Chapter Summaries

Han Yi revealed that her family had guarded a statue containing the Acquired Breathing Technique, which she passed to Ye Yu as the inheritor of the Innate Breathing Technique. While Ye Yu studied it in seclusion, Ye Xuan won the second round of the Alchemy Convention and taunted the Purple Firmament Sword Sect about his absent imperial brother.

• Gu Yuan left the plaza with killing intent toward Ye Yu after the Alchemist Alliance declined to invite him.
• Han Yi showed Ye Yu a statue of Daoist Tian Yuan and explained that her ancestors had been instructed to give it to an inheritor of the Innate Breathing Technique.
• Ye Yu began studying the Acquired Breathing Technique, and Han Yi set up an isolation formation around him.
• The second round of the Alchemy Convention began, and Ye Xuan won with his pill, receiving a Rank 7 pill formula from Xuan Lin.
• Gu Yuan paid Teng Ying five million spirit stones toward their wager, promising to pay the rest later.
• Ye Xuan told Lingyunzi that Ye Yu need not take it hard if his alchemy was inferior and offered to provide him with pills.

Ye Xuan learned that Ye Yu had won the Alchemy Convention, while Ye Yu left Han Yi’s residence after warning her about the Acquired Breathing Technique. Disguised as Xu Wangchen, Ye Yu emerged from the Alchemy Alliance and faced a tense confrontation involving the Purple Firmament and Nine Spirits Sword Sects.

• Ye Xuan offered to introduce Gu Yuan as Ye Yu’s alchemy teacher, but Gu Yuan refused to teach him.
• Teng Ying revealed that Ye Yu was the Alchemy Convention champion, and the city’s posted results confirmed it; Ye Xuan questioned the results and fled under hostile stares.
• Ye Yu finished comprehending Daoist Tian Yuan’s statue, and Han Yi dismissed their connection and told him to leave.
• Ye Yu warned Han Yi against cultivating the Acquired Breathing Technique, resisted her divine soul pressure, and left the Alchemy Alliance disguised as Xu Wangchen.
• Lin Qingyang approached Ye Yu with a crowd, prompting hidden experts from the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and Nine Spirits Sword Sect to reveal their hostility.
• Ye Xuan called out, asking what the Purple Firmament Sword Sect was doing and declaring Ye Yu his sworn elder brother.

After the Alchemy Convention, the Nine Spirits Sect Master sent Xu Wangchen to Sword Peak, taking the opportunity from Ye Xuan to strengthen the sect against Ye Yu. Ye Xuan secretly planted Blood Refinement Essence in Ye Qingling and sent her to visit Xu Wangchen, where demonic qi began seeping into him.

• Ye Xuan brought Ye Yu to Gu Yuan, who questioned how Ye Yu had entered the Alchemy Alliance hall before sending him back to report to the sect.
• Three days later, Ye Xuan told the Nine Spirits Sect Master that Ye Yu excelled in both alchemy and cultivation, prompting the Sect Master to assign Ye Xuan to focus on alchemy and Xu Wangchen to enter Sword Peak.
• Ye Xuan resented losing his promised Sword Peak opportunity, while Ye Yu accepted the Sect Master's instructions and returned to his cave residence.
• Ye Xuan found that Ye Qingling had not practiced the Blood Refinement Great Method, then secretly injected Blood Refinement Essence into her and encouraged her to visit Xu Wangchen.
• Ye Qingling went to Ye Yu's cave residence, where Ye Yu sensed the Blood Demon Race's aura on her as demonic qi began entering his body.

Ye Yu discovered that Ye Qingling carried Blood Refinement Essence and used its aura to accelerate his cultivation while keeping her close. Ye Qingling began to recognize that Xu Wangchen and Ye Xuan were using her, and she remembered how Ye Yu had truly cared for her.

• Ye Yu recognized the Blood Refinement Essence inside Ye Qingling, tested whether his Chaos Spiritual Energy could refine its aura, and found it useful as nourishment.
• Ye Yu let Ye Qingling stay and cultivate near his cave, removed the restraint in her body, and gave her spirit fruits and spirit stones as her cultivation advanced.
• Ye Xuan was pleased that Ye Qingling stayed with Xu Wangchen, expecting the Blood Refinement Essence to ruin him and help Ye Xuan regain standing in the sect.
• Ye Qingling grew close to Xu Wangchen and asked him to become her brother, but Ye Yu sent her flying and told her to cultivate instead of thinking about things she should not.
• After Ye Yu returned to his cave, Ye Qingling recalled his past care for her and began to suspect that Ye Xuan and Xu Wangchen were using her.

