Chapter Summaries

Yang Qiangjing revealed three ancient rankings that rewarded human heroes, Immortal Clans, and Trial Tower challengers, while battle reports showed the rankings changing across the Twelve Dynasties. She entered the Myriad Realms Trial Tower with the Immortal Chef, whose power was sealed, and defeated a same-realm leopard demon on the first floor.

• Yang Qiangjing lifted a golden silk strip, revealing the Heroes List, which broadcast rankings and victory reports across the Twelve Dynasties as cultivators gained merit fighting foreign races.
• Yang Fu revealed the Immortal Clan Ranking and Trial Rankings; the Yang Immortal Clan placed second behind the Feng Immortal Clan.
• Yang Qiangjing and Yang Genshuo discussed the risks of public rankings before she approached the Myriad Realms Trial Tower and read its rules.
• The tower sealed the Immortal Chef because his power exceeded Yang Qiangjing's realm and restricted her equipment to items appropriate for Qi Refining.
• Yang Qiangjing used her Jade-Scale Staff to defeat a Fifth Layer of Qi Refining leopard demon and proceeded to the second floor.

Yang Qiangjing climbed the Myriad Realms Trial Tower to the sixth floor, earning first place on the newly opened Trial Rankings before withdrawing. Her rewards included Trial Stones that could buy rare treasures, prompting her family to realize the rankings could provoke conflict over limited goods.

• Yang Qiangjing used talismans and her staff to defeat the Bull Demons on the second floor, then fought through the third, fourth, and fifth floors while exhausting her strength and supplies.
• Cloudveil Spirit Sect cultivators decided to enter the Trial Tower, while Yang Fu waited for the Immortal Chef and Yang Fujian arranged for three Spirit Artifacts to assist him.
• Yang Qiangjing withdrew from the sixth floor after seeing ten demons, and the Trial Rankings announced her first-place record for reaching the fifth floor.
• Yang Qiangjing explained that the tower awarded the Demon-Slaying Art and Trial Stones, which could purchase rare items such as Mechanism Arts volumes and limited Heaven-and-Earth Wonders.
• Yang Qiangjing warned that competition for limited rewards could cause internal strife, and Yang Fu considered the danger.

Yang Fu entered the Myriad Realms Trial Tower and used the Immortal Chef and four Spirit Artifacts to clear its first ten floors. The chapter left Yang Fu facing a changed eleventh floor as the Demon Race factions plotted and Feng Yi worried that the Yang Family would join the battle in the Hanging Gardens Dynasty.

• Yang Qiangjing explained that Trial Stones could not be seized, gifted, or transferred, and Yang Feng resolved to try to earn a Fruit of Wisdom by clearing twenty floors.
• Cultivator Douyang mistook the Trial Stone’s burning touch for an ambush, but Yang Fujian drew his sword before the rankings revealed that the stones were bound to their holders.
• Yang Fu entered the Trial Tower with Yang Fujian’s three Spirit Artifacts and the Immortal Chef, who became a black pot on his back and supplied him with powerful boosts.
• Yang Fu and the artifact spirits killed the demons on the first ten floors, with Yang Changzai celebrating his strength and Yang Fu pausing to recover before the eleventh.
• The eight great demons of the Myriad Demon Alliance argued over whether to submit to their new leader or negotiate with the Human Race, while Yang Fuqing’s confidants planned to split the alliance.
• Feng Yi’s Aberrant Army fought Morgan’s Night Demon forces in the Hanging Gardens Dynasty, and Feng Yi worried that the Yang Family might arrive through the spatial passageway.

The Great Nai Dynasty’s cultivators entered the Myriad Realms Trial Tower while Yang Fujian accepted that they could not attack the Demon Race before the secret realm was explored. Yang Qiangzheng entered the tower with Yang Qiangjing’s Natal Mechanism Insect to guide him, while Yang Genshuo realized her mechanism had been made to help her brother fight.

