Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu helped Li Buyu conquer Sweet Spring Mountain, collected his agreed reward, and watched the Hua Household’s defeat. After the battle, Li Buyu gave him the Crimson Flame Tower, and he exchanged part of his payment for second-tier spirit grass.

• Li Buyu gave Liu Yu one Fire Spirit Fruit and collected the remaining two before they left the Spirit Herb Garden.
• Liu Yu guarded Leng Yuexin, Xiao Chong, and the others as the Hua Household’s cultivators fled and were hunted across Sweet Spring Mountain.
• Liu Yu’s allies gathered in the Heart-Nourishing Pavilion, where Leng Yuexin’s cultivation had advanced and the others counted their spoils.
• After the fighting ended at dawn, Li Buyu gave Liu Yu the Top-grade Spirit Artifact Crimson Flame Tower in thanks for his help.
• Liu Yu asked to take second-tier spirit grass instead of spirit stones and dug up about thirty stalks from the Spirit Herb Garden.

After the raid on Sweet Spring Mountain, Liu Yu returned to Eternal Peace Market Ward with a Fire Spirit Fruit and the Crimson Flame Tower, then tested his gains and expanded his Immortal Mansion collection. He discovered that the Black Spirit Field could support the Fire Spirit Fruit Tree but was too small for all his spirit trees, and he began refining the tower for his own use.

• Liu Yu asked Li Buyu to keep his Fire Spirit Fruit secret, then left Sweet Spring Mountain with Leng Yuexin and the others for Eternal Peace Market Ward.
• Liu Yu returned to his Cave Abode, heard Jiang Qiushui's report, and examined the Fire Spirit Fruit, Crimson Flame Tower, and other spoils from the Hua Household.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion and found that the Fire Spirit Fruit Tree grew in the Black Spirit Field, but the field lacked room for all his trees and herbs.
• Liu Yu dug up the mature Starlit Fruit and Dragonblood Fruit trees, replenished the Black Spirit Field, and planted rare spirit grasses, including six third-tier varieties.
• Liu Yu spent several hours cleansing Hua Yunfei's traces from the Crimson Flame Tower and engraving his own imprint, then tested its defenses against the Molten Fire Saber.

After the Battle of Heavenly King Mountain, Liu Yu learned that True Person Changfeng had suffered grave injuries and organized the factions around Eternal Peace Market Ward. When Hehuan Sect cultivators seized a Glazed Goldstone vein and killed its supervisor, Liu Yu ordered Jiang Qiushui to demand its return and prepare their forces for battle.

• Liu Yu tested the Crimson Flame Tower, cultivated his divine sense and magic power, and reflected on the slow growth of his divine sense.
• Liu Yu learned that True Person Changfeng's Golden Core origin had been damaged and that the Primordial Yang Sect had begun a bloody purge across the Yan Kingdom.
• Liu Yu reached an agreement with local factions to preserve their territories and businesses in exchange for help maintaining regional stability.
• Jiang Qiushui told Liu Yu that Hehuan Sect cultivators had killed the Zhao Household's Foundation Establishment cultivator and seized the Glazed Goldstone vein.
• Liu Yu ordered Jiang Qiushui to negotiate for the mine's return and reorganize their group to prepare for battle if negotiations failed.

Liu Yu followed Xiao Chong out of Eternal Peace Market Ward and discovered him conspiring with a Hehuan Sect cultivator. Xiao Chong accepted a Spirit-Transforming Pill to remove the Spirit-Locking Restriction and agreed to help the sect oppose Liu Yu, while Liu Yu watched from hiding.

• Liu Yu spotted a concealed Foundation Establishment Cultivator slipping out of Eternal Peace Market Ward and secretly followed the escape light west.
• Liu Yu recognized the cultivator as Xiao Chong and tracked him to a cave where a Hehuan Sect cultivator surnamed Gao was waiting.
• Xiao Chong asked Fairy Gao to fulfill the Hehuan Sect’s promise to remove his Spirit-Locking Restriction, and she gave him a Spirit-Transforming Pill.
• Xiao Chong kept the pill for later inspection and pledged to help Senior Sister Zhuo defeat Liu Yu in exchange for a spirit mountain and a place in the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu listened unseen as Xiao Chong disparaged him and grew increasingly intimate with Fairy Gao.

