Recaps

Liu Yu accepted Tian Xiaoyu’s offer to seek his favor in exchange for cultivation guidance, then joined the defense of an Eastern Continent frontier city to observe the demon threat. The chapter ended with Setting Sun Immortal City sealing its gates and abandoning dozens of rogue cultivators outside as demon beasts advanced.

• Tian Xiaoyu offered Liu Yu a chance to guide her cultivation, and he agreed to summon her when he had time if she performed well.
• Tian Xiaoyu left feeling humiliated but resolved to prove her value to Branch Master Hong.
• The chapter described the thirty-six frontier cities and the Profound Spirit Great Formation that defended the Eastern Continent from the demon race.
• Liu Yu joined the battle at Setting Sun Immortal City under the alias Hong Hao and observed the Golden Crow Clan among the attacking demon forces.
• The City Guard Army commander ordered the gates shut and activated the formation, leaving dozens of rogue cultivators outside as the demon beasts approached.

During a beast tide assault on Setting Sun Immortal City, Liu Yu witnessed the City Guard Army leave dozens of rogue cultivators to die, then joined the defenders until the probing attack ended. Three months after arriving in the Eastern Continent, he decided to personally approach the Feng Household about joining the Purple Turban Army.

• The City Guard Army refused to open Setting Sun Immortal City's defenses for dozens of rogue cultivators, who were killed by the demon beasts' spells as Guo Poyun condemned the Qian Court's treatment of them.
• Liu Yu and the city's defenders fought off a probing beast tide until the demon beasts retreated at sunset.
• Liu Yu collected his payment and left Setting Sun Immortal City with his team, while the defenders later cleared the battlefield.
• Three months after Liu Yu arrived in the Eastern Continent, Tian Xiaoyu reported that the dissatisfied Feng Household might be persuaded to join the Purple Turban Army.
• Liu Yu considered the Feng Household's Golden Core ancestor and the requirements of his mission, then decided to visit in person in case the household refused.

Liu Yu and Guo Poyun went to recruit the Feng Household, a struggling Golden Core lineage, for the Purple Turban Army. Guo Poyun began negotiations while Liu Yu waited for the signal, and the Telepathic Jade turned blood-red, indicating that the attempt had failed.

• Liu Yu agreed to approach the Feng Household and decided to bring Guo Poyun to handle the persuasion.
• Tian Xiaoyu briefed Guo Poyun on the Feng Household, and he estimated a forty percent chance of success.
• Liu Yu warned that if the Feng Household refused and might expose the Purple Turban Army, they would have to eliminate everyone who knew about it.
• Guo Poyun traveled to Red Bamboo Mountain with Tian Xiaoyu's sleeper agent to meet the Feng Household's ancestor, while Liu Yu and Tian Xiaoyu waited nearby.
• The Telepathic Jade turned blood-red, signaling that Guo Poyun's attempt to persuade the Feng Household had failed.

After negotiations failed, Liu Yu and Guo Poyun attacked Red Bamboo Mountain and slaughtered the Feng Household cultivators. Guo Poyun asked Liu Yu to spare the surrounding mortals, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Liu Yu flew to Red Bamboo Mountain after a battle broke out between Guo Poyun and the Feng Household patriarch.
• Liu Yu unleashed the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, sending vengeful ghosts to kill the Feng Household cultivators across the mountain.
• Guo Poyun fought the patriarch, who detonated his golden core rather than face capture or defeat.
• After gathering the spoils, Guo Poyun asked Liu Yu to spare the ordinary mortals living near Red Bamboo Mountain.

Liu Yu destroyed the Feng Household’s stronghold at Red Bamboo Mountain after the household refused to join the Purple Turban Army, then returned safely to base with his companions. There, Tian Xiaoyu accepted responsibility for the failed recruitment and asked Liu Yu to punish her.

