Chapter Summaries

The Ye family arrived in Great Flame, where Ye Qingshan subdued Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast while Ye Fan took control of the kingdom. Ye Qingshan then discovered Ye Yu’s extraordinary power of Karma and demanded that he join the Ye family or die.

• Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast entered the front hall and found Yuan Xiang injured, while Ye Fan sat on the dragon throne beside Wei Qionghua.
• Ye Qingshan’s pressure forced Liu Qi to his knees, and Ye Shanshan declared that she wanted the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast as her mount.
• Ye Fan asked Ye Qingshan, Ye Lan, and Ye Shanshan to spare his subordinates, then announced that he would take control of Great Flame.
• Ye Qingshan sensed powerful spiritual energy and went to investigate as black-and-white pillars of light appeared over the town.
• Ye Yu awakened from his enlightenment with Karma power replacing his Chaos Spiritual Energy, and Ye Qingshan demanded that he follow the Ye family or die.

Ye Yu confirmed his bloodline to Ye Qingshan and learned that Ye Tairan and Ye Xuan were dead, then returned to the palace and found Yuan Xiang and Liu Qi injured. Meanwhile, Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua returned with Ye Xuan already at the Ye Lineage, and Wei Qionghua worried Ye Yu might accuse him of wrongdoing.

• Ye Yu avoided a fight with Ye Qingshan by claiming his identity, and Ye Qingshan confirmed that he belonged to the Ye Lineage.
• Ye Qingshan told Ye Yu that Ye Tairan and Ye Xuan had died, and Ye Yu admitted he had been glad about Ye Xuan’s death.
• Ye Yu returned to the palace, treated the injured Yuan Xiang and Liu Qi, and urged them to endure the Ye Lineage’s pressure until they became vulnerable.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast agreed to stay with Ye Yu for what it called the last time, and the group laughed together.
• Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua returned from the Myriad Dynasty, and Wei Qionghua urged Ye Fan to turn the Ye Lineage against Ye Yu before he could frame Ye Xuan.

Ye Yu joined the Ye family members as they investigated the deaths of their kin in Azure Prefecture, while Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua tried to promote their son Ye Xuan. The chapter ended with Ye Shanshan revealing that Ye Xuan was among the dead, prompting Wei Qionghua to accuse Ye Yu.

• Ye Fan agreed to speak with the Ye family elders about Ye Yu, while Wei Qionghua privately considered having another child with him.
• Ye Qingshan chose not to tell the clan about Ye Yu’s talent, fearing the clan would use him as a sacrifice.
• Yuan Xiang told Ye Yu that Qin Wushuang had left Great Flame and did not know how to face him.
• Ye Yu brought his subordinates to apologize to Ye Lan and the others, who asked them to investigate the killings of Ye family members in Azure Prefecture.
• Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua urged the Ye family to recall Ye Xuan to help investigate, but Ye Shanshan revealed that Ye Xuan and the others were already dead.
• Wei Qionghua lunged at Ye Yu and accused him of killing Ye Xuan.

Ye Yu openly admitted he had wanted to kill Ye Xuan but turned the investigation toward the Blood Demon Race and asked for a chance to enter the Ye family. After overcoming his heart demon tribulation, he advanced close to the Void Refining tribulation, and Ye Qingshan offered him a rare pill to help.

• Wei Qionghua’s protective pendant shattered as Ye Yu’s Sword Qi pierced her chest, and Ye Fan saved her with a pill before accusing Ye Yu of killing Ye Xuan.
• Ye Yu admitted he had wanted to kill Ye Xuan but lacked the strength, then argued that the Blood Demon Race was the likeliest culprit and suggested investigating rogue cultivators.
• Ye Lan agreed to follow Ye Yu’s proposed investigation, and Ye Yu secured an opportunity to participate in the Ye family clan competition if he completed the task.
• Ye Yu told Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast that Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua would likely frame him, then ordered an investigation and a search for the Blood Demon Race.
• Ye Yu overcame his heart demon tribulation after three days, and Ye Qingshan offered him a Yin Yang Wuji Pill to help with the Void Refining tribulation.

