Chapter Summaries

Five years later, Yang Qiang and Yang Qiangyou began studying at Enlightenment Hall, where they quickly became the children’s leaders. A year-by-year account followed the Yang Family’s growing strength and activities, ending at Year 48.

• Baji brought Yang Qiang and Yang Qiangyou to Enlightenment Hall and called the other children monkeys.
• Yang Qiang used a dazzling Lightning Flower to attract attention, and he and Yang Qiangyou became the children’s boss and second-in-command.
• In Year 47, Yang Fushuo left pill refining to earn mission points, while Tian Mumu waited for him and Shen Yao managed the household.
• Yang Shi and Fox Yue grew closer in Bright City as Yang Shi’s estate produced Spirit Herbs and Yang Fuqing advanced in strength.
• Yang Fujian absorbed thirty demonic beasts and reached the seventh level of the Innate Grandmaster Realm, while Huzi joined Yang Shi’s efforts in Demonwind Forest.
• The Yang Family accumulated more strength, wealth, and incense offerings, and the account advanced to Year 48.

After the Martial Sage was mortally wounded, he told Yang Shi that martial cultivators could break their lifespan limits by facing death and rebuilding their bodies. He died before explaining more, leaving Yang Shi to bury him and defend Bright City.

• Yang Shi begged the dying Martial Sage to take a third-rank Life-Extending Pill, but the Martial Sage said his lifespan had run out.
• Yang Shi lamented that divine communion martial cultivators lived only 150 years, while foundation establishment cultivators could live for 300.
• The Martial Sage explained that divine communion was not the end of the martial path and revealed that rebuilding the body could lead to a higher realm and break lifespan limits.
• The Martial Sage died after sharing his final insight, and Yang Shi kowtowed three times before ordering him buried beneath Bright City.
• Yang Shi set aside his grief and vowed to make the attacking monster beasts accompany the Martial Sage to the grave.

After the Martial Sage died defending Bright City from a demon beast siege, Yang Shi led the Heavenly Dragon Army and allied cultivators to avenge him and drive the beasts back. When Yang Shi returned victorious with the Wolf King's corpse, Jiang Xiaobai told him that Fuqing had been missing for three days.

• A white-furred Wolf King ambushed the Martial Sage during the demon beast riot, and the Heavenly Dragon Army's Golden Dragon War Soul wounded the beast as it fled.
• Yang Shi told the Heavenly Dragon Army that the Martial Sage had died, and the soldiers swore to kill the demon beasts in revenge.
• Yang Shi used the Fire Dragon Scale to empower himself and the Golden Dragon War Soul, then led the Heavenly Dragon Army into battle.
• Cultivators from the Great Nai Dynasty joined the fight with spells and support arts, helping Yang Shi's forces slaughter the demon beasts and defeat the Wolf King's pack.
• Yang Shi returned to Bright City carrying the Wolf King's corpse, but Jiang Xiaobai told him Fuqing had not returned for three days.

Yang Fuqing had gone missing while investigating the hidden Demon Race behind the demon beast upheaval, and Yang Shi sent a search party after learning where she had gone. She discovered a group of rune-marked demons gathering resources, but her disguise and stamina were in danger when one began chopping down the tree where she hid.

• Jiang Xiaobai told Yang Shi that Yang Fuqing had been missing for three days, and Juanjuan revealed that she had taken Xiong Ba, Peiqi, and the Ant King into Demonwind Forest to investigate a new Demon Race.
• Ding Zhen offered to help find Yang Fuqing, while Yang Fujian used his scent-tracking ability to locate her and tried to rush into the forest before Yang Shi stopped him.
• Yang Genshuo told Yang Shi that Yang Fuqing was not in immediate danger, and advised him to send cultivators skilled in concealment to find her.
• Yang Fuqing secretly observed ten demons marked with black runes, including a horned demon whose ripples agitated nearby demon beasts as the group gathered resources.
• Yang Fuqing hid in the form and aura of a giant snake for two days, but a demon began chopping down the Ironspirit Tree beneath her.

Yang Fuqing watched demons gather resources in Demonwind Forest and waited for Yang Shi and Ding Zhen to arrive before acting. The demons sensed the approaching cultivators and escaped, leaving Yang Shi and the others determined to investigate their disciplined methods and the forest’s abnormal beasts.

