Chapter Summaries

After entering the True Dragon Secret Realm, Bai Ze joined the fight for a True Dragon Token, which was needed to enter the True Dragon Pool. He seized a token amid a chaotic battle and escaped, though the other geniuses immediately turned on him.

• Bai Ze saw the True Dragon phantom release tokens across the secret realm and headed toward the nearest one.
• Bai Ze found several geniuses fighting over a token and concealed himself nearby while they battled.
• The token’s holder threw it away under pressure, drawing hidden contestants into a chaotic struggle around it.
• Bai Ze used the King Ming Domain to seize the token, blocked the ensuing attacks with his sword, concealed its glow with black cloth, and fled.

Bai Ze escaped a mob of prodigies pursuing his True Dragon Token and realized he needed to collect nine more before the competition intensified. Three days later, the True Dragon Pool opened behind a formation that required ten tokens to enter, and some prodigies prepared to ambush those who had gathered enough.

• Bai Ze fought off an attacker and used the Ten Thousand Sword Formation to delay the prodigies pursuing his True Dragon Token.
• Bai Ze hid among the trees with a Saint-tier Stealth Technique, inspected the token, and decided to seek the remaining nine as quickly as possible.
• Three days later, the mist cleared and revealed the True Dragon Pool, which an enormous formation kept inaccessible to anyone without ten True Dragon Tokens.
• Some prodigies gathered outside the formation and planned to ambush anyone arriving with ten tokens.

Bai Ze fought the burly prodigy who had pursued him for three days after he stole the man’s True Dragon Token. When the man trapped himself inside a powerful tornado, Bai Ze spotted its vortex and prepared a full-powered strike.

• Bai Ze’s pursuer demanded the True Dragon Token back and attacked him with Overlord Slash.
• Bai Ze fought the man with his sword and King Ming Domain, wounding his neck but failing to finish him.
• The burly man unleashed a tornado of saber shadows that forced Bai Ze to keep his distance.
• Bai Ze found the vortex at the tornado’s peak and attacked it with Heaven-Defying Three Forms: Slay Heaven and Earth.

Bai Ze killed a token-holding opponent, gathered ten True Dragon Tokens, and combined them into the key to enter the True Dragon Pool. After recovering from his injuries, he headed to the pool and found its key holders trapped in a massive battle.

• Bai Ze defeated and beheaded the brawny man, then took his three True Dragon Tokens and Storage Bag.
• Bai Ze spent the next half month fighting for tokens, eventually collecting ten and escaping his pursuers while badly wounded.
• Bai Ze hid in a tree, formed the ten tokens into a blood-red dragon-patterned key, and healed inside a concealed formation.
• Geniuses at the True Dragon Pool fought over the keys, with some breaking through to enter and others being killed and robbed.
• After recovering, Bai Ze set out for the True Dragon Pool and discovered dozens of geniuses besieging those who held keys.

Bai Ze slipped past the battling geniuses and entered the True Dragon Pool, where he converted all his power into Saint Power and continued cultivating. When the True Dragon Secret Realm closed, he left immediately, and the True Dragon List appeared above True Dragon City.

• Bai Ze disguised himself as a contender for a True Dragon Key and used the fighting to reach the formation around the True Dragon Pool.
• Bai Ze entered the True Dragon Pool alone after the other geniuses failed to stop him.
• Bai Ze cultivated in the pool until he converted all his power into Saint Power, then continued training until the realm began to close.
• Bai Ze and the other geniuses left the True Dragon Secret Realm through a vortex, and Bai Ze departed without delay.
• A hundred-meter-long True Dragon List appeared above True Dragon City as the geniuses emerged.

Bai Ze made the True Dragon List and sought information from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion about places to comprehend Sword Profound Meaning. He chose to visit a nearby sword mark, while Li Lüer recognized his name and vowed to make him repay the Saint Stone she believed he had stolen.

