Chapter Summaries

While repairing the Ancestral Abyss Restriction, Lu Ye discovered that it contained an image of his Talent Tree and secretly used his own tree to absorb the restriction’s hidden power. After the tree bore a Fruit of Time, Lu Ye learned that it let him borrow the Power of Time and Sequence from Dragon Sovereigns across generations.

• Lu Ye noticed an unusually stable section of the Ancestral Abyss Restriction whose patterns formed an image resembling his Talent Tree, including a golden sphere on one branch.
• Lu Ye speculated that the Dao Tree Inheritance had been brought into the starry sky by Yang Qing and was connected to the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors.
• Lu Ye pressed his hand to the restriction and his Talent Tree secretly absorbed its miraculous power, causing a branch to swell.
• Over the following years, Lu Ye discreetly continued the absorption as the swelling grew into a flower and then a fruit, while he and Zhu Yin repaired the restriction.
• When the fruit matured, Lu Ye learned it was a Fruit of Time that let him borrow the Power of Time and Sequence from Dragon Sovereigns of every generation who remained alive.

Lu Ye received the Fruit of Time’s inheritance, including the Small World Method, and learned more about corruption spreading through the Star Abyss. After he helped repair the Ancestral Abyss Restriction, the Dragon Sovereign thanked him and the Phoenix Lord urged the Dragon Race to offer him a tangible reward.

• Lu Ye learned that the Fruit of Time gave him access to the Dragon Sovereigns’ power in the Path of Time and Sequence and revealed the Small World Method, which required both Time and Space.
• Lu Ye asked the Dragon Sovereign about the Star Abyss will, and the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord explained that it corrupted cultivators and even Supreme Treasures.
• The Phoenix Lord said a complete Uniting Dao Pearl might contend with the Star Abyss will, and Lu Ye suspected the Pearl’s will had attached itself to him because of his Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye observed the Dragon Sovereign’s use of the Path of Time and Sequence while helping repair the Ancestral Abyss Restriction, and ten years later they reinforced its final weakness.
• The Phoenix Lord transported Lu Ye and the others back to the lowest level of the Tower of Time, where the Dragon Sovereign bowed to thank him and the Phoenix Lord called for a tangible reward.

Lu Ye entered the Tower of Time and was assigned to its forty-ninth level, where he began nurturing Fang with Dao Power. A Corpse Race cultivator appeared nearby and sensed the powerful fluctuation from Lu Ye’s cultivation.

• The Dragon Sovereign agreed to open the Dragon Pool for Lu Ye and promised him free access to Dragon City.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin chose to enter the Tower of Time, and the Dragon Sovereign warned Lu Ye that many races in the Star Abyss despised Humans.
• Zhu Yin entered the tower first, followed by Lu Ye, while the Dragon Sovereign told the Phoenix Lord that he no longer held a grudge against Ba Qiu.
• Lu Ye appeared on the forty-ninth level and decided to nurture Fang rather than risk climbing higher.
• Lu Ye used Dao Fish to replenish his Dao Power as he nurtured Fang, attracting the attention of a nearby Corpse Race cultivator.

Lu Ye used the Fruit of Time to kill a succession of Uniting Dao cultivators while nurturing the Crag Mountain Saber. After Fang reached perfection, Lu Ye reflected on the Inner Realm’s reliance on borrowed power and the possibility that the will behind the Star Abyss aura might one day control cultivators.

• A Corpse Race Uniting Dao cultivator attacked Lu Ye to steal his Dao Fish, and Lu Ye killed him with a saber strike that disrupted time and sequence.
• Lu Ye collected the attacker’s Star Abyss Coins and spoils, then recognized the strike as the Ages Saber and considered how it drew on the Dragon Sovereign’s power.
• Cultivators who came to investigate Lu Ye’s Dao Power fluctuations tried to seize his resources, and nearly twenty Uniting Dao cultivators died beneath his saber.
• Fang told Lu Ye that the Crag Mountain Saber had reached perfection, raising its limit to two hundred and fifty-six strands of power and Lu Ye’s total power to roughly one thousand one hundred and sixty strands.
• Lu Ye considered how Uniting Dao cultivators depended on external power and wondered whether the will eroding cultivators could eventually control them.
• Lu Ye questioned why the Ancestor had not personally resolved the threat and wondered where the Ancestor and Second Generation Ancestor Yang Qing were.

