Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing bought High-Grade Wind Spirit Pills and used them to accelerate his cultivation, reaching the perfection of the Dao Platform Seventh Layer. He attended the Array Dao banquet reluctantly and was left among the guests after meeting Tan Zhuo and Meng Qin.

• Bai Jing discussed Array Dao difficulties with Lin Changsheng, who invited him to an Array Dao banquet and learned that Bai Jing had fused five formations.
• Bai Jing bought ten High-Grade Wind Spirit Pills, collected Immortal Merit from Xu Shan, and encountered Ling Qinghe.
• Bai Jing found that the pills greatly increased his cultivation speed and reached the perfection of the Dao Platform Seventh Layer over the following month.
• Bai Jing arrived at the Array Dao banquet intending to leave immediately, but Tan Zhuo and Meng Qin stopped him and persuaded him to stay.
• Tan Zhuo explained the status of the banquet's hosts and Ning Feng, who had become the disciple of an Array Dao Great Power.

Bai Jing attended an Array Dao Mountain gathering, where he witnessed Sword Holder challenges and was drawn into a public comparison with Ning Feng. After defeating Ning Feng again, Bai Jing returned home and concealed his breakthrough to the eighth layer before preparing to cultivate the true Five Elements Array.

• Bai Jing and Tan Zhuo discussed Lu Renjia’s failure to greet Bai Jing, while Lu Renjia dismissed his past service to Bai Jing and aligned himself with Cheng Feidu.
• Meng Qin challenged Gong Ming for a Sword Holding Token but lost, and Gong Ming and other Sword Holders defended their positions against further challengers.
• Bai Jing refused to enter the pavilion, indirectly prompting Gong Ming to send Ning Feng back to the lakeside, then defeated Ning Feng in an array contest.
• Lin Changsheng and Meng Qin thanked Bai Jing for standing up for Meng Qin, and Meng Qin realized Bai Jing had perfected all his ultimate arts.
• One month later, Bai Jing’s concealment array kept others from noticing his breakthrough to the eighth layer, and he took out the Array Dao True Giải to begin cultivating the true Five Elements Array.

Bai Jing studied Array Dao True Giải, advanced his Five Elements Array practice, and received supplies from Lin Changsheng before reaching Dao Platform Ninth Layer perfection. With his Wind's Chant evolving into a Lesser Divine Ability and the Inner Core Chapter unlocked, he prepared to devote himself fully to condensing an inner core.

• Bai Jing began cultivating Array Dao True Giải, used his own essence blood to practice the Five Elements Array, and received Elder Liu's inner-core notes, a Thousand Array Brush, Essence Restoration Pills, and a Heart Protecting Lotus from Lin Changsheng.
• Bai Jing swallowed the Heart Protecting Lotus, restoring his vitality and expanding his divine sense, while Ning Feng and Wu Yu received guidance and gifts from their masters ahead of the newcomer trial.
• After a hundred days of cultivation, Bai Jing reached Dao Platform Ninth Layer perfection and unlocked the Wind Element Heaven Scroll Inner Core Chapter.
• Bai Jing perfected the Gold Metal Grand Array and cultivated Wind's Chant into a Lesser Divine Ability.
• Bai Jing decided to deliver his refined pills to Xu Shan and then stop refining pills to focus on condensing his inner core.

Bai Jing completed his breakthrough to the Inner Core Realm, forming a Purple Gold Inner Core that greatly strengthened his body and divine sense. On the eve of the expedition, he concealed his new cultivation and prepared to depart while Shangqing Mountain’s newcomers faced a looming contest with Tianxuan Immortal Sect.

• Xiao Yucheng reviewed the shop accounts with Xu Shan, and Bai Jing delivered nearly a thousand bottles of pills before announcing he would stop refining and focus on cultivation.
• Li Huai'an advanced to the Dao Platform Eighth Layer while Bai Jing brought his Wind Element Heaven Scroll Inner Core Chapter to initiation and began condensing an inner core.
• Shen Miaomiao perfected her ultimate art, while Wu Yu learned that Tianxuan Immortal Sect would join the expedition and received a spiritual herb to help him reach ninth-layer perfection.
• Bai Jing consumed Wind Spirit Pills as his inner core formed, creating a Purple Gold Inner Core that strengthened his body and increased his divine-sense range beyond eight hundred zhang.
• Bai Jing consolidated his realm at the first level of the Inner Core Realm, used Minor Divine Concealment to hide his aura, and left his courtyard on the eve of the expedition.

