Chapter Summaries

Liang Xuetong’s signal-station team met with Yang Genshuo after Immortal-Aura Group offered to help solve the energy problem blocking their Multifunctional Micro Base Station. Yang Genshuo claimed he had access to a new high-energy battery technology and asked to see the prototype, leaving the collaboration poised to begin.

• Liang Xuetong investigated Immortal-Aura Group and decided to visit with Old Liu and Xiaowu after hearing the company might solve their energy problem.
• Yang Genshuo welcomed Liang Xuetong’s team at Nameless Private Kitchen, where Old Liu enthusiastically drank the group’s expensive liquor.
• Liang Xuetong’s team described their Multifunctional Micro Base Station and explained that its size and power demands exceeded what solar panels or current batteries could support.
• Yang Genshuo said he had access to a civilian genius’s high-energy battery technology and asked the team to show him their Micro Base.

Yang Genshuo tested a Spirit Stone Battery that powered Liang Xuetong’s miniature base station and its expanded equipment, impressing her studio while concealing the battery’s true source and cost. He began adapting drones and base stations for use in the Great Nai Dynasty, and the chapter ended with the warring factions gathering outside an ancient secret realm.

• Liang Xuetong’s team demonstrated a compact 5.5G base station, and Yang Genshuo powered it with his Spirit Stone Battery.
• The battery ran the base station, cameras, and drones, astonishing Liang Xuetong and her team with its energy capacity.
• Yang Genshuo hid the battery’s true nature by claiming it was expensive and immature, then arranged to order base stations from Liang Xuetong’s studio.
• Yang Genshuo planned to recruit Liang Xuetong’s team and modified captured drones with Spirit Stone Batteries, camouflage formations, and stronger weapons.
• Yang Genshuo continued preparing equipment for the Great Nai Dynasty, and the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, Bright City, the Yang Immortal Clan, the Liu Immortal Clan, and the Yin Immortal Clan gathered outside an ancient secret realm after ceasing fire.

As the four Human factions prepared to challenge the Myriad Realms Trial Tower together, Yang Qiangjing entered ahead of the others with a mysterious plan. Yang Genshuo watched her blaze through the floors with modern weapons, leaving him stunned as she headed for the eleventh floor.

• The Yang Family and the other factions arranged defenses against a possible Demon Race attack and agreed to enter the tower in three waves.
• Yang Fu warned Yang Qiangjing not to overreach, while she hinted that she intended to influence the Trial Rankings and entered the tower alone.
• Yin Zhiping asked to claim Yang Qiangjing's corpse if she died, provoking Yang Fu and the Great Nai Dynasty cultivators before the dispute was stopped.
• Yang Genshuo finished modifying a micro base station and watched Yang Qiangjing use an AK-12 and a talisman-covered grenade to clear the first ten floors rapidly.
• Yang Qiangjing entered the eleventh floor without pausing, and Yang Genshuo reacted in disbelief at her performance.

Yang Qiangjing used firearms, custom mechanisms, and heavy weapons to clear the Trial Tower’s first thirty floors and survive the Ten Thousand Demon Domain. After ten days, she advanced to the forty-first floor, where she prepared to bombard a demon encampment.

• Yang Qiangjing cleared the first twenty floors with an AK, a machine-gun bunker, and an RPG-26, while Yang Genshuo realized she had deliberately kept her cultivation at the Qi Refining First Layer.
• On the thirtieth floor, Yang Qiangjing and her evolving Natal Mechanism defeated nine Pure-Blood demons with PKM machine guns and rockets in under three minutes.
• Yang Qiangjing entered the Ten Thousand Demon Domain on the thirty-first floor, deployed a tank, drones, and a mechanized watchtower, and killed two demons with the tank’s cannon.
• Yang Genshuo’s concerns proved unnecessary as Yang Qiangjing continued her ten-day Trial Tower challenge while people outside gradually stopped paying attention to her.
• Ten days later, Yang Qiangjing reached the forty-first floor and positioned five M120 Mortars toward a demon encampment below.

Yang Qiangjing blasted through the Trial Tower’s demon outposts, then defeated the floor 51 demon prodigy with a tank cannon. Outside, cultivators from the Great Nai Dynasty flooded the rankings and delivered the Trial Tower’s entire stock of Fruits of Wisdom to Yang Fu, while Yang Qiangjing continued into floor 52.

