Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Jinyao escaped the Nameless Land, but Jinyao immediately attacked Fuguang, sending them back into it. As Lu Ye led her out again, Jinyao explained their ancient rivalry and her decision to sever her foundation, while Fuguang was left wondering how both she and Lu Ye could have appeared in the Hehe Realm.

• Lu Ye and Jinyao found an abandoned courtyard in the Hehe Realm, where Fuguang sensed Jinyao and rushed over.
• Jinyao recognized Fuguang as her mortal enemy and instinctively attacked him with the Soul Suppressing Bell, triggering the realm’s banishment and sending her and Lu Ye back to the Nameless Land.
• Lu Ye sensed the guidance of the Uniting Dao Pearl and led Jinyao toward a way out, while she confirmed that Fuguang was real and had gained an endless lifespan from a Spring of Life.
• Jinyao told Lu Ye that she and Fuguang had sworn to kill each other, but that her banishment had been her own choice after she severed her foundation to avoid becoming a puppet.
• Jinyao explained that she had survived in the Nameless Land by turning her Soul Body into the Spirit of the Soul Suppressing Bell, while Lu Ye connected her fate to Ba Qiu’s sacrifice and the threat posed by the Abyss.
• Lu Ye wondered why Fuguang had remained hidden in the Hehe Realm for countless years despite once being nearly as strong as Jinyao.

Lu Ye returned from the Nameless Land, reunited with Jinyao, and reassured Qin Feng and Lian that he was safe. Fuguang fled the Hehe Realm but was attacked by a masked figure marked with the character "Four," while Lu Ye found Yuan Xi City near Variegated amid a battle against a Desolate-tier City.

• Jinyao explained that Fuguang had hidden in the Hehe Realm to escape the Star Abyss's corrupting aura, and Fuguang fled when Lu Ye and Jinyao appeared before him.
• Lu Ye visited Qin Feng at the Battle Arena and told him he had escaped the Nameless Land.
• Fuguang reached a hidden Earth-tier Uniting Dao City, where a masked figure marked with the character "Four" struck him down before black chains dragged the attacker away.
• Lu Ye changed his appearance, visited Lian at the Golden Stamen Tower, and returned to Yuan Xi City.
• You Die told Lu Ye that Yuan Xi City had traveled with Dragon City and Phoenix Nest to Senluo City's territory, where Yuan Xi and the others were attacking a nearby Desolate-tier City.

Lu Ye joined Yuan Xi’s forces in attacking Senluo City’s outlying defenses, then hurried to aid the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord in their assault on the city. He arrived to find them facing Hongtu, Xuan Wuzong, and Gu Mingyue, whose threat to attack Sacred Dragon City had stalled the siege.

• Lu Ye helped Yuan Xi, Su Yan, and Zhu Yin break a Desolate-tier City’s defenses and drove its occupants away.
• Yuan Xi learned that Lu Ye had escaped banishment, then told him the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord were attacking Senluo City.
• Lu Ye set off for Senluo City and sensed the Dragon Sovereign, Phoenix Lord, Xuan Wuzong, Gu Mingyue, and Hongtu confronting one another.
• Hongtu threatened to send troops against Sacred Dragon City if the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord continued their attack.
• The Dragon Sovereign recognized that Hongtu’s threat could force him to abandon the siege and return to defend Sacred Dragon City.

Lu Ye returned from the Nameless Land and disrupted the battle between the Dragon Sovereign, Phoenix Lord, Hongtu, and Xuan Wuzong. As Xuan Wuzong moved to confront him, he struck at Lu Ye’s vulnerable divine soul, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• The Dragon Sovereign stunned Hongtu with a dragon roar and attacked while the Phoenix Lord engaged Gu Mingyue.
• Luo Sen led Senluo City’s Vice City Lords toward the battle, but Lu Ye wounded them and warned them to stay inside the city.
• Lu Ye joined the battlefield, prompting Xuan Wuzong to withdraw and order troops mobilized to attack Dragon City.
• Hongtu struggled to defend himself against the Dragon Sovereign after Xuan Wuzong left.
• Xuan Wuzong met Lu Ye and used a secret technique to assault his divine soul, visibly staggering him.

