Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang replenished his divine power with the Yang Family’s accumulated prayers and explained how the Profound Truth Talisman Bead enabled him to master an ancient Essence Condensation talisman and gather malign power. He considered his future targets for that power, including Su Lingyun and Yue Shuwang.

• After two waves of Spiritual Sense passed over the Yang Family’s territory, Chen Yang hid in Yang Yuanhong’s sleeve and identified the visitors as True Man Huolong and Consort Xi.
• Chen Yang entered the Shattered Divine Palace and purified years of accumulated prayer power into a large new reserve of divine power.
• Chen Yang revealed that the Profound Truth Talisman Bead had left him a soul spirit that translated the ancient talisman manual’s teachings.
• With the soul spirit’s help, Chen Yang refined an Early Essence Condensation True Thunder Talisman and amassed substantial backlash power.
• Chen Yang decided he would use malign power against Su Lingyun and Yue Shuwang, while expecting Solitary Moon Mountain to fall soon.

After the Yang Family refused to pay tribute to the Wasteland Families, Yang Lingqing sent Yang Yuanhong to investigate and deal with them. The families prepared to rob the Yang Family under a Qi Gathering Perfection cultivator’s protection, but Yang Yuanhong began eliminating their members and gathering evidence.

• Yellow-robed cultivators demanded tribute from the Yang Family, claiming it was owed to the Senior of the Cave.
• Yang Lingqing and Chen Yang agreed that Yang Yuanhong should handle the threat, and Yang Yuanhong left the family in disguise.
• The Wasteland Families reported to the Senior of the Cave and prepared to rob the Yang Family, revealing that they were bandits who extorted newcomers.
• Yang Yuanhong ambushed a Wasteland cultivator, showed him the heads of three accomplices, and forced him to write down the group’s origins and plans.
• After comparing the man’s account with three others, Yang Yuanhong killed him and collected his head.

Yang Yuanhong eliminated the fifth bandit leader and followed the gang’s trail to meet Lu Changming, an evil cultivator who controlled the local bandit lineages. Lu Changming grew suspicious and tried to leave, but Yang Yuanhong appeared before him without warning.

• Yang Yuanhong used the Blood Flood Dragon to clear out the fifth bandit compound and collected the bandit leader’s written account and head.
• Yang Yuanhong learned that Lu Changming practiced evil arts and wielded a powerful spirit treasure called the Blood Hand.
• Lu Changming waited at the meeting place, reflected on how he had acquired the Blood Hand and built his power, and decided to retreat when the bandits failed to arrive.
• Lu Changming turned to leave, found Yang Yuanhong standing nearby, and pretended to be a lost cultivator named Yang Huai.

Yang Yuanhong killed Lu Changming after the evil cultivator’s Blood Hand and escape spell failed to stop him. He reflected on his mistakes in the fight, then discovered notes revealing that Lu Changming had found ancient writings in a rock cavern.

• Lu Changming attacked Yang Yuanhong with his Blood Hand, but crushed only a false image before Yang Yuanhong struck him and damaged his Qi Meridians.
• Lu Changming used the Blood Hand to hold Yang Yuanhong off and fled with a blood-mist spell, abandoning his spirit treasure.
• Yang Yuanhong tore the Blood Hand apart, caught Lu Changming, and ripped him in two.
• Yang Yuanhong criticized his own combat decisions and resolved not to grow careless against future opponents.
• Yang Yuanhong searched Lu Changming’s three storage bags and found notes about ancient writings carved deep inside the rock cavern.
• Yang Yuanhong decided the Yang Family’s Immortal Venerable could decipher the ancient characters.

Yang Yuanhong returned after defeating Lu Changming and received Yang Lingqing’s approval for learning from his mistakes. Yang Lingqing introduced him to Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng as his future core aides, and Yang Yuanhong offered them the Enlightenment Stone.

