Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity while carrying the Starry Sky Chessboard and Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, and discovered that his Talent Tree could devour the chessboard’s mysteries. After choosing to cultivate a new fruit on the Talent Tree, he used a Treasure Blood Clone and an unexpected teleport to evade capture briefly, but Blood Calamity began pursuing both Lu Ye and his Clone.

• Lu Ye sensed Blood Calamity pursuing him and realized the Starry Sky Chessboard and Uniting Dao Pearl fragments made it difficult to hide.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to devour the Starry Sky Chessboard’s mysteries and chose to accumulate them for a new fruit rather than strengthen the Myriad Poison Bead Fruit.
• Blood Calamity struck Lu Ye with a bloody palm, and Lu Ye escaped into the Void before Blood Calamity disrupted his next teleport.
• Lu Ye sent a Treasure Blood Clone carrying the Starry Sky Chessboard in another direction, but Blood Calamity split off his own Clone to pursue it.
• Lu Ye’s Clone defeated Blood Calamity’s Clone, and Lu Ye teleported directly to his Clone’s location, surprising Blood Calamity.
• Blood Calamity condensed several Treasure Blood Clones to pursue Lu Ye’s Clone while continuing to chase Lu Ye himself.

Lu Ye refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and used its chess game to trap Blood Calamity while he refined Uniting Dao Pearl fragments. He won their match, triggering the board’s backlash against Blood Calamity.

• Blood Calamity realized the Starry Sky Chessboard’s aura had vanished and demanded to know where Lu Ye had hidden it.
• Lu Ye revealed he had refined the Starry Sky Chessboard and spread its chess game across the Void, trapping Blood Calamity among regenerating chess pieces and a deadly river.
• Blood Calamity tried to force his way through the chess pieces, then chose to play the game rather than waste his strength breaking through.
• Lu Ye stalled between moves while refining Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, and Blood Calamity struggled to learn the rules of xiangqi.
• Lu Ye won the match, and the chess game dissipated into a powerful attack that struck Blood Calamity.

Lu Ye used the Starry Sky Chessboard to stall Blood Calamity while refining Uniting Dao Pearl fragments, then exploited the board’s rules to turn a Xiangqi game around. After discovering the Talent Tree bore the backlash, he switched to Gomoku, where Blood Calamity secretly marked him with a technique that let him follow like a shadow; Lu Ye suspected the technique restricted Blood Calamity’s ability to act.

• Blood Calamity endured the Chessboard’s punishment after losing and pursued Lu Ye, who used repeated games to buy time to refine Uniting Dao Pearl fragments.
• During their fifth Xiangqi game, Blood Calamity trapped Lu Ye, but Lu Ye sent his commander piece across the river and his other pieces attacked, overturning the match.
• Blood Calamity realized Lu Ye showed no backlash, while Lu Ye discovered the Talent Tree had absorbed it and decided not to violate the board’s rules so recklessly again.
• Lu Ye switched their next game to Gomoku, then sensed Blood Calamity’s concealed Secret Technique invade him as Blood Calamity abandoned the game and followed him through the Chessboard’s punishment.
• Blood Calamity revealed that his Secret Technique made him follow Lu Ye like a shadow, and Lu Ye inferred that it prevented Blood Calamity from acting freely.

Lu Ye tried to escape Blood Calamity, but the Blood Lord used the Azure Dome Mirror to reflect Lu Ye’s full-force attack and wound him. A sudden upheaval swept through the Inner Realm, disrupting Lu Ye’s teleportation and bringing an ancient prophecy about the Three Realms to the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord’s attention.

• Lu Ye tested Blood Calamity’s tracking Secret Technique and learned the Blood Lord could follow him without using spatial powers, though he could not freely attack while maintaining it.
• Lu Ye launched a full-strength saber strike, but Blood Calamity reflected it with the Azure Dome Mirror, leaving Lu Ye badly wounded by his own attack.
• A mysterious disturbance twisted the Void and made the surrounding worlds overlap, giving Lu Ye a chance to burn away the tracking force and attempt to teleport away from Blood Calamity.
• Lu Ye’s teleportation instead swept him into an unpredictable current as the upheaval intensified throughout the Inner Realm.
• Ba Qiu decided to take a long-delayed step, while Baxia warned that the truth he sought might not be what he wished to find.
• The Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord sensed the universal disturbance and wondered whether the ancestral prophecy of the Three Realms merging and the Nine Evils emerging was coming true.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity emerged in a strange sea realm, where they discovered Blood Calamity’s borrowed power had weakened and fought to a stalemate. They hid from an approaching powerhouse, only to be confronted by Qi, whose Phoenix bloodline resonance eventually faded as she departed.

