Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye forced Ghost Shadow to concede by covering the Battle Arena with warning formations, then challenged the sixth-ranked cultivator and faced a Water Element Spell Cultivator on two tiny islands at sea. The chapter left Lu Ye trading spells under the opponent’s environmental advantage, with the battle still underway.

• Lu Ye set up warning formations across the Battle Arena, and Ghost Shadow conceded rather than risk an assassination attempt.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi retrieved the formations, while Lu Ye vowed to punish Ghost Shadow if they met again.
• Lu Ye rose to ninth place on the Spirit Stream Rankings and challenged the cultivator ranked sixth.
• The sixth-ranked Spell Cultivator chose a sea arena that favored his Water Element spells and hindered Lu Ye’s Fire Element techniques.
• Lu Ye and the Spell Cultivator exchanged spells across the water, and the opponent warned that Lu Ye would lose if they continued.

Lu Ye overcame the sixth-ranked Spell Cultivator’s terrain-based trap and climbed to sixth place on the Spirit Stream Ranking. He prepared to challenge the third-ranked cultivator, a woman from a First Rank Sect, while Myriad Demon Ridge braced for his next advance.

• The Spell Cultivator slowed Lu Ye with dense mist and surrounded him with explosive water-based mystic arts, but Lu Ye used a Lightning Attraction Spiritual Pattern to fill the mist with lightning.
• Lu Ye feigned a fall into the sea, then flew back toward the Spell Cultivator with fiery wings; the Spell Cultivator admitted defeat before Lu Ye struck him.
• Lu Ye returned to his wooden house, replaced his damaged flying artifact, and reached sixth place on the Spirit Stream Ranking.
• Shi Guang of the Dao Xuan Sect prepared to face Lu Ye as the final gatekeeper for Myriad Demon Ridge.
• Lu Ye read intelligence from his friends about the third-ranked cultivator and learned she was a woman who practiced a rare branch of Weapon Cultivation.

Lu Ye fought the third-ranked Female Arrow Cultivator on a mountain arena, enduring her relentless arrows until she conceded after running out of ammunition. He then challenged Shi Guang, whose straightforward spear battle began in a compact arena.

• Lu Ye challenged the third-ranked Female Arrow Cultivator and found himself in an arena where flight was forbidden and she held the high ground.
• Lu Ye charged up the mountain while dodging and blocking the Female Arrow Cultivator's arrows, gradually closing the distance as Yiyi waited in hiding.
• After exhausting her arrows and injuring her fingers, the Female Arrow Cultivator praised Lu Ye and conceded.
• Lu Ye returned to the wooden hut, learned that Shi Guang was a Weapon Cultivator who wielded a long spear, and immediately challenged him.
• Lu Ye and Shi Guang appeared in a compact Battle Arena, where Shi Guang pointed his spear at Lu Ye and challenged him to meet his death.

Lu Ye fought Shi Guang, Myriad Demon Ridge’s final contender for Spirit Stream Rank One, in a brutal close-quarters battle. After Shi Guang’s Qi Burst Pill initially kept the fight even, Lu Ye activated his Blood Dye Spirit Pattern and gained the upper hand.

• Shi Guang entered the Battle Arena after taking a Qi Burst Pill, and Lu Ye told Yiyi to let him fight alone.
• Lu Ye and Shi Guang traded savage saber and spear attacks, wounding each other while Shi Guang praised Lu Ye’s strength.
• Shi Guang revealed that he had benefited from Heavenly Mechanism Rewards and the Qi Burst Pill, then resumed fighting Lu Ye.
• As Lu Ye’s strength increased, Shi Guang dislocated his arm and assumed he had taken a strength-enhancing pill.
• Lu Ye revealed his Blood Dye Spirit Pattern was growing stronger as he bled, then overwhelmed Shi Guang with a saber strike and a kick to the head.

Lu Ye defeated Shi Guang in a deadly battle and claimed Rank One on the Spirit Stream Rankings, though he was badly wounded. After waking to find the two camps reacting to his achievement and Myriad Demon Ridge plotting to challenge him, Lu Ye ate porridge and answered messages of congratulations.

• Shi Guang used the Secret Technique Prairie Fire against Lu Ye, but Lu Ye struck him down as Shi Guang's spear pierced his chest.
• Shi Guang conceded, and Yiyi supported Lu Ye before Hua Ci treated his injuries while he slept.
• Lu Ye's rise to Rank One stunned both camps, and Myriad Demon Ridge tried to arrange a challenge while he recovered.
• Lu Ye woke with lingering injuries, asked for food, and replied to messages congratulating him on his victory.

Lu Ye recovered in Myriad Poison Forest and practiced a new saber art, A Flash, while waiting for his Spirit Stream Rank One reward. When Heavenly Mechanism drew him into the Heaven's Mystery Pool, Amber and Yiyi appeared beside him too.

