Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu helped keep the Haotian Mirror in Murong Xue’s hands, but the factions around them began eyeing her as the key to controlling it. In the stone tower, Ye Yu admitted that he had killed Murong Chen and urged Murong Xue to cooperate, revealing three fragments of the mirror.

• Lei Dong and the Ninth Elder recovered the Haotian Mirror from the stone tower, but neither could activate it with their spiritual power.
• Ye Yu and Murong Xue convinced the others that only the Murong family bloodline could use the mirror, and it briefly lit up when Murong Xue picked it up before draining her spiritual power.
• The Ninth Elder considered taking Murong Xue and the mirror by force, but abandoned the idea after noticing Li Daoyi’s presence.
• The cultivators sealed the cave entrance and sent the others to rest in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion while the four Mahayana Stage cultivators discussed what to do.
• Murong Xue asked Ye Yu how her grandfather had died, and Ye Yu told her that he had killed Murong Chen.
• Ye Yu told Murong Xue to cooperate or watch the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion be destroyed, then revealed three fragments of the Haotian Mirror in his palm.

Ye Yu secured Murong Xue's cooperation by offering to preserve the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and the Haotian Mirror, though she vowed to kill him if she ever could. The Pavilion left its hidden dwelling for the Central Province under the four Mahayana cultivators' control, while the fate of the village's mortals remained uncertain.

• Ye Yu persuaded Murong Xue to cooperate by promising that the Haotian Mirror would stay with her and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion could leave the cave dwelling.
• Murong Xue confronted Ye Yu about killing her grandfather, then vowed to kill him if she got the chance; Ye Yu warned that he would kill her once she was no longer useful.
• The four Mahayana cultivators agreed to relocate the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and keep the Haotian Mirror with Murong Xue, placing restrictions on her to prevent her escape.
• Li Daoyi and the other three led the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion away, while the others returned to the village.
• Zheng Xiang looked down at the village and wondered where its mortals would go as Demonic Beasts gathered without cultivators to protect them.

Ye Yu tried to take Wang Xiong somewhere safe, but Jiang Taibai insisted that Wang Xiong should choose for himself. After Zheng Xiang proposed moving Wang Xiong out of Central Province, Jiang Taibai agreed to send him away.

• Ye Yu and Zheng Xiang arrived at Wang Xiong's hut and found him speaking with Jiang Taibai.
• Ye Yu tried to take Wang Xiong away, but Jiang Taibai shattered Ye Yu's spiritual light and insisted Wang Xiong decide for himself.
• Ye Yu explained that Wang Xiong's connection to Wang Yue made it dangerous for him to remain in Central Province or return to the Wang Family.
• Zheng Xiang suggested sending Wang Xiong out of Central Province so he could live in seclusion, and Jiang Taibai agreed.

Ye Chenxiang and Wang Xiong argued over whether to return to the Wang Family, then agreed to cooperate and leave Central Province. Ye Yu met his grandmother Guan Yunlan in Feng Qiwen’s hut, accepted her jade talisman, and was interrupted by an angry voice condemning the Xu Family.

• Ye Yu told Jiang Taibai to stay away from his sister and went to check on Feng Qiwen.
• Ye Chenxiang told Jiang Taibai to take her and Wang Xiong when he left, then argued with Wang Xiong about returning to the Wang Family.
• Wang Xiong and Ye Chenxiang agreed to cooperate for Jiang Taibai’s benefit and leave Central Province for their child’s sake.
• Ye Yu found Guan Yunlan in Feng Qiwen’s hut, rejected her attempt to treat him as family, and warned her to stay away.
• Guan Yunlan asked about Ye Yu’s mother, learned she was alive, and gave Ye Yu a jade talisman for emergencies.
• An angry voice behind Guan Yunlan shouted that the Xu Family had gone too far.

Ye Yu took Feng Qiwen to a secluded cave to nurture the Purple Firmament Sword and prepare to break through into the Integration stage. He persuaded the Dragon Phoenix spirit to become the sword’s spirit, leaving the Cauldron Spirit to deal with the sealed Kunpeng spirit and Dan Chenzi’s divine soul.

