Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi and Feng Weiyi were caught in an ambush on the Medicine Garden star, where Yi Daoting cultivators trapped the Spirit Transformation Attendants in a grand formation. As four Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators attacked Bai Yi, he revealed the power of his Golden Core and Azure Edge and killed their leader with one sword strike.

• The Spirit Transformation Attendants searched the Medicine Garden star, and Daoist Qin’s attack exposed a hidden Demonic Cultivator in the mountain range.
• Two Yi Daoting cultivators activated the Soul-Extinguishing Heaven-Covering Formation, trapping the seven attendants while the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto cultivator attacked Bai Yi and Feng Weiyi.
• Feng Weiyi used a preserved wisp of Sacred Yang Divine Charm to resist the demonic cultivator’s attack.
• Four Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators charged Bai Yi, who manifested his Sword Dao and thirty-five-pattern Golden Core.
• Bai Yi unleashed the first form of the King-Sealing Sole-Supremacy Sword Records and cleaved the leading Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator’s body and Dharma Form apart.

Bai Yi killed the remaining demonic Nascent Soul cultivators and unleashed a devastating sword strike that shattered the formation trapping the Domain-Suppressing City cultivators. The freed Spirit Transformation Attendants joined the battle against the two Yi Daoting cultivators as a Void Storm engulfed the area.

• Yun Taiji witnessed Bai Yi's sword strike and realized the extent of his cultivation, then resolved to seize the secret behind his rapid progress.
• Bai Yi pursued and killed the three fleeing Middle Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators, collecting their Demonic Nascent Souls.
• Bai Yi searched the void for the source of the malice he sensed, found nothing, and saw that Feng Weiyi was struggling against the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto Spirit Transformation Demon Venerable.
• Bai Yi struck the formation holding two Yi Daoting Spirit Transformation cultivators, using his thirty-six Core Patterns and sword arts to break its gray-mist defenses.
• The seven freed Spirit Transformation Attendants appeared beside Bai Yi and attacked the Yi Daoting cultivators, while their leader bound the sky with Great Dao Vines and the clash unleashed a Void Storm.

Bai Yi and the others witnessed the Linnan Kingdom Holy Emperor Yun Tian'ao defeat the attackers and reveal a wider conflict involving Yi Daoting and the Desolate Realm. Yun Tian'ao gave Bai Yi incense-tempered Gilded Meteoric Iron, and Bai Yi resolved to grow stronger while seeking answers.

• Two attackers recognized Bai Yi's ultimate Golden Core and crushed a jade Gu Worm, causing the Spirit Transformation Demon Venerable to die and his Nascent Soul to be consumed by a shadow.
• The attackers tried to escape, but Yun Tian'ao appeared through an Incense and Fire Prayer Power incarnation and dragged them back from the void.
• Yun Tian'ao crushed the attackers' Dao Bodies, extracted their Nascent Souls, and burned them in incense flames.
• Yun Tian'ao recognized Bai Yi's sword canon and gave him incense-tempered Gilded Meteoric Iron as an apology for the ambush.
• Bai Yi accepted the treasure, decided to break through to Nascent Soul soon, and wondered about Yi Daoting, the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto, and the Desolate Realm.

Bai Yi returned from the Medicine Garden Star mission after revealing his Thirty-Six Core Patterns and Sword Domain, earning the respect and contact tokens of seven Domain-Suppressing City Attendants. Yun Taiji recognized Bai Yi as a dangerous rising prodigy, while Bai Yi summoned Xue Feng to discuss the uncertain situation.

• Bai Yi thanked Feng Weiyi for holding off the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto Demonic Cultivator and asked the seven Attendants to collect the Medicine Garden Star.
• The seven Attendants gave Bai Yi their imprint tokens after witnessing him kill a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, and the leading old man collected the star.
• Yun Taiji and the Blurred Shadow appeared after Bai Yi left, and Yun Taiji struggled to control his reaction to Bai Yi's Thirty-Six Core Patterns.
• Yun Taiji predicted that Langyu Qingming Heaven would soon be stirred by Bai Yi's emergence and worried about Domain-Suppressing City's future.
• Bai Yi activated the imprint token Xue Feng had left him, and Xue Feng appeared with a bright smile.

