Recaps

Blood Race powerhouses planned to let other realms deal with Lu Yiye, while cultivators across the Primordial Realm resumed advancing after the Blood Race withdrew. Lu Ye’s ranking fell as he gathered rare herbs, and his Clone noticed something about the Sword Gourd.

• Blood Race powerhouses decided to wait for other cultivators to attack Lu Yiye rather than risk angering the Cycle Tree.
• Zhao Yunliu explained that the Blood Race had likely withdrawn after securing enough gains, and Ding You led his companions onward.
• Cultivators from many realms advanced and fought as the Primordial Realm shrank, while Lu Yiye remained atop the rankings for several days before Gu Yulou overtook him.
• Lu Ye gathered rare medicinal herbs in the Inner Circle, using his Storage Space to collect them with the surrounding soil.
• Lu Ye explained that he had defeated a Blood Race cultivator and killed a Human Race Weapon Cultivator who ambushed him.
• Lu Ye’s Clone stopped wandering and looked down at the Sword Gourd hanging from his waist.

Lu Ye discovered that the Sword Gourd resonated with an Ancient Vine bearing three gourds, and he joined the crowd gathered to claim the nearly ripe treasure. There, he reunited with Yu Yaorao and asked her to explain the gourd’s significance.

• The Sword Gourd reacted to something in the Primordial Realm, so the Clone followed its resonance while Lu Ye’s main body stayed close behind.
• When the Clone sensed a spectacular treasure phenomenon, Lu Ye switched places with him so the Sword Gourd would not draw attention.
• Lu Ye found more than two hundred cultivators gathered around an Ancient Vine bearing two small gourds and one nearly ripe, shining gourd.
• Lu Ye recognized the vine gourds as the likely source of his Sword Gourd and inferred that an expert from the Sword Artifact Sect had brought it away ten thousand years earlier.
• Yu Yaorao called Lu Ye over and introduced Ding You and Zhao Yunliu, then began explaining the gourd after Lu Ye asked about it.

Lu Ye learned that the Creation Vine was a Starry Sky Supreme Treasure whose Treasure Gourds gained power according to their wielder’s cultivation, and realized his Clone’s Sword Gourd had come from it. After Zhao Yunliu rejected Yu Yaorao’s attempt to recruit him, Lu Ye left while the cultivators waited for the new Treasure Gourd to mature.

• Yu Yaorao explained that the Creation Vine produced unique Treasure Gourds, including legendary Wind and Sword Gourds, and that the vine’s current appearance was only a projection.
• Ding You explained that Treasure Gourds adapted to their wielder’s cultivation, leading Lu Ye to identify his Clone’s Sword Gourd as one of the vine’s treasures.
• Zhao Yunliu rebuked Lu Ye for asking questions, and Lu Ye thanked Yu Yaorao before leaving the group.
• Yu Yaorao told Zhao Yunliu that Lu Ye was formidable and could strengthen their team, but Zhao Yunliu argued that his low cultivation and the team’s interests made recruiting him unwise.
• Yu Yaorao accepted Zhao Yunliu’s criticism, and Zhao Yunliu reaffirmed his control over decisions in their three-person team.

As the Treasure Gourd emerged, hundreds of cultivators descended into a chaotic battle to seize it. Lu Ye killed a Ghost Cultivator who had planned to ambush him, leaving two would-be attackers stunned as the fight for the treasure spread elsewhere.

• Cultivators gathered between the two peaks and waited for the Treasure Gourd to ripen, while Yu Yaorao urged Lu Ye to leave and he chose to stay.
• The sky’s phenomenon vanished, and the Treasure Gourd fell from the Creation Vine into a cultivator’s arms before the crowd’s attacks killed him.
• Cultivators rushed after the fleeing Treasure Gourd, turning the area into a battle where allies and strangers alike became enemies.
• Lu Ye remained between the peaks after killing a concealed Ghost Cultivator who had joined two others to ambush him.
• The surviving female cultivator and serpent-scaled man realized Lu Ye had known about the Ghost Cultivator’s concealment and had waited to strike.