• Guan Yunlan confronted Jiang Taibai and Zheng Xiang over their interference with the Xu family’s servant, and Ye Yu asked her to let the servant stay.
• Jiang Taibai explained that Ye Yu was cooperating with the Xu family to avoid bringing trouble upon his master, while Zheng Xiang rejected his cautious outlook and left.
• Ye Yu found a Fire Cloud Bird’s cave dwelling, bound the bird to stand guard outside, and set up an isolation formation.
• Inside the Void Sky Cauldron, Ye Yu asked the recovered Dragon Phoenix spirit to become his sword spirit, and it agreed.
• Ye Yu told the Cauldron Spirit to restore Dan Chenzi’s divine soul and left with Dragon Phoenix, which entered the Purple Firmament Sword.

Ye Yu waited for the Purple Firmament Sword and Dragon-Phoenix Spirit to fuse while preparing to subdue his Chaos Nascent Soul. Lin Qingyue worried about accepting Ye Yu's help with her Heavenly Profound Ice Spirit Body, and Lin Qingcang decided to seek him out; two months later, the Fire Cloud Bird warned that the Lin Family was due to collect its source beastfire.

• Ye Yu stopped advancing his cultivation and tempered his soul while the Purple Firmament Sword and Dragon-Phoenix Spirit began to fuse.
• Lin Qingcang warned Lin Qingyue that her Heavenly Profound Ice Spirit Body was endangering her and that she could not defeat Ye Chengjun.
• Lin Qingyue told Lin Qingcang that Ye Yu could absorb her cold energy, but she feared Qin Ruoxian's motives and the consequences for the Lin Family.
• Lin Qingcang decided to find Ye Yu because Lin Qingyue needed to resolve her condition before the passage above the Divine Continent opened.
• Two months later, Ye Yu prepared to subdue his Nascent Soul as the Purple Firmament Sword's fusion neared completion.
• The Fire Cloud Bird told Feng Qiwen that the Lin Family was due to collect its source beastfire, which it had been unable to restore.

Ye Yu’s Purple Firmament Sword completed its transformation into a Law Tier magic treasure, forcing him to flee the cave abode after its Dragon Phoenix apparition stirred the mountain range. He then used the sword to shatter the Autumn Water Sword Intent within himself, but the chapter left the cause of the Autumn Water Sword’s sudden pause—and Ye Yu’s cry of “Mother?!”—unexplained.

• The Purple Firmament Sword transformed into a Law Tier magic treasure, and its Dragon Phoenix apparition made the Demonic Beasts across the mountain range bow in fear.
• Ye Yu left the damaged cave abode with Feng Qiwen, while Fire Cloud Bird returned to its flaming jade stone and was burned to ashes.
• Ye Yu hid his spiritual root in a puppet, entered the Void Sky Cauldron, and summoned the Autumn Water Sword Intent from his body.
• Ye Yu used the Purple Firmament Sword and the Dragon Phoenix to attack the Autumn Water Sword Intent while suppressing the sword inside his Ring of Holding, which began to crack.
• The Autumn Water Sword Intent and the sword in the ring briefly froze, allowing the Purple Firmament Sword to shatter the Intent; the sword in the ring fell silent, and Ye Yu cried, “Mother?!”

Ye Yu merged with the Purple Firmament Sword and subdued his Nascent Soul by relying on the sword’s power and breaking free from instinct. As he emerged from seclusion, an Integration Tribulation gathered over the valley, where the Xu family’s Ninth Elder arrived and considered Ye Yu as a possible guardian for the Xu family.

• Xu Yunxi told Po Jun that she was acting as Xiao Yu’s mother and warned that none of them would escape the consequences.
• Ye Yu merged Zi Xiao into his body, making the Purple Firmament Sword his natal magic treasure, and began absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.
• Ye Yu fought his Karma-powered Nascent Soul with Zi Xiao’s help, then defeated it by breaking free from instinct and absorbed its spiritual light.
• After several months, Feng Qiwen saw the Xu family’s Ninth Elder emerge from a spatial rift and tried to flee with Ye Yu’s puppet.
• The Ninth Elder watched a blood-red lightning tribulation gather over Ye Yu and recognized it as an Integration Tribulation.

