Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye killed Sun Qi with the Formations he had prepared, ending the immediate threat to the rescued mortals. He then took the injured Zhuang Bufan and the unconscious Ye Liuli to Medicine Valley, where Zhuang Bufan could seek treatment.

• Zhuang Bufan identified the approaching Cloud River Tier Nine cultivator as Sun Qi and explained his violent history to Lu Ye.
• Sun Qi charged at Yiyi after she called him ugly, but Lu Ye trapped him with an Air Lock Grand Array and other Formations.
• Lu Ye emerged from the mist carrying Sun Qi's dead body, shocking Zhuang Bufan with his Formation skill and strength.
• Lu Ye agreed to take Zhuang Bufan to Medicine Valley, and Yiyi carried the unconscious Ye Liuli as they flew there.
• Lu Ye and his companions reached Medicine Valley after half a day of travel.

Lu Ye and Zhuang Bufan arrived at Medicine Valley and found Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators blocking injured visitors from seeking treatment. Lu Ye killed their leader and joined the visitors in attacking the sect’s forces, leaving the confrontation in chaos.

• Lu Ye and Zhuang Bufan reached Medicine Valley and saw Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators barring the entrance while injured visitors begged to be admitted.
• Lu Ye ignored Zhuang Bufan’s concern and challenged the black-robed Heavenly Chasm Sect leader.
• The black-robed cultivator attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye defeated him with several saber strikes and cut off his head.
• Yiyi attacked the remaining Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators as Lu Ye charged into their ranks.
• The desperate visitors joined Lu Ye, and the fighting erupted into chaos with more Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators killed.

The Little Medical Immortal refused Wu Xie's demand to join the Heavenly Chasm Sect, and Wu Xie set out to take her by force. At the valley entrance, Lu Ye faced the Ninth Elder in battle and, despite suffering wounds, launched a close-range saber attack that left Wu Xie alarmed.

• Wu Xie threatened the Little Medical Immortal and decided he would take her back to the Heavenly Chasm Sect even if she was dead.
• After sensing Lu Ye kill a Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivator, Wu Xie rushed from the cottage toward the valley entrance.
• Lu Ye and the cultivators following him drove back the Heavenly Chasm Sect guards until Wu Xie arrived and attacked Lu Ye with his Flying Sword.
• Lu Ye resisted Wu Xie's sword intent and survived a storm of sword lights by using the Defense Spirit Pattern and his tough body.
• Amber stunned Wu Xie with a roar, allowing Lu Ye to close in and unleash a curtain of saber light that made Wu Xie realize he had underestimated him.

Lu Ye drove Wu Xie from Medicine Valley and entered the valley to seek treatment for Ye Liuli and Zhuang Bufan. There, he discovered that the Little Medical Immortal looked, sounded, and moved exactly like a more mature Hua Ci, though she was not Hua Ci.

• Lu Ye fought Wu Xie, who fled after realizing he had been poisoned, and the remaining Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators scattered.
• The cultivators seeking treatment praised Lu Ye, and a medicine boy invited him and his companions into Medicine Valley.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, Zhuang Bufan, and Ye Liuli followed the medicine boy to the Little Medical Immortal’s thatched cottage.
• Lu Ye and Yiyi recognized the Little Medical Immortal’s voice and appearance as identical to Hua Ci’s, while noticing she had no Crimson Blood Sect Battlefield Mark.
• Lu Ye told the Little Medical Immortal that she looked familiar, and she asked whether there was something on her face.

Lu Ye asked the Little Medical Immortal to treat Ye Liuli and help Zhuang Bufan, whose injuries left him with only three months to live. After the Little Medical Immortal accepted Lu Ye’s Soul Cleansing Water to ease Zhuang Bufan’s suffering, she named defending Medicine Valley from the Heavenly Chasm Sect as the medicine fee, and Lu Ye began planning a formation rooted in the valley’s Earth Vein.

