Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye defeated Lan Ziyi in the Battle Arena by breaking her Spirit Garment with Consecutive Slash, though both fighters suffered serious injuries. Hua Ci treated Lu Ye afterward, while the battle’s outcome left the Spirit Stream Battlefield bracing for an era dominated by him.

• Lu Ye baited Lan Ziyi into overextending, seized her hand, and struck her three times with Consecutive Slash, shattering her Spirit Garment and grievously wounding her.
• Lan Ziyi kicked Lu Ye as she was sent flying, then withdrew from the Battle Arena when Yiyi and Amber joined the attack.
• Yiyi and Amber brought the badly injured Lu Ye to Hua Ci, who examined him and treated his ruined right arm.
• Lu Ye rested in Hua Ci’s medicinal bath as news spread that Lan Ziyi had lost to Lu Yiye.
• The Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge recognized that Lu Yiye could dominate the battlefield and threaten Myriad Demon Ridge’s camps.

While recovering in the Myriad Poison Forest, Lu Ye received two more Heavenly Mechanism Reward baptisms, healed his injuries, and continued training until he had opened 359 apertures. He remained determined to stay hidden until reaching Heaven Nine, with only one aperture left to open.

• Lu Ye reviewed his status, reflected on his battle with Lan Ziyi, and trained with his saber while Hua Ci helped heal his injuries.
• Lu Ye, Amber, and Yiyi received their second Heavenly Mechanism Reward baptism, which healed his injuries and strengthened him.
• After the Primordial Magnetic Field receded, Lu Ye restored the Grand Array and resolved not to leave the Myriad Poison Forest until he reached Heaven Nine.
• Lu Ye continued cultivating and practicing saber techniques; Lan Ziyi remained second on the Spirit Stream Rankings and did not challenge him again.
• Lu Ye, Amber, and Yiyi received a third baptism, but gained less benefit than before, and Lu Ye discovered he had opened 359 apertures.

Lu Ye opened his final spiritual aperture, reached Heaven Nine, and prepared to leave the Myriad Poison Forest after consolidating his cultivation. Hua Ci gave him a Myriad Poison Pill for protection, then began gathering poisonous fog as her cultivation fell to Heaven Eight.

• Lu Ye opened all 360 apertures, formed nine Minor Heavenly Circulations, and advanced to Heaven Nine.
• Lu Ye decided to remain in the Spirit Stream Realm for a while longer and spent several days stabilizing his new circulation.
• Lu Ye asked Hua Ci about her continued cultivation, but she kept her methods secret and cooked him a meal.
• Hua Ci gave Lu Ye a Myriad Poison Pill and warned him to be careful as he prepared to leave with Amber.
• After Lu Ye departed, Hua Ci's cultivation dropped to Heaven Eight, and she gathered poisonous fog into a vortex.

After secretly reaching Heaven Nine, Lu Ye traveled through the Core Region and killed every Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator he encountered. He broke into Mysterious Azure Palace’s camp, killed its Garrison Envoy and many others, and advanced toward the remaining defenders gathered before Heaven’s Mystery Hall.

• Lu Ye ambushed and killed three Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators who recognized him while he traveled toward the Core Region.
• Over several days, Lu Ye killed every Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator he met, then reached Mysterious Azure Palace’s Protective Grand Array.
• Lu Ye used Formation Flags to open the array and entered the camp, killing five cultivators in his first attack.
• Lu Ye killed Mysterious Azure Palace’s Heaven Nine Garrison Envoy and charged through the crowd with his Controlled Artifacts, saber, and Amber’s roars.
• Lu Ye killed nearly thirty percent of the camp’s roughly one hundred and twenty cultivators before the survivors assembled in formation before Heaven’s Mystery Hall Plaza.

Lu Ye attacked the Mysterious Azure Palace camp alone and slaughtered most of its cultivators with help from Yiyi and Amber. The survivors fled through Heaven's Mystery Hall, and Situ Han arrived with the Three Saints Institute forces to find the battle already over.

