Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye confirmed with Little Nine that Nine Provinces’ World Will would counter the Blood Refining World’s World Will, clearing the way for the planned invasion. He and Feng Wujiang decided to place Heaven’s Mystery Pillars around the Divine Palace Sea and elsewhere, then launch the war when the Blood Race next besieged the Sacred Land.

• Lu Ye contacted Little Nine, who promised to handle the Blood Refining World’s World Will and prevent Heavenly Punishment.
• Lu Ye told Feng Wujiang and the senior predecessors that he had brought over a hundred Heaven’s Mystery Pillars to enable Nine Provinces cultivators to enter the Blood Refining World.
• Lu Ye proposed placing pillars around the Divine Palace Sea so Nine Provinces reinforcements could surround the Blood Race army during its next siege of the Sacred Land.
• Feng Wujiang agreed to place ten pillars around the Divine Palace Sea, while Lu Ye undertook to secretly position the rest in suitable locations.
• Lu Ye set out to place the pillars, and Feng Wujiang gave him a Jade Token that could alert nearby senior predecessors if he faced danger.

Lu Ye left the Crimson Blood Sacred Land to place Heaven’s Mystery Pillars across the Blood Refining World and capture a Blood Race member as a Soul Slave. He subdued a Divine Sea Realm Blood Race member, whose fear and deference revealed that Lu Ye’s blood river carried the suppression of a Sacred Seed.

• Lu Ye ordered Dao Thirteen to stay behind, then flew north from the Divine Palace Sea with a zigzag route planned for placing Heaven’s Mystery Pillars.
• Three days into his journey, Lu Ye encountered a group of Blood Race members and chose their Divine Sea Realm leader as a potential Soul Slave.
• Lu Ye and the Blood Race leader both unleashed Blood River Art, but Lu Ye’s vastly larger blood river overwhelmed the others and killed the True Lake Realm Blood Race members.
• The Divine Sea Realm Blood Race leader recognized Lu Ye as a Sacred Seed and begged for forgiveness instead of resisting.
• Lu Ye forced the leader to open his Divine Sea and planted the Soul Taming Divine Pattern, making him a Soul Slave.

Lu Ye used the Sacred Seed power he had gained from refining Sacred Blood to enslave Blood Race Heavenly Venerables and secretly plant Heaven's Mystery Pillars. After a Jade Token led him to Wuchang, Lu Ye explained the Nine Provinces’ planned expedition to the Blood Refining World and hoped to enlist his help.

• Lu Ye discovered that activating his Blood Arts let him suppress ordinary Blood Race and use the Soul Taming Divine Pattern on them.
• Lu Ye and Lu Chang entered Haiyue Cave Heaven, where Lu Ye enslaved Haiyue Heavenly Venerable and secretly planted a Heaven's Mystery Pillar.
• Lu Ye continued planting Heaven's Mystery Pillars while Blood Race forces gathered to march toward the Divine Palace Sea.
• A month and a half after leaving Crimson Blood Sacred Land, Lu Ye sensed a Jade Token’s call and followed it to a hidden cave.
• Lu Ye met Wuchang, explained the Nine Provinces’ plan to launch an expedition to the Blood Refining World, and sought his help.

Lu Ye reunited with Wuchang and told him that the Nine Provinces would support the Human Race, then joined Wuchang, Jian Guhong, and Wei Fufeng in preparing to kill a Sacred Seed. As Wuchang and Lu Ye set up formations around the Blood Pool where the Sacred Seed was cultivating, Lu Ye gained insight into Wuchang’s Formation Dao.

• Lu Ye told Wuchang about the Nine Provinces’ support and handed him half of the Heaven’s Mystery Pillars to distribute across the Blood Refining World.
• Wuchang explained that he had summoned help to kill a Sacred Seed, and Lu Ye insisted on joining the operation.
• Jian Guhong and Wei Fufeng arrived, and Wuchang told them he had found a Sacred Seed cultivating in a nearby Blood Pool.
• The group reached the Blood Pool and agreed to trap the Sacred Seed with a formation, while Wei Fufeng offered a treasure to keep it from escaping back inside.
• Lu Ye helped Wuchang arrange formations around the Blood Pool and learned from the older cultivator’s methods.

