Chapter Summaries

Yuan Xi welcomed Lian, the master of Golden Stamen Tower, into Yuan Xi City to strengthen its ranks in the Snow Plain conflict. Lu Ye then used the Talent Tree to begin burning away Huan Qing’s Blood Curse, leaving her in agony but hopeful that she could finally be freed.

• Lian joined Yuan Xi City, and Yuan Xi announced that the city would attempt a surprise attack to seize a Lotus Seedling.
• You Die concealed Yuan Xi City with the Mirage Spirit Pattern while Fan Wu and the others repaired its Protective Grand Array.
• Lian told Lu Ye she would keep Yuan Xi’s secret, asked to see his special method, and warned that Huan Qing’s Brahma bloodline might alert someone in Blood Drinking City.
• Lu Ye visited Huan Qing and used the Talent Tree’s power through their joined hands to burn away the Blood Curse in her bloodline.
• Huan Qing endured intense pain as she sensed the curse disappearing and realized Lu Ye might be able to cure her.

Yuan Xi City received Conscription Authority from Governor City after it recognized the city’s rank and the destruction of Xiaoyue City. Yuan Xi’s group used the authority to locate City Lord Zhao’s nearby Desolate-tier City and sent it a request to cooperate in seizing the Lotus Seedling.

• Yuan Xi planned for herself and Lian to distract the enemy while Lu Ye seized the Lotus Seedling if an opportunity arose.
• You Die reported that Governor City had granted Yuan Xi City Conscription Authority, allowing it to contact and recruit up to five lower-ranked Uniting Dao Cities.
• You Die discovered a nearby allied Desolate-tier City, and Lu Ye sensed that City Lord Zhao was there because his Dao Soldier’s power still clung to him.
• Yuan Xi ordered You Die to summon City Lord Zhao’s cooperation, while Lian advised presenting the Lotus Seedling to Governor City to encourage the other city to agree.
• City Lord Zhao’s subordinate announced that Yuan Xi City had sent a message, leaving City Lord Zhao and the other cultivators shocked.

Yuan Xi City secretly joined forces with City Lord Zhao to seize the Lotus Seedling, catching a rival Desolate-tier City Lord off guard. Yuan Xi and Lian overwhelmed the two cultivators sent to claim it, while Lu Ye focused on securing the Lotus Seedling.

• City Lord Zhao agreed to cooperate with Yuan Xi City after learning Governor City had granted it authority to requisition other cities.
• You Die told Lu Ye that City Lord Zhao had agreed, and Lu Ye and Yuan Xi planned to use the alliance to fish in troubled waters.
• When the phenomenon vanished, City Lord Zhao's forces engaged the rival Desolate-tier City Lord's troops while Yuan Xi City appeared beside the Lotus Seedling.
• Lu Ye moved toward the Lotus Seedling as Yuan Xi and Lian intercepted the two enemy Uniting Dao cultivators, who turned to flee.
• Lian used her speed to carry Yuan Xi after the fleeing cultivators, and Yuan Xi and Lian quickly gained the upper hand in the fight.

Lu Ye captured a Lotus Seedling and placed it in Yuan Xi City’s Dao Pool, then helped Yuan Xi and Lian kill two enemy Uniting Dao cultivators. The group attacked an enemy Heaven-tier City, throwing the other battlefield into disorder.

• Lu Ye seized the Lotus Seedling despite its deadly poison and brought it back to Yuan Xi City, where Fan Wu placed it in the Dao Pool and explained that it would gradually improve the pool’s production of Dao Fish.
• Yuan Xi and Lian wounded two enemy Uniting Dao cultivators and left them vulnerable for Lu Ye to kill, allowing him to obtain Star Abyss Coins through his contribution to the battle.
• Lian told Lu Ye that others with his status had tried to obtain Star Abyss Coins by letting their elders kill enemies, but had failed when they contributed nothing themselves.
• Yuan Xi urged the group to attack the enemy city, and Lian persuaded her to target the Heaven-tier City instead of the Desolate-tier one.
• Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lu Ye attacked the Heaven-tier City, disrupting the other battlefield because several of its cultivators, including its City Lord, were fighting there.

Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lu Ye’s attack on the Heaven-tier City forced its lord, Fellow Daoist Ning, to seek a way back to defend it, while the Desolate-tier City Lord tried to keep their forces together. Unable to find Yuan Xi City and facing the imminent loss of his own city, Fellow Daoist Ning agreed to abandon it and join Fellow Daoist Chang’s Desolate-tier City.

• Yuan Xi and Lian joined Lu Ye in killing two Dao Integration cultivators, prompting the Heaven-tier City Lord to demand that Fellow Daoist Chang withdraw to defend the Heaven-tier City.
• Fellow Daoist Chang refused to retreat, fearing Yuan Xi and Lian would attack his Desolate-tier City, while City Lord Zhao’s group held off their stronger force.
• Fellow Daoist Ning saw his Protective Grand Array weakening under the attack and again insisted that they withdraw to defend his city.
• Fellow Daoist Chang proposed attacking Yuan Xi’s Uniting Dao City to draw Yuan Xi and Lian back, but discovered that the city had vanished under You Die’s Mirage Spirit Pattern disguise.
• City Lord Zhao warned them to stay put, and Fellow Daoist Chang told Fellow Daoist Ning to abandon the undefendable Heaven-tier City and take refuge in the Desolate-tier City.
• Fellow Daoist Ning reluctantly accepted, and Fellow Daoist Chang promised to treat him and his remaining people well.

Yuan Xi's attack on the enemy Heaven-tier City ended with its Uniting Dao Pearl shattered, leaving her with far fewer fragments than expected. Furious, she pressured City Lord Zhao into joining an assault on the enemy Desolate-tier City, and the group advanced toward it.

• Lu Ye warned Yuan Xi that the enemy Uniting Dao cultivators were retreating, while the city's cultivators began evacuating through the Central Great Hall.
• The last enemy Uniting Dao cultivator fled toward the Desolate-tier City after leaving a trap that destroyed the Central Great Hall and shattered the Uniting Dao Pearl.
• Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lu Ye gathered scattered fragments, but many escaped and they obtained only about twenty percent of the expected share.
• City Lord Zhao tried to leave, but Yuan Xi demanded that he help attack the Desolate-tier City and threatened to report his retreat to Governor City.
• City Lord Zhao agreed to follow Yuan Xi into battle, and nearly ten Uniting Dao cultivators advanced toward the enemy city.

Lu Ye learned that Lotus Seedling poison could weaken a city’s Protective Grand Array and tested it against the enemy city. The method worked, but the defenders immediately attacked him, leaving the breach uncertain.

• Yuan Xi besieged the Desolate-tier City and demanded that its City Lord hand over the burly cultivator who had shattered the Uniting Dao Pearl, but Fellow Daoist Chang refused.
• Lian told Lu Ye that Yuan Xi was stuck in an awkward position and needed a way to withdraw without losing face.
• You Die relayed that Fan Wu had a possible strategy to breach the city, so Lu Ye returned to the city to hear him out.
• Fan Wu explained that an ancient text described Lotus Seedling poison breaching a Cosmos-tier Uniting Dao City, and Lu Ye retrieved the Lotus Seedling from the Dao Pool.
• Lu Ye pressed the Lotus Seedling against the enemy’s Protective Grand Array, causing powerful ripples, but the defenders launched a furious attack at him.

Lu Ye discovered that the Lotus Seedling’s poison could severely weaken a Protective Grand Array, though using it drained the little plant. With City Lord Zhao’s forces persuaded to fight at full strength, the siege began tearing open the enemy city’s defenses, while Lu Ye left the exhausted Lotus Seedling in Yuan Xi City’s Dao Pool.

• Lu Ye realized the Lotus Seedling’s first attacks barely affected the enemy array, but its unexpected poisonous mist briefly poisoned him and revealed its true strength.
• Lu Ye and Lian used the Lotus Seedling’s mist to corrode one section of the Protective Grand Array, and Yuan Xi, City Lord Zhao, and their forces concentrated their attacks on that weakness.
• After the Lotus Seedling released a weaker third burst of mist, Lu Ye offered City Lord Zhao thirty percent of the battle’s gains, prompting Zhao and his cultivators to attack with greater force.
• Lu Ye returned the exhausted Lotus Seedling to Yuan Xi City’s Dao Pool and asked Fan Wu to watch over it before rejoining the battle.
• Fellow Daoist Ning warned Fellow Daoist Chang that the city’s array would soon fail, and Chang admitted that he could not hold the city.

