Chapter Summaries

The Cauldron Spirit appeared and rescued Dan Chenzi, then used the Void Sky Cauldron to repel Xue Ji and the Blood Demon Race. As the demons fled from his azure light, a golden chain shot through the secret realm fissure toward the cauldron.

• The Cauldron Spirit stabilized Dan Chenzi’s divine soul and revealed himself to Ye Yu and the others.
• Ye Yu realized the Divine Continent suppressed the Cauldron Spirit and that the Void Sky Cauldron had warned him not to probe its secrets.
• Xue Ji attacked the Cauldron Spirit, who swallowed his blood-colored disc and briefly revealed four figures inside the cauldron, including another Ye Yu.
• Xue Ji and the Blood Demon Race unleashed their demonic qi, alarming Bianhuang City and factions across Azure Prefecture.
• The Cauldron Spirit dissolved the demonic qi and pursued Xue Ji and the other demons with azure light.
• A golden chain shot through the secret realm fissure toward the Void Sky Cauldron, changing the Cauldron Spirit’s expression.

Ye Yu escaped the Nine Nether Blood Spring after the Void Sky Cauldron was stopped by a mysterious power tied to Ye Xuan, whom the Cauldron Spirit said was merely one of those it had chosen. Back in Great Qin, Ye Yu explained that the Blood Demon Race had withdrawn to make Azure Prefecture suspect him and turn against Great Qin, but he believed the plan would instead leave the Blood Demon Race free to attack Great Flame.

• A golden chain shattered the Void Sky Cauldron’s shield and forced Xue Ji and the other Blood Demon Race members to flee, while the Cauldron Spirit warned Ye Yu that Ye Xuan was merely one of those chosen by the mysterious power.
• Ye Yu learned that he had advanced to Spirit Transformation Mid-stage, then rescued Lin Qingyang and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast from Blood Demon Race members in Bianhuang City.
• Ye Yu checked Lin Qingyang for a blood seed, found none, and told him to return to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and warn the Sect Master about the Nine Nether Blood Spring in Leizhou.
• After returning to Great Qin, Ye Yu discussed the Blood Demon Race’s withdrawal and the accusations that he was its spy with Qin Wushuang.
• Ye Yu told Qin Wushuang that the Blood Demon Race was trying to provoke internal conflict in Azure Prefecture and would likely send its main force toward Great Flame instead of attacking Great Qin.

Ye Yu reinforced the seal on Great Qin’s Nine Nether Blood Spring after suspecting the Blood Demon Race planned to exploit blood-seed vessels. A half-corroded man emerged from the spring, shattered Ye Yu’s formation, and forced Ye Yu and Liu Qi to fight him.

• Qin Wushuang considered Situ Guang’s advice to name Qin Ruoxian his heir and avoid following Great Flame’s path of decline.
• Ye Yu sent the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to frighten Great Flame’s border forces, then traveled with Liu Qi to the Nine Nether Blood Spring.
• Ye Yu suspected the Blood Demon Race would use parasitized cultivators to spread Nine Nether Blood Qi and added another layer to the spring’s seal.
• A half-corroded man crawled out of the blood spring, shattered the formation, and declared that he had found the Divine Continent.
• Liu Qi’s Great Sky Hand Seal was destroyed by the stranger, and Ye Yu attacked him with the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Technique: Earth Splitting.

Ye Yu killed a mysterious attacker at the Nine Nether Blood Spring, then returned to the palace and prepared to deter Great Flame and the Blood Demon Race by publicly refining a poison pill. In Great Yan, Ye Fan reacted furiously to the announcement, but an unfamiliar figure entered and told him not to panic.

