Recaps

Lu Ye used the Blood Source Sea’s power to evade Tai Kun’s forces while attacking their cities, then exploited their attempt to lure him into a trap to ambush Jade Dragonfly. The chapter ended with Jade Dragonfly preparing to fight as Tai Kun and Flying Locust rushed to help her.

• Lu Ye escaped into the Blood Source Sea, where his Blood Race bloodline strengthened his Blood Arts, and Tai Kun ordered Uniting Dao Cities to search for him.
• Tai Kun used Heaven-tier cities as bait, but Lu Ye destroyed three of them and continued evading his pursuers.
• Tai Kun weakened a Desolate-tier City’s Protective Grand Array to lure Lu Ye into staying until the three Cosmos-tier City Lords arrived.
• Lu Ye noticed Tai Kun and the others approaching, abandoned the attack, and fled toward Jade Dragonfly’s route.
• Lu Ye ambushed Jade Dragonfly, who summoned her Sub-Treasure Dao Soldier and prepared to hold him off until Tai Kun and Flying Locust arrived.

Lu Ye killed Jade Dragonfly by reopening her old wounds with the power he had secretly left on them, then wounded Flying Locust before fleeing when the latter’s Uniting Dao City amplified his strength. As Lu Ye traveled through the Blood Source Sea seeking an exit, he sensed a Supreme Treasure’s aura nearby.

• Lu Ye reopened Jade Dragonfly’s wounds and killed her with a saber strike, then collected her Sub-Treasure Dao Soldier.
• Tai Kun sensed Jade Dragonfly’s death and warned Flying Locust, who chose to confront Lu Ye rather than retreat.
• Flying Locust’s Cosmos-tier Uniting Dao Pearl amplified his strength, forcing Lu Ye to retreat after their clash.
• Lu Ye reopened Flying Locust’s wounds, but Flying Locust stopped pursuing when he neared the edge of his city’s influence.
• Tai Kun and Flying Locust realized Lu Ye controlled the power lingering around their wounds and prepared to search for him with Tai Kun’s Uniting Dao City.
• Lu Ye avoided other cities as he headed for the Blood Source Sea’s edge, then halted after sensing a Supreme Treasure’s aura.

Lu Ye discovered Blood Calamity refining the Starry Sky Chessboard in the Blood Source Sea, escaped when Blood Calamity let him go, and learned that the Talent Tree had completed its fifth transformation. The chapter ended as a flower bud on the Talent Tree began to change.

• Lu Ye followed the Starry Sky Chessboard’s aura to the heart of the Blood Source Sea and found Blood Calamity refining it.
• Blood Calamity spotted Lu Ye but, occupied with refining the Supreme Treasure, let him flee without a fight.
• Blood Calamity informed Tai Kun that Lu Ye was still in the Blood Source Sea, and Tai Kun and Flying Locust sent Uniting Dao Cities to pursue and intercept him.
• Lu Ye discovered that his Talent Tree had completed its fifth transformation and noticed its long-dormant flower bud beginning to change.

Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree’s transformation had nurtured a new Myriad Poison Bead fruit, then began burning away the curse on him. After noticing a way to use the poison it produced, he changed course to pursue a plan against the Insect and Blood Races while Blood Calamity remained occupied with the Starry Sky Chessboard.

• The Talent Tree produced a small Myriad Poison Bead fruit after completing its fifth transformation, and Lu Ye found that it was a new Supreme Treasure that could grow with suitable nourishment.
• Lu Ye fed Dao Blood to the fruit and found that it produced a dangerously potent poison, which he could control as the fruit’s master.
• The Talent Tree began burning away the curse placed on Lu Ye by the Star Abyss Will, and he judged that it would soon be removed.
• After studying the lingering poison, Lu Ye decided to pursue a plan that could weaken the Insect and Blood Races, trusting that Blood Calamity could not quickly refine the Starry Sky Chessboard.
• For half a month, the Insect and Blood Races failed to find Lu Ye in the Blood Source Sea, and Tai Kun ordered their Uniting Dao Cities to withdraw.

