Recaps

Wang Yu negotiated with Liu Jin Xian over Gu Zheng Shun’s secrets, then helped her investigate the powerful formation protecting the lower levels of Profound Bone Mountain. He returned to guard his Profound Essence Flower and cultivate, and by the following year the flowers began blooming as dangerous beasts emerged from Wasteland Cave.

• Wang Yu showed Liu Jin Xian the arm of a Second Tier Armored Corpse and claimed Gu Zheng Shun had betrayed him, persuading her to accept his cooperation.
• Liu Jin Xian and Wang Yu attacked the black fog formation, where three Bronze Armor Corpses revealed it was the Earth Yin Corpse Puppet Formation.
• Liu Jin Xian explained the formation’s origin and said she would ask Situ Hong about a formation-breaking treasure, while Wang Yu returned to guard his flower.
• Wang Yu examined the spoils from two Storage Bags, then spent months cultivating and accumulated 423 strands of spiritual power.
• At the end of May the following year, the Profound Essence Flowers began blooming, drawing Rotting Poison Bee Swarms and Ferocious Bone Lions from Wasteland Cave.

Wang Yu discovered that his poor spiritual root wasted most of the Profound Essence Flower’s medicinal power, making advancement far more difficult and leaving him considering spiritual-root theft or the Placement Slot. Liu Jin Xian summoned him to investigate the underground source of the creatures at Profound Bone Mountain, while Wang Yu and Su Qing Shan each secretly contemplated killing the other for his resources.

• Wang Yu tested a Profound Essence Flower and found that his Five Elements Useless Spiritual Root absorbed less than half its effect, meaning he would need vastly more resources to advance.
• Wang Yu concluded that Top-Grade pills or a method to seize spiritual roots might be necessary for him to establish a foundation, then waited for news from Liu Jin Xian.
• A Poison Gu Peak disciple summoned Wang Yu, and Liu Jin Xian gathered him with eighteen Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators to investigate a cave near Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu and Su Qing Shan exchanged smiles while privately considering how to eliminate the other and take his resources.
• The group entered the nameless cave and found a deep pit where the demon beasts had emerged.

Liu Jin Xian led Wang Yu and the other cultivators through an underground passage beneath Profound Bone Mountain, where they discovered a cluster of ancient palace ruins. As the group approached the central hall, Wang Yu considered who might have known about the ruins and what treasures they could contain.

• Liu Jin Xian sent a Firefly Gu down a pit and learned that an underground passage led north toward the Endless Ice Field.
• Liu Jin Xian divided her eighteen Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators into a rear guard, a vanguard, and a middle group that included Wang Yu.
• The party traveled through the freezing passage, and Liu Jin Xian sent out Gu insects to scout ahead before directing everyone onward.
• The cultivators reached an underground complex with dozens of palaces, and Liu Jin Xian judged it to be the ruins of an ancient sect founded by a Core Formation Cultivator.
• Wang Yu suspected several factions had concealed Profound Bone Mountain's secrets and wondered whether the ruins held a formula for the Top Grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• As the group reached the steps toward the central hall, pale-blue flames lit in the palace lanterns.

As the group climbed toward Moon Gathering Palace, Liu Jin Xian demanded a share of the treasures from anyone who turned aside, while Wang Yu weighed the danger and plotted to deal with Su Qing Shan. Below the mountain, Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong revealed their scheme to exploit the conflict between Wang Yu and Liu Jin Xian, and Su Qing Shan followed Wang Yu with three allies intending to kill him.

• Liu Jin Xian warned the shivering cultivators that those who left the stairs must surrender copies of their cultivation methods and half their treasures, and she told Wang Yu the same rule applied to him.
• At the bottom of the third Profound Bone Mountain, Situ Hong found Gu Zheng Shun newly advanced to Qi Refining Seventh Layer beside a fissure where armored corpses absorbed Corpse Qi.
• Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong discussed Liu Jin Xian's backing, Wang Yu's strength, and their plan to let the rivals clash before claiming the Underground Palace's treasures.
• Wang Yu left the stairs for a side hall and beckoned Su Qing Shan to follow, intending to confront him before the larger conflict developed.
• Su Qing Shan persuaded three Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators to help kill Wang Yu in exchange for a share of his Profound Essence Flowers, and they trailed him toward the ancient buildings.

