Chapter Summaries

After learning the Yang Family would relocate under the Dongfang Clan’s protection, Tiger Chasing made lavish efforts to preserve its ties with them. Yang Lingrui accepted the gifts but refused the imperial seal, while Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu remained in Tiger Chasing to maintain the family’s connections; Yang Lingshu returned to the Myriad Transformation Sect, relieving Xiao Yize of its expected burden.

• Huo Yuan reported Dongfang Zonggan’s message to the Tiger Chasing Emperor, who decided to repair relations with the Yang Family.
• The Tiger Chasing Emperor and Consort Xi offered the Yang Family abundant gifts, an entire Spirit Crystal vein, and the Broken-Fang Golden Seal.
• Yang Lingrui accepted the material gifts but returned the seal, signaling that the Yang Family and Tiger Chasing would be independent forces that could still cooperate.
• Chen Yang and the Yang Family decided that Yang Lingshu would remain in the Myriad Transformation Sect and Yang Yuanliu would continue serving the Dynasty.
• Yang Lingshu returned to the Myriad Transformation Sect, delighting Mo Xian and the sect elders and easing Xiao Yize’s worries about inheriting the sect’s burden.

Yang Yuanliu returned to the Archives and was appointed Deputy Inspector of the Immortal Patrol Division and Deputy Archivist. He arranged a full renovation of the Archives, honoring Zou Zhongyi’s dedication and leaving the old scholar deeply moved.

• Zou Zhongyi organized the Archives’ historical records and reminisced about teaching Yang Yuanliu, relieved that his former pupil had escaped danger but saddened by his departure.
• Yang Yuanliu returned to the Archives, greeted Zou Zhongyi, and asked to be assigned duties.
• An imperial decree appointed Yang Yuanliu Deputy Inspector of the Immortal Patrol Division and Deputy Archivist, while allowing him to remain standing as the other officials knelt.
• Yang Yuanliu asked the Archives staff to pack the records so Dynasty craftsmen could renovate the aging buildings and furnishings.
• Zou Zhongyi realized Yang Yuanliu had arranged the repairs in response to his rejected memorials and thanked him with emotion.

Instructor Han ended a month of intensive training and sent the recruits on an interception mission, then shared a final farewell with Fang Xiao before leaving Tiger Chasing. After his departure, Fang Xiao devoted herself to military strategy but sometimes returned alone to the hill where they had parted.

• Instructor Han trained new soldiers and cultivators with specialized formations, then arranged for them to join an interception mission against an Eastern Wilderness infiltration unit.
• The recruits celebrated their first military order while Han Wang watched them quietly from a hidden corner.
• Fang Xiao joined Han Wang on a hill, where they discussed his departure from the frontier army and the danger facing the recruits.
• Fang Xiao gave Han Wang a sachet and asked whether he had recommended her for her talent; Han Wang affirmed that he had.
• Fang Xiao and Han Wang said farewell, and after Han Wang left, she focused on military strategy and occasionally returned to the hill to drink alone.

Chen Huaien demonstrated his alchemy skills to Befeng City’s factions, proving his ability and revealing their secret techniques before departing aboard an immortal vessel. Three months later, the Pill Workshop’s managing cultivator received a promotion to the Central Region as Chen Huaien’s promised repayment.

• Befeng City’s alchemy factions suspected Chen Huaien of posing as a Central Region expert to obtain their secret techniques, and the Pill Workshop’s managing cultivator planned to test him.
• Chen Huaien invited the factions to watch him refine pills, successfully producing Qi Gathering and Core Formation pills while using several local secret arts.
• Chen Huaien refined a batch of premium-quality Early-Spiritual Connection healing pills using the secret arts of every family, then thanked the factions and announced his departure.
• A vast immortal vessel arrived above Befeng City, and Chen Huaien boarded it; its arrival convinced the gathered factions that he had truly come from a great Central Region sect.
• Three months after Chen Huaien left, the Pill Workshop’s managing cultivator received an appointment recalling him to the Central Region for advancement.

