Recaps

Liu Yu appointed Lin Dayong to manage the Cold Iron Ore Vein and assigned four disciples to guard it, while using suspicion between them to keep them divided. He left the mine for Cold Moon City, where Chai Wenzheng had prepared residences for him to inspect.

• Liu Yu threatened Lin Dayong with punishment for missing the ore quota, and Lin Dayong promised to obey.
• Liu Yu dismissed the four disciples, then privately advised Wu Chang to preserve his life if enemy cultivators attacked, knowing the others had seen their exchange.
• Liu Yu judged that the mine’s guards could not withstand a serious enemy assault and relied on his own strength and the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades to protect himself.
• Liu Yu flew to Cold Moon City on the Golden Dragon Sword, using his authority as mission leader to oversee the mine from the city and keep more time for cultivation.
• Chai Wenzheng welcomed Liu Yu and offered to show him a quiet residence in the southern part of Cold Moon City, and Liu Yu agreed to look at it.

Liu Yu accepted Chai Wenzheng’s mansion in Cold Moon City and ordered him to protect the grounds and keep the mine’s output steady. He settled in, then entered the Immortal Mansion to grow the herbs needed to refine Jade Spirit Pills.

• Liu Yu chose Chai Wenzheng’s mansion as his residence for the next five years.
• Liu Yu told Chai Wenzheng to keep people away from the mansion and replace miners so the mine’s output would not fall.
• Chai Wenzheng promised to carry out Liu Yu’s orders and arranged for men to patrol the mansion.
• Liu Yu set up the Three Talents Formation in a pavilion and decided to cultivate with Jade Spirit Pills rather than take another pill that day.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion and planted the herbs needed to refine Jade Spirit Pills, accelerating their growth.

Liu Yu began refining Jade Spirit Pills with the Red Flame Formation, but his first attempt at tier-one peak pills produced a success rate below ten percent. After consuming all his ingredients, he shifted to taking the pills daily while continuing to cultivate his spells and magical artifacts.

• Liu Yu grew enough herbs for forty batches of Jade Spirit Pills and organized the seeds and harvested herbs in the Immortal Mansion.
• Liu Yu set up the Red Flame Formation in a new alchemy room and began refining Jade Spirit Pills, but his first batch failed.
• Over eight days, Liu Yu refined all forty batches and obtained only twenty-nine Jade Spirit Pills, accepting a substantial loss.
• Liu Yu began taking Jade Spirit Pills daily to advance his cultivation and continued practicing the Concealing Spirit Art and refining his Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades and Black Iron Shield.

After running out of spirit stones, Liu Yu refined a large batch of Pure Spirit Pills and disguised himself to travel south in search of a market where he could sell them. He headed for Yellow Mountain Market Ward, a small settlement with few powerful cultivators.

• Liu Yu spent his remaining resources growing herbs in the Immortal Mansion and refined a hundred and seventy Pure Spirit Pills with a thirty percent success rate.
• Liu Yu disguised himself with medicinal liquid, a bamboo hat, and a black veil, then left Cold Moon City on his Golden Dragon Sword.
• Liu Yu reflected on the Cold Iron Ore Vein, where Wu Chang and the other workers continued producing ore under his hands-off management.
• Liu Yu flew south toward Yellow Mountain Market Ward, the nearest cultivator gathering place, where most residents practiced early or middle Qi Refining.

Liu Yu traveled to the Yellow Mountain Market Ward to sell pills directly to rogue cultivators, avoiding the local shops and their low purchase prices. After setting up a stall and selling Pure Spirit Pills for several hours, he saw a tall, black-robed cultivator approach.

• Liu Yu entered the Yellow Mountain Market Ward after sending a Voice-Transmitting Talisman through its mist formation.
• Liu Yu checked the market's pill prices and decided to sell his pills directly to cultivators rather than to the shops.
• Liu Yu bought a seven-day stall permit, displayed Pure Spirit Pills, Purple Spirit Pills, and two magical artifacts, and set his prices below the shops'.
• Liu Yu used his seventh-layer Qi Refining aura to discourage a customer from bargaining, and the rogue cultivator bought a bottle of Pure Spirit Pills.
• Liu Yu sold Pure Spirit Pills for four hours until only fifty remained, then a tall cultivator in black robes and a bamboo hat approached his stall.

Liu Yu sold his pills to Pei Sanjiu, a vice president of the Cultivators’ Fellowship, who offered to make him the group’s dedicated alchemist. Liu Yu refused, and Pei Sanjiu responded with a veiled threat by boasting of the Fellowship’s strength, leaving Liu Yu unafraid and ready to face the rogue cultivators if necessary.

