Recaps

Ye Yu escaped the Canglan Ruins, entered the Xu family’s orbit, and absorbed Nine Nether Blood Qi at the Seven Suspended Sect while the Wang Family claimed credit for subduing the spring. He left after learning Ye Chengjun had reached the Body Integration Realm and the Ancient Royal Clan’s traces were growing more frequent.

• Ye Yu recognized the Canglan Ruins’ trap, survived the Absolute Qi transformation and illusion formation, and returned to Central Province with 267 Cang Beast heads.
• Ye Yu arranged an auction of the Cang Beast heads, and the Xu Family won them with a bid of spirit stones and Taiqing Profound Qi.
• Ye Yu agreed to impersonate Xu Yunxi’s child at the Great Family Competition in two years, but refused to live with the Xu family or accept its protection beyond limited help.
• Ye Yu entered the Seven Suspended Sect and broke the Nine Nether Blood Spring’s barrier, then absorbed its released blood qi as Si Kong was corroded to dust.
• Wang Lie staged a recording that credited him with saving the Seven Suspended Sect, while Ye Yu cultivated in the spring and searched for the source of its undiminished blood qi.
• Feng Qiwen brought Wang Xiong to Wang Yue, who blamed him for their mother’s death and blasted him away when he tried to touch her.
• Ye Yu’s puppet triggered an eruption that destroyed the Wang Family’s barrier, and he left the spring with Feng Qiwen before retrieving his spiritual root.
• Murong Xue told Ye Yu that Ye Chengjun had reached the Body Integration Realm and the Ancient Royal Clan’s traces were growing more frequent, while Wang Yue confronted him over the hand he had severed on Dry Moon Island.

Ye Yu faced Ye Chengjun at the Newcomer Competition, then took the Dragon-Phoenix Spirit and Kunpeng Stone while navigating the schemes around the Ye family and the Cauldron Spirit. He reached Xun Mo to have the Purple Firmament Sword repaired as the royal clans advanced toward Central Province and Ye Yu prepared to pursue the Body Integration Realm.

• Ye Yu returned to Heavenly Saint Academy and entered the Inner Court, where the elders passed over his group while distributing recovery pills.
• At the Newcomer Competition, Ye Yu reached the top ten and fought Ye Chengjun, but their duel ended when royal clans broke the barrier and seized the bronze fragment.
• Ye Yu restored the Purple Firmament Sword and transformed the Autumn Water Sword, then left the academy with Feng Qiwen and returned to Dry Moon Island.
• Ye Yu claimed the Dragon-Phoenix Spirit from the Dry Moon Sect’s formation and convinced the sect master to give him the Kunpeng Stone in exchange for supposed Ye family support.
• Ye Yu confronted the Cauldron Spirit about its role in his rebirth, then returned to Central Province and learned that Xu Yunxi had taken on the Defier of Fate identity to conceal him.
• Ye Yu met Xun Mo, received a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron, and asked him to repair the Purple Firmament Sword within a month.
• Ye Yu settled at an inn with Murong Xue and Feng Qiwen as reports warned that the royal clans might soon reach Central Province, while Ye Yu focused on reaching the Body Integration Realm.

Ye Yu killed Murong Chen, reclaimed the Haotian Mirror fragments, and survived an Annihilation Divine Thunder tribulation that erased his family bloodlines. He returned to the Xu family, where he faced its demands and began meditating after an Earthly Immortal offered him cryptic advice.

• Xun Mo repaired the Purple Firmament Sword, but Lin Qiang claimed it until Ye Yu killed him and took the Origin Returning Cover, then recovered the sword with the Small Cauldron.
• Ye Yu entered the sealed Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and killed Murong Chen after the Void Sky Cauldron weakened him, then left with Murong Xue as cultivators fought over the artifacts.
• Ye Yu persuaded Murong Xue and the Mahayana cultivators to relocate the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, then arranged for Wang Xiong and Ye Chenxiang to leave Central Province.
• Ye Yu made the Dragon Phoenix the Purple Firmament Sword’s spirit, fused it into a Law Tier treasure, and shattered the Autumn Water Sword Intent after Xu Yunxi intervened.
• Ye Yu defeated his Karma-powered Nascent Soul and survived the Annihilation Divine Thunder through Nirvana Rebirth, losing his Ye and Xu family bloodlines.
• The Ninth Elder brought Ye Yu to the Xu family, where Guan Yunlan welcomed him and opposed Xu Yunting’s demand that he sign a master-servant contract.
• Guan Yunlan showed Ye Yu the Xu family ancestral grounds, where he sensed its cursed guardian hand, and an Earthly Immortal took him there and offered to teach him.
• Ye Yu asked the Earthly Immortal how to raise his soul power before the Great Family Competition, then followed his advice by meditating in the ancestral grounds.

Ye Yu confronted Ye Chengjun over the Imperial Edict, overcame his inner demon, and gathered factions against the Ye Family. The Great Family Competition ended with both men matching each other’s power as a spatial rift stabilized.

• Xu Yunting admitted that he had wanted to use Xinru’s remnant soul to control Li Daoyi, while Ye Yu awakened as a Law Tier divine soul and contracted the Fat Monk as his servant.
• At the Great Family Competition, Ye Yu joined Zheng Xiang at the Cloud Thunder Sect ruins, helped the Dark Hall attack the Misty Sect, and searched the battlefield for Ye family members.
• Ye Yu confronted Ye Chengjun in the forest, then escaped with Qing Yi and learned that Ye Chengjun and the royal clans were seeking the Eastern Palace and its Imperial Edict.
• Ye Yu fought Ye Chengjun over the forming Imperial Edict, claimed one corner of the Human Emperor Seal, and later accepted his past self and awakened Imperial Power.
• Xu Yunxi broke into Azure Heaven Palace with the Void Sky Cauldron but left Luo Ying alive, and Luo Ying later crumbled into ash as the Palace Lord collapsed beside the empty bronze coffin.
• Ye Yu recruited Wang Lie, Zhuge Tianlong, and Lu Kong to oppose the Ye Family, then led the alliance to seize its resource points while Lin Qingyue kept her family out of the conflict.
• As the competition neared its end, Ye Yu intercepted Ye Chengjun’s attack at the spatial rift, and their battle ended in a standoff after neither could overcome the other’s Dharma Realm divine soul.