Chapter Summaries

Yang Genshuo rescued captives from the Jade Bay Compound, then stole a massive shipment of battlefield weapons to reduce the fighting. Back home, he turned to arming the Yang Family by launching a factory for printed talismans.

• Tian Zhe used talismans to defeat Lu Kun and his men, while Yang Genshuo erased Lu Kun's recent memories with the [Hypnotic Bell].
• Yang Genshuo returned the captives and criminals to China, and officials found his note granting border guards three days of vacation.
• Yang Genshuo stole three transport planes, missile vehicles, and weapons from a battlefield, leaving both sides without much of their equipment.
• Yang Genshuo urged Yang Fujian to marry, and Yang Fujian agreed to marry that year.
• Yang Genshuo sent his parents back to their village and arranged for a villa to be built there.
• Yang Genshuo decided to start a printer factory and expand the Yang Family's production of printed talismans.

Yang Genshuo planned to use the Yang Family’s growing talisman and pill businesses to prepare for the Demon Race, while Tian Zhe left to follow Su Yanyan back to the Capital City. After discovering her betrayal, Tian Zhe returned to Yang Genshuo and asked to enter his mysterious world.

• Yang Genshuo reviewed the Yang Family’s Spirit Stone income and considered producing Fourth-Rank Talismans, then asked Yang Qiang to arrange a long-range Thunder Talisman.
• Tian Zhe told Yang Genshuo he was leaving with Su Yanyan, and Yang Genshuo reluctantly wished him safe travels.
• Tian Zhe offered to give up his shares and return to an ordinary life with Su Yanyan, but she demanded he reclaim the shares and prove his worth.
• After learning Su Yanyan had gone to a hotel with another man, Tian Zhe sent her proof that he had recovered the shares, realized she had never loved him, and called Yang Genshuo.
• Tian Zhe returned to Yang Genshuo’s manor, asked to join his mysterious world, and admitted he was not as magnanimous as he had believed.

Tian Zhe and Yang Genshuo staged a deadly-looking gratitude game to punish Su Yanyan for deceiving Tian Zhe. Su Yanyan survived by sacrificing her hand and disfiguring her face, but Tian Zhe left her behind; she later woke in the hotel with real scars and believed the ordeal had been a dream.

• Tian Zhe told Yang Genshuo he wanted revenge on Su Yanyan, and the two planned a game for her.
• Su Yanyan woke bound in a basement beside Tian Zhe and Jiang Chen as a recording set out a trial involving approaching chainsaws and drills.
• Su Yanyan sacrificed her right hand to stop the chainsaw aimed at Tian Zhe, choosing not to save Jiang Chen, whose head was severed.
• When the trial turned on Su Yanyan, she cut her face to collect enough blood to stop a saw above her head, while Tian Zhe urged her to survive.
• Tian Zhe revealed that the game was over and left Su Yanyan in the basement; afterward, he and Yang Genshuo departed, and Jiang Chen's head became a piece of wood.
• Su Yanyan woke in the hotel believing the ordeal was a dream, then felt the scars on her face and screamed.

Su Yanyan reported Tian Zhe to the police after surviving his staged torture, while Tian Zhe chose to follow Yang Genshuo and train as a martial cultivator. At the ancestral worship ceremony, Yang Genshuo received a high-rank talisman brush and materials and prepared to test whether his Mechanism Printer could produce two powerful Fourth-Rank Thunder Talismans.

• Su Yanyan tried to report Jigsaw to the police, but she fled when she saw Jiang Chen at the hotel and withdrew her accusation, remembering Tian Zhe's warning.
• Tian Zhe failed to cultivate spiritual energy, so Yang Genshuo told him to prepare Blood-Qi Powder and build a martial foundation instead.
• Tian Zhe agreed to follow Yang Genshuo for life, and Yang Genshuo planned to raise him into an Innate Grandmaster Realm expert to help the Yang Family.
• Yang Genshuo received an Immortal Phoenix Brush and two Fourth-Rank Thunder Talisman methods from Yang Qiang, along with Thunder Crystal Ink and Wind-Spirit Gauze Talisman Paper from Yang Fu.
• Yang Genshuo studied the Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder and Thunder-Slaying Sword talismans, then prepared to see whether the Mechanism Printer could make them.

Yang Genshuo’s attempt to print a Fourth-Rank talisman destroyed his Mechanism Printer, revealing that it needed a stronger core and better cooling. He absorbed a Rainbow-Winged Roc’s talent, strengthened his Spiritual Roots, and ended the night preparing to cultivate further while considering Yang Fujian’s martial-arts research.

