Chapter Summaries

With Yu Daiwei gone, Lu Ye tested two new Spiritual Patterns while planning his escape from the Nameless Secret Realm. Soul Control failed against Dao Thirteen, so Lu Ye created a strengthened Shadow Clone instead.

• Yu Daiwei left the Nameless Secret Realm and ordered Dao Thirteen to keep Lu Ye under constant watch.
• Lu Ye discovered Shared Breath, Connected Branches, a Spiritual Pattern that let people within its range share strength and combine their power.
• Lu Ye learned that Soul Control could enslave souls, but his attempts to control Dao Thirteen failed against the Divine Sea Realm cultivator's soul defense.
• Dao Thirteen punched Lu Ye unconscious during the third attempt, and Lu Ye later confirmed that Soul Control could not work on him yet.
• Lu Ye activated Shadow Clone and used Twin Lotus and the Talent Tree to make a solid clone identical to himself.

Lu Ye used a Clone to keep Dao Thirteen watching the Secret Realm’s entrance while he secretly found and began draining the Spirit Vein that sustained the realm. He continued absorbing its power for more than a month, reached Tier Six of the True Lake Realm, and remained trapped as the Spirit Vein still held plenty of strength.

• Lu Ye disguised his true body with concealment techniques, sent his Clone to occupy Dao Thirteen, and abandoned an attempt to open the Secret Realm’s exit directly.
• Lu Ye dug more than a hundred zhang underground, exposed the Spirit Vein, and used the Talent Tree to absorb its power so the Secret Realm would eventually collapse.
• Lu Ye hid his excavation and cultivation beneath concealment Formations while his Clone kept Dao Thirteen’s attention near the entrance.
• Yu Daiwei visited, saw Lu Ye’s Clone sitting by the entrance, ordered Dao Thirteen to keep watch, and left without discovering the true body.
• After more than a month of continuous absorption, Lu Ye advanced to Tier Six of the True Lake Realm, but the Spirit Vein remained abundant and his attempts to create another Clone failed.

After Lu Ye destabilized the Nameless Secret Realm’s Spirit Vein, he escaped its collapse but was carried away from the Nine Provinces by the Heavenly Mechanism. He was falling toward an unfamiliar gourd-shaped world when he discovered his Spiritual Power had been sealed.

• Lu Ye realized his Clone contained a rare segment of Talent Tree root and might not be replaceable if destroyed.
• After more than two months of drawing on the Spirit Vein, Lu Ye caused the Nameless Secret Realm to shake and begin collapsing.
• As the Secret Realm broke apart, the Clone used a Teleportation Array to return to Lu Ye, who retrieved it before fleeing toward a rift with Dao Thirteen in pursuit.
• Lu Ye entered the rift but found himself falling through space toward an unfamiliar gourd-shaped world, which he suspected the Heavenly Mechanism had sent him to.
• As Lu Ye neared the ground amid falling meteorites, he tried to fly but discovered that his Spiritual Power had been imprisoned.

Lu Ye survived his fall into an unfamiliar world after the Heavenly Mechanism suppressed his cultivation, then found Dao Thirteen and used the God Extinguishing Sword to make him a soul-tamed helper. They fled the meteor impact site together, with Dao Thirteen carrying Lu Ye.

• Lu Ye used a brief burst of the Flying Wing Spiritual Pattern to slow his fall and survived the impact with injuries.
• Lu Ye sensed familiar vitality nearby and found the unconscious Dao Thirteen in a crater.
• Lu Ye failed to tame Dao Thirteen with the Soul Taming Divine Pattern alone, so he used the God Extinguishing Sword to break through his soul defense and brand the mark.
• Lu Ye gave Dao Thirteen Soul Water, ordered him to flee, and discovered that his cultivation had also been suppressed.
• Lu Ye climbed onto Dao Thirteen's back, and Dao Thirteen carried him away from the meteor impact site.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen hid in a cave while Lu Ye tried to understand their unfamiliar world and recover his suppressed cultivation. After three days, they found a village whose human residents seemed prosperous but lived in constant fear, and the village chief accepted Lu Ye as a refugee.

