Chapter Summaries

Pure Yang True Lord and the Immortal Alliance disciples arrived in Heaven-Ascending City to visit Three Peaks Heaven, where they reflected on Bai Yi’s extraordinary rise and their own growing distance from him. They reached the reception terrace and found that Three Peaks Heaven was turning away everyone below Spirit Transformation because its rental courtyards were full.

• The young guide recognized the Luo Family jade token and escorted Pure Yang True Lord and the Immortal Alliance disciples toward Three Peaks Heaven.
• Zi Mochen and the others discussed Bai Yi’s rise to Nascent Soul late stage and his fame after defeating a Spirit Fusion grand elder.
• Gu Sheng withdrew from his promised rematch with Yun Yaoyao, while Pure Yang True Lord encouraged them by praising their progress.
• The guide described Heaven-Ascending City’s history and the Eight Inner Wards as the carriage traveled through the Third Heaven to Three Peaks Heaven.
• At the cloud terrace, visitors from powerful families and sects pleaded for courtyards, but the Luo Family’s steward said none were available.
• The group saw that only Spirit Transformation Venerables were being admitted, while all lower-ranked cultivators were kept outside.

Pure Yang True Lord and the Immortal Alliance Direct Disciples arrived at Three Peaks Heaven, where the Luo Family steward recognized their token and welcomed them as honored guests. After the Heavenly River Sect offered gifts and apologized, the surrounding cultivators realized the Immortal Alliance was Bai Yi Sword Lord’s Dao Domain.

• The Luo Family steward refused rooms to several powerful families, whose descendants then mocked a shabby carriage arriving at Three Peaks Heaven.
• Pure Yang True Lord asked the young guide to display his token, revealing a Domain-Suppressing City Imprint that made the Luo Family steward recognize the Immortal Alliance’s status.
• The Luo Family steward welcomed Pure Yang True Lord, Zi Mochen, Gu Sheng, and the other Immortal Alliance Direct Disciples, and ordered attendants to escort the young guide inside as well.
• A Heavenly River Sect cultivator recognized the Immortal Alliance and warned Zheng Zhi’s grandson, who hurriedly apologized and sent Heaven and Earth Spirit Medicine as gifts.
• The surrounding cultivators connected the Immortal Alliance to Bai Yi Sword Lord, the sage’s disciple who had killed a Spirit Transformation cultivator while still at Nascent Soul.

The Immortal Alliance delegation arrived at the Luo Family’s Three Peaks Heaven, where Luo Muzhong welcomed them and Bai Yi contacted the gathering through a new Projection Pill. Bai Yi secured the Luo Family’s promise to protect the delegation and invited them into the Immortal Alliance’s upcoming business venture.

• Cultivators outside recognized Bai Yi and apologized to the Immortal Alliance after the Heavenly River Sect’s young master admitted fault.
• The Luo Family steward escorted Pure Yang True Lord and the delegation into a hall and served them rare Heart-Illuminating Jade-Soul Tea.
• Luo Muzhong arrived, welcomed the delegation, and gave Pure Yang True Lord a gift of spiritual tea.
• Pure Yang True Lord activated a Projection Pill, allowing Bai Yi to appear and speak with Luo Muzhong and the others.
• Bai Yi asked Luo Muzhong to look after the Immortal Alliance’s people, and Luo Muzhong pledged the Luo Family’s protection.
• Bai Yi invited the Luo Family to join the Immortal Alliance’s upcoming business venture, and the delegation prepared to discuss it.

Pure Yang True Lord showed Luo Muzhong the Immortal Alliance’s cultivation technology, and Luo eagerly secured the Luo family a share in the venture. Later, the Domain-Suppressing City opened for a Sage’s sermon, while the Immortal Alliance team arrived at Bai Yi’s Daoist ground and was astonished by its spiritual energy.