Lu Ye and three senior cultivators ambushed a female Sacred Seed as she emerged from the Blood Pool, using a Confinement Array and Wei Fufeng’s Oil Lamp to prevent her escape. Trapped and beset by their attacks, she formed a Blood River to break through the Formation while Lu Ye prepared to unleash its Killing Array.

• Wuchang, Jian Guhong, Wei Fufeng, and Lu Ye waited in ambush for fifteen days outside the Blood Pool while Lu Chang hid at a distance.
• A female Sacred Seed emerged from the Blood Pool, and Wuchang struck her by surprise before she could react.
• The Sacred Seed tried to flee, but Lu Ye’s Confinement Array blocked her, and Wei Fufeng’s Oil Lamp sealed the Blood Pool.
• Wuchang, Jian Guhong, and Wei Fufeng attacked the trapped Sacred Seed as she transformed into a Blood River and tried to corrode her way through the Formation.
• Lu Ye continued presiding over the Formation, which also contained a Killing Array.

Lu Ye and the three senior cultivators tried to kill a female Sacred Seed before she could escape the Grand Array, but her Blood River broke through two of its three confinement layers. As the last layer began to fail, Lu Ye entered the Blood River and discovered that his Blood Arts were suppressed by the Sacred Seed’s bloodline.

• Lu Ye recognized the golden strands in the female Sacred Seed’s Blood River as unrefined Sacred Blood, which she had sought in the underground river.
• The female Sacred Seed corroded through the first confinement layer, only to strike a second layer because Lu Ye and Wuchang had prepared three.
• After she broke the second layer, Jian Guhong entered the Blood River and joined Wuchang in attacking her while Lu Ye and Wei Fufeng continued their assaults.
• With the final confinement layer close to breaking, Lu Ye abandoned his post and plunged into the Blood River.
• Lu Ye activated his Blood Arts and found their volume cut roughly in half by bloodline suppression, leaving him to wonder why his refined Sacred Blood did not protect him from it.

Lu Ye tried to contain the female Sacred Seed with his Blood River, but her stronger bloodline began merging their rivers and gave her control. He turned the merger to his advantage with the Talent Tree’s devouring power, leaving the Sacred Seed trapped with him even after the Confinement Array broke.

• Lu Ye used his Blood River to shield the Confinement Array’s final layer, but the female Sacred Seed’s stronger bloodline began merging their Blood Rivers.
• The female Sacred Seed gained control of the merged river, weakening Lu Ye’s barrier as Jian Guhong and Wuchang continued pursuing her.
• Lu Ye stopped resisting and deliberately merged with the female Sacred Seed, then activated the Talent Tree to drain her strength.
• The female Sacred Seed lunged at Lu Ye, but Jian Guhong and Wuchang intercepted her as the Confinement Array’s final layer shattered.
• The female Sacred Seed realized she could not escape while bound to Lu Ye’s Blood River and began trying to separate their rivers.

Lu Ye used the merged Blood River and the Talent Tree to absorb the female Sacred Seed’s power, weakening her bloodline and leaving her badly injured as Jian Guhong and Wuchang pursued her. He turned to face her and held her off with a saber strike, but she began to self-detonate, and Jian Guhong struck at her neck as the others withdrew.

• The Talent Tree devoured the female Sacred Seed’s Essence Blood, vitality, and unrefined Sacred Blood, weakening her bloodline suppression over Lu Ye.
• The female Sacred Seed pursued Lu Ye through the Blood River while Jian Guhong and Wuchang chased her, and her injuries steadily worsened.
• Lu Ye stopped and met her claw with a full-strength slash of the Crag Mountain Saber, and the two were sent tumbling back by the impact.
• Lu Ye realized the female Sacred Seed was about to use the Blood Explosion Art and shouted for Jian Guhong and Wuchang to retreat.
• Wuchang fled the Blood River, while Jian Guhong slashed at the female Sacred Seed’s neck and withdrew.

