Recaps

Liu Yu spent three years cultivating and nurturing his treasures before setting out to protect True Lord Momei in exchange for the Flying Immortal Pill formula. He and Kongzhao arrived at the meeting point, but the two remaining Nascent Soul cultivators had not appeared even after two hours.

• Liu Yu found that directly consuming jade spirit mushrooms increased his cultivation more slowly than pills and left impurities that required later purification.
• Over three peaceful years, Liu Yu cultivated with jade spirit mushrooms and nurtured his magical treasures, advancing to roughly the Nascent Soul second layer.
• Liu Yu decided that if unexpected circumstances arose during the mission, he might pursue greater gains rather than strictly honor the Supreme Unity Dao Pact.
• Liu Yu traveled to the Pill Cauldron Sect and met True Lord Momei, who reaffirmed that she would give him the Flying Immortal Pill formula if she survived the mission.
• Kongzhao arrived at the meeting point, but True Lord Huangmei and the other middle-stage True Lord failed to appear, leaving Momei increasingly uneasy.

Liu Yu and Kongzhao worried that Nangong Tian’s warning had driven away the two invited middle-stage cultivators, but True Lord Huangmei arrived and Mo Mei increased the promised rewards to secure the group’s help. The four traveled through Five Elements Pass and set out for Bright Moon Immortal City to begin their assignment.

• Liu Yu and Kongzhao considered abandoning the venture if both invited middle-stage cultivators failed to arrive, while Mo Mei grew increasingly anxious.
• True Lord Huangmei arrived after a delay, but True Lord Yunshan remained absent, apparently deterred by Nangong Tian’s warning.
• Mo Mei offered Liu Yu, Kongzhao, and Huangmei three additional cultivation pills each, and they agreed to help defend Bright Moon Immortal City.
• Mo Mei led the group through a Teleportation Formation to Five Elements Pass, where Liu Yu observed its crowded streets, defenses, and statue of True Lord Chonglou.
• The four left Five Elements Pass and flew north toward Bright Moon Immortal City, an important stronghold protecting the surrounding human territory.

Liu Yu and the other True Lords took control of Bright Moon Immortal City and heard that many settlements under its jurisdiction urgently needed reinforcements. Mo Mei refused to send any cultivators out, choosing to protect the city and her own safety, while Liu Yu decided to look after his sect’s disciples.

• Liu Yu, Mo Mei, Kongzhao, and Huang Mei completed the handover of Bright Moon Immortal City and listened to reports about its defenses and surroundings.
• A Golden Core city lord reported that eight large settlements and ninety-six smaller settlements faced heavy attacks, and that more than half had requested reinforcements.
• Mo Mei ordered that no cultivators be dispatched from Bright Moon Immortal City without her permission, intending to keep its defenses strong during her fifteen-year assignment.
• The Golden Core administrators withdrew without objecting, while Liu Yu, Huang Mei, and Kongzhao remained silent about Mo Mei’s decision.
• Liu Yu considered the safety of his sect’s disciples and sent out a Communication Talisman.

Liu Yu secured his residence in Bright Moon Immortal City and considered how to obtain a fourth-grade spirit flame to advance the Azure Yang Demonic Flame. He decided that he would prefer to wait until the Human-Demon War ended, but he was willing to target a weaker True Lord if circumstances forced him to act sooner.

• True Lord Momei, True Lord Huangmei, Liu Yu, and Kongzhao discussed the outposts' defenses, their compensation, and when the Human-Demon War might end.
• Liu Yu returned to his estate and set up the Earth Fiend Golden Gate Formation to protect himself while cultivating.
• Liu Yu reflected on how Primordial Yang Sect disciples had gathered 120,000 units of fuel for the Azure Yang Demonic Flame using his Azure Yang Spirit-Sealing Art.
• Liu Yu reviewed a list of True Lords who possessed fourth-grade spirit flames and concluded that he would likely need to seize one rather than trade for it.
• Liu Yu decided to wait until the war ended if possible, but outlined a plan to target a weaker True Lord if he could not afford to delay the flame's advancement.

Mo Mei refused to reinforce the settlements around Bright Moon Immortal City as the Demon Race intensified its attacks, while she and Liu Yu suspected the Black Ice Palace might be involved. Eight years later, the Demon Race finally advanced on the city, and Liu Yu prepared for the confrontation as the army approached its gates.

