Chapter Summaries

Yang Yuanhong and Dongfang Yingcai completed their wedding ceremony at Pine Mountain, and the three-day banquet began. At a drinking contest, Zi He matched the Central Region geniuses Baili Fusang and Long Yuan before Venerable Shuying joined them and began telling old stories.

• Dongfang Yinghao congratulated Yang Yuanhong and Dongfang Yingcai, and Liu Yanqing comforted him as he grew emotional.
• Yang Yuanhong and Dongfang Yingcai bowed to Heaven and Earth, their elders, and each other, completing the wedding rites.
• Lin Qiao, Yang Yuanling, Yang Yuanzhao, and the other juniors escorted the newlyweds into the Treasure Pavilion as the wedding banquet began.
• Baili Fusang, Long Yuan, and Zi He remained at the drinking contest after five jars, and Baili Fusang conceded after the sixth.
• Long Yuan and Zi He continued drinking together, and Venerable Shuying joined them before getting dizzy and recounting old tales.

After the wedding, the Central Region learned that Lingxiao Dao Academy and the Xuanhuang Dynasty had allied through Long Zhu and Xiao Huai’s daughter, who would become Yang Yuanhong’s disciple. On the journey home, Qingmingzi warned Venerable Dongxu that the Yang Clan might one day use the child’s immense fortune to pursue hegemony.

• The Dark Underworld Venerable had his Junior Brother announce the outcome of his discussions with Chen Yang to the Central Region’s factions.
• The union of Long Zhu and Xiao Huai, and the birth of their daughter, were officially revealed; Yang Yuanhong would take the girl as his disciple.
• The Central Region’s powers understood that Lingxiao Dao Academy and the Xuanhuang Dynasty had formed a marriage alliance, easing fears of major conflict between them and the Yang Clan.
• Aboard Yantian Palace’s immortal vessel, Qingmingzi told Venerable Dongxu that the child’s fate was immense and that the Yang Clan’s future could not be divined.
• Qingmingzi warned that the Yang Clan might use the child’s fortune to build a hegemony after the older Venerables had ascended.

At the Yang Family Sacred Land, Xiao Yao met Nangong Jinghe, who was there to receive her before she became Yang Yuanhong’s disciple. She recognized that he was a divine-sense clone, revealing her unusual ability to remember and identify techniques and auras.

• Luo Qianchou explained Nangong Jinghe’s connection to Chen Yang and told Xiao Yao that she should call him Martial Uncle by seniority.
• Xiao Yao greeted Nangong Jinghe, then told Luo Qianchou that the senior did not seem much like a living person.
• Nangong Jinghe privately accused Luo Qianchou of revealing their identities, while Luo denied doing so.
• Xiao Yao realized Nangong Jinghe was the divine-sense clone Luo had described and praised how lifelike it was.
• Nangong Jinghe asked how Xiao Yao had recognized the clone, and she explained that techniques and auras left lasting impressions in her mind.

Luo Qianchou and Xiao Yao entered the Yang Family Sacred Land, where Xiao Yao saw its prosperous domains and met Yang Clan cultivators. They arrived at Yangyuan Peak, where Liang Yan disciplined young disciples for gossiping about Xiao Yao.

• Nangong Jinghe guided Luo Qianchou and Xiao Yao through the Isolation Formation and across the First Layer Heaven Domain by cloudship.
• Zhao Qi and Song Heng greeted Luo Qianchou and Xiao Yao near the boundary between the First and Second Layer Heaven Domains.
• Zhao Qi brought the three visitors to Yangyuan Peak, where young cultivators watched Xiao Yao arrive and whispered about her.
• Liang Yan silenced the young cultivators and warned them that careless talk could cause trouble beyond the sacred land.
• Zhao Che told Liang Yan that a reminder was enough, and Liang Yan explained why he wanted the disciples to learn the rules early.

Xiao Yao entered the West Heavy Heaven and impressed the Yang Clan elders with her ability to sense and adapt to its pressure. As Yang Lingqing began speaking with her at Chengzuo Peak, Xiao Yao found that the experienced clan patriarch could see through her despite her extraordinary instincts.

• Chen Huaien and Yang Yuanwen welcomed Xiao Yao and Luo, then sent them onward to the West Heavy Heaven.
• Xiao Yao sensed the invisible pressure of the West Heavy Heaven, adapted quickly, and tried to trace its source.
• Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong secretly praised Xiao Yao’s insight and discussed protecting and training her as she became part of the Yang Clan.
• Xiao Yao met Yang Lingqing at Chengzuo Peak and realized the patriarch could read her thoughts and catch her attempts to conceal information.

