Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao agreed to travel with Nan Lian through the newly revealed Asura Territory toward Nine Profound. Meanwhile, the Sunlight cultivators who fought Ma Bin inferred that he had turned back to protect someone and set out to investigate, just as an unknown figure appeared before Nan Lian's group.

• Nan Lian discussed Ma Bin's long history and suspected that his injuries from fighting four Sunlight cultivators were severe, while Lu Ye concealed his concern.
• Changfeng and the surviving Sunlight cultivators learned Ma Bin had damaged his Dao Foundation and reasoned that he had turned back to protect someone nearby, then went to investigate.
• Nan Lian explained that the Asura Arena's power had vanished, revealing the vast Asura Territory and scattering the cultivators who had been inside it.
• Nan Lian offered to guide Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao toward Nine Profound by way of her homeland, Myriad Rosy Clouds, and they accepted.
• Nan Lian sensed an approaching presence and placed Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao behind her before an unknown figure appeared and noticed she was a Sunlight cultivator.

Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao traveled with Nan Lian until she identified the direction of Nine Profound, then parted ways and continued toward Yu Yaorao’s star system. They met a Nine Profound tower ship, where Senior Brother Sun recognized Lu Ye as the Top Ranker of the Moonlight Realm.

• Changfeng questioned Nan Lian about Ma Bin’s strange actions and searched the area, while Lu Ye hid his connection to Ma Bin.
• Nan Lian found the direction of Myriad Rosy Clouds and calculated the route to Nine Profound, after which Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao took their leave.
• Yu Yaorao contacted cultivators from Nine Profound and learned that a Sunlight Martial Uncle was gathering returning members of their star system.
• Lu Ye and Yu Yaorao met the Nine Profound tower ship, and Senior Brother Sun greeted Yu Yaorao before recognizing Lu Ye as the Top Ranker of the Moonlight Realm.

Lu Ye reunited with Yu Yaorao and Nine Profound cultivators in the Asura Territory, but Fangu attacked their Star Boat before he could leave. He agreed to help defend the ship and recognized the enemy leader, Jiang An, who also found Lu Ye strangely familiar.

• Sun Zheng recognized Lu Ye as the former Top Ranker of the Moonlight Realm, and Lu Ye said goodbye to Yu Yaorao before Sun Zheng urged him to travel with Nine Profound.
• A Sunlight cultivator warned that enemies were attacking, and Sun Zheng ordered the Star Boat to speed up and activate its Protective Spirit Array.
• The detection Formation revealed Fangu Star Boats approaching from both sides, and Sun Zheng realized their Sunlight cultivator had drawn away Cen Xin while more than a dozen Moon Jade Realm cultivators moved to attack.
• As Fangu caught up and assaulted the ship, Lu Ye agreed to help Nine Profound fight back, and Yu Yaorao reluctantly let go of his hand.
• Lu Ye joined Sun Zheng and four other Nine Profound cultivators on deck, where Jiang An called out to Sun Zheng and both he and Lu Ye found the other strangely familiar.

Lu Ye protected Nine Profound’s star boat by driving back Fangu’s attackers, then left before Cen Xin returned. Yu Yaorao watched him go, while Cen Xin urged her to seize the chance if she had feelings for him.

• Jiang An recognized Lu Ye as the Moonlight Realm’s Top Ranker, but Lu Ye swiftly wounded him with a saber strike.
• Fangu’s Moon Jade Realm cultivators charged Lu Ye, and Nine Profound’s cultivators intercepted them while Lu Ye wounded several attackers without killing any.
• Jiang An ordered Fangu’s cultivators to retreat, and Lu Ye declined to pursue them before saying farewell to Yu Yaorao and departing.
• Cen Xin returned to find Nine Profound’s cultivators unharmed, then learned from Sun Zheng and Yu Yaorao how Lu Ye had saved them.
• Cen Xin told Yu Yaorao that Lu Ye had a limitless future and urged her to act if she had feelings for him.

Lu Ye tracked the Fangu cultivators hoping to find Ma Bin and reunited with Zhu Yuan, who led him to Ma Bin hiding on a barren star. Ma Bin’s injuries proved severe, and he examined the supreme-quality healing pills Lu Ye brought but seemed unable to use them.

