Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhengshan gathered cultivation methods for his companions in the Dharma Transmission Hall, then brought the Wolf King to the Spirit Source Land and forced it to submit. He returned with the Wolf King to the Ancient Relic Formation and began organizing its pack to collect treasures before they left.

• Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi received the Azure Wood Longevity Art and the Wood Transformation Body-Nurturing Method, while Zhou Tianci, An Yuxing, Liang Shengze, Qu Changkong, and others obtained cultivation methods suited to them.
• Yang Zhengshan learned that only people whose cultivation had reached the Earthly Fiend Stage could receive methods, and he found no remaining treasures worth taking in the Dharma Transmission Hall.
• Yang Zhengshan led the Wolf King to a remote mountain territory in the Spirit Source Land and used teleportation to overpower it until it submitted.
• Yang Zhengshan fed the Wolf King a Wind Spirit Fruit and brought it back to the Ancient Relic Formation, reassuring it about the Guardian Array.
• The Wolf King called out its pack, revealing eighteen Azure Wolves: twelve adults and six cubs.

Yang Zhengshan used his green wolf pack to search remote cave abodes in the Ancient Relic Formation and discovered a vast forest of ancient spirit trees. He mobilized the Spirit Source Land to excavate and transplant the trees, beginning a large-scale harvest.

• Yang Zhengshan accepted the Green Wolf King's submission, named the adult wolves, and spent five days training them and establishing their home in the Spirit Source Land.
• On the tenth day in the Ancient Relic Formation, Yang Zhengshan avoided the crowded Dharma Transmission Hall and led the wolves toward the remote cave abodes to search for spiritual items.
• The green wolves brought back spirit medicines and strange-beast eggs, which Yang Zhengshan sent to the Spirit Source Land for planting and safekeeping.
• Third Young Master led Yang Zhengshan to a forest containing hundreds of ancient spirit trees, including thirty-six trees that had grown for ten thousand years.
• Yang Zhengshan sent the wolves to guard the forest, summoned workers from the Spirit Source Land, and began digging up and transplanting the ancient trees.

Yang Zhengshan transplanted hundreds of ancient Wutong trees into the Spirit Source Land, then began opening ancient cave abodes in search of useful treasures and inheritances. He found a Formation Master's tools and texts and an Alchemist's inheritance before returning to the relic formation's northern part to await its opening, with only three days left.

• Yang Zhengshan transplanted 381 ancient Wutong trees and several other ancient trees into the Spirit Source Land, giving its Wood Attribute cultivators many potential Spirit Foundation materials.
• Yang Zhengshan and the green wolves spent a day attacking a cave abode's protective formation until it burst apart, allowing him to enter.
• Yang Zhengshan found a bronze mirror, formation equipment, and bone slips containing a basic formation inheritance in the cave abode.
• Yang Zhengshan opened several more cave abodes over the following days, finding little of value until he discovered an Alchemist's cave abode containing alchemy texts.
• With three days remaining before the relic formation opened, Yang Zhengshan returned to its northern part to wait.

Yang Zhengshan was ambushed by three Xuanqing Sect elders near the mountain rocks, but escaped into the Spirit Source Land and waited them out. He later led the Green Wolf King and the green wolves in a counter-ambush, killed the elders, and took their loot, including a metal-attribute ore that might help forge a Spirit Foundation.

• Yang Zhengshan narrowly dodged the three elders’ ambush and fled into the Spirit Source Land when they pursued him.
• Yu Qingyi emerged from seclusion after successfully breaking through, and she and Yang Zhengshan waited until the elders appeared to have left.
• Yang Zhengshan sent the Green Wolf King to scout, then brought Dalang and Da Qing outside and ordered the wolves to hunt the elders.
• The Green Wolf King and nine green wolves ambushed the three elders, killed them, and ate their bodies while Yang Zhengshan watched.
• Yang Zhengshan searched the elders’ Storage Bags and found weapons, cultivation techniques, treasures, and a golden ore rich in metal-attribute spiritual energy.

Yang Zhengshan reunited with Lan Peng and the badly wounded Lu Youning, then helped stop three elders from attacking them further. As the group escaped the relic formation at noon, a violent rumble suddenly sounded outside.

