Recaps

Long Yiran formed her Golden Core with the Dragon Vein Qi and Wang Yu’s formation flags, while Wang Yu used the Glass Lotus Heart Treasure Liquid to refine Divine Marrow and break through to Body Refinement Third Tier. The chapter ended with Wang Yu enduring his lightning tribulation and completing the breakthrough.

• Long Yiran told Wang Yu she needed another half month to digest the Dragon Vein Baptism before forming her core, while Wang Yu began studying the Demonic Dragon Fist.
• Long Yiran spent a month accumulating power and another half year condensing her True Essence Sea, then survived her lightning tribulation with Wang Yu’s Heavenly Heart Scattering Thunder Treasure Formation Flags.
• Wang Yu began his own breakthrough using Glass Lotus Heart Treasure Liquid, repeatedly exhausting and restoring his qi and blood as he condensed Divine Marrow.
• After half a year, Long Yiran awakened and saw Wang Yu floating in the air with Divine Marrow formed and Black-Gold-Blue Tri-Color Blood spreading through his body.
• Wang Yu gained Mountain Throwing Divine Strength and Adamantine Body, then endured three bolts of lightning tribulation without a treasure and completed his breakthrough to Body Refinement Third Tier early stage.

Wang Yu completed his Fiend Dragon Armor Bloodline True Weapon and joined Long Yiran in using her formation skills to locate the Heavenly Soul Sect Scripture Pavilion. They reached the pavilion, where Wang Yu planned to use his True Inheritor Token to complete his inheritance of the Ancient Soul Art.

• Wang Yu reviewed his cultivation progress and assigned a placement slot to the Demonic Dragon Fist.
• Wang Yu used the Dragon Vein Treasure and other materials to forge the Fiend Dragon Armor, a Bloodline True Weapon that settled in his spinal divine marrow.
• Long Yiran used the Heavenly Star Positioning Secret Art to guide Wang Yu through the Heavenly Soul Sect ruins while avoiding dangerous areas.
• Wang Yu and Long Yiran reached the twelve-story Scripture Pavilion and prepared their identity tokens.
• Wang Yu returned the Heaven Rank Token to Long Yiran and kept the True Inheritor Token, believing it could grant him the Ancient Soul Art inheritance.

Wang Yu explored the Heavenly Soul Sect’s Scripture Pavilion, obtaining ancient soul techniques and completing the Fourth Tier High-Grade Ancient Soul Art. He learned that perfecting it would create a dangerous Second Nascent Soul, but began cultivating it anyway to strengthen his divine sense and control over his corpses.

• Wang Yu entered the Scripture Pavilion with his Identity Token and found its surviving Jade Slips on the tenth floor.
• Wang Yu collected numerous divine sense techniques, the Heavenly Nascent Soul Body Snatching Rebirth Method, and the incomplete Soul Destroying Death Light.
• Wang Yu used the Octagonal Stone Platform to complete the Ancient Soul Art, while Demonic Evil Thoughts threatened his Ancient Soul.
• Wang Yu used all six Placement Slot positions to capture the Demonic Evil Thoughts, which formed 108 black beads around his Ancient Soul.
• Wang Yu learned that the perfected Ancient Soul Art could create a Second Nascent Soul, recognized the risks, and decided to practice the method without pursuing perfection for now.
• Wang Yu obtained advanced divine sense techniques, Alchemy Recipes, and several high-grade Soul Artifact treasure methods.

After leaving the Scripture Pavilion, Wang Yu and Long Yiran found a way into the Heavenly Soul Medicine Garden, where they gathered valuable spirit herbs while searching for its medicine king. They left the chapter deeper inside the blood-mist-filled garden, approaching the medicine king’s Formation Eye.

