Recaps

Wang Yu asked Dr. Chen for the Ember Source gene drug and access to Taiyuan’s supposed Blue Star Alliance Great Arsenal. When Dr. Chen and Raisa both denied that the arsenal existed, Wang Yu replaced his request with lessons in mecha manufacturing.

• Wang Yu requested the Ember Source formula and a batch of the experimental gene injections, and Dr. Chen agreed to provide the formula and arrange for samples while warning him not to inject them without fire-attribute abilities.
• Wang Yu asked for access to Superbrain Taiyuan, then narrowed his request to browsing privileges for the Blue Star Alliance Great Arsenal when Dr. Chen refused full access.
• Dr. Chen and Raisa both said they had never heard of the Great Arsenal and explained that an Alliance database with that name could not exist without council approval.
• Wang Yu privately wondered why his Taiyuan Auxiliary System mentioned the Great Arsenal, then changed his request to lessons from a mecha manufacturing expert.
• Wang Yu explained that he wanted to compare mecha with the puppet art he had studied in the Cultivation World.

Wang Yu received specialized instruction in mecha engineering, metal manipulation, and hypnosis before beginning intensive martial arts training. After the Martial Ancestor explained the principles behind combat and offered to teach him the Calamity-Breaking Hand, Wang Yu eagerly accepted.

• Dr. Chen agreed to arrange a mecha expert from the Ark Team to teach Wang Yu and questioned him about the Saitan celestial image he had seen in the Cultivation World.
• A foreign instructor taught Wang Yu to manipulate a metal sphere, while an elderly lecturer showed him designs for power-generating equipment.
• Master Depa demonstrated how sound could hypnotize three wolfdogs, and Wang Yu said he wanted to learn the technique.
• Wang Yu sparred with the Martial Ancestor, who effortlessly threw him and explained that physical strength and skill determined the outcome of combat.
• The Martial Ancestor offered to teach Wang Yu the Calamity-Breaking Hand, and Wang Yu vowed to master it even if he had to train for three days and nights without sleep.

Wang Yu prepared for the Sky-Opening Plan’s first cross-world traversal while the base finalized his equipment and security arrangements. As Dr. Chen began the experiment, Wang Yu fell asleep, expecting to cross into the Cultivation World for a third time.

• Wang Yu studied Mecha armor and underwent preparations in a sleep pod as staff outfitted the enormous sphere with concealed weapons.
• Wang Yu examined the Ember Source serum and read its instructions.
• Dr. Chen introduced Helena as a new member of Wang Yu’s security team, joining Mulan at the base.
• Dr. Chen briefed Wang Yu on cross-space communications and a possible experiment to recall his consciousness from the Cultivation World.
• Researchers and soldiers detected a place of yin energy in a valley south of Creek City and reported the discovery to the base.
• Dr. Chen changed Wang Yu’s code name to Pangu and began the first cross-world traversal experiment, putting Wang Yu to sleep.

Wang Yu awoke from a three-year coma in Spirit Creek Bay, badly burned but slowly recovering, and learned that Shi Qiuping and her sister had cared for him with help from spirit-fish broth. He discovered that Little White had grown stronger and could form the characters for its chosen name, while he waited to meet Shi Hongyao.

• Wang Yu regained consciousness as Shi Qiuping fed him broth, and Little White eagerly greeted him.
• Wang Yu examined his injured body and learned from Shi Qiuping that fishermen had found him three years earlier and brought him to Spirit Creek Bay.
• Wang Yu surveyed the nearby settlement, learned that the river was called the Cold Billow River, and requested a map and a meeting with Shi Hongyao.
• Shi Qiuping gave Wang Yu a Jade Slip map and left to fetch her sister.
• Wang Yu noticed that Little White had reached the great perfection of Qi Refining, and Little White formed the characters for "White Glaze" from freezing mist.

