Chapter Summaries

Yang Fu and Feng Xun discovered they were investigating the same secret Devil Race ritual in Sunward City, but both claimed to have found nothing. After they parted, Feng Xun’s clan uncle emerged, revealing that Feng Xun had concealed Yang Fu’s lack of knowledge and would let him leave in a year and a half.

• Yang Fu caught Feng Xun with the city formation, but Feng Xun revealed his identity and presented a Cloudveil Spirit Sect mission letter.
• Yang Fu explained that he was investigating the Night Demon Hall’s ritual, while Feng Xun claimed he had found nothing during his year undercover.
• Yang Fu and Feng Xun argued over who should be called senior, clashed with their wind and lightning powers, then withdrew without fighting further.
• Feng Xun praised Yang Fu as a good City Lord before leaving, and Yang Fu returned to his residence pleased by the compliment.
• Feng Xun’s clan uncle appeared and questioned why Feng Xun had not killed Yang Fu; Feng Xun said Yang Fu knew nothing and would leave in a year and a half.

Yang Genshuo watched Yang Fu and Eileen grow closer while continuing to record succubi dance videos. By Year 60, Sunward City had prospered, but Yang Fu still needed a way to get Eileen past the city’s formation so he could bring her home.

• Yang Genshuo posted succubus dance videos that became popular at home and overseas, then planned to stockpile more footage before Yang Fu’s term ended.
• Eileen grew jealous of the succubi dancing for Yang Fu and offered to dance for him herself; she and Yang Fu embraced and became intimate.
• Yang Genshuo advanced to the Innate Grandmaster Realm while monitoring Yang Fu’s progress through the game.
• By Year 60, Yang Fu had improved Sunward City’s living conditions, but Eileen’s relationship with him had caused the succubi’s status to rise again.
• Eileen advised Yang Fu that his mission could still succeed if the succubi followed his rules and worked independently, and Yang Fu accepted her reasoning.
• Yang Fu worried that Eileen could not leave Sunward City because of its fourth-grade grand formation, while Yang Genshuo looked forward to the possibility of their child being a human-devil hybrid.

Yang Genshuo launched [Calming Bean] for sale while waiting for customers to test the sleep aid, then learned that the first genetically edited spirit herb seeds had sprouted. Yang Shi told him that the first Third-Grade Spirit Herbs planted in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate had matured.

• Youyouzi celebrated the Succubus Race's renewed status and urged Misha Zi to stay close to the troubled Feng Xun.
• Yang Fu visited Feng Xun at a tavern and heard him insist that his missing target could not be found by anyone.
• Guo Xiaozhi helped secure market approval for [Calming Bean], and Yang Genshuo listed boxes for 499 yuan while many viewers mocked the product and sales stayed slow.
• Cheng Bo told Yang Genshuo that the first genetically edited spirit herb seeds had sprouted, and Yang Genshuo planned to send them to Yang Shi for planting.
• Yang Shi informed Yang Genshuo that the first Third-Grade Spirit Herbs planted in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate had matured.

Yang Fu learned that Eileen was pregnant and left Sunward City to seek a way to bring her out, asking Feng Xun to protect her. He returned to the sect only to discover that the array trapping the Devil Race could not be changed without a Nascent Soul ancestor.

• Yang Shi explained how he used a loophole in Daoist Xuanzhen's will to divide the Fallen Star Immortal Estate's spirit herbs between the sect and the Lineage, and Yang Genshuo reflected that Yang Fu would have given everything to the Lineage.
• Yang Genshuo sent Yang Fushuo more Third-Grade Spirit Herbs, and Yang Fushuo began trying to become a Third-Grade Alchemist as AI continued evolving.
• Yang Genshuo learned that Eileen was pregnant, and Yang Fu promised to take her away from Sunward City and bring her back to the Yang Family.
• Yang Fu asked Feng Xun to guard Eileen, and Feng Xun agreed after Yang Fu called him Senior Brother Feng.
• Yang Fu returned to the sect and learned from Murong Ziyan that the Golden Core senior who had set up the array had died, and only a Nascent Soul ancestor could free the Devil Race members trapped inside.

