Chapter Summaries

Yang Qiangjing used Bright City's layered formations to withstand Feng Yi and two other leaders of the Demonwind Three Armies, leaving the battle in a stalemate. As both sides prepared for a drawn-out struggle, she revealed that her plan to drive the armies back was already among them.

• Feng Yi attacked Bright City with the Gale Fan, but Yang Qiangjing redirected his astral winds with the Flowing-Cloud Waterveil Formation.
• Feng Yi, the Night Demon leader, and the Black Flood Dragon combined their strongest attacks, and Yang Qiangjing coordinated Bright City's formations and cultivators to withstand them.
• Feng Yi ordered his forces to wear down Bright City's formations, and both sides began exchanging attacks from their defensive positions.
• Yang Shi worried that Bright City would eventually be overwhelmed and recalled that Ding Zhen had disappeared after the previous clash.
• Yang Qiangjing proposed an attack that would collapse the Demonwind Three Armies from within, then said the plan was already among them.

The chapter revealed how accumulated misfortune and malicious thoughts had undermined the forces besieging Bright City. Yang Qiangjing explained her Malicious Thought double and predicted that the enemy’s inner turmoil was about to erupt.

• The Myriad Demon Alliance’s demons grew increasingly restless as Black Flood Dragon brooded over fallen comrades and Tim secretly recovered by absorbing the Golden Core Great Demons’ shadows.
• Feng Yi doubted his ability to conquer the Great Nai Dynasty and reach the Nascent Soul Realm, then saw an Inner Demon resembling Lei Zhen and accidentally injured Feng Clan disciples.
• Yang Fujian and Yang Shi discovered that the Yang Qiangjing at their meeting was an External Body made from her accumulated Malicious Thoughts, while the real Yang Qiangjing kept directing Bright City’s formation.
• Yang Qiangjing explained that her Malicious Thought had grown from years of negative emotions and reading, and said her brother would draw out the enemy’s Malicious Thoughts.
• Two Great Demons in Demonwind’s Third Army began fighting, and Yang Qiangjing announced that the real conflict had begun.

Yang Fu failed to secure an early departure from the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, so he searched the Dragon God Immortal Palace for another way to reach the besieged Great Nai Dynasty. Meanwhile, Yang Qiangjing’s scheme and Yang Qiangzheng’s misfortune threw Demonwind’s armies into chaos, allowing the Great Nai Dynasty and Blazing Sun Dynasty reinforcements to launch a decisive attack.

• Yang Fu learned Envoy Zhou could not depart for three months, then told Li Yao that Yang Qiang had gone to protect the Haishen Dynasty and planned to find another way home.
• Yang Fu entered the Dragon God Immortal Palace to seek a method of crossing the void as the three armies of Demonwind erupted into infighting.
• Yang Qiangzheng’s bad-luck aura and Yang Qiangjing’s plan intensified the demons’ chaos, and a Golden Core Great Demon shattered the Feng Clan’s defensive formation.
• Yang Shi led the Great Nai Dynasty’s forces into battle, with the Beast Taming Sect, Martial Sect, and Blackstone Sect joining the assault.
• Yang Qiangzheng’s Blood Calamity Method worsened Feng Yi’s Inner Demon while the disorganized Demonwind armies struggled to resist the attack.
• Yang Shi summoned the Blazing Sun Dynasty’s reinforcements, and Yang Fuqing activated the [Undying Demon Heart] to protect the allied forces.

The allied forces of the Great Nai and Blazing Sun Dynasties overwhelmed Demonwind’s armies, but Feng Yi and his allies revealed that their apparent disarray had been a trap. Feng Lian used the Reverse-Flow Sect’s time-freezing treasure to seize Yang Qiangzheng, and the chapter ended with the Black Flood Dragon impaling Yang Fujian as Yang Shi charged to save him.

