Recaps

Lu Ye won a collection of Spirit Signs at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild auction, spending about sixteen thousand eight hundred Merit. While traveling back overnight, he met a mortally wounded cultivator who asked him to deliver a sword to the Divine Movement Sect in exchange for his wealth.

• Lu Ye asked Shen Xiaomao about Spirit Sign prices and bid on White, green, blue, and Purple Spirit Signs at the auction.
• Lu Ye won fifteen White Spirit Signs, six green ones, two blue ones, and one Purple Spirit Sign, spending about sixteen thousand eight hundred Merit.
• Lu Ye left the merchant guild overnight with Amber and fled when a high-tier Cloud River Realm cultivator pursued him.
• Yiyi noticed the pursuer was falling, and Lu Ye found him gravely wounded beneath a tree.
• The dying cultivator asked Lu Ye to deliver his sword to the Divine Movement Sect and offered him all his wealth; Lu Ye agreed.

Lu Ye killed a dying Cloud River cultivator at the man’s request, buried him with Yiyi, and discovered a fortune of supplies and a mysterious copper piece in his Storage Bag. He left the sword with the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild to be returned to the Divine Movement Sect, asking that his identity remain secret.

• The wounded Cloud River Stage, Seventh Layer cultivator asked Lu Ye to kill him and send his sword to the Divine Movement Sect, and Lu Ye reluctantly granted his request.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi carried the man away, buried him, and Yiyi bowed at his grave.
• Lu Ye examined the sword named Qingyun and opened the man’s Storage Bag, finding abundant pills, spirit stones, artifacts, and a copper piece that pointed in a direction when infused with Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye decided to prioritize improving his cultivation rather than follow the copper piece’s direction.
• Lu Ye asked the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild to hold the sword and notify the Divine Movement Sect, requesting that they keep his information confidential.

Lu Ye rescued the gravely wounded Shen Xiaomao after Ruan Qingzhu helped three strangers seize the Spirit Land, then deduced how Ruan had evaded the Heaven's Mystery Contract. While Shen Xiaomao recovered, Lu Ye advanced to Cloud River Tier Two, and the chapter ended with them piecing together Ruan's advance warning and carefully timed betrayal.

• Lu Ye followed Amber to a cave and found Shen Xiaomao unconscious and seriously wounded, then had Yiyi treat her and set up protective Formations.
• Lu Ye consumed Spirit Signs and broke through to Cloud River Tier Two, continuing to cultivate while Shen Xiaomao recovered.
• After three days, Shen Xiaomao woke enough to explain that Ruan Qingzhu had watched as three strangers attacked her and helped them enter the Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye reasoned that Ruan Qingzhu had sent word before signing the Heaven's Mystery Contract and waited until Lu Ye left the Spirit Land to act.

Lu Ye infiltrated the Spirit Land that Ruan Qingzhu and her companions had seized, intending to reclaim it and recover control of its Grand Array. He trapped the watchman inside the Nine Realms Map and began fighting him, leaving the other three occupants unaware of the battle.

• Lu Ye left Shen Xiaomao to recover and flew back to the Spirit Land, determined to retake it after its occupants had seized it while he was away.
• Lu Ye concealed himself, used his knowledge of the Grand Array to slip inside, and avoided detection when the watchman investigated a brief fluctuation.
• Lu Ye entered the watchman's room and used the Nine Realms Map to pull him into its Chaotic Stone Forest space, while Yiyi maintained the treasure's operation from the room.
• The watchman recognized Lu Ye's Cloud River Tier Two cultivation and attacked with Controlled Artifacts, but Lu Ye's nine Spiritual Artifacts overwhelmed them and pressed toward him.

Lu Ye killed the cultivator surnamed Sun and planned to eliminate the three remaining enemies in the Spirit Land. Shen Xiaomao’s arrival disrupted his ambush, and the chapter ended with Lu Ye pressing the wounded burly man while Yiyi and Amber kept Ruan Qingzhu occupied.

