Recaps

Wang Yu cultivated his second-tier middle-grade White Bone Yin Demon Banner in the Login Hall, using spirit bones to generate yin energy and strengthen the artifact. He discovered that, unlike his Windfire Bone Blade, the banner could not be condensed through the Login Hall’s usual method, leaving its special nature unexplained.

• Wang Yu summoned armored Giant Skeletons into the White Bone Yin Demon Banner, which held twenty-five inscriptions and had reached second-tier middle grade.
• He reflected on producing yin energy from spirit bones, his artifact-refining progress, his financial troubles, and his hesitation to reveal his second-tier crafting skills during the demonic invasion.
• Wang Yu used the banner to absorb the yin mist, then activated formations to convert more of the bone piles into yin energy.
• He wondered how far the banner could advance in the Login Hall and attempted to condense it alongside the Windfire Bone Blade.
• The Windfire Bone Blade fully formed, but the White Bone Yin Demon Banner remained blurry before collapsing and disappearing.

Wang Yu realized that yin-energy-infused artifacts could not be copied in the Login Hall and considered the White Bone Yin Demon Banner’s potential. He used Taiyuan’s single temporary deduction authorization to seek an auxiliary secret art for the Crimson Sun Great Art, reaching a 54% chance of a perfect deduction.

• Wang Yu found that his White Bone Yin Demon Banner and other yin-energy-infused artifacts could not be copied in the Login Hall, though he could create the Windfire Bone Blade.
• Wang Yu reviewed how the White Bone Yin Demon Banner could nurture Yin Ghosts, Yin Bone Demons, and potentially even stronger creatures, and reaffirmed his intention to cultivate it.
• Wang Yu entered the Origin-Returning Art into Taiyuan and activated the system’s one temporary use of the Deduction Function.
• Wang Yu tried several times to deduce an improved Crimson Sun Great Art, but Taiyuan lacked sufficient information for a complete cultivation formula.
• Wang Yu requested an auxiliary secret art focused on easing the Crimson Sun Great Art’s bottlenecks, and Taiyuan reported a 54% probability of perfect deduction.

Wang Yu reconsidered how to use his last Deduction Permission and reviewed the Crimson Sun Great Art’s formulas and cultivation requirements. He left with a plan to earn contribution points and a future problem to solve: finding a reliable supply of Ice Separation Pills or ice marrow.

• Wang Yu decided against deducing a secret art at a fifty-four percent chance of perfect success and exited the Login Interface.
• Wang Yu chose to pursue contribution points by revealing his skill as a second-tier artifact refiner so he could access the Vermilion Bird Art’s formula.
• Wang Yu reread the Crimson Sun Great Art formulas from a jade slip that could only be read three times and confirmed his rapid progress through its early layers.
• Wang Yu learned that the Crimson Sun Great Art required Ice Separation Pills from the fourth layer onward, while the Four Symbols Sect’s costly ice marrow was often unavailable.
• Wang Yu recalled that he had exchanged for several large bottles of Ice Separation Pills and resolved to learn how to refine them or find a substitute before they ran out.

Wang Yu trained his Mystic Armor in a specially built, gravity-enhancing room, using silver sand and hammer blows to temper his body. He ended the session badly wounded and immersed himself in a medicinal pool to recover.

• Wang Yu finished studying the Jade Slip, which burned to powder, and considered seeking a substitute for the Setting Sun Sect’s Ice Separation Pill.
• Wang Yu activated the formation around his metal training room, increasing its weight and making movement more difficult.
• Wang Yu summoned silver sand and four White Bone Fiends, then practiced the Four Beasts Art as the sand and hammers battered his body.
• After an hour, Wang Yu entered a separate pool after adding a dark green medicinal pill, and his face twisted in pain when he left Overclocking Mode.

