Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: A Century of Meridians

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Qiangjing, now the leader of the Great Nai Empire, spends her days managing imperial affairs, negotiating with the Myriad Demon Domain, purchasing Demonic Energy Crystals, and controlling the unruly members of the Yang Family.
• Although she is highly capable, Yang Qiangjing feels the pressure of ruling without the Ancestor’s guidance. She has deliberately refused help from other family members, believing she can still manage the empire herself.
• An envoy from Town Border City arrives with a message from Yang Fu, reminding Yang Qiangjing of the approaching Ancestral Worship ceremony.
• Before she can meet the envoy, Yang Genshuo—the Ancestor—suddenly reappears after what was, for him, only about a hundred days. Due to the difference in time flow between realms, a full century has passed in the Cultivation World.
• Yang Qiangjing breaks down emotionally upon hearing the Ancestor’s voice. Their reunion reveals how deeply she missed and depended on him.
• Yang Genshuo praises Yang Qiangjing’s leadership after observing the Yang Family for several days. He recognizes that, despite serious problems among certain family members, she has maintained a workable balance between their usefulness and their misconduct.
• He examines the behavior of Yang Minrui and Yang Zhushuang:
  • Yang Minrui is morally questionable and politically calculating, but also inventive, approachable, talented at managing people, and responsible for powerful mechanical formations.
  • Yang Zhushuang is described as a thoroughly corrupt troublemaker who has bullied others, neglected cultivation, and disgraced the family.
• Yang Qiangjing explains that she has concealed the truth about the Ancestor’s absence for years, telling the family that he had gone into seclusion to comprehend the Immortal Path.
• Yang Genshuo admits he had encountered cultivation difficulties, though he hides the true seriousness of his situation by claiming the problem has already been resolved.
• He then reveals that many people have disappeared from his awareness during his absence and asks Yang Qiangjing about Yang Feng.
• Yang Qiangjing explains that Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s relationship deteriorated over decades. Their conflict centered on Yang Qiangwei’s increasing reliance on demonic and soul-controlling techniques.
• Yang Feng opposed using evil methods, while Yang Qiangwei believed such sacrifices were necessary to protect the family and prevent disasters.
• Yang Qiangwei’s growing strength and independence widened the gap between them. Forty years earlier, she ultimately opened negotiations with the Reverse Flow Sect, marking a major escalation.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangjing has transformed from a young, dependent girl into a weary but extremely competent imperial leader. She has become politically pragmatic, emotionally restrained, and willing to tolerate flawed family members if they contribute to the Yang Family’s power.
• Despite her authority, Yang Qiangjing still views Yang Genshuo as a trusted grandfather and confidant. His return exposes the loneliness and emotional burden she has suppressed for a century.
• Yang Genshuo returns with greater understanding of the Yang Family’s later history. His initial anger toward the family’s misconduct softens after he recognizes Yang Qiangjing’s strategy of maintaining balance.
• Yang Minrui is presented as morally complex: manipulative and inappropriate in private, yet talented, socially capable, innovative, and valuable to the empire.
• Yang Zhushuang is condemned as an irredeemable delinquent whose behavior damages the family’s reputation, though he remains loyal to the Yang Family’s ruling structure.
• Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s formerly ideal relationship has collapsed under opposing beliefs about power, morality, and the use of demonic techniques.
• Yang Qiangwei has evolved into someone determined to control her own fate. Her fear of helplessness drives her toward increasingly dangerous methods, even at the cost of her marriage.

Significant Themes

• The passage of time and change: A hundred years have passed for the Yang Family, while Yang Genshuo experiences only a short absence. This creates emotional distance and highlights how much the family has changed without him.
• Burden of leadership: Yang Qiangjing must govern an empire and a powerful family without the Ancestor’s guidance, balancing personal morality against political necessity.
• Balance versus justice: She tolerates flawed or immoral relatives when their abilities benefit the state, raising questions about whether effective governance requires compromising with corruption.
• Moral compromise and power: Yang Qiangwei’s use of soul-seizing and puppet techniques contrasts with Yang Feng’s ethical resistance, showing how desperation and fear can justify increasingly dangerous choices.
• Family loyalty and emotional dependence: The reunion between Yang Qiangjing and Yang Genshuo demonstrates that their familial bond has survived despite a century of separation.
• Duality in human nature: Yang Genshuo recognizes that even deeply flawed people may possess valuable talents, while good intentions can coexist with harmful actions.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangjing interacts with imperial officials and manages diplomatic tensions with the Myriad Demon Domain, demonstrating her administrative authority.
• Her reunion with Yang Genshuo is deeply emotional: she temporarily abandons her composed leadership persona and cries like a child reunited with a beloved grandfather.
• Yang Genshuo reassures her that she has performed well and acknowledges the immense burden she carried.
• Their conversation reflects their unique intellectual and emotional compatibility; Yang Qiangjing is the person who understands and implements his ideas most effectively.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing discuss the family’s problematic members, with him initially judging them harshly and her defending her policy of practical tolerance.
• Their discussion shifts to Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei, exposing the ideological conflict that destroyed their relationship and led Yang Qiangwei toward an alliance with the Reverse Flow Sect.

Chapter Summary: “Coincidence?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo learns the history behind Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei’s separation. Yang Qiangwei obtained the second volume of the Reverse Flow Art from the Reverse Flow Sect and became determined to use it to reach the Nascent Soul Stage. Yang Feng opposed her path, causing their Daos to diverge, though their family relationship remained intact.
• Yang Feng abdicated as head of the Feng Family and traveled to the Spirit Vast Continent, where he successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Ten years earlier, Yang Feng informed the family that he had discovered an opportunity connected to the Great Contention Era and intended to pursue it with Yang Qiangyou. Both later disappeared.
• Yang Genshuo investigates Yang Qiangyou’s past. Yang Qiangyou and his Dragon Clan companion entered a mysterious “Legendary Realm.” The formations separated them, but Yang Qiangyou fortuitously landed in the realm’s core, obtained the Heaven-grade Mysterious Treasure Mirror Flower, and safely escaped.
• The treasure perfectly complemented Yang Qiangyou’s Dragon Rider Talent, allowing him and his dragon companion to grow much stronger. Yang Qiangyou is currently in seclusion under the Dragon Lord’s protection and is not in danger.
• Yang Feng’s fate remains unknown. He entered the Legendary Realm but apparently never emerged or contacted the family.
• Yang Genshuo notices an alarming coincidence: Yang Zhu, a ten-year-old child trapped with his mother Mi Duo in a dangerous mushroom-filled world, was conceived around the exact time Yang Feng entered the Legendary Realm.
• Yang Zhu possesses a Saint-grade Light Spiritual Root, while Yang Feng is known to have a Dark Spiritual Root. Their opposing but mutually restraining attributes suggest a possible connection.
• Yang Genshuo asks Yang Qiangjing about Yang Zhu and Yang Min’an. Neither name matches the known Yang family records, and Yang Zhu appears to be an unknown child living outside the family’s realm.
• Yang Genshuo theorizes that Yang Min’an could be Yang Feng’s son, named to express Yang Feng’s wish for his child to live safely and peacefully. He speculates that Yang Feng may have taken Yang Min’an into the Legendary Realm, where Min’an later became connected to Mi Duo and fathered Yang Zhu.
• This theory collapses when Genshuo remembers that Yang Feng is not a blood member of the Yang family, meaning Yang Zhu should not be able to sense him through the family’s bloodline system. Nevertheless, Genshuo remains convinced that Yang Zhu and Yang Feng are connected.
• To help Yang Zhu survive, Yang Genshuo asks Yang Qiangjing to find a treasure that can continuously emit light and provide light-attributed materials.
• The chapter ends with Yang Qiangjing being reminded that an envoy from City Lord Yang Fu has been waiting to see her.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes increasingly concerned about Yang Feng’s disappearance and deeply intrigued by the unexplained connection between Yang Feng, Yang Min’an, and Yang Zhu. He shifts from simply gathering information to actively planning how to support Yang Zhu.
• Yang Feng: His past motivations become clearer. He valued family ties despite disagreeing with Yang Qiangwei and pursued his own cultivation path. His disappearance after entering the Legendary Realm becomes the chapter’s central mystery.
• Yang Qiangwei: Her obsession with the Reverse Flow Art defines her chosen Dao and separates her from Yang Feng, but not through personal betrayal or hostility.
• Yang Qiangyou: Is revealed to be extraordinarily fortunate. He obtains a powerful treasure almost effortlessly and gains the protection of the Dragon Clan while cultivating the Dragon Rider technique.
• Yang Qiangjing: Continues serving as a responsible family and state leader. She responds practically to Genshuo’s concerns and agrees to search for resources to aid Yang Zhu.
• Yang Zhu: Emerges as a mysterious, highly talented child whose origins and relationship to the Yang family remain unknown. His Light Spiritual Root may be linked to Yang Feng’s Dark Spiritual Root.
• Mi Duo: Is established as Yang Zhu’s mother and a survivor of a dangerous, unexplained environment, though her connection to Yang Feng’s family remains uncertain.

Significant Themes

• Diverging Dao and personal choice: Yang Feng and Yang Qiangwei separate because their cultivation philosophies no longer align, illustrating that emotional bonds cannot always overcome fundamentally different paths.
• Fate and coincidence: Repeated parallels in timing, spiritual roots, names, and disappearances suggest that Yang Zhu’s existence may be part of a larger chain of destiny rather than mere chance.
• Mystery and incomplete information: Genshuo’s records reveal important events but leave crucial gaps, forcing him to rely on deduction and speculation.
• Fortune and destiny: Yang Qiangyou’s effortless acquisition of the Mirror Flower highlights his extraordinary luck and possible favor from fate.
• Family responsibility: Despite distance, adoption, and uncertain blood ties, the Yang family continues to regard Yang Feng as one of its own and seeks to protect potential descendants.
• Light and darkness: Yang Zhu’s Light Spiritual Root and Yang Feng’s Dark Spiritual Root create a symbolic and possibly literal relationship between the two characters.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing discuss Yang Feng’s separation from Yang Qiangwei, his breakthrough, and his disappearance.
• Genshuo and Qiangjing compare their knowledge of Yang Qiangyou, Yang Zhu, and Yang Min’an.
• Qiangjing explains the family’s naming conventions and the empire’s population-growth policy, helping Genshuo identify why Yang Min’an seems unusual.
• Genshuo presents his theory that Yang Feng may be connected to Yang Zhu’s birth, while Qiangjing listens and agrees to help gather light-based resources.
• Their conversation is interrupted by a secretary reminding Qiangjing that City Lord Yang Fu’s envoy is still waiting.

Chapter Summary: “Yang Zhu and the Mushroom Spirit”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo confronts the growing division between Yang Qiangjing and Yang Fu. He realizes the Yang Family’s greatest danger is no longer external enemies but the loss of internal unity.
• Yang Qiangjing explains the origins of her conflict with Yang Fu:
  • She advocated using demon and monster slaves to increase labor and military strength.
  • She wanted Xuanwu Academy to establish a course teaching the Reverse Flow Art, which could produce soul masters capable of controlling demons and monsters.
  • Yang Fu opposed these policies because they resembled the practices of demonic cultivators and violated his moral principles.
• Yang Qiangjing’s policies were supported by Yang Qiangwei and the Sky Garden Dynasty, while Yang Fu received support from the Blazing Sun Dynasty and the True Fire Sect.
• The Great Nai Empire and Sky Garden Dynasty began exploiting demon and monster slaves, using the Undying Demon Heart and the Four Symbols Demon Transformation Workshop to turn enemies and fallen soldiers into laborers, soldiers, and economic resources.
• These policies increased productivity and military strength but caused the Yang Family’s Merit to decline sharply. Members involved in enslavement often had negative Merit, while those in the Blazing Sun and Silver Land Dynasties maintained positive Merit.
• Yang Genshuo spends a full day and night discussing the past with Yang Qiangjing. Although he understands her reasoning, he refuses to immediately take her side and plans to speak with Yang Fu as well.
• The scene shifts to Yang Zhu, who discovers a sentient, long-legged mushroom spirit. After biting it, he accidentally frightens it away and must chase it down.
• Yang Genshuo identifies the creature as a Hundred-Year Mushroom Spirit named the Galloping Mushroom, whose abilities are Medicinal Fragrance, Gallop, and Find Kin.
• Yang Zhu repeatedly attempts to catch it using the light-element technique Chase Light and the spell Halo, but the mushroom easily dodges him and appears to mock him.
• Yang Genshuo encourages Yang Zhu to invoke his power directly, leading to the cliffhanger: “Ancestor, please grant me strength!”

