Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhengshan ordered urgent mining to supply the Forward Outpost Base’s formation, Flying Boats, and Puppets with enough resources for the coming war. As the Spirit Source Land shifted into full mobilization, Yang Chengmou coordinated mining and military supplies through Ziwei Tower and the Twelve Towers.

• Yang Zhengshan learned that operating the Yellow Earth Thick Spirit Array would consume vast quantities of Spirit Stones, and Lin Xiqiu proposed using Yellow Earth Stone from the Spirit Source Land’s mine to power it.
• Ning Yun reminded Yang Zhengshan that Flying Boats and thousands of Puppets would also consume Spirit Stones, so he ordered Ziwei Tower to find and mine low-grade Spirit Stone Veins.
• As the Spirit Source Land mobilized for war, Yang Mingzhen brought Yang Chengmou proposed Mineral Veins, and Yang Chengmou approved one Yellow Earth Mine and two Spirit Stone Veins for mining.
• Yang Chengmou directed Desheng to arrange arrows, healing Pills, and armor for the coming battle, then asked why the Divine General Department needed a large supply of alcohol.

Yue Yao killed Xing Nan and joined Xuan Zhen in a guerrilla campaign against the Wuchang Ghost Sect, then withdrew with their forces to Chunyang Valley before resuming operations elsewhere in the Wanhua Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Yang Zhengshan prepared the Forward Outpost Base for an approaching Yin Soldier Army of about two hundred thousand, and Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun reported that its defensive formation was nearly ready.

• Yue Yao gathered Demonic Beasts and cultivators near Taoyuan Mountain, then killed Xing Nan with the Moon Soul Jade Plate after he investigated her forces.
• Xuan Zhen and his disciples hunted Yin Soldier Blood Puppets while Yue Yao recruited allies, and they withdrew to Chunyang Valley before returning to the Wanhua Mountain Range through the Forward Outpost Base.
• Lin Xiqiu reported to Yang Zhengshan that an army of around two hundred thousand Yin Soldiers was eight hundred li from the Forward Outpost Base and would arrive in about ten days.
• Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun told Yang Zhengshan that the Yellow Earth Thick Spirit Array was arranged and could operate once they connected it to the Earth Vein and Spirit Vein.

Chang Ming, Chang Qing, and Chang Liang defeated four Wuchang Ghost Sect disciples, then directed a threatened Howling Moon Wolf Tribe toward Yue Yao for refuge. Their raids depleted the enemy’s forces enough to draw Xing Nan’s attention, and he sent out bait while preparing to confront the attackers near Yue Yao’s base at Taoyuan Mountain.

• Chang Ming, Chang Qing, and Chang Liang used their Divine General formations and purification curses to destroy the Yin Soldier Blood Puppets and defeat four Wuchang Ghost Sect disciples, claiming their Myriad Ghost Banners.
• Chang Ming directed the Howling Moon Wolf Tribe south to seek refuge with Yue Yao after Xuan Zhen told him someone there would receive them.
• Xuan Zhen led his disciples on further raids against small Yin Soldier groups, and the growing losses caught the attention of Xing Nan, who learned that thousands of Yin Soldiers and many Blood Puppets had disappeared.
• Xing Nan arranged an ordinary-looking patrol as bait and followed it through the Great Void, hoping to draw out the enemy in the southeast.
• Yue Yao established her base at Taoyuan Mountain, the former Daoist temple of Zhongli Yue, as Xing Nan’s bait patrol headed toward the area.

Yang Zhengshan organized White Jade Capital’s forces to establish a fortified outpost in the Wanhua Mountain Range and ordered Xuan Zhen and Yue Yao to wage guerrilla warfare against the Wuchang Ghost Sect. As the outpost took shape, Ma Qiuyan worried about Yang Jizhen’s preparations for Core Formation, while Xuan Zhen’s group spotted Wuchang Ghost Sect disciples laying a trap for beasts.

