Recaps

Liu Yu kept Guo Poyun as an information contact, sparred with Zhang Ziping, and accepted his invitation to the Consort Snow Pavilion. There, Liu Yu and Zhang Ziping watched a rogue cultivator lose his partner to a more powerful senior before their own entertainment arrived.

• Liu Yu replied to Guo Poyun that he would focus on cultivation for now but wanted to hear more about the Central Region.
• Zhuo Mengzhen told Liu Yu that Zhang Ziping was waiting in the Martial Arena, where Liu Yu defeated him in a sparring match.
• Zhang Ziping invited Liu Yu to the Consort Snow Pavilion, and Liu Yu agreed despite Zhuo Mengzhen’s displeasure.
• At the pavilion, Liu Yu and Zhang Ziping saw a white-robed female cultivator leave Xinghe to become Senior Liu’s concubine, while the pavilion’s enforcers dragged Xinghe outside.
• Liu Yu and Zhang Ziping discussed the breakup over food and wine, and the female cultivators arranged to entertain them finally arrived.

Liu Yu accompanied Zhang Ziping to the Consort Snow Pavilion, but refused to pursue the entertainers and left to preserve his relationship with Zhuo Mengzhen. On his way back through the Divine Capital, he reflected on how its grandeur left most cultivators feeling like insignificant outsiders.

• Zhang Ziping and Liu Yu chose female entertainers at the Consort Snow Pavilion and enjoyed the music, dancing, and food.
• Zhang Ziping, aroused by the entertainers, took two women into a side chamber while Liu Yu remained with his companions.
• Liu Yu stopped the entertainers from becoming too intimate, thinking of Zhuo Mengzhen and the value of keeping their relationship intact.
• Liu Yu dismissed the entertainers, left instructions for Zhang Ziping, and departed the Consort Snow Pavilion.
• Liu Yu walked through the Divine Capital at dusk and reflected that its cultivators seemed like insignificant passersby in a city that was not his home.

Liu Yu agreed to make Zhuo Mengzhen his fourth concubine after she demanded clarity about their relationship, then attended a gathering in Divine Capital and decided the city’s restrictions made it unsuitable for him. He planned to leave once he gathered the spirit herbs needed for three pills.

• Liu Yu returned to his residence, where he found Zhang Yi diligently cultivating and went to Zhuo Mengzhen’s room.
• Zhuo Mengzhen confronted Liu Yu about the scents of cosmetics on him, and he reassured her that nothing had happened with the brothel cultivators.
• Zhuo Mengzhen asked what their relationship meant, and Liu Yu named her his fourth concubine while refusing to make her his Dao companion.
• Liu Yu attended a gathering at Zhang Ziping’s urging but declined to socialize with the powerful young cultivators there.
• After recalling how Chu had overcome others’ contempt through strength, Liu Yu decided to leave Divine Capital once he gathered the herbs for the Origin-Congealing Pill, Azure Nether Pill, and Soul-Congealing Pill.

Liu Yu continued gathering rare spirit herbs and cultivating in the Divine Capital, then learned that the Fire Phoenix Clan had used the Nirvana Sea of Fire to devastate Ling Province and that the Zhang Household's Spirit Transformation ancestor had disappeared. Fearing the Zhang Household would face a reckoning, Liu Yu warned Zhang Ziping and ordered Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi to prepare to leave the Divine Capital.

• Liu Yu returned to his residence with spirit herbs and reflected on his pill-making profits, cultivation progress, and preparations to leave the Divine Capital.
• Guo Poyun sent Liu Yu a grave report that the demon race had routed the allied army at Lingwu City with the Nirvana Sea of Fire, while the Zhang Household's Spirit Transformation ancestor had disappeared.
• Liu Yu suspected human factions had contributed to the Zhang Household's defeat and concluded that remaining at its residence could put him in danger.
• Liu Yu recognized that he had gathered the herbs for Origin-Congealing Pills and Azure Nether Pills, though he still lacked half the ingredients for Soul-Congealing Pills and had no lead on the continuation of the Azure Yang Art.
• Liu Yu sent Zhang Ziping urgent warnings, then summoned Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi and ordered them to pack up and leave the Divine Capital immediately.

