Chapter Summaries

Five great demons entered the Great Nai Dynasty, but their positive Merit convinced Yang Genshuo that they were not inherently hostile, while more demons continued to arrive and clash with human forces. As ancestral worship began, Yang Qiang returned with the Spirit Artifact, and Yang Genshuo prepared to empower Yang Shi for the battles ahead.

• The five great demons flew away from Bright City without attacking, and Yang Fujian and Yang Fuqing set out to deal with lesser demons while Yang Shi and Ding Zhen debated relocating mortals.
• Yang Genshuo told Yang Shi that the five demons possessed positive Merit, and Yang Shi decided to begin a gradual relocation while preparing for more arrivals.
• Yang Genshuo considered asking the Cloudveil Spirit Sect for help but chose to wait for the offering ship, wary of revealing how the Yang Family learned about events in the Great Nai Dynasty.
• Over the next two months, demons descended and fought human forces; Yang Fujian killed a white-robed snake demon, Ding Zhen recruited a Blackstone Tortoise Demon, and Yang Shi subdued other demons with Big Bear's help.
• At ancestral worship, Yang Qiang returned from Divine Craftsman Mountain with the Spirit Artifact, and Yang Genshuo prepared to give Yang Shi the power to face Golden Core demons.

Yang Genshuo learned that Divine Craftsman Mountain had forged the Yang Family two powerful Spirit Artifacts, but he could not transmit them because their artifact spirits were living beings. He left them with Yang Qiang for now and turned to his own breakthrough, with five more strands of Innate Spiritual Qi needed to reach Qi Refining Stage.

• Yang Genshuo inspected the [Ruyi Illusion Sword] and [Myriad Transformations Spirit Garment] and discovered their abilities and Phantom Spirit Set potential.
• Yang Genshuo realized the Spirit Artifacts' living artifact spirits would be erased if he offered them for transmission to Yang Shi.
• Yang Qiang explained that he could not travel independently or retrieve the [Heavenly Mystery Shuttle Token], so Yang Genshuo told him to keep the Spirit Artifacts and focus on cultivation.
• Yang Genshuo reflected on Yang Qiang's many contributions to the family and resolved not to ask him to risk his future again.
• Yang Genshuo received offerings that included two strands of Innate Spiritual Qi and decided to pursue Qi Refining Stage.

Yang Genshuo refined five strands of Heaven-Grade Innate Spiritual Qi, broke through to the Second Layer of Qi Refining, and formed his Natal Mechanism, the Myriad Mechanisms Diagram. He discovered that the diagram recorded his mechanism formulas and began investigating how to use it.

• Yang Genshuo secluded himself and refined Heaven-Grade Wood Spiritual Energy, gaining the Hand of Vitality talent.
• Yang Genshuo refined Heaven-Grade Fire Spiritual Energy and three more strands of Heaven-Grade Innate Spiritual Qi, gaining the Flame of Life talent and stabilizing five elemental energies.
• Yang Genshuo fused his Craft Momentum with the five spiritual energies and created his Natal Mechanism, the Myriad Mechanisms Diagram.
• Yang Genshuo broke through to the Second Layer of Qi Refining and gained the Heavenly Dao Qi Refining talent, raising all his Spiritual Root Aptitudes by five.
• Yang Genshuo asked Yang Qiangyou to look for more Mechanism Arts volumes among the Elder Immortal Clans.
• Yang Genshuo forged a second-grade Myriad Mechanisms Diagram, which displayed his past mechanism formulas and caused items in his workshop to glow.

Yang Genshuo used the Myriad Mechanisms Diagram to create a Full-View Computer, then began preparing his manor for cultivation by planning a Spirit Vein chamber and concealing the peak with an illusion formation. In the Great Nai Dynasty, Blackstone Sect appealed to Cloudveil Spirit Sect for aid against the Demon Race, while Yang Genshuo left to inspect his Divine Tree of Life Seedling.

