Chapter Summaries

Wu Youyu challenged Bai Yu to stone gambling, hoping to humiliate him before the King Conferral Ceremony. Bai Yu accepted and raised the wager to ninefold, offering Holy Snake Mountain as collateral, and the two prepared to sign a contract.

• Wu Youyu publicly accused Bai Yu of stealing treasures and goddesses from the Wild Beast Domain, drawing hostile murmurs from the crowd.
• Bai Yu dismissed Wu Youyu’s threats, and Wu Youyu challenged him to stone gambling on the selection platform.
• Bai Yu asked the referee to explain the rules, then proposed that the loser pay nine times the difference in the stones’ values.
• Wu Youyu questioned whether Bai Yu could afford the wager, and Bai Yu offered Holy Snake Mountain as collateral while mocking Wu Youyu’s courage.
• Wu Youyu accepted the challenge, and Bai Yu urged him to sign the contract.

Bai Yu and Wu Youyu signed a high-stakes stone-gambling contract, with the Heavenly Crystal Tower as guarantor, and each received two hours to choose three stones. Wu Youyu revealed his expert attendants, while Bai Yu began choosing stones using his golden-eyed perception; the chapter ended as his first bizarre selection left the crowd doubtful of his skill.

• The Heavenly Crystal Tower agreed to guarantee Bai Yu and Wu Youyu's wager, and the pair signed a contract staking resources worth nine times the value of their stones.
• Wu Youyu summoned an Earthvein Treasure Mouse and Zi Lingwei, a renowned crystal appraiser, to help him select stones.
• Zhang Sheng realized Wu Youyu had baited Bai Yu into the gamble by provoking him and concealing his advantages until the contract was signed.
• Wu Youyu sent his attendants to select the three most valuable stones, while Bai Yu used his golden-eyed perception to inspect the stone piles.
• Bai Yu chose a huge white stone covered in scale-like patterns and bumps, prompting the crowd and referee to doubt his ability to judge stones.

Bai Yu ignored warnings and public ridicule as he selected three Heavenly Crystal Stones using his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes and the reactions of the Gu within him. The chapter ended with him claiming a black-and-white mutated stone rich in yin and yang energy, while onlookers doubted his choices.

• Bai Yu kept the enormous, rough-skinned stone he had picked despite a warning from inside the Heavenly Crystal Tower, then left to choose another.
• Bai Yu passed over the second floor and went to the third, where Earthvein Treasure Mouse and Purple Crystal Wei selected a Red Crow Sand stone bearing a Heaven-Piercing Pattern.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to direct workers to dig deeper into Pit A-Nine and chose a purple stone with a Mottled Pattern.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu stirred, and Bai Yu ordered workers to dig deeper until they uncovered a black-and-white mutated Heaven Crystal Stone.
• Bai Yu claimed the mutated stone despite the low odds of finding treasure inside, drawing more skepticism from the crowd.

Bai Yu wagered against Wu Youyu in a stone-gambling contest while remaining unconcerned as Zi Lingwei and the Earthvein Treasure Mouse selected costly stones. Zi Lingwei uncovered a legendary Turbidity-Devouring Catfish and a valuable Ice-Bone Sword Grass, leaving Wu Youyu convinced he had won, though Bai Yu knew the Stone King held something even more formidable.

• Bai Yu calmly waited as Zi Lingwei and the Earthvein Treasure Mouse brought out their chosen stones, including the Heavenly Crystal Tower's costly Giant Dragon Encircling Mountain Stone.
• Bai Yu accepted the wager's stakes, and Zi Lingwei began cutting open the Sky Crystal Stones with her golden blade.
• Zi Lingwei revealed a juvenile Turbidity-Devouring Catfish sealed in amber, astonishing the crowd and exciting Wu Youyu.
• Bai Yu recognized that the purple-glowing stone had contained the catfish and believed the Stone King held an even greater treasure.
• Zi Lingwei split open another stone and revealed Tribulation Transcendence-grade Ice-Bone Sword Grass, prompting the crowd to praise its value.

