Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye arranged a trap at Dark Moon Forest Pass to catch Yu Huajin, using Yu Daiwei to draw her attention with a teleportation. As Yu Huajin struck at the arriving figure, a hidden assailant stabbed her through the heart, leaving Lu Ye and the others stunned.

• Yu Huajin waited at Dark Moon Forest Pass, planning to kill Lu Ye when he emerged from the Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Lu Ye asked Yu Daiwei to use a Teleportation Spirit Array from Startled Waves Lake Pass to Dark Moon Forest Pass, promising to meet Taishan in return.
• Yu Daiwei agreed after realizing Lu Ye intended to use her arrival to distract Yu Huajin.
• Lu Ye went to Dark Moon Forest Pass while Lin Yue and the Clone delayed Yu Huajin with assurances that he would arrive shortly.
• Yu Huajin attacked the figure emerging from the array as Lu Ye and Li Taibai's Clone launched a simultaneous assault.
• A concealed figure appeared behind Yu Huajin and stabbed her through the heart, while Lu Ye stood nearby in shock and Yu Daiwei arrived unharmed.

Nian Yuexian killed Yu Huajin after she ambushed the Teleportation Spirit Array, but Yu Huajin’s final Soul Secret Technique damaged Clone Li Taibai’s Divine Soul. Lu Ye restored the Clone and prevented Nian Yuexian from killing Yu Daiwei, whom he had summoned to help with his plan.

• Nian Yuexian ambushed Yu Huajin and fatally wounded her, revealing that Lu Ye had anticipated the assassination and placed a guarded stand-in on the Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Yu Huajin unleashed Soul Flame Mutual Destruction against Clone Li Taibai before dying, destroying the Clone’s Divine Soul Power and causing him to collapse.
• Lu Ye caught the Clone and replenished his Divine Soul Power, allowing him to awaken and reassure Lin Yue that he was unharmed.
• Yu Daiwei called Lu Ye’s attention as she faced Nian Yuexian, who considered killing her.
• Lu Ye told Nian Yuexian to spare Yu Daiwei because she had come at his request and would be needed for later matters.

After Nian Yuexian killed Yu Huajin for targeting Lu Ye, Lu Ye left Dark Moon Forest Pass with Yu Daiwei to meet Taishan at Ao Mountain. He arrived hoping to stabilize Taishan’s forces and enlist them for a return to the Blood Refining World, while Taishan saw the meeting as a chance to win Lu Ye’s support for Chaos.

• Nian Yuexian spared Yu Daiwei after Lu Ye vouched for her, then departed with Yu Huajin’s corpse.
• Zhao Cheng left the Sect Master after accepting that his junior sister had chosen a dangerous path he could no longer stop.
• Yu Daiwei met Lu Ye outside Dark Moon Forest Pass and noticed that his cultivation had reached Divine Sea Tier Four.
• Lu Ye followed Yu Daiwei toward Ao Mountain, intending to placate Taishan and discuss borrowing his forces for a return to the Blood Refining World.
• Lu Ye met Taishan on an unnamed peak, while Taishan hoped to persuade him to support the rise of Chaos.

Lu Ye revealed that Feng Wujiang, whom Taishan had believed dead, was alive in the Blood Refining World and recounted the Human Race’s struggle there. He asked Taishan to help him bring people back before the Blood Race’s next attack on the Crimson Blood Sacred Land.

• Lu Ye exposed Taishan’s private secrets, prompting Taishan to suspect that Lu Ye knew them through the supposedly dead Feng Wujiang.
• Lu Ye demonstrated that he knew how to make a Dao Soldier fall asleep, convincing Taishan that he had learned the method from Feng Wujiang.
• Taishan explained that Heaven’s Mystery favored Lu Ye and might not enforce an oath sworn by him, so Lu Ye’s attempt to swear an oath before Yu Daiwei failed.
• Lu Ye told Taishan how he had entered the Blood Refining World and described Feng Wujiang’s leadership of the Human Race and the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s ongoing battles against the Blood Race.
• Lu Ye asked Taishan to help him return to the Blood Refining World with reinforcements before the Blood Race attacked the Crimson Blood Sacred Land again.

