Chapter Summaries

Nearly a year after Bai Ye left Ying Longcheng, Ying Xue'er received his New Year gifts and letter, then wrote back about life in the city. Bai Ye read her reply at the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy and, as the new year approached, planned to go outside the academy with Ling Xi.

• Ying Xue'er opened Bai Ye's Mustard Seed Bracelet by solving their childhood puzzle and found rare books, drinks, and his letter.
• Bai Ye's letter told Ying Xue'er about his life on the Bei Cang Continent, his reunion with Ling Xi, and his improved health.
• Ying Xue'er wrote back about her Heaven Merging Realm cultivation, Zhao Mingya's departure for the frontline, and how Jiu Ling had taken charge of the Colorful Clouds Chamber.
• A visitor from Ying Longcheng delivered Ying Xue'er's reply to Bai Ye, who read it with a broad smile and shared it with Ling Xi.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi he wanted to look outside the academy, and they agreed to look at flowers after the snow melted.

Bai Ye attacked the Ancient Buddha Clan prodigies at Heaven Inquiry Pavilion and fought Xuan Luo with lethal intent. Just as Bai Ye was about to kill him, a Heavenly Supreme intervened and rescued Xuan Luo, leaving Bai Ye eyeing the newcomer.

• Bai Ye recognized the Ancient Buddha Clan members beside Mu Lianfeng and abruptly attacked them, collapsing half of Heaven Inquiry Pavilion's third floor.
• Bai Ye taunted Xuan Luo, Mo Xin, and Qing Shuang, then challenged them to fight him together.
• Xuan Luo attacked Bai Ye, but Bai Ye shattered his Buddha Pagoda and dragged him across the ground while stopping his attempt to summon a Dharma body.
• Bai Ye prepared to kill Xuan Luo, but a Heavenly Supreme emerged from a Space Vortex, rescued him, and halted Mo Xin and Qing Shuang's attacks.
• Bai Ye recognized the Heavenly Supreme and considered attacking him to absorb his cold energy.

Bai Ye used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to destroy Senluo You Mo Di’s body, but Senluo You Mo Di returned in a stronger form and nearly killed him. Cai Xiao recovered the Senling Locking Heaven Cage, yet an Earth Supreme stole it, and the chapter ended with Bai Ye’s Sword Spirit and an old man appearing as Senluo You Mo Di’s master.

• Bai Ye released his sealed cold energy, summoned the Heavenly Emperor Sword, and shattered Senluo You Mo Di’s body with a decisive slash.
• Cai Xiao broke her seal, subdued the Demon Sand Sea, and retrieved the Wood Spirit Clan’s Senling Locking Heaven Cage.
• An Earth Supreme immobilized Cai Xiao and her companions, took the cage, and tore off Mu Qin Yue’s arm before disappearing.
• Senluo You Mo Di reappeared in a green-robed form, pierced Bai Ye’s chest, and reached for his heart as Bai Ye was unable to resist.
• Ling Xi sensed Bai Ye’s peril and activated the Heart-Linked Formation, sending the Sword Spirit through to protect him.
• The Sword Spirit forced Senluo You Mo Di back, while Bai Ye collapsed and an old man appeared, addressing Senluo You Mo Di as his master.

Bai Ye reconsidered the clues and concluded that Bai Jingliu had been targeting the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s key to reach a Bone God Hall Spiritual Treasury. He refused Lin Yu’s offer to leave, and the group prepared to confront the powerful forces gathered around the treasury as the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild invited them to an auction.

• Su Xuan thanked the group for rescuing her, while Bai Ye insisted he had not been discouraged and had been thinking about their mission.
• Bai Ye argued that the reports of killings across five cities were a deliberate performance and that Bai Jingliu had been searching for the Spiritual Treasury and its key.
• Bai Ye connected the valley’s Bone God Hall experts to the treasury and concluded that Bai Jingliu had killed Northern Azure Spiritual Academy students to obtain the key.
• Lin Yu urged Bai Ye to leave the dangerous pursuit, but he refused and said he would stay for his own reasons; Su Xuan also chose to remain, while Su Ling'er was told not to join.
• Bai Ye declared that their side held the initiative because they possessed the key, and the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild invited the academy students to an auction.

