Chapter Summaries

Feng Weiyi explained the Golden Core stage to Bai Yi and urged him to enter the great-plane fragment to seek the spiritual energy needed to form a perfectly round Golden Core in one step. The chapter ended with Bai Yi learning that thirty-six Dao Patterns marked the limit and defined a Perfect Golden Core.

• Feng Weiyi judged that Bai Yi’s strength could let him contend with ordinary Late Golden Core cultivators and survive against most Outer Domain prodigies.
• Feng Weiyi said Bai Yi should enter the great-plane fragment, find a Spirit Land rich in spiritual energy and Spiritual Resonance, and form a perfectly round Golden Core in one step.
• The Void Insight True Lord revealed that Bai Yi was still a student in the second half of Dao Class Six, so Feng Weiyi agreed to teach him about Golden Cores.
• Feng Weiyi explained that Golden Cores could be insubstantial, substantial, or perfectly round, and that true prodigies could form a perfected core bearing Core Patterns immediately.
• Feng Weiyi explained that Golden Core cultivators could bear at most thirty-six Dao Patterns, and that a core bearing all thirty-six was called a Perfect Golden Core.

Feng Weiyi explained that he had prepared Bai Yi to enter Six-Celestial City’s inner city so the Immortal Alliance could escape its precarious position. He gave Bai Yi a Golden Qilin Sacred Flame Flower to aid his cultivation, while revealing how closely the alliance had monitored his progress.

• Feng Weiyi told Bai Yi that the Six-Celestial City admission ceremony was approaching and that the alliance needed him to enter the inner city.
• Feng Weiyi explained that Six-Celestial City was vastly more powerful than the Four Realms Merchant Association and that his plan had been to use Bai Yi’s talent to secure the Immortal Alliance’s future.
• Bai Yi understood Feng Weiyi’s sacrifices for the alliance and accepted the responsibility placed on him.
• Feng Weiyi gave Bai Yi a Golden Qilin Sacred Flame Flower to support the next stage of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao.
• Void Insight True Lord revealed that Feng Weiyi knew about Bai Yi’s Sword Dao Spirit Body through the alliance’s records and Terminal access.

Feng Weiyi equipped Bai Yi with powerful treasures and sent him to prepare for the fragment of a great plane, where he was to find a Spirit Land and form a Perfectly Round Golden Core. Bai Yi used the Immortal Alliance’s resources to advance the second layer of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art, while Feng Weiyi revealed that his Divine-Rhyme Sacred Yang Flame would let him live for at most two more years.

• Feng Weiyi gave Bai Yi a Soul-State High-Column Terminal System, the Concealing Sky Silkworm Jade Pendant, and six treasures to protect him in the fragment of a great plane.
• Feng Weiyi told Bai Yi to stabilize his realm and, once inside the fragment, prioritize survival, finding a Spirit Land, and forming a Perfectly Round Golden Core.
• After Bai Yi left, Feng Weiyi coughed blood and admitted that his Divine-Rhyme Sacred Yang Flame would force him to change his path within two years or he would perish.
• Bai Yi exchanged his remaining contributions for Scarlet Yang materials and pills, while Void Insight True Lord obtained Low-Grade Spirit Stones for him.
• Bai Yi used the Pure Yang Flame and his resources to refine Blood Qi through the second layer of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art.
• After nine days, Bai Yi had used nearly a hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and countless strands of Pure Yang Blood Qi covered the flesh of his chest.

Bai Yi completed refining his upper body with the Sun Suppressing Prison Art, then joined the Immortal Alliance’s Direct Disciple Golden Cores as they prepared to enter a Planar Fragment. Feng Weiyi led them through Deep Subspace, and they arrived before the fragment as the World-Protecting Turbid Mist dispersed.

