Chapter Summaries

After the Corpse Race’s defeat, Lu Ye, Hua Ci, and Jujia left the ruined Heavenly Saint Hall and traveled toward the Purple Star Dao Palace. Hua Ci took the sinister severed hand to refine its poison, while the Peerless Continent’s humans began reclaiming their world.

• Lu Ye and Jujia stayed at the Heavenly Saint Hall to recover and guard the severed hand, while Lan Ziyi departed.
• Hua Ci arrived, checked their injuries, relayed Palace Master Pang’s invitation to visit the Purple Star Dao Palace, and took the severed hand, saying its poison would benefit her cultivation.
• Lu Ye, Hua Ci, and Jujia left the hall and saw Nine Provinces cultivators and local humans hunting the scattered Corpse Race across the continent.
• At the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm entrance, Lu Ye met Yuan Xiang and Zui Shan, who thanked him for helping save the Peerless Human Race.
• Zui Shan advised Yuan Xiang not to dwell on Lu Ye, and Hua Ci teased Lu Ye about being popular as the group continued toward the peaceful Dao Palace.

Lu Ye recuperated at Purple Star Dao Palace while using Source Imprinting, but he still failed to find the powerful blade cultivator he sought. As Nine Provinces cultivators gathered to return home, a factional clash broke out outside the Dao Palace, and Hua Ci hesitated to disturb Lu Ye while he was healing.

• Pang Huanyin thanked Lu Ye and his companions for saving the Peerless Human Race, then urged Lu Ye to rest and recover.
• Lu Ye returned to his room, teased Hua Ci for calling him Senior Brother, and began Source Imprinting the Dragon Ascent World Origin.
• Nine Provinces cultivators gathered at Purple Star Dao Palace to Borrow Passage home, but their opposing factions began fighting after the Corpse Race threat had nearly ended.
• Pang Huanyin sent for Lu Ye when the confrontation outside the Dao Palace grew too dangerous for her to handle.
• Hua Ci told the messenger that Lu Ye was still recuperating and worried that disturbing him might be unwise.

Lu Ye stopped a confrontation between the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge by urging the cultivators to return to the Nine Provinces, backed by several Cloud River Hegemony elites. As the cultivators departed through the newly formed entrance, Pang Huanyin asked Lu Ye to accompany her for a walk.

• Lu Ye arrived at the Dao Palace entrance and addressed the two camps, warning them not to fight in a foreign land.
• Lu Ye called out Ying Wuji, who joined him and urged both camps to postpone their conflict until they returned to the Nine Provinces.
• Mu Qingyun, Lan Ziyi, Lü Qing, Feng Rulie, and Yang Yuan gathered beside Lu Ye, and their presence quieted the crowd.
• A passage back to the Nine Provinces opened, and the gathered cultivators began leaving through it.
• Ying Wuji, Lü Qing, Feng Rulie, Yang Yuan, Lan Ziyi, and Mu Qingyun departed, leaving Lu Ye with Pang Huanyin.
• Pang Huanyin asked Lu Ye to accompany her for a walk, and he agreed.

Lu Ye said farewell to Pang Huanyin and returned to Nine Provinces with his companions, leaving the Peerless Continent behind. Pang Huanyin then began uniting the continent under Purple Star Dao Palace by sending forces against Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru.

• Pang Huanyin thanked Lu Ye for helping end the Corpse Calamity, and Lu Ye explained that he would likely be unable to return after advancing to True Lake.
• Pang Huanyin bid Lu Ye farewell, then hinted to Old Xiao that she had a plan that would benefit the Peerless Human Race.
• Lu Ye reunited with Hua Ci, Jujia, Li Baxian, Feng Yuechan, and the other Nine Provinces cultivators, and they returned through the gateway.
• Local Peerless Cultivators failed to enter the gateway after the Nine Provinces cultivators left, while Purple Star Dao Palace prepared to subdue the other two Human Race Secret Realms.
• Purple Star Dao Palace and the Stronghold humans quickly defeated Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru, whose cultivators had suffered heavy losses fighting the Corpse Race.

