Recaps

Chen Yu used yin qi, Ah Zhen’s spirit essence, and a blinding trick to survive the Dao Sect assessment and become an Outer Sect disciple. After learning the sect’s points system, he built a side business selling clues and protection, borrowed heavily, and began acquiring new cultivation arts as a deadly mystery emerged at the Mass Burial Grounds.

• Chen Yu discovered the system could turn cultivation amid yin qi into experience, broke through to the first layer of Qi Refining, and gradually trained at the Mass Burial Grounds while Yun Miaozhen harvested his vitality.
• At the Dao Sect lecture, Chen Yu witnessed a failed disciple being refined into Spirit Essence and learned that advancing into the outer sect required defeating an existing disciple.
• Chen Yu reached the peak of the third layer, used Glowing Jade to blind his opponent during the assessment, and won admission as an Outer Sect disciple.
• After finding Ah Zhen’s Spirit Essence and a hidden key, Chen Yu registered under Elder Sun and chose the True Essence Profound Canon despite its costly requirements.
• Chen Yu used Ah Zhen’s spiritual energy to cultivate faster, studied the sect’s rules, and explored the outer peaks while seeking ways to earn points.
• Chen Yu sold clues about Xu Yunnian and protection from rule violations, but a search of the Mass Burial Grounds led by Liu He ended in thirty-eight deaths, Elder Song’s serious injury, and rumors of Immortal Ruins.
• Lü Yanyan explained the points economy and the strength of the ranked disciples, while Chen Yu borrowed 300 points from Elder Sun and bought the Flame-Transforming Art.

Chen Yu claimed ownership of the Immortal Ruins, advanced to the sixth layer of Qi Refining, and passed the Heavenly Union Association assessment. After helping capture Xu Xingyao, he learned how the disciple’s debts and ranking were tied to his execution.

• Chen Yu studied the Flame-Transforming Art, cultivated under a quilt, and drew attention from passing disciples when they saw him through his open window.
• Chen Yu joined the expedition to the Immortal Ruins, entered five times while disguising his lack of finds, and claimed the ruins with a jade pendant hidden in a room.
• Chen Yu presented Elder Sun with a supreme-grade Spirit Gathering Pill for 140 points and kept the pendant secret.
• When disciples crowded around Chen Yu’s home seeking his points, he drove them away with a foul-smelling concoction, and Xiang Baiwei later confronted him over it.
• Chen Yu mastered the Qi-Concealing Art, learned to cultivate the Earth-Warding Art by burying himself, and passed the Heavenly Union Association assessment with Xiang Baiwei’s help.
• Chen Yu used his jade pendant to reenter the Immortal Ruins, collected two Qi Refining Pills, and then advanced to the sixth layer of Qi Refining.
• Chen Yu joined a Heavenly Union Association team to escort Xu Xingyao, helped the members subdue him, and watched Elder Zheng refine him into spirit essence after confirming his unpaid debt.
• Chen Yu investigated the Outer Sect Genius Ranking and learned that Xu Xingyao had ranked tenth, owed 6,612 Contribution Points, and was bound by a wager to reach the seventh layer and become an Inner Sect Disciple within three years.

Chen Yu advanced through Qi Refining, defeated Liu Jun, and survived an attack on the Dao Sect’s new disciple escort while concealing his strength. He continued exploring the Immortal Ruins and cultivating, ending the stretch celebrated for his schemes as Lü Yanyan recognized him as her promising prospect.

• Chen Yu mastered the Wind-Riding Art and Flying Sword Technique, reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining, and defeated Liu Jun by blinding him with Glowing Jade before making him surrender.
• Chen Yu secured Liu Jun’s monthly Contribution Points through a signed Forfeit Agreement, then learned the Heavenly Union Association had assigned him to help receive new disciples.
• Chen Yu found a Storage Ring in the Immortal Ruins and joined Ren Shaohua, Xiang Baiwei, and other association members escorting prospective disciples from Greenstone Town.
• Black-robed attackers ambushed the escort, and Chen Yu fled, killed one pursuer, concealed his identity among the newcomers, and survived as the elders and Sect Master Chu stopped the attack.
• Chen Yu brought the attackers’ corpses into the Immortal Ruins, where they rose and vanished, then kept their spoils, including spirit essence, Qi Refining Pills, and shocking bracelets.
• Chen Yu obtained wood-attribute cultivation manuals and used spirit essence with spirit herbs to gain experience, completing his monthly assignment by catching rule-breaking veterans.
• Chen Yu advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining, evaded Xiang Baiwei, and confronted her after she followed and watched him, prompting her to stop.
• Chen Yu escaped a crowd after disciples praised his violation-catching schemes, while Lü Yanyan recognized him as the genius she had been seeking and felt affection for him.

Chen Yu joined the Dao Sect expedition to the Netherdark Sea, where rival sect disciples ambushed his group and a mysterious ruin separated him from his companions. He obtained a Foundation Establishment art and pill, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and returned as Sect Master Chu investigated a strange fluctuation near Little Bamboo Peak.

• Chen Yu captured Xiang Baiwei and learned that she belonged to the White Lotus Sect, but rejected her invitation and decided to stay out of its conflict with the Dao Sect.
• Chen Yu reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining and joined Ren Shaohua, Lü Yanyan, Wu Wenjie, and Kong Rui on the Dao Sect expedition to the Netherdark Sea.
• Chen Yu's group explored an uncharted island, gathered Heart-Calming Grass, and were ambushed by Evergreen Sect disciples who poisoned them and killed Kong Rui.
• Chen Yu used stolen Velvet Dove eggs to provoke the bird into killing the Evergreen Sect attackers, then persuaded his companions to avoid other sects and wait for their findings.
• Chen Yu followed the other sects to an underground chamber with eight mysterious gates, where he forced a Soul Sect disciple through the final gate and entered the revealed main chamber.
• Chen Yu found the Origin-Returning Foundation Establishment Art and a Supreme Foundation Establishment Pill, cultivated his techniques to their limits, and broke through to the First Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Yu returned from the stone chamber and reunited with Wu Wenjie, learning that Ren Shaohua had returned injured while the Jade Void Sect and Soul Sect disciples remained missing.
• Sect Master Chu investigated a strange fluctuation at the Mass Burial Grounds, found only white mist, and sealed off Little Bamboo Peak before announcing his retreat into seclusion.