Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye accepted Ling Xi’s supposedly casual mask, then the New Student Tournament began on Northern Spirit Mountain without him. As the strongest new students prepared to decide the final five, Yan Meng’s eyes flashed gold and she answered an unseen presence.

• Ling Xi explained that the mask could absorb some of Bai Ye’s cold energy, and Bai Ye accepted it while teasing her.
• Candle Heaven Elder criticized the tournament’s design and learned that Bai Ye was absent from the battlefield.
• The strongest new students, including Hong Lingyue, agreed that only their group would compete for the top five and drove the other challengers away from the summit.
• Hong Lingyue recognized Yan Meng among the group, and Yan Meng murmured that only two quarter-hours remained before her violet eyes flashed gold and she replied, “Got it.”

Bai Ye ended the New Student Tournament through his substitute fighter, then went to Ling Xi for the final reward and a chance to talk about their pasts. He pulled the spirit flag at Northern Spirit Mountain, officially closing the tournament.

• Bai Ye defeated the remaining students through Yan Meng, then released his control and let the others compete for the remaining places.
• Ling Xi comforted Bai Ye, and he asked her to send him to Northern Spirit Mountain for the tournament’s reward.
• Ling Xi offered Bai Ye the Jade Spirit Ancient Skill, but he declined it and asked her to explain its origins when he returned.
• Yan Meng withdrew from the top five, leaving Hong Lingyue, Yu Xiaoyin, Mu Lingling, and Chen Xiu on the platform.
• Bai Ye appeared at the top of the platform, pulled out the spirit flag, and ended the New Student Tournament.

Lumian Li entertained the tavern in Kordu Village with a supposed tale about his past before revealing it was his sister Orol's story. He left the outsiders curious about his adoption and new name, while he stayed at the bar drinking Green Fairy.

• Lumian told Liane Kos a story about a poor young man who worked at a hospital morgue and discovered a strange Mark on a corpse.
• Lumian revealed the story was written by his elder sister, and the villagers laughed at Liane for believing him.
• Liane introduced himself and his companions, Valentine and Liya, and learned Lumian's surname was Li.
• Lumian ordered Green Fairy, and Liane bought drinks while Pierre offered to explain Lumian's situation.
• Pierre said Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu five years earlier, given him the name Lumian, and passed her surname Li to him.
• Lumian said he had forgotten his original name and drank his absinthe without embarrassment.

Bai Ye reunited with Luo Li at the mountain peak and met Mu Chen, whose hidden power and mysterious seal caught his interest. He continued testing the Yan Tian Scripture’s See Through Illusion chapter, then ordered Yan Meng to uncover the source of the force blocking his investigation.

• Bai Ye greeted Luo Li as his sister, and she stopped his attempted embrace with the Luo God Sword before introducing him to Mu Chen.
• Bai Ye sensed something unusual within Mu Chen, but turned away after Luo Li reassured Mu Chen that he posed no threat.
• Bai Ye and Bing Yu discussed the mysterious force sealing the presence inside Mu Chen, which Bing Yu said did not belong to Ancient Buddha.
• Bing Qing caught up with Bai Ye and relayed Bing Xueran’s message that everything was in her hands; Bai Ye acknowledged it and briefly restrained Bing Qing while lost in thought.
• Bai Ye used an illusion-like technique to disappear with Yan Meng, then told her to find out what had happened before nightfall and return with an exact answer.

Bai Ye recovered in the Luo God Clan while remaining wary of his maternal relatives and eager to return to Northern Heavens. After discovering that he had begun cultivating the Yan Tian Scripture, he reluctantly agreed to attend a meet-and-greet with the clan’s younger generation.

• Luo Tianshen refused to let Bai Ye leave until his serious injuries had healed, then left him to rest.
• Bai Ye reflected on his parents’ protection and wrote down his theory that the Five Spirits Slaying Heaven had been a deception planned by Luo Yuwei and Bing Yan, then burned the notes.
• Bai Ye saw silver-white threads and realized the Yan Tian Scripture had likely fused with his Calculation Skill, bringing his emotions closer to calm.
• Luo Ningyue visited Bai Ye and insisted on taking him to a banquet arranged as a meet-and-greet.
• Bai Ye resisted at first but agreed to go after deciding it might be useful to meet the Luo God Clan’s younger generation.

Bai Ye and Cai Xiao waited at the pavilion as the other factions gathered to claim the fragments and enter Desert Wood Venerable’s inheritance. As Mu Zhenting allied with Mu Qingshan against them, Bai Ye unleashed Accumulating Spirit Water, freezing the Demon Fang Mercenary Group in a blooming Ice Lotus.