After awakening, Wang Yu asked Little White to fetch Big Green while he investigated his location in the Eastern Wasteland. In Spirit Creek Bay, Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao hurried to meet the awakened senior, while locals speculated about the threats facing their settlement.

• Wang Yu confirmed through their spirit contract that Big Green was alive and sent Little White to fetch it.
• Shi Qiuping visited Red Herb Medicine Hall and told Shi Hongyao that the senior they had found had awakened and wanted to see her.
• Shi Hongyao finished treating Madam Li, suspended consultations, and flew with Shi Qiuping toward the scattered rocks.
• Two men in town saw the Shi sisters leave and wondered whether Seven-Star Pool had threatened Spirit Creek Bay again.
• The men said Spirit Creek Bay depended on White Glaze, Green Chill, and the awakened senior to protect it from outsiders coveting its spirit vein.

After waking from three years of unconsciousness, Wang Yu reunited with White Glaze and Big Green at Spirit Creek Bay, though his failed attempt to summon the Yang Ring left him weakened. The bay faced an impending threat from Seven-Star Pool, and Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao arrived as Wang Yu met his former companions.

• A fisherman and a woodcutter suspected that Seven-Star Pool was preparing to attack Spirit Creek Bay, but agreed that the settlers would have to fight to keep their home.
• Wang Yu studied a Jade Slip map and wondered where he had landed after the teleportation formation had been disrupted.
• Wang Yu tried to summon the Yang Ring, but it vanished, leaving him pale until he swallowed a medicinal pill.
• White Glaze and Big Green rushed into Wang Yu's room, and he happily greeted the Iron-Head Crocodile, whose cultivation had reached eighth-level qi refining.
• Big Green spat out a live silver-white fish, and Shi Qiuping entered with Shi Hongyao to greet Wang Yu.

Wang Yu learned that Shi Hongyao’s inherited healing arts had helped sustain him, and he arranged for her to continue treating his injuries while improving her cultivation. He removed the curse afflicting Shi Qiuping and destroyed its remnants, then reflected on the differences between divine sense and star thought power.

• Wang Yu read Shi Hongyao’s Medicine Master inheritance and identified Spirit Crisp Oil and Greenwood Hand as the methods that had helped heal his meridians.
• Wang Yu gave Shi Hongyao Cultivation Medicinal Pills and asked her to keep treating him as she advanced her cultivation.
• Wang Yu discovered that a curse was damaging Shi Qiuping’s dantian and warned that she could lose her cultivation within three to five years.
• Wang Yu extracted the weakened curse power from Shi Qiuping with threads of telekinetic power, and she took a Medicinal Pill and meditated.
• Wang Yu burned the extracted curse remnants and considered the differences between divine sense and star thought power.

After Wang Yu helped Shi Qiuping purge the last of her curse energy, he learned that he had arrived in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, a lawless region of the Eastern Wasteland bordering demon territory. He decided to recover and seek a stronger spirit vein, while considering whether the domain’s disorder could help him conduct secret experiments from Blue Star.

• Shi Qiuping expelled the last of the curse energy from her body and offered for herself and Shi Hongyao to serve Wang Yu, but he postponed answering and asked them about the region.
• Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao explained that the Cold Billow River lay in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, one of the Eastern Wasteland’s eight human domains and the one closest to demon territory.
• Shi Qiuping described how the Green Water Palace, the Sword-Grinding Sect, and the Spirit Puppet Sect had seized the domain from the Snow Wolf Clan two hundred years earlier, leaving scattered spirit veins and a chaotic landscape.
• After the Shi sisters left, Wang Yu considered the domain’s demon beasts, cultivation factions, and the three great sects’ rule through market cities.
• Wang Yu concluded that he should recover before seeking a first-tier medium spirit vein and considered using the Chaotic Spirit Domain to conduct secret experiments from Blue Star.

Wang Yu began treating the lingering lightning damage in his body, while Spirit Creek Bay’s cultivators prepared for a spirit fish run. Their harvest was interrupted by an armed force from Seven-Star Pool demanding they surrender the bay.

