Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye resolved the Star Abyss invasion threat near the Heavenly Dipper by striking a deal with its Giant Race leader, then returned to Square Inch Mountain to reunite with its defenders and prepare two of them for Fusion Dao. He left Su Yuqing to refine Dao Bones after sharing a tender reunion with her.

• Lu Ye challenged the enormous Giant Race cultivator in the Star Abyss and secretly agreed to provide him with two affiliated treasures over ten years in exchange for orderly invasions.
• Lu Ye returned to Square Inch Mountain and reunited with Su Yuqing, Chen Xuanhai, Wu Qimo, Zhang Kun, Shuixian, Chen Li, and the other defenders.
• Lu Ye brought Shuixian and Chen Li into a secret chamber, replenished their Dao force, and instructed them as they prepared to break through to Fusion Dao.
• Lu Ye reunited privately with Su Yuqing, embraced and kissed her, then urged her to cultivate and refine the Dao Bones he had brought.

Lu Ye visited the Long Moon, Profound Frost, and Lan Yun war zones to help cultivators prepare for Fusion Dao and gather Dao Power, then traveled toward Nine Provinces. There, he discovered that the Blood Ancestor’s scattered body had mysteriously reassembled into a whole.

• Lu Ye helped Su Yuqing recover from a failed attempt to temper her Dao Bone and learned that she had chosen the Divine Guardian Dao Pattern.
• Lu Ye visited Long Moon, Profound Frost, and Lan Yun, where he supported the war zones and helped Ninth Layer Dao cultivators prepare for Fusion Dao.
• Shuixian and Purple Jade successfully advanced to Fusion Dao, while Chen Li failed.
• Lu Ye set out for Nine Provinces and detoured through the star system to investigate what Old Tree had told him.
• Lu Ye found that the Blood Ancestor’s body had become whole after the Blood Race’s scattered major realms drifted together across the starry sky.

Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces and reunited with Little Nine, little Flower Maiden, Yiyi, and Amber after years away. He began catching Little Nine up on his travels and headed home with Yiyi and Amber.

• Lu Ye left the Blood Refining World after studying the Blood Ancestor's corpse and continued onward to the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye saw how much the Nine Provinces had changed and encountered Little Nine, who had taken the form of a boy, with little Flower Maiden beside him.
• Little Nine and Lu Ye talked for half a day before Little Nine left with little Flower Maiden, asking Lu Ye to tell him the rest another time.
• Lu Ye reunited with Yiyi and Amber at the Crimson Blood Sect, and Yiyi asked him to carry her home.
• Lu Ye carried Yiyi on his back and told her and Amber that he had missed them both.

Lu Ye reunited with Yiyi, learned of Hua Ci’s hopes for a family, and considered the starry sky’s uncertain future as Yiyi left to seek advancement. He helped Ma Bin prepare for Dao Fusion, then learned from Old Tree that sealing the Star Abyss Gate could destroy Supreme Treasures.

• Lu Ye examined Yiyi and found that she had reached the Great Sun Late Stage and could attempt to enter the Dao; she decided to go to the Myriad Phenomena Sea with Amber.
• Yiyi told Lu Ye that Hua Ci wanted to have several children with him because she feared for his fate, prompting him to think about the starry sky’s future and how to close the Star Abyss Gate.
• Yiyi left for the Myriad Phenomena Sea to attempt advancement, and Lu Ye let her go without seeing her off.
• Lu Ye met Ma Bin at the Nine Provinces Garrison Hall and helped him raise his Dao Power reserves so he could attempt Dao Fusion.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that Chong Yue and Phantom Shadow had failed to advance, then explained that sealing the Star Abyss Gate with Supreme Treasures would consume their origin power and could destroy them.

Lu Ye learned what had become of the starry sky’s ancient Dao Entry and Dao Fusion cultivators, then settled the Four-Eared Realm near the Nine Provinces and entrusted it to Little Nine. Little Nine eagerly went to meet Lu Ye’s Dao Body, while the young prince in the Four-Eared Realm clutched his treasured spinning top.

