Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Su Yan seized a Dao Pool, where Su Yan slaughtered the Merging Dao cultivators who tried to take it while Lu Ye replenished their Dao Power. They held the pool as battles raged elsewhere, and Lu Ye watched the surviving contenders, including the Sun Tribe pair, without engaging them.

• Lu Ye decided that he and Su Yan should claim a Dao Pool, and Su Yan brought them to one of the four pools on the White Jade Platform.
• Su Yan used her bow to kill nearly twenty Merging Dao cultivators who charged their pool, earning a Star Abyss Blessing and forcing the survivors to retreat.
• Lu Ye observed the other Dao Pools, noting the Star Beast pair and recognizing Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang among the contenders.
• The Sun Tribe cultivator and his companion were forced to abandon their pool after being besieged, though they escaped without injuries.
• Lu Ye chose not to attack the Sun Tribe pair, while his Talent Tree replenished his Dao Power and his Dao Power Bottle gathered Dao Liquid.

Lu Ye and Su Yan were swallowed by Wuyue’s bottle treasure after Ri Yan’s attack, but Lu Ye used his Confinement Array token to protect them inside. Ri Yan and Wuyue took over their Dao Pool while Lu Ye remained wary of what the bottle might do next.

• A Merging Dao cultivator detonated an Exotic Treasure, killing several attackers and injuring others around the Dao Pools.
• Ri Yan charged Lu Ye and Su Yan, and Su Yan’s arrows could not break through his protective power.
• Wuyue emerged behind Ri Yan and used a bottle Exotic Treasure to swallow Lu Ye and Su Yan, but Lu Ye activated his Confinement Array token to shield them.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the bottle’s effect would end or that Ri Yan and Wuyue would have to release them to satisfy the contest’s rules, while Su Yan rested inside the array.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue seized Lu Ye and Su Yan’s Dao Pool, and Ri Yan replenished his Dao Power before asking Wuyue how things were.

Lu Ye and Su Yan escaped Wuyue’s bottle Exotic Treasure, endured Ri Yan’s ambush, and agreed to cooperate with him temporarily against the other cultivators. The chapter left Ri Yan and Wuyue charging toward another Dao Pool while Lu Ye and Su Yan remained wary of their eventual confrontation.

• Inside the bottle world, Lu Ye carried Su Yan through Wuyue’s binding chains, then discovered he could absorb the jade-green flames while Su Yan was unharmed by them.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan pretended to scream in agony until their resistance caused cracks to spread across Wuyue’s bottle Exotic Treasure.
• Ri Yan shattered the bottle and struck Lu Ye, but Su Yan escaped with him before Ri Yan could press his attack.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan assessed Ri Yan’s overwhelming strength, and Su Yan revealed she could fire seven arrows in succession at the cost of her remaining fighting strength.
• Ri Yan proposed that they eliminate the other opponents before settling their own conflict, and Lu Ye agreed to cooperate temporarily.
• Ri Yan took Wuyue and charged toward the nearest Dao Pool.

Lu Ye and Su Yan attacked the Star Beast pair, but the Mud Star Beast split into countless smaller creatures while the Jellyfish Star Beast resisted Su Yan’s arrows. Lu Ye apparently killed the Jellyfish Star Beast, then realized it was still alive because no Star Abyss Blessing appeared, leaving the pair to prepare for a hidden threat.

• Lu Ye chose to attack the Star Beast pair while Ri Yan and Wuyue went after Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang.
• Su Yan struck the Mud Star Beast with an arrow, causing it to split into dozens of smaller creatures that split again when killed.
• Su Yan’s arrows failed to pierce the lightning-shrouded Jellyfish Star Beast, so Lu Ye told her to retreat and attacked it with the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye split the Jellyfish Star Beast in two with the Vibrating Blade Technique, and the smaller Mud Star Beasts fled as a Star Abyss Coin appeared.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan hid on a Floating Land, where Lu Ye explained that the Jellyfish Star Beast was likely still alive because killing it had brought no Star Abyss Blessing.
• Su Yan realized Lu Ye was only at the Dao Entry Realm and considered what his strength might mean if he became the Son of the Star Abyss.

Lu Ye and Su Yan launched a surprise attack on the recovering Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators while Ri Yan and Wuyue battled Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang. The fight left Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang facing defeat, and Ning Gu finally revealed an Exotic Treasure against Ri Yan.

• Lu Ye and Su Yan agreed to attack the Blood Race and Insect Race pair rather than hide, then moved toward their Dao Pool.
• Su Yan shot at the Insect Race woman as Lu Ye rushed in, and the Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators realized the pair had joined forces.
• The Blood Race cultivator charged Su Yan while the Insect Race woman fought Lu Ye, allowing Ri Yan and Wuyue to unleash their combined field against Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang.
• Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang were badly wounded, and Junior Sister Shuang urged Ning Gu to use their Exotic Treasure.
• Ning Gu endured Ri Yan's punch and brought out the Exotic Treasure, so Ri Yan pulled Wuyue behind him and braced for its attack.