• The True Dragon List appeared with eighty-three names, including Bai Ze, and martial artists in True Dragon City discussed who had made the list.
• Bai Ze decided to leave the True Dragon Pool and seek help deepening his Sword Intent into Sword Profound Meaning.
• Bai Ze paid the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion thirty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones and learned of three nearby places where he could study sword techniques or encounter a Saint Realm expert.
• Bai Ze chose the sword mark left by a Saint Realm sword cultivator and left True Dragon City to seek it.
• Li Lüer, disguised in a green robe, saw Bai Ze's name on the list, blamed him for her failure to qualify, and vowed to make him repay the Saint Stone.

Bai Ze failed to comprehend Sword Profound Meaning from the ravine and left to find his own path. After watching a blacksmith forge a sword in a dilapidated city, he broke through into the early stage of the Entering Saint Realm and departed with the finished sword.

• Bai Ze meditated beside the ravine for half a month but injured himself when he tried to force his way into Sword Profound Meaning.
• Bai Ze concluded that he needed to create a path of his own and left the ravine.
• Bai Ze entered a dilapidated city, drank wine, and watched an old blacksmith forge a sword.
• Bai Ze’s sword intent transformed into Sword Profound Meaning, and he broke through into the early stage of the Entering Saint Realm.
• Bai Ze bought the blacksmith’s newly forged sword, left a gold ingot, and vanished from the city.

After entering the Saint Realm, Bai Ze retrained his cultivation technique and began practicing Saint-grade martial skills in a fortified mountain cave. Elsewhere, Li Lüer escaped pursuers with a True Spirit Fruit and followed her Treasure Seeking Mouse toward another treasure.

• A blood-red Remnant Soul attached to Bai Ze began awakening and drawing strength from his breakthrough, but a formation kept it from eroding his soul further.
• Bai Ze carved out a Cave Mansion, guarded it with formations, and retrained the King Ming Sword Heart Art into the Sacred Spirit Art Formula.
• Bai Ze recognized that Saint Realm techniques and martial skills were needed to bring his new strength to its full potential, and he began cultivating Saint-grade skills.
• Li Lüer used a disguise to escape martial artists pursuing her after she obtained a True Spirit Fruit, which she expected would help her reach the peak of the Void Return Realm.
• Li Lüer followed her Treasure Seeking Mouse toward a treasure in the mountains and promised to share some of it with the greedy creature.

Li Lüer followed the Treasure Seeking Mouse through Bai Ze’s formation, where Bai Ze caught her and claimed the mouse for himself. When he recognized her after she revealed her identity, he realized she was the woman who had once used him as a shield.

• Li Lüer followed the Treasure Seeking Mouse into a formation while it searched for hidden treasure.
• Bai Ze practiced the five styles of the Longevity Sword Art and learned that its final move drained his lifespan in exchange for greatly increased strength.
• Bai Ze sensed an intruder, captured Li Lüer and the Treasure Seeking Mouse, and demanded that the mouse become his.
• Li Lüer pleaded for the mouse and tried to persuade Bai Ze to spare her, but he prepared to kill her and take her treasures.
• Li Lüer told Bai Ze her name, and he recognized her as the woman who had previously used him as a shield.

Li Lüer revealed her true appearance and was forced to work with Bai Ze, who placed a restriction on her and left her outside his Cave Mansion. While he secluded himself, Li Lüer followed the Treasure Seeking Mouse’s lead and began digging into a nearby stone wall for a treasure, but found nothing.

• Li Lüer revealed her true appearance and explained that the Treasure Seeking Mouse had formed a symbiotic contract with her, but Bai Ze released the mouse and ordered her to help him search for treasures.
• Bai Ze immobilized Li Lüer and placed an unknown measure inside her, then asked how far the mouse could sense treasures and told her to stay near the Cave Mansion.
• Bai Ze vanished using spatial control and shut himself inside the Cave Mansion, leaving Li Lüer stunned by how quickly he seemed to have reached the Saint Realm.
• The Treasure Seeking Mouse directed Li Lüer to a nearby stone wall, and she repeatedly blasted through it while searching for the treasure.
• After Li Lüer dug more than ten meters without finding anything, she set the Treasure Seeking Mouse down and challenged it to dig for itself.

