Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu entered the forbidden area to absorb the demonic qi from the Blood Refinement Essence and found Ye Qingling near death. After she died, he began cultivating toward his final Void Refinement tribulation, while Zhou Qitian and Ji Wuming discussed the Buddhist sect’s growing influence.

• Ye Lan learned that Ye Qingshan had brought Han Yi back to study her unusual breathing rhythm, then watched Ye Shanshan torture Ye Qingqing.
• Ye Yu entered the forbidden area and absorbed its aggressive demonic qi as he made his way to Ye Qingling.
• Ye Qingling told Ye Yu about a dream in which she became Moon Shadow Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Ye Yu confirmed nothing as she realized his former affection for her was gone.
• The Blood Refinement Essence shattered, and Ye Qingling died after apologizing to Ye Yu; he said she had not truly learned from her mistakes and began devouring the demonic qi.
• Half a month later, Zhou Qitian and Zhou Li waited at the Purple Firmament Sword Sect while Ye Yu secluded himself, and Zhou Qitian asked Ji Wuming about the Buddhist sect spreading across the three prefectures.

Monk Shanyuan attacked the Purple Firmament Sword Sect and promoted his Buddhist teachings, overpowering Ji Wuming and Zhou Qitian with the divine power of his prayer beads and Buddha’s shadow. As the Sanskrit sounds threatened the gathered disciples and visitors, black and white pillars of light erupted from the sect’s back mountain.

• Shanyuan arrived at the Purple Firmament Sword Sect after defeating Qing Xuzi in a single exchange.
• Shanyuan used his prayer beads to scatter Ji Wuming’s sword attacks and urged the sect’s disciples to join the Buddhist sect.
• Ji Wuming and Zhou Qitian tried to block Shanyuan’s descending Sanskrit sounds, but their light curtain shattered.
• Black and white pillars of light shot from the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s back mountain, freezing the Sanskrit sounds in midair.

Ye Yu forged his own sword technique in the Purple Firmament Sword Sect’s forbidden ground and unleashed a devastating strike that forced Shanyuan to flee. A Void Refinement Tribulation then gathered over the back mountain as an azure light concealed the figure who had risen into the sky.

• Ye Yu instinctively released Karma power that blocked Shanyuan’s Sanskrit attacks, and he began shaping a Sword Dao of his own.
• Ye Yu practiced with the Purple Firmament Sword, turning the Karma curtain into a giant sword shadow that battled Shanyuan’s Buddha phantom.
• Ye Yu’s sword power grew until swords across the area rose in homage, and he gathered his intent into a single strike.
• Ye Yu’s sword light shattered many swords and blasted Shanyuan backward, forcing him to flee.
• A Void Refinement Tribulation formed above the back mountain, and an azure beam concealed the figure observers saw rising with a violet sword.

Ye Yu entered the Void Refinement Stage and learned that Zhou Qitian had been bound to the Purple Crystal Ring, while Zhou Li had contracted directly with him. After receiving a yellow copper fragment from Zhou Qitian, Ye Yu told him to return to Great Zhou and watch Great Yu and the Yan Shang Cave Mansion, but Zhou Li’s question about Ye Qingxuan left her fate unresolved.

• Ye Yu returned to Ji Wuming’s cave residence after his breakthrough, and Zhou Qitian recognized him as the person who had wielded the sword strike in the back mountain.
• Ye Yu revealed the Purple Crystal Ring, and he and Zhou Qitian realized that Zhou Qitian had formed a contract with the ring.
• Zhou Li explained that he had contracted directly with Ye Yu at the Yan Shang Cave Mansion, and Zhou Qitian accepted that his son had acted to save his life.
• Zhou Qitian gave Ye Yu a yellow copper fragment left by Ye Yu’s mother, and the Haotian Mirror fragment inside Ye Yu reacted to it.
• Ye Yu told Zhou Qitian to return to Great Zhou, oversee Great Yu, and monitor the Yan Shang Cave Mansion instead of accompanying him.
• Zhou Li asked Ye Yu what they should do about Ye Qingxuan, whose condition had worsened and who seemed to have gone mad again.

