Chapter Summaries

Bai Yixin fought off the Progenitors while Shi Hao used the Alchemy Furnace to unite the Golden Paper pages and awaken the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique. The chapter left Shi Hao with the Thunder Emperor Armor and considering whether to regrow his Supreme Bone.

• Bai Yixin used Heart Flame and the Void War Halberd to defeat the Progenitors competing for the Golden Paper.
• Shi Hao placed the Golden Paper in the Alchemy Furnace, and the two pages joined as Immortal Dao lightning swept across the area.
• Bai Yixin identified the pages’ technique as the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and revealed that his battered armor was the Thunder Emperor Armor.
• Bai Yixin gave the Thunder Emperor Armor to Shi Hao, who thanked him.
• Bai Yixin encouraged Shi Hao to consider removing his Supreme Bone and letting it grow back, while Shi Hao said he had not decided.

After collecting the Golden Paper and mastering the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, Bai Yixin left the inheritance grounds and traveled with Huo Ling'er to Devil Island. He headed for the Immortal Grave, hoping to cultivate with its immortal Dao thunder and forge an indestructible Thunder Dao body.

• Bai Yixin asked Yuechan and Shi Hao about their plans, and Shi Hao decided to travel to Demon Province before the Three Thousand Provinces' battle of extraordinary talents.
• Bai Yixin, Shi Hao, and Shi Zhongtian prepared near the nine Sacred Mountains while Shi Hao studied the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique with the last Thunder Wonder Herb.
• After several days of cultivation, Shi Hao mastered the technique and showed off his lightning abilities.
• Bai Yixin gave Shi Hao and Shi Zhongtian World-Breaking Talismans to leave, then used another talisman to depart with the Golden Paper and Alchemy Furnace.
• Bai Yixin and Huo Ling'er traveled by transport formation and boat to Devil Island, where Bai Yixin set out for the Immortal Grave to cultivate in its immortal Dao thunder.

Bai Yixin fought through the lightning-filled electromagnetic fog, reached the Heavenly River, and deepened his understanding of Thunder Dao as he followed it toward the Immortal Grave. He finally spotted the grave mound in the distance.

• Bai Yixin entered the perilous region alone and slew a vast swarm of electric fish, including two that had Ignited Divine Fire, claiming their Thunder Stones.
• Bai Yixin continued deeper through the electromagnetic mist, fighting dangerous creatures and sensing the growing power of the lightning laws.
• Bai Yixin found the Heavenly River and followed it past the corpses of divine experts and an ancient city whose stele listed Huang—Shi Hao at the top.
• Bai Yixin resisted the river’s lightning while comprehending the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and considering using immortal lightning to temper his body.
• Bai Yixin spotted the Immortal Grave mound in the distant mist.

Bai Yixin reached the Immortal Grave and used its curse and immortal lightning to temper his body and deepen his mastery of the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique. After climbing the mound and gaining a trace of immortal energy, he stopped when his instincts warned that advancing farther would be fatal.

• Bai Yixin endured the intensifying curse and lightning on his way to the Immortal Grave, using them to temper his body and study the Thunder Dao.
• Bai Yixin examined the mound with the Double Pupil and spotted what appeared to be the Demon Venerable's blood at its summit.
• Bai Yixin entered enlightenment for two months and mastered the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, allowing lightning to dispel the curse from his body.
• Bai Yixin climbed the mound, repeatedly suffering severe lightning injuries and healing with Treasure Medicines from the Immortal Grave.
• Bai Yixin absorbed the thunder to recover and strengthen himself, eventually cultivating a trace of immortal energy.
• Bai Yixin sensed that another step would bring mortal danger and decided to leave the Immortal Grave.

Bai Yixin and Huo Ling'er arrived at Heavenly Immortal Academy, where Bai Yixin intended to visit Qingyi and obtain Azure Moon Flame for Xiao Xin. He encountered Shi Hao passing the Heavenly Ladder trials and spotted Qingyi in the crowd, then pushed through toward her.

• Bai Yixin and Huo Ling'er traveled through Fire Province and reached Heavenly Immortal Academy near Fufeng City.
• Bai Yixin decided not to seek Qi Daolin's protection and went with Huo Ling'er to the Academy gates.
• Bai Yixin recognized Shi Hao preparing to climb the Heavenly Ladder and called out to him.
• Shi Hao passed all nine stages of the Heavenly Ladder, drawing a crowd that included Qingyi.
• Bai Yixin pushed through the crowd toward Qingyi and used his aura to make the person he shoved back down.

