Chapter Summaries

Ghost Woman searched for a way to avert Lianxin Valley’s predicted destruction while Yang Zhengshan learned of the attack and entered the valley to protect his missing juniors. He cleared black-robed cultivators with summoned vines as Zhang Yan, exhausted and surrounded, reached for a mysterious sword box.

• Ghost Woman traced Zhang Mo’s connections, recognized a thread leading to Mo Xuanyu, and concluded that Lianxin Valley would fall unless someone intervened.
• Yang Zhengshan learned from Yang Chengye that black-robed cultivators had attacked Lianxin Valley, then used Yang Jizhen’s token to travel there after discovering Yang Chengan was still inside.
• Yang Zhengshan met Liu Zaixian and Lin Jiangchuan, learned the formation could hold for about two more hours, and summoned vines to hunt the attackers inside the valley.
• Zhang Yan fought four black-robed cultivators until his magic power was nearly exhausted, then took a mysterious sword box from his storage bag.

Yang Zhengshan saved Zhang Yan from the black-robed cultivators and found Ghost Woman among the ruins, where he learned she had broken free from Mo Xuanyu. After Ghost Woman used the Three Yin Weaving Net to locate Yang Chengan, Yang Zhengshan brought his injured grandson back to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau for treatment.

• Vines controlled by Yang Zhengshan killed the black-robed cultivators attacking Zhang Yan, who sensed an unusual intent in the vines.
• Ghost Woman recognized Yang Zhengshan and panicked when he confronted her, but he released her after learning she no longer served Mo Xuanyu.
• Yang Zhengshan discovered that he had erased Ghost Woman’s divine soul restriction on the Ten Thousand Ghost Blood Jade and warned her to live as a good person.
• Yang Zhengshan examined Ghost Woman’s Three Yin Weaving Net and asked her to find his grandson, Yang Chengan.
• Ghost Woman located Yang Chengan in a thatched shed, and Yang Zhengshan teleported there and returned him to Yang Chengye for recovery beneath the Three-Yellow Plum tree.

Yang Zhengshan rescued Yang Jishan, Jiang Ping'an, and Xia Yunshu from Lianxin Valley, then brought Xia Yunshu and Bai Xiaoyun to Yang Family Town. Meanwhile, Zhang Mo’s forces captured the Lan Family Old Ancestor and devastated the Lin family’s tribal land, leaving Lin Xiqiu’s family facing destruction.

• Yang Zhengshan found Yang Jishan and Jiang Ping'an with Xia Yunshu, sent the two men back to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, and brought Xia Yunshu and Bai Xiaoyun to Yang Family Town.
• Yang Zhengshan left Bai Xiaoyun and Xia Yunshu in Yang Chengzhang’s care, and Yang Chengzhang arranged a secluded courtyard for them near An Yuxing.
• After Yang Zhengshan vanished from Lianxin Valley’s sealed formation, Liu Zaixian and Lin Jiangchuan realized they would have to rely on themselves against the Black-Robed Cultivators.
• Two Black-Robed Cultivators ambushed the Lan Family Old Ancestor as he traveled to reinforce Lianxin Valley and captured him alive after a brief fight.
• Lin Xiqiu left the Lin family’s tribal land to aid Lianxin Valley, allowing four Foundation Establishment Cultivators and over a hundred Black-Robed Cultivators to storm the undefended territory.
• Duan Qiankun’s forces killed Lin Zhensong and slaughtered many Lin family members, then Duan ordered the survivors left for later pursuit and the Spirit Vein corrupted with Xue Sha Qi.

Yang Zhengshan assessed Zhang Mo’s destruction of Lianxin Valley and urged Huanyue Sect to unite forces against the Yin Ghost Division before it advanced on the Lingxiu Sea. He proposed repairing ties with Hidden Sword Mountain by establishing a new cultivator market in Anhu City, leaving Yue E and the other leaders to weigh the plan.

• Yang Zhengshan reviewed reports of Zhang Mo destroying Lianxin Valley and the Lin Family’s tribal land, killing six Foundation Establishment Cultivators and severely injuring Liu Zaixian.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Chengye that the Lingxiu Sea could become Zhang Mo’s next target and ordered the Secret Martial Guard to monitor the Qingli Dynasty.
• Yue E summoned Yang Zhengshan to Jingyuan Pavilion, where he advised the Huanyue Sect leaders not to let the Yin Ghost Division destroy the Qingli Six Families.
• Yang Zhengshan recommended gathering support from Youyu Gate, Hidden Sword Mountain, the Cloud Sparrow Clan, and Baiyun Immortal City to fight Zhang Mo in the Qingli Dynasty.
• Yang Zhengshan proposed that the Lingxiu Three Sects reconcile with Hidden Sword Mountain and establish a new Immortal Cultivator Market in Anhu City, prompting Yue E and the other leaders to consider the proposal.

