Chapter Summaries

Bai Yuan slaughtered the remaining Evil Soul Masters and many out-of-control Soul Beasts, impressing Han Tianyi with his accelerating speed. Han Tianyi began a new trial against three Spirit Hall consecrates from the past, and Bai Yuan charged at them despite their overwhelming experience and strength.

• Bai Yuan killed the remaining Evil Soul Masters and more than half of the out-of-control Soul Beasts, growing faster with every strike.
• A surviving Soul Master and Han Tianyi observed Bai Yuan's speed, and Han Tianyi declared that he had passed the test before summoning another challenge.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, and Mighty Lion Douluo emerged, their strength suppressed to three Soul Rings each.
• Mighty Lion Douluo attacked Bai Yuan, but Golden Crocodile Douluo intercepted his sword and flung him back.
• Bai Yuan invoked Eidolon's enhancement and charged the three consecrates, convinced that they were all prey before the Worldbearing Coreflame.

Bai Yuan awakened the Star Cone Thus Burns the Dawn during a battle against three powerful opponents in Han Tianyi’s Illusion Space. He defeated all three and asked Han Tianyi if anyone else was coming.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, and Azure Luan Douluo attacked Bai Yuan together, but he dodged their coordinated strikes.
• The Worldbearing Coreflame reacted to the three opponents and bestowed the Star Cone Thus Burns the Dawn, increasing Bai Yuan’s speed and damage while letting him ignore part of an enemy’s defense.
• Bai Yuan used Dawnmaker’s spreading sword light to destroy Azure Luan Douluo, then endured Mighty Lion Douluo’s attack with the Power of Destruction.
• Bai Yuan pushed Thus Burns the Dawn to its limit and killed Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo with two swift strikes.
• Bai Yuan called out to Elder Han for more opponents, but Han Tianyi stopped the trial before Bai Yuan could damage the Illusion Space.

Bai Yuan finished Han Tianyi’s assessment and earned his approval, while Han privately hoped to build ties with him to help preserve the Body Sect. When Bai Yuan returned to Leng Yaozhu, he met a silver-haired girl named Gu Yue.

• Han Tianyi ended Bai Yuan’s training session and praised his talent, judgment, and conduct to Leng Yaozhu.
• Han confirmed that Bai Yuan appeared genuine and unaffiliated with hostile factions, and Leng Yaozhu promised to help him find potential Body Martial Soul awakeners.
• Han told Leng Yaozhu that Bai Yuan could keep visiting because he felt an affinity with the boy and hoped their connection might give the Body Sect a way forward.
• Bai Yuan returned to find Leng Yaozhu waiting with a silver-haired, purple-eyed girl, who introduced herself as Gu Yue.

Bai Yuan met Gu Yuena, the complete Silver Dragon King, and realized her presence could disrupt Tang San’s plans and the expected course of events. After she left, Bai Yuan reflected on the uncertainty ahead and embraced his own resolve to change the world, while the Worldbearing Coreflame flared in response.

• Bai Yuan introduced himself to Gu Yuena, whose elemental probe was quietly erased by the Worldbearing Coreflame’s Destruction power.
• Gu Yuena left after Leng Yaozhu dismissed her, and Leng Yaozhu spoke with Bai Yuan about his future and their mutual interests.
• Alone, Bai Yuan wondered why Gu Yuena had not split into Gu Yue and Na'er and how her presence might affect Tang San’s plans and Tang Wulin’s path.
• Bai Yuan examined the Worldbearing Coreflame and recalled its newly gained Thus Burns the Dawn ability.
• Bai Yuan vowed to end the schemes of Tang San, the Abyss Plane, and the gods, and the Coreflame blazed in response to his resolve.

Bai Yuan practiced swordsmanship and drew on Xiao Bai’s techniques through the Worldbearing Coreflame before joining Gu Yuena for combat training under Leng Yaozhu. Gu Yuena secretly resolved to defeat him and use her success to advance her own ambitions within the Spirit Pagoda.

• Bai Yuan practiced with Dawnmaker and used the Worldbearing Coreflame to absorb Soul Power and access sword techniques associated with Xiao Bai.
• Bai Yuan visited Leng Yaozhu’s training room and found Gu Yuena there.
• Leng Yaozhu introduced the disciples and asked them to share their names and Martial Souls; Bai Yuan introduced Dawnmaker and the Core Flame, while Gu Yuena called hers Elementalist and Six-Element Control.
• Leng Yaozhu began combat training for Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena secretly planned to defeat Bai Yuan and make him her first stepping stone toward controlling the Spirit Pagoda.