• Pure Yang True Lord demonstrated nearly a thousand cultivation technology creations to Luo Muzhong, who asked for the Luo family to join the venture.
• Pure Yang True Lord confirmed that Bai Yi had already arranged a share for the Luo family, and Luo offered to cover the Immortal Alliance’s expenses.
• The Domain-Suppressing City appeared above Heaven-Ascending City, and countless cultivators entered after the bell rang nine times.
• Three Immortals Sect grand elders discussed the World-Passing Ancient Road and the missing geniuses before entering the city with gifts and disciples.
• Feng Weiyi led the Immortal Alliance team into Bai Yi’s Daoist ground, where their equipment measured spiritual energy at 1,396 spirit pascals.

Bai Yi welcomed the Immortal Alliance researchers and secured them two days to exhibit their work after Sage Xiang's sermon. As Domain-Suppressing City prepared a grand Dao platform, the bell and Dao tones dispelled cultivators' heart demons and prompted countless breakthroughs before the sermon had begun; the honored guests then arrived to congratulate Sage Xiang.

• Bai Yi welcomed the researchers with spirit fruits and pills, and told them the Immortal Alliance would have two days to present its work after the sermon.
• Feng Weiyi thanked Bai Yi for securing the exhibition, and Bai Yi said he hoped the Immortal Alliance would support him again in the future.
• Domain-Suppressing City's grand elder began the celebration, and the city's hall masters formed a six-direction homage platform while disciples brought offerings.
• The ancient bell and Dao tones cleansed cultivators' heart demons, leading tens of millions to break through bottlenecks and form Golden Cores or Nascent Souls before Sage Xiang's sermon began.
• The grand elder ordered the banners raised to welcome the guests, and Zhang Wentian and Liu Qingyan offered congratulations to Sage Xiang.

At the Golden Crow Hall, Sage Xiang began preaching the pure yang Dao to hundreds of millions of cultivators, and his words triggered a year of widespread enlightenment. As the sermon ended, he announced that his direct disciple would share a method with the world.

• Representatives of the foremost powers arrived for Sage Xiang’s sermon, and cultivators crowded toward the Six-Sided Dao Platform.
• Grand Elder Haide suppressed the fighting cultivators with a strike of his staff and warned them against disorder at the ceremony.
• Xiang Kuang emerged from the Golden Crow Hall and began preaching the pure yang Dao to the assembled cultivators.
• Xiang Kuang’s sermon unfolded over half a month as visions of suns, yin, and yang filled the world and guided the cultivators’ enlightenment.
• After more than a year, the cultivators awoke to Xiang Kuang’s announcement that his direct disciple would impart a method to the world.

Bai Yi appeared before the cultivators gathered at Golden Crow Hall to introduce the Immortal Alliance’s technology and Spirit Conversion, declaring that they would change immortal cultivation. When a Four Seas Commerce Association elder challenged his claim, Bai Yi demonstrated devices that rapidly drew and combined powerful formations.

• Xiang Kuang told Bai Yi to make a name for himself on the World-Passing Ancient Road while following his own heart.
• Bai Yi revealed his perfected Sword Domain before the gathered cultivators, astonishing the leaders of the major powers and the crowd.
• Bai Yi announced that he would explain technology and Spirit Conversion and claimed they would change the way of immortal cultivation.
• A late Spirit Transformation elder from the Four Seas Commerce Association angrily accused Bai Yi of arrogance.
• Bai Yi used silvery rhomboid devices to draw multiple fourth-tier formations and merge them into a formation approaching fifth-tier power.

Bai Yi demonstrated how intelligent formation technology let ordinary cultivators deploy powerful formations with far less cost than traditional methods. He ended by revealing the formation circuitry behind a second-rank Raging Wind Dune Formation and claiming it achieved full power with only one-thirtieth the Golden Crystal Sand.

• Bai Yi instantly deployed overlapping formations, astonishing the formation practitioners who recognized his Quasi-Fifth-Rank Grand Formation.
• Bai Yi announced that everyone would be able to command grand formations, and a hundred Immortal Alliance cultivators demonstrated intelligent formation bases suited to different cultivation ranks.
• Ordinary cultivators cheered at the prospect of affordable formations, while traditional Formation Cultivators objected that Bai Yi’s claims dismissed their expertise and the high costs of formation materials.
• Bai Yi acknowledged the traditional method’s value, then cut open a second-rank intelligent formation matrix base to display its spiritual circuitry and miniature terminal.
• Bai Yi introduced Spirit-Transformed Machinery and Intelligent Immortal Cultivation, claiming the Raging Wind Dune Formation used one-thirtieth the usual Golden Crystal Sand while retaining full power.

