Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye awakened from the sea of consciousness and rescued Luo Li from Li Zhen Yue’s attack, then offered to help her strike the Blood God Clan in the secret realm. The two set out to retrieve the Luo God Clan token as Xue Liu Can turned his killing intent toward the Luo God Clan.

• Bai Ye broke free from the sea of consciousness after Luo Li’s sword strike reached him as a guiding coordinate.
• Bai Ye reached the Heaven Transforming Realm Middle Stage and shattered Li Zhen Yue’s mountain attack, leaving Li and the other enemies defeated.
• Bai Ye used the Yan Tian Scripture to see what had happened, then followed Luo Li and offered to repay her by helping her deal with the Blood God Clan.
• Luo Li agreed to let Bai Ye stabilize his realm overnight before he demonstrated what he could do, and Bai Ye suggested they retrieve the Luo God Clan token.
• Xue Liu Can saw his younger siblings’ injuries and glared toward the sky, vowing his attention to the Luo God Clan.

Bai Ye used traces and a taunting message about the Luo God Clan's token to draw the other clans to the Ice Plains, where he prepared to face the Blood God Clan. The Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan arrived to watch as Bai Ye and Xue Liu Can began their confrontation, while Luo Tianshen waited outside the secret realm for Luo Li to return.

• Bai Ye explained to Luo Li that he had left traces to lure the Blood God Clan to them, while the Blood God Clan followed the trail through the ruins.
• Xue Liu Can concluded that Bai Ye and Luo Li were leaving the traces and continued pursuing them, dismissing Xue Qi Mei's concern that the trail was suspicious.
• Bai Ye carved a Cat Face Smiley and the words "Where's the token?" to draw in any clan carrying the Luo God Clan's token.
• Bai Ye and Luo Li waited on the Ice Plains as the Blood God Clan approached, and Bai Ye declared that he could not be defeated there.
• Xue Liu Can confronted Bai Ye as the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan arrived to observe the battle without interfering.
• Outside Small Western Heaven Lake, Xue Lingzi taunted Luo Tianshen, who silently hoped that Luo Li would succeed.

Bai Ye reunited with Second Yin and Purple Cloud Butterfly in Di Yang City, where he learned that Mu Qian'er of Blood Dragon City was being prepared to rival him. With a royal youth competition scheduled before the Great Qin Dynasty’s emperor’s birthday banquet, Bai Ye agreed to face the threat and sensed the contest might offer the opportunity he had been seeking.

• Second Yin intervened with General Jiang, then reunited with Bai Ye and met Ling Xi before inviting them to Ying Longcheng’s residence.
• Second Yin explained that she and Purple Cloud Butterfly had come to attend the Great Qin Dynasty’s emperor’s birthday banquet while Ying Longcheng’s First City Lord was in seclusion attempting a breakthrough.
• Second Yin identified Mu Qian'er as the daughter of Blood Dragon City’s city lord and said her mother was a direct descendant of the Wood Spirit Clan.
• Purple Cloud Butterfly arrived, praised Ling Xi’s good taste, and warned Bai Ye that Mu Qian'er was being groomed to rival him.
• Second Yin said Mu Qian'er was undergoing the Divine Soul Tribulation and that she had only a three-in-ten chance of defeating her.
• Purple Cloud Butterfly and Second Yin explained the upcoming youth sparring contest, and Bai Ye realized its rewards might provide the opportunity he wanted.

Saint Sun reported to Star Nightmare Dream after Bai Ye’s arrow exposed the gap between them, and she ordered him to maintain the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s territory. Back in the Great Thousand camp, Bai Ye used the Nirvana Finger to restore Kong Wenshan’s ruined face, leaving the gathered prodigies to prepare for what came next.

• Saint Sun refused treatment and went to see Star Nightmare Dream, kneeling before her in the pavilion.
• Star Nightmare Dream revealed that she had made Saint Sun her puppet and identified Bai Ye as the inheritor of the Yan Tian Scripture whose arrow had nearly killed him.
• Star Nightmare Dream ordered Saint Sun to keep morale up and send people to guard the border ruins, then rejected the counsel of the voices in the stars.
• Wan Shanyao treated Kong Wenshan’s wounds and said his recovery would take a long time.
• Bai Ye arrived with Cai Xiao and used the Nirvana Finger to restore much of Kong Wenshan’s damaged face before Wan Shanyao took over.