Bai Yuan fought Gu Yuena in an arena match, breaking through her elemental defenses with his speed and the destructive power of the Worldbearing Coreflame. He stopped Dawnmaker at her neck and declared her defeated, leaving Gu Yuena stunned by her loss.

• Bai Yuan tested Gu Yuena's four-element barrier with Dawnmaker, and she blocked his strike while Leng Yaozhu assessed their abilities.
• Bai Yuan activated Thus Burns the Dawn and his first Soul Skill, Stride to Deliverance, and shattered Gu Yuena's Elemental Barrier.
• Gu Yuena countered with her first Soul Skill, Elemental Tide, but Bai Yuan evaded the attack and appeared behind her.
• Bai Yuan's destructive power erased Gu Yuena's attempts to form another elemental defense, and he stopped Dawnmaker at the back of her neck.
• Bai Yuan told Gu Yuena she had lost, and she lowered her hands in stunned disbelief.

After Bai Yuan defeated Gu Yuena in training, Leng Yaozhu told her to learn from him, leaving Gu Yuena furious but determined to conceal her true power. Bai Yuan teased her by patting her head, and after Gu Yuena left, Leng Yaozhu asked him to stay behind.

• Leng Yaozhu declared Bai Yuan the winner and told Gu Yuena to learn from him.
• Gu Yuena hid her anger and agreed to learn from Senior Brother Bai Yuan, telling herself she had held back to protect her disguise.
• Bai Yuan patted Gu Yuena's head and teased her, prompting her to slap his hand away and warn him to conduct himself with dignity.
• Leng Yaozhu dismissed Gu Yuena and asked Bai Yuan to stay behind, making Gu Yuena resentful.
• Bai Yuan wished Gu Yuena luck next time, and she nearly stumbled before leaving with a forced smile.

After Bai Yuan discussed his training and an East Sea assessment with Leng Yaozhu, he sparred verbally with Gu Yuena, who left believing she had uncovered his secret technique. While practicing with the Worldbearing Coreflame, Bai Yuan triggered a blinding light and saw the number "1" appear inside it.

• Leng Yaozhu told Bai Yuan to keep improving, then take a test and visit the East Sea to meet her family and inspect a Soul Bone.
• Leng Yaozhu told Bai Yuan to improve his Soul Spirit at the Spirit Ascension Platform after he broke through to Soul Grandmaster.
• Gu Yuena questioned Bai Yuan about how he had broken her Elemental Barrier, and he claimed Leng Yaozhu had taught him a temporary enhancement technique.
• Bai Yuan sent Gu Yuena to Leng Yaozhu for an assessment, and Gu Yuena left convinced she could obtain the supposed secret technique.
• Bai Yuan reviewed his fight and tried to control the Worldbearing Coreflame, which suddenly flared and revealed a "1" inside it.

Bai Yuan witnessed Phainon’s childhood in Aedes Elysiae and the Black Tide’s destruction of the village, then encountered a mysterious swordsman who asked whether Bai Yuan would forget him. Darkness swallowed everything before Bai Yuan could answer.

• Bai Yuan found himself floating as a cloud above Aedes Elysiae and saw young Phainon run home after his sister Cyrene called him for dinner.
• Bai Yuan awoke beside Phainon and Cyrene, introduced himself, and accepted Phainon’s offer to become partners.
• Phainon began to shatter after Bai Yuan called him his partner, and Bai Yuan saw the Black Tide consume Aedes Elysiae and transform its people into monsters.
• A monster that had once been Phainon’s friend asked whether Phainon remembered it, and Bai Yuan raised his sword to fight.
• A mysterious figure with a golden-patterned sword killed the monster and asked Bai Yuan, “Will you forget me too?” before darkness swallowed everything.

Bai Yuan experienced memories of Xiao Bai’s path to becoming the Savior and realized the weight of the role. He awoke with a stronger body and a deepened bond with the Core Flame, then heard a greeting from Phainon of Aedes Elysiae.

