Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Heavenly Gang Star System faced a growing Star Abyss threat, but revealed that he had brought three thousand Variegated Human Race Dao Entry cultivators to aid the starry sky. He also disclosed that he had become Variegated’s master and entered Merging Dao, becoming the starry sky’s first native Merging Dao cultivator.

• Gu Yunliu told Lu Ye that Ninth Layer Dao cultivators had appeared at the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Heavenly Gang Star System, while Annihilation faced a less severe invasion.
• Old Tree explained that Azure Bird and Dancing Maiden were stationed at those two locations and were deterring the invading forces for now.
• Gu Yunliu reported that a group of unusually powerful Human Race cultivators bearing strange weapons had appeared on the Annihilation battlefield, and Lu Ye said he had brought them.
• Lu Ye explained that the fighters came from Variegated, which he had refined, and that three thousand Dao Entry cultivators equipped with Dao Artifacts had been mobilized to help.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had entered Merging Dao Second Level, and Gu Yunliu and the others rejoiced that the starry sky had gained its first native Merging Dao cultivator.

Lu Ye coordinated Variegated reinforcements through Old Tree, distributed Dao Patterns to support future Fusion Dao cultivators, and began a plan to forge one. After assigning Variegated forces across the starry sky, he went to meet Chen Wulei, the sole Ninth Layer Dao candidate from the Yellow Dragon Realm.

• Lu Ye told Old Tree to coordinate the Variegated Human Race and promised to find more Dao Artifacts from the Giant, Insect, and Blood Races.
• Lu Ye gave Old Tree ten Dao Patterns to help cultivators choose foundations for advancing to Fusion Dao.
• Huang Cui'er brought twelve hundred Variegated cultivators and a Storage Ring to Lu Ye, who placed them under Old Tree's command.
• Old Tree deployed about a thousand Variegated cultivators to three Star Abyss Gates and sent two hundred to hunt scattered Star Abyss Outsiders.
• Lu Ye visited Chen Wulei, the only Ninth Layer Dao cultivator in the Phantom Destruction War Zone, to discuss forging a Fusion Dao powerhouse.

Lu Ye reassured Chen Wulei about the starry sky’s crisis and helped him prepare to advance to Merging Dao. Chen Wulei chose a formation-focused Dao Pattern, and Lu Ye used the Life Chain to rapidly replenish his Dao Force, leaving him ready to attempt another breakthrough.

• Lu Ye told Chen Wulei that he had killed many Merging Dao Peak cultivators and could handle the invading enemies, easing Chen Wulei’s pressure.
• Chen Wulei resolved to protect the starry sky and asked Lu Ye to help him advance to Merging Dao.
• After examining Lu Ye’s ten Dao Patterns, Chen Wulei chose Shared Breath, Connected Branches so he could help others form formations.
• Lu Ye formed a Life Chain between himself and Chen Wulei, explaining that it would let Chen Wulei share the benefits of Lu Ye refining Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye refined more than a hundred Dao Bones, replenishing Chen Wulei’s Dao Force until Chen Wulei called for him to stop.

Lu Ye returned to Variegated with Huang Chen to negotiate the Giant Race’s departure in exchange for a slot and Dao Artifacts, then used Variegated’s power to search the starry sky. He found a familiar frog-like creature trapped inside Variegated and traveled to the Insect and Blood Races’ emperor stars, where he realized both sides had kept their strongest experts out of the war to prevent it from escalating.

• Lu Ye guided Chen Wulei through practicing the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Dao Pattern until Chen could construct it well enough to attempt advancing to Merging Dao.
• Lu Ye returned to Variegated and asked Huang Chen to accompany him and contact the Giant Race.
• Lu Ye offered the Giant Race one slot and two hundred Dao Artifacts in exchange for leaving Variegated, provided their departure did not affect the battle.
• Lu Ye searched Variegated for the Insect Emperor Star and Blood Emperor Star, spotted a familiar frog-like creature trapped in the realm, and then shifted to the emperor stars.
• Lu Ye sensed the many powerful experts stationed at the emperor stars and realized both sides were controlling the war’s scale to keep it from escalating.

