Chapter Summaries

Tiger Chasing’s long-prepared strength overwhelmed the Eastern Wilderness as its Princes rushed troops to the western front. Xiao Yize defeated three Eastern Wilderness cultivators and revealed that Tiger Chasing had at least five others as strong as him.

• The Eastern Wilderness Princes redirected their forces west after realizing Tiger Chasing had seized two thousand li of territory and become a formidable power.
• Tiger Chasing’s decades of sacrifices and preparation allowed it to exploit the Eastern Wilderness’s internal conflict and expand across its lands.
• Three Twelfth Floor Qi Gathering cultivators cornered Xiao Yize and offered him a place under their Prince, but he refused.
• Xiao Yize summoned his Wood Dragon Wandering Spirit and destroyed all three cultivators’ Spirit Manifestations.
• Xiao Yize killed the three men and declared that, besides himself, Tiger Chasing had at least five others as strong as he was.

Yang Lingrui endured more than half a month of pursuit by twelve Eastern Wilderness cultivators, using his large qi sea and talismans to reach a forest prepared as an ambush. The cultivators followed him inside, where the forest swallowed their Spirit Manifestations and trapped them.

• Twelve Eastern Wilderness cultivators pursued Yang Lingrui, who had already killed two of them but was badly injured.
• A beast-taming cultivator used Yang Lingrui’s blood and a gray-furred rat to track him after he escaped into a sandstorm.
• Yang Lingrui followed tree markers planted by He Shenglai, leading his pursuers toward a forest while maintaining his speed with his large reserves of spiritual power.
• The Eastern Wilderness cultivators followed Yang Lingrui into the forest and lost the use of their divine senses.
• The four team leaders summoned their Spirit Manifestations, but the forest devoured them, revealing Yang Lingrui had lured the pursuers into a trap.

Yang Lingrui and He Shenglai were pursued by an Eastern Wilderness Core Formation cultivator, but Hong Yao killed him after He Shenglai used Yang Lingrui as bait. The group claimed the merit for the first Core Formation kill in the eastward advance, and Hong Yao asked Yang Lingrui about the Yang Family’s cultivation of a secret treasury technique.

• Yang Lingrui and He Shenglai fled the forest after killing ten Eastern Wilderness cultivators, expecting the enemy to send stronger pursuers.
• A white-haired Eastern Wilderness cultivator used his true essence and a spiritual treasure to trap them, but He Shenglai’s treasures protected them briefly.
• The old cultivator recognized He Shenglai’s valuable wood-attributed treasures and tried to capture both men, but Hong Yao appeared as red lightning and killed him.
• He Shenglai revealed that he had used Yang Lingrui as bait to lure out a Core Formation cultivator for Hong Yao to ambush, and they agreed to split the merit.
• Hong Yao recognized Yang Lingrui as the Yellow Wind Ghost and asked whether anyone in the Yang Family had begun cultivating the secret treasury technique; Yang Lingrui said no suitable candidate had been found.

Hong Yao defeated three Eastern Wilderness Core Formation Cultivators and slew one, marking a turning point that brought large-scale Core Formation battles to the front lines. As the fighting grew more dangerous for ordinary troops, Zhao Qi led his unit to safety by predicting where a deadly attack would land.

• Hong Yao fought Hua Maochen and two other Eastern Wilderness Core Formation Cultivators, then withdrew them when Tiger Chasing reinforcements arrived.
• Three days later, news that Hong Yao had slain a Core Formation Cultivator spread through both armies, and Core Formation Cultivators began fighting on the front lines in force.
• Zhao Qi, serving as deputy commander, ordered his unit—including the five members of the Yang Family—to retreat east across the battlefield.
• Scarlet flames struck the area the Tiger Chasing troops had just left, incinerating the Eastern Wilderness soldiers and cultivators who had taken it.

Zhao Qi led the Tiger Chasing force into a hidden cave to survive the rain of fireballs, then rallied the survivors to seize a mountain pass. They ambushed and annihilated the Eastern Wilderness reinforcements, earning merit and forcing the enemy to withdraw from two nearby peaks.

