Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye learned that Yin Luo wanted to erode the starry sky to advance and persuaded her to consider the harm it would cause Azure Lord. Half a year later, Yin Luo’s hunger drove her to beg for another Treasure Blood Clone, and Lu Ye offered one in exchange for a condition.

• Lu Ye got Yin Luo to promise to compensate him for accidentally eating his Treasure Blood Clone and learned that she sought to erode the starry sky to break through.
• Yin Luo explained that Blood Fiend, a Blood Race powerhouse, was trying to seize the Star Abyss Gate, and Lu Ye offered to accompany her next time they fought if she protected him.
• Lu Ye reminded Yin Luo that Azure Lord’s friends and family lived in the threatened starry sky, then continued gathering intelligence and influencing her over the following months.
• Lu Ye’s hunting groups gained many kills over half a year, though Purple Extreme’s team narrowly escaped an Eight Dao creature.
• When Yin Luo became desperately hungry, Lu Ye offered her a Treasure Blood Clone if she agreed to one condition, and she accepted immediately.

Lu Ye secured Yin Luo’s oath to protect the Star Abyss Gate and arranged a steady supply of Dao Bones in exchange for Treasure Blood Clones. He chose Nine Radiance to receive the resources and advance to Ninth Layer Dao, and she later reached Seventh Layer Dao as the group continued cultivating.

• Yin Luo swore to guard the Star Abyss Gate and never invade the starry sky beyond it, then devoured Lu Ye’s Treasure Blood Clone.
• Lu Ye negotiated with Yin Luo for a hundred Dao Bones each month in exchange for one Treasure Blood Clone every three months.
• Lu Ye told his companions he would use the Dao Bones to forge a Ninth Layer Dao cultivator and selected Nine Radiance, since he could not advance himself.
• Nine Radiance received the Dao Bones and began tempering them, while the others continued hunting and cultivating.
• Half a year later, Nine Radiance had advanced to Seventh Layer Dao and was tempering her fourth Dao Bone, while Chang Yu had advanced to Sixth Layer Dao.
• After giving Yin Luo another Treasure Blood Clone, Lu Ye arrived outside Nine Radiance’s room as its door suddenly opened.

Nine Radiance discovered that Dao Power could amplify the treasures’ attacks and defenses, and Lu Ye distributed three treasures among the teams. When Blood Fiend returned with a huge force to contest the nearby Star Abyss Gate, Lu Ye agreed to help Yin Luo repel him.

• Nine Radiance showed Lu Ye that using Dao Power to wield a treasure increased its power by one Dao, and Lu Ye confirmed the effect with the Sword Gourd.
• Lu Ye gathered the group and explained the discovery, then Chong Yue, Purple Extreme, and Chen Wulei took the Heavenly Net Umbrella, Sword Gourd, and Fire Gourd respectively.
• After the teams resumed hunting, Yin Luo called Lu Ye to the great hall when Blood Fiend returned with a large force.
• Lu Ye promised to help Yin Luo fight Blood Fiend but asked her to protect him from the battle’s dangers.
• Uncle Duan explained that Star Abyss creatures gathered around the Star Abyss Gate and served powerful contenders, while Harmony Dao powerhouses stayed out of such conflicts.

Lu Ye secretly used his Blood Race Sacred Nature to weaken Blood Fiend while Yin Luo fought him, allowing Yin Luo and Uncle Duan to kill the Merging Dao Peak cultivator. Afterward, Lu Ye prepared to collect Blood Fiend’s Blood Sea and refine the Dao Power left behind.

• Lu Ye watched Chen Wulei and the others cautiously gather gains along the edge of the battlefield as Blood Fiend’s Blood Sea approached and challenged Yin Luo.
• Yin Luo hid Lu Ye inside her cloth doll and fought Blood Fiend alone while Lu Ye concealed himself and gradually merged his Blood Qi and Treasure Blood into Blood Fiend’s Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye activated his Sacred Nature, suppressing Blood Fiend’s power and giving Yin Luo the opening to attack with her full strength.
• Uncle Duan joined Yin Luo, and the two killed Blood Fiend after Lu Ye’s suppression left him unable to escape.
• Uncle Duan began refining the Dao Power left by Blood Fiend and invited Lu Ye to join him, while Lu Ye said he would collect Blood Fiend’s Blood Sea first.

