Chapter Summaries

Yang Fu learned Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s rules for the Yang Family’s new territory and led Shen Yao, Leng Li, and Tian Mumu down from the sect. He met Lu Ren, who offered to manage the family’s affairs, and the chapter left Yang Fu considering the proposal.

• The registrar explained Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s territory, its required Spirit Seed planting, and the points Immortal Clans earned from harvests.
• Yang Fu led Shen Yao, Leng Li, and Tian Mumu down the Nine Heavens Cloud Ladder toward the Yang Family’s territory.
• Leng Li admired Cloudveil Spirit Sect and resolved to enter it, while Tian Mumu asked when Brother Shuo would return.
• Lu Ren approached Yang Fu, praised him, and offered to handle the Yang Family’s Spirit Fields and other affairs for a fee.
• Shen Yao recognized Lu Ren’s flattering pitch as a line she had used herself.

Yang Fu and his companions hired a spirit bird to travel to the Yang Family’s territory in Mystic Spirit Continent while Lu Ren taught them about the local powers and conditions. On the way, Lu Ren offered to connect them with Yindi Dynasty cultivators smuggled across the border to work as farmers.

• Yang Fu agreed to travel with Lu Ren and paid to rent a Fathead Egret from Phoenix Dance Manor.
• Lu Ren explained the Shangguan Immortal Clan’s influence, the Beast Taming Sect’s strength, and the dangers facing clans from the lower dynasties.
• Yang Genshuo gained Incense as Yang Fu explored Mystic Spirit Continent, and the Shangguan Immortal Clan appeared on the faction page.
• As they flew toward the Yang Family’s territory, Lu Ren advised Yang Fu to buy a clan-protecting formation and warned that the land would be poor and difficult to cultivate.
• Lu Ren offered to introduce Yang Fu to low-level cultivators smuggled from the Yindi Dynasty, whom he said were skilled at farming.

Yang Fu and his companions reached Silver Brocade Lake, the former residence of the declining Guo Immortal Clan, and discovered that the Cloudveil Spirit Sect had assigned it to the Yang Family. Guo Long delayed the handover and invited Yang Fu to stay with the Guo Family, while his fellow Foundation Establishment cultivators eyed the newcomers.

• On the journey, Yang Fu worried that the borderlands and their dangers could threaten the Yang Family while he was away, but Leng Li said she was nearing Foundation Establishment and could protect the family.
• After two days of travel, Yang Fu and his companions arrived at Silver Brocade Lake, where Lu Ren explained that the Guo Immortal Clan had lost the residence after years of decline.
• Yang Fu activated the family residence token, revealing that the Cloudveil Spirit Sect had assigned Silver Brocade Lake to the Yang Family, despite Lu Ren believing it had already been reserved.
• Guo Long met Yang Fu and asked whether he had powerful elders in the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, while the other Guo Family cultivators assessed the newcomers.
• Guo Long claimed the Guo Family needed more time before handing over the residence and offered to let Yang Fu and his companions stay there in the meantime.

Yang Fu took possession of the Yang Family’s Silver Brocade Lake residence and drove out the Guo brothers with the estate’s restrictions and a Crystal Prison Formation. After discovering the territory’s rich resources, Yang Genshuo wondered why it had been assigned to Yang Fu, who planned to seek a backer by entering the inner sect.

• Yang Fu activated the residence’s restrictions to expel Guo Long, Guo Hu, and Guo Xingxing, then placed a Crystal Prison Formation around the estate.
• Guo Long threatened Yang Fu before the brothers reconsidered, claimed they had only been testing him, and withdrew.
• Shen Yao, Leng Li, Tian Mumu, and Lu Ren praised Yang Fu’s resolve, while Yang Fu privately recognized the Guo brothers as a lingering threat.
• Yang Fu said he would return to the sect the next day to enter the inner sect and secure support.
• Yang Genshuo surveyed Silver Brocade Lake and the surrounding Spirit Fields, noting the territory’s abundant resources and wondering whether Murong Ziyan had arranged Yang Fu’s appointment.

