Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye followed the flesh walls into the battlefield and discovered the bloated Insect Race warrior controlling them. After its divine sense attack failed to harm him, the warrior surrounded him with newly hatched Insect Race Guards as Nian Yuexian tried to get him clear.

• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to devour the vitality in the flesh walls until they stopped trapping him.
• The flesh walls opened a path that led Lu Ye into the battlefield, where he killed a powerful Mantis Insect Race Guard.
• Nian Yuexian reached Lu Ye and asked why he had come to the battlefield.
• Lu Ye recognized the bloated insect at the center of the fight as the source of the flesh walls’ consciousness.
• The bloated insect’s divine sense attack struck Lu Ye but failed to harm him because of the Soul Suppressing Tower.
• The flesh walls produced a swarm of Insect Race Guards, and Nian Yuexian wrapped Lu Ye in sword light and carried him away.

Lu Ye realized the Insect Mother was focusing its attacks on him and used the Talent Tree to drain vitality from the flesh walls while the Tier Nines protected him. The Insect Mother unleashed a powerful soul attack, forcing the cultivators fighting it to retreat temporarily.

• Nian Yuexian explained that the Insect Mother’s vast vitality let it recover from nearly any wound, and that the sealed chamber left the Tier Nines no way to retreat.
• Lu Ye reasoned that the Insect Mother’s guards depended on the chamber’s flesh walls to maintain their strength and could not easily leave it.
• Long Bai and the other Tier Nines noticed that the Insect Mother was directing most newly hatched guards toward Lu Ye and converged on him, believing he might be the key to breaking the stalemate.
• Lu Ye landed on the flesh wall and activated the Talent Tree, which began rapidly devouring its pure vitality.
• The Insect Mother shrieked and unleashed a vast soul attack, making cultivators around Lu Ye groan and forcing those fighting it to withdraw temporarily.

Lu Ye used Soul Cleansing Water and the Blood River Art to keep the Tier Nine cultivators fighting while the Talent Tree drained the Insect Mother's vitality. With the Blood River concealing his allies and extending his reach, Lu Ye took control of the battlefield as the Insect Mother grew increasingly desperate.

• Lu Ye dispersed Soul Cleansing Water as mist, restoring the Tier Nine cultivators' souls and strengthening their resolve to protect him.
• Lu Ye continued using the Talent Tree to absorb the Insect Mother's vitality, but the strain made his own vitality dangerously unstable.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood River Art, relieving the pressure on his body and greatly expanding the Talent Tree's range of absorption.
• Lu Ye guided the Tier Nine cultivators through the Blood River, letting them ambush Insect Race Guards while the river dissolved the Guards' corpses.
• The Insect Mother realized that Lu Ye was draining its vitality far faster than before and panicked as the Human Race gained control of the battlefield.

Lu Ye’s Blood River filled the underground battlefield, weakening the Insect Mother and giving the Nine Provinces cultivators room to recover. After Lu Ye confirmed the Insect Mother was close to defeat, the Tier Nine cultivators launched their final assault, leaving it badly wounded and unable to keep pace with their attacks.

• Lu Ye’s Blood River expanded until it occupied the underground space, forcing the Insect Mother to retreat.
• The Insect Mother charged into the Blood River in a desperate attempt to find and kill Lu Ye, while Lu Ye guided the cultivators around it.
• On the fifth day, Divine Sea Realm cultivators outside found that the flesh walls in the passages were shrinking and advanced until a thick wall blocked them.
• Lu Ye told the Tier Nine cultivators that the Insect Mother was nearing defeat and asked them to recover for half an hour before the final battle.
• More than two hundred Tier Nine cultivators attacked the Insect Mother together, severing many of its claws and overwhelming its slowing ability to heal.

Lu Ye helped drain the Insect Mother’s vitality until the Tier Nines killed it, ending the Bug Disaster. He stayed behind to refine the vast vitality trapped in his Blood River while pondering the limits of cultivation beyond the Divine Sea.

