Recaps

Lu Ye joined the Blood Race army gathering at Star-Moon Sacred Land and learned that millions of Blood Race fighters planned to attack the Human Race’s Crimson Blood Sacred Land. A mysterious Human Race woman arrived and unleashed a devastating attack on the assembled forces, leaving Lu Ye shielded by Dao Thirteen as the massacre continued.

• Lu Ye traveled with Dao Thirteen and Yu Lingfeng among Blood Race troops gathering for the attack on Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• The Blood Race army at Star-Moon Sacred Land grew to several hundred thousand, and Lu Ye questioned a Blessed Land Master about the Human Race stronghold’s defenses.
• A mysterious woman in thin gauze approached, triggering Lu Ye’s and Dao Thirteen’s warnings before she continued through the camp.
• The woman rose above the army and cast Ten Thousand Pear Blossoms Blooming, killing every Blood Race member within a thousand zhang.
• Dao Thirteen covered Lu Ye as the attack erupted, while Yu Lingfeng and the Blessed Land Master vanished and the woman continued her massacre.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen escaped the Blood Race camp with a group of powerful Human Race cultivators from the Crimson Blood Sacred Land. After the Ghost Cultivator questioned why they had brought along two supposed Blood Slaves, Lu Ye denied that either of them bore a Blood Seal, but the Ghost Cultivator prepared to kill them anyway.

• A Spell Cultivator, a Sword Cultivator, and a Body Cultivator devastated the Blood Race camp while a Ghost Cultivator failed to assassinate the Star-Moon Sacred Venerate at the summit.
• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen flew after the Sword Cultivator, who carried them away from the Blood Race pursuers and waited with them on a distant peak.
• The Ghost Cultivator arrived, followed by the Spell Cultivator and the Body Cultivator, and the group discussed Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen's apparent status as Blood Slaves.
• Lu Ye insisted that he and Dao Thirteen had never been branded with a Blood Seal, but the Ghost Cultivator dismissed his claim and produced a dagger.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen joined Jian Guhong’s group, proved they were not Blood Slaves, and reached Crimson Blood Sacred Land at the Divine Palace Sea. While the group reported to the Sacred Lord, Lu Ye noticed a stone stele that caught his attention.

• Jian Guhong recognized Dao Thirteen as a Dao Soldier, and the group suspected Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen might have come from beyond the Blood Refining World.
• The group tested Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen by sending them to attack Blood Race cultivators, confirming they were not Blood Slaves.
• Lu Ye told the old Ghost Cultivator that he had disguised himself and Dao Thirteen as Blood Slaves by bewitching a Blood Race cultivator, and the old man warned him not to use the method carelessly at Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• The female Spell Cultivator brought Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen across the Divine Palace Sea to Crimson Blood Sacred Land, where Lu Ye saw the human settlement and its defenses.
• While Jian Guhong and the others reported to the Sacred Lord, Lu Ye walked over to examine a stone stele that had caught his eye.

The Sacred Lord and Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s experts prepared for a massive Blood Race assault, while wondering what aid the Homeland had sent. Lu Ye arrived at the Sacred Land and met the Sacred Lord, who subdued Dao Thirteen and asked how Taishan was.

• The Sacred Lord learned that more than 1.3 million Blood Race soldiers and several Sacred Seeds were massing across the four fronts, threatening the outer islands and their Human Race population.
• Wuchang proposed that the peak experts could escape, but Jian Guhong warned that the Blood Race would slaughter the people left behind.
• The female Spell Cultivator asked what help the Homeland could provide, and the Sacred Lord said it had claimed to have already sent aid.
• Lu Ye read the matching inscriptions on the Sacred Land’s stone stele and was startled when Dao Thirteen reacted to the approaching Sacred Lord.
• Dao Thirteen attacked the Sacred Lord, who blocked his punch and put him to sleep with a finger, then told Lu Ye that the Dao Soldier’s flawed refinement had left his intelligence low and asked how Taishan was.