• Lu Ye killed a concealed Ghost Cultivator, then charged through the Mysterious Azure Palace formation and shattered a Body Cultivator's shield with one saber strike.
• Lu Ye fought inside the enemy ranks while Amber's roars disrupted the cultivators and Yiyi captured groups with the Nine Realms Map before releasing them underground to die under the earth's pressure.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi killed more than fifty Mysterious Azure Palace cultivators, while the remaining survivors retreated through Heaven's Mystery Hall to the Nine Provinces.
• Situ Han led nearly half the Three Saints Institute's cultivators toward the Mysterious Azure Palace camp after learning Lu Ye had charged inside.
• Situ Han and his companions reached the camp and found its Protective Grand Array active, with corpses and blood covering the ground.

Lu Ye destroyed the Mysterious Azure Palace camp, then continued attacking Myriad Demon Ridge camps across the Core Region after reaching Heaven Nine. As even First Rank sects fell and Myriad Demon Ridge struggled to stop him, the battlefield entered a period of widespread retreat.

• Lu Ye told Situ Han that he had already defeated Mysterious Azure Palace and offered its camp’s spoils to Three Saints Institute as repayment for its earlier losses.
• Situ Han’s disciples looted the camp while Feng Yue treated Lu Ye’s injuries, and news of his victory spread across the Nine Provinces.
• Myriad Demon Ridge forces confirmed that Lu Ye had single-handedly destroyed Mysterious Azure Palace and began fearing his power.
• Lu Ye broke Crescent Moon Pavilion’s camp, forcing its surviving cultivators to retreat to the Nine Provinces despite its stronger forces and organized defense.
• Lu Ye broke a third nearby Myriad Demon Ridge camp the next day, and sects across the Core Region began abandoning their camps and withdrawing to their Main Sects.

Lu Ye met with the Violet Gold Sect’s True Lake Realm elder, who warned that destroying Myriad Demon Ridge camps could leave their cultivators free to attack Vast Sky Alliance forces. Lu Ye recognized the danger and listened as the elder began proposing a way forward.

• After breaching twenty-three Myriad Demon Ridge camps, Lu Ye arrived at the Violet Gold Sect and met its white-haired elder outside the Grand Array.
• The elder took Lu Ye to a nearby mountain peak and explained that the camps represented the Violet Gold Sect’s accumulated work and future.
• The elder warned that destroying every Myriad Demon Ridge camp would free its cultivators to unite and attack Vast Sky Alliance camps.
• Lu Ye realized the warning matched his own concerns and considered his responsibility to Vast Sky Alliance and Crimson Blood Sect.
• Reassured that Lu Ye was listening, the elder began explaining that Lu Ye’s victories had established his dominance in the Spirit Stream Battlefield.

Lu Ye negotiated with Myriad Demon Ridge to spare their camps in exchange for resources, setting prices by sect rank and giving them ten days to pay. He waited at Heavenly Sword Peak, where two cultivators fled after mistaking rumors about his preferences for a way to appease him.

• A Violet Gold Sect elder offered Lu Ye fifty thousand Merit from each Myriad Demon Ridge sect to prevent him from breaching their camps.
• Lu Ye raised the required payment to one hundred thousand Merit for Third Rank Sects, two hundred thousand for Second Rank Sects, and three hundred thousand for First Rank Sects.
• Lu Ye announced that Myriad Demon Ridge had ten days to deliver the resources at Heavenly Sword Peak or he would visit the holdouts’ camps himself.
• Myriad Demon Ridge sects learned of Lu Ye’s conditions and complained that the payments could total fifty or sixty million Merit worth of resources.
• Lu Ye arrived at Heavenly Sword Peak and told two startled women to scram after one suggested her junior sister seduce him.

Lu Ye fought the Overlord-level Female Demon who had found him while searching for the True Phoenix Fire. Their battle lasted a full day and night, leaving Myriad Demon Ridge to realize that Lu Ye had reached Overlord-level strength.

