Recaps

The Yun Family Elders assessed Xu Yi’s mysterious attack and prepared an exceptionally well-equipped force to fight him. They ended by deciding to use four concealed divine treasures with twenty-one Mind Fruits, while Seventh Elder Yun vowed that Xu Yi would die.

• Second Elder Yun asked the four wounded elders to describe their encounters with Xu Yi, but none could explain how he had overwhelmed them.
• Seventh Elder Yun identified Xu Yi’s weapon as a divine weapon, and Second Elder Yun warned that the Yun Family must treat him as its greatest calamity.
• Second Elder Yun arranged for twenty-one fighters to form seven groups and equipped them with battle robes, talismans, and other treasures.
• Seventh Elder Yun and Second Elder Yun independently chose the characters “Conceal” and “Divine,” revealing that both had the same treasure in mind.
• Second Elder Yun promised the Yun Family’s four remaining treasures and twenty-one Mind Fruits to strengthen their plan, and Seventh Elder Yun vowed to kill Xu Yi.

The Yun family prepared to fight Xu Yi while the gathered guests demanded to watch the battle. The Holy Envoy secured a Boundary Barrier Pearl to keep the fight fair, and Princess Yinqiu relayed Xu Yi’s suggestion to open a betting pool.

• Second Elder Yun returned with more than twenty Yun family experts and accepted the Holy Envoy’s request to capture Xu Yi alive if possible.
• Young Master Zheng asked to watch the fight, and Second Elder Yun agreed to let the gathered guests observe it through the Tonghua Disk.
• The Holy Envoy proposed sealing the arena with the Boundary Barrier Pearl, and Second Elder Yun agreed.
• Princess Yinqiu told the Holy Envoy that Xu Yi had suggested opening a betting pool.

The Holy Envoy opened a betting pool before the battle between Xu Yi and the Yun Family began. While the spectators watched the Yun Family search Jade Floating Mountain for Xu Yi, the Yun elders remained hidden in the clouds and struggled to find him.

• The Holy Envoy accepted Xu Yi’s proposal, announced a betting pool, and received the crowd’s approval.
• Second Elder Yun settled the odds, and a crimson flare marked the start of the battle.
• The spectators watched as the Yun Family’s four squads searched for Xu Yi without finding him for half an hour.
• Thirteenth Clan Elder wondered whether Xu Yi had fled, but Fourteenth Elder Yun argued that he stayed for Yinqiu.
• Fourteenth Elder Yun explained that the squads used Hidden Spirit Pearls to conceal their auras and searched only by sight to avoid exposing themselves to Xu Yi’s divine sense.

Xu Yi lured six Yun family experts into an ambush and killed them with a golden streak and a sea of flames. In Yufu Palace, the Yun family learned that three elders and three inner guards were dead, and Second Elder Yun killed the attendant who delivered the news.

• The Yun elders spotted Xu Yi emerging from Jade Wave Pool and pursued him to a cave, where three more Yun experts joined them.
• In Yufu Palace, Qin Qing told County Princess Su and the others that Xu Yi's emergence from the lake seemed suspicious and predicted the Yun family would be in danger.
• A golden streak shot from the cave and struck Fourteenth Elder Yun and Fifteenth Elder Yun as flames engulfed the six Yun experts.
• The golden streak swept through the flames and killed all six Yun family members, while part of the palace's enormous screen went black.
• A red-robed attendant reported that the Life Soul Tablets of Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Elders and three inner guards had shattered, and Second Elder Yun killed the attendant in a burst of fireballs.

Xu Yi killed six Yang Venerables and escaped with their Sumeru Rings after the Soul-Summoning Banner changed. The surviving Yun Household members gathered at the massacre site and debated how their ambush had failed, while spectators in Yufu Palace struggled to explain how Xu Yi had countered the Hidden Spirit Pearls and broken an Ingot Robe.

