Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhengshan completed nurturing the Azure Wood Violet Lightning Sword, accelerating his Azure Flower thunder bead cultivation, and assessed the spiritual items he needed for Core Formation. He then agreed to help Xuan Zhen obtain materials for a Divine General Chessboard and arranged for Zhang Hexuan to teach Yang Yunxue’s gifted great-grandson.

• Yang Zhengshan bound the Azure Wood Violet Lightning Sword to his dantian and restored his depleted Azure Flower thunder bead in a few days.
• Yang Zhengshan calculated that he needed several Core Formation Spiritual Items, especially a Tongming Pill and an item that improved comprehension.
• Xuan Zhen asked Yang Zhengshan for a third-tier yin-soul mineral to refine his Life-Bound Magic Treasure, the Divine General Chessboard.
• Yang Zhengshan examined Xuan Zhen’s refining method, told him to have Yang Jizhen study it, and promised to help obtain the spiritual materials.
• Yang Yunxue asked Yang Zhengshan to personally teach her Spirit Aperture great-grandson, but he assigned the boy to Zhang Hexuan as a disciple.

Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi left the Spirit Source Land to revisit Great An and the places they remembered from their past. Meanwhile, Earth-Shaking Tigers ambushed a White Cloud Orthodoxy flying boat near Baiyun Immortal City, bringing the conflict much closer to the city.

• Yu Qingyi showed Yang Zhengshan a Glazed Jade Grass over three hundred years old that she had carefully raised, and he invited her to travel with him.
• Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi left the Spirit Source Land, passed through Shenmu Island and Star Moon Island, and sailed toward Great An disguised as traveling martial artists.
• The couple began revisiting their old haunts in Great An, where Yang Zongsheng remained emperor and his grandson Yang Shangyuan had been sent to the court.
• Earth-Shaking Tigers attacked and destroyed a White Cloud Orthodoxy flying boat three hundred li east of Baiyun Immortal City, killing or scattering its passengers.
• Yun Bi True Person and Yun Chuan True Person arrived at the wreckage and identified the attackers as Earth-Shaking Tigers, noting that the beasts had appeared far beyond their usual territory.

After the Earth-Shaking Tiger clan ambushed cultivators around Baiyun Immortal City, Baiyun True Lord’s disciples suspected a local force was leaking information. True Person Cangji discovered the upheaval was connected to Sun Cave Heaven, while the hidden conspirators prepared to draw Wanbao Trading Company into the conflict.

• The Earth-Shaking Tiger clan ambushed teams leaving Baiyun Immortal City, killing nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators in two months and spreading panic.
• Yun Guo argued that an insider was revealing the teams’ movements, and Yun Hai ordered Yun Ge to investigate the Qianzhen Alliance and Yunyao Alliance secretly.
• True Person Cangji activated the Twenty-Eight Mansions Fate Disk and discovered that the turmoil in Baiyun Immortal City was connected to Sun Cave Heaven near the Yunxiao Mountain Range.
• True Person Cangji ordered Shouyi to search for Sun Cave Heaven and decided to watch Baiyun Immortal City as he waited for the right moment.
• A white-haired elder told a shadowy conspirator that Baiyun Daoist Field had noticed the information leak, and the shadow ordered him to proceed with a plan to drag Wanbao Trading Company into the conflict.

Yang Zhengshan learned that True Person Yunguo had killed Wanbao Trading Company’s seventh-rank Guest Elder, Zhao Tianhai, and went to investigate the company’s response. Wanbao’s senior stewards arrived in Baiyun Immortal City to address the killing, while the White Cloud Orthodoxy awaited their judgment.

• Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi reminisced in the town below Azure Sky Mountain before returning to the Spirit Source Land when Xuan Zhen summoned him.
• Xuan Zhen told Yang Zhengshan that True Person Yunguo had killed Zhao Tianhai, and Yunxiao later explained that the killing had happened amid unrest and investigations in Baiyun Immortal City.
• Yang Zhengshan questioned Zhongli Xiayi, who said Wanbao Trading Company was waiting for Tianbao True Lord to decide how to respond.
• Lady Ziteng and White-Robed True Person joined other Wanbao stewards to welcome Mohai True Person and Qingxu True Person from Taoyuan Mountain.
• Yun Hai asked Mohai True Person to investigate the killing fairly, while Yun Ge entered the Earth Cave to cultivate and avoid suspicion.