Li Lüer found an Azure Steel Primordial Stone with the Treasure Seeking Mouse while waiting for Bai Ze to finish his seclusion. After Bai Ze emerged, he agreed to leave with her and asked her to lead him to a supreme expert’s tomb she had learned about.

• Li Lüer dug into the cave with her sword and uncovered an Azure Steel Primordial Stone, which the Treasure Seeking Mouse eagerly gnawed on.
• Li Lüer tickled the Treasure Seeking Mouse, stored the stone, and collapsed the tunnel before returning to wait for Bai Ze.
• After more than a month, Bai Ze emerged from seclusion having cultivated the Longevity Sword Art to Minor Accomplishment and improved his control of spatial power.
• Bai Ze agreed to leave and asked Li Lüer to show him opportunities in the Central Domain.
• Li Lüer told Bai Ze she had a map leading to a supreme expert’s tomb, and she argued that exploring it was no different from entering other secret realms.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer traveled to East Ferry City to investigate a rumored Void Stone in the Shi Family's ancestral tomb. They sent the Treasure Seeking Mouse's phantom to scout the tomb before deciding how to proceed.

• Bai Ze negotiated a ninety-ten share with Li Lüer for their treasure hunt, with Li Lüer receiving ten percent.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer reached East Ferry City and identified the Shi Family's ancestral tomb as the likely location marked on their map.
• Li Lüer suggested that the Treasure Seeking Mouse scout the tomb before they entered.
• The Treasure Seeking Mouse created a phantom that left to explore and would return with its memories.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer discussed rumors that the tomb might contain a Void Stone and the Shi Family's treasure vault.

Bai Ze obtained Li Lüer’s Myriad Transformations technique in exchange for letting her leave, but refused to let her take the Treasure Seeking Mouse. While cultivating, he discovered that the sealed black soul within him had taken human form and resolved to reach the Divine Realm before it could break free.

• Bai Ze demanded Li Lüer’s Disguise Technique, and she agreed to hand over Myriad Transformations if he let her leave.
• Bai Ze let Li Lüer go but kept the Treasure Seeking Mouse, then began cultivating Myriad Transformations.
• Bai Ze sensed a change in his soul and found that the sealed black soul energy had become a human-shaped Soul Body.
• The black Soul Body urged Bai Ze to open the seal and promised him greater power, but Bai Ze refused.
• Bai Ze decided to reach the true Divine Realm so he could destroy the black Soul Body before it broke free.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer disguised themselves while waiting for the Treasure Seeking Mouse, whose memories revealed that the Shi Family’s treasury and ancestral grounds were guarded by Saint Realm experts. They abandoned the dangerous mission and decided to seek Void Stone at the Fengdu Auction House in Aalai City.

• Bai Ze resisted the sealed shadow’s attempts to persuade him to break the seal, then continued cultivating Myriad Transformations.
• Bai Ze mastered using external items to disguise himself as a scarred, burly man, and Li Lüer changed into a sharp-mouthed, fang-toothed man.
• The Treasure Seeking Mouse woke injured, and Li Lüer learned from its memories that its phantom had been erased at the Shi Family ancestral grounds, where Saint Realm experts guarded the treasury and secluded cultivation grounds.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer abandoned their plan to enter the Shi Family grounds because of the danger.
• Li Lüer suggested seeking Void Stone at the Fengdu Auction House in Aalai City, which could procure almost anything for enough spirit stones.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer traveled toward Aolai City, where they encountered the notorious Seven Brothers of the Evil Wolf. Bai Ze killed three of them and began fighting their leader, Evil Wolf, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bai Ze decided to head to Aolai City and planned to rob others instead of bringing spirit stones.
• More than a month later, Bai Ze and Li Lüer encountered the Seven Brothers of the Evil Wolf on the road.
• Li Lüer warned Bai Ze that Evil Wolf was an Entering Saint Realm expert and his brothers were Void Return Realm warriors.
• Bai Ze unleashed his King Ming Domain and killed three of the brothers with sword strikes.
• Evil Wolf challenged Bai Ze, and the two clashed using the Longevity Sword Art First Style and Evil Wolf Roar.

