Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu challenged Ye Fan but was nearly killed before Qin Ruoxian and Qin Wushuang intervened. Qin Wushuang secured Ye Yu’s escape by trading five of Great Qin’s War of a Hundred Dynasties slots, while Liu Ruyan insisted that Ye Yu would return for her because she was his fiancée.

• Ye Fan attacked Ye Yu after Ye Yu admitted causing trouble, and Ye Yu’s Nine Li Divine Fire Array was shattered, leaving him badly wounded.
• Ye Yu prepared to risk his life against Ye Fan’s next attack, but Qin Ruoxian shielded him and Qin Wushuang arrived to block the strike.
• Ye Fan agreed to spare Ye Yu for the day in exchange for half of Great Qin’s War of a Hundred Dynasties slots, and Qin Wushuang accepted after learning Ye Yu could refine Rank 7 Pills.
• Qin Wushuang carried Ye Yu and the others away, while Ye Fan departed with Ye Qingwan and the others.
• After suppressing Yan Ruyu’s blood poison, Yan Ruyu found Liu Ruyan grieving over the loss of the Autumn Water Sword, and Liu Ruyan showed her their marriage contract and claimed to be Ye Yu’s fiancée.

Yan Ruyu took Liu Ruyan back to Qingyun Sect, while Ye Qingxuan learned that only Ye Yu could cure her poison and set out to find him. In Great Qin, Qin Wushuang asked Ye Yu to become his Ninth Imperial Son-in-law, but Ye Yu answered by revealing an icy-blue sword.

• Yan Ruyu agreed to take Liu Ruyan to Qingyun Sect before they searched for Ye Yu.
• Cangyun told Ye Qingshuang that Ye Yu was a Rank 7 alchemist and the only one who could cure Ye Qingxuan's poison, prompting Ye Qingxuan to go find him.
• Ye Fan gave Ye Xuan Great Zhou's betrothal gifts and announced that Ye Qingwan and Ye Qingxuan would marry Zhou Li after the War of a Hundred Dynasties.
• Qin Wushuang confirmed Ye Yu could refine Rank 7 Pills after seeing the Life Profound Origin Pill, then proposed that Ye Yu become his Ninth Imperial Son-in-law.
• Ye Yu smiled without answering and took out an icy-blue long sword, startling Qin Wushuang and the others.

Ye Yu gave Qin Ruoxian the Autumn Water Sword as a token meant for his lifelong companion, then told Qin Wushuang that the Nine Nether Blood Spring could not be safely sealed and would erupt again soon. After warning him that Great Flame’s Blood Spring was about to erupt, Ye Yu prepared for a secret realm and a breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Ye Yu gave Qin Ruoxian the Autumn Water Sword, explaining that his mother had told him to give it to the person who would accompany him for life, and Qin Ruoxian blushed and ran off with it.
• Qin Wushuang asked Ye Yu how to seal Great Qin’s Nine Nether Blood Spring, and Ye Yu explained that sealing it required sacrificing a Heavenly Spiritual Root and would last only five years.
• Ye Yu revealed that the Blood Spring would erupt again within months even if sealed, then told Qin Wushuang not to worry because he was in Great Qin.
• Ye Yu warned Qin Wushuang to withdraw troops from Great Flame’s border because its Blood Spring was about to erupt, and Qin Wushuang issued orders to prepare the army to withdraw.
• Ye Yu rested, considered the secret realm expected to appear in Azure Prefecture, and reflected on using the Small Cauldron to cultivate without a spiritual root.
• The Small Cauldron trembled after a day, and Ye Yu gathered spiritual power to open the treasure.

Ye Yu went to Lingyun Pavilion in Great Qin to prepare pills for a newly emerged secret realm, but Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang confronted him and demanded that he return to cure Ye Qingxuan’s poison. Ye Qingxuan threatened to expose him with a Memory Stone, and the chapter ended as she began showing its image to the gathered crowd.

• The Small Cauldron produced a Nine Heavens Soul Summoning Grass, which Ye Yu stored before resting for three days.
• A secret realm appeared in Azure Prefecture, drawing interest from the dynasties, and Ye Yu decided to prepare pills before entering it.
• Ye Yu arrived at Lingyun Pavilion, where Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang found him and asked him to return to cure Ye Qingxuan’s poison.
• Ye Yu showed them the scars from his past injuries and rejected Ye Qingxuan’s claim that she would have come for him regardless.
• Ye Qingxuan threatened to reveal evidence that Ye Yu had colluded with the Devil Race and had Ye Qingshuang activate a Memory Stone before the crowd.

