Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing advanced to the second level of the Primordial Spirit Realm while continuing to avoid Gu Jingzhi’s invitations. When Lingxiao City learned the Demon Domain might launch a great war, Bai Jing replied, “Wait for me!”

• Bai Jing’s Dharma Manifestation grew stronger as he broke through to the second level of the Primordial Spirit Realm, and he told the Ox Demon to decline Gu Jingzhi’s invitation again.
• Half a year later, Demon Domain cultivators appeared in the Primordial Spirit Battlefield, and Mu Xiaoyue suspected Su Tongxuan was preparing to break through to Transcendence.
• A blue-robed cultivator invited Bai Jing to his celebration banquet, and Bai Jing’s first reply asked whether the Demon Domain wanted to start a great war.
• After the blue-robed cultivator replied yes, Bai Jing sent back, “Wait for me!” and the gathered cultivators were stunned.

Su Tongxuan challenged the Hong Domain cultivators, but Gu Jingzhi entered the battlefield to keep him from escaping before Bai Jing arrived. Bai Jing appeared in the Primordial Spirit Battlefield, terrifying the Demon Domain fighters, who retreated behind their Half-Step Transcendence cultivators.

• Su Tongxuan mocked Gu Jingzhi and challenged the Hong Domain cultivators to enter the battlefield.
• Mu Xiaoyue said they were waiting for someone, making the Demon Cultivators fear that Little Monster would arrive.
• Gu Jingzhi entered the field and told Su Tongxuan he had come to prevent him from escaping.
• Su Tongxuan charged Gu Jingzhi but suddenly retreated when Bai Jing appeared beside him.
• The Demon Cultivators below the Half-Step Transcendence realm hid behind their strongest fighters, prompting an elder to demand that the late-stage cultivators step forward.

Bai Jing entered the Primordial Spirit Battlefield and used his third-tier array cultivation to devastate the Demon Domain forces. After trapping a half-step Transcendent in his Southern Bright Leaving Fire Divine Array, he revealed power that left both sides shaken, then fixed his attention on the remaining Demon Domain powerhouses.

• Bai Jing joined the Hong Domain fight, boosting his allies’ morale and alarming the Demon Domain cultivators.
• Bai Jing’s array diagram let him deploy ordinary arrays across the battlefield, killing more than thirty early- and mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm demons.
• Su Tongxuan moved to stop Bai Jing while the Hong Domain and Demon Domain experts fought across the battlefield.
• Bai Jing trapped a half-step Transcendent with a human body and ape head inside his Southern Bright Leaving Fire Divine Array.
• The half-step Transcendent broke free by unleashing the power of Great Dao Laws, but both domains realized Bai Jing’s Divine Array could threaten anyone below their level.
• Bai Jing fixed his gaze on the Demon Domain half-step Transcendents as a sound like the opening of heaven and earth rang out.

Bai Jing used the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array and other formations to trap Su Tongxuan while slaughtering Demon Domain cultivators on the battlefield. Though the Demon Domain broke the Sub-Saint Laws to protect its forces, its experts withdrew and Su Tongxuan died inside the array.

• Bai Jing trapped Su Tongxuan in the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array, alarming both camps with his ability to hold a Half-Step Transcendent.
• Bai Jing's Heavenly Tribulation Lure Array and other formations killed many Demon Domain cultivators while the enemy Half-Step Transcendents struggled to help Su Tongxuan.
• Su Tongxuan's allies repeatedly delayed their attack on the Divine Fiend Array, and Mu Xiaoyue intervened to keep one of them occupied.
• Bai Jing combined more than fifty arrays to trap another Half-Step Transcendent, leaving Su Tongxuan without support as the Hong Domain cultivators held off the Demon Domain forces.
• Zhu Zican and Gu Jingzhi used True Saint methods to break the Sub-Saint Laws, after which Demon Domain cultivators and Half-Step Transcendents fled toward Demon City.
• Su Tongxuan was swallowed by the array's Killing Intent and died.

After Bai Jing destroyed the Primordial Spirit Battlefield, Hong Domain celebrated his victory while Demon Domain powerhouses plotted to kill him. He left Lingxiao City with three Divine Array manuals and began studying them, setting third-tier cultivation in motion.

• Bai Jing’s victory over the Demon Domain drew praise from Zhao Lingjun, Gu Jingzhi, Mu Xiaoyue, and the other Hong Domain cultivators, while Demon Domain powerhouses resolved to target him once he left Hong Domain.
• Gu Jingzhi asked Bai Jing to remain in Lingxiao City, but Bai Jing declined because he was from Shangqing Mountain and feared that Su Chen or the Demon Saints might attack him.
• Mu Xiaoyue gave Bai Jing three Divine Arrays from Elder Zhao Lingjun, and Bai Jing accepted them before leaving the banquet.
• Bai Jing returned to his cultivation chamber, studied the Myriad Soul Banner and Soul Stabilizer, and activated proficiency to begin pursuing third-tier cultivation.

