Recaps

Hua Ci’s Myriad Poison Pill weakened the Black Tortoise Sect cultivators, letting Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao turn the tide and reunite their battered group. They discovered that Niu Meng was the Insect Nest’s core, and the chapter ended as the Body Cultivator and Great Elder joined the fight against him.

• Hua Ci’s poison mist weakened the Black Tortoise Sect cultivators while leaving Lu Ye unaffected.
• Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao worked together to kill their enemies and rescued the Body Cultivator before regrouping with the others.
• Xia Qianqian noticed that Lu Ye had not been poisoned and realized that the mist came from their own side.
• Lu Ye and the others saw Niu Meng rapidly heal from a severe wound, and Xia Qianqian recognized him as the Insect Nest’s core.
• The Tier Seven Body Cultivator and the Great Elder joined Zhou Hai and Pang Dahai in attacking Niu Meng.

The group’s desperate fight against Niu Meng turned disastrous as his Beast Transformation made him nearly impossible to injure. After the Great Elder revealed that breaking Niu Meng’s Beast Seal could end the transformation, Pang Dahai restrained him long enough for Zhou Hai to strike, and Lu Ye rushed to Zhou Hai’s side.

• Niu Meng shattered the Tier Seven Body Cultivator’s shield, knocked him down, and drove Pang Dahai and Xia Qianqian away before attacking Lu Ye.
• The Great Elder shielded Lu Ye from Niu Meng’s punch and explained that breaking Niu Meng’s Beast Seal would end his Beast Transformation.
• Pang Dahai reappeared, taunted Niu Meng, and used a rope artifact to bind Niu Meng’s fist and keep him close.
• Zhou Hai stabbed Niu Meng in the back, but the blade stalled against his strengthened flesh.
• Lu Ye rushed to Zhou Hai’s side while Pang Dahai struggled to hold Niu Meng back.

Lu Ye helped Zhou Hai and the others break Niu Meng’s Beast Seal, allowing them to kill Niu Meng and his Lifebound Demonic Beast. After a golden Insect Race creature tried to parasitize Lu Ye, it fled from the Talent Tree’s purifying power, and Lu Ye caught it.

• Lu Ye stabbed Niu Meng through his chest and used spirit patterns to damage him, but Niu Meng struck Lu Ye into the fleshy wall and left him badly injured.
• Zhou Hai and the others killed Niu Meng’s Kui Ox-like Lifebound Demonic Beast, then Zhou Hai beheaded Niu Meng with his Flying Swords.
• A golden Insect Race creature emerged from Niu Meng’s corpse, dodged Zhou Hai’s attack, and burrowed into Lu Ye’s neck.
• Lu Ye sensed countless auras and lives near Two Realms City before the insect fled his body, driven out by the Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye caught the insect in his hand and told the puzzled group that he might be incompatible with it.

Lu Ye killed the golden Insect King, ending the Monster Beasts’ frenzy across the Myriad Beast Domain, and the group discovered they had earned a large amount of Battle Merit. After confirming the crisis was over, they prepared to leave the Secret Realm, though returning to Two Realms City could bring trouble.

• Lu Ye recognized the golden parasite as the Insect King and crushed it, causing the Monster Beasts at the Black Tortoise Sect and Two Realms City to calm down and retreat.
• After Niu Meng’s death opened a breach in the Insect Nest, the poisoned survivors rested underground while Yiyi scouted the surface.
• Pang Dahai urged everyone to check their Battle Merit, and Lu Ye found he had nearly thirty thousand points despite the group’s heavy losses.
• The group noticed Lan Ziyi had disappeared, and Lu Ye regretted losing the chance to attack her while she was weakened.
• Yiyi confirmed that the Monster Beasts had returned to normal, and Pang Dahai explained that Battle Merit could be spent through any Heaven’s Mystery Pillar even after leaving the Secret Realm.

After the Myriad Beast Domain’s crisis ended, Lu Ye and his companions left the Insect Nest and headed for Two Realms City, where they were wanted for abandoning the city’s defense. Lu Ye infiltrated the city to find a Heaven’s Mystery Pillar and, before reaching it, directed a Beast Taming School cultivator toward the Myriad Beast Sect Ruins.

• Lu Ye and the others emerged from the underground passage, and the Great Elder urged Lu Ye to return to the Myriad Beast Sect and rebuild it.
• Lu Ye declined to return immediately, and the group flew toward Two Realms City while discussing why the Myriad Beast Sect would struggle to rise again.
• The group stopped outside Two Realms City, and Lu Ye discovered that the city had posted wanted notices for him and several Myriad Beast Sect cultivators.
• Lu Ye used a Concealment Talisman to enter the city and overheard two cultivators discussing their plans after the crisis.
• Lu Ye told a Yu-surnamed Cultivator to seek the Beast Taming Secret Technique at the Myriad Beast Sect Ruins, then followed a Sun-surnamed Cultivator to the Quartermaster Office and found a Heaven's Mystery Pillar.