Lu Ye reached Level Fifty by forcing a sword-wielding cultivator to guide him through the maze, then used his Dao Fusion aura to attract potential targets. A hidden Ghost Cultivator followed him, and Lu Ye’s spatial technique exposed the danger of escape.

• Lu Ye killed a saber-wielding cultivator who attacked him and forced the attacker’s sword-wielding companion to lead him to Level Fifty.
• The sword-wielding cultivator guided Lu Ye through the maze, where Lu Ye killed several cultivators drawn to his openly released Dao Fusion aura.
• After reaching Level Fifty, Lu Ye began searching for someone who knew the way to Level Fifty-One.
• Lu Ye sensed a hidden Ghost Cultivator following him and used the power of the Space Dao Seed to send out a ripple that exposed the pursuer.
• The Ghost Cultivator tried to flee, but discovered that the corner ahead remained out of reach despite running thousands of zhang.

Lu Ye killed a Ghost Cultivator after learning the cultivator had not retreated from Level Fifty-One, then found the injured Fox Demon Little Eight and defeated her. Little Eight agreed to guide him to Level Seventy-Two, the level from which she had retreated.

• Lu Ye questioned a Ghost Cultivator about retreating from Level Fifty-One and killed him when his hesitation revealed he had not.
• Lu Ye followed a scent of blood to an injured woman in a pit and asked whether she had retreated from a higher level.
• The woman used Charm methods, but Lu Ye defeated her in a clash of Dao force.
• The woman introduced herself as Little Eight, and Lu Ye recognized her as an Eight-tailed Fox Demon.
• Little Eight said she had retreated from Level Seventy-Two, and Lu Ye asked her to guide him there.
• Little Eight agreed to guide Lu Ye after he threatened her with his saber.

Lu Ye and Eight-tailed continued through the Tower of Time, using Eight-tailed as bait while Lu Ye ambushed hostile Dao Integration cultivators for their Star Abyss Coins. At Level Seventy, Eight-tailed was wounded by an ambush, and Lu Ye charged into a group of attackers who overwhelmed him with coordinated techniques.

• Eight-tailed lured a Dao Integration cultivator into attacking her, and Lu Ye emerged from concealment and killed him before ordering her to the next level.
• Eight-tailed asked whether Lu Ye was Dao Fusion or Dao Integration, but he gave no answer as they entered Level Sixty-Five and continued fighting stronger opponents.
• After several days of advancing, Lu Ye and Eight-tailed reached Level Sixty-Nine and headed toward Level Seventy.
• An ambush struck Eight-tailed as she entered Level Seventy, forcing her to retreat with blood staining her robes.
• Lu Ye rushed upward to avenge Eight-tailed and found seven or eight cultivators surrounding the exit, whose coordinated attacks struck him as the chapter ended.

Lu Ye discovered that Blood Calamity had arranged for Uniting Dao cultivators to capture him alive inside the Tower of Time. After killing an Insect Race cultivator and a Blood Race cultivator while evading the others, he hid using the Power of Space as the pursuers tried to seal the floor.

• Lu Ye escaped the ambush at the seventieth-floor entrance with Void Technique and realized the attackers wanted him alive.
• Lu Ye deduced that Blood Calamity had targeted him because he coveted Lu Ye’s body and had set the trap in motion after learning he would enter the Tower of Time.
• Lu Ye killed an Insect Race cultivator after countering his Power of Time and Sequence.
• Lu Ye pursued and killed a fleeing Blood Race cultivator by using Teleportation Technique and his powerful Sacred Nature.
• The pursuing Uniting Dao cultivators warned each other not to act alone and tried to block the floor’s entrances and exits.
• Lu Ye concealed himself with the Power of Space as the attackers searched for him.

