Chapter Summaries

Yang Genshuo used Leader Cui and Zhao Dalong’s influence to end the trouble Chairman Sun and Little Liu had caused Cheng Bo, then recognized that modern weapons could threaten even powerful cultivators. Cheng Bo began breeding hybrid Spirit Herbs for Yang Genshuo, who decided he needed more researchers and a way to keep the work secret.

• Yang Genshuo let Leader Cui mock Chairman Sun and Little Liu, and Zhao Zhenguo ordered the two to write self-criticisms before Little Liu dragged the fainted Chairman Sun away.
• Cheng Bo watched Yang Genshuo socialize with Leader Cui and Zhao Dalong, realized how powerless he had been against Sun and Liu, and decided to return to his old trade after the dinner.
• Yang Genshuo gave Leader Cui three jars of Starry Drunk and Zhao Dalong a jar of higher-grade wine, while Zhao Dalong predicted that few people in Shimen City would dare trouble Yang Genshuo again.
• After the guests left, Yang Genshuo recognized that modern military weapons could threaten even Golden Core cultivators and that he had to operate within modern society’s rules.
• Cheng Bo began experimenting with hybrid Spirit Herb seeds, which Yang Genshuo planned to send to Yang Shi for cultivation in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate.
• Yang Genshuo decided Cheng Bo needed more research partners, but wondered how he could keep the work secret.

Yang Genshuo used a Contract Talisman to secure confidentiality for the researchers he was recruiting, while the liquor factory’s sudden sales drew an anti-fraud investigation that Guo Xiaozhi avoided with help from influential customers. Meanwhile, Yang Fu rejected Foundation Establishment and used tribulation lightning to attempt an unprecedented Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining.

• Yang Genshuo found a Low-Grade Contract Talisman and told the Daoist Master to recruit as many researchers as possible for the Dragon God Immortal Palace project.
• Yang Genshuo promised the researchers generous pay and accommodation, while Cheng Bo headed to the university to recruit them.
• A surge in liquor orders brought anti-fraud officers to the factory, but two influential visitors intervened before Guo Xiaozhi was taken away.
• Yang Genshuo watched Yang Fu prepare to advance, expecting him to reach Foundation Establishment and suffer the effects of Fallen Genius.
• Yang Fu used his Six Paths Qi Refinement Art to compress his five-element spirit power and summon tribulation clouds as he attempted to reach the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining.

Yang Fu endured an unusually powerful tribulation lightning strike while trying to absorb its power without advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm. As the lightning ended without him forming a Dao foundation truefire, the gathered cultivators were left baffled, and Feng Xun reconsidered dismissing him.

• Yang Fu faced a tribulation stronger than any he had endured before and prepared to absorb its power without advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Spectators gathered around the Earth Spirit Pavilion, and Yang Fushuo was mistaken for someone who could repay Yang Fu’s debts.
• Feng Xun mocked Yang Fu for reaching Foundation Establishment at nearly fifty and left, declaring him unworthy as an opponent.
• Yang Fu withstood repeated lightning strikes by using his spiritual power, pills, treasure tools, and other preparations.
• After the tribulation ended, Yang Fu still had not formed his Dao foundation truefire, and the onlooking cultivators wondered what had happened.
• Feng Xun secretly watched Yang Fu and admitted that anyone who had defeated Li Yao deserved another look.

Yang Fu used tribulation lightning to advance to the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining and then comprehended the Six Elements Return to One divine ability, reaching the Divine Communion Realm without entering Foundation Establishment. He tested his newfound strength in sparring as a hidden observer watched.

• After the tribulation lightning ended, Yang Fu revealed a mutated Five-Colored Lotus, while secretly realizing he had reached the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining and gained powerful Thunder Spirit Power.
• Yang Fu used the lotus to comprehend a divine ability, and after three days he reached the Divine Communion Realm and created Six Elements Return to One, which suppressed nearby access to spiritual energy and strengthened his resistance to six types of techniques.
• Feng Xun dismissed Yang Fu for failing to advance to Foundation Establishment and left, while Shi Hong and Li Yao questioned Yang Fu about his cultivation.
• Yang Fu admitted he remained in the Qi Refining Realm and proposed sparring to test his strength; Shi Hong and Li Yao agreed, while Yang Fushuo declined.
• A hidden figure watched the group and considered observing Li Yao's skill in spell battles.