After a month of striking cities across the Blood Source Sea, Lu Ye prepared to draw Tai Kun and Flying Locust into a trap. Blood Calamity sent Blood Princess to help deal with him, while Lu Ye—fully healed and free of the curse—began fighting the two enemies alone.

• Lu Ye spent half a month combining poisons from the Myriad Poison Bead fruit, then began attacking isolated cities throughout the Blood Source Sea.
• Tai Kun ordered the cities to pursue Lu Ye, but Lu Ye repeatedly escaped and destroyed more than a dozen Heaven-tier Cities.
• Blood Calamity sent a divine fragment to reprimand Tai Kun and announced that Blood Princess was on her way.
• Lu Ye sensed Tai Kun and Flying Locust approaching together and moved to meet them, recognizing that the time had come to spring his plan.
• Lu Ye's injuries and curse had been burned away after the Talent Tree's fifth transformation, and he launched a fierce attack on Tai Kun while Flying Locust supported him.

Lu Ye was overwhelmed by Tai Kun, Flying Locust, and a powerful female Blood Race member whose Sacred Nature suppression could not affect him. He recognized Blood Calamity possessing Blood Princess only after she sealed the Blood Source Sea in a vast Blood Wall cage and trapped him inside a growing encirclement.

• Lu Ye fought Tai Kun and Flying Locust while more Uniting Dao Cities converged on his position.
• A spear-wielding female Blood Race member attacked Lu Ye with paralyzing lightning, resisted his Sacred Nature, and used a powerful Blood Shadow Technique.
• Lu Ye used Ages to wound Tai Kun and Flying Locust and destroy five of the female's eight images, but she pierced him and kept up her pursuit with a blood-red chain.
• As Lu Ye tried to escape through the surrounding attackers, the female Blood Race member raised a vast Blood Wall cage around the area.
• Lu Ye identified the woman as Blood Calamity possessing Blood Princess, and Blood Calamity praised Lu Ye's strength and his killing of Jade Dragonfly.

Lu Ye tricked Blood Calamity into believing he would surrender, then used Tai Kun’s attack to conceal the activation of a deadly poison he had spread through the Blood Source Sea. The poison devastated the surrounding Uniting Dao Cities, and Blood Calamity turned on Lu Ye as the survivors struggled to resist it.

• Blood Calamity offered to spare Lu Ye’s divine soul if he surrendered, while Lu Ye asked whether Blood Calamity had refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and erased its intelligence.
• Lu Ye swore an oath in the name of the Star Abyss Will, then agreed to submit if Blood Calamity kept his promise to provide him with a suitable body.
• When Tai Kun approached to seize him, Lu Ye slashed Tai Kun and used the ensuing clash to break away as the surrounding cultivators prepared to attack.
• A concealed poison spread through the Blood Source Sea erupted, sickening Blood Calamity’s forces and killing Fusion Dao cultivators across the nearby Uniting Dao Cities.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had used the Myriad Poison Bead to spread and control the poison, while Blood Calamity realized the casualties would continue to mount if Lu Ye was not stopped.

Lu Ye escaped Blood Calamity’s encirclement while the poison in the Uniting Dao Cities triggered a wave of Poison Corpses. Blood Calamity realized Lu Ye had planned the catastrophe and pursued him urgently, fearing the Insect and Blood Races’ foundations would collapse.

• Blood Calamity struck Lu Ye, who carved through the Blood Race forces and escaped the encirclement despite his wounds.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood Escape Art and fled, while Blood Calamity and Flying Locust pursued him.
• The poison overwhelmed Tai Kun, who became a Poison Corpse and killed the Uniting Dao cultivator trying to help him.
• Poison Corpses awakened in the Uniting Dao Cities and attacked the living cultivators, while Tai Kun and other slain Blood Race Uniting Dao cultivators charged toward the cities.
• Blood Calamity sensed the cities’ upheaval, recognized Lu Ye’s plan to use the Myriad Poison Bead’s inherited power, and resolved to capture him.

