Chapter Summaries

Nearly fifty years after the first Star Abyss Gate opened, the starry sky had recovered from its crises, but Lu Ye had vanished after sacrificing himself to repair the seventh gate. On Green Bamboo Peak, the young man raised by Little Nine followed him and three women into a secret chamber, where he saw the pale-gold egg that had been calling to him.

• The starry sky’s forces grew strong enough to use the six Star Abyss Gates for training, while most people believed Lu Ye was recovering and only a few knew he had truly died repairing the seventh gate.
• The young man trained on Green Bamboo Peak under Little Nine, who struck him for losing focus, while Little Flower Maiden gave him fruit tea.
• Little Nine questioned the young man about his Asura Arena training and decided to give him a much harder challenge next time after he boasted that no opponent could withstand him.
• The young man asked about the object that had been calling to him, and Little Nine told him to wait before Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance arrived.
• Little Nine led them into a hidden cave, where the young man sensed an object of immense importance and discovered a person-height pale-gold egg.

After three years of Phoenix Nirvana, Lu Ye emerged from the egg and reunited with Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance, though he had become younger and shorter. Fei Mu met Lu Ye for the first time, then Little Nine sent him into a punishing Asura Illusion, while Hua Ci hinted she had something troubling to ask Lu Ye.

• Fei Mu felt drawn to the cracked Phoenix Egg, touched it, and pulled Lu Ye out when Lu Ye grabbed his hand from inside.
• Lu Ye recognized Fei Mu as his Dao Body, learned his name, and discovered that Fei Mu was a Crimson Blood Sect disciple who admired him.
• Hua Ci dressed Lu Ye and told him that three years had passed and that he had grown shorter and younger during Nirvana.
• Lu Ye embraced Hua Ci, and Little Nine took Fei Mu outside before sending him into a specially tailored Asura Illusion.
• Lu Ye embraced Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance, then Hua Ci asked him about something she could not figure out.

After three years of Phoenix Nirvana, Lu Ye awakened with his cultivation reduced to the Divine Sea level and reunited with Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance. He emerged to find Nine Provinces peaceful, then went to Old Tree to learn what had happened during his absence and confront it about its role.

• Hua Ci questioned Lu Ye about his Phoenix bloodline, and Lu Ye kissed her before drawing Su Yuqing and Nine Radiance into his embrace.
• Hua Ci and the others eventually left, and Lu Ye inspected his transformed Nirvana Dao Pattern, weakened cultivation, intact Dao Bone, and preserved Little Flower Realm and Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye left the karst cave and found Little Nine happily pushing a little girl on a swing.
• Little Nine sent Lu Ye to the Nine Provinces Garrison Hall, where Old Tree greeted him.
• Lu Ye sat beneath the Cycle Tree and accused Old Tree of putting him through the wringer, while Old Tree acted as though it knew nothing.

After awakening from Phoenix Nirvana, Lu Ye learned from Old Tree that the starry sky was stable and its cultivators were growing stronger, though Yun Shiwang remained bound to the Heavenly Pivot Sword. Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak to recover and spend time with Yiyi and Amber.

• Old Tree explained that Square Inch Mountain remained safe after Lu Ye repaired the Seventh Star Abyss Gate and that the other six gates were stable.
• Old Tree said Yun Shiwang would lose himself when his thirty-year obsession ended in four years, and that saving him from the Heavenly Pivot Sword would be nearly impossible.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that the starry sky had nearly ten Merging Dao cultivators, had established contact with Variegated, and was sending cultivators there for training.
• Lu Ye asked how he might find Yang Qing, and Old Tree suggested the Phoenix Race might know where to look for the Dragon Race cultivator.
• Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak, where Yiyi and Amber welcomed him, and he chose to recover slowly while reflecting on his cultivation.

After Chu Shen accepted Lu Ye and Nine Radiance’s relationship, Lu Ye traveled the Nine Provinces for four years before returning to the starry sky. He paid his respects to Yun Shiwang from afar and began exploring the Starry Sky Spectacles.

• Chu Shen visited Lu Ye, confessed that he was happy his mother had found a home with Big Brother, then drunkenly knelt and called Lu Ye his father before Little Nine subdued him.
• Lu Ye traveled across the transformed Nine Provinces, sometimes accompanied by Hua Ci, Yiyi, and Amber, and enjoyed seeing the realm that had raised him.
• Fei Mu repeatedly sought Lu Ye’s cultivation advice, and Lu Ye taught him while Fei Mu trained in the Asura Illusion and advanced toward Star Constellation.
• After four years of traveling through the Nine Provinces, Lu Ye entered the starry sky and bowed toward the seventh Star Abyss Gate, sensing that Yun Shiwang’s long vigil was nearing its end.
• Lu Ye began exploring the Starry Sky Spectacles one by one.