• Yang Zhengshan ordered Kou Ta and Hong Fuxiu to establish a Forward Outpost Base, sent Xuan Zhen with 3,000 Divine Generals to sabotage the Wuchang Ghost Sect, and assigned Yue Yao 300 Demonic Beasts for guerrilla warfare.
• One month later, Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun oversaw preparations for a fortress in a valley, where White Jade Capital planned to complete defenses before the Yin Soldier Army arrived.
• Ma Qiuyan confided that she was worried about Yang Jizhen attempting Core Formation, and Ning Yun joked that they should ask Yang Zhengshan for Nine Tripod Divine Pills.
• Xuan Zhen and his disciples entered the Wanhua Mountain Range with more than 1,400 Divine Generals of their own and observed Wuchang Ghost Sect forces hunting a Howling Moon Wolf tribe.
• Chang Ming and Xuan Zhen spotted four concealed Foundation Establishment Cultivators preparing to lure out and hunt more Demonic Beasts and Strange Beasts.

Yang Zhengshan chose to establish White Jade Capital’s foundation in the Wanhua Mountain Range and obstruct the Wuchang Ghost Sect’s advance rather than fight it head-on. He took stock of Spirit Source Land’s forces, ordered the Jade Capital Guard expanded, and learned what other troops and beasts were available.

• Yang Zhengshan declared that White Jade Capital would claim territory in the Wanhua Mountain Range and block the Wuchang Ghost Sect’s Yin Soldier Army from advancing south.
• Yang Zhengshan assessed the Wuchang Ghost Sect’s weakened state and the scattered resistance still remaining across the Wanhua Mountain Range.
• Xuan Zhen reported that the Spirit Source Land had eight thousand Divine Generals, who could grow in number by transforming Yin Souls.
• Yang Minghao reported that the Jade Capital Guard had fifty-eight thousand soldiers and could expand to one hundred thousand, so Yang Zhengshan ordered the expansion prepared.
• Yang Zongyuan reported that the Puppet Hall could deploy three thousand Second-tier Puppets, while the Green Wolf King reported eighty-six Azure Wolves and more than sixteen hundred Demonic Beasts registered across the Beast Hall.

Yang Zhengshan investigated a plea for help from the Qin Family of Wanbao Immortal City, then gathered the White Jade Capital’s leaders to discuss expanding beyond the Spirit Source Land. He decided they would establish themselves in the outside world and let the developing Struggle for Authority determine whether they became involved.

• Lin Xiqiu showed Yang Zhengshan a Communication Talisman from the Qin Family asking for support, and Yang Zhengshan suspected Zhongli Xiayi or Zhongli Yue had given it to them.
• Yang Zhengshan and Lin Xiqiu went to Wanbao Immortal City, where Qin Xianyang explained that the Five Great Immortal Clans wanted a way to contact the Wanbao Sect amid the North Sea Demon Court’s advances.
• Yang Zhengshan told Qin Xianyang he had little connection to the Wanbao Sect, gave him another Communication Talisman, and returned to the Life Realm Immortal Palace.
• Yang Zhengshan gathered the White Jade Capital’s leaders and announced that it was time to establish a sect outside the Spirit Source Land.
• Yue Yao asked whether Yang Zhengshan intended to join the Struggle for Authority, and he said their involvement would depend on how events developed after they went out.

Heavenly Sword True Monarch explained that his dwindling Divine Soul left him a century to live unless he won the Position of Authority, and Que Lingyu resolved to help him. As the North Sea Demon Court advanced and the Five Great Immortal Clans sought help, Yang Zhengshan finished refining a second Nine Tripod Divine Pill and decided to emerge and compete for the Position of Authority.

