Recaps

Tang Yifeng fought off an ambush while protecting Lu Ye, then made him an Official Disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect and fled toward a Ruined Hall. The pursuers closed in as Tang Yifeng reached the hall, whose appearance alarmed them.

• A thin man attacked Tang Yifeng and Lu Ye with yellow beams while a burly cultivator charged, but Tang Yifeng deflected the spell into the attacker.
• A hidden woman wounded Tang Yifeng, who fled with Lu Ye while the three assassins pursued him.
• Tang Yifeng asked Lu Ye about the Spirit Stream Battlefield, then used a Great Seal to accept him as an Official Disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Tang Yifeng gave Lu Ye something, told him to stay alive, and descended into a wilderness to reveal a Ruined Hall.
• The thin man recognized the Ruined Hall and urged the others to stop Tang Yifeng.

The Sect Master sent Lu Ye away through a Crystal Pillar as three attackers assaulted the Ruined Hall, then revealed his formidable strength and defeated them. Pang Zhen learned that Pang Dahai had guided Lu Ye to the Crimson Blood Sect and arrived after the Sect Master’s message to find the attackers dead.

• The Sect Master raised a hastily arranged Formation to hold off the three attackers and instructed Lu Ye to activate the Crystal Pillar, warning him to hide and keep his connection to the Crimson Blood Sect secret.
• The Formation shattered, but the Sect Master caught the burly man’s punch and revealed that his strength far exceeded the attackers’ intelligence.
• The thin man called for retreat, but the Sect Master crushed the burly man’s bones, knocked the Slender Woman from hiding, and pursued the thin man with a rope-like treasure.
• Pang Zhen scolded Pang Dahai for violating alliance rules by guiding Lu Ye to the Crimson Blood Sect, then rushed out after receiving the Sect Master’s message.
• Pang Zhen arrived at the devastated wilderness and found the three attackers dead while Old Man Tang stood amid the wreckage.

After three Divine Sea Realm assassins targeted Lu Ye, Old Man Tang sent him into the Spirit Stream Battlefield and joined Pang Zhen in seeking the people behind the ambush. Lu Ye appeared alone in a forest surrounded by wolves and discovered that a Spiritual Pattern identified him as a Crimson Blood Sect disciple with three apertures opened.

• Pang Zhen learned that the three slain cultivators had targeted Lu Ye, whom Old Man Tang had sent into the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• Pang Zhen recognized the Heaven's Mystery Pillar as belonging to the ruined White Dragon Institute and realized Lu Ye could have appeared anywhere in the vast battlefield.
• Old Man Tang demanded that Pang Zhen uncover who had arranged the ambush, while refusing to send searchers after Lu Ye to avoid drawing attention to him.
• Lu Ye found himself stranded in a forest, climbed a tree to escape a pack of vicious wolves, and wondered where he was and what had happened to the Sect Master.
• Lu Ye examined the back of his hand and activated a Spiritual Pattern that identified him as a Crimson Blood Sect disciple in the Spirit Stream Battlefield, with three apertures opened.

Lu Ye learned that the Sect Master had sent him to the Spirit Stream Battlefield and left him supplies and information to survive. His Battlefield Mark connected him to the Crimson Blood Sect’s camp, giving him a route back to the sect.

• Lu Ye realized he was in the Spirit Stream Battlefield and worried about the dangers posed by cultivators from the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge.
• Lu Ye searched the Storage Bag the Sect Master had left him and found Spiritual Pills, Spirit Talismans, clothing, and a Jade Slip.
• Lu Ye used the Jade Slip to learn how the Spirit Stream Battlefield worked and why cultivators usually entered through their own sect’s Heaven’s Mystery Pillar.
• Lu Ye learned that his Battlefield Mark, branded with the Crimson Blood Sect Sect Master's Great Seal, connected him to the Crimson Blood Sect’s camp and could lead him home.

Lu Ye used a Golden Wheel Talisman to drive off a pack of wolves, then depleted his Spiritual Power and retreated to a cave to recover and assess his supplies. He planned to stay there and cultivate while remaining alert to the dangers of the wilderness.

• Lu Ye chose a Golden Wheel Talisman and discovered that it formed a disc that fired powerful crescent-shaped blades.
• Lu Ye killed more than a dozen wolves with the talisman, and the survivors fled after a howl sounded in the distance.
• Lu Ye exhausted his Spiritual Power, swallowed a Spirit Nurturing Pill, and left the bloodied area with wolf meat in his Storage Bag.
• Lu Ye found an unclaimed cave and settled inside to recover and take stock of his belongings.
• Lu Ye counted his pills, ores, cultivation art, clothing, and nearly thirty spirit talismans.

