Chapter Summaries

Yang Yuanhong used the Venerable's True Profound power to rescue Long Yuan, Bu Yanqiu, Zi Ninghua, and Xue Nuan from the Dragon Tomb as it threatened to collapse. His escape revealed the Dao of Time, prompting the Dragon Carp Venerable to emerge from the East Sea and summon two old friends before heading to the Dragon Transformation Pool.

• The Venerable's clone found that his protective bubbles could not save the four endangered cultivators and asked Yang Yuanhong for help.
• Yang Yuanhong used the True Profound power to enter the Dragon Tomb and rescue Long Yuan, who had regressed into a three-year-old child.
• Yang Yuanhong rescued Bu Yanqiu, Zi Ninghua, and Xue Nuan, whose bodies had regressed to the forms of children or infants.
• After using all six Ancient Dragon breaths, Yang Yuanhong and the Venerable's clone escaped the collapsing passage with the four rescued cultivators.
• The cultivators' bodies began recovering in the present world, and the Venerable's clone recognized the Dao of Time.
• The Dragon Carp Venerable emerged from the East Sea, awakened two old friends, and traveled with them toward the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Yang Yuanhong helped the Dragon Carp Venerable save the four survivors from the Dragon Transformation Pool, earning their gratitude and further strengthening his reputation across the Central Region. As the survivors recovered, Xue Nuan thanked him and quietly buried her feelings after realizing his heart belonged elsewhere.

• The Dragon Carp Venerable and Yang Yuanhong restored the four survivors, and the Venerable credited Yang Yuanhong with helping avert their deaths.
• The survivors thanked Yang Yuanhong, with Long Yuan, Bu Yanqiu, and Zi Ninghua each expressing gratitude and Zi Ninghua apologizing for her earlier rudeness.
• Yang Yuanhong redirected the credit for the rescue to the Dragon Carp Venerable's Zhen Xuan and downplayed his own role.
• Xue Nuan began to thank Yang Yuanhong for holding her during the rescue, but he explained that he had only acted out of necessity.
• Xue Nuan inferred that Yang Yuanhong's heart belonged to someone else, thanked him, and decided to keep her feelings to herself.

Three Penglai Palace Venerables arrived at the Dragon Transformation Pool to investigate the mysterious amber and the time-related opportunity hidden in the Dragon Tomb. After questioning the five young prodigies, Ninth Abyss Venerable asked Sea Bearing Venerable about the amber’s origin.

• Ninth Abyss Venerable, Sea Bearing Venerable, and Mystic Armor Venerable arrived at the Dragon Transformation Pool, dispelling its baleful aura and bringing auspicious clouds.
• Long Yuan and the four other young prodigies bowed to the three Venerables, while Blood Sun Venerable God concealed his aura.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable apologized to the young cultivators and questioned them about what they had encountered in the Dragon Tomb.
• The five prodigies described the mysterious amber, and Ninth Abyss Venerable asked Sea Bearing Venerable if he recognized it.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable explained that he had invited Sea Bearing Venerable and Mystic Armor Venerable because the opportunity involved the Dao of Time and might be beyond his ability to explore alone.

Sea Bearing Venerable identified the Dragon Tomb’s amber object as a remnant of Heavenly Heart Wood, and Mystic Armor Venerable began probing it after the others were sent away. Yang Yuanhong declined Long Yuan’s invitation to Penglai Palace and continued his mission to investigate blessed lands and Secret Realms; the chapter ended with Yang Lingshu emerging from seclusion at Essence Condensation Fifth Layer.

• Sea Bearing Venerable explained that Heavenly Heart Wood was an ancient Spiritual Item whose resin contained the secret of time, and Ninth Abyss Venerable concluded the Dragon Tomb’s amber was likely its remnant.
• Mystic Armor Venerable agreed to use his spatial laws on the object, while Ninth Abyss Venerable sent Yang Yuanhong and the others safely out of the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Long Yuan invited Yang Yuanhong to Penglai Palace, but Yang Yuanhong declined because he had matters to handle for his master and promised to visit another time.
• Yang Yuanhong continued his journey to maintain ties with other powers and investigate openings to blessed lands and Secret Realms as instructed by the Immortal Venerable.
• Yang Lingshu emerged from two years of seclusion at Hidden Peak, and his cultivation surged from the First Layer Essence Condensation to the Essence Condensation Fifth Layer.