Ye Qingxuan played a Memory Stone scene to prove Ye Yu had colluded with the Devil Race, but it revealed that Ye Qingqing had been tainted by devil blood and attacked him. The scene showed Ye Yu drawing the dark golden blood from Ye Qingqing with a runed dagger, leaving her collapsed as the dagger shattered.

• Great Qin citizens defended Ye Yu, but Ye Qingxuan insisted they watch the Memory Stone scene.
• The scene showed Ye Yu's dilapidated Eastern Palace, then revealed devilish energy and Ye Qingqing appearing in a half-devil state.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang tried to stop the scene, but it showed Ye Qingqing seizing Ye Yu and stabbing into his abdomen while Ye Yu stabbed her chest in return.
• Ye Qingqing's wound healed as she lost control to the devilish energy, and Ye Yu activated runes on his dagger.
• The dagger drew dark golden blood from Ye Qingqing, then shattered as she turned pale and collapsed with weakening breaths.

A Memory Stone revealed that Ye Yu had sacrificed his essence blood to save Ye Qingqing, yet Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang continued to twist his actions into evidence against him. Ye Qingxuan used her royal authority to have Lingyun Pavilion bar Ye Yu, who produced a purple-gold token in response.

• Ye Yu watched the Memory Stone show his past self giving Ye Qingqing his essence blood to save her, leaving Ye Qingshuang and the others to realize the truth about his frail health.
• The scene showed Ye Qingxuan arriving and striking Ye Yu away before carrying Ye Qingqing off, while Ye Yu lay severely wounded.
• Ye Qingshuang ended the Memory Stone display, and the onlookers felt ashamed for believing Ye Qingxuan's accusation that Ye Yu had colluded with the Devil Race.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Ye Yu why he had not told her, but Ye Qingshuang claimed he had staged the sacrifice, and Ye Qingxuan accepted the explanation.
• Ye Qingxuan used her royal token to order Lingyun Pavilion to expel Ye Yu, and Ye Yu revealed a purple-gold token from his Ring of Holding.

Ye Yu used his Lingyun Pavilion Elder Token to obtain medicinal ingredients for the Wilderness Secret Realm, shocking Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang with its thirty-million-spirit-stone privilege. The sisters returned to the inn to search the Memory Stone for leverage and saw Yan Ji enter the Eastern Palace after Ye Yu fell unconscious.

• The guards let Ye Yu into Lingyun Pavilion after recognizing his Elder Token, despite Ye Qingxuan's protests.
• Ye Yu went to buy ingredients for Poison Dispelling Pills but realized he had forgotten the spirit stones Qin Wushuang gave him.
• Ye Qingxuan offered Ye Yu a hundred thousand spirit stones to return to Great Yan, but the shopkeeper revealed that his token let him draw on goods worth up to thirty million spirit stones.
• Ye Yu ordered two sets of everything on his list and left for the imperial palace as Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang followed him.
• At the inn, Ye Qingshuang replayed the Memory Stone, and the sisters saw Yan Ji enter the Eastern Palace after Ye Yu collapsed.

Ye Qingshuang and Ye Qingxuan watched a Memory Stone reveal that Yan Ji had stained the White Spirit Fruit to frame Ye Yu, casting doubt on their assumptions about Ye Xuan. Meanwhile, Ye Yu challenged Qin Han’s curfew proposal and discussed when to approach the secret realm, but Xue Li’s urgent warning left him facing new trouble.

• Ye Qingshuang and Ye Qingxuan saw Yan Ji stain Ye Yu’s blood on a White Spirit Fruit, revealing the likely truth behind Ye Qingshuang’s failed pill refinement and Ye Yu’s imprisonment.
• Ye Qingxuan decided they should stop watching and review the Memory Stone with Eldest Sister.
• Qin Han objected to Ye Yu’s presence and argued that a curfew would improve safety and increase the population and number of cultivators.
• Ye Yu warned Qin Wushuang that encouraging childbirth without securing the common people’s livelihoods could lead to starvation, and Qin Wushuang dismissed Qin Han.
• Ye Yu told Qin Wushuang he would wait a few days before approaching the secret realm, and Qin Wushuang called him his son-in-law.
• Xue Li warned Ye Yu that something bad had happened.

