Recaps

Lu Ye discovered and removed the hidden bloodline curse shortening A Qiduo’s family’s lives, then turned to finding a way to stop the Heavenly God Disciples from reviving. His first attempt to devour a Heavenly God Disciple’s life force ended with the enemy dissolving into light, while Lu Ye felt a dangerously intoxicating pleasure.

• Lu Ye inferred that A Qiduo’s bloodline carried a curse poison after learning that her clan’s lifespans never increased with cultivation.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree for half a day to remove A Qiduo’s curse, freeing her from the shortened lifespan and sparing her future descendants the same affliction.
• Lu Ye’s battlefield intelligence helped Zhongyou Realm’s cultivators prevent many Heavenly God Disciples from reviving by isolating the space containing their remains.
• After Tian Hong failed to stop a Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple’s rapid revival, he ordered Lu Ye to find a way to kill it swiftly.
• Lu Ye had Abuluo kill a captive Heavenly God Disciple, then used the Talent Tree’s roots to devour the corpse’s life force.
• Lu Ye felt overwhelming pleasure, broke contact, and watched the Heavenly God Disciple dissolve into specks of fluorescent light.

Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree could devour the Blood Flower sustaining Heavenly God Disciples, preventing them from reviving, and used the method to kill a Sunlight-level opponent. After Zhongyou Realm won the battlefield, Lu Ye rested in the Star-Plucking Tower and discovered that devouring the Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple had brought him unexpected benefits.

• Lu Ye confirmed that the Talent Tree could consume a Heavenly God Disciple’s Blood Flower and stop its revival, then went with Abuluo to tell Tian Hong.
• Lu Ye and Tian Hong agreed to test the method on a Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple, with Tian Hong killing the opponent and Lu Ye acting before he could revive.
• Lu Ye devoured the Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple for ten breaths, preventing its revival and making its body dissolve.
• Tian Hong praised Lu Ye, then led Zhongyou Realm’s cultivators to defeat the remaining Heavenly God Disciples and drive them away.
• In the Star-Plucking Tower, Lu Ye found that devouring the Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple had slightly improved his cultivation and brought him other unexpected benefits.

Lu Ye helped the Star System Alliance Army exterminate the Heavenly God Disciples at the main battlefield, using his ability to prevent their Sunlight fighters from reviving. After the battle, he saw a vivid Blood Flower above Tian Hong and realized the trial’s apparent victory had led into a new danger as the world shattered around him.

• Lu Ye discovered that devouring a Sunlight Heavenly God Disciple had improved the quality of his Magic Source, though he worried about becoming addicted to the sensation.
• Tian Hong summoned Lu Ye to the main battlefield, where the Star System Alliance Army planned an assault on the brown star hiding the Blood-Colored Cauldron.
• During the battle, Tian Hong brought Lu Ye to slain Sunlight Heavenly God Disciples, and Lu Ye used his Talent Tree to prevent them from reviving.
• Lu Ye helped permanently eliminate several Sunlight Heavenly God Disciples, and the Alliance Army exterminated every Heavenly God Disciple after three days of fighting.
• After the Sunlight cultivators attacked the Blood-Colored Cauldron and returned, Tian Hong invited Lu Ye to go home, but Lu Ye saw a Blood Flower above Tian Hong and tried to flee as the world shattered.

Lu Ye and Abuluo discovered that their pivotal roles in the Heavenly God trial had earned them only the base Asura Seal reward, so they summoned Gu Sheng to investigate. Lu Ye also revealed that Tian Hong had become a Heavenly God Disciple just before the trial ended, leaving them unsure whether the scene had truly concluded.

