Recaps

Lu Ye escaped the Ladder Cloud traps, joined forces with Song Weiwei, and was bound to Su Yan by a Concord Knot while helping her protect the Four-Eared Realm. After securing a Mirror Realm and reaching the last refuge in the collapsing Starry Sky Fragment, Lu Ye and Su Yan fought over the Dao Pools as Ri Yan and Wuyue attacked their rivals.

• Lu Ye escaped the Ladder Cloud traps with Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang, then parted from them and searched for a companion.
• Lu Ye rescued the wounded Song Weiwei, helped her kill Bing Yuan, and heard her confession about abandoning her senior sister.
• Lu Ye and Song Weiwei encountered Su Yan guarding the Four-Eared Realm, but Su Yan bound Lu Ye to herself with a Concord Knot that made their lives dependent on each other.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan helped defend the realm as cultivators gathered for an Exotic Treasure, and Su Yan let a Ghost Cultivator take the treasure while Song Weiwei left Lu Ye after wounding him.
• Lu Ye gave Su Yan his Star Abyss Coins and learned her spatial techniques, while Su Yan arranged for Consort Rong to receive Dao Blood and become pregnant.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan obtained a Mirror Realm for the Four-Eared Realm, then reached the last surviving area of the Starry Sky Fragment and claimed a Dao Pool.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue seized Lu Ye and Su Yan’s Dao Pool, but Lu Ye and Su Yan escaped Wuyue’s bottle and agreed to cooperate temporarily with Ri Yan.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan attacked the Star Beast pair, then moved against the Blood Race and Insect Race pair as Ri Yan and Wuyue badly wounded Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang.

Lu Ye and Su Yan defeated Ri Yan, escaped the Star Abyss, and returned to Variegated, where Lu Ye studied its Dao Patterns and began preparing for Merging Dao. The stretch ended with him enduring the painful inscription of Divine Edge into his Dao Bones.

• Ning Gu used his Great Seal against Lu Ye, but Ri Yan and Wuyue trapped Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang before Ri Yan attacked them.
• Lu Ye revealed himself to Su Yan, killed the Blood Race cultivator with her, and took his binding Exotic Treasure.
• The Mud Star Beast swallowed Ri Yan and Wuyue, while Lu Ye and Su Yan entered its pocket space and destroyed it from within.
• Ri Yan, Wuyue, and Blood Fiend fought the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets, but Lu Ye and Su Yan joined them and killed Ri Yan after Wuyue fell.
• Qi sent Lu Ye and Su Yan away as the new Sons of the Star Abyss, but her influence drove Su Yan to use Nirvana and become a Phoenix Egg.
• Su Yan emerged from the egg, then traveled with Lu Ye toward a Star Abyss Summons before entering its gate and giving him her Phoenix Feather.
• Lu Ye returned to Variegated, met Chen Gushan and He Linglong in Boundless City, and gained access to the four families’ Dao Pattern Pavilions.
• Lu Ye recorded Variegated’s Dao Patterns, refined Divine Edge, and began inscribing it into his Dao Bones to advance to Merging Dao.

Lu Ye found Variegated’s route home, drove back the Twin Demon Race, and mobilized its people and resources to defend the starry sky. After gathering support across the threatened regions, he used a deception to trigger and trap a full-scale invasion, but the Star Abyss Will struck him down.

• Lu Ye advanced to Merging Dao, learned how to guide Variegated toward his home starry sky, and sent cultivators to search for the route.
• Lu Ye returned to the Star Abyss Gate, killed the Twin Demon leaders, and brought three thousand Variegated cultivators through to help defend the starry sky.
• Lu Ye joined Gu Sheng and the Phantom Extinction defenders, helped Chen Wulei advance to Dao Fusion, and secured Dao Artifacts from the Insect, Blood, and Giant Races.
• Lu Ye traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, reunited with Nine Radiance and Hua Ci, and prepared the defenders for another invasion.
• Lu Ye and the Dancing Maiden staged a battle that convinced Star Abyss scouts the starry sky was weakened, while Hua Ci helped evacuate those unable to fight.
• Lu Ye and his clone crossed into Star Abyss disguised as scouts and falsely reported to Hai Chen that the invasion had succeeded.
• Hai Chen ordered a full-scale invasion, but Lu Ye trapped the attackers around the gate with his Blood Sea and helped the defenders kill them.
• The Star Abyss Will gathered scattered Dao Power into a sphere that destroyed Lu Ye’s Blood Sea and blasted him into the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

Lu Ye negotiated with Star Abyss forces, prepared the starry sky for renewed invasions, and joined Yun Shiwang in resisting Inner Realm cultivators. He then used the Blood Ancestor’s corpse to wield Square Inch Mountain’s origin power and began closing the Puling Star System’s Star Abyss Gate, leaving its final closure imminent and his safety uncertain.

• Lu Ye made a deal with Hai Chen to limit invasions and later arranged orderly attacks with the Giant Race cultivator, while helping defenders across the starry sky prepare for Fusion Dao.
• Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces, reunited with Yiyi and Amber, and placed the Four-Eared Realm under Little Nine’s care before investigating a new Star Abyss Gate in the Puling Star System.
• Lu Ye and Old Tree met Yun Shiwang, who confessed that he had caused the Puling gate to reopen, then Lu Ye killed a Corpse Race Dao Integration cultivator who had entered the starry sky.
• Lu Ye slaughtered Insect and Blood Race cultivators in Variegated to strengthen himself, then returned to Puling as the gate destabilized and joined Yun Shiwang in fighting its invaders.
• Yun Shiwang refined the Heavenly Pivot Sword and became its Sword Slave, driving back Inner Realm cultivators and agreeing to guard the gate for thirty years while Lu Ye searched for a way to repair it.
• Lu Ye realized the Blood Ancestor’s corpse could channel Square Inch Mountain’s origin power, spent years learning to control it, and traveled toward Puling as invasions continued across the starry sky.
• Lu Ye reached Puling with the Blood Ancestor’s corpse, gathered Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, Yiyi, Amber, and other allies, and began using Square Inch Mountain’s origin to close the Star Abyss Gate.
• Over three years, Lu Ye shrank the gate to a tiny black spot at a cost to Square Inch Mountain, while Hua Ci and the others waited anxiously for its expected closure.