Lu Ye fought Xuan Wuzong and revealed that Fang could devour the mysteries of Supreme Treasures, then used Ba Qiu’s power to grievously wound him. Xuan Wuzong escaped, forcing Hongtu and Gu Mingyue to flee as well, and Lu Ye returned to Senluo City.

• Jinyao used the Soul Suppressing Bell to destroy Xuan Wuzong’s Soul Swords, while Lu Ye reflected his sword attack with the Azure Dome Mirror and counterattacked.
• Lu Ye and Xuan Wuzong fought at close quarters, and Xuan Wuzong noticed that his Thunder Marsh Sword had lost power.
• Xuan Wuzong recognized Lu Ye’s saber as a Weapon Race, and Lu Ye’s next slash gravely wounded and poisoned him while inflicting Liao, Shang, and Ba Qiu’s Sealing Power.
• Xuan Wuzong transformed into Lightning and escaped the Starry Sky Chessboard’s blockade, then warned Hongtu and Gu Mingyue to retreat.
• Hongtu and Gu Mingyue fled from the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord, who returned to Senluo City before Lu Ye came back.

Lu Ye forced Luo Sen to lower Senluo City's Protective Grand Array by eroding it with the Myriad Poison Bead's power and triggering poison in the wounded Vice City Lords. The city fell into chaos as its cultivators fled to the Hehe Realm, while the Dragon Sovereign rushed to protect the Uniting Dao Pearl.

• The Dragon Sovereign and the Phoenix Lord learned that Lu Ye had killed Zong Shenliang and joined him outside Senluo City.
• Lu Ye demanded that Luo Sen open the array, then struck it with the Crag Mountain Saber and began corroding its defenses.
• Lu Ye triggered the hidden poison in Luo Sen and the other wounded Vice City Lords, leaving them unable to stabilize the array.
• Luo Sen fled to the Central Great Hall and opened Senluo City's Protective Grand Array before escaping into the Hehe Realm.
• The Vice City Lords and countless cultivators rushed to flee as Senluo City fell, and the Dragon Sovereign hurried to the Uniting Dao Pearl to prevent its destruction.

After Senluo City fell, Lu Ye learned that a True Saint was ascending and rushed with the Primordial Parasol Tree’s help to investigate. He and Jinyao identified Fuguang as the one breaking through, leaving Lu Ye to confront the reason for his sudden ascent.

• Lu Ye shattered Senluo City’s Uniting Dao Pearl and gathered its fragments, while the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord sensed the Star Abyss trembling.
• The Phoenix Lord recognized the signs of a True Saint’s breakthrough, and Lu Ye hurried to the Phoenix Nest to ask the Primordial Parasol Tree to send him toward its source.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree opened a passage for Lu Ye, then exhausted himself and went to sleep before the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord arrived.
• Lu Ye reached the source of the disturbance and sensed a powerful tide of Dao Power converging there.
• Jinyao appeared beside Lu Ye and identified Fuguang as the one ascending to True Saint, while Lu Ye wondered why Fuguang had begun breaking through immediately after leaving the Hehe Realm.

Lu Ye tried to stop Fuguang from ascending after realizing the Star Abyss had chosen him to become a True Saint. A masked attacker wounded Lu Ye, and after recovering, he learned that Fuguang had ascended and disappeared.

• Lu Ye concluded that the Star Abyss's erosion had taken over Fuguang and that its instinct was forcing him to ascend.
• Lu Ye attacked Fuguang with the Crag Mountain Saber, then used the Unfettered Army Stabilizing Banner to intensify his assault against Fuguang's natural defenses.
• Fuguang's gaze revealed a glimpse of the Abyss and struck Lu Ye's Soul Sea, but Lu Ye continued attacking until a masked figure marked "Two" appeared behind him and severely wounded him.
• Lu Ye lost consciousness as Jinyao tried to stabilize his Soul Sea, and the Crag Mountain Saber returned to guard him.
• After Lu Ye burned away the lingering Dao intent and began to recover, Jinyao told him that a pitch-black chain had bound Fuguang before he vanished.
• Lu Ye realized that Fuguang had ascended to become a True Saint.

