Recaps

Yang Bowen and Yang Xing began Dao Entry cultivation under Chen Yang’s greatly enhanced Spirit Gathering ability, while Elder Yu assessed their prospects. Lin Qiao also made rapid progress, opening three Qi Meridians in one day, and Chen Yang considered whether to give her his final Spirit Pearl.

• Zhao Qi gave the Liang Siblings the Circulating Qi Induction Art, while Elder Yu took Yang Bowen and Yang Xing to Sanglu Valley and taught them the Nether Spirit Path Seeking Scripture and the Yang Family’s secrets.
• Yang Bowen and Yang Xing paid respects to Chen Yang, whom they saw as the Immortal Venerable Spirit Stone.
• Chen Yang used Spirit Gathering to concentrate the valley’s spiritual qi twenty-fourfold, and Yang Bowen and Yang Xing entered meditation and began drawing qi into their bodies.
• Elder Yu told Chen Yang that Yang Bowen and Yang Xing might reach Core Formation or Spiritual Connection, while Lin Qiao could potentially challenge the Middle Three Realms.
• Lin Qiao drew qi into her body under Yang Lingqing’s guidance, opened her first Qi Meridian in under two hours, and opened three within a day.

Lin Qiao began training under Yang Lingqing to overcome her lack of courage, while the Yang Family prepared to receive the barbarian tribes. Meanwhile, the fifteen-year delay in the dispute over Li Qingwan expired, and Huo Yuan told Yue Wuxiang that Li Qingwan had been made Crown Prince Consort and could not be handed over to the Lanyue Sect.

• Yang Lingqing praised Lin Qiao's cultivation aptitude but warned that her fearful temperament could cost her life, then ordered her to cultivate nearby and climb Longyin Peak after every major breakthrough.
• The Yang Family prepared for the barbarian tribes by rapidly building inns and restaurants, while some clans decorated their lodgings in a barbarian style to encourage trade.
• Chen Yang learned that Yue Wuxiang had visited Huo Yuan to renew the Lanyue Sect's demand for Li Qingwan after the fifteen-year delay expired.
• Chen Yang recalled how Li Yuande had arranged for Li Cheng to escape and Li Qingwan to be protected, and noted that Li Qingwan had since become a Soldier Path cultivator under Consort Xi.
• The chapter revealed that the Lanyue Sect wanted Li Qingwan as a target for a life-extending technique that would transfer True Person Qingguang's pill toxins and take her lifespan.
• Huo Yuan told Yue Wuxiang that Li Qingwan had been bestowed in marriage upon the Crown Prince, leaving Yue Wuxiang unable to press his request.

Huo Yuan refused Yue Wuxiang’s demand to take Li Qingwan, whose successful conversion to the Soldier Path had secured Tiger Chasing’s protection. After the two True Intent masters clashed over Yue Wuxiang’s dying younger brother and the fate of Lanyue Sect, they entered the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land to fight.

• Huo Yuan warned Yue Wuxiang that Li Qingwan had survived her tribulation with Chen Yang’s help and that Tiger Chasing would protect her.
• Yue Wuxiang accused Murong Zhenlin of destroying Moon Sect’s last hope and pleaded that his younger brother had only a few years left to live.
• Huo Yuan argued that Yue Wuxiang had prolonged his brother’s life at great cost, and Yue Wuxiang angrily defended his own struggle and Moon Sect’s history.
• Huo Yuan isolated the palace hall with spatial Daoist Magic and confronted Yue Wuxiang over repeatedly speaking Murong Zhenlin’s true name.
• Huo Yuan offered the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land as a place for their fight and threatened Yue Wuxiang’s brother, Yue Shuwang, and all of Lanyue Sect if he endangered Tiger Chasing.
• Yue Wuxiang entered the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land, and Huo Yuan followed him.