• Lu Ye learned from Old Tree that surviving cultivators had either died after remaining in the starry sky or left for Star Abyss, and that the ancient cultivators who stayed had eventually lost their strength and died of old age.
• Lu Ye released the Four-Eared Realm from the Mirror Realm and placed it near the Nine Provinces for safekeeping.
• Little Nine and Little Flower Maiden appeared beside Lu Ye, and Little Nine agreed to look after the realm and arrange for Lu Ye’s Dao Body to learn cultivation.
• Little Nine urged Lu Ye to leave and handle his responsibilities, then hurried with Little Flower Maiden to see the Dao Body, planning to teach him personally.
• In the Jing Kingdom’s imperial palace, the five-year-old prince held the spinning top his late mother had given him, bearing bruises from fighting another prince who had tried to take it.

Lu Ye learned that a new Star Abyss Gate had opened in the Puling Star System and rushed there to investigate. The gate appeared to connect to the Inner Realm, then vanished before he could enter, but Lu Ye sensed something at the last moment.

• A five-year-old prince lost his wooden top in a river and met a strange boy who offered him three tops to choose from.
• Lu Ye returned to Square Inch Mountain and spent a year cultivating, reaching the Merging Dao Third Layer while trying to strengthen his control over the mountain.
• Old Tree summoned Lu Ye after learning a new Star Abyss Gate was about to open in the Puling Star System.
• Lu Ye arrived in the Puling Star System and found a deep black gate with unusually dense Star Abyss aura, which he suspected came from the Inner Realm.
• The gate began closing and disappeared before Lu Ye could enter, but he noticed something in the distance just as he relaxed.

Lu Ye tracked a mysterious intruder to the Great Prosperity Realm and met Yun Shiwang, a Dao Integration cultivator who claimed to have returned from the Inner Realm and hailed from the starry sky. Old Tree recognized Yun Shiwang as a legendary predecessor, and Lu Ye headed to meet him with Old Tree.

• Lu Ye followed spatial traces to the Great Prosperity Realm and found Yun Shiwang eating noodles in a city restaurant.
• Yun Shiwang said he was a Dao Integration cultivator whose Ancestral Land was the Great Prosperity Realm, and explained that he could remain in the starry sky indefinitely.
• Lu Ye invited Yun Shiwang to meet Old Tree so they could confirm his identity, and the two set off together.
• Lu Ye's Clone reached Old Tree first, who recognized Yun Shiwang's appearance and recounted his rise from schoolteacher to one of the starry sky's most powerful cultivators.

Yun Shiwang reunited with Old Tree and explained that he had returned after being the sole survivor of the group that left the starry sky. He planned to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword, but after revealing the truth behind Square Inch Mountain’s shattering, he suddenly realized he had caused a disaster.

• Yun Shiwang reunited with Old Tree and recounted how everyone who had left the starry sky with him had eventually died, leaving him alone.
• Old Tree told Yun Shiwang how Lu Ye had stabilized the starry sky and described Lu Ye’s role in refining Variegated.
• Yun Shiwang decided to attempt to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword because Square Inch Mountain was shattered and the Asura Arena could only be controlled by the Heavenly Asura Race.
• Lu Ye asked how Square Inch Mountain had been shattered, and Yun Shiwang explained that a Blood Race Dao Unity cultivator’s Sacred Blood had triggered the Supreme Treasure’s backlash, causing it to shatter while trapping the blood.
• Yun Shiwang abruptly stood up, trembling and pale, and told Old Tree that he had caused a disaster.

Lu Ye and Yun Shiwang learned that two enemies had entered the Puling Star System and were heading for Supreme Treasures, so they split up to intercept them. Lu Ye reached a barren starfield and confronted a fast-moving Dao Integration cultivator, discovering it was a Zombie from the Corpse Race.