Yang Lingshu emerged from over two years of seclusion after reaching the Essence Condensation Realm, reuniting with Mo Xian and the Myriad Transformation Sect. The sect’s Old Ancestors discovered that Yang Lingshu’s Origin Core had fused with the Spirit Pearl, and they accepted him as a worthy heir to the sect’s Dao lineage.

• Yang Lingshu emerged from seclusion and reunited with Mo Xian, who celebrated his successful breakthrough.
• Yang Lingshu and Xiao Yize thanked Mo Xian for protecting and supporting them, while sect cultivators congratulated the master and disciple.
• Cao Xiang summoned Yang Lingshu and Mo Xian to meet two Old Ancestors of the Myriad Transformation Sect.
• The Old Ancestors examined Yang Lingshu and discovered that his Origin Core was unusually hard and could withstand attacks that would damage an ordinary core.
• Yang Lingshu’s Origin Core had fused with the Spirit Pearl through his deliberate use of the Core Condensation Technique.
• The Old Ancestors praised Yang Lingshu’s talent and accepted him as a future inheritor of the Myriad Transformation Sect’s Dao lineage.

Yang Lingshu became the Myriad Transformation Sect’s Chief Disciple, proved his strength, and traveled to the imperial capital to meet Yang Yuanliu. There, he prepared to rest before the greater plan Chen Yang had set in motion for the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land.

• Cao Xiang appointed Yang Lingshu Chief Disciple, while Xiao Yize happily took a Steward position instead.
• Yang Lingshu defeated five sect disciples in a crushing display and secured his authority as Chief Disciple.
• Yang Lingshu asked to visit his relatives in the imperial capital, and Cao Xiang and Mo Xian approved the trip aboard the sect’s ferry vessel.
• Chen Yang arranged for Yang Lingshu to meet Yang Yuanliu as part of his plan to address the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land’s calamity.
• Xuan Zhou welcomed the ferry vessel, and Zou Zhongyi escorted Yang Lingshu to Yang Yuanliu at the Archives.
• Yang Lingshu accepted Yang Yuanliu’s offer to rest before attending to the great matter ahead.

Chen Yang manifested a human form, rewarded Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu with a cleansing gift and divine arts, then took them around Chongtian City to sample its food. He invited the True Dragon Son of Heaven to join them at a roadside stall.

• Yang Lingshu reflected on Yang Lingqing's burdens and accepted the responsibilities of his new role.
• Chen Yang's two Stone Body Clones merged into a human manifestation, and he gave Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu a Bright Mirror blessing and divine ability imprints.
• Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu refined the gift for a day, then thanked Chen Yang and followed him out of the Archives.
• Chen Yang led them through Chongtian City's streets, sampling snacks and local dishes before ordering sheep white intestines at a roadside stall.
• The True Dragon Son of Heaven appeared beside their table, and Chen Yang invited him to sit and eat the fourth bowl.

Chen Yang shared a meal with Murong Zhenlin and the Yang Family siblings, then left a pouch of gold for the sheep-intestine vendor. The vendor hid the unexpected fortune and planned how to protect his family before Chen Yang’s group reached the Immortal Worship Tower, where Huo Yuan and Ji Ci awaited them.

• Murong Zhenlin and the others ate sheep intestines with Chen Yang, and Chen Yang paid the vendor with a pouch before they departed.
• The vendor discovered the pouch contained gold ingots and agreed with his wife to keep them secret and conceal any change in their circumstances.
• Chen Yang and the others went to the Immortal Worship Tower in Chongtian City, finding the surrounding streets cleared under Immortal Patrol Division control.
• Huo Yuan and Ji Ci greeted Chen Yang and Murong Zhenlin at the teahouse entrance.
• Chen Yang recognized Ji Ci as a cultivator specializing in the divine soul path and discreetly swept his consciousness over him.