• Bai Yi tested his newly strengthened body by striking his chest with the Heavenly Evolution Sword and found that his Blood Qi defense repelled it.
• Bai Yi donned the Nanoparticle Dao Robe Feng Weiyi had given him and went to Central City’s Pavilion, where Direct Disciple Golden Cores had gathered beneath an Earth-class War Fortress Flagship.
• Zi Mochen told the Golden Cores to rush to Bai Yi’s aid if he sent an emergency message, and the others pledged to protect him even at the cost of their lives.
• Feng Weiyi brought the Four Academies’ deans and the gathered disciples aboard the flagship, opened a Spatial Vortex, and led them into Deep Subspace.
• The flagship emerged from Deep Subspace before a Planar Remnant revealed through the dispersing World-Protecting Turbid Mist.

Zi Mochen and the Immortal Alliance’s Personal Disciple Golden Cores watched powerful visitors arrive at the Great Plane Fragment, including the Four Realms Merchant Association, Many Treasures Pavilion, and the Sacred Demon Realm. As more ships appeared, the group faced a gathering of rival powers while Wei Luoqing’s personal vendetta against the Jade Demon Young Master came to light.

• Zi Mochen asked the Personal Disciple Golden Cores to report any information about the Jade Demon Young Master, who had murdered Wei Luoqing’s pregnant wife.
• A Four Realms Merchant Association ship arrived, and its disciples discussed Senior Brother Mu Tian’s test to compete for the fifth seat in the Three Lineages.
• The bald man gave True Soul talisman treasures to his companions and told them that Mu Tian had secured benefits for them.
• Many Treasures Pavilion arrived, prompting Feng Weiyi and the Immortal Alliance disciples to worry about the additional powerful faction.
• The Sacred Demon Realm arrived aboard a beast-bone ship, and Shen Chen recalled a tiger demon defeating him.
• Another ship radiating the Talisman Dao emerged from a Spatial Vortex.

The Spirit Transformation Venerables used the Dunhua Everbright Order to open a passage through the World-Protecting Turbid Mist into the planar fragment. The major powers’ disciples entered first, followed by Bai Yi and the Immortal Alliance’s True Disciple Sequence Golden Cores.

• Six-Celestial City’s outer-city Spirit Treasure Ship arrived, and Feng Weiyi ordered the Immortal Alliance flagship to retreat and warned its disciples to avoid the city’s people.
• The Spirit Transformation Venerables from the major powers gathered as the World-Protecting Turbid Mist dissipated, and City Lord Liu of Six-Celestial City urged them to open the passage.
• Venerable Shen placed the Dunhua Everbright Order into the mist, and the gathered Venerables poured their power into it.
• The order’s light parted the mist and opened a passage to the planar fragment, while a shockwave swept across the Four Domains.
• The major powers’ disciples entered the passage, and Bai Yi followed with Zi Mochen, Wei Luoqing, and the other True Disciple Sequence Golden Cores.

Bai Yi entered a shattered plane fragment, sent a signal to the Immortal Alliance, and killed a Foundation Establishment flying beast before heading toward a concentration of spiritual energy. The beast’s blood nourished hidden strands that ripened four thousand-year-old Red Sun Vermilion Fruits, drawing two rival Four Realms Merchant Association disciples toward them.

• Bai Yi surveyed the lush but battle-scarred plane fragment and sent a signal using the Immortal Alliance’s designated frequency band.
• Bai Yi killed a Foundation Establishment flying beast with a sword of True Power, retrieved its Demon Core, and collected several feathers before flying toward concentrated spiritual energy.
• Black-red strands emerged from the soil and consumed the beast’s corpse, absorbing its blood and flesh.
• The strands nourished a Vermilion Fruit tree, causing its fruits to ripen and emit a pillar of spiritual-energy light.
• Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu identified four thousand-year-old Red Sun Vermilion Fruits and flew toward them, each concealing his desire to keep the fruits for himself.

Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu suppressed the flames guarding a thousand-year-old Red Sun Vermilion Fruit tree and prepared to claim its fruit. Bai Yi revealed his overwhelming sword talent and attacked the two Golden Core cultivators, leaving the outcome of the clash unresolved.