After fourteen years of recovering from Nirvana, Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, reunited with Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance, then set out to find a way to resolve the starry sky’s crisis. When he entered the Star Abyss again, he discovered that he could not remain in the Outer Realm and was being drawn into the Inner Realm.

• Lu Ye finished recovering his cultivation to the Merging Dao Fifth Layer and found that he could wield three hundred and fifty strands of basic Dao Power.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, where Hua Ci, Su Yuqing, and Nine Radiance spent a month with him before he departed again; Yiyi left him a message wishing him a safe return.
• Lu Ye checked the repaired Star Abyss Gate in the Puling Star System and confirmed that the Little People Race had returned to Square Inch Mountain.
• Lu Ye told Old Tree he would return within a thousand years, then entered the Star Abyss through the Phantom Extinction Star System gate.
• Lu Ye felt himself being pulled toward the Inner Realm and retreated through the gate, telling Old Tree he could not remain in the Outer Realm.

Lu Ye discovered that an unexplained force was pulling him into the Inner Realm, which he believed was a lingering punishment from the Star Abyss Will. After accepting the forced descent, he arrived in the Inner Realm and found a Uniting Dao City nearby.

• Lu Ye tested the force at the Star Abyss Gate and concluded that the Star Abyss Will was still punishing him by forcing him into the Inner Realm.
• Lu Ye abandoned his plans to visit Variegated and told Old Tree to ask Yin Luo to cultivate well because he would wait for her in the Inner Realm.
• Lu Ye entered the Inner Realm, found no nearby life, and considered how to conceal his unusually pure aura.
• Lu Ye headed toward a nearby Barren Star, saw that much of it had been destroyed, and discovered a giant Uniting Dao City beyond it.

Lu Ye explored a ruined Uniting Dao City, changed his aura to resemble a Star Abyss cultivator, and advanced to the Merging Dao Sixth Layer. After spending months building his reserves and surveying the empty surroundings, he returned to find a mysterious woman in the city.

• Lu Ye confirmed the ruined Uniting Dao City was empty, explored its wreckage, and cultivated Star Abyss aura until his own aura changed.
• Lu Ye inscribed a sixth Divine Edge Dao Pattern and advanced to the Merging Dao Sixth Layer, greatly increasing his destructive power.
• Lu Ye remained in the city for half a year to accumulate Dao Power and undergo Bone Cultivation, then spent a month surveying the surrounding area.
• Lu Ye returned to the city and considered whether to keep cultivating or seek opportunities, unaware that a woman had arrived while he was away.
• Lu Ye heard footsteps, looked up, and faced the white-clad woman as if confronting a dangerous enemy.

Lu Ye encountered a mysterious Dao Union woman, then was chased and badly injured by a middle-aged Dao Union cultivator searching for her. He lured the man back to the ruined city, where the woman suddenly appeared and confronted him.

• A mysterious woman entered Lu Ye's hiding place, identified him as Dao Fusion, and left without hostility, so he fled the ruined city.
• A middle-aged Dao Union cultivator caught up with Lu Ye and showed him an image of the woman, whom Lu Ye said was in the ruined city.
• When the man grabbed him, Lu Ye wounded him with a saber and fought back, but the man overwhelmed his Blood Sea Art and pursued him.
• The middle-aged man struck Lu Ye down as they reached the ruined city, while Lu Ye tried to prepare a Talent Tree Clone for a desperate defense.
• The woman appeared behind the middle-aged man and calmly asked what he was doing in her city.

Lu Ye watched a woman kill a Uniting Dao cultivator who had come to bring her home, using a hidden and deadly method. She told Lu Ye she had killed him to keep her whereabouts secret, leaving Lu Ye uncertain whether she would silence him too.

• Lu Ye realized the middle-aged Uniting Dao cultivator treated the woman as his Madam rather than as an enemy.
• The middle-aged cultivator asked the woman to return to his lord, but she refused until he promised that his lord would listen to her.
• The woman whispered to the middle-aged cultivator, who suddenly attacked her and then struck his own head.
• A worm crawled from the middle-aged cultivator's ear, and he died as the woman watched.
• The woman told Lu Ye she had killed the cultivator to keep her whereabouts secret, and Lu Ye feared she might kill him as well.