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Recognizes the seriousness of the Yang Family’s ideological fracture and understands that unity, rather than raw strength, built the family’s empire. He remains impartial, seeking Yang Fu’s perspective before making a judgment. He also becomes more determined to protect Yang Zhu.
• Yang Qiangjing: Reveals her pragmatic and ruthless side. She is willing to use morally questionable methods—including slavery and soul-control techniques—to prepare the empire for future alien invasions. Her goals are defensive and practical, but her methods resemble demonic cultivation.
• Yang Fu: Though absent from most of the chapter, he is characterized as someone with firm moral boundaries. His opposition to enslaving demons and monsters stems from his hatred of demonic cultivator practices.
• Yang Qiangwei: Is revealed to support Yang Qiangjing’s aggressive policies and uses the Undying Demon Heart to strengthen the slave-based system.
• Yang Zhu: Demonstrates impressive talent despite his poverty and difficult childhood. At only ten years old and in the Qi Refinement stage, he possesses powerful inherited light-element techniques, though he lacks control and repeatedly injures himself while chasing the mushroom spirit.
• Galloping Mushroom: Introduced as a mischievous but non-hostile spirit. Its speed and evasiveness make it difficult to capture, while its useful abilities suggest it could become an important companion for Yang Zhu.

Significant Themes

• Family unity versus ideological division: The chapter emphasizes that internal discord is more dangerous than external enemies.
• Pragmatism versus morality: Yang Qiangjing prioritizes survival, productivity, and military preparedness, while Yang Fu represents ethical restraint and opposition to exploitation.
• The cost of security: The empire’s increased strength comes at the cost of Merit, morality, and the Yang Family’s spiritual reputation.
• Legacy and sacrifice: Past figures such as Yang Shi and Li Fan embody the family’s former spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice, contrasting with the current generation’s fragmentation.
• Talent and inequality: Yang Zhu’s exceptional cultivation talent is contrasted with Yang Genshuo’s slower progress and suffering, reinforcing the unpredictability of innate ability.
• Humor amid darkness: The absurd chase between Yang Zhu and the giant mushroom provides comic relief after the chapter’s serious political and moral discussion.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing: Have an extended, candid conversation about the origins of her dispute with Yang Fu. Genshuo listens without immediately condemning her, but remains cautious about accepting her version alone.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Fu: Their anticipated conversation is set up as the next step in Genshuo’s attempt to understand both sides.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu: Genshuo acts as mentor and protector, explaining the mushroom spirit’s nature and encouraging Yang Zhu to tame it.
• Yang Zhu and the Galloping Mushroom: Their interaction begins with Yang Zhu attempting to eat the mushroom, followed by a slapstick pursuit in which the mushroom repeatedly evades and taunts him.

Chapter Summary: “Yang Qiangzheng’s Disappearance: A Chain Reaction”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo realizes that Yang Zhu’s faith in the Ancestor has strengthened but is still incomplete. He deliberately encourages Yang Zhu to rely on the Ancestor directly so that the boy’s faith will become firm.
• When Yang Zhu encounters the Galloping Mushroom, Yang Genshuo intends to borrow one of Yang Qiangzheng’s talents to help him. However, he discovers that Yang Qiangzheng’s vision and talents have vanished from the Yang Family’s system, cutting off access to many powerful abilities.
• Instead, Yang Genshuo borrows Yang Fujian’s Immortal-grade talent, Split Rebirth, for Yang Zhu. The blessing greatly enhances Yang Zhu’s physical strength and allows him to create a second body from a piece of flesh.
• Yang Zhu uses the talent intelligently, distracting the Galloping Mushroom with one body and striking it from behind with the other. He successfully subdues the mushroom spirit.
• Taming the mushroom increases the Yang Family’s knowledge and grants them Incense. Yang Zhu also gains access to the mushroom’s powers: extraordinary speed and a healing medicinal fragrance.
• The Galloping Mushroom helps carry Yang Zhu’s unconscious mother, Mi Duo, while its healing aura improves her condition. Yang Zhu continues transferring his own spiritual power to her, determined to awaken her himself someday.
• Yang Genshuo studies the mushroom spirit and concludes that it may not possess a true independent soul. Instead, it appears to function according to a fixed rule: whoever fulfills its challenge gains control of its abilities.
• Yang Zhu’s instinctive ability to distinguish beneficial mushrooms from poisonous ones is revealed to be another major advantage, possibly allowing him to perceive fortune, danger, or cause and effect.
• To encourage Yang Zhu’s confidence, Yang Genshuo lends him Yang Shi’s Earth-grade Madman talent, which increases his Destiny when he steadfastly pursues his goals. Yang Zhu gains renewed confidence in escaping the strange world.
• Yang Genshuo identifies Yang Zhu’s location as a possible Legendary Land, a mysterious realm governed by unique rules. He decides that understanding those rules will be essential to rescuing Yang Zhu.
• After withdrawing from Yang Zhu’s vision, Yang Genshuo turns his attention to the unexplained disappearance of Yang Qiangzheng and asks Yang Qiangjing for information about what happened in the Demon Realm.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu demonstrates growing faith in the Ancestor, strong filial devotion, and exceptional combat intelligence. Although inexperienced, he immediately discovers an effective way to exploit Split Rebirth.
• Yang Zhu’s potential becomes increasingly clear. Yang Genshuo believes his Comprehension, talent, and lack of bottlenecks could allow him to reach the Nascent Soul stage rapidly if properly supported.
• Yang Zhu remains focused on protecting and healing Mi Duo, promising to become strong enough to wake her.
• Yang Genshuo continues acting as both guardian and strategist. He carefully cultivates Yang Zhu’s faith while also investigating the larger mysteries surrounding the family and the Legendary Land.
• Yang Genshuo becomes concerned and unsettled by the loss of Yang Qiangzheng’s vision and talents, recognizing that the disappearance may signal a serious crisis.
• Mi Duo remains unconscious, but Yang Zhu’s efforts and the mushroom’s healing abilities improve her physical condition.
• The legacy of Yang Shi continues through his Madman talent, which strengthens Yang Zhu and symbolizes the enduring influence of deceased family members.

Significant Themes

• Faith and dependence: Yang Genshuo intentionally guides Yang Zhu toward genuine reliance on the Ancestor, showing how faith can become a source of power.
• Family inheritance and legacy: Talents from previous generations, especially Yang Fujian’s and Yang Shi’s, continue to shape and protect younger descendants.
• Potential and cultivation: Yang Zhu is presented as a rare prodigy whose natural comprehension and talents could transform the Yang Family’s future.
• Life, consciousness, and control: The mushroom spirit raises questions about what qualifies as sentient life, since it possesses useful abilities but appears to lack independent thoughts.
• Rules of mysterious worlds: The Legendary Land operates according to unknown laws, suggesting that survival depends less on brute strength than on understanding and obeying those rules.
• Filial devotion: Yang Zhu’s determination to care for Mi Duo gives his journey emotional purpose and motivates his pursuit of strength.
• Loss and uncertainty: Yang Qiangzheng’s unexplained disappearance introduces a new crisis and hints at unresolved dangers connected to the Demon Realm.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu communicate through divine blessings and spiritual guidance. Their relationship grows more trusting as Yang Zhu increasingly views the Ancestor as a reliable protector.
• Yang Zhu speaks with the Ancestor about Split Rebirth, displaying curiosity and confidence while Yang Genshuo explains the talent’s limitations.
• Yang Zhu and the Galloping Mushroom develop a practical bond after he completes its challenge. Though the mushroom cannot communicate normally, it cooperates with him and supports his journey.
• Yang Zhu remains emotionally connected to Mi Duo, caring for her, healing her, and ensuring that the mushroom carries her safely.
• Yang Genshuo compares Yang Zhu’s promise to the family’s earlier prodigies, Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo, reflecting on the family’s continuing growth.
• At the chapter’s conclusion, Yang Genshuo questions Yang Qiangjing about Yang Qiangzheng, shifting the story from Yang Zhu’s immediate survival to the larger mystery threatening the Yang Family.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo investigates what happened to Yang Qiangzheng, who entered the Demon Realm and disappeared after several years.
• Qiangzheng initially became famous by challenging powerful Golden Core demons. Thanks to the Immortal Grade Talent [Split Rebirth], he survived battles that should have killed him and grew stronger through repeated combat.
• By absorbing demon corpses and bloodline talents, Qiangzheng compensated for his weakness in Spell Techniques and eventually became nearly invincible among late-Golden Core cultivators. He then began challenging Golden Core Great Perfection demons.
• The historical records reveal that Yang Qiangjing’s red-clothed clone followed Qiangzheng into the Demon Realm and helped him resist the demonic influence. However, the clone later vanished, and Qiangjing completely forgot she had ever existed.
• Qiangjing realizes that her memories may have been altered. Yang Genshuo suspects the red-clothed clone was formed from Qiangjing’s evil thoughts and may represent the emotions and flaws that the present Qiangjing lacks.
• The chapter suggests that the current Yang Qiangjing has become almost perfectly rational and selfless toward the family because her negative emotions may have been separated into the missing clone.
• Since the clone likely remained with Qiangzheng, Yang Genshuo hopes that finding her will lead him to Qiangzheng. He also resolves to locate other missing family members, including Yang Qiang, Yang Feng, and Yang Zhu.
• Yang Genshuo then visits Yang Fu in Town Border City. Yang Fu has spent the past century cultivating and guarding the Silver Land Dynasty, reaching an astonishing Qi Refinement Layer 45 and becoming the strongest active member of the Yang Family.
• When Yang Genshuo reveals himself, Yang Fu is overwhelmed with relief and immediately offers the Ancestor a large collection of treasures, elixirs, relics, and strange spiritual items he has gathered for precisely this moment.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangzheng: His battles in the Demon Realm made him far stronger, but they also caused emotional and psychological deterioration. After learning about his mother’s death, he broke down in tears and may have become increasingly consumed by demonic influence and grief.
• Yang Qiangjing: Her forgotten clone exposes a hidden side of her character. The rational, tireless, and morally detached family administrator may exist because her negative emotions were split away. She remains confident that the missing clone will return when the time is right.
• Yang Genshuo: He becomes increasingly concerned about the scattered members of the Yang Family and determined to reunite them. He also begins questioning the true nature of Qiangjing’s clone and the consequences of separating one’s emotions.
• Yang Fu: He is portrayed as exceptionally loyal, disciplined, and devoted to the Ancestor. Despite political disagreements with Qiangjing, he honored his responsibility to defend the Silver Land Dynasty and prepared countless resources for Yang Genshuo’s return.

