Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi gave Yu Wen three Totem Sealing Realm Totem Blood Spirits and Savage Wilderness flesh to develop a Spirit Transformation Realm Wisdom-Rhythm Artifact Infant, leaving his life-bound sword with the researchers. He then traveled to the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, where he fought the Black Tide’s Otherworldly Demons and faced a Spirit Transformation demon’s attack as a powerful dark sword strike emerged.

• Bai Yi gave Yu Wen three Totem Blood Spirits and Totem Sealing Realm flesh, and Yu Wen estimated the Spirit Transformation Realm experiment would take about a month and a half.
• Bai Yi sent the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword into the artificial Dantian for the researchers to transform, then tore through space and left the laboratory.
• At the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, Bai Yi found that the Black Tide had spread beyond the outer cliff and reached toward the Desolate Realm’s reflection.
• Bai Yi destroyed dozens of Nascent Soul Otherworldly Demons with his Sword Domain and captured their Demonic Souls.
• A Spirit Transformation Otherworldly Demon attacked Bai Yi with a claw, but he drove it back with a sword strike before a vast dark Sword Light cut through the Black Tide toward him.

Bai Yi reunited with Chen Fuye, displayed his greatly improved Sword Dao, and revealed that Xiang Kuang had entrusted him with the Golden Crow Token. Chen Fuye was stunned to learn that Xiang Kuang had reached Mahayana Sage and become Domain-Suppressing City's lord.

• Bai Yi killed a Spirit Transformation Otherworldly Demon and claimed its Demonic Soul before Chen Fuye emerged from the Black Tide.
• Chen Fuye and Bai Yi tested their Sword Domains, and Chen Fuye praised Bai Yi's Great Accomplishment Sword Domain and supreme Sword Dao.
• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye that he had killed three Totem Sealing Realm Savage Wilderness cultivators and could have defeated the demon without help.
• Bai Yi said Xiang Kuang had sent him along the World-Passing Ancient Road, then reminded Chen Fuye that he had promised to repair his shattered arms.
• Bai Yi produced the Golden Crow Token and revealed that Xiang Kuang had become a Mahayana Sage and the lord of Domain-Suppressing City.
• Chen Fuye reacted with shock and disbelief at Xiang Kuang's breakthrough.

Chen Fuye told Bai Yi how Xiang Kuang had spared him after their battle nearly a thousand years earlier and why he had once rejected a path to Mahayana. Bai Yi was left wondering why Xiang Kuang had entered the Mahayana Sacred Realm now, as Xiang Kuang had gone into Seclusion and could not be approached.

• Chen Fuye recalled how Xiang Kuang defeated him, used a forged Recording Talisman to convince the Great Factions that Chen Fuye was dead, and secretly helped him recover beneath the Sunken cliffs.
• Chen Fuye explained that Xiang Kuang had severed his connection to the Pure Yang Origin and returned himself to the Spirit Transformation Extreme, calling the Mahayana opportunity a false Mahayana.
• Chen Fuye told Bai Yi that Mahayana Sages pursued their own Law and Dao, but admitted he did not know why Xiang Kuang had rejected Mahayana before deciding to enter it now.
• Bai Yi said Xiang Kuang had given him the Golden Crow Token, the later contents of the Cultivation Technique, and the position of Lineage Master of the Great Sun Golden Crow Lineage.
• Chen Fuye and Bai Yi considered whether Xiang Kuang's breakthrough was connected to the Golden Crow Token or the Lineage Master position, but neither knew his reason.
• Bai Yi recalled that Xiang Kuang had announced a period of Seclusion for Origin Hua Transformation, during which no one could approach him.

Bai Yi accompanied Chen Fuye into the Black Tide, where Chen Fuye destroyed nearly a hundred Demon Soul Flowers and collected their remains. After the two left the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, a mysterious stooped figure watched Bai Yi depart and revealed that it had let them go because it found the situation interesting.

• Bai Yi told Chen Fuye about the Demon Soul Flower and demonic shadow he had encountered before.
• Chen Fuye explained that Demon Soul Flowers consumed Divine Soul fragments and flesh to produce Fallen Demonic Souls that traveled to the forbidden ground’s deepest reaches.
• Chen Fuye unleashed his Sword Demon Dao Body and destroyed nearly a hundred Demon Soul Flowers, then condensed their remains into a black-jade object.
• Chen Fuye and Bai Yi flew toward the Heavenly Domain Corridor, leaving the ruined flowers behind.
• A stooped figure emerged from the Black Tide and told a six-eyed, four-eared creature that it had allowed the two to leave, then fixed its gaze on Bai Yi.

