Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye helped Yiyi choose Green Bamboo Peak, obtained new cultivation supplies from the Crimson Blood Sect vault, and entered the Mirage Realm to test his Cloud River Realm strength. He left after repeated battles, replenishing his Spiritual Power and studying saber techniques to continue improving.

• Lu Ye asked Shui Yuan to issue a mission for the camp disciples to rebuild Green Bamboo Peak, the Spirit Peak Yiyi had chosen.
• Shui Yuan gave Lu Ye the vault Jade Token and told him to take supplies suited to the Cloud River Realm; he collected Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and Origin Spirit Pills, giving one pill to Amber.
• Lu Ye entered the Mirage Realm with the Rest Fruit Core and discovered that entry now cost one hundred Merit and that he could see clearly through the mist within a hundred zhang.
• Lu Ye killed a Mantis Insect Race creature and continued fighting in the Mirage Realm, testing his new strength and upgraded Crag Mountain Saber.
• After exhausting his Spiritual Power, Lu Ye took an Origin Spirit Pill and studied Blade Technique Cultivation Insights, alternating replenishment, training, and study as his saber technique improved.

As Lu Ye prepared to enter the Cloud River Battlefield, Hua Ci rose to the top of the Spirit Stream Rankings by defeating opponents with poison. Lu Ye left Green Bamboo Peak’s reconstruction unfinished and set out with Amber and Yiyi for the Cloud River Battlefield.

• Hua Ci climbed the Spirit Stream Rankings, entered the Top Ten, and revealed herself as a Poison Doctor whose toxic mist defeated her opponent.
• Lan Ziyi advanced to Cloud River before she could face Hua Ci, and the other Top Ten cultivators forfeited rather than risk Hua Ci’s poison.
• Hua Ci became the Spirit Stream Ranking Leader, earning renown among cultivators while her whereabouts remained unknown.
• Lu Ye finished devouring his stored Core Fire and discovered that the Talent Tree had granted him four Spiritual Patterns and additional construction methods.
• Lu Ye surveyed the rebuilding of Green Bamboo Peak and told Shui Yuan he was entering the Cloud River Battlefield.
• Shui Yuan advised Lu Ye to buy battlefield intelligence and a map, prioritize survival, and contact his Fourth Senior Brother before Lu Ye departed with Amber and Yiyi.

Lu Ye entered the Cloud River Battlefield with Amber and learned how its spirit lands and spirit signs shaped cultivation and competition. He could not contact Li Baxian or Feng Yuechan, but he reached Jujia and began working out where to find him.

• Lu Ye chose a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild near the center of the Cloud River Battlefield and teleported there with Amber.
• Lu Ye learned that leaving the battlefield within a month required paying Merit, then discovered that he could not contact Li Baxian or Feng Yuechan.
• Lu Ye contacted Jujia, who could not identify Lu Ye's location, so Lu Ye told him to find a merchant guild and buy a Ten-Part Map.
• Lu Ye bought a map and battlefield information from a Spirit Stream Realm steward, then studied them for an hour.
• Lu Ye learned that cultivators competed for spirit lands and descending spirit signs to gain the dense spiritual energy needed to cultivate.

Lu Ye learned how Spirit Sign Auctions worked and set out to inspect a Grade C Spiritual Land, but a Four-Colored Cloud appeared overhead and drew a crowd of cultivators hoping to seize its Spirit Signs. The cloud stopped above Lu Ye, leaving him among hundreds of potential competitors as the Spirit Signs’ descent approached.

• Lu Ye learned that Spirit Sign Auctions traded Spirit Signs for Merit, but the next auction was nearly a month away.
• Lu Ye contacted Jujia, then flew toward a Grade C Spiritual Land to inspect its spiritual energy.
• Yiyi spotted a Four-Colored Cloud drifting toward Lu Ye, and he realized it could release purple Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye saw cultivators converging on the cloud and chose to keep a low profile, landing on a small hill below it.
• The Four-Colored Cloud stopped above Lu Ye as the gathered cultivators spread out and waited for Spirit Signs to fall.

Lu Ye struggled to obtain a Spirit Sign as cultivators fought over the signs falling from the Four-Colored Cloud. He finally secured a Green Spirit Sign and joined forces with an unknown woman as other cultivators approached.

• Cultivators battled over Spirit Signs falling from the Four-Colored Cloud while Lu Ye waited for an opportunity.
• Lu Ye seized a Blue Spirit Sign but threw it to a spear-wielding cultivator to divert the attackers pursuing him.
• As the cloud scattered its final batch, Lu Ye struck a colored ribbon and grabbed a Green Spirit Sign while an unknown woman took a White one.
• The woman asked Lu Ye to trade, then proposed they cooperate when several cultivators charged toward them.
• Lu Ye stood beside the woman with his saber ready, and the approaching cultivators hesitated over their Green and White Spirit Signs.