Yang Fu failed to find a way to free Eileen from Sunward City’s formation, but secured another three years as city lord by promising the sect future tribute. After visiting his family, he returned to Sunward City while Feng Xun and Misha Zi cultivated together using the Dual Cultivation Method.

• Murong Ziyan explained that breaking the formation would require a Nascent Soul-level cultivator or superior formation expertise and would endanger everyone inside, so Yang Fu found no solution for freeing Eileen.
• Yang Genshuo advised Yang Fu to remain city lord until Eileen gave birth and to make arrangements for her and the child’s safety.
• Yang Fu persuaded Zhao Kuo to grant him another three-year term by promising that Sunward City would eventually provide the sect with an annual tribute of at least three hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Fu spent half a month with Shen Yao and his family, seeing Yang Qiangyou’s strange knack for finding Spirit Stones and Yang Qiangjin’s rapid progress in cultivation.
• Yang Fu returned to Sunward City aboard Phoenix Dance Manor’s treasure ship and began compressing his Five-Element Spirit River as he neared a breakthrough.
• Feng Xun and Misha Zi practiced their Dual Cultivation Method, improving their strength, and Feng Xun said the technique was a family inheritance.

Feng Xun offered to help Yang Fu take Eileen out of Sunward City in exchange for Yang Fu giving up his City Lord position. Yang Genshuo discovered Feng Xun had learned a new dual-cultivation art but still could not tell how he planned to get them out.

• Feng Xun refused his clan uncle's plan to remove Yang Fu and promised to make Yang Fu leave Sunward City.
• At Yang Fu's welcome banquet, Feng Xun offered to help him take Eileen away if Yang Fu surrendered the City Lord position.
• Yang Fu agreed to meet Feng Xun with Eileen at the eastern city gate the following night and never return to the city.
• Eileen was overjoyed to learn she could leave Sunward City, and Yang Fu vowed to take her and their unborn child away.
• Yang Genshuo inspected Feng Xun's Character Card and found that Feng Xun had advanced to the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment and acquired the Harmonious Dual Cultivation Demon-Fusion Art.

Yang Fu and Eileen escaped Sunward City after Feng Xun secretly helped open the array, while Yang Genshuo discovered that Feng Zhong, a Feng Clan elder and Night Demon Hall liaison, had been behind the breach. Feng Zhong and Feng Xun argued over the clan’s plans, and Feng Zhong prepared to use a talisman to predict whether Yang Fu would threaten them.

• Feng Xun opened a passage through the fourth-grade array, allowing Eileen to leave Sunward City with Yang Fu.
• Yang Genshuo revealed Feng Zhong’s Character Card and realized that the Feng Clan had ties to the Devil Race’s Night Demon Hall.
• Yang Fu saw a warning identifying Feng Xun and Feng Zhong’s affiliations, then flew away with Eileen without confronting them.
• Feng Zhong said the Feng Clan could now carry out its plan, while Feng Xun defended Yang Fu and objected to his clan uncle insulting Eileen.
• Feng Zhong decided to use a Night Demon Hall talisman to deduce whether Yang Fu would disrupt the clan’s plans.

Yang Fu brought Eileen to the Yang Family and decided to return to Sunward City to investigate the Feng Clan’s connection to Night Demon Hall. As he prepared to go, Heavenly Veiling blocked Feng Zhong’s attempt to deduce his fate, and Yang Genshuo renewed the protection.

• Yang Genshuo weighed whether to ignore the Feng Clan’s ties to Night Demon Hall, then decided the threat required investigation.
• Yang Fu told Yang Genshuo he intended to return to Sunward City and uncover the truth, despite the danger, and Yang Genshuo agreed to watch over him.
• Yang Fu brought Eileen to the Yang Family residence and asked Shen Yao to care for her and her unborn child before returning to the sect to prepare.
• Yang Fu endured Tribulation Lightning, reaching the twelfth layer of Qi Refining and the second layer of Divine Communion without using a Foundation-Building Spirit Object.
• Heavenly Veiling blocked Feng Zhong’s attempt to investigate Yang Fu’s fate, and Yang Genshuo spent 100 Incense Value to restore the protection.

