Chapter Summaries

Green River Academy welcomed the visiting teams for the Five-Academy Exchange Tournament, as its rivals braced for the rise of a promising sword cultivator. The tournament was set to begin the next day, while Bai Shoudao urged a young man to sense the Sword Intent within the Azure Immortal Sword.

• Students and instructors from four academies arrived at Green River Academy and admired the school founded by Bai Yi.
• Tianzheng Academy's vice principal warned his students about Green River Academy's growth and its rumored sword-cultivation prodigy.
• The visiting teams vowed to stop Green River Academy from winning the tournament.
• He Changdong greeted the visitors, announced the tournament would begin the next day, and invited them into the academy.
• At the rear of Greenedge Mountain, Bai Shoudao urged a young man beneath a mound of swords to sense the Sword Intent in the Azure Immortal Sword.

Bai Yi returned to Green River Academy as a Nascent Soul perfection cultivator and learned that Shen He, a gifted young swordsman, was the younger brother of his former senior brother Shen Chen. Bai Yi tested Shen He with the Azure Immortal Sword, plunging him into a world of swords.

• Bai Shoudao watched Shen He approach the Azure Immortal Sword and praised the sword intent left in it by Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi suddenly appeared beside Bai Shoudao and revealed that he had reached Nascent Soul perfection, astonishing his ancestor.
• Bai Shoudao told Bai Yi about Shen He, a talented swordsman from the Nascent Soul Shen Household who had joined Green River Academy to fulfill Shen Chen's unfulfilled wish.
• Bai Yi recognized Shen He as Shen Chen's younger brother and confirmed his age and vitality with his divine sense.
• Bai Yi released the Azure Immortal Sword's vast sword intent, drawing Shen He into a world of pure swords.

Bai Yi guided Shen He through a mental sword trial, helping him awaken embryonic Sword Intent. He then told Bai Shoudao that he planned to establish Green River Dao Academy and wanted him to lead it, hinting that Domain-Suppressing City could help overcome the ancestor’s age and cultivation limits.

• Bai Yi drew Shen He into a mental realm, where the phantom of his younger self attacked him with the White Rainbow Sword Art.
• Shen He fought back with his Sudden Rain Sword Art until Bai Yi’s Sword Intent pierced his chest and helped him comprehend the essence of multiple sword arts.
• Shen He awakened embryonic Sword Intent, astonishing Bai Shoudao, who credited Bai Yi with bringing the breakthrough about.
• Bai Yi explained that he intended to strengthen Green River Academy into Green River Dao Academy before traveling the World-Passing Ancient Road.
• Bai Yi proposed that Bai Shoudao become the academy head, but Bai Shoudao objected that he was too old and weak to pursue further cultivation.
• Bai Yi suggested that Bai Shoudao had underestimated Domain-Suppressing City and Bai Yi’s standing as the city lord’s sole disciple.

Bai Shoudao agreed to establish Green River Dao Academy after Bai Yi offered him an opportunity to pursue Nascent Soul. Shen He comprehended Sword Intent, and Bai Yi challenged him to prove he could inherit Shen Chen’s sword as the Five-Academy Exchange Tournament began.

• Bai Shoudao welcomed Bai Yi’s offer to establish Green River Dao Academy and saw it as a chance to reach Nascent Soul.
• Shen He comprehended Sword Intent on Sword Mountain and excitedly told Bai Shoudao of his success.
• Bai Yi praised Shen He’s swordsmanship, and Shen He showed him a recording of Shen Chen explaining why he had risked his life for the Immortal Alliance and hoped to test his sword against Bai Yi.
• Shen He vowed to fulfill Shen Chen’s final wish, and Bai Yi told him to prove himself in the Five-Academy Exchange Tournament.
• Spectators and media gathered at Green River Academy as the tournament began amid predictions about which academy would win.

The Qinghua Domain Five-Academy Exchange Tournament began at Green River Academy, where the Azure Immortal Sword and the academy’s rising prominence showcased Bai Yi’s influence across the Immortal Alliance. Principal Bai Shoudao announced a mystery guest’s reward for the champion, then Bai Yi appeared before the stunned spectators and Dao Students.