Lu Ye learned from a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild elder that the Myriad Beast Domain had repeatedly been destroyed and reset, and that he might face a future loss despite his extraordinary fortune. After exchanging their Battle Merit for Spirit Signs, Lu Ye and his companions left the Secret Realm and returned to the wilderness.

• Lu Ye met a goateed elder at the Quartermaster Office, who revealed that he was from the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild and could see Lu Ye's remarkable fortune.
• The elder warned Lu Ye that his fortune contained a thread of purple qi and that he might lose something after things had gone too smoothly.
• The elder explained that the Myriad Beast Domain had been destroyed and reset seven times before, but Lu Ye and his companions had now resolved its central problem.
• Zhou Hai, Pang Dahai, Xia Qianqian, and the others exchanged their Battle Merit for Spirit Signs, and Lu Ye traded nearly all of his for several Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao left the Secret Realm last, and Lu Ye appeared in a wilderness after touching the Heaven's Mystery Pillar.

Lu Ye and his companions sold the Beast Seal Technique to Heaven's Mystery Vault, then returned to find their Spirit Land ransacked and Yiyi missing. Shen Xiaomao explained that someone had stolen the Spring Spirit, leaving Lu Ye to confront a new mystery about the attack.

• Lu Ye met Xia Qianqian, Shen Xiaomao, and Lan Ziyi, and the four signed a Heaven's Mystery Contract dividing the Merit from selling the Beast Seal Technique.
• Lu Ye sold the secret art for fifty thousand Merit, received his seventy-percent share, and bought materials to refine Formation Flags.
• Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao returned to find the Spirit Land's Grand Array destroyed, the Spring Eye dried up, and Yiyi missing.
• Lu Ye asked how the Spirit Spring had been destroyed, and Shen Xiaomao explained that someone had stolen its Spring Spirit.

After returning to find their spiritual land ruined and its Spring Spirit stolen, Lu Ye began cultivating with his spirit signs. He advanced to Cloud River Tier Three, while Amber began condensing a Demonic Core and Yiyi was drawn into its advancement.

• Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao discovered their spiritual land had been destroyed and its Spring Spirit stolen, and Lu Ye set up warning Formations nearby.
• Lu Ye used a Golden Spirit Sign and then a Purple Spirit Sign to cultivate, with Amber and Yiyi absorbing spirit mist alongside him.
• Lu Ye broke through to Cloud River Tier Three as the Purple Spirit Sign’s power continued to flow into him.
• Amber’s power gathered inside its body as it began preparing to condense a Demonic Core and advance to Demonic General.
• Yiyi said Amber’s advancement would affect her too, then entered Amber’s body as Amber collapsed into a deep sleep.

Lu Ye stayed behind after Shen Xiaomao left to cultivate while Amber advanced through a deep sleep. When Amber and Yiyi awoke in the heavy snow, Yiyi broke down over the long dream she had endured, and Lu Ye comforted her by singing.

• Shen Xiaomao invited Lu Ye to join her at a newly born Spirit Land, but he declined so he could wait for Jujia and keep Amber safe during its advancement.
• Shen Xiaomao departed, and Lu Ye continued cultivating and practicing his saber arts as heavy snow fell.
• After Amber had slept for seven days, Yiyi emerged from the house and clung to Lu Ye, frightened by a dream that had seemed to last far longer than seven years.
• Lu Ye soothed Yiyi by humming and then singing “Not Afraid, Not Afraid,” making Yiyi and Amber struggle to hide their laughter.
• Lu Ye finished singing, slipped a snowball down Yiyi’s neck, and laughed as she reacted.

Lu Ye left the ruined Spirit Land with Yiyi and Amber after a snowball fight helped him break through a bottleneck in his saber arts. Following a resonance from a mysterious Copper Piece, he discovered a hidden entrance to a mine tunnel containing a Spirit Stone Vein.

• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber fought a snowball battle that ended with the Spirit Land's houses in ruins.
• Lu Ye broke through a bottleneck in his saber arts and decided to leave to find Jujia after Amber advanced to Demonic General.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi traveled toward the Copper Piece's resonance while Amber ate a Demonic Core and Lu Ye refined Formation Flags.
• Lu Ye used the Copper Piece to open a hidden passage in a mountain rock wall and entered the darkness beyond it.
• Lu Ye illuminated the passage with a Great Sun spirit pattern and discovered exposed Spirit Stones throughout a mine tunnel.

