Arc 18The Ancient Road Beckons
After returning to the Immortal Alliance, Bai Yi learned about the World-Passing Ancient Road and helped advance the Alliance’s technology while preparing for the journey. His sword spirit awakened and Chen Fuye recovered, but a warning of a full-scale Desolate Realm attack drew Bai Yi back toward the front as enemy agents prepared to lure him there.
- Bai Yi helped the Star-Peak Dao Sect defeat the Savage Wilderness Grand Elders, then left for Domain-Suppressing City after the sect repaired its domain and gave him the Heaven-and-Earth Formation Array inheritance.
- Bai Yi learned that Xiang Kuang had become a Mahayana Sage and City Lord, and Xiang Kuang explained the World-Passing Ancient Road before giving Bai Yi its records and the remaining Golden Crow Lineage canon.
- Bai Yi reunited with the Old Chi Dragon and returned to the Immortal Alliance, where Fu Yu and Yu Wen described the Desolate Realm threat and demonstrated the Alliance’s technological advances.
- Bai Yi gave Yu Wen Totem Blood Spirits and barbarian flesh for experiments to restore Chen Fuye and awaken an artifact spirit in the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword.
- Bai Yi met Chen Fuye at the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, learned more about Xiang Kuang’s past, and brought Chen Fuye back to the Immortal Alliance for treatment.
- Bai Yi comprehended Origin Extinction in the Sword World, causing an evacuation at the Central Research Institute, and the Alliance ranked him ahead of Feng Weiyi among its 3S-classified cultivators.
- The Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword’s spirit awakened, demonstrated its swordsmanship, and received the name Bai Cang, while Chen Fuye’s arms were restored and he reached the peak of Spirit Transformation.
- Nüwa Terminal’s Formation Spirit deciphered a warning of a full-scale Desolate Realm attack, and Xu Changning reported that he and the Blood River Ancestor had lured Bai Yi back as Street Warden Lu directed their preparations.