Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu navigated Xu Xiuwan’s attempt to claim him as her nephew while he and Xiang Junyan prepared a secret move involving Wu Tong. After Wu Yue appeared with the Fat Monk, Ye Yu realized their plan had brought her to him.

• Xu Xiuwan rebuked Xu An for demanding her concern, then ordered Old Li to investigate the Nine Yin Nether Body.
• Ye Yu observed powerful cultivators gathering on the island and met Xiang Junyan, who confirmed Wu Tong had escaped with the Fat Monk’s help.
• Xu Xiuwan publicly treated Ye Yu as her nephew, but Ye Yu refused the adoption while using their apparent connection to make Xiang Junyan wary.
• Ye Yu left with Xiang Junyan, and Xu Xiuwan decided to focus on the Nine Yin Nether Body rather than follow them.
• The Fat Monk returned to Ye Yu’s room with Wu Yue, leaving Ye Yu shocked.

Ye Yu hid Wu Yue with Fat Monk while the island was searched, then left with Xiang Junyan and the others to seek the Deep Sea Ravine. Three days later, Fat Monk was still evading the search with Wu Yue, while Ye Yu’s group reached an unfamiliar sea region and faced an approaching black shadow.

• Ye Yu sealed the area with the Void Sky Cauldron, gave Fat Monk and Wu Yue a month of aura-concealing power, and left with Feng Qiwen.
• Ye Yu exposed their auras briefly, drawing searchers toward Fat Monk and Wu Yue before he and Feng Qiwen met Xiang Junyan and departed with the group.
• Fat Monk used a Buddhist chant to drive off the searchers and fled with Wu Yue as the Ye and Xu families sealed the island.
• For three days, Fat Monk moved Wu Yue between hiding places as their auras leaked daily, while Wu Yue grew impatient and complained that he had no candied hawthorn.
• Guided by Wu Tong, Ye Yu and the others reached an unfamiliar sea region where Soul-Snatching Algae had gathered densely.
• A massive black shadow approached Ye Yu’s group, and an overwhelming pressure descended upon them.

Ye Yu’s group reached the Deep Sea Secluded Valley with Wu Tong and You Shan, where Ye Yu recognized signs of Nine Nether Blood Qi. He uncovered their ambush too late to save the others, and the chapter ended with Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen secretly preparing a countermeasure while the conspirators moved to kill the survivors.

• You Shan joined Wu Tong’s expedition, and he carried the group deeper through the Soul-Snatching Algae.
• Ye Yu sensed Black Mountain Old Man nearby and warned Feng Qiwen to be cautious.
• At an undersea ravine, Ye Yu recognized Nine Nether Blood Qi in the Soul-Snatching Algae and shouted for everyone to retreat.
• A hidden formation trapped most of the group and dissolved their bodies into blood qi, while Ye Yu, Feng Qiwen, and Xiang Junyan escaped it.
• Ye Yu accused Wu Tong, You Shan, and Black Mountain Old Man of setting the trap and revealed that Black Mountain Old Man had planted a restriction in Wu Yue.
• Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen secretly formed Spiritual Seals beneath them as Wu Tong urged the conspirators to kill the survivors before they could reveal the plot.

Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen tricked Black Mountain Old Man and You Shan with a false communication formation before escaping into the Deep Sea Secluded Valley. Inside, Feng Qiwen experienced the Nine Nether Blood Qi firsthand and discovered Ye Yu could absorb it.

• Xiang Junyan used a jade talisman to immobilize everyone for ten breaths, then abandoned Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen and fled.
• After the restraint ended, Wu Tong chased Xiang Junyan while Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen activated a formation that appeared to send a message, then leaped into the valley.
• Black Mountain Old Man and You Shan realized the spirit orb had not carried a message and found Feng Qiwen's real communication orb after Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen had escaped.
• The Nine Nether Blood Qi began corroding Feng Qiwen's body, but Ye Yu stopped the damage with azure light.
• Feng Qiwen recognized the Nine Nether Blood Qi and saw Ye Yu absorbing it, realizing how much Ye Yu had endured.

Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen found Azure Heaven Palace submerged in a vast Nine Nether Blood Spring, where Ye Yu saw a vision of Luo Ying’s master speaking about seeking immortality. Elsewhere, Wu Tong, You Shan, and Black Mountain Old Man entered the Deep Sea Abyss and realized they had absorbed deadly Nine Nether Blood Qi.

• Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen crossed the Soul-Snatching Algae formation and discovered a vast Nine Nether Blood Spring with Azure Heaven Palace rising from its center.
• Ye Yu gave Feng Qiwen enough power to endure the Nine Nether Blood Qi for five days, then dove alone toward Azure Heaven Palace.
• Ye Yu found Soul-Snatching Algae binding the palace and sensed that Azure Heaven Palace was suppressing something terrifying beneath it.
• At the bronze gate, Ye Yu witnessed a vision of Luo Ying’s master explaining why he sought immortality before flying away, leaving Luo Ying to await his return.
• Wu Tong, You Shan, and Black Mountain Old Man entered the Deep Sea Abyss protected by essence blood, then realized they had absorbed Nine Nether Blood Qi.
• Black Mountain Old Man cursed Wu Tong after recognizing that the deadly blood qi would eventually kill them.

Ye Yu entered Azure Heaven Palace and found Luo Ying in a bronze coffin, connected to the Soul-Snatching Algae. Luo Ying revealed that a Giant Spirit Race member was beneath the palace, crushed it when it tried to raise the palace, and returned to her coffin after wondering whether the Golden Age had arrived.

• Black Mountain Old Man and Wu Tong panicked after discovering that Soul-Snatching Algae contained Nine Nether Blood Qi, while You Shan reminded them that Ye Yu had survived it.
• Feng Qiwen waited anxiously as the Nine Nether Blood Spring began to boil, while Ye Yu entered Azure Heaven Palace and found spirit crystals and a bronze coffin surrounded by Soul-Snatching Algae.
• Ye Yu recognized the corpse in the coffin as Luo Ying, and she rose to reveal a Giant Spirit Race member trying to push up the palace from below.
• Luo Ying shook the seabed, and the giant lifted Azure Heaven Palace above the sea as Soul-Snatching Algae wrapped around it; she then crushed the giant and submerged the palace again.
• Luo Ying wondered whether the Golden Age had arrived, and Ye Yu asked if she was a corpse puppet before she returned to her coffin.

Ye Yu uncovered the Giant Spirit Race’s deception in Azure Heaven Palace and attacked the impostor posing as Luo Ying. With the palace still held above the Nine Nether Blood Spring, he faced the crystalline enemy and the surrounding Giant Spirit Race members alone.

• Luo Ying asked Ye Yu to destroy her body, while Wu Tong, You Shan, and Black Mountain Old Man tried to leave Deep Sea Valley.
• A crystalline figure killed Black Mountain Old Man and devoured his Nascent Soul, then the Giant Spirit Race members surrounded Wu Tong and You Shan; You Shan abandoned Wu Tong, who was killed and eaten.
• Luo Ying showed Ye Yu the attack through a screen of light and urged him to stop the Giant Spirit Race from escaping, but Ye Yu suspected her story and struck her with the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Ye Yu revealed that the apparent Luo Ying was a one-armed crystalline impostor and that the real Luo Ying lay unconscious in a bronze coffin; he used the Void Sky Cauldron to halt Azure Heaven Palace’s separation from the Nine Nether Blood Spring.
• The impostor attacked Ye Yu, and more than twenty Giant Spirit Race members surrounded him at Azure Heaven Palace’s entrance.
• The Giant Spirit Race members taunted Ye Yu about humanity’s long enslavement, and Ye Yu asked whether they understood humanity very well.

Ye Yu drew on the power of Karma to lure cultivators into Azure Heaven Palace and fight the Giant Spirit Race. He escaped with the unconscious Luo Ying as the palace’s traps claimed the cultivators who rushed inside.

• Ye Yu contacted Feng Qiwen and gathered spiritual power from the sea, raising his cultivation to mid Void Refining.
• Feng Qiwen pretended to warn the approaching cultivators away from Azure Heaven Palace, prompting most of them to enter instead.
• The Giant Spirit Race members charged at Ye Yu to seize his power, but Ye Yu cut several of them apart with his sword.
• Ye Yu used the Void Sky Cauldron to take Luo Ying and escaped through the palace gates as cultivators rushed inside for spirit crystals.
• The palace pulled the cultivators’ Nascent Souls from their bodies, and Ye Yu realized he had drawn Nine Nether Blood Qi into Azure Heaven Palace with the Soul-Snatching Algae’s power.

