Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi guided Xu Changqing’s sword cultivation as the Xu Household convoy reached Luoshan City, where Bai Yi prepared to enter the Luoshan Grand Competition. He entered the city with Second Master Xu and discovered its autumn Dao manifestation, while judging the Xu Household’s cultivation record harshly.

• Bai Yi taught Xu Changqing that sword cultivation reflected the cultivator’s heart, and Xu Changqing strengthened his Sword Intent and loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• The Xu Household convoy arrived at Luoshan City, and Bai Yi considered the Origin Realm’s powerful cultivators and the Dao-Deriving Mirror’s recovery.
• Bai Yi agreed to enter the Luoshan Grand Competition through the Xu Household, which offered to host him until the competition began in three days.
• Second Master Xu presented the Xu Household’s identification jade token, and Bai Yi entered Luoshan City with him.
• Bai Yi saw that intangible autumn leaves in the city carried fragments of the Dao of autumn, and he judged the Xu Household unimpressive despite its advantages.

Bai Yi arrived at the Xu Household in Luoshan City ahead of the Luoshan Grand Competition, while the household learned that he was a heavenly prodigy from beyond the Origin Realm. The Xu ancestor advised them to remain friendly and wait for the overseeing sect to clarify its intentions, as Xu Changshu looked forward to testing himself against such prodigies.

• Xu Changshu welcomed Second Master Xu and Bai Yi to the Xu Household, then offered Bai Yi lodging and support before rushing to inform the ancestor.
• Bai Yi realized the Xu Household had likely recognized that he came from beyond the Origin Realm and decided to wait and see how the realm treated outsiders.
• Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu summoned the Xu ancestor, who identified Bai Yi as a heavenly prodigy from beyond and explained that the Origin Realm's great sects secretly investigated them.
• The Xu ancestor told them not to antagonize Bai Yi, but to treat him well and wait for the overseeing sect to act; he warned that small lineages could not safely oppose either side.
• Xu Changshu looked forward to seeing heavenly prodigies at the competition and reflected that the Xu Household was too small to give him the resources he needed.

As the Luoshan Grand Tournament began, Bai Yi examined the Lanhai Sect’s spatial formations and considered whether they could benefit the Immortal Alliance. When the sect’s envoys arrived, Bai Yi effortlessly shielded Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu from the pressure of five perfected Spirit Transformation experts.

• News of the approaching tournament spread through Luoshan City as cultivators discussed the competing geniuses and the Jiu Household’s contender.
• After stabilizing his sword cultivation and physique, Bai Yi joined Shu Changqing and the Xu Household party on their way to the Central Martial Arts Secret Realm.
• The tournament arena transformed into a temporary martial arts secret realm, and Bai Yi secretly studied its intricate spatial formations.
• The Lanhai Tower Ship arrived, and the five Luoshan patriarchs opened the formation to welcome the superior sect’s envoys.
• The five patriarchs’ combined pressure forced most cultivators to bow, but Bai Yi used his Origin Power to protect Xu Changshu and Second Master Xu.

The Luoshan Grand Competition began, and the Lanhai Sect offered Feng He a True Disciple position to join their sect. As the contestants entered the secret realm, two duels ended almost instantly, revealing the terrifying strength of a wood Dao prodigy.

• Lan Tianmu praised Feng He and invited him to join the Lanhai Sect as a True Disciple, and the Jiu Household ancestor agreed.
• The Jiu Household ancestor announced the competition's rewards and opened the Martial Performance Secret Realm for more than sixteen hundred contestants.
• Bai Yi and the other contestants entered the secret realm, where Jiu Yulin waited with other Nascent Soul prodigies and dismissed their chances against Feng He.
• The Huanchun Bell began the competition, and the contestants were transported to separate martial platforms.
• Two water mirrors vanished within three breaths, and observers learned that one opponent had been defeated by a third-stage minor-accomplishment wood Dao intent and Nascent Soul Perfection origin power.

The second round began with Bai Yi instantly defeating a mid-stage nascent soul opponent using a Great Sun Dao phenomenon infused with pure yang aura. Lan Tianmu and the other Spirit Transformation patriarchs were left searching the high platform for the unknown young man in white robes.

