Chapter Summaries

Gu Canyang explained why Lu Ye’s victories over Wind Flower Pavilion and Sun-Illuminating Mountain could not easily be repeated, and the visiting sect leaders departed. Zhao Li returned warning that Myriad Demon Ridge might attack Divine Concealment Palace, but Gu Canyang realized Zhao had likely come back to recruit Lu Ye.

• Gu Canyang explained that Lu Ye had captured the two camps through different, hard-to-repeat circumstances, disappointing the gathered Garrison Envoys and Deputy Envoys.
• Zhao argued that Lu Ye’s methods being easy to guard against might make him safer, and the visitors left after discussing the weakened enemy camps.
• Gu Canyang and Wei Li planned to keep pressure on Wind Flower Pavilion and Sun-Illuminating Mountain while supporting nearby Vast Sky Alliance sects.
• Zhao Li returned and warned that Myriad Demon Ridge might gather forces to attack Divine Concealment Palace and target Lu Ye.
• Zhao asked to stay near Lu Ye, and Gu Canyang concluded that Zhao’s warning had been a pretext to poach him.

Lu Ye and Zhao Li discussed the Formation Dao, and Zhao Li introduced the Hundred Formation Pagoda, an ancient trial tower that rewarded cultivators who conquered its formations. The pagoda had once held one hundred floors, but only sixty-six remained, and no one had passed them all.

• Gu Canyang and Wei Li discussed Zhao Li's indirect attempt to recruit Lu Ye and agreed to monitor Myriad Demon Ridge for an attack.
• Jujia spent his days cultivating in Divine Concealment Palace's Cultivation Room, while Lu Ye and Zhao Li began comparing their Formation Dao skills.
• Lu Ye quickly broke Zhao Li's formations but showed little skill at setting them, while Zhao Li was astonished that Lu Ye could construct formations rapidly without tools.
• Lu Ye told Zhao Li that he had learned from texts about the Formation Dao and the inheritance of a Spirit Pattern Master.
• Zhao Li explained the Hundred Formation Pagoda's rewards and standards of mastery, then revealed that the ancient pagoda was incomplete and had only sixty-six floors left.

Lu Ye accepted Zhao Li’s invitation to visit the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Hundred Formation Pagoda, then left the Divine Concealment Palace camp with Jujia. Myriad Demon Ridge factions coordinated to hunt him in the wilderness, and Lu Ye realized that someone was tracking his movements.

• Zhao Li told Lu Ye about the Hundred Formation Pagoda, and Lu Ye agreed to visit the Heavenly Evolution Sect after finishing his current business.
• Lu Ye sent Zhao Li ahead so he would not be caught up in trouble, then later said farewell to Gu Canyang and left with Jujia.
• Myriad Demon Ridge scouts spotted Lu Ye leaving and spread the news as their factions began coordinating an attempt to kill him.
• Lu Ye repeatedly changed direction while Jujia flew, but he sensed that surveillance continued and suspected that many people were tracking them.
• Lu Ye checked his cultivation and found that he had opened 165 Spiritual Apertures, with fifteen left before reaching Tier Nine.

Lu Ye camped in the forest with Jujia and Amber, then noticed a veteran Tier Nine Ghost Cultivator sneaking up to claim the bounty on his head. The Ghost Cultivator launched an ambush, but Lu Ye struck him with a saber, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lu Ye, Jujia, and Amber shared a meal before absorbing blood lines from the Scale Armor to cultivate.
• A veteran Tier Nine Ghost Cultivator who had been searching for Lu Ye crept toward the camp, hoping to earn a bounty and advance to the Cloud River.
• Lu Ye, Jujia, and Amber all turned their attention toward the hidden Ghost Cultivator, who realized they had tracked his movements.
• The Ghost Cultivator lunged at Lu Ye, but Lu Ye's saber struck his chest and nearly cleaved him in two.
• The wounded Ghost Cultivator retreated after his failed assassination attempt.

Lu Ye and his companions escaped repeated Myriad Demon Ridge interceptions, but a large ambush over a river forced them to break through while protecting Jujia’s flying artifact. The enemy’s archer damaged the artifact and slowed their escape as reinforcements closed in.