Lu Ye and the three seniors killed a female Sacred Seed, and he discovered that her Sacred Blood remained after her death and could strengthen his bloodline and Blood Arts. He continued north to place the Heaven's Mystery Pillars while refining the Sacred Blood, suspecting that stronger Sacred Seeds killed weaker ones to seize their blood.

• Jian Guhong severed the female Sacred Seed's head, but she maintained her Blood Explosion Art and self-detonated; Lu Ye suppressed the blast with his Blood River.
• Lu Ye survived, withdrew the Blood River, and found a large drop of Sacred Blood left behind by the dead Sacred Seed.
• Lu Ye absorbed the Sacred Blood and realized that higher-ranked Sacred Seeds could suppress lower-ranked ones through Blood Arts.
• Lu Ye told Wuchang, Jian Guhong, and Wei Fufeng that he could use Blood Arts because he had refined Sacred Blood without becoming Blood Race; Wuchang agreed to place half the Heaven's Mystery Pillars.
• Lu Ye left with Lu Chang and headed north, refining the Sacred Blood as he traveled and suspecting that Sacred Seeds killed one another to claim Sacred Blood.

Lu Ye returned to the area around Cangnan Village and discovered that Lan Qiyue had been driven from Thousand Streams Blessed Land by another Sacred Seed. He learned she was alive and hiding in the underground Blood River, while Bright Moon Cave had returned to abusing the Human Race.

• Lu Ye finished refining the Sacred Blood, placed nearly all his Heaven's Mystery Pillars, and prepared to wait for the Nine Provinces army's opportunity to attack.
• Lu Ye noticed Cangnan Village had fewer people and many abandoned fields, so he changed course to Bright Moon Cave to investigate Lan Qiyue's fate.
• Lu Chang entered Bright Moon Cave, where Lu Ye found Human Race girls imprisoned and killed the Blood Race members responsible.
• Lu Ye learned from the remaining Cave Abode Master that Song Qianjun ruled Thousand Streams Blessed Land and that Mo Hai Sacred Venerate had driven Lan Qiyue out over a year earlier.
• The Cave Abode Master told Lu Ye that Lan Qiyue was hiding somewhere in the nearby underground Blood River.

Lu Ye learned that Lan Qiyue had been repeatedly emerging from the Blood River to kill Blood Race members while waiting for him, and that Mo Hai Sacred Venerate wanted her as a Dao Companion rather than for her Sacred Blood. With no help from the Human Race elders, Lu Ye prepared to reach Lan Qiyue quickly and take her to safety.

• Lu Ye learned from Bright Moon Cave's new master that Lan Qiyue had killed hundreds of Blood Race members and was expected to emerge again within half a month.
• Lu Ye realized Lan Qiyue's attacks were a message that she was waiting for him, then killed the new master after questioning him.
• Lu Ye ordered Lu Chang to send the rescued Human Race women to Cangnan Village and gather intelligence, then burned the young woman's corpse.
• Lu Ye learned that Mo Hai Sacred Venerate wanted Lan Qiyue as a Dao Companion and had spared her because he did not intend to kill her.
• Lu Ye established more than a dozen teleportation arrays around Bright Moon Cave so he could reach Lan Qiyue when she emerged from a Blood Pool.
• Lu Ye repeatedly sent summonses to the Human Race elders but received no response, leaving him to handle Lan Qiyue's rescue alone.

Lu Ye rushed to rescue Lan Qiyue after Mo Hai Sacred Venerate trapped her in a fused Blood River. He attacked the Blood Race gathered around the battlefield, revealing his powerful Blood Arts and Sacred Seed bloodline suppression.

• Lu Chang informed Lu Ye that Mo Hai Sacred Venerate had caught Lan Qiyue after she attacked another Grotto Heaven.
• Lu Ye teleported closer to the battlefield and flew toward the clash, where he found Lan Qiyue trapped inside the fused Blood River.
• Blood Race cultivators gathered around the battlefield to watch and prevent Lan Qiyue from escaping.
• The Blood Race mistook the approaching Lu Ye for a Blood Slave until he charged at them without slowing down.
• A Divine Sea Tier Nine Blood Race cultivator attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye shattered his Blood Art with a stronger one of his own.
• Lu Ye's bloodline suppression forced weaker Blood Race cultivators out of the air and filled the Divine Sea Realm cultivators with terror.

