Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao attacked the Fairy Tree Realm’s Insect Nest, with Lu Ye’s saber empowered by Lu Yingying’s Blessing Words cutting through even the powerful Insect Race Guards. As the two fought through the nest’s core, Lu Ye assessed Yu Yaorao’s strength and reflected on how the Nine Provinces compared with other realms.

• Lu Ye charged through the insects in the wrong direction until Yu Yaorao pointed out where the Insect Nest lay, and he changed course.
• Lu Ye reached the Insect Nest and smashed it open before rushing down the underground passage, forcing Yu Yaorao to follow him.
• Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao entered the nest’s core, where numerous Insect Race Guards awakened and attacked them.
• Lu Ye fought the guards head-on while Yu Yaorao protected herself and methodically picked off enemies.
• Lu Ye observed that Yu Yaorao’s combat strength rivaled Yue Ji’s before she Advanced to Star Constellation, and concluded that the Nine Provinces mainly lacked its highest-level experts.

Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao cleared the Insect Nest’s core, only to discover a portal linking the Fairy Tree Realm to the Insect Race Tree Realm. They recognized that destroying the nest would not end the invasions, and considered whether to enter the portal despite the danger.

• Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao killed the Insect Race Guards in the nest’s core, with Lu Ye’s aggressive saber attacks quickly reducing their numbers.
• After they slew the final Guard, Lu Ye destroyed the fleshy sac at the nest’s center, revealing a portal instead of vitality or Vitality Cores.
• Yu Yaorao realized the portal led to the Insect Race Tree Realm, and Lu Ye concluded it explained how the Insect Race kept invading the Fairy Tree Realm.
• Yu Yaorao warned that their trial did not require entering the portal, while Lu Ye considered whether they should cross into the Insect Race Tree Realm.

Lu Ye crossed into the Insect Race Tree Realm to destroy its Insect Nest, despite Yu Yaorao choosing not to follow. With Lu Yingying supporting him, he unleashed his Blood River Art and began slaughtering the Insect Race Guards, discovering that her Blessing Words made his saber strikes even stronger.

• Lu Ye left Yu Yaorao to finish the Fairy Tree Realm cleanup and entered the Insect Race Tree Realm through the vortex.
• Yu Yaorao decided not to follow Lu Ye, while Huang Tongtong recognized that he was the first guest to invade the Insect Race's realm.
• Lu Yingying was stunned by Lu Ye's sudden arrival, and he told her to maintain her Blessing Words as he prepared to destroy the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye spread his Blood River Art across the Insect Nest's core space, trapping the approaching Big Bugs and sensing their movements.
• Lu Ye ate a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone to replenish his Spiritual Power, then killed Insect Race Guards with his Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye realized that Lu Yingying's Blessing Words had grown stronger, allowing him to kill the Guards in two slashes instead of three.

Lu Ye continued slaughtering the Insect Race in the Insect Nest core, while Lu Yingying strengthened her Blessing Words through her resolve to help him. Yan Ya, an Insect Race prodigy sent to retrieve the nest’s accumulated harvest, discovered the intruder and was drawn into Lu Ye’s Blood Sea as he raced toward the guards for help.

• Lu Yingying told Lu Ye that her Blessing Words grew stronger with her will, and she resolved to support him as he fought through the Insect Nest.
• Yan Ya sensed the battle while leaving through the Insect Path, turned back, and hurried toward the nest’s core to find the intruder.
• Yan Ya discovered that a Blood Race cultivator had covered the core space with a Blood Sea and suspected the Blood Race was trying to seize the Insect Race’s gains.
• Lu Ye’s Blood Sea engulfed Yan Ya, who charged toward the Insect Nest guards rather than try to escape.
• Yan Ya accelerated through the Blood Sea using an unknown method as Lu Ye pursued him and observed his unusual, humanoid Insect Race appearance.

Lu Ye fought Yan Ya, an Insect Race prodigy from the Insect Emperor Realm, inside the Blood Sea and drove him to use a strange escape technique. Mistaking Lu Ye for a Blood Race cultivator, Yan Ya offered him a share of the mission’s gains to spare his life, then raised the offer to two shares.

• Yan Ya used a piercing howl to gather nearby Insect Race Guards, and Lu Ye rushed to stop him from coordinating them.
• Lu Ye and Yan Ya clashed, with Lu Ye’s faster, heavier saber strikes overwhelming Yan Ya despite Yan Ya’s higher cultivation tier.
• Lu Ye wounded Yan Ya with the Soul Severing Saber and cut apart what appeared to be his body, but Yan Ya escaped by shedding an empty shell.
• Yan Ya identified himself as a cultivator from the Insect Emperor Realm and mistakenly asked which Blood World Lu Ye came from.
• Yan Ya claimed the Blood Race and Insect Race were allies, then offered Lu Ye one share of the mission’s gains for his life.
• When Lu Ye stayed silent, Yan Ya increased his offer to two shares and said he needed to bring the remaining share back to report.

