Chapter Summaries

The western factions divided Eastern Wilderness after the dynasty's destruction, while news spread of Meng Xiaoxiao's scheme and the Yang Clan's role in stopping her. As northwestern factions celebrated Yang Yuanhong and Yang Lingrui's Gold Ranking placements, two True Intent Perfection experts from Central Region arrived to investigate the demonic cultivators.

• Tiger Chasing Dynasty claimed the former Eastern Wilderness Third Prince's lands and arranged to move the dynasty's dragon vein, while Chuyun Pavilion took the remaining resources and Cloud Chu Dynasty took the rest of the territory.
• News of Eastern Wasteland Dynasty's destruction spread across the Northwest, and factions learned of Meng Xiaoxiao and Yuchi Yao's plan to refine unborn children into pills.
• Follow-up reports revealed that Yang Yuanhong and Yang Lingrui had stopped Meng Xiaoxiao and that Yang Yuanhong had killed her, astonishing northwestern cultivators with the pair's Gold Ranking placements.
• Master Mingye of Kudhan Temple and Ye Chenfeng of Lingxiao Dao Academy arrived from Central Region as True Intent Perfection experts to address the demonic cultivators' actions.

Master Mingye and Ye Chenfeng arrived at the Eastern Wilderness imperial capital to investigate whether the evil cultivators’ calamity had left anything unresolved. Master Mingye uncovered a hidden evil soul of immense power, and the chapter ended as it began to emerge from an interlayer.

• Ye Chenfeng and Master Mingye met Northwest cultivators outside the sealed imperial capital, where the visitors were awed by their power.
• Yang Yuanhong told Ye Chenfeng that the investigation was not too late while the calamity’s causes remained undiscovered.
• Master Mingye and Ye Chenfeng surveyed the imperial capital’s perimeter, and Master Mingye revealed that he had located an evil thing concealed in an interlayer.
• Master Mingye used Buddhist script to disturb the space above the imperial capital and draw out the hidden entity.
• Huo Yuan and the others sensed the entity’s wail and discovered its aura surpassed Meng Xiaoxiao’s, reaching the fifth level of True Intent and nearing the sixth.

Ye Chenfeng and Master Mingye helped eliminate the resentful blood infant that had been hidden in the folds of space and threatened Chen Huai'an’s future Dao Path. After Chen Yang secretly rewarded them for removing the danger, the two seniors left the Northwest with a new opportunity to advance their cultivation.

• Ye Chenfeng’s sword intent repaired the spatial cracks and revealed a resentful blood infant formed from the deaths of Eastern Wilderness’s people.
• The blood infant attacked the Yunchu Dynasty patriarch, but his Buddhist light drove it back before Ye Chenfeng destroyed it with his wooden sword.
• Master Mingye examined Meng Xiaoxiao and Yuchi Yao’s corpses and began to probe Yang Yuanhong, but Ye Chenfeng stopped him when an old cultivator appeared in the hall.
• The old cultivator, Chen Yang, sent clear radiance to Ye Chenfeng and Master Mingye, then vanished and returned Yang Yuanhong and the others to the hall.
• Ye Chenfeng cleared the imperial capital of the remaining filth, and Yang Yuanhong and the other Northwest cultivators departed.
• Ye Chenfeng and Master Mingye discovered Chen Yang’s gift could help them find a breakthrough, then left the Northwest and agreed not to mention the infant again.

After the Eastern Wilderness Dynasty fell, the Northwest powers debated whether the Yang Clan deserved recognition as the Northwest Yang Clan, while the clan focused on developing its strength. Chen Yang later received three subdued deities at Canglan Divine Palace.

• Donglai Sect, the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, Chuyun Pavilion, Yunchu Dynasty, Tianyou Dynasty, and Moliang Dynasty recognized the Yang Clan's status, while four factions withheld support or approval.
• Yingxian Gate questioned whether the Yang Clan could use the Northwest title before it had a True Intent Cultivator of its own.
• The Yang Clan declined outside visits and focused on strengthening itself after the Eastern Wilderness Dynasty's destruction.
• Huang Ying and Zhao Che entered the Second Layer Heaven domain of the Yang Family Sacred Land, and Chen Yang improved Zhao Che's aptitude.
• Chen Yang returned to Canglan Divine Palace and received the three deities Zi Xue, Yun Xiang, and Cui Zhu.

