Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye captured Chu Shen and brought him to Chime Bell World to claim the bounty from Chu Shen’s mother. After receiving the reward and thanking the cultivators who escorted him, Lu Ye set course for the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

• Chu Shen tried to stab Lu Ye with a needle, but Lu Ye subdued him and bound him in a net Spiritual Treasure.
• As Lu Ye headed toward Chime Bell World, Chu Shen offered up to two hundred thousand Lingyu to secure his release, but Lu Ye refused.
• A starship intercepted Lu Ye, and its cultivators escorted him to Chime Bell World, ending Chu Shen’s chance to bargain privately.
• Aunt Yue met them outside Chime Bell World, checked on Chu Shen, and gave Lu Ye the promised one hundred thousand Lingyu bounty.
• Lu Ye gave the escorting cultivators ten thousand Lingyu in thanks, exchanged Sound Talisman marks with their leader, and departed for the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

Lu Ye perfected a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate but decided to hide it until he found a safe way to sell it. When the Star Constellation Hall opened, he joined Pu Ke and You Ling to learn more about the spectacle and its rules.

• Lu Ye completed the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate and judged that selling it without a powerful backer could cost him his freedom, so he put it away.
• A mysterious voice stirred Lu Ye's killing intent, and Star Constellation cultivators rushed toward its source.
• Lu Ye learned from Pu Ke that the Star Constellation Hall had opened and agreed to meet him at Fishing Island.
• Lu Ye boarded Pu Ke's gourd Star Boat, where You Ling was also riding, and asked Pu Ke about the Star Constellation Hall.
• Pu Ke explained that the Hall was normally dormant but opened periodically, allowing Star Constellation cultivators to enter and gain benefits by following its Rules.

Lu Ye and Pu Ke arrived at the Star Constellation Hall with You Ling and entered during its active period. After leaving a false name and imprint, Lu Ye emerged in Hall Number Fifty-Six and saw the Accumulation Board, where cultivators would earn recognition for their performance.

• The Great Gourd Star Boat carried Lu Ye, Pu Ke, and You Ling to the Star Constellation Hall, where countless Star Constellations had gathered.
• You Ling urged Lu Ye and Pu Ke through the Hall's gate, and its power briefly suppressed the cultivators as they entered.
• In the darkness, Lu Ye followed Pu Ke's instructions and left his name and aura, choosing the alias Fa Wuzun.
• Lu Ye appeared in a great hall marked Hall Number Fifty-Six and saw the blank Accumulation Board at its center.
• A cultivator tried to damage the Accumulation Board with punches and by biting it in beast form, while other cultivators entered gateways around the hall.

Lu Ye entered the Star Constellation Hall under the false identity Fa Wuzun and won his first arena battle against Qin Jiang with long-range spells. After absorbing the victor’s reward, he returned to a different hall and prepared to enter another contest.

• Lu Ye changed his clothes and appearance before entering a doorway, where the Star Constellation Hall gave him details about his arena battle against Qin Jiang.
• Lu Ye and Qin Jiang appeared at opposite ends of a Floating Land, and Lu Ye discovered that the arena was enclosed by an impassable barrier.
• Lu Ye struck Qin Jiang with Fire Dragon Art from more than seventy li away, then overwhelmed him with a barrage of spells.
• Qin Jiang admitted defeat and left the arena, giving Lu Ye his first victory.
• Lu Ye absorbed the pure Starry Sky Energy in his reward with the Talent Tree and returned to Hall Number Sixty-Three.
• Lu Ye headed toward another doorway to enter a new contest.

Lu Ye continued winning battles in the Star Constellation Hall, refining Mystic Light and improving his cultivation until the Hall matched him against a Star Constellation Realm Late Stage opponent. He fought the Sword Cultivator Wei Yijian by first posing as a Spell Cultivator, then revealing his true skill as a Weapon Cultivator, and their fierce battle continued.

• Lu Ye fought at least twenty battles each day, refined Mystic Light from his victories, and steadily improved his cultivation.
• After repeated decisive victories over Middle Stage opponents, Lu Ye encountered a Star Constellation Realm Late Stage cultivator named Wei Yijian.
• Wei Yijian evaded Lu Ye's fire dragons and charged in, but Lu Ye unleashed a rapid barrage of varied spell arts that struck them both.
• Wei Yijian's sword lights battered Lu Ye's defenses, while Lu Ye remained unharmed behind his Sacred Guard Spirit Pattern.
• Wei Yijian launched a Sword River at Lu Ye, who revealed a long saber and tore through it with powerful saber light.
• Lu Ye and Wei Yijian emerged from the collapsing Sword River and fought fiercely with saber and sword.