Lu Ye killed the Ghost Cultivator, then defeated Zhu Kou after Zhu Kou's Black Sand weighed down Crag Mountain Saber. He left the saber behind and beat Zhu Kou to death with two Short Pestles.

• Lu Ye killed the Ghost Cultivator with a precisely timed slash, and the female cultivator fled rather than fight him.
• Zhu Kou attacked Lu Ye with three masses of Black Sand that clung to Crag Mountain Saber and made it too heavy to wield.
• Lu Ye countered Zhu Kou's punch and kicked him away, then dropped Crag Mountain Saber and charged with two Short Pestles.
• Lu Ye battered Zhu Kou until his defensive Spiritual Treasure shattered and his arms broke.
• Lu Ye struck Zhu Kou's head with a Short Pestle, killing him.

Lu Ye killed Zhu Kou, recovered the Crag Mountain Saber, and discovered that the Treasure Gourd resonated with his clone’s Sword Gourd. Seeing the Treasure Gourd trapped among hundreds of cultivators, he devised a plan to break it free and began making preparations before the Primordial Realm’s area shrank.

• Lu Ye watched Zhu Kou’s surviving female companion flee and chose not to pursue her so he could retrieve the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye removed Zhu Kou’s Black Sand from the saber, collected it, and flew after the Treasure Gourd.
• Lu Ye sensed that the Sword Gourd with his concealed clone was resonating with the newly born Treasure Gourd and suspected it might be drawn toward the clone.
• Lu Ye found hundreds of cultivators intercepting the Treasure Gourd while avoiding touching it, since earlier grabbers had been killed by attacks from the crowd.
• Lu Ye decided to break the cultivators’ defensive circle so the Treasure Gourd could escape toward his clone, then left to prepare while the clone began making its own preparations.

Lu Ye built momentum over a hundred li and transformed himself into a massive crimson egg before charging at the cultivators surrounding the Treasure Gourd. The egg shattered under their attacks, revealing a giant Fire Phoenix that swept toward them and left them stunned.

• Lu Ye judged that he needed a powerful strike to break the cultivators’ formation and began building momentum from a hundred li away.
• The gathered cultivators spotted the approaching crimson egg, and Nan Xiong of Yao Tian led more than thirty Spell Cultivators and Sword Cultivators to intercept it.
• The cultivators’ attacks cracked the egg as it continued toward them, and many assumed their barrage had stopped Lu Ye’s technique.
• The crimson egg shattered, and a giant flaming bird appeared, prompting the cultivators to cry out that it was a Fire Phoenix.
• Nan Xiong recognized the bird as a Secret Technique, while Lu Ye’s vast Spiritual Power had enabled him to create the enormous manifestation.

Lu Ye used a Fire Phoenix and simulated Star Constellation Realm pressure to break the cultivators’ encirclement around the Treasure Gourd, then revealed himself in the Dragon Seat Artificer Armor. He killed a pursuer with one slash, while the Treasure Gourd escaped and the Dragon Seat rapidly drained his power.

• Lu Ye sent a massive Fire Phoenix toward the encirclement, using simulated Star Constellation Realm pressure to scatter many cultivators.
• Nan Xiong exposed the pressure as a deceptive trick and led others in attacking the Fire Phoenix, but they could not stop it from crashing into the crowd.
• The Fire Phoenix exploded, disrupting the encirclement as the Treasure Gourd fled and several cultivators rushed after it.
• Lu Ye emerged from the flames in the Dragon Seat Artificer Armor and intercepted a cultivator pursuing the Treasure Gourd.
• Lu Ye cleaved the pursuer in two with one slash, then felt the Dragon Seat rapidly draining his Divine Sea Tier Eight foundation.