Bai Jing watched the Demon Domain restore the Dharma-Manifestation and Primordial Spirit Battlefields, then accepted a Nascent Soul Treasure from the Ox Demon and advanced to the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm. He decided they would stay in Lingxiao City for another ten years instead of returning.

• The Demon Domain restored both battlefields with the help of a formation-path Sub-Saint, and a Hong Domain Sub-Saint promptly reinforced their Laws.
• Bai Jing saw the new generation of Hong Domain Dharma Manifestations prepare for renewed battles while Lingxiao Academy shifted resources to support them.
• The Ox Demon broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and explained he had prepared to buy Bai Jing a Nascent Soul Treasure.
• The Ox Demon presented Bai Jing with the treasure, and Bai Jing refined it over three months to reach the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Jing told the Ox Demon they would remain in Lingxiao City for another ten years, leaving him stunned.

Bai Jing welcomed new recruits to Lingxiao City, advised them about surviving the Northern Territory battlefield, and cultivated while the younger generation endured its first brutal clash with the Demon Domain. As their ten-year trial ended, his new wood-element leaf was perfected, and he eagerly examined the powerful array it contained.

• Li Tian boasted aboard the arriving ships that he would follow Bai Jing's example, but Sun Chong challenged him when Bai Jing appeared and greeted Elder Liu.
• Bai Jing accepted two Divine Arrays from Elder Liu, who warned him to conceal his strength and avoid drawing the Demon Domain's attention.
• Li Tian killed a Demon Domain supreme prodigy but nearly died in the same battle, while Sun Chong and others helped him survive the costly first clash.
• Bai Jing watched his wood-element leaf near completion and learned that Gu Jingzhi had advanced to the late Primordial Spirit stage, then secluded himself to cultivate.
• Ten years later, Bai Jing saw the perfected leaf's array rival the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array and eagerly read its contents.

Bai Jing studied the Ten Absolute Array and sent the Ox Demon to search Lingxiao City for the artifacts needed to cultivate its component arrays. As the ten-year tempering period ended, he departed on a ship with other cultivators, while his peers looked ahead to reaching the First Generation's Hometown.

• Bai Jing examined the Ten Absolute Array's artifact requirements and ordered the Ox Demon to buy several of the listed items in Lingxiao City.
• After studying all night, Bai Jing unlocked the proficiency panels for the ten arrays and considered how the complete formation could support a seventh-rank consummate array cultivator among Sub-Saints.
• Dharma Aspect cultivators gathered at Lingxiao City to leave after ten years of battlefield tempering, and prominent figures assembled to see Bai Jing off.
• Li Tian resolved to reach the First Generation's Hometown, while Gu Jingzhi and Sima Yue also spoke of going there and advancing to Transcendent Great Power.
• Bai Jing's ship departed, and he relaxed aboard while the Ox Demon served him tea and other cultivators watched with admiration.

Bai Jing returned and found Xu Shan being accused of withholding Immortal Merit by a gray-clad law enforcement disciple. After Bai Jing intervened, the disciple’s Golden Core elder brother was expelled from the Sword Holding Hall for twenty years.

• A gray-clad disciple accused Xu Shan of withholding Immortal Merit and threatened to take him to the Law Enforcement Hall over a disputed shop commission.
• Xu Shan bound himself in iron chains as the disciple prepared to punish him, while onlookers urged the disciple to verify the agreement with his brother.
• Bai Jing arrived, freed Xu Shan from the chains, and invited him to a banquet with Lin Changsheng.
• Bai Jing criticized the Sword Holding Hall’s management, leaving the gray-clad disciple terrified that he had caused trouble for his elder brother.
• A Golden Core in Wind Star Valley learned he had been expelled from the Sword Holding Hall for twenty years and raged that his brother had provoked Bai Jing.

At a banquet, Bai Jing learned that Ling Qinghe’s exceptional talent had emerged, and the group discussed how the Demon Domain might target them. He began cultivating the Ten Absolute Array and continued his Spiritual Cultivator training, advancing both for thirty years.

• Bai Jing attended Lin Changsheng’s banquet, where the others praised his talent and urged everyone to keep his record-breaking achievements secret from the Demon Domain.
• Ling Qinghe hinted that Bai Jing might break another cultivation record, and the group discussed how one of them might need to remain in the Hong Domain while Bai Jing eventually traveled beyond it.
• Bai Jing returned to his Ninety-Nine Cave Abode and began practicing the Ten Absolute Array, while the Ox Demon recognized the unfamiliar arrays and kept quiet.
• Bai Jing continued dividing his time between array cultivation and Spiritual Cultivator training, and after thirty years his Ten Absolute Array and five Divine Arrays neared major mastery.