Bai Jing collected his pill-refining earnings, bought a sturdier sword, and joined the newcomers traveling to Beacon Fire City for their trial. As the vessel arrived above the frontier city, Elder Liu explained the resource-driven war and warned the disciples to obey battlefield orders.

• Bai Jing collected about three thousand Immortal Merit from Myriad Pill Hall and bought a mid-grade Water Cloud Sword at True Artifact Pavilion after trading in his damaged sword.
• Bai Jing met Li Huai'an before the trial, agreed to set up a concealment array at his courtyard, and followed Fang Wenze to Fire Spirit Peak with the other Spiritual Elegance Peak disciples.
• Fang Wenze led the disciples aboard a massive immortal vessel bound for Beacon Fire City, and he gave Bai Jing Essence Restoration Pills from Lin Changsheng.
• Elder Liu welcomed Bai Jing beside him and explained that the Human Race and Demon Race fought over resources, while pill and formation cultivators supported the battlefield effort.
• Yun He learned that the disciples had departed and told Lin Changsheng it was their turn; the following afternoon, the vessel arrived above Beacon Fire City.

Bai Jing and the Shangqing Mountain disciples arrived in war-scarred Beacon Fire City, where they were told to obey the city’s rules and begin their training at the bottom. The next day, Bai Jing joined the array cultivators as Zhou Yi assigned them to repair a gap in the city-protecting array.

• Fan Qing welcomed the Shangqing Mountain disciples, and Liu Yuan laid out Beacon Fire City’s rules for their training.
• A python reported the disciples’ arrival to a Tiger Demon, who ordered the Demon Race to hold back and observe.
• At the banquet, Bai Jing and the others discussed their likely assignments, the risks of patrols, and the training’s demerit system.
• Bai Jing settled into a cramped room in the outer city but decided he needed a private courtyard to cultivate comfortably.
• Zhou Yi showed the array cultivators a gap in the city-protecting array and ordered them to repair it.

Bai Jing led the Shangqing Mountain formation cultivators in repairing the City-Protecting Formation, exposing Zhou Yi’s attempt to leave them struggling. After uncovering unfair treatment and a scheme to charge them for better lodging, Bai Jing planned a quiet response as Zhou Yi arrived to find the formation already repaired.

• Zhou Yi ordered the Shangqing Mountain formation cultivators to repair the City-Protecting Formation and threatened demerits when Cheng Feidu challenged his instructions.
• Bai Jing found a buried Array Flag and showed the group how to repair its damaged runes by comparing them with the formation inheritance.
• The disciples repaired the formation by afternoon, while Tan Zhuo discovered that Zhou Yi’s Minghuo Sect formation cultivators had been allowed to rest and that Liu Yuan’s subordinate charged Shangqing Mountain disciples steep rent for better lodging.
• Bai Jing told the disciples to quietly spread word about outside rentals and said he would rent a place, while Cheng Feidu proposed skipping work and reporting Zhou Yi’s unfair treatment to their senior brothers.
• Zhou Yi returned at dusk with friends and found the formation intact, leaving him embarrassed as his companions departed.

Bai Jing and the Shangqing Mountain formation cultivators skipped repairs in protest, but their senior brothers eventually cleared their disciplinary records while punishing Cheng Feidu. After Bai Jing helped expose a housing scheme and recovered the disciples’ rent, the Eastern Realm Immortal Sect arrived in Beacon Fire City, setting up new rivalries.

• Cheng Feidu led Shangqing Mountain’s formation cultivators in skipping work, while Bai Jing rented an estate and focused on cultivation.
• Zhou Yi tried to persuade Bai Jing to bring the group back to work, but Bai Jing refused and told him to follow the rules.
• At Elegant Heart Residence, Shangqing Mountain’s senior brothers cleared the cultivators’ demerits, deducted half of Cheng Feidu’s training rewards, and warned everyone not to repeat the stoppage.
• Bai Jing hosted a banquet with his fellow geniuses and predicted that Liu Yuan’s subordinates would return the Spirit Stones charged for their rented homes.
• Liu Yuan was dismissed and investigated, and the fat landlord returned Bai Jing’s pills as Shangqing Mountain and Minghuo Sect disciples received their rental refunds.
• Half a month later, the Eastern Realm Immortal Sect’s colossal ship arrived, and Shen Miaomiao eagerly prepared to challenge its geniuses.

