Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu used Wither and Nebula Flash to withstand Nangong Yue’s attacks and keep her from reaching the formation nexus. The other Pill Cauldron Sect True Lords struggled against the Black Ice Palace’s superior numbers, and Liu Yu’s side remained under pressure.

• Old Devil He feared Liu Yu’s growing strength, while Mo Mei gained confidence that Liu Yu could defend the formation nexus.
• Nangong Yue used Profound Ice Cold Domain to suppress Liu Yu’s Starcloud Body and shrink Nebula Flash.
• Liu Yu struck Nangong Yue with Wither, weakening her essence, qi, and spirit, then restored Nebula Flash and dispelled her ice domain.
• Nangong Yue’s Netherworld Frost Fiend Ring broke through Liu Yu’s defenses, but Liu Yu’s Stunning Spear Throw blunted its attack and he swept the ring aside.
• Nangong Yue renewed her assault as Liu Yu continued defending, while Mo Mei teleported him inside the formation to evade major strikes.
• Huang Mei and the other Pill Cauldron Sect True Lords struggled to withstand Nangong Tian and the Black Ice Palace’s other fighters, leaving many attacks to hit the formation.

The Black Ice Palace used a Heaven-and-Earth Upheaval Talisman to weaken the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array, turning the battle for the Pill Cauldron Sect sharply against its defenders. As the array neared collapse, Mo Mei promised Liu Yu information about the Creation Green Lotus and several fourth-tier pill formulas if he continued to help defend it.

• Liu Yu withdrew into the array to recover after battling Nangong Yue, who mocked him for avoiding a direct fight, but he ignored her taunts.
• The True Lords on both sides paused to replenish their magic power, and the Black Ice Palace planned to end the stalemate before Thunder Hall intervened.
• After the True Lords resumed fighting, Liu Yu recognized Nangong Tian's Heaven-and-Earth Upheaval Talisman, which disrupted the earth veins and weakened the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array.
• The Black Ice Palace's True Lords launched a full-strength assault, forcing Mo Mei and her companions to expend the Pill Cauldron Sect's reserves to keep the array from falling.
• Mo Mei raised her offer to Liu Yu, promising information about the Creation Green Lotus and several fourth-tier pill formulas if she survived the battle.

Liu Yu targeted Blackwater True Lord to weaken the Black Ice Palace’s hired allies, destroying his body before Mo Mei’s Space-Fixing Talisman prevented his nascent soul from escaping. Liu Yu then killed Blackwater’s nascent soul with the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber while enduring Nangong Yue’s attacks.

• Liu Yu chose Blackwater True Lord as a target and rushed past Nangong Yue to attack him with Nebula Flash, Wither, the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear, and a dark-gold spear.
• Blackwater True Lord’s Yellow Scroll and black water defenses failed under Liu Yu’s attacks, so he abandoned his body and teleported away as his nascent soul.
• Nangong Yue’s three attacks broke through Liu Yu’s Azure Yang Demonic Flame defenses but failed to injure him seriously after striking the Scarlet Flame Shield.
• Liu Yu signaled Mo Mei, who activated a Space-Fixing Talisman to prevent Blackwater True Lord’s nascent soul from teleporting again.
• Liu Yu used the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber to destroy Blackwater True Lord’s trapped nascent soul.

Liu Yu killed Blackwater True Lord, survived a coordinated assault from the Black Ice Palace’s True Lords, and raced back toward the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array. Just as he neared its range, his spiritual perception warned him of imminent danger.

• Liu Yu’s swift killing of Blackwater True Lord shocked both sides, and Huang Mei and Mo Mei recognized how much his strength had grown.
• Nangong Yue and the Black Ice Palace’s True Lords launched a combined attack on Liu Yu after he moved beyond the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array’s protection.
• Liu Yu used the Azure Yang Demonic Flame to strengthen his fire attacks and weaken his enemies, then unleashed Nebula Flash and Wither against the incoming assault.
• Liu Yu used layered defenses and his spear to withstand the weakened barrage without serious injury, then fled toward the array with the Purple Lightning Cape.
• Liu Yu flew a hundred li toward the array, but his spiritual perception suddenly warned him of intense danger.

Liu Yu killed Blackwater, defeated Nangong Tian’s divine sense attacks, and fought through a series of ice assaults while racing toward the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array. He teleported to safety beside Mo Mei, returning in triumph and drawing wary attention from the True Lords on both sides.