Lu Ye learned that Feng Wujiang and the powerful cultivators who had rescued him were people from Nine Provinces whom Heavenly Mechanism had sent to the Blood Refining World. He discovered Feng Wujiang was his long-dead Eldest Senior Brother, and the chapter ended with Yue Ji warning him about the ancient Granny Jiu.

• A middle-aged man asked Lu Ye about Taishan and then asked which province and sect he came from.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as a cultivator of the Soldier Province Crimson Blood Sect, prompting the man to ask about Tang Yifeng.
• The man revealed that he was Feng Wujiang, and Lu Ye rejected the claim because he believed his Eldest Senior Brother had died nearly forty years earlier.
• Jian Guhong, Yue Ji, Meng Jie, and Wuchang revealed their former positions and explained that they had all once been dead.
• Lu Ye realized that Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had sent ancient, era-defining cultivators to aid the Human Race in the Blood Refining World.
• Yue Ji identified the passing old woman as Granny Jiu, the thousand-year-old second-generation Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, and warned Lu Ye not to offend her.

Lu Ye reunited with his supposedly dead Eldest Senior Brother, Feng Wujiang, at the Crimson Blood Sacred Land and told him how the Crimson Blood Sect had fared. Their conversation left Feng Wujiang delighted and remorseful, while Lu Ye worried that Sect Master still feared for his safety.

• Granny Jiu corrected Yue Ji for speaking ill of others, and Feng Wujiang recognized Lu Ye as his Junior Brother.
• Feng Wujiang took Lu Ye to a pavilion and asked about the Main Sect and the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye explained the Crimson Blood Sect's hardships, his fellow disciples' progress, and how he had joined and helped preserve the sect.
• Feng Wujiang warned Lu Ye that trying to suppress the opposing camps by force had led to disaster in the Nine Provinces.
• Feng Wujiang was shocked that Lu Ye had reached True Lake Tier Eight in almost five years and heard that Shui Yuan had advanced to the Divine Sea Realm.
• Lu Ye worried that Sect Master was anxious because nearly a year had passed since Yu Daiwei captured him and escaped with the Teleportation Array.

Lu Ye explained how he had encountered Taishan and Dao Thirteen, then learned why Feng Wujiang and other Nine Provinces cultivators had been sent to the Blood Refining World. With the Crimson Blood Sacred Land facing a major Blood Race assault, Lu Ye revealed a Formation Plate that could let allies share strength, and Feng Wujiang recognized its potential for forming a battle formation.

• Lu Ye told Feng Wujiang how Yu Daiwei had taken him to an isolated Secret Realm, and Feng Wujiang identified the Venerable Lord as Taishan.
• Feng Wujiang explained that Dao Soldiers were humanoid artifacts whose rapid growth came at the cost of their potential and intelligence, while Lu Ye described his absolute control over Dao Thirteen.
• Feng Wujiang recounted how Nine Provinces cultivators had arrived over centuries with sealed cultivation and how he founded the Crimson Blood Sacred Land, which now faced an unusually large Blood Race army.
• Lu Ye presented the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate, and Feng Wujiang realized it could help cultivators form a battle formation by sharing strength.

Lu Ye’s Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate impressed Feng Wujiang with its potential to strengthen the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s forces, but artifact refiner Ouyang Zi could not reproduce its complex Spiritual Pattern. After resting, Lu Ye remembered Dao Thirteen and went looking for Feng Wujiang, who had left to inspect the defenses.

• Feng Wujiang recognized that Lu Ye’s Formation Plate could help cultivators form powerful battle formations and took it to study.
• Lu Ye was shown to a quiet chamber, where he rested and sensed that he had forgotten something.
• Ouyang Zi examined the Formation Plate and told Feng Wujiang that he could not inscribe its Spiritual Pattern or refine the item in large quantities.
• Feng Wujiang delayed visiting Lu Ye, while Dao Thirteen waited alone at the foot of the mountain.
• Lu Ye remembered Dao Thirteen the next day, found him, and learned that Feng Wujiang had gone to inspect the defensive works at the Surrounding Archipelago.

