Chapter Summaries

Lan Qiyue returned as a Sacred Seed after being transformed by golden light in the Blood River, and Lu Ye learned that she still remembered him and intended to help him. The Blood Race members at Thousand Streams Blessed Land submitted to her authority, leaving her in charge of the stronghold.

• Lan Qiyue arrived on the battlefield, killed several True Lake Realm Blood Race members, and forced the others to kneel through her Sacred Seed bloodline suppression.
• Lu Ye brought Lan Qiyue to the rear courtyard and confirmed she still recognized him as her Senior Brother.
• Lan Qiyue explained that she had grabbed a ball of golden light in the Blood River and awakened as a Sacred Seed, though she did not know what the light was.
• Lan Qiyue offered to help Lu Ye and agreed to spare the Blood Race members outside because he wanted them alive.
• Lan Qiyue returned to the battlefield and declared herself in charge, and the Blood Race members pledged to serve the Sacred Venerable.

Lu Ye reached True Lake Tier Eight while Lan Qiyue expanded Thousand Streams Blessed Land and protected its Human Race residents. After Dao Thirteen recovered, Lu Ye decided to leave and search for why the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had sent him to the Blood Refining World; Lan Qiyue asked to join him, and he agreed to make arrangements for the people they would leave behind.

• Lan Qiyue reorganized the Blood Race under her command and forbade them from harming the Human Race, while expanding Thousand Streams Blessed Land and arranging care for pregnant women.
• Lu Ye advanced to True Lake Tier Eight, and Lan Qiyue and Dao Thirteen continued growing stronger as she led campaigns against nearby Blood Race Territories.
• After another two months, Dao Thirteen fully recovered his cultivation, and Lu Ye decided to leave Thousand Streams Blessed Land to seek the reason the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had sent him to the Blood Refining World.
• Lan Qiyue returned from a campaign with several hundred Blood Crystals for Lu Ye, then fled when she realized he was about to tell her he was leaving.
• Lan Qiyue pleaded to accompany Lu Ye and threatened the Human Race residents in anger, but Lu Ye reminded her of her past and agreed she could come if he first made arrangements for the Blessed Land.

Lan Qiyue gave Lu Ye a map and a Sacred Blood Jade to help him reach the Human Race stronghold in Divine Palace Sea. Lu Ye left Thousand Streams Blessed Land with Dao Thirteen and Yu Lingfeng, traveling south and entering another Blood Race Blessed Land under the guise of seeking refuge.

• Lan Qiyue told Lu Ye to travel south to Divine Palace Sea, where a Human Race force had fought the Blood Race for years.
• Lan Qiyue gave Lu Ye a Sacred Blood Jade infused with her aura to deter ordinary Blood Race members.
• Lu Ye departed with Dao Thirteen and Yu Lingfeng, then paused near Cangnan Village and saw that its people were safer under the ban on consuming living humans.
• Lu Ye's group left Thousand Streams Blessed Land and continued south, with Lu Ye killing Blood Race members for Blood Crystals along the way.
• Yu Lingfeng presented Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen as Blood Slaves while seeking refuge at another Blessed Land, whose Blood Race members welcomed him.

Lu Ye traveled south through the Blood Refining World, enslaving Blood Race Blessed Land Masters and collecting Blood Crystals. After Jinde told him about a Blood Food Grand Ceremony at Yellow Dome Blessed Land, Lu Ye went there and discovered hundreds of Human Race girls being held as food for the guests.

• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen used the Sacred Blood Jade to kill Blood Race cultivators, then planted the Soul Taming Divine Pattern in the surviving Blessed Land Master.
• Lu Ye continued south, subduing Blessed Land Masters along the way and crossing Heaven-Supporting Peak into Cloud Luo Plain.
• Jinde told Lu Ye that Wen Yufeng had advanced to the Divine Sea and was hosting a Blood Food Grand Ceremony at Yellow Dome Blessed Land.
• Lu Ye traveled with Jinde and Dao Thirteen to Yellow Dome Blessed Land, where they saw hundreds of young Human Race girls being held as blood food.
• Jinde presented Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen to Wen Yufeng as gifts, and Wen Yufeng welcomed Jinde into his sleeping hall.