Bai Yi and Xue Feng suspected Yi Daoting had targeted Bai Yi and discussed the group’s possible infiltration of Domain-Suppressing City. After secretly reporting the danger to Lu Yuntang, Bai Yi spent his mission rewards and went with Feng Weiyi to the Heavenly Pavilion Hall, where Xu Changhong showed them resources.

• Bai Yi told Xue Feng about the Yi Daoting ambush, and Xue Feng reasoned that Bai Yi, rather than Yun Taiji, had likely been the target.
• Xue Feng explained how Yi Daoting had lured Lu Yunsheng to the Forbidden Grounds and caused his death, convincing Bai Yi that Lu Yuntang would not have betrayed him.
• Bai Yi suspected the ambush had served another purpose and considered whether Xu Changhong might be involved, while Xue Feng resolved to inform Lu Yuntang in secret.
• Bai Yi handed over eight-tenths of his mission resources to Lu Yuntang, received mission points, and then set out with Feng Weiyi for the Heavenly Pavilion Hall.
• Xu Changhong remarked on Bai Yi’s progress to Golden Core Great Perfection, then led the group into the Main Hall and displayed images of available resources.

Bai Yi exchanged for treasures to aid his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, then used Chen Fuye’s sword talisman to travel to him. Chen Fuye welcomed him with restorative tea after sensing Bai Yi’s Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation and Sword Dao aura.

• Xu Changhong helped Bai Yi exchange task points for Rising Five Pure Rosy Clouds and Black Cloud Stone Stalactite, while secretly recognizing Bai Yi as a valuable target for the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto.
• Bai Yi remained uncertain about Xu Changhong and returned to the Spacetime Corridor after sending resource stars to Feng Weiyi for Blue Star.
• Bai Yi opened a Heavenly Domain Corridor toward the southern Six-Celestial Realm and crushed Chen Fuye’s purple-black sword talisman.
• Chen Fuye sensed the talisman activate and prepared tea while waiting for Bai Yi to arrive.
• Chen Fuye’s Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Qi brought Bai Yi to the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, where Chen Fuye told him to drink tea and rest.

Bai Yi recovered from the sword talisman with Chen Fuye’s rare tea, then revealed he had reached the Sword Domain’s rudiments and formed a Golden Core with Thirty-Six Core Patterns. Chen Fuye warned him that Yi Daoting had targeted him and explained the group’s origins in the Desolate Realm, leaving Bai Yi aware that the faction remained a powerful threat.

• Bai Yi praised the Frost-Sky Ice-Soul Tea, and Chen Fuye refused to let him drink more than one cup.
• Bai Yi showed Chen Fuye his Sword Domain progress and Perfectly Round Golden Core with Thirty-Six Core Patterns, astonishing his master.
• Chen Fuye warned Bai Yi to beware of Yi Daoting after hearing about the ambush, and said the group had long pursued Sacred Body Prodigies.
• Chen Fuye explained that the Ancient Desolate Clan had arrived from the Desolate Realm more than a hundred thousand years earlier and fought Langyu Qingming Heaven for ten thousand years.
• Chen Fuye said Yi Daoting had spread Desolate Realm bloodline-refining methods during the Mahayana Sages’ recovery, was later badly weakened, and had since grown into a powerful faction among Rogue Cultivators.

Bai Yi told Chen Fuye that he wanted to establish his Golden Core foundation with thirty-six pure Sword Dao Core Patterns before breaking through to Nascent Soul, and Chen Fuye tested him in a sword duel. With Dao-Comprehension Luminescence and firsthand experience, Bai Yi rapidly learned to wield his Sword Domain and ultimately reproduced Chen Fuye’s No Night strike on his own.

• Chen Fuye explained that the top Great Factions treated the lesser factions as pieces and said Six-Celestial City would likely offer Bai Yi some protection.
• After hearing about Domain-Suppressing City’s tensions over the Six Sons, Chen Fuye criticized its leaders and praised Bai Yi’s talent.
• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye he intended to lay the foundation of his Golden Core with thirty-six pure Sword Dao Core Patterns and then break through to Nascent Soul.
• Chen Fuye challenged Bai Yi to a sword duel and guided him as they fought with their Sword Domains.
• Bai Yi quickly learned to direct Sword Qi through his Sword Domain, impressing Chen Fuye and pressuring him with the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword.
• As his Dao-Comprehension Luminescence ran out, Bai Yi grasped Chen Fuye’s No Night technique and independently unleashed a piercing, pitch-black sword strike.

