Recaps

Lu Ye refused Su Yuqing’s repeated attempts to pair him with Haitang, insisting he could not act against his conscience. Su Yuqing finally agreed not to force the match, but still asked him to help with the Black Abyss Martial Competition and revealed a mysterious bead.

• Lu Ye studied and copied the Starry Sky Spectacle records in the Abyss of Information Pavilion, while Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo asked Su Yuqing about the competition plans.
• Over two months, Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian copied every Jade Slip in the pavilion and began exchanging their copies so they could absorb all its information.
• Su Yuqing summoned Lu Ye and again urged him to marry Haitang, threatening to use force when he refused.
• Lu Ye stood firm under Su Yuqing’s overwhelming pressure, arguing that forcing Haitang into an unfair arrangement would be wrong.
• Su Yuqing accepted that Lu Ye would not marry Haitang, but said she still needed his assistance in the Black Abyss Martial Competition and showed him a crystal-clear bead.

Lu Ye agreed to represent the Eastern Division in the Black Abyss Martial Competition after Su Yuqing gave him a bead that would let him enter, despite warning that he alone could truly die there. He swallowed the bead, began refining it while studying the rules, and the story left him preparing for the competition as news spread that he and Haitang had become Dao Companions.

• Su Yuqing gave Lu Ye a mysterious bead and explained that he had to keep its existence secret and pretend to be Dao Companions with Haitang to enter the Black Abyss.
• Su Yuqing warned Lu Ye that, unlike the Little People Race competitors, he would have no immortal body and could die in the competition, but Lu Ye still agreed to participate.
• Lu Ye swallowed the bead, accepted the competition rules, and settled into a secret chamber to refine it for five days while studying the rules.
• Lu Ye learned that the competition emphasized cooperation among nine-person teams and that the Eastern Division was weaker than the Southern and Western Divisions.
• Lu Ye messaged Nian Yuexian that he would compete and would explain the complicated circumstances later.
• Immortal Spirit Peak announced that Lu Ye and Haitang had become husband and wife, and Nian Yuexian suspected the announcement concealed a more complicated situation.

Lu Ye refined Su Yuqing’s bead with the Talent Tree, causing it to crack and release a miniature clone and a vast reserve of her sealed cultivation into his body. Su Yuqing rushed to his chamber and found him overwhelmed by the energy, while she realized she had lost thirty percent of her cultivation.

• Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo praised Su Yuqing for giving Lu Ye the bead, while she privately worried about the sacrifice it required.
• Lu Ye discovered that the bead contained Su Yuqing’s aura and used the Talent Tree to refine it faster so he could enter the Black Abyss.
• Two days later, the bead cracked, revealed a tiny naked clone of Su Yuqing, and released an immense surge of energy into Lu Ye.
• Su Yuqing sensed the bead breaking, sealed off the secret chamber, and rushed inside to find Lu Ye bleeding as he struggled to refine the energy.
• Su Yuqing realized the bead had sealed thirty percent of her cultivation, while Lu Ye remained unable to move or speak under the energy overwhelming his body.

Lu Ye survived the crisis caused by refining Su Yuqing’s sealed cultivation, though the two of them were left with an awkward secret. He joined Haitang and Su Yuqing on their way to the Black Abyss Martial Competition, where he set his sights on second place.

• Su Yuqing used a peculiar method to guide the energy out of Lu Ye and reclaim her cultivation, then left him to recover after two days.
• Lu Ye realized that the bead held part of Su Yuqing’s cultivation and that the events had made rumors of him and Haitang becoming Dao Companions more awkward.
• Haitang summoned Lu Ye to meet their master, and she explained that the Dao Companion rumor was meant to conceal why he could enter the Black Abyss.
• Su Yuqing told Lu Ye to address her as Peak Master and took him and Haitang toward the Black Abyss as it was about to open.
• When Su Yuqing asked about his goal for the martial competition, Lu Ye declared that he would aim for second place.

Su Yuqing brought Lu Ye and Haitang to the Black Abyss Martial Competition, where Lu Ye’s boosted cultivation exposed her sacrifice to Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo. As the Great Sun Realm cultivators watched the competition begin, they discovered that the Southern and Western Divisions had sent unusually powerful teams.

