Chapter Summaries

Three Realms Island opened to tens of thousands of cultivators, while Lu Ye and the island’s leaders managed the crowds and the Five Colors Merchant Association held its auction. Seeing the island thrive, Lu Ye recognized it as a home and foundation for Jade Snail and the Nine Provinces, and resolved that their rise had only begun.

• Lu Ye planned to stockpile Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates for Three Realms Island’s new shop and earn income from their sale.
• Luan Xiao'e, He Baichuan, Yan Miao, Ma Shangsi, and Tang Jun prepared to manage the island as tens of thousands of cultivators and several hundred ships gathered outside.
• Lu Ye and Mang Dang watched from the Five Colors Merchant Association branch, where Mang Dang asked Lu Ye for top-grade Soul Tempering Pills.
• Tang Jun ordered the island opened, and cultivators poured through the Ferry Port as merchants welcomed them and patrol teams kept order.
• Luan Xiao'e received the visiting Moon Jade Realm cultivators and directed them to the Five Colors Merchant Association auction.
• Lu Ye surveyed the bustling island and realized that Three Realms Island had become a place to stand for him and the Jade Snail Star System.

Lu Ye’s main body cultivated beneath the Myriad Phenomena Sea while Three Realms Island’s business stabilized and its cultivators upgraded their equipment. After three months of uninterrupted cultivation, he broke through to Moon Jade Realm Mid Stage and returned to find Yaya asleep on his Clone’s lap.

• Three Realms Island’s visitor flow settled at around five thousand people a day, and the island’s growing rental income let its cultivators improve their equipment and stipends.
• Lu Ye’s main body began cultivating beneath the Myriad Phenomena Sea with Fire Element treasures, while his Clone continued refining Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates.
• Lu Ye studied the insights left on the Talent Tree’s leaves to improve his understanding of the Spirit Pattern Path and overcome a bottleneck in his formation-plate work.
• After three months of uninterrupted cultivation, Lu Ye broke through to Moon Jade Realm Mid Stage, having spent more than seven months cultivating beneath the sea across three sessions.
• Lu Ye left the Myriad Phenomena Sea, returned to his residence, and saw Yaya sleeping on the Clone’s lap.

Lu Ye visited Hua Ci, who remained sealed inside Amber at Imperial Conch Palace, and discovered that Pixiu’s Treasure Coin power had reached Yuxi. He realized Hua Ci was conscious and had sent him a message, then left reassured that she was safe.

• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, found Shui Yuan exhausted from running Three Realms Pill Shop, and promised to bring Flower Race members to help her.
• Lu Ye traveled through the portal to Imperial Conch Palace and found Hua Ci and Pixiu still sealed in Amber, whose coin patterns had grown more solid.
• Bai Lu and You Ling arrived, and Yuxi joined them and told Lu Ye that Hua Ci’s condition might be an opportunity rather than a danger.
• A golden streak from the Amber struck Yuxi and immobilized her, while the coin patterns on Pixiu dimmed.
• Lu Ye realized Hua Ci had used the Treasure Coin’s power to tell him she was awake, and he urged her to come out soon.
• Lu Ye told Bai Lu that Yuxi would recover, and Bai Lu carried her back to Imperial Conch Palace as You Ling vowed to challenge Lu Ye after reaching Moonlight Realm Mid Stage.

After returning to Three Realms Island from the Imperial Conch Palace, Lu Ye traveled to Nine Provinces and brought Flower Race, Wood Spirits, and Spore Race members back to improve the island’s pill refining. He then learned Square Inch Mountain would pass through the Myriad Phenomena Star System soon to hold a Spirit Talisman Convention, leaving Three Realms Island preparing for the rare event.

