Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi revealed that he had become First Among the Direct Disciples and returned to the front with Bai Shoudao to arrange a First-Rate Academy. After Bai Shoudao chose to remain at the border and pursue the Great Dao, Bai Yi established Green River Academy in Qinghe City with two battle-scarred Golden Core True Persons as its principals.

• Bai Yi demonstrated that he could tear open the void with a fingertip and told the gathered cultivators he was First Among the Direct Disciples.
• Bai Shoudao refused to leave the border, displayed his Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation, and declared he still intended to pursue the Great Dao.
• Bai Shoudao brought Bai Yi to a laboratory, where two former Late Golden Core cultivators were recovering with reconstructed bodies and damaged Dantians.
• Two days later, Bai Yi gave Bai Shoudao a Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and returned to the Immortal Alliance Ancestral Star with Mu True Person and Fu True Person.
• Bai Yi placed Green River Academy in Qinghe City in the hands of Mu True Person and Fu True Person.

Bai Yi arranged for Qing River to build a First-Rate Academy and invited Mu True Person and Fu True Person to move their families there. He amazed Qinghe City by lifting a massive mountain range with one hand, then began anchoring two spirit veins beneath it for the academy.

• Bai Yi invited Mu True Person and Fu True Person to move their families to Qing River, and they accepted.
• Bai Yi announced that the White Household would fund a First-Rate Academy in Qing River, with the two Golden Core True Persons as its principal and vice-principal.
• Bai Yi flew with the two True Persons to a plain in Qing River's upper reaches and chose a mountain as the academy's site.
• Bai Yi used his True Essence to lift a mountain range over four thousand meters tall and nearly thirty kilometers long, then set it down on the plain.
• The Immortal Alliance First Construction Group's chief engineer declared that the academy project would become the group's most iconic structure.
• Bai Yi caught two Third Tier Middle Grade spirit veins and drove them beneath the mountain.

Bai Yi finished establishing Green River Academy, then set out with Feng Weiyi for the Outer Domain. They arrived at Linnan Kingdom’s Outer Sea City, where Bai Yi saw a vast city beneath a colorful ocean filled with star-sized planes and beasts.

• Bai Yi completed Green River Academy and entrusted it to the two Mu True Persons before reuniting with his family for half a month.
• Bai Yi met Feng Weiyi at the Immortal Alliance pavilion, and Feng Weiyi gave him a source pearl containing his divine essence for entry into Domain-Suppressing City.
• Feng Weiyi explained that he could only escort Bai Yi to Linnan Kingdom because leaving the Immortal Alliance would put it at risk.
• Feng Weiyi and Bai Yi crossed a dangerous void corridor aboard a Third-Tier Spirit Treasure Ship and reached the Outer Domain.
• Bai Yi arrived at Outer Sea City in Linnan Kingdom and saw its immense city, colorful ocean, and star-sized beasts and planes.

Bai Yi traveled with Feng Weiyi to Outer Sea City in Linnan Kingdom, where he witnessed the brutal law of the Outer Domain and the abundance of powerful cultivators. After Feng Weiyi gave him the Immortal Alliance’s High-Grade Spirit Stones and left, Bai Yi disguised himself and headed toward the city’s central district, arriving near the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion.

• Feng Weiyi explained Linnan Kingdom’s reliance on the Liyuan Sea and its Incense Dao inheritance as they approached Outer Sea City.
• Feng Weiyi drove away a giant star beast, and its pursuing Nascent Soul True Lords retreated after mistaking him for a Venerable.
• Bai Yi witnessed a prison ship’s crew plunder a small force and enslave its cultivators while the city guards watched without intervening.
• Feng Weiyi gave Bai Yi a Storage Ring containing the Immortal Alliance’s High-Grade Spirit Stones and warned him to put his life first before returning to the Immortal Alliance Domain.
• Bai Yi disguised himself with the Thousand Illusions Unfixed Art and the Concealing Heaven Cicada, then traveled toward the central district of Outer Sea City.
• Two days later, Bai Yi arrived near the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion, a jade-like plane refined into a place of respite.