• Ye Yu's sword severed the mysterious man's arm, and the Nine Nether Blood Qi rotted him into dry bones before he fell into the blood spring.
• Ye Yu and Liu Qi discovered that the Glazed Sword had cracked, so Ye Yu reinforced the blood spring's formations and returned to the imperial palace.
• Ye Yu gave Liu Qi the Profound Thunder Soul Forging Art for Liu Ying, while the Cauldron Spirit said Dan Chenzi's damaged divine soul could only be kept from dispersing.
• Yuan Xiang reported that the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast had driven Great Flame's forces from the border, and Ye Yu agreed to bring back Attendants to watch the Attendant Hall.
• Ye Yu ordered Yuan Xiang to announce that he would publicly refine a High-Rank 7 King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pill, prompting uproar across Azure Prefecture.
• Ye Fan angrily accused Ye Yu of trying to intimidate him, but a figure entering Fengtian Hall told him not to panic over a Grade 7 poison pill.

Han Yi urged Ye Fan to turn against Great Qin before fighting the Blood Demon Race and sent Ye Qingqing to tell Ye Yu to beg her if he wanted Great Qin spared. Meanwhile, Ye Yu gathered alchemists in Great Qin’s capital to refine pills as Murong Xue realized the city was being evacuated and surrounded.

• Han Yi arrived in Great Yan with two hundred alchemists, including ten Rank 7 Alchemists, and told Ye Fan that Great Qin had to be dealt with before the Blood Demon Race.
• Han Yi told Ye Qingqing to deliver a message to Ye Yu: he had to beg her if he wanted Great Qin to survive.
• Ye Yu prepared medicinal ingredients, gathered Spirit Treasures for Yuan Xiang, and later appeared before more than a thousand alchemists assembled in Great Qin’s capital.
• Ye Yu began refining pills before the gathered alchemists, while Cangyun watched and renewed his connection with his former student.
• Murong Xue noticed that people were leaving the capital and that Liu Qi, Yuan Xiang, and the Attendants were surrounding it, and she suspected Ye Yu’s pill-refining methods were dangerous.

Ye Yu refined thirteen King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pills in Great Qin Capital, using their poisonous mist to expose Alchemy Alliance spies and bind the remaining alchemists to him. After absorbing the five-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, he prepared to rest, but the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast warned that attackers were coming.

• Ye Yu completed thirteen High-Rank 7 poison pills, and their poisonous mist incapacitated alchemists throughout Great Qin Capital.
• Ye Yu opened a path for the alchemists to leave, then crippled the cultivation of five or six who fled, exposing them as Alchemy Alliance spies.
• Ye Yu handed antidote pills to the alchemists who stayed and required them to take one each month for a year to remove the poison.
• Ye Yu absorbed the five-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, then had Liu Qi settle the alchemists while Cangyun secretly watched for suspicious activity.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast warned Ye Yu that people were coming to kill them.

Ye Yu learned that three Void Refinement cultivators had appeared near Great Qin’s border, likely sent by the Alchemy Alliance to pursue something connected to Han Yi and the Acquired Breathing Technique. He prepared his allies for the coming threat, then set off to meet the Alchemy Alliance while the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast carried out a separate mission.

• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast warned Ye Yu that three Void Refinement cultivators had appeared at Great Flame’s border, and Yuan Xiang confirmed the report.
• Ye Yu suspected the Alchemy Alliance was behind the cultivators and told Yuan Xiang to monitor them while persuading the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to stay for now.
• Ye Yu gave Liu Qi a Grade 8 Profound Spirit Spirit Nurturing Pill and the Void Sky Cauldron to help him attempt a breakthrough to Void Refinement.
• Ye Yu asked the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to place withered bones near any Nine Nether Blood Spring in Blood Demon territory, and it agreed to go.
• Ye Yu announced that he was going to meet the Alchemy Alliance’s people.

Ye Yu prepared to exploit the conflict between Great Flame, Great Qin, and the Blood Demon Race while arranging a negotiation that he expected to end in battle. The chapter left Great Flame launching a surprise attack on Great Qin’s border, unaware of Ye Yu’s plans.

