Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye’s Eastern Division was ambushed by the allied Southern and Western Divisions, leaving it unable to prevent them from distributing the remaining Spirit Orbs. Realizing the alliance would eventually target his division’s three orbs, Lu Ye proposed seizing a fourth orb first.

• Ye Chaoqun and Duan Xiuchen attacked Lu Ye and his companions, and Huang Li, Xu Xinghe, and the other Eastern Division cultivators were killed during the battle.
• Lu Ye survived the joint assault and learned that the Southern and Western Divisions had allied to keep the Eastern Division in third place.
• The allied divisions transported the seventh Spirit Orb toward the Western Division camp while the Eastern Division regrouped.
• Lu Ye predicted that the Southern and Western Divisions would later take the Eastern Division’s orbs to settle the rankings between themselves.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had strengthened the Eastern Division camp’s defenses and declared that they would seize the fourth Spirit Orb.

Lu Ye used teleportation arrays to send the Eastern Division to raid the Southern and Western Divisions’ camps while their forces escorted the ninth Spirit Orb. After the Eastern Division broke the camps’ formations and sent their Spirit Orbs drifting away, Duan Xiuchen ordered his people to kill themselves and return to defend their camp.

• The Western and Southern Divisions joined forces to escort the eighth Spirit Orb to the Southern Division’s camp, while Lu Ye’s group followed from a distance.
• When the ninth Spirit Orb appeared, Lu Ye’s group trailed the allied divisions, then vanished as Lu Ye’s teleportation arrays carried the Eastern Division toward both enemy camps.
• The Great Sun Realm cultivators realized Lu Ye had secretly set up teleportation arrays at the camps and sent the Eastern Division to attack them.
• Lu Ye’s main body and Clone led the Eastern Division in breaking both camps’ formations and pushing the Southern and Western Spirit Orbs in different directions with meteors.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun sensed their Spirit Orbs moving and recognized that the Eastern Division had raided their camps.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division’s cultivators to kill themselves and return to camp to reinforce it.

The Eastern Division secured the ninth Spirit Orb, giving them four, while the Southern and Western Divisions accused them of cheating before accepting that they had won it fairly. Lu Ye warned that the allied divisions would attack their camp, and Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun prepared their forces for the assault.

• Ye Chaoqun ordered most of the Western Division cultivators to die and return, leaving two to transport the ninth Spirit Orb, but Eastern Division cultivators killed the remaining pair and took the orb.
• Sunlight cultivators from the Southern and Western Divisions accused Chen Xuanhai of cheating, but Old Xu ended the argument and pointed out that the Eastern Division still had to defend its Spirit Orbs until the competition ended.
• Lu Ye welcomed the fourth Spirit Orb back to the Eastern Division camp, stopped the celebration, and told everyone to recover their Spiritual Power before the coming attack.
• Haitang asked Lu Ye whether he had altered the camp's Formation and used a Clone; Lu Ye confirmed both, explaining that his Clone technique was special.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun met with their divisions outside the Eastern Division camp and agreed to attack, with Ye Chaoqun urging the Southern Division to commit fully.

The Southern and Western Divisions attacked the Eastern Division camp, slowly breaking through its nine layers of defenses. When Lu Ye trapped the camp and five enemy cultivators inside a vast Blood Dao Secret Art, the remaining attackers regrouped and launched a fiercer assault.

• Ye Chaoqun led the Southern and Western Divisions to attack the Eastern Division camp, while Lu Ye accepted the challenge.
• Nine Eastern Division cultivators presided over the camp's protective arrays, which endured the combined assault for nearly a day before the final layer broke.
• Ye Chaoqun and Duan Xiuchen bombarded Lu Ye from a distance, and Lu Ye struggled to defend the Eastern Division without exposing his companions.
• Lu Ye unleashed a vast Blood Dao Secret Art that engulfed the Eastern Division camp and trapped three Southern Division cultivators and two Western Division cultivators.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun recognized the threat and ordered the thirteen remaining attackers to intensify their assault to exhaust Lu Ye.

