Recaps

Li Changhe defeated Qing Pingyi by revealing his mastery of the Great Daos of Life and Death, drawing the Desolate Clan prodigies’ attention. Minglang recognized Li Changhe as a first-rate Nascent Soul prodigy and invited him to challenge him after the trial, while Lü Qingmo faced an attack from the Ancient Elephant Royal Clan inheritor.

• Qing Pingyi enveloped Li Changhe in venom, but Li Changhe cut through the poison with a Life-and-Death Yin-Yang Disc.
• Li Changhe shattered Qing Pingyi’s Heavenly Serpent manifestation with a Life-and-Death Rotation Palm Seal, leaving Qing Pingyi severely injured.
• Ao Zhen and the Desolate Clan prodigies were shocked by Li Changhe’s strength, while Ao Ya admired him.
• Minglang descended to the Sacred Mountain, praised Li Changhe’s Dao intent, and said Li Changhe could challenge him after the trial.
• The Ancient Elephant Royal Clan inheritor used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to stomp at Lü Qingmo, who rang his Soul-Swaying Bell and stopped the blood-energy foot in midair.

The human prodigies defeated the Desolate Realm royal-clan challengers, leaving Bai Yi as the last target. Minghuang announced a final trial requiring the challengers to defeat Bai Yi regardless of their numbers.

• Lü Qingmo used the Soul-Swaying Bell to overwhelm the Ancient Elephant Royal Clan prodigy with ghostly souls.
• Jin Guangyao steadied his Dao heart, then used the supreme treasure copper coin and his wealth-based Dao to defeat Xiong Kuotian.
• Ao Zhen defeated the Sky Fox King Clan prodigy with his flood-dragon lightning and returned to Ao Ya's side.
• Xiang Kuang told Minghuang he intended to enter the Sage Realm, while Minghuang said he might last five hundred years.
• Minghuang invoked the Great Dao's voice to announce the final trial: defeat Bai Yi of Domain-Suppressing City, no matter the numbers.

Minglang challenged Bai Yi after a Sage urged the gathered prodigies to join forces against him. As Minglang’s ocean domain engulfed the summit, Bai Yi’s hidden power emerged as a blazing sun that drove the sea away.

• A voice from the void singled out Bai Yi as someone the gathered prodigies could not defeat, provoking surprise and anger among them.
• Minglang recognized the voice of his ancestor and approached Bai Yi to challenge him.
• Minglang unleashed his Jadeite Dragon Pearl and transformed the Sacred Mountain summit into an ocean domain.
• Ao Ya told Ao Zhen that Bai Yi’s power resembled a bright sun and far surpassed Minglang’s.
• A Golden Crow cried out as a golden-red sun rose from the tide, scorching the ocean until it receded.

Bai Yi overwhelmed Minglang with his Great Sun Golden Crow inheritance and powerful body cultivation, despite Minglang’s mastery of the Great Dao of Water. Minglang awakened his Azure Water Flood Dragon bloodline and unleashed a devouring vortex, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bai Yi revealed his Great Sun phenomenon and burned away Minglang’s water attacks with blazing punches.
• Qin Minmin and Li Changhe watched in shock as Bai Yi’s power and Golden Crow inheritance became clear.
• Bai Yi’s cultivation and Pure Yang Dao let him withstand Minglang’s changing water techniques and grow stronger as the fight continued.
• Minglang awakened his Azure Water Flood Dragon bloodline and declared that Bai Yi would still lose.
• Minglang enveloped Bai Yi in a hundred-li azure vortex that devoured spiritual power, blood energy, and the Great Dao.

Bai Yi overwhelmed Minglang in their battle on the Sacred Mountain, defeating him with his Golden Crow Heaven-Burning Fist Canon. Afterward, Minghuang agreed to help Xiang Kuang and announced a final battle in which anyone who defeated Bai Yi could claim a Dao Resonance Fruit.