Lu Ye discovered that Sacred Mountain’s Heaven’s Mystery Pillar was temporarily inactive, then met Ouyang Zi and demonstrated how he refined the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate. The chapter left Sacred Land unable to rely on Ouyang Zi to reproduce the Spirit Pattern before the Blood Race army invaded.

• Lu Ye found the Heaven’s Mystery Pillar, but Feng Wujiang explained it activated only once every five years and would next open in about a year.
• Feng Wujiang promised Lu Ye stored cultivation supplies and Blood Crystals, which Lu Ye could use to advance his cultivation.
• Feng Wujiang introduced Lu Ye to Ouyang Zi, who doubted that someone so young had refined the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate.
• Lu Ye refined another Formation Plate and explained that his skill as a Spirit Pattern Master let him construct its complex Spirit Pattern.
• Ouyang Zi struggled to reproduce the Spirit Pattern, and Feng Wujiang concluded Sacred Land could not count on him to equip its defenders before the Blood Race invasion.

Lu Ye agreed to refine Formation Plates and learned that Feng Wujiang had sealed more than a hundred Blood Race Dao Soldiers because they could not be trusted in battle. After Lu Ye used his Soul Control Divine Soul to bring them under his control, he received materials and Blood Crystals and began absorbing the crystals to advance his cultivation.

• Feng Wujiang brought Lu Ye to a cavern where more than a hundred Blood Race Dao Soldiers had been sealed in vats.
• Feng Wujiang asked Lu Ye to control the Dao Soldiers, and Lu Ye explained that his Divine Pattern could suppress them absolutely because their intelligence was damaged.
• Lu Ye demonstrated his control method on one Dao Soldier, and Feng Wujiang awakened it to confirm that it obeyed Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye implanted the Soul Control Divine Soul in every Dao Soldier, then led the obedient group back to the Sacred Mountain.
• A blue-robed attendant delivered Formation Plate materials and Blood Crystals, and Lu Ye began absorbing the crystals with his Talent Tree.

Lu Ye prepared for the Blood Race's approaching assault by reaching True Lake Tier Nine, tattooing Shared Breath, Connected Branches patterns onto his Blood Race Soul Slaves, and drilling them in battle formations. He then joined Feng Wujiang and the Nine Provinces elders on a defensive island as they made their final preparations for the coming battle.

• Lu Ye refined thousands of Formation Plates, then cultivated until he reached True Lake Tier Nine and consolidated his breakthrough.
• After learning that the Blood Race army would arrive within days, Lu Ye tattooed Shared Breath, Connected Branches patterns onto Dao Thirteen and the other Blood Race Soul Slaves.
• Lu Ye drilled the Soul Slaves in a range of battle formations, using the Tattoo Patterns to link their vital auras.
• Lu Ye led the drilled Dao Soldiers to an outer island, where Feng Wujiang and the Nine Provinces powerhouses were assigning defensive duties.
• Lu Ye greeted the assembled elders as Feng Wujiang introduced him, while the group prepared for the Blood Race's large-scale assault.

Lu Ye joined the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s preparations and helped raise its chances against the approaching Blood Race army. As the battle began, the defenders activated their formations and Lu Ye poured his power into the Grand Array.

• Feng Wujiang overrode objections and decided that the Nine Provinces seniors would remain at the Crimson Blood Sacred Land to fight.
• Lu Ye arrived with Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates and was assigned to defend one of the eleven islands alongside Meng Jie and Yue Ji.
• Lu Ye inspected the island’s extensive defenses, then sensed the Blood Refining World’s World Will press against him as the Blood Race army approached.
• The Blood Race army advanced beneath a vast darkness, and the Human Race defenders activated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Arrays and other formations.
• Yue Ji and Meng Jie saw Lu Ye eating a Blood Crystal, and Lu Ye fed his power into the Grand Array.
• The city walls fired a pillar of light into the advancing Blood Race army, killing those in its path and beginning the battle.

The Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s eleven-island defense endured three days of Blood Race attacks before the Human Race feigned exhaustion to draw the enemy closer. When the Blood Race broke the final Protective Spirit Array and pressed toward the islands, the hidden strength of the formations unleashed a devastating counterattack, leaving the battle raging with the Blood Race’s advance repelled.

