Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Forbidden Grounds, Bai Yi used the Dao-Comprehension Heartlight to rapidly cultivate the Great Void Pure Origin Art in Chen Fuye’s Courtyard. He perfected its seventh layer and planned to master several Nascent Soul sword techniques before attempting his next breakthrough.

• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye that he had gained much in the Forbidden Grounds and intended to spend time in Seclusion before returning to Domain-Suppressing City.
• Chen Fuye brought Bai Yi back to the Courtyard and said he needed time to recover from the Origin Sword Dao backlash.
• Bai Yi used the Dao-Comprehension Heartlight to study the Great Void Pure Origin Art and advanced through its layers while cultivating in the Courtyard.
• After half a year, Bai Yi perfected the seventh layer, condensed a wisp of Void Qi, and greatly increased the Origin Power in his Nascent Soul.
• Bai Yi decided to comprehend the Nascent Soul sword techniques tied to his three Spirit Transformation Sword Arts before attempting to break through.

The Heaven-Hearing Pavilion listed Bai Yi at 169th on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, recognizing his Golden Core achievement and extraordinary potential. Xiang Kuang negotiated with the Pavilion’s master over Wang Qinghua’s Supreme Yang Heart Essence and agreed to trade for it despite the steep price.

• The Heaven-Hearing Pavilion announced Bai Yi’s ranking as the first Golden Core Great Perfection cultivator to break the Hidden Dragon Ranking’s Nascent Soul restriction.
• The Pavilion’s master inscribed Bai Yi’s name on the ranking while Xiang Kuang argued that Bai Yi had already begun condensing a Nascent Soul.
• Xiang Kuang revealed that Wang Qinghua, a former Supreme Elder of the Three Immortals Sect, had pursued reincarnation through the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto and was connected to Yi Daoting’s rise.
• The Pavilion’s master said Domain-Suppressing City wanted Wang Qinghua’s Supreme Yang Heart Essence and demanded the Three Immortals Heaven-Descending Stele and Mortal World Equalizing Record in return.
• Xiang Kuang accepted the exchange on behalf of Domain-Suppressing City after the Pavilion’s master insisted it had no leverage to bargain.

Bai Yi’s battle against three Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators spread across Langyu Qingming Heaven after the Hidden Dragon Ranking recorded his Golden Core-level talent. As factions reacted to his fame and the coming Three Immortals Sect Peach Banquet, Blood River Venerable sought submission and Xu Changning fled toward the Outer Domain.

• The Heaven-Hearing Pavilion Master discussed Six-Celestial City’s fate and recognized that Bai Yi’s ranking would make his name resound across Langyu Qingming Heaven.
• The Hidden Dragon Ranking jade tokens spread the record of Bai Yi killing three Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators with three swords, astonishing the Many Treasures Pavilion disciples who watched it.
• Xu Leyang told the Many Treasures Pavilion disciples that Bai Yi came from a nascent Rogue Cultivator Dao Domain, and the scarred True Disciple urged them to challenge him at the upcoming Hidden Dragon Flat-Peach Gathering.
• Blood River Venerable panicked at Bai Yi’s rise and offered his plane-world and his submission to Sacred Demon Realm for protection.
• Xu Changning blamed the Four Realms Merchant Association for Fusheng Dao Domain’s danger, then fled toward the Outer Domain.

Bai Yi completed the three Nascent Soul Sword Arts and began comprehending the Spirit Transformation inheritances of the Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon and the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon. After advancing the latter to its third sword, he saw his Life-bound Flying Sword rise to Fourth Tier supreme-grade.

• Bai Yi mastered Myriad Void, completing all three Nascent Soul Sword Arts from the Spirit Transformation inheritances.
• Bai Yi used his Heartlights of Enlightenment to comprehend the Extreme Night Heaven-Slaying Sword Canon and manifested its Sky-Covering sword.
• Bai Yi began comprehending the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword Canon and discovered that its Benevolent King Sword amplified his Sword Qi, Dao Foundation, and Sword Dao Phantasm.
• Bai Yi spent a year advancing the Venerated King Myriad-Ages Sword to its third sword, leaving Chen Fuye amazed at his progress.
• Bai Yi's Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword absorbed his insights and Gilded Meteoric Iron, rising from Fourth Tier low-grade to Fourth Tier supreme-grade.