Lu Ye was forced into Yuan Xi’s service and became the City Guard Grand Commander of Yuan Xi City, then helped her rebuild its Grand Array. After two months of work, Yuan Xi took Lu Ye beyond the city gates, leaving their destination unknown.

• Yuan Xi marked Lu Ye with an insect-like imprint in his Divine Sea and appointed him City Guard Grand Commander of Yuan Xi City.
• Lu Ye stayed in the ruined city, confirmed the imprint posed no threat, and decided Yuan Xi offered a safer refuge than leaving.
• Yuan Xi rebuilt the city and began constructing its Grand Array, while Lu Ye assisted her and improved his Formation Dao attainments.
• After two months, Yuan Xi completed the array’s basic framework and rested while Lu Ye stayed in the Grand Commander’s Hall.
• Yuan Xi summoned Lu Ye and led him out of Yuan Xi City; Lu Ye knew she belonged to the Crimson Race.

Lu Ye accompanied Yuan Xi to a Starry Sky Spectacle where she planned to seize an emerging Uniting Dao Pearl, while he waited outside as powerful competitors gathered. After the pearl emerged, fighting erupted within, and Lu Ye could not tell whether Yuan Xi was among the combatants.

• Yuan Xi told Lu Ye she intended to seize a Uniting Dao Pearl and gave him an Inner Realm Star Map.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye reached a Beehive-like Starry Sky Spectacle, and Yuan Xi ordered Lu Ye to stay outside while she entered alone.
• Lu Ye hid in an Asteroid Belt as several groups of cultivators entered the spectacle.
• A Uniting Dao City arrived, and Lu Ye realized its City Lord could be Yuan Xi's most formidable rival.
• The Uniting Dao Pearl's strange fluctuations peaked and vanished, then fierce battles broke out inside the spectacle.

Lu Ye pursued a Blood Race Fusion Dao cultivator who he suspected had stolen a Uniting Dao Pearl. After killing the cultivator and taking the pearl, Lu Ye saw another figure rapidly approaching.

• Lu Ye spotted a Blood Race Fusion Dao cultivator fleeing the Beehive with several Fusion Dao cultivators in pursuit and joined the chase.
• The Blood Race cultivator used Blood Shadow Technique to scatter his pursuers, but Lu Ye tracked the true body using his Blood Race bloodline.
• When another pursuer proposed joining forces, Lu Ye abruptly killed him with a single attack.
• Lu Ye used his Sacred Nature to suppress the Blood Race cultivator, then killed him and found the Uniting Dao Pearl on his body.
• Lu Ye concealed the pearl in his robes after discovering it could not be stored in spatial treasures, but a streak of light rapidly approached him.

Lu Ye killed a powerful pursuer drawn by the Uniting Dao Pearl’s aura, then discovered that Fang had awakened with a possible breakthrough opportunity. As Lu Ye hurried toward Yuan Xi, he and Fang began considering how Fang might surpass its Dao Soldier limit.

• A Date Pit Merging Dao demanded the Uniting Dao Pearl from Lu Ye and attacked him with a powerful white jade ruler.
• Lu Ye overwhelmed the Date Pit cultivator and killed him, then heard Fang call out from the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye collected the three Merging Dao cultivators’ bodies and a Star Abyss Coin before teleporting to his Clone and heading toward the Starry Sky Spectacle.
• Fang explained that the aura of the Date Pit cultivator’s treasure of attribute had awakened it and given it a vague sense of a breakthrough opportunity.
• Lu Ye reasoned that Fang had awakened because it had reached the limit of a Dao Soldier, unlike the earlier times it encountered treasures of attribute.

Lu Ye tried to help Fang find a way to break through to the level of an Attribute Treasure, then returned to the Phoenix Nest battle and found Yuan Xi fleeing with a Uniting Dao City in pursuit. Yuan Xi used him as a decoy by tossing him an empty box, and Lu Ye prepared to escape when the pursuing city’s Uniting Dao cultivator mistook him for having the pearl.

• Lu Ye let Fang try to absorb the mysteries of an Attribute Treasure and strike it, but neither attempt revealed how Fang could break through.
• Lu Ye returned to the battlefield outside the Phoenix Nest, saw multiple Uniting Dao Pearls were available, and decided to leave with the one he had already obtained.
• Yuan Xi emerged from the Beehive spectacle with a Uniting Dao City pursuing her and threw Lu Ye a box, telling him to take it and run.
• Lu Ye dodged the box, but the pursuing City Lord sent a white-haired Uniting Dao cultivator after him, who struck him and demanded the pearl.
• Lu Ye realized he still carried his own Uniting Dao Pearl and used the Void Dao Pattern to begin escaping.

