Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang reflected on his twenty years as a conscious stone, content with a life of sleeping and absorbing spiritual energy. After breaking through a realm and developing the ability to gather spiritual energy, he accelerated his cultivation and discovered that a nearby spirit plant produced a nourishing droplet, while the mystery of his remote, apparently humanless surroundings remained unresolved.

• Chen Yang woke after five days of rain-induced sleep and reflected that he had spent twenty years as a stone.
• Chen Yang recalled how years of absorbing spiritual energy filled his Spirit Storage Space and triggered a breakthrough that expanded it and strengthened his consciousness.
• Chen Yang discovered that activating his spiritual power drew in surrounding spiritual energy and caused nearby vegetation to grow rapidly.
• A four-leaf spirit plant near Chen Yang produced a droplet of spiritual liquid, which he absorbed and found equal to two months of breathing exercises.
• Chen Yang continued cultivating with the spirit plant’s occasional droplets but remained unable to determine why he had never seen a human.

After a quake opened the Lesser Treasure Realm, Chen Yang watched two Yang Family cultivators claim his Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass and learned that more cultivators might soon enter the realm. He decided to reveal a faint trace of spiritual power to attract the attention of the Yang Family Patriarch and Elder Yu.

• Chen Yang sensed repeated tremors and noticed spiritual energy flowing west, where a wolf demon, a one-eyed mountain ghost, and two human cultivators fought.
• The Yang Family Patriarch and Elder Yu found Chen Yang's Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass, and Elder Yu carefully dug it up and stored it in a vinewood box.
• The Yang Family Patriarch said he had entered the Lesser Treasure Realm to secure cultivation opportunities for the Yang Family's younger generation, then decided to leave with Elder Yu.
• Chen Yang learned from their conversation that he was in a newly opened Secret Realm and feared that a powerful cultivator might seize him for his cultivation value or use him as refining material.
• Chen Yang decided to release a faint fluctuation of spiritual power to draw the Yang Family Patriarch and Elder Yu's attention.

Chen Yang was recognized as a Spirit Gathering Stone, and the Yang Family Patriarch and Elder Yu escaped the Secret Realm after killing three cultivators who blocked their way. Powerful Rogue Cultivators and a Core Formation Realm sect cultivator then entered, leaving the latecomers in danger.

• Elder Yu sensed Chen Yang’s spiritual power, identified him as a Spirit Gathering Stone, and the Yang Family Patriarch took him along with the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass.
• The Yang Family Patriarch and Elder Yu were ambushed near the exit by three cultivators and fought back with talismans, Thunderfire Pellets, a magic disc, and a hidden weapon.
• The Yang Family Patriarch killed the bald cultivator, looted his belongings, and escaped the Secret Realm with Elder Yu through the teleportation array.
• Late-arriving Rogue Cultivators entered the Secret Realm, followed by seven cultivators in blue-green robes led by a Core Formation Realm powerhouse.
• The Core Formation Realm cultivator killed five Rogue Cultivators and ordered the rest to leave, driving them from the Secret Realm.

Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu returned safely from the Secret Realm and replanted the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass in the Yang Family’s Forbidden Ground. The next morning, Yang Guanfeng summoned the family to the Council Hall, where its members prepared to pay their respects to him.

• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu secretly entered Willow Leaf Town and returned to the Yang Family’s Forbidden Ground with the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass.
• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu replanted the grass in the spirit field and nurtured it until its aura stabilized.
• Elder Yu recalled how Yang Guanfeng had saved his life fifteen years earlier, explaining his loyal service to the family.
• Yang Guanfeng examined the Spirit Gathering Stone and his many scars, while Chen Yang admired his dedication to the Yang Family.
• Yang Guanfeng summoned the family to the Council Hall, where Yang Feiyun and Yang Xiaolei led the descendants in preparing to pay respects to the ancestor.

Yang Guanfeng reviewed the Yang Family’s affairs and considered how its heavy taxes threatened its development. He brought the three children with cultivation aptitude into the Forbidden Ground and urged them to remember their duty to the lineage.