• Lu Ye waited at Heavenly Sword Peak while Ghost Cultivators watched him from hiding, and Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild reported that an unterritorial Female Demon was searching the Core Region for a place to settle.
• The Female Demon found Lu Ye and demanded that he take her to the True Phoenix Fire, which had already been consumed by his Talent Tree.
• When the Female Demon tried to seize Lu Ye, he drew his saber and threatened her, prompting the hidden Ghost Cultivators to reveal themselves and flee.
• Lu Ye attacked the Female Demon, and news of their battle spread across the Spirit Stream Battlefield and into the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye and the Female Demon fought from day into night and through the following day, leading Myriad Demon Ridge to recognize that Lu Ye possessed Overlord-level strength.

After recovering from his battle with the Female Demon, Lu Ye collected wealth from nearly every Myriad Demon Ridge sect, then confronted Mad Blade Sect because he claimed its payment was insufficient. He left the sect’s cultivators facing his demand for twenty portions of Blade Technique Cultivation Insights.

• Ghost Cultivators delivered Storage Bags from Myriad Demon Ridge forces, and Yiyi found that every sect except the twenty-three whose camps Lu Ye had breached had paid.
• Yiyi sorted the wealth and set Mad Blade Sect’s Storage Bag aside; Lu Ye decided its contents were not worth the required three hundred thousand Merits.
• Lu Ye traveled to Mad Blade Sect, entered its camp through the Protective Grand Array, and faced the gathered cultivators.
• The Mad Blade Sect leader protested Lu Ye’s valuation, and Lu Ye struck him down with one saber blow.
• Lu Ye demanded twenty portions of Blade Technique Cultivation Insights to settle the matter.

Lu Ye forced the Mad Blade Sect to hand over twenty sets of Blade Technique Cultivation Insights and reclaimed the valuables he had paid for peace. He then headed to the Myriad Poison Forest to rest with Hua Ci and Yiyi before returning to study the insights.

• Lu Ye demanded twenty sets of Blade Technique Cultivation Insights from the Mad Blade Sect and threatened to breach its camp if it refused.
• A Mad Blade Sect cultivator returned with the insights, and Lu Ye rejected any attempt to bargain down the number.
• Lu Ye reclaimed the valuables he had initially given the sect and left through a gap in its Grand Array.
• Lu Ye received Shui Yuan's message to return to the Main Sect before advancing to the Cloud River Realm, then traveled to the Myriad Poison Forest.
• Lu Ye slept at the cabin, woke to Hua Ci and Yiyi preparing food, and began studying the Mad Blade Sect's insights.

Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect camp after gathering wealth and supplies, then brought his spoils to the Main Sect and prepared to advance to the Cloud River Realm. Shui Yuan explained that his breakthrough might be extraordinary and briefed him on the more dangerous Cloud River Battlefield, where he might need to cooperate with Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.

• Lu Ye said goodbye to Hua Ci and flew back to the Crimson Blood Sect camp in less than three days.
• Lu Ye exchanged the enhancements taken from more than twenty Myriad Demon Ridge camps for tens of millions in sect Merit and raised his personal Merit to one hundred thousand.
• Lu Ye gave Shui Yuan the Storage Bags he had collected, and she gave him beauty-preserving pills made from the honey he had brought back.
• Lu Ye visited Madam Yun with the pills, received guidance on the Spirit Pattern Path, and borrowed more Scriptures.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that his upcoming advancement might be extraordinary and explained the Cloud River Battlefield, warning him that he might sometimes need to cooperate with Myriad Demon Ridge.

Lu Ye reassigned the Crimson Blood Sect camp’s leadership, released Little Grey from its long guard duty, and retraced the route that had made his name. After the Heavenly Mechanism’s cleansing confirmed he had reached his limits in the Spirit Stream Realm, he returned to Green Feather Mountain, where the cultivators recognized him as the Spirit Stream Ranking Leader.

