Recaps

Yang Yu sold thirty-two antiques to the Tongbao Clearance House for twenty-eight million and learned more about the Ghost Infant Sect while the antiques were appraised. He then offered to sell his Mortal Shedding Treasures as well.

• Yang Yu accepted Mi Ke’s offer to sell his antiques at the Tongbao Clearance House.
• A shop assistant escorted Yang Yu to a private Side Hall after learning he had thirty-two antiques to sell.
• While waiting for the appraisal, Yang Yu learned that the Ghost Infant Sect was led by the Heaven Tier expert Du Xingze.
• Old Yang appraised all thirty-two antiques as genuine and valued them at 27.6 million.
• The shop assistant raised the payment to twenty-eight million, and Yang Yu agreed to sell his Mortal Shedding Treasures there too.

After selling his antiques, Yang Yu received a VIP card and a letter of recommendation that would improve the price he could get for Mortal Shedding Treasures. He agreed to let Mi Ke guide him to the Divine Armament Pavilion in exchange for part of her commission, and they arrived at the shop on the thirty-fifth floor.

• Yang Yu emerged from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House with a VIP card and a letter recommending him to the Divine Armament Pavilion.
• Yang Yu told Mi Ke he planned to sell his Mortal Shedding Treasures and asked whether she would accompany him.
• Mi Ke recognized the value of his recommendation and offered him thirty percent of the commission she earned from guiding him.
• Yang Yu accepted Mi Ke's offer, and she stopped trying to flirt with him and guided him efficiently.
• Yang Yu and Mi Ke reached the Divine Armament Pavilion on the thirty-fifth floor.

Yang Yu visited the lavish Divine Armament Pavilion to sell treasures and possibly buy weapons, carrying a recommendation letter from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House. The chapter ended as he handed the letter to clerk Zhang Ning.

• Yang Yu admired the Divine Armament Pavilion’s size and speculated about the influence of the clerk at the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House.
• Yang Yu felt the pavilion’s ice-and-fire formations refine his Cosmic Force as he approached its entrance.
• Zhang Ning welcomed Yang Yu and led him inside, where Yang Yu was stunned by the extravagant natural-treasure decorations.
• Zhang Ning asked whether Yang Yu wanted to buy or sell, and Yang Yu said he had come to sell and might also buy treasures.
• Yang Yu placed the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House’s recommendation letter in front of Zhang Ning.

Yang Yu brought a recommendation letter to the Divine Armament Pavilion and offered five Mortal Shedding Treasures for sale. The appraiser discovered that his Guzheng-shaped treasure was a rare soul-attack artifact that could be worth over a hundred million.

• Zhang Ning verified Yang Yu's letter from the Tongbao Antique Trading House and escorted him to a private room.
• Yang Yu displayed five Mortal Shedding Treasures, and Zhang Ning recognized that the deal was worth more than fifty million.
• Yang Yu let Zhang Ning believe he was backed by a powerful organization while discreetly learning about cultivator factions in the region.
• The appraiser valued the three inferior-grade treasures at twenty-five million and another ordinary-grade treasure at twenty million.
• The appraiser discovered that Yang Yu's Guzheng-shaped treasure was a rare soul-attack artifact whose value might exceed a hundred million.

Yang Yu sold five Mortal Shedding Treasures for 160 million, then spent most of the money on equipment, repair materials, and supplies at the Divine Armament Pavilion. After Mi Ke transferred him four million from her commission, Yang Yu left with his purchases and about 40 million remaining.

• Yang Yu decided not to keep the Guzheng and agreed to sell all five Mortal Shedding Treasures to Zhang Ning for 160 million.
• Yang Yu bought materials to repair the Yama Battle Blade and Shapeshifting Armor, ordinary battle boots, a helmet and gloves, and the single-use Thunderbolt Golden Needles.
• Yang Yu purchased materials to unseal the second page of the Insect Codex and a year’s supply of Ration Pills, leaving about 40 million in his bank account.
• Mi Ke waited for Yang Yu outside the Divine Armament Pavilion and transferred him four million, his agreed share of her commission.

Du Xingze ordered Elder Xu to kill Yang Yu and recover the treasures he had taken from an abandoned Immortal Spirit Ghost Market, hoping they might lead him to the missing half of his Psychic Jade. As the Ghost Infant Sect force headed for Yang Yu’s home, Yang Yu waited for Zhao Zixuan to emerge from her cocoon as the Blade Queen.