Bai Yi returned to Domain-Suppressing City after advancing his sword arts, while Chen Fuye hinted at the troubled history between himself and Xiang Kuang. The chapter ended with Xu Changhong confronting Xiang Kuang beneath the Imitation Fusang Spirit Tree about his Puppet Demon Corpse.

• Bai Yi accepted that his Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword could not yet break through to Fifth Tier and decided to strengthen his [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation with more Nascent Soul Sword Arts.
• Bai Yi met Chen Fuye, who praised his rapid progress and urged him to temper and consolidate his sword skills.
• Chen Fuye gave Bai Yi Xiang Kuang's Talisman Token and said Xiang Kuang had asked him to return to Domain-Suppressing City immediately.
• Bai Yi asked Chen Fuye about his past with Xiang Kuang, and Chen Fuye said Xiang Kuang had destroyed his limbs but also saved his life.
• Bai Yi set off for Domain-Suppressing City, where Xu Changhong confronted Xiang Kuang and asked when he had discovered the Puppet Demon Corpse.

Xiang Kuang killed the demonic cultivator disguised as 'Xu Changhong' and discovered that Bai Yi had returned with astonishingly rapid growth. He assigned the awakened Chi Dragon to guard Bai Yi as the upheaval rose again.

• 'Xu Changhong' used vengeful souls and a Blood-Origin Curse to attack Xiang Kuang, hoping to kill the last Golden Crow in Domain-Suppressing City.
• Xiang Kuang revealed his Golden Crow power, destroyed the vengeful souls, and melted 'Xu Changhong,' leaving only a Bone of Perdition, which Xiang Kuang crushed.
• Xiang Kuang spotted Bai Yi returning from the Heavenly Domain Corridor and was shaken by his disciple's rapid growth.
• Xiang Kuang woke the sleepy Chi Dragon with a punch and threatened to roast it.
• Xiang Kuang named the Chi Dragon Path-Guardian Spirit Beast of Bai Yi, the one hundred and ninety-third-generation Eldest Disciple of the Golden Crow Lineage.

Bai Yi traveled through Middle City’s Great Dao to meet Xiang Kuang at the Golden Crow Daoist Grounds, where the old Flood Dragon came to escort him. Bai Yi won the Flood Dragon over with Chocolate Ice Cream, and the Immortal Alliance’s first product began spreading through Domain-Suppressing City and Langyu Qingming Heaven.

• Bai Yi flew through the Star System Belt, where Outer City disciples and Rogue Cultivators recognized him and reacted to his reputation.
• The old Flood Dragon emerged from a spatial vortex and used his dragon might to intimidate the travelers, but Bai Yi broke through it and respectfully introduced himself.
• The old Flood Dragon hinted that Bai Yi should reward him for escorting him, so Bai Yi offered him Chocolate Ice Cream from the Immortal Alliance.
• The old Flood Dragon devoured the ice cream, praised its taste, and eagerly asked Bai Yi for more.
• The old Flood Dragon carried Bai Yi toward the Second Heaven Layer, while witnesses began spreading word of the Immortal Alliance’s Chocolate Ice Cream.

Bai Yi visited the Golden Crow Daoist Grounds, where Xiang Kuang praised his progress and gave him nine demon souls to refine after the Hidden Dragon Flat-Peach Gathering. Xiang Kuang explained that the Three Immortals Sect gathering could bring Bai Yi into conflict with Wang Qinghua, and Bai Yi resolved to attend despite the danger.

• The old chi-dragon brought Bai Yi to the Golden Crow Daoist Grounds beneath the Fusang Spirit Tree and demanded his ice cream.
• Xiang Kuang assessed Bai Yi's cultivation and gave him nine Crimson Yang Demon Souls, instructing him to refine them after the Peach Banquet.
• Xiang Kuang explained the origins of the Hidden Dragon Flat-Peach Gathering and said it could help Bai Yi build his Origin Power foundation.
• Xiang Kuang revealed that Wang Qinghua had stolen the Golden Crow Lineage's Supreme Yang Heart Essence and might target Bai Yi at the gathering.
• Bai Yi agreed to attend the gathering, saying he would face Wang Qinghua rather than retreat.

