Recaps

The Ghost Sedan emerged from the red vortex, captured Nine Radiance, and carried Lu Ye away after he tried to stop it. The other Sunlight cultivators learned the secret behind the Great Trend Descends and began preparing for its arrival.

• After Lu Ye's group subdued the three invaders, the Star Constellation Hall's projection faded and a bridal sedan emerged from the red vortex.
• The Ox Demon recognized the sedan as the Ghost Sedan and begged to board it, but it seized Nine Radiance and began to flee.
• Lu Ye pursued the Ghost Sedan and struck it with his Giant Blade Slash, prompting it to kill the Ox Demon and drag Lu Ye inside.
• The Ghost Sedan vanished with Nine Radiance and Lu Ye, leaving the Sunlight cultivators unable to pursue them.
• After interrogating the two remaining invaders, the Sunlight cultivators learned the secret history behind the Great Trend Descends and began preparing for its arrival.

After Lu Ye was badly injured by the Ghost Sedan, Nine Radiance cared for him and revealed that Ban Ci had been her Clone, which she had recalled after Lu Ye’s encounter with her. Two days later, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance explored their sealed chamber and suspected they were inside the Ghost Sedan.

• Nine Radiance healed Lu Ye as he recovered from the Ghost Sedan’s attack, and he pretended his Divine Sea was still unstable.
• Nine Radiance told Lu Ye that Ban Ci had been her Clone and that she had recalled her after Ban Ci could no longer cultivate her special method.
• Lu Ye realized Nine Radiance had recalled Ban Ci rather than killed her, and Nine Radiance revealed she had been married and that Chu Shen was her son.
• After two days, Lu Ye got up and found that the chamber’s locked door would not open; Nine Radiance warned him not to attack it.
• Nine Radiance said they were likely inside the Ghost Sedan and told Lu Ye to look through the windows.

Trapped inside the Ghost Sedan, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance discussed Star Abyss, the Insect Race’s ritual, and the rare Dao Foundations forged by its cultivators. As they wondered where the sedan was taking them, it pulled a hostile stranger inside.

• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance examined the strange space-traversing view outside the Ghost Sedan and concluded it might be taking them to Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye told Nine Radiance how the Insect Race had sacrificed Jade Sword Island’s cultivators and three Sunlights to open a gate, which they suspected led to Star Abyss.
• Nine Radiance explained that forging a Dao Foundation let cultivators surpass the usual limits of Sunlight, and she believed Star Abyss might hold a method for doing so.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the Ghost Sedan had taken them after the Star Constellation Hall’s projection weakened the invaders, though he did not know why it had allowed the sedan through.
• After Lu Ye tended his injuries and cultivated inside the sedan, it opened its door and flung in a stranger, who accused Lu Ye and Nine Radiance of ambushing him.

Lu Ye, Nine Radiance, and Chen Li remained trapped inside the Ghost Sedan as it captured Changfeng, who had been fleeing Ma Bin. Changfeng recognized Lu Ye and threatened him, but the sedan’s strange malice kept him from attacking.

• Chen Li appeared inside the Ghost Sedan, explained that a red ribbon had taken him from his Cave Abode, and spent half a day searching for an exit.
• When the sedan door briefly opened, Chen Li rushed out but was caught by a red ribbon and flung back inside.
• Ma Bin pursued the wounded Changfeng through space, but the Ghost Sedan captured Changfeng before Ma Bin could finish him.
• Changfeng entered the sedan, recognized Nine Radiance and Lu Ye, and vowed to repay Ma Bin’s injuries through Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye called the grudge a blood feud and challenged Changfeng to attack, while Chen Li asked whether they had bad blood.

Lu Ye provoked Changfeng into striking him inside the Ghost Palanquin, and the palanquin’s malice erased Changfeng while accelerating the Talent Tree’s transformation. Confined as punishment, Lu Ye learned more captives were arriving, including Purple Jade’s foremost Great Demon Venerable, Purple Extreme.

