Recaps

Lu Ye helped the Nine Provinces defeat Yue Xin and discovered that Yue Xin’s Grand Array connected them to Peerless Continent, then entered a Cycle Tree realm to aid the Fairy Race against the Insect Race. He crossed into the Insect Race Tree Realm and fought Yan Ya, who mistook him for a Blood Race cultivator and offered him a share of the mission’s gains.

• Yang Qing agreed to escape his seal after Lu Ye refused to let him demand the Nine Provinces’ submission or the lives of half its cultivators, and Little Nine released him.
• Yang Qing defeated Yue Xin, then activated Yue Xin’s completed Grand Array, which connected the Nine Provinces to another realm.
• Lu Ye entered the passage and found the suspected Peerless Continent overrun by the Corpse Race, prompting the Nine Provinces to establish a stronghold there.
• Yang Qing sent Lu Ye through the Cycle Tree’s Spiritual Radiance Mass to help resolve trouble in a Tree Realm, where Lu Ye joined Yu Yaorao and exposed the fairies’ deception about the Insect Race invasion.
• Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao destroyed the Insect Nest’s core in the Fairy Tree Realm, and Lu Ye found a portal linking it to the Insect Race Tree Realm.
• Lu Ye crossed through the portal with Lu Yingying and attacked the Insect Nest while her Blessing Words strengthened his saber.
• Yan Ya returned to the nest’s core and fought Lu Ye, who wounded him before Yan Ya escaped by shedding an empty shell.
• Yan Ya identified himself as a cultivator from the Insect Emperor Realm, mistook Lu Ye for a Blood Race cultivator, and offered him two shares of the mission’s gains.

Lu Ye freed captives and rallied allies against the Insect Race before entering the Divine Sea Conflict, where he built his strength and began dismantling the Blood Race from within. He ended the stretch atop the rankings, with nearly all Blood Race participants eliminated.

• Lu Ye tricked Yan Ya with a false oath, killed him, and took his Spirit Beast Bags and Short Pestles.
• Lu Ye freed Mu Kui, a one-horned beast, and Hong Dandan, then destroyed the Insect Nest’s core and claimed the Void Beast Heart Core.
• Lu Ye opened channels to many Tree Realms, rallied their peoples against the Insect Race, and led the allied forces in driving the insects from their realm.
• Lu Ye entered the Divine Sea Conflict and killed Zhou Sifang, then defeated a Spell Cultivator while testing himself against other realms’ fighters.
• Lu Ye mined a Spirit Jade Vein with help from Du Lang’s Jade-Eating Ants, then fought several opponents with his Clone as the Primordial Realm contracted.
• Lu Ye defeated a Ghost Race ambusher and disguised himself as a Blood Race cultivator, learning their Blood Resonance and Sacred Convergence Arts.
• Lu Ye used the Sacred Convergence Art and his Clone to kill the Blood Race team, pushing his ranking to third.
• Lu Ye tracked down another Blood Race team and killed five more members, rising to first place as the remaining Blood Race names disappeared from the ranking.

Lu Ye followed the Sword Gourd to a Treasure Gourd, then fought his way to first place in the Primordial Realm and protected Yu Yaorao. After returning to the Nine Provinces, he considered its defenses and examined the rewards he had brought back.

• Lu Ye discovered that the Sword Gourd resonated with a Treasure Gourd growing on the Creation Vine, then helped it escape the cultivators fighting to claim it.
• Lu Ye used a Fire Phoenix to break the cultivators’ encirclement, while his Clone drew the Treasure Gourd away and captured it.
• Lu Ye disguised himself as Li Taibai to enter and destroy three Insect Nests, then rescued Yu Yaorao from her pursuers.
• Lu Ye defended his first-place ranking against repeated challengers, defeating Bao Shi and Mo Keduo as Yu Yaorao recovered nearby.
• More than twenty prodigies gathered around Lu Ye, and the Cycle Tree sent its remaining power to the victors before expelling them from the Primordial Realm.
• The Cycle Tree gave Lu Ye a Tree Leaf Imprint and opened a passage home, while Yang Qing explained how the imprint could return him to the Cycle Tree.
• Lu Ye told Jian Guhong and the others that the Nine Provinces must grow stronger and that its cultivators should travel under assumed names.
• Lu Ye stayed on Spirit Peak to pursue the next cultivation realm, inspected his spoils, and fed most captured treasures to the Sword Gourd.

Lu Ye advanced to the Star Constellation Realm, prepared for his departure, and explored the starry sky while learning how dangerous it could be. After surviving Star Beasts and a sentient Flying Sword, he followed Feng Rumuo’s lead to a wrecked Spirit Boat and found himself inside an apparent illusion of its crew and ship.

• Lu Ye discovered that the Treasure Gourd transformed pills and herbs into potent Spiritual Pills, then named it the Pill Gourd and entrusted it to Shui Yuan to support the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Lu Ye reached Divine Sea Tier Nine, studied at the Divine Pattern Sect’s Sacred Land, and carved the complex Divine Edge Spirit Pattern into the stone wall before having Master Yu reforge his saber.
• Lu Ye said farewell to Team Ding Nine and Hua Ci, returned to the Nine Provinces, and advanced to the Star Constellation Realm.
• Jian Guhong showed Lu Ye a map of the surrounding starry sky, and Lu Ye shared ancient Jade Slips and lingyu with him before setting out to explore.
• Lu Ye traveled beyond the Nine Provinces, learned to cultivate with lingyu, and survived a school of Lantern Fish Star Beasts by using his Void Spirit Pattern to escape and counterattack.
• A Sunlight Realm cultivator named Feng Rumuo took Lu Ye with him while fleeing a sentient Flying Sword, then sealed a Secret Technique in Lu Ye’s saber and pointed him toward a dangerous opportunity.
• Lu Ye evaded and shattered the Flying Sword, then searched for the opportunity and found a wrecked Spirit Boat.
• Lu Ye was caught in dense fog and found himself among Qin Zong, Xiao Jianming, Zhou Xing, and Xu Qingwei, apparently aboard the intact Long Dragon Warship.