Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye secured the Treasure Gourd and spent the shrinking Divine Sea Conflict gathering herbs, confident he had earned a strong ranking. After discovering the Insect Race had built a fortified nest in the Core Region, he prepared an escape route and entered under the identity of Li Taibai of the Blood Fiend World.

• The Winged Race cultivator fled from pursuers who believed he had taken the Treasure Gourd, while Lu Ye retrieved his Clone and kept the treasure in his Storage Bag.
• Lu Ye gathered rare herbs as the Primordial Realm shrank, reflecting that his kills had likely secured a Top Ten ranking and surviving cultivators would soon seek each other out.
• Lu Ye discovered an Insect Nest in the Core Region and realized the Insect Race had spent two months fortifying it against attackers.
• Lu Ye set up a Teleportation Spirit Array as an escape route, disguised himself with a cloud of blood, and approached the Insect Nest.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Li Taibai of the Blood Fiend World, received an invitation from an Insect Race cultivator, and entered the nest.

Lu Ye infiltrated an Insect Nest disguised as a Blood Race cultivator and learned that the Insect Race had built four nests to wait out the Divine Sea Conflict, relying on Blood Race allies for support. After gaining their trust, he trapped the Insect Race cultivators in his Blood Sea and began killing them, leaving the nest in chaos.

• Lu Ye sensed dozens of auras in the Insect Nest and realized most belonged to Insect Race Guards.
• An Insect Race cultivator welcomed Lu Ye as a Blood Race ally, explaining that the Insect Race planned to wait in four nests and rely on the Blood Race if they had to fight.
• Lu Ye claimed he would help defend the nest and spread his Blood Sea throughout its core, impressing the Insect Race cultivators.
• Lu Ye created a Clone, drew his Crag Mountain Saber, and attacked the Insect Race cultivators from within the Blood Sea.
• The Insect Race cultivators discovered that the Blood Sea restrained them as Lu Ye and his Clone trapped and killed them one by one.

Lu Ye destroyed three of the four Insect Nests while the realm powerhouses watched his ranking rise, then encountered the injured Yu Yaorao while gathering herbs. When one of her pursuers called Lu Ye trash, he vanished and appeared behind the man with his saber drawn.

• Lu Ye killed the Insect Race cultivators and Guards in an Insect Nest, then rested while the Insect Race powerhouses noticed several of their prodigies had died.
• Over the next two days, Lu Ye wiped out two more Insect Nests, prompting the realm powerhouses to conclude he had killed the Insect Race prodigies and returned to first place.
• Lu Ye continued gathering herbs and searching for the last Insect Nest, avoiding a battle he sensed nearby until he recognized Yu Yaorao among the combatants.
• Yu Yaorao fled from two pursuers and veered away from Lu Ye to keep him out of the conflict, but one pursuer charged at him and called him trash.
• Lu Ye launched a controlled artifact, vanished from the pursuer’s sight, and appeared behind him with his saber drawn, asking who he had called trash.

Lu Ye killed Yu Yaorao’s pursuers and rescued her, then cared for her until she woke. Yu Yaorao thanked him and explained how her companions had been separated or killed, leaving her to consider what to do while still badly injured.

• Yu Yaorao fled from two pursuers and briefly considered seeking Lu Ye’s help, but continued on alone.
• Lu Ye killed one pursuer and overwhelmed the other, while Yu Yaorao watched before collapsing from her injuries.
• Lu Ye caught the unconscious Yu Yaorao, gave her Healing Pills, and brought her along until she woke several days later.
• Yu Yaorao thanked Lu Ye for saving her, and he said he was repaying the kindness she had shown him.
• Yu Yaorao told Lu Ye that Ding You had died in battle and that she had become separated from Zhao Yunliu.
• Lu Ye asked what Yu Yaorao planned to do next, considering that her severe injuries made staying in the Primordial Realm dangerous.

After the Cycle Tree ranked Lu Ye first with 208 gains, he realized the revelation would draw powerful rivals to him and chose to stay put. He killed a Ghost Cultivator who ambushed him, then faced a massive wolf-headed Demon Race cultivator as Yu Yaorao warned him about its dangerous Demonic Energy.

• Yu Yaorao said she would recover before leaving Lu Ye, while Lu Ye considered the Cycle Tree's revelation and the final twenty days of the conflict.
• The Cycle Tree ranked Lu Ye of the Nine Heavens Realm first with 208 gains, far ahead of Gu Yulou with 53 and You Ping with 49.
• Lu Ye anticipated that other cultivators would target him but decided to remain where he was instead of relocating.
• A concealed Ghost Cultivator ambushed Lu Ye, and Lu Ye swiftly killed him while Yu Yaorao watched.
• A wolf-headed cultivator from the Heavenly Wolf Tribe arrived amid surging Demonic Energy and asked whether Lu Ye was from the Nine Heavens Realm.
• Yu Yaorao warned Lu Ye that the creature's Demonic Energy could drive people mad and urged him not to let it touch him.

