Chapter Summaries

After recovering, Lu Ye rebuilt his Teleportation Array network and resumed hunting with Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, though his ranking continued to lag behind Tan Sheng’s. While dividing their spoils, Lu Ye found a token that Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan identified as a Golden Body Token, a powerful Heavenly Mechanism protection item.

• Lu Ye set up two Teleportation Arrays with multiple escape routes, then reunited with Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan to resume hunting.
• The trio ambushed a group of cultivators, divided their spoils, and continued moving between Teleportation Arrays to hunt safely.
• By the thirteenth day, Lu Ye had accumulated 5,440 Hunting Points and risen to sixth place, still far behind Tan Sheng in first.
• While sorting the latest spoils, Lu Ye found a bell-engraved token and showed it to Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan.
• Li Baxian identified the token as a Golden Body Token that granted several hours of exceptionally strong protection from the Heavenly Mechanism.

Lu Ye’s group found a Golden Body Token, then ambushed a fleeing cultivator carrying a special Golden Spirit Sign. They escaped the ensuing commotion and hid in their cave to inspect the sign, which Lu Ye expected to keep.

• Lu Ye learned that the Golden Body Token could protect its bearer for several hours and put it away for emergencies.
• Two days later, Lu Ye’s group saw a Golden Spirit Sign erupt nearby, but stayed concealed as cultivators gathered around it.
• A fleeing Tier Six cultivator entered their ambush, and Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan engaged him before Lu Ye struck from behind and killed him.
• Lu Ye took a pale-green Golden Spirit Sign from the dead cultivator, and the group fled when another Vast Sky Alliance cultivator arrived.
• Lu Ye’s group returned to their cave, concealed their auras, and waited until the commotion outside subsided.
• The group inspected their spoils, and Lu Ye confirmed that the Golden Spirit Sign could not be stored or discarded before its time limit expired.

Lu Ye kept the Golden Spirit Sign safe by using Teleportation Arrays until its final eruption ended, earning enough Hunting Points to return to first place. Tan Sheng then agreed to meet the Jiang Liuzi brothers, who had obtained an item that could locate Lu Ye and wanted his help.

• Lu Ye and his companions repeatedly teleported away whenever the Golden Spirit Sign erupted, while Lu Ye set up another Teleportation Array to ensure they had a safe escape route.
• After the Sign's final eruption, Lu Ye stored it away and gained 750 Hunting Points, retaking first place on the Hunting Rankings ahead of Tan Sheng.
• Tan Sheng learned that someone had a valuable item and agreed to travel to a meeting after hearing what it could do.
• Jiang Liuzi and Jiang Chengzi hid from a Tier Nine Vast Sky Alliance cultivator after Lu Shu died protecting them.
• The Jiang brothers arranged to meet Tan Sheng, offering the item they had obtained from a Heavenly Mechanism opportunity, which could reveal Lu Ye's location.

Tan Sheng joined forces with the Jiang Liuzi brothers, who used an ancient Compass to track Lu Ye in exchange for a share of the bounty. Lu Ye sensed danger and tried to leave, but the three found him, leaving him facing an approaching Tier Nine cultivator and the two brothers.

• Tan Sheng met Jiang Liuzi and Jiang Chengzi, agreed to take them along, and promised them twenty percent of the bounty if they used the Compass to find Lu Ye.
• Jiang Liuzi activated the Compass with his blood, and Tan Sheng led the brothers toward the trail it revealed while a Vast Sky Alliance expert watched them depart.
• Lu Ye twice sensed someone watching him, searched the area with Yiyi, and eventually messaged Li Baxian to prepare to withdraw.
• Tan Sheng and the brothers followed the Compass to Lu Ye's hiding place, and Jiang Liuzi identified him below them.
• Tan Sheng landed near Lu Ye, Jiang Chengzi vanished using his Ghost Cultivator concealment, and Lu Ye recognized the Compass as connected to him.