• Yang Genshuo combined a Recording Stone, computer mainframe, and Second-Grade Mechanism Core to make a Full-View Computer, then considered the Diagram’s spiritual-power costs and his need for a Spirit Vein.
• Yang Genshuo tested his Spirit Architecture Pickaxe and Greenvine Spear, planned to excavate a chamber for the Miniature Spirit Vein, and installed the Verdant Shadow Maze Formation to obscure his manor from outside observers.
• Shen Hao arrived at Blackstone Sect to collect tribute, and Ding Zhen and Yang Shi showed him evidence of the Demon Race’s threat and asked Cloudveil Spirit Sect to intervene.
• Shen Hao promised to report the crisis to the sect master and left with a Recording Stone, while Ding Zhen and Yang Shi decided to hold Bright City and wait for aid.
• Yang Genshuo observed that the Demon Race remained divided and that Bright City could defend itself for now, then called for a driver and headed to the Immortal-Aura Medicine laboratory to check his Divine Tree of Life Seedling.

Yang Genshuo used his new Hand of Vitality talent to accelerate Divine Tree of Life seedlings into callus tissue, then sent Yang Fushuo to ask why the Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s reinforcements had not arrived. Yang Fushuo reached the sect and asked Wu Yi to take him to Pavilion Master Long Hong.

• Cheng Bo told Yang Genshuo that ten Divine Tree of Life seedlings were alive but their cells were dividing too slowly to form callus tissue.
• Yang Genshuo used Hand of Vitality on the seedlings, rapidly producing callus tissue in all ten petri dishes at the cost of his spiritual qi and their nutrients.
• Yang Genshuo reflected that Hand of Vitality could work with Flame of Life to prepare high-grade spirit plants, while another of his abilities was too destructive for modern use.
• Three months after the ancestor worship ceremony, Yang Genshuo sent Yang Fushuo to ask Pavilion Master Long Hong about the delayed Cloudveil Spirit Sect reinforcements.
• Yang Fushuo returned to the sect and asked Wu Yi to help him meet Pavilion Master Long Hong, while the Immortal Chef teased him for arriving without a treat.

Yang Genshuo realized Cloudveil Spirit Sect would not intervene in the crises facing the Twelve Dynasties and concluded the Feng Clan held the key to understanding why. With Kong Ying’s help, Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei left the Demon Realm through a concealed passage into the Hanging Gardens Dynasty, where they began gathering information under cover of invisibility.

• Yang Genshuo deduced that Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s inaction was tied to a hidden problem involving its sect master and the Twelve Dynasties, and identified the Feng Clan as the key to uncovering it.
• Kong Ying returned from spatial turbulence, and Yang Genshuo recognized that his spatial arts could provide Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei a way out of the Demon Realm.
• Kong Ying examined Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s bloodlines, then agreed to help them travel through a stable passage leading to the Hanging Gardens Dynasty.
• Kong Ying revealed the concealed passage and gave Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei the Shadow Invisibility Technique before they entered it.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei arrived in the Hanging Gardens Dynasty, avoided a nearby Devil Race guard, and headed toward populated areas to gather information.
• An Ancient Coin in the Feng Clan’s ancestral shrine began glowing, drawing members of the clan to witness its radiance.

Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei explored the Sky Garden and reached the Hanging Gardens Capital, where Yang Genshuo learned that the Feng Clan was searching for a destined descendant amid signs of a looming conflict. After Yang Genshuo ordered the pair to avoid Lei Zhen, alarms rang in Bright City as a large force of Demon Race members appeared outside.

• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei traveled through the Sky Garden in disguise, discovering many Human-Demon Hybrids and evidence of the Feng Clan's extensive ties to the Devil Race.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that the Feng Clan's trade across worlds had given it immense wealth and hidden strength, then sent the pair to investigate the capital.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei reached the Hanging Gardens Capital and learned that five-colored light from an Ancient Coin had drawn Feng Clan descendants there to find the Destined Covenant.
• Feng Yi and Feng Lian discussed the Clan's prophecy, their feud with the Yang Family, and their search for the descendant destined to bring the True Dragon's rise.
• Feng Ruoxi mistook Yang Feng for someone familiar before Yang Qiangwei hurried him away, while Yang Genshuo learned that Lei Zhen had fallen into the devilish path and warned them to stay away.
• As Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei remained nearby to gather information, alarms sounded throughout Bright City and a huge force of Demon Race members appeared outside.