• Bai Yi unleashed his full Pure Yang Golden Crow power and broke through Minglang’s azure sea attacks.
• Minglang used the Tide Pearl and other Dharma Treasures to defend himself, but Bai Yi’s punches steadily overwhelmed him.
• Bai Yi struck Minglang with Golden Crow burns the heavens, smashing apart his flood-dragon form and leaving him defeated on the Sacred Mountain.
• Minghuang praised Bai Yi’s talent and agreed to help Xiang Kuang hold off some of their opponents, while leaving success dependent on Bai Yi’s progress on the Ancient Road.
• Minghuang announced that whoever defeated Bai Yi, regardless of numbers, would receive one Dao Resonance Fruit, stirring the gathered prodigies to fight.

Bai Yi overcame Lü Qingmo’s soul attack and suppressed his army of spirits, but Qin Minmin, Li Changhe, and Ao Zhen joined forces to attack him. The chapter ended with Bai Yi trapped amid their spear, death, and lightning domains.

• Lü Qingmo unleashed his Divine Soul Dao and attacked Bai Yi’s consciousness, but Bai Yi’s Dao-Deriving Mirror helped him repel the assault.
• Bai Yi struck Lü Qingmo with a sun-like punch, which Lü Qingmo crushed with giant arms formed from divine souls.
• Lü Qingmo released ten thousand spirits, but Bai Yi’s Golden Crow prison-suppressing diagram sealed them away.
• Qin Minmin shattered Bai Yi’s prison-suppressing manifestation with her spear, while Li Changhe sealed Bai Yi within a land of death.
• Ao Zhen summoned a storm of lightning and struck the trapped Bai Yi with a dragon claw.

Bai Yi faced Lü Qingmo, Qin Minmin, Li Changhe, and Ao Zhen as they joined forces to test his strength, then broke their combined arts with a single sword strike. He defeated Qin Minmin and froze Lü Qingmo, leaving Li Changhe and Ao Zhen still facing him.

• Lü Qingmo and the other prodigies joined forces against Bai Yi to test the strength of the Domain-Suppressing City prodigy.
• Bai Yi shattered the four cultivators' combined Dao arts with one sword strike, stunning them and the Desolate Clan prodigies watching from the Sacred Mountain.
• Bai Yi attacked Qin Minmin with his Little Breeze Sword Art, breaking her spear domains and driving her into the Sacred Mountain despite her defensive Dharma Treasure.
• Bai Yi severed Lü Qingmo's surprise soul attack and froze him into an ice sculpture with a sword strike.
• Bai Yi smashed the frozen Lü Qingmo between Qin Minmin and Minglang, while Li Changhe and Ao Zhen remained to face him.

Bai Yi overwhelmed Li Changhe and Ao Zhen after they joined forces, then revealed a sword strike that dismantled their domains and left them defeated. He named the strike Heavenly Azure Void Sword—Guixu.

• Bai Yi faced Li Changhe and Ao Zhen as they combined their domains of vitality and thunder to attack him.
• Bai Yi filled the thunder pool with more than a hundred sword phantoms, breaking through the combined domains and forcing Ao Zhen to retreat.
• Li Changhe recognized that Bai Yi’s sword comprehension had touched the Fourth Realm and charged him with his Yin-Yang Cycle Dharma Aspect while Ao Zhen sought an opening.
• Bai Yi severed Ao Zhen’s protective Dao light, and Li Changhe burned his Origin Power to trap Bai Yi in his perfected life-and-death domain.
• Bai Yi manifested his Dharma Aspect and used a sword strike that erased the life-and-death domain and collapsed the thunder pool, leaving shallow sword marks on Li Changhe and Ao Zhen’s necks.
• Li Changhe asked the name of Bai Yi’s sword strike, and Bai Yi called it Heavenly Azure Void Sword—Guixu.

After Bai Yi defeated Li Changhe, Qin Minmin, Lü Qingmo, and Minglang, they revealed that the upheaval on the Ancient Road was tied to a hidden crisis affecting their world. Learning Bai Yi was only sixty years old shocked the defeated group, and Qin Minmin said he would understand the truth behind Langyu Qingming Heaven after entering the Ancient Road.