Pang Huanyin subdued Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru, then used the Heavenly Mechanism Pillars to begin restoring the ruined Peerless Continent. Lu Ye and his companions returned to the Cloud River Battlefield, where they parted ways with Hua Ci and expanded Return Heaven Valley Spirit Land with a captured Spring Spirit.

• Pang Huanyin forced Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru to submit after the Nine Provinces cultivators helped eradicate the Corpse Calamity.
• Pang Huanyin agreed to begin a change through Purple Star Dao Palace's Heavenly Mechanism Pillar, and the pillars across the four Great Mystic Realms sent gentle light over the Peerless Continent as its turbid sun began to recede.
• Lu Ye and his companions returned to the Cloud River Battlefield, and Li Baxian chose to set out for Return Heaven Valley Spirit Land while urging Lu Ye to prepare for True Lake.
• Hua Ci left the group to cultivate at Five Poisons Pool, and Lu Ye and the others continued toward their Spirit Land.
• Lu Ye placed Sacred Universe Spiritual Land's Spring Spirit in Return Heaven Valley Spirit Land's Spring Eye, expanding the Grade A Spirit Land so it could support about a hundred cultivators.

After returning from the Peerless Continent, Lu Ye checked his enormous Battle Merit gains and bought supplies before visiting the Battle Merit Pavilion. He befriended its Golden Flood Dragon and Silver Flood Dragon guards by offering them Demonic Commander-level beast meat, setting up a wager on how long he would survive.

• Lu Ye reviewed his Battle Merit, which had surged to 186,472 after the campaign against the Corpse Race and the death of the Golden Corpse King.
• Lu Ye bought Mystic Fires, Pill Fires, Demonic Cores, and four expensive pieces of True Lake Realm Monster Beast flesh through Heaven's Mystery Vault.
• Lu Ye entered the Battle Merit Pavilion and greeted the Golden Flood Dragon and Silver Flood Dragon, who revealed they had wagered on when he would die.
• Lu Ye challenged the Flood Dragons' wager by betting he would live for decades or longer and offered to bring them food whenever he visited.
• The Golden Flood Dragon and Silver Flood Dragon devoured the beast meat and eagerly looked to Lu Ye for more.

Lu Ye explored the Battle Merit Pavilion, claimed a free treasure, and exchanged for ten Golden Spirit Signs before cultivating to Cloud River Tier Nine. A month later, a strange overlapping scene appeared in his cabin as a familiar repulsion force surrounded him, though he was not yet ready to advance to True Lake.

• Lu Ye entered the Battle Merit Pavilion, claimed his free treasure reward, and exchanged Battle Merit for ten Golden Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye devoured Mystic Fire and Pill Fire with the Talent Tree, then began cultivating with his thirty Golden Spirit Signs while imprinting the Origin of Dragon Ascent World.
• Lu Ye advanced to Cloud River Tier Nine after consuming only a little over ten Golden Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye continued cultivating and planned to stop before reaching True Lake so he could finish expanding and adjusting his Spirit Land.
• A month after returning, Lu Ye and Yiyi noticed a hazy scene overlapping the wooden cabin as a repulsion force surrounded Lu Ye, though he confirmed he was not about to advance to True Lake.

A colossal Floating Land appeared above the Cloud River Battlefield, forcing Lu Ye and other cultivators back to Nine Provinces. There, Lu Ye discovered that the land was Peerless Continent, which was merging with the Cloud River Battlefield, and reunited with Pang Huanyin.

• A vast Floating Land blotted out the sky above the Cloud River Battlefield, and Li Baxian urged Lu Ye to return to Nine Provinces as Heavenly Mechanism expelled cultivators from the battlefield.
• Lu Ye, Hua Ci, and Jujia arrived at the Crimson Blood Sect’s Heavenly Mechanism Hall, where Shui Yuan told Lu Ye to ask Sect Master Tang about the phenomenon.
• Lu Ye and Hua Ci recognized Pang Huanyin when she left the Council Hall with Sect Master Tang, and Pang Huanyin greeted Lu Ye as her Senior Brother.
• Pang Huanyin explained that Peerless Continent had begun migrating into Nine Provinces after Heavenly Mechanism invited it to merge, and that its incomplete origin meant it would join the Cloud River Battlefield.
• Lu Ye realized that the enormous Floating Land above the battlefield was Peerless Continent, which would become accessible to cultivators there after the fusion.

