Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi slaughtered Chang Ming’s coalition of Uniting Dao cultivators, but Chang Ming arrived and ordered the survivors to destroy the Uniting Dao Pearls. The Twin Phoenixes Flying formation then abruptly broke when Lu Ye was struck by a sudden backlash.

• Lu Ye killed Zhou Daoxing, collected three Star Abyss Coins, and urged Yuan Xi to fight without worrying about his Dao Power.
• Yuan Xi charged into the pursuing cultivators and killed them while Lu Ye refined Dao Fish and gathered Star Abyss Coins.
• Chang Ming watched from Ying Fei City and entered its Central Great Hall, deciding he had to intervene.
• Yuan Xi killed more than half the encircling cultivators, prompting the survivors to scatter as Chang Ming arrived and called on her to stop.
• Chang Ming ordered the fleeing cultivators to destroy the Uniting Dao Pearls, and Yuan Xi pursued one of them as Lu Ye suddenly groaned and the Twin Phoenixes Flying formation broke.

Lu Ye helped Yuan Xi sustain her Dao Soldier’s second form as she fought Chang Ming, while Chang Ming’s forces headed for Yuan Xi City. After Lu Ye revealed that the city had hidden itself, Chang Ming attacked him directly, but Yuan Xi protected him and wounded Chang Ming before he threw an object at her.

• Chang Ming confirmed that Lu Ye was helping Yuan Xi maintain her Dao Soldier’s second form, and Yuan Xi pursued the Uniting Dao cultivators threatening her city.
• Chang Ming fought Yuan Xi with his Sub-Treasure sword, but she shattered his attacks and proved stronger while her Dao Soldier’s second form remained active.
• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi that You Die had hidden Yuan Xi City by disguising it as a cold current, easing her concern about the attackers finding it.
• Chang Ming realized Lu Ye was Yuan Xi’s support and repeatedly tried to kill him, but Yuan Xi blocked his attacks and protected Lu Ye.
• Yuan Xi struck Chang Ming in the abdomen, and he tossed an object toward her as his temporary City Lord power neared its limit.

Ni Chiluan projected herself before Yuan Xi and tried to persuade her to return to Chiluan City, revealing their close past and warning that the Snow Plain faced a dangerous upheaval. When Yuan Xi refused, Ni Chiluan ordered Chang Ming to kill Lu Ye and destroy Yuan Xi City to force her return.

• Chang Ming revealed a projection of Ni Chiluan, whose overwhelming charm nearly ensnared Lu Ye until Yuan Xi shielded him.
• Yuan Xi refused Ni Chiluan's pleas to return, while Lu Ye learned that Ni Chiluan was the City Lord of Chiluan City and that she and Yuan Xi had grown up together.
• Ni Chiluan saw through Yuan Xi City's concealment and threatened to destroy the city and kill its people unless Yuan Xi returned.
• Ni Chiluan warned that the Snow Plain was about to undergo a great upheaval but said she did not know what it would be.
• Ni Chiluan ordered Chang Ming to kill Lu Ye and destroy Yuan Xi City, and Chang Ming drew his sword.

After Ni Chiluan ended the confrontation, Yuan Xi agreed to an unknown condition and left with Lu Ye to claim Ying Fei City and recover. Yuan Xi then set course to avenge the betrayal that had helped trap her city, and the chapter ended as they encountered Lingfeng City in the Cold Current Beehive.

• Yuan Xi made peace with Ni Chiluan, who departed with Chang Ming after Yuan Xi promised to fulfill a condition.
• Yuan Xi led Lu Ye to Ying Fei City, where Lu Ye destroyed its Uniting Dao Pearl and Lian's people gathered supplies.
• Lu Ye exchanged his accumulated Star Abyss Coins for a Sub-Treasure and returned to his moving city.
• Lu Ye and Lian realized Vice City Lord Thunderclap had helped Chang Ming ambush Yuan Xi City, prompting Yuan Xi to set out for revenge.
• You Die announced that Yuan Xi City's group had encountered Lingfeng City as combat sounds erupted nearby.