• Heavenly Sword True Monarch told Que Lingyu that the Position of Authority was his only path to extending his life and that he hoped to become a Dao Master; she promised to help him.
• The North Sea Demon Court expanded through the Northern Region, massacring cultivators and Demonic Beasts and driving refugees toward the Central Region and the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters.
• The Five Great Immortal Clans gathered in Wanbao Immortal City, found they could not contact Wanbao Sect, and agreed to try the Communication Talisman Zhongli Xiayi had given Qin Xianyang.
• Qin Xianyang activated Zhongli Xiayi's Communication Talisman, which vanished into the Void with an aura of Void Dao Intent.
• Yang Zhengshan successfully refined a second Nine Tripod Divine Pill and resolved to emerge from seclusion, raise his cultivation, and compete for the Position of Authority.

Hua Qingzhu told Yang Zhengshan that the Wanhua Demon Emperor had been killed and asked to become Yu Qingyi’s Spirit Treasure, while Yang Zhengshan agreed to bring her to Yu Qingyi after her seclusion. Meanwhile, the Yin Soldier Army shattered the Wanhua Demon Court, and Wu Wei Zheng began considering how to seize the Wanhua Mountain Range before the Struggle for Authority ended.

• Hua Qingzhu told Yang Zhengshan that Chang Buzai had killed Hua Qingshu and asked to acknowledge Yu Qingyi as her new master because of Yu Qingyi’s attainments in the Path of Spirit Bestowal.
• Yang Zhengshan agreed to take Hua Qingzhu to Yu Qingyi after she left seclusion, and Hua Qingzhu stayed in the Pill Hall.
• The Yin Soldier Army advanced into the Wanhua Demon Court’s heartland, forcing its surviving forces to flee while the Blazing Phoenix Clan sealed its Grotto-Heaven.
• A Cangming Dark Eagle Clan survivor reported the fall of the Wanhua Demon Court to Wu Wei Zheng and Xiao Shan at Emerald Lake.
• Wu Wei Zheng identified Hua Qingshu as the dead Wanhua Demon Emperor and reflected on their past rivalry and the Wanhua Mountain Range’s importance.
• Wu Wei Zheng decided he needed allies to pursue the Wanhua Mountain Range before the Struggle for Authority ended and thought of Yang Zhengshan.

Chang Buzai defeated the Wanhua Demon Emperor in the Great Void, but Hua Qingzhu escaped to Yang Zhengshan’s Immortal Palace, where she revealed herself as a Spirit Treasure. Yang Zhengshan learned her name but did not yet know why she had come.

• Chang Buzai destroyed the Wanhua Demon Emperor’s Green Vein Seal and pursued him into the depths of the Great Void after the Demon Emperor sent a clone fleeing toward the Myriad Flower Domain.
• Chang Buzai killed the Wanhua Demon Emperor and dragged out his soul, while Hua Qingzhu flew toward Chunyang Valley as the Demon Emperor’s escaping clone.
• Yang Mingzhao noticed a streak of Spiritual Light entering the Cave Heaven Portal area and learned from the guards that it had flown toward the Immortal Palace.
• Hua Qingzhu bypassed the Divine Generals at the Nine Heavens Gate, but Yang Zhengshan stopped her and took the bead into the Pill Hall.
• Yang Zhengshan threatened the bead until Hua Qingzhu appeared as a Spirit of Artifact and introduced herself by name.

Yang Zhengshan awarded Yang Mingcheng a Nine Tripod Divine Pill and continued supporting cultivation and resource production in the Life Realm Immortal Palace. Meanwhile, the Wanhua Demon Emperor’s forces neared defeat, and Chang Buzai confronted him, demanding his soul as the two prepared to fight.