• Lu Ye overpowered the cultivator surnamed Sun, discovered he belonged to the Myriad Demon Ridge, and killed him.
• Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Land and planned to ambush the burly man before dealing with Junior Brother Cheng and Ruan Qingzhu.
• Shen Xiaomao arrived and struck the Protective Grand Array, prompting Lu Ye to deactivate it.
• The burly man and the others rushed outside, where Lu Ye ambushed the burly man and severed one of his arms.
• Shen Xiaomao intercepted Junior Brother Cheng while Amber and Yiyi engaged Ruan Qingzhu, and Lu Ye battered the wounded burly man with repeated saber strikes.

Lu Ye defeated Ruan Qingshu’s accomplices and killed her despite the Heaven’s Mystery Contract, discovering that his Heaven’s Mystery Blessing let him avoid its backlash. He rested after the battle, his right arm badly injured from using Consecutive Slash.

• Lu Ye killed the brawny man with five consecutive saber strikes that shattered his shield and cleaved through him.
• Lu Ye saw Amber facing Ruan Qingshu, who had been crippled by backlash after attacking Lu Ye’s spirit beast.
• Lu Ye used his Weapon Casket and saber to kill Junior Brother Cheng after the man tried to flee from Shen Xiaomao.
• Yiyi explained that Ruan Qingshu alone suffered backlash from the contract, and Lu Ye killed her without being harmed.
• Lu Ye sat down to recover from the strain on his right arm while Shen Xiaomao checked on him.

Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao recovered after reclaiming their Spirit Land, while Shen Xiaomao tested Lu Ye’s reliability and met his jealous “younger sister,” Ye Yiyi. The Spirit Land began to tremble, and Shen Xiaomao sensed that an opportunity had arrived.

• Lu Ye restored the Spirit Land’s formations while Shen Xiaomao recuperated from her injuries.
• Shen Xiaomao got herself drunk to test Lu Ye, and he carried her to bed without taking advantage of her.
• Yiyi accused Shen Xiaomao of seducing Lu Ye and warned him to be wary of women.
• Yiyi confronted Shen Xiaomao, and Lu Ye introduced her as his younger sister, Ye Yiyi.
• The ground shook beneath the Spirit Land, and Shen Xiaomao flew into the air and announced that an opportunity had arrived.

Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao entered a large-scale Secret Realm after a pillar of light appeared in the Cloud River Battlefield. Inside, Lu Ye learned that the Myriad Beast Domain was threatened by maddened Monster Beasts and discovered that Heavenly Mechanism had made him the young master of the Myriad Beast Sect.

• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Shen Xiaomao left their Spirit Land to investigate the pillar of light and found a gathering of cultivators outside a Secret Realm.
• Shen Xiaomao explained that the Secret Realm would assign entrants new identities and could reward them with cultivation resources and Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye and his companions entered the Secret Realm as the light screen became a doorway.
• Lu Ye received memories describing how madness had driven Monster Beasts to attack their masters and brought the Myriad Beast Domain’s Human Race to the brink of destruction.
• Lu Ye awoke aboard a flying artifact with Shen Xiaomao, Lan Ziyi, and an unknown woman, and learned that he was the young master of the Myriad Beast Sect while the three women were his maidservants.

Lu Ye and his companions traveled toward Two Realms City after the Myriad Beast Sect fell, fighting infected Monster Beasts along the way. They learned their assigned missions and Xia Qianqian warned that death in the Secret Realm was real, leaving Lu Ye pondering the truth of the world.

• Lu Ye contacted Yiyi and learned that she and Amber were being held captive in a city, so he told them to wait for him.
• More than a dozen infected Monster Beasts attacked the group’s Spirit Boat, but Lu Ye, Shen Xiaomao, Lan Ziyi, and Xia Qianqian killed them and continued toward Two Realms City.
• The four introduced themselves, and Lu Ye explained that his mission was to deliver the Myriad Beast Sect’s assets to the Two Realms City Lord and secure refuge for the survivors.
• Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi said their missions were to protect Lu Ye, while Xia Qianqian implied she had the same task; Lu Ye could not open the Jade Thumb Ring he carried.
• Xia Qianqian explained that Secret Realms reflected events that had truly happened and warned that anyone who died there was truly dead, prompting Lu Ye to recall the True Dragon’s words about the truth of the world.