• Yang Feiyun reported that the Yang Family’s funds were strained by taxes, while Chen Yang learned about the family’s businesses, population, and cultivation prospects.
• Yang Guanfeng dismissed the council and introduced Yang Xiaohu, Yang Yueqing, and Yang Mingrui as the family’s three promising children.
• Yang Feiyun and Yang Xiaolei praised Yang Guanfeng’s efforts before leaving their children in his care.
• Yang Guanfeng led the three children over the wall into the Forbidden Ground, where they marveled at his abilities.
• Yang Guanfeng promised the children they would surpass him and told them to stay loyal to the Yang Family; Yang Yueqing nodded resolutely.

Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu introduced three children to cultivation in the Forbidden Ground and gave them new names beginning with “Ling.” As Elder Yu taught them to meditate, Yang Lingrui opened his first Qi Meridian, revealing exceptional potential.

• Elder Yu welcomed Yang Xiaohu, Yang Mingrui, and Yang Yueqing to the Forbidden Ground, where they paid respects to the Yang Family ancestors.
• Yang Guanfeng brought the children to a pavilion and explained that they would cultivate there with the support of Chen Yang, the Spirit Gathering Stone.
• Yang Guanfeng renamed the children Yang Linghu, Yang Lingrui, and Yang Lingqing, then left them in Elder Yu’s care.
• Elder Yu taught the children the basics of cultivation and guided them through the Nether Spirit Path Seeking Scripture.
• Yang Lingrui entered meditation quickly and opened the Qi Meridian in his left arm, prompting Elder Yu to recognize his potential for Core Formation.
• Chen Yang used Elder Yu’s spiritual power to gather spiritual energy while observing Yang Lingrui’s breakthrough.

Yang Lingrui, Yang Lingqing, and Yang Linghu began cultivating in the Forbidden Ground, while Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu kept the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass secret. Ten days later, Yang Guanfeng gave its spirit liquid to Yang Lingrui and prepared to guard him as he cultivated.

• Yang Lingrui, Yang Lingqing, and Yang Linghu all guided qi into their bodies on their first day of cultivation, with Yang Lingrui progressing fastest.
• Yang Lingqing comforted Yang Linghu about his slower progress, and he regained his resolve to cultivate diligently.
• The three children settled in the Forbidden Ground, where Elder Yu guided their daily cultivation and Chen Yang gathered spiritual energy in the loft.
• Yang Guanfeng rejected Elder Yu's suggestion to consume the spirit liquid himself and decided to reserve it for Yang Lingrui, whose potential could strengthen the Yang Family.
• Over the next ten days, Yang Lingrui broke through five Qi Meridians, Yang Lingqing broke through three, and Yang Linghu broke through two, while Yang Guanfeng watched for outside attention.
• Yang Guanfeng collected a drop of spirit liquid and gave it to Yang Lingrui, telling him to drink it and meditate while he stood guard.

Yang Lingrui refined the spiritual liquid, opened his Qi Meridians, and became the Yang Family’s third Qi Gathering Realm cultivator. Yang Guanfeng prepared to relocate the family beyond Willow Leaf Town while concealing Yang Linghu and Yang Lingqing’s future breakthroughs, then announced a celebratory banquet after keeping Ling Rui’s advancement secret for a month.

• Yang Lingrui drank the spiritual liquid Yang Guanfeng bestowed and opened eleven Qi Meridians before telling Yang Linghu and Yang Lingqing the truth about his reward.
• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu discussed preparations to relocate the Yang Family after the Lesser Treasure Realm closed, using Ling Rui’s breakthrough as the public reason for leaving Willow Leaf Town.
• With Chen Yang’s help and guidance from Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu, Yang Lingrui opened his final Qi Meridian, condensed a spiritual energy vortex, and completed his qi palace.
• Yang Lingrui reached the First Level of Qi Gathering and celebrated with Yang Linghu, Yang Lingqing, Yang Guanfeng, and Elder Yu.
• Yang Guanfeng suppressed news of Ling Rui’s breakthrough for a month, then sent Elder Yu to notify Willow Leaf Town’s forces and announced a banquet.