Bai Yi agreed to bring Old Chi Dragon as his protector to the Peach Banquet, where he would also travel with Ye Feiyun. Xiang Kuang and Fourth Elder revealed that Domain-Suppressing City could not be trusted and that Luo Fenghe’s lineage secretly guarded the Great Sun Golden Crow Lineage.

• Xiang Kuang assigned Old Chi Dragon to accompany Bai Yi to the Peach Banquet, and Bai Yi agreed to pay him three boxes of ice cream a month.
• Xiang Kuang gave Bai Yi the Peach Banquet invitation and told him the event would take place in half a month.
• Fourth Elder arrived with Ye Feiyun and recognized that Bai Yi had triggered the Gate to Ascension during his breakthrough to Nascent Soul.
• Xiang Kuang and Fourth Elder acknowledged that Bai Yi’s potential required the protection of the Golden Crow Lineage.
• Xiang Kuang told Bai Yi that Luo Fenghe’s All-Beings Unity Lineage secretly guarded the Great Sun Golden Crow Lineage and warned him to trust no other Domain-Suppressing City juniors at the Peach Banquet.

Bai Yi learned that Ye Feiyun, Luo Fenghe’s disciple and one of Domain-Suppressing City’s Six Sons, would accompany him to lure out an enemy. Ye Feiyun challenged Bai Yi to prove himself, but Bai Yi fought back with overwhelming sword techniques, and the duel continued as Ye Feiyun unleashed the Heaven and Earth Cosmic Spear.

• Xiang Kuang revealed that the Fourth Elder was his guardian, while Luo Fenghe said Bai Yi’s task was to lure an old enemy out and introduced Ye Feiyun as his companion.
• Ye Feiyun demanded that Bai Yi prove his strength, offering to suppress his cultivation to Nascent Soul Early Stage, but Bai Yi told him to remain at Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Ye Feiyun attacked with the Heaven and Earth Cosmic Spear, but Bai Yi’s Third Realm Sword Domain shattered the force of his strike.
• Bai Yi sent tens of thousands of Sword Dao Rosy Clouds at Ye Feiyun, who destroyed them with Heaven and Earth Cosmic Spear—Heaven Severing.
• Ye Feiyun grew serious and followed with Heaven and Earth Cosmic Spear—Heaven-Falling, merging his Nascent Soul Dharma Form with his spear.

Bai Yi fought Ye Feiyun, first suppressing him with the Benevolent King Sword before unleashing the Tyrant Sword. The duel ended with Bai Yi’s Azure Edge at Ye Feiyun’s neck, while Luo Fenghe realized Bai Yi’s extraordinary talent might come from two Dao Path Foundations.

• Bai Yi used the Sovereign King Myriad Ages Sword to break Ye Feiyun’s Spear Intent, but Ye Feiyun countered with Heaven and Earth Cosmic Spear-Blossoming Flowers.
• Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun clashed tens of thousands of times, and Bai Yi gradually gained the upper hand despite being at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Xiang Kuang praised Ye Feiyun’s spear talent, while Luo Fenghe marveled at Bai Yi’s deep Origin Power foundation and suspected his Saint Body had let him form two Dao Path Foundations.
• Bai Yi sent Ye Feiyun flying, spread his Sword Domain, and transformed the Benevolent King Sword’s Imperial Palace into a blood-soaked city as he unleashed the Tyrant Sword.
• Ye Feiyun released part of the seal on his bloodline power and met Bai Yi’s attack with his silver spear, but Bai Yi’s Azure Edge came to rest at his neck.

Bai Yi defeated Ye Feiyun, who pledged to guard the All-Beings Unity Lineage, and the two set out for the Three Immortals Sect’s Peach Banquet. As they learned its rules aboard the Spirit Treasure Ship, Bai Yi suspected the sect planned to use a participating prodigy as a vessel for Wang Qinghua.

