Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu received Feng Guangyou of the Little Brow Mountain Feng Household, accepted his gift, and concealed his suspicions about the household’s ties to Hehuan Sect cultivators. He devised a plan to unite his fellow disciples and compel the Hou Household and Gongsun Household to help destroy the Feng Household and its allies, then returned to refining Jade Spirit Pills.

• Chai Wenzheng brought Feng Guangyou to meet Liu Yu, and Feng Guangyou presented him with twenty spirit stones.
• Liu Yu and Feng Guangyou spoke agreeably about cooperation, while Liu Yu hid his suspicion that the Feng Household had colluded with Hehuan Sect cultivators.
• After Feng Guangyou left, Liu Yu considered why the Feng Household risked its lineage by conspiring with the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu planned to recruit Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju, then win the Hou Household and Gongsun Household with a share of the Feng Household's territory and the authority of the Primordial Yang Sect.
• Liu Yu resolved to eliminate the Feng Household and Hehuan Sect cultivators, obtain the purple sun grass, and prioritize his cultivation by refining Jade Spirit Pills.

Liu Yu successfully refined a batch of Jade Spirit Pills and used one to advance his cultivation before secretly visiting the Cold Iron Ore Vein. Meanwhile, Feng Tianwei prepared the Feng Household’s defection from the Primordial Yang Sect, and Liu Yu summoned his fellow disciples at the mine.

• Liu Yu refined one successful batch of Jade Spirit Pills after ten attempts.
• Feng Guangyou reported to Feng Tianwei that he had met the Primordial Yang Sect’s garrison envoy without raising suspicion.
• Feng Tianwei confirmed that five hundred direct-line descendants had relocated to Mirror Province as the Feng Household prepared to defect to the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu cultivated with a Jade Spirit Pill and estimated that he could reach the eighth layer of Qi refining in about a year.
• Liu Yu secretly flew to the Cold Iron Ore Vein and ordered Lin Dayong to summon Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju without revealing his visit.

Liu Yu revealed that the Hehuan Sect had colluded with the Feng Household and the Cultivators' Fellowship, then persuaded his fellow disciples to join a plan to exploit the crisis for resources. He proposed recruiting the Hou Household and Gongsun Household before attacking the Feng Household, while keeping key intelligence about an imminent raid and purple sun grass to himself.

• Lin Dayong left the room, and Liu Yu sealed it with a soundproof barrier before showing the others the Hehuan Sect Voice-Transmitting Talisman.
• Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju discovered the enemy alliance and thanked Liu Yu for exposing the danger.
• Liu Yu concealed the planned attack on a medicinal garden and information about purple sun grass from the others.
• Wu Chang asked whether they should report the intelligence to the sect, and Liu Yu argued that doing so would leave them little benefit.
• Liu Yu proposed recruiting the Hou Household and Gongsun Household with the Feng Household's resource sites, then launching a surprise attack on the Feng Household.
• Sun Ju and Zhou Guibo worried that the group lacked strength, but Liu Yu pressured Zhou Guibo to follow the plan for the promised rewards.

Liu Yu convinced his four fellow disciples to take the initiative against the Hehuan Sect cultivators and laid out a plan to recruit the Hou and Gongsun Households. Five days later, both households agreed to join the campaign against the Feng Household and the Hehuan Sect cultivators.

• Wu Chang, Zhou Guibo, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju agreed to follow Liu Yu's plan to attack the enemy cultivators.
• Liu Yu set a five-day wait, prohibited contact by Voice-Transmitting Talisman, and discussed the group's strength and preparations.
• Liu Yu cultivated at the mine for five days, then left with the four disciples to visit the Hou Household and the Gongsun Household.
• Liu Yu told Hou Yanze and the Gongsun Household about the Feng Household's collusion with the Hehuan Sect and demanded support in the Primordial Yang Sect's name.
• The Hou Household and the Gongsun Household agreed to send cultivators to help eliminate the Feng Household and the Hehuan Sect cultivators in exchange for a share of the Feng Household's resource sites.

Liu Yu led a coalition of cultivators from the Hou and Gongsun households to attack the Feng Household on Little Brow Mountain. After silently killing the mountain guards, the party entered the stronghold, leaving the assault underway.

• Liu Yu, his four companions, and the Hou and Gongsun households agreed on troop numbers, spoils, and recognition from the Primordial Yang Sect for the households’ claim to the Feng resources.
• Liu Yu led twenty cultivators toward the Feng Household, and they approached Little Brow Mountain under cover of darkness after passing Feng Family Town.
• Liu Yu assigned cultivators from both households and Xie Huaxiong to intercept anyone who tried to escape while the remaining sixteen approached the mountain gate.
• Hou Yanze killed one mortal guard with his Black Folding Fan, and Liu Yu killed the other with the Silver Flying Needle.
• Liu Yu ordered the party to follow him through the gate and onto Little Brow Mountain.