Yang Fu demonstrated that his Six Elements Return to One ability could overwhelm Foundation Establishment cultivators, then received an external assignment to govern Sunward City for three years and discipline its devils, especially the Succubi. He decided to prepare and say farewell to his family, while Yang Genshuo questioned whether the assignment was legitimate.

• Yang Fu shattered Li Yao's Waterfall Canopy by suppressing the surrounding spiritual energy, then defeated Li Yao and Shi Hong in sparring.
• Li Yao concluded that only overwhelming strength or attacks from beyond one kilometer could counter Yang Fu's divine ability, while Feng Xun decided to avoid sparring with him.
• Members of the six spirit pavilions arranged for Yang Fu to take a lucrative external assignment so his earnings could repay their debts.
• A month later, Yang Fu received an assignment to serve as Sunward City's city lord for three years and discipline the devils, with special attention to the Succubi.
• Yang Fu decided to make preparations and say farewell to his wife and children, but Yang Genshuo questioned whether the assignment was legitimate.

Yang Fu arrived in Sunward City disguised as a devil and took over as city lord, then discovered the Evil Eyes were manipulating his emotions with a spell. After the city's formation stopped the devils from attacking the Evil Eyes, Youyouzi of the Succubus Race came to welcome him.

• Yang Fu used the Wind Demon Cloak to disguise himself and arrived at Sunward City, where the Evil Eyes recognized him and teased him about his master Long Hong.
• The former city lord, Gongsun Taixu, hurriedly handed the position to Yang Fu and left, while the Evil Eyes revealed he had stayed two years beyond his term because no one would replace him.
• Yang Fu realized the Evil Eyes had cast Ode to Courage on him and whipped them until they explained the spell made him overly confident and helped him ignore unpleasant things.
• The Evil Eyes demonstrated that the devils hated them, and the devils closed in until Yang Fu activated the Five Elements Demon-Suppressing Formation to restore order.
• Youyouzi, representing the Succubus Race, approached Yang Fu and welcomed him to Sunward City.

Yang Fu investigated Sunward City's poverty and the Succubus Race's unusual wealth while attending a banquet held in his honor. After Youyouzi offered him a succubus for the night, Yang Genshuo watched from outside the game and longed to take Yang Fu's place.

• Yang Fu noticed that most Devil Race members in Sunward City were impoverished, while the succubi were healthy and affluent.
• Yang Fu asked the two Evil Eyes why the Succubus Race was wealthy and whether they had caused City Lord Gongsun Taixu's condition.
• Youyouzi flirted with Yang Fu and offered him a toast, but he secretly poured the wine into his Storage Ring.
• Yang Fu asked Youyouzi to have the succubi wear less revealing clothes, then saw a golden warning from the ancestor and changed his response.
• Youyouzi offered to have whichever succubus Yang Fu liked serve him that night, and Yang Genshuo complained that he could not enter the game himself.

Yang Fu forced the succubi to reclaim wasteland while Feng Xun infiltrated Sunward City as Swiftwind Old Devil and tried to keep his mission secret. After Gongsun Taixu left the city, Yang Fu found his diary and mistook it for a record of city governance.

• Feng Xun arrived in Sunward City and lied to the devil soldiers to avoid being taken to the city lord.
• Yang Fu sent the succubi to reclaim wasteland, alarming the city's devils and prompting them to wonder how long he would resist them.
• Feng Xun endured the city guards' teasing and suppressed his anger rather than reveal his strength or draw attention to himself.
• Gongsun Taixu boarded the Treasure Ship with his diary and the Sunward City Governance Program, then realized he had left the program behind and ordered the ship to turn around.
• Yang Fu found Gongsun Taixu's diary in the City Lord's Manor and decided to study it as a record of city governance.

