Recaps

Lu Ye and Xie Jin’s team helped Green Feather Mountain seize Qin Clan peaks, while Tang Wu pressured Qin Wanli into withdrawing from the fighting and yielding eighteen peaks. The chapter ended as Tang Wu launched a broad attack on the Tai Luo Sect’s frontline, forcing Han Zheyue to send out reinforcements.

• Lu Ye’s team defeated the remaining Qin Clan Peak Guard cultivators, then returned to Green Feather Mountain’s territory to recover with help from Mu Ling.
• The next three days, Xie Jin’s forces captured Qin Clan peaks while the Qin Clan’s Hunter Team avoided them, leaving the Qin Clan with only nineteen peaks.
• Tang Wu agreed to Qin Wanli’s request for eighteen peaks, and the Qin Clan withdrew from the contested peak as Green Feather Mountain took it without a fight.
• Han Zheyue called Tang Wu despicable and challenged him, so Tang Wu ordered Green Feather Mountain’s forces to attack Tai Luo Sect’s frontline peaks.
• Han Zheyue sent scattered forces to reinforce the frontline while Qin Wanli stayed silent, wary that Tang Wu might turn his forces against the Qin Clan.

Lu Ye's Hunter Team clashed with a Tai Luo Sect team whose concealed cultivators made it far stronger than expected. As the fight turned against them, Han Zheyue revealed she had anticipated Tang Wu's plan and intended to use the battle to break Green Feather Mountain's defenses.

• Xie Jin led Lu Ye and the others toward the enemy Hunter Team, and both sides were thrown from their mounts when they collided.
• Lu Ye engaged a Tier Five Body Cultivator, while Song Xie and Tao Tiangang discovered their opponents were secretly Tier Five as well.
• Song Xie struggled against a Spell Cultivator, Tao Tiangang was badly wounded, and the enemy's hidden strength gave it a major advantage.
• Tang Wu realized Han Zheyue had deceived him by hiding the true cultivation levels of two Tai Luo Sect cultivators.
• Han Zheyue explained that she had tracked Lu Ye and planned to destroy his team, reinforce the nearby battle, and break through Green Feather Mountain's defensive line.

Lu Ye turned a desperate battle against Tai Luo Sect’s Hunter Team by killing two Tier Five cultivators and then helping Qiao Qiao'er kill a Tier Four cultivator. He joined Xie Jin against another Tier Five opponent while Tao Tiangang and Song Xie still fought together against the last.

• Lu Ye trapped a Tier Five Spell Cultivator with his Small Bell Spiritual Artifact, giving Song Xie time to join Tao Tiangang against their opponent.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi worked together to break through the little-mustached Body Cultivator’s defenses, and Lu Ye killed him with a slash across the neck.
• Lu Ye freed the trapped Spell Cultivator and killed him with a sudden strike as he emerged from the Small Bell.
• Lu Ye and Qiao Qiao'er coordinated to kill the fleeing Tier Four cultivator who had been fighting her.
• Lu Ye joined Xie Jin against a Tier Five cultivator while Qiao Qiao'er called after him, asking which side to help.

Lu Ye and the others defeated Tai Luo Sect’s Hunter Team and helped Green Feather Mountain win the battle for the peak. Han Zheyue ordered a large-scale retreat, while Lu Ye checked on Yiyi’s injuries as the fighting continued elsewhere.

• Qiao Qiao'er joined Song Xie and the badly injured Tao Tiangang, while Lu Ye and Xie Jin killed their opponents and regrouped with them against the final Tier Five.
• Lu Ye and the others killed the last Tier Five, leaving Tao Tiangang severely injured, and then rode toward the summit to support the Assault Team.
• Lu Ye’s group harried the Tai Luo Sect Peak Guard cultivators, helping Green Feather Mountain turn its advantage into a sweeping victory at nightfall.
• Han Zheyue ordered Tai Luo Sect’s forces to retreat after her Hunter Teams were intercepted and Qin Wanli refused to send aid.
• Lu Ye’s group learned Tao Tiangang was out of danger and heard that Green Feather Mountain was pursuing the retreating Tai Luo Sect forces.
• Lu Ye checked Yiyi’s condition after she had been injured by the Tier Five Body Cultivator.