Lu Ye was captured by Blood Calamity’s forces, but the poison he had spread erupted inside Blood Calamity’s main body while he was refining the Starry Sky Chessboard. Blood Calamity chose to protect the treasure and ordered his subordinates to kill Lu Ye, leaving Lu Ye to break free and flee through their attacks.

• Blood Calamity forced Blood Princess’s body beyond its limits and used crimson chains to bind Lu Ye.
• Blood Calamity demanded that Lu Ye reveal the antidote, but the hidden poison erupted in his main body as he refined the Starry Sky Chessboard.
• The Starry Sky Chessboard resisted Blood Calamity’s control and trapped him as a Chess Piece.
• Blood Calamity left Blood Princess’s body to return to the treasure and ordered his subordinates to kill Lu Ye.
• Blood Princess regained control and her Sacred Nature helped Lu Ye shatter the chains; he used Horizon Saber and the Power of Time and Sequence to find a path through the siege and escape.

Lu Ye escaped Blood Calamity’s trap and turned the poison-afflicted dead into a Corpse Tide that overwhelmed the Insect and Blood Races’ forces. As he plundered abandoned cities, the Starry Sky Chessboard escaped Blood Calamity, forcing Lu Ye to prepare to flee before Blood Calamity could pursue him.

• Lu Ye escaped the encirclement, and Blood Princess became a Poison Corpse after he passed her.
• Lu Ye summoned Poison Corpses from the breached cities and used them, Blood Princess, and the newly turned Flying Locust to break the enemy army.
• Lu Ye raided empty Uniting Dao Cities for Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, then sent Tai Kun to attack his Cosmos-tier city.
• The Starry Sky Chessboard burst free from the depths of the Blood Source Sea, and Lu Ye realized he had to leave before Blood Calamity turned his attention to him.

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity, but the Starry Sky Chessboard diverted toward him and drew the pursuer after him. He seized the damaged treasure and used the Void Teleportation Technique, but Blood Calamity followed through space, leaving Lu Ye still in danger.

• Lu Ye activated the Blood Escape Art, but the Starry Sky Chessboard changed course and caught up to him as Blood Calamity pursued.
• Blood Calamity transformed into a Chess Piece under the treasure's power, and Lu Ye sent the Corpse Horde to attack him.
• Lu Ye struck the Starry Sky Chessboard, extinguishing its remaining intelligence, then seized it before Blood Calamity could claim it.
• Lu Ye used the power of the Space Dao Seed to prepare a Void Teleportation, ignoring Blood Calamity's demand to surrender the treasure.
• Blood Calamity broke free of the chessboard's restraints, returned to his original form, and followed Lu Ye's spatial trail.
• Lu Ye emerged from the Void after narrowly avoiding teleporting into a world realm, while Blood Calamity remained capable of pursuing him.

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity while carrying the Starry Sky Chessboard and Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, and discovered that his Talent Tree could devour the chessboard’s mysteries. After choosing to cultivate a new fruit on the Talent Tree, he used a Treasure Blood Clone and an unexpected teleport to evade capture briefly, but Blood Calamity began pursuing both Lu Ye and his Clone.

• Lu Ye sensed Blood Calamity pursuing him and realized the Starry Sky Chessboard and Uniting Dao Pearl fragments made it difficult to hide.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to devour the Starry Sky Chessboard’s mysteries and chose to accumulate them for a new fruit rather than strengthen the Myriad Poison Bead Fruit.
• Blood Calamity struck Lu Ye with a bloody palm, and Lu Ye escaped into the Void before Blood Calamity disrupted his next teleport.
• Lu Ye sent a Treasure Blood Clone carrying the Starry Sky Chessboard in another direction, but Blood Calamity split off his own Clone to pursue it.
• Lu Ye’s Clone defeated Blood Calamity’s Clone, and Lu Ye teleported directly to his Clone’s location, surprising Blood Calamity.
• Blood Calamity condensed several Treasure Blood Clones to pursue Lu Ye’s Clone while continuing to chase Lu Ye himself.