• Murong Ziyan reported that the Demon Race had made no moves, while Cloudveil Spirit Sect disciples began emerging from the Trial Tower after failing the sixth floor.
• Yang Fujian agreed to have the Great Nai Dynasty challenge the tower first, despite Yang Fuqing’s disappointment that they would miss a chance to strike the divided Demon Race.
• Rakshasa Tiger discovered that the tower rejected demons, then hurried off after Wu Yi revealed his interest in Heavenstorm Bear’s granddaughter.
• Yang Genshuo assessed the Yang Family’s fighters and ordered the reluctant Yang Qiangzheng to enter the tower and clear twenty floors.
• Yang Qiangjing implanted her Natal Mechanism Insect in Yang Qiangzheng to analyze the eighty talents he had absorbed and advise him in combat.
• Yang Qiangzheng entered the Myriad Realms Trial Tower, and Yang Genshuo recognized that Yang Qiangjing had created her Natal Mechanism to help her brother.

Yang Fu and Yang Qiangzheng climbed the Myriad Realms Trial Tower, learning to counter increasingly dangerous demons as they fought. Yang Fu reached the twentieth floor, and Yang Qiangzheng followed close behind with help from his Mechanism Insect.

• Yang Fu defeated stronger multi-talented demons on the eleventh and twelfth floors, then rested and reflected on the tower's role in preparing humans to fight demons.
• Yang Qiangzheng used advice from his Mechanism Insect to defeat flying and burrowing demons, then cleared the sixth floor by slide-tackling ten Bull Demons.
• Yang Qiangzheng cleared the first ten floors and continued upward, while Yang Genshuo watched in surprise at how effectively the Mechanism Insect guided him.
• Chen Tianxiang stopped at the ninth floor, but Morningstar of the Star River Dynasty reached the fifteenth, revealing that the Trial Tower had appeared across the Twelve Dynasties.
• Yang Fu defeated ten demons on the nineteenth floor and reached the twentieth, where Yang Qiangzheng soon followed with all eighty of his talents.

Yang Fu and Yang Qiangzheng cleared the twentieth floor of the Myriad Realms Trial Tower, while the rankings revealed a powerful newcomer named Yin Zhiping. Yang Genshuo suspected Yin Zhiping came from the Elder Immortal Clan Yin Family, and an Elder Immortal Clan arrived in the Great Nai Dynasty aboard a Cloud Whale.

• Yang Fu defeated a coordinated team of nine Spirit-Blood demons on the twentieth floor using his Spirit Pearls and Spirit Artifacts.
• Yang Qiangzheng used his eighty demon abilities to slaughter the ninth-floor team and reached the twentieth floor, impressing Yang Genshuo with his strength.
• Yang Qiangjing explained the Demon Race’s bloodline classifications to the cultivators, and Yang Qiangzheng revealed that Yang Fu had cleared the twentieth floor.
• Yin Zhiping of the Blazing Sun Dynasty appeared at the top of the Trial Rankings after reaching the twenty-fifth floor, prompting Yang Genshuo to suspect he belonged to the Elder Immortal Clan Yin Family.
• Yang Fu struggled against two invisible Pure-Blood Mist Wolves on the twenty-first floor, while Yang Genshuo ordered an investigation into Yin Zhiping.
• A massive Cloud Whale entered the Great Nai Dynasty and released cultivators above Bright City, and Yang Genshuo recognized them as members of an Elder Immortal Clan.

The Liu Immortal Clan arrived in the Great Nai Dynasty, and the Yang Family cautiously welcomed them as potential allies against the Demon Race. Meanwhile, Yang Fu advanced through the Trial Tower to the twenty-third floor, where flying demons stalled him, as Yang Qiangzheng reached the twenty-fifth and Yin Zhiping proclaimed the Yin Family’s return.

