Recaps

Fang Yu left Tiantian City and joined Marquis Nanlong's expedition to uncover an underground treasure site, while the city’s cultivators struggled to prepare for the Mulan invasion. The group reached a mysterious hall sealed by an ancient restriction, where Fang Yu demanded an additional share of the treasures before allowing anyone to attempt to break it.

• Old Freak Linghu asked Nangong Wan to find Fang Yu and help gather Tiantian City's Nascent Soul cultivators, but she said Fang Yu had left and she planned to return to the Moon-Covering Sect for reinforcements.
• Madam Qi told Wu Peng that Fang Yu was gone and that the arrival of other Grand Cultivators could not be guaranteed.
• Fang Yu showed Silver Moon the Wind-Chasing Chariot and Thousand-Layer Peak, then brought her to join Marquis Nanlong and the others.
• Marquis Nanlong and the white-robed Ghost Spirit Sect elder used small flags to split open a barren stone mountain, revealing stairs leading underground.
• Fang Yu told Silver Moon that an ancient devil's soul fragment was beneath the mountain, then led the group into a crystalline hall whose walls repelled spiritual sense.
• Fang Yu demanded an additional one-tenth of the treasures for breaking the hall's restriction, and the old woman began an attempt with a fiery red awl.

Fang Yu used formations to break the Grand Profound Divine Restriction, allowing the cultivators to enter the cave estate’s inner hall. He took a mysterious scroll bearing a portrait of Cang Kun Superior, while the group stood before the Jade Ridge Pavilion.

• Grand Immortal Master Zhong learned that Fang Yu had entered Mulan territory and decided to contact the Yin Luo Sect’s Sect Master for help.
• Fang Yu arranged formations on the crystalline walls and secretly gave Silver Moon time to enter the restriction.
• Fang Yu activated his formation plate and broke the Grand Profound Divine Restriction, revealing a stone door.
• The cultivators entered a larger hall and found the Jade Ridge Pavilion, an offering table, and a silver-white scroll.
• Fang Yu opened the scroll, saw a portrait of a sword-bearing scholar, and put it away as the others hesitated to object.

Fang Yu and the others explored Elder Qiong Kun’s relic while the Mulan People and Yin Luo Sect prepared to confront him. After escaping with the relic’s hidden treasures, Fang Yu revealed that he intended to let the coming war continue so he could gather its aura and examined the items he had taken.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master and the Mulan Grand Immortal Masters agreed to confront Fang Yu after learning he was an early Nascent Soul cultivator reputed to be Heavenly South’s foremost figure.
• Marquis Nanlong divided the first floor’s treasures, and the group discovered a shrine to a Devil Realm Sacred Ancestor and an empty cold jade bed on the second floor.
• Fang Yu took the cold jade bed, warned that the Mulan People were near, and broke the restriction around the stone mountain as the group hurried out of the relic.
• Silver Moon returned the jade boxes she had taken from the bed, and Fang Yu said four late Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators and a large force were approaching.
• Fang Yu found Elder Qiong Kun’s cultivation art for Ru Yin, a ring connected to Fallen Devil Valley, and the Purple Cheng Net, which he gave to Silver Moon.

Fang Yu remained detached from the war between Heavenly South and the Mulan army until Silver Moon reported that the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder was heading to reinforce Yellow Dragon Mountain. As the Grand Elder and two companions arrived, Fang Yu watched unseen from a distant mountaintop.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master and three Mulan Grand Sorcerers surrounded the cultivators leaving Cang Kun Superior's ruins, and Marquis Nanlong, Han Li, and the others fled in different directions.
• The Yin Luo Sect Master pursued Marquis Nanlong for his escape technique while the Mulan sorcerers hunted the other survivors.
• The Mulan army drove the Nine Nations Alliance into a series of defeats, while Fang Yu continued gathering war-and-slaughter baleful aura and ignored the fighting.
• Silver Moon told Fang Yu that the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder was going to reinforce Yellow Dragon Mountain, and Fang Yu agreed to go with her.
• At Yellow Dragon Mountain, Senior Lu received word that the Mulan forces had broken through and that the Grand Elder and two other Nascent Soul cultivators had arrived as reinforcements.
• The Grand Elder and her companions examined Yellow Dragon Mountain's formation while Fang Yu and Silver Moon watched from a distant mountaintop.