Lu Ye recovered after the battle and learned that Green Feather Mountain’s decisive victory had left the Dragon Spring Gathering poised to end early. Tang Wu forced the issue by massing Green Feather Mountain’s forces beneath a Tai Luo Sect peak, and Han Zheyue agreed to end the gathering; Lu Ye’s team would be allowed to enter the Dragon Spring.

• Lu Ye woke to find Amber biting Qiao Qiao'er after she tried to feed it drugged beast meat, then checked his rewards and supplies.
• Lu Ye learned from Xie Jin that Green Feather Mountain held more than fifty peaks after its victory and that the fighting would likely stop.
• Xie Jin told Lu Ye that his team had earned places to enter the Dragon Spring because of their contribution to the battle.
• Tang Wu proposed ending the gathering, but Han Zheyue refused and challenged Green Feather Mountain to attack Tai Luo Sect’s defenses.
• Tang Wu ordered Green Feather Mountain to abandon a peak and gather forces beneath a Tai Luo Sect peak, while Lu Ye’s Hunter Team joined the front line.
• Han Zheyue accepted that the Dragon Spring Gathering should end, and Qin Wanli approved.

Tang Wu secured Green Feather Mountain's victory in the Dragon Spring Gathering and collected wagers from Han Zheyue and Qin Wanli. The Dragon Spring opened, and the visiting cultivators entered first as Green Feather Mountain's disciples prepared to follow.

• Han Zheyue accepted an ownerless mountain peak for Green Feather Mountain, and the three faction leaders announced the Dragon Spring Gathering had ended.
• Xie Jin told Lu Ye that his entire team had been selected to enter the Dragon Spring, and he led them to Central Peak.
• Tang Wu made Lu Ye display his Battlefield Mark, forcing Han Zheyue to pay him two hundred Merit and Qin Wanli to pay twenty Merit.
• Cultivators from Green Feather Mountain's allied sects arrived, and the group arranged for their mounts to be kept in beast pens.
• As the Dragon Spring opened, Tang Wu announced that each faction would occupy it for three days, and the visiting cultivators entered the hall first.

Lu Ye used Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns to absorb the Dragon Spring’s red mist, enduring intense pain as his physique grew dramatically stronger. He left the chamber with an unknown object from the Spring Eye, then reappeared with the other cultivators as the bell marked the end of their three days.

• Lu Ye entered the Dragon Spring and found himself alone in a small chamber with a Spring Eye.
• Lu Ye used Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns to draw in the mist, increasing their number until all fifty-four of his Spiritual Apertures were reinforced.
• Lu Ye endured waves of pain, saw blood-red eyes in his mind, and afterward discovered that his strength and speed had increased sharply.
• Lu Ye adapted to his changed body, ate more than ten jin of jerky, and noticed that the mist had disappeared from the chamber.
• Lu Ye retrieved an unknown object from the Spring Eye and was transported out when the bell rang three times.
• The cultivators gathered outside the Bronze Gate, where the strong foul stench prompted someone to urge everyone to leave.

After the Dragon Spring Gathering, Lu Ye left Green Feather Mountain under Tang Wu’s protection to avoid Han Zheyue. Tang Wu escorted him to Yi'an City, where Lu Ye prepared to spend the night and replenish his supplies.

• After bathing, Lu Ye learned from Xie Jin that the Dragon Spring mist had nearly run out, likely leaving the Tai Luo Sect’s later group without its benefits.
• Xie Jin told Lu Ye that Tang Wu would escort him because Han Zheyue might target him, and that Qiao Qiao'er and Song Xie would be accepted into Green Feather Mountain.
• Han Zheyue offered Tang Wu Spirit Stones and Merit in exchange for Lu Ye’s life, but Tang Wu refused and left the hall.
• As Green Feather Mountain’s group departed, Qiao Qiao'er, Song Xie, Xie Jin, and Tao Tiangang said farewell to Lu Ye.
• Tang Wu arrived on a One Leaf Skiff and took Lu Ye and Amber west, agreeing to escort them as far as Yi'an City.
• After two days of travel, Tang Wu left Lu Ye at Yi'an City, and Lu Ye headed inside to rest and buy supplies.