• Su Yuqing told Lu Ye he and Haitang would remain in her division for a hundred years unless he took second place, then led them to Black Abyss.
• Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo noticed Lu Ye’s improved cultivation and Su Yuqing’s diminished aura, and inferred that she had used a dual-cultivation Secret Technique with him.
• The Star Constellation cultivators entered Black Abyss, and the three divisions’ Great Sun Realm cultivators gathered to observe the competition.
• The Great Sun Realm cultivators saw the Southern Division had one Star Constellation Realm Late Stage cultivator and two Middle Stage cultivators, while the Western Division had one Late Stage and at least three Middle Stage cultivators.

Lu Ye and the Eastern Division’s team entered Black Abyss to compete for Spirit Orbs, which would determine each division’s share of its foundations. When the first orb appeared closer to the opposing divisions, Haitang led the team toward it and turned to Lu Ye for guidance as battle broke out ahead.

• The Southern and Western Divisions argued over each other’s strength while the Eastern Division’s Chen Xuanhai bristled at being drawn into their dispute.
• A Spirit Orb appeared in a region closer to the Southern Division, whose members set off first to claim it.
• Lu Ye and the other eight Eastern Division cultivators arrived at their camp inside Black Abyss, where Lu Ye recognized Han Molong and realized they were present as projections.
• Haitang led the team toward the first Spirit Orb and warned Lu Ye that the Little People Race relied on Spirit Talismans in battle.
• Han Molong noted that the orb was closer to the other divisions, and the team heard fighting ahead as Haitang looked to Lu Ye for advice.

Lu Ye and Haitang led the weaker Eastern Division into the Black Abyss Martial Competition’s struggle over a Spirit Orb, first joining forces with the Western Division before their alliance broke down. When a second Spirit Orb appeared near the Eastern Division’s camp, they seized the chance to withdraw, leaving the Southern and Western Divisions arguing over which one should pursue.

• Haitang led the Eastern Division to the battlefield, where Lu Ye saw the Southern and Western Divisions fighting over a Spirit Orb with stronger lineups than theirs.
• Haitang brought the Eastern Division into the battle alongside the Western Division, pushing the Spirit Orb back toward the center of Black Abyss.
• The Eastern and Western Divisions began competing over the Spirit Orb, and Haitang refused the Western cultivator’s attempt to persuade her to hold back.
• After a second Spirit Orb appeared closer to the Eastern Division’s camp, Haitang led her group to pursue it, with Lu Ye taking the lead and speeding up their formation.
• The Southern and Western Divisions argued over who should pursue the Eastern Division, and neither broke away from the original fight.

Lu Ye and the Eastern Division delivered their first Spirit Orb to camp, where Haitang and the others protected it with a Formation. As the first round ended and the group prepared for the next, Lu Ye introduced the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate to help them fight together.

• Han Molong cleared meteorites while Lu Ye and the other Eastern Division cultivators pushed their Spirit Orb toward camp.
• A third Spirit Orb appeared, and the Southern and Western Divisions each claimed one while the Eastern Division continued its transport.
• Lu Ye and the others delivered their Spirit Orb, and Haitang led the Little People Race cultivators in setting up a barrier Grand Array.
• Lu Ye sensed that the other two divisions were transporting their Spirit Orbs and brought out the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate for the Eastern Division to learn.
• Haitang endorsed Lu Ye's proposal, and Han Molong and Haitang compared the Formation Plate with the Little People Race's Array Talismans.

Lu Ye used the Eastern Division’s weakness and the rivalry between the Southern and Western Divisions to secure the second Spirit Orb. The Eastern Division brought it safely back to camp, while the other two divisions continued fighting.

• Haitang split the Eastern Division into three teams and gave Lu Ye, Han Molong, and herself Formation Plates to coordinate their groups.
• Lu Ye’s team watched the Southern and Western Divisions clash, then raced with the others when a new Spirit Orb appeared.
• Lu Ye declared that the Eastern Division wanted the Spirit Orb, then offered support at the next one to any division that helped them claim it.
• The Southern Division accepted Lu Ye’s proposal, reigniting its fight with the Western Division while the Eastern teams moved ahead.
• Haitang’s team began transporting the Spirit Orb, and Lu Ye explained how the two rival divisions’ distrust gave the Eastern Division leverage.
• Han Molong’s team joined them, and the Eastern Division safely delivered the second Spirit Orb to its camp.