Lu Ye escaped Tan Sheng and the Jiang Liuzi brothers with a Confinement Array, then learned their Tracking Compass could keep locating him. To protect Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, he teleported away alone and left them to consider his plan for surviving the pursuit.

• Jiang Liuzi’s Tracking Compass exposed Lu Ye, who attacked him before Tan Sheng struck Lu Ye with a spell.
• Lu Ye activated a Confinement Array, trapping Tan Sheng long enough for Lu Ye, Li Baxian, and Feng Yuechan to flee.
• Tan Sheng and the Jiang brothers escaped the array and followed false signs to a wrecked mountain cave while Lu Ye’s group teleported two hundred miles away.
• Li Baxian explained that Jiang Liuzi’s rare Tracking Compass could continually locate Lu Ye, and identified Tan Sheng as a powerful New Moon Sect cultivator.
• Lu Ye forced Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan off the Teleportation Array, then teleported away alone so they would not be caught up in his pursuit.
• Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan read Lu Ye’s message and discussed his plan to escape until the Hunting Ground closed.

Lu Ye used Teleportation Arrays to keep Tan Sheng and the Jiang Liuzi brothers from catching him, while Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan hid and waited for the Hunting Ground to close. After a day of fruitless pursuit, Tan Sheng recruited other experts to hunt Lu Ye and reduced the brothers’ share of the bounty.

• Lu Ye teleported repeatedly, then set up another Teleportation Array while Tan Sheng and the Jiang Liuzi brothers followed the Tracking Compass toward him.
• When the compass brought Tan Sheng’s group within ten li, Lu Ye teleported away and returned to an earlier location; Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan had already left to hide.
• The Tracking Compass repeatedly reversed direction, and Tan Sheng’s group chased Lu Ye back and forth without finding him.
• After a day and night of pursuit, Tan Sheng and the Jiang Liuzi brothers stopped to recover as their Spiritual Power ran low and their Hunting Rankings fell.
• Tan Sheng contacted other experts in the Hunting Ground and agreed to give them the lead in hunting Lu Ye for a share of the bounty, reducing the brothers’ portion to a share of his own cut.

Tan Sheng used the Tracking Compass's secret technique to expose Lu Ye's location every hour, drawing Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators into the area and forcing Lu Ye to flee between his dwindling Teleportation Arrays. With only two arrays left, Lu Ye decided he had to leave the crowded region and teleported away after another blood-red pillar appeared.

• Tan Sheng wrote Lu Yiye's name three times on the Tracking Compass, shattering it and activating a secret technique that revealed Lu Ye's position in a blood-red pillar every hour.
• Lu Ye escaped the first eruption by teleporting away, and an Explosion Spirit Array he had left behind injured cultivators who searched his abandoned cave.
• Li Baxian explained the Tracking Compass's secret technique to Lu Ye and said he had asked others for help, while urging Lu Ye to endure until the Hunting Ground closed.
• News of Lu Ye's exposed location spread through the Myriad Demon Ridge camp, drawing large numbers of cultivators toward the area and driving nearby Vast Sky Alliance cultivators away.
• As his Teleportation Arrays dwindled to two and enemies gathered around him, Lu Ye decided to leave the region and teleported nearly two hundred li after another eruption.

Lu Ye fled across the Hunting Ground while Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators pursued him, relying on his speed and help from Vast Sky Alliance experts. After more than a day of escape, he was nearly out of Spiritual Power with two pursuers closing in, but he had prepared a Teleportation Array that could let him get away if he could buy enough time.

• Lu Ye used the Flying Wing Spiritual Pattern to flee after the bloody pillar exposed his location, and he quickly outran the first group of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.
• A Tier Nine pursuer identified as Wei Que chased Lu Ye, but a Vast Sky Alliance cultivator intercepted him and gave Lu Ye a chance to escape.
• Lu Ye repeatedly rested and fled as the Tracking Compass exposed his location each hour, while Vast Sky Alliance experts intervened against his pursuers.
• After more than a day, a Tier Eight and a Tier Nine cultivator closed in on Lu Ye as his Spiritual Power and strength neared exhaustion.
• Lu Ye relied on a Teleportation Array he had prepared, hoping to buy enough time to teleport two hundred miles away.