The Tianxuan Immortal Sect arrived in Beacon Fire City, where its disciples joined Shangqing Mountain and other cultivators in repairing the city-protecting array. Bai Jing impressed Tianxuan’s array cultivators, while Ning Feng narrowly beat Hu Yunfei in a rune-inscription contest; that night, Xu Shan and Xiao Yucheng returned with bruised eyes after fighting the same two people.

• The Tianxuan Immortal Sect arrived in Beacon Fire City, prompting the Tiger Demon to recognize the sect and send an urgent report to his race.
• At a banquet, Tan Zhuo told Bai Jing, Xu Shan, and Xiao Yucheng that Shangguan Xue, Lei Chong, and Li Xuanyi were Tianxuan’s top Spiritual Cultivator geniuses, and Bai Jing reminded them that Tianxuan had produced a True Saint.
• Tianxuan’s array cultivators joined the work repairing the city-protecting array, where Bai Jing impressed them with his skill and Feng Yingying asked Yu Shisan to introduce her to him.
• Ning Feng competed against Hu Yunfei in rune inscription and won by one rune, though he acknowledged that his head start in learning the array’s runes had helped him.
• Bai Jing found Xiao Yucheng with a bruised eye, and Xu Shan later arrived with bruised eyes of his own after both men fought the same two people.

Bai Jing learned that the Spiritual Cultivators of Shangqing Mountain and Tianxuan Immortal Sect were growing hostile, while their Formation Cultivators agreed to reorganize their work teams. A dispute over an alleged curfew violation drew both sects’ geniuses and disciples into a street standoff, which Bai Jing and his drunken companions interrupted; the chapter ended with Feng Yingying clinging to Bai Jing and refusing to let go.

• Bai Jing asked Xu Shan about the previous day's brawl and learned that Spiritual Cultivators from both sects had fought after an argument over Ling Qinghe and Shangguan Xue's beauty.
• Feng Yingying proposed dividing the Formation Cultivators into three teams, and Hu Yunfei, Bai Jing, Cheng Feidu, and the others agreed to discuss the plan over dinner.
• Jin Tao summoned Xiao Yucheng and other Shangqing Mountain disciples to Jiefeng Alley, where Qian Chen's patrol had detained three disciples for allegedly breaking curfew.
• Li Xuanyi, Li Huai'an, Shangguan Xue, Shen Miaomiao, and other geniuses arrived as the confrontation escalated and both sides summoned more disciples.
• Bai Jing arrived with Feng Yingying and the drunken Cheng Feidu, while the rival disciples paused their standoff to let them pass.
• When Tianxuan Immortal Sect disciples tried to separate Feng Yingying from Bai Jing, she clung to him and said she did not want to leave.

Bai Jing returned the drunken Feng Yingying to the Tianxuan Immortal Sect, but tensions between the sects led to a ten-person ring-defense contest at Hu Yunfei’s residence. Shangqing Mountain won, leaving the Tianxuan disciples bound by the agreed rules as Xiao Yucheng demanded apologies from the three patrolling disciples.

• Lei Chong demanded that Bai Jing release Feng Yingying, but Bai Jing called for the Tianxuan disciples to take her back and wake her.
• Shangguan Xue proposed that each sect send ten fighters to defend the ring, with the winner setting the rules; Wu Yu required the losers to kneel and apologize to the three bullied disciples.
• Hu Yunfei set up a concealment formation around his courtyard, where Shangguan Xue defeated Shen Miaomiao and then fought a succession of Shangqing Mountain geniuses.
• Jin Tao defeated the exhausted Shangguan Xue, but Lei Chong used his Saint Art to defeat Jin Tao and give Tianxuan a lead.
• Shangqing Mountain’s remaining geniuses wore down the Tianxuan contenders and won the ring-defense contest.
• Xiao Yucheng brought the three patrolling disciples before the Tianxuan camp and demanded that they kneel and apologize.

After the exchange between the sects ended, their disciples resumed formation repairs, but Demon Race geniuses attacked the patrols outside Beacon Fire City and killed five disciples. The two sects prepared for a coming battle, while Shen Miaomiao revealed that one captured demon had matched her strength.