After learning that the Zhang Household had been devastated, Liu Yu hurriedly took Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi out of the Divine Capital. He arranged their departure through the teleportation hall and sent them toward Jiang Province, determined to seek power and allies beyond Great Qian’s control.

• Liu Yu ordered Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi to pack, checked their residence for anything bearing their auras, and left with them.
• Liu Yu told Zhuo Mengzhen that the Zhang Household had suffered a devastating blow in the Annam Six Provinces, while he withheld the details from Zhang Yi.
• Liu Yu used his connections at the teleportation hall to obtain three Teleportation Talismans for a trip to Jiang Province.
• Liu Yu rejected serving the Qian Court, remaining a lone rogue cultivator, or joining a major power as a Guest Elder, and resolved to join a rogue cultivator organization.
• Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, and Zhang Yi departed the Divine Capital on the teleportation formation bound for Jiang Province.

Liu Yu arrived in Jiang Province with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi, settled in Xunyang City, and waited before contacting Guo Poyun’s rogue cultivator organization. When Guo renewed his invitation, Liu Yu asked what organization stood behind him, leaving their negotiations unresolved.

• Liu Yu brought Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi to Xunyang City and rented a third-tier middle-grade residence at the Ethereal Abode.
• Liu Yu spent four years in Xunyang City before meeting Guo Poyun to discuss joining his organization.
• Guo Poyun urged Liu Yu to join, describing the hardships rogue cultivators faced and the organization’s goal of changing the world’s order.
• Liu Yu said he agreed with the organization’s ideals but wanted better prospects for his cultivation before joining.
• Liu Yu asked Guo Poyun to reveal the identity of the organization behind him, and Guo left after their lengthy discussion without the chapter disclosing his answer.

Liu Yu evaluated the Cloth-Clad Alliance’s offer and learned that its public moderation concealed radical goals. After Guo Poyun delivered the requested spirit herbs and explained the alliance’s position, Liu Yu accepted the invitation to join.

• Liu Yu discussed the Cloth-Clad Alliance’s offer with Zhuo Mengzhen and considered its resources, factions, and political stance.
• Half a month later, Guo Poyun returned with sixteen third-tier spirit herbs Liu Yu had requested, and Liu Yu paid him for them.
• Guo Poyun said the alliance would grant Liu Yu a Nascent Soul Realm divine sense cultivation technique after he joined and completed a mission.
• Liu Yu asked whether the Cloth-Clad Alliance was truly moderate, and Guo Poyun explained that its core members were radicals who hid their aims to avoid suppression.
• Liu Yu accepted the invitation, and Guo Poyun celebrated their new alliance and raised a cup of spirit tea.

Liu Yu planted the herbs needed for Soul-Congealing Pills in the Immortal Mansion and prepared to wait for them to mature. He then joined the Cloth-Clad Alliance at its induction ceremony and received a red membership ring.

• Liu Yu received sixteen spirit herbs from Guo Poyun and learned that the Alliance induction ceremony and his first assignment would soon follow.
• Liu Yu planted the herbs in the Immortal Mansion's Red Spirit Field, used spirit stones to accelerate their growth, and estimated how long the millennium herbs would take to mature.
• Liu Yu traveled with Guo Poyun to Ten Thousand Immortals Mountain, where dozens of rogue cultivators gathered for the Alliance's induction ceremony.
• True Lord Qingshui explained the Alliance's rules, and Liu Yu and the other recruits swore their oaths and submitted personal information and a drop of blood.
• Liu Yu received a red ring bearing a tiny sword as his token of core membership in the Cloth-Clad Alliance.

Liu Yu joined the Cloth-Clad Alliance, received a Red Ring that could identify and track him, and learned of True Lord Qingshui’s standing among rogue cultivators. He returned to Xunyang City to improve his pill refining while waiting for his first assignment, until a message arrived a month and a half later.

