Recaps

Wang Yu gained the fifth-tier Ice Hell Demonic Seal, improved his Aurora Escape Technique, and left the Heavenly Star Tower with a high ranking. Outside, he helped Proud Sun Old Demon ambush Yellow Springs Temple cultivators and persuaded the Tower Spirit to alter how failed challengers were expelled.

• Wang Yu placed Ice Hell Demonic Seal in a placement slot, refined the Rainbow Feather Rare Stone, and advanced Aurora Escape Technique to Fourth Tier Top Grade.
• Wang Yu quit the Heavenly Star Tower on floor 150 and received rank 299 on the Heavenly Star Rankings, along with a recommendation for the Imperial Guard.
• Wang Yu warned Proud Sun Old Demon that the tower might offer a chance to reach Spirit Transformation, and Proud Sun decided to continue targeting Yellow Springs Temple cultivators.
• Proud Sun Old Demon trapped Leng Gu in the Cleanse Heaven and Earth Azure Bamboo Formation and killed him with the Blood Sun Extinguishing World Art, then gave Wang Yu his remaining essence.
• Wang Yu secretly asked the Tower Spirit to expel failed challengers away from the first floor, and it approved his request after finding no authority available to judge it.

Proud Sun Old Demon learned Nether Child’s plans from captured souls and took Wang Yu into the imperial palace, leaving the others in the Heavenly Star Tower. Wang Yu chose to search the Eastern Palace for a way past its restrictions and unleashed his stored Restriction Breaking Talismans.

• Proud Sun Old Demon killed two Yellow Springs Temple cultivators, preserved their souls, and learned Nether Child had planned to summon stronger forces to the tower.
• Proud Sun Old Demon abandoned the Heavenly Star Tower and flew with Wang Yu to the imperial palace, leaving Zhou Lingjun behind in Eastern Peak Capital.
• Wang Yu used his command tablet to enter through the Eastern Dragon Gate, and he and Proud Sun Old Demon split up to search the palace.
• Wang Yu rejected the Human Emperor’s Scripture Pavilion as too risky and chose the Eastern Palace as a more manageable target.
• Wang Yu reached the Eastern Palace, found its formation blocking entry, and unleashed his Restriction Breaking Talismans.

Wang Yu opened the Eastern Palace’s spirit coffin and found the Crown Princess, whose soul had been sustained for nearly a hundred thousand years. Before she died, she revealed the truth behind the Primeval Immortal Dynasty’s destruction, gave him a Spirit Transformation treasure, and bound him by oath to hunt those marked by a blood pearl; Wang Yu then began examining the Coiled Dragon Ring.

• Wang Yu used Restriction Breaking Talismans to enter the Eastern Palace and discovered a spirit coffin nourished by Yin Spirit Qi and the souls of ancient corpses.
• Wang Yu recognized the Heavenly Star Earth Yin Soul Return Miracle Formation and opened the coffin, releasing a surge of Yin energy and awakening the Crown Princess.
• The Crown Princess told Wang Yu that the Slaughter Ancient Demon escaped after Sword Venerable and Soul Venerable were corrupted, and that demon-tainted Buddhist honored ones helped bring down the Immortal Dynasty before the Ancient Demon [Moon] sealed its defeat.
• The Crown Princess revealed that an upper-realm immortal had saved the world by swallowing the Fire Spirit, then tried to recover from a Heavenly Scourge by draining life and spirit energy before dying at Eastern Peak Capital.
• The Crown Princess summoned a Coiled Dragon Ring, gave Wang Yu the Blood Feud Source Pearl, and made him swear to kill every being in the Ice Prison Realm that caused it to glow.
• The Crown Princess dissolved into dust, and Wang Yu refined the Coiled Dragon Ring and began sensing its effects.

Wang Yu claimed the Coiled Dragon Ring and entered the imperial palace’s Marrow Cleansing Pool to strengthen the Fiend Dragon Armor. Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul cultivators erupted into a battle near Palace City, where Azure Lion Stone Puppets revealed their lethal power.