• Mo Mei continued to deny pleas for reinforcements, allowing settlements around Bright Moon Immortal City to fall as the Demon Race's attacks grew unusually fierce.
• Mo Mei, Liu Yu, and True Lord Huangmei suspected that Nangong Tian of the Black Ice Palace had arranged an alliance with the Demon Race to target Mo Mei.
• Liu Yu ordered his two Golden Core Death Soldiers to leave Bright Moon Immortal City and considered expanding and improving his Shadow of the Sun force.
• Over the next eight years, the surrounding settlements fell one after another, and the Demon Race steadily advanced toward Bright Moon Immortal City.
• True Lord Huangmei and Liu Yu watched the Demon Race's army emerge through the dust and surge toward the city's northern gates.

A massive demon-beast tide attacked Bright Moon Immortal City, and the defenders activated the Bright Moon Demon-Sweeping Formation to fight it off. Liu Yu discovered four Demon Kings among the attackers and suspected Nangong Tian had colluded with them, leaving the city threatened from within and without.

• Thousands of demon beasts charged Bright Moon Immortal City as Momei reaffirmed her agreement with Liu Yu, Huang Mei, and Kongzhao to protect her.
• Momei ordered the city’s fourth-tier formation activated, and its silver attacks killed countless low-level beasts before the tide resumed its advance.
• Third-tier demon cultivators countered the formation’s next attack, revealing their unusual numbers and apparent knowledge of the city’s defenses.
• Liu Yu detected four fourth-tier Demon Kings and suspected Nangong Tian had secretly reached an understanding with them.
• Momei searched the Golden Core cultivators for a human traitor and showed suspicion toward the other True Lords as the defenders faced an attack from within and without.

The Demon Race’s assault on Bright Moon Immortal City intensified as four Demon Kings appeared and Mo Mei prepared to meet them. The city’s formation suddenly collapsed, and Mo Mei caught Wu Changchun apparently removing something from his Storage Ring.

• The demon beasts and cultivators fought for half a day, with the Silver Light Curtain holding despite the overwhelming beast tide.
• The demon beasts charged into range of the city’s defenders, and the four Demon Kings revealed themselves and advanced on Bright Moon Immortal City.
• Mo Mei assigned Huangmei to face the Fire Sparrow, herself to face the Black Flood Dragon, Liu Yu and Kongzhao to face the Black Bear, and two other True Lords to face the Green Flood Dragon.
• As the True Lords prepared to engage, the Demon Kings and demon cultivators attacked the formation nodes, causing the Silver Light Curtain to shatter and preventing the city’s formations from being reactivated.
• Mo Mei saw Wu Changchun’s Storage Ring flash and accused him of daring to betray them.

After Wu Changchun sabotaged Bright Moon Immortal City's formation and fled, Mo Mei and three allies faced four Demon Kings while the city fell into chaos. Liu Yu held back against Ao Lin as he ensured Mo Mei could escape, but Ao Lin refused to stop fighting even after Liu Yu tried to withdraw, forcing Liu Yu to reveal himself.

• Mo Mei realized Wu Changchun had tampered with the formation, while Liu Yu suspected he acted for Nangong Tian; Wu Changchun ordered a retreat and fled as the Demon Kings let him go.
• Huang Mei and Kongzhao stayed to hold off the Fire Sparrow Demon King and Black Bear King, while Liu Yu intercepted Ao Lin and Mo Mei fled from the Black Flood Dragon King.
• The demon army overwhelmed Bright Moon Immortal City's defenses, and thousands of fleeing cultivators were caught in the battle as stray attacks killed humans and demons alike.
• The Demon Kings coordinated to pursue Mo Mei, and the Fire Sparrow Demon King urged Ao Lin to kill Liu Yu, whom he recognized as stronger than he appeared.
• Liu Yu defended against Ao Lin while concealing his true strength, then tried to end their fight and follow Mo Mei; Ao Lin continued attacking, and Liu Yu removed his hood and warned him that he was forcing him to act.

Liu Yu revealed his full strength and defeated Demon King Ao Lin, using the Ruined Sword to seal space and capture Ao Lin’s demon nascent soul. After collecting the demon’s remains, Liu Yu hurried south to catch up with Mo Mei.

