Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai led Zi Yan and their group into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and freed Yao Ming, a Dou Saint imprisoned beneath the lake. Yao Ming agreed to Xiao Bai’s conditions for help reclaiming the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, including serving Zi Yan for ten years, handing over the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, and bringing Yao Xiaotian to Xiao Bai alive.

• Xiao Bai concealed the group as they passed through the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s underground territory toward the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Bai used a void passage to bring the group to the bottom of the lake, where they uncovered Yao Ming chained to a stone platform.
• Yao Ming begged Xiao Bai to free him so he could kill Yao Xiaotian, and Xiao Bai offered to help him reclaim the clan’s leadership in exchange for three conditions.
• Xiao Bai required Yao Ming to lead the Nine Netherworld Underworld Pythons and serve Zi Yan for ten years, and Yao Ming agreed.
• Xiao Bai demanded the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and Yao Xiaotian alive, and Yao Ming agreed to both conditions.

Xiao Bai entered the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s stronghold and freed Yao Ming, who challenged Yao Xiaotian for the clan’s leadership. As Yao Ming battled his brother, Xiao Bai prevented the Grand Elder from intervening, while the clan elders began to divide over the former Clan Head’s return.

• The Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s elders debated whether to kill Xiao Bai and Qing Lin, until Yao Xiaotian announced that the seal in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs had broken.
• Xiao Bai arrived with Xiao Yan, Wind Venerable, and others, then revealed that he had freed Yao Ming from the seal.
• Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiaotian and displayed the strength of a Two-Star Dou Sheng, forcing his brother to fight him in the sky.
• The Grand Elder ordered the clan elders to attack Xiao Bai’s group, but several elders hesitated and recognized Yao Ming as their former Clan Head.
• The Grand Elder struck down an elder who questioned his actions and flew to join the battle, while Xiao Bai declared that he would not let anyone interrupt Yao Ming’s duel.

Xiao Bai stopped the Grand Elder from interfering while Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian and reclaimed control of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan. Yao Han then activated the clan’s blood-draining grand array, but Elder Zhu Huo broke in and defeated him, leaving Yao Ming to hand the two traitors over to Xiao Bai.

• Xiao Bai smacked the Grand Elder away and forbade the elders from interfering in Yao Ming and Yao Xiaotian’s battle.
• The Grand Elder and Yao Xiaotian tried to bribe Xiao Bai, but he refused and urged Yao Ming to continue fighting.
• Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian, who begged for mercy and blamed the Grand Elder, then killed him.
• Yao Han activated the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs Grand Array, which drained the clansmen’s bloodline essence and trapped Yao Ming and Xiao Bai.
• Elder Zhu Huo entered the array through space, struck down Yao Han, and caused the formation to collapse.
• Yao Ming condemned Yao Han and gave him and Yao Xiaotian over to Xiao Bai, telling him to make them rush into danger and block blades first.

Xiao Bai examined the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and awakened the Yellow Springs Demon Sage's remnant soul, while Zhu Huo and Zi Yan prepared to attack it. Xiao Bai stopped the confrontation with the power of his Chaos Pupils, leaving the Demon Sage facing a vast eye in the sky.

• Xiao Bai recognized the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet's immense Soul Pressure, and Yao Ming explained that it held the Yellow Springs Demon Sage's essence blood and inheritance.
• Xiao Bai revealed that entering the tablet required a Heaven Realm soul and obtaining its inheritance required the Late Heaven Realm, then asked Zhu Huo to move it.
• When Zhu Huo failed to budge the tablet, its glow awakened the Yellow Springs Demon Sage, who challenged Xiao Bai to return once his Heaven Realm soul was perfected.
• Zhu Huo provoked the Demon Sage and resisted his Soul Pressure, while he and Zi Yan joined forces to attack the tablet.
• The Demon Sage summoned his Yellow Springs True Body, but Xiao Bai appeared on a distant mountain and ordered everyone to stop as a massive vertical eye opened in the sky.