• Yang Fuqing hid in the Ancient Region while demons harvested materials, and she considered how to capture them without alerting their companions.
• Yang Genshuo’s map divided Demonwind Forest into the Outer Zone, Development Zone, Ancient Region, and the dangerous Core Zone beyond it.
• Golden words told Yang Fuqing that Yang Shi and Ding Zhen were on their way, so she waited for their arrival.
• The ten demons sensed the approaching cultivators and fled; Yang Fuqing revealed herself and pursued them with the Ant King, Xiong Ba, and Peiqi.
• Demonic beasts intercepted the pursuers, allowing the demons to escape, and Yang Shi concluded that the beasts had acted as the demons’ eyes.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen planned to investigate the demons and the abnormal beasts, while Ding Zhen suggested the beasts could serve as training for the cultivators.

After the Demon Race members stirred up trouble in Demonwind Forest, Yang Shi and Ding Zhen organized a response while Yang Genshuo investigated the group called Night Demon Hall. He ordered Yang Fu to take Yang Qiang to Heavenly Mystery Sect to seek an expert who could divine the organization’s origins.

• Ding Zhen and Yang Shi prepared to fight, and Yang Shi displayed his Mind Sword ability before the cultivators.
• Ding Zhen, Yang Shi, and Foundation Establishment experts entered Demonwind Forest to eliminate displaced demon beasts, while Yang Shi issued a wanted notice for the Demon Race members.
• Yang Shi sent Fox Yue into the Ancient Region to search for the new demons, and Yang Genshuo noticed that all ten belonged to Night Demon Hall.
• Yang Fu searched Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s records but found no information about Night Demon Hall, and he suggested it might be a new organization.
• Yang Genshuo ordered Yang Fu to send Yang Qiang to Heavenly Mystery Sect and have an expert divine Night Demon Hall’s origins.
• Yang Fu finished his duties, left a letter, and brought Yang Fushuo back to the family residence as he prepared to leave.

Yang Qiang’s talent in cultivation and ghostly talisman drawing led the Heavenly Mystery Sect to recruit him into its Demon-Subduing Lineage. With Yang Genshuo worried about a conspiracy in Demonwind Forest, Yang Fu prepared to send the nine-year-old to meet the sect, leaving Yang Qiang devastated at the thought of parting from his family.

• Yang Qiang displayed exceptional cultivation talent, and Murong Ziyan taught him the Divine Firmament Thunder Art.
• Yang Qiang’s unusual talismans drew the attention of a Heavenly Mystery Sect Daoist, who marked him as a reserve member of the sect.
• Yang Genshuo recognized that Yang Qiang’s talents suited the sect’s Demon-Subduing Lineage and decided to send him early to seek its help investigating the demons in Demonwind Forest.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo spent an evening with their children and reflected on the close-knit life the Yang Family had built.
• Yang Fu told Yang Qiang that he would leave for the Heavenly Mystery Sect the next day, and Yang Qiang tearfully said he did not want to go.

Yang Fu, Yang Qiang, and Baji reached the Snowy Mountain Summit, where the Heavenly Mystery Sect appeared before them. In the Demonwind Forest, Yang Fujian killed Old Belly after the python attacked Yang Fuqing, leaving her worried that the Demon Race was corrupting her former friends.

• Yang Fu, Yang Qiang, and Baji traveled north aboard Phoenix Dance Manor’s Spirit Beast flying vessel toward the Snowy Mountain Summit.
• Yang Fuqing learned that Old Belly had killed Xiao Yuan, and Yang Fujian tracked the giant python through the Demonwind Forest.
• Old Belly attacked Yang Fuqing, and Yang Fujian and the other demons overwhelmed him despite Yang Fuqing’s pleas to spare him.
• Yang Fujian killed Old Belly and absorbed his blood to strengthen himself, while Yang Fuqing suspected the Demon Race had caused his mutation.
• Yang Fu and the others arrived at the Snowy Mountain Summit, where Yang Qiang’s talismanic mark revealed the gate of the Heavenly Mystery Sect.

