Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “The Liu Family???”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Great Nai Empire agrees to send troops to aid the Blazing Sun Dynasty against the invading Spirit Devouring Race. The two dynasties have a long-standing alliance and rely on each other as strategic fallback points.
• Yang Qiangjin requests to join the expedition despite being pregnant, hoping combat will distract her from grieving Li Fan’s death. Yang Fu and the others refuse, insisting she protect her health and the child.
• Yang Fu leads a smaller force—only the Field Second Battalion and Laser Third Battalion—to the Blazing Sun Dynasty. Yang Fujian stays behind to enter seclusion, while Yang Qiangyou remains on the Spirit Vast Continent handling Dragon Clan affairs.
• The Yang Family continues rebuilding Bright City. Yang Qiangjing, Yang Genshuo, modern engineers, and Formation Master Xu Chuan complete plans for a stronger city incorporating advanced formations, holographic technology, Tesla coils, and defenses capable of resisting Nascent Soul-stage attacks.
• The mutated Life Divine Tree finishes absorbing the radiation from the previous nuclear attack. Although its transformation remains uncertain, the Yang Family chooses to leave it alone and focus on reconstruction.
• Yang Qiangjing asks about her brother Yang Qiangzheng, who is fighting demons in the Sky Garden Dynasty. His Blood Calamity Method allows him to use demonic power without losing his sanity.
• Yang Qiangzheng has become exceptionally powerful by absorbing demons, gaining their abilities and apparently beginning to extend his lifespan again. This suggests that absorbing different races may allow him to live far beyond normal limits.
• Yang Feng has been protecting and rehabilitating the deformed soldiers rather than using them as expendable troops. He creates a plan to reintegrate them into society.
• Yang Qiangjing becomes irritated that Yang Feng has not yet transformed the captured Shangguan Family members into Yang Family puppets using the Countercurrent Method. She wants their musical techniques and abilities added to the Yang Family’s forces, while Yang Feng continues to delay.
• The chapter ends with the arrival of an unfamiliar treasure ship carrying cultivators in green robes. Their clothing is immediately recognized as belonging to the supposedly destroyed Liu Family, raising a major mystery.

Character Developments

• Yang Fu takes responsibility for leading the military aid mission and becomes more cautious after the disastrous Sea God Dynasty incident. He also continues to mourn and respect Li Fan as both friend and son-in-law.
• Yang Qiangjin remains consumed by grief over Li Fan’s death. Her desire to fight appears motivated partly by a need to escape her sorrow, but her family forces her to stay home and recuperate during her pregnancy.
• Yang Fujian recognizes the growing gap between his strength and Yang Fu’s and chooses secluded cultivation after gaining insights during the Sea God Dynasty crisis.
• Yang Qiangyou is increasingly connected to the mysterious Dragon Clan and Ancient Immortal Clan. His position may eventually uncover the erased history of humanity and the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• Yang Qiangzheng continues using battle to cope with the death of his aunt. His ability to absorb demonic corpses grants him their techniques, increases his strength, and may reveal a unique path to extraordinary longevity.
• Yang Qiangjing becomes more pragmatic and ruthless in dealing with former enemies. She views the Shangguan Family as unforgivable traitors but still wants to exploit their talents for the Yang Family.
• Yang Feng shows compassion and moral independence by refusing to turn the deformed soldiers into disposable weapons or immediately enslave the Shangguan Family. His hesitation puts him at odds with Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Genshuo continues acting as the family’s observer, strategist, and mediator. He approves of Yang Feng’s humane approach but also sees the practical value in controlling the Shangguan Family.
• Xu Chuan strengthens his relationship with the Yang Family through his work on teleportation and defensive formations, especially after seeing the possibilities of the holographic formation.

Significant Themes

• Alliance and mutual survival: The Great Nai Empire and Blazing Sun Dynasty support each other because cooperation is essential during the Great Contention Era.
• Grief and coping: Yang Qiangjin and Yang Qiangzheng respond to Li Fan’s death through opposite but related forms of avoidance—she seeks dangerous activity, while he immerses himself in combat.
• Humanity versus pragmatism: The dispute over the deformed soldiers and Shangguan prisoners contrasts Yang Feng’s compassion with Yang Qiangjing’s willingness to exploit every available resource.
• Reconstruction and innovation: Bright City’s rebuilding represents the Yang Family’s resilience and growing integration of cultivation, formations, engineering, and modern technology.
• Evolution through absorption: Yang Qiangzheng’s development suggests that the Great Contention Era may allow him to transcend ordinary racial and lifespan limits by assimilating the strengths of other species.
• Hidden history: The Dragon Clan, Ancient Immortal Clan, and erased human history remain connected to a larger mystery about humanity’s former dominance and decline.
• Unresolved threats: The return—or apparent survival—of the Liu Family introduces a new danger just as the Yang Family faces the Spirit Devouring Race.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fu and the family reject Yang Qiangjin’s request to fight, prioritizing her pregnancy over her wish to escape her grief.
• Yang Fu remembers Li Fan fondly and treats him as both a trusted friend and beloved son-in-law.
• Yang Qiangjing consults Yang Genshuo about Yang Qiangzheng, showing concern for her brother despite his frightening transformation.
• Yang Qiangjing criticizes Yang Feng for delaying the conversion of the Shangguan Family, while Yang Genshuo prepares to mediate between them.
• Yang Feng’s treatment of the deformed soldiers highlights his moral disagreement with Yang Qiangjing’s militarized approach.
• The final sighting of the green-robed cultivators causes Yang Genshuo and the others to recognize the Liu Family’s clothing, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary: This Time, We Strike Early

Key Plot Points and Events

• A new group of Liu Family cultivators arrives in the Da Nai Dynasty, causing the Yang Family to fear another large-scale conflict. The group has crossed the void using treasure ships, proving that the Liu Family possesses powerful transportation abilities.
• The Yang Family prepares for battle. Yang Genshuo considers using nuclear weapons if the newcomers prove too dangerous, while the family discusses calling allies such as the Yin Family, Murong cultivators, the Dou Yang forces, and the Feng Family.
• Yang Qiangjing remains calm and deduces that the newcomers likely do not know what happened to Liu Changqing. She decides to exploit this ignorance rather than attack immediately.
• Yang Fujian is chosen to meet the Liu Family representatives. Following Yang Qiangjing’s instructions, he pretends that Liu Changqing is still alive and merely away on an important mission.
• The newcomers are Liu Changye and Liu Changmu, two young Golden Core Grand Perfection cultivators and direct descendants of the ancient Liu Family. They bring twenty-eight additional Golden Core cultivators.
• After observing the destruction of Bright City, the brothers conclude that the area must have been affected by a battle involving a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. They remain cautious but do not realize that Liu Changqing has already been killed.
• Yang Qiangjing confirms that Liu Changqing deliberately concealed the existence of the Life Divine Tree from his family. She realizes the brothers will likely assume he discovered a major opportunity and intends to monopolize it.
• Liu Changye and Liu Changmu pressure Yang Fujian into revealing Liu Changqing’s location. They offer increasingly valuable rewards: a Grade Four defensive formation, 100,000 mid-grade spirit stones, and the mysterious treasure Mu Qiangu, which enhances wood-element talent and physical constitution.
• Yang Fujian bargains successfully, then lies that Liu Changqing traveled toward the Silver Land Dynasty after passing through the Blazing Sun Dynasty. The brothers believe him and immediately depart to pursue Liu Changqing.
• Before leaving, they dismiss the strange green tree in the crater as ugly, failing to recognize that it is the Life Divine Tree.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangjing demonstrates exceptional composure, intelligence, and strategic ability. She quickly understands the Liu Family’s ignorance and constructs a convincing deception that turns potential enemies away from the Yang Family’s base.
• Yang Fujian acts as the family’s negotiator despite his discomfort with conversation. He follows Yang Qiangjing’s instructions faithfully, convincingly plays the role of a stern but hesitant administrator, and shamelessly increases his demands until the Liu brothers pay enough.
• Yang Genshuo remains highly cautious and protective of the family, preparing nuclear weapons as a last resort. He is impressed by Yang Qiangjing’s audacious strategy.
• Yang Qiangjin continues to harbor intense hatred toward the Liu Family because Liu members killed her husband while she was pregnant. She is sent away under the pretext of informing Murong, mainly because Yang Qiangjing believes she cannot keep the family’s secret.
• Liu Changye and Liu Changmu are revealed to be talented, ambitious, and deeply suspicious of Liu Changqing. Although they present themselves as caring relatives, their real motivation is to seize whatever opportunity Liu Changqing may have discovered. Their willingness to bribe Yang Fujian exposes their self-interest.

Significant Themes

• Deception as a weapon: Rather than relying on force, the Yang Family uses misinformation to manipulate the Liu brothers into leaving.
• Family loyalty versus selfish ambition: The Liu brothers claim to value family unity, but their private conversation shows that they primarily want to take Liu Changqing’s supposed opportunity for themselves.
• Strategic restraint: The Yang Family avoids an unnecessary battle despite having overwhelming weapons available. Intelligence and timing prove more effective than immediate violence.
• Hidden opportunities and greed: The Life Divine Tree remains in plain sight because the Liu brothers are blinded by their assumptions about Liu Changqing and their eagerness to seize his fortune.
• Technological and magical power: Nuclear weapons, formations, treasure ships, and spiritual cultivation coexist, giving the Yang Family unconventional ways to challenge stronger cultivators.
• The dangers of underestimating others: The Liu brothers underestimate Yang Fujian’s cunning and fail to realize that their cousin is already dead.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangjing privately directs Yang Fujian throughout the meeting, turning him into the face of the deception while she controls the strategy.
• Yang Fujian interacts politely with Liu Changye and Liu Changmu, pretending to be a trusted friend and ally of Liu Changqing.
• The Liu brothers coordinate through secret mental communication, recognizing that Liu Changqing must be hiding a major opportunity and planning to claim it themselves.
• Yang Fujian pretends reluctance to reveal Liu Changqing’s whereabouts, encouraging the brothers to increase their offers. His final agreement reveals his opportunistic side.
• Yang Genshuo observes the exchange and admires Yang Qiangjing’s ability to fabricate an entire story without hesitation.
• The chapter ends with the Liu brothers unknowingly abandoning the Life Divine Tree and flying toward a false destination, while the Yang Family successfully avoids an immediate confrontation.

