Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: The Hundred-Year Great Tribulation

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo restores normal time flow after Yang Zhu discovers a large colony of Dragon Blood Mushrooms growing on an ancient dragon skeleton in the Mushroom World.
• The largest mushroom is a Heaven-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom, possessing three powerful abilities:
  • Dragon Transformation, which greatly enhances physical abilities.
  • Bloodline Purification, which temporarily strengthens innate Talent.
  • Body Tempering III, which passively improves Blood Essence, physical strength, and Spiritual Power absorption.
• Yang Zhu, currently at the third layer of Foundation Establishment, cannot defeat the mushroom through normal means. Yang Genshuo devises a plan to lure it away from the colony.
• Yang Zhu uses the Leap Mushroom’s ability, Spatial Rift, to trap the Heaven-grade mushroom in a dimensional tear. Terrified of the void, it submits to him.
• The mushroom attempts to overwhelm Yang Zhu with its dragon blood, but Yang Zhu’s Saint Grade Talent and purification technique neutralize the blood almost instantly. He successfully contracts the Heaven-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom.
• Yang Zhu uses the Fertility Mushroom to combine the Heaven-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom with the essence of the Leap Mushroom, beginning the creation of a new Mushroom Spirit. The process will take a year.
• He then captures an Earth-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom and discovers that its Body Tempering II ability continuously replenishes the Blood Essence drained by the Leap Mushroom.
• Yang Genshuo realizes that stacking different Body Tempering abilities could turn Yang Zhu into an extremely powerful physical combatant.
• They test whether Mushroom Spirits can be transported through the Miracle: Flying Book. A Mortal-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom is successfully sent to Li Minmin, proving that Mushroom Spirits can be transmitted despite being living entities.
• Yang Zhu begins capturing the entire colony so the Yang Family can study and use the mushrooms.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu demonstrates remarkable talent and courage. Although initially nervous about confronting a Heaven-grade Mushroom Spirit, he uses strategy and his unique abilities to overcome it with surprising ease.
• His Saint Grade Talent allows him to purify the dangerous dragon blood immediately, showing that his potential is far greater than even Yang Genshuo expected.
• Yang Zhu becomes increasingly motivated to repay the Yang Family for saving him and his mother. He eagerly volunteers to gather Mushroom Spirits for the family.
• Yang Genshuo acts as Yang Zhu’s strategist and mentor. He recognizes both the risks of the Leap Mushroom and the enormous potential of combining various Mushroom Spirit abilities.
• Yang Genshuo also becomes more cautious about the Leap Mushroom, realizing that its repeated use drains Yang Zhu’s vital essence and may eventually need to be removed.
• Li Minmin is introduced as an enthusiastic Spiritual Plant cultivator. She welcomes the strange Mushroom Spirit and is eager to study it to overcome her cultivation bottleneck.
• Yang Genshuo’s thoughts about Li Minmin briefly remind him of Li Fan, an old Yang Family cultivator whose exclusion from the family bloodline remains a source of regret.

Significant Themes

• Talent and inherited power: Yang Zhu’s extraordinary Talent allows him to neutralize dragon blood that would normally enslave or destroy a cultivator.
• Risk versus reward: The Leap Mushroom provides powerful spatial abilities but consumes Yang Zhu’s Blood Essence, making every use dangerous.
• The value of preparation and strategy: Yang Zhu cannot defeat the Heaven-grade mushroom directly, but careful use of provocation, spatial manipulation, and purification leads to victory.
• Family loyalty and repayment: Yang Zhu’s eagerness to contribute to the Yang Family reflects his gratitude and growing sense of belonging.
• Resource accumulation and cultivation development: The Yang Family’s strength grows through collecting and combining rare Mushroom Spirits rather than relying solely on conventional cultivation.
• Mystery of the Mushroom World: The ancient dragon skeleton suggests that dragons once reached this world, raising questions about the connection between the Dragon Clan and the Mushroom World.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo guides Yang Zhu throughout the capture, advising him not to settle for an inferior Earth-grade mushroom when the Heaven-grade one might be obtained.
• Yang Zhu follows the Ancestor’s plan but ultimately succeeds because of his own quick thinking and powerful Saint Grade Talent.
• The Heaven-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom initially tries to dominate Yang Zhu through its dragon blood but submits after its blood is purified and its contract is completed.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu discover that the Earth-grade mushroom can compensate for the Leap Mushroom’s harmful side effect, improving their cooperation and future strategy.
• Yang Genshuo introduces Li Minmin to Mushroom Spirits and assigns her to study and store them for the Yang Family.
• The chapter ends with Yang Zhu enthusiastically harvesting the colony while Yang Genshuo wonders whether the modern Dragon Clan knows how to access the Mushroom World.

Chapter Summary: Centennial Great Tribulation (2)

