Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhengshan discovered that Xuan Zhen, now a Foundation Establishment cultivator serving Soul-Severing Blade, was controlled by the Wuchang Ghost Sect through a blood pool and asked him to explain the sect. Their reunion left them considering how Xuan Zhen might break free.

• Mo Xuanyu asked Xuan Zhen to find the unknown person who had destroyed a Ghost General with lightning, and Xuan Zhen sensed Yang Zhengshan’s Soul Crow outside.
• Yang Zhengshan revealed himself to Xuan Zhen, and the two old acquaintances reunited and learned that both had cultivated immortal arts.
• Xuan Zhen explained that he had been forced into Wuchang Ghost Sect’s Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Pool, where the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Jade controlled his divine soul.
• Xuan Zhen told Yang Zhengshan that breaking the formation, destroying the blood pool, and shattering the jade could free him from the sect’s control.
• Xuan Zhen described the Yin Ghost Division’s Foundation Establishment leaders and its Yin Soldiers, including himself, and Yang Zhengshan learned that their immediate threat was the division’s Blood Pool Deacon and Soul-Severing Blade.

Yang Zhengshan learned that the Wuchang Ghost Sect was stirring up war to create Yin Soldiers, then discovered that its Mo Xuanyu wanted to refine him into one. He sent Yang Jizhen and Yang Chengan to Lianxin Valley to broaden their horizons, while in Anhu City Ding Qiu faced an attempt by the Situ Family to recruit him through threats and promises.

• Yang Zhengshan agreed to let Xuan Zhen contact him through the Soul Crow, then decided to keep a low profile and wait rather than intervene in the brewing conflict between Youyu Gate and the Lingxiu Three Sects.
• Xuan Zhen asked Yang Zhengshan to help find a Thunder Technique cultivator from Shanggu Prefecture City, and Yang Zhengshan revealed that he was the person Mo Xuanyu wanted to turn into a Yin Soldier.
• Yang Zhengshan visited Yang Jizhen, praised his first high-grade flying sword, and urged him to travel to Lianxin Valley with Yang Chengan to seek experience.
• Situ Xicheng urged Ding Qiu to join the Situ Family, offering to help him achieve Martial God while implying that refusal would cost him the opportunity.
• Ding Qiu rejected the pressure, since he planned to return to the Spirit Source Land after completing his ten-year term in Anhu City and already had the resources for his breakthrough.

Yang Minghao and Ding Qiu clashed with Situ Xicheng after the Situ Family tried to recruit Ding Qiu, prompting Yang Zhengshan to arrange a forced escort back to Lingxi Mountain. Meanwhile, Yang Zhengshan found Liang Shengze near death during his Golden Body breakthrough and used a Foundation Establishment Pill and his divine soul power to revive him, leaving Liang Shengze struggling to control the pill’s overwhelming medicinal power.

• Situ Xicheng threatened to exterminate the Lingxi Yang Family after Yang Minghao rejected his pressure, and he left in anger.
• Ding Qiu urged Yang Minghao to inform Yang Zhengshan so the conflict would not disrupt his plans.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Yang Minghao a Huanyue Sect Elder Token and ordered him to ask Elder Yueming to make Situ Family members escort them back to Lingxi Mountain while keeping Yang Zhengshan’s identity secret.
• Yang Zhengshan checked An Yuxing, Qu Changkong, and Liang Shengze during their prolonged Golden Body breakthroughs and found Liang Shengze’s condition especially dire.
• Yang Zhengshan fed Liang Shengze a Mid-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and carefully used his divine soul power to awaken him.
• Yang Zhengshan urged Liang Shengze to calm himself and control the pill’s medicinal power as it replenished his depleted true essence and battered his body.

Liang Shengze stabilized his breakthrough under Yang Zhengshan’s guidance as An Yuxing successfully broke through. Meanwhile, Yang Minghao secured Elder Yueming’s help against the Situ Family, whose head ordered Ding Qiu killed before a Huanyue Sect disciple arrived.

• Yang Zhengshan guided Liang Shengze through stabilizing his Spirit Foundation, restoring his meridians, and beginning to shape his Golden Body with the aid of gathered spiritual energy.
• Yang Zhengshan saw the azure light of An Yuxing’s successful breakthrough but stayed with Liang Shengze while his condition remained uncertain.
• Yang Minghao brought Yang Zhengshan’s Guest Elder token to Elder Yueming, who confirmed its status and agreed to intervene in the conflict with the Situ Family.
• Situ Wujiu heard Situ Xicheng’s account of the dispute and ordered him to arrange an ambush to kill Ding Qiu.
• A disciple of Elder Yueming arrived at the Situ Family’s residence, prompting Situ Wujiu to receive him in the main hall.

