Recaps

Bai Yi detected a Rogue Cultivator squad fighting a Late Qi Refining Vajra Crocodile Turtle guarding a huge Vajra Crystal and flew to intervene. After rescuing the survivors with a sword strike, he ordered them to restrain the beast while he prepared to fight.

• Bai Yi spotted a Vajra Crocodile Turtle attacking Rogue Cultivators at an abandoned Vajra Crystal mining site and flew toward them after seeing the large crystal behind it.
• Guo Lin and the squad used a Thunderclap Talisman, a cannon, grenades, and a chain artifact against the beast, but it broke free and killed the gaunt man.
• The Vajra Crocodile Turtle unleashed a storm of Demon Qi, sand, and rocks that engulfed Guo Lin and the two survivors.
• Bai Yi arrived and cut through the tornado and earth spikes with his sword, saving the three Rogue Cultivators.
• Bai Yi ordered Guo Lin and the survivors to keep the Vajra Crocodile Turtle restrained for thirty seconds, and they took pills and attacked again.

Bai Yi fought the Vajra Crocodile Turtle with help from Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple, using the Heart-Questioning Sword to wound it and then strike its shell with Dao Resonance. He cracked the shell but was injured by the impact, while the turtle remained alive.

• The Vajra Crocodile Turtle unleashed Demon Qi Pellets, and Bai Yi cut through them with the Heart-Questioning Sword as Guo Lin and the others tried to hold it back.
• Guo Lin used Electronic Thunderclap Talismans and a Thunder Net Artifact to restrain the turtle while Bai Yi drove a Sword Gang into its neck and pierced its scales.
• The turtle blasted Bai Yi away with Raging Sand, damaging his sword's internal Divine Sense and leaving him coughing blood, but he steadied the Heart-Questioning Sword and attacked again.
• Bai Yi told Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple to hold the turtle for five seconds while he used his full strength to shake its shell.
• Bai Yi struck the turtle's sealed shell with a Dao Resonance sword strike, cracking the ground and the shell, but the impact left him pale and bleeding.
• Bai Yi took a Qi-Replenishing Pill and a Qi-Blood Pill as onlookers marveled that he had cracked the shell of a Vajra Crocodile Turtle with one strike.

Bai Yi and three Rogue Cultivators killed a Late Qi Refining Vajra Crocodile Turtle, and Bai Yi claimed its Demon Core, Vajra Crystal, and shell while leaving the other materials to the survivors. After Bai Yi left to recover, Guo Lin decided to abandon cultivation and take the turtle’s head home to show his family.

• Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple restrained and attacked the Vajra Crocodile Turtle while Bai Yi gathered power for another sword strike.
• Bai Yi used the Heart-Questioning Sword, empowered by two Dao Resonances, to cut through the turtle’s defenses and sever its head.
• Bai Yi retrieved the Demon Core and freed the heavy Vajra Crystal, then offered the remaining materials to Guo Lin and the couple.
• Bai Yi took the turtle’s shell and left to find a hidden place to heal, while the three survivors gathered the remaining materials.
• Guo Lin told the couple to send the team’s money to Old Yang’s family and said he would take the turtle’s head home to boast to his daughter and future grandchildren.

After recovering from the fight with the Vajra Crocodile Turtle, Bai Yi perfected the Minor Five Elements Art and used the beast’s remains to nurture an Enlightenment Glimmer. He discovered a Vajra Crystal Core, then began using the glimmer to further comprehend the White Rainbow Sword Art.

• Bai Yi healed his damaged meridians and discovered that the Minor Five Elements Art had reached perfection, greatly improving his cultivation and pill-refining speed.
• Bai Yi used the Vajra Crocodile Turtle’s Demon Core to form an Enlightenment Glimmer, then absorbed the rest of its Life Essence.
• Bai Yi absorbed the Vajra Crystal’s Spiritual Resonance and uncovered a valuable Vajra Crystal Core, which he decided to save.
• Bai Yi activated the Enlightenment Glimmer and entered a sea of clouds, where a hazy figure demonstrated the White Rainbow Sword Art with a sword of cloud.