• Yang Genshuo modified his Mechanism Printer to copy the Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder Talisman, but the First-Rank Mechanism Core overheated and exploded despite his use of Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that the printer needed a Fourth-Rank Mechanism Core and a stronger cooling array, then summoned his descendants to obtain a Second-Rank cooling grand array next year.
• Yang Genshuo cultivated with a Qi-Gathering Pill and reviewed records to establish three rules about absorbing demon-beast talents.
• Yang Genshuo used Blessing: Absorb on a Rainbow-Winged Roc and gained Five Elements Harmony, raising all five of his Spiritual Roots to twenty-three.
• Yang Genshuo gave Tian Zhe the Wind and Cloud Step technique, then noticed Yang Fujian researching a cultivation method combining immortality cultivation and the martial path.

Yang Fujian created the Truth-Seeking Formula, a Heaven Grade martial cultivation method that combined spiritual power with true qi and earned the Yang Family a new blessing after its Merit surpassed 4,000. As Yang Genshuo struggled to learn the formula and began work on a new Mechanism Printer, someone from the authorities arrived at his estate.

• After a year of studying the relationship between true qi and spiritual power, Yang Fujian reversed his dantian and unleashed a devastating burst of power that destroyed Windpool Valley.
• Yang Fujian named his new method the Truth-Seeking Formula, broke through to Embryonic Breath Great Perfection, and set out to teach it to his father.
• Yang Genshuo received notices that Yang Fujian had earned the family Incense and Merit, and that the Yang Family had gained the Spiritual Insight blessing for crafting.
• Yang Genshuo applied Spiritual Insight to himself and tried to cultivate the Truth-Seeking Formula, but could not grasp it after a night of effort.
• Yang Fujian married to reassure his parents, and Yang Fuqing attended the wedding with her children.
• Yang Genshuo left the training room to work on a new Mechanism Printer, then sensed an official outside his estate asking for President Yang.

Yang Genshuo negotiated with Li Chenfeng for a pharmaceutical company license in exchange for ten Essence-Sealing Rejuvenation Pills, which Li used to help his dying teacher. He then successfully printed a Fourth-Rank talisman and began planning how to arm cultivators for the coming demonic threat, ending by asking Tian Zhe about aircraft carriers in another war zone.

• Li Chenfeng visited Yang Genshuo to obtain his remaining kidney-strengthening medicine, and Yang negotiated a pharmaceutical company license in exchange for ten Essence-Sealing Rejuvenation Pills.
• Li Chenfeng gave one pill to his teacher, whose kidney function showed signs of recovery the next day.
• Yang Genshuo made Cheng Bo the legal representative of Immortal-Aura Medicine Company and planned to expand his group’s facilities.
• Yang Genshuo used a Frostwind Formation to cool his Mechanism Printer and successfully printed a Fourth-Rank Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder Talisman.
• Yang Genshuo planned to combine talismans with modern weapons to fight demons and asked Tian Zhe about aircraft carriers in another war zone.

Yang Genshuo sought more talisman brushes for his Mechanism Printers and sent Yang Qiang to the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s Divine Craftsman Branch, where he found a way to help its overworked refiners. The deal earned the Yang Family brushes, a custom Spirit Artifact, and a chance to nurture another Magical Treasure at Divine Craftsman Mountain.

• Yang Genshuo decided against stealing a Carrier-Based Anti-Air Cannon and focused on printing talismans to equip ordinary Anti-Air Cannons.
• Yang Genshuo asked Yang Qiang to obtain seven or more Immortal Crane Feather Brushes, but Yang Qiang said the Demon-Subduing Branch could not provide them.
• Yang Qiang visited Divine Craftsman Mountain and met its Artifact Spirit, Xiaoxiao, and the overworked artifact refiners Da Fan and Xiao Fan.
• Yang Genshuo observed Da Fan and Xiao Fan’s work and taught Yang Qiang the Assembly-Line Artifact Refining Method to improve their production.
• Da Fan and Xiao Fan promised Yang Qiang as many Third-Rank Immortal Crane Feather Brushes as needed, three Fourth-Rank Immortal Phoenix Brushes, and a Spirit Artifact; Xiaoxiao also offered to nurture one of Yang Genshuo’s Magical Treasures in her mountain.

Yang Genshuo expanded the Yang Family’s preparations for war by establishing talisman production and developing martial training, while Yang Shi prepared to break through to the Nirvana Realm. After ten days in the modern world, ten years passed in the Cultivation World, and Yang Shi confronted a Golden Core savage bull to begin his breakthrough.

