Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye broke the Hundred Formation Pagoda’s thirty-third-floor Protective Grand Array, earning a large reward of formation knowledge and a replacement set of Formation Flags. He emerged from the tower to find Yu Xiao, Bai Qian, and a crowd celebrating his achievement.

• Lu Ye suppressed the uncontrolled Grand Array’s Spiritual Power with thirty-two Formation Flags, which cracked under the strain, then shattered the array’s nodes with four Spiritual Artifacts.
• The Grand Array collapsed, destroying Lu Ye’s Formation Flags and leaving him nearly drained, but he realized he had passed the thirty-third floor’s trial.
• The Hundred Formation Pagoda rewarded Lu Ye with richly colored fluorescence and thirty-two black Formation Flags, which he stored before absorbing the fluorescence.
• Outside the Pagoda, Yu Xiao and Bai Qian celebrated Lu Ye’s achievement and considered how it might change the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• After several hours, Lu Ye emerged and greeted Yu Xiao and Bai Qian as the gathered cultivators watched.

After recovering from his Hundred Formation Pagoda trials, Lu Ye joined the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s Spirit Stream cultivators as they returned to the battlefield to reclaim their lost camp. He set out with Zhao Li and Canglan Mountain’s forces to attack Clear Wind Sect first.

• Bai Qian took Lu Ye away from the eager Formation Cultivators and told him to rest before acting with Zhao Li the next day.
• After resting, Lu Ye checked his cultivation progress, summoned Yiyi and Jujia, and bid farewell to Bai Qian.
• Lu Ye arrived as Zhao Li rallied several hundred Heavenly Evolution Sect cultivators, and they entered their battlefield camp to begin their campaign.
• The Heavenly Evolution Sect’s cultivators confirmed that no enemy was waiting at their camp, then boarded a large ship under Zhao Li’s command.
• Zhao Li told Lu Ye that Canglan Mountain had also mobilized, and they agreed to strike Clear Wind Sect first.

Lu Ye led Heavenly Evolution Sect and Canglan Mountain to attack Clear Wind Sect, promising to break its Protective Grand Array within one incense stick. Clear Wind Sect’s Garrison Envoy recognized Lu Ye, whom Myriad Demon Ridge believed dead, and realized the attackers had prepared to dismantle the array.

• Heavenly Evolution Sect cultivators raided their mineral vein and then joined Canglan Mountain on the march toward Clear Wind Sect’s camp.
• Song Yin asked Lu Ye how quickly he could break Clear Wind Sect’s array, and Lu Ye promised to do it within one incense stick.
• Lu Ye and Song Yin’s forces arrived outside Clear Wind Sect’s camp, where the Garrison Envoy recognized Lu Ye and exclaimed that he was not dead.
• Lu Ye directed the attackers into formation and positioned thirty-one Formation Cultivators with Formation Flags around the array.
• Clear Wind Sect’s Garrison Envoy sensed danger, activated the Grand Array Jade Token, and brought the array to its utmost power.

Lu Ye used thirty-two Formation Flags to open a breach in Clear Wind Sect’s Protective Grand Array, allowing the Heavenly Evolution Sect and Canglan Mountain to overwhelm the camp and seize its Heaven’s Mystery Hall. With Clear Wind Sect’s Garrison Envoy dead and its remaining cultivators trapped inside the recovering array, the battle continued against overwhelming odds.

• Lu Ye and thirty-one Formation Cultivators used their flags to halt Spiritual Power at two nodes and break open part of Clear Wind Sect’s Grand Array.
• Zhao Li led the two sects’ prepared forces through the breach, routing Clear Wind Sect’s scattered defenders.
• Lu Ye swept through the battlefield with his Controlled Artifacts, killed Clear Wind Sect’s Garrison Envoy, and took his Grand Array Jade Token.
• The two sects seized Clear Wind Sect’s Heaven’s Mystery Hall and advanced to prevent the defenders from escaping.
• Clear Wind Sect’s Grand Array began repairing the breach, trapping fewer than two hundred survivors against the combined force of eight or nine hundred cultivators.

After Lu Ye led the capture of Clear Wind Sect, news of his survival and formation-breaking ability spread across the Nine Provinces, alarming Myriad Demon Ridge. The allied force raced toward Crimson Blood Valley, where Lu Ye’s speed-enhancing formation helped them catch up with enemy reinforcements.