Chapter Summary — “Make a Move!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Liu Changye and Liu Changmu inspect the mutated Life Divine Tree, the Yang Family realizes that the tree’s altered aura has concealed its true identity. The Liu Family members therefore leave without discovering the Yang Family’s greatest secret.
• Yang Qiangjing reveals that she anticipated the Liu Family’s investigation. Through Murong Ziyan and the Silver Land Dynasty, she arranged false information confirming the Yang Family’s story and directing Liu Changye and Liu Changmu toward a trap.
• Rather than continuing to rely on elaborate schemes, Yang Qiangjing decides to eliminate the Liu Family group before they can uncover the truth. She suspects that the Liu Family may also be connected to the Spirit Devouring Race.
• Meanwhile, members of the Shangguan Family confront Yang Feng over Shangguan Yixin’s death. Yang Feng pretends not to know the culprit, then hints that Shangguan Yixin had been cooperating with the Liu Family and secretly preparing Metal-element resources to guard against them.
• The Shangguan Family concludes that Liu Yixin may have been betrayed by the Liu Family and follows Yang Feng’s clue to the Silver Land Dynasty, believing they may seize the opportunity Shangguan Yixin had been pursuing.
• The Yang Family decides to deal with both the Liu and Shangguan groups at once. Yang Qiangjing proposes using nuclear weapons, which had already destroyed Liu Changqing, to eliminate the gathered enemies.
• Yang Genshuo supports her decision, reasoning that the nuclear weapons are useless if merely stockpiled. He also begins establishing the Silver Triangle as the Yang Family’s operational base for weapons trading and experimentation.
• Yang Genshuo leads Tian Zhe and ten newly trained cultivators into the Silver Triangle for their first real mission. Their objective is to eliminate all armed forces in the region under the codename “Make a Move.”
• At the same time, the Liu and Shangguan forces reach their designated location in the Silver Land Dynasty. Yang Qiangjing gives the final order: “Make a Move!”

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangjing undergoes the chapter’s most significant transformation. She abandons her former reliance on perfect plans, recognizing that no strategy can account for every variable. Instead, she adopts a ruthless, proactive philosophy: remove threats before they can become dangerous.
• Her attitude toward the Liu Family changes from cautious defense to open extermination. She declares that any Liu Family member who appears will be killed.
• Yang Genshuo recognizes Yang Qiangjing’s growth into a true strategist and accepts her harsher methods. He also becomes more willing to use nuclear weapons offensively and to expand the family’s influence beyond its traditional base.
• Yang Fujian is embarrassed by his successful deception of the Liu Family, insisting that he still has principles despite acting as the “Add Money Brother.”
• Yang Feng proves himself adept at improvisational deception. He manipulates the Shangguan Family by mixing plausible denials with carefully selected information.
• Yang Qiangwei helps assess the weakness of the visiting Shangguan experts, while Yang Feng jokes about their gullibility and plans to resume cultivation after the operation.
• Tian Zhe is appointed overall commander of the new field team, giving the recently trained cultivators their first opportunity to gain practical combat experience.

Significant Themes

• Information versus unpredictability: The Yang Family’s intelligence network is a major advantage, but Yang Qiangjing realizes that even comprehensive information cannot reveal every danger or prevent every surprise.
• Proactive defense: The chapter emphasizes the philosophy of striking first rather than waiting for enemies to attack. Survival requires eliminating threats before they can expose the family.
• Transformation through crisis: Repeated encounters with powerful enemies force Yang Qiangjing and Yang Genshuo to become more aggressive and pragmatic.
• Escalation of power: Nuclear weapons, originally treated as a guarded resource, become tools for reshaping the cultivation world and asserting the Yang Family’s dominance.
• Deception and manipulation: Both the Yang Family and the Shangguan Family operate through incomplete information, false leads, and hidden backup plans.
• Expansion and control: Establishing a base in the Silver Triangle reflects the Yang Family’s movement from isolated survival toward organized expansion and influence.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing discuss the successful deception of the Liu Family and the limitations of relying on perfect plans. Their conversation shows mutual trust and the development of a more militant family strategy.
• Yang Fujian receives teasing praise from Yang Genshuo for his convincing performance, creating a brief moment of humor amid the larger conflict.
• Murong Ziyan assists Yang Qiangjing’s scheme by sending Liu Family investigators toward the Silver Land Dynasty.
• Yang Feng confronts the Shangguan Family’s interrogation with feigned loyalty to Shangguan Yixin, then redirects their suspicion toward the Liu Family.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei discuss the Shangguan group’s weakness, while Yang Feng complains humorously about their stinginess and expresses confidence in his future cultivation.
• Yang Genshuo motivates Tian Zhe and the ten trainees before their first mission, placing Tian Zhe in command and challenging the group to prove that their training can be applied in combat.
• The chapter ends with Yang Qiangjing and Yang Genshuo independently initiating coordinated operations, both using the same command: “Make a Move.”

Chapter Summary: “Wrapping Up (Part 1)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Silver Triangle, the deaths of General Kang and his men leave the two remaining major criminal leaders terrified. Because the attackers left no clear evidence and effortlessly killed everyone at Kang’s manor, the survivors assume they were targeted by an unknown elite force.
• The two leaders temporarily unite, greatly increasing their security and hiring international mercenaries. After more than four months without another attack, they conclude that the mysterious killers have departed and relax their vigilance.
• Their confidence proves misplaced. At a private club once owned by General Kang, both leaders are killed instantly by laser shots. Their guards and subordinates are then overwhelmed by Yang Genshuo’s forces, including Tian Zhe, Jiang Changshou, and the newly trained ten-person combat team.
• Jiang Changshou demonstrates his extraordinary physical strength by blocking a barrage of bullets, though he discovers that his current hard-body cultivation cannot withstand sustained gunfire. Following Tian Zhe’s instructions, he uses his laser sword to eliminate the remaining attackers.
• The entire criminal stronghold is destroyed within minutes. Yang Genshuo praises the ten-person team, declaring the operation a success and announcing his intention to liberate and take control of the entire Silver Triangle.
• Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe plan to establish rules, recruit administrators, and gradually make the outside world recognize their authority. Tian Zhe is especially motivated by hatred of the TW Organization and vows never again to allow enemies to threaten them with guns or missiles.
• In the Cultivation World, the Liu and Shangguan families continue searching for Liu Changqing in the Silver Land Dynasty. After hearing each other’s distinctive signals and detecting Liu Changqing’s Yin-Yang Wood aura, both groups converge on his location while destroying Spirit Devouring Race forces along the way.
• Yang Fu reveals that the Blazing Sun Dynasty deliberately manipulated the two Ancient Immortal Clans by giving them the information they most desired. Rather than leaving after defeating the Spirit Devouring Race, the families are expected to remain, allowing the Yang Family to deal with them later.
• In the Da Nai Dynasty, Yang Qiangjing prepares a spiritual-power-powered nuclear weapon. Using a Heavenly Secrets Divine Lightning Talisman for targeting, the device can be launched remotely into enemy territory and used to destroy the Demons and Monsters in a single decisive strike.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo grows more confident as a commander. He recognizes the value of talented subordinates and sees the successful Silver Triangle operation as proof that organized forces are far more effective and safer than acting alone.
• Tian Zhe transitions from combat leader to administrator and future ruler of the Silver Triangle. His hatred of the TW Organization intensifies, giving him a strong personal reason to protect and expand their territory.
• Jiang Changshou proves to be the strongest member of the new ten-person team because of his Innate Divine Strength and exceptional physique. However, he also learns the limitations of his defensive cultivation and the importance of tactical positioning.
• The ten-person combat team completes its first real mission successfully. Though disturbed by the violence, the members display distinct talents and become valuable assets under Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe’s command.
• Yang Fu demonstrates political and strategic intelligence by manipulating the Liu and Shangguan families into attacking the Spirit Devouring Race on the Yang Family’s behalf.
• Yang Qiangjing continues combining cultivation with modern technology, developing increasingly sophisticated weapons capable of striking enemies from a distance.

Significant Themes

• The terror of the unknown: The Silver Triangle leaders fear their unseen attackers more than conventional armies because they cannot understand or defend against them.
• Power through organization: The chapter emphasizes that coordinated teams, advanced equipment, and specialized talents are more effective than individual strength.
• Manipulation and strategic deception: Yang Fu exploits the desires and assumptions of powerful clans, directing them toward goals that benefit the Yang Family.
• Technological and cultivation integration: Lasers, mercenary tactics, nuclear weapons, spiritual power, talismans, and cultivation abilities are combined into new forms of warfare.
• Expansion and control: The Yang Family is no longer merely reacting to threats; it is actively seizing territory, building institutions, and preparing to shape both worlds.
• Revenge and deterrence: Tian Zhe’s determination to prevent future attacks reflects the group’s broader desire to establish enough power that no enemy can threaten them again.

Character Interactions

• The two Silver Triangle leaders cooperate out of fear but remain arrogant and skeptical, eventually dismissing the threat before being killed.
• Tian Zhe directs Jiang Changshou during the assault, helping him understand his limits and use his abilities more effectively.
• Yang Genshuo evaluates the combat team after the battle and praises their performance, reinforcing his role as their leader.
• Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe discuss governing the Silver Triangle and recruiting management staff, revealing their shift from military conquest to administration.
• Yang Fu explains his strategy to Fan Tian, who is shocked that the Yang Family intends to use the Ancient Immortal Clans against the Spirit Devouring Race and later deal with the clans themselves.
• The Liu and Shangguan families unknowingly assist the Yang Family by following their shared clues toward Liu Changqing and destroying Spirit Devouring Race forces along the way.

Chapter Summary — “Concluding (Part 2)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo returns to China after the Yang Family’s preparations are completed. Frustrated by unreliable commercial flights, he considers obtaining private or military aircraft for future travel.
• At his Jiuhua Mountain Manor, he reunites with Xiao Yan, his enormous golden retriever, which has awakened as an Early Qi Refinement Earth-element Spiritual Beast. Xiao Yan possesses the ability to Earth Escape, allowing it to burrow underground rapidly and stealthily.
• Yang Genshuo rides Xiao Yan to the Kyoto Defense Army Headquarters to meet Elder Xue. Their cooperation has already benefited the military through the supply of Ice Crystal Stones and other extraordinary materials.
• As a reward for Elder Xue’s loyalty and successful completion of Yang’s earlier test, Yang gives him a third-grade Turtle Longevity Pill. The pill completely restores Elder Xue’s health, rejuvenates his body, and grants him immunity to disease and an extended lifespan.
• Elder Xue formally becomes Yang Genshuo’s first disciple after agreeing to continue supporting Yang and helping China acquire more nuclear weapons. Yang reveals that the previously supplied nuclear bombs have been consumed in a larger operation and gives Elder Xue a new material, the Fire Crystal Stone, produced through their experiments.
• Yang Genshuo authorizes Yang Qiangjing’s massive retaliatory plan. Nuclear bombs are launched against enemies across the cultivation world, forming the decisive stage of the Yang Family’s counterattack.

Major Military Strikes

Silver Land Dynasty

The Shangguan and Liu Families confront each other while searching for missing members. A bound Shangguan zither player and hidden nuclear devices lure both sides—and the most powerful Spirit Devouring Fusion—into a trap. Two hydrogen bombs and three atomic bombs annihilate everyone, destroying the area and creating a space black hole.

Great Nai Dynasty, Demon Wind Forest

Murong Ziyan attacks Commander Cat’s demon army, deliberately allowing herself to be surrounded by the Myriad Demons Ascending Immortal Formation. The apparent attack is a ruse: nuclear weapons empowered by the Heavenly Secrets Divine Lightning Talisman descend on the camp. Commander Cat, Murong Ziyan’s decoy, and the entire demon army are destroyed.

Sky Garden Dynasty

After Yang Feng regains control of the region, Yang Qiangwei uses zither music to confuse the demon army and prevent them from intercepting the incoming nuclear weapons. The demon encampment is devastated, causing enormous casualties.