Wu Youyu uncovered a pure dragon soul from the Ring-Mountain Stone King and believed he had won the wager, but Bai Yu cut open his own Sky Crystal Stone and revealed a damaged low-grade immortal artifact. The wager remained unresolved as Bai Yu examined the artifact’s potential and limitations.

• Wu Youyu cut open the Sky Crystal Stone and captured a pure five-clawed golden dragon soul in a red gourd, astonishing the cultivators.
• Wu Youyu taunted Bai Yu and demanded that he surrender Holy Snake Mountain, while Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue worried about the wager’s outcome.
• Bai Yu cut open one of his three Sky Crystal Stones with the broken bronze sword, releasing powerful literary qi and revealing a court tablet forged from a qilin spine.
• Bai Yu identified the tablet as King Wen's Court Tablet, a damaged low-grade immortal artifact, but realized that its literary qi was beyond his ability to cultivate.

Bai Yu gave the low-grade immortal artifact he uncovered to Xia Chuxue, then opened another Sky Crystal Stone and revealed a terrifying, beating heart. Xia Chuxue identified it as the heart of the Corrupt Poison Qilin, leaving Bai Yu excited and Wu Youyu fearing his dragon soul had been surpassed.

• Bai Yu tossed King Wen's Court Tablet to Xia Chuxue and told her to refine it and strengthen herself.
• The onlookers and Zi Lingwei recognized that Bai Yu had uncovered a cracked, self-repairing immortal artifact, while Wu Youyu insisted his dragon soul was still more valuable.
• Bai Yu cut open a third of his remaining Sky Crystal Stone, unleashing thunder and rain as a poisonous heart appeared inside.
• Wu Youyu sensed that the dragon soul in his gourd feared the heart and realized it might be worth more than his prize.
• Xia Chuxue identified the heart as belonging to the Corrupt Poison Qilin, a mutated beast slain by an ancient female emperor who sealed away its power.

Bai Yu won the stone-gambling contest against Wu Youyu after uncovering a low-grade immortal artifact and the Corrosive Poison Qilin Heart, though his final Sky Crystal Stone was empty. The Heavenly Crystal Pavilion declared Bai Yu the winner and ordered Wu Youyu to pay ninefold compensation.

• Xia Chuxue explained that the Corrosive Poison Qilin Heart was both the source of the unique beast's power and a treasure capable of regenerating the Corrosive Poison Qilin.
• Bai Yu sealed the heart in jade and realized that Wu Youyu had already lost the wager by a wide margin.
• The crowd urged Bai Yu to open his last Sky Crystal Stone, and Wu Youyu agreed while insisting he could afford the compensation.
• Bai Yu opened the final stone, which was empty, though two streams of light entered his body and the Divine Baleful Gu cackled.
• The Heavenly Crystal Pavilion declared Bai Yu the winner and ordered Wu Youyu to pay nine times the equivalent resources, which Wu Youyu swallowed his anger and accepted.

Wu Youyu paid Bai Yu a terrestrial-grade Divine Mountain after losing their wager, while the stone gamble’s mutated Sky Crystal Stone awakened the Taiji Geomancy Gu within Bai Yu. Bai Yu examined the Gu’s powerful abilities and costly demands as attention around him intensified.

• Wu Youyu sacrificed a third of his cavern-heaven and handed Bai Yu the terrestrial-grade Divine Mountain Crimson Soul Volcano as compensation.
• Bai Yu accepted the Divine Mountain, provoking Wu Youyu, and news of the wager spread rapidly through Eternal City.
• Bai Yu returned to his courtyard and turned away cultivators who came to investigate him.
• Bai Yu discovered that the mutated Sky Crystal Stone had filled the remaining apertures of his Nascent Soul-level life-bound Gu and formed the Taiji Geomancy Gu.
• Bai Yu learned that the Taiji Geomancy Gu could manipulate geomantic energy but consumed fortune or lifespan, and he worried about the burden on his resources.

Li Shuyu worried about facing her former disciples at the King Conferral Ceremony, and Bai Yu tried to ease her fears by offering her a chance to rebuild the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect in the Feather Spirit Dynasty. He gave her Ice-Bone Sword Grass to help her improve, and their exchange turned flirtatious as she prepared to refine it.

