Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi entered the arena and challenged Yun Tianfeng, who had dominated the contest. Bai Yi overwhelmed Yun Tianfeng’s spear attack with his Pure Yang Blood Qi and Great Accomplishment Fist Intent, then revealed his name as the one who would kill him.

• Li Changyang and Ye Changming defeated their opponents, while Leng Wushuang admitted defeat just before Ye Changming’s sword reached her throat.
• Two Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciples defeated their opponents but remained on the arena, prompting Lu Yuntang to challenge Flameheart High Person about their intentions.
• As Chu Binghe considered entering the contest, Bai Yi passed him and leapt onto the arena to face Yun Tianfeng.
• Yun Tianfeng attacked Bai Yi with his Black Dragon Spear and Thousand Kills, Hundred Battles Spear-Slay the Enemy technique.
• Bai Yi unleashed his Crimson Blood Battle Body and Great Accomplishment Fist Intent, struck Yun Tianfeng’s spear with a punch, and sent him flying.
• Bai Yi identified himself as a member of the Immortal Alliance and declared that he would kill Yun Tianfeng.

Bai Yi defeated Yun Tianfeng by crushing his Black Dragon Spear and overpowering his imperial techniques with overwhelming Blood Qi. The Spirit Transformation Venerables recognized Bai Yi's hidden talent, while Yun Tianfeng continued attacking after his defeat and was beaten again.

• Bai Yi shattered Yun Tianfeng's spear attack, broke through his shield, and crushed the Martial General True Spirit's spear.
• Yun Tianfeng unleashed the Black Dragon Spear's Authority and the Supreme Saint Intent Canon, but Bai Yi seized the transformed wyrm and slammed it and Yun Tianfeng into the arena.
• The Golden Core prodigies and Spirit Transformation Venerables reacted to Bai Yi's strength, and several Venerables considered his potential while the hall master of Peerless City doubted he could become the Seventh Son of Prison-Suppressing City.
• Yun Tianfeng refused to accept defeat and attacked Bai Yi with spear shadows, but Bai Yi shattered them and punched him in the abdomen.
• Bai Yi caught Yun Tianfeng as he flew backward and struck him in the chest.

Bai Yi killed Yun Tianfeng during the Century Selection, despite Peerless City's hall master intervening to stop him. Domain-Suppressing City allowed the competition to continue, leaving the watching prodigies stunned by Bai Yi's strength.

• Bai Yi battered Yun Tianfeng and refused to let him finish conceding, repeatedly striking him as Yun Tianfeng begged for his life.
• Peerless City's hall master blocked Bai Yi with a Space-Severing Wall and reminded him that Yun Tianfeng had conceded, but Bai Yi claimed he had not heard it.
• Bai Yi attacked again as Yun Tianfeng tried to concede and killed him with a full-force Vast Sun Only Intent Palm.
• Peerless City's hall master accused Bai Yi of bloodthirstiness, but Lu Yuntang asserted that the selection belonged to Domain-Suppressing City and ordered the competition to continue.
• The prodigies watching the arena were shocked by Bai Yi's strength, and Chu Binghe realized how badly he had underestimated his traveling companion.

The five rival city lords and the Three Immortals Sect elders pressured Lu Yuntang to let the top prodigies choose among their cities, and nine of the ten platform contestants accepted other cities’ tokens. Lu Yuntang urged Bai Yi to reveal his strength, and Bai Yi rejected the rival cities’ offers by declaring that the strongest prodigies belonged in the strongest Inner City.

• Lu Yuntang prepared to name the ten platform contestants as Domain-Suppressing City Inner City disciples, but the five other city lords invoked an agreement to recruit top-twenty prodigies.
• The Three Immortals Sect elders supported the five city lords, and Lu Yuntang yielded rather than challenge their united opposition.
• Lu Yuntang secretly told Bai Yi to stop hiding his strength and demonstrate his value to Domain-Suppressing City and the Dao Domain behind him.
• The rival city lords offered Inner City tokens, and nine contestants, including Ye Changming, Li Changyang, and Feng Weidao, chose other cities.
• When the five city lords promised Bai Yi rewards to join them, Bai Yi said the strongest prodigies belonged in the strongest Inner City.

