Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu and Guo Poyun reached Luofu Market Ward while secretly traveling to rescue twenty-one Golden Core prisoners from Black Mountain Immortal Prison. After witnessing Purple Turban Army members face execution, they watched five Purple Turban Army cultivators attack the Qian Court forces, and the battle turned against them until a spreading darkness appeared nearby.

• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun traveled separately from the other Cloth-Clad Alliance members and arrived at Luofu Market Ward ahead of the five-day deadline.
• Liu Yu and Guo Poyun found Qian Court officials preparing to execute twenty-eight captured Purple Turban Army members, but they did not intervene.
• One prisoner denounced the Qian Court before the Golden Guard ordered the executions to begin.
• A red-browed cultivator led four Purple Turban Army cultivators in an attack on the execution ground, and the Qian Court's Golden Core cultivators fought back.
• Liu Yu refused Guo Poyun's request to help as more Golden Core cultivators joined the Qian Court's side and threatened to overwhelm the attackers.
• A patch of darkness appeared south of Luofu Market Ward and spread toward four Qian Court cultivators.

Dou Wuyou and Lin Weichen clashed with ninth-grade divine abilities during the Purple Turban Army’s raid on Luofu Market Ward, allowing the rebels to rescue their detained members and escape. Lin Weichen then headed toward Jiang Province to continue investigating the Dao One Holy Son’s death, while Liu Yu considered the effect of the raid on the Cloth-Clad Alliance’s plans.

• Dou Wuyou appeared and used Dark Abyss to overwhelm the four Qian Court Golden Guards as the Purple Turban Army cultivators moved to rescue their comrades.
• Lin Weichen arrived and used Harmonize with the Light and Dust to save the Golden Guards and confront Dou Wuyou.
• The red-browed cultivator and his companions rescued all twenty-eight detained Purple Turban Army members while Dou Wuyou and Lin Weichen fought.
• Dou Wuyou withdrew after their divine abilities clashed, and the Qian Court cultivators pursued the fleeing rebels.
• Lin Weichen flew toward Jiang Province to investigate the Dao One Holy Son’s death, while Liu Yu left for the Luofu Market Ward inns with Guo Poyun.

Liu Yu and the Cloth-Clad Alliance proceeded with their rescue plan after the elders ordered an assault on the Black Mountain Immortal Prison, while True Lord Qingshui secretly told Liu Yu to prioritize rescuing Xu Haoyun or kill him if rescue became impossible. The alliance activated the Ice Soul Chilling Breath Formation against the prison’s defenses, but three Nascent Soul cultivators emerged from Luofu Mountain and fixed their attention on Liu Yu.

• Liu Yu and the other nine gathered in Luofu Market Ward, and the elders ordered them to continue the operation despite the raid on the execution ground.
• True Lord Qingshui and two other elders joined the group near Luofu Mountain, approved the rescue, and explained how to use the Ice Soul Chilling Breath Formation against the Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation.
• True Lord Qingshui told Liu Yu that Xu Haoyun, a descendant of the Purple Turban Army’s great cultivator Xu, held vital secrets and ordered Liu Yu to kill him if rescue proved impossible.
• Liu Yu, Guo Poyun, Liao Yunxi, and the others secretly installed the formation materials, then activated the Ice Soul Chilling Breath Formation around Luofu Mountain.
• The Ice Soul Chilling Breath Formation began freezing the Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation, and three Nascent Soul cultivators emerged from the prison and turned their attention toward Liu Yu.

True Lord Qingshui broke through the Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation while fighting three Qian Court Nascent Soul cultivators, allowing Liu Yu and nine allies to reach the Black Mountain Immortal Prison. After smashing its iron gate and entering the dark passage, Liu Yu sensed that the lack of resistance concealed a danger ahead.

• True Lord Qingshui used the Ice Soul Chilling Breath Formation to freeze and shatter part of the Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation, then intercepted a Black Knife True Treasure as Liu Yu and the others fled the Nascent Soul battle.
• Liu Yu led the ten cultivators toward the prison breach, and they reached Luofu Mountain without interception as the frozen formation began to recover.
• The ten cultivators destroyed the black iron gate with their Treasures and found a dark passage descending into the Black Mountain Immortal Prison.
• Liu Yu, Guo Poyun, Liao Yunxi, and the others entered in a guarded formation and traveled through the passage without encountering guards or traps.
• Liu Yu warned the group that something was wrong, and they continued toward a glimmer of light at the passage's end.