• Bai Ye identified the pavilion as a Space Tunnel leading to Desert Wood Venerable’s true inheritance, while Cai Xiao questioned his confidence against the Eighth Grade Supremes.
• Mu Zhenting’s Wood Spirit Clan forces arrived, followed by Mu Qingshan, Du Long, and Luo Shu, whose strained relationship with Bai Ye and Cai Xiao remained evident.
• Bai Ye suspected Mu Qingshan and Du Long belonged to a surviving clan opposed to the Wood Spirit Clan and sought its lost supreme treasure.
• The Demon Fang Mercenary Group arrived with the final fragment, and Mu Zhenting proposed joining forces with Mu Qingshan to eliminate Bai Ye and Cai Xiao.
• Mu Qingshan accepted Mu Zhenting’s proposal while Mu Qian’er watched Bai Ye, who remained unconcerned as Du Long’s killing intent grew.
• Bai Ye released Accumulating Spirit Water, freezing the Demon Fang Mercenary Group beneath a towering Ice Lotus.

Bai Ye learned about Ying Longcheng’s delegation and worried over Ying Xue’er before attending Weak Water Pavilion’s auction. As Zhao Mingzhi approached a disputed seat, he found Bai Ye already sitting there.

• Second Yin Elder Sister told Bai Ye that Ying Longcheng had sent twelve young people to Di Yang City, including Zhao Mingzhi, and said Zhao Mingtian had reached the Supreme Realm.
• Bai Ye asked about Ying Xue’er and explained that the twelve members ranked ahead of Thirteen in the Snow Dragon Guard had chosen different paths.
• Second Yin Elder Sister teased Bai Ye and Ling Xi about the room’s soundproofing, prompting Ling Xi to pinch Bai Ye’s waist.
• Bai Ye and the Ying Longcheng delegation rode to Weak Water Pavilion, where the invited guests gathered for the monthly auction.
• Ye Qing and Qiu Wen argued over who should take a seat, while Second Yin Elder Sister watched Zhao Mingzhi approach without intervening.
• Zhao Mingzhi froze when he saw Bai Ye sitting in the seat and heard him greet him.

Bai Ye fought Du Long and Mu Qingshan, two powerful members of an exiled Wood Spirit branch, after defeating the surrounding mercenaries with Mirror Flower, Water Moon. He appeared to be killed, but the illusion shattered, leaving him on Du Long’s shoulder with the Wood Erosion Pearl in hand.

• Bai Ye used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to make the mercenaries attack one another, then narrowly evaded an ambush by Du Long and Mu Qingshan.
• Mu Youze defeated Mu Zhenting and left him alive, then rushed to help Bai Ye while Cai Xiao remained facing Mu Qian'er and her companions.
• Bai Ye recognized Du Long and Mu Qingshan as members of an exiled Wood Spirit branch and refused Mu Qingshan's demand to surrender the fragment.
• Du Long and Mu Qingshan coordinated their attacks, exploiting the Spirit Restriction Armor to interrupt Bai Ye's Ice Void Art and leave him badly wounded.
• Mu Qingshan believed he had smashed Bai Ye's head, but the scene proved to be an illusion; Bai Ye appeared on Du Long's shoulder holding a snow-white kitten and the Wood Erosion Pearl.

At the Flourishing Flowers Banquet, Bai Ye refused to give up his seat and swiftly defeated Liu Ying, then killed a Dragon Demon Palace disciple who tried to self-destruct. The hall fell silent as the Town Head arrived and locked eyes with Bai Ye.

• Liu Ying demanded that Bai Ye and Ling Xi give up their seats, but Bai Ye refused and told him to leave.
• Liu Ying attacked Bai Ye, who froze him, drove him into the floor, and encased him in ice.
• Bai Ye confronted the guest who had stirred up the conflict and identified him as Mo Yunzi of the Dragon Demon Palace.
• Mo Yunzi began a self-destruction technique, but Bai Ye froze him with an Ice Sword and shattered his ice sculpture.
• The Town Head arrived and fixed her gaze on Bai Ye.

Lumian spun a convincing tale about his grim past as a hospital corpse watcher, then revealed it was a story written by his sister, Orol. As he drank with three visitors to Kordu, Pierre explained that Orol had brought Lumian to the village five years earlier and given him his name and surname.

• Lumian finished his tale by claiming he had quit his hospital job and returned to the countryside, prompting Liane Kos to ask whether it was true.
• Lumian admitted he had been telling a story written by his elder sister, and the tavern regulars laughed at Liane for believing him.
• Liane introduced himself and his companions, Valentine and Liya, and reacted to Lumian's surname because of a frightening maritime legend about a man named Frank Li.
• Lumian ordered Green Fairy, and Liane bought drinks for him and Pierre, who offered to explain Lumian's past.
• Pierre said Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu five years ago, after which Lumian took her surname and the name she gave him; Lumian said he had forgotten his original name.

