Chapter Summaries

After Wang Qingfeng’s grave-robbing records reached the assessment supervisors, they chose to warn him rather than expel him, and Lin Changsheng delivered the warning with a punch that left him with a black eye. Wang Qingfeng stopped digging up graves and focused on his missions as Bai Jing continued observing the disciples, with three months passing.

• Bai Jing returned to the outpost with records showing that Wang Qingfeng had dug up ancestral graves, and the supervisors debated how to respond.
• Xu Nian and the other commanders decided to send someone to warn Wang Qingfeng, and Lin Changsheng volunteered.
• Zhang Wenchen tried to speak with Zhou Chengxue, but she rejected his familiar address and walked away.
• Bai Jing saw Wang Qingfeng practicing swordsmanship with a swollen black eye after Lin Changsheng’s warning.
• Wang Qingfeng stopped thinking about grave-robbing and focused on his missions, while rumors about his black eye spread among the disciples.
• Bai Jing grew busier as he observed the ongoing missions, and three months passed.

Bai Jing perfected his tenth array formation in just three days, astonishing the disciples and making even Golden Cauldron geniuses seem unremarkable by comparison. As he unleashed his strength, the sky darkened and thunder rolled, while Wang Qingfeng mistook the ominous weather for trouble with his laundry.

• Bai Jing continued refining his Yin Yang Array Diagram while the disciples watched and barely reacted to Zhou Chengxue condensing a Golden Cauldron.
• Bai Jing decided to perfect his tenth array formation before Wang Qingfeng began the long-term assessment task he expected the young disciple to undertake.
• Three days later, Bai Jing perfected ten array formations, shocking the disciples with his rapid progress.
• Jiang Zhiyuan realized he had been fortunate that his elder brother stopped him from pursuing their old grudge against Bai Jing.
• Bai Jing unleashed his strength, darkening the sky and filling it with thunder as assessment disciples wondered if someone was undergoing tribulation.
• Wang Qingfeng, who had condensed a Golden Cauldron that day, complained about the thunder and hurried to bring in his drying clothes.

Wang Qingfeng flaunted his Golden Cauldron talent and extorted Ascension Coins from a senior brother, but Bai Jing intervened and disciplined him. Bai Jing returned the coins to their owner and left, while Zhou Chengxue recognized him as the legendary genius Bai Jing.

• Zhang Wenchen saw Wang Qingfeng, who had reached Perfection of the Five Viscera and condensed a Golden Cauldron, greeting Zhou Chengxue.
• Wang Qingfeng asked his senior brother about the status of Golden Cauldron disciples and took ten Ascension Coins from him after revealing his talent.
• Bai Jing confronted Wang Qingfeng aboard the Immortal Boat, beat him, and demanded the Ascension Coins.
• Wang Qingfeng gave Bai Jing another ten Ascension Coins after Zhou Chengxue realized he was Bai Jing; Bai Jing drew his sword when Wang Qingfeng muttered a threat.
• Bai Jing spared Wang Qingfeng, warned him to stop acting smug and extorting senior brothers, then returned the coins to their owner.
• Bai Jing left, and Fang Wenze later asked whether he had truly intended to kill Wang Qingfeng; Bai Jing said he had only meant to warn him.

After the second assessment eliminated eight disciples, Bai Jing supervised Wang Qingfeng through the final assessment, which ended after a year. Bai Jing handed over his records and learned that Spiritual Elegance Peak had selected several Purple Cauldron Geniuses, while the three Golden Cauldron geniuses went to the immortal mountains.

• Bai Jing noted that Zhang Wenchen formed a Purple Cauldron and that Cui Fang was eliminated after completing only seven missions, leaving twelve of his twenty disciples for the final assessment.
• Wang Qingfeng set out on the final assessment and targeted Zhu Yi, a former classmate who had become an evil dragon.
• Wang Qingfeng crushed Zhu Yi, completed three Grade-A missions, and entered seclusion while Bai Jing used the respite to improve his array formations.
• The year-long final assessment ended, and Bai Jing gave his record booklet to Fang Wenze.
• Fang Wenze told Bai Jing that the three Golden Cauldron geniuses had been claimed by the three great immortal mountains and that Spiritual Elegance Peak had selected several Purple Cauldron Geniuses.

