Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu summoned his descendant Liu An, accepted him as a registered disciple, and gave him powerful third-tier resources while remaining emotionally detached from their blood tie. Thirty years later, Liu Yu had advanced his cultivation in seclusion, while Gu Yueying had reached Golden Core and continued serving as his personal maid.

• Liu An entered the Hall of Supreme Polarity and sensed that Liu Yu might be an ancestor of his lineage.
• Liu Yu accepted Liu An as a registered disciple and gave him treasures, talismans, and a formation, but offered no further protection.
• Liu Yu reflected on his growing indifference to bloodline and other mortal attachments, then cultivated in seclusion for thirty years.
• Gu Yueying reached Golden Core early stage but remained Liu Yu's personal maid instead of taking an elder's position.
• Thirty years later, Liu Yu had reached the sixth nascent soul layer and fourth-tier middle-stage body refinement.

Liu Yu reviewed his rapid progress in body refining and divine sense, then decided to seek a remedy for the Nascent Soul late-stage bottleneck before reaching the middle-stage peak. Yan Kai visited him and presented an ancient Nascent Soul Condensation Pill formula he had found in a secret realm.

• Liu Yu reached the fifth minor step of fourth-tier body refining and expanded his divine sense to nine hundred fifty li through cultivation, the Green Lotus Seed, and the Divine Preservation Art.
• Liu Yu compared his strength with the Blood Sea Devil Lord and True Lord Thunderclap, then concluded that his late-stage bottlenecks would require elixirs or spiritual treasures to overcome.
• Yan Kai arrived at Liu Yu's cave abode for a visit after stabilizing his Nascent Soul realm and maintaining a cooperative relationship with Liu Yu for thirty years.
• Yan Kai gave Liu Yu a purple beast-hide page containing an ancient Nascent Soul Condensation Pill formula that he had discovered while exploring a secret realm.

Yan Kai gave Liu Yu an ancient Nascent Soul Condensation Pill formula in exchange for having two True Treasure debts waived. Liu Yu used the Immortal Mansion’s supreme sovereignty to improve the formula, but the irreplaceable Sun-Moon Spirit Spring remained its crucial missing ingredient.

• Yan Kai presented the ancient pill formula to Liu Yu and asked him to place it in the Sect Treasury.
• Liu Yu praised Yan Kai’s contribution and waived his debt for two True Treasures, reducing what he owed from three to one.
• Liu Yu guided Yan Kai in cultivation before Yan Kai took his leave.
• Liu Yu entered the Immortal Mansion World and used supreme sovereignty to deduce an improved Nascent Soul Condensation Pill formula.
• Liu Yu replaced most extinct herbs in the formula but found that the Sun-Moon Spirit Spring could not be substituted without greatly weakening the pill.

Liu Yu persuaded Zhuo Mengzhen to delay her attempt at Nascent Soul formation while promising to support her cultivation choices. He then attended Huang Mei’s exchange gathering, where he recognized concealed demon cultivators among the guests.

• Liu Yu discussed Zhuo Mengzhen’s chances of forming a Nascent Soul and urged her to wait for better resources rather than risk an immediate attempt.
• Zhuo Mengzhen insisted she wanted to pursue the immortal Dao, and Liu Yu agreed to respect her choice while asking her to wait until she was at least six hundred and fifty.
• Liu Yu reflected on the dangers of Nascent Soul formation and the likelihood that his four concubines might not all succeed.
• After Old Monster Qingshan’s death, the Thick Earth Sect absorbed the Profound Yin Cult and secured control of the Miao Kingdom and Yu Kingdom under Huang Mei.
• Huang Mei welcomed Liu Yu to an exchange gathering attended by forty-four Nascent Soul cultivators, including six Great Cultivators.
• Liu Yu sensed demonic aura among several guests concealed by bamboo hats and inferred that Demon Kings had come to trade treasures from ancient secret realms.