• Lu Ye appointed Duan Yi as Garrison Envoy and Cheng Mu as Deputy Envoy, then told them to prepare future candidates and focus on cultivation.
• Lu Ye told Little Grey it was free to leave the Crimson Blood Sect camp, and Little Grey soon flew away.
• Lu Ye retraced his old route past Golden Light Peak and the valley where Lan Yudie and the Big Dipper Sect had fought to protect him.
• Lu Ye arrived at Green Feather Mountain, but the Heavenly Mechanism Reward cleansing transported him to Heaven's Mystery Pool, where he and his companions gained little benefit.
• Lu Ye reappeared outside Green Feather Mountain and introduced himself; its cultivators recognized him as Lu Yiye and hurried to report his arrival.

Lu Ye visited Green Feather Mountain and asked to enter Dragon Spring, offering compensation for the sect’s help. After Elder Ye Yang agreed, Lu Ye demanded that the Tai Luo Sect and Qin Clan elders meet him at Dragon Spring Peak, where he arrived to await them.

• Lu Ye asked Su Zining about Tang Wu and the companions who had fought beside him, learning that Tang Wu had advanced to the Cloud River Realm and that Song Xie and Tao Tiangang had died.
• Lu Ye asked Green Feather Mountain to help him enter Dragon Spring and gave Su Zining a Storage Bag containing compensation.
• Elder Ye Yang agreed that Green Feather Mountain would support Lu Ye’s request if the Tai Luo Sect and Qin Clan also agreed to open Dragon Spring.
• Lu Ye broke the Tai Luo Sect’s Protective Grand Array, identified himself as Lu Yiye, and told its elders to meet him at Dragon Spring Peak.
• Lu Ye broke the Qin Clan’s Protective Grand Array and left the same message before traveling to Dragon Spring Peak of Hundred Peaks Mountain.

Lu Ye persuaded the Tai Luo Sect and the Qin Clan to open Dragon Spring, then descended to meet the presence he believed was a suppressed True Dragon. He sought more Dragon Scales for body tempering and hoped to learn what the True Dragon wanted in return.

• Lu Ye asked Ye Yang about the hidden entrance, and Ye Yang explained that three Jade Token pieces had to be joined to open Dragon Spring.
• Zhao Xin and Qin Ming arrived, and Lu Ye pressured them into agreeing to open Dragon Spring.
• Ye Yang, Zhao Xin, and Qin Ming combined their Jade Tokens, opened the passage, and left Lu Ye to enter alone.
• Lu Ye descended to the Spring Eye with Yiyi and found that the pale-red mist offered little body-tempering benefit to someone at his cultivation level.
• Lu Ye recalled the Dragon Scale he had obtained before and concluded that a True Dragon was likely suppressed beneath Dragon Spring and had given him the scale for a reason.

Lu Ye confirmed that a True Dragon was suppressed beneath Dragon Spring and received five Dragon Scales after the dragon urged him to grow stronger and learn the truth of the world. When he returned to the Crimson Blood Sect camp, he found that nearly two thousand Core Region cultivators had gathered to watch his Cloud River advancement.

• Lu Ye constructed nearly all the Spiritual Patterns he knew, then sensed the Blood Qi dragon head watching him inside the secret chamber beneath Dragon Spring.
• The dragon head pressured Lu Ye, but Amber and the Fire Phoenix within his Talent Tree reacted, and Lu Ye's slash broke the crushing pressure.
• Lu Ye concluded that the dragon had chosen him because of his Spirit Pattern talent and demanded more Dragon Scales; the dragon gave him five and told him to return when he understood the truth of the world.
• Lu Ye left Dragon Spring, met Ye Yang in the main hall, and returned to the Crimson Blood Sect camp after nearly ten days of travel.
• Situ Han told Lu Ye that cultivators had come to observe his Cloud River advancement, and Lu Ye discovered that nearly two thousand people had gathered at the camp.

Lu Ye learned that his repeated victories over stronger opponents had made him a candidate for Heaven's Mystery Blessing, and he arranged to advance to the Cloud River Realm in three days. He commissioned an upgrade of the Crag Mountain Saber and then went to the Crimson Blood Sect treasury to look for replacements for his other Spiritual Artifacts.