• Pei Sanjiu examined Liu Yu’s pills, bought all the Pure Spirit Pills and Purple Spirit Pills for 280 spirit stones, and asked whether Liu Yu had more.
• Pei Sanjiu introduced himself as a vice president of the Cultivators’ Fellowship and offered to supply spirit herbs in exchange for Liu Yu refining pills exclusively for the group.
• Liu Yu refused to become the Fellowship’s dedicated alchemist, explaining that alchemy was only a way to earn spirit stones.
• Pei Sanjiu challenged Liu Yu’s refusal and warned him that the Cultivators’ Fellowship had more than a dozen middle Qi Refining cultivators and four late Qi Refining experts.
• Liu Yu remained confident that the Fellowship’s rogue cultivators posed little threat to him unless they managed to surround him.

Liu Yu sold his remaining magical artifacts at the Yellow Mountain Market Ward and learned that the Feng Household had stayed away from him despite the other local lineages paying their respects. He left the market with nearly eight hundred spirit stones and remained wary of both Pei Sanjiu and the Feng Household.

• Liu Yu refused Pei Sanjiu's demand that he join the Cultivators' Fellowship and warned himself that he would deal ruthlessly with further interference.
• Liu Yu lowered the prices of the Silver Ruler and Yellow Fork, but rogue cultivators continued to haggle and walk away.
• Feng Guanglin admired the Silver Ruler, and his sister agreed to buy it for him on the condition that he reach the fifth layer of qi refining before turning seventeen.
• Liu Yu recalled that the Feng Household had not visited him in Cold Moon City, unlike the Hou Household and the Gongsun Household, and wondered whether its silence was unusual.
• The Feng siblings bought the Silver Ruler for one hundred and five spirit stones, and Liu Yu watched them leave with a cold expression.
• A fourth-layer qi refining rogue cultivator bought the Yellow Fork shortly before the hour of the Rooster, and Liu Yu packed up and left with nearly eight hundred spirit stones earned.

Liu Yu led Pei Sanjiu and two Cultivators’ Fellowship members away from the Yellow Mountain Market Ward and prepared to kill them. He revealed his top-grade Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, which killed Pei Sanjiu’s two subordinates while Pei Sanjiu defended himself with a superior-grade artifact.

• Liu Yu noticed Pei Sanjiu and two Fellowship members following him, then flew west to draw them away from the market ward.
• Liu Yu assessed the pursuers’ cultivation levels and landed beside a secluded river after flying for half an hour.
• Pei Sanjiu offered Liu Yu food, drink, and protection if he joined the Cultivators’ Fellowship as its alchemist.
• Liu Yu rejected the offer and attacked all three men with his top-grade Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades.
• Pei Sanjiu blocked the blades with a superior-grade defensive artifact, but the son blades destroyed his subordinates’ artifacts and killed them.

Liu Yu killed Pei Sanjiu and two other members of the Cultivators’ Fellowship, then returned to Cold Moon City to recover and inspect their belongings. He found a specially marked Voice-Transmitting Talisman whose information surprised him.

• Pei Sanjiu begged for his life, but Liu Yu used the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades and the Golden Silk Mirror to defeat his artifacts and kill him.
• Liu Yu burned the three corpses, took their Storage Bags, and flew back to his residence in Cold Moon City.
• Liu Yu restored his magical power, then emptied Pei Sanjiu's Storage Bag and found spirit stones, pills, artifacts, a cultivation manual, and a specially marked Voice-Transmitting Talisman.
• Liu Yu read the talisman's information with his divine sense, and his pupils contracted in surprise.

Liu Yu learned that the Hehuan Sect, the Cultivators’ Fellowship, and the Feng Household planned to attack a spirit herb garden, with Purple Sun Grass promised as a reward. He chose to pursue the opportunity himself and prepared to approach the Feng Household while concealing his knowledge.

• Liu Yu read a talisman revealing the planned attack and the promise of Purple Sun Grass, which could improve a cultivator’s chances of foundation establishment.
• Liu Yu decided not to report the plot to the Primordial Yang Sect and began planning to rally fellow disciples and allied households against the conspirators.
• Liu Yu searched the other Storage Bags, collected their spoils, and resumed refining Jade Spirit Pills in his Immortal Mansion.
• The next day, Liu Yu learned that the city lord and an Immortal Master surnamed Feng had come to see him.
• Liu Yu invited the visitors to the Lake Pavilion, intending to keep the Feng Household reassured while he sought information about the Hehuan Sect cultivators.