Chen Yang revealed that Ji Ci’s soul was deteriorating and helped Murong Zhenlin advance his cultivation before visiting the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land to address the calamity threatening Tiger Chasing. Murong Zhenlin pledged Tiger Chasing’s support to the Yang Clan, and the group entered the Blessed Land to begin the main task.

• Chen Yang told Murong Zhenlin that Ji Ci’s soul was badly damaged and warned that the proposed soul-severing treatment would ease the symptoms without curing the cause.
• Chen Yang said he had come at the request of a junior disciple of the Yang Clan, prompting Murong Zhenlin to recognize that the Yang Clan deserved Tiger Chasing’s gratitude.
• Murong Zhenlin swore that Tiger Chasing would aid the Yang Clan whenever asked, and Chen Yang granted him a mysterious boost that raised his cultivation to the peak of the eleventh level of Spiritual Connection.
• Murong Zhenlin led Chen Yang, Huo Yuan, and the two Yang Clan cultivators to the underground dragon vein, where Huo Yuan opened the entrance to the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land.
• Murong Zhenlin explained that the Blessed Land housed the Murong Clan and a branch of the Song Clan, while those bound by its Dao Principles could not easily be removed.

Chen Yang entered Colorful Cloud Blessed Land to save the Spirit Crane Divine Being, who had become an evil god under the burden of resentment force. After Chen Yang calmed and freed him from that burden, the Spirit Crane Divine Being learned of the Cambalan Divine Palace and realized he had finally been found.

• Huo Yuan and Murong Zhenlin told Chen Yang about the feral signs in Colorful Cloud Blessed Land, and Chen Yang decided the evil god within could still be saved.
• Chen Yang warned Murong Zhenlin that the cure could cause upheaval and casualties, requested restorative materials, and entered the Blessed Land with Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu.
• Chen Yang sent Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu to find the Song Clan members, then stirred the Blessed Land's resentment force to draw out its deity.
• The Spirit Crane Divine Being tried to flee the ancient monastery, but Chen Yang sealed his escape routes and appeared before him.
• The Spirit Crane Divine Being begged for his life, and Chen Yang calmed him, revealed the Cambalan Divine Palace's memories and evil power, and removed the burden of resentment force.
• The Spirit Crane Divine Being recognized Chen Yang as a Divine Lord, and Chen Yang welcomed him home.

Yu Xun left the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land and was welcomed into the Azure Waves Divine Palace, where he reunited with Liuli and thanked Chen Yang for saving him. After learning Yu Xun’s unusual origins as a Bronze Crane who entered the Divine Dao, Chen Yang asked what became of his teacher, Yunzhi Venerable God, and whether his Dao Integration methods survived.

• Chen Yang opened a passage to the Azure Waves Divine Palace, and Yu Xun climbed the radiant steps out of the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land.
• Fu Yin welcomed Yu Xun and reassured him that the palace’s old rules no longer barred him from entering because he had an evil god’s body.
• Wu Hua, Ku Yun, Bai Que, Cang Jue, Huang Ding, and Liuli greeted Yu Xun, and Liuli recognized him as the Bronze Crane she had met ten thousand years earlier.
• Yu Xun thanked Chen Yang for saving his life and continuing his Dao, and Chen Yang asked him about his background and divine abilities.
• Yu Xun explained how Yunzhi Venerable God had enlightened him and guided him from an artifact-born creature into the Divine Dao, prompting Chen Yang to ask what became of Yunzhi and his Dao Integration methods.

Chen Yang appointed the gathered gods to offices in Canglan Divine Palace, formally establishing its first core team and operational system. Yu Xun joined the Secret Cultivation Office alongside Liuli as the palace prepared to rebuild the Divine Dao.

• Yu Xun recounted how Yunzhi Venerable God died in the great calamity after sending him to safety with a divine art and auspicious clouds.
• Chen Yang encouraged Yu Xun to continue studying Dao Integration and told the gods to welcome and question future arrivals while he restored his cultivation.
• Chen Yang bestowed the green divine token on Fu Yin for the Reception Office and assigned Wu Hua to accompany him.
• Chen Yang gave Ku Yun the red token for the Inquiry and Records Office, then appointed Bai Que, Cang Jue, and Huang Ding to the Craftsmanship Office with the yellow token.
• Chen Yang bestowed the white token for the Secret Cultivation Office on Liuli and assigned Yu Xun to accompany her.
• The appointments established Canglan Divine Palace's first core team and gave the palace an operational system.

Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu learned that a spreading blackening sickness was afflicting the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land, and Yang Yuanliu cured a Song Clan youth with Chen Yang’s power. They met the Song Clan elders and offered them a choice between remaining in the blessed land and joining the Northwest Yang Clan, where Song Heng was safe and had reclaimed his name.

• Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu stopped Song Kailiang as he carried his blackened clansman through the valley, and he explained the sickness caused by the changing colorful clouds.
• Song Kailiang described how the blackening sickness poisoned corpses, spread among cultivators, and worsened during breakthroughs, forcing both clans to halt cultivation.
• Yang Yuanliu used Chen Yang’s divine power to cure Song Kailiang’s younger clansman, Run Di, who woke and thanked him.
• Song Kailiang led Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu to meet the Song Clan elders, who represented the branch sent into the blessed land and the hidden line descended from Song Kaiyang and Song Heng.
• Yang Lingshu told the elders that Song Heng was safe with the Northwest Yang Clan and offered them the choice to stay under Murong Clan control or join the Yang Clan beyond the blessed land.

Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu explained the Yang Clan’s rise and their interest in the Song Clan’s bloodline to two Song Clan elders. The elders weighed whether the Yang Clan offered a genuine alternative to Murong Clan control, and the chapter ended with one elder sensing a different possibility for his people.

• A Song Clan elder asked Yang Lingshu to explain the Yang Clan’s origins, the situation outside, and its reasons for approaching the Song Clan.
• Yang Lingshu asked Yang Yuanliu to answer, and he recounted the Yang Clan’s rise and the changes in the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and the Northwest.
• After listening for hours, the Song Clan elders praised the Yang Clan’s achievements and asked why it sought their clan.
• Yang Lingshu admitted that the Yang Clan wanted the Song Clan bloodline, just as the Murong Clan did.
• A Song Clan elder despaired that joining the Yang Clan might only mean trading one cage for another, while the main-branch elder saw the Yang cultivators’ respectful conduct as a possible sign of a different future.

Chen Yang and the Yang Clan helped dispel the calamity threatening the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land, while Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu secured the Song Clan’s cooperation. After destroying the gathered roots of calamity, Chen Yang returned to Murong Zhenlin and accepted rare treasures from the Tiger Chasing Dynasty.

• Yang Lingshu explained that a powerful Yang Clan senior could cure the blackening sickness, and the Song Clan elders agreed to consider the Yang Clan’s request while he and Yang Yuanliu treated afflicted cultivators.
• Five days later, Yu Xun returned with Chen Yang and used his restored divine abilities to cure the blessed land’s cultivators and gather the underground roots of calamity beneath the Song Clan’s valley.
• Yu Xun drew out the enormous eight-armed tree demon, and Chen Yang destroyed it before erasing the unleashed resentment with the Time Abyss.
• Chen Yang returned to Murong Zhenlin, who thanked him for saving the blessed land and gave Huo Yuan a method to strengthen Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu’s bodies.
• Chen Yang selected ten pages of treasures from Murong Zhenlin’s register and revealed that he had already obtained nearly extinct blood pellet materials from the blessed land.

Yang Lingrui returned to Tiger Chasing with Xing Jiuli after helping eliminate Blood Feather Hall’s forces and hideouts. Ji Ci revealed that his divine soul had been healed through the Yang Clan’s aid, and Yang Lingrui urged Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu to remain diligent as the clan advanced.

• Xing Jiuli thanked Yang Lingrui for traveling with him and saving him during their campaign against Blood Feather Hall’s hideouts.
• Ji Ci greeted Xing Jiuli and Yang Lingrui outside the imperial capital and revealed that his divine soul had recovered from its heart-demon affliction.
• Ji Ci credited the Yang Clan’s aid in the events at Colorful Cloud Blessed Land for reshaping his fate and healing him.
• Yang Lingrui returned to Chongtian Palace, greeted the Tiger Chasing Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor, and went to the Archives to meet Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu.
• Yang Lingrui praised Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu’s progress, then reminded them not to grow complacent; they vowed to remain diligent and careful.

