Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye fought Xuan Huai while Xuan Huai used his Grand Array to grind at him, and the Star Abyss Will stirred the gathered cultivators to attack Lu Ye. Outnumbered and unable to break Xuan Huai’s defenses, Lu Ye drew a line between those who would leave and those who stayed, then charged through the crowd as Xuan Huai urged them to join forces.

• Xuan Huai activated his Grand Array, forcing Lu Ye to evade its grinding power while he tried to exhaust Xuan Huai.
• Xuan Huai called on the gathered Dao Integration cultivators, and they attacked Lu Ye after sensing the Star Abyss Will’s promise of benefits.
• Lu Ye killed more than ten attackers, then pursued Xuan Huai, but Xuan Huai protected himself with the array and fled among the crowd.
• Lu Ye realized the cultivators were being drawn together by the Star Abyss Will and warned everyone to leave within ten breaths or become his enemy.
• Xuan Huai urged the cultivators to join forces against Lu Ye, who charged through those remaining and struck down anyone in his path.

Lu Ye disrupted Xuan Huai’s Grand Array, forcing most of its cultivators to flee and weakening Xuan Huai’s attempt to pull out the Iron Pillar Divine Object. Lu Ye killed Xuan Huai, who cursed him with the Star Abyss’s malice, and Lu Ye sensed unseen eyes watching him.

• Lu Ye’s rampage drove Fusion Dao and Dao Integration cultivators to flee the Grand Array, weakening its power.
• Xuan Huai transformed into a middle-aged man, used his Essence Blood to seize the Iron Pillar Divine Object, and began pulling it free.
• Lu Ye resisted the weakened array and confronted Xuan Huai, but Xuan Huai refused to reveal what the Iron Pillar Divine Object sealed.
• Lu Ye wounded Xuan Huai with the Crag Mountain Saber, disrupting his grip on the Iron Pillar Divine Object and making the phantom hand vanish.
• Xuan Huai cursed Lu Ye with the Star Abyss’s malice before Lu Ye killed him with Consecutive Slash.
• Lu Ye sensed dense malice around him and an unseen presence watching from the shadows.

After killing Xuan Huai, Lu Ye lost the Star Abyss blessing and was cursed, then faced Three, a masked being who nearly killed him with one sword strike. Wounded and ambushed by Harmony Dao cultivators, Lu Ye fought his way through them and escaped, needing to heal the strange wound Three had inflicted.

• Lu Ye gathered Xuan Huai's belongings after killing him and turned toward the gathered Harmony Dao cultivators, who hesitated to attack.
• Three appeared before Lu Ye and nullified his attempt to flee before grievously wounding him with a sword strike.
• A chain dragged Three away after his attack, and the Harmony Dao cultivators seized the chance to assault the badly wounded Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye endured the barrage with his Body Protection Dao Power and Dragon Vein body until he crashed into the crowd and regained control.
• Lu Ye used Dragon Might and his saber to kill nearby attackers, then used the Void Pounce Technique to break toward the perimeter and escape.

Lu Ye escaped the Outer Realm pursuit but was forced into the Inner Realm, where the Star Abyss Will cursed him and he sought shelter to recover from San’s sword wound. As he healed in a shattered realm, a nearby Uniting Dao City tested a new Formation by firing directly at his hiding place.

• Lu Ye broke through the pursuers, but the Star Abyss Will pulled him into the Inner Realm and stripped him of his blessings before placing a curse on him.
• A masked figure named Lu used a golden fishing line to loosen the seal on the Iron Pillar Divine Object before the Star Abyss Will dragged him away.
• Lu Ye found shelter in a shattered realm and began resisting San’s destructive Dao intent with his own, while considering asking the Dragon Sovereign about San and Qi.
• A Blood Race City Lord ordered an Array Master to test a newly arranged Formation on the shattered realm where Lu Ye was hiding.
• Lu Ye realized the Uniting Dao City had mistaken his shelter for a test target, and a pillar of light shot toward him.

Lu Ye escaped his shattered hiding place, then killed four pursuing cultivators, including a Blood Race City Lord, after they chased him under the influence of his curse. He attacked their Uniting Dao City, and his blows began to threaten its Protective Grand Array.

• Lu Ye fled the destruction of his hiding place as the Blood Race City Lord and three other cultivators pursued him, drawn by unnatural greed.
• Recognizing Lu Ye as the Human Race cultivator named in the Blood Lord’s bounty, the City Lord was caught by Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature and killed along with another Blood Race cultivator.
• Lu Ye killed the remaining Rain Refining Race and Insect Race pursuers, while cultivators left inside the city sent word of his appearance.
• Lu Ye reached the city and struck its Protective Grand Array, shaking the city and leaving a visible mark on its light screen.
• Lu Ye struck the Grand Array again, making the defenders fear that his attacks could breach the city.