Lu Ye kept the Southern and Western Divisions occupied with the Blood Sea while his Clone raided the Southern Division’s camp and moved a Spirit Orb. As the Blood Sea reached its limit, Lu Ye prepared for the decisive battle, but the Southern Division’s reinforcements failed to stop him and were wiped out.

• Lu Ye guided the Eastern Division cultivators to defeat five trapped enemies, then used a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Spirit Pattern to help his allies recover while sustaining the Blood Sea.
• Lu Ye sent his Clone to attack the Southern Division’s camp, choosing the moment when its reinforcements were away at the battlefield.
• After half a day, Lu Ye sent a warning to Haitang and the others as his Spiritual Power neared its limit; they prepared for the final battle while his Clone broke the camp’s Protective Grand Array and pushed out a Spirit Orb.
• Duan Xiuchen learned that Lu Ye was raiding the Southern Division’s camp and sent five cultivators back to deal with him; Ye Chaoqun urged him to keep Lu Ye alive and tied down.
• Lu Ye killed the first cultivator who spotted him, then wiped out the four reinforcements as well, leaving Duan Xiuchen shocked by the message.

Duan Xiuchen returned to intercept Lu Ye and recover the Spirit Orb, but Lu Ye’s Clone used the Sword Gourd’s deceptive sword light to draw Southern Division forces away from the Eastern Division. After the Clone returned to the Eastern Division camp, it attacked the assembled Southern and Western Division cultivators, leaving them exposed to an ambush as the chapter ended.

• Duan Xiuchen left Ye Chaoqun to enter the Blood Sea, then returned to his camp and pursued Lu Ye after learning his men had been killed by Flying Swords.
• Duan Xiuchen fought Lu Ye’s Clone through a Sword River and discovered that its Sword Qi mixed weak attacks with powerful strikes.
• Duan Xiuchen and two Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators engaged the Clone while two Early Stage cultivators carried the Spirit Orb back toward their camp.
• The Clone vanished after drawing five Southern Division cultivators away, then returned to the Eastern Division camp as thirteen Southern and Western Division cultivators attacked the blood sphere.
• The Clone struck the assembled forces with misleading sword light, killing three cultivators before Ye Chaoqun sensed the nine Eastern Division cultivators emerging from ambush.

Lu Ye and the Eastern Division defeated the Southern and Western Divisions’ attackers, but Ye Chaoqun escaped and used a Great Teleportation Talisman to summon reinforcements. The chapter ends as figures begin appearing beside him, threatening the Eastern Division’s apparent victory.

• Ye Chaoqun realized Lu Ye had a Clone and fled while the Clone and Lu Ye’s team killed the remaining Star Constellation cultivators.
• Lu Ye, Huang Li, and Xu Xinghe defeated the last Middle Stage cultivator, and the Eastern Division eliminated the remaining Early Stage fighters.
• Ye Chaoqun escaped with a Spirit Talisman, while Lu Ye’s Clone merged back into his main body.
• Haitang explained that the Great Teleportation Talisman was the Western Division’s rare trump card, and Lu Ye realized it could bring reinforcements to Ye Chaoqun.
• A talisman array appeared beside Ye Chaoqun, and several figures began to emerge.

Duan Xiuchen led the Southern Division in a final assault against the Eastern Division, and both sides activated Array Talismans that manifested as enormous beasts. Their nine-headed serpent and the Southern Division’s lightning-horned wolf collided, leaving Lu Ye and the others locked in a battle of strength and Spiritual Power.

• Duan Xiuchen arrived after Ye Chaoqun used a Great Teleportation Talisman, and Ye entrusted the remaining fight to the Southern Division.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division to activate its Array Talisman, and Haitang activated the Eastern Division’s in response.
• The Eastern Division’s nine cultivators joined their power to manifest a nine-headed serpent, while the Southern Division formed a giant, lightning-horned wolf.
• The wolf blasted a hole through the serpent with a beam from its horn, and Haitang drove the serpent into close combat.
• The two beasts collided, and the wolf bit at Zhang Chao’s serpent head while the Eastern Division’s cultivators poured Spiritual Power into repairing the damage.