Lu Ye and his companions reached Two Realms City, the last stronghold of humanity in the Myriad Beast Domain, and Lu Ye posed as the Myriad Beast Sect’s Young Sect Master to gain entry. After meeting the City Lord with Xia Qianqian’s help, Lu Ye received a courtyard on the city’s outskirts.

• Lu Ye and the others entered Two Realms City after he claimed to be Ye Wushuang’s son and the Myriad Beast Sect’s Young Sect Master.
• Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian exchanged Battlefield Imprints with Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi, then split up to gather information and meet the City Lord.
• A gate attendant initially dismissed Lu Ye, but Xia Qianqian revealed her Cloud River Tier Nine cultivation and secured them an audience.
• The City Lord recognized Lu Ye, accepted the Jade Thumb Ring he presented, and ordered Ah Si to find them lodging.
• Ah Si led Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian to a courtyard on the outskirts of Two Realms City.

Lu Ye and his companions settled into Two Realms City, learned how to earn Battle Merit and exchange it for resources, and prepared to fight the maddened Monster Beasts. Lu Ye then went to the Beast Garden to retrieve Amber, but the guard warned that the city’s distrust of Monster Beasts made freeing him difficult.

• Lu Ye, Xia Qianqian, Shen Xiaomao, and Lan Ziyi shared what they had learned and concluded that they might need to discover the cause of the Monster Beasts’ madness.
• Shen Xiaomao revealed that Amber and the other captive Monster Beasts were being held in the Beast Garden, while Lan Ziyi showed the group an Identification Plate that recorded Battle Merit and enabled exchanges for resources.
• Lu Ye, Xia Qianqian, and Shen Xiaomao registered at the Recruitment Office and received Identification Plates with Battle Merit already recorded from their journey.
• The three examined the Quartermaster Office’s exchange list and learned they could trade Battle Merit earned by killing maddened Monster Beasts for Spirit Signs and other cultivation resources.
• Lu Ye left Xia Qianqian and Shen Xiaomao to return to the courtyard and went to the Beast Garden to free Amber.
• Lu Ye told a guard from the Nine Provinces that his pet beast was imprisoned inside and offered him Origin Spirit Pills, but the guard said freeing a Monster Beast would be difficult.

Lu Ye secured permission to retrieve Amber by agreeing to exterminate the mad Monster Beasts gathered east of Two Realms City. He and Xia Qianqian, Shen Xiaomao, and Lan Ziyi prepared an ambush and began attacking the horde, with the battle still underway.

• Lu Ye learned he needed the City Lord's authorization to remove a Monster Beast, then accepted Ah Si's condition to deal with a horde of mad beasts outside the city.
• Lu Ye retrieved Amber from the Beast Garden and set out with Xia Qianqian, Shen Xiaomao, and Lan Ziyi toward the valley a hundred li east of Two Realms City.
• The group found the valley packed with a silent army of Monster Beasts, and Lu Ye set up nested Explosion Spirit Arrays near the valley exit.
• Xia Qianqian lured the Monster Beasts toward the prepared formations while casting spells to bring down flying beasts.
• Lu Ye attacked the advancing horde with successive Fire Phoenix spells, and Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi joined the fight.

Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, Shen Xiaomao, and Xia Qianqian fought off a vast horde of frenzied Monster Beasts with help from a group of cultivators, earning Battle Merit and collecting Demonic Cores. As the exhausted survivors prepared to hunt more beasts, an immense army appeared and forced them to flee toward Two Realms City.