• Nangong Tian attacked Liu Yu with a divine sense iceberg, but Liu Yu’s Great Dream Through the Ages shattered it and swept toward the Black Ice Palace True Lords.
• Liu Yu continued toward the formation while Nangong Tian unleashed Frost Across the Wilds and sent a powerful frost saber after him.
• Liu Yu weakened Nangong Tian with Wither, then countered the frost saber with Nebula Flash, Dark-Gold Spears, Deep-Cyan Light Pillars, and the Scarlet Flame Shield.
• Nangong Tian launched another divine sense iceberg, but Liu Yu blocked it with a Divine Sense Wall and reached the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array’s area of influence.
• Mo Mei activated the Formation Disk and teleported Liu Yu beside her, where his triumphant return made the battlefield’s cultivators and True Lords turn their attention toward him.

Liu Yu killed Blackwater True Lord, intimidating the Black Ice Palace forces and helping the Pill Cauldron Sect hold its Seven-Star Divine Fire Array through nearly half a month of fighting. Just as powerful newcomers approached the battlefield, Liu Yu sensed that Thunder Hall was intervening.

• Liu Yu returned to the formation after killing Blackwater True Lord, and Mo Mei gave him a Heaven-Returning Pill to restore his magic power.
• Liu Yu resumed defending a formation node against Nangong Yue, then used his Wither ability to weaken every True Lord in the Black Ice Palace Camp.
• The Pill Cauldron Sect maintained the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array as the fighting continued for nearly half a month and the attackers' forces grew weary.
• Liu Yu sensed a powerful Nascent Soul-level Spirit Pressure approaching and anticipated that a Great Cultivator from Thunder Hall would intervene.
• Several powerful newcomers arrived and released their overwhelming Spirit Pressure across the battlefield.

True Lord Thunderclap arrived as the Seven Kingdoms Alliance’s envoy and halted the battle between the Pill Cauldron Sect and Black Ice Palace. He ruled against Black Ice Palace, which agreed to return most of its wartime gains, while Liu Yu quietly reconsidered his future plans.

• True Lord Thunderclap arrived with three True Lords and ordered both sides to stop fighting; Mo Mei halted the Pill Cauldron Sect’s attacks, and Nangong Tian eventually ordered Black Ice Palace to do the same.
• Mo Mei explained that she knew Thunderclap and expected him to favor the Pill Cauldron Sect, then led her allies outside the Seven-Star Divine Fire Array to face the opposing True Lords.
• Mo Mei accused Black Ice Palace of fabricating the Xia Yuhe Case and starting an unjust war, while Nangong Yue blamed the Pill Cauldron Sect and Soaring Cloud Sect for the conflict.
• Thunderclap declared that the Xia Yuhe Case did not justify a kingdom-wide war and ordered Black Ice Palace to return most of the territory and resources it had seized.
• Black Ice Palace’s True Lords reluctantly accepted Thunderclap’s ruling, and he departed with his companions after warning both sides against restarting the war.
• Liu Yu watched Thunderclap leave and silently decided to reconsider his plans in light of the envoy’s favoritism toward the Pill Cauldron Sect.

After the Black Ice Palace’s failed invasion, Liu Yu collected the Pill Cauldron Sect’s promised rewards and learned that the Creation Green Lotus lay in a dangerous Divine Lord’s cave abode. The cave would open again at a specific time, leaving Liu Yu with a valuable lead to pursue.

• True Lord Thunderclap and his companions departed, and Nangong Tian’s forces withdrew after the Black Ice Palace’s annexation plan failed.
• The Pill Cauldron Sect’s allies attended a banquet, received their rewards, and departed; Huang Mei told Liu Yu that he planned to attempt a breakthrough to the late stage.
• Mo Mei gave Liu Yu spirit herbs and three fourth-tier pill formulas: the Jade-Clear Pill, Great-Clear Pill, and Phoenix-Blood Pill.
• Mo Mei revealed that the Creation Green Lotus was inside a Divine Lord’s cave abode protected by a fifth-tier grand formation, which opened only at specific times.
• Mo Mei said she had last explored the cave three hundred years earlier and had glimpsed the Creation Green Lotus there.