Lu Ye met with Taishan to discuss returning to the Blood Refining World and the proposal for a third-party camp, persuading Taishan to wait before pursuing it. Taishan agreed to accompany Lu Ye on his next journey and gave him refined Insect Blood and a method that could help Nine Provinces cultivators resist the Primordial Magnetic Field.

• Lu Ye explained that his Eldest Senior Brother wanted Taishan to postpone creating a third-party camp until after visiting the Blood Refining World and discussing the matter with him.
• Taishan revealed that he had agreed to Lu Ye’s request because he wanted to travel with him to the Blood Refining World, verify his claims, and fight there if they proved true.
• Lu Ye and Taishan clasped hands and agreed that they would meet again when the Heavenly Mechanism sent Lu Ye back to the Blood Refining World.
• Taishan gave Lu Ye a jar of refined Insect Blood and a Jade Slip describing how to refine it, explaining that it could let cultivators retain about sixty percent of their strength underground.
• Taishan told Lu Ye that his people had obtained the refinement method from researchers in Mist Province and promised to give him the complete recording of the Bug Disaster’s source.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had already visited the Great Secret Realm shown in Taishan’s images.

Lu Ye delivered Taishan’s Insect Blood and refinement method to the Sect Master, whose tests confirmed they worked and prompted Nine Provinces to prepare a united counterattack against the Great Insect Mystic Realm. As the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge negotiated cooperation and access to Lu Ye’s formation plates, Lu Ye’s reputation spread across Nine Provinces.

• Lu Ye brought Taishan’s Insect Blood and Jade Slip to the Sect Master and asked him to credit the discoveries to Lu Ye rather than reveal Taishan’s involvement.
• The Sect Master tested the Insect Blood and confirmed that it let cultivators retain sixty percent of their combat strength deep in the Insect Path.
• The Sect Master convened a Grand Council, and Soldier Province shared the refinement method with the other eight Continents and Myriad Demon Ridge.
• The Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge began cooperating against the Bug Disaster, while Myriad Demon Ridge demanded access to Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates.
• News of Lu Yiye’s three major contributions spread throughout Nine Provinces, making his name renowned.

Lu Ye received orders to gather high-quality Insect Blood and later attended a Vast Sky Alliance council to help plan the counterattack against the Great Insect Mystic Realm. The leaders set the assault for three days later and outlined how cultivators from the Nine Provinces would unite before entering the realm.

• Lu Ye requested Fire Spirit Stones and Demonic Cores, especially poison cores, as his reward for his service.
• Lu Ye relayed Heaven's Gate Pass's order to gather Insect Blood from insects at the True Lake Realm and above, then resumed cultivating as the Nine Provinces prepared for the counterattack.
• Xiao Lou pointed out an unusually bright extra star to Lu Ye while standing watch, and Lu Ye later inspected the Earth Rift.
• After three months of gathering Insect Blood, Lu Ye was summoned to Vast Sky City to attend the Grand Council and explain what he knew about the Great Insect Mystic Realm.
• Pang Zhen announced that the Vast Sky Alliance would launch a full-scale counterattack in three days, with only cultivators at the True Lake Realm and above participating.
• The council planned for cultivators from the nine Continents to enter through separate Earth Rifts, converge at the gateways, and attack the Great Insect Mystic Realm together.

Lu Ye attended the Grand Council and learned the three-stage plan for the Nine Provinces’ counterattack on the Great Insect Mystic Realm. He joined the Vanguard Camp and proposed using controlled Insect Race creatures to distract the enemy as the vanguard seized the gateways; the plan was approved, and the camp was ordered to assemble within three days.

• Pang Zhen outlined the counterattack’s three stages: advance through the Insect Path, seize the nine gateways, then attack the Insect Race from nine directions.
• Lu Ye explained the Great Insect Mystic Realm’s terrain using an Image Retention Stone and agreed to join the Vanguard Camp.
• Lu Ye proposed sending controlled Insect Race creatures carrying Explosive Fire Spirit Stones into the realm to draw enemies away from the gateways.
• Pang Zhen and the council approved Lu Ye’s proposal and set the Vanguard Camp’s assembly point at the Earth Rift between Startled Waves Lake Pass and Dark Moon Forest Pass.
• After the Grand Council, the Sect Master told Lu Ye to prepare at his nearby pass, and Lu Ye flew back there.

