Recaps

Qin Yu rose from a nameless boy to a powerful Cloud-Leveling Hall disciple, winning the outer sect competition and surviving the Shadow Woods trial. After discovering that the gray light within him could erase powerful foes, he left alone to investigate a disturbance at Soul-Rending Mountain Range and found a beast core resonating with that power.

• The Black Gold Ring resisted the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor’s attacks by erasing the logic that let him target it, but its body shattered and one surviving point of its origin fell into Hidden Source Ridge.
• A memoryless boy appeared near Little Stone Village, where Qin Yu took him in, named him Qin Yu, and raised him as her son.
• Qin Yu proved extraordinarily quick to learn, entered Cloud-Leveling Hall with a gray spirit root, and formed a close bond with Yang Zheng while cultivating under Zhang Hao’s guidance.
• Qin Yu revealed a legendary phenomenon spiritual root at the outer sect assessment, then defeated Luo Chuan in the competition after a mysterious gray light shattered Luo Chuan’s final attack.
• Qin Yu mastered spear techniques, reached the Spirit Awakening Realm, and led Yang Zheng and other disciples into the Shadow Woods, where his gray light erased a powerful tiger that nearly killed him.
• Qin Yu shared his team’s expedition rewards, reached initial entry into the Qi Condensation Realm, and visited the market with Yang Zheng.
• After hearing rumors of rampaging demon beasts near the Soul-Rending Mountain Range, Qin Yu traveled there alone, killed a frenzied demon wolf, and claimed a strange beast core whose gray point resonated with his inner power.