• Lu Ye failed to break the force suppressing his cultivation, though he discovered it was gradually weakening, and he questioned Dao Thirteen about the Venerable Lord without learning much.
• After three days in the cave, Lu Ye left with Dao Thirteen because his cultivation was recovering too slowly to wait for it to return fully.
• Lu Ye found a village of nearly a thousand people, including many Spirit Stream cultivators, and noticed that its residents seemed anxious despite their apparent comfort.
• When Lu Ye entered the village, a child called them refugees, and the village chief approached to question him.
• Lu Ye pretended to be a sorrowful refugee and showed his Spirit Stream Tier Three cultivation; the village chief let him stay and led him to a small courtyard.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen settled into Cangnan Village, where the villagers feared the coming of night and sent them hunting with Brother Zhang Five. Lu Ye discovered that eating beast meat could briefly weaken the power suppressing his cultivation, but eating more meat failed to reproduce the effect.

• Lu Ye found bloodstains in his assigned courtyard and saw the villagers shut themselves indoors before sunset, silencing their children.
• The next day, the village chief warned Lu Ye not to wander at night and assigned him and Dao Thirteen to Brother Zhang Five's hunting team.
• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen hunted successfully, returned before sunset, and received beast meat and Spirit Rice from the village chief.
• While eating the hunted meat, Lu Ye noticed the binding power in his body dissipating faster and used Taotie Meal to confirm the effect.
• Lu Ye ate more meat from his Storage Bag, but the binding power no longer reacted, leaving him puzzled.

Lu Ye discovered that eating food from this world helped dissolve the seal on his cultivation, and he and Dao Thirteen gradually recovered while investigating Cangnan Village. He identified the feared Sacred Race as the Blood Race, then ordered Dao Thirteen to attack a Blood Race member who had abducted and killed a villager.

• Lu Ye tested his theory by eating Spirit Rice and found that food native to this world sped up the dissipation of the sealing force.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the Nine Provinces' Heavenly Mechanism had concealed his arrival from this world's will by sealing his cultivation and using a meteor shower.
• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen hunted and ate local beasts at night, recovering to Spirit Stream Realm Sixth Layer over five days while Lu Ye learned that villagers feared the Sacred Race.
• Lu Ye saw a blood-red figure carrying a dead Cangnan Village woman and recognized the stranger as a Blood Race member from the Blood World.
• The Blood Race member tried to seize Dao Thirteen, failed to pierce his flesh, and Lu Ye ordered Dao Thirteen to take him down.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen captured a Blood Race member, and Lu Ye used A Touch of Spiritual Connection to learn about the Blood Refining World and its brutal rule over the Human Race. After killing the captive and eating his Blood Crystal to hasten the recovery of his cultivation, Lu Ye drew another Blood Race member to them, who demanded to know how his kin had died.

• Dao Thirteen seized the unfamiliar Blood Race member, and Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen subdued him with Divine Sense attacks.
• Lu Ye used A Touch of Spiritual Connection on the captive and learned that the Blood Race ruled the Blood Refining World and raised the Human Race as Blood Food.
• Lu Ye killed the unconscious captive, removed his Blood Crystal, and ate it to help dissolve the power confining his cultivation.
• A second Blood Race member flew toward the village, but Lu Ye drew him to their location by releasing Spiritual Power.
• The newcomer saw the dead Blood Race member and asked Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen how he had died.

Lu Ye enslaved the Blood Race member Zhang Julai and had him lead Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen to Bright Moon Cave, where Zhang Julai’s Blood Slaves could pass as captives. After entering the cave estate, Lu Ye spotted someone in a dwelling and stopped in surprise.