Chen Yang learned the blood jade’s history and absorbed the Exotic Stone within it, awakening a divine ability that used soul and blood to improve cultivation aptitude. The ability formed a crimson blood pool among his soul fires, and Chen Yang discovered it could temper and nourish cultivators in return.

• Chen Yang hid his true body in Yang Lingrui’s sleeve, while his avatars guarded Yang Yuanliu and traveled with Yang Lingshu to the Myriad Transformation Sect.
• Chen Yang absorbed the blood jade and received memories revealing how the Su Family had used the Exotic Stone to refine the dead and pass their cultivation insights to descendants.
• Chen Yang understood that Su Dingcang had sacrificed his own life to preserve Su Lingyun, continuing the Su Family’s tradition of giving everything for the next generation.
• The Exotic Stone’s power became a divine ability inside Chen Yang and condensed into a blood pool beneath his soul fires.
• Chen Yang discovered that the blood pool could use soul and blood to temper cultivators and improve their cultivation aptitude.

Chen Yang sent Liuli to study whether she could combine the Blood Jade Body Tempering divine ability with her Spirit Tempering Divine Technique. The Yang Sacred Clan reached the Barbarian Lands, where Dongfang Zonggan mistook the sacred land and its unusual cultivators for the work of Yang Yuanhong’s hidden master and was astonished by its construction.

• Chen Yang summoned Liuli and gave her the Blood Jade Body Tempering divine ability to study and combine with her existing techniques.
• After nearly a month of travel, the Donglai Sect’s immortal vessel reached the Barbarian Lands, where Bai Que, Cang Jue, and Huang Ding welcomed the Yang Sacred Clan.
• The three archbishops explained that the gods and the Venerable Lord had blessed them with their cultivation, and Dongfang Zonggan assumed the Venerable Lord was Yang Yuanhong.
• Dongfang Zonggan interpreted the Barbarian Lands as a Peach Blossom Cave Heaven created by Yang Yuanhong’s hidden master to explore unconventional Dao paths.
• Dongfang Zonggan escorted the Yang Family to the sacred land and recognized its extraordinary design and masterful Hundred Arts Techniques, praising its creator.

After the Yang Family settled in its new homeland, Yang Yuanhong returned from the Central Region in the form of a black dragon, astonishing the gathered cultivators. He knelt before Wu Tong and announced that he had completed his task and come home.

• The Yang Family mortals arrived at their new homes and fertile fields, grateful to the Main Family for their blessings.
• Yang Guanfeng and the Yang Family cultivators thanked Dongfang Zonggan and the Donglai Sect for escorting them safely to the sacred land.
• Yang Yuanhong’s black Dragon Shadow approached the immortal boat, and the Donglai Sect cultivators were awed by his aura.
• Dongfang Zonggan recognized Yang Yuanhong, while Yang Guanfeng, Elder Yu, Yang Lingrui, and Yang Lingqing celebrated his return.
• Wu Tong thanked Dongfang Yingcai for her kindness to the Yang Family and reassured her that the family regarded her as one of their own.
• Yang Yuanhong descended onto the immortal boat, knelt before Wu Tong, and told her he had returned after accomplishing his task.

Yang Yuanhong reunited with his family and brought his young siblings on an exhilarating flight through the clouds, inspiring them to pursue cultivation. He then reunited with Dongfang Yingcai, offered her an apology gift, and discovered she had saved two plain Sweet Cakes to share with him.

• Wu Tong embraced Yang Yuanhong as the Yang Family gathered to welcome him home, and he greeted his relatives and companions.
• Yang Yuanhong carried Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao through the sky in dragon form, showing them thunder and the Divine Wind; the children vowed to train hard.
• Yang Yuanhong thanked Dongfang Zonggan for protecting the Yang Family, and Dongfang Zonggan hinted that another parting was near.
• Yang Yuanhong gave Dongfang Yingcai a packet of four special Sweet Cakes as an apology for deceiving her, but she teased him by saying she disliked every flavor.
• Dongfang Yingcai opened a box of two plain Sweet Cakes preserved for years and offered one to Yang Yuanhong to taste.