• Wang Yu and Long Yiran left the Scripture Pavilion with a new soul-cultivation inheritance and decided to search the medicine garden.
• Long Yiran used her Feng Shui Compass to locate the garden, but neither of their tokens could open its protective Formation.
• After investigating the garden wall, Long Yiran found a weakness caused by a medicine king that had not taken root and opened a passage inside.
• Wang Yu and Long Yiran entered the blood-mist-filled garden, where Long Yiran identified the direction of the first medicine king Formation Eye.
• Wang Yu and Long Yiran harvested numerous spirit herbs, including Ghost Cry Flowers and a Hundred Grass Qi Root, as they moved toward the Formation Eye.

Wang Yu and Long Yiran encountered a corrupted Medicine King in the Heavenly Soul Medicine Garden, barely escaping its attacks as the secret realm’s Blood Demon forces began to mobilize. Outside Yin Ghost Mountain, rival sects gathered around the growing blood mist, and the wounded Wang Yu suddenly appeared before them.

• Wang Yu and Long Yiran found a Fourth Tier Blood Demon Ginseng, which struck Wang Yu and forced the two to flee separately.
• Wang Yu used his Starfall Cold Furnace and Fleeing Void Talisman to escape, while the Blood Demon Ginseng summoned more than a thousand Blood Corpse Giants and three other Blood Demon Medicine Kings.
• Long Yiran survived by fleeing through the Earth Vein with the Earth Mother Breathing Earth Flag, despite severe injuries and petrification.
• At Yin Ghost Mountain, forces from Yellow Springs Temple, the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, and other groups waited amid the spreading blood mist.
• Liu Jin Xian recognized the mist’s aura as similar to Lu Chenzhou’s Blood Scripture aura, and True Person Azure Serpent warned her to flee if danger arose.
• Wang Yu appeared above Yin Ghost Mountain in a silver flash, masked, badly injured, and with his aura in disorder.

Wang Yu escaped Yin Ghost Mountain and used a fabricated claim about a Ten Thousand Year Medicine King to take shelter with Yellow Springs Temple while the rival sects clashed. The Nether Tiger Formation then collapsed, revealing an ancient secret realm as Nascent Soul medicine kings and blood creatures descended on the gathered cultivators.

• Wang Yu emerged from Yin Ghost Mountain injured and pretended to be a weak cultivator when the Saint Sect questioned him.
• Wang Yu revealed a Yellow Springs Temple divine ability, claimed he had found a Ten Thousand Year Medicine King, and showed its aura to the temple elders.
• Yellow Springs Temple fought the Saint Sect while Wang Yu used concealment techniques to slip away, but Saint Sect city lords were ordered to capture him.
• The Nether Tiger Formation shattered, and an ancient secret realm with a Super Spirit Vein emerged from the void where Yin Ghost Mountain had stood.
• The Blood Demon Ginseng, Blood Demon Fleeceflower Root, Blood Demon Sesame Horse, and Heaven Reaching Demon Sunflower appeared with swarms of blood creatures and attacked the cultivators.

Wang Yu escaped the battle between the cultivators, Blood Demon servants, and a massive poisonous beast army, but found Long Yiran dead and mourned the trusted companion. As the Heavenly Soul Sect Ruins continued to draw powerful factions, the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and Yellow Springs Temple prepared to compete for the Medicine Kings.

• Wang Yu used a Fleeing Void Talisman to escape the battlefield, but it transported him only to the edge of the blood mist.
• A vast army of poisonous beasts charged into the ruins, clashing with the Blood Corpse Giants and Blood Demon servants while Wang Yu hid beneath the ground.
• Wang Yu escaped the blood mist and discovered Long Yiran's corpse, then vowed to remember her.
• Liu Jin Xian urged True Person Azure Serpent to seek the vacant Tenth Elder position, and he planned to gain the Poison Gu Mountain Lord's favor.
• True Person Azure Serpent sent Liu Jin Xian to contact Lu Chenzhou while he went to contact the Poison Gu Mountain Lord and Senior Insect Demon.
• Yellow Springs Temple learned of the Medicine Kings and Wang Yu's masked identity, and both major factions began preparing for a larger conflict.

Wang Yu fled the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest, but a tracking mark led Five Poisons Old Demon’s clone to confront him and force him to change course toward You Province. Meanwhile, the Blood Demon monsters advanced toward Blood Abyss as rival factions converged on the ruins and the blood-path sacred land.