• Li Shuyu told Bai Yu that Wu Youyu's appearance at the ceremony suggested the Wild Beast Domain had brought its full strength, and she worried about meeting the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect disciples she had left behind.
• Bai Yu guessed that Li Shuyu feared her former disciples would look down on her as his attendant, then questioned why she kept the sect alive in the Wild Beast Domain.
• Li Shuyu explained that she had promised her master to restore the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect, and Bai Yu proposed that she rebuild it in the Feather Spirit Dynasty instead.
• Bai Yu gave Li Shuyu the Ice-Bone Sword Grass, saying he could enjoy its effects through her, and she agreed to refine it.
• Bai Yu and Li Shuyu discussed crimson wine and Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine as she asked for a taste.

While Bai Yu helped Li Shuyu refine the Ice-Bone Sword Grass, the Beast Emperor assembled the Wild Beast Domain’s geniuses and prepared them for the King Conferral Ceremony. He ordered Wu Youyu and his brothers to pursue the ceremony’s slots and kill Bai Yu, then gave them powerful reinforcements for the year-long expedition.

• Bai Yu helped Li Shuyu refine the Ice-Bone Sword Grass as the pocket realm’s inhabitants fortified Crimson Soul Volcano and restored its spiritual energy.
• The Beast Emperor’s projection appeared before Wu Youyu, Wu Youmo, Wu Youmeng, and the gathered geniuses, and confronted Wu Youyu over Bai Yu.
• The Beast Emperor ordered the three princes to compete for King Conferral slots, kill Bai Yu, and bring Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen back within a year.
• The Beast Emperor warned the princes about formidable rivals from the Grand Void Sect and Compassion Tranquility Retreat, as well as Bai Yu’s peak Tribulation Transcendence guardian.
• The Beast Emperor supplied thirteen thousand medicinal pills and assigned three peak Tribulation Transcendence beast slaves, eighteen earth-rank goddesses, and Ye Wanyun to accompany the princes.
• Wu Youyu wondered whether the Beast Emperor’s lavish support meant he was building momentum for him or had lost faith in his elder brothers.

The King Conferral Ceremony began as powerful factions and their prodigies gathered in Eternal City, including Bai Yu and his companions. Four rulers appeared on projections above the plaza and exchanged barbed remarks before Zhang Daoxuan called for the ceremony to begin.

• Bai Yu arrived at the central plaza with Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue, remaining aboard the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage as onlookers reacted to his Tribulation Transcendence Blood Corpse coachman.
• Wu Youyu and his brothers arrived in a dragon carriage, followed by the Compassion Tranquility Retreat, the Grand Void Sect, and the Blood Prison Dynasty's faction.
• Blood Emperor Xiao Xuanxin, Sword Emperor Fei Jingxin, Beast Emperor Wu Li, and Thunder Venerable Zhang Daoxuan appeared upon projections seated on four thrones.
• Fei Jingxin, Wu Li, and Zhang Daoxuan traded pointed remarks about the factions' recent affairs while Xiao Xuanxin responded lightly.
• Zhang Daoxuan stopped the rulers' banter and called for the ceremony to begin so they could see the state of the Eternal Battlefield.

Fei Jingxin gave Bai Yu five prized Radiant Dragon Firefly Pills, drawing attention and hostility from the gathered cultivators. The Blood Emperor then began the King Conferral Ceremony by distributing spatial tokens to everyone present.

• Fei Jingxin noticed Bai Yu and sent him a jade bottle while the Divine Baleful Gu reacted to his fortune.
• Fei Jingxin explained that she was giving Bai Yu five Radiant Dragon Firefly Pills in thanks for the Feather Spirit Dynasty's teleportation array and its support for Compassion Tranquility Retreat.
• Bai Yu accepted the pills, aware that Fei Jingxin's conspicuous gift had stirred hostility among the crowd.
• Xiao Xuanxin teased Fei Jingxin about her interest in Bai Yu, and she mocked the Blood Emperor's tangled family affairs.
• The Blood Emperor announced the start of the King Conferral Ceremony, and crimson spatial tokens appeared in everyone's hands.