After Fuguang became a True Saint and was dragged into the Origin Realm, the Nine Saints began awakening the Abyss’s will as the Origin Realm started merging with the Star Abyss. Lu Ye warned the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord of the coming crisis, then stayed at the Phoenix Nest to strengthen himself and cleanse the Primordial Parasol Tree.

• Lu Ye confirmed to Jinyao that the masked figure who stopped him was Second Saint, while Fuguang had been taken into the Origin Realm.
• At Abyss Island, the Nine Saints gathered around the pillars, and the Abyss’s will began to awaken as Origin Realm Half-Saints sensed the change.
• Lu Ye and Jinyao saw the Origin Realm overlapping with the Star Abyss, and Lu Ye recognized that the realms were beginning to merge.
• Lu Ye told the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord that Fuguang had become a True Saint and that the Abyss’s will would soon awaken; he also warned them that Half-Saints could become stronger with Uniting Dao Cities.
• Lu Ye contacted Zhu Yin, remained at the Phoenix Nest, and began cleansing the Primordial Parasol Tree while cultivating his Small World Secret Technique and nurturing Fang.
• Lu Ye repeatedly replenished his dwindling Dao force by refining Dao Fish, and the Dragon Sovereign sent him a large batch from Dragon City.

Lu Ye helped four Supreme Treasures, including the Ghost Sedan, ease the corrosive power threatening their consciousness in exchange for some of their Laws. After they left, Primordial Parasol Tree revealed that the Ghost Sedan had left Lu Ye a Supreme Treasure as compensation, though he would have to retrieve it himself.

• Primordial Parasol Tree asked Lu Ye to help its old friends, who turned out to be the Supreme Treasures Ghost Sedan and three others.
• Lu Ye agreed to treat the Supreme Treasures and told them that the process would consume some of their Laws without damaging their foundations.
• The Ghost Sedan went first, and Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to burn away enough corrosive power to protect its consciousness for at least a thousand years.
• Lu Ye treated the other three Supreme Treasures, easing their corruption and gaining a small amount of their Law power.
• The four Supreme Treasures thanked Lu Ye and departed, while Primordial Parasol Tree told him the Ghost Sedan had left him a Supreme Treasure to retrieve.

The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord told Lu Ye that their shackles had loosened and asked him to remove the erosive power from their bodies before they entered seclusion. When Lu Ye’s Clone found a hidden Supreme Treasure sword, Abyss killed it; Lu Ye retrieved the sword’s power and fed it to the Soul Suppressing Bell to prepare for Abyss’s awakening.

• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord revealed that the Origin Realm’s fusion seemed to have loosened their shackles, giving them a chance to advance beyond Uniting Dao Peak.
• Lu Ye removed the erosive power from both of them, and they departed to prepare for seclusion while he agreed to guard Dragon City and the Phoenix Nest.
• Lu Ye’s Talent Tree Clone found a dull Supreme Treasure sword in a dangerous wonder, but a sudden Divine Soul impact knocked it unconscious and severed Lu Ye’s connection to it.
• Lu Ye returned to the wonder with Jinyao protecting his Divine Soul and sensed Saint Si’s aura, concluding that Abyss had killed the Clone through its descending consciousness.
• Lu Ye devoured the sword’s mystery without another attack and sent its nourishment into the Soul Suppressing Bell so it could better withstand Abyss’s consciousness.

Lu Ye returned to the Phoenix Nest after strengthening the Soul Suppressing Bell and asked the Primordial Parasol Tree to seek the Ghost Sedan’s help in locating other Supreme Treasures. A Dragon Scroll message drew him to the Origin Realm, where he learned that Si Shengya had escaped badly injured after Abyss awakened and turned against the Human Race.

• Jinyao told Lu Ye that the Soul Suppressing Bell had grown stronger, and Lu Ye returned to the Phoenix Nest through a spatial mark.
• Lu Ye asked the Primordial Parasol Tree to contact the Ghost Sedan about other Supreme Treasures, and the tree warned that the Ghost Sedan might refuse to reveal their locations.
• Yang Zhao told Lu Ye that an injured Human Race Half-Saint had rushed out of the Origin Realm, and Lu Ye suspected it was Si Shengya.
• Lu Ye tracked the fugitive to a ruined Dead Star and found Si Shengya, whose body was damaged and burdened by clashing Dao intents.
• Si Shengya told Lu Ye that someone had advanced to True Saint, Abyss’s consciousness had begun to awaken, and Abyss wanted to exterminate the Human Race.