• Aboard the Cloud Whale, Liu Changqing introduced the Liu Immortal Clan to Murong Ziyan and claimed they had come to help fight the Demon Race; she accepted his explanation without drawing her saber.
• Yang Qiangjing warned Yang Fujian that the Liu clan might have come to claim secret-realm treasures, but Yang Qiangjing and Yang Genshuo argued that cooperation against the Demon Race could benefit both clans.
• Yang Fujian offered the Liu clan lodging in Bright City, but Liu Changqing declined and established a hidden settlement in a wood-rich forest about a hundred li away.
• Yang Fu defeated two Mist Wolf Demons on the twenty-first floor and three Thunder Lion Demons on the twenty-second, then struggled against four flying Azure Luan Demons on the twenty-third.
• Yang Qiangzheng advanced to the twenty-fifth floor, while Yin Zhiping, ranked second after clearing twenty floors, declared that the Yin Family had returned.

Yang Qiangzheng awakened his combat potential in the Trial Tower, while Yang Fu withdrew after reaching the twenty-second floor and exchanged his Trial Stones for an Immortal Grade lightning art. Yang Fu rose to second place on the Trial Rankings, drawing attention from across the Twelve Dynasties as Yang Genshuo urged him to prepare for next year.

• Yang Qiangzheng cleared the twenty-sixth through twenty-ninth floors, but the Mechanism Insect warned that his body was overtaxed, so he rested at Yang Qiangjing's instruction.
• Yang Fu withdrew from the twenty-third floor after failing to defeat four mutually healing Azure Luan Demons and received twenty-two Trial Stones for clearing the twenty-second floor.
• Yang Fu examined the available rewards, discussed the Golden Cicada's Cast-off Shell with Yang Genshuo, and chose to prioritize strengthening himself for next year's tower challenge.
• Yang Fu spent twenty Trial Stones to exchange for the first volume of the Immortal Grade cultivation art Heavenly Thunder Surge.
• The Trial Rankings announced Yang Fu's second-place result, prompting cultivators across the dynasties to take notice while Yin Zhiping dismissed him as no threat to first place.

Yang Fu learned the Immortal Grade art Heavenly Thunder Surge and realized Yang Genshuo could preserve cultivation arts for the whole Yang Family. As demons invaded amid internal strife, Yang Qiangzheng cleared the thirtieth floor and entered a survival trial on the thirty-first, where he hunted two demons.

• Yang Fu absorbed Heavenly Thunder Surge from a one-use jade slip, and Yang Genshuo explained that he could restore and preserve the art for other Yang Family members.
• Liu Changqing told Yang Fu that Yin Zhiping was a powerful prodigy of the reclusive Yin Family who had refined a supreme corpse body from an ancient Old Devil.
• Demons poured out of Demonwind Forest as internal fighting erupted among them, and Murong Ziyan entered the secret realm after warning the others to stay cautious.
• Yang Qiangzheng defeated nine high-level demons on the thirtieth floor despite severe injuries, then flew into the thirty-first floor before Yang Genshuo could stop him.
• Yang Qiangzheng burrowed underground to evade a bull demon and a rabbit demon, then reached up with glowing green hands toward them.

Yang Qiangzheng survived ten days in the Ten Thousand Demon Domain by absorbing the demons that attacked him, growing stronger and reaching the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment. He returned to the Trial Tower’s 40th floor exhausted, while Cultivator Douyang emerged from his challenge and flew away from the rankings crowd.

• Yang Qiangzheng absorbed two lesser demons, recovered from his injuries, and gained the Brute Force talent.
• Yang Qiangzheng hid underground but was attacked by three Venom Scorpion Demons, whom he defeated and absorbed, gaining Scorpion Tail.
• Yang Qiangzheng disguised himself as a Scorpion Demon, but other demons still came to attack him; he defeated and absorbed them.
• Yang Qiangzheng spent ten days fighting and eating demons, gaining 25 talents and advancing to the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Qiangzheng returned to the 40th floor of the Trial Tower and fell asleep, while Yang Genshuo considered how the unpredictable wilderness trials tested challengers.
• Cultivator Douyang emerged after ten days, surprised onlookers by failing to appear in the top twenty, and flew away as someone called after him.