Liu Yu confronted Xiao Chong and a female cultivator surnamed Gao, then killed Xiao Chong and crippled Gao before using the Spirit-Shattering Soul-Searching Art on her. The chapter ended with Liu Yu probing Gao’s fragmented Primordial Spirit for information.

• The female cultivator Gao used her Bewitching Art on Xiao Chong while Liu Yu entered their cave and interrupted them.
• Xiao Chong blamed Gao and begged Liu Yu for mercy, but Liu Yu activated the Spirit-Locking Restriction and burned him to ashes with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Gao offered intelligence, service as an inside agent, and her charms, but Liu Yu resisted her Bewitching Art and attacked her with the Crimson Flame Tower.
• Liu Yu suppressed Gao, destroyed her dantian with the Profound Departure Sword, and weakened her before beginning the Spirit-Shattering Soul-Searching Art.
• Liu Yu’s Divine Sense entered Gao’s Niwan Palace and carefully fragmented her weakened Primordial Spirit to search her memories.

Liu Yu extracted information about the Hehuan Sect’s Illusory Dream Squad from Gao’s memories and decided to defend the territory his team had conquered. After Zhuo Mengzhen’s cultivators claimed the glazed goldstone vein, Liu Yu overruled his divided team and ordered them to march there at once.

• Liu Yu used the Spirit-Shattering Soul-Searching Art to find information about Zhuo Mengzhen’s team in Gao’s memories, then burned her body with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu returned to the Eternal Peace Market Ward, tightened patrols, and waited for the negotiator’s report.
• The negotiator told Liu Yu and the Foundation Establishment Cultivators that the Hehuan Sect team refused to surrender the glazed goldstone vein.
• Wei Guangzheng urged an immediate counterattack, while Meng Wenxing and others favored reporting the dispute to their sect before acting.
• Liu Yu declared that the team would reclaim the vein themselves while also reporting the Hehuan Sect’s provocation, then ordered the cultivators to prepare for departure.

Liu Yu assembled a force of nearly a thousand Qi Refining Cultivators and twenty-four Foundation Establishment Cultivators and marched to reclaim the Liu Goldstone Mine from Zhuo Mengzhen’s Hehuan Sect forces. After ordering three rounds of attacks against the mine’s golden protective formation, he left the confrontation poised to continue.

• Liu Yu summoned the cultivators at the Eternal Peace Market Ward and led them southwest aboard the Origin Returning Boat.
• At Nine Terrace Mountain, Zhao Mingcheng apologized for losing the Glazed Goldstone Vein, and Liu Yu assured him that the Zhao Household would not be punished before ordering its cultivators to join the march.
• Liu Yu’s force arrived at the Liu Goldstone Mine and found Zhuo Mengzhen’s troops gathered behind a golden protective formation.
• Liu Yu ordered three rounds of attacks to demonstrate his resolve and make the defenders negotiate on his terms.
• The attackers’ spells and magical artifacts struck the formation as the defenders countered with golden blades and intercepted attacks from within.

Liu Yu surrounded Zhuo Mengzhen’s forces at the Glazed Goldstone Vein and demanded that they surrender it or face war. Zhuo Mengzhen proposed a duel to decide ownership, but Liu Yu rejected her proposal.

• Liu Yu’s forces bombarded the mine’s protective formation while Zhuo Mengzhen and her cultivators debated whether to negotiate or fight.
• Zhuo Mengzhen sent Ding Haodang to negotiate, but Liu Yu pressured him with his spirit energy and gave her half a quarter-hour to surrender the mine or face all-out war.
• After Ding Haodang reported Liu Yu’s ultimatum, Zhuo Mengzhen left the formation to speak with him, while Jiang Qiushui warned Liu Yu to be cautious.
• Zhuo Mengzhen rejected Liu Yu’s two choices and proposed a duel between them to determine who would own the Glazed Goldstone Vein.
• Liu Yu immediately rejected Zhuo Mengzhen’s proposal.