Yang Fu prepared to investigate the Feng Clan’s ties to the Devil Race, while Yang Genshuo recruited Yang Qiang to uncover the connection. Yang Fushuo became a Third-Grade Alchemist, and Yang Genshuo turned his attention to ten unusual herbs in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate.

• Feng Zhong used the Night Demon Sight Talisman to see that Yang Fu would cultivate for decades and concluded that the Yang Family would not expose the Feng Clan’s plans.
• Yang Fu disguised himself as a Qi Refining Realm minotaur and set out for Sunward City, while Yang Genshuo suspected the Feng Clan had brought two Golden Core cultivators to help Night Demon Hall.
• Yang Genshuo asked Yang Qiang to investigate the Feng Clan’s relationship with the Devil Race using his Heavenly Mystery Art.
• Yang Fushuo successfully refined the Great Restoration Pill, became a Third-Grade Alchemist, and received ten new pill formulas from Yang Genshuo.
• Yang Genshuo looked toward Yang Shi and noticed ten unusual medicinal herbs growing in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate.

Yang Genshuo inspected ten newly mutated Spirit Herbs created with genetic technology and saw potential for new pills and Unknown Treasures. After Guo Xiaozhi reported the company’s profits, Yang Genshuo ordered another twenty million transferred to expand the laboratory and speed up the hybrid herb research.

• Yang Genshuo examined ten Grade-One Spirit Herbs that had grown in the Fallen Star Immortal Estate, including a newly mutated lingzhi that he named Poison Lingzhi.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that the never-before-seen herbs could qualify as Unknown Treasures for the Dragon God Immortal Palace and might enable Yang Fushuo to refine new pills.
• Yang Genshuo called Guo Xiaozhi, who reported strong liquor sales, forty million in net profit, and surging orders for Calming Beans.
• Yang Genshuo told Guo Xiaozhi to transfer twenty million to Cheng Bo so he could continue expanding the laboratory.

Yang Genshuo expanded Calming Bean production, helped a student whose mother suffered from headaches, and watched the product withstand scrutiny from critics and regulators. Meanwhile, Yang Fu discovered a concealed Night Demon Hall hideout and recognized Old Goat among its members, then followed him.

• Yang Genshuo transferred twenty million to the Daoist Master’s lab to accelerate work on hybrid herbs.
• After reading a student’s account of how Calming Bean helped his mother, Yang Genshuo arranged to send the family a box every fifty days.
• Yang Genshuo saw critics target Night Bean, but inspections and complaints failed to disrupt Immortal Aura Food Factory’s production.
• Yang Fu found a Night Demon Hall symbol beside a private residence in Sunward City and waited outside its concealment formation.
• Feng Xun emerged from the formation, followed later by several Devil Race members, including Old Goat.
• Yang Fu recognized Old Goat as a Night Demon Hall member and silently followed him.

Yang Fu secretly ambushed and subdued Yang Wei, the Yama Goat known as Old Goat, after discovering he belonged to the Night Demon Hall. He interrogated him about the Feng Clan, and Yang Wei agreed to talk if Yang Fu sent him out of the city.

• Yang Fu followed Yang Wei to his mansion and sealed it off with an array before preparing his talismans, pills, and treasures for an attack.
• Yang Fu overwhelmed Yang Wei with a single blow and bound him with the Glazed Fire Bottle and Fengshui Diagram.
• Yang Genshuo recognized Yang Fu's overwhelming use of resources as the work of the Yang Family's second-generation Batman.
• Yang Fu demanded to know Yang Wei's relationship with the Feng Clan, and Yang Wei offered to reveal what he knew in exchange for being sent out of the city.

Yang Fu forced the Yama Goat to reveal Night Demon Hall's plan to complete a formation in Sunward City that could transport Devils from the Demon Realm. Yang Qiang then uncovered the Feng Clan's ties to the Hanging Gardens Dynasty and the Demon Realm, along with a secret route between Sky Garden and the Great Nai Dynasty.