Xiao Bai offered to revive the Yellow Springs Demon Sage using a method combining nirvana, yin-yang creation, heavenly lightning, and the Three Thousand Burning Flame. The Demon Sage accepted the attempt and agreed to visit Purple Firmament Palace if he survived, while Xiao Yan noticed a strange reaction in his bloodline and Zi Yan remained with Xiao Bai to discuss the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Sage dismissed Xiao Bai’s warning until Xiao Bai sent him the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan’s nirvana method and explained his resurrection technique had a thirty percent chance of success.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Sage recalled that the world seemed to be missing something and warned Xiao Bai not to attempt to break through to Dou Di lightly.
• Xiao Bai asked for Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and invited the revived Demon Sage to visit Purple Firmament Palace, and the Demon Sage agreed.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Sage began the resurrection attempt by drawing out his essence blood as Xiao Bai covered the altar with a lightning-filled Taiji Diagram.
• Xiao Yan felt his bloodline react to the essence blood and noticed a strange pattern appear on his forehead.
• Zhu Huo prepared to leave with Zi Yan, but Zi Yan stayed with Xiao Bai and rebuked Zhu Huo for planning to use the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit without proper guidance.

Xiao Bai watched the Yellow Springs Demon Sage enter nirvana in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, then returned with Zi Yan and Yun Yun to Jia Nan Academy. The chapter ended with Zi Yan announcing that Xiao Bai was an eighth-tier high-rank alchemist before chasing Old Man Hao toward the medicinal storehouse.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Sage gave Xiao Bai the Yellow Springs techniques and entered the altar to begin nirvana in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Bai told Yao Ming to guard the Yellow Springs and watch Yao Xiaotian and the others, then promised to teach him Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath if he reached a Heaven Realm soul.
• Xiao Bai, Zi Yan, and Yun Yun traveled to Jia Nan Academy, where Zi Yan reunited with Su Qian and Xiao Bai met the academy elders.
• Xiao Bai congratulated Qian Mu and Bai Lie on reaching Dou Zun, while he reunited with Su Qian and the other academy elders.
• Zi Yan revealed that Xiao Bai was an eighth-tier high-rank alchemist, then chased Old Man Hao toward the medicinal storehouse.

Xiao Bai and Zi Yan returned to the Underground Lava world, where Xiao Bai defeated a Fire Lizard and was recognized as a divine envoy by two white-armored Lizardmen. They entered Tuoshe Ancient Cave with Zhu Kun’s help, and Zi Yan began to understand the loneliness her father had endured there for ten thousand years.

• Su Qian watched Xiao Bai and Zi Yan leave the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower and hoped Xiao Bai would help Zi Yan and the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Bai and Zi Yan descended through the magma, where Little Golden Dragon confronted the Fire Lizard that had once driven them away.
• Xiao Bai used Yellow Springs Finger to blast the Fire Lizard elder into the depths of the magma, and Little Golden Dragon finished off another Lizardman.
• Two white-armored Lizardmen called Xiao Bai a divine envoy, and Zhu Kun explained that he could use the Dragon Seal to guide Xiao Bai and Zi Yan through the Black Magma Layer.
• Xiao Bai and Zi Yan passed through the seal into Tuoshe Ancient Cave, where Zi Yan thought of her father’s ten thousand years of solitude and regretted how she had treated him.

Xiao Bai and Zi Yan reunited with Zhu Kun, who explained how Zi Yan could safely refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and revealed the near-impossible requirements for escaping the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode. Zhu Kun then hinted that his recent research had uncovered another possibility.

• Zhu Kun transformed from his enormous dragon form, reunited with Zi Yan, and recognized Little Golden Dragon as a weak Nine Profound Golden Thunder he had once helped.
• Zhu Kun identified Zi Yan's Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and gave her the clan's Dragon Phoenix Body Refining Art so she could absorb it safely over several years.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun about the Ancient Dragon Clan's division and decline, and he promised to deal with the traitors after escaping.
• Zhu Kun told Xiao Bai that his known escape method required four peak Dou Saints, each holding four pieces of ancient jade, leaving Xiao Bai dismayed.
• Zhu Kun said his latest research had brought him a pleasant surprise, but he had not yet explained what it was.

Xiao Bai and Zhu Kun discussed how to free Zhu Kun from the seal and settled on using the Ancient Emperor Jade and outside help while the major clans were drawn to the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode. Xiao Bai planned to prepare Jia Nan Academy and the Divine Firmament Alliance before releasing the news, then left Zhu Kun to guide Zi Yan’s cultivation.

