Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye lost four consecutive rounds of Mirage Spirit Pattern’s game with Yuan Xi, leaving him and Yuan Xi City trapped for one thousand six hundred years. Back at the Great Commander’s Mansion, he gathered the cultivators to investigate the suspicious losses but found no explanation.

• Yayi and Lu Ye each won a round, but Huan Qing defeated Lu Ye in the next match and Yuan Xi declared that they would be trapped for two hundred years.
• Lu Ye persuaded Yuan Xi to play again for higher stakes, but his side lost, increasing the penalty to four hundred years.
• Lu Ye raised the stakes again, lost another match, and then lost a fourth after the penalty rose to eight hundred years.
• Lu Ye stopped before the next wager could double the penalty to three thousand two hundred years, and Yuan Xi released everyone from the illusion.
• Lu Ye returned to the Great Commander’s Mansion, summoned Yuan Xi City’s cultivators, and questioned them about possible interference.
• Fu Wei suggested changing captains for another game, but Lu Ye insisted there would be no next time.

Lu Ye sought Yuan Xi’s help against the Mirage Spirit Pattern, which threatened to trap Yuan Xi City for sixteen hundred years, and found her drinking at Golden Stamen Tower. After learning that abandoning the city might be an escape, he returned with Yuan Xi and began moving You Die and her companions to the Hehe Realm.

• The Mirage Spirit Pattern warned Lu Ye that it would force another game on Yuan Xi City the next time it came, so Lu Ye went to find Yuan Xi.
• Lu Ye found Yuan Xi drinking with women at Golden Stamen Tower and learned that she had come to ease her boredom with her friend Lian.
• Lian explained that a Mirage Beast’s Divine Ability Domain could trap people for thirty to fifty years, but Lu Ye revealed that the Mirage Spirit Pattern intended to trap them for sixteen hundred years.
• Yuan Xi proposed abandoning Yuan Xi City, and Lu Ye agreed that it could work but decided to return and take at least four people with him.
• Lu Ye brought Yuan Xi back to Yuan Xi City, summoned You Die, and sent her to the Hehe Realm with Yayi and Kuzhi.

Lu Ye discovered that Mirage Spirit Pattern had trapped him and his companions in an illusion, then tried to keep it occupied by teaching it Mahjong. After Mirage Spirit Pattern offered to shorten his confinement for games, it proposed wagering time, and Lu Ye chose Fan Wu as his teammate.

• Lu Ye recognized that the shattered Uniting Dao Pearl had exposed an illusion, and Yuan Xi revealed that his companions had never left the Central Great Hall.
• Yuan Xi restored the Uniting Dao Pearl, confirmed that You Die and the others were merely unconscious, and warned Lu Ye not to let the incident happen again.
• Lu Ye realized Mirage Spirit Pattern only wanted company, carved Mahjong tiles, and gathered You Die, Fan Wu, and the others to teach it the game.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern became engrossed in Mahjong and promised to reduce Lu Ye's confinement by a hundred years for every new game he introduced.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern suggested wagering time on Mahjong, and Lu Ye chose Fan Wu as his teammate after judging his luck to be better than You Die's and his own.

Lu Ye struggled to keep Mirage Spirit Pattern occupied in games while Huan Qing revealed she could locate its true body. She offered to help end the predicament in exchange for the Jade Token that controlled her life, and Lu Ye agreed.

• Mirage Spirit Pattern replaced You Die with Fu Wei, whose poor luck turned the games against Lu Ye's side.
• Lu Ye replaced himself with a slave, then returned to his Great Commander's Mansion while the others continued rotating through the game.
• Huan Qing visited Lu Ye and claimed she could find Mirage Spirit Pattern's true body by seeing through its illusions.
• Huan Qing explained that she had influenced earlier games and sought the Jade Token in exchange for helping Lu Ye find and deal with Mirage Spirit Pattern.
• Lu Ye agreed to give Huan Qing the Jade Token and inferred that Mahjong's appearance had prompted her to negotiate sooner.