• Following the bombardments, the Yang Family and its allies—including the Feng Family, the Blazing Sun Dynasty’s sects, and the Cloud Concealment Spirit Sect—launch a full-scale extermination campaign. The demon races and Spirit Devouring Race are defeated. Survivors beg for mercy, but Yang Genshuo refuses, believing their previous conspiracies have made mercy impossible.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo becomes increasingly ruthless and strategically decisive. Once focused on peaceful cultivation and development, he now embraces overwhelming force to ensure the Yang Family can never again be threatened or manipulated.
• His cultivation-related achievements expand beyond human martial cultivators: by awakening Xiao Yan, he proves that Spiritual Beasts can also be cultivated on Earth.
• Elder Xue/Xue Yongjun experiences a complete physical rebirth and gains a new future as Yang’s first disciple. His transformation symbolizes his absolute commitment to Yang and the rewards of serving him.
• Xiao Yan evolves from a domesticated dog into a loyal, intelligent, powerful mount with unique earth-based abilities.
• Yang Qiangjing demonstrates the Yang Family’s increasingly sophisticated military planning, coordinating nuclear strikes and using deception to ensure the weapons reach their targets.
• Yang Qiangwei reveals a more assertive and protective side. She willingly handles morally difficult actions, telling Yang Feng that she will do what he cannot.
• Yang Feng consolidates control over the Sky Garden Dynasty and turns his attention toward eliminating the demon race.
• Yang Genshuo reflects on his former allies and enemies, recognizing that his earlier faith in friendship, family, and human unity has been severely damaged by subsequent betrayals.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Xiao Yan share a playful but deeply trusting relationship, with Yang treating the spiritualized dog as both companion and mount.
• Yang and Elder Xue’s relationship shifts from political cooperation to a formal master-disciple bond. Their partnership remains transactional but is strengthened by mutual benefits and loyalty.
• The Shangguan and Liu Families’ mutual suspicion prevents them from recognizing the trap until it is too late.
• Murong Ziyan manipulates Commander Cat’s confidence, allowing him to believe he has trapped her before revealing that the real attack is the nuclear strike.
• Yang Qiangwei supports Yang Feng emotionally and strategically, taking responsibility for actions he finds difficult.
• The Yang Family and its allied forces act collectively after the nuclear bombardments, transforming their retaliation into a coordinated campaign of conquest and racial extermination.

Significant Themes

• Retaliation and deterrence: The Yang Family uses nuclear weapons as the ultimate warning that attacks against them will provoke overwhelming destruction.
• The corruption of trust: Yang Genshuo remembers a time when humans, former enemies, demons, and cultivators united against a common threat, but later betrayals convince him that such unity was temporary and unreliable.
• Power and transformation: Elder Xue’s rejuvenation and Xiao Yan’s evolution demonstrate how cultivation resources can overturn the limits of ordinary human and animal life.
• Moral compromise: Yang Genshuo’s desire for peaceful development is replaced by ruthless extermination. The chapter questions whether “peace” achieved through annihilation is truly peace.
• Family ambition and political control: The Yang Family moves beyond survival and begins pursuing control over the Four Dynasties, with the larger goal of liberating the Twelve Dynasties.
• The end of the chaotic era: Yang Genshuo declares that no individual or race will again be allowed to threaten the Yang Family. As this new order is proclaimed, the Outstanding Individual and Immortal Clan ranking scrolls react dramatically, accompanied by a surge of five-colored spiritual energy beneath the Four Dynasties—signaling a major forthcoming development.

Chapter Summary: “Seclusion”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The three major ranking scrolls—the Outstanding Individual Ranking Scroll, Immortal Clan Ranking Scroll, and Trial Ranking Scroll—trigger a continent-wide surge in spiritual energy after recognizing the achievements of the Human Race and its allies. This marks the beginning of a new phase of the Great Contention Era.
• The Outstanding Individual Ranking Scroll grants listed cultivators Dao Charm, rapidly accelerating their cultivation. It has produced many powerful Golden Core cultivators who now form the main defensive force against the alien races.
• The Immortal Clan Ranking Scroll rewards clans for military victories, defensive construction, diplomacy, and other contributions. Its blessings vastly improve spiritual fields, resource production, and cultivation environments.
• The Yang Family’s Life Divine Tree grew enormously through the scroll’s power. However, its immense strength also allowed Liu Changqing to nearly seize control of it, demonstrating that the ranking scroll’s blessing could become a danger.
• The Trial Ranking Scroll allows cultivators to exchange Trial Stones for powerful treasures. Yang Qiangzheng and Yang Qiangjing exploit a scoring loophole, with Yang Qiangzheng reaching the unprecedented 99th layer and approaching a complete 100-layer clear.
• Following the Yang Family’s victories—including nuclear strikes against the Demon Race, the Shangguan and Liu Families, and the Spirit Devouring Race—the family takes first place on all three ranking scrolls.
• Yang Fu rises to first place on the individual ranking after destroying the powerful Spirit Devouring Race fusion entity and other enemies. Murong Ziyan reaches second, while Yang Feng, Yang Qiangwei, and Yang Qiangjing also enter the top rankings.
• The Four Great Dynasties largely pacify their invading alien races. Yang Qiangjing assigns defensive responsibilities:
  • Yang Feng guards the Demon Realm entrance.
  • Yang Fujian guards the Myriad Demon Domain entrance.
  • The Great Nai Empire and its allies defend the Silver Land Dynasty against the Spirit Devouring Race.
• The Yang Family declares that the four dynasties will cooperate and support one another. The next priority is consolidation, reconstruction, and stability rather than further expansion.
• The family gathers in a temporary ancestral shrine to discuss rebuilding the Great Nai Empire, recovering from the war, cultivating new talent, and preparing for the next generation.
• Yang Genshuo announces that he will “travel the world,” but secretly intends to enter seclusion. He activates time acceleration to observe the family’s development over five years.
• Before secluding himself, Yang Genshuo plans to use a Wisdom Fruit to advance his spiritual cultivation and a Blood Spirit Fruit to strengthen his body.

Character Developments

• Yang Feng reaches the Golden Core Tenth Layer through the Wisdom Fruit and the individual ranking scroll, nearing Golden Core Great Perfection. He becomes one of the family’s leading defenders.
• Yang Fu grows from a low-ranking beneficiary of the individual scroll into its number-one-ranked cultivator after his devastating nuclear strike. He is now capable of fighting extremely powerful Golden Core opponents.
• Yang Fujian remains an important military leader, commanding the Heavenly Dragon Army and being assigned to defend the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Yang Qiangjing becomes a central strategist and commander. Her technological knowledge, especially in computing, distinguishes her from the other family members.
• Murong Ziyan gains dramatically from her role in luring the Demon Race into the nuclear strike and rises to second place on the individual ranking.
• Yang Qiangzheng continues to dominate the Trial Ranking Scroll and reaches the 99th layer, nearing a historic achievement.
• Yang Genshuo shifts from active oversight to strategic withdrawal. Exhausted by constant management, he decides to cultivate privately while trusting Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjing to lead the family.
• Yang Qianglin, once regarded as a burden, is re-evaluated as the leading “producer” of the fourth generation because of his many children. His desire to build an internet café becomes a comic family dispute.
• Yang Qiangyuan competes with Yang Qianglin and demands a larger internet café as her reward, maintaining their playful rivalry.
• The fourth generation shows increasing promise, especially Yang Mink, who possesses an Earth Wood Spiritual Root, and Yang Min, Yang Feng’s eldest son.

Significant Themes

• Power brings both blessing and danger: The ranking scrolls dramatically strengthen individuals and clans, but their power can also create vulnerabilities, as seen with the Life Divine Tree nearly being taken over.
• Collective strength and cooperation: The Yang Family’s success comes from pooling resources, coordinating military actions, accepting members of other races, and uniting the Four Great Dynasties.
• The transition from war to development: After decisive victories, the central challenge becomes stabilizing territory, rebuilding infrastructure, healing the wounded, and converting wartime gains into lasting power.
• Family expansion and legacy: The chapter emphasizes the importance of future generations, talent development, and the long-term growth of the Yang Family.
• Technology and cultivation: Nuclear weapons, laser swords, computers, and spiritual treasures coexist, showing how technological innovation and cultivation reinforce one another.
• The need for patience: Yang Genshuo repeatedly stresses stability and warns against rushing after victory. Sustainable growth is presented as more important than immediate conquest.
• Humor within family life: Despite the chapter’s large-scale wars and political developments, comedic interactions about childbirth, internet cafés, and family rivalry humanize the Yang Family.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangjing gives orders to the family leaders, establishing the defensive structure of the Four Great Dynasties.
• Yang Genshuo addresses the entire family, urging them to consolidate their gains and prepare for the future.
• He jokingly pressures Yang Feng, Yang Fu, and Yang Fujian to have more children, even threatening them with a giant golden hand.
• Yang Feng tries to respond casually, prompting Yang Qiangwei to kick him and warn him not to provoke the Ancestor.
• Yang Qianglin asks for a reward for having children and requests an internet café. His rivalry with Yang Qiangyuan escalates when she demands one twice as large.
• The younger family members laugh at the older generation’s embarrassment, reinforcing the chapter’s blend of family comedy and grand strategic advancement.
• Yang Genshuo ultimately entrusts the family’s future to Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjing before withdrawing to cultivate in seclusion.

Summary: “One Day of Seclusion”

• Plot/events: The narrator announces that the current volume has concluded and that the next volume will begin soon. However, before continuing, they plan to take a one-day break or period of seclusion to rest and reflect.
• Character development: The narrator acknowledges being overwhelmed by responsibilities at work and home. Their decision to withdraw briefly shows self-awareness and a willingness to pause in order to recover and return with renewed energy.
• Themes: The chapter focuses on rest, reflection, personal limits, responsibility, and the importance of maintaining balance. It also emphasizes communication and accountability through the narrator’s apology for inconsistent updates.
• Character interactions: The narrator directly addresses the readers, apologizing for the irregular schedule and asking for their patience. The relationship is presented as respectful and considerate, with the narrator promising to return “at full strength” after the brief hiatus.

Chapter Summary: A Dream of a Hundred Years

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Feng Family disciples seal the entrance to the Demon Realm using a physical formation, preventing demons from infiltrating the Sky Garden Dynasty. Because they lack spatial techniques, the seal can still be broken by force.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei discuss the mysterious Rift Beasts and how Feng Yi once sealed the spatial passage to the Sea God Dynasty. They speculate that Feng Yi may have possessed a hidden Rift Beast or another spatial method, though Yang Feng’s fear that Feng Yi might revive is dismissed.
• The Yang Family’s planned alliance with the Sea God Dynasty is explained: they intend to jointly defeat the Sea Race, restore the Sea God Dynasty, and obtain water-element materials needed for laser swords.
• Yang Qiangzheng, traumatized by the deaths and betrayals surrounding the recent war, struggles after the demons are repelled. With no battle left to distract him, he suddenly breaks through the formation and enters the Demon Realm alone.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei attempt to contact the Old Ancestor, but he does not respond because he is traveling. They send a messenger to inform Yang Qiangjing in the Great Nai Empire.
• Yang Fu announces that he will leave the Great Nai Empire to develop the Silver Land Dynasty and establish new cities there. His departure initially alarms the people and especially his daughter, Yang Qiangjin, but everyone is reassured that he is expanding the Yang Family’s territory rather than abandoning them.
• News of Yang Qiangzheng’s reckless entry into the Demon Realm reaches the Great Nai Empire. The family concludes that he may survive by disguising himself with the demon energy he previously absorbed, but they cannot safely enter the Demon Realm to retrieve him.
• Yang Qiangjing becomes extremely anxious because Yang Qiangzheng’s actions threaten the family’s larger objective: clearing the 100th floor of the Trial Tower. She believes this milestone will trigger major changes in the Ancient Secret Realm and determine the Yang Family’s advantage in the coming Great Contention Era. She decides to bring him back herself.
• The chapter shifts to the modern-world storyline. Tian Zhe returns to the Jiuhua Mountain villa and discovers that Yang Genshuo has been in “seclusion” for over a week. The Golden Retriever, Xiao Yan, senses that something is wrong, but Tian Zhe hesitates to disturb Yang Genshuo.
• Tian Zhe and Xiao Yan wait, unaware that Yang Genshuo’s absence will last for 100 days, bringing the volume to an end.

