Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye and the others arrived at Spirit Ruins Cave, where the elders tested their cultivation aptitudes and were astonished by Bai Ye’s strange Bitter Sea and the players’ exceptional talents. The next morning, Bai Ye encouraged Ye Fan that the Sacred Body could cultivate, and Elder Wu Qingfeng arrived to teach the group.

• The elders welcomed Bai Ye and the others, examined their aptitudes, and found Bai Ye’s Bitter Sea unusually soft while many players displayed exceptional talents.
• Spirit Ruins Cave arranged lodging for the newcomers and planned to teach them cultivation the following day.
• Ye Fan visited Bai Ye at night to ask whether the Sacred Body could cultivate, and Bai Ye told him it could but required enormous resources.
• Bai Ye logged out, waited thirty seconds in the real world while eight hours passed in Shrouding the Heavens, then returned and skipped the nighttime cutscene.
• Elder Wu Qingfeng arrived the next morning to explain cultivation to the new disciples.

Bai Ye rapidly opened his Multidimensional Bitter Sea, then used Self-limitation to cultivate the realm repeatedly and stack its power. Meanwhile, five rival caves pressured Spirit Ruins Cave to share the newly admitted talents, and Bai Ye ended the chapter developing a revised cultivation method.

• Bai Ye followed the Dao Scripture and quickly opened his Multidimensional Bitter Sea, bringing forth a Divine Spring amid a blood-red phenomenon.
• Worried his swift progress had left his foundation unstable, Bai Ye used Self-limitation to store the cultivated realm and opened it again, stacking its power.
• Cave masters and elders from five rival caves arrived at Spirit Ruins Cave and demanded an even share of the disciples found in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Spirit Ruins Cave's master resisted the demand but offered to let the visitors choose some disciples after his own cave chose first.
• Bai Ye cultivated the Multidimensional Bitter Sea for a third time and used his stored mental power to devise a new method for opening it.

Bai Ye continued his bizarre cultivation and refused to attend the main hall, beating a Life Spring Realm disciple who threatened him. Bi Qing brought the other newcomers to the hall and reported that Bai Ye had killed Yang Xia, leaving the elders stunned.

• Bai Ye found that his Bitter Sea cultivation had developed dozens of strange forms and decided to increase his Bitter Power to 99 times.
• When a Life Spring Realm disciple ordered Bai Ye to come to the main hall, Bai Ye shut the door on him and then punched and kicked him off the cliff.
• Ye Fan, Wang Ziwen, Li Xiaoman, Pang Bo, and the others waited outside while Bai Ye stayed in his cottage.
• Bi Qing arrived, learned that Bai Ye had attacked Yang Xia, and brought the other disciples to the main hall without Bai Ye.
• Bi Qing told the elders that Bai Ye had beaten Yang Xia to death, and they questioned how an untrained mortal could defeat a cultivator two realms above him.

After Bi Qing's report about Yang's death, Liu Yunzhi exposed Bai Ye's cultivation and knowledge of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land before the gathered sect leaders. The elders searched Liu Yunzhi's soul, learned the players' secrets, and ended by calling for Bai Ye's capture.

• Bi Qing admitted he had not witnessed Yang's death, and Liu Yunzhi claimed Bai Ye already had cultivation and had killed someone with a kick.
• Liu Yunzhi revealed that Bai Ye knew about the Holy Water Holy Fruit and the Five-Colored Altar, angering Headmaster Li and drawing the other sects' interest.
• An elder from Golden Haze Cave stopped Headmaster Li from attacking Liu Yunzhi and proposed searching his soul.
• The gathered elders forcibly searched Liu Yunzhi's memories and learned about Earth, the players, and the Buddhist Artifacts from Great Thunderclap Temple.
• After recognizing the players' value, the Spirit Ruins Cave Master watched them closely as someone urged the gathering to capture Bai Ye.

Spirit Ruins Cave Master and the other cultivators pursued Bai Ye to capture him, but he fought back with his Four-Dimensional Sea of Bitterness. The cultivators’ combined attack failed when Bai Ye copied and returned their techniques, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Spirit Ruins Cave Master ordered Bi Qing to guard the disciples and led more than thirty cultivators from the six great Caves to Bai Ye’s hill.
• A Jade Cauldron Cave elder attacked Bai Ye with a jade bracelet, but Bai Ye stopped the artifact with his fist and remained unharmed.
• Bai Ye dismissed the cultivators as game enemies and unleashed his Four-Dimensional Sea of Bitterness, nearly cleaving an elder with a red beam.
• The cultivators surrounded Bai Ye and launched a combined assault, but his Sea of Bitterness replicated their divine abilities and spells and blasted their attacks apart.