• Endpoint Channel Station hosts introduced the tournament at Greenedge Mountain and described Green River Academy’s rise under Bai Yi’s influence.
• The Azure Immortal Sword emerged from the mountain, formed a dragon of sword qi, and announced the tournament’s start as He Changdong welcomed the competing Dao Students.
• Forty visiting prodigies from four academies entered the arena, all at Foundation Establishment, followed by Green River Academy’s ten prodigies led by Shen He.
• Bai Shoudao announced that a mystery guest would reward the tournament champion, prompting speculation that Bai Yi would appear.
• Bai Yi emerged from the void beside the Azure Immortal Sword, and spectators, academy leaders, and competitors erupted with excitement and awe.

Bai Yi opened the five-academy exchange tournament, promising its winner a reward and saying he would announce news afterward. Shen He and Leng Tianming advanced through the matches to face each other in the final bout, which began with Leng Tianming unleashing his frost spells and Shen He drawing his sword.

• Bai Yi announced a reward for the tournament winner and promised to reveal news after the exchange tournament.
• Shen He defeated Mu Wan by dispelling her Water-Flooding Art and stopping his sword at her neck.
• Tianzheng Academy’s Leng Tianming froze a Green River Academy opponent, while Green River Academy’s sword cultivators impressed spectators throughout the tournament.
• Shen He and Leng Tianming defeated their opponents and became the last two students in the arena.
• Leng Tianming challenged Shen He, summoned the Thousand-Mile Snow Mountain Fan, and attacked with a powerful frost palm as Shen He drew his azure sword.

Shen He defeated Leng Tianming by revealing his Sword Intent in a decisive strike, securing Green River Academy's first-ever victory in the Five-Academy Exchange Tournament. As the awards ceremony began, the cameras focused on Bai Yi, who was about to announce news he had promised to share.

• Leng Tianming overwhelmed Shen He with his Frost Across the Sky Dao foundation and ice arts, while spectators believed Shen He was close to defeat.
• Shen He unleashed Sword Intent, shattered the ice surrounding him, and defeated Leng Tianming with a single strike that left his sword at Leng Tianming's throat.
• Leng Tianming accepted his loss and vowed to win next time as the referee announced the end of the tournament.
• Green River Academy claimed first place in the Five-Academy Exchange Tournament for the first time, and Bai Yi appeared before the top ten Dao Students as the cameras turned toward him.

At the Dao Student competition’s award ceremony, Bai Yi rewarded Shen He with a sword blank and Leng Tianming with an Ice Soul Crystal, then announced that Green River Academy would become the Immortal Alliance’s fifth top-tier academy, White Rainbow Dao Academy. His declaration shocked the Immortal Alliance and prompted Advanced Dao Studies institutions to hold emergency meetings.

• Bai Yi praised the ten graduating Dao Students and gave Shen He a wind-resonant sword blank to nurture as a natal flying sword.
• Bai Yi gave Leng Tianming a Millennium Ice Soul Crystal and explained that completing his Frost Spirit Physique would let him temper his Dao foundation again.
• After the award ceremony, Bai Yi spread his divine sense across the Immortal Alliance Dao Domain, drawing the attention of citizens and cultivators throughout the alliance.
• Bai Yi announced that Green River Academy would be renamed White Rainbow Dao Academy and become the Immortal Alliance’s fifth top-tier Dao academy.
• Immortal Alliance citizens debated the academy’s heritage, while Advanced Dao Studies institutions called emergency meetings over Bai Yi’s announcement.

Bai Yi returned to the White Household Ancestral Grounds after founding the White Rainbow Dao Academy and reunited with his family. He discovered that his parents had become Foundation Establishment cultivators and that his father had another young child.