Chen Yang learned how Blood Sun Venerable God had rescued three gods from Blessed Lands and heard about their abilities and pasts. Yun Xiang’s spatial ability gave Chen Yang a possible path toward understanding spatial Daoist Magic, while the three gods joined the Divine Palace.

• Blood Sun Venerable God gave Chen Yang seven portions of Blood Refining Essence, but Chen Yang let him keep them as rewards for his subordinates.
• Ku Yun explained that Zi Xue had survived ten thousand years by sacrificing much of her cultivation to enter Snowy Wind Blessed Land.
• Ku Yun described Yun Xiang’s Mirage Echo ability, which let him create nested spaces in his body to contain resentment power.
• Chen Yang recognized Yun Xiang’s spatial ability as an opportunity to advance his understanding of spatial Daoist Magic.
• Ku Yun explained that Cui Zhu could stimulate plant growth and had nearly become frenzied after enduring resentment power in Green Bamboo Secret Realm.

Chen Yang assigned the new gods their duties, checked on his grotto-heaven and the sleeping Chen Huai'an, and found its weather formations nearing completion. He then visited Yang Yuanxing, whose transformed bloodline and aptitude had prepared him to begin condensing divine power and serve the Yang Clan's Lineage.

• Chen Yang assigned Zi Xue and Cui Zhu to Ku Yun, Yun Xiang to Liuli, ordered statues forged for Zi Xue and Cui Zhu, and gave Liuli the Phoenix Transformation inheritance to study.
• Chen Yang visited Shenwu in his grotto-heaven, praised his cultivation, and advised him to focus on cultivating his heart rather than deliberately changing his appearance.
• Shenwu reported that the grotto-heaven's weather formations were nearly complete, while Chen Yang confirmed that the sleeping Chen Huai'an remained healthy.
• Chen Yang found that Yang Yuanxing had integrated the Song Clan's Divine Dao source into his bloodline after refining all seven pills, greatly improving his aptitude.
• Chen Yang came to Chengzuo Peak to lead Yang Yuanxing in condensing divine power, and Yang Yuanxing vowed to devote himself to carrying the Lineage.

Chen Yang guided Yang Yuanxing in refining three blood cores, helping him overcome his stalled cultivation and revealing how divine power could support immortal-path training. Three days later, Yang Yuanxing reached the Seventh Level of Qi Gathering, and his cultivation efficiency neared that of Yang Lingrui and Lin Qiao.

• Chen Yang used divine power to guide Yang Yuanxing's spiritual qi and prepared him to absorb three blood cores.
• Chen Yang crushed the blood cores and directed their essences into Yang Yuanxing's Qi Meridians, qi palace, and other cultivation points.
• Yang Yuanxing's qi palace absorbed the essences, and he reached the Seventh Level of Qi Gathering with a stable foundation.
• Chen Yang realized that divine power could fill gaps in immortal-path cultivation for cultivators whose bloodlines held the source of the Divine Dao.
• After three days, Yang Yuanxing awoke with improved Qi Meridians and qi palace, and his spiritual-power conversion efficiency approached that of Yang Lingrui and Lin Qiao.

Yang Yuanxing thanked Chen Yang for transforming his body and accepted his future as the Yang Clan’s heir. Chen Yang then brought the completed statues of Zi Xue and Cui Zhu to Pine Mountain, where he surveyed the Yang Clan’s flourishing spiritual fields and bestowed Cui Zhu’s power on the West Leaf Spirit Grass.

• Yang Yuanxing thanked Chen Yang for helping him shed his mortal frame, and Chen Yang told him that his endurance had earned him the opportunity.
• Chen Yang summoned Yang Lingqing, gave her and Yang Yuanxing guidance about his future cultivation, and dismissed them.
• Bai Que and two other gods arrived with the completed divine statues of Zi Xue and Cui Zhu, and Chen Yang rewarded them.
• Chen Yang visited Yang Guanfeng at Pine Mountain and inspected the spiritual fields, including the He Family’s ancient willows and the Dao Academy’s mushrooms.
• Chen Yang found the West Leaf Spirit Grass, now at Essence Condensation Perfection, and used Cui Zhu’s divine power to bathe it in green light.