Bai Ye and Su Ling'er reached the valley as Su Xuan and Li Qing faced a powerful group seeking the key to a spiritual treasury. Bai Ye helped them escape the first attack, but the group surrounded them again, leaving Bai Ye fighting Su Chi Mu and Xiong Tu as he waited for the Lin Siblings.

• Bai Ye learned that Su Xuan held the key to a spiritual treasury and inferred that the masked leader and his powerful followers were after something more valuable than an ordinary treasury.
• Bai Ye's Ice Wheels distracted the group, allowing Su Xuan and Li Qing to flee before a black-haired attacker forced Su Xuan to turn back and Bai Ye struck him with Sealing Cold Finger.
• The black-haired man survived by burning his body away and reappeared as Su Chi Mu, while Bai Ye urged Su Xuan and Li Qing to escape and fought Xiong Tu, whose greatsword wounded his fist.
• Su Xuan and Li Qing were surrounded again, and Bai Ye faced Xiong Tu and Su Chi Mu while waiting for the Lin Siblings to arrive.
• Bai Ye entered his Fourth Eruption and used Lingering Mist Shadow to evade Su Chi Mu's attack, then unleashed Great Sun in the Sky.

Bai Ye fought his way through the Great Wilderness Society headquarters, killing Li Huangshan and battling wave after wave of members. As Yu Wenlou ordered the assault to continue, Xu Huang sensed the disturbance and went to investigate.

• Bai Ye tried to escape with Xu Qingqing, but Li Huangshan blocked his path and Bai Ye killed him by piercing his chest and freezing his vines.
• Bai Ye faced Yu Wenlou, the Yu siblings, and Long Deng, while Xu Huang sensed the powerful disturbance from the back mountain and headed toward the headquarters.
• Bai Ye fought the Great Wilderness Society members in the hall, dropping scores of attackers as Yu Wenlou ordered them to wear him down.
• Long Deng offered to join the fight, but Yu Wenlou told him to wait and continued sending members against Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye grinned, surged with spiritual energy, and prepared to continue the blood duel.

Bai Ye climbed Spiritual Mountain to confront the Spirit Array Elder, while Ling Xi painted a mask in her courtyard, unaware he had arrived. At the courtyard gate, Bai Ye stopped and used saturated Accumulating Spirit Water to unleash frost and snow across the mountain.

• Bai Ye noticed Spiritual Mountain's unnatural warmth and lush growth, recognized the effect of a high-grade Reverse Spirit Array, and continued toward the peak to cause trouble.
• Ling Xi painted a mask with a design inspired by a proud Little Cat and wondered whether her recent uneasy feelings were just an illusion.
• Bai Ye reached the courtyard gate and decided not to approach farther, expecting little chance of cooperation with the Spirit Array Elder.
• Bai Ye released one of his saturated Accumulating Spirit Water drops, and frost and snow covered the entire mountain.

Bai Ye drove nearly a hundred challengers from his platform, sent Yan Meng away to prove her worth, and began studying his Spirit Arts. Elsewhere, Huo Feng overwhelmed Su Ling'er and Xu Qingqing, but Xu Qingqing abandoned Su Ling'er and fled; as Huo Feng approached the fallen girl, an unknown newcomer appeared amid a sudden drop in temperature.

• Bai Ye defeated the challengers on his platform, then told Yan Meng to prove her worth and watched her leave before studying three Spirit Arts.
• Across the Northern Azure Realm, students formed teams and fought over Spirit Objects and marks as the assessment grew chaotic.
• Su Ling'er and Xu Qingqing confronted each other over a Hundred Spirits Fruit before Huo Feng arrived and blocked both teams from leaving.
• Huo Feng used his Heaven Merging Realm strength to overpower Su Ling'er and Xu Qingqing, while Xu Qingqing abandoned Su Ling'er and escaped with her subordinates.
• Huo Feng approached the injured Su Ling'er to take her mark, but a new presence emerged as the temperature plummeted.