• Li Changhe healed Qin Minmin, Lü Qingmo, and Minglang after Bai Yi defeated them, and said Bai Yi's rise was good news for their world.
• Bai Yi asked what the others knew about the upheaval on the Ancient Road, and Qin Minmin asked his age.
• Bai Yi said he was sixty, stunning the group and leaving Ao Zhen devastated that he had lost to someone so young.
• The group compared Bai Yi's accomplishments with their own longer cultivation and realized why he knew nothing about the world's hidden situation.
• Qin Minmin warned that the world's imprint had not yet seeped into Bai Yi, and said Sage Xiang had likely prepared him to learn the truth after entering the Ancient Road.

Bai Yi and the others received Minghuang’s approval to enter the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Road after he judged their trial and opened the passage. Bai Yi entered first, while Minghuang warned that those who crossed would stake their own Karma and have no retreat.

• Ao Ya praised Bai Yi as four times as amazing as her brother, easing the group’s gloomy mood.
• In the depths of chaos, Minghuang praised Bai Yi’s Nascent Soul Realm swordsmanship and exceptional talent to Xiang Kuang.
• Minghuang appeared above the Sacred Mountain, and his Mahayana-perfection aura forced Bai Yi, his companions, and the Desolate Realm prodigies to bow.
• Minghuang declared the group qualified for the Ancient Road, gave them Golden Law to shield them from Karma loss, and healed their injuries.
• Minghuang split the stone stele and opened the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Road, warning that entry meant no retreat.
• Bai Yi bowed to Minghuang, transformed into sword light, and plunged into the Ancient Road vortex.

After leaving the Ancient Road’s entrance, Bai Yi arrived in a realm where the Great Dao was far clearer than in Langyu Qingming Heaven. A message from Xiang Kuang revealed that Langyu Qingming Heaven was a manipulated prison where Six-Celestial City cultivated and harvested prodigies, leaving Bai Yi to confront the truth behind his world.

• Bai Yi, Lü Qingmo, and the others entered the Ancient Road vortex, while Minghuang confronted and drove a mysterious shadow back into the chaos.
• Bai Yi emerged from a rift onto a cliff, then sensed the Ancient Road’s stable space and clear Great Dao source.
• Bai Yi settled in a mountain cave and activated Xiang Kuang’s Great Sun Talisman to hear his final message.
• Xiang Kuang revealed that Langyu Qingming Heaven was a tampered prison controlled by Six-Celestial City.
• Bai Yi realized that destiny, bloodlines, and manifestations had been engineered to harvest the world’s prodigies.

Bai Yi learned that Heavenly City had secretly controlled Langyu Qingming Heaven for hundreds of thousands of years, harvesting its prodigies, and that Xiang Kuang’s sacrifice had bought him and the others five hundred years. He began forming his Cangxu Sword Heart, while a merchant convoy headed to congratulate the Jiu Household on the marriage of its eldest legitimate daughter to a prodigy from beyond this world.

• Bai Yi learned from Xiang Kuang’s message how Heavenly City had disguised itself as a righteous faction while harvesting generations of prodigies.
• Bai Yi steadied himself, resolved to make Xiang Kuang’s sacrifice worthwhile, and began forming his Cangxu Sword Heart through sudden enlightenment.
• A merchant convoy crossed the Heleng Mountains carrying lavish gifts for the Jiu Household.
• A youth questioned Uncle Xing about the Jiu Household’s marriage, and Uncle Xing explained that the bride had rescued a prodigy from beyond this world.
• Uncle Xing told the youth that even his talented eldest brother would pale beside such outsiders, leaving the youth stunned.

A beast tide bore down on the Xu Household convoy, but Second Master Xu realized the beasts were fleeing a human cultivator. The tide passed around the convoy, and a calm young man in pale blue-and-white robes approached its formation and fixed his gaze on Second Master Xu.

• Second Master Xu and Uncle Ming detected an approaching beast tide and ordered the Xu Household convoy to activate its defensive formations.
• Uncle Ming and Second Master Xu argued over who would stay behind to face the beasts while the other escaped with Luo'er.
• Second Master Xu saw five Nascent Soul beasts, including a silver-backed peng bird demon king, and rallied the convoy to fight.
• Uncle Ming spotted a human cultivator amid the tide, and Second Master Xu realized the beasts were fleeing from him.
• The beasts swept around the convoy and fled into the mountains, while the young man approached the formation and looked directly at Second Master Xu.