Yang Fu brought Yang Qiang to the Heavenly Mystery Sect, where Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance accepted the boy as their apprentice. Yang Fu asked them to divine the fate of a Yang Family elder, but Jade Balance rejected his offerings and discovered something unexpected when she touched him.

• Yang Fu and Yang Qiang entered the Heavenly Mystery Immortal Abode, where Yang Genshuo found that his view of them was restricted and could not inspect the sect members.
• Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance explained their unusual clothing, then Jade Balance recognized Yang Qiang as the child Star River Adept had recommended and welcomed him into their Demon-Subduing Lineage.
• Yang Qiang performed the apprenticeship rites and named Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance his first and second masters.
• Yang Fu asked the two immortals to divine the fate of a Yang Family elder and offered spirit stones and family treasures in payment.
• Jade Balance rejected the offerings, touched Yang Fu's shoulder, and reacted with disbelief.

Yang Fu visited the Heavenly Mystery Sect to learn about the Night Demon Hall, which was preparing to break the Ten Thousand Demon Domain's barrier, but the divination left the sect's leaders unwilling to intervene. After Spirit Nexus sent Yang Fu away, Jade Balance discovered that his vision had cost him his lifespan.

• Jade Balance offered to divine for Yang Fu if he brought a Bearer of Great Fortune, but Yang Fu refused to trade away Yang Qiangyou's fortune and asked about the Night Demon Hall instead.
• Spirit Nexus found no record of the Night Demon Hall's past and used Yang Fu's Tribulation Lightning Force to divine that the group had formed recently to break the Ten Thousand Demon Domain's barrier with a complex formation in Demonwind Forest.
• Yang Fu urged the Heavenly Mystery Sect to stop the demons, but Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance examined the Yang Family's connection to the crisis and were struck by a mass of golden light.
• Spirit Nexus claimed that the heavenly secrets could not be changed and told Jade Balance to take Yang Fu's Tribulation Lightning Force before sending him away.
• Yang Fu returned to the Snowy Mountain Summit confused by the sect's refusal to act, while Jade Balance asked Spirit Nexus what he had seen and realized his lifespan had been drained.

Spirit Nexus warned that a catastrophe could strike in fifty years, prompting Yang Genshuo to prepare the Yang Family for a possible escape while Yang Shi resolved to defend his homeland. Three months later, news arrived that Fox Yue had died, leaving Yang Genshuo shocked.

• Spirit Nexus told Jade Balance that his divination had revealed Heaven's Mandate and cost him fifty years of lifespan, then accepted Yang Qiang into the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that the Ten Thousand Demon Domain's barrier might fall in fifty years and warned Yang Shi to prepare an escape route to Mystic Spirit Continent.
• Yang Shi refused to abandon the Great Nai Dynasty, triggering his [Mad Scholar] talent and gaining thirty Luck.
• Yang Fu returned to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect to recover and revise his cultivation technique, while Yang Qiang began studying history and worldly affairs at the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
• Three months later, Yang Genshuo learned that Fox Yue, a Foundation Establishment Realm great demon, had died.

After Fox Yue returned gravely wounded from the Ancient Region, Yang Shi learned the Demon Race was weakening the barrier and might invade in fifty years, so he began preparing the Yang Family for war. Meanwhile, Yang Genshuo discovered Yang Qiang had acquired Heavenly Concealment and Manifestation, and Yang Qiang responded to the Ancestor’s call.

• Yang Shi found Fox Yue collapsed outside Bright City and used a Three-Revolution Soul-Returning Pill to revive her; she told him she needed a year to recover and warned him not to enter the Ancient Region without reaching the Golden Core Stage.
• Yang Shi convened the Yang Family and announced the Demon Race was damaging the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s Barrier Formation, ordering the family to devote its strength to fighting them.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen agreed to conceal the fifty-year warning from cultivators across the Great Nai Dynasty and discussed the need for Ding Zhen to reach the Golden Core Stage.
• Yang Genshuo reviewed the Yang Family’s descendants and discovered Yang Qiang’s visible range had shrunk, along with the statuses Heavenly Concealment and Manifestation.
• Yang Qiang felt the family bloodline tremble, looked toward the golden words in the sky, and called out to the Ancestor as his field of vision returned to one hundred meters.