• Yang Zhengshan gave Yang Mingcheng a Nine Tripod Divine Pill and announced that the next pill would be awarded through a merit ranking ten years later.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged an exchange meeting for Yu Qingyi, helped her with Golden Core cultivation insights, and resumed refining pills with the ingredients he had on hand.
• The Wanhua Demon Emperor ordered his forces to retreat and defend the Grotto-Heaven as the Wuchang Ghost Sect overwhelmed his Flower Soldier Treants.
• Chang Buzai appeared and attacked with the Soul Hooking Celestial Seal, while Xuan Ling fled and Li Zhuo was captured by a Soul Locking Chain.
• Chang Buzai demanded the Wanhua Demon Emperor’s soul, and the Demon Emperor brought out the Green Vein Seal and his newly advanced natal Spirit Treasure, the Hua Qingzhu.

Yang Zhengshan watched Yu Qingyi survive the Thunder Tribulation and form her Golden Core, then celebrated her breakthrough with her. He later established rules for distributing scarce Nine Tripod Divine Pills in the White Jade Capital, balancing merit-based access with provisions for his own children.

• Yang Zhengshan analyzed Yu Qingyi's Thunder Tribulation and gained new insight into Lightning Attribute Dao Intent.
• Yu Qingyi emerged from seclusion after successfully forming her core without using the Nine Tripod Divine Pill, and Yang Zhengshan welcomed her warmly.
• Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi discussed giving a Nine Tripod Divine Pill to their son Yang Mingcheng first, while Yang Zhengshan promised to prepare pills for his children.
• At a celebration gathering, Yang Zhengshan explained that the White Jade Capital could not provide Nine Tripod Divine Pills for everyone and set a merit-based auction for one pill every fifty years.
• Yang Zhengshan required recipients who formed cores with an auctioned pill to return two Great Void Star Cores within five hundred years, while exempting his named children from the auction.
• The gathered cultivators accepted Yang Zhengshan's rules, and Yue Yao considered how a regular supply of pills could strengthen the White Jade Capital over time.

Yang Zhengshan learned that Divine Generals could cultivate the Golden Light Divine Curse and create more Divine Generals, then considered how to preserve the memories of the dead. Yu Qingyi unexpectedly began forming her core and, after an unusually smooth tribulation, successfully became a Golden Core cultivator.

• Xuan Zhen told Yang Zhengshan that Divine Generals could cultivate the Eight Divine Curses and use the Golden Light Divine Curse to transform Yin Souls into independent Divine Generals.
• Yang Zhengshan approved having the Divine Generals cultivate the Golden Light Divine Curse and ordered Tai Wei Tower to establish cultivation and position-based salaries for them.
• Yang Zhengshan considered preserving a portion of a deceased person's Divine Soul and returning it to a Divine General after transformation so the person could retain their memories.
• Yang Zhengshan discovered that Yu Qingyi had taken the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill and begun forming her core less than a year after entering seclusion.
• Xuan Zhen and the others gathered as a Spiritual Energy Vortex formed above the Longevity Palace, then dispersed after Yang Zhengshan explained Yu Qingyi's pills.
• After seven days, Yu Qingyi endured the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation and successfully formed her core.

The South Sea Demon Court and Hengshan Sect entered an all-out war, while the Wuchang Ghost Sect launched a full invasion of the Wanhua Demon Court. The Wanhua Demon Emperor’s Flower Soldiers stopped the Yin Soldier Army in a seemingly endless stalemate, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to accelerate the cultivation of Divine Generals.

• Ao Xuan led the South Sea Demon Court’s forces into the Southern Region, prompting the Hengshan Sect to send Golden Core cultivators into battle.
• After confirming Tianxian Dao Master had entered the Reincarnation Realm, Chang Buzai ordered the Wuchang Ghost Sect to destroy the Wanhua Demon Court quickly.
• The Wanhua Demon Emperor summoned countless Flower Soldiers from the Demon Ruins Land, and they clashed with the Yin Soldier Army in a battle that lasted for months without a victor.
• Su Mei watched the fighting, decided she would not sacrifice the Qingyuan Fox Clan for the Demon Emperor’s ambitions, and left.
• Xuan Zhen told Yang Zhengshan the two armies had expended more than a hundred million soldiers, and Yang Zhengshan approved speeding up the cultivation of Divine Generals.