Significant Themes

• Identity and divided selves: Qiangjing’s clone may embody the emotions and impulses she lost, raising questions about whether the clone is merely part of her or an independent person.
• Memory and hidden truth: The disappearance of the clone and Qiangjing’s altered memories suggest that major events have been concealed even from those involved.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Yang Fu’s century-long vigil and preparation for the Ancestor demonstrate unwavering devotion, while Qiangjing’s clone appears to have sacrificed herself to protect Qiangzheng.
• Family separation and reunion: The Yang Family has grown more powerful but increasingly fragmented. Genshuo’s goal is now not only strengthening the family but recovering its scattered members.
• Power through adversity: Qiangzheng’s brutal battles and Yang Fu’s relentless cultivation show how hardship and long-term dedication produce extraordinary strength.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing: Genshuo confronts Qiangjing about her missing clone, forcing her to recognize the gaps in her memory and reconsider her own nature.
• Yang Qiangjing and her clone: Though the clone is absent, their relationship is central to the mystery. The clone may be the emotional counterpart to Qiangjing’s purely rational personality.
• Yang Qiangjing’s clone and Yang Qiangzheng: The clone accompanied Qiangzheng in the Demon Realm and helped absorb or manage his evil thoughts, likely serving as his emotional and psychological support.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Fu: Their reunion reveals the depth of Yang Fu’s loyalty. While Genshuo expected to discuss the family’s history, Yang Fu focused entirely on supporting the Ancestor and immediately offered all his accumulated treasures.

Chapter Summary: The Yang Family’s Future, Yang Fu’s Predicament

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo reunites with Yang Fu after a century apart and realizes how deeply Yang Fu has supported him. Over the years, Yang Fu secretly collected treasures from dangerous Legendary Lands, preserving them in case the Ancestor returned and needed assistance.
• Yang Fu is overjoyed when Yang Genshuo promises that he will no longer disappear. Their reunion restores his confidence and sense of direction.
• Yang Fu presents the Ancestor with detailed records of the Yang family’s development, including a comprehensive version and a simplified summary. The records compare his own policies in Town Border City with Yang Qiangjing’s development of Bright City.
• The two discuss the ideological divide within the family. Bright City has become wealthier, larger, and more prosperous, while Town Border City has focused on cultivation, discipline, combat strength, and preserving the family’s moral character.
• Yang Fu explains that he followed what he believed was Yang Genshuo’s original vision: building a “House of Accumulated Goodness” based on benevolence, integrity, long-term development, and helping others rather than pursuing wealth alone.
• Yang Genshuo realizes that his teachings unintentionally contributed to the family’s division, since both Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjing shaped their policies according to different interpretations of his ideals.
• Despite their differences, Yang Genshuo concludes that neither leader is entirely wrong. Yang Qiangjing created prosperity and economic growth, while Yang Fu cultivated stronger fighters and more focused descendants.
• Yang Genshuo proposes that he, Yang Fu, and Yang Qiangjing meet in the Blazing Sun Dynasty to reconcile their differences and plan the family’s future.
• Yang Fu reveals the hidden reason he has not left Town Border City for three years: his cultivation has become so powerful that even small movements distort and damage space. The Thunder Pool surrounding him is actually an overflow of power from his own Dantian.
• Because Yang Fu can no longer safely travel through the Twelve Dynasties, Yang Genshuo decides that Yang Qiangjing should come to meet them instead.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Reconnects emotionally with Yang Fu and gains a clearer understanding of the family’s condition. He recognizes his own indirect responsibility for the ideological split and adopts a more balanced view of both family leaders.
• Yang Fu: His loyalty, patience, and devotion are emphasized. He has spent a century preparing to aid the Ancestor, while also preserving a disciplined cultivation environment. His immense power, however, has become a severe limitation, making ordinary travel dangerous.
• Yang Qiangjing: Although absent from most of the chapter, she is portrayed as the architect of Bright City’s prosperity and representative of a practical, economically focused development strategy.
• The fifth generation: The contrast between the two cities becomes visible through their descendants. Bright City’s numerous young cultivators have grown comfortable and ordinary, while Town Border City’s Zhuxin and Zhuzhe have advanced rapidly because they remain focused and free from distractions.

Significant Themes

• Family loyalty and devotion: Yang Fu’s century-long preparation demonstrates his unwavering faith in the Ancestor and the family.
• Conflicting visions of progress: The chapter contrasts economic prosperity with disciplined cultivation, asking whether wealth and expansion necessarily produce a stronger family.
• Unintended consequences of ideals: Yang Genshuo’s benevolent teachings inspire different interpretations, ultimately contributing to division.
• Balance between morality and power: The Yang family must preserve righteousness without becoming weak, while also gaining strength without becoming corrupted by wealth.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: Yang Fu sacrifices his freedom and personal mobility to control his overwhelming strength and protect others.
• Reconciliation and renewal: The past conflict is not erased, but the characters begin shifting their focus toward cooperation and the family’s future.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Fu share an emotional reunion that reinforces their relationship as both grandfather and grandson, as well as close friends.
• Their conversation about the family’s development is respectful but intellectually challenging. Yang Genshuo questions Yang Fu’s choices, while Yang Fu firmly defends his cultivation-centered philosophy.
• Yang Fu explains that he opposed Yang Qiangjing not out of personal hostility but because he believed Bright City’s material prosperity was weakening the family’s cultivation and moral drive.
• Yang Genshuo recognizes the value in both Yang Fu’s and Yang Qiangjing’s paths and seeks to bring them together for a future discussion.
• The chapter ends with Yang Genshuo taking responsibility for arranging the meeting, while Yang Fu’s spatial predicament determines where it can occur.

Chapter Summary: “Skin Swapping Operation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo secretly reunites with Yang Fu and Yang Qiangjing in the Thunder Pool after a century apart. The three resolve their misunderstandings, exchange opinions, and establish a confidential agreement regarding Yang Family governance.
• They plan to reform the family, eliminate corrupt figures such as Yang Shuang, address internal problems, and unite the family’s strength. Their plans must remain secret until they are fully prepared.
• Yang Genshuo remains troubled by the mystery of Yang Min’an, Yang Zhu’s unknown father. Because Yang Zhu possesses Saint Grade Talent, Yang Genshuo suspects Yang Min’an was also extraordinarily talented and may be connected to Yang Feng or the mysterious mushroom world.
• Yang Genshuo investigates Yang Qiangding as a possible connection but dismisses the idea because Qiangding is unmarried and unlikely to be Yang Min’an’s father.
• Before the upcoming Ancestral Worship ceremony, Yang Genshuo returns his attention to the modern world and prepares a counter-operation against the TW Organization, which has infiltrated his forces and threatened his family.
• With Tian Zhe, Qiao Jianlu, Lü Xiaobu, and other subordinates, he uses [Disguise Skins] to impersonate captured agents and thugs. Yang Genshuo personally disguises himself as the female agent Qianxiao using both the skin and his superior Illusion Transformation Technique.
• The team exchanges places with the real agents, hides them in the manor, and allows the enemy’s network to continue operating without realizing that several agents have been hypnotized and turned into Yang Genshuo’s spies.
• At a dock, the disguised team meets a hooded TW contact and hands over intelligence about Yang Genshuo’s manor and movements.
• The hooded man criticizes the agents for kidnapping two people and orders them to leave, later deciding that they should be killed to prevent complications.
• Yang Genshuo secretly resolves to eliminate everyone involved. After the team exits, the hooded man calls his superior, but the air suddenly ripples, suggesting that Yang Genshuo’s counterattack is beginning.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Yang Genshuo, Yang Fu, and Yang Qiangjing: Their reunion restores trust and creates a united leadership structure for the Yang Family. Yang Fu’s parental role in Yang Qiangjing’s upbringing is emphasized.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing: Their cooperation reflects the growing connection between cultivation and technology. Qiangjing’s technical faction has developed useful mechanical devices and improved the Blood Essence Potion.
• Yang Fushuo and Yang Qiangding: Fushuo is shown to favor his son Qiangding, while largely neglecting his daughter Qiangjing. Qiangding receives excellent resources and has reached the Late Foundation Establishment stage.
• Yang Genshuo and his modern subordinates: He acts as both commander and mentor. He insists on participating in the mission because the others have not yet mastered their Magic Treasures, while encouraging them to improve.
• Yang Genshuo and Lü Xiaobu: Xiaobu is amazed by Yang Genshuo’s ability to perfectly imitate a woman and jokingly asks to learn the technique, adding comic relief before the dangerous operation.
• Yang Genshuo and the hooded contact: The contact mistakes him for Qianxiao and criticizes him for the agents’ disappearance, unknowingly confronting the person he is investigating.

Significant Themes

• Family unity and governance: The chapter presents reconciliation and cooperation as the foundation for restoring the Yang Family.
• Secrecy and hidden identities: Both the Yang Family’s leadership and the modern counter-operation depend on concealment, disguise, and carefully controlled information.
• Nature versus nurture and inherited talent: Yang Genshuo’s investigation into Yang Min’an reflects his belief that extraordinary Talent is hereditary rather than accidental.
• The power gap between cultivators and mortals: The disguise techniques, hypnosis, Illusion Transformation Technique, and Grain-abstinence Pills demonstrate how far cultivators surpass ordinary humans.
• Preparation and strategic patience: Rather than acting impulsively, Yang Genshuo spends time gathering information, training his team, manipulating enemy agents, and waiting for the ideal moment to strike.
• Technological and cultivation integration: Yang Qiangjing’s inventions and the Blood Essence Potion show the Yang Family’s increasingly hybrid approach to progress and military strength.

Chapter Summary: “Clearing Out”

Plot and Major Events

Yang Genshuo and his disciples use cultivation methods rather than conventional surveillance to track the TW Organization. With his powerful Spiritual Sense, Yang locates and subdues the hooded man’s hidden guards before returning to the man’s boat to overhear his communications. They learn that the hooded man is only a middle-ranking contact and that his superior, known as “Deep Sea,” will collect the documents at Qingfeng Lake Park.
Yang ambushes the hooded man, Jia Shu, hypnotizes him, and extracts information about his identity and the TW Organization. Jia Shu is an orphan raised by the organization and secretly works as a tutoring-school teacher while serving as a spy. Yang decides to have Tian Zhe impersonate Jia Shu, while he and his disciples pose as Jia Shu’s subordinates.
At the park, Tian successfully meets Deep Sea, the TW Organization’s mainland and Asian leader. Deep Sea receives intelligence files about the Immortal Qi Group and Yang Genshuo, revealing that the organization is investigating the group’s mysterious energy products and their apparent life-extending properties. The TW Organization hopes to acquire this technology and use the promise of longevity to control wealthy and powerful people worldwide.
Deep Sea suspects that Yang Genshuo’s company may be connected to advanced Chinese technology or official support. While traveling back to what he believes is the airport, he is instead taken to a garage. His driver, Lü Xiaobu, appears to betray him, while Yang’s group reveals that the real driver has already been replaced. Using the Hypnosis Bell, Yang captures and interrogates Deep Sea.
They learn that Deep Sea has three major subordinates, each controlling additional agents throughout the country. Yang plans to eliminate these networks and then use Deep Sea as a guide to infiltrate the TW Organization’s headquarters, likely located in the United States. He intends to impersonate Deep Sea and meet the organization’s highest-ranking members, possibly even its founder.
Yang is confident because his recent advancement to the Foundation Establishment stage has greatly increased his strength. He can fly, manipulate objects, use Treasure Artifacts, and rely on Xiao Yan’s underground support. He also brings ten disciples, making the mission far more capable than his earlier operations.
Meanwhile, Yang’s Spiritual Sense observes Yang Zhu in the cultivation world. After taming a mushroom spirit, Yang Zhu’s situation has improved, and he now believes he has finally found a possible way out of his predicament.