• Lu Ye followed the Fangu cultivators toward their star system until their Sunlight cultivator dispelled the Liao Power he had been using to track them.
• Lu Ye encountered Zhu Yuan, recognized him from their past in the Myriad Phenomena Sea, and learned Zhu Yuan still served Ma Bin.
• Zhu Yuan brought Lu Ye to a hidden underground cavern on a barren star, where Ma Bin was recovering from his injuries.
• Lu Ye greeted Ma Bin and learned that Zhu Yuan had left the Fangu group to visit him after the group was summoned to attack Nine Profound.
• Ma Bin dismissed his injuries as minor, then spat blood and nearly collapsed, prompting Lu Ye to offer his healing pills.
• Ma Bin inspected Lu Ye’s supreme-quality pills and asked where he had obtained so many of them.

Lu Ye discovered that Ma Bin’s severe injuries had damaged his Dao Foundation, and learned that a Spirit Jade Vein could help him recover. Lu Ye revealed that Square Inch Mountain, which he had placed near the Nine Provinces, contained such a vein, but Ma Bin doubted the Little People Race would accept the risks of helping him.

• Ma Bin recognized Lu Ye as the Dao Tree inheritor and warned him never to refine cultivators, recalling how doing so had contributed to the Nine Provinces’ calamity.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree’s power to refine foreign Magic Power from Ma Bin’s body, easing his injuries but realizing Ma Bin’s Dao Foundation was damaged.
• Zhu Yuan explained that Ma Bin could recover only by recuperating within a Spirit Jade Vein, though Changfeng’s allies had warned realms with such veins to guard them.
• Lu Ye revealed that he had recovered Square Inch Mountain’s Core and placed it near the Nine Provinces, where it contained a Spirit Jade Vein.
• Ma Bin doubted the Little People Race would let him use the vein because of its importance and the trouble surrounding his identity.

Lu Ye offered Ma Bin a way to heal his injuries at Three Realms Island, and Ma Bin agreed to travel to the Myriad Phenomena Sea separately. After visiting the Soul Race Ancestral Land and returning toward Nine Provinces, Lu Ye learned that an unfamiliar Sunlight Realm cultivator was searching there.

• Lu Ye told Ma Bin that Three Realms Island had its own Spirit Jade Vein, and Ma Bin accepted his offer to recover there while insisting they travel separately.
• A month later, Lu Ye entered the Soul Race Ancestral Land, found that Hun Que had not returned, and asked Xu Yuan about the Three Flowers.
• Xu Yuan advised Lu Ye to focus on tempering his Magic Source and condensing the Qi Flower rather than seeking answers before he was ready.
• Lu Ye used the Starry Sky Pool to return to Nine Provinces, carrying the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure for Little Nine.
• Little Nine warned Lu Ye that an unfamiliar Sunlight Realm cultivator was searching Nine Provinces, so Lu Ye concealed his aura and stopped.

Lu Ye discovered that Black Cloud had secretly entered the Nine Provinces to seek revenge, and prepared a way to keep a battle from destroying the realm. Black Cloud identified the Nine Provinces as the realm that had vanished ten thousand years earlier and began searching for the Dao Tree Inheritance.

• Little Nine told Lu Ye that a concealed Demon Race Sunlight cultivator had been secretly investigating the Nine Provinces, and Lu Ye recognized him as Black Cloud.
• Lu Ye concluded Black Cloud had come for revenge over the Purple Jade Demon Star and returned to the Nine Provinces under Little Nine's concealment.
• Lu Ye gave Little Nine the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure to test whether it could create a setting for Sunlight cultivators to fight without harming the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye left to seek help from Square Inch Mountain while Black Cloud inspected the Cycle Tree Clone near the Garrison Hall.
• Black Cloud realized the Nine Provinces was the realm that had vanished after the battle ten thousand years earlier and sought the Dao Tree Inheritance it contained.

Lu Ye lured Black Cloud into a battle setting created by Little Nine, where three Sunlights from the Little People Race ambushed him. Black Cloud realized he had walked into a trap and was forced to face them in a confined space.

