Chapter Summaries

Yang Shi destroyed the Ge Family and tried to reach the Xiang Family, then gathered with the Blackstone Sect as Daoist Xuanzhen prepared for war against Bloodsoul Valley. Meanwhile, Yang Genshuo arranged to launch the Immortal Aura Liquor Factory and planned its promotional video.

• Yang Shi killed Ge Xiangying and the Ge Family, then left the Cloudsea Deer alive and took it with him.
• Yang Shi and Yang Fu could not enter the sealed Great Nai Capital, so they left the Xiang Family's remaining members for another day.
• Yang Shi met Ding Zhen and Daoist Xuanzhen, who brought them to the Blackstone Sect's Immortal Abode and declared that it was time to fight Bloodsoul Valley.
• Yang Genshuo learned that the Immortal Aura Liquor Factory's qualifications were approved and made Guo Xiaozhi its legal representative in exchange for 30% of the shares.
• Guo Xiaozhi proposed making a promotional video for the liquor, and Yang Genshuo told him to find a young actress.

Yang Genshuo watched the final arc of the Great Nai Dynasty, where Daoist Xuanzhen led Blackstone Sect into battle against Bloodsoul Valley. Mo Zhu challenged Xuanzhen’s motives and condemned Cloudveil Spirit Sect’s treatment of Five-Element Spiritual Root cultivators, leaving the two sides poised for a fight.

• Yang Genshuo learned that Guo Xiaozhi had nearly finished securing the liquor factory’s qualifications and returned to watch the Great Nai Dynasty’s final arc.
• Ding Zhen proposed striking Bloodsoul Valley, and Daoist Xuanzhen agreed before taking Blackstone Sect’s forces to the valley.
• Daoist Xuanzhen confronted Mo Zhu, but Bloodsoul Valley’s forces emerged and both sides prepared to fight.
• Mo Zhu accused Xuanzhen of having no path for cultivators with poor Spiritual Roots, and Yang Genshuo discovered that ninety-nine percent of the demonic cultivators had Five-Element Spiritual Roots.
• Mo Zhu compared Bloodsoul Valley to Cloudveil Spirit Sect and vowed to stop paying its tribute, even threatening to Blood Sacrifice the Great Nai Dynasty rather than yield.

The Blackstone Sect and the Law and Order Bureau clashed with Bloodsoul Valley and its allies as Yang Shi and the Martial Sage fought, while Ding Zhen faced his former master. The battle continued, and Yang Genshuo discovered Mo Zhu speaking with a masked person about their plan succeeding.

• Yang Genshuo reflected on the tribute system and condemned Mo Zhu for pursuing her cause through the slaughter of innocents, while Yang Fushuo accepted that killing devil cultivators was their duty.
• Daoist Xuanzhen attacked Mo Zhu, but the blood-mist giant blocked him as devil cultivators and Law and Order Bureau fighters charged against Blackstone Sect.
• Yang Shi and the Martial Sage exchanged hundreds of sword strikes, then continued fighting with their divine abilities as Ding Zhen confronted the Blood Lord of Demonic Thought and two Devil Lords.
• The Law and Order Bureau's forces and Blackstone Sect disciples clashed, while Yang Fu fought Bloodsoul Valley cultivators and watched the horizon for someone.
• Yang Genshuo searched underground and saw Mo Zhu speaking with a masked person, who said that Xuanzhen had acted as expected and their great undertaking would finally succeed.

Yang Genshuo watched the battle at Bloodsoul Valley as Daoist Xuanzhen unleashed his Golden Core and turned the fight decisively in the Blackstone Sect’s favor. Yang Fushuo continued refining a powerful weapon while Yang Fu waited with Murong Ziyan’s ancient incomplete talisman for Mo Zhu to appear.