Bai Ye found the iron chest holding the hostages and faced an encirclement led by Demon Dao Yuan and dozens of Heaven Piercing Realm cultivators. After confirming the hostages were alive, Bai Ye fought back and shattered the attackers’ formation, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Bai Ye found the submerged iron chest as Demon Dao Yuan and dozens of Dragon Demon Palace cultivators surrounded him.
• Bai Ye used the chest as a weapon and defended against the cultivators’ combined spiritual techniques with Frost God Clear Moon Reflection.
• Bai Ye broke the chest’s restriction, opened it, and found the hostages unconscious but alive.
• Bai Ye unleashed an exploding sun that engulfed the formation, then prepared to leave with the chest.
• Demon Dao Yuan ordered the cultivators to stop Bai Ye, who answered with a ninefold eruption of ice spikes that injured several attackers and scattered their formation.
• Demon Dao Yuan drew his sword and faced Bai Ye as the encirclement entered its second stage.

Bai Ye learned that Great Thousand Palace’s Trial sent young geniuses to battle the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, then entered Heaven Inquiry Pavilion and shattered its divine statue with sheer pressure. He introduced himself to Luo Ling as Bai Ye of Ying Longcheng, setting the stage for their first encounter.

• Bai Ye walked through Saint Heaven City as Qing Yanjing explained Great Thousand Palace and the Trial’s purpose.
• Qing Yanjing told Bai Ye and Ling Xi that the Trial sent geniuses from both sides to a border battlefield, where only survivors passed.
• Bai Ye found Heaven Inquiry Pavilion and entered it after realizing it was the gathering place for the invited geniuses.
• A divine statue inside the pavilion pressed down on Bai Ye and challenged him, but he destroyed it with a single step and the words, “Get lost.”
• Luo Ling of the Mount Tai Sect approached Bai Ye, and Bai Ye introduced himself as being from Ying Longcheng.

Bai Ye outmaneuvered Mu Qian'er during a bidding contest for the Town Nether Sea Ice Snow Lotus, using hints about her return to Blood Dragon City to unsettle her. Mu Qian'er withdrew, and Bai Ye secured the lotus for Bing Yu at two hundred thousand and one drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.

• Mu Qian'er bid on the Town Nether Sea Ice Snow Lotus and offered it to Bai Ye, but Er Yin raised the bid on Ying Longcheng's behalf.
• Bai Ye and Mu Qian'er traded escalating bids as they taunted each other over their cities' wealth and her reasons for staying in Blood Dragon City.
• Bai Ye questioned Mu Qian'er about her return, the Dragon Vein, and the letters from the Wood Spirit Clan, causing her to doubt what she knew.
• Mu Qian'er shouted for Bai Ye to stop, realizing she had lost the contest, and withdrew from the bidding.
• Bai Ye bought the lotus for two hundred thousand and one drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid, then told Er Yin he had only been teasing Mu Qian'er.

Bai Ye, Ling Xi, and Yan Meng left the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy and traveled toward the Great Thousand Palace through the Northern Domain. At the Eastern Dragon Realm border, Bai Ye intervened in a battle involving Yi Yin and revealed himself to her.

• Mu Chen received Bai Ye's Accumulating Spirit Water as compensation for using a life-saving measure to summon Aunt Jing's spirit body.
• Bai Ye, Ling Xi, Yan Meng, and Xue Liuli left the academy through Ling Xi's Teleportation Spirit Array, while Mo Ziyu watched them go.
• Ling Xi explained that they had to pass through the Northern Domain to reach the Great Thousand Palace in time.
• Bai Ye and his companions arrived above a battle between the Red Marsh Army and the White Bone Legion near the border of Ying Longcheng and Blood Dragon City.
• Yi Yin fought the enemy commander, and Bai Ye killed Xue Wen when he intervened against her.
• Bai Ye greeted Yi Yin after she recognized him.