Xiao Yao traveled to Longyin Peak to seek entry into the Dragon Lord’s sect, accompanied as far as the mountain by Nangong Jinghe. After Yang Lingrui’s aura frightened her, she recovered and urged Nangong Jinghe to reconcile with her Martial Uncle Luo Qianchou.

• Luo Qianchou welcomed Yang Lingrui to Chengzuo Peak and said he hoped to discuss the insights he had gained from Yang Lingrui’s Dao exposition.
• Yang Lingrui’s killing intent overwhelmed Xiao Yao until he put on a pale mask, then he apologized and gently reassured her.
• Yang Lingqing praised Xiao Yao and asked Nangong Jinghe to escort her to Longyin Peak in the Fifth Layer Heaven.
• Nangong Jinghe brought Xiao Yao to the foot of Longyin Peak and told her to climb the rest of the way alone.
• Xiao Yao returned to Nangong Jinghe and asked him to get along with her Martial Uncle, prompting him to laugh and shake his head.

Xiao Yao climbed Longyin Peak to seek the Vaulting Dragon Lord as her master and reached the first trial, where Lin Qiao tested her physical foundation. After Lin Qiao explained that the earthen wall demanded more than raw strength, Xiao Yao studied it carefully before attempting to pass.

• Xiao Yao absorbed the true dragon aura on Longyin Peak through her Innate Purple-Gold Dragon Body.
• Xiao Yao reached a towering earthen wall blocking the mountain path and recognized it as the test for taking a master.
• Xiao Yao greeted Lin Qiao, whom she identified as Fairy Dust Shadow, and charmed her with praise.
• Lin Qiao explained that Xiao Yao had to get over the wall and advised her to focus on mastering and applying her strength.
• Lin Qiao transformed into an earthen statue and merged with the wall, while Xiao Yao examined its base instead of jumping over it.

Xiao Yao broke through Chen Huai'an's earthen wall trial and continued climbing Longyin Peak, where a strange fog concealed the next obstacle. Lin Qiao wondered how Chen Huai'an had hidden it from Xiao Yao's sharp senses as she tried different ways to navigate the mist.

• Xiao Yao used carefully timed stones and leaps to climb above the earthen wall, then punched through layers of earth and escaped its detection range.
• Lin Qiao praised Xiao Yao, and Chen Huai'an said he looked forward to seeing how she would handle his maze trial.
• Xiao Yao landed safely on Longyin Peak, watched the earthen wall collapse, and continued up the mountain.
• Xiao Yao entered thick fog, realized she had been through the area before, and tried marking the stone steps and circling through the forest.
• Lin Qiao asked Chen Huai'an how he had kept Xiao Yao's sharp sensing talent from detecting the hidden danger in the fog.

Xiao Yao passed Chen Huai'an and Lin Qiao's mist trial and received their advice before continuing toward the summit to meet her prospective master, Dragon Lord. At the peak, she sensed his dragon breath descending and spotted an enormous black Dragon Shadow in the clouds.

• Xiao Yao used her innate dragon body to blow apart the mountain mist and find the path through it.
• Xiao Yao greeted Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an, then explained that she should not rely too heavily on her innate perception.
• Chen Huai'an advised Xiao Yao to resist flattery, stay true to herself, and act with caution around people who might envy or harm her.
• Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an told Xiao Yao she had passed their trials and that Dragon Lord was waiting at the summit.
• Xiao Yao reached the peak, sensed dragon breath descending from the sky, and saw a huge black Dragon Shadow coiling in the clouds.

Fifteen years after Xiao Yao became Yang Yuanhong’s disciple, the Canglan Continent enjoyed a period of peace and the Yang Clan rebuilt its strength. The chapter left the clan with five True Intent Realm cultivators and five newly advanced Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators.

• Xiao Yao became Yang Yuanhong’s disciple, and the Central Region accepted the Yang Clan as a new top-tier Righteous Path power.
• Canglan Continent’s fortunes began to change subtly, forming the first embryonic shape of the domain’s gates and thresholds.
• The Righteous Path and the demonic cultivators under Bai Di maintained peace for fifteen years while recovering from the Great Strife War.
• The Yang Clan restored its population and sent young cultivators to explore opportunities in the Central Region, while also selecting Northwest talents to travel there.
• Xue Qingluan, Yun Xiwu, and Chen Huaien reached the True Intent Realm, while Yang Yuanliu, Yang Yuanwen, Yang Yuanling, Yang Yuanzhao, and Yang Yuanfei entered the Spiritual Connection Realm.