• Yiyi bound the veteran Ghost Cultivator with a Spirit Binding Lock, and Lu Ye killed him and took his Storage Bag before they fled on Jujia’s flying artifact.
• Jujia deftly steered them past airborne attacks, while Lu Ye’s Four Flowing Lights killed the four Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators who tried to intercept them.
• Myriad Demon Ridge forces repeatedly failed to stop their swift flight, then gathered ahead and below a river to surround them.
• Jujia charged toward one opening as Yiyi and Lu Ye prepared to fight, and he skillfully dodged the enemy Spell Cultivators’ attacks.
• A Myriad Demon Ridge archer redirected his arrow toward Jujia’s flying artifact, but Lu Ye added a Defense Spirit Pattern that kept it from being destroyed.
• The arrow’s impact sent the flying artifact plunging and delayed their escape as enemy spells and pursuing groups closed in.

Lu Ye and Jujia escaped a Myriad Demon Ridge ambush and reached Heavenly Evolution Sect, where Lu Ye hoped to study Formation Dao. His arrival alarmed Myriad Demon Ridge, while Heavenly Evolution Sect’s leaders warned Zhao Li that inviting him had put their camp at risk.

• Lu Ye used a Windwalk Spirit Pattern to help Jujia smash through the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators’ blockade, and the pursuers failed to catch them.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators argued over the failed ambush and worried that Lu Ye’s growing abilities would make him increasingly difficult to stop.
• Two days later, Myriad Demon Ridge learned Lu Ye had reached Heavenly Evolution Sect and feared he would improve his Formation Dao skills there.
• Lu Ye settled into Heavenly Evolution Sect’s guest area while waiting for Zhao Li to return from the Nine Provinces Main Sect.
• At Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Main Sect, Zhao Li apologized to Sect Master Yu Xiao and Great Elder Bai Qian for inviting Lu Ye without considering the danger to their camp.

Lu Ye discovered that the food and wine at the Heavenly Evolution Sect camp had been poisoned, and he ordered Zhao Li to seal the camp and investigate. The Crimson Blood Sect and Heavenly Evolution Sect leaders rushed to respond, but the poisoner and the poison’s remedy remained unknown.

• Yu Xiao told Zhao Li that Heavenly Evolution Sect would honor its invitation to Lu Ye despite the danger, and Bai Qian asked to examine Lu Ye’s Formation Dao talent.
• Zhao Li hosted Lu Ye and Jujia at a welcoming banquet, where Lu Ye detected poison in the wine and dishes by observing his Talent Tree burn it away.
• Lu Ye told Jujia to spit out the food and ordered Zhao Li to seal the camp and investigate anyone who had recently left.
• Shui Yuan informed the Crimson Blood Sect Sect Master that Lu Ye had been poisoned, and the Sect Master rushed to the Heavenly Evolution Sect camp.
• Yu Xiao learned that Lu Ye had been poisoned and suspected a Myriad Demon Ridge Hidden Agent; Bai Qian noted that the poison’s fierce toxicity seemed inconsistent with its subtle symptoms.

After a hidden Myriad Demon Ridge agent poisoned Lu Ye, Zhao Li, and Jujia at the Heavenly Evolution Sect camp, Zhao Li and Jujia fell unconscious from a poison that appeared to attack the soul. Lu Ye stayed conscious and arranged for Old Man Tang and Senior Sister Shui Yuan to come, leaving Yu Xiao to hope they could save the poisoned cultivators.

• Lu Ye realized the wine and food were poisoned, then had Jujia carry him and Zhao Li to the Heavenly Evolution Sect Main Sect.
• The Heavenly Evolution Sect treated the three, but its Medical Cultivators discovered that the poison likely targeted the soul and warned Zhao Li might die within two days.
• Yu Xiao ordered Bai Qian to prepare a Soul Nurturing Array and sent word to Old Man Tang, who was already traveling with Senior Sister Shui Yuan.
• Yu Xiao discovered that Lu Ye had been pretending to be unconscious and apologized for the Hidden Agent's attack.
• Lu Ye assured Yu Xiao that Senior Sister Shui Yuan would not blame the Heavenly Evolution Sect and promised to ask her to treat Zhao Li.