Bai Yi mastered the Sword Dao technique Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow after a black leopard’s roar helped him understand how to control the swordlight. As he set out for more Spirit Ore areas, he spotted an evil cultivator extracting Guo Lin’s soul and rushed to intervene.

• Bai Yi’s attempt to compress Sword Qi into rainbow light destroyed his cave, but he realized that releasing the Sword Qi while restraining its circulation could complete the technique.
• Bai Yi used the two flying swords to kill a black leopard and confirmed that he had mastered Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow.
• Bai Yi buried the leopard, then used his Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to search for two more Spirit Ore areas on Flying Stone Peak.
• Bai Yi saw an evil cultivator drain Guo Lin and two others, then extract Guo Lin’s soul into a green bottle.
• Bai Yi left the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle behind and raced toward the evil cultivator, who looked up as a swordlight descended toward him.

Bai Yi defeated a Soul-Refining Sect cultivator who had infiltrated the Blue Mountain Secret Realm and forced him to reveal why he was there. The captive disclosed that Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect had joined forces to search a Foundation Establishment Realm demonic cultivator’s cave abode on Huanggu Peak.

• The gloomy man used ghost-shadows, a Yin Corpse, and blood mist to defend himself and flee from Bai Yi’s sword light.
• Bai Yi destroyed the Blood-Colored Skull, caught up with the fleeing man, and crippled him and his Yin Corpse.
• The gloomy man realized Bai Yi was only at Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and Bai Yi demanded to know how he had entered the Secret Realm.
• The gloomy man said the Soul-Refining Sect used Blood Pills to disguise cultivators’ information and bypass the Secret Realm’s inspection.
• The gloomy man revealed that Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect had sent more than a dozen people to Huanggu Peak, led by a Blood Demon Sect cultivator at Qi Refining Seventh Layer.

Bai Yi killed the gloomy demonic cultivator, disguised himself, and traveled to Huangshi Peak after learning of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's estate. He suspected the demonic cultivators had spread the news to lure Rogue Cultivators, but a sudden treasure light sent the gathered crowd rushing up the mountain.

• Bai Yi killed the gloomy man, took his Bone Staff and coffin, and concluded the man's claim about an estate was probably true despite his lies about the demonic cultivators.
• Bai Yi copied the gloomy man's gray robe, buried Guo Lin and the two others, and headed toward Huanggu Peak.
• Four days later, Bai Yi reached Huangshi Peak, where Rogue Cultivators had gathered after hearing rumors of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's estate.
• Lin Cheng's group mistook the hooded Bai Yi for an Academy Dao Student and discussed his apparent Signal-Blocking Function after he passed them.
• Bai Yi suspected demonic cultivators had spread the estate rumor to lure the crowd, but a light rose from Huangshi Peak and the Rogue Cultivators hurried toward it.

Bai Yi followed the cultivators to a cliff where an illusion of Vermilion Fruits concealed a blood formation and a Demon Sect ambush. He hid as the attackers slaughtered the cultivators, and the two sect leaders prepared to use the victims’ essence blood and souls to open a Demon Sect residence.

• Bai Yi noticed gray-robed rogue cultivators gathering among the crowd and suspected they had entered the Blue Mountain Secret Realm with sect tokens.
• Cultivators rushed toward an apparent Vermilion Fruit tree, but Liu Niu’s strike exposed a corpse and triggered a blood formation that trapped and devoured more than a hundred people.
• Bai Yi hid in a mountainside crevice while rogue cultivators attacked the squads outside the formation with Yin Corpses, ghostly shadows, and blood arts.
• An old Yinshan Sect man and an old Blood Demon Sect man revealed themselves, and the Yinshan Sect man’s Eighth Layer Qi Refining strength overwhelmed the remaining defenders.
• The Yinshan Sect man collected the victims’ essence blood and souls in a purple bottle, while he and the Blood Demon Sect man discussed using them to open the residence and share its contents.

The Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect cultivators entered the cave abode after binding its Corpse Remains, while Bai Yi killed the guards outside and prepared to release it. He shattered the restraints, leaving the Corpse Remains poised to break free as the two sect elders explored within.