Lu Ye enslaved Wen Yufeng and nearly thirty Blessed Land Masters, then continued south toward the Divine Palace Sea. When Star-Moon Sacred Land ordered the Blood Race to gather for an attack on Crimson Blood Sacred Land, Lu Ye decided to join the army and use it as cover.

• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen subdued Wen Yufeng, and Lu Ye planted a Soul Taming Divine Pattern in his soul.
• Lu Ye ordered Wen Yufeng to protect the Human Race and return captured women, and Wen Yufeng obeyed during the Blood Food Grand Ceremony.
• Lu Ye left with Dao Thirteen and Yu Lingfeng, having enslaved Wen Yufeng and nearly thirty True Lake Realm Blessed Land Masters.
• After traveling south for about two months, Lu Ye learned that Star-Moon Sacred Land was mustering troops to attack Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• Lu Ye ordered the local Blessed Land Master to include them in the gathering so they could travel with the Blood Race army toward the Divine Palace Sea.

Lu Ye joined the Blood Race army gathering at Star-Moon Sacred Land and learned that millions of Blood Race fighters planned to attack the Human Race’s Crimson Blood Sacred Land. A mysterious Human Race woman arrived and unleashed a devastating attack on the assembled forces, leaving Lu Ye shielded by Dao Thirteen as the massacre continued.

• Lu Ye traveled with Dao Thirteen and Yu Lingfeng among Blood Race troops gathering for the attack on Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• The Blood Race army at Star-Moon Sacred Land grew to several hundred thousand, and Lu Ye questioned a Blessed Land Master about the Human Race stronghold’s defenses.
• A mysterious woman in thin gauze approached, triggering Lu Ye’s and Dao Thirteen’s warnings before she continued through the camp.
• The woman rose above the army and cast Ten Thousand Pear Blossoms Blooming, killing every Blood Race member within a thousand zhang.
• Dao Thirteen covered Lu Ye as the attack erupted, while Yu Lingfeng and the Blessed Land Master vanished and the woman continued her massacre.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen escaped the Blood Race camp with a group of powerful Human Race cultivators from the Crimson Blood Sacred Land. After the Ghost Cultivator questioned why they had brought along two supposed Blood Slaves, Lu Ye denied that either of them bore a Blood Seal, but the Ghost Cultivator prepared to kill them anyway.

• A Spell Cultivator, a Sword Cultivator, and a Body Cultivator devastated the Blood Race camp while a Ghost Cultivator failed to assassinate the Star-Moon Sacred Venerate at the summit.
• Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen flew after the Sword Cultivator, who carried them away from the Blood Race pursuers and waited with them on a distant peak.
• The Ghost Cultivator arrived, followed by the Spell Cultivator and the Body Cultivator, and the group discussed Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen's apparent status as Blood Slaves.
• Lu Ye insisted that he and Dao Thirteen had never been branded with a Blood Seal, but the Ghost Cultivator dismissed his claim and produced a dagger.

Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen joined Jian Guhong’s group, proved they were not Blood Slaves, and reached Crimson Blood Sacred Land at the Divine Palace Sea. While the group reported to the Sacred Lord, Lu Ye noticed a stone stele that caught his attention.

• Jian Guhong recognized Dao Thirteen as a Dao Soldier, and the group suspected Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen might have come from beyond the Blood Refining World.
• The group tested Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen by sending them to attack Blood Race cultivators, confirming they were not Blood Slaves.
• Lu Ye told the old Ghost Cultivator that he had disguised himself and Dao Thirteen as Blood Slaves by bewitching a Blood Race cultivator, and the old man warned him not to use the method carelessly at Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• The female Spell Cultivator brought Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen across the Divine Palace Sea to Crimson Blood Sacred Land, where Lu Ye saw the human settlement and its defenses.
• While Jian Guhong and the others reported to the Sacred Lord, Lu Ye walked over to examine a stone stele that had caught his eye.