Lu Ye defended Yu Yaorao while killing the cultivators drawn to his extraordinary gains in the Primordial Realm. After the Cycle Tree revealed his first-place ranking and 216 gains, the encirclement around them grew, and Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain arrived as a formidable challenger.

• Lu Ye killed a Heavenly Wolf Tribe cultivator and returned with the man’s severed head, shocking Yu Yaorao.
• Over the next two days, Lu Ye defeated or killed several more challengers, while Yu Yaorao recovered beside the corpses he had arranged as a warning.
• The Cycle Tree revealed twenty ranked names, placing Lu Yiye of the Nine Heavens Realm first with 216 gains and drawing a crowd of cultivators to Lu Ye’s location.
• Lu Ye told Yu Yaorao to stay because ambushers surrounded them, and he waited for a powerful opponent who could break the stalemate.
• Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain arrived, and Yu Yaorao identified him as the seventh-ranked Stone Race cultivator.

Lu Ye faced Bao Shi of the Five Colors Domain, whose immense strength and durable physique let him withstand Lu Ye’s three Overlord Saber forms. The battle left Lu Ye still confronting a seemingly unstoppable opponent as hidden spectators watched.

• Lu Ye waited for Bao Shi, while cultivators concealed nearby gathered to witness a clash between the first- and seventh-ranked prodigies.
• Bao Shi introduced himself and charged Lu Ye at surprising speed, but Lu Ye met his attack head-on.
• Bao Shi’s overwhelming strength forced Lu Ye to evade his palms, fists, and knee, and Lu Ye escaped by striking against his fists with his saber.
• Lu Ye attacked with the first three forms of Overlord Saber: Myriad Stars, Arc Moon, and Lotus Sun.
• Bao Shi emerged unharmed from Lu Ye’s saber forms and lunged at him with renewed ferocity.

Lu Ye used Heavy Pressure and Blood Dye Spirit Patterns to seize control of his battle with Bao Shi and drive the Stone Race fighter into a desperate disadvantage. Bao Shi continued fighting despite his cracked body, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Secret observers witnessed Lu Ye and Bao Shi clash and recognized the strength behind Lu Ye’s Divine Sea Tier Eight achievements.
• Lu Ye changed tactics, using basic saber attacks as he searched for a way to break through Bao Shi’s hard defenses.
• Lu Ye formed three layers of the Heavy Pressure Spirit Pattern in his saber, forcing Bao Shi down and disrupting his counterattack.
• Lu Ye activated the Blood Dye Spirit Pattern and unleashed a powerful barrage, turning the fight in his favor.
• Lu Ye repeatedly disrupted Bao Shi’s rhythm and exploited his limited agility until Bao Shi was covered in cracks but still refused to retreat.

Lu Ye killed Bao Shi after a brutal battle, deterring the other hidden geniuses and keeping Yu Yaorao safely by his side. Mo Keduo then challenged him with a momentum-building attack, but Lu Ye raised a formation that weakened the approaching strike.

• Lu Ye defeated Bao Shi, who refused to retreat and shattered into pieces before him.
• The hidden cultivators abandoned plans to challenge Lu Ye, while Yu Yaorao decided to remain near him for protection.
• Mo Keduo of the Myriad Demon Continent arrived to challenge Lu Ye, building up a powerful Secret Technique as he approached.
• Lu Ye set up a formation around himself and Yu Yaorao, and Mo Keduo's attack struck its resilient barrier, which began draining his momentum.

Lu Ye defeated Mo Keduo and discovered Bao Shi had survived through a Stone Race innate ability, after which the two settled into a wary but peaceful truce. As the Divine Sea Conflict neared its end, You Ping appeared and Gu Yulou arrived to challenge Lu Ye.

• Mo Keduo broke out of Lu Ye's Grand Array, but Lu Ye wounded him in a single exchange and drove him away.
• Lu Ye found Bao Shi alive in a tiny form beneath the rubble; Bao Shi explained that his apparent death had been his Stone Race innate ability.
• Bao Shi joined Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao, and the former opponents rested together as battles intensified around them.
• You Ping appeared after failing to find an opening to attack Lu Ye and taunted Yu Yaorao for sheltering under his protection.
• You Ping called out that Gu Yulou should come challenge Lu Ye, and Gu Yulou of the Yellow Dragon Realm arrived with a silver spear.