• Lu Ye helped the Merfolk Race resolve more of its Bloodline Curse Poison, then left the Imperial Conch Palace after Shui Yuan opened a gateway.
• Lu Ye passed through the Azure Moon Star System and was welcomed by its Moon Jade Realm cultivators because of Three Realms Island’s standing.
• Lu Ye returned to Nine Provinces and brought Flower Race members, along with Wood Spirits and Spore Race members, to Three Realms Island; Hua Qianying, Mu He, and Black Umbrella had reached the Moon Jade Realm.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that Luan Xiao'e wanted to discuss news that Square Inch Mountain was coming, and Lu Ye hurried to the Assembly Hall.
• Tang Jun confirmed that Square Inch Mountain would pass through the Myriad Phenomena Star System within one or two months and planned to hold a Spirit Talisman Convention there.
• Lu Ye learned that the division of Square Inch Mountain was unknown and considered acquiring more Red Talismans at the convention.

Lu Ye and Three Realms Island prepared to trade premium Spiritual Pills for Spirit Talismans at the coming convention, while he waited to learn which division of Square Inch Mountain would arrive. The Western Division reached Grand Plate Island, where its Sunlight cultivators met the five Great Sun Realm Guardians of Myriad Phenomena Sea.

• Luan Xiao'e and the meeting attendees decided Tang Jun would lead Three Realms Island’s Spirit Talisman trade, with Luan Xiao'e assisting him.
• The Myriad Phenomena Star System cleared Grand Plate Island and prepared it to host the Spirit Talisman Convention.
• Lu Ye learned that the Western Division of Square Inch Mountain was coming and felt both disappointed and relieved.
• More than a hundred thousand cultivators gathered outside Grand Plate Island as Square Inch Mountain arrived above Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• The five Great Sun Realm Guardians appeared, and Sunlight cultivators of the Little People Race emerged from Square Inch Mountain to meet them.

The Spirit Talisman Convention began on Grand Plate Island, drawing a huge crowd of cultivators eager to trade with the Little People Race. Lu Ye brought Yaya to see the bustle, reunited with Ye Chaoqun, and explained how he had reached the Myriad Phenomena Sea.

• The five Great Sun Realm Guardians welcomed Western Square Inch Mountain, and cultivators from both sides gathered on Grand Plate Island for the ten-day convention.
• More than a hundred thousand cultivators crowded the Little People Race stalls, while Old Tang and Luan Xiao'e struggled to reach a Moon Jade Realm trader for Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye brought Yaya to Grand Plate Island, where they wandered through the busy shops and heard cultivators haggling over Spirit Talismans.
• Ye Chaoqun recognized Lu Ye and closed his shop to welcome him, then sent a message to summon several old friends.
• Ye Chaoqun asked how Lu Ye had come to the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and Lu Ye explained that an Insect Path had formed during an invasion of his realm.

Lu Ye reunited with Ye Chaoqun, Duan Xiuchen, and Haitang while they were in the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and arranged for the visiting cultivators to trade with Three Realms Island. The chapter left Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e discussing a promising Spirit Talisman trade with Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun, while Lu Ye was caught in a misleading embrace with Haitang.

• Ye Chaoqun and Lu Ye discussed Lu Ye’s rapid cultivation and recalled the Black Abyss Martial Competition.
• Duan Xiuchen arrived, recognized Lu Ye, and learned that Lu Ye had reached the Moon Jade Realm and held influence on Three Realms Island.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun agreed to trade with Three Realms Island, and Lu Ye summoned Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e.
• Haitang arrived and embraced Lu Ye after Duan Xiuchen assumed the two were Dao Companions, leaving Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e with the wrong impression.
• Duan Xiuchen and Ye Chaoqun introduced themselves to Tang Jun and Luan Xiao'e and began discussing a Spirit Talisman trade.

Lu Ye learned why Haitang and Duan Xiuchen had come to the Myriad Phenomena Sea and followed Haitang to Square Inch Mountain. On the way, Haitang hinted that Su Yuqing might have suffered because of the secret technique she used to help Lu Ye enter the Black Abyss Martial Competition.

• Haitang explained that the three branches of Square Inch Mountain could travel between one another, and that the Eastern and Southern Divisions had come west at a cost to join the Myriad Phenomena Sea gathering.
• Haitang took Lu Ye toward Square Inch Mountain while Yaya clung to his shoulders, leaving Tang Jun impressed by the favorable Spirit Talisman trade terms offered to Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye asked whether Su Yuqing had come west, and Haitang said her master had changed after Lu Ye left and might have paid a great toll to help him qualify for the Black Abyss Martial Competition.
• At Square Inch Mountain, Haitang introduced Lu Ye to a Western Division guard as her partner, and the guard recognized him as the Human Race cultivator who had beaten Ye Chaoqun.