• Lu Ye used the Blood River and Talent Tree to absorb the Insect Mother’s severed flesh, weakening it until the Tier Nines destroyed its body and it died.
• Lu Ye confirmed the Insect Mother’s death, and news of victory spread through the cultivators and across the Nine Provinces.
• The Sect Master noticed Lu Ye’s Blood River remained, and Lu Ye explained that he needed time to refine the vitality he had gathered.
• Long Bai offered help, but Lu Ye said only he could handle the matter; the Tier Nines departed, while Nian Yuexian stayed nearby as a precaution.
• Lu Ye began refining the Blood River’s vitality and considered Blood-drop Rebirth, the Insect Mother’s power, and what cultivation might lie beyond the Divine Sea.

While Lu Ye refined the Insect Mother's vitality in the Great Insect Mystic Realm, Nine Provinces celebrated his role in defeating the Insect Race and struggled to eradicate the remaining creatures and feed its ordinary people. After two months, Lu Ye completed his refinement, greatly strengthened his physique, gained nearly a hundred drops of Essence Blood, and advanced to Divine Sea Tier Five.

• Lu Ye stayed in the Great Insect Mystic Realm with Nian Yuexian and used the Talent Tree to refine the Insect Mother's vitality stored in the Blood River.
• Nine Provinces celebrated Lu Ye's decisive contributions while cultivators searched for scattered Insect Race creatures and authorities faced a looming famine among ordinary people.
• After two months, the Blood River's bloody color vanished as Lu Ye finished refining the vitality.
• Lu Ye's physique and vitality increased greatly, allowing him to condense nearly a hundred drops of Essence Blood instead of three.
• Lu Ye's cultivation advanced to Divine Sea Tier Five.

After reaching Tier Five, Lu Ye sensed that the Blood Refining World was drawing near and realized the Bug Disaster may have been arranged to prepare Nine Provinces for a greater war. He concluded that the two realms would eventually collide and that Nine Provinces would need to unite with the Crimson Blood Sacred Land to face the Blood Race.

• Lu Ye finished cultivating, thanked Nian Yuexian for guarding him, and left the Insect Nest with her.
• As they traveled, Lu Ye considered telling Nian Yuexian about Eldest Senior Brother and the coming defense of the Crimson Blood Sacred Land.
• Lu Ye sensed a profound change, emerged from the Insect Nest, and recognized a brightening object in the sky as the approaching Blood Refining World.
• Lu Ye realized that Nine Provinces cultivators would eventually be able to enter the Blood Refining World through Heaven's Mystery Pillars, making his efforts to recruit helpers unnecessary.
• Lu Ye inferred that an unseen force had guided the Bug Disaster and the counterattack to unite Nine Provinces ahead of the coming war.
• Lu Ye judged that Nine Provinces and the Crimson Blood Sacred Land could match the Blood Race together, and that the battle must not take place in Nine Provinces.

Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian discovered a strange gateway in the Great Insect Mystic Realm, and passing through it showed Lu Ye visions of Nine Provinces' ancient history. He watched its cultivation world flourish and its cultivators enter the starry sky, just as calamity began to follow.

• Lu Ye realized Nine Provinces needed to prepare for the coming war with the Blood Race and headed toward the gateway home with Nian Yuexian.
• Nian Yuexian spotted a Mist Vortex, and Lu Ye recognized its aura as a possible gateway to a place familiar from his past.
• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian entered the vortex, where Lu Ye found himself viewing Nine Provinces across ancient ages.
• Lu Ye watched Nine Provinces become habitable, the Human Race emerge, and cultivators rise and eventually break into the starry sky.
• Lu Ye confirmed that Nine Provinces had once possessed a glorious cultivation era before an unknown upheaval, and saw calamity approaching its prosperous ancient world.

Lu Ye learned how ancient Nine Provinces escaped destruction by relocating with the Heaven's Mystery Disk, at the cost of its foundation and nearly all its cultivators. In Immortal Yuan City, he discovered that its City Lord was awake and questioned the Heaven's Mystery Disk about its nature and the city's connection to the Insect Race.