Li Lüer fought off the remaining Seven Brothers of the Evil Wolf, revealing a hidden power tied to her unstable soul. Meanwhile, Bai Ze gained the upper hand over Evil Wolf, who offered to retreat rather than be killed.

• The three remaining brothers surrounded Li Lüer, but she distracted them and killed one with Phantom Mirage Three Thousand.
• The two survivors attacked Li Lüer with their full strength, but her shifting footwork left them wounded and unable to find her true body.
• One brother’s howl shattered Li Lüer’s afterimages, forcing her to reveal herself as the pair launched attacks that blocked her escape.
• Li Lüer manifested a mysterious King's Mark and killed both brothers, then explained that her powerful soul remained unstable and sealed until she reached the Saint Realm.
• Bai Ze shattered Evil Wolf’s domain and trapped him within the King Ming Domain, prompting Evil Wolf to offer to leave in exchange for his life.

Bai Ze killed the Evil Wolf and continued with Li Lüer to Aalai City, where they sought Void Stone at the Fengdu Auction House. They paid for a deposit and a room, leaving them under the auction house’s protection while they waited for the stone.

• Bai Ze used the third form of the Longevity Sword Art to kill the Evil Wolf and took his Storage Bag.
• Li Lüer met Bai Ze, and the two continued toward Aalai City after several more ambushes.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer entered the ruined city and made their way to the Fengdu Auction House, the city’s only safe place.
• Bai Ze paid fifty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones as a deposit for Void Stone and used the rest to rent a room.
• A Fengdu Auction House employee led Bai Ze and Li Lüer to a bare, ordinary room.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer attended the Fengdu Auction, where a Saintess Sect disciple was put up for sale. The bidding climbed past fifty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, and Li Lüer entered the contest, raising her offer to ninety thousand.

• Bai Ze formed a Spirit Gathering Array in their room and told Li Lüer to leave the Treasure Seeking Mouse behind if she went out.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer went to the Fengdu Auction’s main hall for the evening auction.
• The auctioneer presented a captive True Disciple of the Saintess Sect and explained that her cultivation could be transferred to another person.
• Bidders competed for the Void Return Realm disciple, driving the price above fifty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Lüer joined the bidding and raised her offer to ninety thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.

Li Lüer bought Su Yan at the Fengdu Auction House and brought her back with Bai Ze to learn the cultivation technique she practiced. Li Lüer recognized it as a distorted version of a technique connected to her own lineage, leaving her wondering how it had reached the Lower Realm.

• Li Lüer outbid Fu Tiannan for the imprisoned woman and paid the High-grade Spirit Stones, while Fu Tiannan threatened her.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer returned to their room with the woman, Su Yan, whose cultivation had been sealed by special chains.
• Li Lüer demanded Su Yan's cultivation technique, and Su Yan agreed to recite it after Li Lüer promised to keep her safe.
• Bai Ze found the technique ordinary, but Li Lüer recognized that it resembled her own and concluded it was derived from a fragment of the Saintess Clear Heart Technique.

Bai Ze, Li Lüer, and Su Yan left the Fengdu Auction House with the Void Stone, and Bai Ze killed two ambushers who tried to rob them. On their way toward the Sword Pavilion to forge a Saint Realm weapon, Li Lüer revealed that Su Yan’s Dream Body could open a secret realm said to be a Demigod’s ruin.

• Li Lüer told Su Yan she knew about her Dream Body and demanded that Su Yan help her with an undisclosed task.
• After half a month, Bai Ze, Li Lüer, and Su Yan obtained the Void Stone and left the Fengdu Auction House.
• Two figures attacked the group outside the auction house, and Bai Ze killed them with a single sword strike.
• Li Lüer recommended that Bai Ze visit the Sword Pavilion to have a Saint Realm weapon forged.
• Li Lüer revealed that Su Yan’s Dream Body could open a secret realm she had discovered, which was rumored to be a Demigod’s ruin.
• Bai Ze agreed to go with Li Lüer and Su Yan toward the Sword Pavilion in search of opportunities.