Recaps

Wang Yu and Li Fengquan abandoned their fight and negotiated over the Spirit-Devouring Bird’s feather and its spirit-devouring demon flame. Wang Yu agreed to trade a clump of the flame for Li Fengquan’s complete Three-Flavor True Flame secret art, then released the flame for Li Fengquan to collect.

• Wang Yu formed a second-tier limit spell, prompting Li Fengquan to cancel his attack and propose a trade instead.
• Li Fengquan explained that the purple feather came from a Spirit-Devouring Bird of the Outer Demon Realm and held a powerful spirit-devouring demon flame.
• Li Fengquan offered the first half of the Li Household’s Three-Flavor True Flame secret art, which could fuse three spirit flames.
• Wang Yu analyzed the Jade Slip with Overclocking and agreed to exchange a clump of spirit-devouring demon flame for the complete secret art.
• Li Fengquan handed over the complete secret art, and Wang Yu released the milky-white demon flame from the purple feather.

Wang Yu exchanged the spirit-devouring demon flame for Li Fengquan’s Three-Flavor True Flame mantra, then discovered a spirit soul mark on a hidden branch that drew a threat from Tuoyue Patriarch. As Wang Yu fled the demon race encirclement, Yan Lingxiang was cornered by Snow Wolf Clan demons.

• Wang Yu and Li Fengquan traded the spirit-devouring demon flame for the final mantra needed to complete the Three-Flavor True Flame, and Li Fengquan warned that a fourth-tier Demon King might be behind the invasion.
• After Li Fengquan departed, Wang Yu found a concealed withered branch and burned it, triggering a spirit soul attack from Tuoyue Patriarch, who vowed to kill him at their next meeting.
• Wang Yu used Wang Tiezhu’s power to steady his Divine Sense Sea, stored the branch, and vanished with his magical weapons to escape the encirclement.
• In a mountain valley, Yan Lingxiang was surrounded by several hundred wolf beasts and three Snow Wolf Clan youths, and he prepared to fight.

Wang Yu killed two Flying Bear Clan demons who pursued him over Stoneclaw’s death, then escaped the demon beasts’ encirclement. A month later, war erupted between the Human Race and Demon Race, and after a stalemate between their powerful cultivators, the Black Wind Territory became a battlefield for the next hundred years; Wang Yu returned to the Green Water Palace.

• Wang Yu killed Scarlet Wild Boars that detected him and reflected on finding a better concealment method.
• Man Gu and Mountain Splitter confronted Wang Yu, accusing him of killing Stoneclaw and pursuing him for the Flying Bear Clan.
• Wang Yu fought the two demons with his weapons and techniques, then escaped aboard a Bone Boat after they vanished.
• The Flying Bear King declared war on the Three Sects, while demons and human evil cultivators seized territory and slaughtered humans.
• Three human Nascent Soul cultivators and four fourth-tier demons fought to a draw and agreed through a Soul Pact to a hundred-year truce, making the occupied Black Wind Territory the battlefield between the races.
• Wang Yu returned to the Green Water Palace.

Wang Yu learned that Yan Lingxiang and several Golden Core cultivators had died during the Demon Race invasion, and Yan Tu explained the Soul Pact contest and urged him to prepare for the Sect Grand Competition. Wang Yu left with a loan of Spirit Stones to refine his Life-Bound Magical Artifact and pursue a True Disciple Position.

• Yan Tu told Wang Yu that Yan Lingxiang had died when the Demon Race surrounded the Three Venerable Stone Market, and praised Wang Yu for reporting the invasion.
• Yan Tu explained that Martial Uncle Heavenly Light and Fellow Daoist Solid Rock had fallen, and that the Three Sects had offered a Golden Core opportunity for killing the Human-Race Traitors.
• Yan Tu described the hundred-year Soul Pact contest over the River-Crossing Region and told Wang Yu to focus on the Sect Grand Competition in four months.
• Yan Tu urged Wang Yu to secure a True Disciple Position and promised him a substantial boon if he succeeded.
• Wang Yu asked for Spirit Stones to refine his Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and Yan Tu lent him one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to repay within thirty years.

