Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye followed the Yan Tian Scripture’s Karma Thread to a Great Perfection Divine Art guarded by a Guardian Wood Spirit. He defeated the puppet, stored it as research material, and claimed the scroll, though the chapter did not reveal the art’s name.

• Bai Ye followed the strongest Karma Thread to a light cluster containing a Great Perfection Divine Art, where a Guardian Wood Spirit ambushed him.
• Bai Ye fought the Guardian Wood Spirit and discovered that its Spirit Restriction Armor negated spiritual energy techniques.
• Bai Ye switched to close-quarters combat, breaking the puppet’s spear and overpowering it with physical attacks.
• Bai Ye decapitated the Guardian Wood Spirit, froze and stored its remains in his Mustard Seed Bracelet for research.
• Bai Ye tore open the light cluster and obtained the Great Perfection Divine Art scroll.

After burning Black Cloud City's grain depot, Luo Qingzhou and Yue Yao emerged to find the demon army routed and joined Yue Ying's victorious forces. They headed back toward the Capital, where Luo Qingzhou began consuming the refined Golden Toad Demon Core and Long'er nervously reacted to him.

• The starving demon soldiers in Black Cloud City looted food and turned on King Tai and his guards after someone accused them of being spies.
• Yue Ying arrived with the Silver Armored Cavalry, pursued the fleeing demons, and later reunited with Luo Qingzhou and Yue Yao.
• Luo Qingzhou explained that he and Yue Yao had burned the grain depot while escaping pursuit, and Yue Ying said she would report their role in the victory to Her Majesty.
• Yue Ying reported that roughly twenty thousand demons had been killed and discussed concentrating forces to retake the remaining occupied cities.
• Luo Qingzhou left camp with Yue Yao, met Long'er, and flew toward the Capital with only two and a half days left before the deadline.
• After Yue Yao refined the Golden Toad Demon Core, Luo Qingzhou consumed it and began cultivating; Long'er trembled and said she was afraid of him.

Bai Ye returned to the Bei Cang Continent after months away and learned that the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy was tense over a conflict between freshmen and Senior Students. He encountered a Spirit Fox Clan girl on the way and was confronted by Senior Students demanding most of his gains before he could enter the City Lord's Mansion.

• Bai Ye crossed several continents and reached the Bei Cang Continent after a three-day journey back toward Northern Azure.
• Su Xuan warned Su Ling'er to stay out of the escalating conflict between freshmen and Senior Students, whose leaders included three Heaven Ranking experts.
• Yan Meng visited Ling Xi, who continued painting pictures of Bai Ye and said she could sense that he was alive and would return.
• Bai Ye met a white-robed girl whose illusion technique he recognized as belonging to the Spirit Fox Clan, and he suspected she was connected to the Cold Pool.
• Bai Ye reached the City Lord's Mansion, where Senior Students demanded a ninety-percent toll from him as a freshman, and a foot suddenly loomed before their leader.

Bai Ye confronted the divided personalities within himself in the Sin Domain illusion and gave in to despair until a strange inscribed stone revealed a conversation between his parents across time. His father began speaking to him directly, leaving Bai Ye with an unexpected connection to the man he had never met.

• Bai Ye realized that his True Self and Ying Madman were both parts of him, then collapsed under the burden of deciding whether to kill them and himself.
• A mysterious inscribed stone projected a recording of Bai Yu and a blue-haired man, whom Bai Ye recognized as his mother and biological father.
• Bai Yu explained that she had enabled the exchange across time, and Bai Ye's father said the conversation came from twenty years before Bai Ye was sixteen.
• Bai Ye's father told him that his death was not Bai Ye's fault and apologized for being absent from his life.
• Bai Ye's father admitted he had recorded the message because he felt like it, and Bai Ye found himself beginning to like him.

Xia Youran delivered the Town Head’s invitation to Bai Ye, who agreed to attend the Flourishing Flowers Banquet in Flourishing Flowers Town. As the carriage reached the Town Head Manor, Xia Youran welcomed Young Master Ying, leaving Bai Ye and Ling Xi on the verge of meeting him.