• Wang Longxin used his Lu Guang Seven-Colored Gourd while Qiao Zhenmu struck with the Jialan Ten-Seal Palm to extinguish the valley’s protective flames.
• The two Four Realms Merchant Association disciples agreed to split the four thousand-year-old Red Sun Vermilion Fruits.
• Bai Yi emerged from beside the tree and mocked the two, who could not detect his presence with their Divine Senses.
• Bai Yi identified himself as a True Disciple of the Void Insight Dao Academy and revealed his Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivation, provoking Qiao Zhenmu.
• Bai Yi displayed First Realm Sword Intent Perfection, a vast ocean of Profound Void True Power, and an uncarried Core Pattern, shocking Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu.
• Bai Yi flashed before the two and unleashed over a thousand streaks of Profound Void Sword Light with the Heavenly Evolution Sword.

Bai Yi fought Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu, two Middle Golden Core cultivators, and revealed the power of his growing Primordial Dao Foundation. As his sword river overwhelmed their defenses, Wang Longxin launched a concealed attack with three flying daggers.

• Qiao Zhenmu and Wang Longxin unleashed their techniques against Bai Yi, but his Fierce Edge sword strike pierced the Jialan Ten-Seal Palm and ground apart the gourd’s metal energy.
• Wang Longxin realized Bai Yi was a Breakthrough-class prodigy and urged Qiao Zhenmu to combine their strength and prepare to retreat.
• Qiao Zhenmu summoned his Jialan Dharma Image while Wang Longxin enlarged the Lu Guang Seven-Colored Gourd and hid three flying daggers in the void.
• Bai Yi strengthened his sword river with his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation, shattered the Dharma Image’s hands, and knocked the falling gourd into the clouds.
• Qiao Zhenmu used the Divine Power Body-Assimilation Art to attack, while Wang Longxin sent his concealed daggers toward Bai Yi’s neck, Dantian, and heart.

Bai Yi defeated Qiao Zhenmu and Wang Longxin, then brought their bodies to the Vermilion Fruit Spirit Tree to test its reaction. The tree seized Wang Longxin with tendrils and formed a human face in its trunk.

• Bai Yi intercepted Wang Longxin’s three Annihilation Flying Knives and seized them with his sword.
• Wang Longxin unleashed a gale and a sea of spiritual flames, then fled on the Lu Guang Seven-Colored Gourd.
• Bai Yi killed Qiao Zhenmu with Sword Intent lightning and shattered Wang Longxin’s Magical Artifacts before piercing his Dantian and capturing him alive.
• Bai Yi took Qiao Zhenmu’s Storage Ring and pressed his body against the Vermilion Fruit Spirit Tree, but the tree did not react.
• Bai Yi threw Wang Longxin onto the tree, and black-red tendrils wrapped around him as a human face formed in the trunk.

Bai Yi watched Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu possess Wang Longxin, then subdued and questioned the remnant soul. After cutting down Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu, Bai Yi harvested the Vermilion Fruits and dug up the spirit tree to take back to the Immortal Alliance.

• Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu’s remnant consciousness emerged from the Vermilion Fruit spirit tree and took over Wang Longxin’s body.
• Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu attacked Bai Yi, but Bai Yi overpowered him with Pure Yang power and forced him to explain himself.
• Bai Yi extracted Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu’s remnant soul from Wang Longxin and sealed it in a Purple Bottle.
• Bai Yi cut off Wang Longxin and Qiao Zhenmu’s heads, then plucked the four Thousand-Year Red Sun Vermilion Fruits.
• Bai Yi dug up the Vermilion Fruit spirit tree to bring it to the Immortal Alliance.

Bai Yi traveled toward the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace’s Flame Sun Land Medicine Garden, where several Demonic Remnant Souls were possessing cultivators. He arrived as two survivors faced three demons, but his sword strike killed the Ye Zhan Sect disciple before he could call for help.

• Bai Yi stored the Vermilion Fruit Spirit Tree, learned that several Demonic Remnant Souls hid in the Flame Sun Land, and flew toward the Medicine Garden.
• Bai Yi sensed five auras fighting near the ruined Medicine Garden and approached in stealth.
• Three possessed Demonic Remnant Souls attacked a Ye Zhan Sect disciple and a Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect woman after draining two Golden Core cultivators.
• The Ye Zhan Sect disciple was wounded and saw Bai Yi approaching, then tried to call out for help.
• Bai Yi’s Sword Light struck the Ye Zhan Sect disciple and severed his head.

