Recaps

Lu Ye successfully advanced to Merging Dao and considered how to find his way back to his own starry sky. After discussing a plan with Chen Gushan and He Linglong, he summoned the four great family heads and began addressing the mysteries of the Ruins.

• Lu Ye completed the Divine Edge Dao Pattern across his Dao Bones, advanced to Merging Dao, and found his wieldable Dao Power had risen to about 260, with his battle strength amplified to roughly 286.
• Lu Ye decided to rest rather than inscribe another Dao Pattern, then searched outside Variegated for familiar celestial landmarks but found none.
• Lu Ye returned to Boundless City and resolved to leave the balance between the Human and Giant Races and the Insect and Blood Races intact while seeking a way home.
• Lu Ye discussed a plan with Chen Gushan and He Linglong, then summoned the heads of the Huang, Yan, Sun, and Zhou families.
• Lu Ye asked whether they still wished to learn what secrets lay in the depths of the Ruins, and Huang Chen described the failed trial, the ruined statue of Nine Infants, and the two unexplained passages.

Lu Ye revealed that the Ruins contained a gate leading out of Variegated and explained that advancing to Dao Integration would require entering Star Abyss’s Inner Realm. He proposed securing Variegated near his home starry sky and asked the family heads to prepare successors and recruit Merging Dao cultivators to search for a route back.

• Lu Ye told the family heads that one passage in the Ruins led to an ancient Medicine Garden and the other to a gate out of Variegated, then revealed that Boundless City had come from outside.
• Lu Ye explained the Outer and Inner Realms and warned that cultivators who advanced to Dao Integration would have to enter the Inner Realm, making it difficult to return and guard their clans.
• Lu Ye proposed mooring Variegated near his home starry sky’s Star Abyss Gate and urged the family heads to choose successors before they left to cultivate.
• Lu Ye asked the family heads to send one or two hundred Merging Dao cultivators with ties to Variegated to investigate nearby celestial phenomena and find his way home.
• The family heads agreed to begin preparations, while Lu Ye decided not to involve the Giant Race yet.

Lu Ye sent Variegated’s cultivators into the Star Abyss to search for a route matching his Starry Sky Maps, then stopped Variegated so they could return to it. Three months later, he entered the Ruins to inscribe Dao patterns again.

• Lu Ye distributed Starry Sky Maps to 150 Merging Dao cultivators and sent them out to search the Star Abyss for six months.
• Chen Gushan and He Linglong left together, choosing freedom in the Star Abyss over returning to Variegated, and Lu Ye bowed as they departed.
• Lu Ye and the heads of the four great families stayed behind as the cultivators scattered, and Lu Ye stopped Variegated to make it easier for them to find on their return.
• Lu Ye killed a Merging Dao Sixth Layer star beast but received neither Star Abyss Blessing nor Star Abyss Coins.
• After three months, Lu Ye’s Dao Bones had recovered, so he entered the Ruins to inscribe Dao patterns safely.

Lu Ye advanced to Merging Dao Second Level, gaining immense power, and made a Jade Token to allow others to enter and leave Variegated. While waiting in Star Abyss for the search party to return, he began cultivating the Crag Mountain Saber and made it a true Dao Soldier.

• Lu Ye carefully inscribed a second Divine Edge pattern into his Dao Bone and reached Merging Dao Second Level.
• Lu Ye found that his two Dao patterns raised his effective strength to roughly three hundred and thirty-six strands, but worried about the growing cost of future breakthroughs.
• Lu Ye refined a Jade Token that would let others freely enter and leave the Ruins, then checked Variegated and returned to Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye waited beside Variegated on a meteorite for the Merging Dao cultivators searching the surrounding region, and decided to cultivate his Dao Soldier.
• Lu Ye invested more Dao Power in the Crag Mountain Saber until it could let him control one additional thread of Dao Power.

Lu Ye learned from Yan Ping that the route back to the starry sky lay nearby, then guided Variegated toward the familiar region. As he neared home, he sensed a Star Abyss Summons ahead, indicating a Star Abyss Gate connected to the starry sky.

