Recaps

Lu Ye and Wu Dezhao defeated two Blood Race Sacred Seeds who had set a trap for them, then joined the Nine Provinces cultivators in destroying the Blood Race forces at Panshi Sacred Land. Lu Ye’s vastly increased Sacred Nature suppressed the Blood Race across the battlefield as the fighting ended in a decisive Human Race victory.

• Two Blood Race Sacred Seeds attacked Lu Ye inside their Blood River, but his Sacred Nature overwhelmed them and broke their restraint.
• Wu Dezhao battered Panshi Sacred Venerate to death while Lu Ye held the Sacred Seeds in the Blood River.
• Lu Ye and Wu Dezhao killed the remaining Sacred Seed after he failed to escape and attempted to use the Blood Explosion Art.
• Lu Ye and Wu Dezhao joined the Nine Provinces cultivators, and Lu Ye’s bloodline suppression weakened the Blood Race throughout the battle.
• The Blood Race forces at Panshi Sacred Land were slaughtered, and the fighting subsided with their corpses scattered outside the stronghold.

With the Blood Race nearly defeated, Lu Ye struggled to hunt the remaining Sacred Seeds, who escaped into the underground Blood River. As sunlight broke through the clouds, he and Junior Sister Lan both sensed guidance from the Blood Refining World's World Will, leaving Lu Ye to investigate what it meant.

• Nine Provinces' forces swept through the Blood Refining World, reducing the Blood Race to scattered survivors hiding from pursuit.
• Lu Ye pursued a Sacred Seed into a Blood Pool but lost it in the underground Blood River.
• Lu Ye noticed the clouds thinning, indicating Little Nine had gained the upper hand against the Blood Refining World's World Will.
• Lu Ye sensed mysterious guidance, and Little Nine confirmed it came from the Blood Refining World's World Will.
• Second Senior Sister told Lu Ye that Junior Sister Lan had sensed similar guidance pointing in a direction.

Lu Ye realized the Blood Refining World’s guidance was drawing its remaining Sacred Seeds together, so he led the Nine Provinces’ Tier Nine cultivators to Jade Pillar Peak and prepared an ambush. The gathered Sacred Seeds recognized the trap as more than a hundred Human Race powerhouses closed in, and feared the arrival of Sacred Seed Bane.

• Lu Ye inferred that the World Will’s guidance had summoned the Sacred Seeds and messaged the Human Race powerhouses to converge on him.
• After flying for ten days, Lu Ye reached Jade Pillar Peak, found three Sacred Seeds gathered there, and hid near the summit’s Blood Pool to block their escape.
• More Sacred Seeds arrived, bringing the gathering to nearly twenty as Lu Ye waited for the Human Race forces to complete their encirclement.
• Lu Ye sent the order to attack, and more than a hundred Tier Nine Human Race cultivators rushed toward the summit.
• The Sacred Seeds realized they had been lured into a trap and panicked, especially because they feared Sacred Seed Bane.

Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces powerhouses trapped and attacked the Sacred Seeds at Jade Pillar Peak, using Lu Ye’s Blood Sea to suppress them and block their escape. As the battle turned in their favor and the dark clouds cleared, Little Nine warned Lu Ye that the Blood Refining World’s World Will possessed intelligence.

• The Sacred Seeds fled toward the Blood Pool entrance, where Lu Ye blocked their way with a vast Blood Sea that suppressed their strength and swallowed several of them.
• Jian Guhong and the Nine Provinces powerhouses launched their planned assault, restraining and surrounding the Sacred Seeds while Lu Ye guarded the Blood Pool.
• The trapped Sacred Seeds repeatedly tried to break through Lu Ye’s defense, then fled outward when they realized they could not pass him.
• Jian Guhong and four allies killed a Sacred Seed as the battle proceeded according to the Nine Provinces’ plan.
• The dark clouds covering the Blood Refining World dispersed, and Little Nine told Lu Ye that the world’s World Will had concealed an intelligent Essence Spirit.

Lu Ye watched a Blood River surge from the Blood Pool, gathering Blood Race Sacred Seeds into an enormous Blood Fetus that the Human Race powerhouses attacked. The Blood Fetus shattered, releasing a soul-chilling presence whose identity and intentions remained unknown.