Ye Yu prepared to leave for Central Province after making arrangements for Dan Chenzi’s recovery and setting up two Grade 8 Alchemists to help. At a teahouse, he met Feng Qiwen and a fat man who claimed to represent the true Buddhist sect.

• Zhou Qitian told Zhou Li to repudiate the mad Princess Consort and send her back to Ye Fan, then advised him to tell Ye Yu about his cultivation method.
• Ye Yu left Gu Lin and the other alchemist hidden with fragments of the Innate Breathing Technique and explained that they could help strengthen their souls enough to repair Dan Chenzi’s divine soul through Soul Devouring.
• Ye Yu told Ji Wuming that he planned to travel to Central Province, and Ji Wuming urged him to be careful.
• Ye Yu went to meet Feng Qiwen, who introduced a fat man that had been following him and claiming he wanted to guide him into the Buddhist sect.
• The fat man defended his eating and drinking and told Ye Yu that the current Buddhist sect included impostors who disgraced its former ideals.

Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen traveled toward the Black Sea while Fatty followed them, and Ye Yu rejected Feng Qiwen’s attempts to bring him back to the Xu family. At their inn, Ye Yu recognized a crying girl’s Nine Yin Nether Body, and the chapter ended as several figures appeared at the entrance while Fat Monk asked Ye Yu for alms.

• Ye Yu told Feng Qiwen he had no intention of returning to the Xu family because he resented their failure to help his mother.
• Fatty caught up with Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen, and the three reached a town near the Black Sea to wait for the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Yu recognized that the crying little girl Fatty was trying to comfort possessed a Nine Yin Nether Body and refused Feng Qiwen’s suggestion to abduct her.
• Ye Yu warned Feng Qiwen to stop invoking the Xu family’s benefits and strength, then went downstairs to eat.
• Fat Monk joined Ye Yu’s meal with the little girl, demanded alms, and turned to find several figures at the entrance.

Lin Wanrong took Yueyue away from the inn after the Fat Monk’s golden power repelled her guards, while Ye Yu learned that the monk wanted to help poor families with spirit stones. After warning the Fat Monk that his good deed could bring harm, Ye Yu joined him at the settlement after nightfall, where they smelled blood.

• Lin Wanrong arrived at the inn and confronted the Fat Monk for bringing Yueyue there, but Yueyue collapsed in pain before the guards could attack again.
• Ye Yu recognized a vicious seal in Yueyue’s body that had closed her Divine Palace and caused her to absorb spiritual power without restraint.
• The Fat Monk asked for spirit stones to buy grain for ordinary families whose fields had been destroyed, and Feng Qiwen gave him several dozen.
• Ye Yu warned that the Fat Monk’s good intentions might harm the families, but the monk left and later returned in high spirits.
• Ye Yu took the Fat Monk to the settlement after nightfall, where the Fat Monk smelled blood.

Ye Yu showed Fat Monk how the villagers were endangered by the spirit stones, then set off with Fat Monk and Feng Qiwen for the Black Sea. After they arrived, Lin Wanrong intervened when local young men mocked Feng Qiwen and invited them to the Tianhai Alliance.

• Ye Yu explained that he had arranged for Feng Qiwen to protect the villagers after Fat Monk brought spirit stones that attracted Rogue Cultivators.
• Feng Qiwen urged Ye Yu to accept his past, but Ye Yu rejected his advice and challenged Fat Monk over his efforts to convert him to Buddhism.
• Fat Monk joined Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen the next morning, insisting that he would continue trying to persuade Ye Yu to join the Buddhist sect.
• The three traveled through the Teleportation Array to the Black Sea, where Feng Qiwen struggled to adjust to its dense spiritual energy.
• Several young men mocked Feng Qiwen, and Lin Wanrong rebuked them before apologizing for an earlier misunderstanding and inviting the group to the Tianhai Alliance.

Ye Yu, Fat Monk, and Lin Wanrong sailed across the Black Sea aboard a Tianhai Alliance ship, where Ye Yu suspected the alliance and sea demons profited from the dangerous crossing. When an ancient palace rose from the sea, Xiang Junyan approached Ye Yu to make friends, but Ye Yu focused on the palace as it emerged.