• Yang Genshuo arranged for the Ruyi Sword and a complementary defensive artifact to be forged, while Da Fan and Xiao Fan estimated that their Spirit Infusion would take twenty years.
• Yang Genshuo set up eight Third-Rank Mechanism Printers, planned twenty Second-Rank printers, and gained cultivation progress by creating mechanisms.
• Yang Genshuo helped Tian Zhe advance rapidly through Body Tempering with pills, then placed him in charge of Immortal-Aura Medicine and its Blood-Qi Powder.
• Yang Genshuo checked on Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei in the Demon Realm and watched Yang Shi prepare to enter the Nirvana Realm.
• After ten days passed in the modern world and ten years in the Cultivation World, Yang Shi sought out a Golden Core savage bull and declared that he would use its flesh and blood to achieve Nirvana.

Yang Shi attempted to break through to the Nirvana Realm using the Savage Ox’s essence, but learned he needed Heaven-and-Earth Vitality and began to die. Yang Fujian rushed to obtain more qi and blood to save his father, leaving the chapter with Soulfeather Cat and Ding Zhen attacking Heavenstorm Bear while Yang Fujian held Yang Fuqing at swordpoint.

• Yang Shi and the others killed the Savage Ox, and Yang Fuqing stayed behind to reassure Demonwind Forest’s other Golden Core demon beasts.
• Yang Genshuo used the Yang Family’s blessings and the Savage Ox’s essence to help Yang Shi attempt a Nirvana breakthrough.
• Yang Shi gained the Savage Ox’s Eye of Death, but his body began collapsing when the beast’s blood qi ran out; he realized a martial cultivator needed Heaven-and-Earth Vitality to reach Nirvana.
• Yang Fujian offered his own blood qi, but Yang Shi stopped him and asked to see his children before he died.
• Yang Fujian asked Soulfeather Cat to bewitch Ding Zhen, then ordered them to help him gather qi and blood from the Beast-Taming Sect’s demon beasts.
• Heavenstorm Bear arrived with Yang Fuqing, and Soulfeather Cat and Ding Zhen attacked him while Yang Fujian held Yang Fuqing at swordpoint and asked to borrow the bear’s body to save Yang Shi.

Yang Shi stopped Yang Fujian from killing the Heavenstorm Bear and tried to preserve peace between humans and demons as he faced death. Before he could give his children his final words, Feng Lian and the Feng Clan invaded Bright City, where Yang Genshuo’s newly assembled anti-air cannons decimated their forces.

• Yang Fujian ordered the Heavenly Dragon Army to attack the Heavenstorm Bear, but Yang Shi arrived and prevented the bear’s death.
• Yang Shi forgave Yang Fuqing, promised Elder Bear he would protect him, and ordered Yang Fujian confined to preserve the Yang Family’s reputation.
• Yang Fujian tried to stop Elder Bear from leaving, but Ding Zhen restrained him while Yang Shi prepared to speak to his children.
• A passage opened in the sky, and Feng Lian led Feng Clan cultivators into Bright City to seize the dynasty’s fortune.
• Yang Genshuo’s anti-air cannons fired on the invaders, killing the Feng Clan’s Foundation Establishment cultivators while Feng Lian and his beast survived.

Yang Shi survived by absorbing the Golden Core Rift Beast, then reorganized the Great Nai Dynasty and strengthened Bright City against the Feng Clan’s reopened passage. A year later, the Beast Taming Sect and Martial Sect had been established, while Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian’s wives were both expecting children.

• Yang Genshuo’s forces killed Feng Lian’s companions and used Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder to cripple the Rift Beast, though Feng Lian escaped through the spatial passage.
• Yang Genshuo absorbed the Rift Beast’s essence to restore Yang Shi’s body, granting him Rift Traversal and enough strength to survive as a Half-Step Nirvana Realm cultivator.
• Yang Shi reunited with his family, then authorized Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian to establish the Beast Taming Sect and Martial Sect while requiring them to resolve disputes through the Demon-Slaying Art Tournament.
• Yang Shi and Yang Fuqing persuaded the four Golden Core beasts of Demonwind Forest to join the Human Race, and their families moved to Bright City as the city strengthened its defenses.
• The two sects were established under Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian, and the annual Demon-Slaying Art Tournament began as cultivators and beasts competed against one another.
• In Year 103, Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian’s wives both became pregnant, and Yang Genshuo used Spirit Infusion on the two unborn children.