Lu Ye breached several Blood Race and Heaven-tier Uniting Dao Cities to collect Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, then realized he had landed in territory dominated by the Blood and Insect Races. While hiding and refining the fragments, he was discovered by a Flood-tier City approaching through the Void.

• Lu Ye used his Sacred Nature to weaken a Blood Race city's Protective Grand Array, breached it, killed the cultivators inside, and collected its Uniting Dao Pearl fragments.
• Lu Ye pursued and breached a nearby Heaven-tier Blood Race city, gathering more fragments before several other Uniting Dao Cities converged on him.
• Lu Ye escaped the encircling cities and spent half a day evading further pursuit while breaching three Heaven-tier Cities.
• Lu Ye hid in an asteroid and suspected Star Abyss Will had sent him into Blood Calamity's territory, where the fragment bundle's fluctuations could reveal his location.
• A warning prompted Lu Ye to use the Void Pounce Technique as a Flood-tier City destroyed the asteroid where he had been hiding.

Lu Ye struggled to escape the Insect and Blood Races’ territory while hunting for resources, but Tai Kun pursued him and proved difficult to shake. After Lu Ye wounded Tai Kun in a brief clash, Tai Kun summoned powerful allies, forcing Lu Ye to change course toward an approaching Flood-tier city.

• Lu Ye discovered that he had been exiled into Insect and Blood Race territory and fled as their cities searched for him.
• Lu Ye broke into a Blood Race Heaven-tier city, seized its Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, and escaped before the responding forces arrived.
• Tai Kun tracked Lu Ye down, but Lu Ye wounded him and damaged his Sub-Treasure gauntlet before fleeing.
• Tai Kun called on Flying Locust and Jade Dragonfly for help and continued pursuing Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye sensed Tai Kun still following him and changed direction toward an approaching Flood-tier city.

Lu Ye struggled to escape the Insect and Blood Races’ pursuit while wondering why Blood Calamity had not appeared. After learning of Blood Source Sea from a Blood Race city, he headed there, prompting Tai Kun and his allies to order defenses set up to keep him out.

• Lu Ye wounded Jade Dragonfly but escaped before Tai Kun could catch up, and Tai Kun told her that Blood Lord had ordered them to capture him.
• Lu Ye realized Tai Kun, Jade Dragonfly, and Flying Locust were coordinating with Uniting Dao Cities to surround him, so he decided he needed to kill one or more of them to escape.
• Lu Ye attacked a Blood Race Earth-tier city, destroyed its Uniting Dao Pearl, and forced a captive to point him toward Blood Source Sea.
• Tai Kun, Jade Dragonfly, and Flying Locust pursued Lu Ye, but he slipped through their encirclements as he continued toward Blood Source Sea.
• Jade Dragonfly recognized Lu Ye’s destination, and Tai Kun ordered defenses established around Blood Source Sea to force him to change course.

Lu Ye bypassed the Insect and Blood Races’ defenses while heading for the Blood Source Sea, forcing Flying Locust and Jade Dragonfly to intercept him. After a brief, mutually injurious clash, he escaped their pursuit and reached sight of the Blood Source Sea, where he felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

• Tai Kun learned Lu Ye was deliberately heading for the Blood Source Sea and ordered Jade Dragonfly and Flying Locust to intercept him using the Hehe Realm.
• Lu Ye sensed the two City Lords ahead and charged them rather than changing course.
• Lu Ye, Flying Locust, and Jade Dragonfly exchanged attacks, injuring one another.
• Lu Ye used Void Teleportation to escape before Tai Kun could join the fight, but Flying Locust pursued him.
• Lu Ye saw the vast crimson Blood Source Sea and felt an inexplicable intimacy toward it.

Lu Ye used the Blood Source Sea’s power to evade Tai Kun’s forces while attacking their cities, then exploited their attempt to lure him into a trap to ambush Jade Dragonfly. The chapter ended with Jade Dragonfly preparing to fight as Tai Kun and Flying Locust rushed to help her.

• Lu Ye escaped into the Blood Source Sea, where his Blood Race bloodline strengthened his Blood Arts, and Tai Kun ordered Uniting Dao Cities to search for him.
• Tai Kun used Heaven-tier cities as bait, but Lu Ye destroyed three of them and continued evading his pursuers.
• Tai Kun weakened a Desolate-tier City’s Protective Grand Array to lure Lu Ye into staying until the three Cosmos-tier City Lords arrived.
• Lu Ye noticed Tai Kun and the others approaching, abandoned the attack, and fled toward Jade Dragonfly’s route.
• Lu Ye ambushed Jade Dragonfly, who summoned her Sub-Treasure Dao Soldier and prepared to hold him off until Tai Kun and Flying Locust arrived.

