Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye used the Forbidden Sea Holy Pearl and Luo God Hundred Rivers Vast to defeat the Blood God Clan members and wipe them out in the secret realm. After driving off the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan, he and Luo Li set out to find their clan’s token and recover the Blood God Clan’s token.

• Bai Ye trapped ten Blood God Clan cultivators in Forbidden Water, froze them into ice pillars, and shattered them.
• Xue Liu Can fled while Xue Qi Mei and Xue Jiu Qing escaped in opposite directions, but Bai Ye raised a water curtain that sealed the area and stopped all three.
• Bai Ye foiled Xue Liu Can’s surprise attack, froze him, and killed him, then dragged Xue Qi Mei and Xue Jiu Qing into the water curtain and eliminated them.
• Bai Ye spared the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan, who retreated, and Luo Li stayed beside him as he recovered from the strain of the battle.
• Bai Ye told Luo Li he would teach her the spiritual art, and they left to find the Luo God Clan’s token and the Blood God Clan’s token.

Lin Yu trapped Bai Jingliu in a barrier and unleashed a devastating attack that killed him, though Yuan Chu Nian rescued her from the blast. Meanwhile, Lin Qi and his companions escaped Bai Jingliu's Blood Sea, and Bai Jingliu reached the Treasury Hall, where an icy world greeted him.

• Lin Qi, Su Xuan, and Xue Li faced Bai Jingliu's Blood Sea, while Lin Yu fought Bai Jingliu on another battlefield with a relentless, suicidal assault.
• Lin Yu trapped Bai Jingliu in an inescapable barrier and sacrificed her spirit tools to unleash a destructive pillar of light that killed him.
• Yuan Chu Nian found Lin Yu alive and helped her reach Bai Jingliu's corpse, where Lin Yu removed his Black Iron Mask.
• After sensing an alarming event, Bai Jingliu sent the Blood Sea after Lin Qi and the others; Lin Qi told Xue Li to throw away the key, and Bai Jingliu seized it as they escaped.
• Bai Jingliu used the key to open the Treasury Hall, but an overwhelming surge of cold energy greeted him, and a voice welcomed him into a world of ice and snow.

Lumian Li told the tavern guests a grisly story about working as a morgue attendant, then revealed it was one of his elder sister Orol’s stories. After the visitors learned that Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu Village five years earlier and given him his name and surname, Lumian admitted he had forgotten what he was originally called.

• Lumian ended his tale about a former colleague’s corpse and admitted he had made it up, prompting laughter from the villagers.
• Lumian introduced himself to the visitors as Lumian Li, and Liane Kos introduced his companions, Valentine and Liya.
• Liane ordered drinks for Lumian and himself after Lumian asked for absinthe, while Pierre offered to explain Lumian’s circumstances for a free drink.
• Pierre said Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu Village five years earlier, when he was thirteen, and that Lumian had taken her surname and the name she gave him.
• Lumian sipped his absinthe and said he had forgotten his original name.

Bai Ye fought Wu Ze, a red-robed attacker who had passed the Physical Body Tribulation, and overwhelmed him with ice techniques and close combat. Just as Bai Ye moved to finish Wu Ze, another red-robed figure who had passed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation intervened, leaving Bai Ye surrounded by all five opponents.

• The red-robed group agreed to capture Bai Ye alive if possible, and Wu Ze attacked him with the strength of the Physical Body Tribulation.
• Bai Ye used the Ice Void Art to evade Wu Ze, then tested his instincts and began fighting in earnest.
• Bai Ye transformed falling Ice Prisms and their fragments into an Ice Phoenix that smashed Wu Ze into the ground.
• Bai Ye struck Wu Ze repeatedly and was about to pierce his throat when a black python and a red-robed attacker intervened.
• A blue-lightning figure tore through Bai Ye’s Nine Heavens Golden Crow Skill and forced him back, revealing the Spiritual Energy Tribulation.
• The remaining red-robed figures joined the fight, surrounding Bai Ye as he faced five opponents whose auras were at least as strong as Wu Ze’s.