Yang Yuanliu received Zi He at the Archives, where he recalled his history with the Yang Family and explained why the dynasty’s marriage decree would protect Li Qingwan and strengthen the Crown Prince’s position. Zi He began outlining three matters he had come to discuss, but the chapter ended before he revealed the other two.

• Yang Yuanliu admitted Zi He to the Archives and used Chen Yang’s hidden ability to shield their conversation.
• Zi He reminisced about Yang Lingrui’s youth and his own past efforts to help the Yang Family.
• Zi He reflected on how the Li Family’s ambitions had been ruined at Solitary Moon Mountain and hoped the Yang Family might achieve the freedom his ancestor had envisioned.
• Zi He told Yang Yuanliu that Li Qingwan’s marriage to Murong Tianyang would protect her from the Lanyue Sect and help secure the Crown Prince’s position.

Zi He warned Yang Yuanliu that Murong Qiuhan’s breakthrough into the Spiritual Connection Realm had unsettled the succession and asked the Yang Family to join a secret operation against Blood Feather Hall and the Beast King Shrine. The chapter ended with Murong Qiuhan asking her father whether cultivating the dragon body and reaching Spiritual Connection qualified her to inherit the throne.

• Zi He told Yang Yuanliu that Murong Qiuhan had emerged from seclusion and reached the Spiritual Connection Realm, potentially changing the struggle over the throne.
• Yang Yuanliu realized that the marriage arrangement between Li Qingwan and Murong Tianyang was a signal for the Dynasty’s factions to choose sides.
• Zi He warned Yang Yuanliu to be cautious in the dangerous succession struggle.
• Zi He revealed that the Evil Extermination Division planned to strike Blood Feather Hall, the Beast King Shrine, and an allied evil cultivator, and asked the Yang Family to provide support.
• Yang Yuanliu accepted the secret letter and promised to consult the Yang Family patriarch before giving Zi He an answer.
• Murong Qiuhan told her father that she had cultivated the dragon body and reached Spiritual Connection, then asked whether she now qualified to inherit the throne.

After Yue Wuxiang and Huo Yuan’s battle, Huo Yuan discovered that the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land was becoming corrupt and reported the danger to Murong Zhenlin. Murong Zhenlin sent Huo Yuan to seek advice from Ma Yongsheng while he moved into the blessed land to monitor it, keeping the crisis secret as they sought to resolve it.

• After Yue Wuxiang departed, Huo Yuan found that many of the dead had blackened instead of turning into colorful clouds, and their corpse qi was polluting the blessed land.
• Huo Yuan discovered that the corruption had spread underground, killing plants and animals and creating patches of black blight.
• Huo Yuan reported the danger to Murong Zhenlin, who told him the battle had exposed a preexisting problem and ordered him to learn from Ma Yongsheng how Hundred Artifacts Tower had contained corruption in the Divine Weapon Secret Realm.
• Huo Yuan visited Ma Yongsheng and discussed the Divine Weapon Secret Realm while using the Spirit Casting Artifact Forging Method to open their conversations.
• Murong Zhenlin moved into the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land to watch its changes, while he and Huo Yuan kept the corruption secret and sought to resolve it before it became public.

After two months of cultivation, Yang Bowen, Lin Qiao, Yang Xing, and the Liang siblings reached the Qi Gathering Realm, while the Yang Family formalized trade with the Barbarians. The chapter ended with Lin Qiao's fifth attempt to climb Longyin Peak leaving her badly injured and back at the First Level of Qi Gathering.

• Mont led the Barbarian delegation through the Yang Family Sacred Land, received the Ximen Hundred Arts Inheritance, and helped establish an initial trade agreement.
• Yang Lingqing sent Han Wang to the Barbarian Lands to train the Barbarians, then arranged for Chen Yang to inspect children whose aptitudes might still be improved.
• Chen Yang found that a direct-line Yang boy's damaged twelfth Qi Meridian had necrotized beyond repair, while Yang Bowen, Lin Qiao, Yang Xing, and the Liang siblings had all entered the Qi Gathering Realm.
• Yang Lingqing required Lin Qiao to climb Longyin Peak each time she broke through; the mountain's pressure knocked her unconscious on her first attempt and injured her.
• Lin Qiao climbed five steps on her fifth attempt, suffered shattered tendons and bones, and fell from the Second Level back to the First Level of Qi Gathering.