Du Long used the Wood Erosion Pearl to absorb the Guardian Wood Spirit, then revealed armor that let him slaughter Feng Yu’s mercenaries and demand the inheritance fragment. Feng Yu broke into the Eighth Grade Supreme realm and kept the fragment, while Bai Ye decided it was time to act.

• Du Long bargained with Feng Yu for the Great Perfection Divine Art in exchange for using the Wood Erosion Pearl against the Guardian Wood Spirit.
• Bai Ye recognized the Wood Erosion Pearl as the Guardian Wood Spirit’s natural enemy and watched with Cai Xiao as Du Long used it to consume the spirit.
• Feng Yu cut down the ancient tree, took the inheritance fragment and divine-art fruit, then ordered his mercenaries to kill Du Long.
• Du Long used Guardian Wood Spirit-like armor and Eighth Grade Supreme power to kill or incapacitate Feng Yu’s attacking mercenaries, then demanded the fragment.
• Feng Yu revealed that the Blackwood Raven puppets’ blood curse had prevented him from taking the fragment, then surged into the Eighth Grade Supreme realm and refused to surrender it.
• Bai Ye rose from hiding and told Cai Xiao to prepare to move.

Lumian entertained a tavern crowd with a fabricated tale before meeting three visitors from outside Kordu Village. Pierre revealed that Lumian had been brought to the village by his elder sister Orol five years earlier and had taken her surname and the name Lumian.

• Lumian told a guest a story about working as a corpse watcher, then admitted he had made it up and credited his sister with writing it.
• The guest introduced himself as Liane Kos and named his companions Valentine and Liya; Lumian introduced himself as Lumian Li.
• Liane bought drinks for Lumian and Pierre after Lumian and Pierre each offered to tell the visitors about him.
• Pierre explained that Orol had brought thirteen-year-old Lumian to Kordu five years earlier, given him his name, and passed on her surname, Li.
• Lumian said he had forgotten what he was originally called.

Bai Ye told Luo Li about his deep bond with Ling Xi, then prepared to use the Luo God Sword as bait to draw the other clans toward them. Xue Liu Can learned Luo Li had the sword and issued an urgent order to hunt her down, just as Bai Ye waited for the trap to draw in its target.

• Luo Li asked Bai Ye about the woman he cared for, and he explained that Ling Xi was his sworn elder sister and the person who had kept him from giving up on life.
• Bai Ye and Luo Li spent the night beside the campfire, growing more comfortable with each other as siblings.
• The next morning, Bai Ye called the Luo God Clan participants from two ceremonies earlier useless and said he would use bait to draw out their opponents.
• Xue Jiu Qing and Xue Qi Mei told Xue Liu Can that Luo Li had brought the Luo God Sword into the secret realm.
• Xue Liu Can issued a Blood God First-Class Order to gather his remaining forces and find Luo Li, while Bai Ye watched and waited for them to take the bait.

Bai Ye received Si Qingyu’s vast inheritance of Ancient Secrets, but its sealed transmission trapped his consciousness in his spiritual world, forcing him to begin studying the knowledge to escape. While he remained motionless in the real world, Blood God Clan and Bone God Clan members gathered around him and faced off, as a hidden silver presence arrived.

• Si Qingyu’s inheritance filled Bai Ye’s spiritual world with a vast store of Ancient Secrets, and he realized he could escape either through an outside connection or by absorbing the knowledge.
• Bai Ye began reading the inheritance while searching for a coordinate node, and he set himself a one-year limit to escape.
• Xue Jiu Qing confronted the motionless Bai Ye, but his companion noticed that something was wrong with Bai Ye’s state.
• Gu Xiao He, Gu Han Yan, and Gu Ya Yue prepared to leave, but Xue Qi Mei and her Blood God Clan group appeared and blocked them.
• Xue Qi Mei revealed that she had come to investigate the fluctuations around Bai Ye, and Xue Jiu Qing turned his attention toward the Bone God Clan members.
• A concealed silver presence arrived and watched Bai Ye, momentarily at a loss for words.