• Wang Yu swallowed three healing pills and began refining their medicinal effects, though he knew he needed lightning-specific pills for a complete recovery.
• Spirit Creek Bay’s cultivators organized mortal fishermen to catch spirit fish fry and warned one another to guard against adult fish.
• The cultivators killed an adult first-tier Sycee Fish, then spotted three spirit rafts carrying more than forty people from Seven-Star Pool.
• A cultivator in yellow robes announced that Brother Lu had reached Qi Refining perfection and threatened to kill the defenders unless they surrendered Spirit Creek Bay.

Wang Yu defeated Lu Bafang and took control of Seven-Star Pool, then gathered nearby forces under the Mount Mi Sect. News of the new Mount Mi High Person reached two powerful figures upstream, who began considering his intentions.

• Lu Bafang threatened Spirit Creek Bay, but Wang Yu restrained Seven-Star Pool’s cultivators with a silver seal and killed Lu Bafang with a flying knife.
• The Seven-Star Pool cultivators surrendered, and Wang Yu ordered Shi Qiuping to occupy Seven-Star Pool and Shi Hongyao to bring the captives to him.
• Wang Yu left to deal with White Scale Hollow while the Shi sisters followed his orders with Big Green and Little White.
• More than a month later, reports said the Mount Mi High Person had brought several nearby forces and about two hundred Rogue Cultivators together to establish the Mount Mi Sect.
• A yellow-haired old man and a young man upstream read reports about Mount Mi High Person; the young man’s subordinate, Xin'er, warned that he seemed to have ill intentions.

A Black Sand Sect father weighed ways to deal with the newly arrived Mount Mi High Person and decided to challenge him personally. Meanwhile, Wang Yu inspected the estate’s resources, interrupting Shi Qiuping when he heard her list only first-tier items.

• The Black Sand Sect’s sect master discussed with his son the risks posed by Mount Mi High Person and considered bribing Green Water Palace or allying with him against the Yuan Household.
• The sect master suspected Old Ghost Yuan had secretly reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage and refused to pursue an alliance with Mount Mi High Person.
• The sect master decided to travel downstream overnight and fight Mount Mi High Person, arranging for a Green Water Palace cultivator to intervene if his life was in danger.
• Wang Yu stood in a tower overlooking his estate as Shi Qiuping read out an inventory of its spirit fish, clams, and wood.
• Wang Yu interrupted Shi Qiuping and asked whether the estate contained only first-tier items.

Wang Yu halted the Mount Mi Sect’s expansion and assigned Shi Qiuping to organize its territory and personnel. He accepted her as his concubine, then an envoy from the Black Sand Sect arrived to challenge or meet him.

• Shi Qiuping reported that the newly occupied Azure Mist Bay had only one incomplete spirit vein, and Wang Yu ordered the sect to stop expanding and consolidate its nine veins.
• Wang Yu instructed Shi Qiuping to establish a contribution point system and use pills and cultivation resources to secure the sect members’ loyalty.
• Wang Yu asked Shi Qiuping to become his concubine, and she agreed while asking him to take her younger sister, Shi Hongyao, as well.
• Wang Yu appointed Shi Qiuping internal affairs deacon and named Duan Tianming external affairs deacon, with late qi refining cultivators serving as deputies.
• Miao Feng of the Black Sand Sect arrived on an emerald-green dragonfly and announced that he had come to visit Wang Yu.

Wang Yu challenged Miao Feng to withstand one strike, wagering that he would leave the Cold Billow River if Miao Feng survived and that Miao Feng would surrender the Black Sand Sect’s spirit vein if he did not. As Miao Feng prepared his defenses, Wang Yu began casting a Second-Tier Spell, leaving their duel poised to begin.

