Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu pursued Fu Qingshan through the fourth Astral Wind Layer and defeated him after the older devil’s secret art weakened and Liu Yu used Wither and his full Azure Yang Starcloud. Fu Qingshan died in the final attack, but he left behind a black Jade Slip that Liu Yu identified as “Blood-Burning Spirit Transformation.”

• Liu Yu kept his distance from Fu Qingshan until the secret art’s aftereffects reduced Fu Qingshan’s strength, then closed in to attack.
• Liu Yu’s Azure Yang Starcloud battled Fu Qingshan’s weakened Ghostly Dharma Aspect, and Liu Yu used Wither to further diminish Fu Qingshan’s power.
• Fu Qingshan recounted his rise as a demonic cultivator and declared that he had never regretted his choices, while Liu Yu prepared his strongest strike.
• Liu Yu drew in and transformed spiritual energy from the surrounding world, enlarging Azure Yang Starcloud to three hundred zhang before bringing down a colossal azure fireball.
• The fireball destroyed Fu Qingshan’s Ghostly Dharma Aspect and consumed Fu Qingshan and his Nascent Soul after he made his Storage Ring self-destruct.
• Liu Yu retrieved the black Jade Slip Fu Qingshan had thrown away and identified its contents as “Blood-Burning Spirit Transformation.”

Liu Yu obtained Fu Qingshan’s demonic Blood-Burning Spirit Transformation art but decided against relying on it, then returned to Heavenly Shaman Mountain and confirmed Fu’s death to Huang Mei and the Fang brothers. Huang Mei gave Liu Yu the mountain’s fourth-tier spirit vein, which they relocated to Heaven-Reaching Peak, concluding the mission against the Rebels.

• Liu Yu discovered that Fu Qingshan’s jade slip contained Blood-Burning Spirit Transformation, a blood-sacrifice art that could raise cultivation and help break bottlenecks, and considered Fu’s motives and his own possible use of the technique.
• Liu Yu dismissed Azure Yang Starcloud, left the fourth Astral Wind Layer, and returned to Heavenly Shaman Mountain after Fu Qingshan’s demonic energy was destroyed.
• Liu Yu showed Huang Mei and the Fang brothers an edited image recording of Fu Qingshan’s death, and the group praised Liu Yu’s strength.
• Liu Yu and Huang Mei went to the Seven Kingdoms Alliance headquarters to report the mission, while the Fang brothers returned to the Righteous Alliance.
• Huang Mei offered Liu Yu the Spirit Vein of Heavenly Shaman Mountain as thanks, and helped move it to Heaven-Reaching Peak with Moving Mountains and Filling Seas.

Liu Yu oversaw the successful migration of Heavenly Shaman Mountain’s spirit vein, welcomed returning Primordial Yang Sect disciples as the Human-Demon War ended, and reviewed his gains before entering cultivation. Fifty years later, his magic power had reached the Nascent Soul early-stage peak as he read two reports in his Heaven-Reaching Peak cave abode.

• Huang Mei helped Liu Yu merge Heavenly Shaman Mountain’s spirit vein with Heaven-Reaching Peak, restoring it to fourth-tier middle-grade, and then departed after they exchanged promises of future help.
• Liu Yu detected returning Primordial Yang Sect disciples and ordered compensation for the fallen and generous rewards for cultivators who had fought in the war.
• Liu Yu reflected on the war’s end, his growing reputation, and the risks of Blood-Burning Spirit Transformation before taking an enhanced Flying Immortal Pill into seclusion.
• The Human-Demon War’s end spread through Southern Heaven, and Liu Yu spent the following decades attending to sect affairs and cultivating.
• Fifty years later, Liu Yu sat in his Heaven-Reaching Peak hall reading two reports, with his magic power at the Nascent Soul early-stage peak.

Liu Yu reviewed potential spirit-flame targets and chose White Bone Devil Lord as the target for acquiring Nine Nether Demonic Flame, then received a secret visit from Zhuo Mengzhen. The chapter left Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen alone in his bedroom after he tried to make amends for their long separation.

• Liu Yu assessed his increased cultivation and read dossiers on White Bone Devil Lord and Ancient Wood True Lord, focusing on their spirit flames.
• Jiang Qiushui told Liu Yu that White Bone Devil Lord and Ancient Wood True Lord were the two best candidates and that agents were already positioned within their sects.
• Liu Yu chose White Bone Devil Lord as his target because Nine Nether Demonic Flame suited his cultivation and the Black Bone Sect would be less troublesome to confront.
• White Tiger informed Liu Yu that a guest had arrived, and Liu Yu ordered him to bring the visitor to his cave abode in secret.
• Zhuo Mengzhen revealed herself and complained that Liu Yu had kept their relationship secret for more than a hundred years.
• Liu Yu drew Zhuo Mengzhen into his arms and carried her into the bedroom to comfort her.

