Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye defeated two more Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, realizing that his brutal, direct fighting style had become a killing art through experience. After calling for a rest, he left the Myriad Demon Ridge leaders wondering how he had gained such strength and speed, while they prepared to wear him down.

• Lu Ye blocked a skilled swordsman's thrust with a Defense Spirit Pattern, then killed him before he could surrender and reflected on how his combat experience had sharpened his attacks.
• After Li Baxian called out to him, Lu Ye turned aside a burly cultivator's attack and sent the man flying with a single slash.
• Lu Ye asked the burly cultivator which sect he belonged to, learned he was from Ninghe Fortress, then wounded and killed him after confirming the name.
• Wei Yang and Li Baxian realized Lu Ye had been keeping track of his opponents' sects, and Lu Ye requested a rest before returning to his camp to recover.
• Myriad Demon Ridge leaders questioned Han Zheyue about Lu Ye's unusual force and speed; she suggested Dragon Spring body tempering, but they doubted it and planned to exhaust him over the next three days.

Lu Ye defeated a succession of Myriad Demon Ridge challengers, overcoming Niu Meng’s defenses and then cutting down Body and Spell Cultivators until no one dared face him. As the Vast Sky Alliance recognized the growing aura of invincibility around him, they wondered whether he might receive Heaven’s Mystery Blessing like the Crimson Blood Sect’s Feng Wujiang had.

• Lu Ye avoided Niu Meng’s shield charge, wounded him twice with his saber, and forced Niu Meng’s senior brother to concede and pull him from the arena.
• Lu Ye immediately defeated another Body Cultivator, then continued fighting challengers without resting.
• Myriad Demon Ridge’s Body Cultivators and Spell Cultivators failed to stop Lu Ye, whose saber broke defensive Spiritual Artifacts and whose speed overwhelmed Spell Cultivators at close range.
• After Lu Ye killed more than a dozen challengers, no one from Myriad Demon Ridge dared to face him, while the Vast Sky Alliance celebrated.
• Spirit Stream Rankings experts told Li Baxian that Lu Ye showed signs of the bearing of invincibility and might receive Heaven’s Mystery Blessing, recalling Feng Wujiang as the last known recipient.

Lu Ye continued fighting Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators under the Heaven's Mystery Contract, reaching thirty-two battles despite exhaustion and sluggish Spiritual Power. As he fought on, Myriad Demon Ridge sent a swift Cat Demon who wounded him and left him close to collapse.

• Myriad Demon Ridge's leaders agreed that Lu Ye's killer would receive twenty percent of the rewards and whoever broke his fangs would receive an additional ten percent.
• Lu Ye resumed fighting, killing one opponent after another while resting and replenishing himself between battles.
• After two days and one night, Lu Ye had fought thirty-two battles, leaving eleven sects on the contract that had yet to challenge him.
• Li Baxian and Wei Yang worried as Lu Ye's Spiritual Power grew sluggish and his fights became longer, but Wei Yang woke him to face another opponent.
• Myriad Demon Ridge sent a swift Cat Demon, who outmaneuvered Lu Ye, inflicted several wounds, and left him staggering near his knees.

Lu Ye survived his fortieth battle after the Cat Demon broke his long blade, killing her with a hidden counterattack. Despite his dwindling strength, he chose Hu Ping as his next opponent and launched himself at him before Hu Ping could speak.

• The Cat Demon snapped Lu Ye's Spiritual Artifact blade and lunged at him, believing she had secured victory.
• Lu Ye let the Cat Demon's Claw Glove wound his chest, then kicked her away and slashed her throat with his broken blade, killing her.
• Lu Ye treated his wound and rested, while Wei Yang and the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators watched; he had only about thirty percent of his Spiritual Power left.
• Hu Ping and Zi An agreed that Lu Ye would choose between them, and Hu Ping explained they were not planning to fight him together.
• Lu Ye pointed his broken blade at Hu Ping, chose him as his opponent, and charged before Hu Ping could introduce himself.

