Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu learned that the Ye family was heading to Fengzhou to target the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi, so he rushed there with the Fat Monk to confront the danger. On the way, the Fat Monk tried to help a wounded cultivator, only for Ye Yu to reveal that the apparent victim had been bait and that his intervention had led to the man’s death.

• The Fat Monk told Gu Qianqian that Ye Yu had not given up out of weakness, and the three stayed on Beicang Island while Ye Yu gathered intelligence.
• Ye Yu learned that nearly a hundred Ye family dead soldiers were bound for Fengzhou to pursue the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi, and he set out to get there first.
• Ye Yu put Gu Qianqian and the others inside the Void Sky Cauldron and traveled through the Black Sea with the Fat Monk, who worried about Gu Qianqian’s safety.
• After reaching Fengzhou, Ye Yu and the Fat Monk headed for Vast Qi Hall and encountered a bloodied cultivator surrounded by Demonic Beasts.
• The Fat Monk rushed to help, but Ye Yu’s Sword Qi killed the supposed victim; other cultivators then revealed their trap by collecting the beasts and the corpse’s Ring of Holding.
• The Fat Monk realized the man had died because he had intervened, and Ye Yu told him to stop deceiving himself about what had happened.

Ye Yu entered Fengzhou after the Ye family sealed the area around the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast’s territory, then learned Liu Qi had exposed Vast Qi Hall while suppressing a Ye family death warrior. After determining that few people had seen the hall, Ye Yu took Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast into the Void Sky Cauldron, leaving the Fat Monk to question his intentions.

• Ye Yu led the Fat Monk deeper into Fengzhou while the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi discussed Liu Ying’s recovery in the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• A young man warned the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that the clan chief was in closed-door cultivation and that no one could leave; the beast found the Ye family’s light curtain surrounding the territory.
• Ye Yu concealed himself and the Fat Monk with the Void Sky Cauldron, passed through the light curtain, and flew toward Vast Qi Hall.
• Ye Yu found Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast, then learned that Liu Qi had used Vast Qi Hall to suppress a Ye family death warrior.
• Liu Qi said only he and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast had seen Vast Qi Hall, so Ye Yu took them both into the Void Sky Cauldron.
• The Fat Monk asked Ye Yu whether he planned to attack Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast.

Ye Yu brought Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to the Nether Chasm after they chose to stay with him, then tested the Void Sky Cauldron’s connection to the forces within it. Seven Kills prepared to leave the cauldron and accused the Cauldron Spirit of deliberately withholding help and pursuing its own plan.

• Ye Yu told Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that the Ye family had targeted them because it was coming for him, and both chose to repay him despite the risks to themselves and their clansmen.
• Ye Yu led the group toward the Nether Chasm, where he hoped the amplified divine soul power could help him face the Ye family.
• Fat Monk and Liu Qi discussed how Liu Ying and Gu Qianqian tied them to Ye Yu, and how they had each chosen to remain with him.
• Two days later, Ye Yu entered the Nether Chasm and briefly summoned blood-red light, pure white light, and lightning from the Void Sky Cauldron before shutting it.
• Inside the cauldron, Seven Kills announced that he was leaving and challenged the Cauldron Spirit over its hidden motives and the little help it had given Ye Yu.

The Cauldron Spirit admitted he had been forced to watch Ye Yu fail again and again, while Ye Yu prepared to lure the Ye family into the Nether Chasm using the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast’s clansmen as bait. When the Fat Monk asked whom Ye Yu would save in a choice between one rule-abiding child and five who broke the rules, Ye Yu chose the child who had obeyed.

• The Cauldron Spirit confessed to Seven Kills that he had no choice and that he no longer wanted to watch Ye Yu fail repeatedly.
• Ye Yu led the others into the Nether Chasm, where he realized its North Cold Gang Wind was a special aura and decided to wait for the Ye family to arrive.
• Ye Yu told the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that its clansmen, along with it and Liu Qi, would serve as bait to draw out the Ye family.
• Liu Qi reminded the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that Ye Yu had risked himself to help them, but the beast asked whether another plan was possible.
• The Fat Monk recalled his sect master’s lesson about sacrifice and asked Ye Yu whom he would save in a hypothetical dilemma.
• Ye Yu said he would save the child who had not broken the rules because the others had to pay for their choice.