Ning Gu used his Exotic Treasure to crush Lu Ye and badly wound the female Insect Race cultivator, while Ri Yan killed her and Wuyue trapped Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang in an illusion. Ri Yan then attacked the two injured cultivators, leaving their deaths imminent.

• Ning Gu agreed to use his Exotic Treasure against Lu Ye in exchange for Ri Yan sparing him and Junior Sister Shuang, then summoned a Great Seal that crushed Lu Ye and injured the female Insect Race cultivator.
• Ri Yan intercepted and killed the wounded female Insect Race cultivator as Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang tried to flee.
• Wuyue trapped Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang in an illusion of a vast sea and slowed them with Moon Essence.
• Ri Yan appeared beside Wuyue and told Ning Gu that he had kept his oath by sparing them the last time they met.
• Ri Yan attacked the badly injured, slowed Ning Gu and Junior Sister Shuang, leaving them facing certain death.

Lu Ye and Su Yan lured a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator into a trap, where Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature suppressed him and Su Yan killed him. Lu Ye gave Su Yan the binding Exotic Treasure the cultivator left behind, while she wondered whether Lu Ye was Blood Race.

• The Blood Race cultivator chased Su Yan and persuaded her to travel with him, and she agreed near the edge of the Starry Sky Fragment.
• When the Blood Race cultivator approached, Lu Ye emerged from concealment and overwhelmed him with his Sacred Nature.
• Lu Ye explained that he had used his Clone to fake his death and ordered Su Yan to kill the helpless cultivator.
• Su Yan shot the Blood Race cultivator, and Lu Ye found a Starry Sky Coin and a rope-like binding Exotic Treasure on his vanished corpse.
• Lu Ye gave the Exotic Treasure to Su Yan, who wondered whether his power came from a Blood Race bloodline.

Ri Yan and Wuyue recovered in the Dao Pools while Su Yan warned them that the Jellyfish Star Beast had survived. The Mud Star Beast ambushed them, but after Ri Yan escaped its body, a stream of controlled Dao Fusion cultivators emerged from within it, leaving Lu Ye to witness the Jellyfish Star Beast’s terrifying power.

• Ri Yan decided to hunt Su Yan, the Blood Race, and the Mud Star Beast after he and Wuyue recovered.
• Su Yan told Ri Yan that the Jellyfish Star Beast was still alive, and Ri Yan reconsidered his plan.
• The Mud Star Beast ambushed Ri Yan and Wuyue, swallowed Ri Yan, and fought Wuyue as she exposed its hidden form.
• Ri Yan burst out of the Mud Star Beast and fled with Wuyue, warning her to run.
• A sword dragon and more than twenty Dao Fusion cultivators emerged from the Mud Star Beast, each controlled by a tiny jellyfish attached to its head.

Lu Ye realized the Jellyfish Star Beast’s Clones could survive independently and control many Merging Dao cultivators, including Song Weiwei. As Ri Yan and Wuyue faced a growing swarm of puppets, Ri Yan turned to fight back while Wuyue unleashed Sea Rises Bright Moon.

• Lu Ye understood that the Jellyfish Star Beast’s Clones could live on after its main body died and could control vast numbers of cultivators.
• Lu Ye recognized Song Weiwei among the controlled puppets and hesitated over whether to reveal himself to help her.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue fled more than twenty pursuers, but additional controlled cultivators ambushed them along the way.
• Ri Yan realized the Jellyfish Star Beast was exhausting his Dao power with nearly forty puppets and decided to turn and kill some of them.
• Song Weiwei led the pursuing group as Wuyue weakened their attacks with Sea Rises Bright Moon and Ri Yan transformed into golden armor.

Lu Ye and Su Yan trapped the Mud Star Beast on the White Jade Platform and discovered that its body redirected attacks into a refining subspace. They let it swallow them so they could attack from within, where they faced a soul-eroding realm of rot and decay.

• Wuyue slowed the puppets with her Secret Technique while Ri Yan attacked Song Weiwei, but the other puppets forced him to abandon his strike and defend himself.
• Lu Ye recovered the lost portion of his Talent Tree and joined Su Yan in trapping the Mud Star Beast on the White Jade Platform.
• Lu Ye's saber attacks failed to harm the Mud Star Beast, while Su Yan's strikes made it flee without injuring it.
• Su Yan realized that the Mud Star Beast transferred attacks into a refining subspace inside its body, and she and Lu Ye decided to enter it together.
• The Mud Star Beast swallowed Lu Ye and Su Yan, who arrived in a foul, decaying subspace that began eroding their bodies and souls.