• Lu Ye surfaced in a vast sea and found that Blood Calamity had followed him into the unfamiliar realm.
• Lu Ye attacked Blood Calamity, then realized during their fight that Blood Calamity could draw on far less external power than before.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity stopped fighting and concealed themselves when they sensed a tremendously powerful figure approaching.
• Qi appeared before them and withstood their combined attacks without moving.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity felt their Phoenix Race bloodlines resonate with Qi, who examined them before vanishing.

Lu Ye and Blood Calamity realized they had been transported to the Origin Realm, a hidden third layer of the Star Abyss where Saints were trapped and controlled by the Star Abyss Will. They agreed to work together to find a way out as the three realms showed signs of merging.

• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity hid from Qi, then Lu Ye questioned whether they were still in the Inner Realm.
• Blood Calamity explained that the Star Abyss had an Origin Realm, accessible only to Saints, and identified Qi as a Saint above Uniting Dao.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity concluded that Saints were trapped in the Origin Realm and turned into puppets of the Star Abyss Will.
• Lu Ye realized his Void traversal during the upheaval of the Three Realms had brought them to the Origin Realm, and Blood Calamity said all three realms might eventually merge.
• Lu Ye and Blood Calamity set aside their grievances and agreed to seek a way out together, with Blood Calamity giving Lu Ye a Blood Seal to contact him.

Lu Ye tested whether he could escape the Origin Realm, found an invisible force preventing him from leaving, and began cultivating the seventh layer of the Small World Secret Technique. After months of progress that greatly increased his strength, he faced a shortage of Dao Fish before completing the layer.

• Lu Ye tried to fly out of the Origin Realm but was forced back by an unseen resistance and a pulling force.
• Lu Ye returned to his hiding place and began building World Pillars for the seventh layer of the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye completed the final World Pillar after more than a month, sensing that his Small World had changed and might one day become a real world.
• Lu Ye inscribed Dao Patterns over the following months, discovering that his transformed Talent Tree could store more than one million units of Dao Power.
• Lu Ye raised the number of Dao Patterns in his Small World to three thousand five hundred and brought his foundational strength close to five thousand units, but nearly exhausted his Dao Fish.

After exhausting his Dao Fish, Lu Ye left his island to seek resources and a way out of the Origin Realm. He met Xia He, who brought him to Glazed Island and explained that the Human Race was imprisoned in the Cage Sea and faced an approaching hunt.

• Lu Ye flew through the Origin Realm and met the human cultivator Xia He, who warned him that a hunt was about to begin.
• Xia He took Lu Ye to Glazed Island, where she reunited with Xiao Man and brought him to a hidden karst cave.
• Lu Ye met Liu Chang and the other humans hiding in the cave as they discussed how to survive the coming calamity.
• Xia He told Lu Ye that the Cage Sea imprisoned the Human Race and that humans were persecuted because their race had no Saint to protect them.

Xia He explained that the Human Race in Cage Sea was hunted for sacrificial rites and forced to hide from stronger races. When their hiding place was exposed, Lu Ye helped the group break through and revealed strength far beyond what they had expected.

• Xia He told Lu Ye that the Human Race was trapped in Cage Sea and targeted in a hunt that captured cultivators for sacrifices.
• Lu Ye learned the hunt had begun and decided to wait it out before seeking the Human Race's Half-Saint.
• Several days later, Xia He warned Lu Ye that enemies had found their hiding place, and Liu Chang led the group toward another exit.
• When enemies blocked their escape from both directions, Liu Chang and the others suspected Lu Ye had betrayed them, and the cultivator surnamed Zhou attacked him.
• Lu Ye crippled the cultivator surnamed Zhou with a kick, then led the group toward the enemy ahead.
• Lu Ye cut through a Winged Race cultivator's sword strike, severed his Dao Soldier, and struck him down as Liu Chang and the others watched in disbelief.

Lu Ye and Xia He escaped capture by the Winged Race, but Sea Race attackers forced them back to the surface and into another pursuit. With enemies closing in from sea and sky, they headed for Long Cloud Island, while Xia He grieved over the capture of her companions and the betrayal that exposed their hiding place.

• Lu Ye and his companions were ambushed by Winged Race cultivators, whose Primordial Star Divine Light captured Liu Chang, the cultivator surnamed Sun, the cultivator surnamed Zhou, and Xiao Man.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to break the divine light trapping his Crag Mountain Saber, then rescued Xia He and fled with her using the Blood Escape Art.
• Xia He took Lu Ye underwater, and the two shook off the Winged Race pursuers after more than half an hour.
• Sea Race cultivators and sea beasts attacked Lu Ye and Xia beneath the water, forcing them to surface, where the Winged Race found them again.
• Xia He led Lu Ye toward Long Cloud Island as both the Winged Race and Sea Race pursued them.