Green Mantis and Xue Ni tried to organize a larger force to capture Lu Ye, who had been using his Talent Tree Clone to evade pursuit and hunt their scattered cultivators. Lu Ye killed a Blood Race scout and engaged two Uniting Dao cultivators, using his Blood Eye Dao Pattern and control over space and time to gain the upper hand.

• Green Mantis and Xue Ni found Lu Ye had escaped again, identified traces of his use of spatial power, and realized he was hunting their forces.
• Green Mantis ordered Xue Ni to recruit helpers with promises of rewards and to keep Lu Ye's Phoenix Race External Official status secret from those above the ninety-ninth floor.
• Lu Ye used his Talent Tree Clone to sever his trail, then killed a concealed Blood Race blood snake and drew nearby Uniting Dao cultivators toward him.
• A Night Wolf Tribe cultivator and a Lava Giant attacked Lu Ye together, with the Night Wolf Tribe cultivator stunning him with a soul-targeting roar.
• Lu Ye recovered, trapped the Night Wolf Tribe cultivator in his Blood Eye Dao Pattern, widened the gap between the two enemies by twisting space, and pierced the Night Wolf Tribe cultivator with his blade.

Lu Ye killed the Night Wolf Tribe Hedao and the Lava Giant, but the growing search force made him decide to descend through the Tower of Time. He tracked down the Eight-tailed Fox Demon, whose lingering wound suddenly reopened when he called at her hiding place.

• The Lava Giant struck Lu Ye as he finished off the Night Wolf Tribe Hedao, but Lu Ye endured the attack and killed his wounded opponent.
• Lu Ye used the Vibrating Blade Technique and the Power of Time and Sequence to behead the Lava Giant, then fled before reinforcements arrived.
• Green Mantis and Xue Ni found the scene, and Xue Ni detected traces showing that Lu Ye had been injured.
• After noticing that more Hedao were joining the search, Lu Ye decided to leave by descending to a lower level, though the tower's exits were sealed.
• The Eight-tailed Fox Demon hid in a pit and cursed Lu Ye, but he arrived and called out to her; the strange power in her wound flared and reopened it.

Lu Ye persuaded Eight-tailed to help him approach the guarded exit to the next level, using her illusion techniques to disguise him. Their cover was exposed by the Sun Tribe guard, and Lu Ye teleported into the group as the cultivator attacked.

• Eight-tailed realized the power in her wound could track and harm her, then reluctantly agreed to help Lu Ye break through the guards blocking the exit.
• Lu Ye changed his appearance, and Eight-tailed strengthened his disguise before they headed toward the exit.
• Lu Ye and Eight-tailed approached four He Dao cultivators, with Eight-tailed pretending to scold her husband while hinting that she had spotted someone suspicious.
• The Sun Tribe cultivator examined the pair with his small sun, detected flaws in Lu Ye's disguise, and recognized him when he teleported forward.
• The Sun Tribe cultivator thrust his spear at Lu Ye and ordered his companions to alert Green Mantis.

Lu Ye and Eight-tailed broke through the Sun Tribe’s defenses, and Lu Ye killed their powerful leader with a decades-nurtured Drawing Saber Slash. Though badly injured, they fled deeper into the Tower of Time, where Lu Ye acknowledged that Eight-tailed had chosen to help rather than betray him.

• Lu Ye used his Talent Tree Clone’s Blood Explosion Art to blast the Sun Tribe He Dao and his companions, then killed one of them while Eight-tailed fought another.
• Lu Ye and Eight-tailed escaped toward the next level, but the Sun Tribe He Dao wounded Lu Ye with a spear as they fled.
• Lu Ye stopped at the stairway and unleashed his Drawing Saber Slash, while Eight-tailed’s illusion art delayed the Sun Tribe He Dao long enough for Lu Ye to kill him.
• Two pursuing He Daos retreated when they saw the Sun Tribe leader’s shattered body, and Lu Ye gathered the spoils before continuing downward with Eight-tailed.
• Eight-tailed questioned whether descending would help them escape the Tower of Time, and Lu Ye told her he believed they would find a way and admitted he had expected her to betray him.

