Recaps

Liu Yu led the Purple Turban Army’s Eastern Continent branch through recruitment, its destruction by the Qian Court, and his dangerous trials in the Ziwei Secret Realm. After returning to the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, he left with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi as the major powers closed in.

• Liu Yu fought at Setting Sun Immortal City, then led Guo Poyun and Tian Xiaoyu in an attempt to recruit the Feng Household, which ended in battle and the household’s destruction.
• Liu Yu punished Tian Xiaoyu for the failed recruitment but later guided her cultivation, while the branch grew and recruited Lu Yi and other rogue Golden Core cultivators.
• The Qian Court attacked the branch headquarters, forcing Liu Yu to flee with Tian Xiaoyu as Guo Poyun escaped separately and the organization suffered heavy losses.
• Liu Yu entered the Ziwei Secret Realm and cleared successive trials, collecting ancient treasures before reaching a perilous path through demon plants.
• Liu Yu and Dou Wuyou raced and fought along the path, then each claimed one of the two treasures and escaped through separate teleportation formations.
• Liu Yu returned to the branch, discovered that the bronze fragment was likely part of the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and later handed the Eastern Continent mission over to headquarters envoys.
• Liu Yu reunited with Zhuo Mengzhen and cultivated in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, but decided to leave as major powers moved against rogue cultivators.
• Liu Yu departed the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains by flying boat with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi, while Guo Poyun chose to stay.

Liu Yu escaped the Central Region’s turmoil and returned to a Southern Heaven devastated by the Demon Race, where he reunited with Yan Qun'er and the Primordial Yang Sect. As he prepared to pursue Nascent Soul formation, he asserted his strength at an elders’ council and left the sect’s leaders unable to oppose him.

• Liu Yu escaped the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, killed the Qian Court pursuers and a Primordial Demon Sect elder, then fled through an ancient teleportation formation with the badly injured Zhuo Mengzhen.
• Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen discovered that Southern Heaven had fallen into demon territory, and Meng Xiaolei explained that the Five Sects of Chu had retreated behind Five Elements Pass.
• Liu Yu rescued Yan Qun'er from two Mountain Giant Apes, and they reunited before traveling together to the Primordial Yang Sect.
• Liu Yu returned to the relocated sect, paid respects at Li Changkong’s grave, and reported the Chang'an Plan to Heavenly Wind Ancestor and True Lord Wanfa while concealing details of his Central Region journey.
• Liu Yu received Heavenly Purification Water and a Green Lotus Pill, failed to create five elements essence in the Immortal Mansion, and began deducing a Two-Colored Nascent Soul method.
• Liu Yu tested his unfinished Soul-Cleansing Pill on hundreds of cultivators until one survived and he completed the formula, then burned the Hundred Herbs Pill Book after recording it.
• At the elders’ council, Liu Yu opposed the faction leaders’ deployment proposals by unleashing his spirit pressure and breaking their combined force, leaving them to recognize his superiority.

Liu Yu broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, became the Primordial Yang Sect’s sole patriarch, and established his strength before the other sects. Seeking a fourth-tier pill formula, he obtained the Flying Immortal Pill formula by agreeing to help True Lord Momei guard Bright Moon Immortal City, then prepared the sect for his departure.

• Liu Yu reached Golden Core peak, strengthened his primordial spirit, and successfully formed a Nascent Soul after enduring the heart-demon illusion and tribulation lightning.
• Liu Yu tested his new Nascent Soul abilities and discovered that the Immortal Mansion had expanded, while Heavenly Wind Ancestor revealed his imminent death and passed away.
• Liu Yu took charge of the Primordial Yang Sect, organized Heavenly Wind Ancestor’s funeral, and revised his biography to present him as an honorable protector.
• Liu Yu hosted his Nascent Soul celebration and defeated He Wangtian’s attack with the Azure Yang Starcloud, prompting the five sects to reaffirm their alliance.
• Liu Yu took Yan Qun'er as his concubine, then traveled with True Lord Zihong to the Pill Cauldron Sect’s exchange gathering in search of fourth-tier pill formulas.
• Liu Yu obtained True Lord Huangmei’s ancient Spirit-Merging Pill formula and accepted True Lord Momei’s offer of the Flying Immortal Pill formula in exchange for helping with her mission.
• True Lord Momei secured four allies, including Liu Yu, to guard Bright Moon Immortal City for fifteen years, and they signed a pact to gather in three years.
• Liu Yu ordered the Primordial Yang Sect elders to prepare for his departure, considered alternatives for obtaining a usable pill formula, and began refining a thousand-year-old jade spirit mushroom.

Liu Yu helped Mo Mei defend Bright Moon Immortal City, obtained pill formulas, and advanced his cultivation before the Human-Demon War ended. The Seven Kingdoms Alliance then sent him with Huang Mei and the Fang Brothers to capture Fu Qingshan, whose escape left Liu Yu pursuing him through the Astral Wind Layer.

• Liu Yu traveled with Mo Mei, Kongzhao, and Huang Mei to Bright Moon Immortal City, where Mo Mei refused to send reinforcements to nearby settlements.
• After the Demon Race breached the city’s formation with Wu Changchun’s help, Liu Yu killed Ao Lin and saved Mo Mei, who gave him four pill formulas.
• Liu Yu exchanged alchemy knowledge with Mo Mei, refined Flying Immortal Pills, and advanced his cultivation while the Human-Demon War drew to an end.
• Liu Yu broke through to the fourth tier of body refining and later left seclusion after the alliance ordered him to report to its headquarters.
• Huang Mei revealed that Fu Qingshan had colluded with the Demon Race, and Liu Yu joined Huang Mei and the Fang Brothers in attacking the Profound Yin Cult’s headquarters.
• When Fu Qingshan came to rescue Zheng Yanran, Huang Mei killed her and the four True Lords surrounded Fu Qingshan, but two masked cultivators intervened.
• Liu Yu and Huang Mei fought Fu Qingshan until he fled, and Liu Yu pursued him through the Astral Wind Layer as Fu Qingshan prepared to make a stand.