• Lu Ye strengthened the Crag Mountain Saber for seven months before Yan Ping returned with celestial records matching a region Lu Ye had previously visited.
• Lu Ye thanked Yan Ping and determined that Variegated could reach the familiar location by following Yan Ping’s recorded route.
• After waiting for the other explorers, Lu Ye sent the cultivators and four family heads back into Variegated and guided it onward.
• Lu Ye recognized the celestial phenomena from the place where he had become trapped in Variegated and hurried toward home.
• Lu Ye sensed a Star Abyss Summons ahead and identified its source as a Star Abyss Gate connected to the starry sky.

Lu Ye returned to the Azure Palace and learned that Yin Luo had lost control of the Star Abyss Gate after a Twin Demon pair defeated her. He offered to help her reclaim it, and Yin Luo chose that over having her hunger satisfied.

• Lu Ye intercepted Ying Hu, who told him that Lady Qing Yu and the others had taken refuge at the Azure Palace.
• Ying Hu explained that two Merging Dao Peak cultivators of the Twin Demon Race had defeated Yin Luo and seized control of the Star Abyss Gate.
• Lu Ye reunited with Yin Luo and the Human Race cultivators, and learned that Qing Yu had advanced to Merging Dao under Uncle Duan's guidance.
• Lu Ye offered Yin Luo a choice between filling her stomach and helping her drive away the Twin Demons.
• Yin Luo chose to have Lu Ye help her reclaim the Star Abyss Gate.

Lu Ye learned that the Star Abyss Gate had expanded enough to admit Four-Dao cultivators five years earlier, then reached the Gate and challenged the Twin Demon Race to help Yin Luo reclaim control. The Red Demon questioned whether Lu Ye was truly ready to face the two of them.

• Lu Ye agreed to help Yin Luo drive off the Twin Demon Race and reassured Uncle Duan despite being only at Merging Dao Second Level.
• Uncle Duan told Lu Ye that the Star Abyss Gate had admitted Four-Dao cultivators when he left five years earlier, suggesting its passage capacity had grown abnormally fast.
• Lu Ye coordinated plans with Variegated's four family heads, then left Variegated several days later.
• Lu Ye arrived near the Star Abyss Gate, saw that fewer Star Abyss living beings remained there, and concluded that many had already invaded the starry sky.
• Lu Ye flew ahead of the Azure Palace and announced that Human Race Lu Ye had come to challenge the Twin Demon Race.
• The Red Demon rose with his twin and asked Lu Ye whether he was sure he wanted to challenge them.

Lu Ye killed the Twin Demon Race experts at the Star Abyss Gate and learned that Seven Dao cultivators could already pass through into the starry sky. He returned to Variegated and led a force of three thousand armed Dao Entry cultivators and four Merging Dao Peak experts out to confront the invasion.

• Lu Ye withstood the Red Demon and Green Demon's combined attack, then killed both of them and collected their Star Abyss Coins.
• Lu Ye brought Uncle Duan and Yin Luo to the Star Abyss Gate, docked Variegated nearby, and learned that Seven Dao cultivators could pass through for now, with Eight Dao soon to follow.
• Lu Ye worried that the Phantom Extinction Star System could not withstand the invasion, gave Uncle Duan instructions, and returned to Variegated.
• Lu Ye met Huang Chen and the other three family heads outside the Ruins, then led three thousand Dao Entry cultivators through the Sacrificial Altar.
• Lu Ye emerged outside Variegated with the three thousand cultivators and four Merging Dao Peak family heads, astonishing Qing Yu, Yin Luo, and Uncle Duan.

Lu Ye returned to the Starry Sky with three thousand Dao Entry cultivators from Variegated and began fighting the Star Abyss invaders. He found the Phantom Extinction Star System almost entirely covered by Star Abyss aura, but reunited with Gu Sheng, who offered to take him to the war fortress and explain the situation.