Wang Yu investigated two treasures he had obtained from the Demon Beasts’ encirclement and identified a green orb as a second-tier wood attribute Demon Core with powerful healing effects. Big Green swallowed it before Wang Yu could stop him, leaving Wang Yu uncertain about what would happen to the Iron-Head Crocodile as he turned to examine the Withered Branch.

• Wang Yu reflected on Yan Lingxiang’s death and resolved to be more cautious in the Cultivation World.
• Wang Yu used overclocking mode and a Message Disc to identify the green orb as a second-tier wood attribute Demon Core.
• Wang Yu tested the orb on Big Green and saw it rapidly heal a cut on the crocodile’s forelimb.
• Big Green swallowed the Demon Core and hurried out of the chamber, leaving Wang Yu speechless.
• Wang Yu accepted that he could no longer use the Demon Core to make a healing artifact and turned his attention to the Withered Branch.

Wang Yu identified the pale branch as a third-tier hidden spirit wood and tested its ability to conceal him from Little White. Back in his secret chamber, he began studying the Three-Flavor True Flame Secret Art before preparing to refine Life-Bound Magical Artifacts and a Bloodline Pill for the upcoming grand tournament.

• Wang Yu burned the pale branch with the Crimson Sun Great Art, then discovered it repelled his divine thought.
• Wang Yu recalled a Four Symbols Sect text and recognized the branch as fully grown third-tier hidden spirit wood.
• Wang Yu infused the branch with dharma power beneath a tree and confirmed that its concealment hid him from Little White.
• Wang Yu returned to his secret chamber, set aside a Chaos Stone, and began studying the Three-Flavor True Flame Secret Art.
• Wang Yu planned to refine Life-Bound Magical Artifacts for himself and Little White and make a Bloodline Pill to awaken his Flood Dragon bloodline before the grand tournament.

Wang Yu completed Little White’s Wind-and-Cloud Banner and prepared to refine his own Flame Demon Star Armor in the Login Interface. The chapter left him facing the armor he had already forged in the simulated space.

• Wang Yu finished inscribing the Wind-and-Cloud Banner, a three-attribute magical artifact made for Little White.
• Wang Yu explained the banner’s spells and potential, and Little White swallowed it to make it his life-bound artifact.
• Wang Yu entered the Login Interface and found Wang Tiezhu tending a thriving patch of spirit rice.
• Wang Tiezhu asked to raise chickens or ducks, but Wang Yu said living creatures could not enter the space and considered whether other spirit souls might be brought in as soul patterns.
• Wang Yu went to the artifact refining area and inspected the Flame Demon Star Armor he had previously forged there.

Wang Yu tested the Flame Demon Star Armor, a Blue Star-inspired magical exoskeleton equipped with six Flame Demon Blades and powerful spell systems. The chapter ended with him activating the armor’s ultimate weapon, the beyond-limit Flame-Light Cannon, and preparing it to fire.

• Wang Yu donned the Flame Demon Star Armor and tested its six arms and six Flame Demon Blades.
• Wang Yu used the armor to control all six blades and demonstrated how they could activate the Crimson Flame Blade spell.
• Wang Yu inspected the blades’ high-grade fire stones and the demon stone that supplied the spell’s remaining energy.
• Wang Yu transformed the armor’s components into a cannon and charged the Flame-Light Cannon with a blazing ring of fire and a high-grade thunder crystal stone.

Wang Yu finished testing the Flame Demon Star Armor and left his secluded space to refine it in his Cave Abode as Pure Fire Peak grew busy ahead of the grand competition. Yan Tu planned to give Wang Yu one of the peak’s direct-entry slots, believing he had a better chance than Xue Yi of becoming a true disciple.