Yuan Xi's forces met Fellow Daoist Chang's cultivators in battle, and Lian and Lu Ye quickly turned the fight against them by killing enemies together. After three cultivators fell and Fellow Daoist Ning was badly injured, Fellow Daoist Chang ordered a retreat, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fellow Daoist Chang led his cultivators out of the city to fight Yuan Xi's forces, and City Lord Zhao engaged him while Yuan Xi faced Fellow Daoist Ning and his companion.
• Lian overwhelmed her opponent with her Startling Thunderwood Dao Soldier, creating an opening for Lu Ye to kill him with his saber.
• Lian and Lu Ye joined another battle, where their coordination helped Lu Ye kill a second enemy as Yuan Xi's forces claimed a third casualty elsewhere.
• Fellow Daoist Chang realized his side was losing badly as Fellow Daoist Ning neared defeat, and he ordered his cultivators to retreat.
• Fellow Daoist Chang fled after striking City Lord Zhao, who turned toward the nearest battlefield rather than pursuing him.

Lu Ye, Yuan Xi, and Lian helped defeat the enemy, seized the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments from a Desolate-tier City, and returned to Yuan Xi City. City Lord Zhao then proposed that his city become affiliated with Yuan Xi's.

• Lu Ye sent Lian to stop the enemy from shattering the Desolate-tier City's Uniting Dao Pearl, and she deterred the cultivator guarding it.
• Yuan Xi killed Fellow Daoist Ning, ending the fighting as the enemy cultivators fled and City Lord Zhao's group pursued them.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye broke into the abandoned Desolate-tier City, where Lu Ye froze the shattered pearl fragments so they could collect them.
• Yuan Xi merged the fragments into Yuan Xi City's Uniting Dao Pearl and gave City Lord Zhao the agreed share of the spoils.
• City Lord Zhao proposed that his city become affiliated with Yuan Xi's and that the two cities advance and retreat together.

Yuan Xi City considered City Lord Zhao's proposal to affiliate his city with theirs in the Snow Plain, and Lu Ye advised Yuan Xi to negotiate favorable terms. Lu Ye then discovered that the Lotus Seedling was recovering by devouring Dao Fish, suggesting it might replenish its power after attacking a city.

• City Lord Zhao proposed that his city become affiliated with Yuan Xi City within the Snow Plain, and Yuan Xi said she would consult her officers.
• At the council meeting, Lu Ye argued that Zhao wanted to benefit from the Lotus Seedling's city-breaching ability and that Yuan Xi City needed the extra manpower.
• You Die said she held no grudge against Zhao for wounding her, and Yuan Xi agreed to accept the affiliation while negotiating carefully.
• The spoils from the enemy Desolate-tier City were added to Yuan Xi City's treasury, and Zhao returned with a cultivator surnamed Wu to discuss the affiliation.
• Lu Ye found the Lotus Seedling eating Dao Fish in the Dao Pool, and Fan Wu explained that it had begun feeding after recovering from its earlier depletion.
• Lu Ye concluded that Dao Fish might replenish the Lotus Seedling's strength and asked Fan Wu to monitor it.

Lu Ye brought a Spring Radiance Sword Sub-Treasure to the Battle Arena and learned that it was one of four swords connected to the Four Seasons Divine Sword. Hoping to draw a crowd and earn enough Dao Fish for his advancement, he proposed fighting a Uniting Dao cultivator, but Gong Mao refused to make that decision himself.

• Lu Ye exchanged Star Abyss Coins for a Sub-Treasure and brought it to the Battle Arena for another deathmatch.
• Gong Mao recognized the sword as the Spring Radiance Sword and explained that gathering all four seasonal swords could unleash a thread of the Four Seasons Divine Sword's power.
• Gong Mao warned Lu Ye that turmoil in the Snow Plain had reduced Battle Arena attendance and betting.
• Lu Ye proposed fighting a Uniting Dao cultivator while remaining at the Merging Dao Eighth Layer, arguing that the match would draw a huge audience.
• Gong Mao rejected the idea, saying he could not approve such a match without the Arena Master's authority.