• Bai Yi named He Changdong the White Rainbow Dao Academy's dean of instruction and gave him a portion of Hundred Suns Heavenly Fire Intent.
• Bai Yi and Bai Shoudao traveled through Deep Subspace to the White Household Central Lake, where Bai Shoudao caught a Foundation Establishment fish demon.
• Bai Yi teased Bai Shoudao about the old water abode before Bai Guoshan, Li Qing, Bai Yu, and their family arrived.
• Bai Yi was surprised to see a little girl with Bai Guoshan and Li Qing, who said they had another child to keep them company.
• Bai Yi reunited emotionally with his parents, and Li Qing began cooking the fish demon with her magical cookware.
• Bai Guoshan proudly told Bai Yi that he and Li Qing had become Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Bai Yi reunited with his family and met his little sister Bai Meng, whose mechanical parrot impressed him with its advanced design. He infused Little Nine with a Nascent Soul remnant soul and vast spiritual energy, transforming it into a Foundation Establishment-level mechanical life-form, then offered to help his family improve their cultivation.

• Bai Guoshan and Bai Yu introduced Bai Meng to Bai Yi, and Mengmeng gave him her mechanical parrot, Little Nine.
• Bai Yi recognized Mengmeng’s talent for technology and mechanical research after inspecting Little Nine’s intelligent core and adaptive design.
• When Mengmeng worried that Bai Yi disliked her gift, he picked her up and promised to make Little Nine smarter.
• Bai Yi infused Little Nine with a cleansed Nascent Soul remnant soul, traced new soul pathways, and gathered spiritual energy until it reached Foundation Establishment perfection.
• Little Nine thanked Bai Yi and affectionately nuzzled Mengmeng, who excitedly praised her brother and began studying the parrot’s transformation.
• Bai Yi told Bai Guoshan he would leave things to help the family cultivate more quickly and steadily, and Bai Guoshan announced that dinner was ready.

Bai Shoudao refined his Golden Core into a high-grade core with nineteen Great Dao of Water patterns, and Bai Yi urged him to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. On a planet prepared by the Immortal Alliance, Bai Shoudao began his tribulation with powerful treasures supplied by Bai Yi.

• Bai Shoudao absorbed the water spiritual power gathering over Qinghe City and condensed nineteen Great Dao of Water core patterns.
• Bai Yi congratulated Bai Shoudao and said it was time for him to shatter his Golden Core and form a Nascent Soul.
• Bai Shoudao traveled to Water-Ring Star, where the Immortal Alliance had assembled powerful water-path resources for his breakthrough.
• Bai Yi gave Bai Shoudao a Dao Nascent Soul Pill and a Glazed-Light Soul-Suppressing Veil to aid his breakthrough and help him endure the inner demon tribulation.
• Bai Shoudao entered the clouds and stirred heaven and earth to begin his Nascent Soul tribulation.

Bai Shoudao began his attempt to break through to Nascent Soul, safely passing the Great Dao tribulation and then enduring the body fire tribulation with two Dao Nascent Soul Pills. The fire ended after forty-nine days, leaving him with a body tempered by the tribulation.

• Bai Shoudao drew the Great Dao tribulation to Water-Ring Star and endured its blackwater trial, tempering his water Dao Golden Core until it cracked.
• Zi Mochen and Ziwei True Lord explained the first of the three Nascent Soul trials to the gathered cultivators and urged them to observe carefully.
• Bai Shoudao passed the Great Dao tribulation, and the observers turned their attention to Bai Yi as the body fire tribulation began.
• Bai Shoudao swallowed a Dao Nascent Soul Pill to withstand the tribulation fire, then took a second pill after twenty days as its power ran low.
• Bai Shoudao survived all forty-nine days of the body fire tribulation, which had forged his body into a treasure-like form.

Bai Shoudao overcame the Bì Wind Divine Soul Tribulation with a fourth-tier soul-protecting artifact, pills, and his own cultivation. He formed a Nascent Soul and became a True Lord, drawing congratulations from the witnesses.

