Recaps

Ning Gu used his Exotic Treasure to crush Lu Ye and badly wound the female Insect Race cultivator, while Ri Yan killed her and Wuyue trapped Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang in an illusion. Ri Yan then attacked the two injured cultivators, leaving their deaths imminent.

• Ning Gu agreed to use his Exotic Treasure against Lu Ye in exchange for Ri Yan sparing him and Junior Sister Shuang, then summoned a Great Seal that crushed Lu Ye and injured the female Insect Race cultivator.
• Ri Yan intercepted and killed the wounded female Insect Race cultivator as Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang tried to flee.
• Wuyue trapped Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang in an illusion of a vast sea and slowed them with Moon Essence.
• Ri Yan appeared beside Wuyue and told Ning Gu that he had kept his oath by sparing them the last time they met.
• Ri Yan attacked the badly injured, slowed Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang, leaving them facing certain death.

Lu Ye and Su Yan lured a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator into a trap, where Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature suppressed him and Su Yan killed him. Lu Ye gave Su Yan the binding Exotic Treasure the cultivator left behind, while she wondered whether Lu Ye was Blood Race.

• The Blood Race cultivator chased Su Yan and persuaded her to travel with him, and she agreed near the edge of the Starry Sky Fragment.
• When the Blood Race cultivator approached, Lu Ye emerged from concealment and overwhelmed him with his Sacred Nature.
• Lu Ye explained that he had used his Clone to fake his death and ordered Su Yan to kill the helpless cultivator.
• Su Yan shot the Blood Race cultivator, and Lu Ye found a Starry Sky Coin and a rope-like binding Exotic Treasure on his vanished corpse.
• Lu Ye gave the Exotic Treasure to Su Yan, who wondered whether his power came from a Blood Race bloodline.

Ri Yan and Wuyue recovered in the Dao Pools while Su Yan warned them that the Jellyfish Star Beast had survived. The Mud Star Beast ambushed them, but after Ri Yan escaped its body, a stream of controlled Dao Fusion cultivators emerged from within it, leaving Lu Ye to witness the Jellyfish Star Beast’s terrifying power.

• Ri Yan decided to hunt Su Yan, the Blood Race, and the Mud Star Beast after he and Wuyue recovered.
• Su Yan told Ri Yan that the Jellyfish Star Beast was still alive, and Ri Yan reconsidered his plan.
• The Mud Star Beast ambushed Ri Yan and Wuyue, swallowed Ri Yan, and fought Wuyue as she exposed its hidden form.
• Ri Yan burst out of the Mud Star Beast and fled with Wuyue, warning her to run.
• A sword dragon and more than twenty Dao Fusion cultivators emerged from the Mud Star Beast, each controlled by a tiny jellyfish attached to its head.

Lu Ye realized the Jellyfish Star Beast’s Clones could survive independently and control many Merging Dao cultivators, including Song Weiwei. As Ri Yan and Wuyue faced a growing swarm of puppets, Ri Yan turned to fight back while Wuyue unleashed Sea Rises Bright Moon.

• Lu Ye understood that the Jellyfish Star Beast’s Clones could live on after its main body died and could control vast numbers of cultivators.
• Lu Ye recognized Song Weiwei among the controlled puppets and hesitated over whether to reveal himself to help her.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue fled more than twenty pursuers, but additional controlled cultivators ambushed them along the way.
• Ri Yan realized the Jellyfish Star Beast was exhausting his Dao power with nearly forty puppets and decided to turn and kill some of them.
• Song Weiwei led the pursuing group as Wuyue weakened their attacks with Sea Rises Bright Moon and Ri Yan transformed into golden armor.

Lu Ye and Su Yan trapped the Mud Star Beast on the White Jade Platform and discovered that its body redirected attacks into a refining subspace. They let it swallow them so they could attack from within, where they faced a soul-eroding realm of rot and decay.