• Wang Yu inspected the Coiled Dragon Ring, collected the Crown Princess's Spirit Coffin, and used the ring's authority to travel through the imperial palace.
• Wang Yu reached the Marrow Cleansing Pool and absorbed its water with the Fiend Dragon Armor's dragon-vein-devouring power.
• After the Heavenly Star Tower expelled the cultivators, Tong Du discovered Wang Yu ranked two hundred ninety-ninth on the Heavenly Star Rankings, and the Nascent Souls of both factions hurried toward the imperial palace.
• Di Mingzi attacked the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect cultivators, triggering a large battle in which Ice Soul Fairy and Thunder Howler Lord fought alongside Three Corpses Daoist.
• The fighting drew Azure Lion Stone Puppets, which overwhelmed a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple and killed him.

Wang Yu gained a major boost from the Marrow Cleansing Pool before Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable descended on Eastern Peak Capital. He used the Coiling Dragon Ring to order the Heavenly Star Tower to eject its remaining cultivators, interrupting Nether Child as he refined a breakthrough spirit item.

• The Azure Lion Stone Puppets confirmed their strength, and Thunder Howler Lord killed the Nether Mountain Sect priests who had come to aid Yellow Springs Temple.
• The Marrow Cleansing Pool restored Wang Yu's body, while the Fiend Dragon Armor absorbed its power and doubled its enhancement of his physique.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable arrived, and Wang Yu offered him the Heavenly Star Tower token, prompting Di Mingzi to surrender Yellow Springs Temple's tower rewards as well.
• Wang Yu returned to the Heavenly Star Tower and used the Coiling Dragon Ring's authority to command the Tower Spirit to drive out everyone inside.
• Nether Child was ejected while refining a fifth-rank Breakthrough Spirit Item, and Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable demanded that he return the spirit item.

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable killed Nether Child after Wang Yu used the Heavenly Star Stone Tablet to drive him from the Heavenly Star Tower, and Wang Yu withdrew from Eastern Peak Capital with his allies. On the journey home, Yellow Springs Temple Master intercepted Wang Yu, who realized Proud Sun Old Demon had revealed information about him.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable froze Nether Child, extracted and devoured his Nascent Soul, and killed him while Wang Yu watched.
• Wang Yu returned the token, declined to pursue the imperial palace treasures, and left Eastern Peak Capital with the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect cultivators.
• Wang Yu traveled toward the sect with You Mo, Nether Tiger, Yin Gui Demon Lord, and the sect’s disciples, planning to cultivate with his gains.
• A powerful cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple arrived and targeted Wang Yu, so Wang Yu sent You Mo, Nether Tiger, and the Heaven’s Chosen away while Yin Gui stayed with him.
• Wang Yu identified the newcomer as Yellow Springs Temple Master and asked what he had traded with Proud Sun Old Demon.

Wang Yu learned that the Yellow Springs Temple Master and Proud Sun Old Demon planned to exploit the Eight Capitals Subduing Dragon Formation against Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable, and he agreed to help in exchange for Yellow Springs Temple’s advancement methods and clear terms. The three reached the Underground Dark River to enter the Longevity Medicine Repository, but Wang Yu warned that fully opening its restrictions would alert Crimson Heaven and offered to let them enter one at a time.

• The Yellow Springs Temple Master questioned Wang Yu about his Yellow Springs divine abilities, then sent Yin Gui away to speak with him privately.
• The Temple Master asked Wang Yu to help repeat Heavenly Star Tower’s removal of Nether Child, and Wang demanded Yellow Springs Temple’s advancement methods and a full explanation of the plan in return.
• The Temple Master explained that he and Proud Sun Old Demon intended to use the hidden killing formation within the Eight Capitals Subduing Dragon Formation to trap Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable.
• Wang Yu used the Water Ancestral Decree to transport himself and the Temple Master through the underground water array to meet Proud Sun Old Demon near the Longevity Medicine Repository.
• Wang Yu refused to fully lift the repository’s restrictions because Crimson Heaven would notice, and offered to partially open them so the two elders could enter one at a time.