Lu Ye used the Dragon Seat to hold off the pursuing cultivators while his Clone intercepted the fleeing Treasure Gourd. The Clone reached the treasure, but it evaded his grasp and circled him as he flew away with it following under a gentle Spiritual Power restraint.

• Lu Ye blocked the cultivators and endured their attacks, focusing his counterattacks on Nan Xiong as most of the pursuers broke past him.
• Nan Xiong and fewer than ten allies remained to fight Lu Ye, while the rest chased the Treasure Gourd.
• Lu Ye's Clone met the Treasure Gourd and found that it had flown toward him because it resonated with the Sword Gourd at his waist.
• The Treasure Gourd evaded the Clone's attempts to grab it, and the Clone flew back toward Lu Ye while gently wrapping it in Spiritual Power.

The Clone seized the Treasure Gourd and fled through the Inner Circle of the Primordial Realm while cultivators pursued him. He slowed to lure the pursuers into a trap, and a Winged Race cultivator attacked the apparent Sword Cultivator as the chapter ended.

• The Clone activated his Spiritual Power to force the Treasure Gourd into his grasp, and it stopped resisting and let him catch it.
• Nan Xiong survived the Artificer Armor’s assault, then rested while the other cultivators dispersed to pursue the Treasure Gourd.
• The Clone slowed his flight so the pursuers would believe he was running out of Spiritual Power, while planning to conceal his eventual teleportation.
• A Winged Race cultivator asked two Human Race cultivators to help restrict the apparent Sword Cultivator, then unleashed a swarm of lethal black feathers that seemed to kill him.
• The Winged Race cultivator rushed into the feather-covered area to claim the Treasure Gourd, and the two Human Race cultivators attacked him in anger.

Lu Ye secured the Treasure Gourd and spent the shrinking Divine Sea Conflict gathering herbs, confident he had earned a strong ranking. After discovering the Insect Race had built a fortified nest in the Core Region, he prepared an escape route and entered under the identity of Li Taibai of the Blood Fiend World.

• The Winged Race cultivator fled from pursuers who believed he had taken the Treasure Gourd, while Lu Ye retrieved his Clone and kept the treasure in his Storage Bag.
• Lu Ye gathered rare herbs as the Primordial Realm shrank, reflecting that his kills had likely secured a Top Ten ranking and surviving cultivators would soon seek each other out.
• Lu Ye discovered an Insect Nest in the Core Region and realized the Insect Race had spent two months fortifying it against attackers.
• Lu Ye set up a Teleportation Spirit Array as an escape route, disguised himself with a cloud of blood, and approached the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Li Taibai of the Blood Fiend World, received an invitation from an Insect Race cultivator, and entered the nest.

Lu Ye infiltrated an Insect Nest disguised as a Blood Race cultivator and learned that the Insect Race had built four nests to wait out the Divine Sea Conflict, relying on Blood Race allies for support. After gaining their trust, he trapped the Insect Race cultivators in his Blood Sea and began killing them, leaving the nest in chaos.

• Lu Ye sensed dozens of auras in the Insect Nest and realized most belonged to Insect Race Guards.
• An Insect Race cultivator welcomed Lu Ye as a Blood Race ally, explaining that the Insect Race planned to wait in four nests and rely on the Blood Race if they had to fight.
• Lu Ye claimed he would help defend the nest and spread his Blood Sea throughout its core, impressing the Insect Race cultivators.
• Lu Ye created a Clone, drew his Crag Mountain Saber, and attacked the Insect Race cultivators from within the Blood Sea.
• The Insect Race cultivators discovered that the Blood Sea restrained them as Lu Ye and his Clone trapped and killed them one by one.

Lu Ye destroyed three of the four Insect Nests while the realm powerhouses watched his ranking rise, then encountered the injured Yu Yaorao while gathering herbs. When one of her pursuers called Lu Ye trash, he vanished and appeared behind the man with his saber drawn.