Bai Yi broke through the limits of the Golden Core with thirty-six pure Sword Dao Core Patterns and drew forth the Sword Dao Origin. As his Nascent Soul tribulation began beneath million-mile clouds, he flew up to meet Heaven’s punishment with his sword.

• Bai Yi expanded his Sword Domain to a hundred thousand meters and used thirteen pure Sword Dao Core Patterns to replace the thirty-six True Essence Core Patterns around his Golden Core.
• Bai Yi drew forth the Sword Dao Origin, which reshaped his Golden Core into a gathering of sharp edges before its final strand of Sword Light entered the core.
• Chen Fuye reached for the Sword Dao Origin, but its power shattered his Divine Sense and wounded him, even as he continued trying to comprehend it.
• Bai Yi’s Golden Core reached its limit, and the force of his breakthrough summoned tribulation clouds covering a million miles of sky.
• Bai Yi declared he would strike the first sword of the Sword Cultivators’ path and flew upward with the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword to face the Heavenly Punishment Thunder.

Bai Yi faced the Nascent Soul tribulation and cut down its increasingly powerful lightning, including several Crimson Refining Tribulations. The seventh bolt began gathering into Purple Extreme Yang Thunder, which Chen Fuye recognized as a final tribulation he himself had endured.

• Bai Yi destroyed the first three bolts of Heavenly Punishment Thunder with his sword techniques and foundations.
• The fourth bolt transformed into Crimson Refining Thunder, astonishing Chen Fuye, who recognized it as a variant tribulation that usually came only after nine ordinary bolts.
• Bai Yi used the Sword Ruins and the Sword Dao River to sever the fourth Crimson Refining Tribulation, then cut down the fifth and sixth as well.
• The tribulation clouds gathered violet lightning for the seventh bolt, and Chen Fuye identified it as Purple Extreme Yang Thunder.

Bai Yi endured the Purple Extreme Yang Thunder with ease, then confronted the Annihilation Divine Thunder as his three Dao Foundations fused into Chaos True Essence. He destroyed the Thunder Pool, and his Golden Core cracked as it absorbed the Sword Dao Core Patterns and Thunderstone.

• Bai Yi formed a Kingly Sword and shattered the first Purple Extreme Yang Thunder bolt with a single strike.
• Bai Yi flew into the Tribulation Clouds, cut apart the following bolts, and drew heavenly-punishment aura into his Golden Core while Chen Fuye watched in disbelief.
• The Thunder Pool filled with gray aura and manifested Annihilation Divine Thunder, which annihilated Bai Yi’s extended Divine Sense.
• Bai Yi consumed the prepared medicines and manifested his Profound Void Sword, Glorious Sun Crow, and Extreme Heaven Demon Dao Foundations as the Annihilation Divine Thunder tempered them into Chaos True Essence.
• Bai Yi’s thirty-six Sword Dao Core Patterns became swords, and he used them to cleave through the Annihilation Divine Thunder and destroy the Thunder Pool.
• The shattered Thunder Pool’s Thunderstone sank into Bai Yi’s Golden Core, which developed a crack and swallowed the Thunderstone and all thirty-six Sword Dao Core Patterns.

Bai Yi broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming the Immortal Alliance's first Nascent Soul Sword Lord after manifesting five Nascent Soul Phenomena. The Gate to Ascension stirred ancient powers, and a skeletal old man awakened, believing he still had a chance at life.

• Bai Yi's Golden Core shattered, and a sword-wielding Nascent Soul emerged with an Azure Edge.
• Bai Yi's Ten Thousand Swords Paying Homage phenomenon expanded his Sword Domain to Minor Accomplishment in the Third Realm.
• Bai Yi transformed his True Essence into Nascent Soul Power in two days and reached the Nascent Soul Realm at age thirty-six.
• Chen Fuye recognized Bai Yi's five Nascent Soul Phenomena and feared that ancient figures had awakened.
• A skeletal old man climbed from his coffin on Chongxian Star Land after sensing the Gate to Ascension.

