Chapter Summaries

After learning Bai Yi was only thirty, the elders of Domain-Suppressing City competed to take him as a disciple, offering valuable gifts and arguing over who could best teach him. Their contest was interrupted when Xiang Kuang, the Eighth Elder, appeared and claimed Bai Yi because he had cultivated the Fragment of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art.

• Lu Yuntang introduced the eight elders to Bai Yi and explained that they could choose Inner City prodigies as disciples.
• The Fifth, Fourth, and Sixth Elders each argued that their knowledge of the Weapon Dao, Formation, or Talisman Arts made them suitable to teach Bai Yi.
• The Seventh and Ninth Elders blocked the others, offered Bai Yi a Proud-Cold Sword-Herding Fruit and Great Demon Blood Essence, and urged him to choose them.
• Bai Yi considered the elders' offers and hinted that he expected the others to show their sincerity.
• Xiang Kuang emerged from the void, threw down a flood dragon's head, and declared that Bai Yi would become his disciple because he had cultivated the Fragment of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art.
• The other elders objected to Xiang Kuang claiming Bai Yi, but Xiang Kuang challenged them to say who else could teach him.

Xiang Kuang took Bai Yi as his disciple and brought him to his blazing wooden palace to repair the deficiencies in Bai Yi’s incomplete cultivation art. He prepared Flood Dragon heart’s blood and a cauldron of golden magma, then threw Bai Yi inside.

• Xiang Kuang arrived at the disciple selection with a Flood Dragon’s head and declared that he would take Bai Yi away.
• Xiang Kuang revealed eight Golden Crow suns, overpowered the Seventh and Ninth Elders’ challenge, and had Lu Yuntang authenticate his elder’s token.
• Xiang Kuang seized Bai Yi and carried him through the void to his palace, where he warned Bai Yi that he needed to repair his incomplete art.
• Xiang Kuang brought out a headless Spirit Transformation Realm Flood Dragon, extracted its heart’s blood, and refined it with materials in the Ancient Flame Heaven-Burning Pool.
• Xiang Kuang poured the golden magma into a patterned cauldron and tossed Bai Yi into it.

Bai Yi survived Xiang Kuang’s brutal refinement with Flood Dragon Heart Blood, received the orthodox Sun Suppressing Prison Art inheritance, and was formally named the 193rd first disciple of the Sun-Suppressing Golden Crow Lineage. After Bai Yi demonstrated his swordsmanship, Xiang Kuang brought him to the imprisoned Chen Fuye, who agreed to teach him the Extreme Demonic Sword out of spite.

• Xiang Kuang refined Bai Yi in a cauldron with Flood Dragon Heart Blood for thirty-four days, burning away the damage from his incomplete cultivation and strengthening his Pure Yang Blood Qi and bones.
• Xiang Kuang gave Bai Yi the Nascent Soul Volume of the Sun Suppressing Prison Art and Pure Yang Golden Crow Pills, then beat him with a broom as a lineage tradition.
• Xiang Kuang formally accepted Bai Yi as the 193rd first disciple of his Sun-Suppressing Golden Crow Lineage and asked him to strike with his full strength.
• Bai Yi unleashed his sword techniques, but Xiang Kuang caught his attack between two fingers and blasted him into the ground with a flick.
• Xiang Kuang took Bai Yi through the void to meet Chen Fuye, an imprisoned sword cultivator whose arms and legs Xiang Kuang had shattered six hundred years earlier.
• Chen Fuye initially refused to teach Bai Yi, but after Xiang Kuang provoked him, he agreed to teach the Extreme Demonic Sword so he could vent his hatred.

Chen Fuye tested Bai Yi’s swordsmanship and agreed to teach him the Extreme Demon Dao, demanding a dangerous demonic trial as the price. Xiang Kuang brought the required demon hearts, and Chen Fuye prepared the Sword Pellet for Bai Yi’s training.