Bai Yi brought Chen Fuye to the Immortal Alliance’s Central Laboratory, where the researchers prepared to use technology to restore his severed arms. As Chen Fuye underwent examination, Bai Yi also checked on the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword and settled in to cultivate while its Sword Spirit formed.

• Bai Yi led Chen Fuye through the Dao Realm Tree’s technological defenses and introduced him to Yu Wen and the researchers.
• Chen Fuye examined the laboratory’s technology and was astonished by the living flesh cells growing in a bioreactor.
• Moved by Bai Yi’s concern and the possibility of the Technology Method, Chen Fuye agreed to cooperate and entered the surgical chamber for examination.
• Yu Wen ordered the researchers to collect Chen Fuye’s blood and study his exceptional Spirit Transformation Realm condition.
• Bai Yi learned that the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword’s Sword Spirit would take about another month to form, then checked its progress and began cultivating.

Bai Yi activated Comprehension Scene Mode and comprehended his second sword, Origin Extinction, whose Sword Qi overwhelmed Cultivation Room 001. After Bai Yi contained his power, the Immortal Alliance updated its classified cultivator rankings, placing him above Feng Weiyi.

• Bai Yi activated Comprehension Scene Mode in Cultivation Room 001 and entered the Sword World through the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Bai Yi gathered billions of Azure Edges and comprehended Origin Extinction, a sword that fused with the Dao of Space-Time.
• Bai Yi’s Sword Intent exceeded the cultivation room’s recorded limits, triggering alarms and an evacuation of the Central Research Institute.
• Yu Wen ordered everyone to evacuate and directed resources to stabilize the other laboratories while Bai Yi’s Sword Qi remained contained.
• Bai Yi drew in his sharpness and calmed the room, then authorized an update that ranked him first among the Immortal Alliance’s 3S-classified cultivators, ahead of Feng Weiyi.

Bai Yi’s cultivation aura astonished the Central Research Institute, while researchers continued developing his sword spirit and rebuilding Chen Fuye’s arms. A week later, the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword’s spirit awakened, absorbed Terminal data, and startled Bai Yi with its first words.

• After the files updated, senior officials saw that Bai Yi’s cultivation aura surpassed Feng Weiyi’s, and Bai Yi emerged from the reinforced cultivation room as Fu Yu and the researchers congratulated him.
• Bai Yi watched researchers use Divine Soul power from bound Totem Blood Spirits to inscribe talismans on the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword and nurture its sword spirit.
• Bai Yi saw Chen Fuye undergoing treatment in which particle pulses destroyed his damaged arms before blood-cell technology would rebuild them.
• A week later, the three Totem Blood Spirits’ remaining Divine Soul essence flowed into the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword, and its newly formed sword spirit absorbed information from nearby Terminals.
• The sword spirit opened its eyes, insulted Yu Wen’s combat power, and asked whether he wanted to dance, leaving Bai Yi wondering what it had learned from Terminal data.

Bai Yi and the researchers witnessed the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword’s newly awakened Sword Spirit demonstrate extraordinary swordsmanship and power. After the Sword Spirit returned to the sword to rest, Bai Yi named him Bai Cang.

• The Sword Spirit boasted to Yu Wen and the researchers, but Bai Yi flicked him on the head and stopped him.
• The Sword Spirit accused the researchers of bullying him, and Bai Yi explained that their probes had helped him form a Divine Soul Body.
• The Sword Spirit summoned the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword and demonstrated Frost and Snow Swordsmanship, cutting through tables and chairs with Sword Intent.
• The Sword Spirit unleashed Sword Momentum that formed a frost dragon, astonishing Bai Yi and the researchers before he grew tired and returned to the sword.
• The Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword’s power rose to that of a Fifth Tier Spirit Transformation Flying Sword, and Bai Yi named its Sword Spirit Bai Cang.

Bai Yi proposed an Immortal Alliance arms expo and a live demonstration to trade technological weapons for resources and build trust. Chen Fuye regained his arms, returned to the peak of Spirit Transformation, and cut apart the Sword Dao Origin, giving Bai Yi a powerful demonstration for his plan.