Liu Yu attended an exchange gathering where True Lord Thunderclap’s arrival and warnings of growing turmoil highlighted the rising strength and ambitions of the Cultivation World’s cultivators. Huang Mei offered a Bright Candle Fruit, and after a fierce bidding contest, Devil Lord Black Heaven acquired it.

• True Lord Thunderclap arrived at the gathering with overwhelming spirit pressure, and the assembled True Lords welcomed him deferentially.
• Kongzhao warned Liu Yu that emerging secret realms were fueling conflict, while Liu Yu said he would focus on improving his strength and protecting himself.
• Huang Mei opened the exchange gathering and offered a Bright Candle Fruit, which could refine divine sense and aid attempts at Spirit Transformation.
• Liu Yu decided not to bid because his divine sense was already refined and he could control heaven and earth spiritual energy.
• Several Great Cultivators competed with increasingly valuable treasures, and Devil Lord Black Heaven ultimately won the Bright Candle Fruit.

At the exchange gathering, True Lord Profound Mystery offered his Spirit-Connecting Pill to obtain a way to heal the damage to his Nascent Soul’s foundations. After Liu Yu’s Creation Green Lotus failed to meet his needs, True Lord Thunderclap’s threat cleared the way for him to trade the pill for the Spring Sun and White Snow secret art, while Liu Yu continued seeking Spirit Transformation resources.

• True Lord Black Heaven exchanged high-grade resources for the Bright Candle Fruit, and the gathering continued with trades of rare treasures.
• True Lord Profound Mystery offered his Spirit-Connecting Pill, revealing that his injuries from his battle with the Black Flood Dragon King had badly damaged his Nascent Soul’s foundations.
• Liu Yu offered his Creation Green Lotus, but True Lord Profound Mystery rejected it because it could not adequately heal the damage to his foundations.
• True Lord Thunderclap offered the Spring Sun and White Snow secret art, then intimidated the other cultivators to discourage competing bids.
• True Lord Profound Mystery accepted Thunderclap’s secret art in exchange for the Spirit-Connecting Pill, and Liu Yu later traded for several more spirit treasures before an unexpected surprise appeared near the gathering’s end.

Liu Yu traded a Truth-Restoring Pill and two True-Congealing Pills for heavenly fire spirit nethergrass, then left the exchange to focus on advancing his cultivation. While flying home, he sensed a battle involving golden lightning, devilish energy, and demonic aura a thousand li away.

• Dragon-Slaying True Lord offered heavenly fire spirit nethergrass, and Liu Yu traded a Truth-Restoring Pill plus two True-Congealing Pills to obtain it.
• Huang Mei and Liu Yu exchanged observations about their growing strength and prospects as the gathering of True Lords and Demon Kings continued.
• Huang Mei ended the exchange, and Liu Yu departed after deciding not to pursue the Spirit-Connecting Pill or risk joining the ensuing disputes.
• Liu Yu flew south from the Thick Earth Sect, then sensed violent spiritual-energy fluctuations and saw golden lightning battling devilish energy alongside surging demonic aura.

Liu Yu inferred that True Lord Thunderclap had ambushed Devil Lord Black Heaven over the Spirit-Connecting Pill and secretly approached their battle. As several Demon Kings and two embattled human True Lords converged on the fight, Liu Yu waited in hiding for a chance to act.

• Liu Yu realized that Thunderclap had attacked Hei Tian, then concealed his aura and moved toward the battlefield to seek an opportunity to seize the Spirit-Connecting Pill.
• Thunderclap battered Hei Tian with evil-repelling divine thunder, forcing Hei Tian to defend himself with his Dark Sky Curtain and black palace.
• Dragon-Slaying True Lord fled toward Thunderclap and Hei Tian while a flood dragon Demon King pursued him.
• Three Demon Kings surrounded the wounded True Lord Profound Mystery, who also moved toward Thunderclap and Hei Tian for safety.
• Liu Yu watched from about seven hundred li away and considered that the Demon Kings might join forces with Hei Tian against Thunderclap.

Liu Yu watched as True Lord Thunderclap cornered Devil Lord Black Heaven, who escaped by drawing the Demon Kings into a standoff. The Demon Kings chose to attack Dragon-Slaying True Lord, leaving his fate unclear as Liu Yu watched from a distance.