After killing Blood Fiend, Lu Ye refined his legacy and spent three years watching his companions grow stronger while his Talent Tree’s fuel ran low. He traveled with Uncle Duan to replenish it inside a great sun, then began the return journey to the Azure Palace.

• Lu Ye refined Blood Fiend’s remaining Blood Sea and Dao Power, gaining nearly three thousand strands of Dao Power but remaining limited to wielding Seven Dao power.
• Over three years, Chen Wulei advanced to Eight Dao, Purple Extreme reached Seven Dao, and most of the others advanced to Six Dao, while Nine Radiance began striving for Nine Dao.
• Lu Ye realized the Talent Tree was nearly out of fuel and asked Uncle Duan to accompany him to a nearby great sun.
• Lu Ye and Uncle Duan entered the great sun, where Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s roots to absorb its heat for a month.
• Lu Ye replenished enough fuel to last an estimated ten or twenty years, and he and Uncle Duan headed back toward the Azure Palace.

After eleven years at Azure Palace, Lu Ye and the others prepared to return to the starry sky as the Star Abyss Gate's opening drew near. Their departure would accelerate the gate's opening, leaving them only three to five years to prepare for the invasion.

• Lu Ye gathered the group and announced that Old Tree had confirmed they could return, then set their departure for one month later so they could build up Dao Power.
• Lu Ye explained that their return would advance the Star Abyss Gate's opening, which Old Tree estimated would occur within three to five years afterward.
• Yin Luo pleaded with Lu Ye not to leave, but he promised to visit and bring her food; during the following month, she vented her frustration on nearby Star Abyss creatures, and Lu Ye distributed the Dao Bones they yielded.
• Lu Ye gave Yin Luo three Treasure Blood Clones as a parting gift, then led the group toward the Star Abyss Gate with Yin Luo and Uncle Duan accompanying them.
• Lu Ye activated the Cycle Tree Imprint and sent everyone into the turbid Void, where their passage split open a fissure and caused nearby Star Abyss creatures to cheer, believing Yin Luo had weakened the gate.

Lu Ye and his companions returned from Star Abyss to the Phantom Extinction Star System, where Gu Yunliu led them to a battle city prepared for the coming invasion. They met the reincarnating Cycle Tree, who welcomed Chen Wulei and the other survivors from a destroyed starry sky into their home.

• Lu Ye and his companions emerged from the Void and were welcomed by Gu Yunliu, Realm Master of the Yellow Dragon Realm.
• Gu Sheng reunited with Lu Ye and explained that the starry sky had been preparing for the Star Abyss invasion since Old Tree revealed the danger.
• Gu Sheng told Lu Ye that the group was in the Phantom Extinction Star System, where Yellow Dragon had built a battle city to guard a weak point connected by an Insect Path.
• Gu Yunliu brought the group to Old Tree, who appeared as a pale child because he had entered reincarnation and spent power bringing them back.
• Old Tree welcomed Chen Wulei and his companions, and Lu Ye revealed that their starry sky had been destroyed by a Star Abyss invasion more than ten years earlier.

Lu Ye learned how Star Abyss invaded through flaws in the starry sky and how Supreme Treasures had sealed two gates during the previous invasion. Old Tree assigned defenses for the confirmed flaws and sent Lu Ye to guard the Heavenly Gang Star System with Square Inch Mountain.

• Old Tree demonstrated how Star Abyss surrounded starry skies and broke into them through flaws, eventually causing them to shatter.
• Old Tree explained that Starry Sky Destroyers could create flaws and confirmed five locations, including Myriad Phenomena Sea, the Heavenly Gang Star System, Long Moon Star System, and Mystic Frost Star System.
• Old Tree said the previous invasion ended when three gates disappeared naturally and two were sealed using the Star Constellation Hall and the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.
• Lu Ye agreed to arrange defenses at Myriad Phenomena Sea, while Gu Yunliu asked several returned cultivators to help Yellow Dragon Realm guard its flaw.
• Old Tree assigned Square Inch Mountain to the Heavenly Gang Star System and told Lu Ye to wield it there and complete its final fusion.

Old Tree assigned guardians to the remaining breaches and explained his preparations for the coming Star Abyss invasion. After the others departed, he told Lu Ye to act against forces threatening unity and answered his questions about Yang Qing, Supreme Treasures, and the starry sky’s missing Dao Realm experts.