• Little Nine warned Lu Ye that the Blood Refining World's World Will might have gone to his location.
• A Blood River erupted from the Blood Pool, swept away Sacred Seeds, and drew others to merge with it.
• Lu Ye learned that Lan Qiyue had also received the summons and was heading toward Jade Pillar Peak.
• The Blood River gathered more than twenty Sacred Seeds and formed a giant Blood Fetus atop Jade Pillar Peak.
• Jian Guhong led the Human Race powerhouses in focusing their attacks until the Blood Fetus cracked and shattered, releasing an ominous aura.

The Blood Refining World's World Will formed a Blood Giant from the fused Sacred Seeds and Blood Pool to attack the gathered Nine Provinces powerhouses. As the giant's Sacred Nature surpassed Lu Ye's, it grew more agile and suddenly sprouted two extra arms to strike at the dodging fighters.

• The Blood Fetus shattered, revealing a towering Blood Giant bearing the faces of the fused Sacred Seeds.
• Lu Ye realized the Blood Refining World's World Will had lured the Nine Provinces powerhouses to Jade Pillar Peak to destroy their strongest forces and protect its foundation.
• The Human Race powerhouses attacked the giant, whose slow, clumsy movements gradually became faster and more agile.
• Lu Ye sensed that the giant's Sacred Nature was rising as it fused the Sacred Blood in its body, and recognized that suppressing it was crucial to victory.
• The Blood Giant's Sacred Nature surpassed Lu Ye's, and it punched in both directions before growing two new arms beneath its armpits and striking again.

As the Blood Giant’s Sacred Nature surpassed Lu Ye’s, it grew extra arms and unleashed a devastating assault on the Nine Provinces cultivators. Lu Ye waited for its power to near its limit, then teleported his Clone to himself and absorbed its Sacred Nature, preparing to return to the battle.

• The Blood Giant grew two arms and attacked Lu Ye and the Spell Cultivators, badly injuring several while Long Bai warned Lu Ye to flee.
• The Blood Giant grew two more arms and attacked with volleys of Blood Light and Divine Soul impacts, forcing the Nine Provinces cultivators into a desperate retreat.
• Long Bai asked Lu Ye for a plan, and Lu Ye told everyone to hold on while he watched the Blood Giant’s Sacred Nature begin to rise more slowly.
• Lu Ye left the battlefield and set up a Teleportation Spirit Array as his Clone did the same several thousand li away.
• The Clone teleported to Lu Ye, who absorbed it and gained a surge of Sacred Nature.

Lu Ye merged with his Clone, gaining enough Sacred Nature to suppress the Blood Giant and turn the battle on Jade Pillar Peak in the Nine Provinces cultivators’ favor. The Blood Giant was being worn down, but it struck back fiercely and left Meng Jie gravely injured.

• Lu Ye merged with his Clone and sensed that his Sacred Nature had likely surpassed the Blood Giant’s.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea over Jade Pillar Peak, suppressing the Blood Giant and allowing the Nine Provinces cultivators to attack.
• The cultivators destroyed the Sacred Seed heads embedded in the Blood Giant, weakening its interference as its body gradually shrank.
• Jian Guhong and Mu Suifeng severed one of the Blood Giant’s arms with a combined sword strike.
• Meng Jie shielded Jian Guhong and Mu Suifeng from Blood Arts, but the Blood Giant struck him into a crater before Wuchang pulled him out gravely injured.

The Nine Provinces cultivators weakened the Blood Giant by repeatedly severing its limbs while Lu Ye devoured its Blood River with the Talent Tree. Just as the Giant's body burst apart, a sinister humanoid Blood Light lunged into Lu Ye.

• The Nine Provinces cultivators attacked the Blood Giant's limbs and forced it to regrow them, making its body shrink with each regeneration.
• The Blood Giant unleashed the Blood River Art, and Lu Ye merged his blood sea with it and used the Talent Tree to devour its power.
• The Nine Provinces cultivators kept severing the Blood Giant's limbs and head until it had shrunk to a fraction of its original size.
• The Blood Giant's body twisted and burst apart, and Lu Ye sensed that an eerie aura remained where it had been.
• A blurry humanoid Blood Light rushed at Lu Ye and crashed into his body.