• Lu Ye told the four family heads that they could not pass through the Star Abyss Gate yet, then led the Variegated cultivators toward it.
• Lu Ye passed through the gate and found Star Abyss aura blanketing the area, with no familiar Human Race life signs nearby.
• Lu Ye ordered Huang Cui'er to command the arriving cultivators and spent days slaughtering Star Abyss invaders with his Talent Tree Clone.
• Lu Ye detected a battle and rescued Gu Sheng from a Star Abyss cultivator, then learned that Gu Sheng had advanced to the Seventh Layer Dao.
• Gu Sheng began taking Lu Ye to the war fortress and explained that the Phantom Extinction Star System's situation was dire but not as disastrous as Lu Ye had feared.

Lu Ye returned to the Starry Sky and learned that the Star Abyss invasion had pushed the Phantom Extinction Star System to the brink, though most invaders remained trapped within its aura. At the Yellow Dragon Realm’s war fortress, he reunited with Gu Yunliu and Old Tree, then discovered that his earlier arrangements had helped the Starry Sky produce many Dao Entry cultivators.

• Gu Sheng told Lu Ye that Seven Daos invaders had spread through Phantom Extinction, while most Star Abyss creatures stayed within its aura and scattered enemies were being hunted across the Starry Sky.
• Gu Sheng brought Lu Ye to the Yellow Dragon Realm’s retreating war fortress, where Gu Yunliu and the other cultivators welcomed him back.
• Gu Yunliu said Chen Wulei was refining Dao Bones and preparing to advance to Dao Fusion, while Chang Yu was pursuing invaders outside Phantom Extinction.
• Lu Ye learned that Old Tree had awakened from reincarnation and was the one who had guided Chen Wulei’s foundational Dao Pattern.
• Gu Yunliu reported that Phantom Extinction had eighty-three Dao Entry cultivators, and Lu Ye recalled how his arrangements with the Nine Provinces and Soul Race had accelerated their growth.

Lu Ye learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Heavenly Gang Star System faced a growing Star Abyss threat, but revealed that he had brought three thousand Variegated Human Race Dao Entry cultivators to aid the starry sky. He also disclosed that he had become Variegated’s master and entered Merging Dao, becoming the starry sky’s first native Merging Dao cultivator.

• Gu Yunliu told Lu Ye that Ninth Layer Dao cultivators had appeared at the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Heavenly Gang Star System, while Annihilation faced a less severe invasion.
• Old Tree explained that Azure Bird and Dancing Maiden were stationed at those two locations and were deterring the invading forces for now.
• Gu Yunliu reported that a group of unusually powerful Human Race cultivators bearing strange weapons had appeared on the Annihilation battlefield, and Lu Ye said he had brought them.
• Lu Ye explained that the fighters came from Variegated, which he had refined, and that three thousand Dao Entry cultivators equipped with Dao Artifacts had been mobilized to help.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had entered Merging Dao Second Level, and Gu Yunliu and the others rejoiced that the starry sky had gained its first native Merging Dao cultivator.

Lu Ye coordinated Variegated reinforcements through Old Tree, distributed Dao Patterns to support future Fusion Dao cultivators, and began a plan to forge one. After assigning Variegated forces across the starry sky, he went to meet Chen Wulei, the sole Ninth Layer Dao candidate from the Yellow Dragon Realm.

• Lu Ye told Old Tree to coordinate the Variegated Human Race and promised to find more Dao Artifacts from the Giant, Insect, and Blood Races.
• Lu Ye gave Old Tree ten Dao Patterns to help cultivators choose foundations for advancing to Fusion Dao.
• Huang Cui'er brought twelve hundred Variegated cultivators and a Storage Ring to Lu Ye, who placed them under Old Tree's command.
• Old Tree deployed about a thousand Variegated cultivators to three Star Abyss Gates and sent two hundred to hunt scattered Star Abyss Outsiders.
• Lu Ye visited Chen Wulei, the only Ninth Layer Dao cultivator in the Phantom Destruction War Zone, to discuss forging a Fusion Dao powerhouse.

Lu Ye reassured Chen Wulei about the starry sky’s crisis and helped him prepare to advance to Merging Dao. Chen Wulei chose a formation-focused Dao Pattern, and Lu Ye used the Life Chain to rapidly replenish his Dao Force, leaving him ready to attempt another breakthrough.

