Recaps

Ye Yu nearly advanced to the Body Integration Realm, then waited at Xun Mo’s blacksmith shop while the Purple Firmament Sword was repaired. When the restored sword emerged, it returned to Ye Yu but violently rejected his attempt to draw it into his body.

• Ye Yu’s consciousness approached his Chaos Nascent Soul, triggering his Karma power to surge and forcing him to pull his consciousness back before he was injured.
• Ye Yu learned Murong Xue had returned to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, then went to Xun Mo’s blacksmith shop to stand guard.
• After more than twenty days, earthfire erupted from the shop, and the repaired Purple Firmament Sword emerged amid a heavenly phenomenon.
• Nearby cultivators rushed for the sword, but its Sword Qi killed more than ten of them before Ye Yu summoned it to his hand.
• Xun Mo explained that he had erased Ye Yu’s master imprint while repairing the sword, but the sword still bonded with Ye Yu; when Ye Yu tried to draw it into his body, it blasted free and flew away.

Ye Yu discovered that the Autumn Water Sword prevented him from bonding with the Purple Firmament Sword, then confronted Lin Qiang after Lin Qiang seized it. A Mahayana expert intervened before Ye Yu could finish Lin Qiang, and Ye Yu left for the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion with the Origin Returning Cover.

• Ye Yu found that the Autumn Water Sword's presence in his body rejected the Purple Firmament Sword, leaving him unable to achieve unity with it.
• Lin Qiang captured the Purple Firmament Sword in the Origin Returning Cover and claimed it, while Xun Mo warned Ye Yu not to provoke the Lin family.
• Ye Yu revealed his golden body, crushed Lin Qiang's neck, and caught his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• The Xu family's Ninth Elder sent Ye Yu reeling and rescued Lin Qiang's Nascent Soul, warning Ye Yu to stop his schemes before the Great Family Competition.
• Ye Yu took the Origin Returning Cover, saluted Xun Mo, and departed for the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion as the Ninth Elder descended before Xun Mo.

Ye Yu bargained with the Cauldron Spirit over a Void Sky Cauldron fragment, then reached the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and encountered his suspicious senior brother Jiang Taibai. Jiang Taibai warned Ye Yu that he trusted no one, while Ye Yu admitted he felt the same.

• Ninth Elder took Xun Mo away after he said he could not repair Spring Rhyme, leaving him trapped with familiar faces in a dark space.
• Ye Yu broke the Origin Returning Cover with the Small Cauldron and retrieved the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Ye Yu agreed to give the Cauldron Spirit Xun Mo's Void Sky Cauldron fragment in exchange for repairing the Dragon-Phoenix Spirit, the Kunpeng Spirit, and Dan Chenzi's divine soul, and made it swear an oath.
• Ye Yu grew uneasy about the Void Sky Cauldron's urgent need to recover its strength and wondered what was coming.
• Ye Yu arrived at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and found powerful cultivators gathered there, including Zheng Xiang and Jiang Taibai.
• Jiang Taibai accused Ye Yu of concealing his reasons for coming and warned that he trusted no one; Ye Yu replied that he only trusted himself too.

Ye Yu admitted that Xu Yunxi was his mother after Jiang Taibai and Zheng Xiang discovered Feng Qiwen on his spirit vessel, and the Dark Hall pair captured them. While Feng Qiwen said the Xu family would leave Ye Yu alone if he behaved, Ye Yu no longer trusted him, and Jiang Taibai remained wary of Ye Yu's claim.

• Jiang Taibai dismissed Zheng Xiang's optimism and argued that people could not be trusted in the cultivation world.
• Ye Yu revealed Feng Qiwen and told Jiang Taibai that Xu Yunxi was his mother.
• Jiang Taibai ordered Zheng Xiang to seal Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen's spiritual power and take them to a thatched cottage until their Master returned.
• Ye Yu noticed the cottage was being watched and accused Feng Qiwen of arranging the situation to make him acknowledge his identity and appear at the Great Family Competition.
• Feng Qiwen said the Xu family would not harm Ye Yu if he behaved, but Ye Yu no longer trusted him.
• Jiang Taibai rejected Zheng Xiang's belief that Ye Yu had been threatened and recalled that trusting someone had led to Fourth Brother's death and Fifth Brother's destruction.

