Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi defeated Hua Ming on the Dharma Combat Arena with three swords, revealing that he had reached Qi Refining Fifth Layer and comprehended Dao Resonance in the White Rainbow Sword Art. After Hua Ming left in shock and defeat, the crowd hailed Bai Yi as No. 2 Middle School’s number-one genius.

• Bai Yi cleaved Hua Ming’s Flame Swarm sea of flames with Azure Edge, shocking the watching students with his sword power and newly advanced cultivation.
• Hua Ming used the Magnetic-Light Crimson Fire Talisman Register to create three Azure Flame Talismans and tried to trap Azure Edge in their flames.
• Bai Yi dodged the Azure Flame Firebirds, then drew Questioning the Heart and unleashed the White Rainbow Sword Art, extinguishing the flames and stopping his sword at Hua Ming’s neck.
• Hua Ming recognized Bai Yi’s White Rainbow Sword Art and left the stage dejected, while the students marveled that Bai Yi had defeated him in three swords.
• Zhang Xingming wondered how many of Bai Yi’s strikes his Vajra Body could withstand, and Guo Qingqing answered that he could block two.

After defeating Hua Ming, Bai Yi decided to enter the dangerous Blue Mountain Secret Realm despite his mother’s fears, and his father supported his choice. He tried on the advanced Dao Robe and boots gifted by the Old Principal, then continued nurturing the Heart-Questioning Sword as he prepared for the path ahead.

• Bai Yi collected two bottles of Qi-Nourishing Pills from his victory over Hua Ming, while Zhang Xingming took Guo Qingqing away rather than challenge him.
• On the subway, Bai Yi resolved to enter one of the Four Academies and Ten Palaces and appreciated the expensive equipment the Old Principal had given him.
• Bai Yi told Li Qing that he intended to enter the Blue Mountain Secret Realm, and she objected because of its dangers.
• Bai Yi promised that he wanted to reach the peak of cultivation and keep his family together forever, and Bai Guoshan urged Li Qing to support their son’s path.
• Bai Yi activated the nanoparticle Dao Robe and boots, selected their appearances, and tested their functions.
• Bai Yi connected his Divine Sense to the Heart-Questioning Sword and saw that its nurturing progress had reached 26%.

Bai Yi finished nurturing the Heart-Questioning Sword and prepared to enter the Blue Mountain Secret Realm. After saying goodbye to his parents, he traveled to the Secret Realm Office, where he registered while drawing the attention of the heavily equipped Rogue Cultivators around him.

• Bai Yi completed the Heart-Questioning Sword's nurturing and tested its faster, sharper sword light.
• Bai Yi told Bai Guoshan he was ready to leave, and Li Qing gave him pills and transferred 150,000 Spirit Value.
• Bai Yi left home and rode the Magnetic-Rail Subway to North New District in Lanshan City.
• Bai Yi observed the powerful, technologically equipped Rogue Cultivators gathered near the Blue Mountain Secret Realm Office.
• Bai Yi entered the office, waited in line, and swiped his Terminal at the registration window.

Bai Yi registered to enter Blue Mountain Secret Realm, bought two Divine Sense-linked scouting drones and supplies, and entered despite the staff member’s warning. He arrived in the realm and immediately killed a Green Venom Python with his Azure Edge Sword.

• Bai Yi registered for a one-month visit to Blue Mountain Secret Realm and paid the fee.
• Bai Yi bought two Shadowless S-8 drones and tested how they extended his Divine Sense range.
• Bai Yi purchased detoxifying medicine, other essentials, and a map before joining the line at the Secret Realm entrance.
• Bai Yi entered the Spatial Vortex and arrived in Blue Mountain Secret Realm.
• Bai Yi killed a Green Venom Python with a strike from his Azure Edge Sword.

Bai Yi discovered that the Dao-Deriving Mirror could absorb Life Essence from Demon Cores and hunted demonic beasts to nourish it as he traveled toward Flying Stone Peak. After a week, he had crossed more than three hundred kilometers, killed nearly sixty beasts, and gathered valuable spirit plants.