Lu Ye learned that the Talent Tree had burned away the Soul Poison in him, while Jujia and Zhao Li remained in danger and awaited Shui Yuan’s treatment. Myriad Demon Ridge then overwhelmed Heavenly Evolution Sect’s camp, leaving Lu Ye’s supposed death to buoy its forces and warning other Vast Sky Alliance sects against sheltering him.

• Yu Xiao asked Lu Ye why he showed no symptoms of the poison, and Lu Ye joked that his gift made him immune to all poisons.
• Lu Ye realized the Talent Tree had burned away the poison in him, while Jujia and Zhao Li still faced death unless the Soul Poison was removed.
• Heavenly Evolution Sect interrogated the captured Myriad Demon Ridge Hidden Agent and confirmed that the poison attacked the soul.
• Myriad Demon Ridge gathered more than a thousand cultivators and broke through Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Protective Grand Array, forcing its disciples to retreat to the Nine Provinces.
• Vast Sky Alliance sects considered a counterattack, but their elders restrained them, while Myriad Demon Ridge occupied the captured camp as a warning.
• Myriad Demon Ridge celebrated reports that Lu Yiye had been poisoned and was near death.

Lu Ye’s companions Jujia and Zhao Li were poisoned, and Shui Yuan warned that treating their Soul Poison could kill them unless their souls were strengthened first. Lu Ye gave her a bottle of Soul Cleansing Water from Immortal Yuan City, and the group prepared to use it to save them.

• Lu Ye and Bai Qian guarded Jujia and Zhao Li in a Soul Nurturing Array while pretending Lu Ye was also incapacitated.
• Shui Yuan examined Lu Ye, Jujia, and Zhao Li, then identified their condition as Soul Poison.
• Shui Yuan explained that extracting the poison would badly damage their fragile souls and that they needed a powerful soul-strengthening treasure to survive.
• Lu Ye gave Shui Yuan a bottle of Soul Cleansing Water, which she and the Sect Master recognized as suitable for strengthening their souls.
• Lu Ye urged Shui Yuan to use the water to save Jujia and Zhao Li, saying he had accepted Jujia as a Registered Disciple and would not abandon either of them.
• Shui Yuan ordered Yu Xiao to prepare medicinal herbs within half an hour so she could begin treatment.

Lu Ye arranged to fake his death so he could study Formation Dao at the Heavenly Evolution Sect while Myriad Demon Ridge stopped watching him. After Shui Yuan treated Zhao Li and Jujia, she staged Lu Ye’s death with a furious attack on the Heavenly Evolution Sect and the Spirit Stream Battlefield, while Tang Yifeng struck back at Myriad Demon Ridge in Lei Province.

• Lu Ye explained his plan to fake his death and remain at the Heavenly Evolution Sect to study Formation Dao, and Shui Yuan and Tang Yifeng agreed to help.
• Shui Yuan treated Zhao Li and Jujia for soul poison, then accepted Lu Ye’s extra bottles of Soul Cleansing Water.
• Shui Yuan pretended Lu Ye had died from poison and attacked Yu Xiao, fighting five True Lake Realm cultivators before Tang Yifeng stopped her.
• Shui Yuan entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield and killed dozens of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators at the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s captured camp.
• Tang Yifeng charged into Lei Province, but Divine Sea Realm cultivators drove him out before he could damage Myriad Demon Ridge sects.

Tang Yifeng continued to harass Myriad Demon Ridge while Li Baxian hunted its cultivators in the Core Region after Lu Ye’s apparent death. Hua Ci and the Crimson Blood Sect staged a mourning ceremony, while Lu Ye remained hidden at the Heavenly Evolution Sect and learned that Second Senior Sister’s scheme had gone further than planned.

