Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu’s squad battered the White Household’s formation while Shao Wenyan identified a weak point, and Liu Yu decided to use the sect’s Forbidden-Breaking Spirit Talisman there. The White Household fought to stop their advance, but Liu Yu and his allies reached the formation as he prepared to draw the talisman.

• The White Household’s elders, Bai Caihuang, and their spirit beasts resisted attacks from Liu Yu’s larger squad, while Bai Caihuang’s unusual ability to control two powerful beasts drew Liu Yu’s attention and made him decide she must be eliminated.
• Liu Yu tasked Shao Wenyan with finding a weak point in the formation, and Shao Wenyan eventually identified the Kun position after observing how it responded to repeated attacks.
• After Shao Wenyan confirmed his finding, Liu Yu told his allies he would use a Forbidden-Breaking Spirit Talisman and ordered them to cover his advance.
• The White Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators redirected their attacks to stop Liu Yu’s group, with Bai Caihuang fighting hard despite the strain and injuries to her spirit beasts.
• Liu Yu and his allies advanced to within nine yards of the formation, and Liu Yu reached for his Storage Bag.

Liu Yu used a Forbidden-Breaking Talisman to weaken the White Household’s formation and led a full assault on its vulnerable point. As the formation neared collapse, White Household elders fled into Phoenix Mountain, while Liu Yu’s forces prepared to break in.

• Liu Yu activated the Forbidden-Breaking Talisman, disrupting the Illusory Annihilation Azure Radiance Formation and weakening its defenses.
• Liu Yu ordered his forces to attack, striking the formation’s weak point with his spirit artifacts and hundreds of cultivators.
• The White Household’s Fourth Elder injured herself trying to sustain the formation, then fled into Phoenix Mountain with plans to save her two great-grandsons.
• The White Household’s Second Elder also fled, leaving the formation without its key defenders.
• Liu Yu’s spirit artifacts pierced the weakened formation, and his forces opened numerous breaches as Yan Kai, Cui Liang, Xiao Chong, and others rushed toward Phoenix Mountain.

Liu Yu warned the cultivators as the White Household detonated its formation, then led the assault into Phoenix Mountain. He killed Bai Caihuang and several White Household cultivators and continued hunting the Lineage’s survivors.

• Liu Yu sensed the formation was about to detonate, warned his allies, and shielded himself and Jiang Qiushui as the formation exploded, killing dozens of nearby Qi Refining Cultivators.
• Liu Yu ordered his forces to enter Phoenix Mountain and assigned Foundation Establishment Cultivators to pursue the White Household’s fleeing elders.
• Bai Caihuang hesitated over whether to flee, then tried to escape through a secret passage as Liu Yu attacked her with the Netherworld Soul-Severing Cone.
• Liu Yu struck Bai Caihuang with Spirit-Shocking Thorn, destroyed her Dantian, and burned her to ashes with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame before collecting her Storage Bag and Magical Artifacts.
• Five or six White Household Qi Refining Cultivators attacked Liu Yu in revenge, and he killed them with the Netherworld Soul-Severing Cone and Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu swept around Phoenix Mountain, killing White Household cultivators without sparing those who begged for their lives.

Liu Yu pursued and killed the White Household’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators, harvesting fuel that advanced the Azure Yang Demonic Flame to its sixth revolution. At dusk, he watched the fighting from Phoenix Mountain’s summit until a cultivator reported that nearly all the White Household forces had been slain.

• Liu Yu entered a tunnel and joined Xiao Chong and the two Wei Household cultivators in attacking the Second Elder of the White Household.
• Liu Yu killed the Second Elder with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame, took his artifacts, and ordered the others to support the remaining battles.
• Liu Yu pursued the White Household’s Fifth Elder, killed him, and gained enough fuel for the Azure Yang Demonic Flame’s sixth revolution.
• Liu Yu instructed Jiang Qiushui and Leng Yuexin to oversee the Qi Refining Cultivators, then continued hunting while the White Household’s remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators were killed.
• Liu Yu returned to Phoenix Mountain and watched the sunset, remaining still as the fighting below continued.
• A cultivator reported to Liu Yu that all but a few White Household cultivators on Phoenix Mountain had been slain.