• Liu Yu spared the Feng Household’s mortal settlements but used the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner to devastate Red Bamboo Mountain, then set the mountain ablaze with Guo Poyun.
• Liu Yu, Guo Poyun, Tian Xiaoyu, and the Foundation Establishment covert agent left Red Bamboo Mountain, leaving the Feng Household’s mortals facing an uncertain fate.
• Guo Poyun explained that the Thousand Mechanisms Sphere had prevented the Feng Household from sending messages, and Liu Yu considered seeking permission to acquire one.
• The group returned safely to base, where Guo Poyun left with the covert agent to arrange the agent’s reward and next assignment.
• Tian Xiaoyu apologized to Liu Yu for the failed attempt to recruit the Feng Household and asked him to punish her.

After the Feng Household operation failed, Liu Yu punished Tian Xiaoyu but kept her in his favor, then returned to cultivating. He continued advancing toward Golden Core peak while Zhang Yi gained field experience under Little Green’s secret protection.

• Liu Yu acknowledged Tian Xiaoyu’s good preliminary work but held her responsible for the operation’s failure and withheld her stipend for three years.
• Tian Xiaoyu accepted the punishment, received an order to submit a report, and left determined to keep working toward success.
• Liu Yu reflected on the mission, then headed to the Cultivation Room to make up for lost cultivation time.
• Liu Yu had sent Zhang Yi on ordinary missions and assigned Little Green to protect him secretly, requiring Little Green to report back regularly.
• Liu Yu consumed an Azure Nether Pill and practiced three techniques, steadily improving his cultivation as Golden Core peak drew closer.

As the border war drew Qian Court’s attention elsewhere, Liu Yu accelerated the Branch Hall’s expansion and summoned Tian Xiaoyu after she reported her failed attempt to recruit the Feng Household. Liu Yu invited her to his chambers under the pretext of cultivation guidance, and they spent the night together, leaving him reflecting on the differences between cultivators from different regions.

• Humans and demons intensified their fighting across the thirty-six border cities, while Liu Yu ordered the Branch Hall to expand more quickly.
• Tian Xiaoyu submitted an Action Summary explaining the failed effort to recruit the Feng Household, and Liu Yu praised her work without blaming her.
• Liu Yu felt the side effects of his Astral True Form stirring and invited Tian Xiaoyu to visit that night for cultivation guidance.
• Tian Xiaoyu came to the Attic dressed carefully, and Liu Yu led her to the bedroom and answered her questions about cultivation.
• Liu Yu and Tian Xiaoyu spent the night together for fourteen to sixteen hours, and Liu Yu learned about differences between female cultivators of the Central Region and Southern Heaven.

Liu Yu resumed managing the Branch Hall’s recruitment mission after his transactional encounter with Tian Xiaoyu, whose work helped identify a Golden Core recruit. The recruitment of Lu Yi succeeded, and Liu Yu placed a precautionary control measure within him.

• Liu Yu gave Tian Xiaoyu pills and promised to recommend her to headquarters, while ordering her to keep their encounter secret.
• Over the following year, the Branch Hall recruited twelve hundred outer members, and Tian Xiaoyu found Lu Yi, a Golden Core rogue cultivator, as a potential recruit.
• Guo Poyun persuaded Lu Yi to join the Purple Turban Army while Liu Yu waited nearby, then signaled that the recruitment had succeeded.
• Liu Yu met Lu Yi at his cave abode, confirmed the promised terms, and entered the cave with him to place a precautionary measure within his body.

Liu Yu’s recruitment efforts advanced as the Purple Turban Army focused on rogue cultivators, but the Qian Court launched a major attack on the Branch Hall base. Liu Yu and Guo Poyun fled separately as Liu Yu ordered the other members to retreat, leaving the base under assault.

• Liu Yu formally recruited Lu Yi by imprinting Lu Yi’s Golden Core and collecting a drop of his essence blood, then concluded that rogue cultivators were better recruitment targets than cultivation lineages.
• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun shifted the Branch Hall’s efforts toward rogue cultivators, and Liu Yu publicly praised Tian Xiaoyu for her contribution.
• Over the next five years, Liu Yu recruited three rogue Golden Core cultivators and moved the Branch Hall headquarters to a concealed third-tier spirit vein.
• Liu Yu sensed danger at the headquarters, and the Qian Court attacked with five third-tier Spirit Ships, seven Golden Core cultivators, and Dao Soldiers.
• Liu Yu told Guo Poyun to escape separately, then used the Flash Spirit Art to seize Tian Xiaoyu and ordered the Branch Hall members to retreat.

