Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye and Ling Xi confronted Red Flame Qing Qin in the mine, where he revealed that her Blood Crystal Marrow was powered by the souls of her sacrifices. After Bai Ye awakened those souls, they tore Red Flame Qing Qin apart, and he and Ling Xi headed down the mountain to deal with the Red Flame Sect.

• Bai Ye identified the mine's Saint Crystal Marrow as Blood Crystal Marrow, made by draining people’s vitality and blood to force the crystals to grow.
• Red Flame Qing Qin attacked Bai Ye and Ling Xi with a sea of flames, but Bai Ye stopped the attack and caused her power to turn against her.
• Bai Ye explained that he had mixed his blood into the Blood Crystal Marrow, using his spiritual power to awaken the souls bound to Red Flame Qing Qin's strength.
• The awakened souls seized Red Flame Qing Qin and tore her body apart, while Ling Xi caught Bai Ye as the voices in his mind vanished.
• Bai Ye noted that the Red Flame Sect remained at the foot of the mountain, and Ling Xi offered to deal with them as they headed down.

Bai Ye and Cai Xiao interrogated a Blackwood Raven and learned that the Wind Sparrow Mercenary Group was seeking five Key Fragments to claim Desert Wood Venerable’s inheritance and the Wildwood Sutra. As they headed for a fragment, Feng Yu’s group confronted Du Long and Luo Shu, and Du Long revealed a bead matching the Guardian Wood Spirit’s color, claiming he could deal with it.

• Bai Ye restrained the Blackwood Raven with ice chains while Cai Xiao used her eyes to make it answer their questions.
• The Blackwood Raven revealed that the Wind Sparrow Mercenary Group had a map, that its leader Feng Yu was a human pawn of the Blackwood Raven clan, and that the clan sought five Key Fragments to obtain Desert Wood Venerable’s inheritance and the Wildwood Sutra.
• Bai Ye and Cai Xiao agreed to continue traveling together toward a Key Fragment, and Bai Ye’s ice later spread over the Blackwood Raven and shattered it.
• Feng Yu and the Wind Sparrow Mercenary Group prepared to attack an ancient tree guarded by an Eighth Grade Wood Spirit after the second squad failed to return.
• Feng Yu recognized Du Long and Luo Shu from the Divine Control Boat, ordered his men to attack them, then halted them when Du Long claimed he could handle the Guardian Wood Spirit.
• Du Long took a bead from his Mustard Seed Bracelet that matched the Guardian Wood Spirit’s color.

Bai Ye witnessed Ling Xi extract Chi Ziyu’s memory and learned that Chi Ziyu had sacrificed her young daughter to gain power. The memory brought back Ling Xi’s own childhood, ending with Qing Yanjing taking the abandoned girl with her.

• Bai Ye reached the battlefield and found Ling Xi holding Chi Ziyu down with a spiritual array.
• Ling Xi used her Engraving Knife to draw out Chi Ziyu’s memories, revealing that Chi Ziyu had sacrificed her daughter to the Flame God for power.
• Ling Xi destroyed the memory and left Chi Ziyu unconscious as Bai Ye understood why she had been furious.
• Ling Xi recalled being abandoned by her parents during a ritual and later finding them dead in their town.
• Qing Yanjing found Ling Xi among the corpses and offered to take her along, and Ling Xi accepted.

Bai Ye woke in the Luo God Clan after a month unconscious and learned that its Clan Leader, Luo Tianshen, was his grandfather. Luo Tianshen recounted how Bai Ye’s mother, Luo Yuwei, had left the clan as a child and become the Yan Tian Sect’s Saintess, while Bai Ye concluded that she had never hated her father.

• Bai Ye woke in an unfamiliar room and instinctively restrained Luo Ningyue before suffering a painful vision of threads surrounding people and the world.
• Luo Ningyue and the clan members told Bai Ye he had been unconscious for a month, and Luo Tianshen welcomed him to the Luo God Clan as his grandson.
• Luo Tianshen explained that a letter from Bai Ye’s mother had led him to rescue Bai Ye from the Cold Pool, and he revealed that her real name was Luo Yuwei.
• Luo Tianshen told Bai Ye that Luo Yuwei had left the clan at twelve in exchange for twenty years of peace, becoming the Yan Tian Sect’s Saintess before dying in its destruction.
• Bai Ye told Luo Tianshen that his mother probably had not hated him because she had never taught Bai Ye what hatred was.