Lu Ye escaped a group of Cloud River cultivators after the spear-wielding cultivator threw him a Purple Spirit Sign, then hid and recovered in a cave. As he considered how the Cloud River Battlefield’s Spirit Signs and hidden realms helped cultivators grow stronger, he again wondered whether the battlefield’s opportunities had been deliberately arranged.

• Lu Ye ignored the bewitching woman and left after the spirit-sign struggle ended.
• The wounded spear-wielding cultivator threw Lu Ye a Purple Spirit Sign while fleeing pursuers, and Lu Ye seized it.
• Lu Ye used the Flying Wing and Windwalk Spirit Patterns to outrun the pursuers, then vanished into a forest and concealed himself.
• After the pursuers searched and left, Lu Ye found a cave, set arrays at its entrance, and recovered his Spiritual Power with Spirit Pills.
• Lu Ye examined his green and purple Spirit Signs and reflected on the Spirit Lands, hidden realms, and cultivation opportunities of the Cloud River Battlefield.

Lu Ye and his companions killed a Black Bear Demonic General after trapping it in the Nine Realms Map, then tested a Green Spirit Sign on a mountain peak. The sign produced a dense cloud of spirit mist that Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber absorbed, though Lu Ye noticed little change in his Spiritual Power.

• A wounded Black Bear Demonic General burst into Lu Ye’s cave, so Yiyi trapped it in the Nine Realms Map and Lu Ye and Amber attacked it there.
• Lu Ye, Amber, and Yiyi defeated the Black Bear, and Lu Ye retrieved its Demonic Core and gave it to Amber to swallow.
• Lu Ye stored the bear’s corpse, recovered the Formation Flags, and left the cave with Amber and Yiyi to find a place to test his Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye crushed the Green Spirit Sign, which formed a circle that released pure spirit mist around him.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber cultivated by absorbing the mist, but Lu Ye found that his Spiritual Power had changed little after half an hour.

Lu Ye used a Purple Spirit Sign to cultivate, then discovered that a dried-up Spirit Spring near his shelter had revived and brought an abandoned Spiritual Land back to life. He called for Jujia to help defend it and began preparing formations, though the land’s grade and whether he could hold it remained uncertain.

• Lu Ye crushed a Purple Spirit Sign and cultivated with Yiyi and Amber, finding that it produced spirit mist for four or five hours and greatly strengthened his Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye traveled toward a Grade C Spiritual Land but stopped for the night at an abandoned settlement with a dried-up Spirit Spring.
• Lu Ye heard running water and discovered that the Spirit Spring had revived, restoring the abandoned Spiritual Land.
• Yiyi searched beneath the Spirit Spring for a treasure but found nothing, while Lu Ye realized others might try to seize the land.
• Lu Ye contacted Jujia and asked him to meet up, then had Yiyi watch the spring while he brought out sixteen Formation Bases.

Lu Ye fortified a revived spirit land and recruited Shen Xiaomao, a Cloud River Tier Five cultivator, to help defend it. They formed an alliance under a Heaven's Mystery Contract, while the spirit land’s Spiritual Energy continued to accumulate.

• Lu Ye enclosed the spirit land with a Protective Grand Array and began setting up additional Formations to prepare for intruders.
• Shen Xiaomao discovered the spirit land and asked Lu Ye to take her in, believing at first that it was newly born.
• Lu Ye gave Shen Xiaomao the assumed name Ye Liu, and she introduced herself as Shen Xiaomao.
• Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao signed a Heaven's Mystery Contract to share and protect the spirit land, with Lu Ye disclosing that one sectmate might later arrive.
• Shen Xiaomao settled into a ruined room while Lu Ye continued building Formations, and the spirit land’s Spiritual Energy grew denser overnight.

Lu Ye cultivated in his Spiritual Land while he and Shen Xiaomao sought more people to defend it, and they welcomed Ruan Qingzhu as their third member. After running low on Origin Spirit Pills, Lu Ye traveled to a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild branch to restock and learned of an auction featuring a purple Spirit Sign.

• Lu Ye waited for suitable cultivators to join the Spiritual Land, while Shen Xiaomao later recruited Ruan Qingzhu, a Cloud River Tier Four cultivator, who signed their Heaven's Mystery Contract.
• Shen Xiaomao said Jujia was still expected to arrive, leaving room for one more person, and she helped Ruan Qingzhu choose a room beside hers.
• Lu Ye used up his Origin Spirit Pills during cultivation and decided to travel to a Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild branch to buy more.
• Lu Ye purchased Origin Spirit Pills with most of his remaining Spirit Stones, then learned that the merchant guild would auction a purple Spirit Sign that evening.
• Lu Ye decided to stay for the auction and messaged Shen Xiaomao that he would return later; she replied with a warning to be careful.