Ye Yu learned that Ye Qingwan had been placed under house arrest over her marriage agreement with Zhou Li, but he refused to help her and focused on preparing pills. Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang watched a Memory Stone recording that revealed Ye Fan had ordered Ye Qingwan and Ye Qingxuan to marry Zhou Li, and Ye Yu's unexpected response was about to be revealed.

• Xue Li told Ye Yu that Ye Qingwan had tried to leave Great Yan, been caught, and placed under house arrest, but Ye Yu told him not to help her.
• Ye Yu began refining pills for an upcoming secret realm and spent two days preparing them.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang returned to the palace and found Ye Qingwan's residence stripped and guarded, with Ye Qingwan distressed and injured.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang showed Ye Qingwan a Memory Stone recording of Ye Yu and Gao Qun discussing the marriage alliance.
• Gao Qun told Ye Yu that Ye Fan had ordered Ye Qingwan and Ye Qingxuan to marry Zhou Li, and the three women reacted with shock and anger.

Ye Yu defied Ye Fan’s demand to use his sisters as bargaining chips, leaving Ye Qingwan and Ye Qingxuan devastated by their realization of how he had protected them. As Ye Qingshuang set out to bring Ye Yu back, he traveled toward the Wilderness Secret Realm with the Great Qin group and encountered a mysterious woman seeking him.

• Ye Yu threatened Gao Qun and refused to let anyone harm his Imperial Sisters, forcing Gao Qun to leave without resolving the dispute.
• Ye Qingwan realized Ye Yu had secretly supported her regency and wept over how she had mistreated him; Ye Qingxuan also collapsed in guilt over accusing him of being a Devil Race spy.
• Ye Qingshuang decided that only Ye Yu could save Ye Qingwan and Ye Qingxuan, and left to bring him back.
• Ye Yu departed for the Wilderness Secret Realm with Situ Guang, Qin Ruoxian, Qin Xiong, and Qin Yue aboard a flying ship.
• A woman in purple stopped the ship and demanded to see Ye Yu, then grew cold and unleashed spiritual energy when Situ Guang called him the Imperial Son-in-law.

Ye Yu met Elder Ziyun, renewed their wager over the Dao of Heartlessness, and agreed to prove his point in one month. After reaching Bianhuang City, he sought a powerful sword from his past life, but the stall owner refused to sell it because of what he supposedly did to Liu Ruyan.

• Elder Ziyun confronted Situ Guang, then challenged Ye Yu over his promise and criticized him for being bound by love.
• Ye Yu vowed to find Ziyun in one month and let her travel with the group aboard the flying vessel.
• Two days later, Ye Yu and the others arrived in Bianhuang City, where Qin Ruoxian trusted Ye Yu enough not to question him about Ziyun.
• Ye Yu went to the trading fair to find a sword he remembered from his previous life and spotted it at a stall.
• The female stall owner recognized Ye Yu, refused to do business with him, and accused him of mistreating Liu Ruyan.

Ye Yu confronted people in Bianhuang City who blamed him for abandoning Liu Ruyan, then exposed details that challenged their story. Back at the inn, he uncovered the Purple Firmament Sword beneath a coating of devil blood and claimed it, while the distant Purple Firmament Sword Sect fell into chaos.

• A stall owner accused Ye Yu of abandoning Liu Ruyan, and Ye Yu used his late Golden Core Stage aura to silence the crowd before buying her sword for five hundred spirit stones.
• Feng Qing'er confronted Ye Yu over his treatment of Liu Ruyan, and he challenged her claims by bringing up Liu Ruyan's closeness with Xiao Xuan and Feng Qing'er's future Imperial Son-in-law.
• Ye Yu released Killing Intent at Feng Qing'er, causing her to collapse before she fled as he left for the inn.
• Ye Yu examined the black sword and used the Small Cauldron to remove its coating, revealing devil blood and the name Zi Xiao on the purple blade.
• Ye Yu branded the Purple Firmament Sword with his mark without noticing a flash of black light, while the Purple Firmament Sword Sect fell into chaos thousands of miles away.

The Purple Firmament Sword reappeared, prompting the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s Grand Elder to send Qing Xuzi to find it. Meanwhile, Liu Ruyan led Qingyun Sect cultivators to confront Ye Yu at an inn, where Zi Yun struck her down, and Liu Ruyan appealed to arriving sect members for help.