Yang Fushuo began studying alchemy under Du Yuyan, but his instinctive approach clashed with her effort to develop a theory for creating new pills. Yang Genshuo considered using AI to derive that theory from enough alchemy data.

• Yang Fu hired Lu Ren to manage the Yang Family's Lineage residence and paid him one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones a year.
• Yang Fu left Shen Yao and Leng Li in charge of the residence's protections before returning to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect.
• Yang Fushuo went to the Alchemy Pavilion to learn from Du Yuyan, but tried to dismiss her new pill formula and refine pills by instinct.
• Du Yuyan revealed that she had disguised herself as a female cultivator to test a Breath-Concealing Disguise Pill, then challenged Yang Fushuo to explain how he would create a new pill.
• Yang Fushuo suggested that Yang Genshuo could help Du Yuyan develop alchemy theory, prompting Yang Genshuo to consider using AI to derive it from enough data.

Yang Fushuo refined his self-created I Cracked Open Pill before Du Yuyan, while Yang Genshuo watched the process and began using ChatGPT to analyze the rules of alchemy. The chapter ended as Yang Genshuo prepared to give the AI specific conditions for studying pill refinement.

• Yang Genshuo reasoned that pill formation depended chiefly on the Spirit Herbs, their refinement order, and the Spirit Flame.
• Yang Fushuo asked Du Yuyan for five second-grade ingredients to refine his I Cracked Open Pill.
• Yang Fushuo used his Heaven-Grade Spirit Flame to combine the ingredients and successfully formed five pills.
• Du Yuyan praised Yang Fushuo and recognized that he and his elder brother Yang Fu possessed the same Spirit Flame.
• Yang Genshuo opened ChatGPT and began setting up a continuous, cultivation-world-based analysis of alchemy.

Yang Genshuo taught the AI alchemy principles and supplied it with the Yang Family’s pill formulas and spirit-herb records, prompting it to deduce three new pills. He chose to have Yang Fushuo test the promising First-Grade Foundation-Stabilizing Essence-Nourishing Pill, and Yang Fushuo began gathering its ingredients for refinement.

• Yang Genshuo explained alchemy to the AI and asked it to learn existing pill formulas and herb properties.
• Yang Genshuo uploaded the Yang Family’s known formulas and spirit-herb information, including formulas Yang Fushuo had learned from the Pillfire Sect.
• The AI proposed a Third-Grade Enhanced Clone Pill and two other formulas: a Second-Grade Enlightenment Spirit-Linking Pill and a First-Grade Foundation-Stabilizing Essence-Nourishing Pill.
• Yang Genshuo judged the First-Grade pill worth testing and gave its formula to Yang Fushuo.
• Du Yuyan authorized Yang Fushuo to collect spirit herbs, and he obtained the ingredients and began refining the pill.

Yang Fushuo struggled through dozens of failed attempts before refining a new First-Grade pill with a formula devised by Yang Genshuo’s AI. After testing the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill and finding that it increased his cultivation speed, Yang Genshuo saw a promising new business for the Yang Family.

• Yang Fushuo failed ten times to refine the five-herb pill, then told Yang Genshuo that the ingredients’ medicinal properties seemed incompatible.
• Yang Genshuo asked AI for three revised formulas, and Yang Fushuo failed with the first two before nearly succeeding with the third.
• On his forty-fifth attempt, Yang Fushuo refined ten pills and realized that Five-Element Grass and the other herbs already supplied the wood element.
• Yang Fushuo named the new pill the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill, earning the Yang Family 200 Incense for creating a First-Grade pill.
• Yang Fushuo tested the pill and found it increased his cultivation speed by forty percent, while Yang Genshuo considered selling it to cultivators with Mixed Spiritual Roots.

Yang Genshuo celebrated the successful creation of the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill and had the AI derive more formulas while Yang Fu joined Earth Spirit Pavilion. Yang Fu was left in charge as acting pavilion master, only to discover the pavilion was empty, eccentric, and deeply in debt as Heavenly Spirit Pavilion demanded repayment.