• Fantian and the cultivators of the Great Nai and Blazing Sun Dynasties unleashed a massive spell barrage, breaking the Myriad Demon Alliance and pushing Demonwind’s armies into retreat.
• Yang Qiangzheng absorbed demon corpses, broke through to the First Layer of Foundation Establishment, and spread the effects of his Blood Calamity Method across the battlefield.
• Yang Fujian used his Evilbreaker Divine Ability to turn the Black Flood Dragon’s attacks against the Feng Clan’s formation, while Yang Shi and the Night Demon leader fought through the armies.
• Yang Qiangjing realized the Reverse-Flow Sect had not acted, but Feng Lian activated its time-freezing treasure before the allied forces could heed her warning.
• Feng Yi revealed that he and his allies had feigned weakness, freed the Shadow Demons from their apparent madness, and captured Yang Qiangzheng.
• The Night Demon leader reclaimed the Undying Demon Heart, and the Black Flood Dragon pierced Yang Fujian with an ice spike as Yang Shi rushed toward them.

Yang Genshuo uncovered the weakness in Feng Yi’s time-control scheme and empowered Yang Shi to attack the artifact sustaining it, but Yang Shi was overwhelmed by Feng Yi, the Black Flood Dragon, and the Night Demon leader. As Yang Shi neared defeat, Taoist Ding Zhen returned and struck the ice prison protecting the hourglass, joining Yang Shi in the fight.

• The Black Flood Dragon killed Yang Fujian and joined Feng Yi and the Night Demon leader in preparing to defeat Yang Shi and seize the Great Nai Dynasty.
• Yang Genshuo deduced that only three people could move under the red moon and realized that destroying the hourglass would end the time restraint.
• Yang Genshuo lent Yang Shi luck, talents, abilities, and blessings, including Yang Fujian’s sword talent and Evilbreaker divine ability.
• Yang Shi used Thunder-Slaying Sword Talismans to evade attacks and rush toward the hourglass, but the Night Demon leader, the Black Flood Dragon, and Feng Yi repeatedly blocked and wounded him.
• Ding Zhen returned, broke the ice prison protecting the hourglass with a golden greatsword, and declared that he would fight beside Yang Shi.

Ding Zhen joined Yang Shi in the battle against Feng Yi and revealed that he had cultivated demonic power by harvesting resentment from one hundred thousand Feng Clan descendants. Yang Shi unleashed a final sword strike using Yang Fujian’s technique, killing the Black Flood Dragon and shattering the hourglass, but collapsed as the Time Art ended.

• Ding Zhen arrived with a Merit Golden Body, and he and Yang Shi attacked the hourglass while Feng Yi fought them with full strength.
• Ding Zhen transformed through demonic cultivation and revealed that he had captured one hundred thousand Feng Clan descendants, threatening their lives unless Feng Yi retreated.
• Feng Yi chose to keep fighting, and Yang Shi, exhausted and gravely wounded, asked Ding Zhen to kill him as part of his final plan.
• Yang Shi gave the [Myriad Transformations Spirit Garment] to Yang Fujian and endured attacks from Feng Yi, the Night Demon leader, Black Flood Dragon, and Ding Zhen.
• Yang Shi used the Evilbreaker Divine Ability to channel the attacks into a sword strike based on Yang Fujian’s technique, killing Black Flood Dragon and shattering the hourglass.
• The Time Art ended, and Yang Shi fell from the sky after declaring that it was blue; cultivators from the Great Nai Dynasty and Blazing Sun Dynasty roared in response.

Yang Shi and Ding Zhen died after their desperate counterattack secured victory for the Great Nai Dynasty, while Feng Yi and the Night Demon leader escaped. Yang Shi passed the family leadership and Ruyi Illusion Sword to Yang Fujian, then died surrounded by his family; afterward, Yang Genshuo commemorated him, and Yang Qiangzheng was revealed to have survived.