Bai Ye studied Azure Spirit Island and considered a risky plan to seize its Bi Ling Bamboo, then spent three days developing a technique that created a mirrored image of the people and surroundings in the room. The technique succeeded, completing his final preparation before he and Ling Xi parted.

• Bai Ye reviewed intelligence on Azure Spirit Island and learned that its guardians Gu Shihuang and Liang Xieyu were both Earth Supreme Great Perfection experts.
• Chi Xin recalled how Purple Cloud Butterfly had once crushed Gu Shihuang and Liang Xieyu, and Bai Ye considered targeting the island for its Bi Ling Bamboo when the right opportunity arose.
• Bai Ye told Chi Xin she would likely accompany Ling Xi to Azure Spirit Island, but said he wanted to test an idea first.
• Yi Yin returned to Scarlet Sun City and, with Chi Xin, entered the dim room where Bai Ye had been working with Ling Xi and Xue Liuli for three days.
• Bai Ye used a snow particle produced by Xue Liuli to inscribe a complex pattern, then crushed it and activated a light screen that mirrored the room.
• Bai Ye confirmed that the technique worked, completing his last preparation before he and Ling Xi parted.

Bai Ye opened Bing Xueran’s box and learned of a gathering for the Great Thousand World’s prodigies, while Yuan Chu Nian chose a new direction for the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild. The chapter left Bai Ye preparing to travel toward the gathering and Yuan Chu Nian planning to relocate the guild to Ying Longcheng.

• Bai Ye continued helping Luo Li cultivate by using his cold energy, while Xue Liuli asked him to study her bloodline and he explained that the work would take time.
• Bai Ye opened Bing Xueran’s box and found the complete Ice Void Art, a Great Thousand Palace token, and her message about a gathering on the tenth day of the fifth month.
• Bai Ye decided the gathering of the Great Thousand World’s prodigies was worth attending and noted that two months remained before it began.
• Yuan Chu Nian reflected on her resentment toward Dong Ming and felt empty after learning that he had died for Dong Yuan.
• Yuan Chu Nian told Grandma Mo that the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild would leave the Bei Cang Continent for the Eastern Dragon Realm in the Northern Domain, where the faction Ying Longcheng could shelter them.

Bai Ye asked Yi Qingluan about the Yan Tian Sect’s surviving branches and learned that Chu Wenqing was rebuilding the sect while the Spirit Slayer King posed a threat to him. Bai Ye prepared to leave Qin Lian, and Yi Qingluan resolved to protect him as Luo Yuwei’s surviving bloodline.

• Yi Qingluan explained that only a handful of Yan Tian Sect members had survived the Heaven Suppression War and described the five Supreme Realm survivors and their scattered branches.
• Yi Qingluan identified Chu Wenqing, the former Deputy Sect Leader and an Earth Supreme, as the Yan Tian Sect’s orthodox leader who was rebuilding the sect.
• Yi Qingluan revealed that a new Saintess from the Spirit Fox Clan had brought her Chu Wenqing’s invitation, which she refused.
• Yi Qingluan warned Bai Ye that the Spirit Slayer King hated the five great Spirit Clans and might hunt him because of his Ice Spirit Clan bloodline.
• Bai Ye said he and Ling Xi would leave the next day and dismissed interest in Luo Yuwei’s remaining possessions.
• Yi Qingluan resolved to protect Bai Ye as Luo Yuwei’s only surviving bloodline.

Lumian entertained a tavern full of Kordu villagers with a grim story about working in a morgue, then revealed it was one of his sister Orol’s stories. After outsiders Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya met him, Pierre explained that Orol had brought Lumian to the village five years earlier and given him his name and surname.

• Lumian told Liane Kos a story about a poor young man who found work watching over a morgue and discovered a strange Mark on his former colleague’s corpse.
• Lumian revealed that the story was written by his elder sister, Orol, and the villagers laughed at Liane for believing him.
• Liane introduced himself and his companions, Valentine and Liya, and learned that Lumian’s surname, Li, was associated with a feared sailor named Frank Li.
• Liane bought drinks for Lumian and Pierre, while Lumian ordered Green Fairy and joked that village life was hard enough without worrying about its effects.
• Pierre told the outsiders that Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu five years earlier, given him the surname Li and the name Lumian, and that Lumian had forgotten his original name.