Lin Qiao overcame her doubts and reached Longyin Peak’s first platform, while the Yang Family tested the five children’s Hundred Arts talents and advanced its plans to confront Blood Feather Hall. Chen Yang received a spirit treasure for Yang Lingrui and considered seeking a Killing Dao cultivation method from Old Monster Nangong.

• Yang Lingqing dispelled Lin Qiao’s doubts, and Lin Qiao climbed Longyin Peak until she reached its first platform and vowed to reach the summit.
• Chen Huaien tested the five children’s Hundred Arts talents and found that Yang Bowen excelled at talismans while the Liang siblings showed talent in artifact refinement.
• Yang Lingqing transferred the Liang siblings to Tiangong Peak to study artifact refinement, and Chen Yang bestowed the names Yang Yuanwen and Yang Yuanxing on Yang Bowen and Yang Xing.
• Bai Que, Cang Jue, and Huang Ding presented Chen Yang with a spirit treasure they had forged, and he rewarded them before giving it to Yang Lingrui.
• Chen Yang prepared Yang Lingrui to travel to the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and destroy Blood Feather Hall, then considered asking Old Monster Nangong about a Killing Dao cultivation method.

Chen Yang wondered why the Nangong Clan’s prayer power held so much resentment, then realized Nangong Jinghe’s return had burdened the clan with the consequences of his actions. Back at the Canglan Divine Palace, Chen Yang saw Blood Sun emerge from his cocoon, reborn and ready to serve the Divine Dao.

• Chen Yang gathered the Nangong Clan’s impure prayer power and speculated that its resentment came from Nangong Jinghe’s disregard for the clan and the troubles he had caused.
• Chen Yang returned to the Canglan Divine Palace and discovered that Blood Sun had emerged from his cocoon as a young child.
• Blood Sun transformed into a pool of blood, re-formed before Chen Yang, and thanked him for restoring his divine body.
• Blood Sun pledged to follow Chen Yang and help rebuild the Divine Dao and provide refuge for its creatures.
• Blood Sun explained that he had three lower-tier divine arts: Blood Fusion, Blood Drinking, and Blood Refinement.

Chen Yang awakened Blood Sun Venerable God and rallied the Canglan Divine Palace’s gods around their mission to protect Divine Path creatures. He then summoned Song Heng and prepared to grant him a stroke of fortune tied to the Song Clan’s ancestral bloodline.

• Chen Yang gave Blood Sun half the prayers he had reclaimed from the Nangong Clan so he could strengthen his divine power and use the Blood Fusion Divine Art.
• Blood Sun refined the prayers over several days, regained his strength, and awakened as Blood Sun Venerable God.
• Chen Yang gathered the gods, welcomed Blood Sun, reminded them of the dangers facing Divine Path creatures, and urged them to build a refuge across the Lingyuan Realm and Western Continent.
• Chen Yang used the Bright Mirror to reward the gathered gods with a cleansing of their minds and spirits.
• Chen Yang summoned Song Heng from his cave abode and told him he had come to bestow a stroke of fortune because of his connection to the Song Clan’s ancestral bloodline.

Chen Yang investigated Song Heng’s bloodline and planned to gather more Song Clan essence blood from Colorful Cloud Blessed Land. Meanwhile, Tiger Chasing’s leaders summoned Yang Yuanliu to seek the Yang Family’s help with a dangerous transformation in the blessed land.