• The Heavenly Evolution Sect and Canglan Mountain cultivators defeated Clear Wind Sect, and Lu Ye shut down its Protective Grand Array and recovered its Formation Bases.
• News that Lu Yiye had survived and broken Clear Wind Sect’s array in a few dozen breaths spread through the Nine Provinces, frightening Myriad Demon Ridge’s sects.
• Crimson Blood Valley and Thunder Light Sect learned of the defeat while heading to reinforce Clear Wind Sect, then turned back and arranged to join forces at Crimson Blood Valley.
• Lu Ye and the Formation Cultivators used a Windwalk Spirit Pattern and sixteen Formation Flags to speed up the Heavenly Evolution Sect Ship.
• Zhao Li’s scouts spotted a ship carrying retreating reinforcements toward Crimson Blood Valley, and Zhao Li ordered his ship to ram it.

The Heavenly Evolution Sect ambushed the Thunder Light Sect’s ship, killing most of its passengers and leaving the survivors unable to escape Lu Ye and the pursuing forces. After joining with Canglan Mountain, the allied sects reached Crimson Blood Valley, whose defenders were already deployed and preparing to resist.

• Zhao Li ordered the Heavenly Evolution Sect ship to ram the Thunder Light Sect ship, and the collision sent it crashing to the ground with more than two hundred cultivators aboard.
• Lu Ye pursued the Thunder Light Sect survivors, intercepted them in midair, and helped the Heavenly Evolution Sect wipe them out without losing anyone.
• The Thunder Light Sect Garrison Envoy learned that more than three hundred cultivator imprints had vanished, while Crimson Blood Valley realized its reinforcements were gone and began preparing for battle.
• The Canglan Mountain cultivators joined the Heavenly Evolution Sect, and the combined force advanced toward Crimson Blood Valley.
• Crimson Blood Valley formed its defenses behind its protective array as both sides exchanged threats and insults.

Lu Ye helped the two sects break Crimson Blood Valley’s Grand Array, but five powerful cultivators from beyond the Spirit Stream Realm turned the battle into a stalemate. One of them pierced Lu Ye with a sword, but Lu Ye countered with a crushing saber strike just as the old man prepared to finish him.

• Lu Ye and the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s formation cultivators broke a section of Crimson Blood Valley’s Grand Array while Zhao Li and Song Yin directed the troops.
• Lu Ye killed many of Crimson Blood Valley’s Body Cultivators, prompting its Garrison Envoy to summon five cultivators who had entered from higher realms.
• The five newcomers stabilized Crimson Blood Valley’s defenses, but Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder weakened them after they killed more than twenty cultivators.
• The old man attacked Lu Ye, pierced his body, and tried to destroy his internal organs with Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye struck back with a Double Heavy Pressure Spirit Pattern, forcing the old man to brace against his saber as they fell together.
• The old man saw a sun explode in his field of vision.

Lu Ye and Yiyi used the Nine Realms Map and their combined Spiritual Patterns to kill Crimson Blood Valley’s True Lake Realm Third Elder. Lu Ye returned to the battlefield and revealed the elder’s corpse, leaving both sides stunned.

• Lu Ye blinded the Third Elder with the Great Sun Spiritual Pattern, and Yiyi drew them into the Nine Realms Map.
• Yiyi secretly solidified the space around the Third Elder while Lu Ye attacked, landing several devastating wounds.
• Lu Ye killed the Third Elder, gained a large amount of Merit, and retrieved the elder’s longsword and corpse.
• Lu Ye returned to the battlefield and threw down the Third Elder’s corpse, shocking the fighters and prompting cries that the elder was dead.

Lu Ye and the allied cultivators captured Crimson Blood Valley’s camp, while Thunder Light Sect abandoned its own, completing the destruction of three Myriad Demon Ridge strongholds. After the victory feast, Zhao Li and Song Yin asked what Lu Ye planned to do next, as Vast Sky Alliance sects rushed to seek his help.