Lu Ye tricked Yan Ya into handing over two Spirit Beast Bags by posing as a Blood Race cultivator and swearing a false Bloodline Great Oath, then ambushed and killed him as he left the Blood Sea. He took the last bag and Yan Ya’s other possessions, including two Short Pestles and a restriction-covered ring.

• Yan Ya offered Lu Ye two of his three Spirit Beast Bags in exchange for safe passage and demanded a Bloodline Great Oath.
• With Lu Yingying’s guidance, Lu Ye swore an oath while stirring the Blood Sea to make it seem genuine, and Yan Ya handed over two bags.
• As Yan Ya left the Blood Sea and relaxed, Lu Ye used two Void Spirit Patterns to teleport behind him and unleash a Saber Lotus attack.
• Lu Ye severed Yan Ya’s arm and seized the final Spirit Beast Bag before Yan Ya collapsed and died.
• Lu Ye collected two Short Pestles that could help reforge the Crag Mountain Saber and found a ring covered in familiar, complex restrictions.

Lu Ye freed three captives from the Insect Race and discovered that a strange treasure had enabled its invasions across the Tree Realms. He destroyed the Insect Nest’s core and took the treasure, leaving him able to open channels to the connected Tree Realms.

• Lu Yingying unlocked Yan Ya’s Storage Ring while Lu Ye finished slaughtering the Insect Race Guards in the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye opened two Spirit Beast Bags and freed a snow-white one-horned beast and Mu Kui of the Wood Spirit Race.
• Lu Ye opened the third Spirit Beast Bag and reunited Lu Yingying with the captured fairy Hong Dandan.
• Lu Ye destroyed the Insect Nest’s core and discovered a lotus-root-like treasure that opened channels between Tree Realms.
• Lu Ye took the treasure, which he could use to open channels to the connected Tree Realms.

Lu Ye discovered that the Void Beast Heart Core could open channels to other Tree Realms and planned to recruit allies to fight the Insect Race. He opened a passage to the Wood Spirit Tree Realm, but transporting the Wood Spirits drained his Spiritual Power until the channel kept working without his help.

• Lu Yingying identified the rare Void Beast Heart Core as the Insect Race’s means of opening channels to other Tree Realms, and Lu Ye claimed it.
• Lu Ye asked Mu Kui and the snow-white exotic beast to rally their peoples against the Insect Race, and both agreed.
• Lu Ye and his companions fought their way out of the Insect Nest while he burned its fleshy interior.
• Lu Ye used the heart core to open a channel to the Wood Spirit Tree Realm, and Mu Kui crossed over to gather his clansmen.
• The Wood Spirits streamed through the channel, rapidly draining Lu Ye’s Spiritual Power as he swallowed pills to keep it open.
• Lu Ye stopped supplying Spiritual Power, but the channel remained open and the Wood Spirits continued to arrive.

Lu Ye opened passages to more than a dozen Tree Realms and assembled an allied army that wiped out the Insect Race in its own Tree Realm. After sending the other races home, he tricked Hong Dandan and Lu Yingying into peering into his Spirit Beast Bag, then closed it and tucked it away.

• Lu Ye confirmed that the Cycle Tree was secretly supporting the Tree Realm Channels and opened passages to more than a dozen Tree Realms.
• Lu Yingying, Hong Dandan, Mu Kui, and others gathered allies from the different races to join Lu Ye against the Insect Race.
• The allied army spread across the Insect Race Tree Realm and killed its insects over roughly ten days.
• Lu Ye opened passages for the allied races to return home and accepted their thanks and gifts.
• Lu Ye refused to show Hong Dandan and Lu Yingying what he was holding, then revealed a gap in his Spirit Beast Bag and quickly closed it when they peered inside.

Lu Ye escaped the Insect Race Tree Realm and reunited with Yang Qing on the Cycle Tree’s Lingyu platform. Yang Qing explained that the Divine Sea Conflict would award one hundred cultivators the Cycle Tree’s power for advancing to Star Constellation, leaving Lu Ye to face a crowded contest with few allies.

• Lu Ye asked the Cycle Tree to release him and emerged on a vast Lingyu platform in the starry sky.
• Lu Ye reunited with Yang Qing, who explained that the Divine Sea Conflict would decide who obtained the Cycle Tree’s power for advancing to Star Constellation.
• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that two or three thousand cultivators were expected to compete for one hundred places, while each Large Realm received a limited number of entry slots.
• Lu Ye realized that Nine Provinces had few allies and that his Tier Eight cultivation put him at a disadvantage among the contestants.
• Yang Qing dismissed the idea of hiding throughout the contest, and Lu Ye agreed that he would not avoid the chance to contend.