Wang Yu broke through to the third layer of the Crimson Sun Great Art while cultivating in a lava cavern, then was summoned to Heaven Toad Palace. There, Heaven Toad Ancestor and Silver Cloud Ancestor assigned him and two other disciples to a secret mission against the Demonic Path, leaving Cai Shang in charge of leading them to the rendezvous.

• Wang Yu absorbed fire spiritual energy in the lava cavern and broke through to the third layer of the Crimson Sun Great Art, damaging his pseudo-second-tier Lotus Platform.
• Heaven Toad Ancestor summoned Wang Yu to Heaven Toad Palace after Wang Yu had asked for the Vermilion Bird Art's cultivation instructions.
• Silver Cloud Ancestor announced that the four sects would assemble an elite Foundation Establishment force to strike demonic sects occupying Tongzhou.
• Silver Cloud Ancestor named Wang Yu, Cai Shang, and Xuan as the Four Symbols Sect's candidates for the secret mission and gave Cai Shang a Jade Slip marking their rendezvous.
• Heaven Toad Ancestor promised each candidate one reasonable request in advance as a reward for taking part.

Wang Yu obtained permission to study the Vermilion Bird Art as a reference for his Crimson Sun Great Art and prepared to depart on a mission with Yun Caishang and Senior Brother Xuan. He began learning the new art and entered it into the silver Login Hall.

• Yun Caishang requested a Clear-Song Bird demon core, Senior Brother Xuan requested Yang Earth Pills, and Wang Yu asked for the Vermilion Bird Art.
• Silver Cloud Ancestor gave Wang Yu an authorization token to exchange for the Vermilion Bird Art, and the three disciples agreed to set out on their mission in three days.
• The group discussed Zhu Wuyan's growing power and the possibility of a Demonic Path invasion of both Great Ming Prefecture and Celestial River Prefecture.
• Wang Yu obtained the Vermilion Bird Art, visited Uncle Li to retrieve Little White, and received middle grade spirit stones and half a crystalline skeleton.
• Wang Yu studied the Vermilion Bird Art in his cave abode and later entered its cultivation formula into the silver Login Hall.

Wang Yu used his final deduction permission to have Taiyuan develop a secret art that would make breaking through cultivation bottlenecks easier, then traveled with Yun Caishang and Senior Brother Xuan to Lan Yue Mountain. The group descended into a misty valley and heard signs of a battle ahead.

• Wang Yu ordered Taiyuan to deduce an auxiliary secret art for the Crimson Sun Great Art, and Taiyuan began a process expected to take more than a month.
• Three days later, Wang Yu traveled aboard a jade boat with Yun Caishang and Senior Brother Xuan, who learned that their destination was Lan Yue Mountain in Fengyuan Province.
• Yun Caishang said the group had to reach a precise location in the Lan Yue Mountain range within half a month.
• Several groups arrived at a mist-shrouded valley in Lan Yue Mountain before Wang Yu, Yun Caishang, and Senior Brother Xuan reached it by jade boat.
• Wang Yu and his companions descended into the valley, where a tiger's roar and the sounds of battle came from ahead.

Wang Yu and his companions arrived at a mountain valley, where Yuantong and Princess Tianhe had been testing their sects’ puppet techniques. The gathered cultivators recognized one another and discussed the mission, while Wang Yu sensed that Yuantong had changed.

• Yuantong used the Demon-Subduing Golden Sutra to disperse his golden python puppet, and Princess Tianhe recalled the Thousand Bamboo Sect’s azure tiger puppet into a bead.
• Wang Yu recognized Yuantong and Princess Tianhe, then introduced himself and Xuan Tianwu to the Thousand Bamboo Sect cultivators Zhuo Fan and Luo Yiming.
• Yuantong explained that his sutra was a Supplementary Volume and said Senior Brother Yuanhui and Martial Uncle Zhiming were resting in a nearby cave.
• Yun Caishang remarked on the strength of Yuantong’s puppet, while Wang Yu wondered why the monk seemed fundamentally different from before.
• Princess Tianhe blushed when Wang Yu noticed her looking at him, and Luo Yiming’s expression darkened.
• Xuan Tianwu asked Zhuo Fan whether the Setting Sun Sect’s cultivators had arrived.