• Ye Yu arrived at the border with Yuan Xiang, asked him to announce that Ye Yu would negotiate in five days, then secretly crossed Great Flame territory toward its northern border.
• Han Yi welcomed the news of negotiations, but Ye Fan secretly ordered Gao Qun to attack Great Qin in three days so the conflict would deepen.
• After learning of Ye Fan’s plan, Ye Yu ordered Yuan Xiang to target enemy cultivators while sparing fleeing commoners and telling them Ye Yu had ordered their release.
• Ye Yu planted seven linked King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pills near Great Flame’s northern border, where the Blood Demon Race and Great Flame could be caught in the blast.
• At night, Great Flame’s soldiers surged into Great Qin territory, and their general ordered a full-line assault after finding no resistance.

Yuan Xiang’s ambush routed Great Flame’s army, while Han Yi punished Ye Fan for his schemes and later confronted Ye Yu over the flaw in her Acquired Breathing Technique. The chapter ended with Han Yi descending to negotiate, threatening to destroy Great Qin if Ye Yu refused her deal.

• Yuan Xiang’s forces ambushed Great Flame’s army, and Ye Yu’s order to spare ordinary soldiers further weakened support for Great Flame’s imperial family.
• After the battle report reached Ye Fan, Han Yi slapped and warned him against further schemes.
• Han Yi arrived at the border with three Void Refinement Stage cultivators for the agreed meeting, but Ye Yu summoned them from Great Flame’s territory beside the Nine Nether Blood Spring.
• Ye Yu revealed that he knew the cause of Han Yi’s breathing problem and demanded that she come down to speak.
• Han Yi descended and threatened to destroy Great Qin unless Ye Yu made the deal.

Ye Yu forced Han Yi to agree to destroy Great Flame in exchange for revealing the solution to her cultivation problem. Just as Han Yi prepared to act, a cracking sound from within the Nine Nether Blood Qi startled everyone.

• Han Yi’s three Void Refinement experts prepared to seize Ye Yu, but he threatened to enter the Nine Nether Blood Qi and take Han Yi with him.
• After learning that Ye Yu had survived the Nine Nether Blood Spring before, Han Yi yielded and asked what he wanted in return for the solution.
• Ye Yu demanded that Han Yi destroy Great Flame, and she agreed, leaving Ye Fan terrified.
• Ye Xuan arrived with experts from the Nine Spirits Sword Sect and offered his life to spare Great Flame, while thinking about the secret he had learned from Wei Qionghua.
• Ye Yu told Han Yi to proceed, and a crack sounded from within the Nine Nether Blood Qi, changing everyone’s expression.

Ye Xuan accused Ye Yu of conspiring with the Blood Demons, turning the others against him as Blood Demons self-destructed near the Nine Nether Blood Spring. Ye Yu escaped their attacks with help from the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi, then opened the Void Sky Cauldron as Elder Quan struck at him.

• Blood Demons emerged through the Nine Nether Blood Qi and self-destructed, spreading the danger around the Nine Nether Blood Spring.
• Ye Xuan accused Ye Yu of luring everyone into a Blood Demon ambush, and Ye Fan believed him; Ye Yu threw Ye Fan toward the spring before Ye Xuan rescued him.
• Han Yi and three Void Refinement experts attacked Ye Yu, but he detonated six King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pills and fled through the purple poison gas.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi arrived to aid Ye Yu, and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi were drawn into a melee with three Void Refinement experts.
• Elder Quan pursued Ye Yu and attacked, but Ye Yu opened the Void Sky Cauldron, unleashing a sea of lightning that engulfed them both.

Ye Yu absorbed the Void Refinement tribulation lightning and awakened the Lightning Control Art, then used the Flame Scar Imprint’s strange power to overcome Elder Quan. The chapter ended with Elder Quan severing his own arm to escape the spreading Curse Power.

• Elder Quan emerged injured from the Sea of Thunder and prepared to attack Ye Yu, while Elder Sheng moved to intervene.
• Ye Yu absorbed the tribulation lightning, formed a lightning dragon phantom, and gained the Lightning Control Art.
• Elder Quan caught Ye Yu’s attack and trapped him in collapsed space, declaring that the gap between their realms was too great.
• Ye Yu used the Flame Scar Imprint to spread a strange black power through Elder Quan’s body, and Elder Quan recognized it as Curse Power.
• Elder Quan screamed and severed his arm to stop the Curse Power from spreading.