Yang Shi used the Heavenly Mechanism Talisman to seek Liu Wuhen’s whereabouts, while Yang Genshuo planned to strengthen the Yang Family’s defenses before the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s barrier ruptured. A year later, Yang Fuqing gave birth to a daughter, whose arrival unsettled the Spirit Beasts and shook the thunderclouds above Thunderclap Peak.

• Yang Shi celebrated Tan Xue’s pregnancy and, after hearing Liu Zihan longed to see her father Liu Wuhen again, burned a Heavenly Mechanism Talisman to ask where he was.
• The talisman revealed that Liu Wuhen was deep within the Mystic Flame, beyond reach in the unseen, and that the answer lay between illusion and reality.
• Yang Genshuo decided to expand the Yang Family’s talisman production and seek a talented descendant who could craft higher-rank Mechanism Cores before the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s barrier ruptured.
• Yang Fu cultivated in seclusion, Yang Fushuo ran the Wonder Pill Pavilion, and Yang Qiangjin managed the Yang Family’s affairs and relationships with other clans.
• Yang Fuqing gave birth to a daughter one year later, causing the Beast Taming Sect’s Spirit Beasts to cry out and the thunderclouds above Blackstone Sect’s Thunderclap Peak to shake.

Yang Fuqing gave birth to a boy whose Immortal Grade talent marked him as a Born Killer God, prompting Lei Zhen to try to take him away before he could bring calamity. Yang Genshuo calmed Lei Zhen’s inner demon with a Blessing, and Lei Zhen realized his fear had trapped him; the tribulation lightning then became a golden rainbow bridge as Merit descended on the Yang Family.

• Yang Fuqing gave birth amid a disturbance that terrified demon beasts, while the thunderclouds over Thunderclap Peak stirred and Lei Zhen emerged from the mountain.
• Lei Zhen flew to the Yang Family compound and demanded Yang Fuqing’s newborn son, whom he identified as a fox demon and Born Killer God destined to bring disaster.
• Yang Genshuo checked the child’s Character Card, discovered his Immortal Grade Corpse Retriever talent, and understood why Lei Zhen had come.
• Yang Fuqing, Ding Zhen, Yang Fujian, and the four Golden Core demon beasts resisted Lei Zhen, but he overwhelmed them with his blood sea and demonic arts.
• Yang Genshuo cast a Tranquility Blessing on Lei Zhen, dispersing his inner demon and helping him realize that his fear of his constitution had trapped him.
• Lei Zhen regained clarity, the tribulation lightning transformed into a golden rainbow bridge, and Merit descended on the Yang Family.

Yang Genshuo converted Taoist Lei Zhen, used the Merit to protect Yang Fuqing’s son, and welcomed two newly named children into the Yang Family. Back in the modern world, Li Chenfeng begged Yang Genshuo to save his teacher, leaving Yang Genshuo asking who the teacher was.

• Yang Genshuo awarded 500 Merit to Yang Fuqing’s child, helping Taoist Lei Zhen overcome his Inner Demon and regain control of his demonic arts.
• Taoist Lei Zhen offered to take Yang Qiangzheng as his disciple, then departed for Thunderclap Peak as his misfortune caused trouble in Bright City.
• Yang Fuqing’s son was named Yang Qiangzheng, and three months later Yang Fujian and Tan Xue’s talented daughter was named Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Genshuo reflected on the Yang Family’s growing Merit and watched Tian Zhe advance rapidly in martial arts before Li Chenfeng arrived seeking medicine.
• Li Chenfeng knelt and asked Yang Genshuo to save his teacher, whose kidney function had improved after taking the Yang Family’s pills, and Yang Genshuo asked who the teacher was.

Yang Genshuo treated Old Xue with half an Origin-Nourishing Pill after negotiating with Li Chenfeng, earning the military leader’s trust and an offer of future assistance. A year later, Yang Shi found a Spatial Rift in the Blazing Sun Dynasty and realized the Great Nai Dynasty was not unique.

• Yang Genshuo refused to help Li Chenfeng until he revealed that his teacher needed treatment, then recognized the strength of Li Chenfeng’s bodyguards.
• Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe discussed treating Li Chenfeng’s teacher while keeping his methods concealed and limiting the favor to half a life.
• Li Chenfeng brought Yang Genshuo to Kyoto to meet Old Xue, the Guard Corps’ second-in-command, whose illness Yang Genshuo diagnosed by taking his pulse.
• Yang Genshuo gave Old Xue half an Origin-Nourishing Pill, and Old Xue regained strength and promised to support Yang Genshuo in future dealings.
• Yang Genshuo continued cultivating and hoped to eventually request modern military technology, while Yang Shi later found a Spatial Rift in the Blazing Sun Dynasty and concluded the Great Nai Dynasty was not special.