• Lu Ye killed the Insect Race cultivators and Guards in an Insect Nest, then rested while the Insect Race powerhouses noticed several of their prodigies had died.
• Over the next two days, Lu Ye wiped out two more Insect Nests, prompting the realm powerhouses to conclude he had killed the Insect Race prodigies and returned to first place.
• Lu Ye continued gathering herbs and searching for the last Insect Nest, avoiding a battle he sensed nearby until he recognized Yu Yaorao among the combatants.
• Yu Yaorao fled from two pursuers and veered away from Lu Ye to keep him out of the conflict, but one pursuer charged at him and called him trash.
• Lu Ye launched a controlled artifact, vanished from the pursuer’s sight, and appeared behind him with his saber drawn, asking who he had called trash.

Lu Ye killed Yu Yaorao’s pursuers and rescued her, then cared for her until she woke. Yu Yaorao thanked him and explained how her companions had been separated or killed, leaving her to consider what to do while still badly injured.

• Yu Yaorao fled from two pursuers and briefly considered seeking Lu Ye’s help, but continued on alone.
• Lu Ye killed one pursuer and overwhelmed the other, while Yu Yaorao watched before collapsing from her injuries.
• Lu Ye caught the unconscious Yu Yaorao, gave her Healing Pills, and brought her along until she woke several days later.
• Yu Yaorao thanked Lu Ye for saving her, and he said he was repaying the kindness she had shown him.
• Yu Yaorao told Lu Ye that Ding You had died in battle and that she had become separated from Zhao Yunliu.
• Lu Ye asked what Yu Yaorao planned to do next, considering that her severe injuries made staying in the Primordial Realm dangerous.

After the Cycle Tree ranked Lu Ye first with 208 gains, he realized the revelation would draw powerful rivals to him and chose to stay put. He killed a Ghost Cultivator who ambushed him, then faced a massive wolf-headed Demon Race cultivator as Yu Yaorao warned him about its dangerous Demonic Energy.

• Yu Yaorao said she would recover before leaving Lu Ye, while Lu Ye considered the Cycle Tree's revelation and the final twenty days of the conflict.
• The Cycle Tree ranked Lu Ye of the Nine Heavens Realm first with 208 gains, far ahead of Gu Yulou with 53 and You Ping with 49.
• Lu Ye anticipated that other cultivators would target him but decided to remain where he was instead of relocating.
• A concealed Ghost Cultivator ambushed Lu Ye, and Lu Ye swiftly killed him while Yu Yaorao watched.
• A wolf-headed cultivator from the Heavenly Wolf Tribe arrived amid surging Demonic Energy and asked whether Lu Ye was from the Nine Heavens Realm.
• Yu Yaorao warned Lu Ye that the creature's Demonic Energy could drive people mad and urged him not to let it touch him.

Lu Ye defended Yu Yaorao while killing the cultivators drawn to his extraordinary gains in the Primordial Realm. After the Cycle Tree revealed his first-place ranking and 216 gains, the encirclement around them grew, and Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain arrived as a formidable challenger.

• Lu Ye killed a Heavenly Wolf Tribe cultivator and returned with the man’s severed head, shocking Yu Yaorao.
• Over the next two days, Lu Ye defeated or killed several more challengers, while Yu Yaorao recovered beside the corpses he had arranged as a warning.
• The Cycle Tree revealed twenty ranked names, placing Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm first with 216 gains and drawing a crowd of cultivators to Lu Ye’s location.
• Lu Ye told Yu Yaorao to stay because ambushers surrounded them, and he waited for a powerful opponent who could break the stalemate.
• Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain arrived, and Yu Yaorao identified him as the seventh-ranked Stone Race cultivator.

Lu Ye faced Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain, whose immense strength and durable physique let him withstand Lu Ye’s three Overlord Saber forms. The battle left Lu Ye still confronting a seemingly unstoppable opponent as hidden spectators watched.