Yuan Xi and Lu Ye found Lingfeng City under attack after Zhao Lingfeng had abandoned Yuan Xi City and tried to profit from the fighting. As Lingfeng City faced defeat, Yuan Xi considered whether seizing the enemy cities’ Uniting Dao Pearls could let Yuan Xi City advance to Cosmos-tier.

• Yuan Xi ordered her people to approach the battlefield, where Mirage Spirit Pattern's Secret Technique kept Yuan Xi City undetected.
• Lu Ye saw that the four enemy cities from the previous battle had gathered and were besieging Lingfeng City.
• Zhao Lingfeng fought a City Lord-level enemy and regretted abandoning Yuan Xi City in pursuit of more Uniting Dao Pearl fragments.
• Yuan Xi said Lingfeng City could not be saved, and Lu Ye confirmed it had been close to advancing to Flood-tier.
• Yuan Xi asked whether taking the cities’ Uniting Dao Pearls could advance Yuan Xi City to Cosmos-tier, and Lu Ye considered the benefits of that rank.

Yuan Xi and Lu Ye intervened as Lingfeng City was about to fall, but Yuan Xi destroyed its Uniting Dao Pearl to secure its fragments for Yuan Xi City. After Zhao Lingfeng died and the attackers fled, Yuan Xi and Lu Ye left the ruined city behind.

• Lian told Yuan Xi that advancing Yuan Xi City to Cosmos-tier would require far more Uniting Dao Pearl fragments and long-term accumulation.
• Seeing Lingfeng City's Protective Grand Array close to breaking, Yuan Xi took Lu Ye and charged into the enemy ranks in her second Dao Soldier form.
• Yuan Xi killed a Uniting Dao cultivator and shattered Lingfeng City's Grand Array with the same punch, then led Lu Ye toward the Central Great Hall.
• Yuan Xi destroyed Lingfeng City's Uniting Dao Pearl, and Lu Ye gathered its fragments and sent them to Yuan Xi City.
• Zhao Lingfeng lost his City Lord strength after the pearl was destroyed, and his opponent struck him down and killed him.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye left the Central Great Hall as the surviving attackers and Lingfeng City's Fusion Dao cultivators fled.

Yuan Xi and Lu Ye captured four abandoned Desolate-tier Cities and reclaimed Lingfeng City’s resources, then Lu Ye tried to recruit Wu Mi. Wu Mi refused and left, while Yuan Xi City set sail with an improved Grand Array and Lu Ye began deducing the Blood Eye Dao Pattern.

• Yuan Xi intimidated the cultivators in four Desolate-tier Cities into fleeing to the Hehe Realm, then killed the opponent Wu Mi had pinned down in battle.
• Lian led the cultivators in breaching the four cities, and Lu Ye shattered their Uniting Dao Pearls while Yuan Xi City gathered supplies.
• Lu Ye found the wounded Wu Mi in Lingfeng City and invited him to join Yuan Xi City, but Wu Mi refused and departed.
• Yuan Xi City spent several days salvaging Lingfeng City and the four cities before Fan Wu and Yuan Xi improved its Grand Array, increasing its speed.
• Lu Ye replenished his Dao force with Dao Fish and began deducing the Blood Eye Dao Pattern using insights gained from You Die.

Lu Ye developed an elusive saber strike by incorporating the Blood Eye Dao Pattern’s illusion technique into his saber arts, then sought Elder Qi’s help forging a new scabbard for the Crag Mountain Saber. The strike was still unfinished, and Elder Qi had just agreed to make the scabbard.

• Lu Ye used the Blood Eye Dao Pattern as the basis for a saber technique meant to help him land strikes against elusive enemies.
• Lu Ye tested his new strike on Fu Wei, who failed to block it despite seeing its apparent straight downward slash.
• Fu Wei named the technique the Evasive Left-Right Blade, but Lu Ye realized Fu Wei had seen through its workings and continued practicing with him over the following days.
• Lu Ye visited the Treasure Artifact Workshop with a calling card from Lian and met the renowned artifact refiner Elder Qi.
• Lu Ye presented the Crag Mountain Saber and asked Elder Qi to forge a scabbard for it.

