Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye defeated Ying Wuji, who escaped using a second life-saving Secret Technique, then chose to leave Mount Taimang and hunt the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators rather than hide from them. Song Zhui and the spreading bounty hunters searched for Lu Ye, but no one found his trail that day.

• Lu Ye pierced Ying Wuji with his saber, but a treasure protected Ying Wuji's chest, and Ying Wuji fled using a blood-red Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye decided to head for Mount Taimang's outskirts, resolving to take revenge on the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators before they could disappear.
• Song Zhui and his companions found the badly weakened Ying Wuji, who told them Lu Ye was about forty li away.
• Song Zhui followed Ying Wuji's directions and discovered Lu Ye's concealed Teleportation Array, but found no clue to where Lu Ye had gone.
• News of Lu Ye's escape and bounty spread among the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, who searched Mount Taimang for a day without finding him.

Lu Ye hunted Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators across Mount Taimang, using ambushes and overwhelming combat skill to kill several groups while they searched for him. As more cultivators pursued his trail, a lone Tier Eight cultivator continued searching through the night.

• Lu Ye ambushed a four-person team fighting a Green-Eyed Boar and killed three cultivators before the last one sounded a warning howl; Lu Ye fled without collecting the spoils.
• The wounded Green-Eyed Boar escaped in another direction, and a team that heard the howl arrived to find four corpses.
• Lu Ye bypassed a Spell Cultivator's warning Formations, killed another group of three cultivators, and collected their spoils.
• Lu Ye killed a cultivator who reached for a rare purple flower and then cut down his companion.
• A Tier Eight cultivator continued searching alone for Lu Ye, hoping to claim the reward without sharing it.

Lu Ye used Yiyi’s Nine Formation Map to kill a Tier Eight Weapon Cultivator and confirmed that his normal strength could match opponents three tiers above him. As he continued hunting Myriad Demon Ridge squads in Mount Taimang, Song Zhui began to grasp the danger, and the chapter ended with Tier Nine cultivator Ning Zizai arriving.

• Lu Ye and Yiyi trapped a Tier Eight Weapon Cultivator in the Nine Formation Map, where Lu Ye killed him after a fierce fight.
• Lu Ye rested in a Concealment Formation and concluded that the power gained from the Heavenly Mechanism Reward let him fight Tier Eight cultivators, while his Beast Transformation Secret Technique might let him challenge Tier Nine.
• Lu Ye hunted Myriad Demon Ridge squads across several nights, making four or five teams disappear each night.
• Song Zhui noticed that the Battlefield Imprints he had exchanged with Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators were vanishing and realized Lu Ye might be responsible.
• Song Zhui reached the site of another squad’s slaughter and found several bodies bearing blade wounds.
• Ning Zizai arrived at the scene and greeted Song Zhui.

Lu Ye decided to leave Mount Taimang after several nights of hunting Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, as his targets dwindled and the surviving teams grew stronger and more cautious. He traveled toward the mountain’s outskirts with Yiyi scouting ahead, while Song Zhui and Ning Zizai realized he had vanished.

• Ning Zizai examined the corpses with Song Zhui and concluded that one victim in each group seemed to have been killed by a Ghost Cultivator, leading them to suspect Lu Ye had a powerful helper.
• As Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators joined into larger groups and guarded their teams with stronger fighters, Lu Ye found fewer safe targets and decided to leave Mount Taimang.
• Lu Ye told Li Baxian he was leaving and urged Jujia to remain at Revival Spiritual Land and consult their senior brothers before making decisions.
• Song Zhui, Ning Zizai, and the other Myriad Demon Ridge powerhouses noticed that the nightly killings had stopped and suspected Lu Ye had left.
• Lu Ye made his way toward the outskirts of Mount Taimang with Yiyi scouting ahead, and she found a concealed cave where they could rest.