• Liu Yu accepted the Cloth-Clad Alliance’s Red Ring and considered how the Ruined Sword could sever the blood-based tracking connection.
• True Lord Qingshui welcomed the new members with an impassioned speech, and Guo Poyun told Liu Yu about Qingshui’s service to the alliance and a rumored link to Divine Lord Nine Dragons.
• Liu Yu left the ceremony wondering whether rogue cultivator organizations such as the Cloth-Clad Alliance, Purple Turban Army, and Black Dragon Society were connected.
• Liu Yu returned to his cave abode in Xunyang City and spent a month and a half refining pills to improve his mastery and prepare to make the Soul-Congealing Pill.
• A Communication Jade Token stirred while Liu Yu was refining pills, interrupting his work.

Liu Yu received a secret mission to kill Qian Court cultivators and recover the fourth-tier Misty Stone, then spotted a well-guarded woman leaving Jiangzhou City after the Black Sky Auction. He followed her south, setting the mission’s encounter in motion.

• Liu Yu failed to refine the Soul-Congealing Pill, reviewed the setback, and read a Cloth-Clad Alliance order assigning him to kill Qian Court cultivators and retrieve the Misty Stone.
• Liu Yu concluded that killing every target would give him the best chance of securing the Misty Stone, then went to cultivate before carrying out the mission.
• The decennial Black Sky Auction ended in Jiangzhou City, and an azure-dressed woman left with four Golden Core guards after refusing to return by teleportation formation.
• The woman flew south of the city to meet the Jiang Family’s legitimate daughter, while Liu Yu watched her depart from a teahouse.
• Liu Yu left the teahouse and followed the woman and her guards south.

Liu Yu pursued the woman in the azure dress and her four guards, then launched a sudden attack that overwhelmed their defenses. He reached within one li of them and thrust his Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear with Heart-Piercing Spear.

• Liu Yu concealed himself, summoned the Blackwind Wings, and accelerated to pursue the woman in the azure dress and her four companions.
• The woman sensed Liu Yu approaching and warned her guards, who formed a defensive formation and exposed his presence.
• Liu Yu revealed himself, weakened all five with Wither, and used Great Dream Through the Ages to incapacitate four guards before the woman’s bells blocked the attack.
• Liu Yu’s spear auras repelled the guards’ treasures, and he broke through their barrage of third-tier spells without slowing.
• Liu Yu used the Power of Desire to disrupt the five opponents’ emotions, closed to within one li, and thrust his spear with Heart-Piercing Spear.

Liu Yu ambushed the green-skirted female cultivator and her guards, killing three guards before she revealed her strength as a body cultivator and attacked him. Their battle escalated when she used a talisman treasure to shatter his defenses and knock away his spear, leaving Liu Yu to block the orb with a silvery-white barrier.

• Liu Yu transformed into his giant true form and killed the Late Golden Core guard captain with the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.
• Liu Yu pursued and killed two more black-clad guards while their attacks failed to break his silvery-white barrier.
• The green-skirted female cultivator revealed her body-cultivation strength and struck Liu Yu with a red great halberd, while Liu Yu released Little Green to pursue the last guard.
• Liu Yu and the green-skirted female cultivator fought in close quarters, exchanging dozens of blows before both were forced apart.
• The green-skirted female cultivator activated a talisman treasure made from a true treasure, which shattered Liu Yu's three Flame Bodyguard Shields and knocked his spear from his hand.
• Liu Yu turned the pattern on his chest silvery white and raised a light barrier with his left hand to block the weakened golden orb.

Liu Yu survived the Woman in the Green Skirt’s supreme talisman treasure by exhausting its power with his defenses and fists, then resumed their fierce battle. He broke through her Black Bell’s divine-sense barrier with repeated Spirit-Shocking Thorns, leaving her blinded by pain as the fight reached a turning point.

• Liu Yu shattered the silver-white barrier and used Meteor Fist to weaken the golden orb, then burned three drops of essence blood to destroy it with his left fist.
• Liu Yu blocked the Woman in the Green Skirt with Azure Yang Demonic Flame, recovered his spear, and chose not to reveal the Ruined Sword spirit treasure.
• Liu Yu and the Woman in the Green Skirt exchanged attacks with spear and halberd while his Spirit-Shocking Thorns repeatedly struck her Black Bell’s defense.
• Liu Yu’s Spirit-Shocking Thorns shattered the Black Bell’s pale-golden barrier, leaving the Woman in the Green Skirt in unbearable divine-sense pain with her vision blacked out.

