Chapter Summaries

Chu Bai traveled with the Four Seas Trade Guild’s caravan across the Far North, reaching the Auspicious Ice Route and uncovering signs of a vast presence beneath the ice. The caravan arrived at Cold Crow Island, Chu Bai’s first stop before continuing alone farther north.

• Chu Bai sold forty-eight pristine Ice-Boring Arrowfish to the Four Seas Trade Guild and traded the proceeds for a detailed Demon Beast habitat map, a high-grade Storage Bag, and Pills.
• Guan Shan warned the Rogue Cultivators about the Ice Road’s abyssal edges and the dangers beneath the ice, while Chu Bai deterred He Wei from probing his abilities with a false Water-Avoidance Talisman story.
• Chu Bai spent the night walking to resist his Golden Shackles and practiced transforming his Star-River Gold Embryo before joining the caravan on the Auspicious Ice Route.
• Chu Bai sensed immense eyes watching from the abyss beneath the ice, then suspected the Guild’s Soul-Draining Demon warning was intended to keep travelers from studying the route below.
• Guan Shan led the ships through an ice mountain blocking the route, and the caravan emerged at Cold Crow Island, where Chu Bai planned to gather Meteoric Iron before traveling farther north.

Chu Bai entered Falling Star Valley on Cold Crow Island to mine meteoric iron, while the Four Seas Trade Guild traded supplies with the island’s rogue cultivators and other miners faced deadly beasts. After defeating a swarm of Gold-Eating Ants, Chu Bai found and harvested a rich deposit, then looked deeper into the valley for more.

• Guan Shan ordered the cultivators to explore Cold Crow Island for three days while the Four Seas Trade Guild unloaded supplies for trade with the island’s rogue forces.
• Chu Bai avoided the crowded southern mining grounds and headed north toward Falling Star Valley, where his Star-River Gold Embryo could counter the Gold-Eating Ants.
• Guan Shan forced Wang Jiu to accept a sharply reduced trade for his Far North treasures and warned him not to target VIP-token holders or cause trouble near the guild.
• Earthfire Dragon Centipedes attacked a group mining scarlet flame copper, while other beasts and black-robed islanders threatened the cultivators across the southern slopes.
• Chu Bai used the Star-River Gold Embryo to break apart exposed meteoric iron and kill hundreds of Gold-Eating Ants in Falling Star Valley.
• Chu Bai descended into the valley, mined thirteen pieces from a rich Meteoric Iron deposit, and turned toward deeper reaches in search of more.

Chu Bai defeated the Foundation Establishment Gold-Devouring Ant Queen in Falling Star Valley and recovered its metal-rich remains, including its Demon Core, as nourishment for the Star-River Gold Embryo. He left the valley and killed two ambushing Rogue Cultivators, while their surviving companion Skinny Monkey recognized him as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Chu Bai took the meteoric iron mother ore, provoking the Gold-Devouring Ant Queen to erupt from its underground lair and attack him.
• Chu Bai used the Star-River Gold Embryo to bind the ant queen, then struck its head and sent the liquid metal inside its body to kill it from within.
• Chu Bai recovered the ant queen's Demon Core, armor, and pincers, and realized its transformed core could nourish the Gold Embryo.
• Chu Bai concealed his tracks and slipped away as Rogue Cultivators approached; Black Scorpion and his companions waited at the valley entrance to ambush him.
• Chu Bai's silver Gold Embryo killed Black Scorpion and the sturdy Rogue Cultivator, and Skinny Monkey fell to his knees after realizing Chu Bai was a Foundation Establishment great cultivator.

Chu Bai spared Hou San after taking his Dark Ice Path Fragment Map, then discovered Ghost Cry Hall had attacked the Four Seas Trade Guild’s encampment. As Ren Siquan halted the battle, he noticed Chu Bai hiding nearby and called him out.