Cultivators from across Canglan Continent traveled to the Far North after the Yang Clan revealed that the legendary Kunxu Secret Realm might still exist. Chen Yang knew the rumor was true, though Xu Cang had already taken its immortal art inheritance, and the expedition still promised other treasures and lost inheritances.

• The Yang Clan's report of the Kunxu Secret Realm prompted Central Region forces to send cultivators north to investigate.
• The arriving forces also brought younger disciples to train in the Far North's harsh terrain and fight its Demon Beasts.
• The Yang Clan dispatched its family immortal vessel to the northern snowfields.
• Chen Yang knew from Xu Cang that the secret realm was where the Divine Path Stele stood and that Xu Cang had already collected its immortal art inheritance.
• The expedition's searchers were still expected to find other opportunities, treasures, artifacts, and lost Daoist Inheritances within the secret realm.

A wounded wolf demon was stalked by four Demon Beasts hoping to devour it, but its desperate ambush killed one Snow Fox before the others attacked. After a three-hour battle, the remaining three killed the wolf demon, though they suffered heavy injuries.

• Four Demon Beasts followed the wounded wolf demon until it collapsed in a valley.
• Two Snow Foxes, a Snow Domain White Bear, and a White-Feathered Cold Crow surrounded the wolf demon and prepared to attack.
• The wolf demon suddenly sprang up, killed one Snow Fox, and began eating it to regain strength.
• The surviving Snow Fox, White-Feathered Cold Crow, and Snow Domain White Bear attacked the wolf demon together.
• After three hours, the three Demon Beasts killed the wolf demon, but the Cold Crow lost a wing and the others were badly wounded.

Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang fought an Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion while Chen Yang reflected on their Innate Dao-Union Physiques and the risks of their experimental cultivation path. As the scorpion prepared to detonate its essence core, Yang Xuanlang began a counterattack.

• The badly wounded Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion tried to burrow away, then gathered its remaining strength to detonate its essence core and take the three cultivators with it.
• Yang Xuanqing spotted the scorpion's move and called on her younger brother, Yang Xuanlang, to handle it.
• Chen Yang recalled how Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang had cultivated the Union of Immortals and Gods since childhood, using their special bloodlines to combine immortal techniques with divine power.
• Chen Yang recognized that the siblings' new cultivation path could hold great potential but might lead to future bottlenecks, and he had arranged for Liuli and Yan Ming to help them return to the immortal Dao if needed.
• Yang Xuanlang gathered spiritual light in his palm and sliced open a cut as the scorpion prepared to explode.

Yang Xuanzhou rose to prominence as a top-tier cultivator, earning a place on Lingxiao Dao Academy's Heavenly Talent Ranking and displaying his beast-spirit art. Chen Yang's main consciousness was nearing awakening, while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang continued their cultivation at a slower pace.

• Yang Xuanzhou mastered Dongfang Yingcai's unique Dao art in a year, refined it, and won first place at a gathering of newly initiated disciples from the Northwest.
• At twelve, Yang Xuanzhou joined Lingxiao Dao Academy's Heavenly Talent Ranking as its youngest cultivator, and before turning fourteen he reached Late Qi Gathering.
• Chen Yang estimated that Yang Xuanzhou's talent matched Xiao Yao's and anticipated his main consciousness awakening soon, which could let him create more Spirit Pearls.
• Yang Xuanzhou used his Dharma disk and Azure Jade Dragon Body to capture an Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion and gain a new beast-spirit manifestation.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang asked Yang Xuanzhou to show them his latest gain, while the two continued cultivating at the Sixth Level of Qi Gathering.

Yang Xuanzhou strengthened his Spirit Puppet Beast-Taming Technique by refining a Core Formation Realm scorpion tail stinger, then considered what abilities he still needed. He planned to take his younger siblings deeper into the northern snowfields to hunt powerful Demon Beasts.

• Yang Xuanzhou assessed the four Core Formation Realm beast-spirit manifestations in his Dharma Disc and was pleased with the scorpion tail stinger's offensive power.
• Yang Xuanzhou recalled how Xiao Yao had repeatedly beaten him during two months of secluded training, curbing his arrogance.
• Yang Xuanzhou decided he still needed Core Formation Realm manifestations for escape and concealment, since his current Mouse Path and Butterfly Shadow were too weak.
• Yang Xuanzhou looked toward the northern snowfields and resolved to hunt Demon Beasts there while honing his Dao arts.