• The allied cultivators killed Crimson Blood Valley’s Third Elder, drove the defenders into Heaven’s Mystery Hall, and captured the camp after a brutal battle.
• News spread that two True Lake Realm cultivators had died and three others were suffering Heavenly Mechanism’s Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder, shocking the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye’s group found Thunder Light Sect’s camp deserted, divided its Heaven’s Mystery Pillar enhancements, and returned to Canglan Mountain.
• Canglan Mountain held a victory feast, and Zhao Li and Song Yin asked Lu Ye about his next plans as other Vast Sky Alliance sects sought to meet him.
• Lu Ye agreed to receive the visitors, making Zhao Li and Song Yin rejoice.

Lu Ye led a growing Vast Sky Alliance army in a campaign that breached or forced the evacuation of Myriad Demon Ridge camps across the Spirit Stream Battlefield. As the operation spread beyond control, Lu Ye acquired the nickname Gate-Destroying Leaf, and Vast Sky Alliance sects eagerly awaited his army.

• Lu Ye agreed to lead an attack on Myriad Demon Ridge, and Heavenly Evolution Sect pledged its full support.
• Lu Ye coordinated with nearby Vast Sky Alliance factions, then sent two tower ships toward Quiet Peak Gate while the army attacked Profound Darkness Sect instead.
• After breaching Quiet Peak Gate, Lu Ye expanded the Allied Army and ordered member sects to restrain Myriad Demon Ridge factions whose camps had fallen.
• The army occupied more camps, prompting most Myriad Demon Ridge factions to abandon their strongholds rather than resist.
• The Allied Army grew to three thousand cultivators and eight ships, while the nickname Gate-Destroying Leaf spread across the battlefield.
• Vast Sky Alliance sects watched for Lu Ye's army, hoping to use its campaign to strike their Myriad Demon Ridge neighbors.

The Myriad Demon Ridge sent five Heaven Nine Ghost Cultivators to assassinate Lu Ye, hoping to halt his campaign across the Inner Circle. Lu Ye survived by drawing them into an ambush, but news that two Spirit Stream Ranking positions had vanished hinted at a cost elsewhere.

• Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators decided to target Lu Ye as his Allied Army continued capturing their camps.
• Five powerful Ghost Cultivators infiltrated the Allied Army’s camp and waited for a chance to enter Lu Ye’s tent.
• Jujia followed Lu Ye’s instructions and let the Ghost Cultivators pass into the tent, where Lu Ye was waiting.
• Lu Ye escaped their attack and triggered an Illusion Array, allowing the surrounding cultivators to overwhelm and kill all five Heaven Nine Ghost Cultivators.
• Zhao Li and the others learned the assassins’ cultivation, then received confirmation that the thirty-ninth and eighty-second places on the Spirit Stream Rankings had been removed.

After five Heaven Nine Grade Ghost Cultivators failed to assassinate Lu Ye, Myriad Demon Ridge abandoned its camps and assembled a much larger force at the Wei River to halt the Vast Sky Alliance Allied Army. With both sides facing a costly stalemate and their Divine Sea Realm cultivators preparing to negotiate, Lu Ye proposed opening another battlefield.

• Lu Ye's formations killed the five Ghost Cultivators sent to assassinate him, and he led the Allied Army onward.
• Myriad Demon Ridge ordered its forces to abandon their camps and gather ahead of the Allied Army, while Core Region cultivators from both sides joined the conflict.
• Ten days later, over eighteen thousand Vast Sky Alliance cultivators and more than twenty thousand Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators faced each other across the Wei River.
• The two armies remained in a standoff for three days as Divine Sea Realm cultivators prepared to negotiate a settlement.
• Lu Ye told the commanders that negotiations would end the Allied Army's offensive, then proposed opening another battlefield, and Zhao Li asked if he meant starting elsewhere.

Lu Ye left the nearly twenty-thousand-strong Allied Army to pursue more Myriad Demon Ridge forces and traveled with Jujia to Silver Light Island, where Luo Fu and Qi Shi prepared to join his campaign. Meanwhile, Tang Yifeng and Pang Zhen flew to discuss the conflict between the two camps, and Tang learned that Lu Ye’s One Leaf talent had once caused the Azure Jade Sect to reject him.

