Recaps

Bai Yi revealed that he had received Upper Palace Tokens from both Zhenyi Palace and Qianyuan Palace, stunning the examination crowd. After Bai Yunqi arrived with Bai Xiaojing and invited him to return to the Qing River White Household, Bai Yi agreed.

• Bai Yi showed the Old Principal his two Upper Palace Tokens, one from Zhenyi Palace and one from Qianyuan Palace.
• The Dao Students and principals reacted with shock, while Lanshan City's students struggled with their disappointment at failing to reach the twentieth level.
• Bai Yunqi arrived at the plaza with Bai Xiaojing and told Bai Yi that the White Household's Golden Core ancestor had ordered him to bring Bai Yi back.
• Bai Yunqi invited Bai Yi to return with him to the Qing River White Household, and Bai Yi agreed.

Bai Yi returned to Qinghe with Bai Yunqi and Bai Xiaojing, where the White Household Old Ancestor welcomed him after learning of his talent and Upper Palace Tokens. The Old Ancestor asked Bai Yi to become the White Household's Dao Heir.

• Bai Yunqi arranged for Bai Luo to bring Bai Yi's parents from Blue Mountain to Qinghe.
• Bai Xiaojing excitedly examined the two Upper Palace Tokens Bai Yi had earned, and Bai Yunqi explained that the White Household would help him enter one of the Four Academies.
• Bai Yunqi brought Bai Yi and Bai Xiaojing to the White Household's ancestral island in Qinghe City, where they met the Golden Core Old Ancestor.
• The Old Ancestor praised Bai Yi's sword bone and dismissed Cui Tianyuan's attempt to recruit him to Skywave Academy.
• The Old Ancestor asked Bai Yi to become the White Household's Dao Heir, a position the family had lacked for over a hundred years.

The White Household's old ancestor named Bai Yi its Daoist Son and called for a challenge to settle the appointment. Bai Yi entered an arena to face Bai Hong of the Main Lineage, leaving the outcome undecided.

• The old ancestor offered Bai Yi the Daoist Son position and asked whether he dared shoulder the White Household's burdens; Bai Yi accepted confidently.
• The old ancestor summoned the clan to the ancestral hall, alarming Bai Yundu and interrupting a celebration for Bai Hong and Bai Fei's exam results.
• The old ancestor declared Bai Yi, a descendant of Bai Yuntian's branch, the White Household's Daoist Son, and Bai Yundu retrieved the Daoist Son Seal.
• Bai Hong objected to Bai Yi's appointment, while Bai Fei stayed silent among the crowd.
• The old ancestor ordered Bai Yi and Bai Hong to fight for the position, and Bai Yi entered the sealed arena to face Bai Hong of the Main Lineage.

Bai Yi defeated Bai Hong and was formally appointed Dao Student of the White Household. The old ancestor explained the Four Academies’ importance and began preparing the Green River Water Estate’s formation to strengthen Bai Yi’s cultivation.

• Bai Yi shattered Bai Hong’s lightning techniques and defeated him with a sword strike empowered by four Dao Resonances.
• The White Household’s old ancestor declared Bai Yi its Dao Student, and the clansmen reacted with astonishment at his strength.
• Bai Xiaojing showed the clansmen her two Upper Palace Tokens, and Bai Hong took comfort in having lost to someone who had earned them.
• The old ancestor told Bai Yi that the Four Academies stood far above the Ten Palaces and hinted at secrets beyond the Immortal Alliance.
• The old ancestor urged Bai Yi to beat disciples of the Sun Palace to avenge an old grudge against Liu.
• The old ancestor opened the Water Eye beneath the lake and prepared to empower the Water Estate’s formation to raise its Spiritual Power concentration for Bai Yi.

The White Household ancestor brought Bai Yi to a hidden Water Mansion powered by a grand formation and supplied him with premium cultivation pills. Inside its Fourth-Tier Spirit Land, Bai Yi rapidly broke through to Qi Refining, Sixth Layer and resumed cultivating toward the next bottleneck.