Ye Yu tried to imprint Luo Ying while her consciousness remained dormant, then learned that Wu Yue had been captured by the Xu family. He and Feng Qiwen found Fat Monk devastated after Wu Yue left him, and Ye Yu explained why she had chosen to return to her mother.

• Ye Yu took Feng Qiwen to a hidden cave, preserved Luo Ying's body, and spent a day preparing a puppet-like imprint for her.
• Luo Ying murmured that she would protect the Azure Heaven Palace for her master, and Ye Yu stored her in the Void Sky Cauldron before leaving the cave.
• Ye Yu told Feng Qiwen that the intruders were the Giant Spirit Race, then revealed that Wu Yue had fallen into the Xu family's hands.
• Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen found Fat Monk beside a heap of garbage, where he broke down and blamed himself for Wu Yue leaving.
• Ye Yu calmed Fat Monk and said Wu Yue had returned to her mother because she knew what made her comfortable and lived in the present.

Fat Monk reconsidered his beliefs after talking with Ye Yu, then joined Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen for a meal. Back at the inn, Xu Xiuwan announced plans to refine Wu Yue’s Nine Yin Nether Body in a few days, while Ye Yu weighed the strength of the Xu and Ye Families’ forces.

• Fat Monk accepted Ye Yu’s view that he might have been wrong, then recovered his spirits and left with Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen.
• Ye Yu, Feng Qiwen, and Fat Monk returned to the inn, where Fat Monk ordered a table of spirit fish.
• Xu Xiuwan arrived with Lin Wanrong, Wu Yue, and others, and Ye Ku entered with members of the Ye Family.
• Wu Yue complained that Fat Monk had made her suffer, while Lin Wanrong tried to defend him.
• Xu Xiuwan said the Xu Family would soon refine Wu Yue’s Nine Yin Nether Body, and Ye Yu judged that their forces were not a match.

Ye Yu avoided revealing that he recognized a Giant Spirit Race impostor posing as the Black Mountain Old Man while Xu Liu kept watch on him. Back at the inn, Ye Yu asked the Fat Monk to help with a task involving the Black Mountain Old Man.

• Ye Yu agreed to go with Xu Xiuwan but left the inn after Xu An warned him he would soon lose his mother's attention.
• Xu Liu introduced himself as Ye Yu's protector, then followed him to meet the Black Mountain Old Man.
• Ye Yu recognized that the figure had ice-blue pupils and belonged to the Giant Spirit Race, but claimed he had mistaken him for someone else.
• Ye Yu suspected the Giant Spirit Race had infiltrated the island and chose not to expose its members or provoke them.
• A family copied the Fat Monk by smearing garbage on themselves, and Ye Yu stopped the Fat Monk's quarrel with Feng Qiwen to ask him about the Black Mountain Old Man.

Ye Yu sent the Fat Monk to alert the Giant Spirit Race to the Ye and Xu families’ bloodline power, intending to force those families to respond to the threat. After Xu Xiuwan returned with Wu Yue, a group of unfamiliar cultivators arrived at the inn, and Ye Yu sensed a familiar, unpleasant quality in Gong Lei.

• Ye Yu told the Fat Monk and Feng Qiwen that the Black Mountain Old Man belonged to the Giant Spirit Race and explained why the families needed to discover the danger themselves.
• Ye Yu sent the Fat Monk to mention the Ye and Xu families’ Bloodline Power to the Giant Spirit Race, and Feng Qiwen questioned his motives.
• Ye Yu admitted he did dirty things for himself and left Feng Qiwen alone in the room.
• Xu Xiuwan returned with Wu Yue, who showed off the spirit fruits she had been given, while Xu An glared at Ye Yu.
• Gong Lei and three women entered the inn, and Ye Yu noticed that Gong Lei reminded him of Ye Xuan and carried a familiar aura.

Fat Monk's old sect companions confronted him and urged him to return, while Ye Yu discovered their presence and intervened when they insulted Fat Monk. Fat Monk stopped Ye Yu from killing Gong Youxia, but she vowed to take revenge once her Senior Disciple Sister and Martial Uncle arrived.