Huan Qing used the Brahma Eye to strip away Mirage Spirit Pattern’s illusions and locate its true body. Lu Ye reached the trapped beast and prepared to kill it, but Mirage Spirit Pattern offered him the Uniting Dao Pearls it had collected from ruined cities.

• Huan Qing swore to the Star Abyss Will, then activated the Brahma Eye despite Mirage Spirit Pattern’s pleas to stop.
• The Brahma Eye dispelled the illusions and revealed hundreds of ruined Uniting Dao Cities scattered through the Void.
• Huan Qing tracked Mirage Spirit Pattern to a ruined city and trapped its true form, a small civet-like creature, with her Dao Soldier.
• Lu Ye confronted Mirage Spirit Pattern and drew his saber, while the beast begged for mercy.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern offered Lu Ye its hidden Uniting Dao Pearls, claiming they had been left behind by trapped cities.

Lu Ye forced Mirage Spirit Pattern to swear an oath, trading its freedom for a Secret Technique that would let Yuan Xi City use its divine ability and for the Uniting Dao Pearls it had hidden. After collecting the pearls, Lu Ye learned Mirage Spirit Pattern had thrown many fragments away as bait, leaving him furious.

• Lu Ye offered Mirage Spirit Pattern the choice of becoming his Spirit Beast or dying, and Mirage Spirit Pattern refused to submit.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern offered to leave an innate Secret Technique for Yuan Xi City, and Huan Qing warned that the Brahma Eye would last only a short time.
• Lu Ye demanded an oath, the hidden Uniting Dao Pearls, and Mirage Spirit Pattern's release after it fulfilled its promise; he and Mirage Spirit Pattern swore their oaths.
• Huan Qing took the Jade Token and headed toward Yuan Xi City, while Lu Ye accompanied Mirage Spirit Pattern to collect its hidden Uniting Dao Pearls.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern admitted it had used many Uniting Dao Pearl fragments as bait to lure people into investigating, and Lu Ye grew furious.

Lu Ye used Mirage Spirit Pattern’s Uniting Dao Pearl fragments to raise Yuan Xi City to Desolate-tier, then had it add its innate Secret Technique to the city’s Uniting Dao Pearl. The technique concealed the city with an imperfect illusion, and Mirage Spirit Pattern explained that its own much stronger Divine Ability Domain had taken a hundred thousand years to accumulate.

• Lu Ye returned to Yuan Xi City with Mirage Spirit Pattern and fused its Uniting Dao Pearl fragments into the city’s pearl, raising the city to Desolate-tier.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern used its innate Secret Technique to create a pattern within the Uniting Dao Pearl, severely weakening its vitality in the process.
• You Die activated the Secret Technique, making Yuan Xi City disappear behind an illusion that Lu Ye found less powerful than he had expected.
• Lu Ye confronted Mirage Spirit Pattern, which explained that its Divine Ability Domain had grown powerful through a hundred thousand years of accumulation and that it planned to leave after losing that accumulated strength.
• Mirage Spirit Pattern defended the Secret Technique by saying it had useful applications and reminding Lu Ye of the Uniting Dao Pearls it had given him.

Lu Ye returned to Yuan Xi City after Mirage Spirit Pattern fled, then found Yuan Xi cultivating a technique with Lian in the Hehe Realm. He told Yuan Xi that the crisis had already been resolved and explained how Huan Qing had helped defeat Mirage Spirit Pattern.

• Mirage Spirit Pattern left Yuan Xi City after explaining that its Mirage Spirit Pattern technique could grow stronger, and Lu Ye went to find Yuan Xi.
• Lu Ye found Yuan Xi and Lian cultivating together in the Golden Stamen Tower, rather than indulging in the revelry he had expected.
• Yuan Xi learned that Lu Ye had come to report a problem in the city, and they hurried back to Yuan Xi City.
• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi that the crisis was over and recounted how Huan Qing, a member of the Brahma Race, had helped them defeat Mirage Spirit Pattern.
• Yuan Xi was astonished that her subordinates had resolved the crisis before she could use the Secret Technique she had learned from Lian.