The Eastern Division secured its second Spirit Orb, then Lu Ye persuaded the others to keep pressing their advantage by intercepting Western Division cultivators returning to the battlefield. The ambush delayed the Western Division and left a wounded middle-stage cultivator trapped, while Lu Ye’s strength astonished his teammates.

• The Sunlights and Eastern Division cultivators were surprised when the Eastern Division obtained its second Spirit Orb with little resistance.
• Haitang rallied the Eastern Division to seek a third Spirit Orb, and Lu Ye proposed delaying the Western Division instead of joining its fight with the Southern Division.
• Lu Ye led the group to intercept Western Division cultivators returning from their camp, and Han Molong’s squad held the first one back.
• Haitang’s squad joined the ambush against a Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivator, whom Lu Ye wounded with a single saber strike.
• Huang Li and Xu Xinghe realized Lu Ye was far stronger than they had expected as Haitang’s squad kept the wounded cultivator from escaping.

Lu Ye trapped three Western Division cultivators with his Blood Dao Secret Art, then led the Eastern Division toward the newly born sixth Spirit Orb. The unexpected appearance of an additional light point puzzled the observers in the Mysterious Fog Space as the Western Division's remaining six also raced for the orb.

• A third Western Division cultivator arrived and was intercepted by Lu Ye, Huang Li, and Xu Xinghe, leaving three Western cultivators trapped and the Southern Division with an advantage.
• The Southern Division's Late Stage cultivator recognized the Eastern Division's help, while the Western Division's Late Stage cultivator angrily cursed the Eastern Division.
• After the sixth Spirit Orb appeared, Lu Ye drew Haitang's and Han Molong's teams closer and unleashed a vast Blood Sea that trapped the three Western Division cultivators.
• Lu Ye led the Eastern Division's nine toward the sixth Spirit Orb, while Haitang recognized his technique as a powerful Blood Dao Secret Art.
• The Sunlight Realm observers saw a twenty-eighth light point appear and suspected Lu Ye had used an Incarnation Talisman, but Su Yuqing could not explain it.
• The Western Division's remaining six abandoned their fight with the Southern Division and rushed toward the sixth Spirit Orb to challenge the Eastern Division.

The Eastern Division fought the Western Division to keep the Spirit Orb, and Lu Ye’s overwhelming strength turned a desperate battle in their favor. After fifty breaths, five Western Division cultivators were dead, but the surviving Late Stage cultivator escaped and the Eastern Division had lost one of its own.

• Haitang and Lu Ye agreed that the Eastern Division had to fight the six pursuing Western Division cultivators rather than surrender the Spirit Orb.
• Haitang’s team engaged the Western Division’s Late Stage cultivator while Lu Ye and Han Molong’s teams intercepted the two Middle Stage cultivators.
• Lu Ye killed one Middle Stage cultivator almost immediately, then pursued and killed two Early Stage cultivators despite one using a Golden Body Talisman.
• Lu Ye and his companions helped Han Molong’s team kill the remaining Middle Stage cultivator, leaving only the Late Stage cultivator alive.
• The Late Stage cultivator escaped after Haitang failed to hold him, while one member of Haitang’s team died and the Eastern Division regrouped with eight people.

Lu Ye helped the Eastern Division defeat the Western Division’s attack and deliver its third Spirit Orb to their main camp. With the Eastern Division positioned to secure at least second place, Haitang weighed whether to defend their gains or press onward.