• Chen Yang used his Enlightenment Divine Ability to help Song Heng reach an insight, while secretly collecting seven drops of his essence blood.
• Blood Sun identified Song Heng’s bloodline as a surviving branch of Divine Lord Li Huo’s, but said more essence blood from the lineage was needed to forge a new bloodline.
• Chen Yang decided to seek access to Colorful Cloud Blessed Land and gather essence blood from its Song Clan members.
• Tiger Chasing’s Emperor Murong Zhenlin and Grand Preceptor Huo Yuan concluded they needed the Yang Family’s help to invite a Mystic Insight expert without exposing the blessed land’s dangerous transformation.
• Yang Yuanliu met Murong Zhenlin and Huo Yuan in the Grand Preceptor Tower, where Murong Zhenlin said they needed the Yang Family’s assistance.

Yang Yuanliu negotiated with the Tiger Chasing Emperor and Imperial Preceptor over the baleful transformation threatening the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land. Chen Yang saw the crisis as a chance to enter the Blessed Land, while Yang Yuanliu agreed to consult her family and warned that its ties to the Dongfang Clan were limited.

• Yang Yuanliu signaled that the Yang Family expected proper consideration in return for further aid to Tiger Chasing.
• Murong Zhenlin explained that the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land was turning baleful and that only a Mystic Insight Venerable could resolve the calamity.
• Chen Yang recognized the crisis as an opportunity to enter the Blessed Land and devised a plan involving the Song Clan.
• Yang Yuanliu said she needed to consult her family before answering the request for help.
• Yang Yuanliu revealed that the Yang Family's apparent closeness to the Dongfang Clan stemmed from its interest in Yang Lingrui's future Dao Path.
• Murong Zhenlin assured Yang Yuanliu that Tiger Chasing would not pressure the Yang Family if it could not secure the Dongfang Clan's help.

Yang Yuanliu left the Imperial Preceptor's Tower after securing Tiger Chasing's gratitude, while Murong Zhenlin and Huo Yuan reflected on the Yang Clan's growing influence and turned their attention to the succession. The chapter ended with rival Northwest forces preparing for future conflict and Yue Shuwang advancing rapidly.

• Yang Yuanliu emerged from the Imperial Preceptor's Tower, leaving the officials outside unsure what had happened during her meeting with Murong Zhenlin and Huo Yuan.
• Huo Yuan told Murong Zhenlin that Yang Yuanliu had made Tiger Chasing owe the Yang Clan a favor, and both agreed that the Yang Clan was too powerful to remain under the Dynasty's control.
• Murong Zhenlin concluded that Yang Yuanliu's complaints had been a tactic to raise the price of aid and stopped worrying about the blessed land turning ominous.
• Murong Zhenlin and Huo Yuan returned to the Dragon Vein Fire Pool, where Murong Qiuhan cultivated alongside Murong Zhenlin and displayed a stronger True Dragon Breath than Murong Tianyang.
• The Beast King Shrine continued seeking alchemical blood materials, while Yue Wuxiang focused on Yue Shuwang after losing Li Qingwan and fearing Huo Yuan's advancement.
• Yue Shuwang achieved Spiritual Connection before He Shenglai and began refining the Moon Dao Opportunity item, accelerating her cultivation and Dao arts.

The Su Family’s losses left it sealed away and no longer a serious threat to the Yang Family. A year after the demon-eradication war, the new Heavenly Talent Ranking reflected the casualties and changes in strength, and Dongfang Zongyi was delighted to see Yuan Hong rise in the rankings.

• The factions speculated about why the Su Family had sealed its territory, unaware that Su Lingyun was dead, its bloodline inheritance treasure was lost, and Su Dingcang had little lifespan remaining.
• Chen Yang’s scheme had removed the Yang Family’s greatest hidden danger and crippled the Su Family’s future, leaving it with no clear path to recovery.
• The Lingxiao Dao Academy compiled a new Heavenly Talent Ranking a year after the demon-eradication war, and Ziyun Mountain received it.
• Dongfang Zongyi saw that only four cultivators remained on the Gold Ranking’s front page: Xuanyuan Xinghe, Long Zhu, Rui Qingxue, and Xiao Huai.
• Dongfang Zonggan explained that Nangong Jinghe had reached the Spiritual Connection Ninth Layer after gaining great fortune in the Northwest Secret Realm, while Yun Xiwu had risen to fifth place on the second page.
• Dongfang Zongyi spotted Yuan Hong’s name and praised the Vaulting Dragon Lord’s rise.