Character Development

• Yang Genshuo becomes increasingly decisive and aggressive. His Foundation Establishment breakthrough gives him confidence that he can confront the TW Organization directly rather than merely defend against its investigations.
• Tian Zhe demonstrates strong acting and tactical ability by convincingly impersonating Jia Shu during the meeting with Deep Sea.
• Jia Shu is revealed to be a loyal, deeply embedded TW agent, though his position is ultimately exploited by Yang’s group.
• Deep Sea/Shen Hai is established as an experienced and cautious spy leader. He admires Jia Shu’s competence and considers him a possible successor, but his confidence collapses when he is betrayed, captured, and hypnotized.
• Lü Xiaobu serves as part of the deception operation, helping Yang’s group seize Deep Sea.
• Yang Zhu gains hope after taming the mushroom spirit and finding a possible escape route.

Character Interactions

• Yang communicates tactically with his disciples through Spiritual Sense and coordinates the capture of Jia Shu.
• Tian Zhe and Deep Sea interact during the park exchange, with Tian maintaining his disguise and carefully avoiding questions that might expose him.
• Deep Sea studies the intelligence on Yang Genshuo and the Immortal Qi Group, forming speculative conclusions about Yang’s background and China’s technological capabilities.
• Yang, Tian Zhe, and the disciples interrogate Deep Sea after capturing him and discuss how to exploit his knowledge and identity.
• Yang continues monitoring Yang Zhu from afar, linking the worldly conflict with developments in the cultivation world.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation versus conventional power: Spiritual Sense, hypnosis, magic tools, and Treasure Artifacts make ordinary surveillance and espionage methods nearly irrelevant.
• Layered conspiracies: The TW Organization is structured like an onion, with each captured agent revealing a higher-ranking figure.
• Longevity as power: The organization’s interest in Immortal Qi Group technology is driven by the desire to extend life and manipulate the wealthy and influential.
• Deception and counter-deception: Both sides rely on disguises, false identities, surveillance, and betrayal, but Yang’s supernatural abilities give him a decisive advantage.
• Growing confidence and escalation: Yang moves from quietly responding to threats to actively planning an international assault on the organization’s headquarters.
• Hope amid confinement: Yang Zhu’s discovery of a possible escape route provides a parallel thread of progress and optimism.

Chapter Summary: The Wisdom of Mortals (Part 1)

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Zhu senses a distant source of light in the otherwise dark mushroom world. Believing it may be a sign of good fortune, he decides to travel toward it with his mother, hoping to return to a world with light.
• Yang Genshuo encourages Yang Zhu but plans to investigate the light himself after dealing with the TW Organization.
• Yang Genshuo, Tian Zhe, and his ten disciples travel secretly to the TW Organization’s headquarters in the United States. Tian Zhe continues impersonating the organization’s East Asian contact, Shen Hai.
• After arriving, the group follows Tian Zhe’s vehicle. Lü Xiaobu impulsively obtains a Ferrari by charming its owner, but he and Lin Bai quickly lose the target because they do not know the route.
• Yang Genshuo summons Xiao Yan, his rapidly growing Earth-element Spiritual Beast, and uses it to transport the group underground. Xiao Yan follows the Lincoln directly through the earth, allowing them to catch up unnoticed.
• While traveling, Yang Genshuo reflects on the usefulness of Spiritual Beasts and plans to cultivate more of them, especially a Water-element beast to solve future travel and survival problems.
• He also considers using Beast-Taming techniques and a special treasure to store Spiritual Beasts, making them easier to transport and deploy.
• Yang Genshuo thinks about the enormous wealth accumulated by the Yang Family during his century-long absence. The family has gained immense resources through trade, industry, slave labor, and political influence.
• Among the family’s most valuable possessions are six Mysterious Treasures capable of reshaping or improving Spiritual Roots. Yang Genshuo considers giving them to his disciples and Tian Zhe, but rejects the idea because unequal distribution could create resentment.
• The group reaches a farm outside New York. Yang Genshuo discovers through Spiritual Sense that the farm conceals a huge underground TW Organization laboratory.
• The apparent farmers are actually highly trained guards monitoring the area. Yang Genshuo decides not to attack immediately, intending to follow Tian Zhe deeper into the organization and identify its true leader.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu: Becomes more proactive and hopeful. He recognizes that remaining in the mushroom world is limiting his cultivation and chooses to pursue an uncertain path toward the distant light.
• Yang Genshuo: Demonstrates patience, strategic thinking, and confidence. Rather than attacking the TW Organization’s apparent base immediately, he plans to expose its leadership layer by layer. He also broadens his long-term plans to include the cultivation and deployment of Spiritual Beasts.
• Tian Zhe: Continues his convincing impersonation of Shen Hai and serves as the bait or infiltrator leading the group toward the TW headquarters.
• Lü Xiaobu: Shows his impulsive, mischievous personality by using his appearance and magical disguise to obtain a Ferrari. His actions are amusing but tactically unreliable.
• Lin Bai: Displays greater seriousness and impatience than Lü Xiaobu, volunteering to scout because his Double Pupil talent can gather visual information more effectively than Yang Genshuo’s limited underground Spiritual Sense.
• Xiao Yan: Has grown dramatically in size and capability after being fed spiritual resources. It proves highly useful as a mount, underground transport, and detection partner.

Significant Themes

• Light as hope and transformation: The distant light represents Yang Zhu’s hope for escape, growth, and a return to a world where he can cultivate properly.
• Strategy over brute force: Yang Genshuo emphasizes patience, concealment, and information gathering instead of rushing into battle.
• The potential of Spiritual Beasts: The chapter explores whether animals may be easier to transform into cultivators than humans, since they require only a suitable Golden Core demon core rather than an innate Spiritual Root.
• Power, wealth, and morality: The Yang Family’s enormous fortune reflects the complicated relationship between utilitarian success and moral compromise. The TW Organization is condemned as a modern form of demonic cultivation because of its immoral practices.
• Equality and leadership: Yang Genshuo’s refusal to distribute the six Spiritual Root–reshaping treasures unequally shows his concern for group unity and the danger of favoritism.
• Modern technology versus cultivation: Airplanes, cars, missiles, underground movement, magic tools, and Spiritual Beasts coexist, highlighting the chapter’s fusion of modern society and cultivation methods.

Character Interactions

• Yang Zhu consults Yang Genshuo about his intuition regarding the light and receives encouragement to pursue it.
• Yang Genshuo reprimands Lü Xiaobu and Lin Bai after their reckless car chase fails, though their actions still provide transportation.
• The disciples depend on Xiao Yan to carry them underground, while Yang Genshuo guides the pursuit using Spiritual Sense.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly tries to alert Yang Genshuo to the hidden laboratory, demonstrating growing intelligence and cooperation with its master.
• Yang Genshuo contrasts Lin Bai’s useful scouting ability with Lü Xiaobu’s unreliable enthusiasm.
• His thoughts about distributing the Spiritual Root treasures reveal his protective attitude toward his disciples and his desire to prevent rivalry among them.
• The chapter ends with Tian Zhe being escorted into the underground facility while Yang Genshuo and the others remain concealed, preparing to identify the TW Organization’s real leader.

Chapter Summary: The Wisdom of Mortals (Part 2)

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo, Jiang Changshou, Lü Xiaobu, Lin Bai, Xiao Yan, and the others infiltrate the TW Organization’s underground headquarters beneath a farm.
• Using Xiao Yan’s ability to travel through earth, they approach the reinforced underground facility. Lü Xiaobu cuts observation openings and later an entrance through the restroom wall with his laser sword.
• Lin Bai surveys the massive six-level complex, mapping its layout and tracking Tian Zhe, who is disguised as the TW agent “Deep Sea.”
• Tian Zhe is escorted to the Extraordinary Research Institute, confirming that the TW Organization is investigating supernatural phenomena and extraordinary powers.
• Tian Zhe successfully maintains his disguise using information obtained from the real Deep Sea’s memories. He meets a senior female researcher and is then summoned to meet the organization’s leader.
• The group realizes that the leader will be brought directly to them, making their mission much easier. Yang Genshuo assigns Lin Bai to command the infiltration while the others enter through the restroom and secure the route.
• Tian Zhe meets the masked leader, Jason, an elderly Caucasian man. Their conversation reveals that the TW Organization investigates supernatural incidents throughout East Asia and possibly worldwide, not merely the Immortal Qi Group.
• When Tian Zhe begins to struggle with questions he cannot answer, he uses the opportunity to attack Jason, knocking him unconscious with a single palm strike.
• Yang Genshuo cuts through the conference-room door, and the team extracts Jason from the headquarters without raising an alarm.
• Back underground, Yang Genshuo prepares to hypnotize their captive. However, when asked his name, Jason answers “Huaxi,” suggesting either an unexpected identity, deception, or a potentially significant twist.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo acts as the strategist and commander, coordinating the infiltration and recognizing the value of capturing the organization’s leader alive.
• Tian Zhe demonstrates composure and adaptability while impersonating Deep Sea. Despite successfully deceiving the TW Organization, he becomes vulnerable when questioned about information outside Deep Sea’s memories. He ultimately resolves the danger through decisive physical action.
• Lü Xiaobu displays exceptional mastery of the laser sword, cutting precise openings through extremely durable walls and doors.
• Lin Bai emerges as the team’s chief observer and tactical analyst. His enhanced perception, spatial awareness, and ability to study enemy deployment allow him to devise the safest infiltration route.
• Xiao Yan proves essential for underground mobility but is disappointed when ordered to remain behind with Lin Bai instead of joining the initial assault.
• Jiang Changshou contributes overwhelming physical strength, silently incapacitating an unexpected restroom intruder.
• Jason, initially presented as the TW Organization’s apparent leader, is captured easily, but his response during hypnosis casts doubt on whether he is truly who the team believes he is.

Significant Themes

• The growing conflict between supernatural powers and mortal institutions: The TW Organization studies extraordinary phenomena systematically, showing that governments or secret organizations are attempting to understand and control powers beyond ordinary human limits.
• Preparation and intelligence over brute force: Although the protagonists possess overwhelming strength, they first gather information, map the facility, and plan a controlled extraction rather than launching a reckless attack.
• Teamwork and specialized abilities: Each member contributes a different strength—spiritual perception, disguise, terrain analysis, earth traversal, combat skill, or technological expertise—allowing the team to succeed with minimal resistance.
• Appearance versus identity: Tian Zhe’s successful impersonation of Deep Sea, Jason’s masked presence, and his unexpected answer of “Huaxi” all emphasize uncertainty about who people really are.
• The limits of knowledge: Tian Zhe’s disguise nearly fails because he has not fully absorbed all of Deep Sea’s memories, highlighting the danger of relying on incomplete information.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo directs the team and gives Xiao Yan, Lü Xiaobu, Lin Bai, and the others specific roles.
• He praises Lü Xiaobu’s precise laser-sword work and relies heavily on Lin Bai’s tactical judgment.
• Xiao Yan’s eagerness to participate contrasts humorously with Yang Genshuo’s order for it to remain with Lin Bai.
• Tian Zhe exchanges cautious dialogue with the senior female researcher, who tests his identity and acknowledges Deep Sea’s importance to the organization.
• Tian Zhe communicates telepathically with Yang Genshuo during the meeting and receives instructions to capture the leader when possible.
• Tian Zhe and Jason hold a high-level discussion before Tian Zhe abruptly attacks him.
• After the capture, Yang Genshuo attempts to interrogate Jason through hypnosis, but the unexpected name “Huaxi” immediately raises new questions about the captive’s identity.