Lu Ye commissioned Elder Qi to forge a saber sheath inscribed with a strength-storing Dao Pattern, trading an introduction to its supposed creator for the work. While he waited, he entered the Battle Arena to test his new saber techniques in death matches, where his first opponent mistook his strange, harmless strikes for humiliation.

• Lu Ye showed Elder Qi a strength-storing Dao Pattern and persuaded him to forge the saber sheath in exchange for meeting the expert who had refined it.
• Elder Qi selected materials from Lu Ye's supplies and told him to return in three days for the finished sheath.
• Lu Ye went to the Battle Arena and asked Gong Mao to arrange death matches so he could test his saber techniques against real opponents.
• Lu Ye disguised himself and suppressed his strength while fighting a Merging Dao Fifth Layer saber cultivator in the Death Match Arena.
• Lu Ye repeatedly struck the opponent's vital points without injuring him, leaving the bewildered cultivator convinced that Lu Ye was humiliating him.

Lu Ye completed his power-storing saber sheath and began nurturing it while Yuan Xi City traveled to Thin Bamboo City. Yuan Xi launched a surprise attack on Thunderclap, who fled toward the Central Great Hall to escape into the Hehe Realm.

• Lu Ye fought successive death matches to improve his saber techniques, then collected the completed saber sheath from Elder Qi and discussed Dao Patterns with him.
• Lu Ye returned to Yuan Xi City and began rapidly nurturing the sheath as his second Dao Soldier.
• Yuan Xi City entered Thin Bamboo City, where Yuan Xi and Lu Ye set out to confront Thunderclap.
• Thunderclap learned that Yuan Xi was coming to kill him and fled toward the Central Great Hall.
• Yuan Xi spotted Thunderclap escaping and shouted at him as she pursued.

Yuan Xi confronted Thin Bamboo over Thunderclap’s betrayal of Yuan Xi City, forcing compensation and a beating for Thunderclap. As Yuan Xi and Lu Ye left Thin Bamboo City, a massive Insect Path began forming nearby, carrying a Blood Race aura.

• Thin Bamboo briefly obstructed Yuan Xi as Thunderclap escaped into the Hehe Realm, then pretended ignorance when Yuan Xi accused him of helping the betrayal.
• Yuan Xi demanded compensation from Thin Bamboo, who agreed to provide intelligence and make up any shortfall in Thunderclap’s payment.
• Thin Bamboo summoned Thunderclap back, and Yuan Xi beat him, took his Storage Ring, and demanded two hundred thousand Dao Fish.
• As Yuan Xi and Lu Ye left, Yuan Xi noticed a vast Insect Path forming near Thin Bamboo City, and Lu Ye sensed a Blood Race aura within it.
• Yuan Xi explained that Blood Calamity, the City Lord of Blood Drinking City, had killed powerful Phoenix Race members and refined their bloodline.

As Blood Calamity opened an Insect Path near Thin Bamboo City, Yuan Xi chose to join the defense before leading Yuan Xi City away from the danger. Thin Bamboo unleashed his Sacred Punisher Grand Array against the blood-red hands holding open the rift, but the outcome remained uncertain.

• Yuan Xi agreed to help defend Thin Bamboo City, hoping to protect its Dao Fish and seize gains from the coming battle.
• Yuan Xi led Yuan Xi City away from Thin Bamboo City, while Lian warned that Blood Calamity had likely planned for the city to fall.
• Blood Calamity's blood-red hands reached from a rift and held it open as Lu Ye's Blood Race bloodline reacted to his Sacred Nature.
• Thin Bamboo activated the Sacred Punisher Grand Array, summoning a six-armed figure made of Dao power.
• Thin Bamboo's six-armed figure struck the blood-red hands and cut them apart, sending blood raining across the region.

Thin Bamboo's attempt to stop Blood Calamity's Insect Path failed when Blood Calamity used the Azure Dome Mirror to reflect his attack. Black Blood City, the Li Shuai Insect Nest, and hundreds of enemy Uniting Dao Cities emerged, leaving Yuan Xi's group to seek opportunities while Thin Bamboo City faced overwhelming danger.