Lu Ye explored Yi'an City, bought supplies, and settled into the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild before examining the mysterious scale that had emerged from the Dragon Spring. Elsewhere in the city, a disgraced cultivator served as bodyguard to a notorious mortal playboy, while a senior brother let his two junior companions explore; the chapter left Lu Ye wondering whether the scale came from the dragon he had seen in his vision.

• Lu Ye explored bustling Yi'an City, learned why mortals lived on the Spirit Stream Battlefield, bought food and clothes, and headed to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild.
• A mortal playboy groped a woman and had his servants beat her husband while his Tier Six bodyguard, Old Dong, stood by.
• Old Dong reflected on how his betrayal and ruined prospects had led him to become bodyguard to the playboy, who then left with his servants.
• A Tier Five senior brother entered Yi'an City with two Tier Two junior companions and let them explore while he went to the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild.
• Lu Ye took out the object that had erupted from the Dragon Spring, and Amber reacted with instinctive hostility.
• Lu Ye noticed the object resembled the dragon's scale armor and wondered about its connection to the dragon and the blood-red eyes in his vision.

Lu Ye discovered that the blood-red Scale Armor could strengthen the body, though its energy was too potent to absorb safely, and he adjusted to his improved physique. In the city, Wu Hua recognized him as Lu Yiye, while Old Dong realized Lu Ye had survived their past encounter.

• Lu Ye saw Amber absorb energy from the Scale Armor and collapse, then watched its Qi and Blood Power rise as its body was tempered.
• Lu Ye stored the Scale Armor and practiced his saber through the night, finding that his strengthened physique had greatly increased his speed and power.
• At dawn, Amber woke unharmed with increased Qi and Blood Power and more lustrous fur.
• Wu Hua recognized Lu Ye outside the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, but Lu Ye denied knowing him and left on Amber.
• Old Dong spotted Lu Ye and realized that the young man he had believed dead had survived, while Wu Hua explained Lu Yiye's nickname to his senior brother.

Wu Hua’s recollection of Lu Ye revealed his rapid rise in cultivation, while Dong Shuye recognized him and set out to kill him again. Lu Ye fled on Amber as Dong Shuye pursued with a noisy young master in tow, and the chase headed toward a nearby sect’s camp where Dong Shuye hoped to find help.

• Wu Hua told his senior brother that he had known Lu Ye from the mine, and Dong Shuye overheard them and identified Lu Ye as the man he wanted to kill.
• The young master insisted on joining Dong Shuye as he went to snatch the Big Tiger, and Dong Shuye agreed to take him along.
• Lu Ye left Yi'an City on Amber, sensed someone following him, spotted Dong Shuye, and used a Windwalk Spirit Talisman to flee.
• Dong Shuye carried the young master after Lu Ye, repeatedly knocking him unconscious when his shouting became unbearable.
• Dong Shuye realized he could not catch Amber at their current pace and sent a message to seek help from a nearby camp.
• Lu Ye suspected Dong Shuye’s cultivation had fallen to Spirit Stream Tier Six and kept fleeing toward storm clouds, fearing spell cultivators ahead.

Lu Ye and Amber were ambushed in the swamp while fleeing Dong Shuye, and Lu Ye killed the two cultivators who trapped them. Dong Shuye caught up and attacked, but Lu Ye used his sharpened reactions and Defense Spirit Pattern to push closer through the spells.

• Two cultivators dropped a Spirit Net over Amber, but Lu Ye leaped away and killed them both with his saber.
• Dong Shuye arrived carrying a mortal young master, who blamed Dong Shuye for pursuing Lu Ye and ran to safety.
• Lu Ye charged Dong Shuye while Amber retreated, and he dodged or blocked the Golden Arc Slashes as he advanced.
• Dong Shuye formed a spear of Spiritual Power and struck Lu Ye's Defense Spirit Pattern, forcing him backward.
• Lu Ye recovered and sprinted forward between Dong Shuye's spells, continuing to close the distance.

