Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye waited at the entrance to the nineteenth floor with a Uniting Dao Clone, preparing to use its Blood Explosion Art against the cultivators gathered above. Green Mantis arrived, dismissed reports that Lu Ye had advanced, and led the others down to confront him.

• Eight-tailed followed Lu Ye and discovered that he had stopped at the entrance with a Uniting Dao Clone beside him.
• Lu Ye's Clone began charging the Blood Explosion Art and then vanished as it stepped toward the floor above.
• Green Mantis and Xue Ni arrived at the entrance and learned that Lu Ye had slaughtered cultivators on the floor below.
• Green Mantis rejected the claim that Lu Ye had reached the Uniting Dao Realm and ordered the gathered cultivators to follow him down and kill Lu Ye.

Lu Ye used a Talent Tree Clone’s Blood Explosion Art to break into a gathering of Dao Integration cultivators, then exploited their disorientation with the Power of Time and Sequence. He left Green Mantis badly shaken by the damage Lu Ye’s saber inflicted on his life-bound Dao Soldier.

• Green Mantis attacked Lu Ye’s Blood Explosion Clone, but his Dao intent could not suppress its power, and the explosion killed several cultivators and injured many others.
• Lu Ye charged into the gathering after the explosion and used Time Like a Crevice to slow the cultivators around him.
• Lu Ye killed more than ten injured Dao Integration cultivators before Green Mantis recovered and attacked him with four sabers.
• Lu Ye blocked Green Mantis’s attack but was severely injured, while Green Mantis discovered that all four blades of his life-bound Dao Soldier had cracked.

Lu Ye pursued Xue Ni through the maze and destroyed his Dao Body, then used the Space Teleportation Technique to reach Green Mantis's injured subordinates. Green Mantis rushed back to stop him, while Eight-tailed arrived to find the aftermath of Lu Ye's attack.

• Green Mantis pursued Lu Ye as Lu Ye cut through the Hedao cultivators and chased Xue Ni.
• Xue Ni used the Blood Escape Art and hid in a Blood River, but Lu Ye found him and cut down his Dao Body.
• Lu Ye collected Xue Ni's Dao Blood and gained a slight increase in Sacred Nature.
• Green Mantis charged at Lu Ye, but Lu Ye teleported to the level entrance where Green Mantis's injured subordinates had gathered.
• Green Mantis realized Lu Ye had targeted his divided forces and hurried back, while Eight-tailed arrived to find more than ten Hedao cultivators dead.

Lu Ye repeatedly used Treasure Blood to reach Eight-tailed and unleash Clone explosions, slaughtering the Uniting Dao cultivators gathered against him. As Green Mantis pursued him, Luan Li spread word that Lu Ye was a Phoenix Race External Official, giving the approaching cultivators reason to hesitate.

• Eight-tailed was surrounded by hostile Uniting Dao cultivators, but Lu Ye appeared through the Treasure Blood and killed several before retreating with her to the next level.
• Lu Ye sent a newly formed Clone back to the entrance, where it exploded and killed seven or eight cultivators as Green Mantis fled the blast.
• Lu Ye charged into the chaos and resumed killing, while Green Mantis moved in to capture him.
• On the twenty-second level, Luan Li told a group of cultivators that Lu Ye might be a Phoenix Race External Official and practiced the Path of Space, prompting them to reconsider pursuing him.

Su Yan and her allies hurried to Level Eighteen after learning that Lu Ye was a Phoenix Race External Official, only to discover that he had advanced to Uniting Dao and was holding his own against Green Mantis. The chapter left Green Mantis struggling to harm Lu Ye because Lu Ye’s three-layer Son of the Star Abyss blessing weakened his attacks.

• Luan Li warned the Uniting Dao cultivators that Lu Ye might be a Phoenix Race External Official, prompting several of them to abandon the hunt and retreat.
• Su Yan, Zhu Yin, Su Yun, and Xuan Wuji encountered the retreating cultivators and learned that Lu Ye had killed dozens of Uniting Dao cultivators while repeatedly escaping clashes with Green Mantis.
• Su Yan’s group descended to Level Eighteen, where Luan Li reported that Lu Ye was fighting Green Mantis and picking off isolated enemies.
• Su Yan sensed Lu Ye’s sharp Dao intent and realized he had advanced to Uniting Dao inside the Tower of Time.
• Green Mantis’s attack weakened when Lu Ye’s three-layer Son of the Star Abyss blessing suppressed the external power Green Mantis had drawn upon, forcing Green Mantis to withdraw his strike.

Lu Ye held off Green Mantis until Su Yan and the other Dragon and Phoenix Race members arrived with reinforcements, forcing Green Mantis to redirect his forces and fight Xuan Wuji. As the battle spread across the floor, Xue Ni tried to capture Zhu Yin, but Lu Ye intervened and left him facing a new threat.

