yang Tianyou’s benefits and arranged for the sect to provide five sets of materials for every talisman he delivered.
• After the hall master confirmed Yang Tianyou’s skill, word spread through the sect, and elders and Dharma Protectors began bringing him talisman commissions.
• Yang Tianyou accepted more than a hundred orders despite his attendant’s warning, confident that his high success rate and the Creation Brush would let him finish quickly.

Yang Tianyou completed the Three Origin Hall’s Talisman orders far faster than expected, then resisted pressure to join the sect while preparing to establish the Purple Moon Yang Household. He began advancing his Life-Bound Law Treasures in Soul Bewildering Marsh, where Void-Shattering Master approached and was ambushed by Yang Tianyou’s Spirit Beasts.

• Yang Tianyou completed more than four hundred batches of Talisman orders in thirty-seven years, astonishing the Three Origin Hall and prompting its leaders to try to recruit him.
• Yang Tianyou deflected the Three Origin Hall’s invitations, met up with Zhiming and the other Spirit Beasts, and took them out of Sanyuan Market to advance his Life-Bound Law Treasures.
• Yang Tianyou chose Soul Bewildering Marsh for the advancement, and the Twin Blades and Starlight devoured the gathered Spirit Items as Treasure Tribulation Lightning gathered overhead.
• Zhiming detected nine approaching Void Refinement Cultivators, including the notorious Void-Shattering Master, and Yang Tianyou ordered the Spirit Beasts to attack him.
• The Formless Insect and Void Worm trapped Void-Shattering Master as he tried to flee, and Yuan Ba appeared before him with a flaming fist.

Fengling and the Spirit Beasts killed Void-Shattering Master, while Yang Tianyou defeated Zhang Old Devil and the other Void Refinement cultivators who tried to seize his newly forged Spirit Treasures. After returning to Sanyuan Market, Yang Tianyou examined the spoils and recognized the Jade Void Golden Codex as a page from a legendary Heavenly Book.

• Fengling and Yuan Ba attacked Void-Shattering Master, who escaped the initial encirclement but was trapped and killed by Tongming's Spatial Corridor Formation.
• Tongming collected Void-Shattering Master's treasures as the two Life-Bound Law Treasures completed their tribulations and became powerful low-grade Spirit Treasures.
• Void Refinement cultivators attacked Zhang Old Devil to seize Yang Tianyou's treasures, but Yang Tianyou killed them all with his Twin Blades and left the Soul Bewildering Marsh.
• The Sanyuan Hall Master decided that Sanyuan Hall should maintain a good relationship with Yang Tianyou even though he did not intend to formally join the sect.
• Yang Tianyou gave the Shadowspace Cloak to Fengling and identified the Jade Void Golden Codex among the spoils as a page from the Heavenly Book, which recorded an Unrivaled Divine Ability.

Yang Tianyou attended a three-prefecture Talisman Masters' Exchange Gathering, acquired an Azure Cloud Talisman Stone, and agreed to help Yang Chenzi explore a dangerous cave abode in a region of shattered space. After spending two years crafting a fast White Peng Talisman Soldier, he set out to meet Yang Chenzi and the other Void Refinement experts.

• Yang Tianyou kept the Jade Void Golden Codex and Shadowspace Cloak, then had Zhiming sell his other treasures for crafting materials.
• Daoist Fengyue invited Yang Tianyou to the Talisman Masters' Exchange Gathering on Mingfu Mountain, where the gathered masters discussed news and shared their Talisman Crafting experience.
• Yang Tianyou won Yang Chenzi's Azure Cloud Talisman Stone in the treasure exchange, then agreed to help explore a cave abode in a region of shattered space.
• Yang Tianyou crafted a mid-grade Seventh Tier White Peng Talisman Soldier over two years and waited for Yang Chenzi's signal.
• Yang Chenzi summoned Yang Tianyou three years later, and Yang Tianyou arrived on the White Peng at a cliff where Yang Chenzi, Granny Tianhua, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions were waiting.