• Lu Ye witnessed ancient Nine Provinces face invasion and use a disk-shaped treasure to relocate the entire world, while the cultivators left behind were slaughtered.
• Lu Ye learned that the relocation consumed Nine Provinces' foundation, killed more than ninety percent of its cultivators, and left its cultivation inheritance broken, explaining why Divine Sea Realm was the limit.
• Lu Ye returned to his body in Immortal Yuan City, where the Immortal Yuan Guards slept and the City Lord stood beside the Soul Pool.
• Lu Ye recognized that the Hua Ci before him was not the real Hua Ci and asked whether she was the World Will or the Heaven's Mystery Disk.
• The white Spiritual Light revealed that it was both the World Will and the Heaven's Mystery Disk, an Artifact Spirit formed from a portion of Nine Provinces' World Will.
• Lu Ye asked the Heaven's Mystery Disk what was happening with Immortal Yuan City and its battles against the Insect Race.

Lu Ye learned how the Heaven's Mystery Disk protected Nine Provinces, why Immortal Yuan City's Soul Bodies endured, and how Heavenly Mechanism deliberately preserved the Insect Race to prepare cultivators for crises. He left knowing the Blood Refining World was approaching and that his inheritance came from a powerful outsider whose name and origins remained unknown.

• Heavenly Mechanism explained that more than a dozen ancient powers, including Immortal Yuan City, became Soul Bodies to repair flaws in Nine Provinces' aura concealment after an Insect Nest invaded over five thousand years earlier.
• Heavenly Mechanism revealed that it had exiled some Insect Race into the Great Insect Mystic Realm so Bug Tides could train cultivators and keep the Human Race mindful of danger.
• Lu Ye challenged Heavenly Mechanism over the devastating Bug Disaster, and it said the crisis had forced Nine Provinces' opposing camps to unite against the approaching Blood Refining World.
• Heavenly Mechanism told Lu Ye that his inheritance came from a gravely wounded Human Race cultivator who had drifted into Nine Provinces and died there.
• Lu Ye learned that two people before him had received the inheritance and died young, while Heavenly Mechanism admitted it did not know the benefactor's name or origin.

Lu Ye learned from the Heavenly Mechanism that the Blood Refining World could help the Nine Provinces advance beyond the Divine Sea Realm by merging their foundations. He agreed to rally Nine Provinces cultivators for the coming conflict and asked the Heavenly Mechanism for support.

• Lu Ye asked what practical benefits the Heavenly Mechanism could offer Divine Sea Realm cultivators to persuade them to fight for the Blood Refining World.
• The Heavenly Mechanism explained that the Nine Provinces' foundation had recovered over time and would naturally allow higher cultivation in several dozen to a hundred years.
• The Heavenly Mechanism revealed that merging with the Blood Refining World's strong foundation could accelerate the Nine Provinces' rise and open a path beyond the Divine Sea Realm.
• Lu Ye recognized that this opportunity would motivate Divine Sea Realm cultivators to join the campaign against the Blood Race and save the Blood Refining World's Human Race.
• The Heavenly Mechanism explained that it had chosen Lu Ye because his inheritance and future role made him the best person to lead the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye promised to mobilize Nine Provinces cultivators and asked the Heavenly Mechanism to help when the time came.

After returning from Immortal Yuan City, Lu Ye arranged a Victory Feast in Vast Sky City to announce a major matter concerning the Nine Provinces. He told Qiu Min that her husband, Eldest Senior Brother, was alive and that they would soon be reunited.

• Lu Ye named Heavenly Mechanism Little Nine and returned to the wilderness, where the Sect Master, Qian Wudang, Pang Zhen, Nian Yuexian, and others welcomed him back.
• Two months after the Nine Provinces Army's counterattack, the Bug Disaster was nearly eradicated, and Lu Ye asked the leaders to invite cultivators from across the Nine Provinces to a Victory Feast in Vast Sky City.
• Qian Wudang worried about the enormous gathering, and the Sect Master told him Lu Ye had a way to prove the major matter he planned to announce.
• Lu Ye visited Qiu Min at the Pill Heart Sect with Nian Yuexian and told her that Eldest Senior Brother was alive.
• Lu Ye told Qiu Min that circumstances had changed and she would soon reunite with Eldest Senior Brother, leaving her asking whether she could travel to the Blood Refining World or he could return.