Lu Ye discovered a Spirit Stone Vein guarded by Insect Race creatures and began mining it with Yiyi and Amber. After clearing several tunnels and collecting close to ten thousand Spirit Stones, he defeated a Cloud River Tier Five mantis creature in the eighth tunnel.

• Lu Ye found Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in a mine tunnel and killed an Insect Race creature that attacked him.
• Yiyi scouted the tunnels and reported that each one held a stronger Insect Race guard deeper inside.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi mined their first tunnel, then cleared another guard with Yiyi’s spells while Amber stayed out of the fight.
• Lu Ye noticed the golden light covering him was fading as he moved from tunnel to tunnel.
• After three hours, Lu Ye entered the eighth tunnel with close to ten thousand Spirit Stones and killed a powerful mantis Insect Race creature with Yiyi’s help.

After the golden light vanished, Lu Ye was expelled from the mine tunnels and lost access to the Spirit Stone Vein, then set out to find Jujia and contacted Li Baxian. As Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan fled pursuers, Lu Ye was chased across the Cloud River Battlefield by a powerful stranger who coveted his Spirit Boat.

• Lu Ye and Yiyi finished mining after he killed a powerful Insect Race creature, but the golden light around him faded and forced them out of the mine tunnels.
• Lu Ye realized the Copper Piece had opened a teleportation entrance to a distant Spirit Stone Vein, and he left with over ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and several hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ye learned that Jujia had been misreading the Ten-Part Map, told him to wait, and began traveling toward his location.
• Lu Ye contacted Li Baxian, who revealed that he was with Feng Yuechan and being pursued after they seized a Secret Realm's greatest benefit.
• Lu Ye noticed a stronger cultivator following him, but his pursuer kept closing the distance despite the Windwalk Spirit Pattern boosting Lu Ye's Spirit Boat.

Lu Ye escaped a persistent robber by flying to West Sixteen Heaven's Mystery City, where he bought Spiritual Fruits and headed into the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild. He encountered Zhou Hai outside and entered the guild without asking the Sword Cultivator for help.

• Lu Ye threw the robber a decoy Storage Bag, but the young man took it and kept chasing him for his Spirit Boat.
• Lu Ye hid Yiyi inside Amber, then put away his Spirit Boat and used his Flying Wing Spiritual Pattern and Windwalk to speed away.
• After two hours, Lu Ye reached West Sixteen Heaven's Mystery City and lost the young man in the city.
• Lu Ye bought four to five hundred Spiritual Fruits for one hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and shared one with Amber.
• Lu Ye saw Zhou Hai outside the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, exchanged nods with him, and entered the guild.

Lu Ye bought a set of Face Masks and stayed overnight in the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, where Xia Qianqian contacted him and asked for help fighting over a Spirit Land. He agreed to hear her out and learned that her side needed a Cloud River Tier Five or lower helper before their deadline.

• Lu Ye bought a set of eight Face Masks for 320 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and booked a superior room for the night.
• Lu Ye cultivated with Amber using a Spirit Gathering Formation and a Dragon Scale, while reserving another scale for Jujia.
• Xia Qianqian contacted Lu Ye after learning from Zhou Hai that he was in West Sixteen Heaven's Mystery City, then came to his room.
• Xia Qianqian asked Lu Ye to help her fellow disciples fight for a newly formed low-grade Spirit Land against a rival group.
• Lu Ye learned that each side could bring five fighters, but their helpers could not exceed Cloud River Tier Five.

Xia Qianqian recruited Lu Ye to help her secure a Spirit Land, tempting him with a Spirit Sign Box that yielded a purple Spirit Sign. After gathering their allies, they met the opposing group in a valley and prepared to settle the dispute by fighting.

• Xia Qianqian persuaded Lu Ye to join her by offering a Spirit Sign Box, and Lu Ye agreed if it yielded a blue Spirit Sign or better.
• Lu Ye opened a purple Spirit Sign Box for himself, then opened a white one for Xia Qianqian; he kept the purple sign and agreed to go with her.
• Lu Ye disguised himself with a Face Mask and put away his Crag Mountain Saber as he and Xia Qianqian traveled to meet their allies.
• Xia Qianqian and Lu Ye met a Cloud River Tier Five Body Cultivator, then joined three of Xia Qianqian's fellow disciples before heading to a valley.
• In the valley, Xia Qianqian confronted a dignified young man and demanded to know whether the groups would fight in turn or all at once.