Li Xingchen made the Situ Family surrender Qianshan Pavilion and ordered them to escort the Lingxi Yang Family members home, forcing Situ Wujiu to halt his plans against them. In Spirit Source Land, Liang Shengze completed his breakthrough, while Yang Zhengshan advised Yang Mingzhi to wait before attempting his own.

• Li Xingchen told Situ Wujiu that the Huanyue Sect wanted Qianshan Pavilion, and Situ Wujiu reluctantly agreed to hand it over.
• Li Xingchen ordered Situ Xicheng to escort Yang Minghao, Ding Qiu, and the others back to Lingxi Mountain, so Situ Wujiu warned his son not to antagonize the Lingxi Yang Family.
• Situ Xicheng took his men to Anhu City and escorted Yang Minghao, Ding Qiu, and the others home.
• Liang Shengze emerged from his successful breakthrough and thanked Yang Zhengshan, who celebrated with him and An Yuxing before sending them back to cultivate.
• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Ding Qiu and told Yang Mingzhi that he should temper his cultivation for another seven or eight years before attempting a breakthrough.

Elder Yueming asked Yang Zhengshan to refine Illusion God Pills so he could attempt to break through to the Divine Soul Realm, and Yang Zhengshan accepted twenty batches of ingredients. After five failed batches, Yang Zhengshan realized the recipe’s Pure Heart Hand was the key and found a possible explanation for why the technique felt awkward.

• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Elder Yueming and served him Jingyu Spring, which calmed Yueming’s mind and slightly nourished his divine soul.
• Yueming asked Yang Zhengshan to refine Illusion God Pills and gave him twenty batches of medicinal ingredients, agreeing to split any successful pills equally.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yueming the refining could take at least a year, then began studying the recipe while continuing work on the Spirit Gathering Pill.
• Yang Zhengshan failed five batches of Illusion God Pills and determined that he needed to master the Pure Heart Hand technique for handling the Nine Nether Ghost Orchid.
• Yang Zhengshan considered why the Pure Heart Hand felt awkward, checked a Jade Slip, and smiled after a possibility occurred to him.

Yang Zhengshan discovered that the Pure Heart Hand could help him refine the Illusion God Pill, then learned that the Yin Ghost Division planned to attack the North Shi Family to provoke war. After revealing that he had emptied most of the Ancient Relic Formation, he decided to frame the Wuchang Ghost Sect for it and began putting his plan into motion.

• Yang Zhengshan realized the Pure Heart Hand was an incomplete sword art that could complement the Heart Sword Scripture, and practiced it to protect the Nine Nether Ghost Orchid’s medicinal properties.
• Yang Chengmou told Yang Zhengshan that everyone had withdrawn from the Ancient Relic Formation, so Yang Zhengshan retrieved the Cave Heaven Portal and ordered the workers to rest.
• Xuan Zhen warned Yang Zhengshan that the Yin Ghost Division planned to attack the North Shi Family and frame someone to reignite conflict between Youyu Gate and the Lingxiu Three Sects.
• Yang Zhengshan told Xuan Zhen that he had removed nearly everything valuable from the Ancient Relic Formation and said they should wait before striking at Mo Xuanyu.
• Yang Zhengshan decided to turn Mo Xuanyu’s framing scheme against the Wuchang Ghost Sect, found a Soul-Severing Blade token, and ordered Yang Chengmou to place it in the Dharma Transmission Hall.

Yang Zhengshan captured Ghost Woman and more than thirty Soul-Severing Blade members in Anhu City and sent them into the Ancient Relic Formation, where Ghost Woman discovered powerful inheritances in the Dharma Transmission Hall. She began converting to the Mysterious Yin Soul-Silence Scripture, while outside the formation Youyu Gate, the Lingxiu Three Sects, and the Twelve Great Clans gathered for its opening.

• Yang Zhengshan used a golden bell to knock out Ghost Woman, took her and her scarecrow, and sent them into the Ancient Relic Formation along with more than thirty Soul-Severing Blade members in Anhu City.
• Ghost Woman woke beside the lake, gathered her subordinates, and led them through the battered mountain forest to the Dharma Transmission Hall.
• Ghost Woman activated the hall's formation and received the Mysterious Yin Soul-Silence Scripture and the Three Yin Weaving Net, then began cultivating and converting her practice.
• Youyu Gate, the Lingxiu Three Sects, and the Twelve Great Clans assembled outside the Ancient Relic Formation as its opening drew near.