• The Spotless Jade Toad swallowed a tracking mark from Wang Yu’s shoulder, then began cocooning, leaving him without its protection as he fled toward Night Jade Province.
• Five Poisons Old Demon’s clone attacked Wang Yu, but Wang Yu recognized the deception; the poisonous skull still marked his hand, and he detoured north toward You Province to avoid the demon’s true body.
• At the Heavenly Soul Sect Ruins, the Blood Corpse forces and poisonous beasts withdrew after heavy losses, while a colossal shadow uprooted the Super Spirit Vein and carried it deeper into the forest.
• The Blood Corpse King led the Blood Demon monsters southwest toward Blood Abyss, the blood-path sacred land near the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Saint Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered outside Blood Abyss Province and sent forces toward the ruins, while Yellow Springs Temple focused on the ruins and sent two Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivators after the Blood Demon Medicine Kings.

Wang Yu lured Five Poisons Old Demon into revealing his true body, then struck him with a Thunder Tribulation Pill and a Heavenly Thunder Talisman Treasure. He left the demon apparently dead, but the demon survived and threatened him, forcing Wang Yu to unleash his Wind Thunder Spirit Tattoo.

• Wang Yu recovered while Five Poisons Old Demon repeatedly sent clones to wear him down during the pursuit.
• Wang Yu pretended to be injured and offered the Inheritance Jade Slip and a Yellow Springs Contract to draw out Five Poisons Old Demon's true body.
• When Five Poisons Old Demon appeared, Wang Yu trapped him in the Starfall Cold Furnace and attacked with a Thunder Tribulation Pill.
• Wang Yu followed with a Heavenly Thunder Talisman Treasure, which charred Five Poisons Old Demon and left him apparently dead.
• Five Poisons Old Demon revealed he had survived and threatened Wang Yu, who activated his Wind Thunder Spirit Tattoo.

Wang Yu survived Five Poisons Old Demon’s relentless poison attacks and fled after the demon’s true body was badly injured. A Peak Foundation Establishment cultivator from Thunder Fire Temple then arrived with Five Poisons Old Demon’s corpse and pressed Wang Yu for more information about the Demon Luo Sect.

• Wang Yu and his Thunder Corpse ambushed Five Poisons Old Demon with curses, lightning, and a coordinated assault, but the demon endured by using his Five Poisons Reincarnation Art and clones.
• Five Poisons Old Demon’s clone poisoned Wang Yu and continued fighting, but Wang Yu inferred that the demon’s true body was severely injured and used the Minor Asura Killing Fist to destroy another clone.
• Five Poisons Old Demon stopped pursuing Wang Yu and threatened to find his corpse, so Wang Yu flew toward You Province on the Thunder Corpse, trusting his body to endure the poison until the Spotless Jade Toad awakened.
• After Wang Yu’s Lightning Pattern state ended, the Great Lake Noble Daughter arrived carrying Five Poisons Old Demon’s true corpse and said she had killed him after being drawn by the battle.
• The Great Lake Noble Daughter asked Wang Yu to tell her everything he knew about Yin Yang Demon Lord and the Demon Luo Sect, while Wang Yu wondered how she had killed a Core Formation Seventh Layer cultivator so easily.

Wang Yu refused Jin Miaoshan’s invitation to join the revived Demon Luo Sect but accepted its token and claimed the Five Poisons Old Demon’s inheritance. Months later, while hiding in You Province, he learned that the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect had defeated Yellow Springs Temple and reclaimed the Blood Demon Ginseng, as he prepared for further cultivation.

