Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu learned that the Xu family was destroyed over a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron and uncovered a clue about a mysterious young lady Xu from Central Province. At the Alchemy Alliance, Han Yi revealed to Gu Lin and Mo Ran that Ye Yu possessed the Innate Breathing Technique.

• Ye Yu stopped Gu Sanjun's bleeding and learned that the Xu family had been destroyed by people searching for something a woman had entrusted to them over twenty years earlier.
• Ye Yu left the City Lord's Manor with Xu Yan and Pan Jun, while Gu Sanjun and Gu Yun died after he departed.
• Xu Yan told Ye Yu that the woman had come from Central Province, was called the young lady Xu, and had arrived injured with a badly damaged sword.
• Gu Lin and Mo Ran questioned Han Yi about her weakened condition, and Han Yi revealed that Ye Yu possessed the Innate Breathing Technique.

Gu Lin and Mo Ran learned why Han Yi had pursued Ye Yu and debated obtaining the Innate Breathing Technique through Ye Xuan. After Ye Yu helped resolve the Pan Family matter, he spoke with Xu Yan about hardship and choice, then learned that people from Lingyun Pavilion were following them.

• Han Yi explained the Innate Breathing Technique and her Lineage’s connection to its inheritors, but denied that Ye Yu could disdain the Alchemy Alliance.
• Gu Lin and Mo Ran decided to recall Ye Xuan and consider using him to approach Ye Yu for the Innate Breathing Technique.
• The Pan Family abandoned Pan Jun and returned Xu Yan’s resources after Ye Yu intervened.
• Ye Yu told Xu Yan that survival often left people with no choice, prompting her to reconsider her assumptions about the unfortunate.
• Liu Qi returned, and Ye Yu asked who was following them; Liu Qi identified people from Lingyun Pavilion.

Ye Yu learned that Lingyun Pavilion and other factions were investigating the Xu Family's destruction, which likely involved a force from Central Continent. He reached the Xu Family Ancestral Land with Xu Yan and Liu Qi, where they found a wounded black-robed figure wearing a ring marked with the character 'Ye'.

• Liu Qi told Ye Yu that Lingyun Pavilion was pursuing something connected to the Xu Family, and Teng Ying revealed that many factions were investigating the family's destruction.
• Teng Ying warned Ye Yu that a Central Continent force might have destroyed the Xu Family, but Ye Yu chose to pursue the Void Sky Cauldron fragment and set out that night with Xu Yan and Liu Qi.
• Ye Yu used a soul-bound observation formation to watch the place where he had crushed Gu Sanjun's jade talisman, but black-robed people with yellow 'Ye' rings killed the stall owner and erased his soul trace.
• Ye Yu reported the black-robed group's arrival in Langya City to Teng Ying, then hurried with Xu Yan and Liu Qi to the Xu Family Ancestral Land.
• Xu Yan used her blood to part the valley's concealing fog, gave Ye Yu the Xu Family resources for Xiao Xuan, and acknowledged that Xiao Xuan was not her biological brother.
• Xu Yan screamed when the fog revealed a black-robed person wearing a yellow 'Ye' ring, and the figure moved despite appearing dead.

Ye Yu discovered that the black-robed man trapped in the mist was his supposedly dead grandfather, Ye Zhentian, who had been carrying out dangerous tasks for a mysterious clan. As the group reached a great stone door, Ye Yu remained wary of Ye Zhentian’s interest in his Purple Crystal Ring and focused on retrieving the Void Sky Cauldron fragment.

• Ye Yu recognized the weakened black-robed man as Ye Zhentian and restored some of his strength with spiritual power.
• Ye Zhentian told Ye Yu that his dangerous work was meant to secure a place for him in the clan, but he refused to explain further.
• Ye Yu asked whether Ye Zhentian had been involved in destroying the Xu family, and Ye Zhentian denied knowing anything about it.
• Ye Zhentian asked about Ye Yu’s granddaughters, but Ye Yu avoided explaining their troubled circumstances.
• Ye Zhentian noticed Ye Yu’s Purple Crystal Ring, then cheerfully deferred to him when the group reached a great stone door.

Ye Yu opened the Xu family’s sealed chamber, rescued Xu Yan, and found a Void Sky Cauldron fragment alongside a sword embryo that felt like Autumn Water. Outside, Feng Qiwen confronted Liu Qi and Ye Zhentian while Ye Yu remained inside.

• Ye Yu refused to affirm Ye Zhentian’s claim about their past, then asked Liu Qi to guard his grandfather while Xu Yan opened the stone gate with her blood.
• Ye Yu gave the fading Xu Yan a Rank 7 pill and entered the chamber, where he found eighteen powerful bronze puppets, a Void Sky Cauldron fragment, and a familiar blue sword embryo.
• Ye Yu suspected his mother had given the fragment to the Xu family and wondered who had injured her, then collected all eighteen puppets inside the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Zhentian questioned Liu Qi about Ye Yu’s strength and spoke of Great Flame’s ambitions before Feng Qiwen appeared and demanded to know where Ye Yu was.
• Liu Qi tried to stall Feng Qiwen, who summoned countless Spiritual Seals, while Ye Zhentian crushed a jade talisman.

Ye Yu protected Ye Zhentian from Feng Qiwen, who recognized the ring Ye Yu had inherited from his mother and realized Ye Yu might be the young lady’s child. Before Feng Qiwen could explain, black-robed members of the Ye family arrived, and he urged Ye Yu to escape with the ring hidden.

• Feng Qiwen recognized Ye Zhentian’s yellow crystal ring as belonging to the Ye family and attacked him with a massive formation.
• Liu Qi tried to block Feng Qiwen’s attack but was badly injured, and Ye Yu intervened to save Ye Zhentian with the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Feng Qiwen recognized Ye Yu’s face and, after seeing Xu Yunxi’s Purple Crystal Ring, asked who had given it to him.
• Ye Yu said his mother had left him the ring, and Feng Qiwen realized he was likely the young lady’s child.
• More than ten black-robed figures wearing yellow crystal rings arrived, and Feng Qiwen shielded Ye Yu from their attack.
• Feng Qiwen told Ye Yu to escape and keep the ring hidden while he stayed behind.

Ye Yu learned that Feng Qiwen served the Xu Family and that the Purple Crystal Ring indicated his mother might still be alive. Feng Qiwen began explaining the Xu Family Curse and why he and Ye Yu’s mother had come to Leizhou.

• Feng Qiwen trapped the black-robed figures with a formation, but Curse Power weakened him and let several of them escape along with Ye Zhentian.
• Ye Yu learned from Teng Ying that the Central Continent Ye Family had destroyed the Xu Family and was one of the Four Great Clans.
• Feng Qiwen appeared before Ye Yu and revealed that the Purple Crystal Ring held his divine soul contract as a servant of the Xu Family.
• Feng Qiwen explained that the ring would have returned to the Xu Family if its owner had died, leading Ye Yu to realize his mother might still be alive.
• Feng Qiwen told Ye Yu that he and his mother had come to Leizhou more than twenty years earlier to find a way to break the Xu Family Curse, which threatened to destroy the clan.

Ye Yu learned that the Xu family curse restricted its members from reaching Spirit Transformation, and Feng Qiwen warned him to hide his Xu identity and the Purple Crystal Ring. After Ye Yu left for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, Ye Zhentian concealed that Ye Yu had taken the ancestral treasure and revealed that he had cultivated Ye Yu to draw Xu Yunxi out and claim it.

• Feng Qiwen showed Ye Yu how the curse activated when he used his divine soul power and said Xu Yunxi may have discovered a way to suppress it using the object they sought.
• Ye Yu suspected the Void Sky Cauldron fragment had suppressed the curse, but Feng Qiwen could not confirm whether the Ye family had attacked Xu Yunxi.
• Feng Qiwen advised Ye Yu to disguise the Purple Crystal Ring, conceal his Xu family identity, and avoid pursuing his mother's affairs while Feng Qiwen investigated.
• Feng Qiwen left, and Ye Yu headed for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ye Zhentian told the Ye family members that a formation master had taken the item from the Xu Family Ancestral Land, hiding that Ye Yu had it.
• Ye Zhentian reflected that he had raised Ye Yu to Spirit Transformation to force Xu Yunxi to reveal her secret treasure and planned to use Ye Yu's bonds with the Ye family to obtain it.

Ye Yu returned to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, where he found Ye Qingling and sealed her in the punishment grounds to cultivate so he could absorb the Blood Refinement Essence within her. After fusing the third fragment into the Void Sky Cauldron, he felt the mysterious gaze again, and the Cauldron Spirit invited him inside.

• Ye Yu returned to his cave abode and told Liu Qi to keep the events at the Xu Family Ancestral Land secret.
• Ye Yu asked Lingyunzi to take him to Ye Qingling, whom he found imprisoned in the sect’s punishment grounds.
• Ye Yu strengthened Ye Qingling’s cultivation, sealed her inside the cave, and ordered Lingyunzi to keep others away.
• Ye Yu fused the third fragment into the Void Sky Cauldron, and the Cauldron Spirit suppressed its light as the feeling of being watched returned.
• The Cauldron Spirit opened the cauldron and stepped inside, prompting Ye Yu to ask whether he wanted him to enter it.

Ye Yu entered the Void Sky Cauldron and learned that its strange lights were failures, while discovering he could cultivate inside it once every nine days and gain far more time than passed outside. After leaving, he set out with Liu Xuan, while in the Great Yan Dynasty Xue Qin blamed Ye Xuan for a poison attack on the Blood Demons and prepared to kill him.

• The Cauldron Spirit brought Ye Yu into the Void Sky Cauldron, showed him the failures and the eighteen puppets, and warned him about his Chaos Nascent Soul and spirit roots.
• The Cauldron Spirit and another young man discussed whether Ye Yu could accomplish what the young man had failed to do, and the young man accused the Cauldron Spirit of using him to draw danger toward the Divine Continent.
• Ye Yu realized that several hours inside the cauldron had amounted to only the time it took one incense stick to burn outside, then left with Liu Xuan to find Xu Xuan and claim the Ji Clan Dynasty's inheritance.
• Xue Qin showed Ye Xuan an image of Blood Demons being poisoned at Great Yan's northern border and accused him of betraying her after consuming the Bloodthirsty Bead.
• Ye Xuan denied knowing about the attack, but Xue Qin seized him by the throat and drew a blood-red blade as he begged for his life.

Ye Xuan convinced Ye Fan to abandon Great Flame and head for the Myriad Dynasty, where they could reunite with Wei Qionghua. Meanwhile, Ye Yu and Xu Xuan reached Crystal City, where a bounty notice for Feng Qing'er caught Ye Yu’s attention.

• Xue Qin spared Ye Xuan because the clan needed him to help swallow the Myriad Dynasty, then noticed a wound on her hand and suspected he had some kind of protection.
• Ye Xuan told Ye Fan that Wei Qionghua was alive in the Myriad Dynasty and urged him to leave Great Flame; Ye Fan agreed to arrange an evacuation.
• Ye Yu and Xu Xuan arrived in Crystal City with the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast, while Liu Qi returned to Great Qin to watch the border.
• While waiting for the Teleportation Array, Ye Yu noticed an imperial bounty notice for Feng Qing'er, and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast remarked on the danger of absorbing Qingluan Clan blood essence.

Ye Yu reached the Phoenix Dynasty to help Feng Qing'er, who was being consumed by Qingluan Fire after absorbing a Qingluan elder’s essence blood. The Alchemy Alliance alchemists drew out her burning body, while Ye Yu pressed Feng Chenghuang to reveal her constitution so the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast could determine how to save her.

• Ye Yu and his group traveled to the Phoenix Dynasty after learning that Feng Qing'er was in danger from Qingluan Fire.
• Feng Chenghuang greeted Ye Yu, who explained that he had come to help because Feng Qing'er was Ruoxian’s friend.
• Feng Chenghuang revealed that Feng Qing'er had absorbed a peak Spirit Transformation Qingluan’s essence blood five days earlier and had been burning ever since.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast said it could not treat Feng Qing'er without knowing her constitution, but Feng Chenghuang refused to disclose it.
• Du Bozhong and another Alchemy Alliance alchemist used a Small Cauldron to absorb the Qingluan Fire, revealing Feng Qing'er’s crimson-red body.

Du Bozhong’s treatment of Feng Qing’er triggered a violent surge of her Qingluan Fire, and Ye Yu explained that her fused blood essence made the pills worsen her condition. Feng Chenghuang revealed that Feng Qing’er had the Innate Phoenix Body, leaving Ye Yu and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast startled as the palace burned around them.

• Du Bozhong fed Feng Qing’er an Ice Condensing Clear Heart Pill after collecting her flames in the Fire Swallowing Cauldron, and her burns began to fade.
• Ye Yu pulled Xu Xuan back and warned that the treatment had only suppressed Feng Qing’er’s flames, while the other alchemists dismissed him.
• Feng Qing’er’s Qingluan Fire erupted, broke through the formation, engulfed much of the imperial palace, and badly burned Du Bozhong and the other alchemist.
• Ye Yu explained that Feng Qing’er had fused with Qingluan blood essence, causing the spiritual power in the pills to fuel the backlash.
• Feng Chenghuang privately told Ye Yu that Feng Qing’er had the Innate Phoenix Body, and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast said Ye Yu had struck gold.

Ye Yu and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast extracted the unfused Qingluan blood essence from Feng Qing'er and helped her recover from the flames. As the fire faded, Ye Yu found Du Bozhong’s fellow alliance masters Mo Ran and Gu Lin waiting outside.

• Du Bozhong rejected Ye Yu’s offer to solve the crisis, while Feng Chenghuang and Qing Xiao promised to discuss a reward with Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu entered the flame sea protected by Pill Fire and summoned the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast after blocking spiritual and soul-sense detection.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast wrapped Feng Qing'er in beast fire, and Ye Yu used the Void Sky Cauldron to draw the unfused Qingluan blood essence from her.
• Ye Yu poured Thousand Year Ice Spring water over Feng Qing'er, and her Innate Phoenix Body rapidly healed her burns.
• Feng Qing'er thanked Ye Yu and approved his marriage to Ruoxian before Ye Yu spotted Mo Ran and Gu Lin, while Du Bozhong mouthed a threat at him.

Ye Yu healed Feng Qing'er, and the Phoenix Dynasty stood between him and the Alchemy Alliance. Gu Lin and Mo Ran privately asked Ye Yu for the Innate Breathing Technique in exchange for capturing Ye Xuan and making him a leader of the Alliance, but Ye Yu agreed only to keep them occupied.

• Feng Chenghuang embraced the unharmed Feng Qing'er, while Gu Lin and Mo Ran arrived and examined her.
• Du Bozhong accused Ye Yu of provoking Han Yi, but Feng Chenghuang and Qing Xiao blocked the Alchemy Alliance from taking him.
• Ye Yu agreed to speak privately with Gu Lin and Mo Ran, and Gu Lin slapped Du Bozhong for his insolence.
• Gu Lin and Mo Ran asked Ye Yu for the Innate Breathing Technique, offering to capture Ye Xuan and make Ye Yu the Alchemy Alliance’s fourth person in power.
• Ye Yu said, “Fine. Bring him here, then,” and later told the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that he had no intention of giving the Alliance the real technique.

Ye Yu arranged to travel to the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield with help from the Qingluan Clan, then challenged Xu Xuan’s idea of freedom by frightening a Phoenix Dynasty official. The chapter left Ye Yu speaking with an alchemist from Yunzhou.

• Ye Yu declined Feng Chenghuang’s offer to deal with Great Flame and asked about reaching the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield.
• Qing Xiao offered to take Ye Yu to the Qingluan Clan’s Teleportation Array, and Ye Yu agreed to pay its ten million spirit stones himself.
• At the banquet, Xu Xuan admitted he envied other people’s freedom but valued his sister Xu Yan’s life more.
• Ye Yu threatened a Phoenix Dynasty official and then let him go, using the encounter to argue that attachments restricted freedom.
• Xu Xuan rejected Ye Yu’s view, and an alchemist from Yunzhou approached Ye Yu.

