Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye unleashed the power of his unique Supreme Dharma Body to annihilate the Wild North Mercenary Group, then named it the Cold Abyss Emperor's Fallen Body. Xue Liuli accepted his deal, and they set off for Saint Spirit Mountain to meet Elder Sister.

• Bai Ye summoned his Supreme Dharma Body and killed the Wild North Mercenary Group's Fourth Grade Supreme leader with Luo River United as One Sword.
• Bai Ye used Silver Eyes Sever Life to dismantle the mercenaries' Divine Abilities and Dharma Bodies, then froze and destroyed the remaining group with Frost and Snow Seal the Nine Heavens.
• Bai Ye explained that the Dharma Body drew on three ancient female emperors' inheritances and named it the Cold Abyss Emperor's Fallen Body.
• Xue Liuli accepted Bai Ye's deal after recognizing his talent, and Bai Ye said he had brought her to intercept the mercenaries expecting she would agree.
• Bai Ye carried Xue Liuli toward Saint Spirit Mountain to meet Elder Sister, sensing that a familiar aura might soon appear.

Bai Ye devised a trap to catch the Black Iron Mask Man by attacking him as he opened the Spiritual Treasury, then unleashed a devastating sword strike that overwhelmed Bai Jingliu. The group found the enemy alive but incapacitated, only to discover that Lin Yu had also encountered someone who seemed to be Bai Jingliu.

• Bai Ye explained that the Black Iron Mask Man’s confidence made him likely to lower his guard when opening the treasury, and proposed using a fake key as bait while he waited inside with the real key.
• Bai Ye volunteered to ambush the Black Iron Mask Man, explaining how he would slip away from the planned route and enter the treasury unnoticed.
• As the treasury doors opened, Bai Ye summoned a sword phantom and struck Bai Jingliu with a lightning-infused sword attack that overwhelmed the sea of blood.
• Yuan Chu Nian arrived with the injured Lin Yu, and Bai Ye sensed that the Black Iron Mask Man had survived but could no longer resist.
• Lin Qi identified the defeated man as Bai Jingliu, and Lin Yu revealed that the person she had encountered had also seemed to be Bai Jingliu.

Lumian Li entertained visitors at a Kordu Village tavern with a story about a corpse watcher, then revealed that his sister Orol had written it. Pierre explained that Orol had brought Lumian back to the village five years earlier, given him her surname and his name, and that Lumian had forgotten his original name.

• Lumian told the tavern patrons a story about a poor hospital corpse watcher who touched a strange Mark and began dreaming of heavy fog.
• When a visitor asked what happened next, Lumian admitted the story came from his sister Orol, and the patrons laughed at the visitor for believing him.
• Lumian introduced himself to the visitors Liane Kos, Valentine, and Liya, then accepted Green Fairy from Liane.
• Pierre told the visitors that Orol had brought Lumian to Kordu five years earlier, when he was thirteen, and that she had given him the surname Li and the name Lumian.
• Lumian said he had forgotten his original name.

Bai Ye used Yan Meng’s Synchronization art to take control of her body and fight the new students at Northern Spirit Mountain. He defeated Duanmu Lei and began battling Mo Canghai while using the experience to teach Yan Meng how to read opponents’ movements and spiritual fluctuations.

• Yan Meng revealed her fox ears, and Hong Lingyue recognized Bai Ye’s gaze in her eyes.
• Bai Ye explained that Yan Meng’s Synchronization art let him control her body, and he decided to use the chance to guide her combat training.
• At Northern Spirit Mountain, Bai Ye challenged the others and Duanmu Lei stepped forward to fight him.
• Bai Ye used Yan Meng’s spiritual strength to briefly disrupt Duanmu Lei’s focus, then pressed a blade to his throat and won.
• Mo Canghai stepped forward next, and Bai Ye told Yan Meng to watch as he read his opponent’s movements and spiritual fluctuations.

Ling Xi and Chi Rui arrived at Qu Feng Island, where Ling Xi used the Azure Spirit Seal to take control of the island’s Spirit Array and meet Aunt Jing. Meanwhile, Bai Ye investigated the sudden appearance of Desert Wood Venerable’s ruins and realized the Desert Continent’s forces were trying to conceal them.