Jiang Taibai visited Wang Xiong and Ye Chenxiang, who urged him to abandon his cultivation and join their quiet life, before a distant explosion drew cultivators toward the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion. Ye Yu went to investigate, where Guan Yunlan recognized him as her grandson despite the Xu Family’s test denying their blood connection, and the Ninth Elder trapped him.

• Jiang Taibai restored Wang Xiong’s failed seeds and spoke with him and Ye Chenxiang, who invited him to give up his cultivation and live with them.
• A muffled boom near the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion’s cave abode drew Jiang Taibai, Zheng Xiang, and other cultivators away.
• Ye Yu left Feng Qiwen behind and secretly approached the cave abode, where Lei Dong and Li Daoyi were trying to break its barrier.
• Guan Yunlan appeared beside Ye Yu and recognized him as Yunxi’s child, but the Xu Family’s Ninth Elder reminded her that the clan head had tested him and found no Xu Family bloodline.
• Guan Yunlan told the Ninth Elder to let Ye Yu leave, but the Ninth Elder trapped him in a spiritual cage, and Ye Yu attacked them with Sword Qi.

Ye Yu was pulled into the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion after using Murong Chen’s key, while Li Daoyi and the others remained outside the barrier. Inside, Murong Xue told him the Pavilion had been sealed for two days, and Ye Yu recognized the Void Sky Cauldron’s azure light atop the stone tower.

• Ye Yu drew Li Daoyi’s attention with Sword Qi, and Li Daoyi shattered the spiritual light cage before confronting Guan Yunlan and the Ninth Elder.
• Jiang Taibai told Li Daoyi about Ye Yu’s conversation with Feng Qiwen, prompting Li Daoyi to accuse the Xu family of plotting to have someone impersonate Xu Yunxi’s child.
• Lei Dong proposed that the four Mahayana cultivators work together to open the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, and they discussed avoiding a direct assault on its barrier.
• Ye Yu offered to speak with Murong Xue and used Murong Chen’s key at the cave abode, but the barrier dragged him inside and resisted Li Daoyi’s and Guan Yunlan’s attacks.
• Murong Xue welcomed Ye Yu and explained that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion had been sealed for two days; when Ye Yu saw the stone tower, he recognized the Void Sky Cauldron’s azure light sealing it.

Ye Yu entered the light cocoon to confront Murong Chen, while the Cauldron Spirit and Mirror Spirit revealed their conflicting motives and shared history. Inside the cocoon, Ye Yu found Murong Chen at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, where Murong Chen reflected on having destroyed its former beauty.

• Ye Yu entered the stone tower and saw the Haotian Mirror reunite with its fragments as cyan and yellow light subdued the cocoon.
• The Cauldron Spirit told Ye Yu to use Autumn Water, and Ye Yu entered the light cocoon with the sword.
• The Cauldron Spirit and Mirror Spirit argued over their past choices, with the Mirror Spirit accusing the Cauldron Spirit of betraying humanity and revealing her experiment involving Ye Yu.
• The Mirror Spirit explained that she had allowed the Cauldron Spirit to shatter her so she could turn back time and test whether Ye Yu could follow the heartless path.
• Ye Yu emerged in a Heavenly Mystery Pavilion beneath an open sky and found Murong Chen touching its central stone tower.
• Murong Chen told Ye Yu that the former Heavenly Mystery Pavilion had been beautiful before he destroyed it.

Ye Yu spoke with Murong Chen while both men stalled for time inside the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, and they debated whether Ye Yu was truly the Defier of Fate. Murong Chen launched a powerful attack, but the Void Sky Cauldron intervened, allowing Ye Yu to turn the tables as Murong Chen’s cultivation began to collapse.

• Murong Chen led Ye Yu through the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and suggested they talk before one of them died.
• Ye Yu argued that even the force guiding fate could not see through the human heart, while Murong Chen concluded that Ye Yu was not the Defier of Fate.
• Murong Chen revealed that he had used their leisurely walk to wait for the Haotian Mirror’s suppression to weaken, then recovered to the Integrated Body Late Stage.
• Murong Chen cast the Law Tier Spiritual Skill Falling Stars, sending flaming stars down on Ye Yu and setting the pavilion grounds ablaze.
• A cyan beam from the Void Sky Cauldron shattered Murong Chen’s stars, extinguished the flames, and rapidly suppressed his cultivation.
• Ye Yu approached Murong Chen with his sword and explained that he had also been stalling while the Void Sky Cauldron prepared to suppress him.

