Chapter Summaries

Yang Tianyou arrived in time to save Wolf Ancestor from the Devil Cultivators, then withdrew with his companions rather than pursue them. At the Huafeng Black Market, he examined how his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment had transformed his body and cultivation.

• Yang Tianyou unleashed the Great White Heavenly Blade, splitting the black altar and joining Wolf Ancestor against the attackers.
• Yang Tianyou detected the black-clad man's Dark Night Blade; the man and the other surviving attackers retreated.
• Yang Tianwang wanted to pursue the Devil Cultivators, but Yang Tianyou and Yang Danglong argued that fighting them was not worth the risk.
• Yang Tianyou checked Wolf Ancestor's wounds, summoned the Flying Boat, and took everyone away from the cliff.
• At a restaurant in the Huafeng Black Market, Yang Tianyou studied his Foundation Establishment transformation and found that his meridians were spiritualized and parts of his bones and flesh had begun to change.

After the Jade Register Heavenly Book refined the Qi of Creation, its white light greatly strengthened Yang Tianyou’s True Spirit and opened its first page. The page showed him a mysterious peak made of spiritual metals, where he reached for his Twin Blades before wondering where he was.

• Yang Tianyou found that the Jade Register Heavenly Book had gathered more than a hundred strands of Qi of Creation, far more than the nine he had absorbed after his Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• The Book drew the Qi of Creation into its first page and released white light that caused Yang Tianyou agonizing pain before leaving him with a sense of sublimation.
• Yang Tianyou discovered that his cultivation and physique were unchanged, but his spiritual sense had grown denser and his True Spirit had expanded to the size of a baby’s fist.
• Yang Tianyou saw the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s first page form the character “Dao,” then was transported into an unfamiliar space beneath a colossal peak.
• Yang Tianyou realized the peak was made of spiritual metals, thought about its value and how to carry it back to the Lineage, and drew out his Twin Blades before asking where he was.

Yang Tianyou explored the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s Dao Comprehension Spaces and discovered that the Saber Space could strengthen his Great White Blade Intent, though absorbing too much at once injured him. He then began a Great Unity Demon-Spirit Pact to make Fengling and Yuan Ba his Bonded Spirit Beasts, infusing the pact with Qi of Creation.

• Yang Tianyou learned that the Sky-Piercing Giant Peak increased Metal Attribute Dao Resonance and helped him comprehend Metal cultivation.
• In the Saber Space, Yang Tianyou absorbed a treasured saber’s Blade Intent, strengthening his Great White Blade Intent before the Heavenly Book returned his consciousness to his body.
• Yang Tianyou felt stabbing pain from the strengthened Blade Intent and concluded he needed to rest between attempts.
• Yang Tianyou decided that Fengling and Yuan Ba could benefit from the Jade Register Heavenly Book as his Bonded Spirit Beasts, and both agreed to the pact.
• Yang Tianyou used the Great Unity Demon-Spirit Pact to draw Fengling and Yuan Ba into a formation beneath his True Spirit, then infused it with two strands of Qi of Creation.

After confirming that his Bonded Spirit Beasts could benefit from the Jade Register Heavenly Book, Yang Tianyou studied the requirements for forging a constellation Spirit Body and planned to pursue the Great White Spirit Body. He concluded that he needed a suitable Metal-and-Star cultivation method and decided to find one rather than create it himself.

• Yang Tianyou woke to find Fengling and Yuan Ba immersed in the Dao Comprehension Space after successfully becoming his Bonded Spirit Beasts.
• Yang Tianyou studied the Vermilion Bird Constellation Treatise and learned the demanding conditions for forging its constellation body.
• Yang Tianyou decided the White Tiger War and Slaughter Dao best matched his Metal power, star power, and Blade Intent, and named the Dao Comprehension spaces Golden Thunder Peak and Blade Prison.
• Yang Tianyou determined that forging the Great White Spirit Body required a cultivation method combining Metal-Attribute Spiritual Power with the Power of the Stars.
• Yang Tianyou rejected creating a new method because it would take years and halt his other progress, so he resolved to search for a suitable existing method.