• Wuyue slowed the puppets with her Secret Technique while Ri Yan attacked Song Weiwei, but the other puppets forced him to abandon his strike and defend himself.
• Lu Ye recovered the lost portion of his Talent Tree and joined Su Yan in trapping the Mud Star Beast on the White Jade Platform.
• Lu Ye's saber attacks failed to harm the Mud Star Beast, while Su Yan's strikes made it flee without injuring it.
• Su Yan realized that the Mud Star Beast transferred attacks into a refining subspace inside its body, and she and Lu Ye decided to enter it together.
• The Mud Star Beast swallowed Lu Ye and Su Yan, who arrived in a foul, decaying subspace that began eroding their bodies and souls.

Lu Ye and Su Yan shattered the Mud Star Beast’s pocket space with Su Yan’s devastating spatial arrows, killing it and escaping. The disturbance exposed Lu Ye’s feigned death, while Ri Yan and Wuyue withdrew from their battle with the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets, leaving Lu Ye considering another plan.

• Su Yan borrowed Lu Ye’s Dao Power and used the Path of Space to prepare thirteen golden arrows inside the Mud Star Beast’s pocket space.
• Su Yan released the arrows, shattering the pocket space and killing the Mud Star Beast; Lu Ye and Su Yan escaped with its Star Abyss Coin left behind.
• Ri Yan killed many of the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets, then fled with Wuyue when reinforcements arrived and threatened to overwhelm them.
• Wuyue told Ri Yan that the Mud Star Beast had died and Lu Ye was alive, and Ri Yan learned that Lu Ye had apparently feigned his death.
• The Jellyfish Star Beast stopped its pursuit after sensing its companion’s death, while Lu Ye realized his survival had been exposed and considered another plan.

Ri Yan and Wuyue joined forces with Blood Fiend, who wanted to kill the Human Race Weapon Cultivator, and planned to target the Jellyfish Star Beast first. When Ri Yan and Wuyue reached the White Jade Platform, they found more than twenty puppets occupying its Dao Pools.

• Ri Yan and Wuyue met Blood Fiend, who proposed joining forces against the Jellyfish Star Beast.
• Blood Fiend said he wanted to kill the Human Race Weapon Cultivator, and Ri Yan accepted the alliance.
• Blood Fiend warned that Lu Ye and Su Yan were recovering in the Dao Pools and urged Ri Yan and Wuyue to act quickly.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue left their hiding place after hearing a brief battle near the White Jade Platform.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue arrived at the platform and saw more than twenty Jellyfish Star Beast puppets scattered among the four Dao Pools.

Ri Yan, Wuyue, and Lu Ye’s disguised clone attacked the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets at the White Jade Platform, killing many of them. Lu Ye discovered that Song Weiwei could not survive after her puppet cap was destroyed, while Ri Yan and Wuyue continued fighting the remaining puppets as Lu Ye and Su Yan watched from afar.

• Ri Yan and Wuyue charged the White Jade Platform, where Blood Fiend trapped the puppets in a Blood Sea.
• Guided through the Blood Sea, Ri Yan and Wuyue killed the six puppets at one Dao Pool and then hunted others.
• Blood Fiend crushed the jellyfish controlling Song Weiwei, freeing her; she recognized him as Senior Brother Lu and said farewell as her life faded.
• The Blood Sea collapsed, revealing that only thirteen of the Jellyfish Star Beast’s twenty-three puppets remained, and they attacked Ri Yan and Wuyue.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue struggled against the remaining puppets while Blood Fiend suffered backlash; Lu Ye and Su Yan watched the battle from a Floating Land a hundred thousand miles away.

Lu Ye and Su Yan confronted Ri Yan after the battle at the White Jade Platform, but Ri Yan protected himself with a powerful Exotic Treasure. Lu Ye used the Spirit Binding Lock to kill Wuyue instead, then prepared to face Ri Yan directly with Su Yan.