• Jin Miaoshan explained that she intended to rebuild the Demon Luo Sect and invited Wang Yu to join, but he refused and accepted her New Demon Luo Token.
• Wang Yu looted the Five Poisons Old Demon’s inheritance, including ancient poison and gu cultivation arts, spirit stones, and magic treasures, then decided not to refine the corpse into a zombie.
• Wang Yu traveled to You Province and settled in Gufang City under an altered appearance, where he gathered news about the conflict in Moon Chase Province.
• Wang Yu learned that the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect had defeated Yellow Springs Temple at the Ancient Heavenly Soul Sect Ruins, reclaimed the Blood Demon Ginseng, and later struck back in Moon Chase Province.
• Wang Yu gathered the spiritual herbs required for two third-rank Alchemy Recipes, including one that could help his Divine Sense advance.

Wang Yu secluded himself in Gufang City for six years to advance his cultivation, refine his Fiend Dragon Armor, and prepare Soul Dream Essence Pills. He emerged at Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer with a perfected Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Art and began using the pills to push his Divine Sense toward Third Tier Mid-Stage.

• Wang Yu entered seclusion in Gufang City to improve his cultivation, nourish the Fiend Dragon Armor, and refine spirit pills.
• After six years, Wang Yu perfected the Heavenly Cold Yin Blood Art, doubled his True Essence Condensation Speed, and raised his True Essence Limit to 5,050 drops.
• Wang Yu's Fiend Dragon Armor became a Third Tier Low Grade True Weapon, increasing his physical abilities and strengthening his Demonic Dragon Fist.
• Wang Yu gathered materials and refined two furnaces of Soul Dream Essence Pills, producing five high-grade pills.
• Wang Yu prepared to use the Soul Dream Essence Pills to advance his Divine Sense to Third Tier Mid-Stage.

After six years of secluded cultivation, Wang Yu raised his divine sense to Third Tier Mid-Stage and traveled toward Moon Chase Province while collecting materials for a Feng Shui Compass. At Yellow White City, he learned that negotiations over Moon Chase Province were deadlocked and faced a shakedown by Yellow Springs Temple disciples.

• Wang Yu refined five high-grade Soul Dream Essence Pills and broke through to Third Tier Mid-Stage in divine sense.
• Wang Yu advanced his Soul Dao secret arts, grasped the incomplete Soul Destroying Death Light, and left seclusion to seek spirit medicines and Feng Shui Compass materials.
• Wang Yu visited Gold Abundance Pavilion in Gufang City, bought the Qi of the Four Seas and Qi of the Four Directions, and continued south toward Yellow White City.
• Wang Yu learned that negotiations over Moon Chase Province had stalled while the Saint Sect and Yellow Springs Temple gathered forces around the remaining cities.
• A Yellow Springs Temple Foundation Establishment cultivator demanded to inspect Wang Yu’s Storage Bag, accepted four bottles of pills, and then another disciple insisted that Wang Yu remove his mask.

Wang Yu massacred Yellow White City’s defenders after a greedy steward demanded he remove his mask, using his demonic flute and twin corpses to overwhelm the city. He killed Elder Li and Elder Xiong, leaving Yellow Springs Temple’s forces shattered and seeking answers about Elder Xiong’s Yellow Springs cultivation.

• Wang Yu killed the Foundation Establishment steward and his companions, then used the Ghost Wail Flute to control cultivators across Yellow White City and drain their souls.
• Elder Xiong learned that a masked enemy had killed over a thousand cultivators and hurried back to the City Lord’s Mansion after realizing the attack was a diversion.
• The Thunder Corpse killed Elder Li during Wang Yu’s assault on the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Elder Xiong tried to bargain with Wang Yu, then fought back with the Yellow Springs Great Handprint while the Yin Fiend Corpse restrained him.
• Wang Yu struck Elder Xiong with a single punch and seized his head as Black Paper Boats surged toward his brow.

Wang Yu learned that the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree had been found in Eastern Peak Capital, looted Yellow White City's treasury, and triggered its formation to wipe out the city. He sought Wei Hao's support in competing for the fruits, and after suspecting Wang Yu had destroyed Yellow White City, Wei Hao invited him back and agreed to join the search.