• Lu Ye refused invitations to cultivate at other camps and stayed hidden in Myriad Poison Forest while Hua Ci treated his injuries.
• Lu Ye developed A Flash, a powerful saber strike, and practiced it despite its heavy toll on his Spiritual Power and strength.
• Lu Ye opened twenty apertures over the next forty days and remained on Spirit Stream Rank One without being challenged.
• Thirty days after returning to Rank One, Lu Ye, Amber, and Yiyi were transported to the Heaven's Mystery Pool for the Heavenly Mechanism Reward.
• Lu Ye confirmed that Amber and Yiyi had arrived with him in the pool.

Lu Ye cultivated in Heaven's Mystery Pool with Yiyi and Amber, then discovered the Heavenly Mechanism would not let him take the spiritual mist away. After half an hour, his physique and mind had improved significantly, and he returned to the courtyard to practice his saber.

• Yiyi and Amber absorbed the spiritual mist while Lu Ye constructed Spirit Gathering funnels in his Spiritual Apertures and set up a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Lu Ye tried twice to condense the mist into liquid and collect it, but an unseen force destroyed his funnels and warned him not to take the reward away.
• Lu Ye spent the rest of his half-hour cultivation reflecting as the mist strengthened his physique and mind, then returned to the courtyard with Yiyi and Amber.
• Yiyi teased Lu Ye about looking fairer, and Hua Ci said his blood and vitality had grown more vigorous before discussing her ambition to challenge the Spirit Stream Rankings.
• Lu Ye practiced Flash Saber Technique and found that his chest no longer hurt when he swung his saber.

Lu Ye learned that Myriad Demon Ridge was pressuring camps connected to the Crimson Blood Sect to force him out of hiding. At Boundless Island, Luo Ji learned that Lan Ziyi might be strong enough to defeat Lu Yiye, while Lu Ye prepared to answer the threat to Three Saints Institute.

• Lu Ye learned that Shi Guang and Yu Lianzhou had advanced to the Cloud River and continued cultivating in Myriad Poison Forest.
• At Boundless Island, Luo Ji watched Lan Ziyi's pavilion and recalled how she had been found through the prophecy “Purple Qi Comes from the South” and recognized by the sect patriarch's inheritance.
• Kong Bu told Luo Ji that Lan Ziyi had nearly defeated him in a spar and could defeat Lu Yiye after reaching Heaven Nine.
• Feng Yue warned Lu Ye that Myriad Demon Ridge had surrounded Three Saints Institute camp, and Lu Ye learned that Pill Heart Sect camp had also been targeted.
• Lu Ye told Feng Yue to reassure Three Saints Institute and promised to compensate them if their camp was breached because of him.

Lu Ye attacked the Lianshan Sect camp and then hunted Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators to draw pressure away from the Three Saints Institute. He learned that the Three Saints Institute camp had fallen and worried that Pill Heart Sect might also be in danger.

• Feng Yue told Situ Han that Lu Ye had promised to help, and Lu Ye flew from Myriad Poison Forest toward the Lianshan Sect camp.
• Lu Ye slipped through Lianshan Sect’s Grand Array, fought its cultivators, and was eventually forced back outside after killing twenty or thirty of them.
• Lu Ye remained outside the camp for an hour, drawing Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators toward him before departing and fighting those he encountered along the way.
• Yiyi and Amber helped Lu Ye endure the pursuit, while he realized Myriad Demon Ridge intended to exhaust him through constant attacks.
• Feng Yue told Lu Ye that the Three Saints Institute camp could no longer hold and that she and Situ Han were returning to the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye could no longer reach Feng Yue and wondered whether Myriad Demon Ridge had also overrun Pill Heart Sect.

Lu Ye was caught in the Primordial Magnetic Roar, which sealed cultivators’ Spiritual Power across the Spirit Stream Battlefield and forced him to travel by riding Amber. Myriad Demon Ridge saw a chance to kill him and searched for him with beasts, but Lu Ye reached the Azure Emperor City camp, where a cultivator welcomed him.

• Lu Ye learned from Second Senior Sister that someone at Azure Emperor City's camp wanted to see him and set out while Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators pursued him.
• The Primordial Magnetic Roar began, and Lu Ye sent Yiyi into Amber before the battlefield-wide force sealed Spiritual Power and collapsed the camps’ Protective Grand Arrays.
• Lu Ye rode Amber toward Azure Emperor City while his powerless pursuers realized they needed mounts and dispatched Beast Taming School cultivators to hunt him.
• Lu Ye and Amber reached Azure Emperor City's camp after two days of travel, and a cultivator confirmed Lu Ye's identity and invited him inside.