• Chu Bai spared Hou San’s life for the Dark Ice Path Fragment Map but destroyed his cultivation before leaving for the Shattered Ice Shelf.
• Chu Bai killed five rogue cultivators who ambushed three travelers, then learned Ghost Cry Hall was attacking the Four Seas Trade Guild’s encampment and advised the survivors to hide west.
• Chu Bai watched from concealment as Wang Jiu broke the guild’s defensive formation and fought Guan Shan, realizing the guild had used ordinary travelers as bait for local factions.
• Ren Siquan arrived, separated Wang Jiu and Guan Shan, and warned the masked white-robed figure to stop fighting.
• Ren Siquan spotted Chu Bai hiding in the shadows and invited him to show himself.

Chu Bai left Cold Crow Island after Ren Siquan brokered a truce between the True Spirit Society, Ghost Cry Hall, and the Four Seas Trade Guild, then traveled north along a dangerous route across the Shattered Ice Shelf. His Keep One Scripture advanced to Subtlety, expanding his divine sense, and he used it to detect and evade a hidden pursuer’s ambush before demanding that the attacker reveal himself.

• Ren Siquan exposed Chu Bai’s hiding place and persuaded him to stay as a witness while Ghost Cry Hall and the Four Seas Trade Guild negotiated a settlement.
• Guan Shan agreed to sell the guild’s shipment at last year’s prices and give Wang Jiu three bottles of Qi-Replenishing Pills in exchange for Ghost Cry Hall’s withdrawal.
• Guan Shan offered Chu Bai thousand-year ice marrow and a Heaven-grade VIP Token, while Ren Siquan gave him a Greenwood Token for use among the True Spirit Society.
• Wang Jiu asked Gu Sheng to avenge the subordinates Chu Bai had killed, and Gu Sheng set out to intercept Chu Bai on the Frozen Sea.
• Chu Bai rejected the damaged convoy, chose the Dark Ice Passage across the Shattered Ice Shelf, and broke through the Keep One Scripture’s bottleneck to Subtlety, extending his divine sense to two thousand zhang.
• Chu Bai sensed a distant pursuer, feigned exhaustion, evaded an attack with Dark Yin Ghostwater, and called on the hidden attacker to come out.

Chu Bai fought Gu Sheng across the Shattered Ice Shelf, using his treasures and hidden reserves to drive the stronger cultivator back. A deep-sea horror stirred beneath the ice, forcing Gu Sheng to flee and Chu Bai to escape; Chu Bai then continued onward, resolving to master Foundation Establishment Five-Element Arts.

• Gu Sheng revealed himself as a middle-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and attacked Chu Bai with his Profound Yin Water.
• Chu Bai countered with the [Star-River Gold Embryo] and the [Mountain God Seal], while Gu Sheng used his [Azure Billows Dharma Robe] to hide and withstand his attacks.
• Chu Bai lured Gu Sheng close by feigning exhaustion, then trapped him with the [Mountain God Seal] and battered him with his Gold Embryo-armored fist.
• The battle disturbed an ancient presence beneath the ice, and Gu Sheng fled into the sea while Chu Bai escaped the collapsing whirlpool.
• Chu Bai assessed Gu Sheng's defenses and the danger beneath the ice, then continued through the blizzard and resolved to hone his Foundation Establishment Five-Element Arts.

Chu Bai reached Blackstone Market after a month crossing the Dark Ice Passage, sold information and bought a detailed route guide, then traded beasts and ore for supplies. The chapter left him equipped for the journey ahead but still wary of Gu Sheng and the dangers of the Far North.

• Chu Bai used [Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow] to recover and strengthen his body, then killed a pack of Snowfield Wolves with precise water bullets.
• Chu Bai arrived at Blackstone Market and entered the All-Knowing Exchange, where he sold information about the Falling Star Pit mineral vein for two hundred spirit stones.
• Chu Bai tested the [Truth-Discerning Treasure Mirror] with information about a giant beast beneath the Shattered Ice Shelf, but rejected its three-thousand-spirit-stone price for incomplete intelligence.
• Chu Bai spent six hundred spirit stones on detailed intelligence about the latter half of the [Dark Ice Passage] and Blackstone Market, while deciding not to ask about Gu Sheng.
• Chu Bai sold thirty-two Snowfield Wolf carcasses, ore, and miscellaneous goods to the Molten Fire Workshop for twelve hundred spirit stones, then bought talismans and other supplies.

