Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye watched Blood Calamity fight Yun Shiwang for control of the Heavenly Pivot Sword, but Blood Calamity’s scheme began to unravel as the Phoenix Race arrived and the Starry Sky Chessboard withdrew its enhancements. The chapter ended with Yun Shiwang’s sword striking at Blood Calamity, who realized he was in mortal danger.

• Lu Ye recognized Blood Calamity’s mastery of the Blood Dao and Path of Space while observing his battle with Yun Shiwang.
• Blood Calamity killed Black Blood and swallowed his blood to strengthen himself, then used the crimson power to attack and erode the Heavenly Pivot Sword.
• Lu Ye noticed the Heavenly Pivot Sword was being worn down and prepared to interfere before Blood Calamity could claim it.
• The Phoenix Race opened an Insect Path through the Primordial Parasol Tree’s roots, prompting Blood Calamity to abandon his attempt to take the sword and prepare to flee with Lu Ye’s body.
• The Starry Sky Chessboard withdrew, stripping Lu Ye’s body of its enhancements, as Yun Shiwang’s sword light rushed toward Blood Calamity.

Lu Ye survived Yun Shiwang’s sword strike when Ba Qiu intervened, but Huang Shiniang then trapped him with Blood Calamity’s Split Soul still fused to his Divine Sea. After Huang Shiniang discovered Lu Ye’s connection to her clan and tried to spare him, Lu Ye said he could resolve the possession himself and confronted Blood Calamity within his Divine Sea.

• Blood Calamity used a phantom bearing Black Blood’s shadow to block Yun Shiwang’s sword, and Ba Qiu’s strike shattered the attack and saved Lu Ye.
• Blood Calamity tried to flee, but Huang Shiniang used the Phoenix Race Secret Technique Near Yet Far to confine him within a hundred-mile area.
• Huang Shiniang attacked Blood Calamity’s Split Soul, then sensed Phoenix Origin Blood on Lu Ye and realized he had been intimate with a woman of her clan.
• Huang Shiniang attempted to drive Blood Calamity out of Lu Ye, but the Split Soul was fused with his Divine Sea and could not be removed without risking severe harm.
• Lu Ye regained control of his body, asked Huang Shiniang to wait, and entered his Divine Sea to confront Blood Calamity.
• Blood Calamity told Lu Ye that borrowing his body could mean using it for a lifetime.

Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s flames and roots to refine Blood Calamity’s Split Soul, leaving behind a Soul Crystal filled with Blood Calamity’s cultivation insights. The Phoenix Lord entered Lu Ye’s Soul Sea after the battle and returned the crystal to him, which promised to greatly advance his cultivation.

• Lu Ye ignited his Soul Sea, trapping Blood Calamity’s Split Soul and preventing it from escaping.
• Blood Calamity attacked Lu Ye, but the Talent Tree appeared and pierced him with its roots, allowing Lu Ye to refine his Split Soul.
• As Blood Calamity’s Split Soul vanished, Lu Ye sensed Huang Shiniang forcing her way into his Soul Sea and opened it to her.
• Huang Shiniang found Blood Calamity gone and examined the Soul Crystal left by his refined Split Soul.
• Huang Shiniang returned the Soul Crystal to Lu Ye and told him it contained Blood Calamity’s cultivation insights.

After Lu Ye survived Blood Calamity’s Split Soul, he watched Ba Qiu battle Yun Shiwang while Huang Shiniang protected the area from the devastation. Blood Calamity began rallying the Inner Realm’s families and tested a hidden spatial arrangement near the battlefield, but Huang Shiniang stopped it.

• Lu Ye thanked Huang Shiniang for the Soul Crystal, returned to his body, and learned that Ba Qiu and Yun Shiwang were fighting with their Supreme Treasures.
• The battle’s shockwaves shattered ownerless Uniting Dao Cities and scattered their Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, while Huang Shiniang blocked the devastation before it reached Lu Ye and Yuan Xi.
• Lu Ye stayed to watch Yun Shiwang’s final battle, and Huang Shiniang warned Yuan Xi that Blood Calamity and other forces would soon bring more people to the Snow Plain.
• At Blood Drinking City, Blood Calamity ordered a message sent to the families and prepared to rally them against Ba Qiu, while regretting the loss of his Split Soul.
• Blood Calamity tried to open a hidden spatial route near the battlefield, but Huang Shiniang flattened the twisted Void and said he was only testing the waters.