Ye Yu fought Murong Chen after the Void Sky Cauldron suppressed him, using the Autumn Water Sword and the power of Karma to overcome his techniques. Murong Chen was defeated and lamented his fate, while Ye Yu realized that their conflict had been shaped by Murong Chen’s attempt to take something from him.

• The Cauldron Spirit suffered backlash from suppressing Murong Chen, and the Mirror Spirit replenished its strength while reflecting on Ye Yu’s lack of fear of death.
• Murong Chen broke free of the cocoon of light but was left at late Void Refining, and he faced Ye Yu on a chessboard domain.
• Ye Yu used the Autumn Water Sword and Innate Breathing Technique to absorb the dwindling spiritual energy and withstand Murong Chen’s star attacks.
• Murong Chen invoked Myriad Luo Starboard, but Ye Yu’s power of Karma resisted the suppression and shattered the chessboard, forcing Murong Chen to his knee.
• Murong Chen cried out that he refused to be a foil, while azure and yellow light suppressed his surging power.
• Ye Yu realized that Murong Chen’s attempt to gain something from him had set their fated conflict in motion, and that Murong Chen might otherwise have siphoned Xu Yunxi’s fortune.

Ye Yu defeated Murong Chen, ending the Heaven's Punishment that had trapped the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and leaving Murong Chen dead. As the Pavilion's members fought over its divine artifacts, Ye Yu left with Murong Xue and the corpse, while Lei Dong demanded to know where the Haotian Mirror had gone.

• Murong Chen realized that he and Ye Yu were Chess Pieces, but Ye Yu told him to enter the game rather than pretend to control it, then killed him with the Autumn Water Sword.
• The karmic chessboard shattered, the Haotian Mirror returned three fragments to Ye Yu, and the Void Sky Cauldron merged into him as the Pavilion's barrier collapsed.
• Murong Xue found Murong Chen dead and mourned him while the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion members rushed to seize the Haotian Mirror and Seven Star Lamp.
• Ye Yu carried Murong Xue and Murong Chen's corpse out of the stone tower as fighting broke out over the artifacts inside.
• Li Daoyi, Guan Yunlan, Lei Dong, and the Ninth Elder met Ye Yu; Lei Dong then noticed the Haotian Mirror was missing and turned his attention to Murong Xue.

Ye Yu helped keep the Haotian Mirror in Murong Xue’s hands, but the factions around them began eyeing her as the key to controlling it. In the stone tower, Ye Yu admitted that he had killed Murong Chen and urged Murong Xue to cooperate, revealing three fragments of the mirror.

• Lei Dong and the Ninth Elder recovered the Haotian Mirror from the stone tower, but neither could activate it with their spiritual power.
• Ye Yu and Murong Xue convinced the others that only the Murong family bloodline could use the mirror, and it briefly lit up when Murong Xue picked it up before draining her spiritual power.
• The Ninth Elder considered taking Murong Xue and the mirror by force, but abandoned the idea after noticing Li Daoyi’s presence.
• The cultivators sealed the cave entrance and sent the others to rest in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion while the four Mahayana Stage cultivators discussed what to do.
• Murong Xue asked Ye Yu how her grandfather had died, and Ye Yu told her that he had killed Murong Chen.
• Ye Yu told Murong Xue to cooperate or watch the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion be destroyed, then revealed three fragments of the Haotian Mirror in his palm.

Ye Yu secured Murong Xue's cooperation by offering to preserve the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and the Haotian Mirror, though she vowed to kill him if she ever could. The Pavilion left its hidden dwelling for the Central Province under the four Mahayana cultivators' control, while the fate of the village's mortals remained uncertain.

• Ye Yu persuaded Murong Xue to cooperate by promising that the Haotian Mirror would stay with her and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion could leave the cave dwelling.
• Murong Xue confronted Ye Yu about killing her grandfather, then vowed to kill him if she got the chance; Ye Yu warned that he would kill her once she was no longer useful.
• The four Mahayana cultivators agreed to relocate the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and keep the Haotian Mirror with Murong Xue, placing restrictions on her to prevent her escape.
• Li Daoyi and the other three led the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion away, while the others returned to the village.
• Zheng Xiang looked down at the village and wondered where its mortals would go as Demonic Beasts gathered without cultivators to protect them.