• Yang Zhengshan disguised his appearance, reached the formation’s exit, and waited anxiously when Lan Peng and Lu Youning did not arrive.
• Lan Peng carried the unconscious Lu Youning into the gathering place while three elders pursued them, and Yang Zhengshan blocked the elders and warned them of the consequences of harming the Lu Family’s Second Master.
• The elders withdrew, and Lan Peng told Yang Zhengshan that Brother Bai had stayed behind to cover their escape and that An Botong was missing.
• Yang Zhengshan and Lan Peng waited until the three Martial God Realm experts opened the formation, then rushed out with the other survivors while Lan Peng carried Lu Youning.
• A violent rumble suddenly sounded outside the formation as Yang Zhengshan and the others were passing through the opening.

Yang Zhengshan and Lan Peng escaped the Ancient Relic Formation as Youyu Gate attacked the people emerging from it. After fighting their way through the encirclement and surviving the Sky Alligator Beast’s crash, they fled with Lu Youning and stopped to rest in a mountain valley.

• Yang Zhengshan and Lan Peng realized Youyu Gate had attacked the relic formation and rushed out to escape the battle.
• Yang Zhengshan and Lan Peng killed three black-robed Youyu Gate Martial Artists and broke through the pursuers’ encirclement.
• The Sky Alligator Beast fell nearby, blasting Yang Zhengshan, Lan Peng, and Lu Youning across the ground and scattering their pursuers.
• Yang Zhengshan and Lan Peng fled more than two hundred li with Lu Youning before stopping in a mountain valley to rest.

Yang Zhengshan, Lan Peng, and the badly injured Lu Youning escaped the Youyu Gate ambush, recovered at the Ning Family, and returned to Lingxi Mountain. There, Yang Zhengshan learned that the Three Great Sects were preparing for war with Youyu Gate and turned to managing his family’s affairs.

• Lan Peng and Yang Zhengshan treated Lu Youning’s severe injuries and carried him to the Ning Family’s territory, where he awoke after three days.
• Lu Youning learned that Bai Mingyue had died saving him, and he and Lan Peng decided not to hand their relic formation gains to the Three Great Sects for now.
• The three traveled back to Shanggu Prefecture as rumors spread that Youyu Gate had inflicted disastrous losses on the Three Great Sects and their allies.
• Yang Zhengshan returned directly to Lingxi Mountain, where the Lingxi Yang Family welcomed him and Yang Xiangheng reported that the family’s new properties would yield 120 Spirit Stones each year.
• Li Chang told Yang Zhengshan that the Secret Martial Guard had observed the Three Great Sects gathering supplies at Yushan Town, suggesting they intended to fight Youyu Gate.

Yang Zhengshan withdrew the Secret Martial Guard from the coming conflict between the Three Great Sects and Youyu Gate, then returned to the Spirit Source Land to study the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture. He successfully began cultivating its Qi Refining method and planned to cultivate the Immortal Dao gradually, ending with his Divine Sense able to perceive beyond thirty zhang.

• Yang Zhengshan ordered Chen Zhongshu and Lü Hua to keep the Secret Martial Guard out of the Three Great Sects’ conflict, and approved Lü Hua’s return to attempt a breakthrough.
• Yu Qingyi, Red Cloud, and Green Mist presented Yang Zhengshan with the Relic Formation’s remaining treasures and the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture and Azure Flower Thunder Art.
• Yang Zhengshan read the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture, began its breathing method, and discovered that he could gather spiritual qi into his Spirit Aperture and awaken Divine Sense.
• Yang Zhengshan concluded that the Martial Dao offered a more accessible path, but chose the Immortal Dao because cultivating the scripture felt natural to him.
• Yang Zhengshan planned to cultivate four hours each day while converting his True Essence into magic power gradually, then found that his Divine Sense could perceive more than thirty zhang outside the Spirit Source Land.

Yang Zhengshan began cultivating the Immortal Dao, helped Wang Mingzhe understand why ancient alchemy methods differed from martial cultivator techniques, and spent nearly half a year practicing and studying in the Spirit Source Land. He then turned to the Azure Flower Thunder Art, beginning with the Azure Flower Thunder Bead.