Bai Ye met an Avatar of Bing Yan, who revealed that he was Bai Ye’s father and explained their family’s past. Bing Yan told Bai Ye that his death had been foretold and had nothing to do with him, leaving Bai Ye to face the truth that his father had sacrificed himself to save him.

• Bing Yan’s Avatar appeared before Bai Ye and introduced himself as his father.
• Yan Meng could not connect with Bai Ye, so Ling Xi continued trying to breach the Cold Pool’s seal while Bing Xueran assisted her.
• Bing Yan explained that he had been the Ice Spirit Clan’s Holy Son and Bai Yu had been the Yan Tian Sect’s Saintess.
• Bing Yan told Bai Ye that he had sensed his death approaching after Five Spirits Slaying Heaven and had hidden with Bai Yu in the Sin Domain.
• Bing Yan said his death had been decided regardless of Bai Ye, and that he had used his remaining life to protect his son.

Lumian Li entertained a tavern full of Kordu villagers with a tale about a corpse-watcher, then revealed that his elder sister had written it. After meeting the outsiders Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya, he heard Pierre explain that Orol had brought him to the village five years earlier and given him his name and surname.

• Lumian finished a story about a morgue worker who touched a strange mark on a corpse and began dreaming of heavy fog, then admitted it came from his elder sister's writing.
• Liane Kos introduced himself and his companions Valentine and Liya, and Lumian explained that his surname Li reminded them of the feared sailor Frank Li.
• Liane ordered Lumian a Green Fairy and bought another drink for Pierre, who offered to tell the outsiders about Lumian.
• Pierre said Orol had brought Lumian back to Kordu when he was thirteen, and that Lumian took her surname and the name she gave him.
• Lumian said he had forgotten his original name and drank his absinthe without embarrassment.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi waited on Ice Lake for the Sovereign drawn out by the Cold Pool, and the stranger attacked their boat from the night sky. Ling Xi revealed herself as a Spirit Array Grandmaster and began fighting the white-cloaked opponent as Bai Ye watched from the boat.

• Bai Ye and Ling Xi crossed Ice Lake by boat while discussing how Bai Ye would have faced a Sovereign alone.
• A white-cloaked figure attacked their boat with white silk, but Bai Ye and Ling Xi evaded the strike with Mirror Flower, Water Moon.
• The figure shattered Bai Ye's illusion and questioned whether his earlier claim in the private room was true.
• Ling Xi counterattacked with spirit arrays, including the Sky Devouring Dragon Jiao Array, and forced the figure to reveal herself.
• Ling Xi rose into the air and unleashed the Ten Thousand Beasts Trampling Heaven Array as the battle between Sovereigns began.

While recovering in the courtyard, Bai Ye spent time with Ling Xi as she painted Bing Yu as an Ice Phoenix. Su Xuan visited to ask about Su Ling'er and Mu Chen, and Bai Ye left the matter to Su Ling'er before anticipating a clash between her and the new Divine Soul Rankings leader.

• Ling Xi painted an Ice Phoenix, and Bing Yu complained that she had drawn only five tail feathers instead of seven.
• Su Xuan visited Bai Ye and asked whether Luo Li was his Younger Sister and what his relationship with Mu Chen was; Bai Ye said Mu Chen’s status was undecided and told her to handle things as she saw fit.
• Su Xuan asked about Su Ling'er’s response to Mu Chen, and Bai Ye said Su Ling'er should handle the matter herself as long as Su Xuan did not intervene personally.
• Bai Ye reminded Su Xuan that Su Ling'er had once mocked Heaven Merging Realm cultivators who stayed on the Divine Soul Rankings, then said he looked forward to her clash with the new first-place holder.
• As Su Xuan and Yan Meng left, Su Xuan wondered about Bai Ye and Ling Xi’s relationship, while Bai Ye told Ling Xi that Bing Yu thought the painting made her eyes look ugly.

Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s leaders discussed Bai Ye’s decision to hunt Demon Xing Tian and agreed that Elder Ling Xi would accompany him. Bai Ye presented the bounty mission to Ling Xi as a reason for their journey, and she accepted.