Bai Yi unveiled the Omnidomain Formation Terminal Robot, demonstrating how it let Ziwei True Lord control and combine four formations at once. The exhibition left cultivators and major factions weighing the power of technological methods, while formation cultivators who had opposed them became enthusiastic supporters.

• Bai Yi introduced the Omnidomain Formation Terminal Robot as a product made specifically for formation cultivators.
• Ziwei True Lord used the robot to activate four fourth-tier formations simultaneously, despite being only at the Nascent Soul early stage.
• Ziwei True Lord merged the four formations into a mobile Four Symbols Formation and amplified its power to the Nascent Soul late stage.
• Zhang Wentian struggled to understand the robot's restrictions and spirituality, while Ao Shan worried that technological methods would erode the Demon Race's advantages.
• The formation cultivators who had condemned the technology praised it and declared that it was leading their field.

Bai Yi demonstrated the Immortal Alliance’s intelligent pill furnace, showing that ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators could use it to refine many pills and helping win support for technology across the cultivation world. After Xiang Kuang crushed opposition from major factions, Bai Yi spent half a month unveiling technological advances across many disciplines, culminating in mechas, battleships, and Dao Domain strike cannons.

• Bai Yi introduced the Pill Cauldron M-01 Type and explained how cultivators could use it to refine pills without years of alchemy training.
• Bai Yi used the furnace to complete a fourth-tier pill, stirring excitement among rogue cultivators and smaller factions while alarming the major factions.
• Several major-faction elders denounced the technology method, but Xiang Kuang killed them and warned that anyone obstructing its spread would die.
• Zhang Wentian, the Three Immortals Sect, and other top factions accepted the technology method after Xiang Kuang's warning.
• Bai Yi demonstrated technological creations across cultivation disciplines over half a month, then unveiled Cultivator Mechas, Aerospace Battleships, and Aerospace Multi-Matrix Dao Domain Strike Cannons on the sixteenth day.

Bai Yi demonstrated the Immortal Alliance’s Houyi Planetary Armament by pitting it against Xu Changning, a Spirit Transformation cultivator captured from Fusheng Dao Domain. After nearly half a month of combat, the armament overcame Xu Changning’s attacks and killed him, leaving the gathered forces to witness the power of the Alliance’s technology.

• Bai Yi noticed the Four Seas Commerce Association’s displeasure and resolved to target its territory after the exhibition.
• Bai Yi introduced Xu Changning and the Houyi Planetary Armament, then activated its warfare module and revealed Xu Changning as its opponent.
• Xu Changning condemned the Immortal Alliance for making him a spectacle and attacked the armament with his hundred-weapons divine resonance.
• The Houyi Planetary Armament countered Xu Changning’s attacks and techniques with formations, defenses, and technological systems as the battle continued for nearly half a month.
• Xu Changning exhausted his Dao essence, and a Pure Yang Arrow pierced his body and soul, killing him.

Bai Yi revealed the Planetary Armed Base, announced its discounted price, and brought the technology exhibition to a close amid a frenzy of interest from cultivators. As buyers rushed to register, Heaven-Ascending City's major lineages sought Luo Pingfeng's help gaining access to the Immortal Alliance's technology trade.

• Bai Yi demonstrated the Planetary Armed Base's strength and said it could withstand the combined attacks of two Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Bai Yi announced that the armed base would cost one hundred thousand supreme-grade spirit stones, prompting minor Dao Domain forces to compete to buy them.
• Bai Yi stopped the cultivators' excited Divine Sense transmissions with his Sword Domain and directed interested buyers to shops in Heaven-Ascending City and Domain-Suppressing City.
• Cultivators rushed toward Heaven-Ascending City to inquire about prices and register transactions, while Bai Yi promised transparent pricing and a discount for large early orders.
• Luo Pingfeng deflected requests from Heaven-Ascending City's patriarchs to arrange access to the technology trade, and a representative of the Four Seas Commerce Association asked him about doing business.