After Yuan Xi City benefited from the Mirage Spirit Pattern’s surrender, Lu Ye discovered that Huan Qing carried a Blood Curse that would expose her to the Blood Race in a few years. He promised to seek a way to break it, while Huan Qing chose to remain in Yuan Xi City for now.

• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi that the Mirage Spirit Pattern had surrendered Uniting Dao Pearl fragments and an innate Secret Technique, bringing Yuan Xi City close to Flood-tier.
• Yuan Xi thanked the city’s cultivators, then went with You Die to study the Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye sensed and pulled a Uniting Dao Pearl fragment out of the Void, then confronted Huan Qing, who had followed him.
• Huan Qing revealed that activating the Brahma Eye had awakened a Blood Curse that would let a Blood Race great figure find her once its flower fully bloomed.
• Lu Ye said he could not break the curse with his current abilities, but promised to seek a solution before Huan Qing’s curse exposed her; Huan Qing said she would stay and serve Yuan Xi City until then.

Lu Ye learned that Yuan Xi City was heading toward a massive Inner Realm conflict sparked by Arena Master Qin and backed by Eternal City and Blood Drinking City. He persuaded Yuan Xi to side with Eternal City, and she agreed as the Top Ten cities would not fight directly.

• Lu Ye intercepted another Uniting Dao Pearl, and Yuan Xi explained that the conflict had begun as Uniting Dao Cities gathered across the Inner Realm.
• Yuan Xi said Arena Master Qin had stirred up the turmoil after someone touched his reverse scale, drawing in his allies and enemies.
• Lu Ye and Yuan Xi discussed whether to support Blood Drinking City or Eternal City, whose City Lord was close to Qin Feng.
• Lu Ye argued that Lotus Tower Master’s feelings for Arena Master Qin meant Yuan Xi should side with Eternal City, and Yuan Xi accepted his advice.
• Yuan Xi assured Lu Ye that Eternal City and Blood Drinking City would not personally enter the conflict.

Lu Ye asked Fu Wei to divine the Talent Tree’s path of transformation, but Fu Wei instead foresaw a future battle to the death between Lu Ye and Ba Qiu and was wounded by Shang Power. His vision revealed the Talent Tree devouring Ba Qiu’s Dao Soldier, leaving Lu Ye with a bold idea as he helped Fu Wei recover.

• Lu Ye summoned Fu Wei to divine the direction of his future cultivation, but kept the Talent Tree secret and gave him only vague answers.
• Fu Wei’s divination made his tortoise shells shatter, and a deep wound appeared across his chest as he cried out in terror.
• Fu Wei told Lu Ye that he had seen them fight Ba Qiu to the death, though he could not see who won.
• Fu Wei described a vast, burning golden tree whose roots wrapped around Ba Qiu’s Dao Soldier and devoured something, and Lu Ye recognized the Talent Tree.
• Fu Wei explained that his wound came from a sword from the future, triggered by spying on Ba Qiu’s destiny.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s power to dissolve the Shang Power in Fu Wei’s wound, finishing the task in three days and astonishing him.

Lu Ye realized that the Talent Tree might need Sub-Treasures to evolve again and learned why Yuan Xi wanted her city to join the coming war. He traveled to the Battle Arena, where Kun Li explained the Resonance Mark system and revealed that Yuan Xi had ties to one of the Ten Greats.

• Lu Ye connected the Talent Tree's reaction to devouring the Fate Dice with its next evolution and looked forward to finding Sub-Treasures during the coming conflict.
• Yuan Xi sent Lu Ye to the Hehe Realm to tell Qin Feng that Yuan Xi City would take part in the war.
• At the Battle Arena, Lu Ye learned Qin Feng was away, and Gong Mao arranged for Kun Li to help him obtain a Resonance Mark.
• Kun Li explained that Resonance Marks identified allied cities on the chaotic Snow Plain battlefield, which was divided into eight war zones led by Universe-grade City Lords.
• Kun Li told Lu Ye that Yuan Xi had a connection to one of the Ten Greats, while Lu Ye wondered whether Qin Feng had deliberately sparked the conflict while Ba Qiu was wounded.

