Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye helped Yan Miao leave the Myriad Phenomena Sea after confirming that her curse poison had been removed, then brought her and two seahorses to Three Realms Island. Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e revealed that the island had begun changing from a Barren Island into a living one.

• Lu Ye collected the fishing rods beneath the sea, then guided Yan Miao above the water and confirmed she could survive outside the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Yan Miao stepped onto solid ground and learned that removing the curse poison had not affected her race’s ability to live beneath the sea.
• Tang Jun sent Lu Ye a message that something had happened to Three Realms Island, so Lu Ye took Yan Miao and two seahorses there.
• Lu Ye arrived at Three Realms Island and sensed Starry Sky Energy on the island, a sign that the Barren Island was coming to life.
• Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e told Lu Ye that the island’s changes had first been noticed by the cultivators living there.

Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island and confirmed that it was coming back to life, while Tang Jun worried that its growth would exceed their ability to defend it. Lu Ye brought Yan Miao to the island, supplied her with Spiritual Pills, and sent her back through the portal to reassure her people, leaving her promising to return shortly.

• Tang Jun learned from Lu Ye that Three Realms Island had come back to life and worried that it might grow into a Spirit Island too powerful for them to defend.
• Lu Ye introduced Great Elder Yan Miao to Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e, explaining that she belonged to a native force and was not an outsider.
• Luan Xiao'e warned that Three Realms Island's Grand Array needed strengthening, and Lu Ye agreed while Tang Jun pointed out they had no money.
• Lu Ye collected Hua Ci's Storage Ring of Spiritual Pills and gave the pills to Yan Miao.
• Lu Ye erased the imprint on Yan Miao's Cold Jade Board and opened a portal, through which Yan Miao and the two Seahorse Star Beasts returned to Sky Conch Hall; Yan Miao asked Lu Ye to wait for her.

Yan Miao returned from the Merfolk Race with Lingyu from her Spiritual Pills trade, and Lu Ye told Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun about Three Realms Island’s new ally beneath the Myriad Phenomena Sea. He arranged for Luan Xiao'e to accompany Yan Miao to Myriad Phenomena Island while he prepared to leave on other business.

• Yan Miao gave Lu Ye several million Lingyu for Spiritual Pills and asked him to return in seven days to treat the other elders.
• Lu Ye warned Yan Miao that the Merfolk Race should keep its identity concealed, then told Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun about the race and its alliance with Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye explained that the Merfolk Race’s Sky Conch Hall could provide useful conches and said he would ask Great Elder Yan Miao to let Three Realms cultivators enter it.
• Lu Ye told Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun he might leave the Myriad Phenomena Sea and asked them to protect Three Realms Island while he was gone.
• Lu Ye asked Luan Xiao'e to accompany Yan Miao, and she took Yan Miao toward Myriad Phenomena Island.

Lu Ye prepared to travel with Yan Miao and Three Realms cultivators, while noticing Yaya’s worsening sleepiness and frightening dreams might be tied to her recovered Jade Bracelet. After Yan Miao returned, he led the first group into Sky Conch Hall and arranged a direct gateway back to Three Realms Island.

• Lu Ye brought Great Sun Realm star-beast flesh to Shui Yuan and Hua Ci, discussed obtaining more pill materials from the Merfolk Race, and planned to take them to Sky Conch Hall.
• Lu Ye found Yaya near a cliff after she woke from a frightening dream, suspected her second Jade Bracelet was restoring her memories, and told her not to wander alone.
• Lu Ye cultivated at sea for seven days while Yan Miao and Luan Xiao'e traveled, then Yan Miao returned and agreed to let Three Realms cultivators enter Sky Conch Hall.
• Luan Xiao'e organized the cultivators into five groups, and Lu Ye led the first hundred through a gateway opened with the azure conch.
• Lu Ye marked a Cold Jade Board with the conch imprint and sent Tang Jun back through the gateway, establishing a direct connection to Three Realms Island.