Chen Yang combined Cui Zhu’s evil-god power, Zi Xue’s snowfall, and a wisp of his own divine power to help the West Leaf Spirit Grass advance to the Spiritual Connection Realm. The plant reached five feet tall and gained a new cluster of leaves before bowing to Chen Yang in gratitude.

• Cui Zhu warned Chen Yang that his evil-god power made the West Leaf Spirit Grass’s advancement riskier, though success could bring greater gains.
• Chen Yang told Cui Zhu to continue, then used Zi Xue’s snowfall and purple qi to revive the grass as it weakened under Cui Zhu’s divine ability.
• The West Leaf Spirit Grass grew beyond its former height, but it began to run out of vital essence before its final cluster of leaves could form.
• Chen Yang supplied a wisp of pure divine power, allowing the final cluster to unfurl and the West Leaf Spirit Grass to reach the Spiritual Connection Realm.
• The West Leaf Spirit Grass swayed toward Chen Yang and bowed in salute after he congratulated it.

Chen Yang used Cui Zhu's divine ability to improve the spirit plants across Pine Mountain and arranged for her and Zi Xue's statues to be worshiped as Attendants. Six months later, Yang Lingqing sent Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao to represent the Yang Clan at the Tiger Chasing Crown Prince's wedding, marking the clan's first formal appearance as a top Northwest force.

• Chen Yang used Cui Zhu's growth-promoting power to improve Pine Mountain's spirit plants, then asked Yao Santu to make statues for ordinary people to worship.
• Over the next half year, the Yang Family Sacred Land remained stable as its members cultivated, trained, and managed clan affairs, while births and cultivation aptitude among the common people increased.
• Yang Yuanhong emerged from seclusion and met Lin Qiao, then brought her to Chengzuo Peak to meet Yang Lingqing.
• Yang Lingqing chose Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao to attend the Tiger Chasing Crown Prince's wedding, carrying a congratulatory gift and representing the Yang Clan's strength.
• Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao set out, and people in nearby barbarian cities saw his dragon form cross the sky and bowed in reverence.

On their wedding day, Murong Tianyang and Li Qingwan shared their feelings and prepared to become husband and wife. Their private conversation was interrupted when Murong Qiuhan sealed the hall and challenged Murong Tianyang’s ability to bear the nation’s fate.

• Murong Tianyang reassured Li Qingwan that he did not regret their marriage and spoke of the future they would share.
• Murong Tianyang placed a golden bracelet on Li Qingwan’s wrist, explaining that the Empress had secretly given it to him for their wedding.
• Li Qingwan said she would work hard to learn how to share the burdens of the nation with Murong Tianyang.
• Murong Qiuhan entered the hall, and Murong Tianyang moved to shield Li Qingwan as she approached.
• Murong Qiuhan isolated the hall from the outside world and unleashed her True Dragon Breath, declaring that she wanted to test whether Murong Tianyang could bear the nation’s fate.

Murong Tianyang and Li Qingwan fought Murong Qiuhan in a contest arranged to test their bond and resolve. After they joined forces and struck down her incarnation, Qiuhan yielded Tiger Chasing’s fortune to Tianyang and prepared to leave, planning to challenge the Dragon Lord of the Yang Clan before choosing where to go.

• Murong Tianyang and Li Qingwan joined forces against Murong Qiuhan, while Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai watched from outside the palace.
• Tianyang lent Li Qingwan his True Dragon Breath, empowering her cyan divine general and its black blade to destroy Qiuhan’s incarnation.
• Murong Qiuhan withdrew her spells after seeing Tianyang and Li Qingwan clasp hands, declaring that she had won her father’s bet by making them look ready to marry.
• Qiuhan returned the fortune she had borrowed from Tiger Chasing to Tianyang and urged him to rule well.
• Qiuhan left the palace, saying she would travel beyond Tiger Chasing after fighting the Dragon Lord of the Yang Clan.

