Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu returned to the Primordial Yang Sect after nearly a century away, reunited with Jiang Qiushui, Ji Ruyan, and Wen Caiyi, and went to pay respects at Li Changkong’s grave. On the way, he assessed the sect’s weakened state and noticed a boy of the Liu Family bloodline during a spiritual root test, calling him promising.

• Liu Yu and Yan Qun'er arrived at Five Elements Pass, where the sect disciples welcomed Liu Yu back as Elder Qing Yang.
• Jiang Qiushui and Ji Ruyan greeted Liu Yu, while Yan Qun'er left after he asked her to go ahead; Jiang Qiushui then explained that Leng Yuexin was away on an Alliance mission.
• Liu Yu asked to visit Li Changkong’s grave, and Jiang Qiushui led him and his companions out of the Teleportation Hall.
• As Liu Yu flew through the relocated sect grounds, he noted the declining spirit veins and the Primordial Yang Sect’s uncertain situation.
• Liu Yu detected a boy carrying the Liu Family bloodline among the youths taking part in a spiritual root test and said the boy was promising.

Liu Yu visited his deceased master Li Changkong’s grave and declined to meet most of his former fellow disciples. As he returned to Qingyang Peak, he planned to conceal the true route to the Central Region and prepare for his own Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Liu Yu directed Wu Cheng'en to arrange special attention for an ordinary-looking boy he had identified with a Bloodline Sensing Talisman.
• Liu Yu and his companions arrived at Spirit Platform Mountain, where he found Li Changkong’s grave, burned offerings, and paid his respects.
• Ji Ruyan asked whether Liu Yu wanted to meet Li Changkong’s surviving disciples, but Liu Yu declined, intending to keep in touch only with his eldest senior sister, Li Buyu.
• Liu Yu planned to falsify the route to the Central Region and mislead any alliance expedition toward deadly traps to protect his secrets and prevent dangerous news from spreading.
• Liu Yu returned toward Qingyang Peak with Jiang Qiushui, Ji Ruyan, and Wen Caiyi, while Wu Cheng'en and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators took their leave.

After returning to Qingyang Peak, Liu Yu reunited intimately with Jiang Qiushui, Ji Ruyan, and his other women before settling back into cultivation. A message from the Heavenly Wind Ancestor summoned him to meet a Seven Kingdoms Alliance envoy, where True Lord Wanfa asked him to recount the Chang'an Plan.

• Liu Yu praised Jiang Qiushui and Ji Ruyan for keeping Qingyang Peak in order, then caught up with them and Wen Caiyi.
• Liu Yu spent the night visiting Jiang Qiushui, Ji Ruyan, and the other women, then bathed, cultivated, and rested.
• Liu Yu received a message from the Heavenly Wind Ancestor about the Chang'an Plan and the arrival of a Seven Kingdoms Alliance envoy.
• Liu Yu went to Heaven-Reaching Peak and found the Heavenly Wind Ancestor with True Lord Wanfa, a powerful Great Cultivator.
• Liu Yu credited his survival and success in the Chang'an Plan to luck and his fellow cultivators' sacrifices, and True Lord Wanfa asked him to describe the mission.

Liu Yu reported his journey to the Central Region to Heavenly Wind Ancestor and True Lord Wanfa, concealing key details while submitting his route map. He declined to request a Nascent Soul Condensation Pill, sought Heavenly Purification Water and a Green Lotus Pill instead, and left to rest in the sect as Heavenly Wind Ancestor considered him a likely successor.

• Liu Yu recounted the Chang'an Plan mission and his perilous journey, while withholding details about the Myriad Demon Grand Formation and his own actions in the Central Region.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor and True Lord Wanfa questioned Liu Yu for nearly half a day and concluded that help from the Central Region was unlikely.
• Liu Yu handed Heavenly Wind Ancestor his route map and requested Heavenly Purification Water and a Green Lotus Pill rather than a Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor approved Liu Yu's reward request and ordered him to remain within the sect while he rested.
• Liu Yu suspected Heavenly Wind Ancestor was gravely weakened and resolved to cultivate in the sect before attempting Nascent Soul Formation.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor acknowledged his injuries to True Lord Wanfa and decided that Liu Yu was the sect's strongest current candidate to form a Nascent Soul.