After condensing his Sword Heart, Bai Yi sought directions to Guanhai City and learned that the Sea Tide Secret Realm would open in six months. He joined the Xu Household convoy traveling to Luoshan City, where a competition could provide a fast route toward his destination.

• Bai Yi asked Second Master Xu whether they were in Canghai Province and where Guanhai City was, then learned that the city lay an immense distance away.
• Bai Yi explained that he needed to reach Guanhai City before the Sea Tide Secret Realm opened in six months, and Second Master Xu said the Xu Household could not help him travel there quickly.
• A young cultivator mentioned the Luoshan Grand Competition, whose top ten could use the Lanhai Sect's spatial formation to travel to the Three Light Heavenly Sea.
• Second Master Xu explained that the competition accepted cultivators under two hundred, and Bai Yi said he qualified and would accompany the convoy to Luoshan City.
• Bai Yi stepped through the Xu Household's defensive formation without damaging it, and Second Master Xu escorted him onto the carriage, recognizing him as a prodigy from beyond the heavens.

Bai Yi invited Xu Changqing into his carriage, discovered the boy’s secret sword cultivation and examined the broken sword that had granted him two inheritances. After learning the Xu family forbade sword cultivation because of its bloody past, Bai Yi asked Xu Changqing what he understood about the sword and the sword Dao.

• Second Master Xu panicked when his nephew asked about Bai Yi, but Bai Yi invited Xu Changqing into the carriage and offered to teach him.
• Bai Yi detected Xu Changqing’s hidden Sword Intent, and Xu Changqing revealed that a broken sword had taught him a sword technique and canon tied to the Myriad Swords Dao Sect.
• Xu Changqing gave Bai Yi the broken sword, which crumbled after Bai Yi examined it and received its two inherited cultivation arts.
• Bai Yi severed the sword’s decaying aura and praised Xu Changqing’s talent, then asked whether he truly loved the sword.
• Xu Changqing described his longing for the sword Dao, but his enthusiasm faded as he recalled that the Xu family had forbidden it since sword cultivators slaughtered his ancestors.
• Bai Yi asked Xu Changqing whether he understood what a sword and the sword Dao were.

Bai Yi guided Xu Changqing’s sword cultivation as the Xu Household convoy reached Luoshan City, where Bai Yi prepared to enter the Luoshan Grand Competition. He entered the city with Second Master Xu and discovered its autumn Dao manifestation, while judging the Xu Household’s cultivation record harshly.

• Bai Yi taught Xu Changqing that sword cultivation reflected the cultivator’s heart, and Xu Changqing strengthened his Sword Intent and loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• The Xu Household convoy arrived at Luoshan City, and Bai Yi considered the Origin Realm’s powerful cultivators and the Dao-Deriving Mirror’s recovery.
• Bai Yi agreed to enter the Luoshan Grand Competition through the Xu Household, which offered to host him until the competition began in three days.
• Second Master Xu presented the Xu Household’s identification jade token, and Bai Yi entered Luoshan City with him.
• Bai Yi saw that intangible autumn leaves in the city carried fragments of the Dao of autumn, and he judged the Xu Household unimpressive despite its advantages.

Bai Yi arrived at the Xu Household in Luoshan City ahead of the Luoshan Grand Competition, while the household learned that he was a heavenly prodigy from beyond the Origin Realm. The Xu ancestor advised them to remain friendly and wait for the overseeing sect to clarify its intentions, as Xu Changshu looked forward to testing himself against such prodigies.

• Xu Changshu welcomed Second Master Xu and Bai Yi to the Xu Household, then offered Bai Yi lodging and support before rushing to inform the ancestor.
• Bai Yi realized the Xu Household had likely recognized that he came from beyond the Origin Realm and decided to wait and see how the realm treated outsiders.
• Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu summoned the Xu ancestor, who identified Bai Yi as a heavenly prodigy from beyond and explained that the Origin Realm's great sects secretly investigated them.
• The Xu ancestor told them not to antagonize Bai Yi, but to treat him well and wait for the overseeing sect to act; he warned that small lineages could not safely oppose either side.
• Xu Changshu looked forward to seeing heavenly prodigies at the competition and reflected that the Xu Household was too small to give him the resources he needed.