• Zhu Kun explained that the Myriad Dragon Ancient Formation could weaken the seal, but Dragon Island lacked enough powerful dragons to make the plan viable.
• Xiao Bai proposed finding another expert of Zhu Kun’s realm with a second piece of ancient jade, and Zhu Kun said that would give him a thirty percent chance of escaping.
• Xiao Bai devised a plan to expose the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and draw the clans into a struggle over their jade, creating trouble for Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Bai told Zhu Kun he could gather enough jade and arrange help from powerful experts, then explained the outside situation and his plan to him.
• Zhu Kun agreed to wait while Xiao Bai settled matters with Jia Nan Academy and the Divine Firmament Alliance, and asked him to thank Su Qian for caring for Zi Yan.
• Xiao Bai chose not to disturb Zi Yan as she meditated, and Zhu Kun escorted him out of the square.

Xiao Bai warned Jia Nan Academy that the continent would soon be engulfed in a crisis and arranged for it to relocate near Shimo City. He then reunited with Yun Yun at Misty Cloud Sect and promised to heal Yun Shan after returning from the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Bai visited Su Qian and warned that powerful factions would converge on Jia Nan Academy within about two years, putting it at risk of destruction.
• Xiao Bai and Su Qian agreed to move the academy near Shimo City, where the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower could use the terrain where the Green Lotus Core Flame was born.
• Xiao Bai passed along Zhu Kun's thanks to Su Qian for caring for Zi Yan, then departed as Su Qian began preparing the relocation.
• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that Xiao Bai had helped her reach Dou Zun, and Xiao Bai arrived at Misty Cloud Sect soon afterward.
• Yun Yun worried about Yun Shan's declining health, and Xiao Bai promised to refine a pill to repair his foundation and advance his cultivation after returning from the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Bai and Yun Yun explored the Gate of Life and Death and discovered it held traces of an ancient battle against the Evil Race. They found a message suggesting a powerful expert had dealt with the Evil Race there, but the mention of a strange passage and mission target left Xiao Bai wary.

• Xiao Bai and Yun Yun entered the Gate of Life and Death, where Yun Yun explained that its dangerous astral winds had long served the Misty Cloud Sect as a cultivation resource.
• Xiao Bai found a floating boulder marked by powerful sword intent and triggered an image of a human-shaped Evil Race warrior clashing with a devastating sword strike.
• Xiao Bai identified the enemy as part of the Evil Race and led Yun Yun out of the Gate of Life and Death, deciding against exploring farther.
• Xiao Bai used his Chaos Eye on the Stone Gate, revealing an ancient message that Yun Yun read aloud: its writer had fought the Evil Race, found a strange passage, and sensed the mission target there.
• Xiao Bai and Yun Yun suspected that the sword-wielding expert had driven off the Evil Race, though Xiao Bai remained concerned about the strange passage and mission target.

Lei Zhen discovered that the Spirit Clan had vanished from its realm without leaving any trace, while Xiao Bai married Yun Yun and spent half a month traveling with her. They parted near the Central Continent, with Yun Yun heading to Flower Sect and Xiao Bai responding to a message from Xian Er.

• Lei Zhen entered the Spirit Realm and found it empty, concluding that the Spirit Clan had completely disappeared.
• Xiao Bai arrived at Misty Cloud Sect and found Yun Yun dressed as a bride; they drank nuptial wine and spent the night together.
• Xiao Bai and Yun Yun traveled around the Northwest Continent for half a month, then agreed that she would return to Flower Sect and serve as acting sect master.
• Xiao Bai brought Yun Yun through space to the Central Continent, where a message from Xian Er prompted him to leave and meet her.
• Yun Yun flew toward Flower Sect and realized she had grown more attached to Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai returned to Purple Firmament Palace and learned that Xiao Yan had placed second in the Pill Gathering to Yao Ling. After confronting the Yao Clan visitors over their probing, Xiao Bai heard that the Spirit and Stone Clans had vanished, leaving the Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans fearful and searching for answers about the Tuoshe Ancient Jade.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Bai that he had placed second in the Pill Gathering, where Yao Ling of the Yao Clan had won.
• Lei Zhen introduced Huo Zhi, Huo Yang, Yao Xingji, and Yao Ling to Xiao Bai at Immeasurable Hall.
• Xiao Bai shattered Yao Ling and Yao Xingji's probing Soul Strength and warned them not to disrespect him in his palace.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Xiao Bai had previously driven Hun Xuzi away, shocking Lei Zhen and the visitors from the Huo and Yao Clans.
• Lei Zhen and Huo Zhi told Xiao Bai that the Spirit and Stone Clans had disappeared, and Lei Zhen asked whether Xiao Bai knew of the Tuoshe Ancient Jade.