• Bai Yi extracted Life Essence from the Green-Scaled Venom Python's Demon Core and found that the Dao-Deriving Mirror could absorb it.
• Bai Yi covered his face with his Nanoparticle Dao Robe and entered the Dimly Lit Forest, killing demonic beasts and absorbing their Demon Cores.
• Bai Yi killed a Black-Cloud Wolf Ape and absorbed its Demon Core, which nourished the mirror as much as four Third-Layer Demon Cores.
• Bai Yi reached the foot of Flying Stone Peak and collected a White Jade Grass worth ten thousand Spirit Value.
• Bai Yi reflected on his week-long journey, during which he had traveled over three hundred kilometers, killed nearly sixty demonic beasts, and gathered spirit plants.

Bai Yi detected a Rogue Cultivator squad fighting a Late Qi Refining Vajra Crocodile Turtle guarding a huge Vajra Crystal and flew to intervene. After rescuing the survivors with a sword strike, he ordered them to restrain the beast while he prepared to fight.

• Bai Yi spotted a Vajra Crocodile Turtle attacking Rogue Cultivators at an abandoned Vajra Crystal mining site and flew toward them after seeing the large crystal behind it.
• Guo Lin and the squad used a Thunderclap Talisman, a cannon, grenades, and a chain artifact against the beast, but it broke free and killed the gaunt man.
• The Vajra Crocodile Turtle unleashed a storm of Demon Qi, sand, and rocks that engulfed Guo Lin and the two survivors.
• Bai Yi arrived and cut through the tornado and earth spikes with his sword, saving the three Rogue Cultivators.
• Bai Yi ordered Guo Lin and the survivors to keep the Vajra Crocodile Turtle restrained for thirty seconds, and they took pills and attacked again.

Bai Yi fought the Vajra Crocodile Turtle with help from Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple, using the Heart-Questioning Sword to wound it and then strike its shell with Dao Resonance. He cracked the shell but was injured by the impact, while the turtle remained alive.

• The Vajra Crocodile Turtle unleashed Demon Qi Pellets, and Bai Yi cut through them with the Heart-Questioning Sword as Guo Lin and the others tried to hold it back.
• Guo Lin used Electronic Thunderclap Talismans and a Thunder Net Artifact to restrain the turtle while Bai Yi drove a Sword Gang into its neck and pierced its scales.
• The turtle blasted Bai Yi away with Raging Sand, damaging his sword's internal Divine Sense and leaving him coughing blood, but he steadied the Heart-Questioning Sword and attacked again.
• Bai Yi told Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple to hold the turtle for five seconds while he used his full strength to shake its shell.
• Bai Yi struck the turtle's sealed shell with a Dao Resonance sword strike, cracking the ground and the shell, but the impact left him pale and bleeding.
• Bai Yi took a Qi-Replenishing Pill and a Qi-Blood Pill as onlookers marveled that he had cracked the shell of a Vajra Crocodile Turtle with one strike.

Bai Yi and three Rogue Cultivators killed a Late Qi Refining Vajra Crocodile Turtle, and Bai Yi claimed its Demon Core, Vajra Crystal, and shell while leaving the other materials to the survivors. After Bai Yi left to recover, Guo Lin decided to abandon cultivation and take the turtle’s head home to show his family.

• Guo Lin and the middle-aged couple restrained and attacked the Vajra Crocodile Turtle while Bai Yi gathered power for another sword strike.
• Bai Yi used the Heart-Questioning Sword, empowered by two Dao Resonances, to cut through the turtle’s defenses and sever its head.
• Bai Yi retrieved the Demon Core and freed the heavy Vajra Crystal, then offered the remaining materials to Guo Lin and the couple.
• Bai Yi took the turtle’s shell and left to find a hidden place to heal, while the three survivors gathered the remaining materials.
• Guo Lin told the couple to send the team’s money to Old Yang’s family and said he would take the turtle’s head home to boast to his daughter and future grandchildren.