Wang Yu lured Su Qing Shan and three allies into an ambush, then fought them with his Perfection techniques and powerful corpse arm. After killing two attackers and secretly killing Xi Zhi Cai, he faced Su Qing Shan alone, with the fight still unresolved.

• Wang Yu hid by a palace wall and struck the pursuing Su Qing Shan and his three companions with a giant ice sword, killing one and wounding Su Qing Shan.
• Wang Yu used Illusionary Steps and his corpse arm to seize and smash the cultivator who attacked with Ripping Wind Step Force.
• Su Qing Shan pressed Wang Yu with his ice sword while Xi Zhi Cai attacked with a black divine-sense beam, forcing Wang Yu to dodge and lose his Bronze Bell.
• Wang Yu killed Xi Zhi Cai with an Ice Coffin during his clash with Su Qing Shan, then replenished his spiritual energy with a Top Grade Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Wang Yu launched a swarm of ice swords at Su Qing Shan, who dismissed him and prepared to use Profound Yin Hand.

Wang Yu defeated Su Qing Shan with his Illusionary Steps, Nether Spirit Iron Chain, and powerful left arm, then searched the fallen cultivators’ belongings. He found Yin Marrow Liquid and the Profound Yin Hand technique, while mistakenly believing Su Qing Shan had left no warning for Steward Xu.

• Su Qing Shan attacked Wang Yu with Profound Yin Hands, but Wang Yu used illusory bodies and the Nether Spirit Iron Chain to mislead him.
• Wang Yu struck Su Qing Shan’s head with his left fist and killed him.
• Wang Yu searched four Storage Bags and found spirit stones, magical artifacts, and evidence that Su Qing Shan had ransacked the Xu Estate.
• Wang Yu discovered Yin Marrow Liquid, a material needed to refine the Cold Dragon Pill, and brocade silk recording the Profound Yin Hand technique.
• Wang Yu wondered how Su Qing Shan had obtained Yellow Springs Temple’s inheritance and decided Su Qing Shan was unlikely to have alerted Steward Xu.
• Su Qing Shan had secretly left a letter identifying Wang Yu and intended to make him take the blame.

Wang Yu explored the Underground Palace Ruins and found the Scripture Pavilion, where three Poison Gu Peak disciples were studying an unreadable Ancient Demonic Script. After one insulted him, Wang Yu killed all three, leaving him with the pavilion to investigate.

• Wang Yu stored the Profound Essence Flowers for use after he broke through the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and restored Corpse Demon Secret Art to his placement slot.
• Wang Yu reached the Scripture Pavilion and noticed a dead Pavilion Guardian and three Poison Gu Peak disciples watching for someone to approach.
• Wang Yu recognized the tablet’s writing as Blood Script Characters and asked the disciples about the underground palace’s origins.
• After the Zhang-surnamed cultivator insulted him, Wang Yu killed him with a punch and crushed another disciple and his gu worm with the Ice Vein Sword.
• The last disciple fled in terror and asked Wang Yu why he was attacking him.

Wang Yu killed three disciples in the Scripture Pavilion, then faced a newly awakened Corpse Demon whose Core Formation aura concealed Foundation Establishment Early Stage strength. After failing to escape and suffering severe injuries, he tricked the demon in close combat and stole the Black Jade Slip bearing the name [Grand Yin Nether Eye].

• Wang Yu attacked Senior Brother Yuan, who tried to possess a corpse with Dual Possession Gu, but Wang Yu trapped and killed him with ice.
• The corpse awakened as a Corpse Demon, killed the Dual Possession Gu, and struck Wang Yu hard enough to shatter his Nether Spirit Iron Chain.
• Wang Yu tried to flee the Scripture Pavilion with illusory bodies, but the Corpse Demon saw through them, destroyed his Bronze Bell, and wounded his chest.
• Wang Yu noticed the Corpse Demon guarding a Black Jade Slip and decided to risk a close-range feint rather than leave empty-handed.
• Wang Yu slipped past the Corpse Demon's attack, crippled his Divine Strength Corpse Arm, and seized the slip inscribed with [Grand Yin Nether Eye].

Wang Yu escaped the Scripture Pavilion with a Jade Slip, abandoned the dangerous expedition to Moon Gathering Palace, and fought his way out of the Underground Palace. Elsewhere, Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong reached a lower cavern filled with graves, bone beasts, and a vast bee nest, then began setting up a corpse formation.