• The Little Medical Immortal recognized Lu Ye’s Overlord Saber Technique and said she could alleviate Ye Liuli’s old illness but could not cure it at the root.
• The Little Medical Immortal diagnosed Zhuang Bufan with severe damage to his vitality and soul, leaving him three months to live and warning that his suppressed pain would become unbearable within three days.
• Lu Ye gave the Little Medical Immortal Soul Cleansing Water, which she agreed could ease Zhuang Bufan’s suffering but could not save him completely.
• The Little Medical Immortal prescribed medicine for Ye Liuli and demanded that Lu Ye keep the Heavenly Chasm Sect from disturbing Medicine Valley as payment.
• Lu Ye settled Ye Liuli and Zhuang Bufan into separate cottages, then told Yiyi that the Little Medical Immortal’s resemblance to Hua Ci might mean more than coincidence.
• Lu Ye surveyed Medicine Valley’s terrain and Earth Vein, planning to build a powerful Grand Array rooted in it.

Huang Liang headed north to investigate the disaster he sensed, which he feared was connected to the Heavenly Chasm and an ancient omen. He joined Liu Tianyi and Fahua on their journey north, leaving as their junior companion and pilot.

• Huang Liang traveled north after repeated divinations warned of a great calamity and recalled the Imperial Heaven Sect's prophecy about the Heavenly Chasm.
• Liu Tianyi revealed that he was heading north because he sensed a change there, though he could not explain what it was.
• Fahua arrived using Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, and Huang Liang recognized him as his master.
• Liu Tianyi warned Fahua that he appeared close to death, but Fahua accepted the danger and questioned why Liu Tianyi had come.
• Liu Tianyi and Fahua set out north, and Huang Liang provided his flying artifact and piloted them.

The Heavenly Chasm Sect slaughtered people across Xue Province to power a vast blood array beneath the Heavenly Chasm, which Heavenly Saint believed held the path forward. Liu Tianyi and Huang Liang arrived, discovered the atrocity, and Huang Liang sent word to rally the Dragon Ascent World against the sect.

• Heavenly Saint, Xing Mo, and Cheng Henfeng watched the Heavenly Chasm while the sect sacrificed captives to fill the trenches of a Grand Array with blood.
• Xing Mo reported that Wu Xie had failed to stop a young junior suspected of inheriting the Tyrant Saber.
• Heavenly Saint sensed an approaching group and warned Xing Mo that he was no match for the newcomer.
• Liu Tianyi arrived with Cheng Henfeng and Huang Liang, then condemned Cheng Henfeng for joining the Heavenly Chasm Sect.
• Huang Liang recognized that the array contained the blood of countless victims from Xue Province and sent news of the atrocity to summon help.

Heavenly Saint revealed that he had built a Grand Array from insights gained in the Heavenly Chasm, and the Three Great Overlord Sects’ leaders confronted him. As the battle turned into a death struggle, Huang Liang realized Fahua and Liu Tianyi meant to return their Fate/Luck to Heaven and Earth, while a worldwide assault on the Heavenly Chasm Sect began and ominous thunder rolled over Medicine Valley.

• Heavenly Saint explained that his Grand Array would shatter Heaven and Earth’s shackles and reveal the road ahead, but Fahua condemned his methods and Liu Tianyi attacked him.
• Cheng Henfeng fought Liu Tianyi’s golden attacks, Xing Mo intercepted Fahua’s Alms Bowl, and Huang Liang tried to strike Heavenly Saint.
• Elders of the Heavenly Chasm Sect emerged from the Blood River and surrounded the intruders, trapping Fahua, Liu Tianyi, and Huang Liang in battle.
• Huang Liang realized Fahua and Liu Tianyi intended to die and return their Fate/Luck to Heaven and Earth, then joined them in fighting the elders.
• The Three Great Overlord Sects called on cultivators throughout the world to attack the Heavenly Chasm Sect, and forces began advancing toward Xue Province.
• In Medicine Valley, Yiyi and Ye Liuli watched dark clouds gather as Lu Ye finished setting up Formations and Zhuang Bufan’s condition continued to worsen.