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo observes the Dragon God Immortal Palace and notes that Yang Qiangyou, the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Rider, is close to breaking through from Golden Core Grand Perfection to the Nascent Soul Stage. His advancement has been slow because Dragon Riders combine Human and Dragon bloodlines, but he has benefited from a fortuitous encounter in Yang Feng’s Legendary Land.
• Yang Fushuo is summoned to the Dragon God Immortal Palace because the Yang Family has discovered the remains of an ancient dragon in the mysterious “Mushroom World.”
• Fushuo asks the Dragon Lord whether the Dragon Clan possesses genealogical records. The Dragon Lord confirms that its ancestral shrine preserves detailed records of every major dragon, including their lives, deaths, and burial locations.
• Using Yang Genshuo’s [Empathy] ability, Fushuo projects an image of the enormous dragon skeleton found in the Mushroom World. The Dragon Lord recognizes it as Dragon Five, the fifth son of the Dragon God.
• The genealogy reveals that Dragon Five was a Void Refinement Stage dragon who became trapped in a dark world during ancient conflicts among the Human Race. His remains were never recovered.
• The Dragon Lord vows to retrieve Dragon Five’s bones and offers Fushuo any treasure from the Dragon God Immortal Palace as a reward.
• Fushuo theatrically rejects the offer, pretending to be offended that the Dragon Lord thinks he is seeking compensation. His manipulation succeeds, and the Dragon Lord apologizes, revealing how much she values their friendship.
• As a more informal reward, the Dragon Lord gives Fushuo three Wisdom Fruits. Eating one grants him ten years of cultivation and brings him close to advancing beyond the Golden Core mid-stage.
• The Dragon Lord assigns her brothers and sisters—now all at the Nascent Soul Stage—the mission of finding the entrance to the Mushroom World, recovering Dragon Five’s remains, and rescuing any Yang Family descendant they encounter.
• Yang Fushuo and Yang Genshuo acknowledge that involving the Dragon Clan is the best way to locate the mysterious world. Although they could potentially teleport the bones using Yang Genshuo’s [Flying Book] ability, they deliberately allow the Dragon Clan to investigate and solve the problem.
• Yang Genshuo initiates a time skip, advancing the story by half a year to the day of Ancestral Worship.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangyou is shown nearing the Nascent Soul Stage, reinforcing his immense strength and the importance of Dragon Riders to the Yang Family.
• Yang Fushuo demonstrates his resourcefulness, shameless charm, and talent for manipulating social situations. He turns a potentially transactional exchange into a closer personal bond with the Dragon Lord.
• The Dragon Lord/Little Fire Dragon is revealed to be deeply loyal to her ancestors and highly protective of Dragon Clan traditions. Her emotional reaction to Dragon Five’s remains shows her softer, more sentimental side.
• The Dragon Clan’s younger generation gains greater independence. Having reached the Nascent Soul Stage, they are finally trusted with their first mission outside the Dragon God Immortal Palace and are eager to explore the wider world.
• Yang Genshuo continues acting as the Yang Family’s strategic observer. He recognizes the value of the Dragon Clan’s resources while also admiring Fushuo’s ability to build alliances.
• Yang Zhu, stranded in the Mushroom World, remains the central rescue objective. The Yang Family and Dragon Clan are now actively coordinating to find a way to bring him back.

Significant Themes

• Family loyalty and ancestral duty: The Dragon Lord considers recovering Dragon Five’s remains a sacred responsibility, reflecting the Dragon Clan’s reverence for its ancestors.
• Alliance and mutual dependence: The Yang Family cannot easily locate the Mushroom World alone, while the Dragon Clan needs the Yang Family’s information to recover its lost ancestor. Their cooperation benefits both sides.
• Friendship versus transactions: Fushuo rejects the Dragon Lord’s formal reward because he wants their relationship to be based on genuine friendship, though he humorously exploits the situation to receive valuable Wisdom Fruits.
• The importance of patience and long-term planning: The Dragon Clan’s slow cultivation, the Life Divine Tree’s long maturation period, and the time-skip structure all emphasize the long scale of cultivation and clan development.
• Resourcefulness over raw strength: Rather than using the Yang Family’s teleportation abilities immediately, Genshuo and Fushuo strategically employ the Dragon Clan’s knowledge and manpower.
• Comic manipulation within serious events: The solemn mission to recover an ancient Void Refinement Stage dragon is balanced by Fushuo’s exaggerated offense, flirtatious undertones, and opportunistic behavior.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangyou: Genshuo observes Qiangyou’s progress and recognizes that his future Nascent Soul breakthrough may dramatically alter the Yang Family’s power balance.
• Yang Fushuo and the Dragon Lord: Their teasing, misunderstandings, and emotional reconciliation deepen their friendship. The Dragon Lord’s embarrassment and blush suggest possible romantic undertones.
• Yang Fushuo and the Dragon Clan: Fushuo earns their gratitude by bringing news of Dragon Five and enabling them to leave the palace on an official mission.
• Yang Fushuo and Yang Genshuo: Their ancestor-descendant partnership combines Fushuo’s social cunning with Genshuo’s hidden supernatural abilities and strategic judgment.
• The Dragon Lord and her siblings: She entrusts them with the recovery mission, marking a major step in their growth and integration with the outside world.

Chapter Summary: Centennial Calamity (3)

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Min spends six months kneeling before the frozen entrance to the Heavenly Secrets Sect, hoping to meet a senior or gain access to his uncle, Yang Qiang.
• The sect finally responds, refusing to intervene in the Yang Family’s affairs or lend the Heavenly Secrets Shuttle Token. They warn Yang Min to seize the current Great Contention Era and prepare for a Great Heavenly Calamity in one hundred years.
• Yang Min and Yang Genshuo are confused by the cryptic warning but conclude that they must rely on themselves.
• During the Yang Family’s Ancestral Worship, Yang Genshuo receives the Heaven-grade treasure Flower of Hope, which can significantly improve his poor innate Spiritual Root aptitude.
• Yang Min interprets the sect’s advice as encouragement to explore the newly appearing Legendary Lands, believing they may provide clues about his missing father, Yang Feng. He sets out to join Yang Fujian and asks Yang Qiang to guide him.
• Yang Zhu remains trapped in worlds controlled by the Gongyang Immortal Clan. His attempts to escape with the Leap Mushroom fail, and a secret passage leading to the Spirit Vast Continent is too dangerous for his current cultivation level.
• Since Yang Zhu is not in immediate danger, Yang Genshuo decides to allow him to cultivate slowly using Wisdom Fruits, potentially reaching the Nascent Soul stage after decades if necessary.
• The Yang Family benefits from the Dragon Clan’s support, easing the immediate pressure surrounding Yang Zhu.
• Meanwhile, the Immortal Qi Group resumes normal operations after the authorities suppress the TW Organization using intelligence obtained from the captured operative “Witch.”
• Many university students seek internships at the company because of its unique environment. Although the group is not actively hiring, Yang Genshuo decides to accept and cultivate promising young talent.
• Yang Genshuo’s disciple, Lin Bai, captures one of the TW Organization’s founders, a wealthy public figure. Yang Genshuo plans to interrogate him and trace the organization’s leadership.
• Yang Genshuo also develops the Spiritual Beast Zone, where ordinary animals are transformed into spiritual beasts. He focuses particularly on flying beasts as faster and safer alternatives to airplanes.

