Recaps

Liu Yu secured a Foundation Establishment Pill, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and established himself at Colorful Lotus Mountain. As he expanded his resources and uncovered the Azure Yang Art, he brought Jiang Qiushui into his household and made plans for her to join him.

• Liu Yu gathered 2,600 Contribution Points with Jiang Qiushui’s help, then swore to Geng Yuanzhang that he would protect Geng’s great-grandson and offer him a chance at Foundation Establishment in exchange for help obtaining a pill.
• Sect Master Zhuang exchanged Liu Yu’s Contribution Points for a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Liu Yu prepared for his breakthrough at Green Essence Peak.
• After six months of preparation, Liu Yu successfully established his foundation, gained liquid magical power and stronger divine sense, and found that his primordial spirit had grown inside the Immortal Mansion.
• Liu Yu chose Colorful Lotus Mountain as his spirit mountain, received the Withering and Flourishing Art, and promised Geng Yuanzhang to care for Yun Song and help him seek a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Liu Yu sold Jade Spirit Pills at Jiatai Market, bought an ancient Azure Origin Pill formula and an invitation to the Primordial Yang Sect auction, and later discovered that a damaged artifact served as a wick for his Bronze Lamp.
• The Bronze Lamp revealed the Azure Yang Art, which Liu Yu copied and considered cultivating if he found no better method at the auction.
• Jiang Qiushui visited Liu Yu after reaching late Qi refining, accepted his offer to manage a shop, and agreed to move to Colorful Lotus Mountain after choosing to stay with him.

Liu Yu strengthened his cultivation and defenses before the Primordial Yang Sect sent him to the front lines. After meeting the Golden Core elders, he was assigned to guard the Bing Character Six Herb Garden, where he joined Yan Hongyu’s group and began his duties.

• Liu Yu established the Jade Pill Hall with Jiang Qiushui as its shopkeeper, took responsibility for Geng Yunsong, and attended Jiatai Market’s auction, where he bought the Golden Steel Banner and Wu Earth Bluestone Formation.
• Liu Yu tested the formation, advanced his Azure Yang Art, refined Essence-Refining Pills, and spent three years cultivating while managing the shop and instructing Geng Yunsong.
• After the Primordial Yang Sect ordered him to reinforce the front lines, Liu Yu left Colorful Lotus Mountain with the other Foundation Establishment cultivators and two hundred disciples aboard the Origin Returning Boat.
• Liu Yu reached Moonwatch City, bought the Snow Silk Needle and Vajra Halberd Talisman Treasures, and told the Golden Core elders that his combat strength was limited.
• Elder Yan and Elder Fang assigned Liu Yu to guard the Bing Character Six Herb Garden for five years, and he led ten Qi Refining disciples there from Moonwatch City.
• Yan Hongyu verified Liu Yu’s identity and welcomed him into the underground herb garden, then assigned him to her guard group with Ding Hui and Cao Mengyu.
• Liu Yu strengthened his cave formation and cultivated with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame, which purified his magical power but did not remove his pill toxin.
• Liu Yu joined Yan Hongyu, Ding Hui, and Cao Mengyu for surface-defense duty, where he realized Cao Mengyu had noticed changes in his cultivation aura.

Liu Yu helped defend the Spirit Herb Garden from Hehuan Sect attacks, then escaped its fall with rare spirit plants and killed a pursuer. He concealed his gains from the sect elders, accepted punishment with the other survivors, and returned to cultivation in Moonwatch City.

• Liu Yu helped repel Steward Lu’s raid, killing the Purple-Robed Cultivator with a concealed Yin Thunder Pearl and Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• After rotating back to guard the garden, Liu Yu prepared for another attack and joined the defense when Qi Shaoan led eighteen Foundation Establishment cultivators against it.
• Qi Shaoan’s pink mist weakened the Blackwater Extreme Wind Formation until it collapsed, forcing the Primordial Yang Sect defenders to flee.
• Liu Yu lured a white-bearded elder into the Spirit Herb Garden and killed him with his artifacts and Spirit-Shocking Thorns.
• Liu Yu collected specimens of needed herbs and a Primordial Chaos Fruit seedling, burned three Spirit Planters, and escaped underground as Hehuan Sect cultivators approached.
• Liu Yu reached Moonwatch City and concealed his gains while reporting the garden’s fall alongside the other survivors.
• Elder Yan punished the six survivors by withholding their stipends for seven years and assigning Yan Hongyu to the frontline for fourteen years.
• Liu Yu left the others, returned to his cave abode, and resumed cultivating the Azure Yang Art while planning to refine Azure Origin Pills.

Liu Yu prepared for danger and joined a Primordial Yang Sect mission to destroy the Huang Household for colluding with Snowfall Pavilion. The household was wiped out, Liu Yu secured its alchemy inheritance and rare herbs, and the mission ended with the group returning toward Moonwatch City.

• Liu Yu studied the Blood-Sacrificial Escape art, refined Azure Origin Pills and Blood-Melting Pills, and sacrificed blood essence to strengthen the Sharpgold Sword.
• Wu Yuhan ordered Liu Yu and the other Primordial Yang Sect cultivators to destroy the Huang Household after it leaked sect intelligence to Snowfall Pavilion and caused four disciples’ deaths.
• Yan Hongyu led the sect force and City Guard Army to Heavenly Citadel Mountain, where they attacked the Huang Household and killed its defenders.
• Huang Yicheng admitted that he had secretly cooperated with Snowfall Pavilion, but the Primordial Yang Sect continued its assault and broke the household’s formation.
• Liu Yu killed fleeing Huang Household cultivators, obtained the household’s alchemy inheritance from Huang Yonghua, and secretly killed him after taking the Spirit Herb Garden’s control token.
• Yan Hongyu and the other cultivators divided the spoils, while Liu Yu collected soul-calming grass and other herbs from the garden before the sect claimed it.
• Yan Hongyu ordered the Huang Household’s direct descendants punished, its collateral branches enslaved, and Heavenly Citadel burned, then sent Yue Liang to separate unrelated mortals from the household’s people.
• Liu Yu watched Heavenly Citadel’s destruction, returned north with the others, and asked Xie Junjie to copy the Huang Household’s Foundation Establishment pill formulas in exchange for twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.