• The old men from the Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect used the Corpse-Soaking Bottle and Blood-Mist Heart-Piercing Lock Art to restrain the Corpse Remains, then led their demonic cultivators into the cave abode.
• Bai Yi used an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to scout the five guards and killed all of them at once with his two Flying Swords.
• Bai Yi collected the guards' demonic artifacts, judged that the Corpse Remains could distract the two Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivators, and decided to release it.
• Bai Yi repeatedly struck the black-mist chains and White Bone Artifact with swordlight until the chains shattered.

Bai Yi entered the ruined cave abode and found traces of a Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator’s techniques before escaping the two injured demonic elders. The elders turned back to battle the Foundation Establishment corpse and agreed to use their full strength to survive.

• Bai Yi entered the cave abode after the Foundation Establishment corpse and collected Demonic Artifacts from the dead evil cultivators.
• Bai Yi recognized that the sword marks on the cave walls carried Dao Resonance from a Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator approaching the Sword Intent Realm.
• The Foundation Establishment corpse drove the white-furred zombie and the old men from Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect into the great hall.
• The old man from Yinshan Sect tried to pull Bai Yi toward him, but Bai Yi cut through the black mist and fled on Sword Light.
• The old man from Blood Demon Sect shattered his own blood claw against Bai Yi’s sword strike, while Bai Yi took the impact and escaped.
• The corpse continued to overpower the zombie, forcing the old men to join forces and stop holding back.

Bai Yi waited outside the mansion while the two old devils fought the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains, then struck at the weakened old man from the Blood Demon Sect. Old Man Li saved him from Bai Yi’s sword, leaving all three cultivators battered as the corpse remained a threat.

• The old man from the Yinshan Sect transformed himself into a half-human, half-corpse, while the old man from the Blood Demon Sect used his blood to attack the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains.
• The Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains wielded its White Bone Artifact and Sword Qi, but the old man from the Blood Demon Sect trapped it beneath the White Bone Mirror’s bloodlight.
• Bai Yi, who had been hiding outside the mansion, struck the White Bone Mirror twice with the Heart-Questioning Sword and shattered its barrier.
• Bai Yi turned his swordlight on the weakened old man from the Blood Demon Sect, whose bloodlight skeleton was smashed by the attack.
• Old Man Li abandoned his struggle with the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains and struck the Heart-Questioning Sword, forcing Bai Yi to withdraw it while injured.

Bai Yi helped the Foundation Establishment corpse kill the Yinshan Sect old man by repeatedly blocking his escape with sword strikes. He then evaded the crumbling corpse’s attacks, but its final sword strike gathered Sword Intent and trapped him as the chapter ended.

• The Yinshan Sect old man attacked the Blood Demon Sect old man to steal his Essence Blood, but Bai Yi’s Sword Light cut off the Blood Demon Sect old man’s head and spilled his blood.
• The Yinshan Sect old man tried to flee and kill Bai Yi, but Bai Yi repeatedly intercepted him while the Foundation Establishment corpse struck him and forced him to burn his Essence Blood.
• After Bai Yi exhausted his pills, the Foundation Establishment corpse severed the Yinshan Sect old man’s head.
• The skeletal Foundation Establishment corpse attacked Bai Yi, who flew around the Mansion to evade it as its bones crumbled.
• The corpse’s remaining arm gathered a powerful edge and Sword Intent, freezing the air and leaving Bai Yi alarmed.

After surviving the Foundation Establishment corpse’s sword strike, Bai Yi recovered in hiding and refined the Storage Ring he had found. Its contents revealed a huge trove of Spirit Stones, superior-grade pills, and other treasures, confirming his suspicion that a traditional cultivation world existed beyond the Immortal Alliance.

• The Foundation Establishment corpse struck Bai Yi with its White Bone Artifact, but his twin swords broke the restraints before the corpse crumbled to dust.
• Bai Yi found a Storage Ring and collected the demonic cultivators’ artifacts before burning their bodies and the blood pool in the estate.
• After a week of healing, Bai Yi refined the Storage Ring’s damaged restriction and discovered a space of roughly fifty cubic meters inside.
• Bai Yi found several hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones and more than ten bottles of First-Tier Superior-Grade pills, realizing the resources could greatly accelerate his cultivation.
• Bai Yi examined three Dao-Teaching Jade Talismans, which confirmed his suspicion that a traditional cultivation world existed beyond the Immortal Alliance.