• Tang Yifeng lingered near the Lei Province–Mist Province border after Myriad Demon Ridge drove him back, and Li Baxian stirred up the Core Region by hunting Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.
• Ruan Lingyu told Hua Ci that Lu Ye’s death was faked, and Hua Ci confirmed he was alive by checking her Battlefield Mark and messaging him.
• Hua Ci gathered Crimson Blood Sect members to burn paper money and ordered them to make the performance convincing, while Feng Yue watched from afar.
• The Heavenly Evolution Sect sealed itself off after losing its camp, and Jujia and Zhao Li recovered from their injuries at Bai Qian’s residence.
• Lu Ye finished communicating with Second Senior Sister and realized that her attempt to stage grief had unexpectedly led her to attack Yu Xiao.

Lu Ye continued studying Formation Dao under Bai Qian while his companions recovered at the Heavenly Evolution Sect camp. The chapter ended with Lu Ye discovering Jujia and Amber inhaling and exhaling visible Moon Essence in a strange synchronized posture.

• Shui Yuan, the Sect Master, and Fourth Senior Brother returned or were confined after their actions over Lu Ye's supposed death stirred trouble across the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• Lu Ye received Hua Ci's message asking what he wanted her to burn for him on his seventh day, then went to study Formation Dao with Bai Qian.
• Lu Ye revealed that he used the Insight Spirit Pattern in his eyes to see formations' flaws, and Bai Qian warned him about the danger.
• Lu Ye studied Formation Dao by day and cultivated at night while Jujia trained and Zhao Li recovered from his injuries and treatment with Soul Cleansing Water.
• Yiyi alerted Lu Ye that Jujia and Amber were gathering visible Moon Essence above a cliff, inhaling and exhaling it in perfect synchronization.

Lu Ye continued studying formation breaking under Bai Qian, who judged him ready to challenge the Hundred Formation Pagoda and agreed to help forge suitable Formation Flags. Bai Qian then took Lu Ye to the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Weapon Forging Workshop, where Lu Ye discovered the Earth Fire could be absorbed by his Talent Tree.

• Bai Qian explained that Jujia and Amber could draw in the sun and moon’s essence, suggesting they had exceptional Monster Beast bloodlines, and speculated that Jujia’s Soul Poison had awakened his hidden talent.
• After more than a month of instruction, Bai Qian told Lu Ye he was ready to try the Hundred Formation Pagoda and offered to forge Formation Flags to help him.
• Lu Ye gave Bai Qian eight drops of Soul Cleansing Water as thanks, following the Sect Master’s instructions, and Bai Qian accepted the gift.
• Bai Qian led Lu Ye to the otherwise empty Weapon Forging Workshop, where he explained the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s artifact-forging work and began drawing Earth Fire to forge Formation Flags.
• Lu Ye sensed that his Talent Tree could absorb the Earth Fire and recognized that it resembled the Core Fire he had obtained from Heaven’s Mystery Vault, though it was lower in quality.

Lu Ye learned to forge Formation Flags under Bai Qian’s instruction, completing a basic set after half a month of practice. Bai Qian then brought him to the Hundred Formation Pagoda, where Lu Ye prepared to face its opportunities and dangers.

• Bai Qian demonstrated how to forge a Formation Flag and explained how hammering formed the restrictions inside it.
• Lu Ye repeatedly practiced forging flags, improving through Bai Qian’s guidance and eventually completing a basic set of thirty-six.
• After resting, Lu Ye followed Bai Qian to the sealed valley containing the incomplete Hundred Formation Pagoda.
• Bai Qian explained the tower’s broken state and warned Lu Ye that its trials and rewards could both be dangerous.

Lu Ye entered the Hundred Formation Pagoda and completed dozens of trials on its first floor, quickly breaking formations and improving at setting them. After absorbing the floor’s enormous reward of Formation Dao knowledge, he endured its painful impact thanks to his unusually resilient soul.

• Bai Qian activated the Formation that sent Lu Ye into the pagoda’s first-floor trial room.
• Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern and his Coiling Mountain Saber to break three formations in quick succession, then began setting formations with Formation Flags.
• Lu Ye noticed that the pagoda gave him far more setting trials than breaking trials, but he continued until the three-hour limit ended.
• Lu Ye estimated that he had completed forty or fifty trials and recovered his nearly depleted Spiritual Power in the dense Spiritual Energy.
• Lu Ye absorbed the fist-sized ball of fluorescence and endured its flood of Formation Dao knowledge without losing consciousness.