Bai Ye fought Li Qing in the academy’s senior-junior challenge and defeated her after their Quasi-Divine Skills collided. Old Bai then welcomed the new students to Northern Azure Spiritual Academy and revealed an ancient bronze gate.

• Old Bai began the senior-junior challenges, and Bai Ye faced Li Qing as the most closely watched matchup.
• Bai Ye gained the advantage in their close combat, forcing Li Qing to take him seriously.
• Li Qing unleashed the Quasi-Divine Skill Nine Dragons Heavenly Wind Skill, and Bai Ye answered with the Sea Overturning Seal.
• Bai Ye’s Golden Mark defeated Li Qing’s nine wind dragons, and he caught her before she fell as the attack dissipated.
• Li Qing thanked Bai Ye, and her friend warned him that Northern Azure Spiritual Academy held other monsters.
• Old Bai summoned an ancient bronze gate and welcomed the new students to Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.

Bai Ye defeated the Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect and gathered its essence for Bing Yu’s egg. As he crossed the Ice Lake, Liu Zhengfeng and Gu Jingsha confronted him with six cultivators, and the standoff ended when a short blade emerged from the water.

• Bai Ye hurled the Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect away from the lake, gouged out one of its eyes, and evaded its tail and poisonous cold energy.
• Bai Ye crushed the insect’s weakened eye socket with forty-nine Ice Wheels, froze it with the Sealing Cold Finger, and destroyed its head.
• Bai Ye collected the insect’s essence and combined it with four other essences, which he sent into Bing Yu’s egg.
• Bai Ye sensed two groups hiding along the shore and froze the surrounding area, prompting seven or eight people to reveal themselves.
• Bai Ye recognized the group leaders as Liu Zhengfeng and Gu Jingsha, ranked Northern Azure Spiritual Academy bounty hunters who intended to kill him.
• Bai Ye and the two leaders waited for an opening, until a short blade suddenly emerged from the water.

Bai Ye met with Jin Chong, who offered him a Middle Grade Divine Rank Spirit Skill in exchange for help winning the New Student Tournament. Meanwhile, Yan Meng sought guidance from the Spirit Array Elder, Ling Xi, who agreed to examine Bai Ye’s Spirit Array Diagram only if he changed his name, leaving Bai Ye to decide how to respond.

• Jin Chong visited Bai Ye and revealed that he wanted Bai Ye to win the New Student Tournament and claim a Spirit Skill from the Spirit Skill Hall.
• Jin Chong offered Bai Ye a Middle Grade Divine Rank Spirit Skill, and Bai Ye agreed to discuss the deal.
• Yan Meng visited Ling Xi on Bai Ye’s behalf and asked her to examine a Spirit Array Diagram.
• Ling Xi demanded that Bai Ye change his name as payment, then sent Yan Meng away when she refused to agree.
• Ling Xi reflected on Bai Ye’s name and recalled that she had not heard it for seven years.

Bai Ye’s plan drew the Black Iron Mask Man into revealing himself as Bai Jingliu, while Lin Qi, Su Xuan, and Xue Li faced his blood-sacrifice sea. Lin Yu fought another masked man claiming to be Bai Jingliu, and both battles escalated into deadly clashes.

• Bai Ye explained that the group had used the key as bait to make the Black Iron Mask Man believe their plan was obvious.
• The Black Iron Mask Man revealed his name as Bai Jingliu, prompting Lin Yu to attack him with lethal force.
• Lin Qi charged Bai Jingliu after hearing his name, but Bai Jingliu blocked the strike with a ring of blood-red water and revealed a sea forged from more than seventy people.
• Lin Qi forced a breakthrough to the Heaven Transforming Realm Middle Stage, and he, Su Xuan, and Xue Li attacked Bai Jingliu but remained trapped in the blood sea.
• A white-robed masked man taunted Lin Yu about her younger sister’s corpse, and the two resumed their fight to the death.
• Bai Jingliu regenerated an arm using the blood sea and prepared to kill Lin Qi, Su Xuan, and Xue Li.

