Recaps

Lu Ye tricked Yan Ya into handing over two Spirit Beast Bags by posing as a Blood Race cultivator and swearing a false Bloodline Great Oath, then ambushed and killed him as he left the Blood Sea. He took the last bag and Yan Ya’s other possessions, including two Short Pestles and a restriction-covered ring.

• Yan Ya offered Lu Ye two of his three Spirit Beast Bags in exchange for safe passage and demanded a Bloodline Great Oath.
• With Lu Yingying’s guidance, Lu Ye swore an oath while stirring the Blood Sea to make it seem genuine, and Yan Ya handed over two bags.
• As Yan Ya left the Blood Sea and relaxed, Lu Ye used two Void Spirit Patterns to teleport behind him and unleash a Saber Lotus attack.
• Lu Ye severed Yan Ya’s arm and seized the final Spirit Beast Bag before Yan Ya collapsed and died.
• Lu Ye collected two Short Pestles that could help reforge the Crag Mountain Saber and found a ring covered in familiar, complex restrictions.

Lu Ye freed three captives from the Insect Race and discovered that a strange treasure had enabled its invasions across the Tree Realms. He destroyed the Insect Nest’s core and took the treasure, leaving him able to open channels to the connected Tree Realms.

• Lu Yingying unlocked Yan Ya’s Storage Ring while Lu Ye finished slaughtering the Insect Race Guards in the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye opened two Spirit Beast Bags and freed a snow-white one-horned beast and Mu Kui of the Wood Spirit Race.
• Lu Ye opened the third Spirit Beast Bag and reunited Lu Yingying with the captured fairy Hong Dandan.
• Lu Ye destroyed the Insect Nest’s core and discovered a lotus-root-like treasure that opened channels between Tree Realms.
• Lu Ye took the treasure, which he could use to open channels to the connected Tree Realms.

Lu Ye discovered that the Void Beast Heart Core could open channels to other Tree Realms and planned to recruit allies to fight the Insect Race. He opened a passage to the Wood Spirit Tree Realm, but transporting the Wood Spirits drained his Spiritual Power until the channel kept working without his help.

• Lu Yingying identified the rare Void Beast Heart Core as the Insect Race’s means of opening channels to other Tree Realms, and Lu Ye claimed it.
• Lu Ye asked Mu Kui and the snow-white exotic beast to rally their peoples against the Insect Race, and both agreed.
• Lu Ye and his companions fought their way out of the Insect Nest while he burned its fleshy interior.
• Lu Ye used the heart core to open a channel to the Wood Spirit Tree Realm, and Mu Kui crossed over to gather his clansmen.
• The Wood Spirits streamed through the channel, rapidly draining Lu Ye’s Spiritual Power as he swallowed pills to keep it open.
• Lu Ye stopped supplying Spiritual Power, but the channel remained open and the Wood Spirits continued to arrive.

Lu Ye opened passages to more than a dozen Tree Realms and assembled an allied army that wiped out the Insect Race in its own Tree Realm. After sending the other races home, he tricked Hong Dandan and Lu Yingying into peering into his Spirit Beast Bag, then closed it and tucked it away.

• Lu Ye confirmed that the Cycle Tree was secretly supporting the Tree Realm Channels and opened passages to more than a dozen Tree Realms.
• Lu Yingying, Hong Dandan, Mu Kui, and others gathered allies from the different races to join Lu Ye against the Insect Race.
• The allied army spread across the Insect Race Tree Realm and killed its insects over roughly ten days.
• Lu Ye opened passages for the allied races to return home and accepted their thanks and gifts.
• Lu Ye refused to show Hong Dandan and Lu Yingying what he was holding, then revealed a gap in his Spirit Beast Bag and quickly closed it when they peered inside.

Lu Ye escaped the Insect Race Tree Realm and reunited with Yang Qing on the Cycle Tree’s Lingyu platform. Yang Qing explained that the Divine Sea Conflict would award one hundred cultivators the Cycle Tree’s power for advancing to Star Constellation, leaving Lu Ye to face a crowded contest with few allies.

• Lu Ye asked the Cycle Tree to release him and emerged on a vast Lingyu platform in the starry sky.
• Lu Ye reunited with Yang Qing, who explained that the Divine Sea Conflict would decide who obtained the Cycle Tree’s power for advancing to Star Constellation.
• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that two or three thousand cultivators were expected to compete for one hundred places, while each Large Realm received a limited number of entry slots.
• Lu Ye realized that Nine Provinces had few allies and that his Tier Eight cultivation put him at a disadvantage among the contestants.
• Yang Qing dismissed the idea of hiding throughout the contest, and Lu Ye agreed that he would not avoid the chance to contend.