• The White Household ancestor killed an Aquatic Demon Beast that attacked the Water Mansion’s protective formation.
• The White Household ancestor explained the Water Mansion’s formation and gave Bai Yi bottles of Spirit-Gathering Pills, Spirit-Breaking Pills, and Meridians Pills.
• Bai Yi entered the Water Mansion and began cultivating amid its dense spiritual energy, using the pills to accelerate his progress.
• After two days, Bai Yi broke through to Qi Refining, Sixth Layer, much faster than he had expected.
• Bai Yi resumed refining pills and spiritual energy, aiming to break through the Late Qi Refining bottleneck before his ten days in the Water Mansion ran out.

Bai Yi broke through to the seventh layer of Qi Refining, impressing the White Household's ancestor, who revealed the family's history and gave him the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao to study. The ancestor then turned to a second matter and began explaining how technology had helped the Immortal Alliance survive contact with the Myriad Heavens Dao Realms.

• Bai Yi used several medicinal pills to force his way through the bottleneck and reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
• The White Household's ancestor praised Bai Yi's progress and explained that Bai Linlu had died pursuing the Great Dao in an outer-domain world.
• The ancestor revealed that Bai Linlu had obtained three volumes of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao, a method that could forge spirit bodies and bloodlines by devouring Dao Resonance.
• The ancestor gave Bai Yi the book's stored knowledge and advised him to pursue a Sword Dao bloodline if he mastered the method.
• The ancestor introduced a second matter, saying that technology's ascension had enabled the Immortal Alliance to survive after contacting the Myriad Heavens Dao Realms.

The White Household's old ancestor helped Bai Yi implant the Hyper-Analytical Atomic Framework Spiritual Root Derivation Device, which could gradually improve his Spiritual Root. Bai Yi completed the initial binding and began a year-long refinement, leaving him temporarily at a Three Spiritual Root level before he could reach Dual Spiritual Roots.

• The White Household's old ancestor explained that the device used Dao-Building Crystals to reforge Spiritual Roots and said he had enough contribution points to raise Bai Yi to a Dual Spiritual Root.
• After Bai Yi reached the Late Qi Refining stage, the old ancestor guided him in refining the device by entering his Essence Blood, Divine Sense, and Spiritual Power.
• The device attached itself to Bai Yi's spine and dissolved its Spiritual Root crystal into his backbone as he endured the painful Life Marrow scan.
• Bai Yi completed the device's initial binding, and its silver scales covered part of his spine.
• The old ancestor told Bai Yi that he was temporarily at a Three Spiritual Root level and would need a year to refine the device fully into a Dual Spiritual Root.

Bai Yi used the Dao-Building Crystal and Spiritual Root Derivation Device to improve his cultivation, then studied dozens of sword arts and artifacts with the White Household's ancestor's help. After ten days of practice, he comprehended the embryonic form of Sword Intent, which shattered the Water Abode's dome before the ancestor stopped his strike.

• Bai Yi asked the White Household's ancestor for the family's sword arts and artifacts so he could study traditional artifact refining and swordsmanship.
• The ancestor brought Bai Yi more than thirty Qi Refining Sword Arts and over forty artifacts, then told him to comprehend Sword Intent within ten days.
• Bai Yi refined the artifacts to gain Enlightenment Glimmers and used them to study a succession of sword arts.
• After ten days, Bai Yi combined the sword arts in a duel between the Heart-Questioning Sword and the Azure Immortal Sword, awakening a razor-sharp embryonic Sword Intent.
• The White Household's ancestor confronted Bai Yi's sword rainbow with the Qing River's gathered waters, subdued the attack, and descended into the damaged Water Abode holding the Azure Immortal Sword.

Bai Yi comprehended the embryonic form of Sword Intent, and the White Household's Old Ancestor brought him to Mingzhou City to borrow a Bixin Wood Bead from the Huang Household. The chapter ended as the Old Ancestor hinted that he wanted the Jade Liquid from the Huang Household's third-rank Bixin Jade Willow Tree.

