Chapter Summaries

Shen Cangsheng returned with Yu Yuan’s head, then spoke with Bai Ye about the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s responsibility to fight the Dragon Demon Palace. Bai Ye rejected the idea of accepting that responsibility and learned that an elder had been watching him, while a senior student abandoned his attempt to recruit him.

• Shen Cangsheng brought Yu Yuan’s head to Elder Liu, confirming the death of the third-ranked Bounty target and drawing a celebration in the Mission Hall.
• Bai Ye examined the Bounty Rankings and saw that Demon Dragon Son and Demon Xing Tian remained above Yu Yuan.
• Shen Cangsheng told Bai Ye that the three top Bounty targets belonged to the Dragon Demon Palace and had killed many academy students, then urged him to take up the academy’s responsibility.
• Bai Ye rejected Shen Cangsheng’s appeal and wondered which elder had been watching him since he entered the academy.
• A green-haired senior student learned that Bai Ye had not accepted his approach and gave up on recruiting him, citing rumors about Xu Huang and Su Xuan.

Luo Tianshen arranged for Bai Ye to attend the Four Gods Ceremony with Luo Li, using the chance to investigate what Bai Ye’s mother had found in the ceremony’s secret realm. Bai Ye agreed to go, while suspecting Luo Tianshen also wanted him to protect Luo Li and show the Luo God Clan’s strength.

• Luo Tianshen reflected on Bai Ye’s teasing message and decided to use the upcoming Four Gods Ceremony to bring him and Luo Li closer.
• Luo Li told Bai Ye that Luo Tianshen had closed the clan’s teleportation arrays and wanted him to attend the ceremony, where his mother had once explored the secret realm.
• Luo Li explained that she and Bai Ye would represent the Luo God Clan and try to retrieve its token, which the clan had failed to claim at the previous two ceremonies.
• Bai Ye inferred that Luo Tianshen wanted Luo Li to demonstrate her standing as Young Clan Leader before the other clans, and wondered whether his mother had left something for him to find.
• Bai Ye agreed to enter the secret realm with Luo Li, then suspected Luo Tianshen also wanted to see whether he would protect her.

Bai Ye accepted several missions to hunt ice-attribute Spiritual Beasts so he could nourish Bing Yu, while Elder Liu warned him to return safely. At Bai Ye’s pavilion, Jin Chong encountered Yan Meng and Bing Xueran, then watched Yan Meng leave with a mysterious Centipede in hand.

• Bai Ye accepted missions to hunt four Earth Ranking ice-attribute Spiritual Beasts, and Elder Liu entered them into his Spirit Value Token.
• Elder Liu noticed Bai Ye was a new student and warned him not to force himself, but Bai Ye left without replying.
• Jin Chong visited Bai Ye’s pavilion, where Yan Meng told him Bai Ye was away.
• Bing Xueran arrived looking for Bai Ye, exchanged cold words with Jin Chong, and left without speaking further to him.
• Jin Chong told Yan Meng to praise him to Bai Ye, then watched her leave and spoke to his Centipede about Gu Raising and his other creatures.

Bai Ye endured the Ancestral Vein’s spreading cold as Bing Yu struggled to protect him with methods the strange energy could not consume. After Bing Yu’s voice awakened him from an icy vision, Bai Ye kept resisting, but the cold intensified and began freezing the world around him just as someone appeared behind him.

• Bing Yu discovered that the cold energy corroded her spiritual energy and devoured her spiritual force, leaving her unable to help Bai Ye directly.
• Bing Yu used a Mental Secret Method to call Bai Ye back to consciousness as he wandered through an endless, freezing plain in his mind.
• Bai Ye remembered his promise to his mother and struggled to stay awake until Bing Yu’s voice reached him.
• Bai Ye told Bing Yu he was fine and kept resisting the cold, even as it continued to spread through his body.
• The cold intensified, frost formed on the windowsill, and a graceful figure appeared behind Bai Ye and asked why he was still awake.

Qing Yanjing challenged the Ancient Buddha Clan’s Grand Elder and was trapped after securing his agreement to her conditions. Bai Ye and Ling Xi prepared to flee when someone approached.

• Qing Yanjing used a Grand Spiritual Array and a Saint Grade attack to fight the Ancient Buddha Clan’s Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder trapped Qing Yanjing with the clan’s foundation and ordered his subordinate to erase Bai Ye and Ling Xi’s memories and send them away.
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi waited outside the clan, then accepted that Qing Yanjing would not return and prepared to leave.
• Bai Ye heard a warning that someone was coming, tensed, and told Ling Xi it was time to run.