Lu Ye and Si Shengya were ambushed by Saint Wu, and Lu Ye discovered that Si Shengya’s Sky-Shattering Saber had been corrupted into one of Abyss’s watchers. After cleansing the saber, Lu Ye learned that Si Shengya could resist the Origin Realm’s weakening restraint and decided to take him somewhere to recover.

• Lu Ye learned how Si Shengya had escaped the Origin Realm, then sensed danger as Saint Wu appeared and struck him from behind.
• Si Shengya dragged the badly wounded Lu Ye from the rubble, and Lu Ye explained that Saint Wu had targeted him rather than Si Shengya.
• Lu Ye noticed that the Sky-Shattering Saber had become an Abyss puppet and used the Talent Tree to cleanse it before returning it to Si Shengya.
• Si Shengya explained that he could remain in the Star Abyss by resisting the Origin Realm’s faint chain-like restraint.
• Lu Ye offered to take Si Shengya to the Hehe Realm to recover from his injuries.

Lu Ye brought Si Shengya into the Hehe Realm, where Qin Feng considered advancing to half-saint and asked about help for two friends troubled by corrosive force. Meanwhile, five Origin Realm half-saints entered the Inner Realm, and Blood Calamity discovered Blood Drinking City had fallen before planning to gather Uniting Dao Pearl Core Fragments.

• Lu Ye brought Si Shengya to the Hehe Realm and confirmed that its boundary blocked the Origin Realm's restrictive force.
• Qin Feng told Lu Ye he felt ready to advance to half-saint, and Lu Ye offered to help with corrosive force affecting Qin Feng's two friends.
• Lu Ye returned to the Phoenix Nest while Qin Feng went to speak with his friends.
• Five Origin Realm half-saints emerged into the Inner Realm, but a sixth failed to pass through the shattered opening.
• Blood Calamity realized Blood Drinking City's Uniting Dao Pearl had been destroyed and restrained his urge to attack the Dragon and Phoenix Races.
• Blood Calamity proposed helping the other half-saints seize Uniting Dao Pearls before they pursued the Core Fragments.

Lu Ye learned that Blood Calamity and four other Half-Saints had escaped the Origin Realm and pursued them after they destroyed a Desolate-tier Uniting Dao City. He confronted Blood Calamity alone and suggested that the poison once used on Xue Tianxing might have carried over into Blood Calamity’s Half-Saint body.

• Yang Zhao told Lu Ye that Blood Calamity and four other Half-Saints had appeared near the place where Fuguang advanced, and Lu Ye concluded they had escaped through a flaw in the Origin Realm’s barrier.
• Lu Ye sensed Blood Calamity’s direction and pursued him while Yang Zhao returned to hiding.
• Blood Calamity and the other Half-Saints destroyed a Desolate-tier Uniting Dao City, shattered its Uniting Dao Pearl, and agreed to split up and seek out other cities.
• Lu Ye emerged to confront Blood Calamity, who was startled to find him alive and tried to invoke their past friendship.
• Lu Ye challenged Blood Calamity over whether the poison used on Xue Tianxing had remained in the bloodline Blood Calamity refined.

Lu Ye tested Blood Calamity with a saber strike that triggered the poison in his body, then learned that Abyss had ordered the collection of Uniting Dao Pearl Core Fragments and the extermination of the Human, Dragon, and Phoenix Races. With four other Half-Saints still loose in the Star Abyss, Lu Ye considered how to deal with them and learned Blood Calamity ranked only around the middle among the five.