• Bai Yi emerged from his enlightenment with traces of Sword Intent, and the White Household's Old Ancestor praised his talent.
• The White Household's Old Ancestor took Bai Yi aboard his warship and flew to Mingzhou City to borrow a Bixin Wood Bead.
• The White Household's Old Ancestor performed risky aerial maneuvers before switching the warship to Intelligent Flight Control, leaving Bai Yi shaken.
• Huang Antian intercepted the warship and learned that the White Household's Old Ancestor had come to the Huang Household after missing its Daoist Son Ceremony.
• The White Household's Old Ancestor arrived at the Huang Household's garden and asked Huang Antian whether the Bixin Jade Willow Tree's Jade Liquid had formed.

Bai Yi entered the Huang Household’s Bixin Jade Willow Tree Secret Realm to seek the Bixin Wood Bead from its third-tier mother tree. He sped past the grove’s defenses, stole the Huang juniors’ collected Jade Liquid, and continued toward the mother tree.

• The White Household’s Ancestor forced Huang Antian to let Bai Yi enter the Huang Household’s secret realm.
• Huang Antian opened the secret realm, and Bai Yi entered after the Huang Household’s juniors.
• Bai Yi collected Jade Liquid from a first-tier Bixin Jade Willow Tree and killed two Jade-Scaled Apes that attacked him.
• Bai Yi rode his Azure Immortal Sword toward the mother tree, evading the second-tier trees’ whipping branches.
• Bai Yi darted through the central grove and took every Jade Liquid bottle from the Huang Household youth leading the collection.
• Bai Yi accelerated toward the third-tier mother tree as its branches continued to attack.

Bai Yi reached the Bixin Jade Willow Mother Tree and was chosen over Huang Xunyan to receive its Jade Liquid and Bixin Wood Bead. After strengthening his body and advancing his cultivation, Bai Yi refined the bead to push the Minor Five Elements Art past its limit, then the Secret Realm expelled its outsiders.

• Bai Yi reached the Mother Tree’s pool, where Huang Xunyan claimed Bai Yi had arrived too late and explained that the tree chose a recipient through Great Dao resonance.
• Bai Yi touched a willow branch, and the Mother Tree rejected Huang Xunyan and lowered Bai Yi into the Jade Liquid.
• Over two days, Bai Yi absorbed the Jade Liquid, strengthened his body and meridians, and cultivated the Heavy Spirit Scripture to fourth-layer completion.
• Bai Yi swallowed and refined the Bixin Wood Bead, making the Minor Five Elements Art break its limit and granting its Spiritual Power a healing life force.
• A tremor shook the Secret Realm, and its force began expelling Bai Yi and the other outsiders.

Bai Yi defeated Huang Xunyan in the Bixin Jade Willow Tree Secret Realm and then defeated five Li Household geniuses to earn the Crimson Flame Marrow. After refining it and strengthening his Spiritual Power, he received notice that the Four Academies and Ten Palaces Entrance Examination would begin the next day.

• The Secret Realm closed, and Huang Xunyan admitted defeat to Bai Yi before they agreed to meet again at the entrance examination.
• The White Household ancestor reprimanded Huang Antian for the contest and left with Bai Yi for Chiming City.
• Bai Yi defeated five Li Household geniuses in eleven strikes and received the Crimson Flame Marrow from the Li Household ancestor.
• Bai Yi refined the Crimson Flame Marrow, improving his Spiritual Power until its depth could rival that of an ordinary Ninth Layer of Qi Refining cultivator.
• Bai Yi received a message that the entrance examination would begin at noon the next day, with check-in at the Ascension Daoist Grounds at the foot of Buzhou Dao Mountain.

Bai Yi learned the Four Academies and Ten Palaces entrance examination’s structure and the rewards hidden along its first trial before traveling to Giant Peak City. He helped a family reach their destination, then entered the secured station for the Buzhou Dao Mountain examination.

