Chapter Summaries

Yi Qingluan rejected the Centipede’s offer to betray her young lady and chose to learn the truth about her. As the illusion shattered, Bai Ye reached out to her and congratulated her for earning the right to know it.

• The Centipede claimed Luo Yuwei had been involved with Bing Yan and suggested she had betrayed the Yan Tian Sect.
• The Centipede offered to reveal the identity of Luo Yuwei and Bing Yan’s child if Yi Qingluan helped free it.
• Yi Qingluan thanked the Centipede for telling her that her young lady had survived and left behind a bloodline.
• Yi Qingluan declared that the Centipede deserved to die, but the surrounding scene shattered like a mirror.
• Bai Ye extended his hand to Yi Qingluan and told her she had earned the right to know the truth.

After recovering from his battle with the Extremely Cold Snow Ape, Bai Ye reunited with Su Ling'er and Hong Lingyue and set out for Northern Azure Hall. They left to join the gathered Heaven Merging Realm students, while Bai Ye remained intent on raising his Mark to level nine.

• Bai Ye drank Spirit Wine to calm the Cold energy stirred by his battle, and Hong Lingyue asked to buy the ape's fur; he offered her the corpse, but she refused and put the favor on a tab.
• Bai Ye went to a hot spring, swallowed a Healing Pill, and treated his injuries while Su Ling'er and Hong Lingyue waited outside.
• Bai Ye returned clean, and Su Ling'er and Hong Lingyue stared at his striking appearance before he teased Su Ling'er about it.
• Hong Lingyue reported that the Heaven Merging Realm students had gathered at Northern Azure Hall, so Bai Ye, Su Ling'er, and Hong Lingyue flew there together.
• Bai Ye complained that his level-eight Mark was unsatisfying and said he wanted to reach level nine.

Bai Ye killed the Extremely Cold Snow Ape after a desperate battle in Frozen Ice Valley, then discovered its Essence Soul had gone to nourish the blue bird egg containing Bing Yu. He emerged victorious and reunited with the knowledge that Bing Yu was still with him, while Hong Lingyue and Su Ling'er witnessed his triumph.

• Bai Ye and the Extremely Cold Snow Ape fought for hours until Bai Ye used the Sea Overturning Seal to shatter its Light Shadow and killed it with an Ice Spear.
• Bai Ye absorbed the snow ape's spiritual energy, raising his Mark to level eight, but its Essence Soul entered his body and flew toward a blue bird egg.
• Bai Ye realized Bing Yu was inside the egg and learned that she needed ice-attribute Spirit Beast Essence Souls as nourishment.
• Hong Lingyue and Su Ling'er waited outside Frozen Ice Valley, uncertain who had won the twenty-two-hour battle.
• Bai Ye walked out of the valley covered in blood, dragging the snow ape's corpse, and asked Hong Lingyue and Su Ling'er to store it in a Mustard Seed Bracelet.

Bing Xueran brought Bai Ye to her secluded residence and began recounting his parents’ history in the Ice Spirit Clan. She revealed that the clan’s past conflict began with Bai Ye’s grandfather and the Martial Realm Matriarch, and ended the chapter by explaining that his father had held the clan’s Heavenly Sovereigns back alone.

• Hong Lingyue and Mu Lingling reflected on Bai Ye’s overwhelming victory, then went to speak with the Senior Students.
• Bing Xueran took Bai Ye to her residence and explained that the Tai Cang Dean had asked her to settle the conflict between new students and Senior Students in repayment of an old debt.
• Bing Xueran told Bai Ye that her elder sister had once been engaged to his father, Bing Yan, and that she still lived within the Ice Spirit Clan.
• Bing Xueran began explaining why Bai Ye’s parents entered the Sin Domain, tracing the conflict to his grandfather and the current Clan Leader, the Martial Realm Matriarch.
• Bing Xueran revealed that when the Martial Ancestor caused havoc in the Ice Spirit Clan, Bai Ye’s father had held the clan’s Heavenly Sovereigns back alone.