Before leaving the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, Yang Lingrui visited old friends and learned that tensions with the Eastern Wilderness were rising. He spent five days discussing the Dao with He Shenglai, who ended their reunion by asking whether Su Lingyun was dead.

• Yang Lingrui secretly gave Zi He an eye-protecting secret formula and heard that the Eastern Wilderness was increasing its forces along the border.
• At Chengtian Academy, Yang Lingrui received a painting from Feng Linghua and learned Shen Yue planned to attend Li Qingwan’s wedding to Crown Prince Murong Tianyang to put his feelings to rest.
• Yang Lingrui visited Qiu Ran and Feng Lan before traveling east to the He Family’s home in Myriad Layer Forest.
• Yang Lingrui and He Shenglai exchanged more than ten matches over five days, with He Shenglai improving through their sparring and discussion of the Dao.
• On their final day together, He Shenglai asked Yang Lingrui whether Su Lingyun was dead.

He Shenglai told Yang Lingrui that Su Lingyun had died and warned that the Su Family’s return could bring catastrophe to the Northwest. Yang Lingrui visited Li Qingwan at the Tiger Chasing borderlands, then left for the Barbarian Lands.

• Yang Lingrui confirmed to He Shenglai that Su Lingyun had died, and He Shenglai explained how his fortune-sensing had led him to suspect it.
• He Shenglai said the Su Family’s fortune was crying for help from the West Mine spirit vein and warned Yang Lingrui to prepare the Yang Clan for a coming calamity.
• He Shenglai and Yang Lingrui parted with new forms of address, and Yang Lingrui headed into the Tiger Chasing Eastern Frontier.
• Consort Xi escorted Yang Lingrui to a hidden base, where Li Qingwan demonstrated her Soldier Path by shaping battle intent into a spear and testing it against his Divine Wind.
• Li Qingwan conceded defeat, and Yang Lingrui praised her progress before leaving Tiger Chasing for the Barbarian Lands.

The Fuyao Sect arrived at the Yang Family Sacred Land to meet Yang Lingrui, but learned that he was still in secluded cultivation. After touring the sacred land, Peng Tao concluded that the Yang Clan would soon expand into the Central Region.

• Dongfang Zonggan escorted Peng Tao and the Fuyao Sect delegation through the barbarian lands, and Peng Tao's divine sense was struck back when he tried to probe the Yang Family Sacred Land.
• Yang Lingqing, Chen Huaien, and Xue Qingluan welcomed the visitors and guided them into the sacred land's Second Layer Heaven Domain.
• Yang Lingqing told Peng Tao that Yang Lingrui was secluded in Shenshuo Peak and expected to emerge soon, so the Fuyao Sect settled at Yangyuan Peak.
• The Fuyao Sect toured the sacred land's outer Heaven Domains and marveled at its resources and the peaceful lives of the clans and mortals under Yang Clan rule.
• Peng Tao told the two sect protectors that the Yang Clan had immense ambitions and would claim a place in the Central Region within decades or a century.

Yang Lingrui emerged from seclusion as Peng Tao, the Fuyao Sect protectors, and others watched his breakthrough. His wind and Killing Dao manifestations revealed formidable attainments, and the chapter ended with a small axe beheading his phantom.

• Peng Tao told the Fuyao Sect protectors that the Yang Clan possessed astonishing hidden potential despite its lack of True Intent cultivators.
• Dongfang Zonggan joined Peng Tao and the protectors near the Fifth Layer Heaven Domain to guard Yang Lingrui's emergence from seclusion.
• Chen Yang used Myriad Awakenings True Enlightenment to reveal Yang Lingrui's breakthrough to the waiting cultivators.
• The Fuyao Sect protectors recognized Yang Lingrui's Soaring Book cultivation art and praised his wind-path mastery.
• Yun Xiwu sensed that Yang Lingrui's Killing Dao might surpass his wind-path attainments as his manifestation disturbed the onlookers' minds.
• A small axe appeared beside Yang Lingrui's phantom and severed its head before the two phantoms vanished.