Recaps

Chen Yang awakened as a Spirit Gathering Stone and helped the Yang Family cultivate, survive a devastating Beast Tide, and gain influence. The arc ended with He Shenglai pressuring Yang Guanfeng to open the Forbidden Ground, where the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass was revealed.

• Yang Guanfeng found Chen Yang and the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass in the newly opened Secret Realm, then brought both back to the Yang Family.
• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu used Chen Yang to support Yang Lingrui, Yang Lingqing, and Yang Linghu as they cultivated, while the family relocated to Little Pine Mountain and prepared for trouble from the Wang Family.
• Wang Lie infiltrated the Yang Family compound, but Yang Lingqing detected him with Chen Yang’s help, and Yang Lingrui killed him after the children subdued him.
• Chen Yang advanced and gained a powerful Spirit Power Impact just as Demon Beasts began attacking the region, and the Yang Family recruited refugees and organized defenses.
• During the Beast Tide, Yang Lingrui and the others fought to protect the family, while Chen Yang helped defeat several powerful demons, including a Sixth Level fox demon.
• After the Yang Family buried its dead and White Stone Town was devastated, Yang Guanfeng agreed to help rebuild the town in exchange for a recommendation to the Myriad Transformation Sect.
• The Yang Family offered essence blood to Chen Yang and swore to keep him secret, and Chen Yang strengthened the Forbidden Ground and helped Yang Lingrui advance to the Third Level of Qi Gathering.
• He Shenglai bought the Yang Family’s Demon Beast corpses, then demanded to inspect the Forbidden Ground and pressured Yang Guanfeng to open its formation.

The Yang Family secured its mine, strengthened its lineage, and weathered bandit attacks and the Dynasty’s draft while Chen Yang advanced. Yang Lingrui and Zhao Qi then joined an expedition into an ancient tomb, where Yang Lingrui’s group reached the third level.

• Yang Guanfeng secured the former Wang Family mine for the Yang Family after Yang Lingrui defeated Zhang Yao, and Yang Linghu stayed behind to guard it.
• Chen Yang repaired Yang Lingqing’s damaged Qi Meridian and helped Wu Tong draw in spiritual energy, while Zhao Qi and the younger cultivators advanced.
• Yang Linghu uncovered Zhang Chen’s alliance with the bandits, escaped their ambush, and survived until Yang Lingrui arrived and killed Zhang Chen.
• Yang Guanfeng joined the Dynasty’s expedition to suppress unrest, while Chen Yang advanced to Late Qi Gathering and absorbed the treasure he had left behind.
• Yang Lingqing brought the Liang Family into the Yang Family lineage and confronted Zhao Dapeng, who pleaded guilty and presented the heads of six Zhao Family juniors.
• Yang Lingrui and Zhao Qi traveled to Feng Ling to explore an ancient tomb, where Yang Lingrui fought through its passages with Li Cheng’s group while Zhao Qi stayed behind to investigate the stone pillars.
• Yang Lingrui’s group defeated several tomb creatures, found treasures, and reached the third level, where they encountered Huang Yan and Zheng Huaming in a hall marked with strange carvings.

Yang Lingrui attended the Golden Scale Dharma Assembly, where the Su Family humiliated him and powerful factions took notice of the Yang Family. After leaving early, he survived several attacks on the road home and returned to find Chen Yang had gained a formidable protective shell from an Exotic Stone.

• Li Cheng and his companions defeated the Red-robed Corpse Ghoul, then shared the ancient tomb’s remaining treasures with Yang Lingrui and Zhao Qi.
• Zheng Huaming tried to seize Yang Lingrui’s Vitality Returning Grass and kill him, but Yang Lingrui killed Zheng Huaming and returned home with Zhao Qi.
• Chen Yang learned the recovered talisman inheritance, mastered its techniques, and created powerful talismans for the Yang Family before the clan’s grand sacrifice strengthened him further.
• Yang Lingqing accepted the invitation to the Golden Scale Dharma Assembly, and Yang Lingrui traveled to Wangyue City after pretending to damage his cultivation.
• Li Qingwan rejected the proposed marriage alliance with Yang Lingrui, while Li Cheng revealed his despair over her fate and the Li Family’s decline.
• At the assembly, Yang Lingrui sold talismans and met Su Lingyun, who attacked his consciousness before offering Spirit Crystals and pills for a hundred Divine Movement Talismans.
• Yang Lingrui left the assembly early, learned of Li Yuande’s plan to protect Li Qingwan, and then killed three robbers who had tracked him from Wangyue City.
• A scholar cultivator attacked Yang Lingrui for his face, but Zhao Qi arrived and helped kill him, and Yang Lingrui returned home, where Chen Yang gained a defensive shell from a pitch-black Exotic Stone that resisted a Mountain-Splitting Talisman.

The Yang Family expanded its influence while confronting a ghost crisis, Solitary Moon Mountain, and new Dynasty schemes. Chen Yang emerged from seclusion with a deeper understanding of Spirit Pearls and began empowering the family and its unborn heir.

• Wu Tong successfully formed her Qi Mansion, while Chen Yang sensed prayer power and an unknown force reach her.
• The Yang Family rejected Tian Yu’s offer, distributed Evil-Repelling Talismans across Qinghe, and fought the creatures emerging from Sanglu Valley.
• Gao Hui held off Zhang Tiansheng until He Shenglai arrived and killed the creature, then He Shenglai punished Tian Yu and granted the Yang Family Zhang Family territory.
• The Yang Family established a branch in Sanglu Valley, gained the support of twelve independent families, and recruited Yang Shu, whose feigned foolishness Yang Lingqing exposed.
• Yang Lingrui killed three Solitary Moon Mountain disciples who had attacked the Xie Family, and Zhao Qi and Gao Hui helped defeat their pursuer before He Shenglai shielded the Yang Family from the sect’s envoys.
• The surviving Xie Family joined the Yang Family, Yang Linghu and Wu Tong married, and Yang Lingqing organized two teams to pursue the Mayfly Treasure Land and Black Snake Secret Treasure.
• After a year in seclusion, Chen Yang reached Qi Gathering Perfection, gave Yang Shu a Spirit Pearl, and had Elder Yu name him Yang Lingshu.
• Chen Yang ordered halls and steles built to gather worship, then gave Spirit Pearls to Yang Lingqing and Wu Tong’s unborn child.