Bai Yi visited the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion’s Azure Cloud Bamboo Pavilion and learned how its luxurious dining hall doubled as an intelligence network. He paid to see the Domain-Suppressing City Chosen Prodigies List and learned that its rankings had stabilized, while Domain-Suppressing City itself had revealed nothing about the upcoming selection.

• Bai Yi arrived at the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion and saw that its receptionists were catalyzed False Core cultivators.
• A Crane Demon guided Bai Yi to a lotus-leaf table in the Hall of Cloud Cranes and Azure Waters, where Little Red Tangerine objected to her presence.
• Bai Yi examined the inexpensive wine menu and realized the Pavilion used its popular dining services to gather and spread information.
• Bai Yi ordered Nine-Bend Heart-Burning Wine and listened as a cloud-formed old man described Xiao Lu’s rise to fifty-second place on the Chosen Prodigies List.
• Bai Yi paid one hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones to learn about the Domain-Suppressing City Chosen Prodigies List and its connection to the coming selection.
• Bai Yi learned the rankings had stabilized after many prodigies came out of hiding, but Domain-Suppressing City had shared no information about the selection.

Bai Yi learned that the Heavenly Domain Corridor in Dragonleap City was closed until a duel between the Linnan Kingdom's Sixteenth Prince and Chu Binghe ended, and he worried that the spectacle would draw Yi Daoting's attention. To reach the selection while staying hidden, he decided to infiltrate Ya Dao Street's escort crew and travel with its shipment to Dragonleap City.

• Bai Yi reviewed intelligence about the Domain-Suppressing City selection and learned that the Heavenly Domain Corridor in Dragonleap City would reopen after the Sixteenth Prince and Chu Binghe's duel in seven days.
• Bai Yi learned that Yi Daoting had captured and traded hundreds of prodigies from small and medium forces over the past two years, and feared the duel would attract its attention.
• Bai Yi visited White Jade Hall and found a Ya Dao Street commission seeking Golden Core guards to escort a shipment to Dragonleap City.
• Bai Yi decided to use his Thousand Illusions Unfixed Art and Heaven-Concealing Cicada Jade Pendant to disguise himself and join Ya Dao Street's escort to Dragonleap City.

Bai Yi followed a commission from the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion, joining an escort transporting imprisoned Foundation Establishment cultivators from Outer Sea City toward Dragonleap City. After the group entered a spatial passage, black-robed figures ambushed them and addressed someone as the Third Prince.

• Bai Yi found the shop holding the imprisoned cultivators and registered for the escort commission, secretly destroying the aura he had left in the jade talisman.
• The scarred registrar withheld ten of each recruit’s promised fifty Middle Grade Spirit Stones, and Bai Yi joined the others waiting to escort the prisoners.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord led Bai Yi and the other Golden Core cultivators out of Outer Sea City with four cages in tow.
• After half a month in the spatial passage, the gloomy woman fought off an ambush, but black-robed figures surrounded the escort and ordered the Third Prince to stop.

Liu Qiguan’s patrol officers attacked Yun Tianfeng, the Offshore King’s Third Prince, but his old servant countered them with literary Dao techniques and the Feudal King’s Seal. The two sides clashed over whether the prince or the Holy Ancestor Emperor held authority, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Liu Qiguan killed a gloomy woman from Luguang Island and captured her Nascent Soul.
• Yun Tianfeng revealed himself as the Third Prince, while Bai Yi recognized him and the stooped old servant stepped forward.
• Liu Qiguan struck at Yun Tianfeng, but the old servant used a Pardon Edict and the character “Seal” to deflect the attack and bind the patrol officers.
• Liu Qiguan and two Junior Banner Officers broke through the old servant’s literary Dao execution technique and attacked him.
• The old servant summoned the Feudal King’s Seal, weakening the patrol officers’ authority and Dharma Forms.
• Liu Qiguan and the Junior Banner Officers invoked their patrol authority and charged the old servant and the Feudal King’s Seal with three black-and-red blades.