Lu Ye gathered the Nine Provinces’ Divine Sea Realm cultivators at the Victory Feast and revealed that the Blood Refining World threatened the Nine Provinces’ survival. He described the Blood Race’s power and the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s resistance, leaving the assembled cultivators stunned by the strength of its Human Race experts.

• Lu Ye told Qiu Min that they could return to the Blood Refining World and bring Eldest Senior Brother back, then asked her to help explain Fourth Senior Brother’s situation.
• Qian Wudang assigned Lu Ye to greet guests arriving for the Victory Feast, which drew an unexpectedly large crowd after information about the gathering spread.
• Vast Sky City moved the feast from a hall to an open plaza, where several thousand Divine Sea Realm cultivators assembled.
• Lu Ye addressed the gathering, warned that the Nine Provinces’ survival was at stake, and recounted his experiences in the Blood Refining World.
• He Xiong asked how the Crimson Blood Sacred Land could withstand the Blood Race, and Lu Ye explained its defensive terrain and powerful Human Race cultivators.
• The crowd erupted when Lu Ye said the Crimson Blood Sacred Land’s experts could match the Blood Race’s Sacred Seeds, and a cultivator asked how such powerful Human Race fighters had emerged.

Lu Ye revealed that powerful Human Race cultivators in the Blood Refining World were former Nine Provinces seniors, proving it with tokens from their sects. He then warned that the Blood Refining World was approaching the Nine Provinces, and the gathering demanded evidence.

• Lu Ye explained that powerful cultivators could have entered the Blood Refining World from the Nine Provinces and showed Mu Suifeng a Sword Token linked to Jian Guhong.
• Lu Ye presented tokens and messages from former leaders to Pang Zhen, Gongsun Miao, and representatives of several other sects.
• The sects verified the tokens and discovered that their forebears had vanished from their secluded cultivation grounds.
• Lu Ye confirmed that dozens of Nine Provinces seniors had gone to the Blood Refining World and built Crimson Blood Sacred Land to protect its Human Race.
• Lu Ye warned that the Blood Refining World was approaching the Nine Provinces, shocking the gathered cultivators.
• A cultivator demanded that Lu Ye provide evidence for his claim.

Lu Ye used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, with Little Nine’s secret aid, to show the Nine Provinces’ Divine Sea Realm cultivators the approaching Blood Refining World and warn them of the Blood Race. He argued that the threat and the chance to overcome the Nine Provinces’ cultivation limits justified action, but the gathering had not yet decided what to do.

• Lu Ye summoned the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and asked the Divine Sea Realm cultivators to pour their Spiritual Power into it.
• The mirror showed the starry sky and the sun, convincing the cultivators that its images came from the depths of space.
• Lu Ye identified the gourd-shaped celestial body as the Blood Refining World, and several cultivators confirmed that a star in that direction had recently grown brighter.
• Lu Ye warned that the Blood Race treated humans as Blood Food and urged the Nine Provinces to strike first, leaving the decision to the assembled seniors.
• A cautious cultivator questioned whether the realms would collide, and Lu Ye replied that the Blood Refining World was heading toward the Nine Provinces and that contact could offer an opportunity.
• Lu Ye explained that Divine Sea Tier Nine was not the end of cultivation and blamed the Nine Provinces’ limitations for preventing anyone from advancing further.

Lu Ye revealed that Nine Provinces could expand its foundation by devouring the Blood Refining World, inspiring the Divine Sea Realm cultivators to prepare an expedition. As the leaders debated their plans, Lu Ye returned toward the Crimson Blood Sect, while Li Taibai resigned from Dark Moon Forest Pass to travel.

• Lu Ye explained that Nine Provinces' limited foundation restricted cultivation and that devouring the Blood Refining World's foundation could let cultivators break past the Divine Sea Realm.
• The Divine Sea Realm cultivators agreed in practice to prepare an expedition against the Blood Refining World, turning the Victory Feast into a mobilization meeting.
• Lu Ye left Vast Sky City for the Crimson Blood Sect after deciding he no longer needed to remain at Startled Waves Lake Pass.
• Li Taibai handed Lin Yue his resignation from Dark Moon Forest Pass, saying he wanted to travel and broaden his experience.
• Lin Yue accepted Li Taibai's decision and promised to keep his Junior Pass Master position open for his return.