Lin Yunsheng used his Heaven Merging Realm cultivation to defeat Wu Yin and seize first place in the Hunting Tournament, exposing the Elder Faction’s effort to suppress Ying Xue’er. As the rankings drew the crowd’s attention, Zhao Mingya challenged Bai Ye to a match after the tournament, and Bai Ye accepted.

• Lin Yunsheng’s rapid rise in the rankings prompted Ye Xin, San Yin, and Han Tiansheng to suspect something had happened to Wu Yin.
• Lin Yunsheng defeated Wu Yin, took her spirit plaques, and rose far ahead of Ying Xue’er in first place.
• Wu Yin told San Yin that Lin Yunsheng had reached the Heaven Merging Realm, breaking the tournament’s accepted cultivation limit.
• Bai Ye appeared beside San Yin and recognized that Lin Yunsheng’s move was meant to undermine the City Lord’s faction and Ying Xue’er.
• Zhao Mingya arrived, challenged Bai Ye to a match after the Hunting Tournament, and Bai Ye accepted.

Bai Ye left Ying Longcheng with Yan Meng and arrived at the Northern Azure Realm to take Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s entrance assessment. After the rules revealed that students could raise their marks by taking them from others, Bai Ye became the target of the crowd’s attention.

• Bai Ye said farewell to Ying Longcheng, Ying Xue'er, Qiu Zidao, and San Yin before teleporting away with Yan Meng.
• Jiu Yin watched Bai Ye leave, while Zhao Mingya challenged the battered Lin Yunsheng to a fight.
• Bai Ye and Yan Meng arrived at the Northern Azure Realm among thousands of academy candidates.
• A Light Shadow explained that candidates had to reach Northern Azure Hall and that marks below level four were unqualified, though marks could be raised by collecting Spirit Objects or seizing other candidates’ marks.
• Yan Meng received a red mark, while Bai Ye received a rare golden Level Five Core Quota mark, drawing the other candidates’ attention.

Bai Ye and Su Ling'er arrived at Frozen Ice Valley, where rival factions had sealed off a Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast. As Core Quota holders gathered and alliances shifted, Bai Ye entered the standoff, bringing the number of Heaven Merging Realm experts to eight.

• Su Ling'er's team reported that Huo Feng, Xu Wenshan, Yu Xiaoqing, and Hong Lingyue were guarding Frozen Ice Valley, and Bai Ye decided to join the contest.
• Hong Lingyue deduced that Xu Wenshan was waiting for reinforcements and revealed that her elder sister and Yu Xiaoqing's elder sister were coming.
• Mo Canghai arrived to join Xu Wenshan, while Hong Feiyan and Yu Xiaoyin appeared alongside Hong Lingyue and Yu Xiaoqing.
• Huo Feng rose into the air despite his injury, and the gathering included seven Heaven Merging Realm experts.
• Bai Ye arrived with Su Ling'er, adding another Heaven Merging Realm expert and provoking Huo Feng's grim reaction.

Bai Ye challenged the newly matured Extremely Cold Snow Ape inside Frozen Ice Valley, fighting the Heaven Merging Realm Late Stage beast with his ice techniques. After suffering serious injuries, Bai Ye embraced the danger and charged back into battle, while Hong Lingyue and Su Ling'er waited outside as the valley shook.

• Bai Ye arrived at the Extremely Cold Snow Ape as it shed its white fur and grew pale gold fur, completing its transformation toward Heaven Merging Realm Late Stage.
• Bai Ye and the Extremely Cold Snow Ape exchanged attacks, and Bai Ye blocked its spiritual energy sphere with forty-nine Ice Wheels before countering with Ice Prisms.
• Bai Ye froze the Extremely Cold Snow Ape with Sealing Cold Finger, but the beast broke the trap's advantage by striking him into several mountains.
• Bai Ye released his cold energy in three bursts to halt the snow ape's next blow, yet he recognized that he had lost the second exchange.
• Bai Ye laughed through his injuries and charged at the Extremely Cold Snow Ape again as Hong Lingyue and Su Ling'er watched the continuing battle from outside the valley.

Bai Ye and the other freshmen entered Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, received Spirit Value Tokens, and were offered a challenge match against senior students. After drawing lots, Bai Ye ignored the assigned opponents and challenged Li Qing, the strongest senior present.

• Bai Ye led the freshmen through Northern Azure Hall's gate and entered the academy with Hong Lingyue, Su Ling'er, and Yan Meng.
• An old guide gave each student a Spirit Value Token and explained that Spirit Value could be used to trade for academy resources.
• The guide offered eligible freshmen five thousand Spirit Value for taking part in a challenge match against senior students.
• Li Qing and her fellow seniors appeared, and the freshmen eligible for the match stepped forward to draw lots.
• Bai Ye broke his light orb without checking its name and declared that he would challenge Li Qing.