Zhu Zican defeated Pang Qing’s Divine Arrays with a single saber strike, and Pang Qing revealed his plan to target Shangqing Mountain’s Tenth-Tier Potential during the upcoming northern training. A mysterious newcomer then appeared and challenged Zhu Zican to a spar.

• Zhu Zican used his Purple Gold Dharma Aspect and a powerful saber strike to defeat Pang Qing’s array assault.
• Pang Qing praised Zhu Zican’s strength, and the two discussed the flaws in Pang Qing’s Divine Arrays and Shangqing Mountain’s Great Heavenly Fiendish Array.
• Pang Qing said he planned to pursue a stronger Divine Fiend Array by targeting Shangqing Mountain’s Tenth-Tier Potential when that person came north to train.
• A newcomer emerged from an ancient tree, and Zhu Zican realized he had failed to detect him with his Heavenly Eye.
• The newcomer greeted Zhu Zican and asked to spar with him.

After returning to Shangqing Mountain, Bai Jing drew the newcomers’ attention as a famed genius before going back to his cave dwelling. He invited the Rhino Demon to join him on a future training trip to the Northern Territory, and the Rhino Demon agreed.

• Jiang Zhiyuan welcomed the newcomers to Spiritual Elegance Peak, and they learned about Sword Holding Hall and Bai Jing’s reputation.
• The newcomers spotted Bai Jing aboard a distant ship, and he greeted them while the plump youth who had encountered him before avoided his gaze.
• The ships arrived at Shangqing Mountain, and Bai Jing left the newcomers to return to his cave dwelling.
• Bai Jing found that the Rhino Demon had improved his cultivation while guarding the cave dwelling.
• Bai Jing asked the Rhino Demon to accompany him to the Northern Territory in a few years, and the Rhino Demon agreed to join him.

Bai Jing secluded himself to improve his cultivation and spent nearly two years completing all twenty array formations, reaching the First-Tier Star Position. His breakthrough triggered an unexpected change in the Talent Tree, whose previously withered branch turned tender green.

• Bai Jing declined visitors and entered seclusion to improve his spiritual cultivation and array skills.
• Jiang Zhiyuan led newcomers to the Heaven Scroll Trial and recounted how Bai Jing had cultivated the Wind Element supreme art while teaching two disciples, both of whom passed.
• Leaders of the immortal mountains decided that Shangqing Mountain and two Eastern Territory sects would send disciples to Lingxiao Academy's recruitment in five years, with protection for the Tenth-Tier Potential.
• Nearly two years later, Bai Jing completed the proficiency of his final array formation, causing all twenty formations to shine and advancing him to the First-Tier Star Position.
• Bai Jing saw that a Talent Tree branch had changed from withered to tender green, revealing a new sign of life.

Bai Jing discovered that perfecting many array formations on a Talent Tree branch caused it to sprout, and he began planning how to develop it further. As he prepared to advance as an Array Cultivator and enter the Dharma Form realm, he received complete Heaven Scrolls without taking the trial.

• Bai Jing noticed a tender shoot on the Talent Tree branch bearing twelve perfected wood-attributed formations and concluded that perfected inscriptions could make branches sprout.
• Bai Jing searched the Array Dao True Giải for wood-element offensive formations but worried that choosing only those would weaken him.
• Bai Jing reached the ninth level of the Inner Core realm and asked the Rhino Demon to register him for the Heaven Scroll Trial.
• At a private banquet on Fire Spirit Peak, Ling Qinghe told the gathered geniuses that Bai Jing was about to become a Second-Tier Array Cultivator.
• The Rhino Demon brought Bai Jing complete Heaven Scrolls for all three elements, saying senior brothers had copied them for him.