Liu Yu rejected Zhuo Mengzhen’s attempt to wager the Glazed Goldstone vein, insisting that she offer a stake of her own. After a tense standoff, they agreed to settle the dispute through a duel over three resource sites.

• Liu Yu refused Zhuo Mengzhen’s proposal, arguing that the Glazed Goldstone vein already belonged to his side and could not count as her stake.
• Zhuo Mengzhen warned that the mine remained in her sect’s hands, but Liu Yu threatened war unless she offered a genuine stake.
• When Zhuo Mengzhen asked for another solution, Liu Yu displayed a map and marked five of her resource sites as a proposed stake.
• Zhuo Mengzhen removed two sites from the proposal and offered the Golden Splendor Mountain Spirit Herb Garden, the purple copper ore vein, and the Cold Iron Ore Vein instead.
• Liu Yu accepted the three resource sites as the stake for the duel.

Liu Yu dueled Zhuo Mengzhen over the glazed goldstone vein, concealing his true strength as he fought off her attacks with High-Grade Spirit Artifacts. He finally revealed the Crimson Flame Tower and drove back her weapons, then began summoning a powerful Fire Flood Dragon.

• Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen cleared the area and began their wagered duel while Jiang Qiushui and Leng Yuexin watched from a distance.
• Liu Yu sent the Profound Departure Sword against Zhuo Mengzhen's Blue Ice Crystal Knife, and their transformed artifacts clashed with Zhuo Mengzhen's weapon gaining the advantage.
• Zhuo Mengzhen added an Azure Wolf spirit artifact and then a third High-Grade Spirit Artifact, pressing Liu Yu while he calmly held his ground.
• After gauging Zhuo Mengzhen's strength, Liu Yu recalled his three artifacts and brought out the Crimson Flame Tower.
• The Crimson Flame Tower repelled Zhuo Mengzhen's three spirit artifacts, and Liu Yu released flames from its nine stories to form a massive Fire Flood Dragon.

Liu Yu defeated Zhuo Mengzhen with the Crimson Flame Tower and compelled her to concede their wager over the resource sites. Zhuo Mengzhen surrendered the Liu Goldstone Mine but tried to delay handing over the remaining stakes, and Liu Yu insisted on completing the transfer immediately.

• Liu Yu unleashed the Crimson Flame Tower against Zhuo Mengzhen, overwhelming her spirit artifacts and forcing her to concede when she could no longer escape its attack.
• Liu Yu stopped the tower just before it crushed Zhuo Mengzhen, and she accepted defeat under its threat.
• Liu Yu demanded that Zhuo Mengzhen honor their wager at once, while his forces guarded the mine against any attempt to renege.
• Zhuo Mengzhen ordered her cultivators to withdraw and handed Liu Yu the Liu Goldstone Mine.
• Zhuo Mengzhen's pink-robed subordinate tried to postpone the transfer of the other stakes, but Liu Yu demanded that they complete the handover immediately.

After winning the wager, Liu Yu arranged for the Zhao Household to manage the Liu Goldstone Mine and took possession of the three neighboring resource sites from Zhuo Mengzhen. During the handover, Zhuo Mengzhen privately approached him with a proposed trade involving the purple copper ore vein.

• Liu Yu warned Zhuo Mengzhen against resisting the wager and left the Liu Goldstone Mine under Zhao Mingcheng's management.
• Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen traveled to Golden Splendor Mountain, where the Hehuan Sect withdrew its cultivators and Liu Yu entrusted the spirit herb garden to a local sect.
• Jiang Qiushui arranged a protective formation for the garden as Liu Yu led the two boats toward the next resource site.
• Liu Yu secretly dismissed the other cultivators from the deck, and Zhuo Mengzhen approached him to discuss a transaction for the purple copper ore vein.
• Zhuo Mengzhen offered Liu Yu the Spirit Flash Secret Art booklet as the proposed price for the ore vein.