Lu Ye fought off the Blood Shadow that invaded his Divine Sea and absorbed the surviving fragment of its Essence Spirit. From its scattered memories, he learned that the Blood Refining World had formed from the corpse of a powerful female being.

• The Blood Shadow entered Lu Ye’s Divine Sea and tried to seize his body, but the Soul Suppressing Tower and his divine soul resisted its corruption.
• Lu Ye trapped the Blood Shadow with the seawater of his Divine Sea and attacked it with the Soul Severing Saber.
• Lu Ye destroyed the Blood Shadow with the Tyrant Saber’s Third Form, Lotus Sun, leaving behind a point of Spiritual Light.
• Lu Ye absorbed the Spiritual Light and learned that it contained a fragment of the Blood Shadow’s Essence Spirit, which was the World Will of the Blood Refining World.
• Lu Ye learned that the Blood Refining World had formed from the remnant corpse of a powerful female being, whose blood vessels became the world’s underground blood rivers.

After Lu Ye defeated the Blood Spirit inside the collapsed Blood Giant, the Nine Provinces cultivators confirmed their victory and recovered on Jade Pillar Peak. Lu Ye learned how Little Nine reconstructed the Dragon Ascent World Secret Realm and worried that the Blood World might be another remnant of the ancient female being.

• The Blood Spirit’s origin as the Blood Refining World’s World Will became clear, and Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature helped the Nine Provinces cultivators destroy the Blood Giant.
• The Blood Sea withdrew, and Lu Ye assured the Sect Master and Long Bai that the Blood Giant was dead and the Nine Provinces had won.
• The exhausted cultivators descended to Jade Pillar Peak to heal, while Long Bai and Pang Zhen agreed to celebrate after returning to the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye told Little Nine about the Blood Spirit, and Little Nine explained that the Dragon Ascent World was a reconstructed secret realm based on a captured world fragment.
• Lu Ye speculated that the Blood World might come from another part of the ancient female being and feared she could still be alive, but Little Nine urged the Human Race to grow stronger.

Lu Ye and Little Nine discussed Nine Provinces’ future, and the campaign against the Blood Race ended in complete victory. As the sects divided the Blood Refining World, Lu Ye argued that Crimson Blood Sacred Land should not merge into the Crimson Blood Sect, warning that its cultivators’ loyalty to Feng Wujiang could disrupt the Main Sect.

• Lu Ye and Little Nine discussed the Blood Refining World’s future and how Nine Provinces’ foundation and experts could advance.
• Lan Qiyue reached Lu Ye after recovering from the Blood Spirit’s summons and learned how narrowly she had escaped being absorbed into the Blood Giant.
• Feng Wujiang and other Human Race experts announced that the Blood Race had been wiped out, prompting celebrations across the Blood Refining World.
• Nine Provinces’ sects divided the conquered territory, with the Crimson Blood Sect claiming Lan Qiyue’s former domain and Purple Star Dao Palace receiving neighboring land.
• The Sect Master asked Shui Yuan and Lu Ye whether Crimson Blood Sacred Land should join the Crimson Blood Sect, and Lu Ye opposed the merger because its cultivators’ allegiance to Feng Wujiang could undermine the Main Sect’s cohesion.

Lu Ye and the Sect Master decided to keep the Crimson Blood Sect separate from the Crimson Blood Sacred Land, then organized cultivators across the Blood Refining World to activate Spirit Merging Arrays and halt its approach toward Nine Provinces. The realm stopped before colliding with Nine Provinces, ending months of fear there.

• Lu Ye explained why the Crimson Blood Sect should not absorb the Crimson Blood Sacred Land, and the Sect Master agreed to keep them separate.
• Lu Ye and cultivators across the Blood Refining World established Spirit Merging Arrays beside more than a hundred Heaven's Mystery Pillars.
• After receiving Little Nine's signal, Lu Ye began the arrays, and cultivators poured their Spiritual Power into the pillars.
• Beams of light erupted from the Heaven's Mystery Pillars as the Blood Refining World slowed its advance toward Nine Provinces.
• The Blood Refining World came to a complete halt, and cultivators informed the mortals, who celebrated the end of the danger.