• Fat Monk boarded the ship after arguing with Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen, and the vessel set off across the Black Sea.
• A sea demon swallowed a cultivator, and Lin Wanrong explained that the Tianhai Alliance ships traveled safely under an agreement with the sea demons.
• Fat Monk questioned the high ticket prices, while Ye Yu suspected the alliance and sea demons divided the profits from cultivators who died near shore.
• The ancient palace appeared, and Lin Wanrong explained that it surfaced once every nine months for only a short time and had swallowed experts who entered it.
• Xiang Junyan introduced himself to Ye Yu and offered his friendship, but Ye Yu watched as the palace rose from the sea beneath a beam of rosy light.

Ye Yu learned that Azure Heaven Palace had vanished beneath the sea but still felt summoned to find it. In the Great Yu Dynasty, Ye Fan nearly smothered Ye Qingxuan, while the Fat Monk resolved to keep Ye Yu from repeating his own past.

• Xiang Junyan told Ye Yu that the vanished palace was Azure Heaven Palace, and it sank into the sea after appearing for a short time.
• Ye Yu sensed that Azure Heaven Palace was calling to him and returned to his cabin, deciding to seek it out later.
• Yuan Xiang brought Ye Qingxuan to Ye Fan, who held her as she blamed him for what had happened to Xiao Yu.
• Wei Qionghua insulted Ye Fan and his family, then asked a guard to arrange a meeting with Lord Yuan.
• Ye Fan nearly smothered Ye Qingxuan in a palace corner before releasing her, and Yuan Xiang reported the incident to Ye Yu.
• The Fat Monk admitted Ye Yu's past resembled his own and resolved not to let him follow the same path.

Ye Yu rejected Fat Monk’s attempt to recruit him into the Buddhist sect, insisting he wanted to remain a complete human with all his emotions and desires. After the group arrived at Qinggu Island, Lin Wanrong tried to discuss Yueyue’s situation with Xiang Junyan, but Kong Hao interrupted and provoked her.

• Yueyue greeted Ye Yu and thanked Fat Monk for healing her, while Ye Yu kept his distance from her.
• Fat Monk told Ye Yu about being betrayed by his sect after returning from a hundred years as a hostage, then urged him to join the Buddhist sect.
• Ye Yu refused, saying he wanted to remain a complete human, and Feng Qiwen challenged Fat Monk’s claim that he had let go of his past.
• The ship docked at Qinggu Island, where Lin Wanrong invited Xiang Junyan and the others to a teahouse to discuss Yueyue.
• Kong Hao confronted Lin Wanrong, mocked her status as the Tianhai Alliance leader’s concubine, and demanded that she sing for him.

Ye Yu learned that Yueyue’s Divine Palace was sealed by the dangerous Black Mountain Old Man, and Lin Wanrong asked him to help lift it. After the group settled at an inn, Yueyue found Ye Yu on the roof and teased him about Fat Monk’s claim that dark clouds covered his face.

• Kong Hao threatened Lin Wanrong outside while Ye Yu, Xiang Junyan, and Fat Monk talked inside.
• Fat Monk went out and stopped Kong Hao’s harassment, then returned with Lin Wanrong as Yueyue’s sealed Divine Palace loosened slightly.
• Xiang Junyan left without agreeing to help Yueyue, and Lin Wanrong asked Ye Yu for assistance.
• Lin Wanrong revealed that Black Mountain Old Man, a late Void Refining rogue cultivator, had placed Yueyue’s seal.
• Fat Monk offered to handle the problem himself, and Lin Wanrong arranged lodging for the group.
• That night, Yueyue joined Ye Yu on the roof and questioned Fat Monk’s claim that dark clouds covered his face.

Ye Yu and Yueyue discussed her illness and the people who cared for her before Wu Yu arrived and took her away, warning the others not to interfere with her seal. Ye Yu decided to focus on finding information about Azure Heaven Palace, but his clenched fist betrayed his lingering concern for Yueyue.