• Wang Yu and Miao Feng agreed to move their duel over the river, while Shi Qiuping and other Mount Mi Sect cultivators followed to watch.
• Wang Yu proposed a one-strike wager, and Miao Feng accepted, pledging the Black Sand Sect’s first-tier medium spirit vein if he failed to withstand the strike.
• The two cultivators sealed their agreement with palm techniques, and Wang Yu’s white flames overpowered Miao Feng’s yellow light.
• Wang Yu conjured an enormous white sun as Miao Feng deployed the Black Sand Bag and a chilling Command Token to shield himself.
• Wang Yu formed a spell pattern and began casting Flame Blade.

Wang Yu unleashed a ninety-eight-inscription fire spell and defeated Miao Feng despite his layered defenses and a giant earthen spike. After an unseen cultivator tried to intervene, Wang Yu challenged the observer for interfering in his duel.

• Wang Yu formed a towering red-and-white flaming blade from his ninety-eight-inscription spell and attacked Miao Feng.
• Miao Feng countered with the Black Sand Curtain, protective talismans, and a giant earthen spike summoned from the river.
• Wang Yu strengthened his blade and shattered the spike, Miao Feng’s defenses, and his triangular Command Token shield.
• A Blue Orb arrived to protect Miao Feng, but Wang Yu’s Crystal Ribbon cut through the defenses and split Miao Feng in two.
• Wang Yu turned toward the Blue Orb and questioned the unseen cultivator’s interference in his wagered duel with Miao Feng.

After Wang Yu killed Miao Feng, he reassured Zhang Xiufu and ordered the Mount Mi Sect to seize the Black Sand Sect’s spirit veins. News of the defeat reached the Black Sand Sect and the Yuan Household, leaving the latter alarmed by Wang Yu’s overwhelming spell.

• Shi Qiuping and Duan Tianming sent communication talismans to prevent the Mount Mi Sect members from acting rashly after Wang Yu’s victory.
• Zhang Xiufu introduced himself as a Green Water Palace deacon and denied intending to interfere, and Wang Yu invited him to his residence to discuss the Chaotic Spirit Domain.
• Wang Yu told Shi Qiuping to recover Miao Feng’s body and belongings, then ordered Mount Mi Sect cultivators to take possession of the Black Sand Sect’s spirit veins.
• The Black Sand Sect received word of Miao Feng’s death as the Mount Mi Sect forces headed upstream.
• The Yuan Household learned that Wang Yu had killed Miao Feng with a second-tier spell containing ninety-eight spell patterns, and its members fell silent in shock.

The Yuan Household chose to avoid provoking the Mount Mi Sect while investigating Wang Yu’s origins. After Wang Yu established defensive and spirit-gathering arrays on the sect’s island, Zhang Xiufu learned that Wang Yu claimed to have fled from beyond the Eastern Wasteland, and considered how the Green Water Palace might recruit him.

• The Yuan Household patriarch instructed his family to avoid conflict with the Mount Mi Sect and investigate Wang Yu’s background.
• A month later, Wang Yu thanked Daoist Sang for setting up arrays that expanded and concealed the Mount Mi Sect’s island base.
• Daoist Sang met Zhang Xiufu and reported Wang Yu’s claim that he was a sect cultivator from beyond the Eastern Wasteland who had fled his enemies.
• Zhang Xiufu reasoned that Wang Yu likely came from the Southern Continent Three Kingdoms and said he would report Wang Yu’s talent to the Green Water Palace.
• Zhang Xiufu suggested the palace might offer Wang Yu more than a guest elder position, then stopped before explaining further.

Wang Yu studied the Soul-Subduing Art and discovered that practicing it rapidly drained his divine sense, so he planned to strengthen his Star Thought Power before refining beast souls. He also reviewed the resources he needed for the Crimson Sun Great Art and prepared to seek beast souls, star stones, and other supplies at Cold Billow Market City.

