Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye killed Chu Qing and Ruoyan, completing the destruction of the Myriad Demon Ridge faction. He then agreed to help Divine Concealment Palace rescue Gu Canyang from the Dungeon, where an Immortal Yuan Guard blocked his and Jujia’s way.

• Lu Ye defeated and killed Chu Qing with his third saber strike.
• Jujia killed Ruoyan, avenging his great vengeance.
• Ji Yan told Lu Ye that Divine Concealment Palace’s leader, Gu Canyang, had been captured and asked for help rescuing him from the Dungeon.
• When Divine Concealment Palace disciples tried to use Lu Ye’s token, the Immortal Yuan Guards accused them of stealing it and captured several of them.
• Lu Ye took the token and went with Jujia to the Dungeon, where a powerful Immortal Yuan Guard blocked their entrance.

Lu Ye used the Red-Dressed Woman’s token to enter Immortal Yuan City’s Dungeon and rescue nearly thirty Vast Sky Alliance cultivators, including Gu Canyang. After returning to Ji Yan, Lu Ye invited the directionless Jujia to travel with him, hoping to bring him into the Crimson Blood Sect.

• Lu Ye persuaded the Immortal Yuan Guard captain to let him enter the Dungeon by claiming he had the Red-Dressed Woman’s verbal order.
• Lu Ye and Jujia freed the imprisoned Vast Sky Alliance cultivators while leaving Myriad Demon Ridge prisoners behind, and Lu Ye noticed the Dungeon drained their vitality.
• Lu Ye led nearly thirty rescued cultivators, including Gu Canyang, out of the Dungeon and reunited with Ji Yan.
• Lu Ye declined Ji Yan’s invitation to stay with the group, saying he had other matters to handle.
• Lu Ye asked Jujia about his plans, and Jujia agreed to follow him after Sima Yang’s death.

Lu Ye tried to use the Red-Dressed Woman’s token to enter the City Lord’s Mansion and reach the Soul Cleansing Pool, but the guards turned him away. He settled with Jujia at Divine Concealment Palace’s residence, formed a Sect Alliance Pact with Gu Canyang, and realized Jujia’s talent made finding him a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique urgent.

• Lu Ye learned that Jujia had only thirty-five Merit and resolved to find another way to obtain a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique for him.
• Lu Ye presented the Red-Dressed Woman’s token at the City Lord’s Mansion, but the Immortal Yuan Guards threatened them, so he and Jujia fled without reaching the Soul Cleansing Pool.
• Lu Ye contacted Ji Yan and settled with Jujia at a Divine Concealment Palace residence, where he cultivated and studied the Scriptures Madam Yun had given him.
• Gu Canyang and the rescued Vast Sky Alliance cultivators visited to thank Lu Ye, and Gu Canyang formed a Sect Alliance Pact with him.
• Gu Canyang explained that the Dungeon drained prisoners’ vitality, and Lu Ye understood why so few captives survived there.
• Lu Ye saw Jujia cultivating despite having opened one hundred and eighty apertures and lacking a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique, and recognized his exceptional talent.

Lu Ye discovered that Jujia could store vast amounts of Spiritual Power in a bead inside his body, then began practicing the Formation Dao. He improved his formation skills while preparing to study and break the formations at the Divine Concealment Palace.

• Jujia showed Lu Ye the bead in his belly, which stored his cultivated Spiritual Power and could help him advance quickly once he obtained a suitable cultivation technique.
• Lu Ye warned Jujia to keep the precious bead hidden, and Jujia swallowed it again before Lu Ye comforted him with beast meat.
• Lu Ye completed his first formation using only his Spiritual Power and tested it on Jujia, whose weak attack triggered the formation's collapse.
• Lu Ye studied formation setup to improve his ability to break formations, then continued practicing as he waited for the chance to examine the Divine Concealment Palace.