Lu Ye fled a Uniting Dao cultivator who pursued him for the Uniting Dao Pearl, then fought back when his escape methods failed. Just as a Dao Soldier’s lightning threatened to kill him, Yuan Xi appeared and confronted the old man.

• Lu Ye used Void Dao Patterns to escape the old man, but the pursuer tracked him and disrupted his next attempt to shift.
• Lu Ye split from his Clone and scattered Controlled Artifacts as markers, but the old man destroyed them while chasing him.
• The old man offered to spare Lu Ye and recommend him to Flowing Light Uniting Dao City if he handed over the Uniting Dao Pearl, but Lu Ye demanded an oath and refused to trust him.
• Lu Ye fought the old man with the Crag Mountain Saber, enduring serious injuries while his Clone hurried to help.
• The old man summoned a Dao Soldier that struck Lu Ye with lightning, but Yuan Xi caught and shattered the next bolt before confronting him.

Yuan Xi rescued Lu Ye from a pursuing Uniting Dao cultivator, then returned with him to Yuan Xi Uniting Dao City and installed the Uniting Dao Pearl she had seized. After the city awakened and Yuan Xi offered Lu Ye a residence with improved cultivation conditions, Lu Ye revealed that he had secretly obtained another Uniting Dao Pearl.

• Yuan Xi appeared beside Lu Ye, chased down the old man pursuing him, and killed him.
• Yuan Xi explained that Lu Ye had helped her escape by drawing off an enemy, then took him back to her city.
• Yuan Xi placed her Uniting Dao Pearl in the Central Great Hall, activating Yuan Xi Uniting Dao City and its power.
• Yuan Xi told Lu Ye she had prepared a residence and Formation for him near the City Lord's Mansion.
• Lu Ye gave Yuan Xi the Uniting Dao Pearl he had seized, and she laughed with delight.

Lu Ye learned about the Top Ten Uniting Dao Cities and discovered that Yuan Xi City’s Uniting Dao Pearl had improved its cultivation benefits. As he searched for a way to help Fang advance, Yuan Xi summoned him to the Central Great Hall to introduce the Hehe Realm.

• Yuan Xi praised Lu Ye for securing a second Uniting Dao Pearl, added it to the city’s formation, and promised to repay his merit.
• Yuan Xi explained the Top Ten Uniting Dao Cities and the eight tiers of city strength, revealing that Yuan Xi City was still Yellow-tier.
• Lu Ye settled into the Great Commander’s Mansion and found that Yuan Xi City’s power increased his cultivation efficiency by about ten percent.
• Fang told Lu Ye it might need a life-and-death battle against an enemy with an attribute treasure to break through, leaving Lu Ye unsure how to find a suitable opponent.
• Yuan Xi summoned Lu Ye to the Central Great Hall and began explaining that Uniting Dao Pearls contained a world called the Hehe Realm.

Lu Ye entered the Hehe Realm with Yuan Xi, learned it was a Dao Power-free Pure Land where combat was restricted to designated arenas, and explored its bustling city. After discovering Dao Fish served as currency and sampling a disappointing tea, he followed two feuding cultivators to the Battle Arena, where its unexpectedly large size left him surprised.

• Yuan Xi brought Lu Ye into the Hehe Realm and explained that its entrance hall connected it to the Uniting Dao Cities.
• Lu Ye learned that the Hehe Realm lacked Dao Power and Star Abyss influence, was governed by its own Rules, and did not permit fighting outside the Battle Arena.
• Yuan Xi gave Lu Ye a Storage Ring containing Dao Fish before leaving to meet an old friend, and Lu Ye found the Dao Fish could be refined into Dao Power and used as currency.
• Lu Ye explored the city, drank a pot of tea that he found unimpressive, and overheard two cultivators challenge each other to settle their dispute in the Battle Arena.
• Lu Ye followed the crowd to the Battle Arena and was surprised by how large it was.

Lu Ye visited the Battle Arena, learned how its matches and betting worked, and decided to fight there himself to earn Dao Fish. After registering his details, he waited for the arena to arrange his first battle.

• Lu Ye paid one Dao Fish to enter the Battle Arena and received a Battle Token from Xiao Ning.
• Xiao Ning explained the arena's services and its Fusion Dao and He Dao battles, including death matches and betting.
• Lu Ye watched several Fusion Dao death matches and examined the fighters' records and changing betting odds through his Battle Token.
• Lu Ye asked to participate in a battle and followed a maid to register with a young man.
• Lu Ye gave his name and cultivation, then waited for the Battle Arena to arrange his match.