• Lu Ye returned to his Cave Abode after seeing Blood Flower bloom above Tian Hong and narrowly escaping when the trial ended.
• Abuluo confirmed that Lu Ye was the disguised Body Cultivator from the Bounty Hall and told him to check his Asura Seal.
• Lu Ye and Abuluo found they had each received only fifty-four thousand Asura Seal, the base reward for spending twenty-seven days in the trial.
• Abuluo summoned Gu Sheng, and the three discussed the strange trial and asked Gu Sheng to check whether other cultivators had encountered similar rewards.
• Lu Ye told them that Tian Hong had become a Heavenly God Disciple and tried to attack him before the trial ended.
• Abuluo suggested that the trial scene might persist and that future cultivators could enter it in a different era.

After becoming trapped in darkness inside the Asura Arena, Lu Ye followed a mysterious light into a trial and found the Fate Dice had appeared despite being left at home. It rolled Great Auspice, and as Lu Ye faced an attacking mortal, he noticed a number floating over the man's head.

• Lu Ye entered another trial scenario but remained trapped in darkness for more than two days.
• A candle-like light formed a halo, and Lu Ye stepped through it into a scene where unseen forces bound and weakened him.
• The Fate Dice appeared beside Lu Ye and rolled Great Auspice, whose power filled him with confidence that his actions would succeed.
• A burly man dragging a woman attacked Lu Ye, and Lu Ye saw the number one thousand floating above the man's head.
• The burly man stumbled as he charged, and Lu Ye struck his chest with a palm; a sharp pain then flared across Lu Ye's cheek.

Lu Ye discovered that the trial had suppressed him to the strength of someone with only four Spiritual Apertures, while killing a villainous man earned him one thousand Asura Seals. He rushed to save a village under attack, but the Asura Arena also prevented him from drawing the Crag Mountain Saber, leaving him to fight the bandits with other weapons.

• Lu Ye killed the burly man, realized his strength had been drastically suppressed, and gained one thousand Asura Seals from the man’s death.
• A captured woman begged Lu Ye to save her village, and he saw that she had a number of two thousand above her head.
• Lu Ye charged into the burning village and found mountain bandits torturing and killing villagers, with Asura Seal numbers above their heads.
• Several bandits attacked Lu Ye, but he dodged a spear thrust, found he could not draw the Crag Mountain Saber, and killed two bandits with his fist and the stolen spear.

Lu Ye slaughtered the bandits attacking a village, including their Sixth Boss, and earned nearly thirty thousand Asura Seals. Still trapped at Four Apertures by the Asura Arena’s suppression and unable to replenish his strength easily, he was approached by an old man and the young girl he had rescued.

• Lu Ye killed the bandits who attacked him, then fought and slew their Sixth Boss with a blade strike to the neck.
• Lu Ye hurled stones at the fleeing bandits and killed them, while the village burned around him.
• After the fire was extinguished, Lu Ye examined his Asura Seal and found that he had earned nearly thirty thousand seals.
• Lu Ye considered why the Asura Arena had suppressed him to Four Apertures and discovered that the world’s Spiritual Energy was too thin to replenish his power easily.
• An old man leaning on a cane approached Lu Ye with the young girl he had rescued.

Lu Ye spared the surviving villagers, learned that Great Wind Mountain threatened them, and rode off to find the bandits’ stronghold. As he traveled, he discovered he could restore and increase his strength through food and cultivation, then camped after killing a strange beast and was approached by two strangers.

• Lu Ye learned that Great Wind Mountain had five remaining leaders and questioned the villagers about the bandits’ hideout.
• A hunter pointed out the black horse as a guide, and Lu Ye rode away with the Sixth Boss’s spear to eradicate the bandits.
• The village chief decided the survivors should pack up and move to escape Great Wind Mountain’s revenge.
• Lu Ye discovered poison in the horse’s water, then used the Talent Tree to digest food and replenish his Spiritual Power through cultivation.
• Lu Ye killed a strange beast with the spear and cooked its meat beside a bonfire.
• Two figures approached Lu Ye’s camp and asked to warm themselves by his fire.