• Lu Ye suddenly attacked Blood Calamity, triggering the poison and weakening him, but Blood Calamity survived the strike and recognized Lu Ye's greatly increased strength.
• Blood Calamity set aside his hostility and reaffirmed his Blood Oath with Lu Ye, while Lu Ye knew he had already broken the oath's hold on himself.
• Lu Ye asked about Abyss, and Blood Calamity said its will had begun to awaken and had ordered the Half-Saints to gather Uniting Dao Pearl Core Fragments and exterminate the Human, Dragon, and Phoenix Races.
• Blood Calamity explained how the Half-Saints had escaped the Origin Realm and said he suspected its restrictions had limited their number to five.
• Blood Calamity told Lu Ye that he planned to attack the Top Ten Uniting Dao Cities and that his Flood-tier Uniting Dao Pearl increased his strength by only ten percent, leaving him around the middle among the five Half-Saints.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity planned to kill Xue Yuan, a Blood Race Half-Saint, and Lu Ye brought Blood Calamity to the Phoenix Nest under the pretense that he was his Blood Slave. The Primordial Parasol Tree prepared to teleport them to attack a city, but questioned whether Blood Calamity could be trusted.

• Blood Calamity told Lu Ye that Xue Yuan was among the Half-Saints who had entered the Star Abyss, and proposed they kill him before the scattered Half-Saints regrouped.
• Lu Ye rejected poisoning Xue Yuan as too risky and suggested recruiting Si Shengya, then revealed that Si Shengya was recovering in the Hehe Realm.
• Lu Ye brought Blood Calamity into the Phoenix Nest and told Elder Feng Qi that Blood Calamity was his Blood Slave, calming Feng Qi by promising to hand him over to the Phoenix Lord later.
• Lu Ye took Blood Calamity to meet the Primordial Parasol Tree and asked it to teleport them to a city they intended to attack.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree agreed to help but questioned whether Blood Calamity could be trusted.

Blood Calamity and Lu Ye prepared to target Ten Steps City, where Blood Calamity’s former followers had been mistreated after Blood Drinking City fell. Blood Calamity reunited with Xue Kuang and, angered by Xuan Wuzong’s treatment of him, asked how many allies remained in the city.

• The Primordial Parasol Tree opened a gateway for Lu Ye after he said Blood Calamity wanted something.
• A concealed blood-colored light entered Ten Steps City and merged with Xue Kuang, allowing Blood Calamity to enter the city unseen.
• Hui Qi confronted Xue Kuang, warned him not to pry into the City Lord’s affairs, and planned to visit him the next day.
• Blood Calamity revealed himself at Xue Kuang’s residence and learned that Xuan Wuzong had seized control of Xue Kuang’s Uniting Dao City without giving him the promised Vice City Lord position.
• Blood Calamity told Xue Kuang not to attack Lu Ye, saying they would work together, then asked how many people he could contact in Ten Steps City.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity infiltrated Ten Steps City with Xue Kuang’s help and attempted to break into its Central Great Hall. Lu Ye’s first rush was stopped by the hall’s inner formation, but his saber strike began dissolving its barrier, alerting the injured Xuan Wuzong.

• Blood Calamity entered Ten Steps City by possessing Xue Kuang, then Lu Ye revealed himself and asked to borrow Xue Kuang as a disguise.
• Lu Ye possessed Xue Kuang and approached the Central Great Hall, where the guards ordered him to turn back.
• When the guards attacked, Lu Ye burst from Xue Kuang and charged the hall, but its activated inner formation blocked his way.
• Xue Kuang unleashed his Blood Sea on the guards while Lu Ye struck the hall’s barrier with the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Xuan Wuzong sensed the attack, recognized Lu Ye, and shouted in fury.

Blood Calamity revealed that he had advanced to a higher realm and turned against Xuan Wuzong, helping Lu Ye attack Ten Steps City. He rallied the Insect and Blood Races, and the chapter ended with a chaotic battle raging inside his Blood Sea.

• Xuan Wuzong rushed toward the Central Great Hall after Lu Ye appeared in Ten Steps City, then recognized Blood Calamity and called on him to help kill Lu Ye.
• Blood Calamity attacked Xuan Wuzong, revealed that he had advanced to a higher realm, and called on the Insect and Blood Races to help break Ten Steps City.
• Blood Calamity trapped Xuan Wuzong in a vast Blood Sea and declared that Lu Ye was his steadfastest ally.
• Xuan Wuzong realized Blood Calamity had secretly brought Lu Ye into the city and called for the city's powerhouses to intervene.
• Insect and Blood Race cultivators joined Blood Calamity in the Blood Sea, where they clashed with Ten Steps City’s forces.