• Yang Zhengshan told Yu Qingyi that he could cultivate, explained Spirit Apertures and Divine Sense, and suggested she might cultivate the Immortal Dao after reaching the Martial God Realm.
• Wang Mingzhe and Yang Chengyu failed to refine a Bigu Pill, so Yang Zhengshan studied the Leping Pill Commentary and succeeded after ruining three batches of ingredients.
• Yang Zhengshan explained that ancient cultivator alchemy required different fire-control skills and advised Wang Mingzhe to test its techniques rather than follow the commentary blindly.
• Yang Zhengshan settled into a routine of cultivation, alchemy, rune study, and overseeing the Spirit Source Land, while he let the Green Wolf King’s pack raise cattle for food.
• Nearly half a year later, Yang Zhengshan began studying the Azure Flower Thunder Art and chose to cultivate the Azure Flower Thunder Bead, since he was not yet able to practice its other arts.

Yang Zhengshan called the Spirit Source Land’s annual clan assembly and proposed opening a foothold in Xuegu Town to secure resources and spur the clan’s development. The clan agreed, and he assigned Luo Zhen and Zhen Tao to lead a new Ministry of Commerce as preparations began.

• Yang Zhengshan left his cultivation in the Spirit Source Land and rode with Yang Chengmou to the annual clan assembly.
• Yang Zhengshan explained that the Spirit Source Land lacked ores, Spiritual Items, and Spirit Stones, so the clan needed to seek resources outside.
• Yang Zhengshan proposed opening shops in Xuegu Town to sell clan specialties and buy Spiritual Items and Strange Beast materials from the Yunxiao Mountain Range.
• Zhou Tianci supported the plan, and the assembled clan members agreed to follow Yang Zhengshan’s arrangements.
• Yang Zhengshan ordered the Dharma Protector Army expanded from one thousand men to two thousand, requiring recruits to be above the Fifth Layer of Postnatal Realm.
• Yang Zhengshan appointed Luo Zhen and Zhen Tao to lead the new Ministry of Commerce and told them to prepare to accompany him to Xuegu Town.

Yang Zhengshan set plans to expand the Spirit Source Land’s specialty production and traveled to Sanshan Stronghold to assess Hangu Prefecture’s forces and intelligence. He learned that Hidden Sword Mountain remained elusive, with its base somewhere in the Yunxiao Mountain Range still unconfirmed.

• Yang Zhengshan ordered Yang Mingcheng to expand production of spirit tobacco, liquor, and tea and establish Beast Taming and Spirit Insect departments under Myriad Treasures Hall.
• Yang Zhengshan reviewed the Alchemy Workshop, Artifact Casting Workshop, and Formation Department’s progress, noting that only tobacco, liquor, and tea were currently ready for outside sale.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Li Chang about the ongoing war between the Three Sects and Twelve Families and Youyu Gate, then rode with him toward Hangu Prefecture.
• At Sanshan Stronghold, Yang Chengxian briefed Yang Zhengshan on Hanxiao Sect, Xuegu Town, and the forces operating there.
• Yang Zhengshan asked about Hidden Sword Mountain, and Yang Chengxian said its location was unknown but might lie within the Yunxiao Mountain Range.

Yang Zhengshan investigated Xuegu Town as a possible base for selling the Spirit Source Land’s wine and tobacco, learning about local competitors and the Hanxiao Sect’s control of the market. After arriving with his business team, he met Hanxiao Sect steward Ji De'an to discuss renting a shop, leaving Ji De'an puzzled by the unfamiliar Lingyuan Yang Family.

• Yang Zhengshan learned that Hidden Sword Mountain disciples had repeatedly appeared in Xuegu Town and considered asking the Hanxiao Sect about the reclusive sect.
• Yang Chengxian described the Fan Family’s Ice Soul Spirit Wine and the Chen Family’s Snow Green Tea, and Yang Zhengshan decided to begin with tobacco and alcohol rather than compete over tea immediately.
• Yang Zhengshan left Sanshan Stronghold with Li Chang and later brought Luo Zhen, the shop assistants, and the guards to Xuegu Town to establish a business.
• Yang Zhengshan’s party settled at an inn and checked the information about Xuegu Town before visiting the Hanxiao Sect’s administrative hall to rent a shop.
• Ji De'an greeted Yang Zhengshan, who introduced himself under the name of the Lingyuan Yang Family, leaving the steward wondering what family that was.