Lu Ye discovered an abandoned mine tunnel and began preparing a plan to strike Myriad Demon Ridge, while Song Zhui heard that Lu Ye was injured and had appeared near Mount Taimang’s outskirts. As Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators searched for him, Ghost Shadow joined a team despite sensing danger, and the chapter ended as a female cultivator questioned Senior Brother Qin about their route.

• Lu Ye recognized the hidden cave as an old mine tunnel and decided to use it as the basis for a plan against Myriad Demon Ridge.
• After Lu Ye spent a day making preparations, Song Zhui learned that Lu Ye had been spotted injured near Mount Taimang’s outskirts and hurried there.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators gathered to search the area, but they could not find Lu Ye.
• Ghost Shadow joined a five-person team searching for Lu Ye despite his foreboding intuition about the danger.
• A female cultivator asked Senior Brother Qin why their team had been circling the same area.

Senior Brother Qin’s group discovered Lu Yiye’s hidden mine tunnel, but the Explosion Spirit Arrays he had placed inside injured several cultivators and stalled the Myriad Demon Ridge pursuit. Hundreds gathered outside, waiting for Si Nan of the Yunlang Sect to arrive and challenge Lu Yiye in the Formation Dao.

• Senior Brother Qin found a Concealment Spirit Array hiding a mine tunnel and led his group inside, believing Lu Yiye was concealed there.
• Ghost Shadow sensed danger and warned the group, but an Explosion Spirit Array detonated, injuring Senior Brother Qin and forcing the party to retreat.
• The blast drew nearby Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators, and Senior Brother Qin’s account spread news of Lu Yiye’s hiding place.
• Cultivators who tried to enter the trapped tunnel suffered casualties, including the Tier Nine Body Cultivator Wei Zhong, so the crowd gathered outside instead.
• Song Zhui arrived and learned from Ning Zizai that Si Nan of the Yunlang Sect was on his way to contend with Lu Yiye in the Formation Dao.

Lu Ye continued preparing his trap inside the Mine Tunnel while Myriad Demon Ridge gathered outside, waiting for a way in. Si Nan arrived and began breaking Lu Ye’s formations, prompting Song Zhui and the other Tier Nines to weigh his demand for forty percent of the reward.

• Song Zhui questioned Senior Brother Qin about how he had found Lu Ye’s hiding place, while Lu Ye refined Formation Flags and maintained his wounded disguise.
• Yiyi reported that five Tier Nines, including Song Zhui, had gathered outside; Lu Ye explained that the formations were meant to make his resistance seem believable and draw the enemy inside.
• Yiyi later informed Lu Ye that the renowned Formation Cultivator Si Nan had arrived and entered the tunnel to break the formations.
• Si Nan dismantled an Explosion Spirit Array in a dozen breaths, impressing the gathered Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators and reassuring Song Zhui’s group.
• Song Zhui and the other Tier Nines debated Si Nan’s demand for forty percent of the reward, and Song Zhui argued that killing Lu Ye mattered more than their individual shares.

Si Nan advanced through the Mine Tunnel, breaking Lu Ye’s Formations while Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators gathered to claim credit for his eventual capture. As explosions began erupting ahead of Si Nan, the crowd surged inside, while Ghost Shadow suddenly warned Senior Brother Qin that they could not go.

• Song Zhui persuaded the Tier Nine cultivators to let Si Nan take the lead and receive forty percent of the reward for killing Lu Ye.
• Si Nan broke through more than ten Formations and continued deeper into the Mine Tunnel as Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators celebrated his progress.
• Lu Ye began triggering Explosion Spirit Arrays ahead of Si Nan, causing a series of blasts as Si Nan kept walking forward unharmed.
• Song Zhui and the other Tier Nine cultivators rushed into the Mine Tunnel, followed by a crush of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.
• Ghost Shadow grabbed Senior Brother Qin and, looking terrified, told him that they could not go into the Mine Tunnel.