Yang Tianyou joined Yang Chenzi, Granny Tianhua, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions to explore a collapsed Heaven-Tier Secret Realm hidden inside a floating island. After detecting the dangerous core of its fiery inner region, Yang Tianyou used Zhiming to discover a chained treasure called the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace.

• Yang Tianyou met Yang Chenzi and the others, signed their exploration contract, and traveled with them to the concealed realm in the floating island.
• Yang Chenzi explained the realm’s spatial hazards and Fire Demons, while Yang Tianyou detected dangers and guided the group safely toward the inner region.
• The group divided up to search for resources, with Yang Tianyou taking the center and keeping watch for threats.
• Yang Tianyou summoned Zhiming, whose vision revealed the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace bound by eighty-one chains in the realm’s core.

Yang Tianyou and his companions explored the Inner Periphery, where he discovered the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace and the group fought increasingly dangerous Fire Demons. After they escaped the core area and its Body Integration Fire Demon, Yang Chenzi prepared to divide their spoils while Yang Tianyou resolved to find his wife and claim the furnace.

• Yang Tianyou found the high-grade Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace guarded by three powerful Fire Demons, then marked resources and buried a shed Void Worm skin for spatial transfer.
• Yang Chenzi and the others encountered high-tier Fire Demons as they explored, while Yang Tianyou's group defeated the ones that attacked them and fed them to Great White Grotto Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou and his companions lured a giant flame python into two formations and killed it, allowing Yang Chenzi to obtain its Principle Crystal before the Fire Demon horde arrived.
• The group fought their way out of the Secret Realm after encountering a Body Integration bull-headed Fire Demon, and the Hidden Moon Immortal Couple suffered severe injuries.
• Yang Chenzi deactivated the Concealment Array and announced that the group would divide the spoils, while Yang Tianyou resolved to find his wife and obtain the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace.

After a dangerous treasure hunt, Yang Tianyou learned that Yunhua was being pursued by the Huchen Sect and rushed to rescue her. He found her exhausted in the desert, sent her to recover inside his Grotto Heaven, and flew toward the enemy warship as his power surged.

• Yang Chenzi divided the Secret Realm spoils among Yang Tianyou, himself, the Hidden Moon Immortal Companions, and Granny Tianhua, then parted warmly from Yang Tianyou.
• Yang Tianyou gave his gains to Zhiming, ordered him to intensify the search for Yunhua, and entered seclusion to study the Blade Dao.
• Yunhua rejected Young Master Jingyu's advances, and after she killed him when he tried to seize her, the Huchen Sect sent cultivators to pursue her.
• Zhiming reported Yunhua's peril to Yang Tianyou, who traveled to the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty with the Void Worm and eventually found her in the desert.
• Yang Tianyou placed Yunhua in his Grotto Heaven to heal and charged toward the pursuing warship, while his Grotto Heaven's origin began empowering him with immense power.

Yang Tianyou rescued Fairy Yunhua and fought the Huchen Sect pursuers, killing Yanyun Fairy and two other Body Integration Cultivators along with their Void Refinement allies. Afterward, he used the destroyed warship to replenish the damaged Great White Grotto Heaven and stabilize it.

• Yanyun Fairy learned that Yang Tianyou was charging toward the Huchen Sect forces, and he unleashed a colossal Life-and-Death Blade against their warship.
• The Life-and-Death Wheel destroyed the warship’s defenses, and Yang Tianyou fought Yanyun Fairy and the other pursuers across the desert.
• Yang Tianyou used Reincarnation to daze the three Body Integration Cultivators, then killed them with his Heavenly Blade and wiped out the fleeing Dharma Protectors.
• The Huchen Sect discovered the deaths and, led by Old Ancestor Chenhu, suspected another Tribulation Transcendence faction before issuing a warrant for Yunhua and investigating the culprit.
• Yang Tianyou found that the battle had severely depleted his Spirit Beasts and Great White Grotto Heaven, so he fed the ruined warship into its black hole and restored stability.