The Eastern Division’s battle against the Southern Division’s giant wolf turned when Lu Ye used the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern to strengthen the Nine-Headed Snake’s fangs. He extended the technique to other serpent heads, and the two sides entered a brutal contest of endurance.

• The Eastern Division struggled to damage the giant wolf, while the Southern Division’s stronger Array Talisman gave it the advantage in their clash.
• Lu Ye imbued his serpent head’s fangs with the Divine Edge Spirit Pattern and tore a large chunk from the giant wolf’s neck.
• Duan Xiuchen began targeting Lu Ye, but Lu Ye used the Array Talisman’s shared Spiritual Power to strengthen the fangs of other serpent heads instead.
• The Nine-Headed Snake repeatedly broke through the giant wolf’s protection, erasing the Southern Division’s advantage and forcing Duan Xiuchen to abandon his efforts to target Lu Ye.
• Both divisions fought head-on as injuries overwhelmed their ability to repair the colossal beasts, leaving the outcome to whoever exhausted their strength first.

Lu Ye helped the Eastern Division withstand the Southern Division’s Array Talisman, then attacked the Western Division before it could join forces with the Southern Division. He killed Ye Chaoqun and four more Western Division cultivators before being reborn at the Eastern Division’s camp, leaving only four Western Division cultivators alive.

• The Eastern Division’s Nine-Headed Serpent and the Southern Division’s giant wolf fought until the Southern Division shattered the serpent with its liquid-lightning attack, but the wolf then collapsed under the Eastern Division’s counterattack.
• Duan Xiuchen ordered the Southern Division to attack as Ye Chaoqun led the Western Division’s eight arriving cultivators toward the battlefield.
• Lu Ye charged Ye Chaoqun, who tried to flee, and killed him with a saber strike before he could use a Golden Body Talisman.
• The Western Division’s cultivators attacked Lu Ye, but he broke into their ranks and unleashed his Lotus Platform, killing four of them, including two Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators.
• Lu Ye reappeared on the Eastern Division’s camp platform, while the Western Division was left with four surviving cultivators.

Lu Ye led the Eastern Division through a brutal battle against the allied Southern and Western Divisions, using his rebirth advantage to overwhelm their forces. The battle left Duan Xiuchen as the enemy’s sole survivor, while the exhausted Eastern Division secured first place.

• Lu Ye stopped Han Molong from rushing back into battle and waited until all nine Eastern Division members had revived and regrouped.
• Duan Xiuchen charged the Eastern Division, but Lu Ye feinted past him and began killing the opposing cultivators, breaking through their Golden Body Talismans.
• Duan Xiuchen tried to pin Lu Ye down, but Lu Ye defeated him in their exchanges and continued slaughtering the Southern and Western Divisions’ fighters.
• The Eastern Division repeatedly revived and returned to the battlefield until only Duan Xiuchen remained among their opponents.
• Haitang and the other Eastern Division members stood exhausted but exhilarated as their victory and first place became certain.

Lu Ye defeated Duan Xiuchen in their final clash, securing first place for the Eastern Division and prompting the Little People Race's Sunlights to discuss training their cultivators more rigorously. After returning to Immortal Spirit Peak, Lu Ye found Nian Yuexian waiting and admitted he had forgotten to ask when they could leave.

• Duan Xiuchen charged at Lu Ye for a final battle, but Lu Ye broke through his defenses and killed him with a saber strike.
• The Eastern Division's participants reacted with mixed feelings to Lu Ye defeating a Late Stage cultivator while he was at the Early Stage.
• The Sunlights agreed to discuss ways to give Little People Race cultivators more experience and better preparation.
• Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo thanked Su Yuqing for bringing Lu Ye to the Eastern Division, then praised the participants for their victory.
• Nian Yuexian asked Lu Ye when they could leave, and he said he would ask Haitang to find out if their hosts did not raise the matter within two days.

Lu Ye waited for Su Yuqing to return so she could escort him and Nian Yuexian out of Square Inch Mountain, and used the delay to study the Little People Race’s Spirit Pattern inheritance. After Su Yuqing came back, she coldly took them aboard her Spirit Boat and departed with them for the starry sky.