• Du Xingze examined his supreme-grade Psychic Jade and explained that it was one half of a pair that could reveal the tomb of Tu Baili.
• Ahai reported that four Ghost Infant Sect disciples had been killed and that an abandoned Immortal Spirit Ghost Market nearby had been looted.
• Du Xingze ordered Elder Xu to bring back Yang Yu’s head and the treasures from the market, then decided to investigate the market himself.
• Yang Yu finished sorting his natural treasures, unsealed the Yama Battle Blade and Shapeshifting Armor, and improved both Mortal Shedding Treasures.
• Yang Yu waited in his study as Zhao Zixuan’s Insect Cocoon neared hatching, while Elder Xu led Ghost Infant Sect fighters toward Yang Yu’s home.

Ghost Infant Sect Elder Xu led a force to kill Yang Yu, while Yang Yu waited for the Blade Queen to hatch inside a sealed study. After a sniper's ambush failed, the sect launched an assault on his apartment building as the cocoon began to crack.

• Elder Xu led fifty or sixty Ghost Infant Sect disciples to Yang Yu's residential complex and confirmed he lived in apartment 602.
• Yang Yu contained the Blade Queen's growing Cosmic Force inside a barrier while her cocoon expanded and began to crack.
• A sniper fired at Yang Yu, but he sensed the killing intent and dodged the shot, which blasted a hole in the floor.
• Meng Jiu reported the failed ambush to Elder Xu, who ordered the force to attack.
• Seven Human Tier experts and the Mortal Peak fighters scaled the building toward Yang Yu's floor while Elder Xu waited below.

Yang Yu fought off a Ghost Infant Sect assassination squad after its members cut the power to his apartment building. He escaped the residential area after clashing with an acquired human rank attacker, vowing to repay the sect if he survived.

• The Ghost Infant Sect cut the apartment building’s power and sent armed men to attack Yang Yu in his study.
• Yang Yu deflected bullets with the Yama Battle Blade while the Blade Queen’s cocoon vaporized the shots aimed at it.
• Yang Yu charged the attackers, killing several with his blade and a powered punch.
• Hearing civilians flee through the building, Yang Yu decided to draw the fight away from them.
• An acquired human rank attacker struck from the apartment, and Yang Yu’s slash collided with the attacker’s flaming fist projection.
• The shock wave carried Yang Yu away from the residential area as he challenged the Ghost Infant Sect to pursue him.

Yang Yu fled the Ghost Infant Sect’s pursuit but discovered the wilderness was surrounded by ambushes and realized he had to fight his way out. After surviving an explosion and a hail of bullets, he charged into the disciples as seven Human Tier experts attacked him from three directions.

• Yang Yu escaped his apartment, pursued by Hong Tao and the Ghost Infant Sect’s forces, while Elder Xu followed close behind.
• Yang Yu fled into the wilderness as heavy rain began, then stopped short of an explosion planted ahead of him.
• Yang Yu sensed ambushes surrounding him and decided to fight rather than keep trying to escape.
• Ghost Infant Sect disciples opened fire, but Yang Yu’s Mortal Shedding Treasures weakened the bullets before they could seriously hurt him.
• Yang Yu charged into the disciples, and seven Human Tier experts attacked him from three directions.

Yang Yu turned a deadly ambush by seven Ghost Infant Sect Human-Tier cultivators into a counterattack by summoning twenty Giant Mantis Beasts. As the beasts tore through the black-clad forces, Yang Yu killed a young swordsman with a single saber strike.

• Seven Ghost Infant Sect Human-Tier cultivators attacked Yang Yu together while he was airborne.
• Yang Yu summoned twenty Giant Mantis Beasts, which blocked the attacks and slaughtered the black-clad men.
• Yang Yu charged the seven stunned cultivators with fifteen Giant Mantis Beasts while the other five hunted the remaining soldiers.
• Yang Yu overwhelmed a young swordsman’s defense, shattered his sword, and cleaved him in two.

Yang Yu and his Giant Mantis Beasts slaughtered the Ghost Infant Sect’s Mortal Peak and Human Tier fighters, but Elder Xu arrived as an Earth Rank expert. Yang Yu beheaded the wounded Hong Tao and faced Elder Xu’s enormous Cosmic Force palm.