Yang Yuanhong settled the Yang Family’s former homelands, Pine Mountain and Sanglu Valley, then promised Dongfang Yingcai he would come to Ziyun Mountain once he attained true intent. After she left, he reunited with two mischievous young relatives and explained that he intended to pursue a proper marriage with Yingcai through both clans.

• Yang Yuanhong recognized the preserved sweet cake Dongfang Yingcai showed him and shared a tender exchange with her before Dongfang Zonggan asked about settling the Yang Family’s old sites.
• Yang Yuanhong guided the immortal vessel to a basin where Dongfang Zonggan restored Pine Mountain, then Yang Yuanhong and Wu Tong paid respects at Yang Linghu’s grave.
• Dongfang Zonggan settled Sanglu Valley among the surrounding mountains, completing the relocation of the Yang Family’s two former homelands.
• Yang Yuanhong promised Dongfang Yingcai he would go to Ziyun Mountain after attaining true intent, and she said she would wait for him.
• After Dongfang Yingcai departed, Yang Yuanhong caught Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao spying in a tree, teased them, and walked down the mountain with them.
• Yang Yuanhong told the children that he and Dongfang Yingcai needed to follow the proper arranged-marriage process between their clans, and urged them to cultivate so they could attend his wedding.

After the Donglai Sect helped the Yang Family, Chen Yang invited Dongfang Zonggan and two Donglai Sect True Intent cultivators to meet him and rewarded them with a mystical technique. The three returned to the immortal vessel in awe, and Dongfang Zonggan discovered that the gift had loosened his long-standing cultivation bottleneck.

• Chen Yang used his consciousness to invite Dongfang Zonggan and the two Donglai Sect True Intent cultivators to his Lonely Peak Under the Night.
• Dongfang Zonggan and the two cultivators accepted Chen Yang's thanks and explained that they had aided the Yang Family to repay Yang Yuanhong's kindness.
• Chen Yang bestowed a mystical technique on all three, telling them it could cleanse the body and nourish the spirit.
• Chen Yang's figure became a stone statue, leading Dongfang Zonggan to believe he had demonstrated a Mystic Insight cultivator's life-into-death method.
• Dongfang Zonggan sealed the encounter's secrecy with the two cultivators and realized the gift had loosened his bottleneck toward the Mystic Insight Realm.

After arriving in the Yang Family Sacred Land, Yang Lingqing and the other stewards assigned its five heaven domains and organized the settlement and cultivation of its people. He Shengyuan and Liu Zihao completed the first round of mortal resettlement and formations, while Chen Yang reflected on the Yang Family’s enduring care for its people.

• Yang Lingqing’s family assigned the sacred land’s five heaven domains to mortals, cultivators, artisans, direct-line members, and high-realm cultivators, naming peak masters and settling key figures at their posts.
• Yang Lingqing appointed He Shengyuan supervisor of secular affairs in the First Layer Heaven, while Zhao Qi became master of Yangyuan Peak and Chen Huaien became master of Tiangong Peak.
• He Shengyuan reviewed the family registers and merit ledgers, then arranged the First Layer Heaven’s residents into five categories and settled them in an interlaced pattern.
• Liu Zihao surveyed the sacred land with a cloud vessel and spent a month establishing formations for the First Layer Heaven before setting up cultivation formations in the Second Layer Heaven.
• Chen Yang recognized the Yang Family’s continued concern for its people and said that the family’s good deeds had earned it the blessings it now enjoyed.

Yang Lingqing organized a Yang Family delegation to visit the nearby barbarians and build relations with them. As the delegation left the Sacred Land, high-ranking barbarian officials and a vast welcoming party prepared to receive them.

• Yang Lingqing held the first council meeting in West Heavy Heaven and assigned ten cultivators to visit the barbarians.
• He Shengyuan submitted a roster of 172 ordinary people for the visit, and Yang Lingqing revised the selections.
• Three days later, the delegation boarded a cloud boat, accompanied by one of Chen Yang's incarnations hidden in Yang Lingrui's sleeve.
• Lorraine, Mont, and Mosato discussed whether the Venerable Lord would appear and recalled his past aid to the barbarians.
• Lorraine and the other barbarian officials went to greet the Yang Family cloud boats as they emerged from the Sacred Land.