• Bai Yi sent the Purple Clarity Abyssless Sword and two rare treasures into the Sword Dao world for tempering.
• Researcher Yu Wen lamented that the Immortal Alliance lacked rare materials and ways to acquire large quantities of resources.
• Bai Yi proposed a Spirit-Conversion Technology arms expo to trade Golden Core-level warships and formation diagrams for goods.
• Yu Wen explained that traditional cultivators distrusted the Immortal Alliance’s technological creations, so Bai Yi suggested a live demonstration.
• Chen Fuye emerged with his arms restored, broke through to the peak of Spirit Transformation, and cut the Sword Dao Origin in two.
• Bai Yi presented Chen Fuye’s strength as the opportunity to showcase the Immortal Alliance’s weapons.

Chen Fuye demonstrated his swordsmanship as the Immortal Alliance received an urgent message that Desolate Realm tribes had launched a full-scale attack. Bai Yi and the others prepared to use the crisis to test their strength, while Xu Changning and the Blood River Ancestor coordinated with Street Warden Lu and the attacking tribes.

• Chen Fuye drew out Nüwa Terminal's Formation Spirit, which deciphered a message from the Ancestor Star warning of a full-scale Desolate Realm attack and urging Bai Yi to return.
• Bai Yi and Yu Wen recognized the attack as an opportunity to demonstrate a real-world case and hinted that Chen Fuye's treatment would depend on his help.
• Fusheng Dao Domain cultivators gathered with the Immortal Alliance's fleet, while Xu Changning left the front lines to meet the Blood River Ancestor.
• Xu Changning mocked the weakened Blood River Ancestor, but both men fell silent when Street Warden Lu arrived and asked about their preparations.
• Xu Changning reported that they had infiltrated the Immortal Alliance and spread a message to lure Bai Yi back, and Street Warden Lu ordered them to act alongside two Desolate Realm tribes without making unnecessary moves.

Xu Changning and Blood River Ancestor joined Yi Daoting’s efforts against Bai Yi as the Immortal Alliance prepared to face the Desolate Realm’s approaching Barbarian Race Blood Tides. Feng Weiyi ordered the Alliance’s forces to establish a massive fire-strike network while they waited for Bai Yi to arrive.

• The Pavilion Chief of Street Lane enlisted Xu Changning and Blood River Ancestor to capture Bai Yi, and Xu Changning accepted in hopes of joining Yi Daoting.
• Xu Changning threatened Blood River Ancestor after he mocked him, then both men vanished into space.
• Feng Weiyi and Lu Feng watched the approaching Barbarian Race Blood Tides and learned that the Star River Defense System was active and nearby planets had been evacuated.
• Xue Feng reported that Bai Yi was returning to reinforce the Immortal Alliance, and Feng Weiyi ordered heavy artillery, fleets, mecha, and array talisman armies to prepare a fire-strike network.
• More than a hundred Planetary Armed Bases surged into the Gray Realm as the Immortal Alliance began deploying its forces.

The Immortal Alliance, Fusheng Dao Domain, and Blood River Demon Realm assembled their forces in the Gray Realm to face the two Desolate Realm tribes. Feng Weiyi took command of the three domains, while their leaders concealed their hostility, and the invading tribes arrived as the battle neared.

• The Immortal Alliance deployed millions of Mechas, Warships, and Planetary Armed Bases as Fusheng Dao Domain and the Blood River Demon Realm brought their cultivators to the Gray Realm front lines.
• Xu Changning demanded to know where Feng Weiyi was and used his Spirit Transformation aura to drive back an Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator, activating the planetary defenses.
• Feng Weiyi and Xue Feng appeared, and Xue Feng entrusted command of the three domains' cultivators to Feng Weiyi.
• Xu Changning agreed to follow Feng Weiyi's orders, while Xue Lingzi arrived and apologized for the Blood River Demon Realm's delay.
• Feng Weiyi assigned the Blood River Demon Realm the first area to fight, and Xue Lingzi accepted while secretly plotting against the others.
• The auras of the two Desolate Realm tribes shook the void as their forces reached the edge of the three domains.

As the Hewa and Yingye Tribes advanced on the Immortal Alliance, Feng Weiyi ordered the alliance’s advanced weapons to strike them from beyond the Three Domains. The opening missiles and heavy-cannon fire crossed into Shallow Subspace, and a fleet appeared above the enemy army with gravity bombs ready to fall.