Yi Qingluan recalled how Luo Yuwei kept her alive through a brutal year of competition among children chosen by the Yan Tian Sect, and chose to stay with her after learning she had originally helped for selfish reasons. The survivors left the trial, and the two parted until Luo Yuwei became the Sect’s Saintess and Yi Qingluan became her maid.

• Yi Qingluan was sold to the Yan Tian Sect and placed with around a hundred children in a dark space, where they were told to live by the most rational way of thinking.
• Luo Yuwei shared her food with Yi Qingluan and taught her fighting techniques as food dwindled and the children turned on one another.
• After half a year of bloody conflict, Yi Qingluan and Luo Yuwei survived among just over twenty children remaining at the end of the year.
• Luo Yuwei told Yi Qingluan she had helped her to gain a strong protector, but Yi Qingluan chose to stay by her side anyway.
• The survivors left through the space gate, and Luo Yuwei was taken by the Yan Tian Sect Leader while Yi Qingluan was taken by another elder.
• Three years later, Luo Yuwei had become the Yan Tian Sect’s Saintess and future Sect Leader, while Yi Qingluan had become her maid and placed her above the Sect in her heart.

Luo Ningyue secured the Frost Head Crow from Luo Qingya so Bai Ye would attend Luo Xiu’s welcome banquet at Luo River Pavilion. Bai Ye arrived with Luo Ningyue and Luo Lingxi, where Luo Xiu and Luo Qingya had yet to appear.

• Luo Xiu offered the Luo Xuan Token to cover the favor Luo Qingya would lose by giving Bai Ye the Frost Head Crow, and Luo Qingya handed the treasure box to Luo Ningyue.
• Luo Ningyue delivered the Frost Head Crow to Bai Ye, who confirmed Bing Yu found it acceptable and agreed to attend the banquet.
• Luo Tianshen told Xi Yu he would let Bai Ye treat the banquet as a trial and would ensure nothing went wrong.
• Bai Ye and Luo Ningyue arrived at Luo River Pavilion, where Luo Lingxi met them and said Luo Xiu and Luo Qingya had not arrived yet.

Bai Ye and the others entered the Barren Wood Ruins and used Du Long’s map to find the Scripture Pavilion, where they discovered countless stored techniques. After the group split up to search, Bai Ye used his silver-white eyes to follow Karma Threads deeper into the forest.

• Du Long led Bai Ye’s group into the ruins, where they found themselves scattered across an immense forest and chose the Scripture Pavilion as their first destination from his map.
• Cai Xiao told Bai Ye that someone in their group had intentions unlike anyone else in the Great Thousand World, and Bai Ye shared that the Wood Spirit Clan’s key might have opened the ruins prematurely.
• The seven reached the Scripture Pavilion and found glowing spheres containing techniques collected by the Desert Wood Venerable, including a Wood Spirit Clan divine skill.
• Du Long and Luo Shu set off together while the others separated to search the vast forest for techniques suited to them.
• Bai Ye discovered that stronger techniques lay deeper in the forest, changed his eyes to silver-white, and followed the Karma Threads to choose a path.

Lumian entertained a tavern with a fabricated tale about working in a morgue, then let Pierre reveal that his elder sister Orol had brought him to Kordu five years earlier and given him the surname Li and the name Lumian. The visiting Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya learned that Lumian was a notorious prankster, but his origins remained unclear.

• Lumian finished a supposed account of his grim hospital job by admitting he had made it up and was bragging to the tavern.
• Pierre told Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya that Lumian told a different story every day, and Lumian claimed his sister Orol wrote the tale.
• Liane introduced himself and his companions, then offered Lumian a drink; Lumian ordered Green Fairy and Liane ordered liquor for the group.
• Pierre accepted a drink in exchange for explaining that Orol had brought thirteen-year-old Lumian to Kordu five years earlier and that Lumian had never left.
• Pierre revealed that Lumian took Orol's surname, Li, and that Orol had given him the name Lumian; Lumian said he had forgotten his original name.