Lu Ye reached the Blood River and used his Sacred Seed bloodline to kill more than a dozen Blood Race members as he tried to rescue Lan Qiyue from Mo Hai Sacred Venerate. Lan Qiyue stopped her planned self-destruction when Lu Ye arrived, then charged Mo Hai to give him a chance to escape.

• Lu Ye activated his Blood Arts, suppressed the Blood Race members, and killed more than a dozen Divine Sea Realm members with a burst of saber strikes.
• Lu Ye realized his refined Sacred Blood had given him Sacred Nature and hurried toward the Blood River to save Lan Qiyue.
• Mo Hai Sacred Venerate demanded that Lan Qiyue become his dao companion, but she refused and resolved to use Blood Explosion Art rather than submit.
• Lu Ye entered the Blood River and called out to Lan Qiyue, causing her dangerous aura to calm.
• Lan Qiyue recognized Lu Ye, feared he would be dragged into the fight, and charged Mo Hai while shouting for him to retreat.

Lu Ye arrived in time to save Lan Qiyue from Mo Hai Sacred Venerate, then revealed that he could use the Blood River Art and possessed a Sacred Seed bloodline. His bloodline proved stronger than Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s, shifting the battle in his favor.

• Mo Hai Sacred Venerate attacked Lan Qiyue in anger after hearing her address Lu Ye as Senior Brother.
• Lu Ye rushed in and forced Mo Hai Sacred Venerate to retreat with a saber slash, then pulled Lan Qiyue deeper into the Blood River.
• Lan Qiyue warned Lu Ye that entering the Blood River made escape difficult, while he monitored Mo Hai Sacred Venerate and prepared to fight.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood River Art, revealing his Sacred Seed bloodline to Lan Qiyue and Mo Hai Sacred Venerate.
• Lu Ye’s bloodline suppressed Mo Hai Sacred Venerate and proved stronger than his opponent’s, reassuring Lu Ye as the confrontation continued.

Lu Ye fought Mo Hai Sacred Venerate in the Blood River while trying to protect Lan Qiyue, learning that the Dragon Seat blocked his bloodline suppression and control over the river. The battle continued with Mo Hai gaining the edge in Blood Arts but losing ground in the struggle to merge their Blood Rivers.

• Lu Ye summoned the Dragon Seat, but it isolated his Sacred Nature and weakened his control over the Blood River, allowing Mo Hai Sacred Venerate to strike him with a concealed punch.
• Lu Ye removed the Dragon Seat and restored his bloodline suppression, then began merging his Blood River with Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s while Lan Qiyue helped resist Mo Hai’s control.
• Mo Hai Sacred Venerate attacked Lan Qiyue with Blood Cones, and Lu Ye swallowed one with a scarlet vortex, giving her time to escape toward the edge of the Blood River.
• Lu Ye and Mo Hai Sacred Venerate traded Blood Arts, with Mo Hai gaining the upper hand in their exchange.
• Lu Ye and Lan Qiyue gained the advantage in controlling the Blood River as their combined efforts overcame Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s resistance.

Lu Ye fought Mo Hai Sacred Venerate after their Blood Rivers merged, and their close-quarters battle revealed that Mo Hai was slightly stronger but less experienced. The chapter ended with Mo Hai’s claws piercing Lu Ye’s defenses as Lu Ye’s Crag Mountain Saber struck through Mo Hai’s protection and into him.

• Lu Ye’s Blood River merged with Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s, creating a vast Blood Sea that removed Mo Hai’s terrain advantage.
• Lu Ye charged Mo Hai, and the two fought evenly at close range as Lan Qiyue restrained Mo Hai from within the Blood River.
• Lu Ye realized Mo Hai was slightly stronger than him but lacked the combat experience to press that advantage; Mo Hai’s Divine Sense attacks also failed against Lu Ye.
• Mo Hai abandoned his cautious defense and thrust his clawed hand toward Lu Ye’s chest, while Lu Ye layered defensive Spirit Patterns over himself.
• Mo Hai’s claws broke through Lu Ye’s defenses as Lu Ye’s Crag Mountain Saber cut through Mo Hai’s protection and hacked into him.