• Tuluoze ordered the Hewa Tribe to attack the Immortal Alliance, and the Yingye Tribe advanced alongside them.
• Feng Weiyi prepared the Immortal Alliance’s long-range weapons as Xu Changning, Blood Spirit Child, and other cultivators watched.
• The Immortal Alliance launched nearly a million Sword Light XM-15 Spirit-Condensed Missiles into Shallow Subspace.
• More than a hundred Firmament-class Annihilation Ships fired Spirit-Particle heavy cannons, drawing scorn from the visiting Spirit Transformation Cultivators.
• Feng Weiyi gave the order to fire, and over a thousand Deep-Space-Class Warships appeared above the Savage Wilderness army and launched Space-Warping Gravity Bombs.

The Immortal Alliance devastated the Savage Wilderness front line with gravity bombs and waves of spirit-virtualized missiles. Xu Changning recognized the danger of the Alliance’s technology as Feng Weiyi promised that an even greater attack was coming.

• Over a thousand Space Gravity Bombs detonated among the Savage Wilderness Warriors, killing thousands before Blood Soul Realm Battle Generals formed a Battle Formation to resist them.
• A Wa Tribe battle general destroyed a Space Gravity Bomb, while the Immortal Alliance warships withdrew and launched millions of Sword-Light XM-15 Spirit-Virtualized Missiles from Subspace.
• The missiles shattered the Savage Wilderness Battle Formation’s totem manifestations and annihilated tens of thousands of Blood Soul Realm cultivators.
• Xu Changning questioned Feng Weiyi about the Immortal Alliance’s technology, and Feng Weiyi told him not to worry because the best part was still to come.
• More missile waves blanketed the front line, and a late-stage Blood Soul Realm warrior was killed after seventeen missiles struck him at point-blank range.

The Immortal Alliance’s long-range weapons devastated the Savage Wilderness vanguard before it reached the Three Domains, but Grand Elder Tuluoze rallied the remaining army with a Totem Blood Formation and pushed it onward. Feng Weiyi prepared for the coming close-quarters battle, while Xu Changning worried that the Immortal Alliance’s technology could threaten Fusheng Dao Domain.

• Nearly a million Sword Light XM-15 missiles killed more than half of the Savage Wilderness vanguard, and its commander used the Totem Great Banner to empower the survivors with their tribesmen’s blood.
• Light-Domain-Level Water Droplet Particles detonated around the army, destroying most of the remaining warriors and leaving only tens of thousands of survivors and dozens of Battle Generals.
• Tuluoze arrived, condemned the Vanguard Commander, the Hewa Tribe’s Seventh Warrior, and ordered the Savage Wilderness forces to form Totem Blood Spirits with their Blood Qi.
• The Savage Wilderness army advanced toward the Three Domains under the protection of its Totem Blood Spirits, despite continued artillery fire.
• Feng Weiyi told Xu Changning and his other companion that the interception mission would continue, while acknowledging that a close-quarters battle was unavoidable.
• Xu Changning marveled at the Immortal Alliance’s technology but feared it could endanger Fusheng Dao Domain’s garrisoned main city.

The Blood River Demon Realm and Fusheng Dao Domain joined the Immortal Alliance’s fight against the Savage Wilderness army, and their cultivators met the advancing Blood Tide in battle. The Savage Wilderness Warriors broke through the defenders’ opening attacks and revealed the power of their bloodline combat style.

• Xue Feng rebuked Xue Lingzi, who ordered the Blood River Demon Realm cultivators to fight the savages while secretly plotting revenge.
• Xu Changning committed Fusheng Dao Domain’s forces to the alliance, treating its Golden Core cultivators as bargaining chips and promising the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect’s Sect Master a chance to enter the Spirit Transformation stage.
• More than ten million Savage Wilderness Warriors advanced through the Three Domains under Battle Formation totems, while the Fusheng Dao Domain and Blood River Demon Realm prepared to meet them.
• The Savage Wilderness Vanguard Commander ordered his warriors to kill the human cultivators and offer their blood to the totem.
• The two domains’ attacks killed tens of thousands of vanguard warriors, whose blood the Blood River Demon Realm cultivators devoured, but the following Savage Wilderness Warriors reached the defenders and smashed their seals and weapons.

Fusheng Dao Domain and Blood River Demon Realm cultivators were routed by the Savage Wilderness army, forcing Xu Changning to press Feng Weiyi to commit the Immortal Alliance’s forces. Xu Changning chose to hold the enemy’s frontal assault with Fusheng Dao Domain while Feng Weiyi and Xue Lingzi handled the rest of the operation.

