Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye used three saber strikes projected across the starry sky to intimidate the invading cultivators, then rushed to rescue Yiyi and Amber. He killed the Upper Uniting Dao cultivator who had attacked them, while Yuan Xi and Nine Radiance met on Three Realms Island.

• Lu Ye’s final projected saber strike killed the remaining captured cultivators, and Ni Chiluan explained to Yuan Xi how the display might drive invaders to withdraw.
• Nine Radiance learned that Yuan Xi was the first City Lord of Yuan Xi City and that Lu Ye was its second City Lord.
• Old Tree warned Lu Ye that Yiyi and Amber were in danger, and Lu Ye used a doorway formed by Old Tree’s Clone to reach them.
• Yiyi and Amber struggled against an Upper Uniting Dao cultivator who had ambushed Amber after appearing to make peace with them.
• Lu Ye arrived as the attacker tried to flee, then used the Space Dao Seed and Crag Mountain Saber to cut him in two.

Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea with Yiyi and Amber, where he learned that the disciplined invaders had come from Ni Chiluan’s domain. At Three Realms Island, he reunited with Yuan Xi and embraced Nine Radiance, revealing their close relationship.

• Lu Ye comforted Yiyi after the battle, reunited with Amber, and carried Yiyi toward Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sea and saw cultivators withdrawing through the Star Abyss Gate while local cultivators watched without fear.
• Lu Ye met Chang Ming, who explained that the gate connected to Chiluan City’s domain and that the invaders belonged to Ni Chiluan’s city.
• Lu Ye reached Three Realms Island and found Ni Chiluan, Yuan Xi, and Nine Radiance together.
• Yuan Xi welcomed Lu Ye and recalled how she had returned to Chiluan City after Yuan Xi City advanced to Cosmos-tier.
• Lu Ye embraced Nine Radiance and called her Senior Sister, surprising Yuan Xi.

After driving the invading cultivators away, Lu Ye negotiated with Ni Chiluan to protect the starry sky’s Star Abyss Gates in exchange for the chance to refine a different Supreme Treasure. He left to deal with the remaining threat connected to Senluo City.

• Little Nine watched the foreign cultivators leave after Lu Ye’s display of strength ended their threat to the starry sky.
• Lu Ye thanked Ni Chiluan for keeping her people from harming the starry sky’s cultivators and learned that she had discovered the Star Constellation Hall beneath the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Lu Ye told Ni Chiluan that taking the Star Constellation Hall would destroy the Myriad Phenomena Sea, then offered her another Supreme Treasure to refine instead.
• Lu Ye asked Chiluan City to guard the Star Abyss Gates, and Ni Chiluan and Yuan Xi agreed to send people to four of them.
• Lu Ye explained that the fifth unguarded gate connected to Senluo City and said he would handle that threat himself.
• Lu Ye gave Nine Radiance instructions, found Yiyi, and hurried away.

Lu Ye found the Black Coffin, a Supreme Treasure whose deathly aura created a vast lifeless spectacle, and began devouring its power with the Talent Tree. After extracting its mystery and strengthening the Azure Dome Mirror, he left the Black Coffin's manifested intelligence unable to stop him.

• Lu Ye traveled through an Insect Path to the Black Coffin's spectacle, where its deathly aura eroded even powerful cultivators.
• The Black Coffin opened and pulled Lu Ye inside, where a cold hand touched him as an invisible force restrained him.
• Lu Ye shattered the restraint, escaped the coffin, and captured it when it tried to flee.
• The Black Coffin attacked Lu Ye with deathly aura and illusions, so he used the Talent Tree to devour its mystery.
• Lu Ye sent the Black Coffin's sealing mystery into the Azure Dome Mirror fruit, and the coffin's intelligence appeared but failed to stop him.
• The Black Coffin turned to dust, and Lu Ye concluded that its intelligence had acted only on instinct.