Lu Ye killed Hu Ping and then fought Zi An despite his exhaustion, revealing that his broken saber remained deadly. He gained the upper hand against Zi An and broke his Spiritual Artifact, but their fight was still underway.

• Lu Ye defeated Hu Ping by piercing his chest with his broken saber, then returned to his seat to recover.
• Hu Ping's death left Zi An as Myriad Demon Ridge's next fighter, and he charged Lu Ye when their allotted rest time ended.
• Lu Ye and Zi An exchanged blows for dozens of breaths, with Lu Ye realizing he needed to finish the fight before his Spiritual Power ran out.
• Lu Ye forced Zi An onto the defensive and broke his Spiritual Artifact with the Sharpness Spirit Pattern.
• Lu Ye's saber came down on Zi An, spraying blood.

After Zi An conceded, Lu Ye prepared to face the Sacred Fire Sect’s final challenger, but a Tier Seven female cultivator entered the arena in violation of the Heaven's Mystery Contract. She crippled one of her own Spiritual Apertures, lowering her cultivation to Tier Six and stopping Heavenly Mechanism’s punishment.

• Zi An’s senior sister conceded on his behalf, ending his match against Lu Ye.
• Lu Ye recovered his strength while Li Baxian told him the Sacred Fire Sect’s Tier Six Spell Cultivator was the final opponent.
• A Tier Seven female cultivator from the Sacred Fire Sect entered the arena, prompting Heavenly Mechanism to gather dark clouds over Golden Light Peak.
• The female cultivator chanted the Sacred Fire Sect’s vow and crippled one of her own Spiritual Apertures.
• Her cultivation fell to Tier Six, the dark clouds dispersed, and the Myriad Demon Ridge side rejoiced.

Lu Ye fought the Sacred Fire Sect Saintess, who had crippled one Spiritual Aperture to meet the Heaven's Mystery Contract and entered the arena with the Heart of Molten Fire. She unleashed a massive fire spell that nearly exhausted her, but Lu Ye survived and staggered toward her as the chapter ended.

• A Myriad Demon Ridge expert praised the Saintess’s tactic of crippling one Spiritual Aperture to lower her cultivation and satisfy the contract.
• Lu Ye charged the Saintess, who activated the Heart of Molten Fire to shield herself while preparing a powerful spell.
• Lu Ye repeatedly struck the protection, rapidly draining the Saintess’s Spiritual Power, while Li Baxian realized she was preparing a wide-range attack.
• The Saintess released a torrent of scorching flames that engulfed the arena, and Wei Yang stopped Li Baxian from intervening because Lu Ye was still alive.
• Lu Ye emerged badly burned and staggered toward the exhausted Saintess, who was shocked that he had survived.

Lu Ye and the Sacred Fire Sect's Saintess fought to exhaustion, and Lu Ye won with a final Fire Phoenix spell just as she was about to kill him. Feng Yuechan and Li Baxian protected the allies and sent the badly injured Lu Ye toward Azure Sea Mountain, while Li Baxian held the Myriad Demon Ridge forces at bay.

• The Sacred Fire Sect's Saintess summoned a Fire Giant, which struck Lu Ye down after shattering his broken blade.
• As the Saintess approached Lu Ye with a sword, he cast Fire Phoenix and blasted her away, deciding the duel.
• Li Baxian and Wei Yang rushed onto the arena to protect Lu Ye as Feng Yuechan appeared on a Cloud Giant and warned the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators not to move.
• Wei Yang gave Lu Ye medicine and confirmed he was alive, then carried him with Big Tiger onto the Cloud Giant's hand.
• Feng Yuechan carried Wei Yang, Lu Ye, and Big Tiger toward Azure Sea Mountain while Li Baxian threatened the Myriad Demon Ridge forces with his Flying Swords.

News of Lu Yiye’s victory at Golden Light Peak spread across the Nine Provinces, prompting Myriad Demon Ridge to order his elimination if he survived. The Pill Heart Sect ordered Li Baxian back to the Main Sect after he and Feng Yuechan left their post, while the chapter ended with Pang Dahai and other Righteous Qi Sect cultivators caught gambling and seized by the Discipline Hall.