Duan Qingyun and the others opened the Ancient Relic Formation, where Ghost Woman and her followers were discovered and hunted by the incoming elites. The chapter then shifted to the North Shi Family, where Shi Pingshan found Shi Shengyuan drunk on Drunken Immortal Brew.

• Duan Qingyun, Shanyuan, and Yuesu opened a gap in the Ancient Relic Formation, and elites from Youyu Gate and the Lingxiu Three Sects entered.
• Yang Zhengshan watched from a nearby mountaintop, exchanged spiritual senses with Ming Shuzi, then returned to the Spirit Source Land.
• Ghost Woman learned that the newcomers were from Youyu Gate and the Ancient Relic Formation, and her group became embroiled in battles and pursuit.
• The chapter introduced the North Shi Family and its three Martial God experts, including Shi Shengyuan.
• Shi Pingshan visited Shi Shengyuan at Lingyun Residence and found him drunk amid wine jars and scattered scrolls.

Mo Xuanyu led Yin Soldiers and Corpse Ghosts in an assault on Yunyuan Valley to frame Youyu Gate, while Yang Zhengshan watched from hiding. As the North Shi Family fought back, Yang Zhengshan killed the Lian Family Old Ancestor, leaving the battle still raging.

• Shi Pingshan warned Shi Shengyuan that he sensed disaster approaching, and the two stayed together in Tingshui Pavilion.
• Mo Xuanyu brought more than thirty subordinates toward Yunyuan Valley, including Xuan Zhen and the Corpse Ghost Lian Family Old Ancestor.
• Yang Zhengshan concealed himself near the valley, intending to kill the Lian Family Old Ancestor and deciding he might also aid the North Shi Family.
• Mo Xuanyu's group entered Yunyuan Valley and attacked its residents, while Shi Pingshan and Shi Shengyuan rushed to confront them.
• Shi Pingshan recognized Bai Shangyuan, who had supposedly died decades earlier, and the two began fighting.
• Yang Zhengshan used the Soul Absorbing Technique to stun the Lian Family Old Ancestor, then killed him with the Azure Gleam Sword.

Yang Zhengshan disrupted Mo Xuanyu’s assault on the Shi Family, killed five Martial God Corpse Ghosts, and revealed Mo Xuanyu’s Wuchang Ghost Sect identity. He drove Mo Xuanyu away by warning that the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Pool was in danger, then explained to Shi Pingshan that the attack was meant to provoke war between the Lingxiu Three Sects and Youyu Gate.

• Yang Zhengshan repeatedly teleported across the battlefield and killed five Martial God Corpse Ghosts while Mo Xuanyu used his Soul Suppressing Lamp and Myriad Ghost Banner to fight back.
• Yang Zhengshan tested Mo Xuanyu with a Soul Piercing Awl, but Mo Xuanyu’s defenses stopped it, so Yang Zhengshan withdrew before the ghosts could engulf him.
• Yang Zhengshan appeared beside Shi Pingshan and Shi Shengyuan, identified Mo Xuanyu as a Wuchang Ghost Sect steward, and warned that the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Pool might be under attack.
• Mo Xuanyu feared for the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Jade and left with his forces instead of continuing the fight.
• Yang Zhengshan told Shi Pingshan that the Wuchang Ghost Sect had attacked to frame Youyu Gate and provoke a war with the Lingxiu Three Sects.

Yang Zhengshan warned the Xuanqing Sect about Mo Xuanyu, prompting Lin Daoyuan to organize a response with Youyu Gate, while Mo Xuanyu moved his blood pool and fled. As the Ancient Relic Formation opened, the Ghost Woman escaped the hunters and fled east, leaving her destination unknown.

• Yang Zhengshan accepted no name or repayment from the North Shi Family, but gave Shi Pingshan a jade token to claim their favor later.
• Shi Pingshan and Shi Shengyuan told Lin Daoyuan that Mo Xuanyu belonged to the Wuchang Ghost Sect, and Lin Daoyuan began investigating and sought an alliance with Youyu Gate.
• Mo Xuanyu decided to move the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Pool, then relocated it while leaving the Yin-Baleful Blood-Baleful Great Formation behind.
• The Ghost Woman chose to leave the Ancient Relic Formation despite the danger, using the Shadow Transformation Technique to evade the guards.
• The Ghost Woman slipped out of the formation and fled east before the Martial God powerhouses could stop her.

