Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing and the cultivators from the two sects reached the Celestial Palace atop the mountain and searched its halls for the Pill Saint’s treasures. They found Shangguan Xue in a sudden enlightenment, while Bai Jing discovered that the mysterious ceiling runes were forming a new multicolored bubble beside his Talent Tree.

• Shen Miaomiao reported that she had killed several lesser demons but had seen none of the Demon Race’s supreme prodigies, then revealed that Bai Jing had arrived.
• Bai Jing joined the group riding a Rhino Demon, whose loyalty to him surprised the other cultivators.
• Five days later, the cultivators reached the summit, entered the Celestial Palace, and split up to search its corridors.
• Wu Yu’s group found that the pills and treasures in the stone halls crumbled to ash when touched.
• The group found Shangguan Xue meditating in the rear hall, and Ling Qinghe warned them not to interrupt her sudden enlightenment.
• Bai Jing used his Heavenly Eye to read the palace ceiling’s runes, and Li Huai'an recognized that the inheritance was there.

Bai Jing led the group to suspect that the Three Lives Coffins concealed a fourth coffin, and his guess proved correct when one appeared above the Ascension Platform. The Rhino Demon opened it and found only a piece of white bone, while Bai Jing revealed that opening it had been another test.

• Shangguan Xue joined the group after comprehending an offensive technique, and they continued through the mausoleum toward a towering stone gate.
• Shangguan Xue explained that True Saints could become dangerous in their later years if obsession with immortality drove them mad.
• The group searched the stone halls for treasures, but found little beyond a broken Sword of Transcendence and a jar that Xu Shan suspected contained a senior brother’s urine.
• At the Ascension Platform, Bai Jing reasoned that the three opened coffins might represent heaven, earth, and man, and suggested that a fourth coffin could hold the Alchemy Saint’s true body.
• After the group failed to find another coffin, the Rhino Demon flew into the clouds, triggering golden light and heavenly lightning that brought a fourth coffin down onto the others.
• The Rhino Demon opened the fourth coffin at Bai Jing’s signal and took out a piece of white bone.

Bai Jing and the others left the Pill Saint Mausoleum as the Sword Saint rescued its survivors, and the Human Race discovered that the Demon Race had lost nearly all its newcomers. Bai Jing learned that the coffin’s bone was an Immortal Bone, which the Sword Saint borrowed for a year, and he told Shangqing Mountain’s elders it was with the Sword Saint.

• Bai Jing kept the white bone after Xiao Yucheng defended his claim, while Shangguan Xue settled the dispute and the disciples left to seek other inheritances.
• Outside the mausoleum, the Human and Demon Race experts spent ten days repairing its formation as Golden-Eyed Daoist predicted the Human Race newcomers would be wiped out.
• The Sword Saint gathered everyone in the mausoleum and rescued them, while Bai Jing used Saint Concealment and the Sword Saint identified the bone as an Immortal Bone and borrowed it for a year.
• The survivors emerged, revealing that several thousand Human Race disciples had lived while only a little over a hundred demons remained, and the Demon Race experts confronted Golden-Eyed Daoist.
• Shangguan Xue told the Great Powers about the Immortal Bone, and Bai Jing told Shangqing Mountain’s elders that it was with Senior Sword Saint.

After returning from the True Saint Mausoleum, Bai Jing sorted the spoils and decided to trade most of them for cultivation resources, prioritizing his strength over saving Immortal Merit. Lin Changsheng visited and warned him that Jiang Zhishen had stripped him of authority, advising Bai Jing to stay out of the Sword Holding Hall.

• Yun Qianshan and the other Great Powers questioned Bai Jing about the Immortal Bone and the deaths of the Demon Race geniuses, and Bai Jing insisted that a True Saint had borrowed the bone.
• Bai Jing and the surviving disciples returned safely to Shangqing Mountain, where a Great Power warned them about the Demon Race's stronger Northern Territory geniuses and they looked ahead to the Upper Peak Competition.
• Bai Jing returned to his home with Xihuai, sorted the spoils from the Demon Race storage pouches, and decided to exchange most of them for resources to advance his Spiritual Cultivator and Array Dao cultivation.
• Lin Changsheng visited Bai Jing and explained that Jiang Zhishen had taken control of Spiritual Elegance Peak's affairs and stripped him of authority.
• Lin Changsheng warned Bai Jing not to join the Sword Holding Hall, since Jiang Zhishen's influence could keep him from gaining authority, achievements, and resources.