• Bai Ye questioned a mercenary and learned that Desert Wood Venerable’s ruins had suddenly appeared in the continent’s center half a month earlier.
• Bai Ye concluded that the forces blocking routes were guarding the ruins rather than simply robbing travelers, and he decided to investigate.
• Ling Xi linked her spiritual essence to the Azure Spirit Seal and gained control of the array covering Qu Feng Island.
• Ling Xi and Chi Rui descended onto the island, while two elderly men sensed a brief disturbance but failed to locate its source.
• Ling Xi met Aunt Jing in a special space on Spirit Array Island as Bai Ye prepared to investigate the ruins.

Bai Ye and Xue Liuli ate local specialties at a tavern in the Demon Sand Sea, where Xue Liuli explained how she had taken her little sister’s place as the Winter Snow Spirit Cat clan’s sacrifice. After Xue Liuli and Bing Yu sensed a disgusting aura around one patron, Bai Ye noticed Fu Tu Xuan among a group of outsiders and agreed to hear their offer to form a team.

• Bai Ye ordered local dishes and wine, while Xue Liuli eagerly ate the food.
• Bai Ye asked why Xue Liuli had become the clan’s resurrection vessel, and she explained that she had replaced her little sister after the clan was pressured to provide a sacrifice.
• Xue Liuli and Bing Yu both sensed a disgusting aura around a man at the tavern, though Bai Ye could not detect it.
• An armored man invited Bai Ye to join a team of outsiders facing hostility in the Desert Continent, and Bai Ye agreed to hear more.
• Bai Ye recognized Fu Tu Xuan among the group and became curious about him.

Bai Ye shrank his soul to pass through a tiny hole in the barrier and entered the dark space beyond, where he resisted a voice insisting he had taken the wrong path. A bell shattered his body as he reached a familiar snowy landscape filled with embedded weapons, and he vowed to return.

• Bai Ye found the unchanged needle-sized hole in the barrier and refined his soul into a tiny body to enter it.
• Bai Ye advanced through the darkness despite the powerful cold current and a voice telling him he had taken the wrong path.
• Bai Ye rejected the voice, continued forward, and stepped into a familiar landscape of glaciers, snowy plains, mountain peaks, and embedded weapons.
• A bell rang and shattered Bai Ye's shrunken body, but his voice returned as he recognized the place as his own world.
• Bai Ye said he would return, and a second bell silenced his voice.

Bai Ye and Ling Xi shared the stories of the seven years they spent apart, recalling the people who helped them survive and grow. Ling Xi revealed that Grandma Qiu had been a World Inspector seeking a Saintess candidate for the Grand Spirit Ancient Clan, leaving Ling Xi to decide whether to enter its dangerous competition.

• Bai Ye recounted how Ying Longcheng and his family took him in and gave him the warmth that kept him from becoming an extreme or isolated person.
• Ling Xi explained that Aunt Jing's teleportation sent her to the Northern Domain, where she was attacked by treasure-seekers and rescued by Grandma Qiu.
• Grandma Qiu traveled with Ling Xi, taught her spirit arrays, and gave her the Jade Spirit Ancient Skill.
• Before dying, Grandma Qiu revealed she was a World Inspector of the Grand Spirit Ancient Clan and gave Ling Xi a jade token so she could choose whether to become a Saintess candidate.
• Ling Xi told Bai Ye that, after Grandma Qiu's death, former enemies pursued her and a former Spirit Array Elder brought her to the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy to serve as an elder.

Bai Ye entered the Thunder Domain and forced his way through the barrier separating its fifth and sixth layers. He crossed into the Sixth Layer with a four-eruption Cold Qi Eruption, leaving the watching students stunned and wondering who he was.