• Xia Youran admitted that she had revealed Bai Ye’s presence to the Town Head and gave him an invitation to the Flourishing Flowers Banquet.
• Bai Ye accepted the invitation because he planned to ask the Town Head about a few things, while Xia Youran realized how far his strength surpassed hers.
• Ling Xi questioned Bai Ye about why he had accepted so readily, and he told her he would explain in a few days.
• Xia Youran explained that the banquet helped Flourishing Flowers Town build goodwill with talented young people and would feature valuable treasures.
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi rode with Xia Youran to the Town Head Manor, where Xia Youran welcomed Young Master Ying as their carriage stopped.

Bai Ye fought Demon Xing Tian to a standstill, then used a new illusion technique to escape with Demon Dao Yuan's head and an iron chest. He left by ship, while Demon Xing Tian swore to kill him.

• Bai Ye and Demon Xing Tian exchanged fierce attacks as the watching geniuses realized Bai Ye was only at the Quasi-Heaven Piercing Realm.
• Bai Ye and Demon Xing Tian traded blows, each injuring the other, while Bai Ye learned from Bing Yu that a Supreme Realm expert was watching.
• Bai Ye unleashed Iron Horse Ice River Enters the Dream, overwhelming Demon Xing Tian with an illusion of charging ice horses and leaving him clutching his head in pain.
• Demon Xing Tian recognized the headless corpse of Demon Dao Yuan and vowed to kill Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye boarded a ship with the iron chest and Demon Dao Yuan's head, then sailed away despite the severe backlash and his nearly depleted spiritual energy.

Bai Ye used the Nine Heavens Golden Crow Skill to hold off the factions competing for the spirit repository key, but Li Qing—secretly controlled by the Bone God Hall’s Bone Control Art—stabbed Su Xuan and took the key. Lin Yu and Lin Qi arrived in time to recover it and break the deadlock, though the Black Iron Mask Man escaped; Bai Ye left with the group for YanSha City, unsettled by the battle.

• Bai Ye’s fiery divine art badly wounded Su Chi Mu and made the rival factions hesitate, buying time while Bai Ye maintained the standoff.
• The Black Iron Mask Man triggered Li Qing’s hidden Bone Control Worm, and Li Qing stabbed Su Xuan and seized the key.
• Bai Ye attacked Li Qing to retrieve the key, but an unseen Heaven Transforming Realm cultivator intercepted him and Li Qing disappeared.
• Lin Qi arrived with the crystalline key while Lin Yu joined Bai Ye; Lin Qi exposed the Bone Control Worm, and the Black Iron Mask Man fled as the other factions dispersed.
• Bai Ye, Lin Yu, Lin Qi, Su Ling’er, Su Xuan, and Xue Li returned toward YanSha City, while Bai Ye glanced back toward the hidden cultivator’s last location.

Ling Xi fought through attackers on Shang Continent to carry the Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid toward Ice Spirit Continent, while Bai Ye battled Bing Yu and Bing Jue there. As the fight escalated, a familiar Ice Spirit Clan member named Bing Can approached the white cat beneath Ice Lake.

• Ling Xi and Yi Qingluan parted ways after the auction, and treasure hunters pursued them to seize the Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid.
• Ling Xi defeated waves of attackers with spirit arrays and an Ancient Sword Slaying Array, then continued toward Ice Spirit Continent.
• Bai Ye countered Bing Yu's Ice Void Art and Ice Prison Demon Spider Body, breaking her crystal greatsword with a heavy sword of ice.
• Bing Jue unleashed his Ice Crystal Frost Falling Sky divine ability against Bai Ye.
• The white cat beneath Ice Lake sensed someone approaching and recognized the visitor as Bing Can.

Yuan Chu Nian sought to cooperate with Lin Yu’s group in entering the Spiritual Treasury, offering information and a map in exchange for access to its hidden vault. After agreeing to her terms, Bai Ye and Lin Qi spotted a black-iron-masked man watching them at the auction house.