• The Spirit Transformation patriarchs praised the Jiu Household's prodigy and noticed that another contestant had also ended his first-round fight instantly.
• Second Master Xu secretly bet his fortune on the Xu Household of Muhe City taking first place, confident in Bai Yi's ability.
• Xu Changshu returned from his match defeated, then turned his attention to watching the remaining contestants.
• Bai Yi's second-round opponent welcomed the earth-rich terrain, but Bai Yi's Great Sun Dao attack defeated him before he could identify his opponent.
• Lan Tianmu and the other patriarchs recognized the terrifying Great Sun Dao and pure yang aura, then wondered who the young man in white robes was.

Lan Tianmu learned that Bai Yi was an otherworldly prodigy and rewarded the Xu Household for reporting him. As the tournament continued, spectators and elders noticed that Bai Yi and the Jiu Household’s genius were instantly defeating their opponents with Great Dao phenomena.

• A Lanhai Sect disciple delivered the sect master’s order, and Lan Tianmu summoned the Xu Household of Muhe City.
• Xu Changshu recounted how the Xu Household had encountered Bai Yi and reported their suspicions about his identity.
• Lan Tianmu confirmed Bai Yi’s age, cultivation, and Great Sun Dao comprehension, then awarded the Xu Household a Divine Nurturing Pill and the right to nominate five inner disciples.
• As the tournament narrowed to fewer waterlight mirrors, spectators noticed two mirrors shattering at the start of each round and searched for the Jiu Household’s otherworldly prodigy.
• Lan Tianmu and the Spirit Transformation ancestors recalled how Bai Yi and the Jiu Household’s genius had defeated opponents with Great Dao phenomena.

Bai Yi and Yi Guye faced off in the final duel, where their mastery of the Great Dao turned the contest into a clash of wood and pure yang. Bai Yi overwhelmed Yi Guye’s tree realm with a concentrated point of pure yang, leaving the outcome of the duel unresolved as the realm vanished around them.

• The last two contestants entered the Martial Performance Secret Realm as cultivators across the ten cities watched.
• Yi Guye formed a sea of ancient trees with his Great Dao of Wood, but Bai Yi remained calm inside the manifestation and examined its nature.
• Yi Guye unleashed a wooden dragon and used a Three-Colored Treasure Tree sapling to strengthen his attack.
• Bai Yi invoked pure yang intent, setting the wooden dragon and Yi Guye’s wood imagery ablaze.
• Yi Guye revived his tree realm with the Three-Colored Treasure Tree, but Bai Yi released a concentrated point of pure yang that made the surrounding imagery, including Yi Guye, vanish.

After defeating Yi Guye, Bai Yi understood how cultivators on the Ancient Road wielded their Great Dao and gained a small amount of Karma. When Lanhai Sect elder Lan Tianmu tried to pressure him into visiting the sect, Bai Yi countered with a Mahayana True Treasure.

• Bai Yi realized that cultivators in the Origin Realm incorporated their cultivation methods and protective arts into their Great Dao, and reflected on Xiang Kuang’s warnings about the limits imposed by Langyu Qingming Heaven.
• After the Martial Performance Secret Realm dissipated, Yi Guye’s Karma flowed into Bai Yi, increasing his total by about one percent.
• The gathered cultivators reacted with shock to Bai Yi’s victory, while Lan Tianmu introduced himself as a Lanhai Sect elder and invited Bai Yi to visit the sect.
• Bai Yi accepted that he was unfamiliar with the Origin Realm but kept his plan to reach the Three Light Heavenly Sea through the Lanhai Sect’s teleportation formation.
• Lan Tianmu surrounded Bai Yi with the pressure of his Great Dao, but Bai Yi dispelled the ocean with a pure yang sun and revealed a Great Sun Blazing Yang Banner containing Mahayana sacred intent.

Bai Yi learned that the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven was a major opportunity in the Origin Realm and heard Lan Tianmu invite him to enter on behalf of the Lanhai Sect. After Bai Yi revealed he already had a Sea Tide Token, Fenghe Sage Lord intervened and granted him the freedom to choose, and Bai Yi agreed to let Lan Tianmu lead the way.