Lu Ye received Third Senior Brother Xiao Xinghe’s blade cultivation insights from Xiao Changhe and left Azure Emperor City’s camp for Myriad Poison Forest. Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators secretly coordinated an ambush, using Zhu Pang’s challenge to try to trap him.

• Xiao Changhe introduced himself as Xiao Xinghe’s son and gave Lu Ye his father’s blade cultivation insights.
• Lu Ye thanked Xiao Changhe and said he would visit Third Senior Brother when he could, then left the camp to avoid endangering Azure Emperor City.
• Lu Ye traveled toward Myriad Poison Forest and noticed that he had encountered no Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators along the way.
• Zhu Pang challenged Lu Ye through the Spirit Stream Rankings, and Lu Ye accepted without choosing the terrain, giving himself two hours to prepare.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators exchanged messages and planned to encircle Lu Ye while Zhu Pang tried to hold him off.

Lu Ye accepted Zhu Pang’s challenge despite Myriad Demon Ridge’s attempt to trap him, aiming to defeat the heavily armored Artificer before the encirclement could form. His attacks broke through Zhu Pang’s defenses, and the fight continued with Amber helping exploit the gaps in the armor.

• Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators learned that Lu Ye had entered the Battle Arena on a plain and rushed to surround his location before his fight ended.
• Lu Ye accepted Zhu Pang’s challenge to protect his Spirit Stream Rankings position and immediately attacked him in the Battle Arena.
• Zhu Pang revealed his shield-covered Artificer Armor, but Lu Ye’s first two Flash Saber Technique strikes shattered shields and destroyed their mechanical arms.
• Lu Ye used Amber’s roar and the Fire Phoenix Art to disrupt Zhu Pang and strike through gaps in his defenses.
• Amber pounced on Zhu Pang and knocked him off balance as Lu Ye pressed his attack.

Lu Ye killed Zhu Pang in the Battle Arena with help from Yiyi and Amber, then prepared for the fight awaiting him outside. After Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators ambushed him as he emerged, Lu Ye and Amber broke through the encirclement and raced across the plain while arrows from flying mounts barely harmed them.

• Yiyi struck Zhu Pang through a gap in his defenses while Lu Ye and Amber attacked, and Lu Ye killed him with a sword thrust.
• Yiyi collected Zhu Pang’s spoils, and Lu Ye packed healing supplies and spare sabers before leaving the Battle Arena on Amber.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators on demonic beasts ambushed Lu Ye and Amber as they appeared, but the pair fought their way out and began to flee.
• More than thirty pursuers converged on Lu Ye, including archers on flying mounts, but their arrows barely scratched him or Amber.
• Lu Ye’s past body tempering, nourishing meals, and cultivation had made him exceptionally strong, while Amber’s body was even tougher.

Lu Ye and Amber tried to break through Myriad Demon Ridge's prepared interception, but a trap separated them and left Amber caught in a Spirit Net. Lu Ye fought through the surrounding cultivators to reach Amber, leaving both himself and the enemy forces bloodied.

• After killing Zhu Pang in the Battle Arena, Lu Ye fled on Amber while Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators tracked them from the air and set up interceptions.
• Lu Ye avoided several groups until Amber triggered a concealed pit trap; Amber leaped clear, but Lu Ye flung him farther from the caltrop barriers and landed among the enemies.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators caught Amber in a Spirit Net while Lu Ye was surrounded by the arriving force.
• Lu Ye fought through the encirclement, killing seven or eight cultivators in his first charge despite suffering multiple wounds.
• Lu Ye charged through the remaining cultivators again, killed nearly ten more, and headed toward Amber without stopping.

Lu Ye and Amber escaped a Myriad Demon Ridge ambush, but relentless pursuit drove them toward the Myriad Poison Forest, where nearly two hundred cultivators blocked their way. As Lu Ye considered searching for another entrance, Hua Ci told him to wait because she was coming to pick him up.

• Lu Ye freed Amber from a Spirit Net, and they fought through the encirclement before fleeing into a dense forest and shaking off the pursuing birds.
• Lu Ye and Amber treated their wounds in a cave, then killed several searchers and continued evading Myriad Demon Ridge forces that repeatedly found them.
• After several days of pursuit, Lu Ye decided they had to return to the Myriad Poison Forest and set out with Amber toward it.
• Myriad Demon Ridge gathered nearly two hundred cultivators to block the forest entrance, leaving Lu Ye and Amber exhausted and unable to force their way through.
• Lu Ye messaged that he might have to seek another entrance, and Hua Ci replied that he should wait because she would come get him.

