Chapter Summaries

After two months of studying spirit patterns, Lu Ye traveled to You Province to visit the Divine Pattern Sect’s Sacred Land, where spirit pattern masters gathered to cultivate and exchange insights. The sect’s leaders welcomed him and Pei Yuan personally guided him to the sheer cliff that served as the Sacred Land.

• Lu Ye left Bright Moon Peak after two months of studying and asked Shui Yuan where he could further his knowledge of the Spirit Pattern Path.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that the Divine Pattern Sect in You Province had opened its Sacred Land to Vast Sky Alliance Divine Sea Realm cultivators.
• Lu Ye used a Heaven’s Mystery Pillar to reach You Province and flew to the Divine Pattern Sect to pay a formal visit.
• The Divine Pattern Sect’s receptionist recognized Lu Ye’s name and quickly summoned Pei Yuan and the sect’s other Divine Sea Realm cultivators to greet him.
• Lu Ye told Pei Yuan that he had come to see the Sacred Land, and Pei Yuan led him to a sheer cliff.

Lu Ye entered the Divine Pattern Sect’s Sacred Land and studied its ancient Spirit Pattern inscriptions alongside the gathered masters, steadily earning their respect. After three months, he entered meditation to revisit the Talent Tree’s Spirit Pattern techniques and insights.

• Pei Yuan led Lu Ye to the cave entrance of the Sacred Land, where Spirit Pattern Masters from across the Nine Provinces had gathered.
• Lu Ye joined a dispute over patterns on a stone wall, deduced a stable Spirit Pattern on his jade board, and avoided choosing between the arguing groups.
• Lu Ye studied and debated with the gathered Spirit Pattern Masters, whose respect for his skill grew as he exchanged insights with them.
• Three months later, Lu Ye sat motionless in meditation while the others mistook his state for a sudden insight.
• Lu Ye reviewed the Spirit Pattern techniques and cultivation insights carried on the Talent Tree’s leaves.

After months of studying the Spirit Pattern Path, Lu Ye entered a long meditation at the holy ground of Spirit Pattern Masters and emerged ready to carve a new Sharpness Spirit Pattern. He completed an unprecedented pattern with 2,046 Base Elements, and its aura of Sharpness surged from the wall.

• Lu Ye reviewed the imprints on the Talent Tree and gained new insights into the Spirit Pattern Path.
• Lu Ye meditated motionlessly before a blank stone wall for more than two months.
• Lu Ye awoke, drew the Crag Mountain Saber, and began carving a pattern into the wall as the Spirit Pattern Masters watched.
• The Spirit Pattern Masters realized Lu Ye was engraving a complete, potentially unprecedented Spirit Pattern, though its growing complexity surprised them.
• Lu Ye finished a 2,046-Base-Element Sharpness Spirit Pattern shaped like a drawn saber, and an aura of Sharpness surged from the wall.

Lu Ye revealed the newly derived Divine Edge Spirit Pattern to the Spirit Pattern Masters at their Sacred Land, then met Master Yu and asked her to reforge the Crag Mountain Saber. After arranging the reforging, he inscribed Divine Edge onto a leaf of the Talent Tree, leaving him with a new Spirit Pattern to use and refine.

• The Spirit Pattern Masters began copying and testing the complex Spirit Pattern Lu Ye had left on the stone wall.
• Lu Ye recognized Master Yu and asked her to reforge the Crag Mountain Saber; she agreed to finish it in about a month using the materials he provided.
• Lu Ye told Master Yu that he had named the new Spirit Pattern Divine Edge and explained that it could produce greater killing power than Sharpness.
• Master Yu warned that Divine Edge was too complex for practical use in combat, but Lu Ye explained that the Talent Tree let him activate it readily.
• Lu Ye inscribed Divine Edge onto a leaf of the Talent Tree, completing his first Spirit Pattern derived entirely by himself.

Lu Ye reunited with Team Ding Nine on Peerless Continent and shared a farewell feast with his friends before preparing to advance to Star Constellation and leave the Nine Provinces. After parting from them, he set out to find one person still left to bid farewell to.

• Team Ding Nine battled a large Corpse Horde, and Li Baxian urged Xiao Xinghe to withdraw after they had defeated half of it.
• Lu Ye arrived and helped cut down several of the strongest Corpse Race members, then Team Ding Nine retreated and regrouped with him.
• Lu Ye told his friends he would advance to Star Constellation within a month and explained he had come to say farewell before venturing into the starry sky.
• Lu Ye and Team Ding Nine drank and shared stories through the night and the following day before Xiao Xinghe led everyone in a farewell.
• Lu Ye parted from Team Ding Nine and set off to find the last person he wanted to see.