Lu Ye and Eight-tailed descended through the Tower of Time to buy time while their enemies searched for them. On Level Ninety-Nine, a Dragon Descendant old man found Su Yun and told him that Lu Ye was in trouble, prompting Su Yun to ask what had happened.

• Lu Ye dispersed the Liao Power in Eight-tailed’s wounds, then led her downward and eventually told her he was buying time.
• Green Mantis sent Insect and Blood Race cultivators to search the levels below for Lu Ye, while worrying that the Dragon and Phoenix Races might learn of the matter.
• On Level Ninety-Nine, Su Yun lost a contest for a white jade cultivation platform and retreated to a pit cave to treat his wounds.
• A Dragon Descendant old man approached Su Yun, identified him as a Phoenix Race cultivator, and told him Lu Ye seemed to be in trouble.
• Su Yun asked the old man what trouble Lu Ye had encountered.

Su Yan, Zhu Yin, and Su Yun learned that Green Mantis and Xue Ni were organizing a hunt for Lu Ye, so they gathered support and worked to expose his Phoenix Race status. Meanwhile, Lu Ye and Eight-tailed continued descending through the Tower of Time, where Lu Ye drove a cultivator from his hiding place.

• Su Yun told Su Yan and Zhu Yin that Green Mantis and Xue Ni had offered rewards for capturing Lu Ye alive, and Luan Li joined them to help.
• Su Yan sent Luan Li to spread the news that Lu Ye was the Phoenix Race's External Official, while Su Yun went to recruit Xuan Wuji's help.
• Su Yun promised Xuan Wuji he would stop disturbing him if he helped, then explained the danger facing Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye and Eight-tailed reached the Tower of Time's tenth floor, where Lu Ye broke a cultivator's Formation and ordered him to leave.

Lu Ye hid on the Tower of Time’s tenth level and began advancing from Fusion Dao to Uniting Dao while Eight-tailed kept other cultivators away. After merging his nine Dao Patterns into the Dao Intent of Sharpness, he began drawing in external Dao Force and quickly achieved resonance, while Eight-tailed watched the strange disturbance from the entrance to the ninth level.

• Lu Ye asked Eight-tailed to drive the cultivators from the tenth level away so he could cultivate, and she cleared the level before keeping watch near the ninth-level entrance.
• Lu Ye began advancing to Uniting Dao and spent more than half a month merging his nine Dao Patterns into one.
• The merged patterns became Dao Intent of Sharpness, which strengthened Lu Ye’s Dao Force but tore open his flesh.
• Lu Ye scattered Dao Fish to increase the surrounding Dao Force, then drew it into his body with help from the Crag Mountain Saber and Fang.
• Lu Ye achieved resonance with the external Dao Force after half a day, aided by his affinity as a Son of the Star Abyss.
• Eight-tailed sensed Star Abyss aura gathering around Lu Ye and suspected that his cultivation was causing the enormous disturbance.

Lu Ye advanced from Merging Dao to Uniting Dao, alarming Eight-tailed with the immense resonance he caused. He discovered that his Dao Intent and first resonance had given him power far beyond most Lower Uniting Dao cultivators.