Chu Bai spent ten days in the Earthfire Hall purging cold poison, refining his Star-River Gold Embryo, and advancing his Geng Metal Body-Forging Art. In Blackstone Market, he traded ten-thousand-year ice marrow to Qi San for the Jade Pillow Heavenly Book, learned the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, and tested its devastating power as he prepared to head toward God-Severing Peak.

• Chu Bai rented Earth Chamber Seven and used its earthfire to purge the cold poison from his body and refine the Star-River Gold Embryo.
• Chu Bai endured seven days of earthfire body-forging, stabilized his cultivation, and formed an embryonic Golden Body Dao Mark.
• Chu Bai visited the Rogue Cultivator Stalls and discovered a five-element treasure hidden in a stone pillow at Qi San's stall.
• Chu Bai traded ten-thousand-year ice marrow to Qi San for the Jade Pillow Heavenly Book and learned that the Dark Ice Passage shifted unpredictably and that he should heed the wind.
• Chu Bai activated the jade pillow, studied the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, and used a fraction of its power to melt through a thick black-iron target.

Chu Bai mastered the beginner level of the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light and left Blackstone Market just as a seven-colored sea light appeared over the northern icefield. He learned that the light came from a Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale nearing a Purple Abode breakthrough, rejected an offer to join the Blackstone Three Fiends, and headed toward the Shattered Ice Shelf to witness the coming tribulation.

• Chu Bai formed and tested the Annihilation Light, destroying a chunk of Black Iron ore, then left Earthfire Hall and set out from Blackstone Market.
• A seven-colored pillar of light appeared in the north, drawing Rogue Cultivators toward the Shattered Ice Shelf while Chu Bai sought information at the All-Knowing Exchange.
• An attendant told Chu Bai that the light had appeared at the forbidden coordinates beneath the Shattered Ice Shelf, where a deep-sea giant beast had awakened.
• Li Hanyan, Tu Meng, and Ruan Liu invited Chu Bai to join their expedition and revealed that a Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale was nearing the Purple Abode realm, but Chu Bai refused and left.
• Li Hanyan warned Tu Meng and Ruan Liu not to provoke Chu Bai, whose deathly aura had frightened Ruan Liu's snake, Xiao Qing.
• Chu Bai entered an eastern glacial rift toward the Shattered Ice Shelf, sensing the whale's gathering power and deciding to witness its Purple Abode lightning tribulation.

Chu Bai crossed the Spiritless Frozen Wasteland and reached the Shattered Ice Shelf, where cultivators gathered around a Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale’s advancement. After defeating Yin Jiuyou in a divine-sense contest, Chu Bai claimed the Eagle-Beak Ice Shelf and began absorbing the erupting earth-vein essence as more rivals were expected to arrive.

• Chu Bai endured the Golden Shackles and an Aurora Magnetic Storm while walking north, as flying cultivators crashed and fell prey to Snow-Hiding Demon Wolves.
• Chu Bai reached the Shattered Ice Shelf and sensed the dangerous Foundation Establishment cultivators gathering to exploit the Demonic Whale’s advancement.
• Zuo Qiu and the True Spirit Society claimed the dragon’s-head position and set rules for competing over the remaining positions.
• Chu Bai challenged Yin Jiuyou for the Eagle-Beak Ice Shelf and withstood his Hundred Ghosts Devour Souls, then overwhelmed him with the weight of his divine sense.
• Chu Bai took the Eagle-Beak position and cultivated with the rising earth-vein essence while the Demonic Whale continued its transformation and more cultivators headed toward the Whale-Breathing Grounds.