Liu Yu and his allies attacked the Feng Household on Little Brow Mountain, while Feng Tianwei rushed to activate the ancestral hall’s protective array. The alarm sounded and the Feng Household’s members fled toward the hall, but Liu Yu began killing those left outside.

• Liu Yu led his party of sixteen up the trail, eliminating sentry posts as they advanced toward the Feng Household’s buildings.
• Feng Tianwei, still recovering from injuries, summoned Feng Guangyou and Feng Guanglin to the ancestral hall.
• Nine bell tolls warned that powerful enemies were attacking, so Feng Tianwei activated the hall’s protective array and ordered Feng Guangyou to gather the Lineage members.
• Liu Yu’s party abandoned stealth and rushed toward the buildings as Feng Household members crowded toward the ancestral hall’s barrier.
• Liu Yu sent the Giant Wood Sword through the panicked mortals outside the barrier, killing them as they fled.

Liu Yu and the allied cultivators slaughtered the Feng Household’s people on Little Brow Mountain and burned their homes, while the survivors watched from behind the Milky White Barrier. The attack left the Feng Household’s Ancestral Hall standing and Liu Yu more firmly convinced that his ruthless choices were the right path.

• Hou Yanze, Gongsun Cang, and the other cultivators massacred the mortals outside the Milky White Barrier, while Liu Yu observed their deaths and reflected on his own motives.
• Liu Yu and the allied cultivators decided to burn every building on the level stretch of ground to prevent anyone from hiding or escaping.
• Wu Chang brought Sun Ju out of her shock, and Sun Ju obeyed Liu Yu by setting a pile of corpses ablaze.
• The Hou Household and Gongsun Household cultivators killed people who fled the burning buildings, while Feng Household youths inside the barrier were restrained from rushing out.
• Feng Guangyou urged the Feng Household to preserve its strength, and the other buildings burned down until only the protected Ancestral Hall remained.

Liu Yu confronted the Feng Household over its collusion with Hehuan Sect cultivators and ordered an assault on its protective formation. The Jade Spirit Formation withstood the first volley, leaving the Feng Household behind its barrier as the attack continued.

• Feng Guangyou and Feng Tianwei tried to deny wrongdoing and offered Liu Yu any conditions he wanted, while Gongsun Cang and Hou Yanze accused the Feng Household of conspiring with the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu mocked Feng Guangyou, then ordered his allies to break the formation and capture the Feng Household's leaders.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang urged their clansmen to attack, and more than a dozen magical artifacts struck the Milky White Barrier.
• Feng Tianwei directed the Jade Spirit Formation to block the volley, and the barrier trembled but held.

Liu Yu and the allied cultivators intensified their assault on the Feng Household’s Jade Spirit Formation, while Feng Tianwei struggled to keep the barrier intact despite his injuries. The Feng Household repelled much of the attack, but its defenses weakened under the superior artifacts, and Liu Yu refused Feng Tianwei’s offers of peace.

• Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang unleashed powerful magical artifacts against the Feng Household’s barrier, and the other allied cultivators joined the attack.
• Feng Tianwei focused on controlling the Jade Spirit Formation and ordered Feng Guangyou to lead the household’s cultivators in intercepting the incoming strikes.
• Fourteen Feng Household cultivators launched spells and artifacts through the formation to block the assault, but several attacks broke through their defense.
• Liu Yu’s Golden Dragon Sword and Hou Yanze’s Black Folding Fan badly strained the barrier, while Gongsun Cang’s ice crystals sent ripples across it before fading.
• Feng Tianwei endured his injuries and kept adjusting the formation as he offered concessions to end the conflict, but Liu Yu ignored him and ordered the attacks to continue.

Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang realized the Feng Household’s formation could outlast their attacks, so they agreed to use their trump cards to break it. Gongsun Cang revealed a Yin Thunder Pearl and explained that he had saved it to kill Feng Tianwei if the Feng Household threatened his lineage.

• The Feng Household’s formation held through half a quarter-hour of attacks, and its cultivators regained their composure while Liu Yu’s side grew tired.
• Liu Yu saw that the attackers were losing the war of attrition and sent voice transmissions to Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang.
• Hou Yanze proposed breaking the formation with a decisive strike, and Liu Yu agreed that they should use their hidden trump cards.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang resolved to break the deadlock, and Gongsun Cang produced a Yin Thunder Pearl.
• Gongsun Cang told Liu Yu and Hou Yanze that he had kept the pearl to kill Feng Tianwei if the Feng Household endangered the Gongsun Household.