• Chen Fuye examined Bai Yi’s swordsmanship and declared that his talent did not measure up to Chen’s own accomplishments.
• Chen Fuye recalled his rise as a famed Sword Cultivator, his defeat by Xiang Kuang, and his imprisonment beneath the cliff.
• Chen Fuye agreed to pass on his Sword Dao if Xiang Kuang supplied the heart’s blood of ten Black Night Otherworldly Demons, warning Bai Yi that failure meant death.
• Chen Fuye opened the house and drew out a demonic Flying Sword, then removed its Sword Pellet as the evil aura around him subsided.
• Chen Fuye explained that Bai Yi had to awaken demonic intent to become a Sword Demon, and Bai Yi accepted the risk.
• Xiang Kuang returned with ten Black Night Otherworldly Demon hearts, and Chen Fuye drew their blood into the Sword Pellet.

Bai Yi absorbed Chen Fuye’s Extreme Demon Intent in minutes, using the Extreme-Intent Heavenly Demon Record to forge an [Extreme Heaven Demon] Dao Foundation. Chen Fuye was stunned by Bai Yi’s talent and demanded to teach him, while Xiang Kuang hinted that Bai Yi was a Sacred Body Prodigy.

• Chen Fuye enveloped Bai Yi in demonic mist and sent the sword pill containing Extreme Demon Intent into him.
• Bai Yi’s Living Soul awakened and devoured the demonic intent, while the Extreme-Intent Heavenly Demon Record appeared and consumed his accumulated Dao-Comprehension Luminescence.
• Bai Yi reached the Demonic Dao Qi Refining Tenth Stage and forged an [Extreme Heaven Demon] Dao Foundation within minutes.
• Chen Fuye saw Bai Yi’s Dao Foundation Phenomenon and was shocked that Bai Yi had surpassed what he himself had achieved.
• Xiang Kuang told Chen Fuye that Bai Yi was also a Sacred Body Prodigy, prompting Chen Fuye to laugh and claim Bai Yi as his disciple.

Bai Yi completed the Extreme Heaven Demon Dao Foundation, mastered its demonic intent, and received Chen Fuye’s Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon. After months of training, he fused demonic qi and Sword Qi into gray Sword Qi, but Chen Fuye criticized his shallow understanding of the sword.

• Bai Yi absorbed the Demonic Intent Sword Pellet and formed a demonic pill, then used the Dao-Deriving Mirror to control its corrupting influence.
• Chen Fuye praised Bai Yi’s comprehension of the Extreme Demon Dao and gave him the Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon inheritance.
• Bai Yi studied the first sword, No Night, for seven days while Chen Fuye guided him.
• Over the next two months, Bai Yi endured the sword’s attacks, comprehended the Sword Demon method, and formed gray Sword Qi that fused the Sword Dao with the demonic path.
• Chen Fuye appeared before Bai Yi and criticized his understanding of the sword as too shallow.

Chen Fuye trained Bai Yi in the fundamentals of swordsmanship, teaching him to refine each strike and understand the sword as an extension of his life. After months of practice, Bai Yi broke through to Great Accomplishment of Sword Momentum.

• Chen Fuye challenged Bai Yi to draw his sword and showed him that swordsmanship depended on refining every strike, not merely mastering sword forms.
• Bai Yi abandoned the thunderous force of his Flying Sword style and began making his strikes more restrained as Chen Fuye guided him for over a month.
• Chen Fuye demonstrated his sword-in-hand style with the Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon and defeated Bai Yi in a clash, explaining that Bai Yi did not yet understand the sword as a second life.
• Bai Yi set aside his Sword Momentum and Sword Art and practiced ordinary strikes under Chen Fuye's guidance for three months.
• Bai Yi's Sword Momentum broke through from Minor Accomplishment to Great Accomplishment during another clash with Chen Fuye.

Bai Yi completed his Sword Dao breakthrough and accepted Chen Fuye as his Master, then was sent to hone the first Nascent Soul-level sword of the Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon. As Bai Yi slaughtered demons to gather Dao-Comprehension Luminescence, a powerful Nascent Soul-level presence emerged from the depths of the Forbidden Grounds.