After recovering from their injuries and gathering the spoils from Yanyun Fairy and the other cultivators, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua returned to the sea of fire to claim the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace. They destroyed the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon inside the Great White Grotto Heaven, and Yunhua became the furnace’s master, learning of its former master’s inheritance cave abode.

• Yang Tianyou kept the three Body Integration Cultivators’ corpses for future Talisman Soldiers and fed the Void Refinement cultivators and other materials to the Great White Grotto Heaven, restoring its Origin Power.
• Yunhua healed in the Great White Grotto Heaven over the course of a year, then reunited with Yang Tianyou before he returned to the Three Origin Hall.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua went to the sea of fire, where Yunhua revealed the Myriad Qi Divine Flame and attracted the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace Artifact Spirit, who explained that an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon remained sealed inside the furnace.
• Yang Tianyou persuaded the Fencang Furnace Artifact Spirit to enter the Great White Grotto Heaven, where the black hole bound and refined the Ninth-Tier Heavenly Demon into Primordial Power.
• Yunhua used her Essence Blood to become the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace’s master, and Fencang told them about the Demon-Sealing Chains and his former master’s inheritance cave abode in Blackstone Prefecture.

Yang Tianyou secured a Ninth-Tier Spirit Vein in Blackstone Prefecture without breaking its protective Dragon-Locking Well, then claimed a store of ancient treasures. After a century of cultivation, he comprehended the Power of the Blade Dao Principle and learned that Great Zhao was preparing to invade Great Zhou.

• Yang Tianyou discovered the Dragon-Locking Well and the Ninth-Tier Spirit Vein it restrained, then decided to leave the formation intact until he was strong enough to free it safely.
• Yang Tianyou met Lanying, the Azure Floating Shadow Formation’s spirit, and collected the treasures preserved in the formation’s hall before moving it into the Great White Grotto Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou spent a hundred years cultivating and making Talismans at Three Origin Hall, then comprehended the Power of the Blade Dao Principle.
• Zhiming reported that Great Zhao was massing troops near Great Zhou and Great Chen, while Great Zhou’s Court issued Conscription Orders and appointed Ji Chengwu to command its army.

Yang Tianyou volunteered for the Great Zhao war to earn Military Merit and rebuild his Lineage, using his newly revealed Blade Dao Principle to win the support of Three Origin Hall’s elders. As the armies gathered, Yang joined the Azure Cloud Prefecture Vanguard Army, while Grand Marshal Ji Chengwu’s plan to attack Jiangbei City met fierce resistance.

• Yang Tianyou asked the Sanyuan Hall Master to assign him to the Front Line so he could earn Military Merit and advance through battle.
• Yang Tianyou revealed his Blade Dao Principle, prompting the Earth Origin True Person and Human Origin True Person to welcome him as a junior brother and offer help securing a position.
• With Heavenly Origin Old Ancestor’s assistance, Yang Tianyou joined the Azure Cloud Prefecture allied forces’ Vanguard Army as a reconnaissance specialist and headed for Golden Pool City.
• Aboard the Yellow Dragon Boat, Ji Chengwu proposed attacking Jiangbei City, but his advisers objected because its defenses and the risk of encirclement made the assault dangerous.
• Ji Chengzong complained after the meeting, while Ji Chengwu said Li Shentong’s absence from the Front Line would leave him free to seize military power.

After five years of preparation and three years of fighting at Golden Pool City, Yang Tianyou led a scout unit behind Great Zhao’s lines to ambush reinforcements for Yun Hai Mountain. He destroyed two warships with his Blade Dao Principle, shared the spoils with his cultivators, and planned to rest before striking again.