Liu Yu received Feng Guangyou of the Little Brow Mountain Feng Household, accepted his gift, and concealed his suspicions about the household’s ties to Hehuan Sect cultivators. He devised a plan to unite his fellow disciples and compel the Hou Household and Gongsun Household to help destroy the Feng Household and its allies, then returned to refining Jade Spirit Pills.

• Chai Wenzheng brought Feng Guangyou to meet Liu Yu, and Feng Guangyou presented him with twenty spirit stones.
• Liu Yu and Feng Guangyou spoke agreeably about cooperation, while Liu Yu hid his suspicion that the Feng Household had colluded with Hehuan Sect cultivators.
• After Feng Guangyou left, Liu Yu considered why the Feng Household risked its lineage by conspiring with the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu planned to recruit Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju, then win the Hou Household and Gongsun Household with a share of the Feng Household's territory and the authority of the Primordial Yang Sect.
• Liu Yu resolved to eliminate the Feng Household and Hehuan Sect cultivators, obtain the purple sun grass, and prioritize his cultivation by refining Jade Spirit Pills.

Liu Yu successfully refined a batch of Jade Spirit Pills and used one to advance his cultivation before secretly visiting the Cold Iron Ore Vein. Meanwhile, Feng Tianwei prepared the Feng Household’s defection from the Primordial Yang Sect, and Liu Yu summoned his fellow disciples at the mine.

• Liu Yu refined one successful batch of Jade Spirit Pills after ten attempts.
• Feng Guangyou reported to Feng Tianwei that he had met the Primordial Yang Sect’s garrison envoy without raising suspicion.
• Feng Tianwei confirmed that five hundred direct-line descendants had relocated to Mirror Province as the Feng Household prepared to defect to the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu cultivated with a Jade Spirit Pill and estimated that he could reach the eighth layer of Qi refining in about a year.
• Liu Yu secretly flew to the Cold Iron Ore Vein and ordered Lin Dayong to summon Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju without revealing his visit.

Liu Yu revealed that the Hehuan Sect had colluded with the Feng Household and the Cultivators' Fellowship, then persuaded his fellow disciples to join a plan to exploit the crisis for resources. He proposed recruiting the Hou Household and Gongsun Household before attacking the Feng Household, while keeping key intelligence about an imminent raid and purple sun grass to himself.

• Lin Dayong left the room, and Liu Yu sealed it with a soundproof barrier before showing the others the Hehuan Sect Voice-Transmitting Talisman.
• Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju discovered the enemy alliance and thanked Liu Yu for exposing the danger.
• Liu Yu concealed the planned attack on a medicinal garden and information about purple sun grass from the others.
• Wu Chang asked whether they should report the intelligence to the sect, and Liu Yu argued that doing so would leave them little benefit.
• Liu Yu proposed recruiting the Hou Household and Gongsun Household with the Feng Household's resource sites, then launching a surprise attack on the Feng Household.
• Sun Ju and Zhou Guibo worried that the group lacked strength, but Liu Yu pressured Zhou Guibo to follow the plan for the promised rewards.

Liu Yu convinced his four fellow disciples to take the initiative against the Hehuan Sect cultivators and laid out a plan to recruit the Hou and Gongsun Households. Five days later, both households agreed to join the campaign against the Feng Household and the Hehuan Sect cultivators.

• Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju agreed to follow Liu Yu's plan to attack the enemy cultivators.
• Liu Yu set a five-day wait, prohibited contact by Voice-Transmitting Talisman, and discussed the group's strength and preparations.
• Liu Yu cultivated at the mine for five days, then left with the four disciples to visit the Hou Household and the Gongsun Household.
• Liu Yu told Hou Yanze and the Gongsun Household about the Feng Household's collusion with the Hehuan Sect and demanded support in the Primordial Yang Sect's name.
• The Hou Household and the Gongsun Household agreed to send cultivators to help eliminate the Feng Household and the Hehuan Sect cultivators in exchange for a share of the Feng Household's resource sites.

Liu Yu led a coalition of cultivators from the Hou and Gongsun households to attack the Feng Household on Little Brow Mountain. After silently killing the mountain guards, the party entered the stronghold, leaving the assault underway.

• Liu Yu, his four companions, and the Hou and Gongsun households agreed on troop numbers, spoils, and recognition from the Primordial Yang Sect for the households’ claim to the Feng resources.
• Liu Yu led twenty cultivators toward the Feng Household, and they approached Little Brow Mountain under cover of darkness after passing Feng Family Town.
• Liu Yu assigned cultivators from both households and Xie Huaxiong to intercept anyone who tried to escape while the remaining sixteen approached the mountain gate.
• Hou Yanze killed one mortal guard with his Black Folding Fan, and Liu Yu killed the other with the Silver Flying Needle.
• Liu Yu ordered the party to follow him through the gate and onto Little Brow Mountain.