Lu Ye helped Yuan Xi prepare Yuan Xi City for its journey to the Snow Plain, arranging for Kun Li to place a Resonance Mark and assigning You Die and Huan Qing to defend the city. When the city reached the Snow Plain, Lu Ye learned that the spectacle had shattered in an ancient battle whose combatants may have surpassed Ba Qiu and the Moon Wheel.

• Kun Li placed a Resonance Mark in Yuan Xi City's Desolate-tier Uniting Dao Pearl before Lu Ye sent him into the Hehe Realm.
• Yuan Xi told Lu Ye that the Snow Plain was a month's journey away and set a goal of entering at Desolate-tier and leaving at Cosmos-tier.
• Lu Ye asked You Die and Huan Qing to prepare to defend Yuan Xi City, with You Die studying Mirage Spirit Pattern's Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye considered how advancing to Uniting Dao would limit his ability to earn Star Abyss Coins while he still needed Sub-Treasures.
• Lu Ye and Yuan Xi arrived at the Snow Plain, where Lu Ye saw its shattered, ice-like Floating Lands and learned the spectacle's destruction was said to have resulted from a great battle.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi City entered the Snow Plain, where divine sense could not safely probe, and were ambushed by two allied Uniting Dao Cities. As Yuan Xi kept three enemy Uniting Dao cultivators occupied, a disguised city revealed its forces and threatened Yuan Xi City, prompting Lu Ye to join the fight.

• Yuan Xi warned Lu Ye and the others that the Snow Plain's chill could freeze and shatter divine sense, making Soul Secret Techniques dangerous and ambushes easier.
• Yayi spotted an ice-encased Uniting Dao City drifting nearby, while another city emerged from behind a Floating Land and moved to attack Yuan Xi City.
• You Die confirmed the approaching city was hostile, and Yuan Xi met its three Uniting Dao cultivators in battle as Lu Ye prepared to assist her.
• You Die warned Lu Ye that the supposedly ruined city was a disguise, and the ice shattered to reveal three more Uniting Dao cultivators and over a hundred Fusion Dao cultivators.
• Yuan Xi threatened her opponents but continued holding them off, while Lu Ye rushed toward her battlefield; Yuan Xi feigned a Secret Technique, distracting the three enemies as Lu Ye suddenly struck with his saber.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi killed two of the three Uniting Dao cultivators attacking them, forcing the Uniting Dao City Lord to flee. Yuan Xi returned to defend her besieged city, where three more attackers prepared to engage her while another cultivator continued assaulting the city.

• Lu Ye struck a Uniting Dao cultivator with the Vibrating Blade Technique, creating an opening for Yuan Xi to kill him with her black lotus.
• Yuan Xi weakened a second Uniting Dao cultivator with her black lotus, and Lu Ye pierced his chest and cut off his head.
• The Uniting Dao City Lord fled after his two subordinates died, and Yuan Xi returned with Lu Ye to defend her city.
• Yuan Xi found her city's Grand Array close to breaking under the assault of three Uniting Dao cultivators.
• One attacker urged the others to fight Yuan Xi while Fellow Daoist Zhou continued attacking the city.

Lu Ye intercepted Fellow Daoist Zhou, the fourth Uniting Dao cultivator, to keep him from reaching Yuan Xi City while its Protective Grand Array was close to collapse. After destroying Zhou’s Dao Soldier, Lu Ye drove him to flee and unleashed Giant Blade Slash as he pursued.

• The City Lord and two Uniting Dao cultivators attacked Yuan Xi to prevent her from returning to her city, while Lu Ye spotted the fourth enemy heading for Yuan Xi City.
• Lu Ye intercepted Fellow Daoist Zhou and battled him as Zhou used his pagoda-shaped Dao Soldier to attack from a distance.
• Lu Ye charged Zhou’s Dao Soldier and repeatedly struck it despite the barrage of spells, damaging and then shattering it.
• Fellow Daoist Zhou’s foundation was damaged, and he fled toward his Uniting Dao City as Lu Ye pursued.
• Lu Ye stopped, raised the Crag Mountain Saber, and unleashed Giant Blade Slash at the fleeing Fellow Daoist Zhou.