• Yang Tianyou and the Azure Cloud Prefecture army defended Golden Pool City against Great Zhao’s opening assault, and the battle settled into a prolonged routine.
• Yang Tianyou received orders to harass Great Zhao’s reinforcements and used Zhiming’s intelligence to find a unit headed for Yun Hai Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou led his cultivators behind enemy lines and ambushed two warships with a peak-grade Seventh Tier killing formation.
• Yang Tianyou split both warships with his blade and his forces wiped out the surviving Zhao cultivators before collecting the spoils.
• A Great Zhao Body Integration Cultivator examined the battlefield, recognized the Blade Dao Principle, and warned nearby legions to guard against sneak attacks.
• Yang Tianyou shared much of the spoils with his cultivators and told them to rest for three days before their next ambush.

The Flood Dragon Emperor Ao Bing weighed Great Zhou’s request for aid against Great Zhao’s rising power while Yang Tianyou’s attacks on Zhao’s support troops prompted plans to counter him. After Zhiming advanced to Body Integration and scanned the battlefield, Yang Tianyou gave Muyunzi intelligence he called the Law Treasure that would defeat Zhao’s army.

• Ji Chengwu persuaded Ao Bing to provide Great Zhou with Spirit Items, and Ao Bing explained to his Second Prince why the Flood Dragon Clan should remain neutral for now.
• The Second Prince admitted that Great Zhao had tried to win him over and argued that the Flood Dragon Clan should join the stronger dynasty.
• After Yang Tianyou ambushed another Great Zhao support team, Zhao’s commanders concluded that a Heavenly Mechanist was guiding his attacks and arranged to bring in experts and hide Body Integration Cultivators aboard warships.
• Yang Tianyou helped Zhiming pass his tribulation and advance to Body Integration, then asked him to scan the Golden Pool City battlefield.
• Zhiming surveyed Zhao’s defenses, troop movements, resources, and hidden strength, giving Yang Tianyou precise intelligence for a planned victory.
• Yang Tianyou delivered a Jade Slip to Muyunzi and called it the Law Treasure that would defeat the Zhao army; Muyunzi was shocked by its contents.

Yang Tianyou’s intelligence helped Muyunzi devise a plan that lured Lin Ting’s Zhao Kingdom army into an encirclement and annihilation campaign. With the Zhao forces surrounded, Lin Ting rallied his soldiers to fight to the death, and the final battle began.

• Yang Tianyou gave Muyunzi detailed intelligence about Zhao Kingdom’s deployments, and Muyunzi verified it before calling a war council.
• Ji Chengwu rejected Wen Qun’s warning and ordered Great Zhou forces to attack Jiangbei City and nearby positions at dawn.
• Muyunzi mobilized Golden Pool City’s forces and launched a counterattack, while Lin Ting’s army initially held back to assess the apparent offensive.
• Golden Pool City used a weakened frontal force to distract Lin Ting while its main force seized Zhao strongholds and surrounded the Zhao army.
• Lin Ting realized his forces were trapped, but he rallied his soldiers to resist rather than surrender, and Muyunzi ordered the final attack.

Great Zhou won a decisive battle at Golden Pool City, where Yang Tianyou’s intelligence and attacks helped Muyunzi’s forces defeat Great Zhao. Ji Chengwu publicized the victory, rewarded the victors, and used the surge in morale to press his generals to advance on Jiangbei City as Wen Qun worried about the risks.

• Muyunzi and five other Body Integration Cultivators returned from the void with Lin Ting’s corpse, and Muyunzi credited Yang Tianyou with providing the intelligence that secured the victory at Golden Pool City.
• The Great Zhou cultivators praised Yang Tianyou, and he declined to explain how he had obtained Great Zhao’s intelligence.
• Ji Chengwu received the victory report, announced it throughout the army, and awarded Muyunzi and Yang Tianyou noble titles and promotions.
• Ji Chengwu used the victory to win support for his plan to take Jiangbei City with help from the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty, while Wen Qun kept his objections to himself.
• Ji Chengwu ended the meeting and ordered the fleet to accelerate across the Kuanglong River toward Jiangbei City.