Ye Yu tried to take Wang Xiong somewhere safe, but Jiang Taibai insisted that Wang Xiong should choose for himself. After Zheng Xiang proposed moving Wang Xiong out of Central Province, Jiang Taibai agreed to send him away.

• Ye Yu and Zheng Xiang arrived at Wang Xiong's hut and found him speaking with Jiang Taibai.
• Ye Yu tried to take Wang Xiong away, but Jiang Taibai shattered Ye Yu's spiritual light and insisted Wang Xiong decide for himself.
• Ye Yu explained that Wang Xiong's connection to Wang Yue made it dangerous for him to remain in Central Province or return to the Wang Family.
• Zheng Xiang suggested sending Wang Xiong out of Central Province so he could live in seclusion, and Jiang Taibai agreed.

Ye Chenxiang and Wang Xiong argued over whether to return to the Wang Family, then agreed to cooperate and leave Central Province. Ye Yu met his grandmother Guan Yunlan in Feng Qiwen’s hut, accepted her jade talisman, and was interrupted by an angry voice condemning the Xu Family.

• Ye Yu told Jiang Taibai to stay away from his sister and went to check on Feng Qiwen.
• Ye Chenxiang told Jiang Taibai to take her and Wang Xiong when he left, then argued with Wang Xiong about returning to the Wang Family.
• Wang Xiong and Ye Chenxiang agreed to cooperate for Jiang Taibai’s benefit and leave Central Province for their child’s sake.
• Ye Yu found Guan Yunlan in Feng Qiwen’s hut, rejected her attempt to treat him as family, and warned her to stay away.
• Guan Yunlan asked about Ye Yu’s mother, learned she was alive, and gave Ye Yu a jade talisman for emergencies.
• An angry voice behind Guan Yunlan shouted that the Xu Family had gone too far.

Ye Yu took Feng Qiwen to a secluded cave to nurture the Purple Firmament Sword and prepare to break through into the Integration stage. He persuaded the Dragon Phoenix spirit to become the sword’s spirit, leaving the Cauldron Spirit to deal with the sealed Kunpeng spirit and Dan Chenzi’s divine soul.

• Guan Yunlan confronted Jiang Taibai and Zheng Xiang over their interference with the Xu family’s servant, and Ye Yu asked her to let the servant stay.
• Jiang Taibai explained that Ye Yu was cooperating with the Xu family to avoid bringing trouble upon his master, while Zheng Xiang rejected his cautious outlook and left.
• Ye Yu found a Fire Cloud Bird’s cave dwelling, bound the bird to stand guard outside, and set up an isolation formation.
• Inside the Void Sky Cauldron, Ye Yu asked the recovered Dragon Phoenix spirit to become his sword spirit, and it agreed.
• Ye Yu told the Cauldron Spirit to restore Dan Chenzi’s divine soul and left with Dragon Phoenix, which entered the Purple Firmament Sword.

Ye Yu waited for the Purple Firmament Sword and Dragon-Phoenix Spirit to fuse while preparing to subdue his Chaos Nascent Soul. Lin Qingyue worried about accepting Ye Yu's help with her Heavenly Profound Ice Spirit Body, and Lin Qingcang decided to seek him out; two months later, the Fire Cloud Bird warned that the Lin Family was due to collect its source beastfire.

• Ye Yu stopped advancing his cultivation and tempered his soul while the Purple Firmament Sword and Dragon-Phoenix Spirit began to fuse.
• Lin Qingcang warned Lin Qingyue that her Heavenly Profound Ice Spirit Body was endangering her and that she could not defeat Ye Chengjun.
• Lin Qingyue told Lin Qingcang that Ye Yu could absorb her cold energy, but she feared Qin Ruoxian's motives and the consequences for the Lin Family.
• Lin Qingcang decided to find Ye Yu because Lin Qingyue needed to resolve her condition before the passage above the Divine Continent opened.
• Two months later, Ye Yu prepared to subdue his Nascent Soul as the Purple Firmament Sword's fusion neared completion.
• The Fire Cloud Bird told Feng Qiwen that the Lin Family was due to collect its source beastfire, which it had been unable to restore.

Ye Yu’s Purple Firmament Sword completed its transformation into a Law Tier magic treasure, forcing him to flee the cave abode after its Dragon Phoenix apparition stirred the mountain range. He then used the sword to shatter the Autumn Water Sword Intent within himself, but the chapter left the cause of the Autumn Water Sword’s sudden pause—and Ye Yu’s cry of “Mother?!”—unexplained.