Haitang brought Lu Ye and Yaya from the Western Division to the Eastern Division so Lu Ye could meet Su Yuqing. After arriving at Immortal Spirit Peak, they were summoned to Immortal Shadow Palace, where Su Yuqing appeared carefully dressed and Lu Ye noticed her unusual charm.

• Haitang accused Lu Ye of taking everything and denying it, then persuaded Zhang Kun to transport them to the Eastern Division.
• Zhang Kun discovered that Yaya was a Sunlight Realm cultivator and agreed to send all three after she insisted on staying with Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye and Haitang arrived at the Eastern Division, where Chen Xuanhai directed them to visit Su Yuqing.
• Haitang brought Lu Ye to Immortal Spirit Peak and told Su Yuqing that she had brought her partner to pay respects.
• Su Yuqing's aura faltered at Haitang's words, then she summoned them to Immortal Shadow Palace and appeared before Lu Ye.

Lu Ye reunited with Su Yuqing at Immortal Shadow Palace after meeting Haitang at the Spirit Talisman Convention, and Haitang brought him there to face their unresolved relationship. The chapter ended with Su Yuqing sealing the hall as Lu Ye kissed her, while Haitang stayed away with Yaya.

• Haitang and Lu Ye returned to Immortal Shadow Palace together, and Su Yuqing learned they had met at the Spirit Talisman Convention in the Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Su Yuqing reacted with killing intent when Yaya called Lu Ye her father, but Haitang explained that Yaya was a Sunlight whose soul had been damaged by Soul Devouring Aphids.
• Haitang took Yaya to look for food, leaving Lu Ye alone with Su Yuqing, and the two struggled to speak about their past.
• Lu Ye approached Su Yuqing and kissed her, telling her that actions could speak louder than words.
• Su Yuqing's Magic Power surged and formed a barrier around Immortal Shadow Palace as its doors slammed shut.
• Haitang sensed the Magic Power from afar, worried Lu Ye might be getting beaten, but stayed away and took Yaya to find tasty food.

Lu Ye and Su Yuqing reunited in Immortal Shadow Palace, where she explained that Haitang had mistaken her Secret Technique repair for lovesickness. After testing Lu Ye’s strength, Su Yuqing revealed that Square Inch Mountain’s missing core lay inside a Starry Sky Spectacle that Sunlights could not enter, and asked him to retrieve it.

• Su Yuqing told Lu Ye that Haitang had misunderstood her changes, which had actually come from repairing her damaged Secret Technique.
• Su Yuqing explained that she now dared to anticipate meeting Lu Ye again because he had advanced to the Moon Jade Realm and could protect himself in the starry sky.
• Lu Ye fought Su Yuqing, who had suppressed her strength to the Moonlight Realm Late Stage, and proved strong enough to challenge her.
• Su Yuqing revealed that the Blood Ancestor had split the original Square Inch Mountain and that its missing core prevented the three parts from reuniting.
• Su Yuqing explained that the core was inside a Starry Sky Spectacle that barred Sunlights, making Lu Ye a potential candidate to retrieve it.

Su Yuqing explained that Square Inch Mountain needed an outsider to find its core, and Lu Ye decided to seek it out so the three divisions could potentially merge near Jade Conch. He arranged for Square Inch Mountain to protect his Spirit Island and left the Immortal Shadow Palace with Haitang and the sleeping Yaya.

• Su Yuqing explained that Square Inch Mountain had long recruited trustworthy outsiders to search for its core, whose recovery would allow its three divisions to merge.
• Lu Ye asked where Square Inch Mountain could merge and proposed bringing it to Jade Conch to strengthen his homeland.
• Su Yuqing urged Lu Ye to wait until he reached Moonlight Realm Peak, but he insisted on going soon and asked for a token to meet Western Division's Sunlight cultivators.
• Lu Ye asked Su Yuqing to protect his Spirit Island from Yuan Du, and she agreed after hearing about their conflict.
• Haitang returned with the sleeping Yaya, then escorted Lu Ye away while Su Yuqing kept her behind for a private conversation.