Liu Yu fought the Woman in the Green Skirt and brought her to the brink of death with a concealed second spear. When she recognized his azure flames as a remnant of the Azure Yang Sect, his attacks suddenly stopped with his spear poised half an inch from her brow.

• The Woman in the Green Skirt woke just in time to block Liu Yu’s killing thrust, but he wounded her and pressed his close-range assault.
• Liu Yu used Spirit-Shocking Thorn and Charged Punch, while the Woman in the Green Skirt narrowly defended herself with the Black Bell and burned her essence blood to resist him.
• Liu Yu revealed that he had another spear and struck the Woman in the Green Skirt in the chest, sending her life-bound treasure flying away.
• Liu Yu pursued the grievously wounded Woman in the Green Skirt through the azure flames and aimed a final thrust at her head.
• The Woman in the Green Skirt recognized the fire as a remnant of the Azure Yang Sect, and Liu Yu’s flames and spear halted just before killing her.

Liu Yu captured the Woman in the Green Skirt and demanded information about the Azure Yang Sect, which might hold the continuation of the Azure Yang Art he sought. After agreeing to a Heart-Demon Contract that required him to release her in exchange for her knowledge and the misty stone, she began explaining the sect's history.

• Liu Yu stopped his spear from killing the Woman in the Green Skirt when she mentioned the Azure Yang Sect, then threatened her for information.
• Liu Yu burned the cultivators who had stayed to watch the battle, sealed the Woman in the Green Skirt's magic power and vital blood with his demonic flame, and flew away with her.
• Liu Yu interrogated the Woman in the Green Skirt about the Azure Yang Sect, while she resisted and eventually demanded a Heart-Demon Contract in exchange for speaking.
• Liu Yu agreed to release her after she shared what she knew and handed over the misty stone, and they signed the contract with drops of essence blood.
• The Woman in the Green Skirt began explaining the Azure Yang Sect's history, starting sixty thousand years earlier.

Liu Yu learned about the Azure Yang Sect from Su Xiangling, then honored their Heart-Demon Contract and left her alive. As he flew back toward Xunyang City, he reflected on the sect’s destruction and the danger facing its remnants, which gave him a new sense of urgency.

• The Woman in the Green Skirt gave Liu Yu a misty stone and information about the Azure Yang Sect, then asked him to honor their agreement and release her.
• Liu Yu removed the Azure Yang Demonic Flame from Su Xiangling and let her go under the terms of their Heart-Demon Contract.
• Su Xiangling asked Liu Yu his name and faction and suggested they fight again, but he ignored her and flew away.
• Liu Yu avoided the immortal cities and headed directly for Xunyang City, wary of a response from the Prince of Dongping’s residence.
• Liu Yu recalled that the Dao One Sacred Land and its allies had destroyed the Azure Yang Sect and erased its history, then felt urgency about the sect’s surviving remnants.

Liu Yu learned that the Azure Yang Sect’s last Golden Core Cultivator was in danger and decided to reach him before the Dao One Sacred Land could act. After handing in an alliance mission and warning Zhuo Mengzhen to flee if he did not return, Liu Yu teleported out of Xunyang City to pursue the endangered cultivator.

• Liu Yu rushed toward Xunyang City after learning that the Dao One Sacred Land had discovered True Person Kongqing, the Azure Yang Sect’s last Golden Core Cultivator.
• Liu Yu returned to Ten Thousand Immortals Mountain and handed the misty stone to Mingjing, who said True Lord Qingshui would distribute his reward after returning and verifying the mission.
• Liu Yu left the alliance headquarters and continued toward Xunyang City, sending Zhuo Mengzhen instructions to take Zhang Yi and hide if he failed to return within seven days.
• Liu Yu entered Xunyang City and used its teleportation formation to continue his journey toward the Azure Yang Sect’s last cultivator.