• Black Cloud decided to seize control of the Nine Provinces and search for the Dao Tree inheritance.
• Lu Ye warned Su Yuqing, Chen Xuanhai, and Wu Qimo about Black Cloud, then coordinated with Little Nine to prepare a battlefield outside the Nine Provinces.
• Black Cloud spotted Lu Ye approaching and pursued him through a vortex into the setting created by Little Nine.
• Lu Ye dropped his act and revealed that Black Cloud had entered a trap as Chen Xuanhai, Su Yuqing, and Wu Qimo struck him with their Sunlight powers.
• Black Cloud recognized the three attackers as Sunlights of the Little People Race, while Lu Ye ordered them to attack and the confined battlefield left Black Cloud with little room to flee.

Lu Ye questioned the defeated Black Cloud and learned that Yuan Du had sent him to Nine Provinces using a route extracted from captured Three Realms Island cultivators. After Black Cloud was killed, the real Black Cloud on Purple Jade discovered that his Sunlight-level Dharma Body had been destroyed and swore revenge.

• Lu Ye kept his distance while the Little People Race's three Sunlights subdued Black Cloud, then persuaded him to answer questions in exchange for a swift death.
• Black Cloud revealed that Yuan Du had used Soul Searching Technique on captured Three Realms Island cultivators to find a route from the Myriad Phenomena Sea to Nine Provinces, though the route he received was incomplete and outdated.
• Lu Ye learned that Yuan Du had sent Black Cloud to seek revenge and did not know Nine Provinces was the famed realm connected to the Dao Tree, but might investigate it later.
• Lu Ye ordered Chen Xuanhai to kill Black Cloud, then told Little Nine to keep the scene sealed until Black Cloud was certainly dead.
• On Purple Jade, the real Black Cloud discovered that his Sunlight-level Dharma Body had been killed and roared in fury over the loss of his three-thousand-year preparation.

Black Cloud concluded that Nine Provinces concealed powerful Sunlight cultivators and began planning to pursue the Dao Tree’s inheritance through Lu Ye. Meanwhile, Lu Ye and Little Nine put the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure into use, giving Nine Provinces cultivators a new place to train and leaving Little Nine eager to extend it to Spirit Stream and Cloud River cultivators.

• Black Cloud connected his Dharma Body’s death to Nine Provinces and suspected Lu Ye might possess the Dao Tree’s inheritance, so he planned to target both Lu Ye and Nine Provinces.
• Lu Ye instructed the Garrison Hall to announce a new training ground that could serve cultivators below and at the Star Constellation Realm.
• A four-person squad hunting Corpse Race members on the Peerless Continent received the announcement and hurried back toward camp as cultivators across Nine Provinces gathered to investigate.
• Lu Ye observed Little Nine operating the Asura Arena Sub-Treasure, which created adjustable trials for cultivators throughout Nine Provinces.
• Little Nine decided to stop maintaining the Spirit Stream Battlefield and Cloud River Battlefield and let cultivators from those realms train in the Sub-Treasure instead.

After settling matters in Nine Provinces, Lu Ye visited Su Yuqing and used rare treasures to strengthen his Magic Source, but it still fell short of perfection. He returned to Three Realms Island, where he learned it had prospered during his absence and began meeting with its leaders.

• Lu Ye summoned Xuan Yu, Xiang Yin, and Ding Beifeng from the Blood Refining World, praised their progress, and sent them back to cultivate.
• Lu Ye visited Su Yuqing on Square Inch Mountain, then refined the Asura Arena treasures he had exchanged until his Magic Source improved but remained imperfect.
• Lu Ye left for the Myriad Phenomena Sea, intending to gather more treasures and find a way to deal with Yuan Du.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island after a month, delivered materials from Su Yuqing to Haitang, and heard Haitang worry that Su Yuqing’s feelings might not be passionate.
• He Baichuan, Ma Shangsi, Yuxi, Cheng Xin, and Tang Jun gathered with Lu Ye, and He Baichuan began reporting the island’s revenue before Lu Ye stopped him.

Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, approved keeping its newly advanced Moon Jade Realm cultivators, and learned that Nine Radiance was using the island’s Spirit Jade Vein. He found a way for Ma Bin to recover elsewhere, then refined treasures that tempered his Magic Source and reunited with Chu Shen.