Lu Ye opened Sky Conch Hall to Three Realms Island cultivators and spent weeks removing the curse poison from the Merfolk Race’s strongest members. After five groups of island cultivators had visited and more than two hundred merfolk were treated, Lu Ye prepared to leave with a large supply of Dragon Breath Crystals purchased using the merfolk’s Lingyu.

• Lu Ye arranged for a hundred Three Realms Island cultivators to enter Sky Conch Hall, then began removing the curse poison from Yan Miao, the elders, and Bai Lu.
• Lu Ye treated the merfolk elders, while the Three Realms Island cultivators explored Sky Conch Hall; seven days later, he opened the gateway and sent them home with Hua Ci carrying over twenty million Lingyu.
• Hua Ci used the Lingyu to buy Dragon Breath Crystals from An Zhe, and Lu Ye continued treating selected merfolk as more Three Realms Island cultivators arrived in successive groups.
• Yan Miao told Lu Ye that the curse poison’s removal had helped merfolk cultivate more easily, and two Star Constellation Realm Late Stage members advanced to the Moon Jade Realm.
• Lu Ye treated more than two hundred merfolk over the following month, while the Merfolk Race gave him roughly seventy or eighty million Lingyu to buy Dragon Breath Crystals for his Talent Tree.

After a month of cultivating beneath the sea, Lu Ye tempered his physique's essence to its limit and unexpectedly awakened Treasure Blood through his Sacred Blood inheritance. He discovered that Treasure Blood could create powerful Clones and resolved to explore its potential while postponing his advance to Moon Jade until he investigated the Yin-Yang Great Millstone.

• Lu Ye stayed near the Mermaid Territory to cultivate in the deep sea, hunting spirit fish and star beasts with the Treasure Coin when needed.
• A month later, Lu Ye sensed that his physique's essence had reached its limit, qualifying him to prepare for advancement to Moon Jade.
• Lu Ye returned to his quarters and condensed a drop of dark-red Treasure Blood, learning through his Bloodline Inheritance that it was refined from Essence Blood.
• Lu Ye transformed the Treasure Blood into a Clone and compared it with his Talent Tree Clone, finding that the new Clone was easier to summon but had stricter limits and lacked the Talent Tree Clone's refining ability.
• Lu Ye decided to investigate the Yin-Yang Great Millstone before advancing and considered condensing more Treasure Blood to create additional Clones.

Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island after finishing his cultivation beneath the sea, and learned that Heavenly Flame Island was declining after losing the Small Star Constellation Hall. Before leaving to pursue a higher realm, he reassured Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun that the Merfolk Race would help protect Three Realms Island.

• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, where Merfolk Race women used the portal to travel back to Mermaid Territory.
• Tang Jun told Lu Ye and Luan Xiao'e that Heavenly Flame Island had fallen from a top-grade to a high-grade Spirit Island, and Lu Ye explained that its decline followed the loss of the Small Star Constellation Hall.
• Tang Jun suspected Lu Ye was behind both Heavenly Flame Island's decline and Three Realms Island's rise, but chose not to press him.
• Lu Ye told Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun he was leaving to pursue a higher realm and did not know when he would return.
• Luan Xiao'e and Tang Jun worried that Three Realms Island might attract enemies as it grew, and Lu Ye assured them the Merfolk Race would come to their aid.

Lu Ye prepared to leave Three Realms Island, entrusting the Azure Conch to Luan Xiao'e and a powerful Treasure Coin to Hua Ci. As he set off with Li Shang for the Soul Race Ancestral Land, Yiyi announced that she would go with them, leaving Lu Ye torn between worry and her desire to grow stronger.