• Yuan Chu Nian arrived with Li Minghai, revealed she was Dong Ming’s illegitimate daughter, and apologized for using the auction item as bait to find the group.
• Yuan Chu Nian offered information and a map of the Spiritual Treasury, prompting Lin Yu to react angrily when she learned Yuan had dealt with the Bone God Hall.
• Yuan Chu Nian explained that the key held by Bai Ye’s group opened a vault deep within the Spiritual Treasury, where she wanted to retrieve a single undisclosed item.
• Lin Yu accepted Yuan Chu Nian’s request to join them, and Yuan left the information tablet while reserving the map for a later exchange.
• Bai Ye and Lin Qi noticed a black-iron-masked man watching from another private room and openly signaled that they were ready to face him.

Bai Ye delivered the Calculation Skill to Jin Chong and chose a Divine Skill as payment, then received another Divine Skill from Bing Xueran, who warned him to stay away from Jin Chong. Back in Ling Xi’s courtyard, he learned that she needed more time to examine the spirit array and left her determined to solve it.

• Bai Ye brought the Calculation Skill to Jin Chong, who eagerly examined it and let him choose one of three Divine Skills as payment.
• Bai Ye chose the middle scroll, and the Ice Spirit Art surged in response to the Divine Skill inside it.
• Bing Xueran confronted Bai Ye about keeping a copy of the Calculation Skill, warned him not to deal with Jin Chong again, and gave him a blue Divine Skill scroll.
• Bai Ye stored Bing Xueran’s gift and left more curious about the secret she had warned him against investigating.
• Ling Xi told Bai Ye that examining his spirit array would take longer, then privately resolved to solve its difficult array pattern as quickly as she could.
• Ling Xi suddenly told Bai Ye that he was too handsome, leaving him baffled.

Shen Cangsheng halted Bai Ye and Xu Huang’s battle, and Bai Ye’s rise to seventeenth on the Heaven Ranking quieted the academy’s turmoil. On the eve of the New Student Tournament, Bai Ye said he would participate only partly and received a cat-faced mask from Ling Xi.

• Shen Cangsheng intervened in Bai Ye and Xu Huang’s fight, then persuaded them to end the conflict and return to their respective places.
• Bai Ye declined to prolong the confrontation, and the Heaven Ranking named him seventeenth after only twenty-six days at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• Ling Xi told Little Cat to find a time to give Bai Ye something, while the academy’s leaders kept the confrontation quiet and Xu Qingqing moved into the Great Wilderness Society’s residence.
• With the New Student Tournament set for the next day, Bai Ye told Ling Xi he would participate only partly because he cared more about his deal with Jin Chong than winning first place.
• Ling Xi placed a cat-faced mask on Bai Ye’s face and quickly vanished from the courtyard.

Bai Ye defeated Wooden Man and froze the remaining Black Wood Vines, but a blood-red vine ambushed him and revealed the imprisoned being Senluo You Mo Di. As Senluo You Mo Di prepared to leave and capture Mu Qin Yue, Bai Ye’s finger moved despite the deadly vines’ influence.

• Bai Ye summoned Cold Abyss Emperor's Fallen Body and severed the Wood Vine Giant's head with the Luo River United as One Sword.
• Bai Ye froze and shattered the uncontrolled Black Wood Vines, then headed toward the collapsed area to deal with the source of the problem.
• Blood-red vines burst from the ground and bound Bai Ye, while Senluo You Mo Di emerged in a flesh-and-blood body and revealed his plan to use Mu Qin Yue as a blood sacrifice.
• Outside the Inheritance Space, Cai Xiao noticed Mu Zhenting's corpse rapidly shrivel and explode, then realized the danger might involve the Wood Spirit Clan and worried about Bai Ye.
• Senluo You Mo Di left Bai Ye to die beneath the Other Shore Flower Vine and turned to capture Mu Qin Yue, but Bai Ye's finger moved.

Bai Ye outmaneuvered Mu Qian'er at the Weak Water Pavilion auction, secured the Town Nether Sea Ice Snow Lotus for Bing Yu, and rejected her offer to join her. As Bai Ye prepared to return to the inn, Wei Zhengran attacked him, and their battle continued despite Qin Liuyue's intervention.