Lu Ye used his Spiritual Pills to rapidly advance from three apertures to eight in half a month, and discovered that pills did not seem to harm his Spiritual Power. With his supplies exhausted and the Ninth Aperture still sealed, he sought a faster way to reach the Spirit Stream Realm.

• Lu Ye divided the ores, Spiritual Pills, and Spirit Talismans among three Storage Bags, changed clothes, and began refining a Spirit Nurturing Pill.
• Lu Ye sensed the dense Spiritual Energy around him and realized that the Spirit Stream Battlefield offered better cultivation conditions than the outside world.
• Lu Ye cultivated almost nonstop, eating wolf meat and consuming his Qi and Blood Pills and Spirit Nurturing Pills to open apertures.
• After half a month, Lu Ye had advanced from three apertures to eight and confirmed that swallowing pills had not reduced the purity of his Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye ran out of pills before breaking the Ninth Aperture and found that cultivating by drawing in Spiritual Energy would take months.

Lu Ye was confronted by a powerful Big Tiger after hunting the beasts in its territory and eating their meat to cultivate. When the Big Tiger demanded payment, Lu Ye used the Healing Pills as a distraction and launched a talisman-and-sword attack, leaving the fight underway.

• Lu Ye continued cultivating by refining the essence of wild-beast meat into Spiritual Power after running out of Spiritual Pills.
• A Big Tiger entered Lu Ye's cave and accused him of killing the creatures in its territory.
• Lu Ye denied responsibility, but the Big Tiger pointed out that he was the only human nearby and demanded Spiritual Pills or Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ye said he had neither and offered the Big Tiger his Healing Pills instead.
• As Lu Ye kicked the bottle toward the Big Tiger, he activated a Fire Serpent Talisman and charged with his sword.

Lu Ye fought Big Tiger after discovering it was not as powerful as he had feared, but an unseen attacker disrupted the battle. Just as he prepared to use a Spirit Talisman, the attacker surrendered and appeared as a young girl emerging from the rock wall.

• Lu Ye tested Big Tiger's reluctance to approach, then attacked it with a Fire Serpent Talisman and his sword.
• An unseen assailant ambushed Lu Ye with a crushing force and a shriek, but his Spiritual Power drove it back into the rock wall.
• Big Tiger pounced, and Lu Ye wounded it with his sword while taking a claw strike across his chest.
• Lu Ye dodged beneath Big Tiger and struck its underbelly, but a golden barrier protected it from serious injury.
• As Lu Ye reached for a Spirit Talisman, a voice surrendered, and a young girl emerged from the rock wall beside Big Tiger.
• Lu Ye demanded to know what the girl was.

Lu Ye confronted Yiyi and Amber, learning that Yiyi was an independent Accomplice Spirit linked to the tiger. He spared them in exchange for payment, but rejected the locked and emptied Storage Bags they offered, leaving their lives in doubt.

• Lu Ye threatened Yiyi and Amber with a Spirit Talisman, and Yiyi explained that she was an Accomplice Spirit rather than an ordinary Accomplice Ghost.
• Yiyi pleaded for their lives and offered to pay, so Lu Ye held back from attacking Amber.
• Yiyi returned with several Storage Bags and claimed Amber had frightened cultivators into surrendering them.
• Lu Ye discovered that the Storage Bags were locked or empty and told Yiyi they were not enough to buy their lives.

Lu Ye forced Yiyi and Amber to offer compensation for their confrontation, and Yiyi gave him a Barrier Breaking Fruit after he swore a Heaven's Mystery Oath not to harm them unless they provoked him. With the fruit in hand, Lu Ye believed the Spirit Stream Realm was within reach.

• Lu Ye rejected Yiyi's offer to take him to Green Cloud Market and demanded better compensation for his wound and spent talisman.
• Yiyi left the cave and returned nearly an hour later, weak and translucent, carrying a crimson Barrier Breaking Fruit.
• Yiyi offered Lu Ye the fruit on condition that he swear not to harm her or Amber, and Lu Ye made a Heaven's Mystery Oath before the Heavenly Mechanism.
• Yiyi and Amber left the cave after Lu Ye accepted the fruit, and Amber bounded away into the forest with Yiyi inside him.
• Lu Ye examined the Barrier Breaking Fruit and realized it could help him reach the Spirit Stream Realm.