• The Purple Firmament Sword transformed into a Law Tier magic treasure, and its Dragon Phoenix apparition made the Demonic Beasts across the mountain range bow in fear.
• Ye Yu left the damaged cave abode with Feng Qiwen, while Fire Cloud Bird returned to its flaming jade stone and was burned to ashes.
• Ye Yu hid his spiritual root in a puppet, entered the Void Sky Cauldron, and summoned the Autumn Water Sword Intent from his body.
• Ye Yu used the Purple Firmament Sword and the Dragon Phoenix to attack the Autumn Water Sword Intent while suppressing the sword inside his Ring of Holding, which began to crack.
• The Autumn Water Sword Intent and the sword in the ring briefly froze, allowing the Purple Firmament Sword to shatter the Intent; the sword in the ring fell silent, and Ye Yu cried, “Mother?!”

Ye Yu merged with the Purple Firmament Sword and subdued his Nascent Soul by relying on the sword’s power and breaking free from instinct. As he emerged from seclusion, an Integration Tribulation gathered over the valley, where the Xu family’s Ninth Elder arrived and considered Ye Yu as a possible guardian for the Xu family.

• Xu Yunxi told Po Jun that she was acting as Xiao Yu’s mother and warned that none of them would escape the consequences.
• Ye Yu merged Zi Xiao into his body, making the Purple Firmament Sword his natal magic treasure, and began absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.
• Ye Yu fought his Karma-powered Nascent Soul with Zi Xiao’s help, then defeated it by breaking free from instinct and absorbed its spiritual light.
• After several months, Feng Qiwen saw the Xu family’s Ninth Elder emerge from a spatial rift and tried to flee with Ye Yu’s puppet.
• The Ninth Elder watched a blood-red lightning tribulation gather over Ye Yu and recognized it as an Integration Tribulation.

As Ye Yu attempted to break through to the Body Integration Realm, the Lin family and the Ninth Elder of the Xu family gathered to witness his terrifying tribulation. Ye Yu faced a heart demon rooted in his past life, which challenged whether he had truly let go as the Annihilation Divine Thunder gathered above.

• Several Lin family Clan Elders arrived and recognized Ye Yu, but the Ninth Elder of the Xu family warned them not to interfere with his tribulation.
• Lin Qingcang and Lin Qingyue appeared, and Lin Qingyue deduced that Ye Yu was Xu Yunxi's child before informing Lin Qingcang.
• The onlookers recognized the scarlet lightning as Annihilation Divine Thunder, while Ye Yu remained seated beneath it.
• Ye Yu vomited blood as a heart demon emerged, showing him his past-life self and the people who had mocked him before his death.
• Ye Yu rejected the heart demon's accusations and attacked it with the Purple Firmament Sword, but it urged him to face his past self or give up and die.

Ye Yu survived the Annihilation Divine Thunder by using the Dragon Phoenix Spirit’s Nirvana Rebirth, reaching the Body Integration Realm and severing his Ye and Xu family bloodlines. As the Ninth Elder invited him to return to the Xu family, Lin Qingcang stepped in to ask him for help.

• Ye Yu trapped and destroyed his inner demon with Dragon Phoenix Fire as the Annihilation Divine Thunder descended.
• Ye Yu endured the tribulation’s lightning until his blood was exhausted, while Lin Qingcang and the Ninth Elder believed he would die.
• Ye Yu opened himself to the final bolt, then revived through Nirvana Rebirth and the Immortal Fire.
• Ye Yu’s rebirth erased his Ye and Xu family bloodlines, and the Xu family ring began to slip from his finger.
• The Ninth Elder invited Ye Yu to return to the Xu family, but Lin Qingcang interrupted and asked him for help.

Ye Yu returned to the Xu family with the Ninth Elder, who planned to nurture him and address his inner demon. He reunited with Guan Yunlan and revealed that he came from Azure Prefecture, the Great Yu Dynasty, leaving her questions about Xu Yunxi and his father unanswered.