Liu Yu reunited with Zhuo Mengzhen and promised to bring her back to his side within fifty years before departing to confront the White Bone Devil Lord. His disguise failed at the entrance to White Bone’s cave, forcing him into a direct attack, and he invoked the massacre of the Ye Family as his justification for seeking revenge.

• Zhuo Mengzhen confessed her devotion to Liu Yu, and he promised to bring her back within fifty years after advancing his cultivation and dealing with the Hehuan Sect.
• Five days later, Zhuo Mengzhen returned to her sect while Liu Yu reflected on the responsibilities that came with taking concubines.
• In Wu Kingdom, Liu Yu learned that his infiltrator had arranged an audience with the White Bone Devil Lord and decided to strike the next day.
• Liu Yu accompanied the black snake death soldier to Quiet Moon Mountain, where White Bone’s formation rejected Liu Yu’s disguised aura.
• Old Devil White Bone used a treasure to kill the death soldier, while Liu Yu killed the maid and froze most of the cultivators on the mountain.
• Liu Yu confronted White Bone and accused him of massacring the Ye Family five hundred years earlier.

Liu Yu posed as Ye Lingyun and provoked Old Devil White Bone by attacking the Black Bone Sect and condemning his past crimes. White Bone finally agreed to fight in the Astral Wind Layer, where Liu Yu discovered that his opponent had secretly reached the Nascent Soul middle stage.

• Liu Yu claimed to be a survivor of the Ye Family and attacked the Netherworld Yellow Springs Formation with his Astral True Form and Meteor Fist.
• When White Bone stayed inside the formation, Liu Yu accused him of past crimes and slaughtered Black Bone Sect cultivators to provoke him.
• Liu Yu used the Impermanence Heart Flame to intensify White Bone’s anger as the sect’s casualties mounted.
• White Bone left the formation and challenged Liu Yu to fight in the Astral Wind Layer, then flew there without waiting for his answer.
• Liu Yu followed White Bone to the Third Astral Wind Layer and sensed that the old devil had reached the Nascent Soul middle stage.

Liu Yu, still disguised as Ye Lingyun, faced Old Devil White Bone in the Astral Wind Layer and effortlessly held off his middle-stage attacks. After revealing his Azure Yang Starcloud, Liu Yu overwhelmed White Bone, who fled, but Liu Yu pursued him with lethal intent.

• Old Devil White Bone revealed his middle-stage cultivation and unleashed a blue-patterned bone serpent refined corpse, the Nine Nether Demonic Flame, and his Bone Blade True Treasure against Liu Yu.
• Liu Yu blocked the Bone Blade with the Scarlet Flame Shield, countered the sea of fire with Meteor Fist, and stopped the bone serpent with his Flame Bodyguard Shield.
• Realizing his full-force assault had failed, Old Devil White Bone tried to retreat, but Liu Yu activated Azure Yang Starcloud and blasted his attacks away.
• White Bone recognized Liu Yu as the Azure Yang Old Devil and fled, but Liu Yu's beams broke through his defense and sent him flying.
• Liu Yu called after the fleeing White Bone and began activating a technique as multicolored points of light appeared in his vision.

Liu Yu used his control over spiritual energy to defeat and kill Old Devil White Bone, then claimed the Nine Nether Demonic Flame. He returned to the Black Bone Sect and slaughtered nearly half its cultivators to make his supposed revenge as a Ye Family survivor convincing before disappearing.

• Liu Yu expanded Azure Yang Starcloud to three hundred and thirty zhang and attacked Old Devil White Bone with an enormous azure fireball and a dark-gold spear, while suppressing the Bone Serpent Refined Corpse’s strength.
• Liu Yu destroyed the Bone Serpent Refined Corpse and overcame White Bone’s treasures, ghosts, and defenses; Wither weakened the devil, and a spatial treasure prevented his Nascent Soul from escaping.
• Liu Yu burned White Bone’s body and Nascent Soul to ash, spared his Storage Ring and two true treasures, and gathered the damaged Nine Nether Demonic Flame.
• Liu Yu sealed the flame, dispelled Azure Yang Starcloud, erased traces of the battle, and returned to the Black Bone Sect grounds posing as a Ye Family cultivator.
• Liu Yu killed roughly half of the more than ten thousand cultivators remaining at the sect, then vanished in a flash of silver light.