• Wang Yu hid from the Corpse Demon with the Night Concealment Spell, repaired the appearance of his injured hand, and decided not to go to Moon Gathering Palace.
• Wang Yu told three rear guards about the Underground Palace, but when they tried to rob him, he killed them and destroyed the pit leading down.
• Wang Yu returned to Profound Bone Mountain, leaving the other cultivators below with their route out blocked.
• Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong led twelve Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators into a lower cavern, where they found burial mounds, a huge foul-smelling beehive, and Ferocious Bone Lions scavenging tombs.
• Gu Zheng Shun deployed twelve Bronze Armor Corpses with talismans and command flags to form the Earth Yin Corpse Puppet Formation.

After recovering from his injuries and counting his gains, Wang Yu moved away from Profound Bone Mountain to cultivate and keep watch. He began training the Profound Yin Hand and Grand Yin Nether Eye, but his slow progress left him still far from the breakthrough he needed to return underground.

• Wang Yu recovered for three days, gathered the spoils from his kills, and refined Yuan Tongmen's Golden Blade Whip and a Black Scale Shield.
• Wang Yu left Profound Bone Mountain and hid in a natural cave near the Spirit Vein so he could watch for Liu Jin Xian's group while cultivating.
• Wang Yu cultivated the Second Tier High-Grade spell Profound Yin Hand and placed the Grand Yin Nether Eye secret art in his third Placement Slot.
• Half a year later, Wang Yu had accumulated 536 strands of spiritual power, but he still needed years of cultivation before reaching his next breakthrough.

Wang Yu watched the disciples at Profound Bone Mountain struggle with Liu Jin Xian and the others’ disappearance while he weighed whether to investigate the underground palace himself. A year later, the disciples negotiated over the Profound Essence Flower harvest, and the Five Yin Peak revealed that their excavation had reopened a passage underground, though something had changed below.

• Wang Yu learned that Liu Jin Xian and the others had been missing for over half a year, while Five Yin Peak and Poison Gu Peak disciples argued over whether to search for them or pursue the underground palace’s secrets.
• Wang Yu saw that most cultivators had left to search for caverns or dig through rock, leaving fewer than a hundred to tend the Bone Wood, and he decided to wait before investigating.
• The next June, fewer Profound Essence Flowers bloomed, and the eight newly advanced Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators struggled to protect the three mountains from demonic beasts.
• The Five Yin Peak and Poison Gu Peak disciples met to discuss cooperation, as Poison Gu Peak warned that Liu Jin Xian’s missing spiritual power left its controlled cultivators at risk of dying.
• A Five Yin Peak disciple announced that his group had reopened the underground passage after nearly a year of digging, but something below had changed.

Wang Yu watched the Poison Gu Peak and Five Yin Peak disciples form a tense alliance to clear Profound Bone Mountain while he completed the first stage of the Grand Yin Nether Eye. Ten days later, Poison Gu Peak descended into the underground passage with Liu Jin Xian’s unstable Bee Gu, while Five Yin Peak held its stronger cultivators back.

• Five Yin Peak pressured the Poison Gu Peak disciples into accepting help controlling the Rotting Poison Bee Gu in exchange for clearing Profound Bone Mountain and giving up seventy percent of the Profound Essence Flower profits.
• Wang Yu watched the alliance form and considered using the coming conflict to seize Profound Essence Flowers while remaining hidden underground.
• Wang Yu completed the first stage of the Grand Yin Nether Eye, gained Moon Observation, and resumed cultivating the Corpse Demon Secret Art in the vacant placement slot.
• Ten days later, Poison Gu Peak disciples and several hundred followers gathered at the Nameless Cave with Liu Jin Xian’s unstable Bee Gu, controlled by a Nether Mountain Sect secret art.
• The Poison Gu Peak disciples descended into the underground passage, while Five Yin Peak sent only three Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivators after waiting thirty breaths.

Wang Yu raided the Five Yin Peak disciples’ storehouse on Profound Bone Mountain, killing several cultivators and stealing half the Profound Essence Flowers and a third of the Bone Wood. He escaped to his Cave Abode and preserved the flowers, leaving him prepared to pursue his cultivation plans.