Lu Ye arrived at the Gemini Stars and killed ten Insect and Blood Race Merging Dao cultivators, including a Merging Dao Peak Blood Race expert, forcing the two races to recognize his overwhelming strength. He told the Insect Mother he had come to talk and warned that he could strike their scattered forces across other war zones, leaving negotiations possible but the terms unresolved.

• Lu Ye killed an Insect Race Merging Dao Eighth Layer and a Blood Race Merging Dao Ninth Level cultivator with single saber strikes.
• The Insect Mother recognized Lu Ye and ordered the Insect and Blood Races to attack him.
• Lu Ye charged into the Blood Race forces and killed seven or eight Merging Dao cultivators before a Merging Dao Peak expert confronted him.
• Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature suppressed the Blood Race expert, and Lu Ye killed him with a saber strike.
• The Insect Mother called for the attack to stop and asked whether Lu Ye was a Harmony Dao cultivator.
• Lu Ye said he had come to talk and threatened the two races’ scattered forces, prompting the Insect Mother to ask what he wanted.

Lu Ye demanded three thousand Dao Artifacts from the Insect and Blood Races and spent the intervening days befriending a Roam Dragon. When he appeared inside Insect Emperor Star despite their defenses, he stopped the Insect Mother’s attack by revealing that You Die had left the Variegated realm and advanced to Dao Unity.

• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother to provide three thousand Dao Artifacts within three days or lose one Merging Dao life for every artifact missing.
• Lu Ye found the Roam Dragon in the Void, captured it briefly, then played with it using a Concealment Dao Rune in hopes of taming it.
• The Insect and Blood Races gathered their Merging Dao powerhouses and prepared to stop Lu Ye from taking the artifacts.
• Lu Ye appeared inside Insect Emperor Star, bypassing the defenses, and withstood the Insect Mother’s attempt to drag him into a Soul Battle.
• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had sent You Die out of the Variegated realm and that she had likely advanced to Dao Unity.
• The Insect Mother ordered the Insect and Blood Race powerhouses to stop advancing and await further orders.

Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had become Variegated's master and explained why he intended to preserve the Insect and Blood Races. To prove that it could leave Variegated, he brought its Soul Body outside, where it saw the Star Abyss Gate and met Yan Yao.

• Lu Ye told the Insect Mother that he had killed Nine Infants, refined Variegated, and could come and go freely as its master.
• The Insect Mother asked to see outside Variegated, and Lu Ye let its Soul Body enter his Divine Sea.
• Lu Ye led the Insect Mother through the Ruins and out of Variegated into Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye showed the Insect Mother the Star Abyss Gate and explained that he needed three thousand Dao Artifacts to support the starry sky beyond it.
• Yan Yao arrived, recognized the Insect Mother's Soul Body, and greeted Lu Ye.

Lu Ye secured the Insect and Blood Races’ surrender and obtained Dao Artifacts from them and the Giant Race, then returned to the starry sky to strengthen its defenses. He traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where an increasingly frequent series of probing invasions threatened to overwhelm the local defenders.

• Lu Ye refused the Insect Mother’s request to enter the starry sky, returned with it to the Insect Nest, and accepted three thousand Dao Artifacts from the Insect and Blood Races in exchange for no longer interfering in Variegated’s affairs.
• Huang Chen brought five Giant Race cultivators to Lu Ye, who accepted their thousand Dao Artifacts and guided them through the Ruins out of Variegated.
• Lu Ye decided not to seal the Star Abyss Gate, since invasions could help starry sky cultivators grow stronger, and returned to the war fortress.
• Gu Yunliu told Lu Ye that Chen Wulei had advanced to Dao Fusion, stabilizing the Phantom Extinction Star System battlefield.
• Lu Ye gave most of the newly acquired Dao Artifacts to Old Tree, kept two hundred, and set out for the Myriad Phenomena Sea after learning a large-scale invasion was expected within half a year.
• Lu Ye reached the Myriad Phenomena Star System and followed his familiar route toward the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Jade Sword Island.

Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, where Nine Radiance and the other defenders welcomed him and hoped his strength could turn the tide against Star Abyss. He reunited privately with Nine Radiance and prepared to help her advance, while the renewed probing attacks from Star Abyss threatened the fragile calm.

• Lu Ye arrived at Jade Sword Island, greeted Dancing Maiden, and reunited with Nine Radiance and the defenders near the Star Abyss Gate.
• Nine Radiance told Lu Ye that Hua Ci was cultivating on Three Realms Island and came to support battles when needed.
• Lu Ye explained his plan to the assembled cultivators, then asked Nine Radiance to come with him into the palace.
• Nine Radiance embraced Lu Ye and admitted she had feared he would not return, recalling the burden of defending the Myriad Phenomena Sea alone.
• The chapter recounted how Dancing Maiden's presence had halted invasions, but Star Abyss forces had begun probing the defenses again in recent months.

Lu Ye helped Nine Radiance prepare to advance to Fusion Dao by sharing Dao Power and teaching her a defensive Dao Pattern, then returned to Three Realms Island and reunited with its cultivators. He left the island’s people with a detailed account of the Star Abyss as the threat of invasion loomed.

• Lu Ye reassured Nine Radiance and used a Life Chain to replenish her Dao Power while she studied the Divine Guardian Pattern.
• Nine Radiance began constructing the defensive Dao Pattern as Lu Ye left her to prepare for her Fusion Dao breakthrough.
• Lu Ye left two hundred Dao Artifacts at the palace to strengthen the cultivators defending the starry sky.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, where Tang Jun and the waiting cultivators welcomed him as the Great Island Master.
• Chu Shen thanked Lu Ye for helping his mother and declared him his real big brother.
• Lu Ye told the gathered cultivators detailed intelligence about the Star Abyss.

Lu Ye reunited with Hua Ci on Three Realms Island after more than ten years apart, but their flirtatious reunion turned into a teasing confrontation over his time away. Hua Ci insisted that Lu Ye put Nine Radiance first, leaving him caught between the two women.

• Lu Ye discussed how Three Realms Island and Nine Provinces were producing more Sunlight cultivators and proposed using Variegated as a training ground for cultivators who entered the Dao.
• Lu Ye went to the mine vein to see Hua Ci, who revealed that she had advanced to Eight Dao.
• Hua Ci’s affectionate teasing briefly overwhelmed Lu Ye, but he turned the tables and playfully spanked her.
• Hua Ci asked why Lu Ye lacked Nine Radiance’s scent and hinted that she knew he had encountered someone else outside.
• Lu Ye tried to reassure Hua Ci, but she told him Nine Radiance was the elder sister and must come first, then teased him by suggesting they could serve him together after Nine Radiance advanced.

Lu Ye helped Hua Ci cultivate in the mine vein, where she advanced to Ninth Layer Dao and chose Divine Guardian as her foundation for Fusion Dao. After Nine Radiance failed her Fusion Dao attempt, Hua Ci sent Lu Ye to comfort her, while Chu Shen praised his big brother for working hard.

• Lu Ye helped Hua Ci replenish her Dao Power, and she teased him before revealing that she had advanced to Ninth Layer Dao.
• Hua Ci chose Divine Guardian as her Fusion Dao foundation, and Lu Ye taught her the Dao Mark while helping other Starry Sky Entering Dao cultivators refine their strength.
• Nine Radiance emerged from seclusion after failing her first Fusion Dao attempt, and Hua Ci comforted her while sending Lu Ye into the room to cheer her up.
• Hua Ci stopped Chu Shen from visiting Nine Radiance and told him that Lu Ye was taking care of her, prompting Chu Shen to praise his big brother's hard work.

Lu Ye staged a battle with the Dancing Maiden to convince Star Abyss scouts that a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator was holding the butterfly Star Beast at bay. After the scouts reported back, Hai Chen considered launching an invasion, while Lu Ye began evacuating the Myriad Phenomena Sea and prepared further traps.