Lu Ye was ambushed and relentlessly attacked by three Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, but a Golden Body Token shielded him from harm. Unable to escape, he tried to persuade them to let him set up an array, only to learn that Brother Liu could make one himself.

• Lu Ye failed to form a Void Spirit Pattern while fleeing, then a Tier Nine Spell Cultivator ambushed him with a barrage of spells.
• Lu Ye survived the barrage because his Golden Body Token's golden light protected him, and the Spell Cultivator joined the two pursuers in attacking him.
• The three Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators knocked Lu Ye to the ground and surrounded him, recognizing that the Golden Body Token prevented them from injuring him until its protection expired.
• Lu Ye sat down to recover his Spiritual Power and warned the three that the reward would draw many others to his location once blood light revealed it.
• Lu Ye offered to set up a Concealment Array to hide his location, but the saber-wielding Weapon Cultivator learned that Brother Liu could already set one up, thwarting Lu Ye's escape plan.

Lu Ye secretly tried to complete a Void Spirit Pattern and escape while Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators held him, but Xia Liang destroyed it just before it was finished. Lu Ye’s Golden Body Token then exposed his location, drawing a crowd that began waiting for its protection to expire so they could kill him.

• The Liu-surnamed Spell Cultivator struggled to make a Concealment Array, so Lu Ye completed it and began constructing a second formation while the others watched.
• Lu Ye formed a Void Spirit Pattern to activate a Teleportation Array, but Xia Liang struck it apart when it was nearly complete.
• The Liu-surnamed Spell Cultivator admitted Lu Ye had not been setting up a Conceal Breath Formation, and Xia Liang accused him of trying to escape.
• Lu Ye’s Golden Body Token released a pillar of Blood Light that revealed his location despite the Concealment Array.
• Nearby Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators gathered and discovered that Lu Ye’s Golden Body made him immune to attacks until its protection ended.
• The gathered cultivators realized they could try to kill Lu Ye the moment the Golden Body vanished.

Lu Ye remained trapped among Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators while the Golden Body Token protected him, and he began preparing a dangerous counterattack as its duration dwindled. He left the surrounding powerhouses alarmed and helpless as his aura continued to rise.

• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators gathered around Lu Ye and agreed to divide the reward for killing him among Tan Sheng, Xia Liang's trio, the Tier Nine cultivators, and the rest.
• Lu Ye restored his Spiritual Power and noticed Tan Sheng, Wei Que, and the Jiang Liuzi brothers among the crowd; Li Baxian messaged that he was trying to gather help.
• Lu Ye replied to Li Baxian, then began channeling Spiritual Power into a Spiritual Pattern across his chest while planning to take enemies down with him if he could not escape.
• Lu Ye swallowed handfuls of Spiritual Pills as his aura rose beyond Tier Three, prompting Wei Que and other cultivators to question and threaten him.
• Lu Ye formed a second Spiritual Pattern across his back and filled it with Spiritual Power, while Xia Liang and the surrounding cultivators realized something was wrong and could only wait for the Golden Body Token to expire.

Lu Ye endured Myriad Demon Ridge’s attacks while secretly preparing his strongest technique, convincing his enemies that he planned to self-destruct. As his power gathered high above them, he began unleashing the trump card he had once used in the Spirit Stream Battlefield, though its Spiritual Power cost proved far greater than he had expected.

• Lu Ye swallowed Spiritual Pills and gathered Spiritual Power as the surrounding Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators feared he would self-destruct.
• Wei Que kicked Lu Ye into the air, and the cultivators repeatedly struck him with Controlled Artifacts to keep him aloft and away from them.
• Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan watched from concealment, unable to intervene before they gathered enough support.
• Ghost Shadow recognized Lu Ye, sensed a deadly danger ahead, and fled in panic.
• Lu Ye’s body erupted in crimson fire as intricate patterns spread around him, and the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators attacked harder, knocking him nearly two hundred zhang into the sky.
• Lu Ye began unleashing his strongest trump card, draining the Spiritual Power stored in two Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns and realizing its cost increased with his cultivation.