After Bai Ye publicly provoked the Great Wilderness Society, Yu Ziman sent Xu Zhuo to deal with him while Xu Huang remained injured in seclusion. Bai Ye went to the Spirit Value Hall and bought three drops of Accumulating Spirit Water, intending to use them to surprise the Spirit Array Elder, while Ling Xi sensed that something unpleasant might happen.

• Li Huangshan wanted to attack Bai Ye, but Yu Ziman stopped him and sent Xu Zhuo instead, while Long Deng chose not to get involved.
• Yu Ziman told Yu Wenlou that Xu Huang was still recovering from severe injuries sustained in his match against Shen Cangsheng.
• Bai Ye went to the Spirit Value Hall and exchanged 150,000 spirit values for three drops of Accumulating Spirit Water.
• Bai Ye recalled that an experiment with Accumulating Spirit Water had once led Ying Longcheng to forbid him from using it, and looked forward to surprising the Spirit Array Elder.
• Ling Xi felt that something unpleasant was about to happen, then dismissed the feeling as an illusion.

Bai Ye forced his way through the barrier into the mysterious Ice Plains by burning his divine soul, then returned to the real world badly injured but delighted that he had seen the place again. Half a month later, Ying Xue'er and Yan Meng prepared to represent the City Lord’s Mansion in Ying Longcheng’s Hunting Tournament, which began as Qiu Zidao opened the Ancient Spirit Realm.

• Bai Ye shrank and refined his divine soul, then burned it to break through the barrier and enter the Ice Plains before being pulled back to the real world.
• Bai Ye awoke coughing blood and laughed with joy, determined to explore the Ice Plains again someday.
• The chapter explained that Ying Longcheng’s Hunting Tournament eliminated participants by taking their spirit tokens and ranked the younger generation.
• Ying Xue'er worried about competing without Bai Ye, while Yan Meng reassured her after reaching the early Divine Soul Realm.
• Qiu Zidao opened the Ancient Spirit Realm and announced the start of the Hunting Tournament.

Bai Ye used Yue Ziqing as bait to draw the Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect out of Chilling Cold Lake. After the beast swallowed Yue Ziqing, Bai Ye confronted it and unleashed the Sea Overturning Seal.

• Bai Ye sealed Yue Ziqing's spiritual energy, infused him with a Spirit Beast Essence Soul, and dropped him into Chilling Cold Lake as bait.
• Yue Ziqing regained his spiritual energy and tried to escape, unaware that the Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect had been stalking him underwater.
• The Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect struck Yue Ziqing as he neared the surface, but he fought back with Yin souls and a banner before rushing upward.
• The Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect swallowed Yue Ziqing just as he escaped the water.
• Bai Ye appeared on the beast's head, deflected its tail, and attacked it with the Sea Overturning Seal.

Mu Chen defeated Su Ling'er in a fierce battle while Bai Ye watched and made a bet with Mu Lingling. Afterward, Bai Ye gave Mu Chen a bracelet to deliver to Luo Li and left, while Mu Chen returned to the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to pursue a breakthrough.

• Mu Chen noticed Bai Ye watching from a mountain ridge as Su Ling'er challenged him over his place on the Divine Soul Rankings.
• Bai Ye bet three Chi Serpent Poison Galls against Mu Lingling's Purple Butterfly Jade on the outcome of Mu Chen and Su Ling'er's fight.
• Mu Chen's black flames weakened Su Ling'er's spiritual energy, and he defeated her after breaking through her Spiritual Energy Barrier.
• Bai Ye gave Mu Chen a Mustard Seed Bracelet to take to Luo Li, then vanished in a shower of ice crystals.
• Mu Lingling found Bai Ye's bracelet containing the Purple Butterfly Jade, while Mu Chen returned to the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to seek a breakthrough.

Bai Ye studied the Yan Tian Scripture and learned how its powers deduced illusion, the past and future, and karma through the laws of the Heavenly Dao. He gained control over his visions, reflected on Bing Yan’s choice to stay with him, and destroyed an unexplained letter without reading it.