• The Heaven Seat Elders and Tai Cang Dean discussed Bai Ye’s plan to hunt Demon Xing Tian and the danger of Dragon Demon Palace intervention.
• Mo You offered to accompany Bai Ye, but Tai Cang Dean revealed that Elder Ling Xi would go instead.
• Candle Heaven explained that Bai Ye was living on Spiritual Mountain with Elder Ling Xi, prompting the elders to understand why she would accompany him.
• Tai Cang Dean finalized the decision to send Elder Ling Xi, leaving Mo You confused about the discussion of his love life.
• Bai Ye showed Ling Xi the bounty for Demon Xing Tian as a reason for their journey, and Ling Xi tacitly agreed.

Bai Ye split from the others to search the Demon Sand Sea Marketplace, where he traded for a mysterious Divine Art and was targeted by the Demon Fang Mercenary Group. A message from Xue Liuli showed Mu Qian'er of the Wood Spirit Clan entering the Fierce Lion Mercenary Group’s camp, giving Bai Ye a reason to act sooner than planned.

• Bai Ye declined to join Mu Qingshan and Du Long’s training outing, while Luo Shu and Cai Xiao went with them and Mu Youze and Meng Youran left separately.
• Bai Ye searched the Demon Sand Sea Marketplace and traded fifteen top-grade divine artifacts for a mysterious Divine Art from an old mercenary.
• The old mercenary sent twelve people to follow Bai Ye, hoping to seize the cultivation art he practiced.
• Bai Ye noticed the tail and received a message from Xue Liuli, who showed him outsiders entering a tent in the Fierce Lion Mercenary Group’s camp.
• Bai Ye recognized Mu Qian'er of the Wood Spirit Clan in the footage and decided he would not need to wait until the third day.

Lumian Li entertained three outsiders at a Kordu tavern with a grim story he claimed his sister Orol had written, then admitted it was a prank. As the outsiders learned more about him, Pierre revealed that Orol had brought Lumian back to the village five years earlier and given him her surname and his name.

• Lumian told Liane Kos and the tavern patrons a story about a poor hospital morgue watchman who touched a strange mark on a corpse and began dreaming of heavy fog.
• Lumian revealed that his elder sister Orol had written the story, and the amused Liane introduced himself and his companions, Valentine and Liya.
• Liane bought Lumian and Pierre drinks, while Pierre offered to explain Lumian's real history because the villagers did not trust his stories.
• Pierre said Orol had brought thirteen-year-old Lumian to Kordu five years earlier and given him the surname Li and the name Lumian.
• Lumian said he had forgotten his original name as he drank his absinthe.

Bai Ye prepared to leave White Dragon City after finding twenty-six dead attackers outside his courtyard, while Chen Cangsheng warned the Tai Cang Dean that a high-ranking spy might be hidden within the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy. The dean began a plan to expose the traitor after receiving Bai Ye’s message from White Dragon City.

• Bai Ye counted twenty-six corpses outside his courtyard, collected the Illusion Spirit Plate, and prepared to leave with Ling Xi.
• Ling Xi discovered Bai Ye had skipped his medicinal soup and went to make him another serving.
• Chen Cangsheng went to the Punishment Hall and persuaded Mo You to take him to the Tai Cang Dean with urgent information about the Black Dragon Supreme.
• Chen Cangsheng told the Tai Cang Dean that Bai Ye suspected a high-ranking spy within the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, and the dean planned to test those involved in the pursuit.
• A jade slip from Bai Ye arrived bearing the words “White Dragon City,” and the Tai Cang Dean arranged for a hidden figure to watch over the investigation.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi traveled to the Crimson Flame Mountain Range to find Crimson Flame Jade for a purification array, but the Red Flame Sect refused their offer of Supreme Spiritual Liquid. After Bai Ye discovered the sect was guarding a soon-to-be-born Saint Crystal Marrow, they chose not to take it and instead secretly entered a mine to pursue their original plan.