As Ye Yu attempted to break through to the Body Integration Realm, the Lin family and the Ninth Elder of the Xu family gathered to witness his terrifying tribulation. Ye Yu faced a heart demon rooted in his past life, which challenged whether he had truly let go as the Annihilation Divine Thunder gathered above.

• Several Lin family Clan Elders arrived and recognized Ye Yu, but the Ninth Elder of the Xu family warned them not to interfere with his tribulation.
• Lin Qingcang and Lin Qingyue appeared, and Lin Qingyue deduced that Ye Yu was Xu Yunxi's child before informing Lin Qingcang.
• The onlookers recognized the scarlet lightning as Annihilation Divine Thunder, while Ye Yu remained seated beneath it.
• Ye Yu vomited blood as a heart demon emerged, showing him his past-life self and the people who had mocked him before his death.
• Ye Yu rejected the heart demon's accusations and attacked it with the Purple Firmament Sword, but it urged him to face his past self or give up and die.

Ye Yu survived the Annihilation Divine Thunder by using the Dragon Phoenix Spirit’s Nirvana Rebirth, reaching the Body Integration Realm and severing his Ye and Xu family bloodlines. As the Ninth Elder invited him to return to the Xu family, Lin Qingcang stepped in to ask him for help.

• Ye Yu trapped and destroyed his inner demon with Dragon Phoenix Fire as the Annihilation Divine Thunder descended.
• Ye Yu endured the tribulation’s lightning until his blood was exhausted, while Lin Qingcang and the Ninth Elder believed he would die.
• Ye Yu opened himself to the final bolt, then revived through Nirvana Rebirth and the Immortal Fire.
• Ye Yu’s rebirth erased his Ye and Xu family bloodlines, and the Xu family ring began to slip from his finger.
• The Ninth Elder invited Ye Yu to return to the Xu family, but Lin Qingcang interrupted and asked him for help.

Ye Yu returned to the Xu family with the Ninth Elder, who planned to nurture him and address his inner demon. He reunited with Guan Yunlan and revealed that he came from Azure Prefecture, the Great Yu Dynasty, leaving her questions about Xu Yunxi and his father unanswered.

• Lin Qingcang asked the Ninth Elder to lend Ye Yu's Immortal Fire to resolve Lin Qingyue's condition, but she postponed it until after the Great Family Competition.
• The Ninth Elder brought Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen to the Xu family, where Xu Yunting agreed to nurture Ye Yu if he and other outsiders pledged lasting loyalty to the family.
• Feng Qiwen took Ye Yu to the small courtyard, where Guan Yunlan welcomed him and noticed that she could no longer sense their bloodline connection.
• Ye Yu showed Guan Yunlan Xu Yunxi's Purple Crystal Ring and Autumn Water Sword, and she sensed Xu Yunxi's spiritual energy on the sword.
• When Guan Yunlan asked where Xu Yunxi was and who Ye Yu's father was, Ye Yu said he came from Azure Prefecture, the Great Yu Dynasty.

Ye Yu confronted the Cauldron Spirit, revealing that he believed the spirit was human and trapped within destiny, just like the Defier of Fate it sought to help. After the Void Sky Cauldron expelled Ye Yu's consciousness, he concluded that it and Mother were also subject to destiny and began to suspect that destiny relied on human nature.

• Guan Yunlan ordered a servant to investigate the Great Yu Dynasty in Azure Prefecture after Ye Yu returned to the small house.
• Ye Yu told the Cauldron Spirit that it had lost its freedom after Mother shattered the Autumn Water Sword intent within him, and the spirit failed to leave or kill him.
• Ye Yu argued that the Cauldron Spirit was human and that its repeated failures showed it was already trapped within destiny.
• The Cauldron Spirit erupted in anger and forced Ye Yu's consciousness out of the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Yu concluded that the Void Sky Cauldron and Mother were within destiny's reach, then wondered whether destiny's purpose was to propel human nature.