• Xu Yi collected six Yang Venerable souls with the Soul-Summoning Banner, saw its three Law Patterns turn jade-white, and fled with the six Sumeru Rings.
• Seventh Elder Yun and the other surviving Yun Household members arrived, gathered the remains, and mourned their dead kin.
• Third Elder Yun demanded an explanation for how Thirteenth Clan Elder Yun and his team had been caught off guard, and Sixth Elder Yun reconstructed the ambush from the scene.
• Seventh Elder Yun identified three unanswered questions: how Xu Yi found the Hidden Spirit Pearl users, how he concealed himself from their spiritual sense, and how he broke an Ingot Robe in one strike.
• In Yufu Palace, Young Master Zheng and Duke You speculated about the ambush, while County Princess Su argued that the Yun Household would not have made a careless mistake; Young Master Zheng noted that the group must have taken Mind Fruits.

Sixth Elder Yun explained the deaths of Yun Shi San and the others as the result of a Hidden Treasure Array, convincing the Yun family and the hall despite Qin Qing’s doubts. The discussion turned to the Ingot Robe after Seventh Elder Yun asked for Sixth Elder Yun’s opinion on its breach.

• Sixth Elder Yun found spirit stone ash, damp moss, and faint formation-flag marks inside the cave.
• Sixth Elder Yun identified the traces as a Hidden Treasure Array and claimed it had exposed Yun Shi San and the others while concealing the bandit.
• Sixth Elder Yun said the bandit had anticipated pursuers and set the array as an alarm and protection mechanism.
• Third Elder Yun and the others accepted Sixth Elder Yun’s explanation, but Qin Qing suspected it had been invented to fit the evidence.
• Seventh Elder Yun asked Sixth Elder Yun what he thought about the Ingot Robe being breached.

The Yun family debated how to counter the hidden attacker, suspecting a traitor and settling on a plan to lure him into an ambush. Before they could act, the attacker struck Seventh Elder Yun and unleashed a devastating sea of fire, leaving Qin Qing astonished.

• Sixth Elder Yun and Seventh Elder Yun suspected that a traitor had revealed the Ingot Robe’s weak point, while Young Master Zheng explained the treasure to Qin Qing and the others.
• Third Elder Yun demanded that Seventh Elder Yun identify the culprit, and Sixth Elder Yun proposed staying together and provoking the attacker into revealing himself.
• Seventh Elder Yun worried that fighting openly would cost the family its advantage and more lives, but Sixth Elder Yun persuaded him to use the Hidden Spirit Pearl to prepare an ambush.
• Seventh Elder Yun agreed to let Sixth Elder Yun take two men and lie in wait, but a streak of golden lightning shot from the cave and shattered three of his cinnabar marks.
• A massive explosion engulfed the Yun family in a sea of fire, and Qin Qing praised the attacker’s audacity and ingenuity.

Xu Yi’s fire talisman and follow-up attack wiped out the Yun family elders at Jade Floating Mountain, while the Holy Envoy and the spectators in Yufu Palace witnessed his victory. The Tonghua Disk went dark after confirming the deaths, leaving Second Elder Yun collapsed and Qin Qing resolved to refine her Mystical Treasure.

• The Holy Envoy sealed Yufu Palace to prevent Second Elder Yun from interfering in the battle at Jade Floating Mountain.
• Xu Yi’s Level 1 Grade 4 fire talisman killed three guards and trapped the remaining Yun family elders inside the Ingot Robe’s weakening barrier.
• Third Elder Yun used the Ice Soul Light Needle and Water element Spirit Stones to break through the talisman field, but a golden light then struck the Yun family group.
• The Tonghua Disk exploded after all twenty-one Yun family Yang Venerate mighty figures died, and Second Elder Yun collapsed.
• The Holy Envoy celebrated Xu Yi’s victory as Young Master Zheng, Duke You, and the others reacted with shock.
• Qin Qing admitted she could not match Xu Yi and decided to refine her Mystical Treasure.

Xu Yi hid in a cave to count the spoils from his battle with the Yun family, finding a great fortune but lacking the knowledge to use many of his talismans. He recalled how he had turned the Yun family’s Hidden Spirit Pearl ambush plan against them, then waited near the cave he had chosen as the final battlefield.