• Zhao Qi found a hidden cave behind a boulder and led the cultivators and soldiers inside as fireballs struck the mountain.
• The commanding general sealed the cave entrance, leaving nearly a third of the soldiers outside to die in the firestorm.
• After the rain of fire stopped, Zhao Qi urged the survivors to set aside their grief and occupy the mountain pass before reinforcements arrived.
• The Tiger Chasing force ambushed and annihilated the unwary Eastern Wilderness troops at the pass.
• The Eastern Wilderness withdrew its camps from two nearby peaks, and Zhao Qi's group earned another merit.

After Zhao Qi reached the Third Level of Qi Gathering, Yang Lingshu recruited him to lead a mission designed to expose traitors within Tiger Chasing. Meanwhile, Chen Yang broke through to Origin Core and entered a mysterious Star Sea Space, where he found a ruined hall and five ancient stone chairs.

• Zhao Qi received a Spirit Nurturing Pill for his battle merits and advanced to the Third Level of Qi Gathering.
• Yang Lingshu met Zhao Qi at the Central Region garrison and explained that he would serve as bait in a mission to draw out traitors.
• The commander assigned Zhao Qi to lead the team while Yang Lingshu disguised himself as an ordinary cultivator, with Xiao Yize hidden as a second lure.
• Yang Lingrui felt Chen Yang's transformed consciousness nourish his divine sense and realized that Immortal Venerable had succeeded.
• Chen Yang used insights from Li Yuande's Method of Weaving Cores to break through to Origin Core, then entered a Star Sea Space and approached a ruined hall containing five stone chairs.

Chen Yang awakened a jade pagoda that refined his accumulated power of prayer and returned a new power, causing an unprecedented auspicious glow across Canglan Prefecture. Meanwhile, Tiger Chasing Emperor ordered the Day of Body Burning, where Murong Tianyang watched three imperial children be sacrificed as kindling, leaving Murong Changhao pleading for his life.

• Chen Yang sat on the central stone chair, revealed a towering jade pagoda, and let it absorb his accumulated power of prayer.
• The jade pagoda refined the power and returned a new force to Chen Yang, triggering an auspicious glow that cultivators across Canglan Prefecture sensed.
• The Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor reported the anomaly to Tiger Chasing Emperor, who then ordered him to bring Murong Tianyang for the Day of Body Burning.
• Murong Tianyang carried Murong Qingyue to the lava and threw her in, and Murong Erxin followed after asking him to make Tiger Chasing supreme over Azure Waves.
• Murong Changhao begged the Grand Preceptor and Murong Tianyang to spare him, insisting that he could reach Condensed Essence and refusing to become kindling.

After Murong Changhao died in the lava pool, the Tiger Chasing Emperor prepared the eastern campaign and praised Consort Xi’s service. Chen Yang completed Essence Condensation, shared true essence with the Yang family members, and discovered that his new inner cave-heaven could sustain living things.

• Murong Tianyang confronted Murong Changhao over his failure to achieve Essence Condensation, and Murong Changhao plunged into the lava pool and died.
• The three descendants ignited the golden dragon carcass, and the Tiger Chasing Emperor emerged from the flames and asked about Consort Xi’s position.
• The Imperial Preceptor reported Tiger Chasing’s military deployments, and the Emperor ordered that Consort Xi govern the Eastern Wilderness after the campaign.
• Chen Yang returned from the Star Sea Space to the Yang family ancestral hall and infused Yang Lingqing, Yang Yuanliu, and Yang Yuanhong with true essence.
• Chen Yang tested his new Ability to Command Wind, then discovered that his Essence Condensation breakthrough had turned his inner White Space into a cave-heaven.
• Chen Yang used true essence to create sunlight, rain, dew, and breezes in the cave-heaven, allowing transplanted vegetation to grow there.

Chen Yang prepared the Forbidden Ground for Yang Yuanhong’s Dao Entry and used the Star Palace Jade Tower to purify the power of prayers. Yang Yuanhong began cultivating the Black Snake Swallowing Cloud Art, rapidly advanced to the First Level of Qi Gathering, and unleashed a Blood Fiend Demonic Shadow into the heavens.