Yang Fuqing promoted the [Heroes List] by helping demons defect, while Yang Feng and other members of the Yang Family tested themselves in the Trial Tower. Murong Ziyan emerged from the Elder Secret Realm as the new [Trial Rankings] leader after reaching the thirty-ninth floor, and Cultivator Douyang urged her not to risk herself again.

• Cultivator Douyang argued that the [Heroes List] offered greater benefits than the [Trial Rankings], and Yang Fuqing explained that her third-place ranking let her draw heaven-and-earth Dao Implication and accelerate her cultivation.
• Yang Fuqing’s efforts had helped thirty thousand demons escape the Myriad Demon Alliance, raising the Yang Immortal Clan to second place on the [Immortal Clan Ranking].
• Yang Feng reached the twenty-second floor and twentieth place on the [Trial Rankings], then chose to consume a [Fruit of Wisdom] and cultivate with Yang Qiangwei’s support.
• Yang Qiangzheng awoke on the fortieth floor of the Trial Tower and continued to the forty-first after Yang Genshuo told him to aim for the hundredth.
• Murong Ziyan emerged from the Elder Secret Realm, and the refreshed [Trial Rankings] showed her in first place after she reached the thirty-ninth floor.
• Cultivator Douyang gave Murong Ziyan a fourth-grade Soul-Returning Pill and pleaded with her not to take such risks again.

Yang Qiangjing organized the Yang Family’s plan to raise Yang Fuqing and Yang Feng on the Heroes List while promising to reclaim first place on the Immortal Clan Ranking. After the meeting, Yang Feng accepted his role with confidence, while Yang Qiangjing privately admitted she wanted to uncover the Trial Rankings’ secret and compete in them too.

• Chen Ye slew a Seventh-Level Golden Core Blood Race Mother with Chen Miao, rose to third place on the Heroes List, and pushed Yang Fuqing down to fourth.
• Yang Fu agreed to preserve Yang Fuqing’s ranking and focus the Yang Family’s efforts on advancing Yang Feng, while Yang Fujian supported the plan.
• Yang Qiangjing detailed the Heroes List operation, declared that the Yang Family would reclaim first place on the Immortal Clan Ranking, and told everyone to seek good Trial Rankings results themselves.
• Yang Qiangjing warned Yang Feng not to betray the Yang Family and said she would kill him if he did; Yang Feng accepted the warning and insisted he would prove himself worthy.
• Yang Feng prepared to use the Clone Pill, while Yang Qiangjing returned to the machine room and admitted that she wanted the Trial Rankings too.

Yang Genshuo stabilized his cultivation, drove two livestreamers away from his manor, and discovered that the Divine Tree of Life had grown far faster than expected. Meanwhile, Yang Qiangzheng struggled through increasingly difficult Trial Tower battles and collapsed after clearing the forty-ninth floor.

• Yang Genshuo paused his use of [Blessing: Absorb] and [Fruit of Wisdom] so he could stabilize his obstructed cultivation.
• Yang Genshuo used clouds, a vine Magical Tool, and wolf howls to frighten two livestreamers away from Jiuhua Mountain.
• Yang Genshuo checked on Yang Qiangyou's progress in the Dragon God Immortal Palace and noticed that the Divine Tree of Life in Bright City had grown to one meter tall.
• Yang Qiangzheng cleared the forty-ninth Trial Tower floor after fighting forty same-realm Demon Race members, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yang Qiangzheng's Mechanism Insect fed him healing and grain-repelling pills while he slept.

Yang Qiangzheng reached the forty-ninth floor of the Myriad Realms Trial Tower, but hesitated to kill the tribe’s children and was overwhelmed. His record placed him first in the Trial Rankings and drew attention across the Twelve Dynasties, while Feng Yi plotted against him and Yin Zhiping decided to head to the Great Nai Dynasty.