• Wang Yu tested the Flame Demon Star Armor’s flying knives, shoulder cannon, and Wind-Fire Wheels, then decided to refine the life-bound artifact outside the space.
• Wang Yu left the secluded chamber and went to his Artifact Refining Room, where he had prepared the required materials.
• Two months later, Young Master Ling learned that the Cave Abode he had reserved was occupied by the Peak Master’s newly accepted personal disciple, Wang Yu, and decided to stay with Fan Zheng instead.
• Uncle Mu told Young Master Ling that the Peak Master thought highly of the disciple who had taken the Cave Abode.
• Yan Tu told Junior Sister Xin that he intended to give Wang Yu a direct-entry slot in the True Disciple Contest, estimating his chances at fifty percent or higher, compared with Xue Yi’s roughly thirty percent.

Yan Tu and Junior Sister Xin decided that Wang Yu and Lian would represent Pure Fire Peak in the true disciple competition, with Wang Yu cooperating in Lian’s secret art to strengthen them both. Xue Yi was then turned away when he came to visit Lian.

• Yan Tu told Junior Sister Xin that Wang Yu had exceptional spell talent but poor four-root aptitude, and explained that Pure Fire Peak urgently needed a true disciple to protect its resources.
• Junior Sister Xin said Lian had reached the bottleneck in the Phoenix Essence Spirit-Pointing Art and needed a fire-attribute cultivator to complete it with her.
• Yan Tu chose Wang Yu rather than Xue Yi to cooperate with Lian, reasoning that the secret art could help Wang Yu break through and improve his chances in the competition.
• Junior Sister Xin agreed to persuade Lian to meet Wang Yu, and Yan Tu assigned Pure Fire Peak’s two direct-entry places to Wang Yu and Lian.
• Xue Yi visited Lian’s cave abode, but Lian said she was in a bad mood and ordered him to leave.

Wang Yu completed the Flame Demon Armor and refined a Bloodline Pill before Yan Tu summoned him. On his way to the peak, a young man and woman stopped him in the mist.

• Xue Yi left Emerald Jade Cave after Lian rejected him, and she and Xiao Lian discussed his interest in Lian’s special constitution and the grand competition’s final-round slot.
• Wang Yu completed the Helmet for the Flame Demon Armor in his Artifact Refining Room.
• Wang Yu refined a Bloodline Pill in the Login Interface Space and considered testing which flood dragon bloodline he could awaken.
• Yan Tu summoned Wang Yu with a Communication Talisman, and Wang Yu set off toward the summit.
• A young man and woman emerged from the mist and addressed Wang Yu as Yan Tu’s new disciple.

Wang Yu refused Ling Feng and Fan Qin'er’s request to borrow his cave abode, explaining that he was preparing to compete for a true disciple position. At the summit, Yan Tu and Aunt-Master Xin judged Wang Yu suitable to assist Lian in cultivation and arranged for him to meet her the next day for dual cultivation.

• Ling Feng and Fan Qin'er stopped Wang Yu and asked to rent his cave abode so Ling Feng could master a secret art before the tournament.
• Wang Yu refused, saying he needed the cave abode for his own cultivation and was competing for a true disciple position.
• Ling Feng and Fan Qin'er left after Fan Qin'er remarked that Wang Yu had received one of the peak’s places for direct entry into the tournament finals.
• Yan Tu introduced Wang Yu to Aunt-Master Xin, who assessed his cultivation and decided he was suitable to assist Lian.
• Yan Tu and Aunt-Master Xin arranged for Wang Yu to visit Lian’s Emerald Jade Cave the next day and begin dual cultivation if their meeting went well.

Yan Tu and Martial Aunt Xin proposed that Wang Yu dual cultivate with Xin’s disciple Lian to gain cultivation benefits, but Xin demanded he divorce his distant Dao companion Linglong. Wang Yu refused, so the elders arranged for him to meet Lian at the Green Cloud Cave and let her decide whether the arrangement could proceed.