Yu Qingyi prepared to form her Core while Dragon Princess learned that Tianxian Dao had entered the Reincarnation Realm. With Tianxian Dao no longer an immediate threat, Dragon Princess ordered an invasion of the Southern Region to seize the Jinchuan Mountain Range and Changjin River for her own Dragon Transformation.

• Yu Qingyi purged the Martial Artist's True Essence from her body and patiently prepared to form her Core as Yang Zhengshan waited outside the Quiet Room.
• A man reported to Dragon Princess that Tianxian Dao had gone to the Reincarnation Realm in the East Sea, where its members might be searching for treasures.
• Dragon Princess concluded that Tianxian Dao Master had entered the Reincarnation Realm to seek useful items and prolong his life, and she ordered Ao Xuan to seize the Jinchuan Mountain Range within three years.
• Dragon Princess sought the Jinchuan Mountain Range and Changjin River because the Dragon Race had used their Earth Veins and Water Veins for Dragon Transformation.

Yang Zhengshan successfully refined a middle-grade Nine Tripod Divine Pill after five months of work and gave it to Yu Qingyi so she could form her Core. After preparing her, he guarded her in the Quiet Room as she began Core Formation.

• Yang Zhengshan and Lin Xiqiu agreed that White Jade Capital would watch how the other factions, especially the Hengshan Sect, responded before making any moves.
• Yang Zhengshan spent five months refining the Nine Tripod Divine Pill while the conflicts among the major factions remained suspended.
• With Fengling sealing the furnace and the Golden Crow supplying Solar True Fire, Yang Zhengshan successfully condensed and captured the golden Nine Tripod Divine Pill.
• Yang Zhengshan confirmed with Fengling that the pill was middle grade and stronger than the one previously kept in Fengling's furnace.
• Yang Zhengshan gave the pill to Yu Qingyi, and she agreed to begin forming her Core with him guarding her.
• After preparing Yu Qingyi for three days, Yang Zhengshan sent her into the Quiet Room and remained outside to protect her.

After Tianxian Dao destroyed Tianji Pavilion, Yang Zhengshan returned to the Life Realm Immortal Palace and began refining the Nine Tripod Divine Pill while the Myriad Flower Domain’s factions retreated into uneasy peace. When the Tianxian Dao Court vanished from Tianwei Mountain, Yang Zhengshan suspected Tianxian Dao feared a powerful cultivator from another realm boundary.

• Yang Zhengshan returned to the Life Realm Immortal Palace and began refining the Nine Tripod Divine Pill with Zhang Hexuan and Yang Zongyuan assisting him.
• The various forces confirmed Tianxian Dao had destroyed Tianji Pavilion and killed Tianji Shangren, prompting the Wanbao Sect to seal the Hundred Realms Cave Heaven and other factions to suspend their wars.
• The Tianxian Dao Court disappeared from Tianwei Mountain, deepening the Myriad Flower Domain’s uncertainty as Tianxian Dao also fell silent.
• Lin Xiqiu told Yang Zhengshan that the Tianxian Dao Court had vanished, and Yang Zhengshan speculated that Tianxian Dao feared a Dao Master from another realm boundary.

Yang Zhengshan accepted Spirit Medicines from the Green Ox Demon King and gave Yu Qingyi a Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill to save for her future Core Formation. After learning that Tianxian Dao had attacked Tianji Pavilion, Yang Zhengshan discovered that three Wuchang Ghost Sect cultivators had left the area, and Wanbao Immortal City erupted in alarm over the news.