Liu Yu used the Nine Nether Demonic Flame to advance the Azure Yang Demonic Flame to fourth grade. After testing its new characteristics, he sensed a disturbance from his Storage Ring.

• Liu Yu reviewed his gains from the Black Bone Sect, including spirit herbs needed for the Truth-Restoring Pill and Old Devil White Bone's treasures.
• Liu Yu kept the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber, set aside the Nether Yin Pearl for a future exchange, and decided to give Old Devil White Bone's corpses and soul wraiths to Qiu Shui.
• Liu Yu unsealed the Nine Nether Demonic Flame and used the Nine Demonic Flame Transformations to weaken it and draw out its origin.
• Liu Yu guided the Nine Nether Demonic Flame's origin into the Azure Yang Demonic Flame, which absorbed it over the following days.
• The Nine Nether Demonic Flame dissipated, and the Azure Yang Demonic Flame reached fourth grade with a new flame enhancement characteristic.
• Liu Yu tested the Azure Yang Demonic Flame's new forms and characteristics before a disturbance came from his Storage Ring.

Liu Yu accepted True Lord Huangmei’s invitation to another True Lord gathering while reflecting on the advantages he had for eventually advancing to Spirit Transformation. He traveled to the Western Sands to fulfill an old promise concerning the Sacred Fire Cult, reunited with memories of his late friend Tang Tianbao, and entered the cult’s Secret Realm to search for a broken piece of the Sacred Fire Sword.

• Liu Yu accepted True Lord Huangmei’s invitation and considered the cultivation and primordial-spirit requirements for advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• After cultivating, Liu Yu decided to visit the Western Sands, resolve the Divine Sand Sect’s threat to the Sacred Fire Cult, and see his registered disciple Zhou Yunlong.
• Liu Yu sent Zhou Yunlong a message and headed toward the Sacred Fire Cult Secret Realm, recalling that Tang Tianbao had died and that more than three hundred years had changed the region.
• Liu Yu entered the Secret Realm with the Sacred Fire Token, passed through its first layer, and collected useful spirit herbs from its gardens.
• Liu Yu headed for the Secret Realm’s final layer, where the Sacred Fire Sword had been refined and the Ruined Sword had been born.

Liu Yu recovered the Sacred Fire Sword fragment in the Sacred Fire Cult Secret Realm, where it resonated with the Ruined Sword and was restored to treasure-level power. He reunited with Zhou Yunlong, approved of his stewardship of the Sacred Fire Cult, and asked whether he would become his personal disciple.

• Liu Yu found the Sacred Fire Sword fragment beneath the magma, and the Ruined Sword joined with it briefly before channeling spiritual power that raised it to the third-tier limit.
• Liu Yu collected the fragment, recalled Tang Tianbao and the Sacred Fire Cult’s past, then left the secret realm.
• Liu Yu met his registered disciple Zhou Yunlong in the Western Sands and praised his cultivation and management of the Sacred Fire Cult.
• Zhou Yunlong reported the cult’s growth and resources, and Liu Yu confirmed his account against the Death Soldiers’ intelligence.
• Liu Yu asked Zhou Yunlong to become his personal disciple.

Liu Yu accepted Zhou Yunlong as his second personal disciple and gave him the Sacred Fire Sword fragment and the Purple Nether Lotus. He then attacked the Divine Sand Sect’s Vast Sea Oasis to fulfill his promise, destroying its formation and killing True Lord Wild Sand.

• Liu Yu made Zhou Yunlong his second personal disciple and told him that Zhang Yi was his senior brother.
• Liu Yu gave Zhou Yunlong the Sacred Fire Sword fragment and the disguised Purple Nether Lotus, then promised to end the Sacred Fire Cult’s need to hide.
• Liu Yu flew to the Vast Sea Oasis, killed two Divine Sand Sect Golden Core Elders, and destroyed buildings and key nodes of the Mountain-Guarding Formation.
• True Lord Wild Sand trapped Liu Yu with a gravitational pit and attacked with a Yellow Sand Giant, but Liu Yu broke free and overpowered the giant.
• Liu Yu refused True Lord Wild Sand’s offer to negotiate, fought her, and killed her with a Charged Punch.