• Lin Qingcang asked the Ninth Elder to lend Ye Yu's Immortal Fire to resolve Lin Qingyue's condition, but she postponed it until after the Great Family Competition.
• The Ninth Elder brought Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen to the Xu family, where Xu Yunting agreed to nurture Ye Yu if he and other outsiders pledged lasting loyalty to the family.
• Feng Qiwen took Ye Yu to the small courtyard, where Guan Yunlan welcomed him and noticed that she could no longer sense their bloodline connection.
• Ye Yu showed Guan Yunlan Xu Yunxi's Purple Crystal Ring and Autumn Water Sword, and she sensed Xu Yunxi's spiritual energy on the sword.
• When Guan Yunlan asked where Xu Yunxi was and who Ye Yu's father was, Ye Yu said he came from Azure Prefecture, the Great Yu Dynasty.

Ye Yu confronted the Cauldron Spirit, revealing that he believed the spirit was human and trapped within destiny, just like the Defier of Fate it sought to help. After the Void Sky Cauldron expelled Ye Yu's consciousness, he concluded that it and Mother were also subject to destiny and began to suspect that destiny relied on human nature.

• Guan Yunlan ordered a servant to investigate the Great Yu Dynasty in Azure Prefecture after Ye Yu returned to the small house.
• Ye Yu told the Cauldron Spirit that it had lost its freedom after Mother shattered the Autumn Water Sword intent within him, and the spirit failed to leave or kill him.
• Ye Yu argued that the Cauldron Spirit was human and that its repeated failures showed it was already trapped within destiny.
• The Cauldron Spirit erupted in anger and forced Ye Yu's consciousness out of the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Yu concluded that the Void Sky Cauldron and Mother were within destiny's reach, then wondered whether destiny's purpose was to propel human nature.

Ye Yu tried to understand his inner demon while Guan Yunlan confronted Xu Yunting over Ye Yu’s past and then pledged to protect him. When the Ninth Elder presented Ye Yu with a master-servant contract, Guan Yunlan refused to let him sign it, and the dispute remained unresolved.

• Ye Yu spent several days trying to crush his inner demon, but the black aura between his brows grew denser.
• Guan Yunlan confronted Xu Yunting after learning how Ye Yu had been treated in Azure Prefecture, then went to comfort Ye Yu and promised to protect him.
• Ye Yu realized Guan Yunlan’s support could give him protection within the Xu family and briefly sensed a key to breaking through his inner demon.
• The Ninth Elder brought Ye Yu a master-servant contract and ordered him to sign it, but Guan Yunlan took it and objected.
• Guan Yunlan refused to let Ye Yu sign, while the Ninth Elder argued that the Xu family needed outside strength and reminded her of Xinru’s participation in the Great Family Competition.

Ye Yu learned how Xinru died after the Xu Family kept her in a deadly competition, and Guan Yunlan showed him the family to discourage anyone from harming him. He sensed the Xu Family’s Earthly Immortal and was suddenly brought before the mysterious old man in the ancestral grounds.

• Guan Yunlan confronted the Ninth Elder over the Xu Family’s role in Xinru’s death, then took Ye Yu on a tour to show the family that she favored him.
• Ye Yu sensed a powerful presence in the ancestral grounds and learned that the Xu Family’s guardian object was a withered hand tied to its Bloodline Power and curse.
• Ye Yu reasoned that his mother had recovered the guardian object but had not returned it, suggesting she had another hidden plan.
• After Guan Yunlan left to repair the Spring Charm Sword, Ye Yu destroyed the courtyard gate when an unseen visitor knocked.
• A kindly elderly man appeared, transported Ye Yu to the ancestral grounds, and revealed himself as the Xu Family’s Earthly Immortal.

Ye Yu rejected the old man's offer to teach him and asked for help advancing his soul power. The old man gave him advice about calming his mind, and Ye Yu settled into meditation while the old man privately wondered whether he had bluffed him.

• The old man told Ye Yu he had chosen him to learn peerless arts, but Ye Yu declined and tried to leave.
• The old man restrained Ye Yu, then released him and pleaded for a chance to teach him.
• Ye Yu asked how to advance his soul power from the peak of the Heaven Realm to the Law Tier before the Great Family Competition.
• The old man advised Ye Yu to focus on becoming better rather than anxiously chasing what he wanted, then disappeared.
• Ye Yu understood the advice, bowed, and sat down to meditate in the Xu family ancestral grounds.
• Hidden behind a grave mound, the old man admitted he knew nothing about soul power and wondered whether Ye Yu had mistaken his words for wisdom.