Lu Ye defeated Wei Yijian and continued battling through the Star Constellation Hall, climbing to fifteenth place on the newly revealed Accumulation Board. After entering another portal, he found himself alone on a barren star and heard an unfamiliar voice suggest gathering.

• Lu Ye fought Wei Yijian for more than half an hour, forced him to concede, and refined the Mystic Light reward.
• Lu Ye spent the following days fighting Star Constellation cultivators, winning repeatedly and learning to beware of powerful Spiritual Treasures.
• The Accumulation Board appeared half a month after the hall opened, and Lu Ye found Fa Wuzun tied for fifteenth place.
• Lu Ye entered a portal and arrived alone on a desolate Barren Star.
• An unfamiliar voice rang in Lu Ye's mind and proposed that everyone gather somewhere.

Lu Ye entered a group confrontation in the Star Constellation Hall, but two of his four temporary companions left before the team could assemble. He regrouped with Chu Shen and a gentle Demon Race woman, and the three exchanged their aliases as they prepared to face the battle.

• Lu Ye and his four temporary companions agreed to gather at the elderly man's location, but one companion was ambushed and conceded before they met.
• The elderly companion announced that his natal Spirit Beast had gone berserk and left the confrontation, leaving only Lu Ye, Chu Shen, and the woman.
• Lu Ye persuaded the woman to hide in a concealed mountain hollow while he traveled to join her and Chu Shen.
• Lu Ye recognized Chu Shen and discovered their other companion was a Demon Race woman whose true form remained unknown.
• Chu Shen introduced himself as Overbearing Aura, the woman gave her alias as Invincible Lucky Star, and Lu Ye named himself Fa Wuzun.

Lu Ye, whom Chu Shen recognized as Fa Wuzun, joined Chu Shen and Lucky Star in fighting off two cultivators who ambushed their hidden gathering point. Lucky Star and Chu Shen forced the middle-stage attacker to concede, while Lu Ye defeated the late-stage attacker alone.

• Chu Shen suggested that he lead the trio, but Lu Ye sensed an attack and shouted a warning as the enemy destroyed Lucky Star's Concealment Formation.
• Lu Ye counterattacked the middle-stage and late-stage assailants with a barrage of powerful spells, while Chu Shen protected Lucky Star with a Spiritual Treasure.
• Lucky Star revealed her savage fighting style and engaged the middle-stage cultivator, while Chu Shen used his Body Solidifying Mirror to immobilize the enemy.
• Lucky Star wounded the immobilized cultivator until he conceded, then let him leave alive under the contest rules.
• Chu Shen turned to help Lu Ye, but the late-stage attacker had already vanished after Lu Ye defeated him alone.

Lu Ye, Chu Shen, and Invincible Lucky Star formed an alliance and used Lu Ye’s Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate to link their auras. They charged into a battle between two complete teams and immediately eliminated one cultivator, leaving both sides stunned.

• After Lu Ye asked Chu Shen and Invincible Lucky Star to trust him, he proposed taking the initiative to eliminate enemies rather than hiding until the contest ended.
• Lu Ye activated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate, and Chu Shen and Lucky Star recognized its power to link their auras and help them form a formation.
• The three formed a Three Powers Formation and flew openly across the Barren Star, with Lu Ye leading.
• Lu Ye sensed a battle between two complete five-person teams and confirmed that at least one other team remained on the Barren Star.
• The three charged into the fighting teams, and their first attack shattered a middle-stage cultivator’s Spiritual Light and forced him to concede.

Lu Ye, fighting as Fa Wuzun alongside Chu Shen and Lucky Star, overwhelmed two battling teams in the Star Constellation Hall. He left several opponents alive but badly injured, and the battlefield emptied as they withdrew.

• Lu Ye struck down one Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivator with spells, then charged the enemy Body Cultivator despite Chu Shen's alarm.
• Lu Ye cut the Body Cultivator's neck with his saber, while Chu Shen and Lucky Star helped shield the trio from the teams' counterattack.
• Lu Ye wounded a Ghost Cultivator and a Sword Cultivator, then drove their remaining opponents to flee in different directions.
• Lu Ye spread the Blood Sea Art and, guided by the formation with Chu Shen and Lucky Star, caught and defeated the fleeing cultivators one by one.
• The surviving opponents thanked Lu Ye for showing mercy and withdrew, leaving the battlefield empty.