• Bai Ye realized Mu Qian'er had studied him and used her assumptions to mislead her during the auction.
• Shui Jingya gave Bai Ye his purchases and a Minor Divine Skill as compensation for the bidding dispute, and Bai Ye left the Weak Water Pavilion with the Ying Longcheng group.
• Mu Qian'er admitted she had misjudged Bai Ye, called her Blood Dragon City companions trash, and offered him support if he joined her; Bai Ye ignored her and walked away.
• Wei Zhengran attacked Bai Ye with flames, and the two exchanged powerful techniques until Qin Liuyue intervened and ordered Wei Zhengran to stop fighting at the Weak Water Pavilion.
• Bai Ye refused to let the battle end and summoned the Luo River beneath his feet.

Bai Ye began forging his Supreme Dharma Body beneath Ice Lake, using the North Pole Saint Crystal Marrow and the Nether Eyes to shape its body and spirit. As a Seventh Grade Supreme descended to seize the treasure, a woman in white appeared above the lake and sent him flying.

• The white cat considered approaching the unknown Super Divine Beast within Bai Ye to seek help with its bloodline, then watched him from Ice Lake’s shore.
• Bai Ye used the North Pole Saint Crystal Marrow to forge the Dharma Body’s ice body, freezing Ice Lake solid for a day and night.
• Bai Ye fed the Nether Eyes into the Dharma Body to form its spirit child, enduring severe pain as its eyes took shape over the next two days.
• A Seventh Grade Supreme and a Fifth Grade Supreme arrived, found the corpses of their Jiu Xi Inn companions, and sensed someone and a treasure beneath Ice Lake.
• The Seventh Grade Supreme charged toward the lake, but a woman in a white dress appeared and violently sent him flying.

Bai Ye brutally punished Xu Qingqing after she taunted Su Ling'er and threatened him with her brother's status. As the crowd recoiled from him, a cloaked woman approached at his summons, revealed to be a Spirit Fox Clan member with Sin Clan blood.

• Bai Ye, Su Ling'er, and Hong Lingyue entered the crowded camps, where Xu Qingqing confronted Su Ling'er and mocked her over their past conflict.
• Bai Ye warned Xu Qingqing to be quiet, but she invoked her Heaven Transforming Realm brother and continued to provoke him.
• Bai Ye severed two of Xu Qingqing's fingers and told her he would cripple her if she spoke again, terrifying the onlookers.
• Bai Ye asked Su Ling'er if she was satisfied, and she briefly stepped back before facing him again; Hong Lingyue showed no fear.
• Bai Ye noticed a cloaked woman in the crowd, called her over, and she approached as he recognized her improved cultivation.

Bai Ye entered the Spirit Skill Hall to seek the secret spirit skill Jin Chong had promised him, while realizing Jin Chong’s deal might be connected to the brutal trials in the eastern Northern Azure Realm. He plunged into a spatial vortex that appeared to lead to the skill’s hidden trial.

• Hong Lingyue, Mu Lingling, Yu Xiaoyin, and Chen Xiu arrived at the Spirit Skill Hall, where Candle Heaven Elder told them Bai Ye had already gone inside.
• Jin Chong fed pills to a shaking purple-black porcelain jar as Bing Xueran confronted him and accused him of being consumed by obsession.
• Bai Ye followed Jin Chong’s directions through the Spirit Skill Hall, passing many spirit skills while searching for the hidden restriction.
• Bai Ye recalled Jin Chong’s voice from the Northern Azure Realm and suspected Jin Chong had arranged the eastern region’s deadly competition to cultivate a chosen survivor.
• Bai Ye sensed an anomaly ahead and plunged into a vortex, apparently reaching the hidden trial’s destination.

Bai Ye and Cai Xiao separately followed the gathering of people toward the forest’s deepest point, where the Karma Threads converged. Bai Ye was ambushed by five coordinated fighters using Blackwood Blood Raven Poison, and their unfamiliar raven-shaped Supreme Dharma Bodies appeared as he faced them.