Yang Qing explained the Divine Sea Conflict’s rankings, guidance, shrinking battlefield, and rewards to Lu Ye while taking him around the Cycle Tree’s gathering to learn about other realms. The chapter left them continuing through the stalls, with Yang Qing’s petty bargaining earning Lu Ye the resentment of a stall owner’s junior.

• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that the Cycle Tree would periodically reveal the locations of highly and poorly ranked participants, with rankings based on enemies killed.
• Yang Qing explained that the Primordial Realm would shrink over time and that the conflict would end after three months or when only a hundred participants remained.
• Yang Qing described the Primordial Realm’s rare resources and Lu Ye followed him around the gathering as he introduced the other races and their customs.
• Yang Qing haggled over a Glazed Jade Heart Lamp, refused the stall owner’s final price, and left without buying it.
• Yang Qing offered one spirit jade for a treasure at another stall, took it on credit, and revealed to Lu Ye that the stall owner had offended him before.
• The stall owner’s Divine Sea Realm junior glared at Lu Ye as Yang Qing walked away with the treasure.

The Primordial Realm portal opened, and Lu Ye entered the Divine Sea Conflict representing the Nine Heavens Realm. As the contest began, the elders gathered outside to wager treasures in the Cycle Tree’s Gambling Den.

• Yang Qing urged Lu Ye to fight for a place among the top three while warning him not to draw too much attention.
• The portal opened, and the first cultivators entered as the left pillar recorded their names and origins; Yang Qing explained how the pillars worked and how Lu Ye could withdraw.
• Lu Ye entered the portal, and the left pillar listed him as “Nine Heavens Realm, Lu Yiye,” surprising onlookers with his Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivation.
• After more than two thousand cultivators entered and the portal closed, the elders asked the Cycle Tree to open the Treasure Pool for their customary wagers.
• The Cycle Tree created the Treasure Pool, where thousands of starlit treasures from current and past wagers floated.

Yang Qing wagered a suspected Dragon Pearl, which the Cycle Tree valued at Nine-Star, in the Gambling Den to win resources for his recovery. The immense wager stunned the gathering, and everyone learned that he had bet on Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm.

• Cultivators discussed the Treasure Pool’s star-based treasure grades as powerhouses placed wagers, beginning with a Four-Star Ancient Inkstone from the Yellow Dragon Realm’s Great Sun Realm cultivator, Feng.
• An inconspicuous bead entered the pool, scattered the surrounding treasures, and revealed nine points of starlight.
• Yang Qing told the Cycle Tree that he needed resources after ten thousand years sealed and had wagered the bead to make a fortune if his chosen junior won.
• The Cycle Tree warned Yang Qing not to risk the precious item, then realized no one else could match its value and take it from the pool.
• Powerhouses suspected the bead was a Dragon Pearl and moved away from Yang Qing, then discovered he had wagered it on Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm.

Lu Ye entered the Primordial Realm and quickly defeated Zhou Sifang of the Blood Fiend World by revealing his overwhelming Sacred Nature as a Blood Race cultivator. As he flew onward in the Divine Sea Conflict, battles across the realm had already begun claiming lives.

• Lu Ye entered the Primordial Realm and reasoned that cultivators would initially compete alone for gains before forming alliances as the realm shrank.
• Lu Ye sensed an approaching cultivator and flew to meet him, finding Zhou Sifang, a Blood Race cultivator who mistook Lu Ye's Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivation for weakness.
• Zhou Sifang trapped Lu Ye in a Blood River and attacked, while Lu Ye endured the assault and asked his opponent to identify himself.
• Lu Ye unleashed his vastly superior Blood Sea and Sacred Nature, suppressing Zhou Sifang before killing him with the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye looted and burned Zhou Sifang's corpse, then continued flying openly as battles elsewhere eliminated several participants within half an hour.

Lu Ye split from his Clone to search the Primordial Realm for opponents and encountered a cautious Human Race Spell Cultivator. The Spell Cultivator’s attacks drove Lu Ye back and disrupted his attempt to close the distance.

• Lu Ye created a Clone dressed as Li Taibai, then sent it in a different direction while he continued searching.
• Lu Ye encountered a plump Human Race Spell Cultivator who mocked his Tier Eight cultivation and activated a defensive tower treasure.
• The Spell Cultivator attacked Lu Ye with Wind Blades and fireballs from his battered fan, while Lu Ye dodged without being injured.
• The Spell Cultivator followed with a lightning Mystic Art that broke through Lu Ye’s Defense Spirit Pattern and blasted him backward.
• Lu Ye struggled to advance through the Spell Cultivator’s attacks, losing the ground he had gained toward closing the distance.

