Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye learned that Ba Qiu had sacrificed his foundation and challenged him to a final life-or-death battle. As they fought evenly in the Void, the Phoenix Lord began to suspect that Yang Fengxian was deliberately helping Gu Mingyue escape.

• Ba Qiu attacked Lu Ye with his Giant Blade, but Lu Ye quickly burned away its Sealing Power and healed his wound.
• Ba Qiu burned his life source and explained that he had severed his foundation to escape a greater danger, then demanded that Lu Ye fight him without holding back.
• Lu Ye accepted Ba Qiu’s challenge, and the two began an evenly matched battle with no restraint.
• Ba Qiu and Baxia watched as the fighters exchanged devastating blows, while Ba Qiu’s wounds healed more slowly than Lu Ye’s.
• The Phoenix Lord pursued Gu Mingyue with Yang Fengxian, but noticed that the Dragon Sovereign’s mistakes repeatedly gave Gu Mingyue chances to recover.

Ba Qiu fought Lu Ye to the death and died, passing his legacy into Lu Ye’s saber. Afterward, Lu Ye mourned Ba Qiu and learned that Fu Wei’s strength and survival were bound to his own.

• The Dragon Sovereign told the Phoenix Lord that Ba Qiu was fighting Lu Ye to the death and had burned his life essence so Lu Ye could inherit his will; she chose not to interrupt them.
• Lu Ye respectfully saw Ba Qiu off, then shattered the Giant Blade with the Crag Mountain Saber and killed Ba Qiu, absorbing the weapon’s fragments into his blade.
• The Phoenix Lord collected Ba Qiu’s body and left with the Dragon Sovereign, while Baxia vanished and left behind the Divination Tribe’s clan-protecting turtle shell.
• Lu Ye grieved over Ba Qiu’s death and asked Fu Wei how his strength had grown so greatly.
• Fu Wei explained that his strength and life were linked to Lu Ye through the Divination Tribe’s Innate Divine Ability, and Lu Ye vowed to stay alive.

After killing Ba Qiu, Lu Ye claimed One Man City's Universe-tier Uniting Dao Pearl, and the city crumbled with it. Back in Yuan Xi City, he decided to resign as City Lord and put forward Fu Wei as his successor.

• Lu Ye shattered One Man City's Uniting Dao Pearl, found its core fragment, and gathered the fragments before the city broke apart.
• Su Yan showed Lu Ye the Moon Wheel, which had awakened after Ba Qiu's death; Lu Ye explained that it might one day regain its former strength and had sought revenge on Ba Qiu.
• Lu Ye told Yuan Xi City's cultivators that he was stepping down as City Lord because he could no longer draw on the Uniting Dao Pearl's amplification.
• Zhu Yin questioned who could replace Lu Ye, and Lu Ye indicated Fu Wei, whose unusual strength and sufficient foundation made him a possible successor.

Lu Ye returned to the Phoenix Nest after learning that the Outer and Inner Realms had fused, and he told the Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord about the Origin Realm and its True Saints. He asked to borrow the Primordial Parasol Tree’s power to travel to a distant place, leaving his destination unresolved.

• Fu Wei explained that his strength could not exceed Lu Ye’s, so becoming City Lord would bring little benefit, and Lu Ye left Yuan Xi City in the others’ care.
• You Die told Lu Ye that the Outer and Inner Realms had likely fused, and Lu Ye realized the Origin Realm might merge next and threaten him with its True Saints and Half Saints.
• Lu Ye returned to the Phoenix Nest and told the Dragon Sovereign that Yang Qing, the Dragon Race’s Second Generation Ancestor, was a True Saint in the Origin Realm.
• The Phoenix Lord appeared, identified Saint Qi as the Phoenix Race’s Seventh Generation Master, and told Lu Ye not to blame himself for Ba Qiu’s death.
• Lu Ye asked to borrow the Primordial Parasol Tree’s power to travel, and the Dragon Sovereign asked where he wanted to go.