Luo Pingfeng refused Guo Heyuan’s attempt to involve the Four Seas Commerce Association in promoting technological creations, despite Guo’s threat to use the association’s influence against the Luo Family. At Golden Crow Hall, Xiang Kuang told Bai Yi to walk the World-Passing Ancient Road, but before Bai Yi could ask why, the road changed and appeared across Langyu Qingming Heaven.

• Guo Heyuan urged Luo Pingfeng to reconsider promoting technological creations and surrounded him with an intimidating aura.
• Luo Pingfeng stood by the Luo Family’s commitment to Bai Yi’s undertaking, and Guo Heyuan left after warning him of the consequences.
• Xiang Kuang and Bai Yi discussed the interests threatened by technological creations, and Xiang Kuang told Bai Yi to visit the World-Passing Ancient Road.
• Bai Yi began asking Xiang Kuang what the road truly was, but a sudden upheaval shook Langyu Qingming Heaven.
• The World-Passing Ancient Road pierced through the Desolate Realm and appeared before all cultivators of Langyu Qingming Heaven.

Nearly thirty Mahayana Sages gathered to investigate upheaval on the World-Passing Ancient Road, but Sacred Lord Minghuang blocked their view from the Desolate Realm. The Sages failed to learn what caused the changes and dispersed, leaving the Ancient Road’s disturbance unresolved.

• Minghuang appeared over the Desolate Realm and rebuked Langyu Qingming Heaven’s Sages, while Bai Yi’s sword heart protected him from the sound.
• Xiang Kuang revealed his Solar Golden Crow power, and the Sages combined their auras with Langyu Qingming Heaven’s origin to force Minghuang’s Dharma body back.
• The Sages discussed the Ancient Road’s upheaval, and the Many Treasures Pavilion’s master warned that it could disrupt his business.
• Li Daoyuan tried to use a heaven-scrying mirror to investigate but saw only a muddled blank, then said the Heaven-Hearing Pavilion would leave the matter alone.
• The Four Seas Sage asked whether Yi Daoting was involved, but Li Daoyuan said he did not know; the Many Treasures Pavilion’s master also declined to investigate, and the Sages dispersed.

Bai Yi learned that he would enter the World-Passing Ancient Road in seven days as Domain-Suppressing City’s representative, while Xiang Kuang assured him he could reach it despite Sage Minghuang’s opposition. After the technology exhibition, the Immortal Alliance’s creations spread rapidly through Langyu Qingming Heaven, overwhelming the Luo Family’s shops with demand.

• Xiang Kuang told Bai Yi that he could take him to the World-Passing Ancient Road, though he admitted he was not yet a match for Sage Minghuang.
• Xiang Kuang explained that entrants had to defeat same-level royal prodigies from the Desolate Realm and warned Bai Yi to trust only himself on the Ancient Road.
• Xiang Kuang instructed Bai Yi to take a token and represent Domain-Suppressing City in the Desolate Realm in seven days.
• Immortal Alliance cultivators used real-time feedback to manage surging interest in technological creations after the exhibition.
• News of the Technology Method spread across nearby factions and territories, and the Luo Family’s shops were overwhelmed by rogue cultivators and smaller factions.

Bai Yi secured the Luo Family’s support for the Immortal Alliance’s expansion as its technological creations swept across Langyu Qingming Heaven. When the World-Passing Ancient Road reopened, ordinary cultivators tried to cross toward the Desolate Realm, while a dragon prince declared that destiny was fixed by birth.

• Bai Yi welcomed Luo Xingheng and assured him that he and his master stood with the Luo Family against the Four Seas Commerce Association.
• Luo Xingheng pledged the Luo Family’s support and handed over tokens, which Feng Weiyi discreetly received.
• Bai Yi said the Luo Family would remain on the side of absolute advantage, and Feng Weiyi felt his long-held burden lift.
• The Immortal Alliance’s technologies spread rapidly, and the Azure Water Sect used an orbital weapon base formation to repel a Spirit Transformation demon.
• The Desolate Realm’s bridge reopened, but its pressure knocked ordinary cultivators who tried to cross back into the Gray Realm.
• A dragon prince told Ao Ya that destiny was determined at birth and said she was fated to lead their clan back to the Emperor Demon Court.