• Lu Ye continued evading Green Mantis and killing his followers, while Green Mantis learned that Su Yan, Su Yun, and Zhu Yin had arrived with reinforcements.
• Green Mantis abandoned his pursuit of Lu Ye and led his remaining followers toward the Dragon and Phoenix Races, while Xuan Wuji engaged him in battle.
• Lu Ye sensed Su Yan nearby and joined the fighting, killing enemies as the rival forces clashed across the floor.
• Xue Ni chose to target Zhu Yin and approached her in the form of a blood snake while she fought a Body Cultivator.
• Lu Ye's Sacred Nature froze Xue Ni long enough for Zhu Yin to escape with the Power of Space, and Lu Ye suddenly appeared beside Xue Ni from the Void.

Lu Ye used his Clone to lure Xue Ni into a trap and killed him before his Blood Explosion Art could erupt. Green Mantis ordered a retreat, but Lu Ye’s counterattack devastated his forces, leaving the survivors facing a woman blocking the entrance to the seventeenth floor.

• Lu Ye revealed himself beside his Clone and intercepted Xue Ni as Xue Ni scattered into blood snakes to escape.
• Xue Ni activated the Blood Explosion Art, but Lu Ye’s suppression disrupted his power, shattered his Dao Soldier, and killed him.
• After Xue Ni’s death, Green Mantis ordered his forces to retreat toward the seventeenth floor.
• Lu Ye broke free to attack, killing more than a dozen He Dao cultivators as Green Mantis’s force dwindled to fewer than thirty.
• Green Mantis and the surviving cultivators reached the entrance to the seventeenth floor and found a woman standing in their way.

Lu Ye used Eight-tailed’s Treasure Blood to intercept Green Mantis, then let him escape while killing the He Dao cultivators left behind. Xuan Wuji and Su Yan arrived to support him, and Lu Ye learned that Luan Li had helped keep more enemies from joining the pursuit.

• Eight-tailed summoned Lu Ye with a drop of Treasure Blood just as Green Mantis and his followers attacked her.
• Lu Ye’s Clone unleashed the Blood Explosion Art, and Green Mantis broke through the blast after sacrificing one of his war sabers to wound Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye let Green Mantis flee to the next level and killed seven or eight He Dao cultivators who had stayed behind.
• Xuan Wuji arrived and was astonished by the sharpness of Lu Ye’s Dao Intent, while Su Yan and Su Yun checked on and praised Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye thanked Luan Li for persuading other He Dao cultivators to withdraw, and Luan Li said he had acted on Su Yan’s orders.

Lu Ye and Su Yan led a force of Uniting Dao experts down the Tower of Time to hunt Green Mantis, while Lu Ye invited Eight-tailed to join them on Level Ninety-Nine. On the tenth level, they defeated Green Mantis’s group, and Lu Ye killed Green Mantis with a single saber strike.

• Su Yan ordered the group to rest while Lu Ye recovered, then welcomed Eight-tailed and thanked her for helping him.
• Lu Ye invited Eight-tailed to accompany them to Level Ninety-Nine and promised to help her deal with her enemies.
• After half an hour, Xuan Wuji led the Uniting Dao experts down through the levels in pursuit of Green Mantis’s group.
• On the tenth level, Xuan Wuji and the others attacked Green Mantis’s incomplete Formation and overwhelmed his forces.
• Lu Ye used the Power of Time and Sequence to evade Green Mantis’s desperate attack, then cut his throat and killed him.

Lu Ye reached Level Ninety-Nine with Su Yan and began cultivating while the Talent Tree consumed Sub-Treasures. He studied the Small World Secret Technique and learned that it could help cultivators resist the Star Abyss will, but only those with both the Power of Space and the Power of Time and Sequence could cultivate it.

• Xuan Wuji and the other Uniting Dao cultivators departed after Green Mantis's death, and Xuan Wuji agreed to exchange insights with Lu Ye once he reached Level Ninety-Nine.
• Lu Ye, Su Yan, Su Yun, Zhu Yin, and Eight-tailed climbed to Level Ninety-Nine, where Su Yun and Zhu Yin went their separate ways to cultivate.
• Su Yan led Lu Ye to her cultivation cavity, and Lu Ye found a nearby place for Eight-tailed before choosing a cavity of his own.
• Lu Ye exchanged Star Abyss Coins for Sub-Treasures and had the Talent Tree devour them as he cultivated on Level Ninety-Nine.
• Lu Ye studied the Small World Secret Technique and realized it could counter the Star Abyss will's control over borrowed power, but it required both the Power of Space and the Power of Time and Sequence.

Lu Ye began cultivating the Small World Secret Technique by using the Little Flower Realm as the foundation for an Inner Realm, but struggled to control the Power of Time and Sequence. After Zhu Yin guided him for three years, he learned enough to construct two World Pillars and stabilize the Little Flower Realm.