• Lu Ye left the Azure Conch with Luan Xiao'e so Three Realms Island could contact the Merfolk Race while he was away.
• Lu Ye gave Hua Ci the Treasure Coin, which could bind a Sunlight but needed to be replenished in the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and reassured her that he had other protection.
• After three days, Lu Ye told Li Shang they could depart and confirmed that Yaya would stay on Three Realms Island with Shui Yuan and the others.
• Yiyi arrived with Amber and told Lu Ye she wanted to travel with Li Shang to the Soul Race Ancestral Land to learn her people's cultivation methods.
• Lu Ye struggled to decide whether to let Yiyi go, worried that he would not be able to find or protect her in an unfamiliar place.

Lu Ye refused to let Yiyi travel to the Soul Race Ancestral Land, but learned that she wanted to go so she could someday help him. When Yiyi followed him anyway and was attacked by three cultivators, Lu Ye rushed in to save her, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Lu Ye forbade Yiyi from going to the Soul Race Ancestral Land and departed with Li Shang, while Yiyi insisted she would go.
• Li Shang explained that Yiyi wanted to learn the Soul Attachment Technique so she could help Lu Ye, and assured him that the Soul Race would treat her fairly and protect Amber.
• Lu Ye sensed danger behind them as Yiyi, riding Amber alone, was surrounded by two Star Constellation Realm Middle Stage cultivators and a Star Constellation Realm Late Stage woman seeking her belongings and mount.
• Lu Ye arrived in a burst of Blood Light, killed the two men and the woman with his saber, and rescued Yiyi.
• Yiyi realized Lu Ye had known she was following him and had traveled slowly to give her the chance, then pretended to be frightened and threw herself into his arms.

Lu Ye brought Yiyi with him into the Azure Moon Star System, where he hoped to find the route to the Soul Race Ancestral Land. After passing through the system’s Insect Path, he followed Li Shang’s guidance, still unsure where the ancestral land lay or whether Yiyi could enter it.

• Lu Ye comforted Yiyi after a dangerous encounter, but she insisted on staying with him, so he let her join his journey while warning that her entry into the Soul Race Ancestral Land was uncertain.
• Half a month later, Lu Ye reached an Azure Moon Star System outpost and paid a fat Star Constellation Realm cultivator three thousand Lingyu for passage through its Insect Path.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber passed through the Insect Path and showed their token to the cultivators on the other side.
• Lu Ye boarded his Star Boat and followed Li Shang’s guidance into the Azure Moon Star System, wondering whether the Soul Race Ancestral Land was located there.

Lu Ye and Li Shang reached a remote location where Li Shang used her Soul Pearl to open a passage to the Soul Race Ancestral Land. As the passage appeared, Yiyi tried to slip through, but Lu Ye caught her.

• Li Shang explained that the Soul Race Ancestral Land existed everywhere but could only be reached through special places using a Soul Pearl.
• Li Shang began communicating with the Ancestral Land's will while Lu Ye summoned three Treasure Blood Clones to guard the area.
• After nearly half a day, a lotus-like passage resembling an Insect Path appeared before Li Shang.
• Yiyi dashed toward the passage, but Lu Ye grabbed her by the back of the neck and stopped her.

Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber entered the Soul Race Ancestral Land after Amber stepped onto its lotus passage and the Ancestral Land allowed Lu Ye to follow. They arrived in a realm rich in energy that nourished souls, where the Soul Race Patriarch Hun Que appeared to greet them.

• Yiyi used Amber’s surprise appearance on the lotus flower to ensure they could enter the Ancestral Land together, and Lu Ye stepped onto the flower to retrieve them.
• The lotus flower closed around Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber, carrying them into the Ancestral Land as Lu Ye recalled his three Clones.
• Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber emerged among countless colorful lotus flowers and felt the realm’s energy nourishing their souls.
• Li Shang explained that beings with fleshly bodies could not enter unless they were Sacred Beasts, and suggested the Ancestral Land Will had permitted Lu Ye to pass.
• Hun Que, the Soul Race Patriarch, arrived, and Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber bowed to him.