The Yang Family negotiated its relocation from Willow Leaf Town to Little Pine Mountain, securing favorable terms for its town shops and mines. After moving the family, Yang Guanfeng secretly transferred the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass and erased the traces of its former cultivation site.

• Yang Guanfeng announced at a banquet that the Yang Family would relocate, surprising Willow Leaf Town's other factions.
• Yang Guanfeng and Xu Guang agreed that the Yang Family would pay ordinary shop taxes and give Xu Guang forty percent of the shops' revenue, while hiring troops to guard its mines outside town.
• Yang Lingrui judged Xu Guang as someone the family could use for gain, and Yang Guanfeng agreed that the Yang Family must rely on its own strength.
• The Yang Family built a new estate at Little Pine Mountain with help from Yang Guang and the other factions, and its members and servants moved there.
• Yang Guanfeng secretly carried the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass from the Forbidden Ground to Little Pine Mountain and destroyed the spirit field in Willow Leaf Town.

The Yang Family stabilized after relocating as Yang Lingqing, Yang Lingrui, and Yang Linghu successively broke through to the Qi Gathering Realm, bringing the family to five Qi Gathering Cultivators. As the children began learning spells and the family prospered, the Wang Family of White Stone Town secretly plotted against them.

• Yang Guanfeng collected the second drop of spirit liquid, and Yang Lingrui consumed it before entering seclusion to break through.
• Yang Lingqing Condensed Qi Mansion and reached the Qi Gathering Realm, while Yang Lingrui emerged ten days later at the Second Level of Qi Gathering.
• Yang Linghu broke through into Qi Gathering a month later, giving the Yang Family three new Qi Gathering Cultivators in four months.
• Elder Yu assigned Yang Linghu the Brute Force Art, Yang Lingqing the Mud Dragon Technique, and Yang Lingrui the Gale Flow Method.
• Yang Linghu and Yang Lingqing took turns channeling spiritual power into Chen Yang to support the children's cultivation as the family prospered.
• The Wang Family, hostile to the Yang Family's presence in White Stone Town, began secretly plotting to cause trouble for them.

Wang Lie infiltrated the Yang Family Forbidden Ground to frighten its young cultivators, but the children detected him and prepared a trap. After he attacked Yang Lingrui, Yang Linghu struck him down and pinned him to the ground.

• Wang Xiong learned Yang Guanfeng was guarding the mines and ordered Wang Lie to sneak into the Yang Family stronghold that night.
• Wang Lie bypassed the guards and used a lodestone to disable the Forbidden Ground's array, unaware Chen Yang sensed the spiritual energy disturbance.
• Yang Lingqing realized the array had failed and arranged for Yang Lingrui to pose as a lone cultivator while she and Yang Linghu hid nearby.
• Wang Lie saw Yang Lingrui and decided to cripple him, then attacked him in the courtyard.
• Yang Lingrui revealed he was at Second Level of Qi Gathering and blocked Wang Lie's strike, while Yang Linghu immobilized Wang Lie with a technique and punched him in the chest.

Yang Lingqing, Yang Linghu, and Yang Lingrui captured and killed Wang Lie after he broke into the Yang Family grounds. Yang Guanfeng hid the body and discovered the lodestone had disrupted the warning formations, while the Wang Family realized Wang Lie was missing.

• Yang Lingqing identified the captured intruder as Wang Lie, and Yang Linghu went to the mines to fetch Yang Guanfeng.
• Yang Guanfeng questioned Wang Lie, broke all four of his limbs, and Yang Lingrui killed him with Gale Wind.
• Yang Guanfeng crushed Wang Lie's corpse and buried it beneath the spirit fields, then learned that a lodestone had interfered with the formations.
• Yang Lingqing explained that Chen Yang had awakened her and alerted her to the intrusion, astonishing Yang Guanfeng.
• Wang Xiong and Wang Weiyang waited for Wang Lie, then concluded by the third day that he would not return.