Lu Ye used Amber and the Mystic Spirit Bell to capture Dong Shuye’s mortal companion and force Dong Shuye to withdraw, but Dong Shuye broke their agreement and attacked. Lu Ye escaped with Amber, and after reaching a Chaotic Stone Forest, he considered how to face the pursuing Dong Shuye.

• Lu Ye drew Dong Shuye close enough for the Mystic Spirit Bell to trap him, then seized the young wastrel and held a blade to his throat.
• Lu Ye swore a Heaven’s Mystery Oath to spare the young wastrel and free him in three days if Dong Shuye left, and Dong Shuye walked away.
• Dong Shuye turned back and attacked Lu Ye, killing the young wastrel; Lu Ye trapped Dong Shuye again and fled on Amber’s back.
• Dong Shuye shattered the Mystic Spirit Bell and pursued Lu Ye, while the young wastrel’s family later issued a warrant for Dong Shuye’s arrest.
• Lu Ye and Amber reached a Chaotic Stone Forest after Dong Shuye stopped chasing them, and Lu Ye decided he needed to reach Tier Five to fight him.

Lu Ye sought refuge in a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild while Dong Shuye pursued him, then paid the steep lodging fee to cultivate toward Tier Five. By his fourth night, a steward reported that Heavenly Character Room Three was consuming extra Spirit Stones, where Lu Ye was staying.

• Lu Ye realized Dong Shuye had fallen to Tier Six and planned to reach Tier Five, but fled when Dong Shuye caught up with him.
• Lu Ye entered a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild and demanded lodging as Dong Shuye followed; an old Tier Eight cultivator intervened to stop a fight.
• Lu Ye paid a hundred Spirit Stones for ten nights and began cultivating in a spacious room with dense Spiritual Energy, while Dong Shuye waited outside.
• Lu Ye opened apertures rapidly during his stay, and on his fourth night a steward told the old man that Heavenly Character Room Three was consuming extra Spirit Stones.

Lu Ye left the Merchant Alliance after preparing for a confrontation, drawing Dong Shuye into a cave where he advanced to Spirit Stream Fifth Layer and trapped them both inside. He charged Dong Shuye, determined to kill the Spell Cultivator at close range.

• Amber used the Scale Armor’s blood thread to temper its body while Lu Ye continued cultivating at the Merchant Alliance.
• Lu Ye spent his remaining Spirit Stones on talismans and Spiritual Pills, then rode Amber away as Dong Shuye pursued him.
• Lu Ye led Dong Shuye into a karst cavern, where Dong Shuye sealed the entrance behind himself while trying to prevent an ambush.
• Lu Ye advanced from Spirit Stream Fourth Layer to Fifth Layer, and Yiyi sealed the cave entrance with a Spirit Talisman.
• Lu Ye dodged Dong Shuye’s spells and charged toward him as the distance between them closed.

Lu Ye fought Dong Shuye in the cavern, adapting to his newly reached Tier Five cultivation as he dodged volleys of spells and landed a powerful saber strike. Dong Shuye countered with hidden attacks and took to the air, but Lu Ye interrupted his large-scale spell with a Fire Bird, leaving Dong Shuye falling and his Spiritual Power in chaos.

• Dong Shuye bombarded Lu Ye with fire spells while Lu Ye dodged and adapted to his new strength during the fight.
• Lu Ye closed in and broke Dong Shuye's Golden Body Talisman with a saber strike, but Dong Shuye hit him with two Golden Arc Slashes.
• Lu Ye blocked the slashes with his Defense Spirit Pattern and recovered enough to charge again, while Dong Shuye's wounded arms slowed his spellcasting.
• Dong Shuye used Flight Technique to rise above Lu Ye and began forming a large-scale destructive spell.
• Lu Ye cast a Fire Bird that exploded against Dong Shuye, interrupting the spell and sending him falling with his Spiritual Power in disarray.

Lu Ye killed Dong Shuye after exploiting his mistakes and draining his Spiritual Power, then gathered the spoils and prepared to leave the lava cave with Yiyi and Amber. Dong Shuye had sent a message to many people before dying, and Lu Ye left without knowing who might respond.

