Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen reunited with his mother, Qing Yanjing, whose spirit body appeared after his Buddha Pagoda shattered. After greeting Bai Ye, Ling Xi, and Luo Li, Qing Yanjing entered the battlefield and defeated Black Dragon Supreme and Boundless Old Ancestor, leaving the gathered spectators stunned.

• Qing Yanjing reunited with Mu Chen and warmly greeted Bai Ye and Ling Xi, while acknowledging the living being inside Bai Ye.
• Mu Chen introduced Luo Li to Qing Yanjing, who accepted her and gave her a sword art as a meeting gift.
• Qing Yanjing flew to the battlefield, shattered Black Dragon Supreme's Scarlet Cauldron, and burned Black Dragon Supreme with Karma Fire.
• Qing Yanjing agreed to help Bei Ming Dragon Kun and then pursued Boundless Old Ancestor across the battlefield.
• Qing Yanjing stopped Boundless Old Ancestor's escaping Divine Soul and destroyed it, killing the Ninth Grade Supreme.

Ling Xi protected Bai Ye while he completed his Supreme Dharma Body and reached the First Grade Supreme Realm, but he collapsed soon afterward. His consciousness then entered a starry path lined with figures from the Great Thousand World and ended with him seeing Si Qingyu.

• Ling Xi sent Bai Ye the Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid, drove off the Seventh Grade Supreme and his companion, and guarded the lake while Bai Ye formed his Supreme Dharma Body.
• Bai Ye completed the Azure Water Spirit Robe and summoned the three spirits into his Dharma Body, which took the form of a masked, hundred-zhang figure and raised him to the First Grade Supreme Realm.
• Bai Ye emerged from the lake, collapsed into Ling Xi's arms, and was taken away by her as the white cat failed to follow them.
• Bai Ye awoke on a starry path where the Yan Tian Scripture would not work and walked past statues of figures including Fu Tu Xuan, Qing Yanjing, and Bing Jiu Yao.
• Bai Ye reached the figures near the path's end and recognized Si Qingyu beside a light curtain marked with the character Ye; their gazes met before his consciousness faded again.

Bai Ye rescued children from a Blood Fiend Alliance hideout and killed the clone of Ying Baizi, who had been targeting Yu Xuan. He tracked the blood trail to the real Ying Baizi, and the two prodigies prepared to fight in Wu Mu City.

• Bai Ye reassured the captive children that Yu Xuan would take them home, while Xue Liuli carried them to safety.
• Bai Ye recognized Ying Baizi as a Blood Fiend Alliance agent and killed him after stopping his escape.
• Bai Ye condensed Ying Baizi's corpse into a blood drop and sent it toward the real Ying Baizi's location.
• The true Ying Baizi emerged on a blood lotus and fought off Bai Ye's Ice Wheels before testing him with Crimson Sky Net.
• Ying Baizi transformed into his true form, and Bai Ye readied his Ice Sword as they faced off.

Bai Ye studied the laws of heaven and earth in hopes of controlling the spiritual energy that crippled his hand when he used Ice Heaven Sealing Cold Finger, while Yuan Chu Nian struggled with the Bone Coffin’s influence. Elsewhere, Su Xuan recalled why Bai Ye trusted her, then sensed a strong bloody smell in Daqi Mountain.

• Bai Ye went to the cliff to study spiritual energy’s paths, hoping to find a way to prevent Ice Heaven Sealing Cold Finger from destroying his right hand.
• Bai Ye told Bing Yu that giving Yuan Chu Nian the Bone Coffin repaid her for saving his life, and said his body had recovered.
• Yuan Chu Nian resisted the Bone Coffin’s voice as it challenged her feelings, then let Xiao Hua touch the coffin while privately calling herself a bad person.
• Su Ling’er asked Su Xuan what Bai Ye had told her, and Su Xuan remembered that he had warned her not to trust the City Lord’s Mansion or the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild because he trusted her.
• Su Xuan suddenly turned toward a direction in Daqi Mountain after detecting a strong bloody smell.

Bai Ye defeated the Blackwood Ravens and their black-clothed handlers, leaving one handler alive so he could learn what the clan sought at the Scripture Pavilion. Cai Xiao appeared and offered to help question the prisoner, and Bai Ye agreed to join forces with her.

• The five Blackwood Raven Dharma Bodies attacked Bai Ye, who froze the forest, shattered one Raven's wing, and trapped them in an ice cage.
• Bai Ye killed the Blackwood Raven Light Shadows and pinned one black-clothed man to the ground, then asked the surviving Ravens what their clan sought at the Scripture Pavilion.
• The four Ravens tried to break out together, but Bai Ye crushed them with an ice crystal palm and left their handlers dead.
• Cai Xiao emerged from the forest with Xue Liuli, and Bai Ye took the cat back after Cai Xiao released her.
• Cai Xiao offered to help Bai Ye question the surviving prisoner, and Bai Ye agreed to work with her while both remained wary of each other.