After the sparring competition, Shen Miaomiao and the others reflected on how far Bai Jing had outpaced them. Bai Jing then cultivated the array path in seclusion and broke through to become a Second-Tier Array Cultivator.

• Sun Chong admired the competitors and speculated that Ling Qinghe was interested in Bai Jing, while Zhou Chengxue said the rumored marriage was only a possibility.
• At a wine table, Ning Feng celebrated his ranking, while Shen Miaomiao lamented that Bai Jing was nearing the Second-Tier Array Cultivator realm.
• Two months later, Bai Jing cultivated in the Ninety-Nine Cave Abode and connected the twenty arrays on the Star Positions into a Yin Yang grand array.
• Bai Jing consumed three Perfect Spirit Pills, and the array diagram refined their spiritual energy into Mana as its colored world expanded into the Second-Tier Star Positions.
• The strengthened Dao Fruit transformed Bai Jing, and he opened his eyes as a Second-Tier Array Cultivator.

Bai Jing broke through to the second tier as an Array Cultivator, drawing admiration and concern across Shangqing Mountain. He began studying the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array, but found that he had only three chapters of its art and five kinds of Divine Blood.

• Bai Jing reached the second tier, tested his newly strengthened arrays, and decided to cultivate the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array.
• Ning Feng's young students asked when Bai Jing would teach them, and Ning Feng learned that Bai Jing had broken through.
• News of Bai Jing's advancement spread across Shangqing Mountain, impressing his peers and senior brothers.
• Elder Liu sent Bai Jing a copy of his analysis of the great array after learning that Xu Nian had already delivered its diagram and auxiliary items.
• Bai Jing studied the array's requirements and saw that he lacked nine chapters of the Divine Fiend Art and seven kinds of Divine Blood.

Bai Jing discovered that the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array and Divine Fiend Art had formed heavenly leaves on his Talent Tree, marking them as exceptionally powerful arts. He resumed cultivating them and, after half a year in seclusion, advanced his spiritual cultivation to the Dharma Manifestation realm.

• Bai Jing realized that completing the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array would require seeking the arts and divine blood held by other Saint Races.
• After studying the array and Divine Fiend Art, Bai Jing found that each had formed a radiant leaf on his Talent Tree.
• Bai Jing concluded that the leaves represented arts of extraordinary power and anticipated that his own developing array could become equally formidable.
• Bai Jing limited his planned wood-element arrays to twenty-two so he could strengthen his Yin Yang Array Diagram over time.
• Bai Jing began cultivating the Great Heavenly Fiendish Array and Divine Fiend Art, then entered seclusion without celebrating his second-rank breakthrough.
• Half a year later, the Rhino Demon saw Bai Jing’s golden Dharma manifestation and announced that Bai Jing had reached the Dharma Manifestation realm.

Bai Jing advanced his cultivation and brought the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array to the Initiated stage, then began condensing its array flags and Divine Fiend runes. As the Northern Territory trial approached, he prepared for a battlefield made more dangerous by allied Saint Races and their powerful geniuses.

• Bai Jing tested his Dharma Aspect Golden Body and released three kinds of Killing Intent, impressing the Rhino Demon and the Ox Demon with the array's power.
• Bai Jing resolved to focus on strengthening himself and growing the Talent Tree's new bud after hearing that Saint Races from other regions had joined the Demon Race's forces against the Northern Territory.
• Two years later, Bai Jing's cultivation breakthrough sent a powerful aura through the Ninety-Nine Cave Abode.
• Bai Jing reached the Initiated stage in the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array and used five bottles of Divine Blood to condense five incomplete array flags.
• Bai Jing began outlining three kinds of Divine Fiend runes, with seven or eight months remaining before the Northern Territory trial.

As the final Upper Peak quota battle concluded, the cultivators discussed the coming Northern Territory trial and the dangers posed by the Demon Race’s peerless genius. On the eve of departure, Bai Jing finished strengthening his Dharma Aspect Golden Body and assessed his concealed strength, hoping to survive the battlefield.