Hua Ci drove the poisonous creatures of the Myriad Poison Forest into the Myriad Demon Ridge force, letting Lu Ye escape back into the forest. After returning to the wooden house, Lu Ye arranged for Amber to transform in the Battle Arena and resolved to stay hidden until he reached Heaven Nine.

• Poisonous moths, butterflies, and other creatures poured out of the Myriad Poison Forest and threw the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators into chaos.
• Lu Ye rode Amber into the forest while the distracted Myriad Demon Ridge force failed to stop him.
• Lu Ye met Hua Ci inside the forest, and they returned to the wooden house, where she treated Amber and his wounds.
• Lu Ye asked Han Tiejun to help him enter the Battle Arena, where Amber transformed into a cat-sized form.
• Lu Ye decided not to leave the Myriad Poison Forest until he reached Heaven Nine and studied the saber arts insights Third Senior Brother had sent him.

Lu Ye followed Xiao Xinghe's Saber Technique Cultivation Insights and achieved Man-Blade Resonance with the Crag Mountain Saber, then learned how to use his Qi and Blood Power to strengthen the Flash Saber Technique. With Spiritual Power sealed by the Primordial Magnetic Field, he began training to rely more effectively on his body's strength.

• Lu Ye practiced the breathing method in Xiao Xinghe's insights and felt the Crag Mountain Saber breathe in time with him, achieving Man-Blade Resonance.
• Lu Ye sensed the saber even with his eyes closed, found it after seven steps, and learned that three days had passed while he cultivated.
• Lu Ye continued deepening his connection with the saber and discovered that gathering Qi and Blood Power into his right arm made his slash faster and stronger.
• Lu Ye realized that he had relied too heavily on Spiritual Power when practicing Flash Saber and that the Blood Shifting Technique could help him use his Qi and blood.
• Lu Ye concentrated his Qi and Blood Power into his saber arm and unleashed a slash whose might increased by at least half.

Lu Ye trained his blade technique while Hua Ci treated the strain, then learned that Lan Ziyi had rapidly climbed the Spirit Stream Rankings and was likely targeting him. As Lan Ziyi reached third place and challenged him, Lu Ye prepared for their impending fight, which had drawn the attention of both factions.

• Lu Ye practiced his blade technique until both arms swelled, and Hua Ci treated his congested qi and blood.
• Hua Ci showed Lu Ye that Lan Ziyi had entered the rankings and climbed to thirty-eighth place by defeating Vast Sky Alliance cultivators.
• Lan Ziyi continued rising through the rankings, while Lu Ye anticipated a challenge before his next Heavenly Mechanism Reward baptism.
• Han Tiejun warned Lu Ye that Lan Ziyi was strong, had many tricks, and had fought him as though she were playing a game.
• Lu Ye rested and prepared for battle as both factions debated their relative cultivation levels and awaited the fight.
• Lu Ye received Lan Ziyi's Spirit Stream Rankings challenge.

Lu Ye fought Lan Ziyi in the Battle Arena, discovering that her mastery of the Blood Shifting Technique and a powerful personal defense made her a formidable opponent. After his Flash failed to kill her and she wounded him in return, Lu Ye wondered how he could break through her defenses.

• Lu Ye challenged Lan Ziyi in the Battle Arena and attacked her with nine Controlled Artifacts, but she blocked them with threads of Spiritual Power and Flying Swords.
• Lu Ye charged Lan Ziyi, and they clashed at close range with his saber and her greatsword while their weapons continued fighting in the air.
• Lu Ye used Insight to recognize that Lan Ziyi mastered the Blood Shifting Technique and could unleash her strength more effectively than he could.
• Lu Ye struck Lan Ziyi at the waist with Flash empowered by Double Sharpness and the Blood Shifting Technique, but a barrier protected her from the fatal blow.
• Lan Ziyi stabbed Lu Ye in the abdomen as she was knocked away, and Lu Ye used the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern to gather his bleeding while she rose with blood at her mouth.

Lu Ye fought Lan Ziyi, whose twin swords and Spirit Garment overwhelmed his defenses. After the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern strengthened him, he realized he needed a stronger blade technique to break her protection and prepared to try one.

• Lan Ziyi split her greatsword into twin swords and drove Lu Ye backward with a rapid, spinning assault.
• Lu Ye charged through Lan Ziyi's attacks and discovered that her invisible Spirit Garment blocked his strikes before disappearing and reappearing.
• Lan Ziyi wounded Lu Ye repeatedly, but the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern gradually increased his strength and speed as his blood mist grew denser.
• Lan Ziyi explained that her Spirit Garment would persist as long as she had Spiritual Power, and Lu Ye realized he had to break through its defenses with a powerful attack.
• Lu Ye recalled a blade technique from Third Senior Brother's Blade Technique Cultivation Insights and prepared to combine it with Flash.