• Bai Ye tested See Through Illusion against historical records and found that it exposed flaws through rational deduction.
• Bai Ye learned that Glimpse of Time could examine both past and future events, while future predictions remained uncertain and depended on his understanding of the Heavenly Dao.
• Bai Ye connected Calculate Karma to the Karma Threads he had seen and concluded that he might have used them to determine Bing Yan’s possible fate.
• Bai Ye reflected on Bing Yan’s decision to accept release and on his promise to stay with her, then reviewed the limitations and progress of his studies.
• Bai Ye burned his notes, received a bamboo-tube letter from an unseen sender, and destroyed it without reading it.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi captured the white-clad Supreme, Yi Qingluan, after Ling Xi destroyed her Supreme Dharma Body and Bai Ye restrained her with Spirit Locking Chains. Bai Ye questioned her about the Yan Tian Sect’s secret melody and her ties to Qin Lian and the Cold Pool, but Yi Qingluan answered little and said she did not recognize his face.

• Ling Xi blasted apart the white-clad Supreme’s Supreme Dharma Body, and Bai Ye sealed her spiritual energy with Spirit Locking Chains.
• Ling Xi bound the injured Supreme with spirit arrays, while Bai Ye supported Ling Xi and gave her Spirit Replenishing Elixir.
• Bai Ye identified the woman’s zither piece as the Yan Tian Sect’s Spirit Obscuring Soul Cleansing Melody and asked why she knew it.
• The woman named herself Yi Qingluan and said she had learned about the melody from records, but stayed silent when Bai Ye asked why she could play it and about Qin Lian and the Cold Pool.
• Yi Qingluan told Bai Ye that his face was unfamiliar to her.

Bai Ye tested the healing and spiritual-energy-cleansing effects of Nirvana Finger, then watched Mu Youze secretly use a Divine Art at the mercenary camp. The Barren Wood Ruins opened, forcing the factions to move their plans forward as Bai Ye’s group rushed toward the hall and a cloaked woman entered first.

• Bai Ye tested Nirvana Finger and discovered it healed his wound while removing the spiritual energy embedded in it.
• Meng Youran watched the Barren Wood Main Hall from a cliff, then resumed searching for something after Bai Ye left.
• Bai Ye used Xue Liuli’s surveillance to observe Mu Youze secretly eavesdropping at the Five Great Mercenary Groups’ camp and sending a black bird into the Wind Sparrow leader’s tent.
• Bai Ye sensed the Barren Wood Ruins opening and told Xue Liuli to stop watching the camp.
• Mu Qian'er mocked Mu Zhenting as the hall opened, and Mu Zhenting ordered the Five Great Mercenary Groups to gather and advance their plan.
• Bai Ye’s seven-person squad headed for the hall, while a cloaked woman entered it seeking the strength to control her own fate.

Yi Qingluan woke in the ruins of the Cold Pool and encountered Jin Chong, a surviving Spirit Bug Clan member who offered secrets in exchange for escape. Jin Chong claimed that Luo Yuwei had personally destroyed the Yan Tian Sect, leaving Yi Qingluan stunned as a hidden observer prepared an Ice Sword.

• Yi Qingluan awoke injured in the collapsed Cold Pool and decided to return to Qin Lian.
• Yi Qingluan discovered a talking Centipede, which introduced itself as Jin Chong of the Spirit Bug Clan.
• Jin Chong offered to reveal what Yi Qingluan’s master had left behind and who possessed it if she took him out of the Cold Pool.
• Yi Qingluan refused to make a deal with the Spirit Clans and turned to leave.
• Jin Chong claimed that Luo Yuwei had personally destroyed the Yan Tian Sect, stopping Yi Qingluan in shock.
• A hidden observer watched Yi Qingluan as an Ice Sword stood ready to leave its sheath.

Bai Ye learned from Bing Yu that the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood Art originated from the Emperor Crystal Ice Phoenix and that its clan had become enemies of the Phoenix Clan. After sharing a tender farewell with Ling Xi, he watched her leave Scarlet Sun City with Chi Xin, then prepared to test their Thousand Mile Talismans.