• The cultivators gathered at Fire Spirit Peak and discussed Bai Jing’s seclusion, the Northern Territory clashes, and a Demon Race genius with a Ninth-Tier Star Position.
• Zhou Chengxue defeated Wang Qingfeng in the final Upper Peak quota battle.
• Bai Jing’s Dharma Aspect Golden Body reached its limit, and he reviewed his cultivation and array mastery before the trial.
• Bai Jing resolved to conceal his true strength and focus on staying alive in the Northern Territory.
• A Dao chime rang throughout Shangqing Mountain the next morning.

Bai Jing and Shangqing Mountain’s disciples departed for the Northern Territory, where they would reinforce the battle against the Demon Race and face trials at Lingxiao Academy. Their ship stopped near the Northern Territory after two days to wait for someone.

• Xu Shan watched the expedition ship depart and discussed the importance of achieving Three-Attribute Cultivation with Gu Pan'er.
• Bai Jing prepared to leave for the Northern Territory with the Ox Demon, who brought a pill furnace to refine pills and seek demon arts.
• Bai Jing joined the gathered geniuses aboard the ship and learned that senior disciples were traveling as reinforcements for the Northern Territory battlefield.
• Shangqing Mountain’s ship departed, and Bai Jing and eleven other geniuses were summoned to pay respects to the elders safeguarding their journey.
• After two days of travel, the ship stopped near the Northern Territory to wait for someone, leaving Xiao Yucheng uneasy.

The three great immortal sects reunited on their way to the Northern Territory, where the other sects learned of Bai Jing and Ling Qinghe’s extraordinary strength. After five days, they arrived at Lingxiao Academy, where Bai Jing spotted demonfolk provoking the cultivators at the city gate.

• Tianxuan and Tianhuo’s warships joined Shangqing Mountain’s vessel, and the three sects’ disciples greeted one another.
• Hu Yunfei, Feng Yingying, Shangguan Xue, and others reunited with Bai Jing, whose Tenth-Tier Star Position impressed the visiting geniuses.
• Bai Jing revealed that Ling Qinghe’s Innate Dao Fire made her stronger than Shen Miaomiao, startling the other sects’ geniuses.
• The three ships traveled together into the Northern Territory, and Xia Ming said they would reach Lingxiao Academy in five days.
• The ships arrived at Lingxiao Academy, where Bai Jing used his heavenly eye to see demonfolk taunting cultivators gathered by the enormous city gate.

At Lingxiao Academy, Sima Yue and the other disciples endured taunts from Demon Race cultivators while Gu Jingzhi urged them to wait for reinforcements. As Shangqing Mountain’s warships arrived, its disciples learned that the academy guarded the strongest and most fiercely contested Heaven Pass, where a gigantic golden body appeared above the walls.

• Sima Yue restrained herself from charging out to fight after the golden-horned man mocked her and boasted about abusing a captured human cultivator.
• Gu Jingzhi appeared above the city gates and told the Lingxiao Academy disciples to wait for the three great Immortal Sects’ reinforcements before fighting again.
• Wenren Zhao complained that Shangqing Mountain had delayed its arrival until the academy opened, despite Lingxiao Academy’s earlier requests for help.
• A Heavenly Star Great Power from Shangqing Mountain explained that Lingxiao Academy was the Northern Territory’s center for cultivation and guarded a crucial route into the Demon Domain.
• The Heavenly Star Great Power described the border as the strongest and most dangerous Heaven Pass, where human and Demon Race geniuses fought year after year.
• A gigantic golden body appeared above the city wall, and the Heavenly Star Great Power identified the site as Xuanxin Gate, where Dharma Manifestation geniuses fought.

Battle maniacs from Lingxiao Academy and Shangqing Mountain joined the Dharma Aspect battle at Xuanxin Gate. The handsome young man from Shangqing Mountain arrived and entered the fight, asking whether he was too late.