After the Peerless Continent fused with the Cloud River Battlefield, Lu Ye learned that cultivators would be barred from the battlefield until it stabilized and that Pang Huanyin planned to rebuild the Purple Star Dao Palace in the Nine Provinces under the Crimson Blood Sect. Lu Ye took Pang Huanyin to find a place for her sect on Ao Mountain, while Hua Ci sought Shui Yuan’s guidance and the Sect Master was summoned away.

• The Sect Master explained that the Peerless Continent’s arrival was part of a realm fusion, which would keep cultivators out of the Cloud River Battlefield for ten days to several months.
• The Sect Master agreed to make the Crimson Blood Sect the Purple Star Dao Palace’s Upper Sect and offered the Dao Palace Spirit Peaks on Ao Mountain.
• Pang Huanyin told Lu Ye that she had chosen the Crimson Blood Sect, and he took her to look for a place to establish the Purple Star Dao Palace.
• Shui Yuan urged Hua Ci to pursue Lu Ye, but Hua Ci instead asked Shui Yuan to teach her medical arts.
• Jujia walked away before the Sect Master could offer him guidance, and the Sect Master hurried to Bright Heart Peak after being called.

Lu Ye and Pang Huanyin discussed the Nine Provinces and the Dao Palace’s plans to establish itself there as they traveled across Ao Mountain. Their journey brought them upon two cultivators fighting over a Three-Leaf Purple Sandalwood Flower, who offered it to Lu Ye after recognizing his identity.

• Pang Huanyin asked Lu Ye about the Nine Provinces’ cultivation environment, and he explained how the Spirit Stream and Cloud River Battlefields offered denser Spiritual Energy.
• Pang Huanyin said she had accepted the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism’s guidance to give the Peerless Human Race a future, and confirmed the Dao Palace would join the Vast Sky Alliance under the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Lu Ye admitted he had barely explored the Nine Provinces beyond the Crimson Blood Sect’s territory, and he and Pang Huanyin agreed to travel and see more together.
• Lu Ye and Pang Huanyin found a middle-aged man and an elderly man battling over a Three-Leaf Purple Sandalwood Flower on Ao Mountain.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as a Crimson Blood Sect disciple, and the elderly man recognized his reputation and offered him the flower before urging the middle-aged man to leave.

Lu Ye offered the Rogue Cultivators living on Ao Mountain a chance to join the Purple Star Dao Palace, which was preparing to establish itself as a subsidiary sect of the Crimson Blood Sect. As he explained sect ranks to Pang Huanyin, she questioned how the Dao Palace could qualify as Sixth-Rank without True Lake Realm cultivators.

• Lu Ye stopped two Rogue Cultivators who had been gathering herbs and asked how many cultivators lived on Ao Mountain.
• Lu Ye reassured the men that he would not drive them away and invited the Rogue Cultivators to offer Mountain Worship to the Purple Star Dao Palace.
• The two men accepted the news with surprise and decided to spread it among the Rogue Cultivators on Ao Mountain.
• Lu Ye told Pang Huanyin that recruiting local cultivators could help the Dao Palace, but warned her not to rely too heavily on them.
• Lu Ye explained how sect ranks were evaluated, and Pang Huanyin pointed out that the Dao Palace lacked the True Lake Realm cultivators required for Sixth-Rank status.

Lu Ye helped Pang Huanyin plan the Purple Star Dao Palace’s establishment in the Nine Provinces, then returned to the Crimson Blood Sect intending to advance to True Lake. A summons from Vast Sky City arrived, and Shui Yuan prepared to explain the crisis behind it.