• Bai Ye paid five hundred spirit values to enter the Thunder Domain and quickly passed through its first four layers, dismissing their heavenly thunder as too weak.
• Bai Ye reached the fifth layer and used ice-blue spiritual energy to melt its barrier, then headed for the barrier to the Sixth Layer.
• Bai Ye froze the Heaven Transforming Realm Initial Stage barrier with his cold qi and used the Sealing Cold Finger to erode it, drawing the attention of nearby Senior Students.
• Thunder gathered and began blasting the frozen barrier, but Bai Ye unleashed a four-eruption Cold Qi Eruption that froze the surrounding area and made the barrier fluctuate.
• Bai Ye crossed into the Sixth Layer, leaving the Senior Students behind in shock.

While recovering from the ambush at Chain Star City, Bai Ye told Chen Cangsheng he suspected a Dragon Demon Palace spy among the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s upper ranks. He sent Chen Cangsheng to warn Tai Cang Dean and planned to use himself as bait, then waited on the rooftop for another visitor.

• Bai Ye told Ling Xi that his sealed Qi Sea and severe injuries might take months to heal, and she insisted on staying to watch over him.
• Chen Cangsheng came to the rooftop, and Bai Ye explained that the Wild North Mercenary Group had ambushed him at Chain Star City with five Supreme Lesser Three Tribulations.
• Bai Ye reasoned that someone among the academy’s upper ranks had leaked his secret mission to hunt Demon Xing Tian and the rumor that lured him to Chain Star City.
• Bai Ye asked Chen Cangsheng to deliver his account to Tai Cang Dean, the only person he trusted among the academy’s leaders.
• Bai Ye revealed that he planned to make his whereabouts unpredictable across the Bei Cang Continent and use the academy’s access to his movements to expose the spy.
• After Chen Cangsheng left, Bai Ye stayed on the rooftop and watched another figure begin climbing up to meet him.

Bai Ye studied a fragment of the forbidden Wildwood Sutra and warned Xue Liuli to train after she reported that Kong Wenshan had been secretly marking ruins with a seal. Bai Ye deduced that the trial was a battle to claim ruins, and he expected the conflict to intensify as the two sides’ territories expanded.

• Bai Ye activated a fragment of the Wildwood Sutra, considered its severe karmic backlash, and continued researching ways to improve forbidden techniques.
• Xue Liuli reminded Bai Ye to eat and reported that Kong Wenshan visited captured ruins and stamped each one with a seal without revealing its purpose.
• Bai Ye scolded Xue Liuli for missing the seal’s significance and ordered her to join a team capturing ruins to temper herself.
• Bai Ye deduced that the seal marked ruins for Kong Wenshan’s side and that the opposing leader likely carried a seal capable of erasing those marks.
• Bai Ye explained that the trial’s winner would be determined by which side occupied enough ruins after half a year, and he expected bloodshed to grow as the conflict escalated.

Qing Yanjing defeated the Boundless Old Ancestor and reunited with Mu Chen before meeting with Bai Ye and Ling Xi. As Qing Yanjing began to fade, Bai Ye asked why she had willingly accepted imprisonment by the Ancient Buddha Clan.

• Qing Yanjing defeated the Boundless Old Ancestor, and Tai Cang Dean and Bei Ming Dragon Kun left while she spoke with the children.
• Xia Tianyan and Xia Youran discussed the Dragon Demon Palace’s destruction before leaving Saint Spirit Mountain.
• Bai Ye told Ling Xi that he had called for Qing Yanjing to learn why she had accepted imprisonment, and he offered to guide Luo Li for another month before graduating.
• Xue Liuli reported that she had delivered Bai Ye’s letter and that Qin Lian had sent a warning about Dong Ming; Bai Ye promised Qin Lian an opportunity to establish herself in the Eastern Dragon Realm.
• Mu Chen brought Bai Ye and Ling Xi to Qing Yanjing, who asked whether they were together before Bai Ye asked her why she had willingly accepted imprisonment.

Mu Qian'er watched Ying Longcheng's private room, eager to confront Bai Ye, while Bai Ye seized control of the room by humiliating Ye Qing and intimidating the gathered prodigies. The chapter ended with Bai Ye seated at the head of Ying Longcheng's group, unchallenged and its sole voice.