Fang Yu watched the Mulan army approach Yellow Dragon Mountain but chose to let the Heavenly South cultivators face them without his help. As the first duel ended with both fighters wounded and the Grand Profound Eight-Trigrams Diagram badly damaged, Fang Yu considered Ku Yao’s fire power useful for cultivating the Red Emperor’s Fire Emperor Qi.

• Silver Moon urged Fang Yu to greet the Moon-Covering Sect elders, but he explained that intervening could draw other enemies to Yellow Dragon Mountain and that he would help only if needed.
• Fang Yu said the Mulan clan and Yin Luo Sect were eager for a final battle, and promised Silver Moon he would teach the Yin Luo Sect cultivators a lesson for collecting battlefield souls.
• The Mulan army arrived at Yellow Dragon Mountain, and the Yin Luo Sect’s black-robed cultivator Tian Ku advised the Mulan sorcerers to let the defenders come out first.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder and the other Heavenly South cultivators emerged from the formation, and Ku Yao challenged them to a one-on-one fight.
• Old man Ma fought Ku Yao using the Grand Profound Eight-Trigrams Diagram, but the diagram was shattered as both combatants emerged wounded.
• Silver Moon lamented the damaged treasure, and Fang Yu promised to obtain and repair it for her while considering Ku Yao as possible nourishment for his fire cultivation.

Fang Yu’s improved Great Development Art and hidden intervention helped the Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder defeat the Yin Luo Sect cultivator Tian Ku and repel the Mulan People at Yellow Dragon Mountain. After the army withdrew, Gu Shuangpu revealed himself as a traitor and attacked the Grand Elder, who destroyed his possessed snake monster with Fang Yu’s divine lightning.

• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder fought Tian Ku with her Yin-Yang Ice-Fire Swords and Condensing Light Treasure Mirror while Fang Yu watched from afar.
• Fang Yu secretly killed Tian Ku with a net of golden lightning, and the Mulan People withdrew after receiving a mysterious command.
• The cultivators returned to the palace at Yellow Dragon Mountain, where Gu Shuangpu exposed himself and attacked the Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder as a possessed snake monster.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder froze the monster and destroyed its Nascent Soul with golden lightning, then credited her divine ability to Brother Fang.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder entered her palace, turned toward Fang Yu’s hidden position, and thanked him respectfully.

Fang Yu explained why he had avoided leading the Heavenly South conflict and agreed to hold off a powerful enemy if one came to Yellow Dragon Mountain. The Mulan army arrived to find the mountain apparently abandoned, but Master Le remained wary as spell warriors searched the ruins; Fang Yu and Silver Moon watched, waiting for a major enemy to appear.

• Fang Yu told the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder that the slain Nascent Soul cultivator belonged to the Yin Luo Sect and that he had stayed out of the war because he was not from Heavenly South.
• The Grand Elder asked about traveling to the Great Jin Cultivation World and whether Yellow Dragon Mountain could be defended, and Fang Yu agreed to hold off the Yin Luo Sect Master or a Mulan Grand Immortal Master if either arrived.
• Fang Yu and the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder cultivated together that night, then the Mulan army approached Yellow Dragon Mountain the next day under Master Le, Ku Yao, and the tall, thin spell warrior.
• The Mulan army found the mist gone and the mountain apparently deserted, but Master Le warned that the scene might conceal a trap and sent about a hundred spell warriors to investigate.
• The spell warriors found valuables among the burned buildings, while Fang Yu told Silver Moon he would keep waiting unless the Mulan Grand Immortal Master or Yin Luo Sect Master appeared.