The Three Immortals Sect’s awakened Lord Ancestor ordered its sect masters to deliver the nearly completed Myriad Dragon Pill, warning them not to disrupt the sect’s long-laid plan. After reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, Bai Yi chose to venture to the edge of the Sunken Forbidden Grounds to train and awaken the Dao-Deriving Mirror, and Chen Fuye gave him a map and a sword talisman before sending him off.

• The Three Immortals Sect’s Lord Ancestor learned that Changheng had reached the late Mahayana stage and ordered the three sect masters to bring him the Myriad Dragon Pill once it was complete.
• Bai Yi reached the Nascent Soul Realm after his tribulation, and the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword rejoiced as he promised to remake its sword body.
• Chen Fuye praised Bai Yi for triggering five Nascent Soul manifestations, including the Sea of Chaos and the Gate to Ascension.
• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye he wanted to temper his Sword Dao in the Sunken Forbidden Grounds and hunt Otherworldly Demons to strengthen his cultivation and awaken the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Chen Fuye gave Bai Yi a map of the Forbidden Grounds’ edge and a sword talisman that would return him to safety if he faced danger.

Bai Yi entered the Sunken Forbidden Grounds and used his Personal Terminal to locate a place where Otherworldly Demons appeared frequently. He killed dozens of Golden Core demons and a Nascent Soul Middle Stage demon, then captured its demon soul.

• Bai Yi crossed into the Sunken Forbidden Grounds and found that its Black Tide Mistwater greatly suppressed his Divine Sense.
• Bai Yi scanned Chen Fuye's map with his Personal Terminal, pinpointed his location, and marked an area where Otherworldly Demons appeared often.
• Bai Yi traveled to a valley where dozens of Golden Core Otherworldly Demons gathered beneath a mountain sheltering a Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon.
• Bai Yi killed the Golden Core Otherworldly Demons with a strand of Sword Qi.
• Bai Yi killed the Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demon with a Sword Rainbow, captured its demon soul, and collected the demons' Soul Crystals.

Bai Yi gathered Dao-Comprehension Luminescence by refining Soul Crystals and Demonic Souls, then spent three months clearing Otherworldly Demons from the Sunken Forbidden Grounds’ outer regions. He set out toward an unexplored side hall of the Martial Saint Dao Palace, prepared to retreat if the danger became too great.

• Bai Yi refined Soul Crystals and a Nascent Soul Demonic Soul, adding more Dao-Comprehension Luminescence and strengthening his Living Soul’s aptitude.
• Bai Yi followed Chen Fuye’s map through the outer regions, killing groups of Otherworldly Demons and collecting their Soul Crystals and Demonic Souls.
• After three months, Bai Yi had gathered nearly nine hundred streams of Dao-Comprehension Luminescence and cleared all the marked outermost regions.
• Bai Yi identified his next target as an unexplored side hall of the Martial Saint Dao Palace deep within the Sunken Forbidden Grounds and considered the danger of entering.
• Bai Yi collected flesh and blood cells from several Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demons, then rode his sword toward the Martial Saint Dao Palace ruins.

Bai Yi escaped a Voidnight Magic Beast and reached the ruins of a side hall in the Martial Saint Dao Palace, where he found a massive flower bud that drew in and devoured Otherworldly Demons. He decided to exploit its pull to gather demons and Soul Crystals, while carefully keeping the bud from claiming too much prey.

• Bai Yi fought off the Voidnight Magic Beast’s devouring force with the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword and Ten Thousand Mountains Bell, then escaped into the void.
• After resting and confirming the beast had left, Bai Yi flew for several days toward the ruins of a side hall in the Martial Saint Dao Palace.
• Bai Yi discovered a vast black flower bud that drew Otherworldly Demons toward it and consumed them with its roots, even bewitching Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demons.
• Bai Yi named the flower bud Working Folk Money-Making Flower and used the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword to kill hundreds of low-level Otherworldly Demons drawn to it.
• Bai Yi kept the flower bud from swallowing one demon, gathered the resulting Soul Crystals, and gained three hundred streaks of Dao-Comprehension Luminescence.