Lu Ye and You Die saved Yuan Xi City, then attacked and captured the enemy Uniting Dao City. The battle left Yuan Xi and You Die dominating the three enemy Dao Fusion cultivators as Lu Ye rushed to claim a kill.

• Lu Ye killed Zhou with a distant saber strike as Yuan Xi City's protective array fell and enemy cultivators breached the city.
• Lu Ye returned to Yuan Xi City, where You Die's threads and his blood sea wiped out the invading cultivators.
• Lu Ye and You Die set out to destroy the enemy city while Yuan Xi held off three Dao Fusion cultivators.
• Lu Ye and You Die broke the enemy city's protective array, and Lu Ye shattered its Uniting Dao Pearl and gathered its fragments.
• Lu Ye gave the captured fragments to Cuican, then hurried toward the battlefield to attack a badly wounded enemy Dao Fusion cultivator.

Yuan Xi and You Die defeated the three Uniting Dao cultivators who had attacked Yuan Xi City, then pursued the enemy city that had escaped. After forcing its City Lord to surrender the city, Yuan Xi watched as Lu Ye launched a seemingly reckless attack on him.

• Yuan Xi and You Die suppressed the enemy’s three Uniting Dao cultivators, and Lu Ye killed each of them in turn.
• Yuan Xi pursued the fleeing Uniting Dao City with Lu Ye, tracking it to a Floating Land and attacking its defenses.
• Yuan Xi promised to spare the enemy City Lord and his followers if they abandoned their city, and he agreed to withdraw the Protective Grand Array.
• Lu Ye suddenly attacked the defeated City Lord, who struck him in the chest as Lu Ye appeared to deliberately lower his own strength.

Yuan Xi and Lu Ye defeated a Heaven-tier Uniting Dao City Lord and raided his city, but the fragments they recovered still fell short of raising Yuan Xi City to Flood-tier. Back in hiding on the Snow Plain, Lu Ye recovered and counted the Star Abyss Coins they had gained.

• Yuan Xi attacked the Uniting Dao City Lord after Lu Ye's surprise strike freed her from the oath, while Lu Ye and his Talent Tree Clone killed over thirty fleeing Fusion Dao cultivators in the city.
• Lu Ye joined Yuan Xi against the City Lord, and his Clone shattered the Uniting Dao Pearl to weaken the enemy before Yuan Xi and Lu Ye killed him.
• Lu Ye gathered the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments as Yuan Xi searched the city treasury, then they returned to Yuan Xi City, which You Die had concealed in a Floating Land hollow.
• Yuan Xi fused the recovered fragments into her city's Uniting Dao Pearl but found they were still insufficient to advance it to Flood-tier.
• Lu Ye healed in his residence and inspected his gains, finding that the seven enemy Uniting Dao cultivators had earned him ten Star Abyss Coins.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi ambushed an enemy Uniting Dao City while its cultivators were occupied fighting another city, turning the battle in their allies’ favor. The enemy city’s Fusion Dao cultivators saw their defenses failing and began surrendering to the Hehe Realm.

• Lu Ye and Yuan Xi spotted two Heaven-grade Uniting Dao Cities fighting and decided to approach secretly, with Yuan Xi gambling that the city not under attack was the enemy’s.
• You Die used the Mirage Spirit Pattern’s Secret Technique to bring Yuan Xi City close, then confirmed the target city was hostile through the Resonance Mark.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye attacked the target city’s Protective Grand Array, while the fighting cultivators recognized them as allies and the enemy City Lord rushed back to defend his city.
• A female Uniting Dao cultivator and the Fusion Dao cultivators from the besieged allied city charged out to stop the returning enemy, making the battle more chaotic.
• Yuan Xi threatened the enemy city’s Fusion Dao cultivators, and they began choosing the Hehe Realm as their city’s array faltered.