Lu Ye and Xia He reached Long Cloud Island through the Blood River, but Chu Li refused to open the island’s defenses to them. Trapped outside as enemies attacked, Lu Ye fought them off alone while the island’s defenders watched in astonishment.

• Lu Ye and Xia He flew toward Long Cloud Island, evaded their pursuers, and decided to enter through the Blood River surrounding it.
• Lu Ye concealed himself and Xia He with a Blood Art and misled the Blood Race pursuers, allowing them to cross the Blood River unnoticed.
• Lu Ye and Xia He reached Long Cloud Island’s Protective Grand Array, but Chu Li refused to let them enter because he had orders to hold the defensive line.
• Enemies emerged from the Blood River and attacked Lu Ye and Xia He outside the array.
• Lu Ye killed the first wave of attackers with swift saber strikes and drew the remaining enemies away from Xia He as Chu Li and the island’s defenders watched.

Lu Ye and Xia He fought their way into Long Cloud Island, where Chu Li accepted them after seeing their strength. They took Mind Control Pills to satisfy the Island Lord’s security rules, then returned to the defensive line to prepare for the coming assault.

• Lu Ye and Xia He held off the attackers until Chu Li opened a gap in the Grand Array and called them inside.
• Lu Ye and Chu Li defended the gap for thirty breaths, then killed the enemies who had breached the island after the array sealed.
• Chu Li brought Lu Ye and Xia He to meet Long Cloud, who required them to swallow Mind Control Pills before allowing them to remain.
• Chu Li assigned Lu Ye and Xia He to reinforce his section of the defensive line as Long Cloud Island prepared for the enemy’s full assault.
• Lu Ye and Xia He rested, with Xia He worrying about their captured companions while Lu Ye inspected the Storage Rings he had collected.

Lu Ye sought a large supply of Dao Fish and asked Chu Li to introduce him to Long Cloud Island’s major families so he could sell a Sub-Treasure. The families’ representatives inspected it, and Lu Ye surprised them by revealing two more Sub-Treasures.

• Lu Ye told Chu Li he needed a large quantity of Dao Fish, and Chu Li offered to lend him several tens of thousands.
• Lu Ye explained that he wanted to sell a Sub-Treasure, and Chu Li warned that the imminent battle might make the families offer a low price.
• Chu Li summoned representatives of Long Cloud Island’s major families and introduced Lu Ye as the seller.
• The Liu Family steward and the other representatives inspected Lu Ye’s spear-type Sub-Treasure and discussed its value and the families’ limited Dao Fish reserves.
• Lu Ye revealed two additional Sub-Treasures, astonishing Chu Li and the family representatives.

Lu Ye sold three Sub-Treasures for six million Dao Fish and obtained a Patrol Token from Chu Li, allowing him to move around Long Cloud Island. After using the Dao Fish to greatly increase the Talent Tree’s reserves, he reached the island’s defenses and began slashing into the Blood River.

• Steward Liu and two other stewards bought Lu Ye’s three Sub-Treasures for two million Dao Fish each after Chu Li urged them to raise their offer.
• Lu Ye gave Chu Li twenty thousand Dao Fish in thanks, and Chu Li secured him a Patrol Token from the Island Master.
• Lu Ye used the token to patrol Long Cloud Island, found a secluded place, and absorbed Dao Fish with the Talent Tree until its Dao Power reserves passed ten million.
• Lu Ye reached a defensive line, drew the Crag Mountain Saber, and sent repeated blade lights through the Protective Grand Array into the Blood River.

Lu Ye finished preparing for Long Cloud Island’s defense after secretly spending millions of Dao Power, then took charge of a powerful Formation as the enemy attacked. He fired its great crossbow into the Blood River, beginning the counterattack.

• Chu Li learned that Lu Ye had been provoking the enemies in the Blood River with repeated saber strikes, though he could not understand why.
• Chu Li gathered the defenders and assigned Lu Ye to control a powerful Formation’s great crossbow.
• The Blood River surged over Long Cloud Island, and Siren's Song unsettled many cultivators as the enemy began attacking.
• Chu Li ordered the defenders to counterattack, and Lu Ye gathered the Formation’s power to fire a giant arrow into the Blood River.

Lu Ye and Long Cloud Island’s defenders endured a three-day siege before a weakened section of the Protective Grand Array was breached. After helping Chu Li repel the invaders there, Lu Ye rushed to a neighboring defense line, where Chu Li was struck down by a powerful Feather Race cultivator.