• Hua Ci and Chu Shen detected an imminent Star Abyss invasion, and Lu Ye abandoned his private moment with Nine Radiance to carry out his plan.
• Lu Ye transformed into a Blood Race Merging Dao cultivator and fought the Dancing Maiden while Starry Sky cultivators staged support from afar.
• Three Ninth Layer Dao scouts emerged from the Star Abyss Gate, witnessed the battle, and retreated to report what they had seen.
• Lu Ye revealed the deception to Mang Dang and ordered cultivators below Dao Entry to evacuate the Myriad Phenomena Sea into the Merfolk Race territory.
• Hua Ci returned to Lu Ye’s side with the Pixiu and assured him that her Dao Artifact would protect her while he went to the other side.
• The scouts reported the supposed Blood Race ally to Hai Chen, and another Merging Dao cultivator urged Hai Chen to exploit the chance to invade.

Lu Ye massacred the Star Abyss invaders emerging into the Myriad Phenomena Sea while his clone captured scouts and learned Hai Chen’s plans. Disguised as the captured scouts, Lu Ye and his clone crossed the Star Abyss Gate and convinced Hai Chen that the invasion was succeeding.

• Hai Chen suspected another Star Abyss Gate had opened in the starry sky and ordered selected Dao Entry cultivators to watch for trouble and report back.
• Lu Ye killed the invading Star Abyss creatures as they emerged from the gate, while the Dao Entry cultivators collected their Dao Bones.
• The Talent Tree Clone captured scouts and probed their memories, learning Hai Chen’s orders and identifying him.
• Lu Ye and his clone disguised themselves as captured scouts, crossed the gate, and told Hai Chen that the butterfly star beast was suppressed and the starry sky’s cultivators had been slaughtered.
• Hai Chen and the surrounding Merging Dao cultivators accepted the false report and celebrated the supposed success of the invasion.

Hai Chen ordered a full-scale invasion, and Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea to contain the Star Abyss forces with his Blood Sea. As the slaughter intensified, the Star Abyss Will punished Lu Ye for acting against his role as a Son of the Star Abyss, leaving him gravely wounded and sinking beneath the sea.

• Hai Chen ordered the Star Abyss cultivators to launch a full-scale invasion, and Lu Ye rushed back through the Star Abyss Gate.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood Sea around the gate, trapped the invading Star Abyss beings, and helped the starry sky cultivators kill them and collect their Dao Bones.
• Lu Ye felt growing malice from the Star Abyss Will and realized it was warning him because, as a Son of the Star Abyss, he was obstructing the invasion.
• Lu Ye warned Hua Ci and the Dao Entry cultivators to retreat when scattered Dao Power began gathering into a sphere.
• The Dao Power sphere engulfed Lu Ye, shattered the Blood Sea, and blasted a vast vacuum into existence before his battered body fell into the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

After a Star Abyss attack knocked Lu Ye unconscious, Hua Ci rescued him and he recovered, then returned to the battle at the Star Abyss Gate. He drove the invaders back and sent Hai Chen a warning, while the starry sky Dao Entrants counted a vast haul of Dao Bones.

• A powerful lightning-ball attack struck Lu Ye and knocked him unconscious, so Hua Ci plunged into the Myriad Phenomena Sea and carried him to Jade Sword Island.
• Lu Ye woke, realized the attack had shaken his Divine Soul, and returned with Hua Ci to the battle as Star Abyss cultivators broke through the blockade.
• Lu Ye overwhelmed the invaders with his Fusion Dao aura and let one terrified Star Abyss cultivator escape with a message for Hai Chen.
• The fighting subsided, and Lu Ye stopped obstructing the invasion because he feared the Star Abyss would punish him again.
• The three hundred Dao Entrants survived and had slain several thousand enemies, claiming more than ten thousand Dao Bones, though they lacked the numbers and time to refine most of them.