Lu Ye captured a mountain bandit who had tried to poison him, then continued eating and made her roast meat through the night. In the Nameless Land, the Patriarch and his observers watched Lu Ye’s trial until his cultivation improved and the Asura Arena began adjusting the scenario.

• Lu Ye killed the male bandit with a spear and stopped the woman from fleeing, then learned that their group had come from a nearby stronghold.
• Lu Ye discovered that four bandits had approached him and that he had already killed the two who tried to sneak up on him with thrown stones.
• The female bandit tried to poison Lu Ye’s food with Seven Fragrance Powder, but he ate through the night unharmed and ordered her to keep grilling.
• The Patriarch and his observers watched Lu Ye in a mirror and judged that his conduct showed good character.
• Lu Ye’s cultivation improved despite the Asura Arena’s suppression, causing the mirror to blur as the arena began adjusting his scenario.

Lu Ye stormed Great Wind Mountain’s bandit stronghold and slaughtered its defenders while harvesting their Asura Token rewards. After killing several bosses, he hurled his spear at the last fleeing leader as another figure rushed out to stop him.

• The Patriarch stayed to guard the Asura Arena, while Lu Ye opened his fifth aperture after eating an exotic beast through the night.
• Lu Ye made Black Spider lead him to the Great Wind Mountain stronghold, then blasted open its gate and killed the bandits guarding it.
• Lu Ye fought off the bandits’ attacks and killed the surrounding crowd with his spear, collecting light from their corpses into his Asura Token.
• Four bandit bosses confronted Lu Ye, but he killed Third Boss, struck another boss down, and killed Second Boss as he tried to flee.
• Lu Ye threw his spear at the last fleeing boss despite a newcomer shouting for him to stop.

Lu Ye wiped out the bandits of Great Wind Mountain, including their First Boss, and gained more than six hundred thousand Asura Seals. After rescuing the women held captive in the stronghold, he faced their request to take them with him, while observers in a mysterious place anxiously awaited his decision.

• Lu Ye defeated the First Boss after evading his poison and catching him with Windwalk, then judged the bandit leaders’ cultivation to be weak.
• Lu Ye pursued and killed the surviving bandits throughout the stronghold.
• Lu Ye checked his Asura Token and found that the mountain bandits had earned him over six hundred thousand Asura Seals, including the gains from the village.
• Around twenty captive women gathered before Lu Ye, and their leader thanked him and asked him to take them away.
• Lu Ye hesitated over whether to bring the women, while observers beside a mysterious mirror worried that his choice could affect their clan’s future.

Lu Ye rescued Yao Nuan and the other women, then escorted them to Ding'an City while cultivating and defeating the bandits who attacked along the way. After helping Yao Nuan begin cultivating, he left the women with supplies and valuables and set out to continue his trial.

• Lu Ye agreed to take Yao Nuan and the other rescued women with him, and the Old Patriarch judged that he had passed the test of character.
• Yao Nuan gave Lu Ye inferior Spirit Stones found in the bandit chief’s belongings, which he refined before the group departed for Ding'an City.
• Lu Ye led the women toward Ding'an City, defeating the increasingly powerful bandit groups that tried to rob them along the road.
• Lu Ye discovered that Yao Nuan had good cultivation aptitude, taught her to locate her Source Spirit Aperture, and let the other women try cultivating as well.
• Lu Ye escorted the women to Ding'an City, gave them the stronghold’s valuables, and left to seek out evil and learn the trial’s main task.

Lu Ye killed a Black Scarf Army scout unit at Ding'an City’s gate and agreed to help defend the city from the approaching bandits. While waiting with Zhou Ping at the City Lord’s Mansion, Lu Ye grew suspicious and asked whether Zhou Ping felt dizzy.