Xiao Bai hosted prodigies from three Ancient Clans who were investigating the destruction of the Spirit Stone Two Clans, then began reviving Yao Lao with a Blood-Generating Bone-Melting Pill. As the pill was refined, Xiao Bai gave Xiao Yan a Heavenly Demon Puppet technique, while Lei Zhen revealed that the visitors had come to probe Xiao Bai and the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Bai considered whether the Soul Clan might attack the other clans and decided to summon Hai Bodong to help Jia Nan Academy relocate sooner.
• Xiao Bai reunited with Xiao Qing, who admitted she had nearly uprooted a valuable medicinal herb, and checked Cai Lin's progress in seclusion.
• Xiao Bai began refining the Blood-Generating Bone-Melting Pill to restore Yao Lao's body, using the high-grade ingredients Xiao Yan had brought.
• Xiao Bai gave Xiao Yan a Heavenly Demon Puppet technique as thanks for his help, and Xiao Yan accepted it eagerly.
• Lei Zhen explained to Huo Yang and Yao Xingji that their clan had sent them out to preserve its bloodline, and that he had brought them to Purple Firmament Palace to investigate Xiao Bai's connection to Gu Xun Er.

Xiao Bai crushed the six-colored Pill Lightning from Xiao Yan’s pill and let Purple Firmament Palace disciples absorb its power, impressing the visiting clansmen. In the quiet room, Xiao Bai presented Yao Lao with three powerful materials for his revival.

• Yao Ling and the others recognized the thunder as Pill Lightning from an eighth-grade pill, while Purple Firmament Palace disciples hurried to the plaza to watch.
• Xiao Bai seized the six-colored Pill Lightning with a giant hand of lightning and scattered its power for the disciples to absorb.
• Xiao Bai praised the disciples’ perseverance and urged them to seek the Dao without failing themselves or their path.
• Lei Zhen, Huo Yang, Huo Zhi, Yao Ling, and Yao Xingji reacted to Xiao Bai’s strength, while several disciples advanced or strengthened themselves with the lightning.
• Yao Lao teased Xiao Yan about his alchemy before Xiao Bai brought out the Wind and Thunder Pavilion Master's Corpse, Eighth-Rank Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Essence Blood, and Dou Sheng Bone Marrow Essence.

Xiao Bai used the Yin Yang Twin Thunders and Dou Sheng Bone Marrow Essence to revive Yao Lao in Lei Yu's body, then prepared Xiao Yan to visit the Xiao Clan ancestor at the Ancient Clan. He learned about Purple Firmament City's auction house and ordered Hai Bodong to help relocate Jia Nan Academy and withdraw the Divine Firmament Alliance from the Black-Corner Region within half a year.

• Xiao Bai began Yao Lao's revival by tempering Lei Yu's shell with Yao Yu's Ban Sheng blood essence, then helped Yao Lao enter the body and fused Dou Sheng Bone Marrow Essence into its bones.
• Flesh buds began growing on Yao Lao's bones, and Xiao Bai told Xiao Yan to prepare for a trip to the Ancient Clan to meet Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Bai praised Qing Lin's progress to Three-Star Dou Zun and learned that Cai Lin had enlisted the Mittel Family to help establish Purple Firmament City's auction house.
• Xiao Bai met Hai Bodong and Ya Fei, then ordered Hai Bodong to assist Jia Nan Academy's relocation and tell the Divine Firmament Alliance to withdraw from the Black-Corner Region within half a year.
• Hai Bodong agreed to leave immediately, while Ya Fei departed after a restrained farewell to Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai set out for the Ancient Clan with Xiao Yan and several young members of other clans, who hoped to investigate the disappearance of the Spirit Stone Two Clans. After blaming the Soul Clan with shameless praise of Gu Xun Er’s father, Xiao Bai considered whether the Ancient Clan’s Gu Yuan could help him deal with the Nine Profound Golden Thunder.

