Recaps

Lu Ye escaped the mines, gained a place in the Crimson Blood Sect despite his one-leaf aptitude, and rapidly opened new Spiritual Apertures under Tang Yifeng’s guidance. The journey to the sect was interrupted when an unknown attacker destroyed their carriage.

• Lu Ye killed Steward Yang in the Primordial Magnetic Field, where a strange ore awakened his Spiritual Apertures and the Talent Tree within him.
• After leaving the mine, Lu Ye reached the Vast Sky Alliance, passed its aptitude test with one leaf, and chose only the Crimson Blood Sect after Pang Dahai advised him to focus on what he wanted.
• Old Man Tang accepted Lu Ye as the Crimson Blood Sect’s sole new disciple, and Tang Yifeng took him aboard a Flying Dragon Ship as a probationary disciple.
• Tang Yifeng explained cultivation techniques and guided Lu Ye to his second Spiritual Aperture, while warning him about the Pill Toxin in Zhou Cheng’s pill residue.
• Lu Ye used Spirit Nurturing Pills to open and fill his second and third Spiritual Apertures in a few days.
• After Tang Yifeng assessed Lu Ye’s suitability for Weapon or Spell Cultivation, an unknown attacker blasted apart their Twin Warhorse Carriage, and Tang Yifeng carried Lu Ye away to face the threat.

After entering the Spirit Stream Battlefield, Lu Ye survived the wilderness, advanced to the Spirit Stream Second Layer, and reached Green Cloud Market to trade for pills. When a cultivator targeted him over the ore he sold, Lu Ye used Yiyi and Amber’s robbery scheme to create an opening and killed his attacker, leaving them exposed to a nearby witness.

• Tang Yifeng accepted Lu Ye as an Official Disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect and sent him into the Spirit Stream Battlefield, where Lu Ye activated his Battlefield Mark and learned it connected him to the Crimson Blood Sect camp.
• Lu Ye survived a pack of wolves, settled in a cave, and cultivated until he ran out of pills and encountered the talking Big Tiger and Yiyi, who emerged from a rock wall.
• After Lu Ye swore not to harm Yiyi or Amber, Yiyi gave him a Barrier Breaking Fruit, which helped him open his Ninth and Tenth Apertures and break through to the Spirit Stream Realm.
• Yiyi directed Lu Ye to Green Cloud Market, where he learned to assess cultivators’ Spiritual Light, sold ores through the Heaven’s Mystery Merchant Guild, and bought Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Lu Ye cultivated to eighteen apertures and reached Spirit Stream Second Layer, then sold more Primordial Magnetic Ore and bought additional pills.
• A fair-skinned cultivator attacked Lu Ye and demanded the location of his supposed ore vein, pursuing him until Big Tiger confronted them in a clearing.
• Lu Ye and the fair-skinned cultivator surrendered their belongings to Big Tiger, then Lu Ye seized his sword and killed the man, while Yiyi realized Lu Ye had used their robbery scheme to create an opening.
• A fleeing female cultivator recognized that her plan to have the fair-skinned man kill Lu Ye had failed, while Lu Ye warned Yiyi and Amber that their secret was exposed and told them to follow him.

Lu Ye gained Yiyi and Big Tiger as companions, strengthened himself through the Talent Tree, and reached Spirit Stream Tier Three. In Sky-Rending Gorge, he became entangled in the war between Nine Stars Sect and Mystic Gate, leaving after fighting alongside Mystic Gate while both camps pursued their conflict.

• Lu Ye killed Liu Ruyin, sold Primordial Magnetic Ore, and planned a route toward the Crimson Blood Sect before accepting Yiyi and Big Tiger as companions.
• Lu Ye and Big Tiger killed a Serpent Demon guarding Barrier Breaking Fruits, and the Talent Tree absorbed power from the fruit tree and revealed the Guard and Spirit Gathering Spiritual Patterns.
• Lu Ye bought the Taotie Meal technique, then followed Big Tiger to rescue Yiyi from the young master and his Nine Stars Sect companions, killing the young master and Zhang Wu in the ensuing fight.
• After Cao Ye began hunting the youth with a White Tiger, Lu Ye recovered in Sky-Rending Gorge, advanced to Spirit Stream Tier Three, and learned that Mystic Gate and Nine Stars Sect were at war.
• Lu Ye ambushed and killed Nine Stars Sect cultivators alongside Mystic Gate fighters, then hunted more enemies as Nine Stars Sect guarded the gorge’s exit.
• Lu Ye fought with Chu Tian and the Mystic Gate against a Nine Stars Sect group, introduced himself as One Leaf, exchanged information, and refused Wang Yang’s invitation to visit the camp.
• Wang Yang learned that Lu Ye was a powerful cultivator from a top-tier sect and ordered Mystic Gate to increase pressure on Nine Stars Sect and end the war quickly.

Lu Ye fought Luo Ji, escaped Dong Shuye’s pursuit, and recovered under Hua Ci’s care at an abandoned camp. After the Mystic Gate destroyed the Nine Stars Sect camp, Lu Ye gathered supplies and left Hua Ci’s shelter.

• Lu Ye and Luo Ji fought for days until Luo Ji surrendered his Great Seal and Storage Bag and left the valley.
• Lu Ye learned that Dong Shuye was hunting him, then fled on Amber while the Mystic Gate attacked the Nine Stars Sect camp.
• Dong Shuye pursued Lu Ye to a waterfall, where Lu Ye escaped underwater after Dong Shuye believed he had killed him.
• Hua Ci and Ruan Lingyu treated Lu Ye’s injuries at an abandoned camp, and Lu Ye gradually recovered while learning that the camp’s Heaven’s Mystery Pillar no longer worked.
• Hua Ci told Lu Ye that the Mystic Gate had breached and burned the Nine Stars Sect camp, and Lu Ye sold goods and opened the Young Sect Master’s Storage Bag to replenish his supplies.
• Lu Ye helped Hua Ci treat a poisoned cultivator, then asked her to identify pills from the Storage Bag and learned that several were dangerous poisons.
• Lu Ye left Hua Ci’s shelter with a horse after leaving ten Spirit Nurturing Pills behind, and Hua Ci accepted his departure.