Yang Lingrui and Lorraine welcomed the Yang Family’s relocation and explored ways for the two peoples to cooperate through trade and cultivation arts. After the Yang Family demonstrated its Hundred Arts, Yang Lingrui offered their four technique inheritances as payment for the land, and Lorraine accepted on behalf of the Barbarians.

• Yang Lingrui and Lorraine exchanged formal greetings before leading their people to a nearby Barbarian State City for a welcoming feast.
• The Yang Family and Barbarian citizens assessed one another, then explored local customs and discovered opportunities for mutually beneficial trade.
• Chen Huaien, Liu Zihao, and Yao Santu demonstrated cultivation arts while Chen Yang secretly refined talismans for the Barbarian cultivators.
• Barbarian military officers sought ways to counter the Hundred Arts used by the foreign Dynasty, whose forces had rejected a ceasefire and intensified their western offensive.
• Lorraine and Yang Lingrui discussed an exchange of cultivation methods, and Yang Lingrui offered the Yang Family’s four inheritances as payment for the land.
• Lorraine accepted the offer and promised to remember the Yang Family Patriarch’s generosity.

The Yang Family and the barbarians held a series of sparring matches, with Xue Qingluan’s five consecutive victories showcasing the Holy Clan’s strength. The final and most anticipated duel began between Yang Lingrui and Mont above the clouds, and their opening attacks collided in a spectacular storm of wind and black flame.

• Zhao Qi lost to a barbarian prodigy, Yuan Cheng drew with his opponent after holding back, and Dai Wei defeated his opponent in the third Qi Gathering match.
• Xue Qingluan defeated five Blood Pattern Realm barbarian cultivators in succession, alarming the barbarian leaders.
• The barbarians sent Mont to face a Spiritual Connection cultivator, and the Yang Family changed its lineup so Yang Lingrui would fight him.
• Yang Lingrui and Mont began their duel above the sea of clouds, unleashing their Divine Wind and black-flame techniques against each other.
• Their summoned Ghost King and Black Flame Divine Official clashed with axe and sword, sending violent waves of spiritual energy across the sky.

Yang Lingrui and Mont ended their fierce sparring match by mutual agreement, and the Yang Family’s invitation to the barbarians concluded successfully. Before departing, Yang Lingrui invited Lorraine and the barbarians to visit the holy land, where he would present them with the Hundred Arts Inheritance.

• Mont and Yang Lingrui enlarged their manifested entities and clashed with sword and axe, then stopped before either could push the fight to a lethal conclusion.
• Mont and Yang Lingrui praised one another’s spellcraft and cultivation, formally ending their sparring match and the three rounds of Dao discussion.
• The Yang Family and the barbarians celebrated together at the City Lord’s Manor, and Yang Lingrui and Lorraine welcomed the successful first meeting between their peoples.
• Mont asked Yang Lingrui how he ranked among his peers in the Yang Sacred Clan, and Yang Lingrui said he ranked sixth.
• Yang Lingrui invited Lorraine and the barbarians to visit the holy land and promised to give them four portions of the Hundred Arts Inheritance.

After returning from the Barbarian State City, the Yang Family prepared its first grand sacrifice in the Sacred Land, where Chen Yang received Liuli’s completed aptitude-enhancing technique and gained prayers that brought him close to the mid-rank deity threshold. The sacrifice ended with the children gathering at Yangyuan Peak for their aptitude test, whose participants He Shengyuan reported to Senior Xue and Formation Master Liu.