Lu Ye tried to enter the Mirage Realm with the Rest Fruit Core, but the Immortal Yuan City Lord appeared and warned him against using it in any Boundless Mirage Realm. The City Lord also asked Lu Ye to leave Amber’s Accomplice Spirits in the city, and Lu Ye negotiated access to the Soul Cleansing Pool for his group before the City Lord took them away.

• Lu Ye took out the Rest Fruit Core, and the Immortal Yuan City Lord appeared, restrained him, and effortlessly repelled Lu Ye’s companions’ attacks.
• Lu Ye identified the newcomer as the City Lord and learned that using the Rest Fruit Core in a Boundless Mirage Realm could cause serious consequences.
• The City Lord told Lu Ye that Amber’s Accomplice Spirits would die if taken out of Immortal Yuan City and asked Lu Ye to leave them behind.
• Lu Ye requested access to the Soul Cleansing Pool for his group, and the City Lord agreed after rejecting offers of Spiritual Treasures as alternatives.
• The City Lord restored the Accomplice Spirits’ awareness, then transported Lu Ye and his group away.

Lu Ye entered the Soul Cleansing Pool and discovered that its mist could strengthen his soul, but absorbing too much risked separating his soul from his body. Unable to safely absorb more or find the pool’s bottom, he considered condensing the mist into Soul Water himself.

• Lu Ye and Yiyi entered the Soul Cleansing Pool, where Lu Ye used Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns to absorb the mist.
• Lu Ye realized the mist’s effects were causing his soul to leave his body, so he stopped cultivating and dispersed his Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns.
• Lu Ye tried collecting Soul Mist in his Storage Bag, then flew downward in search of the pool’s water.
• The City Lord watched as Lu Ye remained in place, mistaking the pool’s environment for a descent toward its bottom.
• Lu Ye considered guiding the dense Soul Mist to condense into Soul Water.

Lu Ye used a funnel-shaped Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern to condense Soul Mist into Soul Water in the Soul Cleansing Pool, then returned to the courtyard with over a hundred drops. The three hours also greatly improved his soul and gave him a constant perception field, while the City Lord concealed that he had repeatedly disrupted Lu Ye’s funnels.

• Lu Ye formed a large funnel-shaped Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern and successfully condensed Soul Mist into Soul Water.
• The City Lord secretly disrupted Lu Ye’s funnels to limit how much Soul Water he could take from the Soul Cleansing Pool.
• Lu Ye repeatedly built smaller funnels, collected Soul Water, and drank Rest Fruit Wine to restore his Spiritual Power until the three-hour limit returned him to the courtyard.
• Yiyi, Amber, and Jujia staggered from the effects of the Soul Cleansing Pool, then rested as Lu Ye checked his harvest of over a hundred drops of Soul Water.
• Lu Ye discovered that his soul had improved, granting him clear perception of his own condition and an ever-present sensing range of thirty meters.

Lu Ye discovered that his strengthened Soul Power let him control Spiritual Power more precisely and enhance his controlled artifacts, then left Immortal Yuan City with his companions. After they departed, the city revealed its true defenses and assembled its powerful Spirit Bodies for another war, which the City Lord prepared to begin by activating the Formation.

• Lu Ye used his improved control to shape fire into a Fire Phoenix and Fire Dragon, then bestowed Windwalk and Sharpness on his controlled Handleless Short Blade.
• Lu Ye began refining two more Spiritual Artifacts while cultivating and reading with Jujia, Amber, and Yiyi nearby.
• As Immortal Yuan City began expelling its visitors, Ji Yan greeted Lu Ye and the group gathered so they would emerge together in the wilderness.
• After Lu Ye and the others left, the City Lord ordered the restrictions lifted, revealing the city's formidable defenses and awakening its powerful Spirit Bodies from the Soul Cleansing Pool.
• Liu Sanbao, the Pipa Girl, the scholar, the Butcher, and the Fortune-telling Blind Man revealed their Divine Sea Realm strength as Immortal Yuan City's Spirit Bodies prepared for war.
• The City Lord ordered the Formation activated.