• Lu Ye pressed his attack, and Dong Shuye exhausted his Spiritual Power before crashing to the ground.
• Lu Ye drove his blade into Dong Shuye's heart and killed him, earning twenty-nine Merit overall from the recent kills.
• Yiyi emerged after the battle, and Lu Ye told her to feed Amber, recover, and leave quickly in case reinforcements came.
• Yiyi searched Dong Shuye's Storage Bag and returned with it, while Lu Ye counted his Merit and recovered with Spiritual Pills.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber moved the stones blocking the exit and left the cave.

Wang Yang learned that Dong Shuye had sent a final warning identifying Lu Ye as a rapidly advancing Crimson Blood Sect disciple, then spread the news as it swept across the Spirit Stream Battlefield and the Nine Provinces. Lu Ye’s true origins and survival became widely known, leaving many sects wary of the Crimson Blood Sect’s returning influence.

• Wang Yang received a message from Dong Shuye identifying Lu Yiye, also known as Lu Ye, as a Crimson Blood Sect disciple at Spirit Stream Tier Five, and realized Dong Shuye had died.
• Wang Yang told Xiao Zhu that Dong Shuye had sent the message to every imprint before his death, then set out to spread the news.
• The message spread throughout the Spirit Stream Battlefield, drawing attention to Lu Ye’s rapid cultivation and suspected presence at Abundant Cloud Mountain.
• Reports from the Nine Provinces revealed that Lu Ye had entered the Crimson Blood Sect with One Leaf aptitude and only one opened aperture less than half a year earlier.
• News exposed that Lu Ye had survived the ambush on the Return Path and that Tang Yifeng’s reported death and injuries might have been a cover, prompting sects to take the Crimson Blood Sect seriously.

Li Baxian learned that Lu Yiye was heading to the Crimson Blood Sect and rushed to find him, while Feng Yuechan also left Pill Heart Sect. The chapter left Feng Yuechan attacking the Hundred Refinements Valley camp as its cultivators hid behind their Protective Grand Array.

• Feng Yuechan brought Li Baxian wine and told him that Old Man Tang had taken in Lu Yiye, who was heading toward the Crimson Blood Sect after reaching Tier Five.
• Li Baxian rushed away to find Lu Yiye, ignoring a sect member who tried to stop him.
• Feng Yuechan chose to go to Hundred Refinements Valley and flew there on her handkerchief, knocking aside another sect member who questioned her.
• Pill Heart Sect's remaining members activated their Protective Grand Array and sent word to the Main Sect after both Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan left.
• Feng Yuechan attacked the Hundred Refinements Valley camp with a house-sized Fireball while its Garrison Envoy and cultivators stayed inside the array.

Lu Ye discovered that his Talent Tree had stopped burning Pill Toxin, while repeated attacks by Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators slowed his journey to the Crimson Blood Sect. As factions mobilized around him, a group sent by a sect that owed the Crimson Blood Sect a favor tracked him down to protect him.

• Feng Yuechan threatened to slaughter Hundred Refinements Valley cultivators unless they recalled their people, and the Garrison Envoy hurried to comply.
• Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge sects clashed in a wave of declarations of war as both sides sought to determine Lu Ye's fate.
• Lu Ye killed another group of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators and realized impurities had entered his Spiritual Power because his Talent Tree no longer burned Pill Toxin.
• Lu Ye suspected the Talent Tree had run out of fuel and decided he needed to find more heat or Fire Attribute energy to restore it.
• A group of cultivators used a miniature Shadow Moon Plate to observe Lu Ye and confirmed he was the Tier Five youth they had been ordered to protect.

Lu Ye discovered that the woman repeatedly asking him for help was Lan Yudie, a disguised Tier Seven Cultivator sent to approach and protect him. After she broke free of his drug and attacked, he proved able to track her movements, leaving their fight unresolved.

• The squad chose to have Senior Sister Lan approach Lu Ye while the others followed secretly, but her daytime cries for help failed to draw him in.
• That night, Lan Yudie staged another plea for help, and Lu Ye let her stay by his campfire while realizing she was the woman from earlier.
• Lu Ye drugged Lan Yudie's roasted meat and confronted her about repeatedly seeking him out, so she admitted she had been assigned to approach him.
• Lan Yudie concealed her Tier Seven cultivation, resisted the drug, dodged Lu Ye's saber, and launched an attack.
• Lu Ye tracked Lan Yudie's swift movements with his saber, startling her as their fight continued.