• Yang Genshuo told the AI that Improved Pill Formula No. 3 had produced the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill, then asked it to derive ten more First-Grade Pill formulas and sent them to Yang Fushuo.
• Yang Genshuo learned that Yang Fu had been accepted into Earth Spirit Pavilion rather than Heavenly Spirit Pavilion, where Murong Ziyan was away on a mission.
• Earth Spirit Pavilion's pavilion master left with the others to watch a rare treasure and appointed Yang Fu acting pavilion master, leaving him books about disguising and exploiting his oddities.
• Yang Fushuo visited Yang Fu and found Earth Spirit Pavilion nearly empty, while Yang Fu explained that deputy pavilion masters from five pavilions had already come to collect debts.
• Heavenly Spirit Pavilion arrived to demand repayment and threatened Earth Spirit Pavilion's protective formation, prompting Yang Fu to realize why the pavilion master and others had left together.

Yang Fu discovered that the Earth Spirit Pavilion owed enormous debts and tried to flee, but learned the pavilion had borrowed heavily from the other Spirit Pavilions to open the Dragon God Immortal Palace. The chapter ended with the Earth Spirit Pavilion’s desperate investment plan and Long Hong’s promise to repay everyone if the Immortal Palace could not be opened.

• Yuan Shou demanded 20,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones from Yang Fu, who realized the debt equaled 20 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and fled with Yang Fushuo.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo visited the Cloudfire Pavilion, but Cultivator Douyang explained that every pavilion’s cultivators shared responsibility for its debts and expenses.
• Cultivator Douyang told Yang Fu that Long Hong had borrowed from the other Spirit Pavilions to develop the Dragon God Immortal Palace, whose Unknown Treasure trial required offerings of never-before-seen treasures.
• Long Hong had led the Earth Spirit Pavilion in contributing rare treasures, raising the trial’s progress to only twenty percent before seeking investments from the other Spirit Pavilions.
• Long Hong promised that the Earth Spirit Pavilion would bear all losses if the Immortal Palace remained unopened, but would claim the first share of its treasures if the trial succeeded.

After Earth Spirit Pavilion’s plan to open the Dragon God Immortal Palace stalled, Yang Genshuo saw a possible path through Yang Fushuo’s new pills and told Yang Fu to stay put. Yang Fu prepared to protect the Yang Family and investigate the Guo Immortal Clan, while learning about Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Earth Spirit Pavilion and the other pavilions failed to gather enough progress for the Unknown Treasure trial, leaving Earth Spirit Pavilion in debt and the other pavilions demanding refunds.
• Yang Genshuo realized newly developed pills might advance the trial and told Yang Fu not to transfer out of Earth Spirit Pavilion yet.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo planned to return home and prepare supplies after Yang Fu warned that cultivators had targeted the Yang Family’s residence.
• Yang Fu bought a Grade-Three Killing Array and posted a 2,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stone task to investigate Guo Long, Guo Hu, and Guo Xingxing.
• A Task Hall disciple explained that Middle-Grade Spirit Stones held far more spiritual qi and Dao Implication, making them useful to Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators.

Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo returned to Silver Brocade Lake with a Cloudmist Eagle and found the Yang Family residence being improved for cultivation. When a shipment of dark-skinned cultivators arrived to tend the family’s Spirit Fields, Yang Fu recognized Baji among them, leaving Baji horrified at the prospect of working for him.

• Yang Fu exchanged Low-Grade Spirit Stones for ten Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, and he and Yang Fushuo bought a Cloudmist Eagle for their return journey.
• The brothers arrived at Silver Brocade Lake and saw the family’s grounds flourishing as construction cultivators built new residences suited to the family members’ spiritual attributes.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo welcomed their partners, while Lu Ren told Yang Fu that cultivators from the Yindi Dynasty would soon arrive to tend the Spirit Fields.
• Baji traveled among the cultivators brought from the Yindi Dynasty, planning to reclaim his former glory by cultivating on the Mystic Spirit Continent.
• Yang Fu recognized Baji as the cultivators disembarked, and Baji realized he might have to farm for the Yang Family.

Yang Fu bought Baji as a contracted laborer, and Baji tried to preserve his dignity by asking the Yang Family to conceal his identity. After the other Immortal Road Clash prodigies arrived and discovered his predicament, Yang Genshuo and Yang Fu considered using Baji’s concealed Foundation Establishment cultivation to investigate the Guo Family.

