Recaps

Lu Ye repeatedly cleared floors of the Hundred Formation Pagoda, using Soul Cleansing Water to recover between trials and triggering a series of resonances that astonished the gathered Formation Cultivators. By the eleventh resonance, the crowd suspected that Lu Ye was behind the unprecedented streak, unaware that Soul Cleansing Water was helping him endure the trials.

• The Luo-surnamed Formation Cultivator accepted that becoming a Formation Dao grandmaster was beyond his aptitude and decided to make one final attempt before advancing to True Lake.
• Lu Ye recovered from the thirty-fifth-floor trial with Soul Cleansing Water, built a Small Spirit Gathering Funnel, and prepared for the next floor.
• The Hundred Formation Pagoda resonated again, and Formation Cultivators began gathering to witness the repeated occurrences and benefit from their enlightenment.
• The Formation Cultivators noticed that resonances kept occurring at intervals matching the tower's floor trials, and they suspected an exceptionally talented challenger was triggering them.
• The Luo-surnamed cultivator recalled his master's story of Lu Yiye triggering thirty-three resonances at the Main Sect's pagoda and wondered whether Lu Yiye was challenging this tower.
• The crowd counted an eleventh resonance, while Lu Ye continued relying on Soul Cleansing Water to endure the tower's trials.

Lu Ye advanced to Cloud River Tier Six while using the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s trials to rapidly improve his Formation Dao. As the pagoda continued resonating, Xia Liang, Tan Sheng, Chu Yun, and Zhou Pei arrived in Hundred Formation City to hunt him down.

• Lu Ye broke through to Cloud River Tier Six after the Spirit Gathering Funnels filled his Spiritual Power, and his strength increased as the effects of his Heavenly Mechanism Reward emerged.
• Lu Ye learned from Yiyi that he had passed fifteen floors and calculated that the remaining trials would further strengthen his cultivation.
• Lu Ye resumed comprehending the pagoda’s gifts and prepared for the next trial when the surrounding Spiritual Energy vanished.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Hundred Formation Pagoda, where the cultivator surnamed Luo wondered whether Lu Ye was behind its repeated resonances.
• Xia Liang, Tan Sheng, Chu Yun, and Zhou Pei arrived at the Hundred Formation Pagoda after hearing that Lu Ye had appeared there.

Lu Ye pushed through the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s trials despite the overwhelming Formation Dao knowledge weighing on his soul. He reached the thirty-third and final floor, where the tower rewarded him with thirty-two Advanced Formation Flags.

• Xia Liang, Tan Sheng, Chu Yun, and Zhou Pei searched the crowd outside the Hundred Formation Pagoda for Lu Ye but found no trace of him.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng suspected Lu Ye was challenging the tower, so they waited near its entrance as the pagoda resonated again.
• Lu Ye struggled to absorb the tower’s increasingly immense bestowals, relying on Yiyi and Soul Cleansing Water to endure each trial.
• Yiyi told Lu Ye he had reached the thirty-third floor and that there was no next floor.
• Lu Ye touched the extra cluster of fluorescent light and discovered it contained thirty-two Advanced Formation Flags.

After leaving the Hundred Formation Pagoda with new formation knowledge and a breakthrough to Tier Six, Lu Ye was ambushed by Xia Liang and Tan Sheng at its only exit. Wounded by their pincer attack and then struck by Chu Yun and Zhou Pei’s Fire Dragons, he vanished through a layer of ripples, leaving his fate unclear.

• Lu Ye left the Hundred Formation Pagoda with sixty-four Formation Flags, a swollen Divine Soul, and a breakthrough from Tier Five to Tier Six.
• Lu Ye recognized Xia Liang and Tan Sheng among the crowd and remembered that a Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator he had attacked on the safe passage could have revealed his whereabouts.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng launched a close-range pincer attack, and Lu Ye used a Guard Spirit Pattern to survive Tan Sheng’s spear thrust and Xia Liang’s slash.
• Tan Sheng struck Lu Ye in the ribs with his spear shaft, and Lu Ye used the blow’s force to leap aside as Xia Liang pursued him.
• Lu Ye activated another Guard to blunt Xia Liang’s strike, but the saber pierced his flesh before Chu Yun and Zhou Pei hit him with two Fire Dragons.
• Engulfed in flames, Lu Ye crashed through a layer of ripples and disappeared before the watching crowd.