• Xiao Yi Xian urged Xiao Bai to stand up for himself at the Ancient Clan and promised they would return together to take Gu Xun Er if necessary.
• Xiao Bai persuaded Lei Zhen and Huo Zhi to accompany him to the Ancient Clan, and Yao Ling and Yao Xingji eventually boarded the Heavenly Phoenix Warship as well.
• Lei Zhen and Huo Zhi told Xiao Bai they planned to send word of the trip to their clans, and Xiao Bai agreed.
• Xiao Bai told the group he believed the Soul Clan had made the Spirit Stone Two Clans disappear, then defended Gu Yuan as an honorable man because Gu Xun Er was kindhearted.
• Lei Zhen said his clan had sensed Dean Mang’s aura in the void but had not investigated, and Xiao Bai concluded that the Ancient Clan might have someone capable of suppressing the Nine Profound Golden Thunder.

Lei Ying learned that Lei Zhen and young representatives of the Yan and Yao Clans were accompanying Xiao Bai to the Ancient Clan to investigate the destruction of the Spirit and Stone Clans. Xiao Bai arrived at Gu Sheng City with his companions, setting off a stir among the Ancient Clan’s younger generation as its members prepared to confront him.

• Lei Ying heard that Lei Zhen had gone to the Ancient Clan with Xiao Bai and wondered whether the Ancient Clan or Soul Clan was behind the Spirit and Stone Clans’ destruction.
• Lei Zhen told Xiao Bai that they were approaching Gu Sheng City, and Xiao Bai recalled Xun Er as their warship neared the Ancient Clan’s capital.
• A Black Annihilation Army captain recognized Xiao Bai at the city gate and went to report that Xiao Bai and Xiao Yan had come to visit the Ancient Clan.
• News of Xiao Bai’s arrival spread through the Ancient Realm, prompting Ling Quan to rage, Gu Yao to prepare to challenge him over Xun Er, and Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen to go see him.
• The Ancient Clan opened the Realm Gate Passage to its younger generation, while elders voiced resentment over Xun Er’s choice of Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai arrived at Gu Sheng City and faced the Ancient Clan’s hostile younger generation, effortlessly defeating Ling Quan and Yang Hao. As Xun Er and Gu Yuan watched, Gu Yao arrived and fixed his attention on Xiao Bai, setting up a more serious confrontation.

• Xun Er learned from Ling Ying that Xiao Bai had arrived and hurried to welcome him, while Ling Ying warned that the Ancient Clan’s younger generation was gathering against him.
• Xiao Bai threatened Yao Xingji after he complained, and Yao Ling intervened before the confrontation escalated.
• Ling Quan attacked Xiao Bai, but Xiao Bai knocked him unconscious with a glance, provoking the Ancient Clan youths.
• Yang Hao challenged Xiao Bai with a three-seal Dou Technique, but Xiao Bai’s casual wave sent him crashing down unconscious.
• Gu Yuan confronted Xun Er over her role in hiding Xiao Bai’s strength and letting the clan youths challenge him.
• Gu Yao arrived from the Ancient Realm passage, and he and Xiao Bai locked eyes as the crowd anticipated their clash.

Xiao Bai defeated Gu Yao in Gu Sheng City by devouring and transforming the power of his strongest techniques, then challenged the Ban Sheng elder Gu Shan. Gu Shan’s pressure briefly made Xiao Bai’s body appear illusory, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Gu Yao challenged Xiao Bai to a fair fight, but Xiao Bai dismissed him as unqualified and calmly blocked his Mountain Splitting Seal with the Great Heaven Fortune Palm.
• Gu Yao unleashed the Great Annihilation Technique and Annihilation Finger, but Xiao Bai’s transformed black hole devoured the attack and converted its vitality-draining force into energy that strengthened him.
• Xiao Bai overwhelmed Gu Yao with the black hole’s suction until an elder intervened, leaving Gu Yao grievously injured and the city’s spectators in stunned silence.
• Xiao Bai announced himself as Purple Firmament Palace’s Xiao Bai and said he had come to visit the Ancient Clan, then challenged Gu Shan after the Ban Sheng elder called him arrogant.
• Gu Shan released his Ban Sheng pressure at Xiao Bai, whose body briefly rippled and blurred as if it were an illusion.