Lu Ye searched Peerless Continent for Hua Ci and found her nurturing corpses in a valley dense with poisonous Corpse Clouds. They reunited with their usual teasing, and Hua Ci explained that she was cultivating by nurturing the Corpse Race.

• Lu Ye searched deeper into Peerless Continent, avoiding Corpse Race members and passing cultivators as he looked for Hua Ci.
• Lu Ye spotted a valley filled with dense Corpse Clouds and descended into it, where poisonous mushrooms covered the ground.
• Lu Ye pulled up a mushroom and exposed a buried Corpse Race member, causing the hidden corpses to rise from the ground.
• Lu Ye jokingly called for help from his husband’s would-be murderer, and Hua Ci appeared to scold him for the remark.
• Lu Ye and Hua Ci traded teasing remarks before she told him she was nurturing corpses to cultivate with Corpse Qi.

Lu Ye visited Hua Ci in her valley to say farewell before advancing to Star Constellation and leaving the Nine Provinces. Their parting turned into an extended stay together, until Hua Ci used Corpse Race onlookers to finally drive him away.

• Lu Ye found Hua Ci resting in a coffin and lay beside her, where he fell asleep in the rare peace of her company.
• Hua Ci realized Lu Ye planned to leave the Nine Provinces after advancing, and they talked about his journey into the starry sky and their shared past.
• As Lu Ye prepared to leave, Hua Ci pulled him back into the coffin, and he stayed with her for half a month.
• Hua Ci had several female Corpse Race members gather around the opened coffin, leaving Lu Ye startled and making him realize she wanted him to go.

Lu Ye left Hua Ci and returned to the Nine Provinces, where Master Yu presented his reforged Crag Mountain Saber and saw him demonstrate the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern. After Shui Yuan and Master Yu teased him about Hua Ci, Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak to wait for his imminent advancement to Star Constellation.

• Hua Ci sent Lu Ye off with a warning to fight carefully and joked that she would raise the child in her belly if he died.
• Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces and met Master Yu, who gave him the reforged Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye activated the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern on Crag Mountain Saber, leaving Master Yu astonished by his skill.
• Master Yu teased Lu Ye about his recent time with Hua Ci, then departed without accepting payment.
• Shui Yuan recognized Hua Ci's scent on Lu Ye and congratulated him, leaving him embarrassed.
• Lu Ye returned to Green Bamboo Peak and meditated in his Bamboo Lodge as he waited for the chance to advance to Star Constellation.

Lu Ye advanced to the Star Constellation Realm and studied the changes to his body and the realm’s cultivation stages. Jian Guhong summoned him to Heaven Continent, where Lu Ye found him in a newly built grand hall.

• After five days, Lu Ye exhausted the Spiritual Light from the Primordial Realm and broke through to the Star Constellation Realm.
• Lu Ye examined his increased vitality and the starlight in his flesh, then concluded that accumulating starlight was likely central to Star Constellation cultivation.
• Lu Ye asked Little Nine about the realm and read ancient Jade Slips, learning that the Star Constellation, Moonlight, and Great Sun Realms each had early, middle, and late stages.
• Jian Guhong sent Lu Ye a message asking him to come to Heaven Continent, and Lu Ye traveled to the Spirit Peak where the Cycle Tree Clone was located.
• Lu Ye entered the newly built grand hall and Jian Guhong confirmed that Lu Ye had advanced to Star Constellation.

After advancing to the Star Constellation Realm, Lu Ye met Jian Guhong, who showed him a Star Map compiled by Nine Provinces pioneers and explained how it could help cultivators navigate the starry sky. The map revealed an unidentified mass of light that Lu Ye suspected was a Starry Sky Spectacle.

• Jian Guhong confirmed Lu Ye had advanced and asked when he planned to enter the starry sky; Lu Ye said he would leave in the next few days.
• Jian Guhong led Lu Ye to a Side Hall and had him activate a Spiritual Treasure that projected a map of the space outside Nine Provinces.
• Jian Guhong explained that more than eight hundred Star Constellation cultivators were exploring the starry sky and sending back information for the Nine Provinces Garrison Hall to record.
• Jian Guhong identified Nine Provinces, the distant Sun Star, and the Great White Star, explaining that the two stars could help cultivators find their way back to Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye examined an unidentified Spiritual Radiance Mass on the map and guessed that it was a Starry Sky Spectacle.

Lu Ye learned more about Star Constellation Realm cultivation and the dangers of the starry sky from ancient Jade Slips, then prepared to explore an unmapped region beyond the Nine Provinces. He left Jian Guhong with a storage ring for the Garrison Hall before setting out to make preparations.