After receiving rare treasures for his Nascent Soul breakthrough, Liu Yu considered refining an untested Soul-Cleansing Pill and entered the Immortal Mansion to manifest the five elements essence. His attempt failed, so he began deducing a new Nascent Soul formation method using solar and lunar power instead.

• Liu Yu verified that the Seven Kingdoms Alliance had delivered genuine Heavenly Purification Water and a Green Lotus Pill, adding them to his preparations for forming a Nascent Soul.
• Liu Yu reviewed the effects of the Three Treasures of Nascent Soul Formation and decided to have Jiang Qiushui arrange volunteers to test his unfinished Soul-Cleansing Pill formula.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion and used its supreme-sovereignty state to try creating the five elements essence required by the Five-Colored Nascent Soul Method.
• Liu Yu compressed five spheres of elemental spiritual energy, but they became unstable and exploded before the five elements essence could form.
• Liu Yu concluded that the Immortal Mansion lacked something needed for the attempt and began deducing a Nascent Soul formation method based on solar power and lunar yin power.

Liu Yu deduced a new Nascent Soul secret method, the Two-Colored Nascent Soul, by adapting the Five-Colored Nascent Soul method to use yin-yang qi. The chapter then followed Liu An’s entry into the Primordial Yang Sect through Qing Yang’s faction’s intervention and ended with seven new disciples traveling toward Qingyang Peak after their assessment.

• Liu Yu used the Immortal Mansion’s supreme sovereignty state to deduce the Two-Colored Nascent Soul method, then postponed testing whether he could manifest solar and lunar essence.
• At the initiation ceremony, Liu An tested as having a four-element false spiritual root, leaving him disappointed about his prospects.
• Junior Brother Feng invoked Wu Cheng'en’s backing to persuade Senior Brother You to designate Liu An as an inner disciple despite his poor aptitude.
• Three years later, Liu An had advanced to the inner sect, while the other new disciples faced the sect’s assessment outcomes.
• Seven early- and middle-stage Qi Refining cultivators rode a flying boat toward Qingyang Peak, visibly uneasy.

Feng Han brought seven cultivators to Qingyang Peak for Liu Yu’s dangerous Soul-Cleansing Pill experiment, which promised generous rewards to those who survived. Liu Yu tested a golden pill on the first subject, whose head exploded, and ordered the next participant brought in.

• Feng Han warned the seven cultivators that nine out of ten experimental subjects died, but all chose to continue for the promised pills and possible Foundation Establishment resources.
• Feng Han delivered the seven participants to Liu Yu at Qingyang Peak and received a bottle of Scarlet Origin Pills before leaving.
• Liu Yu selected a triangular-eyed rogue cultivator, reinforced his Niwan Palace with seals, and gave him a golden experimental pill to refine.
• The cultivator’s head burst shortly after he swallowed the pill, and Liu Yu recorded the failed ratio before cleaning up and summoning the next subject.

Liu Yu refined the Soul-Cleansing Pill through hundreds of dangerous experiments, finally establishing its formula and confirming that it could strengthen a cultivator’s primordial spirit. After setting the pill aside for further safety checks, he burned the Hundred Herbs Pill Book to fulfill its late author’s wish.

• Liu Yu’s three hundred and ninety-eighth experiment succeeded when a delicate-looking youth survived taking the jet-black pill, though Liu Yu had to use precious spirit treasures to stabilize his niwan palace.
• Liu Yu rewarded the youth with three Foundation Establishment Pills, questioned him about the experience, and arranged for him to cultivate on Qingyang Peak while he monitored possible side effects.
• Liu Yu continued testing the Soul-Cleansing Pill, and a year later his Alchemical Notes recorded experiment 437 and the completed pill formula, produced after hundreds of cultivators had died or been tested.
• Liu Yu decided to observe the surviving cultivators for side effects before taking the Soul-Cleansing Pill himself.
• Liu Yu burned the Hundred Herbs Pill Book after recording its completed formula, honoring the late Hundred Herbs True Cultivator’s wish.