• Lu Ye chose to enslave Zhang Julai with Soul Taming instead of killing him for his Blood Crystal.
• Zhang Julai explained that Blood Race members took the names of Human Race victims and described how their cave estates operated.
• Lu Ye ordered Zhang Julai to take him to Bright Moon Cave, where more than a dozen Blood Race members lived under Sun Miaozhu.
• Zhang Julai introduced Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen as his Blood Slaves, and the guard let them enter the cave.
• Lu Ye noticed a figure inside a cave dwelling and stopped to look.

Lu Ye learned that the Blood Race abducted human women to serve as broodmothers and that Bright Moon Cave’s master, Sun Miaozhu, preyed on human men. After Sun Miaozhu claimed Dao Thirteen as her own, Dao Thirteen killed her, and the other Blood Race members began converging on them.

• Lu Ye learned from Zhang Julai that humans in Bright Moon Cave were abducted for the Blood Race’s pleasure and to bear Blood Race children.
• A Blood Race messenger summoned Zhang Julai and his two new Blood Slaves to Sun Miaozhu, the master of Bright Moon Cave.
• Sun Miaozhu claimed Dao Thirteen for herself, and Lu Ye let Dao Thirteen go with her.
• Lu Ye waited outside while Dao Thirteen killed Sun Miaozhu, then returned as Dao Thirteen took her Blood Crystal.
• The other Blood Race members rushed toward the hall after hearing Sun Miaozhu’s screams.

Lu Ye kept Bright Moon Cave intact to shelter abducted pregnant Human Race women and helped Zhang Julai seize control of it. After recovering to Cloud River Tier One, Lu Ye directed Zhang Julai to forbid the Blood Race from preying on Blood Food, an order that provoked immediate opposition.

• Lu Ye appointed Zhang Julai to manage Bright Moon Cave rather than kill all its Blood Race members, because the abducted Human Race women there were pregnant.
• Zhang Julai claimed the Cave Abode Master position, and Dao Thirteen killed the Blood Race challenger with one punch, prompting the others to accept Zhang Julai as their leader.
• Lu Ye consumed Sun Miaozhu's Blood Crystal and recovered to the Cloud River Realm, while Dao Thirteen also ate a Blood Crystal but reacted violently as its power clouded his Spiritual Light.
• Lu Ye concluded Dao Thirteen could use Blood Crystals only sparingly and instructed Zhang Julai to convene Bright Moon Cave's Blood Race members.
• Zhang Julai announced that the Blood Race under Bright Moon Cave could no longer casually hunt or bully Blood Food, and the members erupted in protest.

Lu Ye ordered Bright Moon Cave Abode to stop killing humans and arranged for them to provide blood, then sent Zhang Julai and the Blood Race to attack Baiyue Cave Abode. While they were away, Lu Ye studied Shared Breath, Connected Branches and refined a Formation Plate, but its range proved far smaller than he expected.

• Zhang Julai silenced the Blood Race and ordered them to use blood collected from nearby villages instead of killing humans for cultivation.
• Zhang Julai announced an attack on Baiyue Cave Abode, and the Blood Race eagerly agreed to go together the next morning.
• Lu Ye stayed behind at Bright Moon Cave Abode while Zhang Julai and Dao Thirteen led the Blood Race toward Baiyue Cave Abode.
• Lu Ye examined Shared Breath, Connected Branches and realized it could link cultivators' strength and serve as the core of a powerful formation.
• Lu Ye spent half a day refining a Formation Plate, but its effects reached only one zhang from its center.

Lu Ye helped Lan Qiyue survive childbirth, then watched as she destroyed the Blood Fetus she had delivered. Lan Qiyue revealed her hatred of the Blood Race, and Lu Ye assured her he would not have let the Blood Fetus live either.