Lu Ye joined the Vanguard Camp as hundreds of high-ranking cultivators from the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge gathered to counterattack the Great Insect Mystic Realm. After receiving Insect Blood and coating themselves with it, the assembled force descended into the Earth Rift and entered the Insect Path, with Nian Yuexian guarding Lu Ye near the front.

• Lu Ye met Nian Yuexian before dawn, and they traveled together to the Earth Rift as Vanguard Camp members began gathering.
• More than two hundred cultivators arrived, including many Tier Nine powerhouses, and Long Bai and Pang Zhen assembled to lead the assault.
• Pang Zhen urged the factions to set aside their grudges, and the cultivators received jars of Insect Blood to disguise their presence.
• After coating themselves in Insect Blood, the Vanguard Camp descended through the Earth Rift and slaughtered the Insect Race in its path.
• The force entered the Insect Path in a column, with Lu Ye near the front and Nian Yuexian staying beside him to protect him.

Lu Ye helped the Vanguard Camp advance through the Insect Path by enslaving Divine Sea Realm Insect Race creatures, then prepared the captured creatures with Explosive Fire Spirit Stones for the next stage of the counterattack. The camp reached the gateway to the Great Insect Mystic Realm and waited for the Nine Provinces Army to gather before entering.

• The Vanguard Camp advanced into the Insect Path, and Lu Ye used Nian Yuexian's soul attack to enslave the first Divine Sea Realm Mantis Insect Race creature.
• Over several days, Lu Ye captured dozens of Divine Sea Realm Insect Race creatures and rode among them as the camp pushed deeper.
• After Lu Ye's controlled creatures exceeded two hundred, Pang Zhen ordered the camp to kill further Divine Sea Realm Insect Race creatures instead of capturing them.
• The Vanguard Camp reached the gateway to the Great Insect Mystic Realm, where Long Bai ordered everyone to rest while guards killed creatures emerging from it.
• Lu Ye and his helpers attached Explosive Fire Spirit Stones to the creatures he controlled, and Lu Ye told the Sect Master and Pang Zhen that the preparations were ready.

Lu Ye’s plan drew the Insect Race away from the portal, letting Soldier Province’s Vanguard Camp enter the Great Insect Mystic Realm and begin securing ground for a defensive line. The Vanguard Camp held a semicircular position five li from the portal as the Formation Cultivators began setting up arrays and the threat of an insect tide grew.

• Lu Ye concealed himself beneath a Sacred Beetle, entered the Great Insect Mystic Realm, and sent more than two hundred Divine Sea Realm Insect Race creatures to positions twenty to fifty li from the portal.
• After receiving the Sect Master’s signal, Lu Ye ordered the insects to attack one another, setting off their Explosive Fire Spirit Stones and drawing nearby Insect Race creatures toward the explosions.
• Pang Zhen and Long Bai led the Vanguard Camp through the cleared portal area, then ordered their forces to advance in a fan-shaped formation.
• Formation Cultivators followed and began laying arrays near the portal as Spiritual Power fluctuations attracted more Insect Race creatures.
• Lu Ye joined the Vanguard Camp beside the Sect Master and Nian Yuexian, and the cultivators established a semicircular position five li from the portal to hold ground while the defensive line was built.

Pang Zhen led the Vanguard Camp and Nine Provinces Army in holding back the Bug Tide, then advanced and established a battle line more than ten li from the portal. The cultivators’ counterattack remained strong despite growing strain, until a Divine Sea Tier Nine Big Bug approached.