Lu Ye battled a powerful Spell Cultivator in the Cycle Tree’s Divine Sea Conflict, learning to anticipate and evade his lightning attacks. As Lu Ye forced his opponent backward, the Spell Cultivator began preparing a dangerous Thunder Pool trap that wrapped lightning power around Lu Ye.

• Lu Ye repeatedly charged through the Spell Cultivator’s Wind Blades and fireballs, but lightning strikes kept driving him back.
• The Spell Cultivator lured Lu Ye into a false pattern and launched a powerful lightning strike, but Lu Ye’s instinctive warning let him dodge it.
• Lu Ye recognized the weakness in the Spell Cultivator’s lightning casting and began evading many of his strikes, forcing him to retreat.
• The Spell Cultivator accelerated his lightning attacks while preparing a powerful killing move, and strands of lightning power began clinging to Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye sensed the danger of the gathering Thunder Pool power and chose to keep attacking while concealing that he was looking for a way to respond.

Lu Ye used a Void Spirit Pattern to escape the fat Spell Cultivator’s Thunder Pool and defeat him with the Blood Sea Art. After the Spell Cultivator died, Lu Ye collected his possessions and continued on, warned to be cautious of prodigies from the top realms.

• The fat Spell Cultivator activated his Thunder Pool trump card as Lu Ye charged, while Lu Ye sent a controlled artifact toward him.
• Lu Ye teleported to the controlled artifact’s location just as the Thunder Pool erupted, then ambushed the Spell Cultivator with the Crag Mountain Saber and Blood Sea Art.
• Lu Ye battered the Spell Cultivator until his protective treasure pagoda shattered, leaving him barely alive.
• The Spell Cultivator asked why Lu Ye had prolonged the battle, and Lu Ye said he wanted to test himself against other realms’ prodigies.
• The Spell Cultivator warned Lu Ye not to use him as a measure of the top realms’ prodigies, then died.
• Lu Ye burned the Spell Cultivator’s corpse, erased the traces, collected his Storage Bag and treasured fan, and departed.

Lu Ye stopped searching for opponents and spent three days carefully mining a Spirit Jade Vein, while his Clone continued roaming the Primordial Realm. Elsewhere, Du Lang reached a Spirit Jade Vein he had been sent to find, hoping to gather its resources for his realm.

• Lu Ye reflected that few cultivators were openly seeking battles and that his Clone had defeated a hairy Body Cultivator by trapping him in the Blood Sea Art.
• Lu Ye decided to let his Clone continue wandering while he mined a Spirit Jade Vein discovered through traces left by earlier cultivators.
• Lu Ye learned that the vein's tightly fused Spirit Jade had to be separated without damaging its energy-filled outer layer, and harvested fewer than three hundred pieces in three days.
• Du Lang flew low and cautiously toward a Spirit Jade Vein, following a Path Map left by elders from his realm.
• Du Lang found the landmark he needed, reached the inconspicuous hill where the vein lay, and prepared to gather Spirit Jade for his realm.

Du Lang discovered that Lu Ye was already mining a Spirit Jade Vein and chose to share the cave rather than fight him. After showing Lu Ye how Jade-Eating Ants made mining easier, Du Lang gave him a small portion of his colony before Lu Ye returned to his own work.

• Du Lang entered an apparently undiscovered Spirit Jade Vein, sensed someone mining, and found that the miner was Lu Ye, a Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivator.
• Du Lang warned Lu Ye to stay alert, explained that the location would be excluded when the Primordial Realm shrank again, and then went to mine elsewhere in the cave.
• Lu Ye followed Du Lang to observe his Jade-Eating Ants loosening lingyu from the vein, hoping to learn a more efficient mining method.
• When Lu Ye started to leave, Du Lang called him back and tossed him a small portion of the Jade-Eating Ant colony.

Lu Ye mined a Spirit Jade Vein with Du Lang’s Jade-Eating Ants and discovered Spirit Crystals as the Primordial Realm contracted. Meanwhile, his Clone encountered two powerful cultivators, fled their attack, and joined forces with Lu Ye, whose saber strike failed to seriously injure the Demon Race cultivator.

