Recaps

Liu Yu helped the Zhang Household prepare for an uprising, cultivated for years, and joined the assault to retake Lingwu City. The human forces gained ground, but fourth-tier demon cultivators overwhelmed the spirit ships as the battle escalated.

• Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen ambushed a Fire Sparrow demon while helping Guo Poyun escape, then Liu Yu used the Ruined Sword to kill two pursuing Fire Phoenixes.
• Liu Yu delivered the Defiling Spirit Liquid to Zhang Tao, and the group withdrew to Shattered Gold City to prepare for the uprising.
• Liu Yu cultivated for years until his Astral True Form reached the third-tier late stage, then prepared his treasures as the uprising approached.
• Guo Poyun launched the revolt at Shattered Gold City, and Liu Yu, Zhang Tao, and the other cultivators defeated the Blood Bat Clan’s forces and freed the captives.
• Zhang Tao gathered Golden Core cultivators and spirit ships, then led them toward Lingwu City to exploit the demons’ absence during the royal court assembly.
• True Person Zhen Lei escaped his imprisonment and killed Huo Feihong, sparking battles around Lingwu City as imprisoned cultivators broke free.
• The three spirit ships rescued True Person Zhen Lei and attacked the demons, while Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, and Guo Poyun fought two third-tier demons nearby.
• Fourth-tier demons surrounded and attacked the Dingnan, Thunderbolt, and Azure Firmament, breaking through their defenses and battering the ships.

Liu Yu helped the Zhang Household break the siege of Lingwu City, then accepted Zhang Yi as his disciple and traveled with the Zhangs to the Divine Capital. There he strengthened his Azure Yang Demonic Flame, built up resources through alchemy, and learned that the war in Ling Province had turned in the Zhang Household’s favor.

• True Lord Tianling arrived during the battle for Spirit Treasure City, and the Nascent Soul cultivators and Demon Kings agreed to let their third-tier forces decide Lingwu City’s fate.
• Zhang Tao organized the assault on the Nine-Gate Heavenly Demon Formation, and Liu Yu led a squad that destroyed a formation node and helped the three spirit ships break the barrier.
• After a Fire Phoenix primordial spirit attacked the surviving cultivators, the Zhang Family Spirit Transformation drove it back, and Liu Yu collected his promised rewards from Zhang Tao.
• Zhang Tao asked Liu Yu to protect his descendant Zhang Yi, and Liu Yu accepted the boy as his disciple in exchange for pill formulas and the Impermanence Heart Flame.
• The Zhang Household opened a breach in the Thousand Mountains Spirit-Locking Formation, allowing the trapped cultivators to escape, and Liu Yu left with Zhang Yi and Zhuo Mengzhen for the Divine Capital.
• Liu Yu kept his Southern Heaven identity secret at the Great Qian Imperial Palace, then extracted the Impermanence Heart Flame’s origin and merged it into the Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu sold pills and cultivated in the Divine Capital while guiding Zhang Yi, and Guo Poyun later reported that Qian Court reinforcements had helped the Zhang Family reclaim more than half of Ling Province.

Liu Yu joined the Cloth-Clad Alliance and completed a mission that drew him into the conflict over the Azure Yang Sect’s last cultivator. He recovered the Azure Yang Art and the Alliance’s divine sense technique, then spent twenty-five years advancing his cultivation as unrest grew in the Central Region.

• Liu Yu left Divine Capital with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi after learning of the Zhang Household’s defeat, then settled in Xunyang City and joined the Cloth-Clad Alliance.
• Liu Yu completed his induction, received an order to kill Qian Court cultivators and retrieve the Misty Stone, and pursued the azure-dressed woman and her guards.
• Liu Yu defeated Su Xiangling and her companions, learned about the Azure Yang Sect, and obtained the Misty Stone under a Heart-Demon Contract.
• Liu Yu hurried to save True Person Kongqing, killed the Dao One Holy Son with the Ruined Sword, and secured Kongqing’s record of the Azure Yang Art, sect register, and Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp before Kongqing died.
• Liu Yu returned to Xunyang City, refined the Dao One Holy Son’s Purple Lotus Treasure into the Purple Nether Lotus, and studied the complete Azure Yang Art.
• True Lord Qingshui rewarded Liu Yu with the Return to the Void Divine Art and warned him to keep his origins secret and remain loyal to the Cloth-Clad Alliance.
• Liu Yu refined Soul-Congealing Pills and cultivated in seclusion for twenty-five years as tensions between humans and demons grew in the Central Region.

Liu Yu advanced to Late Golden Core, led a rescue at Black Mountain Immortal Prison, and escaped after True Lord Qingshui sacrificed himself. He settled in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, then accepted a recruitment mission in the Eastern Continent as war with demons approached.

• Liu Yu broke through to Late Golden Core and was appointed leader of the Cloth-Clad Alliance squad sent to rescue prisoners at Black Mountain Immortal Prison.
• Liu Yu and his companions freed Xu Haoran and the other Purple Turban Army cultivators, then escaped the collapsing prison through its lethal black rain.
• Mingjing betrayed True Lord Qingshui and attacked the teleportation formation, but Liu Yu helped defend it while Qingshui sacrificed himself to hold off the Qian Court cultivators.
• True Lord Cold Plum led the survivors to safety and ordered the alliance to relocate after Mingjing exposed its secrets.
• Liu Yu settled in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, opened Jade Pill Hall, and declined Guo Poyun’s requests to join the Purple Turban Army more actively.
• After years of cultivation, Liu Yu agreed to recruit for the Purple Turban Army in exchange for the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art as demon forces threatened the eastern border.
• Liu Yu traveled with Guo Poyun, Zhang Yi, and five subordinates to the Eastern Continent, passed a border identity check, and met the branch administrators as Branch Leader Hong.