Lu Ye learned that the Primordial Parasol Tree was nearing the loss of its sentience after enduring Star Abyss erosion for ages, so he could not borrow its power. He then secretly used the Talent Tree to try to purge the erosion, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• The Phoenix Lord told Lu Ye that the Primordial Parasol Tree's condition had worsened after the realms merged and that even she could no longer borrow its power.
• Lu Ye told the Phoenix Lord and Dragon Sovereign that Blood Calamity remained in the Origin Realm and was refining a Half-Saint's bloodline after Lu Ye helped him kill that Half-Saint with poison.
• The Dragon Sovereign urged Lu Ye to stay at the Phoenix Nest and cultivate while the Star Abyss descended into chaos.
• Lu Ye sat outside Su Yan's Phoenix Nest and extended the Talent Tree's roots through the Primordial Parasol Tree until they reached their limit.
• Lu Ye released the Talent Tree's Annihilating Flame Power through its roots to try to remove the accumulated Star Abyss erosion from the Primordial Parasol Tree.

Lu Ye refined the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments while using the Talent Tree to purge the Primordial Parasol Tree’s corrosive power, and discovered that a core fragment let him sense the other fragments and greatly improved his refining speed. When the Talent Tree’s ordinary fuel ran out, Dao Power took its place, strengthening its Annihilating Flame Power.

• Lu Ye examined the Crag Mountain Saber and reflected that Shang had poured her foundation into it during the battle with Ba Qiu, bringing it closer to advancing into a Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Ye refined a core fragment from One Man City’s Uniting Dao Pearl and sensed nine other core fragments, including one inside the Phoenix Nest’s Central Great Hall.
• Lu Ye told the Dragon Sovereign where to search for the nearby core fragment, and the Dragon Sovereign sent cultivators to investigate.
• Lu Ye continued refining the Uniting Dao Pearl fragments and found that the core fragment had made the process several times faster.
• Lu Ye discovered that the Talent Tree’s ordinary fuel had run out and Dao Power had become its new fuel, strengthening its Annihilating Flame Power as he checked the Dao Fish in his Small World.

Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to burn away some of the corruption inside the Primordial Parasol Tree, allowing its spirit to awaken and recognize him as the Fire Seed. The Primordial Parasol Tree sent Lu Ye toward something he was connected to, then fell asleep again, leaving the Phoenix Lord and Dragon Sovereign to learn what had happened.

• The Primordial Parasol Tree appeared before Lu Ye after his power weakened the corruption, and Lu Ye recognized him as the spirit of the Phoenix Race’s Supreme Treasure.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree identified Lu Ye as the Fire Seed left by his master, but his still-damaged consciousness became confused again.
• At Lu Ye’s request, the Primordial Parasol Tree sent him through the Void by following his connection to an unknown destination.
• The Phoenix Lord found the awakened Primordial Parasol Tree, who told her that Lu Ye had helped him and had been sent away.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree fell asleep again before the Dragon Sovereign arrived, and the Phoenix Lord explained what Lu Ye had done.

Lu Ye returned to Variegated and discovered that a Senluo City force had besieged it to seize the Star Abyss Gate. At Azure Palace, Yin Luo and the other defenders were close to being overwhelmed as Fei Mu acknowledged they could not hold out much longer.

• Phoenix Lord told Dragon Sovereign that Primordial Parasol Tree had briefly regained consciousness, giving them hope that the Second Generation Ancestor and Seventh Generation Master's consciousnesses might still survive.
• Primordial Parasol Tree sent Lu Ye through space, and after traveling another day and a half, he reached the Variegated expanse.
• Lu Ye spotted a Cosmos-tier Uniting Dao City blocking the way and recognized it as Senluo City's after Zong Shenliang's Clone entered Variegated.
• Lu Ye followed Zong Shenliang into Variegated and saw that more than ten Uniting Dao Cities had besieged Azure Palace to reach the Star Abyss Gate.
• Yin Luo and the recently advanced Uniting Dao cultivators defended Azure Palace behind a powerful golden Dragon Shadow, but Yin Luo told Fei Mu they could no longer hold the place.