Liu Yu led the group into a prison cell block, where formations and Qian Court guards trapped them under repeated attacks. He used the Azure Yang Demonic Flame to break the formations, killed two guards, and stopped his companions from pursuing the retreating survivors.

• Liu Yu decided the group had to press through the passage despite the unknown dangers ahead.
• The group reached a bloodstained space and was attacked by lightning arrows, a black lightning barrier, and fourteen Qian Court Golden Core cultivators.
• Liu Yu countered the guards’ assault with hundreds of spear auras from the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.
• Liu Yu used his Astral Eyes to identify the formations and spread the Azure Yang Demonic Flame, exposing and disabling the siege-crossbow-like artifacts.
• Liu Yu’s spear killed two guards beneath the ground, and the guard commander ordered the others to retreat through secret passages.
• Liu Yu refused to let his companions pursue the fleeing guards, warning that they could be luring the group into a trap.

Liu Yu led the team through the first and second underground floors of Black Mountain Immortal Prison, bypassing prisoners and killing the guards they encountered as they pressed toward the third floor. There, he located Xu Haoran and the other twenty Purple Turban Army Golden Core cultivators alive in special cells, leaving their rescue as the next task.

• Liu Yu rejected the secret passages and led the team along the original route after destroying the passage’s defenses and breaking the barrier that restricted divine sense.
• Liu Yu ignored the Qi Refining prisoners’ pleas and led his team down to the second floor, where Liao Yunqing and the others killed every guard they encountered.
• Liu Yu directed the team toward the third floor and warned them to watch for its stronger formations and traps as they descended.
• Liu Yu noticed fresh marks suggesting puppet guards had recently been removed, and Guo Poyun’s group cautiously checked the passage exit before the team entered the third floor.
• Liu Yu located Xu Haoran and the other twenty Purple Turban Army Golden Core cultivators alive in red special cells, though they were gravely wounded and bound with spirit-sealing artifacts.

Liu Yu led the rescue of the Purple Turban Army prisoners in Black Mountain Immortal Prison, then confronted the prison guards’ ambush before their formation could trap the team. He charged alone into the passage and repelled the guards’ first assault, while the rescue continued behind him.

• Liu Yu ordered Guo Poyun and the others to smash open the cells and rescue the Purple Turban Army cultivators without involving other prisoners.
• Guo Poyun freed Xu Haoran, whose Golden Core peak strength remained restricted, and the team began releasing the other Purple Turban Army prisoners.
• Liu Yu detected a formation activating in the passage and discovered eight powerful puppets advancing with the prison guards, so he destroyed a formation node and unleashed the Azure Yang Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu charged into the passage alone and used his true form and Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear to knock back nearly fifteen treasures sent by the guards.

Liu Yu defeated the prison guards, destroyed their puppets, and disabled the Underground Third Floor’s reawakening formation before it could endanger the rescue. After rescuing the Purple Turban Army cultivators, he received their thanks and strengthened his connections among rogue cultivators.

• Liu Yu overwhelmed the prison guards with Great Dream Through the Ages, destroyed three third-tier puppets, and forced several guards to flee.
• Liu Yu burned the nine remaining guards to ash with the Azure Yang Demonic Flame, then collected their treasures and the damaged puppets.
• Liu Yu used Astral Eyes to find the Underground Third Floor formation’s important nodes and destroyed them, causing the grand formation to go dormant.
• Xu Haoran thanked Liu Yu for saving him, and Liu Yu replied that comrades resisting the Qian Court Sacred Lands should help one another.
• The rescued Purple Turban Army cultivators thanked Liu Yu, who recognized that the rescue had opened new connections among rogue cultivators.

Liu Yu led the rescued Purple Turban Army cultivators through the collapsing Black Mountain Immortal Prison, but the prison’s defenses unleashed a corrosive Black Rain that threatened the entire group. He shielded some of them with his freezing light screen and continued toward the exit as the others began to fall behind.