Chu Bai continued cultivating at the Whale-Breathing Grounds as latecomers and rival factions gathered, then defeated Blood Shark Island’s Lei Meng in a contest of physical strength. He returned to cultivation with his Geng Metal Body-Forging Art perfected.

• Chu Bai spent seven days refining his body and cultivating the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, advancing his Foundation Establishment cultivation to 93/100.
• Late-arriving cultivators grew resentful over the occupied positions, while Yu Linglong brought North Jade Tower to the grounds and began trading supplies for artifacts, materials, and corpses.
• Lei Meng arrived with Blood Shark Island and challenged Chu Bai for the Eagle-Beak position, choosing a contest of physical strength under Zuo Qiu’s rules.
• Chu Bai and Lei Meng fought barehanded for half a day until Lei Meng stepped back and conceded, acknowledging Chu Bai’s strength and endurance.
• Chu Bai resumed cultivating after the fight and realized that the Geng Metal Body-Forging Art had reached perfection.

Chu Bai perfected his golden body, then faced the eruption of Earth Vein Essence as the Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale began its half-step Purple Abode breakthrough. After driving off greedy rogue cultivators while refining the essence, he advanced toward Gu Sheng, who challenged him over the stream of yellow marrow.

• Chu Bai completed the Geng Metal Body-Forging Art's great perfection and formed Golden Body Dao Marks after his battle with Lei Meng.
• Gu Sheng arrived on a Bone Boat, sensed a troubling connection to Iron Mask, and claimed a remote position on the Shattered Ice Shelf.
• The Demonic Whale's breakthrough began, shattering the rainbow pillar and unleashing Earth Vein Essence as the factions rushed to seize it.
• Chu Bai absorbed an Earth Vein Essence stream and repelled rogue cultivators, shattering their weapons and killing those who attacked him.
• Gu Sheng approached Chu Bai and warned that he could not stomach the stream of yellow marrow, but Chu Bai stepped forward to face him.

Chu Bai fought Gu Sheng while absorbing Earth Vein Essence and chasing a breakthrough amid the chaos at the Shattered Ice Shelf. After the Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale’s failed breakthrough unleashed a devastating storm, Chu Bai broke through to Foundation Establishment middle stage and transformed his Dao foundation into the Cosmic Cycle Dragon Transformation, then challenged Gu Sheng to fight again.

• Chu Bai used the Mountain God Seal and his perfected golden body to withstand Gu Sheng’s water beasts and a life-consuming Profound Yin Reversal Finger while refining Earth Vein Essence.
• Chu Bai seized a second strand of Earth Vein Essence and fled through the Far North as Gu Sheng, Tu Meng, and other cultivators pursued him.
• The Sea-Swallowing Demon Whale failed its breakthrough to the Purple Abode, unleashing destructive spiritual power that devastated the Whale-Breathing Grounds.
• Chu Bai entered the black waterspout and broke through to Foundation Establishment middle stage while Gu Sheng struggled at the vortex’s edge.
• Chu Bai’s Cosmic Cycle Wheel transformed into the Cosmic Cycle Dragon Transformation, and he asked Gu Sheng if he dared to fight again.

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Chu Bai killed Gu Sheng and watched the Far North factions battle over the Demonic Whale Origin. Distrusting both sides, he charged into the violet-gold vortex to seize the origin himself.

• Chu Bai transformed his Golden Body Dao Mark into purple-gold, stabilized his breakthrough, and used the Mountain God Seal and Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light to destroy Gu Sheng and his Nine-Headed Nether Serpent.
• The Demonic Whale's remains erupted into fragments of origin, drawing Rogue Cultivators into a struggle as Zuo Qiu's True Spirit Society seized the richest portion and fought Tu Meng's group.
• Yu Linglong had North Jade Tower collect scattered spiritual essence with the Sea-Absorbing Bottle, then withdrew from the battlefield to avoid the fight over the core origin.
• Chu Bai absorbed the Demonic Whale's lingering essence and stabilized his cultivation while the True Spirit Society, Lei Meng, the Blackstone Three Fiends, and Yin Jiuyou clashed over the origin.
• Zuo Qiu and Lei Meng each tried to recruit Chu Bai, but he refused both sides after questioning Zuo Qiu's trustworthiness and exposing the Blackstone Three Fiends' deceptive Four Symbols Formation offer.
• Chu Bai expanded his Gravity Domain and charged into the violet-gold vortex with the Star-River Gold Embryo, intending to take the origin himself.