• Bai Yi thanked Chen Fuye for teaching him the Sword Dao, and Xiang Kuang approved him becoming Chen Fuye's disciple.
• Chen Fuye accepted Bai Yi and sent him into a prison of low-level Forbidden Grounds Otherworldly Demons to comprehend the sword No Night.
• Bai Yi discovered that killing the demons yielded crystals that crumbled into Dao-Comprehension Luminescence, and he attacked the surrounding horde.
• After two days of slaughter, Bai Yi had ignited a hundred strands of Dao-Comprehension Luminescence and strengthened his Slaughter Demon Intent.
• The demons retreated as a bloodstained black arm with Nascent Soul-level evil aura appeared and struck Bai Yi's colossal Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword aside.

Bai Yi faced a gravely wounded Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon in the abyssal ravine and unleashed his sword arts and Golden Crow transformation. After awakening the Extreme Demon and merging with the Sword Dao, he destroyed the demon with No Night and a final sun-like strike.

• Bai Yi recognized that his masters had thrown a wounded Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon into the ravine for him to fight.
• Bai Yi attacked with the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword, his Dao Foundations, and Sword Ruins, but the demon endured his strikes and seized the sword.
• Bai Yi fused his Blood Qi Great Pill with his Golden Core and transformed his Crimson Blood Battle Body into a Golden Crow Body.
• Bai Yi battled the demon while suffering injuries, then merged his mind with the Sword Dao and awakened the [Extreme Heaven Demon] Dao Foundation.
• Bai Yi unleashed No Night, shredded the Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon with countless swords, and cut it into pieces with a final sun-like strike.

Bai Yi defeated a Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon, discovered that its soul could improve his Living Soul aptitude, and learned from Chen Fuye how Golden Core Patterns reflected a cultivator’s foundation. The chapter left Bai Yi preparing to choose a cultivation area through a Secret Realm challenge and arrange his One-Star Land.

• Bai Yi used the Dao-Deriving Mirror to refine the Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon's soul, then killed the remaining low-level Otherworldly Demons and collected hundreds of streaks of Dao-Comprehension Luminescence.
• Chen Fuye praised Bai Yi for mastering No Night and explained that no more Otherworldly Demons were available for him to fight.
• Chen Fuye explained that pure Core Patterns formed through Great Dao comprehension offered a stronger foundation, and advised Bai Yi to replace his True Essence Great Dao Core Pattern with a pure Sword Dao Core Pattern.
• Bai Yi considered pursuing all thirty-six Core Patterns through pure Sword Dao comprehension, which would require him to reach the Sword Domain while still at the Golden Core Realm.
• Lu Yuntang sent a message asking Xiang Kuang to have Bai Yi choose a cultivation area and arrange his One-Star Land, prompting the group to prepare for the Secret Realm challenge.

Xiang Kuang brought Bai Yi back to Domain-Suppressing City for his trial, but left him to find the way himself. Bai Yi reached the Illusory Land with help from a beast-cart driver, where a crowd of disciples had gathered to witness the Sacred Body Prodigy.

• Xiang Kuang seized Bai Yi and carried him through spatial turbulence back to Domain-Suppressing City, telling him to collect some things at the Heavenly Pavilion Hall after his trial.
• Bai Yi decided to seek Steward Xue's help and flew down to a starry corridor to find his way through the city.
• Xue Feng waited outside the Illusory Land, where Outer and Inner City Disciples gathered to watch Bai Yi's trial and discuss his reputation.
• A young Inner City Disciple urged Xue Feng to begin the trial, but Xue Feng insisted on waiting for Bai Yi under the Eighth Elder's order.
• Bai Yi arrived on a beast cart driven by an old man from Wood Cloud Star, thanked Steward Xue for the directions, and watched Xue Feng give the driver a bottle of pills before sending him away.

Bai Yi entered Domain-Suppressing City's trial Secret Realm and effortlessly defeated the projections in the first five trials with single sword strikes. As the sixth trial began, the projection of a younger Xue Feng started to form before him.