• Yun Qianshan allowed the eager disciples to reinforce the fighting at Xuanxin Gate.
• Sima Yue entered the battle against the Golden Horn Demon, and Gu Jingzhi and the other Lingxiao Academy elites joined her.
• The Golden Horn Demon ordered his forces to surround the Human Race elites, while Pang Qing and Zhu Zican discussed capturing and enslaving the Southern Territory's Tenth-Tier Potential monster.
• An unfamiliar female cultivator and several Shangqing Mountain disciples entered the fray, provoking Sima Yue into competing with the other woman.
• A handsome young man in Daoist robes arrived at Xuanxin Gate, joined the battle, and asked whether he was too late.

Bai Jing entered the battlefield and confronted Zhu Zican and Pang Qing while a Sub-Saint’s array restricted the use of life-saving measures. As the three geniuses clashed, Bai Jing’s Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array appeared among the Demon Race camp, unleashing destructive killing intent.

• Bai Jing discovered that most of his Jade Pendants were unusable inside the Sub-Saint’s array, and Gu Jingzhi explained that it would trap everyone for an hour.
• Bai Jing asked Gu Jingzhi to identify Zhu Zican and Pang Qing, then prepared to face both enemy geniuses.
• Bai Jing, Zhu Zican, and Pang Qing unleashed their Yin Yang arrays as the battle resumed around them.
• Zhu Zican cut through two arrays with his Sky Blade while Pang Qing watched Bai Jing warily.
• Bai Jing’s Twelve Array Flags appeared in the Demon Race camp, and destructive Killing Intent erupted as someone screamed.

Bai Jing used the Divine Fiend Array to slaughter the trapped Demon Race and Pang Clan cultivators while holding Zhu Zican at bay with layered grand arrays. As the massacre continued, Pang Qing and Zhu Zican argued over whether to reveal their hidden trump card, and Pang Qing challenged Zhu Zican to summon his race’s Holy Son.

• Bai Jing’s Divine Fiend Array killed a supreme Human Race Dharma Form and trapped the Golden Horn Demon and other cultivators.
• Gu Jingzhi blocked Pang Qing while Bai Jing’s array killed the trapped Dharma Forms, and Zhu Zican charged at Bai Jing to stop the slaughter.
• Bai Jing used successive Yin-Yang arrays to contain Zhu Zican’s strongest blade attacks and repaired the openings Zhu Zican carved through the formation.
• The Divine Fiend Array killed the Golden Horn Demon and spread across the battlefield, killing more Demon Cultivators and Saint Race Dharma Forms who could not escape the Sub-Saint’s Laws.
• Zhu Zican urged Pang Qing to intervene, but Pang Qing insisted they wait for the Laws to expire and preserve their hidden trump card.
• Pang Qing asked why Zhu Zican’s race’s Holy Son had not come to help, leaving Zhu Zican stunned.

Bai Jing used his expanding array formation to withstand Zhu Zican’s Eye of the Candle Dragon and trap him, while his Divine Fiend Array slaughtered Demon Cultivators below. Zhu Zican was left injured and powerless, fearing what Bai Jing might do if he turned his full strength against him.

• Gu Jingzhi held Pang Qing back while Bai Jing killed Demon Race fighters, and Bai Jing began considering killing Pang Qing to obtain the Divine Blood-stained Array Flags he needed.
• Zhu Zican unleashed the Eye of the Candle Dragon, darkening the battlefield and appearing to break through Bai Jing’s twenty-six arrays.
• Bai Jing revealed that he remained unharmed and formed a twenty-eight-array super formation resonating with his Yin Yang Array Diagram.
• Zhu Zican used the Eye of the Candle Dragon again, but Bai Jing’s stronger formation held him in place and wounded him with its Dao rhythms and Laws.
• Zhu Zican watched his companions die to Bai Jing’s Divine Fiend Array and realized he could neither escape nor reach Bai Jing.