• The Purple Firmament Sword’s emergence caused ten thousand swords to rise before the Grand Elder calmed them and ordered Qing Xuzi to locate the sword.
• Liu Ruyan arrived at the inn with Feng Qing'er, Ye Xuan, and a crowd of cultivators, accusing Ye Yu of bullying Qingqing and betraying her.
• Qin Ruoxian drew her Autumn Water Sword and attacked Liu Ruyan, but a cultivator blocked the strike; Liu Ruyan then accused Ye Yu of heartlessness.
• Zi Yun appeared and struck Liu Ruyan, sending her crashing to the ground, while the assembled cultivators stayed silent.
• Liu Ruyan spotted Qingyun Sect members approaching and ran to them, demanding that they seek justice for her.

Lin Jingfeng arrived at the inn seeking Ye Yu’s help for Yan Ruyu, only to discover Liu Ruyan had deceived Qingyun Sect by claiming to be Ye Yu’s fiancée. After Ye Yu rejected her and Qingyun Sect abandoned her, the cultivators dragged Liu Ruyan outside, where someone suddenly ordered them to stop.

• Lin Jingfeng confronted the inn’s occupants, then eagerly approached Ye Yu and explained Qingyun Sect needed his help for Yan Ruyu.
• Liu Ruyan insisted she was Ye Yu’s fiancée, but Ye Yu blasted her away and denied their engagement.
• Feng Qing’er tried to defend Liu Ruyan, who then grabbed for the Autumn Water Sword; Ye Yu made it return to Qin Ruoxian.
• Lin Jingfeng apologized to Ye Yu, revealed his understanding that Liu Ruyan had deceived Qingyun Sect, and took the sect emblem from her before leaving.
• The cultivators surrounded Liu Ruyan, and Ye Yu allowed them to take her outside after receiving a nod from Situ Guang.
• A voice suddenly shouted “Stop!” after Liu Ruyan was dragged outside.

Ye Yu prepared to enter the secret realm while plotting to use Liu Ruyan’s attachment to Wu Lei against the Wu Dynasty. When Blood Origin Miasma poured from the entrance, Ye Qingshuang offered protective pills, but Ye Yu destroyed a bottle and insulted her pills, leaving their conflict poised to escalate.

• Ye Yu told Qin Ruoxian that he hoped Wu Lei would come so Liu Ruyan could entangle him and weaken the Wu Dynasty, then suppressed his spiritual power rather than risk an uncertain breakthrough.
• As the spatial storm weakened, Ye Yu and Qin Ruoxian joined the crowds heading toward the secret realm, and Ye Yu warned her to stay close because he sensed something was wrong.
• Ye Xuan gave Liu Ruyan a Blood Refinement Great Method, while Ye Qingshuang arrived and planned to speak with Ye Yu inside the secret realm.
• Blood Origin Miasma seeped from the passage and dissolved nearby cultivators, so Ye Qingshuang distributed third-grade Clear Heart Pills to help people resist it.
• Ye Xuan tossed Ye Qingshuang’s pills to Ye Yu, but Ye Yu shattered the bottle and called the pills trash, prompting Ye Qingshuang to confront him.

Ye Yu and his companions entered the Blood Origin Miasma secret realm, but a restriction forced Nascent Soul experts back and scattered the entrants. After Ye Yu reached the realm alone and fought off blood corpses, he left Ye Qingshuang to face a swarm and she called for his help.

• Ye Yu traded Zi Yun a Miasma Breaking Pill for her help, allowing him and his companions to enter the Blood Origin Miasma.
• A spatial force separated Ye Yu from Qin Ruoxian and kept Zi Yun, Situ Guang, and other Nascent Soul experts out of the realm, prompting them to send warnings across the Qingyunlei Three States.
• Ye Yu arrived alone in the mountains, found a palace in the distance, and fought off blood corpses emerging from beneath the rocks.
• Ye Yu recognized the corpses as victims of Nine Nether Blood Qi and sensed more beneath the ground.
• Ye Qingshuang arrived and accused Ye Yu of being bloodthirsty, but he ignored her and followed the direction of the Autumn Water Sword.
• Blood corpses grabbed Ye Qingshuang and swarmed her, and she shouted for Ye Yu to come back and help her.