Liu Yu killed True Lord Wild Sand, failed to lure True Lord Divine Sand out or breach the Divine Sand Sect’s defenses, and waited until the sect sealed its gates for a hundred years. After arranging the Sacred Fire Cult’s affairs and leaving Zhou Yunlong supplies, Liu Yu departed for his sect and the Nascent Soul Exchange Meeting.

• Liu Yu destroyed True Lord Wild Sand’s body and pursued his nascent soul with the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber until he killed him completely.
• Liu Yu watched the devastation at Vast Sea Oasis, then concealed himself and waited for True Lord Divine Sand, who never appeared.
• Liu Yu reached the Divine Sand Sect’s headquarters but could not find a safe way past its activated defensive formation, so he left after seven days.
• Zhou Yunlong told Liu Yu that the Divine Sand Sect had sealed its gates for a hundred years, abandoned many outposts, and stopped hunting Sacred Fire Cult members.
• Liu Yu gave Zhou Yunlong cultivation pills and instructions, then departed the Western Sand Land for his sect and the Nascent Soul Exchange Meeting.

Liu Yu reflected on his debt to the Sacred Fire Cult, then traveled to True Lord Huangmei’s exchange gathering to trade for resources that could support his cultivation. The gathering began with twenty-eight Nascent Soul cultivators present, and True Lord Azure Billows rose to present an item.

• Liu Yu resolved to repay Tang Tianbao’s gift of the Ruined Sword by taking Zhou Yunlong as his disciple and helping restore the Sacred Fire Cult’s strength.
• Liu Yu examined the Wild Sand Ring and Wind Sand Bell, decided their abilities did not suit him, and kept them for future trades.
• Liu Yu traveled to the Thick Earth Sect and was personally welcomed by True Lord Huangmei before entering the exchange gathering.
• Liu Yu greeted True Lord Momei, True Lord Zihong, old monk Kongzhao, and other cultivators, then joined the gathering as attendees discussed recent events, including True Lord Wild Sand’s death.
• True Lord Huangmei declared the exchange gathering open, and True Lord Azure Billows stood and produced a red jade vial.

At a gathering of Nascent Soul cultivators, Liu Yu traded a set of Demon King Ao Lin’s life-bound treasures and Flying Immortal Pills for Xiahou Ying’s Blazing Sun Spirit Dew. As tensions rose between sects across the Seven Kingdoms Alliance, Mo Mei hinted at her troubles but withheld a request for help, leaving Liu Yu curious about her fleeting reaction to his need for primordial spirit treasures.

• True Lord Bi Tao offered three drops of Blazing Sun Spirit Dew in exchange for treasures or other means of immediately increasing her strength.
• After the true lords made competing offers, Liu Yu bid Ao Lin’s set of life-bound true treasures and a bottle of ten Flying Immortal Pills.
• Bi Tao inspected Liu Yu’s offer, accepted it, and exchanged the Blazing Sun Spirit Dew for his treasures and pills.
• Mo Mei expressed surprise that Liu Yu had reached alchemy grandmaster level and heard his explanations for his rapid cultivation and interest in the dew.
• Mo Mei told Liu Yu that conflicts involving the Black Ice Palace, the Pill Cauldron Sect, and the Soaring Cloud Sect were escalating, while Liu Yu pretended not to recognize her implication that she wanted help.
• Mo Mei noticed Liu Yu needed primordial spirit treasures and briefly showed a peculiar reaction, which Liu Yu noticed before she chose to say nothing.

Liu Yu failed to trade for a Primordial Spirit Treasure at Huang Mei’s gathering but obtained the Blazing Sun Spirit Dew and returned to the Primordial Yang Sect. After refining it for a month and greatly strengthening his primordial spirit, he learned that Mo Mei had arrived for a secret visit.

• Liu Yu asked Mo Mei about Primordial Spirit Treasures, but she said she had no information and needed one herself.
• At Huang Mei’s exchange gathering, Liu Yu traded for spirit herbs and offered pills and materials in exchange for a Primordial Spirit Treasure or information, but no one responded.
• Liu Yu left the gathering with Mo Mei and Purple Rainbow, and Purple Rainbow warned him that Old Devil He had been unusually active.
• Liu Yu returned to the Primordial Yang Sect and refined the three drops of Blazing Sun Spirit Dew, increasing his divine sense’s range to five hundred and fifty li.
• Jiang Qiushui sent Liu Yu a message that Senior Mo Mei had come for a secret visit and seemed to have an important matter to discuss.