Lu Ye used the Fire Phoenix spirit pattern to devastate the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators surrounding him, though its backlash left him too weak to move. The Hunting Ground closed with Lu Ye at the top of the rankings, and as the other cultivators waited for his Golden Body Token to disappear, he remained trapped among them.

• Lu Ye exhausted his spiritual power to form a Spiritual Power Egg, alarming the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators until they fled.
• The egg shattered and released a massive Fire Phoenix that swept through the battlefield, killing dozens of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators before crashing into a small mountain.
• Ghost Shadow recognized the Fire Phoenix from an earlier encounter and realized that fleeing early had saved him.
• Lu Ye lay severely weakened as the Merits from the dead raised his Hunting Points to first place on the Hunting Rankings.
• The Hunting Ground closed, and Heaven's Mystery distributed golden reward marks to the cultivators, including Lu Ye.
• The surviving Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators surrounded Lu Ye and waited for his Golden Body Token to disappear so they could kill him.

Surrounded and badly wounded after the Hunting Ground closed, Lu Ye used his vast Merit to petition Heavenly Mechanism for a Heaven's Mystery Pillar and escape the Cloud River Battlefield. As the pillar descended and blocked the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators’ attacks, he vowed to remember them and repay them someday.

• Lu Ye told Li Baxian not to rescue him because he planned to leave the Cloud River Battlefield, and Li Baxian withdrew with Feng Yuechan.
• Lu Ye asked Xia Qianqian to identify Wei Que and learned he was from Cloud Yang Sect.
• Lu Ye challenged the surrounding cultivators and declared he would remember their actions and repay them.
• Lu Ye petitioned Heavenly Mechanism for a Heaven's Mystery Pillar, spending one hundred thousand Merit to escape the battlefield.
• Xia Liang ordered the cultivators to stop Lu Ye and attacked, but the descending pillar of light blocked the incoming strikes.

Lu Ye escaped the Myriad Demon Ridge siege by summoning a Heaven's Mystery Pillar, then recovered at the Crimson Blood Sect. Once he regained his strength, he decided to enter the Spirit Stream Battlefield for revenge and asked Shui Yuan how she had resisted the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder.

• Lu Ye escaped the siege as the Hunting Ground closed, leaving the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators behind.
• Lu Ye returned to Ao Mountain, where Shui Yuan caught him as he collapsed and treated his injuries.
• After waking two days later, Lu Ye recovered at Green Bamboo Peak and checked his Battlefield Mark, finding that summoning the Heaven's Mystery Pillar had cost him most of his Merit.
• Lu Ye visited Shui Yuan and announced that he wanted to enter the Spirit Stream Battlefield to get revenge on the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators.
• Lu Ye asked Shui Yuan how she had resisted the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder when she entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield.

Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Stream Battlefield despite the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder and traveled to the Core Region to raid New Moon Sect. The chapter ended as he charged toward its camp, ready to attack.

• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that Wei Yang could endure the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder only up to a limit, and warned him not to kill too many people.
• Lu Ye entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield, recovered his cultivation to Heaven Nine, and learned that Little Grey was absent from the camp.
• Lu Ye brought Garrison Envoy Tao Zhengyu with him and traveled four days to the Core Region.
• Lu Ye chose New Moon Sect as his target because Tan Sheng's Tracking Compass had forced him to spend a hundred thousand Merit and use his Golden Body Token.
• Lu Ye left Tao Zhengyu and Amber outside New Moon Sect's camp and charged toward its Protective Grand Array.

Lu Ye attacked the New Moon Sect camp to repay Tan Sheng for his treatment in the Cloud River Battlefield. After he killed a cultivator, the Heavenly Mechanism’s Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder struck him, leaving him in excruciating pain.