• Yang Qiangjing cleared floors 41 through 50 by bombarding the demon outposts, destroying even the lifelike settlement on floor 50.
• The Trial Rankings announced a stream of unfamiliar Great Nai Dynasty cultivators who had reached floors 22 through 25, astonishing the crowd and frustrating Yin Zhiping and Liu Changqing.
• Lu Renjia gave Yang Fu a Fruit of Wisdom on Yang Qiangjing’s behalf, and other Great Nai Dynasty challengers delivered more fruits until Yang Fu realized they might have bought all two hundred.
• Yang Qiangjing entered floor 51, where the Trial Tower summoned the fire flood dragon demon Demonflame, and she blasted him with a Frost-Piercing Cannon before advancing to floor 52.

Yang Qiangjing drove her T-90M through the 60th floor, where her Malicious Thought consumed Nightmare and greatly strengthened her Divine Sense, before an ambush forced her to withdraw on the 61st floor. Her record shocked cultivators across the Twelve Dynasties, while Feng Yi revealed that Shangguan Clan assassins had been tasked with killing her.

• Yang Qiangjing used her tank to defeat the Demon Elites through the 55th floor and fought Nightmare on the 56th, where Nightmare entered her Spiritual Sense to attack her.
• Yang Qiangjing's Malicious Thought, Obsession, swallowed Nightmare's lingering soul, and the Trial Tower's intervention stopped Obsession from growing further as Yang Qiangjing gained powerful Divine Sense.
• Yang Qiangjing cleared the floors through the 60th, then entered the 61st and was ambushed at close range by a group of demons that damaged her tank, Mechanism Insect, and drones.
• Yang Qiangjing withdrew from the challenge and emerged with a new personal record of reaching the 60th floor, prompting astonished reactions across the Twelve Dynasties.
• Chen Miao and Chen Ye decided to challenge the Trial Tower again, while Li Yao and Shi Hong joked about matching their sons with Yang Qiangjing.
• Feng Yi told Feng Xin and Ye Liyue that Shangguan Clan assassins had infiltrated the Great Nai Dynasty and had been assigned to kill Yang Qiangjing.

Yang Qiangjing’s record-breaking trial result drew dangerous attention, and the Yang family tried to escort her back to Bright City. Zither-playing assassins ambushed them, killed one of Yang Fuqing’s spirit beasts, and captured Yang Qiangjing and Yang Feng before escaping toward a Spatial Rift.

• Yang Qiangjing reached the sixtieth floor of the Elder Secret Realm, while Cultivator Douyang discovered that his twenty-second-floor result did not make the rankings.
• Yang Qiangjing warned Yang Fu that the Yin Family might target her, so Yang Fu, Yang Fuqing, and Wu Yi escorted her away while Murong Ziyan watched the Yin Family.
• Two bamboo-hatted cultivators attacked the group with zither music, overwhelming Yang Fu and the spirit beasts; Wu Yi resisted the mental attack and fought back.
• Yang Fuqing tried to carry Yang Qiangjing to safety, but the attackers’ tangible weapon melody killed her spirit elephant and blocked their escape.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei joined Yang Fu and Wu Yi to fight the zither players, while Yang Genshuo reported that Murong Ziyan could not come because the Demon Race was attacking elsewhere.
• A third attacker used a sleep-inducing melody to seize Yang Qiangjing, then helped the others capture Yang Feng and flee toward a Spatial Rift.

Yang Qiangjing’s group escaped Shangguan Yixin’s capture and turned the ambush against him, with Murong Ziyan overpowering the Shangguan Clan members. Yang Qiangjing explained that she had uncovered the Feng Clan’s communications, leaving Shangguan Yixin imprisoned and the Feng Clan marked for revenge.

• Shangguan Yixin attacked Wu Yi and Yang Fu, then carried Yang Qiangjing and Yang Feng toward the Spatial Passage while dismissing the Yang Family’s ability to retaliate.
• Yang Qiangjing distracted Shangguan Yixin with questions before Yang Feng used Reverse-Flow Reversion with Yang Qiangwei to escape and reunite with the others.
• Murong Ziyan arrived beneath a thunderstorm, defeated Shangguan Yixin, and trapped the other two Shangguan Clan disciples in Thunder Prisons.
• Yang Qiangjing ordered Shangguan Yixin imprisoned for three days and demanded a reason not to kill him, then returned with her group to Bright City.
• Yang Feng recounted how Yang Qiangjing had planned for an attack after learning his abilities, and Yang Qiangjing revealed that she had decoded the Feng Clan’s Demon Realm Teleportation Array communications and monitored their contacts.

Yang Qiangjing explained how she had uncovered the Feng Clan’s plans and secured nearly all the remaining Fruits of Wisdom, while Yang Fu and Yang Genshuo supported her strategy. The chapter left her preparing to build a communications network and shoulder the work of advancing the Yang Family, even as her own cultivation remained delayed.

• Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjing discussed the imprisoned Shangguan Yixin and his companions, then Yang Qiangjing explained how she had monitored the Demon Race’s teleportation channel and learned of the planned attack.
• Yang Qiangjing told Yang Fu that the family should avoid drawing attention and wait for Brother Feng’s rise, while Yang Fu handed over 195 Fruits of Wisdom she had gathered.
• Yang Genshuo praised Yang Qiangjing’s planning and gave her plans and equipment for micro base stations, which she agreed to study and install.
• Yang Qiangjing accepted that she would delay her cultivation to serve the Lineage and said she was determined to obtain what would secure the Yang Family’s thousand-year foundation.
• Yang Qiangjing stayed busy coordinating the base stations, studying information science, visiting the dungeon, and overseeing Yang Feng and Yang Fuqing’s point-grinding operation.

The Yang Family strengthened itself with Fruits of Wisdom, but Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Feng faced different side effects from their accelerated cultivation. Yang Qiangjing recommended releasing Shangguan Yixin while retaining his two clansmen, leaving the family to weigh cooperation against the risks.

• The Yang Family recovered from a Demon Race ambush, but the Immortal Chef remained incapacitated after using his secret art to save them.
• Yang Genshuo withheld Fruits of Wisdom from Yang Qianglin and Yang Qiangyuan, who were pregnant and asked for snacks as rewards.
• Yang Qiangzheng struggled to control his strength after the fruit burdened his divine sense, while Yang Feng sought Demon Cores to replenish his Dao Implication.
• Yang Fu prepared for a great tribulation before advancing to the Thirtieth Layer of Qi Refining, and Yang Fujian decided to focus on body cultivation instead of using more fruits.
• Yang Qiangjing told Yang Genshuo she intended to release Shangguan Yixin because his clan could aid the Yang Family against the Demon Race and the Feng Clan.
• Yang Qiangjing proposed keeping Shangguan Yixin's two clansmen as hostages and bringing them to battles as cover for the Yang Family's retreat.

Yang Qiangjing released Shangguan Yixin in exchange for the Shangguan Clan’s future cooperation, then offered new Mechanism Building Blocks at the Yang Family’s ancestral worship. Yang Genshuo urged her to abandon the idea of hoarding cultivation arts and begin unifying the Great Nai Dynasty, leaving them set to transform it into the Great Nai Empire.

• The Yang Family released Shangguan Yixin and detained Shangguan Yu and Shangguan Xuan as collateral, while Shangguan Yixin gave Yang Qiangjing the first volume of Shangguan Musical Laws and warned her not to trust those she did not understand.
• Shangguan Yixin used a bridge of musical laws to return to the Hanging Gardens Dynasty, and Yang Qiangjing continued preparing for the Yang Family’s ancestral worship.
• Yang Qiangjing offered twenty Mechanism Building Blocks, prompting Yang Genshuo to tell her to train loyal disciples to assist with Mechanism Arts.
• Yang Genshuo concluded that ancient Immortal Clans had monopolized powerful cultivation arts and challenged Yang Qiangjing’s plan to reserve such arts for the Yang Family.
• Yang Genshuo proposed expanding the Yang Family’s leadership into full control of the Great Nai Dynasty and reorganizing its schools, military, and technical departments.
• Yang Qiangjing embraced the plan to unify the dynasty and cultivate specialists, and Yang Genshuo declared that they would make the Great Nai Empire rise.

Yang Genshuo returned three Fruit of Wisdom to Yang Fushuo, renewing his resolve to pursue alchemy and the Golden Core Stage. The Yang Family launched its Rise plan to transform the Great Nai Dynasty into an empire, naming Yang Fujian its first leader and leaving Yang Fu to reckon with losing the position he had expected to hold.

• Yang Fushuo offered Yang Genshuo the year's earnings and lamented his slow cultivation, but Yang Genshuo returned the three Fruit of Wisdom Yang Fushuo had once donated, inspiring him to cultivate again.
• Yang Genshuo considered whether cultivation-world resources could advance AI, consulted DeepSeek, and concluded that Yang Qiangjing should later assess a local AI system.
• Yang Qiangjing assigned Yang Family members duties for the Rise plan, including establishing imperial departments, merging three sects into the Black Tortoise Sect, and organizing intelligence, military, engineering, social security, and cultural work.
• Yang Genshuo appointed Yang Fujian as the Great Nai Empire's first leader, Yang Fu as deputy leader, and Yang Qiangjing as chief strategist.
• Yang Fu stepped outside after learning he would not lead the empire, then told Yang Genshuo he understood the decision and accepted that the reform served the Lineage.