Liu Yu traded the Purple Copper Ore Vein for Zhuo Mengzhen’s Flash Spirit Art and five thousand spirit stones, keeping the deal secret with a heart-demon oath. After taking control of the Cold Iron Ore Vein and extending the Primordial Yang Sect’s territory, he inscribed his Daoist name on a new boundary stele.

• Liu Yu recognized the Flash Spirit Art’s value and bargained with Zhuo Mengzhen until she added five thousand spirit stones to the trade.
• Zhuo Mengzhen swore a heart-demon oath to keep the trade secret and confirm the art was genuine, then handed Liu Yu its second volume and the spirit stones.
• Liu Yu’s forces took over the Cold Iron Ore Vein, and Zhuo Mengzhen departed with the Hehuan Sect party without the purple copper mine.
• Liu Yu told his followers he had his own arrangements for the purple copper mine and approved the new territory under Primordial Yang Sect control.
• Liu Yu carved “Year 8,899 of the Primordial Yang Sect” and “Erected by Azure Yang” into the boundary stele.

After securing the Liu Goldstone Mine, the Golden Splendor Mountain Spirit Herb Garden, and the Cold Iron Ore Vein, Liu Yu returned to the Eternal Peace Market Ward and began studying the Flash Spirit Art. He successfully compressed his first strand of qi-blood power and stored it in his Shanzhong Acupoint.

• Liu Yu ordered his cultivators to return to the Eternal Peace Market Ward, leaving the Zhang lineage to guard the Cold Iron Ore Vein.
• Liu Yu returned to the market ward and left its minor affairs to Jiang Qiushui and Leng Yuexin.
• Liu Yu considered the risks of becoming a target of the Hehuan Sect after defeating Zhuo Mengzhen.
• Liu Yu read the two volumes of the Flash Spirit Art and decided to cultivate the secret art.
• Liu Yu compressed a strand of qi-blood power and stored it in his Shanzhong Acupoint.

Liu Yu mastered and tested the Flash Spirit Art, then hosted a banquet where he distributed benefits to the cultivators under his command. Afterward, he considered his borrowed authority and the difficulty of primordial spirit cultivation, while Jiang Qiushui reported that the sect’s forces were advancing; Liu Yu resolved to keep delaying his own force’s departure.

• Liu Yu condensed a thousand wisps of blood-and-qi essence, restored his strength with a Blood-Melting Pill, and practiced the Flash Spirit Art, finding he could move more than twenty zhang in an instant.
• Liu Yu attended the banquet in the Eternal Peace Market Ward, where Jiang Qiushui and the Foundation Establishment cultivators welcomed him.
• Liu Yu assigned benefits to meritorious cultivators and factions, then left the banquet reflecting that his authority came from the sect and could be taken away.
• Liu Yu studied the Golden Core section of the Divine Preservation Art but made little progress, then read a basic formation text until Jiang Qiushui arrived.
• Jiang Qiushui reported that the sect’s forces were assaulting Immortal Palace City and advancing successfully, while Liu Yu privately resolved to continue delaying his force’s departure.

Liu Yu left his party in disguise to raid White Cloud Temple’s Qianchang Spirit Herb Garden and gather the last herbs needed for a Golden Core Condensation Pill. He reached the garden and found a battle underway, then watched from hiding as he weighed whether to intervene.

• Liu Yu spent the day consolidating his cultivation and refining his divine sense, concluding that his breakthrough to late-stage Foundation Establishment was near.
• Liu Yu decided to seize the chance to raid White Cloud Temple’s weakened herb gardens and collect the three remaining supplementary herbs for his Golden Core Condensation Pill.
• Liu Yu flew toward Immortal Palace City on the Molten Fire Saber, disguised himself as a middle-aged cultivator, and approached the Qianchang Spirit Herb Garden.
• Liu Yu sensed a battle near the garden and crept closer under the Spirit-Concealing Art rather than risk drawing attention.
• Liu Yu observed six White Cloud Temple Foundation Establishment cultivators defending the garden’s formation against nine divided rogue cultivators, and chose to keep watching before acting.