Ye Yu drove off Elder Quan with the Flame Scar Imprint’s Curse Power, then pursued Ye Xuan before warning him to hide his identity and revealing that Xue Li could no longer be used. After returning to Great Qin, Ye Yu learned the imprint might be concealing his aura, while Xue Qin confronted Ye Xuan in the Great Yan Imperial Palace and presented him with something to prove his loyalty.

• Ye Yu injured Elder Quan with Curse Power and chased Ye Xuan while Han Yi and Ye Fan pursued them.
• Ye Yu stopped the chase, warned Ye Xuan to keep his identity hidden, and said Xue Li could no longer be used.
• Ye Yu suppressed the Curse Power with the Void Sky Cauldron, reunited with Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast, and left Great Flame’s territory.
• The Cauldron Spirit warned Ye Yu that the Flame Scar Imprint concealed his aura and that he needed to grow stronger quickly.
• Nine Nether Blood Qi severed the border between Great Qin and Great Flame as the Blood Demon Race’s invasion advanced.
• Xue Qin accused Ye Xuan of tipping Ye Yu off through Xue Li, then placed something before him after he denied betraying the Blood Demon Race.

Ye Xuan swallowed a Bloodthirsty Bead under Xue Qin’s threat and learned that the demons planned to attack Great Qin’s northern border in a month. Meanwhile, Ye Yu questioned Xue Li about a piece of dry bone and learned that it belonged to the Ancient Royal Clan.

• Xue Qin forced Ye Xuan to swallow a Bloodthirsty Bead, warning him to help move people before the demons attacked Great Qin’s northern border in a month.
• Ye Xuan told Xue Qin about Wei Qionghua and the Myriad Dynasty, while the power protecting him began to weaken.
• Ye Yu sent Liu Qi to bring the Blood Demon Xue Li to the palace, where the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast examined him and discussed a Shape-Shifting Pill.
• Ye Yu asked Xue Li where the dry bone came from, and Xue Li revealed that it belonged to the Ancient Royal Clan.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast reacted with horror when it heard the dry bone belonged to the Ancient Royal Clan.

Ye Yu left Great Qin for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect after warning Xue Li to stay in the palace and explaining his plans to Qin Wushuang and Yuan Xiang. As Ye Xuan and Qin Han plotted against him, news of his battle with Elder Quan spread through the three prefectures, and Feng Qiwen recognized the sword Autumn Water in a jade slip shown by the Nine Spirits Sect Master.

• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast told Ye Yu that the Ancient Royal Clan had once dominated the Divine Continent, while the Cauldron Spirit urged him to focus on cultivation and keep Xue Li inside the palace.
• Ye Yu dismissed Liu Qi's suggestion to warn the other prefectures, then decided to return to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and check on the cracked Glazed Sword.
• Ye Yu told Qin Wushuang he was leaving Great Qin and instructed Yuan Xiang that Qin Han's growing forces would help prepare for future risks, with safeguards set in the Vast Qi Hall.
• Ye Yu left Great Qin with the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi, while Qin Han contacted Ye Xuan, who promised to send someone after him.
• A Memory Stone recording Ye Yu breaking Elder Quan's arm and forcing him to flee circulated across the three prefectures, alarming the Nine Spirits Sect Master.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master showed Feng Qiwen a jade slip containing an ice-blue sword, and Feng Qiwen recognized it as Autumn Water.

Feng Qiwen learned that the sword linked to Xu Yunxi had appeared and agreed to kill Ye Yu in exchange for help finding her. Meanwhile, Ye Yu returned to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, where Lingyunzi welcomed him and led him to Xu Xuan, while Ye Qingling watched from the crowd.

• Feng Qiwen recognized the Autumn Water Sword in a jade slip as a clue to Xu Yunxi and agreed to kill Ye Yu for the Nine Spirits Sect Master.
• Ye Yu and his companions arrived at the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, where Liu Qi seized an elder who challenged them.
• Lingyunzi recognized Ye Yu as the Holy Son and greeted him before the sect’s disciples.
• Ye Yu asked for Xu Xuan, and Lingyunzi led him to his cave residence as Ye Qingling watched from the crowd.