• Lu Ye and the others scattered while fleeing the Monster Beasts, and his Explosion Spirit Arrays and attacks helped thin the flying beasts pursuing them.
• Lan Ziyi broke through the beasts surrounding her and joined Lu Ye, and the two fought together until Shen Xiaomao returned with more than ten cultivators.
• The cultivators helped kill the remaining Monster Beasts, and Xia Qianqian later rejoined the group after battling powerful Demonic Generals.
• Lu Ye and the others recovered, counted their Battle Merit, and collected Demonic Cores from the battlefield.
• A vast army of Monster Beasts appeared on the horizon, and the cultivators fled toward Two Realms City.

Lu Ye returned to Two Realms City and reunited with the surviving members of the Myriad Beast Sect, who treated him as their Young Sect Master and gave him valuable Beast Taming items. He began recovering with Xia Qianqian and the others, who immediately demanded a share of what he had received.

• Lu Ye and the others returned to a war-ready Two Realms City and found more than a dozen Myriad Beast Sect cultivators waiting at their courtyard.
• The Great Elder greeted Lu Ye as the Young Sect Master, scolded Xia Qianqian and the others for letting him risk himself, and praised Amber's Four Symbols Sacred Beast bloodline.
• Lu Ye claimed he had forgotten the sect's methods, so the Great Elder gave him the Beast Seal Technique and lent him a Spirit Beast Bag.
• After Lu Ye went inside to rest, Xia Qianqian, Shen Xiaomao, and Lan Ziyi demanded a share, with Xia Qianqian asking to copy the Beast Seal Technique.

Lu Ye studied the Myriad Beast Domain’s Beast Seal Technique and learned how its cultivators bonded with a single Lifebound Demonic Beast to strengthen themselves. Xia Qianqian suggested selling the secret art to Heaven’s Mystery Vault, and explained that the Nine Provinces’ minor schools had originated in secret realms like the Myriad Beast Domain.

• Lu Ye refined the Spirit Beast Bag and confirmed that it could hold Amber, though Amber found the cramped, dark space unpleasant.
• Lu Ye studied the Beast Seal Technique and learned that Myriad Beast Domain cultivators linked their life essence with a Lifebound Demonic Beast and could draw on its power through a Beast Seal.
• Lu Ye realized that the technique could transform the Beast Taming School’s standing in the Nine Provinces by keeping cultivators, rather than their beasts, at the center of cultivation.
• Xia Qianqian proposed selling the secret art to Heaven’s Mystery Vault to gain Heaven’s attention and fortune.
• Xia Qianqian explained that the Nine Provinces’ minor schools had spread from secret realms where those schools were the main traditions.

Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian agreed to sell the secret art to Heaven's Mystery Vault after leaving the Secret Realm, then Lu Ye formed a Life Essence Technique with Amber. Their bond deepened, and a Beast Seal appeared on Lu Ye's chest.

• Xia Qianqian explained that selling the secret art to Heaven's Mystery Vault could earn Heavenly Mechanism's favor, and Lu Ye agreed to discuss the sale after they escaped.
• Lu Ye studied the Life Essence Technique and prepared a mixture of his and Amber's blood with medicinal juices.
• Lu Ye and Amber activated the Life Essence Spirit Pattern, linking their lives and allowing Lu Ye to sense Amber's thoughts more clearly.
• A tiger-head Beast Seal appeared on Lu Ye's chest as the Life Essence Technique formed.
• The Great Elder called from outside the room to ask whether Lu Ye was alright.

Lu Ye learned that forming the Life Essence Technique and Beast Seal Technique together had made Amber a Heavenly Mandate Demonic Beast. When Monster Beasts attacked Two Realms City, Lu Ye led the Myriad Beast Sect survivors to defend the Section A3 city wall, where his bond with Amber strengthened him in battle.