Liu Yu led the Purple Turban Army members’ escape from the Qian Court’s attack, revealing enough of his strength to break through and protect Tian Xiaoyu. After holding off three pursuing Golden Guards, he used the Blackwind Wings to outpace them and escape.

• Liu Yu ordered the branch hall members to scatter as the Qian Court’s attacks shattered their defensive formation, and Guo Poyun fled while drawing two Golden Guards after him.
• The Qian Court’s volleys killed or wounded most of the branch hall members, and Liu Yu used the Flying Star Darts to break through a guarded section of the encirclement.
• The Golden Guards commander identified Liu Yu as a Golden Core cultivator and pursued him with two subordinates while Liu Yu carried Tian Xiaoyu away.
• Liu Yu blocked the Golden Guards’ golden spears with a silver-white barrier and knocked them aside with Meteor Fist.
• Liu Yu increased his speed with his body refining and qi refining power, then used the Blackwind Wings to leave the three Golden Guards behind.

After escaping the Qian Court’s pursuit with Tian Xiaoyu, Liu Yu traveled toward a hidden outpost and encountered a mountain emitting unusual purple rosy clouds. He joined the cultivators gathering around it, where a red-robed Golden Core cultivator suggested the phenomenon might be connected to an ancient Heavenly Court Star Lord.

• Liu Yu concealed himself and Tian Xiaoyu after the Golden Guards abandoned their pursuit, then fled toward a secret outpost while considering the destroyed Branch Hall and Guo Poyun’s chances of escape.
• After traveling for four hours, Liu Yu spotted purple rosy clouds and dense spiritual energy pouring from a small mountain, attracting hundreds of cultivators.
• Liu Yu decided to investigate the phenomenon and approached the mountain with Tian Xiaoyu, concealing his cultivation at the Golden Core early stage.
• Liu Yu sensed stellar qualities in the purple light and wondered whether the mountain held the cave abode of a cultivator who practiced a stellar method.
• A red-robed Golden Core female cultivator speculated that the phenomenon might be connected to the ancient Heavenly Court’s Thirty-Six Star Lords, drawing the attention of Liu Yu and the other cultivators.

Golden Core Cultivators gathered around a purple radiance that was identified as the sign of the Purple Star Abode, possibly belonging to the Purple Star Star Lord. After the radiance vanished and passages opened, Liu Yu entered the abode and was immediately seized by an irresistible force.

• An alluring female cultivator deduced that the abode belonged to an ancient Nascent Soul stellar cultivator, and Fu Feihong suggested its owner was the Purple Star Star Lord and explained the legend of the Zhou Tian Star Chart.
• Liu Yu ordered Tian Xiaoyu to return to the hidden base while cultivators waited for the purple radiance to fade; a Qi Refining cultivator who approached the hill was annihilated by its light.
• More than forty Golden Core Cultivators and hundreds of lower-level cultivators gathered as the Primordial Demon Sect arrived, and the purple radiance suddenly vanished, revealing dark openings.
• Liu Yu detected no Nascent Soul True Lord among the Primordial Demon Sect's arrivals and entered the cave after deciding the opportunity was worth the risk.
• As soon as Liu Yu landed inside, an irresistible force immobilized him, blackened his vision, and sent the world spinning.

Liu Yu was teleported from the cave into a vast, frozen realm and discovered that flight was restricted by powerful gravity. After defeating a formidable ice-and-snow giant, he considered whether the Ziwei Secret Realm had multiple layers and what might be required to pass the first one.