• Ri Yan, Wuyue, and Blood Fiend defeated the Jellyfish Star Beast and its puppets, leaving them exhausted as Lu Ye and Su Yan emerged to challenge them.
• Ri Yan activated a golden defensive Exotic Treasure, survived Su Yan's arrows, and drove Lu Ye and Su Yan into retreat.
• Lu Ye redirected the Spirit Binding Lock from Ri Yan to Wuyue, while his Clone revealed himself and killed her.
• Ri Yan sensed Wuyue's death and disrupted Su Yan's spatial escape technique, preventing them from fleeing effectively.
• Lu Ye decided to fight Ri Yan head-on, recalled his Clone, and told Su Yan to join her aura to his for the Three Powers Formation.

Su Yan revealed her Phoenix Race heritage and unleashed a devastating golden phoenix attack against Ri Yan, breaking his Exotic Treasure protection. With Su Yan exhausted and Ri Yan still alive, Lu Ye charged at him to press the advantage.

• Ri Yan relentlessly attacked Lu Ye, Su Yan, and the Clone while his Exotic Treasure protected him, and the Three Powers Formation struggled to withstand him.
• Su Yan moved the formation to the edge of the Starry Sky Fragment and prepared a powerful Secret Technique, drawing heavily on Lu Ye's Dao power.
• Su Yan manifested golden wings and summoned a golden phoenix, then released an attack that struck Ri Yan.
• The golden phoenix attack cracked Ri Yan's Exotic Treasure protection, and he realized Su Yan came from the Phoenix Race.
• Su Yan collapsed from exhaustion, and Lu Ye entrusted her to the Clone before charging at the still-living Ri Yan.

Lu Ye killed Ri Yan and, with Su Yan, became a Son of the Star Abyss. Qi sent them to an unfamiliar location far from Variegated Starry Sky, where a power she had planted in them awakened and stirred overwhelming desires.

• Ri Yan used his last strength to attack Lu Ye, but Lu Ye overcame him and killed him.
• Qi announced that Lu Ye and Su Yan were the new Sons of the Star Abyss and said she could send them to only one location.
• Su Yan chose to go with Lu Ye, and Qi sent them away together.
• Lu Ye realized they had arrived far from Variegated Starry Sky, though he could still sense its location.
• A warmth spread from Lu Ye's forehead as the Talent Tree reacted, and he and Su Yan realized Qi had tampered with them.

Lu Ye and Su Yan were overwhelmed by Qi’s hidden influence, and Su Yan revealed that the Star Abyss will sought to use Sons of the Star Abyss to bring itself into the world. Su Yan entered Phoenix Nirvana to escape its influence, leaving Lu Ye to guard her egg and consider the danger posed to Star Abyss elites.

• Lu Ye took Su Yan to a Barren Star as Qi’s hidden influence flooded them with desire, and Su Yan told him that Qi had once been a Son of the Star Abyss and had become a puppet of a will seeking birth.
• Su Yan explained that the will had chosen a man and a woman as Sons of the Star Abyss so their offspring could provide it a chance to be born, then urged Lu Ye not to let it control him.
• After several days, Lu Ye’s Talent Tree finally eliminated Qi’s influence, and he found Su Yan transformed into a golden Phoenix Egg after using her Phoenix Nirvana Technique.
• Lu Ye realized Su Yan was a pure-blooded member of the Phoenix Race and reasoned that repeated Star Abyss Blessings could build a foundation for the will’s birth within elite cultivators.
• Lu Ye concluded that the Talent Tree kept him free of the influence and reflected that Su Yan could have killed him through their Concord Knot, but instead chose nirvana.

After the contest ended, Lu Ye discovered that his encounter with Su Yan had transformed his Fire Phoenix Dao Pattern and improved his mastery of space and Dao Power. He set out for Variegated, hoping to return home and prepare for Fusion Dao.