• Yun Shiwang confessed that the Star Abyss Gate in the Puling Star System had reopened and that foreign enemies had invaded, then regained his resolve to fight alongside Lu Ye.
• Old Tree reported that the two enemies had split up and were heading toward Square Inch Mountain and the Asura Arena.
• Yun Shiwang warned that Dao Integration cultivators could wield at least three hundred forces of Dao through their own strength, but Lu Ye insisted on intercepting one to prevent it from obtaining a Star Map.
• Old Tree guided Lu Ye through two Insect Paths to a barren starfield where he could ambush the enemy.
• A Dao Integration cultivator pierced Lu Ye's concealment and swept past without attacking, but Lu Ye charged after it and recognized it as a Zombie from the Corpse Race.

Lu Ye fought a Corpse Race Dao Integration cultivator, wounding him before the enemy used corpse poison to gain control of the battle. The Corpse Race cultivator believed Lu Ye was poisoned beyond resistance, but his ability to keep speaking surprised him.

• Lu Ye unleashed his full strength in an opening saber strike and severed the Corpse Race cultivator’s arm.
• Lu Ye and the injured Corpse Race cultivator fought across the starry sky, with Lu Ye holding his own despite his opponent’s greater strength.
• The Corpse Race cultivator became interested in capturing and nurturing Lu Ye, then shifted to defensive attacks that secretly exposed Lu Ye to corpse poison.
• Lu Ye recognized the poison through the Talent Tree and pretended to realize too late that he had been poisoned.
• The Corpse Race cultivator seized Lu Ye’s saber and threatened him, but frowned when Lu Ye remained able to speak.

After killing a Corpse Race Merging Dao cultivator, Lu Ye returned to Variegated to rapidly strengthen himself against the crisis in the Puling Star System. He unleashed a Blood Cloud that slaughtered the Insect and Blood Races across multiple war zones, shaking all three major powers.

• Lu Ye used the Vibrating Blade Technique and, with help from his Clone, killed the Corpse Race cultivator despite nearly being overpowered.
• Lu Ye asked Old Tree about Yun Sheng, then told him to have Senior Yun guard the Star Abyss Gate in the Puling Star System once his battle ended.
• Lu Ye decided to return to the Star Abyss to improve his strength and traveled through the Insect Paths to Variegated.
• Lu Ye gave Yin Luo a Treasure Blood Clone and entered Variegated, where he appeared near a Battle Star of the Insect and Blood Races.
• Lu Ye unleashed a vast Blood Cloud that killed every Insect and Blood Race cultivator on a Battle Star, then swept through other war zones and spread panic across Variegated.

Lu Ye slaughtered Insect and Blood Race cultivators to gather Dao Power, then advanced to the Merging Dao Fifth Layer and strengthened the Crag Mountain Saber before heading to the Star Abyss Gate. He learned that Yun Shiwang had dealt with another invader, but grew concerned that Yun Shiwang had unknowingly opened the gate; when Lu Ye reached him, the gate had closed.

• Lu Ye discovered the Talent Tree could store only about a million Dao Power and stopped his slaughter of the Insect and Blood Races once its reserves filled.
• Lu Ye advanced to the Merging Dao Fourth Layer, then inscribed another Divine Edge Dao Pattern and reached the Merging Dao Fifth Layer.
• Lu Ye left Variegated and spent ten days nurturing the Crag Mountain Saber in the Star Abyss Gate, increasing his power by a hundred and twenty points.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that Yun Shiwang had reached the Star Abyss Gate in time to defeat another invader, but that Yun Shiwang seemed troubled.
• Lu Ye realized Yun Shiwang had likely opened the Star Abyss Gate himself and traveled from Annihilation to Puling to speak with him.
• Lu Ye found Yun Shiwang sitting cross-legged and saw that the Star Abyss Gate had closed.

Lu Ye explained to Yun Shiwang that the Star Abyss Will had influenced him into opening the Star Abyss Gate, and the two joined forces to defend it from invaders. As the gate grew more unstable, Yun Shiwang left to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword, though Old Tree warned that the sword was ill-suited to repairing the breach.