Yang Zhengshan learned that the Lian Family had been expelled from the Twelve Great Clans and that the Lingxi Yang Family would take its place, gaining Lian Family Town. Back in the Spirit Source Land, he approved the Clan Council’s reform into White Jade Capital and appointed Yang Chengmou to lead its development as Ziwei Tower’s tower master.

• True Person Jingshui told Yang Zhengshan that Shan Ming, Duan Qingyun, and other cultivators had died while the sects broke Mo Xuanyu’s Yin-Baleful Blood-Baleful Great Formation.
• Yue Qing told Yang Zhengshan that the Three Sects had expelled the Lian Family and chosen the Lingxi Yang Family to replace it among the Twelve Great Clans, granting it Lian Family Town.
• Yang Zhengshan returned to the Spirit Source Land, where the Clan Council agreed to rename the settlement Yang Family Town and presented its plan to reform the governing system as White Jade Capital.
• Yang Chengmou explained White Jade Capital’s Twelve Towers and Five Cities structure, and Yang Zhengshan approved the reform.
• Yang Zhengshan appointed Yang Chengmou as Ziwei Tower’s tower master and put him in charge of White Jade Capital’s development.

Yang Zhengshan settled the Spirit Source Land’s restructuring, putting Yang Chengmao in charge of Ziwei Tower and arranging for Yang Family Town to become its base in the Lingxiu Sea. Yang Mingzhi then brought the Lingxi Yang Family into the wider Yang Family, leaving Yang Xiangheng startled by the resources and salaries on offer.

• Yang Zhengshan named Yang Chengmao Ziwei Tower Lord, approved a thirty-percent increase to his Position Salary, and limited senior officials to three consecutive terms.
• Yang Zhengshan assigned An Yuxing and Liang Shengze to take turns guarding Yang Family Town and proposed Yang Chengzhang as its local leader, with Yang Xiangheng’s family helping manage its affairs.
• Yang Mingzhi visited Lingxi Mountain and told Yang Xiangheng, Yang Xiangdong, and Yang Xiangxi that Yang Zhengshan had joined the Huanyue Sect and secured Great Clan status for the Yang Family.
• Yang Mingzhi invited the Lingxi Yang Family to serve the Yang Family while keeping their surname and ancestral hall, and appointed Yang Xiangheng a vice hall master of the planned Lingxiu Hall.
• Li Chang explained the Spirit Source Land’s Cultivation Salary and Position Salary, and Yang Xiangheng was astonished to hear that merit points could be exchanged for Spirit Stones at a three-to-one rate.

Yang Mingzhi led the Yang Family’s people to take over the former Lian Family Town and establish Yang Family Town as the Spirit Source Land’s foothold in the Lingxiu Sea. The town’s transition went smoothly, and the Yang Family began receiving congratulations from neighboring families and the other great clans.

• Li Chang explained that Yang Xiangheng and the other stewards could earn substantial salaries and merit in the Spirit Source Land, leaving them astonished.
• Yang Mingzhi led a procession of more than three hundred people, including Dharma Protector Army soldiers and An Yuxing, to Yang Family Town.
• An Yuxing introduced himself to Shi Pingshan as the Yang Family’s guest elder, and Yang Mingzhi’s soldiers took over the town’s defenses.
• Yang Mingzhi began arranging the town’s operations, while subordinate families presented gifts and sought to learn the Yang Family’s intentions toward them.
• The Yang Family changed the ancestral residence’s plaque to Yang Mansion, and visitors from nearby families and other great clans arrived with congratulations.

Yang Zhengshan refined Illusion God Pills for Yueming and earned praise for his growing alchemy skill. True Person Jingshui then entrusted him with three sets of materials for the difficult Turtle Breath Pill, hoping it might help extend his life, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to try.

• The Spirit Source Land began sowing Spirit Plant seeds in the Ancient Relic Formation while continuing its reforms into a sect structure.
• Yang Zhengshan refined forty-nine Illusion God Pills from twenty sets of materials and gave Yueming twenty-five, keeping the rest.
• True Person Jingshui learned of Yang Zhengshan's successful Illusion God Pill refining and asked him to make a second-rank Turtle Breath Pill.
• Yang Zhengshan studied the Turtle Breath Pill recipe and found it even harder to refine than a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• True Person Jingshui gave Yang Zhengshan three sets of Turtle Breath Pill materials, and Yang Zhengshan promised to do his best.