Lu Ye persuaded Gong Mao to arrange a death match against a Uniting Dao cultivator, then gave You Die a chance to profit from his planned battle. Elsewhere, a traveling Uniting Dao City encountered a corpse that suddenly opened its eyes, leaving its City Lord fleeing and calling for the city to defend itself.

• Lu Ye demonstrated his powerful Dao foundations to Gong Mao, convincing him to arrange a death match against a Uniting Dao cultivator.
• You Die told Lu Ye that Yuan Xi had given her ten thousand Dao Fish as Zhao Lingfeng's apology, and Lu Ye told her to save them for his upcoming battle.
• A Desolate-tier Uniting Dao City traveled toward the Snow Plain while its City Lord and a woman discussed his worsening memory and the journey.
• The City Lord spotted an intact corpse holding a longsword and rushed over to search it.
• The corpse opened its eyes, and the City Lord fled toward his city shouting for its defenses to be raised.

A mysterious swordsman used a Supreme Treasure to destroy a Desolate-tier City, while Lu Ye and Yuan Xi accepted an ambush mission from Thunderclap and waited near the Snow Plain for an enemy city. The enemy proved to be only a Heaven-tier City, and Yuan Xi ordered Lingfeng City to attack as she lost interest in joining the battle.

• A mysterious swordsman shattered a Protective Grand Array and split a Desolate-tier City in two with a Supreme Treasure, leaving its lord to flee with the unconscious woman.
• Lu Ye received a mission from Vice City Lord Thunderclap, and Yuan Xi agreed to set aside their previous grievances while warning him to be careful.
• Yuan Xi City and Lingfeng City traveled to an ambush site near the Snow Plain and waited for an enemy Uniting Dao City.
• You Die detected an enemy city approaching, and Zhao Lingfeng told Lingfeng City's cultivators to await orders from Yuan Xi City.
• Yuan Xi discovered that the approaching city was only Heaven-tier and ordered Lingfeng City to attack, allowing Lu Ye to join the battle if he wished.

Zhao Lingfeng attacked a Heaven-tier Uniting Dao City, only for two more enemy cities to appear and launch an assault on Lingfeng City. Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lu Ye revealed Yuan Xi City and turned the battle against the attackers, leaving Yuan Xi to answer Zhao Lingfeng’s call for help.

• Zhao Lingfeng led Lingfeng City’s forces in a surprise attack on the first Heaven-tier Uniting Dao City.
• Two more enemy Heaven-tier Cities appeared and sent their forces to besiege Lingfeng City while Zhao Lingfeng continued his attack.
• Yuan Xi guided Yuan Xi City toward one of the enemy cities, then attacked its Protective Grand Array alongside Lian and Lu Ye.
• The enemy City Lords abandoned their assault on Lingfeng City and tried to retreat, but Zhao Lingfeng’s forces moved to intercept them.
• The first enemy city’s cultivators left to join the battle, prompting Zhao Lingfeng to call for Yuan Xi’s help.
• Yuan Xi led Lian and Lu Ye into the fight, choosing to kill the enemy forces before trying to capture a city.

Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lu Ye overwhelmed the enemy forces supporting the Heaven-tier City. With the opposing Uniting Dao cultivators dead, Yuan Xi drove the remaining City Lord into a desperate fight and left him asking who she was.

• Zhao Lingfeng led Lingfeng City’s forces into battle after Yuan Xi’s group arrived to support him.
• Yuan Xi engaged the Heaven-tier City Lord and another Uniting Dao cultivator, while Lian fought a third and Lu Ye charged into the enemy Fusion Dao formation.
• Lu Ye cut through the Fusion Dao cultivators with his saber, killing many before the remaining enemies scattered.
• Lian killed her opponent, then intercepted and killed the Uniting Dao cultivator who had rushed out from the Heaven-tier City to stop Lu Ye.
• Yuan Xi killed the Uniting Dao cultivator fighting alongside the Heaven-tier City Lord, leaving the Lord alone to face her.
• The Heaven-tier City Lord demanded to know what deity Yuan Xi was, and she battered him with increasingly ruthless attacks.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi’s forces crushed the Heaven-tier Cities attacking Lingfeng City, with Lu Ye and Lian killing key Dao Integration opponents. The battle ended in a decisive victory, though one enemy City Lord escaped.