• Su Yan had originally planned to warn Lu Ye about the Star Abyss before parting from him, but the unexpected events involving Qi left her in a Phoenix Egg.
• Lu Ye examined his Talent Tree and found that the Fire Phoenix Dao Pattern had changed after he broke through the obstruction within Su Yan's body.
• Lu Ye discovered that his understanding of space had improved, his Void Dao Pattern had been refined, and he could refine Dao Power more efficiently as the Son of the Star Abyss.
• After confirming that he had found no other changes, Lu Ye left his hiding place with the Phoenix Egg strapped to his back.
• Lu Ye followed the distant sense of Variegated, expecting it to take at least half a year to catch up with the drifting realm.

Lu Ye discovered that his mastery of space let him teleport, then encountered a Soul Erosion Wind that led him to a seemingly harmless stone statue. The statue revealed itself as a predator seeking Su Yan’s Phoenix Egg, and Lu Ye attacked it.

• Lu Ye successfully used the Space Teleportation Technique but found it slow, limited, and unsuitable for battle.
• After traveling for a month with Su Yan’s motionless Phoenix Egg, Lu Ye was caught in a hot wind that drained his Soul Power.
• Lu Ye followed a voice to a Floating Land, where a stone statue explained that the Soul Erosion Wind followed vitality and urged him to leave the egg behind.
• The statue transformed into a many-limbed creature, threatened Lu Ye, and admitted it wanted the egg.
• Lu Ye recognized the statue’s deception and rushed past it with a dazzling saber strike.

Lu Ye killed a stone statue Fusion Dao cultivator, discovered that its death gave him a Star Abyss Coin and permanent access to a vast treasure vault instead of a Star Abyss Blessing, then waited as Su Yan completed her nirvana. Su Yan emerged younger and pretended not to remember their intimate past, but chose to follow Lu Ye toward his home near Variegated.

• Lu Ye killed the stone statue and found Dao Bones and a Star Abyss Coin among its fragments, but received no Star Abyss Blessing.
• Lu Ye used the coin to access a vast Star Abyss Treasure Vault containing attribute treasures and Supreme Treasures, including the Water Gourd Supreme Treasure he wanted.
• After cracks spread across the Phoenix Egg, golden flames enveloped it and Su Yan emerged from her nirvana in a much younger form.
• Su Yan claimed she could not remember Lu Ye, though he realized she was embarrassed about their past and let her keep up the pretense.
• Lu Ye said he was heading toward Variegated and his home, and Su Yan told him she would follow.

Lu Ye and Su Yan sensed that a Star Abyss Gate would soon open over another starry sky, and Su Yan asked to enter and teach its cultivators how to resist the invasion. Lu Ye agreed to escort her and planned to intensify the fighting among the gathered Star Abyss creatures before the gate opened.

• Lu Ye learned Su Yan’s strength had fallen to around the Moon Jade Realm after her nirvana, so she traveled with him while recovering.
• Su Yan explained that Sons of the Star Abyss received Star Abyss Coins instead of blessings, though they could exchange the coins for a precious liquid with similar benefits.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan sensed a Star Abyss Summons, and Su Yan told him another starry sky faced an impending calamity.
• Lu Ye agreed to investigate, and they traveled for nearly a month through growing numbers of Star Abyss creatures, killing those they encountered.
• At the gathering place, Su Yan asked Lu Ye to escort her into the starry sky after the gate opened so she could guide its cultivators; Lu Ye agreed.
• Lu Ye proposed stirring up the gathered creatures’ chaotic battle to reduce the threat Su Yan would face and replenish his Dao Power.

Lu Ye’s Clone slaughtered Star Abyss creatures near the unopened Star Abyss Gate, then killed a Twin-Headed Race Merging Dao cultivator with a single sword strike. The gathered Merging Dao cultivators recognized him as a likely leader and offered submission, but his hostile response left their standoff unresolved.