• Liu Yu awoke in a snowy world unlike the cave, suspected it was an ancient special space, and found that its extreme gravity prevented him from flying away.
• Liu Yu sensed spiritual energy and was attacked by a giant made of ice and snow, which he recognized as a lifeless member of the ancient Ice and Snow Clan.
• Liu Yu blocked the giant’s ice attacks with his Flame Bodyguard Shield and tested its strength with a punch, discovering that a blow to its chest did not destroy it.
• Liu Yu shattered the giant with nine successive crimson fist-force blasts, causing its remains to dissolve into spiritual energy.
• Liu Yu wondered whether the Ziwei Secret Realm had multiple layers and whether reaching the final layer would lead to its ultimate treasure.

Liu Yu passed the first trial by defeating six ice and snow giants, claimed an ancient azure spear as his reward, and entered the next level. He arrived in a sea of fire where two powerful lava giants appeared, leaving him to face the next trial.

• Liu Yu destroyed two ice and snow giants with Meteor Fist, then defeated three more when they appeared in a second wave.
• A pale red pillar delivered a bronze chest containing an ancient azure spear, which Liu Yu cautiously retrieved and stored.
• Liu Yu entered the pillar and teleported away as other cultivators across the frozen landscape died or struggled against the giants.
• Liu Yu arrived in a fiery landscape and watched two lava giants form from magma and flames.

Liu Yu cleared the second trial’s Lava Giants and the third trial’s Lightning Falcons with ease, then found two pillars of light and wondered whether the white one offered a way to withdraw. The chapter left him weighing the risk of entering it against continuing to the next layer.

• Liu Yu defeated successive waves of Lava Giants with the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear until a purple pillar appeared.
• Liu Yu entered the next layer and found a barren landscape filled with dense thunder-element spiritual energy.
• Two Lightning Falcons attacked Liu Yu with lightning, but he blocked their strikes and destroyed them with his spear.
• Liu Yu defeated the remaining waves of Lightning Falcons, clearing the third trial.
• A golden pillar containing a Bronze Chest and a milky-white pillar appeared, and Liu Yu considered whether the white pillar was an exit or a means of elimination.

Liu Yu pressed deeper into the Purple Star Abode, earning the Purple Lightning Cape and Duskglow Armor while overcoming increasingly powerful guardians. Though the ninth-floor battle left him strained and weighing retreat, he entered the next trial, planning to leave by the twelfth floor if the challenge became too dangerous.

• Liu Yu retrieved the Purple Lightning Cape from the third-floor reward chest and continued through the teleportation pillar.
• Liu Yu cleared the fourth through seventh floors, receiving an offensive ancient treasure on the sixth floor and using his Astral True Form against the seventh-floor guardians.
• Liu Yu defeated the eighth floor’s treefolk after a grueling fight, recovered his strength, and entered the ninth floor.
• Liu Yu fought successive waves of coordinated terracotta warriors on the ninth floor, ultimately destroying them despite sustaining minor injuries.
• Liu Yu claimed the Duskglow Armor from the ninth-floor reward chest and considered retreating, but entered the next pillar, intending to quit on the twelfth floor if necessary.

Liu Yu entered the tenth level of the Purple Star Abode, a garden of deadly demon plants surrounding a narrow path, and fought his way forward through its attacks. As he continued along the path, the Holy Son of the Primordial Demon Sect appeared at the starting point behind him.

• Liu Yu surveyed the garden and realized the path was the only apparent way out, while the demon plants on either side were powerful enough to threaten Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Liu Yu tested the path, then stepped onto it and discovered that his presence awakened the surrounding demon plants, which could attack the path from a distance.
• Liu Yu used the Purple Nether Lotus, Azure Yang Demonic Flame, talismans, his Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear, and Great Dream Through the Ages to counter thorns, toxic mist, and Nightmare Flower pollen as he advanced.
• Liu Yu entered his true form state and continued fighting through the demon plants’ attacks, keeping the Ruined Sword ready in case he faced an overwhelming threat.
• Liu Yu sensed a powerful cultivator arrive at the starting point and recognized the aura as the Holy Son of the Primordial Demon Sect.

Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou raced along a dangerous path toward a barrier containing a Bronze Fragment and a Damaged Scroll, each knowing the other might have to die for the treasures. After Dou Wuyou trapped Liu Yu in his ninth-grade divine ability, Dark Abyss, Liu Yu broke free and weakened him with Wither.

• Dou Wuyou arrived on the path and charged after Liu Yu, who was badly injured when a Bloodthirsty Demon Vine knocked away his spear and struck his Purple Nether Lotus.
• Liu Yu burned seven drops of essence blood to boost his power, recovered his spear, and raced toward the end of the path as Dou Wuyou pursued him.
• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou saw the barrier, Bronze Fragment, Damaged Scroll, and two teleportation formations ahead, and both recognized the other as a deadly rival.
• Liu Yu raised a wall of Azure Yang Demonic Flame to block Dou Wuyou, who broke through it with his ninth-grade divine ability, Dark Abyss, and engulfed Liu Yu in darkness.
• Liu Yu burned three more drops of essence blood and used his Myriad Stars magic power to shatter Dark Abyss, then fended off the demonic plants' attacks.
• Liu Yu counterattacked with his divine ability Wither, weakening Dou Wuyou's primordial spirit, physical body, and magic power by roughly twenty percent.

Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou fought to outpace each other along the deadly narrow path, trading attacks and powerful spirit talismans as they neared the finish. Liu Yu reached the level ground first, but Dou Wuyou arrived almost simultaneously.

• Liu Yu used Wither and attacks from his spear and Azure Yang Demonic Flame to slow Dou Wuyou while maintaining a lead of about one li.
• Dou Wuyou fired two powerful black blades at Liu Yu, who countered with Meteor Fist as they continued exchanging blows on the dangerous path.
• Dou Wuyou activated the fourth-tier Black Phoenix Infernal Flame Talisman, forcing Liu Yu to use his Golden Sword Seven Baleful Forces Talisman and Mystic Tortoise Escape Armor Talisman before enduring the phoenix with his spear and Purple Nether Lotus.
• Protected by a golden bell, Dou Wuyou closed to within fifty zhang, and the two fought fiercely as they raced toward the end of the path.
• Liu Yu stepped onto the level ground first, and Dou Wuyou reached it almost at the same time.

Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou fought to a standstill over two mysterious treasures on the End Plateau, then agreed to race for them rather than risk mutual destruction. Dou Wuyou claimed the Ragged Scroll after the Ruined Sword's Sword Spirit distracted Liu Yu toward the Bronze Fragment, and Liu Yu emerged from the teleportation in an ordinary cave with a painful injury and an unexpected discovery nearby.

• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou attacked each other over the Ragged Scroll and Bronze Fragment, trading weapon blows and divine sense attacks until their battle shattered the barriers protecting the Teleportation Formations.
• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou halted their fight to avoid destroying their only means of escape, then negotiated a simultaneous race for the two treasures.
• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou struck each other with divine sense attacks as they raced toward the table, leaving both temporarily frozen.
• The Ruined Sword's Sword Spirit warned Liu Yu that the Bronze Fragment would help it grow, and Liu Yu's hesitation let Dou Wuyou seize the Ragged Scroll while Liu Yu took the fragment.
• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou activated separate Teleportation Formations and departed without revealing their identities or renewing their fight.
• Liu Yu arrived in an ordinary cave, felt searing pain throughout his body, and noticed something unexpected to his left.

Liu Yu escaped the Purple Star Abode through an ancient teleportation formation, returned to stabilize the Purple Turban Army Branch Hall, and examined his recovered treasures. The Ruined Sword and a bronze fragment he suspected was part of the Nine Provinces Cauldron began to resonate, revealing opposing powers of ruin and order.