• Yang Yuanhong had the Blood Flood Dragon devour Lu Changming and returned to the Yang Family’s residence the following morning.
• Yang Yuanhong handed the looted items to Yang Lingqing and recounted his battle mistakes and lessons.
• Yang Lingqing praised Yang Yuanhong for recognizing his errors and learning from them instead of punishing him.
• Yang Lingqing introduced Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng to Yang Yuanhong, and both men discovered that he had already entered the Dao.
• Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng reported their cultivation and techniques, and Yang Yuanhong gave them access to the Enlightenment Stone as their first fortune under his command.

Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng gained different rewards from Chen Yang’s enlightenment ability, then tested their strength against Yang Yuanhong. Chen Yang discovered an ancient cultivator’s letter in Lu Changming’s cave, and its salutation to a Divine Lord caught his attention.

• Chen Yang used the Enlightenment Stone to grant Dai Wei a cultivation method, Dao insights, and enough cultivation to reach the peak of the third level.
• Yuan Cheng received an Essence Condensation cultivation method and Dao insights, while the Enlightenment Stone healed the old injuries in his Qi Meridians.
• Yang Yuanhong tested Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng in an underground cave dwelling, effortlessly withstanding their strongest attacks and offering advice on their techniques.
• Chen Yang found ancient writing carved into the cave wall where Lu Changming was located and used the Profound Truth Talisman Bead’s soul spirit to translate it.
• Chen Yang recognized the carvings as a letter addressed to a Divine Lord.

Chen Yang deciphered a dying Divine Path creature’s letter, learned that ancient Divine Path beings had sought refuge in Secret Realms and Blessed Lands, and sealed the cave to protect it. Meanwhile, a mirrored world appeared above the sea of sand and pulled several Core Formation Cultivators inside, where an unknown person was found floating down a river.

• Chen Yang read the final letter of a Divine Path creature who had waited ten thousand years for the Divine Lord to return and restore the Dao.
• Chen Yang bowed to the dead cultivator, sealed the cave beneath the yellow sands, and considered how Divine Path creatures might have become part of Secret Realms and Blessed Lands.
• A powerful thought from his avatar alerted Chen Yang to an enormous mirrored space hanging upside down above the sea of sand, where Yang Lingrui and Shen Yue stood nearby.
• Murong Qiuhan recognized the mirrored world as the great fortune the Song Clan had held, swallowed two Golden Core pills, and Feng Lan swallowed pages from a glowing booklet.
• Pillars of light drew Yang Lingrui, Shen Yue, Murong Qiuhan, and other Core Formation Cultivators into the inverted world, and their consciousnesses sank into chaos.
• A young boy saw someone floating down a river and called his mother over, declaring that the person looked like an immortal.

Yang Lingrui awoke in a blessed land without cultivation or spiritual energy, but Chen Yang’s Thought Transmission reassured him. After saving a mountain village from soldiers demanding its supplies, he learned that Great Song had fallen into turmoil following the late emperor’s death and the Imperial Preceptor’s rise.

• Dan Peng and his mother helped villagers rescue the unconscious Yang Lingrui, who kept a gray stone clutched in his hand.
• Yang Lingrui woke, realized he was in a blessed land where his cultivation had vanished, and heard Chen Yang’s Thought Transmission.
• Yang Lingrui stopped soldiers from killing the village chief, snapped a broadsword with his fingers, and killed the band of soldiers.
• The villagers thanked Yang Lingrui, and the village chief took him home to explain the blessed land’s situation.
• The village chief told Yang Lingrui that Great Song was fracturing as regional lords sought power after the late emperor died and the Imperial Preceptor gained influence.

Chen Yang and Yang Lingrui learned that Song Kaiyang had become Great Song’s Imperial Preceptor and likely brought them into the Blessed Land as nourishment for his opportunity. Chen Yang confronted the divine being in a village Martial God Statue, which recognized him as a possible returning Divine Lord and explained the Blessed Land’s origins and history.