• Lu Ye slaughtered the Heaven-tier City’s Fusion Dao cultivators, then joined Lian to kill her Dao Integration opponent.
• Yuan Xi kept the Heaven-tier City Lord alive for Lu Ye, and they killed him together.
• Lian, Yuan Xi, and Lu Ye reinforced Lingfeng City’s battlefield, where two Heaven-tier Cities were attacking.
• A Heaven-tier City Lord wounded Wu Mi and fled, while Lingfeng City’s cultivators held off the remaining enemies.
• Lu Ye sent his Talent Tree Clone and Sword Gourd into the Fusion Dao battle as he watched for chances to finish wounded Dao Integration cultivators.
• Lian and Yuan Xi helped Lingfeng City defeat the remaining enemy forces, while Wu Mi was the only Dao Integration cultivator on their side to suffer an injury.

Yuan Xi City and Lingfeng City defeated the remaining defenders and seized three Heaven-tier Cities, while Lu Ye gained many Star Abyss Coins from finishing off Uniting Dao cultivators. Yuan Xi then demanded more missions from Governor City, leaving Thunderclap anxious and unsure how to handle her persistent messages.

• Yuan Xi and Zhao Lingfeng led their forces to intercept the two retreating Uniting Dao Cities, whose defenders abandoned them and fled into the Hehe Realm.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye collected the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments from all three cities, while Zhao Lingfeng's forces gathered supplies under the agreed share.
• Lu Ye collected more than twenty Star Abyss Coins after Yuan Xi, Lian, and Lingfeng City's cultivators repeatedly created chances for him to kill Uniting Dao opponents.
• Yuan Xi fused the fragments into her Uniting Dao Pearl and asked Governor City when the next mission would take place.
• Thunderclap first ignored Yuan Xi City's request, then responded that there were no more missions and was met with a demand to stop babbling.
• Yuan Xi threatened to visit Thin Bamboo if no new mission appeared within five days, leaving Thunderclap telling his subordinate to keep reporting her messages.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi City joined Lingfeng City to attack a Desolate-tier City on Governor City’s intelligence, and Lu Ye entered the battle with his Clone. After Fang sensed a Sub-Treasure among the enemy Uniting Dao cultivators, Lu Ye identified a burly man wielding two ornate short rods as his target.

• Lu Ye accepted a Battle Arena deathmatch against a Uniting Dao cultivator scheduled for one month later.
• Yuan Xi City and Lingfeng City set out to attack a Desolate-tier City after Governor City assigned them the mission.
• A surviving Heaven-tier City Lord joined Zhao Lingfeng’s forces and led them to the enemy’s Floating Land.
• Yuan Xi, Lian, Lu Ye, and his Clone joined Lingfeng City’s battle against the Desolate-tier City’s forces.
• Fang sensed a Sub-Treasure among the enemy Uniting Dao cultivators, and Lu Ye focused on the burly man wielding two short rods.

Lu Ye searched the enemy Hedao cultivators for a Sub-Treasure, then discovered that a female cultivator’s golden soft armor held a defensive one. He began using the Talent Tree to devour its hidden power, but the battle continued as the female cultivator tried to fend him off.

• Lu Ye tested three enemy Hedao cultivators in succession, but Fang confirmed that none carried the Sub-Treasure.
• Lu Ye killed Lian’s opponent and identified a female cultivator whose golden soft armor protected her from heavy blows.
• Fang recognized the armor as a defensive Sub-Treasure, and Lu Ye realized the Talent Tree could devour it.
• Lu Ye pressed his palm against the armor and activated the Talent Tree, but the female cultivator’s counterattacks interrupted the devouring.
• Lu Ye tried to touch the armor again while the female cultivator fought off her Lingfeng City opponent, and his hand landed on a soft, springy mass.