• Lan Tianmu praised Bai Yi's strength and invited him to enter the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven for the Lanhai Sect.
• Lan Tianmu explained how cultivators and sects competed for Karma, and how the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven could benefit both Bai Yi and the Lanhai Sect.
• Bai Yi asked what he would gain and revealed that he already possessed a Sea Tide Token, making Lan Tianmu realize he had other options.
• Fenghe Sage Lord appeared, eased the pressure on Luoshan City, and told Bai Yi he could choose for himself.
• Bai Yi accepted Lan Tianmu's guidance after Fenghe Sage Lord's intervention.

After Bai Yi defeated Yi Guye and received Fenghe Sage Lord’s approval, Lan Tianmu brought him aboard the Lanhai Tower Ship and explained the Top Five True Disciples and their privileges. As the ship approached the Lanhai Sect, Bai Yi became interested in claiming those benefits, while Lan Tianmu doubted the sect’s five prodigies would be threatened by him.

• Lan Tianmu invited Bai Yi aboard the Lanhai Tower Ship, and the defeated Yi Guye and Lanhai Sect disciples followed them.
• Two inner disciples discussed Bai Yi’s potential to rank among the Top Five True Disciples and warned that the five would resist losing their places before the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened.
• Lan Tianmu sent the two inner disciples to the lowest deck after realizing Bai Yi and he had heard their conversation.
• Bai Yi asked Lan Tianmu about the Top Five True Disciples, and Lan Tianmu explained their five grotto-heaven places, status, and special resources.
• Bai Yi grew interested in taking advantage of the Top Five True Disciples’ privileges as the Lanhai Tower Ship headed for the Lanhai Sect.

Bai Yi and Yi Guye arrived at the Lanhai Sect and were appointed its thirty-ninth and fortieth true disciples by decree of Fenghe Sage Lord. Afterward, Fenghe Sage Lord revealed Bai Yi’s exceptional sword aptitude and planned to use him to secure inheritance slots for the sect’s other disciples.

• Lan Tianmu brought Bai Yi and Yi Guye through the Lanhai Sect’s vast aquatic domains to the Upper Sect Hall.
• The Lanhai Sect master rewarded Lan Tianmu with ten years of secluded cultivation at the Nine Seas Eye for recommending Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi resisted the sect master’s ocean-tide pressure with his Pure Yang Great Sun, and the sect master appointed Bai Yi and Yi Guye as true disciples.
• Fenghe Sage Lord told the sect master that Bai Yi’s sword aptitude rivaled his Pure Yang aptitude and that he had comprehended both Dao paths to the third realm before age two hundred.
• Fenghe Sage Lord decided Bai Yi would satisfy the demands of two other sects in exchange for three inheritance slots at the Chaotian Daoist Grounds for Wei Hai and the others.

Fenghe Sage Lord warned that a great calamity threatened the Immortal Realm and that heaven and earth were saving themselves by gathering Karma. After Bai Yi and Yi Guye became Lanhai Sect True Disciples, Bai Yi chose an island in the first ring of the inner sea and planned to use Yi Guye to draw the sect’s top disciples into conflict.

• Fenghe Sage Lord told the Lanhai Sect Master that a coming calamity endangered the Immortal Realm and that the world was seeking to preserve itself through Karma.
• Lan Tianmu brought Bai Yi and Yi Guye to the True Disciple Hall and ordered their registration without delay.
• The hall master registered Bai Yi and Yi Guye as Nascent Soul Perfection True Disciples and explained their access to the Book Repository and inner-sea islands.
• Bai Yi chose an island in the first ring of the inner sea, while Yi Guye selected a nearby island and asked Bai Yi to look after him.
• Bai Yi agreed to Yi Guye’s request and planned to use him to provoke the top five True Disciples.

Bai Yi’s arrival as a True Disciple stirred unease among Lanhai Sect’s top disciples, who feared he could take one of the sect’s limited nominations for the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven. As Bai Yi cultivated on Pure Yang Island, Yi Guye arrived, just as Bai Yi realized the time had come.