After five years of cultivation, Liu Yu attended the Primordial Yang Sect’s elders’ council, where the elders prepared to discuss sending cultivators to the front lines. He planned to use the gathering to address Yan Qun’er’s proposed marriage alliance, drawing the attention of her prospective match, Jin Wenhao.

• Liu Yu judged that his cultivation was close to the golden core peak and received a summons to an elders’ council.
• Liu Yu arrived at the council and warmly greeted Yan Kai, whose rapid rise and respect for Liu Yu unsettled the sect’s faction leaders.
• The elders assembled to discuss the coming deployment, while Liu Yu reassured Yan Qun’er that he would handle her situation.
• Jin Wenhao noticed Liu Yu’s exchange with Yan Qun’er and darkened; he was He Rulong’s disciple and Yan Qun’er’s prospective husband in a marriage alliance.

At a Primordial Yang Sect elders’ meeting, the elders argued over how to distribute the cultivators ordered to reinforce Five Elements Pass. Liu Yu ended their deadlock by overpowering the assembled Golden Core Elders with his spirit pressure, leaving the Three Great Elders to recognize that their era had passed.

• True Person Changfeng opened the meeting and explained that the Three Great Alliances had ordered the sect to send four Golden Core True Persons, a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and three thousand Qi Refining cultivators to the front.
• Changfeng proposed a candidate list that favored his own faction, after which He Rulong and Qi Yuntian presented competing lists and the elders argued over the allocation.
• Liu Yu unleashed his full cultivation and spirit pressure, silencing the hall and forcing most of the elders to stagger backward.
• The elders, including the Three Great Elders, joined forces to pressure Liu Yu, but he increased his spirit pressure and shattered their combined force.
• Li Changfeng, Qi Yuntian, and He Rulong fell silent as the elders realized Liu Yu had surpassed them and their era had passed.

Liu Yu imposed his assignments for the front lines on the Primordial Yang Sect’s elders, then invited Yan Qun'er to discuss her cultivation and spent the night advising her. He watched the Liu Family divide into separate branches before leaving to challenge the Nascent Soul bottleneck as the human-demon war threatened the peace.

• Liu Yu overpowered the elders, dictated his front-line assignments, and had them accept Yan Kai as the person responsible for carrying them out.
• Liu Yu invited Yan Qun'er to visit that night, prompting He Rulong and Jin Wenhao to realize their proposed marriage alliance had fallen apart.
• Yan Qun'er visited Liu Yu, who spent the night discussing her cultivation problems with her before sending her away at dawn.
• Liu Yu watched the Liu Family complete a ceremony dividing the clan into separate branches and chose not to intervene.
• Liu Yu concluded that it was time to challenge the Nascent Soul bottleneck and vanished without being noticed.

Liu Yu consolidated control over the Primordial Yang Sect and reached Golden Core peak after ten years of cultivation. After taking the Soul-Cleansing Pill, he brought his divine sense to just short of the Nascent Soul Realm’s threshold and decided to meet Martial Uncle Tianfeng.

• Liu Yu suppressed the elders who opposed him while allowing those who offered goodwill to change sides, and He Rulong and Jin Wenhao conceded defeat as Yan Qun'er’s matter was resolved.
• Over ten years, Liu Yu cultivated with Azure Nether Pills and other medicines until he reached Golden Core peak, with his divine sense extending 188 li.
• Liu Yu prepared for his breakthrough attempt, then took the Soul-Cleansing Pill after adjusting to his new realm for half a month.
• Liu Yu endured intense pain as he used the Divine Preservation Art to absorb the pill’s power and strengthen his primordial spirit.
• Liu Yu’s divine sense reached just under 200 li, and after adapting to his enhanced primordial spirit, he left his cave abode to meet Martial Uncle Tianfeng.