After defeating the masked man, Bai Ye and the others entered the Spiritual Treasury and discovered the Bone God Hall’s hidden target: a mysterious Bone Coffin. As the treasury collapsed, Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian were trapped beside the coffin while the others escaped.

• Bai Ye questioned the dying masked man about the Bone God Hall’s objective, but the man’s identity crisis overwhelmed him and he died without answering.
• The group entered the treasury, where Yuan Chu Nian said she was searching for a secret and Bai Ye set out to find the item the Bone God Hall wanted.
• Bai Ye placed the Spiritual Treasury Key on the central platform, activating a restriction that revealed a blood-red platform and a small white Bone Coffin.
• Yuan Chu Nian touched the Bone Coffin, and Bai Ye sensed fear from within it before Lin Qi noticed the hall cracking.
• Lin Qi and the others fled, but Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian could not move and were swallowed by the collapsing hall.

Bai Ye defeated the Light Shadow in his Ancestral Vein and received the cultivation method for the Ice Spirit Emperor’s Nine Cold Frost God Body. He rejected the idea of becoming a second Bing Jiu Yao, chose to forge a path uniquely his own, and awoke to Ling Xi and Bing Yu watching over him.

• Bai Ye defeated the Light Shadow, then watched its motes of light gather and enter his brow.
• Bai Ye learned that the motes had brought him the Nine Cold Frost God Body cultivation method, once cultivated by the Ice Spirit Emperor.
• Bai Ye decided he would not inherit Bing Jiu Yao’s path and instead pursue a Supreme Dharma Body of his own making.
• Ling Xi continued suppressing and drawing cold energy from Bai Ye while Bing Yu worried over his unconscious state.
• Bai Ye’s cold energy settled, and he opened his eyes to see Ling Xi and Bing Yu beside him.

Lumian Li entertained a tavern full of villagers with a fabricated tale about working in a morgue, then met the visiting outsiders Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya. Pierre revealed that Lumian had been brought to Kordu five years earlier by his sister Orol, taken her surname, and forgotten his former name.

• Lumian told Ling Xi that the Karma Thread simply established a connection between two people.
• Lumian spun a story about discovering a strange Mark on a former colleague’s corpse, then admitted he had made it up from one of Orol’s stories.
• Liane Kos introduced himself and his companions Valentine and Liya, and Lumian ordered Green Fairy after explaining that villagers used it to relax.
• Liane bought Pierre a drink, and Pierre explained that Orol had brought thirteen-year-old Lumian to Kordu five years earlier and given him his name and surname.
• Lumian said he had forgotten what he was called before Orol brought him to the village.

Yan Meng fought Xu Zhuo to protect Bai Ye’s dignity, but he defeated her and exposed her Spirit Fox heritage, brutally cutting off one of her ears. Bing Xueran intervened and rescued Yan Meng, while a red-clad figure appeared beneath the ice-sealed Spiritual Mountain and began climbing toward its summit.

• Yan Meng used blade attacks and a mental assault against Xu Zhuo, but he overpowered her and seized her by the neck.
• Xu Zhuo pulled down Yan Meng’s hood, exposed her fox ears to the freshmen, and mocked her heritage as he dragged her around.
• Xu Zhuo cut off one of Yan Meng’s ears, and Hong Lingyue briefly objected before leaving without intervening.
• Bing Xueran stopped Xu Zhuo from cutting off Yan Meng’s other ear and forced him to leave with a display of icy spiritual power.
• Bing Xueran picked up Yan Meng and took her toward a pavilion as the freshmen dispersed.
• A red-clad figure appeared beneath the ice-sealed Spiritual Mountain and headed toward its summit.

Bai Ye returned to Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, turned in mission spoils and bounty heads for a large Spirit Value reward, then reviewed the events that had unfolded in his absence. He left the chapter focused on investigating the mysterious Qin Lian Opera House and the spirit arrays he had seen beneath Chilling Cold Lake.

• Bai Ye brought Elder Liu mission spoils and the heads of Yue Ziqing, Yu Jin Yan, and Liu Zhengfeng, while asking whether Gu Jingsha’s bounty could be claimed without his head.
• Elder Liu awarded Bai Ye two hundred and thirty-four thousand Spirit Value and said Gu Jingsha’s bounty would remain on hold pending verification.
• Bai Ye bought the Mission Hall’s limited information about Qin Lian and returned to his pavilion, where Yan Meng briefed him on events during his absence.
• Bai Ye told Yan Meng to bring the people behind the recent trouble to him if they came again, and asked her to find an elder skilled in spirit arrays.
• Bai Ye studied the spirit-array lines from Chilling Cold Lake and the scant Qin Lian Opera House dossier, wondering why its memory-erasing melody was known only to him.