Yin Luo and the cultivators of Azure Palace struggled to hold back a renewed assault as the Dragon Shadow weakened. Lu Ye returned to Variegated, killed the invading Flood-tier City Lord with one strike, and left the besiegers shaken as Azure Palace recognized him.

• Yin Luo urged Hua Ci to leave Azure Palace, but Hua Ci refused and prepared to defend it alongside the others.
• The enemy launched another fierce attack, and the Dragon Shadow faced unprecedented pressure as the cultivators inside Azure Palace drove its power.
• Lu Ye returned to Variegated, discovered Zong Shenliang's Clone moving to seize a Ruins entrance, and sensed the danger at Azure Palace.
• Lu Ye appeared at Azure Palace and killed the Flood-tier City Lord with a single slash of the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Yin Luo and the others recognized Lu Ye, while Fei Mu understood their familiar connection and Hua Ci reacted to his return.

Lu Ye trapped the attackers besieging the Azure Palace in the Starry Sky Chessboard and led the Starry Sky cultivators in a counterattack. After cutting down the scattered enemies, he approached their Flood-tier Uniting Dao City and raised his saber, but did not strike.

• The Uniting Dao cultivators recognized Lu Ye, but he trapped them and their cities inside the Starry Sky Chessboard.
• Hua Ci and the Starry Sky cultivators emerged from the Azure Palace, and Lu Ye killed the enemy who urged the others to attack him.
• Lu Ye moved through the Chess Grids and slaughtered the isolated Uniting Dao cultivators as Hua Ci’s teams fought the remaining enemies.
• Hua Ci, her Pixiu, and Fei Mu used poison and the Three Treasure Coins to gain the upper hand against one Uniting Dao cultivator.
• Lu Ye left the other battles to the Starry Sky cultivators and approached the Flood-tier Uniting Dao City.
• Lu Ye raised the Crag Mountain Saber before the city’s protective array, but his attack never came down, leaving the two defenders puzzled.

Lu Ye breached a Flood-tier City’s Protective Grand Array with Lotus Seedling Poison and killed its defenders, while the other cities’ cultivators fled. At the Ruins’ core, Zong Shenliang discovered that One Origin Starry Sky was a Dao Soldier and was confronted by Lu Ye.

• Lu Ye used the Myriad Poison Bead Fruit’s Lotus Seedling Poison to break through the Flood-tier City’s array and enter its Central Great Hall.
• Lu Ye shattered the Uniting Dao Pearl, killed the two Uniting Dao cultivators, and slaughtered the Fusion Dao cultivators in the hall.
• Lu Ye found the other Uniting Dao Cities empty because their cultivators had fled into the Hehe Realm.
• Zong Shenliang identified the ruined statue’s owner as a former Top Ten City Lords-level powerhouse and learned that One Origin Starry Sky was his Dao Soldier.
• Zong Shenliang attacked a disturbance and saw Lu Ye appear, recognizing him and realizing the encounter was troublesome.

Lu Ye’s Clone defeated Zong Shenliang’s Clone inside Variegated and sealed the entrance, while Lu Ye turned the fallen Uniting Dao cultivators into Poison Corpses to guard the Star Abyss Gate. Lu Ye then joined his Clone in the Ruins and considered how to make use of the captured Zong Shenliang.

• Lu Ye revealed that Variegated was his Dao Soldier, and his Clone killed Zong Shenliang’s Uniting Dao subordinates with sword light.
• Lu Ye sealed the entrance and attacked Zong Shenliang after rejecting his offer to settle their conflict.
• At the Star Abyss Gate, Lu Ye explained that the bluish-black figures were Poison Corpses under his control, and told the starry sky cultivators to rest.
• Lu Ye entered the Ruins and found his Clone had badly wounded Zong Shenliang but kept him alive for a purpose.
• Zong Shenliang realized that the Lu Ye who had arrived was the main body and was stunned that Lu Ye’s Clone had overwhelmed his own.