The Blood Emperor announced the King Conferral Ceremony’s rules and opened the entrance to the Eternal Battlefield, where Bai Yu and Xia Chuxue found themselves in a perilous region that suppressed cultivators and blocked access to grotto-heavens. The chapter ended as observers in Eternal City realized something was wrong with the projections from inside.

• The Blood Emperor explained that King Conferral Tokens tracked participants, recorded merits, enabled escape, and allowed merits to be exchanged for treasures or seized from opponents.
• Zhang Daoxuan announced that participants who activated projections would earn merits at 1.5 times the normal rate, and Bai Yu secretly contacted Jing Linghan and Xu Yingxue about possible betting pools.
• The Blood Emperor opened the Eternal Battlefield, and the participants rushed through the vortex while an ancient bronze mirror split into projections around the plaza.
• Bai Yu entered a desolate, unstable region where spatial turbulence made flight dangerous and the earth veins prevented him from communicating with his grotto-heaven.
• Xia Chuxue identified the region as the Hundred-Thousand-Li War Remains Deadland and reasoned that the Blood Emperor had placed participants there to suppress their hidden resources before the true contest began.
• Cultivators watching in Eternal City noticed that the projections from the battlefield were behaving unexpectedly.

Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and Xia Chuxue traveled through the War Corpse Deadlands, where the ceremony’s restrictions prevented them from using outside aid. They discovered a vast storm nest and suspected it belonged to a mutated Gale Glass Dragon.

• Xiao Xuanxin explained that he had placed the King Conferral Ceremony participants in the War Corpse Deadlands to restrict their resources and test whether they could escape.
• Xia Chuxue, Li Shuyu, and Bai Yu set out across the Deadlands, with Li Shuyu warning that experienced participants could pose a threat.
• Bai Yu sensed thinning spiritual energy and a powerful baleful aura, so Li Shuyu slowed the group and searched for its source.
• Bai Yu and the others spotted a massive silver storm surrounded by black mist, which drained spiritual power from the area.
• Xia Chuxue identified the storm as a possible Gale Glass Dragon nest and wondered whether the Eternal Battlefield had mutated the creature.

Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and Xia Chuxue entered the Gale Glass Dragon’s storm nest to kill the beast and preserve its Primordial Spirit. Bai Yu and Li Shuyu defeated it, and Bai Yu absorbed its Primordial Spirit with the Bone-Eroding Soul-Dispelling Fan as the storm collapsed.

• Xia Chuxue explained that the Gale Glass Dragon was difficult to subdue, so Bai Yu decided they would kill it and keep its Primordial Spirit.
• Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and Xia Chuxue charged through the silver storm, with the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie clearing their way.
• Bai Yu empowered the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie with the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads, and it struck the sleeping Gale Glass Dragon.
• The Gale Glass Dragon fought back with black astral winds and a stream of water, but the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie blocked its attacks.
• Bai Yu used Xuanji Beidou... Meteoric Kill to wound the Gale Glass Dragon, and the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie attacked its exposed wounds.
• Li Shuyu severed the Gale Glass Dragon into three pieces, and Bai Yu absorbed its Primordial Spirit with the Bone-Eroding Soul-Dispelling Fan as its storm collapsed.

After defeating the Gale Glass Dragon, Bai Yu discovered that the Bone-Eroding Soul-Dispelling Fan could wield the beast’s power and learned of a valuable ruin hidden in the War Corpse Deadlands. He gathered Netherwind Grass and set out to investigate the ruin, which might be connected to a mysterious Stone Eye and an Origin Talisman.