Bai Yi challenged the nine other top Golden Core prodigies, and Lu Yuntang changed the Century Selection rules to allow the match. Bai Yi defeated the seventh-ranked prodigy in two palms and began attacking the eighth-ranked one.

• Bai Yi declared that no one present could match him and challenged all nine remaining prodigies.
• Lu Yuntang invoked his Palace Master's Seal and made Bai Yi's nine-opponent battle official.
• Bai Yi used two palms to defeat the seventh-ranked prodigy, knocking him unconscious and tossing him off the platform.
• Bai Yi approached the eighth-ranked prodigy, who summoned a giant Azure Dragon from his bamboo Dao Art.
• Bai Yi unleashed his Sun-Shattering fist against the Azure Dragon.

Bai Yi defeated the Eighth Prodigy and made two other Heavenly Prodigy Ranking contestants surrender, then challenged two Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciples at once. When he revealed the Glorious Sun Crow Blood Qi Dao Foundation, the watching Spirit Transformation Venerables recognized him as a Sacred Body Prodigy.

• Bai Yi knocked out the Eighth Prodigy and hurled him off the platform.
• The two remaining Heavenly Prodigy Ranking contestants surrendered and left the platform.
• Bai Yi challenged Zhang Feng and another Cloud-Covering Immortal Sect disciple to fight him together.
• Zhang Feng attacked with White Crane Core Force and the Clearwind Cloud Heaven Art, but Bai Yi broke through his defenses with a punch.
• Bai Yi manifested the Glorious Sun Crow Blood Qi Dao Foundation, and the Spirit Transformation Venerables identified him as a Sacred Body Prodigy.

Bai Yi defeated Zhang Feng and Gong Xing with overwhelming physical strength, killing Zhang Feng and crushing Gong Xing. As he faced the remaining three opponents, the watching prodigies and Venerables recognized how much his possible Saint Body status threatened their plans for the selection.

• Bai Yi shattered Zhang Feng’s defenses, seized him by the ankle, and slammed him into the platform.
• Gong Xing attacked Bai Yi with his Martial Spirit and great guandao, but Bai Yi shattered both his strike and Zhang Feng’s Clear-and-Turbid Grinding Disk.
• Zhang Feng begged Bai Yi to spare him, but Bai Yi snapped his neck and threw him off the platform.
• Bai Yi broke Gong Xing’s Martial Spirit, drove him into the platform, and pinned him beneath his foot.
• Lu Yuntang appeared before Flameheart High Person and stopped him from intervening as Bai Yi turned toward Feng Weidao, Li Changyang, and Ye Changming.
• The three remaining opponents released their auras, while the prodigies and Venerables worried that Bai Yi’s possible Saint Body status could upend the selection’s plans.

Bai Yi fought Ye Changming on the high platform, forcing the famed Sword Cultivator to reveal his fourth Life-bound Flying Sword, the Bloodweeping Sword. As the Bloodweeping Sword threatened to decide the fight, Bai Yi revealed a second Sword Momentum at Minor Accomplishment and stopped it with a purple-black Flying Sword.

• Bai Yi crossed the arena and faced Ye Changming, who warned him that he was no match for him.
• Ye Changming summoned three Life-bound Flying Swords and attacked Bai Yi with powerful Sword Arts, but Bai Yi read their strikes and pressed toward him.
• Ye Changming drew the Bloodweeping Sword, shocking the spectators with the fourth of his five rumored swords.
• The Bloodweeping Sword drove toward Bai Yi through blooming Blood Lotus Flowers, and the crowd believed Ye Changming had won.
• Bai Yi released a second Sword Momentum at Minor Accomplishment, and his purple-black Flying Sword met the Bloodweeping Sword blade to blade.

Bai Yi revealed his Second Realm Sword Momentum and Fourth-Tier Life-bound Flying Sword, overwhelming Ye Changming in their duel. Ye Changming unleashed his Sword-Devouring Casket Dao Foundation and Taotie Heart-Devouring Sword Canon, but Bai Yi answered with Sword Ruins, which began to break apart the Taotie black hole.