• Lu Ye waited for Bao Shi, while cultivators concealed nearby gathered to witness a clash between the first- and seventh-ranked prodigies.
• Bao Shi introduced himself and charged Lu Ye at surprising speed, but Lu Ye met his attack head-on.
• Bao Shi’s overwhelming strength forced Lu Ye to evade his palms, fists, and knee, and Lu Ye escaped by striking against his fists with his saber.
• Lu Ye attacked with the first three forms of Overlord Saber: Myriad Stars, Arc Moon, and Lotus Sun.
• Bao Shi emerged unharmed from Lu Ye’s saber forms and lunged at him with renewed ferocity.

Lu Ye used Heavy Pressure and Blood Dye Spirit Patterns to seize control of his battle with Bao Shi and drive the Stone Race fighter into a desperate disadvantage. Bao Shi continued fighting despite his cracked body, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Secret observers witnessed Lu Ye and Bao Shi clash and recognized the strength behind Lu Ye’s Divine Sea Tier Eight achievements.
• Lu Ye changed tactics, using basic saber attacks as he searched for a way to break through Bao Shi’s hard defenses.
• Lu Ye formed three layers of the Heavy Pressure Spirit Pattern in his saber, forcing Bao Shi down and disrupting his counterattack.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern and unleashed a powerful barrage, turning the fight in his favor.
• Lu Ye repeatedly disrupted Bao Shi’s rhythm and exploited his limited agility until Bao Shi was covered in cracks but still refused to retreat.

Lu Ye killed Bao Shi after a brutal battle, deterring the other hidden geniuses and keeping Yu Yaorao safely by his side. Mo Keduo then challenged him with a momentum-building attack, but Lu Ye raised a formation that weakened the approaching strike.

• Lu Ye defeated Bao Shi, who refused to retreat and shattered into pieces before him.
• The hidden cultivators abandoned plans to challenge Lu Ye, while Yu Yaorao decided to remain near him for protection.
• Mo Keduo of the Myriad Demon Continent arrived to challenge Lu Ye, building up a powerful Secret Technique as he approached.
• Lu Ye set up a formation around himself and Yu Yaorao, and Mo Keduo's attack struck its resilient barrier, which began draining his momentum.

Lu Ye defeated Mo Keduo and discovered Bao Shi had survived through a Stone Race innate ability, after which the two settled into a wary but peaceful truce. As the Divine Sea Conflict neared its end, You Ping appeared and Gu Yulou arrived to challenge Lu Ye.

• Mo Keduo broke out of Lu Ye's Grand Array, but Lu Ye wounded him in a single exchange and drove him away.
• Lu Ye found Bao Shi alive in a tiny form beneath the rubble; Bao Shi explained that his apparent death had been his Stone Race innate ability.
• Bao Shi joined Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao, and the former opponents rested together as battles intensified around them.
• You Ping appeared after failing to find an opening to attack Lu Ye and taunted Yu Yaorao for sheltering under his protection.
• You Ping called out that Gu Yulou should come challenge Lu Ye, and Gu Yulou of the Yellow Dragon Realm arrived with a silver spear.

Gu Yulou arrived at Lu Ye’s resting place but refused to challenge him, judging that he could not win. As more top-ranked cultivators gathered, the spot became a peaceful refuge while brutal battles continued elsewhere in the Primordial Realm.

• Gu Yulou saw Bao Shi’s defeat and sat down, saying he could not beat Lu Ye.
• You Ping tried to persuade Gu Yulou to fight so she could take advantage of their injuries, but he refused.
• Top-ranked cultivators gradually gathered around Lu Ye, and more than twenty prodigies settled there without an agreement.
• Yu Yaorao felt out of place among the powerful cultivators, while Lu Ye’s presence gave her a sense of protection.
• The gathered cultivators shared food and wine, and You Ping playfully poured wine into Lu Ye’s mouth as conflicts raged elsewhere.

The Divine Sea Conflict ended, and Lu Ye received the greatest share of the Primordial Realm’s Spiritual Light before returning to the Cycle Tree’s White Jade Platform as champion. There, Yang Qing shielded him from hostile Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators, while Yu Yaorao’s elder thanked him for protecting her.