Bai Ye met a young nun from Spirit Water Temple while she searched Wu Mu City for a missing girl, and he pointed her toward the child. After the nun confronted a dangerous man in the city, Bai Ye sensed a battle beginning and went to watch.

• Bai Ye spoke with Sister Ling Xi, then rested with Xue Liuli at an opera house in Wu Mu City and enjoyed its Green Fruit Brew.
• A maid and a young nun asked Bai Ye about the missing young miss, and Bai Ye pointed them toward her hiding place.
• The nun thanked Bai Ye and left with the maid, while she sensed powerful auras in the city and took note of Bai Ye's strange presence.
• Bai Ye explained to Xue Liuli that the nun was a powerful, kind-hearted Spirit Water Temple disciple, then heard an explosion and left to watch the unfolding fight.
• The nun faced a man who had imprisoned the missing girl, foiled his sneak attack with a water-like illusion, and summoned a massive golden palm to strike him.

Bai Ye watched the Great Thousand World camps descend into infighting at the Pill Fairy Ruins and concluded that the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan had a powerful leader imposing discipline. He predicted the Great Thousand World would lose most of the ruins before the border stabilized near the White Dragon Emperor Ruins, then dismissed Kong Wenshan’s plea for help.

• Bai Ye joked with Ling Xi about Bing Yu’s egg form and said he expected to meet someone especially interesting during the trial.
• The Second and Third Floor Camps erupted into a full-scale battle at the Pill Fairy Ruins after the Elixir God Clan’s prodigies aggressively contested the site.
• Bai Ye watched the fighting from a tower, where Cai Xiao joined him and gave him a jade slip of intelligence about the opposing camp.
• After reading the information, Bai Ye concluded the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan had a commanding leader and predicted it would occupy roughly two-thirds of the ruins, with the border near the White Dragon Emperor Ruins.
• Kong Wenshan asked Bai Ye and Cai Xiao to help prevent the Great Thousand World’s decline, but Bai Ye rebuked him for making what he called a foolish request.

Kong Wenshan proposed that the Great Thousand World representatives suspend their grudges during the trial, while Bai Ye negotiated for the Devouring Yuan Tiger Lord’s ruins and revealed a plan to seize four strongholds from the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. Bai Ye left the council after urging the others to reclaim lost ground, but Kong Wenshan kept his seat open and discovered something on the map Bai Ye left behind.

• Kong Wenshan asked the gathered representatives to set aside their outside grudges until the trial ended, and Mohe Yue and others agreed.
• Bai Ye asked who held the Devouring Yuan Tiger Lord’s ruins and offered Bai Sheng the Devouring Heaven Tiger Emperor’s ruins in exchange.
• Bai Ye showed Cai Xiao a map marking four strongholds he planned to take, and Cai Xiao realized his route would cut across the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s border.
• Bai Sheng agreed to discuss the trade after Bai Ye occupied the Devouring Heaven Tiger Emperor’s ruins, while Bai Ye promised to follow the temporary truce.
• Bai Ye urged the representatives to arrange their battle lines, declined to join the council formally, and set a price of three Nine Yin Nine Yang Bone-Tempering Blood-Fusing Pills for the Pill Fairy Ruins.
• Bai Ye disappeared, leaving a sheet of paper that made Kong Wenshan’s pupils constrict and relax.

Bai Ye negotiated with Wen Ziyu over the Wen Family’s support for Ying Longcheng, insisting on a ninety-percent share as the Eastern Dragon Realm descended into turmoil. After Kong Wenshan reported a disappearance, a sudden shock confirmed that war was about to begin.

• Wen Ziyu told Bai Ye that Ying Longcheng’s Second and Third City Lords had gone to the battlefield as the other Four Great Dragon Cities reinforced their borders.
• Bai Ye demanded that the Wen Family receive only ten percent in exchange for intervening, and Wen Ziyu agreed to relay his terms to the elders.
• Kong Wenshan arrived and reported that someone had disappeared, while Bai Ye connected the event to the seal he carried.
• A sudden blast shook Bai Ye, Kong Wenshan, and Wen Ziyu, and Kong Wenshan rushed toward its source.
• Bai Ye told Wen Ziyu that war was about to begin.