• Bai Ye and Ling Xi learned that the Red Flame Sect controlled the Crimson Flame Mountain Range and were turned away after offering Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Bai Ye sensed that Saint Crystal Marrow was forming in the mountains, but he decided not to take the treasure from the sect.
• Ling Xi and Bai Ye secretly entered the mountain range, avoiding the Red Flame Sect's patrols and guards.
• Bai Ye found an excavated mineral vein, and the pair entered the mine after using an illusion to pass its guards unnoticed.
• Bai Ye left an Illusion Spirit Plate behind as he and Ling Xi walked deeper into the mine.

Luo Li found Bai Ye unconscious and used the Luo God Sword to protect him from the Blood God Clan and Strength God Clan. After she unleashed its overwhelming power, Li Zhen Yue charged her, but Bai Ye suddenly stopped her sword hand as his silver eyes opened.

• Luo Li recognized Bai Ye among the clans and decided to protect him despite being outnumbered and weaker.
• Li Zhen Yue arrived with the Strength God Clan, allowing Gu Xiao He and the Bone God Clan group to leave before he and the Blood God Clan agreed to divide Bai Ye.
• Luo Li attacked Xue Jiu Qing, revealed herself, and reached Bai Ye while the two clans decided to kill her.
• Luo Li awakened the Luo God Sword's true form and unleashed a devastating slash that badly wounded Li Zhen Yue and the Blood God Clan leaders, while destroying weaker fighters.
• Li Zhen Yue charged the exhausted Luo Li, but Bai Ye stopped her hand as his silver eyes gleamed and the temperature fell.

Bai Ye crossed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation, recovered his full spiritual energy, and discovered he could analyze the Luo God Clan’s spiritual energy essence despite having chosen the Ice Spirit path. After Ling Xi prepared him for the Qin Emperor’s Birthday Banquet, Bai Ye emerged dressed for the occasion.

• Bai Ye released the restraints on his spiritual energy and endured its explosive growth as he began crossing the Spiritual Energy Tribulation.
• Er Yin offered to relieve Ling Xi from guarding Bai Ye, but Purple Cloud Butterfly told her that Ling Xi trusted no one but Xiao Ye and advised them to wait.
• Bai Ye examined his spiritual energy essence and realized he could analyze the Luo God Clan’s essence, potentially helping him complete one piece of his puzzle.
• Bai Ye studied the Minor Divine Skill Mist Rain Ripples and finished the tribulation, restoring his spiritual energy and strengthening his aura.
• Ling Xi dressed Bai Ye for the Qin Emperor’s Birthday Banquet, and Er Yin watched him emerge in a white robe with ice-blue patterns and golden trim.

Bai Ye fought through the Great Wilderness Society and survived a clash with Xu Huang despite both of them being injured. Just as they prepared to fight again, a golden spear and dozens of powerful figures interrupted them.

• Bai Ye used his stamina and the Ice Spirit Art to defeat hundreds of Great Wilderness Society members while Yu Wenlou and Yu Ziman held back.
• Xu Huang appeared and attacked Bai Ye with the Star Shattering Heavenly Radiance Art, while Bai Ye countered with the Ice Heaven Sealing Cold Finger, destroying the Society's building.
• Bai Ye emerged from the ruins still standing, and he and Xu Huang realized that both had been injured before their clash.
• Xu Huang and Bai Ye prepared to resume their battle, but a golden spear struck between them and an unseen speaker called for them to stop.

After the prodigies’ argument escalated into a brawl, Heavenly Zen transported them away and privately confronted Bai Ye about Xue Liuli’s lack of a Trial token. He offered Bai Ye a chance to earn her eligibility by breaking a Spiritual Light Stele, and Bai Ye prepared to strike it.