• Lu Ye protected Yao Nuan and the other women from arrows, then slaughtered the Black Scarf Army unit that attacked the city gate.
• Zhou Ping warned Lu Ye that the Black Scarf Army’s main force would likely come to Ding'an and asked him to help resist them.
• Lu Ye agreed to defend Ding'an, and Zhou Ping arranged for Yao Nuan and the other women to stay in a Zhou Family courtyard.
• Zhou Ping explained the Black Scarf Army’s rise and the threat it posed as he brought Lu Ye to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• After the City Lord failed to appear, Lu Ye looked at Zhou Ping and asked if he felt dizzy.

Lu Ye exposed Ding'an’s City Lord and Meng Deyun’s plan to surrender him to the Black Scarf Army, then killed them and the others in the hall. Zhou Ping became the new City Lord and, with Lu Ye’s guidance, organized Ding'an to prepare for the coming attack.

• Zhou Ping and Lu Ye discovered that the tea was poisoned as the City Lord, Meng Deyun, and their followers confronted them.
• Meng Deyun and the City Lord revealed that they planned to hand Lu Ye over to the Black Scarf Army in exchange for Ding'an’s safety, and Zhou Ping condemned them.
• Lu Ye broke free of the ropes, killed Meng Deyun and the City Lord, and slaughtered their followers.
• The City Lord’s Mansion announced that the former City Lord had died from cultivation deviation and appointed Zhou Ping as his successor.
• Lu Ye guided Zhou Ping in mobilizing Ding'an’s people, organizing scouts, and preparing the city to resist the Black Scarf Army.

Lu Ye prepared to defend Ding'an from the Black Scarves and rode out alone to face their vanguard. After he evaded their arrows, he killed Zhao Yuwen in a single pass, leaving Fang Kuang to confront the threat.

• Zhou Ping learned that Fang Kuang was leading a Black Scarf vanguard toward Ding'an, and Lu Ye said he would act when needed.
• Fang Kuang’s thousand-man unit arrived and demanded that Ding'an open its gates or face slaughter.
• Fang Kuang shortened his deadline to the time it took an incense stick to burn, while Lu Ye ordered the gates opened and rode out alone.
• Fang Kuang ordered his archers to shoot Lu Ye, but Lu Ye escaped the arrow volley and deflected the few arrows that reached him.
• Fang Kuang sent Zhao Yuwen to test Lu Ye, and Lu Ye killed him as their horses passed.

Lu Ye charged alone into the Black Scarf vanguard, slaughtering hundreds before Zhou Ping arrived with reinforcements, and killed Fang Kuang when the commander attacked him from behind. The army broke and fled, while the Old Patriarch learned that Lu Ye’s trial required him to defeat the Black Scarf Army and protect Ding'an.

• Lu Ye charged through the Black Scarf Army, killing hundreds while the Old Patriarch and others watched anxiously through a mirror.
• Zhou Ping led soldiers and volunteer cultivators to reinforce Lu Ye, and Fang Kuang split his forces to face them while hiding among his men.
• Fang Kuang ambushed Lu Ye from behind, but Lu Ye’s Spiritual Power shield stopped the spear, and Lu Ye killed Fang Kuang with a thrust to the chest.
• Zhou Ping announced Fang Kuang’s death, and the Black Scarf Army’s remaining soldiers fled as Lu Ye and the others pursued them.
• The Old Patriarch recovered after nearly collapsing from the tension, then learned that Lu Ye’s trial mission was to defeat the Black Scarf Army and ensure Ding'an’s safety.

After defeating the Black Scarves' vanguard, Lu Ye advanced to Spirit Stream First Layer and prepared to strengthen Ding'an against the enemy's larger army. He gathered the city's Black-Green Stone and began forging a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate with a local blacksmith's help.

• Lu Ye returned to Ding'an and cultivated until he opened his ninth Spiritual Aperture, reaching Spirit Stream First Layer.
• Lu Ye questioned Zhou Ping about the Black Scarves and learned that their forces numbered around ten thousand, despite the vanguard's defeat.
• Lu Ye had Zhou Ping collect and smelt all the city's Black-Green Stone.
• Lu Ye brought the chief blacksmith to the ironworks and began making a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate, using inferior Spirit Stones to replenish his Spiritual Power.