Wang Xiong accepted the Wang Family’s defeat after Wang Lie’s death, while the Yang Family expanded its business and prepared to strengthen its Forbidden Ground. Elder Yu traveled to the Yuling River market to sell goods and seek an array master, where he met Li Cheng, who needed a similar formation.

• Wang Xiong warned Wang Weiyang to stay in White Stone Town and cultivate, then concealed the Wang Family’s grievance by congratulating the Yang Family on its new shop.
• The Yang Family grew its farmland and businesses, trained Clan Soldiers, and discussed replacing the Forbidden Ground formation and investigating a stone.
• Elder Yu and Yang Guanfeng assessed the family’s treasury, and Elder Yu left for the Yuling River market with goods to sell.
• Elder Yu met Li Cheng of the Nanshan Li Family on the boat to the market and learned that Li Cheng was also seeking an array master for a Late Qi Gathering protective formation.

Elder Yu and Li Cheng visited Wangyue City's marketplace, where Elder Yu sold supplies, hired a formation master, and bought information and books for the Yang Family. His inquiry into Chen Yang's origins revealed that Chen Yang's stone was an Exotic Stone, and Elder Yu returned at dawn with his funds spent.

• Elder Yu sold pills, talismans, herbs, and Refined Ore to Li Cheng for sixteen Spirit Crystals.
• Elder Yu and Li Cheng hired Liu Zihao to set up a defensive formation for twenty-one Spirit Crystals.
• Elder Yu bought formation materials and information about sects near Little Pine Mountain from the marketplace.
• Elder Yu paid to investigate Chen Yang's origins and learned that the stone was an Exotic Stone.
• Elder Yu studied Exotic Stones through the night, then bought books on the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and cultivation before spending all thirty-three Spirit Crystals.

The Yang Family completed a Cloud Mountain Mist Array and spent half a year strengthening its foothold while considering how to seek a sect's support. Chen Yang advanced after the family nourished him, and he woke with sharper senses and an apparent new ability to draw spiritual energy from his Spirit Storage Space.

• Liu Zihao installed a Cloud Mountain Mist Array around the Yang Family's Forbidden Ground, protecting it from outside view and disruption by the magnetized stone.
• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu decided the Yang Family should aim to send talented children to the Myriad Transformation Sect, but postponed seeking a recommendation until they had a better opportunity.
• Over half a year, the Yang Family expanded its farmland, attracted villagers to Little Pine Mountain, and saw Yang Guanfeng's bottleneck begin to loosen as the young cultivators advanced.
• When Chen Yang neared his next advancement, Yang Guanfeng, Elder Yu, and the three children supplied him with spiritual energy until he fell asleep; Elder Yu judged that his limit might reach Qi Gathering Perfection.
• The three children took turns nourishing Chen Yang, and he woke on the eighth day with clearer vision and the apparent ability to draw spiritual energy from his Spirit Storage Space.

Chen Yang discovered that his expanded Spirit Storage Space let him fire a powerful Spirit Power Impact, and Elder Yu confirmed the ability while helping the children test it. As the Yang Family prepared for a possible Beast Tide linked to Demon Beasts, the growing infestation drove villagers to flee for the towns.

• Chen Yang found that his Spirit Gathering ability had grown stronger and accidentally fired a Spirit Power Impact that destroyed a row of empty rooms in the Forbidden Ground.
• Elder Yu confirmed the blast came from Chen Yang’s advancement, then demonstrated that the impact could shatter a massive boulder with the force of a Qi Gathering Mid-stage cultivator’s all-out strike.
• Yang Lingqing and the others tested the Spirit Power Impact through Chen Yang, but repeated shots heated him until he became too hot to hold.
• Elder Yu told the children that the ongoing beast infestation had lasted more than ten days and that he, the Patriarch, and the town chiefs had found traces of Demon Beasts in the mountains.
• The Yang Family’s cultivators descended from the mountain to protect their people as the infestation worsened, while villages suffered attacks and their residents fled toward the towns.

