Recaps

Lu Ye and five allies formed a Black Tortoise Formation to survive Mad Lion’s overwhelming attacks, while You Die helped Lu Ye bear the formation’s strain. The battle remained desperate, but the group discovered that Mad Lion was also suffering under unexplained pressure.

• Mad Lion’s second attack trapped the six cultivators in a Dao Power hand, but Yan Zhixing led the Black Tortoise Formation in breaking free.
• Mad Lion attacked the formation with a massive bird beak, repeatedly battering its defenses until Yan Zhixing took a strike head-on and was grievously injured.
• Lu Ye’s body cracked under the strain of sustaining the formation, so You Die left his Divine Sea and used her Soul Secret Technique to help him share the pressure.
• Lu Ye and the others noticed that Mad Lion’s body was also cracked and covered in blood, suggesting he was enduring immense pressure of his own.
• Mad Lion grew impatient and intensified his attacks, forcing Lu Ye and the others to focus on holding the formation together.

Lu Ye and his companions were overwhelmed when Ancestor Xiaoyue possessed the Mad Lion, but they held on until Xiaoyue’s projection vanished and the Mad Lion weakened. Lu Ye realized the Mad Lion had never been a Harmony Dao cultivator and questioned him about the Inner Realm.

• The Black Tortoise Formation broke, and the Mad Lion pierced Yan Zhixing’s chest and crushed his heart.
• Yan Zhixing urged his companions to run, but Chen Gushan, He Linglong, Lu Ye, and Ziying rushed to fight; the Mad Lion badly wounded them and shattered Lu Ye’s Talent Tree Clone.
• Ziying’s spear pierced the Mad Lion as Xiaoyue’s projection declared he would wait for Lu Ye in the Inner Realm and vanished.
• The Mad Lion’s strength rapidly faded, and Lu Ye blocked his escape; the Mad Lion admitted that Ancestor Xiaoyue had borrowed his body to wield Harmony Dao power.
• Lu Ye asked where the Inner Realm was, and the Mad Lion explained that it lay deeper within the Star Abyss, beyond the Outer Realm.

Lu Ye and his allies defeated Mad Lion and the other cultivators of Boundless City, but Yan Zhixing died from his injuries after entrusting Lu Ye with a token and a request concerning Yan Hong. The survivors withdrew to the Insect Nest to recover, while Lu Ye pondered what he had learned about the Outer and Inner Realms and rewarded You Die by tempering her Soul Body.

• Lu Ye questioned Mad Lion about the Inner Realm, but Mad Lion shattered and died before he could answer.
• Lu Ye found Yan Zhixing gravely injured and learned that the old cultivator had exhausted his remaining vitality in the battle.
• Yan Zhixing gave Lu Ye his patriarch's token for the Yan Family and asked him to help Yan Hong if he could, then died after drinking from his gourd.
• Chen Gushan and He Linglong explained that the battle had hastened their aging, but they were glad to have helped free the Human Race in Boundless City.
• Lu Ye and the survivors returned to the Insect Nest to heal, and they buried Yan Zhixing on the Barren Star.
• Lu Ye recovered in the Insect Nest while You Die's Soul Body was tempered by the Talent Tree as a reward for her aid.

After recovering from his injuries, Lu Ye discovered that Star Abyss Blessings had strengthened his foundation enough to temper another Dao Bone, and he suspected further blessings could let him temper the rest. He and Ziying went to Boundless City and decided to have her refine it and move it into Variegated, protecting the Human Race there and keeping it beyond Howling Moon’s reach.

• After half a month of recovery, Lu Ye used a lingering Star Abyss Blessing to temper a Dao Bone successfully and gained two hundred and two Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye concluded that repeated Star Abyss Blessings had strengthened his foundation, though he still needed more before he could temper another Dao Bone.
• Lu Ye left the Insect Nest with Ziying and found Boundless City in panic, with many Human Race Bone Vessels still enslaved in its Bone Pools.
• Lu Ye and Ziying discussed Howling Moon’s possible return, and Ziying said she had leads about the Inner Realm that she would explain once confirmed.
• Lu Ye proposed that Ziying refine Boundless City and send it into Variegated so its remaining inhabitants could escape Howling Moon; she agreed, and they began searching for the city’s core.