• Ye Chaoqun asked Lu Ye his name, then withdrew after the Western Division lost five cultivators and could no longer stop the Eastern Division.
• The Sunlight cultivators watched the battle and Old Second Zhu inferred that Lu Ye had trapped three Western Division cultivators in advance to shape the fight over the Spirit Orbs.
• The Eastern Division placed its third Spirit Orb at the main camp, and the gathered cultivators celebrated their unexpected success.
• Haitang and her wounded squadmate chose rebirth to recover from their injuries, while Haitang asked Lu Ye whether they should defend their gains or keep attacking.
• Lu Ye urged the Eastern Division to restore its Spiritual Power, and Huang Li and Xu Xinghe apologized for falling behind his pace in battle.

Haitang chose to pursue a fourth Spirit Orb after Lu Ye’s strength gave the Eastern Division a chance to compete for first place. Ye Chaoqun then sought a Western-Southern alliance against the Eastern Division, and Duan Xiuchen began considering it after learning how many orbs the East had claimed.

• Haitang decided that the Eastern Division would try to seize the fourth Spirit Orb, and its members agreed.
• Ye Chaoqun met Duan Xiuchen and proposed that the Western and Southern Divisions ally against the Eastern Division.
• Duan Xiuchen initially rejected the proposal, citing the Southern Division’s existing alliance with the East.
• Ye Chaoqun revealed that the Eastern Division had wiped out the Western Division’s six fighters, including a Middle Stage cultivator slain by Lu Ye.
• Duan Xiuchen questioned Ye Chaoqun about Lu Ye, and learned the outside helper had Early Stage cultivation but Late Stage strength.
• Ye Chaoqun argued that the East’s three orbs threatened the other divisions’ standings, then suggested they take the orbs back.

Lu Ye led the Eastern Division toward the seventh Spirit Orb, but recognized that the Southern and Western Divisions might be staging a fight to lure them out. When he joined the battle, both divisions revealed their alliance and attacked the Eastern Division.

• Lu Ye and Haitang discussed the risk that the Southern and Western Divisions would join forces against the Eastern Division.
• The seventh Spirit Orb appeared near the Eastern Division’s camp, but Lu Ye concealed his team nearby instead of immediately claiming it.
• Ye Chaoqun’s Western Division began transporting the orb, and the Southern Division attacked them while Lu Ye watched from hiding.
• Lu Ye suspected the fierce battle was a ruse and led his team toward the battlefield after the two sides had lost four cultivators each.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun turned on Lu Ye, while the Southern and Western Division cultivators intercepted Haitang and Han Molong’s teams.

Lu Ye’s Eastern Division was ambushed by the allied Southern and Western Divisions, leaving it unable to prevent them from distributing the remaining Spirit Orbs. Realizing the alliance would eventually target his division’s three orbs, Lu Ye proposed seizing a fourth orb first.

• Ye Chaoqun and Duan Xiuchen attacked Lu Ye and his companions, and Huang Li, Xu Xinghe, and the other Eastern Division cultivators were killed during the battle.
• Lu Ye survived the joint assault and learned that the Southern and Western Divisions had allied to keep the Eastern Division in third place.
• The allied divisions transported the seventh Spirit Orb toward the Western Division camp while the Eastern Division regrouped.
• Lu Ye predicted that the Southern and Western Divisions would later take the Eastern Division’s orbs to settle the rankings between themselves.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had strengthened the Eastern Division camp’s defenses and declared that they would seize the fourth Spirit Orb.

Lu Ye used teleportation arrays to send the Eastern Division to raid the Southern and Western Divisions’ camps while their forces escorted the ninth Spirit Orb. After the Eastern Division broke the camps’ formations and sent their Spirit Orbs drifting away, Duan Xiuchen ordered his people to kill themselves and return to defend their camp.

• The Western and Southern Divisions joined forces to escort the eighth Spirit Orb to the Southern Division’s camp, while Lu Ye’s group followed from a distance.
• When the ninth Spirit Orb appeared, Lu Ye’s group trailed the allied divisions, then vanished as Lu Ye’s teleportation arrays carried the Eastern Division toward both enemy camps.
• The Great Sun Realm cultivators realized Lu Ye had secretly set up teleportation arrays at the camps and sent the Eastern Division to attack them.
• Lu Ye’s main body and Clone led the Eastern Division in breaking both camps’ formations and pushing the Southern and Western Spirit Orbs in different directions with meteors.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun sensed their Spirit Orbs moving and recognized that the Eastern Division had raided their camps.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division’s cultivators to kill themselves and return to camp to reinforce it.