• Xu Yi hid in a stone cave and counted more than six million Spirit Stones, Mystical Talismans, battle armor, seven Hidden Spirit Pearls, and other treasures taken from the Yun family.
• Xu Yi set aside the Ice Soul Light Needle because he could not use it, and weighed his gains against the Flame Burst Talisman and Magnetic Core Beads he had spent.
• Xu Yi recalled that he had planned to use his Hidden Spirit Pearl and Shapeshifting Bone Sword to ambush the Yun family in Jade Floating Mountain.
• Xu Yi detected the Yun family using Hidden Spirit Pearls to conceal themselves and changed his tactics, tracking their elusive presence instead of attacking recklessly.
• Xu Yi found a cave in the mountain as the final battlefield, hid in Jade Wave Pool nearby, and waited for the Yun family to enter the range of his divine sense.

Xu Yi ambushed and killed Yun Shi San and the Yun Family cultivators who had pursued him, then escaped after collecting their souls. The chapter explained how Yun Zhongge’s information, the thunder-tempered Shapeshifting Bone Sword, and Qin Qing’s Body Shooting Art had enabled Xu Yi’s decisive attack.

• Xu Yi lured the Yun Family’s Thirteenth Clan Elder and his group to a cave, concealed himself with the Hidden Spirit Pearl, and killed them in a surprise attack.
• Xu Yi had forced Yun Zhongge to reveal the Ingot Robe’s secrets and weak points by threatening to destroy the Heart-Devouring Bottle.
• Xu Yi’s Shapeshifting Bone Sword had turned gold and grown immensely powerful after being exposed to thunder during his cultivation of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art.
• Xu Yi used the Body Shooting Art with his dense divine sense to wield the bone sword at close range and destroy the Ingot Robe before killing the Yun Family cultivators.
• Xu Yi collected the dead cultivators’ souls with the Soul-Summoning Banner, left false trails, and escaped through another cave exit.

Xu Yi ambushed and killed all twenty-one Yun Family experts, then returned to Yufu Palace and called on the Yu Family to honor the life-and-death pact. Yu Zhongtang hesitated to fight, and the Envoy proposed that the two families settle the matter peacefully.

• Xu Yi lured the Yun Family elders back into the cave and used a Flame Burst Talisman and Magnetic Core Beads to leave them helpless before killing them with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword.
• Xu Yi changed into blue robes and returned to Yufu Palace, where the witnesses reacted to the Yun Family’s defeat.
• Second Elder Yun charged at Xu Yi, but Xu Yi warned him against attacking in the Envoy’s presence, and the Envoy confirmed Xu Yi’s victory.
• Xu Yi demanded that Yu Zhongtang take the field as agreed, while Yu Zhongtang struggled to decide whether to risk fighting or withdraw.
• The Envoy urged Yu Zhongtang to avoid a fight and let the Yun and Yu families settle their dispute, citing the bond between Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu.

Yu Zhongtang agreed to fight Xu Yi after Second Elder Yun persuaded him and joined the Yu Family as its Guest Elder. As the fight approached, Qin Qing left to protect Yingqiu, and Xu Yi gave her a rare Water Spirit Stone.

• The Holy Envoy offered Yu Zhongtang a way to avoid fighting, but Second Elder Yun privately urged him to defend the Yu Family's honor.
• Yu Zhongtang returned and announced that he and the newly appointed Yu Family Guest Elder, Second Elder Yun, would fight Xu Yi.
• Second Elder Yun defended his right to join the fight under the death contract and resolved to kill Xu Yi at any cost.
• Xu Yi accepted the two-on-one fight and signaled Qin Qing to help keep Yingqiu safe.
• Qin Qing announced that she had to leave, and Xu Yi gave her a high-grade Water Spirit Stone and asked her to look after his younger sister.

Xu Yi sent Yinqiu to the Taiqing Upper Sect with the Water Spirit Stone and prepared to fight Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun. The Holy Envoy sealed the Immortal Dance Plaza so the battle could begin within fixed boundaries.