• Lu Ye feigned an attack with Treasure Blood Clones, provoking the wounded Changfeng to strike him while Nine Radiance tried to intervene.
• The Ghost Palanquin’s malice obliterated Changfeng, then briefly pressed down on Lu Ye before fading without killing him.
• Lu Ye found that the Talent Tree’s Fire Seed had brightened and a sapling was forming within it, but the palanquin confined him to his place.
• Over the following days, more renowned powerhouses were captured, and Nine Radiance and Lu Ye explained the circumstances to them.
• Purple Extreme, Purple Jade’s foremost Great Demon Venerable, arrived and quietly sat among the captives, making Lu Ye wary.

Lu Ye met Shuixian of the Boundless Realm after the Ghost Sedan captured her, and recognized her as Su Yuqing’s close friend. He explained the group’s theory about the sedan’s destination and revealed new evidence that it selected cultivators who had not yet forged their own Dao Foundations.

• The Ghost Sedan brought Shuixian into its space, where Su Wan welcomed her and Sheng Yuanzi recognized her.
• Lu Ye showed Shuixian the Jade Token Su Yuqing had given him, and Shuixian confirmed that they were friends.
• Lu Ye told Shuixian that he and Su Yuqing were Dao Companions, surprising her and drawing Nine Radiance’s glare.
• Shuixian asked Lu Ye about the Ghost Sedan, and he explained the group’s theory that it would take them to the Star Abyss to forge Dao Foundations.
• Lu Ye said that all the captives were at Great Sun Peak except himself, and cited Changfeng’s capture as evidence that the sedan avoided someone who had already forged a Dao Foundation.

The Ghost Sedan violently tossed its captive Sunlight cultivators around, but Lu Ye stayed steady while Nine Radiance and Su Wan clung to him and Shuixian landed in his arms. When the sedan door opened without taking in a newcomer, Lu Ye realized the punishment that had trapped him was over and announced that they could leave.

• Lu Ye speculated that the Ghost Sedan might be taking them to Star Abyss, while Purple Extreme questioned him about Changfeng's disappearance and his punishment.
• The Ghost Sedan began shaking violently, sealing everyone's Magic Power and flinging the Sunlight cultivators around.
• Lu Ye held Nine Radiance and Su Wan steady, and Shuixian accidentally landed in his arms; Chen Li was knocked away when he tried to grab Lu Ye.
• After more than half an hour, the shaking stopped, and the cultivators recovered while discussing the unprecedented disturbance.
• The sedan door opened without a newcomer, and Lu Ye stood freely for the first time since his punishment and said they could leave.

Lu Ye and the other Sunlights emerged from the Ghost Sedan into an unknown star system, not the Star Abyss, and went their separate ways. Lu Ye and Nine Radiance later discovered the wreckage of a vast battle that had destroyed a world, and turned toward an approaching stranger to learn where they were.

• The Ghost Sedan expelled Lu Ye and nine other Sunlights into an unfamiliar star system, then vanished; Purple Extreme and the others departed in different directions.
• Phantom Shadow offered to help Lu Ye kill Purple Extreme in exchange for a world treasure, while Shuixian asked after Su Yuqing and requested that Lu Ye keep their past encounter secret.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance set off aboard a Star Boat to find out where they were.
• The two discovered a battlefield scattered with shattered Floating Lands, wrecked warships, and ruined Artificer Armor, including the bodies of a Sunlight and a Moon Jade Realm cultivator.
• Lu Ye sensed someone approaching the battlefield and turned to meet them.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance intercepted a warship and learned from Leopard Five that Star Abyss monsters had ravaged the starry sky for three hundred years. After discovering that the Cycle Tree was unknown and the realms had changed, Lu Ye began to suspect they had arrived in a different era and asked for a Star Map.

• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance pursued a warship, broke through its defenses, and stopped its crew from attacking them.
• The leopard-shaped Artificer Armor transformed into Leopard Five, who realized the pair were not Star Abyss monsters and welcomed them aboard.
• Leopard Five explained that Star Abyss Insect Paths had appeared three hundred years earlier and that cultivators were guarding more than a dozen battlefronts against the invaders.
• Lu Ye learned that Leopard Five's Spirit Realm and Divine Realm corresponded to Moon Jade Realm and Sunlight, then discovered Leopard Five had never heard of the Cycle Tree.
• Lu Ye asked for a Star Map, and Leopard Five handed him one covering more than a hundred nearby star systems.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance realized they had been transported to another Origin Starry Sky and concluded that The Great Trend Descends meant a Star Abyss invasion. After learning that the invasion consumed the Starry Sky’s foundation, they decided to join the front-line battlefield and witness the conflict.

• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance studied Leopard Five’s Star Map and realized its systems belonged to an unfamiliar Origin Starry Sky.
• Lu Ye concluded that the Ghost Sedan had brought them there as a warning about a coming Star Abyss invasion, and identified The Great Trend Descends as that invasion.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the Blood Ancestor and the Insect Race were visitors from the Star Abyss and that the Insect and Blood Races were preparing to exploit the coming invasion.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance decided to head for the front-line battlefield and gather information while seeking a way to find the Ghost Sedan.
• Leopard Five told Lu Ye that Starry Sky Spiritual Energy had grown more active before the invasion, but that the Star Abyss later began devouring the Starry Sky’s foundation.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance reached Thunderbolt War Fort, where its Fort Lord recognized that they came from another One Origin Starry Sky. Lu Ye explained how the Ghost Sedan had brought them there, but it had vanished, leaving them unable to return.

• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance traveled through an Insect Path to the frontline and approached Thunderbolt War Fort.
• A woman in Artificer Armor questioned them, checked their origins, and escorted them into the fort after they claimed to be reclusive cultivators.
• The Fort Lord summoned Lu Ye and Nine Radiance and revealed that he knew they came from another starry sky.
• Lu Ye admitted their origins and recounted their experiences, including how the Ghost Sedan brought ten of them to this starry sky and then disappeared.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance learned that Star Abyss invasion threatened the starry sky and received the Furnace Method for forging a Dao Foundation. Nine Radiance decided to pursue the method on the dangerous frontline battlefield, and Lu Ye accompanied her to protect her.

• The Fort Lord told Lu Ye that Star Abyss Gates signaled invasion and that no one knew how to destroy them, then offered shelter to him and Nine Radiance.
• The Fort Lord explained that cultivators could advance beyond the Divine Realm by forging a Dao Foundation and gave them Jade Slips about the invasion and the frontline.
• Nine Radiance discovered the Furnace Method, which required cultivating in Star Abyss aura and risked crippling or killing anyone who failed.
• After several days in Thunderbolt War Fort, Nine Radiance decided to enter the frontline battlefield to forge her Dao Foundation, and Lu Ye went with her.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance crossed into the battlefield, where Star Abyss aura grew denser toward the central Star Abyss Gate.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance entered the Star Abyss battlefield, tested how Star Abyss Outsiders relied on Dao Power, and pushed deeper until they found a suitable place for Nine Radiance to cultivate. As she began cultivating, Lu Ye set up defenses and tried to absorb spiritual energy himself, wondering whether he could gain Dao Power.

• Lu Ye warned Nine Radiance not to venture too deep into the battlefield, and she agreed to proceed cautiously.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance hid from a Star Abyss Insect Swarm, then attacked it and killed its Insect King after its stored Dao Power ran out.
• After several days of fighting enemies of increasing strength, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance chose a hidden spot on a small Barren Star where Nine Radiance could cultivate.
• Lu Ye spent two days setting up Formations, then noticed that the sapling inside his Talent Tree's Fire Seed had become clearer.
• Lu Ye meditated and absorbed spiritual energy, testing whether he could obtain Dao Power through cultivation.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance ventured deeper into the Star Abyss, where Lu Ye reasoned that Dao Foundations were containers for Dao Power and that Vein Sources and Supreme Treasures contained it. Their refuge was destroyed by two battling Star Abyss Outsiders, leaving them face-to-face with the victorious Insect Race.