• Liu Yu concealed himself seven hundred li away and waited for the cultivators and Demon Kings to weaken one another.
• True Lord Thunderclap struck Devil Lord Black Heaven with powerful evil-repelling lightning, but Black Heaven survived by sacrificing two ghost kings and defending himself with Dark Sky Curtain and Yama Hall.
• Black Heaven used a demonic art to escape the lightning and position himself near True Lord Profound Mystery and the Demon Kings, then tried to tempt them with the Spirit-Connecting Pill.
• The four Demon Kings revealed their true forms and concentrated their attacks on Dragon-Slaying True Lord, while True Lord Profound Mystery silently fled south.
• Dragon-Slaying True Lord unleashed his sword techniques and reached the realm of Refining the Sword into Threads, but the four Demon Kings overwhelmed him as his spiritual pressure rapidly faded.

Dragon-Slaying True Lord was killed by the four Demon Kings, who then joined Devil Lord Black Heaven in attacking True Lord Thunderclap. Thunderclap revealed his Thunder Soul Dharma Aspect and drove them back, while Black Heaven escaped by creating 108 identical bodies that fled in different directions.

• The four Demon Kings overwhelmed Dragon-Slaying True Lord, and the Golden Dragon Great Demon King caught and devoured his Nascent Soul.
• Devil Lord Black Heaven persuaded the Golden Dragon and Blue Dragon Great Demon Kings to join forces against True Lord Thunderclap by promising them the Spirit-Connecting Pill.
• The four Demon Kings encircled Thunderclap and attacked alongside Black Heaven, while Liu Yu watched from hiding.
• Thunderclap manifested his Thunder Soul Dharma Aspect and used Ten Thousand Thunders to shatter the attackers' spells and weaken their true treasures.
• Black Heaven sensed the fight was turning against them, vanished into spreading darkness, and sent 108 identical Devil Lords Black Heaven fleeing in different directions.

Devil Lord Black Heaven escaped the battlefield using hidden clones and the spatial power of the Yama Hall, while True Lord Thunderclap turned his fury on the four Demon Kings. Liu Yu chose not to pursue Black Heaven and instead joined Thunderclap’s fight, launching an attack on the demons.

• Devil Lord Black Heaven used his clones and the Yama Hall’s spatial seal to escape the attacks of True Lord Thunderclap and the four Demon Kings.
• Black Heaven fled beyond their divine sense range, while Thunderclap blamed the four Demon Kings for ruining his plans and attacked them with golden lightning.
• Liu Yu watched Black Heaven escape and decided not to intercept him, judging that winning Thunderclap’s favor was not worth the effort.
• Liu Yu approached the battlefield as Azure Yang True Lord, declared that the Demon Kings would pay for invading human territory, and formed his Azure Yang Starcloud Dharma Aspect.
• Liu Yu’s Starcloud Body created a blazing miniature star and hurled it toward the four Demon Kings, who sensed imminent danger.

Liu Yu joined True Lord Thunderclap in the battle against four demons, helping break their formation and kill Demon King Sky-Rending Leopard and Great Demon King Blue Dragon. He stored Blue Dragon’s demon core, pleased that the valuable prize made the trip worthwhile.

• Liu Yu struck the four demons with Nebula Flash while True Lord Thunderclap kept them pinned down with divine thunder.
• Liu Yu and True Lord Thunderclap shattered the demons’ united front, and Thunderclap killed the wounded Demon King Sky-Rending Leopard with a dark golden thunder spear.
• Liu Yu launched the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear at Great Demon King Blue Dragon, wounding him and spreading black-red flames through his body.
• Liu Yu attacked Blue Dragon with Nebula Flash and Wither while Thunderclap’s divine thunder weakened him, then killed him within eight breaths.
• Liu Yu collected Blue Dragon’s corpse and demon core, sealed the core in a Jade Box, and put it in his Storage Ring.

