Chapter Summaries

Zhang Mo captured Lin Daoyuan, Yue E, and Han Jiangche before escaping the damaged formation, leaving the Lingxiu Sea’s sects vulnerable. Yang Zhengshan went to the Huanyue Sect, where he agreed to help defend it as Yue Qing ordered the sect to consolidate its forces.

• Zhang Mo revealed that Zhang Xian and Yang Shenwu had helped lure Lin Daoyuan and Yue E into his trap, then ordered his people to retreat as Yunxiao damaged the formation.
• Duan Qiankun packed Lin Daoyuan, Yue E, Han Jiangche, and the Blood Puppets into Spirit-Sealing Coffins, and Zhang Mo escaped with him using a Teleportation Talisman.
• Yang Zhengshan and Xuan Zhen identified Zhang Mo’s handiwork after Yunxiao broke the formation, and Yang Zhengshan warned that the Lingxiu Sea was about to fall into chaos.
• Yunxiao returned to the Xuanqing Sect, while Yang Zhengshan sent Xuan Zhen to guard Yang Family Town and traveled with Liu Yue and Yueming to the Huanyue Sect.
• Yang Zhengshan reassured Yue Qing that Yue E was missing rather than confirmed dead, advised her to consolidate the sect’s forces and defend its mountain gate, and agreed to hold the fort.

After the Wuxiang Sect fell, the Lingxiu Sea descended into chaos as cultivator robbers preyed on local families. The Lu Family considered seeking the Yang Family’s protection, while Yang Chengzhang prepared to send troops against the raiders.

• Yang Zhengshan read reports of the Wuxiang Sect’s destruction and learned that the Zhuang Family had been wiped out and its wealth looted.
• Lu Fusheng, Lu You'an, Lu Youning, and Lan Peng agreed that the Lu and Lan Families needed the Yang Family as a new backer, and Lan Peng agreed to approach Yang Zhengshan.
• Xue Fuyang reported to Yang Chengzhang that four families had suffered raids and that many families were asking the Yang Family for help.
• Yang Chengzhang condemned the cultivator robbers and decided to request that the Jade Capital Guard dispatch troops.

Yang Chengmou sought Yang Zhengshan’s advice about the Lingxiu Sea unrest and his difficulty controlling the Council Hall. Yang Zhengshan urged him to act decisively against troublemakers, address misconduct among the Yang Family’s younger generations, and take action in the Lingxiu Sea except against Baiyun True Lord’s lineage and Cangyu Mountain.

• Yang Chengzhang urged Yang Chengmou to send troops against Immortal Cultivators attacking small families near Yang Family Town, but Yang Chengmou hesitated because the broader situation in Lingxiu Sea remained uncertain.
• Yang Chengmou learned that Lan Peng had come to Yang Family Town to seek an audience with Yang Zhengshan, then went to inform his grandfather.
• Yang Zhengshan recognized that Lan Peng was likely asking for help and made Lan Peng wait while he took Yang Chengmou for a walk by the lake.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Chengmou to deal firmly with greedy and disruptive people in the Council Hall, reminding him that the Yang Family ruled the Spirit Source Land and that Yang Zhengshan stood behind him.
• Yang Zhengshan instructed Yang Chengmou to have Yang Chengye discipline the younger Yang Family descendants and said wicked descendants should be sent to mine in the Relic Formation.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Chengmou to act in the Lingxiu Sea without excessive concern, while avoiding conflict with Baiyun True Lord’s lineage and Cangyu Mountain.

Yang Zhengshan learned that Immortal Cultivators had attacked the North Shi Family and considered how to help Lan Peng and the Lu Family without bringing them into the Spirit Source Land. Meanwhile, Fang Shou and four other Immortal Cultivators divided the Spirit Stones they had stolen from local clans.

• Yang Chengmou told Yang Zhengshan that Rogue Cultivators had attacked minor clans in Yang Family Town, and Yang Zhengshan approved sending Jade Capital Guards to eliminate them.
• Lan Peng told Yang Zhengshan that he and the Lu Family wanted to seek refuge with the Yang Family, then described the attack on the North Shi Family and the escape of a powerful Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
• Yang Zhengshan explained that joining the Yang Family meant relocating to the Spirit Source Land for thirty years, so he offered to help the Lu Family hire a Wanbao Trading Company Guest Elder to protect Shanggu Prefecture City.
• Lan Peng agreed to discuss hiring a Guest Elder with Lu Fusheng after Yang Zhengshan assured him that the Wanbao Trading Company was more powerful than Baiyun Immortal City.
• Fang Shou and four other Immortal Cultivators divided tens of thousands of Low-grade Spirit Stones they had stolen from four Martial Dao families.