Character Developments

• Yang Min grows more decisive and self-reliant. After being rejected by the Heavenly Secrets Sect, he stops begging for help and chooses to seek answers through exploration of Legendary Lands.
• Yang Genshuo becomes more reflective and less driven by money or business success. His cultivation and immense resources have made wealth meaningless to him, but he retains a concern for guiding others and planning for the family’s future.
• Yang Zhu remains young and relatively weak compared with the Gongyang Immortal Clan, but his long-term cultivation prospects improve through the annual use of Wisdom Fruits.
• Lin Bai demonstrates competence by capturing a major TW Organization figure, strengthening his role as Yang Genshuo’s disciple and agent.
• Yang Qiang and Yang Fujian become important potential allies for Yang Min’s planned exploration, though neither is directly present for most of the chapter.

Significant Themes

• Self-reliance versus dependence: The Heavenly Secrets Sect refuses to interfere, reinforcing the idea that the Yang Family must solve its own problems.
• Foreshadowing and hidden danger: The unexplained “Great Heavenly Calamity” in a hundred years introduces a major future threat.
• Long-term cultivation and patience: Yang Zhu’s situation shows that progress may require decades of preparation rather than immediate rescue.
• Changing values: Yang Genshuo’s loss of interest in money reflects how power and abundance alter one’s motivations.
• Opportunity and mentorship: His decision to hire talented students shows a willingness to nurture the next generation.
• Science, cultivation, and modernization: The Immortal Qi Group combines technology, formations, spiritual materials, and biological cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Yang Min and the Heavenly Secrets Sect: Yang Min pleads for assistance, challenges the sect’s refusal to help, and receives only a cryptic warning.
• Yang Min and Yang Genshuo: They discuss the sect’s message and eventually agree that Yang Min should explore Legendary Lands.
• Yang Genshuo and Yu Dong: Yang Genshuo overturns the initial plan to reject interns and orders Yu Dong to recruit promising students.
• Yang Genshuo and Lin Bai: Yang Genshuo receives news of the captured TW founder and instructs Lin Bai to bring him back.
• Yang Genshuo and the spiritual beasts: His observation of the transformed giant eagle highlights his growing interest in developing practical flying beasts for the family and company.

Chapter Summary: “Yang Qiangyou Achieves Nascent Soul!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo observes that a hawk is expected to develop sentience within a month and become a Spiritual Beast like Xiao Yan, reinforcing his belief that Xiao Yan’s evolution was not accidental.
• After returning from the Ancestral Worship ceremony, Yang Genshuo experiments with the Mushroom Spirits successfully offered to him by Yang Zhu:
  • He easily subdues a Mortal-grade Entangle Mushroom, discovering that it functions like an extra organ while retaining limited independent thought.
  • He then tames an Earth-grade Galloping Mushroom. The process consumes substantial Spiritual Sense, stamina, and Spiritual Power, highlighting his relatively weak combat ability compared with Yang Zhu.
• Yang Genshuo considers using Galloping Mushrooms to strengthen and track members of the Yang Family, though most of his current relatives are still too weak to cultivate them.
• He refines the Heaven-grade Mysterious Treasure, the Flower of Hope. After ten days, he breaks through from Foundation Establishment’s first layer to the third layer and gains +15 to all Spiritual Root Aptitudes.
• His total all-attribute aptitude rises from 20 to 45, dramatically improving his control over spiritual energy and understanding of Spell Techniques. He realizes that treasures of this type likely provide diminishing returns after one use.
• After leaving seclusion, Yang Genshuo meets Ace, the captured former world’s richest man and a founder of the TW Organization.
• Ace explains that the TW Organization began as a wealthy group pursuing technological advancement and longer lifespans, but gradually became a corrupt organization involved in infiltration, manipulation, and trafficking.
• Ace asks Yang Genshuo to reform the organization, arguing that destroying it would only allow another similar group to arise. Yang Genshuo rejects the proposal, deciding instead to eliminate the TW Organization and eventually make the Immortal Qi Group a dominant global power.
• Using information extracted from Ace, Yang Genshuo orders Lin Bai and his team to arrest key TW members. He plans to personally destroy the organization’s remaining bases.
• The chapter ends with news that Yang Qiangyou has successfully reached the Nascent Soul stage as a Dragon Rider. This improves the Yang Family’s relationship with the Dragon Clan and grants Yang Genshuo 1,000 Incense points.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo grows stronger through the Flower of Hope and gains a new appreciation for the advantages of high Spiritual Root Aptitude. His confidence in eventually becoming powerful through his descendants’ offerings also increases.
• He demonstrates greater strategic ambition, shifting from merely protecting his family to planning for the Immortal Qi Group to become a major force capable of preventing future threats.
• His moral position becomes clearer: he rejects Ace’s attempt to justify the TW Organization through its original ideals and judges it by its present crimes.
• Ace is portrayed as a disillusioned founder. Though he once supported technological progress and the pursuit of longevity, he recognizes that the organization has become uncontrollable and corrupt.
• Yang Zhu is established as considerably stronger and more capable than Yang Genshuo at the same cultivation level, having prepared the Galloping Mushroom for easy taming.
• Yang Qiangyou reaches the Nascent Soul stage, marking a major advancement for both himself and the Yang Family.