• Liu Yu stopped concealing his strength and summoned the Azure Yang Starcloud to face Ao Lin.
• Liu Yu struck Ao Lin with the Spirit-Shocking Thorn, disrupting the demon’s consciousness and giving the Starcloud Body an opening to attack.
• Ao Lin burned his origin source and fought back, but Liu Yu’s spear broke through his defenses and pierced his body.
• Ao Lin abandoned his body and tried to escape as a demon nascent soul, but Liu Yu used the Ruined Sword to seal space and capture him.
• Liu Yu collected the largest pieces of Ao Lin’s body and flew south, urging Mo Mei to hold on.

Liu Yu left Bright Moon Immortal City after weakening the demon forces and followed the battle to rescue Mo Mei from Nangong Yue and Ao Hai. Once the attackers withdrew, Liu Yu stopped Mo Mei from leaving, leaving his intentions toward her uncertain.

• Liu Yu weakened the demon beasts and demon cultivators attacking Bright Moon Immortal City and killed many with spear auras before continuing his pursuit.
• Liu Yu found Mo Mei fighting Nangong Yue and Ao Hai, but waited until Mo Mei was near defeat before revealing himself.
• Liu Yu used his Azure Yang Starcloud to interrupt Nangong Yue, and Ao Hai retreated when the battle turned against their plans.
• Nangong Yue withdrew, and Mo Mei thanked Liu Yu for saving her before preparing to leave.
• Liu Yu told Mo Mei, “Fellow Daoist, please stay!” and she realized he had not dismissed his Dharma Aspect.

Liu Yu pressured Mo Mei for the promised Flying Immortal Pill formula, and she offered three additional fourth-tier formulas to avoid a fight. He accepted the four Jade Slips, then traveled with Mo Mei to safety, leaving their uneasy alliance intact.

• Mo Mei feared Liu Yu would attack and considered fleeing as a nascent soul, but decided to offer pill formulas to protect herself and the Pill Cauldron Sect.
• Mo Mei gave Liu Yu the Flying Immortal Pill formula and offered formulas for the Primordial Essence Pill, Truth-Restoring Pill, and True-Congealing Pill.
• Liu Yu pretended to refuse before accepting all four Jade Slips, then verified the Flying Immortal Pill formula and withdrew Azure Yang Starcloud.
• Liu Yu and Mo Mei agreed to exchange pill-refining experience and sent messages to Huang Mei and Kongzhao about meeting at Five Elements Pass.
• Liu Yu and Mo Mei entered a fortress and teleported through the Teleportation Hall at Five Elements Pass to safe territory.

After Mo Mei rewarded Liu Yu, Huang Mei, and Kongzhao for helping her survive the Black Ice Palace’s attack, the cultivators discussed the war and strengthened their ties. Liu Yu returned to the Primordial Yang Sect, ordered a search for pill ingredients, and began cultivating with a Flying Immortal Pill while planning how to refine Ao Lin’s demon nascent soul safely.

• Kongzhao joined Mo Mei, Liu Yu, and Huang Mei at the Heavenly Immortal Abode, where Mo Mei thanked them and distributed their agreed rewards.
• Huang Mei verified the Truth-Restoring Pill, while Liu Yu received Flying Immortal Pills and the cultivators discussed the war, Mo Mei’s suspicions about Nangong Yue, and Liu Yu’s killing of Ao Lin.
• Mo Mei renewed her five-year agreement with Liu Yu and offered the three cultivators discounted pills to preserve their cooperation.
• Liu Yu returned to the Primordial Yang Sect, heard reports from Yan Qun'er, Jiang Qiushui, Ji Ruyan, Li Changfeng, Qi Yuntian, and He Rulong, and ordered them to gather ingredients for four pill formulas.
• Liu Yu decided to purify Ao Lin’s demon nascent soul and incorporate its origin into pill refining, then swallowed a Flying Immortal Pill and began cultivating.

Liu Yu worried that scarce resources would slow his cultivation and leave him vulnerable, so he decided to seek spirit herbs from Mo Mei at the Pill Cauldron Sect. Before leaving, he dismissed Wen Caiyi from her service, urging her to spend her remaining years freely, then set off for the sect.

• Liu Yu assessed his progress in cultivation and body refinement, and resolved to ask Mo Mei for help collecting spirit herbs for his pills.
• Liu Yu concluded that the scarcity of primordial spirit resources also threatened his path to Spirit Transformation and considered seeking a resource that could be used continuously.
• Liu Yu told Wen Caiyi that she would formally step down after serving him for nearly two hundred years, explaining that she deserved a life of her own.
• Wen Caiyi tearfully asked whether she had done something wrong, but Liu Yu reassured her, offered her merit points and protection, and upheld his decision.
• Liu Yu left his cave abode and flew toward the Pill Cauldron Sect.

