Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Amber defeated Liu Sanbao, discovering that Amber could transform Spirit Bodies into Accomplice Spirits and control them. Lu Ye used this ability to capture an Immortal Yuan Squad Leader and returned with him to a group of bound cultivators, where he found the ordinary guards apparently followed orders without independent thought.

• Lu Ye discovered the gambling den’s Formation sealed the exit, so he attacked Liu Sanbao rather than continuing to gamble.
• Amber suppressed and devoured Liu Sanbao, then returned him as a vacant Accomplice Spirit that it could command.
• Lu Ye realized Amber might be able to transform other Spirit Bodies and set out to find an Immortal Yuan Guard.
• Lu Ye lured an Immortal Yuan Squad Leader away, and Amber transformed him into another Accomplice Spirit after Lu Ye weakened him.
• Lu Ye returned with the squad leader to the captured cultivators and noticed that the ordinary Immortal Yuan Guards did not react to him or seem to think independently.

Lu Ye used Amber to turn Immortal Yuan Guards into accomplice spirits, building a squad that helped him defeat Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators throughout Immortal Yuan City. After Amber reached its limit of thirty-one accomplice spirits, Wind Flower Pavilion cultivators surrounded Lu Ye, apparently having come specifically to find him.

• Lu Ye killed four bound Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators and had Amber transform four Immortal Yuan Guards into accomplice spirits.
• Lu Ye and Amber defeated a patrolling squad, transformed its leader, and added its members to their growing force.
• Lu Ye used the accomplice spirits to capture and kill Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators as the squad expanded.
• Amber reached its limit of thirty-one accomplice spirits, and Lu Ye learned that their strength depended on Amber and drained its power when they fought.
• Lu Ye sensed a Ghost Cultivator watching him, then recognized a Wind Flower Pavilion woman among the cultivators who surrounded him.

Chu Qing ambushed Lu Ye with more than twenty Wind Flower Pavilion cultivators to avenge Chuxue, but Lu Ye had discovered the pursuers and arranged a counter-ambush with Yiyi, Amber, and the Immortal Yuan Guards. As the battle erupted, Lu Ye engaged Chu Qing and her two companions while the guards attacked from behind.

• Chu Qing confronted Lu Ye and demanded vengeance for Chuxue, whom he had killed at Golden Light Peak.
• Lu Ye charged Chu Qing and used his signal to trigger Yiyi and Amber’s counter-ambush.
• More than twenty Immortal Yuan Guards attacked the Wind Flower Pavilion cultivators, while Amber’s dice killed several who had been bound.
• Lu Ye fought Longsword Woman at close range as Chu Qing and the plump white woman prepared to support her.
• Amber brought another squad of Immortal Yuan Guards behind Chu Qing and the plump white woman, binding the plump woman as Chu Qing attacked the guards.

Chu Qing and her companions attacked Lu Ye to avenge Chuxue, but Lu Ye and Yiyi overwhelmed Chu Qing and Ruoyan despite interference from the Immortal Yuan Guards. With the two women near defeat, Chu Qing called Qiao Yun to intervene.

• Chu Qing killed an Immortal Yuan Guard, freeing Qiao Yun from the remaining Spirit Binding Locks so she could hold off the others.
• Lu Ye badly wounded Ruoyan, and Chu Qing joined her to fight him while Qiao Yun remained entangled with the Immortal Yuan Guards.
• Lu Ye’s rapid, powerful saber strikes forced Chu Qing and Ruoyan to defend themselves, while Yiyi supported him with spells.
• As mist gathered around the fight, Chu Qing called for Qiao Yun when she and Ruoyan could no longer withstand Lu Ye’s assault.
• Qiao Yun charged through the Immortal Yuan Guards and raised her palm to strike Lu Ye.

Lu Ye fought Qiao Yun while Wind Flower Pavilion’s forces retreated, then pursued Chu Qing and Ruoyan as Immortal Yuan Guards closed in. The guards captured Qiao Yun but ignored Lu Ye, leaving her terrified as he approached with his saber.