Lu Ye turned Zong Shenliang's Clone into a Poison Corpse and enlisted Hun Que to control it, then used the disguised corpse to infiltrate Zhe Huang City. Zong Shenliang returned injured with two concealed figures and ordered the city sealed, allowing entry but forbidding departure.

• Lu Ye poisoned Zong Shenliang's Clone, then realized its conspicuous blue-black qi made it unsuitable for his plan.
• Lu Ye brought Hun Que to the Poison Corpse, and Hun Que possessed it and confirmed he could control the body, though not sustain its power for long.
• Zhe Huang waited outside Variegated with Xue Li, warned him not to covet the Supreme Treasures, and revealed that Lu Ye held the Azure Dome Mirror and Blood Calamity was likely dead.
• Zong Shenliang returned to Zhe Huang City injured and accompanied by two figures hidden beneath black qi.
• Zong Shenliang ordered Zhe Huang to seal the city so people could enter but no one could leave.

Lu Ye and Hun Que destroyed Zhe Huang City from within, killing its defenders before news could escape. Lu Ye returned to Variegated, reunited with Hua Ci, and learned that the starry sky’s situation was not yet dire.

• Zong Shenliang shattered Zhe Huang’s Uniting Dao Pearl, and Lu Ye and Hun Que killed Zhe Huang and the other cultivators in the Central Great Hall.
• Lu Ye and his Clone swept through Zhe Huang City, killing its inhabitants and leaving the city without any signs of life.
• Lu Ye broke through Zhe Huang City’s restriction and left Hun Que to control Zong Shenliang’s Clone while he returned to Variegated.
• Lu Ye reunited with Hua Ci, then asked her to describe what had happened in the starry sky since he left.
• As Lu Ye moved through Uniting Dao Cities and shattered their pearls, Hua Ci explained that the starry sky had not yet suffered a large-scale invasion.

Lu Ye fortified Zhe Huang City and prepared its defenders for a likely conflict with Senluo City, then returned to the Phantom Extinction Star System after resolving the danger at its Star Abyss Gate. He reunited with Gu Yunliu and asked to see Old Tree.

• Lu Ye arranged for Hua Ci and the others to condense Uniting Dao Pearls in the Azure Palace, and gave Hun Que fragments to make one too.
• Lu Ye brought Fu Wei to Zhe Huang City and assigned him to guard it alongside the Talent Tree Clone and the Poison Corpses.
• Lu Ye entered the Phantom Extinction Star System, where Gu Yunliu and the others learned that the trouble at the Star Abyss Gate had been resolved for now.
• Lu Ye asked Gu Yunliu to take him to the local Clone of Old Tree.

Lu Ye returned to the Starry Sky and learned that invading Uniting Dao cultivators had inflicted heavy losses, especially in the Heavenly Dipper Star System, where Chen Li had died and Shuixian was badly wounded. He set out with Old Tree’s clone to confront the invaders and reunited with Su Yuqing at the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.

• Lu Ye met Old Tree in the war fortress and learned that invaders had entered through all six Star Abyss Gates, with the worst fighting in the Heavenly Dipper Star System.
• Old Tree told Lu Ye that Chen Li had died, Shuixian was seriously wounded, and the Little People Race had suffered heavy losses, while Su Yuqing was unharmed.
• Lu Ye explained a plan that required Old Tree’s help, then left carrying Old Tree’s potted clone to deal with the invaders.
• Lu Ye traveled through several Insect Paths and reached the Heavenly Dipper Star Abyss Gate, where more than twenty Uniting Dao Cities surrounded the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.
• Su Yuqing arrived, and Lu Ye took her hand and apologized for returning too late; she told him that his return was not too late.

