Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye learned that The Great Trend Descends was loosening the cultivation bottlenecks of powerful cultivators and improving Spirit Islands, while the Insect and Blood Races planned to exploit it. He ordered the news spread, then sent his Talent Tree Clone to nurture Mystic Fire as he cultivated in Myriad Phenomena Sea.

• Ma Bin told Lu Ye that his bottleneck had begun to loosen and suggested seeking Fire Element resources in the Hengyue Star System, the former location of Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye learned that Chen Xuanhai had not forged a Dao Foundation like Ma Bin and was therefore much weaker despite their equal cultivation levels.
• He Baichuan told Lu Ye that Tang Jun had sensed a chance to break through, and Tang Jun confirmed that the feeling was growing stronger.
• Tang Jun and He Baichuan reported that Imperial Spring Island had become a top-tier Spirit Island and that other islands were improving as well.
• Lu Ye told Tang Jun and He Baichuan about the Insect and Blood Races’ plans, and they left to spread the news.
• Lu Ye left his Talent Tree Clone with the Fire Gourd and Fire Element resources, then went to cultivate in Myriad Phenomena Sea.

After a year of cultivation, Lu Ye left Three Realms Island for the declining Hengyue Star System to search for Fire Element resources. He rescued a pair of Fire Element cultivators from a star beast and learned they were heading to the Crimson Giant Star.

• Lu Ye left Three Realms Island with cultivation supplies and entered the Insect Path to the Hengyue Star System.
• Lu Ye found the star system bleak and sparsely populated, then encountered a Moonlight Realm man and a Star Constellation Realm woman emerging from the Insect Path.
• Lu Ye traveled through the star system and spotted the couple fleeing an oval-shaped star beast.
• The man asked Lu Ye to save him and his wife, and Lu Ye killed the Moonlight Realm Late Stage star beast with a single strike.
• The couple thanked Lu Ye and presented him with a five-star Magic Treasure and the beast's Core Crystal.
• The man asked Lu Ye whether he was also heading to the Crimson Giant Star.

Lu Ye traveled to Crimson Giant Star, where its Solar Wind and abundant Fire Element energy allowed him to cultivate by drawing on the Talent Tree. He landed on the star and was challenged by an unnamed Great Sun Late Stage cultivator to prove he could endure there.

• Fei Zhuang and Hong Yan guided Lu Ye, traveling under the name Li Taibai, toward Crimson Giant Star after he learned it aided Fire Element cultivation.
• Lu Ye noticed a missing, fragile stretch of space near the star and suspected it was connected to the former Nine Provinces and the Heaven's Mystery Disk.
• Fei Zhuang and Hong Yan stopped at the outer cultivation area when Hong Yan could not endure the Solar Wind, while Lu Ye continued inward alone.
• Lu Ye passed other cultivators and found that his Talent Tree could devour the Solar Wind and Fire Element energy while also helping him cultivate.
• Lu Ye landed on Crimson Giant Star, where an unnamed Great Sun Late Stage cultivator told him to remain there for a while before asking the cultivator's name.

Lu Ye gathered heat and star beast Core Crystals on the Crimson Giant Star to nurture Mystic Fire for the Talent Tree, but the first batch did not transform it. A powerful Sunlight-level star beast repeatedly ambushed him, and Lu Ye finally trapped it with a feigned opening and struck back.

• Lu Ye found that the Fire Gourd could absorb only part of the Crimson Giant Star’s magma, so he waited while it slowly nurtured Mystic Fire.
• Star beasts ambushed Lu Ye over the following weeks, and he fed their Fire-attribute Core Crystals to the Fire Gourd.
• Lu Ye consumed the first portion of Mystic Fire, but the Talent Tree showed no sign of transformation.
• A mid-stage Sunlight star beast began attacking Lu Ye and escaping into the magma, even following him when he changed locations.
• Lu Ye let the star beast believe it had caught him unaware, then seized its arm and chopped down with his saber.

Lu Ye pursued a Sunlight Star Beast deep into the Crimson Giant Star and spared it after discovering it could produce Essence of Fiery Sun. The beast led him to a Moon Jade Realm companion that produced Essence too, leaving Lu Ye eager to gather more Star Beasts.

• Lu Ye chased the wounded Sunlight Star Beast through the Crimson Giant Star for several days, while his Talent Tree absorbed enough heat to fill its fuel reserves.
• Lu Ye defeated the Star Beast but stopped short of killing it when it offered him Essence of Fiery Sun, then collected two more portions from it.
• Lu Ye realized the Star Beast could help him nurture Mystic Fire and spared it, threatening it against escaping.
• The Sunlight Star Beast led Lu Ye back and called over a Moon Jade Realm Star Beast, which offered another portion of Essence of Fiery Sun.