Liu Yu agreed to join Mo Mei in exploring the Moving Mountains Legacy Abode in twenty years, then left with Purple Rainbow. On their journey home, Black Ice Palace cultivators ambushed them with a binding formation, and Liu Yu prepared to unleash his hidden strength as Nangong Yue and three other Nascent Soul cultivators closed in.

• Mo Mei told Liu Yu about Divine Lord Moving Mountains' legacy abode and invited him to explore it with her when it reopened in twenty or thirty years.
• Liu Yu accepted Mo Mei's invitation, agreed to a seventy-thirty treasure split in his favor, and reluctantly consented to sign a binding Great Luo Golden Book contract.
• Liu Yu said farewell to Mo Mei and departed with Purple Rainbow, who had waited for him so they could travel together after their battle against Black Ice Palace.
• While crossing Cloud Dream Marsh, Liu Yu sensed an ambush and warned Purple Rainbow, but the Blackwater Raging Tide Formation activated around them.
• Purple Rainbow identified the formation, and Liu Yu concluded Black Ice Palace had targeted them as Nangong Yue and three other Nascent Soul cultivators approached.
• Liu Yu declared that the formation could not hold him and, seeing Nangong Yue through the waves, prepared to unleash his hidden strength.

Liu Yu and True Lord Zihong were ambushed by Nangong Yue and three Black Ice Palace cultivators, but Liu Yu revealed his overwhelming strength and killed Nangong Yue. He then unleashed Nebula Flash against the three fleeing enemies while holding Zihong close, leaving the attack’s outcome unresolved.

• Liu Yu and True Lord Zihong defended themselves inside the Blackwater Raging Tide Formation as Nangong Yue and three Black Ice Palace cultivators attacked from outside.
• Nangong Yue led the four attackers into the formation, where Liu Yu struck them with Spirit-Shocking Thorn and strengthened Azure Yang Starcloud by controlling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
• Liu Yu overwhelmed Nangong Yue with an azure fireball, a Dark-Gold Spear, and the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber, destroying her nascent soul.
• The three surviving Black Ice Palace cultivators fled toward the formation’s edge, and Nangong Yun used a token to open a way out.
• Liu Yu appeared beside True Lord Zihong, warned her through divine sense, and unleashed Nebula Flash as the three cultivators neared escape.

Liu Yu destroyed the Blackwater Raging Tide Formation with Nebula Flash, then pursued and killed three Black Ice Palace cultivators alongside True Lord Zihong. After killing the last pursuer and silencing the witnesses, he faced True Lord Zihong in a tense aftermath.

• Liu Yu unleashed Nebula Flash, obliterating the Blackwater Raging Tide Formation and injuring the three Black Ice Palace cultivators who fled in separate directions.
• Liu Yu pursued a blue-robed old man, incapacitated him with Spirit-Shocking Thorn, and killed him with Deep-Cyan Light Pillars and the White Bone Sky-Splitting Saber.
• Liu Yu caught Nangong Yun, overwhelmed her defenses, and killed her with Meteor Fist before destroying her Nascent Soul.
• Liu Yu joined True Lord Zihong and helped kill the remaining Black Ice Palace cultivator with a Dark-Gold Spear.
• Liu Yu killed the low-level cultivators who had witnessed the battle, then turned to face True Lord Zihong in silence.

After defeating the Black Ice Palace ambush, Liu Yu forced True Lord Zihong to surrender a strand of her primordial spirit so she would keep his secrets, then returned to the Primordial Yang Sect. He reviewed his spoils and prepared to refine the Truth-Restoring Pill and advance to the nascent soul middle stage.

• Liu Yu considered killing or restraining True Lord Zihong to keep her from revealing his hidden strength, while she weighed her sect’s survival against her pride.
• Liu Yu reminded Zihong that Crescent Moon Valley depended on her, and she surrendered a strand of her primordial spirit and promised to keep his secrets.
• Liu Yu accepted the strand, dismissed his Azure Yang Starcloud, and gave Zihong the storage ring of the last Black Ice Palace cultivator before they parted for their respective sects.
• At the Primordial Yang Sect, Liu Yu reviewed the battle spoils, including six true treasures, spirit materials, and several fourth-tier pill formulas.
• Liu Yu resolved to refine the Truth-Restoring Pill and break through to the nascent soul middle stage to improve his chances of obtaining the Creation Green Lotus.