• Mu Qian'er told her maid that she considered Bai Ye a true monster and looked forward to confronting him.
• Bai Ye greeted Zhao Mingzhi, rejected his demand to leave the honored seat, and dismissed Ye Qing's criticism of his cultivation realm.
• Bai Ye moved past Zhao Mingzhi, forced Ye Qing into a seat, and held her there as the beaded curtain opened to reveal the confrontation.
• Bai Ye pointed out the powerful guests to Ye Qing and used their attention to pressure her, then warned the room to know its place.
• Bai Ye released an overwhelming chill and ordered the gathered prodigies to get lost; the Saintess of West Mist Sword Sect invited him to take his seat.
• Bai Ye sat at the front of Ying Longcheng's private room, while Zhao Mingzhi fell silent and Er Yin and the others took their seats.

Bai Ye used Harmonious Fusion with Bing Yu to draw upon her spiritual power and emerged from the Ice Lake as a Third Grade Supreme. After Bing Jue and Bing Yu mistook his illusion for the real Bai Ye, he attacked them, leaving the two Ice Spirit Clan geniuses to face him together.

• Bing Jue killed the Jiu Xi Inn Supremes after they attacked the Ice Spirit Clan, while Bing Yu arrived and helped defeat their Fifth Grade Supreme leader.
• Bing Jue and Bing Yu noticed a presence in the Ice Lake as Bai Ye prepared to emerge from its depths.
• Bing Yu explained that Harmonious Fusion let Bai Ye draw upon her spiritual power, and Bai Ye agreed to use it.
• Bai Ye fused their spiritual power, briefly reached Third Grade Supreme, and burst out of the lake.
• Bai Ye confronted Bing Jue, but Bing Yu struck an illusion and was then caught in an Ice Prism attack.
• Bai Ye attacked Bing Jue from behind, and Bing Jue and Bing Yu decided to fight him together.

Bai Ye fought the Wild North Mercenary Group of the Boundless Continent, whose five-man formation trapped him in Chain Star City. After breaking through the illusion and clashing with Lei Ze, Bai Ye advanced to Heaven Piercing Realm Late Stage while still surrounded.

• Bai Ye recognized the five red-robed attackers as the Wild North Mercenary Group, and he evaded their opening attack before Leng Shan ambushed him with poison.
• Bai Ye froze Leng Shan's poison and forced her to retreat, then realized the mercenaries' formation sealed every escape route and that he needed to incapacitate one of them to break it.
• Bai Ye targeted Wu Ze, but Liu Gui, Lei Ze, and the others rotated positions to stop his escape.
• Bai Ye used the Nine Heavens Golden Crow Skill against Liu Gui, then broke the short girl's illusion and faced Lei Ze in a clash of thunder and ice.
• Bai Ye unleashed a ninefold cold-energy eruption and exchanged kicks with Lei Ze before his spiritual energy surged and he advanced to Heaven Piercing Realm Late Stage.

Hong Lingyue’s alliance used Tu Zhan, a thousand Heavenly Thunder Pearls, and Mu Lingling’s poison to cripple the senior students’ officers, then charged across the battlefield. The Heaven Ranking’s Luo Lin and He Yao halted their advance and shattered Hong Lingyue’s defenses, but an unknown newcomer arrived and pinned Luo Lin beneath his knee.

• Li Jue’s officers brought back the wounded Tu Zhan, whose Heavenly Thunder Pearls exploded and engulfed them in a Thunder Sea.
• The blast exposed Mu Lingling’s poison, which incapacitated the senior students’ officers as Li Jue recognized Yu Xiaoyin’s Seal on Tu Zhan.
• Hong Lingyue ordered the new students to charge, and the Thunder Sea swept through the senior students’ forces.
• Luo Lin and He Yao arrived with another Heaven Ranking expert; Luo Lin stopped the Thunder Sea, and He Yao tore apart Hong Lingyue’s Yin Yang Suppression Kill Array.
• An unknown figure crossed into the battlefield, melted Luo Lin’s spear attack, and knocked him onto a Lightning Attraction Platform before pinning him beneath his knee.