The Sacred Lord and Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s experts prepared for a massive Blood Race assault, while wondering what aid the Homeland had sent. Lu Ye arrived at the Sacred Land and met the Sacred Lord, who subdued Dao Thirteen and asked how Taishan was.

• The Sacred Lord learned that more than 1.3 million Blood Race soldiers and several Sacred Seeds were massing across the four fronts, threatening the outer islands and their Human Race population.
• Wuchang proposed that the peak experts could escape, but Jian Guhong warned that the Blood Race would slaughter the people left behind.
• The female Spell Cultivator asked what help the Homeland could provide, and the Sacred Lord said it had claimed to have already sent aid.
• Lu Ye read the matching inscriptions on the Sacred Land’s stone stele and was startled when Dao Thirteen reacted to the approaching Sacred Lord.
• Dao Thirteen attacked the Sacred Lord, who blocked his punch and put him to sleep with a finger, then told Lu Ye that the Dao Soldier’s flawed refinement had left his intelligence low and asked how Taishan was.

Lu Ye learned that Feng Wujiang and the powerful cultivators who had rescued him were people from Nine Provinces whom Heavenly Mechanism had sent to the Blood Refining World. He discovered Feng Wujiang was his long-dead Eldest Senior Brother, and the chapter ended with Yue Ji warning him about the ancient Granny Jiu.

• A middle-aged man asked Lu Ye about Taishan and then asked which province and sect he came from.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as a cultivator of the Soldier Province Crimson Blood Sect, prompting the man to ask about Tang Yifeng.
• The man revealed that he was Feng Wujiang, and Lu Ye rejected the claim because he believed his Eldest Senior Brother had died nearly forty years earlier.
• Jian Guhong, Yue Ji, Meng Jie, and Wuchang revealed their former positions and explained that they had all once been dead.
• Lu Ye realized that Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had sent ancient, era-defining cultivators to aid the Human Race in the Blood Refining World.
• Yue Ji identified the passing old woman as Granny Jiu, the thousand-year-old second-generation Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, and warned Lu Ye not to offend her.

Lu Ye reunited with his supposedly dead Eldest Senior Brother, Feng Wujiang, at the Crimson Blood Sacred Land and told him how the Crimson Blood Sect had fared. Their conversation left Feng Wujiang delighted and remorseful, while Lu Ye worried that Sect Master still feared for his safety.

• Granny Jiu corrected Yue Ji for speaking ill of others, and Feng Wujiang recognized Lu Ye as his Junior Brother.
• Feng Wujiang took Lu Ye to a pavilion and asked about the Main Sect and the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye explained the Crimson Blood Sect's hardships, his fellow disciples' progress, and how he had joined and helped preserve the sect.
• Feng Wujiang warned Lu Ye that trying to suppress the opposing camps by force had led to disaster in the Nine Provinces.
• Feng Wujiang was shocked that Lu Ye had reached True Lake Tier Eight in almost five years and heard that Shui Yuan had advanced to the Divine Sea Realm.
• Lu Ye worried that Sect Master was anxious because nearly a year had passed since Yu Daiwei captured him and escaped with the Teleportation Array.

Lu Ye explained how he had encountered Taishan and Dao Thirteen, then learned why Feng Wujiang and other Nine Provinces cultivators had been sent to the Blood Refining World. With the Crimson Blood Sacred Land facing a major Blood Race assault, Lu Ye revealed a Formation Plate that could let allies share strength, and Feng Wujiang recognized its potential for forming a battle formation.

• Lu Ye told Feng Wujiang how Yu Daiwei had taken him to an isolated Secret Realm, and Feng Wujiang identified the Venerable Lord as Taishan.
• Feng Wujiang explained that Dao Soldiers were humanoid artifacts whose rapid growth came at the cost of their potential and intelligence, while Lu Ye described his absolute control over Dao Thirteen.
• Feng Wujiang recounted how Nine Provinces cultivators had arrived over centuries with sealed cultivation and how he founded the Crimson Blood Sacred Land, which now faced an unusually large Blood Race army.
• Lu Ye presented the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate, and Feng Wujiang realized it could help cultivators form a battle formation by sharing strength.

