Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou turned Jinyun Temple’s Beast-Attracting Incense scheme against the temple, drawing a devastating Savage Beast tide toward it. As Jinyun Temple prepared to evacuate its disciples and resources after learning it could not withstand the horde, Yang Tianyou planned to stop them from escaping.

• Yang Tianyou made Monk Yunkong his puppet and returned him to Jinyun Temple, then infused Beast-Attracting Incense with Strange Refining Unification Pills and released it near the temple.
• The enhanced incense awakened a Five-Clawed Dragon Whale and drew a vast horde of Savage Beasts from the Kuanglong River toward Jinyun Temple.
• Yang Tianyou sent the Void Worm and Formless Insect to move the incense closer to Jinyun Temple while Monk Yunchu assured Monk Yun Hai that their plan against the Yang Household was in place.
• Jinyun Temple learned the beast tide was headed for it, and Monk Yunkong realized the temple had fallen victim to its own scheme.
• Monk Yunkong identified the Five-Clawed Dragon Whale, ordered disciples and resources evacuated, and planned a brief defense before retreating; Yang Tianyou resolved to prevent their escape.

The Savage Beast horde attacked Jinyun Temple while Monk Yunchu sabotaged its defenses and struck down the old monk Yunkong. Yang Tianyou then confronted the surviving Yunkong and killed him, clearing the way for disaster relief.

• The Five-Clawed Dragon Whale led the Savage Beast horde toward Jinyun Temple, whose monks activated the sect’s defensive formation.
• Monk Yunchu sabotaged the formation and sacrificed himself in a Forbidden Divine Ability strike that annihilated the old monk Yunkong.
• Monk Yunkong absorbed Monk Yun Hai and Monk Yunqi, revealing that he had controlled his junior brothers as soul Puppets.
• Yang Tianyou appeared with Yunhua, exposed the worm Yunkong used to control the monks, and sent the Fencang Furnace Artifact Spirit after him.
• The Fencang Furnace burned Yunkong to ashes, and Yang Tianyou ordered the Lineage to begin disaster relief.

The Yang Household took control of Blackstone Prefecture while using a Ceasefire Decree to conceal its expansion and cultivate in peace. Yunhua reached the Integrated Body Realm, and Yang Tianyou fused his Powers of Principle into his body, passed the Six-Nine Tribulation Lightning, and prepared to enter the Integrated Body Realm.

• Yang Tiankang led the Yang Household’s forces to suppress threats, aid disaster victims, and seize Jinyun Temple’s resources after its Body Integration Cultivators died.
• Yang Tianyou controlled Yuantong and arranged for him to obtain a five-hundred-year Ceasefire Decree, giving the Yang Household time to take over Jinyun Temple in secret.
• Yang Tianshi and Tongming opened a passage into the Ninth-Tier Spirit Vein, allowing Yang Tianyou and the Yang Household’s high-rank cultivators to cultivate with its pure Spiritual Qi.
• The Yang Household developed for decades, encouraged childbirth, and secretly took control of all Blackstone Prefecture within forty years.
• Yunhua passed her tribulations and became the Yang Household’s first publicly recognized Body Integration Cultivator.
• Yang Tianyou fused three Powers of Principle with his body, then passed the Six-Nine Tribulation Lightning with his physical cultivation and Heavenly Blade.

After surviving the Heart Demon Tribulation, Yang Tianyou gained the Chains of Karma and used them to remove Yunhua’s restriction from her previous life. Meanwhile, Ji Chengwu died, and his brother Ji Chengzong seized power and had Wen Qun killed after summoning him to Wanlong City.

• Yang Tianyou killed the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon, absorbed its Soul Power, and received the Chains of Karma from the seventh page of the Jade Register Heavenly Book.
• Yang Tianyou used the Chains of Karma to remove Yunhua’s restriction, and she absorbed vast Spiritual Qi before asking him for another child.
• Ji Chengwu warned Ji Chengzong to keep Wen Qun at the border, reconcile with the Li Household and empress dowager, and correct Lin’er’s behavior before dying suddenly.
• Ji Chengzong concealed Ji Chengwu’s death and decided to eliminate Wen Qun, the border generals, and other potential rivals.
• Ji Chengzong summoned Wen Qun from Jing'an City, then had his men stab him with a poisoned dagger that reduced his body to black particles.