• Liu Yu refused to stop and free the Golden Core prisoners, then led the group upward while Xu Haoran kept the Purple Turban Army focused on escaping.
• The group passed the Foundation Establishment cells without stopping, and Liu Yu sensed danger shortly after they entered the passage to the first floor.
• The prison’s three floors collapsed around the group, scattering the cultivators and killing many low-level prisoners.
• The Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation unleashed lethal Black Rain that corroded shields, treasures, spells, and exposed flesh.
• Liu Yu used his bright moon magic power to freeze the Black Rain above a limited area, sheltered Xu Haoran and others, and led the group toward the exit.
• As the group flew upward through the increasingly dense rain, Liu Yu’s magic power drained rapidly and the ten unprotected Purple Turban Army cultivators began to fall behind.

Liu Yu led Xu Haoran and the survivors out of the Black Mountain Immortal Prison as poisonous black rain killed ten rescued Purple Turban Army cultivators. After they escaped, Liu Yu contacted True Lord Qingshui, who directed them to a Teleportation Formation to flee the area.

• Poisonous black rain overwhelmed the escaping group, and ten Purple Turban Army cultivators died while Liu Yu protected Xu Haoran and his companions with a barrier.
• The survivors reached the prison exit, where Liu Yu dispersed his barrier and the Cloth-Clad Alliance members treated injuries caused by the rain.
• Liu Yu led the group through the black iron gate and past the melting black ice wall as the Blackwater Secluded Grotto Formation began to recover.
• Xu Haoran and the other rescued cultivators celebrated their freedom, but Liu Yu warned that they remained in danger and led them toward the Nascent Soul battlefield.
• Liu Yu sent an encrypted message to True Lord Qingshui, who instructed the group to find and activate a Teleportation Formation.

Liu Yu and the rescued cultivators reached an intact Teleportation Formation and waited for True Lord Qingshui and the other elders. Just as the elders arrived, Mingjing betrayed his master and attacked the formation, leaving Liu Yu and the others fighting to protect their only safe escape.

• Liu Yu uncovered the Teleportation Formation, confirmed it was operational, and placed nine Mid-Grade Spirit Stones into it.
• After a tense wait, Liu Yu spotted True Lord Qingshui and two other Nascent Soul cultivators approaching through the rain.
• Mingjing struck True Lord Qingshui with a concealed black needle, grievously wounding him, then unleashed thousands of White Light Threads at the Teleportation Formation.
• True Lord Cold Plum used her nine plum-blossom-shaped True Treasures to restrain Mingjing, while Liu Yu urged the cultivators to defend the formation rather than flee.
• The cultivators combined their Treasures, spells, and divine abilities to block the attack, but thousands of White Light Threads remained; Liu Yu entered his true form and counterattacked with Golden-Red Spear Aura.

Liu Yu destroyed most of a Nascent Soul divine ability to protect the teleportation formation, while Mingjing defended his betrayal of True Lord Qingshui as a pursuit of self-interest. As Qian Court’s three Nascent Soul cultivators approached, Qingshui burned his Nascent Soul origin to cover the others’ retreat and declared that justice was worth protecting even at the cost of his life.

• Liu Yu charged into the remaining white light threads and destroyed most of the Nascent Soul divine ability, suffering wounds but saving the teleportation formation.
• Guo Poyun and the others condemned Mingjing for betraying and attacking his master, while Mingjing argued that he had acted to obtain a Nascent Soul formation treasure and advance his Dao.
• The Qian Court’s three Nascent Soul cultivators approached as True Lord Qingshui weakened from his Nascent Soul injury and True Lord Cold Plum remained locked in battle with Mingjing.
• True Lord Qingshui burned his Nascent Soul origin to restore his strength temporarily and told True Lord Cold Plum to retreat while he held Mingjing back.
• Mingjing questioned Qingshui’s sacrifice, and Qingshui answered that justice was worth pursuing and protecting with all their strength.