Significant Themes

• Luck and opportunity: Yang Genshuo admits that his extraordinary power resulted from an unexpected opportunity rather than exceptional natural ability.
• Talent versus effort: His limited innate talent contrasts with his rapid progress through treasures, cultivation resources, and family achievements.
• Evolution and transformation: The development of Spiritual Beasts, the mutation of the Life Divine Tree, and Yang Genshuo’s improved aptitude all reflect the changing boundaries between ordinary life and higher forms of existence.
• Power and responsibility: Ace argues that power should be used to reform the world, while Yang Genshuo prefers a more direct approach—destroying dangerous organizations and building his own influence.
• The cyclical nature of corruption: Ace warns that eliminating the TW Organization will not prevent similar organizations from appearing, raising the question of whether institutions or human desires are the true source of evil.
• Family advancement: The Yang Family’s rise is tied not only to individual cultivation but also to alliances, descendants, offerings, and relationships with powerful groups such as the Dragon Clan.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo shares a warm, playful interaction with the Entangle Mushroom, whose attack briefly breaks his detached mindset.
• His comparison between the Galloping Mushroom and a Foundation Establishment-level robotic dog shows his practical and humorous approach to evaluating new creatures.
• Yang Genshuo and Ace engage in a philosophical conversation about ambition, technology, corruption, and the future of the world. Although Yang Genshuo refuses Ace’s proposal, he acknowledges the value of Ace’s perspective.
• Lin Bai acts as Yang Genshuo’s subordinate and executor, receiving orders to capture TW Organization members.
• Yang Genshuo’s reaction to Yang Qiangyou’s breakthrough reveals pride and excitement at the continued progress of his descendants.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Qiangyou and his black dragon companion, Mingyun, successfully advance to the Nascent Soul Stage. Their breakthrough strengthens the bond between them, allowing Mingyun to hear Yang Genshuo’s words and perceive the golden characters associated with the Yang Family.
• Mingyun demonstrates the terrifying power of a Nascent Soul Dragon Rider by unleashing a domain far larger than Yang Min’s.
• After meeting Yang Genshuo, Yang Qiangyou learns that his brother Yang Feng has been missing for ten years following their expedition to the legendary “Ten Thousand Miles Return Path.”
• Yang Qiangyou recounts the expedition. He and Mingyun became separated from Yang Feng and Mi Duo after entering a hidden route and completing a secret quest. They left the area earlier, believing Yang Feng was strong enough to escape safely.
• Mingyun reveals that he sensed a powerful, bloodthirsty Yang Family member in the legendary land. Yang Genshuo concludes that this was probably Yang Min’an, suggesting that Yang Feng and Yang Min’an may have fought there.
• The group speculates that Yang Feng may have lost the confrontation, explaining his disappearance. However, the details remain unclear, particularly the origin of Yang Zhu, who is Yang Min’an’s son.
• Yang Genshuo suspects Mi Duo may know the truth, since she was present for the entire incident, but she remains incapacitated.
• The family decides that Yang Zhu should be rescued regardless of his father’s identity, since he is still a member of the Yang Family and is innocent of the past conflict.
• Yang Genshuo turns his attention to healing Mi Duo. Yang Fushuo explains that the fifth-grade Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill can repair severe soul damage, but it is extraordinarily rare, expensive, and primarily valued for its ability to restore souls or enable body seizing.
• Because Medicine Master Valley has already reserved its supply of the pill for the next thousand years, Yang Genshuo orders Yang Fushuo to negotiate directly with them and find a suitable exchange.
• Yang Fushuo visits Medicine Master Valley with Qi Dan Tower representatives. After offering Elder Qian Yuzhu a large gift, he gains an audience with Hua Xinyao, the pill’s creator.
• Fushuo honestly admits that he came to request the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill, but Hua Xinyao explains that every pill is already reserved and that she cannot simply provide one.

Character Developments

• Yang Qiangyou reaches the Nascent Soul Stage and becomes significantly more confident in his strength, though his playful, carefree personality remains intact.
• Mingyun also advances and proves that his Dragon Rider bond with Yang Qiangyou has deepened into a shared spiritual and bloodline connection.
• Yang Genshuo acts as the family’s investigator and protector. He pieces together the likely conflict between Yang Feng and Yang Min’an while maintaining a pragmatic concern for Yang Zhu’s future.
• Yang Fushuo demonstrates his experience as a negotiator and alchemist. He understands that Medicine Master Valley’s rigid rules may be overcome only by discovering what truly motivates its people.
• Hua Xinyao is introduced as a powerful but humble mid-Nascent Soul alchemist. Despite her status and the pill’s value, she remains calm, principled, and unwilling to violate her established arrangements.
• Yang Feng becomes a more mysterious figure. His presumed confrontation with Yang Min’an suggests that he may have sacrificed himself or acted to protect others.
• Mi Duo becomes central to the mystery because her recovery could reveal what actually happened.
• Yang Zhu is increasingly treated by Yang Genshuo as family, independent of his father’s possible crimes.

Significant Themes

• Family loyalty and acceptance: The Yang Family prioritizes Yang Zhu’s innocence and bloodline over suspicion regarding his father.
• Mystery and incomplete history: The truth behind Yang Feng’s disappearance, Yang Min’an’s actions, and Mi Duo’s role remains unresolved.
• Power and advancement: The Nascent Soul breakthrough marks a major increase in strength, but even great power cannot solve every problem.
• The value of information: Mingyun’s bloodline perception provides an important clue, showing how specialized abilities can uncover hidden history.
• Negotiation versus force: Although the Yang Family is powerful, obtaining the soul-repairing pill requires diplomacy, wealth, and discovering a valuable bargaining chip.
• Moral ambiguity: Yang Min’an is suspected of being dangerous, but the chapter avoids confirming the full truth, leaving room for competing interpretations.
• Limits of cultivation and resources: Rare treasures and elixirs can accomplish extraordinary feats, yet their scarcity creates obstacles even for powerful cultivators.

Character Interactions

• Yang Qiangyou and Mingyun joke about their delayed breakthrough, showing their close and informal partnership.
• Yang Qiangyou excitedly reunites with Yang Genshuo, while Mingyun’s laughter and shared perception highlight the unusual intimacy of their Dragon Rider bond.
• Yang Genshuo questions Qiangyou about Yang Feng’s disappearance, turning a reunion into an investigation.
• Qiangyou and Mingyun contribute different perspectives: Qiangyou recalls events, while Mingyun supplies bloodline-based evidence.
• Yang Genshuo and Qiangyou jointly reason that Yang Feng would only have fought someone like Yang Min’an if forced by a serious threat or injustice.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Fushuo discuss the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill, with the Ancestor relying on Fushuo’s knowledge of the alchemical world.
• Fushuo negotiates with Qian Yuzhu and Hua Xinyao, using courtesy, gifts, and honesty to seek help while Hua firmly maintains Medicine Master Valley’s rules.