• Yang Genshuo assessed the demonic cultivators’ confidence and resolved to watch for Mo Zhu before using the Wind-Thunder Illusion Talisman against her.
• Ding Zhen fought the Blood Lord of Demonic Thought and the Netherworld Ghost Lord with Murong Ziyan’s thunderous Treasure Tool, while Yang Shi battled the Martial Sage in a fierce martial contest.
• Yang Fu protected Yang Fushuo with the Crystal Cage Formation as the Immortal-Slaying Legion struck it and Blackstone Sect disciples fought back.
• Daoist Xuanzhen released his Golden Core, shattered Mo Zhu’s blood-mist giant, and strengthened Blackstone Sect disciples, turning the battlefield in their favor.
• Yang Genshuo watched Yang Fushuo continue refining while Yang Fu stood ready to use the ancient talisman when Mo Zhu appeared.

Yang Shi and the Blackstone Sect pushed Bloodsoul Valley to the brink, and Daoist Xuanzhen captured Mo Zhu with the Blackgold Chain. An imperial family member ambushed Xuanzhen and shattered his Golden Core, leaving the chain at risk as Yang Shi, Yang Fu, and Yang Fushuo rushed to seize it.

• Yang Shi fought the Martial Sage with talismans and other divine abilities after the Ancient Sword Remnant Soul countered his Mind Sword.
• Daoist Xuanzhen broke Bloodsoul Valley's barrier with his Golden Core and captured Mo Zhu using the Blackgold Chain.
• Yang Fu and Yang Genshuo sensed that the battle was going too smoothly, and Yang Genshuo spotted Mo Zhu smiling.
• An imperial family member ambushed Daoist Xuanzhen from the sky and destroyed his Golden Core.
• Yang Fu struck the attacker with the Wind-Thunder Illusion Talisman, while Yang Shi, Yang Fu, and Yang Fushuo rushed to seize the Blackgold Chain before Mo Zhu could break free.

Yang Shi and his allies rescued Mo Zhu from the demonic cultivators, but Daoist Xuanzhen was gravely wounded and Xiang Xun was crushed beneath the Blackstone Sect. As Mo Zhu taunted them and awaited Xuanzhen’s death, Lei Zhen emerged from Thunderclap Peak beneath the moving thundercloud.

• Yang Shi reclaimed the Blackgold Chain and bound Mo Zhu again after Yang Fu’s explosive attack scattered the demonic cultivators.
• The Martial Sage unleashed his Qi Swords at Yang Shi, but Yang Fu endured the strike until Shi Hong and the other Pillfire Sect disciples arrived and drove the attacker back.
• The Six Blazing Sun Prides reunited, while Daoist Xuanzhen recovered with a Fourth-Rank Heaven-Returning Pill and returned to the battle.
• Daoist Xuanzhen used the Blackstone Sect itself to crush Xiang Xun and shatter his Golden Core, then revealed that he was nearing death.
• Mo Zhu taunted the gathered cultivators, but Xuanzhen said his junior brother could deal with her, and Lei Zhen appeared from Thunderclap Peak with its thundercloud overhead.

Lei Zhen arrived to restrain Mo Zhu, and Daoist Xuanzhen entrusted the Blackstone Sect to new leaders before dying. Lei Zhen remembered how Xuanzhen and Darkstone had saved him from his dangerous demonic nature.

• Lei Zhen descended from Thunderclap Peak, and a bolt of lightning struck him as Yang Genshuo examined his Immortal Grade talent.
• Yang Shi threw Mo Zhu and the Blackgold Chain to Lei Zhen, and lightning struck Mo Zhu as Lei Zhen captured her.
• Lei Zhen recalled how Darkstone and Xuanzhen had taken him in as a child and helped contain his dangerous constitution.
• Xuanzhen named Ding Zhen the new Sect Master and appointed Yang Shi Deputy Sect Master, entrusting him with the Darkstone Immortal Abode.
• The Blackstone Sect disciples accepted Xuanzhen's appointments, and Xuanzhen died as his Golden Core Dao scattered.

After the Blackstone Sect defeated the royal forces and Bloodsoul Valley, Yang Shi killed Xiang Xun to avenge the Yang Family’s destruction and headed with his children to the Xiang residence. The Xiang Family descendants were still celebrating their conspiracy’s expected success when the Yangs arrived to trap them.