• Yang Yu battled Hong Tao while the Giant Mantis Beasts surrounded the other Ghost Infant Sect experts, and a fourth beast joined an attack that killed Zhao Tong.
• Yang Yu gained the upper hand against Hong Tao and struck him down after catching an opening.
• Elder Xu arrived and restrained Yang Yu’s killing blow with his overwhelming pressure, while the Giant Mantis Beast Squad killed two more Human Tier cultivators.
• Yang Yu ignored Elder Xu’s warning, beheaded Hong Tao, and challenged the Earth Rank expert.
• Elder Xu attacked with a vast purple-black Cosmic Force palm that pinned Yang Yu and most of the Giant Mantis Beasts in place.

Yang Yu activated Life Source Burst and challenged Elder Xu, unleashing power strong enough to contend with an Earth Rank expert. Their battle escalated, with Yang Yu gaining the upper hand as Elder Xu feared what he might become.

• Yang Yu used Life Source Burst, burning his Cosmic Force and Life Energy to amplify his strength.
• Yang Yu shattered Elder Xu's enormous palm attack with a crimson blade strike and charged at him.
• Elder Xu met Yang Yu in the air, and the two began a fierce battle with blade light and palm strikes.
• Yang Yu's blade skills improved rapidly as he fought, and he forced Elder Xu onto the defensive.
• Elder Xu grew alarmed and resolved that Yang Yu must die before he could threaten the Ghost Infant Sect.

Elder Xu unleashed the Strength Frenzy Scroll, a Magitech Civilization treasure that greatly increased his power, and charged Yang Yu. As Yang Yu realized Earth held more than descendants of the Immortal Civilization, he prepared a newly conceived saber technique to meet Elder Xu’s attack.

• Elder Xu drove Yang Yu back with a fierce barrage of palm strikes and revealed a radiant scroll as his trump card.
• Elder Xu explained that the Strength Frenzy Scroll, made by the Western archmage Suo'esi, could multiply an Earth Rank expert’s physical strength and tore it open to activate its power.
• The scroll’s magical source energy enveloped Elder Xu, boosting his aura while leaving three uses in the treasured scroll.
• Yang Yu recognized the scroll as a Magitech Civilization treasure and questioned how its descendants could coexist and trade with those of the Immortal Civilization on Earth.
• As Elder Xu charged, Yang Yu gathered his Cosmic Force into the Yama Battle Blade and prepared to test a saber technique he had conceived.

Yang Yu broke through to Human-Blade Unity and fought Elder Xu in a head-on clash, leaving both badly injured and Yang Yu unconscious in a lake. As Giant Mantis Beasts tried to rescue him, a powerful purple presence appeared above the residential district where he lived.

• Yang Yu entered Human-Blade Unity and gathered his strength for a decisive attack against Elder Xu.
• Yang Yu charged at Elder Xu at supersonic speed, and their attacks collided in a devastating explosion.
• Yang Yu was blasted into a lake unconscious, while Elder Xu suffered severe internal injuries and began losing strength.
• Giant Mantis Beasts rushed into the lake to try to rescue Yang Yu, whom Elder Xu believed was dead or crippled.
• A dazzling purple streak appeared above Yang Yu's residential district, and its soul-piercing cry alarmed Elder Xu.

After emerging as a Blade Queen, Zhao Zixuan flew to Yang Yu and confronted Elder Xu, whom she blamed for harming her master. She killed Elder Xu in a close-range fight, then returned to her human appearance.

• Zhao Zixuan transformed into a Blade Queen, flew to the battlefield, and sensed Yang Yu gravely wounded but alive near a lake.
• Zhao Zixuan demanded to know whether Elder Xu had harmed her master, and Elder Xu challenged her to attack.
• Zhao Zixuan and Elder Xu exchanged hundreds of blows in a fierce battle that tore up the ground.
• Zhao Zixuan slashed Elder Xu's throat, killing him, and her armor and spikes retracted beneath her skin.
• Zhao Zixuan returned to her appearance as a university beauty, having killed an Earth Rank expert.

After the battle, Zhao Zixuan took the unconscious Yang Yu and the recovered spoils away, while the Giant Mantis Beasts cleared the battlefield. Hidden in a mountain cave near Shangjing City, Yang Yu began unsealing the Insect Codex’s second page to reach earth rank before the Ghost Infant Sect attacked again.