Character Developments

• Yang Feng remains wary and psychologically affected by Feng Yi’s betrayal, constantly suspecting hidden schemes or a possible return. At the same time, he is becoming more confident because of his rapid cultivation progress and high ranking.
• Yang Qiangwei shows practical judgment and emotional awareness. She worries that Yang Qiangzheng may collapse or turn toward demonic cultivation, while also being prepared to use ruthless methods for the family’s survival.
• Yang Qiangzheng is revealed to be deeply traumatized. His grief and inability to face peace after the war drive him into a reckless solo expedition into the Demon Realm.
• Yang Fu demonstrates his commitment to the Yang Family’s long-term expansion by accepting responsibility for developing the Silver Land Dynasty.
• Yang Qiangjing shifts from strategic planning to urgent action. Her concern for her brother conflicts with her awareness that the Trial Tower’s 100th floor is a crucial strategic opportunity.
• Yang Qiangjin displays strong attachment to the Great Nai Empire and hopes to raise her child there, while also longing for her father’s support.
• Tian Zhe remains loyal to Yang Genshuo but is cautious about interrupting his seclusion. His growing concern, aided by Xiao Yan’s behavior, suggests that something may be wrong.

Significant Themes

• Trauma and escape: Yang Qiangzheng uses combat to avoid confronting grief, showing the psychological cost of war and loss.
• Family duty versus personal feelings: Characters repeatedly suppress personal desires to serve the Yang Family’s larger goals, especially Yang Fu, Yang Qiangjing, and Yang Qiangwei.
• Uncertainty and loss of guidance: The Old Ancestor’s unexplained absence leaves the family without its usual protection and advice, forcing younger members to make difficult decisions independently.
• Strategic expansion: The Yang Family is transitioning from survival and defense to territorial development, alliances, and preparation for the Great Contention Era.
• The danger of hidden forces: Feng Yi’s unexplained spatial techniques, the inaccessible Demon Realm, the Trial Tower, and Yang Genshuo’s prolonged seclusion all create an atmosphere of concealed threats and unfinished mysteries.
• The tension between progress and sacrifice: Advancement in cultivation and the Trial Tower may secure the family’s future, but pursuing these goals risks lives and personal relationships.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei debate Feng Yi’s possible secrets, the Rift Beasts, and how to handle Yang Qiangzheng.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei discuss the danger of entering the Demon Realm and unsuccessfully attempt to contact the Old Ancestor.
• Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjin share an emotional moment when she fears he is abandoning the family; he reassures everyone that he is leaving to expand their territory.
• Yang Qiangjing clashes indirectly with Yang Qiangzheng’s impulsiveness, deciding that she must personally retrieve him before his actions disrupt the Trial Tower strategy.
• Tian Zhe interacts with Xiao Yan, whose urgent behavior alerts him that Yang Genshuo’s “seclusion” may not be normal.

Chapter Summary: Earth’s One Day, The Game’s One Year

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo emerges from a dangerous cultivation session after consuming a Wisdom Fruit. The fruit accelerates his mental cultivation, making him feel as though he experienced years of training in only a few days.
• While attempting to break through from the tenth layer of Qi Refinement to Foundation Establishment, Yang Genshuo suffers from unstable cultivation and nearly goes berserk. His acquired Spiritual Root and reliance on pills and treasures have left his foundation weaker than that of naturally progressing cultivators.
• He ultimately stabilizes his meridians, dispels the illusions trapping his Spiritual Sense, and successfully reaches the Foundation Establishment stage.
• Upon leaving seclusion, he discovers that he has been unconscious for 100 days. Because the game’s time acceleration is active—one day on Earth equals one year in the Cultivation World—100 years have passed for the Yang Family.
• Tian Zhe and his ten disciples have remained at Mount Jiuhua rather than continuing to manage the Silver Triangle. They stayed because they feared something had happened to Yang Genshuo. Tian Zhe nearly entered the cultivation room on the fourteenth day but was stopped by Xiao Yan, who sensed that Yang Genshuo was still alive.
• Yang Genshuo reunites with Xiao Yan, his loyal spiritual beast, and learns that the dog has grown significantly larger.
• Lin Yue emotionally reunites with Yang Genshuo. She had spent much of his seclusion waiting near his room, afraid she might never see him again. Yang comforts and embraces her, and their affection becomes more intimate.
• Tian Zhe reveals the reason the group returned: the TW Organization has sent people to Shimen City, possibly because of the Immortal Qi Group. International organizations and government departments have begun investigating the company’s unusual products.
• The Immortal Qi Group’s CEO, Guo Xiaozhi, has been pressured to cooperate with official departments but has delayed giving in. Because Yang Genshuo’s connection to the company is traceable, the TW Organization may eventually identify him.
• Yang orders Tian Zhe to investigate the TW Organization’s presence in Shimen City. Once Tian Zhe leaves, Yang decides to strengthen Mount Jiuhua’s defenses by upgrading its formation to a third-grade grand formation.
• The chapter ends with Yang Genshuo entering the Cultivation World after 100 years of game-time have passed.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Successfully reaches Foundation Establishment but realizes that his rapid, treasure-assisted cultivation has created serious instability. He becomes more cautious about using the Wisdom Fruit and Blood Spirit Fruit, fearing another century-long loss of time. Despite his anxiety about the Yang Family’s progress, he regains confidence and prepares to take control of the situation.
• Tian Zhe: Demonstrates loyalty and responsibility by protecting Yang during his seclusion and prioritizing his safety over the Silver Triangle. He also shows strategic awareness by monitoring the TW Organization.
• Xiao Yan: Proves his loyalty and intelligence by guarding Yang’s cultivation room and preventing Tian Zhe from disturbing him while he was vulnerable.
• Lin Yue: Reveals the depth of her emotional attachment to Yang. Her fear of losing him and her constant presence during his seclusion strengthen their romantic relationship.
• The Disciples: Their joyful and casual interactions show their affection for Yang and the close familial atmosphere within the group.

Significant Themes

• The dangers of accelerated cultivation: Power gained through shortcuts can produce hidden weaknesses, and Yang’s unstable breakthrough shows that cultivation requires a solid foundation.
• The distortion of time: The game’s time acceleration creates enormous consequences. What feels like a few days to Yang results in a century of change for the Yang Family.
• Loyalty and protection: Tian Zhe, Xiao Yan, and the disciples all prioritize Yang’s survival, while Yang values their dedication in return.
• Emotional bonds and home: Yang’s reunion with Lin Yue, Xiao Yan, and his disciples emphasizes that his relationships on Earth are as important as his ambitions in the Cultivation World.
• Growing external threats: The Immortal Qi Group’s success attracts international and governmental attention, setting up a conflict between Yang’s hidden cultivation network and powerful modern organizations.
• The need for preparation: After realizing how vulnerable he was during seclusion, Yang immediately plans to upgrade Mount Jiuhua’s defenses and investigate the TW Organization.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang jokes with Tian Zhe and the disciples after emerging, but their concern reveals how seriously they feared for him.
• He exchanges playful banter with Jiang Changshou and Lü Xiaobu, whose naïve and humorous comments lighten the tension.
• Yang affectionately reunites with Xiao Yan, recognizing the spiritual beast’s unwavering obedience.
• Yang comforts Lin Yue through sign language and embraces her, confirming their mutual affection.
• Tian Zhe gives Yang a serious report about the TW Organization and the Immortal Qi Group, shifting the chapter from reunion and celebration to an approaching security crisis.

Chapter 594 Summary: A Strange Feeling and Saint-Grade Talent!

Key Plot Points and Events

• After a century of seclusion, Yang Genshuo’s breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment stage dramatically expands his Spiritual Sense. He can now observe over a hundred locations and gains a broad view of the Yang Family’s growth.
• He is relieved to discover that the family has flourished rather than declined. Its bloodline now exceeds one hundred members, most of them descendants born during his absence.
• Yang Genshuo observes several key members:
  • Yang Fu is cultivating atop enormous Tesla Coil towers in Zhenbian City. His power has reached the Qi Refinement Layer 45 and Nirvana Realm Great Perfection, giving him combat strength comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage.
  • Yang Qiangwei rules the Sky Garden Dynasty as an empress. She commands powerful human and demon cultivators through fear and has turned numerous experts—including the nine Shangguan zither masters—into puppets using soul-searching and soul-snatching techniques.
  • Yang Min has become a professor at the massive Xuanwu Academy, teaching a groundbreaking “New Theory of Five Elements.” The academy now unites students, sects, and experts from across the Four Great Dynasties and has expanded into a vast institution covering cultivation, technology, spiritual plants, mechanical studies, and more.
• Yang Genshuo repeatedly searches for Yang Feng but cannot find him. His absence is especially troubling because Yang Qiangwei appears to have embraced a ruthless path that Yang Feng previously resisted.
• While observing the wider world, Yang Genshuo senses a desperate prayer from a ten-year-old boy asking the “Omniscient and Almighty Old Ancestor” to save his dying mother.
• The boy, Yang Zhu, is revealed to be the son of Yang Min’an and Mi Duo. He possesses a Light Spiritual Root and the Saint-Grade talent Child of Light, shocking Yang Genshuo because Saint Grade surpasses the Immortal Grade talent of prodigies such as Yang Feng and Yang Qiangzheng.
• Yang Genshuo is left confused by Yang Zhu’s mysterious location, his sick mother, and the unknown identity of Yang Min’an.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo is overwhelmed by the Yang Family’s expansion and technological progress. His initial relief turns into concern as he witnesses Yang Qiangwei’s tyranny, Yang Feng’s disappearance, and the discovery of an extraordinary new descendant.
• Yang Fu has grown into a terrifyingly powerful cultivator, surpassing Yang Genshuo’s expectations and likely becoming capable of defeating past Nascent Soul-level opponents.
• Yang Qiangwei has transformed from a sensible, family-minded woman into a powerful and authoritarian ruler. Her mastery of soul-control techniques has made her resemble a demonic cultivator.
• Yang Feng’s absence becomes increasingly suspicious. Yang Genshuo believes Feng’s moral character would normally prevent him from allowing Yang Qiangwei to become so ruthless.
• Yang Min has matured into a gentle, respected scholar and teacher whose theories and academy reflect the Yang Family’s intellectual and institutional development.
• Yang Zhu is introduced as a potentially unparalleled prodigy. Despite being poor, young, and vulnerable, he carries Saint-Grade talent that could make him more extraordinary than any known Yang Family genius.