As the Luoshan Grand Tournament began, Bai Yi examined the Lanhai Sect’s spatial formations and considered whether they could benefit the Immortal Alliance. When the sect’s envoys arrived, Bai Yi effortlessly shielded Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu from the pressure of five perfected Spirit Transformation experts.

• News of the approaching tournament spread through Luoshan City as cultivators discussed the competing geniuses and the Jiu Household’s contender.
• After stabilizing his sword cultivation and physique, Bai Yi joined Shu Changqing and the Xu Household party on their way to the Central Martial Arts Secret Realm.
• The tournament arena transformed into a temporary martial arts secret realm, and Bai Yi secretly studied its intricate spatial formations.
• The Lanhai Tower Ship arrived, and the five Luoshan patriarchs opened the formation to welcome the superior sect’s envoys.
• The five patriarchs’ combined pressure forced most cultivators to bow, but Bai Yi used his Origin Power to protect Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu.

The Luoshan Grand Competition began, and the Lanhai Sect offered Feng He a True Disciple position to join their sect. As the contestants entered the secret realm, two duels ended almost instantly, revealing the terrifying strength of a wood Dao prodigy.

• Lan Tianmu praised Feng He and invited him to join the Lanhai Sect as a True Disciple, and the Jiu Household ancestor agreed.
• The Jiu Household ancestor announced the competition's rewards and opened the Martial Performance Secret Realm for more than sixteen hundred contestants.
• Bai Yi and the other contestants entered the secret realm, where Jiu Yulin waited with other Nascent Soul prodigies and dismissed their chances against Feng He.
• The Huanchun Bell began the competition, and the contestants were transported to separate martial platforms.
• Two water mirrors vanished within three breaths, and observers learned that one opponent had been defeated by a third-stage minor-accomplishment wood Dao intent and Nascent Soul Perfection origin power.

The second round began with Bai Yi instantly defeating a mid-stage nascent soul opponent using a Great Sun Dao phenomenon infused with pure yang aura. Lan Tianmu and the other Spirit Transformation patriarchs were left searching the high platform for the unknown young man in white robes.

• The Spirit Transformation patriarchs praised the Jiu Household's prodigy and noticed that another contestant had also ended his first-round fight instantly.
• Second Master Xu secretly bet his fortune on the Xu Household of Muhe City taking first place, confident in Bai Yi's ability.
• Xu Changshu returned from his match defeated, then turned his attention to watching the remaining contestants.
• Bai Yi's second-round opponent welcomed the earth-rich terrain, but Bai Yi's Great Sun Dao attack defeated him before he could identify his opponent.
• Lan Tianmu and the other patriarchs recognized the terrifying Great Sun Dao and pure yang aura, then wondered who the young man in white robes was.

Lan Tianmu learned that Bai Yi was an otherworldly prodigy and rewarded the Xu Household for reporting him. As the tournament continued, spectators and elders noticed that Bai Yi and the Jiu Household’s genius were instantly defeating their opponents with Great Dao phenomena.

• A Lanhai Sect disciple delivered the sect master’s order, and Lan Tianmu summoned the Xu Household of Muhe City.
• Xu Changshu recounted how the Xu Household had encountered Bai Yi and reported their suspicions about his identity.
• Lan Tianmu confirmed Bai Yi’s age, cultivation, and Great Sun Dao comprehension, then awarded the Xu Household a Divine Nurturing Pill and the right to nominate five inner disciples.
• As the tournament narrowed to fewer waterlight mirrors, spectators noticed two mirrors shattering at the start of each round and searched for the Jiu Household’s otherworldly prodigy.
• Lan Tianmu and the Spirit Transformation ancestors recalled how Bai Yi and the Jiu Household’s genius had defeated opponents with Great Dao phenomena.