• The Bai family's patriarch explained that Three Hearts Palace would host this year's examination at Buzhou Dao Mountain and described its four rounds and hidden Five Elements spiritual treasures.
• Bai Yi arrived with the patriarch at Giant Peak City, where he was reminded to compete fiercely for scarce Immortal Alliance resources.
• Bai Yi used his examination privileges to book a private hovercar for a family whose son risked being late.
• Bai Yi rode with the family to the Buzhou Dao Mountain special rail station and entered after passing its strict inspections.

Bai Yi learned that the Road to the Mountain examination would be a three-day hunt across Buzhou Dao Mountain, where candidates earned points by eliminating one another. When the examination began and his wristband revealed three nearby candidates, Bai Yi rode his sword toward them.

• A Three Hearts Palace enforcer distributed blood-activated wristbands and announced the rules: candidates would hunt one another across Buzhou Dao Mountain, earning points for each elimination.
• Bai Yi recognized that the wristbands’ protection might not prevent candidates from dying and resolved to aim for first place in all three rounds.
• Bai Yi boarded the train and disembarked from car eight, flying toward the center of Buzhou Dao Mountain.
• Bai Yi waited in a stone-forest area until the wristband map activated at 3:00 p.m. and showed three nearby candidates.
• Bai Yi drew the Heart-Questioning Sword and flew toward the three red dots.

Bai Yi defeated Wang Li and Ou Fengcheng with a single sword each, forcing both students to choose elimination. The ranking list opened with Bai Yi in twenty-third place, and he considered how competing for first place might draw the Academy’s attention.

• Wang Li and Ou Fengcheng joined forces to ambush Bai Yi as he arrived at the stone forest.
• Bai Yi broke through Wang Li’s fiery attack and struck him down with the Azure Immortal Sword.
• Bai Yi pierced Ou Fengcheng’s venomous defenses, and Ou Fengcheng chose elimination after the wristband barrier protected him.
• Bai Yi tested the wristband’s protection on Wang Li, who then chose elimination as well.
• The ranking list opened, placing Bai Yi twenty-third with two eliminations, and Bai Yi noted that pursuing first place could attract the Academy’s attention.

Bai Yi pursued and eliminated Dao Students across Buzhou Dao Mountain, rising into a tie for fourth on the Hunt leaderboard as contestants fled from his Flying Sword. He anticipated that secret treasures would make the next two days more competitive, while fourteen figures meditated at the mountain’s summit.

• Bai Yi chased down a ponytailed girl riding a Blood Shadow Wolf and forced her to eliminate herself after his sword strikes badly wounded the beast.
• Bai Yi pursued fleeing groups of Dao Students, deflected a bouncing grenade, and eliminated another contestant after a brief fight.
• Bai Yi saw that his elimination count of 33 had put him in a tie for fourth place on the leaderboard.
• Bai Yi wondered whether cultivation techniques, Secret Arts, and Five Elements spiritual treasures would appear in the Hunt’s second round, then flew off to keep pursuing contestants.
• Fourteen figures sat meditating on Meditation Cushions inside a hall at the summit of Buzhou Dao Mountain.

Buzhou Dao Mountain opened its regional treasures, and Bai Yi claimed a crystal core containing a cultivation method after stopping a golden-haired student from eliminating another examinee. He let the rescued student extract the method once and learned that a major secret treasure had appeared to the east.

• The Three Hearts Palace True Person activated the regional secret-treasure deployment, transforming Buzhou Dao Mountain and revealing treasure-filled areas.
• Bai Yi flew toward a newly revealed treasure and spotted two other students approaching it on his wristband radar.
• A golden-haired student attacked a young man for the silver crystal core, but Bai Yi intervened and forced the golden-haired student to choose elimination.
• Bai Yi took the crystal core, identified it as a Second-Generation Neural Carbon-Based Crystal Storage Crystal Core, and let the young man extract its Spirit Stream Method once.
• The young man returned the core to Bai Yi and told him that many students were heading toward an important secret treasure east of their location.

Bai Yi discovered a water-type Five Elements spiritual treasure, the Black Water Profound Liquid, and reached a waterfall where three Daoist Sons were contesting it. As the crowd attacked the Chen Household Daoist Son’s formation, Bai Yi’s sword broke through its weakened node, leaving the formation collapsing.