• Qiao Yun’s elastic body absorbed Lu Ye’s attacks, but his Double Sharpness thrust pierced her chest and forced her to release him.
• Chu Qing ordered Wind Flower Pavilion to retreat after most of her cultivators were killed, and Lu Ye charged after her, Ruoyan, and Qiao Yun.
• Chu Qing, Ruoyan, and Qiao Yun fought Lu Ye together before fleeing, while Immortal Yuan Guards pursued them from behind.
• The Immortal Yuan Guards attacked Qiao Yun and Lu Ye as the group fled; Qiao Yun stayed behind to hold Lu Ye off while Chu Qing and Ruoyan escaped.
• The Immortal Yuan Guards surrounded Lu Ye and Qiao Yun, bound Qiao Yun, and ignored Lu Ye as he advanced toward her with his saber.

Lu Ye killed Qiao Yun, then fled the mist-born Humanoid Entities by using Madam Yun’s Trace Annihilation Bracelet to hide. He found shelter in a lantern-lit building, where he encountered Jujia and the mustached Spell Cultivator, and the chapter left them together inside.

• Lu Ye killed Qiao Yun before she could touch her Battlefield Mark, and Amber recalled the Immortal Yuan Guards.
• Lu Ye confirmed that the mist-born Humanoid Entities resembled the foes from the Mirage Realm and ran as they gathered behind him.
• Lu Ye used the Trace Annihilation Bracelet to conceal himself and lose his pursuers, repeating the trick as he searched for shelter.
• Lu Ye entered a building with a hanging lantern, where Jujia nearly struck him before recognizing Amber and stopping.
• The mustached Spell Cultivator recognized Lu Ye, apologized for the misunderstanding, and Lu Ye sat down while Jujia watched Amber.

After surviving Wind Flower Pavilion’s ambush, Lu Ye recovered in Immortal Yuan City and planned to hunt down Chu Qing once the fog cleared. Meanwhile, Chu Qing mourned Qiao Yun, and Ji Yan struggled to lead Divine Concealment Palace after Gu Canyang was captured.

• The little-mustached Spell Cultivator considered attacking Lu Ye for his Storage Bags but held back because he could not judge Lu Ye’s strength, and Jujia refused to help take Amber.
• Lu Ye recovered, opened more than a dozen Storage Bags, learned that only fourteen Accomplice Spirits remained, and resolved to find and kill Chu Qing after replenishing them.
• Chu Qing’s group learned that Qiao Yun had died, and Chu Qing promised to retrieve her body and take Lu Ye’s head once the fog dispersed.
• Ji Yan learned that Immortal Yuan Guards had captured Gu Canyang and began considering a rescue despite Divine Concealment Palace’s hostile neighbors and the Dungeon’s defenses.

Lu Ye gathered more Accomplice Spirits, tested a way to evade Immortal Yuan Guards, and learned that Myriad Demon Ridge forces were preparing to attack the Vast Sky Alliance. He found a powerful female Spirit Body in a lantern-marked tower, but her sound attack left him struggling to move.

• After the fog cleared, Lu Ye replenished Amber's Accomplice Spirits and tested whether one could disguise him as a captured cultivator to fool approaching Immortal Yuan Guards.
• Lu Ye used the disguise to ambush cultivators seeking his Battlefield Mark, killed those who could not tell him where Chu Qing was, and continued capturing squad leaders to strengthen his Accomplice Spirits.
• Vast Sky Alliance cultivators told Lu Ye that Sun-Illuminating Mountain and the Wind Flower Pavilion were gathering to attack them, but Lu Ye refused to join their group and continued alone.
• Lu Ye searched a three-story building marked with lanterns and found a delicate female Spirit Body holding a pipa on the second floor.
• When the Spirit Body asked whether Lu Ye could recite poetry or compose couplets, he drew his saber and answered that he could chop people.
• The female Spirit Body began weeping and unleashed a sound attack that weakened Lu Ye and made it difficult for him to control his arm.

Lu Ye defeated the Pipa Girl and added her to his Accomplice Spirits, then encountered a powerful Red-Dressed Woman who bound him with her song and asked him to find her cat, Tangyuan. After agreeing, he escaped her estate and headed toward the aftermath of a nearby battle while beginning his search.