Bai Yi harvested Dao-Comprehension Luminescences from the demons drawn to the strange flower bud, then fled when it began to open. Two Spirit Transformation elders arrived seeking the Martial Saint Dao Palace’s True Intention, but their attack forced a black skeletal creature to emerge from the bud.

• The flower bud spread pollen that controlled Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demons, and Bai Yi killed them, refined their Soul Crystals, and strengthened his Nascent Soul with their Living Soul energy.
• Bai Yi fed a few low-level Otherworldly Demons to the bud’s vines, then fled as the bud writhed and began splitting open.
• Two Spirit Transformation elders followed the pollen to the ruins of the Martial Saint Side Hall and decided to seize its Martial Saint True Intention to extend their lives.
• The elders attacked the half-open flower bud with their Bamboo Forest and Azure Sea domains, causing a black skeleton covered in writhing flesh to pull itself out.

A bizarre figure revived from a seed in the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, revealed as the Bloodred Venerable, and devoured two Spirit Transformation elders before retreating into the depths. Bai Yi then traced a faint voice about Martial Saint True Intention to the Martial Saint Dao Palace’s side hall, where he found a bronze Martial Saint statue among the ruins.

• The ink-jade skeleton broke through to Spirit Transformation and devoured the Azure Water elder and the Bamboo Dao elder, who recognized it as the Bloodred Venerable of the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto.
• After consuming the elders, the Bloodred Venerable’s body collapsed back into a patterned seed and drifted deeper into the Sunken Forbidden Grounds.
• Bai Yi watched the battle through the Terminal and considered the other mysteries connected to the Forbidden Grounds, including the Otherworldly Demons and Chen Fuye.
• Bai Yi replayed the recording and heard the elders mention Martial Saint True Intention in the Martial Saint Dao Palace’s side hall.
• Bai Yi confirmed the Bloodred Venerable had gone into the depths, then flew to the side hall and found a hundred-meter bronze Martial Saint statue amid the ruins.

Bai Yi absorbed the Martial Saint True Intention in the Martial Saint Dao Palace, transforming the Dao-Deriving Mirror and unlocking Myriad Dao Return to the Heart while greatly strengthening his Divine Sense. After leaving the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, he sensed something at Chen Fuye’s cliffside Courtyard.

• Bai Yi’s Divine Sense was attacked by the statue’s Martial Saint True Intention, but the Dao-Deriving Mirror absorbed it and transformed.
• The Dao-Deriving Mirror unlocked Myriad Dao Return to the Heart, which could derive cultivation manuals and secret arts but required one hundred Dao-Comprehension Heartlights to activate for a week.
• Bai Yi ignited a Divine Sense Flame, nearly doubling his Divine Sense range, and found that Dao-Comprehension Heartlight slowly strengthened his Divine Sense.
• Bai Yi searched the collapsed side hall, collected several Martial Dao Inheritance Jade Talismans, and flew toward Chen Fuye’s Courtyard.
• Half a month later, Bai Yi emerged from the Sunken Forbidden Grounds with his Divine Sense extending more than twelve million li, then sensed something near Chen Fuye’s Courtyard.

Chen Fuye unleashed the Origin Sword Dao but suffered severe backlash, and Bai Yi saved him before he could give up on living. Bai Yi convinced Chen Fuye that future biotechnology could restore his limbs, leaving him determined to survive at least another fifty years.

• Chen Fuye's Origin Sword Dao strike collapsed, severing his connection to the Heaven and Earth Origin and sending him falling.
• Bai Yi caught Chen Fuye and used the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword to draw the backlash Sword Qi from his body.
• Chen Fuye accepted that his Dao Path had ended and offered Bai Yi the No Night Sky-Covering Sword as his final gift.
• Bai Yi showed Chen Fuye a mechanical exoskeleton and promised that biotechnology might rebuild his limbs in fifty years.
• Chen Fuye regained his will to live and worked with Bai Yi for a month to expel the backlash Sword Qi.
• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye that Blue Star's technology needed at least fifty more years, and Chen Fuye resolved to endure the wait.