Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye spared Senior Brother Miao’s group and ordered the Myriad Demon Ridge sects to deliver resources to Heavenly Sword Peak within ten days. The sect leaders debated whether to comply and speculated that Lu Ye’s ability to suppress the Heavenly Mechanism’s punishment might prevent him from killing again.

• Senior Brother Miao warned his group to flee when he recognized Lu Ye, but Lu Ye flew past without attacking them.
• Lu Ye returned to ask whether they belonged to Myriad Demon Ridge and ordered them to tell its great sects to follow the old rules and bring what he wanted to Heavenly Sword Peak within ten days.
• Senior Brother Miao reported Lu Ye’s demand and confirmed under a Heaven’s Mystery Oath that Lu Ye showed no sign of Purple Thunder.
• Myriad Demon Ridge powerhouses debated whether to pay Lu Ye, worrying about the resources going to the Crimson Blood Sect and the punishment’s apparent disappearance.
• Elder Chen and other Divine Sea Realm cultivators speculated that suppressing the Heavenly Mechanism’s punishment might carry a cost that left Lu Ye unable to kill again.

Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators learned that Lu Ye had raided Cloud Yang Sect’s camp and discussed how to respond to his attacks. After clearing his Merit debt, Lu Ye prepared to continue raiding camps with Tao Zhengyu.

• Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators abandoned their plan to test Lu Ye after learning he had killed more than a dozen people at Cloud Yang Sect’s camp.
• Fu explained that Cloud Yang Sect had been targeted because Wei Que had joined the group that besieged Lu Ye in the Hunting Ground, prompting other sects to warn their disciples and prepare for further attacks.
• Elder Chen proposed sending people into the Spirit Stream Battlefield to negotiate with Lu Ye before his ten-day deadline expired, and the other cultivators agreed.
• Lu Ye inspected his Talent Tree and discovered that his Merit had fallen to Owed 435 after he replenished its fuel, but he repaid the debt with his spoils.
• The Purple Thunder around Lu Ye faded as the Talent Tree burned, and Tao Zhengyu eagerly asked his Fifth Senior Brother where they would raid next.

Lu Ye waited at Heavenly Sword Peak for Myriad Demon Ridge to deliver the promised goods while reading about the Void Spirit Pattern. Myriad Demon Ridge sent Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun to negotiate with him, and Yun Qingyue worried that she had been chosen to appeal to his supposed preferences.

• Lu Ye sent Yiyi and Tao Zhengyu back to the Crimson Blood Sect camp, then flew toward Heavenly Sword Peak to collect the promised Peace Money.
• Myriad Demon Ridge sects received orders to retreat if they spotted Lu Yiye, leaving their camps on edge as he disappeared after attacking the Cloud Yang Sect camp.
• Two days later, Lu Ye reached Heavenly Sword Peak and waited while reading Madam Yun's Scripture, considering how the Void Spirit Pattern could improve teleportation and combat.
• Myriad Demon Ridge chose True Lake Tier Nine cultivators Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun to negotiate with Lu Ye, since Divine Sea Realm cultivators feared risking defeat themselves.
• Yun Qingyue learned that a Divine Sea Realm senior had selected her because her figure supposedly matched Gate-Destroying Leaf's preferences, and she worried about facing him.

Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun came to Heavenly Sword Peak to negotiate with Lu Ye on behalf of Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators. Lu Ye demonstrated his strength and rejected their arguments, leaving the talks unresolved as he held to his ten-day deadline.

• Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun arrived at Heavenly Sword Peak and found that Lu Ye had no Soul Extinguishing Divine Thunder around him.
• Wu Jun challenged Lu Ye to prove his identity, so Lu Ye struck him with three saber lights and asked whether that proved it.
• Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun introduced themselves and explained that they had come to seek a mutually acceptable solution to Lu Ye’s demands.
• Yun Qingyue argued that Lu Ye had violated battlefield rules and that Myriad Demon Ridge could not afford to meet his demands again.
• Lu Ye dismissed her argument and said he would wait only ten days.

