Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye waited in Clear Wind City for the Azure Dawn Dao Realm, but after Li Shang and Yaya ran up a bill he had no Spirit Stones to pay. He healed Zhu Yue so her sect could keep her in the tournament, then collected Spirit Stones as payment.

• Li Shang and Yaya ate all the sugar-coated Spiritual Fruits at a stall, leaving Lu Ye to face a bill of three hundred and sixty-two High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ye left them at the stall and appeared at the Zhengyang Sect camp, where Zhu Yue was unable to continue the tournament after being injured by Yang Fire.
• Lu Ye offered to heal Zhu Yue in exchange for High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Zhu Shang let him treat her.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree's power to burn away the Yang Fire and gave Zhu Yue some Spiritual Pill powder.
• The Medical Cultivators confirmed Zhu Yue was unharmed, and Zhu Shang gathered Spirit Stones from the elders and handed them to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye left the Zhengyang Sect’s camp with Zhu Yue to investigate an abnormal disturbance he sensed beneath the Clear Wind Realm. He descended into a vast abyss, where a strange, heartbeat-like rhythm grew stronger in the darkness.

• Zhu Yue awoke and learned that Lu Ye had saved her, while Lu Ye took Li Shang and Yaya around Clear Wind City.
• A Zhengyang Sect elder invited Lu Ye to the sect’s camp, where Lu Ye declined a banquet and secluded himself to cultivate.
• Zhu Yue waited outside Lu Ye’s room to thank him, and Lu Ye emerged and took her into the sky after sensing the realm’s foundation draining away.
• Lu Ye asked Zhu Yue about an abyss roughly three thousand five hundred li away, then flew there with her and descended inside.
• Zhu Yue realized she would miss the grand competition, while Lu Ye continued downward through the Primordial Magnetic Field and heard a steady, heartbeat-like thumping.

Lu Ye discovered a World Devouring Beast egg beneath the Clear Wind Realm and prepared to stop it from consuming the realm's foundation. As the egg began to crack, two Star Constellation Realm Late Stage World Devouring Beasts attacked a Star Boat from the Azure Dawn Dao Realm.

• Lu Ye descended into the Clear Wind Realm's molten core and found a World Devouring Beast egg feeding on the realm's foundation.
• Lu Ye recognized the egg as a threat to realms and saw the creature inside begin breaking through its shell.
• A Star Boat from the Azure Dawn Dao Realm arrived to collect cultivation seeds, carrying Senior Brother Zhou, Junior Sister Tang, and Senior Brother Li.
• Senior Brother Zhou detected an attack and struck at a tail that hit the Star Boat, then warned the others that another attacker was present.
• The three cultivators saw two Star Constellation Realm Late Stage World Devouring Beasts and realized they were in serious danger.

Lu Ye killed a newly hatched World Devouring Beast and rushed to save Sun Ye and Tang Xiaoyue when its enraged parent threatened the Clear Wind Realm. After rescuing them, he flew to help Senior Brother Zhou, who was struggling against the other beast.

• Senior Brother Zhou drew one adult World Devouring Beast away while Sun Ye and Tang Xiaoyue tried to hold back the other.
• Lu Ye killed the hatchling at the Clear Wind Realm’s core and crushed its Core Crystal, releasing its energy to strengthen the realm.
• The adult World Devouring Beast went berserk, overwhelmed Sun Ye and Tang Xiaoyue, and nearly killed Sun Ye before Lu Ye cut it down with one saber strike.
• Sun Ye thanked Lu Ye, who learned that Senior Brother Zhou had lured away the other beast and went to assist him.
• Lu Ye found Senior Brother Zhou, a middle-aged cultivator at the Star Constellation Realm Late Stage, struggling against the larger World Devouring Beast.

Lu Ye killed the World Devouring Beast threatening the Clear Wind Realm and met Zhou Dingtian and his companions, revealing that he knew Tang Xiaoyue’s ancestor, Tang Jun. He agreed to visit Wu Zhuo and take cultivators to Tang Jun’s distant home, then stayed at the Azure Dawn Palace.