Bai Yixin arrived at the Heavenly Immortal Academy with Huo Ling'er and reunited with Little Yuechan, drawing a wave of gossip after she left with him. He told her about meeting her main body and their pact, then stayed to catch up on their experiences in the Upper Realm.

• Bai Yixin unleashed his aura and forced a path through the crowd toward Little Yuechan while most onlookers watched Shi Hao climb the Heavenly Ladder.
• Bai Yixin revealed himself as an old friend to Little Yuechan, who left with him and Huo Ling'er before Shi Hao finished climbing.
• The crowd spread rumors that Qingyi already belonged to an unknown man, while Bai Yixin followed Little Yuechan into the academy without being stopped.
• Little Yuechan asked whether Bai Yixin had captured her main body, and he explained that they had joined in spirit during a Divine Sense battle before making a pact and parting.
• Bai Yixin said his pact with her main body was that she would become his Dao companion if he ruled the world, and Little Yuechan said she had the same condition.
• Bai Yixin and Little Yuechan talked for a long time about what they had experienced in the Upper Realm.

Bai Yixin reunited with Shi Hao, heard about his dangerous journey and the Azure Moon Flame, and went with Little Yuechan to seek the ancient fire. The story left Bai Yixin hoping to help Little Yuechan obtain it and take a wisp to strengthen his Heart Flame.

• Bai Yixin waited near Heavenly Immortal Academy until he heard that Shi Hao had returned to the Supreme Dojo, then found him among its ruins.
• Shi Hao told Bai Yixin how the Celestial Race had turned against him after he saved Yun Xi, and how Bai Yixin's World-Breaking Talisman helped him escape.
• Shi Hao recounted encountering the Azure Moon Flame in Fire Province, while Bai Yixin explained his plans to use it for Little Yuechan and his Heart Flame.
• Bai Yixin and Shi Hao parted after a meal; Shi Hao went to Heavenly Immortal Academy to refine the Golden Bodhi Fruit, and Bai Yixin went to find Little Yuechan.

Bai Yixin took Little Yuechan to an underground ruin in Fire Province, where they found the Azure Moon Flame she needed. Its moonlight burned away their clothes, and Bai Yixin took the chance to embrace her before she dodged away.

• Bai Yixin visited Little Yuechan at the girls' dormitory and told her he knew where to find the Azure Moon Flame.
• Bai Yixin explained that he wanted Little Yuechan and Great Yuechan to use the flame, then took Little Yuechan toward Fire Province.
• Bai Yixin and Little Yuechan descended into a vast underground abyss and discovered the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• Bai Yixin led Little Yuechan through the ruins until they found the cyan moon of Azure Moon Flame.
• The Azure Moon Flame burned away their clothes, and Bai Yixin removed his Thunder Emperor Armor and embraced Little Yuechan.
• Little Yuechan scolded Bai Yixin and swiftly dodged away from him.

Bai Yixin teased Yuechan before helping her attempt to communicate with and subdue the Azure Moon Flame. As the flame descended and hovered above Yuechan, she continued the ritual while Bai Yixin watched and provoked her.

• Bai Yixin held Yuechan close and warned her that precious artifacts might be destroyed by the Azure Moon Flame, then let her go after she tried to bite him.
• Yuechan tested an ordinary set of clothes, which remained intact, and changed while Bai Yixin admitted he had hoped to keep looking at her.
• Bai Yixin urged Yuechan to use the Immortal Ancient Era sacrificial language to form a bond with the Azure Moon Flame and promised to protect her.
• Yuechan began chanting toward the azure moon, and it descended until it hovered a few zhang away, burning away their clothes with its heat.
• As Yuechan continued the ritual, Bai Yixin stared at her and teased her, while she glared at him and focused on the flame.

Bai Yixin and Little Yuechan endured the Azure Moon Flame as it began purifying her body and tempering his. When Yuechan neared death, Bai Yixin held and kissed her, determined to shield her while exploiting the flames, and she mistook his actions for a vow to die with her.

• Bai Yixin helped Little Yuechan withstand the Azure Moon Flame by replenishing her essence as she chanted to the flame seed.
• The Azure Moon Flame surged around Yuechan, and Bai Yixin let its scorching light burn and refine his body.
• Yuechan weakened under the flames and said she might have failed, but Bai Yixin urged her to hold on and promised she would not die with him there.
• Bai Yixin embraced Yuechan and blocked most of the moonlight flames, insisting they would both survive.
• Bai Yixin kissed Yuechan, shocking her; she then mistook his act for a desperate declaration of love and began responding to him.