• Lu Ye found Lan Qiyue in labor and, unable to get help from the other women, used his Spiritual Power to support her.
• When Lan Qiyue began to lose her strength, Lu Ye activated Twin Phoenixes Flying Spiritual Pattern, restoring her vitality and helping her deliver the Blood Fetus.
• Lan Qiyue seized Lu Ye's Crag Mountain Saber and hacked the Blood Fetus apart, while Lu Ye let her act without interference.
• Lu Ye arranged hot water for Lan Qiyue and later received her thanks when she came to his cave and told him her name.
• Lan Qiyue explained that she killed the Blood Fetus because she hated the Blood Race, and Lu Ye told her he would not have allowed it to live either.

Lu Ye discovered that Lan Qiyue possessed an Innate Dao Body and began teaching her cultivation, assigning her to care for the Human Race women at Bright Moon Cave Abode. After Zhang Julai returned from defeating Baiyue Cave Abode with Dao Thirteen’s help, Lu Ye used the captured Blood Crystals to restore his cultivation and continued wondering why the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had sent him to the Blood Refining World.

• Lu Ye recognized Lan Qiyue’s Innate Dao Body, taught her the Great Sun Glazed Art, gave her supplies, and told her to kill the Blood Fetuses born at Bright Moon Cave Abode.
• Zhang Julai returned with surrendered Blood Race members, rescued Human Race women, and six remaining Blood Crystals from the victory over Baiyue Cave Abode.
• Lu Ye took five Blood Crystals, gave one to Dao Thirteen, and instructed Zhang Julai to bring the newcomers under his rules and improve his cultivation.
• After two days, Zhang Julai led the Blood Race out to attack another nearby cave abode so Lu Ye could obtain more Blood Crystals.
• Lu Ye reached Cloud River Tier Nine, studied the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Spirit Pattern, and questioned the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism’s purpose in sending him to the Blood Refining World.

Lu Ye managed Bright Moon Cave Abode as its population grew and agreed to accompany Zhang Julai to the Blood River. After helping Lan Qiyue escort two women to safety, they reached the blood-filled pool where Zhang Julai planned to cultivate.

• Lan Qiyue advanced to Spirit Stream Tier Eight, while Bright Moon Cave Abode grew crowded with Blood Race members and pregnant human women.
• Zhang Julai asked Lu Ye to let him enter the Blood River in hopes of improving his strength, and Lu Ye agreed.
• Lan Qiyue told Lu Ye that two women had given birth to Blood Fetuses, which she had killed, and asked for help escorting the women away.
• Lu Ye, Zhang Julai, and Lan Qiyue took the two women to Cangnan Village, then continued toward the Blood River.
• The group arrived at a barren mountaintop and saw a pool filled with viscous, blood-red liquid.

Lu Ye discovered that the Blood River might be the Blood Refining World's Earth Vein and entered it to investigate, but the Talent Tree's fuel made prolonged cultivation too costly. When he returned, Lan Qiyue had vanished into the Blood Pool, and Lu Ye could not find her despite searching the dangerous waters.

• Zhang Julai jumped into the Blood Pool, and Lu Ye found that its bloody water blocked Divine Sense and held vast, corrosive energy.
• Lu Ye entered the Blood River to explore and cultivate, but the Talent Tree burned through too much fuel to make staying worthwhile.
• Lu Ye emerged to find Lan Qiyue missing and killed the Blood Race member who had arrived with a Blood Fetus.
• Lu Ye searched the Blood River for half an hour but found no trace of Lan Qiyue, whose survival seemed unlikely.

Lu Ye mourned Lan Qiyue and Zhang Julai after losing them in the Blood River, while Lan Qiyue encountered a mysterious golden light that entered her body. Meanwhile, Thousand Streams Blessed Land decided to confront Bright Moon Cave Abode over its expansion, leaving Wan Fang on his way to demand tribute and obedience.