Liu Yu and his allies attacked the Feng Household on Little Brow Mountain, while Feng Tianwei rushed to activate the ancestral hall’s protective array. The alarm sounded and the Feng Household’s members fled toward the hall, but Liu Yu began killing those left outside.

• Liu Yu led his party of sixteen up the trail, eliminating sentry posts as they advanced toward the Feng Household’s buildings.
• Feng Tianwei, still recovering from injuries, summoned Feng Guangyou and Feng Guanglin to the ancestral hall.
• Nine bell tolls warned that powerful enemies were attacking, so Feng Tianwei activated the hall’s protective array and ordered Feng Guangyou to gather the Lineage members.
• Liu Yu’s party abandoned stealth and rushed toward the buildings as Feng Household members crowded toward the ancestral hall’s barrier.
• Liu Yu sent the Giant Wood Sword through the panicked mortals outside the barrier, killing them as they fled.

Liu Yu and the allied cultivators slaughtered the Feng Household’s people on Little Brow Mountain and burned their homes, while the survivors watched from behind the Milky White Barrier. The attack left the Feng Household’s Ancestral Hall standing and Liu Yu more firmly convinced that his ruthless choices were the right path.

• Hou Yanze, Gongsun Cang, and the other cultivators massacred the mortals outside the Milky White Barrier, while Liu Yu observed their deaths and reflected on his own motives.
• Liu Yu and the allied cultivators decided to burn every building on the level stretch of ground to prevent anyone from hiding or escaping.
• Wu Chang brought Sun Ju out of her shock, and Sun Ju obeyed Liu Yu by setting a pile of corpses ablaze.
• The Hou Household and Gongsun Household cultivators killed people who fled the burning buildings, while Feng Household youths inside the barrier were restrained from rushing out.
• Feng Guangyou urged the Feng Household to preserve its strength, and the other buildings burned down until only the protected Ancestral Hall remained.

Liu Yu confronted the Feng Household over its collusion with Hehuan Sect cultivators and ordered an assault on its protective formation. The Jade Spirit Formation withstood the first volley, leaving the Feng Household behind its barrier as the attack continued.

• Feng Guangyou and Feng Tianwei tried to deny wrongdoing and offered Liu Yu any conditions he wanted, while Gongsun Cang and Hou Yanze accused the Feng Household of conspiring with the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu mocked Feng Guangyou, then ordered his allies to break the formation and capture the Feng Household's leaders.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang urged their clansmen to attack, and more than a dozen magical artifacts struck the Milky White Barrier.
• Feng Tianwei directed the Jade Spirit Formation to block the volley, and the barrier trembled but held.

Liu Yu and the allied cultivators intensified their assault on the Feng Household’s Jade Spirit Formation, while Feng Tianwei struggled to keep the barrier intact despite his injuries. The Feng Household repelled much of the attack, but its defenses weakened under the superior artifacts, and Liu Yu refused Feng Tianwei’s offers of peace.

• Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang unleashed powerful magical artifacts against the Feng Household’s barrier, and the other allied cultivators joined the attack.
• Feng Tianwei focused on controlling the Jade Spirit Formation and ordered Feng Guangyou to lead the household’s cultivators in intercepting the incoming strikes.
• Fourteen Feng Household cultivators launched spells and artifacts through the formation to block the assault, but several attacks broke through their defense.
• Liu Yu’s Golden Dragon Sword and Hou Yanze’s Black Folding Fan badly strained the barrier, while Gongsun Cang’s ice crystals sent ripples across it before fading.
• Feng Tianwei endured his injuries and kept adjusting the formation as he offered concessions to end the conflict, but Liu Yu ignored him and ordered the attacks to continue.

Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang realized the Feng Household’s formation could outlast their attacks, so they agreed to use their trump cards to break it. Gongsun Cang revealed a Yin Thunder Pearl and explained that he had saved it to kill Feng Tianwei if the Feng Household threatened his lineage.

• The Feng Household’s formation held through half a quarter-hour of attacks, and its cultivators regained their composure while Liu Yu’s side grew tired.
• Liu Yu saw that the attackers were losing the war of attrition and sent voice transmissions to Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang.
• Hou Yanze proposed breaking the formation with a decisive strike, and Liu Yu agreed that they should use their hidden trump cards.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang resolved to break the deadlock, and Gongsun Cang produced a Yin Thunder Pearl.
• Gongsun Cang told Liu Yu and Hou Yanze that he had kept the pearl to kill Feng Tianwei if the Feng Household endangered the Gongsun Household.