Ye Yu manipulated Ye Xuan’s false claim that he had yielded the Sword Peak slot, forcing him to admit the truth before the Nine Spirits Sect Master. Ye Xuan tried to take responsibility, but a disciple immediately cursed him.

• Ye Qingling cultivated for three days while Ye Yu focused on preparing himself to enter Sword Peak.
• After receiving the Nine Spirits Sect Master’s message, Ye Yu went to the main hall, where Ye Xuan and the disciples confronted him about the Sword Peak slot.
• Ye Yu acted as though he believed Ye Xuan had given him the slot, then announced that he would give it up.
• Ye Xuan stopped Ye Yu from leaving and insisted the slot was his, claiming Ye Yu was more talented than him.
• When the Nine Spirits Sect Master arrived, Ye Yu asked him to return the slot to Ye Xuan, and Ye Xuan admitted he had not yielded it.
• Ye Xuan knelt and offered to accept blame, but a disciple angrily cursed him.

Ye Yu entered the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground, where the Sect Master of the Nine Spirits Sword Sect and Gu Yuan revealed they knew his identity and planned to use him as a sacrifice while concealing the truth. Inside, Ye Yu encountered an Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and spotted what might be a missing Void Sky Cauldron fragment, before familiar blood energy began seeping from a crack.

• Ye Xuan was blamed by the crowd for stirring up trouble, while the Sect Master of the Nine Spirits Sword Sect led Ye Yu away.
• Gu Yuan confirmed to the Sect Master that Xu Wangchen was actually Ye Yu, and the Sect Master ordered the secret kept and planned to take Ye Xuan to Sword Peak as well.
• Ye Yu realized the sealed staircase led into the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground, sensed the Void Sky Cauldron responding to something, and descended with the Glazed Sword.
• Ye Yu encountered an Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast bound by chains and fought off its attacks, suffering a wound to his shoulder.
• Ye Yu noticed a green-bronze piece embedded in the beast's forehead that might be a missing fragment of the Void Sky Cauldron.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast turned toward a crack as familiar blood energy seeped out, and Ye Yu fixed his attention on it.

Ye Yu bargained with the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast for its green bronze fragment in exchange for freeing it from the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground. Outside, Ji Wuming decided the Purple Firmament Sword Sect would confront the Nine Spirits Sword Sect by accusing Xu Wangchen of stealing the Glazed Sword.

• Ye Yu discovered that the Void Sky Cauldron's power was refining the Nine Nether Blood Qi leaking from the trapped Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast.
• Ye Yu offered to free the beast, and it agreed to give him the green bronze fragment from its forehead.
• Ye Yu stored the fragment and began dissolving the beast's chains, while the two chatted during his exhausting work.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master spread word that Xu Wangchen had entered the Nine Spirits Forbidden Ground, alarming the Purple Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ji Wuming ordered Qing Xuzi and Lingyunzi to accompany him to the Nine Spirits Sword Sect and claimed Xu Wangchen had stolen the Glazed Sword as their pretext.

As Ji Wuming confronted Nine Spirits Sword Sect over the Glazed Sword, Han Yi intervened to stop him from entering the forbidden grounds. Ye Xuan then emerged from Sword Peak amid a vision, comprehending a Heavenly Grade Sword Technique.

• The Nine Spirits Sword Sect gathered to await Ye Xuan’s return from Sword Peak while Ye Qingling worried about Xu Wangchen, who had entered the forbidden grounds.
• Ji Wuming arrived with Qing Xuzi and Lingyunzi and demanded that Nine Spirits Sword Sect return the Glazed Sword, claiming Xu Wangchen had stolen it.
• Ji Wuming pressured the sect and announced that he would enter its forbidden grounds to retrieve the sword after the sect said Xu Wangchen had died there.
• Jing Shuang confronted Ji Wuming, but the Nine Spirits elders did not dare start a fight with him.
• Han Yi warned Ji Wuming that the Alchemy Alliance might reconsider cooperation with Purple Firmament Sword Sect if he intruded.
• Ye Xuan emerged from Sword Peak as the winds and clouds shifted, and the gathered experts recognized that he was comprehending a Heavenly Grade Sword Technique.