• Amber, Yiyi, Lu Ye, and the Accomplice Spirits overwhelmed the Pipa Girl, and Amber transformed her into an Accomplice Spirit.
• Lu Ye continued exploring and entered a walled estate, where he found a Red-Dressed Woman sitting on a swing.
• The Red-Dressed Woman trapped Lu Ye and sang a sorrowful ballad that affected him and Yiyi before asking him to find her cat, Tangyuan.
• Lu Ye agreed to search for Tangyuan, left the estate, and realized that breaking his promise could bring danger.
• Lu Ye noticed signs of a nearby battle, had Yiyi hide, concealed his aura, and cautiously approached.

Lu Ye found Jujia being battered by Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators who wanted him to join Wind Flower Pavilion, while he protected the dying Sima Yang. As Ruoyan turned to kill Jujia, Lu Ye and the Immortal Yuan Guards launched a surprise attack, leaving the fight raging and Amber slipping toward Jujia.

• Lu Ye spotted Jujia shielding Sima Yang's corpse as Ruoyan urged him to join Wind Flower Pavilion or die.
• Ruoyan revealed that Wind Flower Pavilion and Sun-Illuminating Mountain had targeted Jujia because of his strength, while Sima Yang had relied on him to gain Merit and cultivate.
• Ruoyan noticed Lu Ye on a rooftop and recognized that he had survived.
• The Pipa Girl's sound attack disoriented the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators as Immortal Yuan Guards bound them with Spirit Binding Locks.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, Liu Sanbao, and the Immortal Yuan Guards attacked, killing several cultivators and triggering a fierce battle.
• Amber leaped from Lu Ye's shoulder and darted toward Jujia while the two sides fought.

Jujia erupted into a brutal rampage against the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, giving Lu Ye’s side time to withdraw when Chu Qing arrived with reinforcements. Chu Qing recognized that Lu Ye could command the Immortal Yuan Guards and pursued him, while the wounded Jujia caught up with Lu Ye and Amber.

• Amber roused Jujia, who charged into the Myriad Demon Ridge formation and killed many cultivators, even using a Tier Nine Body Cultivator as a weapon.
• Lu Ye saw Chu Qing approaching with more than forty cultivators and ordered Yiyi and the others to retreat.
• Jujia, blinded by bloodlust, struck Lu Ye before Amber’s roar prompted him to follow the retreating group.
• Chu Qing arrived to find heavy casualties, learned from Ruoyan that Lu Ye seemed able to command the Immortal Yuan Guards, and ordered a pursuit.
• Chu Qing gathered Wind Flower Pavilion cultivators and followed Jujia’s bloody footprints as Lu Ye continued fleeing with the wounded, grieving Jujia.

Lu Ye led the injured Jujia to the Red-Dressed Woman’s courtyard, where she trapped their pursuers and asked them to search for Tangyuan. Lu Ye left Chu Qing humiliated but unharmed, then gave Jujia Spiritual Pills to help him recover.

• Lu Ye tried to comfort Jujia and fled with him as Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators pursued them.
• Lu Ye brought Jujia to the Red-Dressed Woman’s courtyard, where Chu Qing and her followers surrounded them.
• The Red-Dressed Woman sealed everyone’s Spiritual Power and asked whether they had seen Tangyuan; Chu Qing agreed to help search for the cat.
• Chu Qing tested the Red-Dressed Woman’s response to Lu Ye’s killing intent, and Lu Ye approached her and messed up her hair while telling her to find Tangyuan.
• Lu Ye returned to Jujia and gave him Spirit Nurturing Pills and Healing Pills, which Jujia swallowed.

Lu Ye and Jujia left the Red-Dressed Woman’s courtyard, only to discover her restraint still prevented the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators from attacking them. When Chu Qing’s group surrounded them again, Lu Ye summoned Immortal Yuan Guards and launched a counterattack.