Lu Ye turned the Sunflame Beasts on the Crimson Giant Star into a source of Essence of Fiery Sun for his Fire Gourd. When Ji Boyun ordered him to join a hunt for the Sunflame Beast King, Lu Ye protected it instead and stayed behind as the hunt began.

• Lu Ye gathered more than fifty Star Beasts and realized they could continually condense Essence of Fiery Sun for him.
• Lu Ye let the Sunflame Beast King summon its kin, then treated the gathered beasts as a renewable source of Essence of Fiery Sun.
• Ji Boyun visited Lu Ye and ordered him to help eliminate the Sunflame Beast King in three days.
• Lu Ye warned the Sunflame Beast King about danger and kept it from leaving, intending to thwart Ji Boyun's plan.
• When the three-day deadline arrived, Lu Ye stayed in his territory while Ji Boyun gathered with a red-marked man and a red-haired woman.

Lu Ye interrupted Ji Boyun, Jiuse, and Liehuo’s plan to lure and kill the Sunflame Beast King, taking their Beast Attracting Incense to protect the Sunflame Beasts. After he offered an explanation and compensation, the Beast King ambushed Ji Boyun, and the three cultivators began their attack.

• Ji Boyun lit Beast Attracting Incense to draw the Sunflame Beasts and their king into an ambush.
• Lu Ye sensed the beasts leaving, discovered the incense, and took it away before the three Sunlight cultivators could complete their plan.
• Ji Boyun, Jiuse, and Liehuo confronted Lu Ye, who asked them to spare the Beast King and offered compensation.
• The Sunflame Beast King ambushed Ji Boyun from the lava, but Ji Boyun seized its wrist and pulled it out.
• Jiuse cast the Sky Trapping Net toward the Beast King as Liehuo prepared to strike it.

Lu Ye saved the Sunflame Beast King from Ji Boyun, then faced an ambush when Ji Boyun tried to capture him and exploit his ability to command the beasts. With Jiuse and Liehuo joining the fight, Lu Ye drew the Sword Gourd, forcing Ji Boyun to merge himself with his Formation as a lethal threat bore down on him.

• Lu Ye rescued the Sunflame Beast King from the three Sunlights and sent it back into the magma.
• Ji Boyun realized Lu Ye could command the beast, then suddenly activated a prepared Formation and attacked him.
• Lu Ye evaded Ji Boyun’s assault, but Ji Boyun urged Jiuse and Liehuo to help capture Lu Ye and control the Sunflame Beasts.
• Lu Ye drew the Sword Gourd, and Ji Boyun, overwhelmed by terror, used the Array Merging Technique to fuse himself with the Formation.
• Jiuse and Liehuo retreated as Ji Boyun’s Fire Giant continued to grow beneath the Sword Gourd’s lethal threat.

Lu Ye killed Ji Boyun with a Bound Treasure, then used the Fire Gourd to kill Jiuse after she tried to seize it. Liehuo survived and left, shaken by the discovery that Lu Ye carried multiple Bound Treasures.

• Lu Ye pierced Ji Boyun's Formation and Fire Giant with a Bound Treasure, killing him.
• Jiuse decided to take Lu Ye's treasure, while Liehuo refused to join her.
• Lu Ye revealed the Fire Gourd and engulfed Jiuse in Mystic Fire when she attacked.
• Liehuo killed the burning Jiuse with a punch after her pleas for help failed.
• Lu Ye recalled the Mystic Fire, and Liehuo left after realizing Lu Ye carried at least two Bound Treasures.

Lu Ye forced Liehuo to refine Essence of Fiery Sun as compensation for his earlier hostility, then used the Sunflame Beast King and Beast Attracting Incense to expand his workforce and nurture the Fire Gourd’s Mystic Fire. As Lu Ye waited for the Talent Tree to transform, Liehuo asked about the Fire Gourd and eventually requested to learn how to command the Sunflame Beast King.

• Lu Ye made Liehuo agree to refine one thousand portions of Essence of Fiery Sun, then collected Ji Boyun and Jiuse’s Storage Rings.
• Lu Ye lit Beast Attracting Incense, drew in more than three times as many Sunflame Beasts, and taught the Sunflame Beast King to have them deliver their refined Essence of Fiery Sun.
• Liehuo delivered one exceptionally pure portion every three days while Lu Ye used the Fire Gourd to nurture Mystic Fire and cultivated his abilities as he waited for the Talent Tree to transform.
• Liehuo recognized the Fire Gourd as the One Origin Realm’s realm-suppressing treasure and asked whether Lu Ye came from the One Origin Realm, but Lu Ye did not answer.
• Liehuo asked Lu Ye to teach him how to command the Sunflame Beast King when Lu Ye eventually left, promising compensation.

After three years on Crimson Giant Star, Lu Ye used the Essence of Fiery Sun to transform the Talent Tree into a Fire Seed, then returned to Three Realms Island. He learned that the Great Trend Descends had spurred major changes across the Myriad Phenomena Sea, including new breakthroughs and rising Spirit Islands.