• Savage Wilderness Warriors killed Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciples and overwhelmed cultivators from Fusheng Dao Domain and Blood River Demon Realm, swallowing their Golden Cores to heal.
• Xu Changning urged Feng Weiyi to send the Immortal Alliance into battle, while Xue Lingzi recognized that Xu had concealed the Savage Wilderness Warriors’ strength to force their involvement.
• Feng Weiyi projected a war map showing a possible strike at the Savage Wilderness army’s rear and warned that three Totem Sealing Realm enemies would respond.
• Xu Changning assigned Fusheng Dao Domain to face the army’s frontal assault, and Xue Lingzi ordered Blood River Demon Realm’s Nascent Soul Devil Lords to surround and kill the enemy.
• Xu Changning rejected his sect leaders’ objections, defended the decision as necessary to destroy the invading tribes, and told Feng Weiyi to begin the operation.

The Immortal Alliance launched a coordinated counterattack against the Savage Wilderness army, using destroyers and Weiyuan-Style mechas to strike its rear. The mechas broke through the enemy lines but were surrounded as the fleets prepared a missile barrage.

• At Feng Weiyi's command, Firmament-class Destroyers joined the battle and cut down Savage Wilderness Warriors with wave-frequency beams and missiles.
• More than a hundred Deep-Space-Class Destroyers slipped behind the Savage Wilderness army carrying nearly thirty thousand Weiyuan-Style 03 mecha pilots.
• The pilots launched from the Night Owl transport ships and charged into a weak point in the enemy rear.
• A Weiyuan-Style squad leader killed a late-stage Blood Soul Realm Savage Wilderness Warrior with thunder arts and a particle blade.
• The mecha force devastated the rear ranks, prompting the Savage Wilderness Warriors to turn and encircle them.
• The mecha pilots requested support, and the command room ordered all fleets to reveal themselves and launch High-Explosive Spirit-Impact Missiles.

The Immortal Alliance fleet devastated the Savage Wilderness army’s rear with missile barrages, heavy cannons, and mechas, killing over a million warriors in two days. As the enemy’s rear began to collapse, the Yingye Tribe’s Grand Elder killed a defeated Battle General and vanished toward the fleet.

• More than a hundred Firmament-class Annihilation Ships bombarded the Savage Wilderness reinforcements, destroying over half their troops and then killing their Battle Generals with Nascent Soul Annihilation Cannons.
• Nearly thirty thousand Weiyuan-Style Mechas advanced to eliminate survivors, while a Four Academies graduate used his mecha to fend off a sneak attack and rejoined the cleanup.
• The Immortal Alliance brought Planetary Armed Bases behind the Savage Wilderness army and, over two days, killed more than a million warriors and dozens of Battle Generals at the cost of three bases, over a thousand mechas, and more than ten ships.
• The Yingye Tribe’s Grand Elder berated a Battle General who had lost an arm, drained his flesh and blood, and vanished toward the fleet.

The Grand Elder Hegule and Tuluoze attacked the Immortal Alliance’s forces, prompting Xu Changning and Xue Lingzi to confront the Savage Wilderness leaders. Xue Lingzi’s attempt to capture Tuluoze’s soul failed when Tuluoze revealed his overwhelming Primordial Antiquity power and destroyed the Blood River Demon Realm cultivators.

• Hegule appeared behind the Savage Wilderness army and swallowed two Firmament-class warships with a Blood Qi attack.
• After receiving the report, Xu Changning led Fusheng Dao Domain cultivators through the void to confront Hegule, while Xue Lingzi charged the Blood Soul Realm warriors with his allies.
• Tuluoze attacked Xue Lingzi, shattering his banner and overpowering his resentful souls with the Heaven-Devouring Snake bloodline power.
• Xue Lingzi trapped Tuluoze in a blood formation and used the Life-Seizing Soul-Capturing Art, planning to turn him into a Dao-Guarding Blood Demon Corpse.
• Tuluoze erupted with Primordial Antiquity power, grew to tens of thousands of meters tall, and smashed Xue Lingzi’s Demonic Blood Skeleton to pieces.
• Tuluoze crushed the Dao Bodies of Xue Lingzi’s two allies and swallowed the remnants of their Divine Resonance.