Yang Genshuo helped Yang Qiang resist the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s attempt to sever his family ties, then taught him how to learn the sect’s arts without abandoning the Yang Family. Yang Qiang passed the sect’s assessment while remaining loyal to his roots, and his access to the sect’s vast library gave Yang Genshuo a new opportunity.

• Yang Genshuo used Secret Speech to learn that Heavenly Mystery Sect training was making Yang Qiang forget the Yang Family and that forgetting his lineage was required to study the sect’s secret arts.
• Yang Qiang reaffirmed his identity as a Yang Family descendant, broke free of Heavenly Concealment, and gained the Heavenly Veiling blessing.
• Yang Genshuo taught Yang Qiang the Yang Family Inequality: he could accept the sect’s learning without agreeing to abandon his lineage.
• A month later, Yang Qiang convinced Jade Balance that he accepted the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s ideals, passed its assessment, and began learning the Heavenly Mystery Art while privately keeping the Yang Family as his root.
• Yang Genshuo saw the Heavenly Mystery Art appear among his techniques and realized Yang Qiang’s access to the sect’s Void Palace could let him obtain its extensive collection of texts.

Yang Genshuo had Yang Qiang search the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s Void Palace for historical examples of weak humans resisting powerful enemies. After months of unhelpful results, Yang Qiang found a history from before the Ten Thousand Demon Domain was sealed off that he believed could resolve the Yang Family’s crisis.

• Yang Qiang entered the Void Palace and used the Heavenly Mystery Art to search its vast collection of recorded history.
• Yang Genshuo examined a record about the Lu Family raising Primordial Demonic Beasts, but dismissed the family’s decision to flee and hand them over to the Beast Taming Sect.
• Over half a year, Yang Qiang continued searching while Yang Genshuo collected examples of weak forces overcoming disasters, none of which offered a useful solution.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that the Great Nai Dynasty lacked the geniuses and powerful allies described in the histories and wondered if it could only wait for the Demon Race to attack.
• Yang Qiang found a historical account from before the Ten Thousand Demon Domain was sealed off and told Yang Genshuo it offered a way to resolve the Yang Family’s crisis.

Yang Qiang uncovered the ancient Demon-Slaying Art, and Yang Genshuo arranged for it to be shared with cultivators in the Great Nai Dynasty. The chapter ended with five demons led by Xiong Ba realizing the new art was meant to target them.

• Yang Qiang read records describing how nine border Immortal Clans developed Demon-Slaying Art and how Saint Lord Duanmie later helped seal the Demon Race in the Ten Thousand Demon Domain.
• Yang Genshuo used Manifestation: Secret Speech to have Yang Qiang record the art, including its illustrated demon guide, spells, and artifacts.
• Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance praised Yang Qiang's cultivation, then told him to accompany them into the mortal world in three days.
• Yang Qiang spent three days recording Demon-Slaying Art before leaving with Spirit Nexus and Jade Balance through a teleportation gate.
• A month later, Demon-Slaying Art appeared in Bright City, where cultivators questioned its usefulness and resisted abandoning their current arts.
• Xiong Ba and four other demons saw the new art and realized it was aimed at them.

Yang Fuqing used the Demon-Seeking Art to track the demons hiding in Demonwind Forest, with Yang Fujian and the five little demons accompanying her. They caught a Wood Demon carrying a hoard of spirit materials, and Peiqi questioned how such a huge demon had crossed the barrier.

• Xiong Ba, Peiqi, Juanjuan, and the Ant King discussed the Demon-Slaying Art and the other techniques that could restrain demons, while Xiong Ba proudly claimed he was Yang Fuqing's dog.
• Yang Fuqing prepared to search Demonwind Forest with the Demon-Seeking Art, and Yang Fujian insisted on accompanying her to protect her.
• Yang Genshuo watched Yang Fujian reject a female cultivator's sachet and worried that Yang Fujian and Yang Fuqing were neglecting romance and the family line.
• Yang Fuqing spotted demon aura with the Demon-Seeking Art and led Yang Fujian and the five little demons in pursuit as the demons discovered them.
• Yang Fuqing's group subdued an Eighth Layer of Qi Refining Wood Demon stuffed with Spirit Fruits, Spirit Herbs, and other materials, and Peiqi asked how it had passed through the barrier.