• He Baichuan told Lu Ye that eighteen Jade Snail Realm cultivators had recently advanced to Moon Jade Realm, and Lu Ye allowed them to remain on Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye learned that Nine Radiance had occupied the Spirit Jade Vein, complicating his plan to bring Ma Bin there to heal.
• Yuxi reported that Senior Sister Luan and Elder Yan Miao had advanced to Sunlight, giving Lu Ye a place to send Ma Bin for recovery and a chance for them to seek his guidance.
• He Baichuan gave Lu Ye several treasures for tempering Magic Source, and Lu Ye refined them before leaving his Bamboo Lodge.
• Lu Ye visited Chu Shen, who had advanced to the Moon Jade Realm, and they discussed Lu Ye’s eventual advancement to Sunlight.

Lu Ye visited Nine Radiance in Three Realms Island’s Spirit Jade Vein, where she explained the road beyond Sunlight and offered to take him as her disciple. While Lu Ye postponed his answer, Yuan Du plotted to destroy Three Realms Island but worried that Nine Radiance’s presence would thwart him.

• Lu Ye asked Chu Shen about Nine Radiance’s arrival, then went alone to visit her in the Spirit Jade Vein.
• Nine Radiance told Lu Ye that the path beyond Sunlight was the Dao and offered to accept him into her sect.
• Lu Ye hesitated to accept, citing his conflict with Yuan Du, and Nine Radiance said Yuan Du would not dare oppose her disciple.
• Nine Radiance asked whether Lu Ye had found Ban Ci, and he said he had not.
• Yuan Du blamed Lu Ye for his losses and planned to destroy Three Realms Island, but first sought a way to make Nine Radiance leave.

Lu Ye visited the Merfolk Race to seek permission to use its Spirit Jade Vein to heal Ma Bin, then returned to cultivate while waiting for Ma Bin to arrive. When Zhu Yuan reached Three Realms Island carrying Ma Bin, Nine Radiance appeared and scrutinized him, leaving Lu Ye wary that she had sensed Ma Bin's presence.

• Lu Ye learned Yaya was staying in the Mermaid Territory, visited the Merfolk Race, and gained Yan Miao's permission to use its Spirit Jade Vein to heal Ma Bin.
• Lu Ye reunited with Yaya, Bai Lu, and You Ling, celebrated Yan Miao and Luan Xiao'e's advances to Sunlight, and spent several days near the sealed Hua Ci.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island, left a Treasure Blood Clone to guard it, and cultivated in seclusion for two months.
• Zhu Yuan arrived on Three Realms Island, and Lu Ye recognized that Ma Bin had come with him through his ability to possess others.
• Nine Radiance suddenly appeared before Lu Ye and Zhu Yuan, scrutinized Zhu Yuan, and left Lu Ye suspecting she had sensed Ma Bin's aura.

Lu Ye hid Ma Bin from Nine Radiance and brought him to the Merfolk beneath the Myriad Phenomena Sea to recover. A year later, Lu Ye had reached the limit of the Moon Jade Realm and could advance to Sunlight, but he remained determined to polish his Magic Source and condense the Qi Flower, despite lacking the needed treasures.

• Nine Radiance confronted Lu Ye and Zhu Yuan, but let them leave after ordering them to buy what they needed and go.
• Lu Ye reunited with Ma Bin, revealed that Nine Radiance had occupied the Spirit Jade Vein, and offered him another place to heal.
• Lu Ye took Ma Bin and Zhu Yuan through the Azure Conch gateway to Sky Conch Hall, where Luan Xiao'e and Yan Miao welcomed Ma Bin.
• Lu Ye returned to Three Realms Island and devoted himself to cultivation while Ma Bin recuperated beneath the sea.
• After another year, Lu Ye reached his cultivation limit and realized his Divine Soul was strong enough to break through to Sunlight, but he chose to keep seeking treasures to polish his Magic Source.

Nine Radiance gave Lu Ye treasures to temper his Magic Source, bringing him close to perfection and a breakthrough to Sunlight. Meanwhile, Black Cloud and Yuan Du plotted against Three Realms Island, and the chapter ended with Lu Ye asking Chu Shen why Nine Radiance had suddenly left the island.