After Baiyun Immortal City’s defenders were devastated at Dali Mountain and Baiyun True Lord disappeared, the Golden-Winged Eagle and Earth-Shaking Tiger clans launched a sudden attack on the city. Yun Hai ordered the city to prepare for war, while Wanbao Trading Company and Tianji Pavilion made their own preparations as the battle loomed.

• Yang Zhengshan and Luo Cheng suspected that Luo Fengxia’s ambush was connected to the growing unrest around Baiyun Immortal City, but neither could uncover the truth.
• News arrived that the Earth-Shaking Tiger and Golden-Winged Eagle clans had destroyed the Dali Mountain marketplace, killing over thirty Foundation Establishment Cultivators and several thousand cultivators, while Baiyun True Lord vanished after being badly wounded.
• Three months later, a Golden-Winged Eagle Demon King appeared above Baiyun Immortal City, and the two demon clans’ forces advanced toward the city.
• Yun Hai ordered Baiyun Immortal City to prepare for war and sent requests for aid to Cangyu Mountain and Hidden Sword Mountain.
• True Person Cangji activated Tianji Pavilion’s protective formation and Tianji Order, while Mohai True Person told Wanbao Trading Company’s Guest Elders they could fight independently and promised shelter for their families.

Two Demon Kings led a vast beast army against Baiyun Immortal City, whose defenders used a powerful thunder formation to hold them off. As the formation failed and the city’s protection collapsed, Mo Hai and Lady Ziteng prepared to intervene while the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King ordered his forces to attack.

• The Earth-Shaking Tigers, Golden Winged Eagles, and their subordinate beasts surrounded Baiyun Immortal City, and their two Demon Kings demanded its surrender.
• Yun Hai activated the Heaven and Earth Myriad Cloud Thunder Evil-Slaying Array, which blasted the attacking demonic birds and injured the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King.
• The Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King devoured part of the formation’s thunderclouds and battered the city’s protective array while Yun Hai continued directing the formation’s attacks.
• When the array ran short of Spirit Stones, Yun Hai ordered Yun Fan and Yun Bi to find their master, and Yun Fan chose to stay while Yun Bi left with Yun Chuan and Yun Zhe.
• Mo Hai and Lady Ziteng decided to attack the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King as the formation weakened.
• The thunder formation and city barrier collapsed, and the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King ordered his forces to kill the people below.

Yun Hai triggered his Golden Core Lightning Tribulation from inside the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King, but died before the tribulation could finish. As the Demon Kings attacked Baiyun Immortal City, Mo Hai and Lady Ziteng used the Myriad-Year Green Vine to capture the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King, leaving the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King to decide whether to intervene.

• Yun Hai swallowed nine pills, entered the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King's mouth, and triggered a Golden Core Lightning Tribulation that struck the demon twice before Yun Hai died and the clouds dispersed.
• Yang Zhengshan watched the tribulation end and chose to stay near Wanbao Trading Company to observe the battle.
• The Golden Winged Eagle Demon King resumed attacking inside the city while the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King went to help break through the walls.
• Lady Ziteng summoned the Myriad-Year Green Vine, which trapped the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King despite his attempts to cut free.
• Mo Hai confronted the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King, who hesitated to attack Wanbao Trading Company and silently abandoned the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King.

After the battle for Baiyun Immortal City, Yang Zhengshan hunted demonic birds for their materials and later processed their corpses in the Spirit Source Land. Jian Qingxiao visited him at Wuzhen Dao Palace to ask about Baiyun Immortal City's chaotic state and uncertain future.

• The Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King agreed to give Wanbao Trading Company two hours to capture the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King, then withdrew without trying to save him.
• Yang Zhengshan killed a mid second-rank Golden Winged Eagle, collected several demonic beast corpses, and fought beside Zhongli Xiayi using Mysterious Thunder Talismans.
• Wanbao Trading Company killed the Golden Winged Eagle Demon King, scattering the demonic birds and ending the battle, while the Earth-Shaking Tiger Demon King's forces withdrew from Baiyun Immortal City.
• Three days later, Yang Zhengshan and Yang Jizhen processed demonic bird corpses in the Spirit Source Land, and Yang Zhengshan planned to use their flesh and blood to make Beast Blood Pills for the Flying Slave Eagles.
• Jian Qingxiao met Yang Zhengshan at Wuzhen Dao Palace and asked about Baiyun Immortal City, where Yun Hai had died, other White Cloud Orthodoxy members were missing, and Baiyun True Lord's fate remained unknown.