Xia Qianqian and the young man agreed to settle their dispute over the Spirit Land through a wheel battle, a melee, and, if needed, a final duel. Their opening fights left Xia Qianqian’s side ahead but weakened, and the chapter ended with Jiang Liuzi suddenly wounding their Ghost Cultivator.

• Xia Qianqian and the young man agreed to fight for the Spirit Land in a wheel battle and melee, with a final duel if neither decided the outcome.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Ye Liu, a Cloud River Tier Three cultivator, and Xia Qianqian told her disciples he was formidable in one-on-one combat.
• Xia Qianqian’s Weapon Cultivator defeated a Tier Five opponent, then fought a Tier Four Spell Cultivator to a mutual defeat.
• The young man sent Jiang Liuzi into the valley, and Xia Qianqian’s Ghost Cultivator went to test him.
• Jiang Liuzi revealed the Ghost Cultivator with a sudden sword strike that cut deeply into his chest.

Jiang Liuzi defeated a Ghost Cultivator and then overwhelmed a Body Cultivator, leaving Xia Qianqian’s side badly injured. With the female Spell Cultivator unable to fight, Lu Ye entered the valley to face Jiang Liuzi.

• Jiang Liuzi wounded the Ghost Cultivator with a swift counterattack and forced him to concede before he fled to Xia Qianqian.
• A Body Cultivator volunteered to face Jiang Liuzi and endured a prolonged barrage of Flying Swords behind his shield.
• When the Body Cultivator charged, Jiang Liuzi formed a massive sword from Flying Swords and struck him down.
• Xia Qianqian intervened to protect the fallen Body Cultivator and conceded to Jiang Liuzi on his behalf.
• After seeing that her side’s fighters were too badly injured to continue, Xia Qianqian watched Lu Ye step into the valley to challenge Jiang Liuzi.

Lu Ye masked his identity and fought the Tier Five Sword Cultivator Jiang Liuzi, first using controlled artifacts and spells to disguise himself as a Spell Cultivator. When Jiang Liuzi charged in for a killing blow, Lu Ye drew his saber and struck him with overwhelming force, leaving the fight unresolved as he pursued his opponent.

• Jiang Liuzi attacked Lu Ye with Flying Swords, but Lu Ye blocked them with his nine Controlled Artifacts and gained the advantage despite being two tiers lower.
• Jiang Liuzi unleashed more Flying Swords, and Lu Ye stopped them with spells, leading Jiang Liuzi to believe he was a Spell Cultivator.
• Jiang Liuzi charged through Lu Ye’s attacks inside a spinning sword dragon and thrust his longsword toward Lu Ye’s neck.
• Lu Ye sheathed his spells, drew his saber, and slashed Jiang Liuzi, sending him flying and spraying blood.
• Lu Ye pursued Jiang Liuzi with a crescent-shaped saber strike while his Controlled Artifacts attacked from both sides.

Lu Ye defeated Jiang Liuzi by revealing himself as a Weapon Cultivator, then faced Jiang Chengzi, a Ghost Cultivator who sought revenge for his brother. Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern to expose Jiang Chengzi's concealment and charged at him.

• Lu Ye overwhelmed the wounded Jiang Liuzi with his saber, but a Cloud River Tier Nine youth intervened and conceded on Jiang Liuzi's behalf before Jiang Liuzi collapsed.
• The youth carried Jiang Liuzi away, while Xia Qianqian and the female Spell Cultivator reacted to Lu Ye's strength.
• Jiang Chengzi, Jiang Liuzi's blood brother, declared that he would kill Lu Ye and flew toward the valley.
• Jiang Chengzi concealed himself, but Lu Ye activated the Insight Spirit Pattern and rushed toward him with nine Controlled Artifacts circling.
• Lu Ye's Controlled Artifacts forced Jiang Chengzi to reveal himself, and Jiang Chengzi wondered how Lu Ye could be so lucky.

Lu Ye helped Xia Qianqian’s group secure a Grade C Spirit Land after defeating Jiang Chengzi and watching Xia Qianqian draw against the opposing leader. He declined to stay and search for his junior brother, but finished setting up defensive Formations before leaving the Spirit Land in Xia Qianqian’s care.

• Lu Ye defeated Jiang Chengzi, who conceded, and the opposing group abandoned its challenge after their Tier Nine Spell Cultivators drew.
• Xia Qianqian’s group claimed the Spirit Land, but Lu Ye declined her invitation to stay because he still needed to find one of his junior brothers.
• Xia Qianqian gave Lu Ye Formation materials she had purchased, and he installed protective, concealment, warning, and killing Formations around the Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye showed Xia Qianqian how to operate the Formations and handed her the Jade Token that controlled them.