Bai Yi studied the Three Heavens Sword Cultivator Study Compendium and learned about Sword Intent and the two ways to cultivate it. He resolved to use the Dao-Deriving Mirror to master many Sword Arts, then assessed the sect items and Demonic Artifacts he had collected.

• Bai Yi read the Three Heavens Sword Cultivator Study Compendium for a day and night, learning about the Three Heavens Sword Sect and the Sword Dao.
• Bai Yi reflected on his Heart-Questioning Sword and clarified his earlier insights, though he did not advance his cultivation or sword skills much.
• Bai Yi learned that Sword Intent could be cultivated through sudden enlightenment or by mastering many Sword Arts, and decided the latter suited him and the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Bai Yi examined the Inner Sect Identity Token, the Yellow Mountain Seal, and a Dao-Teaching Jade Talisman containing the Azure Cloud Sword Art.
• Bai Yi counted the thirty Demonic Artifacts in his travel pack and recognized their value as cultivation resources.

Bai Yi used Enlightenment Glimmers to master the Azure Cloud Sword Art and the first layer of the Heavy Spirit Scripture, greatly increasing his strength before leaving the Blue Mountain Secret Realm. After Qin Lianshan allowed him to leave the sealed plaza in time for his exam, he returned to his residential complex, while Qin quietly sent a message about him.

• Bai Yi refined the remaining Demonic Artifacts and condensed eleven Enlightenment Glimmers, bringing his total to twelve.
• Bai Yi used Enlightenment Glimmers to cultivate the Azure Cloud Sword Art to Dao Resonance Perfection and the Heavy Spirit Scripture to its first layer, boosting his Spiritual Power and strength.
• Bai Yi traveled to the Basin, heard Rogue Cultivators complain about demonic cultivators and deaths in the Secret Realm, then exited through the Spatial Vortex with them.
• Qin Lianshan sealed the plaza after hearing the Rogue Cultivators' reports, but let Bai Yi leave early after verifying his identity and testing his cultivation.
• Bai Yi took the Maglev Train back to his residential complex, and Qin Lianshan quietly sent a message after watching him go.

Bai Yi joined No. 2 Middle School’s delegation for the Four Academies and Ten Palaces Preliminary Exam in Qunlan City, where Blue Mountain’s schools faced rivals from Luanshan City over their cities’ allocated resources. The group arrived at the examination site and met the Luanshan principals, setting up a contest between the neighboring cities.

• Bai Yi received Li Bantou’s notice to gather for the preliminary exam and left home the next morning with his Two Flying Swords.
• The Old Principal praised Hua Ming’s progress, then welcomed Bai Yi and promised him a Cultivation Room to make up for his time in the Secret Realm.
• Bai Yi and the other Dao Students boarded an airship and traveled to Qunlan City, where they saw the vast Qunlan Tree network.
• The Blue Mountain school principals asked the Old Principal to lead their delegation in competing for allocated resources.
• The Old Principal insulted the Luanshan principals, whose city competed with Blue Mountain for the following year’s additional resources.

Hua Ming defeated Qiu Yong in the city Dao Studies combat, but Lu Zheng, a transfer student from a First-Level City, then overwhelmed Hua Ming with his Formation Daoist Arts. Lu Zheng apologized for competing and turned to Bai Yi, asking him for a favor before their match began.

• Hua Ming volunteered to fight for Blue Mountain No. 2 Middle School and defeated Qiu Yong of Luan Mountain No. 1 Middle School with successive fire talismans.
• Lu Zheng introduced himself as a former student of Qunlan No. 6 Middle School who had transferred to Luan Mountain No. 1 Middle School, drawing complaints from the watching Dao students.
• After recovering his Spiritual Power, Hua Ming fought Lu Zheng, who froze and shattered Hua Ming's sea of fire with his Formation Daoist Arts.
• Lu Zheng apologized to Bai Yi and asked him for a favor, while Bai Yi told him to recover his Spiritual Power first.