Lu Ye benefited from the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s first floor, strengthening his Formation Dao foundation and reaching Tier Nine while cultivating inside. He continued opening apertures as he worked toward the 240 needed to switch to the Great Sun Glazed Art.

• Lu Ye’s performance triggered the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s resonance, drawing Sect Master Yu Xiao, Great Elder Bai Qian, and Heavenly Evolution Sect disciples to the valley.
• Yu Xiao and Bai Qian worried that Lu Ye was pushing too hard, but they let the sect’s disciples enter the valley to meditate on the pagoda’s resonance.
• Lu Ye digested the first floor’s Formation Dao knowledge, replenished his Spiritual Power, and improved his Formation Dao level by half a tier.
• Lu Ye broke through his final Aperture Barrier and achieved Tier Nine.
• Lu Ye filled his new Spiritual Aperture and began opening another, knowing he needed 240 Spiritual Apertures to switch to the Great Sun Glazed Art.

Lu Ye advanced through the Hundred Formation Pagoda, gaining powerful Formation Dao insights and triggering resonance on every floor. After reaching the eleventh floor, he encountered new Formation Repair trials while Yu Xiao and Bai Qian feared the rewards might overwhelm him.

• Lu Ye used Formation Flags to find flaws in the second-floor Formation before checking his answer with the Insight Spirit Pattern, then passed the trial and absorbed the rewards.
• The pagoda’s resonance spread through the valley, delighting the Heavenly Evolution Sect disciples while Yu Xiao and Bai Qian worried that Lu Ye would overreach.
• Lu Ye digested the second floor’s rewards and cultivated before continuing upward through the pagoda.
• Within five days, Lu Ye passed ten floors and triggered resonance on each one, alarming Yu Xiao and Bai Qian with his relentless progress.
• Lu Ye reached the eleventh floor, where he passed increasingly difficult trials and encountered Formation Repair for the first time.

Lu Ye continued climbing the Hundred Formation Pagoda, using Soul Cleansing Water to recover from the mental strain of its rewards while replenishing his Spiritual Power and opening apertures. After clearing the thirtieth floor and triggering the pagoda’s resonance for the thirtieth time, he rested before facing the sharply harder floors ahead as a growing crowd gathered outside.

• Lu Ye absorbed the eleventh-floor reward, exhausted himself, then instinctively drank Soul Cleansing Water and recovered enough to continue.
• During the rest period, Lu Ye replenished his Spiritual Power, ate dried meat, opened another Spiritual Aperture, and entered the twelfth floor.
• Yu Xiao and Bai Qian watched Lu Ye keep clearing two floors a day, while Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Formation Cultivators celebrated the benefits of his repeated resonances.
• Lu Ye cleared the twenty-first floor by finding and breaking a dangerous Grand Array, relying on his Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern and Soul Cleansing Water to sustain his progress.
• Five days later, Lu Ye cleared the thirtieth floor and rested in preparation for the increased difficulty ahead, as the crowd outside the pagoda swelled and wondered whether he could clear its final three floors.

Lu Ye reached the final floor of the Hundred Formation Pagoda and began testing himself against an enormous Protective Grand Array. As Zhao Li arrived at the valley and prepared for Lu Ye’s return, Lu Ye worked to suppress the array’s spiritual flow, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Bai Qian and Yu Xiao marveled that Lu Ye had cleared thirty floors in half a month, and Bai Qian explained that Soul Cleansing Water let him endure the strain.
• Bai Qian asked Zhao Li whether he was alive, and Zhao Li came to the valley to prepare for the plan he and Lu Ye had discussed.
• Lu Ye passed the thirty-first and thirty-second floors, received the Pagoda’s rewards, and advanced to the final floor.
• Lu Ye found a vast Protective Grand Array, located all sixteen nodes, and placed thirty-two Formation Flags around it.
• Lu Ye poured Spiritual Power into a Formation Flag to suppress the Grand Array’s flowing Spiritual Power and began trying to break it.