Fang Yu watched as the Mulan army attacked the Mist Sea, while the defenders prepared to hold their formation. The battle began with Ku Yao’s fire spirit art formation and the Giant Rhinoceros Beast breaking through the restrictions, and Fang Yu waited to gather the aura of war and slaughter before intervening.

• Ku Yao vowed to destroy the defenders after sorcerers were killed in the trap, and Yue Shangshi warned him not to underestimate Fang Yu.
• The Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder joined the old man surnamed Ma and the thick-browed man to prepare for the Mulan attack, while Fang Yu stayed hidden nearby.
• Ku Yao led the sorcerers in forming a spirit art grand formation and sent enormous fireballs into the Mist Sea, blasting open the restrictions.
• Yue Shangshi put a golden ring on the Giant Rhinoceros Beast’s horn, driving it into the Mist Sea as the Mulan sorcerers followed.
• Silver Moon asked when Fang Yu would steal Yue Shangshi, but Fang Yu chose to wait and gather the aura of war and slaughter first.

The Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder fought Yue Shangshi of the Mulan Tribe, but Yue Shangshi's Origin Bright Lamp threatened to overwhelm her. Fang Yu intervened, saved the Grand Elder, and pursued Yue Shangshi, leaving her alarmed by his power and warning that a Great Divine Sage was approaching.

• Yue Shangshi attacked the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder with a ribbon that transformed into a snow eagle, but the Grand Elder countered with the Condensing Light Treasure Mirror.
• Yue Shangshi used a white lotus and wind escape technique to evade the Grand Elder's Ice-Flame Twin Swords and Thousand-Layer Peak.
• Yue Shangshi unleashed the Origin Bright Lamp's green devil flames against the Condensing Light Treasure Mirror, and Fang Yu appeared to disperse the flames and return the mirror to the Grand Elder.
• Yue Shangshi recognized Fang Yu as the number one cultivator of the Heavenly South cultivation world and tried to flee, but Fang Yu quickly caught up with her.
• Fang Yu told Yue Shangshi that a Great Divine Sage would arrive shortly, frightening her.

Fang Yu killed Grand Sorcerer Zhong at Yellow Dragon Mountain and compelled Master Le to help him cultivate, after which she advanced to the late-Nascent Soul stage. As the Mulan and Heavenly South forces prepared for a decisive war, Fang Yu remained in Tiantian City to gather war and slaughter qi, while the Yin Luo Sect questioned Goddess Le’s rapid rise and secret activities.

• Fang Yu shattered Master Le’s attack, then killed Grand Sorcerer Zhong with a single punch and extracted his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Yu offered to spare Master Le if she helped him cultivate, and she agreed; he took her away from Yellow Dragon Mountain.
• The Mulan forces captured Tiantian City, but the four great powers of Heavenly South later united and halted their advance as both sides prepared for a decisive battle.
• Master Le became Goddess Le and advanced to the late-Nascent Soul stage, while Grand Sorcerer Zhong possessed another body and began recovering.
• Fang Yu reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage and the fifth level of the Divine Ability Realm, then stayed in Tiantian City to collect war and slaughter qi while refusing Goddess Le’s plan to expand Mulan territory.
• The Yin Luo Sect Master and his wife suspected Goddess Le’s rapid breakthrough and wondered what she was having the Mulan Sorcerers collect.

The Yin Luo Sect Master's wife tried to uncover the secret of Le Xi's advancement, but Fang Yu caught and restrained her, then sent her back without revealing what happened. As the Mulan People and Heavenly South prepared for war, their leaders planned a wager and a raid on the Mulan resource warehouse, while Fang Yu remained absent.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master's wife used the Netherworld Veil to enter Le Xi's Goddess Palace, but Fang Yu detected her and trapped her in his Heavenly Human Domain.
• Fang Yu revealed that he was the number one cultivator of Heavenly South and immobilized the Yin Luo Sect Master's wife; she later returned to the Yin Luo Sect and concealed what had happened.
• Le Xi told Fang Yu that the Mulan People planned a ten-man wager to trap Heavenly South mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, and Fang Yu agreed not to interfere.
• Han Li was selected for Heavenly South's wager as both sides gathered armies and built defenses along the border between Yu Kingdom and Northern Liang Kingdom.
• Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya, Acacia Old Devil, Long Han, and the Heaven-Hate Old Monster planned to infiltrate Tiantian City and seize the Mulan resource warehouse with help from an informant.
• Wei Wuya learned that Fang Yu and the Moon-Covering Sect's beauties were still missing, and the leaders concluded that Fang Yu would not join the conflict.