Ghost Shadow persuaded Senior Brother Qin's group to wait outside the Mine Tunnel while Song Zhui and the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators reached Lu Ye in the Mine Cave. Song Zhui ordered a forceful assault, and the attackers pushed through Lu Ye's formations as an Air Lock Grand Array stopped some from flying toward him.

• Ghost Shadow sensed extreme danger in the Mine Cave and convinced Senior Brother Qin and Senior Sister Hu to wait outside with their group.
• Si Nan, Song Zhui, and the other Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators followed the blasted Mine Tunnel into the Mine Cave and found Lu Ye sitting behind a Protective Spirit Array.
• The crowd's attacks failed to break Lu Ye's Protective Spirit Array, and Song Zhui asked Si Nan whether Lu Ye had prepared a Teleportation Array.
• Song Zhui chose a forceful assault over having Si Nan break the formations, then led the cultivators in bombarding the area ahead.
• An Air Lock Grand Array crushed cultivators who tried to fly forward as the attacking crowd advanced toward Lu Ye.

Lu Ye revealed that he had planned to trap the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators in the Mine Cave, where he unleashed the Myriad Poison Bead against them. Its jade-green radiance burst through their attacks, leaving the fate of the trapped cultivators unclear.

• Lu Ye stood alone as Song Zhui and the advancing Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators pressed toward him, but he remained calm and warned them they had no way out.
• Yiyi attacked the damaged Mine Tunnel from behind, causing it to collapse and sealing the cultivators inside the Mine Cave.
• Ning Zizai inspected the cave-in while Senior Brother Qin and Senior Sister Hu heard the collapse from outside; Ghost Shadow said the danger he sensed was more than a cave-in.
• Song Zhui realized Lu Ye had coordinated the tunnel collapse with his earlier Explosion Spirit Arrays, though he could not determine Lu Ye's full plan.
• Lu Ye flicked a jade-green bead toward the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators, and its radiance broke through their attacks and spread like a cloud.

Lu Ye unleashed three Myriad Poison Beads inside the sealed Mine Cave, poisoning nearly two thousand Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators and trapping them with no clear escape. Song Zhui recognized Lu Ye’s trap and rallied the survivors to clear the collapsed tunnel and attack, while Lu Ye calmly waited amid the spreading poison.

• Lu Ye detonated three Myriad Poison Beads, filling the Mine Cave with toxic mist that weakened and incapacitated the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators.
• Song Zhui realized Lu Ye had deliberately lured the enemy force into a sealed cave and collapsed the Mine Tunnel to maximize the poison’s effects.
• Song Zhui ordered weaker cultivators to clear the rubble and stronger ones to break Lu Ye’s Formations and attack him.
• Most cultivators below Tier Three collapsed before reaching the Mine Tunnel, while others struggled through the poison and continued advancing.
• Lu Ye inspected the Talent Tree and discovered that Hua Ci’s Myriad Poison Beads were more potent than the one he had used against Niu Meng.

Hua Ci’s strengthened Myriad Poison Beads overwhelmed the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators trapped in the Mine Cave, allowing Lu Ye to exploit the poison and hidden Formations to slaughter them. When Wei Zhong revealed his Tier Nine strength and tried to seize Lu Ye, Lu Ye counterattacked with an Exotic Treasure that pierced him.

• Hua Ci’s Myriad Poison Beads filled the sealed Mine Cave with poison so potent that cultivators began collapsing as their Spiritual Power failed.
• Lu Ye activated the Lightning Attraction Array and other hidden Formations, striking the weakened Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators from above.
• As the poisonous mist concealed everyone, Lu Ye moved through the Mine Cave and killed enemies while Song Zhui tried to organize the survivors.
• Wei Zhong feigned weakness and revealed his Tier Nine cultivation when Lu Ye attacked, hoping to hold him until Song Zhui and the others arrived.
• Lu Ye dodged Wei Zhong’s grab and sent an Exotic Treasure through his body, drawing a spray of blood.