Fang Shou planned to expand his raids to provoke the Lingxiu Yang Family, while Yang Zhengshan arranged protection for the Lu Family through Wanbao Trading Company. The chapter left Fang Shou’s companion Li Shangyuan watching the north with an ominous interest in the Yang Family, and Yang Zhengshan’s request for two Guest Elders posted.

• Fang Shou dismissed Li Shangyuan’s concerns about angering the Yang Family and revealed that he had come to test its strength for the Emerald Lake Fang Family.
• Fang Shou said more allies would arrive the next day so they could launch a larger raid, while Li Shangyuan privately wondered whether this was the Yang Family he knew.
• Yang Zhengshan joked with Zhongli Xiayi over tea, then asked whether Wanbao Trading Company would hire two Guest Elders to protect the Lu Family’s interests.
• Zhongli Xiayi explained that Yang Zhengshan could use contribution points to post a task, and Yang Zhengshan planned to send the Guest Elders to Yang Family Town while Yang Family cultivators protected Shanggu Prefecture City.
• Yang Zhengshan posted a task at Wanxiang Tower to hire two Guest Elders to guard Yang Family Town for one hundred contribution points per year.

Yang Zhengshan recruited Kou Ta and Hong Fuxiu to guard Yang Family Town and learned more about the demon clans in the Wanhua Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan planned a raid on the Yang Family, leaving Li Shangyuan conflicted over whether to warn Yang Zhengshan, his old acquaintance.

• Yang Zhengshan welcomed the Foundation Establishment Dao companions Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta, then took them to Yang Family Town to guard it against powerful attackers.
• On the journey, Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta told Yang Zhengshan about Baiyun Immortal City's conflict with the Earth-Shaking Tiger clan and the demon kings of the Wanhua Mountain Range.
• Yang Zhengshan stationed Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta in Yang Family Town and arranged for Bai Xiaoyun and Xuan Zhen to guard Shanggu Prefecture City for the Lu Family.
• Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan gathered Rogue Cultivators and announced their plan to raid Yang Family Town, believing the Yang Family had only one Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
• Li Shangyuan recognized that the planned raid threatened Yang Zhengshan, his former companion, and struggled over whether to warn the Yang Family.

Li Shangyuan warned the Yang family that enemies would attack in two days, prompting Yang Zhengshan to prepare Yang Family Town for a raid. As Fang Shou’s group approached under cover of night, Li Shangyuan slowed down at the rear, leaving his intentions uncertain.

• Li Shangyuan sent Yang Family Town a paper crane warning of an attack and signed himself as an old acquaintance.
• Kou Ta delivered the warning to Yang Chengzhang, and Chen Zhongshu and Lü Hua recognized Li Shangyuan as someone who had traveled with Yang Zhengshan.
• Yang Chengzhang and An Yuxing returned to the Spirit Source Land to request troops, while Yang Zhengshan decided the warning was trustworthy and made preparations.
• Yang Zhengshan, Yang Jizhen, Kou Ta, and Hong Fuxiu watched over Yang Family Town as Kou Ta sensed Yang Zhengshan’s powerful Spiritual Sense.
• Fang Shou led his group toward Yang Family Town, while Li Shangyuan fell behind and ignored a companion’s urging to hurry.

The Yang family’s Jade Capital Three Guards ambushed and annihilated Fang Shou’s Qi Refining cultivators before they could reach Yang Family Town. Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan confronted the defenders, but Yang Zhengshan and Hong Fuxiu arrived, and a hidden figure appeared behind Fang Ze.

• Li Shangyuan fled the arrow barrage and realized the Yang family had equipped its soldiers with powerful spirit-weapon bows and specialized magic-breaking arrows.
• The Jade Capital Three Guards used arrow volleys to suppress Fang Shou and the other cultivators, then attacked in coordinated squads and killed them.
• Han Fei ordered five hundred soldiers to secure the battlefield as Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan appeared overhead and Fang Ze unleashed a wave of fire.
• Yang Zhengshan arrived and confronted Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan, while Hong Fuxiu used her brocade to swallow Fang Ze’s flames.
• A burly figure appeared ten zhang behind Fang Ze, its presence hidden from him until it deliberately revealed a trace of aura.

Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta defeated and captured Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan, while Yang Zhengshan reunited with Li Shangyuan. Li Shangyuan told Yang Zhengshan about his lonely years and Tang An’s death, and the chapter ended with Yang Zhengshan urging him to keep moving forward.

• Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta overwhelmed Fang Ze and Zhang Baishan with coordinated attacks and captured them alive.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta to watch the prisoners and interrogate them as they returned.
• Yang Zhengshan found Li Shangyuan hiding beneath a tree and greeted his old acquaintance.
• Li Shangyuan described his difficult years as a Cultivator Robber and broke down while recounting Tang An’s death.
• Yang Zhengshan comforted Li Shangyuan, who wiped away his tears and resolved to keep walking the difficult road.

Yang Zhengshan promised to help Li Shangyuan cultivate, then learned that Youyu Gate was preparing to attack Lingxiu Sea and met with Yue Qing to discuss their options. With outside support uncertain, Yue Qing asked whether White Jade Capital could intervene, leaving Yang Zhengshan to maintain his fabricated story.

• Yang Zhengshan agreed to send Li Shangyuan to Xuan Zhen for cultivation and promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill once he reached Great Perfection of Qi Refining.
• Three thousand Jade Capital Guards patrolled Yang Family Town while disorder spread across Lingxiu Sea.
• Lü Hua told Yang Zhengshan that Youyu Gate was gathering troops and could attack Lingxiu Sea within Half a Month.
• Yang Zhengshan and his allies concluded that Lingxiu Sea lacked the strength to resist Youyu Gate, while Baiyun Immortal City and Hidden Sword Mountain might not provide effective aid.
• Yue Qing told Yang Zhengshan that Youyu Gate had demanded Han Jiangche from the Lingxiu Three Sects and threatened to wipe them out; Yang Zhengshan recognized the demand as a pretext.
• Yue Qing asked Yang Zhengshan whether White Jade Capital could help, and he silently faced the need to continue his fabrication.

Yue Qing offered Yang Zhengshan Wuxiang Sect’s remaining foundation in exchange for his support, and he agreed only if Hidden Sword Mountain joined the effort and took charge of the Lingxiu Sea. After Yang Zhengshan left, Yue Qing weighed the proposal with Liu Yue, while he returned to Spirit Source Land to check on the growing Golden Thunder Bamboo.

• Yue Qing told Yang Zhengshan that much of Wuxiang Sect’s foundation remained and offered it to the Yang Family if he could help make Youyu Gate fear the consequences.
• Yang Zhengshan weighed the benefits of Wuxiang Sect’s assets against the danger of putting the Yang Family on the front line, then asked Yue Qing to bring Hidden Sword Mountain into the plan.
• Yang Zhengshan proposed that Huanyue Sect pledge allegiance to Hidden Sword Mountain and that the Yang Family follow as its vassal, forcing Xuanqing Sect to face the new arrangement.
• After Yang Zhengshan departed, Liu Yue said she favored joining Hidden Sword Mountain because she was an immortal cultivator, and Yue Qing considered using the Xuanqing Sect’s internal divisions to pressure it.
• At Spirit Source Land, Yang Zhengshan inspected the Golden Thunder Bamboo with Yang Jizhen and urged him to nourish it with more lightning-attribute spiritual items.

Yang Zhengshan negotiated the Yang Family’s submission to Jian Changhe and Hidden Sword Mountain, offering support in exchange for a stable Lingxiu Sea. Jian Changhe then moved to reorganize the Lingxiu Three Sects, and Xuanqing Sect submitted to him.

• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Jizhen to focus on researching how to refine Cave Heaven Portals and said he would handle affairs in the Lingxiu Sea himself.
• Jian Changhe asked to see White Jade Capital, but Yang Zhengshan warned him that entering would be dangerous and refused.
• Yang Zhengshan agreed that the Yang Family would become a vassal of Hidden Sword Mountain in exchange for access for its disciples to the Ancient Relic Formation; Jian Changhe also made him a guest elder.
• Yang Zhengshan advised Jian Changhe to confront Youyu Gate decisively, and Jian Changhe set out for Xuanqing Sect to reorganize the Lingxiu Three Sects.
• Su Zheng and Xuanqing Sect’s other leaders knelt before Jian Changhe and offered to return to Hidden Sword Mountain, while Yunxiao and Yun Xi watched helplessly.

Jian Changhe made Yang Zhengshan the head of a new Guest Elder Hall and ordered the Yang Family to take over Wuxiang Sect and Wuxiang City. Back in the Spirit Source Land, Yang Chengmou launched a purge of Jade Capital City, and soldiers arrived at Kaiyang Tower to arrest people on a list.