• Yueyue told Ye Yu she feared dying but cared more about her mother’s happiness and listed the family members who treated her well.
• Ye Yu spotted Black Mountain Old Man watching them, but Black Mountain Old Man vanished when another powerful cultivator approached.
• Wu Yu arrived, checked that Yueyue was safe, scolded Lin Wanrong, and carried Yueyue away while warning the Fat Monk against meddling with her seal.
• Feng Qiwen suspected Wu Yu wanted Yueyue’s primordial yin, and Ye Yu pointed out that Wu Yu had not restrained his aura around her.
• The Fat Monk realized Wu Yu might be a threat and ran after Yueyue, while Ye Yu told Feng Qiwen to prioritize investigating Azure Heaven Palace.
• Ye Yu returned to his seat and crushed his wine flask while staring at the place where Yueyue had been sitting.

Ye Yu learned that Xiang Junyan and Wu Tong planned to use Wu Yue as bait to draw powerful cultivators away while they searched for the Azure Heaven Palace. He agreed to join their expedition, killed a cultivator who threatened him, and then encountered the Fat Monk at an auction where Wu Yue was bidding on an Azure Sky Fruit.

• Ye Yu met Xiang Junyan and the supposedly bedridden Wu Tong, who revealed that Wu Tong's injury was a ruse.
• Xiang Junyan explained that Wu Tong would spread news of Wu Yue's Nine Yin Nether Body to lure powerful cultivators away from the Azure Heaven Palace.
• Wu Tong admitted he was willing to use his daughter as bait, and Ye Yu agreed to join the expedition after learning they would use rogue cultivators as pathfinders.
• When a late Void Refining cultivator threatened Ye Yu, Ye Yu killed him with a single strike of the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Wu Tong noticed Lin Wanrong and Wu Yue bidding on an Azure Sky Fruit at the auction, then left without approaching them.
• The Fat Monk called Ye Yu over and asked him to help buy the Azure Sky Fruit for Yueyue's father.

Ye Yu refused Lin Wanrong’s plea to help protect Yueyue, despite learning that Lin Wanrong had bought the Azure Sky Fruit to support Wu Tong’s recovery while pretending not to know he was faking his injury. After the Fat Monk went to pursue Ye Yu, Lin Wanrong turned her anger on Yueyue.

• Lin Wanrong admitted she could not afford the overpriced Azure Sky Fruit, and Ye Yu declined to help pay for it.
• Kong Hao mocked Lin Wanrong, prompting Wu Yu to bid fifteen million spirit stones and buy the Azure Sky Fruit for the Tianhai Alliance.
• Lin Wanrong revealed to Ye Yu and the Fat Monk that she knew Wu Tong was pretending to be injured and had bought the fruit to prove herself and protect Yueyue.
• Lin Wanrong hinted that Ye Yu should save Yueyue, but Ye Yu refused and left.
• The Fat Monk went after Ye Yu to persuade him, while Lin Wanrong scolded Yueyue and blamed her for being useless.

Ye Yu met Black Mountain Old Man and offered to help him avenge his disciple in exchange for his divine soul. After Black Mountain Old Man accepted, Ye Yu explained to Fat Monk why he suspected Lin Wanrong was using Yueyue, leaving Fat Monk furious and unwilling to believe him.

• Fat Monk followed Ye Yu to a tea stall, where Black Mountain Old Man appeared after sensing Ye Yu’s summons.
• Ye Yu proposed helping Black Mountain Old Man take revenge on the Tianhai Alliance in exchange for his divine soul, and Black Mountain Old Man agreed.
• Ye Yu told Fat Monk that Lin Wanrong’s actions suggested she had let Yueyue become a bargaining chip despite claiming to protect her.
• Fat Monk rejected Ye Yu’s suspicions, then ran into the city to confront the possibility that Lin Wanrong had deceived him.
• The tea stall owner found a spirit stone beneath an overturned tea bowl and secretly kept it.

Ye Yu learned that the Deep Sea Abyssal Valley might hold the vanished Azure Heaven Palace and decided to wait before investigating. The Fat Monk discovered Lin Wanrong had deceived him about Yueyue, then returned to Ye Yu heartbroken, where Ye Yu used a scene with an inn attendant and a puppy to tease him.