Immortal Yuan City endured another invasion by the Insect Race, while its City Lord hoped Lu Ye could help avert the coming destruction of the Nine Provinces. After leaving the Boundless Mirage Realm, Lu Ye prepared to find Heaven-Grade Cultivation Techniques for himself and Jujia.

• The Insect Race poured through a vortex into Immortal Yuan City, and the Spirit Bodies repeatedly revived from the Soul Cleansing Pool to hold the city’s defenses.
• The City Lord reflected on Immortal Yuan City’s sacrifice and the threat facing the Nine Provinces, and hoped Lu Ye might be able to help.
• Soaring Cloud Hall’s Zhou Pei met Gu Canyang and Lu Ye, then invited Lu Ye to visit his camp.
• Wind Flower Pavilion and Sun-Illuminating Mountain learned that nearly all their cultivators had died in Immortal Yuan City, while the Heaven’s Mystery Merchant Guild began investigating how Spirit Bodies had been commanded.
• Lu Ye woke Jujia and took him to Divine Concealment Palace’s Heaven’s Mystery Hall to search for Heaven-Grade Cultivation Techniques.

Lu Ye bought the Great Sun Glazed Art and gave Jujia supplies to sell for a cultivation technique. Jujia rapidly opened fifty-nine apertures, while conflicts intensified between the Divine Concealment Palace and rival sects; Gu Canyang warned his deputy not to try recruiting Jujia.

• Lu Ye spent enough Merit to purchase the Great Sun Glazed Art, then gave Jujia a Storage Bag of spoils to sell for a cultivation technique.
• As Lu Ye led Jujia away from the Heaven's Mystery Hall, Jujia opened fifty-nine apertures in quick succession, reaching 239 apertures.
• Lu Ye and Jujia returned to their residence at the Divine Concealment Palace and began cultivating.
• Wind Flower Pavilion and Sun-Illuminating Mountain retaliated for their losses in Immortal Yuan City by targeting the Divine Concealment Palace, and Soaring Cloud Hall joined the ensuing clashes.
• Gu Canyang told Ji Yan to warn the disciples to be careful, then rejected his deputy's suggestion to recruit Jujia because Jujia had chosen to follow Lu Ye.

Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern to study the Divine Concealment Palace’s Protective Grand Array, found a weak node, and struck it hard enough to shake the camp’s defenses. After learning that Lu Ye was testing ways to break the formation, Gu Canyang offered the sect’s full cooperation.

• The White-Robed Youth told Gu Canyang that Lu Ye was studying how to break the Divine Concealment Palace’s formation.
• Lu Ye activated the Insight Spirit Pattern, traced the Grand Array’s Spiritual Energy, and identified a node between Formation Bases.
• Lu Ye repeatedly struck the node with the Crag Mountain Saber, causing the Protective Grand Array to shudder and alarming the camp’s cultivators.
• The White-Robed Youth raised the Grand Array’s power, and Lu Ye stopped attacking and waited for the Divine Concealment Palace leaders.
• Gu Canyang learned that Lu Ye had attacked the array and offered him the Divine Concealment Palace’s full cooperation.

Lu Ye’s research at Divine Concealment Palace shifted from breaking a Protective Grand Array to disguising himself as part of it and passing through a node. He proposed using the technique to seize Wind Flower Pavilion Station, and Gu Canyang began coordinating the plan with Zhou Pei.

• Gu Canyang arranged for Wei Li to restore and control Divine Concealment Palace’s Grand Array so Lu Ye could study its nodes.
• Lu Ye spent a month examining the formation and practicing how to construct matching Base Elements quickly enough to overcome its defenses.
• Lu Ye used the Base Elements to disguise himself as part of the Grand Array and walked through it, then explained the technique to Gu Canyang and Wei Li.
• Lu Ye outlined a plan to use the technique against Wind Flower Pavilion Station, and Gu Canyang agreed to support it.
• Gu Canyang contacted Zhou Pei with an offer to take Wind Flower Pavilion Station, and Divine Concealment Palace cultivators later staged a skirmish at the boundary to draw their opponents’ attention.

Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall attacked Wind Flower Pavilion with nearly eight hundred cultivators, while Lu Ye slipped through the station’s Grand Array under cover of the assault. He remained hidden as he waited for a chance to kill Yue Mei and take her Jade Token.

• After Divine Concealment Palace’s retreat, Wind Flower Pavilion learned that Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall were joining forces to attack.
• Yue Mei alerted nearby Myriad Demon Ridge forces, hoping they would threaten the attackers’ undermanned camps and force them to withdraw.
• Gu Canyang and Zhou Pei led nearly eight hundred cultivators in an assault on Wind Flower Pavilion’s Grand Array, which Yue Mei controlled with her Jade Token.
• Yue Mei sensed an abnormality in the Grand Array and sent cultivators to investigate, but they found nothing while a concealed Ghost Cultivator watched nearby.
• Lu Ye infiltrated the station using the Trace Annihilation Bracelet and stayed motionless, waiting for an opportunity to kill Yue Mei and seize the Jade Token.

Lu Ye infiltrated the Wind Flower Pavilion camp and attacked Garrison Envoy Yue Mei to seize the Jade Token controlling its Protective Grand Array. After recognizing his plan, Yue Mei ordered the cultivators to retreat to the Nine Provinces as Lu Ye prepared to destroy the token.

• Lu Ye blended into the Wind Flower Pavilion crowd and approached Yue Mei before she recognized him as an unfamiliar intruder.
• Yue Mei cast a spell at Lu Ye, but he dodged it and slashed her throat, with her Spiritual Power barrier saving her life.
• Lu Ye pierced Yue Mei's arm, severed it, and snatched the Jade Token from her hand before escaping into the air.
• Yue Mei ordered the Wind Flower Pavilion cultivators to return to the Nine Provinces after realizing Lu Ye had taken the token that controlled their Grand Array.
• Lu Ye tried and failed to crush the Jade Token, then tossed it up and thrust at it with his saber empowered by two Sharpness enhancements.

Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall captured Wind Flower Pavilion’s camp after Lu Ye infiltrated its Protective Grand Array and took its Jade Token. They then attacked Sun-Illuminating Mountain, whose defenders feared Lu Ye could breach their array as the returning Deputy Garrison Envoy watched from a distance.

• Lu Ye’s destruction of Wind Flower Pavilion’s Jade Token stopped its Protective Grand Array from replenishing Spiritual Power, and Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall broke through and killed the cultivators who had not escaped.
• Gu Canyang ordered the battlefield looted, and Lu Ye, Gu Canyang, and Zhou Pei divided the blessings on Wind Flower Pavilion’s Heaven’s Mystery Pillar.
• Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall set out for Sun-Illuminating Mountain as attacks on their own camps ceased after other factions learned Wind Flower Pavilion had fallen and Lu Ye could infiltrate grand arrays.
• Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s Deputy Garrison Envoy hurried back with more than three hundred cultivators and learned that Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall were attacking the camp.
• Inside Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s array, the Garrison Envoy arranged patrols and guarded against Lu Ye’s infiltration, while the Deputy Garrison Envoy stayed at a distance rather than face the attackers.

Lu Ye failed to infiltrate Sun-Illuminating Mountain's camp, so he tried to break its Protective Grand Array while Zhou Pei and Gu Canyang's forces attacked. He left the array intact despite repeated attempts, with Sun-Illuminating Mountain's defenders still on alert.

• Lu Ye emerged from hiding and told Zhou Pei that Sun-Illuminating Mountain's preparations had made infiltrating its camp impossible.
• Gu Canyang proposed a direct assault, but Lu Ye instead asked Zhou Pei and Gu Canyang to gather nine strong Body Cultivators with defensive equipment.
• Lu Ye led the nine Body Cultivators, including Jujia, to an array node and began studying the Grand Array while Sun-Illuminating Mountain's defenders watched from inside.
• Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern to examine the shifting Base Elements, but his first attempt to construct opposing elements and break the array failed.
• Lu Ye made several more attempts as the defenders grew numb with anxiety, but he could not break the array within the three breaths available for each change.