• Lu Ye’s Clone killed Star Abyss creatures in the area around the unopened Star Abyss Gate, drawing the attention of the Merging Dao cultivators stationed nearby.
• A Twin-Headed Race Merging Dao Seventh Layer cultivator charged the Clone, who killed him with a sword strike and collected his bones and a Star Abyss Coin.
• The Merging Dao cultivators realized the Clone might be a Merging Dao Peak cultivator and the leader recognized by the Star Abyss Will.
• The Clone appeared beside the gathered Merging Dao cultivators, whose Winged Race member offered to acknowledge him as their leader and whose companions agreed to follow his command.
• The Clone called them trash despite their offer, leaving the gathered cultivators tense and wary.

A Human Race Sword Cultivator used erratic violence and selective gifts to divide the Merging Dao cultivators gathered in the chaotic region. When a powerful Blood Race Weapon Cultivator arrived with a blonde girl, the Sword Cultivator ordered the Winged Race man to confront him, and the fight left the Winged Race man facing a rapidly closing opponent.

• The Human Race Sword Cultivator joked about taking only half the Merging Dao cultivators, then resumed hunting Dao Entry cultivators while they watched uneasily.
• After returning to refine Dao Bones, the Sword Cultivator killed a Merging Dao cultivator for supposedly eyeing his Dao Bones and gave bones only to selected cultivators.
• The Sword Cultivator repeatedly gave Dao Bones to the same group, earning their respect while deepening the Winged Race man's resentment and concern.
• A Blood Race Weapon Cultivator and a petite blonde girl entered the chaotic region, and the Blood Race man began slaughtering its inhabitants as the girl collected Dao Bones.
• The Sword Cultivator ordered the Winged Race man to fight the Blood Race Weapon Cultivator, who shattered his attack and pursued him at astonishing speed.

Lu Ye, disguised as a Blood Race Weapon Cultivator, drew the Winged Race man and several Merging Dao cultivators away from his Clone, the Human Race Sword Cultivator. He began organizing them to unite the Dao Entry cultivators and strengthen his side against the Clone.

• The Winged Race man was trapped and wounded in Lu Ye's Blood Sea, then escaped while the Sword Cultivator watched without helping.
• The Sword Cultivator fought Lu Ye twice, and both battles ended in draws.
• During a third battle, the Winged Race man led several Merging Dao cultivators away and sought refuge with Lu Ye, who accepted them.
• Lu Ye explained that the remaining cultivators would resent the Winged Race man for leaving them behind, then ordered the group to recruit Dao Entry cultivators by force.
• The Winged Race man and the others began gathering Dao Entry cultivators, demanding that each join them or die.

Lu Ye and his Clone divided the Star Abyss cultivators into two armies and used repeated battles to cause heavy casualties. After killing the Merging Dao leaders who proposed ambushing the Human Race Sword Cultivator, Lu Ye and his Clone attacked both armies, leaving the forces in chaos.

• Lu Ye and his Clone organized the cultivators into opposing camps, and the armies fought several battles that killed many Dao Entry and Merging Dao cultivators.
• The Winged Race warned Lu Ye that the casualties would weaken the coming invasion and proposed ambushing the Human Race Sword Cultivator.
• Lu Ye lured the Winged Race and the other Merging Dao cultivators close, then killed them inside a Blood Sea.
• The Clone sensed danger near the Star Abyss Gate and gathered the Merging Dao cultivators around him before Lu Ye's main body arrived under cover of the Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye and his Clone swept their Blood Seas toward both armies and began massacring the already weakened Dao Entry cultivators.

Lu Ye watched Su Yan enter the Star Abyss Gate with his Phoenix Feather, then resumed his journey back to Variegated. After encountering a curious Roam Dragon, he sensed a disturbing emptiness in the Void ahead.

• Su Yan entered the opened Star Abyss Gate after giving Lu Ye her Phoenix Feather and telling him to seek the Phoenix Nest once he reached perfection in Union Dao.
• Lu Ye inspected his Dao Body through the Mirror Realm and found that Consort Rong was expected to give birth within ten days.
• Lu Ye encountered a Roam Dragon, briefly rode it in an attempt to speed his return, and watched it flee after he let go.
• As Lu Ye continued toward Variegated, he stopped before an unnaturally empty stretch of Void and sensed that advancing would bring danger.