Lu Ye escaped into the perilous formations around the Hundred Formation Pagoda after Xia Liang, Tan Sheng, Chu Yun, and Zhou Pei attacked him, and the attackers learned he had survived. Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators began breaking the formations to hunt him, while a Vast Sky Alliance cultivator realized Lu Ye had passed all thirty-three floors of the pagoda.

• Xia Liang watched Lu Ye disappear into the perilous ground after their ambush, and Chu Yun and Zhou Pei confirmed that Lu Ye had not died.
• The crowd recognized Lu Ye as the cultivator blamed for poisoning two thousand Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, and Xia Liang asked Myriad Demon Ridge Formation Cultivators to search the perilous ground.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators began breaking formations to find Lu Ye, while Vast Sky Alliance cultivators stayed back to avoid a fight.
• The cultivator surnamed Luo realized Lu Ye had been inside the Hundred Formation Pagoda during its thirty-three recent resonances and inferred that Lu Ye had passed all thirty-three floors.
• Chu Yun and Zhou Pei again confirmed that Lu Ye was still alive, leaving Xia Liang and the others baffled.

After escaping a deadly ambush, Lu Ye navigated the Formations outside the Hundred Formation Pagoda, treated his injuries, and absorbed the knowledge overwhelming his soul. Once recovered enough to travel, he set out with Yiyi and Amber to find a way out of the dangerous region.

• Xia Liang found blood where Lu Ye had vanished and realized he might have survived the ambush.
• Lu Ye escaped through an Illusion Array, used his Insight Spirit Pattern to navigate the Formations, and became lost while badly injured.
• Lu Ye released Amber and had Yiyi keep watch as he healed and worked to absorb the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s knowledge.
• Myriad Demon Ridge’s Formation Cultivators began breaking the old Formations around the pagoda, angering the Vast Sky Alliance’s Formation Cultivators.
• After a day of recovery, Lu Ye left with Yiyi and Amber and slipped out of a Grand Array without breaking it.

Lu Ye discovered a damaged Teleportation Array on a mysterious platform while searching for a way out of the perilous ground. He repaired it with his Spiritual Power, triggering the array and leaving him and Amber on the verge of teleportation.

• Lu Ye realized the Air Lock Grand Array’s mutated power made escape by flight impossible and continued navigating the perilous ground.
• Lu Ye found a skeleton with a shattered skull, collected its Storage Bag, and passed through another Formation.
• Lu Ye encountered the yu-surnamed cultivator on an unprotected high platform, and the man fled into a Formation that killed him.
• Lu Ye identified the lines on the platform as a damaged Teleportation Array and suspected it might offer a way out.
• Lu Ye could not carve into the platform, so he poured Spiritual Power into the array to repair it.
• The completed array drained most of Lu Ye’s Spiritual Power as the space twisted, and Amber clung to his head in alarm.

After a violent teleportation sent Lu Ye into the Dragon Ascent World, he awakened in the identity of Overlord Saber Manor’s surviving Sixth Young Master, Ye Liu. Injured and hunted alongside Ye Liuli, he contacted Yiyi and Amber, who were also in Hua Yan Mountain, and began arranging to reunite with them.

• Lu Ye lost consciousness during the enormous teleportation and woke to unfamiliar memories of the Dragon Ascent World and his identity as Young Master Ye Liu.
• Lu Ye learned that Overlord Saber Manor had been destroyed, its lord and five sons killed, and only he and Ye Liuli had escaped.
• Ye Liuli gave the badly weakened Lu Ye medicinal broth, and he reasoned that he had entered a previously unknown Secret Realm.
• Lu Ye realized that he and Ye Liuli remained in danger and used his Battlefield Mark to contact Yiyi, who confirmed that she and Amber were also in Hua Yan Mountain.
• Lu Ye asked Ye Liuli to describe their surroundings and sent her description to Yiyi to help them find each other.