• Lu Ye cleared the Little Flower Realm of its stored items and tried to harmonize the Power of Time and Sequence with the Power of Space, but repeated attempts failed.
• After a month of failure, Lu Ye sought Zhu Yin's guidance on controlling the Power of Time and Sequence.
• Zhu Yin demonstrated the power to Lu Ye, and he spent three years improving his control under her guidance.
• Lu Ye returned to his cave hollow and resumed cultivating the Small World Secret Technique, learning from each failed attempt.
• Lu Ye successfully constructed the first World Pillar in the Little Flower Realm, making it more stable and strengthening its world aura.
• Lu Ye constructed a second World Pillar after another half month of attempts.

After erecting nine World Pillars, Lu Ye began engraving Dao Patterns in the Little Flower Realm as part of the Small World Secret Technique. He reached the first level’s limit with a hundred Dao Patterns, and further progress required a treasure to expand the realm.

• Lu Ye completed nine World Pillars in the Little Flower Realm, stabilizing it for the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye engraved his first Dao Pattern and found that it increased his foundational strength, though it cost nearly ten thousand units of Dao Power.
• Lu Ye failed while engraving a second Dao Pattern, but the World Pillars kept the Little Flower Realm stable and the Talent Tree reclaimed the scattered Dao Power.
• Lu Ye continued engraving Dao Patterns, confirming that failures in the Little Flower Realm did not harm him and that the process had a high success rate.
• After ten days, Lu Ye reached the first level’s limit and discovered that the Little Flower Realm held a hundred Dao Patterns, increasing his strength by a hundred and sixty units of Dao Power with external amplification.
• Lu Ye realized that advancing to the second level required a treasure to expand the Little Flower Realm, which he did not have.

After more than a century of cultivation inside the Tower of Time, Lu Ye and his companions were expelled when it closed. A glimpse of the River of Time and Sequence deepened Lu Ye’s command of its power, but a brightening speck left him frozen as the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord arrived to investigate.

• Lu Ye failed repeatedly to engrave Dao Patterns on his Dao Body, eventually adding only fifty after more than a hundred years in the Tower of Time.
• Su Yan told Lu Ye the Tower of Time was about to close, and Zhu Yin, Su Yun, and Eight-tailed gathered with them.
• Zhu Yin explained that the Tower’s departure would briefly reveal the River of Time and Sequence, and the cultivators were ejected after its nine warning tremors.
• Lu Ye saw the River of Time and Sequence and gained a deeper command of its power, but froze when one speck of starlight brightened.
• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord arrived after the river vanished and the Dragon Sovereign noticed Lu Ye’s strange stillness.

After glimpsing a troubling possible future in the River of Time and Sequence, Lu Ye learned that Blood Calamity had targeted him in the Tower of Time. The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord resolved to retaliate discreetly and reward Lu Ye with access to the Dragon Pool.

• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord found Lu Ye entranced after he saw a Time-Space Fragment, and Lu Ye confirmed that it showed the future.
• The Dragon Sovereign warned Lu Ye not to tell anyone what he had seen because the future could still change.
• Zhu Yin reported that Blood Calamity had sent Green Mantis, Xue Ni, and other Uniting Dao cultivators to capture Lu Ye in the Tower of Time, but Lu Ye and his allies defeated them.
• The Dragon Sovereign threatened war against Blood Drinking City, but the Phoenix Lord warned that open conflict could endanger Lu Ye and spread across the Inner Realm.
• The Phoenix Lord proposed destroying one of Blood Drinking City's Cosmos-tier Cities and opening the Dragon Pool for Lu Ye, and the Dragon Sovereign agreed.

Lu Ye collected Sub-Treasures from Dragon City and Dao Fish from Qin Feng, then retrieved his Sub-Treasure from the Battle Arena. He visited One Man City to see Shang and found Ba Qiu recovering from injuries, where he stayed as a voice asked him for wine.

• Zhu Yin delivered Lu Ye twelve Sub-Treasures from Dragon Sovereign and said Dragon City would provide Uniting Dao Pearl fragments in a few days.
• Lu Ye devoured the mysteries in the Sub-Treasures, entered the Hehe Realm, and retrieved the Sub-Treasure he had left with Gong Mao.
• Qin Feng congratulated Lu Ye on advancing to Uniting Dao and gave him a Storage Ring filled with about a million Dao Fish.
• Lu Ye went to One Man City with Fang and found Ba Qiu injured on the throne while Baxia carried the ruined city.
• Lu Ye placed the Crag Mountain Saber beside Shang and waited quietly until someone asked him for wine.