Lu Ye and Su Yan shattered the Mud Star Beast’s pocket space with Su Yan’s devastating spatial arrows, killing it and escaping. The disturbance exposed Lu Ye’s feigned death, while Ri Yan and Wuyue withdrew from their battle with the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets, leaving Lu Ye considering another plan.

• Su Yan borrowed Lu Ye’s Dao Power and used the Path of Space to prepare thirteen golden arrows inside the Mud Star Beast’s pocket space.
• Su Yan released the arrows, shattering the pocket space and killing the Mud Star Beast; Lu Ye and Su Yan escaped with its Star Abyss Coin left behind.
• Ri Yan killed many of the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets, then fled with Wuyue when reinforcements arrived and threatened to overwhelm them.
• Wuyue told Ri Yan that the Mud Star Beast had died and Lu Ye was alive, and Ri Yan learned that Lu Ye had apparently feigned his death.
• The Jellyfish Star Beast stopped its pursuit after sensing its companion’s death, while Lu Ye realized his survival had been exposed and considered another plan.

Ri Yan and Wuyue joined forces with Blood Fiend, who wanted to kill the Human Race Weapon Cultivator, and planned to target the Jellyfish Star Beast first. When Ri Yan and Wuyue reached the White Jade Platform, they found more than twenty puppets occupying its Dao Pools.

• Ri Yan and Wuyue met Blood Fiend, who proposed joining forces against the Jellyfish Star Beast.
• Blood Fiend said he wanted to kill the Human Race Weapon Cultivator, and Ri Yan accepted the alliance.
• Blood Fiend warned that Lu Ye and Su Yan were recovering in the Dao Pools and urged Ri Yan and Wuyue to act quickly.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue left their hiding place after hearing a brief battle near the White Jade Platform.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue arrived at the platform and saw more than twenty Jellyfish Star Beast puppets scattered among the four Dao Pools.

Ri Yan, Wuyue, and Lu Ye’s disguised clone attacked the Jellyfish Star Beast’s puppets at the White Jade Platform, killing many of them. Lu Ye discovered that Song Weiwei could not survive after her puppet cap was destroyed, while Ri Yan and Wuyue continued fighting the remaining puppets as Lu Ye and Su Yan watched from afar.

• Ri Yan and Wuyue charged the White Jade Platform, where Blood Fiend trapped the puppets in a Blood Sea.
• Guided through the Blood Sea, Ri Yan and Wuyue killed the six puppets at one Dao Pool and then hunted others.
• Blood Fiend crushed the jellyfish controlling Song Weiwei, freeing her; she recognized him as Senior Brother Lu and said farewell as her life faded.
• The Blood Sea collapsed, revealing that only thirteen of the Jellyfish Star Beast’s twenty-three puppets remained, and they attacked Ri Yan and Wuyue.
• Ri Yan and Wuyue struggled against the remaining puppets while Blood Fiend suffered backlash; Lu Ye and Su Yan watched the battle from a Floating Land a hundred thousand miles away.

Lu Ye and Su Yan confronted Ri Yan after the battle at the White Jade Platform, but Ri Yan protected himself with a powerful Exotic Treasure. Lu Ye used the Spirit Binding Lock to kill Wuyue instead, then prepared to face Ri Yan directly with Su Yan.

• Ri Yan, Wuyue, and Blood Fiend defeated the Jellyfish Star Beast and its puppets, leaving them exhausted as Lu Ye and Su Yan emerged to challenge them.
• Ri Yan activated a golden defensive Exotic Treasure, survived Su Yan's arrows, and drove Lu Ye and Su Yan into retreat.
• Lu Ye redirected the Spirit Binding Lock from Ri Yan to Wuyue, while his Clone revealed himself and killed her.
• Ri Yan sensed Wuyue's death and disrupted Su Yan's spatial escape technique, preventing them from fleeing effectively.
• Lu Ye decided to fight Ri Yan head-on, recalled his Clone, and told Su Yan to join her aura to his for the Three Powers Formation.

Su Yan revealed her Phoenix Race heritage and unleashed a devastating golden phoenix attack against Ri Yan, breaking his Exotic Treasure protection. With Su Yan exhausted and Ri Yan still alive, Lu Ye charged at him to press the advantage.

• Ri Yan relentlessly attacked Lu Ye, Su Yan, and the Clone while his Exotic Treasure protected him, and the Three Powers Formation struggled to withstand him.
• Su Yan moved the formation to the edge of the Starry Sky Fragment and prepared a powerful Secret Technique, drawing heavily on Lu Ye's Dao power.
• Su Yan manifested golden wings and summoned a golden phoenix, then released an attack that struck Ri Yan.
• The golden phoenix attack cracked Ri Yan's Exotic Treasure protection, and he realized Su Yan came from the Phoenix Race.
• Su Yan collapsed from exhaustion, and Lu Ye entrusted her to the Clone before charging at the still-living Ri Yan.