• The patrolling disciples knelt and apologized to the three Shangqing Mountain disciples, and the gathered disciples debated rankings for the nine top geniuses.
• Hu Yunfei and his companions left the Minghuo Sect team to work with their fellow formation cultivators, while Qian Chen and the other patrol disciples were ordered to clean Hu Yunfei's damaged courtyard.
• Shen Miaomiao led a patrol through the forest, where a massive snake head emerged from fallen leaves after the group passed.
• Zhou Yi told the formation cultivators that Demon Race attackers had killed five disciples and injured fifteen, and ordered repairs to continue with the aid of supplied pills.
• Senior leaders from Shangqing Mountain and the Tianxuan Immortal Sect discussed the Demon Race's response and their plans for the newcomers.
• On Beacon Fire City's walls, Shen Miaomiao said the captured Demon Race genius had been evenly matched with her, and Shangguan Xue said they would kill him when the demons launched a larger assault.

The Demon Race launched a massive invasion of Beacon Fire City, bringing its terrifying Taotie Battalion to support its geniuses. The Tiger Demon commander demanded that Fan Qing surrender the city, then revealed that the humans of the West Region were being kept alive so the Demon Race could harvest their flesh and blood.

• After the city-protecting formation was repaired overnight, war drums sounded and Beacon Fire City mobilized for the Demon Race's invasion.
• Zhou Yi first ordered the formation-cultivator disciples to keep repairing the formation, then allowed them to go to the south gate after receiving a voice in his mind.
• Fan Qing, Zhou Yi, Fang Wenze, and the geniuses saw the Demon Race's enormous army and its Taotie Battalion approach Beacon Fire City.
• The Tiger Demon commander arrived in a golden chariot and demanded that Fan Qing lower the city-protecting formation and surrender.
• Fan Qing challenged the Tiger Demon's claim that the West Region's humans had been killed, and the Tiger Demon admitted his forces were harvesting their flesh and blood.

Beacon Fire City and the Demon Race began a full-scale battle after Fan Qing ordered the captured genius Kang Ning sacrificed to the banner. The peak geniuses clashed, and Wu Yu discovered that his opponent had an inner core.

• Wu Yu vowed revenge against the Demon Race, while Fan Qing brought the captured Kang Ning to the city wall and ordered him sacrificed.
• The Demon Race attacked before Shangguan Xue could finish the sacrifice, and the soldiers of Beacon Fire City charged out with Dustlight Pills.
• Shangguan Xue killed Kang Ning, and cultivators from Shangqing Mountain and the Tianxuan Immortal Sect joined the battle.
• A senior array cultivator and his allies stopped a Taotie behemoth’s Sky Blade, separating it from the battlefield.
• Jin Tao and the other human peak geniuses engaged the Demon Race’s nine geniuses, while Shangguan Xue fought two opponents and Wu Yu drove back a horned demonkin.
• Wu Yu’s sword strike was halted when his opponent revealed an inner core.

The Human Race geniuses fought the Demon Race at Beacon Fire City, where Li Xuanyi was killed before a Demon Saint’s appearance forced both sides to withdraw. After the disciples learned the battle had been a diversion for the Pill Saint Mausoleum, Golden-Eyed Daoist abducted the departing Human Race disciples and sent them into its dangerous gateway.

• Zhu Qing revealed his Golden Core strength, shattered Wu Yu’s sword, and forced Wu Yu to take a Dustlight Pill and fight on.
• Shangguan Xue wounded the Cat Demon, while Jin Tao and the Human Race geniuses joined the battle against the Demon Race’s Inner Core fighters.
• Li Xuanyi was killed by Zhu Qing, but a Demon Saint and the Sword Saint appeared, prompting the Demon Race to retreat and Elder Liu to order the city’s evacuation.
• Shangguan Xue told the gathered disciples that their expedition had distracted the Demon Race while Human Race experts sought the Pill Saint Mausoleum and its rumored Nine-Revolutions Saint Pill.
• Golden-Eyed Daoist sent demon cultivators into the mausoleum gateway, but its Laws killed them and the gateway began to close despite a Demon Saint’s attempt to intervene.
• As the Human Race ships departed, Golden-Eyed Daoist seized their disciples and threw them toward the mausoleum gateway, while another Heavenly Star Realm expert sent the Demon Race trainees after them.

Bai Jing explored the True Saint Mausoleum, a secluded world filled with dense spiritual energy, and discovered the Pill Saint's Coffin. After meeting two demons, he pretended to consider becoming their informant while secretly preparing to act.