Lu Ye and his companions defeated the last opposing team in the Star Constellation Hall contest, earning Mystic Light and a substantial increase in Accumulation Points. After exchanging Sound Talisman imprints with Chu Shen and Lucky Star, Lu Ye entered Hall Number Eighty-Eight to buy supplies.

• Lu Ye, Chu Shen, and Lucky Star searched the Barren Star for the remaining opponents, then followed the direction revealed by the Star Constellation Hall’s Rules.
• Lu Ye’s group met a three-person team, and Lu Ye’s spells and Chu Shen’s Spiritual Treasure eliminated all three opponents.
• Mystic Light descended to mark the contest’s end, and Lu Ye exchanged Sound Talisman imprints with Chu Shen and Lucky Star before they parted ways.
• Lu Ye refined his Mystic Light and discovered that his Accumulation Points had increased by twenty after returning to Hall Number Seven Hundred Sixty-Three.
• Lu Ye entered Hall Number Eighty-Eight, a crowded hall filled with cultivators trading goods.

Lu Ye bought materials in Hall Number Eighty-Eight and began modifying his Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate to protect its secrets. Meanwhile, Chu Shen told Nine Radiance about Fa Wuzun’s strength, prompting her to investigate the rising Star Constellation cultivator.

• Lu Ye spent around eight thousand Lingyu on materials before leaving Hall Number Eighty-Eight.
• Lu Ye set up a Formation in another hall and began adding a Restriction Lock that would trigger the Formation Plate’s self-destruction if someone tried to dismantle it.
• Chu Shen received a message from Nine Radiance asking about his battle results and teased her, provoking her threat to confine him for twenty years.
• Chu Shen told Nine Radiance that Fa Wuzun had defeated ordinary Late Stage cultivators in fewer than ten breaths.
• Nine Radiance learned that Fa Wuzun ranked thirteenth on the Accumulation Board and asked Chu Shen to describe him in detail.

Chu Shen told Nine Radiance about Fa Wuzun’s power and the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate, prompting her to seek the pattern behind it. Lu Ye used Star Constellation Hall’s battlefields to demonstrate the plates and build a market for them, aiming to sell them widely and safely.

• Chu Shen recounted the battles on the Barren Star, and Nine Radiance recognized Fa Wuzun as a gifted Weapon Cultivator disguised as a Spell Cultivator.
• Nine Radiance realized the Formation Plate might contain an unknown Spiritual Pattern and told Chu Shen to contact Fa Wuzun and offer to buy it.
• Chu Shen’s messages went unanswered, and he discovered that Fa Wuzun had entered a battlefield through a portal.
• Lu Ye ignored Chu Shen’s messages and considered how to sell many Formation Plates without drawing dangerous attention from powerful cultivators.
• Lu Ye refined large numbers of Formation Plates and demonstrated them to temporary teammates during group conflicts, gradually spreading their reputation.

Lu Ye registered for the Ten Thousand Person Melee but was not selected, so he arranged to take a participant’s transferable qualification with Chu Shen’s help. After buying a replacement saber, he entered the Chaos War Assembly through the young man’s portal and prepared to contact Chu Shen inside.

• Lu Ye registered for the Ten Thousand Person Melee but was not selected, then asked Chu Shen whether he had qualified.
• Lu Ye offered Chu Shen a Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate in exchange for finding him a transferable qualification, and Chu Shen agreed to seek Nine Radiance’s help.
• Lu Ye bought a top-grade Spiritual Treasure saber named Red Dragon to avoid revealing his identity through the assembly’s public battle recordings.
• Chu Shen found a young man willing to transfer his qualification to Lu Ye, with Nine Radiance’s instructions securing the arrangement.
• When the portals opened, Lu Ye could not enter the young man’s portal until Chu Shen signaled for the qualification to be transferred; Lu Ye then entered as Chu Shen asked him to make contact inside.

Lu Ye entered the Chaos War Assembly, defeated a Flame Race cultivator, and searched for companions while heading toward Chu Shen. He was repeatedly intercepted on the way, and Chu Shen sent a desperate message saying several people were chasing him.

• Lu Ye appeared in a fast-moving Asteroid Belt, dodged its asteroids, and defeated a Flame Race cultivator who tried to force him to withdraw.
• Lu Ye contacted Chu Shen and told him to hide near the enormous star surrounded by a multicolored ring while he searched for temporary allies.
• Lu Ye rejected a tattooed Late Stage Body Cultivator because his cultivation was too high and continued looking for lower-cultivation companions.
• Lu Ye found few Early Stage cultivators and was intercepted in more than a dozen battles before reaching the outskirts of the ringed star.
• Chu Shen sent Lu Ye a frantic message saying he had been spotted and several people were chasing him.