• Wang Yu practiced the Soul-Subduing Art and found that it consumed most of his divine sense after only an incense stick’s worth of time.
• Wang Yu decided to delay refining beast souls if he struggled, until he had cultivated more layers of Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu regretted using up the star stones he had bought from the Four Symbols Sect and planned to look for more at Cold Billow Market City.
• Wang Yu considered the Nameless Auxiliary Secret Art, which he intended to use later to break through the Crimson Sun Great Art’s third-layer bottleneck.
• Wang Yu reviewed the Fire-Pill Refining, fire crystal ore, fire-attribute food, and specialized Magical Artifact needed for his cultivation, then produced a white Lotus Platform.

Wang Yu assessed his Flame Blade spell and the resources he needed, then reviewed Mount Mi Sect’s newly acquired holdings and learned that the sect was responsible for protecting nearby mortals. The chapter left him considering the danger Demon Beasts and the Demon Race posed to the towns along the Chaotic Spirit Domain’s border.

• Wang Yu considered searching for yang gang jade and the Ice Separation Ant’s Demon Core or ice marrow to support his cultivation.
• Wang Yu reviewed Flame Blade’s great power and its heavy cost of two drops of liquid dharma power per strike.
• Wang Yu recalled the Sky-Opening Group’s priority of keeping him alive and its recommendation that he build a faction to gather resources.
• The man surnamed Tian reported Mount Mi Sect’s spirit resources, mines, jade quarry, and thirteen governed cities and towns.
• Wang Yu asked whether the sect had to protect the mortals, and the man surnamed Tian explained the rule before Wang Yu raised the threat of Demon Beasts and the Demon Race.

Wang Yu learned about the dangers posed by demon beasts and the demon race before organizing the newly established Mount Mi Sect. He assigned Shi Qiuping a market trip to buy materials, then carried her off to the bedchamber.

• Duan Tianming and Shi Qiuping told Wang Yu about demon-beast attacks and rumors that a Snow Wolf Clan descendant had infiltrated one of the Three Great Sects.
• The man surnamed Tian read the Mount Mi Sect's holdings and membership from the ledger.
• Wang Yu assigned Duan Tianming responsibility for external affairs, Shi Qiuping for internal affairs, and Tian for miscellaneous matters.
• Wang Yu asked Shi Qiuping to visit Cold Billow Market City and buy second-tier demon beast spirit bones and fire crystal ore, along with checking on other spiritual items.
• Shi Qiuping stayed close to Wang Yu, and he carried her through a side door toward the bed.

Wang Yu inspected the underground yin-energy site he had built and discovered that his Yin Soul Banner had advanced to a second-tier low-grade magical artifact. He was left wondering how replenishing its yin energy had caused it to form additional inscription patterns.

• Shi Qiuping took several Mount Mi Sect subordinates aboard two Spirit Boats toward Cold Billow River Market City.
• Wang Yu used a Command Token to deactivate the Bronze Puppets guarding the hidden underground hall, then entered the yin-energy site.
• Wang Yu inspected the beast bones, Yin Spirits, and thirteen White Bone Skeletons as they recovered in the hall.
• Wang Yu recalled replacing two White Bone Fiends lost to the British Commonwealth and his suspicions about the Helena clone.
• Wang Yu summoned the Yin Soul Banner and discovered it had become a second-tier low-grade magical artifact with twelve inscription patterns.

Wang Yu discovered that his Yin Soul Banner had advanced to a second-tier magical artifact and began raising his White Bone Fiends with living souls. After examining a composite magical artifact, he used the deduction function to design a second-tier life-bound artifact suited to his Crimson Sun Great Art.

• Wang Yu realized that the Yin Soul Banner had advanced after its ghost creatures grew stronger, and he planned to raise his thirteen White Bone Fiends to the second tier by feeding them living souls.
• Wang Yu unsealed chunks of living soul iron at intervals, allowing the White Bone Fiends to seize the rooster living souls that emerged.
• Wang Yu examined a black pouch and its sand, identifying them as separate low-grade artifacts that formed a middle-grade composite magical artifact when used together.
• Wang Yu entered the login interface and asked Taiyuan to deduce a second-tier life-bound magical artifact focused on offense and powered by the Crimson Sun Great Art.