Chapter Summary: “Being Calculated!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group discovers that the man they kidnapped is not Jason, the supposed boss of the TW Organization, but Huaxi, an infiltration agent whose mission was to lure out the Hua Countryman disguised as Deep Sea.
• This reveals that the TW Organization had already seen through their infiltration operation. Tian Zhe realizes that the suspicious “Socket Woman,” later identified as Demon Eye, had noticed his true identity.
• Rather than continue covert tactics, Yang Genshuo decides to attack the TW Organization’s underground research facility directly.
• With Xiao Yan’s earth-manipulating abilities, the group reaches strategic locations and seals all four exits, turning the facility into a trapped “coffin.”
• Yang Genshuo divides the group into teams and orders his ten disciples to eliminate the facility’s armed personnel. Despite the soldiers’ infrared detection equipment, the disciples’ cultivation, invisibility talismans, and laser swords allow them to overwhelm the defenders.
• Yang Genshuo publicly orders the remaining soldiers to surrender. Having lost their will to fight, they lay down their weapons.
• Demon Eye is captured and brought before Yang Genshuo and Tian Zhe. She claims that the attack has merely revealed the group’s strength to the organization’s higher-ups.
• She attempts to commit suicide by biting a concealed poison capsule, but Qiao Jianlu has already removed it after Qiao Jianlu—or another member of the group—carefully counted her teeth and identified the hiding place.
• The group prepares to interrogate Demon Eye using the bell’s mind-controlling effect. When asked where the TW Organization’s boss is, she points behind Yang Genshuo and says, “He is right here.”

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo shifts from infiltration and careful investigation to decisive, overwhelming force. His confidence returns once he realizes the group can dominate the battlefield through cultivation and superior mobility.
• He also recognizes Tian Zhe’s potential and begins planning to guide him from martial arts into cultivation, believing cultivators possess greater long-term potential and versatility.
• Tian Zhe moves from anxiety over having been exposed to excitement and confidence during the counterattack. His admiration for Yang Genshuo grows, especially after witnessing sword-riding, and he expresses a strong desire to learn cultivation.
• Xiao Yan enthusiastically participates in the assault, using earth techniques to transport allies and collapse or seal escape routes.
• The ten disciples receive a practical combat test. They demonstrate that their cultivation, equipment, and teamwork allow them to defeat heavily armed elite soldiers.
• Demon Eye is revealed as a sharp and dangerous strategist who successfully identified the infiltration, but her confidence collapses when the group anticipates her suicide attempt and captures her facility.
• Huaxi is established as a disposable infiltrator rather than the true Jason, showing the TW Organization’s use of deception and layered identities.

Significant Themes

• Deception and counter-deception: Both sides attempt to manipulate and infiltrate one another, but the group ultimately turns the TW Organization’s own secrecy against it.
• Cultivation versus conventional technology: Modern weapons and elite soldiers are impressive, but cultivation provides superior mobility, stealth, destructive power, and adaptability.
• The value of overwhelming force: Yang Genshuo abandons elaborate schemes once they are compromised, demonstrating that direct strength can be more effective than continued manipulation.
• Growth and succession: Yang Genshuo’s desire to train Tian Zhe reflects his broader plan to cultivate stronger allies and prepare for future conflicts.
• Confidence versus miscalculation: Both sides underestimate the other. The TW Organization misjudges the group’s abilities, while Yang Genshuo initially fails to realize that his disguise has already been exposed.
• Trapped power structures: The underground facility, intended to provide security and secrecy, becomes a prison once its exits are sealed.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Bai and Yang Genshuo initially speculate about Huaxi’s identity, only to learn that he is an ordinary infiltration agent.
• Tian Zhe identifies Demon Eye’s suspicion and later taunts her after the group’s victory.
• Yang Genshuo encourages Tian Zhe to learn cultivation, creating a mentor-student relationship.
• Yang Genshuo and Xiao Yan coordinate the facility’s containment, using earth techniques to isolate the enemy.
• Qiao Jianlu outmaneuvers Demon Eye’s attempted suicide, while the group prepares to extract information through the bell.
• The final revelation—that the boss is supposedly “right here”—creates a cliffhanger and suggests that the true Jason may have been present in the facility all along.

Chapter Summary: “Lin Bai’s Eye”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo and his group confront the supposed “Jason,” only to discover that the masked figure is a holographic projection. A hidden device on a nearby rooftop generates the image.
• Through the Hypnosis Bell, Yang questions the Demon Eye, who reveals that she believed Jason had arranged the day’s events. The real Jason, however, appears to be elusive and possibly more than one person.
• The masked figure explains that the entire operation was a trap designed to study Yang’s abilities. Multiple holographic Jasons appear around the group, revealing that TW has been monitoring them.
• TW discloses that it possesses advanced communication technology capable of transmitting signals underground and through heavy barriers. Yang realizes the organization is not merely a criminal group but a highly advanced and well-connected force.
• The group learns that their disguise was exposed not by the agents they had captured, but by a second, hidden investigation team operating more subtly within the Immortal Qi Group’s surroundings.
• TW questions Yang about the origin and transferability of his abilities. Yang lies, claiming his powers are innate, then orders Tian Zhe and the disciples to destroy the holographic equipment.
• Although the holograms are destroyed, more immediately reappear because the entire base is equipped with projection devices. Yang’s group retreats underground with the Demon Eye, escaping on Xiao Yan.
• During the escape, TW identifies Tian Zhe as “Brother Tian,” links him to the Chinese military command, and vows to capture him, even at the risk of provoking an armed conflict.
• Yang concludes that the mission was a major failure: they failed to strike TW’s leadership, exposed their own powers and location, and discovered only a branch rather than the organization’s headquarters.
• Lin Bai then offers an important deduction. The different Jasons—men, women, young, and old—are likely members of a powerful global network rather than one individual. By matching one projection’s voice and physique to an online video connected to the Lolita Island Incident, he suggests that TW may consist of the world’s hidden elites.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo becomes increasingly frustrated and cautious after realizing that TW anticipated their entire operation. His confidence is shaken, but he remains decisive, conceals the Hypnosis Bell, orders the counterattack, and begins reassessing TW as a far more dangerous enemy.
• Tian Zhe recognizes his failure to identify the hidden investigators and openly accepts responsibility. Despite the setback, he remains loyal and ready to pursue the enemy.
• Lin Bai demonstrates exceptional observation, memory, and analytical ability. He notices suspicious bystanders, understands that the Jasons are not one person, and connects TW to the Lolita Island Incident, providing the group with its first promising investigative lead.
• The Demon Eye is shown to be unusually reliable under normal circumstances, but the Hypnosis Bell forces her to reveal information she had never previously disclosed. Her testimony also confirms how little even TW’s agents may understand about Jason.
• TW/Jason is revealed to be arrogant, technologically advanced, organized, and composed of multiple powerful individuals. Their interest in Yang’s abilities suggests that they may seek to recruit, exploit, or replicate them.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance and overconfidence: Yang’s group mistakes an easy operation for genuine success and fails to recognize that they are being guided into a trap.
• Hidden power and surveillance: TW’s influence operates beneath the visible surface, using covert investigators, advanced communications, and constant observation.
• Technology versus supernatural cultivation: The chapter contrasts Yang’s spiritual techniques and hypnosis with TW’s holograms, laser weapons, alloy structures, and global communication systems.
• The danger of incomplete information: Both sides manipulate what the other knows. Yang’s team interrogates visible agents while missing the more discreet investigators.
• Collective identity and conspiracy: “Jason” may not be an individual but a shared identity representing a worldwide network of elites, making TW difficult to locate or defeat.
• Learning through failure: The failed mission forces Yang and his disciples to acknowledge their mistakes and develop a more careful approach.

Character Interactions

• Yang questions the Demon Eye using the Hypnosis Bell, while the holographic Jason watches with surprise and interest.
• Jason attempts to establish a calculated exchange of information, asking about Yang’s powers in return for answering Yang’s questions.
• Yang deliberately misleads Jason about his abilities, then provokes TW by suggesting they should seek him out as disciples.
• Tian Zhe and the disciples coordinate with Yang to destroy the projection devices and facilitate the escape.
• Afterward, Tian Zhe and Lin Bai confess their mistakes to Yang. Yang reassures them but emphasizes that TW’s hidden structure is the real threat.
• Lin Bai’s final theory shifts the group’s mood from defeat to cautious hope: identifying the real people behind the holograms may allow them to uncover TW’s leadership and its connection to the Lolita Island Incident.

Chapter Summary: “Defense and Offense”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo and his group evade the TW Organization at the airport by using counter-surveillance tactics, then flee to another city and return to Mount Jiuhua.
• He orders his disciples to remain on the mountain, practice their abilities, and avoid drawing attention. Tian Zhe is tasked with explaining their absence to others.
• Reviewing the failed American operation, Yang recognizes that the mission failed and exposed his side, leaving the TW Organization with the advantage.
• Despite the setback, Lin Bai identified one of the TW Organization’s masterminds as a world-famous tycoon. Yang also learns that the organization is controlled by multiple powerful people rather than a single leader.
• Yang decides against immediate retaliation. He plans to strengthen his defenses, protect his people and assets, and allow the enemy to believe he discovered nothing.
• He upgrades Mount Jiuhua’s defenses by burying a Miniature Spirit Vein beneath his manor and preparing to construct the Grade Three Boulder Thousand Peaks Array. His existing Grade Two formation is inadequate against serious threats such as high-caliber sniper fire.
• Concerned about the large number of researchers and employees living on the mountain, Yang realizes that simple defensive formations cannot guarantee everyone’s safety.
• He develops a new plan: transform Mount Jiuhua into a secure, self-sufficient base for the Immortal Qi Group, with housing, centralized management, spiritual-energy-enhanced living conditions, spiritual food, and training facilities.
• Yang plans to use Spirit Building Blocks and cultivation techniques to accelerate construction. Because ordinary martial artists cannot perceive spiritual-energy flows, he considers cultivating new practitioners to assist with the work.
• The upcoming Ancestral Worship in twenty-five days becomes an opportunity to obtain the large quantity of spiritual materials needed for the mountain’s transformation.
• Yang decides to shift the Immortal Qi Group’s focus away from merely making money and toward building a powerful, versatile, loyal team.
• He calls an all-hands meeting with the organization’s core leaders and honestly reveals that their business has attracted a dangerous enemy. He apologizes for placing them in danger.
• Guo Xiaozhi responds first, reaffirming his loyalty and willingness to face the threat alongside Yang.

2. Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes more cautious and strategic after the failed mission. Rather than rushing into revenge, he prioritizes defense, organizational stability, and protecting his employees. He also recognizes the importance of leadership, delegation, and building a dependable team.
• Lin Bai: Demonstrates exceptional observational skill by identifying one of the TW Organization’s leaders as a world-class tycoon. His ability to perceive aspects of spiritual construction also makes him useful for the future base-building project.
• Tian Zhe: Continues serving as a trusted security aide and messenger, helping organize the disciples and summon key personnel.
• Liang Xuetong: Emerges as a particularly important outsider within Yang’s team. His expertise in civil engineering and New Bright City’s design makes him vital to the Mount Jiuhua project. Yang considers revealing the truth about cultivation to him.
• Guo Xiaozhi: Shows strong loyalty and gratitude toward Yang, immediately volunteering to confront the enemy despite being an ordinary person.
• The disciples and employees: Are increasingly repositioned from passive followers or workers into an organized team that may be trained, protected, and integrated into a larger cultivation-based enterprise.

3. Significant Themes

• Defense before offense: Yang learns that retaliation is meaningless if his people and assets remain vulnerable. The chapter emphasizes preparation, patience, and securing the home front before striking back.
• Leadership and responsibility: Yang feels guilty for exposing ordinary employees to danger and accepts responsibility for their safety.
• Transformation and adaptation: The failed mission forces Yang to rethink the Immortal Qi Group’s purpose and structure. The company begins evolving from a profit-oriented business into a fortified, cultivation-based organization.
• Teamwork and dependence: Yang acknowledges that even powerful individuals cannot accomplish everything alone. A reliable team is essential for both survival and long-term achievement.
• Integration of cultivation with modern society: Spiritual formations, spirit veins, Spirit Building Blocks, martial arts, technology, and corporate organization are combined to create a modern cultivation base.
• Trust and secrecy: Yang struggles with whether to reveal cultivation knowledge to Liang Xuetong, reflecting the tension between maintaining secrecy and empowering trusted allies.
• Security versus scale: Protecting a large group is more difficult than protecting a single manor, prompting Yang to create a centralized and self-sufficient refuge.