Huang Shiniang removed most of the Supreme Treasure power from Lu Ye’s wounds while Ba Qiu and Yun Shiwang fought over the Heavenly Pivot Sword. After Shang devoured the sword and Yun Shiwang regained his sanity, Lu Ye learned that his senior brother died at peace, believing the starry sky was safe.

• Huang Shiniang used the Path of Space to strip the Heavenly Pivot Sword’s power from Lu Ye’s wounds and warned that Blood Calamity might return with allies.
• Ba Qiu and Yun Shiwang fought grievously in the Void as Blood Calamity approached from a distant location and other observers waited for an opening.
• Shang devoured the Heavenly Pivot Sword, shattering its Supreme Treasure form, and Ba Qiu stopped his killing blow when Yun Shiwang began to regain his senses.
• Lu Ye rushed to Yun Shiwang, who recognized him as Junior Brother Lu, and supported him as he sat down.
• Lu Ye told Yun Shiwang that the starry sky was safe, and Yun Shiwang expressed relief before collapsing into dust.

After Yun Shiwang died, five Top Ten City Lords confronted Ba Qiu and the Phoenix Lord, and a battle erupted around One Man City. Lu Ye moved Yuan Xi to the Hehe Realm, leaving her to return to her city while he watched the conflict from afar.

• Lu Ye bowed farewell to Yun Shiwang after the Sword Slave regained a trace of awareness and vanished.
• Ba Qiu called out the five City Lords who had gathered to kill him, and Yuan Xi identified Blood Calamity, Hongtu, Zong Shenliang, Xuan Wuzong, and Gu Mingyue.
• The Phoenix Lord rejected Blood Calamity and Zong Shenliang’s calls to withdraw and threatened Gu Mingyue.
• Blood Calamity launched a Blood Sea attack, the other City Lords joined the fight, and the Phoenix Lord charged at Gu Mingyue.
• Lu Ye took Yuan Xi to Ba Qiu’s throne and touched One Man City’s Uniting Dao Pearl, transporting them to the Hehe Realm.
• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi that Ba Qiu was a fellow Human Race member who intended to look after him, then urged her to return to her city.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi returned to their city as Ba Qiu fought Blood Calamity and three other City Lords, while the Phoenix Lord battled Gu Mingyue. With Ba Qiu under pressure and Yuan Xi City at risk, Yuan Xi ordered the city to retreat, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Lu Ye gave You Die the Li Shuai Insect Mother's soul core, and she was delighted by the valuable gift.
• Yuan Xi confirmed that her people had returned safely, and she and Lu Ye watched the distant battle from their city.
• The Blood Sea collapsed, revealing Ba Qiu fighting four powerful opponents while defending One Man City and its Uniting Dao Pearl.
• Blood Calamity used the Azure Dome Mirror to reflect Ba Qiu's attacks, helping the four attackers gain the upper hand.
• The Phoenix Lord struck Gu Mingyue and destroyed her body, but Gu Mingyue survived through her Water Spirit Race abilities.
• You Die guided Yuan Xi City away from the battlefield while Lu Ye reluctantly left without learning who would win.

Blood Calamity’s Blood Sea pursued Yuan Xi City to seize Lu Ye, trapping the city under attack from more than a hundred Uniting Dao cultivators. Lu Ye and Yuan Xi charged out to fight, while Ni Chiluan watched from hiding; the Blood Race attackers suddenly faltered, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Yuan Xi spotted a Blood Sea approaching Yuan Xi City, and Lu Ye realized Blood Calamity had tracked him through the Soul Crystal left in his Soul Sea.
• The Blood Sea caught and enveloped Yuan Xi City, and more than a hundred Uniting Dao cultivators attacked its Protective Grand Array.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea into the enemy’s, and Yuan Xi prepared to leave the city and strike back.
• Ni Chiluan and Chang Ming watched from concealment as Yuan Xi and Lu Ye charged into the Blood Sea, with Yuan Xi targeting Blood Calamity’s clone.
• More than ten attackers converged on Yuan Xi, but the Blood Race Uniting Dao cultivators suddenly fell into disarray and their Dao Power calmed.