• Bai Yu summoned the Gale Glass Dragon’s soul through the Bone-Eroding Soul-Dispelling Fan and discovered that the fan could inherit the dragon’s abilities, including a devastating astral gale attack.
• Li Shuyu joined Bai Yu after gaining new insight into sword intent from absorbing the Ice-Bone Sword Grass, and she explained her confidence in the Celestial Pivot Sword Dao.
• Li Shuyu found a map to an ancient ruin inside the Bixi Wind Pearl, and Xia Chuxue translated its account of a high priestess with a Stone Eye who could replicate talismans.
• Bai Yu suspected that the Stone Eye might be an Origin Talisman, located the ruin in the War Corpse Deadlands, and had Xia Chuxue redraw their route.
• Bai Yu collected the Nascent Soul-level Netherwind Grass around the dragon’s nest and added its merit points to the King Conferral Token.

Bai Yu and his companions reached the Stone Talisman Tribe’s ruins, where Xia Chuxue used her literary qi to clear the deadly resentment. As they entered the ruins, a silver-haired man and Situ watched them, and Situ vowed to kill Bai Yu to reclaim Pei Yueshen.

• Bai Yu and his companions found the basin containing the ancient ruins, where dense resentment prevented the Gale Glass Dragon from descending.
• Li Shuyu warned that the resentment was dangerous, but Xia Chuxue said her literary qi could counter it.
• Xia Chuxue used King Wen’s Court Tablet to unleash righteous literary qi, dispelling the resentment and revealing the ruins.
• Xia Chuxue weakened from the effort, and Bai Yu took her and Li Shuyu down toward the ruins.
• A silver-haired man watched Bai Yu’s group with Situ, who insisted that Bai Yu had to die so he could take Pei Yueshen back.

Bai Yu and his companions were ambushed in the ruins by Wen Rugu and Situ Qiu, who trapped them in the Corpse Heaven Sect’s Spirit-Gathering Strange Death Array. With the dead stone statues endlessly reviving and Bai Yu’s methods partly sealed, he prepared to respond using the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads.

• Bai Yu summoned the Gloombright Mirror Toad to swallow the ruins’ ill fortune and led his group toward the largest temple.
• A grand formation awakened the ruined tribe’s stone statues, and Zhao Yun, the Red Emperor, Murong Qingyu, and the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie fought to hold them back.
• Li Shuyu identified the Spirit-Gathering Strange Death Array and explained that its revived dead could not be destroyed while the formation remained intact.
• Wen Rugu and Situ Qiu appeared, revealed that they had arranged the ambush, and threatened to kill Bai Yu and take Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen.
• Bai Yu faced the encroaching stone statues and began channeling the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads.

Bai Yu used the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads to reverse Wen Rugu’s formation and send the stone statues against him, freeing Li Shuyu to attack Situ Qiu. Wen Rugu fused with two Blood Corpses and began battling Bai Yu’s four corpses, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Bai Yu unleashed Blood Pool Hell, and his four corpses turned the stone statues against Wen Rugu.
• Li Shuyu understood Bai Yu’s plan and attacked Situ Qiu while the stone statues blocked Wen Rugu.
• Wen Rugu summoned two Blood Corpses and fused with them into a three-headed, six-armed giant.
• Bai Yu sent his four corpses to fight Wen Rugu, and the five combatants clashed.

Bai Yu used the Divine Baleful Gu and Taiji Geomancy Gu to trap Wen Rugu in a heaven-and-earth furnace powered by the earth vein. The formation detonated and destroyed the ruins, leaving Bai Yu exhausted and Li Shuyu stunned by his power.

• Murong Qingyu, Zhao Yun’s four corpses, the Red Emperor, and the Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie attacked Wen Rugu, but he overwhelmed them.
• Bai Yu strengthened Zhao Yun’s corpses with two Hells from the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads, then drew Wen Rugu toward him as the corpses bought time.
• Bai Yu escaped Wen Rugu’s attack with Xia Chuxue and activated the Nine Yang Vast Heaven Baleful-Suppressing Geomancy Formation, imprisoning Wen Rugu in a furnace.
• The furnace drew on the earth vein and exploded, flattening the nine mountains and destroying the ruins as Bai Yu and Xia Chuxue retreated.
• Li Shuyu drove Situ Qiu into the basin before the blast and watched the devastation, shocked by Bai Yu’s power; Bai Yu mourned the ruined opportunity.