Lu Ye forged Formation Plates that linked cultivators’ auras and helped them form combat formations, then led a hundred riders from Ding'an to strike the Black Scarf Army at Qianliu City. His force rested fifty li from the city while scouting the battle, preparing for a decisive surprise attack.

• Lu Ye forged twenty Formation Plates, and Zhou Ping discovered that they let cultivators share Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye demonstrated the Black Tortoise Formation and taught the Ding'an cultivators to use Formation Plates in formations.
• Lu Ye led a hundred riders out of Ding'an toward Qianliu City, prompting the Old Patriarch to worry that he had disrupted the trial’s expected course.
• The Old Patriarch’s companion argued that Lu Ye could join Qianliu City’s defenders in a pincer attack, and the Old Patriarch accepted her reasoning.
• Lu Ye’s force reached the area near Qianliu after three days and rested fifty li from the city while scouting the situation.

Lu Ye led a cavalry force of just over a hundred riders from Ding'an to aid Qianliu while the Black Scarf Army launched another assault. The riders charged straight through the enemy ranks, and their overwhelming momentum left them convinced of their strength as they reached the heart of the army.

• Lu Ye learned that Qianliu was still resisting the Black Scarf Army and hid his force until the enemy launched another attack two days later.
• Lu Ye led his mounted fighters toward Qianliu as the Black Scarves bombarded the city and assaulted its east gate.
• Xie Li recognized Lu Ye's approaching cavalry as the force from Ding'an, but wondered whether so few riders could make a difference.
• Lu Ye's cavalry broke through a five-hundred-man Black Scarf unit and then formed an arrowhead to charge into the army's heart.
• The Formation Plate kept the riders' Spiritual Power consumption low, allowing them to maintain their charge and build confidence as they inflicted heavy losses.

Lu Ye led his cavalry through the Black Scarf Army, repeatedly turning away from the safety of Thousand Streams’ open gates and helping its defenders hold the east gate. When the Black Scarf leader finally confronted him, Lu Ye defeated him but deliberately spared his life, leaving Xie Li baffled.

• Xie Li opened Thousand Streams’ east gate to receive Lu Ye’s cavalry, but Lu Ye veered away, leaving the gate exposed to the Black Scarf Army.
• Lu Ye’s cavalry charged back and forth around the gate, clearing the attackers long enough for Xie Li to close it before they resumed their assault on the enemy.
• Xie Li urged Lu Ye to target the Black Scarf leader, but Lu Ye avoided him until the leader concealed his banner and later confronted the cavalry with his personal guards.
• Lu Ye used a powerful attack to disarm and defeat the Black Scarf leader, then pierced his collarbone and flung him away instead of killing him.
• Xie Li watched Lu Ye spare the Black Scarf leader and could not understand why.

Lu Ye helped Qianliu City defeat the Black Scarf Army, then completed the trial and returned to the Asura Arena with more than fourteen million Asura Seals. After meeting Abuluo and Gu Sheng, he heard that they had a proposal that could make him rich.

• Xie Li opened Qianliu City's gates, and the city's defenders joined Lu Ye's cavalry in routing the Black Scarf Army.
• Lu Ye killed the captured Black Scarf leader, ending the trial and restoring his original strength.
• Lu Ye returned to his Cave Abode and discovered that his Asura Seals had risen to more than fourteen million.
• Lu Ye took two bounty missions, then met Abuluo and Gu Sheng in a private room at the Bounty Hall.
• Abuluo asked Lu Ye if he wanted to get rich, and Lu Ye agreed to hear their proposal.