After recovering from the fight with the Vajra Crocodile Turtle, Bai Yi perfected the Minor Five Elements Art and used the beast’s remains to nurture an Enlightenment Glimmer. He discovered a Vajra Crystal Core, then began using the glimmer to further comprehend the White Rainbow Sword Art.

• Bai Yi healed his damaged meridians and discovered that the Minor Five Elements Art had reached perfection, greatly improving his cultivation and pill-refining speed.
• Bai Yi used the Vajra Crocodile Turtle’s Demon Core to form an Enlightenment Glimmer, then absorbed the rest of its Life Essence.
• Bai Yi absorbed the Vajra Crystal’s Spiritual Resonance and uncovered a valuable Vajra Crystal Core, which he decided to save.
• Bai Yi activated the Enlightenment Glimmer and entered a sea of clouds, where a hazy figure demonstrated the White Rainbow Sword Art with a sword of cloud.

Bai Yi mastered the Sword Dao technique Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow after a black leopard’s roar helped him understand how to control the swordlight. As he set out for more Spirit Ore areas, he spotted an evil cultivator extracting Guo Lin’s soul and rushed to intervene.

• Bai Yi’s attempt to compress Sword Qi into rainbow light destroyed his cave, but he realized that releasing the Sword Qi while restraining its circulation could complete the technique.
• Bai Yi used the two flying swords to kill a black leopard and confirmed that he had mastered Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow.
• Bai Yi buried the leopard, then used his Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to search for two more Spirit Ore areas on Flying Stone Peak.
• Bai Yi saw an evil cultivator drain Guo Lin and two others, then extract Guo Lin’s soul into a green bottle.
• Bai Yi left the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle behind and raced toward the evil cultivator, who looked up as a swordlight descended toward him.

Bai Yi defeated a Soul-Refining Sect cultivator who had infiltrated the Blue Mountain Secret Realm and forced him to reveal why he was there. The captive disclosed that Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect had joined forces to search a Foundation Establishment Realm demonic cultivator’s cave abode on Huanggu Peak.

• The gloomy man used ghost-shadows, a Yin Corpse, and blood mist to defend himself and flee from Bai Yi’s sword light.
• Bai Yi destroyed the Blood-Colored Skull, caught up with the fleeing man, and crippled him and his Yin Corpse.
• The gloomy man realized Bai Yi was only at Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and Bai Yi demanded to know how he had entered the Secret Realm.
• The gloomy man said the Soul-Refining Sect used Blood Pills to disguise cultivators’ information and bypass the Secret Realm’s inspection.
• The gloomy man revealed that Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect had sent more than a dozen people to Huanggu Peak, led by a Blood Demon Sect cultivator at Qi Refining Seventh Layer.

Bai Yi killed the gloomy demonic cultivator, disguised himself, and traveled to Huangshi Peak after learning of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's estate. He suspected the demonic cultivators had spread the news to lure Rogue Cultivators, but a sudden treasure light sent the gathered crowd rushing up the mountain.

• Bai Yi killed the gloomy man, took his Bone Staff and coffin, and concluded the man's claim about an estate was probably true despite his lies about the demonic cultivators.
• Bai Yi copied the gloomy man's gray robe, buried Guo Lin and the two others, and headed toward Huanggu Peak.
• Four days later, Bai Yi reached Huangshi Peak, where Rogue Cultivators had gathered after hearing rumors of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's estate.
• Lin Cheng's group mistook the hooded Bai Yi for an Academy Dao Student and discussed his apparent Signal-Blocking Function after he passed them.
• Bai Yi suspected demonic cultivators had spread the estate rumor to lure the crowd, but a light rose from Huangshi Peak and the Rogue Cultivators hurried toward it.