Bai Yi intervened when two Demonic Remnant Souls attacked a Ye Zhan Sect disciple, revealing two Dao Foundations and his mastery of Sword Momentum as he defeated three Demonic Remnant Souls. After the surviving Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect woman tried to flee, Bai Yi killed her to keep his presence secret.

• Bai Yi stopped a Demonic Remnant Soul from attacking the fallen Ye Zhan Sect disciple and confronted two Middle Golden Core Demonic Remnant Souls.
• Bai Yi revealed his Blood Qi and True Qi Dao Foundations, then killed the scrawny Demonic Remnant Soul with Bright Thunder and sealed its soul.
• Bai Yi used Sword Momentum and the Fierce Edge Sword Form to destroy the other Demonic Remnant Soul and sealed its soul.
• Bai Yi sent his Heavenly Evolution Sword to defeat the portly Demonic Remnant Soul fighting the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect woman and captured its soul.
• The woman from the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect tried to escape, but Bai Yi killed her to prevent her from revealing his identity.

After securing the Flame Sun Land, Bai Yi assessed the limits of his strength and used an intelligent formation disc to conceal the area. He continued cultivating the Sun Suppressing Prison Art with Thousand-Year Red Sun Vermilion Fruits, advancing his Pure Yang Blood Qi toward his arms.

• Bai Yi collected the Storage Rings and Demonic Remnant Souls after defeating his opponents, then judged his strength still inadequate against disciples of major forces.
• Bai Yi examined the fading Flame Sun Land and decided its remaining Spirit Plants and fire Spiritual Energy could support his cultivation.
• Bai Yi activated a Cloud-Transforming, Mist-Extending Formation Disc to hide and protect the Flame Sun Land.
• Bai Yi swallowed a Thousand-Year Red Sun Vermilion Fruit and used Blood Qi Body-Tempering Pills to refine Pure Yang Blood Qi for ten days.
• Bai Yi consumed a second Thousand-Year Red Sun Vermilion Fruit and began weaving Pure Yang Blood Qi into armor around his arms.

Bai Yi perfected the Second Volume of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art, forming a Pure Yang Treasure Armor and the faint outline of a Blood Qi Great Pill. After recovering from the effort, he examined the spoils from his recent battles and found a trove of artifacts, spirit stones, pills, and materials.

• Bai Yi used his final Thousand-Year Red Sun Vermilion Fruit to complete the Pure Yang Blood Qi framework throughout his body.
• Bai Yi formed an illusory Blood Qi Great Pill, then stopped its draining of his Blood Qi before his body gave out.
• Bai Yi recovered with Blood Qi Pills and recognized that the Second Volume of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art had reached Perfection.
• Bai Yi assessed his new strength and decided to keep the Demonic Remnant Soul bottles instead of feeding them to the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Bai Yi erased the marks on the Storage Rings taken from the Four Realms Merchant Association disciples and Fusheng Dao Domain cultivators, then found their Magical Artifacts and other valuables.

Bai Yi used Dao-Comprehension Luminescences and the Flame Sun Land’s resources to cultivate the second volume of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao, transforming his bloodline into the Yangyan Swordheart Physique. He discovered that his new physique fused True Power and Blood Qi, while the Flame Sun Land was left depleted.

• Bai Yi drained righteous-path Magical Artifacts and Spirit Ore to produce sixteen Dao-Comprehension Luminescences, then began studying the second volume of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao.
• Bai Yi drew power from the Crimson Sun Spirit Plants and the Flame Sun Land’s Earth Vein as he endured the destructive process of transforming his body.
• Bai Yi fused the Golden Qilin Sacred Flame Flower into his bloodline and, after a day and a night of repeated destruction and healing, formed the Yangyan Swordheart Physique.
• Bai Yi found that his new physique let his True Power and Blood Qi merge, greatly strengthening his sword techniques and giving him confidence that he could kill a Late Golden Core cultivator with one strike.
• Bai Yi saw that the Flame Sun Land had been drained of nearly all Spiritual Resonance by his transformation.