Bai Ye defeated the Spirit Ruins Cave headmasters and elders, killing most and leaving one survivor to spread news of his power. He returned to the hall where Ye Fan and the others waited, killed the guards, and asked who had informed the elders about him.

• Bai Ye analyzed and improved the cultivators’ Dao techniques, then overwhelmed them with his own attacks.
• Bai Ye killed Headmaster Li and an elder who tried to rally the others, while stopping the cultivators who attempted to flee.
• Bai Ye killed most of the remaining cultivators and severed one survivor’s Dao Foundation, ordering him to spread news and summon anyone willing to hunt him.
• Bai Ye vanished, then arrived at the hall where Ye Fan and the others were being held and killed the guards.
• Bai Ye asked the group which of them had told the elders about him.

Bai Ye carved the Sunflower Manual into a stone pillar to tempt people desperate for longevity, then vanished and left the grotto-heaven in chaos. Wei Wei tried to stabilize the sect, but learned that Bai Ye had attacked her master and the other elders.

• Bai Ye ordered a player to keep Liu Yunzhi suffering for ten years in exchange for the future position of Empire Chief Executioner.
• Bai Ye carved the Sunflower Manual into a stone pillar and claimed it could grant five thousand years of life if readers castrated themselves.
• Bai Ye told the others they could reveal his identity, then vanished from the grand hall as people fled.
• The grotto-heaven disciples captured most fleeing tourists and university group members, while the players and a few people including Ye Fan escaped.
• Wei Wei tried to stabilize the grotto-heaven and asked Li Xiaoman and the others what had happened.
• Someone told Wei Wei that Bai Ye had attacked, leaving her shocked that he could have defeated her master and the other elders.

Wei Wei and the Yaoguang Holy Land investigated Bai Ye’s destruction of Spirit Ruins Cave and discovered that his Sunflower Manual granted extraordinary longevity at a terrible cost. Yaoguang Holy Lord learned Bai Ye was missing but had claimed to possess even greater Longevity Methods hidden in his memories.

• Wei Wei learned that Bai Ye had killed Spirit Ruins Cave’s headmaster and elders, then saw his Sunflower Manual inscribed in the hall.
• Wei Wei reported the cave heaven’s destruction and the strange cultivation technique to an elder from Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Yaoguang Holy Land surrounded Spirit Ruins Cave, and Shendu examined the manual and sensed that it followed a new cultivation path.
• Elder Wang explained that elderly test subjects had grown younger but suffered uncontrollable desire, while restoring their manhood rapidly drained their lifespans.
• Yaoguang Holy Lord asked where Bai Ye was, and Elder Wang reported that Bai Ye had claimed to possess Longevity Methods lasting up to one hundred thousand years, stored in his memories.

Bai Ye had the Yan Kingdom distribute his castrated cultivation method across the Big Dipper, triggering a frenzy among cultivators desperate to extend their lives. After briefly leaving the game, he returned to the palace, announced himself to the cultivators hunting him, and fled to draw them after him.

• Bai Ye confirmed that the Yan Emperor had distributed copies of the cultivation method throughout Yan Kingdom and the major sects.
• While Bai Ye ate barbecue outside the game, the first great cultivator castrated himself and emerged the next day rejuvenated, prompting others to follow.
• Cultivators across the Big Dipper searched for Bai Ye, but divination could not reveal his location; they traced him to the Yan Kingdom Imperial Palace instead.
• Bai Ye considered distributing more bizarre cultivation methods, then lost his appetite and reentered the game.
• Bai Ye appeared in the palace, killed the cultivator who shouted that he was there, challenged the others to chase him, and escaped as a streak of light.

Bai Ye slaughtered the cultivators sent to capture him in Yan Kingdom, while the major powers struggled to locate or defeat him. The Azure Emperor Tomb then opened, drawing the factions into conflict and giving Bai Ye a chance to target their unguarded Holy Sons and Holy Maidens.