Lu Ye rescued Chu Shen from a group of Star Constellation Realm cultivators, but Chu Shen had to withdraw before Lu Ye could reach him. Lu Ye recruited one of Chu Shen’s attackers as a temporary ally and continued searching for companions, swiftly defeating two more cultivators.

• Lu Ye found Chu Shen’s defensive treasure close to breaking under attacks from three cultivators, while a woman urged Chu Shen to withdraw.
• Chu Shen withdrew just before his defense collapsed, and Lu Ye charged through the attackers, killing one, wounding another, and forcing the Late Stage cultivator to flee.
• Lu Ye detained the woman, learned she had formed only a temporary alliance with the others, and made her his ally until the Chaos War Assembly ended.
• The woman recognized Lu Ye as Fa Wuzun from the Accumulation Board and wondered why he fought with a saber despite appearing to be a Spell Cultivator.
• Lu Ye gave the woman a controlled artifact and defeated two battling Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators with ease.

Lu Ye used a woman as bait to draw out a Ghost Cultivator, then forced her to join him as a companion. He named the two women Little Dummy and Little Crooked, and the trio set off together.

• After failing to find suitable companions, Lu Ye left the first woman to survive on her own while secretly following her.
• The woman hid on a Dead Star, where a Ghost Cultivator ambushed her.
• Lu Ye subdued the Ghost Cultivator and gave her the choice of dying or becoming his companion; she chose to join him.
• The first woman explained the situation to the Ghost Cultivator, and both women agreed to follow Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Fa Wuzun and named the first woman Little Dummy and the Ghost Cultivator Little Crooked.

Lu Ye recruited Little Dummy and Little Crooked into a team and used the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate to defeat the cultivators who challenged them. When several treasures appeared across the battlefield, he prepared to join the ensuing competition with his companions.

• Lu Ye demonstrated the Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plate and gave it to Little Dummy to operate.
• Lu Ye led Little Dummy and Little Crooked across the Dead Star, defeating every group that attacked them.
• Lu Ye said he had eliminated a Star Constellation Realm Early Stage cultivator because the man was too ugly, then decided to seek beautiful women as future companions.
• Lu Ye spotted several purple lights announcing the appearance of treasures and chose to head toward the nearest site.
• Lu Ye told Little Dummy and Little Crooked to restore their Spiritual Power before the fighting began.

Lu Ye led Little Dummy and Little Crooked through the Chaos War Assembly, cutting down opponents as they pushed toward the purple treasure lights. You Ling appeared, stole a kill and its spoils, then vanished, while Chu Shen watched Lu Ye’s team from the Accumulation Board and marveled at their strength.

• Lu Ye led Little Dummy and Little Crooked into the battlefield, where he overwhelmed two Star Constellation Realm Late Stage cultivators and You Ling killed one of them from behind.
• Lu Ye recognized You Ling as she collected the spoils, but she vanished before he could approach her.
• Lu Ye continued charging toward the purple lights with Little Dummy and Little Crooked, attacking anyone who blocked their path.
• Chu Shen watched Lu Ye’s battles through the Accumulation Board and felt dejected that he had been eliminated before the two women joined Lu Ye.
• Two cultivators watching the battlefield found Lu Ye’s team and were astonished to see them overpowering Late Stage opponents.

Lu Ye’s group fought toward a Purple Talisman while drawing attention from cultivators across the Chaos War Assembly. After Lu Ye paid You Ling to remove a threatening Body Cultivator, he and his companions joined forces with two Sword Cultivator sisters, strengthening their formation.

• Cultivators watching the battlefield recognized Fa Wuzun and speculated that his group’s Three Powers Formation came from their familiarity, while Chu Shen worried that they would expose the Formation Plate’s secrets.
• Lu Ye’s group advanced toward a Purple Talisman but had to evade attacks from cultivators guarding the treasure, and You Ling continued stealing Lu Ye’s kills.
• Lu Ye spotted two twin Sword Cultivator sisters struggling against a stronger group and offered You Ling two thousand Lingyu to eliminate their Body Cultivator companion.
• You Ling’s ambush forced the Body Cultivator to withdraw, leaving the sisters overwhelmed by their enemies.
• Lu Ye and his companions charged into the sisters’ battle, swiftly defeating an enemy and linking auras with the sisters, who joined their formation.