• Lu Ye learned from Haitang that Su Yuqing was away overseeing the division of Square Inch Mountain’s accumulated foundation, a process expected to take about a month.
• Lu Ye asked Haitang for the Little People Race’s Spirit Patterns, and she lent him Immortal Spirit Peak’s inherited tome for study.
• Lu Ye immersed himself in the tome while Nian Yuexian waited and continued cultivating with the Lingyu he had received.
• Haitang told Lu Ye that Su Yuqing had returned, and Lu Ye asked to meet her about leaving Square Inch Mountain.
• Su Yuqing arrived and insisted on carrying out their agreement, so Lu Ye summoned Nian Yuexian and boarded her Spirit Boat.
• Su Yuqing’s Spirit Boat left the realm as Lu Ye bid Haitang farewell and saw her waving from Immortal Spirit Peak.

Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian left Square Inch Mountain aboard Su Yuqing’s Star Boat and reached the place where Nian Yuexian had first found the mountain. Before they set off for Nine Provinces, Su Yuqing rewarded Lu Ye, returned his inherited tome, and spent several days alone with him, leaving him with a conspicuous mark on his neck.

• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian traveled aboard Su Yuqing’s Star Boat and marveled at its speed and strength as it smashed through meteors.
• After about half a month, the Star Boat reached the starry sky where Nian Yuexian had fallen into Square Inch Mountain, and Lu Ye went alone to thank Su Yuqing.
• Su Yuqing gave Lu Ye two Storage Rings as rewards for his contribution to the martial competition.
• Lu Ye tried to return Immortal Spirit Peak’s inherited tome, but Su Yuqing told him to keep it and ordered him to get lost.
• Lu Ye stayed with Su Yuqing for several days before rejoining Nian Yuexian, and they set off toward Nine Provinces.
• Nian Yuexian noticed a mark on Lu Ye’s neck, and he blushed when he saw it in a mirror.

Lu Ye examined Su Yuqing’s gifts while traveling with Nian Yuexian, discovering a cache of valuable talismans and a Star Boat. He and Nian Yuexian set off for the Nine Provinces aboard the Silver Fish, though Lu Ye learned that piloting it consumed considerable Spiritual Power and required time to build speed.

• Lu Ye failed to remove the mark Su Yuqing had left on his neck, while Nian Yuexian teased him and called it a declaration of ownership.
• Lu Ye inspected one Storage Ring and found nearly a hundred talismans, including two red Jade Talismans, one of which carried Su Yuqing’s aura.
• Lu Ye opened the second Storage Ring and discovered a Star Boat named Silver Fish.
• Lu Ye activated the Silver Fish, learned to control its Formation core, and began traveling toward the Nine Provinces with Nian Yuexian.
• Lu Ye found that piloting the Silver Fish consumed substantial Spiritual Power, though using Lingyu could reduce the cost, and the boat needed time to reach its top speed.

Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian returned to the Nine Provinces aboard a Star Boat after nurturing their Jade Talismans during the journey. Lu Ye visited the Crimson Blood Sect, gave a two-day Dharma assembly, and then went to the Garrison Hall, where Feng Wujiang prepared to leave with Qiu Min after she advanced to Star Constellation.

• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian traveled home aboard the Star Boat while Lu Ye nurtured two red Jade Talismans and taught Nian Yuexian to nurture her purple ones.
• A concealed woman followed them to the Nine Provinces, observed the Nine Provinces and Blood Refining World from afar, and then departed without entering.
• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian returned to Ao Mountain, where Nian Yuexian reunited with Shui Yuan and Lu Ye was asked to address the Crimson Blood Sect disciples.
• Lu Ye held a two-day Dharma assembly at Upholding Justice Peak, answering the disciples’ questions about his past exploits, cultivation, and combat.
• Lu Ye went to Heaven Continent and bade farewell to Feng Wujiang, who had been guarding the Garrison Hall and was now ready to leave with Qiu Min, who had advanced to Star Constellation three months earlier.