Wang Yu and the other cultivators waited for the Setting Sun Sect to arrive while they speculated about their secret mission. That night, Wang Yu met Princess Tianhe, who revealed her real name as Wu Jiao and asked what he thought about the Demonic Path’s invasion of the Two Prefectures.

• Zhuo Fan, Yun Caishang, and the others discussed their mission and concluded they would learn more when the Setting Sun Sect arrived.
• Princess Tianhe secretly asked Wang Yu to meet her at the valley entrance during the third watch.
• Wang Yu settled into a cave and studied the Flame Blade spell pattern recorded in a silver Beast Claw.
• Princess Tianhe met Wang Yu in a grove, caught up with him, and told him her real name was Wu Jiao.
• Princess Tianhe asked Wang Yu what he thought about the Demonic Path’s invasion of the Two Prefectures.

Princess Tianhe revealed that the Demonic Path invasion was a coordinated probe backed by three Nascent Soul cultivators, while Wu Kingdom’s strongest sects had compelled the local sects to fight. She also hinted that sects and clans were secretly preparing ways to preserve themselves, leaving Wang Yu to consider the danger and his own sect’s plans.

• Princess Tianhe told Wang Yu that Heavenly Confucian had been badly injured after trying to stop the Heavenly Net Demon Venerable’s breakthrough in the Yu Kingdom.
• Princess Tianhe explained that Wu Kingdom had only one Nascent Soul cultivator ready to act, while the Yu Kingdom’s Demonic Path had three and had coordinated its invasion of the Two Prefectures.
• Princess Tianhe said the Vast Righteous Sect and Profound Truth Sect had forbidden sects from abandoning their grounds, but would grant new territory to those that fought before retreating.
• Princess Tianhe revealed that the Four Sects had secretly allied with the Celestial River Prefecture’s Three Sects to support one another during the invasion.
• Princess Tianhe noted that prominent disciples from both their sects had been absent for years on secret missions, hinting that major sects and clans were making preparations to preserve themselves.

Wang Yu learned that a Golden Core Ancestor would lead the mission, then met Golden Cauldron Ancestor as he took command of the gathered cultivators. The chapter ended with the news that Zhu Wuyan’s forces had killed all three Setting Sun Sect cultivators before they could arrive.

• Princess Tianhe told Wang Yu that her master, Zi Guang, had said a Golden Core Ancestor would lead the mission, and she explained that cultivators hoped to earn treasures supplied by the Haoran and Xuanzhen Sects.
• Wang Yu returned to his cavern, encountered Yun Caishang outside, and spent the next two days studying the Beast Claw.
• Golden Cauldron Ancestor crashed into the valley and announced that he would take charge of the mission.
• Yun Caishang verified Golden Cauldron Ancestor’s silver token, and the gathered cultivators agreed to follow his orders.
• Luo Yiming asked whether they would wait for the Setting Sun Sect, and Golden Cauldron Ancestor revealed that Zhu Wuyan’s forces had killed its three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After learning that Zhu Wuyan had wiped out the Setting Sun Sect’s cultivators, Wang Yu and the others traveled under concealment in the Golden Cauldron Patriarch’s treasure artifact toward their mission site. Meanwhile, a Black Soul Sect cultivator met Martial Uncle Wu in Fengyuan City, where a Sandless Valley cultivator exposed their presence and summoned help.

• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch said Sandless Valley’s Daoist Kun was pursuing Zhu Wuyan and took the remaining cultivators to the mission site in his Golden Giant Cauldron.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch concealed the cauldron’s route and blocked the passengers’ divine sense, prompting Zhuo Fan to defend his caution against Luo Yiming’s complaint.
• Wang Yu examined the cauldron’s inner wall and recognized it as being made from the rare third-tier spiritual material seal gold.
• In Fengyuan City, a young Black Soul Sect cultivator removed his bamboo hat and told Martial Uncle Wu that he had come because he was in danger.
• A middle-aged scholar from Sandless Valley confronted Martial Uncle Wu and sent communication talismans in several directions.

The Demonic Path launched a two-front invasion of the Wu Kingdom, defeating or besieging several sects as the cultivation world mobilized to resist. More than a month later, Wang Yu and eight other Foundation Establishment disciples remained trapped inside Patriarch Golden Cauldron’s flying treasure artifact, where Wang Yu had mastered the Flame Blade spell.

• Old Devil Wu fled Fengyuan City with Zhu Wuyan, but Windless Daoist died in the pursuit and Kun Fangzi escaped gravely injured.
• Mara Sect and Joyful Bliss Palace seized Sandless Valley, then held off the Celestial River Three Sects as they waited for reinforcements.
• Myriad Beast Mountain defeated the forces of Four Symbols Sect and Thousand Bamboo Sect, establishing the Demonic Path’s simultaneous offensives in Fengyuan Province and Jing Province.
• Wang Yu completed the Flame Blade spell after spending a month comprehending and stabilizing its ninety-eight symbols.
• Wang Yu surveyed the other eight disciples inside the giant cauldron and wondered why Patriarch Golden Cauldron had kept them confined and flying for more than a month.

Wang Yu and the other disciples debated where Patriarch Golden Cauldron was taking them before learning they had crossed a vast desert. They arrived at an oasis and encountered Chen Tianxing and Senior Sister Qin, leaving Wang Yu and the others astonished.

• Xuan Tianwu asked where they were, and Luo Yiming argued that they were deep in Demonic Path territory on a dangerous mission.
• Luo Yiming taunted Xuan Tianwu, but the young married woman in the red dress mocked Luo Yiming for boasting without proof of his achievements.
• Zhuo Fan revealed that they had been flying over a vast desert for half a month, though he did not know their destination.
• Patriarch Golden Cauldron stopped the cauldron and told everyone to come out, revealing a small oasis surrounded by desert.
• Chen Tianxing and Senior Sister Qin flew over from the stone huts, and Yun Caishang recognized them.

The Golden Cauldron Patriarch gathered cultivators from the Three Sects and revealed that their mission required them to travel through a damaged Teleportation Formation to the Eastern Wasteland. He left them with orders to help a newly established sect there gain a foothold, with no return to the Wu Kingdom for the time being.

• Wang Yu met Senior Sister Qin, the Heaven Toad Ancestor's other personal disciple, and the gathered cultivators greeted her and Chen Tianxing.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch led everyone into a stone house and told them to listen while he explained their mission.
• Chen Tianxing reported that Liu Zhen and Jiang Feng had nearly repaired the Teleportation Formation, which could transport at most ten Foundation Establishment cultivators once before being ruined.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch explained that he and Old Ghost Silver Cloud had discovered the formation, which led to the Eastern Wasteland.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch ordered the cultivators to help a newly established sect in the Eastern Wasteland gain a firm foothold and said they could not return to the Wu Kingdom for now.

Wang Yu and the others learned they had been sent to reinforce the Stone Fish Gate in the distant Eastern Wasteland, with their return uncertain and potentially years away. As the group prepared to teleport, the Golden Cauldron Patriarch sensed a powerful enemy attacking and ordered them to begin immediately.

• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch explained that the Stone Fish Gate had requested help three months earlier and that the group must protect its territory and resolve its troubles.
• Wang Yu worried that the mission could keep him away for years and leave Yin Linglong and the Yin Household without his protection during the coming war.
• Chen Tianxing led the group down hidden stairs beneath the lake to the Five-Axis Teleportation Array, where two Formation Masters performed their final checks.
• Chen Tianxing explained that Junior Sister Qin would stay behind because she had another mission and would not use the array.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch burst through the chamber ceiling and warned that a powerful enemy was attacking, ordering the group to teleport at once.

