Recaps

Ye Yu left Great Flame behind, grew stronger in Great Qin, and traveled to the Purple Firmament Sword Tomb. There, the Glazed Sword chose him, while Ye Xuan tried to win him over and Ji Wuming realized the tomb passage had been opened.

• Ye Yu abandoned the trapped people of You Shui County, then later used the Void Sky Cauldron and Chaos Spiritual Energy to clear Nine Nether Blood Qi from Great Qin’s citizens and strengthen himself.
• At Ye Xuan’s apprenticeship ceremony, Ye Yu stopped the Nine Spirits Sword Tablet’s sword phantom, revealed the Purple Firmament Sword, and was declared the Zi Xiao Holy Son by Lingyunzi.
• After Ye Xuan’s attempt to treat Liu Ying failed and she died, Ye Yu preserved her soul, while Ye Qingqing learned that Ye Xuan had drained Liu Ruyan’s blood essence and crippled her cultivation.
• Ye Yu broke through to Spirit Transformation, survived a dangerous domain condensation, and left Great Flame with Liu Qi for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect.
• At the sect’s recruitment assembly, Ye Yu found Xu Xuan, forced Wu Yan to reveal where the stolen spiritual fruit had gone, and learned that the Sword Tomb had been opened to outsiders.
• Ye Yu entered the Purple Sky Sword Tomb with Ye Xuan’s group, killed Sword Beasts with ease, and grew suspicious as Ye Xuan led the group toward a Bronze Hall.
• The Glazed Sword ignored the assembled cultivators until Ye Yu’s Sword Heart drew it to him, prompting the crowd to demand that he hand it over.
• Ye Xuan urged Ye Yu to join the Nine Spirits Sword Sect, but Ye Yu searched the Glazed Hall and drove the Glazed Sword into the floor as Ji Wuming sensed the tomb passage opening.

Ye Yu entered the Sword Tomb, joined the Nine Spirits Sword Sect under the name Xu Wangchen, and won the Alchemy Convention while advancing his cultivation and uncovering secrets about his soul. After emerging from the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground, he was exposed as the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s Holy Son, and both sects faced off over him.

• Ye Yu entered the Sword Tomb, subdued its ancient swords with the Purple Firmament Sword, and confronted Ye Xuan before discovering the stone sword and the captives within the sword formation.
• Ye Yu summoned three Human Dao Sages to save Zi Xiao and the captives from the Demon Emperors, then learned that the Imperial Clan posed a threat because of his hidden domain.
• Ye Yu joined the Nine Spirits Sword Sect as Xu Wangchen, chose Feng Qiwen as his elder, and secretly subdued the Vast Qi Hall, where he found a Heaven-rank soul technique.
• Ye Xuan gave Ye Qingling the Blood Refinement Great Method and later injected her with Blood Refinement Essence, but Ye Yu refined its demonic aura and helped her cultivate.
• Ye Yu won the Leizhou Alchemy Convention with a King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pill, endured three-colored Pill Lightning, and received Daoist Tian Yuan’s statue from Han Yi.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master sent Ye Yu into the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground, where he found a chained Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and recovered a green-bronze fragment that might belong to the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ji Wuming arrived to demand the Glazed Sword as Ye Xuan comprehended a Heavenly Grade Sword Technique, but Ye Yu emerged from the forbidden grounds and defeated Ye Xuan with a burst of blood-red sword radiance.
• When Ji Wuming demanded that Ye Yu be handed over, the Nine Spirits Sect Master revealed his true identity, and Ye Yu removed the Heaven Shrouding Veil as Ye Qingling collapsed in shock and Ye Xuan erupted in anger.

Ye Yu recovered his divine soul, killed Wan Qingsong, and drew Great Qin into alliances while preparing for the Blood Demon Race’s invasion. His rise as an eighth-grade alchemist attracted new followers, as Ye Xuan advanced his own plans and danger approached the Moon Shadow Sect.

• Ye Yu broke the sect-protecting formation, escaped the Nine Spirits Sword Sect, and stole its Scripture Repository before returning to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ye Yu killed Liu Xu after Liu Xu threatened Great Qin and claimed Qin Ruoxian, then learned from Murong Xue that his mother came from the Xu family of Central Province.
• Ye Yu returned to Great Yan, found Ye Qingxuan, and exposed the blood pool beneath the Eastern Palace, where Liu Ruyan died after recognizing him.
• Ye Yu recovered his missing divine soul fragment from the Purple Crystal Ring and reached Heaven Realm Divine Soul, then sought alliances in preparation for a Heavenly Demon Race invasion.
• Ye Yu avenged Li Bufan by killing Wan Qingsong and fighting Wan Bosong’s forces, then left the Myriad Dynasty without killing Wan Bosong.
• Ye Yu summoned his former subordinates and secured Great Qin’s alliances, while Ye Qingxuan found the injured Ye Qingwan and left without taking her away.
• Ye Yu refined a Grade 8 pill, drew alchemists and cultivators to his allies with offers of instruction, and sent forces to defend Azure Prefecture’s southern border.
• Ye Xuan proposed sending Ye Qingling to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect because she held the Blood Refinement Essence, while the Moon Shadow Ancestor revealed he had broken through and the Moon Shadow Sect’s patrol spotted something alarming.

Ye Yu contained the Blood Demon threat around Great Qin while confronting Great Flame and the Alchemy Alliance, but the invasion continued to advance. After returning to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, he helped Xu Yan reclaim the Xu Family’s possessions and began questioning Gu Sanjun about the family’s extermination.

• The Blood Demon Race invaded Azure Prefecture, and Ye Yu investigated the Sacred Pill Sect ruins before entering the Nine Nether Blood Spring as Dan Chenzi fought to defend the sect’s secret realm.
• Ye Yu learned the Blood Demon Race was stirring conflict among the prefectures, reinforced the spring’s seal, and publicly refined poison pills that exposed Alchemy Alliance spies.
• Ye Yu confronted Han Yi and Great Flame at the border, but Blood Demons emerged from the spring and turned the meeting into a battle in which Ye Yu wounded Elder Quan with Curse Power.
• As the Blood Demon invasion advanced, Xue Qin forced Ye Xuan to swallow a Bloodthirsty Bead, while Ye Yu left Great Qin for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect with Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast.
• At the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, Ye Yu met Xu Xuan and agreed to accompany Xu Yan to the Xu Family Ancestral Land in exchange for green bronze, while Ye Qingling revealed that Ye Yu was her brother.
• Ye Yu took Xu Yan to Langya City, where she confronted Pan Jun and demanded the Xu Family’s possessions back from him and Gu Yun.
• When Gu Sanjun tried to summon help, Ye Yu restrained him, severed his arm, and demanded to know whether the person he planned to summon was connected to the Xu Family’s extermination.