• Bai Yuan watched Aedes Elysiae fall to darkness and understood that a savior had to bear the world’s pain and keep moving forward.
• Bai Yuan witnessed Xiao Bai and a pink-haired girl discuss whether he would become the Savior if they had to leave Aedes Elysiae, but the memory shattered before he heard the answer.
• Bai Yuan concluded that Xiao Bai had ultimately agreed to become the Savior and carry the Core Flame.
• Bai Yuan awoke in his room and sensed that his physical strength and connection to the Core Flame had greatly increased.
• Bai Yuan saw a small flame awaken within the Core Flame and its mark grow clearer, then heard Phainon of Aedes Elysiae greet him.

Bai Yuan accepted Xiao Bai’s presence in the Worldbearing Coreflame and resolved to change the world together with him. As Bai Yuan dreamed, Gu Yuena learned of his mysterious talent and mistakenly assumed he had pledged himself to her after losing at the Training Ground.

• Bai Yuan felt the Core Flame respond to him, called it Xiao Bai, and promised to listen to it.
• Bai Yuan and Xiao Bai shared a silent resolve to change the world, and Bai Yuan went to sleep dreaming of a white-haired boy and a pink-haired girl in golden fields.
• Gu Yuena received a report that Bai Yuan was an orphan with Twin Martial Souls, Innate Full Soul Power, and Spirit Connection Realm spiritual power.
• Gu Yuena wondered whether Leng Yaozhu had given Bai Yuan cultivation secrets and resented that she had not received them herself.
• Gu Yuena’s subordinate congratulated her for supposedly conquering Bai Yuan, and she dismissed him without admitting she had lost to him.

Gu Yuena planned to recruit Bai Yuan and use him to gain control of the Spirit Pagoda, while Bai Yuan trained with Xiao Bai’s memories guiding his swordsmanship. The Core Flame then released a surge of familiar black energy, awakening the power associated with Black Calamity.

• Gu Yuena imagined using Bai Yuan to seize the Spirit Pagoda and vowed to win him over as her finest chess piece.
• Bai Yuan practiced swordsmanship at the Training Ground, using memories from Xiao Bai’s countless cycles to refine his techniques.
• Bai Yuan thanked Xiao Bai and continued training, determined to make the borrowed experience his own through practice.
• The Core Flame suddenly trembled and sent cold, oppressive black energy surging through Bai Yuan’s body.
• Bai Yuan recognized the energy as possibly belonging to the Flame Reaver, or Black Calamity.

Bai Yuan recognized the black power in the Core Flame as the power of Black Calamity, whom he believed was his future self, and began absorbing it. At the training grounds, Gu Yuena challenged him to another spar after spending the night studying her defeat.

• Bai Yuan recalled the theory that Black Calamity was Phainon after countless cycles and wondered whether his future self had left a mark in the Core Flame.
• Bai Yuan sensed the black energy inside him growing steadier and decided he needed more time to absorb it.
• Bai Yuan arrived at the training grounds and teased Gu Yuena about analyzing her loss to him.
• Gu Yuena attacked Bai Yuan with a fire-and-wind elemental storm, but he dodged it.
• Gu Yuena summoned six elements around herself and prepared to defeat Bai Yuan in another spar.

Bai Yuan used the Black Calamity Sword to overpower Gu Yuena during their training match, but Leng Yaozhu stopped the fight before it escalated further. Afterward, Gu Yuena wondered whether Bai Yuan’s strike had wielded the power of space or time and space.

• Gu Yuena bombarded Bai Yuan with six elements, but he appeared behind her, flicked her head, and pinched her cheek without being hurt.
• Gu Yuena attacked again in anger, and Bai Yuan awakened the Black Calamity power in Dawnmaker and cut through her Elemental Barrier, stopping his blade at her neck.
• Gu Yuena refused to yield and began unleashing her full elemental power, but Leng Yaozhu suppressed them and canceled their training.
• Gu Yuena ran from the training grounds and replayed Bai Yuan’s strike, wondering if it had used space or time and space.

Bai Yuan explored the strange power he had drawn from the Core Flame and suspected it could grant him Black Calamity’s abilities. The power began to awaken, and Gu Yuena sensed its flare from her room, wondering who Bai Yuan really was.

