Recaps

Liu Yu joined the campaign against Yan Kingdom, won an Azure Edge Squad leader position, and seized Mang Mountain Market Ward for the Primordial Yang Sect. He then infiltrated a Wei Household celebration to investigate its dealings with the White Household, leaving after the White Household guests descended the mountain.

• Liu Yu patrolled Ancient Gate City after the Chu forces captured it, gathered spoils, and obtained the Huang Family and Hundred Crafts Tower inheritances.
• Liu Yu challenged Liang Dong, won a squad leader position, and recruited Jiang Qiushui, Yan Kai, Cui Liang, and Leng Yuexin into his Azure Edge Squad.
• Liu Yu led his squad to Mang Mountain Market Ward, where they destroyed the Many-Eyed Daoist’s formation, killed him, and took control of the ward.
• Liu Yu divided the ward’s spoils and used the Azure Yang Demonic Flame to kill captured guards while his team gathered intelligence on the White Household.
• Liu Yu planned a two-pronged attack on the White Household, sending Leng Yuexin to assault a spirit mountain while he ambushed its cultivators attending the Wei Household’s celebration.
• Liu Yu entered the celebration disguised as the rogue cultivator Hong Hao and watched the Wei Household receive Bai Lianhua, Bai Caihuang, and other guests.
• Liu Yu monitored the mountaintop gathering, saw Dugu Wenjian and Xiao Chong leave grim-faced, then followed Bai Lianhua and Bai Caihuang down Red Maple Mountain.

Liu Yu killed Bai Lianhua, forced the Wei Household to submit, and led the assault that destroyed the White Household. After seizing Phoenix Mountain and its resources, he ordered the extermination of the Household’s mortal clansmen and turned to alchemy before warning Leng Yuexin against excessive slaughter.

• Yan Kai and two other cultivators ambushed Bai Lianhua and Bai Caihuang, destroying their jade flute and driving them into the forest, where Liu Yu and his allies surrounded them.
• Bai Caihuang escaped toward Phoenix Mountain with a Wood-Escape Talisman, while Liu Yu defeated Bai Lianhua with the Netherworld Soul-Severing Cone and burned her body.
• Liu Yu killed Dugu Wenjian, placed a Spirit-Locking Curse on Xiao Chong, and secured the Wei Household’s submission by offering it Perching Wood Mountain.
• Liu Yu led nearly four hundred Qi Refining cultivators to Phoenix Mountain, where his forces weakened the White Household’s formation with a Forbidden-Breaking Talisman and broke through.
• Liu Yu killed Bai Caihuang and the White Household’s elders as his forces occupied Phoenix Mountain and slaughtered most of its defenders.
• Liu Yu searched the White Household’s stores and cave abodes, seized valuable artifacts and herbs, and claimed Bai Lianhua’s talisman-making legacy.
• Liu Yu ordered Leng Yuexin, Cui Liang, and Wei Guping to eliminate the White Household’s mortal clansmen despite Yan Kai’s objections, then refined Scarlet Origin Pills in the Immortal Mansion.
• After Leng Yuexin returned from the mission with an unstable aura and bloodshot eyes, Liu Yu dismissed Cui Liang and Wei Guping and warned her not to cause mass casualties.

Liu Yu consolidated control of his territory, strengthened his cultivation, and survived a deadly clash at Heavenly King Mountain. He then joined Li Buyu’s assault on the Hua Household, whose defenders prepared to hold their mountain formation.

• Liu Yu subdued the factions south of Golden Gate Market Ward, recruited local cultivators, and organized his forces to secure the region.
• After returning to the sect, Liu Yu refined Ji Ruyan’s spirit-communing qi, advanced his cultivation, acquired the Earth Spirit Pearl, and arranged for Ji Ruyan to open a second Jade Pill Hall.
• Li Buyu told Liu Yu that the Hua Household had secretly grown a Fire Spirit Fruit Tree, and Liu Yu agreed to support a raid after Changfeng and Qingwei’s duel.
• Disguised as Hong Hao, Liu Yu reached Heavenly King Mountain, defeated a White Cloud Temple examiner, and witnessed the spectators being attacked when the Golden Core duel began.
• Liu Yu escaped the mountain, killed a pursuing White Cloud Temple Daoist, then defeated Bai Haobo and used the Snow Silk Needle Talisman Treasure to escape Daoist Meng Xue.
• Liu Yu joined Li Buyu’s force and traveled to Sweet Spring Mountain, where the Hua Household’s formation halted the attackers and killed three besieged elders.
• Li Buyu ordered her forces to probe the formation while Hua Yunfei directed the Hua Household cultivators to intercept their spells and artifacts.

Liu Yu helped the Primordial Yang Sect seize the Hua Household’s mountain and wrested several resource sites from the Hehuan Sect, then turned to cultivating the Flash Spirit Art and raiding a White Cloud Temple herb garden. The garden’s siege collapsed into a fight among rogue cultivators, leaving Liu Yu caught in a shifting ambush.

• Li Buyu and Liu Yu broke the Heaven-and-Earth Reversal Formation, defeated the Hua Household’s defenders, and claimed its Spirit Herb Garden and spoils.
• Liu Yu secretly took a Fire Spirit Fruit Tree sapling and rare herbs, then helped Li Buyu kill Hua Yunfei and received the Crimson Flame Tower.
• Liu Yu killed Xiao Chong and Fairy Gao after discovering their plot, then led his forces to confront Zhuo Mengzhen over the Glazed Goldstone Vein.
• Liu Yu defeated Zhuo Mengzhen in a wagered duel and took control of the mine, Golden Splendor Mountain Spirit Herb Garden, and Cold Iron Ore Vein.
• Liu Yu traded the purple copper ore vein for the Flash Spirit Art and spirit stones, then returned to Eternal Peace Market Ward and began cultivating the art.
• Liu Yu disguised himself as Hong and joined rogue cultivators attacking White Cloud Temple’s Qianchang Spirit Herb Garden, while Song Haocang secretly weakened the defenders’ position.
• After the formation fell and Song Haocang escaped with its token, Cao Yuanwu’s group ambushed Qingxi Rogue Person’s party as Liu Yu and Ye Menghua looked for a chance to escape.
• Cao Yuanwu killed Qingxi Rogue Person and another injured cultivator, but a blue-robed woman activated a talisman treasure bearing a small red needle, making his group wary.