After the Blood Refining World expedition ended, the Nine Provinces cultivators returned home while Lu Ye stayed behind to survey territory for the Crimson Blood Sect and prepare its branch. The chapter leaves Lu Ye handing over the work to Pang Huanyin and the others, who arrived with a Heaven’s Mystery Pillar for the Purple Star Dao Palace.

• The Nine Provinces cultivators returned through the Heaven’s Mystery Pillars, and Lu Ye explained that the Blood Refining World would become a subordinate realm whose resources and people could support the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye stayed at Jiaoli Grotto Heaven to survey the Crimson Blood Sect’s territory, while Pang Huanyin returned to obtain a Heaven’s Mystery Pillar for the Purple Star Dao Palace.
• Lan Qiyue, Amber, and Yiyi returned to the Nine Provinces, with Lan Qiyue preparing to join the Crimson Blood Sect and Amber and Yiyi preparing to advance their cultivation.
• Lu Ye created a Clone and spent more than half a month mapping the Crimson Blood Sect’s and Purple Star Dao Palace’s territories, recording mineral deposits, medicinal herbs, terrain, and Human Race villages.
• Pang Huanyin returned to Jiaoli Grotto Heaven with Chen Yu, Kong Niu, and Ruan Lingyu to take over from Lu Ye and establish the Purple Star Dao Palace’s branch.

After returning from the Blood Refining World, Lu Ye sensed that Nine Provinces’ restraints on cultivation had weakened, confirming that the world had grown stronger. At a victory feast in Vast Sky City, Wuchang asked Lu Ye to explain what lay beyond the Divine Sea Realm, and Lu Ye consulted Little Nine before preparing to answer.

• Lu Ye left Kong Niu, Pang Huanyin, and the other cultivators to manage the Crimson Blood Sect’s branch territory, then returned to Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye sensed that the restraints on Nine Provinces’ cultivators had weakened after the world absorbed the Blood Refining World’s foundation.
• Lu Ye attended a victory feast in Vast Sky City with the Sect Master, where cultivators from across Nine Provinces gathered to celebrate and discuss the future.
• Wuchang asked Lu Ye what realm lay above the Divine Sea Realm, drawing the attention of the assembled cultivators.
• Lu Ye consulted Little Nine through his Battlefield Mark, and Little Nine told him that he could speak about the subject.

Lu Ye explained to the Nine Provinces’ Divine Sea cultivators how the realm’s growth would enable them to reach the Starry Sky and outlined the Upper Three Realms. After the Victory Feast ended, Wuchang accompanied Lu Ye to the Crimson Blood Sect, where he became a guest and a potential instructor for Ghost Cultivators.

• Lu Ye warned that Divine Sea cultivators could not survive the Starry Sky without first gaining a connection to its power, and said Heavenly Mechanism would likely guide them when the Nine Provinces’ foundation had grown enough.
• Lu Ye described the Lower Four Realms and the Upper Three Realms, explaining that Star Constellation, Moonlight, and Great Sun corresponded to essence, energy, and spirit.
• Lu Ye said Star Constellation cultivators could reportedly regenerate lost limbs and that Body Cultivators might find the breakthrough easier, prompting questions from the gathered cultivators.
• The Divine Sea cultivators questioned Lu Ye for more than half a day, and the Victory Feast ended after three days and nights of discussion.
• Wuchang followed Lu Ye and the Sect Master to the Crimson Blood Sect, where he stayed as a guest and could teach disciples pursuing the path of Ghost Cultivator.

Lu Ye learned from Little Nine that Lingyu was essential for cultivation beyond the Divine Sea Realm and that producing it consumed the Nine Provinces’ foundation. He advised letting cultivators compete for it, while the Talent Tree continued its second transformation.