Yang Zhengshan accepted the twin sisters Li Jianning and Li Jianan as disciples after learning they had spirit apertures. Their family settled in Dukou Town, where Li Yunxiao recognized that Spirit Source Land was the Martial Dao sacred land rumored to lie behind the Shenmu Sect.

• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Li Jianning and Li Jianan, learned they had mastered the Azure Wood Technique, and accepted them as his disciples.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged for the twins’ family of twelve to receive housing and farmland, and told the girls they would choose cultivation methods after learning their lessons.
• Yang Chengyi brought the Li Family to a courtyard in Dukou Town and explained how the Yamen would provide them with land, livestock, tools, and seeds.
• Li Zhenghua complained about the family’s modest new home and the prospect of farming, but Li Changcun rebuked him.
• Li Yunxiao praised the settlement and told Li Changcun that it was the Martial Dao sacred land rumored to lie behind the Shenmu Sect.

Li Jianning and Li Jianan settled into Yang Zhengshan’s sect, where they each received three cultivation techniques. Yang Zhengshan also learned that Xuan Zhen was hiding near Lianxin Valley and asked him to refine Wind Dew Nectar, while insisting that Yang Zhengshan help kill Mo Xuanyu.

• Li Changcun brought his family to the Shenmu Sect because he believed it was a Martial Dao sacred land, and he urged Li Yunxiao to explore while his daughter-in-law cared for Li Jianning and Li Jianan.
• Yang Chengyi took Li Jianning and Li Jianan to the Jingxin Small Abode, where Green Mist welcomed them and arranged for them to live and study with Yang Zhengshan’s disciples.
• Qingxia brought the girls to the Dharma Transmission Hall, where Li Jianning and Li Jianan each received three Jade Slips containing cultivation techniques.
• Yang Zhengshan sensed that Xuan Zhen had summoned him and learned that Xuan Zhen was hiding near Lianxin Valley, where Mo Xuanyu was preparing a Yin-Baleful Blood-Baleful Great Formation.
• Xuan Zhen asked Yang Zhengshan to refine Wind Dew Nectar, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to obtain the ingredients and make it.
• Xuan Zhen urged Yang Zhengshan to join others and kill Mo Xuanyu, but Yang Zhengshan said he was not yet Mo Xuanyu’s match.

Yang Zhengshan waited to act against Mo Xuanyu while working to establish the Yang Family in Lianxin Valley and helping Xuan Zhen plan to restore Wuzhen Dao Palace. Seven years later, Spirit Source Land had grown stronger, and Yang Zhengshan rewarded Li Jianning and Li Jianan after they reached the third level of Qi Refining.

• Yang Zhengshan agreed to help Xuan Zhen’s disciples and grand-disciples in Great An, then arranged for Xue Fuyang to visit Wuzhen Dao Palace; Xue reported that it had no cultivators of the Fuyao Wanxiang Method and only two aging Half-Step Innate martial artists.
• Yang Zhengshan learned to refine Wind Dew Nectar and sent ten bottles to Xuan Zhen, but struggled to master Turtle Breath Pills because the rare ingredients were difficult to handle.
• Seven years later, Yang Zhengshan read Ziwei Tower’s annual report, which showed Spirit Source Land had surpassed 200,000 people, including 83,241 Innate martial artists and six Golden Body Realm martial artists.
• Li Jianning and Li Jianan told Yang Zhengshan they had both reached the third level of Qi Refining and asked for a reward.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Li Jianning and Li Jianan jade slips containing the Heart Sword Scripture and Pure Heart Hand.

Yang Zhengshan taught Li Jianning and Li Jianan sword arts, then visited Flame Mountain to guide Zhang Hexuan and attempt to refine the Turtle Breath Pill. His first attempt failed, but he identified the timing error and gained confidence for another try.

• Yang Zhengshan gave Li Jianning and Li Jianan the Heart Sword Scripture and Pure Heart Hand, urging them to cultivate the arts alongside their sword methods.
• Yang Zhengshan cultivated in seclusion, reflected on his progress, and went to the Pill Hall on Flame Mountain.
• Yang Zhengshan watched Zhang Hexuan refine Jade Marrow Pills, then demonstrated his own pill-making skill and prepared to refine the Turtle Breath Pill.
• Yang Zhengshan used Golden Crow's Solar True Fire and the Pure Heart Hand to refine the Mysterious Turtle Essence Blood, but the ingredients burned to ash.
• Yang Zhengshan told Zhang Hexuan to clean the furnace and reviewed the failed attempt, recognizing that he had fused the ingredients too late.