• The Blood Race sent waves of cannon fodder against the islands for three days while the formations slaughtered them beyond a thousand zhang.
• The Star-Moon Sacred Venerate ordered the Blood Race to proceed according to plan, and Yue Ji and Meng Jie likewise began the Human Race’s plan to feign weakness.
• Lu Ye explained that the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Array had kept the Human Race’s defenders supplied with strength despite the prolonged fighting.
• The Human Race’s attacks weakened, allowing True Lake Realm and Divine Sea Realm Blood Race members to advance and break the first two Protective Spirit Arrays.
• The Blood Race broke the final Protective Spirit Array and rushed forward, believing the islands were vulnerable.
• The island formations unleashed their concealed power, devastating the Blood Race ranks and clearing the area near the islands.

Star-Moon Sacred Venerate ordered the Blood Race to continue its assault on Crimson Blood Sacred Land after the Human Race’s counterattack began to falter. Meng Jie and the Human Race cultivators then charged from the islands in battle formations, while Lu Ye led his Blood Race Dao Soldiers into an enemy Blood River.

• Star-Moon Sacred Venerate chose to press the attack, and the Blood Race advanced as the Human Race’s formations began to fail.
• Meng Jie hurled stones from his Stone String, turning them into enormous boulders that carved paths through the Blood Race army.
• Meng Jie charged into the enemy ranks, and Human Race cultivators leaped from the island walls in formations that manifested as ferocious beasts and dragons.
• Lu Ye and his nine-person Nine Palaces Linked Array entered a Blood River, where the Dao Soldiers killed the Blood Race hidden within it and made the river vanish.

Lu Ye led his Blood Race Dao Soldiers through the battlefield, using their formation and the Talent Tree to kill Divine Sea Realm Blood Race cultivators. After Yue Ji helped him defeat a Divine Sea Tier Eight opponent, Lu Ye pressed on while the battle remained locked in a brutal stalemate.

• Lu Ye used the Sword Gourd and the Nine Palaces Linked Array to lead his Dao Soldiers in killing Divine Sea Realm Blood Race cultivators.
• A Divine Sea Tier Eight Blood Race cultivator trapped Lu Ye and his Dao Soldiers inside a Blood River and attacked him.
• Lu Ye activated the Talent Tree to devour the Blood River’s power, forcing the Blood Race cultivator to withdraw the technique.
• Lu Ye charged the exposed enemy, and Yue Ji’s spell immobilized him long enough for Lu Ye and the Dao Soldiers to kill him.
• Lu Ye rushed toward another Divine Sea Realm enemy as Yue Ji stayed on guard and the wider battle continued at great cost to both sides.

As the Blood Race assault threatened Crimson Blood Sacred Land, Yue Ji drew a Sacred Seed away from her island, but its hidden attack caused the island to sink and destroyed its defensive support. Lu Ye and the surviving Human Race cultivators gathered above the ruins to hold the breached line as Blood Race forces surged toward them.

• Lu Ye fought alongside his Dao Soldiers while the Human Race and Blood Race battled in a contest of endurance, until Star-Moon Sacred Venerate targeted him and Jian Guhong intercepted the Sacred Venerate.
• Yue Ji told Lu Ye to retreat and take her place, then fought a Sacred Seed beneath the sea of blood and lured it away from the island.
• A senior predecessor found that the island could not be saved as the Sacred Seed's hidden means made it sink, destroying its defenses and cutting off their support.
• The Human Race retreated from the sinking island and formed a new defense line in the air, while Lu Ye's forces lost more than twenty Dao Soldiers.
• A senior predecessor charged into the Blood Race ranks as the enemy swarmed the Human Race's exposed position, and Lu Ye ordered his surviving Dao Soldiers to merge into a huge Blood River.

Lu Ye and the Human Race used a vast blood sea formed by his Blood Race Dao Soldiers to repel the Blood Race army and defend the Crimson Blood Sacred Land. The Dao Soldiers’ blood sea fused permanently with the true blood sea, Lu Ye collapsed from exhaustion, and Feng Wujiang worried that the damaged defenses would not withstand another attack.