True Lord Qingshui sacrificed himself to stop Qian Court’s Nascent Soul cultivators long enough for Liu Yu and the others to escape through the teleportation formation. The survivors arrived in Huai Province, where True Lord Cold Plum ordered the alliance to prepare to evacuate Jiang Province in anticipation of Qian Court’s retaliation.

• Liu Yu activated the teleportation formation after True Lord Qingshui revealed its hand seals, while True Lord Cold Plum arrived at Desolate Mountain.
• True Lord Qingshui detonated the Purple Gourd True Treasure and then his nascent soul, forcing Qian Court’s three Nascent Soul cultivators to defend themselves and leaving Mingjing shaken by his master’s final words.
• Liu Yu restrained Guo Poyun and the others from rushing into battle, urging them to honor True Lord Qingshui’s sacrifice by surviving and continuing the struggle.
• The teleportation formation carried Liu Yu, True Lord Cold Plum, Guo Poyun, Xu Haoran, and the others thousands of li to a mountain in Huai Province, where Liu Yu destroyed the formation.
• True Lord Cold Plum contacted the other elders and ordered the survivors to return to Jiang Province and prepare to evacuate because Mingjing knew the alliance’s secrets.

After escaping the Black Mountain Immortal Prison, Liu Yu and the Cloth-Clad Alliance learned that the Qian Court had attacked Ten Thousand Immortals Mountain and destroyed its headquarters. Liu Yu reunited with Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi and fled Jiang Province, while the Alliance’s survivors were directed toward the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains.

• The Purple Turban Army survivors thanked True Lord Cold Plum and the rescuers, then departed to find their organization.
• True Lord Cold Plum destroyed the teleportation formation and concealed the group as they flew back toward Jiang Province; she told the Alliance members to relocate to the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains after learning that Mingjing had leaked their secrets.
• Near Ten Thousand Immortals Mountain, the group saw Qian Court forces attack and cleave the mountain apart; True Lord Cold Plum headed toward the battle to assess the situation and try to rescue cultivators.
• Liu Yu flew to Xunyang City, avoided entering it, and waited outside for Zhuo Mengzhen and Zhang Yi to join him.
• Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, and Zhang Yi left Jiang Province immediately, while the chapter described the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains as a refuge for rogue cultivators under Divine Lord Nine Dragons.

Liu Yu established Jade Pill Hall in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains and focused on cultivation while avoiding a commitment to the Purple Turban Army. He allowed Zhang Yi to take missions under supervision and planned to have Little Green secretly guard him.

• Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, and their companion entered the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains and settled in a cave abode on Red Cloud Mountain.
• Over the following year, Liu Yu opened Jade Pill Hall, hired alchemists and managers, and handed its daily operations to Zhang Yi, Zhuo Mengzhen, and a shopkeeper.
• Zhang Yi reported that Guo Poyun planned to visit Liu Yu again, and Liu Yu instructed Zhang Yi in cultivation before allowing him to begin taking missions with Liu Yu's approval.
• Liu Yu decided Little Green would secretly follow Zhang Yi as his Dao guardian while he gained experience.
• Liu Yu considered Guo Poyun's repeated efforts to recruit him into the Purple Turban Army and chose to keep delaying a decision, preferring to cultivate safely as a rogue cultivator while discreetly supporting the army through Jade Pill Hall.

Liu Yu stayed in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains and refused Guo Poyun’s renewed request to join the Purple Turban Army’s operations, choosing instead to cultivate and prepare for Nascent Soul formation. As tensions between humans and demons and the Qian Court’s crackdown mounted, he remained at his cave abode, where ten years passed.

• Liu Yu left Jade Pill Hall and reflected on the growing tension between humans and demons and the lack of aid for Southern Heaven.
• Guo Poyun visited Liu Yu and described the Qian Court’s intensified crackdown and the Purple Turban Army’s heavy losses.
• Guo Poyun urged Liu Yu to take a more active role in the Purple Turban Army, but Liu Yu declined and cited his cultivation and alchemy as his contributions.
• Liu Yu decided that his resources and Nascent Soul pills made quiet cultivation safer than taking risks, and he returned to his cultivation routine.
• Liu Yu cultivated his qi, body, and spirit while the situation grew more tense, and ten years passed.