Lu Ye breached Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s Protective Grand Array by recognizing a pattern from his Talent Tree, then led Jujia and the Body Cultivators into the camp to seize the Grand Array Jade Token. As the group fought its way toward the Garrison Envoy, Amber transformed into a White Tiger and used a soul-targeting roar to daze the defenders.

• Lu Ye used a pattern from his Talent Tree to open a hole in the Protective Grand Array, and Jujia led the group of Body Cultivators into Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s camp.
• Jujia and the nine Body Cultivators charged through the defenders while Lu Ye cleared their path with four Controlled Artifacts.
• The group pierced the defensive line and continued toward the Garrison Envoy, while several Body Cultivators stayed behind and fell to the pursuing enemies.
• Lu Ye spotted the Garrison Envoy holding the Grand Array Jade Token, but attacks from the defenders slowed Jujia’s charge and threatened to trap the group.
• Lu Ye flew into the air and threw Amber toward the defenders, and Amber transformed into a White Tiger and unleashed a roar that struck at their souls.

Lu Ye and the Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall cultivators broke Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s camp and defeated its forces. After looting and burning the camp, the allied sects returned home aboard separate ships.

• Amber’s roar disrupted the Sun-Illuminating Mountain cultivators, and Yiyi followed with Golden Arc Rain as Lu Ye and the Body Cultivators attacked.
• Lu Ye killed the Garrison Envoy and shattered his Jade Token, breaking Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s Protective Grand Array.
• The surviving Sun-Illuminating Mountain cultivators fled, while the Deputy Garrison Envoy’s three hundred-plus fighters were driven off with heavy losses.
• Lu Ye, Gu Canyang, and Zhou Pei divided the camp’s enhancements, and the allied cultivators looted and burned the camp.
• The Divine Concealment Palace and Soaring Cloud Hall cultivators departed on separate Large Ship Spiritual Artifacts.

Lu Ye’s formation-breaking methods became known across the Spirit Stream Battlefield after he helped bring down several Myriad Demon Ridge camps, making their factions wary and shifting the balance between nearby sects. After waking at Divine Concealment Palace, he read messages warning him to be cautious and inviting him to other camps.

• News spread that Lu Ye had infiltrated Wind Flower Pavilion’s camp, broken its Grand Array, and caused the camp to fall.
• Survivors reported that Lu Ye had also breached Sun-Illuminating Mountain’s camp, confirming his ability to penetrate Protective Grand Arrays.
• Qi Shi recalled his prediction to Luo Fu that Myriad Demon Ridge factions would suffer misfortune, while Luo Fu planned a renewed attack on Cloud Mist Sect with allied forces.
• Lu Ye woke refreshed at Divine Concealment Palace, ate breakfast, and read messages from sect officials who warned him or invited him to their camps.

Lu Ye stayed at the Divine Concealment Palace to cultivate while Myriad Demon Ridge reacted to the destruction of two camps. Nearby Vast Sky Alliance leaders gathered to demand his help breaking more Protective Grand Arrays, leaving Gu Canyang and Wei Li struggling to answer them.

• Lu Ye read messages from Shui Yuan, Li Baxian, and Hua Ci, then learned that Yiyi and Amber had received resources from the Divine Concealment Palace.
• Yiyi reflected on how she and Amber had grown stronger and managed to keep pace with Lu Ye after their recent trials.
• Lu Ye decided to lie low at the Divine Concealment Palace, concerned that his reputation would make him easy for Myriad Demon Ridge to recognize and target.
• Gu Canyang and Wei Li received seven or eight nearby Vast Sky Alliance Garrison Envoys and Deputy Envoys who wanted Lu Ye to help break more Grand Arrays.
• The visitors pressured Gu Canyang to invite Fellow Daoist One Leaf out, while Gu Canyang and Wei Li struggled to calm them.