Liu Yu matured spirit herbs in the Immortal Mansion and spent weeks refining Truth-Restoring Pills to prepare for advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After successfully making seven pills, the Astral True Form’s side effects flared up, forcing him to delay his breakthrough and restore balance to his yin-yang qi.

• Liu Yu used the Immortal Mansion to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs and returned to his cave abode to continue cultivating and refine Flying Immortal Pills.
• Liu Yu began refining the Truth-Restoring Pill, but his first attempt failed when he opened the cauldron too late.
• Liu Yu reviewed his mistakes and continued refining pills for half a month until he produced seven Truth-Restoring Pills from ten sets of ingredients.
• Liu Yu prepared to take a Truth-Restoring Pill and break through, but the Astral True Form’s side effects disrupted his yin-yang qi and forced him to postpone the attempt.

Liu Yu eased the aftereffects of the Astral True Form by spending three days with Ji Ruyan, Yan Qun'er, and Jiang Qiushui, then entered seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul middle stage. His breakthrough succeeded, but his Nascent Soul emerged ravenous and began absorbing vast quantities of spiritual energy.

• Liu Yu summoned Ji Ruyan, Yan Qun'er, and Jiang Qiushui and spent three days and nights alleviating his cultivation art's aftereffects.
• After the three women departed, Liu Yu entered seclusion and began circulating the Azure Yang Art's tenth layer to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Liu Yu swallowed the Truth-Restoring Pill, established the Azure Yang Art's eleventh-layer circulations through his body and Nascent Soul, and broke through to the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• Liu Yu activated the High-Grade Spirit Gathering Array and released spirit stones to supply his ravenous Nascent Soul with spiritual energy.

After consolidating his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul middle stage, Liu Yu resolved to expand the Primordial Yang Sect and destroy the Hehuan Sect. He called the Golden Core Elders together to begin a campaign against the Hehuan Sect and the Lin Kingdom, where Li Changfeng volunteered to lead the vanguard.

• Liu Yu broke through to the Nascent Soul middle stage, strengthening his magic power, Nascent Soul, and divine sense.
• Li Changfeng, Qi Yuntian, and He Rulong discussed Liu Yu’s breakthrough and their hope that the Primordial Yang Sect would finally eliminate the Hehuan Sect.
• Liu Yu assessed the sect’s resources and strength, then decided to expand its territory and make the Hehuan Sect his first target.
• Two years later, Yan Qun'er reported Hehuan Sect attacks on Primordial Yang Sect disciples, and the Golden Core Elders called on Liu Yu to uphold justice.
• Liu Yu announced that the thousand-year feud would end by his hand and asked for a vanguard commander; Li Changfeng volunteered despite Liu Yu’s concern about his failing health.

Li Changfeng, Qi Yuntian, and He Rulong volunteered to lead Primordial Yang Sect armies against the Hehuan Sect, and Liu Yu approved the invasion while planning how to counter rival Nascent Soul forces. The sect mobilized the Yuan Kingdom and assembled over thirty thousand cultivators at the border, where Li Changfeng urged them to repay generations of blood debt.

• Li Changfeng insisted on joining the campaign despite his age, and Qi Yuntian and He Rulong volunteered alongside him; Liu Yu appointed the three elders to command separate invasion routes.
• Liu Yu considered the alliances and Nascent Soul enemies that might shape the war, then sent Communication Talismans to recruit allies such as Mo Mei, True Lord Huangmei, and Kongzhao.
• Liu Yu ordered the Primordial Yang Sect to mobilize, offered disciples rewards for wartime merits, and summoned subordinate factions across the Yuan Kingdom to send elite cultivators.
• More than thirty thousand cultivators assembled at the Yuan-Lin border as rumors of the invasion shook the former Yan Kingdom and the Seven Kingdoms Alliance.
• At the border, Li Changfeng reminded the assembled disciples of the Hehuan Sect's centuries of violence and shouted, “Blood for blood!!!”

Li Changfeng led more than thirty thousand Primordial Yang Sect forces into the Lin Kingdom on three fronts, beginning a swift invasion of Hehuan Sect territory while Liu Yu and his allies watched for Old Devil He. Two months later, True Lord Mingyue arrived on behalf of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance and urged Liu Yu to end the war, leaving his response unresolved.