• Wang Yu learned from Xiong Huan's memories that the Earth Spirit Fruit Tree was in Eastern Peak Capital and that forces were competing for its fruits.
• Wang Yu raided Yellow White City's treasury, activated its Golden Iron Glazed Wall Formation, and left the city's cultivators to be killed by the Ghost Wail Flute.
• Wang Yu arrived at Wanglong City and asked Wei Hao to help him compete for the Earth Spirit Fruits, but Wei Hao initially declined because his forces were stretched thin.
• Wei Hao received a report that Yellow White City had been exterminated by its own formation and suspected Wang Yu was responsible, but told his scout to keep investigating.
• Wei Hao reconsidered and summoned Wang Yu back, saying he would join the fight for the Earth Spirit Fruits.

Wang Yu traded the Demon Corpse to Wei Hao for Purple Gold Peaches and an alliance in the contest for the Earth Spirit Fruit. After reaching Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer through cultivation, Wang Yu emerged from seclusion and sensed the Demon Corpse undergoing a third-rank Thunder Tribulation.

• Wang Yu and Wei Hao signed a Nether River Contract exchanging the Demon Corpse and spirit medicines that could increase Wang Yu's True Essence for a joint attempt to seize the Earth Spirit Fruit.
• Wang Yu learned that the LuoFu Mountain He Clan and a group of Core Formation cultivators were facing off over the Earth Spirit Fruit, while Wei Hao waited for an opening.
• Wei Hao gave Wang Yu eleven Purple Gold Peaches, and Wang Yu began refining them in seclusion.
• After eleven days, Wang Yu increased his True Essence to 6,150 drops and reached Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.
• Wang Yu emerged from the secret chamber and sensed a third-rank Thunder Tribulation beginning for the Demon Corpse.

Wang Yu joined Wei Hao’s team to seize the Earth Spirit Fruits at LuoFu Mountain, where the He Clan’s divided interests left them struggling to defend the treasure. As the attackers wore down the LuoFu Sword Formation, Wang Yu and Wei Hao waited under Wei Ying’s concealment for their chance to act.

• Wei Hao showed Wang Yu the Nine Nether Pearl after completing his transformation and explained his clan’s two branches.
• Wei Hao introduced Wang Yu to Wei Xiang Long, Wei Yu Yu, Wei Yu Ting, Wei Yu Zhen, and Wei Ying, assembling a seven-person team for the Earth Spirit Fruit operation.
• The LuoFu Mountain He Clan debated how to divide sixteen Earth Spirit Fruits, and He Zi Ang refused to yield his share to He Qiu Jian.
• The He Clan received word that the surrounding Core Formation cultivators had begun attacking the LuoFu Sword Formation.
• Wang Yu and Wei Hao watched from concealment as the attackers weakened the formation around the brightly marked Storage Bag containing the Earth Spirit Fruits.
• Wei Hao explained to Wang Yu that the He Clan’s inability to agree on a leader had prevented them from taking the treasure earlier.

Wang Yu watched as LuoFu Mountain’s sword formation battle turned into a deadly scramble for the Earth Spirit Fruits. Wei Ying seized the Storage Bag from Yu Sheng, scattered the fruits to escape the pursuing factions, and vanished with the Wei brothers, leaving the survivors chasing the scattered prizes.

• More than thirty Core Formation cultivators battered the LuoFu Sword Formation until LuoFu Old Ancestor arrived with twelve sword cultivators and launched the LuoFu Twelve Sword Formation against them.
• A Yellow Springs Temple cultivator damaged the LuoFu swords’ life-bound treasures, but LuoFu Old Ancestor retaliated with the Ten Directions Killing Sword and forced the attacker’s golden core to flee.
• A Peak Core Formation cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple entered the fixed formation, while He Qiu Jian failed to stop him after his talismans disabled the Trapping Demon Sword Formation.
• Yu Sheng seized the Storage Bag and escaped with a Fleeing Void Talisman, but Wei Ying appeared, stripped him of it, and took the bag for himself.
• Wei Ying scattered eleven Earth Spirit Fruits to draw the pursuers away, then escaped with the Wei brothers using their Three Talents Formation and Green-Faced Ghost Skull.

Wang Yu returned to Guiling after helping Wei Hao’s group escape with the Earth Spirit Fruits, then traded for a Core Formation spirit item and a calamity-avoiding treasure at Gold Abundance Pavilion. He summoned his people for a meeting and was surprised to find Zuoqiu Ming back six years ahead of schedule.

• Wei Hao gave Wang Yu three Earth Spirit Fruits, and Wang Yu kept two while giving the third to the three Core Formation Seventh Layer brothers to share.
• Wang Yu bid Wei Hao farewell, took a detour to avoid Yellow Springs Temple’s watchers, and returned to Guiling City.
• At Gold Abundance Pavilion, Wang Yu exchanged spirit stones and a Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart for Frozen Blood of the Ice Field and a Thunder Lotus Dao Platform.
• Jin Miaoshan sensed Wang Yu’s heavy killing intent, and Li Nu said he seemed to have killed thousands of cultivators.
• Wang Yu summoned his subjects to a meeting and found Zuoqiu Ming back in Guiling six years before expected.

After returning to Guiling, Wang Yu learned that the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest conflict had ended in a draw and began preparing for Core Formation. In seclusion, he forged the Asura Killing Heart and swallowed an Earth Spirit Fruit, leaving him just under four hundred drops of True Essence short of the amount needed for Core Formation.

• Zuoqiu Ming told Wang Yu that a Spirit Transformation Poison Beast had taken the Super Spirit Vein and that Yellow Springs Temple would likely resume fighting after a Nascent Soul Cultivator was ransomed.
• Wang Yu told Zuoqiu Ming he planned to enter seclusion to prepare for Core Formation, and Zuoqiu Ming agreed to watch over Guiling City.
• Wang Yu met with Qingyang and the others, learned that Xu Ruozhou had reached Foundation Establishment, and gave instructions for Guiling City and its market before entering seclusion.
• Wang Yu opened his Heart Lake and forged the Asura Killing Heart, advancing the Minor Asura Killing Fist to Major Accomplishment.
• Wang Yu swallowed an Earth Spirit Fruit and refined it for more than a year, gaining two thousand five hundred drops of True Essence and ending just under four hundred drops short of his target.

Wang Yu successfully formed a Golden Core, endured the lightning tribulation, and reached Core Formation First Layer at age ninety-three. He chose to continue his seclusion and was surprised to discover that his placement slots could cultivate Magic Power fast enough to reach the next layer in 145 days.

• Wang Yu used Frozen Blood of the Ice Field to condense his Golden Core after preparing for the lightning tribulation.
• Wang Yu survived three bolts of tribulation lightning, and his physique, Divine Sense, and True Fiend Dragon Armor were strengthened.
• Jin Miaoshan, True Person Qingyang, Commander Xu Ruozhou, True Person Han Jia, and others reacted to Wang Yu's breakthrough and prepared to visit or send congratulations.
• Wang Yu reviewed his cultivation arts and placement slots, then switched Minor Asura Killing Fist and Yin Fiend Corpse Refinement Art into two slots for further training.
• Wang Yu decided to remain in seclusion, keep his Earth Spirit Fruit for a pill, and stabilize his new realm.
• Wang Yu received placement-slot feedback and realized he could reach Core Formation Second Layer in 145 days.

Wang Yu completed the Third Tier Corpse Demon Secret Art, received the Third Tier Grand Yin Nether Eye inheritance, and emerged from seclusion after stabilizing his Core Formation cultivation. He learned that the struggle over Moon Chase Province would continue and that Yellow Springs Temple had abandoned the captured Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Wang Yu completed the Third Tier Corpse Demon Secret Art, greatly strengthening his body, recovery, and Divine Sense.
• Wang Yu received the Third Tier Grand Yin Nether Eye inheritance and learned the Moonfall Eye Technique, but chose not to place it in a slot yet.
• Wang Yu ended his seclusion and accepted congratulations from Qingyang, Xu Ruozhou, True Person Han Jia, Golden Flower Granny, and other Guiling City figures.
• Zuoqiu Ming told Wang Yu that the two factions would share the Ancient Heavenly Soul Sect inheritance, investigate the Dragon Vein, and continue their struggle over Moon Chase Province for about eight more years.
• Zuoqiu Ming explained that Yellow Springs Temple had abandoned the captured Nascent Soul cultivator after his followers divided up his holdings, and that the Saint Sect had taken custody of him.