Bai Yi concealed his strength while the Rogue Cultivators fought the Patrol Supervisory Hall’s Golden Core patrols, and Yun Tianfeng revealed the power of his royal lineage to survive their self-detonations. As the battle turned against the defenders, Bai Yi began killing patrols, and Yun Tianfeng unleashed his full strength to cut through the enemy ranks.

• Bai Yi retreated with the others as dozens of Golden Core patrols charged, while Yun Tianfeng offered rewards to those who fought back.
• Bai Yi carefully restrained his strength, struck a Middle Golden Core patrolman, and pretended to keep struggling as he watched the battle.
• Yun Tianfeng blocked the self-detonations of three patrols, then revealed his City Rampart Dao Foundation and Saint Essence Nine-Revolution Venerable Art when a Junior Official’s detonation carried Saint Emperor’s Qi.
• Bai Yi killed a Middle Golden Core patrolman with the Vast Sun Only Intent Palm and then killed a Late Golden Core patrolman.
• Yun Tianfeng recognized Bai Yi’s potential, revealed his suppressed aura, and charged through the patrols on his chariot, killing a Golden Core Great Perfection Junior Official.

Yun Tianfeng and the hunched old man defeated the patrol officers and set out for Dragonleap City, while Bai Yi joined them to reach the Six-Celestial Realm. After secretly burning the Gu Worm in Yun Tianfeng’s pill, Bai Yi arrived with them at the kingdom’s great fortified city.

• Yun Tianfeng killed the remaining Golden Core patrolman and the Rogue Cultivators who tried to submit, then allowed Bai Yi to join him.
• Yun Tianfeng gave Bai Yi a pill, and the hunched old man used the Feudal King's Seal and an imperial edict to destroy Liu Qiguan and the two Junior Banner Officers’ bodies.
• The old man erased the three Nascent Souls’ minds and sealed them in a bottle, and Yun Tianfeng boarded a Spirit Treasure Ship with Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi burned the Gu Worm hidden in the pill with Pure Yang Flame as the ship crossed the Liyuan Sea.
• Half a month later, Yun Tianfeng’s ship reached Dragonleap City, where vessels from across Linnan Kingdom were gathering.

Yun Tianfeng arrived in Dragonleap City as Chu Binghe defeated the Sixteenth Imperial Prince, hoping to use the result to force the Heavenly Domain Corridor open. Yun Taiji accepted the outcome and announced that the Linnan Kingdom would reopen the corridor for the Heavenly City selection.

• Yun Tianfeng entered Dragonleap City and watched Chu Binghe battle the Sixteenth Imperial Prince, who was key to opening the Heavenly Domain Corridor.
• Yun Tianfeng and Yun Taiji exchanged greetings, and Yun Taiji revealed that he knew Chu Binghe had pledged himself to Outer Sea City and understood Yun Tianfeng's plan.
• Chu Binghe froze the Sixteenth Imperial Prince's final attack and won their four-day battle, prompting cheers from the gathered cultivators.
• Yun Tianfeng argued that the crowd's hopes and Chu Binghe's victory meant Yun Taiji could not refuse to open the corridor.
• Yun Taiji said he would not obstruct Yun Tianfeng or Chu Binghe, then announced that the Linnan Kingdom would reopen the Heavenly Domain Corridor.

Yun Taiji opened the Heavenly Domain Corridor with the Regent's Imperial Seal and the Flood Dragon's dragon pearl, while the resulting Spiritual Qi Tide strengthened Bai Yi and depleted his Blood Qi. Yun Tianfeng's ship entered the corridor with Bai Yi and Chu Binghe aboard, and after what felt like a moment, Bai Yi discovered that three months had passed and they had reached a Spatial Vortex.