Wang Yu entered the Longevity Medicine Repository with Proud Sun Old Demon and Yellow Springs Temple Master, secretly took three valuable pills, and waited for a chance to enter the Human Emperor’s Secret Vault. Meanwhile, Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable entered the Imperial Palace, unaware that Wang Yu had deceived him, and the chapter ended as Wang Yu’s illusory body slipped into a Coiling Dragon Pillar.

• Proud Sun Old Demon entered the Longevity Medicine Repository first, and Yellow Springs Temple Master followed by dragging Wang Yu through the restriction.
• Wang Yu took the Blood Abyss Glazed Treasure Pill, the Demon Blood Reverse Source Treasure Pill, and the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill, then waited beside the Coiling Dragon Pillar he believed concealed the secret vault entrance.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable searched Nether Child’s memories, realized Wang Yu had misled him about the Heavenly Star Tower, and entered the Imperial Palace to explore the Golden Luan Hall.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master obtained a pill that could raise his chance of reaching Spirit Transformation, while Proud Sun Old Demon found a valuable spiritual herb.
• Wang Yu used his illusory body to slip into the Coiling Dragon Pillar as the two old demons focused on their discoveries.

Wang Yu explored the Human Emperor’s Secret Vault, collected several treasures, and found the First Generation Human Emperor’s inheritance. Outside, Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable confronted Proud Sun Old Demon and Yellow Springs Temple Master after discovering them in the Longevity Medicine Repository, then attacked Yellow Springs Temple Master.

• Wang Yu examined the secret vault’s records and collected the Water Cloud Sleeve, the damaged Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, and the Creation Longevity Pill.
• Wang Yu discovered inheritances inscribed on the secret vault’s stone wall and searched for one that suited him.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable left the Golden Luan Hall with Luck Dragon Gold and headed for the Longevity Medicine Repository.
• Proud Sun Old Demon bargained with Yellow Springs Temple Master for a way to avoid Demonic Contamination, but Wang Yu’s phantom vanished and they realized he had left them behind.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable broke into the repository, found Proud Sun and Yellow Springs, and demanded their treasures and Storage Rings.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable took the Storage Rings and struck at the Nascent Soul inside Yellow Springs Temple Master.

Yellow Springs Temple Master and Proud Sun Old Demon fought Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable in the Longevity Medicine Repository, where the battle triggered a catastrophic restriction. Wang Yu escaped Eastern Peak Capital through the Underground Dark River as Purple Qi Divine Fire engulfed the city.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable seized Proud Sun Old Demon's Blood Sun Demon Wheel and used Crimson Heaven Demon Light to injure him and force Yellow Springs Temple Master out of the Yellow Springs Great River.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master sacrificed his organs to summon the Yellow Springs Great Demon, whose curse weakened Crimson Heaven as the Wrath Blood Domain turned Proud Sun into a puppet.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master destroyed the Longevity Medicine Repository to trigger its hidden restriction, and the resulting battle reduced Proud Sun to his Nascent Soul and drove him to flee.
• Wang Yu escaped the repository through a spatial-transfer entrance and reviewed three Divine Abilities and two secret arts he had recorded from the Human Emperor's Secret Vault.
• Wang Yu used the Water Ancestral Decree to escape through the Underground Dark River as Purple Qi Divine Fire spread across Eastern Peak Capital.

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable and Yellow Springs Temple Master fought a destructive battle inside Eastern Peak Capital, while Wang Yu escaped and weighed his next move. After deciding to leave the Red Kite Demon Domain, Wang Yu transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered one last risky action.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable summoned his Wrath Blood Dharma Idol and clashed with Yellow Springs Temple Master's White Bone Demon God Dharma Idol amid the Purple Qi Divine Fire.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master used the Yellow Springs Treasure Vase to sustain his Dharma Idol, then shed his shell and attacked Crimson Heaven's followers.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master wounded Crimson Heaven's primordial spirit with the Azure Heavens World Cleansing Demon Sword and seized the three Jiao and two Child Attendants, but Imperial Palace restrictions killed both attendants.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators who escaped Eastern Peak Capital realized that the battle could reshape the demonic factions and affect the Cloud Ridge Province Battlefield.
• Wang Yu escaped through the Underground Dark River, decided to leave the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and Red Kite Demon Domain, and transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered a risky job.