Ye Yu tried to understand his inner demon while Guan Yunlan confronted Xu Yunting over Ye Yu’s past and then pledged to protect him. When the Ninth Elder presented Ye Yu with a master-servant contract, Guan Yunlan refused to let him sign it, and the dispute remained unresolved.

• Ye Yu spent several days trying to crush his inner demon, but the black aura between his brows grew denser.
• Guan Yunlan confronted Xu Yunting after learning how Ye Yu had been treated in Azure Prefecture, then went to comfort Ye Yu and promised to protect him.
• Ye Yu realized Guan Yunlan’s support could give him protection within the Xu family and briefly sensed a key to breaking through his inner demon.
• The Ninth Elder brought Ye Yu a master-servant contract and ordered him to sign it, but Guan Yunlan took it and objected.
• Guan Yunlan refused to let Ye Yu sign, while the Ninth Elder argued that the Xu family needed outside strength and reminded her of Xinru’s participation in the Great Family Competition.

Ye Yu learned how Xinru died after the Xu Family kept her in a deadly competition, and Guan Yunlan showed him the family to discourage anyone from harming him. He sensed the Xu Family’s Earthly Immortal and was suddenly brought before the mysterious old man in the ancestral grounds.

• Guan Yunlan confronted the Ninth Elder over the Xu Family’s role in Xinru’s death, then took Ye Yu on a tour to show the family that she favored him.
• Ye Yu sensed a powerful presence in the ancestral grounds and learned that the Xu Family’s guardian object was a withered hand tied to its Bloodline Power and curse.
• Ye Yu reasoned that his mother had recovered the guardian object but had not returned it, suggesting she had another hidden plan.
• After Guan Yunlan left to repair the Spring Charm Sword, Ye Yu destroyed the courtyard gate when an unseen visitor knocked.
• A kindly elderly man appeared, transported Ye Yu to the ancestral grounds, and revealed himself as the Xu Family’s Earthly Immortal.

Ye Yu rejected the old man's offer to teach him and asked for help advancing his soul power. The old man gave him advice about calming his mind, and Ye Yu settled into meditation while the old man privately wondered whether he had bluffed him.

• The old man told Ye Yu he had chosen him to learn peerless arts, but Ye Yu declined and tried to leave.
• The old man restrained Ye Yu, then released him and pleaded for a chance to teach him.
• Ye Yu asked how to advance his soul power from the peak of the Heaven Realm to the Law Tier before the Great Family Competition.
• The old man advised Ye Yu to focus on becoming better rather than anxiously chasing what he wanted, then disappeared.
• Ye Yu understood the advice, bowed, and sat down to meditate in the Xu family ancestral grounds.
• Hidden behind a grave mound, the old man admitted he knew nothing about soul power and wondered whether Ye Yu had mistaken his words for wisdom.

The Xu Family agreed to open the Great Family Competition to invited factions, setting off a scramble across Central Province as the Ye Family backed Ye Chengjun to dominate. Half a month later, the old man mocked Xu Yunting’s assumptions about the Xu Family’s ancestors and explained why he lived like a mortal.

• Xu Ce persuaded Xu Yunting and the Meridian Heads to accept the expanded competition, and Xu Yunting ordered them to recruit young geniuses from across the Divine Continent.
• Kunlun and Penglai contacted the Wang and Lin Families, while the Ye Family Patriarch dismissed the threat and declared that Ye Chengjun could not be defeated.
• Qin Ruoxian told Kong Yue to wait for the person she was expecting, and said Yaochi would compete independently if that person did not come.
• Half a month later, the old man urinated on an unknown grave in the Xu Family ancestral grounds and told Xu Yunting that his brother was buried there.
• The old man rebuked Xu Yunting for judging what he did not understand and said that living like a mortal made his long life meaningful.