Ye Yu found Qin Ruoxian gravely injured in a cave after discovering that blood corpses had overwhelmed the area, while Ye Qingshuang followed him despite their bitter dispute over their mother's death. He sealed Ye Qingshuang and began refining medicine for Qin Ruoxian, leaving Ye Qingshuang stunned by his apparent alchemy skill.

• Ye Yu used Spiritual Seals to trace Qin Ruoxian, while Ye Qingshuang escaped blood corpses and caught up with him.
• Ye Yu reached a cave surrounded by more than a hundred blood corpses and killed them, including several at the Nascent Soul Realm, with the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Ye Qingshuang accused Ye Yu of causing their mother's death by stopping her from giving their mother a pill, but Ye Yu refused to argue.
• Ye Yu entered the cave and found Qin Ruoxian badly injured and still holding the Autumn Water Sword.
• Ye Qingshuang offered her master's Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill if Ye Yu would return with her to save Eldest Sister and Second Sister, but Ye Yu restrained and silenced her.
• Ye Yu brought out an alchemy furnace and began refining medicinal ingredients, astonishing Ye Qingshuang with his technique.

Ye Yu saved Qin Ruoxian by refining a sixth-rank pill, shocking Ye Qingshuang into reconsidering the truth about her mother’s death. The group reached the Sacred Pill Sect ruins, where Ye Yu discovered the sect-protecting formation was still active.

• Ye Yu refined a sixth-rank pill and used it to heal Qin Ruoxian, while Ye Qingshuang realized the pill she had made for her mother had never fully formed.
• Ye Qingshuang feared that her failed pill had caused her mother’s death, and Ye Yu chose not to comfort her as Nine Nether Blood Qi began rotting her wounds.
• Ye Yu stopped Qin Ruoxian from attacking Ye Qingshuang, then led them toward the palace at the heart of the mountain.
• Ye Yu secretly used the Small Cauldron to absorb Nine Nether Blood Qi from Qin Yue and Qin Xiong when they arrived at the palace gates.
• The group discovered the ruins belonged to the Sacred Pill Sect, and Ye Xuan declared that its alchemy inheritance was suited to Ye Qingshuang.
• A mid Golden Core cultivator rushed toward the palace and was reduced to ashes by the still-active sect-protecting grand formation.

Ye Yu warned that Sacred Pill Sect's worn sect-protecting formation might be sealing the Nine Nether Blood Spring, but Ye Xuan broke it despite his concerns. The formation's collapse released a wave of Nine Nether Blood Qi that rushed toward the group at the mountain's foot.

• Ye Yu examined the formation and told Ye Xuan that breaking it could bring a danger they could not withstand.
• Ye Xuan offered Ye Yu the leading position if he helped break the formation, and Ye Yu accepted the offer, embarrassing Ye Xuan when no one objected.
• Ye Xuan and several formation experts worked together to dissolve the sect-protecting formation while Ye Yu and Qin Ruoxian stood back.
• The formation collapsed, and Liu Ruyan mocked Ye Yu for warning them about danger.
• Ye Qingshuang recognized red mist surging from the forest as Nine Nether Blood Qi as it swept toward the group.

Ye Yu and the others cleared the weak Nine Nether Blood Qi and discovered the Ascending Heaven Staircase, which tested their aptitude for entering the Sacred Pill Sect. Outside the secret realm, the major powers used the Sky-Gazing Mirror to watch as the entrants climbed, and Ye Fan proudly saw one person reach the seven-hundredth step.

• Ye Yu realized the Nine Nether Blood Qi was only a leaking remnant, and Ye Xuan led the gathered cultivators in pushing it away from the mountain gate.
• The first person to step onto the stone staircase revealed the jade-white Ascending Heaven Staircase, which Qin Ruoxian identified as the Sacred Pill Sect's test of talent.
• Ye Fan and the other leaders gathered outside the secret realm, and Leng Qianqiu activated the Sky-Gazing Mirror with their combined spiritual power.
• The leaders saw the Sacred Pill Sect ruins and agreed to watch rather than risk endangering those inside by breaking the seal.
• Ye Yu, Qin Ruoxian, and the others climbed the staircase, where pressure sealed their spiritual power and eliminated many of them.
• Someone reached the seven-hundredth step, and Ye Fan recognized him and said the brat had finally not let him down.