Liu Yu visited Mo Mei at the Pill Cauldron Sect, where she taught him about alchemy and exchanged rare spirit herbs for his promise to help her in a crisis. He left with the ingredients for the Flying Immortal Pill and a renewed path forward in cultivation, while Mo Mei anticipated future trouble from the Black Ice Palace.

• Liu Yu reached Mo Mei’s residence on Huaying Mountain and accepted her invitation to share spirit tea and discuss alchemy.
• Mo Mei explained the importance of alchemy inheritance, resources, and spirit flames, helping Liu Yu identify why his progress had stalled.
• Mo Mei invited Liu Yu to continue their exchange privately, and after a day and night together, they agreed that she would provide rare supplementary spirit herbs in return for his help in a crisis.
• Liu Yu gained concentrated primordial yin power that improved his body-refining cultivation, and Mo Mei warned that the Black Ice Palace would likely move against the Pill Cauldron Sect after the Human-Demon War.
• Liu Yu promised to help Mo Mei if his safety was not endangered, then left with the herbs he needed to refine the Flying Immortal Pill.

Liu Yu returned to the Primordial Yang Sect, arranged for the sect to focus its herb-collecting efforts elsewhere, and accelerated the growth of the Flying Immortal Pill ingredients in the Immortal Mansion World. After three years of practice, he brought his alchemy skills close to grandmaster level and reached a nearly thirty percent success rate refining the Flying Immortal Pill.

• Liu Yu returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak and sent voice-transmitting talismans telling the sect to stop collecting herbs for the Flying Immortal Pill and gather ingredients for other pills instead.
• Liu Yu entered his cave abode and reflected on why he had chosen not to support Wen Caiyi, who had retired as his personal maid.
• Liu Yu planted more than two hundred boxes of spirit herbs in the Immortal Mansion World's red spirit field and used spirit stones to accelerate their growth.
• Liu Yu practiced refining Golden Core Condensation Pills before attempting the Flying Immortal Pill.
• Three years later, Liu Yu had advanced his alchemy attainments toward grandmaster level and achieved a success rate just shy of thirty percent for the Flying Immortal Pill.

Over twenty years, Liu Yu used Flying Immortal Pills to advance his nascent soul cultivation and gathered spirit treasures to strengthen his divine sense while the Human-Demon War wound down. The chapter leaves him sensing that his body refining is about to break through to the fourth tier.

• Liu Yu swallowed a Flying Immortal Pill and refined its spiritual energy, improving his nascent soul cultivation while resolving to avoid taking pills so quickly that he damaged his foundation.
• Liu Yu nourished his treasures and estimated that his body refining would reach the fourth tier in a little over twenty years, crediting Mo Mei’s primordial yin for helping his progress.
• The Demon Race stopped its attacks after taking enough territory, and the Human-Demon War gradually drew to an end over the next twenty years.
• With Flying Immortal Pills, Liu Yu advanced more than halfway through his nascent soul early stage and judged that he could defeat Old Devil He only by risking exposure of his hidden abilities.
• Liu Yu’s divine sense reached nearly four hundred li after he spent twenty years collecting spirit treasures, though he found that low-tier treasures had become scarce and less useful.
• Liu Yu felt his vital blood surge and his body-refining magic power circulate on its own, recognizing that he was about to break through to the fourth tier.

Liu Yu used the fourth-tier Spirit Gathering Array and vast stores of spirit stones to complete his long-awaited fourth-tier body-refining breakthrough, drawing the Primordial Yang Sect’s attention for a year. He emerged over twenty zhang tall with transformed golden blood and immense strength, then tested his body against the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.

• Liu Yu activated the fourth-tier Spirit Gathering Array and absorbed spiritual energy while refining his body with the Astral True Form technique and his Nascent Soul’s origin.
• The breakthrough steadily increased Liu Yu’s size and aura, while the resulting year-long spiritual-energy disturbance prompted speculation among the Primordial Yang Sect’s disciples and spies.
• The spiritual-energy phenomenon ended, and Liu Yu opened his eyes in the Cultivation Room after reaching the fourth tier of body refining at over twenty-one zhang tall.
• Liu Yu examined his pale golden blood and discovered that his body-refining magic power had gained stronger solar, lunar, and stellar properties.
• Liu Yu tested his defenses against the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear, first blocking it with protective magic power and then sustaining a shallow cut on his unprotected palm.