• Nine Radiance learned Lu Ye had not decided to join her sect, advised him about his cultivation, and gave him a Storage Ring containing treasures for tempering his Magic Source.
• Lu Ye refined the treasures and sensed that his Magic Source was close to perfection, leaving him only two or three more treasures away from being ready to advance.
• Black Cloud delivered a captured Blood Race Moon Jade Realm cultivator to Yuan Du as part of their plan against Lu Ye and Three Realms Island.
• Lu Ye began answering cultivators’ questions at his Bamboo Lodge, drawing visitors from across Three Realms Island and the Nine Provinces.
• After sensing Nine Radiance leave Three Realms Island, Lu Ye went to Chu Shen and asked why she had departed.

Lu Ye sensed trouble after Nine Radiance left and learned through the Fate Dice that adversity was approaching. Two days later, Yuan Du arrived at Three Realms Island with a large force, and Yuan Cheng publicly presented a captured Blood Race member as the confrontation began.

• Lu Ye learned from Chu Shen that Nine Radiance had gone to help an old friend, then rolled the Fate Dice and received the omen “Adversity.”
• Lu Ye told Second Senior Sister about the omen and watched the Talent Tree burn away the dice’s mysterious power over the next few days.
• Yuan Du approached Three Realms Island slowly with nearly a hundred Moon Jade Realm cultivators, while Lu Ye activated the island’s Protective Grand Array and went out to meet him.
• Lu Ye refused Yuan Cheng’s request to open the Protective Grand Array, saying it could not be opened and challenging Yuan Du to speak publicly.
• Yuan Cheng had two cultivators bring forward a captured Blood Race member, drawing shocked reactions from the onlookers.

Yuan Du and Yuan Cheng tried to frame Lu Ye as a Blood Race infiltrator so they could destroy Three Realms Island, but their scheme unraveled when the captive Blood Race cultivator recognized Lu Ye and Ma Shangsi as his clansmen. The chapter left Yuan Cheng publicly accused instead, while Lu Ye watched from within the island’s Protective Spirit Array.

• Yuan Cheng presented a captive Blood Race cultivator and claimed the Blood Race had infiltrated Myriad Phenomena Sea.
• Yuan Cheng questioned Lu Ye about his Blood Sea Art, while Lu Ye covertly arranged for Three Realms Island’s cultivators to evacuate through the portal into Merfolk Race territory.
• Yuan Du ordered the captive to use the Blood Resonance Art, and the staged blood thread appeared to point toward Lu Ye.
• The captive secretly used the genuine Blood Resonance Art and sensed that Lu Ye, Ma Shangsi, and another cultivator on Three Realms Island were Blood Race clansmen.
• Fearing he would expose his clansmen, the captive redirected the blood thread toward Yuan Cheng and accused him of being Blood Race.
• Lu Ye watched Yuan Cheng’s frame-up collapse from within the Protective Spirit Array.

Yuan Du’s attempt to frame Lu Ye unraveled when Black Cloud suddenly appeared and attacked Three Realms Island, threatening the Nine Provinces to force Lu Ye’s surrender. As Black Cloud battered the island’s protective array, Yuan Du accused Lu Ye of being Blood Race, and the other Guardians hesitated to intervene.

• A Blood Race member refused to accuse Lu Ye and instead shielded him, prompting Yuan Du to suspect that Lu Ye was Blood Race.
• Black Cloud emerged, killed the Blood Race member with a punch, and struck Three Realms Island’s Protective Grand Array.
• Black Cloud told Lu Ye that ten Demon Venerables and an army were advancing on the Nine Provinces, and demanded that Lu Ye surrender.
• The other four Guardians watched from Myriad Phenomena Island and debated whether to intervene, while Gu Xi voiced his hostility toward Three Realms Island.
• Yuan Du accused Lu Ye of being Blood Race, but Lu Ye cited the bounty on Lu Yiye of Nine Heavens as proof against the charge.
• Black Cloud continued punching the Protective Grand Array until it nearly collapsed, while Lu Ye remained silent when challenged about whether he truly came from Nine Heavens.