• Shui Yuan explained Heaven's Mystery Blessing and why many cultivators had gathered to witness Lu Ye's advancement.
• Lu Ye agreed to advance to the Cloud River Realm three days later and discussed replacing his Spiritual Artifacts with Shui Yuan.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye he could commission an artifact upgrade through Heaven's Mystery Vault, and he submitted the Crag Mountain Saber for refinement.
• Lu Ye agreed to pay two thousand Merit points for an upgrade that would make the saber sturdier, three times heavier, and an eighteen-restriction Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact.
• After signing a Heaven's Mystery Contract requiring the saber's return within three days, Lu Ye collected the treasury key from Shui Yuan and began searching the Crimson Blood Sect's treasury for other artifacts.

Lu Ye advanced from Spirit Stream to Cloud River before a crowd of witnesses and received Heaven's Mystery Blessing, whose residual energy strengthened the cultivators gathered at the Crimson Blood Sect camp. After arriving at the Crimson Blood Sect Main Sect, he wondered whether the blessing had granted him more than he could detect, then received Heaven's Mystery's reminder that his agreed meeting with the Artifact Refiner Grandmaster was due.

• Lu Ye formed the Major Heavenly Circulation through all 360 apertures, advanced to Cloud River, and received a Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus Heaven's Mystery Blessing.
• The strange energy radiating from the blessing helped thousands of cultivators at the Crimson Blood Sect camp strengthen their physiques and minds before Lu Ye left the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators celebrated Lu Ye's departure from the Spirit Stream Battlefield, then became troubled when they learned he had received Heaven's Mystery Blessing.
• At the Crimson Blood Sect Main Sect, Lu Ye sensed his increased strength and the blessing's effects but wondered whether he had missed some greater benefit.
• Lu Ye received a Battlefield Mark reminder that the agreed time to meet the Artifact Refiner Grandmaster had arrived and entered Heaven's Mystery Vault.

After advancing to Cloud River, Lu Ye collected his upgraded Crag Mountain Saber and discovered that Heaven's Mystery Blessing let him see through disguises inside Heaven's Mystery Vault. He visited Madam Yun, who offered to inscribe a permanent Tattoo Pattern on him, and asked what type he wanted.

• Lu Ye received his Crag Mountain Saber, upgraded to a Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact with eighteen restrictions, from the disguised Artifact Refiner Grandmaster and paid two thousand Merit points.
• Lu Ye tested whether a Low-Grade Spiritual Artifact could be upgraded for one hundred Merit, but the old man refused and cursed him before leaving.
• Lu Ye confirmed that Heaven's Mystery Blessing let him see other people's appearances in Heaven's Mystery Vault, then tested his saber and nine Mid-Grade Controlled Artifacts.
• Shui Yuan identified the feather mark on the saber as Master Yu's signature and explained that he was a renowned, reclusive artifact refiner.
• Lu Ye practiced Airborne Flight on his way to Mingxin Peak, then met Madam Yun, who explained permanent Tattoo Patterns and offered to inscribe one on him.

Madam Yun inscribed a Void Tattooed Spirit Pattern on Lu Ye, giving him a large storage space on the back of his hand, while Hua Ci began killing Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators on the Spirit Stream Rankings. After practicing flight, Lu Ye decided to choose a Spirit Peak of his own and let Yiyi pick one.

• Lu Ye chose a Void Tattooed Spirit Pattern, and Madam Yun inscribed it on the back of his hand using beast blood.
• Hua Ci appeared on the Spirit Stream Rankings and climbed through the list by killing every Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator she challenged.
• Lu Ye tested the storage space in his new tattoo and found it could hold far more than a Storage Bag, including his Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye practiced Airborne Flight until he could fly steadily and perform agile movements.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye to choose a Spirit Peak of his own, and Lu Ye agreed.
• Lu Ye asked Yiyi which peak she liked, and he chose the one she pointed to.