Wang Yu and the others tried to escape through a Teleportation Array as a demonic attack overwhelmed the oasis, but You Sanniang destroyed the array and announced the Heaven-Connecting Demon Cult’s campaign against the cultivation world. Half a month later, two fishers found a charred body in their net and carried it toward their village.

• Chen Tianxing ordered the Teleportation Array activated and sent Junior Sister Qin to scout the battle above.
• Junior Sister Qin reported that a Golden Core Ancestor from the Black Soul Sect had arrived, so Chen Tianxing ordered everyone to evacuate in sequence.
• Princess Tianhe and Yuantong teleported away before Wang Yu stepped onto the array.
• A bolt of black lightning struck the array as Wang Yu tried to escape, destroying the platform and making him disappear.
• You Sanniang appeared atop a giant peach tree and told the Golden Cauldron Patriarch that her Devil Master had ordered the destruction of the Seven Sects of Tianhe and Daming and the Wu Kingdom’s Cultivation World.
• Half a month later, two young fishers found a charred human body in their net and carried it to their boat.

After more than a year unconscious in a Medical Pod, Wang Yu woke at a Huaguo military base and realized he had returned from the Otherworld to Blue Star. As medical staff examined him, General Wei arrived to greet him.

• Wang Yu woke inside a glass Medical Pod and was helped to a bed by Du Xiaohong.
• Du Xiaohong told Wang Yu he had been unconscious for over a year and was now at a new base under General Wei.
• Wang Yu recognized Huaguo’s military insignia and realized he had returned from the Otherworld to Blue Star.
• Medical staff injected Wang Yu with concentrated nutrient solution and began examining him.
• General Wei entered the room and told Wang Yu the entire base had been waiting for him to wake up.

Wang Yu woke at a medical base and was questioned by General Wei about his injuries and encounter with Helena, while hiding that he had returned to the Cultivation World. Du Xiaohong tried to hypnotize him for information, and a mysterious woman watching through the cameras demanded answers about Helena’s death.

• General Wei told Wang Yu that his body had been badly damaged and that he had survived an attack by Helena, a British Commonwealth Class A Superpower user.
• Wang Yu said Helena had taken Zhao Jun’s appearance and tried to read his memories, but he concealed his return to the Cultivation World and Helena’s continued existence.
• Medical staff reported normal preliminary test results, and General Wei postponed using the Human Vortex Measuring Device.
• General Wei ordered Du Xiaohong to record a secret questioning session and asked Wang Yu to recount his experiences in the Otherworld.
• Du Xiaohong used a flashing silver pen and a gold pocket watch to hypnotize Wang Yu, while General Wei revealed that he was Iron Man and she was Sea Demon.
• A woman speaking through a camera told Iron Man to let Sea Demon continue and said she most wanted to learn how Helena had failed and died at the Huaguo base.

Wang Yu turned Du Xiaohong’s hypnosis against her and fought off General Wei before escaping amid the chaos. Golden Sail raised a level-one alert and ordered the facility sealed as its guards searched for him.

• Du Xiaohong intensified her hypnosis, but Wang Yu revealed that he had been observing her mental power and immobilized her.
• General Wei attacked Wang Yu, who blocked him with a Bone Banner and released black miasma to vanish from sight.
• Golden Sail arrived and used lightning to disperse the miasma, finding Du Xiaohong and General Wei unconscious but Wang Yu gone.
• Golden Sail ordered a level-one alert, sealing the facility and directing armed guards to search the exits and ventilation openings.

After escaping a foreign castle base with the Yin Soul Banner and his mysterious storage talisman, Wang Yu realized he was on Blue Star and needed to evade his pursuers and find a way back to Huaguo. When drones launched from the castle began searching for him, he used Earth Escape to flee underground again.