• Bai Yi astonished the watching Golden Core prodigies by revealing Second Realm Sword Momentum, and they realized he was a Sacred Body Prodigy.
• Bai Yi used Bright Thunder to shatter Ye Changming's blood-red lotus and drive back the Bloodweeping Sword.
• Ye Changming attacked with four Life-bound Flying Swords, but Bai Yi's Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword struck two of them away using Unfixed.
• Ye Changming revealed his Sword-Devouring Casket Dao Foundation and summoned five swords to form the Taotie black hole with his Taotie Heart-Devouring Sword Canon.
• Bai Yi invoked Sword Ruins, and the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword swept through the void, crumbling the Taotie black hole.

Bai Yi defeated Ye Changming with one sword but spared him, and Ye Changming conceded while promising to challenge him again. With the crowd urging Bai Yi toward a nine-opponent streak, he faced Feng Weidao and Li Changyang together and began fighting Feng Weidao.

• Bai Yi broke through Ye Changming’s five flying swords and defeated him, forcing his Sword-Devouring Casket Dao Foundation to dissipate.
• Bai Yi told Ye Changming that he would not kill him, and Ye Changming regained his resolve, conceded, and vowed to seek Bai Yi’s guidance again.
• The crowd rallied behind Bai Yi as they anticipated him defeating nine opponents in a row.
• Bai Yi challenged Feng Weidao and Li Changyang to attack him together, and Feng Weidao opened with his Heaven and Earth Heartless Blade-Severing Blade.
• Bai Yi exchanged sword strikes with Feng Weidao, knocked away his Heartless Blade, and unleashed invisible sword qi, but Feng Weidao countered with Heaven and Earth Heartless Blade-Only Love.

Bai Yi defeated Feng Weidao by revealing his Yangyan Swordheart Physique and unleashing the Sword Ruins, forcing the Peerless City Palace Master to save Feng from death. As the crowd celebrated Bai Yi’s eighth victory, Li Changyang announced that he would step in.

• Bai Yi and Feng Weidao clashed with their sword and blade techniques, and Feng unleashed the Heaven and Earth Heartless Blade’s third strike, Heart Seizing.
• Bai Yi revealed his Yangyan Swordheart Physique, fused his Blood Qi with his True Essence, and formed ten thousand swords around the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword.
• Bai Yi’s Sword Ruins shattered Feng Weidao’s blade light and True Essence shield, leaving him gravely wounded and unconscious.
• The Peerless City Palace Master rescued Feng Weidao with his Dao Essence, while Bai Yi acknowledged him as his strongest opponent so far.
• The prodigies celebrated Bai Yi’s eighth victory, and Li Changyang said that he had no choice but to step in.

Bai Yi defeated Li Changyang in the Six-Celestial City's Century Selection, completing his victory over all nine Golden Core prodigies. The spectators recognized his unprecedented achievement, while the city leaders worried about his talent and Lu Yuntang’s good fortune.

• Li Changyang attacked Bai Yi with Clear Void Ethereal Qi and a phantom immortal, but Bai Yi shattered the attack with his sword.
• Bai Yi’s twelve-sword formation destroyed the phantom immortal, and Li Changyang admitted defeat and swallowed several pills.
• The Golden Core prodigies realized Bai Yi had defeated all nine opponents alone and witnessed a historic feat.
• The Five-City Palace Masters and the Three Immortals Sect Elder recognized Bai Yi’s exceptional talents and considered his potential value to Domain-Suppressing City.
• The Peerless City Palace Master resented Lu Yuntang’s fortune and wished he could take Bai Yi back to Peerless City.

Bai Yi became the sole Inner City Disciple selected at Domain-Suppressing City's Century Selection, impressing the city lords and Immortal Sect Elders with his Saint Body and Sword Dao talent. Lu Yuntang agreed to protect the Immortal Alliance and arranged for Bai Yi to return there with a Silver-Plated Token before entering Domain-Suppressing City.