Ao Zhen took Ao Ya into the Desolate Realm, while Qin Minmin resolved to enter the World-Passing Ancient Road despite learning that its trials were a struggle for Karma. Qin Fu revealed the road’s dangers and warned her to avoid a sword-wielding kid from Domain-Suppressing City.

• Ao Ya told Ao Zhen she disliked fighting and bullying others, so he promised to handle what she disliked and carried her through the rift into the Desolate Realm.
• Qin Minmin declared she would travel the World-Passing Ancient Road, and Qin Fu appeared after she detected him hiding nearby.
• Qin Minmin awakened Amethyst Phoenix Fire and insisted on taking the road, while Qin Fu explained the Ancient Road’s history and its struggle over prodigies’ Karma.
• Qin Minmin accepted the risk of competing for Karma, and Qin Fu warned her to avoid the sword-wielding kid from Domain-Suppressing City.

Qin Fu explained that Bai Yi had reached the beginnings of the Sword Heart Realm, prompting Qin Minmin to set her sights on the lower-realm prodigy. As the World-Passing Ancient Road drew near, Bai Yi entrusted Spirit Sword Dojo to Feng Weiyi, received a technological storage ring from the Immortal Alliance, and departed for the Desolate Realm.

• Qin Minmin questioned her father’s concern about Bai Yi, but Qin Fu praised Bai Yi’s sword talent and said he had begun to comprehend Sword Heart.
• Qin Minmin accepted a Many Treasures Pavilion jade coin from Qin Fu and flew away, determined to examine Bai Yi herself.
• Feng Weiyi told Bai Yi that the Four Seas Commerce Association had temporarily backed down after the World-Passing Ancient Road’s upheaval became widely known.
• Bai Yi gave Feng Weiyi the talisman controlling Spirit Sword Dojo and accepted an Immortal Alliance technological spirit-conversion storage ring.
• Bai Yi flew into the Desolate Realm on his way to the World-Passing Ancient Road.

Li Changhe of the Three Immortals Main Sect appeared as Desolate Clan cultivators slaughtered invading Nascent Soul cultivators. He erased the Desolate Clan attackers and urged the survivors to leave.

• A Desolate Clan warrior hurled a flaming boulder at the approaching cultivators and severely wounded the Golden Light Sect's grand elder when he tried to stop it.
• Thousands of Desolate Clan cultivators appeared and began killing the Nascent Soul cultivators, with a snake-clan youth devouring one cultivator's Nascent Soul.
• The Desolate Clan fighters overwhelmed the larger force, killing over ten thousand Nascent Soul cultivators while losing only about a hundred of their own.
• As the surviving cultivators fled, Li Changhe appeared and erased the dozens of tribal elites and more than a hundred other Desolate Clan cultivators.
• Li Changhe identified himself as belonging to the Three Immortals Main Sect and advised the survivors to leave.

Li Changhe and other hidden prodigies revealed their strength amid the upheaval on the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Road, while Bai Yi entered the Desolate Realm and reached the foot of its Sacred Mountain. He prepared to climb the mountain, where a trial awaited.

• Surviving cultivators debated Li Changhe’s Three Immortals Main Sect and heard an elder claim that a powerful upper-realm expert had created Langyu Qingming Heaven.
• A purple-haired young man and Ao Zhen slaughtered Desolate Realm cultivators, while other hidden disciples of Sages emerged and displayed their power.
• Cultivators realized the Hidden Dragon Ranking excluded the major powers’ true prodigies, though Bai Yi remained at its summit.
• Bai Yi followed Xiang Kuang’s token to the Desolate Realm Sacred Mountain after sensing that he had arrived late to the trial.
• Bai Yi reached the mountain’s foot and learned that its Great Dao pressure prevented flight and magic, leaving him to climb on foot.