Yang Fu read Gongsun Taixu’s diary, which revealed that the former city lord had spent his tenure indulging the succubi instead of governing Sunward City. Yang Genshuo watched Yang Fu extract useful clues from the diary and considered recording the succubi, while Gongsun Taixu regretted ever keeping a diary.

• Yang Fu finished reading Gongsun Taixu’s diary and wondered where the Sunward City Governance Program had gone.
• Gongsun Taixu left Sunward City with the Governance Program and lamented that he had kept a diary.
• Yang Genshuo learned about the succubi from Yang Fu’s view, then set up a recording of them reclaiming wasteland.
• Yang Fu wrote notes identifying the Devil Race’s poverty, the Night Demon Hall’s formation, and the nearby Martial Immortal Sect as matters worth investigating.

Yang Genshuo uploaded a succubus labor video to promote the Yang Family’s medicine and raise money for his plans in the Great Nai Dynasty. In Sunward City, Yang Fu continued investigating the city’s hardships, and Youyouzi came to him pleading for help for the Succubus Race.

• Yang Genshuo posted a succubus-work video on Douyin and prepared two more clips while planning to sell the Yang Family’s medicine.
• After a month of land reclamation, Youyouzi and the succubi returned home battered and complained about Yang Fu’s punishment.
• Youyouzi reasoned that Yang Fu valued Sunward City’s people and decided the succubi should try winning his favor instead of seducing him.
• Yang Fu discussed Sunward City’s poverty with the two Evil Eyes after dismissing his personal guards.
• When an Evil Eye announced Youyouzi’s visit, Yang Fu let her in, and she fell at his feet asking him to save the Succubus Race.

Yang Fu rejected Youyouzi’s bid to make the Succubus Race his dependents and discussed Sunward City’s hunger and trade prospects with the Evil Eyes. As Yang Fu investigated the mysterious Night Demon Hall, Feng Xun found a lead on its tattooed members, while Yang Fu’s inspection ended with a striking Succubus addressing him at a stall.

• Youyouzi asked Yang Fu to take in the Succubus Race, but he exposed her old plea to Gongsun Taixu and ordered her to return to work or face more wasteland reclamation.
• Yang Fu gave the Evil Eyes books to study, discussed the shortage of Spirit Fields and trading for food, and asked them to watch for the Night Demon Hall insignia; he then used a blessing to protect their investigation from interference.
• Feng Xun fed hungry goblin devils, who told him tattooed members resembling a large eye had collected a corpse, and he asked them to take him to the spot.
• Yang Fu continued inspecting the city’s commercial district and noticed a horned, winged Succubus dressed as a Human Race cultivator, who asked whether he wanted to buy something.

Yang Fu met Eileen, a succubus who praised him for helping the poor, and promised that no Devil Race member would starve during his term as City Lord. He then learned about Enchantment Art and had Yama Goat enchant his Glazed Fire Bottle with Yama Eye, whose new vision revealed every nearby Devil Race member as a skull wreathed in ghostly flames.

• Yang Fu tried Eileen’s Night Beans, learned they were common and nearly worthless, and saw her give some to an elderly Goblin.
• Eileen told Yang Fu she believed he was a good City Lord, and he promised not to let another Devil Race member starve.
• Yang Fu discovered that Enchantment Art could imbue Dharma treasures with distinctive Devil Race abilities.
• Yang Fu hired Yama Goat to enchant his Glazed Fire Bottle with Yama Eye, which could see through illusions and lock onto an enemy’s soul.
• Yama Goat completed the enchantment, and Yang Fu saw the nearby Devil Race members as skulls wreathed in ghostly flames.

Yang Fu planned to lift Sunward City out of poverty by developing Enchantment Art and planting Second-Generation Hybrid Spirit Rice Paddy, while Yang Genshuo recruited researchers and secured their laboratory’s secrecy. The chapter ended when Guo Xiaozhi showed Yang Genshuo a viral video of a succubus cosplay.