After Ji Chengzong’s rule destabilized Great Zhou and his death failed to prevent disorder at the front, Yang Tianyou learned the border had temporarily stabilized and turned his attention to expanding the Yang Household’s influence through trade with the Kuanglong River Water Tribes. He chose the Water-Fire Spirit Ape Clan as his first target and found an isolated ape to act against.

• Li Shentong confronted Ji Chengzong over Wen Qun’s death, then allowed him to replace the emperor before binding him at court and asking Ji Changming to judge him.
• After Ji Chengzong’s death, loyalists fled to Great Zhao and revealed Wen Qun’s death, throwing the front army into chaos until Li Shentong sent private forces from major lineages to stabilize it.
• Muyunzi visited Yang Tianyou on Nine Refinement Mountain after Yang Tianyou broke through to Body Integration and explained the crisis at the front and Great Zhou’s temporary stability.
• Yang Tianyou decided to expand the Yang Household’s influence by trading with the Water Tribes and chose the Water-Fire Spirit Ape Clan as his first target.
• Yang Tianyou and Zhiming entered the Kuanglong River under cover of Formless Insects, and after searching for two months Yang Tianyou found an isolated Body Integration Early Stage Water-Fire Spirit Ape.

Yang Tianyou captured Sun Qi and Ao Qiu, using their connections to establish trade between the Yang Household and the Water Tribe. When nearby powers demanded a share of the profits, he rejected their envoy, then turned his attention to Yunhua’s pregnancy and their unborn child.

• Yang Tianyou turned the Water-Fire Spirit Ape Sun Qi into a soul servant and learned that he was friends with the Flood Dragon Clan’s Ninth Prince, Ao Qiu.
• Sun Qi lured Ao Qiu to the caverns, where Yang Tianyou captured him and turned him into a Mirror Spirit Puppet.
• Ten years later, the Yang Household began trading Water Tribe Spirit Items and made profits by selling them through chambers of commerce in different regions.
• The Golden Sword Sect and other powers planned to demand a share of the trade profits and threatened to blockade the Yang Household’s routes if it refused.
• Yang Tianyou rejected the Golden Sword Sect envoy’s demand to surrender part of the profits and vowed to see who would have the last laugh.
• Yunhua told Yang Tianyou that their child, conceived five years earlier, would be born within five hundred years.

The Purple Moon Yang Household countered the three prefectures’ campaign with ambushes and raids, then endured a sixty-year contest that forced its opponents to seek reconciliation. After Yang Tianyou left negotiations to Yang Tianjiu, he went to meet a spy from the Great Zhao Imperial Dynasty who had arrived at Nine Refinement Mountain.

• The Golden Sword Sect and allied forces planned to blockade Yang Household trade routes, support Jinyun Temple, and undermine the household’s businesses.
• Yang Tiankang and Yang Yujin used the transport Flying Boat’s Formation to devastate Tianyunzi’s ambush, killing several Rogue Cultivators and routing the rest.
• Yang Tianyou entered a Golden Sword Sect Market with Zhiming’s help, looted its stores while Fengling and the other Spirit Beasts caused a diversion, and escaped without killing its guardian.
• After a sixty-year contest, the allied forces accepted Yang Tianyou’s offer to reconcile and discuss sharing trade routes and connections with Yang Tianjiu.
• Yang Tianyou left the negotiation hall and went to meet a visiting spy from Fengmu Prefecture of the Great Zhao Imperial Dynasty.

Yang Tianyou manipulated Great Zhao envoy Xu Qi into leaving satisfied without committing the Yang Household, then prepared to retaliate against the Huchen Sect while protecting Yunhua and their unborn child. He ambushed and killed the sect’s trusted elder Longqing True Person, erasing the evidence and all traces of the attack.

• Xu Qi visited the Yang Household to recruit it for the Great Zhao Imperial Dynasty, but Yang Tianyou used the Karma Chains to influence him and sent him away satisfied.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua replenished their unborn child’s Origin Qi with eight wisps drawn from the eight gestating Innate Beings, replacing the losses with the Grotto Heaven’s power.
• Yang Tianyou told Yunhua he would strike at the Huchen Sect by targeting its descendants and promised to take his Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts and two spirit insects for protection.
• Yang Tianyou ambushed Longqing True Person, a trusted Huchen Sect elder transporting Spirit Items, and destroyed his body and soul with a Heavenly Blade strike.
• Yang Tianyou gathered the remnants and erased the Karma and spacetime around the ambush site, preventing Heavenly Mechanists from investigating it.