• Ye Feiyun accepted Bai Yi as a disciple of the Main Lineage and vowed to protect the All-Beings Unity Lineage’s inheritance.
• Xiang Kuang gave Bai Yi protective treasures and sent him and Ye Feiyun toward the Three Immortals Sect; the Old Chi Dragon hurried after them.
• Aboard the Spirit Treasure Ship, Ye Feiyun explained that the Peach Banquet was held once every thousand years and involved gathering Flat Peaches and a contest for the gathered peaches.
• Ye Feiyun said conflicts during the search were permitted as long as no one found out, prompting Bai Yi to consider how the Three Immortals Sect could conceal disappearances.
• Bai Yi suspected Wang Qinghua would use one of the Peach Banquet’s prodigies as a temporary body.

Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun arrived in the Seeking Immortality Realm, where they encountered Yan Ming of Peerless City and Hua Fuyu. Yan Ming challenged Ye Feiyun, then recognized Bai Yi and recalled his master’s order to protect him at the Peach Banquet.

• Bai Yi accepted the risks that came with his growing reputation as a prodigy while traveling with Ye Feiyun.
• The Spirit Treasure Ship entered the Seeking Immortality Realm, and Ye Feiyun explained that they were in territory controlled by the Clear Spirit Immortal Sect.
• Yan Ming appeared aboard a fortress-like ship, mocked Ye Feiyun, and challenged him over his defeat in the Heavenly Realm of He Tian.
• Hua Fuyu arrived and recognized Bai Yi as Domain-Suppressing City's Seventh Son.
• Yan Ming recalled his master's instruction to keep an eye on Bai Yi and help him if he got into trouble.

Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun traveled to the Three Immortals Sect’s Flat Peach Secret Realm for the Peach Banquet, while Hua Fuyu received a secret order to capture Bai Yi alive. They reached the Upper Heavenly Palace as the gathering was announced.

• Yan Ming left after challenging Ye Feiyun to settle their score after the Peach Banquet, and Hua Fuyu departed for the secret realm.
• Hua Fuyu learned that the Pavilion had ordered her and Shangxie to capture Bai Yi alive, and she welcomed the prospect of pursuing him.
• Ye Feiyun explained Yan Ming and Hua Fuyu’s backgrounds to Bai Yi, who then steered their ship toward the Flat Peach Secret Realm.
• Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun passed through the Heavenly Domain Corridor, where cultivators watched their Domain-Suppressing City ship with awe and apprehension.
• After a day of travel, Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun reached the Three Immortals Sect’s guarded secret realm and saw the Upper Heavenly Palace.
• Ceremonial bells rang out, inviting the prodigies to gather at the Upper Heavenly Palace.

Yue Changqing gathered the top Nascent Soul prodigies of Langyu Qingming Heaven for an unusual Hidden Dragon Flat-Peach Gathering. He revealed that newly discovered ruins inside the secret realm might hold an inheritance accessible only to cultivators below Spirit Transformation, and invited the prodigies to investigate for a chance at rewards from the Three Immortals Sects.

• Yue Changqing appeared above the Heavenly Palace and drew the prodigies’ attention by presiding over the Peach Banquet.
• Bai Yi and his companion entered the Heavenly Palace, where the factions’ ships gathered and took their places.
• A sallow young man from the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto used a skeletal blood hand to shove aside a rival faction’s ship.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Grotto and the Demon Race’s two Sacred Lands claimed the front positions, while the other factions made way.
• Yue Changqing announced that an ancient power had revealed unknown ruins in the Heavenly Flat Peach Secret Realm and that cultivators below Spirit Transformation could enter them.
• Yue Changqing offered prodigies who made discoveries and contributed them a chance to become True Disciples of one of the Three Immortals Sects or study in their Scripture Pavilion.

Yue Changqing opened the Flat Peach Secret Realm and announced that a Great Power Ruins lay within, while Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun suspected the Three Immortals Sect had arranged events with absolute confidence. Before entering the realm, Bai Yi confronted Mo Pingyun of the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto and warned him that he would not spare his life if they met inside.