Ye Yu emerged from the forbidden grounds after breaking the Nine Spirits Ancestor’s seal, and his sword easily shattered Ye Xuan’s newly mastered Gale Severing Earth Style. With his identity as Xu Wangchen exposed, Han Yi recognized him and Ji Wuming moved to seize him, but Ye Qingling stepped between them to protect him.

• Ye Xuan comprehended the Gale Severing Earth Style, destroyed a massive boulder, and accepted Han Yi’s invitation to join the Alchemy Alliance.
• A blood-red sword radiance burst from the forbidden grounds and defeated Ye Xuan, while the seal’s jade talismans cracked.
• Ye Yu appeared in midair after leaving the forbidden grounds, and the Nine Spirits Sword Sect disciples cheered when they recognized him as Xu Wangchen.
• Han Yi identified Ye Yu by his soul power and saw him as the inner demon preventing her from advancing.
• Ji Wuming accused Ye Yu of stealing the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s treasured artifact and reached for him, but Ye Qingling stepped in front of Ye Yu.

Ye Yu was caught between Ji Wuming’s demand to take him away and the Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s attempt to keep him, while Ye Xuan’s testimony unexpectedly strengthened Ji Wuming’s claim. The sect master exposed Ye Yu’s identity, and the chapter ended with the sect’s experts surrounding him.

• Jing Shuang blocked Ji Wuming’s attack, and Ye Qingling checked on Ye Yu as he wondered why she had acted to protect him.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master called on Ye Xuan to testify about how Xu Wangchen obtained the Glazed Sword, and Ye Xuan said he had not seen Xu Wangchen gain its recognition.
• Ji Wuming used Ye Xuan’s testimony to demand that the Nine Spirits Sword Sect hand Xu Wangchen over, prompting the sect master to declare that Ye Yu would not leave alive.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master revealed that Xu Wangchen was Ye Yu, the Holy Son of the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, and Ye Yu removed the Heaven Shrouding Veil.
• Ye Qingling collapsed in shock, and Ye Xuan erupted in anger before spiritual lights surrounded Ye Yu from every direction.

Ye Yu and his allies fought the Nine Spirits Sword Sect after the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast emerged, while Ye Yu confronted Ye Xuan and Xue Qin. The battle stopped when a blood cloud rose above the back mountain, revealing the Nine Nether Blood Qi.

• Ji Wuming, Qing Xuzi, and Lingyunzi faced the Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s forces, and Ye Yu revealed the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast as an ally.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast attacked the sect’s main hall while Ji Wuming and Jing Shuang began fighting, with Qing Xuzi and Lingyunzi joining the battle.
• Liu Qi intervened to fight Ren Xiaoyao, while Ye Yu attacked Ye Xuan and was blocked by Xue Qin.
• Ye Yu triggered an explosion in the back mountain, and a blood cloud spread across it as both sides stopped fighting and recognized the Nine Nether Blood Qi.

Ye Yu and the others faced the Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s unleashed grand formation after the Nine Nether Blood Spring was detonated. As Ji Wuming and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast held off the formation, Ye Yu prepared to break it but was attacked by Han Yi.

• The Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s disciples and elders contained the spreading Nine Nether Blood Qi, while Ye Yu left and Xue Qin refused Ye Xuan’s demand to kill him.
• Ye Qingling overheard Ye Xuan’s exchange with Xue Qin and realized he had ties to the Devil Race.
• The Nine Spirits Sect Master and Ren Xiaoyao activated the sect-protecting grand formation, sealing Nine Spirits Mountain and trapping Ye Yu, Ji Wuming, and the others.
• Ye Yu asked Ji Wuming and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to hold off the formation while he tried to break it, and Ji Wuming agreed to buy him time.
• Han Yi attacked Ye Yu with her soul power, then engulfed him in her Late Spirit Transformation domain of flames.
• Ye Yu’s lightning burst through Han Yi’s sea of fire, leaving her stunned.