• Five Yin Peak’s new leader ordered weaker cultivators to retreat and arranged for disciples to guard Profound Bone Mountain while their people sought another route to the surface.
• Wang Yu returned to Profound Bone Mountain and ambushed Five Yin Peak disciples who were gambling, killing several with his Golden Blade Whip and Profound Yin Hand.
• Wang Yu broke the storehouse’s Formation and took half the Profound Essence Flowers and a third of the Bone Wood before escaping through the surrounding shadows.
• Five Yin Peak’s leaders blamed Poison Gu Peak for the theft and ordered Fang Zhuo to open a new route quickly.
• Wang Yu returned to his Cave Abode, preserved the stolen flowers with the Sealing Pill Method, and concluded that he was ready for the next step.

Situ Hong, Liu Jin Xian, and Gu Zheng Shun remained trapped in Moon Gathering Palace’s opposing Yin and Yang formations with a Poison Bee King and a Foundation Establishment Corpse Demon. When Poison Gu Peak disciples finally arrived, most fled, but five entered to help Liu Jin Xian activate the Yang Formation Eye, setting up a fierce battle.

• Liu Jin Xian explained that the Yin and Yang formations required cooperation to open the next palace gate, but approaching the Yang Eye loosened the chains restraining the two evil creatures.
• Situ Hong pressed Gu Zheng Shun to act before Poison Gu Peak disciples arrived, while Liu Jin Xian said her followers would come within half a month.
• More than a hundred Poison Gu Peak disciples reached the restriction barrier, but most scattered after seeing the Poison Bee King and Corpse Demon; five stayed.
• Liu Jin Xian learned that four of her missing subordinates had been killed by the Poison Bee King and two by Situ Hong, while the others remained unaccounted for.
• Liu Jin Xian used her Second Tier High-Grade Magical Artifact to break a hole in the restriction, and the five disciples entered to help activate the Yang Formation Eye.

Wang Yu survived as demons slaughtered the disciples at Profound Bone Three Mountains, then looted their supplies while Liu Jin Xian and the others escaped a deadly underground palace. When they returned, they found the mountains deserted and questioned Wang Yu about his survival.

• A Second-Order Ferocious Bone Lion killed most of the Five Yin Peak disciples, while Wang Yu watched from hiding and waited until the survivors fled before looting the stores and their Storage Bags.
• Liu Jin Xian used Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong’s subordinates to open the way into the Third Layer of Moon Gathering Palace, but she and the others fled within moments as the palace’s dangers killed their followers.
• A remnant soul emerged from the Corpse Demon, lamented its failed escape from the cage, and vanished, leaving the restored demon to pursue the humans.
• Three days later, Liu Jin Xian, Gu Zheng Shun, and Situ Hong escaped the underground palace and discovered Profound Bone Three Mountains empty except for the Ferocious Bone Lion.
• Wang Yu met the three and described the slaughter, claiming he had barely survived through concealment; Liu Jin Xian challenged him for not helping, and Situ Hong defended him.

Wang Yu and the others stayed at Profound Bone Mountain, where he spent the next year cultivating in seclusion and advanced from Qi Refining Sixth Layer to Qi Refining Seventh Layer. He continued refining the Profound Essence Flower essence, aiming to further purify his spiritual power.

• Liu Jin Xian, Situ Hong, and Wang Yu agreed to remain at Profound Bone Mountain, while Gu Zheng Shun withdrew into the Formation.
• Over the following year, Liu Jin Xian searched for Rotting Poison Bees, Situ Hong raised Yin Ghost Servants, and Wang Yu cultivated in seclusion.
• Wang Yu turned twenty-two and broke through to Qi Refining Sixth Layer after cultivating his thousandth strand of Spiritual Power.
• Wang Yu soaked in a pool of Profound Essence Flower essence and used the medicine to refine his spiritual power.
• After about three months, Wang Yu completed his second spirit refinement and broke through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Wang Yu continued cultivating to purify his spiritual power further and began transforming it into semi-liquid true essence.

Wang Yu gained a fourth Placement Slot and used it to cultivate Profound Yin Hand, then sought information about the Underground Palace and the Blood Talisman Runes. After Liu Jin Xian and Gu Zheng Shun refused to see him, he went to Situ Hong’s cave and used the Grand Yin Nether Eye to look inside.