Lu Ye killed Wei Zhong with the Broken Arrow and continued hunting Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators trapped in the collapsed Mine Tunnel. Xia Liang and Tan Sheng arrived and, hearing the battle within, suspected Lu Ye had hidden helpers there.

• Lu Ye used the Broken Arrow to pierce Wei Zhong's heart, then recovered the Exotic Treasure and resolved to save its remaining use.
• Song Zhui and other Tier Nine cultivators abandoned their advance and fled toward the blocked Mine Tunnel, where panicked cultivators struggled to clear rubble and attacked one another.
• Lu Ye continued killing in the toxic mist as screams and deaths spread through the Mine Cave.
• Cultivators gathered outside the entrance heard the screams and wondered whether Lu Ye had helpers inside; Senior Brother Qin's group stayed back, mindful of Ghost Shadow's warning.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng arrived, learned that nearly two thousand cultivators were trapped inside, and entered the Mine Tunnel to investigate.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng found the passage blocked and heard a fierce battle, leading them to suspect Lu Ye had concealed many people inside.

Lu Ye finished slaughtering the Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators in the Mine Cave, including Ming Zhe and Ning Zizai, while the Myriad Poison Bead’s mist weakened the survivors. He pursued the last group trapped in the Mine Tunnel, but Si Nan’s Protective Spirit Array blocked his path.

• Lu Ye killed Ming Zhe and the remaining Sacred Universe Spiritual Land Cultivators, while Tu Guanxiong sensed their Battlefield Imprints disappear.
• Lu Ye found and killed Ning Zizai and several concealed Tier Nine Cultivators as the poison left them too weak to resist.
• After exhausting most of his Spiritual Power and strength, Lu Ye walked toward the Mine Tunnel where dozens of survivors were clearing rubble to escape.
• Si Nan activated a Protective Spirit Array that filled the narrow tunnel and stopped Lu Ye’s attack.
• Song Zhui praised Si Nan and urged him to hold the formation, while Si Nan confidently claimed Lu Ye would not get through.

Lu Ye used the Insight Spirit Pattern to break Si Nan’s Protective Spirit Array and killed him, then fought through the poisoned Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators in the mine tunnel. He left Song Zhui gravely wounded and the last survivors defeated.

• Lu Ye saw the Protective Spirit Array’s nodes with the Insight Spirit Pattern and embedded Formation Flags in them despite Si Nan changing the Spiritual Power flow.
• Lu Ye used Yin-Yang Dual Elements to halt the Formation’s Spiritual Power, shattered the light screen, and killed Si Nan.
• Song Zhui rallied the surviving Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators to attack Lu Ye, but Lu Ye sent him flying with one slash.
• Lu Ye advanced through the narrow tunnel, killing the resisting cultivators as the survivors’ numbers dwindled.
• Lu Ye launched nine streaks of light from the Weapon Casket and felled the remaining cultivators, leaving only the gravely wounded Song Zhui alive.

Lu Ye killed Song Zhui and escaped the poison-filled Mine Cave with the spoils after Myriad Poison Pills wiped out the Myriad Demon Ridge force inside. Xia Liang and Tan Sheng reached the cave too late and found the two thousand cultivators dead, while Lu Ye's fate remained unknown to them.

• Lu Ye taunted Song Zhui with a threat to destroy Abyss Rainbow Hall's Spirit Stream Battlefield camp, then killed him.
• Lu Ye searched the Mine Cave, collected the fallen cultivators' Storage Bags and Spiritual Artifacts, and learned from Yiyi that Xia Liang and Tan Sheng were clearing the tunnel rubble.
• Lu Ye escaped through a Teleportation Array hidden in the rock wall, then an Explosion Spirit Array destroyed the array's location.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng opened the tunnel and saw poisonous mist and the corpses inside the Mine Cave.
• Xia Liang entered the cave, returned with poison affecting him, and told Tan Sheng that everyone inside was dead; he did not know whether Lu Ye had survived.