• Pang Zhen launched a Spirit Talisman that summoned lightning, and the Vanguard Camp joined him in blasting the insects with spells, sword strikes, and other attacks.
• Nine Provinces Army reinforcements arrived and filled the gaps in the formation, strengthening the defense as Lu Ye, the Sect Master, and Nian Yuexian held their assigned areas.
• Pang Zhen ordered the cultivators to advance, stretching the battle line outward before halting it when the expanding front began to strain their forces.
• With Spell Cultivators dominating the battle, Weapon Cultivators, Body Cultivators, and Ghost Cultivators complained of boredom and argued over who could attack the few insects allowed through.
• The cultivators spotted an approaching Big Bug whose aura revealed it to be at Divine Sea Tier Nine.

Lu Ye and the Soldier Province cultivators fought to hold their battle line as the Bug Tide pressed closer. After Pangolin Bugs broke through the Spell Cultivators’ defenses and Lu Ye was nearly buried beneath the swarm, he unleashed the Overlord Saber’s third form, Lotus Sun, and cleared the insects around him.

• Pangolin Bugs resisted the Spell Cultivators’ attacks and helped the Bug Tide cross the three-li death line.
• Lu Ye and a Tier Eight Body Cultivator teamed up to kill a charging Tier Nine Pangolin Bug.
• The Bug Tide pushed the Soldier Province battle line under pressure as Lu Ye fought in the swarm wearing the Dragon Seat.
• The Insect Race overwhelmed Lu Ye and buried him beneath a mountain of insects.
• Lu Ye unleashed Lotus Sun, destroying the surrounding Insect Race and carving through the ground.

Soldier Province’s formations suppressed the Bug Tide, allowing the cultivators to gain a foothold while Lu Ye earned the respect of veteran Divine Sea Realm cultivators. As the leaders considered the war’s unexplained origins and the unmoving giant insects, Lu Ye noticed a star growing brighter in the night sky.

• Formation Cultivators unleashed killing arrays and powerful Spiritual Treasures, forcing the Bug Tide back and stabilizing the battle line.
• Lu Ye rested after the battle, and the Divine Sea Realm cultivators began treating him as a peer after witnessing his strength.
• Pang Zhen, Long Bai, the Sect Master, Mu Suifeng, and Su Xiu coordinated the defense and discussed the distant giant insects and the other Continents’ progress.
• The Sect Master questioned how the resource-poor realm sustained so many insects and suggested the Bug Disaster might have an unseen cause; Pang Zhen noted that it had brought the two major factions into large-scale cooperation.
• As Lu Ye rested beneath the stars, he noticed that one star had grown brighter again.

As the Human Race began the third phase of the war, its armies spread across the Great Insect Mystic Realm to sweep away the Insect Race and destroy its nests. Lu Ye joined forces with Lei Province’s line and spoke with Yu Shen, then considered using Yue Ji’s token to recruit Myriad Spell Sect reinforcements for the Blood Refining World.

• Ten days into the war, the Insect Race’s attacks had weakened, and the Human Race began its counterattack by dividing the Great Insect Mystic Realm into nine sectors.
• The cultivator armies advanced along the edges of their sectors, leaving forces behind to cover each area as they pushed inward.
• Lu Ye led Soldier Province’s line toward Lei Province to connect the armies, and the two forces joined their lines after a day’s flight.
• Yu Shen of the Myriad Spell Sect approached Lu Ye, discussed his former disciple Lü Qing, and explained that the sect’s legendary senior was believed to be in seclusion.
• Lu Ye thought of Yue Ji, who was secretly in the Blood Refining World, and considered using her token to bring Myriad Spell Sect cultivators there as reinforcements.

Lu Ye joined the Nine Provinces army’s counteroffensive in the Great Insect Mystic Realm, racing across the front to rescue cultivators in danger. He briefly reunited with Hua Ci and Team Ding Nine before rushing off to answer another call for aid.

• The Nine Provinces army began its coordinated advance through the Great Insect Mystic Realm, with True Lake Realm cultivators sweeping forward and Divine Sea Realm masters providing support.
• Lu Ye rescued a True Lake Realm team from a Divine Sea Realm Insect Race member, killing the pursuer with a swift strike.
• Lu Ye found Hua Ci and Team Ding Nine battling a wounded Divine Sea Realm insect, and Hua Ci’s poison weakened the enemy while her team fought it.
• Hua Ci explained that the spider beneath her was one of her Five Poisons Emissaries, and Lu Ye declined to see the other three.
• After another aid whistle sounded, Lu Ye left Hua Ci and hurried toward the next battle.