• Ye Liyue, Feng Lian, and Feng Yi attacked Ding Zhen, who fell after his defenses shattered, while Feng Yi’s Inner Demon urged him to give up.
• Feng Yi destroyed his Inner Demon, killed Yang Qiangzheng, and fled through a Spatial Passage with Feng Ruoxi and surviving followers as Yang Fuqing and Soulfeather Cat failed to stop him.
• The Night Demon leader escaped alone, while Fantian, Fandi, Yang Fuqing, Li Fan, and the Demonwind Forest Spirit Beasts defeated the remaining demons and secured victory for the Great Nai Dynasty.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen exchanged farewells and memories before Ding Zhen died; Yang Shi then said goodbye to Soulfeather Cat and his family, confirmed Yang Fujian was alive, and passed him the Ruyi Illusion Sword and household leadership before dying.
• Yang Genshuo mourned Yang Shi, added his tablet to the ancestral shrine, and received notices that Yang Shi’s talent could be inherited and the clan’s Fortune had increased.
• Yang Fuqing later revealed she had concealed Yang Qiangzheng’s apparent death from Yang Shi, while Yang Qiangjing mourned beside his corpse and Yang Qiangzheng agreed that the battle had been dangerous.

After Yang Shi’s funeral, Yang Fujian took up leadership of the Yang Family while grieving Mu Yu’s disappearance and organizing the aftermath of the war. As the family prepared for a new generation and planned to unite the realm, Yang Genshuo received news that Cheng Bo had cultivated the plant seedling.

• Yang Qiangzheng revived using his remaining life, and Yang Qiangjing recalled her independently thinking Malicious Thought.
• Yang Shi and Ding Zhen were buried, while Jiang Xiaobai stayed in Bluestone Town beside Yang Shi’s grave.
• Yang Genshuo saw Yang Qiangwei’s pregnancy announced as Yang Fujian mourned Mu Yu and resolved to serve as family head.
• Yang Fujian managed the postwar recovery, searched secretly for Mu Yu, and proposed subduing the Myriad Demon Alliance after internal affairs were settled.
• Yang Fujian considered developing a qi-and-blood cultivation art after seeing the Demonwind Three Armies’ corpses, and Yang Genshuo received Cheng Bo’s call that the plant seedling was ready.

Yang Genshuo learned that Cheng Bo had successfully cultivated a Divine Tree of Life Seedling and decided to gift it to the Great Nai Dynasty, while preparing for the ancestral rites and consuming a Fruit of Wisdom. In the game, Fox Yue used Bewitching Eyes to create an illusion of young Yang Shi and ran toward him.

• Yang Genshuo visited Immortal Qi Pharmaceuticals, where Cheng Bo showed him the successfully cultivated Divine Tree of Life Seedling and asked to establish a massage area for the research staff.
• Yang Genshuo took the seedling home and decided it should go to the Great Nai Dynasty rather than the Mystic Spirit Continent, where rival powers might threaten it.
• Yang Genshuo planned to acquire more weapons for the coming campaign and prepare for a trip to the Middle East, then swallowed a Fruit of Wisdom to advance his cultivation.
• Fox Yue continued mourning Yang Shi at his grave, and Jiang Xiaobai urged her to pursue her own Dao.
• Fox Yue used Bewitching Eyes to see an illusion of young Yang Shi inviting her to travel with him, then ran toward him.

Yang Genshuo returned from a weapons raid in the Middle East, where he collected military equipment, and Tian Zhe came back from the Arctic with Verdant Ice-Soul and Combustible Ice. After celebrating with his team, Yang Genshuo pondered unresolved questions about Yang Shi and Ding Zhen, while someone knocked at Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s secluded residence.

• Yang Genshuo used a Fruit of Wisdom to rise from the Second Layer to the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, then traveled to the Middle East and secretly stored a military camp’s weapons in his Storage Ring.
• Yang Genshuo returned home and found Tian Zhe back from the Arctic with crates of Combustible Ice and Verdant Ice-Soul Raw Stone.
• Yang Genshuo recognized the Verdant Ice Soul as a source of Heaven-Grade Innate Metal Spiritual Energy and suspected the Combustible Ice might be an extremely low-temperature Otherworldly Flame.
• Yang Genshuo hosted a New Year celebration for his business team and gave Xu Mengqi instructions to distribute food-factory snacks to employees.
• Yang Genshuo wondered whether Yang Shi should have killed Feng Yi and why Ding Zhen retained a Merit Golden Body despite his mass killing.
• Someone knocked at the door of Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s secluded residence in the Hanging Gardens Dynasty.