Ye Yu returned to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, planned to take Xu Xuan to the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield, and learned that a piece of green bronze hidden in the Xu Family Ancestral Land could help him protect Xu Xuan. Xu Yan agreed to take him there, while Ye Qingling continued to endure mistreatment in the outer sect.

• Ye Qingling was ordered by an outer sect steward to sweep the steps and silently vowed to make him pay once she found Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu visited Xu Xuan, who had reached the late Golden Core Stage, and told him to prepare to go somewhere with him in a few days.
• Ye Yu told Qing Xuzi and Ji Wuming about the cracked Glazed Sword and said he planned to enter the Purple Firmament Sword Tomb.
• Xu Yan asked Ye Yu not to take Xu Xuan to a dangerous place, then offered him a piece of green bronze from a jade pendant.
• Ye Yu promised to guarantee Xu Xuan's safety if he obtained the bronze, and Xu Yan agreed to take him to the Xu Family Ancestral Land.
• Xu Yan returned to the outer sect, where Ye Qingling greeted her with news.

Xu Yan prepared to visit the Xu Family Ancestral Land, while Ye Yu discovered Ye Qingling had come to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and ordered her isolated because of the Blood Refinement Essence. As Ye Yu took Xu Yan south, he hinted that his past had taught him family ties could end in an ugly death.

• Ye Qingling told Xu Yan that she had found the person she came to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect to seek, while Xu Yan prepared to leave for the ancestral land.
• Ye Yu and Liu Qi visited Xu Yan's residence, where Ye Qingling emerged and called Ye Yu her brother.
• Ye Qingling accused the outer-sect steward of bullying her, but Ye Yu praised the steward and ordered him to seize and isolate Ye Qingling.
• Ye Yu took Xu Yan south, and she urged him to forgive Ye Qingling because they were family.
• Ye Yu told Xu Yan that he had once believed family ties could mend anything, but had died an ugly death.

Ye Yu helped Xu Yan confront Pan Jun, who had abandoned her after the Xu Family's destruction, and agreed to make him lose everything he valued. Their next target was the Langya City Lord's Manor, where Pan Jun crashed from the sky as Gu Sanjun and Gu Yun spoke.

• Ye Yu and Xu Yan discussed family ties and interests before Liu Qi left to deal with someone following them.
• At a teahouse, Xu Yan recognized Pan Jun, who rejected her and denied owing her anything after learning the Xu Family was gone.
• Ye Yu restrained Pan Jun and let Xu Yan choose his punishment; she asked to take back everything the Xu Family had given him.
• Ye Yu crippled Pan Jun with Sword Qi and took him with Xu Yan to destroy everything he had.
• At the Langya City Lord's Manor, Gu Sanjun warned Gu Yun about keeping her husband out of trouble, just as a figure crashed into the ground.

Ye Yu and Xu Yan confronted Gu Sanjun over Pan Jun and the Xu Family’s belongings. After Xu Yan reclaimed what was hers, Ye Yu restrained Gu Sanjun and began questioning him about the Xu Family’s extermination.

• Gu Sanjun arrived at his manor, saw Pan Jun badly injured, and recognized Ye Yu, then warned Gu Yun to stay quiet.
• Ye Yu pointed Xu Yan out as the person Pan Jun had offended, and Gu Sanjun recognized her as a member of the Xu Family.
• Xu Yan demanded the return of her family’s possessions, but Gu Sanjun offered only some of them and invoked his sister Gu Ran’s favor with Emperor Zhu.
• Ye Yu told Xu Yan to take everything belonging to the Xu Family, and she removed Gu Yun’s storage bracelet and searched its contents.
• When Gu Sanjun tried to summon help with a jade talisman, Ye Yu restrained him, took the talisman, and severed his arm.
• Ye Yu asked Gu Sanjun whether the person he planned to summon was connected to the Xu Family’s extermination, and Gu Sanjun agreed to talk.