Chapter Summary: “Seeking Medicine”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo realizes that Hua Xinyao, a 707-year-old Nascent Soul cultivator, has fewer than 300 years left to live. Because she is only at the fifth level of Nascent Soul, she is unlikely to reach Deity Transformation before her lifespan ends.
• As a result, Hua cannot refine the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pills she owes others in her current life. She plans to reincarnate, rebuild her cultivation, and fulfill those debts in her next life.
• Yang Fushuo tries to negotiate for a pill by offering the Yang Family’s resources, but Hua rejects every proposal. Her wealth and status are already far beyond anything the family can offer.
• Instead, Fushuo discusses alchemy with Hua for several days. His original techniques impress her, and she gives him a Grade Five Nascent Soul Pill to help him break through in the future.
• Yang Genshuo instructs Fushuo to stop directly asking for the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill and focus on understanding Hua’s interests.
• Fushuo introduces Hua to his AI-assisted alchemy system. She is fascinated by its ability to perform enormous numbers of deductions and believes it could revolutionize alchemy if distributed widely.
• Rather than exchanging the AI for an elixir, Fushuo offers to obtain one for her freely, claiming that his goal is to advance alchemy for the entire cultivation world.
• Impressed by his ideals, Hua gives Fushuo her secret Grade Four Formless Pill formula. The pill accumulates invisibly in the Dantian and can help guide cultivators toward the next realm.
• Fushuo initially fails three times but succeeds on his fourth attempt after a month of effort. The resulting increase in his Dantian gives him hope of breaking through to Nascent Soul and becoming a Grade Five Alchemist.
• While Fushuo studies the Formless Pill, Yang Genshuo begins arranging for a modern, specialized AI to be developed specifically for alchemy, hinting that this is part of a larger plan to obtain the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill.

2. Character Developments

• Yang Fushuo: Moves from feeling powerless and inferior before Hua to earning her genuine respect through his alchemical skill, generosity, and ambition. He gains confidence after receiving the Nascent Soul Pill and Formless Pill formula.
• Yang Genshuo: Demonstrates patience and strategic insight. He abandons direct bargaining, recognizes Hua’s interest in innovation, and plans to use advanced AI to create a new basis for negotiation.
• Hua Xinyao: Initially appears unreachable and firmly unwilling to compromise. Her attitude softens as she discovers Fushuo’s talent and sincere vision. She becomes willing to share her secret formula and reconsider her previously strict principles.
• Guo Xiaozhi: Helps translate Yang Genshuo’s idea into a practical modern solution by explaining the concept of customized, specialized AI.

3. Significant Themes

• The limits of wealth and power: The Yang Family’s combined resources are meaningless against Hua’s vast wealth and influence.
• Sincerity versus transactional motives: Hua rejects attempts to trade for the pill but responds positively when Fushuo offers knowledge and assistance without demanding compensation.
• Knowledge-sharing and collective progress: Fushuo’s dream is to unite alchemists, share formulas, and advance the entire field rather than hoard individual discoveries.
• Legacy and reincarnation: Hua’s remaining lifespan and future obligations emphasize how cultivators preserve their promises and ambitions across lifetimes.
• Innovation through cooperation: The chapter combines cultivation alchemy with modern AI, suggesting that technological tools and shared research can transform traditional disciplines.
• Strategic patience: Yang Genshuo succeeds not by forcing a bargain, but by observing Hua’s values and creating a solution aligned with them.

4. Character Interactions

• Yang Fushuo respectfully but unsuccessfully pleads with Hua Xinyao for the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill.
• Hua treats Fushuo kindly, even patting his head, but makes clear that he lacks anything valuable enough to bargain with.
• Their repeated discussions of alchemy create mutual respect and lead Hua to gift him valuable pills and knowledge.
• Yang Genshuo and Fushuo confer across worlds, with Fushuo relying on the Ancestor’s guidance while Yang Genshuo develops the larger strategy.
• Hua and Fushuo bond over the future of alchemy, especially the possibility of using AI to generate new formulas.
• Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi begin planning an exclusive alchemy-focused AI, setting up the chapter’s next stage and a possible route toward obtaining Hua’s coveted pill.