• Lu Ye learned from Chu Li that the enemy’s first wave consisted largely of conscripted weak races used as cannon fodder.
• After three days of fighting, purple corrosive light weakened the Grand Array at the section where a breach had once been deliberately opened.
• The enemy broke through the defenses, and Lu Ye joined Chu Li at the breach while Zhang Zhen took over Lu Ye’s Array Eye.
• Reinforcements helped hold the line until the breach was repaired, though the defenders were badly depleted.
• When enemies broke through a neighboring defense line, Lu Ye and Chu Li rushed to help, but a Feather Race cultivator wounded Chu Li.
• Lu Ye appeared behind Chu Li, used him as cover, and slashed at the pursuing Feather Race cultivator.

Lu Ye and Chu Li helped repel the first assault on Long Cloud Island, but Island Lord Long Cloud warned that a stronger attack was coming. He proposed using a hidden array to send twenty cultivators to capture Feather Race Great Elder Fei Heng’s partner and give the island a chance to survive.

• Lu Ye and Chu Li killed a powerful Feather Race youth who carried multiple Sub-Treasures, provoking the enemy into a furious assault at the breach.
• The defenders held the breach until repairs to the Grand Array were complete, after which the enemy withdrew and Long Cloud Island celebrated surviving the first attack.
• Several days later, Chu Li brought Lu Ye to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Long Cloud explained that the Feather Race and Blood Race were preparing an even fiercer second offensive.
• Long Cloud revealed a hidden Space Spirit Array that could transport twenty cultivators to a small island along Fei Heng’s partner’s route.
• Long Cloud told the gathered cultivators to capture Fei Heng’s partner, whose importance to the Feather Race Great Elder could give Long Cloud Island hope of survival.

Long Cloud sent Lu Ye, Chu Li, and eighteen other cultivators into a trap arranged by Zhaoming and Fei Heng. After Zhaoming exposed Long Cloud’s betrayal, she offered to spare the eighteen if Lu Ye and Chu Li surrendered.

• Long Cloud warned Chu Li about Zhaoming’s Weaving Heaven Needle, then sent twenty cultivators through a Space Spirit Array on a mission to capture her.
• The group arrived on a desolate island surrounded by the Blood Sea, where Zhaoming and the Feather Race forces had ambushed them and shut down the array.
• Zhaoming recognized Lu Ye and Chu Li, and Chu Li realized she was seeking vengeance for the Feather Race youth they had killed, her son with Fei Heng.
• Lu Ye accused Long Cloud of betraying them, and Zhaoming admitted Fei Heng had promised to withdraw his troops from Long Cloud Island in exchange for the trap.
• Lu Ye threatened to destroy himself, prompting Zhaoming to offer to spare the eighteen other cultivators if he and Chu Li surrendered.

Lu Ye turned the Blood Sea against the ambushers, allowing the Human Race cultivators to counterattack and kill the Blood Race. Zhaoming realized that Xue Wuya had died without warning, while Lu Ye’s group continued to hunt through the sea.

• Zhaoming offered to spare the Human Race cultivators if they helped capture Lu Ye and Xia He, then ordered her forces to attack when they refused.
• Chu Li led the group into the Blood Sea, where Zhaoming’s Weaving Heaven Needle killed a Human Race cultivator and the ambush quickly claimed four more lives.
• Lu Ye told Chu Li to split the group, then used his Blood Arts to merge his Blood Sea with the enemy’s and restore the Human Race cultivators’ sight and divine senses.
• Following Lu Ye’s guidance, the Human Race cultivators scattered in pairs and killed Blood Race cultivators, whose movements were suppressed by Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature.
• Zhaoming’s Weaving Heaven Needle was blocked twice, and the Blood Sea’s concealment suddenly weakened as Xue Wuya’s life force vanished.
• Zhaoming called for Xue Wuya and realized he had been killed without any detectable disturbance.

Lu Ye and the Human Race cultivators slaughtered the Feather Race within the Blood Sea, and Lu Ye captured Zhaoming alive after defeating her. The survivors gathered around Lu Ye, holding Zhaoming as a bargaining chip against Fei Heng.

• Zhaoming found that the Blood Race cultivators no longer responded as Lu Ye guided the Human Race through the Blood Sea to attack the Feather Race.
• Lu Ye blocked Zhaoming's Weaving Heaven Needle, wounded her, and severed her Dao Bone before withdrawing his saber to keep her alive.
• Chu Li and the other Human Race cultivators killed the remaining Feather Race cultivators, and the Blood Sea dispersed.
• Chu Li and the survivors saw that Lu Ye had defeated and captured Zhaoming, while Lu Ye took her Weaving Heaven Needle and Storage Ring.
• Lu Ye refused to place a restriction on Zhaoming, who stayed still because a strange force around her wounds threatened to tear them open if she moved.