• Bai Ye destroyed attackers ranging from Divine Treasury cultivators to Four Extremes cultivators, and the Ji Family learned that more than thirty Four Extremes cultivators had died at his hands.
• The Azure Emperor Tomb opened in Yan Kingdom, drawing the major powers into a battle over its treasures.
• Bai Ye watched the factions fight and flew toward their gathering places to target the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens left behind.
• A Ji Family elder urged Ji Haoyue to leave Yan Kingdom, but Ji Haoyue proposed challenging the other Holy Sons instead.
• A young woman in purple agreed with Ji Haoyue and declared that the Void Lineage was inferior to no one.

Bai Ye overwhelmed the Ji Family with his Bitter Sea phenomenon, killed many of its disciples, and abducted Ji Ziyue. He then headed for a Jade Pool Holy Land outpost to attack it, while the Ji Family scrambled to respond to its losses.

• Ji Haoyue and Ji Ziyue decided to confront Bai Ye, and the elder agreed to accompany them before Bai Ye's blood-sea phenomenon engulfed the Ji Family grounds.
• Ji Haoyue's Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea phenomenon was suppressed and hijacked, and Bai Ye's blood moon slaughtered Ji Family disciples despite the family's counterattack.
• Bai Ye used the Void Great Handprint against the Ji Family, trapped Ji Haoyue in the blood sea, sealed Ji Ziyue's cultivation, and carried her away.
• After breaking free with the elder's help, Ji Haoyue ordered the family to report the attack and Ji Ziyue's abduction to his father.
• Bai Ye reached a Jade Pool Holy Land outpost and declared that its failure to hunt him down meant it had courted death.

Bai Ye raided the major powers’ temporary bases, abducting Ji Ziyue, the Jade Pool Holy Maiden, and Yao Xi while leaving their disciples alive. The Holy Lords discovered the devastation and rushed back as Bai Ye escaped to a remote wilderness and ordered the captive women to serve him.

• Bai Ye overwhelmed the Jade Pool Holy Land, bound its Holy Maiden, and took her along with Ji Ziyue.
• Bai Ye visited the major powers’ bases throughout the Yan Kingdom, beating disciples, killing Jiang Yichen, and abducting women while sparing most of the people he defeated.
• Ji Haoyue warned the Holy Lords at the Azure Emperor Tomb that Bai Ye had raided their bases and captured Ziyue.
• The Holy Lords abandoned their battle and returned to find their bases devastated, then roared in fury at Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye rested in a remote mountain wilderness with Ji Ziyue, Yao Xi, and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden, then ordered them to help him undress.

Bai Ye forced Ji Ziyue to learn cooking while explaining his recent excesses, then left the cave to confront the forces outside. He returned an hour later claiming he had suffered an injury, though it had healed almost instantly.

• Bai Ye told Ji Ziyue that she was useless as a maid and ordered her to study cooking books for a test in a month.
• Bai Ye left the cave to have fun with Ji Ziyue's father and the other forces searching for her.
• Ji Ziyue found the two sleeping women had advanced to the Transformation Dragon Realm after absorbing Bai Ye's vital essence.
• Bai Ye returned with a dark expression and complained that a brief injury had ruined his flawless record.

After an elder wounded him, Bai Ye revealed the living sword forged from his own spine and set out with Ji Ziyue, Yao Xi, and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden to attack the Yan Kingdom Wang Family. His sword qi swept across the Big Dipper and struck the Yaoguang Holy Lord, leaving him cleaved in half.

• Bai Ye ordered Ji Ziyue to wake Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden and prepare to move to the Wang Family's stronghold.
• Bai Ye opened an ancient black iron box and revealed the Bone Sword forged from his own spinal bones.
• Bai Ye explained that the Bai Ye Spinal Cord Sword was a living weapon that grew stronger with every strike.
• Bai Ye led the three women toward the Yan Kingdom Wang Family and declared that anyone blocking their way would be killed or spared by halves.
• Bai Ye's sword qi crossed the Big Dipper and cleaved the Yaoguang Holy Lord in half as he worried about Yao Xi.

Bai Ye used the Bone Sword to massacre cultivators who sought the Longevity Secret and those who had hunted him, leaving the Big Dipper too frightened to intervene. He arrived at the Wang Family and began killing its members, including its head, Wang Chengkun.

• Bai Ye restored the three women's cultivation and led them toward the Wang Family as cultivators rushed to capture him for the Longevity Secret.
• Bai Ye split the approaching cultivators with a destructive sword strike, leaving them to die in agony.
• Bai Ye killed thousands more onlookers and hunted down cultivators who had pursued him, while the Holy Lords watched without daring to stop him.
• Bai Ye reached the Wang Family and immediately cut Wang Chengkun in half as he came forward to greet him.
• Bai Ye killed Wang Family members who shouted at him, silencing the family's cries for vengeance.