Liu Yu and True Lord Thunderclap defeated the Purple Crystal Black Bear Great Demon King while the Golden Dragon Great Demon King escaped after killing an ambushing cultivator. Liu Yu left with the Blue Dragon King's body and core, then departed for the former Yan Kingdom as the other True Lords arrived.

• Liu Yu attacked the Purple Crystal Black Bear Great Demon King, while the Golden Dragon Great Demon King fled north under the evil-repelling divine thunder.
• The Golden Dragon Great Demon King killed a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator who tried to ambush him, then escaped when the other True Lords held back.
• Liu Yu and True Lord Thunderclap killed the Purple Crystal Black Bear Great Demon King, and Thunderclap claimed its body, nascent soul, and demon core.
• True Lord Thunderclap thanked Liu Yu but grew wary of his motives, while Liu Yu politely deflected praise from the arriving True Lords.
• Liu Yu said farewell and flew toward the former Yan Kingdom, satisfied with his gains and planning to pursue a breakthrough.

Liu Yu returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak with rare spirit herbs but no Sun-Moon Spirit Spring, then used the Blue Dragon Great Demon King's body and essence blood to aid Little Green and cultivate dragon-transforming grass. He remained in seclusion for twenty years, steadily strengthening his body, magic power, and primordial spirit.

• Liu Yu reviewed his gains from the trip and noted that Yan Qun'er and Zhuo Mengzhen still lacked the ingredients needed to attempt their nascent soul breakthroughs.
• White Tiger delivered the spirit herbs gathered by the Shadow of the Sun, but reported that they had found no trace of the Sun-Moon Spirit Spring.
• Liu Yu gave Little Green the Blue Dragon Great Demon King's body and demon core to refine, ordering him to cultivate diligently.
• Liu Yu used the dragon's essence blood to mature several stalks of dragon-transforming grass toward five thousand years and planned to use Little Green's blood for the earlier growth stage.
• Liu Yu stayed quietly in his cave abode for twenty years, cultivating his essence, qi, and spirit with pills, lotus seeds, and dragon-transforming grass.

Twenty years after consolidating his cultivation, Liu Yu broke through to the fourth-tier late stage in body refining and reached an eighty-one-zhang true form. His triumph was tempered by the failure of his qi refining breakthrough five years earlier, which still left him without a clear path forward.

• Liu Yu spent ten days and nights preparing to break through the fourth-tier late-stage body refining bottleneck, then gathered strength for three months.
• At dawn, Liu Yu shattered the bottleneck in an hour and absorbed vast quantities of spiritual energy as his cultivation rose.
• Liu Yu’s true form grew to eighty-one zhang, and he tested its defenses against the Setting Sun Golden Rainbow Spear.
• Liu Yu reflected that his enhanced body could withstand attacks from an ordinary great cultivator and likely endure Nangong Tian’s former strength.
• Liu Yu worried that his qi refining breakthrough had failed despite using heavenly fire spirit nethergrass and other spirit treasures, and resolved to consider his next steps carefully.

After failing to advance his Qi Refining cultivation, Liu Yu strengthened his Body Refining and primordial spirit while seeking ancient treasures to overcome the bottleneck. Huang Mei and Kongzhao told him that a vast, dangerous miniature world called Brightnight Grotto-Heaven had appeared, and invited him to explore it with them.

• Liu Yu decided to keep pursuing Qi Refining because a Fifth-Tier Body Refining breakthrough required scarce resources and offered no clear path.
• Over the next twenty years, Liu Yu advanced his Body Refining to the Fourth-Tier Late Stage, then spent two years attending gatherings and trading for spirit herbs and treasures.
• Liu Yu's divine sense reached 1,170 li, strengthening his combat ability and allowing him to unleash a second powerful strike with the Ruined Sword.
• Huang Mei and Kongzhao visited Liu Yu and described Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, where Xiahou Ying had found ancient resources but escaped gravely wounded after two other Nascent Soul cultivators died.
• Kongzhao asked Liu Yu to join him and Huang Mei on an expedition, and Liu Yu checked a message from Yan Qun'er before answering.