After killing Longqing True Person, Yang Tianyou evaded the Huchen Sect’s attempts to identify and catch him while continuing to hunt its cultivators. He then sold Wushang Hall detailed intelligence revealing the Huchen Sect’s discovery of the Jingyun Hall ruins, and Wushang Hall agreed to negotiate rather than risk making him an enemy.

• Chenhu Old Ancestor failed to identify Longqing True Person’s killer, and the Huchen Sect’s elders agreed to stay within the sect while Tiger Throat Hall investigated.
• Chenhu Old Ancestor learned that the Huchen Sect expected to open the Jingyun Hall ruins’ defensive formation in ten years and warned Yun Chenzi to keep the discovery secret.
• Yang Tianyou continued killing Huchen Sect cultivators for three years, inflicting heavy losses despite its traps and defensive measures.
• Yang Tianyou’s cloaked Talisman Soldier offered Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord detailed intelligence on the Huchen Sect.
• Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord consulted a dwarfish old man, and Wushang Hall agreed to meet Yang Tianyou’s terms after learning about the Jingyun Hall ruins.

Yang Tianyou traded intelligence and cultivation resources with Wushang Hall, then helped it devise a plan to strike the Huchen Sect. Seven years later, Wushang Hall attacked the Huchen Sect’s hidden stronghold in the Filthy Insect Sea and moved to intercept its reinforcements, leaving Yang Tianyou to face Yun Chenzi.

• Yang Tianyou gave Elder Wushang a list of desired resources, completed their deal, and agreed to help Wushang Hall attack the Huchen Sect.
• Yang Tianyou continued harassing the Huchen Sect for seven years while its forces failed to locate him.
• Huchen Sect Formation Masters opened the hidden Jingyun Hall ruins in the Filthy Insect Sea, releasing a flood of accumulated medicinal power.
• Long Xinglie led Wushang Hall warships into the concealed stronghold and attacked the Huchen Sect cultivators guarding the ruins.
• The Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord intercepted Jinghu Old Ancestor as Yun Chenzi led reinforcements toward the Filthy Insect Sea.
• Elder Wushang prepared to hold back Chenhu Old Ancestor while Yang Tianyou was assigned to deal with Yun Chenzi.

Yang Tianyou and Wushang Hall ambushed the Huchen Sect’s reinforcement fleet, and Yang Tianyou’s overwhelming power forced Yun Chenzi to use a Ninth Tier Talisman. Wushang Hall blocked the talisman’s attack, and Yang Tianyou launched a Life-and-Death Wheel strike as the fleet joined in, leaving the Huchen Sect’s forces engulfed by their combined assault.

• Yun Chenzi led the Huchen Sect’s reinforcement fleet toward the battle and warned his elders that Yang Tianyou might have joined forces with Wushang Hall.
• Wushang Hall’s Heaven-Prison Star Cage Formation trapped the fleet, but the Huchen Sect attacked while Yang Tianyou charged in using his White Emperor Indestructible Body and Power of Annihilation.
• Yang Tianyou shattered an Eighth Tier warship and overwhelmed Yun Chenzi’s Ice River Spirit Treasure, forcing Yun Chenzi to unleash the Raging Wind Divine Eye Talisman.
• Yang Tianyou withdrew beside Wushang Hall’s fleet, and its leader used a Ninth Tier Forbidden Artifact to absorb and redirect the talisman’s Divine Wind.
• Yang Tianyou gathered power in his Life-and-Death Wheels while the Divine Wind battered the Huchen Sect’s defenses, then attacked alongside Wushang Hall after the wind subsided.

Yang Tianyou and Wushang Hall devastated the Huchen Sect’s forces, though Yun Chenzi escaped with the Illusory Sky Golden Bridge. After the Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord defeated Jinghu Old Ancestor, Chenhu Old Ancestor chose to seal the Huchen Sect after learning that a Yellow Chain had thwarted a Tribulation Transcendence-level Heavenly Mechanist’s divination.