The Eastern Division secured the ninth Spirit Orb, giving them four, while the Southern and Western Divisions accused them of cheating before accepting that they had won it fairly. Lu Ye warned that the allied divisions would attack their camp, and Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun prepared their forces for the assault.

• Ye Chaoqun ordered most of the Western Division cultivators to die and return, leaving two to transport the ninth Spirit Orb, but Eastern Division cultivators killed the remaining pair and took the orb.
• Sunlight cultivators from the Southern and Western Divisions accused Chen Xuanhai of cheating, but Old Xu ended the argument and pointed out that the Eastern Division still had to defend its Spirit Orbs until the competition ended.
• Lu Ye welcomed the fourth Spirit Orb back to the Eastern Division camp, stopped the celebration, and told everyone to recover their Spiritual Power before the coming attack.
• Haitang asked Lu Ye whether he had altered the camp's Formation and used a Clone; Lu Ye confirmed both, explaining that his Clone technique was special.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun met with their divisions outside the Eastern Division camp and agreed to attack, with Ye Chaoqun urging the Southern Division to commit fully.

The Southern and Western Divisions attacked the Eastern Division camp, slowly breaking through its nine layers of defenses. When Lu Ye trapped the camp and five enemy cultivators inside a vast Blood Dao Secret Art, the remaining attackers regrouped and launched a fiercer assault.

• Ye Chaoqun led the Southern and Western Divisions to attack the Eastern Division camp, while Lu Ye accepted the challenge.
• Nine Eastern Division cultivators presided over the camp's protective arrays, which endured the combined assault for nearly a day before the final layer broke.
• Ye Chaoqun and Duan Xiuchen bombarded Lu Ye from a distance, and Lu Ye struggled to defend the Eastern Division without exposing his companions.
• Lu Ye unleashed a vast Blood Dao Secret Art that engulfed the Eastern Division camp and trapped three Southern Division cultivators and two Western Division cultivators.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun recognized the threat and ordered the thirteen remaining attackers to intensify their assault to exhaust Lu Ye.

Lu Ye kept the Southern and Western Divisions occupied with the Blood Sea while his Clone raided the Southern Division’s camp and moved a Spirit Orb. As the Blood Sea reached its limit, Lu Ye prepared for the decisive battle, but the Southern Division’s reinforcements failed to stop him and were wiped out.

• Lu Ye guided the Eastern Division cultivators to defeat five trapped enemies, then used a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Spirit Pattern to help his allies recover while sustaining the Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye sent his Clone to attack the Southern Division’s camp, choosing the moment when its reinforcements were away at the battlefield.
• After half a day, Lu Ye sent a warning to Haitang and the others as his Spiritual Power neared its limit; they prepared for the final battle while his Clone broke the camp’s Protective Grand Array and pushed out a Spirit Orb.
• Duan Xiuchen learned that Lu Ye was raiding the Southern Division’s camp and sent five cultivators back to deal with him; Ye Chaoqun urged him to keep Lu Ye alive and tied down.
• Lu Ye killed the first cultivator who spotted him, then wiped out the four reinforcements as well, leaving Duan Xiuchen shocked by the message.

Duan Xiuchen returned to intercept Lu Ye and recover the Spirit Orb, but Lu Ye’s Clone used the Sword Gourd’s deceptive sword light to draw Southern Division forces away from the Eastern Division. After the Clone returned to the Eastern Division camp, it attacked the assembled Southern and Western Division cultivators, leaving them exposed to an ambush as the chapter ended.

• Duan Xiuchen left Ye Chaoqun to enter the Blood Sea, then returned to his camp and pursued Lu Ye after learning his men had been killed by Flying Swords.
• Duan Xiuchen fought Lu Ye’s Clone through a Sword River and discovered that its Sword Qi mixed weak attacks with powerful strikes.
• Duan Xiuchen and two Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators engaged the Clone while two Early Stage cultivators carried the Spirit Orb back toward their camp.
• The Clone vanished after drawing five Southern Division cultivators away, then returned to the Eastern Division camp as thirteen Southern and Western Division cultivators attacked the blood sphere.
• The Clone struck the assembled forces with misleading sword light, killing three cultivators before Ye Chaoqun sensed the nine Eastern Division cultivators emerging from ambush.