• Lu Ye told Yun Shiwang he was the Son of the Star Abyss and explained how the Star Abyss Will had used him to open the gate as punishment.
• Lu Ye and Yun Shiwang agreed to face the crisis together and killed enemies that emerged from the unstable gate.
• Yun Shiwang decided to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword because the gate was nearing a full opening and they needed the power of a Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Ye agreed to hold the breach while Yun Shiwang pursued the refinement.
• Old Tree warned Yun Shiwang that the Heavenly Pivot Sword was poorly suited to repairing the Star Abyss Gate because it was devoted to slaughter.

Lu Ye and his Clone defended the Starry Sky as the Star Abyss Gate stayed open, leaving them unable to pursue invaders into the Star Abyss aura. While Lu Ye waited for Yun Shiwang’s help, Yun Shiwang struggled through a disastrous attempt to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword.

• Yun Shiwang told Old Tree he would risk refining the Heavenly Pivot Sword despite having no compatible Supreme Treasure, then left for the attempt.
• Lu Ye and his Clone fought off invaders while he nurtured the Sword Gourd and raised the Crag Mountain Saber to its limit of forty-nine Dao Marks.
• A month after Yun Shiwang departed, the Star Abyss Gate remained open, and Lu Ye and his Clone wounded a long-eared Dao Merging cultivator but stopped pursuing him at the edge of the Star Abyss aura.
• The long-eared cultivator taunted Lu Ye from beside the Gate, while Lu Ye demanded that he return to the Star Abyss and asked Old Tree how Yun Shiwang was faring.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that Yun Shiwang was progressing smoothly, but Yun Shiwang was actually suffering terribly as he forcibly tried to refine the Heavenly Pivot Sword.

Lu Ye held off the Star Abyss invaders at the Star Abyss Gate until an overwhelmingly powerful Merging Dao cultivator broke his Blood Sea and cornered him. Yun Shiwang arrived wielding the refined Heavenly Pivot Sword and drove the invaders into disarray with two devastating strikes.

• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea around the Star Abyss Gate to restrain the growing number of Inner Realm Merging Dao cultivators.
• A powerful elderly Merging Dao cultivator entered the Blood Sea, shattered it, and pursued Lu Ye until Lu Ye sensed Yun Shiwang approaching.
• The old man tried to seize the chance to attack Lu Ye, but he turned toward the approaching sword aura, allowing Lu Ye to escape.
• Yun Shiwang's first sword strike damaged the old man's Dao Soldier and forced the invaders to retreat toward the Star Abyss Gate.
• Yun Shiwang's second strike met the invaders' combined defense, wounding several of them as he arrived before the gate with the Heavenly Pivot Sword.

Yun Shiwang became the Heavenly Pivot Sword’s Sword Slave and entered the Star Abyss to guard its gate for thirty years, leaving Lu Ye responsible for finding a lasting solution. Lu Ye rejected relying on Old Tree’s sacrifice but could not find a way to repair the gate or protect the starry sky after Yun Shiwang left.

• Yun Shiwang drove the Inner Realm powerhouses through the Star Abyss Gate and attacked them inside, then turned his killing intent on Lu Ye.
• Old Tree used a jade-green leaf to halt Yun Shiwang and explained that Yun Shiwang had sacrificed himself to become the Heavenly Pivot Sword’s Sword Slave.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that Yun Shiwang would guard the gate for thirty years before leaving, and urged him to prepare for the Inner Realm’s invasion afterward.
• Lu Ye considered using his cultivation or Supreme Treasures to repair the Star Abyss Gate, but found no workable option.
• Lu Ye refused to let Old Tree sacrifice his strength again and struggled to think of another way to save the starry sky.

Lu Ye discovered a possible way to repair the Star Abyss Gate after his Blood Attendants visited him. He returned to the Nine Provinces Star System, where he prepared to borrow strength from the Blood Ancestor's corpse.