After advancing his body refining to the fourth tier, Liu Yu assessed its strengths and limitations, then spent two months healing the injuries left by the breakthrough. Once he emerged from seclusion, his unstable yang energy flared in the presence of his new personal maid, Gu Yueying, and he summoned her to his bedroom.

• Liu Yu tested his new Astral True Form and found that his strengthened body could withstand most spells below the fourth tier.
• Liu Yu reflected on orthodox body cultivation, Blood-Drop Rebirth, and the different paths toward controlling the power of heaven and earth before reaffirming his focus on spirit and qi refining.
• Liu Yu used spirit treasures and myriad stars magic power to heal the hundreds of minute injuries caused by his advancement over two months.
• Liu Yu left seclusion on Heaven-Reaching Peak and was greeted by Gu Yueying, a personal maid placed by the Master-Disciple Line.
• Gu Yueying helped Liu Yu bathe and dress, and he recognized her ambition to become his concubine.
• Liu Yu sensed his Astral True Form’s side effects flaring as his yang energy stirred, then ordered Gu Yueying to follow him to the bedroom.

Liu Yu dealt with the aftereffects of his recent body-refining breakthrough, then received an urgent summons from the Seven Kingdoms Alliance. He left the Primordial Yang Sect to learn what assignment awaited him.

• Liu Yu took Gu Yueying to his bedroom, and she was badly injured during their intimate encounter despite receiving healing pills afterward.
• Liu Yu considered his plans for advancing his qi, body, and spirit cultivation, as well as strengthening the Azure Yang Demonic Flame after the war.
• Liu Yu reviewed his Alchemical Notes and prepared to test his improved Flying Immortal Pill refinement success rate.
• Li Changfeng reported that the Seven Kingdoms Alliance had ordered Liu Yu to report to its headquarters immediately without stating why.
• Liu Yu accepted that he could not defy the wartime alliance and flew northeast from the Primordial Yang Sect to investigate the assignment.

Liu Yu arrived at the Seven Kingdoms Alliance headquarters and joined Fang Chengshan, Fang Chengyan, and True Lord Huangmei for a mission briefing. Huang Mei revealed that they had been ordered to hunt down Fu Qingshan, a powerful Profound Yin Cult leader accused of colluding with the Demon Race and causing Heavenly Water Immortal City to fall.

• Liu Yu entered the Wei Kingdom and reached the Seven Kingdoms Alliance headquarters, where Zhao Wuji welcomed him and explained the headquarters’ affairs.
• Liu Yu met Fang Chengshan and Fang Chengyan in the Discussion Hall and waited with them for the mission details.
• True Lord Huangmei arrived and said the four of them alone would carry out the assignment.
• Huang Mei explained that the Alliance had evidence Fu Qingshan had colluded with the Demon Race and sabotaged Heavenly Water Immortal City’s defenses sixteen years earlier.
• Huang Mei described Fu Qingshan as a ruthless, middle-stage peak cultivator and warned that capturing him would be difficult.

Liu Yu joined True Lord Huangmei and the Fang Brothers in a direct assault on the Profound Yin Cult to kill Old Monster Qingshan, while suspecting Huang Mei might have engineered the mission to use him. They reached Heavenly Shaman Mountain and began attacking its protective formation, with Old Monster Qingshan still inside.

• True Lord Huangmei described Fu Qingshan's rise and atrocities, and Liu Yu suspected Huang Mei had arranged the encounter to borrow his strength against a rival.
• Liu Yu, True Lord Huangmei, and the Fang Brothers agreed to head straight for the Profound Yin Cult's headquarters and kill or capture Old Monster Qingshan.
• The group arrived at Skyflying Immortal City, where Huang Mei killed the stationed Profound Yin Cult cultivators and Fang Chengshan sealed the city with a formation to block warnings.
• The four flew to the Profound Yin Cult's mountain gate, killed the Golden Core Elder who tried to delay them, and entered before the sect-guarding formation activated.
• They surrounded Heavenly Shaman Mountain, and Fang Chengshan directed Liu Yu's attack on the mountain's protective formation as all four unleashed their True Treasures.

Liu Yu and three Nascent Soul True Lords destroyed the Profound Yin Cult’s mountain formation but found Fu Qingshan gone, then agreed to lure him out by capturing his former companion. They set a half-month deadline and waited at Heavenly Shaman Mountain for Fu Qingshan to appear.

