Recaps

Yang Yu survived the Insect Codex’s transformation, grew stronger, and gathered treasures while building his insect forces. After entering Shangjing City’s cultivator marketplace, he sought to sell his haul and find resources for unlocking the Codex’s second page.

• Yang Yu discovered an ancient book in a cavern, but a collapse left him injured and apparently killed his companions before the book swallowed him.
• Yang Yu unsealed the Insect Codex, endured its blood-red mist, and gained enhanced abilities and a reserve of Life Energy.
• Yang Yu tested Life Energy on creatures, created Giant Mantis Beasts, and cultivated his Fate Soul with the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score.
• Yang Yu bought Black-Spotted Tiger-Stripe Mantises and followed a strange aura to the ruins of the Immortal Spirit Ghost Market, where he collected antiques and Mortal Shedding Treasures.
• Yang Yu rescued Zhao Zixuan from Ghost Infant Sect disciples, killed the pursuers, and began transforming Zhao Zixuan into a Blade Queen.
• Yang Yu assessed and repaired some of his damaged treasures, then took his antiques and Mortal Shedding Treasures to the Ten Thousand Layers Tower.
• Mi Ke brought Yang Yu to a clearance dealer who could buy his antiques in bulk, though at about ten percent below market value.

Yang Yu sold his treasures, survived the Ghost Infant Sect’s ambush, and advanced to the Earth Rank with Zhao Zixuan’s help. After months of cultivation and strengthening his insect army, Yang Yu returned toward Shangjing City, while the Ghost Infant Sect seized Zhao Zixuan’s parents.

• Yang Yu sold antiques and Mortal Shedding Treasures at the Tongbao houses, earning a fortune and buying equipment and materials for his weapons and Insect Codex.
• Du Xingze sent Elder Xu and Ghost Infant Sect fighters after Yang Yu, who fought them in the wilderness with his Giant Mantis Beasts and killed Hong Tao before Elder Xu overwhelmed him.
• Yang Yu used Life Source Burst and fought Elder Xu with the Yama Battle Blade, but both were badly hurt, and Zhao Zixuan transformed into a Blade Queen and killed Elder Xu.
• Zhao Zixuan brought Yang Yu to a mountain cave, where Yang Yu used natural treasures to unseal the Insect Codex’s second page and advanced to the Earth Rank.
• Yang Yu appointed Zhao Zixuan commander of his war insects and moved with him to a secluded wildlife reserve, where they built an underground refuge and trained while evading the Ghost Infant Sect.
• Yang Yu developed a method to extract and balance genes to strengthen himself, Zhao Zixuan, and the Giant Mantis Beasts, then reached the peak of Earth Rank and completed their enhancements.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan set out for Shangjing City to confront the Ghost Infant Sect, while the sect captured Zhao Zixuan’s parents and Liu Datong tortured Zhao Yuantang for information.