• News spread that Lu Yiye had won forty-three battles at Golden Light Peak and was gravely wounded, and Myriad Demon Ridge sects ordered their disciples to kill him if he recovered.
• Yu Guanjia and the Pill Heart Sect elders decided to summon Li Baxian back and send Feng Yuechan into seclusion, while Junior Sister Qiu warned Yu Guanjia not to harm Li Baxian.
• The Pill Heart Sect ordered Li Baxian to return immediately, but he was locked in battle with Yan Xing and could not leave.
• Pang Dahai told Leshan and the other Righteous Qi Sect cultivators about Lu Yiye’s victory, and Leshan doubted that the famed fighter was the same Lu Yiye he had met before.
• The Discipline Hall caught Pang Dahai, Leshan, and the other cultivators gambling, then took them away for punishment.

Lu Ye woke at the Crimson Blood Sect after surviving his severe injuries and learned that Second Senior Sister Shui Yuan was treating him. Meanwhile, Sect Master Tang Yifeng retaliated against Myriad Demon Ridge for the Golden Light Peak Battle; the chapter ended with him visiting Lu Ye and expressing regret for his suffering.

• Lu Ye woke in the Crimson Blood Sect and learned that Shui Yuan was his Second Senior Sister and that Amber and Yiyi were waiting at the Cangming Mountain Outpost.
• Shui Yuan treated Lu Ye's wounds while Tang Yifeng attacked three Myriad Demon Ridge sects in Yun Province and warned them not to harm Crimson Blood Sect disciples.
• Lu Ye spent several days recovering, discovered that Pill Toxin had made his Spiritual Power impure, and planned to retrieve Amber and Yiyi.
• Shui Yuan brought a bed into Lu Ye's room and summoned the Sect Master, Tang Yifeng.
• Tang Yifeng helped Lu Ye up and told him that he had suffered greatly.

After Lu Ye returned to the Crimson Blood Sect, he recovered alongside the injured Sect Master and Li Baxian while learning about the sect’s decline and the enemies drawn to his name. The chapter left Lu Ye and the Sect Master cowering in their tubs as Shui Yuan punished Li Baxian for drinking during his recovery.

• The Sect Master reassured Lu Ye, then collapsed from his injuries and was placed in a bed by Shui Yuan.
• Li Baxian arrived badly injured after fighting Yan Xing, then fainted as Shui Yuan began tending to him.
• Lu Ye, the Sect Master, and Li Baxian soaked in medicinal tubs while Lu Ye learned that the Crimson Blood Sect had dwindled to three members and faced expulsion from the sect ranks.
• Li Baxian and the Sect Master explained that Feng Wujiang’s disastrous campaign decades earlier had caused the Crimson Blood Sect’s decline and left Lu Ye carrying old grudges.
• The Sect Master warned Lu Ye that Myriad Demon Ridge would try to eliminate him, while Li Baxian explained that future attacks would have to follow the Spirit Stream Battlefield’s rules.
• Shui Yuan caught Li Baxian drinking despite his injuries and shoved his head into the medicinal water, making Lu Ye and the Sect Master hide in their tubs.

After recovering at Crimson Blood Sect, Lu Ye officially became a disciple and was appointed its Garrison Envoy in the Spirit Stream Battlefield. He entered the sect’s camp, encountered its resident Rogue Cultivators, and found Amber.

• Second Senior Sister Shui Yuan nursed Lu Ye back to health with medicinal treatments and meals that strengthened his Qi and Blood Power.
• Sect Master Tang Yifeng formally accepted Lu Ye as an Official Disciple of Crimson Blood Sect before the sect’s ancestors’ spirit tablets.
• Shui Yuan appointed Lu Ye the sect’s Garrison Envoy, and Li Baxian explained the role and the camp’s situation.
• Shui Yuan guided Lu Ye through the Heaven’s Mystery Pillar into Crimson Blood Sect’s battlefield camp and reminded him to request a Pet Contract.
• Lu Ye emerged into the camp, saw several Rogue Cultivators, heard Amber’s roar, and hurried to find the snow-white tiger.