Liu Yu watched Cao Yuanwu’s rogue cultivators battle Song Haocang’s White Cloud Temple defenders at the Qianchang Spirit Herb Garden, then revealed himself under the alias Hong and pretended to join the attackers. After helping Cao Yuanwu rally the group, he left the battle poised to intensify.

• Song Haocang used his black wheel spirit artifact to block Cao Yuanwu’s attacks, while Liu Yu decided to intervene without revealing his true identity.
• Liu Yu let his Foundation Establishment aura show, drew the cultivators’ attention, and introduced himself as Hong, a rogue cultivator.
• Cao Yuanwu and Song Haocang each tried to recruit Hong, offering him a share of the garden’s resources or other rewards.
• Liu Yu sided with Cao Yuanwu, moved to a cautious distance from the rogue cultivators, and studied the group’s internal alliances.
• Song Haocang considered retreating as Cao Yuanwu urged the rogue cultivators to give everything in their next assault.

Cao Yuanwu and the rogue cultivators overwhelmed the White Cloud Temple defenders and broke the formation around the Qianchang Spirit Herb Garden, while Liu Yu concealed his true strength and waited for a chance to seize the spiritual plants. As the barrier fell, Song Haocang chose to flee rather than die defending the garden and activated a talisman.

• Cao Yuanwu led the rogue cultivators in a coordinated assault on the garden's formation, and Liu Yu joined in while secretly assessing their strength.
• Song Haocang and the White Cloud Temple cultivators defended the barrier, but the attackers' superior Foundation Establishment strength steadily wore it down.
• Liu Yu increased the power of his magical artifacts as the formation weakened, intending to use the assault to reach the garden's spiritual plants.
• Song Haocang decided to preserve his life, secretly weakened his spirit artifacts, and moved them closer so he could retrieve them.
• Cao Yuanwu seized the opening and pierced the failing barrier with his trident, after which the attackers shattered the formation.
• Song Haocang retrieved his spirit artifacts, retreated to safety, and activated a talisman while Liu Yu noticed his attempt to escape.

After Song Haocang fled the shattered formation, Liu Yu and the other rogue cultivators massacred the White Cloud Temple defenders and gathered their spoils. As the survivors prepared to divide the spirit plants, Liu Yu sensed Cao Yuanwu signaling a betrayal, and Cao Yuanwu suddenly attacked another rogue cultivator.

• Song Haocang escaped the Spirit Herb Garden, then turned toward the sect's main route to kill any White Cloud Temple disciples who might flee and expose him.
• Cao Yuanwu and the rogue cultivators exploited the collapse in morale to slaughter the remaining White Cloud Temple cultivators, while Cao Yuanwu and a companion pursued and killed two fleeing Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Liu Yu pretended to ally with Ye Menghua as the rogue cultivators eyed one another warily over the spoils.
• Cao Yuanwu proposed dividing the spirit plants, but the group found that Song Haocang had taken the token needed to open the inner formation.
• As the rogue cultivators attacked the formation, Liu Yu sensed Cao Yuanwu's secret signal, and Cao Yuanwu turned his trident against a Foundation Establishment late-stage rogue cultivator.

Cao Yuanwu’s group ambushed the cultivators at the Spirit Herb Garden and forced them into a desperate battle. After Qingxi Rogue Person and another cultivator were killed, the blue-robed woman finally activated her talisman treasure as the fight continued.

• Cao Yuanwu’s group ambushed Qingxi Rogue Person’s party, but Qingxi blocked Cao Yuanwu’s first attack with a defensive artifact.
• Ye Menghua and Liu Yu secretly discussed escaping, while Liu Yu restrained one of Cao Yuanwu’s cultivators to keep their side from collapsing too quickly.
• Cao Yuanwu’s group overwhelmed their opponents, and Cao Yuanwu killed Qingxi Rogue Person before turning his attacks on an injured cultivator.
• The injured cultivator failed to withstand Cao Yuanwu’s spirit artifacts and was killed while Ye Menghua and the others struggled to break free.
• The blue-robed woman activated a talisman treasure bearing a small red needle, prompting Cao Yuanwu’s group to become wary.