• Lu Ye slew the World Devouring Beast with one strike, and Zhou Dingtian learned that the other beast inside the Clear Wind Realm was dead as well.
• Lu Ye reunited with Li Shang and Yaya in Clear Wind City, where they ate local delicacies while the city’s cultivators discussed the battle.
• Zhou Dingtian, Sun Ye, and Tang Xiaoyue thanked Lu Ye, who introduced himself as a cultivator from the Nine Heavens Realm.
• Lu Ye told Tang Xiaoyue that her ancestor Tang Jun was alive and well, and said he intended to take cultivators from the Azure Dawn Dao Realm to visit him.
• Lu Ye asked the three cultivators to lead him to Wu Zhuo, then accepted Zhou Dingtian’s invitation to stay at the Azure Dawn Palace.

Lu Ye traveled with Zhou Dingtian and the Clear Wind Realm cultivators to the Azure Dawn Dao Realm, where Wu Zhuo challenged his qualifications as soon as he arrived. The chapter ended with Wu Zhuo’s enormous handprint crashing toward their Star Boat.

• Lu Ye learned that Zhu Yue had forfeited the grand competition after he left her behind, and Zhou Dingtian later invited her to join the journey to the Azure Dawn Dao Realm as a reward for her supposed service.
• Zhou Dingtian led the thirty-one Clear Wind Realm cultivators, including Zhu Yue, aboard the Star Boat, and they departed after bidding farewell to their realm.
• The group spent about two months traveling, while Lu Ye cultivated and Yaya raced around the ship with Li Shang following her.
• The Star Boat reached the Azure Dawn Dao Realm and headed for Divine Martial Hall, where Lu Ye sensed Wu Zhuo’s Divine Sense probing him.
• Lu Ye introduced himself and said he had come to pay his respects, but Wu Zhuo demanded that he prove his qualifications and sent an enormous handprint toward the Star Boat.

Lu Ye presented Tang Jun’s Jade Slip to Wu Zhuo and earned a private audience after Wu Zhuo learned about the Myriad Phenomena Sea and Tang Jun’s recommendation. Lu Ye confirmed that he had seen Qin Yuandai and ended the chapter by revealing that he knew how she died.

• Wu Zhuo attacked Lu Ye with a palm strike after Lu Ye addressed him as Fellow Daoist, but he stopped when he sensed Tang Jun’s aura in Lu Ye’s Jade Slip.
• Wu Zhuo invited Lu Ye into the tower, where Lu Ye explained that Wushuang Li Taibai was another name he used and that the Peerless Realm belonged to his Nine Heavens.
• Wu Zhuo asked Lu Ye about Tang Jun’s disappearance and the newly formed Insect Path that had taken them to the Myriad Phenomena Star System.
• Wu Zhuo asked whether Lu Ye had seen Qin Yuandai, and Lu Ye confirmed that he had.
• Lu Ye told Wu Zhuo that he knew how Qin Yuandai had died.

Lu Ye told Wu Zhuo that he had killed Qin Yuandai with a Red Talisman after her descendant’s attempt to refine a Ten Thousand Souls Banner caused a conflict. He and Wu Zhuo agreed to pursue cooperation with Jade Conch to send cultivators to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and Lu Ye left Wu Zhuo with White Spirits as proof of its opportunities.

• Lu Ye admitted to killing Qin Yuandai with a Red Talisman and explained that she had shielded her descendant, who was refining a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Wu Zhuo learned that Tang Jun had witnessed Qin Yuandai’s death and later worked with Lu Ye after they were stranded in the Myriad Phenomena Star System.
• Lu Ye told Wu Zhuo that he and Tang Jun wanted Azure Dawn Dao Realm and Jade Conch to join Nine Heavens in establishing a foothold on the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Wu Zhuo agreed to negotiate with Jade Conch and discuss opportunities for Azure Dawn Dao Realm cultivators to advance to Star Constellation there.
• Lu Ye prepared to return to Nine Heavens and gave Wu Zhuo several White Spirits to show Jade Conch as evidence of the Myriad Phenomena Sea’s resources.

Lu Ye encountered Meng Jie, Jian Guhong, Yue Ji, and Wuchang while they fled a pack of star beasts near the Peerless Continent. He killed the entire pack in seconds, leaving his old companions stunned and questioning whether he was really Lu Yiye.