Murong Qiuhan left Tiger Chasing to pursue her cultivation beyond the Northwest, while Huo Yuan explained that her departure did not mean she had abandoned her claim to the throne. The chapter ended with Jia Huarai understanding that she might return after growing strong enough to rule.

• Murong Qiuhan thanked Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai, then transformed into a dragon and flew eastward.
• Jia Huarai asked Huo Yuan why the Dynasty had allowed Murong Qiuhan to leave, and Huo Yuan explained that the Yang Clan’s rise made competing for the Northwest untenable.
• Huo Yuan said Murong Qiuhan could not submit to the Yang Clan without abandoning her Dao Path, so she had chosen to travel far away.
• Huo Yuan revealed that Murong Qiuhan had not given up the throne and would seek to return after building her strength.
• Jia Huarai understood that Murong Qiuhan’s journey could fulfill the Crown Prince, Tiger Chasing, and her future self.

Yang Yuanhong met Murong Qiuhan in the skies east of Chongtian City after she came to test her newly cultivated dragon body. After defeating her, he shared his Central Region travel experience and gave her a scale to help her study dragon-body cultivation at Penglai Palace, and Murong Qiuhan set out east.

• Yang Yuanhong sensed Murong Qiuhan approaching, gave Lin Qiao his Immortal Venerable's Stone Body Clone, and flew up to meet her.
• Murong Qiuhan used her three techniques to strengthen her aura and attacked Yang Yuanhong to gauge her strength.
• Yang Yuanhong stopped Murong Qiuhan with a single punch, collapsing her techniques and injuring her, then praised her achievements in the Northwest.
• Yang Yuanhong explained Central Region routes, powers, and recommended destinations to Murong Qiuhan.
• Yang Yuanhong gave Murong Qiuhan a dragon scale and directed her to Long Yuan at Penglai Palace to learn how to advance her dragon body.
• Murong Qiuhan thanked Yang Yuanhong and departed eastward while Yang Yuanhong returned toward the Tiger Chasing Imperial Capital.

As the Crown Prince’s wedding approached, guests in the Tiger Chasing Palace wondered whether the Northwest Yang Clan would attend, while Zi He reflected on his sister Li Qingwan’s marriage. Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao arrived just before the ceremony, impressing the assembled cultivators with their strength and talent.

• Guests speculated about the Yang Clan’s absence, and Zi He’s guard silenced a Moliang dignitary’s son when he gossiped about Yang Lingrui and Li Qingwan.
• Zi He considered how Li Qingwan had become the Crown Princess Consort and regretted that his plan to bring her and Yang Lingrui together had failed.
• Huo Yuan, Jia Huarai, and Emperor Murong Zhenlin appeared before the guests as the wedding neared.
• A powerful aura drew the assembled cultivators’ attention toward the eastern sky, where Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao approached the imperial capital.
• Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao greeted Murong Zhenlin and offered congratulations on the Crown Prince’s wedding.

At the Crown Prince Murong Tianyang and Li Qingwan’s wedding, Yang Yuanhong studied the couple and realized why Murong Qiuhan had left Tiger Chasing. Outside the capital, Shen Yue watched Li Qingwan marry, then faced his teacher Tao Yuan and accepted that his feelings were a destined trial on his Dao Path.

• Yang Yuanhong presented a mysterious congratulatory gift from the Yang Clan, and Jia Huarai sensed powerful fluctuations within its unusual box.
• Murong Tianyang and Li Qingwan emerged for their wedding ceremony, and Lin Qiao admired Li Qingwan’s beauty.
• Yang Yuanhong assessed Murong Tianyang and inferred that Murong Qiuhan had left to pursue her ambition while Tiger Chasing secured its rule.
• Yang Yuanhong noticed Shen Yue watching the wedding from a green mountain outside the capital, and Murong Zhenlin and Huo Yuan recognized him.
• Shen Yue watched Li Qingwan smile, removed the green mountain, and let himself fall before halting just above the ground.
• Tao Yuan asked whether Shen Yue had found enough peace, and Shen Yue said his emotional attachment was an unavoidable trial on his Dao Path.