• Yang Fu tested the Yama Goat’s tracking ability, recruited him to develop Enchantment Art, and planned to combine it with high-yield Spirit Rice Paddy to improve Sunward City’s fortunes.
• Yang Genshuo praised Yang Fu’s leadership while watching him teach the Devil Race how to plant rice, then left to visit Cheng Bo’s laboratory.
• Yang Genshuo met Cheng Bo, Guo Xiaozhi, and eight researchers from Shimen Agricultural University, including PhD student Song Qiao.
• Yang Genshuo had the eight researchers sign confidentiality contracts before preparing to leave the laboratory.
• Guo Xiaozhi showed Yang Genshuo a trending video of a succubus cosplay.

Yang Genshuo saw the succubus’s video go viral and decided he needed to make money quickly, eventually planning to find goods in the Cultivation World to sell. He returned to find Sunward City thriving, with Yang Fu expanding Enchantment Art to cultivators from the Martial Immortal Sect.

• Yang Genshuo saw that his succubus video had topped 40 million views and brought in 200,000 new followers.
• Guo Xiaozhi told Yang Genshuo about helping displaced foreign girls, prompting Yang Genshuo to realize he could seek military hardware amid the war and would need money to acquire it.
• Yang Genshuo considered selling medicine through the succubus but worried buyers would expect to meet her, so he uploaded another video showing her using Soil-Loosening Art.
• Yang Genshuo returned to the Cultivation World and learned that Yang Fu had organized Sunward City, planted the second generation of Hybrid Spirit Rice Paddy, and begun promoting Enchantment Art.
• Yang Fu oversaw the Yama Goat enchanting a Martial Immortal Sect cultivator with Blazing Demonflame while veteran enchantment masters worked at the city gate.
• Yang Genshuo decided to look for goods he could sell, since he still could not wield magical artifacts.

Feng Xun tracked a secretive Devil Race gathering in Sunward City and broke into their formation, only to discover their leader was his clan uncle. Meanwhile, Yang Fu celebrated the opening of Enchantment Art with the Devil Race members, unaware that Feng Xun's confrontation had briefly shaken the city.

• Feng Xun followed the big-eye symbols and waited outside a hidden gathering protected by a third-grade isolation formation.
• Feng Xun recognized the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Formation, found its eye, and broke it with Wind and Clouds Shift.
• Feng Xun attacked the gathered Devil Race members with Astral Gale Art, then recognized their leader as his clan uncle.
• Yang Fu celebrated Enchantment Art's opening by treating the Devil Race members to meat and wine, and they pledged their loyalty to him.
• Yang Fu sensed a brief surge of spiritual power, but Evil Eye reported that two drunk Devil Race members had merely fought, so Yang Fu resumed the celebration.

Yang Fu prepared offerings for the Yang Family’s ancestral rites while the family’s cultivation projects advanced. The chapter left the story with growing conflict between Yang Fuqing’s Beast-Taming Faction and Yang Fujian’s Martial Arts Faction, which Yang Shi planned to bring before the Ancestor.

• Eileen asked Yang Fu for work, and he hired her to display the effects of her Succubus Race Enchantment Arts.
• Yang Fu gathered ten Blood Essence Tonic Pills, local herbs, spirit plants, Night Beans, and devil treasure tools as offerings for the ancestral rites.
• Yang Genshuo praised Yang Fu’s care for the family and considered Yang Fushuo’s slow progress toward becoming a Third-Grade Alchemist.
• Yang Shi, Yang Fuqing, and Yang Fujian continued developing the Development Zone in Demonwind Forest as human cultivators practiced the Demon-Slaying Art.
• Yang Fuqing’s Beast-Taming Faction advocated coexistence with demonic beasts, while Yang Fujian’s Martial Arts Faction argued that the beasts should be killed for their resources and to prevent future threats.
• Yang Shi decided to ask the Ancestor for guidance during the ancestral rites.