• Liu Yu and the others broke Heavenly Shaman Mountain’s formation, found no trace of Fu Qingshan, and killed or drove off the Profound Yin Cult’s senior cultivators.
• Fang Chenghuo suspected someone in the Seven Kingdoms Alliance had leaked the mission, while Huang Mei proposed using Fu Qingshan’s former companion to lure him out.
• Huang Mei explained Fu Qingshan’s history with the female Golden Core cultivator, and the Fang brothers agreed to the plan after Liu Yu argued for pursuing the mission.
• Huang Mei admitted he had arranged Fu Qingshan’s designation as a human traitor and offered Liu Yu half of Heavenly Shaman Mountain’s Spirit Vein to ease suspicion.
• Huang Mei’s disciples captured Zheng Yanran, and the four True Lords publicized her capture before setting a Binding Formation and waiting for Fu Qingshan for half a month.

Liu Yu and True Lord Huangmei waited for Fu Qingshan to appear, hoping to draw him into a binding formation. Fu Qingshan came to save Zheng Yanran, but Huang Mei killed her to provoke him, and the group launched a coordinated attack as Fu Qingshan mourned her.

• Liu Yu and True Lord Huangmei waited at Heavenly Shaman Mountain while the Fang Brothers concealed themselves and Zheng Yanran remained restrained.
• Fu Qingshan arrived to rescue Zheng Yanran, and Huang Mei tried to lure him two li into the binding formation.
• Fu Qingshan and Zheng Yanran exchanged final words before Huang Mei sealed her mouth and threatened to kill her unless Fu entered the formation.
• Fu Qingshan revealed that his disciples had attacked Huang Mei’s descendants and Personal Disciple, while Huang Mei chose to continue the confrontation.
• Huang Mei killed Zheng Yanran with the Yellow Long Halberd and a palm strike, then ordered Liu Yu and the Fang Brothers to attack Fu Qingshan.
• Liu Yu and the Fang Brothers joined Huang Mei in surrounding Fu Qingshan, who lamented that reaching heaven’s height had not let him keep Zheng Yanran safe.

Liu Yu and three allies fought Fu Qingshan, who unleashed his Ghostly Dharma Aspect and gained the advantage with powerful soul attacks. Two masked cultivators joined the battle, but Liu Yu revealed his Azure Yang Starcloud and drove the Dragon-Faced Cultivator into flight, while Fu Qingshan and the remaining fighters continued to threaten the group.

• Fu Qingshan watched Zheng Yanran die, then raised his strength with a secret art and summoned his Ghostly Dharma Aspect to repel the four True Lords' attacks.
• Fu Qingshan sent four Soul Storms against Liu Yu, Huang Mei, and the Fang Brothers, weakening the Fang Brothers and breaking their divine sense lock on him.
• Two masked Nascent Soul cultivators ambushed the group; the Ox-Faced Cultivator badly injured Fang Chenghuo, while the Dragon-Faced Cultivator attacked Liu Yu.
• Liu Yu used his Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear and Duskglow Armor to repel the Dragon-Faced Cultivator's Crystal Spear and Golden Seal.
• Liu Yu summoned the Azure Yang Starcloud and blasted the Dragon-Faced Cultivator away, but the masked cultivator escaped more than a hundred miles before Liu Yu could pursue him.

Liu Yu and Huang Mei joined forces against Fu Qingshan, waiting for his strength-enhancing secret art to fade before pursuing him as he fled. Huang Mei turned back to aid the Fang Brothers, leaving Liu Yu to confront Fu Qingshan alone, and Fu Qingshan prepared to make a last stand in the Astral Wind Layer.

• Liu Yu attacked Fu Qingshan's Spectral Dharma Aspect, giving Huang Mei a chance to recover and fight alongside him.
• Liu Yu and Huang Mei withstood Fu Qingshan's attacks until his secret art began to wane, but Fu Qingshan unleashed another Soul Storm and fled with the Spectral Dharma Aspect.
• Liu Yu pursued Fu Qingshan with the Purple Lightning Cape while Huang Mei, unable to keep pace, turned back to support the Fang Brothers.
• As Fu Qingshan's strength and speed declined, Liu Yu tracked him through the Astral Wind Layer and stopped short of his position to wait for him to weaken further.
• Fu Qingshan realized he could not escape Liu Yu and halted in the fourth Astral Wind Layer, preparing to fight while his strength remained.