Lu Ye negotiated with Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun over Myriad Demon Ridge’s payment to prevent him from raiding its camps. After Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators accepted his demands, Yun Qingyue returned with their condition: Lu Ye must never enter the Spirit Stream Battlefield again.

• Lu Ye threatened to raid thirty or fifty Myriad Demon Ridge camps unless the faction met his demands, rejecting Yun Qingyue’s offer of resources worth three million Merit.
• Lu Ye lowered his requested payment to resources worth three hundred thousand Merit and demanded another Golden Body Token, warning Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun that they could not safely refuse him.
• Yun Qingyue and Wu Jun reported the negotiation, and Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators agreed to Lu Ye’s terms while threatening mutual destruction if he rejected their own demands.
• Yun Qingyue returned to Heavenly Sword Peak and told Lu Ye that Myriad Demon Ridge would deliver what he requested within two days if he agreed never to set foot in the Spirit Stream Battlefield again.

Lu Ye negotiated an agreement with Yun Qingyue that let him return to the Spirit Stream Battlefield under limits on when and whom he could attack, while securing additional payments from the Mad Blade Sect and Wind Cloud Manor. Three days later, Myriad Demon Ridge sect representatives began delivering the agreed resources and reclaiming their wooden plaques.

• Lu Ye rejected Myriad Demon Ridge’s demand that he stay away from the Spirit Stream Battlefield, and Yun Qingyue agreed that he could attack sect camps only after another incident like the Hunting Ground pursuit.
• Lu Ye agreed to avoid implicating uninvolved sects and demanded twenty Blade Technique Cultivation Insights from the Mad Blade Sect and an extra one hundred thousand Merit worth of resources from Wind Cloud Manor.
• Lu Ye and Yun Qingyue signed a Heaven’s Mystery Contract covering their agreement, and Yun Qingyue departed.
• Three days later, Lu Ye told the arriving sect representatives to leave their resources and take their sect plaques, warning that he would visit any sect whose plaque remained after ten days.
• The Mad Blade Sect representative reclaimed its plaque and left twenty Blade Technique Cultivation Insights among the delivered resources, which Lu Ye began reading.

After settling matters on the Spirit Stream Battlefield, Lu Ye visited Hua Ci in Myriad Poison Forest and found that her cultivation had transformed much of the forbidden zone. Their reunion turned into playful teasing, and Hua Ci cooked for him afterward.

• After seven days, Lu Ye left Heavenly Sword Peak with only the New Moon Sect and Cloud Yang Sect plaques remaining, then set off for Myriad Poison Forest.
• Lu Ye discovered that Myriad Poison Forest had shrunk by nearly a third and found Hua Ci's hut empty, though it still showed signs of her living there.
• Following Hua Ci's singing, Lu Ye found her bathing in a poisonous pool, but she exposed him with a Water Arrow and teased him for being a beast.
• Hua Ci fooled Lu Ye into thinking she would reveal herself, then laughed at him when she stood up fully clothed, prompting him to leave in embarrassment.
• Hua Ci later kissed Lu Ye's forehead to apologize, teased him when he hesitated to kiss her, and went to cook while he waited in the courtyard.

Lu Ye reunited with Hua Ci in the Myriad Poison Forest, learned she had dominated the Spirit Stream Ranking, and set out for the Crimson Blood Sect camp. Back at camp, he prepared to sell some of the resources he had taken from Myriad Demon Ridge, while the sect’s growing strength supported Shui Yuan’s cultivation.

• Lu Ye shared the resources he had collected with Hua Ci, who explained that she was refining the Source of Extreme Poison and had held the top spot on the Spirit Stream Ranking for months.
• Hua Ci gave Lu Ye three Myriad Poison Pills before he left for the Cloud River Battlefield, and she teased him as he flew away.
• Lu Ye traveled back to the Crimson Blood Sect camp, where he reunited with Little Grey and fed it fish.
• Lu Ye entered Heaven's Mystery Vault to sell some of the resources he had obtained from Myriad Demon Ridge and keep enough Merit for his own use.
• Lu Ye considered how the Crimson Blood Sect's improved resources had enabled Shui Yuan to advance to the Divine Sea Realm.