Lin Changsheng warned Bai Jing to maintain his lead on the Azure Cloud Ranking and condense an Array Dao Inner Core, but learned that Bai Jing had received a Nine-Revolutions Saint Pill formula instead. After months of seclusion, Bai Jing completed the Fire Element Heaven Scroll Dao Platform Chapter and began preparing to form his water and fire inner cores, even as Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu advanced in the Array Dao.

• Lin Changsheng urged Bai Jing to stay first on the Azure Cloud Ranking and worried about the dangers of failing to condense an Inner Core.
• Bai Jing revealed that he had obtained the Nine-Revolutions Saint Pill formula from the True Saint inheritance, and Lin Changsheng warned him not to neglect the Array Dao for alchemy.
• Bai Jing prepared pills and cultivation resources for seclusion, then summoned Niuer after learning his neighbor Li Huai'an had hired an Array Cultivator to strengthen a concealment array.
• Gu Pan'er worried that Bai Jing had been discouraged by missing an inheritance, but Xu Shan defended his friend and said they should not disturb him.
• Bai Jing completed the Fire Element Heaven Scroll Dao Platform Chapter, began the Fire Element Heaven Scroll Inner Core Chapter, and learned that Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu had advanced their Array Dao cultivation.
• Bai Jing decided to prioritize forming his water and fire inner cores, accepting that he might lose his Azure Cloud Ranking lead while Lin Changsheng's authority was diminished.

Bai Jing continued cultivating while rumors spread that his Array Dao progress had stalled, and the sect’s leaders and other geniuses began to believe Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu had surpassed him. As the Azure Cloud Ranking drew near, Bai Jing’s water- and fire-element inner cores finally began to change.

• Bai Jing questioned the Rhino Demon about his slow cultivation, then studied the demon method Hun Tian Niu Mo Gong and rapidly raised its proficiency through mental practice.
• Gao Lin visited Bai Jing to assess his arrays and deliver sect pills; Bai Jing pointed out that the allocation was short, and Gao Lin later corrected the mistake after Jiang Zhishen reprimanded Jiang Zhiyuan for skimming resources.
• Bai Jing began condensing his water- and fire-element inner cores while Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu advanced by fusing three arrays, prompting others to speculate that they had overtaken him.
• Elder Liu and the gathered cultivation geniuses interpreted reports of Bai Jing’s slower array progress as a slump, while Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu prepared to compete for the Azure Cloud Ranking’s top positions.
• As the ranking renewal approached, Bai Jing remained calm, and his embryonic water- and fire-element inner cores finally underwent a major change.

Bai Jing formed inner cores for all three spiritual attributes, greatly strengthening his body, then turned his attention toward preparing for an Array Dao Inner Core. As Cheng Feidu and Ning Feng advanced and Bai Jing stayed silent, tension rose ahead of the Azure Cloud Ranking announcement, while Jiang Zhishen and Jiang Zhiyuan plotted to send Lin Changsheng to dangerous Thunder City.

• Bai Jing completed three-attribute cultivation, demonstrated his fused spiritual power, and discovered that his body had advanced toward a Dharma Purple-Gold Body.
• Jiang Zhiyuan proposed using a Thunder City reinforcement assignment to remove Lin Changsheng from the Sword Holding Hall, and Jiang Zhishen agreed to wait for the right moment.
• Bai Jing resumed array cultivation and ordered more Essence Restoration Pills as he prepared to make a major advance before the ranking update.
• Cheng Feidu and Ning Feng completed their fourth Five Elements Arrays, prompting rumors that Bai Jing had lost his momentum.
• At a teahouse, the Rhino Demon defended Bai Jing against Lu Renjia, while Ning Feng rebuked Lu and challenged Cheng Feidu to settle their rivalry in a month.
• The Azure Cloud Ranking announcement approached, and the chapter ended with an author’s note apologizing for the short update.

Shen Miaomiao lost to Xia Ming in the final Azure Cloud Ranking battle before the newcomers began condensing Inner Cores, while Ning Feng lost first place to Cheng Feidu. Elder Liu warned Ning Feng that Bai Jing had the talent to become a Lesser Saint, and the ranking officials remained uncertain about Bai Jing’s final placement.