Yang Qing explained the Divine Sea Conflict’s rankings, guidance, shrinking battlefield, and rewards to Lu Ye while taking him around the Cycle Tree’s gathering to learn about other realms. The chapter left them continuing through the stalls, with Yang Qing’s petty bargaining earning Lu Ye the resentment of a stall owner’s junior.

• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that the Cycle Tree would periodically reveal the locations of highly and poorly ranked participants, with rankings based on enemies killed.
• Yang Qing explained that the Primordial Realm would shrink over time and that the conflict would end after three months or when only a hundred participants remained.
• Yang Qing described the Primordial Realm’s rare resources and Lu Ye followed him around the gathering as he introduced the other races and their customs.
• Yang Qing haggled over a Glazed Jade Heart Lamp, refused the stall owner’s final price, and left without buying it.
• Yang Qing offered one spirit jade for a treasure at another stall, took it on credit, and revealed to Lu Ye that the stall owner had offended him before.
• The stall owner’s Divine Sea Realm junior glared at Lu Ye as Yang Qing walked away with the treasure.

The Primordial Realm portal opened, and Lu Ye entered the Divine Sea Conflict representing the Nine Heavens Realm. As the contest began, the elders gathered outside to wager treasures in the Cycle Tree’s Gambling Den.

• Yang Qing urged Lu Ye to fight for a place among the top three while warning him not to draw too much attention.
• The portal opened, and the first cultivators entered as the left pillar recorded their names and origins; Yang Qing explained how the pillars worked and how Lu Ye could withdraw.
• Lu Ye entered the portal, and the left pillar listed him as “Nine Heavens Realm, Lu Yiye,” surprising onlookers with his Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivation.
• After more than two thousand cultivators entered and the portal closed, the elders asked the Cycle Tree to open the Treasure Pool for their customary wagers.
• The Cycle Tree created the Treasure Pool, where thousands of starlit treasures from current and past wagers floated.

Yang Qing wagered a suspected Dragon Pearl, which the Cycle Tree valued at Nine-Star, in the Gambling Den to win resources for his recovery. The immense wager stunned the gathering, and everyone learned that he had bet on Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm.

• Cultivators discussed the Treasure Pool’s star-based treasure grades as powerhouses placed wagers, beginning with a Four-Star Ancient Inkstone from the Yellow Dragon Realm’s Great Sun Realm cultivator, Feng.
• An inconspicuous bead entered the pool, scattered the surrounding treasures, and revealed nine points of starlight.
• Yang Qing told the Cycle Tree that he needed resources after ten thousand years sealed and had wagered the bead to make a fortune if his chosen junior won.
• The Cycle Tree warned Yang Qing not to risk the precious item, then realized no one else could match its value and take it from the pool.
• Powerhouses suspected the bead was a Dragon Pearl and moved away from Yang Qing, then discovered he had wagered it on Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm.

Lu Ye entered the Primordial Realm and quickly defeated Zhou Sifang of the Blood Fiend World by revealing his overwhelming Sacred Nature as a Blood Race cultivator. As he flew onward in the Divine Sea Conflict, battles across the realm had already begun claiming lives.

• Lu Ye entered the Primordial Realm and reasoned that cultivators would initially compete alone for gains before forming alliances as the realm shrank.
• Lu Ye sensed an approaching cultivator and flew to meet him, finding Zhou Sifang, a Blood Race cultivator who mistook Lu Ye's Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivation for weakness.
• Zhou Sifang trapped Lu Ye in a Blood River and attacked, while Lu Ye endured the assault and asked his opponent to identify himself.
• Lu Ye unleashed his vastly superior Blood Sea and Sacred Nature, suppressing Zhou Sifang before killing him with the Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye looted and burned Zhou Sifang's corpse, then continued flying openly as battles elsewhere eliminated several participants within half an hour.

Lu Ye split from his Clone to search the Primordial Realm for opponents and encountered a cautious Human Race Spell Cultivator. The Spell Cultivator’s attacks drove Lu Ye back and disrupted his attempt to close the distance.

• Lu Ye created a Clone dressed as Li Taibai, then sent it in a different direction while he continued searching.
• Lu Ye encountered a plump Human Race Spell Cultivator who mocked his Tier Eight cultivation and activated a defensive tower treasure.
• The Spell Cultivator attacked Lu Ye with Wind Blades and fireballs from his battered fan, while Lu Ye dodged without being injured.
• The Spell Cultivator followed with a lightning Mystic Art that broke through Lu Ye’s Defense Spirit Pattern and blasted him backward.
• Lu Ye struggled to advance through the Spell Cultivator’s attacks, losing the ground he had gained toward closing the distance.