• Jian Changhe appointed the Yang Family to replace Wuxiang Sect among the Lingxiu Three Sects and assigned it Wuxiang Sect’s mountain gate and Wuxiang City.
• Jian Changhe appointed Yunxiao, Yun Xi, and Liu Yue as guest elders and made Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao the Guest Elder Hall’s Hall Master and Vice Hall Master.
• Yang Zhengshan agreed to take responsibility for Wuxiang City’s defenses, then returned to the Spirit Source Land after arranging the takeover with Su Zheng.
• Yang Chengmou stopped the Council Hall’s argument over Changqing City and summoned Martial Hall elders to carry out a purge.
• Jade Capital Central Guard soldiers began arrests across Jade Capital City, and Yang Qinhu led soldiers into Kaiyang Tower with an order to arrest listed criminals.

Yang Zhengshan uncovered widespread corruption and abuse in the Spirit Source Land, punished the guilty and disciplined his four sons, then sent the Yang Family army to take over Wuxiang City. The chapter left the Jade Capital Guards entering the city after Chu Lingxiao confirmed the Yang Family’s authority.

• Yang Qinhu arrested officials across Kaiyang Tower and other branches, including Yang Jilin, while Yang Mingzhao and Yang Mingcheng struggled to understand the purge.
• Yang Zhengshan reviewed Tianshu Tower’s findings, ordered Yang Jilin imprisoned in the mines for life, and had Yang Mingcheng and his three brothers receive military rods for neglecting their duties.
• After the three-day purge, Yang Zhengshan ordered Yang Chengmou to take control of Wuxiang Sect and Wuxiang City.
• Song Dashan led three thousand Jade Capital Guards to Wuxiang City and asked Xuanqing Sect elder Chu Lingxiao to open the gates.
• Chu Lingxiao verified the Yang Family’s authority token and ordered the city gates opened.

Song Dashan and the Jade Capital Guard took control of Wuxiang City, crushing resistance from Wuxiang Sect remnants, while Yang Zhengshan’s forces seized the sect itself. After the slaughter, Yang Zhengshan discovered that the sect’s defensive array remained mostly intact and found six rare Five Elements Fruit Trees, though their valuable Five Elements fruit would take a thousand years to grow.

• Song Dashan entered Wuxiang City with Chu Lingxiao and learned that surviving Wuxiang Sect disciples and local clans might resist the Yang Family’s takeover.
• When martial artists attacked the Jade Capital Guard, Song Dashan ordered the city sealed and troublemakers killed, triggering widespread battles that the Guard eventually won.
• Yang Zhengshan took over Wuxiang Sect after Yun Xi led the Xuanqing Sect disciples away, then ordered the remaining resisting disciples killed.
• Ning Yunfei reported that Wuxiang Sect’s Nine Palaces Dragon Trapping Array was mostly intact, though the treasure vault was empty.
• Ning Yunfei led Yang Zhengshan and Yang Minghao to a grove where Yang Zhengshan identified six third-tier Five Elements Fruit Trees and realized their prized fruit would take a thousand years to grow.

After securing the Wuxiang Sect’s legacy, Yang Zhengshan prepared Wuxiang City to host the powers of the Lingxiu Sea and face the coming war with Youyu Gate. Cui Yang demonstrated a novel Talisman Formation, and the chapter ended as Lu Fusheng arrived and was startled by the Yang Family’s strength.

• Yang Zhengshan told Ning Yun to guard the Wuxiang Sect’s holdings with his Senior Sister and repair the Guardian Array after she arrived.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged a grand assembly at Wuxiang City to display Hidden Sword Mountain’s authority and prepare the Lingxiu Sea for war with Youyu Gate.
• Cui Yang showed Yang Zhengshan his Five Elements Protective Formation, and Yang Zhengshan suggested combining Talisman Treasures to create portable formations.
• Yang Zhengshan ordered Cui Yang to help receive the visiting powers and remain by his side during the war, though Cui Yang immediately went to study Talisman Formations.
• Yang Zhengshan assembled the Yang Family’s guards, Martial Artists, and strange beasts around Sifang Hall to welcome the guests.
• Lu Fusheng arrived with Lu You'an, saw the Yang Family’s formidable display, and realized its strength rivaled or exceeded that of the Xuanqing Sect and Huanyue Sect.