• Chu Qing pounded Lu Ye, who taunted her about the people he had killed and had Jujia rub her head in retaliation.
• The Red-Dressed Woman ordered everyone to find Tangyuan and leave the courtyard; outside, her restraint disrupted both sides’ Spiritual Power and prevented them from fighting.
• Lu Ye and Jujia strode through the encirclement, then fled as Chu Qing led seventy or eighty Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators in pursuit.
• Lu Ye stopped in a circular plaza, where Chu Qing surrounded him and waited for reinforcements from Sun-Illuminating Mountain, which was fighting Divine Concealment Palace.
• Lu Ye’s shoulder companion released more than a dozen Spirit Bodies, whose attacks disoriented the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators and killed several captured fighters.

Lu Ye used the Red-Dressed Woman’s rules to turn Chu Qing’s attack against her group, whose members were punished as their Spiritual Apertures shattered. As the Accomplice Spirits pursued the survivors, Lu Ye tried and failed to catch the elusive White Cat Tangyuan, then learned that Chu Qing’s group had joined Sun-Illuminating Mountain in a battle with Divine Concealment Palace.

• Lu Ye had the Accomplice Spirits attack the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, then let their attacks strike Jujia and tested his Defense Spirit Pattern against a spell.
• The Red-Dressed Woman punished the cultivators who hit Jujia by breaking their Spiritual Apertures until they died, and Chu Qing ordered the survivors to flee.
• The Accomplice Spirits pursued Chu Qing’s group, binding and killing cultivators as the group dwindled by more than half.
• Lu Ye and Jujia tried to catch the White Cat Tangyuan, but it easily evaded them and continued following along the rooftops.
• Yiyi returned with Amber and told Lu Ye that Chu Qing’s group had joined Sun-Illuminating Mountain in a battle with Divine Concealment Palace.

Lu Ye and Jujia joined Divine Concealment Palace’s beleaguered forces, rescuing scattered Vast Sky Alliance cultivators on the way. Their arrival disrupted Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s assault, but Qi Ming recognized Lu Ye and questioned Chu Qing about his strength.

• Lu Ye decided to join Divine Concealment Palace and entered the battle zone with Jujia.
• Jujia charged into a fight and Lu Ye’s Accomplice Spirits helped kill the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators attacking a group of Vast Sky Alliance cultivators.
• The dying Tier Eight Weapon Cultivator urged Lu Ye to save the others, and Lu Ye and Jujia went on to rescue two more groups.
• Lu Ye and Jujia reached the main battlefield, where Divine Concealment Palace’s roughly hundred fighters were being overwhelmed by Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s larger force.
• Lu Ye’s Accomplice Spirits disrupted the Myriad Demon Ridge attack, and Jujia’s arrival steadied the Vast Sky Alliance’s morale.
• Qi Ming recognized Lu Ye as Lu Yiye of the Crimson Blood Sect and asked Chu Qing whether Lu Ye had defeated Wind Flower Pavilion’s people.

Lu Ye and the Immortal Yuan Guards helped the Vast Sky Alliance turn back a Myriad Demon Ridge attack, forcing Qi Ming to retreat. After the battle, Ji Yan recognized Lu Ye as Lu Yiye of the Crimson Blood Sect and welcomed him to the Divine Concealment Palace camp.

• Qi Ming redirected Myriad Demon Ridge attacks toward Lu Ye’s group, but Lu Ye, Jujia, and the Accomplice Spirits helped stabilize the Vast Sky Alliance’s line.
• A Ghost Cultivator tried to kill Amber, but Yiyi trapped him in the Nine Realms Map, and Lu Ye emerged with the Tier Nine cultivator’s corpse.
• As the Vast Sky Alliance counterattacked and Myriad Demon Ridge lost more than thirty cultivators, Qi Ming ordered a retreat.
• Ji Yan thanked Lu Ye for helping, recognized him as the Lu Yiye famed for his stand at Golden Light Peak, and brought him to a ruined courtyard.
• Ji Yan learned that Sima Yang was dead and sent Junior Sister Lin to treat Jujia’s injuries.