Gu Yulou arrived at Lu Ye’s resting place but refused to challenge him, judging that he could not win. As more top-ranked cultivators gathered, the spot became a peaceful refuge while brutal battles continued elsewhere in the Primordial Realm.

• Gu Yulou saw Bao Shi’s defeat and sat down, saying he could not beat Lu Ye.
• You Ping tried to persuade Gu Yulou to fight so she could take advantage of their injuries, but he refused.
• Top-ranked cultivators gradually gathered around Lu Ye, and more than twenty prodigies settled there without an agreement.
• Yu Yaorao felt out of place among the powerful cultivators, while Lu Ye’s presence gave her a sense of protection.
• The gathered cultivators shared food and wine, and You Ping playfully poured wine into Lu Ye’s mouth as conflicts raged elsewhere.

The Divine Sea Conflict ended, and Lu Ye received the greatest share of the Primordial Realm’s Spiritual Light before returning to the Cycle Tree’s White Jade Platform as champion. There, Yang Qing shielded him from hostile Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators, while Yu Yaorao’s elder thanked him for protecting her.

• A hundred clusters of Spiritual Light entered the remaining cultivators, with Lu Ye receiving the largest and sensing a dormant power that would take effect when he advanced to Star Constellation.
• The Primordial Realm expelled its remaining cultivators, and Lu Ye returned to the White Jade Platform among the final hundred victors.
• Powerful Blood Race and Insect Race cultivators glared at Lu Ye, whom they suspected of killing their juniors, but Yang Qing appeared and praised him.
• Yu Yaorao and her elder thanked Lu Ye for protecting her, and her elder invited Lu Ye to visit the Nine Profound Realm.
• Du Lang chose not to approach Lu Ye, saying he would seek an equal friendship with him if they met again in the starry sky.

After the Divine Sea Conflict, Lu Ye and Yang Qing tried to leave the Primordial Realm, but the Cycle Tree stopped them because Lu Ye had taken two fairies. The fairies returned to their realm, and Lu Ye received a Tree Leaf Imprint that could later lead him back to the Cycle Tree.

• Yu Yaorao bid farewell to Lu Ye as Yang Qing led him away from the White Jade Platform.
• The Cycle Tree blocked Yang Qing’s attempt to open a passage home and revealed that Lu Ye had taken things he should not have taken.
• Lu Ye released Lu Yingying and Hong Dandan from his Spirit Beast Bag, and the two fairies returned to the Fairy Tree Realm.
• The Cycle Tree gave Lu Ye a leaf that fused into his wrist as a Tree Leaf Imprint, then opened a passage for him and Yang Qing.
• Yang Qing explained that the imprint could take Lu Ye to the Cycle Tree as a transfer point, but he could not bring anyone with him and might be asked to help the Cycle Tree in the future.

Yang Qing left the Nine Provinces after advising Lu Ye that its people must learn to protect their homeland themselves. Lu Ye reassured Jian Guhong and the others, then told them about the Cycle Tree gathering and warned them to conceal the Nine Provinces’ identity when traveling the starry sky.

• Yang Qing told Lu Ye that he had no reason to remain in the Nine Provinces and urged its Human Race to grow strong enough to defend their homeland.
• After Yang Qing departed, Lu Ye told Little Nine to keep absorbing the Blood Refining World’s foundation and focus on becoming stronger.
• Jian Guhong and the others met Lu Ye, learned Yang Qing had left, and resolved that the Nine Provinces must rely on its own strength for protection.
• Lu Ye described the Cycle Tree gathering and his first-place finish in the Primordial Realm, impressing Jian Guhong and the others.
• Lu Ye explained that Nine Provinces cultivators should travel under another name because powerful enemies might still remember the Pre-Nine Provinces Era.

After Yang Qing departed, Lu Ye advised Jian Guhong and the other Star Constellation Realm cultivators to leave the Nine Provinces and seek Lingyu, trusting the realm’s Heavenly Punishment to protect it. Lu Ye stayed behind to cultivate toward the Star Constellation Realm and assessed his spoils, deciding to feed most of his captured treasures to the Sword Gourd while keeping materials to reforge his Crag Mountain Saber.

• Jian Guhong asked Lu Ye whether the Nine Provinces still needed Star Constellation Realm cultivators to guard it, and Lu Ye said they should seek Lingyu while the realm’s Heavenly Punishment could defend against powerful invaders.
• Jian Guhong and the others left the Nine Provinces, while Lu Ye remained on Spirit Peak to pursue Divine Sea Tier Nine and the Star Constellation Realm.
• Lu Ye reflected on the Nine Provinces’ standing in the starry sky and began inspecting his gains from the journey to the Cycle Tree.
• Lu Ye examined the Void Beast Heart Core and counted at least thirty thousand Lingyu among his spoils, along with Spirit Crystals and treasures taken from opponents.
• Lu Ye fed most of his captured treasures to the Sword Gourd to strengthen its Sword Qi, keeping a Short Pestle and Black Sand to reforge his chipped Crag Mountain Saber.