• Yang Tianyou’s Six Paths of Reincarnation shattered Yun Chenzi’s Ice River Spirit Treasure, and Yun Chenzi used the Illusory Sky Golden Bridge to lead the battered Huchen Sect forces out of the formation.
• The Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord endured Jinghu Old Ancestor’s Jinghu Roar and struck him down with the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body.
• Elder Wushang claimed victory in his board game against Chenhu Old Ancestor and vanished after the Huchen Sect lost the Jingyun Hall Ruins.
• Chenhu Old Ancestor told Jinghu Old Ancestor that a Yellow Chain had interrupted and threatened the divination of his Tribulation Transcendence-level Heavenly Mechanist friend.
• Chenhu Old Ancestor decided that the Huchen Sect would seal its mountain, and Jinghu Old Ancestor accepted the decision.

Yang Tianyou abandoned his attack on the Huchen Sect after it sealed its mountain, then collected an unexpectedly generous reward from Wushang Hall, whose leaders mistook him for a disciple of a powerful, reclusive master. Back at Nine Refinement Mountain, he and Yunhua planned to sell the spirit medicines in the Eighth Heaven and use the proceeds to strengthen their Lineage.

• Yang Tianyou concluded that his Karma Chains had frightened the Huchen Sect into sealing its mountain and gave up trying to attack it.
• Elder Wushang decided the Huchen Sect feared the force behind Wuming and ordered Wushang Hall to honor their agreement and add a Ninth-Tribulation Heavenly Thunder Flower.
• Yang Tianyou let Elder Wushang and the Dragon Elephant Mountain Lord believe he had a formidable master, then accepted a Storage Ring full of spirit medicines and slipped away.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Nine Refinement Mountain and told Yunhua about his dealings with the Huchen Sect and Wushang Hall.
• Yang Tianyou and Yunhua decided to sell the medicines for useful pills, talismans, and supplies, so Yang Tianyou headed to Longteng Circuit City to travel to the Eighth Heaven.

Yang Tianyou traveled to the Eighth Heaven to assess the spirit medicine market and chose Ten Thousand Grass Hall as the place to sell his stock and buy pills. As he approached its Eight Great Mountain Estates, he saw the Nine-Ring Immortal Sun.

• Yang Tianyou used a Teleportation Formation to travel from the Seventh Heaven to Zhélóng City in the Eighth Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou visited shops in Zhélóng Dao City to compare spirit medicine prices and found the Eighth Heaven favorable for small powers and Rogue Cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou left the city and headed southeast for Ten Thousand Grass Hall, renowned for its spirit plants, medicinal pills, and Ninth-Tribulation Heavenly Thunder Flowers.
• Yang Tianyou approached the Eight Great Mountain Estates and sensed the vitality of Ten Thousand Grass Hall’s Spiritual Qi.
• Yang Tianyou looked up and recognized the great sun before him as the Nine-Ring Immortal Sun.

Yang Tianyou visited the Wind-Chanting Mountain Estate and hired the inner disciple Lingyin to guide him to shops that bought spirit medicines. He chose Thousand Leaves to test its prices for Eighth Tier healing medicines, and they entered its Grotto Heaven Spirit Treasure shop.

• Yang Tianyou arrived at the Wind-Chanting Mountain Estate, one of the Ten Thousand Grass Hall's Eight Great Mountain Estates.
• Lingyin introduced herself as a guide maidservant and explained that she was an inner disciple of the Ten Thousand Grass Hall.
• Yang Tianyou asked Lingyin to recommend shops that paid fair prices for Eighth Tier spirit medicine.
• Lingyin listed several shops and said Thousand Leaves paid the most for healing spirit medicines.
• Lingyin paid for a Teleportation Formation and led Yang Tianyou to Thousand Leaves, whose interior was a Grotto Heaven Spirit Treasure.

Yang Tianyou went to the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association to sell Eighth Tier spirit medicines and was guided by Huang Wei to Shopkeeper Huang. After agreeing on a fair price for Thousand-Spirit Ginseng, he revealed a list of thirty Eighth Tier spirit medicines, leaving Shopkeeper Huang stunned by the scale of the deal.

• Huang Wei greeted Yang Tianyou and led him to the Eighth Tier spirit medicine trading area while explaining the association’s trading options.
• Yang Tianyou met Shopkeeper Huang and tested his offer by asking the price for Thousand-Spirit Ginseng.
• Shopkeeper Huang offered 540,000 Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, and Yang Tianyou accepted.
• Yang Tianyou moved with Shopkeeper Huang and Huang Wei to a private room and presented a list of thirty Eighth Tier spirit medicines.
• Shopkeeper Huang trembled as he realized the deal could equal several hundred years of his business.