Lu Ye returned to Square Inch Mountain, where Zhang Kun learned of his relationship with Su Yuqing and agreed to discuss sending him to seek the mountain’s core. As Lu Ye prepared to leave Three Realms Island, the Little People Race opened a Spirit Talisman shop there, strengthening the island’s standing, and he received three Red Talismans from its divisions.

• Lu Ye returned to the Western Division with Yaya and gave Zhang Kun a Jade Slip from Su Yuqing, revealing their relationship; Zhang Kun agreed to discuss Lu Ye’s mission and notify him within a month.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, gathered its Moon Jades, arranged for Ma Shangsi to guard the island, and prepared for a long trip.
• The Little People Race held a Star Constellation Competition on Grand Plate Island, offering valuable Purple Talismans as rewards.
• Duan Xiuchen, Ye Chaoqun, Haitang, and other Little People Race cultivators arrived at Three Realms Island to open a Spirit Talisman shop, with Tang Jun arranging its location.
• Ye Chaoqun gave Lu Ye a Storage Ring containing three Red Talismans, one contributed by each division of the Little People Race.

Lu Ye traveled with Zhang Kun to the Illusionary Blood Demonic Eye, where he began searching for the lost core of Square Inch Mountain. He entered the spectacle alone and continued deeper after finding no sign of the core.

• Lu Ye refined three Red Talismans and the Soul Stabilizing Bell while preparing for his journey to the Starry Sky Spectacle.
• Zhang Kun escorted Lu Ye through three Insect Paths and brought him to the Illusionary Blood Demonic Eye, where Sunlight Realm pressure forced him to stop.
• Lu Ye entered the spectacle and spent ten days reaching its outer region, where Star Constellation Realm cultivators gathered Lingyu.
• Lu Ye traveled deeper, learning that rhythmic waves of strange power could purify cultivators' Magic Power and that Moon Jade Realm cultivators came to temper themselves.
• Lu Ye searched for several days without finding Square Inch Mountain's core, but continued onward without rushing.

Lu Ye prepared for the Illusionary Blood Demonic Eye to blink after an old man warned him, then endured its blood eye’s pressure and discovered a new Spiritual Pattern within it. Just as he began studying the Blood Eye Spirit Pattern, the Seven-Colored Divine Lotus destroyed the eye, ending his chance to observe it.

• An old man warned Lu Ye not to go deeper and suggested that the demon eye was about to blink, so Lu Ye moved away and set up Formations on a meteorite.
• Half a day later, the Illusionary Blood Demonic Eye blinked, and Lu Ye felt an unseen gaze pressure his Divine Soul.
• Lu Ye saw a blood eye above his Divine Sea and used the Soul Stabilizing Bell alongside the Seven-Colored Divine Lotus to steady his Divine Sea.
• Lu Ye recognized strands of Yin-Yang Dual Elements in the blood eye and realized they formed a Blood Eye Spirit Pattern, which he began to study.
• The Seven-Colored Divine Lotus emitted a ray that pierced and destroyed the blood eye before Lu Ye could examine much of the Spiritual Pattern.

After the demonic eye blinked, Lu Ye discovered a Winged Race cultivator attacking Chong Xu and lured the attacker away until the danger passed. Chong Xu thanked Lu Ye, and Lu Ye asked whether he knew how to predict the demonic eye’s blinks.

• Lu Ye sensed changes in the wonder after the demonic eye blinked and hurried toward the source of intense Magic Power fluctuations.
• Lu Ye found a Winged Race member attacking Chong Xu’s formation while both were affected by the demonic eye’s influence.
• Lu Ye deliberately provoked the Winged Race member and led him away, sparing Chong Xu from a dangerous fight.
• After the demonic eye blinked again, Chong Xu approached Lu Ye, introduced himself as Sky Pillar Chong Xu, and thanked him for his help.
• Lu Ye introduced himself as Jade Conch Lu Ye and asked Chong Xu whether he could sense when the demonic eye would blink.