Liu Yu traveled to Yang River City to search for True Person Kongqing and learn the continuation of the Azure Yang Art, but found no trace of the Dao One Sacred Land during hours of searching. Near Jiang Province's border, he detected a fierce battle and spotted two Golden Guards, suggesting the Sacred Land and the Qian Court had joined forces against Kongqing.

• Liu Yu arrived in Yang River City, disguised himself, and asked a Foundation Establishment guard about unusual arrivals.
• The guard reported that ten Golden Core cultivators had teleported into the city two days earlier, and Liu Yu rewarded him before heading out to search.
• Liu Yu flew across the region between Yang River City and Riverside City, scanning for battle and avoiding Nascent Soul cultivators' territory.
• After finding no sign of the pursuers for hours, Liu Yu considered whether the Azure Yang Art might have been preserved by the Dao One Sacred Land.
• Near the provincial border, Liu Yu sensed powerful battle fluctuations and detected two late-Golden Core Golden Guards.
• Liu Yu concluded that the Qian Court and Dao One Sacred Land were likely conducting a joint operation and made an audacious decision.

Liu Yu rushed to save True Person Kongqing and killed the two Golden Guards blocking his way, using his flames and spear to overwhelm their defenses. He reached the battlefield and identified Kongqing among the eight Dao One Sacred Land cultivators attacking him.

• Liu Yu ignored the Golden Guards’ orders and resisted their arrows and saber with his Flame Bodyguard Shields.
• Liu Yu’s Power of Desire disrupted the Golden Guards, allowing him to close in and kill them with the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.
• Liu Yu continued toward the border of Jiang Province as the battle’s spiritual fluctuations grew stronger.
• Liu Yu found eight Dao One Sacred Land cultivators surrounding a beleaguered man wielding the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp.
• Liu Yu recognized the man as True Person Kongqing from his Azure Yang Art, Azure Yang Demonic Flame, and lamp-shaped treasure.

Liu Yu intervened in the Dao One Sacred Land’s siege of True Person Kongqing and unleashed the Ruined Sword’s spirit-treasure power. The strike devastated the battlefield and erased the seven sacred land cultivators, leaving Liu Yu exhausted as he checked who had survived.

• Liu Yu judged that rescuing Kongqing would require using the Ruined Sword to strike down the Dao One Holy Son and the other cultivators at once.
• The Dao One Holy Son sensed Liu Yu’s approach but let two fellow cultivators intercept him, confident that the newcomer posed little threat.
• Liu Yu drew the Ruined Sword, gathering spiritual energy across the surrounding area and forming a huge gray sword shadow that withered living things nearby.
• Liu Yu swung the sword at the Dao One Holy Son and the other eight cultivators as they activated their defenses.
• The gray sword shadow erased the seven Dao One Sacred Land cultivators, broke through the Holy Son’s defenses, and devastated the mountains before Liu Yu checked for survivors.

Liu Yu pursued the grievously wounded Dao One Holy Son through the Ruined Sword’s lingering power and launched a relentless assault before he could recover. After weakening him with Wither and the Impermanence Heart Flame, Liu Yu killed him, claimed the Purple Lotus Treasure and Storage Ring, and turned his attention to True Person Kongqing.

• The Ruined Sword’s strike extinguished True Person Kongqing’s Azure Yang Demonic Flame and badly injured him, while Dao One Holy Son also survived with grievous wounds and weakened cultivation.
• Liu Yu charged through the lingering sword power and attacked Dao One Holy Son with Wither, the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear, and the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Dao One Holy Son used Five Elements Reincarnation to overwhelm Liu Yu’s ghosts, but Liu Yu struck him with the Impermanence Heart Flame and knocked away his Purple Lotus Treasure.
• Dao One Holy Son caught Liu Yu’s Flying Star Darts and tried to stop the spear with his bare hands, but his injuries and Liu Yu’s attacks steadily weakened him.
• Liu Yu endured Dao One Holy Son’s final burst of strength, crippled both his arms, and killed him with a blow to the head before burning his corpse and Golden Core in the Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu took Dao One Holy Son’s Storage Ring and Purple Lotus Treasure, then looked toward the wounded True Person Kongqing.