Bai Ye survived the massacre at Song Family Village, where Bai Jingliu died after finally breaking free of her shackles. After returning to Northern Azure City with his companions, he was surrounded outside the City Lord's Mansion by Elder Jin Chong.

• Bai Jingliu thanked Bai Ye, apologized, and died after telling him she would wait for him in the dream.
• Su Xuan and the others arrived at the blood-soaked village, and Bai Ye identified the dead girl as the real Bai Jingliu before the group burned her body.
• Bai Ye apologized at a mound marked Song Family Village and shattered the golden longbow he had meant to give A'Zhuang Ge.
• Bai Ye and his companions left Daqi Mountain for Northern Azure City, suspecting the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild's branch in YanSha City was tied to the Bone God Hall.
• After the group collected proof at the City Lord's Mansion, they were surrounded by Elder Jin Chong, whom Bai Ye greeted.

After Bai Ye’s battle with Demon Xing Tian made him a new rival at the pinnacle of the younger generation, he recovered from the backlash of his unfinished spiritual art under Ling Xi’s care. As he rested, he realized his Yan Tian Scripture had entered a new realm.

• News spread that Bai Ye had rescued hostages in Suppression Dragon City and fought Demon Xing Tian to a draw, ending Demon Xing Tian’s sole dominance among the younger generation.
• Two days after the battle, Demon Dao Yuan’s severed head appeared above Suppression Dragon City’s gates, and Bai Ye was placed on the Dragon Demon Palace’s kill-on-sight list.
• Ling Xi brought Bai Ye medicine and insisted he drink it and avoid alcohol while recovering from the damage to his divine soul.
• Bai Ye recalled using his unfinished Iron Horse Ice River Enters the Dream against Demon Xing Tian and suffering severe backlash, then credited Yan Meng’s secret art with helping him recover.
• After Ling Xi left, Bai Ye sensed that the Yan Tian Scripture had entered a new realm.

As the secret realm disintegrated and Bai Ye withdrew from life, Ling Xi risked her soul to reach him and persuaded him to keep living. After he promised to return, the Cold Pool collapsed, leaving Ling Xi determined to wait for him.

• Yan Meng explained that the secret realm was disintegrating and that she could not contact Bai Ye through Synchronization.
• Yan Meng described using Soul Separation to send part of Ling Xi's divine soul into Bai Ye's mind, and Ling Xi insisted on proceeding despite the danger.
• Ling Xi reached Bai Ye in the darkness, told him she would stay with him, and persuaded him to agree to keep living.
• An old man followed a butterfly into the black ice, recognized the frozen youth as Yu Wei, and reacted with shock.
• Ling Xi and Yan Meng returned from the soul transfer as the Cold Pool collapsed, and Ling Xi vowed to wait for Bai Ye to return.

Lumian entertained a tavern full of Kordu villagers with a story about a corpse watcher, then revealed it had been written by his elder sister, Orol. After meeting the outsiders Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya, Lumian learned that his surname resembled that of a feared figure, while Pierre revealed that Orol had brought Lumian to the village five years earlier and given him his name.

• Lumian finished his tale of a corpse watcher and admitted he had made it up, prompting the tavern regulars to laugh.
• Lumian introduced himself to Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya, and Liane reacted uneasily to his surname because of the legend of Frank Li.
• Liane ordered drinks for Lumian and Pierre after Pierre offered to explain Lumian's history to the outsiders.
• Pierre said Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu when he was thirteen and had given him the surname Li and the name Lumian.
• Lumian said he had forgotten what he had originally been called.

Cai Xiao and the others faced Black Wood Vines that emerged from the ground and fed the Inheritance Space with the bodies of the dead, while she suspected a Forest Demon Clan expert was sealed inside. Within the space, Bai Ye battled the Wooden Man and broke through to the Fourth Grade Supreme Realm as their fight reached a new stage.

• Mu Qin Yue told Mu Youze that the Inheritance Space held no inheritance and that Black Wood Vines had burst out of it.
• Cai Xiao suspected Luo Shu had sacrificed himself to awaken a sealed Forest Demon Clan expert, while the vines began draining energy from the corpses of Du Long, Mu Qingshan, and Mu Zhenting.
• Cai Xiao stepped forward to face the Black Wood Vines after their Seven-Colored Spirit Fire failed to harm them.
• Bai Ye fought the Wooden Man through repeated transformations and attacks, eventually tearing him from the Vine Wall and battering his head until a dark green core appeared.
• The Wooden Man taunted Bai Ye that his rising realm would outpace him, and Bai Ye decided to close the gap by advancing.
• Bai Ye broke through to the Fourth Grade Supreme Realm.