Chu Bai broke the Myriad Spirits Heaven-Locking Formation and seized the Demonic Whale's Purple Abode origin, then swallowed and refined it amid a combined assault. He advanced the Star-River Gold Embryo into a middle-grade dharma treasure and ended the battle with the Far North's surviving cultivators cowed before him.

• Zuo Qiu, Lei Meng, and the Blackstone Three Fiends exhausted themselves fighting over the trapped origin while Chu Bai waited for both sides to weaken.
• Chu Bai used the Mountain God Seal and Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light to suppress his opponents and shatter the Myriad Spirits Heaven-Locking Formation.
• Lei Meng struck Chu Bai from behind, but Chu Bai endured the blow and wounded him with a counterattack.
• Yin Jiuyou, Zuo Qiu, Tu Meng, Li Hanyan, and the others joined forces against Chu Bai, who swallowed the Purple Abode origin instead of fleeing.
• Chu Bai used the Star-River Gold Embryo and the attackers' blows to refine the origin, advancing the treasure into a middle-grade dharma treasure and forming purple-gold armor.
• Chu Bai subdued the surviving cultivators and offered them the Demonic Whale's remaining body and earth vein essence, warning them not to challenge his claim.

After three months of refining the Demonic Whale's origin, Chu Bai perfected his cultivation and left the Shattered Ice Shelf as the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty seized the battlefield. In the Far North, he defeated the Blackstone Three Fiends, who tried to steal his essence, and stood over them as his sword fell.

• Zuo Qiu and Lei Meng conceded defeat, while Rogue Cultivators fought over the Demonic Whale's remains and Chu Bai claimed its teeth for the [Mountain God Seal].
• Chu Bai spent three months in a deep-sea trench refining his spiritual power, completing the [Star-River Gold Embryo], and perfecting the [Five Phases Returning to the Celestial Palace Art].
• The Sea-Watch Office arrived at the Shattered Ice Shelf, claimed the Demonic Whale's remains for the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, and drove away the Rogue Cultivators as Chu Bai slipped northward.
• Li Hanyan, Tu Meng, and Ruan Liu ambushed Chu Bai on the Far-Northern Wasteland and trapped him in their Three-Talent Spirit-Locking Array.
• Chu Bai used the [Mountain God Seal] to disrupt the array's earth-vein anchors, then unleashed annihilating light that destroyed Tu Meng's arm and Ruan Liu's Soulbound Spirit Sword.
• Chu Bai overpowered the three fiends and approached Li Hanyan with his Purple-Gold Broad Sword as Li Hanyan begged for mercy.

Chu Bai reached the Dark Nether River and learned that a Blackwater Horned Python had trapped the Wu Saint Tribe by occupying the river’s heavy-water spirit hollow. He agreed to kill it in exchange for passage across the river and the tribe’s Heavy Water Scripture, then set out for the hunt.

• Chu Bai crossed the Dark Ice Passage, completed his ten-thousand-li journey, and gained a surge of divine-soul power from the golden shackles in his sea of consciousness.
• Chu Bai reached the Dark Nether River, where he saw the deadly pull of its Dark-Mystery Heavy Water and encountered Wu Gang of the Wu Saint Tribe.
• Wu Gang brought Chu Bai to Chief Wu Cang, who explained that the Blackwater Horned Python had disrupted the river and blocked the tribe’s livelihood.
• Chu Bai offered to kill the python in exchange for passage and the Heavy Water Scripture, persuading Wu Cang to accept and help plan the attack.
• Chu Bai traded spirit stones and Meridian-Connecting Pills for the tribe’s heavy-water materials, then went with Wu Gang and the hunters to the riverbank to begin the hunt.

