Recaps

The Starry Sky Chessboard chose Yuan Xi and Black Blood as opposing Chess Players, and Lu Ye turned the game’s rewards and rules into a growing advantage for Yuan Xi’s side. After surviving Jiao and rallying the White Pieces, Lu Ye led the assault on Black Blood City, where the Lotus Seedling weakened its defenses.

• Yuan Xi and Black Blood became Chess Players after the Starry Sky Chessboard appeared, and the cultivators were assigned to opposing sides in Legion Chess.
• Lu Ye used his ability to cross between Chess Grids to kill Black Pieces, earn rewards, and give Yuan Xi additional moves.
• Lu Ye defended Yuan Xi City from Black Blood’s siege, while Yuan Xi erased her Clone for breaking the Chessboard’s Rules and You Die strengthened the city’s defenses.
• Lu Ye lured Black Blood’s forces away from Yuan Xi City and fought them through the Blood Sea, using the Lotus Seedling’s poison to weaken his pursuers.
• Lu Ye killed the enemy cultivators sent against him, absorbed their rewards, and then fought Jiao, surviving his Gold Silver Scissors after Yuan Xi moved him to safety.
• Lu Ye helped the White Pieces seize a die and gather strength for an assault on Black Blood City, while Jiao vowed to kill him.
• Lu Ye led the White Pieces against Black Blood City, destroyed its counterattack beams, and used the Lotus Seedling to make its protective array flicker.

Lu Ye defeated Jiao and helped free Yun Shiwang from the Heavenly Pivot Sword, then joined Ba Qiu and Huang Shiniang in driving off Blood Calamity. Blood Calamity’s forces later attacked Yuan Xi City, but its advancement to a Cosmos-tier city turned the battle in Yuan Xi’s favor.

• Lu Ye broke into Black Blood City, killed Yun Ke, and shattered its Uniting Dao Pearl while Yuan Xi kept the city trapped on the Chess Grid.
• Jiao separated Lu Ye from his allies and fought him on the Combat Platform, but Lu Ye used the Chaos Scale to weaken Jiao, killed him, and refined the invading Soul Bodies with his Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye grew stronger as he fought through Black Pieces, but Blood Calamity’s Sword Slave, Yun Shiwang, attacked him with the Heavenly Pivot Sword, while Blood Calamity seized control of Lu Ye’s body.
• Ba Qiu and Huang Shiniang reached the battlefield and drove Blood Calamity from Lu Ye’s Soul Sea, where Lu Ye refined Blood Calamity’s Split Soul into a Soul Crystal.
• Ba Qiu fought Yun Shiwang until Shang devoured the Heavenly Pivot Sword, allowing Yun Shiwang to regain his senses and recognize Lu Ye before vanishing.
• Blood Calamity and four City Lords attacked Ba Qiu, while Lu Ye took Yuan Xi to the Hehe Realm, after Blood Calamity tracked Lu Ye’s Soul Crystal, his forces attacked Yuan Xi City.
• Lian fused Uniting Dao Pearl fragments into Yuan Xi City’s pearl, advancing the city to the Cosmos tier, and its strengthened defenders routed Blood Calamity’s attackers as Yuan Xi pursued the retreating enemies.

Lu Ye was taken to the Phoenix Nest, where he strengthened his Path of Space and became trapped in the Space Corridor with Zhu Yin. After they escaped and Lu Ye demonstrated the Power of Time and Space at the Dragon City Grand Ceremony, the Phoenix Lord and Dragon Sovereign tested him and questioned his relationship with Zhu Yin.

• Baxia emerged from a meteorite and protected One Man City, while the Phoenix Lord took Lu Ye through an Insect Path to the Phoenix Nest.
• Su Yan reunited with Lu Ye, and the Phoenix Lord accepted their relationship and gave him a method to cultivate the Space Dao Seed.
• Lu Ye trained inside the Primordial Parasol Tree, where its violent spatial power caused him and Zhu Yin to fall into the Space Corridor.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin fought Void Beasts together, fused the Power of Space with the Power of Time and Sequence, and killed a powerful phoenix-shaped beast.
• Huang Jiuyin rescued Lu Ye and Zhu Yin, and Lu Ye later cultivated with Su Yan while Zhu Yin told the Dragon Sovereign about their combined power.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan traveled to Dragon City for the Grand Ceremony, where Lu Ye failed the lottery and entered the Hundred Boats Competing instead.
• Lu Ye used the Power of Time and Space to climb the waterfall, claim its pearl, and earn a slot in the Tower of Time.
• The Phoenix Lord and Dragon Sovereign arranged a test involving a Void Beast, then questioned Lu Ye about Zhu Yin until he swore that nothing improper had happened.

Lu Ye repaired the Ancestral Abyss Restriction, gained the Dragon Sovereigns’ power through the Fruit of Time, and entered the Tower of Time. After Blood Calamity’s allies trapped him, Lu Ye advanced to Uniting Dao and began cutting down the cultivators hunting him.

• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord revealed that the Ancestral Abyss Restriction was failing, and Lu Ye and Zhu Yin agreed to repair it.
• Lu Ye secretly absorbed power from the restriction and grew a Fruit of Time that let him draw on living Dragon Sovereigns’ mastery of Time and Sequence.
• After Lu Ye and Zhu Yin repaired the restriction, the Dragon Sovereign rewarded Lu Ye with access to the Dragon Pool and Dragon City.
• Lu Ye entered the Tower of Time, used the Ages Saber to kill attackers, and recruited Eight-tailed to guide him toward Level Seventy-Two.
• Blood Calamity’s allies ambushed Lu Ye, but he killed several pursuers and escaped with Eight-tailed as Green Mantis and Xue Ni organized the hunt.
• Su Yun, Su Yan, Zhu Yin, Luan Li, and Xuan Wuji moved to help Lu Ye after learning that Green Mantis and Xue Ni wanted him captured alive.
• Lu Ye advanced to Uniting Dao on the tenth floor, gaining Dao Intent of Sharpness and strength comparable to some Upper Uniting Dao cultivators.
• Lu Ye fought his way upward, killing more than half the Uniting Dao cultivators on Level Eighteen and driving the survivors toward the next floor.