Ye Yu completed his divine soul’s transformation and learned that the Xu family had captured the Fat Monk to recruit his strength. The Fat Monk discovered Gu Qianqian’s capture was meant to control him, but Ye Yu warned that a master-servant contract could force him to break his vows.

• Xu Yunting gave the restored Spring Charm Sword to the old man and admitted he wanted to use Xinru’s remnant soul to control Li Daoyi for the Xu family.
• Ye Yu awakened after half a month and completed his transformation into a Law Tier divine soul.
• Ye Yu returned to the Xu family grounds and found the Fat Monk, Gong Jiuxiao, who said the Xu family had captured him and taken Gu Qianqian.
• Ye Yu reassured the Fat Monk that Gu Qianqian would be kept safe to control him, and the Fat Monk resumed eating.
• Ye Yu warned the Fat Monk that a master-servant contract could force him to break his vows, leaving the Fat Monk asking what he should do.

Ye Yu recruited the Fat Monk and learned that his heart demon might stem from an idea he could not let go of, while the Calming Incantation temporarily eased it. As the Great Family Competition began, Ye Yu joined the Xu family delegation heading to Heavenly Abyss, while Xu Yunxi left Yan Shang Cave Mansion despite Po Jun's warning.

• Ye Yu offered the Fat Monk a master-servant contract, and the Fat Monk signed after Ye Yu promised not to force him to break his vows.
• Guan Yunlan confirmed the contract and intimidated the Fat Monk, while Ye Yu explained his unusual position in the Xu family.
• The Fat Monk identified Ye Yu's heart demon as an obsession and gave him a Calming Incantation, which Ye Yu used to suppress it temporarily.
• When the Great Family Competition approached, Ye Yu greeted Xu Yunting and Guan Yunlan as his grandparents and joined their group traveling to Heavenly Abyss.
• Xu Yunxi sensed something from within Yan Shang Cave Mansion and walked out despite Po Jun warning her that she would regret it.

Xu Yunxi sought comfort from Weng Buyu's fortune-telling before departing, while Yan Hongshuang remained in Azure Prefecture. The Xu family arrived at Heavenly Abyss for the Great Family Competition, where Ye Yu stared into the abyss and seemed to see a giant hand reaching for him.

• Xu Yunxi vanished from Po Jun's sight, leaving him laughing alone in Yan Shang Cave Mansion.
• Weng Buyu urged Yan Hongshuang to visit Central Prefecture, but she said she had accepted that her feelings for Ye Yu would come to nothing.
• Xu Yunxi asked Weng Buyu to read the character “feather,” and his reading suggested she wished to protect someone while carrying deep sorrow.
• Xu Yunxi told Weng Buyu that the outcome depended on whether he would let her believe in fate, then left.
• The Xu family arrived at Heavenly Abyss, where Xu Yunting exchanged barbs with Ye Huang before Lin Qingcang called them to drink.
• Ye Yu stood beside Heavenly Abyss and seemed to see a giant hand slowly reaching up from its depths.

Ye Yu rejected Guan Yunlan’s appeal for family affection and waited at the Heavenly Abyss for the Great Family Competition to begin. As the factions gathered, he recognized that the Ye Family had joined forces with the royal clan and warned Fat Monk not to act rashly.

• Guan Yunlan compared Ye Yu’s distrust of family to his fear of the Heavenly Abyss, but Ye Yu said he would rather give up affection than fear losing it.
• Ye Yu failed to contact Murong Xue, then drank with Fat Monk while invited sects arrived for the Great Family Competition.
• Zheng Xiang told Ye Yu to find him in the ancient battlefield, while Kunlun and Penglai openly aligned with the Wang and Lin Families.
• Qin Ruoxian brought Yaochi to the competition but did not join either side, disappointing Xu Yunting.
• As the competition neared, Ye Yu noticed that many Ye Family members had strangely colored eyes and concluded that they had sought out the royal clan.
• Ye Yu told Fat Monk not to act rashly after realizing the other families appeared to have tacitly permitted the Ye Family’s alliance.