• Bai Yi sensed a water-type spiritual treasure and hurried toward the waterfall, where he found the Black Water Profound Liquid nearly formed beneath a Heaven-and-Earth Formation.
• Bai Yi learned that the formation’s controller was the Daoist Son of the Chen Household, facing the Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households while more than a hundred Dao Students waited nearby.
• The Daoist Son of the Chen Household refused to share the treasure, and the Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households prepared to attack his Nine Heavens Water-Dividing Formation.
• As the Black Water Profound Liquid neared completion, the burly young man charged the formation and the gathered Dao Students joined the assault.
• The Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households struck the formation alongside the crowd, but the Daoist Son of the Chen Household used the pool’s Spiritual Energy to hold them back.
• Bai Yi sent a sword rainbow into the formation’s weakened node, destroying two waterspout flood dragons and causing the Nine Heavens Water-Dividing Formation to crumble.

Bai Yi revealed his strength as the three Household Daoist Sons joined forces to defend the forming Black Water Profound Liquid from a crowd of attackers. The chapter ended with their attacks clashing against Bai Yi’s Heart-Questioning Sword.

• The Chen Household Daoist Son used a water dragon to defend himself, then joined the Li and Zheng Household Daoist Sons in fighting the surrounding Dao Students.
• The three Daoist Sons held off the attackers until the Black Water Profound Liquid formed above the pool.
• The Chen Household Daoist Son sent a formation flag to claim the spirit treasure, but an azure Sword Light broke through the water dragon’s defenses.
• The Zheng and Chen Household Daoist Sons restrained the azure Sword Light while the Li Household Daoist Son prepared to strike it.
• Bai Yi unleashed the Heart-Questioning Sword, cutting through the water dragon’s frost breath and forcing the Chen Household Daoist Son to call for help.
• The Chen Household Daoist Son strengthened his formation with a Formation Disc as the three Daoist Sons struck Bai Yi’s sword rainbow together.

Bai Yi seized the Black Water Profound Liquid and overwhelmed the Chen, Li, and Zheng Households’ Daoist Sons in battle. After the three escaped with talismans, the other Dao Students fled from Bai Yi as he approached.

• Bai Yi used his swords to snatch the Black Water Profound Liquid from the three Daoist Sons.
• The Chen, Li, and Zheng Households’ Daoist Sons attacked Bai Yi, but his two flying swords fought all three at once and suppressed them.
• Bai Yi unleashed Sword Dao Thunderclap, breaking through the Li and Zheng Daoist Sons’ defenses and sending them into the pool.
• The Chen Household’s Daoist Son escaped with a Supreme-Grade Escape-Light Talisman, and the Li and Zheng Daoist Sons fled after him.
• Bai Yi recalled his swords as the ordinary Dao Students around the pool hurriedly ran into the woods.

Bai Yi rose to first place on the leaderboard by eliminating fleeing Dao Students, then headed for Metal-Stone Cliff in search of the remaining Metal- and Earth-Attribute Spirit Treasures. There, he charged into a crowd fleeing another threat and began cutting through them with his twin swords.

• Bai Yi pursued fleeing Dao Students through the jungle and eliminated twenty or thirty, raising his total to 61 and taking first place.
• A disheveled young man at a snowy cliff noticed Bai Yi's name atop the leaderboard, while a twin-ponytailed woman and her beast Little White also saw the change.
• Bai Yi reached Metal-Stone Cliff and detected two Spirit Treasure auras as a large group of Dao Students rushed toward him.
• The fleeing Dao Students mistook Bai Yi for someone who needed warning, but he attacked them with his twin swords and scattered their ranks.
• Bai Yi swept through the crowd, breaking barriers and eliminating Dao Students as the survivors realized he was even more dangerous than the threat behind them.

Bai Yi defeated Tingyuan Chen Yixing in their contest of swordsmanship and music, but Chen Yixing used a barrier to halt the fight and proposed a bargain. He offered to give up the Metal and Earth spirit treasures if Bai Yi joined the twenty families’ plan to restrict ordinary Dao Students, leaving Bai Yi asking why.