• Fat Monk returned and recognized Gong Lei, Gong Dongxiang, and Gong Youxia, who blamed him for past events and urged him to return to the sect.
• Gong Lei offered Fat Monk the Holy Son position, but Fat Monk said he was doing well and prepared to leave with Ye Yu.
• Gong Youxia insulted Fat Monk, so Ye Yu seized her by the neck; Xu Liu and Xu Xiuwan restrained Gong Dongxiang and Gong Qiumei.
• Xu Xiuwan offered to cover for Ye Yu, but Fat Monk asked him to let Gong Youxia go, and Ye Yu flung her aside before returning to his room.
• Xu Xiuwan ordered Xu Liu and Xu Qing to guard Ye Yu closely, while Gong Youxia threatened Fat Monk with revenge after her Senior Disciple Sister and Martial Uncle arrived.
• Fat Monk urged Gong Youxia to let the past go, leaving everyone surprised by his Buddhist response.

Ye Yu questioned Xu An about the Xu family’s interest in him and learned that Xu An expected Xu Xiuwan never to favor him. After Xu An secretly urged Ye Yu to leave, Xu Xiuwan explained the Xu family’s crisis and Ye Yu asked what she would do if he really were her nephew.

• The Fat Monk admitted he had completed Ye Yu’s instructions, while Xu Liu and Xu Qing listened outside and Xu Xiuwan dismissed Ye Yu’s apparent threat as a bluff.
• Ye Yu brought wine to Xu An’s room and directly asked why the Xu family was watching him.
• Ye Yu suggested Xu An might die before Xu Xiuwan could turn her attention to Ye Yu, and Xu An showed no concern about that possibility.
• After drinking with Ye Yu, Xu An quietly advised him to leave if he got the chance.
• Xu Xiuwan warned Ye Yu not to act recklessly and described how the curse had left the Xu family’s younger generation without fighting spirit.
• Ye Yu asked Xu Xiuwan what she would do if he truly were the nephew she had mentioned.

Ye Yu learned that Xu Xiuwan would kill him if he proved to be Autumn Water’s child, then joined the Xu Family’s gathering as Xu An prepared to break the curse by absorbing Wu Yue’s primordial yin. As Wu Yue writhed in pain and called for help, the Fat Monk watched in silence, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Xu Xiuwan tested Ye Yu with her jade bracelet, then admitted she would kill Autumn Water’s child to secure the Xu Family’s inheritance.
• Ye Yu told Feng Qiwen that pressure could divide even a united family, then spent five days cultivating as the Xu and Ye Families gathered.
• Xu Xiuwan brought Ye Yu to a spirit-stone platform, where the Xu Family assembled twelve late Void Refining experts and the Ye Family arrived with members of the Giant Spirit Race.
• Xu Yunshan and Ye Fei appeared as Body Integration Realm experts, and Xu An entered the Nine Heavens Shrouding Array to begin the ritual with Wu Yue.
• Xu An gave Wu Yue a pill that triggered severe pain and blue light at her dantian, while the onlookers stayed silent and she begged the Fat Monk to save her.

Xu An’s attempt to use Wu Yue’s Nine Yin Nether Body failed when the curse consumed him, and Ye Yu learned that someone had altered the Xu family’s fate to protect him. As the Xu family prepared to leave, Ye Fei claimed Ye Yu as a member of the Ye family and refused to let him go.

• Gong Lei tried to provoke Fat Monk into rescuing Wu Yue, but Fat Monk did not move, and Feng Qiwen rebuked Gong Lei and Gong Youxia.
• Xu An reached the peak of Spirit Transformation, but the curse erupted and reduced him to a blackened skeleton as the tribulation clouds gathered.
• Ye Yu saw that Xu An’s Fate Lock remained and learned from the Cauldron Spirit that someone in Yan Shang Cave Mansion had changed the Xu family’s fate to protect him.
• Xu Xiuwan killed Lin Wanrong after the Nine Yin Nether Body proved useless, while Wu Yue blamed Fat Monk for not taking her away earlier.
• As the Xu family prepared to leave, Ye Fei stopped them and declared that Ye Yu was a member of the Ye family.