Lu Ye defeated Hai Chen and persuaded him to send cultivators through the Star Abyss Gate in batches, promising him a belonging treasure in return. After they swore oaths to the Star Abyss Will, Lu Ye left Hai Chen in charge, while the Talent Tree revealed that Lu Ye’s own oath was false.

• Lu Ye endured Hai Chen’s Water Dragon and Wuhuan Heavy Water, then split the dragon with a saber strike and wounded Hai Chen.
• Lu Ye told Hai Chen to send cultivators through the Star Abyss Gate in batches of no more than two thousand over ten years.
• Lu Ye gave Hai Chen a Jade Token and promised him an offensive and defensive belonging treasure after ten years.
• At Hai Chen’s request, Lu Ye and Hai Chen swore oaths in the name of the Star Abyss Will, and Lu Ye claimed he could pass freely through the gate because he was born in the Origin Starry Sky.
• After Hai Chen pledged to carry out Lu Ye’s orders, Lu Ye checked the Talent Tree and saw thick black smoke rising from it.

Hai Chen agreed to cooperate with Lu Ye to contain the Star Abyss invasion, turning the Myriad Phenomena Sea crisis into an opportunity for the starry sky. After reporting the plan to Old Tree and returning to Three Realms Island, Lu Ye explained his Star Abyss status to Hua Ci and faced her provocative challenge.

• Hai Chen told the Star Abyss creatures that he had reached an agreement with Lu Ye and ordered them to set aside further invasion plans.
• Lu Ye told Old Tree and the Entering Dao cultivators that they could coordinate with Hai Chen to defeat the tens of thousands of enemies within ten years, and Old Tree agreed to support his next plan for the Heavenly Gang Star System.
• Old Tree offered Lu Ye the remaining Dao Bones, and Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island after the Myriad Phenomena Sea became quiet.
• Hua Ci pulled Lu Ye into a Bamboo Lodge, then asked about the strange attack that had left him unconscious during the battle.
• Lu Ye explained that he was the Son of the Star Abyss, described his deal with Hai Chen, and warned Hua Ci about swearing oaths under Star Abyss aura.
• Hua Ci challenged Lu Ye about his plans to leave, and he answered, "Bring it on!"

Lu Ye traveled from the Myriad Phenomena Sea to Heavenly Dipper to investigate Square Inch Mountain and address the Star Abyss invasion. He reunited with Azure Bird, who guarded the mountain, and promised to deal with the crisis before telling her about the Star Abyss.

• After several days with Hua Ci left him exhausted, Lu Ye set out for Heavenly Dipper and refined Dao Bones during his journey.
• Lu Ye reached Heavenly Dipper in three days and saw the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, recalling how past cultivators had sacrificed themselves to seal a Star Abyss Gate.
• Lu Ye considered whether he could use Square Inch Mountain to seal the Star Abyss Gates, though he did not yet know how to command its power.
• Lu Ye approached Square Inch Mountain and greeted Azure Bird, thanking her for guarding it and asking after the years she had spent protecting Heavenly Dipper.
• Azure Bird asked about Dancing Maiden and the Star Abyss, and Lu Ye said he had come to address the invasion but needed to handle something first.

Lu Ye resolved the Star Abyss invasion threat near the Heavenly Dipper by striking a deal with its Giant Race leader, then returned to Square Inch Mountain to reunite with its defenders and prepare two of them for Fusion Dao. He left Su Yuqing to refine Dao Bones after sharing a tender reunion with her.

• Lu Ye challenged the enormous Giant Race cultivator in the Star Abyss and secretly agreed to provide him with two affiliated treasures over ten years in exchange for orderly invasions.
• Lu Ye returned to Square Inch Mountain and reunited with Su Yuqing, Chen Xuanhai, Wu Qimo, Zhang Kun, Shuixian, Chen Li, and the other defenders.
• Lu Ye brought Shuixian and Chen Li into a secret chamber, replenished their Dao force, and instructed them as they prepared to break through to Fusion Dao.
• Lu Ye reunited privately with Su Yuqing, embraced and kissed her, then urged her to cultivate and refine the Dao Bones he had brought.