• Lu Ye and the Dao Soldiers fought inside their blood sea, suppressing the Blood Race army while Human Race cultivators joined the battle.
• The Blood Race retreated, and Lu Ye emerged to find the surviving Human Race had suffered heavy casualties.
• Lu Ye ordered the Dao Soldiers to dissolve their unstable blood sea, but it merged with the true blood sea and could not be separated.
• Lu Ye collapsed from exhaustion, and Yue Ji arranged for him to be taken back for treatment.
• Feng Wujiang recognized that the Human Race had repelled the attack but lost one of the island groups defending the Sacred Land.

Lu Ye recovered from the battle and discovered that his Divine Pool had expanded, then asked Feng Wujiang how to prepare for the Divine Sea Realm. Feng Wujiang explained that Lu Ye had formed Divine Sense early because his Mind Power was unusually strong, but he still needed to build his physical strength before he could attempt the breakthrough.

• A young Medical Cultivator treated Lu Ye's battle injuries, and Lu Ye learned he had slept for one day.
• Lu Ye examined himself and found that his Divine Pool and Divine Sense had grown, though he could not determine why.
• Lu Ye reflected on the lessons and gains he had acquired from fighting the Blood Race.
• After several days, Lu Ye found Feng Wujiang and asked about his early Divine Sense and preparations for advancing.
• Feng Wujiang explained that Lu Ye's powerful Mind Power and external stimuli had brought about Divine Sense, but his physical strength still had to reach the required standard for a chance to enter the Divine Sea Realm.

Feng Wujiang told Lu Ye to temper his Divine Sense and advance to the Divine Sea Realm within a year, when the Heaven's Mystery Pillar would activate and might let him return to Nine Provinces. After recovering, Lu Ye explored Sacred Island, met Yue Ji selling tofu, and was recruited to call out to customers.

• Feng Wujiang explained that Lu Ye should strengthen his body and temper his Divine Sense by exhausting and restoring it, without using recovery items.
• Feng Wujiang said the Heaven's Mystery Pillar would activate in a year and that Lu Ye had a strong chance of returning to Nine Provinces, though he and the senior elders could not.
• Lu Ye brought Dao Thirteen down from Sacred Mountain and wandered through Sacred Island while recovering from his injuries.
• Lu Ye found he had no money to buy sugar-coated hawthorns, so Yue Ji paid for two strings and revealed she was selling tofu.
• Yue Ji pointed out a senior elder amusing himself as a fortune-teller, then ordered Lu Ye to help attract customers at her tofu stall.

Lu Ye cultivated on Sacred Mountain, using Blood Crystals to strengthen his physical foundation and Soul Taming Divine Patterns to temper his mind as he prepared for the Divine Sea Realm. After more than half a year, he learned that Eldest Senior Brother had gone out to sea with others to find more Blood Crystals for him.

• Lu Ye returned to Sacred Mountain and began absorbing the Blood Crystals Eldest Senior Brother had delivered.
• Lu Ye balanced strengthening his body with the Talent Tree and consuming his Divine Sense by constructing Soul Taming Divine Patterns, resting between bouts to recover naturally.
• Lu Ye spent more than half a year cultivating and visiting the old seniors on Sacred Island, gradually becoming familiar with them.
• Lu Ye noticed that several old seniors, including Eldest Senior Brother, had disappeared from their usual places.
• Lu Ye asked Yue Ji where Eldest Senior Brother had gone, and she told him he had taken a group out to sea to search for more Blood Crystals.

Lu Ye entered the Blood Sea to draw on its energy and force his difficult breakthrough to the Divine Sea Realm. As his body neared its limits, a mass of golden light spun toward him through the bloodwater.