Wang Yu triggered the hidden calamity beneath Eastern Peak Capital and fled as the city collapsed, leaving Crimson Heaven and Yellow Springs Temple Master to face a crimson Sinful Dragon. Heaven Refining Demon Venerable arrived, subdued the dragon, and tried to refine Wang Yu, who escaped the attack, while Yellow Springs Temple Master was left at his mercy.

• Wang Yu activated the Coiling Dragon Scepter, unleashing the accumulated resentment and the Yin Yang Slaughter Formation across Eastern Peak Capital, then fled toward the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Eastern Peak Capital collapsed, trapping Crimson Heaven and Yellow Springs Temple Master as the crimson Sinful Dragon rose from the ruins.
• The Sinful Dragon shattered Crimson Heaven's defenses, but Heaven Refining Demon Venerable arrived and captured it inside the Heaven Refining Demon Formation.
• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable targeted Wang Yu with the Heaven Refining Demon Flame, but Wang Yu abandoned his body below the neck, restored himself, and escaped at high speed.
• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable told Crimson Heaven that Yellow Springs Temple Master would be killed during the Righteous-Demonic War, and Yellow Springs Temple Master silently accepted the threat.

Wang Yu escaped Eastern Peak Capital with Heaven Refining Demon Venerable’s demon flame still burning him, and Yin Gui took him toward a hidden teleportation formation in Hundred Flowers Valley. They intercepted and killed the disguised Proud Sun Old Demon before reaching the secret grounds, where Wang Yu prepared to return to his sect while Yin Gui and Lian Yan faced the fallout.

• Heaven Refining Demon Venerable fought the Sinful Dragon while the Yellow Springs Temple Master tried to turn Chi Tian against pursuing Wang Yu.
• Yin Gui met Wang Yu, who arrived with only his head remaining, and hurried with Lian Yan toward Hundred Flowers Valley’s Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Wang Yu identified a fellow traveler as a Nascent Soul possessing a Core Formation body, and Yin Gui intercepted him as Proud Sun Old Demon.
• Wang Yu exposed Proud Sun, and Yin Gui and Lian Yan helped destroy Proud Sun’s Nascent Soul and took his Cosmos Ring.
• Yin Gui brought Wang Yu and Lian Yan to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Wang Yu wished Yin Gui success in reaching Nascent Soul Late Stage before they parted.

Wang Yu fled the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect after the events in Eastern Peak Capital and hid in the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range to recover from the Heaven Refining Demon Flame. After learning that the flame could only be subdued through years of cultivation, he set out for Water Cloud Province to seek refuge and continue healing.

• Wang Yu teleported away from Yin Gui, sealed the formation route, and arranged to meet Old Geezer Yu, Tantai Chan, Yu Tang Tang, and Snow Jade at the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon's cave.
• Wang Yu gave Old Geezer Yu the Crimson Jade Longevity Peach, warned him about the fallout from Eastern Peak Capital, and asked him to pass word about Ancestor Lie's death to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect's Sect Master.
• Wang Yu said farewell to Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan, passed Cold Dragon Alchemy to Tantai Chan, and left with Snow Jade through Old Geezer Yu's hidden teleportation route.
• Old Geezer Yu sent Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan toward the Black Water Mysterious Snake settlement, while Wang Yu reached Desolate City and began healing in seclusion.
• Wang Yu restored his Undying Spirit Bone but discovered that the Heaven Refining Demon Flame's artistic conception would take years to weaken with the Prajna Heart Sutra.
• The Heaven Refining Demon Sect blamed Wang Yu for the Eastern Peak Capital deaths and ordered the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect into the Vanguard Army; after half a year, Wang Yu left seclusion and headed for Water Cloud Province.

Wang Yu settled in Water Cloud Immortal Capital to conceal himself and recover from his wounds, disguising himself as a mortal and opening a wine shop. Three years later, he was thriving in his quiet new life while continuing his cultivation and healing.