Bai Yi followed the cultivators to a cliff where an illusion of Vermilion Fruits concealed a blood formation and a Demon Sect ambush. He hid as the attackers slaughtered the cultivators, and the two sect leaders prepared to use the victims’ essence blood and souls to open a Demon Sect residence.

• Bai Yi noticed gray-robed rogue cultivators gathering among the crowd and suspected they had entered the Blue Mountain Secret Realm with sect tokens.
• Cultivators rushed toward an apparent Vermilion Fruit tree, but Liu Niu’s strike exposed a corpse and triggered a blood formation that trapped and devoured more than a hundred people.
• Bai Yi hid in a mountainside crevice while rogue cultivators attacked the squads outside the formation with Yin Corpses, ghostly shadows, and blood arts.
• An old Yinshan Sect man and an old Blood Demon Sect man revealed themselves, and the Yinshan Sect man’s Eighth Layer Qi Refining strength overwhelmed the remaining defenders.
• The Yinshan Sect man collected the victims’ essence blood and souls in a purple bottle, while he and the Blood Demon Sect man discussed using them to open the residence and share its contents.

The Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect cultivators entered the cave abode after binding its Corpse Remains, while Bai Yi killed the guards outside and prepared to release it. He shattered the restraints, leaving the Corpse Remains poised to break free as the two sect elders explored within.

• The old men from the Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect used the Corpse-Soaking Bottle and Blood-Mist Heart-Piercing Lock Art to restrain the Corpse Remains, then led their demonic cultivators into the cave abode.
• Bai Yi used an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to scout the five guards and killed all of them at once with his two Flying Swords.
• Bai Yi collected the guards' demonic artifacts, judged that the Corpse Remains could distract the two Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivators, and decided to release it.
• Bai Yi repeatedly struck the black-mist chains and White Bone Artifact with swordlight until the chains shattered.

Bai Yi entered the ruined cave abode and found traces of a Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator’s techniques before escaping the two injured demonic elders. The elders turned back to battle the Foundation Establishment corpse and agreed to use their full strength to survive.

• Bai Yi entered the cave abode after the Foundation Establishment corpse and collected Demonic Artifacts from the dead evil cultivators.
• Bai Yi recognized that the sword marks on the cave walls carried Dao Resonance from a Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator approaching the Sword Intent Realm.
• The Foundation Establishment corpse drove the white-furred zombie and the old men from Yinshan Sect and Blood Demon Sect into the great hall.
• The old man from Yinshan Sect tried to pull Bai Yi toward him, but Bai Yi cut through the black mist and fled on Sword Light.
• The old man from Blood Demon Sect shattered his own blood claw against Bai Yi’s sword strike, while Bai Yi took the impact and escaped.
• The corpse continued to overpower the zombie, forcing the old men to join forces and stop holding back.

Bai Yi waited outside the mansion while the two old devils fought the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains, then struck at the weakened old man from the Blood Demon Sect. Old Man Li saved him from Bai Yi’s sword, leaving all three cultivators battered as the corpse remained a threat.

• The old man from the Yinshan Sect transformed himself into a half-human, half-corpse, while the old man from the Blood Demon Sect used his blood to attack the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains.
• The Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains wielded its White Bone Artifact and Sword Qi, but the old man from the Blood Demon Sect trapped it beneath the White Bone Mirror’s bloodlight.
• Bai Yi, who had been hiding outside the mansion, struck the White Bone Mirror twice with the Heart-Questioning Sword and shattered its barrier.
• Bai Yi turned his swordlight on the weakened old man from the Blood Demon Sect, whose bloodlight skeleton was smashed by the attack.
• Old Man Li abandoned his struggle with the Foundation Establishment Corpse Remains and struck the Heart-Questioning Sword, forcing Bai Yi to withdraw it while injured.

Bai Yi helped the Foundation Establishment corpse kill the Yinshan Sect old man by repeatedly blocking his escape with sword strikes. He then evaded the crumbling corpse’s attacks, but its final sword strike gathered Sword Intent and trapped him as the chapter ended.