Lu Ye’s Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate impressed Feng Wujiang with its potential to strengthen the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s forces, but artifact refiner Ouyang Zi could not reproduce its complex Spiritual Pattern. After resting, Lu Ye remembered Dao Thirteen and went looking for Feng Wujiang, who had left to inspect the defenses.

• Feng Wujiang recognized that Lu Ye’s Formation Plate could help cultivators form powerful battle formations and took it to study.
• Lu Ye was shown to a quiet chamber, where he rested and sensed that he had forgotten something.
• Ouyang Zi examined the Formation Plate and told Feng Wujiang that he could not inscribe its Spiritual Pattern or refine the item in large quantities.
• Feng Wujiang delayed visiting Lu Ye, while Dao Thirteen waited alone at the foot of the mountain.
• Lu Ye remembered Dao Thirteen the next day, found him, and learned that Feng Wujiang had gone to inspect the defensive works at the Surrounding Archipelago.

Lu Ye discovered that Sacred Mountain’s Heaven’s Mystery Pillar was temporarily inactive, then met Ouyang Zi and demonstrated how he refined the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate. The chapter left Sacred Land unable to rely on Ouyang Zi to reproduce the Spirit Pattern before the Blood Race army invaded.

• Lu Ye found the Heaven’s Mystery Pillar, but Feng Wujiang explained it activated only once every five years and would next open in about a year.
• Feng Wujiang promised Lu Ye stored cultivation supplies and Blood Crystals, which Lu Ye could use to advance his cultivation.
• Feng Wujiang introduced Lu Ye to Ouyang Zi, who doubted that someone so young had refined the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate.
• Lu Ye refined another Formation Plate and explained that his skill as a Spirit Pattern Master let him construct its complex Spirit Pattern.
• Ouyang Zi struggled to reproduce the Spirit Pattern, and Feng Wujiang concluded Sacred Land could not count on him to equip its defenders before the Blood Race invasion.

Lu Ye agreed to refine Formation Plates and learned that Feng Wujiang had sealed more than a hundred Blood Race Dao Soldiers because they could not be trusted in battle. After Lu Ye used his Soul Control Divine Soul to bring them under his control, he received materials and Blood Crystals and began absorbing the crystals to advance his cultivation.

• Feng Wujiang brought Lu Ye to a cavern where more than a hundred Blood Race Dao Soldiers had been sealed in vats.
• Feng Wujiang asked Lu Ye to control the Dao Soldiers, and Lu Ye explained that his Divine Pattern could suppress them absolutely because their intelligence was damaged.
• Lu Ye demonstrated his control method on one Dao Soldier, and Feng Wujiang awakened it to confirm that it obeyed Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye implanted the Soul Control Divine Soul in every Dao Soldier, then led the obedient group back to the Sacred Mountain.
• A blue-robed attendant delivered Formation Plate materials and Blood Crystals, and Lu Ye began absorbing the crystals with his Talent Tree.

Lu Ye prepared for the Blood Race's approaching assault by reaching True Lake Tier Nine, tattooing Shared Breath, Connected Branches patterns onto his Blood Race Soul Slaves, and drilling them in battle formations. He then joined Feng Wujiang and the Nine Provinces elders on a defensive island as they made their final preparations for the coming battle.

• Lu Ye refined thousands of Formation Plates, then cultivated until he reached True Lake Tier Nine and consolidated his breakthrough.
• After learning that the Blood Race army would arrive within days, Lu Ye tattooed Shared Breath, Connected Branches patterns onto Dao Thirteen and the other Blood Race Soul Slaves.
• Lu Ye drilled the Soul Slaves in a range of battle formations, using the Tattoo Patterns to link their vital auras.
• Lu Ye led the drilled Dao Soldiers to an outer island, where Feng Wujiang and the Nine Provinces powerhouses were assigning defensive duties.
• Lu Ye greeted the assembled elders as Feng Wujiang introduced him, while the group prepared for the Blood Race's large-scale assault.