After Phoenix Mountain fell, Liu Yu organized the occupation, assigned Wei Guangzheng to seize the White Household’s remaining properties, and searched Bai Lianhua’s cave abode for spoils. He found a second-tier superior-grade talisman-making legacy and a rare fire-attributed high-grade spirit stone, then began examining the rest of the loot.

• Jiang Qiushui reported that Liu Yu’s group had suffered ninety-one deaths, ten serious injuries, and thirty minor injuries, while the inventory of Phoenix Mountain’s resources was still underway.
• Liu Yu ordered Jiang Qiushui to complete the inventory and occupation arrangements, then asked her to summon Wei Guangzheng.
• Liu Yu tasked Wei Guangzheng with capturing the White Household remnants at their properties south of Golden Gate Market Ward and promised Perching Wood Mountain to the Wei Household.
• Liu Yu searched Bai Lianhua’s cave abode and found a talisman-making legacy that extended to second-tier superior-grade techniques.
• Liu Yu examined the storage bags of Bai Lianhua, Bai Caihuang, and two White Household elders, finding more than ten thousand spirit stones and a fire-attributed high-grade spirit stone.

Liu Yu sorted the White Household’s spoils, including a high-grade spirit stone and valuable artifacts, and calculated that the expedition had earned him resources worth tens of thousands of spirit stones. He then entered the White Household’s mountain herb garden, collected rare herbs for his Golden Core Condensation Pill, and left roughly half the garden intact for the sect.

• Liu Yu confirmed that Bai Lianhua’s spirit stone was high-grade, then sorted the seized artifacts, talismans, pills, cultivation methods, and other resources.
• Liu Yu chose the Flowing Light Sword for himself, the Lotus Blossom Pedestal for Jiang Qiushui, and the Cold Ice Sword for Leng Yuexin.
• Liu Yu estimated that his gains from taking down the White Household were worth at least seventy or eighty thousand spirit stones, excluding the value of several exceptional items.
• Liu Yu opened the White Household’s guarded second-tier Spirit Herb Garden and ordered the two disciples at its entrance to keep everyone out without his permission.
• Liu Yu found rare herbs, including several ingredients for the Golden Core Condensation Pill, collected them and other mature herbs, and stopped after clearing nearly half the garden.

Liu Yu looted the White Household’s spirit herb gardens on Phoenix Mountain, then cultivated and studied the Scarlet Origin Pill before meeting with the team’s Foundation Establishment cultivators. As they discussed pacifying the region after the White Household’s defeat, the Wei Household’s second elder urged them to eliminate the household’s surviving bloodline.

• Liu Yu harvested mature spirit herbs from the White Household’s gardens and collected varieties missing from the Immortal Mansion.
• Liu Yu claimed Bai Lianhua’s cave abode, cultivated the Azure Yang Art and Divine Preservation Art, and studied the Scarlet Origin Pill formula.
• Liu Yu prepared to refine Scarlet Origin Pills after planting their ingredients in the Immortal Mansion to accelerate their growth.
• Jiang Qiushui organized the team’s work on Phoenix Mountain, and Liu Yu summoned the Foundation Establishment cultivators to discuss their next steps.
• The Wei Household’s second elder urged the gathered cultivators to eradicate the White Household’s bloodline so it could not rise again.

Liu Yu settled the dispute over the White Household’s surviving mortals by ordering their extermination, arguing that it would avenge expedition casualties and deter other Yan Kingdom factions from resisting. He assigned Leng Yuexin, Cui Liang, and Wei Guping to carry out the order, while Yan Kai’s objections went unanswered.

• Cui Liang, Wei Guping, and Leng Yuexin argued that the White Household’s mortal clansmen should be wiped out, while Yan Kai objected that the mortals were innocent and the massacre would violate the Cultivation World’s rules.
• Meng Wenxing warned that the sect might punish them for damaging its reputation, causing Cui Liang and Wei Guping to fall silent.
• Leng Yuexin urged Liu Yu to decide and volunteered to lead the extermination, hoping to use the mortals’ blood to advance her cultivation.
• Liu Yu ordered the White Household’s mortals eliminated, citing the risk of their descendants returning and the need to avenge expedition casualties.
• Liu Yu rejected Yan Kai’s appeal and assigned Leng Yuexin, Cui Liang, and Wei Guping to lead the operation, promising to take responsibility and writing an official directive.