Fang Yu watched as the Heavenly South cultivators and Mulan spellcasters assembled for their decisive battle and began the wager matches, while he and Silver Moon waited to gather the aura of war and slaughter afterward. He spotted Le Xi among the Mulan forces and anticipated that Han Li might be beaten if he tried to extinguish her Origin Bright Lamp.

• Wei Wuya, Acacia Old Devil, and Master Zhiyang discussed their forces' preparations while Fang Yu told Silver Moon he planned to cultivate a divine ability using the aura of war and slaughter.
• The Heavenly South cultivators and Mulan spellcasters gathered in overwhelming numbers at the border and formed up for battle.
• Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya, and Acacia Old Devil met the Mulan clan's two Great Divine Sages and a Yin Luo Sect member, then demanded the promised prisoners before the wager matches began.
• The Mulan side brought out more than a thousand captured cultivators, and both sides prepared array platforms and sent ten contestants each into the wager matches.
• Fang Yu told Silver Moon that the ten Mulan contestants were refined corpses bearing a wisp of the Yin Luo Sect Master's primordial spirit, then decided to wait until after the battle to gather the aura.
• Fang Yu watched Le Xi, now a late-stage Nascent Soul grand cultivator, and wondered whether Han Li would try to extinguish her Origin Bright Lamp and get beaten.

The Mulan Sacred Bird’s overwhelming strength turned the battle against Heavenly South, while Fang Yu watched without intervening. After the Yin-Yang Twin Devils died and the Yin Luo Sect unleashed its corpse army, Heavenly South faced an almost certain defeat.

• The Yin Luo Sect’s corpse puppet trapped ten Heavenly South Nascent Soul cultivators, and the Mulan Sacred Bird’s transformation gave the Mulan forces a major advantage.
• Wei Wuya appealed to Fang Yu for help, but Fang Yu chose to wait, while Han Li escaped the Blood Rakshasa Shield and fled from Le Xi’s flames.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Devils joined the Seven Grand Truth Cultivators against the Mulan Sacred Bird, then tried to destroy the Origin Bright Lamp and were burned to ashes.
• The Yin Luo Sect’s wife released a black banner and summoned an army of corpse puppets, including three powerful corpse kings.
• The Mulan Sacred Bird and the corpse army overwhelmed Heavenly South’s forces, leaving its leaders struggling and its morale collapsing as Silver Moon warned Fang Yu that defeat was near.

After Long Han died in the battle between Heavenly South and the Mulan Tribe, the Tuo Wu intervened and forced both sides to stop fighting. Fang Yu helped negotiate the Mulan Tribe’s demand for five nations, then secluded himself and opened his second sea of consciousness two years later.

• Long Han was killed by the Mulan Sacred Bird, but news of a Tuo Wu attack in the Mulan rear made the Mulan Divine Masters halt the battle.
• Wei Wuya and Master Zhiyang discussed ceding territory and resources to the Mulan Tribe while preparing to confirm the threat from the Tuo Wu.
• Le Xi asked Fang Yu to persuade Heavenly South to cede five nations, and Fang Yu agreed to try.
• Fang Yu told the gathered Heavenly South cultivators that five nations were the Mulan Tribe’s bottom line, then left to open his second sea of consciousness.
• Fang Yu set up arrays and had Silver Moon guard him; after two years, he successfully opened his second sea of consciousness.