Bai Ye split from Ling Xi, sending her to the auction in Shang Continent while he traveled to Ice Spirit Continent because he sensed an impending change there. Meanwhile, Mo Ziyu began teaching Mu Chen to advance his Heart Eye state by having him identify the cores of patterns in a divine artifact.

• Bai Ye deduced that the three drops of Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid were offered in exchange for help healing soul injuries, and he gave Ling Xi an Illusion Spirit Plate and a Soul Warming Spirit Nourishing Fruit to secure them at the auction.
• Bai Ye and Ling Xi agreed to split up: Ling Xi would attend the auction and meet him on Ice Spirit Continent, while Bai Ye went there ahead of her because he worried about an unforeseen change involving the Nether Eye Dark Pattern Cat.
• Bai Ye used Ling Xi's teleportation scroll to travel to Ice Spirit Continent, trusting that she understood his unspoken concern.
• Mo Ziyu revealed that Mu Chen had been sweeping her courtyard for a practical reason: the floor was a low-grade divine artifact covered in patterns for Heart Eye training.
• Mo Ziyu instructed Mu Chen to use his Heart Eye to find and crush the cores of one hundred and eight patterns, warning that a wrong guess would change their core positions.

Bai Ye launched a covert attack on the ships holding the hostages, silently eliminating guards before confronting two Heaven Piercing Realm cultivators. As reinforcements approached, he attacked the cargo ships, where a Blood Demon Beast emerged.

• Yuan Chu Nian received a Mustard Seed Bracelet and later a jade talisman with coordinates from Bai Ye, then summoned her trusted boatman, Zhang Mingyuan.
• Bai Ye used the Ice Void Art to infiltrate the fleet and kill guards aboard the painted boats and Flower Boats.
• An old man and an old woman aboard a light skiff noticed the Flower Boats had stopped and attacked Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye fought the two Heaven Piercing Realm cultivators, then raced toward the cargo ships as more powerful auras approached.
• Bai Ye sent Ice Prisms into the cargo ships, but an explosion revealed a Blood Demon Beast, which he commanded to kneel.

Bai Ye waited in Wu Mu City, where he uncovered a karmic connection to a little girl and encountered Ji Ziyun, whose powerful sword strike shattered his Mirror Flower, Water Moon. After entrusting the rescued children to Yu Xuan and giving the girl ice marrow, he left the city with Xue Liuli for the next destination.

• Bai Ye declined the City Lord's invitation and spent the afternoon playing with a little girl among the rescued children.
• Bai Ye recognized a Karma Thread linking him to the girl and gave her a piece of ice marrow before leaving her with the Master Secretary.
• Yu Xuan arrived and refused to stay for the City Lord's invitation, while Bai Ye entrusted the children to her care.
• Bai Ye sensed Ji Ziyun's arrival and exchanged a brief, intense confrontation in which she shattered his Mirror Flower, Water Moon with her sword.
• Bai Ye met Ji Ziyun's gaze, then departed Wu Mu City with Xue Liuli through the Teleportation Spirit Array.

Bai Ye learned that Mu Chen came from the Northern Spiritual Realm and concluded that he was connected to Aunt Jing and the Ancient Buddha Clan. He then recalled why Yan Meng had stayed with him, and the chapter ended with Ling Xi comforting Bai Ye as he reflected on how she anchored him to the world.

• Yan Meng told Bai Ye that Mu Chen came from the Northern Spiritual Realm, where his father was the Lord of Mu Territory and Divine Soul Realm experts were considered powerful.
• Yan Meng reported that she had found no information about Mu Chen's mother, and Bai Ye inferred that Mu Chen had an Ancient Buddha Clan bloodline and a karmic connection to Aunt Jing.
• Bai Ye told Yan Meng to leave Mu Chen's affairs alone and let events unfold naturally.
• Bai Ye reminded Yan Meng that he had kept her because of her ambition, and Yan Meng recalled how he had offered her a path toward living freely if she followed him.
• Yan Meng told Bai Ye that she knew no direction except to follow in his footsteps, then departed from the courtyard.
• Ling Xi joined Bai Ye, sensed his loneliness, and held him as he thought of her as the person who kept him bound to the world.