Recaps

Lu Ye was captured by the Insect Race, turned the Insect Mother’s attempt to probe him into a binding Life Chain, and explored the Ruins, where Nine Infants tried to possess him. After surviving the battle, Lu Ye made an oath with Nine Infants and prepared to return to the Ruins for Bifu.

• Lu Ye rescued the besieged Fengtai Stronghold with the Crane Wing Formation, helped kill the Insect Race Merging Dao cultivator, and later concealed Du Feng’s flight from the battle.
• Du Feng sent Lu Ye and the Crane Wing Camp to another battlefield, where Li Qi revealed himself as a Hidden Agent and captured Lu Ye after Du Feng died.
• The Insect Mother used the Divine Source Illusion Sea to probe Lu Ye, but his bond with You Die created a Life Chain that linked their souls and transferred injuries between them.
• Lu Ye remained in the Insect Nest, refined Dao Bones, and gained Dao Force through the Life Chain while You Die kept him under watch.
• You Die sent Lu Ye into the Ruins, where he defeated the Blood Race guide, encountered Nine Infants, and fled after its remnant soul invaded his Soul Sea.
• Lu Ye and You Die fought Nine Infants in Lu Ye’s Divine Sea and survived its final attack, though both were gravely wounded.
• Lu Ye removed Nine Infants’ poison and made an oath with it to help find a suitable body in return for learning how to refine Variegated.
• Lu Ye told You Die he needed to return to the Ruins for Bifu, and she demanded that he burn her Soul Body with his flame.

Lu Ye strengthened himself, traded Bifu for Dao Bones, and enlisted You Die to enter the Ruins and refine Variegated’s core. He took control of the core, but could not yet command Variegated, and ended up teleporting into a losing Human Race battle to attack the enemy rear with his Clone.

• Lu Ye escaped Variegated, fought Insect and Blood Race cultivators, and evaded both Human Race and You Die’s attempts to capture him before returning to the Ruins.
• Lu Ye exploited the Medicine Garden’s fruits, Starry Fruits, and Dao Comprehension Tea leaves to strengthen himself, while the Talent Tree burned away his oath’s constraints.
• Lu Ye traded Bifu to the Battle Alliance for Dao Bones, trained until his strength reached one hundred and sixty strands, and prepared to leave Variegated with You Die.
• Lu Ye carried You Die’s Soul Body into the Ruins, where she began refining the Variegated core while the Human Race Alliance launched an offensive against the Insect and Blood Races.
• When the core began draining You Die, Lu Ye used their connection to supply his Dao Power, then replaced her imprint on the core after the Ruins expelled her.
• Lu Ye exposed Nine Infants’ scheme and burned away its spiritual consciousness, but found himself too weak to control Variegated despite possessing its core.
• Lu Ye found a Bifu for Yan Xiaowu’s group, then used the core to teleport to a distant battlefield where the Human Race was losing.
• Lu Ye summoned his Talent Tree Clone and charged into the Insect and Blood Races’ rear ranks, killing enemies and collecting their Dao Bones.

Lu Ye gathered allies from beyond Variegated and led an assault on Boundless City, destroying its defenses and defeating its Merging Dao cultivators. The victory turned into a desperate retreat when Mad Lion revealed he had advanced to Dao Fusion.

• Lu Ye helped the Human Race win battles across the starry sky, then refined Dao Bones and used their power to stop Variegated from drifting.
• Lu Ye recruited You Die and Ziying to help gather Dao Bones, and they killed Che Lin and several Merging Dao cultivators before devastating the Insect and Blood Race Strongholds.
• Lu Ye refined the collected Dao Bones, discovered his foundation limited how many he could control, and learned that Boundless City used Human Race cultivators as Bone Vessels.
• Ziying and Lu Ye recruited Chen Gushan, Yan Zhixing, and He Linglong, then led the group outside Variegated to plan an attack on Boundless City.
• Lu Ye entered Boundless City in disguise while You Die hid in his Divine Sea, and he saw the city's mistreatment of Humans and its Bone Pools.
• Lu Ye and You Die destroyed Bone Pool Formations as their allies attacked from outside, while Lu Ye's clones found and destroyed the Protective Grand Array's Formation Bases.
• Lu Ye and his allies shattered the city's defenses, killed Heart Tiger and Golden Ape, and forced Ghost Annihilation to flee, but Mad Lion emerged as a Dao Fusion cultivator.
• Lu Ye ordered the group to flee toward Variegated, sacrificed his Talent Tree Clone to save You Die from Mad Lion's soul attack, and formed a Black Tortoise Formation that Mad Lion's strike hurled away.

After helping free Boundless City and returning it to Variegated, Lu Ye was chosen for a deadly contest to become a Son of the Star Abyss. He completed his Dao Bones, gained a powerful Dao Body, and continued hunting for coins and treasures as the Starry Sky Fragment began to dissolve.

• Lu Ye and the survivors defeated Mad Lion, but Yan Zhixing died after entrusting Lu Ye with the Yan Family token and a request to help Yan Hong.
• Lu Ye and Ziying brought Boundless City into Variegated, where Chen Gushan and He Linglong arranged protection for its Human Race, and You Die later departed after giving Lu Ye part of her Soul Power.
• The Star Abyss Will transported Lu Ye to the White Jade Platform, where Qi ordered contestants to pair up before sending them into the Starry Sky Fragment to compete for the title of Son of the Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye killed Qing Rou after she trapped him, then learned that defeated contestants left Star Abyss Coins that could be exchanged for treasures.
• After hunting with his Talent Tree Clone, Lu Ye tempered his final Dao Bone and formed a golden skeleton, then recovered his body and gained the strength to wield 240 layers of Dao Power.
• Lu Ye failed to turn captured cultivators into Blood Slaves, then pursued an Exotic Treasure as the Starry Sky Fragment began dissolving and killed its carrier despite the golden-haired woman’s attempt to help him escape.
• Lu Ye drank the Exotic Treasure’s golden Dao Liquid, which restored thousands of units of Dao Power, and later encountered the golden-haired woman again in a realm of four-eared beings before continuing onward.
• As the fragment continued to shrink, Lu Ye encountered an ancient Starry Sky Spectacle shaped like a flight of stairs.