After two years in seclusion, Fang Yu returned to the Moon-Covering Sect, prepared to enter Fallen Devil Valley and claim its useful treasures. He headed for the valley with Silver Moon, carrying a scroll containing an Ancient Devil avatar, while the Ghost Spirit Sect worried that his arrival would disrupt its plans.

• Fang Yu emerged from seclusion, heard Silver Moon's report, and returned to the Moon-Covering Sect, where the women told him the storage pouches would be ready within half a year.
• Fang Yu refused to take the women into Fallen Devil Valley and revealed that the scholar in a scroll was an Ancient Devil avatar, whom he intended to reunite with its sealed body and refine into a puppet.
• Fang Yu set out for Fallen Devil Valley with Silver Moon as the Ghost Spirit Sect Master and Elder Zhong discussed how to deal with his arrival, including asking Wei Wuya for help.
• On the way to Fallen Devil Valley, Fang Yu stopped a fight between Chen Qiaotian and two Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators, identified himself, and let the Spirit-Controlling Sect pair flee.

Fang Yu forced Wang Tiansheng to reveal the Ghost Spirit Sect’s Spirit Candle Fruit location and surrender part of his primordial spirit, then took Wang Chan’s Dao companion as his concubine. After the miasma cleared, Fang Yu reached Fallen Devil Valley’s dangerous entrance and noticed Wang Chan watching him resentfully.

• Fang Yu went to Radiant Leaf City and summoned Wang Tiansheng to ask where the Ghost Spirit Sect had found the Spirit Candle Fruit.
• Wang Tiansheng handed Fang Yu a jade slip but surrendered part of his primordial spirit after Fang Yu threatened to search his soul.
• Fang Yu demanded Wang Chan’s Dao companion, and Wang Tiansheng agreed to deliver her rather than risk the Ghost Spirit Sect’s destruction.
• Wang Chan protested the demand, but Wang Tiansheng warned that resistance could bring disaster upon him and the sect.
• Wang Tiangu delivered Wang Chan’s Dao companion to Fang Yu, and Wang Chan accepted the humiliation while vowing to avenge himself someday.
• After the miasma cleared, Fang Yu arrived near Fallen Devil Valley’s entrance with Wang Chan’s Dao companion and saw Wang Chan watching them resentfully.

Fang Yu waited for Fallen Devil Valley to open as the Mulan sorcerers and Wei Wuya arrived, while the Ghost Spirit Sect prepared its entrance formation. Feng Bing asked Fang Yu to cooperate with her to obtain the Spirit Candle Fruit, and he agreed.

• Wang Tiansheng rebuked Wang Chan for glaring at Fang Yu, and Han Li discussed Fang Yu's power with Great Development Divine Lord.
• The Mulan sorcerers, led by Le Xi and a gaunt old man, arrived at the valley, and Fang Yu stopped Feng Bing from attacking them.
• Wang Tiansheng's Ghost Spirit Sect gathered at the entrance, and Wei Wuya arrived to honor his agreement with the sect master.
• Wang Tiangu revealed a rare high-grade spirit stone as the Ghost Spirit Sect completed its formation.
• Feng Bing told Fang Yu that Wang Tiansheng had revealed his interest in the Spirit Candle Fruit and asked him to cooperate in obtaining it; Fang Yu agreed.

Fang Yu entered Fallen Devil Valley and reunited with Feng Bing while searching for the Spirit Candle Fruit. He and Feng Bing defeated the beast guarding the fruit, leaving them ready to collect it and refine a Creation Pill to help Feng Bing break through.

• Fang Yu entered Fallen Devil Valley with Feng Bing, but random teleportation separated them among dangerous spatial rifts.
• Fang Yu headed toward the Spirit Candle Fruit, while Elder Zhong and the other Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators also hurried there hoping to secure some for him.
• Fang Yu encountered Feng Bing and confirmed that she still intended to exchange cultivation with him for a Creation Pill and help advancing to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing reached the oasis concealing the Spirit Candle Fruit, where Fang Yu warned that an ancient beast guarded it.
• Fang Yu froze the lake and forced the ancient beast into the open, and Feng Bing killed it with her Sword Transformation into Thread technique.
• Fang Yu collected the beast's demon core and told Feng Bing to gather the Spirit Candle Fruits so they could find a safer place to refine a Creation Pill.