Lu Ye won a collection of Spirit Signs at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild auction, spending about sixteen thousand eight hundred Merit. While traveling back overnight, he met a mortally wounded cultivator who asked him to deliver a sword to the Divine Movement Sect in exchange for his wealth.

• Lu Ye asked Shen Xiaomao about Spirit Sign prices and bid on White, green, blue, and Purple Spirit Signs at the auction.
• Lu Ye won fifteen White Spirit Signs, six green ones, two blue ones, and one Purple Spirit Sign, spending about sixteen thousand eight hundred Merit.
• Lu Ye left the merchant guild overnight with Amber and fled when a high-tier Cloud River Realm cultivator pursued him.
• Yiyi noticed the pursuer was falling, and Lu Ye found him gravely wounded beneath a tree.
• The dying cultivator asked Lu Ye to deliver his sword to the Divine Movement Sect and offered him all his wealth; Lu Ye agreed.

Lu Ye killed a dying Cloud River cultivator at the man’s request, buried him with Yiyi, and discovered a fortune of supplies and a mysterious copper piece in his Storage Bag. He left the sword with the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild to be returned to the Divine Movement Sect, asking that his identity remain secret.

• The wounded Cloud River Stage, Seventh Layer cultivator asked Lu Ye to kill him and send his sword to the Divine Movement Sect, and Lu Ye reluctantly granted his request.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi carried the man away, buried him, and Yiyi bowed at his grave.
• Lu Ye examined the sword named Qingyun and opened the man’s Storage Bag, finding abundant pills, spirit stones, artifacts, and a copper piece that pointed in a direction when infused with Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye decided to prioritize improving his cultivation rather than follow the copper piece’s direction.
• Lu Ye asked the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild to hold the sword and notify the Divine Movement Sect, requesting that they keep his information confidential.

Lu Ye rescued the gravely wounded Shen Xiaomao after Ruan Qingzhu helped three strangers seize the Spirit Land, then deduced how Ruan had evaded the Heaven's Mystery Contract. While Shen Xiaomao recovered, Lu Ye advanced to Cloud River Tier Two, and the chapter ended with them piecing together Ruan's advance warning and carefully timed betrayal.

• Lu Ye followed Amber to a cave and found Shen Xiaomao unconscious and seriously wounded, then had Yiyi treat her and set up protective Formations.
• Lu Ye consumed Spirit Signs and broke through to Cloud River Tier Two, continuing to cultivate while Shen Xiaomao recovered.
• After three days, Shen Xiaomao woke enough to explain that Ruan Qingzhu had watched as three strangers attacked her and helped them enter the Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye reasoned that Ruan Qingzhu had sent word before signing the Heaven's Mystery Contract and waited until Lu Ye left the Spirit Land to act.

Lu Ye infiltrated the Spirit Land that Ruan Qingzhu and her companions had seized, intending to reclaim it and recover control of its Grand Array. He trapped the watchman inside the Nine Realms Map and began fighting him, leaving the other three occupants unaware of the battle.

• Lu Ye left Shen Xiaomao to recover and flew back to the Spirit Land, determined to retake it after its occupants had seized it while he was away.
• Lu Ye concealed himself, used his knowledge of the Grand Array to slip inside, and avoided detection when the watchman investigated a brief fluctuation.
• Lu Ye entered the watchman's room and used the Nine Realms Map to pull him into its Chaotic Stone Forest space, while Yiyi maintained the treasure's operation from the room.
• The watchman recognized Lu Ye's Cloud River Tier Two cultivation and attacked with Controlled Artifacts, but Lu Ye's nine Spiritual Artifacts overwhelmed them and pressed toward him.

Lu Ye killed the cultivator surnamed Sun and planned to eliminate the three remaining enemies in the Spirit Land. Shen Xiaomao’s arrival disrupted his ambush, and the chapter ended with Lu Ye pressing the wounded burly man while Yiyi and Amber kept Ruan Qingzhu occupied.

• Lu Ye overpowered the cultivator surnamed Sun, discovered he belonged to the Myriad Demon Ridge, and killed him.
• Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Land and planned to ambush the burly man before dealing with Junior Brother Cheng and Ruan Qingzhu.
• Shen Xiaomao arrived and struck the Protective Grand Array, prompting Lu Ye to deactivate it.
• The burly man and the others rushed outside, where Lu Ye ambushed the burly man and severed one of his arms.
• Shen Xiaomao intercepted Junior Brother Cheng while Amber and Yiyi engaged Ruan Qingzhu, and Lu Ye battered the wounded burly man with repeated saber strikes.