The Demon Race ambushed cultivators harvesting outside Bright City, and Yang Genshuo discovered that the attack was a trap led by the surviving Flood Dragon Demon. When the demons seized Yang Changzai, Yang Fujian and the Yang Family charged out to rescue him, while Yang Shi sought help from Big Bear and the other great demons.

• Demons suddenly attacked the Spirit Fields, and Yang Fuqing used Bear Two and her Long-Haired Parrot to protect Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Qiangjing before joining the battle.
• Yang Fuqing, Yang Shi, and Ding Zhen suspected the attack was a trap and ordered the cultivators to retreat into Bright City as demons captured some people.
• Yang Genshuo recognized the hidden attackers as the surviving Flood Dragon Demon and two Night Demon Hall demons, and warned the Yang Family that the Flood Dragon was a powerful Golden Core Eighth Layer enemy.
• Yang Fujian saw the demons seize Yang Changzai and charged out to save him, prompting Yang Fuqing, Ding Zhen, the Heavenly Dragon Army, and many cultivators to follow.
• Yang Shi went to enlist Big Bear and the other six great demons, while Yang Genshuo worried that their intervention could expose the deception surrounding them.

Yang Fujian and Yang Fuqing fought the Golden Core Fifth Layer Giant-Clawed Demon after rescuing Yang Changzai. They broke through the demon’s defenses with talismans, and Yang Fujian launched a decisive sword strike as his Divine Ability neared its limit.

• Yang Fujian killed the Buffalo Demon and rescued Yang Changzai, then Yang Fuqing caught up with them as the Giant-Clawed Demon emerged from underground.
• Yang Fujian’s swords failed to pierce the Giant-Clawed Demon’s shell, and the demon sent him flying in a direct clash.
• Yang Fuqing unleashed her Spirit Beast Ninefold Strike, damaging the demon’s shell, but he escaped underground and returned enraged.
• Yang Fujian activated True Spirit and fought the demon evenly until the demon used Impenetrable Wall to withstand their attacks.
• Yang Fuqing and Yang Fujian used divine lightning and a Thunder-Slaying Sword Talisman to break the demon’s defense and sever one pincer.
• Yang Fujian told Yang Changzai to watch as he began Yang Family Sword: Heavenly Immortal Descends against the exposed demon.

The Flood Dragon Demon overwhelmed Yang Fujian, Yang Fuqing, Yang Changzai, and their Spirit Beasts with his rain techniques, forcing Yang Fuqing to escape with a Thunder-Slaying Sword Talisman. As Yang Changzai died wishing he could save Yang Fujian, a mysterious lightning bolt struck his corpse after an enormous mountain smashed the demons' prison.

• The Flood Dragon Demon froze Yang Fujian and attacked Yang Fuqing and the Long-Haired Parrot with heavy rain and a rainwater flood dragon.
• The Flood Dragon Demon trapped Yang Fuqing, Yang Changzai, the Long-Haired Parrot, and the Spirit Beasts inside a Heavy-Rain Prison.
• Yang Fuqing recalled the Spirit Beasts and used a Thunder-Slaying Sword Talisman to escape, leaving Yang Changzai behind.
• Yang Changzai lamented that Yang Fujian had risked his life to save him and begged the heavens for a chance to save his brother.
• The Heavy-Water Flood Dragon tore Yang Changzai in half, but an enormous mountain smashed the prison and flood dragon, and a bolt of lightning struck his corpse.

Yang Genshuo helped Big Bear turn the tide against the Flood Dragon Demon by granting Yang Fuqing the succubus support art [Heartfire Art], but the battle ended without a victor. The Color-Changing Demon slipped into the spatial passage, and Big Bear told Yang Shi that he would not help him again.