Yang Zhengshan advised Hidden Sword Mountain to focus on Jian Changhe’s Core Formation instead of taking control of Qingli Immortal City as Baiyun Immortal City’s chaos spread into regional warfare. More than half a year later, Yang Jizhen and Ma Qiuyan completed a Divine General Chessboard with Xuan Zhen’s help, while Yang Zhengshan had been absorbed in cultivation.

• Jian Qingxiao told Yang Zhengshan that Cloud Skiff had gone missing and asked about Hidden Sword Mountain taking charge of Qingli Immortal City.
• Yang Zhengshan urged Jian Qingxiao to persuade Elder Gu Yun to prioritize Jian Changhe’s Core Formation, and she agreed to speak with him.
• With Baiyun True Lord still absent, factions across the Yunxiao Mountain Range fought over Spirit Veins and resources, while the five great families of the Yunyao Alliance turned against one another.
• Yang Zhengshan learned of the Yunyao Alliance’s infighting, profited as resource prices rose, and entered the Quiet Room to cultivate.
• More than half a year later, Yang Jizhen and Ma Qiuyan refined the Divine General Chessboard as Xuan Zhen placed twelve Wandering Gods into it.

Xuan Zhen completed his Divine General Chessboard, and Cui Yang finished a Vermilion Bird Li Fire talisman formation. In Baiyun Immortal City, Luo Cheng and Wen Yu concluded that a hidden force was driving the factions into conflict, leaving the identity and reach of the conspirators unresolved.

• Yang Jizhen and Ma Qiuyan helped Xuan Zhen finish refining the Divine General Chessboard, and Xuan Zhen summoned a divine general and named him Xuanjia.
• Cui Yang activated his Vermilion Bird Li Fire talisman formation, completing his first set of talisman formation magic treasures.
• Luo Cheng's family members urged him to retaliate after three Luo Foundation Establishment cultivators were killed, but Luo Cheng warned them against acting rashly.
• Wen Yu met Luo Cheng privately, and they confirmed that neither the Wen Family nor the Luo Family had attacked the other.
• Luo Cheng and Wen Yu suspected that someone within the Yunyao Alliance was fomenting conflict and had orchestrated the wider chaos involving the Demon Race and Wanbao Trading Company.

Luo Cheng, Wen Yu, and Shen Ming joined forces to lure out the hidden enemy behind Baiyun Immortal City’s unrest. Their trap exposed a Ghost Cultivator using Yellow Springs Hall’s Corpse Ghost Art, but the enemy escaped.

• Luo Cheng concluded that the mastermind wanted to create chaos rather than seize Baiyun Immortal City, and proposed luring them into the open.
• Wen Yu brought Shen Ming to meet Luo Cheng, and the three families coordinated a plan to draw out the enemy.
• A Luo Family squad left the city as bait while a hidden figure received word of its departure and prepared an ambush.
• Ghost Vines and reanimated figures attacked Luo Fengxia’s squad, but Luo Cheng, Wen Yu, and Shen Ming arrived and overwhelmed them with their techniques.
• The enemy escaped, and Luo Cheng identified the Ghost Vines and the recovered corpse as products of Yellow Springs Hall’s Corpse Ghost Art.

Luo Cheng exposed Yellow Springs Hall’s role in Baiyun Immortal City’s turmoil, but Wanbao Trading Company declined to intervene, leaving the city’s factions to unite against the threat. Meanwhile, Yang Zhengshan comprehended the Supreme Wither and Flourish Dao and its divine ability, discovered the limits of taking vitality, then returned to oversee Changqing City’s development and approve a population migration.

• Luo Cheng recognized that Yellow Springs Hall had used corpse-control techniques to sow discord and concluded that Zhao Tianhai had been a Ghost Cultivator disguised through the Borrowing Corpse to Return to Life Technique.
• Luo Cheng brought evidence against Yellow Springs Hall to Wanbao Trading Company, but Mo Hai and Lady Ziteng relayed it to Taoyuan Mountain, where Tianbao True Lord ordered them not to interfere.
• Baiyun Immortal City’s factions put aside their grudges, formed a hierarchy led by the Yunyao Alliance and supported by the Qianzhen Alliance, and reduced their conflicts as they guarded against Yellow Springs Hall.
• Yang Zhengshan comprehended the Supreme Wither and Flourish Dao, formed the Taiji Wither and Flourish Diagram, and gained the Wither and Flourish Divine Ability, which could alter vitality and lifespan instantly at a steep cost.
• Yang Zhengshan drained vitality from the Spirit Source Land’s forests to extend his lifespan, then stopped after a leaf grew from his arm and he realized excessive plundering could damage his divine soul and invite tribulation.
• Yang Zhengshan returned to Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau, learned that Changqing City’s basic construction was complete, and agreed to migrate people from Shenmu Sect into Spirit Source Land.