Chapter Summary: “Demons”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Genshuo establishes a locally deployed AI system dedicated to alchemy. He acquires servers and 3,000 terminal devices so thousands of alchemists can collectively train it, accelerating its development far beyond what one alchemist could achieve alone.
• He plans to give Hua Xinyao a small personal server and related equipment during the Yang Family’s Ancestral Worship ceremony, hoping the gift will encourage her to share more of her alchemy knowledge.
• Yang Genshuo decides that the Immortal Qi Group must create its own AI branch, named the Artifact Spirit Company, combining modern AI technology with the Cultivation World’s concept of artifact spirits.
• Guo Xiaozhi is placed in charge of developing the company. Initially bored and directionless after the Immortal Qi Group’s success, he becomes intensely motivated by the opportunity to enter the AI industry.
• Guo’s team warns that entering the AI market will require enormous spending and offer only a slim chance of success. Yang Genshuo accepts the risk, explaining that the AI’s primary purpose is to serve the Yang Family rather than generate profit.
• Guo proposes aggressive marketing tactics for health products, but Yang Genshuo rejects them, emphasizing the company’s responsibility to use its power for beneficial purposes. He suggests lowering prices and relying on the genuine effectiveness of their elixirs and spirit wine instead.
• A year passes in the Cultivation World. During the next Ancestral Worship ceremony, Yang Genshuo distributes Heavenly Secrets Talismans for protection and gives Yang Fushuo the AI server network and 3,000 terminals.
• Yang Fushuo integrates the alchemy AI into his Qi Dan Tower. The system already knows thousands of elixir formulas and can continue learning from thousands of alchemists, potentially becoming an alchemy grandmaster and eventually mastering tens of thousands of formulas.
• Yang Fushuo considers forming an alchemy alliance and travels to Medicine Master Valley to deliver Hua Xinyao’s equipment and recruit more alchemists.
• In the Mushroom World, Yang Genshuo checks on Yang Zhu, who has reached Foundation Establishment Layer 7. Yang Zhu continues caring for his comatose mother, Mi Duo, and hopes to eventually return home with her.
• Yang Genshuo reveals that he has found a way to cure Mi Duo, even if Yang Zhu cannot leave the Mushroom World soon.
• Mushroom Spirits become increasingly important to the Yang Family. Their ease of use and powerful abilities make them more valuable than conventional Beast Taming, formations, mechanisms, and similar cultivation resources.
• Yang Zhu learns that Mushroom Spirit contracts are limited and that removing one is extremely painful. He also discovers territories containing powerful Heaven-grade Mushroom Spirits, which he may claim after reaching the Golden Core Stage.
• The chapter ends as Yang Zhu senses that the Fertility Mushroom is about to give birth, raising anticipation about the nature of its offspring.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo becomes increasingly strategic and visionary. He seeks to preserve the Yang Family’s future through technological innovation, mass cooperation, and the creation of an AI suited specifically to cultivation.
• Guo Xiaozhi moves from a decadent, purposeless lifestyle to genuine enthusiasm and ambition. He embraces the AI project and begins acting like an active executive, though his instinctive capitalist marketing methods clash with Yang Genshuo’s ideals.
• Yang Fushuo gains a powerful new foundation for his alchemy career. The AI could transform him from a highly capable alchemist into the leader of a major alchemical movement.
• Yang Zhu continues to mature through hardship. He remains devoted to his mother, grows stronger, and develops a hopeful determination to reunite with the Yang Family.
• Mi Duo remains incapacitated, but her possible cure gives Yang Zhu a renewed source of hope.

Significant Themes

• Technology and cultivation: Modern AI is adapted to support alchemy and eventually develop into something resembling an artifact spirit, merging technological and supernatural progress.
• Collective knowledge versus individual limits: Thousands of alchemists working together can accelerate discovery dramatically, showing the power of shared data and cooperation.
• Power and responsibility: Yang Genshuo insists that wealth and influence should be used to benefit society rather than exploit consumers.
• Purpose after success: Guo Xiaozhi’s emptiness after achieving financial comfort suggests that people need meaningful work and goals, not merely pleasure and security.
• Family preservation and expansion: The AI project, alchemy alliance, and Mushroom World resources are all intended to strengthen the Yang Family across generations.
• Hope amid separation: Yang Zhu’s care for Mi Duo and his dream of returning home reflect perseverance despite isolation and uncertainty.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi debate whether the new AI company should prioritize profit or the Yang Family’s strategic needs. Their exchange contrasts Guo’s commercial instincts with Yang Genshuo’s broader sense of responsibility.
• Yang Genshuo encourages Guo after seeing his renewed enthusiasm, strengthening Guo’s confidence and commitment.
• Yang Genshuo gifts Yang Fushuo the AI infrastructure and explains its potential, while Fushuo responds with shock and excitement at the prospect of revolutionizing alchemy.
• Yang Fushuo discusses forming an alchemy alliance with Yang Genshuo before departing for Medicine Master Valley.
• Yang Zhu speaks emotionally to his mother, promising to save her and return home. Yang Genshuo communicates with him through Divine Manifestation and assures him that Mi Duo can be cured.
• Yang Zhu’s discovery that the Fertility Mushroom is about to give birth provides the chapter’s final moment of suspense.

Chapter Summary: “Demonic Evils (2)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Zhu’s Fertility Mushroom successfully produces a new Dragon Blood Leap Mushroom, created by combining an Immortal-grade Leap Mushroom with a Heaven-grade Dragon Blood Mushroom.
• The new mushroom is a young, harmless Mushroom Spirit resembling a small white ball of fluff. Unlike ordinary Leap Mushrooms, it does not parasitize its contractor or drain their blood.
• Yang Genshuo examines its abilities:
  • Spatial travel between Legendary Lands and the Mushroom World once mature
  • Creation of spatial anchors and rifts
  • Bloodline Purification, which replaces the Leap Mushroom’s former parasitic drawback
• Because the young mushroom cannot yet use its abilities and may be endangered by Yang Zhu’s mature parasitic Leap Mushroom, Yang Genshuo gives it to Yang Min, whose powerful combat abilities are limited by poor mobility.
• Yang Min contracts the mushroom and begins nurturing it, accepting that it may take around ten years to mature.
• Yang Genshuo considers having the Fertility Mushroom produce another powerful Mushroom Spirit but decides Yang Zhu is currently too weak to safely capture Heaven-grade Mushroom Spirits. Yang Zhu is only at the seventh Foundation Establishment level, though his cultivation is progressing rapidly through the use of Wisdom Fruits.
• The search for the Mushroom World’s connection to the Dragon Clan’s lost remains continues unsuccessfully. Yang Genshuo concludes that simply searching for spatial entrances is ineffective.
• He proposes using the Dragon Clan’s influence to contact the mysterious Gongyang Immortal Clan. If Yang Zhu could be brought out of the Mushroom World, his Leap Mushroom might allow the Dragon Clan to enter it directly.
• Yang Qiangyou reveals that the Dragon Clan previously tried to visit the Gongyang Clan but was contemptuously expelled. The Gongyang Clan considered the Dragon Clan unworthy of equal dialogue.
• The Dragon Lord refuses to approach the Gongyang Clan until she reaches the Void Refining Stage and forbids Yang Qiangyou from going there.
• Mingyun explains that the Gongyang Clan may descend from the ancient Dragon Slaying Tribe, a Human Race group that specialized in killing dragons and was responsible for the Dragon Clan’s historical decline.
• Yang Genshuo realizes the Gongyang Clan is likely an ancient and extremely dangerous enemy of the Dragon Clan, closing off another potential route to the Mushroom World.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhu shows affection and innocence toward the newborn Mushroom Spirit, while also demonstrating gratitude toward the wider Yang Family for supporting him.
• Yang Genshuo acts as a strategic planner, carefully weighing the risks and long-term value of the new mushroom. He recognizes Yang Min as the family’s strongest and most useful trump card and prioritizes improving his mobility.
• Yang Min accepts a long-term investment by contracting the immature Dragon Blood Leap Mushroom, understanding that its abilities will not be immediately available.
• Yang Qiangyou reveals more of the Dragon Clan’s history and his prior humiliation at the hands of the Gongyang Clan. He remains obedient to both Yang Genshuo and the Dragon Lord.
• The Dragon Lord displays strong anger and fear toward the Gongyang Clan, suggesting deep ancestral hostility and a lack of confidence in confronting them at her current cultivation level.
• Mingyun provides the historical explanation linking the Gongyang Clan to the Dragon Slaying Tribe, helping the others understand the Dragon Lord’s reaction.