Lu Ye tested the Barrier Breaking Fruit on a rabbit after recovering from his wounds and learning that a Storage Bag’s Restriction Lock could destroy the bag. Once he confirmed the fruit was not poisonous, he ate it and found it rapidly melted the barrier at his ninth Spiritual Aperture.

• Lu Ye treated his chest wounds with Healing Pills and recovered enough to finish eating the Great Serpent.
• Lu Ye fed a piece of the Barrier Breaking Fruit to a rabbit to test whether it was poisonous.
• Lu Ye tried to unlock one of Yiyi’s Storage Bags, but its Restriction Lock caused the bag to burst into flames and burn to ash.
• Lu Ye confirmed the rabbit was unharmed, killed it, and ate the Barrier Breaking Fruit himself.
• Lu Ye felt the fruit’s heat flow through his Spiritual Apertures and rapidly melt the Aperture Barrier at his ninth Spiritual Aperture.

Lu Ye used a Barrier Breaking Fruit to open the Ninth and Tenth Apertures, then strengthened his Ninth Aperture through days of hunting and cultivation. He connected his nine First Layer apertures into a Minor Heavenly Circulation and achieved the Spirit Stream Realm, leaving him far stronger than before.

• Lu Ye opened his Ninth Aperture and used the remaining fruit’s medicinal effect to open his Tenth Aperture, while loosening the Eleventh Aperture’s barrier.
• Lu Ye hunted nearby beasts for six days and refined their essence into qi until his Ninth Aperture was full.
• Lu Ye circulated Spiritual Power through his nine apertures and connected them into a Minor Heavenly Circulation.
• Lu Ye broke through to the Spirit Stream Realm as his Spiritual Power began flowing continuously through the nine apertures.
• Lu Ye sensed that his Spiritual Power had become more than twice as destructive and realized the Tenth Aperture would not strengthen his First Layer circulation yet.

After failing to cultivate by absorbing Spiritual Energy, Lu Ye left his hiding place to seek Green Cloud Market, where he hoped to obtain Spiritual Pills. Yiyi eventually gave him directions, and Lu Ye set off toward the market.

• Lu Ye found that his perception of Spiritual Energy had improved, but he still could not absorb it efficiently enough to cultivate.
• Lu Ye decided to leave the forest and seek Yiyi and Big Tiger to ask about Green Cloud Market.
• Lu Ye found Yiyi and Big Tiger in a cave and asked Yiyi about the market, but she refused to help him.
• Lu Ye threatened to kill ten beasts a day until none remained, prompting Yiyi to chase after him and provide directions to Green Cloud Market.
• Yiyi pointed Lu Ye east toward the market, while he asked her to indicate the way without using compass directions.

Lu Ye left Yiyi and Big Tiger’s territory and traveled toward Green Cloud Market while considering what Yiyi had told him about the Spirit Stream Battlefield. He reached the market at the foot of Green Cloud Mountain, where he hoped to find his way to the Crimson Blood Sect’s camp.

• Lu Ye set out for Green Cloud Market after warning Yiyi that he would return if her directions proved false.
• Yiyi told Lu Ye that the Spirit Stream Battlefield had Outer Circle, Inner Circle, and Core Region divisions, with sect camps placed according to rank and cultivation resources growing richer farther inward.
• Lu Ye decided to follow an arcing route through the Outer Circle to avoid stronger cultivators in the Inner Circle and Core Region.
• Yiyi explained that low-cultivation disciples were sent to the Outer Circle through Heaven's Mystery Pillars and that Green Cloud Markets were generally safe places for cultivators to trade and rest.
• Lu Ye crossed a river and a Chaotic Stone Forest, then reached Green Cloud Market at the foot of Green Cloud Mountain.

Lu Ye entered Green Cloud Market and encountered Demon Cultivators for the first time before a merchant from the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild introduced himself. Lu Ye grew interested in visiting the guild, though he decided to explore the market first.

• Lu Ye blended into the crowded Green Cloud Market and realized cultivators from opposing factions could mingle because they could not readily identify one another.
• A bull-horned Demon Cultivator and his cat-eared companion passed by, and Lu Ye learned they had not yet fully taken human form.
• A wealthy-looking man explained that he came from the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild and invited Lu Ye to trade there.
• Lu Ye hid his Crimson Blood Sect identity by letting the man believe he was a Rogue Cultivator.
• The merchant pointed Lu Ye toward the guild, and Lu Ye considered selling some of his items there after exploring the market.