Lu Ye killed Jade Dragonfly by reopening her old wounds with the power he had secretly left on them, then wounded Flying Locust before fleeing when the latter’s Uniting Dao City amplified his strength. As Lu Ye traveled through the Blood Source Sea seeking an exit, he sensed a Supreme Treasure’s aura nearby.

• Lu Ye reopened Jade Dragonfly’s wounds and killed her with a saber strike, then collected her Sub-Treasure Dao Soldier.
• Tai Kun sensed Jade Dragonfly’s death and warned Flying Locust, who chose to confront Lu Ye rather than retreat.
• Flying Locust’s Cosmos-tier Uniting Dao Pearl amplified his strength, forcing Lu Ye to retreat after their clash.
• Lu Ye reopened Flying Locust’s wounds, but Flying Locust stopped pursuing when he neared the edge of his city’s influence.
• Tai Kun and Flying Locust realized Lu Ye controlled the power lingering around their wounds and prepared to search for him with Tai Kun’s Uniting Dao City.
• Lu Ye avoided other cities as he headed for the Blood Source Sea’s edge, then halted after sensing a Supreme Treasure’s aura.

Lu Ye discovered Blood Calamity refining the Starry Sky Chessboard in the Blood Source Sea, escaped when Blood Calamity let him go, and learned that the Talent Tree had completed its fifth transformation. The chapter ended as a flower bud on the Talent Tree began to change.

• Lu Ye followed the Starry Sky Chessboard’s aura to the heart of the Blood Source Sea and found Blood Calamity refining it.
• Blood Calamity spotted Lu Ye but, occupied with refining the Supreme Treasure, let him flee without a fight.
• Blood Calamity informed Tai Kun that Lu Ye was still in the Blood Source Sea, and Tai Kun and Flying Locust sent Uniting Dao Cities to pursue and intercept him.
• Lu Ye discovered that his Talent Tree had completed its fifth transformation and noticed its long-dormant flower bud beginning to change.

Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree’s transformation had nurtured a new Myriad Poison Bead fruit, then began burning away the curse on him. After noticing a way to use the poison it produced, he changed course to pursue a plan against the Insect and Blood Races while Blood Calamity remained occupied with the Starry Sky Chessboard.

• The Talent Tree produced a small Myriad Poison Bead fruit after completing its fifth transformation, and Lu Ye found that it was a new Supreme Treasure that could grow with suitable nourishment.
• Lu Ye fed Dao Blood to the fruit and found that it produced a dangerously potent poison, which he could control as the fruit’s master.
• The Talent Tree began burning away the curse placed on Lu Ye by the Star Abyss Will, and he judged that it would soon be removed.
• After studying the lingering poison, Lu Ye decided to pursue a plan that could weaken the Insect and Blood Races, trusting that Blood Calamity could not quickly refine the Starry Sky Chessboard.
• For half a month, the Insect and Blood Races failed to find Lu Ye in the Blood Source Sea, and Tai Kun ordered their Uniting Dao Cities to withdraw.

After a month of striking cities across the Blood Source Sea, Lu Ye prepared to draw Tai Kun and Flying Locust into a trap. Blood Calamity sent Blood Princess to help deal with him, while Lu Ye—fully healed and free of the curse—began fighting the two enemies alone.

• Lu Ye spent half a month combining poisons from the Myriad Poison Bead fruit, then began attacking isolated cities throughout the Blood Source Sea.
• Tai Kun ordered the cities to pursue Lu Ye, but Lu Ye repeatedly escaped and destroyed more than a dozen Heaven-tier Cities.
• Blood Calamity sent a divine fragment to reprimand Tai Kun and announced that Blood Princess was on her way.
• Lu Ye sensed Tai Kun and Flying Locust approaching together and moved to meet them, recognizing that the time had come to spring his plan.
• Lu Ye's injuries and curse had been burned away after the Talent Tree's fifth transformation, and he launched a fierce attack on Tai Kun while Flying Locust supported him.

Lu Ye was overwhelmed by Tai Kun, Flying Locust, and a powerful female Blood Race member whose Sacred Nature suppression could not affect him. He recognized Blood Calamity possessing Blood Princess only after she sealed the Blood Source Sea in a vast Blood Wall cage and trapped him inside a growing encirclement.

• Lu Ye fought Tai Kun and Flying Locust while more Uniting Dao Cities converged on his position.
• A spear-wielding female Blood Race member attacked Lu Ye with paralyzing lightning, resisted his Sacred Nature, and used a powerful Blood Shadow Technique.
• Lu Ye used Ages to wound Tai Kun and Flying Locust and destroy five of the female's eight images, but she pierced him and kept up her pursuit with a blood-red chain.
• As Lu Ye tried to escape through the surrounding attackers, the female Blood Race member raised a vast Blood Wall cage around the area.
• Lu Ye identified the woman as Blood Calamity possessing Blood Princess, and Blood Calamity praised Lu Ye's strength and his killing of Jade Dragonfly.