Lu Ye refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and used its chess game to trap Blood Calamity while he refined Uniting Dao Pearl fragments. He won their match, triggering the board’s backlash against Blood Calamity.

• Blood Calamity realized the Starry Sky Chessboard’s aura had vanished and demanded to know where Lu Ye had hidden it.
• Lu Ye revealed he had refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and spread its chess game across the Void, trapping Blood Calamity among regenerating chess pieces and a deadly river.
• Blood Calamity tried to force his way through the chess pieces, then chose to play the game rather than waste his strength breaking through.
• Lu Ye stalled between moves while refining Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, and Blood Calamity struggled to learn the rules of xiangqi.
• Lu Ye won the match, and the chess game dissipated into a powerful attack that struck Blood Calamity.

Lu Ye used the Starry Sky Chessboard to stall Blood Calamity while refining Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, then exploited the board’s rules to turn a Xiangqi game around. After discovering the Talent Tree bore the backlash, he switched to Gomoku, where Blood Calamity secretly marked him with a technique that let him follow like a shadow; Lu Ye suspected the technique restricted Blood Calamity’s ability to act.

• Blood Calamity endured the Chessboard’s punishment after losing and pursued Lu Ye, who used repeated games to buy time to refine Uniting Dao Pearl fragments.
• During their fifth Xiangqi game, Blood Calamity trapped Lu Ye, but Lu Ye sent his commander piece across the river and his other pieces attacked, overturning the match.
• Blood Calamity realized Lu Ye showed no backlash, while Lu Ye discovered the Talent Tree had absorbed it and decided not to violate the board’s rules so recklessly again.
• Lu Ye switched their next game to Gomoku, then sensed Blood Calamity’s concealed Secret Technique invade him as Blood Calamity abandoned the game and followed him through the Chessboard’s punishment.
• Blood Calamity revealed that his Secret Technique made him follow Lu Ye like a shadow, and Lu Ye inferred that it prevented Blood Calamity from acting freely.

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity, but the Blood Lord used the Azure Dome Mirror to reflect Lu Ye’s full-force attack and wound him. A sudden upheaval swept through the Inner Realm, disrupting Lu Ye’s teleportation and bringing an ancient prophecy about the Three Realms to the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord’s attention.

• Lu Ye tested Blood Calamity’s tracking Secret Technique and learned the Blood Lord could follow him without using spatial powers, though he could not freely attack while maintaining it.
• Lu Ye launched a full-strength saber strike, but Blood Calamity reflected it with the Azure Dome Mirror, leaving Lu Ye badly wounded by his own attack.
• A mysterious disturbance twisted the Void and made the surrounding worlds overlap, giving Lu Ye a chance to burn away the tracking force and attempt to teleport away from Blood Calamity.
• Lu Ye’s teleportation instead swept him into an unpredictable current as the upheaval intensified throughout the Inner Realm.
• Ba Qiu decided to take a long-delayed step, while Baxia warned that the truth he sought might not be what he wished to find.
• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord sensed the universal disturbance and wondered whether the ancestral prophecy of the Three Realms merging and the Nine Evils emerging was coming true.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity emerged in a strange sea realm, where they discovered Blood Calamity’s borrowed power had weakened and fought to a stalemate. They hid from an approaching powerhouse, only to be confronted by Qi, whose Phoenix bloodline resonance eventually faded as she departed.

• Lu Ye surfaced in a vast sea and found that Blood Calamity had followed him into the unfamiliar realm.
• Lu Ye attacked Blood Calamity, then realized during their fight that Blood Calamity could draw on far less external power than before.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity stopped fighting and concealed themselves when they sensed a tremendously powerful figure approaching.
• Qi appeared before them and withstood their combined attacks without moving.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity felt their Phoenix Race bloodlines resonate with Qi, who examined them before vanishing.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity realized they had been transported to the Origin Realm, a hidden third layer of the Star Abyss where Saints were trapped and controlled by the Star Abyss Will. They agreed to work together to find a way out as the three realms showed signs of merging.

• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity hid from Qi, then Lu Ye questioned whether they were still in the Inner Realm.
• Blood Calamity explained that the Star Abyss had an Origin Realm, accessible only to Saints, and identified Qi as a Saint above Uniting Dao.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity concluded that Saints were trapped in the Origin Realm and turned into puppets of the Star Abyss Will.
• Lu Ye realized his Void traversal during the upheaval of the Three Realms had brought them to the Origin Realm, and Blood Calamity said all three realms might eventually merge.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity set aside their grievances and agreed to seek a way out together, with Blood Calamity giving Lu Ye a Blood Seal to contact him.

Lu Ye tested whether he could escape the Origin Realm, found an invisible force preventing him from leaving, and began cultivating the seventh layer of the Small World Secret Technique. After months of progress that greatly increased his strength, he faced a shortage of Dao Fish before completing the layer.

• Lu Ye tried to fly out of the Origin Realm but was forced back by an unseen resistance and a pulling force.
• Lu Ye returned to his hiding place and began building World Pillars for the seventh layer of the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye completed the final World Pillar after more than a month, sensing that his Small World had changed and might one day become a real world.
• Lu Ye inscribed Dao Patterns over the following months, discovering that his transformed Talent Tree could store more than one million units of Dao Power.
• Lu Ye raised the number of Dao Patterns in his Small World to three thousand five hundred and brought his foundational strength close to five thousand units, but nearly exhausted his Dao Fish.

After exhausting his Dao Fish, Lu Ye left his island to seek resources and a way out of the Origin Realm. He met Xia He, who brought him to Glazed Island and explained that the Human Race was imprisoned in the Cage Sea and faced an approaching hunt.

• Lu Ye flew through the Origin Realm and met the human cultivator Xia He, who warned him that a hunt was about to begin.
• Xia He took Lu Ye to Glazed Island, where she reunited with Xiao Man and brought him to a hidden karst cave.
• Lu Ye met Liu Chang and the other humans hiding in the cave as they discussed how to survive the coming calamity.
• Xia He told Lu Ye that the Cage Sea imprisoned the Human Race and that humans were persecuted because their race had no Saint to protect them.

Xia He explained that the Human Race in Cage Sea was hunted for sacrificial rites and forced to hide from stronger races. When their hiding place was exposed, Lu Ye helped the group break through and revealed strength far beyond what they had expected.

• Xia He told Lu Ye that the Human Race was trapped in Cage Sea and targeted in a hunt that captured cultivators for sacrifices.
• Lu Ye learned the hunt had begun and decided to wait it out before seeking the Human Race's Half-Saint.
• Several days later, Xia He warned Lu Ye that enemies had found their hiding place, and Liu Chang led the group toward another exit.
• When enemies blocked their escape from both directions, Liu Chang and the others suspected Lu Ye had betrayed them, and the cultivator surnamed Zhou attacked him.
• Lu Ye crippled the cultivator surnamed Zhou with a kick, then led the group toward the enemy ahead.
• Lu Ye cut through a Winged Race cultivator's sword strike, severed his Dao Soldier, and struck him down as Liu Chang and the others watched in disbelief.

Lu Ye and Xia He escaped capture by the Winged Race, but Sea Race attackers forced them back to the surface and into another pursuit. With enemies closing in from sea and sky, they headed for Long Cloud Island, while Xia He grieved over the capture of her companions and the betrayal that exposed their hiding place.