• Bai Ye abandoned his attempt to attack the Supervisor Heavenly Supreme, who introduced himself and urged the prodigies to restrain themselves during the Trial.
• Huo Qiongxiao challenged Kong Wenshan to compete for leadership, and Bai Ye proposed a melee that provoked Mo Xin, Mu Lianfeng, Cai Xiao, and the other prodigies into fighting.
• The Supervisor Heavenly Supreme transported everyone from the Heaven Inquiry Pavilion, then appeared before Bai Ye and Xue Liuli in a dark space after Bai Ye’s token from Bing Xueran activated.
• Heavenly Zen introduced himself as a Great Thousand Palace guest elder and asked Bai Ye to behave, while Bai Ye promised to restrain himself unless provoked.
• Heavenly Zen offered Bai Ye a chance to secure Xue Liuli’s Trial eligibility by breaking a Spiritual Light Stele, and Bai Ye summoned his Six-Armed Life-Slaying Buddha Shadow and punched at it.

Bai Ye analyzed Mu Chen’s Great Buddha Art and concluded that an art’s true Spiritual Energy depended on a compatible bloodline, giving him a direction for studying the essence of Spiritual Energy. After he and Ling Xi fell asleep in the courtyard, figures appeared outside and bloodshed began without disturbing them.

• Chen Cangsheng led Su Xuan's team away from Bai Ye’s courtyard overnight, and Bai Ye restored the courtyard’s concealment with a Purple Jade Plate.
• Bai Ye wrote down his findings from observing Mu Chen, reasoning that bloodlines determined whether arts and spiritual techniques produced their true Spiritual Energy.
• Bai Ye used the Yan Tian Scripture and his Silver Eyes to strip the Ancient Buddha Clan’s probing from a jade bottle, identifying its essence as Yin Yang Dual Qi.
• Ling Xi used Cold energy left by the Calamity of Heaven Piercing to freeze and destroy the jade bottle, then stayed close to Bai Ye as they went to sleep together.
• Figures appeared outside the courtyard, and blooms of blood spread while the courtyard remained undisturbed.

Qing Yanjing explained that she had willingly accepted imprisonment to protect her family and friends from the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s traces within the Ancient Buddha Clan. After her spiritual body disappeared, Mu Chen and the others returned to the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, while Qing Yanjing continued working inside the clan’s protective array.

• Bai Ye pressed Qing Yanjing to explain why she had agreed to be imprisoned, and she revealed that the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan still threatened the Great Thousand World.
• Qing Yanjing said the Ancient Buddha Clan had uncovered signs of the evil clan within its ranks and that she had accepted imprisonment to keep her loved ones out of danger.
• Bai Ye realized Qing Yanjing herself had proposed a deal with Fu Tu Xuan: she would avoid causing trouble in exchange for the clan leaving her family and friends alone.
• Qing Yanjing reassured Bai Ye and Ling Xi, then told Mu Chen that they would reunite before her spiritual body scattered.
• Ling Xi formed a Teleportation Spirit Array, and Mu Chen, Luo Li, Bai Ye, and Ling Xi returned to the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, leaving the white cat behind.
• Qing Yanjing awoke in a dark space, looked toward the Bei Cang Continent, and continued working with control of the Ancient Buddha Clan's Clan Protecting Grand Array.

The Hunting Tournament ended after Lin Yunsheng defeated Ying Xue'er’s team through underhanded means, then gave away his spirit plaques and conceded first place. As Ying Longcheng urged Bai Ye to choose his own path and leave to see the wider world, Bai Ye remained in his room, lost in confusion.

• Ying Xue'er and Yan Meng fought Lin Yunsheng in the Ancient Spirit Realm, but the Hunting Rankings showed Ying Xue'er's name vanish as Lin Yunsheng's score rose.
• Bai Ye went to see the badly injured Ying Xue'er, and Ying Longcheng stopped his spiritual energy from surging before telling him he had to trust his own answer and spread his wings.
• Ying Longcheng and the veiled woman acknowledged their sadness about Bai Ye leaving, but Ying Longcheng insisted the young man needed to see the wider world.
• Lin Yunsheng scattered his spirit plaques among the teams and conceded, allowing an obscure Divine Soul Realm youth to take first place.
• Bai Ye did not seek revenge on Lin Yunsheng or leave for the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy; he stayed in his room, staring blankly in confusion.