As the Heavenly Chasm Sect pursued the wounded Huang Liang, he was knocked into Medicine Valley, bringing its residents into danger. Lu Ye activated a profound formation that trapped the advancing elders, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Lu Ye sensed a realm-wide upheaval at the Heavenly Chasm and received Heaven's Mystery's Favor as the Little Medical Immortal anticipated the coming change.
• After Master Fahua and Liu Tianyi died opening an escape route, Huang Liang fled the Heavenly Chasm Sect's pursuers while badly injured.
• A pursuer struck Huang Liang into Medicine Valley, where he warned Lu Ye, Zhuang Bufan, and the others to run.
• Yun Haitian and the other Heavenly Chasm Sect elders surrounded the valley, while Wu Xie recognized Lu Ye and sought revenge.
• When several elders charged into the valley, Lu Ye activated a formation that separated and disoriented them in rolling clouds.

Lu Ye used Medicine Valley’s Earth Vein-powered grand array to kill the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators who entered it, including Wu Xie and several elders. With the surviving attackers stalled outside and Huang Liang receiving treatment, Lu Ye returned unharmed as Huang Liang offered to help once he recovered.

• Yun Haitian led the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators into Medicine Valley’s Mist Sea and ordered them to break Lu Ye’s grand array by force.
• The Little Medical Immortal began treating Huang Liang while Yiyi and Ye Liuli reassured him that Lu Ye would be safe inside the array.
• Lu Ye killed the Seventeenth Elder and other intruders, whose corpses emerged from the Mist Sea and shocked the Heavenly Chasm Sect forces.
• Yun Haitian and the surviving cultivators retreated from the Mist Sea, uncertain how to proceed after losing several elders, including Wu Xie.
• Lu Ye emerged from the array unharmed, and Huang Liang offered to help him fight once his injuries had improved.

Lu Ye revealed that he had killed the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators who entered Medicine Valley, then used the valley’s Grand Array to repel their attacks while allies awaited reinforcements. As the sect prepared to keep besieging them, Zhuang Bufan resolved to spend his remaining life on a final battle and walked toward the valley entrance.

• Lu Ye dispelled the Mist Sea and showed Huang Liang that Wu Xie and the other Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators inside it were dead.
• Yun Haitian offered Lu Ye a place in the Heavenly Chasm Sect, but Lu Ye refused to leave the valley, and Yun Haitian ordered his forces to keep attacking the formation.
• Lu Ye raised a light screen that blocked the attacks, and Huang Liang said reinforcements from the Imperial Heaven Sect, Vajra Temple, and Vast Righteousness Academy would arrive within days.
• Zhuang Bufan thanked Lu Ye, revealed that he had endured for this moment, and activated a Secret Technique that restored his Cloud River Tier Nine aura.
• Despite Ye Liuli’s tears and Lu Ye’s concern, Zhuang Bufan walked toward the valley entrance, while Yun Haitian dismissed him and anticipated an opportunity to attack outside the formation.

Zhuang Bufan revealed the Dragon Seat, a Full-Body Artificer Armor, and charged into the Heavenly Chasm Sect forces with overwhelming power. As he slaughtered his enemies, Lu Ye learned that the armor’s backlash had caused Zhuang Bufan’s injuries, while Huang Liang connected it to a battle over a divine weapon in Nan Province.

• Zhuang Bufan transformed into the crimson Dragon Seat, which Lu Ye recognized as Full-Body Artificer Armor.
• Little Medical Immortal and Huang Liang identified the armor as the Dragon Seat, and Yun Haitian fled from its terrifying aura.
• Zhuang Bufan attacked the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators and killed them with devastating ease.
• Little Medical Immortal explained that Zhuang Bufan could not control the Dragon Seat and had suffered backlash from using it.
• Huang Liang recalled that the Dragon Seat had likely appeared in Nan Province half a month earlier before Zhuang Bufan took it.

Zhuang Bufan used the Dragon Seat to wipe out the Heavenly Chasm Sect pursuers and died after demonstrating its power to Lu Ye. Lu Ye kept the Dragon Seat’s discovery secret, while Huang Liang wondered whether Lu Ye might be the destined genius who could save the Dragon Ascent World.