• The Skeleton Ship manager offered Yang Fu ten severe slave contracts, and Yang Fu accepted them without adding special terms.
• Baji recognized Yang Fu and asked him to hide his identity in exchange for agreeing to farm for the Yang Family for thirty years.
• Yang Fushuo, Leng Li, and Tian Mumu arrived, and Baji claimed he had secretly come to prove his strength to them.
• Shi Hong and Li Yao arrived, leaving Baji embarrassed as the Immortal Road Clash prodigies gathered at the Yang Family residence.
• Baji revealed that he had concealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation, and Yang Genshuo and Yang Fu considered sending him to investigate the Guo Family.

Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo reviewed the Yang Family base’s income and discovered a Grade-Two Earth Crystal Mine, adding a major potential source of Spirit Stones to the clan’s wealth. Yang Fushuo also offered Yang Fu a new Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill, whose effects had yet to be tested.

• Li Yao explained that Murong Ziyan had left to handle a conflict at the northern border, and he praised the Yang Family’s prospects after sensing its rising momentum.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo discussed their remaining Spirit Stones and asked Lu Ren to calculate the base’s annual output.
• Lu Ren estimated that Silver Brocade Lake could produce 15,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones yearly, while the Spirit Fields averaged 1,800 sect points per year.
• Yang Fu followed Yang Genshuo’s guidance to reveal a buried Grade-Two Earth Crystal Mine, and he ordered Lu Ren to recruit Qi Refining Realm miners to excavate it.
• Yang Fushuo asked Yang Fu to try his new Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill, but Yang Fu first handed it to a Black cultivator to test.

Yang Fushuo brought the AI-derived Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, where he and Du Yuyan began working to develop and produce new pills. With Yang Fushuo’s Spiritual Sense greatly enhanced, his Avatar set out to promote the pill among the sect’s outer servant disciples.

• Yang Fu tested the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill and found it fifty percent more effective than an ordinary Essence-Nourishing Pill.
• Yang Genshuo urged Yang Fushuo not to spend his alchemy talent mass-producing a First-Grade pill, and Yang Fu suggested having Tian Mumu and other trusted alchemists refine it.
• Yang Genshuo said he could find alchemists through the Pillfire Sect and asked Yang Fu to focus on cultivation.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo returned to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, where Du Yuyan explained how her Spiritual Sense let her control two pill furnaces at once and gave Yang Fushuo a Clearwind Spirit-Congealing Pill.
• After his Spiritual Sense expanded to a two-thousand-meter range, Yang Fushuo split off an Avatar and began refining new pill formulas with Du Yuyan.
• Yang Fushuo sent his Avatar to promote the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill among the Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s outer servant disciples.

Yang Genshuo directed Yang Shi to spread the Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill through the Great Nai and Blazing Sun Dynasties, boosting cultivation while expanding the Yang Family’s influence. After mass production began, the chapter advanced to Year 40, when Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo cultivated and the Yang Family prepared for ancestor worship.

• Yang Genshuo broke through to the Body Tempering Seventh Layer with a Body-Breaking Pill and increased his strength with an Ape Strength Pill.
• Yang Fushuo’s Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pills sold briskly in Cloudveil Spirit Sect, prompting Yang Genshuo to have Yang Shi organize production across the dynasties.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen arranged for Blackstone Sect to make the pill affordable in the Great Nai Dynasty, while Yang Shi secured a thirty-year supply agreement with Pillfire Sect in the Blazing Sun Dynasty.
• A month later, the pill was being distributed throughout both dynasties, and Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo resumed cultivation.
• In Year 40, Yang Fu reached the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining and the Innate Grandmaster Fourth Layer, while Yang Fushuo tested pill formulas and collaborated with Du Yuyan on an alchemy book.
• Leng Li and Shen Yao became pregnant, Yang Fuqing and Yang Fu Jian trained in Demonwind Forest, and the Yang Family began its annual ancestor worship.

Yang Genshuo oversaw the Yang Family’s largest ancestral worship ceremony yet, exchanging huge stores of offerings and supplies while preparing gifts for the family’s two expected children. After taking new pills that advanced his cultivation, he watched the family celebrate and wondered what talent the children would have.