The Nine Provinces Army advanced through the Great Insect Mystic Realm, and Lu Ye killed a Giant Bug before Long Bai could claim the strike. Three days into the advance, cultivators gathered to attack the first Insect Nest they encountered, and the battle began.

• Long Bai, the Sect Master, and other Divine Sea Tier Nine cultivators weakened a Giant Bug until Lu Ye appeared in the Dragon Seat and killed it with a single slash.
• Long Bai recognized Lu Ye and complained to Tang Yifeng, while the Sect Master said he could no longer control his grown disciple.
• Nian Yuexian gathered nearby cultivators after discovering an Insect Nest surrounded by a vast, unusually orderly swarm, and Lu Ye scouted the area before returning.
• Twenty Divine Sea Realm cultivators and more than a thousand True Lake Realm cultivators split into three forces and advanced toward the Insect Nest under Nian Yuexian's command.
• Nian Yuexian launched the attack with her Flying Sword as spells rained down, and the Insect Race creatures counterattacked.

The Nine Provinces Army swept through the Great Insect Mystic Realm, destroying Insect Nests and wiping out the Insect Race as it advanced. The nine armies gathered around the enormous final Insect Nest, while Lu Ye wondered how many people he could bring with him when he returned to the Blood Refining World.

• The cultivators cleared the surface enemies, then entered the Insect Nests and killed the guards protecting their cores.
• Lu Ye helped Nian Yuexian and the other Divine Sea Realm cultivators destroy an Insect Nest's core and burn its chamber.
• Over half a month, the Nine Provinces armies purged the Great Insect Mystic Realm, exterminated giant insects, and uprooted more than a hundred Insect Nests.
• The nine armies rendezvoused around the enormous final Insect Nest, where the leaders discussed how to attack it while limiting casualties.
• Lu Ye joined Team Ding Nine and told Li Baxian he had no idea what awaited them inside the final Nest.
• Lu Ye reflected on his impending return to the Blood Refining World and wondered how many people he could take with him.

Nine Provinces’ Tier Nine cultivators entered the Insect Nest to end the Bug Disaster, but the battle turned into a deadly stalemate against an enemy they struggled to harm. As the cultivators argued over sending reinforcements, Lu Ye decided to enter the nest himself.

• Nine Provinces’ Sect Masters sent more than two hundred Tier Nine cultivators into the Insect Nest for the final battle.
• Lu Ye and the other cultivators waited while faint battle fluctuations continued underground for several days.
• News spread that the Tier Nine cultivators were trapped in an unfavorable deadlock and had suffered casualties.
• Nine Provinces’ cultivators argued over whether to send reinforcements, with some warning that entering would only add to the losses.
• Lu Ye abandoned his plan to ask the Sect Master or Nian Yuexian for an update and flew toward the Insect Nest to see the situation for himself.

Lu Ye led reinforcements into the Insect Nest, where a controlling consciousness trapped them in rapidly regenerating flesh walls. He realized the walls consumed the Nest’s vitality when damaged and used the Talent Tree to absorb it, sensing a power beyond the Divine Sea Realm.

• Lu Ye entered the Insect Nest with a growing group of Divine Sea Realm cultivators and noticed its unusual flesh-lined passages and lack of Insect Race defenders.
• The flesh walls suddenly swelled around the cultivators, crushing several before the survivors broke free and retreated.
• Lu Ye pressed deeper instead of retreating, reasoning that a consciousness controlling the Nest had triggered the attack to drive them away.
• By sensing the flow of vitality, Lu Ye deduced that destroying the walls depleted the Nest’s reserves and could affect the battle against the Sect Master and the other Tier Nine cultivators.
• Lu Ye stopped advancing and activated the Talent Tree, sending invisible roots into the flesh walls and sensing immense vitality beyond the Divine Sea Realm.