• Old Tree assigned Long Moon to the Heavenly Asura Race and Profound Frost to Su Wan, then distributed Star Maps showing the star systems and Insect Paths.
• Purple Extreme chose to guard Long Moon, Chong Yue chose Myriad Phenomena Sea, and other cultivators selected destinations near their clans and allies.
• Chen Wulei gave Old Tree the records and resources gathered during Mechanical Armor Starry Sky’s three-hundred-year fight against the Star Abyss.
• Old Tree asked Lu Ye to take action within the next few days against two factors preventing the starry sky from uniting, and Lu Ye agreed.
• Old Tree explained that the Yang Qing Lu Ye met was a Clone whose main body was a powerful Star Abyss being, and speculated that Yang Qing might be connected to the Ghost Sedan.
• Old Tree explained that his intelligence came at the cost of his cycles and that the starry sky’s former Dao Realm cultivators had entered the Star Abyss after its earlier invasion.

Lu Ye went to the Cycle Star System as the Insect and Blood Races launched an attack to seize the weakened Cycle Tree. He wiped out the Blood Race vanguard with one slash and confronted the Insect Emperor, who ordered his fleet to flee.

• Lu Ye met with Old Tree, while nine others departed the battle city on separate missions, including Chong Yue, Du Qingsha, and Chang Yu, who headed for the Filth Land.
• The Insect and Blood Races secretly approached the weakened Cycle Tree, intending to seize it while the starry sky's strongest cultivators were occupied.
• The Insect Emperor agreed to let the Blood Race lead the assault, and the fleet advanced toward the Cycle Tree.
• The Blood Race powerhouse sent more than a dozen Sunlight cultivators to attack Lu Ye, but Lu Ye killed them all with a single saber slash from ten thousand li away.
• The Insect Emperor realized Lu Ye had wiped out the vanguard and ordered his fleet to flee.

Lu Ye annihilated the Insect and Blood Race fleet, then attacked their stronghold in the Insect Emperor Realm, using Dao Power to resist the Primordial Magnetic Field and unleash a Blood Sea across the world. By the end, he had killed the Insect Race Great Priest and more than half the realm’s inhabitants, with the slaughter still underway.

• Lu Ye surrounded the Insect and Blood Race fleet with nine Blood Seas and annihilated its forces, leaving the warships intact.
• Lu Ye reached the Insect Emperor Realm and discovered that the Primordial Magnetic Field suppressed Magic Power, but the Talent Tree and Dao Power could overcome its interference.
• Lu Ye crashed into the gathered Insect Nests, destroying them, then spread his Blood Sea across the entire realm.
• The Insect Race Great Priest condemned Lu Ye, who declared himself the Insect Race’s punishment and killed him with a Blood Clone.
• Lu Ye’s Blood Clones appeared throughout the Blood Sea and slaughtered the realm’s inhabitants, extinguishing more than half of its life.

Lu Ye reunited with Feng Rumuo in the Insect Emperor Realm, shattered the Heavenly Pivot Sword Qi pursuing him, and removed the mark that had caused the thousand-year pursuit. After revealing the coming Star Abyss invasion, Lu Ye explained that Feng Rumuo had begun cultivating Dao Force and could become a Dao Realm cultivator.

• Lu Ye recognized Feng Rumuo, who had entered his Blood Sea while fleeing the Heavenly Pivot Sword Qi.
• Lu Ye shattered the pursuing sword light, seized another strand, and used the Talent Tree to find and burn away a hidden mark left by the Heavenly Pivot Sword.
• After no new sword light appeared, Feng Rumuo thanked Lu Ye and saw that the Insect and Blood Races had been wiped out across the Insect Emperor Realm.
• Lu Ye explained that Old Tree had ordered the extermination because the Great Trend Descends and Star Abyss invasion were approaching.
• Lu Ye identified Feng Rumuo's faint power as Dao Force and told him that the invasion could help him become a Dao Realm cultivator.

Lu Ye learned that Su Wan was the Grand Palace Master of the Formless Palace and resolved to ask her about Yaya, then returned to the Soul Race Ancestral Land. There he reunited with Yiyi and Amber, both now Sunlights, and was astonished by the Soul Race’s many powerful cultivators.