Ye Yu used Vast Qi Hall to draw the Ye family’s pursuers to the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast territory, where five Body Integration Realm experts attacked Liu Qi and the beasts. After Old Dragon’s nephew intervened, Ye Yu lured the pursuing elders into Nether Chasm, where he prepared a hidden counterattack with Fat Monk.

• Ye Yu confirmed the Ye family could track their aura and took Fat Monk into Nether Chasm while Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast stayed behind.
• Four Ye family experts confronted Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast, identified Ye Yu’s aura, and overwhelmed them with spiritual power.
• Old Dragon’s nephew destroyed a Ye family elder’s spiritual palm, then kicked the injured Liu Qi into Nether Chasm as he fled with him.
• The leading Ye family elder pursued Old Dragon and Liu Qi into Nether Chasm while another expert held Huang Jing back.
• Fat Monk raised a Buddhist golden light barrier, and Ye Yu caught Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast as they fell.
• The pursuing Ye family experts found Ye Yu, while a Small Cauldron deep in Nether Chasm churned with blood light, white light, and lightning.

Three Human Dao Sages appeared in the Nether Chasm to protect Ye Yu from four Ye family cultivators, then revealed their power and struck them down. After exhausting their remaining strength, the sages made clear they had no intention of returning to the Void Sky Cauldron.

• The four Ye family cultivators attacked Ye Yu, but a lightning strike shattered their spiritual energy assault.
• Three Human Dao Sages appeared behind Ye Yu, and Ye Yu exchanged a silent understanding with the Cauldron Spirit.
• The four Ye family cultivators ignited their Bloodline Power and raised their strength to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• The Cauldron Spirit stabilized the Fat Monk's Sanskrit sounds as Daoist Tian Yuan, Lightning Venerable, and Uncle Sword prepared to fight.
• Daoist Tian Yuan drew spiritual energy from the four attackers, Lightning Venerable harnessed the North Cold Gang Wind, and Uncle Sword surged forward as a blood-red sword.
• The sages' combined strike overwhelmed the four Ye family cultivators, and Seven Kills laughed that the sages would not return to the Void Sky Cauldron.

Ye Yu recovered in the Nether Chasm after the Human Dao Sages vanished, while the survivors prepared to flee and he chose to wait. The Ye Lineage sent its Mahayana Stage Nineteenth Elder, Ye Hedao, to Fengzhou to pursue them, and Old Dragon urged Ye Yu to leave as Ye Yu raised his head.

• The Human Dao Sages disappeared after debating whether Ye Yu might still have a chance to meet them again, and Ye Yu recalled the Void Sky Cauldron after healing Old Dragon and Liu Qi.
• Huang Jing confirmed that the clan had suffered no casualties and left the Nether Chasm with the clansmen, while Old Dragon, Liu Qi, and the Fat Monk stayed with Ye Yu.
• The Ye Lineage Patriarch learned that four Body Integration Realm cultivators had died, ordered Ye Jun to prepare a Teleportation Array, and summoned Ye Hedao.
• Ye Hedao reminded the Ye Lineage Patriarch to find Xu Yunxi, then arrived in Fengzhou and ordered Ye Jun to lead the way.
• Old Dragon anxiously asked Ye Yu to leave the Nether Chasm, and Ye Yu slowly raised his head.

Seven Kills appeared to save Ye Yu from Ye Hedao, killed Ye Hedao and removed Ye Jun, then hinted that Ye Yu had no fate before leaving. The chapter ended with Seven Kills asking Ye Yu whether desire or hatred was the essence of life.

• Ye Yu gathered violent spiritual energy and confronted Ye Hedao as an unseen power and chains overwhelmed him.
• Seven Kills appeared, shattered the chains around himself, and seized Ye Hedao's arm before he could strike Ye Yu.
• Seven Kills killed Ye Hedao by engulfing him in darkness, and Ye Hedao turned to ash.
• Seven Kills made Ye Jun vanish with a point of his finger.
• Seven Kills told Ye Yu that he had no fate, stopped short of revealing what that meant when the Void Sky Cauldron appeared, and asked whether desire or hatred was life's essence.