Lu Ye killed Ri Yan and, with Su Yan, became a Son of the Star Abyss. Qi sent them to an unfamiliar location far from Variegated Starry Sky, where a power she had planted in them awakened and stirred overwhelming desires.

• Ri Yan used his last strength to attack Lu Ye, but Lu Ye overcame him and killed him.
• Qi announced that Lu Ye and Su Yan were the new Sons of the Star Abyss and said she could send them to only one location.
• Su Yan chose to go with Lu Ye, and Qi sent them away together.
• Lu Ye realized they had arrived far from Variegated Starry Sky, though he could still sense its location.
• A warmth spread from Lu Ye's forehead as the Talent Tree reacted, and he and Su Yan realized Qi had tampered with them.

Lu Ye and Su Yan were overwhelmed by Qi’s hidden influence, and Su Yan revealed that the Star Abyss will sought to use Sons of the Star Abyss to bring itself into the world. Su Yan entered Phoenix Nirvana to escape its influence, leaving Lu Ye to guard her egg and consider the danger posed to Star Abyss elites.

• Lu Ye took Su Yan to a Barren Star as Qi’s hidden influence flooded them with desire, and Su Yan told him that Qi had once been a Son of the Star Abyss and had become a puppet of a will seeking birth.
• Su Yan explained that the will had chosen a man and a woman as Sons of the Star Abyss so their offspring could provide it a chance to be born, then urged Lu Ye not to let it control him.
• After several days, Lu Ye’s Talent Tree finally eliminated Qi’s influence, and he found Su Yan transformed into a golden Phoenix Egg after using her Phoenix Nirvana Technique.
• Lu Ye realized Su Yan was a pure-blooded member of the Phoenix Race and reasoned that repeated Star Abyss Blessings could build a foundation for the will’s birth within elite cultivators.
• Lu Ye concluded that the Talent Tree kept him free of the influence and reflected that Su Yan could have killed him through their Concord Knot, but instead chose nirvana.

After the contest ended, Lu Ye discovered that his encounter with Su Yan had transformed his Fire Phoenix Dao Pattern and improved his mastery of space and Dao Power. He set out for Variegated, hoping to return home and prepare for Fusion Dao.

• Su Yan had originally planned to warn Lu Ye about the Star Abyss before parting from him, but the unexpected events involving Qi left her in a Phoenix Egg.
• Lu Ye examined his Talent Tree and found that the Fire Phoenix Dao Pattern had changed after he broke through the obstruction within Su Yan's body.
• Lu Ye discovered that his understanding of space had improved, his Void Dao Pattern had been refined, and he could refine Dao Power more efficiently as the Son of the Star Abyss.
• After confirming that he had found no other changes, Lu Ye left his hiding place with the Phoenix Egg strapped to his back.
• Lu Ye followed the distant sense of Variegated, expecting it to take at least half a year to catch up with the drifting realm.

Lu Ye discovered that his mastery of space let him teleport, then encountered a Soul Erosion Wind that led him to a seemingly harmless stone statue. The statue revealed itself as a predator seeking Su Yan’s Phoenix Egg, and Lu Ye attacked it.

• Lu Ye successfully used the Space Teleportation Technique but found it slow, limited, and unsuitable for battle.
• After traveling for a month with Su Yan’s motionless Phoenix Egg, Lu Ye was caught in a hot wind that drained his Soul Power.
• Lu Ye followed a voice to a Floating Land, where a stone statue explained that the Soul Erosion Wind followed vitality and urged him to leave the egg behind.
• The statue transformed into a many-limbed creature, threatened Lu Ye, and admitted it wanted the egg.
• Lu Ye recognized the statue’s deception and rushed past it with a dazzling saber strike.

Lu Ye killed a stone statue Fusion Dao cultivator, discovered that its death gave him a Star Abyss Coin and permanent access to a vast treasure vault instead of a Star Abyss Blessing, then waited as Su Yan completed her nirvana. Su Yan emerged younger and pretended not to remember their intimate past, but chose to follow Lu Ye toward his home near Variegated.

• Lu Ye killed the stone statue and found Dao Bones and a Star Abyss Coin among its fragments, but received no Star Abyss Blessing.
• Lu Ye used the coin to access a vast Star Abyss Treasure Vault containing attribute treasures and Supreme Treasures, including the Water Gourd Supreme Treasure he wanted.
• After cracks spread across the Phoenix Egg, golden flames enveloped it and Su Yan emerged from her nirvana in a much younger form.
• Su Yan claimed she could not remember Lu Ye, though he realized she was embarrassed about their past and let her keep up the pretense.
• Lu Ye said he was heading toward Variegated and his home, and Su Yan told him she would follow.