Lu Ye liberated Boundless City’s human realm from its Beast Race overseers while Ziying continued refining the city’s core. He used the Talent Tree’s power to cleanse Ziying’s aura, leaving her better prepared for her attempt to reach Merging Dao.

• Ziying began refining Boundless City’s core while Lu Ye told the Bone Vessels that the Beast Race Merging Dao cultivators were dead, but they remained numb and stayed in the Bone Pools.
• Lu Ye entered the realm where humans had been imprisoned and forced to reproduce, witnessed the brutal treatment of its people, and slaughtered every foreign race there.
• Lu Ye and Ziying discussed Boundless City’s future and agreed that the Human Race Alliance could decide what to do with its humans after Ziying sent the city into Variegated.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s Annihilating Flame Power to burn away hidden impurities in Ziying, cleansing her aura until she resembled a Lost One.
• Lu Ye explained the Star Abyss aura and showed Ziying the Filth Clan bead that concealed his own aura, then offered to temper her Soul Body with flames after she finished refining Boundless City.

You Die unexpectedly entered a hidden realm with far denser Dao Power, and Ziying concluded that it was the Inner Realm. Several Merging Dao Peak cultivators learned to enter it, while Lu Ye and others could not, leaving Lu Ye to wonder whether a Dao Pool might provide another way in.

• Lu Ye sensed You Die vanish from the Insect Nest and then watched her reappear, shaken and surrounded by Dao Fish.
• You Die told Lu Ye that she had felt herself sinking into a place resembling the Void, where Dao Power was far denser than in the Outer Realm.
• Ziying identified the place as the Inner Realm and asked Lu Ye to help her temper her Soul Body after she finished refining Boundless City.
• You Die guided Chen Gushan and He Linglong into the Inner Realm, where they appeared in the Void near a blazing sun, while Lu Ye, Yayi, and Kuzhi failed to enter.
• Lu Ye deduced that returning travelers brought Dao Power back from the Inner Realm, where it condensed into Dao Fish, and considered whether a Dao Pool could let him enter.

Lu Ye, Ziying, Chen Gushan, and He Linglong brought Boundless City to the Human Race home star, where the family heads had been discussing Lu Ye’s fate and the Yellow Springs upheaval. Chen Gushan began explaining Boundless City as a secret from the depths of the Ruins, leaving the family heads eager to learn more.

• Ziying piloted Boundless City into the Variegated Starry Sky with Lu Ye, Chen Gushan, and He Linglong accompanying her.
• The Human Race family heads gathered to discuss Lu Ye’s role in destroying the Insect and Blood Races in the Yellow Springs Great War Zone and how to contact him.
• The family heads noticed Boundless City outside the home star and flew to investigate, where they found Lu Ye, Ziying, Chen Gushan, and He Linglong alive.
• Chen Gushan told the family heads that Boundless City was a Dao Soldier hidden in the depths of the Ruins and began recounting its history.

Chen Gushan and He Linglong arranged for Boundless City’s Human Race to settle under Variegated’s protection, while Yan Yao learned of Yan Zhixing’s death and agreed to help keep Lu Ye’s secret. After leaving the city in the elders’ care, Lu Ye departed Variegated again and planned to keep it moving in case Howling Moon returned.

• Chen Gushan told the family heads that Boundless City’s Human Race would settle under Variegated’s protection, with him and He Linglong standing guard.
• Lu Ye gave Yan Yao the Family Head Token Yan Zhixing had left behind, and Yan Yao discovered a hidden message in it.
• Chen Gushan explained to Yan Yao that Boundless City had been brought in from outside Variegated and asked the four great families to protect it and restrict access.
• Yan Yao agreed to cooperate and left to organize the four families, then asked whether more help could have saved Yan Zhixing; Chen Gushan explained they had faced a He Dao cultivator.
• Chen Gushan and He Linglong began arranging the settlement of Boundless City’s Human Race, while Lu Ye left Variegated and planned to keep it moving.