Bai Yi discovered that Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu was devouring the other Demonic Remnant Souls and set out to find more. In the snowy region, Lu Changhao and his companions faced a powerful demon force until Bai Yi’s flying sword struck at Tu Ye.

• Bai Yi found Old Man of Ten Thousand Gu slowly devouring the other two Demonic Remnant Souls in their bottle and decided to seek more remnants.
• Lord Gu Ling and Blood River Sect demon cultivators confronted Lu Changhao, Feng Qingqing, and Li Weiqing over an Ice Crystal Fruit.
• Lu Changhao prepared to shatter his Blood Qi Great Pill so Feng Qingqing and Li Weiqing could escape, while Li Weiqing refused to leave them behind.
• Tu Ye unleashed the Blood Sea Soul Devouring Great Method, but Bai Yi’s Heavenly Evolution Sword shattered his defenses and forced him to flee behind his fellow demon cultivators.
• Bai Yi’s sword formed a Sword Dao Phantasm and began its Bright Thunder strike at Tu Ye.

Bai Yi revealed that he had defeated Tu Ye and the Blood River Sect cultivators with a devastating sword technique, shocking Lu Changhao and the others. He then faced the Golden Core Snake Demon, whose poison mist engulfed the group as Bai Yi moved to fight it.

• A thunderous sword strike killed a Middle Golden Core demon cultivator, and Lu Changhao, Feng Qingqing, and Li Weiqing believed Shen Chen had arrived.
• Lu Changhao and the others attacked Tu Ye while he defended himself with blood arts, then Tu Ye tried to flee using the Blood-Transforming Escape Technique.
• Bai Yi’s sword shattered Tu Ye’s escape and killed the remaining Middle Golden Core demon cultivators, leaving Tu Ye shocked that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had wielded the technique.
• Lu Changhao and the others realized Bai Yi had been the one fighting, and Bai Yi told Lu Changhao to keep Tu Ye alive while he dealt with the Snake Demon.
• The Snake Demon released poisonous mist and attacked Lu Changhao and the others, while Bai Yi burned away the nearby poison with his Blood Qi and prepared to fight.

Bai Yi fought the Late Golden Core snake demon with his sword and tested the limits of his Sun Suppressing Prison Art. After being driven into a cliff, Bai Yi revealed his Crimson Blood Battle Body and faced the demon’s scorn.

• The snake demon attacked Bai Yi with his Heavenly Serpent Shadowflow Fist, but Bai Yi countered with the Clearwind Sword Art and cut through the demon’s phantoms.
• The snake demon revealed his full demonic form and intensified his assault, while Lu Changhao and Li Weiqing watched in shock at Bai Yi’s strength.
• The snake demon struck Bai Yi into a distant cliff, believing he could capture him and earn a reward from the Heavenly Serpent Clan.
• Bai Yi assessed the limits of his Blood Qi and Sun Suppressing Prison Art against the demon’s powerful physique.
• Bai Yi emerged in his Crimson Blood Battle Body, covered in crimson-gold Blood Qi and Pure Yang runes, as the snake demon mocked his technique.

Bai Yi revealed his Yangyan Swordheart Physique and used his sword techniques to kill the Late Golden Core snake demon from the Sacred Demon Realm. He retrieved its Demon Core, which made the Dao-Deriving Mirror quiver, and found no Magical Artifacts on the demon.

• Bai Yi stopped Lu Changhao, Feng Qingqing, and Li Weiqing from joining the fight and unleashed the Yangyan Swordheart Physique against the snake demon.
• Bai Yi wounded the snake demon, severed its tail, and pursued it when it tried to flee.
• Bai Yi overwhelmed the snake demon with thunderous sword strikes and killed it by piercing its head with the Heavenly Evolution Sword.
• Lu Changhao, Feng Qingqing, and Li Weiqing reacted with disbelief, while Tu Ye panicked and Feng Qingqing sealed his mouth.
• Bai Yi extracted the snake demon's Demon Core, felt the Dao-Deriving Mirror quiver, and found no Magical Artifacts on the corpse.