Lu Ye spent Merit replenishing the Talent Tree’s fuel and bought a Spirit Storage Ring to support his Fire Phoenix Spiritual Pattern. After preparing to claim his Hunting Ground reward, he connected to the Heaven’s Mystery Vault through his golden mark.

• Lu Ye sold unused supplies in the Heaven’s Mystery Vault until his Merit neared three hundred thousand, then bought Core Fire to replenish the Talent Tree’s fuel.
• Lu Ye bought out the Vault’s Core Fire supply, considered the expensive Extreme Cold Ice Flame, and instead purchased cheaper flames to feed the Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye searched for a Spiritual Artifact that could store Spiritual Power and bought a Peak-Grade Spirit Storage Ring.
• Lu Ye checked his Battlefield Mark and found that he had 193,643 Merit remaining.
• Lu Ye used the golden mark he had received for his Hunting Ground ranking to connect to the Heaven’s Mystery Vault and claim his reward.

Lu Ye collected his Hunting Rankings rewards, including Golden Spirit Signs and a Grade A Spring Spirit, then delivered confiscated supplies to the Crimson Blood Sect. Back at Green Bamboo Peak, he examined the Talent Tree and gained four new Spiritual Patterns suited to formations.

• Lu Ye claimed nine Golden Spirit Signs and a Grade A Spring Spirit from Heaven's Mystery Vault, then stored the Spring Spirit in a Spirit Beast Bag when the reward chests proved immovable.
• Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect, learned Yiyi was cultivating with the Sect Master, and gave Shui Yuan the supplies he had confiscated.
• Lu Ye set aside six Golden Spirit Signs for Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan and kept his remaining Spirit Signs for later cultivation with Yiyi.
• Lu Ye fed flames to the Talent Tree, examined its leaves, and gained the Beast Confinement, Mist Spirit Pattern, Mirage Spirit Pattern, and Air Prohibition Spirit Pattern.

Lu Ye visited Madam Yun on Mingxin Peak and began learning the Tattooed Spirit Pattern Path so he could help strengthen his sect’s disciples. After studying its foundations and receiving Madam Yun’s old Tattoo Needles, he began practicing on himself and managed to form his first element.

• Lu Ye passed Madam Yun’s tests of his Spirit Pattern knowledge, and she recognized him as a true Spirit Pattern Master.
• Lu Ye asked to study the Tattooed Spirit Pattern Path so he could tattoo Spiritual Patterns onto sect disciples in the future, and Madam Yun agreed to teach him.
• Madam Yun taught Lu Ye the fundamentals and gave him books to study; after ten days, she judged that he understood the foundations.
• Madam Yun gave Lu Ye forty-nine Tattoo Needles and medicinal liquid, then instructed him to practice simple patterns on his own body.
• Lu Ye repeatedly failed to form an element with the Tattoo Needle, but after more than an hour he successfully constructed one and prepared to try the next.

Lu Ye finished learning the basics of tattooing spirit patterns from Madam Yun, returned to Green Bamboo Peak, and used his Spirit Signs to cultivate with Yiyi and Amber. After reaching Cloud River Tier Four, he prepared to return to the Cloud River Battlefield to reunite with Li Baxian and deliver the remaining Spirit Signs, but noticed an unusual blue point of light among the Heaven's Mystery Pillars.

• Lu Ye successfully tattooed a Sharpness Spirit Pattern with medicinal juice, then thanked Madam Yun and left Mingxin Peak.
• Lu Ye rested and ate a meal prepared by Second Senior Sister, then cultivated with Yiyi and Amber by crushing Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye broke through to Cloud River Tier Four, while Yiyi and Amber advanced to Cloud River Tier Two.
• After three more days of cultivation, Lu Ye used up the Spirit Signs; Yiyi and Amber neared Tier Three, and Lu Ye planned to return to the Cloud River Battlefield to meet Li Baxian and deliver Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye said goodbye to Shui Yuan and entered Heaven's Mystery Hall, where he noticed a blue point of light representing the Heaven's Mystery Pillar he had invited over in the Hunting Ground.