• Lu Ye stopped cultivating because the Star Abyss aura tainted the Magic Power he gained, and spent two months honing the Soul Suppressing Mystic Art while Nine Radiance attempted to forge her Dao Foundation.
• Nine Radiance decided to venture deeper, and Lu Ye insisted on going with her despite her concern for his safety.
• After cautiously traveling for half a month, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance hid in a pit on a Floating Land as the Star Abyss aura grew denser and Great Sun Late Stage Outsiders appeared.
• Lu Ye concluded that a Dao Foundation was a container for Dao Power, which could be found in Vein Sources, Supreme Treasures, and their derivatives.
• Two Star Abyss Outsiders fought nearby and shattered the Floating Land, forcing Lu Ye and Nine Radiance into the open.
• The victorious Insect Race appeared before Lu Ye and Nine Radiance, holding and devouring the corpse of its opponent.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance joined forces against an injured Insect Race cultivator, using two sub-treasures to exhaust his Dao Power. When the opponent revealed that his apparent weakness was a feint and struck Lu Ye, Lu Ye unleashed four drops of Treasure Blood to stop him.

• Nine Radiance attacked the Insect Race cultivator while Lu Ye fired a sword light from the Sword Gourd, but the enemy repelled her and resisted the sub-treasure.
• Nine Radiance pressed her attack as Lu Ye activated the Fire Gourd, setting the Insect Race cultivator ablaze and forcing him to pursue Lu Ye.
• After the fire dispersed, Nine Radiance struck the Insect Race cultivator with Mystic Light and mistook his wound for proof that his Dao Power was exhausted.
• Lu Ye attacked with the Crag Mountain Saber, but the Insect Race cultivator feigned weakness, tore into Lu Ye's chest, and pursued him.
• Lu Ye released four drops of Treasure Blood, whose bursts of Blood Light engulfed the Insect Race cultivator and sent Lu Ye tumbling away.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance defeated the Insect Race after Lu Ye used a Blood Sea and five Treasure Blood Clones to form a Black Tortoise Formation, but Dao Power invaded his wound. While Nine Radiance feared he was dying, Lu Ye discovered the Talent Tree Fire Seed reacting to the Dao Power and hoped its transformation would burn it away.

• The Insect Race attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye used a Blood Sea to conceal five Treasure Blood Clones and form a Black Tortoise Formation.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance fought together until the Insect Race's Dao Power ran out, and Lu Ye severed his head before they fled.
• Nine Radiance hid Lu Ye on a Floating Land and discovered that the wound in his chest was worsening from Dao Power Invasion.
• Lu Ye told Nine Radiance not to seek help, then found that the invading Dao Power had made the Talent Tree Fire Seed glow and accelerated its transformation.
• Nine Radiance held the trembling Lu Ye, thinking he was cold and nearing death, while Lu Ye hoped the Talent Tree would burn away the Dao Power.

Lu Ye completed the Talent Tree’s fourth transformation, which burned away the Dao Power invading his body but left him nearly drained. With Nine Radiance’s help, he replenished his strength and began testing the transformed tree’s abilities, including whether it could refine the Star Abyss’s polluted aura.

• Nine Radiance held the seemingly dying Lu Ye and mourned, unaware that he was focused on the Fire Seed devouring his foundations as the Talent Tree transformed.
• The Fire Seed shattered, completing the fourth transformation, and the Talent Tree burned away the invading Dao Power while leaving Lu Ye critically weak.
• At Lu Ye’s request, Nine Radiance fed him Spiritual Pills, helping his life force stabilize and his wound begin to heal.
• Lu Ye rapidly consumed Spiritual Pills, Demonic Cores, star-beast Core Crystals, and a mountain of Lingyu to restore his strength, astonishing Nine Radiance.
• Lu Ye examined the transformed Talent Tree, found that it refined resources and deduced Spiritual Patterns more efficiently, then used Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns to draw in Star Abyss aura and test his conjecture.

Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree could refine Star Abyss aura and Mystic Fire into Dao Power, giving him a way to build power far faster than cultivation alone. After realizing the Talent Tree might devour subordinate treasures, he chose to test the damaged Heavenly Net Umbrella by first pouring Dao Power into it.