• Bai Ye found a mass-produced poisoned blade and concluded that the Wind Sparrow Mercenary Group had ties to the Blackwood Raven Clan.
• Bai Ye headed toward the deepest part of the forest, while Cai Xiao found the corpse and followed the same trail after her little snake sensed others gathering there.
• As Bai Ye traveled, he identified the Great Perfection Divine Art scroll as the Ice Spirit Clan’s Suppression Prison Sacred Ice Buddha and committed its contents to memory.
• Five concealed attackers ambushed Bai Ye with arrows and chained spears coated in Blackwood Blood Raven Poison.
• Bai Ye froze the chains, broke the attackers’ formation, and struck one with exploding Ice Lotus petals, but the five men revealed identical black raven Supreme Dharma Bodies.

Bai Ye infiltrated Suppression Dragon City beneath a Tian Yuan Merchant Guild carriage and found a temporary hideout. He began searching for the imprisoned Punishment Hall senior brothers, ruling out the most obvious Dragon Demon Palace stronghold as a likely trap.

• Bai Ye used the Ice Void Art to slip into the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild convoy and hide beneath its carriage, suppressing the Divine Scale Horses with Bing Yu's bloodline pressure.
• The convoy passed the city inspection, and Bai Ye left it after turning at an intersection; Xia Youran sensed something briefly but dismissed it as her imagination.
• Xia Youran told the girl traveling with her that Liu Ying, Zhou Xuan, Xi Qinghai, and Dong Ming were expected in Suppression Dragon City to watch a possible clash between a Northern Azure Spiritual Academy fighter and Demon Xing Tian.
• Bai Ye found an unoccupied small courtyard and chose it as a concealed temporary base without disturbing anything inside.
• Bai Ye used the Karma Threads to identify seven suspicious Dragon Demon Palace locations and ruled out the most obvious stronghold as a likely trap before beginning to investigate the remaining six.

Bai Ye used the cold energy hidden in Senluo You Mo Di to create an opening, then borrowed Zhuo Yi’s spiritual energy to unleash a storm of Sacred Artifacts. Senluo You Mo Di abandoned Desert Wood Venerable’s ruined body and tried to escape, but Cai Xiao trapped him in the Senling Locking Heaven Cage as Bai Ye collapsed.

• Bai Ye repeatedly snapped his fingers to freeze Senluo You Mo Di for brief moments, giving Zhuo Yi time to regain consciousness and fall away from him.
• Bai Ye asked Zhuo Yi for everything, took the Senling Locking Heaven Cage, and used his own blood to draw a totem that borrowed Zhuo Yi’s spiritual energy.
• Bai Ye summoned ice-blue vortices and rained Sacred Artifacts down on Senluo You Mo Di, destroying his demonic claw and badly damaging Desert Wood Venerable’s body.
• Senluo You Mo Di abandoned the ruined body and possessed an empty body, while Bai Ye crushed the totem and weakened alongside Zhuo Yi.
• Senluo You Mo Di rushed for the Barren Wood Ruins exit, but Cai Xiao opened the Senling Locking Heaven Cage and sucked him inside.
• Cai Xiao shut the cage and rushed toward the collapsed Bai Ye.

The Luo Spear Society and its allies attacked the new students on the third level of the Thunder Domain, where Hong Lingyue used a prepared spiritual array to capture and badly injure Tu Zhan. As the larger battle began, Hong Lingyue prepared to send Tu Zhan back with a mysterious purple glow.

• He Yao revealed that the new students had likely used the Thunder Control Pearl to occupy the third level, but Luo Lin ordered the allied forces to keep attacking.
• Tu Zhan broke through the lightning blockade and charged Hong Lingyue, who trapped him in the Yin Yang Suppression Kill Array and wounded him severely.
• Hong Feiyan noticed Hong Lingyue suffering backlash from controlling the array and offered to take over, but Hong Lingyue refused.
• Li Jue judged that Tu Zhan could not be saved and ordered the senior students to continue using a human-wave tactic rather than call their leaders.
• Hong Lingyue sent Mo Canghai and the other new student heads to lead their forces into separate battles against the senior students.
• Hong Lingyue approached the trapped Tu Zhan with a purple glow, saying she would send him back with a gift.