Chu Bai led the Wu Saint Tribe in an assault on the Blackwater Horned Python, which was trapped in the Dark Nether River while attempting to advance. After destroying its horn with the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, he caused the beast to be crushed by the river, and Wu Cang offered him the tribe’s ferry, information, and legacy.

• Chu Bai discovered that the Blackwater Horned Python was locked into its earth vein spirit cavity while preparing to advance, and ordered Wu Gang to gather the tribe’s hunters and bone anchors.
• Chu Bai and the Wu Saint Tribe set out across the Dark Nether River, where Wu Gang, Wu Cang, and the priests used bone anchors to stabilize the currents while the hunters disrupted the Python’s control of the water.
• The Blackwater Horned Python surfaced and resisted the hunters’ attacks, but Chu Bai charged into close combat, broke one of its scales, and helped Wu Cang land a strike on its exposed flesh.
• Chu Bai used the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light to destroy the Python’s horn, and its uncontrolled power collapsed under the river’s crushing gravity, killing it.
• Chu Bai returned to shore, and Wu Cang bowed to him and offered the Wu Saint Tribe’s ferry, information, and legacy.

Chu Bai crossed the Dark Nether River into the Ten-Thousand-Mile Blood Plains, where he received the Wu Saint Tribe’s inheritance and learned of the dangers on the way to God-Severing Peak. After defeating Blood Spear Tribe hunters, he reached the Osmanthus Tribe’s territory and sought an audience with its chief, while the Blood Spear Tribe prepared to attack the Osmanthus Tribe.

• Wu Cang gave Chu Bai the Heavy Water True Intent Body Tempering Method, a map of the Blood Plains, and a token for the Osmanthus Tribe before Wu Gang’s hunters ferried him across the Dark Nether River.
• Chu Bai entered the Blood Plains, where Blood Spear Tribe warriors attacked him, and he killed their Hunt Chief and the rest of the patrol with his physical strength.
• Steel Bone ordered the Blood Spear Tribe to hunt Chu Bai, but the tribe’s priest urged him to prioritize the coming Heaven-Sacrificing Ceremony and seize the Osmanthus Tribe’s Wood God’s Azure Qi.
• After traveling three thousand li, Chu Bai discovered that the Osmanthus Tribe had allied with True Spirit Society cultivators and presented Wu Cang’s token to request an audience with the tribe’s chief.
• The Osmanthus Tribe accepted Chu Bai’s token and sent a warrior to report his arrival as a powerful aura of Wood God’s Azure Qi awakened in the valley.

Chu Bai entered Osmanthus Valley as it faced destruction by Steel Bone and the Blood Spear Tribe, then used the sacred tree’s Yi Wood vitality to temper his golden body. When the Blood Spear army breached the formation, Chu Bai stopped Steel Bone’s axe with one hand and struck down a Blood Guard with the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chu Bai showed Fang Mu President Ren Siquan’s token and learned that Steel Bone planned to slaughter Osmanthus Valley and seize Mu Ling.
• Mu Ku offered Chu Bai a secret passage to escape, but Chu Bai instead promised to defeat the Blood Spear Tribe in exchange for using the Divine Tree Spirit Grotto.
• Chu Bai spent two days absorbing the sacred tree’s Yi Wood vitality, strengthening his body with resilience as well as hardness.
• Steel Bone and three thousand Blood Spear warriors attacked the valley, and Steel Bone broke through its defensive formation.
• Chu Bai caught Steel Bone’s battle-axe barehanded, shattered it, and exchanged powerful blows with him before returning to the formation when Steel Bone ordered his army to attack.
• Chu Bai pierced a Blood Guard with the Great Five-Phase Annihilation Light, gravely wounding him and stunning both armies.