Lu Ye refined the Black Coffin into the Talent Tree, where its intelligence survived under his control, then returned to Zhe Huang City and confronted the captured Manyu. After learning that Manyu resisted attempts to extract information, Lu Ye began a contest of Soul Power to force his way into the Ancient Abyss Race cultivator’s secrets.

• Lu Ye discovered that the Black Coffin’s intelligence had survived inside a new bulge on the Talent Tree, and he confirmed he could restrain it.
• Lu Ye raised the Uniting Dao Pearl to the Universe-tier and began forming World Pillars to cultivate the ninth level of the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye returned through Variegated to Zhe Huang City and learned that Fu Wei and his Clone had captured Manyu, Senluo City's seventh Vice City Lord.
• Lu Ye found Manyu imprisoned in Baxia’s tortoise-shell treasure and ordered Fu Wei to release him.
• Lu Ye seized Manyu and tried to invade his Soul Sea, but Manyu resisted, and their clash of Soul Power left both weakened.

Lu Ye probed Manyu’s memories and learned that Zong Shenliang was not in the Star Abyss, then arranged for Dragon City and Phoenix Nest to attack Senluo City. He prepared to leave with Hun Que to deal with Zong Shenliang and discovered that Yuan Xi had contacted Fu Wei.

• Lu Ye used the Blood Eye and Soul Control Dao Patterns to probe Manyu’s memories, but Manyu resisted until his Divine Soul shattered and he died.
• Lu Ye learned that Zong Shenliang was not in the Star Abyss and asked Dragon Sovereign and the Phoenix Lord to send troops against Senluo City.
• Dragon Sovereign agreed immediately, and he and the Phoenix Lord confirmed that Senluo City’s territory had been mapped.
• Lu Ye told Fu Wei to stay and guard their position while he took Hun Que with him for another task: killing Zong Shenliang or preventing his return to Senluo City.
• Lu Ye pressed Fu Wei about his hesitation, and Fu Wei admitted that Yuan Xi had contacted him to ask what had happened.

Lu Ye used Manyu’s corpse and Hun Que’s possession to pass through a guarded Star Abyss Gate into the starry sky where Zong Shenliang was seeking a Supreme Treasure. He left the corpse behind and set out to find Zong Shenliang while the gate showed signs of instability.

• Lu Ye told Fu Wei to guard the area and suggested asking Ni Chiluan for help if necessary.
• After studying Manyu’s memories, Lu Ye learned that Zong Shenliang’s main body had entered another starry sky to seek a Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Ye and Hun Que reached a Star Abyss Gate guarded by Senluo City’s forces, and Hun Que possessed Manyu’s corpse while Lu Ye disguised himself as a Blood Race cultivator.
• The guards let them enter after warning that the unstable gate could be disturbed by circulating power.
• On the far side, Lu Ye and Hun Que learned the guards did not know Zong Shenliang’s whereabouts, then flew off before Lu Ye stored Manyu’s corpse away.

Lu Ye searched a ruined starry sky for Zong Shenliang, killed a Hedao cultivator who was harvesting souls, and encountered an intelligent Supreme Treasure in the form of a snow-white sword. The sword mistook him for Zong Shenliang and revealed that it had expected him to be refining the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal.

• Lu Ye found a Hedao cultivator using a Ten Thousand Souls Banner to harvest a city's inhabitants and killed him after learning he had never seen Zong Shenliang.
• Lu Ye sensed a Supreme Treasure nearby and intercepted an intelligent Snow White Long Sword as it fled through the starry sky.
• The Snow White Long Sword attacked Lu Ye with icy Sword Qi, and its chill and hidden blades injured his hand when he grabbed it.
• Lu Ye transformed into Zong Shenliang, and the sword angrily asked why he was not refining the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal.

Lu Ye forced Profound Frost to lead him to the Thunder Pool, where Zong Shenliang was refining the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal. Lu Ye arrived after Zong Shenliang had succeeded, and the two recognized each other as Lu Ye attacked his guards.