After returning to the Crimson Blood Sect, Lu Ye asked Little Nine to increase Nine Provinces’ Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, helping the land recover from the Bug Disaster. He reunited with his fellow disciples and then began preparing formation plates for the coming expedition to the Blood Refining World.

• Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak after visiting Second Senior Sister and Yun Xuechu, and rested before asking Little Nine about Nine Provinces’ spiritual energy.
• Lu Ye asked Little Nine to enrich Nine Provinces with spiritual energy so the devastated land could recover, and Little Nine more than doubled its overall density.
• Lu Ye flew to Upholding Justice Peak and saw familiar Crimson Blood Sect cultivators gathered at the Main Sect, including Ruan Lingyu, Kong Niu, Chen Yu, and He Xiyin.
• Lu Ye shared a meal with Second Senior Sister and answered her questions about the Blood Refining World, where she hoped to join the expedition.
• After Qian Wudang asked him to produce more Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates for the expedition, Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak to refine them.

As the Nine Provinces prepared for war against the Blood Race, Lu Ye left ahead of its armies to place Heaven's Mystery Pillars across the Blood Refining World. During his journey, he noticed the realm's shape resembled a headless, limbless woman's torso.

• News that the Blood Race was approaching and enslaving humans spread through Nine Provinces, and cultivators eagerly prepared for war.
• Lu Ye finished refining Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates and gave them to Shui Yuan before leaving Yiyi behind with Golden Spirit Signs for her and Amber.
• Lu Ye collected more than a hundred Heaven's Mystery Pillars, intending to spread them throughout the Blood Refining World so Nine Provinces armies could deploy across it.
• Lu Ye traveled toward the Blood Refining World and observed its unusual gourd-like shape, which reminded him of a woman's torso with its head and limbs cut away.

Lu Ye returned to the Blood Refining World through the Heaven's Mystery Pillar and was immediately targeted by the world’s Heavenly Punishment. He found a way to disguise his aura by absorbing power from the Blood Sea, then returned safely to Sacred Island.

• Lu Ye arrived at the Heaven's Mystery Hall on the Sacred Mountain with his cultivation intact, and the Blood Refining World's World Will marked him as an invading outsider.
• Heavenly Punishment struck Sacred Island twice, forcing the Crimson Blood Sacred Land's cultivators to rely on the Protective Grand Array.
• Lu Ye realized that absorbing power carrying the Blood Refining World's information could alter his aura and fool its World Will.
• Lu Ye left the island, entered the Blood Sea, and used the Blood River Art and Talent Tree to devour and refine its power.
• The Heavenly Punishment subsided, and Feng Wujiang led the others to the Blood Sea, where Lu Ye returned and greeted them.

Lu Ye told the Sacred Island elders that most cultivators above the Spirit Stream Realm in the Nine Provinces could come to help defend the Crimson Blood Sacred Land, but warned that the Blood Refining World's World Will might kill them with Heavenly Punishment as soon as they arrived. The elders debated the danger, with the Sacred Land's survival and the fate of its people still uncertain.

• Feng Wujiang explained that the Blood Race was preparing another siege within half a year to a year, while the Sacred Land had dispatched most of its strongest elders to disrupt the enemy and strengthened its defenses.
• Lu Ye announced that seventy to eighty percent of Nine Provinces cultivators from Cloud River to Divine Sea could join the expedition, and explained that the two realms were drawing closer, making mass transmission feasible.
• The elders reacted with excitement at the prospect of a vast Nine Provinces army arriving to counterattack the Blood Race.
• Lu Ye warned that the Blood Refining World's World Will had targeted him with Heavenly Punishment and could kill other arriving cultivators.
• The elders debated whether the World Will's attacks might weaken or run out, and Feng Wujiang noted that retreating to the Nine Provinces could leave the Sacred Land's people behind.