Ye Yu discussed fear with Seven Kills, then fled the Nether Chasm with Fat Monk while the Cauldron Spirit cleaned up the traces. After the Ye Lineage patriarch concealed Ye Hedao’s death and Ye Yu rested in a Fengzhou city-state, Xie Liuying and her group unexpectedly found him.

• Ye Yu said that fear shaped people’s choices, and Seven Kills departed after acknowledging their unresolved Karma.
• Ye Yu asked the Cauldron Spirit to clean up the traces, then escaped the Nether Chasm with Fat Monk, Old Dragon, and Liu Qi.
• Ye Yu sent Old Dragon and Liu Qi to seek shelter with the Ice Dragon Clan, while he and Fat Monk waited elsewhere.
• The Ye Lineage patriarch discovered Ye Hedao’s soul lamp had gone out, hid the lamp, and chose to investigate instead of sending more people after Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu and Fat Monk reached a Fengzhou city-state, where Ye Yu sensed powerful auras near Old Dragon and Liu Qi and realized the Ice Dragon Clan could draw the Ye Lineage’s attention.
• Xie Liuying and her group spotted Ye Yu as he was about to eat.

After learning that the Gale Wolf clan had ambushed Xie Liuying’s group and captured Gong Chunyu and the other senior sisters, Ye Yu devised a plan to lure people into attacking the wolves by offering huge prices for their essence blood. Ye Yu and his companions followed the crowd toward the clan’s mountain range, while Gong Lei secretly vowed to kill Ye Yu after the women were rescued.

• Xie Liuying told Ye Yu that the Gale Wolf clan had ambushed her group, and Gong Lei revealed that Gong Chunyu and the other senior sisters had been captured.
• Ye Yu refused to rescue the captives immediately, struck Gong Lei aside, and asked Xie Liuying for spirit stones to support his plan.
• Ye Yu and Xie Liuying offered far above-market prices for Gale Wolf essence blood and announced that they would buy it a week later, prompting many rogue cultivators to head for the wolves’ territory.
• The Fat Monk questioned how many people would die, but Ye Yu and Gu Qianqian said the cultivators had chosen the risk themselves.
• Ye Yu, Xie Liuying, the Fat Monk, Gu Qianqian, and the crowd reached the mountain range where the Gale Wolf clan lived, while Gong Lei followed and plotted against Ye Yu.

Ye Yu investigated the jade bottle’s location and discovered that Spirit Demon Race members and Gale Wolves had ambushed the cultivators. He reached a cave holding the captives and a Nine Nether Blood Spring, where Feng Hen confronted him and revealed his bloodline atavism.

• Ye Yu split up with Xie Liuying and Gong Lei, then used a puppet to investigate the jade bottle’s location while the Fat Monk and Gu Qianqian watched with him.
• Black pillars of devil qi rose around the mountain range as Feng Hen and the Spirit Demon Race trapped the cultivators with Gale Wolves and attacked them.
• Ye Yu left to find the jade bottle, and Gu Qianqian persuaded the Fat Monk not to follow him.
• Ye Yu used his puppets and Nine Revolutions Dragon Step to reach a cave, where he found captured cultivators and a newly unsealed Nine Nether Blood Spring.
• Feng Hen confronted Ye Yu, blamed human cultivators for attacking his clan, revealed that he had undergone bloodline atavism, and began to expand.

Ye Yu fought Feng Hen, a Radiant Moon Demonic Wolf, while trying to keep the battle’s aura strong enough to prevent others from interfering. When Feng Hen took a captive hostage and demanded Ye Yu cut off his arms, Ye Yu struck with the Purple Firmament Sword, killing the captive and cutting Feng Hen in half.

• Feng Hen transformed into a Radiant Moon Demonic Wolf and charged Ye Yu, who blocked his attacks with the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Ye Yu and Feng Hen’s battle shook the cave, and Ye Yu wounded Feng Hen while holding back his spiritual power.
• One captive fell into the Nine Nether Blood Spring, and Feng Hen seized another cultivator to threaten Ye Yu.
• Feng Hen demanded that Ye Yu cut off his own arms, but Ye Yu slashed through the captive and severed half of Feng Hen’s body with a streak of purple light.