• Pure Yang True Lord explained the dangers of the Divine Soul Tribulation and doubted that anyone would expend a precious Divine Soul Artifact to pass it.
• Bai Shoudao expanded the Glazed-Light Soul-Suppressing Veil to shield himself from the Bì Wind, anchored his mind with his Golden Core, and swallowed a Dao Nascent Soul Pill.
• Bai Shoudao endured the Divine Soul Tribulation for seventy-two days with his safeguards and Water Dao Guardian Technique.
• As Water-Ring Star resonated with heaven and earth, Bai Shoudao gathered water spiritual energy and his thousand years of Great Dao understanding into his Golden Core.
• Bai Shoudao's Golden Core shattered, and an azure Nascent Soul formed; his Divine Sense expanded to thirty-two times its former range.
• Bai Shoudao withdrew the vast water manifestations into his Nascent Soul and received congratulations on becoming a True Lord.

Bai Shoudao successfully formed his Nascent Soul, and Bai Yi reassured him that the ruined Glazed-Light Soul-Suppressing Veil had been a gift from his master, a Mahayana Saint. Bai Yi then took him to a metal-element Micro Dao Domain to choose a site for the White Rainbow Dao Academy.

• Bai Shoudao thanked the gathered Immortal Alliance True Lords after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Shoudao panicked when Bai Yi said the Glazed-Light Soul-Suppressing Veil had cost several hundred years of contribution credit, and offered to sell the White Household's assets to repay it.
• Bai Yi revealed that his master had given him the artifact and that his master was Domain-Suppressing City's current city lord, a Mahayana Saint.
• Bai Yi told Bai Shoudao that his new Nascent Soul Realm made him a suitable dean for the White Rainbow Dao Academy, then carried him through deep subspace.
• Bai Yi brought Bai Shoudao to a metal-element Micro Dao Domain and explained that it could serve as a future site for the academy's Dao Studies.

Bai Yi revealed a Sword Edge Metal micro Dao Domain that could serve as a cultivation ground for the White Rainbow Dao Academy, then captured it with his sword and brought it into the Immortal Alliance. He began merging the domain with the Immortal Alliance's world and stabilized its collapsing edge with a Spatial Crystal Core.

• Bai Yi showed Bai Shoudao the micro Dao Domain he had selected as the foundation for the White Rainbow Dao Academy's grotto-heaven.
• Bai Shoudao asked when Patriarch Feng would bring the domain back, and Bai Yi said he would do it himself.
• Bai Yi cut a vast section of void around the micro Dao Domain and enclosed the entire domain within it using Sword Qi.
• Bai Yi drew the domain into the Immortal Alliance, pinned it in place, and slashed the barrier between the two worlds to hasten their merger.
• As the micro Dao Domain's edge began to crumble, Bai Yi used a Spatial Crystal Core to stabilize it.

Bai Yi completed the merger of the Micro Dao Domain and established White Rainbow Dao Academy’s legacy with a sword mountain, healing tree, Sword-Washing Pool, and Golden Flame Origin Sea. After Bai Shoudao arranged for the academy’s construction, the Heavenly Dao announced the emergence of another sage from Domain-Suppressing City.

• Bai Yi merged the Micro Dao Domain with the Immortal Alliance’s world and shaped a sword mountain as the site of White Rainbow Dao Academy’s main academy.
• Bai Yi planted and rapidly grew a Hundred-Age Evergreen Tree using Heavenly Heart Spring Water, creating a source of healing and life energy for the academy.
• Bai Yi filled a ravine with Sand-Gold Water and infused more than a hundred thousand flying swords with his sword Dao essence to establish the Sword-Washing Pool.
• Bai Yi placed the Golden Flame Origin Sea in the cave-heaven, completing five foundations for White Rainbow Dao Academy’s legacy.
• Bai Shoudao contacted the Immortal Alliance’s construction bureau to begin building the academy’s infrastructure.
• The Heavenly Dao celebrated from Domain-Suppressing City and announced the emergence of another sage.

The Great Dao’s radiance spread across Langyu Qingming Heaven as Xiang Kuang’s path toward sainthood drew the attention of powerful figures. Zhang Wentian erased a memory of Bai Yi to repay Xiang Kuang, while Qin Minmin announced her intention to take the World-Passing Ancient Road despite the danger to her family branch.