Yue E agreed to consult Xuanqing Sect and Wuxiang Sect about an alliance, while Yang Zhengshan tended to his family and prepared Yang Jizhen for Foundation Establishment. After Lianxin Valley’s destruction, the Qingli families sought allies for revenge as Zhang Mo hid in Cangya Gorge and processed his gains.

• Yue Qing, Yueming, and Yuesu supported considering cooperation with Hidden Sword Mountain or Youyu Gate, and Yue E said she would contact Xuanqing Sect and Wuxiang Sect.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Yang Jishan Second-Rank Antidote Pills and planned to promote him to the Weapon Forging Workshop after he recovered.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Jizhen to focus on cultivation and revealed he had already prepared Foundation Establishment Pills for him and his siblings.
• Lin Xiqiu and Liu Wei urged the Qingli families to avenge Lianxin Valley and seek support from Baiyun Immortal City and other powers.
• Zhang Mo concealed himself in Cangya Gorge, assessed his resources, and began turning captives into Blood Puppets.

Zhang Mo waited to see whether Baiyun Immortal City would intervene, while Liu Wei failed to unite Hidden Sword Mountain and the Lingxiu Three Sects with the Qingli Six Families against the Yin Ghost Division. Three months later, Baiyun Immortal City sent a flying boat to Lianxin Valley, forcing Zhang Mo to abandon attacks on the Qingli Dynasty but leaving him determined to destroy the Lin Family.

• Zhang Mo learned that the Qingli Six Families were seeking reinforcements and decided to wait for Baiyun Immortal City's response.
• Liu Wei asked Jian Changhe to join a coalition against the Yin Ghost Division, but Jian Changhe refused to cooperate with the Lingxiu Three Sects because he still intended to control them.
• Lin Daoyuan and the Wuxiang Sect declined to join the coalition, leaving Yang Zhengshan discouraged and considering whether to wait out Zhang Mo instead.
• Three months later, Baiyun Immortal City's flying boat arrived at Lianxin Valley, and Zhang Mo realized he could not continue attacking the Qingli Dynasty without provoking a Golden Core cultivator.
• Zhang Mo told Duan Qiankun that he would still avenge the Duan Family by destroying the Lin Family, which he expected to come after him.

After Baiyun Immortal City took control of Lianxin Valley, Yang Zhengshan planned to establish several Yang family shops there and recruited Bai Xiaoyun and Xia Yunshu to help. He then gathered a powerful group from the Spirit Source Land and set out for Lianxin Valley to open businesses and demonstrate the Yang family’s strength.

• Lianxin Valley reopened under Baiyun Immortal City, which invited the Yang family and other powers to establish businesses and attend an upcoming auction.
• Yang Zhengshan rejected reopening the Yang Clan Wife Artifact Casting Workshop and planned a pill shop, a talisman shop, and other stores in Lianxin Valley.
• Yang Zhengshan hired Bai Xiaoyun as a Yang family Guest Elder to oversee its shops and offered Xia Yunshu the chance to study talismans and work in the talisman shop.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged to travel with Liu Yue, who was leading Huanyue Sect’s move and business plans in Lianxin Valley.
• Yang Zhengshan assembled more than ten cultivators, numerous Golden Body Realm martial artists, and many Strange Beasts to display the Spirit Source Land’s strength as they headed for Lianxin Valley.

Yang Zhengshan led a powerful group of second-rank Strange Beasts and Golden Body Realm fighters to join Huanyue Sect and the other forces traveling to the Qingli Dynasty. Aboard Xuanqing Sect’s Glazed Cloud Boat, he discussed his unfinished Demon Essence Pill research with Yunxiao and learned he could buy more Demon Cores from him.

• Yang Zhengshan and his group rode their second-rank Strange Beasts from Yang Family Town to Huanyue Sect, astonishing the townspeople and Yue Qing.
• Yang Zhengshan and Yue Qing merged their forces and traveled toward the Qingli Dynasty, where Xuanqing Sect and Wuxiang Sect were waiting across the Lingxiu Sea.
• Yunxiao and Yun Xi invited Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi aboard Xuanqing Sect’s Glazed Cloud Boat, which Yang Zhengshan admired for its craftsmanship and scale.
• Yang Zhengshan showed Yunxiao a failed, first-rank Demon Essence Pill made from a second-rank Demon Core and explained that he needed more cores to improve his refining.
• Yunxiao offered to sell Yang Zhengshan Demon Cores and revealed that they came from the Cloud Sparrow Clan of Cangyu Mountain.