• Yang Lingrui and Chen Yang concluded that Song Kaiyang was the mysterious Imperial Preceptor who had entered the Blessed Land before them and intended to use them to strengthen his opportunity.
• Yang Lingrui asked the village chief about the village’s Martial God Temple and followed him to the wooden hut at the eastern end of the village.
• Chen Yang sensed the presence watching them, entered the temple, and restrained the divine being inside the Martial God Statue when it tried to attack and withdraw.
• The Martial God Statue recognized Chen Yang’s Immortal Dao power, recalled a prophecy that a Divine Lord would return, and respectfully asked him for forgiveness.
• The Martial God Statue told Chen Yang that it had fused with an uninhabited grotto-heaven to create the Blessed Land and had drained its spiritual energy to preserve its Dao.
• The Martial God Statue explained that martial cultivators who entered the Blessed Land regained power under its Laws of Dao and killed the other displaced cultivators to become its rulers.

Chen Yang learned how Song Kaiyang had used his retained cultivation and deceit to control Great Song and target its dragon pearl. As two more Tiger Chasing cultivators died, Song Kaiyang concealed his greed while the young emperor believed they were enemies of the state.

• The Martial God Statue explained Blessed Land’s four martial realms and said Song Kaiyang had retained cultivation and could draw in outside spiritual qi.
• Chen Yang realized that the Core Formation cultivators sent to capture Song Kaiyang faced mortal danger in the Blessed Land, where eight had already died.
• Song Kaiyang brought the young emperor to the Great Song dragon vein, seeking its Dragon Pearl to advance his cultivation.
• Song Kaiyang deceived the emperor into sacrificing imperial descendants to nourish the dragon vein and cultivate a supposed Golden Core, while secretly pursuing his own path to the Dao.
• Two streams of scarlet true essence entered the dragon vein, signaling the deaths of two more Tiger Chasing cultivators, and Song Kaiyang told the emperor they were bandits killed by his martial warriors.

Song Kaiyang secretly prepared to use the Song clan’s Blessed Land to avenge his family and overthrow Tiger Chasing, while raising the young emperor’s strength to complete his plan. After learning that Wu Zhao had broken through to the Fourth Realm, Song Kaiyang tracked him down and killed him to harvest his true essence.

• Song Kaiyang reassured the seven-year-old emperor that foreign thieves posed no danger, while the emperor vowed to lead Great Song through Tribulation Crossing.
• Song Kaiyang admitted that he had been draining the emperor’s potential and lifespan, and resolved to use the Blessed Land to avenge the Song clan’s fall.
• Two wounded Third Realm Martial Warriors reported that a foreign thief had broken through to the Fourth Realm during battle.
• Song Kaiyang identified the thief as Wu Zhao and hurried to Yuanxin Prefecture.
• Song Kaiyang found Wu Zhao hiding in a mountain cave, suppressed him, and dismembered him before he could react.
• Song Kaiyang extracted Wu Zhao’s heart and liver with the Blood Refining Technique and praised the purity of the resulting true essence.

Chen Yang inferred that Song Kaiyang planned to seize Great Song’s Dragon Pearl and avenge the Song Clan, so he chose to protect Yang Lingrui and wait for Song Kaiyang and Murong Qiuhan to clash. Meanwhile, the Grand Preceptor Hall intensified its hunt for intruders, while Murong Qiuhan entered Tianyuan County and the Dragon Pearl began turning red as captured cultivators were sacrificed.

• Chen Yang and the Martial God Statue concluded that Song Kaiyang sought Great Song’s Dragon Pearl to steal the nation’s fortune, restore the Song Clan, and prove his Dao.
• Chen Yang decided not to intervene yet and planned to protect Yang Lingrui while waiting for Murong Qiuhan and Song Kaiyang to confront each other.
• After Wu Zhao’s death, the Grand Preceptor Hall expanded its searches and issued a nationwide bounty for the rogue bandits; Xiao Yize, Qiu Ran, and Shen Yue stayed concealed in their respective disguises.
• Murong Qiuhan and Feng Lan entered Tianyuan County, where she sensed they were being watched and chose to wait for Song Kaiyang to make his move.
• The Grand Preceptor Hall captured or killed more than a dozen Core Formation Cultivators and poured their scarlet true essence underground, causing red streaks to spread across Great Song’s Dragon Pearl.