After getting drunk with Ba Qiu, Lu Ye discovered that refining a Uniting Dao Pearl fragment with the Talent Tree created a tiny pearl inside his Little Flower Realm. The Spirit of the Uniting Dao Pearl then spoke to him, confirming the source of the ability he had gained in the Hehe Realm.

• Lu Ye drank jar after jar with Ba Qiu until he lost consciousness, then woke on Su Yan's couch with no memory of how he had returned.
• Lu Ye learned from Fang that he and Ba Qiu had not spoken during their drinking bout, though Ba Qiu had laughed after drinking him under.
• Lu Ye examined the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments Phoenix Lord had sent him and used the Talent Tree to refine one.
• The refined fragment formed a tiny, ungraded Uniting Dao Pearl at the center of Lu Ye's Little Flower Realm.
• A surge of light entered the tiny pearl, and the Spirit of the Uniting Dao Pearl spoke to Lu Ye, confirming his suspicion.

The Spirit of the Uniting Dao Pearl told Lu Ye that it had shattered itself to escape a corrosive will and had waited for him because a mighty cultivator had guided it to do so. It urged him to grow stronger and collect its fragments, while Lu Ye’s sense of being drawn toward an unknown place grew clearer.

• The Spirit of the Uniting Dao Pearl explained that a mighty cultivator had ordered it to shatter itself and hide in the Hehe Realm until Lu Ye arrived.
• The Spirit said it feared the pervasive, corrosive will and had stayed dormant inside Lu Ye until it sensed the protection of his Small World.
• The Spirit warned Lu Ye that he would eventually be targeted and urged him to grow stronger and gather its fragments so he could one day restore the Uniting Dao Pearl.
• The Spirit fell asleep, and Lu Ye withdrew his consciousness with a growing sense that an unseen force was guiding him toward a destination.
• Lu Ye refined all his gathered fragments with the Talent Tree, enlarging the Uniting Dao Pearl in the Little Flower Realm to a Yellow-tier pearl.

Lu Ye completed the second layer of the Small World Secret Technique, expanding the Little Flower Realm and increasing his foundational strength by two hundred units. He emerged from cultivation to learn that the Dragon Sovereign had delayed opening the Dragon Pool until he was ready, and it would open in three days.

• Lu Ye used the Yellow-tier Uniting Dao Pearl to expand the Little Flower Realm, then built twenty-seven World Pillars for the second layer of the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye inscribed Dao Patterns into the Small World until the second layer was complete, raising its total to three hundred and his foundational strength by two hundred units.
• Lu Ye considered his new strength, Yuan Xi City’s boost, and the growing sensation urging him to investigate its source.
• Lu Ye asked Zhu Yin about the Dragon Pool and learned that the Dragon Sovereign had postponed its opening while Lu Ye cultivated.
• Zhu Yin returned with word that the Dragon Pool would open in three days and that the Dragon Sovereign wanted them to prepare.

Lu Ye entered the Dragon Pool with Su Yan, Su Yun, and Zhu Yin to strengthen his foundation, and the Talent Tree let him absorb its power far faster than ordinary cultivation. After a month, he had greatly increased his strength but still had not developed a Dragon Vein; meanwhile, the Dragon Sovereign discovered that the Dragon Pool’s power was being depleted far sooner than expected.

• The Dragon Sovereign advised Lu Ye to cultivate carefully in the Dragon Pool, and Zhu Yin led him and the others into its mist.
• Lu Ye first cultivated without using the Talent Tree, then activated it and rapidly absorbed the Dragon Pool’s power to strengthen his body and Divine Soul.
• Lu Ye sank deeper as his foundation improved, passing Su Yun after five days, Su Yan several days later, and Zhu Yin after a month.
• Lu Ye found no sign of a Dragon Vein forming, despite his extensive cultivation in the Dragon Pool.
• A Dragon Race elder reported that the Dragon Pool’s power had become unusually thin, and the Dragon Sovereign confirmed it could be depleted within days rather than sustaining cultivation for twenty years.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin found an untouchable golden crystal stone deep in Dragon Pool, and Lu Ye used the combined power of Time and Space to grasp it. The crystal vanished after releasing a tremendous Dragon's Roar, leaving Zhu Yin shaken and alerting the Dragon Sovereign and the Town Guard Elder.

• Lu Ye sensed his cultivation nearing its limit, stopped, and encountered Zhu Yin searching the depths of Dragon Pool.
• Zhu Yin showed Lu Ye a golden crystal stone that no one in the Dragon Race had ever been able to touch or take away.
• Zhu Yin failed to refine the crystal, and Lu Ye noticed that the Fruit of Time on his Talent Tree was reacting to it.
• Lu Ye combined the powers of Time and Space and successfully grasped the crystal, which immediately vanished.
• A powerful Dragon's Roar shook Dragon Pool, throwing Zhu Yin back and startling the Dragon Sovereign and the Town Guard Elder at the pool's edge.