• Yun Taiji used the imperial seal and the Flood Dragon's dragon pearl to activate the formation and unleash the Spiritual Qi Tide.
• Bai Yi circulated the Sun Suppressing Prison Art during the tide, tempering forty-two bones before Yun Tianfeng gave him a White Elephant Pill to replenish his Blood Qi.
• Bai Yi observed the nine-layer formation open the Heavenly Domain Corridor and reflected on the Immortal Alliance's technological prospects.
• Chu Binghe returned to Yun Tianfeng's Spirit Treasure Ship after fighting, and Yun Tianfeng entered the corridor despite Yun Taiji's farewell.
• Bai Yi meditated aboard the ship and found that three months had passed as they approached a Spatial Vortex at the corridor's end.

Bai Yi and his companions arrived in Heaven-Ascending City for the Domain-Suppressing City Centennial Selection, where Chu Binghe drew the attention of the gathered prodigies. After Chu Binghe defeated Zhou Si, the selection was about to begin as more than a hundred star-sized arenas appeared.

• Yun Tianfeng paid the fees for Bai Yi, Chu Binghe, and their group to enter Heaven-Ascending City, and their ship headed to the plane reserved for selection participants.
• The prodigies in Heaven-Ascending City recognized Chu Binghe as the twentieth-ranked name on the Chosen Prodigies List and challenged his companions with curious stares.
• Zhou Si confronted Chu Binghe, and the two fought until Chu Binghe froze Zhou Si with a full-force strike several days later.
• Three observers discussed Chu Binghe as a pawn and speculated that the selection could expose divisions among the Six-Celestial City alliance.
• After six months, a bell announced the selection, and more than a hundred star-sized arena platforms emerged for the gathered prodigies.

Bai Yi entered the century-long selection for Domain-Suppressing City, where the other Five Cities pursued a hidden plan involving the Chosen Prodigies List. On the arena, he defeated Long He with one punch and began eliminating the remaining Golden Core prodigies.

• Lu Kuangming warned Yun Tianfeng not to delay their plan, while Bai Yi learned that the Five Cities had made an exception for the top twenty prodigies on the Chosen Prodigies List.
• Lu Yuntang announced that the selection would be fought on the arenas, with the thousand survivors qualifying as Outer City disciples and for the later Inner City selection.
• Yun Tianfeng and Chu Binghe entered arenas, but Bai Yi ignored the stooped old man's warning and joined the battle as well.
• Golden Core prodigies swarmed Li Ziyou and Long He, but the two Chosen Prodigies List-ranked fighters overwhelmed their attackers, and Long He killed one challenger.
• Bai Yi stopped Long He's punch with his palm, then broke through his Bronze Ancient Battle Body with one strike and defeated him.
• Bai Yi attacked the remaining prodigies with his Vast Sun Only Intent Palm, eliminating them one after another.

Bai Yi overwhelmed the Golden Core prodigies in the arena, then shattered Li Ziyou’s Thunder Dragon Nine Heavens Canon with one punch. He defeated Li Ziyou and left him unconscious, securing the arena’s advancement qualification.

• Bai Yi smashed through several Golden Core prodigies’ techniques and knocked them out of the competition.
• Bai Yi charged toward Li Ziyou, who unleashed a hundred-li Thunder Domain and summoned a lightning dragon with the Thunder Dragon Nine Heavens Canon.
• Bai Yi destroyed the lightning dragon with one punch, overwhelming the watching prodigies and shocking Li Ziyou.
• Bai Yi broke through Li Ziyou’s thunder attacks, caught him as he tried to flee, and knocked away his protective Magical Artifact.
• Bai Yi slammed Li Ziyou into the ground, leaving him gravely injured and unconscious.

Bai Yi defeated Li Ziyou and cleared the remaining Golden Core prodigies from his arena. The six palace masters watched the selection and took notice of Bai Yi’s unusually deep Blood Qi and his fragmentary Sun Suppressing Prison Art.

• Bai Yi overcame Li Ziyou’s thunder arts, knocked him unconscious, and turned toward the remaining prodigies on the arena.
• Bai Yi chased down the fleeing Golden Core prodigies and defeated them with his powerful Blood Qi.
• The six palace masters discussed the selection’s talented contenders, including Yun Tianfeng, Lu Kuangming, and three leading young prodigies.
• Bai Yi defeated two Golden Core prodigies from the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking and cleared his arena beneath a blazing pure-yang sun.
• The palace masters recognized Bai Yi’s use of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art and debated the source of his immense Blood Qi and his chances of entering the Inner City.