• Lu Ye gave Jian Guhong ancient Jade Slips, which explained Starry Sky Spectacles and the stages of Star Constellation Realm cultivation.
• Jian Guhong learned that Star Constellation Realm cultivation progressed from tempering flesh and blood to organs and then bone marrow, and kept the Jade Slips to inform other cultivators.
• Lu Ye copied the incomplete Star Map and agreed to explore a blank region, while Jian Guhong advised him to stay near the Nine Provinces at first and obtain a Heaven's Mystery Pillar.
• Jian Guhong explained that Star Constellation Realm cultivators would address one another as peers, and Lu Ye called him Senior Brother Guhong.
• Lu Ye gave Jian Guhong a storage ring as shared property for the Garrison Hall, then left the hall.

Lu Ye tested different ways to cultivate after reaching the Star Constellation Realm and found that lingyu was the only resource he had tried that provided substantial benefit. He began refining lingyu with the Talent Tree and tested swallowing one, which caused its energy to erupt wastefully and burned fuel in the Talent Tree.

• Jian Guhong inspected the Storage Ring Lu Ye had given him, found about fifteen thousand lingyu, and thanked Lu Ye on behalf of the future Garrison Envoys.
• Lu Ye tested Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, Cloud Spirit Pills, and a Spiritual Pill, finding that only the rare pill made from Primordial Realm herbs aided his Star Constellation cultivation.
• Lu Ye crushed a Golden Spirit Sign and found that Stealing Heaven's Mystery's cultivation method was no longer useful to him.
• Lu Ye cultivated with two lingyu and found that ordinary refinement could sustain him for three days, while a controlled Talent Tree absorption rate made them last about half a day.
• Lu Ye swallowed a lingyu to test eating it and found that most of its energy dissipated while the Talent Tree burned away its harmful substances.

Lu Ye prepared to leave the Nine Provinces, took a Heaven's Mystery Pillar from Little Nine, and flew into the starry sky. After admiring his homeland and setting off in the wrong direction, he learned firsthand that flying too fast among drifting meteorites could be dangerous, while Jian Guhong revealed he had already known that lesson.

• Lu Ye confirmed that he could not yet absorb Lingyu directly, then asked Little Nine for a Heaven's Mystery Pillar and hung it around his neck.
• After messaging Shui Yuan, Lu Ye flew beyond the Nine Provinces and saw the realm, the Blood Refining World, and the surrounding Floating Lands from the starry sky.
• Lu Ye checked his Star Map, realized he was heading in the wrong direction, and flew onward anyway to gain experience.
• Finding that Spiritual Power let him accelerate rapidly in the starry sky, Lu Ye increased his speed until he struck a meteorite and suffered painful injuries.
• Lu Ye warned Jian Guhong about the danger of flying too fast, but Jian Guhong replied that he had already known and expected Lu Ye to try it regardless.

Lu Ye explored the starry sky beyond Nine Provinces, gathering Lingyu and experience while mapping the region. After months alone, he entered a promising Asteroid Belt and found unusually bright Lingyu.

• Jian Guhong told Lu Ye that some lessons only stuck after cultivators experienced them for themselves.
• Lu Ye set out to explore the blank region beyond Nine Provinces, collecting Lingyu and recording celestial bodies for Jian Guhong to add to the Star Map.
• Lu Ye cultivated with Lingyu as he traveled and realized that advancing through the Star Constellation Realm was far more difficult than his earlier cultivation.
• After more than three months without encountering another living being, Lu Ye could no longer see Nine Provinces behind him.
• Lu Ye entered a long Asteroid Belt with chaotic energy fluctuations and found two pieces of unusually bright Lingyu on a meteor.

Lu Ye killed a Lantern Fish Star Beast with his newly deduced Divine Edge Spirit Pattern, then found himself pursued by an entire school of Lantern Fish, including Moonlight Realm beings. After evading their purple-beam attacks, he used a controlled artifact to escape nearly ten thousand miles away.

• Lu Ye recognized the disguised Lingyu as a Lantern Fish Star Beast and killed it from within its mouth with an attack enhanced by Divine Edge.
• Lu Ye sensed a school of Lantern Fish approaching, including a Moonlight Realm being, and fled through the Asteroid Belt.
• The pursuing Lantern Fish fired purple beams at Lu Ye, forcing him to dodge and slowing his escape.
• Lu Ye sent controlled artifacts in different directions, then vanished and reappeared nearly ten thousand miles away.
• The Lantern Fish searched and fired beams around the spot where Lu Ye disappeared, unaware that he had escaped.

After reaching the Star Constellation Realm, Lu Ye tested his strength by ambushing the Lantern Fish Star Beasts that had pursued him, then attacking their weaker members in the Asteroid Belt with his Sword Cultivator Clone. He left the surviving Star Beasts alive to prevent them from pursuing him toward the Nine Provinces, and they drifted away from the region.