Ye Yu widened the breach in the Nine Nether Blood Spring, letting its corrosive blood qi spread as he collected the Gale Wolf Tribe’s essence blood. After escaping the Spirit Demon Race’s barrier, the Fat Monk questioned Ye Yu’s motives, and Ye Yu admitted that his kindness toward him was partly based on his value.

• Ye Yu freed the captives and sent them out ahead, then struck the Nine Nether Blood Spring and widened the gap in its wolf-bone seal.
• Ye Yu’s sword strike sent a massive Sword Qi from the mountain, while Nine Nether Blood Qi spread and threw humans, Gale Wolves, and the Spirit Demon Race into chaos.
• Ye Yu collected the Gale Wolf Tribe’s essence blood and returned to the Fat Monk, who confronted him over the lives endangered by the spreading blood qi.
• The Fat Monk rushed toward the Spirit Demon Race’s barrier, which broke under the spreading blood qi and the attackers’ assault, prompting the Spirit Demon Race to abandon pursuit.
• The Fat Monk asked Ye Yu whether he had treated him well only because he was useful, and Ye Yu admitted it was more or less true while saying they were still friends.

Ye Yu and the others returned after the Nine Nether Blood Qi was controlled, and the group prepared to travel to Heavenly Saint Academy. When Gong Lei accused Ye Yu of trying to kill him, Gong Chunyu recognized the danger and insisted Xiaolei must have been mistaken.

• Fat Monk left after Ye Yu refused to comfort him with a lie, and Gu Qianqian ran after him.
• Ye Yu, Gu Qianqian, and Fat Monk returned to town and learned that the Nine Nether Blood Qi had been controlled, though many of their companions had died.
• Xie Liuying confirmed that Ye Yu had found the jade bottle full of Gale Wolf essence blood and said they would rest before heading to Heavenly Saint Academy.
• After Gong Chunyu emerged from seclusion, Gong Lei implied that someone had tried to kill him, prompting Gong Qiumei and Gong Youxia to accuse Fat Monk.
• Gong Lei's glance toward Ye Yu revealed whom he meant, and Gong Chunyu apologized to Ye Yu before dragging Gong Lei upstairs.

Xie Liuying and the others left Fengzhou after refusing to buy more Gale Wolf essence blood from the rogue cultivators who had gathered it. Ye Yu bought a clump from a desperate woman, then challenged Gong Jiuxiao to consider whether his judgment came from himself or from his doctrine.

• Gong Chunyu questioned Gong Lei about whether Ye Yu had tried to kill him, and Gong Lei denied saying so before hurriedly leaving.
• Xie Liuying, Ye Yu, and their companions decided to leave Fengzhou after Xie Liuying recovered.
• A crowd tried to sell Gale Wolf essence blood to Xie Liuying, but she refused, and Gong Chunyu's late Void Refining pressure silenced them.
• A female cultivator begged Ye Yu to buy her essence blood so she could find a dependable master for her younger brother, but Gu Qianqian and Gong Jiuxiao suspected her story was a lie.
• Ye Yu recognized signs of forced cultivation and a Dao injury, gave the woman thirty thousand spirit stones for the essence blood, and told Gong Jiuxiao that he had been corrupted by hearing too many lies.
• Ye Yu asked Gong Jiuxiao whether he was persisting for himself or for his so-called doctrine.

Ye Yu’s group was refused passage across the Black Sea after word spread that Heavenly Saint Academy had destroyed the Gale Wolf clan and Chengyun Sect. Xie Liuying exposed Gong Lei as the deliberate source of the leak, leaving Gong Chunyu to question whether Gong Jiuxiao had truly harmed him.

• Spirit boat operators refused to take Heavenly Saint Academy’s group across the Black Sea, citing the destruction of the Gale Wolf clan and Chengyun Sect.
• Xie Liuying suspected Gong Lei had leaked the Gale Wolf clan mission details, and Gong Youxia defended him.
• Gong Lei failed to swear that he was innocent, then claimed he had casually told a fox demon about the mission.
• Xie Liuying suppressed Gong Lei’s spirit palace so he could not lie, and he admitted that he had deliberately leaked the information to sabotage Ye Yu and Gong Jiuxiao.
• Gong Chunyu asked Gong Lei whether Jiuxiao had truly laid a hand on him.