Bai Ye explained why he wanted to find the God-Sovereign Fish Splash divine art, whose essence could help him understand the Yan Tian Scripture. While crossing the White Maple Continent, Ling Xi proposed stopping at Crimson Flame Mountain to use a Purification Spirit Array and Crimson Flame Jade to try to ease the cold energy in Bai Ye’s body.

• Bai Ye recalled how the Three Divine Maidens created their namesake divine arts and decided that God-Sovereign Fish Splash could help him with the Yan Tian Scripture.
• Ling Xi reviewed their route to the Qin Province Continent and warned Bai Ye that the Great Qin Dynasty might recognize the Yan Tian Scripture’s Silver Eyes.
• Bai Ye said he would pursue God-Sovereign Fish Splash only if the opportunity proved feasible and answered that the time he had predicted was about a month and a half away.
• Ling Xi suggested they visit Crimson Flame Mountain, explaining that she could use a Purification Spirit Array with its Crimson Flame Jade to produce powerful fire-attributed energy.
• Bai Ye agreed to Ling Xi’s plan, and they changed course for Crimson Flame Mountain on the White Maple Continent.

Bai Ye used a staged conversation with Ling Xi to bait the mysterious figure hidden in Qin Lian’s upper floor, claiming Elder Jin Chong and the Spirit Bug Clan might have been involved in Cold Pool’s collapse. Xiao Rouze left after overhearing him, while Bai Ye waited to see whether the hidden expert would react.

• Bai Ye focused on Xiao Rouze as bait to draw out the mysterious figure he believed was hiding in Qin Lian.
• Bai Ye recalled that a strange zither tune had played during his first visit, though no one but him seemed to remember it, and he suspected the hidden figure was a Supreme Realm expert.
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi reviewed their plan to exploit the clues linking Qin Lian, the Lian Qin Tune, and Cold Pool.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi that Elder Jin Chong might have been a Spirit Bug Clan member who obtained something from Cold Pool before it collapsed.
• Xiao Rouze overheard Bai Ye’s claims and left to go somewhere.

Bai Ye advised Luo Li on how to convince Luo Tianshen to let her leave the Luo God Clan for Northern Azure Spiritual Academy. Luo Li changed her argument and persuaded her grandfather to reconsider, though Luo Tianshen suspected she had left something out.

• Xi Yu gave Bai Ye a jade bead containing Accumulating Spirit Water, and he said it was a gift for someone.
• Bai Ye returned to his residence, considered leaving for Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, and began recording insights from the spatial vortex.
• Xi Yu told Bai Ye that Luo Li and Luo Tianshen had argued for three days over her wish to leave the clan.
• Bai Ye advised Luo Li to appeal to her youth and her right to be willful rather than promise that her cultivation would not suffer.
• Luo Li returned to Luo Tianshen with a new argument for leaving, and he recognized that her reasoning had changed suspiciously.

Bai Ye received Si Qingyu’s inheritance after declaring he would watch the struggle over Heaven from the sidelines, then left his own brief message in the Yan Tian Sect’s record chamber. Outside, several groups converged on the powerful fluctuation from his vanished ruin while Bai Ye stood unaware at its center, absorbed in the inheritance.

• Si Qingyu gave Bai Ye her inheritance despite disagreeing with his choice, and he saw the records left by Yan Tian Sect figures, including Luo Yuwei.
• Bai Ye left the word “Heh” on the barrier and disappeared from the inheritance space.
• Xue Jiu Qing’s group and Gu Han Yan’s group set aside their quarrel and hurried toward a powerful fluctuation that indicated a high-ranking ruin.
• Luo Li left a looted ruin and headed toward the same fluctuation, while Xue Liu Can ordered his followers to keep searching for the Emperor Luo’s successor.
• The groups arrived at the site of Bai Ye’s vanished ruin and found him standing motionless in a cat-face mask, unaware of his surroundings as he absorbed Si Qingyu’s inheritance.