After learning that the Brightnight Grotto-Heaven held rare resources and barred Spirit Transformation cultivators, Liu Yu decided to explore it himself and formed an alliance with Huang Mei, Kongzhao, Zihong, and Mo Mei. The five agreed on their expedition plans and treasure shares, then set out for Five Elements Pass.

• Liu Yu weighed the risks of entering the Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, decided ancient resources could help him break through, and agreed to join Huang Mei and Kongzhao.
• Liu Yu invited Zihong, and the group traveled to the Pill Cauldron Sect to recruit Mo Mei.
• Mo Mei accepted the invitation, and the five cultivators discussed how they would explore the grotto-heaven and divide any treasures they found.
• Huang Mei explained that Spirit Transformation Divine Lords could not enter the Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, and the group agreed to assess the situation before entering.
• The five headed to the Pill Cauldron Sect's Teleportation Hall to travel to Five Elements Pass.

Liu Yu and four other Nascent Soul cultivators raced toward Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, but their journey was interrupted by a battle between Divine Lord Profound Wood and Demon Emperor Jinghong. After the fifth-tier beings stopped fighting and disappeared, the gathered cultivators waited for the spatial rifts to heal before one True Lord charged toward the grotto-heaven’s entrance.

• Liu Yu, Huang Mei, Mo Mei, Kongzhao, and Purple Rainbow left human territory and flew north toward Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, ignoring cultivators in danger along the way.
• The five sensed a vast disturbance and saw Divine Lord Profound Wood and Demon Emperor Jinghong fighting with Primordial Spirits that shattered space.
• Liu Yu recognized the fighters and realized that the human and demon powers were contesting the resources inside Brightnight Grotto-Heaven.
• Divine Lord Profound Wood and Demon Emperor Jinghong exchanged another devastating blow, then stopped fighting and vanished together.
• The gathered True Lords and Demon Kings waited as the spatial rifts healed, until one impatient True Lord raced toward Brightnight Grotto-Heaven’s entrance.

Hu Yan Guang’s attempt to enter Brightnight Grotto-Heaven was stopped by the Demon Race, whose forces gathered under the Black Flood Dragon King and blocked the entrance. Liu Yu joined the human True Lords assembling to challenge the blockade, and the chapter ended with Devil Lord Chi Lian arriving.

• Hu Yan Guang rushed toward Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, but Demon King Zi Su and several Demon Kings attacked and wounded him, forcing him to flee.
• The Black Flood Dragon King arrived, intimidated the other Demon Kings, and led more than twenty of them in blocking the grotto-heaven entrance.
• Liu Yu concluded that the human True Lords needed to cooperate and reassured himself that his most valuable treasures were concealed in the Immortal Mansion World.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered opposite the Demon Kings, and True Lord Thunderclap arrived with five Thunder Hall cultivators.
• Liu Yu joined the human alliance as more True Lords arrived, including Blood Sea Devil Lord and Devil Lord Black Heaven.
• Huang Mei spotted Devil Lord Chi Lian arriving with several cultivators.

As human and demon forces gathered at the Brightnight Grotto-Heaven, Liu Yu recognized that Blood Sea Devil Lord had concealed strength rivaling the human Peak True Lords. The three human leaders announced that entrants must surrender half their gains to the Spirit Transformation seniors, and Thunderclap threatened anyone who objected.

• Chi Lian and True Lord Yu Lin arrived, drawing the Demonic Path and Righteous Alliance cultivators around their respective leaders as human and demon forces assembled at the grotto-heaven entrance.
• Liu Yu judged that Blood Sea Devil Lord had reached Peak True Lord strength and was hiding his power to pursue treasures and a breakthrough.
• After the three human leaders conferred behind a barrier, Thunderclap announced that every entrant must give half their gains to the three Spirit Transformation seniors.
• A rogue cultivator questioned the fifty-percent share, and Thunderclap crushed him with spirit pressure before warning that five-spirit mice would expose hidden treasures and that dissenters would face no mercy.