• Wang Yu emerged from the ground in the wilderness near a dilapidated-looking castle that he recognized as a heavily guarded modern base.
• Wang Yu discovered that his Silver Talisman and the items stored inside it, including the Yin Soul Banner and thirteen White Bone Fiends, had come back to Blue Star with him.
• Wang Yu reasoned that he could use the banner’s stored yin energy to cast a limited number of spells, and resolved to conserve it while escaping and finding a way back to Huaguo.
• An alarm sounded at the castle, and more than a hundred drones launched from its tallest building to search the area.
• Wang Yu spotted the drones, wrapped himself in black mist from the Bone Banner, and used Earth Escape to flee deeper underground.

Wang Yu escaped underground surveillance and emerged in a small town, using borrowed clothes and the Illusory Transformation Technique to disguise himself. He discovered he was in Linbin Town, South La Province, and the chapter ended with him realizing where he had arrived.

• Wang Yu judged that drones could not detect him a hundred meters underground, then traveled more than thirty li before surfacing near a crowd.
• Wang Yu emerged in a deserted alley and used Divine Thought to find a nearby laundry room, where he took clothes and changed.
• Wang Yu disguised his face as a Western man with the Illusory Transformation Technique and hid the Bone Banner inside the Silver Talisman.
• Wang Yu walked through the town, avoided shop cameras, and read a sign identifying the place as Linbin Town, South La Province.

Wang Yu planned to escape into chaotic Xierde and bought a phone, map, and supplies from a shopkeeper using magically created gold. After the shopkeeper tested the gold and fell, Wang Yu attacked him with a mass of shadow.

• Wang Yu decided to cross the border into Xierde to evade the armed personnel pursuing him.
• Wang Yu entered a general store and asked the fat shopkeeper for a phone, map, and prepaid SIM card.
• Wang Yu used Dharma Power to create two gold nuggets and negotiated to buy flour and honey as well.
• The shopkeeper bit one nugget, nearly breaking his teeth, and Wang Yu sent a fist-sized mass of shadow into the man's brow.
• The shopkeeper collapsed to the floor.

Wang Yu escaped the town in a stolen jeep after using Yin Spirits to incapacitate Jack and the man called Paul. Meanwhile, the blonde major general organized a search for No. 1 and prepared to use the tailcoated man's divination to track him.

• Wang Yu possessed Jack with a Yin Spirit, found a text to Paul, and sent another spirit into Jack that would detonate.
• Wang Yu took Jack's cash and jeep, gathered supplies, and drove toward the outskirts of town.
• Paul arrived at the shop, touched Jack, and was knocked unconscious by a Yin Spirit; a woman later found them and screamed.
• The blonde major general ordered teams, drones, and a satellite search for No. 1 while Du Xiaohong and the tailcoated man stood nearby.
• The blonde major general explained that No. 1 had returned from Saitan World with important knowledge and insisted he must not escape.
• The tailcoated man said his divination could locate No. 1 with at most eighty percent accuracy and would cost him blood and shorten his life, so the major general gave him twenty minutes before using it.

Wang Yu used a face-changing spell while driving toward the Hankora Desert to evade the people pursuing him from the castle. After he detected a tracking mark on his body and destroyed it, the castle’s divination attempt shattered its Crystal Orbs and injured the man performing it.

• Wang Yu molded a new face from flour and honey as he drove toward the Hankora Desert, hoping the desert would help him escape pursuit.
• Wang Yu sensed an unseen presence looking at him and used Yin Spirits from the Yin Soul Banner to search his body.
• Wang Yu found a green scale-shaped mark on his calf, captured its foul energy, and crushed it with yin energy.
• The Crystal Orbs arranged around a statue in the castle shattered, and a middle-aged man in a tailcoat screamed as blood poured from his injured eye.
• The blonde woman asked whether the divination had failed.