Lu Ye defeated Ruan Qingshu’s accomplices and killed her despite the Heaven’s Mystery Contract, discovering that his Heaven’s Mystery Blessing let him avoid its backlash. He rested after the battle, his right arm badly injured from using Consecutive Slash.

• Lu Ye killed the brawny man with five consecutive saber strikes that shattered his shield and cleaved through him.
• Lu Ye saw Amber facing Ruan Qingshu, who had been crippled by backlash after attacking Lu Ye’s spirit beast.
• Lu Ye used his Weapon Casket and saber to kill Junior Brother Cheng after the man tried to flee from Shen Xiaomao.
• Yiyi explained that Ruan Qingshu alone suffered backlash from the contract, and Lu Ye killed her without being harmed.
• Lu Ye sat down to recover from the strain on his right arm while Shen Xiaomao checked on him.

Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao recovered after reclaiming their Spirit Land, while Shen Xiaomao tested Lu Ye’s reliability and met his jealous “younger sister,” Ye Yiyi. The Spirit Land began to tremble, and Shen Xiaomao sensed that an opportunity had arrived.

• Lu Ye restored the Spirit Land’s formations while Shen Xiaomao recuperated from her injuries.
• Shen Xiaomao got herself drunk to test Lu Ye, and he carried her to bed without taking advantage of her.
• Yiyi accused Shen Xiaomao of seducing Lu Ye and warned him to be wary of women.
• Yiyi confronted Shen Xiaomao, and Lu Ye introduced her as his younger sister, Ye Yiyi.
• The ground shook beneath the Spirit Land, and Shen Xiaomao flew into the air and announced that an opportunity had arrived.

Lu Ye and Shen Xiaomao entered a large-scale Secret Realm after a pillar of light appeared in the Cloud River Battlefield. Inside, Lu Ye learned that the Myriad Beast Domain was threatened by maddened Monster Beasts and discovered that Heavenly Mechanism had made him the young master of the Myriad Beast Sect.

• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Shen Xiaomao left their Spirit Land to investigate the pillar of light and found a gathering of cultivators outside a Secret Realm.
• Shen Xiaomao explained that the Secret Realm would assign entrants new identities and could reward them with cultivation resources and Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye and his companions entered the Secret Realm as the light screen became a doorway.
• Lu Ye received memories describing how madness had driven Monster Beasts to attack their masters and brought the Myriad Beast Domain’s Human Race to the brink of destruction.
• Lu Ye awoke aboard a flying artifact with Shen Xiaomao, Lan Ziyi, and an unknown woman, and learned that he was the young master of the Myriad Beast Sect while the three women were his maidservants.

Lu Ye and his companions traveled toward Two Realms City after the Myriad Beast Sect fell, fighting infected Monster Beasts along the way. They learned their assigned missions and Xia Qianqian warned that death in the Secret Realm was real, leaving Lu Ye pondering the truth of the world.

• Lu Ye contacted Yiyi and learned that she and Amber were being held captive in a city, so he told them to wait for him.
• More than a dozen infected Monster Beasts attacked the group’s Spirit Boat, but Lu Ye, Shen Xiaomao, Lan Ziyi, and Xia Qianqian killed them and continued toward Two Realms City.
• The four introduced themselves, and Lu Ye explained that his mission was to deliver the Myriad Beast Sect’s assets to the Two Realms City Lord and secure refuge for the survivors.
• Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi said their missions were to protect Lu Ye, while Xia Qianqian implied she had the same task; Lu Ye could not open the Jade Thumb Ring he carried.
• Xia Qianqian explained that Secret Realms reflected events that had truly happened and warned that anyone who died there was truly dead, prompting Lu Ye to recall the True Dragon’s words about the truth of the world.

Lu Ye and his companions reached Two Realms City, the last stronghold of humanity in the Myriad Beast Domain, and Lu Ye posed as the Myriad Beast Sect’s Young Sect Master to gain entry. After meeting the City Lord with Xia Qianqian’s help, Lu Ye received a courtyard on the city’s outskirts.

• Lu Ye and the others entered Two Realms City after he claimed to be Ye Wushuang’s son and the Myriad Beast Sect’s Young Sect Master.
• Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian exchanged Battlefield Imprints with Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi, then split up to gather information and meet the City Lord.
• A gate attendant initially dismissed Lu Ye, but Xia Qianqian revealed her Cloud River Tier Nine cultivation and secured them an audience.
• The City Lord recognized Lu Ye, accepted the Jade Thumb Ring he presented, and ordered Ah Si to find them lodging.
• Ah Si led Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian to a courtyard on the outskirts of Two Realms City.