Feng Bing broke through to the late-Nascent Soul stage with Fang Yu’s help and reconsidered her desire to avenge Long Han, while Fang Yu’s relationship with the Mulan Divine Maiden became clear. Meanwhile, Wei Wuya and the Ghost Spirit Sect entered Fallen Devil Valley in search of an ancient cultivator’s ruin, where they encountered a dangerous demon mist and killed a spy.

• Feng Bing asked Fang Yu about his relationship with the Mulan Divine Maiden, and he admitted they had the same relationship as he and Feng Bing.
• Fang Yu warned Feng Bing that the Mulan Divine Maiden could defeat her, and Feng Bing agreed not to seek revenge until she was certain she could win.
• Feng Bing and Fang Yu spent several days together, stabilizing her new cultivation.
• Wang Tiansheng used a jade pendant to reveal the concealed entrance to a passage, where a Yin Crow was swallowed by a giant python lurking in gray mist.
• Wei Wuya exposed Huang Tianming as a spy, and Wang Tiangu killed him when he tried to flee.
• Wei Wuya urged the group onward, fearing Fang Yu would soon grow powerful enough to threaten the Nine Nations Alliance.

Fang Yu considered how the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s growing resources could unite the Mulan Tribe with Heavenly South and eventually help him refine the Human Realm. Meanwhile, Wei Wuya and his companions entered a dangerous passage in Fallen Devil Valley, Heavenly Crystal Daoist agreed to work with Dongmen Tu, and Feng Bing chose to accompany Fang Yu into the inner valley.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance grew stronger by trading demon beast materials and cores from the Chaotic Star Sea, while Fang Yu planned to use resources and territory to integrate the Mulan Tribe into Heavenly South.
• Fang Yu hoped to refine the Human Realm after reaching the seventh level of the Longevity Secret Realm and believed he could advance by following Fang Han.
• Wei Wuya, Ghost Spirit Sect Master Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu crossed the Arctic Primordial Light passage aboard Wei Wuya’s protective bowl.
• Heavenly Crystal Daoist agreed to join forces with Dongmen Tu and the Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators to break the restrictions leading into Fallen Devil Valley’s inner valley.
• Fang Yu questioned why Feng Bing wanted to enter the inner valley, but agreed to take her and promised to protect her if danger arose.

Fang Yu and Feng Bing entered the North Pole Primordial Light Passage after Fang Yu spared Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators and sent his Gold Devouring Beetles to mine a Gang Silver Sand vein. As Wei Wuya and the Ghost Spirit Sect brothers confronted the Fire Toad Beast, Fang Yu killed the Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions and collected their venom, while Han Li continued toward a mysterious destination with doubts about what lay ahead.

• Fang Yu discovered that Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators had found a Gang Silver Sand vein, let them leave, and sent Gold Devouring Beetles to refine it before entering the passage with Feng Bing.
• Wei Wuya, Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu reached the Fire Toad Beast's lair, prepared a water-attributed formation, and provoked the beast after Wei Wuya's poisonous gas python failed to harm it.
• The Fire Toad Beast rushed out of its cave toward Wei Wuya, Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu as they prepared to fight.
• Fang Yu warned Feng Bing about the Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions, then slaughtered them and collected their venom.
• Han Li followed a map to a black-rock mountain under flight-restricting restrictions and voiced his unease about continuing onward.

Fang Yu took the ancient cultivator’s remains and the Seven-Flame Fan materials from Wei Wuya and the Wang brothers, then led Feng Bing to the Blood Curse Gate. He destroyed the ancient devil’s seal and appeared to annihilate the devil’s soul with a single palm strike.