• Xue Feng explained the trial rankings and opened the Secret Realm, while Inner City Disciples watched Bai Yi closely.
• Bai Yi entered the Secret Realm as the crowd focused on his projection.
• Bai Yi defeated the first two opponents with single sword strikes, shocking the watching Inner City Sword Cultivators.
• Bai Yi cleared the third, fourth, and fifth trials without using a sword technique or Sword Momentum.
• Bai Yi reached the sixth trial, where a younger version of Xue Feng began to appear.

Bai Yi defeated the young Xue Feng and then the young Ninth Elder in the illusory Secret Realm, revealing overwhelming Sword Dao talent and strength. The watching disciples were left stunned by his victory over the Ninth Elder’s Middle Golden Core projection.

• Bai Yi killed young Xue Feng’s projection with one sword, revealing Great Accomplishment-level Sword Momentum and shocking the watching disciples.
• Xue Feng reflected on the gulf between ordinary Inner City Disciples and the true prodigies of Domain-Suppressing City.
• The disciples debated whether Bai Yi could pass the eighth and legendary ninth trials as the seventh trial’s projection appeared.
• Bai Yi faced the young Ninth Elder, who attacked him with the Devouring Dao Art Devouring Void.
• Bai Yi broke through the Ninth Elder’s devouring techniques and killed him with a lightning-wreathed sword strike.
• The projection vanished, and the watching disciples reacted in disbelief that Bai Yi had so easily defeated the Ninth Elder at Middle Golden Core.

Bai Yi defeated the young Third Elder’s Late Golden Core projection in the eighth trial, overcoming his Withering and Flourishing Dao with the Sword Ruins technique. After completing the trial, Bai Yi was expelled from the Illusory Secret Realm and returned to Domain-Suppressing City.

• Bai Yi killed the young Ninth Elder’s projection with one sword, stunning the Inner City disciples who watched.
• Xue Feng silenced the disciples and stopped them from transmitting news during the trial.
• Bai Yi entered the eighth trial and faced the young Third Elder, whose flower blades combined Withering and Flourishing Dao with Blade Dao.
• Bai Yi shattered the Third Elder’s petal blade with his Sword Ruins and cleaved apart his withering-and-flourishing light wheel.
• Bai Yi pierced the young Third Elder’s chest, completed the eighth trial, and was expelled from the Illusory Secret Realm into Domain-Suppressing City.

Bai Yi passed the eighth level of the illusory Secret Realm, impressing the disciples and confirming his extraordinary potential. Xue Feng brought him to the Dao Realm Forest, where Lord Baiyu catalyzed a Dao Realm Tree seed for his cultivation.

• Bai Yi defeated the projections guarding the Secret Realm’s eighth level and returned to Xue Feng, while the watching disciples spread news of his feat.
• Xue Feng arranged for Nascent Soul True Lords to escort the new Outer City Disciples to their cultivation areas, then took Bai Yi to the Dao Realm Forest.
• Xue Feng explained that each Dao Realm Tree belonged to an Inner City Disciple and that the six largest trees housed the Six Sons.
• Xue Feng summoned Lord Baiyu, the Artifact Spirit of the Pure World Cloud-Birth Treasure Vase, and asked her to catalyze Bai Yi’s Dao Realm Tree seed.
• Lord Baiyu’s dew awakened the seed, which absorbed the Qi of the Highest Clarity and became a small Dao Realm sapling.

Bai Yi bonded with a Dao Realm Tree sapling as Xue Feng explained the brutal competition facing Inner City Disciples. Xue Feng gave Bai Yi a star and a vast mountain of Middle Grade Spirit Stones before departing, and Bai Yi entered his Dao Realm Tree to cultivate.

• Bai Yi merged his blood with the Dao Realm Tree sapling and learned that it contained a growing inner world nourished by spiritual energy.
• Xue Feng warned Bai Yi that after fifty years, disciples and the stars in their Dao Realm Trees would face dangerous competition.
• Xue Feng imprinted his Divine Sense on Bai Yi's Inner City Disciple token and merged a star from the Immortal Alliance into Bai Yi's Dao Realm Tree.
• Xue Feng gave Bai Yi a mountain range of Middle Grade Spirit Stones to nourish the star inside his Dao Realm Tree.
• Xue Feng left after giving Bai Yi information about Domain-Suppressing City, and Bai Yi entered his Dao Realm Tree.