As the beast disaster spread across the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, Yang Guanfeng organized the Yang Family’s refugees into clan soldiers and strengthened its defenses. The wild beasts’ sudden quiet left Yang Lingqing suspecting a final attack orchestrated by Demon Beasts, and she asked Chen Yang to search for their traces.

• Yang Guanfeng learned that neighboring regions were also suffering, then told Yang Feiyun and Yang Xiaolei to offer refugees the chance to become clan soldiers in exchange for shelter after the disaster.
• After the Yang Family issued its offer, many refugees volunteered, and the family began training recruits to prepare for the Beast Tide.
• Yang Lingrui directed the clan soldiers guarding a mountain pass, while Yang Tieli rebuked two soldiers for questioning the young Immortal Master.
• Yang Linghu and Yang Lingqing guarded the Forbidden Cliff, where Yang Guanfeng had entrusted Chen Yang to Yang Lingqing.
• Yang Lingqing reasoned that the beasts’ lull was the calm before a final assault, then took Chen Yang into the forest and asked it to find signs of Demon Beasts.

The Beast Tide struck the Yang Family, and its fighters struggled to hold the mountain pass and cliff defenses against waves of beasts and powerful Demon Beasts. The first assault was repelled, but battles continued as Yang Guanfeng fought deeper in the mountains and Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu faced three Wolf demons.

• After ten quiet days, Yang Guanfeng returned and ordered everyone under the Yang Family's jurisdiction to shelter in the compound, assigned Clan Soldiers to defend three sides, and ordered everyone able to fight to arm themselves.
• The Beast Tide attacked that night, and Yang Tieli's soldiers fought while retreating from the mountain pass until two First Level of Qi Gathering Demon Beasts charged into their formation.
• Yang Lingrui killed the two Demon Beasts with Gale Winds, rallied the soldiers, and helped hold the first assault until reinforcements and archers pushed the horde back.
• Chen Yang warned Yang Lingqing about three hidden Wolf demons near the cliff, allowing her and Yang Linghu to prepare for their attack.
• Yang Linghu killed two First Level Wolf demons despite being injured, then joined Yang Lingqing against the remaining Second Level Wolf demon.

Yang Lingrui and the Yang Family fought back two Third Level Qi Gathering Demon Beasts as the Beast Tide reached the defensive line. Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu drove a python demon into the Cloud Mountain Mist Array, then faced a stronger monkey demon, which Chen Yang killed with a sudden attack from the Exotic Stone.

• Yang Lingrui intercepted a Third Level yak demon and led it away from the defensive line while Yang Tieli organized the Clan Soldiers' retreat.
• Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu struggled against a Third Level python demon, and Yang Linghu was injured when it broke free of the mire.
• Yang Lingqing gained a new ability with her second-level Mud Dragon Technique, and she and Yang Linghu lured the python into the Cloud Mountain Mist Array and drove it into the deep mountains.
• A Qi Gathering Mid-stage monkey demon appeared and overwhelmed Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu, but Chen Yang struck it down with the Exotic Stone.

The Yang Family’s defenders survived the Beast Tide, while Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu helped defeat the Demon Beasts attacking from the cliff. As they faced a final, stronger fox demon, the Exotic Stone fired a Spirit Power Impact on its own and killed it.

• Yang Lingrui killed the yak demon, then fought along the battle line to reinforce breaches as the Clan Soldiers held back the beasts.
• By dawn, the Beast Tide began to falter, while Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu defeated four Demon Beasts with help from Chen Yang’s Spirit Power Impact.
• After the pair prepared to leave the cliff, a fox demon at the Sixth Level of Qi Gathering emerged and blocked their way.
• Yang Lingqing fired a weak Spirit Power Impact, but the fox demon shrugged it off and approached as Yang Lingqing and Yang Linghu prepared to defend the Lineage with their lives.
• The fox demon lowered its head near them, and the Exotic Stone fired a Spirit Power Impact that pierced and killed it.