Lu Ye sent Variegated drifting back toward Azure Palace to escape Howling Moon, while You Die decided to part ways with him. At their farewell meal, she gave Lu Ye a portion of her Soul Power, and he realized her gift could strengthen him.

• Lu Ye reversed Variegated's course, planning to return toward Azure Palace and bring the vessel there as an ally.
• You Die considered whether to leave Lu Ye or keep following him, then prepared a farewell meal in the farmhouse courtyard.
• You Die told Lu Ye she would seek Dao Integration and thanked him for freeing her from Variegated and teaching her the method.
• You Die gave Lu Ye a portion of her Soul Power through the final cup, strengthening his soul and apologizing for having captured him.
• Lu Ye realized the earlier cups had been illusions and regarded You Die calmly, aware he had never fully trusted her.

After You Die gave Lu Ye part of her Soul Power, he removed the Life Chain and let her leave, then used his strengthened foundation to temper another Dao Bone. He helped Ziying prepare to merge the Dao while Variegated continued drifting, leaving her to cultivate in a Floating Land following it.

• You Die gave Lu Ye part of her Soul Power, and he released her from the Life Chain before she departed with Yayi and Kuzhi.
• Lu Ye's Soul Body strengthened by at least ten percent, allowing him to temper another Dao Bone and leaving only three untempered.
• Lu Ye returned to Boundless City, where Ziying asked him to send her out so she could focus on merging the Dao.
• Lu Ye explained that Variegated's residents could not enter the Inner Realm and arranged for Ziying to enter and leave the Ruins freely.
• Lu Ye took Ziying to Variegated's Medicine Garden, where the frightened Dao Comprehension Tea Tree dropped more than ten leaves for them.
• Lu Ye and Ziying set a nearby Floating Land drifting alongside Variegated so she could cultivate there and remain close to safety.

Lu Ye killed a Blood Race Dao Integration cultivator, but instead of receiving an ordinary Star Abyss Blessing, he was seized by the Star Abyss Will and carried through the void. Whispering voices called him the Son of the Star Abyss, suggesting he had been chosen for that rare status.

• Lu Ye appeared in a small war zone and killed the Blood Race Dao Integration cultivator after Sacred Nature hindered his escape.
• Lu Ye realized no Star Abyss Blessing had followed the kill, but a powerful pillar of light suddenly enveloped him.
• The Star Abyss Will immobilized Lu Ye and transported him through an endless void, where he sensed its presence.
• A point of Spiritual Light struck Lu Ye, and dreamlike whispers repeatedly called him the Son of the Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye recalled Nine Infants' explanation that Sons of the Star Abyss were prodigies favored by the Star Abyss Will and wondered if he had been chosen.

Lu Ye was transported to a White Jade Platform with tens of thousands of powerful beings, where Qi appeared and announced a deadly contest to choose the Sons of the Star Abyss. The chapter ended as a Merging Dao cultivator defied the pairing requirement and sought a partner to compete with him.

• Lu Ye arrived on the White Jade Platform and suspected that its gathered beings would compete to become Sons of the Star Abyss.
• Qi appeared, and thousands of creatures died after looking at her mask.
• Qi ordered the survivors to pair up and leave within an hour, declaring that the last surviving man and woman would become the Sons of the Star Abyss.
• A cultivator asked whether he could compete alone, received no answer from Qi, and called for a Merging Dao Peak partner.

Lu Ye paired with the Merging Dao Second Layer cultivator Qing Rou and left the White Jade Platform for a Starry Sky Fragment. After realizing that each pair had been sent to a random location, Lu Ye listened as Qing Rou asked to find somewhere to hide.