• Lu Ye cultivated for ten days and formed his first complete strand of Dao Power, then spent another twenty days gathering two more.
• Lu Ye nourished the Sword Gourd and Fire Gourd while Nine Radiance began cultivating, and he found that the Talent Tree tried to devour the Fire Gourd.
• Lu Ye released Mystic Fire from the Fire Gourd and confirmed that the Talent Tree converted each mass of it into a strand of Dao Power.
• Lu Ye estimated that converting his carried resources could give him around a hundred strands of Dao Power, potentially matching a Dao Entry Realm expert.
• Lu Ye took out the damaged Heavenly Net Umbrella but paused before letting the Talent Tree devour it, instead pouring his Dao Power into it.

Lu Ye devoured the Fate Dice to gain a vast reserve of Dao power, repaired the Heavenly Net Umbrella, and lent it to Nine Radiance for protection and cultivation. Two months later, he entered a battle between a Dao Realm cultivator and Star Abyss Outsiders, drawing one of them away from the embattled cultivator.

• Lu Ye used his Dao power to repair the Heavenly Net Umbrella, then devoured the Fate Dice and gained 123 additional threads of Dao power.
• Lu Ye repaired the Heavenly Net Umbrella fully and persuaded Nine Radiance to borrow it so she could study its Dao power while cultivating.
• Nine Radiance refined the Heavenly Net Umbrella as Lu Ye kept watch and continued cultivating for two months.
• Lu Ye sensed a battle nearby and found a Dao Realm cultivator in battered Artificer Armor fighting several Star Abyss Outsiders.
• Lu Ye joined the battle, and a Twin-Headed Race outsider broke away from the others to attack him.

Lu Ye learned that his strength reached the Five Dao classification while protecting Nine Radiance and helping nearby cultivators. When a woman and two Artificer Armor cultivators lured him out, she tested him with a punch stronger than she had claimed, and he countered with his saber.

• Lu Ye killed a Twin-Headed Race cultivator and helped an Artificer Armor cultivator defeat the remaining Star Abyss Outsiders before leaving without hearing the man's thanks.
• Lu Ye returned to his Treasure Blood Clone and reflected that he could wield five threads of Dao Power, while Nine Radiance had yet to forge her Dao Foundation.
• Lu Ye considered earning Battle Merit so Nine Radiance might gain access to Thunderbolt War Fort's Dao Comprehension Pool, as his rescues made the area around them a refuge for fleeing cultivators.
• Lu Ye investigated a nearby fight and discovered that two Artificer Armor cultivators had staged it to draw him out; a woman identified him and challenged him to withstand her punch.
• The woman claimed her punch carried Three Dao Power, but it shattered Lu Ye's defenses, so Lu Ye drew his saber and slashed at her head.

Du Qingsha summoned Lu Ye to join her Hunter Camp squad, and Lu Ye agreed after securing a recommendation and enough pooled Battle Merit for Nine Radiance to enter the Dao Comprehension Pool. After making arrangements for Nine Radiance to enter in two months, the four members of Squad A3 left Thunderbolt War Fort to hunt on the expanding battlefield.

• Du Qingsha revealed she was the captain of Hunter Camp Squad A3 and summoned Lu Ye, who accepted rather than refuse and risk being branded a deserter.
• Lu Ye asked Du Qingsha for a recommendation quota for Nine Radiance, and she agreed to provide one and pool the squad's Battle Merit for her Dao Comprehension Pool entry.
• Lu Ye brought Du Qingsha, Xu Rong, and Snake Girl to Nine Radiance, then returned with them to Thunderbolt War Fort.
• Du Qingsha arranged for Nine Radiance to enter the Dao Comprehension Pool in two months, and the four Squad A3 members set out for the battlefield.
• Du Qingsha gave Lu Ye a Star Abyss Outsider's Dao Bone to make up for the Dao power she had damaged.

Lu Ye joined Squad A3 in hunting Star Abyss Outsiders, serving as bait while his teammates ambushed them and divided the Dao Bones. After Du Qingsha questioned his Dao Power and unknown origins, Lu Ye directed her to ask Chen Wulei, leaving her suspicious of his extraordinary background.