Liu Yu revealed his top-grade magical artifact to establish his strength before the assault on the Feng Household. The attack on the Jade Spirit Formation began, and Gongsun Cang and Hou Yanze launched their lethal treasures at its barrier.

• Gongsun Cang displayed a Yin Thunder Pearl, and Hou Yanze revealed a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman as they assessed Liu Yu's strength.
• Liu Yu showed the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, surprising Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang with his top-grade magical artifact.
• Liu Yu ordered the cultivators to attack the Milky White Barrier, while Feng Tianwei strained to maintain the Jade Spirit Formation.
• Gongsun Cang sent a shower of ice crystals concealing the Yin Thunder Pearl toward the barrier as the others kept the Feng Household from interfering.
• Hou Yanze activated and threw the Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman, which transformed into a golden breeze sweeping toward the barrier.

Liu Yu and his allies broke the Feng Household’s Jade Spirit Formation with a Yin Thunder Pearl and a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman, then attacked the household. As Feng Tianwei held off Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang, Liu Yu pursued Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin and pierced their magical artifacts with his blades.

• Liu Yu’s allies used a Yin Thunder Pearl and a Golden Wind Dispersal Talisman to destroy the Jade Spirit Formation, and the golden wind killed several Feng Household mortals and ruined the ancestral hall.
• Feng Tianwei suffered backlash from the formation’s destruction and tried to repair the breach, but Liu Yu assigned Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin to himself while the others attacked the remaining Feng Household Cultivators.
• Feng Tianwei ordered Feng Guangxiu to flee with Feng Guanglin, then resolved to sacrifice himself to buy them time as Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang confronted him.
• Liu Yu spotted Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin escaping and chased them with the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades.
• Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin tried to block Liu Yu’s blades with their magical artifacts, but the blades pierced both artifacts.

Liu Yu subdued Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin, then used the threat of harming her brother to make Feng Guangxiu answer his questions about the Hehuan Sect cultivators. She offered to tell him everything she knew and serve him if he spared Feng Guanglin.

• Liu Yu took Feng Guangxiu and Feng Guanglin's Storage Bags after the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades immobilized them.
• Liu Yu questioned Feng Guangxiu, but she refused to answer and turned away from him.
• Liu Yu cut Feng Guanglin's neck with a son blade, prompting Feng Guangxiu to give her name and beg him to stop.
• Liu Yu asked Feng Guangxiu where the Hehuan Sect cultivators were hiding.
• Feng Guangxiu offered to tell Liu Yu everything she knew and serve as his slave or maid if he spared Feng Guanglin.

Liu Yu pressed Feng Guangxiu for information, offering to spare Feng Guanglin if she told the truth while warning that he would verify her account. As the battle between the Feng Household and Liu Yu’s alliance raged, the Feng Household’s six early Qi Refining cultivators began to falter.

• Feng Guangxiu begged Liu Yu to spare Feng Guanglin and promised to provide information.
• Liu Yu offered to consider sparing Feng Guanglin if her information proved useful, then warned Feng Guangxiu that he would question another Feng Household cultivator to check her story.
• Liu Yu wounded Feng Guanglin with the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, and Feng Guangxiu struggled between her hatred of Liu Yu and concern for her brother.
• Liu Yu surveyed the battlefield with his divine sense and saw that the Primordial Yang Sect disciples, Hou Household, and Gongsun Household held a clear advantage over the Feng Household.
• The allied cultivators gradually wore down the Feng Household’s resistance, and the battle shifted when its six early Qi Refining cultivators could no longer hold on.

Liu Yu assessed the allied forces’ advantage as Feng Tianwei came close to defeat and selected Feng Guangyou as his next target. He coordinated with Wu Chang to capture Feng Guangyou and take his Storage Bag.

• The allied cultivators’ attacks overwhelmed the Feng Household’s early Qi Refining cultivators, while Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang cornered the injured Feng Tianwei.
• Liu Yu judged that Feng Tianwei would die despite any hidden trump card and observed Xie Huaxiong, Sun Ju, and Wu Chang fighting Feng Household cultivators.
• Liu Yu chose Feng Guangyou for interrogation and sent three son blades to attack him while telling Wu Chang to coordinate.
• Feng Guangyou’s Cyan Jade Pendant and defensive barriers failed, and Liu Yu’s son blades pinned him down and severed the tendons in his arms.
• Liu Yu’s son blades cut Feng Guangyou’s Storage Bag free and carried it back to him.