• Yan Tu explained that dual cultivating with Lian could help her refine her phoenix essence and advance Wang Yu to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Yu revealed that he already had a Dao companion, Linglong, in the Southern Continent and a concubine in the Chaotic Spirit Domain.
• Martial Aunt Xin demanded that Wang Yu divorce Linglong, but he refused even while admitting he wanted the benefits of Lian’s phoenix essence.
• Yan Tu argued that Wang Yu’s distant Dao companion would not prevent the arrangement, and Xin agreed to let Lian decide whether to accept him.
• Yan Tu told Wang Yu to visit the Green Cloud Cave the next day and meet Senior Sister Lian.

Wang Yu visited Lian Ruohua at Emerald Jade Cave to discuss sharing the Phoenix Essence, and learned that she would not accept a weak Dao companion. She agreed to consider him only if he proved himself Pure Fire Peak’s strongest disciple and could defeat opponents above his cultivation realm.

• Wang Yu entered Emerald Jade Cave and learned from Lian'er that Lian Ruohua had a near-supreme-grade spirit root and a fire-attribute cultivation art.
• Lian Ruohua described her household’s declining fortunes and challenged Wang Yu’s willingness to share a husband with other women.
• Wang Yu affirmed that he would not abandon his current Dao companion, passing Lian Ruohua’s first test.
• Lian Ruohua revealed that her second test was for Wang Yu to become Pure Fire Peak’s strongest disciple and defeat enemies above his realm.

Wang Yu faced Lian Ruohua in a magical duel to prove his strength, agreeing not to use his strongest spell. The duel began with Lian Ruohua's Glazed Fire Sixfold Rings, and Wang Yu evaded their attack and countered, leaving both curious about the other's abilities.

• Lian Ruohua told Wang Yu he had to defeat her in a duel to pass the second trial, and Wang Yu accepted.
• Lian Ruohua barred Wang Yu from using his second-tier ultimate spell, and he agreed to the restriction.
• Lian Ruohua summoned her Glazed Fire Sixfold Rings and sent six fireballs toward Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu's saber strikes exposed the fireballs as a feint, and the enlarged rings attacked him from six directions.
• Wang Yu used his footwork to evade the phantom fire serpents, then cut them apart and struck the rings without damaging them.
• Lian Ruohua retrieved the rings and explained their material, while Wang Yu clarified that he had used footwork rather than an illusion.

Wang Yu broke free of Lian Ruohua’s Glazed Fire Sixfold Rings and overwhelmed her Ice Origin Shield with repeated waves of fireballs. As Lian Ruohua prepared to use a bottle, Wang Yu launched an unseen attack, leaving their sparring unresolved.

• Lian Ruohua bound Wang Yu with her Glazed Fire Sixfold Rings and ignited them.
• Wang Yu used his body-tempering strength and white flame to break free, astonishing Lian Ruohua.
• Wang Yu unleashed successive waves of fireballs, forcing Lian Ruohua to reinforce her Ice Origin Shield with cold qi.
• Wang Yu’s relentless bombardment drove the shield close to collapse, and Lian Ruohua prepared to deploy a small jade-white bottle.
• Wang Yu defended his choice of spell-pattern diagram, then sent something flashing toward Lian Ruohua.

Wang Yu passed Lian Ruohua’s second trial by matching her half-extreme spirit flame with the Crimson Sun Great Art, and she agreed to share phoenix essence with him on the condition that he become her Dao companion. He stayed the night at Emerald Jade Cave, but woke the next morning to find Lian Ruohua gone.

• Wang Yu used his flying knife to knock the White Little Bottle from Lian Ruohua’s hand and revealed that he was a Second-Tier Artifact Refiner.
• Lian Ruohua challenged Wang Yu to compare the Crimson Sun Great Art with her half-extreme spirit flame, and their fire suns collided in an apparent draw.
• Lian Ruohua declared that Wang Yu had passed the second trial and agreed to share phoenix essence if he formally became her Dao companion.
• Wang Yu accepted, and Lian Ruohua invited him to stay the night at Emerald Jade Cave.
• Wang Yu woke the next morning and found that Lian Ruohua was no longer beside him.