Yang Zhengshan rented and combined two shops and a courtyard in Xuegu Town, then prepared them as the Yang Family Winery and planned promotions to attract customers. The winery opened with free tastings and half-price wine, and Lady Cui felt her stagnant cultivation stir after drinking a sample.

• Yang Zhengshan negotiated a two-year lease with Ji De'an for two market shops and a courtyard, paying 360 spirit stones per year while receiving the courtyard rent-free.
• Yang Zhengshan moved into the premises with his people, and Luo Zhen oversaw renovations that joined the shops into a wine store with storage cellars.
• Yang Zhengshan prepared VIP tokens offering a twenty percent discount and set a three-day opening promotion with all wine half price.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged the winery's opening, and Luo Zhen welcomed neighbors to sample three kinds of spirit wine for free.
• Lady Cui drank a cup of Peach Blossom Brew and felt warmth spread through her body as her stagnant Qi Sea Stage cultivation began to fluctuate.

Yang Zhengshan opened the Yang Family Winery in Xuegu Town, selling spirit wines that drew curious neighbors and three influential buyers. After a busy first day, he explained that Hundred Fruits Brew would target sects and martial families while cheaper wines would serve ordinary customers.

• Lady Cui and other visitors sampled the winery's spirit wines, and Doctor Old Zhang became its first customer by buying ten jin of Drunken Immortal Brew.
• Lady Cui bought fifty jin each of Peach Blossom Brew and Apricot Blossom Brew for her children, while more customers arrived after word of the grand opening spread.
• Yang Zhengshan hosted Ji De'an, Li Pang, and Zhu Yuansu, who bought discounted Hundred Fruits Brew after tasting it.
• Ji De'an suspected Yang Zhengshan came from a powerful force hidden in the Yunxiao Mountain Range after noticing his token and the winery's Hundred Fruits Brew.
• The winery sold 3,420 jin of wine on its first day, earning 580 Spirit Stones, and Yang Zhengshan told Luo Zhen to market Hundred Fruits Brew to sects and martial families while selling other wines to individuals.

Fan Chengyue and Ji Linfeng recognized the Yang Family Winery’s spirit wines as both a threat and a valuable opportunity, and they planned to let the Fan Family act first while buying wine during the sale. Meanwhile, Lady Cui and Second Master Cheng anxiously waited to see whether Peach Blossom Brew would help their son break through to the Innate Realm.

• Fan Chengyue sampled the Yang Family Winery’s wines, decided they threatened the Fan Family’s business, and ordered an investigation while considering how to seize their brewing craft.
• Ji De'an gave Ji Linfeng Hundred Fruits Brew, and Ji Linfeng found that it could speed his cultivation enough to give him hope of reaching the Martial God Realm.
• Ji Linfeng and Ji De'an discussed the Yang Family’s apparent formation knowledge and agreed to let the Fan Family make the first move while arranging to buy more wine during the sale.
• Lady Cui watched her son cultivate after drinking Peach Blossom Brew, while Second Master Cheng waited with her, hoping it would help him break through to the Innate Realm.

Cheng Danian broke through to the Innate Realm after drinking Peach Blossom Brew, and his family spread the news so more townspeople would buy Yang Family Winery’s spiritual wine. Yang Zhengshan continued cultivating and testing his Azure Wood spells, ending with Yu Qingyi trapped by his Vine Art.

• Cheng Danian successfully became an Innate Martial Artist, and Second Master Cheng and Lady Cui celebrated with him.
• Lady Cui and Cheng Danian’s wife decided to tell their relatives that Peach Blossom Brew could help martial artists break through.
• Luo Zhen opened the Yang Family Winery to a huge crowd, as word of its wine promotion spread through Xuegu Town.
• Yang Zhengshan cultivated with spiritual resources and practiced the Azure Wood Technique’s spells in the Spirit Source Land.
• Yang Zhengshan used the Vine Art to defeat Yu Qingyi’s attacks and bind her, prompting her to stop fighting.