• Bai Yi and Yi Guye registered as True Disciples, and Bai Yi chose a cultivation ground in the Inner Sea First Ring with special permission.
• Guo Yuan told Qin Shi that Bai Yi had impressed Fenghe Sage Lord and warned that his arrival could threaten Qin Shi’s position in the upcoming Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven selection.
• Qin Shi dismissed Guo Yuan’s concern and sent a leaf to Zhen Muguang’s island, prompting Zhen Muguang to order Liu Shan to investigate Bai Yi.
• Zhen Muguang worried that Bai Yi could compete for one of Lanhai Sect’s three direct nomination slots, while Liu Shan argued that Bai Yi’s victory over Yi Guye proved little.
• Bai Yi refined his Golden Crow Pure Yang Physique on Pure Yang Island and ran out of Golden Crow True Pills as Bai Cang complained about being kept from battle.
• Yi Guye arrived on Pure Yang Island, and Bai Yi sensed that the time had come.

Bai Yi directed Yi Guye to aggressively expand their faction by targeting the interests of several True Disciples while Bai Yi studied the privileges and secrets held by the sect’s top disciples. Their campaign severely damaged rival businesses and intensified conflicts, leaving Shang Wu and Liu Shan flying toward Black Marsh Market to confront Yi Guye.

• Bai Yi told Yi Guye to stop hiding their expansion and pursue the interests controlled by Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and Zhen Muguang’s factions.
• Bai Yi reviewed dossiers on the privileges of the top five True Disciples and secrets of the Lanhai Sect that he lacked access to.
• Yi Guye expanded Bai Yi’s faction, cut into Zhen Muguang’s businesses, and took customers from Qin Shi’s markets, sparking increasingly violent clashes among disciples.
• Shang Wu complained to Liu Shan that Yi Guye’s expansion was damaging their cultivation resources, while Liu Shan reported that Zhen Muguang had told them to wait until after the Sea Tide Secret Realm.
• After learning that Yi Guye had opened an Easy Pill Hall in Black Marsh Market to undercut his business, Shang Wu flew there to confront him, and Liu Shan followed.

Easy Pill Hall’s lower prices drew customers away from the Zhen Family Pill Hall, prompting the Zhen Family to block the new shop. Lanhai Sect disciples drove them back, but True Disciple Shang Wu arrived and confronted Yi Guye over his growing share of the sect’s businesses.

• Easy Pill Hall’s affordable pills and steady supply drew rogue cultivators and lineages away from the Zhen Family Pill Hall, cutting its business in half.
• Zhen Family disciples blocked Easy Pill Hall and a lineage steward, while Steward He mocked their attempt to control the market.
• The Zhen Family steward sent Nascent Soul cultivators to seal the shop, claiming they would guard it, but Lanhai Sect inner disciples forced them back and humiliated the steward.
• Shang Wu arrived in a rage, and his blood energy injured nearby cultivators before Yi Guye’s wood energy healed many of them.
• Shang Wu accused Yi Guye of taking profits from him and the Zhen Family and expanding into Black Marsh Market, while Yi Guye denied having improper intentions.

Yi Guye accepted Shang Wu’s challenge to a duel over a wager that the loser’s Pill Hall would leave Black Marsh Market. Yi Guye defeated Shang Wu, and Elder Si ruled that Pill Hall had to withdraw from the market.

• Elder Si stopped Shang Wu from attacking Yi Guye in the market and directed them to settle their dispute in the Dueling Arena.
• Yi Guye baited Shang Wu into wagering that the loser’s Pill Hall would leave Black Marsh Market, then had them sign a spiritual contract.
• Shang Wu and Yi Guye entered the Dueling Arena, where Shang Wu attacked with his blood energy and flood-dragon techniques.
• Yi Guye used his Wood Dao to slow, weaken, and imprison Shang Wu, eventually binding and hurling him to the ground.
• Elder Si declared Yi Guye the winner and ruled that, under the contract, Pill Hall had to withdraw from Black Marsh Market.