• Yang Genshuo gave the Immortal Aura Food Factory’s workers paid leave while Guo Xiaozhi reported that a wealthy coal boss had ordered expensive spirit wine.
• Yang Genshuo arranged for the Yang Family to offer a hundred tons of spirit wheat, medicinal pills, spirit herbs, spirit water, and spirit wine at the ancestral worship ceremony.
• Yang Genshuo sent a truckload of snacks and books for the Yang Family’s third generation, and Yang Shi and Yang Fu exchanged scarce resources and thirty thousand [Five-Element Foundation-Nourishing Pill]s.
• Yang Genshuo ate a second-grade body-tempering pill and advanced to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering.
• Shen Yao and Leng Li admired the picture books, while Tian Mumu asked Yang Fushuo for a child to play with; Yang Genshuo wondered what talent the two unborn children would have.

Yang Genshuo sought ways to improve AI’s pill-making and expand his ability to monitor the growing Yang Family, then learned that Innate Spirit Treasures could restore Spiritual Roots. Yang Fu discovered that Long Hong had already given his treasure to the Dragon God Immortal Palace, leaving Yang Genshuo hopeful but still without a way to regain his Spiritual Root; five months later, Leng Li entered the delivery room.

• Yang Genshuo ordered the Yang Family to collect pill formulas and failures so AI could improve its deductions, while Yang Fushuo studied higher-grade alchemy.
• Yang Genshuo added a second computer and planned to use an Avatar, then sent Yang Fu to ask the Earth Spirit Pavilion about treasures that could grant Spiritual Roots.
• Long Hong told Yang Fu that Innate Spirit Treasures could restore Spiritual Roots, but he had fed his own treasure to the Dragon God Immortal Palace.
• Yang Fu left without a treasure, and Long Hong fled with the Earth Spirit Pavilion disciples when the Heavenly Spirit Pavilion's pavilion master arrived, leaving Yang Fu as acting pavilion master.
• Five months later, Leng Li entered the delivery room at the Yang Family Immortal Clan's residence.

Yang Fu and Leng Li’s son, Yang Qiang, was born with a rare Thunder Spirit Root and a Heaven Grade physique that could absorb Tribulation Lightning, making him the Yang Family’s greatest talent. As the family celebrated his birth, three surviving Guo Family cultivators plotted to expose the Earth Crystal Mine and turn others against the Yang Family.

• Yang Qiang was born amid a brief thundercloud, and Yang Genshuo discovered his Thunder Spirit Root and exceptional talents on his Character Card.
• Yang Genshuo named the child Yang Qiang and realized powerful talents might be inherited, while Yang Fu and Leng Li celebrated their son’s aptitude.
• The Yang Family hosted a grand celebration, and sect disciples and cultivators arrived with gifts and congratulations.
• Three Guo Family cultivators saw the Yang Family’s powerful connections and regretted provoking them, but their greed grew when they spotted Earth Crystal being hauled away.
• Guo Long proposed spreading word of the Earth Crystal Mine so others would trouble the Yang Family.

Yang Fu had the Guo brothers killed by Ghostshadow Tower assassins and strengthened the Yang Family's defenses as its influence grew. Yang Fu and Shen Yao's son was named Yang Qiangyou, and years later Yang Fu sought the ancestor's advice when the Jin Family demanded half the clan compound's yield.

• Baji paid Ghostshadow Tower assassins to kill Guo Long, Guo Hu, and Guo Xingxing after Yang Fu arranged their ambush.
• Yang Fu reflected on the Yang Family's profits and ordered further improvements to its defenses while keeping the burden from Yang Fushuo.
• Yang Fu's wife, Shen Yao, gave birth to a son whose talents included The Fool and Graceful Gentleman, and Yang Genshuo named him Yang Qiangyou.
• The Yang Family prospered over the following years as Yang Shi's branch gained spoils and other family members advanced or established households.
• Yang Fu prayed to Yang Genshuo for guidance after the Jin Family arrived and demanded half the yield from the Yang Family compound.