• Lu Ye explained sect rankings and the Spirit Stream Battlefield to Pang Huanyin, who chose a Spirit Peak and thirty surrounding peaks for the Purple Star Dao Palace.
• Pang Huanyin planned to return to the Peerless Continent, prepare the Dao Palace cultivators, and bring several Cloud River cultivators to advance to True Lake.
• Lu Ye visited Bright Heart Peak and learned from Xiao Die that Madam Yun was repairing the Dragon Seat with Sect Master Tang.
• Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak and decided to use his Golden Spirit Signs to advance to True Lake after the Cloud River Battlefield closed.
• Zhao Che arrived with an order from the Council of Elders requiring the Crimson Blood Sect to send at least one disciple to Vast Sky City within three days.
• After Zhao Che left, Shui Yuan gathered Lu Ye, Hua Ci, and Jujia and said she needed to tell them what had happened.

Shui Yuan explained that Crimson Blood Sect had to send Cloud River Realm cultivators to the Bing Province Guard in Vast Sky City, Soldier Province’s defense force, after years of protection from the order. Lu Ye accepted the transfer and planned to go alone, while Shui Yuan began to mention benefits of joining the Guard.

• Shui Yuan explained that the Nine Provinces were divided between the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge, with Soldier Province contested by both camps.
• Shui Yuan revealed that sects had to supply members to their Province Guards and that the Sect Master and she already served in the Bing Province Guard.
• Shui Yuan said the Sect Master and Deputy Alliance Master Pang had previously shielded Crimson Blood Sect from the draft, but a new order required at least one member to report to Vast Sky City within three days.
• Lu Ye accepted the order and suspected someone wanted him exposed to danger, while Jujia and Hua Ci offered to go with him.
• Lu Ye decided to scout alone and forbade Jujia and Hua Ci from accompanying him, as Shui Yuan started to explain the benefits of joining the Bing Province Guard.

Shui Yuan explained the Bing Province Guard’s Battle Merit system and cultivation demands to Lu Ye, who prepared to join after receiving a transfer order to Vast Sky City. After studying a map and using a Golden Spirit Sign to cultivate, he departed, while the Sect Master and Madam Yun suspected factions in Vast Sky City were behind the order and feared for his safety.

• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that the Bing Province Guard paid monthly Battle Merit and explained its missions, ranks, and resource-intensive cultivation above the True Lake Realm.
• Lu Ye sold materials from the Crimson Blood Sect treasury, bought a Ten-Part Map, and studied the Twelve Passes and Vast Sky City’s role in Soldier Province.
• Lu Ye used a Golden Spirit Sign to cultivate for a day and a night before setting out for Vast Sky City to join the Bing Province Guard.
• Shui Yuan watched Lu Ye depart, while the Sect Master and Madam Yun discussed who might be monitoring him and Madam Yun vowed to retaliate if anyone harmed her disciple.

Lu Ye left the Crimson Blood Sect for Vast Sky City but stopped to rescue villagers from a sudden flood. After saving them with Yiyi and Amber, he discovered that the flood threatened a nearby city and rushed to find its source.

• Madam Yun told the Sect Master to go to Vast Sky City after the Dragon Seat was repaired, and he agreed to serve on the Council of Elders.
• Lu Ye encountered a flood that had submerged a village and used the Nine Formation Map to rescue its inhabitants with Yiyi and Amber.
• Clear Spring Sect cultivators arrived and recognized Lu Ye, who spotted the flood advancing toward a nearby city.
• Lu Ye gave Yiyi the Nine Formation Map and flew toward the flood's source while the Clear Spring Sect cultivators went to warn the city and evacuate its people.
• Yiyi released the rescued villagers on high ground, where two former Mine Slaves from Evil Moon Valley recognized Lu Ye and reflected on how their paths had diverged.

Lu Ye halted the flood by forming a barrier across the breached embankment, then killed the water monster responsible for the disaster. After Yuan Chou of Clear Spring Sect arrived and sealed the breach, Lu Ye departed, while the sect’s cultivators discovered the monster’s corpse.

