Recaps

Ye Yu uncovered the Giant Spirit Race’s trap, seized control of the Azure Heaven Palace, and killed Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku while escaping the Deep Sea Ravine. He then set out with Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk for the Dry Moon Sect, where a new encounter and a delay at the teleportation array left the group waiting on Dry Moon Island.

• Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen escaped the Nine Nether Blood Qi trap, found Azure Heaven Palace in the Deep Sea Ravine, and discovered that Luo Ying’s body was bound to the palace.
• Ye Yu exposed the crystalline impostor posing as Luo Ying, took the real Luo Ying’s body, and drew the Giant Spirit Race and other cultivators into the palace, where the Nine Nether Blood Qi killed many intruders.
• Xu Xiuwan tried to refine Wu Yue’s Nine Yin Nether Body, but the ritual failed and Xu An died when the family curse erupted, and the Giant Spirit Race then attacked the Xu and Ye families.
• Ye Yu fled with Feng Qiwen, revived Luo Ying in the bronze coffin, and used her connection to Azure Heaven Palace to trap Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku inside.
• Ye Yu revealed his Xu and Ye lineage ties, killed Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku, healed Fat Monk’s Nine Nether Blood Qi injury, and escaped the palace with Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk.
• Ye Yu negotiated with You Shan for passage toward Central Continent, then killed him when You Shan betrayed him after they reached Dry Moon Island.
• Ye Yu met Qin Wushuang, who proposed adopting him and warned him not to hinder Qin Ruoxian, and Ye Yu left without accepting.
• Ye Yu, Feng Qiwen, and Fat Monk waited for a teleportation array, rented a cave dwelling from Gu Qianqian, and Fat Monk questioned whether she had lied about her circumstances.

Ye Yu escaped Dry Moon Island after killing Bai Chengfeng and traveled to Central Province, where he entered Heavenly Saint Academy’s brutal selection. He passed the trial and reached the final talent test as Ye Chengjun revealed Crimson Dragon level talent.

• Ye Yu killed Bai Chengfeng, severed Wang Yue’s arm, and escaped Dry Moon Island with Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk through the island’s barrier.
• Ye Yu’s group reached Heavenly Saint City, where Ye Yu learned that Heavenly Saint Academy’s top new student could receive a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron and registered for selection.
• Fat Monk rescued Gu Qianqian from Qiu Yuan and Gu Shan’s ambush, and she chose to leave with him and Feng Qiwen.
• Ye Yu and Xie Liuying entered the dangerous mountain screening, where Ye Yu’s group faced demonic beasts and discovered that the applicants’ jade plaques governed the trial.
• After Ye Yu gave his token to Fan Bian, the applicants turned on one another for jade tablets, and Ye Yu and Qing Li fought their way to the peak.
• Huang Sitong tested the candidates with an illusion array, and Ye Yu shattered the illusion and passed alongside six others.
• Ye Yu refused Qin Yao’s invitation to join Yaochi and dismissed Feng Qiwen from his service after confronting him about withholding information.
• At the final talent test, Yun Ling was eliminated despite revealing High-grade Water Spiritual Root and Python level talent, while Ye Chengjun’s talent rose from Dragon to Crimson Dragon level.

Ye Yu joined Heavenly Saint Academy, pursued the Primordial Aura, and led a mission that drew him into the Ye family’s hunt and the Gale Wolf clan’s crisis. After surviving both conflicts, he left Fengzhou with Xie Liuying’s group, still questioning the motives behind the people around him.

• Lei Dong claimed Ye Chengjun as his disciple, while Ye Yu’s faint golden test result drew mockery until Li Daoyi recruited him for Heavenly Saint Academy.
• At Hidden Sword Peak, Ye Yu trained with Li Daoyi’s guidance, took up the Peak Master Token, and sought spirit energy by robbing Gao Sheng before buying Primordial Aura.
• Ye Yu killed a Flame Wolf Society disciple in a life-and-death duel, then broke through to mid Void Refining and accepted Xie Liuying’s Cleansing Operation mission against the Gale Wolves.
• Ye Yu gathered the Fat Monk, Liu Qi, and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast in Fengzhou, where Seven Kills killed Ye Hedao and Ye Yu escaped the Ye family’s pursuit.
• Ye Yu and Xie Liuying lured rogue cultivators toward the Gale Wolves by offering high prices for their essence blood, while Gong Lei secretly plotted against Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu found Feng Hen and the newly unsealed Nine Nether Blood Spring, defeated Feng Hen, freed the captives, and widened the seal’s gap, unleashing blood qi that caused widespread chaos and deaths.
• After the Fat Monk confronted Ye Yu over the lives endangered by the blood qi, Ye Yu admitted their friendship had partly depended on usefulness, and the Fat Monk left with Gu Qianqian before later rejoining the group.
• Xie Liuying’s party prepared to leave Fengzhou, and Ye Yu bought essence blood from an injured female cultivator before asking Gong Jiuxiao whether he was following his own purpose or his doctrine.

Ye Yu learned more about Xu Yunxi and his own fate, then entered the Canglan Ruins to seek Breath of Hell and a cure for Dan Chenzi. After surviving the ruins’ deadly illusions and factions, he found a scroll about the Heaven-Reaching Stone Tablet.

• Gong Lei confessed that he had lied about Gong Jiuxiao and deliberately leaked the Gale Wolf clan mission, then faced the sisters’ anger and Fat Monk’s rejection.
• Qin Ruoxian returned to Yaochi without Xu Yunxi and resolved to help Ye Yu, while Ye Yu killed Kui Yan in the Life and Death Arena and left Heavenly Saint Academy.
• Ye Yu visited Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, where Murong Chen called him a Defier of Fate and offered cooperation, but the Void Sky Cauldron and Haotian Mirror secretly sealed Murong Chen away.
• At the Canglan Ruins, Ye Yu absorbed Breath of Hell, recovered the Soul-Restoring Azure Vine, and killed Liu Bingbing when she tried to take it.
• Ye Yu and Zou Yitian joined the scouting parties sent into the ruins, where an Illusion Flower Tree trapped and drained the cultivators before Ye Yu forced it to reveal that a green lotus had brought them there.
• Ye Yu burned the tree demon to death, reunited with the surviving cultivators, absorbed more Breath of Hell, and found a bamboo scroll describing the Heaven-Reaching Stone Tablet.