After Lu Ye wiped out more than two thousand Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators in a poisoned mine, news of the massacre spread across the Cloud River Battlefield and intensified the hunt for him. Lu Ye escaped to Heaven's Mystery City, where he recovered and began the exhausting task of sorting through thousands of Storage Bags.

• News spread that Lu Ye had trapped and poisoned more than two thousand Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators in a mine, then escaped without his body being found.
• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators converged near Mount Taimang to avenge the dead, while Vast Sky Alliance cultivators also headed there to hunt them.
• Ghost Shadow warned Senior Brother Qin and Senior Sister Hu to stay away from anything connected to Lu Yiye, recalling how his danger sense had kept their team out of the mine.
• Lu Ye reached Heaven's Mystery City and rested in the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild after escaping the mine with thousands of Storage Bags.
• Yiyi sorted the Storage Bags' contents as Lu Ye struggled to unlock their Restriction Locks, while Amber ate Demonic Cores nearby.

Lu Ye hid inside the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild while he and Yiyi worked through the Storage Bags taken from the Mine Cave battle, as Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators waited outside for him to emerge. Their search remained uncertain until Yiyi discovered an object that left Lu Ye stunned.

• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators searched for Lu Ye, while Sacred Fire Sect disciples Chu Yun and Zhou Pei concluded he was likely hiding in the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild with the Storage Bags he had collected.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi opened and sorted more than five thousand Storage Bags inside the Merchant Guild as their pursuers grew impatient waiting outside.
• Lu Ye learned from Fourth Senior Brother that Return Heaven Valley was safe and that Jujia had found the Wolf Pack.
• Yiyi called Lu Ye over to examine an object she had found, and Lu Ye's Storage Bag exploded after he lost focus while opening its Restriction Lock.
• Lu Ye eagerly took the object from Yiyi and asked where she had found it.

Lu Ye discovered that a newly acquired Rest Fruit Core had the same Mirage Scene training function as his own, and realized it likely belonged to a Tier Nine Weapon Cultivator he had killed. After Yiyi sorted the spoils from the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, Lu Ye called in a Merchant Alliance manager to handle the excess goods.

• Lu Ye tested both Rest Fruit Cores and found that each opened a Mirage Realm gate requiring one hundred Merit to enter.
• Lu Ye connected the new core to the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator who had once killed him in a Mirage Scene, and concluded it had belonged to the Tier Nine Weapon Cultivator he killed in the Mine Cave.
• Lu Ye decided he could give one of the duplicate Rest Fruit Cores to Fourth Senior Brother, then stored both cores and resumed sorting spoils with Yiyi.
• Yiyi divided nearly a hundred full Storage Bags into supplies for Lu Ye, items for the sect, and goods to sell through the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild or Heaven's Mystery Vault.
• Lu Ye had Yiyi summon a manager, who entered and was stunned by the thousands of Storage Bags taken from the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators.

Lu Ye stayed hidden in the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild while Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators waited outside, using his spoils from the Mine Cave to cultivate in safety. After several days, Yiyi brought news of a Spirit Sign auction, and Lu Ye decided to attend and look for Core Fire in Heaven's Mystery Vault.

• Lu Ye sold thousands of Storage Bags and other spoils to the Merchant Guild manager, who hinted that Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators were watching the area.
• Lu Ye realized his whereabouts might have been exposed but chose to stay inside the Merchant Alliance, where fighting was forbidden.
• Lu Ye checked his Battlefield Mark and saw that his Merit had risen to 176,520 points after the Mine Cave battle.
• Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators waited outside for Lu Ye, but many left after days passed without him appearing; Chu Yun and Zhou Pei continued waiting.
• Lu Ye cultivated and rested with Yiyi and Amber while Yiyi occasionally gathered information outside.
• Yiyi told Lu Ye that a Spirit Sign auction featuring a Purple Spirit Sign would be held that night, and Lu Ye decided to attend and search Heaven's Mystery Vault for Core Fire.