• Wang Yu arrived in Water Cloud Immortal Capital, accepted breakfast from a young girl of the West Mountain Dou Clan, and learned who she was after leaving without giving his name.
• Wang Yu exchanged spirit stones for mortal money, bought ordinary clothes, and moved into a two-courtyard house on the edge of the Outer City Area, where he arranged a formation to conceal his aura.
• Wang Yu began cultivating secret arts and reciting the Prajna Heart Sutra, steadily recovering while discovering that the Heaven Refining Demon Flame was also refining his body.
• Wang Yu drove off hoodlums who targeted him after he displayed his wealth, planted two jujube trees, and rented a nearby shop to sell wine.
• Three years later, Wang Yu ran Wang's Herb Wine Shop with two shop hands, rejected matchmakers, and relaxed in the spring sun as his wounds continued to heal.

Wang Yu continued recovering in seclusion while living as a liquor-shop owner, and Dou Zhao discovered that his token belonged to an ancestor of her clan. As winter deepened and war brought extreme cold to the Water Cloud Immortal Capital, Wang Yu took in a starving girl and learned that a cultivator had likely killed her mother.

• Wang Yu showed Dou Zhao the Blood Token, and she recognized it as an eight-hundred-year-old heirloom of her clan; he claimed she should call him Ancestor Uncle.
• Several months later, Wang Yu heard that demonic forces had intensified the war and Cold Blood Peak was manipulating the weather, bringing deadly cold to the region.
• Wang Yu gave a hungry girl named Nannan a meal and learned that her mother had left that morning to buy charcoal.
• Wang Yu found Nannan's mother dead in an alley, her soul destroyed by what appeared to be a cultivator's attack.
• The next day, Wang Yu reunited Nannan with her father and learned from a neighboring teahouse owner that an Azure Cloud Sect cultivator had attacked a woman who had bumped into them while buying charcoal.

Wang Yu recovered from his injuries, refined the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill, and reached Nascent Soul Peak Divine Sense before returning to Water Cloud Immortal Capital. There, Qing Fang begged him to save the Dou Clan, which faced punishment as the Azure Cloud Sect shifted blame for the winter deaths onto local families; the chapter ended as an enforcement elder arrived at the Dou residence.

• Wang Yu learned that Azure Cloud Sect disciples had mishandled winter relief, but chose to focus on healing and cultivation rather than intervene.
• Wang Yu recovered, strengthened his body, then secluded himself to refine the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill and reached Nascent Soul Peak Divine Sense.
• Dou Zhao searched for Wang Yu after the Dou Clan was implicated in the Azure Cloud Sect's investigation, while Qing Fang waited for his return.
• The Azure Cloud Sect blamed the West Mountain Dou Clan and other local families for embezzling relief supplies as it sought to explain the mass deaths caused by the cold current.
• Wang Yu returned to his shop, where Qing Fang knelt and begged him to save the Dou Clan.
• At the Dou residence, the clan discussed its lack of allies and considered contacting Dou Quan before a servant announced the arrival of an enforcement elder from the City Lord's Mansion.

Wang Yu intervened after Gu Yanping threatened the Dou Family, then went to confront Water Cloud Immortal Capital’s city lord over the scheme to make the clan take the blame. He left the Dou Family protected for the moment and began assessing the city lord’s character at their meeting.

• Gu Yanping told the Dou Family to surrender its shops to the Gu Clan within three days or face destruction, and insulted Dou Zhao as a prospective concubine.
• Dou Xiong attacked Gu Yanping, whose defenses failed under Wang Yu’s Divine Sense pressure, and Wang Yu revealed himself as a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator.
• Wang Yu ordered Gu Yanping to tell the city lord that he would visit the City Lord’s Mansion at noon the next day, then warned Dou Zhao about his demonic identity and suggested Red Kite as a refuge.
• Wang Yu met the city lord and another Nascent Soul at the City Lord’s Mansion, recognized that the city lord had consumed pills made with the Blood Pill Technique, and judged his methods crude.