Yang Tianyou reviewed his cultivation goals and learned that Fengling and Yuan Ba could enter the Jade Register Heavenly Book’s Dao Comprehension Spaces, though their weak soul True Spirits limited their time there. He went to Spiritvoid Pavilion to buy Tier 2 talisman materials, replacement Law Artifacts, and Pills, and left Huang Sanfu preparing his order.

• Yang Tianyou identified his plans to form five more Spirit Beast contracts, find a Cultivation Method, comprehend Metal and Stellar Wills, and upgrade his Law Artifacts.
• Fengling and Yuan Ba described their experiences in the Bottomless Cave and Flame Ocean, and Yang Tianyou discovered that their weak soul True Spirits prevented them from staying long in the Dao Comprehension Spaces.
• Yang Tianyou promised to find soul-strengthening Spirit Items for Fengling and Yuan Ba, then set out for the Black Market to purchase supplies.
• Yang Tianyou entered Spiritvoid Pavilion and agreed to discuss his Tier 2 purchases in a private room.
• Huang Sanfu reviewed Yang Tianyou’s list, confirmed the pavilion had the requested items, and rang a bell to summon them.

Yang Tianyou bought materials, pills, and artifacts from the Spiritvoid Pavilion, then returned to the inn to make Tier 2 talisman supplies and draw a Blade Formation Talisman. The chapter ended with him completing his first Second-Rank Low-Grade Blade Formation Talisman.

• Yang Tianyou bought Demon Beast materials, pills, Law Artifacts, and other goods from Huang Sanfu, negotiating the price down to 17,400 Spirit Stones.
• Yang Tianyou returned to the inn, fed Fengling and Yuan Ba, and began processing Beast Hides in an isolated study.
• Yang Tianyou used Spirit Liquid and Innate True Fire to turn the Beast Hides into high-quality Blank Talisman Paper.
• Yang Tianyou mixed ten boxes of Spirit Ink over two days, then prepared to draw Tier 2 Talismans.
• Yang Tianyou drew a Second-Rank Low-Grade Metal-Attribute Blade Formation Talisman, completing it after six hours.

Devil Cultivators planned attacks on several Foundation Establishment Lineages while Yang Tianyou completed a batch of talismans, including a powerful escape talisman. Yang Danglong then told him the Black Sha Sect had taken Purple Moon Town and killed Yang Qiongqing and the Purple Moon Wolves, leaving Yang Tianyou demanding the full account.

• The Black Sha Sect, Dragon Valley Sect, and Blood-Slaying Dao each claimed a target lineage to attack on orders from the red-eyed young man.
• Yang Tianyou successfully drew a second-tier middle-grade Xun Wind Escape Talisman and completed eleven other talismans.
• Yang Tianyou found Fengling and Yuan Ba playing Go after their cultivation, then sensed an urgent summons from the Shadow Hall master's token.
• Yang Danglong told Yang Tianyou that the Black Sha Sect had attacked the Lineage, taken Purple Moon Town, and killed or wounded more than ninety thousand mortals.
• Yang Danglong revealed that Yang Qiongqing and the Purple Moon Wolves had fought to the death and fallen, and Yang Tianyou demanded every detail of the attack.

Yang Haoyu protected the Yang Household from a Black Sha Sect assault and reached Purple Moon Town after reinforcements helped drive off the attackers. She found the town devastated, while reports revealed that three other foundation-establishment lineages had been destroyed.

• Six Black Sha Sect devil cultivators broke Purple Moon Town's protective array, killed Yang Qiongqing, grievously wounded Yang Dangmo, and slaughtered tens of thousands of mortals.
• Yang Haoyu received a distress signal but held her position at Purple Moon Mountain until the Dragon Valley Patrol Envoys approached, then used the Soul-Swaying Bell to attack the two devil cultivators blocking her way.
• The foundation-establishment great-perfection devil cultivator fought through Yang Haoyu's encirclement, and Yang Haoyu chose not to pursue him because hidden enemies threatened nearby.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Tianxue reached Purple Moon Town after the six attackers retreated and found its people and buildings devastated, though seventy to eighty thousand mortals had survived.
• The Mu Household, Qing Household, and Ye Household were also attacked; the Mu Household and its nearly two hundred thousand mortals were wiped out, while the other lineages suffered catastrophic losses.
• The chapter recounted how Yang Haoyu's preparations and early evacuation from Crouching Ox Pass had preserved the Yang Household's strength through the Cold Tide.