• Shen Miaomiao challenged Xia Ming and lost by one move, then said she would focus on condensing her Inner Core.
• Wu Yu declined to challenge Xia Ming and discussed the array cultivator rankings with Shen Miaomiao, learning that Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu’s contest had already been decided.
• Ning Feng told Elder Liu he had lost to Cheng Feidu, and Elder Liu praised Bai Jing’s talent and said he could have hope of becoming a Lesser Saint.
• Cheng Feidu celebrated his victory over Ning Feng at a private banquet with his friends.
• A ranking official prepared the Azure Cloud Ranking and noticed Bai Jing had fallen to third place, then asked Xiao Yi whether he had learned anything about Bai Jing.

Bai Jing demonstrated mastery of all five elements in Array Dao and retained first place on the Azure Cloud Ranking, with an evaluation saying he was on the verge of forming an inner core. His achievement astonished the other geniuses and prompted Jiang Zhishen to forbid Jiang Zhiyuan from provoking him again.

• Bai Jing displayed his Array Dao progress to Gong Ming and Senior Brother Yang, perfecting the five-element arrays and prompting Gong Ming to rank him first.
• Xu Shan and Gu Pan'er read the updated rankings and found Bai Jing still first among array cultivators, nearing an inner core.
• Cheng Feidu rejected Bai Jing's ranking in disbelief, while Lu Renjia regretted underestimating him.
• Ning Feng acknowledged Bai Jing's talent and resolved to keep him as his greatest target, while Elder Liu celebrated the result.
• Wu Yu, Shen Miaomiao, Jin Tao, and Li Huai'an discussed how powerful Bai Jing might become after forming an inner core.
• Jiang Zhishen warned Jiang Zhiyuan not to provoke Bai Jing again and revealed that Lin Changsheng would not be sent to support Thunder City.

Bai Jing learned that he was close to forming an Array Dao Inner Core, but Elder Liu advised him to wait for True Saint’s Insights before choosing his path. After Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu handed the inheritance to Shangqing Mountain, Bai Jing began studying its teachings on the strongest Inner Core path.

• Bai Jing reviewed the risks of inscribing an array within his body and turned his attention to advancing his spiritual cultivation and wind-element Inner Core.
• Elder Liu praised Bai Jing’s perfected Five Elements Array, confirmed he was nearing Inner Core formation, and advised him to wait for a stroke of fortune and contact him when the time came.
• Bai Jing’s friends held a banquet to celebrate his first place on the rankings, while Xiao Yucheng explained that several rival geniuses had entered seclusion under pressure from Bai Jing’s progress.
• Half a month later, Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu jointly handed True Saint’s Insights to Shangqing Mountain, prompting cultivators to credit Bai Jing’s success for their decision.
• Bai Jing received a copy of True Saint’s Insights and read that the Ten-Tier Inner Core Path and Supreme Yin Yang Diagram defined a cultivator’s potential and strongest combat power.

Bai Jing studied True Saint's Insights and learned how Array Cultivators built their Longevity Array Diagrams by lighting star positions and inscribing arrays. After perfecting Yin Yang Fundamentals, he went to practice array inscription, though the process required using his own body as materials.

• Bai Jing touched a jade slip and witnessed the Yin Yang Array Diagram expand as its star positions lit, eventually devouring other celestial bodies and Daos.
• Bai Jing learned that Array Cultivators' realms depended on lit star positions and that their Longevity Array Diagrams could strengthen the arrays inscribed within them.
• Bai Jing studied True Saint's Insights and cultivated Yin Yang Fundamentals to perfection over three days.
• Bai Jing went to the training ground to practice inscribing arrays, knowing he would need to use his flesh, blood, bones, and divine sense.

Jiang Zhishen presided over a Sword Holding Hall meeting that increased Bai Jing’s resources and assigned his Heart Contemplation Cave expenses to Spiritual Elegance Peak after Lin Changsheng objected to Elder Liu paying. Half a month later, Bai Jing entered the cave and began experiencing an eighth-rank sage’s Inner Core condensation through a Time Shadow, learning how the process was controlled.

• Jiang Zhishen assigned Wang Gang to the Nascent Soul reinforcement slot and Zhang Hua and Li Qiang to the Dharma Manifestation slots, while the gathered cultivators approved increased resources for Bai Jing.
• Fang Wenze raised the Heart Contemplation Cave visit, and Lin Changsheng argued that Spiritual Elegance Peak should pay rather than let Elder Liu earn Bai Jing’s gratitude.
• The Vice Peak Master appeared and rebuked Jiang Zhishen for acting as decision-maker, leaving him pale and sweating.
• After another half month of practice, Bai Jing decided to wait before contacting Gao Lin and continued tending to his body.
• Elder Liu accompanied Bai Jing to Heart Contemplation Cave, where Bai Jing entered a Time Shadow and witnessed an eighth-rank sage begin condensing an Inner Core.