• A Merging Dao Peak cultivator chose a female companion, and radiant light allowed them to leave the White Jade Platform together.
• Lu Ye struggled to find a companion, giving false answers about his cultivation and being turned away by several female cultivators.
• Lu Ye saw Qing Rou get berated and threatened by a male cultivator, then agreed to pair with her.
• Lu Ye and Qing Rou left the White Jade Platform and arrived at a random location in the Starry Sky Fragment.
• Lu Ye noticed the area held dense Dao Power and listened as Qing Rou pleaded to hide from the coming fights.

Lu Ye and Qing Rou hid in a lava cave, where she explained the Son of the Star Abyss contest and its treasures. After Lu Ye discovered that Qing Rou had trapped him with a Confinement Array, she revealed that she had targeted him because her innate ability showed he was the only Dao Entry cultivator among the contestants.

• Lu Ye and Qing Rou entered a ruined Barren Star and hid in a lava cave while Qing Rou set up Formations.
• Qing Rou told Lu Ye that the contest selected Sons of the Star Abyss, promised great benefits, and featured Exotic and Attribute Treasures, including one that could let contestants leave early.
• Lu Ye questioned why Qing Rou had arranged a Confinement Array beneath the concealment and defensive Formations.
• Qing Rou admitted that she had deliberately trapped Lu Ye, though she claimed she did not understand why she had targeted him.
• Qing Rou revealed that her innate ability let her see cultivation realms and that Lu Ye was the only Dao Entry cultivator among the 53,200 contestants, all of whom she had seen as Merging Dao cultivators.

Lu Ye discovered that Qing Rou had lured him into a cave to steal a powerful treasure, but he defeated and killed her after her Formation failed to restrain him. He received a Star Abyss Coin from her death and learned it could buy goods through a mysterious space.

• Qing Rou revealed that she had approached Lu Ye because she suspected he possessed a treasure that could help her survive the contest.
• Qing Rou disclosed that she was a Merging Dao Seventh Layer cultivator with a Formation Dao Soldier, then trapped Lu Ye with poisoned threads.
• Lu Ye's Dao Force stopped Qing Rou's threads, and he broke free, overpowered her, and killed her despite her pleas for mercy.
• Qing Rou's corpse transformed into an azure spider before vanishing, leaving behind an ancient coin that Lu Ye identified as a Star Abyss Coin.
• Lu Ye learned that each defeated cultivator yielded a Star Abyss Coin, which could connect its holder to a mysterious space where treasures and other items could be exchanged.

After killing Qing Rou, Lu Ye was ambushed by a Devil Race cultivator and killed him with the Vibrating Blade Technique, despite taking a serious wound from the enemy’s hidden companion. The companion attacked with tiny golden arrows that crossed the distance instantly, leaving Lu Ye to endure the barrage as he tried to close in.

• The Star Abyss Blessing drew a Devil Race member to Lu Ye, who met his charge among the ruins of the shattered Barren Star.
• Lu Ye used the Vibrating Blade Technique to overwhelm the Devil Race member and sever his arm, releasing over a thousand strands of Dao Power in an instant.
• The Devil Race member’s hidden companion launched a fast, space-crossing attack, but Lu Ye killed the Devil Race member with the Crag Mountain Saber before it struck.
• The hidden companion’s attack pierced Lu Ye’s waist and abdomen, then a second golden arrow blasted him backward as the Star Abyss Blessing descended.
• Lu Ye recognized the attacks as tiny arrows of condensed Dao Power and repeatedly tried to close the distance while enduring the barrage.

Lu Ye fought a mysterious golden-haired archer whose spatial escape technique let her vanish, then realized she could have made an ideal partner in the struggle. He explored the Star Abyss exchange space and found Dao Bones, countless treasures, and a Water Gourd linked to the Creation Vine, leaving him puzzled about how it had appeared there.