• Xu Yi gave Qin Qing the top-grade Water Spirit Stone to help protect Yinqiu at the Taiqing Upper Sect, and he promised Yinqiu they would meet again.
• After Yinqiu and Qin Qing left, Xu Yi taunted Second Elder Yun and Yu Zhongtang and demanded they set the terms of the fight.
• In a secret chamber, Second Elder Yun persuaded Yu Zhongtang to proceed by promising Yun Family treasures and arguing they could win if Xu Yi refrained from using true essence.
• Yu Zhongtang chose the Immortal Dance Plaza for the fight and confirmed Xu Yi would not use true essence, while Xu Yi asked whether the fighters could leave the plaza.
• Second Elder Yun offered to use an Exquisite Pagoda to seal the area, but the Holy Envoy intervened and sealed the plaza with the Golden Bull Horn.

Xu Yi killed Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun during their death-agreement duel, then left after the Envoy declared him the winner. The ruling secured Yinqiu a path to survival, while Xu Yi promised to help the Envoy with the Heart-Devouring Worm later.

• The Envoy opened a sealed space, and Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun attacked Xu Yi as soon as the light gate vanished.
• Xu Yi’s Magnetic Core Bead explosion shattered the talismans’ spell fields and the Golden Bull Horn’s barrier, injuring both opponents while leaving him unharmed.
• Xu Yi killed Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun with a golden strike and Sky Spears that destroyed their emerging souls.
• The Envoy announced Xu Yi’s victory and confirmed that the death agreement had taken effect, protecting Yinqiu from further retaliation.
• County Princess Su, Duke You, and Young Master Zheng discussed how Xu Yi had won, but could not explain how he survived the explosion.
• Xu Yi told the Envoy he would leave a means to address the Heart-Devouring Worm at the Merchant Alliance Headquarters on Jiannan Road, then departed.

Xu Yi escaped Yun Ming’s max-level frost wonder-talisman after seizing Yun Zhongge, while the Holy Court recalled Liu Youde. Yun Ming then announced that the Yun Family had sealed off the region around Jade Floating Mountain until Xu Yi was captured.

• Yun Ming ambushed Xu Yi with a first-tier, max-level frost wonder-talisman, but Xu Yi destroyed the talisman field with Magnetic Core Beads and escaped using Swift Wind Talismans.
• Xu Yi seized Yun Zhongge and vanished, leaving Yun Ming to condemn him as a treacherous thief.
• Liu Youde confronted Yun Ming, who showed a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording of a seventh-rank Star Official ordering Liu Youde back to the Holy Court.
• County Princess Su, Young Master Zheng, and Duke You exchanged thoughts about Yun Ming’s strength, the Holy Court’s intervention, and the Yun Family’s resources.
• Yun Ming introduced himself as the Yun Family’s Great Elder and announced that the family had sealed off the region around Jade Floating Mountain, asking the guests to remain until Xu Yi was caught.

After Xu Yi escaped Great Elder Yun’s talisman attack with Yun Zhongge, Great Elder Yun sealed the grounds and prepared to mobilize Yufu City’s forces to hunt him down. Young Master Zheng explained that the guards could form a vast barrier, leaving Xu Yi’s escape uncertain.

• Great Elder Yun regretted delaying his response and resolved to avenge the Yun Family’s fallen elders and guards.
• Great Elder Yun sealed the grounds and detained the guests while the Yun Family began preparing its counterattack.
• Yue Ziling worried that Xu Yi had taken Yun Zhongge but left him behind, and feared the forces gathering against Xu Yi.
• Five guard commanders—Qianji, Mingxin, Liushang, Daoyi, and Zhigguang—arrived to report to Great Elder Yun.
• Young Master Zheng revealed that Great Elder Yun was mobilizing more than forty thousand troops and that the Earth Shield Guards could seal off an area spanning five thousand miles.