• Ding Zhen turned the surrendered Law and Order Bureau soldiers against Bloodsoul Valley, and the Blackstone Sect slaughtered the demonic cultivators.
• Yang Shi helped the wounded Martial Sage, who gave him the Ancient Sword Remnant Soul and accepted that the Blackstone Sect would hold him responsible for his role in the war.
• Ding Zhen brought the captured Xiang Xun back to the sect, where Yang Shi revealed the Xiang Family had destroyed his family fifty years earlier and killed Xiang Xun.
• The Yang Family received 500 Incense for Xiang Xun’s death, and Yang Shi set out with Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo to confront the Xiang Family in the capital.
• The Xiang Family descendants gathered at the Xiang residence and celebrated their plot against the Blackstone Sect until the three Yangs arrived, and Yang Shi told Yang Fu to activate the formation so none could escape.

Yang Shi avenged his family by destroying the Xiang clan, then reunited with his loved ones in the Great Nai Capital. The chapter ended with a young boy staring at the blood-soaked Xiang Residence.

• Yang Shi emerged from the Xiang Residence after wiping out the Xiang clan, then thanked the ancestor and vowed to protect the Yang Family.
• The Thundering Sword rejected Yang Shi and flew to the Blackstone Sect, so Yang Shi revealed he still had another sword.
• Jiang Xiaobai, Liu Zihan, Yang Fuqing, Yang Fujian, and Huzi arrived, surprising Yang Shi and reuniting the family.
• Yang Shi reassured Liu Zihan that Liu Wuhen had been seen in good condition and promised to stay with his family.
• A six-year-old boy dropped his mung bean cakes as he stared at the blood-soaked Xiang Residence.

Yang Shi spared six-year-old Xiang Shan after destroying the Xiang Family, while Jiang Xiaobai secretly arranged for the boy to be fed and sent away. Yang Genshuo struggled with the battle’s deaths before ending the simulation and heading to a promotional-video audition.

• Yang Shi saw himself in Xiang Shan and left the child alive, giving him a mung bean cake before leading the Yang Family away.
• At the Spirit Food Hall, Jiang Xiaobai had the leftovers packed so she could distribute them to the beggars.
• Jiang Xiaobai told Old Liu to hide Xiang Shan from Yang Shi, feed him, and send him on his way.
• Yang Genshuo reflected on the deaths and his guilt, then stopped the simulation and called the Daoist about a foot massage.
• Guo Xiaozhi called Yang Genshuo about three auditioning candidates for the distillery’s promotional videos, and he agreed to attend.

Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi prepared to film a promotional video for Star River Drunken Dream Liquor, and actress Xu Lingyue arrived to audition after complaining about the job. The chapter ended as Xu Lingyue asked to see her lines.

• Guo Xiaozhi questioned whether the liquor's advertised health benefits sounded exaggerated, but Yang Genshuo insisted they were genuine.
• Yang Genshuo agreed to review the promotional film auditions at a Shimen City studio, where Guo Xiaozhi had hired a professional crew.
• Xu Lingyue complained to her agent, Sister Zhao, about taking a small liquor commercial, then agreed to attend after hearing it might lead to exposure or an endorsement.
• Xu Lingyue arrived ten minutes late, and Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi assessed her while the crew introduced themselves.
• After Fang Wei introduced Xu Lingyue to Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi, she asked for the lines.

Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi auditioned actresses for a liquor commercial, and Xu Lingyue impressed them with her acting and her genuine reaction to the Spirit Wine. After weaker auditions, Xu Lingyue secretly drank more of the wine, and Yang Genshuo caught her.

• Xu Lingyue arrived late, read the script, and performed well in her audition, asking Guo Xiaozhi to bring real wine for the scene.
• Xu Lingyue tasted the Spirit Wine and was captivated by its flavor, while Yang Genshuo and Guo Xiaozhi discussed her performance.
• Yang Genshuo delayed deciding whether to hire Xu Lingyue, and she stayed nearby while the other auditions continued.
• Model Xiaoxuan tried to charm Yang Genshuo but performed poorly, so he dismissed her.
• A student from the Central Academy of Drama auditioned, and Xu Lingyue decided she was the better choice for the commercial.
• Xu Lingyue secretly poured herself another cup of Starry Drunken Dream, and Yang Genshuo caught her drinking it.