• The Crimson Blood Sacred Land settled in Soldier Province, and Lu Ye advanced to Tier Seven of the Divine Sea Realm as the Nine Provinces grew more powerful.
• Lu Ye’s Talent Tree began its Second Transformation, so he paused cultivation and worked on his Formation Dao and Spirit Pattern Path.
• Lu Ye asked Little Nine about the missing third section of the Hundred Formation Pagoda, and Little Nine said it had never collected that section.
• Little Nine explained that Lingyu enabled Star Constellation Realm cultivation but that producing it consumed a realm’s foundation.
• Little Nine asked how Lingyu should be distributed, and Lu Ye advised letting cultivators fight for it.

The Heavenly Mechanism sent Spiritual Lights to the Nine Provinces, allowing qualified Divine Sea Realm cultivators to advance to Star Constellation. Jian Guhong became the first to enter the starry sky, while Wuchang later advanced and prepared to follow him.

• Little Nine's Spiritual Light appeared above the Nine Provinces, drawing the old predecessors into a battle to claim it.
• Jian Guhong won the first Spiritual Light and advanced to Star Constellation, becoming the first cultivator from the Nine Provinces to enter the starry sky.
• More Spiritual Lights descended across the Continents, and cultivators fought over them while showing restraint because further chances were expected.
• Wuchang claimed a Spiritual Light after four attempts, advanced to Star Constellation, and appeared younger and more powerful.
• Wuchang told Lu Ye he planned to explore the starry sky and asked whether Lu Ye had any advice for him.

After the Talent Tree's Second Transformation, Lu Ye discovered that it could reach farther and that his Clone now possessed its own Talent Tree, while Nine Provinces cultivators began exploring the starry sky for Lingyu. The chapter ends with Zhao Shoumu finding something terrifying at the end of a meteorite fissure.

• Wuchang left Nine Provinces to explore the starry sky after advancing to Star Constellation Realm.
• Lu Ye found that the Talent Tree's Second Transformation increased its reach and gave his Clone a separate Talent Tree with the same recovery abilities as his main body.
• Lu Ye considered the risks of losing half the Talent Tree if his Clone were destroyed and began replenishing the tree's depleted fuel with Fire Spirit Stones.
• Within a month, nearly all the old seniors from Crimson Blood Sacred Land had entered the starry sky, while other Divine Sea cultivators competed for the Spiritual Light needed to advance.
• Nine Provinces cultivators searched the nearby star region and collected Lingyu from meteorites, Dead Stars, and the void.
• Zhao Shoumu collected an unusually large number of Lingyu pieces from a meteorite fissure, then froze when he reached its end and saw something ahead.

Zhao Shoumu encountered a mysterious, heavily injured cultivator who had been healing on a meteorite, and the cultivator seized him and searched his soul. After learning about the Nine Provinces, the cultivator discovered that it was a Growth-type Realm devouring the Blood Refining World's foundation.

• Zhao Shoumu found a young man sitting on the meteorite, realized the man had gathered the Lingyu there, and tried to flee.
• The young man pulled Zhao Shoumu back with a mysterious power, and Zhao Shoumu bowed and answered his questions about the starry sky and the Nine Provinces.
• The young man grabbed Zhao Shoumu and searched his soul, leaving him collapsed and learning that the Nine Provinces had recently entered the starry sky.
• The young man wondered whether the Nine Provinces was the legendary realm before deciding it was probably only a namesake.
• The young man detected the Nine Provinces and saw that it was devouring the Blood Refining World's foundation, revealing that it was a Growth-type Realm.

Yue Xin entered Nine Provinces intending to seize the Growth-type Realm and quickly subdued Long Bai, while the realm’s Star Constellation cultivators hurried to confront him. Meanwhile, Lu Ye discovered that newly burning Talent Tree leaves were blank and seemed capable of holding spirit patterns and insights he created himself.

• Yue Xin recognized Nine Provinces as a valuable Growth-type Realm and flew toward it, warning Star Constellation cultivators who tried to observe him.
• The Nine Provinces cultivators rushed back to gather against Yue Xin, while Long Bai was knocked from the sky by an immense pressure.
• Yue Xin introduced himself to Long Bai and declared that Nine Provinces belonged to him, then defeated and seized him when Long Bai challenged him.
• Yue Xin waited for the approaching Star Constellation cultivators, intending to deal with Nine Provinces’ strongest figures together.
• Lu Ye found that the Talent Tree’s newly burning leaves held no existing spirit patterns or insights, but appeared able to receive patterns and knowledge he supplied.

Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree’s Second Transformation could guide him in deriving and refining Spiritual Patterns, but the process nearly exhausted his Soul Power. As he began recovering, a distant battle shook the Nine Provinces, and Little Nine did not answer his call.

• Lu Ye suspected he could create Spiritual Patterns on the Talent Tree’s blank leaves and began constructing the Void Spirit Pattern there.
• The Talent Tree guided Lu Ye into an intense state of derivation, where he revised the pattern until his Soul Power was nearly depleted.
• Lu Ye realized the unfinished Void was more streamlined than the version he had learned, with over a hundred fewer Base Elements.
• Lu Ye took Soul Cleansing Water and waited to recover, then heard a distant boom and felt the world tremble.
• Lu Ye called Little Nine through his Battlefield Mark several times, but Little Nine did not respond.

Lu Ye learned that Yue Xin, a Great Sun Realm cultivator, had discovered the Nine Provinces and intended to claim it for himself. Little Nine had hidden to avoid being exposed, and Lu Ye was left with no clear way to protect the realm from Yue Xin’s return.

• Lu Ye and the Sect Master flew toward the disturbance, and Little Nine contacted Lu Ye after Yue Xin had left.
• Little Nine explained that Yue Xin had overwhelmed the Nine Provinces’ Star Constellation cultivators with one palm and killed Zhao Shoumu using Soul Searching Technique.
• Little Nine revealed that Yue Xin had discovered the Nine Provinces while it was devouring the Blood Refining World’s foundation and wanted to occupy the rapidly growing realm for its Spirit Jade and potential as a base.
• Little Nine said it had concealed itself because Yue Xin might try to refine the Heaven’s Mystery Disk, and the Nine Provinces’ Heavenly Punishment could not threaten a Great Sun Realm expert.
• Lu Ye asked what they should do, but Little Nine had no answer, leaving the Nine Provinces exposed to Yue Xin’s eventual return.

Lu Ye learned that the Nine Provinces might counter Yue Xin by releasing the Dragon Race member imprisoned beneath Hundred Peaks Mountain, though its long captivity made the risk uncertain. He arrived at Vast Sky City and told the injured Star Constellation cultivators that one existence in the Nine Provinces might be able to defeat the invader.

• Lu Ye asked Little Nine whether the Heaven's Mystery Disk could fight, and Little Nine explained that its strength lay in displacement and concealment.
• Little Nine reminded Lu Ye of the Dragon Shadow beneath Hundred Peaks Mountain, with whom he had made an agreement on the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• Little Nine revealed that the Dragon Race member had been imprisoned for over ten thousand years and might be powerful enough to oppose Yue Xin, but warned that releasing it could endanger the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye and the Sect Master traveled to Vast Sky City, where the injured Star Constellation cultivators gathered to discuss how to respond to Yue Xin.
• Lu Ye told the gathered cultivators that the Nine Provinces likely had one existence capable of dealing with Yue Xin.

Lu Ye explained that a Great Sun Realm visitor threatened the Nine Provinces and persuaded the Star Constellation Realm cultivators to seek help from the Dragon Race member imprisoned beneath Hundred Peaks Mountain. He reached the Dragon Spring and greeted Yang Qing, realizing the imprisoned senior might be too weakened to face the threat.

• Lu Ye told the Star Constellation Realm cultivators about Yue Xin and the Dragon Race member, and they agreed to release the prisoner rather than submit to Yue Xin.
• Little Nine warned Lu Ye that Yang Qing should be bound by a Bloodline Great Oath, but Lu Ye chose to speak with him first.
• Lu Ye entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield at Divine Sea Realm strength and warned Green Feather Mountain to withdraw as sects across the Nine Provinces recalled their Spirit Stream Realm cultivators.
• Lu Ye opened the Formation at Hundred Peaks Mountain, descended into the Dragon Spring, and recognized its red glow as leaking Dragon Blood aura.
• Lu Ye realized Yang Qing was likely weakened after nearly ten thousand years of imprisonment, then respectfully announced himself before the Spring Eye.