At the Flourishing Flowers Banquet, Bai Ye released Liu Ying at Hua Yiyue’s request, then said she owed him a favor. After the banquet, Bai Ye worried about Ying Xue’er’s early training at the Ying Longcheng frontline, where a hooded man appeared and called her Your Highness.

• Hua Yiyue asked Bai Ye to free Liu Ying, and Bai Ye shattered the ice, threw Liu Ying out of the hall, and returned to his seat.
• Hua Yiyue began the banquet, and Bai Ye told Hua Ruoran that her mother owed him a favor.
• Xia Youran warned Bai Ye that the Dark Shadow Merchant Guild might be waiting outside, but Bai Ye and Ling Xi dismissed the threat.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi that Ying Xue’er had gone to the Ying Longcheng frontline early for training and admitted he was worried about her.
• At the Ying Longcheng frontline, Ying Xue’er confronted a hooded stranger, who knelt and introduced himself as Snow Dragon Guard Thirteen.

Bai Ye discovered that Yuan had bought the village fishermen’s ships to expand the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild’s shipping routes during Dragon Demon Palace’s blockade. Recognizing her as a possible old acquaintance, he decided to approach her and negotiate for a vessel without revealing his identity.

• Bai Ye found the village fishermen gathered at Lord Li’s residence, where Yuan offered to buy their ships.
• The fishermen agreed to sell after Yuan’s generous payment, and she arranged to collect the ships the next morning.
• Yuan told Grandpa Mo that she had paid extra out of sympathy for the fishermen and planned to use their ships to seize a shipping opportunity.
• Bai Ye followed Yuan, learned her plans, and realized he would need to negotiate with her rather than take a ship unnoticed.
• Bai Ye suspected Yuan was an old acquaintance and planned to make a deal without exposing who he was.

Bai Ye failed to identify the northern faction Aunt Jing had trusted and, after realizing his search would take too long, gave up the effort. Meanwhile, Hong Lingyue and the new students seized control of a level in the Thunder Domain, prompting the Three Great Societies to prepare for a decisive battle.

• Bai Ye massaged Ling Xi while she studied the Ancient Buddha Clan’s clan-protecting spirit array, which she hoped to understand before visiting Aunt Jing.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi that his Karma Thread search had failed because Aunt Jing’s intended faction might be too small to identify efficiently, and Ling Xi comforted him as he abandoned the search.
• Bai Ye went to look for Spirit Heart Water while trouble began brewing in Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• A new student resisted a senior student in the Thunder Domain, where Hong Lingyue and other student leaders appeared with a thunder-attracting Superior Spirit Tool and captured him.
• The new students gathered in the Thunder Domain, and the leaders of the Three Great Societies interpreted their actions as a challenge and began assembling for the final battle.

Bai Ye returned to the opera house and asked Bing Yu about the frozen world hidden within him. Bing Yu guessed it was an inherited Spirit Vein Divine Power connected to the Ice Spirit Emperor, while Bai Ye was left contemplating his mother’s sacrifice and an unseen observer’s interest.

• Bai Ye listened to Qin Lian’s signature opera and played with Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast essences he had acquired while completing tasks and trading seized items for Bing Yu’s Cold Attribute Essence.
• Bai Ye asked Bing Yu what the frozen world he had seen as a child was, and she explained that his Ancestral Vein might contain an inherited Spirit Vein Divine Power formed from multiple powers.
• Bing Yu suggested that the world’s Sacred Artifact ice sculptures had been inherited through the Ancestral Vein, possibly linked to the Ice Spirit Emperor.
• Bai Ye questioned how this could be a Heavenly Supreme ability when he was not one, and Bing Yu praised Bai Yu for leaving behind a ring with Heavenly Supreme power.
• Bai Ye felt happy as he remembered that his mother had left the ring because she could not bear to leave him, while an unseen woman watched his private room and called him interesting material.