Yang Genshuo celebrated the Immortal Aura Liquor commercial with Xu Lingyue and the crew, while Xu Lingyue grew interested in his liquor and accepted his offer of a traditional medicine remedy. The chapter ended with Xu Lingyue calling late at night to ask if she could come to Yang Genshuo’s home for the Blood-Qi Powder.

• Yang Genshuo chose Xu Lingyue to appear in the Immortal Aura Liquor commercial, and the crew finished filming within a day.
• Guo Xiaozhi arranged a celebratory dinner where Yang Genshuo and the crew shared spirit liquor and praised the factory’s prospects.
• Yang Genshuo took Xu Lingyue’s pulse and offered her Blood-Replenishing Qi-Boosting Powder, then refused to give her free jars of liquor.
• Sister Zhao suggested that Xu Lingyue invest early in Yang Genshuo’s company and secure an endorsement deal.
• Xu Lingyue called Yang Genshuo late that night and asked to come over for the Blood-Qi Powder.

Xu Lingyue arrived at Yang Genshuo’s courtyard expecting their meeting to turn intimate, but she misunderstood his preparations: he had brewed medicine for her to drink. She drank it while Yang Genshuo asked Lin Yue to serve hangover soup and fruit, leaving Xu Lingyue still embarrassed by her mistaken assumptions.

• Xu Lingyue dressed up and took a taxi to Yang Genshuo’s courtyard, anticipating that something intimate might happen between them.
• Yang Genshuo asked Lin Yue to prepare hangover soup, fruit, and Qi-Replenishing Blood-Nourishing Powder for the guest.
• Xu Lingyue arrived, and Yang Genshuo invited her inside, saying he had everything ready.
• Xu Lingyue mistook Yang Genshuo’s comments about a fragrant drink for sexual innuendo and began undressing, while Yang Genshuo brought out the herbal medicine.
• Yang Genshuo clarified that he meant the medicine, and Xu Lingyue drank it before Lin Yue served hangover soup and Spirit Fruit.

Xu Lingyue left Yang Genshuo’s dinner confused and determined to get him alone, while he returned to managing the game world. Yang Shi took up his deputy sect master position at Blackstone Sect, and Yang Genshuo discovered that the Fallen Star Immortal Estate had unlocked a new game function and blessing.

• Xu Lingyue left after eating fruit and medicine, puzzled by Yang Genshuo’s behavior and planning to approach him alone next time.
• Yang Genshuo suspected Xu Lingyue wanted his spirit wine, then resumed watching the Yang Family in the Great Nai Dynasty.
• After a week in the capital, Yang Shi asked Yang Genshuo for advice before returning to Blackstone Sect.
• Yang Genshuo reassured Yang Shi that the Yang Family’s rising strength would support him, and Yang Shi returned to the sect with greater confidence.
• Ding Zhen and Yang Shi convened Blackstone Sect’s leaders, who accepted them as sect master and deputy sect master without protest.
• Yang Genshuo received notice that the Yang Family had obtained the Fallen Star Immortal Estate, unlocked the Immortal Estate function, and gained the Upgrade blessing.

Yang Genshuo examined the Fallen Star Immortal Estate and discovered its vast herb fields, time acceleration, and a restriction tying its inheritance to Blackstone Sect for thirty years. As Taoist Ding Zhen and Yang Shi began planning Great Nai Dynasty’s future, Yang Shi prepared to speak about establishing a new order.

• Yang Genshuo studied the Fallen Star Immortal Estate and realized Blackstone Sect had used it to cultivate a steady supply of Spirit Herbs.
• Yang Genshuo discovered that Old Daoist Xuanzhen’s inheritance would be destroyed unless Blackstone Sect used the estate for thirty years, and he decided to wait before pursuing it.
• Yang Genshuo considered the estate’s tenfold time flow and planned to have Yang Shi test its limits after the meeting.
• Ding Zhen opened Blackstone Sect’s meeting by honoring Patriarch Xuanzhen and calling for plans to govern Great Nai Dynasty after the Bloodsoul Valley turmoil.
• The elders feared opposing Yang Shi because his children, Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo, had taken first and second place in Immortal Road Clash.
• Yang Shi recalled his ancestor’s words that a shattered dynasty needed a new order and prepared to address the gathering.