Ye Yu broke through the Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s formation and escaped with Ji Wuming and the others, using a poison pill to halt their pursuers. After the sect sealed the Nine Nether Blood Spring and Han Yi urged the Sect Master to kill Ye Yu if he returned, Ye Yu came back secretly and stole the Scripture Repository.

• Ye Yu endured Han Yi’s domain and struck her with the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Technique, then distracted her with sword formations while smashing the sect-protecting formation with the Void Sky Cauldron.
• The formation shattered, allowing Ji Wuming to flee with Lingyunzi and two others while the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast carried Ye Yu after them.
• Ye Yu detonated the King of Hell Heart-Devouring Pill, poisoning several pursuing elders and forcing Jing Shuang, the Nine Spirits Sect Master, and the others to stop and treat them.
• Ye Yu and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast concealed their auras and returned to the Nine Spirits Sword Sect to retrieve something.
• The Sect Master and Han Yi sealed the Nine Nether Blood Spring, and Han Yi secured the Sect Master’s promise to kill Ye Yu if he appeared again.
• Ye Yu stole the Scripture Repository, sending it flying out of the sect as he stood in the air and smiled at the shocked Sect Master.

Ye Yu escaped the Nine Spirits Sword Sect with its Vast Qi Hall and returned to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect with the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast. After the Cauldron Spirit warned him that his soul needed to be restored, the Alchemy Alliance cut off support for his sect, and Ye Yu proposed seeking help from the Great Zhou Dynasty.

• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast rescued Ye Yu, killed Gu Yuan, and helped him escape the Nine Spirits Sword Sect as Ji Wuming and the others fled its pursuing experts.
• Ye Yu revealed that he had taken the sect’s Scripture Repository, the Vast Qi Hall, and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast decided to return with the group to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ye Yu returned a fragment to the Void Sky Cauldron, met its Cauldron Spirit, and learned that he needed to restore his soul before the Golden Age’s coming dangers.
• The Alchemy Alliance doubled pill prices for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, and many alchemists—including some of the sect’s own—cut ties with it.
• Ye Yu proposed that the Purple Firmament Sword Sect seek cooperation with an imperial dynasty, suggesting the Great Zhou Dynasty as a likely partner.

Ye Yu left the Purple Firmament Sword Sect after arranging for it to seek cooperation with Great Zhou, while Ye Xuan planned to stop the alliance. In Great Qin, Liu Xu challenged Qin Wushuang over a spirit stone mine and offered to make the Liu Dynasty Great Qin’s backing.

• Ye Yu sent Qing Xuzi and Lingyunzi to seek the two hundred million spirit stones Teng Ying owed, then left for Azure Prefecture with Liu Qi after checking on Xu Xuan and Xu Yan.
• Sects tied to the Alchemy Alliance condemned the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s move toward cooperation with Great Zhou, while Ye Xuan told the Nine Spirits Sect Master he would prevent the alliance and was ordered to return to Great Flame.
• Liu Xu demanded that Great Qin accept a seventy-thirty split of a spirit stone mine awarded in the War of a Hundred Dynasties, and Qin Wushuang rejected his proposal.
• Liu Xu’s Late Spirit Transformation guard overpowered Nie Xing, prompting Qin Han to urge Qin Wushuang to accept the deal while Qin Ruoxian opposed it.
• Liu Xu offered for the Liu Dynasty to become Great Qin’s backing, citing the planned Great Flame–Great Zhou marriage alliance.

Liu Xu tried to force Great Qin into a marriage alliance by demanding Qin Ruoxian, but Ye Yu arrived and killed him after Qin Wushuang gave his approval. Ye Yu let the Liu Dynasty's Attendant live to carry a warning that Great Qin would no longer tolerate intimidation.

• Liu Xu proposed a marriage alliance by claiming Qin Ruoxian for himself, and Qin Wushuang rejected him.
• Qin Han revealed that Qin Ruoxian was already married to Ye Yu, while Nie Xing warned Liu Xu that Ye Yu was the Purple Firmament Sword Sect's Holy Son.
• Ye Yu entered the hall with Liu Qi and learned from the Cauldron Spirit that a remnant soul of the Body Integration Realm was inside Qin Ruoxian.
• Ye Yu seized Liu Xu by the throat, and Liu Qi stopped the Liu Dynasty's Attendant from intervening.
• After Qin Wushuang signaled his approval, Ye Yu killed Liu Xu and destroyed his Nascent Soul.
• Ye Yu spared the Attendant to deliver a warning that Great Qin would resist any force that tried to threaten it.