• The other Dao Students fled, leaving Bai Yi to face Tingyuan Chen Yixing, who introduced himself and challenged him.
• Chen Yixing attacked with his Thousand Armies Slaying Song, but Bai Yi’s two Flying Swords broke through his musical weapons and defenses.
• Bai Yi pressed Chen Yixing with a barrage of varied Sword Arts, prompting Chen Yixing to retreat with his family’s Azure Bamboo Escape Technique and admit defeat.
• Chen Yixing raised a mechanical barrier that withstood Bai Yi’s sword strikes, then asked Bai Yi to stop attacking.
• Chen Yixing offered to give up the Metal and Earth spirit treasures if Bai Yi joined the twenty families’ plan to restrict ordinary Dao Students, and Bai Yi asked why.

Bai Yi learned that the Heaven's Peak Battle determined candidates' admission privileges and agreed to help Chen Yixing's group gather Dao Students in the central region of Buzhou Dao Mountain. He then collected two forming spiritual treasures and refined the Black Water Profound Liquid, strengthening his spiritual power.

• Chen Yixing explained that the year's candidates were rated A, B, or C, with higher ratings granting better admission privileges, and said the group needed to eliminate enough Dao Students to avoid a grade C year.
• Bai Yi agreed to take charge of pursuing and eliminating candidates in the thirty-kilometer southern area, while Chen Yixing planned to compress the remaining area toward Buzhou Dao Mountain's center by noon the next day.
• After Chen Yixing left, Bai Yi followed the aura of a nearly formed spiritual treasure to Goldstone Basin and found a multicolored metal stone and Earth Spirit Liquid forming there.
• Bai Yi waited for the two spiritual treasures to finish forming, collected them, and hid among rocks to refine the Black Water Profound Liquid.
• Bai Yi completed the refinement, turning a qi vortex in his dantian black and increasing his spiritual power by nearly thirty percent.

Bai Yi refined the final Five-Element Spiritual Treasure and formed a Five-Element Spiritual Seed, then flew to rejoin Chen Yixing before turning toward Dao Students marked on his radar to improve his ranking. Meanwhile, Golden Core True Persons watched the examination and praised Bai Yi’s talent and his potential to continue Bai Shoudao’s legacy.

• Bai Yi refined the Variegated Multicolored Stone and Earth Spirit Liquid, completing the five elements and forming a Five-Element Spiritual Seed in his Qi Sea and Dantian.
• Bai Yi left the cave and flew toward his meeting place with Chen Yixing, reflecting on the White Household’s decline and how meeting Chen Yixing had helped him understand the overall evaluation.
• After seeing that he had fallen out of the top ten, Bai Yi flew toward the red dots on his radar to protect his personal ranking while pursuing the overall evaluation.
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles carried eliminated Dao Students away as other Dao Students fled from Bai Yi’s approach.
• Fourteen Golden Core Great Perfection True Persons watched the Dao Students close in on the ordinary candidates and praised the talented Gu Household and Yun Household Daoist Sons.
• True Person Pingyun praised Bai Yi’s mastery of Dao Resonance and sword techniques, saying he could continue Bai Shoudao’s legacy.

Bai Yi continued eliminating Dao Students until the first round ended, finishing in first place with 668 eliminations. He then traveled to the rift valley where the Ten Palaces Trial would begin and waited for the other students and its instructions.

• Lu and the other Dao Students stopped fleeing and chose to face Bai Yi, but he defeated them with a single sword strike.
• Bai Yi reclaimed first place during the night and extended his lead over Gu Sheng and Yun Yaoyao.
• The first round ended when 20,000 Dao Students remained, and Bai Yi was announced as the top-ranked student with 668 eliminations.
• Buzhou Dao Mountain shifted and revealed paths to the rift valley, where the Ten Palaces Trial would take place.
• Bai Yi reached the valley, found a Three Hearts Palace elder waiting there, and sat down to prepare while awaiting the trial's details.