Yang Zhengshan assessed the success of the Yang Family Winery and prepared to expand into Spirit Medicines and Strange Beasts while anticipating a move from the Fan Family. Fan Chengyue bribed Yuan Bo to look the other way and arranged for Soul-Severing Blade to attack the winery that night.

• Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi teased each other before going to their bedroom together.
• The Yang Family Winery's Spirit Wine drew crowds, and Luo Zhen reported that sales had stabilized at over four hundred Spirit Stones a day.
• Yang Zhengshan told Luo Zhen to train staff to purchase Spirit Medicines and Strange Beasts, and warned him that the Fan Family might target them.
• Fan Chengyue paid Yuan Bo to ignore the Fan Family's planned attack on the Yang Family Winery, provided the commotion stayed small.
• Fan Chengyue learned that Soul-Severing Blade's people had arrived and would make their move that night.

Luo Zhen, Qu Changkong, and Liang Shengze were attacked by Soul-Severing Blade agents using a formation that made people lose consciousness. Yang Zhengshan intervened with Vine Art and confronted the agents, learning that one of them might also be an Immortal Cultivator.

• Luo Zhen collapsed beneath an unusually large moon, and Qu Changkong and Liang Shengze confronted three black-robed attackers on a rooftop.
• The attackers revealed they had come to capture Qu Changkong and Liang Shengze, while the strange moon’s formation gradually clouded the two men’s minds.
• Liang Shengze bit his tongue to stay alert, and he and Qu Changkong charged the attackers but were quickly driven back.
• Yang Zhengshan used Vine Art to cage the courtyard, conceal the moon, and pull Luo Zhen to safety.
• Yang Zhengshan identified the attackers as Soul-Severing Blade agents and suspected the Fan Family had hired them to seize the Yang Family Winery’s Spirit Wine secrets.
• The burly agent proposed ending the fight after recognizing Yang Zhengshan as an Immortal Cultivator, prompting Yang Zhengshan to consider how widely Immortal Cultivators might exist.

Yang Zhengshan fought three Soul-Severing Blade cultivators, killed their leader, and captured the other two. He discovered their blood-based cultivation methods and began questioning the captured woman.

• Yang Zhengshan used vines, flying blades, and the Spirit Source Land to evade the burly cultivator’s attacks, then killed him with a thunder-infused spear strike.
• Yang Zhengshan restrained the remaining man and woman in vines, while Qu Changkong and Liang Shengze discussed their cultivation and the gap between martial artists and cultivators.
• Yang Zhengshan collected the dead cultivators’ storage bags and took the captives to the Spirit Source Land after confirming Luo Zhen and the others were unconscious but alive.
• Yang Zhengshan found spirit stones and strange pills in the burly man’s storage bag, then threatened the woman with an Iron Thread Vine seed until she identified a pill as a Blood Baleful Pill.
• The woman explained that the pill increased Xue Sha Qi, and Yang Zhengshan found the Blood Baleful Qi Guiding Method and Blood Baleful Qi Refining Method, which relied on human essence blood.

Yang Zhengshan discovered that a Jade Slip contained the Void-Refining Scripture, a method that could help him control the Spirit Source Land and strengthen his soul. After disposing of the Soul-Severing Blade fighters’ belongings, he decided to prioritize cultivating the scripture despite his crowded schedule.

• Yang Zhengshan interrogated the woman about a Formation Disk and a Jade Slip while using Iron Thread Vines to frighten the man into silence.
• Yang Zhengshan used Spiritual Sense to read the Jade Slip and found the Void-Refining Scripture, which could help him master the Spirit Source Land.
• Yang Zhengshan examined the burly man’s Jade Slip and learned the Blood Baleful Demon Eye, then destroyed it and buried the captives and their possessions.
• Yang Zhengshan realized that controlling dharma artifacts required Spiritual Sense, but decided his weak soul made that too risky for now.
• Yang Zhengshan reviewed his competing cultivation duties and chose to focus on the Void-Refining Scripture’s method of instant movement through the Spirit Source Land.