Xu Qingqing attacked the Luo God Society, and Luo Li slapped her before Mu Chen drove back Chen Xiu. As Xu Huang rushed down to intervene, Bai Ye let him go, anticipating that someone else would step in and that the real spectacle would follow.

• Xu Qingqing slapped a young Luo God Society member, prompting Mu Chen to confront her and her followers.
• Luo Li slapped Xu Qingqing twice and knocked the sword from her hand when Xu Qingqing tried to stab her.
• Chen Xiu attacked Mu Chen, but Mu Chen sent him several steps back.
• Bai Ye watched the clash with Xu Huang, who decided to rush down and protect his younger sister.
• Bai Ye chose not to stop Xu Huang and disappeared, expecting someone else to intervene before the real show began.

Bai Ye killed the Blood Demon Beast and fought off the Dragon Demon Palace’s reinforcements while searching for the hostages. He discovered they were hidden in an iron box chained beneath the cargo ship.

• Bai Ye used Bing Yu’s bloodline suppression to frighten the Blood Demon Beast, then killed it with his Ice Sword.
• Two Heaven Piercing Realm elders attacked Bai Ye, but he struck them with Ice Prisms as reinforcements rushed toward the sea.
• Bai Ye summoned the Nine-Ring Blazing Suns, whose Golden Crows’ fiery blood rain blocked the advancing experts.
• Xia Youran flew toward the Nine Suns, while Liu Ying and Dong Yuan also headed toward the battle.
• Bai Ye found only corpses aboard the cargo ship and realized the hostages had to be below the sea.
• Bai Ye smashed through the cargo ship and ice, revealing an iron box chained to the vessel on the seabed.

Ling Xi and the white-robed Supreme fought fiercely above Ice Lake, trading spirit arrays, divine arts, and Supreme techniques. After Ling Xi exhausted her power with Aunt Jing’s falling-stars array, Bai Ye trapped the white-robed Supreme with chains from two Space Vortices.

• The white-robed Supreme attacked Ling Xi with her White Silk Longsword, and Ling Xi countered with spirit arrays that blocked and pursued her.
• Ling Xi summoned four spirit arrays, but the white-robed Supreme destroyed them with a divine art; Ling Xi’s apparent body was revealed as a decoy while she emerged elsewhere and layered arrays to strengthen herself.
• The white-robed Supreme summoned her Supreme Dharma Body and unleashed Floating Execution, while Ling Xi created a starry spirit array and brought down a single star that swallowed the attack and weakened both fighters.
• The white-robed Supreme survived with her Ancient Zither before her, and Bai Ye activated two ice-blue Space Vortices that sent chains around her wrists and stopped her music.

Bai Ye fought Demon Xing Tian to a draw after a day-long battle, then returned toward Northern Azure Spiritual Academy as its new students enrolled. Mu Chen and Luo Li learned about the academy’s rankings and Bai Ye’s fearsome reputation before Mu Chen locked eyes with Yang Hong.

• Bai Ye and Demon Xing Tian unleashed their powers across Nine Luminaries Mountain and fought for a day, destroying its peaks before neither could defeat the other.
• Demon Xing Tian left injured and recognized Bai Ye as a dangerous new rival, while Bai Ye accepted advice to stabilize his rapidly rising cultivation and headed back to the academy.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li arrived at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, where An Ran explained the Divine Soul Rankings and the Heaven Ranking.
• An Ran described Bai Ye’s missions and battles, including his recent likely clash with Demon Xing Tian, and explained why he ranked fourth despite being considered one of the academy’s strongest.
• Mu Chen noticed Yang Hong looking at him with disdain on another stone platform and returned his gaze with growing coldness.

Bai Ye and Bai Jingliu fought to a standstill until she used the Blood Sacrifice Coffin and urged him to gamble their lives. Bai Ye summoned a heavy greatblade and unleashed a world-splitting strike that cut through the black sludge, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Bai Ye shattered Bai Jingliu’s skeletal defense and pressed her with ice blades, a flaming bow, and rapid attacks, but she remained unharmed.
• Bai Jingliu told Bai Ye she understood his desire to die and offered to kill him, but Bai Ye rejected her and embraced his own madness.
• Bai Jingliu opened Bone God Hall’s Quasi-Saint Item, the Blood Sacrifice Coffin, and let its black sludge envelop half her body.
• Bai Ye dismissed the chains on his arm and summoned a massive phantom greatblade as Bai Jingliu’s sludge surged toward him.
• Bai Ye and Bai Jingliu agreed to gamble their lives, and Bai Ye’s enormous blade strike split the black sludge and raced toward its source.