Yang Zhengshan welcomed Da Qing and Jin Yun after they advanced into demon cultivators, then arranged for Da Qing to accompany Yu Qingyi. A month later, Yunxiao told Yang Zhengshan that Yun Xi wanted to visit Baiyun Immortal City to seek materials for her life-bound magic treasure, and Yang agreed to accompany them.

• Yang Zhengshan discussed Baiyun Immortal City’s recent turmoil with Yu Qingyi and learned that Ning Yun had been keeping her informed.
• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Green Wolf King, Da Qing, and Jin Yun, praised Da Qing and Jin Yun for advancing, and gave them Beast Blood Pills.
• Yang Zhengshan arranged for Da Qing to follow Yu Qingyi, and Da Qing agreed after Green Wolf King explained the offer.
• A month later, Ning Yun delivered Yunxiao’s message asking Yang Zhengshan to meet him.
• Yunxiao explained that Yun Xi wanted to go to Baiyun Immortal City to seek materials for her life-bound magic treasure, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to accompany them.

Yang Zhengshan reached Baiyun Immortal City with Yunxiao and Yun Xi, where they sought Third-Order Spiritual Materials and he met Zhongli Xiayi. She revealed that the Sun Cave Heaven was about to fall into the real world, creating a dangerous opportunity for Foundation Establishment Cultivators to enter before Golden Core cultivators could follow.

• Yang Zhengshan, Yunxiao, and Yun Xi spotted a Golden Winged Eagle watching travelers near Baiyun Immortal City, then entered the city without incident.
• Yunxiao and Yun Xi searched for ways to exchange for Third-Order Spiritual Materials while Yang Zhengshan visited Wanbao Trading Company and met Zhongli Xiayi.
• Zhongli Xiayi told Yang Zhengshan that she was returning to Taoyuan Mountain and warned him that a great opportunity was approaching.
• Zhongli Xiayi explained that the ownerless Sun Cave Heaven was nearing the real world and could contain the Sun True Sect’s inheritance, Spirit Artifacts, and Spirit Treasures.
• Yang Zhengshan learned that spatial disorder would prevent Golden Core cultivators from entering the falling Cave Heaven at first, leaving Foundation Establishment Cultivators to face its dangers and fight over its treasures.

Yang Zhengshan learned that Sun Cave Heaven would fall near Jade Valley within three to five months, drawing powerful factions into a dangerous struggle for its treasures and Core Formation opportunities. He and Yunxiao decided to enter, while Yang returned to Spirit Source Land to prepare for the possibility that spatial chaos would cut off his powers and supplies.

• Zhongli Xiayi told Yang Zhengshan that Sun Cave Heaven would fall near Jade Valley, that Yellow Springs Hall had targeted Baiyun Immortal City over it, and that many factions would compete for its resources.
• Yang Zhengshan learned that Zhongli Xiayi was the younger sister of Tianbao True Lord and resolved to pursue the Core Formation opportunity despite the danger.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yunxiao about Sun Cave Heaven, and Yunxiao agreed to go with him because he might otherwise never form a Core.
• Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao took Yun Xi from Baiyun Immortal City, but Yang Zhengshan warned her that her cultivation was too low to survive inside the cave heaven.
• Yang Zhengshan returned to Spirit Source Land and began preparing storage space, talismans, medicinal pills, and other supplies for the expedition.

Yang Zhengshan questioned the Golden Crow about Sun Cave Heaven and learned of its treasures, hazards, and possible defenses, then arranged preparations for his expedition. As rumors spread and drew cultivators toward Jade Valley, he suspected someone was deliberately luring Foundation Establishment Cultivators inside as cannon fodder.

• The Golden Crow described True Yang Heaven’s Twelve Heavenly Halls and Twelve Earthly Palaces, the Sea of Blazing Sun, the Spring Sun Palace, and twelve powerful Lava Divine Generals.
• Yang Zhengshan considered seeking the Solar True Fire in the Sea of Blazing Sun, but treated it as a secondary goal because the Golden Crow might be consumed by it.
• Yang Zhengshan refused to let Xuan Zhen, Yang Jizhen, Ma Qiuyan, Cui Yang, Ning Yun, or Zhang Hexuan accompany him, and they offered to prepare protective gear, formations, talismans, and fire-poison pills.
• News of Sun Cave Heaven’s coming fall spread widely, drawing many people toward Jade Valley and revealing reports of a Heart-Burning Fruit Tree inside.
• Yang Zhengshan concluded that someone was deliberately spreading the news to lure Foundation Establishment Cultivators into Sun Cave Heaven as cannon fodder.