• Zhuang Bufan, wearing the Dragon Seat Artificer Armor, killed the Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators at the valley and pursued Yun Haitian.
• Lu Ye found the bloodied battlefield and recovered the Dragon Seat, learning that Zhuang Bufan had used his final strength to protect Medicine Valley and warn him about the armor.
• Lu Ye told Ye Liuli that Zhuang Bufan had done what he wanted, and the survivors mourned him as the crisis ended.
• Huang Liang explained the Dragon Seat’s history and warned Lu Ye that using it could exact a terrible cost.
• Lu Ye denied finding the Dragon Seat, and Huang Liang accepted his answer while privately wondering whether Lu Ye was the child destined to save the Dragon Ascent World.

Heavenly Saint continued his blood-soaked plan to break beyond the Cloud River, ignoring the approaching forces of the Cultivation World. The Allied Army led by the Three Great Overlord Sects reached the Heavenly Chasm Sect and launched its attack.

• Xing Mo told Heavenly Saint that more than a hundred pursuers, including over a dozen elders, had died, but Heavenly Saint refused to investigate.
• Heavenly Saint dismissed the approaching Allied Army, while Xing Mo and Cheng Henfeng realized the Sect Master might be deliberately letting unrest grow within the sect.
• Heavenly Chasm Sect elders slaughtered ordinary people and cultivators who tried to flee, feeding their blood into the vast river as Heavenly Saint prepared to complete his Grand Array.
• The Allied Army, led by the Three Great Overlord Sects and joined by 984 sects, entered Xue Province and condemned the Heavenly Chasm Sect's crimes.
• Guangjing and the gathered cultivators charged the Heavenly Chasm Sect, beginning the great battle.

The Dragon Ascent World’s Allied Army overwhelmed the Heavenly Chasm Sect, but Heavenly Saint activated the Blood River Great Array and revealed power that could withstand the strongest cultivators’ attacks. The chapter ended with the Allied Army wondering whether he had broken through the Cloud River Realm.

• Wei Zhongze recalled fleeing the Yellow Maple Gate after stabbing his master, then was mortally wounded by a monk from Vajra Temple.
• Xing Mo and the injured Cheng Henfeng reported that the Heavenly Chasm Sect was nearly destroyed, and Heavenly Saint said the time had come.
• Heavenly Saint walked to the Hundred-Zhang Altar, thanked the Allied Army for supplying the Blood Food needed to activate his Grand Array, and began its activation.
• Kui Yuanshan, Yuan Changcun, and Guangjing attacked Heavenly Saint together, but a dense Blood Light shielded him from their strikes.
• Heavenly Saint struck Guangjing with a streak of Blood Light, badly wounding him and leaving the Allied Army to suspect that Heavenly Saint had advanced beyond the Cloud River Realm.

Heavenly Saint used the slaughter on the battlefield to activate the Grand Array, sending a pillar of blood through the Heavenly Chasm and widening it. A blood-skinned stranger emerged from the resulting Blood Sea, restored Heavenly Saint, and left the Allied Army facing a terrifying new enemy.

• Xing Mo celebrated Heavenly Saint’s apparent rise in power, while Cheng Henfeng questioned whom the Sect Master had called “my lord.”
• Guangjing realized Heavenly Saint’s strength came from the Grand Array and led Yuan Changcun and the Allied Army in an attack.
• Heavenly Saint absorbed the Blood River’s power, unleashed a shockwave, and sent a pillar of blood into the Heavenly Chasm, which widened and filled with crimson light.
• Heavenly Saint collapsed as the sky appeared to bleed, and a blood-skinned man emerged from the Blood Sea beneath the Heavenly Chasm.
• The blood-skinned man confirmed that Heavenly Saint had communicated with him, praised his service, and restored his strength with Blood Qi.
• Heavenly Saint knelt to thank the blood-skinned man as the Allied Army’s leaders watched in shock.

Blood Fiend, a visitor from the Blood World, emerged at the Heavenly Chasm and led the Blood Race in an invasion of Longteng, forcing the Allied Army into battle. In Medicine Valley, Ye Liuli’s birthmark reacted to the upheaval, and Huang Liang revealed that the Heavenly Saint had used the Blood River Great Array to summon visitors from beyond the heavens.

