Recaps

Lu Ye escaped the Ghost Ship with Haitang and followed her to Square Inch Mountain, where he reunited with Nian Yuexian. He agreed to help the Eastern Division in the Black Abyss Martial Competition but rejected the required partnership and began searching the realm’s records for information about the starry sky.

• Lu Ye endured repeated Ghost Ship cycles, learned to command the Long Dragon Warship, and defeated the invading forces with the crew.
• Lu Ye chose Haitang over the Great Evolution Spirit Pearl and left the Ghost Ship with her, gaining an imprint that could summon the crew for divine-soul battles.
• Haitang tracked Square Inch Mountain, where Lu Ye learned that Nian Yuexian had been captured and put to work in a mine.
• Su Yuqing arranged for Nian Yuexian’s release, and Haitang brought her to Lu Ye, but Chen Xuanhai’s hundred-year service rule initially kept them from leaving.
• Lu Ye made Sound Talismans, while Nian Yuexian rejected Chen Xuanhai’s proposed condition and chose to serve her term, and Su Yuqing later secured a chance for Lu Ye to take her away by joining the Black Abyss Martial Competition.
• Lu Ye agreed to compete, but declined to choose a Little People Race partner, explaining that he could neither stay on Square Inch Mountain nor take Haitang from her home.
• Lu Ye suspected the dispute over Nian Yuexian’s release had been used to recruit him, then joined Haitang and Nian Yuexian in searching the Abyss of Information Pavilion for starry-sky records.

Lu Ye entered the Black Abyss Martial Competition with Haitang and led the weaker Eastern Division through a string of Spirit Orb battles against the Southern and Western Divisions. After the Eastern Division’s array-beast clash with the Southern Division, Lu Ye killed Ye Chaoqun and left the Western Division with four survivors.

• Su Yuqing gave Lu Ye a bead containing part of her cultivation and arranged for him to enter the Black Abyss while pretending to be Dao Companions with Haitang.
• Lu Ye joined Haitang and the Eastern Division’s eight other cultivators, then used strategy and the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate to secure three Spirit Orbs.
• Lu Ye trapped and killed most of the Western Division’s fighters, helping the Eastern Division claim a third Spirit Orb and prompting the Southern and Western Divisions to ally against them.
• Lu Ye concealed teleportation arrays at both enemy camps, raided them with his Clone and the Eastern Division, and brought a fourth Spirit Orb back to his camp.
• The Southern and Western Divisions besieged the Eastern camp, but Lu Ye sustained a Blood Sea while his Clone raided the Southern camp and helped defeat the attackers.
• Lu Ye’s Clone and the Eastern cultivators wiped out the remaining Southern and Western fighters near the camp, though Ye Chaoqun escaped with a Great Teleportation Talisman.
• Haitang led the Eastern Division’s Nine-Headed Serpent against the Southern Division’s giant wolf, and the two array beasts destroyed each other after a fierce clash.
• Lu Ye killed Ye Chaoqun before he could use a Golden Body Talisman, then unleashed his Lotus Platform against the Western Division and killed four more cultivators.

Lu Ye returned to Nine Provinces, then led its Star Constellations to defend Peerless Continent from the Azure Dawn Dao Realm. After killing Qin Yuandai and trapping Tang Jun with him in an Insect Path, Lu Ye offered Tang Jun help and claimed Peerless Continent had powerful backing.

• Lu Ye left Square Inch Mountain with Nian Yuexian, returned to Nine Provinces, and studied the Little People Race’s Spirit Patterns while preparing for threats beyond their realm.
• After Meng Jie reported a fight near Peerless Continent, Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces Star Constellations killed two attackers and discovered that two more were inside the continent.
• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian captured Sun Ying, rescued the hostages Zhao Tianmu held, and learned that the Azure Dawn Dao Realm might send stronger cultivators to take revenge.
• Lu Ye ordered the non-Star Constellation cultivators to leave Peerless Continent, then gathered reinforcements as Qin Yuandai arrived with Azure Dawn cultivators.
• Lu Ye used a Red Talisman to kill Zhao Tianmu, Qin Yuandai, and several of her Star Constellations, while Nine Provinces’ forces defeated the remaining attackers with Purple Talismans.
• Tang Jun pursued Lu Ye for three days before a collapsing Insect Path dragged them both inside, where Lu Ye used the currents to deepen his understanding of the Void Spirit Pattern.
• Lu Ye found Tang Jun near death in the Space Current and offered to help, claiming Peerless Continent had powerful backing and had defeated the invaders with Little People Race Spirit Talismans.

After escaping Azure Dawn Dao Realm, Lu Ye became stranded in the Myriad Phenomena Star System and sought a route back to Jade Snail while surviving by fishing and taking escort work. His search brought him to Ma Bin, who revealed ties to Nine Provinces, and ended with Lu Ye confronting Chu Shen.

• Lu Ye and Tang Jun escaped through the Insect Path, but Lu Ye became lost in the Myriad Phenomena Star System and discovered that the route home was unstable.
• Lu Ye and Tang Jun traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where Lu Ye reached Myriad Phenomena Island, repaired his saber, bought supplies, and learned that the sea’s waters were dangerous.
• Lu Ye discovered that he could survive underwater by relying on the Talent Tree and secretly caught White Spirits, selling them while pretending to fish normally with his Clone.
• After the Fish Dormancy Period began, Lu Ye sought work and Tang Jun gave him Lingyu and a Jade Slip describing a possible route toward Jade Snail through Heavenly Evolution and Cloud Peak.
• Lu Ye joined Zhu Yuan’s supply-escort mission, but Zhu Yuan lured the group to a cave where a Sunlight killed Zhu Yuan and attacked Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye learned that the Sunlight was Ma Bin, a former Human Emperor Sect member who had arranged their meeting to hear about Nine Provinces and its younger generation.
• After leaving the cave, Lu Ye encountered a search for Chu Shen, recognized the fugitive’s description, and found him hiding in a concealed cave.
• Chu Shen attacked Lu Ye with Mystic Light and tried to subdue him with a needle, but Lu Ye recovered and seized his wrist.