Bai Ye killed Wu Ze and fought off the Wild North Mercenary Group, but Lei Ze used Wu Ze’s corpse to blast him across Chain Star City. Facing Lei Ze’s killing blow, Bai Ye detonated the Accumulating Spirit Water he had saved, engulfing them both in a destructive pillar of frost.

• Bai Ye advanced to the late stage of the Heaven Piercing Realm and fought Lei Ze evenly until Wu Ze transformed with the Hundred Beasts Secret and charged them.
• Bai Ye unleashed tenfold cold energy, killed Wu Ze with a crystalline Water Serpent, and escaped as Lei Ze and the others pursued him.
• Bai Ye fought Liu Gui, Leng Shan, and Meng Lan, defeating Meng Lan with Iron Horse Ice River Enters the Dream and throwing Leng Shan aside.
• Lei Ze detonated Wu Ze’s corpse near Bai Ye, blasting him through buildings and leaving him injured among the ruins.
• As Lei Ze attacked with a divine art, Bai Ye shattered a bottle of Accumulating Spirit Water, and its massive pillar of frost swallowed them both.

Bai Ye reached Suppression Dragon City to rescue the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s captured Punishment Hall members, but had to slip past the Dragon Demon Palace’s watch without being discovered. He chose to hide among an arriving faction and recognized the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild’s carriage, preparing to use it to enter the city.

• Bai Ye assessed the Dragon Demon Palace’s control over Suppression Dragon City and the danger of confronting Demon Xing Tian while searching for the captured Punishment Hall members.
• Bai Ye decided to enter the city secretly because its gates were under heightened inspection and watchers covered the surrounding area.
• Bai Ye planned to blend into a group from a powerful faction, reasoning the Dragon Demon Palace would be less suspicious of them.
• Bai Ye used his silver-eyed vision to find a suitable group and moved to its route before it arrived.
• Bai Ye hid as a yellow carriage drawn by Divine Scale Horses approached and recognized the emblem of the Tian Yuan Merchant Guild.

Bai Ye brought Ling Xi, Yan Meng, and Xue Liuli to Scarlet Sun City, where Chi Xin agreed to train Yan Meng while Bai Ye planned to send people to two destinations. Qing Yanjing recognized Ling Xi’s Spirit Array bottleneck and gave her a seal granting access to the arrays on Azure Spirit Island, leaving Ling Xi with a new path to advance.

• Yi Yin led the Scarlet Legion onward after its victory, and Bai Ye guided Ling Xi, Yan Meng, and Xue Liuli to Scarlet Sun City.
• Chi Xin welcomed Bai Ye and explained that he had chosen not to visit Ying Xue'er until her Trial was over.
• Bai Ye left Yan Meng in Chi Xin’s care for training and said he needed to send someone to two places.
• Qing Yanjing told Ling Xi that her horizons, rather than her Spiritual Power Realm, limited her Spirit Array progress.
• Qing Yanjing gave Ling Xi a Spiritual Power seal that would let her control the Spirit Arrays on Azure Spirit Island.

Bai Ye guided Mu Chen in cultivating the Yin Scroll of the Great Buddha Art, revealing that its fusion with the Yang Scroll attracted the attention of the Ancient Buddha Clan. After shielding Mu Chen from their attempt to seize his consciousness, Bai Ye explained the danger and learned that Mu Chen would keep his Bloodline Link with Nine Nether; Mu Chen ended the night grateful for the news of his mother.