Lu Ye fought Mo Hai Sacred Venerate in a brutal battle inside the blood sea, using the Crag Mountain Saber’s attacks on the divine soul to overcome his stronger opponent. After Mo Hai Sacred Venerate died, Lu Ye collapsed, and Lan Qiyue rushed to him.

• Mo Hai Sacred Venerate pierced Lu Ye’s chest, but Lu Ye’s physique endured the attack as the Crag Mountain Saber wounded Mo Hai Sacred Venerate and struck his divine soul.
• Lu Ye relentlessly pursued Mo Hai Sacred Venerate, inflicting repeated divine soul injuries while suffering heavy blows that broke bones and blurred his vision.
• Mo Hai Sacred Venerate begged Lu Ye to let him go, but Lu Ye continued attacking, and Mo Hai Sacred Venerate chose to fight to the death.
• Lu Ye and Mo Hai Sacred Venerate traded attacks until Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s divine soul shattered and he died.
• Lu Ye cut off Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s head, recalled his Blood River, and lost consciousness as Lan Qiyue rushed toward him.

The Nine Provinces prepared for an approaching war with the Blood Refining World while the Blood Race gathered early for a massive assault on the Crimson Blood Sacred Land. Lu Ye woke from several days of unconsciousness after killing Mo Hai Sacred Venerate, though he remained badly injured.

• The Nine Provinces organized nine armies, stockpiled pills, and lowered Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild prices as cultivators prepared for the coming war.
• The Blood Race assembled armies from four directions, including more than thirty Sacred Seeds, to besiege the Crimson Blood Sacred Land ahead of its usual schedule.
• Lu Ye awoke in a stone chamber after several days unconscious and recalled how his battle with Mo Hai Sacred Venerate had left him gravely wounded.
• Lu Ye credited the Soul Severing Saber, his bloodline suppression, and the merged Blood Rivers for his victory, while recognizing that Eldest Senior Brother had killed a Sacred Seed through sheer strength.

After recovering from his injuries, Lu Ye arranged for Lan Qiyue to take control of Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s territory and gather Spirit Rice for the Nine Provinces. He prepared to refine Mo Hai’s Sacred Blood, but Lan Qiyue warned him that doing so carried a grave risk.

• Lu Ye woke in Bright Moon Cave and asked Lan Qiyue to take over Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s territory and gather as much Spirit Rice as possible.
• Lan Qiyue left Lu Chang to care for Lu Ye and quickly secured the surrounding territories while arranging the Spirit Rice collection.
• After several days, Lu Ye burned Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s corpse and obtained a drop of Sacred Blood.
• Lan Qiyue returned, confirmed that her tasks were underway, and cautioned Lu Ye against refining the Sacred Blood of a veteran Sacred Seed.
• Lan Qiyue explained that refining powerful Sacred Blood often killed even Sacred Seeds, and that seeking new Sacred Blood in the Blood River was the safer way to strengthen one’s Sacred Nature.

Lu Ye refined Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s Sacred Blood without harm, strengthening his Sacred Nature as the Blood Race armies mobilized and the Nine Provinces prepared for an expedition. He revealed his origins and the Nine Provinces to Lan Qiyue, leaving her eager to know whether travel between the worlds was possible.

• Lu Ye swallowed Mo Hai Sacred Venerate’s Sacred Blood and used Taotie Meal to refine it safely, astonishing Lan Qiyue.
• Blood Race armies gathered around the Divine Palace Sea and advanced toward it as cultivators in the Nine Provinces prepared for an expedition to the Blood Refining World.
• Shui Yuan gathered Crimson Blood Sect and Purple Star Dao Palace cultivators at Shouzheng Peak to prepare for the coming war.
• After several days of refining Sacred Blood, Lu Ye’s Sacred Nature and cultivation increased, and he accepted Lan Qiyue as a disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Lu Ye told Lan Qiyue about the Nine Provinces and his origins, and she asked whether people could travel between the Nine Provinces and the Blood Refining World.