• Wang Yu saw that the fourth Placement Slot had appeared and assigned it to Profound Yin Hand to improve his battle strength.
• Three months later, Wang Yu’s spiritual power became fully semi-liquefied, and he advanced from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Seventh Layer over the three years since leaving home.
• Wang Yu decided to seek Liu Jin Xian’s help understanding the Blood Talisman Runes and the Demonic Script Stone Tablet, but she refused to meet with him.
• Wang Yu went to Gu Zheng Shun next, but Gu gave no response from behind his formation.
• Wang Yu visited Situ Hong’s temporary cave abode, received no answer, and used the Grand Yin Nether Eye to peer through the mountain rock and formation.

Wang Yu asked Situ Hong to decipher Blood Talisman Script and learned that studying it could awaken dangerous power in the blood. After using his Placement Slot to process the script analysis, Wang Yu found he could place the Mysterious Silk Book in the slot without comprehending it himself.

• Wang Yu pressured Situ Hong into letting him enter the temporary Cave Abode, then asked him to explain several Blood Talisman Runes.
• Situ Hong explained the runes and warned Wang Yu that Blood Talisman Script could awaken blood and turn a cultivator into a slaughtering demon creature.
• Situ Hong gave Wang Yu three Jade Slips containing Blood Talisman Script analysis, and Wang Yu returned to his Cave Abode.
• Wang Yu suspected the Mysterious Silk Book had caused Xu Jiao Jiao's unusual appearance and wondered if its contents could be cultivated without direct comprehension.
• Wang Yu used his Placement Slot to absorb the Jade Slips' knowledge, then found he could place the Mysterious Silk Book in the slot while keeping his mind empty.

Wang Yu began cultivating the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, a miracle art that strengthened his defense without its usual backlash when practiced through the placement slot. As he prepared to revisit the Underground Palace with Situ Hong, Steward Xu suddenly arrived on Profound Bone Mountain seeking him, leaving Wang Yu to retreat while the Bone Lion King engaged the Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Wang Yu recognized the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique as a defensive miracle art that used Yin Spirits, and realized the placement slot could cultivate it without triggering its backlash.
• Black Fiend Armor Patterns began forming on Wang Yu's body as pure Yin Spirit Power flowed into him through the placement slot.
• Ten days later, Wang Yu swallowed his fourth Top-Grade Cold Blood Pill, and in the first month of his sixth Outer Sect year he set out to find Situ Hong about exploring the Underground Palace again.
• Steward Xu arrived on Profound Bone Mountain and called out Wang Yu, who recognized him as Xu Jiao Jiao's father and retreated under the Night Concealment Spell.
• The Bone Lion King charged Steward Xu, and the two fought until Steward Xu sacrificed a Second Tier Low Grade sword Magical Artifact and gained the upper hand.

Wang Yu fled Profound Bone Mountain and decided to seek refuge in Maple Province City rather than return to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect. After Steward Xu cornered Liu Jin Xian, she unleashed a powerful gu-path trump card, leaving him badly wounded as she pursued him.

• Wang Yu rejected returning to the sect and chose to flee east-southeast toward Maple Province City.
• Steward Xu killed the Bone Lion King, then restrained Liu Jin Xian and demanded to know where Wang Yu had gone.
• Liu Jin Xian escaped Steward Xu's grip and bit him with an Azure Snake Venom Thread Gu, then triggered a Core Formation-level attack.
• Steward Xu severed his poisoned arm and defended himself, but the giant snake's attack destroyed his defenses and badly injured him.
• Liu Jin Xian ordered Situ Hong and Gu Zheng Shun to help kill the fleeing Steward Xu, but both refused, so she chased him alone.

Wang Yu fled toward Maple Province City while Steward Xu, badly poisoned and wounded by Liu Jin Xian, lured her onward as he tried to recover enough strength to kill her. Wang Yu decided to join the pursuit, but after two hours he had fallen behind and could only follow Liu Jin Xian’s lingering aura.