Lu Ye agreed to join Gu Sheng and Abuluo in a trial scenario tied to an eighty-million-Asura-Seal bounty, where they hoped to defeat an ancient Artificer Armor and uncover reliable information about the Asura Arena. After the agreement, Lu Ye tried to reclaim his Fate Dice through the Asura Treasure Vault, but it could not be reclaimed.

• Abuluo revealed that Gu Sheng knew clues about the bounty for reliable information on the Asura Arena’s location, and Gu Sheng explained that the clues led to a dangerous trial scenario.
• Gu Sheng asked Lu Ye to join him and Abuluo in fighting an ancient Artificer Armor, explaining that the three could enter the scenario together and that he would take half the reward while Lu Ye and Abuluo split the rest.
• Lu Ye accepted the partnership, and the three signed an Asura Contract requiring them to cooperate and abide by the agreed division of rewards.
• After Gu Sheng and Abuluo left, Lu Ye took the Fate Dice to the Asura Treasure Vault and tried to exchange it for Asura Seals, but the vault did not reclaim it.
• Lu Ye examined the Sword Gourd and learned that it was one of seven subordinate treasures of the Creation Vine, then kept both treasures after the Fate Dice proved impossible to reclaim.

Lu Ye entered a special trial with Gu Sheng and Abuluo but was separated from them and led through a mysterious doorway by A Qiduo. She revealed that she was a living member of the hidden Heavenly Asura race, leaving Lu Ye seeking an explanation for how she had brought him there.

• Gu Sheng used the crystal shard to take Lu Ye and Abuluo into a special trial, but Lu Ye found himself alone in endless darkness.
• Lu Ye followed a mysterious voice through a door of light and nearly struck down A Qiduo before recognizing her from the Zhongyou Realm trial.
• A Qiduo explained that the Heavenly Asura race had survived in hiding after a curse poisoned its bloodline and shortened its younger members' lifespans.
• A Qiduo revealed her silver hair and eyes and formally introduced herself as a member of the Heavenly Asura race.

Lu Ye learned that the Heavenly Asura Clan had secretly tested him and brought him to their secluded home because they believed the Dao Tree Lineage could cure their Bloodline Curse Poison. The clan’s Patriarch, Mi Shi, greeted him and appealed to his compassion, while Lu Ye considered what he might gain by helping them.

• A Qiduo told Lu Ye that the Heavenly Asura Clan had waited for a Dao Tree inheritor, and that two previous inheritors had failed or been too dangerous to approach.
• A Qiduo explained that the clan had watched Lu Ye through the Bounty Hall and arranged his trials to test his character, including the Asura Seals and the suppression of his cultivation.
• Lu Ye realized that A Qiduo’s injury and his cure of her Bloodline Curse Poison had confirmed him as the clan’s hoped-for savior.
• Lu Ye asked to meet the clan’s Patriarch, and Mi Shi suddenly appeared and introduced himself.
• Mi Shi apologized for the clan’s secrecy and praised Lu Ye for protecting the women from Great Wind Mountain, saying he believed Lu Ye would help the suffering clan.

Lu Ye agreed to cure the Bloodline Curse Poison for fifteen hundred members of the Heavenly Asura clan in exchange for their help and access to clan resources. Mi Shi promised him the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure first, while Lu Ye watched Abuluo and Gu Sheng search for him in another trial scene.

• Mi Shi offered Lu Ye compensation for saving the Heavenly Asura clan, explaining that he could grant the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure but other vault resources required Asura Seals, discounted to clan rates.
• Mi Shi told Lu Ye that the clan had a little over ten thousand members and needed him to resolve the Bloodline Curse Poison for fifteen hundred of them.
• Lu Ye agreed to the deal and asked Mi Shi to provide the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure before he began his work.
• Mi Shi produced an Asura Contract, and Lu Ye accepted its terms after adding his condition that he receive the Sub-Treasure first.
• A Qiduo showed Lu Ye a mirror reflecting Abuluo and Gu Sheng searching for him in the trial scene, and Lu Ye chose not to answer their messages.