• Bai Yuan recalled how his blackened strike had dismantled Gu Yuena’s Elemental Barrier and deduced that it had slipped beyond the reach of elemental laws.
• Bai Yuan tested whether he could awaken Black Calamity’s Godspeed and felt the black energy stirring in his dantian.
• Bai Yuan imagined gaining Black Calamity’s Immortal Body, healing, clones, the Hundred Realms Gate, and time-space traversal.
• Bai Yuan declared that he would take Black Calamity’s power, and the Core Flame flared gold and black as a second mark began to emerge.
• Gu Yuena sensed the stronger, unsettling presence from Bai Yuan’s room and wondered who he was.

Bai Yuan failed to make Xiao Bai's power and Black Calamity's power merge, then reflected on Black Calamity's endless cycles and resolved to keep trying. At the cultivation grounds, he teased Gu Yuena about nearly crying before Leng Yaozhu canceled their training and took them to the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Bai Yuan tried to unite Xiao Bai's power and Black Calamity's power, but the two forces violently rejected each other.
• Bai Yuan recalled how Black Calamity became a broken being after the power and memories of countless cycles overwhelmed him, and he resolved to continue despite the rejection.
• Bai Yuan asked Gu Yuena why she had run away the previous day and teased her about crying, making her blush as she denied it.
• Leng Yaozhu canceled training and told Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena they would go to the Spirit Ascension Platform to raise Gu Yue's spirit.

Leng Yaozhu brought Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena to the Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Ascension Platform, where they learned how its virtual Soul Beast ecosystem worked and what dangers awaited inside. Gu Yuena and Bai Yuan entered the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform together, while Leng Yaozhu remained outside.

• Leng Yaozhu led Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena through the Spirit Pagoda’s lower levels, where staff greeted her with reverence.
• Qiangu Dongfeng approached Leng Yaozhu, asked about her new disciples, and briefly spoke with her before she continued on.
• A Spirit Pagoda staff member explained the Spirit Ascension Platform’s levels, spiritual power rewards, risks, and Riot Period.
• Leng Yaozhu assigned Gu Yuena to train in the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform while Bai Yuan observed and accompanied her.
• Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena entered the device and disappeared into the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena entered the Spirit Ascension Platform, where Gu Yuena remembered the ancient Star Dou Forest. Bai Yuan’s Core Flame began absorbing Soul Power at an extraordinary rate, draining Zone Seven and alarming the Spirit Pagoda staff.

• Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena arrived in the recreated ancient Star Dou Forest, and Gu Yuena gazed silently at the former homeland of the Soul Beasts.
• Bai Yuan teased Gu Yuena about her strength, making her blush and storm ahead.
• Bai Yuan noticed his Core Flame had activated on its own inside the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The Core Flame drew in nearby Soul Power, rapidly merging its golden and black flames as its second engraving began to emerge.
• Spirit Pagoda staff detected a steep drop in Zone Seven’s Soul Power density and redirected energy there while investigating what was absorbing it.

Bai Yuan stopped the Core Flame from devouring Soul Power by threatening to go a month without bathing, then continued exploring the Spirit Ascension Platform with Gu Yuena. When a Wind Baboon and a Mandala Snake attacked, Bai Yuan left Gu Yuena to fight them, and she faced the charging Soul Beasts alone.

• Bai Yuan calmed the Core Flame by threatening to skip bathing for a month, then worried that the Spirit Pagoda might discover its secret.
• Bai Yuan hurried ahead of Gu Yuena and teased her by calling her an angry kitten.
• Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena encountered a Wind Baboon and a Mandala Snake in the forest.
• Bai Yuan told Gu Yuena to defeat the two Soul Beasts while he watched from beneath a tree.
• The Wind Baboon pounced and the Mandala Snake lunged at Gu Yuena, who stood still as they attacked.

Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena killed Soul Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform, calculated how much Soul Power Gu Yuena still needed, and encountered a Man-Faced Spider. Outside the platform, Leng Yaozhu stopped the staff from warning them and insisted they would be fine.

• Gu Yuena killed a Wind Baboon and several Mandala Snakes with six elements, leaving Bai Yuan to calculate the Soul Power they had earned.
• Bai Yuan worked out that Gu Yuena needed about two hundred more years of Soul Power and suggested finding a Soul Beast around two thousand years old.
• Bai Yuan and Gu Yuena entered a quiet area and a Man-Faced Spider ambushed them from the canopy.
• Bai Yuan used Dawnmaker to break three of the spider's spears and avoided its corrosive blood as Gu Yuena assessed its age.
• At the monitoring hall, staff considered warning the pair to teleport out, but Leng Yaozhu told them to keep observing because the children would be fine.