Yuan Xi fought to defend her city while Lu Ye guided her and supplied her with power, but the siege pushed both her and the city's defenses to the brink. Lian fused fragments into the Uniting Dao Pearl, advancing Yuan Xi City to the Cosmos-tier and changing the battle's balance.

• Lu Ye's bloodline suppression weakened the Blood Race attackers, allowing Yuan Xi to break through the encirclement and kill many Uniting Dao cultivators.
• The remaining attackers battered Yuan Xi City while Blood Calamity prevented it from escaping the Blood Sea, forcing Yuan Xi to choose between abandoning the city and risking its destruction.
• Lu Ye urged Yuan Xi to order the city's cultivators to retreat, but Yuan Xi instead called on Lian to act.
• Lian fused Uniting Dao Pearl fragments into the city's pearl, advancing Yuan Xi City to the Cosmos-tier and gaining City Lord-level strength.
• Lian left Fu Wei to continue fusing fragments and charged into battle, while Blood Calamity realized the city's advancement had strengthened its defenses and Yuan Xi.
• Ni Chiluan celebrated because Yuan Xi City had advanced, fulfilling Yuan Xi's agreement with her.

Yuan Xi City’s advance to Cosmos-tier let its Vice City Lords draw on the Uniting Dao Pearl’s enormous reserves, turning the tide against Blood Calamity’s forces. Blood Calamity’s Clone ordered a retreat, while Yuan Xi stopped pursuing after failing to catch him.

• Ni Chiluan chose to keep watching rather than reveal herself to Yuan Xi, while Chang Ming congratulated her on Yuan Xi City’s advancement.
• Lian emerged from Yuan Xi City and used the Uniting Dao Pearl’s enhancement to guard the city as her strength rapidly increased.
• You Die received the Pearl’s enhancement while operating the Protective Grand Array, and used the Soul Core she had obtained to withstand the strain.
• A Third Vice City Lord joined the battle as Yuan Xi City’s defenses strengthened, allowing its fighters to overwhelm the enemy forces.
• Blood Calamity’s Clone ordered the surviving Insect and Blood Race cultivators to retreat after realizing the battle was lost.
• Yuan Xi pursued the retreating enemies and killed several, then stopped after failing to locate Blood Calamity’s Clone in the Blood Sea.

Lu Ye watched Blood Calamity and three other City Lords besiege the injured Ba Qiu, who defended One Man City alone. A meteorite Lu Ye had disturbed revealed Fu Wei’s ancestor, Baxia, whose arrival restored One Man City’s two overlords and left the attackers facing a much harder fight.

• Lu Ye collected Star Abyss Coins and spoils from the battlefield around Yuan Xi City while the four City Lords continued fighting Ba Qiu.
• Yuan Xi and Lian explained that Ba Qiu was holding his own despite his injuries, and that the attackers were reluctant to risk their lives to break his defense.
• Zong Shenliang struck a strangely durable meteorite toward One Man City, then joined the others in shattering it when he sensed something was inside.
• Fu Wei recognized the sleeping old man who emerged from the meteorite as his ancestor, and Ba Qiu greeted him as an old acquaintance.
• Lian revealed that the old man was Baxia, Ba Qiu’s former partner and the second overlord of One Man City.

Baxia joined Ba Qiu in battle, using his giant tortoise form and refined stars to shield One Man City and free Ba Qiu to attack. Blood Calamity and the other attackers fled, while Ni Chiluan and Chang Ming revealed themselves near Yuan Xi City; Xuan Wuzong escaped Ba Qiu at great cost.

• Baxia emerged beneath One Man City, carried it on his back, and summoned a sun and other refined stars to strengthen its defenses.
• Ba Qiu began attacking once Baxia had secured the city, prompting Blood Calamity, Zong Shenliang, and Hongtu to flee while Xuan Wuzong stayed behind.
• Blood Calamity turned toward Yuan Xi City but sensed Ni Chiluan and fled; Ni Chiluan and Chang Ming then appeared before Yuan Xi and Lu Ye.
• Gu Mingyue fled from the Phoenix Lord, who pursued her, while Ba Qiu battered Xuan Wuzong and forced him to escape using a costly Secret Technique.