Lu Ye returned to the Cloud River Battlefield, reunited with Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, and retrieved Jujia, who had remained in stillness atop a Spirit Peak. The group decided to keep the Grade A Spring Spirit and use it to establish their own Spiritual Land, but still needed to find a secure location.

• Lu Ye returned to the former Hunting Ground and contacted Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, who had been waiting nearby.
• Lu Ye discovered that Jujia had stayed in the same place for nearly two months, where a wolf pack had gathered to absorb the Moon Essence around him.
• Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan met Lu Ye at the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, and he gave them their shares of the Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye showed the group the Grade A Spring Spirit, and they agreed that keeping it to create a Spiritual Land would be more useful than selling it.
• Li Baxian pointed out that they needed to find a concealed location for their Spiritual Land, since even a formation might not keep intruders away.

Lu Ye and Li Baxian planned to establish a Spirit Land with the Grade A Spring Spirit and agreed to recruit Jujia as their fifth member. Lu Ye traveled into Mount Taimang to find Jujia, then discovered a large group of cultivators gathered in a clearing for an unknown operation.

• Li Baxian offered to find a safe location for the Spirit Land, and Feng Yuechan suggested they fill its fifth place.
• Lu Ye proposed Jujia as their fifth member, and Li Baxian agreed to recruit him.
• Lu Ye set out with Yiyi and Amber toward Mount Taimang, where Jujia had become lost.
• Lu Ye traveled through Mount Taimang, hunting weaker Monster Beasts and collecting their materials as the beasts grew stronger deeper inside.
• At night, Lu Ye concealed himself and approached a clearing where thirty or forty cultivators, some wounded, were resting for an apparent operation.

Lu Ye discovered that the supposed Exotic Treasure phenomenon was caused by Jujia cultivating, then rushed toward the Spirit Peak and found the area overwhelmed by fighting Monster Beasts and cultivators. After retreating from the chaos, he encountered the weakened, poisoned Storm Thunder Eagle and killed it.

• Lu Ye learned that cultivators had gathered because they believed an Exotic Treasure was appearing near a Spirit Peak.
• When moonlight streamed over the peak, Lu Ye recognized that the phenomenon resembled Jujia's cultivation and messaged him.
• Jujia stopped the phenomenon, prompting cultivators and Monster Beasts to rush toward the peak and battle.
• Lu Ye flew toward Jujia but was attacked by a Storm Thunder Eagle and nearly ambushed by a Poisonous Python, which began fighting the eagle.
• Lu Ye retreated from the dangerous melee and decided to meet Jujia after daybreak.
• Lu Ye found the poisoned Storm Thunder Eagle near death and killed it with his saber.

Lu Ye gathered the spoils from two powerful Monster Beasts and waited for Jujia, who arrived riding with a pack of over a hundred giant wolves. When the Alpha Wolf tried to stop them from leaving, Amber and Yiyi learned that the wolves considered Jujia their Sacred Object and wanted him to stay.

• Lu Ye collected the two Monster Beasts' Demonic Cores and valuable materials, then waited in hiding until the night's chaos subsided.
• Jujia tried to leave the Spirit Peak, but the Alpha Wolf followed him and led the giant wolf pack after him.
• Lu Ye met Jujia and was astonished to see him arrive with more than a hundred giant wolves.
• The Alpha Wolf overturned Lu Ye's Spirit Boat to keep Jujia from leaving, so Lu Ye asked Yiyi to find out what the wolves wanted.
• Amber communicated with the Alpha Wolf, and Yiyi told Lu Ye that the wolves wanted Jujia to stay because they regarded him as their Sacred Object.