• The Yinshan Sect old man attacked the Blood Demon Sect old man to steal his Essence Blood, but Bai Yi’s Sword Light cut off the Blood Demon Sect old man’s head and spilled his blood.
• The Yinshan Sect old man tried to flee and kill Bai Yi, but Bai Yi repeatedly intercepted him while the Foundation Establishment corpse struck him and forced him to burn his Essence Blood.
• After Bai Yi exhausted his pills, the Foundation Establishment corpse severed the Yinshan Sect old man’s head.
• The skeletal Foundation Establishment corpse attacked Bai Yi, who flew around the Mansion to evade it as its bones crumbled.
• The corpse’s remaining arm gathered a powerful edge and Sword Intent, freezing the air and leaving Bai Yi alarmed.

After surviving the Foundation Establishment corpse’s sword strike, Bai Yi recovered in hiding and refined the Storage Ring he had found. Its contents revealed a huge trove of Spirit Stones, superior-grade pills, and other treasures, confirming his suspicion that a traditional cultivation world existed beyond the Immortal Alliance.

• The Foundation Establishment corpse struck Bai Yi with its White Bone Artifact, but his twin swords broke the restraints before the corpse crumbled to dust.
• Bai Yi found a Storage Ring and collected the demonic cultivators’ artifacts before burning their bodies and the blood pool in the estate.
• After a week of healing, Bai Yi refined the Storage Ring’s damaged restriction and discovered a space of roughly fifty cubic meters inside.
• Bai Yi found several hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones and more than ten bottles of First-Tier Superior-Grade pills, realizing the resources could greatly accelerate his cultivation.
• Bai Yi examined three Dao-Teaching Jade Talismans, which confirmed his suspicion that a traditional cultivation world existed beyond the Immortal Alliance.

Bai Yi studied the Three Heavens Sword Cultivator Study Compendium and learned about Sword Intent and the two ways to cultivate it. He resolved to use the Dao-Deriving Mirror to master many Sword Arts, then assessed the sect items and Demonic Artifacts he had collected.

• Bai Yi read the Three Heavens Sword Cultivator Study Compendium for a day and night, learning about the Three Heavens Sword Sect and the Sword Dao.
• Bai Yi reflected on his Heart-Questioning Sword and clarified his earlier insights, though he did not advance his cultivation or sword skills much.
• Bai Yi learned that Sword Intent could be cultivated through sudden enlightenment or by mastering many Sword Arts, and decided the latter suited him and the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Bai Yi examined the Inner Sect Identity Token, the Yellow Mountain Seal, and a Dao-Teaching Jade Talisman containing the Azure Cloud Sword Art.
• Bai Yi counted the thirty Demonic Artifacts in his travel pack and recognized their value as cultivation resources.

Bai Yi used Enlightenment Glimmers to master the Azure Cloud Sword Art and the first layer of the Heavy Spirit Scripture, greatly increasing his strength before leaving the Blue Mountain Secret Realm. After Qin Lianshan allowed him to leave the sealed plaza in time for his exam, he returned to his residential complex, while Qin quietly sent a message about him.

• Bai Yi refined the remaining Demonic Artifacts and condensed eleven Enlightenment Glimmers, bringing his total to twelve.
• Bai Yi used Enlightenment Glimmers to cultivate the Azure Cloud Sword Art to Dao Resonance Perfection and the Heavy Spirit Scripture to its first layer, boosting his Spiritual Power and strength.
• Bai Yi traveled to the Basin, heard Rogue Cultivators complain about demonic cultivators and deaths in the Secret Realm, then exited through the Spatial Vortex with them.
• Qin Lianshan sealed the plaza after hearing the Rogue Cultivators' reports, but let Bai Yi leave early after verifying his identity and testing his cultivation.
• Bai Yi took the Maglev Train back to his residential complex, and Qin Lianshan quietly sent a message after watching him go.