Yang Zhengshan arrived at Lianxin Valley with the Lingxiu Three Sects and learned that Baiyun Immortal City had gathered powerful factions from across the region. The chapter left him seated among the least prominent guests as the assembly prepared for Baiyun Immortal City’s undisclosed major move.

• Yang Zhengshan asked Yunxiao to help connect him with the Cloud Sparrow Clan, and Yunxiao agreed to bring him to Cangyu Mountain after the gathering while advising him to bring Treasure Fish.
• True Person Yunguo and Lin Xiqiu welcomed the Lingxiu Three Sects and Yang Family to Lianxin Valley, where Yunguo privately questioned Lin Xiqiu about the Xuanqing Sect’s strength.
• The White Cloud Chamber of Commerce gave Yang Zhengshan’s group a small courtyard, and Yang Zhengshan accepted the modest reception without protest.
• Youyu Gate arrived with a Divine Soul Realm Martial Artist and six Foundation Establishment Cultivators, followed by more than twenty factions that gathered over forty Foundation Establishment Cultivators in Lianxin Valley.
• Yang Zhengshan attended Yunguo’s assembly and saw Que Lingfei, Jian Changhe, Feng Guiyue, and Han Jiangche seated ahead of him while he took a place in the fourth row.

True Person Yunguo announced Baiyun Immortal City’s plans to establish Qingli Immortal City at Lianxin Valley and invited cultivators to invest. Yang Zhengshan discovered that the Yang Family’s free shop was poorly located, then purchased several better properties and residences for the family.

• True Person Yunguo condemned the Wuchang Ghost Sect but offered no concrete plan to oppose it, then announced that Baiyun Immortal City would develop Lianxin Valley into Qingli Immortal City and raise its Spirit Vein to Third-Order Low-Grade.
• Baiyun Immortal City distributed property tokens to the gathered forces, and Yang Zhengshan learned that the Yang Family had received a Grade D No. 48 shop near the city wall.
• Yang Zhengshan, True Person Yunxiao, and Liu Yue inspected the shop, after which Yang Zhengshan decided to buy better properties and Yunxiao offered to introduce him to Fairy Lingfei.
• At the White Cloud Chamber of Commerce, Yang Zhengshan purchased two Grade B Cave Abodes, four shops, and thirty-eight ordinary residences for the Yang Family.

Yang Zhengshan bought residences and shops in Lianxin Valley, then negotiated a resource trade with Que Lingfei of Cangyu Mountain. After Lianxin Valley was renamed Qingli Immortal City, the city quickly revived and the Yang Family opened its pill and talisman shops.

• Yang Zhengshan bought cave abodes and shops, assigning Cui Yang and Zhang Hexuan to manage the pill and talisman businesses and reserving a courtyard for Bai Xiaoyun.
• Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao met Que Lingfei, who agreed to trade Demon Cores for goods supplied by Yang Zhengshan.
• Yang Zhengshan exchanged resources for five Second-Order Low-Grade Demon Cores and arranged future trades with Que Lingfei.
• Cangyu Mountain sought new trading partners after the Qingli Six Families lost Lianxin Valley and suffered resource shortages.
• Lianxin Valley was renamed Qingli Immortal City, and Rogue Cultivators and factions gathered there as it regained its prosperity.
• The Yang Family opened its pill shop and talisman shop in Qingli Immortal City, selling pills, talismans, and commissioned alchemy.

Yang Zhengshan refined and tested Demon Essence Pills, improving his methods and confirming that he could produce them reliably. He delivered a Second-Order Low-Grade pill to Yunxiao, fulfilling their agreement and giving Yunxiao a new source of the rare pills.

• Yang Zhengshan spent years refining Demon Essence Pills, eventually producing a Second-Order Mid-Grade Wood-attribute pill and consuming it to increase his magic power and study its effects.
• Yang Zhengshan refined six more cauldrons over three years and produced four successful Demon Essence Pills with different attributes.
• Yang Zhengshan visited the Xuanqing Sect and gave Yunxiao a Second-Order Low-Grade Demon Essence Pill as agreed.
• Yunxiao recognized the pill and rejoiced that Yang Zhengshan could provide him with a source of Demon Essence Pills.

Yang Zhengshan traded Demon Essence Pills with Yunxiao and Que Lingfei, then obtained a Demon Cultivator cultivation method for the Strange Beasts in his Spirit Source Land. The chapter left him with a path for his beasts to cultivate, though their success depended on their own efforts.