• Lu Ye blamed himself for Lan Qiyue’s disappearance and discovered that Zhang Julai had likely died in the Blood River, then left after taking a Blood Crystal and destroying a Blood Fetus.
• Lan Qiyue drifted through the Blood River as its waters corroded her body, until she grasped a golden light that entered her chest and made her shine.
• Blood Race settlements and their hierarchy were explained, including how Bright Moon Cave Abode fell under Thousand Streams Blessed Land’s jurisdiction.
• Yu Lingfeng learned that Bright Moon Cave Abode had conquered nearby cave abodes under Zhang Julai and ordered Wan Fang to demand that Zhang Julai stop and deliver tribute.
• Yu Lingfeng told Wan Fang to kill Zhang Julai if he refused, then considered taking Zhang Julai’s two powerful Blood Slaves for himself.

Lu Ye took control of Thousand Streams Blessed Land through Yu Lingfeng and ordered an end to the Blood Food tribute and attacks on humans. After Lu Ye killed the strongest dissenting Blood Race member, Yu Lingfeng commanded the others to prepare for an attack on Northern Min Blessed Land to obtain Blood Crystals.

• Lu Ye used the Soul Taming Divine Pattern to subdue Yu Lingfeng, the master of Thousand Streams Blessed Land, and instructed him on what to do.
• Yu Lingfeng summoned his True Lake Realm subordinates and announced that Blood Food tributes were abolished and Blood Race members could no longer harm humans indiscriminately.
• A middle-aged Blood Race member challenged Yu Lingfeng's order, and Lu Ye killed him with a single saber strike.
• The remaining Blood Race members accepted Yu Lingfeng's command to collect measured amounts of fresh human blood from villages.
• Yu Lingfeng ordered the cave estates to assemble their forces so he could attack Northern Min Blessed Land and seize Blood Crystals.

Lu Ye strengthened Thousand Streams Blessed Land while protecting the Human Race women and destroying the Blood Fetuses brought to him. When three neighboring blessed lands joined forces to attack, he secured the women and prepared formations across the territory for the coming battle.

• Lu Ye stayed behind while Thousand Streams Blessed Land captured Northern Min Blessed Land and another neighboring territory, focusing on cultivation and the Human Race women.
• A young helper brought Lu Ye a newly delivered Blood Fetus, which he burned to ash before resuming cultivation.
• Yu Lingfeng asked for help asserting control over stronger Blood Race cultivators, and Lu Ye ordered Dao Thirteen to kill anyone Yu Lingfeng named.
• Yu Lingfeng warned Lu Ye that White Cloud Blessed Land, Heavenly Watchtower Blessed Land, and Clear Autumn Blessed Land were marching to attack Thousand Streams Blessed Land.
• Lu Ye ordered Yu Lingfeng to prepare for battle, sent Dao Thirteen with him, and set up a Protective Grand Array around the Human Race women.
• Lu Ye placed Formation Plates throughout Thousand Streams Blessed Land as its Blood Race forces prepared for the approaching battle.

Lu Ye activated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Array to help Thousand Streams Blessed Land resist the Allied Army, but the battle remained uncertain while Dao Thirteen was trapped in a Blood River. Lan Qiyue suddenly returned as a powerful Blood Race cultivator, stunned both armies, and reunited with Lu Ye on the battlefield.

• The Allied Army of three blessed lands attacked Thousand Streams Blessed Land, whose forces were outnumbered and began to suffer heavy losses.
• Dao Thirteen charged into the enemy ranks, but True Lake Realm Blood Race members trapped him inside a Blood River.
• Lu Ye used his Sword Gourd to kill enemy cultivators, then activated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Array to strengthen Thousand Streams Blessed Land's forces.
• Lu Ye saw that the array also benefited enemy cultivators and considered rescuing Dao Thirteen, but he needed to protect the Human Race women.
• A blood-red radiance plunged into the Blood River, and Lan Qiyue emerged with Dao Thirteen, draining the blood of several True Lake Realm cultivators.
• Lan Qiyue spotted Lu Ye and smiled, while both armies stopped in fear at the golden pupils in her Blood Race appearance.