Yang Shi persuaded Blackstone Sect to end the Great Nai Dynasty’s divided rule over cultivators by taking control of Spirit Fields and settling Rogue Cultivators. The Dynasty Reform Campaign began, while Yang Genshuo looked ahead to developing Demonwind Forest with the dynasty’s consolidated strength.

• Yang Shi argued that poverty and insecurity among Rogue Cultivators had fueled demonic factions, and proposed granting them Spirit Field usage rights under Blackstone Sect’s rules.
• Yang Shi proposed bringing the Xiang Family, imperial household, and other officials’ Spirit Fields under Blackstone Sect and separating cultivator governance from mortal administration.
• Yang Genshuo used Manifestation to argue that Rogue Cultivators receiving Spirit Fields would shape public sentiment in Blackstone Sect’s favor.
• Ding Zhen approved Yang Shi’s plan and ordered Blackstone Sect disciples to measure every Spirit Field, killing those who resisted.
• Yang Shi named the campaign the Dynasty Reform Campaign, and Yang Genshuo considered how centralized power could help develop Demonwind Forest.

Yang Genshuo upgraded the Fallen Star Immortal Estate and tested its cultivation and time-acceleration functions. It became a powerful cultivation and herb-growing space, but Yang Fu could not benefit from its accelerated time.

• Yang Genshuo decided that Blackstone Sect could develop Demonwind Forest by combining the strength of cultivators across the Great Nai Dynasty.
• Yang Genshuo used three Incense to upgrade the Fallen Star Immortal Estate, raising its spiritual energy concentration to 45 and its maximum time flow rate to fifteenfold.
• Yang Shi sent Yang Fu into the Immortal Estate, where Yang Fu found that cultivating there was three times faster than cultivating at Truefire Sect.
• Yang Shi accelerated time in the Immortal Estate, and its Spirit Herbs grew rapidly while spiritual energy began condensing into Five-Element Spiritual Energy.
• Yang Shi discovered that he could not accelerate time around Yang Fu, leaving the Immortal Estate useful as a cultivation ground and a place to grow Spirit Herbs.

Yang Genshuo decided to develop Demonwind Forest after the Yang Family found no one willing to go to Cloudveil Spirit Sect. Yang Fu returned to Shen Yao and asked her to become his Dao companion and go with him, but hinted that someone else would join them too.

• Yang Shi and Yang Genshuo discussed the Immortal Abode and the plan to develop Demonwind Forest, while Yang Shi and Jiang Xiaobai told their children they would remain at home.
• Yang Fuqing refused to leave her family and Spirit Beasts, and Yang Fujian said he wanted to go to Cloudveil Spirit Sect to seek worthy opponents before changing his mind and choosing Demonwind Forest.
• Yang Genshuo instructed Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo to stop persuading their parents and return to the Blazing Sun Dynasty to accompany the envoy to Cloudveil Spirit Sect.
• Shen Yao worried that she and Yang Fu would part when the higher sect's envoy arrived, but Yang Fu asked her to become his Dao companion and go with him.
• Shen Yao happily accepted, and Yang Fu awkwardly revealed that someone else would come with them.

Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo recruited Leng Li and Tian Mumu as Dao companions so they could bring them to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect. The Yang Family split its forces, and the two branches departed for separate futures.

• Yang Fu proposed that Leng Li become his Dao companion and accompany him to the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, and she agreed while accepting Shen Yao as a fellow companion.
• Yang Genshuo told Shen Yao about the arrangement, and she accepted Leng Li’s presence so she could stay with Yang Fu.
• Yang Fushuo asked to take Huang Sheng instead, but Yang Genshuo ordered him to approach Tian Mumu; Yang Fushuo proposed to her, and she happily accepted.
• Yang Genshuo divided the Yang Family: Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo would establish a branch at the Cloudveil Spirit Sect, while Yang Shi, Yang Fuqing, and Yang Fujian would remain in the Great Nai Dynasty and Blazing Sun Dynasty.
• Yang Fu, Yang Fushuo, and Shi Hong departed for the Cloudveil Spirit Sect aboard an Attendant vessel with Shen Yao, Leng Li, and Tian Mumu.