Liu Yu revealed his top-grade magical artifact to establish his strength before the assault on the Feng Household. The attack on the Jade Spirit Formation began, and Gongsun Cang and Hou Yanze launched their lethal treasures at its barrier.

• Gongsun Cang displayed a Yin Thunder Pearl, and Hou Yanze revealed a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman as they assessed Liu Yu's strength.
• Liu Yu showed the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, surprising Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang with his top-grade magical artifact.
• Liu Yu ordered the cultivators to attack the Milky White Barrier, while Feng Tianwei strained to maintain the Jade Spirit Formation.
• Gongsun Cang sent a shower of ice crystals concealing the Yin Thunder Pearl toward the barrier as the others kept the Feng Household from interfering.
• Hou Yanze activated and threw the Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman, which transformed into a golden breeze sweeping toward the barrier.

Liu Yu and his allies broke the Feng Household’s Jade Spirit Formation with a Yin Thunder Pearl and a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman, then attacked the household. As Feng Tianwei held off Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang, Liu Yu pursued Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin and pierced their magical artifacts with his blades.

• Liu Yu’s allies used a Yin Thunder Pearl and a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman to destroy the Jade Spirit Formation, and the golden wind killed several Feng Household mortals and ruined the ancestral hall.
• Feng Tianwei suffered backlash from the formation’s destruction and tried to repair the breach, but Liu Yu assigned Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin to himself while the others attacked the remaining Feng Household Cultivators.
• Feng Tianwei ordered Feng Guangxiu to flee with Feng Guanglin, then resolved to sacrifice himself to buy them time as Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang confronted him.
• Liu Yu spotted Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin escaping and chased them with the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades.
• Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin tried to block Liu Yu’s blades with their magical artifacts, but the blades pierced both artifacts.

Liu Yu subdued Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin, then used the threat of harming her brother to make Feng Guangxiu answer his questions about the Hehuan Sect cultivators. She offered to tell him everything she knew and serve him if he spared Feng Guanglin.

• Liu Yu took Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin's Storage Bags after the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades immobilized them.
• Liu Yu questioned Feng Guangxiu, but she refused to answer and turned away from him.
• Liu Yu cut Feng Guanglin's neck with a son blade, prompting Feng Guangxiu to give her name and beg him to stop.
• Liu Yu asked Feng Guangxiu where the Hehuan Sect cultivators were hiding.
• Feng Guangxiu offered to tell Liu Yu everything she knew and serve as his slave or maid if he spared Feng Guanglin.

Liu Yu pressed Feng Guangxiu for information, offering to spare Feng Guanglin if she told the truth while warning that he would verify her account. As the battle between the Feng Household and Liu Yu’s alliance raged, the Feng Household’s six early Qi Refining cultivators began to falter.

• Feng Guangxiu begged Liu Yu to spare Feng Guanglin and promised to provide information.
• Liu Yu offered to consider sparing Feng Guanglin if her information proved useful, then warned Feng Guangxiu that he would question another Feng Household cultivator to check her story.
• Liu Yu wounded Feng Guanglin with the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, and Feng Guangxiu struggled between her hatred of Liu Yu and concern for her brother.
• Liu Yu surveyed the battlefield with his divine sense and saw that the Primordial Yang Sect disciples, Hou Household, and Gongsun Household held a clear advantage over the Feng Household.
• The allied cultivators gradually wore down the Feng Household’s resistance, and the battle shifted when its six early Qi Refining cultivators could no longer hold on.

Liu Yu assessed the allied forces’ advantage as Feng Tianwei came close to defeat and selected Feng Guangyou as his next target. He coordinated with Wu Chang to capture Feng Guangyou and take his Storage Bag.

• The allied cultivators’ attacks overwhelmed the Feng Household’s early Qi Refining cultivators, while Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang cornered the injured Feng Tianwei.
• Liu Yu judged that Feng Tianwei would die despite any hidden trump card and observed Xie Huaxiong, Sun Ju, and Wu Chang fighting Feng Household cultivators.
• Liu Yu chose Feng Guangyou for interrogation and sent three son blades to attack him while telling Wu Chang to coordinate.
• Feng Guangyou’s Cyan Jade Pendant and defensive barriers failed, and Liu Yu’s son blades pinned him down and severed the tendons in his arms.
• Liu Yu’s son blades cut Feng Guangyou’s Storage Bag free and carried it back to him.