• Lu Ye threatened to refine Profound Frost unless it took him to Zong Shenliang, and the sword agreed.
• Profound Frost told Lu Ye that Zong Shenliang had entered the Thunder Pool to pursue the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal after it led him there.
• Profound Frost guided Lu Ye to the Thunder Pool and then fled after Lu Ye let it go.
• Lu Ye entered the Thunder Pool and heard Zong Shenliang announce that he had subdued the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal.
• Zong Shenliang detected Lu Ye and sent two Dao Fusion cultivators to attack him; Lu Ye killed one and severely wounded the other.
• Zong Shenliang recognized Lu Ye, who identified the azure seal in his hand as the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal.

Lu Ye fought Zong Shenliang in the Thunder Pool, using the Azure Dome Mirror to turn the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal against Zong Shenliang’s own Dao Unity cultivators. The two then clashed with their Dao Soldiers, and Zong Shenliang realized Lu Ye’s saber had poisoned him.

• Zong Shenliang attacked Lu Ye with lightning from the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal, while Lu Ye blocked his strikes and countered his ambushes.
• Lu Ye used the Azure Dome Mirror to redirect Zong Shenliang’s lightning, killing every Dao Unity cultivator Zong Shenliang had brought.
• Zong Shenliang put away the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal and fought Lu Ye with twin daggers, repeatedly attacking from concealment.
• Lu Ye traded a severe throat wound for a saber strike that injured Zong Shenliang.
• Zong Shenliang recognized the deadly poison on Lu Ye’s saber and grew wary of its effects.

Lu Ye battled Zong Shenliang, whose Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal purified the poison from the Myriad Poison Bead and whose Army Stabilizing Banner greatly increased his speed. Fang awakened and advanced the Crag Mountain Saber to Supreme Treasure, allowing Lu Ye to wound Zong Shenliang and cut through his Sub-Treasure dagger; Zong Shenliang then discovered that Lu Ye’s strike had also left Ba Qiu’s Sealing Power in his body.

• Lu Ye poisoned Zong Shenliang and struck him with the Crag Mountain Saber, but Zong Shenliang used the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal’s purifying lightning to remove the toxin.
• Zong Shenliang summoned the Army Stabilizing Banner and used its increased speed to overwhelm Lu Ye with repeated attacks.
• Lu Ye endured Zong Shenliang’s assault while waiting for his opponent’s Dao Power to run low.
• Fang awakened within the Crag Mountain Saber, revealing its new Supreme Treasure aura and distracting Zong Shenliang.
• Lu Ye seized the opening, cut Zong Shenliang’s Sub-Treasure dagger in half, and slashed his neck.
• Zong Shenliang purified most of the poison in his wound but sensed that Lu Ye’s strike had also inflicted Sealing Power.

Lu Ye battled Zong Shenliang in the Thunder Pool after Fang inherited Shang Power and weakened the City Lord. As Zong Shenliang unleashed the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal’s full power, the starry sky began to shatter, but neither man stopped fighting.

• Fang told Lu Ye that it had inherited Shang’s power, and Lu Ye realized Shang Power had grievously weakened Zong Shenliang.
• Lu Ye pressed his attack with the Crag Mountain Saber, exploiting Zong Shenliang’s pain and dwindling strength.
• Zong Shenliang activated the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal to draw on the Thunder Pool’s lightning, forcing Lu Ye back with a relentless barrage.
• Lu Ye prepared to retreat from the wonder, but a crack appeared across the Thunder Pool as the entire starry sky began to fracture.
• Despite the spreading cracks and the backlash tearing up his body, Zong Shenliang continued attacking Lu Ye and demanded to know why he would not die.

Lu Ye nearly killed Zong Shenliang, but the Starry Sky shattered at the decisive moment and scattered them into separate fragments. Trapped with Hun Que in a drifting fragment, Lu Ye learned that time and space were frozen there and began recovering and cultivating while examining Fang’s new Supreme Treasure powers.