Lu Ye and the Eastern Division defeated the Southern and Western Divisions’ attackers, but Ye Chaoqun escaped and used a Great Teleportation Talisman to summon reinforcements. The chapter ends as figures begin appearing beside him, threatening the Eastern Division’s apparent victory.

• Ye Chaoqun realized Lu Ye had a Clone and fled while the Clone and Lu Ye’s team killed the remaining Star Constellation cultivators.
• Lu Ye, Huang Li, and Xu Xinghe defeated the last Middle Stage cultivator, and the Eastern Division eliminated the remaining Early Stage fighters.
• Ye Chaoqun escaped with a Spirit Talisman, while Lu Ye’s Clone merged back into his main body.
• Haitang explained that the Great Teleportation Talisman was the Western Division’s rare trump card, and Lu Ye realized it could bring reinforcements to Ye Chaoqun.
• A talisman array appeared beside Ye Chaoqun, and several figures began to emerge.

Duan Xiuchen led the Southern Division in a final assault against the Eastern Division, and both sides activated Array Talismans that manifested as enormous beasts. Their nine-headed serpent and the Southern Division’s lightning-horned wolf collided, leaving Lu Ye and the others locked in a battle of strength and Spiritual Power.

• Duan Xiuchen arrived after Ye Chaoqun used a Great Teleportation Talisman, and Ye entrusted the remaining fight to the Southern Division.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division to activate its Array Talisman, and Haitang activated the Eastern Division’s in response.
• The Eastern Division’s nine cultivators joined their power to manifest a nine-headed serpent, while the Southern Division formed a giant, lightning-horned wolf.
• The wolf blasted a hole through the serpent with a beam from its horn, and Haitang drove the serpent into close combat.
• The two beasts collided, and the wolf bit at Zhang Chao’s serpent head while the Eastern Division’s cultivators poured Spiritual Power into repairing the damage.

The Eastern Division’s battle against the Southern Division’s giant wolf turned when Lu Ye used the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern to strengthen the Nine-Headed Snake’s fangs. He extended the technique to other serpent heads, and the two sides entered a brutal contest of endurance.

• The Eastern Division struggled to damage the giant wolf, while the Southern Division’s stronger Array Talisman gave it the advantage in their clash.
• Lu Ye imbued his serpent head’s fangs with the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern and tore a large chunk from the giant wolf’s neck.
• Duan Xiuchen began targeting Lu Ye, but Lu Ye used the Array Talisman’s shared Spiritual Power to strengthen the fangs of other serpent heads instead.
• The Nine-Headed Snake repeatedly broke through the giant wolf’s protection, erasing the Southern Division’s advantage and forcing Duan Xiuchen to abandon his efforts to target Lu Ye.
• Both divisions fought head-on as injuries overwhelmed their ability to repair the colossal beasts, leaving the outcome to whoever exhausted their strength first.

Lu Ye helped the Eastern Division withstand the Southern Division’s Array Talisman, then attacked the Western Division before it could join forces with the Southern Division. He killed Ye Chaoqun and four more Western Division cultivators before being reborn at the Eastern Division’s camp, leaving only four Western Division cultivators alive.

• The Eastern Division’s Nine-Headed Serpent and the Southern Division’s giant wolf fought until the Southern Division shattered the serpent with its liquid-lightning attack, but the wolf then collapsed under the Eastern Division’s counterattack.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division to attack as Ye Chaoqun led the Western Division’s eight arriving cultivators toward the battlefield.
• Lu Ye charged Ye Chaoqun, who tried to flee, and killed him with a saber strike before he could use a Golden Body Talisman.
• The Western Division’s cultivators attacked Lu Ye, but he broke into their ranks and unleashed his Lotus Platform, killing four of them, including two Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators.
• Lu Ye reappeared on the Eastern Division’s camp platform, while the Western Division was left with four surviving cultivators.