Song Kaiyang completed his decade-long plan by securing Great Song’s throne and harvesting the power of creation from Fourth Realm warriors. He confronted Murong Qiuhan in Tianyuan County, where she discovered he had cut off her connection to the outside world, but she remained confident she could defeat him.

• The Emperor honored Song Kaiyang with two ducal titles and declared that seeing the National Preceptor was like seeing the Emperor, allowing Song Kaiyang to brand his soul imprint on Great Song’s dragon vein.
• Song Kaiyang killed Zhang Qiuyan and harvested the power of creation in her heart, then refined the remaining Fourth Realm warriors he had cultivated.
• Song Kaiyang confronted Feng Lan in Tianyuan County but spared him because the Feng Family had not been involved in the matter from the past.
• Song Kaiyang met Murong Qiuhan and said he planned to refine her, while leaving the other remaining captives to waste away in the Blessed Land.
• Murong Qiuhan discovered Song Kaiyang had severed her connection to the outside world, but believed she could escape by killing him.

As Song Kaiyang’s fire rain devastated Great Song, the young emperor died believing the Imperial Preceptor could save the people. Murong Qiuhan and Song Kaiyang began fighting above the capital, while Chen Yang discovered that Song Kaiyang’s providential opportunity was a missing fragment of the Shattered Divine Palace.

• A blood-colored golden dragon rose over the Great Song capital and unleashed fire rain that set the country ablaze.
• The young emperor ordered his guards to find Song Kaiyang and the Golden Core, then died after coughing up black blood.
• Chen Yang sheltered several places and people from the flames, while Feng Lan protected himself with ink-wash characters until a princess’s true essence shielded him.
• Murong Qiuhan and Song Kaiyang revealed their trump cards and fought as they flew toward the imperial capital.
• Chen Yang recognized the aura of Song Kaiyang’s providential opportunity and realized that it was the missing fragment of the Shattered Divine Palace.

Song Kaiyang defeated Murong Qiuhan, but she escaped before he could kill her. After Song Kaiyang lost his cultivation, the blood-gold dragon swallowed him, and Yang Lingrui, Shen Yue, and two other Tiger Chasing geniuses slew the dragon, ending the calamity and leaving Chen Yang with the Song Clan’s Treasure of Creation and the Dragon Pearl.

• Murong Qiuhan’s Tiger Chasing Jade Seal shattered against Song Kaiyang’s tower, and she lost her left arm while escaping its fiery rain.
• Murong Qiuhan summoned the blood-gold dragon to restrain Song Kaiyang’s tower, then used a golden-edged jade hairpin to teleport away.
• Song Kaiyang took the Dragon Pearl from the dragon, but the blessed land stripped him of his cultivation and the dragon swallowed him.
• Chen Yang restored the others’ cultivation, and Yang Lingrui, Shen Yue, and two other Tiger Chasing geniuses joined forces to kill the blood-gold dragon.
• Chen Yang obtained the Song Clan’s Treasure of Creation and the Dragon Pearl, while Murong Qiuhan escaped with one arm lost.

After saving the spirit of the Martial God Statue, Chen Yang helped him confront the resentment left by Song Kaiyang’s destruction. Yang Lingrui and the others rebuilt Great Song and revealed the truth behind the disaster, while the Goddess Statue continued waiting for Chen Yang to take her from the Secret Realm.

• Chen Yang learned that the spirit of the Martial God Statue could no longer suppress the blessed land’s resentment and brought him into the Star Sea Space.
• Yang Lingrui delayed refining the Dragon Slaying Opportunity and joined Shen Yue and the others in repairing the damage across Great Song.
• Survivors told Yang Lingrui and the others that Song Kaiyang had fabricated the calamities and planned to sacrifice Great Song from the start.
• The four cultivators presented themselves as immortals sent to capture Song Kaiyang, stabilized the imperial capital, and began helping the rest of the land recover.
• Two years after meeting Chen Yang, the Goddess Statue continued waiting in the Ancient Talisman Sect ruins for him to summon her away from the Secret Realm.