Zhen Muguang faced mounting losses after Bai Yi’s Easy Pill Hall took the Zhen family’s Black Marsh Market share and damaged business in the other three markets. Qin Shi offered Zhen Muguang information on rival Xinyuan Sect cultivators in exchange for moving against Bai Yi, and Zhen Muguang agreed.

• Zhen Muguang berated Shang Wu for losing the Zhen family’s entire share of Black Marsh Market and learned from Liu Shan that profits in the other three markets had also fallen by around forty percent.
• Zhen Muguang asked Liu Shan about Bai Yi’s background and learned that investigators had found little beyond Bai Yi’s Pure Yang Dao cultivation.
• Qin Shi arrived and proposed cooperating with Zhen Muguang against Bai Yi, explaining that Bai Yi’s actions had also harmed Qin Family businesses.
• Qin Shi offered Zhen Muguang information about the two Xinyuan Sect cultivators competing for grotto-heaven slots and their cultivation flaws.
• Zhen Muguang accepted Qin Shi’s terms, and after Qin Shi left, he told Shang Wu and Liu Shan to act.

Bai Yi escalated the market-town conflicts to pressure Lanhai Sect into allowing him to challenge Zhen Muguang for a top-five True Disciple seat. The sect master approved the challenge, and their duel was set for the next day, drawing disciples back to witness it.

• Bai Yi, Yi Guye, and Wang Mingshi intensified the fighting in the market towns until losses and petitions pushed Lanhai Sect to intervene.
• Bai Yi told Wang Mingshi that the conflict was meant to pressure the sect, and he continued gathering Lanhai Sect's legacy information.
• The sect master summoned Bai Yi and Zhen Muguang, and Bai Yi demanded a chance to challenge for a top-five True Disciple seat.
• Fenghe Sage Lord instructed the sect master to agree, and the sect master approved Bai Yi's challenge.
• Bai Yi and Zhen Muguang agreed to fight the next day, and news of the duel spread throughout Lanhai Sect.

Bai Yi faced Zhen Muguang in a True Disciple duel at the Nine Seas Arena, where his Pure Yang Great Dao overwhelmed Zhen Muguang's rainbow techniques. The fight continued as Bai Yi pressed his advantage and revealed a physique and power far beyond ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Qin Shi gave Zhen Muguang a White Rosy Cloud Mist treasure as an apology and helped him prepare for the duel with Bai Yi.
• Lanhai Sect disciples and True Disciples gathered at the Nine Seas Arena to watch the first True Disciple challenge in decades.
• Zhen Muguang attacked Bai Yi with his Rainbow Light World Phenomenon, surrounding him with deceptive figures and needle-like rays.
• Bai Yi summoned a Golden Crow sun that erased Zhen Muguang's rainbow phantoms, then charged forward with a devastating punch.
• Zhen Muguang blocked the punch with his Nascent Soul Dharma Form and Vortex Starlight Shield, fled, and struck back with a descending rainbow blade.
• Bai Yi dismissed Zhen Muguang's strength and revealed his heavily tempered physique as Golden Crow Dao Marks rose across his body.

Bai Yi overwhelmingly defeated Zhen Muguang, revealing the strength of his Pure Yang Dao and Golden Crow body refinement. After confirming that defeating powerful Origin Realm disciples yielded the Karma of their sects as well, Bai Yi fixed his attention on Qin Shi.

• Bai Yi broke through Zhen Muguang’s rainbow defenses and melted his Light-Splitting Rings with the Pure Yang Great Sun.
• Bai Yi pursued Zhen Muguang for an hour before stamping him unconscious and collapsing the arena around him.
• He Xinlan, Zhao Yongchen, and Qin Shi assessed Bai Yi’s strength, while Qin Shi reflected on the Karma carried by lower-realm geniuses.
• Bai Yi sensed Karma from Zhen Muguang and the Lanhai Sect and concluded that Origin Realm geniuses carried their forces’ Karma as well as their own.
• Bai Yi looked past He Xinlan and Zhao Yongchen and fixed his gaze on Qin Shi.