The Dongfang ancestors reviewed the new Heavenly Talent Ranking and celebrated Yang Yuanhong’s rise while noting the fortunes of other cultivators. They recognized Yang Lingrui’s historic entry into the Golden Ranking and saw Xue Qingluan, Shen Yue, and He Shenglai newly represented among the Northwest talents.

• Dongfang Yingcai returned to Ziyun Mountain with Dongfang Zonggan for her homecoming trial, and the Dongfang Clan welcomed her bond with Yang Yuanhong.
• Dongfang Zonggan and Dongfang Zongyi celebrated Yang Yuanhong’s sixth-place Golden Ranking position and lamented Baili Fusang’s fall to the bottom of the second page.
• The ancestors observed Jiang Yinkong, Xuan Youli, and Chu Jingxiao advancing on the third page, then found Yang Lingrui at its final position as the first Golden Ranking talent from western Canglan.
• Dongfang Zonggan explained that Yang Lingrui’s wind cultivation concealed his Killing Dao and credited his recent rise to his time in the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm.
• The ancestors noted that Dongfang Yingcai and Dongfang Yinghao remained outside the Golden Ranking, while Yinghao could qualify after reaching Spiritual Connection.
• The ranking listed Xue Qingluan fourth on the fifth page as the Moonlight Female Immortal, with Shen Yue and He Shenglai also appearing among the Northwest talents.

Central Region factions investigated the Northwest Yang Clan’s two Gold Ranking talents and began considering challenges to Yang Lingrui, while the Fuyao Sect sought an introduction to him through the Dongfang Clan. Unaware that three immortal vessels were heading Northwest, Yang Lingrui prepared to intercept an unidentified evil cultivator.

• Central Region factions traced the Yang Clan’s rise to Yang Yuanhong’s ties with the Dongfang Clan and his reclusive cultivation background.
• The Fuyao Sect sent an elder to Ziyun Mountain and learned that Yang Lingrui had no sect or master.
• Dongfang Zonggan declined to arrange a meeting immediately and said the Dongfang Clan would consult Yang Yuanhong when he returned to the Central Region.
• Several factions judged Yang Lingrui’s strength potentially contestable and planned to challenge him in a debate of the Dao for his Gold Ranking seat.
• Three immortal vessels departed the Central Region for the Northwest, while Yang Lingrui prepared to intercept an unidentified evil cultivator.

Tiger Chasing’s long-planned assault devastated Blood Feather Hall, and Yang Lingrui was assigned to delay an escaping evil cultivator until reinforcements could arrive. After recognizing their shared path of the Killing Dao, Yang Lingrui trapped himself and the cultivator in the Two Forms Divine Wind, forcing a fight to the death.

• Tiger Chasing’s forces killed most of Blood Feather Hall’s cultivators, while Xing Jiuli and Sikong Shang fought its leader and Beast King Shrine’s True Person.
• Yang Lingrui waited in the clouds to intercept an evil cultivator fleeing the battle and ensnared him with the Two Forms Divine Wind.
• Yang Lingrui and the evil cultivator exchanged attacks, sensed each other’s killing intent, and briefly stopped to speak.
• Yang Lingrui refused to let the evil cultivator pass and attacked him and his incarnations with his own incarnation.
• Yang Lingrui trapped both of them inside the Two Forms Divine Wind, prompting the evil cultivator to accuse him of trying to steal his Dao.