After securing Phoenix Mountain, Liu Yu refined Scarlet Origin Pills and reflected on how far his alchemy skills had advanced. His first batch yielded seven usable pills, leaving him on the threshold of becoming a second-tier alchemist.

• Liu Yu dismissed the cultivators after assigning their duties, while Yan Kai left troubled by the cruelty of the war and his inability to change it.
• Cultivators reacted to the White Household's fall with fear, grief, and anger as the region's balance of power shifted toward Liu Yu's group.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion, harvested the mature herbs needed for Scarlet Origin Pills, and brought them to the alchemy chamber.
• Liu Yu refined his first batch of Scarlet Origin Pills, producing seven pills and five charred pieces.
• Liu Yu considered alchemy ranks and recognized that his mastery was approaching the requirements for a second-tier alchemist.

Liu Yu refined Scarlet Origin Pills and discovered that their cultivation benefits seemed limited by the purity of his Azure Yang Art. After Leng Yuexin returned from a brutal mission in an unstable state, Liu Yu warned her to restrain herself and set limits on casualties.

• Liu Yu refined twenty-seven Scarlet Origin Pills from ten portions of spirit herbs, achieving a success rate above thirty percent.
• Liu Yu swallowed a Scarlet Origin Pill and found that it improved his cultivation only slightly more than an Essence-Nourishing Pill, leading him to suspect his Azure Yang Art's exceptional purity was the cause.
• Liu Yu wondered whether the Azure Yang Art was a top-tier cultivation art and considered investigating its origins and missing portions.
• Liu Yu nurtured the Flowing Light Sword in Bai Lianhua's former Cave Abode, then received Leng Yuexin, Cui Liang, and Wei Guping after their mission near Phoenix Mountain.
• Liu Yu noticed Leng Yuexin's unstable aura and bloodshot eyes, dismissed Cui Liang and Wei Guping, and warned Leng Yuexin not to cause mass casualties among cultivators or mortals.

Liu Yu subdued Leng Yuexin’s unstable bloodlust, ordered her to consolidate her cultivation, and rewarded her with a high-grade spirit artifact. He then gathered his team to plan the occupation of the region, leaving after four hours of discussion with a revised plan.

• Leng Yuexin suppressed her urge to defy Liu Yu and agreed to follow his orders and remain on Phoenix Mountain while her cultivation stabilized.
• Liu Yu gave Leng Yuexin the Cold Ice Sword as an advance reward, requiring her to make up the difference through future missions before receiving more spoils.
• Liu Yu assembled the twelve foundation establishment cultivators and reviewed how rewards from taking Phoenix Mountain had been distributed among the team.
• Liu Yu announced that the team would set out to bring the region under control and invited suggestions on his preliminary plan.
• Jiang Qiushui proposed lenient treatment for local cultivation lineages that submitted, and Liu Yu accepted her suggestion.
• The cultivators, including Meng Wenxing and Wei Guangzheng, spent four hours discussing details before the team finalized its plan.

After taking Phoenix Mountain, Liu Yu kept the Spirit-Locking Restrictions on Xiao Chong and the Wei Household members, then sent his contingent to subdue the surrounding territory. A month of submissions, flight, and bloody resistance left Liu Yu in control of the region, feared by local cultivators as Demon Head Qing Yang and revered by his contingent as Uncle-Master Azure Yang.

• Xiao Chong and Wei Guangzheng asked Liu Yu to keep their Spirit-Locking Restrictions in place to prove their loyalty, and Liu Yu agreed while privately deciding not to lift them.
• Yan Kai reflected on the cruelty of war and concluded that he would need power and sect standing before he could change the Cultivation World's rules.
• Liu Yu divided the contingent into three groups and sent them to subdue nearby factions while Leng Yuexin stayed at Phoenix Mountain to guard their holdings.
• Liu Yu's proclamation offered favorable terms to early submitters and threatened extermination for resistance, prompting rogue cultivators and some factions to flee or surrender.
• Over the month-long campaign, Liu Yu's forces gained new Foundation Establishment cultivators and destroyed resisting lineages, while many others fled or went underground.
• Liu Yu secured control of the territory south of Golden Gate Market Ward, earning the local epithet Demon Head Qing Yang and the contingent's title Uncle-Master Azure Yang.