After eliminating everyone on his original arena, Bai Yi faced more than a thousand Golden Core prodigies when the arenas merged. His Vast Sun Only Intent Palm overwhelmed the crowd until a Nascent Soul True Lord intervened, and the chapter ended with Bai Yi regaining control as the survivors were taken away.

• More than a hundred arenas merged into fifty, joining Bai Yi's arena with the fifty-ninth arena, where over a thousand Golden Core prodigies had gathered.
• The competitors on the fifty-ninth arena were shocked to find Bai Yi standing alone, and he charged at them.
• Bai Yi endured their barrage, used a void crack to bypass their attacks, and eliminated prodigies with swift punches.
• Bai Yi's Vast Sun Only Intent grew stronger as he fought, and he unleashed Vast Sun Only Intent Palm-Sun Suppression against the crowd.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord stopped the sun phantom with the Great Dao of Water, causing Bai Yi to recover his focus before the True Lord escorted dozens of prodigies from the arena.

The final selection arena gathered the strongest remaining Golden Core prodigies, and Yun Tianfeng discovered that Bai Yi had survived and entered the competition, enraging him. As Spirit Transformation leaders and powerful guests arrived, Flameheart High Person announced that he had brought sect juniors to test themselves in Domain-Suppressing City's selection.

• On the fourth day, the remaining arenas merged into one, where hundreds of Golden Core prodigies gathered beneath ten elevated platforms.
• The contestants focused on Feng Weidao, Li Changyang, and Ye Changming, while Yun Tianfeng vowed to make Feng Weidao pay for his earlier humiliation.
• Yun Tianfeng spotted Bai Yi, whose life aura he believed should have disqualified him, and became furious when Bai Yi scattered his probing Divine Sense and waved at him.
• Six Spirit Transformation figures arrived, followed by the Workshop Masters of the Wonderful Sound Workshop and Green Lotus High Person.
• Flameheart High Person arrived, accepted Spirit Fruits from Lu Yuntang, and announced that he had brought several sect juniors to the selection and wanted them challenged without restraint.

Flameheart High Person and the Dao-Hua Immortal Sect elder pressed Lu Yuntang to allow their sects to observe the Domain-Suppressing City's Centennial Selection, and Lu opened the final battle to eliminated prodigies as well. Yun Tianfeng seized a platform by swiftly defeating two Late Golden Core rivals, revealing his formidable spear arts and ties to the Linnan Kingdom's imperial family.

• Flameheart High Person brought two Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciples to the arena, while the Dao-Hua Immortal Sect elder and the Wonderful Sound Workshop's left master supported watching the selection.
• Lu Yuntang drew the eliminated Golden Core prodigies to the arena and announced that the final contest was a challenge-based battle for ten inner-city disciple positions.
• As the final battle began, Yun Tianfeng confronted two Golden Core prodigies attempting to reach a platform and attacked them with his Black Dragon Spear.
• Yun Tianfeng broke through both rivals' defenses and severely wounded them, then took a platform as spectators recognized his Second Realm Spear Intent and suspected his imperial ties to the Linnan Kingdom.

Feng Weidao revealed the power of the Sealing Saber Sect’s Heaven and Earth Heartless Blade and defeated Lu Kuangming with a single slash. His display prompted Li Changyang, Ye Changming, and the two Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciples to enter the selection.

• Yun Tianfeng revealed his strength with the Black Dragon Spear, while Bai Yi judged him capable of placing no higher than fourth in the selection.
• After battles continued across the platforms, Feng Weidao challenged Lu Kuangming.
• Feng Weidao’s Heaven and Earth Heartless Blade cut through Lu Kuangming’s demon souls and defeated him with its second strike.
• Bai Yi recognized Feng Weidao as the strongest Golden Core cultivator he had encountered and noted that his slash could threaten a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Li Changyang, Ye Changming, and the two Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciples flew toward four separate platforms.