• Chen Yang reviewed his improved abilities and discovered that the Star Palace Jade Tower had stripped negative elements from the power of prayers.
• Chen Yang told Yang Lingqing that the Immortal Venerable had permitted Yang Yuanhong to enter the Dao ahead of time.
• Yang Lingqing took Yang Yuanliu from the ancestral hall and activated the Forbidden Ground’s formations while Chen Yang concealed the coming disturbance.
• Yang Yuanhong received the Black Snake Swallowing Cloud Art that his father had obtained at the cost of his life, then memorized it and began chanting its incantation.
• Chen Yang supplied Yang Yuanhong with spiritual energy and sent mysterious power into his forming Qi Mansion, allowing him to reach the First Level of Qi Gathering in less than a quarter hour.
• Yang Yuanhong began absorbing spiritual energy at an astonishing pace, and a Blood Fiend Demonic Shadow rose from his body into the heavens.

Chen Yang guarded Yang Yuanhong through Dao Entry, repeatedly refining and suppressing his cultivation until it reached perfect completion, then helped him subdue his Blood Fiend Demonic Shadow. After concealing Yang Yuanhong’s true strength, Chen Yang turned to repay the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass by helping it advance.

• Chen Yang pinned the Blood Fiend Demonic Shadow phenomenon in place while Yang Yuanhong’s cultivation surged.
• Chen Yang repeatedly raised and suppressed Yang Yuanhong’s realm until it settled at the Third Level of Qi Gathering, and passed on Yang Linghu’s insights into the Brute Force Art.
• Yang Yuanhong broke free of the phenomenon serpent, threatened it into submission, and returned it to his body as a tattoo.
• Yang Yuanhong thanked Chen Yang for protecting him, and Chen Yang concealed his true cultivation before summoning Yang Lingqing to arrange Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• Chen Yang scattered a fragment of mysterious force over the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass, helping it advance to Late Qi Gathering.

Chen Yang finished establishing the Stone Grotto-Heaven’s basic ecosystem and began cultivating a phantom clone so he could travel without risking his true body. After half a month and 489 streams of Heaven and Earth True Essence, he completed the clone, which Yang Lingqing identified through her connection to him.

• Chen Yang empowered the Four-leaf Spirit-Nesting Grass, then spent ten days devouring land throughout Pine Mountain to lay the foundation for his grotto-heaven.
• Chen Yang stabilized the Stone Grotto-Heaven with more than forty streams of true essence and recognized that it needed treasures and other arts to sustain itself independently.
• Chen Yang considered traveling beyond Pine Mountain to acquire the resources and skills needed to develop the grotto-heaven, but decided he needed someone to guard the family and a way to protect his true body.
• Chen Yang chose the phantom clone technique from the Mayfly Phantom Clone Art and cultivated it using Yang Lingrui’s insights.
• Yang Yuanliu discovered two identical Immortal Venerables in the ancestral hall, and Yang Lingqing used her Spirit Pearl to identify the left-hand stone as Chen Yang’s clone.
• Chen Yang summoned his completed clone and began testing its abilities.

Chen Yang sent a clone on a distant journey, helped Gao Hui break through, and headed toward a Hundred Artifacts Tower mine to learn forging techniques. Meanwhile, Yang Lingshu and Qi Wei completed a battlefield mission and exposed an Eastern Wilderness traitor as their team prepared to retreat.

• Chen Yang tested his clone’s abilities, told Yang Lingqing he would travel, and left the ancestral hall to inspect Gao Hui and the Yang Family’s vassals.
• Chen Yang gave Gao Hui a piece of mysterious power that shattered his inner heart beast and helped him reach the ninth level of Qi Gathering.
• Chen Yang traveled toward the Hundred Artifacts Tower branch academy and entered its mine disguised as an ordinary bluestone.
• Yang Lingshu and Qi Wei killed their young Eastern Wilderness target after defeating her on the battlefield.
• Yang Lingshu identified an Eastern Wilderness traitor in the team, and Zhao Qi and Lü Fangxuan killed him before leading the survivors along a shorter retreat route.