• Bai Jing opened his Heavenly Eye and saw a vision of a giant refining stars before a black coffin appeared.
• Bai Jing crossed the deadly Black River on his way toward the Pill Saint's Coffin.
• Bai Jing found a Crimson Mist Fruit tree and absorbed its beneficial red mist after two demons mocked his caution.
• The Rhino Demon mistook Bai Jing's calm manner for willingness to betray the humans and promised to take him to a peerless demon genius after he completed a task.
• Bai Jing asked about the demon geniuses, then reached out with his right hand.

Bai Jing forced Rhino Demon to guide him to the Demon Race prodigies, while the elders outside the Pill Saint Mausoleum learned that rescuing the trapped disciples could take a year. Bai Jing reached the Cat Demon's group and attacked him, leaving Rhino Demon to watch in fearful silence.

• Bai Jing overwhelmed Rhino Demon, took the Crimson Mist Fruit and both demons’ storage pouches, and made Rhino Demon lead him to the clan’s prodigies.
• The elders at Beacon Fire City learned that the Pill Saint Mausoleum’s entrance might not reopen for a year, leaving the Human Race disciples in danger.
• Li Huai'an, Xiao Yucheng, Ling Qinghe, and Xu Shan gathered in the mausoleum and planned to reach the Pill Saint’s Coffin while waiting for Bai Jing.
• The Cat Demon and his companions discussed gathering their forces after killing Human Race disciples, then welcomed Bai Jing and Rhino Demon as a chance to lure more humans.
• Bai Jing greeted the Cat Demon as a peerless prodigy, then tore off his other arm, while Rhino Demon turned away and murmured that the Cat Demon should not blame him.

Bai Jing revealed himself as a powerful Inner Core cultivator, killed the demons who tried to flee or send warnings, and kept the Cat Demon alive while awaiting reinforcements. He learned that Zhu Ying was the Demon Race’s Purple Gold prodigy and began setting up a Gold Metal Array capable of trapping newly entered Inner Core cultivators.

• Bai Jing pinned the Cat Demon down with his Inner Core aura, startling the demons and exposing the Rhino Demon as his supposed accomplice.
• Bai Jing stopped the demons from sending warning talismans and killed the demons who fled with his Water Cloud Sword.
• Bai Jing maimed the Cat Demon and waited for the Demon Race forces and the demons summoned by the Rhino Demon to arrive.
• Bai Jing asked about the Demon Race’s Purple Gold prodigy and learned that Zhu Ying was Zhu Qing’s cousin.
• Bai Jing began setting up a Gold Metal Array as the Cat Demon wondered who he really was.

Bai Jing trapped the Cat Demon and Rhino Demon, then lured nearly three hundred Demon Cultivators into his array as they tried to rescue their companion. Just as He Feng asked whether the golden-haired demon could kill Bai Jing instantly, the golden-haired demon’s head exploded.

• Bai Jing revealed that he had condensed a Spiritual Cultivator inner core and sealed the Cat Demon’s mouth.
• The Rhino Demon realized Bai Jing was a Purple Gold Prodigy and feared the consequences of learning the Human Race’s secret.
• He Feng and the other Demon Cultivators arrived, identified Bai Jing as a renowned array cultivator, and gathered outside his Gold Metal Array.
• Bai Jing let the demons enter the array after confirming that they were stalling for reinforcements, despite the Cat Demon’s frantic attempts to warn them.
• The golden-haired demon claimed he could kill Bai Jing instantly, then his head exploded in front of the stunned demons.

Bai Jing revealed himself as a Purple Gold Prodigy and slaughtered the Demon Cultivators in the valley, then instantly killed Zhu Qing when the powerful demon arrived. The chapter ended with the Rhino Demon pledging himself to Bai Jing while the Cat Demon died of grief and anger.

• The Cat Demon warned the Demon Cultivators that Bai Jing was a Purple Gold Prodigy, but Bai Jing killed their fleeing peerless genius, He Feng, and the rest of the group.
• Bai Jing spared the Rhino Demon after testing his loyalty, then confronted him and demanded a reason not to kill him.
• At the Pill Saint's tomb, Shangguan Xue and Lei Chong arrived with disciples and discussed joining forces and searching the mountain for pills.
• Zhu Qing killed two Human Race cultivators, then flew to the valley to rescue the Cat Demon and found He Feng's corpse.
• Bai Jing killed Zhu Qing with one strike and explained that revealing his strength on the battlefield would have made the Demon Race target him.
• The Cat Demon died after the Rhino Demon congratulated Bai Jing, and the Rhino Demon declared that he had no companions and would follow Bai Jing.