4. Character Interactions

• Yang gives Tian Zhe and the disciples instructions before isolating himself to analyze the failure.
• He mentally evaluates Lin Bai’s discovery and the threat posed by the TW Organization’s wealthy founders.
• Yang considers how Lin Bai and Liang Xuetong could contribute to the construction of the new base, particularly because of their ability to understand or apply aspects of spiritual design.
• He communicates his strategic shift to Tian Zhe, ordering him to gather Liang Xuetong and the other department heads.
• At the all-hands meeting, Yang openly admits the danger facing the organization and apologizes to his employees.
• Guo Xiaozhi answers with emotional support, emphasizing the benefits he has gained from following Yang and declaring that he is ready to fight with him.
• The chapter ends with the Immortal Qi Group’s core members gathered together, poised to respond collectively to the TW Organization’s threat.

Chapter Summary: “Remodeling Mount Jiuhua”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Guo Xiaozhi and the other members of Yang Genshuo’s team reaffirm their absolute loyalty to him after learning that the TW Organization is targeting them. Guo vows to sacrifice his life for Yang, while the others promise to contribute in their own ways.
• Xu Mengqi’s suggestion to contact the authorities reminds Yang that the TW Organization is also an enemy of the government. Yang decides to share intelligence about the organization with the Military Department.
• Cheng Bo emphasizes that his contribution will come through scientific and agricultural work rather than violence. He is developing Spiritual Trees, hybrid Spiritual Medicine, and improved Spirit Paddy.
• Liang Xuetong and his researchers pledge themselves to Yang’s cause because they believe Spirit Stone technology represents humanity’s future.
• Yang reveals the truth about cultivators and the Dharma-ending Age to his team. He demonstrates a Silence Spell on Guo Xiaozhi, shocking everyone and confirming that Yang’s abilities are genuinely supernatural.
• Liang Xuetong uses a newly developed spiritual-energy detector to measure Yang’s spell, showing that his team has successfully adapted its technology to cultivation-related research.
• Yang explains that he is likely Earth’s only current cultivator but promises that the others will eventually become cultivators as well. He possesses treasures capable of reshaping Spiritual Roots, though he plans to introduce them gradually.
• Yang announces that Mount Jiuhua will become the Immortal Qi Group’s permanent headquarters and a fortified cultivation base.
• He teaches Liang Xuetong from cultivation texts so they can design the base, while Tian Zhe and the others learn to construct buildings using Standard Spirit Building Blocks. Yang also promises to train them in martial arts and help them become Innate Grandmasters within a month.
• Simple “matchbox” Spirit Buildings are rapidly constructed. Their Five Elements formations provide warmth, health benefits, and spiritual nourishment to the researchers living inside.
• Over several weeks, Mount Jiuhua is transformed:
  • Yang upgrades its defenses with the Grade Three Boulder Thousand Peaks Array and the Tianxuan Star Shift Illusion Formation.
  • Liang and Yang complete plans for six major zones, including three levels above and three below ground.
  • Construction begins on the Immortal Qi Building, the group’s landmark headquarters and equivalent of a cultivation sect hall.
• Yang informs Old Xue and provides the Military Department with the information extracted from the TW Organization’s Asian leader. In return, the authorities grant Immortal Qi Group indefinite development and usage rights over Mount Jiuhua.
• By the fourth week, construction is nearing completion, but the supply of Spirit Building Blocks is exhausted. Yang must also prepare for the Yang family’s ancestral worship, making the day especially significant.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo shifts from protecting his secret identity to openly leading his companions into the cultivation world. He becomes more confident and visionary, promising to share his power and future with his team.
• Guo Xiaozhi demonstrates fierce, almost self-sacrificing loyalty. His emotional pledge contrasts with his humorous reaction to Yang’s Silence Spell.
• Cheng Bo proves his loyalty through scientific and agricultural achievements rather than combat. His passion for innovation remains central to his identity.
• Xu Mengqi shows concern for Yang’s safety and reminds him of the importance of cooperation with the authorities.
• Liang Xuetong evolves from a technology researcher into a pioneer of Spirit Stone science and a future architect of the cultivation base.
• Tian Zhe and his companions continue their transformation from people rescued from despair into disciplined members of Yang’s new organization.
• Lü Xiaobu retains his optimistic, energetic personality and eagerly embraces the chance to learn about cultivation and contribute to the group.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: The team’s willingness to risk their lives or dedicate their work reflects the bonds formed through Yang’s help and leadership.
• The birth of a new era: Yang’s revelation that cultivation still exists on Earth marks a transition from ordinary modern society toward a technological-cultivation future.
• Science and cultivation combined: Liang’s spiritual-energy detector, Spirit Stone technology, and the use of cultivation techniques in construction show that the group’s future will merge scientific innovation with supernatural power.
• Creating security and independence: Mount Jiuhua becomes a refuge and stronghold where the group can survive external threats and operate beyond the control of hostile forces.
• Shared prosperity: Yang rejects the idea of enjoying cultivation’s benefits alone and promises to elevate his companions alongside him.
• Transformation through opportunity: The chapter emphasizes how Yang’s support has allowed ordinary, marginalized, or traumatized people to gain purpose, dignity, and power.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang reassures Guo Xiaozhi that immediate self-sacrifice is unnecessary while recognizing the depth of his loyalty.
• The team members successively pledge their support, each defining loyalty according to their own abilities.
• Xu Mengqi’s concern prompts Yang to consider military cooperation.
• Liang analyzes Yang’s spell scientifically, turning a supernatural revelation into an opportunity for research.
• Yang silences Guo during an embarrassing remark about their past, creating a humorous contrast with the chapter’s serious revelations.
• Yang gives Liang cultivation manuals and assigns him responsibility for the base’s blueprints.
• Yang personally teaches Tian Zhe’s group construction techniques and promises them martial-arts training.
• The newly built Spirit Buildings improve the researchers’ living conditions, reinforcing the practical benefits of Yang’s cultivation methods.

Chapter Summary: “Portraits of All Beings”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Yang Family prepares for its annual Ancestral Worship ceremony, though many members of the fifth generation question whether the mysterious Ancestor truly exists.
• Yang Zhu, a talented inventor in the Machinery Department, complains about the ceremony and argues that “science” may eventually explain all supposedly miraculous phenomena. Her father, Yang Mink, reminds her that both the family’s knowledge and technological progress originated from the Ancestor’s teachings.
• Yang Zhu’s primary invention is the mini formation chip, a portable device that can instantly activate large formations without requiring users to be Formation Masters. Her work has become commercially successful and benefits the Great Nai Empire.
• Yang Zhushuang attempts to skip the ceremony for a spring outing, but his father, Yang Minrui, stops him. Minrui insists that all disciples attend because Yang Qiangjing may make an important announcement. Zhushuang is portrayed as arrogant and reckless, casually admitting to having killed mortals and relying on his family’s influence to avoid consequences.
• Zhushuang’s companions are Yang Zhu and Yang Zhushen, the powerful sons of Yang Minyong.
• Yang Qiangjin returns to visit her daughter, Li Minsi, before the ceremony. She reveals that she plans to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage after the ceremony, using a treasure discovered in the Legendary Land.
• Yang Qiangjin also intends to search for her missing brother, Yang Feng, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage. She reassures Li Minsi that, unlike Yang Feng, she will remain connected to the family and can be visited on the Spirit Vast Continent.
• The chapter then shifts to the mysterious mushroom world, where another Yang Zhu—apparently a separate individual from the inventor—travels toward a distant light with the help of a Galloping Mushroom.
• Guided by the Ancestor’s voice, this Yang Zhu collects special mushrooms with supernatural effects, including mushrooms that improve mental clarity, temporarily unlock potential, and enhance physical stamina. He plans to offer some of them to the Ancestor.
• His motivation is to escape the mushroom world, save his sick mother, and reunite with the powerful family the Ancestor has described. At the end, he remembers that the Ancestor also instructed him to capture a creature resembling the Galloping Mushroom and realizes he has not yet encountered one.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu, the inventor: Has shifted from childhood faith in the Ancestor to skepticism. Her scientific mindset leads her to interpret formations as technology and motivates her to make them more accessible. Despite her doubts, she remains respectful toward Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Mink: Acts as a patient, resigned father who accepts his daughter’s skepticism while warning her not to express it openly before Yang Qiangjing.
• Yang Zhushuang: Revealed as spoiled, arrogant, and morally careless. He treats his official position and family status as protection, though he is still responsive to his father’s authority.
• Yang Minrui: A politically successful and perceptive family leader. His intuition suggests the ceremony will bring important news, and he prioritizes family discipline and political appearances.
• Li Minsi: A respected minister of the Spiritual Plant Department and the favored daughter of Yang Qiangjin and the late Li Fan. She is deeply attached to her mother and worries that advancement may separate them.
• Yang Qiangjin: Shown as mature, weathered, and emotionally burdened by the past. She has withdrawn from politics to focus on cultivation, but remains concerned about her family and the disappearance of Yang Feng. Her planned breakthrough represents a major personal and narrative turning point.
• The second Yang Zhu in the mushroom world: Demonstrates loyalty, perseverance, and gratitude toward the Ancestor. Unlike the skeptical inventor, he has direct faith because the Ancestor’s guidance has kept him alive and given him hope.

Significant Themes

• Faith versus skepticism: The younger generation questions ancestral beliefs because they have never personally seen the Ancestor, while older generations regard the Ancestor’s existence as foundational truth.
• Science and metaphysics: Yang Zhu’s inventions blur the boundary between scientific technology and spiritual cultivation, suggesting that phenomena considered mystical may eventually be understood through scientific principles.
• Generational change: The fifth generation is more independent, irreverent, and technologically minded than its predecessors, creating tension with traditional family practices.
• Family legacy and gratitude: Even when members disagree about the Ancestor, the family’s achievements, survival, and prosperity are inseparable from his influence.
• Responsibility and privilege: Yang Zhushuang’s behavior highlights the danger of power without morality, especially when family connections and political status shield someone from consequences.
• Hope amid isolation: The mushroom-world storyline emphasizes endurance and trust. The isolated Yang Zhu survives because the Ancestor provides direction, while his desire to save his mother gives him purpose.

Character Interactions

• Yang Zhu and Yang Mink repeatedly debate science, superstition, and the Ancestor, reflecting the broader conflict between generations.
• Yang Minrui confronts Yang Zhushuang, restraining his attempted escape and reminding him of his obligations as a new official.
• Yang Zhushuang reveals his close relationship with Yang Zhu and Yang Zhushen, who follow his lead and depend on him socially.
• Yang Qiangjin and Li Minsi share a warm but anxious mother-daughter relationship. Li Minsi fears losing her mother, while Yang Qiangjin reassures her and discusses their future together.
• Yang Qiangjin’s memories connect her to Li Fan, Yang Feng, Yang Qiangjing, and the postwar reconstruction of the Yang Family’s empire.
• In the mushroom world, Yang Zhu’s relationship with the unseen Ancestor is based on trust and gratitude: the Ancestor’s instructions provide him with survival tools and the hope of returning home.