• Yang Changzai revived as a fragile soul and floated toward Yang Fujian, but Big Bear's arrival drove him away.
• Big Bear fought the Flood Dragon Demon while Soulfeather Cat rescued Yang Fujian, and Yang Fuqing joined the battle after Yang Genshuo granted her [Heartfire Art].
• Yang Fuqing's support arts strengthened Big Bear enough to break the Flood Dragon Demon's water curtain and strike him, but neither demon won.
• Bright City's Anti-Air Cannons revealed that the Color-Changing Demon had shed a convincing skin and secretly escaped into the spatial passage.
• The Flood Dragon Demon withdrew after trapping Big Bear briefly, and Big Bear told Yang Shi that he had repaid his kindness and would not help him again.

After the six Golden Core Great Demons abandoned their alliance, Yang Shi rallied himself and returned to Bright City while Yang Genshuo searched for new ways to strengthen the Yang Family. Yang Genshuo learned that Lei Zhen had survived the Demon Race’s ambush and began considering a new mechanism invention.

• The six Golden Core Great Demons left, leaving Yang Shi to fear that the Great Nai Dynasty had lost its strongest support, but Yang Genshuo encouraged him to keep fighting for the Yang Family and Bright City.
• Yang Genshuo experimented with combining a Full-View Computer and a Cold Wind Array, but after several attempts he created only a bizarre 3D Hair Dryer.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen worried that Lei Zhen had been trapped after three scouts failed to return from the Spatial Passage, and Yang Shi offered to go investigate.
• Yang Genshuo sent Yang Qiangwei and Yang Feng to observe the Blood Sea, then used his Heavenly Eye to overhear the Feng Clan and Night Demon Hall arguing that Lei Zhen had subdued and refined the wounded Color-Changing Demon.
• Yang Genshuo realized that Jiang Xiaobai’s anti-air cannon barrage had severely wounded the Color-Changing Demon before it reached Lei Zhen, and he told Yang Shi that Lei Zhen was alive.
• Yang Genshuo found new inspiration while looking at his computer and formation.

Yang Genshuo discovered that a computer linked to a formation could display and control its workings, and he planned to use the new Foolproof Array Mechanism to strengthen Bright City’s defenses. He arranged for the Da Fan and Xiao Fan brothers to produce Fourth-Rank Mechanism Cores, then turned his attention to Yang Qiangjing’s preparations, only for Yang Qiangzheng to suffer a strange reaction after eating something.

• Yang Genshuo combined a Full-View Computer with the Cold Wind Array and used its graphics card to inspect and alter the formation, naming the creation the Foolproof Array Mechanism.
• Yang Genshuo realized that controlling Bright City’s four Fourth-Rank defensive formations would require more Fourth-Rank Mechanism Cores, so he asked Yang Qiang to approach the Da Fan and Xiao Fan brothers.
• Yang Qiang visited Divine Craftsman Mountain, where the brothers agreed to make the cores using an assembly line in exchange for Heavenly Mechanism Talismans.
• Yang Genshuo had Yang Qiangjin gather materials and focused on Yang Qiangjing, who would need to carry out the mechanism modifications in Bright City.
• Yang Qiangzheng screamed and convulsed after eating something, and Yang Fujian noticed that the Giant-Clawed Pincer he had planted in the courtyard was missing.

Yang Qiangzheng nearly died after absorbing a Golden Core Fifth Layer Giant-Clawed Pincer, but the Yang Family saved him and his Immortal Grade talent granted him a new ability and tremendous cultivation gains. He recovered as the Yang Family’s fastest cultivator and demonstrated his pincer, while Yang Fuqing asked the ancestor which cultivation method he should learn.