Hun Que welcomed Lu Ye, Yiyi, Amber, and Li Shang into the Soul Race Ancestral Land, confirmed Amber’s sacred-beast bloodline, and rewarded Li Shang with the chance to choose a Five-Colored Lotus Platform. As Li Shang explained the Ancestral Land and its customs, Lu Ye learned that the Soul Race had two or three thousand Moon Jade Realm cultivators.

• Hun Que examined Lu Ye and Amber, confirmed Amber carried a sacred-beast bloodline, and recognized the Immortal Yuan City souls as worthy of joining the Soul Race.
• Hun Que shattered the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, returned the freed souls to Li Shang’s care, and gave her a Five-Colored Token to choose a lotus platform.
• Li Shang explained that lotus platforms were the Soul Race’s homes and cultivation sites, with their colors indicating their rank.
• Li Shang told Lu Ye that translucent clumps nearby were unborn Soul Race members and described how exceptional outsiders could be accepted into the Ancestral Land.
• Lu Ye asked about the Soul Race’s strength, and Li Shang said it had two or three thousand Moon Jade Realm cultivators.

Lu Ye learned more about the Soul Race’s immense strength as Hun Que discovered that the Ancestral Land Will had instructed the Soul Race to take care of him. While Li Shang searched with Lu Ye for a place to settle, they found a newly blooming Five-Colored Lotus Platform.

• Li Shang told Lu Ye that the Soul Race had hundreds of Sunlights and thousands of Moon Jade Realm cultivators.
• Hun Que told the elder on watch that a Sacred Beast and a Human Race cultivator had entered the Ancestral Land, and that the Ancestral Land Will had instructed them to take care of the human.
• The elder on watch speculated that Lu Ye might be the reincarnation of the powerhouse who created the Ancestral Land, but Hun Que doubted it.
• Hun Que ordered the elder on watch to open the Lotus Pool and left Li Shang to handle the Sacred Beast, which was closely bonded to Lu Ye.
• Li Shang found a newly blooming Five-Colored Lotus Platform and led Lu Ye and the others toward it once it had fully opened.

Lu Ye and Li Shang settled the Immortal Yuan Guards on a Five-Colored Lotus Platform in the Soul Race Ancestral Land, where the Soul Bodies could live and cultivate. Lu Ye realized Yiyi and Amber could make a home there too, and he prepared to leave Yiyi with supplies and Li Shang’s care.

• Li Shang claimed the Five-Colored Lotus Platform with Hun Que’s token and released Zhang Zishan and the other Soul Bodies from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Zhang Zishan and the Immortal Yuan Guards sensed the Lotus Platform’s soul-nourishing power, and Li Shang welcomed them as clansmen.
• Li Shang instructed the Soul Bodies to choose places and communicate with the Lotus Platform, which gave them private misty living spaces.
• Yiyi chose a space of her own, and Lu Ye entered it with Amber and saw that it was suitable for them to live in.
• Lu Ye gave Yiyi a Storage Ring filled with top-grade Soul Tempering Pills and told her to listen to Li Shang and avoid causing trouble.

Lu Ye tried to leave the Soul Race Ancestral Land, but Xu Yuan said its gates would remain closed until the Lotus Pool opened. Instead, Xu Yuan offered Lu Ye a rare place in the Lotus Pool Competition, and Lu Ye set out with Li Shang, Yiyi, and Amber to attend.

• Lu Ye toured the peaceful Ancestral Land, then returned to Li Shang and asked her to show him how to leave.
• Li Shang brought Lu Ye to duty elder Xu Yuan, who claimed no one could enter or exit until the Lotus Pool opening was over.
• Xu Yuan invited Lu Ye to compete in the Lotus Pool Competition, where Soul Race members could refine divine lotuses, surprising Li Shang with his offer.
• Lu Ye waited several days as Soul Race members gathered for the Lotus Pool opening, and Li Shang received a place in the competition.
• Li Shang, Lu Ye, Yiyi, and Amber traveled toward the Lotus Pool, drawing a commotion as Soul Race members recognized Amber as their sacred beast.