• Li Changfeng rallied the Primordial Yang Sect disciples and ordered the armies to march against the Hehuan Sect.
• Li Changfeng, Qi Yuntian, and He Rulong led three armies into the Lin Kingdom, while Liu Yu and True Lord Huangmei followed from above to guard against Old Devil He.
• Yan Kai recognized the Cold Iron Mine Site and recalled how Liu Yu's earlier victory had established the Qing Yang Boundary Line.
• Liu Yu and True Lord Huangmei discussed the invasion, Huangmei warned that Old Devil He was making unusual moves, and the two agreed to watch for him.
• Over the next two months, Primordial Yang Sect forces rapidly seized Hehuan Sect territory across the Lin Kingdom.
• True Lord Mingyue met Liu Yu as the Seven Kingdoms Alliance's mediator and urged him to stop the war.

Liu Yu rejected True Lord Mingyue’s proposal to end the war after killing Old Devil He, insisting the Primordial Yang Sect would pursue revenge and absorb the Hehuan Sect. The central army captured Autumn Cold Mountain with help from White Tiger, but Li Changfeng died during the campaign, and the Three Great Elders of the older generation did not live to see the Hehuan Sect fall.

• Liu Yu refused True Lord Mingyue’s attempts to mediate and rejected the suggestion that Old Devil He’s death could settle the feud, declaring that one man’s blood was not enough to repay the debt.
• The Primordial Yang Sect’s central army attacked Autumn Cold Mountain, and Yan Kai used a Forbidden-Breaking Talisman to shatter its formation.
• The Jin Household patriarch struck Li Changfeng with a high-tier Talisman Treasure, but White Tiger arrived with the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and helped kill him.
• The Hehuan Sect’s forces routed, and the Primordial Yang Sect’s army continued its advance after resting and reorganizing.
• Li Changfeng died from his lingering injuries while the army was on the march, and Yan Kai took command of the central army.
• Qi Yuntian and He Rulong also died or fell in battle during the campaign, leaving none of the Three Great Elders alive to witness the Hehuan Sect’s downfall.

The Primordial Yang Sect’s army reached the Hehuan Sect for its final assault, with Yan Kai commanding the forces and Liu Yu arriving alongside four other Nascent Soul True Lords. As the two sides prepared to clash, a Female Cultivator appeared with two others and ordered the armies to wait.

• The Hehuan Sect recalled its disciples and concentrated its defenses behind the fully activated Myriad-Tier Thunder Array as the Primordial Yang Sect’s forces approached.
• The Primordial Yang Sect army arrived under Yan Kai’s command, bringing roughly ninety Golden Core Cultivators to face the Hehuan Sect’s remaining fifty.
• Liu Yu appeared on the Cangwu, and Huang Mei, Purple Rainbow, Mo Mei, and Kongzhao joined him, forming a group of five Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Liu Yu sensed Old Devil He and two unfamiliar Nascent Soul Cultivators inside the array, then detected Nangong Tian hiding three hundred li away.
• As both forces prepared to attack within thirty li of the thunder net, a Female Cultivator arrived with two figures and ordered everyone to wait.

Liu Yu refused the Wind and Snow Twin Immortals and Old Daoist Qingxu’s attempt to stop his campaign against the Hehuan Sect, then accepted Fairy Wind’s challenge to a duel. In the Fourth Astral Wind Layer, the Twin Immortals’ combined attack collided with Liu Yu’s Azure Yang Demonic Flame, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Liu Yu halted the Primordial Yang Sect army and told the Wind and Snow Twin Immortals and Old Daoist Qingxu that he would pursue vengeance against the Hehuan Sect despite the Five Sects’ agreement.
• Fairy Wind proposed that the Twin Immortals duel Liu Yu; if he lost, he would postpone the attack for two years, and if he won, they would withdraw.
• Liu Yu accepted, then went to the Fourth Astral Wind Layer with Purple Rainbow and Kongzhao while Huang Mei and Mo Mei stayed with the army.
• The Wind and Snow Twin Immortals unleashed their Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon divine ability, forming a vast icy domain and a powerful wind dragon carrying an ice moon.
• Liu Yu used the Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp and his Azure Yang Demonic Flame to create a fire dragon, which clashed with the Twin Immortals’ ice dragon in a tremendous explosion.