Significant Themes

• Progress and unintended consequences: The Yang Family has achieved immense technological, institutional, and military advancement, but this progress has also produced authoritarian rule and morally questionable methods.
• Power versus morality: Yang Qiangwei’s control over powerful puppets raises questions about whether protecting the family justifies the loss of others’ freedom and humanity.
• The passage of time: Though only a short time has passed for Yang Genshuo, a hundred years have transformed the cultivation world and made many former acquaintances unrecognizable.
• Inheritance and bloodline: The growing Yang Family demonstrates the importance of descendants, while Yang Zhu’s extraordinary talent suggests the family’s future may be even more powerful.
• Mystery and hidden changes: Yang Genshuo senses that the Four Great Dynasties’ apparent prosperity conceals something unusual. Yang Feng’s disappearance, Yang Zhu’s unknown location, and Yang Min’an’s identity create major unresolved mysteries.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo mainly acts as an observer, silently examining the lives and achievements of his descendants.
• Yang Qiangwei interacts with her ministers as a domineering empress, issuing orders while they respond with fear and absolute obedience.
• Her authority is reinforced by her puppet experts, including the former Shangguan zither masters.
• Yang Min interacts warmly and patiently with his students, earning Yang Genshuo’s admiration.
• Yang Zhu’s interaction is indirect: he prays to the Old Ancestor for help, unknowingly reaching Yang Genshuo and drawing his attention to the boy’s existence.
• Yang Genshuo internally compares Yang Qiangwei’s conduct with Yang Feng’s known morality, deepening his concern over their relationship and Yang Feng’s disappearance.

Summary of “Taking a Day Off”

• Plot points and events: The narrator has an unspecified matter arise at home, requiring a long journey. They arrive at a hotel late and, because they have tasks to handle the following day, decide to go to bed early and take the next day off.
• Character development: The narrator demonstrates responsibility and practical judgment by prioritizing rest after a tiring trip and acknowledging the need for a break.
• Significant themes: The passage focuses on fatigue, personal obligations, travel, and the importance of rest and taking time away from work or routine.
• Character interactions: No direct interactions with other characters are described. The narrator’s situation implies obligations at home and tasks awaiting them the next day, but these people or responsibilities remain unspecified.

Chapter Summary: The Nonexistent “Yang Min’an”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo discovers a strange ten-year-old child named Yang Zhu, whose two-character name violates the Yang Family’s naming conventions for fifth-generation descendants.
• Yang Zhu claims to be the son of Yang Min’an, but Yang Genshuo cannot find any record of Yang Min’an—or Yang Zhu’s mother, Mi Duo—in the family’s historical records.
• Searching the family’s records reveals that Yang Zhu seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The only existing entry concerns his recent attempt to pray to the Yang Family’s Ancestor after learning from his mother that their clan worships a powerful ancestral figure.
• Yang Zhu and Mi Duo are living in an unknown, unexplored region. Mi Duo is severely injured, while the surrounding map is almost entirely black, suggesting that neither they nor other Yang Family members have ever traveled there.
• Doubting the Ancestor’s protection because they have suffered hunger and hardship, Yang Zhu nevertheless uses his own power to heal his mother. He conserves half of his spiritual energy so he can continue searching for medicinal Spiritual Power Mushrooms.
• Yang Genshuo examines Yang Zhu’s talent and discovers that the boy possesses the terrifying Saint Grade talent Child of Light, granting him the Saint Body of Light, healing and purification abilities, automatic cultivation in the presence of light, the Saint Grade technique The Canon of Light, rapid advancement without bottlenecks before Nascent Soul, and immense bonuses to light-based cultivation and spells.
• Convinced that Yang Zhu could become a future pillar of the Yang Family, Yang Genshuo resolves to locate him and uncover the truth about his origins, particularly his mysterious father.
• Yang Genshuo suspects that Yang Min’an may be an extraordinarily powerful cultivator whose existence or destiny has been concealed or erased, possibly by the Heavenly Secrets Sect.
• He decides to consult Yang Qiang, believing Yang Qiang’s connection to the Heavenly Secrets Sect might provide answers. However, Yang Qiang is also inexplicably missing from the system’s current records.
• Reviewing Yang Qiang’s past shows that he gradually advanced from the Sixth Layer of Golden Core to Nascent Soul while repeatedly trying—and failing—to contact Yang Genshuo. He eventually entered seclusion under his master and broke through to Nascent Soul, but afterward seemed to have forgotten something important.
• Yang Genshuo realizes that the Heavenly Secrets Sect likely manipulated or erased Yang Qiang’s memories and information, linking the disappearances of Yang Qiang and Yang Min’an. He angrily vows to investigate the sect thoroughly.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Shifts from confusion and irritation to intense suspicion and determination. He becomes emotionally invested in Yang Zhu’s survival and potential, viewing him as an unparalleled asset to the Yang Family. He also recognizes that the Heavenly Secrets Sect may pose a serious threat.
• Yang Zhu: Demonstrates remarkable maturity, self-reliance, and composure despite starvation and his mother’s injuries. He prioritizes healing Mi Duo, manages his spiritual energy intelligently, and refuses to depend entirely on outside help. His Saint Grade potential establishes him as an exceptionally important descendant.
• Mi Duo: Remains incapacitated and vulnerable, but her condition motivates Yang Zhu’s actions. Her lack of a similarly extraordinary talent strengthens Yang Genshuo’s theory that Yang Zhu inherited his abilities from his unknown father.
• Yang Qiang: Is revealed to have progressed steadily under the Heavenly Secrets Sect, eventually reaching Nascent Soul. His repeated attempts to contact the Ancestor show his loyalty and concern for the family, while his later memory loss suggests outside interference.

Significant Themes

• Erased history and hidden identities: Yang Zhu and Yang Min’an exist outside the Yang Family’s recorded history, suggesting that powerful forces can manipulate records, memories, or destiny.
• Family legacy and bloodline: Yang Genshuo is deeply concerned with preserving and strengthening the Yang Family, while Yang Zhu’s extraordinary talent raises questions about his unknown paternal lineage.
• Talent versus circumstance: Despite starvation, isolation, and hardship, Yang Zhu reaches Qi Refinement and displays extraordinary healing abilities, highlighting the contrast between innate potential and terrible living conditions.
• The limits of ancestral power: Yang Zhu’s doubts about the Ancestor’s protection reflect a tension between faith in family heritage and the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering.
• Secrecy and manipulation: The Heavenly Secrets Sect emerges as a potentially sinister organization capable of concealing people, altering memories, and interfering with the Ancestor’s ability to observe his descendants.
• Protective responsibility: Yang Genshuo’s desire to find and reclaim Yang Zhu reflects his role as Ancestor and his determination to protect exceptional descendants, even when their origins are unclear.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu: Though they do not directly communicate at first, Yang Genshuo observes Yang Zhu’s actions and evaluates his character, gradually developing admiration and protectiveness toward him.
• Yang Zhu and Mi Duo: Their relationship is defined by filial devotion. Yang Zhu takes responsibility for his injured mother, heals her with his light power, carries her through the wilderness, and plans to find food and medicine for her.
• Yang Zhu and the Ancestor: Yang Zhu attempts ancestral worship but becomes discouraged when he sees no immediate evidence of protection. Nevertheless, his prayer establishes a possible connection through which Yang Genshuo discovers him.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiang: Yang Genshuo relies on Yang Qiang as a possible source of information, but finds that Yang Qiang’s connection to the Heavenly Secrets Sect may instead be part of the mystery.
• Yang Genshuo and the Heavenly Secrets Sect: Their relationship turns openly hostile as Yang Genshuo concludes that the sect has erased or concealed members of his family and possibly manipulated Yang Qiang’s memories.

Chapter Summary: “Are You Calling Me?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo realizes that the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s doctrine of severing worldly attachments can erase a person’s spiritual and informational connection to the Yang Family. This explains why Yang Qiang disappeared from the family’s records after losing contact with them.
• He applies the same reasoning to Yang Min’an and Yang Zhu. Yang Min’an may have forgotten his Yang Family identity, while Yang Zhu’s weak connection to the family explains why Yang Genshuo can only see a limited area around him.
• Yang Zhu’s visible range shrinks from 100 meters to 50, prompting Yang Genshuo to use Divine Manifestation before he loses sight of the boy completely.
• Yang Genshuo contacts Yang Zhu and confirms that he is the Yang Family Ancestor. Yang Zhu explains that he and his severely injured mother, Mi Duo, were ambushed by a Wood-element cultivator and forced into a mysterious, dark world filled with mushrooms.
• Mi Duo suffers from a serious foundation injury and a powerful wood-based poison. Yang Genshuo cannot directly cure her because they are separated by worlds and he lacks the necessary high-grade antidote.
• Yang Zhu initially suspects Yang Genshuo is a deceptive “mushroom person” trying to manipulate him. After Yang Genshuo explains his limitations and promises assistance through prayer, Yang Zhu sincerely worships him.
• Yang Genshuo grants Mi Duo the Vitality Blessing, which slightly improves her condition and helps her resist the poison. Yang Zhu’s faith strengthens, restoring his visible range to 100 meters.
• While preparing additional blessings, Yang Genshuo discovers that the Blessing system has changed during his long inactivity. Three new blessings—Slick Tongue, Stealth, and Blood Battle—have appeared.
• He also learns that the Yang Family’s merit has fallen drastically to -952, likely because of harmful actions taken during the past century. Although this threatens the family’s future, previously unlocked Miracles and Blessings remain usable.
• Yang Genshuo tells Yang Zhu to continue cultivating and promises further help during the family’s ancestral worship ceremony in one month.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes more determined to rescue and reconnect distant Yang Family descendants. He demonstrates both concern and frustration, especially regarding Yang Min’an’s unexplained disappearance and the family’s drastic decline in merit. He also begins reconsidering the moral implications of the new Blessings.
• Yang Zhu: Moves from uncertainty and suspicion to genuine faith in Yang Genshuo. His desperate concern for his mother reveals his maturity and loyalty despite his young age. His Saint Grade Talent and Law of Light make him an exceptionally valuable potential member of the Yang Family.
• Mi Duo: Remains unconscious and critically injured, but Yang Genshuo’s Vitality Blessing gives her a better chance of surviving.
• Yang Min’an: Although absent, he becomes a central mystery. His complete lack of records cannot be fully explained by the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s methods, suggesting a deeper secret.
• Yang Qiang: His past serves as the key example that helps Yang Genshuo understand how severing family ties can cause a person to vanish from the Ancestor’s perception.