Yang Genshuo sought advice on resolving the growing factional dispute between Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian over whether to tame or kill demon beasts. After Tian Zhe proposed blending both sides’ beliefs under a shared goal, Yang Genshuo prepared for the 57th-year ancestral worship, where he received a promising item for his Douyin storefront.

• Yang Genshuo rejected AI’s generic advice and called Tian Zhe to discuss the factional conflict.
• Tian Zhe advised Yang Genshuo to unite the factions around resisting the Demon Race, using both taming and killing where appropriate.
• Yang Genshuo accepted the idea of fusing the factions’ beliefs and invited Tian Zhe to return to Stone Gate.
• Yang Shi, Yang Fu, Yang Fushuo, Yang Fuqing, Yang Fujian, Yang Qiang, Yang Qiangyou, and Yang Qiangjin completed the 57th-year ancestral worship rites, earning Yang Genshuo incense value and offerings.
• Yang Genshuo exchanged lineage members’ materials, spoke briefly with Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian, and received the item he wanted to list in his Douyin storefront.

Yang Genshuo discovered that Night Beans caused sleepiness and decided to turn them into a high-end sleep product, using a Southeast Asian source to handle distribution. He asked Tian Zhe to help, and Tian Zhe rushed to offer all his savings before Yang Genshuo explained the real job.

• Yang Genshuo noticed that Night Beans induced sleep and called Guo Xiaozhi to prepare them as a natural sleep product.
• Guo Xiaozhi learned that Yang Genshuo was connected to the Succubus and agreed to arrange packaging, approvals, and sales.
• Yang Genshuo decided to establish a Southeast Asian source for the beans and thought of asking Tian Zhe, who worked in foreign trade.
• Tian Zhe transferred Yang Genshuo all 14,525 yuan he had saved, believing his friend needed help.
• Yang Genshuo told Tian Zhe to come to Stone Gate and make a trip to Southeast Asia for him.

Yang Genshuo advanced to the third level of the Innate Grandmaster Realm and tasked Yang Fu with finding a Fourth-Grade Storage Ring for his plans. A year later, Yang Fu still had not found one, but he offered Night Beans, Night Bean Trees, and enchanted artifacts at the ancestral worship ceremony.

• Yang Genshuo sent Tian Zhe to Vietnam to establish a plantation and agricultural company to supply Immortal Aura Food Factory.
• Yang Fujian entered the Divine Communion Realm and comprehended the [Sword God] divine ability, while Yang Shi advanced to the sixth layer of Divine Communion.
• Yang Genshuo took the [Blood Essence Tonic Pill], reached the third level of the Innate Grandmaster Realm, and unlocked Yang Shi’s Storage Ring.
• During Yang Fu’s first year as city lord, Sunward City prospered through the hybrid spirit rice harvest, enchantment business, and improvements to the city.
• Yang Genshuo asked Yang Fu to find a Fourth-Grade Storage Ring, but Yang Fu could not locate one before the next ancestral worship ceremony.
• Yang Fu offered Night Beans, Night Bean Trees, and enchanted magical artifacts, then Eileen approached him as he watched succubi perform.

Yang Fu grew close to Eileen in Sunward City while learning from Yang Qiang’s Answer Talisman that the city might face a danger at night. He investigated after dark and discovered a powerful human disguised as a Devil Race member.

• Yang Genshuo recorded Yang Fu watching a succubus dance, then prepared to sell Night Beans as Yang Fu took Eileen toward Yang Clan Academy.
• Yang Fu activated Yang Qiang’s Answer Talisman and heard the warning, “Dark night, strong winds—beware even the rustling grass.”
• Yang Fu decided the warning might concern Sunward City at night and went out alone in disguise to investigate.
• Yang Fu found the two Evil Eyes assigned to watch the city asleep and continued his patrol himself.
• Yang Fu spotted a wind devil atop a Devil Vine tree and used the Yama Eye to see that the figure was a human disguised as a Devil Race member.
• The disguised human sensed Yang Fu’s observation and demanded to know who was spying on him.