Ye Yu discovered the Yin Yang Wuji Pill carried a tracking rune, so he transferred it to a duplicate made from his spiritual root and left the imperial palace. Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast were stunned that Ye Yu’s strength remained unchanged without his spiritual root, while Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua prepared to pursue him with help from Ye Fan’s contacts.

• Ye Yu swallowed Ye Qingshan’s Yin Yang Wuji Pill and realized it had been altered to track his aura.
• Ye Yu used his discarded spiritual root to create a convincing duplicate of himself and transferred the pill’s tracking rune to it.
• Ye Yu instructed Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to take the duplicate into crowded places while he left the palace.
• Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast realized Ye Yu’s combat power had not weakened despite his spiritual root being elsewhere, and wondered whether he was human.
• Ye Fan told Wei Qionghua that he had arranged help through his father’s Ye family connections, and they set out after Ye Yu.

Ye Yu visited Murong Xue at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to learn what the Ye family was doing and discovered they were seeking a sacrifice. Murong Xue identified Ye Chengjun as a formidable threat, and as Ye Yu left, a woman recognized him as Xiao Yu.

• Ye Yu reached the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion in disguise and asked to see Murong Xue as Yunxi.
• Ye Yu proved his identity by changing his ring into a Purple Crystal Ring engraved with Xu, and Murong Xue told him the Ye family had come seeking a severed arm from the Yan Shang Cave Mansion.
• Murong Xue revealed that the Ye family needed a sacrifice and had previously targeted Ye Yu before Ye Xuan took his place.
• Ye Yu learned that Ye Chengjun had severed an incarnation of a Body Integration Realm expert, and he recognized Ye Chengjun as the man connected to his new Fate Lock.
• As Ye Yu left the rear courtyard, a woman saw him and cried out, calling him Xiao Yu.

Ye Yu met Zhou Li at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and learned that the Great Zhou imperial family was searching for the Xu family ring. Feng Qiwen examined Ye Qingxuan and discovered a hidden backlash rune that could explain her future madness and death.

• Ye Yu recognized that Ye Qingxuan still carried his mother’s aura and summoned Feng Qiwen to examine her.
• Zhou Li told Ye Yu that Zhou Qitian had arranged his marriage to Ye Qingxuan to find the Purple Crystal Ring, and Ye Yu allowed him to reveal the ring’s location to Zhou Qitian alone in half a month.
• Feng Qiwen confirmed that Ye Qingxuan bore a Xu family backlash rune that would harm her if she violated a certain matter.
• Ye Yu suspected Ye Qingxuan’s obsession with him was resisting the rune and might be connected to the madness that had led to her death in his previous life.

Ye Yu left Zhou Li with instructions to investigate his mother's past, then went to the Yan Shang Cave Mansion and met the fortune-teller Weng Banxian. Weng revealed himself as Weng Buyu, the founding patriarch of Qingyun Sect.

• Ye Yu told Zhou Li to investigate the woman who had come to Great Zhou more than ten years ago, whom Ye Yu believed might be his mother.
• Ye Yu left Ye Qingxuan behind and headed to the Yan Shang Cave Mansion, refusing to let Feng Qiwen accompany him.
• At the cave mansion, Weng Banxian called Ye Yu down to his stall and charged him one million spirit stones to read his fortune.
• Weng Banxian struck down a cultivator trying to sneak into the cave mansion, then interpreted the character for fate that Ye Yu had written.
• Weng Banxian told Ye Yu that changing fate required believing in it, then identified himself as Weng Buyu, the founding patriarch of Qingyun Sect.

Ye Yu learned that Weng Buyu served an Imperial Son and had imprisoned Ye Yu’s mother in Yan Shang Cave Mansion, but he left after realizing he could not defeat Weng Buyu. Near the Demon Land, Liu Qi and Yuan Xiang kept captured Rogue Cultivators safe while Ye Fan’s men grew desperate to find them.