Eastern Wilderness cultivators pursued Zhao Qi and the others, but Xiao Yize and Elder Wang intervened as the chase turned into a battle. The chapter ended with Yang Lingshu realizing that Elder Wang of the Myriad Transformation Sect was also targeting Xiao Yize.

• Three Eastern Wilderness cultivators pursued Zhao Qi's group after discovering their traitorous accomplice had been killed.
• Yang Lingshu shielded the four with his top-grade dharma robe while they fled toward the Tiger Chasing front line.
• Xiao Yize killed two pursuers, but the third revealed himself as a Blood Pill cultivator and fought Xiao Yize to a standstill.
• Two more Eastern Wilderness cultivators attacked Yang Lingshu's group, and Elder Wang arrived and killed them with his Water Needles spell.
• Elder Wang joined Xiao Yize's fight, but his Water Needles also targeted Xiao Yize, revealing him as the first exposed rat in Yang Lingshu's sect.

Wen Zishu exposed Wang Kaiwei’s betrayal by trapping him in an illusion, and Wang Kaiwei died while attempting to destroy his Origin Core. Tiger Chasing captured two other traitors, while Xiao Yize took Wen Zishu’s words to heart and Yang Lingshu passed his battle merits to Yang Lingrui.

• Wang Kaiwei believed he had killed Xiao Yize and fled toward Eastern Wilderness, only to recognize Xiao Yize’s body as a Soulwood Substitute.
• Wen Zishu’s illusion made Wang Kaiwei think Eastern Wilderness cultivators had arrived to save him, but they abandoned him when Wen Zishu appeared.
• Wang Kaiwei attacked Wen Zishu and detonated his Origin Core, dying alone as Xiao Yize watched from beside Wen Zishu.
• Wen Zishu reflected on the fear of death for Xiao Yize’s benefit, and Xiao Yize thanked him for his guidance.
• Tiger Chasing captured two more Essence Condensation traitors, and Yang Lingshu transferred his battle merits to Yang Lingrui.

Tiger Chasing's army advanced into the Eastern Wilderness heartlands, where its factions divided the conquered territories and the He Family claimed a vast share thanks to Yang Lingrui's strength. At Flying Eagle Manor, the surrounded families received orders to hold to the death, then saw the Eastern Wilderness garrison engulfed in yellow wind.

• Tiger Chasing's forces crossed the Western Wilderness border and began dividing the Southwest territories among their factions.
• The He Family received more than half of the marked white regions, with Yang Lingrui's reputation helping secure its claims.
• The four Qi Gathering families of Flying Eagle Manor, trapped by the Seventh Prince's orders to hold their position, found themselves surrounded by Tiger Chasing's army.
• Flying Eagle Manor's ancestors read the Eastern Wasteland Blood Order and learned that no reinforcements were coming.
• Zhang Wutai and the other ancestors rushed to the manor's heights after hearing fighting and saw the Eastern Wilderness garrison shrouded in yellow wind.

Yang Lingrui forced Flying Eagle Manor to surrender, but an emergency order redirected him to reinforce Guhui Town, where Qiu Ran was besieged by sect and Eastern Wilderness forces. As Qiu Ran held the town with tribulation lightning, news arrived that a hidden sentry had gone silent.

• Yang Lingrui used the Yellow Wind to destroy the forces resisting him at Flying Eagle Manor, then accepted the manor's surrender and blood oaths.
• A messenger delivered an emergency dispatch ordering Yang Lingrui to reinforce Guhui Town, where Qiu Ran was surrounded by sect and Eastern Wilderness forces.
• Yang Lingrui and other Tiger Chasing cultivators accepted the order and hurried toward Guhui Town as Qiu Ran and his exhausted companions struggled to maintain the town's damaged protective formation.
• Qiu Ran drove back attackers with tribulation lightning while sect disciples tried to undermine his resolve and mocked his lack of reinforcements.
• An Eastern Wilderness cultivator reported that the artifact had reacted and the hidden sentry on the western side had stopped responding.

Tiger Chasing’s forces began a coordinated rescue operation against the Eastern Wilderness army around Guhui Town, while Northwest sect disciples prepared to counter them. Yang Lingrui killed a Huoliao Temple senior disciple during the assault, and Luo Zhuli warned the surviving Huoliao disciple not to underestimate the attackers.