Significant Themes

• Identity and family connection: The chapter emphasizes that recognition of one’s family and Ancestor is not merely emotional but directly affects supernatural visibility and survival.
• Faith as a source of power: Yang Zhu’s prayer restores his connection to Yang Genshuo and allows the Ancestor to assist Mi Duo, showing that belief has practical, measurable effects.
• The danger of extreme cultivation doctrines: The Heavenly Secrets Sect’s rejection of worldly emotions is portrayed as psychologically destructive, potentially erasing memories, relationships, and identity.
• Responsibility across generations: Yang Genshuo feels obligated to protect descendants he has never met, while Yang Zhu depends on the Ancestor as his only source of hope.
• Moral ambiguity and consequences: The new Blessings arise from hypnosis, assassination-related preparations, and the family’s negative merit, suggesting that the Yang Family’s development may have involved increasingly questionable actions.
• Limits of power: Even an immortal Ancestor cannot solve every problem directly when separated by different worlds, making cooperation, faith, and gradual cultivation necessary.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu establish their first direct spiritual conversation. Yang Zhu questions his identity, challenges his claims, and eventually accepts him after witnessing the blessing.
• Yang Zhu’s distrust creates a humorous exchange when he accuses Yang Genshuo of being a “mushroom person,” while Yang Genshuo struggles to understand his suspicion.
• Yang Genshuo comforts Yang Zhu by offering practical guidance rather than false promises, telling him to cultivate and bring Mi Duo to the Da Nai Dynasty.
• Their relationship shifts from uncertain contact to a genuine Ancestor-descendant bond, giving Yang Zhu emotional support and a renewed reason to persevere.

Chapter Summary: “Unraveling the Clues”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo continues aiding Yang Zhu and his injured mother, Mi Duo, by granting them Blessings. He activates Yang Zhu’s Child of Light bloodline, giving him the ability to grow stronger in the presence of light.
• Yang Zhu explores a dark, mushroom-filled world while carrying his mother. He instinctively avoids poisonous fungi and locates edible mushrooms, including a highly nutritious Satiety Mushroom.
• Yang Zhu explains that his unusual eyes allow him to perceive the “light” and “darkness” of objects. Bright objects are beneficial, while dark ones are dangerous. This ability lets him distinguish safe food from lethal fungi.
• Through questioning, Yang Genshuo learns that Yang Zhu and Mi Duo previously lived in an unknown secret realm. They were repeatedly forced to relocate, sometimes going days without food, and were eventually attacked and expelled by humans. Yang Zhu has never met his father, Yang Min’an, whom Yang Genshuo concludes abandoned them.
• Yang Zhu cultivates the Saint Grade Canon of Light, a technique requiring possession of the Law of Light. Yang Genshuo realizes that the technique is almost impossible for ordinary family members to learn.
• Yang Genshuo shifts his attention to the Yang family’s fifth generation. He observes Yang Mink, a diligent Early Golden Core cultivator who helped construct Bright City, and Yang Zhu, Mink’s eighty-year-old daughter, who is at the Late Foundation Establishment stage.
• Yang Genshuo discovers that most younger members of the Yang family possess only a limited field of vision when connected to him. He realizes their belief in the Ancestor has weakened because they were born long after his disappearance and never directly experienced his Blessings or guidance.
• He resolves to restore the younger generation’s faith in him, prevent further moral corruption, and investigate the disappearances surrounding Yang Qiang’s failed attempts to contact the family.
• A shocking incident occurs when Yang Shuang, a spoiled fifth-generation descendant, causes the death of a mortal named Li Ergou. He excuses the killing, abuses his family’s influence, and mocks the villagers.
• Yang Shuang throws life-extending pills among the villagers, provoking a violent scramble in which more civilians are trampled to death. He delights in comparing the desperate villagers to animals, leaving Yang Genshuo enraged at the degeneration of his descendants.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu is shown to be exceptionally capable despite his young age. He possesses extraordinary perception, strong survival instincts, unusual intelligence, and a rare affinity for light-based cultivation. His hardship has made him self-reliant and mature beyond his years.
• Yang Genshuo becomes increasingly concerned with the Yang family’s moral and spiritual decline. He recognizes that losing direct contact with the family has weakened their faith and allowed corruption to grow. His goals now include restoring the family’s belief in the Ancestor, recovering Yang Qiang’s lost identity, and correcting the family’s past mistakes.
• Mi Duo remains unconscious or incapacitated, relying entirely on Yang Zhu for protection and care.
• Yang Mink is presented as a responsible and diligent family member whose steady cultivation and contributions to Bright City make him one of Yang Genshuo’s favored descendants.
• Yang Qiang is revealed to have sacrificed his family identity through his assimilation into the Heavenly Secrets Sect. Yang Genshuo feels responsible for his loss and vows to bring him back.
• Yang Shuang is exposed as arrogant, cruel, and entitled. He abuses his family’s political power, treats mortal lives as worthless, and takes pleasure in manipulating the poor.

Significant Themes

• Faith and legacy: The younger generation’s weakening belief in Yang Genshuo threatens his connection to them, emphasizing how legacy must be actively preserved rather than assumed.
• Moral decline through privilege: Yang Shuang represents how unchecked status and power can produce cruelty, impunity, and contempt for ordinary people.
• Responsibility toward descendants: Yang Genshuo feels accountable not only for protecting the family but also for the consequences of his absence and past failures.
• Survival and adaptation: Yang Zhu’s ability to endure hunger, danger, and isolation contrasts sharply with the sheltered and decadent behavior of many other Yang descendants.
• Mystery and investigation: The chapter advances several unresolved questions, including the origin of Yang Zhu and Mi Duo, Yang Min’an’s abandonment, and why Yang Qiang’s messages never reached the family.
• Light versus darkness: This appears both literally through Yang Zhu’s powers and symbolically through the contrast between survival, virtue, and the moral darkness spreading through the Yang family.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo communicates with Yang Zhu through Divine Manifestation, questioning him about his abilities, origins, and past experiences.
• Yang Zhu responds cautiously but honestly, revealing details about his life while continuing to care for his mother and cultivate independently.
• Yang Genshuo mentally compares Yang Zhu’s resilience with the more comfortable upbringing of the fifth generation.
• Yang Shuang interacts abusively with the villagers, dismissing Li Ergou’s death, threatening the grieving woman with his family’s influence, and encouraging the villagers to fight over the pills.
• The villagers’ fearful submission highlights the power imbalance between ordinary civilians and the Yang family, while Yang Genshuo’s horrified reaction signals his growing determination to confront the family’s corruption.

Chapter Summary: Rotten Flowers Grow on Fertile Land

Key Plot Points and Events

• After awakening from a century-long absence, Yang Genshuo assesses the Yang Family and realizes that, although it has expanded successfully and controls three major cities, serious internal problems have developed.
• Several family members have suffered unexpected fates: Yang Qiangwei has become unstable, Yang Feng is missing, Yang Qiang is blind, Yang Min’an no longer exists, Yang Zhu is stranded in another world, and Yang Minrui and Yang Zhu Shuang have become morally corrupt.
• Yang Genshuo travels to New Bright City in the Great Nai Empire to find Yang Qiangjing, whom he had considered the family’s most intelligent and capable future leader.
• New Bright City appears to be a highly advanced fusion of cultivation and modern technology. It contains powerful defensive formations, spiritual-energy systems, skyscraper-like buildings, and fortified residences capable of functioning as war fortresses.
• On closer inspection, however, much of the city’s modern infrastructure has become useless. Electricity is largely used only by the Thunder Pool Training Ground and a few landline phones, while the modern appliances and mobile communication systems Yang Genshuo intended to provide have disappeared or broken down over the century.
• Yang Qiangjing had tried and failed to recreate mobile phones, eventually developing landline telephones instead. The city’s technological progress has therefore regressed while retaining the appearance of modernity.
• Yang Genshuo discovers that Yang Qiangjing is now the leader of the entire Great Nai Empire and appears to be managing it effectively.
• The perspective then shifts to Yang Fujian, who has left the empire and is traveling through the Spirit Continent with Yang Changzai. He has reached the Grand Perfection of the Nirvana Realm and is searching for an opportunity to break through to a realm capable of competing with Nascent Soul cultivators.
• A call to Yang Qiangjing reveals that Yang Zhushuang, despite having a terrible reputation and no relevant qualifications, is being recommended for a position in the National Law Department by his grandmother, Yang Qiangyuan.
• Yang Qiangjing unexpectedly approves the request, leaving Yang Genshuo shocked and suggesting that favoritism or deeper corruption may exist within the empire.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: His confidence in the family’s future is shaken. He had expected Yang Qiangjing and Yang Fu to preserve the family’s stability, but he now realizes that a century of change has produced serious failures he never anticipated. He begins investigating what happened and plans to repair the family’s technological shortcomings during the upcoming Ancestral Worship ceremony.
• Yang Qiangjing: She has become the supreme leader of the Great Nai Empire, replacing the expected division of responsibility between herself and Yang Fu. She remains intelligent, organized, and capable of running the empire, but her approval of Yang Zhushuang’s appointment raises doubts about her judgment, integrity, or willingness to tolerate family privilege.
• Yang Fujian: Rather than becoming the family’s primary military guardian, he has become a solitary, weathered wanderer. He is determined to surpass his current cultivation level and searches relentlessly for a breakthrough opportunity.
• Yang Zhushuang and Yang Minrui: They are presented as examples of the family’s moral decline. Yang Zhushuang has abused his status and mistreated mortals, yet still seeks a powerful government position through family connections.
• Yang Changzai: He accompanies Yang Fujian as a companion and conversational partner, though Yang Fujian’s exhausted, hardened appearance makes him seem more like a bodyguard than a member of the same family.

Significant Themes

• The unpredictability of time: A century of development has not produced the future Yang Genshuo envisioned. Even successful plans can be altered by unforeseen events, absences, and technological decay.
• Appearance versus reality: New Bright City looks like a futuristic cultivation metropolis, but many of its modern systems are merely shells or decorations. Likewise, the Yang Family appears powerful externally while harboring serious internal decay.
• The limits of long-term planning: Yang Genshuo’s carefully designed succession plan fails to account for personal choices, accidents, missing family members, and moral degeneration.
• Technological regression and adaptation: Yang Qiangjing preserves communication by replacing failed mobile technology with landlines, showing both the loss of progress and the family’s ability to adapt.
• Power and nepotism: The final scene suggests that even a well-run empire may be undermined by favoritism, as an unqualified and corrupt family member is considered for a government post.
• Family legacy and responsibility: Yang Genshuo must confront the consequences of leaving the family unattended and determine whether its problems can still be corrected.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo observes Yang Qiangjing’s leadership through her telephone conversations and compares her current role with the future he originally imagined for Yang Fu and Yang Fujian.
• Yang Fujian and Yang Changzai travel together, discussing their search for legendary lands and Fujian’s determination to break through rather than rest.
• Yang Qiangjing speaks with a subordinate about Yang Zhushuang’s proposed appointment. The subordinate points out Zhushuang’s lack of qualifications and bad reputation, but Yang Qiangjing still agrees to the request.
• Yang Genshuo reacts with disbelief to Yang Qiangjing’s decision, especially because it contradicts her formerly rational and principled image.