• Weng Buyu told Ye Yu that he had once founded Qingyun Sect, now served an Imperial Son, and considered Ye Yu the Imperial Son’s prey.
• Ye Yu asked to enter Yan Shang Cave Mansion, but Weng Buyu refused and revealed that Ye Yu’s mother had entered it carrying a severed arm.
• Ye Yu’s killing intent faded when he sensed Weng Buyu’s stronger power of destiny, and he left, determined to return for his mother.
• Yan Ruyu told Weng Buyu that she believed Ye Yu could succeed, and Weng Buyu agreed to trust him.
• Near the Demon Land, Liu Qi and Yuan Xiang protected captured Rogue Cultivators while Ye Fan’s men searched aggressively for them.
• Ye Fan worried that they had made no progress and that Ye Yu might reach his destination first.

Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua struggled to find a way to avenge Ye Xuan, while Ye Yu plotted to keep the Ye family occupied. After the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast was caught mistreating Ye Yu’s puppet, Ye Yu ordered a new plan involving a false report and a trip to the Demon Land.

• Ye Fan told Wei Qionghua that Ye Yu had likely killed the witnesses and left no evidence, and vowed that Ye Xuan would not die in vain.
• Ye Yu returned to Azure Prefecture and ordered Liu Qi and Yuan Xiang to muddy the waters by killing more people so the Ye family could not act freely.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast sat on Ye Yu’s puppet, boasted about urinating on it, and was caught when Ye Yu returned and bound it with spiritual power.
• Liu Qi showed Ye Yu a Memory Stone proving the beast’s actions, and Ye Yu whipped it before the disturbance eased his gloom.
• Ye Yu told Yuan Xiang to spread a false report about capturing Rogue Cultivators and ordered Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to take his puppet secretly to the Demon Land.

Ye Lan and Ye Qingshan waited in Azure Prefecture for Ye Yu and the Rogue Cultivators, while Ye Qingqing worried about Ye Yu’s safety. After Ye Qingshan sensed Ye Yu heading toward the Demon Land, he left to check on him, and Ye Lan beckoned Ye Shanshan back to his side.

• Ye Lan and the others heard that Ye Yu had found the Rogue Cultivators and planned to return to the Great Yan Imperial City.
• Ye Shanshan urged Ye Lan to investigate immediately, but he chose to wait after asking Ye Qingqing what she thought.
• Ye Lan slapped Ye Shanshan for insulting Ye Qingqing, then discussed with Ye Qingshan how the clan would judge Ye Yu’s and Ye Fan’s accounts of Ye Tairan’s death.
• Ye Lan told Ye Qingshan that he enjoyed manipulating people like Ye Shanshan, who would return whenever he beckoned.
• Ye Qingshan sensed Ye Yu moving toward the Demon Land and left, while Ye Lan beckoned Ye Shanshan back and she apologized.

Ye Fan sent two Ye family dead soldiers after Ye Yu, believing Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast had entered the Demon Land without their strongest support. Ye Yu prepared for the attack while Liu Qi and the beast encountered the two figures inside the Demon Land.

• Ye Fan concluded that Ye Yu’s plan involved capturing Blood Demons and decided to attack his escort, while two seniors agreed to help him.
• Ye Yu recognized the approaching black-clad figures as Ye family dead soldiers and told Yuan Xiang to use a master-servant contract on the Rogue Cultivators if the attackers tried to replace them.
• Ye Yu headed into the Demon Land, where Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast remained alert despite finding no Blood Demons.
• Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast joked about using the puppet “Ye Yu” to watch a Memory Stone, then noticed two black-robed figures approaching.
• Liu Qi recognized the yellow crystal rings on the figures and realized they were from the Ye family.

Liu Qi and the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast were overwhelmed by two Ye family deathsworn until Ye Yu intervened and appeared to lose his spiritual root and nascent soul. Ye Qingshan arrived, discovered Ye Yu’s condition, killed one deathsworn, and seized the other to demand who had ordered the attack.

• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast unleashed his dragon blood essence to slow the deathsworn’s attack and sent Liu Qi away, but the men struck him down.
• Ye Yu appeared, used the Void Sky Cauldron to swallow a palm attack, and countered the deathsworn with Karma Power.
• Ye Yu carried the injured Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast to Liu Qi, then let the deathsworn destroy his puppet as he returned to his original appearance and collapsed.
• The deathsworn tried to flee, but Ye Qingshan arrived and the men knelt before him.
• Ye Qingshan examined Ye Yu, found his spiritual root and nascent soul apparently gone, killed one deathsworn, and demanded an explanation from the other.

Ye Yu deceived the Ye family into believing his spiritual root had been destroyed, then planned to return to the Great Flame Dynasty before traveling to Central Prefecture. In Great Zhou, Zhou Qitian revealed that he and Zhou Li were both bound by master-servant contracts, while Zhou Li knew Ye Yu held the ring connected to them.

• Ye Qingshan learned that Ye Yu's spiritual root was gone, killed the man responsible, and abandoned Ye Yu when he begged for help.
• After Ye Qingshan left, Ye Yu revealed to the Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast and Liu Qi that he had staged his apparent crippling and planned to return to the Great Flame Dynasty before heading to Central Prefecture.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon Scale Beast said it needed to return to its clan to grow stronger, and Ye Yu agreed that it and Liu Qi could leave together after matters were settled.
• News of Ye Yu's supposed crippling spread across Qingyunlei Three States, and Ye Qingxuan worried that she could not return to Great Flame to see him.
• Zhou Qitian showed Zhou Li the master-servant contract rune and revealed that a woman had forced him to sign a contract over a decade earlier.
• Zhou Qitian explained that the woman had tied his contract to a ring, while Zhou Li privately realized Ye Yu currently possessed it.

Ye Yu returned to Great Yan Imperial City pretending to have lost his spiritual root, while Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua planned to kill him after the Ye family arrived. At the palace hall, Ye Lan demanded to see the person accused of murdering Ye Tairan.

• Zhou Qitian told Zhou Li that he served Ye Yu's mother, and Zhou Li informed Ye Yu of the claim.
• Ye Yu told Zhou Li to keep the news secret until they could determine whether Zhou Qitian's story was true.
• Ye Yu arrived in Great Yan Imperial City looking gravely ill, and Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua discussed waiting until after the Ye family's meeting before killing him.
• Ye Lan and Ye Qingshan assessed Ye Yu's condition and debated whether Ye Yu or Ye Fan should control Great Flame, while other factions waited to see what the Ye family would do.
• Ye Yu spent the night without being attacked, then pretended to weaken further before being carried to the palace hall.
• Ye Lan asked for the culprit in Ye Tairan's murder to be brought before the Ye family.

Ye Yu exposed Ye Fan’s role in the attack and pointed the Ye family toward the Alchemy Alliance, but Ye Lan showed little concern for the deaths and demanded a maidservant. Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua tried to send Ye Qingqing to serve Ye Lan, and she confronted her father about how he viewed his family.

• Yuan Xiang revealed three captured Rogue Cultivators, who testified that Ye Fan’s group had arranged an attack on Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu accused the Alchemy Alliance of orchestrating the scheme and presented pills as evidence, which Ye Lan accepted as plausible.
• Ye Lan voided Ye Yu’s promised return to the Ye family because his spiritual roots were crippled, awarded him Great Flame, and asked for a maidservant.
• Ye Yu learned that Ye Lan had taken an interest in Ye Qingqing and chose not to intervene, while warning the Alchemy Alliance’s Gu Lin and Mo Ran to hide.
• Ye Fan and Wei Qionghua pressured Ye Qingqing to serve Ye Lan, and she asked Ye Fan what his other children meant to him besides Xiao Xuan.