Lu Ye fought Lan Yudie before Qi Xin and other Purple Cloud Mountain cultivators intervened and swore they meant him no harm. In a cave, Qi Xin revealed that Lu Ye’s Crimson Blood Sect identity had been exposed and that sects across the Spirit Stream Battlefield were moving to kill or protect him, while Lan Yudie explained that the sect was close to being erased.

• Lu Ye and Lan Yudie fought until Qi Xin arrived with six other cultivators and called for them to stop.
• Qi Xin swore a Heaven’s Mystery Oath that his group had no ill intent, and Lu Ye agreed to accompany them to a secluded place.
• Lan Yudie revealed that Lu Ye had poisoned her and made him let Amber carry her as the group traveled to a cave.
• Qi Xin told Lu Ye that his identity as a disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect had become known across the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• Lan Yudie said the Crimson Blood Sect had fallen from First Rank to Ninth Rank and faced erasure in the sect rank assessment two months later.

Lu Ye learned that his survival was tied to the Crimson Blood Sect’s continued existence, and Lan Yudie and the others escorted him through the Spirit Stream Battlefield. As they encountered Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, Lan Yudie attacked to clear their path.

• Lan Yudie and Qi Xin told Lu Ye that factions were trying to kill him because his death would lead to the Crimson Blood Sect’s dissolution, while allies were working to protect him.
• Lu Ye chose to travel with Amber, and Lan Yudie split the group so she could guard him while Qi Xin and the others handled threats.
• Xie Jin of Green Feather Mountain warned Lu Ye that Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators were searching for him, and Lu Ye thanked him.
• Lan Yudie and Lu Ye rode Amber onward, avoiding a nearby battle and traveling for a day.
• Lan Yudie told Lu Ye to occupy a woman in red ahead, then charged the Myriad Demon Ridge group and killed a Tier Six cultivator in an instant.

Lu Ye and Lan Yudie fought through Myriad Demon Ridge forces as stronger enemies closed in. Lan Yudie split from Lu Ye to hold back a group of attackers, but Lu Ye returned to the battle and helped her turn the tide before a Tier Seven cultivator unleashed a sword-control technique at him.

• Lu Ye and Lan Yudie quickly killed a five-person Myriad Demon Ridge group, including a Tier Six Spell Cultivator, and continued onward.
• Lan Yudie learned that Qi Xin and the others could not catch up, then sent Lu Ye ahead while she stayed behind to block enemies.
• Lan Yudie fought a Tier Seven, a Tier Six, and a Tier Five cultivator while Amber drew their attention and Lu Ye ambushed their Tier Six Spell Cultivator.
• Lu Ye and Amber killed the Tier Five cultivator, leaving Lan Yudie and Lu Ye facing the Tier Seven Weapon Cultivator.
• The Tier Seven spat blood and launched his longsword at Lu Ye with Sword Control, alarming Lan Yudie.

Lu Ye and Lan Yudie escaped after she killed the Tier Seven Weapon Cultivator, but Lan Yudie collapsed from her injuries and a costly Secret Technique. After she urged him to leave her behind, Lu Ye insisted they would travel together and vowed to survive the struggle between the factions.

• Lan Yudie killed the Tier Seven Weapon Cultivator, and Lu Ye helped her escape on Amber as nearby cultivators approached.
• Lu Ye brought the unconscious Lan Yudie to a cave, where Yiyi treated her wounds while Lu Ye replenished his Spiritual Power.
• After waking, Lan Yudie told Lu Ye that two of her junior disciples had died and urged him to leave her behind.
• Lu Ye explained that he would remember the sacrifices made for him, vowed to live, and promised to make the Myriad Demon Ridge forces pay if he survived.
• Lan Yudie realized her clothes had been changed and accused Lu Ye, who denied doing it; Amber looked displeased when she suggested he had helped.