• Meng Jie, Jian Guhong, Yue Ji, and Wuchang fled a relentless pack of star beasts, with Wuchang wounded on his backside.
• The four spotted a Star Boat approaching and recognized Lu Ye, who greeted them after years apart.
• Wuchang and the others boarded Lu Ye’s Star Boat and urged him to flee as the beasts closed in.
• Lu Ye leaped from the Star Boat and revealed his Star Constellation Realm Late Stage cultivation as he attacked the pack.
• Lu Ye killed every star beast within three breaths, astonishing his companions and Li Shang.
• Yue Ji and Wuchang questioned whether Lu Ye was really Lu Yiye, and Lu Ye asked how he could prove his identity.

Lu Ye reunited with Wuchang and the others near Peerless Continent, told them about Myriad Phenomena Sea, and left supplies to help Nine Provinces cultivators prepare for the future. He then set course for Nine Provinces, while Wuchang and the others discovered that Lu Ye’s gifts included improved formation plates and a shark-shaped Star Boat.

• Wuchang and the others told Lu Ye that about five hundred Nine Provinces cultivators were near Peerless Continent and that roughly fifteen hundred Star Constellation Realm cultivators were in Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye recounted his experiences and described Myriad Phenomena Sea, prompting Wuchang, Meng Jie, Yue Ji, and Jian Guhong to volunteer to go there.
• Lu Ye and the others gathered over two thousand Lingyu from the Barren Star, then Lu Ye asked Wuchang and the others to spread word about Myriad Phenomena Sea and distribute his supplies.
• Lu Ye gave Wuchang and the others improved Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates and other items before departing for Nine Provinces.
• Wuchang, Yue Ji, and Jian Guhong tested the formation plates and confirmed they could support Star Constellation Realm combat; Wuchang then activated a shark-shaped Star Boat.

Lu Ye returned to Nine Provinces with Li Shang, and news of his journey to the Myriad Phenomena Sea drew eager Star Constellations hoping to join him. After reuniting with Qian Wudang and Fan Xiangyi near home, he continued toward Nine Provinces, while the two realized his return could stir trouble because he had a woman and child with him.

• Wuchang and his companions traveled in a Tiger Shark Warship and spread news that Lu Ye had safely returned, prompting Nine Provinces Star Constellations to hurry home.
• Lu Ye spoke with Little Nine about his disappearance and Tang Jun's pursuit while traveling toward Nine Provinces with Li Shang.
• Li Shang saw the strangely shaped realm beside Nine Provinces and recalled a frightening passage from an ancient Soul Race text.
• Lu Ye met Qian Wudang and Fan Xiangyi near Nine Provinces, told them his Star Boat had cost three hundred thousand Lingyu, and agreed to take Qian Wudang to the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• After Lu Ye departed, Qian Wudang pointed out the woman and child traveling with him and predicted that the Poison Doctor would make his return lively.

Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect after six years away and reunited with Shui Yuan and Hua Ci, but Yaya’s call of “Mom” made Hua Ci misunderstand his relationship with Li Shang and leave in anger. Lu Ye chased Hua Ci to Green Bamboo Peak, where he encountered her powerful, unusual creatures.

• Lu Ye arrived at the Crimson Blood Sect with Li Shang and Yaya and saw how much the sect had grown during his absence.
• Lu Ye reunited with Shui Yuan and Hua Ci, but Yaya called Li Shang “Mom” and claimed she was Lu Ye’s and her little girl.
• Hua Ci left before Lu Ye could explain, and Shui Yuan urged him to go after her.
• Lu Ye reached Green Bamboo Peak and found a house-sized toad with Star Constellation aura guarding Hua Ci’s residence.
• Lu Ye grabbed the toad’s tongue and hurled it into the air, then faced a hidden scorpion that attacked from beneath the ground.

Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect with Yaya and Li Shang, then explained their identities and his plans to Hua Ci. As Nine Provinces Star Constellations gathered to discuss a journey to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, Lu Ye remained secluded with Hua Ci until Shui Yuan found him looking utterly exhausted.