Lu Ye joined Divine Concealment Palace and revealed that his forces had nearly wiped out Wind Flower Pavilion. As Ji Yan planned a counterattack against Myriad Demon Ridge, Lu Ye recruited more Spirit Bodies and returned to camp with his forces strengthened.

• Lu Ye told Ji Yan that Wind Flower Pavilion had lost most of its people, largely through his efforts and the Spirit Bodies under his command.
• Ji Yan proposed resting for the day and attacking Myriad Demon Ridge the next day, and Lu Ye agreed.
• Ji Yan sent a Tier Eight Weapon Cultivator to guide Lu Ye to a nearby special Spirit Body, where Lu Ye subdued a scholar who demanded praise for his writing.
• Lu Ye and the Weapon Cultivator visited two more locations and hunted Immortal Yuan Guards, watching Lu Ye's Spirit Beast devour them and command their Spirit Bodies.
• Lu Ye spent half a day replenishing his forces, adding seven squad leader-level Spirit Bodies and five special Spirit Bodies, including a Fortune-telling Blind Man and a Butcher.
• Lu Ye returned to camp, where Ji Yan welcomed him enthusiastically.

Ji Yan led the Vast Sky Alliance in a counteroffensive against the Myriad Demon Ridge, whose forces were routed by the Alliance’s numbers and Lu Ye’s Spirit Bodies. After resting, Jujia asked Lu Ye to help him get revenge, and the Alliance advanced toward the enemy’s new position.

• Ji Yan gathered more Rogue Cultivators while Lu Ye recovered and gave Jujia a Storage Bag and a defensive Spiritual Artifact.
• Ji Yan led over a hundred Vast Sky Alliance cultivators to attack the Myriad Demon Ridge, whose sentries spotted them and raised the alarm.
• Lu Ye’s Spirit Bodies helped the Vast Sky Alliance inflict heavier losses, and the Myriad Demon Ridge’s defensive line collapsed and fled.
• After the Alliance rested, Jujia asked Lu Ye to help him take revenge, and Lu Ye agreed to arrange it.
• Ji Yan tracked the retreating Myriad Demon Ridge, and the Alliance advanced toward their position with Divine Concealment Palace at the lead.

Lu Ye and Jujia hunted down the White Cat, Tangyuan, so the Red-Dressed Woman would remove the restraints she had placed on them. After Lu Ye delivered the cat, the restraints broke, and he and Jujia hurried away.

• Chu Qing led twenty surviving Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators out of the Vast Sky Alliance's encirclement, while Ji Yan told Lu Ye he would track them and help search for the White Cat.
• After a day of searching, Lu Ye followed a Ghost Cultivator to the sleeping White Cat and arranged for his Accomplice Spirits to surround it.
• The White Cat evaded the Immortal Yuan Guards and Accomplice Spirits, but Lu Ye and Yiyi trapped it with the Nine Realms Map, and Lu Ye eventually caught it.
• Lu Ye brought the White Cat to the Red-Dressed Woman, who called it Tangyuan and bound it with a red ribbon when it tried to flee.
• The Red-Dressed Woman praised Lu Ye, and Lu Ye and Jujia felt their restraints break before quickly leaving her courtyard.

Lu Ye used the token from the Red-Dressed Woman to pass Immortal Yuan Guards and led Jujia to confront the surviving Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators. He unleashed his Accomplice Spirits and Jujia against them, then began a three-strike duel with Chu Qing and forced her to her knees with his first strike.

• The Red-Dressed Woman gave Lu Ye an ancient token before sending him and Jujia out of her courtyard.
• Lu Ye discovered that the token made Immortal Yuan Guards recognize him as their lord, though they would not leave their patrol without the Grand Commander's writ.
• A Ghost Cultivator guided Lu Ye and Jujia to an open area where the surviving Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, including Chu Qing and Ruoyan, had gathered.
• Chu Qing realized Lu Ye had likely kept her and the others alive so he could take revenge, and she had brought them into the open to face him.
• Lu Ye ordered his Accomplice Spirits and Jujia to attack, and they overwhelmed the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.
• Lu Ye challenged Chu Qing to withstand three strikes, then drove her to her knees with his first blow and the Heavy Pressure Spirit Pattern.