• Lu Ye told Chen Wulei that he had killed many Merging Dao Peak cultivators and could handle the invading enemies, easing Chen Wulei’s pressure.
• Chen Wulei resolved to protect the starry sky and asked Lu Ye to help him advance to Merging Dao.
• After examining Lu Ye’s ten Dao Patterns, Chen Wulei chose Shared Breath, Connected Branches so he could help others form formations.
• Lu Ye formed a Life Chain between himself and Chen Wulei, explaining that it would let Chen Wulei share the benefits of Lu Ye refining Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye refined more than a hundred Dao Bones, replenishing Chen Wulei’s Dao Force until Chen Wulei called for him to stop.

Lu Ye returned to Variegated with Huang Chen to negotiate the Giant Race’s departure in exchange for a slot and Dao Artifacts, then used Variegated’s power to search the starry sky. He found a familiar frog-like creature trapped inside Variegated and traveled to the Insect and Blood Races’ emperor stars, where he realized both sides had kept their strongest experts out of the war to prevent it from escalating.

• Lu Ye guided Chen Wulei through practicing the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Dao Pattern until Chen could construct it well enough to attempt advancing to Merging Dao.
• Lu Ye returned to Variegated and asked Huang Chen to accompany him and contact the Giant Race.
• Lu Ye offered the Giant Race one slot and two hundred Dao Artifacts in exchange for leaving Variegated, provided their departure did not affect the battle.
• Lu Ye searched Variegated for the Insect Emperor Star and Blood Emperor Star, spotted a familiar frog-like creature trapped in the realm, and then shifted to the emperor stars.
• Lu Ye sensed the many powerful experts stationed at the emperor stars and realized both sides were controlling the war’s scale to keep it from escalating.

Lu Ye arrived at the Gemini Stars and killed ten Insect and Blood Race Merging Dao cultivators, including a Merging Dao Peak Blood Race expert, forcing the two races to recognize his overwhelming strength. He told the Insect Mother he had come to talk and warned that he could strike their scattered forces across other war zones, leaving negotiations possible but the terms unresolved.

• Lu Ye killed an Insect Race Merging Dao Eighth Layer and a Blood Race Merging Dao Ninth Level cultivator with single saber strikes.
• The Insect Mother recognized Lu Ye and ordered the Insect and Blood Races to attack him.
• Lu Ye charged into the Blood Race forces and killed seven or eight Merging Dao cultivators before a Merging Dao Peak expert confronted him.
• Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature suppressed the Blood Race expert, and Lu Ye killed him with a saber strike.
• The Insect Mother called for the attack to stop and asked whether Lu Ye was a Harmony Dao cultivator.
• Lu Ye said he had come to talk and threatened the two races’ scattered forces, prompting the Insect Mother to ask what he wanted.

Lu Ye demanded three thousand Dao Artifacts from the Insect and Blood Races and spent the intervening days befriending a Roam Dragon. When he appeared inside Insect Emperor Star despite their defenses, he stopped the Insect Mother’s attack by revealing that You Die had left the Variegated realm and advanced to Dao Unity.

• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother to provide three thousand Dao Artifacts within three days or lose one Merging Dao life for every artifact missing.
• Lu Ye found the Roam Dragon in the Void, captured it briefly, then played with it using a Concealment Dao Rune in hopes of taming it.
• The Insect and Blood Races gathered their Merging Dao powerhouses and prepared to stop Lu Ye from taking the artifacts.
• Lu Ye appeared inside Insect Emperor Star, bypassing the defenses, and withstood the Insect Mother’s attempt to drag him into a Soul Battle.
• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had sent You Die out of the Variegated realm and that she had likely advanced to Dao Unity.
• The Insect Mother ordered the Insect and Blood Race powerhouses to stop advancing and await further orders.

Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had become Variegated's master and explained why he intended to preserve the Insect and Blood Races. To prove that it could leave Variegated, he brought its Soul Body outside, where it saw the Star Abyss Gate and met Yan Yao.

• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had killed Nine Infants, refined Variegated, and could come and go freely as its master.
• The Insect Mother asked to see outside Variegated, and Lu Ye let its Soul Body enter his Divine Sea.
• Lu Ye led the Insect Mother through the Ruins and out of Variegated into Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye showed the Insect Mother the Star Abyss Gate and explained that he needed three thousand Dao Artifacts to support the starry sky beyond it.
• Yan Yao arrived, recognized the Insect Mother's Soul Body, and greeted Lu Ye.

Lu Ye secured the Insect and Blood Races’ surrender and obtained Dao Artifacts from them and the Giant Race, then returned to the starry sky to strengthen its defenses. He traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where an increasingly frequent series of probing invasions threatened to overwhelm the local defenders.

• Lu Ye refused the Insect Mother’s request to enter the starry sky, returned with it to the Insect Nest, and accepted three thousand Dao Artifacts from the Insect and Blood Races in exchange for no longer interfering in Variegated’s affairs.
• Huang Chen brought five Giant Race cultivators to Lu Ye, who accepted their thousand Dao Artifacts and guided them through the Ruins out of Variegated.
• Lu Ye decided not to seal the Star Abyss Gate, since invasions could help starry sky cultivators grow stronger, and returned to the war fortress.
• Gu Yunliu told Lu Ye that Chen Wulei had advanced to Dao Fusion, stabilizing the Phantom Extinction Star System battlefield.
• Lu Ye gave most of the newly acquired Dao Artifacts to Old Tree, kept two hundred, and set out for the Myriad Phenomena Sea after learning a large-scale invasion was expected within half a year.
• Lu Ye reached the Myriad Phenomena Star System and followed his familiar route toward the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Jade Sword Island.

Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where Nine Radiance and the other defenders welcomed him and hoped his strength could turn the tide against Star Abyss. He reunited privately with Nine Radiance and prepared to help her advance, while the renewed probing attacks from Star Abyss threatened the fragile calm.

• Lu Ye arrived at Jade Sword Island, greeted Dancing Maiden, and reunited with Nine Radiance and the defenders near the Star Abyss Gate.
• Nine Radiance told Lu Ye that Hua Ci was cultivating on Three Realms Island and came to support battles when needed.
• Lu Ye explained his plan to the assembled cultivators, then asked Nine Radiance to come with him into the palace.
• Nine Radiance embraced Lu Ye and admitted she had feared he would not return, recalling the burden of defending the Myriad Phenomena Sea alone.
• The chapter recounted how Dancing Maiden's presence had halted invasions, but Star Abyss forces had begun probing the defenses again in recent months.

Lu Ye helped Nine Radiance prepare to advance to Fusion Dao by sharing Dao Power and teaching her a defensive Dao Pattern, then returned to Three Realms Island and reunited with its cultivators. He left the island’s people with a detailed account of the Star Abyss as the threat of invasion loomed.

• Lu Ye reassured Nine Radiance and used a Life Chain to replenish her Dao Power while she studied the Divine Guardian Pattern.
• Nine Radiance began constructing the defensive Dao Pattern as Lu Ye left her to prepare for her Fusion Dao breakthrough.
• Lu Ye left two hundred Dao Artifacts at the palace to strengthen the cultivators defending the starry sky.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, where Tang Jun and the waiting cultivators welcomed him as the Great Island Master.
• Chu Shen thanked Lu Ye for helping his mother and declared him his real big brother.
• Lu Ye told the gathered cultivators detailed intelligence about the Star Abyss.

Lu Ye reunited with Hua Ci on Three Realms Island after more than ten years apart, but their flirtatious reunion turned into a teasing confrontation over his time away. Hua Ci insisted that Lu Ye put Nine Radiance first, leaving him caught between the two women.

• Lu Ye discussed how Three Realms Island and Nine Provinces were producing more Sunlight cultivators and proposed using Variegated as a training ground for cultivators who entered the Dao.
• Lu Ye went to the mine vein to see Hua Ci, who revealed that she had advanced to Eight Dao.
• Hua Ci’s affectionate teasing briefly overwhelmed Lu Ye, but he turned the tables and playfully spanked her.
• Hua Ci asked why Lu Ye lacked Nine Radiance’s scent and hinted that she knew he had encountered someone else outside.
• Lu Ye tried to reassure Hua Ci, but she told him Nine Radiance was the elder sister and must come first, then teased him by suggesting they could serve him together after Nine Radiance advanced.