Ye Liuli defended the gravely wounded Lu Ye from assassins pursuing them into a cave, but Lu Ye suddenly revealed his strength and killed their attackers. With the cave’s pursuers dead, the siblings were left to face whatever danger awaited beyond it.

• Ye Liuli woke when she heard pursuers approaching the cave and positioned herself in front of Lu Ye.
• A green-robed man attacked, and Ye Liuli wounded him before a gauntlet-wearing Body Cultivator blasted her aside.
• The Body Cultivator mocked Ye Liuli and threatened her, then lunged at her while she continued to guard Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye sprang up and severed the Body Cultivator’s arms with his saber before killing him with a thrust beneath the jaw.
• Lu Ye used nine streams of light from his Weapon Casket to kill the wounded green-robed man as he tried to flee.

Lu Ye and Ye Liuli defeated the five cultivators pursuing them with help from Yiyi and Amber, then escaped to a concealed valley to recover. As Yiyi bristled over Ye Liuli’s closeness to Lu Ye, Ye Liuli tentatively called her “Sister-in-law.”

• Lu Ye and Ye Liuli killed the two pursuers who entered their cave, while three others waited outside.
• Yiyi and Amber arrived and attacked the remaining pursuers, joining Lu Ye and Ye Liuli to kill all three.
• Lu Ye, Ye Liuli, Yiyi, and Amber fled on Amber’s back and reached a concealed valley where Lu Ye set up Formations.
• Yiyi grew jealous as Ye Liuli rode in front of Lu Ye, and Ye Liuli later called Yiyi “Sister-in-law,” leaving her flustered.

After recovering in Hua Yan Mountain, Lu Ye identified Divine Will Sect among the attackers and resolved to avenge Overlord Saber Manor’s destruction. He and Ye Liuli later revealed themselves to their pursuers, who were surprised to find them.

• Ye Liuli told Yiyi that she was Lu Ye’s biological younger sister, and the two grew close while comforting each other.
• Lu Ye examined the pursuers’ belongings and found three Divine Will Sect identity tokens, suggesting the sect had joined the attack and may have been hired.
• Lu Ye considered Dragon Ascent World’s declining cultivation limits and suspected Divine Will Sect’s involvement in Ye Ying’s death.
• Lu Ye told Ye Liuli to recover before seeking revenge, and he decided reclaiming Overlord Saber Manor could let him study its saber arts.
• A day later, Lu Ye and Ye Liuli emerged before cultivators searching Hua Yan Mountain, and the pursuers recognized them with delight.

Lu Ye and Ye Liuli ambushed cultivators connected to Overlord Saber Manor, and Lu Ye learned that the Manor’s destruction stemmed from a conflict between the brothers Ye Ying and Ye Xiong. The chapter left Ye Liuli grieving over the revelation while Lu Ye considered what it meant for the secret realm.

• Lu Ye charged into the enemy formation and quickly killed three cultivators while Yiyi and Amber stopped the fourth from capturing Ye Liuli.
• Ye Liuli called Yiyi “Sister-in-law,” briefly disrupting Yiyi’s spellcasting and Lu Ye’s saber momentum.
• Lu Ye swore a Heart Demon Oath to persuade the captured cultivator Xu to reveal what he knew, then killed Xu after hearing his account.
• Ye Liuli broke down over Xu’s revelation as Yiyi comforted her, while Lu Ye recalled that secret-realm events often recreated the past.
• Lu Ye concluded that Overlord Saber Manor’s destruction had grown out of strife between Ye Ying and his half-brother Ye Xiong.

Lu Ye infiltrated Overlord Saber Manor and killed Ye Lang after finding him abusing a maid who resembled Ye Liuli. When the maid warned him that Ye Xiong would soon arrive, Lu Ye decided to wait and face him there.