• Bai Ye gave Mu Chen a copy of the Yin Scroll and guided him to produce white Spiritual Energy alongside his black Yang Scroll energy.
• Mu Chen fused the two strands, creating Spiritual Energy of far greater quality and drawing a hostile presence that tried to pull his consciousness away.
• Bai Ye used the Purple Jade Plate to protect Mu Chen, drive off the presence, and return them from an illusory ocean to the rooftop.
• Bai Ye explained the Great Buddha Art’s Yin and Yang Scrolls and warned Mu Chen not to merge them again until he was ready.
• Bai Ye offered to undo Mu Chen’s Bloodline Link with Nine Nether, but Mu Chen refused, saying he owed her a debt.
• Bai Ye told Mu Chen to keep addressing him as before, then leaped down to Ling Xi as Mu Chen thanked him for helping him find news of his mother.

Bai Ye followed an elusive resonance through Daqi Mountain’s blizzard to its highest peak, where he began to understand how the Calculation Skill worked. He discovered that the Small Skill was its prerequisite, but the Calculation Skill still appeared to be a technique for cultivating another spiritual technique, whose identity remained unknown.

• Bai Ye left Song Family Village with Song A'Zhuang to hunt, but found no prey worth catching and headed into an unfamiliar part of Daqi Mountain.
• As Bai Ye walked through the blizzard without using spiritual energy, he sensed a mysterious connection between himself and the natural landscape.
• Bai Ye reached a cliff at Daqi Mountain’s highest peak and, while studying the untouched valley below, recognized the principles of heaven and earth within it.
• Bai Ye’s Calculation Skill surfaced, and he realized that the Small Skill he had seen at the Spirit Skill Hall was a prerequisite for cultivating it.
• After integrating the Small Skill, Bai Ye understood the Calculation Skill, but found it was still a technique for cultivating another spiritual technique and wondered what that technique was.

Bai Ye waited at Qin Lian opera house while searching the Ice Lake for a mature Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect, then encountered a performance of “Five Spirits Slaying Heaven.” When bounty target Yue Ziqing attacked him amid a pursuit, Bai Ye stopped him and froze the opera house as the disturbance continued.

• Bai Ye watched an opera at Qin Lian while waiting for the hidden Hundred-Eyed Frost Insect to emerge from the Ice Lake.
• A refined young man approached Bai Ye to explain the opera, but Bai Ye told him to be quiet.
• Four people stormed the opera house and pointed out Yue Ziqing, who attacked Bai Ye from behind.
• Bai Ye repelled Yue Ziqing with a single palm strike, and a Northern Azure Spiritual Academy student thanked him for intervening.
• As the pursuers began to speak, Bai Ye asked why they were so noisy and froze the entire opera house.

Ten days after Ying Bai Ye disappeared, Lin Yu and the others continued searching YanSha City while Ying Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian recovered in Song Family Village in Daqi Mountain. The chapter left Ying Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian competing over hunting and sewing as they awaited a chance to leave the stormbound mountains.

• Lin Qi reported that the City Lord's Mansion had found no trace of Ying Bai Ye, but Lin Yu ordered the search to continue.
• Su Xuan rejected Su Ling'er's plea to rest and went searching for Ying Bai Ye herself, while major forces in YanSha City also searched for two people.
• Yuan Chu Nian recalled how she and the injured Ying Bai Ye had reached Song Family Village with hunter Song A'Zhuang and been welcomed into his home.
• Er Mao and Xiao Hua rushed out to greet Ying Bai Ye when he returned from hunting, while Yuan Chu Nian stayed behind with Song A'Sao.
• Ying Bai Ye and Yuan Chu Nian renewed their contest: he would hunt one hundred prey animals while she tried to sew an ordinary garment, and the winner would claim the agreed reward.

Bai Ye, Lin Yu, Lin Qi, and Xue Li planned to lure Bai Jingliu into an ambush in YanSha City, where he was expected to hunt Northern Azure Spiritual Academy students. After Lin Qi and Xue Li went out, Bai Ye shared wine with Lin Yu, whose questions about what he cared about led him to acknowledge that he probably held hatred.

• Lin Yu explained that Bai Jingliu regularly searched five cities for academy students and that YanSha City was the only one he had not visited that year.
• Lin Yu split the group into two teams, with Bai Ye and Xue Li acting as bait while she and Lin Qi carried out missions elsewhere.
• Lin Qi and Xue Li left the courtyard, leaving Bai Ye and Lin Yu alone.
• Bai Ye offered Lin Yu wine, but she took a sip, found it too spicy, and set the bottle aside.
• Lin Yu asked Bai Ye whether he cared about anything, and he said he had many people he cared about before admitting he probably had hatred.
• Lin Yu drank deeply, said good night, and went to her room.