• Feng Rumuo revealed that he had once been the Left Protector of the Formless Palace and had never met its missing Saintess, whom Lu Ye recognized as Yaya.
• Feng Rumuo identified Su Wan as the Formless Palace’s Grand Palace Master, and Lu Ye decided he could ask her about Yaya’s whereabouts.
• Lu Ye sent Feng Rumuo toward a Star Abyss breach, then used the Seven-Colored Divine Lotus to travel to the Soul Race Ancestral Land and prepare to return to the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye found the Ancestral Land more lively and powerful than before, with hundreds of Sunlights gathered on a seven-colored Lian Continent.
• Yiyi and Amber greeted Lu Ye, and he discovered that both had reached the Sunlight level.
• Lu Ye followed Yiyi toward the gathered Soul Race seniors and sensed that many of them had reached Great Sun Late Stage or Great Sun Peak.

Lu Ye told the Soul Race Sunlights about Star Abyss, demonstrated the power of his Dao Power, and advised them to let their weaker cultivators remain in the Ancestral Land. He returned to the Nine Provinces and headed to Square Inch Mountain to hasten the Western Division’s return.

• Lu Ye arrived among the Soul Race Sunlights, learned they had named him Sacred Lord, and recounted his journey through Star Abyss and the destruction of the Mechanical Armor Starry Sky.
• Lu Ye explained how Dao Power worked and demonstrated his Ghost Ship’s defenses, which remained standing against the combined attacks of a hundred Soul Race Sunlights.
• Lu Ye urged Hun Que to keep cultivators with growth potential in the Ancestral Land until they reached the peak of Sunlight, and Hun Que agreed to consider his advice.
• Lu Ye bid Yiyi farewell, left Amber with her, and returned through the Starry Sky Pool to the Nine Provinces Star System.
• Lu Ye sensed that the Western Square Inch Mountain was nearing its return, contacted Little Nine, and landed on Square Inch Mountain to hasten its unification.

Lu Ye accelerated Western Square Inch Mountain’s return and helped prepare Square Inch Mountain and allied forces to defend the Heavenly Gang Star System. As Nine Provinces prospered and his Blood Attendants grew stronger, Shuixian privately asked whether he had told Su Yuqing what happened between them inside the Ghost Sedan.

• Lu Ye used Square Inch Mountain’s power to draw Western Square Inch Mountain toward it, shortening its expected return to about half a year.
• Su Yuqing, Shuixian, Chen Li, and Square Inch Mountain’s Sunlights gathered with Lu Ye, who learned that allied star systems would assemble to defend the Heavenly Gang Star System.
• Cultivators from multiple star systems arrived at Square Inch Mountain, while Lu Ye sent his Talent Tree Clone to inspect Nine Provinces and saw how much it had grown.
• Lu Ye gave Treasure Blood to his ten Blood Attendants, all of whom had advanced to Sunlight, and urged them to become stronger.
• Shuixian privately sealed off the area and asked Lu Ye whether he had told Su Yuqing about what happened between them inside the Ghost Sedan.

Lu Ye and Shuixian agreed to keep their respective secrets from Su Yuqing as Square Inch Mountain prepared to reunite with its Western Division. After the reunification, the realm underwent a dramatic transformation, and Lu Ye discovered he had gained the authority of a true Realm Master.

• Shuixian promised not to tell Su Yuqing about Lu Ye and Nine Radiance unless Su Yuqing asked, and urged Lu Ye not to wrong her again.
• Half a year later, Lu Ye welcomed Zhang Kun and the other Western Division cultivators as they brought the Blood Jade Realm to Square Inch Mountain.
• Lu Ye separated the Western Square Inch Mountain from the Blood Jade Realm and guided it into place beside the core, uniting Square Inch Mountain.
• Lu Ye moved the Blood Jade Realm beside the Blood Refining World, then entered the united realm and witnessed spiritual-energy rain, a vast new spirit jade vein, and many Little People Race cultivators breaking through.
• An auspicious cloud poured power into Lu Ye, bringing him close to the Great Sun Late Stage, and he realized that Square Inch Mountain had made him its true Realm Master.

Lu Ye followed an inheritance stirring in his Blood Race bloodline and used the Blood Ancestor's remnant body to summon the scattered Blood Race realms. After recovering, he explained that the Blood Ancestor's lingering obsession was to become whole again, and the other three realms were now moving toward her remains.