• Yue Changqing revealed the Great Power Ruins and opened the Flat Peach Secret Realm with an Immortal Decree.
• Proddies from ordinary Great Factions entered the Secret Realm first as the top factions waited outside.
• Mo Pingyun singled out Bai Yi and praised his talent while suggesting Domain-Suppressing City did not deserve him.
• Bai Yi rejected Mo Pingyun's offer, and the two exchanged threats about what would happen if they met in the Secret Realm.

Yue Changqing sealed the Flat Peach Secret Realm with a grand formation as Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun entered and found a Flat Peach Spiritual Root guarded by Dragon Scales Apes. Bai Yi chose to face the ape horde alone, and the Ape King appeared to confront him.

• Yue Changqing summoned formation elders and used the Heavenly Immortal Descending Dust Grand Formation to isolate the Flat Peach Secret Realm.
• Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun entered the realm and discovered that its three suns strengthened the life essence and blood qi of Body Refinement cultivators.
• Bai Yi and Ye Feiyun found a Flat Peach Spiritual Root guarded by Dragon Scales Apes, with two Flat Peaches remaining.
• Ye Feiyun offered to hold off the Ape King and its guards while Bai Yi took the peaches, but Bai Yi said he would fight alone.
• Bai Yi suppressed several attacking Dragon Scales Apes with Origin Power, and the Ape King emerged from the canopy.

Bai Yi fought the Dragon Scales Ape King and overcame its Savage Wilderness Totem with his sword techniques. He left the Ape King mortally wounded after exhausting its strength with a relentless storm of sword energy.

• Bai Yi split the Dragon Scales Apes’ Blood Qi attack and wounded a Guard Dragon Scales Ape that tried to shield the Ape King.
• The Dragon Scales Ape King sent its guards back, revealed its Savage Wilderness Totem, and attacked Bai Yi with overwhelming strength.
• Ye Feiyun recognized the Totem and prepared to intervene, but stopped in shock when Bai Yi met the Ape King’s punch with the Sovereign King Myriad Ages Sword.
• Bai Yi formed a Sword Domain and bombarded the Dragon Scales Ape King with Rosy Cloud Sword Rainbows for half an hour.
• When the Ape King’s Desolate aura faded and it exposed an opening, Bai Yi pierced its heart, neck, and head with three swords.

Bai Yi killed the Dragon Scales Ape King and harvested its remains and two Flat Peaches with the Old Chi Dragon’s help. Elsewhere, Liu Tianqi led Three Immortals Sect disciples to a fallen mountain and prepared to break the formation protecting a powerful expert’s ruins.

• Bai Yi killed the Dragon Scales Ape King, and the remaining Dragon Scales Apes fled.
• Bai Yi collected samples of the king’s flesh and stored its scales in his Storage Ring.
• The Old Chi Dragon traded a Spirit Marrow Jade knife to Bai Yi for Ice Cream, and Bai Yi used it to harvest and seal two Flat Peaches.
• Liu Tianqi led Junior Brother Ji and the other Three Immortals Sect True Disciples to the fallen mountain identified as the powerful expert’s ruins.
• Junior Brother Ji’s formation disc trembled near the mountain, and Liu Tianqi revealed a Formation-Breaking Nail entrusted to him by Uncle-Master Yue.

The Three Immortals Sect’s True Disciples followed murals hinting at an immortal’s ascension and broke into a hidden palace filled with Life-Origin Water. They found a Heavenly Pool and six Heart Pools, but failed to notice that blood-red threads were draining from them into the pools.

• The Three Immortals Sect’s True Disciples entered a corridor where Soul-Devouring Incense threatened their minds and discovered murals depicting an immortal ascending through a vast pool.
• The murals stirred the disciples’ hopes of finding a path to immortality, while Liu Tianqi watched their excitement with a faint sneer.
• Liu Tianqi used the Formation-Breaking Nail to destroy the sixth-tier formation sealing a stone door.
• Life-Origin Water poured from behind the door, and the disciples spent half a month absorbing it and strengthening themselves.
• The disciples entered a palace containing six Heart Pools and a central Heavenly Pool, believing they had found the means to become immortal.
• As the disciples gathered at the pools, unnoticed blood-red threads flowed from their bodies into the Heart Pools.