Yang Lingrui entered a Dao contest with an evil cultivator True Person, intending to seize his Killing Dao lineage rather than merely stall him. After their forces fought to a draw and both men slaughtered their way through the illusion battlefield, they prepared to decide the contest directly.

• Yang Lingrui formed a wind formation and challenged the evil cultivator to a contest of the Killing Dao, while the evil cultivator chose to accept rather than flee or attack him outright.
• Yang Lingrui and the evil cultivator entered the illusion realm of Dao contention and found themselves facing each other from bone cities.
• The two unleashed armies of skeletal soldiers and resentful ghosts, and their first round ended in a draw.
• Yang Lingrui and the evil cultivator entered the battlefield themselves, slaughtering the ghost armies and consuming each other's killing karma.
• Standing atop heaps of corpses, the evil cultivator proposed another contest to settle the outcome, and Yang Lingrui agreed.

Yang Lingrui and True Person Juesheng debated the Killing Dao by witnessing each other’s past, then Yang Lingrui challenged Juesheng’s belief that everyone could be killed by taking his own life. The scene ended with Juesheng standing dazed beside Yang Lingrui’s corpse.

• Yang Lingrui and True Person Juesheng clashed through visions of their killings, with Juesheng praising Yang Lingrui’s killing of Master of Solitary Moon Mountain.
• Yang Lingrui witnessed Juesheng’s brutal childhood, his revenge on the evil Daoist who recruited him, and his solitary rise along the Killing Dao.
• Yang Lingrui learned that the evil cultivator’s title was True Person Juesheng, then challenged his claim that every living being could be killed.
• Yang Lingrui cut off his own head and told Juesheng it was his turn, leaving Juesheng dazed beside his corpse in an empty world.

Yang Lingrui’s apparent suicide forced True Person Juesheng to confront whether the Way of Slaughter required him to kill himself, while Chen Yang covertly exploited his hesitation. Juesheng finally severed his own head in the illusion realm, and Yang Lingrui revived and thanked him for offering his Dao.

• Yang Lingrui’s self-inflicted death made True Person Juesheng hesitate between rejecting the apparent insight and killing himself to pursue the Way of Slaughter.
• Chen Yang realized Yang Lingrui’s gamble had succeeded and slipped a wisp of evil force into True Person Juesheng’s wavering mind.
• True Person Juesheng repeatedly raised and lowered his blade as doubt and regret trapped him in a vicious cycle.
• True Person Juesheng recognized that he was in an illusion realm, declared he was not afraid to die, and severed his own head.
• Yang Lingrui rose, found the head that fit, and bowed to True Person Juesheng, promising not to waste the death he had offered.

Yang Lingrui defeated and killed True Person Juesheng, then concealed the fight’s true outcome with Chen Yang’s help. After joining Xing Jiuli and Sikong Shang, he learned Blood Feather Hall had been nearly wiped out and asked to see its captives, seeking old enemies from the Yang Clan’s past.

• Yang Lingrui killed the unconscious True Person Juesheng and asked Chen Yang to make the battlefield look like an evil cultivator had escaped after a bitter fight.
• Chen Yang used his divine ability to stage the battlefield, and Xing Jiuli and Sikong Shang arrived after defeating Blood Feather Hall’s forces and capturing a True Person from Beast King Shrine.
• Xing Jiuli and Sikong Shang found Yang Lingrui recovering in a hidden cave, and he told them he had been unable to stop the evil cultivator from fleeing.
• Yang Lingrui asked about Blood Feather Hall and recalled the sect’s past attacks on the Yang Clan, including the ambush outside the Secret Treasure Vault Land and the Zhou Qing Calamity.
• Xing Jiuli told Yang Lingrui that Blood Feather Hall’s chief leader and most of its members had been killed, with the remaining captives awaiting trial.
• Yang Lingrui went with Xing Jiuli and Sikong Shang to the detained captives, intending to find old acquaintances among them.