Significant Themes

• Innovation and improvement: The Dragon Blood Mushroom transforms the Leap Mushroom from a dangerous parasite into a loyal and potentially invaluable companion.
• Long-term planning: The Yang Family must invest in abilities that will only become useful years later rather than seeking immediate benefits.
• Risk versus reward: Capturing powerful Mushroom Spirits could accelerate the family’s strength but might easily kill Yang Zhu before he reaches a safer cultivation level.
• Ancient grudges and inherited conflict: The Dragon Clan’s fear of the Gongyang Clan stems from primordial violence and historical persecution.
• The limits of power: Even the powerful Dragon Clan and Dragon Lord must avoid confronting an ancient enemy before becoming strong enough.
• Mystery and exploration: The Mushroom World, the Gongyang Clan, and the missing dragon remains remain connected by unexplained secrets.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo and Yang Zhu discuss the newborn Mushroom Spirit, with Yang Zhu willingly allowing it to be given to Yang Min.
• Yang Genshuo sends the mushroom to Yang Min through a Flying Book and advises him to nurture it patiently.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Qiangyou plan to use the Dragon Clan’s influence to contact the Gongyang Immortal Clan.
• Yang Qiangyou reports the plan to the Dragon Lord, who angrily rejects it and issues a direct prohibition.
• Mingyun later explains the Gongyang Clan’s connection to the Dragon Slaying Tribe, resolving the mystery behind the Dragon Lord’s hostility.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Yang Family’s attempt to rescue Yang Zhu remains stalled, while the Gongyang Immortal Clan emerges as a powerful new enemy.
• Yang Genshuo recognizes that the Yang Family cannot remain neutral in the Dragon Clan–Gongyang conflict. Because of nearly two centuries of mutual aid and Yang Qiangyou’s connection to the Dragon Clan, the family is bound to support the Dragon Clan eventually.
• Despite this obligation, Yang Genshuo decides that openly confronting the Gongyang Immortal Clan is premature. The family must first rescue Yang Zhu, allow him to grow, and accumulate enough strength to act.
• Yang Fushuo visits Medicine Master Valley and gives Hua Xinyao, a fifth-grade alchemist, a small AI server to improve her alchemy.
• Through a discussion about alchemy, Yang Fushuo challenges the assumption that higher-grade alchemists are superior in every respect. He shares the ancient example of the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, emphasizing that cooperation between alchemists of different levels can produce extraordinary results.
• Yang Fushuo gives Hua Xinyao the ancient text Strange Tales of Kyushu Alchemists, impressing her with his generosity and open-mindedness.
• Hua Xinyao attempts to arrange a marriage between her granddaughter and Yang Fushuo, but he politely deflects the proposal, citing his existing Dao Companions and focus on cultivation.
• Yang Fushuo then identifies a major problem with Hua Xinyao’s renowned Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill: although its effects are exceptional, she can produce only one roughly every twenty years.
• Hua Xinyao reveals that the pill requires the fusion of Heavenly Spirit Grass and Heavenly Yin Flower, whose opposing properties make the process fail approximately ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
• She explains that the pill’s failure is not caused by inadequate technique or equipment. The Heavenly Dao itself interferes because the pill challenges fate by enabling soul preservation, reincarnation, and rebirth.
• Yang Genshuo proposes a solution: Hua Xinyao will lend the Heavenly Spirit Cauldron for a year and provide three sets of materials. During the next Ancestral Worship, he will personally attempt to fuse the two ingredients.
• Yang Genshuo believes Earth’s freedom from the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions may allow him to succeed, just as it lets him create Heavenly Secrets Talismans with perfect reliability.
• If successful, the pill could save Mi Duo and help uncover the truth about Yang Feng’s disappearance, Mi Duo’s relationship with Yang Min’an, and the circumstances surrounding Yang Zhu’s birth.
• Yang Genshuo accelerates time toward the next Ancestral Worship, but six months later a shocking event occurs on the Spirit Continent. The Sect Master of the Cloud Concealment Spirit Sect personally visits the Yang Family.

Character Developments

• Yang Genshuo: Becomes increasingly strategic and patient, prioritizing long-term family strength over immediate action. He also shows loyalty to the Dragon Clan and devises an innovative plan to overcome the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions on the soul-repairing pill.
• Yang Fushuo: Demonstrates exceptional alchemical insight, generosity, and diplomatic skill. He earns Hua Xinyao’s trust by sharing knowledge freely and carefully advances the Yang Family’s interests without appearing manipulative.
• Hua Xinyao: Develops greater respect for Yang Fushuo, acknowledging his purity as an alchemist and willingness to share knowledge. She reveals one of her most important secrets and agrees to cooperate with the Yang Family.
• Yang Zhu: Remains in his routine while the family works behind the scenes to secure his rescue and future growth.
• Mi Duo: Becomes central to Yang Genshuo’s plans, not only as someone who may be saved by the pill but also as a key to uncovering the hidden history involving Yang Feng and Yang Min’an.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty and shared karma: The Yang Family’s long relationship with the Dragon Clan creates an obligation they cannot abandon when the Dragon Clan is threatened.
• Patience and strategic preparation: The family must endure delays and conceal its strength until it is capable of confronting the Gongyang Immortal Clan.
• Knowledge as a shared resource: The chapter presents alchemy as a field advanced through cooperation, humility, and the exchange of ideas rather than rigid hierarchy.
• Defying fate and heavenly restrictions: The Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill symbolizes resistance to the natural order, while Yang Genshuo’s Earth-based abilities may provide a loophole against the Heavenly Dao.
• Uncovering hidden history: The potential to revive Mi Duo represents a chance to expose the truth behind Yang Feng’s disappearance and the Yang Family’s past.