Wang Yu supplied the system with Eastern Wasteland cultivation texts and began deducing a second-tier Life-Bound Magical Artifact blueprint. At the Black Fortress, White Glaze began advancing, and Wang Yu appeared to witness the change.

• Wang Yu entered dozens of Mount Mi Sect cultivation methods and secret arts into the system, raising the perfect deduction probability for his artifact blueprint to 82%.
• Wang Yu instructed Taiyuan to begin deducing an offensive second-tier Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and the system estimated the process would take more than two months.
• Wang Yu returned to his secluded chamber and studied obscure secret arts while the deduction proceeded.
• At the Black Fortress, Green Chill ate a large pile of beast meat while White Glaze absorbed spiritual energy beside the pond.
• White Glaze rose into the air beneath the moon as clouds, wind, and turbulent water gathered around it.
• Wang Yu appeared beside the pond and realized that White Glaze was about to advance.

White Glaze broke through to the second tier amid storms and lightning, transforming into a Single-Horned White Python. Wang Yu thawed Big Green after White Glaze accidentally froze it, then asked what new abilities she had gained.

• White Glaze attempted to advance using the abundant spiritual energy at the spirit vein, and Wang Yu sent her prepared breakthrough pills into the clouds.
• Thunder, lightning, wind, and hail erupted around the pool, while Wang Yu protected himself with a Telekinetic Power Barrier.
• A lightning bolt landed beside Big Green, which jumped into the pool as hail began to fall.
• White Glaze emerged from the clouds as a Single-Horned White Python and froze the pool, encasing Big Green in ice.
• Wang Yu used his White Sun to melt the ice and free Big Green, then asked White Glaze whether her advancement had given her new abilities.

Wang Yu discovered that White Glaze had gained powerful wind, rain, ice, and lightning abilities after advancing, then decided to visit Cold Billow Market City to seek rare materials and a second-tier Magical Artifact Embryo for him. He arrived at Jade Gold Pavilion and waited for its shopkeeper to attend to him.

• White Glaze demonstrated his new ability to summon wind and rain, turn rain into Ice Spikes, and call faint lightning, but lost control before Wang Yu reassured him.
• White Glaze knocked Big Green to the bottom of the pool, and Wang Yu judged that his companion could likely defeat an ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Wang Yu examined the Yang Gang Jade and Ice Separation Ant Demon Cores Shi Qiuping had brought back, learned that the seller would barter for more jade, and decided to visit Cold Billow Market City.
• Several days later, Wang Yu flew by Bone Boat to Cold Billow Market City and entered Jade Gold Pavilion.
• A young attendant recognized Wang Yu's formidable Spiritual Pressure, summoned the shopkeeper, and waited while Wang Yu examined the pavilion's wares.

Wang Yu visited the Jade Gold Pavilion in Cold Billow Market City, where Zhang Xiufu and a roving steward of Green Water Palace named Yan came to meet him. After confirming Wang Yu had mastered a ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade spell, Yan asked him to demonstrate it, leaving Wang Yu startled by the request.

• Wang Yu examined a Cloud-Shrinking Pavilion and an Iron Reliance Ox while a shop attendant described their uses.
• Zhang Xiufu arrived with Yan, a roving steward of Green Water Palace, who had come under orders to meet Wang Yu.
• Zhang Xiufu explained that he had arranged to be notified when Wang Yu entered the market city because he expected him after Wang Yu's concubine bought yang gang jade.
• Yan asked whether Wang Yu had mastered the ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade spell, and Wang Yu confirmed that he had.
• Yan requested that Wang Yu demonstrate the Flame Blade spell in the Jade Gold Pavilion, and Wang Yu was taken aback by the dangerous request.