Liu Yu agreed to help Mo Mei defend the Pill Cauldron Sect against the Black Ice Palace after she offered information about the Creation Green Lotus, a spirit treasure that could strengthen his primordial spirit. After spending a day and night with Mo Mei, he considered the widening war and resolved to keep her alive so he could obtain the treasure’s whereabouts.

• White Tiger reported that the Black Ice Palace had declared war on the Pill Cauldron Sect and the Soaring Cloud Sect, forcing them to retreat.
• Mo Mei asked Liu Yu to help her sect withstand the Black Ice Palace, and Liu Yu pressed her about what she could offer.
• Mo Mei revealed that she knew of a Creation Green Lotus in the meditation cave of a Divine Lord of Middle Antiquity and promised to share its location if Liu Yu helped.
• Liu Yu agreed to support Mo Mei, and she gave him some supplementary spirit herbs as an advance payment.
• After Mo Mei and Liu Yu spent a day and night together, she departed, and Liu Yu weighed the war’s likely course and the risks to his plans.
• Liu Yu resolved to keep Mo Mei alive and obtain the Creation Green Lotus information, while hoping the Thunder Hall would intervene before the conflict grew worse.

As the Black Ice Palace’s forces closed in on the Pill Cauldron Sect, Mo Mei gathered allies to defend the sect and later contracted its defenses around the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array. With the mountain gate isolated and the enemy’s numbers and Great Cultivator Nangong Tian threatening them, the sect’s survival came down to the coming battle.

• Mo Mei convened eight Nascent Soul True Lords and accused the Black Ice Palace of fabricating the Xia Yuhe case to justify its war against the Pill Cauldron Sect and the Soaring Cloud Sect.
• Huang Mei, Kongzhao, True Lord Zihong, Liu Yu, and the other True Lords pledged support, and Mo Mei described the fourth-tier upper-grade Seven-Star Divine Fire Array protecting the sect.
• Two months later, after the Pill Cauldron Sect lost contact with its last branch, Mo Mei and the other sect leaders withdrew their defensive lines to concentrate the array around three fourth-tier spirit mountains.
• Mo Mei warned Liu Yu, Huang Mei, and the other allies that Nangong Tian might attack and that the Black Ice Palace likely had more Nascent Soul cultivators; they promised to help defend the formation.
• Mo Mei revealed that thirty true disciples and seven promising Golden Core Elders had been secretly sent to the Righteous-Demonic Region, leaving the sect’s survival to the battle ahead.

Liu Yu assessed the Pill Cauldron Sect’s defenses as the Black Ice Palace’s vast allied army arrived, revealing ten Nascent Soul True Lords led by the Great Cultivator Nangong Tian. He recognized Nangong Yue and his enemies Old Devil He and Old Daoist Yunyi, agreed to face Nangong Yue, and the chapter ended as the Black Ice Palace began bombarding the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array.

• Liu Yu judged that Thunder Hall would intervene if the war dragged on and found the Pill Cauldron Sect’s preparations orderly.
• The Black Ice Palace’s allied army, numbering tens of thousands of cultivators, surrounded the Pill Cauldron Sect’s headquarters and began to frighten its low-level defenders.
• Liu Yu sensed ten enemy Nascent Soul True Lords, recognized Nangong Tian as a Great Cultivator, and identified Nangong Yue as the cultivator who had ambushed Mo Mei in Bright Moon Immortal City.
• Liu Yu and Nangong Yue exchanged divine abilities across the battlefield, and Nangong Yue looked away first.
• After Mo Mei asked him to handle Nangong Yue, Liu Yu agreed and spotted his enemies Old Devil He and Old Daoist Yunyi among the opposing forces.
• A Pill Cauldron Sect elder argued with the Black Ice Palace before both armies attacked, and the enemy’s spells and artifacts struck the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array.

The Pill Cauldron Sect defended its Seven-Star Divine Fire Array as the Black Ice Palace launched an assault and targeted its formation nodes. Liu Yu guarded the second node and repelled Nangong Yue’s powerful attack with his newly comprehended technique, Nebula Flash.

• The Black Ice Palace bombarded the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array, while Nangong Tian’s ice-crystal sword shook the defenses.
• Mo Mei assigned the Nascent Soul cultivators to guard the formation’s seven nodes, and Liu Yu went to protect the second node.
• Nangong Yue targeted Liu Yu with her Netherworld Frost Fiend Ring, first unleashing a storm of black ice spikes that he blocked with his Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.
• Nangong Yue launched dozens of powerful diamond-shaped ice crystals at Liu Yu, who activated Azure Yang Starcloud and used Nebula Flash to melt them all.