Yang Zhengshan welcomed Lingxiu Sea’s clans and sects to Wuxiang City before receiving Jian Changhe and Hidden Sword Mountain, which declared its rule over the region and warned that Youyu Gate would attack within half a month. The meeting ended with Yunxiao proposing that Baiyun Immortal City and Cangyu Mountain be asked to mediate.

• Yang Zhengshan greeted Lu Fusheng and Shi Shengyuan, who thanked him for saving their families, and Shi Shengyuan said the northern and southern Shi families had reunited.
• Representatives of the Lingxiu Sea clans and sects arrived, and Yunxiao questioned Yang Zhengshan about the Yang Family’s growing number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators and its Green Wolf King.
• Yang Zhengshan and the others welcomed Jian Changhe and four elders of Hidden Sword Mountain, then introduced the gathered leaders and their representatives.
• Jian Changhe announced that Lingxiu Sea would come under Hidden Sword Mountain’s rule and said Youyu Gate was expected to attack within half a month with at least fifty thousand Innate Martial Artists.
• When the gathering could offer no countermeasure, Yunxiao suggested asking Baiyun Immortal City and Cangyu Mountain to mediate with Youyu Gate.

Yang Zhengshan was appointed to command Lingxiu Sea’s defense against Youyu Gate and chose to make a stand at Wuxiang City. He began organizing the forces for the coming battle, which was expected to reach the city within half a month.

• Jian Changhe said Baiyun Immortal City would not intervene unless Lingxiu Sea could stand against Youyu Gate as an equal.
• Yang Zhengshan argued that Lingxiu Sea should defend Wuxiang City, and Jian Changhe appointed him to oversee the entire war effort without interference.
• Yang Zhengshan warned the sects and clans that losing Lingxiu Sea would cost them their homes, resources, and inheritance, then ordered them to send troops and supplies.
• Yang Zhengshan met with the Yang Family’s veteran commanders and began reorganizing the army, assigning the other sects’ and families’ forces to three auxiliary armies.
• The commanders placed the Xuanqing Sect and Huanyue Sect auxiliary armies under their own leaders and appointed Shi Yugan, Lu Fusheng, and Nong Yutian to lead the families’ auxiliary army near Wuxiang City.

Yang Zhengshan organized the defenses of Wuxiang City and approved the use of the Spirit Source Land’s Cloud-Piercing Crossbows and Heaven-Shaking Thunders. The Spirit Source Land mobilized its resources for a coming war, while preparations began to expand the Jade Capital Three Guards.

• Qu Changkong and the others finalized plans for the auxiliary armies, supplies, troop deployments, and battle preparations, and Yang Zhengshan approved their military orders.
• Jian Changhe recognized that Yang Zhengshan’s staff was organizing the war according to the model of court deliberations, and Yang Zhengshan explained the Spirit Source Land’s military traditions and intelligence network.
• Yang Zhengshan assigned Jian Guyun to establish defensive formations with Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun assisting, and approved deploying the Cloud-Piercing Crossbows and Heaven-Shaking Thunders.
• Two days later, fewer than five thousand martial artists from the two sects and eight families gathered at Wuxiang City as the Spirit Source Land prepared for war.
• At Ziwei Tower, Yang Chengmou ordered Spirit Stones transferred to Tianquan Tower, demanded increased production of supplies and weapons, and directed Tianliang Tower to expand the Jade Capital Three Guards to fifteen thousand soldiers.

Tianquan Tower’s urgent buying spree drove up prices in Qingli Immortal City, while True Person Yunguo chose to support the Yang Family after learning Yang Zhengshan could refine high-grade Demon Core Pills. As Youyu Gate’s vanguard neared Wuxiang City, Ming Shuzi learned that Lingxiu Sea intended to make a stand there.

• Zhen Tao bought ores and medicinal materials from the Chen Family, Liefeng Valley, and other forces at prices up to fifty percent above the previous rate, sending prices across Qingli Immortal City soaring.
• True Person Yunguo learned that Yang Zhengshan was a Wanbao Trading Company guest elder who could refine high-grade Demon Core Pills, and ordered stored spirit materials sold to the Yang Family as a gesture of goodwill.
• Yang Zhengshan received word of True Person Yunguo’s gesture but set aside his questions about it to focus on the approaching Youyu Gate army.
• Qu Changkong reported that Youyu Gate’s eight-thousand-strong vanguard was nearing Wuxiang City, with nearly thirty thousand troops in its central army and more forces following behind.
• Ming Shuzi received a secret report about Lingxiu Sea’s deployment and learned that it intended to fight Youyu Gate to the death at Wuxiang City.