Wang Yu resolved the threat to the Dou Family, made Chang Xi his Demon Slave, and refined a Blood Infant Pill that greatly increased his Demonic Essence. As he returned to Water Cloud Immortal Capital, he encountered an Azure Cloud Sect disciple inciting a crowd against a scapegoated man and secretly searched the disciple’s soul.

• The City Lord and the Garrison Commander let Wang Yu’s intervention on the Dou Family’s behalf pass without testing him, and Wang Yu returned to his quiet life.
• Wang Yu offered Chang Xi death or servitude; she accepted the Demon Seed and became his Demon Slave, after which he released her near the border of Water Cloud Province.
• Wang Yu spent eighteen months refining Longevity Blood Infant Pills, consumed one, and increased his Demonic Essence by three thousand drops.
• The Ice Flame Butterflies emerged at Fourth Tier strength, and Wang Yu returned to Water Cloud Immortal Capital in his Boss Wang disguise.
• Dou Xiong argued with Dou Zhao about her attachment to Wang Yu and urged her to leave the city’s affairs to pursue cultivation.
• Wang Yu saw an Azure Cloud Sect disciple label a man a criminal and invite the crowd to beat him, so he sent a Soul Gouging Evil Boat into the disciple to search his soul.

After discovering that Azure Cloud Sect and Joyful Union Demon Sect cultivators had caused the deaths of a father and daughter, Wang Yu buried them and spent twenty years cultivating, reaching Nascent Soul Fifth Layer. Seeking life force to advance his body refinement, he headed for Water Cloud Immortal Capital, where Dou Zhao was being questioned about him.

• Wang Yu uncovered a Qi Refining cultivator’s role in Azure Cloud Sect’s scheme and Joyful Union Demon Sect’s trafficking, but the father and daughter he had tried to protect died from their injuries.
• Wang Yu buried the pair, abandoned his liquor shop, and devoted himself to cultivation for twenty years.
• Wang Yu reached Nascent Soul Fifth Layer, advanced his Ice Hell Demon Seal, and concluded that he needed to replenish his life force to improve his Undying Spirit Body.
• Wang Yu decided to harvest life force from cultivators in Water Cloud Immortal Capital and rushed toward the city.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, Yuan Tianyu and Hong Hai discussed the war and the mysterious Nascent Soul Great Perfection; they summoned Dou Zhao to question her about Wang Yu.

Wang Yu destroyed the City Lord's Mansion, killed City Lord Yuan and Old Daoist Hong Hai, and took Dou Zhao away as his disciple. After gathering information at Glacial River Pass, he secluded himself and broke through to Body Refinement Fourth Tier Late Stage, then gave Dou Zhao the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Art.

• Dou Zhao told City Lord Yuan that she had only briefly met Wang Yu, but the old servant ordered her to meet the Third Young Master, and Yuan threatened her when she refused.
• Wang Yu stormed the City Lord's Mansion, killed City Lord Yuan and Old Daoist Hong Hai, drained their life essence, and destroyed the mansion before escaping with Dou Zhao.
• Dou Zhao chose to leave with Wang Yu, said farewell to her family, and accepted his offer to become his disciple as they headed toward Icy Plains Province.
• Wang Yu gathered news about the fighting near Glacial River Pass, settled Dou Zhao at a secluded Second Tier Spirit Vein, and spent a year preparing for a breakthrough.
• Wang Yu broke through to Body Refinement Fourth Tier Late Stage, then gave the newly Foundation Establishment Dou Zhao the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Art and told her to consult him while cultivating it.

Wang Yu introduced Dou Zhao to Snow Jade, whose bloodline had transformed to Heavenly Grade Lower, and prepared to use his Hunting Plan to secure a suitable place for her breakthrough. He and Dou Zhao reached Kuang Mei Mountain, where Wang Yu went ahead alone to scout and contact allies.