• Lu Ye confirmed that he had formed both techniques with Amber, and the Great Elder and old woman explained that their bond made Amber a Heavenly Mandate Demonic Beast.
• Monster Beasts attacked Two Realms City, and a general ordered the Myriad Beast Sect to defend the Section A3 city wall.
• Lu Ye persuaded the Great Elder to follow the city's orders, then led the sect members and Xia Qianqian toward the wall.
• Lu Ye and the Myriad Beast Sect survivors helped clear the Monster Beasts from the threatened wall and stabilized its defenses.
• Lu Ye discovered that Amber's Blood Qi merged with his, making his saber strikes heavier and faster.

Lu Ye and the Myriad Beast Sect cultivators joined the defense of Two Realms City, where Lu Ye was assigned to protect the Thunder Roar formation on Section A3. The city wall held against the Monster Beast assault as its defenders fought together.

• Lu Ye discovered that his Beast Seal let him draw strength from Amber, then saved a Crimson Fire Camp cultivator who identified himself as Fang Zhun.
• Fang Zhun assigned Lu Ye and his people to defend Thunder Roar, and Lu Ye watched the formation unleash a beam that annihilated hundreds of Monster Beasts.
• Lu Ye, Xia Qianqian, Lan Ziyi, and Shen Xiaomao took over the defense around Thunder Roar and killed the Monster Beasts climbing or flying over the wall.
• The defenders of Two Realms City continued resisting the relentless horde, while cultivators from different factions united to protect the last human stronghold in the Myriad Beast Domain.

Lu Ye and the defenders of Two Realms City endured an endless Monster Beast siege by rotating between sections of the wall, but the fighting devastated their ranks and left the city’s survival uncertain. After Fang Zhun died and Thunder Roar’s spirit array was repaired, Amber suddenly transformed and faced Lu Ye with scarlet eyes.

• The Protective Grand Array alternated openings between sections of the wall, allowing the exhausted defenders of Section A3 to recover while others fought.
• Xia Qianqian warned Lu Ye that Two Realms City would eventually fall and that the Monster Beasts’ unexplained madness made the crisis difficult to solve.
• The siege continued from noon through daybreak, and Lu Ye repaired Thunder Roar’s damaged spirit array after it failed during the fighting.
• Lu Ye discovered that Fang Zhun had died and saw that the Crimson Fire Camp had lost more than half its cultivators while only six from the Myriad Beast Sect remained alive.
• Amber leapt from Lu Ye’s shoulder, revealed its true form, and stared at him with scarlet eyes as Demonic Energy surged.

Lu Ye discovered that parasites were causing the Monster Beasts’ madness and learned that their connection pointed toward the destroyed Black Tortoise Sect. With Two Realms City nearing collapse, he prepared to lead an expedition there, where he encountered a familiar fat man.

• The Great Elder moved to kill Amber when it showed signs of madness, but Lu Ye stopped him and used Yiyi’s message to extract a parasite from Amber’s neck.
• Lu Ye explained to Xia Qianqian that parasites were controlling the Monster Beasts, then burned the parasite’s remains after seeing the tiny creatures inside.
• Amber sensed an invisible connection toward the Black Tortoise Sect, where the madness had first erupted, and Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian concluded that the source was likely there.
• Lu Ye decided to take a group to the Black Tortoise Sect, and the Great Elder flew to the City Lord’s Mansion to seek help from Liu Wuzhai.
• A plump fat man arrived and warned Xia Qianqian that abandoning her post could cost her Battlefield Merit, and Lu Ye recognized him.

Xia Qianqian gathered powerful cultivators after discovering that parasitic bugs were driving the Monster Beasts mad, and Lu Ye identified the Black Tortoise Sect ruins as the likely location of their nest. The group left Two Realms City against the City Lord’s orders, but three of their members disappeared while they fought through the surrounding horde.

• Pang Dahai and Zhou Hai arrived with other cultivators, and Xia Qianqian explained that bugs were controlling the Monster Beasts.
• Zhou Hai extracted a bug from a Blood Fox, confirming the discovery, and Lu Ye said his Spirit Beast had sensed a connection toward the Black Tortoise Sect ruins.
• The Great Elder reported that Liu Wuzhai had forbidden them from leaving Two Realms City, but Lu Ye decided the group would go anyway.
• Lu Ye, Xia Qianqian, Pang Dahai, Zhou Hai, the Great Elder, and the others flew out through a gap in the city defenses.
• The group fought through the Monster Beast horde for half an hour, during which two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators and a Nine Provinces Ghost Cultivator disappeared; flying beasts continued chasing the survivors.

