Recaps

Ye Yu survived his expulsion from Great Yan, regained his cultivation, and faced the royal family while seeking the Autumn Water Sword and exposing his abilities. After leaving with Great Qin, he gave Qin Ruoxian the sword and the Memory Stone revealed that Ye Yu had fought Ye Qingqing to save himself.

• Ye Qingwan stripped Ye Yu of his royal status and expelled him, while Ye Xuan became the new Heir Apparent and Liu Ruyan ended her betrothal to Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu restored his cultivation with the Small Cauldron, formed a Golden Core, and emerged from his enlightenment as a cultivator who had drawn three Human Dao Sage phantoms.
• Ye Yu refused to return to the palace and turned down Qin Ruoxian’s invitation to Great Qin, but intervened when Ye Qingwan tried to seize her.
• Ye Yu refined a Rank 7 Life Profound Origin Pill, reunited with Cangyun, and rejected Ye Qingwan and Ye Xuan when they came to the inn.
• Ye Yu went to Liu Manor for the Autumn Water Sword, fought Great Yan’s Attendants and the gathered Guardians, and took the sword from Liu Ruyan before Ye Fan forced him to withdraw with Great Qin.
• Ye Yu gave Autumn Water to Qin Ruoxian, warned Qin Wushuang about the Blood Springs, and later went to Lingyun Pavilion to prepare for the newly appeared secret realm.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang displayed the Memory Stone to accuse Ye Yu of colluding with the Devil Race, but its scene showed Ye Qingqing attacking him and Ye Yu stabbing her with a rune-marked dagger.

Ye Yu entered the Wilderness Secret Realm, survived its trials, and emerged with a powerful Nascent Soul after learning about the Sacred Pill Sect and its Nine Nether Blood Spring. He reunited with Qin Ruoxian, drove off Ye Fan and Ye Xuan, then refused to return to Great Flame as the city he had protected praised Ye Xuan instead.

• The Memory Stone revealed that Ye Yu had given Ye Qingqing his essence blood, but Ye Qingxuan believed Ye Qingshuang’s claim that he had staged the sacrifice and used her royal token to try to expel him from Lingyun Pavilion.
• Ye Yu warned Qin Wushuang that a childbirth policy without better livelihoods could cause starvation, then prepared for the secret realm as Ye Qingwan’s sisters discovered Ye Fan’s marriage plans for them.
• Ye Yu departed with Qin Ruoxian and his companions, met Elder Ziyun, and bought a black sword that the Small Cauldron revealed as the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Liu Ruyan accused Ye Yu of betraying her, but Ye Yu denied their engagement and let Qingyun Sect take her after Lin Jingfeng learned she had deceived the sect.
• Inside the secret realm, Ye Yu healed Qin Ruoxian with a sixth-rank pill, reached the Sacred Pill Sect ruins, and climbed the Ascending Heaven Staircase past Ye Xuan and Ye Qingshuang.
• Ye Yu condensed a Heavenly Revelation Nascent Soul, was taken through a spatial rift during his tribulation, and met Dan Chenzi, who told him about the Nine Nether Blood Spring and gave him a jade token for future entry.
• Ye Yu returned during Ye Fan’s attack on Qin Ruoxian, defeated Ye Fan and severed his arm, then learned the Primordial Undying Art from the Small Cauldron.
• Ye Yu refused Ye Qingwan’s request to return to Great Flame, while locals near the sealed Blood Spring praised Ye Xuan and dismissed Shi Lei’s reminder that Ye Yu had protected their city.

Ye Yu won the Sect Grand Assembly, settled conflicts around Great Qin, and entered the War of a Hundred Dynasties battlefield to investigate a dangerous ruin. After the Void Sky Cauldron thwarted Cang Mo's possession attempt, Ye Xuan obtained the Sword King's Legacy, but the being inside the cauldron intervened and consumed the Primordial Demon.

• Ye Yu unsealed the Nine Nether Blood Spring, and its blood qi devastated Great Flame while Ye Yu protected Great Qin from the spreading blight.
• At the Sect Grand Assembly, Ye Yu defeated Gongsun Wuji, claimed the Purple Firmament Sword, and became Qingyun Sect's champion.
• Ye Yu met Ye Qingshuang, refused Zhu Yan's demand to serve him, and struck Ye Xuan after confronting him over his treatment of her.
• Ye Yu defended Great Qin from the Yunzhou Alliance at Hundred Dynasties Mountain, then entered the battlefield alone to seek the suspected Dao artifact.
• In the imperial mausoleum, the Void Sky Cauldron absorbed Cang Mo's possession attempt, and Ji Zhantian gave Ye Yu a Jade Dragon Token and a Ring of Holding.
• Ye Yu interrupted the blood sacrifice at the Sword King's Palace, but the legacy sword chose Ye Xuan, who was invited to join the Nine Spirits Sword Sect.
• When the Primordial Demon stirred killing intent in the palace, Ye Yu fought the Nine Spirits Sword Sect elder, and the being inside the Void Sky Cauldron emerged, crushed the elder, and swallowed the demon within Ye Xuan.
• The palace's occupants forgot what happened after Ye Xuan received the legacy, and Ye Yu flew toward distant azure light and immortal music.

Ye Yu led Great Qin to prominence, exposed Ye Xuan’s ties to the Devil Race, and rescued Zi Yun while confronting Great Flame’s decline. The stretch ended as Nine Nether Blood Qi engulfed You Shui County, with Ye Yu shielding Qin Ruoxian and the others in green radiance.

• Ye Yu entered the stone forest, obtained the transformed Void Sky Cauldron, and later used his Sword Heart and the Spirit Seizing Array to defeat Blood War’s forces and free the trapped cultivators.
• Ye Xuan gained the Heaven-Reaching Stone Tablet’s recognition, but Ye Yu returned from the sealed passage and raised Great Qin’s score to a record 1.48 million points.
• Ye Yu defeated Zhu Huan, accused Ye Xuan of being a Devil Race spy, and rejected Ye Fan’s offer to return to Great Flame, while Xu Xiaoyao took Ye Xuan away as his disciple.
• Ye Yu returned to Great Qin, advised Qin Wushuang to shelter refugees fleeing Great Flame, and learned that Nine Nether Blood Qi had spread across Great Flame.
• Ye Yu traveled to Yan Shang Cave Mansion, rescued Zi Yun from the Spiritual Flame, and escaped the cemetery before a colossal hand seized him and Zhou Li.
• Ye Yu made Zhou Li his servant, then returned to Great Qin and stopped Nie Xing from attacking Qin Ruoxian before agreeing to attend Ye Xuan’s apprenticeship ceremony.
• Ye Yu met Yuan Xiang, warned him that the Nine Nether Blood Qi was approaching, and watched as it engulfed You Shui County while he shielded Qin Ruoxian and the others.