• Lu Yuntang announced that Bai Yi was the sole Inner City Disciple selected and said the list of one thousand Outer City candidates would be announced the next day.
• Lu Yuntang promised Bai Yi that Domain-Suppressing City would match the other cities' offers and recommend him to an elder as a personal disciple.
• Bai Yi asked Lu Yuntang to protect the Immortal Alliance from the Four Realms Merchant Association, and Lu Yuntang agreed to send someone to place a protection token there.
• Lu Yuntang summoned Xue Feng, a Spirit Transformation steward, and ordered him to accompany Bai Yi to the Immortal Alliance and hang a Silver-Plated Token.
• Lu Yuntang also promised Bai Yi a residence in Domain-Suppressing City with a One-Star Land beneath it.

Bai Yi left with Xue Feng to handle the Dao Domain matter while the Four Realms Merchant Association attacked the Immortal Alliance. After the Finality Defense System failed, Feng Weiyi confronted the three Spirit Transformation Venerables alone.

• Bai Yi thanked Hall Master Lu, then followed Xue Feng toward the Linnan Kingdom route to the Dao Domain matter.
• Steward Su arrived at the Immortal Alliance with Venerable Shen and Mu Yefan, demanding the Dao-Building Crystals and Realm-Breaking Method Gold for Mu Tian.
• Mu Yefan sent a blue Talisman toward the Star Array, but the Final Weapon System activated and destroyed it with a Heavy-Ion Star Destroyer Cannon.
• Mu Yefan attacked the Finality Defense System with Thunder Talismans, and Feng Weiyi appeared to defend the Immortal Alliance.
• After half a month of fighting, the overloaded Finality System stopped, and Feng Weiyi faced the three Spirit Transformation Dao Bodies of the Four Seas Commerce Association with a spear of crimson gold flames.

Feng Weiyi refused Mu Yefan’s offer to join the Mu Household and fought to defend the Immortal Alliance, but Mu Yefan overwhelmed him. Xue Feng arrived with Bai Yi, leaving Mu Yefan shaken as Xue Feng mocked his Wind-Thunder Divine Talisman.

• Mu Yefan offered Feng Weiyi a chance to join the Mu Household, but Feng Weiyi refused and warned that Six-Celestial City might protect the Immortal Alliance.
• Mu Yefan attacked with the Wind-Thunder Cloud-Moving Heavenly Talisman, and Feng Weiyi countered with his Fire Domain and shattered one of Mu Yefan’s talismans.
• Feng Weiyi’s Sacred Sun Divine Charm dwindled, and Mu Yefan’s renewed wind-and-thunder assault pinned him down despite his refusal to surrender.
• Xue Feng and Bai Yi emerged from Deep Subspace, interrupting Mu Yefan as he moved to finish Feng Weiyi.
• Xue Feng taunted Mu Yefan over his Wind-Thunder Divine Talisman and summoned a hulking silver armored Dao Body general.

Bai Yi used his Silver-Plated Token to force Mu Yefan and the Four Realms Merchant Association to withdraw from the Immortal Alliance Domain. After they left, Xue Feng recognized Bai Yi’s potential and offered him support, while Bai Yi asked about the pill Mu Yefan had left behind.

• Xue Feng entered the Feng-Thunder Purgatory and forced Mu Yefan to abandon his attempt to seize the Wind-Thunder Divine Talisman.
• Bai Yi revealed his Silver-Plated Token, and Mu Yefan and Venerable Shen realized that Bai Yi was a protected Inner Sect Disciple of Domain-Suppressing City.
• Mu Yefan apologized, left a Divine-Calming Essence Pill for Fellow Daoist Feng, and departed with Venerable Shen and the third companion aboard the Spirit Treasure Ship.
• After the ship vanished, Xue Feng decided to invest in Bai Yi’s future and asked him to call him Senior Brother Xue.
• Bai Yi asked whether the Divine-Calming Essence Pill was useful, and Xue Feng explained that it was a precious Medicine King Hall pill that would shatter if touched by an outside object.