Lu Ye and the others reached the ruined Black Tortoise Sect, where they suspected the Insect Nest was hidden beneath a gathering of Monster Beasts. With Yiyi’s help, Lu Ye found the nest’s entrance, but the group still had to decide how to get inside without being attacked from both sides.

• During a rest, Pang Dahai explained that Insect Races came from Insect Nests and that destroying a nest was the key to stopping them.
• Lu Ye and the party reached the ruined Black Tortoise Sect and found a large number of Monster Beasts gathered there.
• When the group realized they lacked Ghost Cultivators to search the sect effectively, Lu Ye used a Concealment Spirit Pattern and sent Yiyi underground.
• Yiyi found the Insect Nest deep beneath the sect, then traced its passages to an entrance inside a dry well on the rear mountain.
• Lu Ye returned and told Xia Qianqian and the others where the entrance was, and Xia Qianqian asked how they could get past the Monster Beasts guarding it.

Lu Ye and the others entered the Insect Nest and slaughtered the Monster Beasts guarding it, but discovered that the nest had sealed their way out and could rapidly regenerate. When Zhou Hai attacked its core, a creature inside the flesh sac caught his sword.

• The Great Elder led Myriad Beast Sect cultivators away to lure off some of the surface Monster Beasts, while Lu Ye led the others into the dried-up well.
• The group collapsed the well entrance behind them and followed Amber through underground passages to the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye’s group fought through the Monster Beasts inside the nest and killed them all after a fierce battle.
• Xia Qianqian, Pang Dahai, and Zhou Hai sensed that something was wrong, and Lu Ye realized the flesh wall had sealed their entrance.
• Zhou Hai attacked the Insect Nest’s core, but a beast claw emerged from its flesh sac and caught his sword.

Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces cultivators found Niu Meng and other Black Tortoise Sect cultivators emerging from the Insect Nest, all controlled by the Insect Race. As the trapped group fought to escape, Niu Meng shattered their formation and targeted Shen Xiaomao with a deadly kick.

• Niu Meng emerged from the core flesh sac and kicked Zhou Hai aside, while Xia Qianqian identified him as controlled by the Insect Race.
• More than twenty parasitized Black Tortoise Sect cultivators burst from flesh sacs, trapping the Nine Provinces cultivators inside the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye urged the group not to panic, and the Nine Provinces cultivators formed a defensive line against the attackers.
• Zhou Hai discovered that decapitating the controlled cultivators killed them, and the group began targeting their heads.
• Niu Meng charged into the formation, killed two cultivators, and sent Zhou Hai flying, breaking the defensive line.
• Niu Meng fixed his scarlet eyes on Shen Xiaomao and raised his foot to kick her.

Pang Dahai saved Shen Xiaomao and joined Zhou Hai to hold off Niu Meng while Lu Ye and the others struggled against the Black Tortoise Sect. Cornered by four enemies, Lu Ye unleashed Hua Ci’s Myriad Poison Pill, filling the Insect Nest with poison that weakened both sides and left the battle unresolved.

• Pang Dahai knocked Shen Xiaomao out of Niu Meng’s path, then charged into battle and called Zhou Hai to help restrain Niu Meng.
• Lu Ye fought off Black Tortoise Sect cultivators but was wounded and forced to flee when two more enemies joined his pursuers.
• With his allies losing ground, Lu Ye activated Hua Ci’s Myriad Poison Pill and released a dense jade-green poison mist throughout the Insect Nest.
• Xia Qianqian and the others realized the mist was poisonous, took Detoxification Pills, and saw that their enemies had also been poisoned and weakened.