• Xing Mo recognized Blood Fiend as a visitor from beyond the heavens and led the surviving Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators in kneeling to him.
• Blood Fiend demanded that Longteng’s cultivators submit and become Blood Slaves or die, while Kui Yuanshan tested him and judged him to be at the peak of the Cloud River Realm.
• After Guangjing asked Blood Fiend to return to the Blood World, Blood Fiend summoned tens of thousands of Blood Race members, and they joined the Heavenly Chasm Sect remnants in attacking the Allied Army.
• Ye Liuli fainted in Medicine Valley as Blood Light spread around her enlarged birthmark, while Lu Ye noticed that her condition mirrored the upheaval at the Heavenly Chasm.
• Huang Liang told Lu Ye that the Heavenly Saint had used the Blood River Great Array to draw visitors from beyond the heavens into Longteng.

Lu Ye learned that the Blood Race had emerged from the Heavenly Chasm and was hunting the defeated Allied Army, so he agreed to let them seek refuge in Medicine Valley. As the pursuers and survivors approached, he prepared to defend the valley and considered the Dragon Seat’s hidden power and responsibility.

• Huang Liang described the Blood Race’s emergence and begged Lu Ye to save the fleeing Allied Army, and Little Medical Immortal agreed to open Medicine Valley’s defenses.
• Lu Ye and Little Medical Immortal suspected Ye Liuli’s birthmark was connected to the Heavenly Chasm, and Lu Ye considered confronting the threat despite the dangers of the Dragon Seat.
• Huang Liang left to meet the Allied Army, while Lu Ye told Little Medical Immortal to hide with Ye Liuli and the Medicine Boys inside the Protective Grand Array.
• Little Medical Immortal revealed that the Dragon Seat had a second part, the Dragon Spine Blade, which a great force had kept suppressed for two thousand years.
• Yiyi returned to prepare for battle, and Amber alerted Lu Ye as the fleeing Allied Army and pursuing Blood Race arrived at Medicine Valley.

Lu Ye activated Medicine Valley’s Grand Array, trapping the pursuing Blood Race and Heavenly Chasm Sect survivors and turning the valley into a battlefield where Dragon Ascent cultivators could strike with his hidden support. The battle continued to claim many lives, while Lu Ye exhausted his Mind Power coordinating attacks and rescuing the wounded.

• Yuan Changcun led the fleeing Allied Army into Medicine Valley and stayed behind to hold off the pursuers while Lu Ye prepared the array.
• After the Blood Race and Heavenly Chasm Sect survivors entered the valley, Lu Ye activated the Grand Array, sealing the area in fog and preventing the enemies from flying out.
• The array separated and confused the fighters, allowing Lou Yichuan to kill a Blood Race member after Lu Ye exposed the enemy to his attack.
• Monk Puhui killed his opponent after a bolt of lightning from the array weakened the Blood Race member.
• Lu Ye used his Mind Power to aid Dragon Ascent cultivators across the valley, while Yiyi and Amber carried the wounded to the Little Medical Immortal for treatment.
• Lu Ye replenished his exhausted Mind Power with Soul Water as the battle raged and casualties mounted throughout Medicine Valley.

Lu Ye used Medicine Valley’s Grand Array to help the Longteng cultivators defeat the Blood Race, while discovering that their strongest fighters were likely True Lake Realm cultivators suppressed to peak Cloud River strength. The Blood Race escaped with heavy losses, and Lu Ye ended the battle by capturing several for questioning.

• Lu Ye studied the Blood Race’s corrosive Blood Qi and Secret Arts, noting that Buddhist chants, Thunder Methods, and fire arts were effective against them.
• Lu Ye realized that the dozen strongest Blood Race members likely had True Lake Realm foundations, though Longteng suppressed them to peak Cloud River strength.
• The strongest Blood Race members transformed into a Blood Dragon that rescued their allies and broke through the Grand Array, so Lu Ye opened a passage out of Medicine Valley to spare the Longteng cultivators further casualties.
• The Blood Dragon broke apart several hundred miles away; only around seven hundred Blood Race members survived, and the transformed fighters were left severely weakened.
• With the strongest enemies gone, Lu Ye helped the Longteng cultivators kill the remaining Blood Race, and every surviving cultivator in Medicine Valley was Human Race.
• Lu Ye told Huang Liang he had captured seven or eight Blood Race members and asked him to guard them so they could be questioned.