Bai Yixin endured the Azure Moon Flame to protect Yuechan, and the azure moon eventually revived them both. Yuechan bonded with the flame and merged it with the dancing figure at her brow before dressing and pulling away from Bai Yixin.

• Bai Yixin resisted the azure moon's attack while devouring its fire and tempering his body, even as Yuechan urged him to leave her behind.
• Bai Yixin reminded Yuechan of her promise to become his Dao companion, kissed her forehead, and continued protecting her.
• The azure moon stopped attacking and gently restored Yuechan and Bai Yixin, reshaping their burned bodies.
• Yuechan formed a contract with the Azure Moon Flame, which merged with the dancing figure at her brow.
• Yuechan realized she was naked in Bai Yixin's arms, blushed, put on a dress, and withdrew from his embrace.

After Little Yuechan obtained the Azure Moon Immortal Fire, Bai Yixin warned her not to mistake the True Immortal’s Dao for her own and helped her resist its influence. He acquired Azure Moon Flame for his Heart Flame, which advanced to Divine Fire, while an unexplained bolt of heavenly lightning struck him.

• Bai Yixin discussed the Dao with Little Yuechan and cautioned her against being assimilated by the Azure Moon True Immortal’s understanding of transcendence.
• As Bai Yixin continued speaking about forging one’s own path, heavenly lightning descended and struck him, leaving him stunned but not seriously injured.
• Bai Yixin asked Little Yuechan for Azure Moon Flame to feed his Heart Flame, and she gave him a cluster of flame and a little source power.
• Bai Yixin taught Little Yuechan the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique in return.
• Little Yuechan used the Azure Moon Flame to help merge it with Bai Yixin’s Heart Flame, advancing Xiao Xin to Divine Fire powerful enough to burn True Gods.

Bai Yixin and Shi Hao learned that the Three Thousand Provinces genius war was about to begin as bells rang across the Upper Realm and hidden geniuses emerged. Bai Yixin continued cultivating in seclusion, preparing to face the inner demon that awaited his breakthrough to the late Nascent Soul stage.

• Bai Yixin discussed the Divine Fire Realm with Shi Hao and told him to focus on reaching the perfection of the Venerable realm.
• Bai Yixin explained that the ringing bells announced the coming Three Thousand Provinces genius war, prompting young Supremes throughout the world to prepare.
• The Immortal Palace Successor, a red-haired cultivator who had mastered the ninth heaven of the Great Burning Heaven Technique, and a golden-haired woman emerged as hidden geniuses awakened across the provinces.
• Bai Yixin reflected on his cultivation after the Azure Moon Immortal Fire strengthened his body, while his Nascent Soul remained in the middle stage.
• Bai Yixin entered seclusion to prepare for the inner demon tribulation required to reach the late Nascent Soul stage, resolving to face his inner demon without relying on outside treasures.

Bai Yixin entered the Spirit Realm for the Three Thousand Provinces genius battle and effortlessly overwhelmed the competitors around him. After surviving the preliminary slaughter, he climbed the Immortal Platform and began breaking through its formidable ninth-step barrier.

• Bai Yixin entered the Spirit Realm among millions of competitors, who immediately fought across ninety battlefields.
• Bai Yixin unleashed his Divine Fire Heart Flame and eliminated everyone in his grassland region, then waited while the other regions fought.
• The survivors were sent to the Immortal Platform, where Bai Yixin burned anyone who tried to block his ascent.
• Bai Yixin climbed past the fifth step to the ninth, where a formation of Bone Text blocked his way.
• Bai Yixin used the Original True Interpretation to dismantle the formation and continued upward.

Bai Yixin broke the Immortal Platform’s final test, set an eighty-thousand-year record, and obtained the Immortal Ancient Mark. After the trial ended, he and the other victors were sent into No Man’s Land, where the Immortal Dao Flower Bud appeared and the sect masters announced that fifty million Venerables had passed.

• Bai Yixin shattered the Order Chains on the tenth stair, reached the top of the Immortal Platform, and carved the name “Grind” onto the Glorious Divine Stele.
• Bai Yixin touched the Immortal Ancient Mark, learned that it could aid Dao comprehension and nourish the spirit, then swallowed it and stored it in his Nascent Soul for later use.
• The Immortal Platform assessment ended, and Bai Yixin returned to the Dao arena as more than eight hundred thousand Venerables were eliminated, leaving ten thousand victors from Heavenly Immortal Province.
• The remaining Venerables were sent into No Man’s Land, where Bai Yixin wondered where Haozi had been assigned and spotted the Immortal Dao Flower Bud in the distance.
• The sect masters announced that fifty million Venerables from the Upper Realm’s three thousand provinces had passed the trial, and Bai Yixin reflected that he qualified because he had not Ignited Divine Fire or opened the divine path.