Xie Liuying forced Gong Lei to reveal that he had lied about Gong Jiuxiao, exposing how many times Gong Jiuxiao had secretly helped Gong Chunyu and the others. The four sisters confronted the Fat Monk, but he said their grievances had already been settled, while Gong Lei tried to retract his words after Xie Liuying released her control.

• Xie Liuying used spiritual light to make Gong Lei confess that Gong Jiuxiao had never tried to harm him and that the sisters had believed his lies.
• Gong Qiumei and Gong Dongxiang blamed the Fat Monk for staying silent, while Ye Yu explained to Gu Qianqian how people shifted blame when faced with the truth.
• Gong Lei admitted that Gong Jiuxiao, not him, had straightened Gong Chunyu's meridians and had also helped the other sisters.
• Gong Chunyu and the other three collapsed in shame and asked the Fat Monk why he had never told them, but he said their grievances had already been settled.
• Xie Liuying gave up on seeking the Azure Frost Glazed Fruit and removed her control over Gong Lei, who immediately claimed she had forced him to lie.

Gong Lei’s deception was exposed, and Gong Qiumei and the others punished him while trying to win Fat Monk’s forgiveness. After crossing the Black Sea and stopping on an island, Ye Yu spoke with Fat Monk about cultivation, dreams, and accepting what could not be escaped.

• Gong Dongxiang crippled Gong Lei’s legs, and Gong Youxia forced him to beg Fat Monk for forgiveness.
• Fat Monk rejected Gong Qiumei’s apology and left with Gu Qianqian, while Gong Chunyu ordered the others to bring Gong Lei along to settle the matter.
• Ye Yu and Xie Liuying’s group flew across the Black Sea and rested on a small island after a day’s journey.
• Ye Yu and Fat Monk drank together on a rooftop, and Fat Monk said he felt satisfied that Gong Lei had faced consequences.
• Fat Monk urged Ye Yu to find enjoyment in cultivation, and Ye Yu reflected that he could not resist his circumstances and should try to accept them.

Qin Ruoxian refused to surrender the Autumn Water Sword to Yaochi’s elders, insisting she needed it to find Xu Yunxi and help Ye Yu. Ye Yu later reached Beicang Island, where a rare physique appeared in a newborn and the Lin family rushed to claim the child.

• Qin Ruoxian returned to Yaochi without finding Xu Yunxi, and the elders demanded that she hand over the Autumn Water Sword.
• Qin Ruoxian invoked her status as Yaochi Saintess to refuse the Great Elder, then told Kong Yue that Xu Yunxi’s chance to become immortal was worth protecting.
• Alone in her cave residence, Qin Ruoxian stroked the Autumn Water Sword and vowed to help Ye Yu before consulting a jade slip titled “Defier of Fate, Xu Yunxi.”
• Yuan Xiang told Ye Yu that Yaochi experts had arrived in the Great Yu Dynasty and were watching the Blood Demon Race; Ye Yu then traveled to Beicang Island with the Fat Monk.
• The Fat Monk parted ways with Ye Yu, and a phenomenon announced the birth of a child with a top-ranked special physique as members of the Lin family rushed in.
• Xie Liuying called Xu Yunxi an example of how talent alone was not enough, and Ye Yu’s expression changed.

Ye Yu learned that his mother Xu Yunxi had been a legendary figure, but the Cauldron Spirit prevented him from hearing more. Back at Heavenly Saint Academy, Ye Yu borrowed spirit energy from Gao Sheng and was confronted by Kui Yan after Xie Liuying ended his membership in the Luoshen Society.

• The Cauldron Spirit stopped Ye Yu from hearing more about Xu Yunxi and told him he was too weak to learn certain things.
• Xie Liuying described Xu Yunxi's extraordinary birth and rise, followed by the Xu family's disaster and her disappearance.
• Ye Yu returned to Heavenly Saint Academy, completed his mission, and gave the Peak Master Token back to Li Daoyi, who told him to seek fortune beyond cultivation.
• Ye Yu took spirit energy from Gao Sheng, then went to the Treasure Pavilion to spend the 1.5 million spirit energy on his card.
• Kui Yan confronted Ye Yu, and Xie Liuying removed Ye Yu's Luoshen Society badge, leaving Kui Yan to demand his spirit energy card or a fight in the Life and Death Arena.