• Yang Fu claimed to be from the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and Yang Genshuo gave the Yama Goat a Heavenly Concealment Blessing that convinced him.
• The Yama Goat explained that a Shadow Demon had recruited Devils in Sunward City to test a formation for transporting supplies from the Demon Realm.
• The Yama Goat revealed that Feng Zhong had helped refine the formation, which now transported supplies nightly, and that Night Demon Hall intended to complete it so it could transport Devils.
• Yang Fu realized the Devil Race planned to enter the Human Race's world and considered reporting the threat to Cloudveil Spirit Sect.
• Yang Qiang reported that the Feng Clan had deep ties to the Devil Race and that he had found a secret route between Sky Garden and the Great Nai Dynasty.

Yang Fu and Yang Genshuo investigated the Feng Clan’s alliance with the Devil Race and realized the devils might be trying to return to the Demon Realm rather than enter the Mystic Spirit Continent. Yang Fu recruited Yama Goat as an informant and left him under a Brain-Eating Gu’s control, while the Feng Clan’s true motive remained unknown.

• Yang Genshuo learned from Yang Qiang’s discoveries that the Feng Clan had once commanded the Devil Race and sealed passages between realms.
• Yang Fu reasoned that the Devil Race needed Demon Realm resources and likely wanted to return home, making the teleportation array’s purpose more puzzling.
• Yang Fu offered Yama Goat a chance to live if he continued working for the Night Demon Hall and reported his actions.
• Yang Fu planted a Brain-Eating Gu in Yama Goat and left with his tools and array flags.
• Yama Goat resolved to keep working for Yang Fu and help the devils of Sunward City prosper.

Yang Genshuo reviewed Yang Fu’s accumulated treasures and preparations, then considered the Yang Family’s future and whether Yang Qiangjin should join Cloudveil Spirit Sect. Three months later, Yang Fu gathered intelligence from Yama Goat and copied the details of an incomplete Demon Realm transmission array.

• Yang Genshuo discovered that Yang Fu had spent years buying treasures, pills, and tools to build a formidable stockpile of trump cards.
• Yang Fu returned to Yama Goat’s manor, and Yang Genshuo confirmed that Yama Goat had been frightened and would not expose them.
• Yang Genshuo considered Yang Qiangjin’s prospects and decided she should enter Cloudveil Spirit Sect rather than travel far to Blazing Heaven Sect.
• Yang Genshuo weighed the Yang Family’s chances of producing a Golden Core cultivator and hoped Dragon God Immortal Palace might change their fortunes.
• Three months later, Yang Fu collected information from Yama Goat and copied the details of the array formation, earning the [Incomplete Demon Realm Transmission Array].

Yang Fu seized Night Demon Hall and confronted Feng Xun, who asked him to protect pregnant Misha Zi. Feng Xun then destroyed the Shadow Demon and sacrificed himself under his lineage’s command, leaving Yang Fu to face the aftermath.

• Yama Goat gave Yang Fu the formation diagrams, and Yang Fu waited until Feng Zhong left Sunward City before launching his operation.
• Yang Fu used the City Lord’s Token and the Five-Element Demon-Sealing Formation to capture the Shadow Demon and suppress Night Demon Hall’s members, while his guards subdued Feng Xun.
• Yang Fu promised Feng Xun he would take Misha Zi and their unborn child out of the city, then brought Feng Xun back to question him about the portal.
• Feng Xun apologized to the Shadow Demon, detonated his Eight Trigrams Fan, and destroyed the Shadow Demon with his wind technique.
• Feng Xun burned his Dao Foundation Truefire and died after telling Yang Fu he could not disobey his lineage’s command.

Yang Fu mourned Feng Xun, who had burned his life to kill the Shadow Demon and destroy the Demon Realm Teleportation Array rather than reveal the Feng Clan’s secret. After protecting Misha Zi and her unborn child, Yang Fu returned to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect with Feng Xun’s body and learned he had incurred the enmity of a Golden Core Immortal Clan.