• Lu Ye found a node in the New Moon Sect’s Grand Array and began placing Formation Flags to slip inside.
• The guards recognized Lu Ye as the Gate-Destroying Leaf, and Tan Li confronted him as the camp’s Garrison Envoy.
• Lu Ye learned Tan Li was Tan Sheng’s blood brother and attacked him, shattering his shield and slashing him across the abdomen.
• New Moon Sect cultivators swarmed Lu Ye with spells and Controlled Artifacts, while Tan Li accused him of coming to take revenge on Tan Sheng.
• Lu Ye killed a New Moon Sect cultivator with a Controlled Artifact, and violet Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder enveloped him.

Lu Ye attacked New Moon Sect's camp to avenge his losses from the Hunting Ground, and discovered that his Talent Tree could burn away the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder. After he killed Tan Li and many of the camp's cultivators, he shut down the Protective Grand Array and summoned Yiyi and Tao Zhengyu.

• Lu Ye began killing New Moon Sect cultivators, but the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder's punishment quickly overwhelmed him.
• The Talent Tree burned away the divine thunder, allowing Lu Ye to fight without restraint and kill nearly thirty cultivators.
• Tan Li urged his disciples to keep Lu Ye occupied until a Medical Cultivator warned him that Lu Ye might be unaffected by the punishment.
• Tan Li ordered the remaining New Moon Sect cultivators to retreat to Nine Provinces, then charged Lu Ye to cover their escape.
• Lu Ye killed Tan Li and pursued the fleeing cultivators before returning to Heaven's Mystery Hall.
• Lu Ye took the Grand Array Jade Token from Tan Li's corpse, disabled the Protective Grand Array, and messaged Yiyi to bring Tao Zhengyu.

Lu Ye slaughtered New Moon Sect’s camp in revenge for Tan Sheng’s ambush, then spent his Merit and spoils on Core Fire to burn away the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder. News of the attack spread through Myriad Demon Ridge, where the sects learned that Tan Sheng’s failed attempt to kill Lu Ye had provoked the retaliation.

• Lu Ye told Tao Zhengyu to plunder New Moon Sect’s camp augmentations while Yiyi checked on him and he recovered among the corpses.
• Lu Ye sold the spoils and spent his Merit on Core Fire, but the Talent Tree’s fuel ran out while the purple Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder still covered him.
• Lu Ye sold more unused spoils from his Storage Space and bought additional Core Fire to replenish the Talent Tree.
• News spread that Lu Ye had destroyed New Moon Sect’s camp, killed or wounded more than fifty disciples, and slain Garrison Envoy Tan Li.
• New Moon Sect investigated Lu Ye’s motive and learned that Tan Sheng had ambushed him in a Cloud River Battlefield Hunting Ground, forcing him to use a Golden Body Token to survive.
• Myriad Demon Ridge sects learned about Tan Sheng’s ambush and understood that Lu Ye had retaliated against New Moon Sect for it.

Lu Ye recovered from Heaven’s Mystery’s punishment after destroying New Moon Sect’s camp and set out to target Cloud Yang Sect and other Myriad Demon Ridge sects. As he flew toward Cloud Yang Sect, he encountered a group sent to investigate whether he had survived, and Senior Brother Miao recognized him.

• Myriad Demon Ridge sects pressed New Moon Sect to confirm whether Lu Ye had survived the Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder, while Tan Sheng swore to avenge his slain relatives and fellow disciples.
• Lu Ye finished replying to friends’ messages at New Moon Sect’s camp, then told Tao Zhengyu they would go to the next sect.
• Lu Ye chose Cloud Yang Sect as his next target, reasoning that he could demand compensation from other sects without destroying their camps and destabilizing the battlefield.
• A group led by Senior Brother Miao flew toward New Moon Sect to investigate Lu Ye’s condition, believing he would still be wrapped in Purple Thunder if alive.
• When the group drew near, Senior Brother Miao recognized Lu Ye by his appearance and Snow-White Beast, despite the absence of Purple Thunder.