• Thin Bamboo nearly destroyed both blood hands with the Sacred Punisher Grand Array, but Blood Calamity revealed the Azure Dome Mirror and reflected his attack, severely injuring Thin Bamboo and damaging the Formation.
• Thin Bamboo recognized the Azure Dome Mirror and ordered his side to request reinforcements.
• The blood hands widened the rift into an Insect Path, from which Black Blood City and the Li Shuai Insect Nest emerged.
• Yuan Xi and Lu Ye concluded that their side could not save Thin Bamboo City directly, so Yuan Xi decided they would fish in troubled waters and retreat if necessary.
• More than five hundred enemy Uniting Dao Cities gathered beyond the Insect Path as the passage began to grow unstable.

Thin Bamboo led the Snow Plain defenders into battle against more than seven hundred enemy Uniting Dao Cities, while Yuan Xi and Lu Ye joined the fighting cautiously. The chapter ended with Blood Calamity secretly possessing a descendant on a concealed Floating Land and asking Blood Spirit for a report.

• More than seven hundred enemy Uniting Dao Cities poured through Blood Calamity's Insect Path, and Black Blood City ordered its forces to attack Thin Bamboo's side.
• Thin Bamboo and Thunderclap rallied the defenders to take the initiative, and City Lords led their forces out to meet the assault as reinforcements began heading to the battlefield.
• Yuan Xi led Lian, Huan Qing, and Lu Ye into the battle but concealed her strength, while Lu Ye finished off wounded enemies and his Talent Tree Clone fought among the Merging Dao cultivators.
• Blood Calamity used the Blood Descent Technique to possess a Blood Drinking City descendant concealed on a Floating Land, and Blood Spirit greeted him as Ancestor.
• Blood Calamity asked Blood Spirit to explain what had happened while they remained hidden.

Blood Calamity tested the Sword Slave’s bloodthirst and strength, then fled toward the ongoing battlefield with the Sword Slave pursuing him. Meanwhile, the Clone and three companions from Yuan Xi City continued fighting amid the chaos.

• Blood Calamity ordered Blood Spirit to leave the Concealment Spirit Array, and a Sword Qi killed her as soon as she crossed its boundary.
• Blood Calamity deliberately unleashed his strength and escaped the collapsing array with the Blood Escape Art, but a Sword Qi severed both of his calves.
• Blood Calamity encountered the tattered Sword Slave wielding a Supreme Treasure and fled toward the battlefield while dodging its attacks.
• Four figures from Yuan Xi City traveled together through the battlefield, while the Clone used the Blood Sea Secret Technique to conceal his frenzied slaughter.

Lu Ye's Talent Tree Clone infiltrated an enemy siege, killed two Uniting Dao cultivators, and wiped out the attackers after their target city fell. It destroyed the allied city's Uniting Dao Pearl and headed for another besieged city, while the main body stayed beside Yuan Xi and heard Fang eagerly point out Sub-Treasure auras.

• The Clone flew to a besieged allied Uniting Dao City, but its Grand Array broke before it could ambush the attackers, and the stationed Uniting Dao cultivator fled into the Hehe Realm.
• Lu Ye ambushed and killed the Devil Race Uniting Dao cultivator, then killed the Demon Race Uniting Dao cultivator with Sword Qi from the Sword Gourd.
• The Clone enveloped the city in its Blood Sea and slaughtered the enemy Fusion Dao cultivators who had entered it.
• Lu Ye smashed the city's Uniting Dao Pearl, collected its fragments, and sent them to Yuan Xi City before flying toward another besieged city.
• Beside Yuan Xi, the main body heard Fang excitedly note the many Sub-Treasure auras on the battlefield.

Lu Ye sensed that another Son of the Star Abyss had targeted him during the battle for Thin Bamboo City. As Yuan Xi and her companions were driven back, the enemy Jiao left Black Blood City and raced toward Lu Ye.

• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi that a Son of the Star Abyss was watching him, though he could not identify the enemy’s location.
• Yuan Xi was wounded, and she, Lian, and Huan Qing were forced to retreat under attacks from several enemies.
• Black Blood watched the battle from the rear with his Vice City Lords, while Jiao searched the battlefield for Lu Ye.
• Jiao found Lu Ye and vanished into a cloud of blood mist despite Black Blood warning him not to disrupt the battle plan.
• Lu Ye spotted a streak of Blood Light speeding toward him from Black Blood City and realized the Son of the Star Abyss was closing in.

Lu Ye and Yuan Xi faced Jiao, a powerful Blood Race Son of the Star Abyss, as he tried to assassinate Lu Ye during the battle. While Yuan Xi and her allies fought Jiao, Lu Ye covertly spread his Sacred Nature through the Blood Sea, and Black Blood continued delaying the intervention of his strongest forces on Blood Calamity's orders.

• Lu Ye linked his strength to Yuan Xi, but Jiao's swift attack nearly killed him until Yuan Xi's Black Lotus Dao Soldier protected him.
• Lian recognized Jiao and warned Yuan Xi, who learned he fought at roughly the level of a Cosmos-tier City Lord.
• Jiao launched two assassination attempts against Lu Ye, but Yuan Xi thwarted them, and Lian, Huan Qing, and Yuan Xi attacked him in return.
• Jiao spread his Blood Sea, and Yuan Xi prepared to unleash her Dao Soldier's second form while Lu Ye secretly let his own Blood Sea carry his Sacred Nature into Jiao's.
• Black Blood refused to send his powerful cultivators into the battle, following Blood Calamity's order to prolong the fighting.
• Lu Ye's Talent Tree Clone found another abandoned Uniting Dao City, shattered its Uniting Dao Pearl, and sent the fragments to Yuan Xi City.

Lu Ye used his Sacred Nature to suppress Jiao and help Yuan Xi and her companions nearly kill him, but Jiao escaped through the Blood Puppet Art. Yuan Xi led the group onward to fight, while Jiao remained wounded and concealed within the Blood Sea.

• As the battle raged across the Void, Lu Ye noticed that spilled blood was being drawn into countless scarlet threads, unseen by the combatants.
• Jiao attacked Yuan Xi and her companions from within the Blood Sea, but Lu Ye activated his Sacred Nature and froze him in place.
• Yuan Xi unsealed the second form of her Dao Soldier and punched through Jiao's defenses, while Huan Qing and the others finished tearing his body apart.
• Yuan Xi recognized that Jiao had escaped using the Blood Puppet Art, and Jiao asked Lu Ye whether he was Human Race or Blood Race.
• Wounded and unable to find another opening against Yuan Xi, Jiao kept the Blood Sea in place rather than calling for reinforcements.
• Yuan Xi told Lu Ye and the others to move on, but Jiao surged the Blood Sea to obstruct their escape.

Yuan Xi fought through Black Blood City's forces while Lu Ye supported her, but the battlefield's hidden blood threads revealed that Blood Calamity had engineered the war to uncover the Starry Sky Chessboard. The Chess Game was set, trapping the combatants as Lian explained that deaths and sufficiently fierce fighting had activated the Supreme Treasure.

• Yuan Xi swept through the Uniting Dao battlefield, killing enemies while Lu Ye gained Star Abyss Coins and Jiao pursued them.
• Black Blood ordered Yun Ke and Luo Molie to reinforce Jiao, and the two joined him in attacking Yuan Xi.
• Huan Qing noticed the blood threads crossing the Void, prompting Yuan Xi and Lian to recognize the danger and try to escape.
• Yuan Xi, Lian, and Huan Qing fought off Jiao, Yun Ke, and Luo Molie, but the blood threads became visible and an ancient voice announced that the Chess Game was set.
• Lian identified the Supreme Treasure as the Starry Sky Chessboard, and Yuan Xi realized Blood Calamity had used the war to reveal it.
• Lian explained that the Chessboard appeared after enough deaths and sufficiently fierce fighting fulfilled its Rules.