• Bai Ye asked Bing Yu when she would hatch, and she explained that she was healing injuries from her forced Nirvana.
• Bing Yu revealed the origins of the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood Art and described how the Emperor Crystal Ice Phoenix clan fell into conflict with the Phoenix Clan.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi he planned to leave the next day, and they shared a kiss beneath the moonlight.
• Chi Xin entrusted Scarlet Sun City's City Lord's seal to Yi Yin and prepared to escort Ling Xi to Azure Spirit Island.
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi reviewed how to use their Thousand Mile Talismans before Ling Xi departed with Chi Xin through the Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Bai Ye took out Ling Xi's Thousand Mile Talisman to begin their first long-distance test.

Bai Ye met the Twin Forest Society’s presidents, Lin Yu and Lin Qi, who asked him to serve as bait to draw out Bai Jingliu, a hidden bounty target from Bone God Hall. Bai Ye agreed to join their dangerous hunt, eager to stake his life on the plan.

• Bai Ye discussed the ancient spirit arrays beneath Chilling Cold Lake with Ling Xi and agreed they might be connected to the mysterious Cold Pool.
• Yan Meng told Bai Ye that Lin Yu and Lin Qi of the Twin Forest Society had come to see him, along with Xue Li.
• Lin Qi provoked Bai Ye, and Lin Yu made him apologize before explaining that the society wanted Bai Ye’s help with a bounty mission.
• Lin Yu and Lin Qi revealed that Bai Jingliu had killed many Northern Azure Spiritual Academy students and was difficult to track because of his concealment techniques.
• Lin Yu proposed using Bai Ye as bait to lure out Bai Jingliu and promised to pay any price if Bai Ye died.
• Bai Ye agreed to join the hunt and stake his life on the plan.

Bai Ye broke free of the Other Shore Flower Vine’s dream and used Harmonious Fusion and the Wood Erosion Pearl to reach Eighth Grade Supreme, preparing to face Senluo You Mo Di again. Outside the Inheritance Space, Cai Xiao led the others toward the Demon Sand Sea, while an old man finally left his tavern to confront the past.

• Bai Ye rejected the dream of a peaceful life, remembered his promise to Ling Xi, and forced his consciousness back to reality.
• Bai Ye awakened by calling Bing Yu, activated Harmonious Fusion, and rose to Seventh Grade Supreme.
• Bai Ye crushed the Wood Erosion Pearl and absorbed its spiritual energy, reaching Eighth Grade Supreme as the battle’s second stage began.
• Meng Youran, Mu Youze, Xue Liuli, Cai Xiao, and Mu Qin Yue discovered that the Space Tunnel had vanished, and Cai Xiao pointed them toward the Demon Sand Sea.
• An old man at a tavern outside the Demon Sand Sea decided to stop waiting and vanished under immense spiritual pressure to do what he should have done a thousand years earlier.
• Bai Ye and Senluo You Mo Di readied themselves for another exchange of killer moves.

At the Colorful Clouds Chamber, Bai Ye dismissed a Spirit Fox slave until Yan Meng claimed she could ease his headaches and boldly admitted he was a madman. Intrigued by her ambition, he ordered Jiu Yin to take her to the City Lord's Mansion, then recognized what he had seen in her eyes.

• Jiu Yin brought Bai Ye the three hundred million spirit coins from Sun Cheng and introduced the Spirit Fox girl Yan Meng.
• Bai Ye dismissed Yan Meng, who offered to help ease his headaches, and told her to get lost.
• Bai Ye asked Yan Meng whether he was crazy, and she called him a very, very crazy madman.
• Bai Ye asked Yan Meng whether she wanted freedom and happiness, then learned she wanted them because of her Spirit Fox bloodline talent.
• Bai Ye ordered Jiu Yin to send Yan Meng to the City Lord's Mansion, then said he had seen ambition in her eyes.