• Lu Ye refined a Dao Bone and learned from Xu Rong that Squad A3 ignored weaker enemies to conserve Dao Power for stronger targets.
• Du Qingsha concealed the squad and used Lu Ye as bait; Snake Girl and Xu Rong ambushed and killed a pursuing Star Abyss Outsider.
• Squad A3 hunted several enemies over the following days, and Du Qingsha ended a difficult battle when Xu Rong and Snake Girl could not subdue their opponent.
• Du Qingsha divided the collected Dao Bones according to each member’s contribution, giving Lu Ye two.
• Xu Rong and Snake Girl left together, and Du Qingsha explained that she was focused on killing Star Abyss monsters rather than maintaining social reservations.
• Du Qingsha asked how Lu Ye wielded Dao Power without a Dao Foundation and why his origins were absent from the records; Lu Ye told her to ask Chen Wulei, then refined his Dao Bones.

After Squad A3 entered the central region, Lu Ye fought increasingly dangerous enemies and discovered that his Dao Power had surpassed two hundred, triggering an unexplained change in the Talent Tree. He revealed that he wielded Five Dao Power while helping the squad kill a powerful Human Race attacker, leaving Du Qingsha wondering how to keep him in the squad.

• Du Qingsha led Squad A3 into the central region, where they fought stronger enemies, including a group of three Star Abyss Outsiders.
• Lu Ye sensed an anomaly in the Talent Tree after his Dao Power exceeded two hundred, but he could not determine its cause.
• A Human Race cultivator ambushed Lu Ye, who recognized that the attacker possessed Five Dao Power and warned the squad.
• Du Qingsha, Xu Rong, Snake Girl, and Lu Ye coordinated their attacks, shattered the enemy's protective Magic Power, and Lu Ye killed him with the Vibrating Blade Technique.
• After the squad divided the spoils, Xu Rong learned Lu Ye was a Five Dao powerhouse, while Du Qingsha considered how to persuade him to stay.

Lu Ye discovered that his accumulated Dao Power had let him wield a sixth strand, though doing so strained his body, and learned from Du Qingsha how cultivators temper additional Dao Bones to exceed their limits. Du Qingsha gave him Dao Bone cultivation methods, while the story left Lu Ye considering whether his Talent Tree functioned as his Dao Bone.

• After refining a Dao Bone, Lu Ye reached 262 strands of Dao Power and found that he could merge a sixth strand into his Magic Power, but the strain forced him to withdraw it.
• Lu Ye asked Du Qingsha about her Dao Power, and she explained that she had less than a hundred strands because she was tempering a second Dao Bone.
• Du Qingsha explained that tempering additional Dao Bones allowed cultivators to wield more Dao Power, with each successive bone requiring a greater accumulation.
• Du Qingsha told Lu Ye that Fort Lord Chen Wulei was a seven-dao powerhouse and that the starry sky’s sole eight-dao powerhouse had entered the Star Abyss Gate fifty years earlier and never returned.
• Du Qingsha gave Lu Ye a Jade Slip containing Dao Bone cultivation methods and shared lessons from her five failed attempts to temper her second Dao Bone.

Lu Ye joined forces with Squad A6 to hunt a Six Dao Star Abyss Outsider, using his Blood Arts to trap it and guide the attackers. The battle began, and Lu Ye drew on six strands of Dao power as the Blood Sea struggled to hold the enemy.

• Xu Rong told Lu Ye that Squad A3 would join another squad to kill a Six Dao powerhouse.
• Squad A3 met Chang Yu and Squad A6, and Lu Ye demonstrated that he could wield five Dao power.
• Lu Ye proposed using his Blood Arts to improve the ambush plan, and both captains agreed.
• Lu Ye found the Six Dao Outsider extracting a golden Dao Bone and attacked it, drawing it into a vast Blood Sea.
• Chang Yu, Du Qingsha, and the other squad members entered the Blood Sea to attack while Lu Ye guided them toward the enemy.
• As the battle shook the Blood Sea, Lu Ye detonated Treasure Blood to stabilize it, then drew six strands of Dao power into his Crag Mountain Saber.