Wang Yu prepared an attack on Sanmao City to settle accounts with Luo Chen, recruiting cultivators and gathering tools to break the city’s defenses. As his force set out, Jin Miaoshan learned that his target was Sanmao City, not Moon Chase Province.

• Wang Yu told Zuoqiu Ming that he planned to attack Sanmao City because Luo Chen had ruined his Scent Listening Assembly, and Zuoqiu Ming agreed to keep watching Guiling City.
• Wang Yu and Qingyang reviewed intelligence showing that the Blood Sabre Warrior was wavering between Wang Yu and Luo Chen, then chose to provoke Luo Chen openly rather than rely on a complicated ambush.
• Wang Yu assessed the enemy cultivators and recruited powerful rogue cultivator Foundation Establishments while preparing talismans and supplies to break Sanmao City’s formation and relocate its mortals.
• Two months later, Wang Yu’s army was ready, and he rode the Three-Tailed Snow Fox toward the ground outside Guiling City.
• Jin Miaoshan asked Li Nu whether Wang Yu was supporting Moon Chase Province, and Li Nu replied that he was going to Sanmao City.

Wang Yu led an army of three thousand toward Sanmao City, while Luo Chen learned of the approaching attack and prepared his forces. As both sides made their final preparations, Qingyang gave Wang Yu the Heavenly Thunder Descent Diagram as insurance against Luo Chen’s trump cards.

• Wang Yu led three thousand City Guard and City Patrol troops toward Sanmao City, with True Person Qingyang accompanying him.
• At Sanmao City, the Blood Sabre Warrior warned Luo Chen about Wang Yu’s army and admitted he had served as Wang Yu’s spy.
• Luo Chen ordered the Blood Sabre Warrior killed, and Old Qiao’s Devouring Origin Profound Saint Sword drained his cultivation and life.
• Luo Chen ordered Zhang Pingping to gather intelligence and Zhou Tiedan to mobilize Sanmao City’s cultivators, then gave Old Qiao a Black Heaven Talisman to watch Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu warned Qingyang that Luo Chen might have a trump card from Black Heaven Talisman Lord, and Qingyang gave him the Heavenly Thunder Descent Diagram.
• Wang Yu placed five hundred thousand spirit stones in a Storage Bag for Qingyang and promised to pay another five hundred thousand if he used the diagram.

Wang Yu led the Gui Ling Army to Sanmao City and began a battle with Luo Chen, who was shocked to learn Wang Yu had reached Core Formation. Wang Yu’s killing-intent fist shattered Luo Chen’s will, leaving him vulnerable as the Black Heaven Banner shielded him from the Yellow Springs Great Handprint.

• Wang Yu learned Sanmao City had gathered several hundred cultivators and that the Black Blood Bandits had gone silent, then continued marching toward the city.
• The Gui Ling Army and Sanmao City’s forces met on a plain, where Luo Chen recognized Wang Yu’s Core Formation aura and challenged him.
• Wang Yu attacked before Luo Chen could finish speaking, and the two armies clashed while Qingyang fought Sanmao City’s Core Formation cultivators.
• Luo Chen used the Black Heaven Banner to fend off Wang Yu’s Demonic Dragon Fist and Black Fire Talisms, but Wang Yu countered with his Ice Dragon Pill Flame.
• Wang Yu struck Luo Chen with the Minor Asura Killing Fist, overwhelming him with a killing-intent illusion and breaking his will.
• Wang Yu followed with the Yellow Springs Great Handprint, and the Black Heaven Banner rushed to protect Luo Chen as Old Qiao sensed danger and loosened his sword art.