Ye HaoRan captured a Japanese agent, helped dismantle a Claymore, and led Security Section Two in raiding a gambling den before returning home after a long night. At the courtyard, he learned about the Liu family’s violence and met Xu DaMao, who bragged about his work as a factory projectionist.

• Ye HaoRan and Team Leader Wang restrained a Japanese agent who tried to swallow evidence, recovered hidden coupons, and took him into custody.
• Chief praised Ye HaoRan for spotting a Claymore, heard how he noticed the warning signs, and ordered the mine dismantled.
• With Team Leader Wang’s approval, Ye HaoRan and Security Section Two raided a nearby gambling den, confiscated the gamblers’ money, and took them to the factory.
• Ye HaoRan returned to the courtyard, heard that Liu HaiZhong had beaten Liu GuangTian, and saw Xu DaMao tease the injured young man.
• Xu DaMao introduced himself to Ye HaoRan as a rolling-mill projectionist and boasted about entertaining factory leaders and receiving local specialties.

Bai Ye received a reward from Mo You for saving Punishment Hall members and chose a treasure for Bing Yu before heading to visit Luo Li. On the way, he learned that Mu Chen had taken a Spirit Lotus Seed from Huo Feng and Xu Qingqing, setting up more conflict at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.

• Students discovered the icy Spiritual Mountain and named it Cold Erosion Mountain after its cold energy drained a student's spiritual energy.
• Mo You thanked Bai Ye for saving Punishment Hall members and offered him six million spirit values plus one item from the Spirit Value Hall.
• Bai Ye chose the Distant Frost Leaping Spirit Grass for Bing Yu and collected it from the Spirit Value Hall.
• Bai Ye headed to Luo Li's residence, intending to check on her and the goods he had asked a junior surnamed Mu to deliver.
• Bai Ye heard that Mu Chen had taken the Spirit Lotus Seed from Huo Feng and Xu Qingqing after clashing with Su Ling'er, and he continued toward Luo Li's residence.

Bai Ye postponed giving Mu Chen the Yin Scroll of the Great Buddha Art because merging it with the Yang Scroll might alert the Ancient Buddha Clan and expose Mu Chen. When a Northern Azure Kill Order sent him to rescue twenty-six missing Punishment Hall disciples in Suppression Dragon City, Bai Ye set out alone, expecting to face Demon Xing Tian.

• Bai Ye and Bing Yu considered the danger of combining the Yin and Yang Scrolls, and Bai Ye decided to wait until he perfected his reverse Yan Tian Scripture technique.
• Ling Xi noticed Bai Ye's Spirit Value Token turn red, signaling a designated Northern Azure Kill Order, and he left for the Mission Hall.
• Elder Liu told Bai Ye that twenty-six missing Punishment Hall disciples had been traced to Suppression Dragon City, where Demon Xing Tian was likely waiting.
• Bai Ye took a map of Suppression Dragon City and departed alone, while Elder Liu warned him that reinforcements would follow.
• Zhuo Tian reassured Elder Liu that Bai Ye would survive the mission, and Elder Liu hoped he would return safely.

Ji Ziyun arrived at the Heaven Inquiry Pavilion, broke through Cai Xiao’s trial with her Sword Eye, and reunited with Bai Ye. As the gathering filled with hidden geniuses and factions formed, Bai Ye noticed Mu Lianfeng and three figures from the Ancient Buddha Clan watching from the third floor.

• Bai Ye recognized Ji Ziyun, and she crossed Cai Xiao’s black-hole trial by destroying its seven-colored serpent with her Sword Eye.
• Ji Ziyun rejected the purple-clad girl’s invitation to team up, carved a sword scar into the pavilion with a strike, and then approached Bai Ye and Cai Xiao.
• Golden City used the Huang Family’s secret art to repair the scar while Kong Wenshan explained the pavilion’s rules to Ji Ziyun, who set a sword formation at the entrance.
• Mu Youze and Meng Youran arrived and joined the second-floor faction, while Yu Xuan went to the third floor and Wen Ziyu joined Kong Wenshan.
• Bai Ye noticed Mu Lianfeng and three people from the Ancient Buddha Clan watching from the third floor.