Chen Yang used Fu Yin and Wu Hua’s divine power to reconnect a tower to the Shattered Divine Palace and repair part of it. The restoration caused the aura around a stone chair to fade, revealing a beating red heart.

• Fu Yin entered the Divine Palace and met Wu Hua, who welcomed her as a fellow follower of the Venerable God.
• Chen Yang collected the resentment and unrefined creation power from Fu Yin and Wu Hua, then purified it in the jade tower.
• Chen Yang asked Fu Yin and Wu Hua to lend their divine power to reconnect the reclaimed tower to the damaged Divine Palace, and they agreed.
• After more than ten days of work, Chen Yang, Fu Yin, and Wu Hua restored one quarter of the palace.
• Chen Yang noticed the grayish-white aura around a stone chair dissipating and found a faintly beating red heart beneath it.

Chen Yang discovered a scarlet heart in the Shattered Divine Palace and learned it belonged to the Blood Sun Venerable God, whose consciousness had been reborn as an infant. He began nurturing the heart with divine power and resolved to restore the Divine Palace with help from the Yang Family and his followers.

• Fu Yin and Wu Hua returned to the palace and were overwhelmed by the scarlet heart's aura until Chen Yang shielded them with his consciousness.
• Chen Yang learned the heart belonged to an ancient god who had sealed it away to survive a calamity, but whose original consciousness had vanished.
• Chen Yang soothed the heart and infused it with divine power, guiding its infant consciousness to accept him.
• Wu Hua recognized the heart's aura as that of the Blood Sun Venerable God, and Chen Yang connected this identity to the Blood Refining Technique.
• Chen Yang resolved to search for Divine Palace fragments and rebuild the palace, relying on the Yang Family, Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and the revived god.

After helping rebuild Great Song, Yang Lingrui and the others prepared to leave the fortune land while Chen Yang secured an independent cultivation path for Yang Yuanhong. They departed through the imperial palace opening, leaving Murong Qiuhan’s fate unknown and Feng Lan shaken by the expedition.

• Chen Yang rewarded Fu Yin and Wu Hua for helping rebuild the Divine Palace, then left the recovering Blood Sun Venerable God's young body alone in the palace.
• Yang Lingrui rebuilt his former village, protected Dan Peng with a strand of true essence, and continued restoring Great Song alongside the others.
• Shen Yue brought Feng Lan back to the imperial capital, where the group confirmed they had found no trace of Murong Qiuhan.
• Chen Yang obtained from Wu Hua an ancient martial cultivation method for Yang Yuanhong, intending to keep him from being controlled by the Dynasty.
• The group opened a gap in the fortune land at the imperial palace and departed after reflecting on the expedition’s losses and their dragon-slaying victory.

Cultivators from across the Dynasty gathered at the Desert Sea, unable to enter the blessed land where their allies were trapped. As they waited, several factions feared for their disciples and kin, while Xue Qingluan arrived after forming her core and searched anxiously for Yang Lingrui.

• Mo Xian worried over Xiao Yize’s disappearance, but Yang Lingshu calmed him by pointing out that Xiao Yize’s Life Tablet remained intact.
• The Dynasty Martial Academy and cultivators from across the Dynasty reached the Desert Sea, but Song Kaiyang had already sealed the blessed land, leaving them unable to help those inside.
• The Murong Clan learned that Murong Qiuhan had suffered repeated injuries, while Lu Hefei feared for Qiu Ran and the Feng Family patriarch worried about Feng Lan.
• Xue Qingluan emerged from secluded cultivation after forming her core and hurried to the Desert Sea, where she anxiously searched for Yang Lingrui.