Lu Ye battled a powerful Spell Cultivator in the Cycle Tree’s Divine Sea Conflict, learning to anticipate and evade his lightning attacks. As Lu Ye forced his opponent backward, the Spell Cultivator began preparing a dangerous Thunder Pool trap that wrapped lightning power around Lu Ye.

• Lu Ye repeatedly charged through the Spell Cultivator’s Wind Blades and fireballs, but lightning strikes kept driving him back.
• The Spell Cultivator lured Lu Ye into a false pattern and launched a powerful lightning strike, but Lu Ye’s instinctive warning let him dodge it.
• Lu Ye recognized the weakness in the Spell Cultivator’s lightning casting and began evading many of his strikes, forcing him to retreat.
• The Spell Cultivator accelerated his lightning attacks while preparing a powerful killing move, and strands of lightning power began clinging to Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye sensed the danger of the gathering Thunder Pool power and chose to keep attacking while concealing that he was looking for a way to respond.

Lu Ye used a Void Spirit Pattern to escape the fat Spell Cultivator’s Thunder Pool and defeat him with the Blood Sea Art. After the Spell Cultivator died, Lu Ye collected his possessions and continued on, warned to be cautious of prodigies from the top realms.

• The fat Spell Cultivator activated his Thunder Pool trump card as Lu Ye charged, while Lu Ye sent a controlled artifact toward him.
• Lu Ye teleported to the controlled artifact’s location just as the Thunder Pool erupted, then ambushed the Spell Cultivator with the Crag Mountain Saber and Blood Sea Art.
• Lu Ye battered the Spell Cultivator until his protective treasure pagoda shattered, leaving him barely alive.
• The Spell Cultivator asked why Lu Ye had prolonged the battle, and Lu Ye said he wanted to test himself against other realms’ prodigies.
• The Spell Cultivator warned Lu Ye not to use him as a measure of the top realms’ prodigies, then died.
• Lu Ye burned the Spell Cultivator’s corpse, erased the traces, collected his Storage Bag and treasured fan, and departed.

Lu Ye stopped searching for opponents and spent three days carefully mining a Spirit Jade Vein, while his Clone continued roaming the Primordial Realm. Elsewhere, Du Lang reached a Spirit Jade Vein he had been sent to find, hoping to gather its resources for his realm.

• Lu Ye reflected that few cultivators were openly seeking battles and that his Clone had defeated a hairy Body Cultivator by trapping him in the Blood Sea Art.
• Lu Ye decided to let his Clone continue wandering while he mined a Spirit Jade Vein discovered through traces left by earlier cultivators.
• Lu Ye learned that the vein's tightly fused Spirit Jade had to be separated without damaging its energy-filled outer layer, and harvested fewer than three hundred pieces in three days.
• Du Lang flew low and cautiously toward a Spirit Jade Vein, following a Path Map left by elders from his realm.
• Du Lang found the landmark he needed, reached the inconspicuous hill where the vein lay, and prepared to gather Spirit Jade for his realm.

Du Lang discovered that Lu Ye was already mining a Spirit Jade Vein and chose to share the cave rather than fight him. After showing Lu Ye how Jade-Eating Ants made mining easier, Du Lang gave him a small portion of his colony before Lu Ye returned to his own work.

• Du Lang entered an apparently undiscovered Spirit Jade Vein, sensed someone mining, and found that the miner was Lu Ye, a Divine Sea Tier Eight cultivator.
• Du Lang warned Lu Ye to stay alert, explained that the location would be excluded when the Primordial Realm shrank again, and then went to mine elsewhere in the cave.
• Lu Ye followed Du Lang to observe his Jade-Eating Ants loosening lingyu from the vein, hoping to learn a more efficient mining method.
• When Lu Ye started to leave, Du Lang called him back and tossed him a small portion of the Jade-Eating Ant colony.

Lu Ye mined a Spirit Jade Vein with Du Lang’s Jade-Eating Ants and discovered Spirit Crystals as the Primordial Realm contracted. Meanwhile, his Clone encountered two powerful cultivators, fled their attack, and joined forces with Lu Ye, whose saber strike failed to seriously injure the Demon Race cultivator.

• Du Lang gave Lu Ye Jade-Eating Ants, and Lu Ye reciprocated with a treasured fan before returning to mine the vein.
• Lu Ye used the ants to gather Lingyu while mining himself, and he discovered scarce Spirit Crystals within the vein.
• On the tenth day, the Primordial Realm contracted, and Lu Ye realized the Spirit Jade Vein would eventually be pushed outside the safe area.
• Two days later, Lu Ye’s Clone found a Demon Race cultivator and a Human Race Body Cultivator fighting, but they noticed him and pursued him when he attacked.
• Lu Ye appeared behind the Demon Race cultivator and struck him with his saber, but the cultivator’s defense absorbed the blow without substantial injury.