• Lu Ye left Ye Liuli in Changfeng Village under Yiyi and Amber’s protection, then traveled alone to Overlord Saber Manor.
• Lu Ye found Ye Lang beating a maid who resembled Ye Liuli and realized Ye Lang had been acting without restraint since Ye Ying’s family was gone.
• Ye Lang recognized Lu Ye as Ye Liu and pretended to welcome him, but Lu Ye killed him before he could raise an alarm.
• The maid thanked Lu Ye and warned him that Ye Xiong visited Ye Lang every night and would arrive soon.
• Lu Ye gave the maid clothing, told her to stay, and decided to wait for Ye Xiong rather than search for him.

Lu Ye learned that Ye Xiong had betrayed Ye Ying to the Divine Will Sect to protect Ye Lang, then killed Ye Lang after discovering him dead. Ye Xiong attacked Lu Ye, and their battle drew the attention of Divine Will Sect Vice Sect Master Pang Wanhai.

• A young servant told Lu Ye that Ye Xiong had revealed Ye Ying’s location to the Divine Will Sect after Ye Ying discovered Ye Lang’s crimes.
• Ye Xiong sensed blood, entered the courtyard, and found Ye Lang dead beside Lu Ye.
• Ye Xiong charged at Lu Ye, who met his attack outside the room to protect the young servant.
• Lu Ye and Ye Xiong clashed with their sabers, and the force of their fight wrecked the courtyard and buried the servant beneath the ruins, shielded by Lu Ye’s Protective Spirit Array.
• Pang Wanhai arrived at the disturbance, revealing himself as a Cloud River Tier Nine cultivator who had come to obtain the Overlord Saber Technique.

Lu Ye fought Ye Xiong at Overlord Saber Manor, where Ye Xiong unleashed the first form of the Overlord Saber Technique, Myriad Stars. Lu Ye survived the strike and wounded Ye Xiong, but Pang Wanhai stepped in and challenged him to withstand three saber strikes.

• Pang Wanhai arrived at the ruins and was astonished to see Ye Liu fighting Ye Xiong evenly, then decided the young man had to die.
• Ye Xiong unleashed Myriad Stars, the first form of the Overlord Saber Technique, as Pang Wanhai watched closely.
• Lu Ye revealed his full strength and used a burst of speed to break through the saber attack, sending Ye Xiong flying while suffering a wound to his abdomen.
• Ye Xiong admitted defeat and asked Pang Wanhai to kill Lu Ye, and Pang Wanhai agreed.
• Pang Wanhai drew his saber and told Lu Ye to withstand three strikes if he wanted to be spared.

Lu Ye used prearranged Formations and his saber to defeat Ye Xiong and kill Pang Wanhai at Overlord Saber Manor. The surviving disciples left, while Ye Xiong remained alive and helpless.

• Pang Wanhai challenged Lu Ye to take three strikes, but Lu Ye trapped him in a Confinement Array and unleashed multiple Killing Arrays.
• Pang Wanhai escaped the collapsing Formation with grievous injuries, but Lu Ye pursued him with fiery wings and killed him with his saber.
• The young girl watched safely from the Protective Spirit Array as Lu Ye returned from the Ruins and Pang Wanhai's aura vanished.
• The manor's disciples arrived, saw Pang Wanhai dead and Ye Xiong gravely weakened, and refused Ye Xiong's order to attack Lu Ye.
• The disciples left one by one, leaving Ye Xiong behind to roar helplessly.

Lu Ye avenged Ye Ying’s family by killing Ye Xiong and Pang Wanhai, then claimed the Overlord Saber Technique inheritance and fortified the island where Ye Liuli was resting. Divine Will Sect’s attempts to investigate the manor failed, leaving the sect wary while Lu Ye recovered and prepared for its next move.