• A white-robed figure in the Worry-Free Immortal Sect wondered what choice Xiang Kuang would make as the Great Dao resonated.
• Zhang Wentian watched the manifestation, reflected on Xiang Kuang’s defiance, and erased his memory of Bai Yi fighting Wang Qinghua’s avatar to repay an old favor.
• An ink-robed figure awoke in the eighth level of the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto and decided to leave its forbidden demonic world.
• The Many Treasures Pavilion master admired the eight Great Suns while secretly grilling flood-dragon meat, then sharply rebuked Qin Minmin for mentioning another world.
• Qin Minmin revealed her Phoenix-Tail Gilt Spear and declared she would take the World-Passing Ancient Road, risking her entire Qin Family branch for a chance to return to the upper world.

Bai Yi and Feng Weiyi prepared to spread the Immortal Alliance’s technological advances across Langyu Qingming Heaven during Xiang Kuang’s celebration of becoming a sage. Bai Yi planned to leave for the World-Passing Ancient Road after the technology exhibition, making the Immortal Alliance’s growth crucial to his own path.

• Chen Fuye told Bai Yi that the Sage Realm was a shackle and gave him a bloodstained wooden token as a gift for Xiang Kuang.
• Bai Yi visited Feng Weiyi, who stopped him from touching his delicate Feather Rainbow Grass and reminded him of the plants Bai Yi had destroyed before.
• Bai Yi and Feng Weiyi discussed how the Immortal Alliance had consolidated the three conquered domains and developed mechanical-electronic and spirit-conversion technologies.
• Feng Weiyi said the Immortal Alliance needed a powerful backer to sell its technological creations, and Bai Yi affirmed that the alliance would spread the Way of Technology at Xiang Kuang’s celebration.
• Bai Yi surveyed the Ancestor Star and planned to leave for the World-Passing Ancient Road after the exhibition, depending on its results to strengthen the Immortal Alliance and his own foundations.

After Xiang Kuang entered the Mahayana Sacred Realm, he announced that he would hold a month-long Dao lecture open to every cultivator in Langyu Qingming Heaven. As the realm's factions and cultivators traveled to Domain-Suppressing City, Qin Minmin agreed to attend after learning Xiang Kuang cultivated the Great Sun Golden Crow Dao, while Xiang Kuang confronted the disciple who had pushed for the event.

• Cultivators across Langyu Qingming Heaven felt the effects of Xiang Kuang's Great Dao Golden Radiance and learned that he had become a Mahayana saint.
• Domain-Suppressing City announced that Xiang Kuang would celebrate with a ceremony and expound the Dao for a month, inviting cultivators of every rank.
• Small factions and rogue cultivators set out for Domain-Suppressing City, while major factions prepared gifts and sent their people to attend.
• Qin Fu urged Qin Minmin to join the Many Treasures Pavilion's young cultivators at the lecture, and she agreed after learning Xiang Kuang cultivated the Great Sun Golden Crow Dao.
• Xiang Kuang glared at a figure below him in Golden Crow Hall and asked whether the Dao lecture had satisfied them; the figure thanked him for his care.

Bai Yi persuaded Xiang Kuang to endorse the Immortal Alliance’s technological products, and Xiang Kuang approved while telling him to prepare for the Ancient Road after the celebration. Seven days later, cultivators flooded Heaven-Ascending City for the sage’s ceremony, where a young guide was hired by a group carrying a token for the prestigious Three-Peak Celestial Abode.

• Bai Yi showed Xiang Kuang the artificial external dantian and explained its cultivation benefits and the risks and profits of releasing technological products.
• Xiang Kuang agreed to back Bai Yi and told him to travel to the Ancient Road after the celebration, where he could learn why Chen Fuye had mocked his master.
• The grand elder gave Bai Yi a jade-green scroll that would let the Immortal Alliance control the formations outside the main hall after the celebration.
• Seven days later, cultivators crowded Heaven-Ascending City as lodging and goods prices soared ahead of the sage’s Dao lecture.
• A Foundation Establishment youth accepted a guiding job from a group led by a burly Nascent Soul cultivator, who handed him a jade token bearing the name Luo Clan of Three Peaks Heaven.