Lu Ye discovered that Jujia’s wolf pack would not let him leave without them, and decided Return Heaven Valley could be a suitable hidden site for the Spirit Land. He invited Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan to inspect it while he and Jujia began searching the valley and waiting for them.

• Yiyi explained that the Alpha Wolf and its pack wanted to follow Jujia, and Jujia calmed the wolves by smacking the Alpha Wolf.
• Lu Ye realized the wolf pack could guard a Spirit Land deep in Mount Taimang, so he asked the Alpha Wolf to lead them to a safe place.
• The Alpha Wolf led Lu Ye, Jujia, and the wolves to Return Heaven Valley, where Lu Ye and Yiyi agreed the secluded valley might suit their Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye contacted Li Baxian, who agreed to come with Feng Yuechan after warning that the valley was deep in dangerous territory.
• Lu Ye and Jujia searched the surrounding area and found no powerful Monster Beasts, then shared roasted snake meat by a bonfire as the wolves waited for Jujia to cultivate.

Lu Ye prepared a secluded valley as a possible Spirit Land and welcomed Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, explaining that Jujia’s unusual cultivation had drawn a wolf pack to him. Li Baxian questioned whether the wolves could be trusted, and Jujia’s casual treatment of their Alpha Wolf left the matter unresolved.

• Lu Ye discovered that Jujia’s cultivation drew down Moon Essence that benefited Monster Beasts, then set up a Concealment Array and built wooden cabins in the valley.
• Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan arrived after a difficult journey through Mount Taimang, and Lu Ye introduced them to Jujia and the wolf pack.
• Lu Ye explained that the wolves followed Jujia because his cultivation phenomenon benefited them, and Li Baxian considered whether the valley was suitable for a Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye described the Alpha Wolf’s Cloud River Tier Nine strength and the wolf pack’s varying cultivation levels, while Li Baxian worried that Jujia might not be strong enough to control them.
• Jujia called the Alpha Wolf over and patted its head, making Lu Ye and Li Baxian react with alarm.

Lu Ye and his companions established a Grade A Spiritual Land with the alpha wolf pack and settled into cultivation there. As the days passed, Lu Ye grew close to the wolves and persuaded a blue-marked Demonic Wolf to let him practice Tattoo Patterns on it.

• Jujia slapped the alpha wolf, which calmly returned to its place, and Lu Ye and Li Baxian decided to establish their Spirit Land in the valley.
• Lu Ye placed the Grade A Spring Spirit in the ground, and it formed a Spirit Spring that released rich Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
• Lu Ye arranged formations while the others prepared the wooden houses, and Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan later saw Jujia and the wolf pack cultivate under the moonlight.
• The Grade A Spiritual Land stabilized, Yiyi and Amber reached Cloud River Tier Three, and the group settled into a steady routine of cultivation.
• Lu Ye showed a familiar blue-marked Demonic Wolf his Sharpness Spirit Pattern, and Amber conveyed his offer to inscribe patterns on the wolf in exchange for granting it sharper claws.
• The Demonic Wolf accepted Lu Ye's offer and lowered its head for him to begin.

Lu Ye summoned a Heaven's Mystery Pillar to buy materials and successfully inscribed a Sharpness Tattoo Pattern on the Demonic Wolf. The wolf tested its enhanced fangs, and Lu Ye celebrated his first successful inscription.

• Lu Ye summoned a Heaven's Mystery Pillar so he could enter the Heaven's Mystery Vault and buy Tattoo Pattern materials.
• Lu Ye blended the materials into three formulas and let the Demonic Wolf choose between Sharpness, Defense, and Windwalk.
• The Demonic Wolf chose Sharpness, and Lu Ye decided to inscribe the pattern on its mouth to strengthen its fangs.
• Lu Ye quickly and carefully inscribed the golden Sharpness Tattoo Pattern on the Demonic Wolf without it moving.
• The Demonic Wolf activated its Demonic Energy, making its fangs shine with added sharpness, and Lu Ye sent it off to play.