Lu Ye explored Green Cloud Market to learn how cultivators traded and set up a roadside stall to assess his ore. A neighboring female cultivator taught him how to use Spiritual Power to gauge others’ cultivation and warned him to avoid people who concealed their auras.

• Lu Ye wandered through Green Cloud Market, learned that cultivators traded with Spirit Stones, and studied the prices of goods.
• Lu Ye set out several chunks of ore and Primordial Magnetic Ore at an empty roadside spot, hoping to learn their value.
• Lu Ye watched passing cultivators, but the female cultivator at the next stall recognized that he was trying to judge their cultivation by sight.
• The female cultivator taught Lu Ye to gather Spiritual Power around his eyes, allowing him to see and compare the Spiritual Light around cultivators.
• Lu Ye asked about people with no visible Spiritual Light, and the female cultivator explained that they likely used Spiritual Artifacts to conceal their auras and advised him to flee if he encountered them.
• Lu Ye thanked the female cultivator and offered her jerky, which she accepted.

Lu Ye tested the value of his ores at a marketplace stall, learned that the Primordial Magnetic Ore was valuable but difficult to sell there, and went to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild. He entered the guild to sell his goods and was led toward its private rooms.

• Lu Ye observed cultivators' Spiritual Light and estimated their cultivation levels, recognizing that the unusually murky Spiritual Light of one buyer likely came from accumulated Pill Toxin.
• Several cultivators asked about Lu Ye's ores, but he rejected a low offer and made no sales; a Spirit Stream Fourth Layer cultivator offered twenty Spirit Stones for the Primordial Magnetic Ore.
• A female cultivator advised Lu Ye to sell valuable ores at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, where prices were fair though slightly below market rate.
• Lu Ye packed up his stall and went to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, a large building in the marketplace.
• A Female Demon Cultivator greeted Lu Ye at the guild and escorted him toward the private rooms after he said he had come to sell.

Lu Ye sold his ores to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild after negotiating with Liu Ruyin, accepting Spirit Stones and Spirit Nurturing Pills as payment. He learned that the guild also offered lodging and other services, then left without realizing he was expected to tip.

• Lu Ye waited in a private room and drank three pots of Spirit Tea before Liu Ruyin arrived to handle his sale.
• Liu Ruyin inspected Lu Ye's ores and offered fifty Spirit Stones, then raised the price to fifty-four after he bargained.
• Lu Ye chose five bottles of Spirit Nurturing Pills and four Spirit Stones as payment for his ores.
• Liu Ruyin offered Lu Ye a room at the Merchant Alliance and hinted at additional services, but Lu Ye declined.
• Liu Ruyin watched Lu Ye leave and complained that he had not tipped her.

Lu Ye tested Spirit Stone cultivation, stocked up on supplies, and returned to his cave on Green Cloud Mountain. After chasing Yiyi and Big Tiger out, he compared Spirit Nurturing Pills and confirmed the Merchant Guild sold higher-quality pills.

• Lu Ye set up a stall and tested cultivating with a Spirit Stone, concluding that it was safer but less efficient than using Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Lu Ye sold a piece of ore for five Spirit Stones, bought food, and left the market before dawn for Green Cloud Mountain.
• Lu Ye returned to his former cave and found Yiyi and Big Tiger occupying it, so he drove them out.
• Lu Ye cultivated with pills from the market and the Merchant Guild, then confirmed that the Guild's pills matched the quality of those from the Sect Master.

Lu Ye used up his Spirit Nurturing Pills while advancing his cultivation to fifteen apertures, then set out to trade ore for Spirit Stones. On the way, he robbed Yiyi and Big Tiger of the Storage Bags they had taken from three cultivators, questioned Yiyi about their intimidation, and continued down the mountain after returning the goods.

• Lu Ye cultivated for half a month, opening fifteen apertures and exhausting his supply of Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Lu Ye found Yiyi and Big Tiger frightening three cultivators into surrendering their Storage Bags.
• Lu Ye snatched the bags, kept some of the Spirit Nurturing Pills, and tossed the rest to Yiyi.
• Lu Ye asked Yiyi why cultivators feared Big Tiger, and she explained that Monster Beasts able to speak human language were powerful experts.
• Lu Ye returned the stolen goods and headed down the mountain while Yiyi complained to Amber that they were pitiful.