Yang Feng confronted Feng Yi and Ye Liyue, rejected their offer to join the Feng Clan, and questioned them about its plans and ancient secrets. Their answers revealed the Feng Clan’s ambitions across the Twelve Dynasties, while Yang Genshuo realized a route between the dynasties might lead to the Mystic Spirit Continent.

• Yang Feng met Feng Yi and Ye Liyue outside his door and mocked them despite Feng Yi’s greater strength.
• Feng Yi and Ye Liyue tried to persuade Yang Feng to return to the Feng Clan, offering him leadership, the [Primordial Jar], and a chance to restore the clan’s glory.
• Yang Feng rejected their claims about his father and his family ties, then questioned Feng Yi about the Feng Clan’s plans and allies.
• Feng Yi explained that the Feng Clan sought control of the Twelve Dynasties and relied on the Night Demon Clan and Reverse-Flow Sect.
• Yang Genshuo inferred that the Feng Clan had always targeted the Twelve Dynasties and considered whether the Blazing Sun Dynasty concealed a route to the Yindi Dynasty.
• Feng Yi asked Yang Feng whether he would return with him.

Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei escaped Feng Yi’s attempt to bring them back to the Feng Clan, using their Reverse-Flow Technique to reach the spatial passage. They reunited with Yang Fujian and returned to the Yang Family, while Yang Genshuo prepared for the Age of Great Strife and planned to grow a Divine Seed of Life for Lin Yue.

• Yang Feng proposed pretending to join the Feng Clan and taking it over, but Yang Genshuo warned that Feng Yi was ruthless and could not be trusted.
• Yang Feng refused Feng Yi’s demand to return, and Feng Yi and Ye Liyue pursued him and Yang Qiangwei as they fled.
• Yang Feng used the Primordial Coin to break Feng Yi’s restraints, and he and Yang Qiangwei escaped with Reverse-Flow Reversion.
• Yang Genshuo realized Feng Yi had mistaken their Reverse-Flow Technique for evidence of the Reverse-Flow Sect’s involvement and stopped pursuing them.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei reached the spatial passage, where Yang Fujian welcomed them home and led them back to the Yang Family.
• Yang Genshuo resolved to spend the New Year with his family and grow a Divine Seed of Life for Lin Yue.

Yang Genshuo spent the New Year reconnecting with his parents and astonished his relatives when county officials sought his investment. In the game, Morgan turned against Feng Yi, but Feng Yi’s hidden descendants and the [Primordial Jar] thwarted the Night Demon Hall’s attack, leaving Feng Ruoxi intent on marrying Feng Xun’s surviving child.

• Yang Genshuo sent Wang Wu to escort Lin Yue and her mother to their hometown and protect them over the New Year.
• Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi drove home, where Yang Genshuo spent time with his parents and let his relatives believe he filmed short dramas.
• County Magistrate Yin’s secretary invited Yang Genshuo to discuss investment, and Third Uncle realized that Yang Genshuo was a powerful business figure.
• Morgan accused Feng Yi of failing Night Demon Hall, destroyed their agreement, and attacked Feng Yi with a massive demonic hand.
• The [Primordial Jar] protected Feng Yi, who revealed that surviving descendants were the Feng Clan’s final trump card and forced Morgan and the Night Demons to flee.
• Ye Liyue learned Feng Yi had lied about their children’s deaths, while Feng Ruoxi embraced Feng Xun’s Recording Stone and resolved to marry his surviving child.

The Ten Thousand Demon Domain reopened as demons poured into Demonwind Forest, while the Devil Race attacked the Hanging Gardens Dynasty and the Sea Clan threatened the Haishen Dynasty. As Yang Fujian prepared to face the new invasion and Yang Changzai underwent a Spirit Artifact Tribulation, Yang Genshuo discovered the changing land and Yang Fu received a warning that the Great Nai Dynasty was in peril.