• Lu Ye discovered that his Void Spirit Pattern could teleport nearly ten thousand li and sent his main body and Sword Cultivator Clone in different directions.
• Lu Ye ambushed the Star Constellation Realm Lantern Fish and killed more than a dozen before teleporting away as the Moon Jade Realm Star Beasts arrived.
• Lu Ye and his Clone attacked the weaker Star Beasts in the Asteroid Belt, killing most of them before escaping.
• The Star Beasts found their clan devastated, then gathered and returned to the Asteroid Belt without knowing where Lu Ye had gone.
• Lu Ye waited tens of thousands of li away, confirmed the Star Beasts had not pursued him, and concluded that leaving survivors had helped keep them from following him toward the Nine Provinces.

Lu Ye finished his first exploration of the starry sky and prepared to return to the Nine Provinces, but a Sunlight Realm old man caught up with him and took him along while fleeing a pursuing Flying Sword. The chapter ended with Lu Ye caught between the old man and the mysterious weapon, unsure why he had been dragged into their chase.

• Lu Ye searched the nearby starry expanse for several days, tested Star Beast Demonic Cores as cultivation resources, and continued recording his discoveries for Jian Guhong.
• After traveling for roughly half a year, Lu Ye lost contact with the Nine Provinces and decided to return by a different route, noting his gradual cultivation gains despite making no breakthrough.
• A powerful divine sense approached, and Lu Ye tried to flee before a shabby Human Race cultivator appeared beside him; Lu Ye recognized him as a Sunlight Realm expert stronger than Yue Xin.
• The old man wrapped Lu Ye in Spiritual Power and sped away with him, while a deadly streak of light pursued them.
• The old man said the pursuer was a sentient Flying Sword he had triggered in an ancient Secret Realm, and Lu Ye questioned why the old man had taken him hostage.

Lu Ye met Feng Rumuo in the starry sky, shared food and wine with him, and received cultivation guidance and a Secret Technique sealed in his Crag Mountain Saber. Feng Rumuo sent Lu Ye away just as a pursuing sword light targeted him, leaving Lu Ye to fight for survival.

• Feng Rumuo asked Lu Ye for food and wine, then explained Star Constellation Realm cultivation and shared information about the starry sky.
• Feng Rumuo recognized that the Nine Heavens Realm had only recently become a Large Realm and offered Lu Ye a benefit in return for his hospitality.
• Feng Rumuo seized the Crag Mountain Saber, sealed a Secret Technique inside it, and pointed Lu Ye toward an opportunity that carried danger.
• Feng Rumuo warned Lu Ye not to use the Secret Technique against the danger about to come and pushed him away as a sword light pursued him.
• Feng Rumuo revealed that the sword light locked onto any living creature that had contacted him, and Lu Ye raised his saber to face the incoming attack.

Lu Ye endured and destroyed the pursuing sword light, recovered on a Barren Star, and followed Feng Rumuo’s directions in search of an opportunity. After weeks of searching, he found a battered, enormous Spirit Boat drifting through the starry sky, though he was unsure what opportunity it held.

• Lu Ye used his saber strikes and Void Spirit Pattern to evade and gradually weaken the sword light until he shattered it.
• Lu Ye rested on a Barren Star, replenished his Spiritual Power with Lingyu, determined his location, and inspected the Secret Technique sealed in his Crag Mountain Saber.
• Lu Ye chose to investigate the opportunity Feng Rumuo had indicated, despite the danger and the possibility of keeping the sealed Secret Technique for later.
• After searching for more than half a month, Lu Ye spotted a ruined three-level Spirit Boat and cautiously circled it while investigating with his Divine Sense.

Lu Ye explored a seemingly worthless wrecked spirit boat, but a strange fog transported him into an apparently intact Long Dragon Warship, where he found himself cast as the captain of a Star Pirate Group. He concluded the ship and crew were an exceptionally powerful illusion, though he did not know how to escape it.

• Lu Ye searched the wrecked spirit boat with his Clone and found nothing of value, confirming it was not the opportunity Feng Rumuo had mentioned.
• As Lu Ye prepared to leave, dense fog trapped him and carried ghostly sounds and a command to set sail.
• The fog cleared to reveal Qin Zong and other cultivators, and unfamiliar information identified Lu Ye as the captain of the Long Dragon Warship.
• Lu Ye recognized the ship's layout as matching the wreck and learned that Qin Zong, Xiao Jianming, Zhou Xing, and Xu Qingwei were members of its crew.
• Lu Ye sheathed his saber, concealed his confusion from the crew, and concluded that the intact ship and its Star Pirate crew were an illusion created aboard the wreck.