• Du Lang gave Lu Ye Jade-Eating Ants, and Lu Ye reciprocated with a treasured fan before returning to mine the vein.
• Lu Ye used the ants to gather Lingyu while mining himself, and he discovered scarce Spirit Crystals within the vein.
• On the tenth day, the Primordial Realm contracted, and Lu Ye realized the Spirit Jade Vein would eventually be pushed outside the safe area.
• Two days later, Lu Ye’s Clone found a Demon Race cultivator and a Human Race Body Cultivator fighting, but they noticed him and pursued him when he attacked.
• Lu Ye appeared behind the Demon Race cultivator and struck him with his saber, but the cultivator’s defense absorbed the blow without substantial injury.

Lu Ye and his Clone killed a Body Cultivator and a Demon Race cultivator inside a Blood Sea, using an Illusion Array to trap the demon. Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Jade Vein and sensed intense Spiritual Power fluctuations from the neighboring Mine Tunnel, so he went to investigate.

• Lu Ye and his Clone enclosed the Body Cultivator and Demon Race cultivator in a Blood Sea and attacked them together.
• Lu Ye used a Formation within the Blood Sea to confuse the Demon Race cultivator while the Body Cultivator was killed.
• The Demon Race cultivator saw through the Formation but failed to escape before Lu Ye and his Clone killed him.
• Li Taibai left to continue wandering, while Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Jade Vein through his Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Lu Ye sensed fierce Spiritual Power fluctuations in the neighboring Mine Tunnel and went to investigate.

Lu Ye helped Du Lang capture a rare Spiritual Radiance Mass while they mined Lingyu in the Primordial Realm. As the realm prepared to shrink for the third time, Lu Ye departed toward the Divine Sea Conflict, while Du Lang stayed behind, regretful that he had chosen his realm’s needs over his own chance to compete.

• Lu Ye repaired Du Lang’s flawed Formation, allowing Du Lang to capture the Spiritual Radiance Mass that could help slow his realm’s decline.
• Lu Ye and Du Lang mined Lingyu for several days as Lu Ye’s Clone searched outside with little success.
• Du Lang told Lu Ye that the Crimson Sky Continent was losing its foundation and needed Lingyu and Spiritual Radiance to slow its decline.
• Du Lang explained that he would not join the Divine Sea Conflict because the risks threatened the harvest he had gathered for his realm.
• As the Primordial Realm’s third shrinkage approached, Lu Ye collected his Jade-Eating Ants and mined Lingyu, then left to follow the repulsion force.
• Du Lang remained alone in the mine, grieving that his choice to serve his realm had cost him his once-in-a-lifetime chance to compete.

Du Lang withdrew from the Primordial Realm to serve his realm, then discovered that Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm had risen to eleventh place on the temporary ranking. As powerful figures outside debated Lu Yiye’s gains and the Blood Race’s coordinated advance, the first month of the Divine Sea Conflict ended.

• Du Lang withdrew from the Primordial Realm, choosing his realm’s future over his own opportunity, and reunited with the old man from Crimson Sky Continent.
• Du Lang spotted Lu Yiye’s name in eleventh place on the temporary top hundred and was astonished because he had spent the last twenty-odd days with him in the Spirit Jade Vein.
• Powerful figures on the platform reacted to Lu Yiye’s ranking and wondered how many gains he had secured in the first month.
• Powerful figures from Top-tier Realms discussed how the Blood Race used its bloodline communication to gather and intercept cultivators, giving it an early advantage.

Lu Ye killed two cultivators who ambushed him, then was attacked by a stealthy fighter from a race Yang Qing had warned him about. He trapped the attacker in his Blood Sea and defeated him, ending the chapter with the enemy caught and fighting desperately.

• Lu Ye used Void Spirit Patterns to appear beside the Spell Cultivator and killed him while his Clone held off the Body Cultivator.
• Lu Ye and his Clone cornered and killed the Body Cultivator after he tried to flee and then begged for mercy.
• An unseen attacker struck Lu Ye's Clone from behind as the battle ended, punching through its chest before retreating.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea to trap the attacker, then used ripples across it to locate the enemy's concealed position.
• Lu Ye caught the attacker, recognized the race Yang Qing had warned him about, and defeated him after the enemy fought desperately.

Lu Ye killed a Ghost Race cultivator who had ambushed his Clone, then sensed a shifting connection drawing him toward something in the Primordial Realm. Meanwhile, his rapid rise to seventh place on the Top 100 Ranking drew the attention of Du Lang and powerful cultivators from other realms.

• Lu Ye examined the dead Ghost Race cultivator, took his sharp short blade, and realized how dangerous the ambush would have been if it had targeted his main body.
• Lu Ye sent his injured Clone onward in replacement clothes and pondered the strange sensation he had felt around his Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye sensed an intermittent connection pointing ahead to his left and hurried in that direction, suspecting it might lead him to Blood Race cultivators.
• Du Lang and a white-haired elder watched Lu Ye rise to seventh place and discussed his strength and potential.
• Cultivators from other realms recognized that Lu Ye's climb could not be explained by luck and recalled Yang Qing's confidence in him.