• Lu Ye charged the golden-haired woman, but she vanished with a spatial technique before he could land a decisive blow.
• Lu Ye found a Star Abyss Coin near the dead Devil Race cultivator and withdrew to recover, identifying a faint Space Current where the woman had disappeared.
• Lu Ye realized the golden-haired woman could have been a suitable companion and resolved to seek a partner if another opportunity arose.
• Lu Ye used two Star Abyss Coins to enter the exchange space and discovered that one coin could buy only two Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye found a Water Gourd listed as a subordinate treasure of the Creation Vine and wondered why it was available in the Star Abyss space.

Lu Ye hunted Fusion Dao cultivators in the Starry Sky Fragment to earn Star Abyss Coins and blessings, then tempered his final Dao Bone to Great Completion and received a powerful Bloodline Inheritance. As he entered a blood cocoon and his body withered to a skeleton, two enemy cultivators dragged a wounded woman toward the Realm Fragment where he was hidden.

• Lu Ye examined the Star Abyss treasury, saw that the Water Gourd cost three thousand Star Abyss Coins, and found a limited-quantity treasure that gave him a reason to keep hunting.
• Lu Ye and his Talent Tree Clone hunted separately for more than half a month, earning Star Abyss Coins and enough Star Abyss Blessings to complete his Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye tempered his final Dao Bone, linking all his Dao Bones into a cohesive whole and gaining a profound Bloodline Inheritance.
• Lu Ye recalled his Talent Tree Clone and formed a blood cocoon as his flesh, organs, and vitality withered away, leaving his Dao Bones intact.
• Two pairs of cultivators clashed nearby; the stronger pair killed the man and severely wounded the woman, then the male victor dragged her toward Lu Ye's Realm Fragment.

Lu Ye emerged from a strange transformation with only his golden Dao Bones remaining, then killed two cultivators who tried to steal and dismantle his body. After recovering his missing rib, he sensed vitality beginning to restore his flesh.

• A female cultivator joined her companion at a hidden Formation, and they broke it to reveal a blood-dark cocoon containing a desiccated corpse.
• The male cultivator took the corpse's saber and Storage Ring, then accidentally shattered its dried skin and exposed a brilliant golden skeleton.
• The female cultivator recognized the skeleton as a perfected Dao Body, likely left by a Uniting Dao Peak cultivator, and the pair tried to take it apart.
• The golden skeleton seized both cultivators by the throat and killed them, bringing two Star Abyss Blessings to Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye inspected his boneless, fleshless state, recalled the rib his attackers had removed, and drew it back into place as vitality began to grow in his marrow.

After his Dao Bones reached great completion and his Blood Race bloodline erupted, Lu Ye’s physique and strength rose dramatically, letting him wield 240 layers of Dao Power. He captured three Merging Dao cultivators and began testing a new ability by condensing golden blood at his fingertip.

• Lu Ye recovered his flesh-and-blood body and discovered that his strengthened foundation let him wield 240 layers of Dao Power, bringing him close to the strength of a Merging Dao Peak cultivator.
• Several days later, Lu Ye and his Talent Tree Clone ambushed two battling teams and captured the Demon Race and Winged Race cultivators along with one female cultivator.
• Lu Ye brought the three captured Merging Dao cultivators to a secluded location and said he wanted their help with something.
• Lu Ye gathered a strange power from his marrow and formed a drop of golden blood on his fingertip as his aura weakened.
• The three captives attacked Lu Ye, but his Talent Tree Clone quickly defeated them, and Lu Ye’s aura began to recover.

Lu Ye tested whether his precious Dao Blood could turn captured cultivators into loyal Blood Slaves, but the first two candidates died and the third begged for mercy. He killed her, recovered the Dao Blood, and decided to pursue the second method of creating a Dao Body after the struggle ended while continuing to hunt for Star Abyss Coins.

• Lu Ye explained that Dao Blood could create an independent, eternally loyal Blood Slave, then fed a drop to a captured Winged Race member.
• The Winged Race member began transforming into Blood Race but exploded before becoming a Blood Slave, leaving behind a Star Abyss Coin and the recovered Dao Blood.
• A captured Demon Race member attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye overpowered him and forced the Dao Blood into his mouth; he also exploded and left a Star Abyss Coin.
• The female cultivator offered to serve Lu Ye, but he killed her and retrieved the Dao Blood after Star Abyss Blessing descended.
• Lu Ye concluded that this method was too unlikely to succeed and planned to seek a stable place for the second method after the struggle, while hunting for more Star Abyss Coins.