Lu Ye learned how Chong Xu sensed the Demon Pupil’s blinks and heard about cultivators who had vanished mysteriously within the marvel. Chong Xu led him to the suspected disappearance site, where Lu Ye began searching for Square Inch Mountain’s core.

• Chong Xu explained that his unusual right eye warned him when the Demon Pupil was about to blink, and he and Lu Ye exchanged Sound Talisman imprints so he could send warnings.
• Chong Xu told Lu Ye that two cultivators had vanished during a battle more than ten years earlier, leaving no bodies behind, and Lu Ye suspected they had encountered Square Inch Mountain’s core.
• Chong Xu guided Lu Ye to the approximate area where the two cultivators disappeared, estimating that the site lay within a radius of three thousand li.
• After Chong Xu departed, Lu Ye created six Clones and sent them in different directions to search the area, blasting apart meteorites from a distance.

Lu Ye searched the Void for the core of Square Inch Mountain, then followed a strange connection that appeared when the Demonic Eye blinked while studying the Blood Eye Spirit Pattern. The connection led him into a fight with a powerful Insect Race cultivator, whom he defeated before reaching its source.

• Lu Ye searched the surrounding area for the core of Square Inch Mountain but found nothing, so he decided to expand his search.
• Chong Xu warned Lu Ye that the Demonic Eye was about to blink, and Lu Ye settled down to wait for it.
• When the Demonic Eye blinked, Lu Ye sensed a distant connection coming from a new direction and raced toward it while observing the Blood Eye Spirit Pattern in his Divine Sea.
• An Insect Race cultivator attacked Lu Ye, and Lu Ye wounded it with Drawing Saber Slash.
• The Insect Race cultivator unleashed its spinning dual-saber technique, but Lu Ye broke through the attack and pierced its heart with the Crag Mountain Saber.
• The dying Insect Race cultivator tried to strike Lu Ye once more, but Lu Ye riddled its body with holes and evaded the blow.

Lu Ye discovered that the strange meteorite pursuing him was the Core of Square Inch Mountain, whose swallowing power could draw nearby space into its inner world. As he fled and tried to communicate with it, the core ignored him until he showed it a Red Talisman, prompting it to hesitate.

• Lu Ye continued following the direction of his earlier perception after the Blood Eye was broken, suspecting it might lead him to the Core of Square Inch Mountain.
• Days later, a seemingly ordinary meteorite accelerated toward Lu Ye and swallowed everything within several dozen miles, forcing him to flee.
• Lu Ye realized the meteorite was pursuing him and concluded that it was the Core of Square Inch Mountain, which had sensed and sought him out.
• Lu Ye repeatedly explained that Su Yuqing and the Little People Race had sent him to find the core, but it continued chasing him without responding.
• Lu Ye showed the core a Red Talisman bestowed by a Sunlight of the Little People Race, and the core hesitated.

Lu Ye was swallowed by Square Inch Mountain’s core and discovered that it carried the Blood Ancestor’s Sacred Blood, explaining why it had pursued him and avoided the Little People Race. After arriving in the Core World, he learned that other cultivators were trapped there, then flew into the crimson sky to seek a way out.

• Lu Ye’s Treasure Blood caused the core to transform into a bloodstone and unleash a powerful force that swallowed him and everything nearby.
• Lu Ye landed in the Core World and realized the core’s Sacred Nature came from the Blood Ancestor, whose taint threatened the Little People Race’s plan to reunite Square Inch Mountain.
• Lu Ye concluded that he needed to escape the Core World and might use the Talent Tree to address the Blood Ancestor’s corruption of the core.
• Several nearby cultivators argued over who would claim Lu Ye, with each group citing its Cave Abode or Lu Ye’s Human Race identity.
• Lu Ye rose from the crater and flew into the crimson sky, prompting the nearby cultivators to watch as Magic Power surged overhead.