• The Green Ox Demon King gave Yang Zhengshan a large supply of Spirit Medicines in exchange for two more Myriad Wood Evergreen Pills, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to refine them.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Yu Qingyi a Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill and advised her to save it for use if her Core Formation failed.
• Ming Gu received word that three Tianxian Dao Envoys had breached Tianji Pavilion’s Land of Destiny, so she, Shangguan Jie, and Yi Shang'an returned to Wuchang Land.
• Yang Zhengshan, Xuan Zhen, and Lin Xiqiu found traces showing that three Wuchang Ghost Sect cultivators had recently left, and Yang Zhengshan vowed to destroy the sect someday.
• Li Jianning told Yang Zhengshan that Tianxian Dao had destroyed Tianji Pavilion, and Yang Zhengshan confirmed that the news had thrown Wanbao Immortal City into turmoil.

Yang Zhengshan successfully refined two Myriad Wood Evergreen Pills after forcing the unstable medicinal slurry into pills, then brought one to the Green Ox Demon King. The Green Ox Demon King swallowed it at once, revealing that he already possessed the Wood Spirit Reincarnation ability.

• Yang Zhengshan sealed the Bagua Furnace and used his Divine Soul Power to knead the conflicting medicinal slurry into two pills, which tried to flee when the furnace opened.
• Yang Zhengshan contained the pills in Fengling’s Spirit Sealing Profound Fire Furnace, and Fengling judged them highly spiritual but only mid-grade.
• Yang Zhengshan told Zhang Hexuan and Yang Zongyuan to clean the Pill Hall and review what they had learned, then had Yang Jizhen make sealed porcelain bottles for the pills.
• Yang Zhengshan took one pill to the Green Ox Demon King, who admitted that his medicinal materials had originally been protection money and accepted the pill as his own.
• The Green Ox Demon King swallowed the pill immediately and revealed that he possessed both Myriad Wood Symbiosis and Wood Spirit Reincarnation.

Yang Zhengshan carefully refined the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill while Lin Xiqiu and Yang Qingyu discovered that Wuchang Ghost Sect cultivators were following their Cloud Ship. The Yang Family withdrew from Chunyang Valley and waited in Wanbao Immortal City as Yang Zhengshan continued refining the pill.

• Yang Zhengshan began refining the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill with Zhang Hexuan and Yang Zongyuan assisting him.
• Yang Qingyu sensed at least three Golden Core cultivators watching the Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat and alerted Lin Xiqiu.
• Lin Xiqiu diverted the Cloud Ship to Wanbao Immortal City, where Yang Qingyu and the passengers stayed while he returned to Chunyang Valley.
• Ming Gu, Yi Shang'an, and Shangguan Jie revealed themselves outside Wanbao Immortal City and waited, having followed the Cloud Ship to find the Yang Family's stronghold.
• Lin Xiqiu reported the pursuit to Yang Zhengshan, who ordered everyone to withdraw from Chunyang Valley and wait in Wanbao Immortal City until he finished refining.
• Yang Zhengshan reached the pill-condensing stage and remained focused on the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill.

After twelve years in seclusion, Yang Zhengshan emerged as a Half-step Entering Dao expert and learned that conflicts across the Myriad Flower Domain were escalating while the major factions waited for Tianxian Dao Master to die. He decided to pursue a Position of Authority but keep White Jade Capital’s strength concealed for now, then demonstrated his formidable alchemy before beginning to refine the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill.

• Yang Zhengshan emerged from twelve years of seclusion and learned that Kou Ta and Hong Fuxiu had both achieved Golden Core.
• Kou Ta told Yang Zhengshan about the Wuchang Ghost Sect’s expansion, the wars in the Southern Region, the North Sea Demon Court’s halt, and turmoil in the Central Region.
• Yang Zhengshan decided to compete for a Position of Authority eventually, but told Kou Ta to wait for the right moment and collect Great Void Star Cores.
• Yang Zhengshan reunited with Yu Qingyi and other White Jade Capital companions, then refined several pills, producing five Demon Essence Pills from three Demon Cores.
• Yang Zhengshan amazed Zhang Hexuan and Yang Zongyuan with his alchemy and began preparing to refine the Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill.