Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu killed Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku after revealing his ties to the Xu and Ye Lineages, then used a mysterious power to draw the Nine Nether Blood Qi from the Fat Monk. He left the Azure Heaven Palace with Feng Qiwen and the Fat Monk as the distant battle turned against the Giant Spirit Race.

• Xu Xiuwan threatened Ye Yu and Luo Ying with the Xu Lineage’s mark, but Ye Yu revealed his Xu Lineage ring and Autumn Water Sword embryo, then killed her.
• Ye Ku placed a blood curse on Ye Yu, but it dissolved because Ye Yu also carried the Ye Lineage’s bloodline; Ye Yu killed him and disposed of both corpses in the Nine Nether Blood Qi.
• The Fat Monk arrived with a shoulder rotting from the Nine Nether Blood Qi, and Ye Yu drew the qi out of him with a green glow.
• Ye Yu, Feng Qiwen, and the Fat Monk left the Azure Heaven Palace after Luo Ying reflected on her master’s teachings about immortality.
• The three saw that the Giant Spirit Race was close to defeat, and Feng Qiwen reacted when the Fat Monk gave his Dharma name as Wangchen.

Ye Yu sought passage to Dry Moon Island by bargaining with Ghost Whale patriarch You Shan, using his survival from the Deep Sea Ravine and his ability to remove Nine Nether Blood Qi as leverage. You Shan agreed to take Ye Yu, Feng Qiwen, and Fat Monk there, though Ye Yu had not yet cured him.

• Ye Yu led Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk into the Black Sea and persuaded a Ghost Whale to take them to its settlement.
• Ye Yu gave Fat Monk an eighth-grade pill that healed his shoulder, and Fat Monk wondered whether Ye Yu had done so for a reason.
• Ye Yu met You Shan and offered to make a deal, prompting You Shan to realize Ye Yu had survived the Deep Sea Ravine.
• Ye Yu asked You Shan to take them to Central Continent, and You Shan offered to bring them as far as Dry Moon Island, where they could use a Teleportation Array.
• Ye Yu agreed to remove You Shan's Nine Nether Blood Qi after they reached Dry Moon Island, and You Shan reluctantly accepted.
• Fat Monk asked whether Ye Yu had healed him so he could fight You Shan if necessary, and Ye Yu said he had no reason to fear You Shan with Fat Monk recovered.

Ye Yu traveled to Dry Moon Island with Fat Monk and Feng Qiwen after using the Void Sky Cauldron's power to kill You Shan. On the island, Ye Yu chose to seek the Dry Moon Sect's Teleportation Array, but a familiar figure appeared before they could reach it.

• Fat Monk complained that Ye Yu treated him like an outsider, and Feng Qiwen reminded him that Ye Yu had helped him because he considered him a friend.
• Ye Yu reviewed Azure Heaven Palace's possessions, dismissed its cultivation techniques and spirit stones as inefficient, and resolved to refine pills and develop his own sword moves.
• After half a month, You Shan brought Ye Yu and the others near Dry Moon Island, and Ye Yu used the Void Sky Cauldron's power to eradicate You Shan's Nine Nether Blood Qi.
• You Shan tried to kill Ye Yu after receiving his help, but the power Ye Yu had injected tore You Shan apart and sank his body into the sea.
• Feng Qiwen explained that Dry Moon Island held Teleportation Arrays controlled by the Dry Moon Sect and the Eight Desolations Sect, and Ye Yu chose to avoid the Wang Family's faction and head for the Dry Moon Sect.
• As Ye Yu, Fat Monk, and Feng Qiwen set off for the Dry Moon Sect, Ye Yu spotted a familiar figure.

Ye Yu reunited with Qin Wushuang on Dry Moon Island, where Qin Wushuang proposed adopting him and urged him to end his connection with Qin Ruoxian. Ye Yu refused to let Qin Wushuang decide for her and left, then discussed change, attachment, and fate with Fat Monk.

• Ye Yu met Qin Wushuang, who had reached Spirit Transformation Mid-stage and said he no longer blamed Ye Yu for what happened to Great Qin.
• Qin Wushuang proposed taking Ye Yu as his adopted son and told him not to hinder Qin Ruoxian’s future.
• Ye Yu said only Qin Ruoxian could decide whether to break off their engagement, then left the teahouse with Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk.
• Qin Wushuang threatened Ye Yu and smashed his teacup after Ye Yu walked away.
• Ye Yu told Feng Qiwen not to blame Qin Wushuang, saying people could change and that all things had Karma.
• Fat Monk suggested Ye Yu’s experiences were forming a road to immortality, and Ye Yu asked whether Fat Monk believed in fate.

Ye Yu, Fat Monk, and Feng Qiwen waited on Dry Moon Island for a chance to travel to Central Province, where they met Gu Qianqian, a young guide saving money to reunite with her parents. As Fat Monk questioned whether hardship had changed him, he admitted he could no longer tell whether Gu Qianqian was telling the truth.

• Ye Yu and Fat Monk joked about fate while Feng Qiwen reflected on how alike yet different the two men were.
• Ye Yu's group learned they would wait at least half a month for the teleportation array, and Ye Yu accepted a steward's bribery as a normal exchange of money for priority.
• Gu Qianqian offered to guide the three to a cave dwelling, which Ye Yu rented for thirty thousand spirit stones a day.
• Fat Monk invited Gu Qianqian to stay with them after learning her parents had gone to Central Province and she was saving to follow them.
• That night, Fat Monk asked Ye Yu whether he would have become like him if he could start over, then broke a wine jug as he struggled to decide whether Gu Qianqian had lied.

Ye Yu accepted Gu Qianqian’s offer to take responsibility for the ten-million-spirit-stone debt and later heard the Fat Monk’s account of the Giant Spirit Race conflict. Meanwhile, Qin Wushuang asked Bai Chengfeng to prevent Ye Yu from going to Central Province, and Gu Qianqian warned Ye Yu that Dry Moon Island would be dangerous that night.

• After drinking with the Fat Monk, Ye Yu accepted Gu Qianqian’s master-servant contract and promissory note, agreeing to place the debt on her instead of her master.
• Three days later, the Fat Monk told Ye Yu that the Xu and Ye Families had repelled the Giant Spirit Race, while concealing what had really happened.
• At the Dry Moon Sect, Bai Chengfeng discussed the news with Qin Wushuang and offered to help him with a favor.
• Qin Wushuang told Bai Chengfeng that he wanted Ye Yu kept from going to Central Province, and Bai Chengfeng agreed to handle it the next day.
• As Ye Yu studied an eighth-grade Eight-Orifice Spirit-Connecting Pill, Gu Qianqian warned him to return to his cave abode because Dry Moon Island would be dangerous that night.

On Dry Moon Island’s full-moon night, Ye Yu discovered the poisonous Ancient Spirit Breath and used some to nourish Dan Chenzi’s damaged divine soul. After saving Bai Chengfeng from Wang Yue’s assassins, Ye Yu left, while Bai Chengfeng vowed to retaliate against the Wang Family.

• Gu Qianqian warned Ye Yu that the Dry Moon Sect and Wang Family forbade anyone from going outside on full-moon nights, and Ye Yu watched the island as Ancient Spirit Breath rose beneath the moon.
• Ye Yu recognized the Ancient Spirit Breath as nourishment for powerful divine souls and secretly went to investigate while Bai Chengfeng and Wang Yue divided their forces across the island.
• Ye Yu used a cluster of Ancient Spirit Breath to nourish Dan Chenzi’s damaged divine soul, then spotted a crimson tail as Bai Chengfeng searched for a creature that escaped.
• Wang Yue sent three assassins after Bai Chengfeng, who killed two Dry Moon Sect disciples and was soon outnumbered by the attackers.
• Ye Yu cut down the three assassins with one strike after they attacked him, then refused Bai Chengfeng’s invitation to visit the Dry Moon Sect.
• Bai Chengfeng thanked Ye Yu and vowed that his conflict with Wang Yue had begun.

Bai Chengfeng confronted Wang Yue over the failed attempt to capture a mysterious creature, while Ye Yu discovered that a scarlet, furry being was following him and increasing his spiritual power. Qin Wushuang tried to stop Ye Yu from going to Central Province, but Gong Lei’s group intervened; Gong Youxia then offered Fat Monk a chance to return to the sect if he apologized to Little Lei.

• Bai Chengfeng accused Wang Yue’s family of scheming against him, and Wang Yue revealed that he had planned to use the Giant Spirit Race’s methods to kill Bai Chengfeng and damage the Xu and Ye Families’ reputations.
• Ye Yu glimpsed a scarlet, furry creature with the Void Sky Cauldron, but it escaped through the cauldron’s azure light.
• The creature landed on Ye Yu’s shoulder, accelerated the spiritual power in his body, and left when he reached his cave dwelling.
• Qin Wushuang urged Ye Yu to stay on Dry Moon Island and tried to have two cultivators restrain him when Ye Yu insisted on going to Central Province.
• Gong Youxia arrived with Gong Lei’s group, stopped Qin Wushuang’s men, and defended Fat Monk as her junior brother.
• Gong Youxia told Fat Monk that their master would let him return to the sect if he apologized to Little Lei, but Fat Monk refused.

Ye Yu fought Seven Kills inside the Void Sky Cauldron and learned that Seven Kills was leaving, while the Cauldron Spirit hinted that Ye Yu had lost three feelings. On Dry Moon Island, the Xu and Ye Families gained the Dry Moon Sect’s favor, and Wang Yue ordered her people to find the Sword Cultivator who killed three people.

• Fat Monk returned to Ye Yu’s cave dwelling after Gong Qiumei and the others left, and Ye Yu warned him not to cause trouble while the Xu and Ye Families were arriving.
• Ye Yu entered the Void Sky Cauldron to refine pills and met Seven Kills, who told him he was leaving and challenged him to a fight.
• Seven Kills overwhelmed Ye Yu with an illusion of death, but Ye Yu calmly counterattacked with his sword, prompting Seven Kills to say that the Cauldron Spirit had succeeded.
• Seven Kills left the cauldron, and the Cauldron Spirit told Ye Yu that three more feelings had yet to disappear before it vanished.
• The Xu and Ye Families arrived on Dry Moon Island with Memory Stones showing their battle against the Giant Spirit Race, and the Dry Moon Sect welcomed them as guests.
• Wang Yue learned that three people had been killed by a Sword Cultivator and ordered her people to find him.

Ye Yu prepared to leave the island for Central Province while Bai Chengfeng offered him a place in the Dry Moon Sect and repayment for saving his life. At the teleportation array, Qin Wushuang blocked Ye Yu’s departure and ordered the Dry Moon Sect cultivators to take him down.

• Ye Yu left the Void Sky Cauldron and found Gong Youxia pleading with Fat Monk, who rejected her and returned to the cave abode with Gu Qianqian.
• Ye Yu disguised himself to investigate the residential district, then returned to find Bai Chengfeng waiting to invite him into the Dry Moon Sect; Ye Yu declined and said he was going to Central Province.
• Bai Chengfeng promised to repay Ye Yu’s kindness before leaving as Feng Qiwen began his Void Refining tribulation and passed it with the array’s help.
• Ye Yu’s group arrived at the Dry Moon Sect’s Teleportation Array to register for their journey, but Qin Wushuang surrounded them with ten mid Void Refining cultivators and urged Ye Yu to stay.
• Fat Monk challenged Qin Wushuang’s claim that he was acting for Ye Yu’s good, while Gu Qianqian recalled her parents’ similar promise; Qin Wushuang ordered his cultivators to take Ye Yu down.

Ye Yu confronted Bai Chengfeng over the Dry Moon Sect’s refusal to let him use its Teleportation Array, then argued with Fat Monk about human warmth and betrayal. As Ye Yu and his companions returned to their cave abode, he learned the Wang Family was following them and reflected on the power of reputation.

• Ye Yu, Fat Monk, and Feng Qiwen shattered attacks from ten mid Void Refining experts, and Qin Wushuang urged Ye Yu to accept that the Dry Moon Sect was too powerful to resist.
• Bai Chengfeng arrived, recognized Ye Yu, but refused to repay his life-saving favor by letting Ye Yu’s group use the Teleportation Array to reach Central Prefecture.
• Ye Yu told Fat Monk and Gu Qianqian that human warmth was self-deception, while Fat Monk defended the value of kindness and hoped Gu Qianqian would avoid betrayal.
• Feng Qiwen warned Ye Yu that someone from the Wang Family was following them, and Ye Yu explained how a clan’s reputation could attract powerful allies and supporters.

Ye Yu and Wang Yue reached a temporary bargain after he faced down her experts. Wang Yue gave Ye Yu one month to kill Bai Chengfeng and ruin his reputation, after which she would move against him regardless of the outcome.

• Ye Yu explained to Feng Qiwen how the Wang Family’s plot against the Dry Moon Sect also threatened the Xu and Ye Families’ reputations.
• Gong Youxia urged Jiuxiao to leave with her, but he refused to abandon Ye Yu; she then withdrew when Wang Yue arrived.
• Ye Yu carved Wang Yue a stone seat and withstood the pressure of her Void Refinement expert, while his Void Sky Cauldron dispersed the pressure.
• Gong Youxia denied being Ye Yu’s friend and left, and Ye Yu sent Gu Qianqian away as the Wang Family’s forces gathered.
• Ye Yu held the Purple Firmament Sword to Wang Yue’s neck, and they agreed not to fight for the moment.
• Wang Yue gave Ye Yu one month to kill Bai Chengfeng and destroy his reputation, promising that the Wang Family would neither attack nor help him during that time.

Ye Yu used the Wang Family’s Teleportation Array to set his departure for Central Province a month away, then toured Dry Moon Island while provoking Bai Chengfeng and Qin Wushuang into acting against him. Bai Chengfeng recorded Qin Wushuang ordering Ye Yu killed and planned to use the recording to implicate Jade Pool.

• Ye Yu sent Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk to find Gu Qianqian and register their departure through the Wang Family’s Teleportation Array for one month later.
• After the Wang Family accepted the registration, Ye Yu chose to wait and explore Dry Moon Island, while Wang Yue spread an exaggerated story that Ye Yu had saved Bai Chengfeng.
• Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen planted Spiritual Seals on the shore, and Ye Yu told Fat Monk that Bai Chengfeng would seek revenge because of his wounded pride and emotions.
• Bai Chengfeng learned Ye Yu was alive and traveling to Central Province, while rumors on Dry Moon Island began damaging his reputation.
• Qin Wushuang asked Bai Chengfeng to stop Ye Yu in exchange for introducing him to Ruoxian, and then ordered Ye Yu killed, dead or alive.
• Bai Chengfeng secretly recorded Qin Wushuang’s order and left, intending to use the Memory Stone to implicate Jade Pool.

Ye Yu drew Bai Chengfeng and the Dry Moon Sect into the Wang Family’s territory, setting off a battle between the two powers while his allies left according to plan. As the fighting spread across Dry Moon Island, Wang Family and Dry Moon Sect experts trapped Ye Yu, and Qin Wushuang confronted him.

• Ye Yu waited until the full moon and led his companions into Wang Family territory, where Wang Yue challenged his motives.
• Bai Chengfeng arrived with Dry Moon Sect members, and the Wang Family claimed he had crossed the boundary.
• Bai Chengfeng and Wang Yue’s forces launched into battle while powerful experts clashed above them.
• Ye Yu sent Fat Monk and Gu Qianqian toward their agreed location, then told Feng Qiwen to leave.
• A Wang Family steward and Qin Wushuang blocked Ye Yu’s retreat as the battle continued.

Ye Yu rejected Qin Wushuang’s attempt to justify betraying him and fought the Dry Moon Sect cultivators before entering the duel between Bai Chengfeng and Wang Yue. After activating a formation over Dry Moon Island, Ye Yu survived Bai Chengfeng’s attack and killed him with one sword strike, leaving Wang Yue facing his sword intent.

• Qin Wushuang sent two Dry Moon Sect cultivators to attack Ye Yu, who was knocked backward by their combined Sea Splitting Palm.
• Bai Chengfeng and Wang Yue fought at mid Void Refining strength while the Dry Moon Sect Master and Wang Family Clan Elder watched.
• Ye Yu arrived at their battlefield, and Feng Qiwen rose into the air as spiritual seals formed a formation over Dry Moon Island.
• Bai Chengfeng attacked Ye Yu with his folding fan, but Ye Yu emerged unscathed and split Bai Chengfeng in two with a sword strike.
• Wang Yue stared at Bai Chengfeng’s death as Ye Yu’s sword intent enveloped her.

Ye Yu tried to escape Dry Moon Island by using the Dry Moon Sect Master and the Wang Family Clan Elder to break the barrier between the Black Sea and Central Province. The barrier held firm, and Ye Yu charged into the resulting torrent of spiritual power as Qin Wushuang watched.

• Ye Yu killed Bai Chengfeng and severed one of Wang Yue's arms before the Dry Moon Sect Master and the Wang Family Clan Elder arrived.
• Ye Yu fled toward the island's edge, deflecting the elders' attacks with Haotian Mirror fragments and using a visual distortion to conceal his escape route.
• The elders caught up to Ye Yu and attacked him, but he used the fragments to reveal that his apparent position was a decoy and slipped toward the boundary light curtain.
• The Dry Moon Sect Master and the Wang Family Clan Elder struck the light curtain together, but it remained intact.
• Ye Yu charged into the spiritual-power torrent mixed with the light curtain's retaliation, while Qin Wushuang believed he was doomed.

Ye Yu used the Void Sky Cauldron to break through the light screen separating the Black Sea from Central Province, escaping the Dry Moon Sect and the Wang Family with Feng Qiwen and the Fat Monk. After revealing his Ye Family ring to his pursuers, he left Dry Moon Island and noticed the Dragon Spirit watching him.

• Qin Wushuang reflected that hard work had failed to protect his descendants and that strong backing mattered most.
• Feng Qiwen and the Fat Monk charged into the spiritual-energy torrent, where Ye Yu sheltered them inside the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Yu repeatedly struck the light screen with the cauldron until cracks opened and the three reached its other side.
• Ye Yu showed the Wang Family Clan Elder and the Dry Moon Sect Master his Ye Family ring, then left and discarded it into the sea.
• Ye Yu spotted the Dragon Spirit watching him before it vanished, while Qin Wushuang watched him depart and Feng Qiwen asked what they should do next.

Ye Yu traveled with Feng Qiwen, the Fat Monk, and Gu Qianqian toward the Xu Family, passing through Central Province and reaching Heavenly Saint City. There, a man carrying a broken sword arrived and claimed Feng Qiwen was Old Wang.

• Ye Yu chose to avoid the Wang Family’s territory and headed south with Feng Qiwen, the Fat Monk, and Gu Qianqian.
• A Jade Pool spirit vessel passed Ye Yu’s group, and Qin Ruoxian continued toward the Dry Moon Sect’s Teleportation Array.
• After three days, Feng Qiwen guided the group into Heavenly Saint City, where Ye Yu read an introduction to Central Province.
• A mysterious man appeared at the inn, stole food and wine from the Fat Monk, and ate everything on the table with him.
• Ye Yu noticed the pressure of the man’s rusty broken sword, and the man told Feng Qiwen that he was Old Wang.

Ye Yu met Ye Chengjun in Heavenly Saint City and learned that the rival families and sect prodigies had gathered for Heavenly Saint Academy’s recruitment event. The top-ranked new student would receive a mysterious bronze fragment, which Ye Yu recognized as a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron.

• Gai You provoked Feng Qiwen and Fat Monk at the inn, then Ye Yu paid the bill and prepared to leave with them.
• Ye Chengjun entered the inn, recognized Gai You, and taunted him about losing and becoming his disciple.
• Gai You released his Sword Qi, but Ye Chengjun blocked it until a woman in red armor arrived and forbade fighting in Heavenly Saint City.
• Ye Yu sent Feng Qiwen to investigate, and Feng Qiwen reported that members of three great families and young sect prodigies had come to the city.
• Gai You revealed that Heavenly Saint Academy would award a bronze fragment to its top-ranked new student, and Ye Yu realized it was a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron.

Ye Yu and his companions arrived at Heavenly Saint Academy to register, where Ye Yu reflected on how privilege shaped cultivators’ lives. The group saw the academy punish one applicant for bribery, then learned that powerful factions had a separate registration area that let their prodigies bypass preliminary selection.

• Ye Yu decided to visit Heavenly Saint Academy because it might hold a fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Yu remembered how his efforts as Crown Prince to challenge aristocratic privilege had ended in his defeat, while the Fat Monk practiced purity by depending on him.
• Ye Yu, the Fat Monk, and Gu Qianqian reached Heavenly Saint Academy and watched an instructor expel an applicant for trying to bribe his way into special treatment.
• The Fat Monk asked about a registration area with a shorter line, and Xie Liuying explained that prodigies from major factions could register there and go straight to the final selection.
• The Fat Monk accused Heavenly Saint Academy of favoring the powerful, and Xie Liuying signaled him to stop speaking openly.