• The eight Great Demons agreed to negotiate with the Human Race, but the Spatial Rift reopened and new demons arrived, prompting them to abandon peace and call for the destruction of the Human Race.
• Devils emerged through the passage into the Hanging Gardens Dynasty, killed Feng Clan disciples, and began demonizing the land.
• Yang Qiang sought help through the Heavenly Mystery Shuttle Token, but the Azure Sea Sect’s Li Sansi and disciples sacrificed themselves to drive back the Sea Clan and expand the land.
• Yang Fujian learned that the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s barrier had opened again, while Yang Changzai entered the Fenghua Twin Swords and faced a Spirit Artifact Tribulation.
• Yang Genshuo saw the reopened passage and the changing terrain across the Great Nai Dynasty, then learned that the invasion was becoming a full-scale threat.
• Yang Fu received a golden message warning that the Great Nai Dynasty was in peril and calling him to come quickly.

Yang Genshuo dealt with the new demon invasion while Yang Fu prepared to return to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect in response to an urgent order. Through the modified transmission array, Yang Genshuo discovered that Tiago’s father Morgan had helped reopen the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s Barrier Formation, revealing that the Night Demon Hall’s role in the war was far more involved than Tiago had claimed.

• Yang Fu and Yang Genshuo discussed the False Night Demon Hall’s renewed demon invasion, and Yang Genshuo ordered Yang Fuqing to seek support and intelligence from Big Bear and the peace-loving demons.
• Yang Genshuo told Yang Fujian to leave the newly risen Elder Secret Realm unexplored until the family was better prepared.
• Yang Fu received a red-light order from the Cloudveil Spirit Sect and departed, leaving Yang Qiangjin in charge of the Yang Family and Baji behind to protect it.
• Yang Qiangjin used the modified Demon Realm Transmission Array to trade with the Night Demon Hall while Yang Genshuo examined the hall through the connection.
• Yang Genshuo saw Morgan, Tiago’s father, speaking with Kong Ying and learned that Morgan had used Kong Ying’s spatial arts to reopen the Ten Thousand Demon Domain’s Barrier Formation.
• Yang Genshuo realized there was only one Night Demon Hall and that Tiago and his family had concealed their involvement in the war.

Yang Genshuo uncovered that Night Demon Hall’s research and military factions belonged to the same organization, then worried about its strength and planned to investigate an Elder Secret Realm. At Cloudveil Spirit Sect, Chen Yuan explained why the sect had stayed out of the dynasties’ crises and ordered its disciples to descend the mountain and fight the invading races.

• Yang Genshuo realized Tiago’s Night Demon Hall was the same organization as Morgan’s, with separate research and military factions, and suspected Tiago had made a breakthrough in bloodline research.
• Yang Genshuo worried that Morgan and Feng Yi could overwhelm Bright City, considered seeking a Fifth-Rank Formation, and planned to investigate the Elder Secret Realm after the ancestral rites.
• Yang Fu returned to Cloudveil Spirit Sect and learned from Li Yao that Azure Sea Sect had sacrificed itself to hold back the Sea Clan.
• Li Yao confronted Chen Yuan for forbidding disciples from aiding their home dynasties, but Chen Yuan acknowledged Li Sansi’s sacrifice and explained the sect’s reasons for waiting.
• Chen Yuan revealed that the dynasties concealed ancestral relics needed to restore Human Race Fortune and that the sacrifices had awakened the ancestors’ heroic souls.
• Chen Yuan ordered the disciples to defend the invaded dynasties, and Murong Ziyan prepared to lead the expedition to Great Nai Dynasty in seven days.

Yang Fu joined Murong Ziyan’s expedition to the Great Nai Dynasty, where the Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s forces gathered in Bright City and Murong Ziyan renewed her resolve to avenge her fallen people. At the ancestral rite, Yang Qiangjing planted the Divine Tree of Life, spreading vitality across the dynasty and granting the Yang Family a surge of fortune.