The Immortal Dao Flower fully bloomed, carrying cultivators toward Immortal Ancient, and Bai Yixin entered one of its Great Dao paths. He slaughtered most of the cultivators on the ancient stairways while studying their Daos, then joined Shi Hao in preparing to Ignite Divine Fire by a different route.

• The Immortal Dao Flower unfurled its final petal, and about five million cultivators ascended toward Immortal Ancient.
• Bai Yixin entered a gate of light and began burning cultivators on his stone stairway, driving the survivors to flee.
• Bai Yixin continued along the ancient paths, killing those who lagged behind while comprehending the Great Daos.
• The other cultivators entered the Secret Realm to Ignite Divine Fire, leaving only Bai Yixin and Shi Hao on the three thousand paths.
• Bai Yixin and Shi Hao comprehended every ancient path, then sat down to exchange insights and make their final preparations.

Bai Yixin and Shi Hao began using the three thousand Great Dao flames to Ignite Divine Fire, with Bai Yixin refining himself inside the Black Cauldron. When gray mist appeared during his cultivation, Bai Yixin dismissed it as only the first sign of a strange transformation and continued tempering himself.

• Bai Yixin and Shi Hao agreed to cultivate together using the three thousand Dao Fires.
• Bai Yixin filled the Black Cauldron with precious liquid and medicines, entered it, and began refining himself.
• After five days, Dao Fire gathered around the cauldron, and Bai Yixin drew in the flames to temper his body and Nascent Soul.
• As Bai Yixin drew in more than a thousand streaks of firelight, gray mist and an uncanny chill spread through the ancient paths.
• Shi Hao sensed the danger and approached the cauldron, but Bai Yixin restored himself with his Unique Heavenly Cave and told Shi Hao to keep away.
• Bai Yixin called the gray mist the first sign of a strange transformation and continued drawing in Dao Fire, leaving Shi Hao alarmed.

Bai Yixin endured an attack by gray mist while cultivating on the Bluestone Roads, then recognized the rules behind a new gray-fog creature’s appearance. He prepared to use the creature as a sparring partner without revealing his abilities.

• Gray mist attacked Bai Yixin’s Black Cauldron, but his Unique Heavenly Cave blocked it while he continued cultivating.
• Shi Hao retreated and watched as the mist withdrew, then guarded Bai Yixin and expected it to return.
• An Ancient Lamp appeared above Bai Yixin, and a humanoid creature approached through the gray mist.
• Bai Yixin left the Black Cauldron and identified the creature’s copying abilities and the Ancient Lamp’s role in gathering information.
• Bai Yixin decided to avoid using his divine abilities and spells so he could practice his sword against the creature.

Bai Yixin battled a humanoid creature emerging from the gray fog, matching its immense power and honing his Sword Dao in their fierce exchange. He deliberately took a sword wound to trap its weapon, then killed it with a breakthrough sword strike.

• A humanoid creature in the gray fog drew a Bronze Ancient Sword and attacked Bai Yixin, who met its strike with a True God Artifact sword.
• Bai Yixin kicked the creature away and charged after it, beginning a rapid, devastating sword duel as Shi Hao watched.
• Bai Yixin traded blows with the creature and gained new Sword Dao insights, while their sword strikes shattered the surrounding void.
• Bai Yixin deliberately let the creature stab his shoulder, trapped its sword with his left hand, and unleashed his strongest sword strike.
• Bai Yixin's sword severed the humanoid creature's neck and killed it.

Bai Yixin defeated a humanoid creature guarding an Ancient Lamp, then continued tempering himself with Dao Fire to advance his cultivation. As the dangerous trial weakened him, his Inner Demon appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and challenged him for control of his body.

• Bai Yixin killed the humanoid creature after his sword dao broke through to the God-Reaching Realm, though the battle left his left arm nearly severed and his body badly wounded.
• Bai Yixin destroyed the Ancient Lamp and burned its fragments, while the creature's corpse crumbled into dust.
• Bai Yixin told Shi Hao that prodigies pursuing an extraordinary path to godhood faced the Weirdness, and Shi Hao said he looked forward to confronting it.
• After a day and night of recovery, Bai Yixin resumed his trial with more than fifteen hundred flames, which nearly destroyed his body while condensing his Nascent Soul.
• Bai Yixin's Inner Demon emerged in his Sea of Consciousness during the burning and tried to seize control of his weakened body.