• Zhao Zixuan gathered the Ghost Infant Sect and Ghost Shadow Gate spoils as the Giant Mantis Beasts devoured the corpses and erased the battlefield.
• Zhao Zixuan affirmed his loyalty to Yang Yu, then led the Giant Mantis Beast Squad away with Yang Yu and the spoils.
• Zhao Zixuan returned to Yang Yu’s apartment, ordered the newly evolved Giant Mantis King Number One to protect Yang Yu, and flew to retrieve the natural treasures.
• After Zhao Zixuan brought Yang Yu to a remote mountain cave, Yang Yu regained consciousness and began unsealing the Insect Codex’s second page to strengthen himself before further attacks.

After Yang Yu broke the Insect Codex’s second-page seal, Du Xingze ordered the Ghost Infant Sect to hunt him down and conceal the deadly clash from the public. At the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House, Zhou Zifeng demonstrated his formidable skill and heard about Yang Yu’s victory.

• Yang Yu burned through natural treasures worth fifty million yuan to break the Insect Codex’s second-page seal and absorb its inheritance power.
• Du Xingze raged over the Ghost Infant Sect’s defeat and ordered dozens of Earth Rank elders to find Yang Yu and bring him back dead or alive.
• The Ghost Infant Sect mobilized its forces and used surveillance footage to trace Yang Yu, while paying a price to keep the government from publicizing the incident.
• Zhou Zifeng fought Uncle Liu in the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House’s underground space and revealed that he could conceal his aura while unleashing peak Earth Rank power.
• Uncle Liu told Zhou Zifeng that Yang Yu had killed the Earth Rank leader of the Ghost Infant Sect’s ambush despite being a Human Tier cultivator.

Zhou Zifeng agreed to recruit Yang Yu into the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House, but chose to watch him secretly before offering help. Meanwhile, Yang Yu completed the Insect Codex’s second inheritance and advanced to the Earth Rank.

• Uncle Liu showed Zhou Zifeng information about Yang Yu and suggested secretly helping him before recruiting him.
• Zhou Zifeng approved the plan but ordered Uncle Liu to watch Yang Yu and intervene only if he was in danger.
• Factions across Shangjing City began searching for Yang Yu to recruit him, observe him, or hand him over to the Ghost Infant Sect.
• Yang Yu absorbed the remaining power and knowledge from the Insect Codex’s second page, greatly strengthening his body.
• Yang Yu rose from the cave after advancing to the Earth Rank, and Zhao Zixuan knelt to congratulate him.

Yang Yu studied Zhao Zixuan’s transformed body, granted him second-level command authority over the war insects, and heard his detailed account of what happened while Yang Yu was unconscious. After weighing the Ghost Infant Sect’s strength and his own plans to grow stronger, Yang Yu decided they had to leave their cave before the sect found them.

• Yang Yu examined Zhao Zixuan and praised his Blade Queen transformation, then appointed him a trusted commander of the war insects.
• Zhao Zixuan recounted everything that happened after Yang Yu lost consciousness, including the aftermath of the battle with Elder Xu and their route afterward.
• Yang Yu considered the danger posed by Du Xingze and the Ghost Infant Sect and decided to postpone their confrontation until he had strengthened his Fate Soul and legion.
• Yang Yu revealed that his evolved Life Energy could create stronger Giant Mantis Beasts and planned to expand the legion before fighting the Ghost Infant Sect.
• Yang Yu warned Zhao Zixuan that the Ghost Infant Sect could find their cave within three days and ordered him to pack so they could seek a safer hiding place.

Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan reached a remote swamp in the wildlife reserve to hide from the Ghost Infant Sect while he cultivated and tested his Life Energy. After building a concealed underground dwelling, Yang Yu vowed to destroy the sect when he returned.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan traveled southeast from their previous cave to a secluded swamp in the wildlife reserve.
• Yang Yu chose the reserve as a temporary refuge, planning to cultivate for two or three months and use its wildlife to test his Life Energy.
• Yang Yu released his Giant Mantis Beasts and ordered Number One to clear the surrounding area and dig an underground dwelling.
• The Giant Mantis Beasts killed and devoured nearby creatures, then built a reinforced underground home for the group.
• Yang Yu ate with Zhao Zixuan by the campfire and vowed to wipe out the Ghost Infant Sect when his cultivation was complete.

Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan continued their training in the Wasteland Stone Forest while Yang Yu refined his blade mastery and practiced the Thunder Blade Art. After a month in hiding from the Ghost Infant Sect, he demonstrated the art’s growing power by cleaving a massive boulder in two.

• Yang Yu defeated Zhao Zixuan again in their 101st sparring match, bringing her record against him to nine wins.
• Yang Yu assessed that his blade mastery had reached a bottleneck and hoped a life-threatening battle might help him attain the unity of heaven and man.
• Yang Yu practiced the Thunder Blade Art, which could greatly increase the power and speed of his strikes as its stages advanced.
• Yang Yu spent a month cultivating and sparring while evading the Ghost Infant Sect, killing a scout who discovered him before the scout could report back.
• After more than a thousand repetitions, Yang Yu used the Thunder Blade Art to split a boulder weighing over a hundred tons down the middle.

Yang Yu perfected the second stage of the Thunder Blade Art, strengthened his Fate Soul, and discovered how to extract genes and modify organisms with Life Energy. As he prepared to return to Shangjing City, Zhao Zixuan brought news that experimental genes could improve his Giant Mantis Beast force.

• Yang Yu judged his Thunder Blade Art's second stage unstable and spent two more weeks training until he stabilized it and doubled his blade attacks' power.
• Yang Yu shifted most of his cultivation toward his Fate Soul and experimented on wasteland insects, discovering a method to extract genes and modify organisms with Life Energy.
• After more than two months in the wasteland, Yang Yu neared the limit of what the second piece of the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score could do for his Fate Soul and anticipated returning to Shangjing City.
• Zhao Zixuan entered the Quiet Room and reported that genes from the insects and venomous creatures in the laboratory could make the Giant Mantis Beast force more powerful.

Yang Yu learned that Zhao Zixuan had extracted powerful genes from ordinary insects and venomous creatures, then inspected the ten finished gene preparations in the laboratory. The preparations showed a range of effects, mostly focused on enhancing the body.

• Zhao Zixuan told Yang Yu that the extracted genes could greatly strengthen the Giant Mantis Beasts and led him to the laboratory.
• Yang Yu saw that most creatures in the laboratory cages had nearly died during the violent gene extraction process.
• Yang Yu ordered Zhao Zixuan to gather and heal every surviving creature, and Zhao Zixuan sent a Giant Mantis Beast to move them into treatment vessels.
• Zhao Zixuan showed Yang Yu the ten gene preparations stored in specially made crystal vessels.
• Yang Yu inspected the preparations and found genes that enhanced traits such as movement, strength, armor, reflexes, and vision.

Yang Yu studied ten super-gene preparations and used repeated experiments to find an optimal enhancement combination for the Giant Mantis Beasts. After three months in the wasteland, he reached the peak of Earth Rank, perfected the beasts’ genetic enhancements, and he and Zhao Zixuan also underwent tailored procedures that greatly increased their strength.

• Zhao Zixuan gave Yang Yu detailed biological records identifying the species behind the ten super-gene preparations.
• Yang Yu learned that the genes could strengthen himself, Zhao Zixuan, and the Giant Mantis Beasts, but needed to be balanced to avoid creating weaknesses.
• Yang Yu repeatedly tested different gene combinations on the Number One Giant Mantis King, using life energy to remove genes whenever an experiment caused problems.
• After another half month, Yang Yu completed his life soul cultivation and reached the peak of Earth Rank.
• Yang Yu perfected the Giant Mantis Beasts’ genetic enhancement combination, and he and Zhao Zixuan underwent separate procedures that made them stronger.

After nearly a hundred days of training, Yang Yu prepared to return to Shangjing City and take on the Ghost Infant Sect, while Zhao Zixuan warned that he felt something terrible had happened. In the city, the sect tortured Zhao Zixuan’s parents for information about their son and Yang Yu.

• Yang Yu assembled his enhanced Giant Mantis Beasts and decided they were strong enough to face the Ghost Infant Sect’s forces, though Du Xingze remained a concern.
• Zhao Zixuan told Yang Yu he had felt uneasy for several days, so Yang Yu promised extra protection for him during the coming battle.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan set out for Shangjing City to settle their score with the Ghost Infant Sect.
• The Ghost Infant Sect captured Zhao Zixuan’s parents after tracing his connection to Yang Yu through surveillance footage.
• Liu Datong continued whipping Zhao Yuantang and threatening him for information, even though Zhao Yuantang insisted he knew nothing.