Bai Yi helped Feng Weiyi recover enough to stabilize his injuries, though Xue Feng warned that his Sacred Yang Dao Resonance could not be saved. After seeing the Immortal Alliance’s technology and its remarkably low production costs, Xue Feng recognized its potential and worried that powerful factions would try to exploit it.

• Bai Yi gave Feng Weiyi a Spirit-Suppressing Origin Pill, which stabilized his Sacred Yang Dao Resonance and restored his complexion.
• Feng Weiyi thanked Bai Yi for preserving the Immortal Alliance, and Xue Feng praised Feng Weiyi’s cultivation while warning that his Sacred Yang path was lost.
• Bai Yi and Feng Weiyi brought Xue Feng to the Immortal Alliance Ancestral Star, where he saw its automated Pavilion and unfamiliar mechanical systems.
• Bai Yi explained the Way of Technology, and Xue Feng was astonished to learn that an expandable Mansion facility cost only 1,000 Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Xue Feng asked whether the Four Realms Merchant Association knew about the technology, and Feng Weiyi explained that the Immortal Alliance had kept its products within its domain.
• Xue Feng concluded that the Immortal Alliance and Bai Yi represented a valuable investment, while warning that powerful factions would not ignore the technology’s potential.

Xue Feng brought a prepared star into Domain-Suppressing City, then escorted Bai Yi into Six-Celestial City through Heaven-Ascending City’s highest heaven. As Bai Yi entered the city’s Second Heaven, its rare Qi of the Highest Clarity helped him advance his cultivation, and an immense city came into view.

• Xue Feng drew the prepared blue planet into his Dao Body Space and told Feng Weiyi he had five years to change his cultivation before coming to Domain-Suppressing City.
• Xue Feng and Bai Yi traveled to Heaven-Ascending City, where Xue Feng used an Ancient Token to guide their Spirit Treasure Ship into the highest heaven.
• A green-robed young man saw Bai Yi at the top of the Chosen Prodigies List, while a white-robed young man lamented missing the chance to record the selected prodigies.
• As the ship passed through the Second Heaven, Bai Yi absorbed its Qi of the Highest Clarity and advanced the Great Void Pure Origin Art to its second layer.
• Xue Feng explained that Six-Celestial City had created the Second Heaven using Spirit Stones, and an immense city appeared before Bai Yi.

Bai Yi entered Domain-Suppressing City with Xue Feng, who explained the city’s structure and offered to help him. Meanwhile, Lu Yuntang awaited Bai Yi’s arrival, but the Seventh Elder appeared first and began maneuvering to get close to him.

• Xue Feng used his token to open the city’s formation and guided Bai Yi’s Spirit Treasure Ship into Domain-Suppressing City.
• Xue Feng explained how Outer City disciples supplied resources and how Inner City disciples could recruit them and build their own foundations.
• Xue Feng offered to help Bai Yi with ordinary troubles and said he would take him to meet Hall Master Lu.
• Lu Yuntang recalled how eagerly the elders had been asking about Bai Yi and prepared to report his arrival.
• The Seventh Elder appeared in Lu Yuntang’s palace, accepted his hospitality, and offered him Fifth-Tier tea seeds while hinting that he had arrived in person ahead of the other elders.

Bai Yi arrived at Bright Law Hall, where eight elders had gathered to consider taking him as a disciple. After examining him, the Fourth Elder asked his age, and Bai Yi revealed that he had just turned thirty.

• The Ninth Elder arrived and offered Lu Yuntang a Blood Essence Stone, then six more elders appeared to discuss choosing Bai Yi.
• Xue Feng brought Bai Yi to Bright Law Hall, where two Cloudmist Tianqing Pythons let their Spirit Treasure Ship pass after receiving pills.
• Xue Feng explained that many ships had come to pay penalties for disciples who missed their assigned tasks.
• Bai Yi entered the hall with Xue Feng and bowed to the eight elders and Lu Yuntang.
• The Fourth Elder examined Bai Yi’s life force and asked his age, and Bai Yi said he had just celebrated his thirtieth birthday.