Ji Chengwu’s attack on Jiangbei City was ambushed by Guan Qin and the Zhao Kingdom’s Central Army, leaving the Yellow Dragon Army crippled and the Great Zhou on the defensive. As Ji Chengwu faced his fatal wounds, he urged Ji Chengzong to rally around the victory at Golden Pool City.

• Ji Chengwu used the Skyvault World-Breaking Sword to shatter Jiangbei City’s defenses, but Guan Qin and the Zhao Kingdom’s Central Army sprang an ambush around the Zhou fleet.
• Ji Chengwu fought Guan Qin while the armies clashed, then escaped with the crippled Yellow Dragon Army after Guan Qin wounded his souls with the Three-Eerie Death-Soul Needle.
• The Zhou forces lost at Xilin City and across the western front, while Wen Qun captured Bianqing City; Zhao forces seized Jing'an Prefecture and advanced to Fushan City.
• Li Shentong sent the Reserve Army to the front and temporarily placed Wen Qun in overall command, while Ji Chengwu blamed several generals and dismissed them.
• Ji Chengwu told Ji Chengzong that Guan Qin’s attack had gravely damaged his spiritual and corporeal souls, then urged him to stabilize the situation by emphasizing the victory at Golden Pool City.

After Ji Chengwu rewarded Yang Tianyou, Yang chose Nine Refinement Mountain in Blackstone Prefecture as his fief and built it into the home of the Purple Moon Yang Household. Five years later, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua held the household’s founding ceremony while Ji Chengwu’s health declined and he transferred power to Ji Chengzong.

• Ji Chengwu awarded Yang Tianyou a fief, and Yang chose Nine Refinement Mountain in Blackstone Prefecture despite Muyunzi’s warning about its dangers.
• At Court, Ji Chengwu silenced his critics by ordering several ministers and their clans executed, then transferred his power to his younger brother, Ji Chengzong.
• After the front line settled into a standoff, Yang Tianyou took possession of Nine Refinement Mountain and began preparing it as his household’s home with Yunhua and his Spirit Beasts.
• Over the next five years, Yang Tianyou and Yunhua developed Nine Refinement Mountain, and Yunhua concealed her identity to guard against the Huchen Sect.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua held the Purple Moon Yang Household’s Lineage-founding ceremony, where Muyunzi arrived and congratulated Yang on reuniting with his wife.

After the Purple Moon Yang Household grew stronger as its scattered members returned, Jinyun Temple plotted to use a Savage Beast tide to destroy it. Yang Tianyou and Yunhua turned the scheme against Jinyun Temple, captured Monk Yunchu, and prepared to attack him inside their High-Grade Spirit Treasure.

• Monk Yunchu attended the Purple Moon Yang Household's founding ceremony with a cold attitude, then left after offering gifts and congratulations.
• Yang Xuanwu learned the Purple Moon Yang Household had reappeared but stayed in the Divine Martial Dao to remain a hidden trump card, while Yang Household members gathered at Nine Refinement Mountain.
• Jinyun Temple's Body Integration Old Ancestors decided to use Beast-Attracting Incense to bring a Savage Beast tide to the Yang Household, but Zhiming discovered their plan and informed Yang Tianyou.
• Yunhua proposed strengthening the Beast-Attracting Incense with a Strange Refining Unification Pill and moving it near Jinyun Temple, and Yang Tianyou agreed.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua followed Monk Yunchu as he placed the incense at the meeting of the Qingjiang River and Kuanglong River, then captured him in the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Burning Furnace.
• Monk Yunchu recognized Yang Tianyou and the High-Grade Spirit Treasure, and Yang Tianyou opened his Heavenly Eye and fired the Mirror Spirit Divine Light at him.