Bai Ye investigated the bizarre Demon Sand Sea and entered a strange tavern, where he exposed and killed the Thousand Snake Supreme’s enslaved spirit body. Afterward, he and Xue Liuli turned their attention back to the sealed great hall and waited three days before resuming their journey.

• Bai Ye examined the Demon Sand Sea with his silver eyes and found that it could devour spiritual power and erase a patch of sand he tested against it.
• Bai Ye and Xue Liuli approached the unusually placed tavern beside the Demon Sand Sea and went inside to investigate.
• Bai Ye defeated the Illusory Colored Spirit Snake that attacked him and learned from a tavern patron that it was controlled by the Thousand Snake Supreme’s secret-art spirit body.
• Bai Ye offered a Snow Heaven Ginseng for the patron’s identity, then killed the Thousand Snake Supreme’s fake body when he recognized the man as the one bound to the snake by a Karma Thread.
• Bai Ye and Xue Liuli returned their attention to the sealed great hall, and Bai Ye decided to wait three days before continuing their journey.

Bai Ye returned to Song Family Village and found its people dead, their bodies controlled by black mud and their souls still burning. After killing them to end their suffering, he confronted Yuan Chu Nian, revealed as Bai Jingliu, and learned that the Bone Coffin could resurrect her mother; he then decided to kill her.

• Bai Ye found Yuan Chu Nian waiting in the empty village, where she revealed that the villagers were dead and called him heartless.
• Bai Jingliu left Bai Ye to face the villagers’ mud-controlled corpses, and he recognized the souls trapped within them.
• Bai Ye froze the three hundred villagers, then watched the black mud explode inside the ice and covered the village in blood.
• Bai Ye went to Song A'Zhuang’s courtyard and asked Bai Jingliu when she had learned his identity; she said she had known from the beginning that he was a dead man.
• Bai Jingliu confirmed that the Bone Coffin could bring her mother back from the dead, and Bai Ye’s anger returned as he told her she could die.

Bai Ye awakened the Yan Tian Scripture’s Towards Death and Life ability, reversing most of his mortal injuries with the laws of time. As he recovered, Zhuo Yi asked him to hear the truth of the thousand-year-old story and expose the real culprit.

• Bai Ye rejected Cai Xiao’s attempts to save him and accepted that Zhuo Yi’s life had been sacrificed to power his decisive strike.
• Bai Ye reached for a star representing his desire to live and activated Towards Death and Life, causing ghostly white flames to rewind his injuries.
• Cai Xiao recognized that the flames controlled time, while Xue Liuli rejoiced as Bai Ye’s body recovered.
• Bai Ye explained that Towards Death and Life could reverse his own injuries at the cost of spiritual energy, then chose not to maintain it until every wound was erased.
• Bai Ye asked the dying Zhuo Yi about his final wishes, and Zhuo Yi gave him the Wildwood Sutra to pass on to Mu Qin Yue.
• Zhuo Yi asked Bai Ye to hear their story and uncover the truth behind the accusations, and Bai Ye agreed to listen.

Ling Xi reunited with Bai Ye after seven years, scolded him for destroying her courtyard, and caught him when he collapsed from the cost of his sword strike. She carried the weakened Bai Ye into the inner room while concealing the incident from the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy staff.

• Ling Xi recognized Bai Ye and ordered him to squat before patting his head and pinching his ear over the ruined courtyard.
• Bai Ye suffered a painful convulsion in his chest, and a blue vortex briefly appeared before he froze and destroyed the chain that emerged from it.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi he would explain later, then collapsed into her arms as his condition worsened.
• Ling Xi dismissed the academy visitor by claiming the destruction resulted from a mistake while setting up a spirit array.
• Ling Xi carried Bai Ye into the innermost room of the ruined courtyard as his aura gradually stabilized.