• Cultivators flocked to the Puling Star System's new Star Abyss Gate, where Lu Ye watched over those advancing into the Dao.
• Ma Shangsi, Xuan Yu, and Xiang Yin visited Lu Ye and told him they had qualified to advance into the Dao.
• As Xiang Yin described the changes surrounding the Blood Ancestor's restored body, Lu Ye realized he might have found a solution to the Star Abyss Gate problem.
• Lu Ye told Old Tree he intended to borrow strength to repair the gate, though he could not control Square Inch Mountain directly.
• Several days later, Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces Star System and faced the enormous corpse of the Blood Ancestor.

Lu Ye commanded the Blood Ancestor's corpse and set out to use its power with Square Inch Mountain to repair the Star Abyss Gate before Yun Shiwang's deadline. Ten years later, he was nearing the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where Hai Chen waited for their agreed meeting and an Attribute Treasure.

• Lu Ye realized he could use the Blood Ancestor's corpse as a powerful vessel to draw on Square Inch Mountain's origin power and repair the Star Abyss Gate.
• Lu Ye spent a month awakening and learning to command the Blood Ancestor's corpse, then began the journey through the starry sky with Old Tree guiding him.
• Lu Ye and Old Tree estimated that reaching Heavenly Dipper and then Universal Spirit would take about twenty years, and Old Tree arranged support and Dao Bones for the journey.
• As Lu Ye traveled, word spread that he was commanding the Blood Ancestor's corpse, while the starry sky's cultivators continued defeating invading Star Abyss creatures and growing stronger.
• Ten years later, Hai Chen waited with the remaining Fusion Dao cultivators outside the Myriad Phenomena Sea's Star Abyss Gate, expecting Lu Ye to arrive with the promised Attribute Treasure.

After the Blood Ancestor's Corpse drove back the Star Abyss invasion at the Heavenly Gang Star System, Lu Ye carried Square Inch Mountain toward Puling to attempt to repair the Star Abyss Gate. Ten years later, he arrived as his closest companions gathered to witness the effort, whose outcome remained uncertain.

• Hai Chen and Bulomu believed Lu Ye was dead, and Bulomu ordered a full-scale invasion through the Star Abyss Gate in the Heavenly Gang Star System.
• Lu Ye arrived controlling the Blood Ancestor's Corpse, frightening the invading Star Abyss creatures into retreat and ending their assault.
• Lu Ye seized Square Inch Mountain and headed for the Puling Star System, where he planned to try to repair the Star Abyss Gate.
• During the journey, Lu Ye confirmed he could use the Blood Ancestor's power to mobilize Square Inch Mountain, then spent ten years increasing his control over it.
• Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, Nine Radiance, Yiyi, Amber, the Sect Master, Shui Yuan, and others gathered near Puling's Star Abyss Gate, joined by Ma Bin.
• The Blood Ancestor's Corpse approached the assembled cultivators as Lu Ye arrived to begin the final stage of his plan.

Lu Ye used Square Inch Mountain’s origin to repair the Star Abyss Gate, steadily shrinking it over three years despite the Star Abyss Will’s looming threat. As the gate neared closure, Old Tree relayed Lu Ye’s warning that everyone should stay calm when it closed, leaving Hua Ci and the others worried about what might happen.

• Lu Ye controlled the Blood Ancestor's corpse and began feeding Square Inch Mountain’s origin into the Star Abyss Gate, sensing the Star Abyss Will’s hostility.
• After a month, Nine Radiance and the others noticed the Star Abyss Gate had started shrinking, while Lu Ye realized the repair would take years and remained wary of punishment.
• Over three years, Lu Ye continued the repair as the gate dwindled to a fingernail-sized black spot, and Square Inch Mountain lost some of its spiritual energy and a Spirit Jade Vein dried up.
• With the Star Abyss Gate nearly closed, Old Tree’s Clone told the gathered cultivators that Lu Ye expected it to close within ten days and urged them not to panic.
• Hua Ci asked whether Lu Ye was in danger, and Old Tree said he did not know; Hua Ci urged the others to trust Lu Ye.