Ten years after settling in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains, Liu Yu continued cultivating in seclusion while Zhuo Mengzhen managed his affairs and reported on the growing population of rogue cultivators. Xu Haoran revealed that the demon race was advancing toward key border cities, explaining why Qian Court and the Sacred Lands had eased their crackdown, and leaving Liu Yu facing news of a looming threat.

• Zhuo Mengzhen reported that the crackdown had devastated rogue cultivator organizations, while more than five hundred thousand cultivators had gathered in the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains.
• Liu Yu warned Zhuo Mengzhen to keep a low profile and gave her twenty high-grade spirit stones toward buying a Rosy Cloud Pill so she could attempt to break through to the late golden core stage.
• Liu Yu continued studying cultivation methods and practicing the Astral True Form, then sensed a visitor and opened the residence to Xu Haoran.
• Xu Haoran told Liu Yu that the decade-long crackdown had cost the Purple Turban Army more than forty percent of its members.
• Xu Haoran revealed that demon beasts from the Annam Six Provinces were advancing toward Demon-Suppressing City and that high-level demon cultivators near Great Wilderness City threatened the eastern border.

Xu Haoran persuaded Liu Yu to recruit members for the Purple Turban Army in the eastern Central Region by offering him the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art. Liu Yu accepted the mission and prepared to leave, taking Zhang Yi along while Zhuo Mengzhen stayed to oversee the Jade Pill Hall.

• Xu Haoran asked Liu Yu to recruit members in the eastern Central Region, but Liu Yu initially refused because he wanted to focus on cultivation and pill refining.
• Xu Haoran offered Liu Yu an introduction to the Five-Colored Nascent Soul secret art and explained that balancing the five elements could strengthen a nascent soul and aid future cultivation.
• Liu Yu judged the secret art likely viable and agreed to undertake the mission in exchange for receiving it upon completion.
• Xu Haoran and Liu Yu discussed the mission, then parted as Xu Haoran left for another assignment.
• Liu Yu prepared for the journey, bought a few Fourth Tier talismans, planned to bring Zhang Yi, and left Zhuo Mengzhen in charge of the Jade Pill Hall.

Liu Yu departed the Purple Rosy Clouds Mountains with Guo Poyun, Zhang Yi, and five Purple Turban Army subordinates to carry out a secret mission in the Eastern Continent. After reaching the demon-threatened province under disguised identities, they presented prepared documents and passed a border city’s identity check.

• Liu Yu secured assurances from Purple Turban Army allies and Zhuo Mengzhen that they would protect the Jade Pill Hall while he was away.
• Liu Yu left Red Cloud Mountain with Guo Poyun and Zhang Yi, then met five Purple Turban Army subordinates at the Red Rosy Market Ward’s Teleportation Hall.
• Guo Poyun instructed the five subordinates to conceal their Purple Turban Army tokens before the group traveled through teleportation formations to the Eastern Continent.
• Liu Yu and his companions arrived in a border city, where guards mistook them for cultivators responding to Great Qian’s call to hunt demons.
• Liu Yu presented a prepared Identity Document to a Golden Core guard, passed the inspection, and heard the guard urge them to serve the Immortal Court and defend humanity.

Liu Yu arrived in the Eastern Continent under the alias Hong Hao and took command of the Purple Turban Army’s branch as tensions with the Demon Race rose. He ordered cautious recruitment to avoid Qian Court scrutiny and settled into temporary lodgings, where Tian Xiaoyu hinted she wanted private cultivation guidance.

• Liu Yu completed the identity check with Tang Wanshan and surveyed the crowded, increasingly tense immortal city with his companions.
• Tian Xiaoyu led Liu Yu to meet the Eastern Continent Branch’s administrators, who greeted him as Branch Leader Hong.
• After hearing Tian Xiaoyu propose immediate recruitment, Liu Yu asked Guo Poyun for advice and agreed to proceed cautiously until war began.
• Liu Yu ordered the administrators to guard against information leaks and maintain single-line contacts, then dismissed them to arrange operations.
• Tian Xiaoyu showed Liu Yu the pavilion prepared for him and offered to arrange maids, then shyly asked to visit that night for guidance on her cultivation.