The Xu and Ye Families clashed with the Giant Spirit Race as Ye Yu tried to escape, but Xu Xiuwan blocked him and revealed she intended to make him her servant. Ye Yu fought her until her icy domain slowed his movements, leaving him in danger.

• Ye Fei claimed Ye Yu belonged to the Ye Family, and Xu Yunshan agreed to let both families keep him rather than allow the Xu Family to take him alone.
• Black Mountain Old Man killed a Ye Family member, then a Giant Spirit appeared from the Black Sea and the Giant Spirit Race attacked both families.
• Ye Fei and Xu Yunshan joined forces against the giant while the Xu and Ye Families fought the other Giant Spirit Race members.
• The Fat Monk charged into battle, but Ye Yu grabbed Feng Qiwen and tried to leave with him.
• Xu Xiuwan stopped Ye Yu, and the two exchanged dozens of blows before she unleashed an icy domain that slowed him and called him a useful servant.

Ye Yu escaped Xu Xiuwan’s domain with a counterattack, while the Fat Monk saved Gong Youxia and renounced his debt to her before taking the Dharma name Wangchen. At the Azure Heaven Palace’s stretch of sea, Ye Yu released Luo Ying and sent Feng Qiwen to place her in the bronze coffin as he prepared a concealed technique.

• Xu Xiuwan froze Ye Yu and Feng Qiwen, but Ye Yu caught her off guard with his black-and-white domain and a sword strike that sent her flying.
• Ye Yu grabbed Feng Qiwen and fled, while Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku pursued him.
• The Fat Monk rescued Gong Youxia from the Giant Spirit Race cultivators and told her they were even before declaring his Dharma name was Wangchen and leaving to find himself.
• Ye Yu stopped in the sea controlled by the Azure Heaven Palace, released Luo Ying from the Void Sky Cauldron, and told Feng Qiwen to put her in the bronze coffin.
• Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku focused on the Void Sky Cauldron as Ye Yu formed hand seals and a strange ripple spread beneath his feet.

Ye Yu fought Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku after sealing them inside the Void Sky Cauldron, but his enhanced power waned as the two gained the upper hand. Meanwhile, Feng Qiwen placed Luo Ying in Azure Heaven Palace, where she awakened and turned her gaze toward the sea; as Xu Xiuwan struck at Ye Yu, the water began to boil again.

• Ye Yu absorbed spiritual energy from the Soul-Snatching Algae, reached late Void Refining, and trapped Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku inside the Void Sky Cauldron’s barrier.
• Ye Yu battled Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku, whose domains and Bloodline Powers helped them resist his suppression and attack him together.
• Feng Qiwen carried the decaying Luo Ying to Azure Heaven Palace and placed her in the bronze coffin, reversing her decay and stopping the palace’s ascent.
• Luo Ying awoke, rose from the coffin, and glared toward the deep sea and then the surface.
• Ye Yu’s enhancement ended, leaving him badly wounded as Xu Xiuwan approached and swung her sword at him.
• Ye Yu smiled as the sea began boiling again.

Ye Yu forced Luo Ying to return to the Azure Heaven Palace by threatening her corpse puppet and the palace, then bargained for what the palace had left behind. After Luo Ying handed over a Ring of Holding, Ye Yu turned to Xu Xiuwan and asked why she had tried to take his body.

• Soul-Snatching Algae and the Azure Heaven Palace rose from the sea, and Luo Ying appeared with Ye Yu in her grasp as he held a Haotian Mirror fragment to her glabella.
• Ye Yu revealed that he had planted a rune in Luo Ying's body and warned that destroying her corpse puppet could also bring down the Azure Heaven Palace, forcing her to take him, Xu Xiuwan, and Ye Ku inside.
• Luo Ying returned the Azure Heaven Palace to the Deep Sea Ravine, sealing the passage used by the Giant Spirit Race, while Xu Xiuwan and Ye Ku discovered they could not contact the outside world.
• Ye Yu persuaded Luo Ying to give him the Azure Heaven Palace's hidden leftovers by promising to help find her former master, and she produced a Ring of Holding from the Soul-Snatching Algae.
• Ye Yu approached the bound Xu Xiuwan and asked why she had gone to such lengths to take his body.