Bai Yi defeated Lu Zheng in the Dharma Combat Arena by breaking his Year-Cold Formation with Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow. His display stunned the Dao Studies principals, who recognized him as an exceptionally gifted Sword Cultivator, while the Old Principal took pride in Blue Mountain's prospects for the upcoming assessment.

• Bai Yi introduced himself on the arena, and Lu Zheng attacked him with the Year-Cold Formation.
• Bai Yi unleashed Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow, shattering Lu Zheng's ice defenses and astonishing the watching principals.
• Lu Zheng reversed his formation into an Ice Crystal Giant Python, but Bai Yi guided his sword around the attack and stopped it at Lu Zheng's throat.
• Bai Yi told Lu Zheng to yield and left the arena, while Lu Zheng stood stunned by his defeat.
• The Old Principal celebrated Blue Mountain's advantage over its rivals, and the principals praised Bai Yi's rare Sword Dao talent.

Bai Yi joined the Four Academies and Ten Palaces Preliminary Exam Assessment, where a Golden Core True Person summoned the Immortal Ascension Stairway and set a fifty-step passing requirement. Bai Yi quickly overcame the first nine steps’ heart-questioning illusions and reached the tenth, where a Rogue Cultivator from the Dragon Gourd Sect appeared to test him.

• Old Principal told Bai Yi that passing the assessment would qualify him for special admission to a First-Rate Academy, though Bai Yi remained focused on goals beyond the Ten Palaces.
• A white-haired Golden Core True Person arrived, verified the Dao Studies Tokens, and announced the Immortal Ascension Stairway assessment, requiring students to climb fifty steps.
• Bai Yi cut through an illusion of his past life on the first step and used Sword Light to climb onward while many other students remained trapped.
• Bai Yi overcame illusions of family and life’s hardships on the following steps, then reached the tenth step ahead of the crowd.
• A fat old man from the Dragon Gourd Sect appeared before Bai Yi, and the white-haired examiner watched to see how Bai Yi would fare against the Outer Domain Cultivator.

Bai Yi rapidly defeated the cultivators guarding the Immortal Ascension Steps and reached the twentieth tier, where he chose the Iron-Slashing Sword Art for a comprehension test. He used an Enlightenment Glimmer to deepen his understanding as the principals watched his progress.

• Bai Yi defeated the gourd elder on the tenth tier and rode his sword onward while the other students struggled to catch up.
• A crew-cut boy cleared the tenth-tier checkpoint in thirteen breaths, but saw Bai Yi already advancing from the twelfth tier.
• Bai Yi defeated the lightning-wreathed cultivator on the thirteenth tier and continued cutting through opponents up to the nineteenth tier.
• On the twentieth tier, Bai Yi found a test requiring him to comprehend one Magic Art to entry level and selected the Iron-Slashing Sword Art.
• Bai Yi used an Enlightenment Glimmer to study the sword art, while the Dao School principals discussed his rapid ascent.

Bai Yi comprehended the Iron-Slashing Sword Art’s Dao Resonance to perfection in an hour and drew the attention of a Golden Core True Person. He continued up the Immortal Ascension Stairway, defeated the conjured opponents through the forty-ninth level, and faced the final level of the assessment.

• The Old Principal wagered six Spirit-Breaking Pills that Bai Yi would reach the proficient stage, while a rival principal doubted his comprehension.
• After about an hour, Bai Yi cultivated the Iron-Slashing Sword Art to Dao Resonance Perfection, astonishing the watching principals.
• The Golden Core True Person from Skywave Academy summoned the Old Principal and asked him to bring Bai Yi for a meeting after the assessment.
• Bai Yi defeated the conjured opponents on the stairway, progressing from the twenty-first level through the forty-ninth.
• Bai Yi slew the Demon Tiger and its Beast-Taming Sect Disciple opponent, then looked toward the fiftieth level that marked the assessment’s end.