• Lu Ye told the Allied Army to remain at its position and pressure the Myriad Demon Ridge while he and Jujia went to open another battlefield.
• Luo Fu learned Lu Ye was coming to Silver Light Island, and he and Qi Shi contacted the Dharma Flower Sect and arranged to meet him discreetly.
• Lu Ye arrived at Silver Light Island, where Luo Fu secretly brought him into a secluded chamber; the Dharma Flower Sect’s Garrison Envoy soon joined them.
• Tang Yifeng flew toward the negotiations with Pang Zhen, who explained that the Myriad Demon Ridge had demanded Tang’s presence because Lu Ye was a Crimson Blood Sect disciple.
• Pang Zhen told Tang Yifeng that the Azure Jade Sect had once passed over Lu Ye after testing his talent as One Leaf, and the two joked about Leshan and Lu Ye’s nickname.

Pang Zhen and the Sect Master negotiated with Myriad Demon Ridge at Sleeping Dragon Mountain while Lu Ye led attacks on Myriad Demon Ridge camps in the Spirit Stream Battlefield. After the Cloud Mist Sect and Miluo Sect camps fell, Myriad Demon Ridge made major concessions and its negotiator credited the Crimson Blood Sect’s remarkable young cultivator.

• Pang Zhen presented the Vast Sky Alliance’s demands, and both sides spent more than half a day bargaining without reaching an agreement.
• Lu Ye and Jujia led Silver Light Island and the Dharma Flower Sect in breaching the Cloud Mist Sect camp, killing its defenders and plundering its Heaven’s Mystery Pillar.
• Lu Ye left before the battlefield cleanup was complete and joined Vast Sky Alliance forces attacking another Myriad Demon Ridge camp.
• Myriad Demon Ridge’s negotiator offered a substantially improved final proposal and suggested signing a Heaven’s Mystery Contract.
• The Myriad Demon Ridge negotiator revealed that the Cloud Mist Sect and Miluo Sect camps had been taken and praised the Crimson Blood Sect’s extraordinary young cultivator.

Lu Ye’s attacks on Myriad Demon Ridge camps forced Pang Zhen to press for harsher peace terms while both sides scrambled to contain the Second Allied Army. After Hua Ci and Little Grey arrived, Lu Ye led his forces into battle and the Vast Sky Alliance won a crushing victory, leaving the wider conflict poised to escalate.

• The Vast Sky Alliance learned that Lu Ye had captured the Cloud Mist Sect and Miluo Sect camps and was advancing on another Myriad Demon Ridge faction, so Pang Zhen demanded the camps of half a province in negotiations.
• Lu Ye gathered more than a thousand cultivators from six sects, and Myriad Demon Ridge abandoned camps and concentrated its forces to halt the Second Allied Army.
• After the Second Allied Army’s advance was contained, Pang Zhen refused Myriad Demon Ridge’s unchanged terms, while the Crimson Blood Sect’s Sect Master declined to intervene on its own sect’s behalf.
• News arrived that six to seven thousand cultivators had begun fighting away from the Wei River, and the Second Allied Army crushed Myriad Demon Ridge’s forces with help from Crimson Blood Sect reinforcements.
• Hua Ci arrived with Little Grey, and Lu Ye ordered the Second Allied Army to attack the Myriad Demon Ridge force blocking its path.

Lu Ye’s Vast Sky Alliance army routed the Myriad Demon Ridge forces, and negotiations between the Divine Sea Realm cultivators intensified as Myriad Demon Ridge sought to stop his campaign. After learning Golden Cloud Tower had orchestrated the poisoning and ambush that nearly killed him, Lu Ye considered its nearby camp his next target.

• Little Grey tore through the Myriad Demon Ridge battle line, allowing Lu Ye and Jujia’s army to rout the defenders and pursue the survivors.
• Lu Ye’s and Luo Fu’s forces reunited after capturing abandoned camps, while Hua Ci treated Lu Ye’s wounds and told him the camp was being overseen by Gu Yang.
• Myriad Demon Ridge warned Pang Zhen that Lu Ye’s campaign could trigger a full-scale war, then offered to consider his demands.
• The Sect Master demanded to know which faction had poisoned Lu Ye, and a Myriad Demon Ridge elder identified Golden Cloud Tower as the mastermind.
• Lu Ye checked Golden Cloud Tower’s location and saw that his army could reach its camp in less than three days.

Lu Ye agreed to stop attacking Myriad Demon Ridge camps after the factions' Divine Sea Realm cultivators reached an understanding, but he headed for Golden Cloud Tower's camp to fulfill his threat. With Li Baxian protecting him, he entered the camp and confronted its cultivators, leaving them under the pressure of Li Baxian's sword.