Chapter Summary: “Managing the Family”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo observes the current state of the Yang Family and initially suspects that the shocking behavior he sees may be an inner demon. After using the system’s [Blessing: Calm Heart], he confirms that the events are real.
• He is outraged when Yang Qiangjing appoints Yang Shuang, a morally corrupt and irresponsible individual, to the highly important National Law Department. Yang Genshuo views this as a violation of the Yang Family’s principles and the empire’s prohibition against cultivators harming mortals.
• Yang Genshuo expands his observation across Bright City, examining the activities and positions of several fourth-generation descendants.
• Yang Minrui, vice minister of the Machinery Department, presents himself as kind and competent in public but secretly schemes to place Yang Family members in key government positions. He plans to use Yang Shuang’s appointment to strengthen the family’s influence.
• Yang Minrui conspires with his brother Yang Minyong to replace members of the Li family in profitable departments, particularly the Spiritual Plant Department. Their conversation reveals arrogance, nepotism, and resentment toward the Li family.
• Yang Minyong is shown abusing his son, Yang Zhu, whipping him despite the boy already cultivating spiritual plant techniques correctly. Yang Genshuo regards Minyong’s behavior as absurd and wasteful.
• Yang Minyong, despite possessing exceptional martial talent, retired from the Heavenly Dragon Army and became captain of Bright City’s Public Security Management Team. His position gives him significant influence and opportunities for personal gain.
• Bright City has become a major center of commerce, tourism, and cultivation. It offers training excursions into the dangerous Myriad Demon Domain, as well as spiritual beast flights and sightseeing services to neighboring dynasties.
• Yang Genshuo compares Yang Minyong with his twin, Yang Minxiao. Minyong enjoys an easier, more prosperous life through influence and connections, while Minxiao remains dedicated to military service in the Heavenly Dragon Army.
• Yang Minxiao demonstrates his extraordinary physical strength by lifting and throwing a mountain. He later spars with Yang Mink, who uses the completed Mountain Moving Great Law.
• The chapter ends with Yang Genshuo deciding that the Yang Family requires strict discipline. His observations reveal that many descendants have become corrupt or self-serving, though some—particularly Yang Mink and Yang Minxiao—still embody the qualities he values.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes increasingly disillusioned with the Yang Family’s decline. He shifts from merely observing events to planning to actively discipline the family after returning.
• Yang Qiangjing: Is portrayed as an overworked leader who personally manages nearly every aspect of the empire. Her exhaustion may explain how she overlooked Yang Shuang’s misconduct and the schemes developing beneath her.
• Yang Minrui: Reveals himself as a skilled hypocrite and political schemer. Although friendly and competent in public, he secretly seeks to control important imperial departments and expand Yang Family dominance.
• Yang Minyong: Is influential, opportunistic, and crude. He uses his public position for personal advantage and treats his son harshly, yet he remains socially popular and well-connected.
• Yang Minxiao: Represents discipline, loyalty, and genuine martial dedication. Unlike his brother, he remains committed to the military and appears content with a less glamorous life.
• Yang Mink: Has grown into a powerful cultivator, capable of moving mountains with his perfected technique. He maintains a close relationship with Minxiao and encourages him.
• Yang Qiangjing’s administration: Bright City and the Great Nai Empire have prospered economically, but political favoritism and family corruption are spreading within the government.

Significant Themes

• Public image versus true character: Yang Minrui’s respectable public persona contrasts sharply with his private manipulation, highlighting the danger of judging people by appearances.
• Nepotism and corruption: The Yang descendants use family connections to seize control of key departments, displace outsiders, and turn imperial authority into family power.
• Duty versus self-interest: Yang Minxiao’s military service contrasts with Yang Minyong’s comfortable, politically profitable career.
• The decline of family values: Yang Genshuo sees that many descendants have abandoned the ancestral teachings, especially the principles of morality, responsibility, and protection of mortals.
• Leadership and overwork: Yang Qiangjing’s overwhelming workload suggests that even a capable leader can fail to notice corruption when forced to manage everything personally.
• Generational expectations: Yang Genshuo compares the descendants with the ideals he had for them, questioning how talent and privilege have been used.
• Economic prosperity and moral deterioration: Bright City has become wealthy and internationally connected, but its success has also created opportunities for exploitation and political abuse.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo internally condemns Yang Qiangjing’s decision to place Yang Shuang in the National Law Department.
• Yang Minrui speaks with colleagues and employees in a warm, approachable manner, concealing his manipulative nature.
• Yang Minrui and Yang Minyong privately plot to install relatives in powerful departments and undermine the Li family.
• Yang Minyong lashes his son Yang Zhu despite misunderstanding the boy’s perfectly valid cultivation method.
• Yang Mink brings spiritual food to Yang Minxiao, and the two discuss cultivation, the family ancestor, and Yang Minxiao’s desire to know whether Yang Genshuo will return.
• Yang Mink and Yang Minxiao engage in a powerful sparring match, demonstrating their strength and contrasting with the scheming behavior of other family members.

Chapter Summary: Yang Qianglin and Yang Qiangyuan’s Vast Interest Group

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Yang Genshuo’s century-long seclusion, he discovers that the Yang Family has changed dramatically. Though its population and influence have expanded, family unity has weakened.
• Yang Qianglin proposes the absurd but ambitious “Ice and Fire Double Heaven Plan”: create a spatial passage between the fire-dominated Core Earth Region and the water-rich Sea God Dynasty, trading resources between the two worlds for profit.
• Yang Qiangjing dismisses the plan diplomatically, aware that Yang Qianglin lacks the ability to execute it, but she is too busy managing the empire’s frontline affairs to argue with him.
• Yang Qiangyuan then pressures Yang Qiangjing to reward one of her descendants’ in-laws with spiritual treasures and an official position, invoking Yang Genshuo’s past statement that having many children is a major contribution to the family.
• Yang Qiangjing refuses to provide excessive rewards, insisting that official standards be followed, but Yang Qiangyuan leaves expecting her demands to be accommodated.
• Observing these exchanges, Yang Genshuo realizes that Yang Qiangjing is no longer the bold young leader he remembers. She is now an exhausted, restrained authority figure who seems unable to openly oppose the twins.
• Investigating the family records, Yang Genshuo discovers that Yang Qianglin and Yang Qiangyuan have become Deputy Ministers of the Economic and Personnel Departments respectively, while Yang Qiangjing concurrently holds the corresponding top positions.
• He further discovers that approximately 90 of the 105 new Yang Family members descend from the twins. Their children and grandchildren occupy important imperial posts, forming a deeply entrenched political and bureaucratic network.
• The fourth generation of the Yang Family controls major departments and institutions, while the fifth generation has been placed in junior and grassroots positions. This creates a vast familial interest group extending throughout the Great Nai Empire.
• Yang Genshuo concludes that Yang Qiangjing’s apparent tolerance is not weakness or favoritism toward the twins themselves. Rather, she is constrained by the enormous faction built from their descendants.
• Concerned that this network may eventually corrupt the Yang Family and empire, Yang Genshuo decides to reexamine the events of Yang Qiangjing’s past century, beginning with Yang Qiangzheng’s entry into the Demon Realm.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Moves from amusement and disdain toward Yang Qianglin and Yang Qiangyuan to alarm and strategic concern. He recognizes that family growth has created political consequences he failed to anticipate.
• Yang Qiangjing: Has transformed from a decisive, fearless strategist into a weary and cautious leader. Although she remains firm on matters such as refusing improper rewards, she must now manage powerful internal factions rather than simply impose her will.
• Yang Qianglin: Remains impractical, boastful, and fond of grand schemes, but is revealed to be politically influential through his enormous family network. He is now Deputy Minister of the Economic Department.
• Yang Qiangyuan: Continues to exploit family rhetoric and Yang Genshuo’s teachings to obtain benefits for her descendants. Despite her frivolous behavior, she is a powerful political figure as Deputy Minister of the Personnel Department.
• The fourth and fifth generations: Their rise demonstrates how family connections, reproduction, institutional placement, and political coordination have created a powerful hereditary structure within the empire.

Significant Themes

• Family growth versus family unity: The Yang Family has expanded numerically but become more factional and divided.
• The power of descendants: Talent and individual ability are not the only sources of influence; fertility and the ability to build a large family network can create enormous long-term power.
• Unintended consequences of ideology: Yang Genshuo’s praise of childbearing as a major contribution is used by Yang Qiangyuan to justify political favoritism and material rewards.
• Nepotism and institutional control: The twins’ descendants occupy key government positions, suggesting that family loyalty is gradually replacing merit-based advancement.
• Political restraint and hidden pressure: Yang Qiangjing’s passivity appears suspicious because it conflicts with her former personality, implying that unseen events or pressures shaped her behavior.
• The dangers of unchecked factionalism: Yang Genshuo fears that the interest group could eventually control the empire and lead the Yang Family toward corruption or decline.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qianglin treats Yang Qiangjing casually as his sister, while she repeatedly reminds him to use her official title during work.
• Yang Qiangjing humorously but firmly deflects his unrealistic economic proposal rather than confronting him directly.
• Yang Qiangyuan similarly speaks to Yang Qiangjing informally and pressures her to attend a family celebration and grant excessive rewards.
• Yang Qiangjing resists Yang Qiangyuan’s demands, citing the proper reward system, but does not openly punish or challenge her.
• Yang Genshuo watches both encounters and initially views the twins as incompetent nuisances. After examining the records, he realizes their influence comes from the vast network of children and descendants behind them.
• The chapter ends with Yang Genshuo questioning what happened to Yang Qiangjing over the past century and preparing to investigate her history.

Chapter Summary: “Coming to the Door”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo discovers that Yang Qiangzheng’s record and vision have disappeared after a century of silence.
• Qiangzheng’s recorded history reveals that, after the Sky Garden Dynasty destroyed the demons with nuclear weapons, he lost his opponents and entered the Demon Realm. There, he transformed into a demon, fought powerful enemies, absorbed their corpses, and grew stronger.
• Yang Qiangjing’s red-clothed clone found and supported him, but she could not bring him back. After a later breakthrough, Qiangzheng broke down over his mother’s death and suddenly lost faith in Yang Genshuo.
• Confused by the disappearance of several important family members—Yang Feng, Yang Qiang, and now Yang Qiangzheng—Yang Genshuo decides that Yang Qiangjing is the only person who can explain the past century.
• He secretly observes the Yang Family for several days to understand its current structure and members before contacting her.
• During this period, he blesses Yang Zhu, who is trapped in a dark, dangerous unknown space. Yang Zhu’s vision expands, his trust in Yang Genshuo grows, and he begins to believe in the existence of an almighty ancestor.
• Yang Genshuo identifies Yang Zhu’s Light Spiritual Root and Saint Grade Talent as extraordinary. He plans to obtain high-level light-based treasures to help Yang Zhu cultivate and survive.
• After four sleepless days, Yang Genshuo finally rests, but Tian Zhe soon wakes him with news of a suspicious stranger near Mount Jiuhua.
• The stranger appears to be a trained fighter carrying a handgun, specialized clothing, and communication equipment. The group suspects he is a spy or assassin sent by the TW Organization to investigate Mount Jiuhua and the Immortal Qi Group.
• Yang Genshuo orders Tian Zhe to capture the spy alive. Once the spy is taken away, Yang Genshuo realizes that the TW Organization may already be attacking his businesses, associates, and family.
• He urgently leaves with Xiao Yan using Earth Evasion to protect his parents and other important people.
• Tian Zhe finds Yang Genshuo’s instructions and divides the team into groups to protect key factories, the pharmaceutical laboratory, important personnel, and Lin Yue’s family. He remains behind to guard the captured spy.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes increasingly worried and frustrated by the disappearance of his disciples and the loss of Qiangzheng’s faith. Despite his confusion, he remains strategic, prioritizing information gathering, Yang Zhu’s survival, and the protection of the Yang Family. His calmness vanishes when he realizes the TW Organization may threaten his loved ones.
• Yang Qiangzheng: Descends into isolation and grief after losing his mother and his purpose following the destruction of the demons he fought. His transformation into a demon and obsession with combat suggest severe emotional deterioration, although he continues challenging powerful enemies rather than indiscriminately slaughtering the weak.
• Yang Qiangjing: Though absent in person, she becomes central to the mystery. Her clone accompanied Qiangzheng in the Demon Realm, making her the most likely source of information about his final fate.
• Yang Zhu: Begins to trust Yang Genshuo and recognize him as an ancestral protector. His growing vision and unusual Light Spiritual Root establish him as a potentially decisive future powerhouse for the Yang Family.
• Tian Zhe: Demonstrates alertness, competence, and loyalty by identifying the disguised spy and swiftly organizing a defensive response after Yang Genshuo leaves.
• Yang Genshuo’s allies: Lin Bai, Xiao Yan, and the wider security team act quickly to protect the family’s people, facilities, and research.