Yang Tianyou determined that the Black Sha Sect and Zhao Household were behind the Yang Household’s losses and ordered an investigation and preparations to retaliate. At the Zhao Household, Zhao Leicong feared the surviving Yang Household’s revenge and cursed the Black Sha Sect for failing to destroy it.

• Yang Tianyou traced the attacks on the four Foundation Establishment Lineages to old grudges and the Black Sha Sect’s contract with Zhao Leicong.
• Yang Tianyou concluded that the Black Sha Sect and Zhao Household were the true culprits behind the Yang Household’s losses.
• Yang Tianyou ordered Yang Danglong to mobilize the Shadow Hall, investigate the Zhao Household, and activate hidden assets before returning to the household.
• Zhao Leicong learned that the Yang Household had survived and worried that it would retaliate against the Zhao Household.
• Zhao Leicong roared at the Black Sha Sect for failing to kill the Yang Household.

Zhao Leicong worried that the Black Sha Sect’s attack on the Yang and Mu Households would expose the Zhao Household’s dealings with Devil Cultivators, while Green Ghost and Brother Sun celebrated completing their contract and began plotting to ambush the Zhao Household. On Purple Moon Mountain, Yang Haoyu met with Jin Lianri and Zheng Qiufeng when Yang Tianyou arrived.

• Zhao Leicong learned that the Black Sha Sect had attacked the Yang and Mu Households without his approval, and he ordered the Zhao Household to prepare for retaliation.
• Green Ghost and Brother Sun agreed that the Black Sha Sect had fulfilled its contract by destroying the Mu Household, despite the Yang Household surviving.
• Green Ghost and Brother Sun discussed attacking the Zhao Household to seize its wealth.
• Yang Haoyu sat with Jin Lianri and Zheng Qiufeng at the summit of Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou arrived at the summit and greeted Yang Haoyu and the two seniors.

Yang Haoyu developed a plan to exploit the Dragon Valley Sect's search for a hidden treasure and strike the Zhao Household after the Black Sha Sect attacked the Yang Household. The chapter left her and Yang Qiongye refining that plan in response to the Yang Household's heavy losses.

• Yang Tianyou arrived at the stone table after establishing his Foundation, and Jin Lianri welcomed him warmly while Zheng Qiufeng offered formal congratulations.
• Yang Haoyu and Yang Qiongye planned to retaliate against the Zhao Household using a strategy they called “drive tigers to devour wolves.”
• Yang Haoyu suspected that Dragon Valley Hall concealed a valuable inheritance treasure that Jin Lianri had discovered when he acquired the hall.
• Yang Haoyu reasoned that the Dragon Valley Sect had divided the treasure between its public and hidden lines, and that Qi Yulong would seek to recover it after restoring the sect.
• Yang Haoyu sent people to investigate the Dragon Valley Sect's Devil Cultivators and learned that many of them were searching for something.
• After the Black Sha Sect attacked and inflicted heavy losses, Yang Haoyu and Yang Qiongye further refined their plan to strike the Zhao Household.

Yang Haoyu explained her plan to use Dragon Valley Hall as bait to draw Qi Yulong into conflict with the Zhao Household, while the Yang Household secured support from Jin Lianri and the Liu Household. After hearing her proposal, Jin Lianri questioned why he should bear the danger without gaining any benefit.

• Yang Haoyu and Yang Qiongye identified four obstacles to their plan, including securing Jin Lianri's support, managing rumors, persuading the Liu Household, and ensuring Jin Lianri could stand against Qi Yulong.
• Yang Haoyu arranged for Yang Dangmo to offer the Liu Household a share of the Zhao Household's assets and a marriage alliance.
• Yang Haoyu sent Jin Lianri a letter explaining the full plan and invited him to Purple Moon Mountain, where he arrived with Zheng Qiufeng.
• Yang Tianyou brewed rare Ginkgo Tea for the two Golden Core Cultivators, and Yang Haoyu presented them with gifts of tea.
• Jin Lianri said the plan offered him no benefit and asked why he should risk facing Qi Yulong for the Yang Household.

Yang Haoyu persuaded Jin Lianri and Zheng Qiufeng to join her plan to use the Yang Household as bait for Qi Yulong, then revealed Yang Tianyou’s strength as an additional bargaining chip. The chapter ended with the two Golden Core cultivators watching as Yang Tianyou displayed the power of his Great White Gold Eyes.