The three sects merged into Black Tortoise Academy as the Great Nai Empire began building its military, intelligence, education, and industrial systems. Chu Qiao broke through to the Golden Core Stage, while Yang Fu sensed an unusual, weak Tribulation Lightning aura and wondered what was happening.

• Yang Fuqing persuaded Beast Taming Sect to accept the Black Tortoise name, and Li Fan proposed renaming the merged organization Black Tortoise Academy.
• Yang Fujian and Chu Qiao supported Yang Fuqing’s proposal, and Martial Sect and Blackstone Sect were brought into the merger.
• Yang Fujian and Yang Fuqing left Chu Qiao to organize the Military Department and Intelligence Department, and Chu Qiao achieved the Golden Core Stage during a tribulation.
• Yang Fujian began planning military forces, while Yang Fuqing studied miniature base stations for an empire-wide communications network.
• Yang Qiangjing planned a demon-processing industry and a spiritual-energy power plant to support the Great Nai Empire’s development.
• Yang Fu sensed a faint, intermittent Tribulation Lightning aura and questioned why it seemed so weak.

Yang Qiangjing tested a spirit-powered generator that produced Thunder Spirit Power, inspiring Yang Genshuo to arrange a high-voltage Tesla Coil to create artificial tribulation lightning. After Tian Zhe advised him on persuading Liang Xuetong, Yang Genshuo decided to recruit the telecommunications studio by offering access to Spirit Stones and a new energy research lab.

• Yang Qiangjing burned Black Stonewood and Earth-Vein Fire Marrow in her generator, producing Thunder Spirit Power that Yang Fu compared to tribulation lightning.
• Yang Fu learned his Heroes List ranking had fallen outside the top hundred and flew to Demonwind Forest to rejoin the front lines.
• Yang Genshuo recognized Yang Qiangjing's device as a miniature Tesla Coil and arranged for Liang Xuetong Studio to build a large high-voltage version.
• Yang Genshuo offered Liang Xuetong Studio Spirit-Power Battery supplies after learning its researchers were still pursuing battery technology.
• Tian Zhe advised Yang Genshuo on persuading Liang Xuetong, and Yang Genshuo decided to offer him access to Spirit Stones through a new energy research lab.
• Yang Genshuo asked Tian Zhe to help persuade Liang Xuetong at their next meeting.

Liang Xuetong signed a supernatural confidentiality contract and joined Immortal-Aura Group, while Yang Genshuo continued cultivating and prepared to strengthen the nation with electricity. Yang Qiangjing challenged the Trial Tower again, defeated the demon ambushes through Floor 70, and faced a command trial on Floor 71, where she ordered her metal-element army to power an anti-air cannon.

• Tian Zhe recruited Liang Xuetong by showing him a Spirit Stone and having him sign a contract that burned into his mind and erased memories if he tried to reveal its secrets.
• Yang Genshuo explained that the contract could only be broken by someone stronger than him, and Tian Zhe suggested using it to recruit influential people as agents.
• Yang Qiangjing warned Yang Feng that relying on Fruits of Wisdom and Demon Cores could damage his foundation and hinder his path to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Yang Qiangjing used her T-90, Soul-Severing Melody, drones, and machine guns to defeat the demon encounters on Floors 61 through 70.
• On Floor 71, Yang Qiangjing found herself commanding five thousand metal-element soldiers against a demon army twice their size, with fire-element vanguards prepared to counter them.
• Yang Qiangjing dropped an M61 Vulcan Anti-Air Cannon onto the battlefield and ordered her soldiers to imbue it with Golden Spirit Sword Technique and fire.

Yang Qiangjing used modern firearms to clear the Trial Tower’s historical battles, then reached the eighty-first floor and encountered Foundation Establishment Realm demons far stronger than the stated rules allowed. She escaped after Inner Demon Yang Qiangjing sensed a surrounding group, but she was left wondering what the floor was testing.

• Yang Qiangjing wiped out the demon army on the seventy-first floor with an M61 Vulcan, then maintained the weapon before advancing.
• On the seventy-second floor, Yang Qiangjing questioned whether the Great Nai Dynasty had existed since the ancient era and used mortars to destroy the besieging demons.
• Yang Qiangjing blasted through the following historical battles with firearms, clearing the eightieth floor with her M61 Vulcan despite the ten-to-one odds.
• On the eighty-first floor, Yang Qiangjing used her Mechanism Insect and T-90 tank to kill a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Flower Demon.
• Inner Demon Yang Qiangjing warned Yang Qiangjing that more Foundation Establishment Realm demons were nearby, and Yang Qiangjing withdrew from the challenge.
• Outside the Trial Tower, Yang Qiangjing wondered why the eighty-first floor’s enemies had violated the stated rules and what the floor was testing.