Irritated by the Spirit Array Elder’s request that he change his name, Bai Ye took out his frustration on the Great Wilderness Society’s ambush. He left thirty-three of its Heaven Merging Realm members frozen, and Yu Wenlou decided to take him seriously.

• Bai Ye reflected on the meaning of his name and grew angry at the suggestion that he change it.
• When a Great Wilderness Society student attacked him, Bai Ye seized him and sensed the society’s other powerful members closing in.
• At its headquarters, Yu Wenlou explained that the society planned to suppress Bai Ye to avenge Xu Qingqing and recruit freshmen before senior members graduated.
• A member reported that all thirty-three Heaven Merging Realm cultivators sent after Bai Ye had returned as ice sculptures.
• Bai Ye waved at Yu Wenlou from a hill and asked whether he liked the gift, and Yu Wenlou silently answered that he did.

Bai Ye cultivated the newly unlocked Yan Tian Scripture art, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, while Yan Meng treated his Divine Soul injury. He learned that Mu Chen had taken first place on the Divine Soul Rankings from Su Ling'er.

• Bai Ye discovered that Mirror Flower, Water Moon was the Yan Tian Scripture’s refined method for obscuring fate and practiced using it as an illusion art.
• Bai Ye found that his Silver Eyes of See Through Illusion could quickly expose Mirror Flower, Water Moon.
• Yan Meng treated Bai Ye’s Divine Soul injury with the Spirit Fox Clan’s Soul Repairing Art.
• Yan Meng told Bai Ye that more students were accepting missions after his battle with Demon Xing Tian boosted their sense of safety.
• Yan Meng revealed that Mu Chen had replaced Su Ling'er at the top of the Divine Soul Rankings, and Bai Ye anticipated Su Ling'er’s reaction.

Bai Ye and his companions raced across the Demon Sand Sea toward the ruins while the Five Great Mercenary Groups advanced on a spiritual energy bridge. After Mu Youze confronted Old Man Green Snake, Bai Ye killed the Seventh Grade Supreme with a devastating ice arrow, and the Divine Control Boat reached the shore.

• The Five Great Mercenary Groups joined forces and headed for the ruins while Mu Zhenting refused to waste time attacking the crowd and focused on finding Mu Qin Yue.
• Du Long launched his Divine Control Boat, and Bai Ye joined the team after Cai Xiao noticed the scent of Xue Liuli's Spiritual Beast bloodline.
• Mu Qingshan helped Du Long accelerate the boat, prompting Mu Zhenting to send Old Man Green Snake to confront the group.
• Mu Youze left the boat to fight Old Man Green Snake, but Bai Ye unleashed an enormous ice arrow that pierced Old Man Green Snake's throat and froze half the Demon Sand Sea.
• Bai Ye pretended that the arrow's backlash had badly weakened him, while Cai Xiao privately called his acting awful.
• The Divine Control Boat reached the shore of the ruins.

The Spiritual Treasury Space collapsed, leaving Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian lost in the void while their companions escaped. Yuan Chu Nian later awoke in a snowy mountain, found Bai Ye alive, and carried him away.

• Su Xuan and Lin Yu fled the collapsing Spiritual Treasury Space with their companions as Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian were swallowed by the void.
• Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian lost consciousness as the Bone Coffin entered Bai Ye's body and their bodies fell through the void.
• Lin Yu refused to leave without searching for Bai Ye, and Lin Qi agreed to stay and help find him.
• Yuan Chu Nian awoke buried in snow, dug Bai Ye out, and discovered that he was still alive.
• Yuan Chu Nian carried the unconscious Bai Ye away from the mountainside rather than abandon him.

Bai Ye and his companions attended a high-profile Tian Yuan Merchant Guild auction, where they learned the guild’s headquarters was involved and bought several items. When information about YanSha City's Supreme Spiritual Treasury went up for auction, Bai Ye chose to raise the price without winning it, hoping to draw out whoever was fishing for them; the chapter ended with a knock at their door.

• Lin Yu explained that the auction’s golden tassels and the appearance of headquarters auctioneer Qi Yushan indicated high-level Tian Yuan Merchant Guild involvement.
• Bai Ye bought an ancient book for seven million spirit coins to send to his younger sister, while the others acquired items of their own.
• Qi Yushan auctioned a jade tablet containing information about YanSha City's Supreme Spiritual Treasury, and Bai Ye recognized it as bait aimed at his group.
• Bai Ye told his companions to raise the tablet’s price without winning it, and Xue Li stopped bidding at forty million spirit coins.
• An unknown bidder won the tablet for seventy million spirit coins, and Bai Ye waited for the bait-setter to approach.
• Someone knocked on the door of Bai Ye’s private room.