• Lu Ye trapped a scorpion, caught a green snake, and returned to the Bamboo Lodge, where Hua Ci pretended to leave to make room for Yaya and Li Shang.
• Lu Ye carried Hua Ci to the inner room and explained that Yaya was a Sunlight afflicted by Soul Devouring Aphids, while Li Shang was a Soul Race cultivator helping him solve Immortal Yuan City's problem.
• Hua Ci teased Lu Ye about bringing home a child and questioned his new tricks, while Lu Ye insisted he was gifted beyond compare.
• Nine Provinces Star Constellations flocked to the Crimson Blood Sect after learning Lu Ye had returned and planned to bring a group to the Myriad Phenomena Sea; Shui Yuan arranged a gathering for one month later.
• As the gathering approached, Shui Yuan went to Green Bamboo Peak and found Lu Ye descending the stairs with sunken eyes, a bloodless face, and trembling legs.

Lu Ye described the Myriad Phenomena Sea to the gathered Nine Provinces Star Constellations and helped them agree to send an expedition despite the risks of exposing Nine Provinces. After leaving the selection of the first three hundred travelers to Pang Zhen and Long Bai, he met Little Nine, who offered to punish Hua Ci for tormenting him.

• Shui Yuan visited Lu Ye and Hua Ci, learned of their month together, and watched Lu Ye flee when Hua Ci called him for medicine.
• Lu Ye arrived at the Nine Provinces Garrison Hall, where nearly seven hundred Star Constellations had gathered to hear about the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Lu Ye recounted the sea's wonders and dangers, his Star Map, and his journey back, then warned that contact with the wider world could expose Nine Provinces to old enemies.
• Long Bai and Pang Zhen supported going to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and Lu Ye proposed taking three hundred Star Constellations with help from the Azure Dawn Dao Realm and Jade Snail Realm.
• Lu Ye gave Pang Zhen a Storage Ring containing Star Boats and warships, left the expedition's selection to Pang Zhen and Long Bai, and departed.
• Little Nine appeared and offered to punish Hua Ci for tormenting Lu Ye, but Lu Ye replied that he had already taught her a harsh lesson.

Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces with treasures that helped Little Nine strengthen the realm, then gave gifts to Hua Ci and Shui Yuan and reunited with Li Shang and Yaya. He asked Li Shang to accompany him somewhere, leaving his purpose unstated.

• Lu Ye gave Little Nine two World Devouring Beast Core Crystals and pink matter from Thousand Hills Tomb, which Little Nine identified as world-foundation energy and devoured.
• Little Nine urged Lu Ye to grow stronger so he could eventually claim the dangerous treasures in Thousand Hills Tomb, and explained that the Azure Bird was an ancient remnant species.
• Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect and told Hua Ci and Shui Yuan he could arrange for someone to teach them pill refining.
• Lu Ye gave Hua Ci and Shui Yuan Wood Spirit Race Core Crystals and handed Shui Yuan spirit seeds to cultivate in the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye found Li Shang and Yaya roasting stolen bird eggs on Ao Mountain, ate an egg Yaya offered him, and asked Li Shang to go somewhere with him.

Lu Ye brought Li Shang to Immortal Yuan City to find a way to free its residents from their dependence on the Soul Pool. Li Shang determined that the Soul Race ancestral land could transform them, but their Soul Imprints remained bound to the pool, leaving the solution unresolved.

• Lu Ye opened a gateway to Immortal Yuan City, where Zhang Zishan welcomed him, Li Shang, and Yaya.
• Li Shang revealed that Zhang Zishan and the Immortal Yuan Guards were akin to the Soul Race because they had lost their physical bodies.
• Lu Ye asked Li Shang to help the residents of Immortal Yuan City find a way beyond their existence in the Soul Pool.
• Li Shang examined the Soul Pool and explained that it sustained the residents through Soul Cleansing Water and their Soul Imprints.
• Li Shang offered to take them to the Soul Race ancestral land, where they could become true Soul Race, but explained that their imprints could not be separated from the Soul Pool without leaving them unable to survive.