Yang Qiangjing reached the 80th floor of the Myriad Realms Trial Tower, then survived an ambush by a Blood-Flesh Giant while Murong Ziyan escorted her toward Bright City. After returning to the Elder Secret Realm, Yang Qiangjing resumed building a power station and discovered that her ammunition supply was nearly exhausted.

• Yang Qiangjing broke through the 80th floor of the Trial Tower and claimed first place, shocking cultivators across the Twelve Dynasties.
• Murong Ziyan escorted Yang Qiangjing toward Bright City, where a Blood-Flesh Giant emerged from the ground and attacked them.
• Murong Ziyan fought the Blood-Flesh Giant with her Thunder Prison blade while it sent corpse energy and flesh toward Yang Qiangjing; Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei used the Reverse-Flow Method to get her clear.
• Murong Ziyan destroyed the Blood-Flesh Giant but could not identify who had arranged the ambush, leaving Yang Qiangjing suspicious of the Yin Family.
• Yang Qiangjing returned to the Elder Secret Realm, chose Fire-Vein Marrow to fuel her power station, and tested a Xiaomi Phone.
• Yang Qiangjing reviewed the Trial Stones earned by her cultivators and found that their ammunition was almost gone.

Yang Qiangjing failed to reproduce ammunition and asked Yang Genshuo to teach her how to make it, while the establishment of the Military Department made the shortage more urgent. Yang Genshuo weighed the risks of approaching the authorities for military supplies and decided to disguise himself as a mysterious foreign force to arrange a covert trade.

• Yang Qiangjing tried to make a bullet from spirit materials, failed to fire it, and asked Yang Genshuo to teach her firearm manufacturing so the Yang Family could supply its new army.
• Yang Genshuo learned that both modern battlefields had fallen into indefinite ceasefires after their equipment vanished, leaving him with fewer chances to seize weapons.
• Yang Genshuo asked Blackie about acquiring weapons and learned that heavy weapons and military technology were difficult for civilians to obtain.
• Yang Genshuo considered trading spirit pills with Old Xue and the Military Department but worried that revealing his abilities would expose him to danger.
• Yang Genshuo decided to disguise himself as a mysterious force from the southeast and offer rare minerals in exchange for military supplies.

Old Xue approved more funding for laser weapons, and Staff Officer You investigated a mysterious supplier named Tian who offered unusual cooling materials. Yang Genshuo’s friend Tian Zhe met the military delegation in the Golden Triangle, where Adviser You eagerly offered ammunition, engineers, and protection in exchange for seeing the ore.

• Old Xue approved a ten-percent budget increase for laser weapons and secured the needed money by calling an old friend.
• Staff Officer You ordered an Industrial Survey, then initially dismissed Director Ma’s report that Tian from the Golden Triangle wanted to make a secret deal.
• Staff Officer You examined a sample of Ice Crystal Stone, learned that it contained a stable new element with cooling properties, and flew to the Golden Triangle with a negotiation team.
• Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe discussed their strategy while fishing, and Tian Zhe disguised himself as Tian before preparing to meet the delegation.
• Adviser You hurried ashore, offered Tian ammunition, engineers, and protection, and asked to inspect the new ore, leaving Tian Zhe stunned by his unexpected eagerness.

Tian Zhe and Staff Officer You exchanged a massive supply of ammunition for [Ice Crystal Stone] and agreed to cooperate without official records. Yang Genshuo returned to Yang's Manor to plan an arms factory and cultivate, while ten years of growth brought Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei to the height of the Yang Family's power.

• Staff Officer You inspected and weighed Tian Zhe's 24.8651-kilogram [Ice Crystal Stone], then agreed to supply ammunition and discuss an arms factory in exchange for continued access to the material.
• Staff Officer You and Tian Zhe shook hands on a confidential partnership, and the Yun-20 delivered millions of rounds and other weapons that afternoon.
• Yang Genshuo left Tian Zhe in the Golden Triangle to coordinate factory construction, then returned to Yang's Manor and planned to send the factory's knowledge and equipment to Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Genshuo entered cultivation mode as the Yang Family advanced through a golden age fueled by the [Fruit of Wisdom].
• Ten years later, Yang Feng reached the Tenth-Level Golden Core, while Yang Qiangwei and Yang Feng mastered the Reverse-Flow Technique and became the Yang Family's strongest cultivators.