Lu Ye left the Spirit Land and discovered that a Ghost Cultivator was following him, while Wei Que learned his identity and planned to claim the bounty on him. Wei Que and Jiang Liuzi pursued Lu Ye, unaware that he was leading them away from the Spirit Land.

• Xia Qianqian left the Spirit Land after giving the Grand Array Jade Token to the female Spell Cultivator.
• Lu Ye sensed that someone was watching him, but Yiyi could not find the Ghost Cultivator who was following him.
• Lu Ye repeatedly changed caves during the night, and Jiang Chengzi tracked him while reporting his movements to Wei Que.
• Wei Que told Jiang Liuzi that Fox Face was Lu Yiye of the Crimson Blood Sect and explained the bounty Myriad Demon Ridge sects had placed on him.
• Wei Que and Jiang Liuzi headed toward Lu Ye, hoping to kill him and claim the bounty.

Lu Ye escaped Wei Que and the Jiang Liuzi brothers by trapping Jiang Chengzi in an Explosion Spirit Array and teleporting away. After the pursuers rallied more powerful cultivators to hunt him, Lu Ye traveled thousands of li, rested, and prepared to use a Purple Spirit Sign.

• Wei Que ordered Jiang Chengzi to ambush Lu Ye in a cave while he and Jiang Liuzi stood ready to support him.
• Jiang Chengzi triggered Lu Ye's Explosion Spirit Array, which collapsed the cave and left him badly injured, while Lu Ye remained undiscovered.
• Wei Que ordered a search, but Jiang Liuzi sent word to Lu Shu and other cultivators, drawing more Tier Eight and Tier Nine pursuers into the hunt for Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye used his Teleportation Array to return to a second cave, collected his roasted beast meat, and left before the pursuers could find him.
• Lu Ye traveled several thousand li, bathed with Amber, rested, and took out a Purple Spirit Sign.

After using a Purple Spirit Sign to improve his cultivation, Lu Ye witnessed the appearance of a Hunting Ground and tried to flee, but the blood curtain trapped him inside. He recognized that the event would bring both deadly conflict and valuable rewards, including a daily Golden Spirit Sign that its recipient would have to protect for twelve hours.

• Lu Ye found that the Purple Spirit Sign had increased his Spiritual Power River, though not enough to advance him to Tier Four.
• A blood-red star appeared, and Lu Ye recognized the signs of a Hunting Ground and fled at full speed.
• A red barrier appeared in Lu Ye’s path, sending him crashing to the ground and trapping him inside the Hunting Ground.
• Lu Ye told Yiyi what the event was and gave her his intelligence Jade Slip to explain its rules.
• Lu Ye recalled that Hunting Grounds exposed cultivators’ factions and brought conflict, rankings, Spirit Signs, and a daily Golden Spirit Sign that its recipient had to hold for twelve hours.

Lu Ye and Yiyi encountered a Myriad Demon Ridge Body Cultivator after entering the Hunting Ground, and his attempt to exploit their apparent weakness turned into a fierce fight. Gravely wounded by Lu Ye and Yiyi, the Body Cultivator decided to target Yiyi before he died.

• Lu Ye considered how to survive the Hunting Ground and prepared to rely on his concealment, escape skills, supplies, and formation flags.
• A Tier Five Myriad Demon Ridge Body Cultivator entered and pretended to leave while testing Lu Ye and Yiyi's strength.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi attacked, but the Body Cultivator judged them to be weak and fought back after shattering Yiyi's spell.
• Lu Ye's speed and powerful attacks, together with Yiyi's spells and Amber's tiger's roar, overwhelmed the Body Cultivator and left him badly injured.
• Realizing he was unlikely to survive, the Body Cultivator turned toward Yiyi and resolved to kill her before he died.

Lu Ye and Yiyi killed a Tier Five Body Cultivator near the Hunting Ground’s edge, then fled as the Hunting Rankings appeared. Lu Ye found himself in first place and worried that his low cultivation would make him a target.

• Yiyi hid underground as the Body Cultivator attacked, allowing Lu Ye to strike from behind and wound him.
• The Body Cultivator tried to flee, but Lu Ye used his Controlled Artifacts and Saber Lights to knock him down and kill him.
• Lu Ye collected the Body Cultivator’s Spiritual Artifacts and Storage Bag, then left the dangerous edge of the Hunting Ground with Yiyi and Amber.
• A blood-red banner appeared above the Hunting Ground, displaying the Hunting Rankings with Lu Ye in first place at 120 points.
• Lu Ye learned that first place would receive a Grade A Spring Spirit and nine Golden Spirit Signs, but feared his ranking would attract stronger cultivators.