Liu Yu’s force finished pacifying the area south of Golden Gate Market Ward, and he focused on consolidating control while waiting for news from the sect. After Jiang Qiushui brought him the sorted resource inventory, he examined which goods she proposed keeping for themselves.

• Yan Kai and Cui Liang reported that Liu Yu’s force had subdued the major factions south of Golden Gate Market Ward, and Liu Yu instructed them to reward and recruit local cultivators who had submitted.
• Liu Yu reflected on the operation’s success, his decision not to advance without the sect’s main force, and his disappointment at finding none of the herbs needed for the Golden Core Condensation Pill.
• Liu Yu tested Little Green’s growth and spells, then returned to studying the Netherworld Black Ice Record and Bai Lianhua’s talisman-making legacy.
• Jiang Qiushui gave Liu Yu the sorted inventory of seized resources and marked a small selection of traceable materials for them to keep.

Liu Yu arranged the illicit resources with Jiang Qiushui, then traveled to the Golden Gate Market Ward after learning the sect had seized it. He reported to his nominal master, Li Changkong, handed over resources, and faced an angry rebuke.

• Liu Yu instructed Jiang Qiushui to sell the portion of the resources they would keep discreetly and pack the rest for delivery to the sect.
• A disciple reported that the Primordial Yang Sect had captured the Golden Gate Market Ward, and Liu Yu rewarded him for verifying the news.
• Liu Yu gathered the sorted resources, briefed Yan Kai, Cui Liang, and another Foundation Establishment cultivator, then flew toward the Market Ward.
• Liu Yu presented his Sect Token at the guarded gate, entered the Market Ward, and went to meet Li Changkong.
• Liu Yu reported that his mission had largely succeeded and placed two Storage Bags of resources before Li Changkong, who praised his apparent loyalty before angrily rebuking him.

Liu Yu accepted Li Changkong’s penalty for violating the Cultivation World’s rules, then returned to Phoenix Mountain and organized a victory banquet to gather forces for the advance toward Chaoque Immortal City. At the banquet, he began turning the celebration into a muster of troops, raising a toast with the allied Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Liu Yu admitted fault to Li Changkong, accepted the forfeiture of five years of sect stipend, and received guidance and a warning to aid his Eldest Senior Sister.
• Li Changkong told Liu Yu that the sect’s main force would depart for Chaoque Immortal City within three days and shared information about Yan Kingdom’s Golden Core Cultivators.
• Liu Yu decided to wait at least seven days before setting out, then left Golden Gate Market Ward and returned to Phoenix Mountain.
• Liu Yu ordered his team and the forces that had pledged allegiance to attend a victory banquet, intending to recruit cultivators for the coming operations and secure the region.
• At the banquet three days later, Liu Yu praised the gathered cultivators and raised a toast, while Wei Guangzheng, Xiao Chong, and the other allied Foundation Establishment Cultivators toasted him in return.

Liu Yu pressured the Wei Household and the Kang Household to provide more cultivators for the expedition, then accepted two maids Wei Guangzheng offered to strengthen his ties with him. The new recruits were ordered to reach Phoenix Mountain within four days, while Liu Yu’s relationship with the surrendered lineages grew closer.

• Liu Yu told the gathered cultivators that the expedition needed more people and asked Wei Guangzheng and the Kang Household’s clan chief to provide recruits.
• Wei Guangzheng promised thirty additional middle Qi Refining cultivators, while the Kang Household’s clan chief promised sixty.
• Liu Yu ordered both lineages to send their promised cultivators to Phoenix Mountain within four days.
• Wei Guangzheng brought Yingge and Yanwu to offer as maids to Liu Yu, hoping to deepen the Wei Household’s ties with him.
• Liu Yu questioned Wei Guangzheng’s intentions, then accepted the two women as his new attendants.