Yang Shi’s group used a demon disguise spell and two golden core fire cultivators to capture the demons sabotaging Bright City and destroy their formation. They then learned that the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s barrier would still weaken on its own, leaving Yang Genshuo wondering whether the Heavenly Mystery Sect had predicted every step.

• Huzi’s interrogation exposed a map hidden in the Wood Demon’s leg, revealing that the demons were hiding near the Nine-Headed Venom Python in the Ancient Region.
• Yang Shi proposed a plan, and Ding Zhen used the Demon-Slaying Art’s Transformation Art to disguise the group as demons before they set out with Fantian and Fandi.
• Yang Shi’s group ambushed the eighteen demons, while Fantian and Fandi drove the Nine-Headed Venom Python away with their fire techniques.
• Yang Shi’s group captured the remaining demons and destroyed their formation, calming the beasts in the Ancient Region.
• The Law Enforcement Hall reported that the barrier would continue weakening, allowing foundation establishment demons through in about twenty years and golden core demons through in fifty years.
• Yang Genshuo realized that Spirit Nexus might have predicted the entire plan, from finding the Demon-Slaying Art to eliminating the demons.

Yang Genshuo prepared the Yang Family to face the Demon Race while Yang Fushuo reached Foundation Establishment, becoming the family’s first cultivator at that level. The chapter ended with Yang Genshuo learning that Cheng Bo’s hybrid spirit herb laboratory was being stalled by the local Laboratory Association.

• Yang Genshuo gave Yang Shi three plans to resist the Demon Race: train cultivators in the Demon-Slaying Art, seek an alliance and secret-realm resources, and encourage Yang Fujian and Yang Fuqing to start families.
• Yang Genshuo fast-forwarded to Year 54, when Yang Fushuo reached great perfection in Qi Refining and prepared to advance at the Cloudveil Spirit Sect.
• Yang Fushuo absorbed the Phoenix Blood Crystal after forty-nine days of cultivation and advanced to Foundation Establishment, gaining the Phoenix Truefire talent.
• Yang Fushuo returned home to share his breakthrough with Tian Mumu and took Yang Qiangjin flying on a spirit beast.
• Yang Genshuo called Cheng Bo and learned that the local Laboratory Association had repeatedly delayed approval for Cheng Bo’s laboratory.

Yang Genshuo secured the Laboratory Association’s approval for Cheng Bo’s laboratory by handing out shopping cards, then learned that President Sun expected him to attend dinner. The chapter ended with President Sun and Clerk Liu planning to exploit the laboratory’s owners further.

• Yang Genshuo went to the Laboratory Association and gave Clerk Liu a shopping card in exchange for a signed approval.
• Yang Genshuo stopped Cheng Bo from confronting Clerk Liu, then took him to buy more cards for the remaining approvals.
• Yang Genshuo gave President Sun more cards and left with the stamped approval document while Cheng Bo resolved to focus on his experiments.
• President Sun called Yang Genshuo and insisted he attend dinner, then told Clerk Liu to arrange French cuisine and draw the laboratory’s owners closer.
• President Sun and Clerk Liu laughed together as they discussed whether the owner would dare refuse to come.

Yang Genshuo refused President Sun’s demand that he attend a dinner and invited President Zhao and Leader Cui instead. President Sun arrived late after mistaking the lobby manager’s attention for a sign of his own importance, then collapsed when he realized whom Yang Genshuo’s guests were.

• Yang Genshuo rejected President Sun’s dinner demand, and Cheng Bo worried that the association would keep interfering with their secret laboratory research.
• Yang Genshuo invited President Zhao to Glazed Manor and told Cheng Bo that Zhao was among the country’s top ten on the Forbes Ranking.
• President Sun and Little Liu arrived early, and President Sun swaggered around the manor while enjoying the lobby manager’s attention.
• President Sun entered Room 308 late and found Yang Genshuo dining with President Zhao and Leader Cui.
• Leader Cui asked President Sun to explain the approval regulations for private laboratories, and President Sun collapsed in fright.