Wang Yu received gifts from his new cultivation partner, broke through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and refined a Green Flood Dragon Bloodline Pill. With the tournament approaching, he faced a choice between awakening the Green Flood Dragon bloodline and the White Flood Dragon bloodline he suspected Little White possessed.

• Lian'er gave Wang Yu the Watercloud Robe and Peaceful Sun Pills on behalf of her young lady, who planned to cultivate until the tournament.
• Wang Yu returned to Pure Fire Peak and broke through to the fourth layer of the Crimson Sun Great Art, reaching the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Yu used a Peaceful Sun Pill to stabilize his newly increased dharma power.
• Wang Yu successfully refined a Green Flood Dragon Bloodline Pill in the Alchemy Chamber.
• Wang Yu compared the Green Flood Dragon Bloodline Pill with the pill tied to Little White's suspected White Flood Dragon bloodline and considered which one to take, since taking both would kill him.

Wang Yu chose the Bloodline Pill refined from Little White's essence blood and used Super-Biological Simulation to begin awakening its bloodline in seclusion. More than twenty days later, the Green Water Palace's Sect Grand Competition began, while its Sect Master and Chai Hefeng watched the arena prepare for the event.

• Wang Yu weighed the risks and possible benefits of awakening Little White's White Flood Dragon bloodline, then swallowed the Bloodline Pill with translucent markings.
• Wang Yu activated Super-Biological Simulation in his cultivation chamber and was enclosed in a Blood Cocoon as his heart pounded inside.
• More than twenty days later, bells rang across the lake to announce the approaching Green Water Palace Sect Grand Competition, and cultivators headed toward Green Water Grotto Heaven.
• A giant white jade Combat Arena emerged in the mountain hollow, and Grandmaster Tianlang's Darkwater Turtle protected it with a vast blue water barrier.
• The Green Water Palace Sect Master and Chai Hefeng discussed the Darkwater Turtle, the Sect Master's prospects of reaching Nascent Soul, and the talented disciples competing in the event.

Chai Hefeng and the Sect Master of the Green Water Palace discussed the upcoming selection for the Eastern Wasteland Four Prodigies and the Chaotic Spirit Domain’s slim prospects. As the Sect Grand Competition began, a young man emerged from thirteen years of seclusion and learned that the competition had returned.

• The Sect Master told Chai Hefeng that the sects were preparing to select a disciple to represent the Chaotic Spirit Domain in the Eastern Wasteland Four Prodigies contest.
• Chai Hefeng doubted that their disciples could compete with the Taiyuan Sect, while the Sect Master suggested Zhang and Zhao Yuan might have a chance.
• The Sect Master said that, regardless of whether human race fortune was real, the contest’s rewards and the sect’s reputation made participation worthwhile.
• Disciples and subordinate cultivators traveled into the Green Water Grotto Heaven for the Sect Grand Competition.
• A young man awakened in a dusty chamber as the competition bell rang and learned from his attendant that he had been in seclusion for thirteen years.

Green Water Palace’s second-ranked True Disciple prepared reluctantly to attend the Sect Grand Competition, while two Inner Disciples waited outside Zhao Yuan’s secluded cultivation site. The chapter left Zhao Yuan’s arrival uncertain as the competition approached.

• A young man recalled losing to Senior Sister Zhang before and declared that he would claim Green Water Palace’s second-ranked True Disciple position.
• The plainly dressed girl left her pool after her maid reminded her that True Disciples had to attend the competition, and she vowed to put challengers out of action for at least a month.
• The girl summoned Potato, a silver carp carrying a blue crystal stone, and set off for the competition with her maid.
• Junior Brother Pang urged a burly Inner Disciple to wake Zhao Yuan, but the man said Zhao Yuan could wait until the final and was unlikely to face a challenge.