• Wang Yu ran toward Maple Province City, relying on his Night Concealment Spell and plentiful Top Grade Spirit Recovery Pills to keep going.
• Steward Xu recalled how the Zhu family, Evil God Peak, and Steward Zhuo had stripped him of his wealth, then accepted that his conflict with Liu Jin Xian had become a fight to the death.
• Steward Xu slowed just enough to keep Liu Jin Xian pursuing him while he secretly recovered his true essence, then flew toward Maple Province City.
• Liu Jin Xian noticed Steward Xu heading for the city and accelerated after him, believing he was afraid to face her.
• Wang Yu hid beneath a giant boulder as the two flew overhead, then chose to pursue them and help kill Steward Xu.
• After two hours, Wang Yu had fallen far behind the pair and continued by following Liu Jin Xian’s lingering aura.

Steward Xu recovered enough strength to counterattack Liu Jin Xian, but she defeated him with her Gu worms and poison. After Liu Jin Xian beheaded him, Steward Xu’s corpse transformed into a Ferocious Ghost and swallowed her, leaving Wang Yu to face a new crisis.

• Steward Xu halted his escape and attacked Liu Jin Xian with waves of fire, but she protected herself with a Gu worm’s carapace.
• Liu Jin Xian sprang a poison trap and used her Blood Mosquito Gu and Grey-White Poison Bee to overwhelm Steward Xu and disable his sword.
• Steward Xu, burned and poisoned, offered to become Liu Jin Xian’s slave, but she cut off his head instead.
• Steward Xu’s corpse released a smoke-like Ferocious Ghost that bound and swallowed Liu Jin Xian after Wang Yu arrived too late to stop it.

Wang Yu defeated the vicious ghost formed from Steward Xu by using Heavenly Yin Blood and the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, rescuing Liu Jin Xian. He returned toward Profound Bone Mountain with her and discovered that Steward Xu’s belongings included valuable pill formulas and the Ghost Transformation Evil Curse.

• Wang Yu realized the vicious ghost was consuming Liu Jin Xian and used Heavenly Yin Blood to lure it into the forest.
• Wang Yu activated his Corpse Demon traits and Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, weakening the ghost until sunlight destroyed it and Liu Jin Xian emerged alive.
• Wang Yu recovered Steward Xu’s corpse and Storage Bag, and the experience advanced his Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique while leaving a Ghost Skull Pattern below his navel.
• Wang Yu carried Liu Jin Xian back toward Profound Bone Mountain and chose not to take her Storage Bag.
• Wang Yu found pill formulas and a Mysterious Silk Book in Steward Xu’s Storage Bag, identifying the book’s art as the Ghost Transformation Evil Curse.

Wang Yu returned Liu Jin Xian to Profound Bone Mountain, traded for Gu Zheng Shun’s promise to buy the Foundation Establishment corpse, and spent the final two years of the mission in seclusion. As the mission ended, Wang Yu planned to pursue Cold Dragon Pills and continued developing his cultivation and techniques.

• Wang Yu brought the injured Liu Jin Xian back to Situ Hong and Gu Zheng Shun, explaining that she had killed the Foundation Establishment Cultivator but suffered damage to her divine sense and soul.
• Wang Yu sold the cultivator’s corpse to Gu Zheng Shun for a Second Tier cold-attribute python demon core and three thousand spirit stones, to be exchanged when they returned to the sect.
• Wang Yu and Gu Zheng Shun entered seclusion while Situ Hong remained to care for Liu Jin Xian.
• Over the next two years, the survivors gathered Profound Essence Flowers and Bone Wood, and Liu Jin Xian recovered while offering Wang Yu a gu-insect bond that he refused.
• At the mission’s end, Wang Yu calculated that he had accumulated 149 strands of spiritual power and planned to refine Cold Dragon Pills to speed his cultivation.
• Wang Yu perfected the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, gaining a swiftly activated defensive armor that was especially effective against divine sense attacks.

Wang Yu and his companions left Profound Bone Mountain and began their return to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect. On the journey, Wang Yu discussed the Underground Palace, revealing that it was a trap.

• Wang Yu switched the Placement Slot to the Cold Dragon Pill formula and planned to focus his remaining slots on cultivation methods.
• Wang Yu chose to ride with Gu Zheng Shun, then calmed Liu Jin Xian by explaining his Spirit Slave past and making light of his white hair and short lifespan.
• The four cultivators departed Profound Bone Mountain and flew toward the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• During the return journey, Wang Yu and Gu Zheng Shun discussed the Underground Palace, and Gu Zheng Shun was shocked to learn it was a trap.