• Feng Qiwen told Ye Yu that the Deep Sea Abyssal Valley was another suspected location of Azure Heaven Palace and warned him about its deadly power, but Ye Yu chose to wait and cultivate.
• The Fat Monk confronted Lin Wanrong after learning from Ye Yu that Yueyue’s restriction was not what Lin Wanrong had claimed, and Lin Wanrong admitted she had been pretending.
• The Fat Monk left Lin Wanrong’s residence without embracing Yueyue, who returned to her mother frightened and silent.
• Lin Wanrong ordered Yueyue to spread a lie that Big Brother Ye had said her father was only pretending to be injured.
• The Fat Monk returned to the inn heartbroken, and Ye Yu teased him by pointing out how the attendant blamed the puppy after being scolded.

Ye Yu learned that the Nine Yin Nether Body had drawn powerful factions into the Black Sea and agreed to cooperate with the Black Mountain Old Man over the Azure Heaven Palace. He returned to the inn and encountered a Ye family member and a woman from the Xu family.

• Xiang Junyan told Ye Yu that Wu Tong's feigned injury had been exposed, the search for the Azure Heaven Palace would begin within two days, and the Nine Yin Nether Body had made Ye Yu a target.
• Ye Yu explained that Kong Hao had deliberately provoked the Juehai Sect to bind the Sihai Association to Lin Wanrong, then met the Black Mountain Old Man, who revealed Wu Tong had used his daughter as bait.
• Ye Yu told the Black Mountain Old Man about the suspected location of the Azure Heaven Palace, and they agreed that Ye Yu would lure Wu Tong to the Deep Sea Hidden Valley to complete their deal.
• The Black Mountain Old Man warned Ye Yu that a powerful Ye family member had attacked him and that the Xu family had also become involved in the Nine Yin Nether Body affair.
• At the inn, Ye Yu spotted a man wearing a Ye family ring, then saw a middle-aged woman arrive wearing a Purple Crystal Ring engraved with Xu.

Ye Yu discovered that Xu Xiuwan had come to use the Nine Yin Nether Body in hopes of breaking the Xu family's curse, while he kept Feng Qiwen from approaching the Xu family. Xu Xiuwan mistook Ye Yu for Xu Yunxi and asked him to call her Aunt.

• Ye Ku mocked Xu Xiuwan and said she would fail to use the Nine Yin Nether Body to break the Xu family's curse.
• Ye Yu woke Feng Qiwen and watched for any sign that he would defy Ye Yu to see the Xu family, ready to erase him through their master-servant contract.
• Feng Qiwen said he belonged to a different Xu family branch from Xu Xiuwan and likely would not be recognized, and Ye Yu returned to his room with Fat Monk.
• Fat Monk confronted Ye Yu about his willingness to kill Feng Qiwen, and Ye Yu defended himself as a cold-blooded person who would not keep a threat nearby.
• After nightfall, Xu Xiuwan saw Ye Yu, mistook him for Xu Yunxi, and asked him to call her Aunt.

Ye Yu refused Xu Xiuwan’s offer to become her nephew, unaware that she planned to pass him off as Xu Yunxi’s son and dispose of him later. He then urged the Fat Monk to seek Lin Wanrong’s help rescuing Wu Yue, and warned Xu Xiuwan that the Fat Monk might be moving against her interests.

• Ye Yu declined Xu Xiuwan’s offer, and Xu Xiuwan told her attendant she planned to use him as a fake Xu Yunxi’s son and let him die after securing the family’s belief.
• The Fat Monk told Ye Yu that the Tianhai Alliance planned to auction Wu Yue, and Ye Yu reasoned that Wu Tong wanted to profit while escaping the conflict.
• Ye Yu advised the Fat Monk to ask Lin Wanrong to send Wu Yue to the Ye family, and the Fat Monk hurried off to find her.
• Ye Yu later told Xu Xiuwan that the Fat Monk had learned of Wu Yue’s auction and was rushing to act, prompting Xu Xiuwan to ask whether his warning was true.