Liu Yu consolidated control over the region, organized six hundred Qi Refining Cultivators, and led his forces out from Phoenix Mountain. After two years of turmoil in the Nine-Nation Alliance, the chapter left the story at a transition into the next stage of his campaign.

• Liu Yu accepted Yingge and Yanwu as maids but sent them to live outside his cave abode and focus on their duties.
• Liu Yu secured agreements from the Wei Household, the Kang Household, and local factions, then ordered his subordinates to organize the region’s cultivators.
• Yan Kai, Cui Liang, Leng Yuexin, Wei Guangzheng, and Xiao Chong helped suppress opposition as nearly six hundred Qi Refining Cultivators gathered at Phoenix Mountain.
• Liu Yu divided the cultivators into six companies, kept Jiang Qiushui in charge of the Inspection Team, and completed preparations to depart.
• Liu Yu led his forces aboard the Origin Returning Boat from Phoenix Mountain as dawn broke, and two years passed amid the Alliance’s turmoil.

Two years into the campaign in Yan Kingdom, Liu Yu strengthened his divine sense, reviewed the heavy casualties suffered by his contingent, and planned to consolidate control of Eternal Peace Market Ward. As the fighting neared Immortal Palace City and stronger enemies loomed, he decided he needed to increase his strength.

• Liu Yu reached foundation establishment peak strength in divine sense and brought it under control after cultivating the Divine Preservation Art.
• Liu Yu reviewed the campaign’s death list, noting more than a thousand Qi Refining Cultivators and eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators had died in his contingent, while its Foundation Establishment numbers had risen to seventeen through new recruits and surrenders.
• Jiang Qiushui gave Liu Yu casualty and surrender lists, and he ordered her to summon the surrendered forces’ representatives to Eternal Peace Market Ward in two months.
• Liu Yu and Jiang Qiushui discussed plans to stabilize the market ward and replenish the contingent, then shared a moment of intimacy.
• Liu Yu prepared to return to the sect to check Ji Ruyan’s cultivation, fearing that White Cloud Temple’s strongest cultivators could soon threaten him.

Liu Yu returned from Yan Kingdom to Primordial Yang Sect through Ancient Gate City’s teleportation formation and went back to his cave abode on Colorful Lotus Mountain. He discovered Ji Ruyan was attempting Foundation Establishment and waited without disturbing her; seven days later, a violent surge of spiritual energy drew his attention to her room.

• Liu Yu decided to return to the sect so he could strengthen himself and seek the spirit herbs needed for the Golden Core Condensation Pill.
• Liu Yu passed the identity checks at Ancient Gate Immortal City and used special authorization from Li Changkong to teleport back to Primordial Yang Sect.
• Liu Yu encountered Duan in the Teleportation Hall, then flew to Colorful Lotus Mountain and opened his cave abode.
• Liu Yu sensed that Ji Ruyan was attempting Foundation Establishment, cleaned the cave abode, and began cultivating while she remained in seclusion.
• After seven days, Liu Yu sensed a violent surge of spiritual energy from Ji Ruyan’s room and turned toward it.

Ji Ruyan completed Foundation Establishment, then willingly transferred her spirit-communing qi to Liu Yu through dual cultivation. After refining it, Liu Yu reached the Foundation Establishment middle-stage peak, improved his aptitude and strength, and began consolidating his cultivation for the war in the Yan Kingdom.

• Liu Yu used the Heavenly Eye Art to observe the spiritual energy current gathering around Ji Ruyan as she attempted Foundation Establishment.
• Ji Ruyan emerged after seven days with her cultivation stabilized, and Liu Yu reminded her of their agreement to transfer her spirit-communing qi.
• Liu Yu promised to restore Ji Ruyan's freedom after the transfer, then led her to the bedroom for dual cultivation.
• Liu Yu refined Ji Ruyan's spirit-communing qi, enduring intense pain as it strengthened his body, expanded his magic power, and improved his aptitude.
• Liu Yu discovered that his cultivation had reached the Foundation Establishment middle-stage peak, his Divine Sense had grown stronger, and his spiritual energy absorption and refinement had accelerated.
• Liu Yu judged his strength sufficient for the latter part of the Yan Kingdom war and began consolidating his cultivation.