Bai Yi and Yi Guye faced off in the final duel, where their mastery of the Great Dao turned the contest into a clash of wood and pure yang. Bai Yi overwhelmed Yi Guye’s tree realm with a concentrated point of pure yang, leaving the outcome of the duel unresolved as the realm vanished around them.

• The last two contestants entered the Martial Performance Secret Realm as cultivators across the ten cities watched.
• Yi Guye formed a sea of ancient trees with his Great Dao of Wood, but Bai Yi remained calm inside the manifestation and examined its nature.
• Yi Guye unleashed a wooden dragon and used a Three-Colored Treasure Tree sapling to strengthen his attack.
• Bai Yi invoked pure yang intent, setting the wooden dragon and Yi Guye’s wood imagery ablaze.
• Yi Guye revived his tree realm with the Three-Colored Treasure Tree, but Bai Yi released a concentrated point of pure yang that made the surrounding imagery, including Yi Guye, vanish.

After defeating Yi Guye, Bai Yi understood how cultivators on the Ancient Road wielded their Great Dao and gained a small amount of Karma. When Lanhai Sect elder Lan Tianmu tried to pressure him into visiting the sect, Bai Yi countered with a Mahayana True Treasure.

• Bai Yi realized that cultivators in the Origin Realm incorporated their cultivation methods and protective arts into their Great Dao, and reflected on Xiang Kuang’s warnings about the limits imposed by Langyu Qingming Heaven.
• After the Martial Performance Secret Realm dissipated, Yi Guye’s Karma flowed into Bai Yi, increasing his total by about one percent.
• The gathered cultivators reacted with shock to Bai Yi’s victory, while Lan Tianmu introduced himself as a Lanhai Sect elder and invited Bai Yi to visit the sect.
• Bai Yi accepted that he was unfamiliar with the Origin Realm but kept his plan to reach the Three Light Heavenly Sea through the Lanhai Sect’s teleportation formation.
• Lan Tianmu surrounded Bai Yi with the pressure of his Great Dao, but Bai Yi dispelled the ocean with a pure yang sun and revealed a Great Sun Blazing Yang Banner containing Mahayana sacred intent.

Bai Yi learned that the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven was a major opportunity in the Origin Realm and heard Lan Tianmu invite him to enter on behalf of the Lanhai Sect. After Bai Yi revealed he already had a Sea Tide Token, Fenghe Sage Lord intervened and granted him the freedom to choose, and Bai Yi agreed to let Lan Tianmu lead the way.

• Lan Tianmu praised Bai Yi's strength and invited him to enter the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven for the Lanhai Sect.
• Lan Tianmu explained how cultivators and sects competed for Karma, and how the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven could benefit both Bai Yi and the Lanhai Sect.
• Bai Yi asked what he would gain and revealed that he already possessed a Sea Tide Token, making Lan Tianmu realize he had other options.
• Fenghe Sage Lord appeared, eased the pressure on Luoshan City, and told Bai Yi he could choose for himself.
• Bai Yi accepted Lan Tianmu's guidance after Fenghe Sage Lord's intervention.

After Bai Yi defeated Yi Guye and received Fenghe Sage Lord’s approval, Lan Tianmu brought him aboard the Lanhai Tower Ship and explained the Top Five True Disciples and their privileges. As the ship approached the Lanhai Sect, Bai Yi became interested in claiming those benefits, while Lan Tianmu doubted the sect’s five prodigies would be threatened by him.

• Lan Tianmu invited Bai Yi aboard the Lanhai Tower Ship, and the defeated Yi Guye and Lanhai Sect disciples followed them.
• Two inner disciples discussed Bai Yi’s potential to rank among the Top Five True Disciples and warned that the five would resist losing their places before the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened.
• Lan Tianmu sent the two inner disciples to the lowest deck after realizing Bai Yi and he had heard their conversation.
• Bai Yi asked Lan Tianmu about the Top Five True Disciples, and Lan Tianmu explained their five grotto-heaven places, status, and special resources.
• Bai Yi grew interested in taking advantage of the Top Five True Disciples’ privileges as the Lanhai Tower Ship headed for the Lanhai Sect.