• Feng Xun burned his Dao Foundation Truefire to break the Glazed Fire Bottle’s seal, kill the Shadow Demon, and collapse the Demon Realm Teleportation Array, then died.
• Yang Fu learned from Misha Zi that Feng Xun had protected her and their unborn child, and promised to take them out of Sunward City and raise the child as a member of the Yang Family.
• Yang Fu ordered Youyouzi to care for Misha Zi and warned her against leading the Succubus Race into shameful acts again.
• Misha Zi gave Yang Fu Feng Xun’s dual cultivation art, which bore the message, “For my fellow brother-in-law, Yang Fu.”
• Yang Fu reported Feng Xun’s death and the demon gate to Long Hong, who ordered him to keep the matter quiet and have Martial Uncle Mao accompany him home because he had offended a Golden Core Immortal Clan.

Yang Genshuo arranged a Night Bean production site in Vietnam while Yang Fu’s family faced the aftermath of the Feng Clan conflict. The chapter ended with Yang Genshuo naming Yang Fu and Eileen’s human-demon hybrid daughter Yang Qiangwei.

• Mao Dou agreed to protect Yang Fu’s family, and Yang Fu decided to stay home rather than attend the Dragon God Immortal Palace treasure presentation.
• Yang Genshuo planted Night Bean Trees in Vietnam and appointed Tian Zhe as the legal representative of Immortal-Aura Agricultural Products Company.
• Yang Genshuo arranged for Su Yanyan to be recruited as a factory secretary and sent overseas so Tian Zhe would work for the company.
• Two years later, Heavenly Spirit Pavilion punished the Feng Clan, but Feng Zhong escaped, and Yang Fu hired Ghostshadow Tower to keep searching for him.
• Yang Genshuo inspected Yang Fu and Eileen’s daughter, Doudou, and named her Yang Qiangwei.

Yang Genshuo discovered that Yang Feng, Feng Xun and Misha Zi’s son, possessed an Immortal Grade talent and a full-score Dark Heavenly Spirit Root, then resolved to keep him within the Yang Family. As the family entered a peaceful period of growth, Yang Genshuo trained with the Yang Family Sword and began visualizing a Five-Element spirit object, leaving the family transformed after twenty years in the game.

• Yang Genshuo named Eileen and Yang Fu’s daughter Yang Qiangwei and told Yang Fu to find her a superior Devil Race cultivation technique.
• Yang Genshuo examined Yang Feng’s identity card and discovered his Heavenly Dark Spirit Root, Immortal Grade Dark Sovereign talent, and Heaven Grade Windwalker talent.
• Yang Genshuo instructed Yang Fu to ensure Yang Feng recognized himself as part of the Yang Family, despite Misha Zi’s plan to leave once her son could protect himself.
• Yang Genshuo trained in Yang Family Sword to absorb the medicinal toxins in his body and strengthen his Innate Grandmaster cultivation.
• Yang Genshuo began visualizing the Five-Element Spirit Pendant, meditated through the night, and continued practicing with his spiritual sense and magical tools.
• Twenty years passed in the game as the Yang Family underwent a major transformation.

On Yang Shi’s hundredth birthday, the Great Nai Dynasty celebrated the Yang Family’s achievements while Yang Shi worried that age and a martial-cultivation bottleneck would end his pursuit of a new realm. After receiving Blessings from Yang Genshuo, he joined the banquet, where news arrived that the Demon Race had broken through the Barrier Formation.

• At Yang Shi’s hundredth-birthday banquet, Li Fan heard an old beggar recount Yang Shi’s deeds and resolved to become a great man like him.
• Yang Shi confessed to Yang Hu that he had reached Divine Communion Realm Grand Perfection but still could not discover how to reshape his body and extend his lifespan.
• Yang Genshuo gave Yang Shi several Blessings, including Bloodline Awakening, and Yang Shi renewed his determination to reach the next realm.
• At the banquet, Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian reconciled over conversation, and Yang Fujian promised the children he would ask Yang Genshuo for treats.
• The Beast-Taming Sect and Martial Cultivator Faction stopped quarrelling as the celebrations continued, then the Heavenly Dragon Army reported that the Demon Race had breached the Barrier Formation.