• Eight-tailed recognized that Lu Ye's breakthrough was an advance to Uniting Dao and watched as his First Resonance shook the tower level.
• Lu Ye controlled the resonance and completed his advance, destroying the crude Formation and enduring the transformation of his Dao Power.
• Lu Ye met Eight-tailed's gaze, frightening her with his newly sharpened aura, while she suspected he might surpass Ba Qiu.
• Lu Ye tested the Crag Mountain Saber and found that his fused Dao Intent greatly increased its cutting power.
• Lu Ye measured his new strength and found that his Dao Intent amplified his foundation to roughly one thousand one hundred strands, with his saber raising it above one thousand three hundred.
• Lu Ye drew in external Dao Power at the thirty-percent limit of a first resonance, reaching strength comparable to some Upper Uniting Dao cultivators.

Lu Ye advanced to Dao Union and gained immense borrowed power from his Son of the Star Abyss blessing, then set out to fight his way back up the Tower of Time. As Green Mantis and Xue Ni’s search parties hunted for him, four Dao Union cultivators learned that he was on Level Ten and hurried downward to attack.

• Lu Ye’s advancement and Star Abyss blessing increased his strength by more than a thousand Dao, though he worried that the borrowed power could disappear if he opposed the Will.
• Lu Ye asked Eight-tailed to accompany him upward, gave her Treasure Blood to track his movements, and flew off to kill his way back.
• Green Mantis and Xue Ni directed more than five hundred Dao Union cultivators to search Levels Eighteen through Twenty-Five for Lu Ye.
• A Dao Fusion cultivator on Level Eighteen told four Dao Union cultivators that a female Dao Union cultivator had cleared Level Ten, but they killed him to keep the information secret.
• The four Dao Union cultivators agreed to attack Lu Ye together and send one of their number to restrain Eight-tailed, then hurried toward the lower levels.

Lu Ye emerged onto the eighteenth level and killed four Dao Harmony cultivators who attacked him, revealing strength beyond the intelligence about him. Their warning alerted the level’s other cultivators, who began converging on his location.

• Four Dao Harmony cultivators attacked Lu Ye as soon as they recognized him, with a Ghost Cultivator striking from behind.
• Lu Ye used the Power of Time and Sequence to expose the Ghost Cultivator and cut him in two, then endured attacks from the Body Cultivator and Weapon Cultivator.
• Lu Ye killed the Spell Cultivator with Close-at-Hand Blade, bypassing the pagoda barrier and his defenses.
• The Body Cultivator and Weapon Cultivator tried to flee, but Lu Ye slowed them with the power of the Dragon Sovereign and killed them both.
• Lu Ye gained one Star Abyss Coin from each of the four cultivators, while their cry that he was there drew the attention of cultivators across the eighteenth level.

Lu Ye fought his way through the Uniting Dao cultivators on the eighteenth floor of the Tower of Time, killing wave after wave despite being surrounded. The surviving cultivators fled toward the next floor as Lu Ye pursued them.

• Eight-tailed sensed Lu Ye slaughtering Uniting Dao cultivators and realized how powerful he had become.
• A Body Cultivator tried to block Lu Ye with a defensive shield while two companions retreated behind him.
• Lu Ye used the Space Pounce Technique to appear past the shield and kill both companions, then split the Body Cultivator and his shield with another strike.
• Lu Ye killed the reinforcements who arrived moments later, bringing the number of dead on the floor to more than half its Uniting Dao cultivators.
• The surviving Uniting Dao cultivators rushed toward the next floor to escape Lu Ye as his aura pursued them through the corridors.

Lu Ye waited at the entrance to the nineteenth floor with a Uniting Dao Clone, preparing to use its Blood Explosion Art against the cultivators gathered above. Green Mantis arrived, dismissed reports that Lu Ye had advanced, and led the others down to confront him.

• Eight-tailed followed Lu Ye and discovered that he had stopped at the entrance with a Uniting Dao Clone beside him.
• Lu Ye's Clone began charging the Blood Explosion Art and then vanished as it stepped toward the floor above.
• Green Mantis and Xue Ni arrived at the entrance and learned that Lu Ye had slaughtered cultivators on the floor below.
• Green Mantis rejected the claim that Lu Ye had reached the Uniting Dao Realm and ordered the gathered cultivators to follow him down and kill Lu Ye.