Bai Jing studied an ancient sage’s attempt to form an Array Dao Inner Core in the Time Shadow, learning how the sage lit Star Positions through the Eighth Tier before abandoning the Ninth. After consulting Elder Liu, Bai Jing began forming his own core, lit the Eighth Tier, and set his sights on the Ninth and ultimately the Tenth Tier.

• Bai Jing observed the ancient sage derive a Yin Yang Array and nurture an Array Dao Inner Core, then watched him light Star Positions through the Eighth Tier before giving up on the Ninth.
• Bai Jing left the Time Shadow and told Elder Liu that the experience had increased his confidence in forming his inner core; Elder Liu shared more of his experience with him.
• Bai Jing returned to his cultivation chamber, ordered Xihuai to keep others away, and began forming his Array Dao Inner Core using pills to replenish his body.
• Ning Feng achieved Five Elements perfection and prepared to condense his core, while Tan Zhuo mocked Lu Renjia and Cheng Feidu struggled with his own progress.
• After two months of nurturing his core, Bai Jing entered its Array Diagram, quickly lit the Star Positions through the Eighth Tier, and turned toward the Ninth Tier with the Tenth as his goal.

Bai Jing overcame the unknown paths of the Tenth Tier and illuminated all its Star Positions, while the other newcomers advanced toward forming their inner cores and competing for Upper Peak slots. He emerged with a powerful Tenth-Tier Yin Yang Array Diagram, setting himself apart from the other array cultivators.

• Shen Miaomiao, Wu Yu, and Xia Ming learned of Bai Jing's talent and worried about competing with him; Xia Ming later condensed a fire-element golden core, followed by Shen Miaomiao.
• Bai Jing illuminated all nine Star Positions of the Ninth Tier, then spent months struggling to deduce a safe route through the Tenth Tier.
• Xu Nian ordered a highest-grade Upper Peak cave residence reserved for Bai Jing and assigned Lin Changsheng to continue handling his affairs.
• Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu emerged from seclusion after lighting seven tiers, while Shen Miaomiao hosted a gathering where the newcomers discussed Bai Jing's likely progress.
• Bai Jing followed the directions revealed by his Purple-Gold Runes, continued deducing the remaining paths, and eventually lit all six unguided Star Positions.
• Bai Jing completed the Tenth-Tier Yin Yang Array Diagram, whose power surged through his Dao Platform and overwhelmed his three inner cores.

Bai Jing condensed his Yin Yang Array Diagram and lit the Tenth-Tier Star Positions, gaining powerful physical restoration and establishing an extraordinary foundation for his Array Dao cultivation. He inscribed a beginner-level Star Array and revealed his tenth-tier achievement to the Rhino Demon, who was stunned by Bai Jing’s potential.

• Bai Jing’s Yin Yang Array Diagram broke free of his three Inner Cores and fed Dao Charm into his body, restoring and strengthening him.
• Bai Jing realized that the newly lit Tenth-Tier Star Positions were only a foundation and would need arrays inscribed to remain lit.
• Bai Jing inscribed a beginner-level Star Array into the First-Tier Star Position, empowering it to Inner Core level.
• Bai Jing projected his Yin Yang Array Diagram in the martial arena and told the Rhino Demon that he had lit the tenth tier.
• The Rhino Demon compared Bai Jing’s achievement with the eighth tier reached by the Demon and Human Array Dao Lesser Saints and marveled at his future prospects.

Bai Jing received the Immortal Bone reforged into a sword by the Sword Saint, along with the Azure Lotus Sword Art, then told Elder Liu that he had lit the tenth tier. Elder Liu explained Bai Jing had a forty percent chance of becoming a Saint and warned that the Array Dao remained an incomplete cultivation system.

• Bai Jing asked the Rhino Demon about recent events on Shangqing Mountain and learned that Ning Feng and Cheng Feidu had condensed inner cores after lighting the seventh tier.
• The Rhino Demon gave Bai Jing a sword made from his Immortal Bone and the Sword Saint's Azure Lotus Sword Art; Bai Jing began learning its first form.
• The Rhino Demon asked whether to publicize Bai Jing's tenth-tier achievement, but Bai Jing chose to visit Elder Liu first.
• Elder Liu was stunned when Bai Jing revealed he had lit the tenth tier and explained that this potential gave him a forty percent chance of becoming a Saint.
• Elder Liu said an Array Saint could begin at the peak of the True Saint realm and that tenth-tier cultivators could rival an Innate Dao Body within the same realm.