• A Huoliao Temple cultivator discovered that sentries in all four directions had been killed, and Bai Songran ordered the Northwest disciples to take their positions while warning them to avoid fighting Qing Shan head-on.
• Zi He and Yang Lingrui used their reconnaissance to coordinate a simultaneous strike, clearing the sentries so Tiger Chasing’s waiting troops could advance.
• Yang Lingrui fought through the Eastern Wilderness camp until two Huoliao Temple disciples attacked him with a fire manifestation and a Gravity Spell.
• Yang Lingrui escaped the spell’s suppression and drew one Huoliao Temple disciple into pursuit, then killed him with the help of a trap despite the disciple’s warning artifact.
• Luo Zhuli arrived after the Huoliao disciple’s jade pendant shattered and explained that the dead senior had fallen to Yang Lingrui and the Faceless Execution Guard.

Yang Lingrui and Zi He killed one Huoliao Temple disciple, but Luo Zhuli pursued Yang Lingrui and attacked his consciousness with a bell. Luo Zhuli was dragged into Yang Lingrui's sea of consciousness and destroyed by a falling star, while Chen Yang sensed an unexplained strengthening of his consciousness far away.

• Yang Lingrui and Zi He ambushed and killed a Huoliao Temple disciple, then split up when another pursuer caught up with them.
• Luo Zhuli sent a disciple after Zi He and pursued Yang Lingrui, hoping to capture him for Bai Songran.
• Luo Zhuli struck Yang Lingrui's sea of consciousness with his Three-Colored Hanging Bell and attempted to seize control of his body.
• Luo Zhuli's divine sense was pulled into Yang Lingrui's sea of consciousness, where a blazing star descended and shattered it.
• Chen Yang felt his consciousness strengthen while observing craftsmen in a Hundred Artifacts Tower branch, but could not identify the cause.

Shen Yue confronted Bai Songran at Guhui Town, where the Xishuo Sect disciple used a Mountain God's Imperial Decree to seal Shen Yue's green mountain manifestations. Shen Yue destroyed Bai Songran's black wind and revealed that he remained a Heavenly Talent beyond his famed technique.

• Wu Zhao and Feng Lan fought two Hanshan Sect disciples while Xiao Yize and Li Qingwan battled a Tingxue Tower couple wielding the Snow Blowing Secret Method.
• Shen Yue walked unopposed to Guhui Town and urged Bai Songran to leave, but Bai Songran said the Xishuo Sect had ordered him to fight.
• Shen Yue's green mountains overwhelmed Bai Songran's black wind, so Bai Songran used a Mountain God's Imperial Decree to seal the manifestations.
• Bai Songran sent his black wind python to attack, but Shen Yue shattered it with the spirit-word "Break."
• Shen Yue painted a galaxy falling into the mortal world and declared that he remained a Heavenly Talent without the green mountain.

Shen Yue defeated Bai Songran after the green mountain was sealed, but their battle was interrupted when Bai Songran and Yang Lingrui entered a struggle over their shared wind Dao lineage. As Shen Yue and Zi He guarded them, another genius arrived and stopped Shen Yue from crushing four retreating opponents.

• Shen Yue dispelled Bai Songran's Black Wind World Destruction, and Bai Songran conceded defeat and withdrew from the battle.
• Bai Songran and Yang Lingrui felt compelled to take each other's Dao and clashed, with Zi He and Shen Yue boosting Yang Lingrui to match Bai Songran's strength.
• The clash drew Bai Songran and Yang Lingrui into a Dao struggle, so Shen Yue and Zi He guarded them beneath a green mountain.
• Shen Yue crushed the pursuing Huoliao Temple disciple after Bai Songran's Imperial Decree lost its power while he was absorbed in the Dao struggle.
• Four wounded disciples from the Hanshan Sect and Tingxue Tower arrived, and Shen Yue lowered a green mountain toward them.
• Moonlight halted the green mountain, revealing the arrival of one of the two geniuses of Azure Waves' Northwest.