Lu Ye sold ore and four locked Storage Bags to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, then learned that a complete Spirit Stream Battlefield map cost far more than he could afford. He spent nearly all his earnings on Spirit Nurturing Pills and left without a map to guide him to the Crimson Blood Sect's camp.

• Lu Ye sold Primordial Magnetic Ore and other ores to Liu Quan for fifty-one Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ye sold four locked Storage Bags to the Merchant Alliance for twenty Spirit Stones after deciding against paying to have them opened.
• Lu Ye asked Liu Quan about Spirit Stream Battlefield maps and learned that a Ten-Part Map cost six hundred Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ye used seventy of his seventy-one Spirit Stones to buy seven bottles of Spirit Nurturing Pills, keeping one Spirit Stone.

Lu Ye cultivated with the Spirit Nurturing Pills he had bought and advanced to Spirit Stream Second Layer. He studied the Golden Cicada Free and Unfettered Art to prepare for his next breakthrough, while Yiyi asked when he planned to leave.

• After Lu Ye left the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, a woman recognized him as the Rogue Cultivator who had sold ores there before and wondered how he had gathered so many Spirit Stones.
• Back at his cave, Lu Ye used his remaining pills to fill his fifteenth aperture and begin advancing toward the sixteenth.
• Twelve days later, after opening eighteen apertures and filling the eighteenth with Spiritual Power, Lu Ye formed a second Minor Heavenly Circulation and reached Spirit Stream Second Layer.
• Lu Ye ate, bathed at a mountain spring, and studied the Golden Cicada Free and Unfettered Art to locate the apertures needed for Spirit Stream Third Layer.
• Yiyi emerged from behind a tree and asked when Lu Ye would leave, but he ignored her and returned to the cave, leaving her furious.

Lu Ye cultivated until he ran out of Spirit Nurturing Pills, then sold Primordial Magnetic Ore at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild to buy more. On his return to Green Cloud Mountain, a fair-skinned cultivator ambushed him, and Lu Ye used a Golden Body Talisman to survive the attack as his opponent prepared another technique.

• Lu Ye opened the Nineteenth Aperture with nearly eleven Spirit Nurturing Pills, then used the rest of his supply to advance to the Twenty-First Aperture.
• Lu Ye sold two pieces of Primordial Magnetic Ore at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild and bought eighty-one Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• A woman at the Merchant Guild watched Lu Ye leave, tapped her yellow mark, and spoke a few words to it.
• Lu Ye sensed he was being followed while returning through Green Cloud Mountain, then spotted a figure appearing and disappearing nearby.
• A fair-skinned man attacked Lu Ye with an Ice Spike and a saber, but Lu Ye blocked the strikes and activated a Golden Body Talisman to protect himself.
• The man recognized the Golden Body Talisman and gathered Spiritual Power at his fingertips as Lu Ye faced him.

Lu Ye was ambushed by a fair-skinned cultivator who demanded to know where he had found his ore, and he was forced to flee after his Golden Body Talisman failed. He led his pursuer to Big Tiger, but the tiger refused to let either of them leave.

• Lu Ye fought the fair-skinned cultivator, enduring repeated Ice Spikes while trying to close the distance.
• The fair-skinned cultivator demanded the location of Lu Ye’s supposed ore vein, and Lu Ye realized the attack was tied to the ore he had sold.
• After breaking Lu Ye’s Golden Body Talisman, the cultivator charged, but Lu Ye turned and ran.
• The cultivator pursued Lu Ye through a Chaotic Stone Forest and across a small river, expecting him to run out of Spiritual Power.
• In an open clearing, Big Tiger appeared and confronted the fair-skinned cultivator, while Lu Ye pleaded for the tiger to spare them.

Lu Ye used Big Tiger and Yiyi’s staged robbery to catch his pursuer off guard and kill him, then discovered someone else was nearby. He and his companions pursued a fleeing female cultivator who had arranged the attack.

• Lu Ye and the fair-skinned cultivator surrendered their belongings to Big Tiger, and Lu Ye persuaded the tiger to make the man drop his saber too.
• As they retreated, Lu Ye grabbed his sword and attacked the fair-skinned cultivator, killing him with a thrust through the heart.
• A red light entered the back of Lu Ye’s hand, and Yiyi realized he had used her and Big Tiger’s robbery scheme to create an opening for the kill.
• Hearing someone nearby, Lu Ye warned Yiyi and Big Tiger that their secret was exposed and told them to follow him.
• A fleeing female cultivator recalled hiring the fair-skinned man to kill Lu Ye and realized her plan had failed.