• Lu Ye continued cultivating with Blood Crystals until his accumulated Spiritual Power brought him close to a breakthrough, while Feng Wujiang supplied dwindling resources.
• Lu Ye told Feng Wujiang he had another place to cultivate, then used up the resources he had received and headed for the Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye plunged into the Blood Sea and sank to its seabed, where the immense pressure helped clarify his breakthrough opportunity.
• Lu Ye activated the Talent Tree to devour the bloodwater's energy, but struggled to take the final step as his body swelled and cracks appeared in his skin.
• As Lu Ye approached his limits, he sensed light and opened his eyes to see a mass of golden light spinning toward him.

Lu Ye absorbed a golden Spiritual Radiance Mass beneath the Blood Sea, enduring its dangerous inheritance and impurities as he advanced to the Divine Sea Realm. He escaped the sea and reunited with Feng Wujiang, who immediately challenged him to a fight.

• Lu Ye recognized the golden light as a source of the Blood Race's Sacred Seeds and grabbed it, allowing it to enter his body.
• The Talent Tree burned away harmful impurities while the golden light flooded Lu Ye with the Blood Race's inheritance, severely battering his body and soul.
• Lu Ye's Twin Dragons Guarding the Sea shattered, but he survived the ordeal and advanced to the Divine Sea Realm.
• Lu Ye recovered enough to move, swallowed Soul Cleansing Water, and flew out of the Blood Sea to conserve the Talent Tree's fuel.
• Feng Wujiang congratulated Lu Ye, then lunged at him, prompting Lu Ye to plead that they talk first.

After advancing to the Divine Sea Realm, Lu Ye was repeatedly battered by Sacred Island seniors, which helped him consolidate his cultivation and learn to use his power. He also gained the Blood Race’s bloodline inheritance and refined three drops of Essence Blood, leaving him with new techniques and a possible way to strengthen his trump cards.

• Lu Ye returned to his residence after Eldest Senior Brother beat him to help him master his new Divine Sea Realm strength.
• Meng Jie tested Lu Ye for an hour, then made him transplant rice seedlings after Lu Ye failed to move him.
• Lu Ye spent the following days being tested by Sacred Island seniors, broadening his combat experience and quickly consolidating his cultivation.
• Lu Ye learned he had retained the Blood Race’s bloodline inheritance, including the Blood River Art, Blood Escape Art, and Blood Refining Technique.
• Lu Ye refined three drops of Essence Blood and considered using them to activate Blood Dye and Beast Transformation more quickly.

After months of training, Lu Ye prepared to leave the Blood Refining World through the Heaven's Mystery Pillar, and the senior experts gave him tokens and farewells. As Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen activated the pillar, the Blood Refining World’s World Will struck with scarlet lightning, leaving their fate unclear.

• Lu Ye tested burning Essence Blood and confirmed it let him activate the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern instantly, then grew stronger through daily sparring with the old seniors.
• Feng Wujiang led the seniors to Heaven's Mystery Hall, where they gave Lu Ye sect tokens and said their farewells.
• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen pressed their hands to the Heaven's Mystery Pillar, and Lu Ye realized he could return to Nine Provinces.
• The Blood Refining World’s World Will summoned a massive bolt of scarlet lightning and aimed it at the Heaven's Mystery Pillar.
• Feng Wujiang and the other seniors fought the lightning while Yue Ji and the spell cultivators raised defenses, but the strike broke through and hit the pillar.

Lu Ye survived the weakened Blood Refining World's Heaven's Wrath during teleportation and returned to the Nine Provinces. He spotted signs of the Insect Race on a nearby Floating Land before Heaven's Mystery's protection vanished and he plunged toward the world below.

• Feng Wujiang watched Lu Ye disappear with the blood-colored lightning and realized Dao Thirteen had been left behind.
• Lu Ye used Essence Blood to cast Blood Escape and kept fleeing until the blood-colored lightning weakened and vanished.
• Lu Ye emerged from the teleportation passage and saw the Nine Provinces, along with the surrounding Floating Lands and the battlefields connected to them.
• Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern to glimpse what appeared to be Insect Race on one Floating Land.
• Lu Ye descended through the clouds toward the Nine Provinces, but when Heaven's Mystery's protection vanished, he began falling too fast to steady himself.