Liu Yu defeated True Person Kongqing’s Azure Yang Demonic Flame and obtained the complete Azure Yang Art after agreeing to find a successor for the Azure Yang Sect. Kongqing entrusted him with the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp, then sacrificed himself, leaving Liu Yu with the sect’s legacy and a final request to kill more Sacred Lands cultivators.

• Liu Yu approached the gravely injured True Person Kongqing, who attacked him with Azure Yang Demonic Flame, but Liu Yu’s stronger flame overwhelmed it.
• Liu Yu told Kongqing he had come from Southern Heaven to obtain the Azure Yang Art, and Kongqing explained that he was likely the Azure Yang Sect’s last Golden Core cultivator.
• Kongqing asked Liu Yu to avenge the sect against the Dao One Sacred Land, but Liu Yu refused and instead agreed to find and raise a successor to Golden Core.
• Kongqing recorded the complete Azure Yang Art in a Jade Slip and gave Liu Yu the sect register; Liu Yu promised to preserve the sect’s legacy.
• Kongqing entrusted Liu Yu with the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp and, after asking his future successor to kill more Sacred Lands cultivators, detonated himself.

Liu Yu returned safely to Xunyang City after killing the Dao One Holy Son, concealed the evidence, and recovered from his exhaustion. He inventoried his spoils in the Immortal Mansion World, refined the Purple Lotus Treasure and renamed it the Purple Nether Lotus, then went to write down the Azure Yang Art.

• Liu Yu erased the traces of battle, hid the Dao One Holy Son's storage ring in the Immortal Mansion World, and flew through the wilderness toward Xunyang City.
• Liu Yu returned to his residence, reassured Zhuo Mengzhen, and slept for two days and nights before resuming his cultivation routine.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion World and refined the seven storage rings, finding over eight hundred thousand spirit stones and other valuable spoils.
• Liu Yu refined the Dao One Holy Son's Purple Lotus Treasure and decided to keep it as a defensive treasure.
• Liu Yu named the treasure the Purple Nether Lotus and headed to his study to write down the Azure Yang Art.

Liu Yu copied and studied the complete Azure Yang Art, finding that his earlier extrapolation of its ninth level lacked a sound connection to the Nascent Soul stages. After half a month of cultivation in Xunyang City, he was summoned to the Cloth-Clad Alliance headquarters and arrived to meet True Lord Qingshui.

• Liu Yu transcribed the final four levels of the Azure Yang Art and began studying the original ninth level, realizing his extrapolated version could have harmed his future cultivation.
• Liu Yu mastered the ninth level, struggled to understand the Nascent Soul early-stage tenth level, and focused on cultivating his magic power and nourishing the Purple Nether Lotus.
• After half a month, Liu Yu received a summons from the Cloth-Clad Alliance announcing Elder Qingshui's return and ordering Ancient City to the Hall of All Immortals.
• Liu Yu flew to Ten Thousand Immortals Mountain, greeted the cultivators there, and entered the hall to pay his respects to Elder Qingshui.

Liu Yu earned True Lord Qingshui’s approval and received the Return to the Void Divine Art, then refined Soul-Congealing Pills and devoted himself to secluded cultivation. Twenty-five years passed as he advanced his cultivation while quietly tracking the fallout from the Dao One Holy Son’s death and events across the Central Region.

• True Lord Qingshui praised Liu Yu’s mission, warned him to keep his origins secret and remain loyal to the Cloth-Clad Alliance, and gave him the Return to the Void Divine Art.
• Liu Yu studied the divine sense method, planned his cultivation, and nurtured his treasures at his Xunyang City Residence.
• Liu Yu gathered fifty batches of herbs and successfully refined seven Soul-Congealing Pills on his first attempt, then continued refining them with a success rate approaching thirty percent.
• Liu Yu cultivated the Divine Preservation Art, Azure Yang Art, and Astral True Form in seclusion, leaving ordinary affairs to Zhuo Mengzhen while investigating the Dao One Holy Son’s death and monitoring human-demon tensions.
• Twenty-five years passed as Liu Yu consumed vast resources and his cultivation advanced rapidly amid growing unrest in the Central Region.