Lu Ye reunited with Su Yuqing at the Star Abyss Gate and prepared to take revenge on the cultivators who had attacked her companions. Meanwhile, Old Tree and Little Nine revealed Nine Provinces to project Lu Ye’s actions across the starry sky, drawing the attention of cultivators and two women who recognized him.

• Lu Ye gave Old Tree's Clone to Su Yuqing, learned that her attackers came from a Heaven-tier City, and declared that he would take revenge.
• Old Tree and Little Nine used Nine Provinces' origin power to reveal the realm and project Lu Ye's scene at the Star Abyss Gate across the starry sky.
• A Four-Armed Tribe Uniting Dao cultivator and others arrived at Nine Provinces, intrigued by Old Tree's light screen and the scene it displayed.
• At Myriad Phenomena Sea, two women recognized Lu Ye in the projection, traced its origin toward Three Realms Island, and set off to find him.

Lu Yiyi and Amber were pursued by an Upper Uniting Dao cultivator until a strange phenomenon revealed Lu Ye attacking a Heaven-tier City. After witnessing Lu Ye overwhelm the city, the pursuer recognized him as the feared powerhouse from the Hehe Realm and realized he had provoked someone far beyond his strength.

• Lu Yiyi and Amber tried to escape an Upper Uniting Dao cultivator, but he injured Amber and bound Lu Yiyi with Soul Power.
• Lu Yiyi warned the pursuer that Amber belonged to Lu Yiye, while a strange phenomenon showed Lu Ye approaching a Heaven-tier City.
• Lu Ye broke through the city's defenses with one saber strike, wounded its City Lord, and bound the city's cultivators with Blood Binding Locks.
• The Upper Uniting Dao cultivator recognized Lu Yiye as Lu Ye of the Hehe Realm and realized he had invaded Lu Ye's starry sky and taken his White Tiger.

Lu Ye attacked the cultivators gathered around the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, breaking through two Uniting Dao Cities and capturing many foes with his Blood Binding Locks. After the survivors fled or escaped into the Hehe Realm, Lu Ye abandoned the pursuit, leaving the battlefield with a large group of captives.

• Lu Ye breached a Heaven-tier City and bound nearby Uniting Dao cultivators with Blood Binding Locks as Su Yuqing followed him.
• When cultivators attacked Lu Ye together, he used a Supreme Treasure to reflect their strikes, then trapped them in a Blood Sea and hunted them within it.
• Lu Ye’s Blood Sea collapsed after the trapped cities activated their Grand Arrays, revealing forty or fifty cultivators bound by Blood Binding Locks.
• Lu Ye broke into a Desolate-tier City, destroyed its Uniting Dao Pearl, and defeated its City Lord and the cultivators inside.
• Lu Ye pursued a second Desolate-tier City, but its cultivators escaped into the Hehe Realm; he captured the Fusion Dao cultivators left behind and stopped hunting.

Lu Ye revealed that he had poisoned and captured his enemies so he could execute them publicly as a warning to the starry sky’s invaders. After killing hundreds with two saber strikes, he left the watchers shaken, while Yiyi persuaded an Uniting Dao cultivator to leave and two leaders of the invading force arrived at Three Realms Island.

• Lu Ye revealed his identity as a Human, Lord of Yuan Xi City, an External Official of the Phoenix Race, and a clansman of the Dragon Race, then declared that invaders of his starry sky would die.
• Lu Ye executed nearly a hundred poisoned captives with a saber strike, then killed another hundred-odd captives as a warning to the starry sky’s cultivators.
• Yiyi persuaded the Uniting Dao cultivator who had injured her and Amber to leave, and he departed after asking her not to tell Lu Ye about the encounter.
• At Three Realms Island, a young man celebrated Lu Ye’s return while Nine Radiance scolded him for calling Lu Ye Big Brother.
• Nine Radiance recognized two women arriving at Three Realms Island as the leaders of the invading force and met their curious gaze.