Lu Ye and Li Shang entered the Soul Race’s Lotus Pool after the elders opened it early to celebrate the Sacred Beast’s return. Lu Ye began refining its pure Soul Power with the Talent Tree as he searched for a Divine Lotus, leaving the watching Sunlight elders astonished by his speed.

• Li Shang and Lu Ye arrived at the Lotus Pool and learned that the Soul Race elders were opening it ahead of schedule.
• Xu Yuan and the other Sunlight elders opened the enormous lotus, and Hun Que announced that qualified Soul Race members could enter for three days.
• Hun Que advised Lu Ye to connect his mind to a Divine Lotus and choose one with complex colors for greater benefits.
• Lu Ye and Li Shang entered the Lotus Pool, where its pure Soul Power sharpened Lu Ye’s mind and could strengthen his Divine Soul.
• Li Shang split off to search for a Divine Lotus, while Lu Ye activated the Talent Tree to absorb the pool water as he traveled.
• The watching Sunlight elders noticed Lu Ye’s extraordinary refining speed, and Xu Yuan wondered what method he was using.

Lu Ye entered the Lotus Pool and accidentally refined two Two-Colored Divine Lotuses, discovering that the second strengthened the first instead of creating a separate lotus. Hun Que concluded that the Ancestral Land Will was behind Lu Ye’s unprecedented ability, while Lu Ye stayed to refine the pool water.

• Hun Que opened the Lotus Pool for Lu Ye, who spotted a Two-Colored Divine Lotus and accidentally refined it when he withdrew his Divine Sense.
• Lu Ye found the lotus nourishing his soul and regretted not seeking a higher-quality one, then settled down to refine the pool water.
• Lu Ye noticed another Two-Colored Divine Lotus and accidentally drew it into his Divine Sea, but found that it had merged with and strengthened the first lotus.
• Elder Xu Yuan and the other Soul Race elders watched Lu Ye refine a second Divine Lotus, and Hun Que attributed the anomaly to the will of the Ancestral Land.

Lu Ye discovered that refining multiple Divine Lotuses could evolve the lotus in his Divine Sea, and he rapidly advanced it from two colors to three. As he searched the lotus pool for higher-grade lotuses, the Soul Race observers watched the Ancestral Land Will repeatedly favor him.

• Lu Ye refined more Divine Lotuses and evolved the lotus in his Divine Sea into a Three-Colored Divine Lotus.
• Lu Ye continued refining lotuses, while Hun Que and the Soul Race Sunlight elders marveled at his ability to refine more than one.
• Lu Ye found a Three-Colored Divine Lotus being refined by a Soul Race cultivator, waited for him to give up, then refined it himself in moments.
• Lu Ye determined that several more Three-Colored Divine Lotuses could evolve his lotus toward four colors and continued searching.
• The Soul Race observers realized that over a hundred lotuses had appeared near Lu Ye and watched a Four-Colored Divine Lotus begin forming ahead of him.

Lu Ye refined Divine Lotuses in the Soul Race’s Lotus Pool until the lotus in his Divine Sea reached five colors, then discovered it could continue evolving. He rushed to seize a Four-Colored Divine Lotus from two Soul Race cultivators and blocked their joint attack with a Soul-Power Sacred Guard.

• Lu Ye refined a Four-Colored Divine Lotus and watched his Divine Sea lotus evolve from three colors toward five.
• He continued refining lower-quality lotuses, then sensed his Divine Sea lotus turn five-colored and wondered whether the Talent Tree explained his unusual ability.
• After refining another Three-Colored Divine Lotus, Lu Ye realized that five colors were not the limit and regretted passing up earlier opportunities.
• Lu Ye hurried toward a Four-Colored Divine Lotus contested by two late-stage Star Constellation Soul Race cultivators, who abandoned their duel to attack him together.
• Lu Ye charged toward the lotus and activated Sacred Guard with Soul Power, forming a patterned barrier before him.