• As the spectacle weakened, Lu Ye overcame the diminished Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal and nearly killed Zong Shenliang with a saber strike.
• The Starry Sky shattered before Lu Ye could land the final blow, and he severed Zong Shenliang’s arm, claiming the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal, while Zong Shenliang escaped in another fragment.
• Lu Ye realized he and Hun Que were trapped in a small Starry Sky Fragment where time and space were frozen until it merged into the Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye recovered from his injuries, began constructing the World Pillar, and examined Fang’s awakening as a Supreme Treasure with Shang Power.
• Fang explained that Supreme Treasures had grades based on the density of their Rules and that Senior Sister Shang’s power exceeded that of the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal.

Lu Ye completed his World Pillar and continued nurturing Fang, then sensed Zong Shenliang after their fragments merged into the Star Abyss and pursued him. Zong Shenliang escaped into a Uniting Dao City under his command, leaving Lu Ye outside its Protective Grand Array.

• Lu Ye completed the expansion of his Small World, forming the World Pillar, and began cultivating the ninth level of the Small World Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye nurtured Fang to eight hundred Dao and refined the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal into a Talent Tree fruit.
• When his fragment merged into the Star Abyss, Lu Ye sensed Zong Shenliang through the lingering Fang Power and Shang Power on his wounds.
• Lu Ye possessed Hun Que and pursued Zong Shenliang through the Void as Zong Shenliang fled while still weakened from their previous battle.
• Zong Shenliang reached a Uniting Dao City under his command and entered through its Protective Grand Array before Lu Ye could catch him.
• Zong Shenliang threatened to slaughter Lu Ye's relatives from inside the city while Lu Ye stood outside the array.

Lu Ye broke into the Flood-tier Uniting Dao City and destroyed its Central Great Hall, but Zong Shenliang escaped into the Hehe Realm. Zong Shenliang resolved to rally the other Top Ten City Lords against Lu Ye, while cultivators in the Hehe Realm recognized his grievous injuries.

• Lu Ye used the Crag Mountain Saber and Azure Dome Mirror to corrode and break the city's Protective Grand Array despite attacks from Zong Shenliang and the Dao Unifiers.
• Zong Shenliang fled toward the Central Great Hall as Lu Ye entered the city, and Lu Ye's saber strike destroyed the hall and shattered its Uniting Dao Pearls.
• Lu Ye killed the Flood-tier City Lord, while the remaining Dao Unifiers fled and Lu Ye vanished using the Uniting Dao Pearl in his Small World.
• Zong Shenliang escaped into the Hehe Realm and decided to join forces with the other Top Ten City Lords to deal with Lu Ye.
• A cultivator recognized the badly injured Zong Shenliang in the Hehe Realm's great hall, drawing shocked attention from those present.

Lu Ye confronted the badly wounded Zong Shenliang in the Initial Main Hall, where Zong Shenliang taunted him into attacking despite the Hehe Realm’s restrictions. Lu Ye killed him with one saber strike in front of a packed crowd, leaving Qin Feng and the other onlookers stunned.

• Zong Shenliang recognized Lu Ye as his pursuer and mocked him while the gathered cultivators learned Lu Ye had driven him into the Hehe Realm.
• Zong Shenliang tried to provoke Lu Ye by insulting Ba Qiu and threatening to seek him out.
• Gong Mao told Qin Feng that Lu Ye had pursued Zong Shenliang into the Initial Hall, and Qin Feng hurried there with Bobo.
• Lian and Qin Feng reached the crowded hall as Zong Shenliang taunted Lu Ye and threatened Ba Qiu.
• Lu Ye ignored Qin Feng and Lian’s warnings, drew his saber, and beheaded Zong Shenliang before the assembled cultivators.

Lu Ye killed Zong Shenliang in the Hehe Realm and was exiled by its restriction to a boundless white expanse, where he sought the Pearl Spirit’s guidance. He found and absorbed Zong Shenliang’s Army Stabilizing Banner, then discovered another Supreme Treasure bell that could affect the Divine Soul.