Xu Yi was trapped inside the Golden Light Shield as the imperial guards mobilized to hunt him. Yun Zhongge tried to bargain for his life by promising to protect Princess Yinqiu, but Xu Yi warned him that he would kill him first if he could not escape.

• County Princess Su, Duke You, and Young Master Zheng discussed how the imperial guards could find Xu Yi despite his Hidden Spirit Pearl.
• Great Elder Yun ordered the Earth Shield Guard to seal the area with the Golden Light Shield and sent four other guards to search for Xu Yi.
• Yun Zhongge told Xu Yi that the shield enclosed thousands of miles and that the combined guards would make his death certain.
• Yun Zhongge pleaded for his life and offered to protect Princess Yinqiu if Xu Yi spared him.
• Xu Yi told Yun Zhongge that he would drag him down if he died and ordered him to help find a way out.

Xu Yi fled with Yun Zhongge to the Yun Family ancestral mausoleum and used the divine tablet to breach its protective shield. The Yun Family’s Great Elder learned of the infiltration but could not order an attack without risking the ancestral graves.

• Xu Yi abandoned his plan to use the Hidden Spirit Pearl and took Yun Zhongge to the Five Finger Strange Peak with a Raging Wind Talisman.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had brought Yun Zhongge and the Yun Family divine tablet as safeguards, then threatened Yun Zhongge with a Heart-Devouring Bottle when he claimed he could not open the mausoleum.
• Yun Zhongge asked for the divine tablet, pierced his finger, and used his blood to make it dissolve the mausoleum’s shield.
• Xu Yi seized Yun Zhongge and rushed into the ancestral mausoleum.
• Qianji returned to the Immortal Dance Plaza and reported that Xu Yi had infiltrated the mausoleum, leaving the Yun Family’s Great Elder unable to order an assault.

Xu Yi held the Yun family’s sacred tablet inside the ancestral tombs and forced Great Elder Yun to negotiate rather than attack. When Great Elder Yun finally arrived, Xu Yi ignored the crisis and invited him to share a barbecue, leaving the elder fuming.

• The Right Dragon Guard Commander told Great Elder Yun that Xu Yi had entered the ancestral tombs with the sacred tablet and demanded to negotiate.
• Great Elder Yun learned Xu Yi was roasting game in the tombs and realized the tablet gave him access to much of the forbidden grounds.
• Xu Yi ate roasted chicken and offered Yun Zhongge a boar leg while Yun Zhongge sat dazed and miserable.
• Great Elder Yun decided against a direct assault and entered the ancestral tombs to meet Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi spotted Great Elder Yun and invited him to eat roast game and drink fruit wine, enraging the elder.

Great Elder Yun appeared to negotiate with Xu Yi, but secretly arranged with Yun Zhongge to catch him off guard. Yun Zhongge’s attack left Xu Yi vulnerable to the Great Elder’s fire dragon, and the chapter ended with Xu Yi being swallowed by it.

• Great Elder Yun withdrew the Golden Light Shield and asked Xu Yi to release Yun Zhongge as proof of good faith.
• Xu Yi agreed to let Yun Zhongge go, though he remained suspicious and did not flee.
• Yun Zhongge secretly attacked Xu Yi with an earth-type talisman, while Great Elder Yun struck at the same time.
• Xu Yi suffered sudden pain in his head and could not move; Great Elder Yun’s fire dragon swallowed him.
• Great Elder Yun had secretly promised Yun Zhongge a chance at the Yun family heir’s position in exchange for distracting Xu Yi.

Xu Yi survived Great Elder Yun’s ambush and killed him, but the battle devastated the mountains around the ancestral mausoleum and shook the Yun family. Exhausted, Xu Yi hid in a crude cave, where he discovered a tiny golden-armored insect clinging to his newly advanced Soul-Summoning Banner.