Lu Ye tricked Blood Calamity into believing he would surrender, then used Tai Kun’s attack to conceal the activation of a deadly poison he had spread through the Blood Source Sea. The poison devastated the surrounding Uniting Dao Cities, and Blood Calamity turned on Lu Ye as the survivors struggled to resist it.

• Blood Calamity offered to spare Lu Ye’s divine soul if he surrendered, while Lu Ye asked whether Blood Calamity had refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and erased its intelligence.
• Lu Ye swore an oath in the name of the Star Abyss Will, then agreed to submit if Blood Calamity kept his promise to provide him with a suitable body.
• When Tai Kun approached to seize him, Lu Ye slashed Tai Kun and used the ensuing clash to break away as the surrounding cultivators prepared to attack.
• A concealed poison spread through the Blood Source Sea erupted, sickening Blood Calamity’s forces and killing Fusion Dao cultivators across the nearby Uniting Dao Cities.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had used the Myriad Poison Bead to spread and control the poison, while Blood Calamity realized the casualties would continue to mount if Lu Ye was not stopped.

Lu Ye escaped Blood Calamity’s encirclement while the poison in the Uniting Dao Cities triggered a wave of Poison Corpses. Blood Calamity realized Lu Ye had planned the catastrophe and pursued him urgently, fearing the Insect and Blood Races’ foundations would collapse.

• Blood Calamity struck Lu Ye, who carved through the Blood Race forces and escaped the encirclement despite his wounds.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood Escape Art and fled, while Blood Calamity and Flying Locust pursued him.
• The poison overwhelmed Tai Kun, who became a Poison Corpse and killed the Uniting Dao cultivator trying to help him.
• Poison Corpses awakened in the Uniting Dao Cities and attacked the living cultivators, while Tai Kun and other slain Blood Race Uniting Dao cultivators charged toward the cities.
• Blood Calamity sensed the cities’ upheaval, recognized Lu Ye’s plan to use the Myriad Poison Bead’s inherited power, and resolved to capture him.

Lu Ye was captured by Blood Calamity’s forces, but the poison he had spread erupted inside Blood Calamity’s main body while he was refining the Starry Sky Chessboard. Blood Calamity chose to protect the treasure and ordered his subordinates to kill Lu Ye, leaving Lu Ye to break free and flee through their attacks.

• Blood Calamity forced Blood Princess’s body beyond its limits and used crimson chains to bind Lu Ye.
• Blood Calamity demanded that Lu Ye reveal the antidote, but the hidden poison erupted in his main body as he refined the Starry Sky Chessboard.
• The Starry Sky Chessboard resisted Blood Calamity’s control and trapped him as a Chess Piece.
• Blood Calamity left Blood Princess’s body to return to the treasure and ordered his subordinates to kill Lu Ye.
• Blood Princess regained control and her Sacred Nature helped Lu Ye shatter the chains; he used Horizon Saber and the Power of Time and Sequence to find a path through the siege and escape.

Lu Ye escaped Blood Calamity’s trap and turned the poison-afflicted dead into a Corpse Tide that overwhelmed the Insect and Blood Races’ forces. As he plundered abandoned cities, the Starry Sky Chessboard escaped Blood Calamity, forcing Lu Ye to prepare to flee before Blood Calamity could pursue him.

• Lu Ye escaped the encirclement, and Blood Princess became a Poison Corpse after he passed her.
• Lu Ye summoned Poison Corpses from the breached cities and used them, Blood Princess, and the newly turned Flying Locust to break the enemy army.
• Lu Ye raided empty Uniting Dao Cities for Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, then sent Tai Kun to attack his Cosmos-tier city.
• The Starry Sky Chessboard burst free from the depths of the Blood Source Sea, and Lu Ye realized he had to leave before Blood Calamity turned his attention to him.

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity, but the Starry Sky Chessboard diverted toward him and drew the pursuer after him. He seized the damaged treasure and used the Void Teleportation Technique, but Blood Calamity followed through space, leaving Lu Ye still in danger.

• Lu Ye activated the Blood Escape Art, but the Starry Sky Chessboard changed course and caught up to him as Blood Calamity pursued.
• Blood Calamity transformed into a Chess Piece under the treasure's power, and Lu Ye sent the Corpse Horde to attack him.
• Lu Ye struck the Starry Sky Chessboard, extinguishing its remaining intelligence, then seized it before Blood Calamity could claim it.
• Lu Ye used the power of the Space Dao Seed to prepare a Void Teleportation, ignoring Blood Calamity's demand to surrender the treasure.
• Blood Calamity broke free of the chessboard's restraints, returned to his original form, and followed Lu Ye's spatial trail.
• Lu Ye emerged from the Void after narrowly avoiding teleporting into a world realm, while Blood Calamity remained capable of pursuing him.