• Qin Feng and Lian found Zong Shenliang’s severed head in the Hehe Realm’s main hall and learned that white light had swept Lu Ye away.
• Lu Ye revealed Zong Shenliang’s remains from his Small World and took the Army Stabilizing Banner and Storage Ring.
• Lu Ye devoured the Army Stabilizing Banner with the Talent Tree, creating another Supreme Treasure Fruit.
• After calling to the Pearl Spirit, Lu Ye sensed its guidance and followed it through the white expanse, passing the remains of exiled cultivators.
• Lu Ye found a rust-mottled bell held by a skeleton and discovered that its Supreme Treasure power affected the Soul Sea.

Lu Ye discovered that Jinyao, an ancient powerhouse who had made herself the spirit of the Soul Suppressing Bell, intended to seize his body. When she attacked his Soul Sea, Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s roots against the bell, weakening its power and leaving Jinyao alarmed.

• Lu Ye picked up the Soul Suppressing Bell, but Jinyao’s Soul Body emerged in his Soul Sea and used its ringing to subdue him.
• Jinyao explained that she had replaced the bell’s original spirit with her own divine soul and survived for ages by seizing other people’s bodies.
• Jinyao announced that she would take Lu Ye’s body while allowing his intelligence to coexist with hers, but Lu Ye refused.
• Jinyao used the bell to immobilize Lu Ye’s Soul Body, while Lu Ye sent the Talent Tree’s roots to wrap around her and invade the bell.
• Jinyao realized the Soul Suppressing Bell’s power was being drawn out and demanded to know what Lu Ye had done.

Lu Ye absorbed the Soul Suppressing Bell into the Talent Tree, preserving Jinyao as its intelligent spirit, then followed the Uniting Dao Pearl’s guidance to find a way out of the white realm. He and Jinyao emerged in a courtyard in the Hehe Realm.

• Jinyao stopped trying to suppress Lu Ye, and the Soul Suppressing Bell crumbled as her Soul Body swept into Lu Ye’s body.
• Lu Ye found Jinyao preserved on the Talent Tree as the spirit of the Soul Suppressing Bell, and she agreed to remain with him rather than destroy her soul.
• Jinyao learned that Lu Ye had entered the white realm by killing someone in the Hehe Realm and warned him that she believed no exit existed.
• Lu Ye found a doorway with the Uniting Dao Pearl’s guidance, and Jinyao followed him through it.
• Lu Ye and Jinyao returned to the Hehe Realm and appeared in a courtyard.

Lu Ye and Jinyao escaped the Nameless Land, but Jinyao immediately attacked Fuguang, sending them back into it. As Lu Ye led her out again, Jinyao explained their ancient rivalry and her decision to sever her foundation, while Fuguang was left wondering how both she and Lu Ye could have appeared in the Hehe Realm.

• Lu Ye and Jinyao found an abandoned courtyard in the Hehe Realm, where Fuguang sensed Jinyao and rushed over.
• Jinyao recognized Fuguang as her mortal enemy and instinctively attacked him with the Soul Suppressing Bell, triggering the realm’s banishment and sending her and Lu Ye back to the Nameless Land.
• Lu Ye sensed the guidance of the Uniting Dao Pearl and led Jinyao toward a way out, while she confirmed that Fuguang was real and had gained an endless lifespan from a Spring of Life.
• Jinyao told Lu Ye that she and Fuguang had sworn to kill each other, but that her banishment had been her own choice after she severed her foundation to avoid becoming a puppet.
• Jinyao explained that she had survived in the Nameless Land by turning her Soul Body into the Spirit of the Soul Suppressing Bell, while Lu Ye connected her fate to Ba Qiu’s sacrifice and the threat posed by the Abyss.
• Lu Ye wondered why Fuguang had remained hidden in the Hehe Realm for countless years despite once being nearly as strong as Jinyao.