Ye Yu learned that Wei Qionghua had taken control of the Myriad Dynasty and used that information to persuade Feng Chenghuang to form an alliance with it. He then traveled with Xu Xuan to the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield and headed for the Ji Clan Imperial Tomb.

• Yun Cong traded information about Wei Qionghua and the Myriad Dynasty for a soul-cultivation technique from Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu asked Feng Chenghuang to form an alliance with the Myriad Dynasty, and Feng Chenghuang agreed before ordering an investigation.
• Feng Qing'er told Feng Chenghuang that Ye Yu had already seen all of her, then left him to investigate the Myriad Dynasty himself.
• Ye Yu followed Qing Xiao to the Qingluan Clan's Teleportation Array and activated it with spirit stones.
• Ye Yu and Xu Xuan arrived at the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield, where Ye Yu sensed the Purple Jade Dragon Token and set out for the Ji Clan Imperial Tomb.

Ye Yu brought Xu Xuan to the Ji Clan Imperial Tomb so Ji Zhantian could pass on the Ji clan inheritance, but their confrontation over Ye Yu’s oath contract nearly turned violent. As Xu Xuan began receiving the inheritance, Ye Yu discovered he could absorb the tomb’s violent spiritual spring, and Ji Zhantian realized Ye Yu had a Chaos Nascent Soul.

• Ye Yu entered the Ji Clan Imperial Tomb with Xu Xuan and summoned Ji Zhantian using the Purple Jade Dragon Token.
• Ji Zhantian sensed Ye Yu’s oath contract with Xu Xuan and threatened him, but relented after Xu Xuan confirmed that Ye Yu had not bound his descendants.
• Ji Zhantian sent a ray of light into Xu Xuan’s brow and instructed him to complete the inheritance in the imperial tomb.
• Ji Zhantian opened a spatial coffin filled with the Ji Clan Dynasty’s cultivation arts and Spiritual Skills, but Ye Yu showed little interest in them.
• Ye Yu jumped into the spiritual spring and absorbed its violent energy without harm, prompting Ji Zhantian to identify him as a Chaos Nascent Soul.

Ye Xuan prepared a secret evacuation from the Great Yan Dynasty and turned Ye Qingshuang into a Devil Race cultivator, hoping Ye Yu would be forced to choose whether to save or kill her. Meanwhile, Ye Yu reached Late Spirit Transformation in the spirit spring and discovered a Haotian Mirror fragment.

• Ji Zhantian told the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that the Chaos Nascent Soul had destroyed the region, but an azure light blasted him away before he could explain further.
• Ye Fan approved Ye Xuan's plan to evacuate fewer than fifty people from the Great Yan Dynasty to avoid exposure.
• Ye Xuan visited Ye Qingshuang in prison, argued that they were no different, and forced devilish qi into her body before leaving her to face Ye Yu's judgment.
• Ye Yu absorbed the spirit spring's spiritual qi, reached Late Spirit Transformation, and partially unfolded his domain.
• Ye Yu found a glowing bronze fragment at the bottom of the spring, and the Cauldron Spirit identified it as a fragment of the Haotian Mirror.

Ye Yu took the Haotian Mirror fragment and survived a vision of a colossal hand striking the earth, then merged the fragment with the Void Sky Cauldron in an unprecedented way. After leaving the imperial mausoleum, he discovered that the War of a Hundred Dynasties Battlefield had suddenly become lush and found something buried beneath it.

• The Cauldron Spirit told Ye Yu to take the Haotian Mirror fragment, and Ye Yu saw a vision of a massive hand descending from the sky before the scene returned to normal.
• Ye Yu stored the fragment in his dantian, where its patterns fused with those of the Void Sky Cauldron without conflict, shocking the young man and revealing the Cauldron Spirit's gamble.
• Ye Yu left the coffin with the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and found Xu Xuan had reached the Nascent Soul Realm while inheriting the legacy.
• Ji Zhantian warned Ye Yu to be careful of the Imperial Clan as Ye Yu left the imperial mausoleum.
• Ye Yu and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast noticed new growth across the battlefield, and Ye Yu blasted open the ground to reveal a massive pit.