• Lu Ye completed the Fire Seed transformation after the Fire Gourd devoured a cluster of Mystic Fire, and he gathered more Essence of Fiery Sun before leaving Crimson Giant Star.
• Lu Ye freed the Sunflame Beast King from his control, said goodbye to Liehuo, and flew back toward Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island and learned that Tang Jun had finally advanced to the Moonlight Realm Late Stage.
• He Baichuan told Lu Ye that over a hundred island residents had advanced to the Moon Jade Realm and that Chou Wu, Yuxi, and Hua Ci were attempting to break through to Sunlight.
• Tang Jun and He Baichuan reported that cultivation was becoming easier across the Myriad Phenomena Sea, two new top-tier Spirit Islands had appeared, and Four Directions Island showed signs of developing a Spirit Jade Vein.

Lu Ye investigated the Myriad Phenomena Sea, helped Three Realms Island cultivators advance, and waited for the Talent Tree to transform. When an attack on Jade Sword Island triggered a blood-red curtain across the island, he arrived and discovered the Insect Race.

• Lu Ye visited Inch Island, learned Su Yuqing had returned to Square Inch Mountain, and drank with Wu Qimo.
• Lu Ye took Three Realms Island cultivators to the Star Constellation Hall, where most advanced to the Moon Jade Realm, and checked on Hua Ci in secluded cultivation.
• Lu Ye waited on Three Realms Island as the Talent Tree's transformation remained unfinished, while a middle-aged man and two Elders arrived near Jade Sword Island to carry out a mysterious plan ordered by their Great Priest.
• Lu Ye sensed Sunlight Realm cultivators fighting near Merfolk Island and teleported there, where Yan Miao and Luan Xiao'e told him Jade Sword Island was under attack.
• Lu Ye and the two women rushed toward Jade Sword Island as the sea trembled and a blood-red curtain enveloped the island; Lu Ye recognized the Insect Race inside.

Lu Ye discovered that the Insect Race had sacrificed two Sunlights to open a blood-colored vortex on Jade Sword Island, which led to a passage from the Star Abyss. A powerful Ox Demon emerged and attacked, leaving Nine Radiance overwhelmed as Lu Ye faced an unknown threat.

• Lu Ye found three Insect Race Sunlights on Jade Sword Island, where two were draining their foundations into an ancient clay jar, and his Mystic Fire vanished against the jar's scarlet light.
• The two elderly Sunlights were absorbed when the jar shattered, opening a blood-colored vortex; the Cycle Tree sensed that a breach had been pried open and warned that the Insect Race had noticed the coming change.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance helped capture the middle-aged Insect Race Sunlight, but he refused to answer questions, so Lu Ye left him gravely wounded for later interrogation.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance reached the vortex, where Nine Radiance sensed an aura useful to her and Lu Ye recognized that something was coming through.
• A Great Sun Late Stage Ox Demon emerged from the vortex, identified the surroundings as a slaughterhouse, and charged Lu Ye; Nine Radiance intercepted him but was sent flying by his strength.

Lu Ye and Nine Radiance fought a powerful Ox Demon that emerged from the red vortex at Jade Sword Island, while other Sunlights rushed to help. The vortex then released an Insect Race cultivator, and the gathered defenders struggled to hold it back.

• Nine Radiance fought the Ox Demon while Lu Ye used the Sword Gourd, but its Coiling Dragon technique trapped and shattered the sword light.
• The enraged Ox Demon attacked Lu Ye, and Sui Lin was sent flying before Gu Tai rescued him.
• Lu Ye warned the arriving Sunlights that the enemies were connected to the Insect Race and urged them to fight together.
• Gu Tai and Sui Lin attacked an Insect Race cultivator emerging from the vortex, but it overwhelmed them until more Sunlights joined the battle.
• The newcomer smelled its captured kin on Merfolk Island and declared that the captive was alive.

Lu Ye and Myriad Phenomena Sea’s Sunlights struggled against three powerful enemies until the Star Constellation Hall projected itself over the red vortex and trapped them. As the projection suppressed the vortex, the enemies weakened, and Lu Ye joined the others in pressing their advantage, hoping to learn more about The Great Trend Descends.

• Lu Ye used Drawing Saber Slash to wound the Ox Demon, but the enemy quickly neutralized his Liao Power and remained too strong to defeat.
• A tremor shook Myriad Phenomena Sea, and the Star Constellation Hall’s projection appeared over Jade Sword Island, sealing the red vortex.
• The three enemies failed to return through the sealed vortex and tried to flee, so Lu Ye and the other Sunlights moved to intercept them.
• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance fought the Ox Demon again and discovered that he, along with the other two enemies, was growing weaker as the projection suppressed the vortex.
• Lu Ye realized the weakened enemies could be defeated and charged at the Ox Demon, expecting the battle might reveal clues about The Great Trend Descends.