Yang Lingrui questioned captured Blood Feather Hall cultivators about past crimes against the Dynasty and the Yang Family, then gave two surviving culprits ten breaths to escape. He killed both with ease and asked Xing Jiuli whether Tiger Chasing still needed one man's Primordial Spirit.

• Xing Jiuli presented the captured Blood Feather Hall members and four undercover Tiger Chasing Cultivators to Yang Lingrui, who reviewed their intelligence dossier.
• Yang Lingrui learned that the mastermind behind an attack on low-level cultivators had been killed, while another mastermind and a minor leader connected to an infiltration plot remained alive.
• Xing Jiuli released the deputy leader and minor leader from their restraints, and Yang Lingrui gave them ten breaths to flee.
• The deputy leader and minor leader fled in different directions as Tiger Chasing Cultivators worried they might escape, but Xing Jiuli assured them Yang Lingrui would prevail.
• Yang Lingrui returned with the intact corpses of both fugitives and asked Xing Jiuli whether Tiger Chasing needed the deputy leader's Primordial Spirit.

Yang Lingrui executed a Blood Feather Hall cultivator and joined Xing Jiuli in sweeping the faction’s hideouts. Meanwhile, three Central Region factions seeking to challenge Yang Clan prodigies were stopped at the Barbarian Lands’ border, where Mont fought Gu Che to decide whether they could pass.

• Yang Lingrui erased the Blood Feather Hall cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, and the Tiger Chasing cultivators praised his power.
• Sikong Shang escorted the remaining Blood Feather Hall members back to Tiger Chasing while Xing Jiuli and Yang Lingrui began looting the faction’s hideouts under their agreed treasure-sharing arrangement.
• Three Central Region immortal boats reached the Barbarian Lands, but the bishops refused them passage because the Yang Clan was the region’s Holy Clan.
• Mont offered to test the Central Region prodigies himself, and the factions agreed to let them pass only if one defeated him.
• Gu Che of Frost Cold Valley began fighting Mont, but Gu Che grew exhausted while Mont remained composed and appeared not to have used his full strength.

Mont defeated Gu Che and matched the two remaining Central Region prodigies, demonstrating the strength of the Northwest Unconventional Practitioners. The Central Region factions withdrew, and the Yang Clan’s reputation for protection by a powerful figure spread, deterring rivals and allowing it to develop in the Northwest.

• Gu Che used Frost Cold Town Domain to bring down an icy tower on Mont, but Mont revealed his black wings and Sword of Condemnation and split the attack with one slash.
• Gu Che accepted defeat and agreed not to trouble the Yang Clan again.
• The two remaining prodigies each exchanged a move with Mont, and neither side gained the advantage.
• The three Central Region factions abandoned their plans to challenge for Gold Ranking resources and departed after bidding farewell to the barbarian chief priests.
• News spread that the Yang Clan was protected by formidable Unconventional Practitioners and a powerful figure, causing factions with designs against the clan to back off.

Lin Qiao completed her twenty-third ascent of Longyin Peak after reflecting on Yang Lingqing’s lesson that courage meant pressing on despite fear. Yang Yuanhong prepared to leave for the Central Region and the Dragon Transformation Pool, taking a life-saving item as he departed.

• Lin Qiao reached the final platform of Longyin Peak, and Yang Yuanhong appeared to catch her as she collapsed unconscious.
• Yang Yuanhong brought Lin Qiao to Chengzuo Peak, where Chen Yang healed her injuries and Yang Lingqing took responsibility for her recovery.
• Yang Yuanhong told Wu Tong and Yang Lingqing he was leaving for the Central Region to meet Long Yuan and travel to the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Yang Lingqing and Wu Tong urged Yang Yuanhong to travel cautiously and reminded him to visit Ziyun Mountain and spend time with Ying Cai.
• Yang Lingqing gave Yang Yuanhong a bright-red child statue bestowed by the Immortal Venerable to help preserve his life on the dangerous journey.