Chapter Summary: “Starting Ancestral Sacrifice!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Yang Family gathers in Bright City’s enormous ancestral hall for its annual ancestor-worship ceremony.
• The fourth- and fifth-generation descendants form informal factions:
  • Yang Mink’s group consists largely of military personnel, educators, and cultivators focused on practical improvement.
  • Yang Minrui’s group is made up mainly of influential officials and resource-rich members who are already positioning themselves for entry into the Legendary Land.
• Members debate cultivation, battlefield experience, political influence, taxes, demon slaves, and how spots in the Legendary Land should be allocated.
• Yang Min, the powerful eldest of the fourth generation, arrives and immediately dominates the atmosphere. His reputation as a strict mentor makes the other fourth-generation members nervous.
• Yang Min reminds his siblings that cultivation is the only path to longevity and announces that he will personally test them after the ceremony.
• The collateral Yang branch, Huzi’s descendants, and the Li family wait outside the hall. Though not blood relatives, they remain loyal allies and important pillars of the Yang Family’s empire.
• The ceremony is led by the three ruling sisters—Yang Qiangjing, Yang Qiangjin, and Yang Qiangwei—who jointly govern the Great Nai Empire and the Sky Garden Dynasty.
• Many older, stronger Yang Family members are absent due to exile, seclusion, political estrangement, or disappearance, leaving the three sisters to maintain the family’s authority.
• The descendants present offerings to the Ancestor. The older generations provide valuable treasures, while many fifth-generation members offer cheap or deliberately insincere gifts.
• Several younger members openly question whether the Ancestor still exists, since no offering has ever visibly been accepted or returned.
• Just as Yang Qiangjing is about to begin the ceremony, she looks toward the sky and asks, “Ancestor, can we begin?” This strongly implies that the Ancestor may finally be present or about to respond.

Character Developments

• Yang Mink is portrayed as disciplined, reserved, and practical. He prioritizes battlefield experience over uncertain opportunities in the Legendary Land.
• Yang Minrui emerges as politically powerful and resourceful. He controls wealth, people, and influence, making him a major rival to Yang Mink’s faction.
• Yang Min is established as the respected and feared elder brother of the fourth generation. He has acted as a father figure, teacher, and disciplinarian since childhood. His combination of strength, intelligence, and teaching ability makes him the family’s psychological and practical center.
• Yang Zhu appears responsible but impatient and skeptical. She wants the ceremony to end quickly so she can leave, yet she also tries to control the disrespectful younger generation.
• Yang Shuang and other fifth-generation members openly treat ancestor worship as a meaningless formality, reflecting their lack of faith and entitlement.
• Yang Qiangjing, Yang Qiangjin, and Yang Qiangwei are shown as the surviving leadership of the family:
  • Yang Qiangjing provides strategy and political direction.
  • Yang Qiangjin contributes martial strength.
  • Yang Qiangwei maintains connections and influence.
• Yang Qiangjing is notably more confident than in previous years, suggesting she expects something unusual from this ceremony.

Significant Themes

• Decline of faith across generations: The older members maintain reverence for the Ancestor, while the younger generation doubts his existence and sees the offerings as wasteful.
• Cultivation versus worldly power: The chapter contrasts military ability, cultivation, wealth, political influence, and family authority as different forms of power.
• Family hierarchy and legacy: Yang Min’s authority shows how family roles persist even after members become adults and powerful officials.
• Loyalty and shared identity: The collateral Yang branch, Huzi’s family, and the Li family are treated as part of the broader Yang Family because of their long-standing loyalty.
• Generational decline and uncertainty: Many once-prominent Yang Family figures are missing, estranged, or unable to attend, leaving later generations to carry the family forward.
• Foreshadowing and anticipation: Yang Qiangjing’s final question implies that the long-absent Ancestor may finally reveal himself or interact with the family.

Character Interactions

• Yang Mink and Yang Minrui represent competing factions, with the upcoming Legendary Land selection serving as the main source of rivalry.
• The fourth-generation descendants become visibly nervous around Yang Min because of his habit of testing and personally supervising their cultivation.
• Yang Min treats his siblings like children despite their age and status, reinforcing his role as both elder brother and surrogate father.
• Yang Zhu, Yang Zhuyun, and Yang Zhuhan jokingly discuss exploiting departmental resources, illustrating the relaxed and somewhat irreverent attitude of the younger generation.
• Yang Shuang’s careless offering and sarcastic remarks provoke criticism from older family members, especially Yang Minrui and Li Minsi.
• Yang Qiangjing, Yang Qiangjin, and Yang Qiangwei stand above the family as its practical rulers, while the ceremony highlights their responsibility for preserving its unity.
• The chapter ends with Yang Qiangjing seemingly addressing the absent Ancestor directly, creating suspense over whether the family’s doubts are about to be disproven.

Chapter Summary: “Ancestor’s Divine Manifestation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• During the Yang Family’s Ancestral Worship ceremony, Yang Qiangjing unexpectedly announces that she has received a message from the Ancestor. Her statement causes confusion, excitement, and skepticism throughout the family.
• Yang Minrui quickly assumes that Yang Qiangjing is planning to invoke the Ancestor’s authority to influence the upcoming allocation of Legendary Land quotas. He admires what he believes is his aunt’s political strategy and encourages others to accept the claim because faith in the Ancestor could benefit the family.
• The family is divided between true believers, uncertain members, and openly skeptical descendants who believe the Ancestor is merely a myth.
• Yang Genshuo, observing the ceremony, realizes that his previous estimate of the Yang Family’s growth was inaccurate. He had counted only the descendants within his field of vision—105 people—but discovers another 52 family members who lack faith in him entirely and were therefore invisible to him.
• He concludes that the breakdown of belief occurred because later generations, particularly descendants of the fifteenth child, grew up after his disappearance and were not properly taught about him. Yang Genshuo decides that he must make a dramatic return to restore the family’s faith.
• Yang Fu cannot participate because using his power would damage the surrounding space and force him to leave the Twelve Dynasties. He remains reserved as the family’s ultimate weapon, to be used only during a crisis or major opportunity.
• While the ceremony is delayed, Yang Zhu and four younger relatives secretly leave to pursue an opportunity connected to a mysterious sheepskin scroll. They believe the Ancestor would not blame them for seeking their own future, especially with Legendary Land quotas about to be distributed.
• Yang Shuang, intending to seize or sabotage their opportunity, follows them with four close relatives. He recruits ten collateral-family members and uses high-grade Invisibility Talismans to conceal a group of fifteen people.
• Yang Genshuo notices Yang Shuang’s suspicious actions and worries that his ruthless descendant will overpower Yang Zhu’s smaller group. He begins to consider intervening through Yang Qiangjing.
• Before he can act, Yang Qiangjing formally calls for the Ancestor to manifest. Yang Genshuo appears in the sky through a divine manifestation, declaring: “Children, I have returned!” The Yang Family erupts in shock and excitement.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangjing: Demonstrates confidence and political awareness by organizing the ceremony and presenting the Ancestor’s message. She serves as the intermediary through whom Yang Genshuo returns.
• Yang Minrui: Reveals his strategic and politically calculating nature. He immediately interprets the announcement as a possible maneuver to secure more Legendary Land quotas and supports belief in the Ancestor for practical reasons.
• Yang Genshuo: Recognizes a major flaw in his understanding of the family: he has mistaken lack of visibility for lack of existence. He also realizes that faith must be actively maintained across generations and resolves to reestablish himself as the family’s spiritual center.
• Yang Zhu: Shows initiative and independence by choosing to pursue an opportunity rather than remain at the ceremony. She is willing to seek advancement on her own, though she must evade Yang Shuang’s interference.
• Yang Zudang: Despite being a talented Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator, he is highly skeptical of the Ancestor and prioritizes personal opportunities over family worship.
• Yang Shuang: Continues to display his aggressive, opportunistic, and potentially cruel character. He uses his status as a direct descendant of Yang Minrui to command stronger collateral relatives and pursue Yang Zhu’s opportunity.
• Yang Fu: Remains absent but is established as the family’s strongest trump card, whose intervention carries serious consequences.

Significant Themes

• Faith versus skepticism: The family’s attitude toward the Ancestor ranges from devotion to disbelief, showing how legends weaken when not reinforced by direct experience.
• Generational inheritance: The chapter emphasizes that family beliefs, values, and traditions can disappear within only a few generations if they are not taught.
• Power and political manipulation: The Ancestor’s authority may be used for both genuine spiritual guidance and political advantage, particularly in the competition over Legendary Land quotas.
• Visibility and blind spots: Yang Genshuo’s inability to perceive faithless descendants symbolizes the danger of judging reality based only on what one can observe.
• Personal ambition versus communal duty: Yang Zhu and her companions leave the ceremony to pursue their own opportunity, reflecting the cultivator’s drive for advancement, while Yang Shuang exploits family hierarchy for personal gain.
• Restoration of authority: Yang Genshuo seeks not merely to appear, but to make his return memorable enough to rebuild the family’s collective belief.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangjing’s announcement prompts questioning from Yang Qiangjin and Yang Qiangwei, who eagerly wonder whether the Ancestor has truly returned.
• Yang Minrui interprets the event for the surrounding family members and gains their admiration through his apparent foresight.
• Yang Mink reacts with intense excitement because he remembers receiving the Ancestor’s praise and blessing during his youth.
• Skeptical descendants mock the worshippers and dismiss the Ancestor as nonexistent, exposing the divide between older and younger generations.
• Yang Zhu and her siblings discuss leaving the ceremony to pursue the sheepskin-scroll opportunity, while Yang Zudang strongly urges them to go.
• Yang Shuang recruits collateral relatives by relying on his direct-family status, demonstrating the unequal power structure within the Yang Family.
• Yang Genshuo communicates privately with Yang Qiangjing, choosing not to stop Yang Zhu’s group and preparing to use the ceremony as the stage for his return.
• The chapter ends with Yang Qiangjing summoning the Ancestor and Yang Genshuo finally manifesting before the entire family, setting up a major shift in the family’s beliefs and power dynamics.

Chapter Summary: “Grand Ceremony?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Yang Family Ancestor, Yang Genshuo, manifests in the ancestral hall through golden characters and divine messages after a century-long absence.
• Only descendants with genuine faith can see and hear him. More than fifty family members cannot perceive the manifestation because they do not believe in the Ancestor.
• The collateral branches are unable to see the messages but recognize the potential importance of the event. Yang Changshi orders them to avoid causing trouble and prepares the Heavenly Dragon Army for possible unrest.
• Yang Mink observes that some members, especially Yang Minrui’s faction, are uneasy about the Ancestor’s return. These officials fear that the Ancestor’s ability to observe the family will expose corruption, abuse of power, and private misconduct.
• Yang Minrui investigates why certain people cannot see the Ancestor and begins forming a plan to exploit the division between believers and nonbelievers.
• Yang Mink quietly mobilizes part of the Heavenly Dragon Army to preserve order, believing the Ancestor tacitly approves despite receiving no direct response.
• Yang Genshuo initially becomes overwhelmed by the many descendants attempting to communicate with him. He modifies the system so that he can filter their voices while maintaining contact with Yang Qiangjing.
• Through a divine proclamation, Yang Genshuo assures the family that the existing structure will remain unchanged, promises blessings and protection, and asks whether they are willing to pursue eternal life.
• The promise of eternal life deeply affects the family, particularly Yang Min, the highly respected eldest member of the fourth generation and a devoted cultivator.
• Yang Min’s public faith inspires several formerly skeptical descendants to begin believing in the Ancestor, demonstrating that family members can influence one another’s faith.
• Yang Genshuo grants everyone the “Spirit Gathering” blessing, causing spiritual energy to flood the ancestral hall. The blessing convinces additional descendants of his reality, though some remain suspicious.
• The Ancestor deliberately avoids forcing universal belief immediately, intending to let faith develop gradually before implementing reforms.
• He prepares to collect the family’s yearly offerings to obtain the spiritual materials needed to transform Mount Jiuhua, but the ceremony ends with Yang Genshuo sensing that someone is in danger.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Learns that his connection with descendants depends on their faith and adapts the system to manage numerous communications. He adopts a cautious strategy, choosing gradual influence over immediate control, while focusing on gathering resources for Mount Jiuhua’s transformation.
• Yang Qiangjing: Acts as the Ancestor’s primary intermediary and helps stage the manifestation. She remains excited and devoted, coordinating the family’s response.
• Yang Mink: Shows strong political awareness and loyalty to the Ancestor. He recognizes the danger posed by factional conflict and prepares the Heavenly Dragon Army to protect the ancestral hall without provoking panic.
• Yang Minrui: Becomes visibly alarmed by the Ancestor’s return because divine surveillance threatens his faction’s corruption and personal freedom. He begins investigating the unbelievers and appears to be developing a potentially disruptive scheme.
• Yang Min: Reinforces his role as the pure, powerful, and morally respected eldest member of the fourth generation. His sincere devotion to cultivation and the Ancestor makes him an influential source of faith for others.
• Collateral branches: Demonstrate restraint and political maturity by deciding not to demand blessings or interfere, instead prioritizing Bright City’s stability.