• Yang Haoyu deduced that Jin Lianri’s treasure needed the part held by Qi Yulong and proposed using the Yang Household as bait to lure him into a trap.
• Zheng Qiufeng suggested working with the Zhao Household instead, but Yang Haoyu presented a Jade Slip revealing its connection to the Xiang Household of Ba Commandery.
• Jin Lianri and Zheng Qiufeng agreed to follow Yang Haoyu’s plan and wipe out the Zhao Household because of its ties to their mortal enemy, the Xiang Household.
• Yang Haoyu offered another bargaining chip and asked Yang Tianyou to demonstrate his strength.
• Yang Tianyou displayed his Great White Blade Intent, then opened his Great White Eye and made stars appear in broad daylight.

Yang Tianyou demonstrated a Divine Ability Prototype, prompting Jin Lianri to consider investing in him and the Yang Household. Yang Haoyu proposed a long-term business partnership with the Gold and Silver Alliance, and Zheng Qiufeng agreed to the deal.

• Yang Tianyou manifested a Divine Ability Prototype that crushed a hill, impressing Jin Lianri and Zheng Qiufeng.
• Jin Lianri gave Yang Tianyou Golden Wind Jade Dew Pills, which Yang Tianyou stored before taking a Human Origin Pill instead.
• Yang Haoyu explained that the Three Rivers Sect’s losses had left its subordinate lineages and resources weakened, then clarified that she sought a business deal rather than help seizing territory.
• Yang Haoyu proposed that the Yang Household and its allied lineages help gather resources for the Three Rivers Sect through a long-term partnership with the Gold and Silver Alliance.
• Zheng Qiufeng accepted Yang Haoyu’s proposal on behalf of the Gold and Silver Alliance.

Yang Tianyou secured a cooperation agreement between the Yang Household and the Gold and Silver Alliance, then began the Household’s operation against the Zhao Household. A rumor linking the Zhao Household to Zhou Zhenhao’s inheritance drew attention across the region, including from the Dragon Valley Sect, as Iron Rakshasa appeared at a secluded house.

• Zheng Qiufeng joined Jin Lianri in accepting Yang Haoyu’s offer to cooperate with the Yang Household.
• Yang Haoyu negotiated terms under which the Yang Household would openly pursue resources while the Gold and Silver Alliance secretly supported it and bought its collected Spirit Items.
• Yang Dangmo reported that the Liu Household had agreed to a marriage alliance and would send two Foundation Establishment cultivators to join the operation against the Zhao Household.
• Yang Tianyou returned to the Huafeng Black Market and set the Yang Household’s plan in motion, rewarding the surviving Shadow Hall clansmen for their work.
• The Shadow Hall spread a rumor that the Zhao Household possessed Zhou Zhenhao’s inheritance and Dragon Valley Hall, attracting the attention of major forces and the Dragon Valley Sect.
• Iron Rakshasa, a feared Dragon Valley Sect cultivator, arrived at a snow-free Bluestone Tiles house.

Qi Yulong concluded that the Yang Household had leaked news of Dragon Valley Hall to provoke him into attacking the Zhao Household, and ordered Iron Rakshasa to wipe them out. At Bianhe Mountain, the Zhao Household leaders debated the leak and waited for Zhao Leicong to respond.

• Iron Rakshasa reported that the Zhao Household had obtained Elder Zhou Zhenhao’s inheritance and Dragon Valley Hall, then relayed the Zhao Household’s claim that the Yang Household had received the inheritance.
• Qi Yulong reasoned that the Yang Household had spread the news to use him against the Zhao Household and suspected Dragon Valley Hall had been sold to Jin Lianri.
• Qi Yulong ordered Iron Rakshasa to wipe out the Zhao Household and retrieve everything Elder Zhou had left behind.
• Qi Yulong set off for Purple Moon Mountain while Iron Rakshasa departed to carry out his order.
• The Zhao Household leaders grew angry over the Yang Household’s leak, and Zhao Leicong raised his hand to silence the Discussion Hall.