After fifteen years of seclusion, Liu Yu’s primordial spirit reached the Nascent Soul level and his preparations to break through were complete. He began assaulting the bottleneck at an auspicious moment, guiding his primordial spirit toward his ninth-grade golden core.

• Liu Yu reviewed his past choices and concluded that he felt neither remorse nor regret before beginning his long seclusion.
• Over fifteen years, Liu Yu refined his magic power and used primordial spirit treasures to raise his primordial spirit to the Nascent Soul level, expanding his divine sense to two hundred li.
• Liu Yu concluded that his cultivation had reached its limits, adjusted his state of mind, and waited for the right moment to attempt his breakthrough.
• During the Spring Festival, Liu Yu sensed that the moment had arrived and activated the High-Grade Spirit Gathering Array with prepared spirit stones.
• Liu Yu entered the breakthrough state, summoned his primordial spirit from the Niwan Palace, and guided it toward his rapidly spinning golden core.

Liu Yu completed nurturing his nascent soul inside his golden core, relying on his own cultivation and the Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill to sustain the process. Just as his nascent soul fully formed, his depleted golden core cracked and pressure closed in around him, leaving his transcendence unfinished.

• Liu Yu placed his primordial spirit inside his golden core and began nurturing a nascent soul with his magic power and vital blood.
• As the nascent soul greedily consumed his resources, Liu Yu took a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill to accelerate its formation while monitoring the process.
• With his magic power and vital blood nearly depleted, Liu Yu intensified the Spirit Gathering Array and pushed his cultivation method and Astral True Form beyond their normal limits.
• Liu Yu's nascent soul fully formed inside the golden core, which had been drained of nearly all its origin.
• A fissure appeared in Liu Yu's golden core, and immense pressure assailed him as he faced death unless he broke free of its restraints.

Liu Yu broke free of his nascent soul’s restraints and shattered his golden core, surviving the severe injuries that followed. His nascent soul stabilized, his power surged to a new peak, and a celestial phenomenon over Heaven-Reaching Peak revealed that he was challenging the nascent soul bottleneck.

• Liu Yu swallowed the Nascent Soul Condensation Pill and Heavenly Purification Water to weaken the shackles around his nascent soul and soften his golden core.
• Liu Yu used the Meteor Fist to break his shackles, then struck through the weakened golden core until it split apart.
• Liu Yu nearly lost consciousness from the pain and his nascent soul began to disperse, but he used the pill’s remaining power to stabilize it.
• Liu Yu’s spirit pressure surged beyond the fourth tier, and spiritual energy gathered into five-colored clouds above Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• A Foundation Establishment Steward and other sect disciples noticed the phenomenon and watched as Liu Yu challenged the nascent soul bottleneck.

Liu Yu formed his Nascent Soul, used the Two-Colored Nascent Soul secret art to strengthen it, and overcame the heart-demon illusion before facing the tribulation lightning. After the lightning passed, his immense spirit pressure revealed that he had achieved Nascent Soul great accomplishment.

• Liu Yu recovered from the damage of shattering his golden core and used solar essence and lunar essence to perform the Two-Colored Nascent Soul secret art, growing his nascent soul to five inches.
• Liu Yu rejected the dead souls’ accusations in the heart-demon illusion and refused to feel remorse for his past actions.
• Liu Yu awoke in an illusion of his youth without the Immortal Mansion and began rebuilding his cultivation using his retained experience and abilities.
• Liu Yu’s Nascent Soul tribulation lightning gathered over Heaven-Reaching Peak, and Jiang Qiushui and Ji Ruyan watched from Qingyang Peak as the bolts struck.
• Liu Yu endured the tribulation lightning, and his spirit pressure spread across the area as he reached Nascent Soul great accomplishment.