• The Yang Family returned from the Barbarian State City with gifts and news that encouraged families across the First Layer Heaven to prepare for trade with the barbarians.
• Liuli presented Chen Yang with a Dao Integration technique that could repair slightly damaged Qi Meridians in mortal children, and Chen Yang rewarded her.
• The Yang Family held its first grand sacrifice in the Sacred Land, and Chen Yang received prayers from across the West Heavy Heaven Domain and blessed the family in return.
• The Yang Family sent its children to Yangyuan Peak for aptitude testing, where He Shengyuan reported that 1,826 children had arrived.
• Senior Xue and Formation Master Liu descended on cloud boats as the aptitude examination was about to begin.

The Yang Clan main-family children underwent aptitude testing on Yangyuan Peak, where Yang Bowen qualified but most of the first sixty-five children did not. Yang Xing showed an unusual temperament despite a flaw in his final Qi Meridian node, and Yang Lingqing questioned him about how he would face being denied the path of cultivation.

• Yang Lingqing and Zhao Qi brought the ninety-six children to Yangyuan Peak and began the tests with Yang Bowen.
• Zhao Qi found Yang Bowen’s Qi Meridians complete, and Yang Bowen joined the group waiting to enter immortal cultivation.
• More than sixty children failed the aptitude test, while Yang Lingqing observed their reactions for signs of strong character.
• Yang Xing tested smoothly through eleven Qi Meridian nodes, but his final node had a break that stopped the spiritual energy.
• Yang Lingqing summoned Yang Xing for a personal examination and asked how he would respond if he could not cultivate.
• Yang Xing said he would accept returning to mortal life and believed mortals had their own paths and trials.

Yang Lingqing tested children for cultivation aptitude, and Yang Xing impressed the cultivators with his insight and composure. The testing ended with several promising recruits, while the largest group of ordinary families produced no one with Dao Entry aptitude.

• Yang Xing explained why he had spoken boldly to the Immortal Masters, earning Yang Lingqing and the other cultivators' appreciation.
• Yang Lingqing sent the remaining main-family children through testing, and Liang Chujie and Liang Chuying qualified despite minor Qi Meridian defects.
• Yang Lingqing identified Lin Qiao as a gifted but timid candidate and had her observe Zhao Qi to ease her stage fright.
• The testing of 825 children from old and newly relocated households yielded no one with Dao Entry aptitude.

The five children discussed cultivation arts and spells, and Lin Qiao explained the different paths she had heard about. They shared what they hoped to cultivate, while Yang Xing declared that his descendants would make the Yang Family flourish across every path.

• Yang Xing asked Yang Bowen what spells they might cultivate, and Lin Qiao explained the difference between cultivation arts and spells.
• Lin Qiao described the cultivation arts and spell paths she knew, including the Five Elements, wind, lightning, and the Confucian and martial arts.
• Chu Jie chose wind arts, Chu Ying chose water spells, Yang Bowen deferred to the family’s arrangements, and Lin Qiao said she wanted to cultivate the same spells as the Patriarch.
• Yang Bowen asked Yang Xing what he wanted to learn, and Yang Xing admitted he wanted to learn every kind of spell.
• Yang Xing said that although he could not learn them all himself, generations of Yang Family cultivators would let a hundred flowers bloom and leave no stone unturned.

Xue Qingluan brought five children to Chengzuo Peak, where Chen Yang tempered their bodies and restored their cultivation aptitudes. Yang Lingqing assigned them to Dao Entry training, leaving Chen Yang hopeful that one might inherit the Yang Family’s talisman arts.

• Xue Qingluan presented Yang Bowen, Yang Xing, Liang Chujie, Liang Chuying, and Lin Qiao to Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu, then gave them body-tempering pills.
• Chen Yang sent divine power from Shenlin Peak to temper the five children and repair the deficient Qi Meridians and nodes of Yang Xing and the Liang Siblings.
• Lin Qiao’s aptitude became exceptional, provoking the last Spirit Pearl within Chen Yang, while the other four also gained the ability to cultivate.
• Yang Lingqing assigned Yang Bowen and Yang Xing to train with Elder Yu, the Liang Siblings to train under Zhao Qi, and Lin Qiao to train under him at Chengzuo Peak.
• Chen Yang looked forward to seeing whether any of the five would show talent in the hundred arts and inherit the Yang Family’s talisman-crafting tradition.