Zhao Zongbin proposed defenses, an escape route, intelligence gathering, and seeking the Three Rivers Sect’s protection as the Zhao Household prepared for the Yang Household’s move. Outside Border River Town, Yang Tianyou met Liu Changqing and planned a joint attack on Bianhe Mountain, targeting the Zhao Household’s Spirit Medicine Garden first.

• Zhao Zongbin advised the Zhao elders to reinforce Bianhe Mountain, prepare an escape route, uncover the Yang Household’s scheme, and offer the Three Rivers Sect the Dragon Valley Hall inheritance in exchange for protection.
• Zhao Leicong accepted Zhao Zongbin’s proposals and ordered the elders to obey him.
• Yang Tianyou arrived outside Border River Town with Yang clansmen and met Liu Changqing, Liu Lingyu, and Liu Household cultivators.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing agreed to target the Zhao Household’s largest Spirit Medicine Garden during their attack on Bianhe Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou explained that the garden was protected by the Six Directions Returning to Origin Formation and discussed breaking through the Zhao Household’s Clan-Guarding Array before other forces could reach the prize.

Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing prepared to attack Bianhe Mountain as Iron Rakshasa arrived to assault the Zhao Household. Zhao Leicong tried to reason with him, but Iron Rakshasa launched the battle, leaving the Zhao Household’s formations under attack while Yang Tianyou watched.

• Yang Tianyou spotted Iron Rakshasa approaching Bianhe Mountain and worried that Qi Yulong might be headed for Purple Moon Mountain.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing confirmed their forces were ready to attack once the Zhao Household’s Defensive Formation fell.
• Zhao Leicong emerged to defend Bianhe Mountain as hostile cultivators gathered around the Dragon Valley Sect forces.
• Zhao Leicong denied that his household had obtained the Dragon Valley Sect’s inheritance, but Iron Rakshasa ignored him and ordered his forces to attack.
• Zhao Leicong ordered the Zhao Household to defend while Dragon Valley Sect cultivators battered its formation.
• Yang Tianyou watched Iron Rakshasa fight barehanded and recognized the terrifying strength of his Body Cultivation.

Iron Rakshasa and the Dragon Valley Sect’s Devil Cultivators broke through the Zhao Household’s defenses, allowing Yang Tianyou and the Liu Household to join the assault and head for the Spirit Medicine Garden. At the garden’s formation, a desperate explosion left the defenders and attackers badly wounded, and Yang Tianyou ordered his group to kill the surviving Devil Cultivators as one of them readied a Black Poison Thunder.

• Iron Rakshasa used his Rakshasa Battle Body to smash the Zhao Household’s second defensive formation while Dragon Valley Sect cultivators helped.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing led the Yang and Liu Households in an attack on the Zhao Household’s final barrier, which the attackers soon destroyed.
• Yang Tianyou led his group toward the Spirit Medicine Garden as Zhao Leicong fought Iron Rakshasa and the Zhao Household’s defenses crumbled.
• At the Six Directions Returning to Origin Formation, a Zhao Household Foundation Establishment cultivator detonated the formation, killing the Qi Refining defenders and wounding the Devil Cultivators besieging it.
• Yang Tianyou ordered his group to attack the surviving Devil Cultivators, and one of them threw a concealed Black Poison Thunder toward them.

Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing defeated the Zhao Household’s defenders and secured its Spirit Medicine Garden, but discovered that Zhao Leicong had already removed a valuable Golden-Pattern Pear. As outsiders plundered Bianhe Mountain, Devil Cultivators headed toward Border River Town to prey on its mortals.

• Yang Tianyou killed a Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator after surviving the explosion of the man’s devil tower, while Liu Changqing killed the other Devil Cultivator with a sword strike.
• Yang Tianyou killed the mortally wounded Zhao Household Foundation Establishment cultivator and ordered the Qi Refining cultivators to clear the battlefield.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing entered the Zhao Household’s Spirit Medicine Garden, where Liu Changqing set up a Five-Element Rock Formation and the Qi Refining cultivators began harvesting its spirit medicines.
• Yang Tianyou and Liu Changqing found a large empty pit and realized Zhao Leicong had removed the garden’s Second-Tier Upper-Grade Golden-Pattern Pear.
• Outside cultivators flooded Bianhe Mountain to plunder the Zhao Household’s resources, while Devil Cultivators headed for Border River Town to slaughter mortals for their Essence Blood and souls.