Yang Shi crossed a Spatial Rift beneath the Blazing Sun Dynasty and arrived in the Earthcore Domain, where he met the Earthcore Clan and found his long-lost master, Liu Wuhen. The chapter ended with Yang Shi kneeling before Liu Wuhen, who recognized him.

• Yang Shi used the Heavenly Mechanism Talisman’s clues to find a Spatial Rift beneath the magma sea and entered it with his Rift Traversal talent.
• Yang Genshuo realized Yang Shi’s talent might help the family reach Yang Qiangwei and Yang Feng in the Demon Realm, but no one was free to investigate the other rift.
• Yang Shi emerged in the Earthcore Domain, gathered Black Obsidian and Goldsoul Crystal, and encountered four Earthcore Clan members.
• Bobo Guji led Yang Shi to a cave where an old man who spoke the Earthcore Clan’s language lived.
• Yang Shi recognized the old man as Liu Wuhen, called him Master, and apologized for arriving too late.

Yang Shi reunited with Liu Wuhen in the Earthcore Domain, gathered valuable resources there, and brought his master back to Bright City. Liu Wuhen returned to find Liu Zihan caring for their young family, while Yang Qiangzheng remained weak and Yang Qiangjing kept falling over.

• Yang Shi and Liu Wuhen reunited, discussed their cultivation realms, and Liu Wuhen explained how he had spent sixty years in the Earthcore Domain.
• Liu Wuhen told Yang Shi about the domain’s treasures, and the two gathered Spirit Materials, Flame Spirit Liquid, and Metal-Element Spirit Stones.
• Yang Shi brought Liu Wuhen through a Spatial Rift to the Yang Family courtyard in Bright City.
• Liu Zihan cared for Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Qiangjing while worrying about Yang Qiangzheng’s fragile health.
• Liu Wuhen called out to Liu Zihan after arriving at the front gate.

Liu Zihan reunited with Liu Wuhen, while Yang Shi weighed the threat of the Feng Clan and sought Ding Zhen’s help preparing the Great Nai Dynasty. Over the following years, the dynasty developed artifact refining and mined the Earthcore Domain as Liu Zihan’s family settled into life together.

• Liu Wuhen embraced Liu Zihan, apologized for missing her childhood, and promised to spend his remaining time with her.
• Yang Shi asked Yang Genshuo about confronting the Feng Clan, but Yang Genshuo warned that Feng Lian and the other Golden Core cultivators were beyond Yang Shi’s current strength.
• Yang Shi told Ding Zhen about the Earthcore Domain and its rich metal and fire resources, and Ding Zhen agreed to help refine a metal-element Spirit Vein and organize mining expeditions.
• Yang Qiangjing obtained the Heaven Grade Earth Refinement Art from Divine Craftsman Mountain, and Yang Shi placed it in the Blackstone Sect’s Book Pavilion for its disciples to study.
• Liu Wuhen cared for Liu Zihan and the children as the years passed, while Yang Qiangzheng triggered Corpse Retriever by absorbing an ant and later a spirit chicken, reaching the First Layer of Embryonic Breath.
• In Year 107, Liu Zihan regained her strength, picked up Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Qiangjing, and asked Liu Wuhen and Yang Shi to take Xiaojian to Bluestone Town for milk tea.

Liu Zihan returned to Bluestone Town with Yang Shi and her family, where she peacefully died in the teahouse surrounded by loved ones; Liu Wuhen followed her shortly afterward. Later, Yang Genshuo prepared for his breakthrough and realized the Yang Family could obtain one of the Heaven-Grade Spiritual Energies he needed.

• Liu Zihan rode the Cloudsea Deer with Yang Shi, the children, and Liu Wuhen to Bluestone Town to drink milk tea and revisit the teahouse tied to her memories.
• At Yang's Board Game Teahouse, Liu Zihan shared her memories with Yang Shi and entrusted Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Qiangjing to Jiang Xiaobai before saying goodbye to her family.
• Liu Zihan died peacefully in Yang Shi's arms, and Liu Wuhen lost his Divine Ability and vitality after his final Bond was gone.
• Yang Shi buried Liu Zihan and Liu Wuhen side by side in Bluestone Town, and Jiang Xiaobai stayed with him through the night.
• Yang Genshuo prepared to advance from the Embryonic Breath Tenth Layer into the Qi Refining Realm and realized the Yang Family could obtain one of the Heaven-Grade Spiritual Energies he needed.