Ye Qingqing confronted Ye Fan over his treatment of Ye Yu, then declared their grievances settled and left. Ye Fan’s devotion to Wei Qionghua collapsed when he found her with Ye Lan, while Ye Yu prepared to leave for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and Central Province.

• Ye Qingqing accused Ye Fan of tearing the Great Yan Royal Family apart, and after he slapped her, she said she would serve Ye Lan and considered their grievances settled.
• Wei Qionghua comforted Ye Fan, then secretly left the bedchamber and went to the rear courtyard.
• Ye Yu learned Ye Qingqing had stood outside his room all night, told his companions to leave her alone, and planned his departure for the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and Central Province.
• Ye Fan accused Ye Yu of hiding Wei Qionghua, but Ye Yu had him taken to the Ye family’s bedchamber.
• Ye Fan found Wei Qionghua kneeling beside Ye Lan, who said she had come to him willingly the night before.

After Wei Qionghua betrayed Ye Fan and then tried to win him back, Ye Yu left Great Flame under Yuan Xiang’s protection and prepared to deal with the Myriad Dynasty’s people. He traveled to the Blood Demon heartland to meet Xue Chen, where he spotted a familiar face.

• Wei Qionghua insulted Ye Fan and tried to leave with Ye Lan, but Ye Lan rejected her and departed with the others.
• Ye Yu ordered Yuan Xiang to kill Wei Qionghua, but Ye Fan blocked the strike and protected her; Ye Yu then left with Yuan Xiang.
• Ye Yu told Yuan Xiang to follow their plans and eliminate the Myriad Dynasty’s people while they were divided.
• The court renamed Great Flame Great Yu, appointed Yuan Xiang to govern temporarily, and Ye Yu left the palace with six puppets after leaving ten behind.
• Ye Fan pretended to believe Wei Qionghua while secretly watching for a chance to deal with her allies, and Ye Yu headed to the Blood Demon heartland instead of Leizhou.
• Ye Yu reached the Blood Demon blood pool and sent someone to summon Xue Chen, then heard a whimper and recognized a familiar face.

Ye Yu reunited with Ye Qingwan in the Blood Demon Race’s territory but left her unable to struggle, then negotiated with Xue Chen to keep Azure Prefecture safe while he was away. Xue Chen and the other Blood Demons agreed not to move against Ye Yu’s territory for now.

• Ye Yu recognized Ye Qingwan, who had been mutilated and imprisoned in a jar, but ignored her pleas and used spiritual power to stop her struggling.
• Xue Chen confronted Ye Yu and accused him of killing Ye family members in the Demon Land and framing the Blood Demons.
• Ye Yu pointed out that Xue Chen had used Ye Xuan in his place in the Ye family and said they were both acting in their own interests.
• Ye Yu asked the Blood Demons not to touch Azure Prefecture or let anyone else attack it while he was away.
• Xue Chen and the other Blood Demons weighed the costs of fighting Ye Yu and agreed to leave his territory alone for the time being.

Ye Yu left Ye Qingwan in Xue Chen’s hands after secretly placing a trace of soul power in her, then returned to Leizhou and prepared to enter seclusion to reach the Void Refinement Stage. As Ye Lan and Ye Qingshan headed back to the Ye family, they wondered about the powerful bald men appearing across the Divine Continent.

• Xue Chen asked Ye Yu to kneel and kowtow in exchange for restoring Ye Qingwan, but Ye Yu rejected the demand and left her behind.
• Ye Yu secretly used the Void Sky Cauldron’s power to plant soul power in Ye Qingwan, allowing him to overhear Xue Chen’s plans to use her against him.
• Ye Yu arranged for Zhou Li to bring Zhou Qitian to the Purple Firmament Sword Sect, then went to Leizhou and told Ji Wuming to keep people away from the sealed place.
• Ye Yu planned to use the Blood Refinement Essence in Ye Qingling’s body to enter the Void Refinement Stage before traveling to Central Continent.
• Ye Lan asked Ye Qingshan about the powerful bald men who had appeared at the Nine Spirits Sword Sect as they traveled back to the Ye family.