Shen Yue left to travel, and Jia Huarai sent him five strands of Sword Qi to protect him. Jia Huarai then urged Tao Yuan to enter the True Self Cave Heaven, where Tao Yuan crossed his tribulation and received the title “Mediocre and Clumsy.”

• Shen Yue told Tao Yuan he wanted to travel and departed from the green mountain.
• Jia Huarai sent five strands of Sword Qi after Shen Yue, who stored them in a booklet and continued on his way.
• Tao Yuan predicted Shen Yue would visit the Yang Clan and Ruyi Immortal Valley before traveling through the Central Region of Canglan.
• Jia Huarai told Tao Yuan that the Emperor had wagered his True Person title would be “Mediocre and Clumsy.”
• Tao Yuan entered the True Self Cave Heaven, crossed his tribulation, and obtained the title “Mediocre and Clumsy.”
• Yang Yuanliu recorded Tao Yuan’s breakthrough and Murong Tianyang’s marriage to Li Qingwan in the Archives journal.

At the Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s wedding celebration, Yang Yuanhong impressed the gathered factions with his composure, while Lin Qiao defeated ten challengers in succession to demonstrate the Yang Clan’s strength. As the crowd prepared to leave, Yang Yuanhong stepped onto the platform and invited someone to fight him.

• Yang Yuanhong handled the visiting cultivators’ attempts to probe him with ease, impressing them with the Yang Clan’s cultivation of talent.
• After Yingxian Gate proposed a sparring match for Lin Qiao, the Tiger Chasing Dynasty provided a platform and Huo Yuan and a True Person from Donglai Sect oversaw the proceedings.
• Lin Qiao defeated Zhang Tianhao of Yingxian Gate in five moves, then exhausted Wang Hai with her earth arts.
• Lin Qiao won all ten of her matches against challengers from different forces and received Yang Yuanhong’s praise.
• Yang Yuanhong stepped onto the platform and asked which cultivator would fight him first.

After Yang Yuanhong’s challenge went unanswered, Yingxian Gate’s Guardian Elder Yu Zhen agreed to face him and moved the discussion beyond Chongtian City. The low-realm cultivators left behind reflected on how to protect their Dao hearts when confronted with a peer whose talent seemed impossibly distant.

• The Spiritual Connection cultivators hesitated to answer Yang Yuanhong’s challenge, and the gathered factions looked to Yingxian Gate to act first.
• Yu Zhen decided to face Yang Yuanhong, explaining that an ordinary Spiritual Connection cultivator would not be enough to reveal the Dragon Lord’s strength.
• Yu Zhen proposed that they battle beyond the city, and Huo Yuan transported Yang Yuanhong, Yu Zhen, and the other senior cultivators away.
• A young cultivator said he was not yet ready to witness Yang Yuanhong’s overwhelming brilliance without risking his own Dao heart.
• The cultivators below agreed that they should walk their own Dao Paths steadily rather than lose heart by comparing themselves with Yang Yuanhong.

Yang Yuanhong defeated Peide True Person Yu Zhen in two punches during a Dao discussion, then invited multiple cultivators to challenge him together. Eight True Persons gathered to fight him, leaving Yang Yuanhong ready for a more demanding battle.

• Huo Yuan and a True Intent cultivator transported the assembled cultivators outside Chongtian City and sealed off the fighting grounds.
• Yang Yuanhong struck Yu Zhen so quickly that Yu Zhen used two incarnations to block his first punch and activated Yingxian Gate's secret art against the second.
• Yu Zhen conceded after Yang Yuanhong shattered his immortal aura, and he told the Yingxian Gate cultivators that Yang Yuanhong had shown mercy.
• Yang Yuanhong invited the gathered True Persons to fight him together, and Qin Mang, Wen Shunnian, Shi Tai, Chen Nan, and Hu Yanshan accepted.
• Sikong Shang, Ji Ci, and Tao Yuan joined the five challengers from Chongtian City, while Chen Yang judged the eight cultivators strong enough to give Yang Yuanhong practice.