Lu Ye experimented with the Treasure Gourd he had won in the Primordial Realm, discovering that it consumed Spiritual Pills and medicinal herbs. After it swallowed enough herbs, it produced nine radiant, patterned Spiritual Pills whose effects he had yet to identify.

• Lu Ye found that pouring Spiritual Power into the Treasure Gourd or offering it artifacts, Spirit Stones, and Lingyu did nothing.
• Lu Ye discovered that the Treasure Gourd swallowed Spiritual Pills, then confirmed that it also consumed medicinal herbs.
• Little Nine asked Lu Ye what the gourd did, and she vanished after he irritably considered whether it might swallow her.
• Lu Ye fed the Treasure Gourd more than a dozen kinds of herbs, triggering mysterious changes inside it.
• The Treasure Gourd trembled and expelled nine radiant Spiritual Pills, which Lu Ye recognized as extraordinary but had not yet tested.

Lu Ye discovered that the Treasure Gourd produced powerful, impurity-free healing and cultivation pills, then explored its rules until he learned how to use it. He named the gourd the Pill Gourd.

• Lu Ye swallowed one of the gourd’s pills and found that it healed old hidden injuries without producing any impurities for the Talent Tree to burn.
• Lu Ye fed the Treasure Gourd more pills and medicinal herbs, and it produced nine pills of a different color.
• Lu Ye tested one of the new pills and found that it steadily increased his cultivation with an unusually long-lasting effect.
• Lu Ye spent several days experimenting and consulted Second Senior Sister about medicinal theory until he worked out how the Treasure Gourd refined pills.
• Lu Ye named the Treasure Gourd the Pill Gourd.

Lu Ye demonstrated that the Pill Gourd could refine extraordinary Cloud Spirit Pills and taught Shui Yuan how to use it. He entrusted the treasure to her so the Crimson Blood Sect could strengthen its disciples.

• Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect and found Shui Yuan to show her the Pill Gourd.
• Lu Ye fed a Cloud Spirit Pill and refining herbs into the gourd, which produced nine radiant Treasure Pills.
• Shui Yuan tasted one pill and discovered that it contained no Pill Toxin and had several times the medicinal effect of an ordinary Cloud Spirit Pill.
• Lu Ye explained how the Pill Gourd worked and told Shui Yuan that he had obtained it in the Cycle Tree with Senior Yang Qing.
• Lu Ye taught Shui Yuan to use the Pill Gourd and entrusted it to her to support the Crimson Blood Sect.

Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak and began cultivating toward Divine Sea Tier Nine while trying to derive a stronger Sharpness Spirit Pattern from the Talent Tree. He became absorbed in the derivation, leaving its success unresolved.

• Lu Ye returned to Ao Mountain and found that the Crimson Blood Sect’s disciples had grown in number and cultivation, though the sect still lacked high-end combat power.
• Lu Ye discovered that Yiyi and Amber were absent from Green Bamboo Peak and concluded they had gone to the Peerless Continent.
• Lu Ye settled into seclusion on Green Bamboo Peak and set his goal on advancing to Divine Sea Tier Nine using Golden Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye decided to derive a new Sharpness Spirit Pattern after finding that the Crag Mountain Saber’s killing power was insufficient against stronger opponents.
• Lu Ye began experimenting with Yin-Yang Dual Elements across the Talent Tree’s burning leaves and became completely immersed in the derivation.

Lu Ye reached Divine Sea Tier Nine and discovered that the Primordial Realm reward had begun strengthening his body, then tested a newly deduced Sharpness Spirit Pattern and found it disappointing. After learning that his master Yun Xuechu had left the Nine Provinces for the starry sky, he decided to study her books and seek guidance from other Spirit Pattern Masters before advancing further.

• Lu Ye broke through to Divine Sea Tier Nine while deducing Yin-Yang Dual Elements, with Little Nine sustaining his cultivation using Golden Spirit Signs.
• Lu Ye realized the Primordial Realm first-place reward had begun nourishing his body and would help prepare him to Advance to Star Constellation.
• Lu Ye tested his newly deduced Sharpness Spirit Pattern on the Crag Mountain Saber and found its improvement too limited for his expectations.
• Lu Ye went to Bright Moon Peak seeking his master, but learned from Second Senior Sister that Yun Xuechu and the Sect Master had left for the starry sky more than three months earlier.
• Lu Ye asked Shui Yuan to locate renowned Spirit Pattern Masters and began studying the books his master had left behind.