Lu Ye managed the Garrison Hall while Nine Provinces’ cultivators explored the starry sky, and he began developing a stronger defensive Spiritual Pattern. The chapter ended when he learned that Meng Jie was fighting an unknown enemy near Peerless Continent and ordered Nine Provinces cultivators there to hide the passage home.

• Lu Ye inspected the Garrison Hall’s Star Map, Lingyu, Jade Slips, and Sound Talismans, which were intended to support Nine Provinces’ Star Constellation Realm cultivators.
• Meng Jie discovered Peerless Continent after traveling far from Nine Provinces, and Lu Ye recorded its location at the end of a long spur on the Star Map.
• Lu Ye finished studying the Little People Race’s records and focused on improving Guard into a stronger defensive Spiritual Pattern.
• Over the following months, Lu Ye used his Clone to manage visitors and update the Star Map while his main body worked on the new Spiritual Pattern.
• Nine Provinces cultivators on Peerless Continent reported that Meng Jie was fighting an unknown Star Constellation Realm enemy beyond the heavens.
• Lu Ye ordered the Nine Provinces cultivators on Peerless Continent to lie low and conceal the passage leading back to Nine Provinces.

Lu Ye gathered Star Constellation Realm reinforcements and rushed to Peerless Continent after Meng Jie’s warning, fearing an intelligent enemy had attacked. He found Meng Jie battling two Middle Stage Star Constellation cultivators, and the Nine Provinces group launched a coordinated ambush.

• Lu Ye ordered Nian Yuexian and other Star Constellation cultivators to join him, then set out aboard the Silver Fish with three companions.
• Lu Ye picked up Jian Guhong, other cultivators, and finally Feng Wujiang and Qiu Min, filling the Star Boat with nine people.
• After a month of travel, the group sensed Meng Jie fighting near Peerless Continent and silently spread out to approach the battle.
• Lu Ye saw Meng Jie badly wounded and outmatched by a Spell Cultivator and a Weapon Cultivator, both at the Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage.
• Jian Guhong and the others ambushed the Spell Cultivator, while Lu Ye charged at the Weapon Cultivator fighting Meng Jie.

Lu Ye and Nine Provinces reinforcements rescued Meng Jie and killed two foreign Star Constellation cultivators, but learned that two more enemies remained inside Peerless Continent. The group prepared to face the unresolved threat while lacking information about what had happened within the continent.

• Feng Wujiang kicked Meng Jie clear of a spear thrust, and Lu Ye engaged the Weapon Cultivator in battle.
• Jian Guhong and six other cultivators ambushed and killed the Spell Cultivator, while Lu Ye swiftly killed the Weapon Cultivator.
• Meng Jie returned and told Lu Ye and the others that four foreign cultivators had appeared, with two still inside Peerless Continent.
• Meng Jie explained that he had fought and distracted the two dead cultivators for a month to protect the Nine Provinces cultivators inside Peerless Continent.
• Feng Wujiang learned from Meng Jie that no one knew what the two remaining enemies were doing inside the continent.

Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian infiltrated Peerless Continent to locate two foreign Star Constellations and discovered a woman using a Ten Thousand Souls Banner to torture and kill Nine Provinces cultivators. After the enemy forces exposed the search party, Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian captured the banner’s wielder, leaving her under their control.

• Feng Wujiang and the others decided to infiltrate Peerless Continent and search for the two remaining Star Constellations without alerting them.
• Lu Ye and Nian Yuexian found a woman refining her Ten Thousand Souls Banner and realized she was using Nine Provinces cultivators as materials.
• Lu Ye checked his Battlefield Mark and confirmed that Xiao Xinghe, his Fourth Senior Brother, Lin Yinxiu, Feng Yuechan, Yiyi, and Hua Ci were still alive, though other imprints had vanished.
• A distant clash revealed that the Nine Provinces searchers had been exposed, and Lu Ye concluded the enemy they faced was likely at the Star Constellation Realm Early Stage.
• Nian Yuexian and Lu Ye charged into the banner domain, overcame its attacks on their Divine Souls, and subdued the woman.
• Lu Ye ordered the frightened woman to obey him, and she nodded.