Lu Ye obtained a Pet Contract to bring Amber out of the Spirit Stream Battlefield and returned with Amber to the Crimson Blood Sect, where Yiyi met Shui Yuan and Li Baxian. Li Baxian asked Lu Ye to choose his cultivation path, and Lu Ye answered that he would become a Weapon Cultivator.

• Lu Ye met Amber at the Crimson Blood Sect's camp, where a Grey Eagle called Little Grey guarded the area, and learned that an Azure Sea Mountain cultivator had escorted Amber there.
• Lu Ye spent one hundred Merit to request a Pet Contract and formed a connection with Amber that would let it leave the Spirit Stream Battlefield with him.
• Lu Ye brought Amber back to the Crimson Blood Sect and presented the Jade Slip about the camp that Li Baxian gave him.
• Yiyi emerged from Amber and greeted Shui Yuan and Li Baxian, who welcomed her as one of the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Li Baxian told Lu Ye that no suitable instructor was available and asked him to choose his cultivation path, so Lu Ye declared he would become a Weapon Cultivator.

Lu Ye used the Heaven's Mystery Vault to buy a reinforced nine-restriction saber called Rocky Mountain for 138 Merit. After leaving Heaven's Mystery Hall, he headed to the Crimson Blood Sect's abandoned Cultivation Rooms, while a young cultivator arrived too late to meet him.

• Li Baxian offered to teach Lu Ye sword cultivation, but Lu Ye insisted on using a saber, so Li Baxian told him to prepare a weapon for training.
• Lu Ye studied Li Baxian's Jade Slip, then used the Heaven's Mystery Pillar to enter the Heaven's Mystery Vault and search for sabers.
• Lu Ye narrowed the selection to nine-restriction sabers with reinforced blades and chose one that suited his strength and fighting style.
• Lu Ye spent 138 Merit on the named saber Rocky Mountain and returned to the Crimson Blood Sect camp feeling mentally fatigued.
• A young cultivator arrived at Heaven's Mystery Hall after Lu Ye had left and told his companion to alert him if Lu Ye returned.
• Lu Ye went to the Crimson Blood Sect's overgrown and deserted Cultivation Rooms.

Lu Ye turned an abandoned Cultivation Room into a powerful cultivation space by combining its Spirit Gathering Array with his Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns, greatly accelerating his progress. After Second Senior Sister summoned him back to the Main Sect, he learned that Chen Yu wanted to discuss the camp marketplace and reunited with Li Baxian over a meal.

• Lu Ye activated the Cultivation Room's Spirit Gathering Array with eight Spirit Stones and added three large Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns to intensify the Spiritual Energy.
• Lu Ye cultivated with Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns in all sixty-four of his Spiritual Apertures and estimated that a day of cultivation equaled refining about five Spiritual Pills.
• Second Senior Sister messaged Lu Ye that Fourth Senior Brother was looking for him, so he ended his cultivation and secured the room with his Garrison Envoy authority.
• A Tier Three cultivator told Lu Ye that Chen Yu wanted to discuss the marketplace, but Lu Ye postponed the meeting until tomorrow and returned to the Main Sect.
• Li Baxian shared Blood Red Trout with Lu Ye, explained their value, and asked him to bring two fish to Little Grey.

Li Baxian trained Lu Ye in weapon combat by repeatedly defeating him, teaching him to control the rhythm of a fight. After recovering from the brutal lesson, Lu Ye returned to the Spirit Stream Battlefield and met Chen Yu, a Rogue Cultivator who managed the camp market.

• Li Baxian told Lu Ye that his combat skill lagged behind his rapid cultivation and began teaching him by sparring at the same tier.
• Li Baxian killed Lu Ye over a hundred times in an hour, while Yiyi watched and Shui Yuan explained that the hardship would prepare him for real enemies.
• Shui Yuan treated Lu Ye's wounds, and he recovered enough to enter the Spirit Stream Battlefield that night.
• Lu Ye sensed unfamiliar cultivators outside the Heaven's Mystery Hall and met Chen Yu, the strongest Rogue Cultivator in the camp and its market manager.
• Lu Ye handed Chen Yu a Contract to sign after learning from Shui Yuan that Chen Yu had been among the Rogue Cultivators she trusted.