After learning that his mother belonged to the Xu aristocratic family of Central Province, Ye Yu chose to focus on restoring his divine soul and traveled with Qin Ruoxian to Great Yan. Qin Ruoxian resolved to stay beside him for now, while Zhou Li reached the border of Azure Prefecture.

• After court, Qin Wushuang warned Qin Han to fulfill his duties and not do anything foolish.
• Ye Yu asked Qin Ruoxian about the power within her, and she later agreed with her master to travel to Central Province after spending some time with him.
• Liu Qi brought Ye Yu to Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, where Murong Xue gave him a jade slip containing information about his mother.
• Ye Yu learned that his mother came from the Xu aristocratic family of Central Province and restrained his urge to attack Heavenly Mystery Pavilion after Liu Qi warned him of its backing.
• A few days later, Ye Yu departed Great Qin for the Great Yan Imperial City with Qin Ruoxian and Great Qin Imperial Guards, while Zhou Li arrived at Azure Prefecture's border.

Ye Yu returned secretly to Great Yan and searched his former residence for the missing wisp of his soul, but found the hall suspiciously empty. Ye Qingxuan sensed his return and rushed toward him, while Ye Qingwan turned to Ye Xuan for help avoiding her marriage to Zhou Li.

• Qin Ruoxian urged Ye Yu to seize power in Great Qin and build his own force, and Ye Yu embraced her with renewed resolve.
• Ye Yu and Liu Qi entered the Great Yan Imperial Palace in secret, and Ye Yu searched his old residence for clues about his missing soul fragment.
• Ye Qingwan lamented that she and Ye Qingxuan were being used in a marriage alliance, but Ye Qingxuan suddenly recognized that Ye Yu had returned.
• Ye Qingxuan unleashed Earth Realm divine soul power to throw aside two guards and vanished into the night.
• Ye Xuan appeared before Ye Qingwan, who begged him to stop her marriage to Zhou Li.
• Ye Yu found no trace of his missing soul fragment in the hall, then heard Ye Qingxuan calling for him outside.

Ye Yu discovered that Ye Qingxuan carried his mother's aura and had the Cauldron Spirit treat her instead of searching her soul. Meanwhile, Zhou Li arrived in Great Yan to assess the marriage candidate, and Ye Xuan claimed Ye Yu had taken the missing Ye Qingxuan.

• Ye Qingxuan rushed to Ye Yu and begged him to forgive her, but Ye Yu sensed his mother's aura in her divine soul and had Liu Qi take her away.
• Ye Yu questioned Ye Qingxuan outside the imperial city, but the Cauldron Spirit warned him not to search her soul and offered to treat her over several days.
• Zhou Li arrived in Great Yan and criticized the dynasty for celebrating while its people suffered from Nine Nether Blood Qi.
• Ye Fan presented Ye Qingwan to Zhou Li, who examined her as a marriage candidate and asked why only one princess had appeared.
• Ye Xuan said Ye Qingxuan had vanished and suggested that Ye Yu had secretly taken her, prompting the Elder to question whether the Purple Firmament Sword Sect handled matters this way.

Ye Yu admitted that Ye Qingxuan was with him and said he would send her to Great Zhou later, provoking the gathered factions. Zhou Li accepted the delay, while Ren Xiaoyao began to confront Ye Yu over their sect’s grudge.

• Ye Yu arrived with Liu Qi and said nothing about Zhou Li’s master-servant contract, prompting Zhou Li to show him gratitude.
• Ye Xuan tried to implicate Ye Yu in Ye Qingxuan’s disappearance, and Ye Yu openly confirmed that she was with him.
• Ren Xiaoyao and Ye Fan distanced their factions from Ye Yu as the Great Zhou elder threatened him with overwhelming pressure.
• Zhou Li asked whether Ye Yu opposed his marriages, and Ye Yu said he would send Ye Qingxuan to Great Zhou after she had served his purposes.
• Zhou Li agreed to discuss Ye Qingxuan’s matter in a few days, and Ren Xiaoyao rose to settle the Nine Spirits Sword Sect’s grudge with Ye Yu.