Lu Ye joined the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s preparations and helped raise its chances against the approaching Blood Race army. As the battle began, the defenders activated their formations and Lu Ye poured his power into the Grand Array.

• Feng Wujiang overrode objections and decided that the Nine Provinces seniors would remain at the Crimson Blood Sacred Land to fight.
• Lu Ye arrived with Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates and was assigned to defend one of the eleven islands alongside Meng Jie and Yue Ji.
• Lu Ye inspected the island’s extensive defenses, then sensed the Blood Refining World’s World Will press against him as the Blood Race army approached.
• The Blood Race army advanced beneath a vast darkness, and the Human Race defenders activated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Arrays and other formations.
• Yue Ji and Meng Jie saw Lu Ye eating a Blood Crystal, and Lu Ye fed his power into the Grand Array.
• The city walls fired a pillar of light into the advancing Blood Race army, killing those in its path and beginning the battle.

The Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s eleven-island defense endured three days of Blood Race attacks before the Human Race feigned exhaustion to draw the enemy closer. When the Blood Race broke the final Protective Spirit Array and pressed toward the islands, the hidden strength of the formations unleashed a devastating counterattack, leaving the battle raging with the Blood Race’s advance repelled.

• The Blood Race sent waves of cannon fodder against the islands for three days while the formations slaughtered them beyond a thousand zhang.
• The Star-Moon Sacred Venerate ordered the Blood Race to proceed according to plan, and Yue Ji and Meng Jie likewise began the Human Race’s plan to feign weakness.
• Lu Ye explained that the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Grand Array had kept the Human Race’s defenders supplied with strength despite the prolonged fighting.
• The Human Race’s attacks weakened, allowing True Lake Realm and Divine Sea Realm Blood Race members to advance and break the first two Protective Spirit Arrays.
• The Blood Race broke the final Protective Spirit Array and rushed forward, believing the islands were vulnerable.
• The island formations unleashed their concealed power, devastating the Blood Race ranks and clearing the area near the islands.

Star-Moon Sacred Venerate ordered the Blood Race to continue its assault on Crimson Blood Sacred Land after the Human Race’s counterattack began to falter. Meng Jie and the Human Race cultivators then charged from the islands in battle formations, while Lu Ye led his Blood Race Dao Soldiers into an enemy Blood River.

• Star-Moon Sacred Venerate chose to press the attack, and the Blood Race advanced as the Human Race’s formations began to fail.
• Meng Jie hurled stones from his Stone String, turning them into enormous boulders that carved paths through the Blood Race army.
• Meng Jie charged into the enemy ranks, and Human Race cultivators leaped from the island walls in formations that manifested as ferocious beasts and dragons.
• Lu Ye and his nine-person Nine Palaces Linked Array entered a Blood River, where the Dao Soldiers killed the Blood Race hidden within it and made the river vanish.

Lu Ye led his Blood Race Dao Soldiers through the battlefield, using their formation and the Talent Tree to kill Divine Sea Realm Blood Race cultivators. After Yue Ji helped him defeat a Divine Sea Tier Eight opponent, Lu Ye pressed on while the battle remained locked in a brutal stalemate.

• Lu Ye used the Sword Gourd and the Nine Palaces Linked Array to lead his Dao Soldiers in killing Divine Sea Realm Blood Race cultivators.
• A Divine Sea Tier Eight Blood Race cultivator trapped Lu Ye and his Dao Soldiers inside a Blood River and attacked him.
• Lu Ye activated the Talent Tree to devour the Blood River’s power, forcing the Blood Race cultivator to withdraw the technique.
• Lu Ye charged the exposed enemy, and Yue Ji’s spell immobilized him long enough for Lu Ye and the Dao Soldiers to kill him.
• Lu Ye rushed toward another Divine Sea Realm enemy as Yue Ji stayed on guard and the wider battle continued at great cost to both sides.