Bai Ye terrorized the Wang Family stronghold, killing anyone who spoke and forcing the onlooking factions to stay silent. After confirming the Wang Family was his target, he ordered them to choose who would survive, then selected a young woman holding a white dog as their new family head.

• Bai Ye split the Wang Family members who spoke, silencing the manor and terrifying the witnesses.
• Bai Ye killed an elder from a holy land and warned the leaders of powerful forces not to challenge him.
• Bai Ye questioned the Wang Family about an elder’s likeness and confirmed he had found the right clan.
• Bai Ye ordered the Wang Family to choose half of each social and cultivation group to survive and join his side.
• Bai Ye declared that he would choose a new family head and pointed to a young woman holding a white dog.

Bai Ye humiliated the Wang Family by naming its Snow White Jade Dog as its head, then took Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden inside to improve their cultivation. Ji Ziyue was thrown back outside after mistakenly following them.

• Bai Ye rejected the servant woman he had pointed out and revealed that he meant to appoint the Snow White Jade Dog as head of the Wang Family.
• Bai Ye enlightened the dog, handed it to a Wang Family elder, and ordered the clan to deliver its roster before they died.
• The Wang Family elders accepted the dog as their head, while the onlookers decided they should obey Bai Ye rather than risk their families' ruin.
• Bai Ye entered the building with Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden, saying he would help improve their cultivation.
• Bai Ye threw Ji Ziyue outside, and she realized she had been foolish to argue about following him in.

Ji Ziyue learned that the Ji Family planned to propose her marriage to Bai Ye, though the family first needed to know whether he would agree. Meanwhile, Bai Ye gave Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden the Source of the Great Dao, and they broke through to the fourth level of the Transformation Dragon Realm overnight.

• Ji Ziyue met the Ji Family Holy Lord, who confirmed her family was safe and asked whether she had learned anything about Bai Ye's Longevity Method.
• Ji Ziyue told the Holy Lord she knew nothing about the method, and he revealed that the Ji Family intended to betroth her to Bai Ye.
• Ji Ziyue pointed out that Bai Ye's opinion mattered most, so the Holy Lord decided she should ask him before the family made a formal proposal.
• Bai Ye urged Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden to consume the Source of the Great Dao, promising it could help them reach the Great Emperor realm.
• Yao Xi and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden consumed the Source of the Great Dao and both reached the fourth level of the Transformation Dragon Realm overnight.

The Wang Family prepared a list of people they believed Bai Ye had chosen to die, but Bai Ye revealed it was actually a list of those who would live and ordered the others, including Wang Teng, killed. He then agreed to meet representatives of the Ji Family, the Shining Light Holy Land, and the Jade Pool Holy Land, who wanted to discuss the method of immortality.

• The Wang Family elders spent the night compiling a list that spared their strongest members and placed poorer branches and volunteers on it.
• Bai Ye emerged the next morning and discovered that Wang Teng was absent from the list while the elder who presented it was included.
• Bai Ye revealed that everyone on the list would survive, reversing the elders’ expectations and causing outrage among those left off it.
• Several Wang Family members cursed Bai Ye, and he killed them with the Bone Sword before ordering the family to eliminate those not on the list, especially Wang Teng.
• A Wang Family elder told Bai Ye that representatives of the Ji Family, the Shining Light Holy Land, and the Jade Pool Holy Land requested a meeting about immortality.
• Bai Ye accepted the meeting at Moon Gazing Pavilion and invited Ji Ziyue to stroll through the Yan Kingdom’s royal capital with him.

Bai Ye and Ji Ziyue strolled through the Yan Country Capital while Ji Ziyue considered the Ji Family Holy Lord’s suggestion that she marry Bai Ye. Cultivators who recognized Bai Ye warned an uninformed attacker away, leaving Bai Ye and Ji Ziyue to continue their shopping.

• Bai Ye and Ji Ziyue walked through the capital, where Ji Ziyue reflected on the Holy Lord’s marriage suggestion and watched Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye bought treats, clothes, and trinkets, treating the ordinary townspeople courteously despite his ruthless attitude toward those who offended him.
• Several cultivators recognized Bai Ye and stopped a Transformation Dragon Realm cultivator from attacking him.
• The cultivators explained that Bai Ye wielded a Quasi-Emperor Weapon and had slain anyone who challenged him the day before, so the attacker withdrew in fear.