Bai Jing learned that Shangqing Mountain’s leaders had decided to publicly acknowledge his Tenth-Tier potential and support his cultivation, while giving him a Sword Saint’s Jade Pendant for protection. After receiving 50,000 Immortal Merit and an upper-peak residence, he prepared to move, surprising his neighbor Li Huai'an.

• Elder Liu told Bai Jing to keep his Tenth-Tier Star Position secret until Shangqing Mountain’s peak masters decided how to handle it, and Bai Jing began choosing arrays to prepare for the battle for Upper Peak slots.
• The Venerables debated whether to conceal Bai Jing’s potential, but the Patriarch ordered them to make it public and arranged a Jade Pendant containing the Sword Saint’s strongest strike.
• Xu Nian informed the senior brothers that Bai Jing had lit up the Tenth Tier and began arranging his resources and upper-peak residence.
• Lin Changsheng gave Bai Jing 50,000 Immortal Merit, told him the sect would support him so he could stop refining pills, and delivered the Jade Pendant and his new residence’s key and waist token.
• Bai Jing left his courtyard with the Rhino Demon to move to the upper peak, startling Li Huai'an, who had not received permission to move there despite condensing a Golden Core.

After Bai Jing lit up the Tenth-Tier Star Position, his potential stunned Shangqing Mountain and earned him a lavish Upper Peak cave dwelling. With the Upper Peak Competition approaching, rival geniuses saw their last chance to challenge him, and Bai Jing headed to the combat arena as the contest began.

• News of Bai Jing reaching the tenth tier spread across Shangqing Mountain, shocking disciples and elders, while Shen Miaomiao and other supreme geniuses resolved to challenge him before he grew stronger.
• Bai Jing moved into Spiritual Elegance Cave Dwelling No. 99, explored its abundant spiritual energy and facilities, and began training his Array Dao while the Rhino Demon handled the chores.
• At a gathering in Bai Jing’s new home, Xiao Yucheng and Ning Feng explained that rivals hoped to defeat him in the coming competition because he had little time to improve; Ling Qinghe also announced that she would compete.
• Two months later, the contest began, and Shen Miaomiao, Cheng Feidu, and Li Huai’an prepared to face Bai Jing while Xia Ming chose not to pursue a serious challenge.
• Bai Jing bathed, changed into his Upper Peak attire, and left his cave dwelling with the Rhino Demon to head for the combat arena on Spiritual Elegance Peak.

Bai Jing arrived at Spiritual Elegance Peak for Shangqing Mountain’s contest for Upper Peak slots, where his Tenth-Tier Potential drew the crowd’s attention. After reviewing his strongest opponents, he revealed that his inscribed formations had only reached the beginner stage, leaving his competitive strength in the Dao of formations uncertain.

• Xu Shan, Tan Zhuo, and Xiao Yucheng discussed Li Huai'an and Lu Sheng as the main opponents Bai Jing needed to watch.
• Bai Jing arrived at the dueling arena and hurried inside to escape several fervent female cultivators.
• Bai Jing joined Xu Shan and the others, who teased him with the nickname Little Monster and gave him information about his opponents.
• Bai Jing read that Li Huai'an had advanced water-element swordsmanship and that Lu Sheng had a complete Purple Core and strong fire-element Heaven and Earth Momentum.
• Bai Jing told Xiao Yucheng that none of the formations on his formation diagram had progressed beyond the beginner stage, astonishing his companions.

Shen Miaomiao, Ling Qinghe, and Xia Ming demonstrated their strength as the grand gathering’s final rankings approached. Bai Jing then began his first battle, revealing five formation arrays before several great figures abruptly left, leaving the outcome—and the reason for their departure—unclear.

• Shen Miaomiao defeated a Purple Core Third Layer opponent in one move, while Ling Qinghe’s senior brother surrendered before their match began.
• Xia Ming also defeated his opponent in one move, and Wu Yu judged that he could place no higher than third in the final rankings.
• Bai Jing told Xiao Yucheng and Tan Zhuo that none of his formation arrays had reached minor accomplishment, but he had inscribed more than ten arrays.
• More than a dozen elderly figures arrived to watch Bai Jing, and their masters debated whether he could claim first place.
• Bai Jing faced an Inner Core Third Layer opponent and formed five formation arrays, after which Yun Qianshan, Elder Liu, and another formation Great Power abruptly departed.