Bai Ye and the other new students were assigned instructors and introduced to the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s Spirit Gathering Array and spirit-value system. Bai Ye chose a Grade A Room, then grew wary when his instructor, who called herself Bing, said she had mistaken him for someone else.

• Old Bai announced that the New Student Tournament would take place in a month, and Duanmu Lei resolved to advance before then.
• A cold blue-robed woman led Bai Ye’s group to the student housing and explained its Grade A, B, and C areas and their spirit-value costs.
• Most students settled for free Grade C housing or paid for rooms, while Bai Ye asked the instructor to assign him a Grade A Room.
• Bai Ye questioned the instructor about her unusual stare, and she said she had mistaken him for someone else.
• Bai Ye asked the instructor’s name, heard her say “Bing,” and privately connected the surname to his former name, Bing Ye.
• Yan Meng sensed Bai Ye’s changed mood, but he concealed it and walked away with her.

Bai Ye entered the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy and learned about its rankings and powerful students, including Heaven Ranking champion Shen Cangsheng. When the strongest new students from four platforms gathered, Bai Ye dismissed his rivals and challenged them to climb up to him.

• Bai Ye and the other new students crossed into the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, where Bai Ye saw the Divine Soul Rankings and Heaven Ranking with Li Qing.
• Li Qing and Qin Xu told Bai Ye that Shen Cangsheng had risen to first place with one spear strike before leaving alone on a high-ranked Bounty mission.
• Three other platforms filled with new students, and Chen Xiu, Mu Lingling, and Duanmu Lei stepped forward as their platforms' strongest contestants.
• Bai Ye ignored the customary introduction, called the three contestants weak, and told them to climb up to his platform before challenging him.

After rebuilding his spiritual soul in the Thunder Sea, Bai Ye left the Thunder Domain and refused He Yao’s invitation, defeating He Yao’s messenger before giving him Heavenly Thunder Pearls. On his way to the Mission Hall, Bai Ye encountered Shen Cangsheng, the Heaven Ranking’s top student, carrying a human head.

• Bai Ye emerged from the Thunder Domain after three days in the Thunder Sea, having recondensed his spiritual soul.
• A senior student told Bai Ye that He Yao, eighth on the Heaven Ranking, wanted to see him, but Bai Ye refused.
• When the student attacked him, Bai Ye swiftly slammed him into the ground and told him to have He Yao come personally.
• Bai Ye gave the student several Heavenly Thunder Pearls and left for the Mission Hall.
• Bai Ye saw Shen Cangsheng descending above the Mission Hall with a human head and recognized him as the top student on the Heaven Ranking.

A pillar of light led the Ice Spirit Clan to suspect that an Ancestral Vein had awakened in the Sin Domain, where Bai Yu's young son was left alone after her death. He escaped the domain with a mysterious ice bird, and when Lin Dong and the Clan Leader learned he had disappeared, their hall was struck by divine thunder.

• A pillar of light descended over the Ancestral Decree, and the Ice Spirit Clan's Old Ancestor and Clan Leader suspected an Ancestral Vein had awakened.
• In the Sin Domain, Bai Yu's young son mourned at her grave, then set out to leave with an ice bird that joined him and spoke in his mind.
• The boy took Bai Yu's ring and crossed the Sin Domain, trading sharp remarks with the bird as he went.
• The Clan Leader told Lin Dong that Bai Yu had died, and he urged her to bring their child out of the Sin Domain as their final act for the couple.
• A clanswoman reported that the Child of Sin and Restriction had disappeared, and divine thunder destroyed the central hall of the Ice Spirit Clan.

Bai Ye and Wen Qingxuan were held with thirty other children by members of the White Wood Sect, who planned to use them in a Blood Spirit Array. After a roar sounded outside, a gentle woman entered, and Bai Ye mistook her for his mother before she told him to call her Aunt Jing.

• Bai Ye met Wen Qingxuan in the crowded room and introduced himself while speaking privately with Bing Yu.
• The two men who had abducted the children revealed that they intended to use all thirty-two of them for the White Wood Sect's Blood Spirit Array.
• Wen Qingxuan grew frightened when she realized her father might not know she had been captured, while Bai Ye remained calm and refused Bing Yu's offer to escape.
• Wen Qingxuan heard voices outside, and a brief, powerful roar followed.
• Aunt Jing entered the room, and Bai Ye called her Mother before she introduced herself and asked him to call her Aunt Jing.

Bai Ye learned why Bing Yu feared Qing Yanjing discovering her and heard that Bing Yu was a powerful Emperor Crystal Ice Phoenix. Bing Yu also revealed that Bai Ye possessed the Ice Spirit Ancestral Vein, leaving her concerned about what would happen when he turned six.