Lin Changsheng introduced Shangqing Mountain’s new recruits to the sect, where they learned that the respected Ox Demon was Bai Jing’s pet. Meanwhile, Bai Jing studied how to face the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and was preparing to deepen his foundation before attempting it when Xu Nian arrived with a summons from the Sword Saint.

• Lin Changsheng led the new recruits to the Scripture Repository and explained that the courteous Ox Demon was Bai Jing’s pet.
• Bai Jing studied ancient texts on Transcendence tribulations and grew more confident about passing the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Bai Jing decided to settle his foundation for two more months and asked the Ox Demon to find more records about heavenly tribulations.
• Bai Jing wondered how to obtain a Great Divine Ability without revealing that he was a Spiritual Cultivator and attracting the True Saint’s attention.
• Xu Nian visited Bai Jing and told him that the Sword Saint wished to see him.

Bai Jing met Sword Saint Ye Qingxuan, who revealed that he knew Bai Jing secretly cultivated both spiritual and array arts. After Bai Jing absorbed the rules surrounding the meeting, Ye Qingxuan began questioning him about the Demon Domain's war and its deeper purpose.

• Xu Nian escorted Bai Jing to the cave abode on Spiritual Elegance Peak, where the Sword Saint and the Sub-Saint were waiting.
• Bai Jing discovered that Ye Qingxuan knew about his spiritual cultivation and stopped hiding it, absorbing the powerful Great Dao rules around him.
• Bai Jing entered the hall, glimpsed Ye Qingxuan's overwhelming presence, and respectfully greeted him and the Sub-Saint.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Bai Jing why the Demon Domain had started the war between the two domains, then said that existence was eternity.

Ye Qingxuan revealed that the Demon Saint was waging war to consume cultivators’ life essence and extend his own life, warning that a greater calamity would come. He prepared Bai Jing for a dangerous journey to the First Generation's Hometown by giving him a saint-level cultivation method, a disguise art, a divine ability, and an escape pendant.

• Ye Qingxuan told Bai Jing that the Demon Saint had started the war to prolong his life by consuming cultivators’ life essence.
• Ye Qingxuan warned that the Demon Saint would unleash a worse war when his life could no longer be sustained, and urged Bai Jing and other promising cultivators to become saints before then.
• Bai Jing said he planned to visit the First Generation's Hometown under the identity of a Spiritual Cultivator, and Ye Qingxuan offered to conceal his identity from True Saints.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Bai Jing a Peerless Saint Method and a disguise art that altered his appearance, vital signs, and fate.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Bai Jing a powerful divine ability and a Jade Pendant that could transport him to the Divine Realm in a life-threatening crisis.

Bai Jing followed Sword Saint Ye Qingxuan’s arrangements, received Ye Chenghuan as his protector, and studied transcendence tribulations before breaking through to transcendence. After condensing a Dao Fruit and gaining immense power, Bai Jing began facing the heavenly tribulation.

• Ye Qingxuan introduced his descendant Ye Chenghuan and appointed him to protect Bai Jing on the journey to the Upper Three Domains.
• Sub-Saint Yun brought Bai Jing books on transcendence tribulations and urged him to pass the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• After half a month of study and cultivation, Bai Jing merged three Inner Cores into a Dao Fruit and broke through to transcendence.
• Bai Jing drew on the Great Daos of Water, Fire, and Wind, formed an ocean of rule-infused spiritual power, and demonstrated that he could tear open the void.
• Heavenly lightning struck Bai Jing, who endured the first bolt and continued facing the tribulation.

Bai Jing survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, emerged with a greatly strengthened body and Dao Fruit, and began dispersing his Mana to change cultivation methods. Three years later, he stood with Ye Chenghuan before a golden vortex leading to the Upper Three Domains.

• Bai Jing endured the first six heavenly tribulations, withstanding attacks on his body and Primordial Spirit as his foundations transformed.
• Bai Jing survived the final three tribulations and was reborn with hardened bones, renewed flesh, and a far more powerful Transcendence Dao Fruit.
• Bai Jing tested his strength, then immediately began dispersing his Mana to change cultivation methods.
• The Sub-Saint of Spiritual Elegance Peak asked Sword Saint Ye Qingxuan to help Bai Jing, and Ye Qingxuan agreed.
• Three years later, Bai Jing and Ye Chenghuan stood before a golden vortex that led to the Upper Three Domains.

Bai Jing entered the First Generation's Hometown with Ye Chenghuan as his guardian and discovered that its Great Dao Laws were richer than those of the Hong Domain. The chapter ended with Bai Jing cultivating openly with Jade of Rules while Ye Chenghuan wondered whether his promise to protect him had made him reckless.