Character Interactions

• Yang Genshuo guides Yang Fushuo’s conversation with Hua Xinyao from a simple exchange of technology into a negotiation for access to her pill-refining process.
• Hua Xinyao and Yang Fushuo bond over their shared belief that alchemy cannot be judged solely by cultivation or rank.
• Hua Xinyao’s attempted matchmaking creates a humorous interruption before the discussion returns to the serious issue of improving the Heavenly Spirit Soul Returning Pill.
• Yang Genshuo and Yang Fushuo cooperate closely, with Fushuo acting as the family’s representative and Genshuo directing the larger strategy from behind the scenes.

Chapter Summary: “Demonic Evils (4)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Cloud Concealment Spirit Sect arrives over the Yang Family territory in overwhelming force, including Sect Master Chen Yuan and nearly all of the sect’s Nascent Soul experts, along with numerous disciples.
• Chen Yuan repeatedly demands to know Yang Feng’s whereabouts, making it clear that the sect considers the matter extremely serious.
• With Yang Min and Yang Fushuo absent, Yang Zhuxing is left to represent and protect the family. He questions the sect’s intimidating presence and warns that it resembles an attempt to destroy the Yang Family.
• Yang Genshuo, the family’s ancestor, learns of the confrontation and realizes that hiding information is impossible. He instructs Yang Zhuxing to tell the sect everything the family knows.
• Yang Zhuxing explains that Yang Feng disappeared thirteen years earlier and that the family has been searching for him ever since. He omits all information concerning Yang Zhu.
• Chen Yuan declares that Yang Feng has reappeared and committed a “monstrous, evil act,” identifying him as a fiend who must be captured and handed over to the Ten Great Immortal Sects for judgment.
• Although Chen Yuan states that the Yang Family is probably uninvolved, he places the entire clan under house arrest. They are forbidden from leaving or helping Yang Feng, with the threat of extermination if they disobey.
• The sect departs after sealing the Yang residence with spiritual energy, leaving the Yang Family frightened and confused about Yang Feng’s alleged crime.

Character Developments

• Yang Zhuxing is forced into an unexpectedly dangerous leadership role. Though confused and afraid, he remains cooperative and chooses honesty to protect the family.
• Yang Genshuo demonstrates caution and political awareness. He understands that resistance or concealment would endanger the entire clan, so he orders Yang Zhuxing to cooperate while continuing to protect the secret of Yang Zhu.
• Chen Yuan is shown as an intimidating and uncompromising authority figure. He presents himself as acting in the interests of justice but is willing to threaten the destruction of an entire family to ensure compliance.
• Yang Feng becomes increasingly mysterious and morally suspect. His long disappearance is now connected to an unspecified act so terrible that the sect labels him a fiend, though neither the Yang Family nor the reader is yet told what he did.

Significant Themes

• Power and helplessness: The Cloud Concealment Spirit Sect’s overwhelming strength leaves the Yang Family unable to defend itself or even demand fair treatment.
• Family loyalty versus self-preservation: The Yang Family must decide how much truth to reveal while protecting its members and keeping certain secrets hidden.
• Justice and political authority: Chen Yuan invokes judgment by the Ten Great Immortal Sects, but his threats raise questions about whether this is justice or coercion.
• Mystery and uncertainty: Yang Feng’s disappearance and alleged crime remain unexplained, creating tension around whether he is truly guilty and what happened during his absence.
• Collective punishment: Despite acknowledging that Yang Feng may have acted alone, the sect threatens the entire Yang clan, highlighting the harsh and authoritarian nature of the cultivation world.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yuan and Yang Zhuxing: Chen Yuan pressures Yang Zhuxing for information, while Yang Zhuxing respectfully challenges the sect’s presence and later cooperates under threat.
• Long Hong and Yang Zhuxing: Long Hong attempts to reassure and encourage him, claiming to believe the Yang Family is not responsible, though his support does not prevent the family’s punishment.
• Yang Zhuxing and Yang Genshuo: Their interaction occurs through the ancestor’s guidance in Yang Zhuxing’s mind. Genshuo directs him to tell the truth while carefully preserving the secret of Yang Zhu.
• The Cloud Concealment Spirit Sect and the Yang Family: The encounter shifts their relationship from one of mutual affiliation to one of suspicion, surveillance, and forced submission.

Summary

This passage is an author’s update rather than a narrative chapter. The author explains that their recent creative work has been sluggish, prompting them to take a short break and go outside during National Day. After returning, they intend to complete the story’s final major plotline and bring the book to a close.
The author acknowledges that the final volume has been difficult to write and that both its quality and update schedule have suffered. They attribute much of the difficulty to an earlier impulsive decision to skip or “lose” 100 years of story time, which created complications for later events and character development. Despite these problems, they accept responsibility and remain committed to finishing the work.
The author reassures readers that the ending was planned long ago and that the book will receive a proper conclusion. Their stated goal is to finish it by the end of October, honoring the readers who have continued following the story.

• Key events: Creative slowdown; brief break for National Day; return to finish the last major plotline; planned completion by the end of October.
• Character development: No fictional characters appear or develop; the author reflects on their own responsibility and perseverance.
• Themes: Creative struggle, accountability, persistence, commitment to readers, and bringing long-term plans to completion.
• Character interactions: No narrative interactions occur; the main relationship presented is between the author and their readers, whom the author wishes to reward with a satisfying ending.