Bai Ye defeated Tian Chan’s spirit body in a test duel, revealing a newly created Supreme Dharma Body and gathering data on Tian Chan’s strength. Tian Chan asked him to lead the trial, but Bai Ye refused and was left with Xue Liuli, still considering his own plans.

• Bai Ye fought Tian Chan’s Seventh Grade Supreme spirit body while Tian Chan watched and controlled the battle from the shadows.
• Bai Ye summoned a new Supreme Dharma Body and used Frost and Snow Seal the Nine Heavens to freeze and shatter Tian Chan Spirit Body.
• Bai Ye used the duel to calculate his odds of escaping Tian Chan and concluded he had a one percent chance of escaping unharmed.
• Tian Chan declared Bai Ye the winner and asked him to lead the trial, but Bai Ye refused because he disliked keeping company with idiots.
• Tian Chan left, and Xue Liuli reappeared in Bai Ye’s arms as he watched the place Tian Chan had vanished.

At Saint Spirit Mountain, Mu Chen and Luo Li nearly fell to the Yellow Dragon Supreme before Bai Ye arrived and rescued them. Mu Chen’s shattered Nine-Layered Pagoda summoned a familiar Light Shadow, who greeted him and Ling Xi as her children.

• Mu Chen descended toward the battle, but the Yellow Dragon Supreme blocked him and demanded the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar.
• Luo Li joined Mu Chen, and together they wounded the Yellow Dragon Supreme before Bai Ye appeared and froze him into an Ice Sculpture.
• A purple figure attacked Mu Chen from behind, but Bai Ye intervened and killed the Purple Dragon Supreme with a strange technique.
• Ling Xi used the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s Academy Protecting Spirit Array to contain Dong Ming’s self-destruction, then left for Saint Spirit Mountain.
• After Mu Chen’s Nine-Layered Pagoda shattered, a white Light Shadow took shape and greeted Mu Chen and Ling Xi as her children.

Bai Ye confronted the emptiness behind his pursuit of strength, reliving the wishes that had shaped him before recognizing that his own boredom and desire for excitement drove his reckless nature. After three days in isolation, he emerged and accepted Zhao Mingya’s challenge for midnight at Autumn Zhou Courtyard.

• Bai Ye spent two days questioning why he cultivated and realized that his stated goals had come from his mother and his younger selves rather than a firm resolve of his own.
• Bai Ye nearly surrendered to despair, then recognized the voice urging him to give up as his own and broke a wine bottle to pull himself out of the darkness.
• Ying Xue'er waited anxiously outside Bai Ye’s room, while Ying Longcheng told her that Bai Ye had to overcome his crisis without anyone disturbing him.
• Yan Meng arrived with Zhao Mingya’s challenge letter, and Ying Longcheng ordered her to decline it because Bai Ye was still inside.
• Bai Ye opened the door and told Yan Meng that he would meet Zhao Mingya as scheduled at midnight in Autumn Zhou Courtyard.

Bai Ye fought Wooden Man through a fierce battle, repeatedly breaking through and using his ice techniques and Sacred Ice Buddha to destroy Wooden Man’s bodies. The chapter ended with Bai Ye reaching Fifth Grade Supreme as Wooden Man attained Sixth Grade Supreme and sent vines against him.

• Wooden Man broke through to Fifth Grade Supreme, while Bai Ye launched an ice assault and cut Wooden Man’s body in half.
• Bai Ye countered Wooden Man’s black rays, explosive cores, and attacks with ice techniques, then destroyed Wooden Man’s body repeatedly.
• Wooden Man overwhelmed Bai Ye with six arms, but Bai Ye summoned the Suppression Prison Sacred Ice Buddha and turned the fight around.
• Bai Ye used the Sacred Ice Buddha to destroy more than a dozen of Wooden Man’s newly formed bodies as his own body neared its limit.
• Wooden Man reached Sixth Grade Supreme and unleashed a swarm of vines, while Bai Ye broke through to Fifth Grade Supreme.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi returned to Chilling Cold Lake, then visited Qin Lian Theatre to investigate its mysterious zither player and a secret that might be tied to Bai Ye. Bai Ye lured Manager Xiao into his private room, preparing to keep her there.

• Bai Ye and Ling Xi paid their respects at the vanished cold pool, which had been the legacy of Bai Ye’s parents.
• Bai Ye brought Ling Xi to Qin Lian Theatre, where he had often heard a mysterious singer perform the emotionally affecting “Lian Qin Tune.”
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi settled into a private room on the second floor and waited for the person Bai Ye had come to draw out.
• Manager Xiao, also called Xiao Rouze, entered to watch Bai Ye, wary of the bloody trouble that had followed his earlier visits.
• Bai Ye told Xiao Rouze to stay in the room with them.