Yang Xuanzhou and his siblings entered the inner snowfields, hoping to find a powerful demon beast for him to refine into his Dharma disk. Secretly followed by Shenwu and Yin Er, they spotted a three-sided battle and stopped to assess it from afar.

• Yang Xuanzhou led Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang out of the valley and warned them to be cautious in the inner snowfields.
• Shenwu and Yin Er revealed they were secretly protecting the three, though they would intervene only if a Spiritual Connection-level threat appeared.
• Shenwu and Yin Er detected a battle between two groups of human cultivators and a Three-Eyed Snow Marten at the Essence Condensation Ninth Layer.
• Yang Xuanzhou sensed the battle with his Eagle-Eye Dharma Form and considered capturing the demon beast to strengthen his Dharma disk.
• Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, and Yang Xuanlang agreed to observe the fight before deciding whether to intervene, then reached a low mountain overlooking the distant battle.

Yang Xuanzhou recognized an injured cultivator as a member of the Sun Clan and decided to help him during the fight against a Three-Eyed Snow Ferret. He gave the cultivator a healing pill and revealed his connection to the Northwest Yang Clan, leaving the Sun Clan cultivator reassured as the battle continued.

• Yang Xuanzhou and Yang Xuanqing confirmed that the injured cultivator bore the emblem of the Sun Clan of Yanlai City.
• Yang Xuanzhou concluded that the cultivator was likely training alone and saw that the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret was overpowering the fighters.
• Yang Xuanzhou told Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang to remain concealed, then entered the battle to aid the injured cultivator and steady the others.
• Yang Xuanzhou offered the Sun Clan cultivator a healing pill and said that his father had known the clan.
• The Sun Clan cultivator guessed Yang Xuanzhou was from the Northwest Yang Clan, accepted the pill, and felt its medicine heal his wounds and damage to his Mind and Spirit Sea of Consciousness.

Yang Xuanzhou joined the four Core Formation Cultivators fighting the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret and helped turn the battle against the beast. As the gray-robed cultivator activated a formation, the wounded ferret charged through a weak point in the encirclement to escape.

• Sun Changfeng spoke to Yang Xuanzhou about his ordinary talent and his resolve to keep cultivating.
• Yang Xuanzhou rushed into the battle and used his ritual disc to make the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret dodge into the cultivators’ encirclement.
• Yang Xuanzhou shielded the four Core Formation Cultivators with a tortoise-shell manifestation and attacked the beast’s openings with a tail-spike manifestation.
• The gray-robed cultivator gave Yang Xuanzhou formation implements, and Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng quickly set up the formation.
• The gray-robed cultivator activated the formation, and the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret charged through a weak point in the encirclement to escape.

After Yang Xuanzhou’s group claimed the leading credit for subduing the Demon Beast, Sun Changfeng defended their demand and the injured cultivators confirmed their earlier aid. The gray-robed Mystic Beast Sect cultivator recognized the group as members of the Northwest Yang Clan and, remembering an old humiliation at Ziyun Mountain, responded with cold sarcasm.

• Sun Changfeng argued that Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, and Yang Xuanlang deserved the foremost credit for defeating the Demon Beast and had not demanded its demon core.
• The two injured cultivators told the gray-robed cultivator that Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng had given them medicinal pills.
• The gray-robed cultivator deduced that the three young cultivators belonged to the Northwest Yang Clan.
• The gray-robed cultivator recalled how the Mystic Beast Sect had missed its chance to meet the Yang Clan at Ziyun Mountain and had later turned to Lingxiao Dao Academy.
• The gray-robed cultivator coldly acknowledged Yang Xuanzhou’s group as the famed Northwest Yang Clan.

Yang Xuanzhou killed the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret and divided its remains among the cultivators present. After he and his companions continued north, the Mystic Beast Sect cultivators decided not to follow them.

• Yang Xuanzhou blocked the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret's ambush with a tortoiseshell formed from his spiritual power, then strangled it with a tiger tail.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang collected the beast's heart, half its soul, and one-third of its flesh and blood as Yang Xuanzhou exposed the gray-robed cultivator's sabotage.
• Yang Xuanzhou gave Sun Changfeng his requested share and let the other cultivators divide the remaining spoils.
• Two Rogue Cultivators took flesh, blood, and refining materials, then left before the others.
• Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, Yang Xuanlang, and Sun Changfeng departed north, and the gray-robed cultivator warned his junior not to follow them.