• A hundred clusters of Spiritual Light entered the remaining cultivators, with Lu Ye receiving the largest and sensing a dormant power that would take effect when he advanced to Star Constellation.
• The Primordial Realm expelled its remaining cultivators, and Lu Ye returned to the White Jade Platform among the final hundred victors.
• Powerful Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators glared at Lu Ye, whom they suspected of killing their juniors, but Yang Qing appeared and praised him.
• Yu Yaorao and her elder thanked Lu Ye for protecting her, and her elder invited Lu Ye to visit the Nine Profound Realm.
• Du Lang chose not to approach Lu Ye, saying he would seek an equal friendship with him if they met again in the starry sky.

After the Divine Sea Conflict, Lu Ye and Yang Qing tried to leave the Primordial Realm, but the Cycle Tree stopped them because Lu Ye had taken two fairies. The fairies returned to their realm, and Lu Ye received a Tree Leaf Imprint that could later lead him back to the Cycle Tree.

• Yu Yaorao bid farewell to Lu Ye as Yang Qing led him away from the White Jade Platform.
• The Cycle Tree blocked Yang Qing’s attempt to open a passage home and revealed that Lu Ye had taken things he should not have taken.
• Lu Ye released Lu Yingying and Hong Dandan from his Spirit Beast Bag, and the two fairies returned to the Fairy Tree Realm.
• The Cycle Tree gave Lu Ye a leaf that fused into his wrist as a Tree Leaf Imprint, then opened a passage for him and Yang Qing.
• Yang Qing explained that the imprint could take Lu Ye to the Cycle Tree as a transfer point, but he could not bring anyone with him and might be asked to help the Cycle Tree in the future.

Yang Qing left the Nine Provinces after advising Lu Ye that its people must learn to protect their homeland themselves. Lu Ye reassured Jian Guhong and the others, then told them about the Cycle Tree gathering and warned them to conceal the Nine Provinces’ identity when traveling the starry sky.

• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that he had no reason to remain in the Nine Provinces and urged its Human Race to grow strong enough to defend their homeland.
• After Yang Qing departed, Lu Ye told Little Nine to keep absorbing the Blood Refining World’s foundation and focus on becoming stronger.
• Jian Guhong and the others met Lu Ye, learned Yang Qing had left, and resolved that the Nine Provinces must rely on its own strength for protection.
• Lu Ye described the Cycle Tree gathering and his first-place finish in the Primordial Realm, impressing Jian Guhong and the others.
• Lu Ye explained that Nine Provinces cultivators should travel under another name because powerful enemies might still remember the Pre-Nine Provinces Era.

After Yang Qing departed, Lu Ye advised Jian Guhong and the other Star Constellation Realm cultivators to leave the Nine Provinces and seek Lingyu, trusting the realm’s Heavenly Punishment to protect it. Lu Ye stayed behind to cultivate toward the Star Constellation Realm and assessed his spoils, deciding to feed most of his captured treasures to the Sword Gourd while keeping materials to reforge his Crag Mountain Saber.

• Jian Guhong asked Lu Ye whether the Nine Provinces still needed Star Constellation Realm cultivators to guard it, and Lu Ye said they should seek Lingyu while the realm’s Heavenly Punishment could defend against powerful invaders.
• Jian Guhong and the others left the Nine Provinces, while Lu Ye remained on Spirit Peak to pursue Divine Sea Tier Nine and the Star Constellation Realm.
• Lu Ye reflected on the Nine Provinces’ standing in the starry sky and began inspecting his gains from the journey to the Cycle Tree.
• Lu Ye examined the Void Beast Heart Core and counted at least thirty thousand Lingyu among his spoils, along with Spirit Crystals and treasures taken from opponents.
• Lu Ye fed most of his captured treasures to the Sword Gourd to strengthen its Sword Qi, keeping a Short Pestle and Black Sand to reforge his chipped Crag Mountain Saber.