Ding You, Zhao Yunliu, and Yu Yaorao watched a Blood Race defense line while searching for a way forward, then attacked a lone Blood Race member who approached from the side. The Blood Race member was Lu Ye, whose unusually resilient blood cloud withstood their assault as he tried to escape.

• Ding You, Zhao Yunliu, and Yu Yaorao discussed how to get past the Blood Race defenses and decided to wait for another group to act first.
• Yu Yaorao sensed an approaching aura and spotted a lone Blood Race member drifting toward them in a compact blood cloud.
• Zhao Yunliu charged the Blood Race member without consulting his companions, and Ding You and Yu Yaorao joined the attack.
• Lu Ye recognized Yu Yaorao and tried to flee rather than kill the three cultivators, while they kept their distance and attacked his blood cloud.
• Lu Ye forced his way toward Ding You, but the trio's attacks revealed that his blood cloud was remarkably tough.

Lu Ye used the name Li Taibai and his overwhelming Sacred Nature to infiltrate a Blood Race team after the other cultivators withdrew. The Blood Race accepted him as a powerful Sacred Seed from the Blood Fiend World, though one member questioned why he had taken Zhou Sifang’s place.

• Zhao Yunliu, Ding You, and Yu Yaorao attacked Lu Ye’s blood cloud, but his Formations kept their strikes from significantly weakening it.
• A Blood Race team approached, forcing Ding You and Yu Yaorao to retreat; Zhao Yunliu stayed to deliver one final attack before fleeing.
• Lu Ye sensed the approaching Blood Sea’s resonance, disguised his cultivation as Divine Sea Tier Nine, and joined the Blood Race team.
• Lu Ye’s intense Sacred Nature shocked the Blood Race cultivators and stopped them from pursuing the fleeing Humans.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Li Taibai of the Blood Fiend World and claimed he had taken Zhou Sifang’s place after emerging from seclusion.

Lu Ye learned the Blood Resonance Art and the Sacred Convergence Art from five Blood Race members, using his powerful Sacred Nature to take command of them. After hiding his Sacred Nature and taking control of their Blood Sea, he moved in to attack the nearest member.

• Lu Ye asked the Blood Race members about the Blood Resonance Art, learned it quickly, and demanded that they put him in charge.
• The Sacred Seed explained the Sacred Convergence Art, and Lu Ye spent half a day learning it while the group waited in the Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye suppressed his Sacred Nature until it vanished, then ordered the Blood Race members to remain still as he fused the Blood Sea with his own Blood Qi.
• Lu Ye took control of the Blood Sea and darted toward the nearest Blood Race member, who began to suspect his approach.

Lu Ye and his Clone killed five Blood Race cultivators inside their merged Blood Sea, then Lu Ye left as the sea shrank. On the White Jade Platform, the rankings revealed the five deaths and Lu Ye’s leap from eighth to third, shocking the gathered experts and delighting those who opposed the Blood Race.

• Lu Ye suppressed the Blood Race cultivators with his Sacred Convergence Art and, with his Clone, killed four of them in quick succession.
• The Sacred Seed realized Lu Ye was Human Race and tried to flee, but Lu Ye and his Clone trapped and killed him.
• Lu Ye gathered the spoils, disposed of the bodies, and departed on a small blood cloud as the Blood Sea shrank.
• The White Jade Platform erupted when Lu Ye’s ranking jumped from eighth to third and five Blood Race names disappeared.
• The gathered cultivators celebrated the Blood Race deaths, while some experts speculated that Lu Ye had relied on allies to defeat the group.

Lu Ye used Sacred Nature and the Blood Resonance Art to eliminate more Blood Race members, rising to first place in the Primordial Realm rankings. The other realms celebrated the Blood Race’s losses while Du Lang worried that Lu Ye’s sudden prominence would make him a target.

• Yang Qing wondered how Lu Ye had killed five Blood Race members without anyone else gaining credit.
• Lu Ye used the Blood Resonance Art to find another Blood Race team, revealed Sacred Nature, and absorbed their Blood Seas.
• Lu Ye eliminated five more Blood Race members and rose to first place on the Top 100 Ranking.
• The cultivators on the White Jade Platform realized Lu Ye was deliberately targeting the Blood Race, while Du Lang feared the other top-ranked contenders would attack him.
• Several more Blood Race names vanished from the ranking, leaving nearly all of the Blood Race participants in the Primordial Realm eliminated.