• Lu Ye killed Ye Xiong after Ye Xiong begged him to spare his life, and the survivors fled Overlord Saber Manor.
• Lu Ye found the Overlord Saber Technique inheritance in Pang Wanhai’s Storage Bag and took the Expert Insights from the manor’s Library Pavilion.
• Yiyi brought the recovering Ye Liuli to Lu Ye, who told her that Ye Xiong and Pang Wanhai were dead; Ye Liuli said her revenge was enough.
• Lu Ye had Yiyi watch over Ye Liuli while he set up a Grand Array around the island.
• Divine Will Sect sent cultivators, including a Tier Eight elder, to investigate Overlord Saber Manor, but they vanished into Lu Ye’s formations.
• Divine Will Sect stopped acting rashly and monitored the manor from afar while Lu Ye meditated to ease the pressure on his soul.

Lu Ye relieved the pressure on his soul and explored the Black Stone containing the Overlord Saber inheritance. He learned that he could not safely access its later forms, then endured the first form, Myriad Stars, to gain insight into the technique.

• After five days of contemplation, Lu Ye eased the pressure on his soul and considered the immense Formation Dao knowledge bestowed by the Hundred Formation Pagoda.
• Lu Ye activated the Black Stone and entered its inheritance space, where he saw three figures representing the Overlord Saber’s three forms.
• Lu Ye sensed that attempting to activate the middle-aged or elderly figures would kill him, and realized Ye Ying had likely never cultivated those forms either.
• Lu Ye focused on the youthful figure, which performed the First Form of Overlord Saber, Myriad Stars.
• Lu Ye endured the strike’s torment for five breaths and studied its movements before the inheritance ended and he returned to his cabin.

Lu Ye studied the Overlord Saber Technique at the deserted Overlord Saber Manor, using the inheritance and Soul Cleansing Water to rapidly improve his saber skills. After half a month of intense cultivation, he had advanced greatly, while Ye Liuli slowly recovered from her grief with Yiyi and Amber beside her.

• Lu Ye endured three breaths of the first Overlord Saber form in the Inheritance Space and realized that mastering it would lead him to the second form.
• Lu Ye practiced Myriad Stars with the Crag Mountain Saber, judging his thrust powerful but still short of the technique’s true form.
• Lu Ye used Soul Cleansing Water to recover his Divine Soul and studied the inheritance and Blade Technique Cultivation Insights, comprehending the saber technique several times each day.
• After half a month at Overlord Saber Manor, Lu Ye had improved enough to believe he could defeat his earlier self in a saber contest within ten strikes.
• Yiyi and Amber kept Ye Liuli company, helping her gradually emerge from her gloom.

Lu Ye treated Ye Liuli when her old illness flared and discovered that a strange birthmark on her back was the source. He decided to take her to Medical Valley for more medicine, but first planned to deal with the Divine Will Sect cultivators surrounding Overlord Saber Manor.

• Ye Liuli suddenly collapsed and convulsed, so Lu Ye gave her the last pill in her Storage Bag and examined the writhing birthmark on her back.
• Ye Liuli recovered enough to sleep, and Lu Ye recalled that her medicine came from Medical Valley and that she would need more.
• Lu Ye gave Yiyi a Grand Array Jade Token and told her to bring Ye Liuli to him when they could leave.
• Lu Ye went outside to confront the Divine Will Sect cultivators watching Overlord Saber Manor, where Third Elder Pei Yuanhua was waiting.

Lu Ye lured Divine Will Sect’s pursuers away from Overlord Saber Manor and killed Pei Yuanhua with the Overlord Saber Technique. As the sect’s remaining disciples rallied against him, Lu Ye still had strength to fight.

• Pei Yuanhua guarded Overlord Saber Manor, wary of the hidden expert he believed had killed the Ninth Elder.
• Lu Ye ambushed the Divine Will Sect watchers, then drew Pei Yuanhua and the pursuing cultivators away from the manor.
• Yiyi killed the Divine Will Sect disciples left near the manor, then rode north with Ye Liuli on Amber.
• Lu Ye let the pursuers corner him in a valley and killed Pei Yuanhua with the First Form of Overlord Saber.
• The surviving Divine Will Sect disciples recovered from their shock and prepared to attack Lu Ye together, but he moved first.