• Lu Ye sensed something wrong in the Blood Refining World and followed his bloodline's instinct to the Blood Ancestor's Source Spirit Aperture.
• Lu Ye flooded the Blood Ancestor's remnant body with Blood Qi and began moving its arms, while Ma Shangsi and the ten great Blood Attendants helped him complete a hand seal.
• The Blood Ancestor's remnant body blazed with crimson light, which split into three streams and vanished into the starry sky.
• Several days later, Lu Ye told Xiang Yin that the Blood Ancestor's remnant body retained an obsession to become whole again.
• Lu Ye explained that the other three Blood Race realms were now being drawn toward the Blood Ancestor's remains.

Lu Ye explored using realm foundations to accelerate cultivation and tested the method on Square Inch Mountain’s Great Suns while preparing for the coming Star Abyss invasion. After reaching the Heavenly Gang Star System, he found its cultivators gathering near Mist Heaven and Earth, where the Heaven and Earth Cauldron’s weakening seal could soon leave the breach to them to defend.

• Lu Ye learned from Little Nine that Nine Provinces’ foundation could be used to raise cultivators’ strength, though doing so would weaken the realm and could destabilize their foundations.
• Lu Ye arranged for Square Inch Mountain to travel toward the Heavenly Gang Star System and used its foundation to help ten Little People Race Great Suns cultivate for a month.
• Lu Ye tried to comprehend Square Inch Mountain’s power during the journey but found his cultivation too weak to activate the Supreme Treasure’s deeper abilities.
• Square Inch Mountain reached the Heavenly Gang Star System, where Lu Ye saw cultivators heading toward Mist Heaven and Earth, the dangerous spectacle surrounding the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.
• Lu Ye understood that the Heaven and Earth Cauldron’s power was nearing depletion and that the starry sky’s cultivators would have to defend the breach when it opened.

Lu Ye returned to the Soul Race Ancestral Land and sought its Origin to help cultivators hone the Soul Suppressing Mystic Art. After meeting a mysterious figure through the Origin, he learned that the Ancestral Land was opened by the Supreme Treasure Spirit Warming Lotus, while the paired Pure Lotus of Purity remained unknown.

• Lu Ye learned from Xu Yuan that Soul Race cultivators at their limits had gone to defend the five flaws, while those with room to advance stayed to cultivate.
• Lu Ye explained his plan to Hun Que: combine the Ancestral Land with Nine Provinces to help cultivators hone their divine souls and Magic Power.
• Hun Que led Lu Ye to the Ancestral Land Origin, where Lu Ye communicated with its lotus and witnessed a vision of a powerful man accompanied by women, dragons, and phoenixes.
• Lu Ye learned that three days had passed during his brief-seeming contact with the Origin and received the name Spirit Warming Lotus.
• Lu Ye told Hun Que that the Spirit Warming Lotus had opened the Ancestral Land for the Soul Race and that the Pure Lotus of Purity was its paired Supreme Treasure.

Lu Ye gained the Ancestral Land Will’s consent to use the Soul Race’s Ancestral Land and secured Old Tree’s support for a plan to strengthen Nine Provinces and prepare Sunlight cultivators to reach Great Sun Peak. At Thousand Hills Tomb, Azure Bird agreed to let Lu Ye use the Nebula Grave Mounds and asked him to find Dancing Maiden before the Star Abyss Gate opened.

• Lu Ye communicated with the Spirit Warming Lotus, received the Ancestral Land Will’s agreement, and learned that the Soul Race would help others enter the Ancestral Land.
• Lu Ye explained his plan to Old Tree, who endorsed it and agreed to help prepare Nine Provinces as a place to forge Great Sun Peak cultivators.
• Lu Ye traveled through the Turbulent Blast Zone to Thousand Hills Tomb, where he found Azure Bird resting atop a partly consumed Nebula Grave Mound.
• Lu Ye told Azure Bird that he needed the realm origins in Thousand Hills Tomb to replenish Nine Provinces, and Azure Bird gave him permission to take what he needed.
• Azure Bird explained that it planned to enter the Star Abyss when the gate opened and asked Lu Ye to find Dancing Maiden and tell her to come along.