• Yun Zhongge distracted Xu Yi, allowing Great Elder Yun to strike his spiritual platform with a Chiwu Worm and engulf him in a fire dragon.
• Xu Yi’s lightning mark drove away the Chiwu Worm, and he detonated nearly sixty Magnetic Core Beads, blasting Great Elder Yun with razor-sharp currents.
• Xu Yi pierced Great Elder Yun’s head with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword, captured his soul with the Soul-Summoning Banner, and advanced the banner to its second turn.
• The explosion shattered Five Finger Strange Peak and nearby mountains, while the Yun family learned that the soul tablets of Great Elder Yun and Yun Zhongge had broken.
• Xu Yi collapsed in a hidden cave after escaping, then noticed an undetectable golden-armored insect clinging to his banner.

Xu Yi captured the strange golden insect, destroyed Yun Zhongge’s soul, and impersonated Great Elder Yun to escape the gathered army. After recovering from a three-day sleep, Xu Yi discovered that severe cracks across his body would not heal despite powerful pills.

• Xu Yi found that the golden insect could pass through the Soul-Summoning Banner and enter his Sumeru Ring with it.
• Xu Yi forced Yun Zhongge to reveal himself, then used the Heavenly Spear Technique to destroy his soul when he tried to flee.
• Xu Yi took Great Elder Yun’s ring and robes, changed his appearance, and ordered the army commanders to meet in Yufu City.
• Xu Yi used Raging Wind Talismans to escape thousands of miles, then hid in a stone cave and slept for three days and nights.
• Xu Yi awoke with his soul partly recovered but found deep cracks across his chest and abdomen that his healing pills could not mend.

Xu Yi visited Mu Guangming in the Chaotic Star Sea after setting out to find materials to repair his failing body. Over tea, Mu Guangming praised Xu Yi’s recent victory over the Yun family and analyzed how his actions at Yufu Palace had turned the crisis to his advantage.

• Xu Yi traveled through several cities and arrived at the Chaotic Star Sea using Mu Guangming’s token.
• Xu Yi brewed Dragon Tongue tea and reflected on preserving his humanity as his cultivation advanced.
• Mu Guangming joined Xu Yi, recognized the rare tea, and discussed how news of Xu Yi’s defeat of the Yun family had spread.
• Mu Guangming asked Xu Yi to stop addressing him formally and proposed that they call each other brothers.
• Mu Guangming explained how Xu Yi had protected Yinqiu by seizing the Holy Envoy and maneuvering the Yun and Yu families into open conflict.

Xu Yi visited Mu Guangming in the Chaotic Star Sea, where they discussed Xu Yi’s escape from the Yun family and his plans to leave. Xu Yi repaid Mu Guangming for the Magnetic Core Beads, then prepared to ask him for another favor.

• Mu Guangming praised Xu Yi for defeating the Yun family’s Yang Venerables and asked how he survived the Magnetic Core Beads’ explosion, but Xu Yi kept the secret to himself.
• Mu Guangming acknowledged that Xu Yi would not stay in the Chaotic Star Sea, and Xu Yi joked that his resource needs were too great for Mu Guangming to meet.
• Xu Yi offered Mu Guangming eight million spirit stones to repay the more than ninety Magnetic Core Beads he had taken during an emergency.
• Mu Guangming accepted the payment and explained that the missing beads had caused trouble with the Elder Council, making the extra money fair compensation.
• Mu Guangming pressed Xu Yi to reveal the favor he had come to ask, and Xu Yi teased him for pretending not to know his purpose.

Xu Yi negotiated with Mu Guangming to exchange his spoils for Magnetic Core Beads and mid-grade Thunder Spirit Stones, then pressed for a rare Magnetic Origin Bead. Mu Guangming persuaded several elders to consider the exchange, but its terms had not yet been settled.

• Mu Guangming opened additional exchange listings for Xu Yi at the Reward Palace.
• Xu Yi bought a hundred Magnetic Core Beads for seven million spirit stones and agreed to buy twenty mid-grade Thunder Spirit Stones at 1.2 million spirit stones each.
• Xu Yi spotted a flickering listing for a Magnetic Origin Bead and insisted that Mu Guangming help him obtain it.
• Mu Guangming contacted the Elder Council in private and persuaded several elders to consider exchanging the Magnetic Origin Bead.