Lu Ye and Li Shang found a way to save the Immortal Yuan Guards by reforging a Ten Thousand Souls Banner to hold their Soul Bodies. After returning to the Nine Provinces, Lu Ye reunited with Yiyi and Amber, who had spent years searching for him.

• Li Shang explained that the Immortal Yuan Guards needed a vessel for their Soul Bodies, but outsiders could not enter the Soul Race Ancestral Land to shelter them in their Divine Seas.
• Zhang Zishan retrieved a Ten Thousand Souls Banner from the Soul Pool, and Li Shang agreed to reforge it to hold the city's 13,229 Soul Bodies.
• Lu Ye gathered helpers and sent Li Shang to the Nine Provinces' renowned artifact-refining sect to begin reforging the banner.
• Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect with Yaya and was greeted by Amber, now a Star Constellation, and Yiyi.
• Yiyi embraced Lu Ye and wept, asking where he had gone after receiving no news of him for six years.

Lu Ye reunited with Yiyi and his old companions in Nine Provinces, then shared news of the Myriad Phenomena Sea and taught Li Baxian and Xiao Xinghe a movement technique. After a month of training and feasting, Li Shang completed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and began gathering the Soul Bodies needed to take Zhang Zishan to the Soul Race Ancestral Land.

• Lu Ye returned to Nine Provinces, comforted Yiyi, and reunited with Team Ding Nine, whose members had all advanced to Star Constellation.
• Lu Ye feasted with his companions and told them about the Myriad Phenomena Sea while they discussed the limited slots available to travel there.
• Lu Ye sparred with Li Baxian and Xiao Xinghe and taught them Yan Xi's Vertical and Horizontal Movement Technique.
• For a month, Lu Ye trained with Li Baxian and Xiao Xinghe as Shui Yuan and Hua Ci prepared meals from the spirit fish and shellfish he had brought back.
• Li Shang finished reforging the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and Lu Ye brought her to Immortal Yuan City.
• Zhang Zishan used the Soul Pool to send more than ten thousand Soul Bodies into the banner, then entered it so Li Shang could bring him to the Soul Race Ancestral Land.

Lu Ye led a fleet of Nine Provinces cultivators toward the Myriad Phenomena Sea after leaving supplies and defenses behind for their home realm. As the fleet traveled, Li Shang explained that Amber’s suspected White Tiger bloodline had a special effect on Soul Bodies, though she had yet to reveal what it was.

• Lu Ye left Star Boats, warships, spirit jade, formation plates, Star Maps, and pieces of the Cycle Tree behind for Nine Provinces and Wushuang.
• Lu Ye and the fleet departed as Pang Zhen and the remaining Star Constellations wished them a safe journey.
• Little Nine finally spoke to Lu Ye and asked him to bring back more delicious things, and Lu Ye promised he would.
• The fleet traveled through the starry sky while the Tiger Shark Warship crews practiced handling their vessels.
• Li Shang told Lu Ye that Yaya’s attachment to Amber might help her recover and said Amber likely possessed the White Tiger bloodline.
• Li Shang began explaining the White Tiger’s innate effect on Soul Bodies after Lu Ye asked what it was.

Li Shang asked Lu Ye to let Amber and Yiyi return with her to the Soul Race Ancestral Land, where Amber could form symbiotic bonds with talented Soul Race members and Yiyi could learn proper soul cultivation. Lu Ye agreed to let them decide for themselves, then met the Crimson Blood Sect elders at Wushuang as the fleet continued toward the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

• Li Shang explained that the Soul Race revered White Tigers like Amber as sacred beasts and asked to bring Amber back to the ancestral land.
• Li Shang argued that Yiyi could learn Soul Race Secret Techniques and that Amber could grow through symbiosis with talented clansmen; Lu Ye said Amber and Yiyi had to choose for themselves.
• Li Shang left to persuade Yiyi while Lu Ye placed the sleeping Yaya in his cabin and trained in the Azure Hall.
• Lu Ye's fleet reached Peerless Continent, where he reunited with the Sect Master, Yun Xuechu, and other Crimson Blood Sect members.
• Lu Ye hosted the reunited group aboard his Star Boat, and the joined fleet continued onward with ten Star Boats and five Tiger Shark Warships.