• Yang Fujian discovered Yang Qiangzheng had absorbed the Giant-Clawed Pincer and tried to control the dangerous energy as Yang Genshuo bestowed Vitality and Tranquility Blessings.
• Yang Shi, Soulfeather Cat, Yang Fuqing, and Yang Genshuo used pills, healing, Dragon Essence, and Fortune to keep Yang Qiangzheng alive through seven days and nights of crisis.
• Yang Qiangzheng stabilized, gained twenty years of lifespan and the Giant-Clawed Pincer talent, and advanced to Embryonic Breath Great Perfection and Body Tempering Tenth Layer Great Perfection.
• Yang Shi and the Yang Family offered thanks to the ancestor, and Yang Fuqing had Yang Qiangzheng kowtow in gratitude.
• Yang Qiangzheng grew taller and formed a real Giant-Clawed Pincer from his arm, then used it to block a book thrown by Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Qiangzheng admitted he had never learned a cultivation method, and Yang Fuqing asked the ancestor what he should study.

Yang Genshuo chose a cultivation art for Yang Qiangzheng after the boy reached Embryonic Breath Great Perfection, while Yang Fujian planned to find demons for him to absorb. The chapter left Yang Fujian seeking help from six Great Demons and Yang Shi considering sending demons through a Spatial Passage to Lei Zhen so he could use the Bloodsoul Grand Art against their enemies.

• Yang Genshuo gave Yang Qiangzheng Yang Fu's Five Paths Qi Refining Art, but Yang Qiangzheng struggled to remember it, so Yang Qiangjing offered to teach him.
• Yang Fujian proposed hunting demons to provide more creatures for Yang Qiangzheng to absorb, but Yang Fuqing warned him against risking retaliation and sent him to ask their father.
• Yang Genshuo agreed to seek a Corpse-Borrowing Resurrection Art for Yang Changzai through the reclusive Yin Family, and Yang Fujian left to find a helper.
• Yang Fujian used Yama Eye to locate Big Bear and the other five demons, then set out to seek their cooperation.
• Yang Fuqing and Beast Taming Sect disciples surveyed the Great Nai Dynasty, while Yang Shi asked Ding Zhen about the Bloodsoul Grand Art and considered sending demons to Lei Zhen through a Spatial Passage.

Yang Shi secretly captured wicked demons to feed Lei Zhen, preserving the Yang Family’s merit as the Demon Race’s spatial passage closed and its forces settled into a tense stalemate. While hunting an Earthshaking Martial Ape, Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat were ambushed by the Giant-Clawed Demon and a Venom Scorpion Demon, who demanded one of Soulfeather Cat’s lives as the price of letting them leave.

• Yang Genshuo warned Yang Shi not to indiscriminately kill demons for Lei Zhen, and the Yang Family’s merit stood at 4,895.
• Yang Fuqing learned that the spatial passage had closed but that at least one hundred thousand demons were scattered across the dynasty.
• Yang Shi hunted wicked demons with Soulfeather Cat, earning merit while avoiding Golden Core demons, and the Yang Family’s total later reached 4,970.
• Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat tracked an Earthshaking Martial Ape that was causing trouble in a mortal city and captured it outside the city.
• The Earthshaking Martial Ape revealed that it had lured them into an ambush, and the Giant-Clawed Demon and Venom Scorpion Demon surrounded Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat.
• The Giant-Clawed Demon said the demons would take one of Soulfeather Cat’s lives before letting them go, as a condition of joining Night Demon Hall.

Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat were ambushed by two Golden Core Fifth Layer demons while a third demon threatened a city full of praying civilians. With Yang Shi badly outmatched and the Heavenly Mystery Talisman unable to warn him because a great power had obscured the demons, the chapter ended as he used his Divine Thunder Talisman to stop the Earthshaking Martial Ape and the Venom Scorpion Demon lunged for his throat.

• Yang Fujian interrupted Mu Yu’s attempt to bewitch Coldwind Town’s residents, fought her, then left to answer a warning that Yang Shi was in danger.
• Yang Genshuo alerted the Yang Family, and Yang Fuqing set out with her Spirit Beast team while Ding Zhen stayed to guard Bright City.
• Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat faced the Venom Scorpion Demon and the Giant-Clawed Demon, and Soulfeather Cat risked her life to fight the Giant-Clawed Demon while Yang Shi held off the scorpion.
• The Venom Scorpion Demon badly injured Yang Shi, while the Earthshaking Martial Ape mocked him and killed Zhao Youwei after he rushed to help.
• The Earthshaking Martial Ape charged toward the civilians on the city wall, and Yang Shi threw his Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder Talisman at it as the Venom Scorpion Demon struck for his throat.