Liu Yu survived the Nascent Soul tribulation and became a Nascent Soul True Lord, then used the Three Treasures of Nascent Soul Formation to rapidly strengthen and stabilize his realm. After testing his new abilities, he emerged from his body as a six-inch Nascent Soul.

• Liu Yu survived the tribulation, and the Primordial Yang Sect disciples and Golden Core Elders congratulated him as their new Patriarch.
• Liu Yu returned to his cave abode, sensed that Heavenly Wind Ancestor's life force had weakened, and resolved to keep growing stronger despite reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Liu Yu swallowed a Nascent Soul Cultivation Pill, gaining about fifty years of cultivation and growing his Nascent Soul to six inches.
• Liu Yu absorbed his golden core fragments into his Nascent Soul to protect them from being used against him and strengthen his foundation.
• Liu Yu stabilized his realm in about two days, tested his divine sense and combat strength, and concluded that he could challenge an ordinary Nascent Soul middle-stage cultivator.
• Liu Yu sent his Nascent Soul out through the crown of his head and appeared in the cultivation room in its six-inch form.

After forming his Nascent Soul, Liu Yu explored his new abilities and discovered that he could enter the Immortal Mansion with his physical body. He investigated the Mansion’s changes and found its island had expanded into a continent and its spirit field could now mature herbs up to five thousand years old.

• Liu Yu tested his Nascent Soul outside his body, discovering its affinity with spiritual energy and its innate ability to teleport at the cost of Nascent Soul origin.
• Liu Yu examined the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear as it began transforming into a true treasure, then considered refining the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp.
• Liu Yu found that his increased control over the Immortal Mansion let him bring his physical body inside, giving him a potential escape from danger.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion as a Nascent Soul and saw that its island had expanded from ten li to roughly a thousand li.
• After several days of testing, Liu Yu learned that the red spirit field still covered ten mu and matured herbs at the same rate, but could now accelerate their growth to five thousand years.

After advancing to the nascent soul realm, Liu Yu explored the Immortal Mansion’s growing power, planned his cultivation and pill-formula acquisitions, and refined his treasures. He then met Heavenly Wind Ancestor, whose severe decay suggested he would soon die, and stood beside him on a cliff.

• Liu Yu sensed that the Immortal Mansion had accumulated seven units of origin power and considered how it might eventually become a genuine world.
• Liu Yu planned to derive a new cultivation method and obtain fourth-tier pill formulas by trading high-age spirit herbs with other nascent soul cultivators.
• Liu Yu rested after nascent soul formation, then spent three days refining the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp, the Duskglow Armor, and the Purple Lightning Cape.
• Liu Yu sensed Heavenly Wind Ancestor disturbing his formation, opened his cave abode, and found him standing alone on a cliff.
• Liu Yu recognized the severe decay in Heavenly Wind Ancestor’s aura and concluded that the ancestor would likely die within a fortnight.

Liu Yu met Heavenly Wind Ancestor after forming his Nascent Soul and learned that the elder was dying from injuries sustained in a battle with the Black Flood Dragon King. Heavenly Wind Ancestor dissolved himself to return his spiritual energy to Heaven-Reaching Peak, leaving Liu Yu as the Primordial Yang Sect’s sole Nascent Soul Patriarch.

• Liu Yu and Heavenly Wind Ancestor discussed the war, the balance of power, and the threats posed to their sect by the other Chu Kingdom sects, especially the Hehuan Sect.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor warned Liu Yu to be wary of He Wangtian, the Hehuan Sect’s Nascent Soul middle stage patriarch, and advised him to endure until He Wangtian died.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor revealed that his Nascent Soul essence had been depleted in an encounter with the Black Flood Dragon King, leaving him beyond recovery.
• Heavenly Wind Ancestor released his aura and dissolved his body and Nascent Soul, directing most of his spiritual energy into Heaven-Reaching Peak before vanishing.
• Liu Yu collected Heavenly Wind Ancestor’s Storage Ring and realized that he had become the sect’s only Nascent Soul Patriarch, with the responsibility of protecting it.