The Ghost Sedan emerged from the red vortex, captured Nine Radiance, and carried Lu Ye away after he tried to stop it. The other Sunlight cultivators learned the secret behind the Great Trend Descends and began preparing for its arrival.

• After Lu Ye's group subdued the three invaders, the Star Constellation Hall's projection faded and a bridal sedan emerged from the red vortex.
• The Ox Demon recognized the sedan as the Ghost Sedan and begged to board it, but it seized Nine Radiance and began to flee.
• Lu Ye pursued the Ghost Sedan and struck it with his Giant Blade Slash, prompting it to kill the Ox Demon and drag Lu Ye inside.
• The Ghost Sedan vanished with Nine Radiance and Lu Ye, leaving the Sunlight cultivators unable to pursue them.
• After interrogating the two remaining invaders, the Sunlight cultivators learned the secret history behind the Great Trend Descends and began preparing for its arrival.

After Lu Ye was badly injured by the Ghost Sedan, Nine Radiance cared for him and revealed that Ban Ci had been her Clone, which she had recalled after Lu Ye’s encounter with her. Two days later, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance explored their sealed chamber and suspected they were inside the Ghost Sedan.

• Nine Radiance healed Lu Ye as he recovered from the Ghost Sedan’s attack, and he pretended his Divine Sea was still unstable.
• Nine Radiance told Lu Ye that Ban Ci had been her Clone and that she had recalled her after Ban Ci could no longer cultivate her special method.
• Lu Ye realized Nine Radiance had recalled Ban Ci rather than killed her, and Nine Radiance revealed she had been married and that Chu Shen was her son.
• After two days, Lu Ye got up and found that the chamber’s locked door would not open; Nine Radiance warned him not to attack it.
• Nine Radiance said they were likely inside the Ghost Sedan and told Lu Ye to look through the windows.

Trapped inside the Ghost Sedan, Lu Ye and Nine Radiance discussed Star Abyss, the Insect Race’s ritual, and the rare Dao Foundations forged by its cultivators. As they wondered where the sedan was taking them, it pulled a hostile stranger inside.

• Lu Ye and Nine Radiance examined the strange space-traversing view outside the Ghost Sedan and concluded it might be taking them to Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye told Nine Radiance how the Insect Race had sacrificed Jade Sword Island’s cultivators and three Sunlights to open a gate, which they suspected led to Star Abyss.
• Nine Radiance explained that forging a Dao Foundation let cultivators surpass the usual limits of Sunlight, and she believed Star Abyss might hold a method for doing so.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the Ghost Sedan had taken them after the Star Constellation Hall’s projection weakened the invaders, though he did not know why it had allowed the sedan through.
• After Lu Ye tended his injuries and cultivated inside the sedan, it opened its door and flung in a stranger, who accused Lu Ye and Nine Radiance of ambushing him.

Lu Ye, Nine Radiance, and Chen Li remained trapped inside the Ghost Sedan as it captured Changfeng, who had been fleeing Ma Bin. Changfeng recognized Lu Ye and threatened him, but the sedan’s strange malice kept him from attacking.

• Chen Li appeared inside the Ghost Sedan, explained that a red ribbon had taken him from his Cave Abode, and spent half a day searching for an exit.
• When the sedan door briefly opened, Chen Li rushed out but was caught by a red ribbon and flung back inside.
• Ma Bin pursued the wounded Changfeng through space, but the Ghost Sedan captured Changfeng before Ma Bin could finish him.
• Changfeng entered the sedan, recognized Nine Radiance and Lu Ye, and vowed to repay Ma Bin’s injuries through Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye called the grudge a blood feud and challenged Changfeng to attack, while Chen Li asked whether they had bad blood.

Lu Ye provoked Changfeng into striking him inside the Ghost Palanquin, and the palanquin’s malice erased Changfeng while accelerating the Talent Tree’s transformation. Confined as punishment, Lu Ye learned more captives were arriving, including Purple Jade’s foremost Great Demon Venerable, Purple Extreme.

• Lu Ye feigned an attack with Treasure Blood Clones, provoking the wounded Changfeng to strike him while Nine Radiance tried to intervene.
• The Ghost Palanquin’s malice obliterated Changfeng, then briefly pressed down on Lu Ye before fading without killing him.
• Lu Ye found that the Talent Tree’s Fire Seed had brightened and a sapling was forming within it, but the palanquin confined him to his place.
• Over the following days, more renowned powerhouses were captured, and Nine Radiance and Lu Ye explained the circumstances to them.
• Purple Extreme, Purple Jade’s foremost Great Demon Venerable, arrived and quietly sat among the captives, making Lu Ye wary.