Lu Ye helped Hua Ci cultivate in the mine vein, where she advanced to Ninth Layer Dao and chose Divine Guardian as her foundation for Fusion Dao. After Nine Radiance failed her Fusion Dao attempt, Hua Ci sent Lu Ye to comfort her, while Chu Shen praised his big brother for working hard.

• Lu Ye helped Hua Ci replenish her Dao Power, and she teased him before revealing that she had advanced to Ninth Layer Dao.
• Hua Ci chose Divine Guardian as her Fusion Dao foundation, and Lu Ye taught her the Dao Mark while helping other Starry Sky Entering Dao cultivators refine their strength.
• Nine Radiance emerged from seclusion after failing her first Fusion Dao attempt, and Hua Ci comforted her while sending Lu Ye into the room to cheer her up.
• Hua Ci stopped Chu Shen from visiting Nine Radiance and told him that Lu Ye was taking care of her, prompting Chu Shen to praise his big brother's hard work.

Lu Ye staged a battle with the Dancing Maiden to convince Star Abyss scouts that a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator was holding the butterfly Star Beast at bay. After the scouts reported back, Hai Chen considered launching an invasion, while Lu Ye began evacuating the Myriad Phenomena Sea and prepared further traps.

• Hua Ci and Chu Shen detected an imminent Star Abyss invasion, and Lu Ye abandoned his private moment with Nine Radiance to carry out his plan.
• Lu Ye transformed into a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator and fought the Dancing Maiden while Starry Sky cultivators staged support from afar.
• Three Ninth Layer Dao scouts emerged from the Star Abyss Gate, witnessed the battle, and retreated to report what they had seen.
• Lu Ye revealed the deception to Mang Dang and ordered cultivators below Dao Entry to evacuate the Myriad Phenomena Sea into the Merfolk Race territory.
• Hua Ci returned to Lu Ye’s side with the Pixiu and assured him that her Dao Artifact would protect her while he went to the other side.
• The scouts reported the supposed Blood Race ally to Hai Chen, and another Merging Dao cultivator urged Hai Chen to exploit the chance to invade.

Lu Ye massacred the Star Abyss invaders emerging into the Myriad Phenomena Sea while his clone captured scouts and learned Hai Chen’s plans. Disguised as the captured scouts, Lu Ye and his clone crossed the Star Abyss Gate and convinced Hai Chen that the invasion was succeeding.

• Hai Chen suspected another Star Abyss Gate had opened in the starry sky and ordered selected Dao Entry cultivators to watch for trouble and report back.
• Lu Ye killed the invading Star Abyss creatures as they emerged from the gate, while the Dao Entry cultivators collected their Dao Bones.
• The Talent Tree Clone captured scouts and probed their memories, learning Hai Chen’s orders and identifying him.
• Lu Ye and his clone disguised themselves as captured scouts, crossed the gate, and told Hai Chen that the butterfly star beast was suppressed and the starry sky’s cultivators had been slaughtered.
• Hai Chen and the surrounding Merging Dao cultivators accepted the false report and celebrated the supposed success of the invasion.

Hai Chen ordered a full-scale invasion, and Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea to contain the Star Abyss forces with his Blood Sea. As the slaughter intensified, the Star Abyss Will punished Lu Ye for acting against his role as a Son of the Star Abyss, leaving him gravely wounded and sinking beneath the sea.

• Hai Chen ordered the Star Abyss cultivators to launch a full-scale invasion, and Lu Ye rushed back through the Star Abyss Gate.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea around the gate, trapped the invading Star Abyss beings, and helped the starry sky cultivators kill them and collect their Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye felt growing malice from the Star Abyss Will and realized it was warning him because, as a Son of the Star Abyss, he was obstructing the invasion.
• Lu Ye warned Hua Ci and the Dao Entry cultivators to retreat when scattered Dao Power began gathering into a sphere.
• The Dao Power sphere engulfed Lu Ye, shattered the Blood Sea, and blasted a vast vacuum into existence before his battered body fell into the Myriad Phenomena Sea.