Liu Yu forced Feng Guangyou to cooperate and pressured Feng Guangxiu into revealing what she knew about the Hehuan Sect. The chapter left Liu Yu with the sect’s location and details about its members, while Wu Chang interrogated Feng Guangyou.

• Liu Yu took Feng Guangyou’s Storage Bag and ordered Wu Chang to bring him over, and Feng Guangyou chose to follow rather than die.
• Wu Chang brought Feng Guangyou to Liu Yu, who assigned him to interrogate the captive about the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu threatened Feng Guanglin until Feng Guangxiu agreed to reveal everything she knew.
• Feng Guangxiu told Liu Yu that five Hehuan Sect cultivators were hiding on Ram's Horn Mountain and had ties to another force.
• Liu Yu judged Feng Guangxiu’s account credible, committed the details to memory, and dismissed the Soundproofing Barrier.

Liu Yu waited as Wu Chang tortured Feng Guangyou, then joined Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang’s battle against Feng Tianwei. He killed Feng Tianwei with his top-grade magical artifact and claimed the patriarch’s spoils, leaving the allied cultivators in awe of his strength.

• Liu Yu watched Wu Chang torture Feng Guangyou while the allied cultivators killed the Feng Household’s early Qi Refining cultivators and pressed the remaining defenders.
• Liu Yu saw Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang wear down Feng Tianwei, then hurried to intervene so the Feng patriarch’s wealth would not spark a dispute between their households.
• Liu Yu attacked Feng Tianwei with the Mother-and-Son Soul-Chasing Blades, knocking away his halberd and cleaving him and his shield in two.
• Liu Yu took Feng Tianwei’s Storage Bag and Pale-Cyan Great Halberd, and Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang were left in awe of his power.

Liu Yu obtained matching information about the Hehuan Sect from Feng Guangyou, then ordered the captured Feng Household members killed. Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang wiped out the remaining Feng Cultivators, ending the Feng Household's hold on Little Brow Mountain.

• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang agreed to finish off the Feng Household remnants, while Liu Yu waited for Wu Chang to complete his interrogation.
• Wu Chang reported that Feng Guangyou's account matched Feng Guangxiu's, and Liu Yu ordered Feng Guangyou executed.
• Liu Yu beheaded Feng Guangxiu but let Feng Guanglin leave with her body, then signaled Wu Chang to kill him as he walked away.
• Wu Chang burned the siblings' corpses, and Liu Yu reflected that weakness was a sin.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang killed the remaining Feng Household Cultivators on Little Brow Mountain, leaving only four elsewhere and ending the household's power.

After the Feng Household was destroyed, Liu Yu reassured his fellow disciples that the Hou and Gongsun Households would hand over their share of the spoils, then arranged the group’s next attack on the Hehuan Sect cultivators. The chapter ends with Liu Yu and the Primordial Yang Sect disciples opening fourteen Storage Bags to divide the loot, while he kept Feng Tianwei’s Storage Bag for himself.

• Liu Yu told Wu Chang, Xie Huaxiong, and Sun Ju to wait until the Hou Household and the Gongsun Household delivered their Storage Bags before dividing the spoils.
• Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang arrived with the Storage Bags, praised Liu Yu, and handed them over through Wu Chang.
• Liu Yu learned the two households’ casualties, shared what he knew about the Hehuan Sect cultivators, and set the attack on Ram's Horn Mountain for five quarter-hours past the start of the Yin Hour.
• Liu Yu assigned himself the Peach-Eyed Cultivator, while Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang would hold off two other late Qi Refining cultivators and the remaining fighters would target the middle Qi Refining cultivators.
• After Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang left to prepare their forces, Liu Yu and the disciples spread out fourteen Storage Bags and began dividing their contents, while Liu Yu withheld Feng Tianwei’s Storage Bag.

Liu Yu divided the Feng Household’s spoils among his group, then led the recovered cultivators toward Yellow Mountain Market Ward to surprise the Hehuan Sect cultivators. The party departed Little Brow Mountain with seventeen members, ready to attack.

• Zhou Guibo joined Liu Yu and the others as Liu Yu divided the spoils into five shares, giving himself and Wu Chang slightly better portions while keeping the shares outwardly equal.
• Liu Yu urged the group to recover their strength and promised further rewards for defeating the Hehuan Sect cultivators at Ram's Horn Mountain.
• Liu Yu took a Spirit-Replenishing Pill and meditated until his magical power was fully restored, while the other cultivators regarded him with awe after Feng Tianwei's death.
• Two hours later, Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang gathered the surviving cultivators and agreed to launch a surprise attack before the Hehuan Sect received word.
• Seventeen cultivators flew from Little Brow Mountain toward Yellow Mountain Market Ward, with Liu Yu leading on the Golden Dragon Sword.