• Lu Ye used Formation Flags to create a protective barrier across the embankment breach, but a water monster dragged him underwater before the formation was complete.
• Yiyi followed Lu Ye into the river and saw his saber light as he fought the monster beneath the surface.
• Lu Ye killed the Demonic General-level water monster, returned to sustain the formation, and stopped the flood from reaching a nearby city.
• Yuan Chou of Clear Spring Sect arrived, thanked Lu Ye, and used stones to stabilize and seal the breach while Lu Ye left.
• Clear Spring Sect cultivators arrived and completed the repairs, then found the water monster’s corpse and realized it had caused the embankment collapse.

Yuan Chou grew suspicious that someone had deliberately used a water monster to delay Lu Ye, who continued toward Vast Sky City after leaving the river. After surviving a clash between rival cultivators, Lu Ye was ambushed by a True Lake Realm spellcaster near a Spirit Peak, just as a familiar figure appeared.

• Yuan Chou wondered whether someone had planted the water monster to keep Lu Ye from reaching Vast Sky City before his summons deadline.
• Lu Ye rested in the wilderness and used his Protective Spirit Array to foil a wounded Myriad Demon Ridge cultivator trying to seize him.
• A pursuing Sword Cultivator killed the black-clothed man after Lu Ye told him to fight without holding back.
• Lu Ye resumed his journey and, near a Spirit Peak, raised a Defense Spirit Pattern against a spell that pursued him through the air.
• A figure with a familiar aura appeared and charged toward the Spirit Peak as Lu Ye realized his guess had been correct.

Lu Ye survived an ambush on the road to Vast Sky City and learned that someone had arranged several incidents to delay or test him. He reached the city before his deadline, but the Order Transmission Division’s guards kept him waiting while its Division Master and a companion discussed his report.

• Shui Yuan wounded the Spell Cultivator who had attacked Lu Ye, then warned Lu Ye that someone was trying to delay him and advised him to keep a low profile in the Bing Province Guard.
• Lu Ye realized the flooding and the fleeing Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivator had been tests to see whether a powerful protector was following him.
• After Shui Yuan assured him there would be no further trouble, Lu Ye continued on and arrived at Vast Sky City around dusk.
• Lu Ye entered the city, where its power activated his Battlefield Mark, and went to the Order Transmission Division to report back before the transfer deadline.
• The guards told Lu Ye to wait because the Division Master was receiving guests, and one refused to announce him when he pressed for an answer.
• Inside, the Division Master continued examining a Jade Slip while her companion warned that Lu Ye's deadline could pass and that Shui Yuan might fight her over it.

Lu Ye reported to the Order Transmission Division in Vast Sky City by barging into the hall, where the Division Master had him sentenced to three lashes and ten days in the Penal Prison. As he entered the prison, he saw a True Lake Realm cultivator suffer terribly from a single lash.

• Lu Ye stormed into the Order Transmission Division and presented the transfer order, fulfilling it before the deadline.
• The Division Master pressured Lu Ye and asked Qian Wudang to name his punishment; Qian Wudang reduced the penalty from beheading to three lashes and ten days in prison.
• Qian Wudang escorted Lu Ye to the Penal Prison and told the prison guards to take him in.
• A prison attendant led Lu Ye past the cells and explained the Guard's strict laws and Lu Ye's punishment.
• Lu Ye watched an executioner lash a defiant True Lake Realm cultivator, who convulsed in agony before letting out a scream.

Lu Ye endured punishment with the Reverse Dragon Thorn before being imprisoned in a Dragon Confinement Gate for ten days. Though the whip inflicted severe pain on his body and soul, he soothed his soul with Soul Cleansing Water and settled in with Amber.

• Old One-Eye whipped a bald cultivator unconscious, then prepared to punish Lu Ye, who had been brought in by order of Division Master Qian Wudang.
• Lu Ye endured three lashes from the Reverse Dragon Thorn without passing out, surprising Old One-Eye with the strength of his soul.
• The middle-aged elder gave Lu Ye healing advice and escorted him into an empty Dragon Confinement Gate, where his Spiritual Power was sealed.
• Lu Ye comforted Amber and Yiyi, then used Soul Cleansing Water to ease the pain in his soul.