Bai Yi returned to Blue Star and explained its situation to the Immortal Alliance researchers and disciples, who marveled at its new cultivation resources and committed to advancing their research and cultivation. After promising to help Blue Star develop over the next fifty years, Bai Yi left for the Heavenly Pavilion Hall in Domain-Suppressing City.

• Bai Yi arrived at Blue Star, where researchers examined a vast mountain range made of Middle Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zi Mochen and the other Direct Disciples discussed how Blue Star's improved spiritual energy could help them cultivate and possibly resolve Wei Luoqing's Dao Foundation problem.
• Bai Yi met Yu Wen and the researchers, then explained Blue Star's current situation and that they were inside a Dao Realm Tree sapling.
• Yu Wen promised to advance Blue Star's technology over the next fifty years, while the Direct Disciples vowed to cultivate and help Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi declined Yu Wen's invitation to visit the research institute and left for the Heavenly Pavilion Hall in Domain-Suppressing City.

Bai Yi traveled through Domain-Suppressing City and reflected on how its resources drew in cultivators and absorbed their Dao Domains. At Heavenly Pavilion Hall, Xu Changhong helped him claim the resources Xiang Kuang had left for him, including a Golden Flame Origin Sea and a Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool.

• Bai Yi observed the Chaos regions between Domain-Suppressing City's Inner and Outer Cities and realized how the city's resources bound cultivators and their Dao Domains to it.
• Bai Yi arrived at Heavenly Pavilion Hall to collect Xiang Kuang's gifts and seek cultivation and Sword Dao inheritances for the Immortal Alliance.
• Xu Changhong brought Bai Yi to the hall's Third Layer and sealed the Golden Flame Origin Sea into a Formation orb for him.
• Xu Changhong showed Bai Yi the Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool, explaining that Xiang Kuang had prepared it to improve aptitude and Root Bone and replenish a Body Refinement Cultivator's foundation.

Bai Yi collected the Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool and entered the repository’s inheritance halls, copying basic cultivation manuals and selecting sword arts. He found the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon, the Spirit Transformation inheritance Chen Fuye had urged him to seek.

• Xu Changhong gave Bai Yi the sealed Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool and explained that he could collect the remaining resources after reaching Nascent Soul.
• Bai Yi used his Inner City token to enter the repository’s inheritance hall and copied more than three hundred basic instructional inheritances.
• Bai Yi gathered a thousand Higher Vehicle Golden Core Sword Arts and selected two Higher Vehicle Nascent Soul Sword Arts.
• Bai Yi reached the Spirit Transformation inheritances, cut through a manifested Flood Dragon, and obtained its inheritance manual.
• Bai Yi found the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon and recalled Chen Fuye’s advice about his Sword Dao foundation.

Bai Yi obtained the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon to support his effort to forge an Eclosion Sword Foundation, then returned to Blue Star with more than three hundred cultivation inheritances for Yu Wen and the Golden Flame Origin Sea. He began cultivating amid the Golden Flames and brought out the Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool.

• Bai Yi used his Sword Momentum and [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation to claim the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon as an Inheritance Jade Talisman.
• Bai Yi collected his chosen inheritance manuals and left Heavenly Pavilion Hall, while Xu Changhong watched him depart and remarked that Domain-Suppressing City did not need another troublesome junior.
• Bai Yi found Yu Wen at the Blue Star research institute and gave him more than three hundred Inheritance Jade Talismans before vanishing.
• Bai Yi released the Golden Flame Origin Sea above Blue Star and told fellow disciples they could cultivate at its outer edge.
• Bai Yi sat amid the Golden Flames as his [Glorious Sun Crow] Dao Foundation manifested a Golden Crow, then released the Ten Thousand Demons Medicine Pool.