• Fang Yu demanded the ancient cultivator’s remains and Seven-Flame Fan materials, and Wei Wuya handed them over after Fang Yu offered Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpion venom.
• Wei Wuya told the Wang brothers that Feng Bing had reached the late Nascent Soul stage, and the three departed without challenging Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing found the hidden Blood Curse Gate beneath a jade-green pool, and Fang Yu used the ancient cultivator’s remains to dissolve its defenses.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing entered an underground hall, where Feng Bing identified a Lesser Sumeru Vajra Formation and Fang Yu dismissed its apparent treasures as illusions.
• Fang Yu struck the formation and offering table with an enormous azure palm, destroying them and apparently killing the ancient devil’s soul.

Fang Yu and Feng Bing parted ways after collecting astral silver sand, while Fang Yu planned how to claim the Arctic Essence Light ore vein. Han Li reached the altar and tried to open the route to the Ethereal Garden, but a massive spatial rift appeared in his path.

• Fang Yu told Feng Bing that he had killed the ancient devil's soul, then cultivated with her before they returned to the Arctic Essence Light site.
• Le Xi and the Great Divine Master discussed a faint sensation they had detected, Le Xi's connection to Fang Yu, and the dangers of Fallen Devil Valley.
• Han Li used Gold Devouring Beetles and divided consciousnesses to probe the area around the altar while avoiding spatial rifts and restrictions.
• Fang Yu said he hoped to collect the Arctic Essence Light ore vein after advancing further, and Feng Bing left Fallen Devil Valley without him.
• Han Li activated the altar's four qilin pillars, but the ritual created a gigantic spatial rift that blocked his way.
• Great Development Divine Lord urged Han Li to keep channeling spiritual power into the altar to deal with the rift.

Han Li entered a devil-filled space through a passage he thought might lead to the Ethereal Garden, where an ancient devil fragment soul tried to persuade him to break the seal on an ancient devil. Fang Yu destroyed the released devil body in front of the gathered cultivators, then had Han Li explain what had happened before dismissing everyone.

• Han Li stabilized a passage with help from Great Development Divine Lord, entered a gray space, and found an ancient devil sealed in fiery red crystal after searching for something valuable.
• An ancient devil fragment soul emerged from Han Li’s storage pouch and offered him power in exchange for breaking the seal, but Great Development Divine Lord warned him against the deal.
• Han Li attacked the fragment soul with Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning, causing it to summon grayish-white qi and pursue him.
• Fang Yu encountered the devil’s phenomenon, saw Han Li battling the released devil body, and bound and destroyed it with azure chains, vines, pythons, and flood dragons.
• Wei Wuya and other cultivators arrived, and Fang Yu directed them to ask Han Li about the devil; Han Li recounted what had happened while the cultivators witnessed Fang Yu’s strength.
• Fang Yu dismissed the cultivators, who departed after seeing him destroy the ancient devil body.

Fang Yu asked Fang Qingxue for another Dao artifact, then went to Jialan Peak to meet Fang Han as he cultivated the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art. Fang Han broke through to the True Essence Realm and formed Wood Sovereign True Qi, and Fang Yu prepared to take him exploring the Return Ruins.

• Fang Yu embraced Fang Qingxue and asked whether she had obtained any Dao artifacts besides the Undying Lightning Talisman, but she said she had none to spare.
• Fang Yu declined to cultivate in the Minor Immortal World and asked Fang Qingxue to travel with him, but she refused and suggested he take Fang Han instead.
• Fang Qingxue told Fang Qiang that Fang Yu should focus on cultivating and that a Dao companion bond would restrain him.
• Fang Yu visited Jialan Peak, where Fang Han's cultivation drew wood spiritual energy from the medicinal fields and began transforming his body into wood.
• Fang Yu offered Jialan Nine Yang Sacred Water and promised Long Xuan Yellow Springs Sacred Water as they watched Fang Han break through and form Wood Sovereign True Qi.
• Jialan suggested Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Long Xuan explore the Return Ruins, and Fang Han joined them after completing his breakthrough.