Lu Ye returned to Variegated after surviving the struggle for the Son of the Star Abyss, and learned that Ziying had continued her cultivation elsewhere. He reunited with Chen Gushan and He Linglong in Boundless City, where he revealed that he had won the selection.

• Lu Ye avoided a dangerous region in the Star Abyss, then traveled onward while the Roam Dragon secretly followed him.
• Lu Ye reached Variegated and found a Jade Slip from Ziying explaining why she had remained at a place Variegated had passed through; he concluded she had likely advanced to Dao Merging.
• Lu Ye entered Variegated near the Human Race's home star and headed to Boundless City, where Chen Gushan and He Linglong welcomed him.
• Lu Ye told Chen Gushan and He Linglong that he had been summoned to compete for the Son of the Star Abyss and had come out on top.
• Lu Ye explained that becoming the Son of the Star Abyss had increased his affinity with Dao Power, but kept the Star Abyss Treasure Vault and Star Abyss Coin secret.

Lu Ye returned from the Ruins and asked the heads of the four great families to let him study their Dao Pattern Pavilions so he could prepare for advancing to Merging Dao. After entering the Yan Family’s pavilion, he left the family heads wondering about his true cultivation level and the reason Yan Yao treated him with such deference.

• Lu Ye told the four family heads that he had been cultivating in the Ruins and asked to visit their Dao Pattern Pavilions.
• Yan Yao agreed immediately, and the other family heads followed suit because they hoped to gain access to the Ruins.
• Yan Yao brought Lu Ye to the Yan Family’s Dao Pattern Pavilion and let him enter alone.
• Huang Chen, Sun Baihan, and Zhou Quan questioned Yan Yao about his unusually generous attitude toward Lu Ye.
• Yan Yao urged the other family heads to grant Lu Ye anything he requested, hinting that he knew something important he could not yet reveal.
• The family heads debated whether Lu Ye had reached Merging Dao as they recalled how quickly his strength had grown from ordinary Entering Dao.

Lu Ye comprehended and recorded the Dao Patterns in Variegated’s pavilions, gathering the knowledge he needed to refine Divine Edge for his advancement to Merging Dao. After visiting every pavilion, he entered the Ruins to seek the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and begin deducing his chosen foundation.

• Lu Ye spent nearly a year in the Yan Family’s Dao Pattern Pavilion, learning unfamiliar patterns and repeatedly constructing them with his Talent Tree.
• After emerging, Lu Ye asked Yan Yao to arrange his entry into the Huang Family’s pavilion, where he studied for half a year.
• Lu Ye then visited the Sun and Zhou Families’ pavilions, spending progressively less time as he encountered patterns he had already studied.
• Lu Ye briefly explored the shared Dao Pattern Pavilion and confirmed that he had recorded every Dao Pattern in Variegated on the Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye entered the Ruins to find the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and deduce Divine Edge for his advancement to Merging Dao.

Lu Ye gathered Tea Tree’s leaves and spent more than a year in seclusion refining his Dao Patterns, completing a stronger, simpler Divine Edge. He began advancing to Merging Dao by inscribing it into his Dao Bones, facing intense pain and the challenge of inscribing all 206 bones.

• Tea Tree tried to frighten Lu Ye away, but her emerald leaves flew into his hands, and she ran off sobbing.
• Lu Ye sealed the Ruins and used a tea leaf to sharpen his mind while deducing the Dao Patterns on his Talent Tree.
• After deducing every Dao Pattern and revisiting Divine Edge, Lu Ye completed a version with 20 percent fewer Base Elements and 10 percent greater power.
• Lu Ye prepared to advance to Merging Dao, recognizing that inscribing patterns into all 206 of his Dao Bones would be far harder than for ordinary cultivators.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to begin inscribing Divine Edge into his Dao Bones and endured severe pain as his Dao Power rapidly drained.