• Yang Qiangzheng entered the fiftieth floor, where the Mechanism Insect planned a route through a demon tribe and told him to kill everyone there.
• Yang Qiangzheng killed three Spirit-Blood Demon Race members and two female demons, but hesitated when he saw the children and let them raise the alarm.
• More than a hundred demons surrounded Yang Qiangzheng, and the Trial Rankings announced that he had stopped at the forty-ninth floor and taken first place.
• Chen Ye praised Yang Qiangzheng’s potential, while Feng Yi recognized him as the man he had thought he killed and discussed sending qin-wielding cultivators after him.
• Li Yao and Shi Hong celebrated Yang Qiangzheng’s achievement and joked about marriage alliances between their families and the Yang Family.
• Yin Zhiping saw Yang Qiangzheng take first place and changed course, deciding to visit the Great Nai Dynasty instead of going to the Yindi Dynasty.

Yang Feng emerged from seclusion stronger and joined the campaign against the Demon Race, while the Yang Family learned of a possible threat to its Spirit Fields. The arrival of the Yin Family’s coffin-bearing cultivators left Yang Fu wondering whether they knew he had killed Yin Di.

• Yang Feng used a Fruit of Wisdom to advance from the Golden Core Fourth Layer to the Sixth Layer, then set out with Yang Fuqing to earn points by fighting demons.
• Yang Fuqing warned that Soulfeather Cat, the Myriad Demon Alliance’s leader, was dangerous, and Yang Feng left the cat’s forces to Murong Ziyan while following Yang Qiangjing’s battle plans.
• Yang Feng helped Cultivator Douyang kill a demon and used his Great Dark Cloud Demon art to devour a giant lizard demon’s core and Dao Implication after the demon revealed the enemy planned to attack Bright City’s Spirit Fields.
• Yang Fu sent Yang Fujian to collect the demon’s inheritance and asked Murong Ziyan to guard the Spirit Fields, while Yang Feng continued assisting battles to maximize his participation points.
• Liu Changqing identified the newcomers as the Yin Family, an Immortal Clan known for corpse refinement, and Yang Fu wondered whether they could trace him to Yin Di’s death.
• Twelve coffin-bearing Yin Family cultivators arrived and dropped their coffins from the sky.

The Yin Family arrived and offered the Yang Family a Blood Spirit Fruit in exchange for information about the Trial Tower, while Yang Qiangzheng remained unconscious from the strain of his body and an unresolved Inner Demon. Yang Genshuo learned that the Yin Family had negative Merit and considered whether to approve a trade.

• Twelve Golden Core cultivators of the Yin Family arrived, and Yin Zhixiang openly said he wanted Yang Fu's corpse someday.
• Yin Zhiping challenged the Yang Family to share what lay beyond the forty-ninth floor and offered a Blood Spirit Fruit in exchange.
• Yang Qiangjing determined that Yang Qiangzheng's body had recovered but his mind remained trapped by an Inner Demon, then sent Inner Demon Yang Qiangjing into his Sea of Consciousness to pose as her.
• Yang Fu and Yang Fujian weighed the trade because the Blood Spirit Fruit could help Yang Qiangzheng strengthen his body and advance toward Nirvana.
• Yang Genshuo learned that Yang Qiangzheng had not awakened and saw that the Yin Family members had negative Merit, but he considered allowing a business deal.

The Yang Family traded information with the Yin Family for a [Blood Spirit Fruit], while Murong Ziyan stopped their dispute from turning violent. Yang Qiangzheng recovered and began training for the martial path as the factions fought the Demon Race, and half a year later the Yang Family prepared to worship their ancestors.

• Yang Genshuo learned that the Yin Family’s [Blood Spirit Fruit] formed underground and traded information with Yin Zhiping for one, after Yang Fu refused Yin Zhiping’s demand for a fight with Yang Qiangzheng.
• Yang Feng insulted Yin Zhiping, who released Corpse Aura from his coffin, but Murong Ziyan arrived and forced the Yin Family to back down; she said she had driven off the Cat Demon King.
• Yang Qiangjing helped Yang Qiangzheng awaken from his Inner Demon, warned him to stop using his [Corpse Retriever] talent, and explained that he had developed only fifty percent of his potential.
• Yang Fujian brought Yang Qiangzheng the [Blood Spirit Fruit] and began teaching him martial cultivation, while Yang Fuqing and Yang Feng gathered points under Yang Qiangjing’s direction.
• The Yin Family stayed in the Great Nai Dynasty and fought the Demon Race independently, helping push the demons to contract their forces as both sides sought places on the [Heroes List].
• Half a year passed, and the Yang Family prepared for its ancestral worship.

Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei welcomed Yang Min, the first son of the Yang Family’s fourth generation, while the family discussed its future and the stalemate with the demon race. Yang Qiangjing proposed turning demon remains into weapons, armor, and food, leaving Yang Genshuo shocked that she had mistaken his assembly-line artifact-refining idea for a plan to process demon corpses.

• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s son was born during the ancestral worship ceremony, and the old ancestor named him Yang Min.
• Yang Genshuo examined Yang Min’s Character Card and found that his Earth-Water Demonic Embryo talent made his clashing Dual Spiritual Roots unusually powerful, though he would need a suitable cultivation method.
• Yang Genshuo teased the family about having more children, then described how the human-demon conflict had settled into a stalemate that was enriching Bright City and benefiting the Yang Family.
• Yang Fu argued that the demon race’s resources and the Heroes List made the prolonged conflict valuable, while Yang Fujian worried that the Great Nai Dynasty would never be rid of demons.
• Yang Qiangjing proposed processing demon corpses into meat, materials, weapons, and armor, citing ancient records and Yang Genshuo’s assembly-line artifact-refining lessons.
• Yang Fuqing approved the proposal as the old ancestor’s intention, and Yang Genshuo protested that he had never told Yang Qiangjing to process demon corpses.

Yang Qiangjing sealed Ninth District’s demon races inside Bright City’s defensive formation, earning the Yang Family first place on the [Immortal Clan Ranking]. The ranking’s benefits accelerated the Divine Tree of Life’s growth, and Yang Genshuo encouraged Yang Qiangjing to expand her demon-processing operation.

• Yang Genshuo approved Yang Qiangjing’s plan to use hostile demon races as materials, then gave the Yang Family rare Heaven-Grade Innate Spiritual Energy at ancestral worship.
• Yang Qiangjing activated Bright City’s formation and connected it to Ninth District, sealing in tens of thousands of demon races and raising the Yang Family from eighth to first on the [Immortal Clan Ranking].
• Chen Tianxiang explained that the ranking rewarded completed tasks, while Yang Qiangjing clarified that the Yang Family had finished the defensive enclosure and claimed the merit.
• Yang Qiangjing revealed that the [Immortal Clan Ranking]’s wood spiritual qi had been feeding the Divine Tree of Life, which Li Fan had noticed growing unusually quickly.
• Yang Genshuo urged Yang Qiangjing to turn demon remains into more products and fertilizer for the Yang Family’s Spirit Fields.

Yang Genshuo tried to raise a modern golden retriever into a Spirit Beast and realized the Yang Family needed a faster way to communicate across the Cultivation World. He decided to recruit communications expert Liang Xuetong by offering help with his stalled micro-base-station research.

• Yang Genshuo gave Tian Zhe a copy of Yang Family Sword to practice and warned him to consolidate his Innate Grandmaster Realm.
• Yang Genshuo built a spirit-powered doghouse using a Steelrock Hound Demon Core, placed the golden retriever inside, and named it Little Rock.
• Yang Qiangjing asked Yang Genshuo how to extend Bright City's formations to the front lines for real-time information and communication.
• Yang Genshuo proposed creating a phone and signal network, then asked Guo Xiaozhi to find a communications and electricity team.
• Guo Xiaozhi told Yang Genshuo that Liang Xuetong's team was researching micro base stations but had stalled over an energy problem.
• Yang Genshuo asked Guo Xiaozhi to arrange a meeting with Liang Xuetong and said he could offer new technology to help.