Murong Lan rejected Gao Hu’s attempt to force her into marriage with Senior Brother Mi, then headed toward Green Water Grotto Heaven. At Pure Fire Peak, Yan Tu and Peak Master Xin discussed Wang Yu’s continued seclusion, rumors about him, and Xue Yi’s dangerous cultivation art.

• Gao Hu and Gao Miao confronted Murong Lan and urged her to accept marriage to Senior Brother Mi, but she accused him of wanting her dowry item.
• Murong Lan rejected the marriage despite Gao Hu’s threat that refusal would bring the Gao and Mi lineages against her household, then traveled toward Green Water Grotto Heaven.
• Uncle Mu reported that Wang Yu remained in seclusion while Miss Lian had already left for the competition grounds.
• Yan Tu and Peak Master Xin discussed rumors that Wang Yu had received special treatment and learned that Xue Yi had damaged a hill near Emerald Jade Cave after hearing about Wang Yu and Miss Lian’s dual cultivation.
• Uncle Mu reported that Xue Yi had entered seclusion to practice a dangerous secret art, which Yan Tu and Peak Master Xin believed could improve Pure Fire Peak’s chances in the competition.

Wang Yu recovered from awakening his White Flood Dragon Bloodline, tested its wind control and icy scales, and questioned whether the Login Interface could perfectly simulate reality. As the bells summoned cultivators to the Combat Arena, he retrieved his finished armor and headed out, while another cultivator practiced a dark flame technique.

• Yan Tu explained that Xue Yi had chosen to practice a dangerous secret art himself, and the white-haired young woman agreed to see what came of it.
• Wang Yu inspected his half-flood-dragon form and tested its ability to summon strong winds and the icy power in its scales.
• Wang Yu realized the real-world White Flood Dragon awakening differed slightly from the Login Interface simulation and resolved not to trust the interface completely.
• Wang Yu returned to human form, retrieved his finished crimson armor from the Earthfire Furnace, and headed for the cave abode entrance.
• A dark-faced young man practiced a cultivation method in a magic array as black flames flowed from a ghostly face beneath him.
• The Combat Arena opened for entry, and tens of thousands of Immortal Cultivators streamed inside.

Wang Yu traveled to the Green Water Palace's Combat Arena, planning to secure a low-ranking true disciple position while keeping his strength concealed. On the way, he demonstrated the fourth layer of Star Thought Power, which had begun transforming the very substance of his mental power.

• Wang Yu considered the competition's stages and rewards, concluding that he needed a true disciple position to gain the resources required for future advancement.
• Wang Yu decided to aim for a low-ranking position and conceal his abilities, wary of attracting attention amid the renewed Human-Demon conflict.
• Wang Yu used Star Thought Power to draw iron ore from a hill, refine it into identical spikes, and control them in a precise, rapid swarm before reducing them to powder.
• Wang Yu reflected that cultivating the fourth layer with the Chaos Stone had begun reshaping his mental power, with effects beyond simple amplification.

Wang Yu reflected on the dramatic improvement in his telekinetic power and Metal-Dowsing Art before arriving at the Sect Grand Competition. Uncle Mu brought him to meet Yan Tu in the viewing pavilion above the arena, where two other Golden Core cultivators were also present.

• Wang Yu found that cultivating the fourth layer of star thought power had greatly strengthened his telekinetic control and caused the Metal-Dowsing Art to evolve.
• Wang Yu landed near the Combat Arena, put away his Bone Boat, and entered the spectator stands filled with tens of thousands of cultivators.
• Wang Yu surveyed the arena and noticed that Pure Fire Peak's Inner Disciples had gathered in one section as he considered how to participate in the competition.
• Uncle Mu appeared and said Yan Tu wanted to see Wang Yu, then led him through the blue Light Screen into the viewing pavilions above the arena.
• Uncle Mu brought Wang Yu to Yan Tu's pavilion, where Wang Yu saw a Daoist nun, a fat man, and two young disciples.