Significant Themes

• Faith and abandonment: Qiangzheng’s loss of faith in Yang Genshuo raises questions about responsibility, misunderstanding, and whether a guardian can be blamed for tragedies beyond his control.
• Grief and corruption: Qiangzheng’s transformation into a demon reflects how unresolved mourning and loss can distort a person’s identity and goals.
• Family protection and responsibility: Yang Genshuo consistently prioritizes the survival and future of the Yang Family, particularly Yang Zhu, even while trying to uncover its internal mysteries.
• The cost of power: Qiangzheng gains strength through dangerous battles and corpse absorption, while Yang Zhu’s potential is threatened by environmental limitations. Power requires sacrifice, resources, and protection.
• Hidden enemies and paranoia: The arrival of the suspected spy reveals that Yang Genshuo’s secrecy is weakening. His organization, businesses, research, and family may all be vulnerable to infiltration.
• Legacy and future potential: Yang Zhu’s exceptional talent suggests the Yang Family’s future greatness, while the disappearance of current prodigies shows how uncertain that future remains.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo reviews Yang Qiangzheng’s records and reflects on his previous discussions with Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Qiangjing’s clone supports Qiangzheng in the Demon Realm but fails to restore him emotionally or return him home.
• Yang Genshuo blesses and advises Yang Zhu, strengthening their bond and Yang Zhu’s faith in the ancestor.
• Tian Zhe alerts Yang Genshuo to the suspected spy and carries out his capture order.
• Yang Genshuo leaves written instructions for Tian Zhe, who assumes command and deploys the team to protect the Yang Family’s assets and allies.
• Yang Genshuo and Xiao Yan rush underground toward his home after he senses that the TW Organization may have placed his parents and inner circle in danger.

Chapter Summary: “TW Organization’s Tightening Grip”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo rushes to his hometown in Pingze County after realizing that the TW Organization may have targeted his family. He travels rapidly underground with his Earth Element Spiritual Beast, Xiao Yan, using its Earth Evasion ability and replenishing its Spiritual Power with elixirs.
• At his family’s home, Yang discovers that his parents are absent. Using his Spiritual Sense, he locates them at his third uncle Yang Guojun’s house.
• Two “female reporters” from the Provincial People’s Publishing House are questioning Yang’s parents about his childhood, business history, miraculous medicines, and possible connections to “Brother Tian.” Their overly identical smiles and increasingly forceful questions reveal that they are actually TW agents gathering intelligence.
• The agents attempt to arrest Yang’s parents with the help of three armed youths. Yang arrives invisibly and ambushes the attackers. Xiao Yan knocks out the three youths, while Yang rescues his parents and captures the two disguised agents by trapping them underground.
• Yang Guojun and his son Xiao Liang return afterward, confused by the damage and unaware of the confrontation.
• Yang brings the five captured enemies back to Mount Jiuhua, where Tian Zhe and the others have already evacuated their core personnel, laboratory equipment, and data using Storage Rings.
• Yang reveals that he has broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage. His increased Spiritual Power, mobility, and ability to use Treasure Artifacts have greatly strengthened his combat capabilities.
• Furious that the TW Organization has pursued his family and infiltrated the mainland, Yang decides to trace the captured agents back to the organization’s leadership and uncover who is coordinating the attacks.
• Tian Zhe begins interrogating one of the captured spies, demanding to know the agent’s mission and who is directing them.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes more vigilant and accepts that he underestimated the TW Organization. His breakthrough to Foundation Establishment gives him greater confidence, combat strength, mobility, and access to higher-level Treasure Artifacts. His priorities also become more personal as he focuses on protecting his parents and relatives.
• Xiao Yan: Demonstrates the practical value of its Earth Evasion talent, allowing Yang to travel quickly, infiltrate locations, rescue civilians, and subdue enemies from underground. Its low Spiritual Power consumption makes it highly effective for long-distance movement.
• Yang Guohua and Li Xiufeng: Show trust in their son by following the instructions of the “Yang Genshuo” impostor on the phone, but they also grow suspicious of the reporters’ behavior. They narrowly escape being taken hostage.
• Yang Guojun: Remains talkative and eager to promote his son Xiao Liang, unintentionally providing comic relief during the tense interrogation.
• Tian Zhe: Becomes openly enraged by the attack on Yang’s family and supports retaliating against the TW Organization. He takes an active role in interrogating the captured agent.
• TW Organization agents: Are shown to be highly trained, well-equipped, capable of disguise and infiltration, and willing to use armed force against civilians to obtain information.

Significant Themes

• Escalating external threat: The TW Organization moves from surveillance to direct infiltration, abduction attempts, and attacks on Yang’s family, demonstrating that the conflict is becoming more dangerous.
• Protection of family: Yang’s realization that his relatives are vulnerable creates a stronger emotional motivation and pushes him to act decisively.
• Underestimating the enemy: Yang recognizes that his previous assumptions about the organization were mistaken, emphasizing the need for greater caution and preparedness.
• Growing power and responsibility: Yang’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough increases his strength, but it also places greater responsibility on him to defend his allies and confront the organization.
• Modern technology versus cultivation: The chapter contrasts TW’s infrared detectors, camouflage, surveillance, and coordinated tactics with Yang’s talismans, Spiritual Sense, underground movement, and magical tools.
• Deception and hidden identities: The false reporters, the phone impostor, and the agents’ concealed operations reinforce the atmosphere of mistrust and covert warfare.

Important Character Interactions

• The fake reporters pressure Yang’s parents for information about his medicines, business history, and contacts, especially his connection to Tian Zhe.
• Yang’s parents discuss their son’s past, including his failed murder-mystery business and the medicine that healed Yang Guohua’s arm.
• Yang secretly observes the interrogation before rescuing his parents and defeating the attackers.
• Tian Zhe greets Yang upon his return and discusses the evacuation of the organization’s people and resources.
• Yang and Tian Zhe agree that the TW Organization must be confronted rather than merely defended against.
• Tian Zhe initiates the interrogation of a captured agent, setting up the next stage of the conflict.

Chapter Summary: “Ancestor Returns!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo interrogates nine captured attackers using the Hypnosis Bell. He learns they are connected to the TW Organization, which is targeting the Immortal Qi Group and its technology, as well as investigating him.
• Only three captives are genuine TW agents; the remaining six are hired thugs. Despite their training, they were easily defeated by Yang Genshuo and his Innate Grandmaster allies.
• Tian Zhe suggests infiltrating the TW Organization as they did previously, but Yang Genshuo decides to use a new method. He plans to identify and eliminate the organization’s higher-level contacts instead of merely infiltrating a branch.
• Yang Genshuo orders his important employees, researchers, and family members to relocate to Mount Jiuhua for protection. The mountain becomes crowded as Lin Yue organizes food and accommodations, acting like the household’s mistress.
• The Immortal Qi Group’s leaders and researchers discuss the attacks. The group’s laboratories possess highly valuable spiritual-energy technology, including advanced batteries, communication systems, power facilities, and a developing energy gun.
• Yang Genshuo informs everyone that their lives are in danger and orders them to remain at Mount Jiuhua until the TW Organization is dealt with.
• He discovers that agents deceived his parents by replacing his father’s phone and impersonating him during a call. His parents unknowingly revealed information about him and Brother Tian.
• Yang Genshuo is alarmed that the TW Organization has connected him to Tian Zhe despite their efforts to conceal their relationship. He vows to uncover the organization’s true leadership within three days and uproot its network.
• Attention then shifts to the Cultivation World, where Yang Genshuo examines the condition of the Yang Family. He realizes that ancestral faith has weakened, especially among the fourth and fifth generations.
• He decides that restoring the Yang Family’s belief in and connection to their Ancestor must be his first task. He prepares to communicate with Yang Qiangjing through a Divine Manifestation.

2. Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo becomes more strategic and proactive. Rather than reacting to individual attacks, he plans to trace the TW Organization to its upper ranks and destroy its influence.
• He demonstrates increased responsibility toward both his modern-world allies and the Yang Family in the Cultivation World, protecting researchers, employees, and relatives while also confronting the decline of ancestral tradition.
• Tian Zhe remains fiercely loyal and impatient with the TW Organization’s interference. He wants to retaliate directly but supports Yang Genshuo’s more cautious plan.
• Lin Yue adapts quickly to life on Mount Jiuhua, taking charge of domestic arrangements and appearing increasingly integrated into Yang Genshuo’s household.
• Guo Xiaozhi is portrayed as relaxed and humorous, enjoying the Immortal Qi Group’s enormous profits while remaining unaware of the full seriousness of the danger.
• Liang Xuetong shows calm competence. Because he understands the value of his team’s research, he immediately recognizes why outside forces might attempt to steal it.
• Yang Genshuo’s parents are revealed to be vulnerable to sophisticated espionage tactics but are ultimately brought to safety.
• The Yang Family descendants have become increasingly distant from their Ancestor, with younger generations treating ancestral belief as superstition due to never witnessing his Divine Manifestation.

3. Significant Themes

• Security and secrecy: The TW Organization’s infiltration demonstrates how vulnerable even successful and well-protected institutions can be to espionage.
• Modern technology versus cultivation power: The Immortal Qi Group’s spiritual-energy research is valuable enough to attract both corporate and governmental interest, highlighting the merging of scientific and cultivation systems.
• Family and protection: Yang Genshuo’s decision to gather his employees and relatives in one location reflects his growing role as protector and leader.
• Faith and legitimacy: In the Cultivation World, the strength of the Yang Family depends not only on political power but also on its descendants’ belief in their Ancestor.
• Hidden connections and paranoia: The TW Organization’s ability to connect Yang Genshuo with Tian Zhe makes him question how much the enemy truly knows and suggests a broader threat than he expected.
• Return and restoration: Yang Genshuo’s return is not merely physical; he must also rebuild weakened relationships, restore ancestral worship, and reassert his authority across both worlds.

4. Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe debate whether to infiltrate the TW Organization, with Yang Genshuo choosing a new strategy.
• The Immortal Qi Group members exchange information about the attacks, revealing their different personalities and responsibilities.
• Lin Yue works alongside Yang Genshuo’s mother, strengthening her role within the family.
• Guo Xiaozhi questions Cheng Bo and Liang Xuetong about Yang Genshuo’s disappearance, while they provide differing levels of insight.
• Yang Genshuo confronts his parents about the agents’ deception and learns how they were tricked into revealing information.
• The chapter ends with Yang Genshuo preparing to speak to Yang Qiangjing, beginning his effort to restore the Yang Family’s faith in their Ancestor.