• Liu Yu found a reusable Great Shifting Token and an ancient long-distance teleportation formation, which he repaired and kept as an escape route.
• After recovering from the teleportation, Liu Yu learned he was outside the Eastern Continent and returned to the Purple Turban Army Branch Hall's hidden base.
• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun regrouped, discussed the destruction of the Branch Hall headquarters, and relocated the organization to a new headquarters.
• Liu Yu examined the bronze fragment from the Purple Star Abode and concluded it was likely part of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• The Ruined Sword responded to the bronze fragment, and their gray and white radiances revealed opposing powers of ruin and chaos versus order and justice.

Liu Yu completed his mission to expand the Eastern Continent Branch and prepared to return to the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains. Before leaving, he rewarded Tian Xiaoyu for her work, then handed over the branch and departed with Zhang Yi and Guo Poyun.

• Liu Yu watched the Ruined Sword complete its transformation through its encounter with the Nine Provinces Cauldron Fragment, then refined the Purple Lightning Cape and Duskglow Armor.
• Liu Yu cultivated while the branch resumed operations and expanded; five years later, he learned the headquarters envoy would arrive to take over.
• Liu Yu promised Tian Xiaoyu recognition and focused cultivation at headquarters, then gave her a Heavenly Dust Pill as they parted.
• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun handed the Eastern Continent Branch over to two headquarters envoys and prepared to leave.
• Liu Yu flew away with Zhang Yi toward the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains while Guo Poyun followed, and Tian Xiaoyu watched their departure.

After returning to the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, Liu Yu reunited with Zhuo Mengzhen and received the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art as his mission reward. He weighed the Purple Turban Army’s offer against the dangers of joining its campaigns, chose to cultivate independently, and fifteen years passed.

• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun returned to Red Cloud Mountain after completing the Eastern Continent Branch mission, while Zhang Yi went to his own cave abode.
• Liu Yu reunited with Zhuo Mengzhen, and they spent several days together before visitors began calling on him.
• Guo Poyun delivered Liu Yu the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art, which required five rare types of quintessential qi to practice.
• Guo Poyun told Liu Yu that a Spirit Transformation Divine Lord had appeared in the Eastern Continent and that rogue cultivator organizations’ period of expansion might soon end.
• Liu Yu decided not to commit himself to the Purple Turban Army, declined its invitations, and focused on secluded cultivation and refining pills.
• Fifteen years passed as Liu Yu continued cultivating in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains.

Fifteen years later, Liu Yu weighed his options for forming a nascent soul and devised a plan to use the Immortal Mansion to improve the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art. As rogue cultivators grew stronger and pressure from the Purple Turban Army persisted, he decided to leave the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains with Zhuo Mengzhen.

• Liu Yu reflected on his cultivation and the difficulty of obtaining five types of quintessential qi, then considered using the Immortal Mansion to derive a nascent soul method based on five-element or yin-yang qi.
• Zhuo Mengzhen brought Liu Yu pastries and reported on the Jade Pill Hall before they noticed a distant golden core lightning tribulation.
• Liu Yu considered the rise in rogue cultivators forming cores and the possibility that the Qian Court Sacred Lands would move against them, alongside the risks of refusing the Purple Turban Army.
• Liu Yu told Zhuo Mengzhen that they should leave the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, explained his reasons, and gained her agreement despite her reluctance to abandon the Jade Pill Hall.
• Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen watched as the distant cultivator survived the tribulation and successfully formed a golden core.

As the Qian Court Sacred Lands surrounded the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, Liu Yu decided to flee while Guo Poyun chose to stay and fight. Liu Yu left the mountains under cover of night with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi, leaving Guo Poyun behind to face the coming conflict.

• The Qian Court Sacred Lands and other major powers surrounded the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, prompting most rogue cultivators to flee.
• Liu Yu met with Guo Poyun and told him he planned to leave the next day, then urged him to make plans to escape as well.
• Guo Poyun refused to retreat, declaring he would stay until the fighting began, and Liu Yu accepted his decision.
• Liu Yu packed his cave abode, abandoned plans to sell the Jade Pill Hall, and sent for Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi.
• Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, and Zhang Yi disguised themselves and departed the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains by flying boat under cover of night.