• Yang Fu prepared to travel with Yang Qiangjin, Baji, Wu Yi, the Immortal Chef, and Rakshasa Tiger, while Long Hong gave him a protective dragon scale.
• Murong Ziyan led the Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s force to Bright City, where Yang Fu reunited with Yang Fuqing after a century apart.
• Murong Ziyan visited Lei Zhen’s and Ding Zhen’s graves, then vowed to avenge them and Yang Shi by killing those responsible.
• Yang Genshuo struggled to clear tourists from his estate after a Taoist livestream made the mountain famous for its supposed auspicious feng shui.
• At the ancestral rite, Yang Qiangjing planted the Divine Tree of Life in Bright City, causing the Great Nai Dynasty to tremble and filling it with vitality.
• The Divine Tree of Life’s arrival granted the Yang Family Fortune +20 and made their actions in the Great Nai Dynasty seem aided by gods.

After planting the Divine Tree of Life, Yang Genshuo saw it grant every Yang Family member in the Great Nai Dynasty 20 Fortune, while the cultivators gathered in Bright City debated the mysterious tree and the newly emerged ancestral relics. During the family’s memorial rite for Yang Shi, the reunited Yang Family mourned and renewed its bonds, and Yang Changzai survived his tribulation to become the spirit of the Fenghua Divine Sword.

• Yang Genshuo saw the Divine Tree of Life grant all Yang Family members in the Great Nai Dynasty an Ancestral Blessing of 20 Fortune.
• Murong Ziyan and the Golden Core elders examined the sapling, and Yang Fu said he had found it outside; Murong Ziyan and Cultivator Douyang then left to search for treasures.
• Yang Genshuo teased Yang Fu about Murong Ziyan, while Yang Fu and Jiang Xiaobai mourned Yang Shi and the reunited family shared memories and discussed their future.
• Yang Genshuo assessed the family’s Golden Core strength and allies as the Fenghua Twin Swords blazed above Bright City.
• Yang Changzai survived the Spirit Artifact tribulation and became the artifact spirit of the Fenghua Divine Sword, prompting Yang Genshuo to consider whether a Superior Treasure Tool and a soul could create a Spirit Artifact.

Yang Fujian’s twin swords became a spirit artifact, while he and Yang Fu disagreed over whether to attack the Demon Race or investigate the Feng Clan first. They brought the dispute before Murong Ziyan, who chose to explore the Elder Secret Realm immediately.

• Yang Changzai became the artifact spirit of Yang Fujian’s evolved Fenghua Divine Sword, gaining Golden Core power and the potential to grow stronger.
• The Immortal Chef explained that Yang Changzai’s Pure Spirit Body made the sword unusually powerful, while Yang Genshuo considered whether souls or artificial intelligence could be created for other artifacts and puppets.
• Yang Fujian urged Yang Fu to organize an attack on the Demon Race, but Yang Fu argued that the Feng Clan and the crisis in the Hanging Gardens Dynasty were more urgent.
• Yang Fujian and Yang Fu deadlocked over their plans until Yang Qiangjing pointed out that Murong Ziyan’s decision would determine what the gathered forces did.
• After Yang Fu presented the competing plans to the Golden Core cultivators, Cultivator Douyang announced that he and Murong Ziyan had chosen to explore the Elder Secret Realm immediately.

Yang Qiangjing volunteered to enter the Elder Secret Realm first after Murong Ziyan and Cultivator Douyang decided to prioritize its treasures over dealing with the Demon Race. The gate sealed behind her, and Yang Genshuo saw through her viewpoint that the realm held a startling sight.

• Cultivator Douyang announced that the group would enter the newly opened Elder Secret Realm and ordered Yang Fujian to guard its entrance, while Yang Fujian and Yang Fu warned that the Demon Race might attack Bright City.
• Murong Ziyan ended the debate by supporting Cultivator Douyang, and Yang Fujian secretly used [Life-Shifting Art] to absorb a Golden Core Great Demon's blood and vitality.
• Yang Qiangjing persuaded Yang Genshuo to let her explore the realm, and he assigned the Immortal Chef to accompany and protect her.
• The next day, Yang Qiangjing volunteered to be the first to enter, and Murong Ziyan placed a Thunder Method Mark on her before she passed through the azure stone gate.
• The gate shut and Yang Qiangjing disappeared from the others' senses, but Yang Genshuo saw through her viewpoint into the realm and was stunned by what appeared before them.