Yang Tianyou sold spirit medicines across the Eight Great Mountain Estates, then returned to Nine Refinement Mountain and cultivated in seclusion. A century later, a Conscription Order from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield interrupted his cultivation.

• Yang Tianyou agreed to sell thirty Eighth-Tier spirit medicines to Shopkeeper Huang for twenty million Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and signed an Immortal Sun Contract.
• Shopkeeper Huang paid Yang Tianyou, who handed over the medicines and gave Lingyin a reward before leaving the shop.
• Yang Tianyou changed his appearance and sold roughly half of his Eighth-Tier medicines and most of his Ninth-Tier medicines across the Eight Great Mountain Estates, reserving some medicines for Zhiming and his wife and sending the Ninth-Tribulation Heavenly Thunder Flower to an auction.
• Yang Tianyou used the proceeds to buy Seventh- and Eighth-Tier Pills and four Ninth-Tier Talismans and Forbidden Artifacts.
• Yang Tianyou returned to Nine Refinement Mountain and cultivated in seclusion for a century before a Conscription Order from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield arrived.

Yang Tianyou and the other Seventh Heaven factions received an Extraterrestrial Battlefield conscription order, which forced them to send cultivators to fight but also offered protection and a long ceasefire. The factions began preparing for the expedition, and the Huchen Sect saw a chance to escape its current threat.

• Yunhua worried that the Yang Household would have to send Yang Tianyou to the dangerous Extraterrestrial Battlefield, but he reassured her and concealed that he wanted to collect World Fragments there for Great White Grotto Heaven.
• Yang Tianyou learned that the battlefield lay beyond the Three Realms and its Heavenly Dao, making it a place where he could safely obtain World Fragments to strengthen himself.
• Li Shentong welcomed the conscription order because it would stop Great Zhao from attacking the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty for at least ten thousand years.
• Guan Qin angrily abandoned his plans to invade Great Zhou, then took his deputy general's advice and decided to ask His Majesty to appoint him marshal of the expeditionary legion.
• Old Ancestor Chenhu and Old Ancestor Jinghu learned that the Huchen Sect could end its mountain closure and began organizing an Extraterrestrial Legion, hoping battlefield merit would protect them from the being behind the mysterious person.

The Yang Household prepared its forces and supplies for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, then joined the powers of Longteng Circuit at Wanlong City. As Yang Tianyou’s ties and reputation drew prominent cultivators to visit, a Spatial Passage opened to the battlefield.

• Yang Tianyou reviewed Yang Yujin’s force and supply figures, relied on Yang Tianjiu to fund the campaign, and ordered the Yang Household to prepare for departure in three years.
• Two months before departure, the Yang Household’s warships left Nine Refinement Mountain and joined Longteng Circuit’s fleet at Longteng City before traveling to Wanlong City.
• Yang Tianyou welcomed the Three Origin Sect’s Heavenly Origin, Earth Origin, and Human Origin True Persons, who praised his accomplishments and maintained their ties with him.
• Muyunzi, Heavenly Sword Zi, and other Body Integration Cultivators visited Yang Tianyou, spreading the Purple Moon Yang Household’s name among the powers gathered at Wanlong City.
• A heavenly river descended and opened a Spatial Passage to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.

Yang Tianyou led Blackstone Prefecture’s fleet through the Spatial Passage to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield and learned that they had been assigned to the Ninth War Zone. After welcoming cultivator Honglian with rare Spirit Tea, he listened as she began to share battlefield intelligence, starting with a question about the Heavenly Demons’ origins.

• Li Shentong ordered the cultivators to follow the Yellow Dragon Boat through the Spatial Passage, and Yang Tianyou led Blackstone Prefecture’s fleet through as the vanguard.
• Yang Tianyou arrived at the Extraterrestrial Battlefield and saw its primordial energy, floating war cities, and arriving forces from many Great Thousand Realms.
• A Tribulation Transcendence cultivator assigned Blackstone Prefecture to the Ninth War Zone, and Li Shentong led the Tianshui Li Household toward the Second War Zone.
• Yang Tianyou led the Blackstone Prefecture contingent through a spatial wormhole to the Ninth War Zone, where the surrounding energy grew turbulent.
• Honglian, an Body Integration Middle Stage cultivator, welcomed Yang Tianyou and offered to explain the battlefield’s rules and circumstances.
• Yang Tianyou served Honglian high-grade Eighth Tier Spirit Tea, and she asked whether he knew where the Heavenly Demons came from.