After the battle, Lu Ye learned that Fang needed to devour a Supreme Treasure to advance, then the Phoenix Lord unexpectedly seized him and prepared to take him away. The chapter ended as Ba Qiu acknowledged that he owed the Phoenix Lord one favor and others hurried toward them.

• Xiao Qianchen struck the fleeing Xuan Wuzong with a Sun-Breaking Arrow, badly wounding him, then left as Yuan Xi and Ni Chiluan discussed the powerful figures who had joined the battle.
• Lu Ye escorted Fu Wei to One Man City, where Fu Wei greeted his ancestor Baxia and Baxia examined Lu Ye with knowing interest.
• Ba Qiu told Lu Ye that Fang would need to devour a Supreme Treasure to pass its third hurdle, and suggested Lu Ye search the starry skies for one.
• The Phoenix Lord returned after failing to catch Gu Mingyue, greeted Baxia, then sealed Lu Ye with the Power of Space and grabbed him.
• The Phoenix Lord opened a path with a root of the Primordial Parasol Tree and insisted Ba Qiu owed her one favor as several figures flew toward them.

The Phoenix Lord abducted Lu Ye and left him stranded in a vast darkness, where he assessed the gains from the battle and replenished his Dao Power. Back in the Phoenix Nest, a secluded Phoenix sensed an aura identical to her own and realized Lu Ye had somehow come there.

• The Phoenix Lord took Lu Ye through an Insect Path despite Yuan Xi's attempt to stop her, and Lu Ye told Yuan Xi he would return safely.
• Yuan Xi agreed to honor her arrangement with Ni Chiluan, while Fu Wei returned to One Man City and Ba Qiu told Baxia he intended to take the next step.
• The Phoenix Lord left Lu Ye alone in the darkness, and he concluded she was displaying her authority rather than testing him.
• Lu Ye counted his Star Abyss Coins, Blood Race bloodline growth, and Soul Crystals among his gains, then used Dao Fish to replenish his Dao Power.
• A secluded Phoenix sensed Lu Ye's aura through the space and realized he had somehow arrived at the Phoenix Nest.

Lu Ye used Blood Calamity’s Soul Crystal to improve his Blood Dao and Path of Space, then escaped the Phoenix Lord’s spatial prison with Su Yan’s help. The Phoenix Lord caught them leaving, while the Phoenix elders discussed Lu Ye and began planning for the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.

• Lu Ye exchanged Star Abyss Coins for Sub-Treasures for the Talent Tree and refined Blood Calamity’s Soul Crystal, improving his cultivation insights and detecting that the darkness around him was a spatial technique.
• Lu Ye released Su Yan’s Phoenix Feather, which tore through the darkness and led him to Su Yan.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye’s hand and fled with him as the Phoenix Lord noticed them and angrily scolded her.
• The Phoenix Lord and ten Phoenix Race elders discussed Lu Ye’s role in the Snow Plain conflict and his connection to Su Yan.
• The Phoenix Lord shifted the elders’ discussion to choosing who would attend the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.

Lu Ye visited Su Yan’s Phoenix Nest and learned that each nest contained a Small World where a fallen Phoenix could give rise to another life. As they talked in Su Yan’s private chamber, she asked how he had encountered the Phoenix Lord and thanked him for helping Su Yun obtain the Moon Wheel.

• Su Yan brought Lu Ye to the Primordial Parasol Tree, where two little phoenixes teased them about being husband and wife.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye into her Phoenix Nest and showed him the Small World within, explaining how it nurtured new Phoenix members from the origins of those killed outside.
• Su Yan explained that Blood Drinking City’s lord had once stripped Phoenix members of their bloodlines, preventing their origins from returning to their Small Worlds.
• Lu Ye returned his plume after Su Yan had activated it, then explored her cottage and sat with her in her private chamber.
• Lu Ye recounted how the Phoenix Lord had brought him back after sensing him during the battle with Ba Qiu, and he suggested the two elders had an emotional entanglement.
• Su Yan thanked Lu Ye for helping Su Yun obtain the Moon Wheel.