Yang Zhengshan cultivated among the spirit peach trees, then met with Li Shangyuan, Hong Fuxiu, and Kou Ta as they prepared for Sun Cave Heaven. In Mianyun Continent, he declined Jian Guyun’s proposal to enter the dangerous realm alongside Hidden Sword Mountain’s elders, leaving their plans separate.

• Yang Zhengshan absorbed Life Force from the peach trees at Peach Blossom Spring and returned to the Spiritual Spring Mountain Plateau.
• Li Shangyuan told Yang Zhengshan his cultivation had reached the peak of Qi Refining, and Yang Zhengshan gave him a High-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta asked to join Yang Zhengshan’s expedition to Sun Cave Heaven, and he agreed as long as they followed his orders.
• Yang Zhengshan met Jian Guyun, Jian Qingxiao, Yunxiao, Yun Xi, and Liu Yue in Mianyun Continent to discuss Sun Cave Heaven.
• Jian Guyun invited Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao to travel with him, Jian Canghai, and Jian Suxin, but Yang Zhengshan declined so they could pursue their own plans.

Yang Zhengshan and his companions waited near Jade Valley for Sun Cave Heaven to fall, while powerful factions gathered around the site. As a spatial rift began to form, Yang Zhengshan held his group back, and Golden Core cultivators above the clouds agreed not to act until the cave heaven had fully fallen.

• Yang Zhengshan and Yunxiao discussed the many factions gathering near Jade Valley, then Yang Zhengshan, Yunxiao, Kou Ta, and Hong Fuxiu settled in a hidden canyon to wait.
• Yang Zhengshan drove off Feng Guiyue and his two companions when they probed the canyon with Spiritual Sense.
• Yang Zhengshan sensed Sun Cave Heaven and a coming spatial rift south of their canyon, but stopped Yunxiao from approaching before they knew the dangers or who else was nearby.
• As the sky darkened under the spatial distortion, more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators gathered above the site and agreed to wait until Sun Cave Heaven had completely fallen.
• The Dao Envoy warned the cultivators that acting early could shatter the void, then entered a palace that appeared above the sky.

Yang Zhengshan and his companions entered True Yang Heaven through a Void Rift and made their way toward the Sun True Sect ruins amid widespread battles. After spotting a palace ruin where several Spirit Artifacts were caught in the fighting, Yang Zhengshan decided they would join the battle.

• Yang Zhengshan led Yunxiao, Hong Fuxiu, and Kou Ta through a Void Rift into True Yang Heaven, avoiding a nearby clash as cultivators, Ghost Cultivators, and Demonic Beasts fought across the realm.
• The group traveled through a fire-rich forest, where Yang Zhengshan found and sent a naturally grown second-rank Spirit Plant to the Spirit Source Land.
• Yang Zhengshan guided the group toward a nearby Sun True Sect ruin, deciding to avoid the Sea of Blazing Sun and its Lava Divine Generals for now.
• The group reached a ruin they identified as one of the Twelve Palaces, where cultivators began a chaotic battle over its contents.
• Yang Zhengshan detected several Spirit Artifacts in the ruins and told his companions they would risk entering the fight.

Yang Zhengshan seized a green gourd Spirit Artifact, then unleashed a devastating thunder attack that drove cultivators from the palace ruins and left him with a greatly strengthened spirit and senses. He sensed that Sun Cave Heaven was nearing its collapse.

• Yang Zhengshan, Yunxiao, Hong Fuxiu, and Kou Ta entered the battle for a green gourd Spirit Artifact, and Yang Zhengshan snatched it from Feng Guiyue’s group.
• Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta helped Yang Zhengshan repel the attackers, while he stored the gourd in his Spirit Source Land and challenged his enemies.
• Yang Zhengshan killed Feng Guiyue and blasted cultivators across the palace ruins with Mysterious Thunder Talismans and his Azure Wood Violet Lightning Sword.
• The surviving cultivators fled, leaving Yang Zhengshan and his companions alone among charred bodies and ruined buildings.
• Yang Zhengshan felt his divine soul grow stronger and his Spiritual Sense reach three thousand zhang, then sensed Sun Cave Heaven’s impending fall.