Lu Ye wiped out the Divine Will Sect cultivators pursuing him and realized that the Overlord Saber Technique had given him a clear path for developing his saber arts. After reuniting with Yiyi and Ye Liuli in Ruyi City, he heard that Senior Li Sa of the Imperial Heaven Sect had passed away.

• Lu Ye killed the pursuing Divine Will Sect cultivators, cutting down the last of them after a thirty-li chase.
• Lu Ye reflected that the Overlord Saber Technique had helped him find a personal system and road for improving his saber arts.
• Lu Ye swallowed Spiritual Pills, contacted Yiyi, and traveled north to reunite with Yiyi and Ye Liuli in Ruyi City.
• Ye Liuli asked Lu Ye to visit Tai'an Wine House, where she had eaten as a child with Ye Ying.
• A guest announced that Senior Li Sa of the Imperial Heaven Sect had passed away, startling the wine house patrons.

After Li Sa’s death, Lu Ye and his companions headed north as rumors spread about the Heavenly Chasm and recent upheavals across the Dragon Ascent World. Li Sa’s final vision prompted Huang Liang to travel north, while Monk Fahua also left Vajra Temple’s Forbidden Land without explanation.

• Cultivators mourned Li Sa’s passing and discussed the destruction of Overlord Saber Manor, a divine weapon appearing in Nan Province, and strange activity within the Heavenly Chasm.
• Lu Ye paid for the meal, then led Yiyi and Ye Liuli out through the north gate and continued north by Spirit Boat.
• A wounded Cloud River Tier Nine cultivator decided to travel to Medicine Valley in Xue Province, seeking help from the Little Medical Immortal for injuries caused by a treasure he had taken from a fire.
• After burying Li Sa, Huang Liang told the Imperial Heaven Sect’s elders he would go to the Heavenly Chasm because Li Sa had stared north in terror just before dying.
• Monk Fahua appeared in Vajra Temple’s Forbidden Land, looked north, and vanished; the monks discovered that their Master Ancestor had left seclusion.

As Lu Ye and Ye Liuli traveled north toward Medicine Valley, they discovered that the Heavenly Chasm matched the birthmark on Ye Liuli’s back and that her condition was worsening. Lu Ye stopped to rescue abducted mortals from a Heavenly Chasm Sect ship, and his first strike shook its protective formation far more than expected.

• Liu Tianyi and Fahua sensed a change in Dragon Ascent World and headed north alongside Huang Liang, Lu Ye, and Ye Liuli.
• Lu Ye traveled through Xue Province with Ye Liuli and Yiyi, noting that Ye Liuli was becoming increasingly drowsy as they approached the Heavenly Chasm.
• Lu Ye recognized that the Heavenly Chasm’s shape matched Ye Liuli’s birthmark and wondered what connected them.
• Lu Ye spotted an injured Tier Nine cultivator fighting a Heavenly Chasm Sect ship and saw frightened mortals imprisoned in its hold.
• Lu Ye joined the injured cultivator to rescue the mortals and struck the ship’s protective formation, causing it to ripple violently.

Lu Ye and Zhuang Bufan defeated the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators aboard their Spirit Ship and freed more than four hundred abducted commoners. With the sect’s pursuers expected to arrive, Lu Ye set up a Formation to protect the survivors and prepare for the coming fight.

• Lu Ye struck the Spirit Ship’s Protective Grand Array at its nodes until it cracked, then killed the scar-faced Tier Seven cultivator who attacked him.
• Lu Ye and Zhuang Bufan broke through the array and slaughtered the remaining Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Ye Liu from Feng Province, while the injured man revealed that he was Zhuang Bufan from Qi Province.
• Lu Ye brought the Spirit Ship down as Zhuang Bufan released more than four hundred abducted commoners and urged them to leave Xue Province.
• Zhuang Bufan explained that Heavenly Chasm Sect pursuers could arrive soon, and Lu Ye stayed to set up a Formation despite the danger.
• Lu Ye finished the Formation and had Yiyi bring Ye Liuli over while Zhuang Bufan rested aboard the ship.