Lu Ye learned that the Starry Sky Fragment was dissolving, forcing the contest area to shrink, and then discovered an Exotic Treasure attracting a growing crowd of cultivators. He arrived at a stalemate around the treasure and began considering how to claim it.

• Lu Ye defeated two hidden enemies, spared the surviving female Dao Fusion cultivator after she revealed that the Starry Sky Fragment was dissolving, and left to investigate.
• The female Dao Fusion cultivator tried to follow Lu Ye, but a shadow creature swallowed her before she could catch up.
• Several days later, Lu Ye saw the chaotic mist advancing from every direction and confirmed that it was swallowing the Starry Sky Fragment.
• Lu Ye spotted a distant, unusual light and traveled toward it, expecting other cultivators to gather there.
• Lu Ye found teams battling around a tiny ancient bottle in a hazy glow and recognized it as an Exotic Treasure.
• Seeing that nearly thirty Dao Fusion cultivators were guarding the treasure in a tense stalemate, Lu Ye wondered how he could seize it.

Lu Ye disrupted a Body Cultivator’s escape with the Exotic Treasure by killing him as his companion, the golden-haired woman, brought him through space. He seized the treasure and faced the woman again, who attacked him with her spatial power.

• A Body Cultivator charged through the battlefield, withstood the cultivators’ attacks, and seized the Exotic Treasure.
• Lu Ye sensed the Body Cultivator’s hidden companion and moved toward her while the Body Cultivator used a strange stone to vanish from the battlefield.
• The golden-haired woman used her spatial power to bring the Body Cultivator to her, but Lu Ye ambushed him and killed him with a saber strike.
• Lu Ye took the bottle, then clashed gazes with the woman and used Blood Eye as she struck him with golden light.
• Lu Ye recognized the golden-haired woman from their previous encounter, and she attacked him as their chance to become companions disappeared.

Lu Ye seized a bottle filled with concentrated Dao Power and escaped the Merging Dao cultivators pursuing him, while his Clone fought the golden-haired woman and learned to disrupt her spatial escape technique. After the two reunited and recovered, Lu Ye discovered the supposed Exotic Treasure was merely a Dao Power bottle, useful to cultivators who needed to replenish their reserves.

• The golden-haired woman blamed Lu Ye for killing her chosen companions and revealed to the pursuing Merging Dao cultivators that he had the Exotic Treasure.
• Lu Ye fled with the bottle, created a naked Talent Tree Clone to split the pursuers, and drew the golden-haired woman after the Clone.
• The golden-haired woman twisted space to shatter the Clone's Void Dao Pattern, while the main body was badly wounded by the Merging Dao cultivators' attacks.
• The Clone disrupted the golden-haired woman's escape technique with a remotely formed Void Dao Pattern, then let her escape so he could rescue the main body.
• After the Clone brought the main body to safety and Lu Ye recovered, he drank the bottle's golden Dao Liquid and found it replenished several thousand units of Dao Power.

After recovering, Lu Ye continued hunting cultivators in the dissolving starry sky fragment and encountered the golden-haired woman in a peaceful realm doomed to destruction. He left without fighting her and later discovered an ancient Starry Sky Spectacle shaped like a staircase.

• Lu Ye resumed hunting after recovering and killed a fleeing cultivator for a Star Abyss Coin.
• Lu Ye discovered a realm filled with peaceful four-eared beings and realized the dissolving fragment would eventually consume it.
• Lu Ye met the golden-haired woman on a crowded street, but neither fought because their battle could devastate the realm.
• Lu Ye left the realm and continued hunting as the fragment shrank and the confrontation’s battles remained intense.
• Several days later, Lu Ye encountered an ancient Starry Sky Spectacle shaped like a flight of stairs.