• Wang Yu explained that he had taken Dou Zhao as a disciple to build a network of allies and introduced her to Snow Jade.
• Snow Jade showed off her new seven-tailed form and transformed bloodline, and Wang Yu discussed helping her break through and cultivate the Human Desire Art.
• Snow Jade described how her Snow Fox Garment and Heavenly Fox Seven Transformations had gained new forms and abilities.
• Wang Yu chose Kuang Mei Mountain as the site for Snow Jade's breakthrough and brought Dou Zhao and Snow Jade there.
• After Snow Jade declined to seek a breakthrough site among the Northern Lands Demon Clan, Wang Yu told her and Dou Zhao to wait and went alone to scout Kuang Mei Mountain.

Wang Yu gathered information from Ice Soul Fairy and devised a plan to draw Azure Cloud Sect forces away from Glacial River Pass by threatening Water Cloud Province. He then brought Snow Jade to a secluded spirit spring on Kuang Mei Mountain, where her transformation began beneath a heavenly tribulation.

• Wang Yu infiltrated the Red Kite camp and asked Ice Soul Fairy about the battle situation, sect deployments, and Kuang Mei Mountain’s spirit veins.
• Ice Soul Fairy revealed that Dark Roc Bishop had deliberately favored attrition, leaving Glacial River Pass in a prolonged stalemate.
• Wang Yu considered ways to lure Azure Cloud Sect experts into a hunt, and Dou Zhao suggested looking at the wider war and the threat to Water Cloud Immortal Capital.
• Wang Yu realized pressure on Water Cloud Province could force Azure Cloud Sect to transfer powerful cultivators south, creating a target for his plan.
• Wang Yu took Snow Jade and Dou Zhao to a secluded spirit spring on Kuang Mei Mountain, where Snow Jade began her transformation as heavenly might descended.

Wang Yu watched Snow Jade complete her tribulation as cultivators gathered at Kuang Mei Mountain, including Demon Lord Tang Yang, who attacked him. Wang Yu defeated Tang Yang and captured his Nascent Soul, while Snow Jade emerged from her tribulation and called to her master.

• Wang Yu told Dou Zhao that reaching Snow Jade’s realm could take her five hundred years, then urged her to cultivate independently and earn resources through hardship.
• Wang Yu sent Dou Zhao into the Human Seed Bag when Nascent Soul cultivators from the Nether Mountain Sect, Azure Cloud Sect, and Blazing Sun Sect arrived to watch Snow Jade’s tribulation.
• Demon Lord Tang Yang attacked Wang Yu with his Fire Crow Flame Feather Sword Wings, but Wang Yu compressed the attack into a golden orb and sent it exploding across Kuang Mei Mountain.
• Wang Yu captured the fleeing Nascent Soul of an Azure Cloud Sect cultivator and injured Tang Yang, whose magic treasures then began to self-destruct.
• Wang Yu avoided the explosions, killed Tang Yang, and captured his Nascent Soul in the Glass Pagoda.
• Snow Jade completed her tribulation and called out to Wang Yu.

Wang Yu killed Tang Yang and cultivated the Human Desire Art with Snow Jade and Dou Zhao before refining Tang Yang’s Nascent Soul to strengthen his Demonic Essence. As Wang Yu settled into cultivation, the Yellow Springs Temple Master and the Blood Demon Hall Master joined forces at Black Mountain Pass and prepared to unleash the Yellow Springs Great River.

• Snow Jade found Wang Yu after he killed Tang Yang and the old cultivator, and they left the scene as the Nether Mountain Sect priests fled to report the deaths.
• Snow Jade persuaded Dou Zhao to join her and Wang Yu in cultivating the Human Desire Art, and Dou Zhao later approached Wang Yu herself.
• Wang Yu delayed his Hunting Plan, refined Tang Yang’s Nascent Soul into a Blood Infant Pill, and reached the peak of Nascent Soul Fifth Layer while planning to stabilize his foundation.
• Snow Jade showed Wang Yu her Heavenly Fox Illusion, and he offered suggestions before beginning to refine the pill.
• The Yellow Springs Temple Master presented Zhuo Shouyun to the Blood Demon Hall Master and proposed they cooperate to draw in the Yellow Springs Great River and destroy the Great Lake Spirit Domain.