Lu Ye restored the Talent Tree’s ability to burn Pill Toxin by feeding it Core Fire, gained the Blood Dye Spiritual Pattern, and began experimenting with the Blood-red Scale. As he continued training and cultivation, he asked how to earn Merit, and Li Baxian suggested selling things to Heaven's Mystery Vault.

• Chen Yu accepted Lu Ye’s contract, agreeing to manage the marketplace and collect monthly Spirit Stone fees from Rogue Cultivators.
• Lu Ye bought Core Fire from Heaven's Mystery Vault, which ignited the Talent Tree’s Fourth Leaf and restored its ability to burn Pill Toxin.
• Lu Ye learned the fourth Spiritual Pattern, Blood Dye, and realized he needed more Merit to acquire treasures for the Talent Tree.
• Lu Ye placed the Blood-red Scale in the Spirit Gathering Array and began cultivating, hoping to draw out its power safely.
• Lu Ye spent his days fighting Li Baxian and bathing in medicine, then cultivated at the camp; when he asked how to earn Merit, Li Baxian suggested selling things to Heaven's Mystery Vault.

Lu Ye learned about the Spirit Stream Garrison War and wanted to enter, but the Crimson Blood Sect lacked a Deputy Envoy to accompany him. After the sect grade assessment preserved the sect’s Ninth Grade status and Li Baxian declared Lu Ye had passed his training, Li Baxian returned to the Pill Heart Sect, leaving Lu Ye to ask Shui Yuan why he had joined another sect.

• Li Baxian explained that cultivators could win merit and treasures in the Spirit Stream Garrison War, and Lu Ye grew interested in participating.
• Shui Yuan told Lu Ye that the Crimson Blood Sect could not register unless he found a Deputy Envoy to fight alongside him.
• Lu Ye sensed the sect grade assessment results and confirmed the Crimson Blood Sect had retained its Ninth Grade status because he had become its disciple.
• Lu Ye finally landed a wound on Li Baxian during their sparring, and Li Baxian said he had passed his training.
• Li Baxian returned to the Pill Heart Sect, and Lu Ye asked Shui Yuan why Li Baxian had become a disciple of another sect.

Lu Ye traveled from the Crimson Blood Sect to Mount Ying to recruit Hua Ci for the Spirit Stream Garrison War and offer her group protection. When he arrived, he found Hua Ci wounded and the Rogue Wanderer Society surrounded by Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators.

• Lu Ye learned that Chen Yu could not find willing, qualified Rogue Cultivators to join the Spirit Stream Garrison War.
• Lu Ye fed Little Grey Blood Red Trout and asked the eagle to fly him to Mount Ying.
• Little Grey carried Lu Ye across the Outer Circle, and they reached Mount Ying five days later.
• Lu Ye spotted Hua Ci's neck scar and wondered why it looked self-inflicted.
• Hua Ci released a wave of gray air, Ruan Lingyu identified the newcomers as Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators, and Kong Niu charged one of them.

Lu Ye arrived at the Bamboo Lodge and helped Hua Ci defeat a group of Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators who had been exploiting and threatening her. After learning that the Rogue Wanderer Society had lost most of its members, Lu Ye stayed with Hua Ci, who teased him about repaying her life-saving debt with marriage.

• The poisoned Tier Seven Cultivator attacked Hua Ci, but Lu Ye intercepted him and wounded him in a saber fight.
• The Tier Seven Cultivator used a flying Spiritual Artifact against Lu Ye, but Hua Ci detonated the mushrooms poisoning the attackers, giving Lu Ye the chance to kill him.
• Little Grey killed a Tier Six Cultivator, while Kong Niu defeated his opponent, ending the battle.
• Hua Ci told Lu Ye that the Tier Seven Cultivator had forced her to hand over her earnings and that most of the Rogue Wanderer Society had been killed resisting him.
• Hua Ci pretended to offer herself in marriage as repayment, then revealed she had been teasing Lu Ye.