Lu Ye learned that Su Yan’s Moon Wheel Sub-Treasure could grow into a Supreme Treasure, then faced the Phoenix Lord’s questions about his relationship with Su Yan. The Phoenix Lord accepted him as an External Official and gave him a Space Dao Seed method, while she later contacted the Dragon Sovereign, Yang Fengxian.

• Su Yan showed Lu Ye the Moon Wheel Sub-Treasure and explained that it held a strand of the mother treasure’s origin and might one day become a Supreme Treasure.
• The Phoenix Lord confronted Lu Ye about Su Yan’s missing Origin Blood, and Su Yan explained how the Star Abyss Will had brought them together as Sons of the Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye assured the Phoenix Lord that he cared for Su Yan, and she accepted their relationship so long as he treated Su Yan well.
• The Phoenix Lord warned Lu Ye that Blood Calamity had targeted him, then gave him a Jade Slip containing the Space Dao Seed method for Phoenix Race External Officials.
• Su Yan explained the method’s origins and eligibility requirements, while Lu Ye began examining it and called her Yan’er.
• The Phoenix Lord contacted Yang Fengxian, the Dragon Sovereign, who appeared as a phantom and mocked her as his Junior Sister.

The Phoenix Lord told the Dragon Sovereign that the Star Abyss Will had grown stronger and was trying to be born through the offspring of two Sons of the Star Abyss, prompting him to plan an investigation into the River of Time. Meanwhile, Lu Ye condensed a Space Dao Seed with Su Yan’s help and entered a Phoenix Race training ground to strengthen it.

• The Phoenix Lord warned the Dragon Sovereign that two Sons of the Star Abyss had been affected by the Will, which sought to be born through their offspring.
• The Dragon Sovereign decided to investigate the River of Time during the upcoming Dragon City Grand Ceremony, while the Phoenix Lord wondered whether their ancestors’ long wait would pay off.
• With Su Yan’s guidance, Lu Ye gathered the remaining traces of Phoenix Origin Blood in his body and condensed a fragile Space Dao Seed.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye to a training ground inside the Primordial Parasol Tree after throwing aside Su Yun, who had challenged Lu Ye to a fight.
• Inside an isolated stretch of Void, Lu Ye sensed the Power of Space and began drawing it into his newly formed Dao Seed, carefully limiting how much it absorbed.

Zhu Yin reunited with Su Yan after uniting her Dao, then entered the Primordial Parasol Tree to cultivate the Path of Space. Lu Ye strengthened his Space Dao Seed by refining the surrounding Power of Space, and the tree advanced his training to a more dangerous stage.

• Zhu Yin left the Phoenix Nest’s Central Great Hall after the elder welcomed her back from uniting her Dao.
• Zhu Yin and Su Yan joyfully reunited, talked for more than half a day, and Zhu Yin then went to cultivate in the Void.
• Zhu Yin endured a powerful Space Blade and realized her understanding of the Path of Space had deepened after uniting her Dao.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to refine the Power of Space and rapidly strengthen his Space Dao Seed.
• After Lu Ye absorbed the surrounding Power of Space, the Primordial Parasol Tree sent spatial threads slicing at him, supplying purer energy that the Talent Tree refined for his Dao Seed.

Lu Ye advanced through the Primordial Parasol Tree’s spatial trials until its disturbance trapped him and made him collide with a naked, white-haired Phoenix Race woman. As they fell into a bottomless abyss, they managed to reach toward each other, but their fate remained uncertain.

• Lu Ye endured increasingly powerful spatial attacks, refining their Power of Space to strengthen his Dao Seed.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree remembered its ancient duty to await someone who would set a malformed universe right, while struggling against an eroding force that caused its nightmares.
• The Phoenix Lord and other Phoenix Race members tried to awaken the violently shaking tree, but their calls failed and the Phoenix Lord realized Lu Ye and other outsiders were in danger.
• Lu Ye found that the exit had vanished and that the Space Blades had grown overwhelming as the Void twisted and filled with dense Power of Space.
• Lu Ye encountered a naked, white-haired woman when their spaces overlapped, and both used their spatial abilities to approach each other as they fell into an abyss.