Significant Themes

• Faith and perception: Belief determines whether descendants can perceive the Ancestor, making faith a literal supernatural connection rather than merely a personal conviction.
• Authority and surveillance: The Ancestor’s return threatens officials who have benefited from secrecy, creating tension between divine oversight and personal freedom.
• Family factionalism: The ceremony exposes divisions between loyal believers, cautious moderates, and self-interested officials.
• Leadership and stability: The Heavenly Dragon Army’s preparation highlights the need to contain political conflict while preserving order.
• Immortality and cultivation: The Ancestor’s promise of eternal life reaffirms the cultivators’ deepest ambition and becomes a powerful tool for inspiring belief.
• Gradual reform: Yang Genshuo understands that lasting change requires time, persuasion, and renewed faith rather than immediate coercion.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Changshi and Mengmeng: Yang Changshi sends Mengmeng to ask whether Yang Mink needs military support, showing coordination between the collateral branch and the direct descendants.
• Yang Mink and Mengmeng: Mink orders the First Battalion to prepare discreetly, emphasizing caution and preventing an uncontrolled confrontation.
• Yang Minrui and Yang Minyong: Minrui uses Minyong to question the skeptics and summon another family member, suggesting he is organizing a response to the Ancestor’s return.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangjing: They cooperate in presenting the divine manifestation, with Qiangjing serving as his main communication channel.
• Yang Min and the Ancestor: Yang Min enthusiastically embraces the promise of eternal life, and his example strengthens the faith of nearby descendants.
• Believers and skeptics: The blessing and the reactions of respected believers gradually convert several skeptics, while others remain suspicious and resistant.
  The chapter concludes on a cliffhanger as Yang Genshuo senses an imminent threat to someone during the ceremony.

Chapter Summary: “Unexpectedly Opening a New Legendary Land”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Zhu and her four younger siblings are suddenly attacked by three bizarre, corpse-like officials called Starving Officials. The officials accuse them of being “Grain Escorts” who have defied a decree.
• Yang Zhu uses her powerful Blood Essence to suppress spirits, but her attack barely affects the officials. She is eventually ambushed and has her abdomen—and apparently her kidneys—pierced.
• Yang Genshuo intervenes by using a blessing to grant Yang Zhu Yang Fujian’s Immortal-grade Talent, Split Rebirth, allowing her to survive and create split selves.
• Yang Genshuo identifies the attackers as Souls of Legend, manifestations of the rules within a Legendary Land. They cannot simply be killed, so he instructs the group to bribe them with Spirit Stones.
• The five descendants offer the officials Spirit Stones and apologize. The Starving Officials spare them but impose a task: they must escort grain to the Capital City within three months, or face punishment.
• The group discovers they are no longer in the Great Nai Empire but inside a strange, impoverished village surrounded by white mist.
• They explain that they entered the area after reading an ancient story called “Living Granary,” though the Legendary Land has mysteriously erased their memories of the story’s contents.
• Yang Genshuo confirms that they have accidentally opened a previously unknown Legendary Land. Yang Zhu explains that such lands are based on ancient legends and require entrants to complete the corresponding story to escape.
• Yang Genshuo grants the group the Calm Heart blessing, helping them regain clarity and think rationally.
• The chapter ends with the grim revelation that fewer than ten percent of first-time entrants to a Legendary Land survive, largely because they do not understand the story governing it.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu demonstrates her strength, courage, and spiritual resistance, but is overwhelmed by the Starving Officials. Receiving Split Rebirth shocks her and confirms the Ancestor’s existence, transforming her previous skepticism into open devotion.
• Yang Genshuo acts as a remote protector and strategist. He quickly analyzes the Starving Officials, understands the rules governing them, and saves Yang Zhu through a costly blessing.
• Yang Zhu’s younger siblings reveal a mixture of fear, excitement, and growing faith in the Ancestor. They quickly follow Yang Zhu’s lead during the negotiation.
• Yang Zudang, previously the strongest skeptic, is initially unable to hear or see the Ancestor. After receiving proof through the Ancestor’s voice and golden characters, he begins to believe and gains a small amount of Incense.
• Yang Zhu’s scientific mindset is shown to coexist with reverence: she questions supernatural claims but recognizes Yang Genshuo as the source of knowledge beyond her era.

Significant Themes

• Faith versus skepticism: Yang Zhu and Yang Zudang struggle between rational doubt and undeniable supernatural evidence. Their faith increases only after direct personal experiences.
• Rules overpowering strength: The Starving Officials cannot be defeated through ordinary force because they embody the Legendary Land’s rules. Survival depends on understanding and obeying those rules.
• Knowledge as power: Yang Genshuo’s knowledge of Legendary Lands and the Starving Officials allows the group to survive where strength alone would fail.
• Memory and narrative control: The group’s inability to remember “Living Granary” suggests that the Legendary Land manipulates their minds, making the story itself both a key and a danger.
• Family protection and inheritance: The Ancestor’s blessings connect the Yang descendants across generations, while Yang Fujian’s inherited Talent becomes the means of saving Yang Zhu.
• The danger of exploration: Legendary Lands offer great rewards but are extraordinarily lethal, especially to those who enter without understanding the legend that governs them.

Character Interactions

• Yang Zhu leads and protects her siblings, attacking the Starving Officials and later ordering the group to cooperate with them.
• Her siblings encourage and reassure her during the battle, then follow her example in offering apologies and Spirit Stones.
• Yang Zhu physically forces the confused Yang Zudang to participate, showing both her authority as eldest sister and her impatience under pressure.
• Yang Genshuo communicates directly with Yang Zhu and several siblings, guiding their actions while observing their reactions to his existence.
• Yang Zhu publicly praises and thanks the Ancestor, prompting the others to express their own belief. Her confidence eventually persuades Yang Zudang to test whether the Ancestor is real.
• The chapter establishes a growing bond between Yang Genshuo and his descendants, while also showing that his remote guidance may be their only chance of surviving the newly opened Legendary Land.

Chapter Summary: “Breaking the Stalemate”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Trapped in the mysterious White Granary Legendary Land, Yang Genshuo and the Yang Family lack food, directions, and a clear mission. Unlike previous realms, neither strength nor deduction provides an obvious solution.
• To uncover the Legendary Land’s story and determine a safe route, Yang Qiangjing sends thirty elite puzzle solvers, each paired with one of Yang Qiangwei’s soul-controlled puppets.
• Qiangjing motivates the expedition by promising official status, rewards, and protection for the families of those who die. Her treatment of the puzzle solvers demonstrates that she values their loyalty and intends to elevate successful members into the ruling class.
• Yang Shuang unexpectedly insists on joining, believing the Legendary Land contains treasures he can claim. Although he is only at the Qi Refinement stage, his father Yang Minrui persuades Qiangjing to allow him inside.
• Yang Genshuo suspects that Yang Shuang and Yang Minrui are concealing a plan. Nevertheless, he sees Yang Shuang as potentially useful: if the boy is separated from the others, he could serve as an “eye” through which Yang Genshuo observes the puzzle solvers’ choices.
• The puzzle solvers receive Yang Shuang’s book, titled White Granary, containing the opening of the legend about households forced to transport tribute grain to the Capital City.
• As the group reads, an unusual summoning ritual begins. Their eyes glow green, black silhouettes form behind them, and the book transforms into yellow scrolls.
• The thirty puzzle solvers and Yang Shuang transform into figures resembling the Starving Officials. A voice commands them to “solve the grain supply,” while a whip cracks.
• The yellow scrolls release expanding light that freezes and marks anyone it touches—not only those entering the Legendary Land, but also people outside who heard the story or were nearby.
• The effect overwhelms the gathering during the Ancestral Worship ceremony. Heavenly Dragon Army soldiers, Yang Family members, and collateral descendants are caught while attempting to save others.
• Roughly eighty percent of those present are frozen and then transported away by white mist, including Yang Mink and hundreds of others. Only a small number escape.
• Yang Qiangjing and Yang Qiangwei realize that the Legendary Land’s rules can affect outsiders and immediately prioritize rescuing the abducted family members. Yang Genshuo is left deeply alarmed and unable to see what is happening inside.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo abandons his earlier idealism and admits that survival and securing food are more important than maintaining a purely benevolent stance. He remains protective of Yang Zhu and the children but becomes increasingly pragmatic.
• Yang Qiangjing is shown as a respected and strategic leader. She risks her elite forces to discover the story, offers meaningful rewards, and accepts Yang Shuang’s request despite its danger because of family laws and possible strategic value.
• Yang Qiangwei continues expanding her use of the Reverse Flow Art, Soul Hooking, and Spirit Seizing. Her puppet force is presented as both a powerful asset and a means of protecting important people.
• Yang Shuang displays an abrupt transformation from an inept novice into someone eager to risk his life for treasure and glory. His confidence appears suspicious, particularly because Yang Minrui actively supports his decision.
• Yang Minrui remains enigmatic. His outwardly reckless support for his son suggests that he has a hidden motive or knows more about the Legendary Land than he reveals.
• Yang Mink demonstrates strong leadership by deploying the Heavenly Dragon Army and ordering them to protect the family, but he is ultimately caught by the spreading curse.
• Yang Genshuo adopts a more analytical role, using Yang Shuang’s presence as a potential source of information and comparing the Legendary Land’s rules with Yang Fujian’s earlier observations.

Significant Themes

• The limits of strength and intelligence: The group cannot overcome the White Granary through power or ordinary deduction; they must understand and follow the realm’s narrative logic.
• Sacrifice and social reward: Yang Qiangjing’s expedition reflects the willingness to risk lives for advancement, while the promised rewards show how the Yang Family turns danger into a path toward social mobility.
• Family loyalty and obligation: The Yang Family protects its members and follows rules against stealing others’ opportunities, even when doing so creates danger.
• Appearances and hidden motives: Yang Shuang’s sudden bravery and Yang Minrui’s unusual behavior imply concealed plans beneath their public actions.
• The danger of incomplete knowledge: Simply hearing or reading the story may trigger the Legendary Land’s rules. The family’s assumption that outsiders would remain safe proves disastrously wrong.
• Stories as living mechanisms: The legend is not merely background information; once activated, it imposes rules, transforms people, and forces them to participate in its narrative.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangjing formally commissions the thirty puzzle solvers and promises to protect their families, strengthening their loyalty.
• The puzzle solvers select Yang Qiangwei’s puppets as partners, emphasizing the uneasy cooperation between Qiangjing’s death warriors and Qiangwei’s controlled servants.
• Yang Shuang argues with the group over ownership of the book and demands a share of the opportunity.
• Yang Minrui appeals to Yang Qiangjing to let his son enter, while Yang Genshuo privately questions both father and son’s motives.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Mink briefly discuss whether the abnormal entry ritual is normal, only to discover that the phenomenon is far more dangerous than expected.
• Yang Qiangjing, Yang Qiangwei, and Yang Genshuo react to the disaster by recognizing that the Legendary Land has expanded its rules beyond the entrance group, creating an urgent rescue crisis.