Bai Yi reached the fiftieth tier of the Immortal Ascension Stairway and faced a stronger opponent wielding complementary Spirit Dao Arts. He revealed the Azure Cloud Sword Art to defeat the opponent, while the White-Haired Youth watched with heightened interest.

• Bai Yi rode his sword past the lower tiers toward the fiftieth checkpoint, and the White-Haired Youth praised his sword talent while hoping he would not climb higher.
• Bai Yi encountered a simulated inner sect disciple whose White Crane Spirit Dao Art unleashed feathers and rain against him.
• Bai Yi used the Heart-Questioning Sword and Azure Edge Sword to pierce the white crane, but the opponent countered with a Striped Fierce Tiger and knocked aside the Heart-Questioning Sword.
• Bai Yi summoned the Azure Cloud Sword Art, intertwining clouds, Clearwind, and rainbow Sword Light around his two swords.
• Bai Yi's swords destroyed the Spirit Dao Tiger and white crane, then struck down the young opponent and cleared the fiftieth tier.

Bai Yi defeated the sect youths through the upper levels of the Immortal Ascension Stairway and reached the sixtieth level, where he entered the Heavenly Pool. The pressure of the fourteen statues bore down on him as he struggled to take another step toward them.

• Bai Yi recovered after passing the fiftieth level, then continued climbing despite the white-haired youth’s wish to speak with him.
• Bai Yi defeated the crimson-robed youth on the fifty-first level and pressed onward through the levels above it.
• Bai Yi overcame the sect youth on the fifty-ninth level with his remaining Spiritual Power, then rested for four hours.
• Bai Yi reached the sixtieth level and found a Heavenly Pool surrounded by fourteen towering statues.
• Bai Yi entered the Heavenly Pool, where the statues’ combined Dao Resonance crushed down on him, and he strained to walk forward.

Bai Yi pushed through the Immortal Ascension Stairway’s immense pressure, relying on his sword techniques and Minor Five Elements Art to resist attacks on his body and Divine Soul. Near the True Lord statues, he merged a fourth Dao Resonance and struck at the barrier, but his Azure Edge Sword began to crack.

• Bai Yi used his Heart-Questioning and Azure Edge swords to advance through the Clearwind Dao Resonance’s pressure toward the hundred-meter boundary.
• Bai Yi crossed the boundary and withstood a Divine Soul attack when his perfected Minor Five Elements Art activated.
• The White-Haired Youth praised Bai Yi’s achievements but doubted he could pass the final stretch to the True Lord statues.
• Bai Yi merged Azure Cloud Dao Resonance with his two swords and forced his way to within thirty meters of the statues.
• When three merged Dao Resonances proved insufficient, Bai Yi added the Iron-Slashing Sword Art’s Dao Resonance and forged all four into a perfected resonance.
• Bai Yi slashed at the invisible barrier, exhausting his Spiritual Power as the Azure Edge Sword cracked under the pressure.

Bai Yi survived the final trial beneath the Heavenly Pool statue, drawing the attention of two True Lords who awarded him Upper Palace Tokens for Zhenyi Palace and Qianyuan Palace. Though his goal remained the Four Academies, he received a powerful Flying Sword from Cui Tianyuan before the examination concluded.

• Bai Yi fused the complete Dao Resonance of a Lower Vehicle Sword Art into his sword, crossed the final thirty meters, and recovered as the pearl healed his injuries.
• Two True Lord statues focused their gazes on Bai Yi and bestowed Upper Palace Tokens granting entry to Zhenyi Palace and Qianyuan Palace without entrance examinations.
• Bai Yi asked whether the Four Academies offered similar tokens, and Cui Tianyuan explained that their rare Immortal Academy Tokens went to exceptional prodigies.
• Cui Tianyuan learned Bai Yi was from a branch of the Qing River White Household in Blue Mountain and gave him a high-grade Azure Immortal Sword.
• Cui Tianyuan announced that Bai Yi had obtained an Upper Palace Token, that twenty-one others had passed the fiftieth level, and that the examination was over.
• After Cui Tianyuan left with the students, the Dao School principals and students reacted in astonishment to Bai Yi's Upper Palace Token.