Yang Genshuo used Divine Miracles to keep Yang Shi alive as he fought the demons besieging the city. When Yang Family Merit passed 5,000, Flying Letter let him send Yang Shi two Spirit Artifacts, empowering him to kill the Venom Scorpion Demon and the Giant-Clawed Demon; Yang Genshuo then ordered him to bring back their corpses to extend his lifespan.

• Yang Shi killed the Earthshaking Martial Ape with a Heavenly Mystery Divine Thunder Talisman, and Yang Genshuo used Yang Qiangyou's Dragon Essence Power to shield him from the Venom Scorpion Demon's attack.
• Yang Shi fought on with Soulfeather Cat against the Venom Scorpion Demon and the Giant-Clawed Demon, while Yang Genshuo struggled to find a way to save him.
• Yang Fujian earned 20 Merit by exposing and reforming a fox demon, raising Yang Family Merit to 5,005 and unlocking the Flying Letter Divine Miracle.
• Yang Genshuo used Flying Letter to send Yang Shi the Ruyi Illusion Sword and Myriad Transformations Spirit Garment, whose artifact spirits acknowledged Yang Shi as their master and granted him Nirvana-level power.
• Yang Shi used the Spirit Artifacts to kill the Venom Scorpion Demon, then joined Soulfeather Cat in killing the Giant-Clawed Demon.
• Yang Genshuo told Yang Shi to bring back the demon corpses so he could use Yang Qiangzheng's Corpse Retriever talent to extend Yang Shi's lifespan.

Yang Shi returned to Bright City after killing two Golden Core demons, and Yang Genshuo used a Divine Miracle to lend him Yang Qiangzheng’s [Corpse Retriever] talent. Yang Shi absorbed a Golden Core demon’s corpse to restore his strength, and the process left his body transforming as his power surged.

• Yang Fujian reassured himself that Yang Shi was safe, explained that he had recruited the Primordial Elephant brothers by showing them recordings of Soulfeather Cat, and set out with them to hunt a fox demon.
• Yang Shi returned to Bright City and recovered quickly, while Soulfeather Cat entered seclusion to heal her injuries.
• Ding Zhen admired Yang Shi’s Spirit Artifact and voiced doubts about the Great Nai Dynasty’s prospects, then agreed with Yang Shi that they should stop paying Attendant fees to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect.
• Yang Shi’s demon corpses drew visitors to the Yang Family courtyard, and Yang Genshuo found that his own [Blessing: Absorb] could not absorb the intelligent demon races.
• Yang Genshuo lent Yang Shi Yang Qiangzheng’s [Corpse Retriever] talent, and Yang Shi absorbed the Venom Scorpion Demon’s corpse despite the transformation it caused to his body.

Yang Genshuo strengthened Yang Shi by borrowing the Corpse Retriever talent, but the gain cost Yang Shi ten Fortune. After Yang Genshuo accelerated time to conserve Incense, three years passed before the Feng Clan and Devil Race moved toward the Blood Sea, prompting him to prepare to observe the coming battle against Lei Zhen.

• Yang Shi absorbed the Venom Scorpion Demon, gained the Scorpion Tail talent and twenty years of lifespan, while his Fortune fell by ten.
• Yang Genshuo concealed the Fortune loss from Yang Shi and explained how Yang Fujian's good deed and Yang Shi's actions had helped the family cross a Merit threshold.
• Yang Genshuo reviewed the Yang Family's dwindling Incense, concluded that faster time and more demon hunting would help restore it, and returned the game to fast-forward.
• Over the next three years, Yang Shi and Soulfeather Cat hunted demons while Yang Fujian repeatedly pursued the elusive Fox Demon.
• Yang Qiangwei reported that Feng Clan experts and Devil Race cultivators were heading toward the Blood Sea, and Yang Genshuo ordered her and Xiaofeng to find a hidden place and observe.