• The Sect Master relayed Myriad Demon Ridge's warning to Lu Ye, who agreed to halt his campaign and summoned the Allied Army's Garrison Envoys to arrange their withdrawal.
• After the Allied Army departed, Lu Ye revealed that Li Baxian had secretly followed him to protect him, and the group set off for Golden Cloud Tower's camp.
• Li Baxian's Sword Control carried them to the camp in less than a day, where hundreds of Golden Cloud Tower cultivators had refused to abandon their base.
• Lu Ye used Formation Flags to open the Protective Grand Array and led his companions inside while Li Baxian intimidated the gathered cultivators.
• When Golden Cloud Tower's black-robed envoy threatened Li Baxian, Li Baxian placed a short sword against the man's forehead and warned him to stay silent.

Lu Ye and Li Baxian left Golden Cloud Tower after plundering its Heaven's Mystery Pillar blessings, while Divine Sea Realm cultivators settled the crisis and arranged compensation. Lu Ye returned to a jubilant Crimson Blood Sect camp, and Li Baxian, his old regrets resolved, decided to leave.

• Lu Ye ordered Jujia to clear a path through Golden Cloud Tower's cultivators, then plundered the blessings from its Heaven's Mystery Pillar while Li Baxian guarded the hall.
• Li Baxian flew Lu Ye and the others away, and the Divine Sea Realm cultivators learned that Golden Cloud Tower had avoided escalating the conflict.
• The Myriad Demon Ridge elder agreed to compensate for Golden Cloud Tower's losses within a month, and Pang Zhen offered Lu Ye a safer place to cultivate at Righteous Qi Sect's camp.
• Seven or eight days later, Lu Ye and his companions returned to the Crimson Blood Sect, where Chen Yu, Gu Yang, and the disciples welcomed them.
• Li Baxian told Lu Ye he was going back, having let go of his regrets about the Crimson Blood Sect's future.

Lu Ye converted the blessings he had plundered from Myriad Demon Ridge camps into more than three million sect Merit for Crimson Blood Sect, then spent it developing the sect and buying rare pills. The Heaven's Mystery Pillar reached its limit of ninety-nine Spiritual Energy blessings, leaving the sect with four hundred thousand Merit.

• Lu Ye returned to Crimson Blood Sect and converted his plundered blessings into a little over three million sect Merit.
• Lu Ye issued himself a monthly stipend of three hundred and ten thousand Merit, then began purchasing Spiritual Energy blessings for the camp.
• The camp's spiritual energy stirred and dark clouds gathered, alarming the disciples, but Lu Ye told Gu Yang that the anomaly was nothing.
• Lu Ye let Gu Yang take over buying blessings and purchased two rare pills from the Heaven's Mystery Vault for one hundred and fifty thousand Merit each.
• The Heaven's Mystery Pillar reached ninety-nine Spiritual Energy blessings, and Lu Ye confirmed that no more could be bought.

Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect camp after the Heaven's Mystery Pillar increased its Spiritual Energy tenfold, then visited the Main Sect and learned that Shui Yuan had advanced to the Divine Sea Realm. He ended the chapter training in the Weapon Manipulation Technique with Li Baxian while Yiyi secretly slipped into Moon Lake.

• The Heaven's Mystery Pillar granted the camp ninety-nine blessings, making its Spiritual Energy ten times denser and prompting the disciples to celebrate.
• Lu Ye returned to the Main Sect, where the Sect Master told him to lie low until Myriad Demon Ridge delivered its compensation and warned him not to provoke a larger conflict.
• Lu Ye reflected that Pang Dahai had guided him into joining the Crimson Blood Sect, then shared a meal with Shui Yuan, Li Baxian, and Jujia.
• Li Baxian told Lu Ye that Shui Yuan had advanced to the Divine Sea Realm and advised him not to follow Eldest Senior Brother's path by carrying the sect's development alone.
• Li Baxian revealed that he could control a hundred swords and began teaching Lu Ye the Weapon Manipulation Technique through sparring.
• As Lu Ye and Li Baxian trained by Moon Lake, Yiyi slipped into the water while watching their fishing rods.