• Bing Yu warned Bai Ye that powerful human cultivators might covet her, but Bai Ye trusted Qing Yanjing because she resembled his mother, Bai Yu.
• Bing Yu told Bai Ye she was a seventh-Nirvana Emperor Crystal Ice Phoenix and explained how the Sin Domain’s Ancestral Decree prevented its inhabitants from leaving.
• Bing Yu revealed that Bai Ye had a Spirit Vein Ancestral Return linked to the Ice Spirit Emperor, though Bai Ye fell asleep before she could explain further.
• Qing Yanjing silently listened as Bing Yu reflected on her bond with Bai Ye and worried that the Ice Spirit Ancestral Vein would bring trouble when he turned six.

After nearly three years in a quiet border town, Bai Ye and Ling Xi faced Qing Yanjing’s impending return to her clan while Bai Ye’s Ancestral Vein began causing him severe pain. The chapter ended with Bai Ye refusing to ask Qing Yanjing for help and curling up as the backlash struck.

• Bai Ye and Ling Xi returned from the dock after Qing Yanjing summoned them, then shared a meal with her.
• Qing Yanjing reflected that she would soon have to return to her clan to protect a father and son.
• Bai Ye spoke with Bing Yu about the painful backlash caused by his Ancestral Vein and refused her suggestion to seek Qing Yanjing’s help.
• Bai Ye explained that he wanted to keep Bing Yu’s existence secret from Aunt Jing, then revealed that the pain had already begun.

Bai Ye told Qing Yanjing that his Ancestral Vein condition had no cure, but she decided to seek doctors despite the risk of missing her return to the clan. After falling asleep again, Bai Ye found himself in a familiar white world, this time without pain or weakness, and walked onward to discover what lay ahead.

• Qing Yanjing grew angry when Bai Ye revealed that his inborn condition had no cure, and she resolved to find doctors for him.
• Bai Ye stopped Qing Yanjing and reminded her that searching for treatment could make her miss her return to the clan, but she chose to go anyway.
• Ling Xi offered Bai Ye her shoulder, then backed away when he accepted and teased her.
• Bai Ye fell asleep as Ling Xi watched him and blushed.
• Bai Ye awoke in a vast white snowfield without the pain or exhaustion of his previous experiences and began walking forward.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi faced an assassination attempt by Xuan Lu, who exposed his intent to kill them and destroyed their chance to escape with Qing Yanjing’s array. As Xuan Lu attacked, Bing Yu intervened, and Bai Ye began a desperate plan to protect Ling Xi; the chapter ended with Xuan Lu’s Spirit Energy Tide crashing toward them.

• Bai Ye spotted Xuan Lu, an Earth Supreme, and tried to stall while Ling Xi prepared Qing Yanjing’s teleportation Array Plate.
• Xuan Lu revealed that he intended to kill Bai Ye and Ling Xi for Mo Xuan’s benefit, then disrupted Ling Xi’s attempt to activate the array.
• Xuan Lu beat Bai Ye, destroyed Ling Xi’s formation, and threatened to torment Bai Ye, but Bai Ye provoked him by calling him an idiot.
• Ling Xi begged Xuan Lu to spare Bai Ye, and Bing Yu appeared to block his attack on her.
• Bing Yu proposed using Bai Ye’s ring and her eighth Nirvana’s spirit energy to stir his Ancestral Vein, while Bai Ye told Ling Xi to live and promised to find her.
• Bing Yu poured her spirit energy into the Array Plate as Bai Ye shattered his ring and prepared to resist Xuan Lu’s advancing Spirit Energy Tide.

Bai Ye discovered that the Inheritance Space concealed a dangerous being behind its Black Wood Vines and fought to get Mu Qin Yue out. As the vines transformed the Barren Wood Ruins and Cai Xiao defended the others with her seven-colored fire, Bai Ye remained trapped inside to confront the rising threat.

• Bai Ye entered the Inheritance Space with Mu Qin Yue and sensed a dangerous presence hidden in a collapsed area of the void.
• Black Wood Vines attacked, and Bai Ye fought his way through them while carrying Mu Qin Yue toward the Space Tunnel.
• Bai Ye sent Mu Qin Yue outside with a warning for Cai Xiao to protect her, then stayed behind as the vines sealed the tunnel.
• The vines poured out and transformed the Barren Wood Ruins as Luo Shu disintegrated, revealing that his mission had been to die there for a being within the Inheritance Space.
• Cai Xiao ordered the others to protect Mu Qin Yue and unleashed seven-colored fire that engulfed the vines and formed a Flame City.
• Bai Ye removed his mask, summoned his Ice Swords and Supreme Sea, and prepared to fight the powerful being awakening inside the Inheritance Space.