• Yang Zhengshan gave Yunxiao one earth-attribute Demon Essence Pill and promised to refine two more within two years in exchange for nine Demon Cores.
• Yunxiao told Yang Zhengshan that threats to Baiyun Immortal City's marketplaces in the Wanhua Mountain Range had prompted it to establish Qingli Immortal City, and guessed Demon Cultivators were involved.
• Yang Zhengshan visited Que Lingfei and offered to trade Demon Essence Pills; she bought his three available pills and reserved ten more at a rate of one per year.
• Que Lingfei exchanged more than fifty Demon Cores for the pills and explained that the Demon Race preserved Demon Cores as currency.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Que Lingfei for Demon Cultivator cultivation methods so the Strange Beasts at home could cultivate, and she gave him the Primordial Truth Transformation Art.
• Que Lingfei explained that Demon Cultivators cultivated transformation and bloodlines, while Yang Zhengshan concluded that his Strange Beasts would have to pursue cultivation without his protection or the Demon Race's secret transformation experience.

Yang Zhengshan arranged teachers and disciples in the Spirit Source Land while preparing Yang Jizhen for Foundation Establishment. Yang Jizhen successfully established his foundation, and the Golden Thunder Bamboo absorbed Yang Zhengshan’s thunder bead and began to grow and reproduce.

• Yang Zhengshan assigned Luo Feiyu to teach the Green Wolf King basic cultivation knowledge.
• Yang Jizhen, Ma Qiuyan, and Ning Yun accepted three young Spirit Aperture Children as disciples, and Yang Zhengshan gave them refined Spirit Spring Water.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Jizhen to establish his foundation under his protection and appointed Yang Zongyuan as his assistant in the Pill Hall to teach him alchemy.
• Two months later, Yang Jizhen entered seclusion at Tingzhu Pavilion, and Yang Zhengshan guarded him as he began Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Jizhen successfully established his foundation after more than three months, while the Golden Thunder Bamboo absorbed Yang Zhengshan’s Azure Flower Thunder Bead, grew taller, and sprouted a new shoot.

After Yang Jizhen established his foundation, Yang Zhengshan arranged a ceremony and prepared to hand him authority over the Spirit Source Land’s Immortal Cultivators. Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen found Mo Xuanyu hiding in Twin Peaks Gorge and planned to lure him to the Spirit Source Land for a fight.

• Yang Zhengshan celebrated Yang Jizhen’s Foundation Establishment and planned to entrust him with Tai Wei Tower’s Immortal Hall and Ziwei Tower’s Jingxuan Hall.
• Yang Jizhen’s Foundation Establishment Ceremony brought the Spirit Source Land’s higher-ups together at Tai Wei Tower.
• Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen discussed their long futures, and Yang Zhengshan considered preparations for reaching the Golden Core realm.
• Yang Zhengshan told Xuan Zhen that Bai Xiaoyun had found Mo Xuanyu hiding in Twin Peaks Gorge, and the two set out to confront him.
• Yang Zhengshan detected a concealed formation in the gorge, then decided to draw Mo Xuanyu into the Spirit Source Land rather than fight on his home ground.
• Yang Zhengshan chose a remote northern mountain forest as the battlefield, sent Xuan Zhen there to prepare, and returned to Twin Peaks Gorge.

Yang Zhengshan found Mo Xuanyu cultivating in a hidden cave and used the Cave Heaven Portal to send him into the Spirit Source Land. There, Mo Xuanyu recognized Xuan Zhen, realized he had betrayed him, and began fighting him.

• Yang Zhengshan slipped into Twin Peaks Gorge and used his Spiritual Sense to locate Mo Xuanyu's hidden cave and blood pool.
• Yang Zhengshan approached Mo Xuanyu, but Xue Sha Qi poured into him and Mo Xuanyu woke, recognizing him as a cultivator from the Lingxiu Yang Family.
• Mo Xuanyu unleashed the Myriad Ghost Banner and twelve Ghost Generals, while Yang Zhengshan countered with the Azure Flower Thunder Bead and used the Cave Heaven Portal to send Mo Xuanyu into the Spirit Source Land.
• Yang Zhengshan left a Jade Token behind and entered the Spirit Source Land, where Xuan Zhen attacked the newly arrived Mo Xuanyu with his Seven-Star Dharma Sword.
• Mo Xuanyu recognized Xuan Zhen, realized he had sabotaged the formation and blood pool, and attacked him with the Soul Suppressing Lamp.
• Xuan Zhen blocked Mo Xuanyu's Soul Suppressing Lamp with his golden-lit Dharma Sword and knocked it back.

Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen struggled against Mo Xuanyu, whose monstrous transformation drew power from the Blood Pool beyond the Spirit Source Land. Yang Zhengshan unleashed the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace’s Solar True Fire, leaving Mo Xuanyu trapped in a blazing inferno.

• Xuan Zhen used the Purify Heaven and Earth Divine Curse to weaken Mo Xuanyu’s evil energies, but Mo Xuanyu transformed into a towering, blood-empowered monster.
• Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen fought Mo Xuanyu together; Mo Xuanyu’s blood qi overwhelmed Yang Zhengshan’s vines, and his blows badly injured Yang Zhengshan despite Xuan Zhen’s Golden Light Divine Curse.
• Yang Zhengshan discovered that Mo Xuanyu drew an endless supply of Xue Sha Qi from the Blood Pool outside the Spirit Source Land, then summoned the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Yang Zhengshan fed hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones into the furnace and ordered the Golden Crow to burn Mo Xuanyu.
• The Golden Crow erupted in Solar True Fire, forcing Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen to flee as the flames engulfed Mo Xuanyu.

After killing Mo Xuanyu, Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen divided his spoils and discovered the Seven Treasures Soul Suppressing Pagoda and a body-refining technique. Yang Zhengshan returned to his quiet room to begin refining the pagoda with his soul.

• Yang Zhengshan told Xuan Zhen that summoning the Bagua Furnace had cost him more than four hundred thousand Spirit Stones, then demanded that Xuan Zhen repay him.
• The Golden Crow confirmed that Mo Xuanyu had been destroyed, and Yang Zhengshan retrieved Mo Xuanyu's Storage Bag and the Myriad Ghost Banner.
• Yang Zhengshan found that the Seven Treasures Soul Suppressing Pagoda was a rare top-grade soul magic treasure with seven abilities and the potential to become a Spirit Artifact.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Xuan Zhen the other four sinister Magic Treasures to purify, while they copied and kept Mo Xuanyu's incomplete Spirit-Swallowing Dharma Body cultivation method.
• Xuan Zhen left to drink, and Yang Zhengshan returned to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau to begin refining the Seven Treasures Soul Suppressing Pagoda with the Soul Refining Method.

Yang Zhengshan fully refined the Seven Treasures Soul Suppressing Pagoda and began cultivating the Spirit-Swallowing Dharma Body, using the Spirit Source Land as his Spirit Domain. After two years, he demonstrated his giant Dharma body to Yu Qingyi and prepared to visit Baiyun Immortal City alone.

• Yang Zhengshan used the Spirit Source Land’s Origin Core to completely refine the Seven Treasures Soul Suppressing Pagoda, unlocking all seven levels and learning how its Exquisite Soul Domain trapped and weakened enemy souls.
• Yang Zhengshan studied the Spirit-Swallowing Dharma Body and decided to cultivate it alongside the Wood Transformation Body-Nurturing Method by absorbing Wood Attribute spiritual energy from spirit fruit.
• Yang Zhengshan completed the Dharma body tempering stage in two years and discovered that the Spirit Source Land itself could serve as his Spirit Domain.
• Yang Zhengshan transformed into a three-zhang Dharma body on the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, and Yu Qingyi admired the robe that grew with him before they strolled together.
• Yang Zhengshan invited Yu Qingyi to visit Baiyun Immortal City, but she declined because the city looked down on martial artists.

Yang Zhengshan traveled toward Baiyun Immortal City with Yunxiao to find rare materials for his Life-Bound Magic Treasure. Yunxiao warned him about the city’s powerful factions and complicated politics, while Yang Zhengshan prepared to establish an intelligence foothold there.

• Yang Zhengshan told Yu Qingyi he would go to Baiyun Immortal City, leaving Xuan Zhen and Jizhen to protect Ma Qiuyan and Cui Yang during their Foundation Establishment attempts.
• Yang Zhengshan visited Yunxiao at the Xuanqing Sect and invited him to travel to Baiyun Immortal City; Yunxiao agreed despite warning that the city had grown dangerous after conflict with the Demon Race in the Wanhua Mountain Range.
• Yang Zhengshan explained that he needed high-grade materials for his Life-Bound Magic Treasure and planned for his descendant Yang Jizhen to refine it once his skills improved.
• Half a month later, Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao crossed the Yunxiao Mountain Range aboard Yang Zhengshan’s Jade Cloud Boat while Yunxiao described Baiyun Immortal City’s major factions and warned him not to provoke them.
• Yunxiao told Yang Zhengshan that Baiyun True Lord’s influence reached many local families, but admitted he had never met Baiyun True Lord and knew only conflicting legends about him.