• Bai Jing changed his face and height before following Ye Chenghuan through the portal to the First Generation's Hometown.
• The Ox Demon realized Bai Jing had left and stayed behind to tend the medicinal garden at Shangqing Mountain.
• Bai Jing arrived in a forest, confirmed Ye Chenghuan was nearby, and learned the senior would intervene only against enemies at the Divine Moon Realm or above.
• Bai Jing sensed the denser Laws of the Upper Three Domains and began cultivating with the Great Thunderclap Breath Technique.
• Bai Jing crushed a Jade of Rules to draw in its Laws, while Ye Chenghuan watched and questioned whether Bai Jing was acting recklessly because of his protection.

Bai Jing practiced Palm Thunder in the forest, drawing the attention of nearby cultivators and prompting Sub-Saint Li Chenghuan to infer that he was building a reputation under his current identity. As Bai Jing's training destroyed the Golden Winged Great Peng's territory, the demon appeared and confronted him.

• Bai Jing used Palm Thunder to destroy a mountain and continued training, while Sub-Saint Li Chenghuan concluded that he was deliberately making a name for himself.
• Travelers approaching a nearby city discussed the Golden Winged Great Peng, its past fight with local Great Powers, and their plans to reach Tianwu City and Tianwu Academy.
• In a city nearby, Ding Zeren met with three Great Powers and introduced a young expert from Tianwu Academy who planned to take the underground flame from the demon peng's territory.
• Bai Jing's lightning strikes collapsed more mountaintops, and the Golden Winged Great Peng appeared and roared that he had crossed its boundary.

Bai Jing confronted the Golden-Winged Peng Demon after learning it had eaten humans, and a fierce battle broke out despite the demon offering to let him leave. Several Transcendents watched from afar, relying on Lu Hao as the fight revealed Bai Jing’s astonishing physical strength.

• Bai Jing identified the Golden-Winged Peng Demon and accused it of eating humans, while Sub-Saint Ye Chenghuan warned him not to reveal killing intent toward a Demon Race member.
• The Peng Demon admitted it had eaten humans, so Bai Jing struck it with heavenly lightning and refused its offer to end the dispute peacefully.
• Ding Zeren, Red Hair, Lu Hao, and two other Transcendents watched from a distant mountain and decided to wait, believing Lu Hao could handle the situation.
• The Golden-Winged Peng Demon attacked Bai Jing, who wounded it with Palm Thunder, but its injuries healed almost instantly.
• Bai Jing and the Golden-Winged Peng Demon exchanged a hundred punches each, shocking the distant observers with Bai Jing’s physical strength.
• Lu Hao suggested that Bai Jing might use a Body Cultivator method that tempered the body with lightning.

Bai Jing revealed the true power of his lightning technique and defeated the Golden Winged Peng demon, demonstrating strength worthy of a Transcendence Realm marquis. He killed the demon despite its threats, leaving Lu Hao and the other cultivators stunned.

• The Golden Winged Peng demon increased his physical strength, but Bai Jing matched him in a second fist-to-fist clash.
• Bai Jing used Palm Thunder with the foundation of the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, severely wounding the Peng demon and making him believe Bai Jing had passed the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Lu Hao and the other cultivators recognized Bai Jing as a marquis-level expert and hesitated to intervene.
• The Peng demon pleaded for his life and warned Bai Jing that his master possessed twelve times the strength.
• Bai Jing struck the Peng demon with Palm Thunder, destroying his head, body, and soul.

Bai Jing killed a Golden Winged Great Peng, took its Earth Fire, and secured the silence of five Transcendence Realm cultivators before traveling with Lu Hao toward Tianwu City. There, he learned that the Barren Domain’s geniuses were anticipating his arrival as the Tenth-Tier Potential Bai Jing, leaving him amused by the talk about himself.

• Bai Jing extracted the Earth Fire after killing the Peng demon, then confronted five Transcendence Realm cultivators who had witnessed the battle.
• Ding Zeren, Lu Hao, and the other cultivators swore in Venerable Ming’s name to keep the incident secret, and Bai Jing let them leave after learning the region was part of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.
• Lu Hao invited Bai Jing to a Transcendence Realm gathering in Tianwu City, and Bai Jing agreed to go with him as he traveled toward the First Generation’s Hometown.
• Bai Jing and Lu Hao reached a city where Lu Hao was collecting young cultivators for Tianwu Academy’s final assessment, then boarded a ship carrying the candidates and their families.
• Lu Hao told Bai Jing that the Barren Domain’s geniuses were eager to see Bai Jing, the Tenth-Tier Potential, at the gathering in the First Generation’s Hometown.