• Lu Ye and his companions were ambushed by Winged Race cultivators, whose Primordial Star Divine Light captured Liu Chang, the cultivator surnamed Sun, the cultivator surnamed Zhou, and Xiao Man.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to break the divine light trapping his Crag Mountain Saber, then rescued Xia He and fled with her using the Blood Escape Art.
• Xia He took Lu Ye underwater, and the two shook off the Winged Race pursuers after more than half an hour.
• Sea Race cultivators and sea beasts attacked Lu Ye and Xia beneath the water, forcing them to surface, where the Winged Race found them again.
• Xia He led Lu Ye toward Long Cloud Island as both the Winged Race and Sea Race pursued them.

Lu Ye and Xia He reached Long Cloud Island through the Blood River, but Chu Li refused to open the island’s defenses to them. Trapped outside as enemies attacked, Lu Ye fought them off alone while the island’s defenders watched in astonishment.

• Lu Ye and Xia He flew toward Long Cloud Island, evaded their pursuers, and decided to enter through the Blood River surrounding it.
• Lu Ye concealed himself and Xia He with a Blood Art and misled the Blood Race pursuers, allowing them to cross the Blood River unnoticed.
• Lu Ye and Xia He reached Long Cloud Island’s Protective Grand Array, but Chu Li refused to let them enter because he had orders to hold the defensive line.
• Enemies emerged from the Blood River and attacked Lu Ye and Xia He outside the array.
• Lu Ye killed the first wave of attackers with swift saber strikes and drew the remaining enemies away from Xia He as Chu Li and the island’s defenders watched.

Lu Ye and Xia He fought their way into Long Cloud Island, where Chu Li accepted them after seeing their strength. They took Mind Control Pills to satisfy the Island Lord’s security rules, then returned to the defensive line to prepare for the coming assault.

• Lu Ye and Xia He held off the attackers until Chu Li opened a gap in the Grand Array and called them inside.
• Lu Ye and Chu Li defended the gap for thirty breaths, then killed the enemies who had breached the island after the array sealed.
• Chu Li brought Lu Ye and Xia He to meet Long Cloud, who required them to swallow Mind Control Pills before allowing them to remain.
• Chu Li assigned Lu Ye and Xia He to reinforce his section of the defensive line as Long Cloud Island prepared for the enemy’s full assault.
• Lu Ye and Xia He rested, with Xia He worrying about their captured companions while Lu Ye inspected the Storage Rings he had collected.

Lu Ye sought a large supply of Dao Fish and asked Chu Li to introduce him to Long Cloud Island’s major families so he could sell a Sub-Treasure. The families’ representatives inspected it, and Lu Ye surprised them by revealing two more Sub-Treasures.

• Lu Ye told Chu Li he needed a large quantity of Dao Fish, and Chu Li offered to lend him several tens of thousands.
• Lu Ye explained that he wanted to sell a Sub-Treasure, and Chu Li warned that the imminent battle might make the families offer a low price.
• Chu Li summoned representatives of Long Cloud Island’s major families and introduced Lu Ye as the seller.
• The Liu Family steward and the other representatives inspected Lu Ye’s spear-type Sub-Treasure and discussed its value and the families’ limited Dao Fish reserves.
• Lu Ye revealed two additional Sub-Treasures, astonishing Chu Li and the family representatives.

Lu Ye sold three Sub-Treasures for six million Dao Fish and obtained a Patrol Token from Chu Li, allowing him to move around Long Cloud Island. After using the Dao Fish to greatly increase the Talent Tree’s reserves, he reached the island’s defenses and began slashing into the Blood River.

• Steward Liu and two other stewards bought Lu Ye’s three Sub-Treasures for two million Dao Fish each after Chu Li urged them to raise their offer.
• Lu Ye gave Chu Li twenty thousand Dao Fish in thanks, and Chu Li secured him a Patrol Token from the Island Master.
• Lu Ye used the token to patrol Long Cloud Island, found a secluded place, and absorbed Dao Fish with the Talent Tree until its Dao Power reserves passed ten million.
• Lu Ye reached a defensive line, drew the Crag Mountain Saber, and sent repeated blade lights through the Protective Grand Array into the Blood River.