Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi confronted Lanhai Sect’s top True Disciples and challenged Qin Shi, He Xinlan, and Zhao Yongchen to fight him together. Qin Shi attacked with Zhao Yongchen, but Bai Yi effortlessly shattered Qin Shi’s techniques and renewed his challenge.

• Bai Yi praised the Lanhai Sect’s top five True Disciples while standing beside the unconscious Zhen Muguang, provoking the watching disciples.
• Qin Shi weighed the risks of fighting or retreating, then stepped onto the arena and framed his challenge as defending the sect’s honor.
• Bai Yi said Qin Shi and the other two could attack together, angering He Xinlan and Zhao Yongchen.
• Zhao Yongchen summoned a purple liger phantom, while Qin Shi launched metal Dao arts and declared he would assist Zhao.
• Bai Yi’s sword strike dispelled Qin Shi’s attacks, and he calmly challenged all three True Disciples to come at him together.

Bai Yi fought Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and He Xinlan after revealing his Sword Qi, overwhelming their combined attacks and defeating Zhao Yongchen. He turned next toward Qin Shi and He Xinlan, declaring that two opponents remained.

• Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and He Xinlan joined forces against Bai Yi after seeing his Sword Qi.
• Zhao Yongchen attacked with beast-soul abilities while Qin Shi and He Xinlan supported him, but Bai Yi broke through their coordinated assault.
• Bai Yi crushed Zhao Yongchen's beast-soul powers, suppressed his Origin Power, and slammed him into the ground.
• Bai Yi blocked He Xinlan's waves and sent a sword phantom to hold off Qin Shi as he announced that two opponents remained.

Bai Yi faced He Xinlan and Qin Shi as they joined forces, then revealed a sword strike powerful enough to break their strongest techniques at once. He Xinlan and Qin Shi were left defeated, while Bai Yi’s true level in the sword remained unclear.

• Bai Yi recognized He Xinlan’s water Great Dao as a threat, while He Xinlan realized Bai Yi had resisted and reversed his attempt to control the moisture in his body.
• He Xinlan transformed the heavens into a vast sea, and Qin Shi summoned his ancient cauldron Dharma Form and Golden-Feather Twin Flood Dragon Mace to attack alongside him.
• Bai Yi advanced through the heavenly sea and formed a keen blade in his hand, causing the sea, void, and metal weapon sharpness to fall still.
• Bai Yi raised the Bai Cang Sword and delivered one strike that split He Xinlan’s heavenly sea and shattered Qin Shi’s mace, Dharma Form, and defenses.
• He Xinlan bled and stared in disbelief, Qin Shi sank to one knee, and He Xinlan demanded to know who Bai Yi was.

Bai Yi defeated Qin Shi and He Xinlan and collected their Karma before leaving the Lanhai Sect. Fenghe Sage Lord and Senior Brother Lan debated using Bai Yi to secure the sect’s future, and Lan persuaded Fenghe to spare his life and grant him a Top Five True Disciple reward.

• Bai Yi admitted he had fought He Xinlan and Qin Shi for Karma, collected their Karma, and departed after sensing the two Mahayana cultivators watching him.
• Fenghe Sage Lord praised Bai Yi’s abilities and argued that the Lanhai Sect could use him to gain benefits from the two households.
• Senior Brother Lan urged Fenghe Sage Lord not to sacrifice Bai Yi for the sect’s gamble and asked that Bai Yi’s life be spared.
• Fenghe Sage Lord agreed to grant Bai Yi a Top Five True Disciple reward.
• News of Bai Yi defeating three of the Lanhai Sect’s True Disciples spread through the sect and its sphere of influence.

Bai Yi entered the Lanhai Sect’s sixth-floor Book Repository and began copying its vast collection of cultivation legacies with Spirit-Conversion Technology. He planned to remain there until the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened, then send the copied knowledge to his Master.

• Bai Yi asked the inner disciples on duty for access to the sixth floor, and they directed him to Elder Tianshu.
• Bai Yi used his True Disciple token to activate the grand array and entered the sixth-floor repository beneath the Nine Seas Eye.
• Bai Yi surveyed the repository’s extensive legacies, including rare arts and methods for understanding space.
• Bai Yi linked a hundred chip Jade Slips to his Divine Sense and began transcribing the sealed legacy steles.
• Bai Yi decided to spend the month before the grotto-heaven opened copying legacies so he could deliver them to his Master.

As the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven approached, Lanhai Sect disciples discussed the Six Continents Dao Ranking and expected Lan Weihai to represent their sect. The Nine Seas tidal call then sounded, and three streaks of light flew toward the Nine Seas Eye.

• Lanhai Sect disciples recalled how Zhen Muguang lost the final Sea Tide Secret Realm place to a Xinyuan Sect true disciple, while He Xinlan secured a token.
• An older inner disciple explained that the Six Continents Dao Ranking listed fifty prodigies with the potential to become Dao Seeds.
• The disciples predicted that Lan Weihai, famed for his exceptional talent and rapid cultivation, would make the ranking.
• The Nine Seas Eye churned as the tidal call sounded throughout the Lanhai Sect.
• Three streaks of flight light sped toward the Nine Seas Eye as the disciples watched.

Fenghe Sage Lord gathered Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and He Xinlan at the Nine Seas Eye, where Lan Weihai appeared after advancing in the Water Marsh Great Dao and learned that Bai Yi had taken Zhen Muguang’s place. Fenghe Sage Lord brought Lan Weihai and Bai Yi with the others through a spatial array to Guanhai City, where the chapter ended as the city and the Three Light Heavenly Sea came into view.

• Fenghe Sage Lord criticized Qin Shi for making no progress, and Qin Shi recalled his defeats and growing fear of failure.
• Lan Weihai appeared at the Nine Seas Eye, having reached the embryonic form of the fourth realm of the Great Dao, and dismissed Qin Shi as no longer his worthy opponent.
• Lan Weihai learned that Bai Yi had taken Zhen Muguang’s place and defeated Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and He Xinlan, then Bai Yi arrived and greeted him.
• Fenghe Sage Lord took the group through the void to a Lanhai Sect spatial array, and the group traveled through it toward Guanhai City.
• The group arrived at Guanhai City, where three vast oceans converged around the suspended city.

Bai Yi and the Lanhai Sect disciples arrived at Guanhai City before the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened, resisting the city’s Spirit Surge Tide and entering through its crowded gate. After Fenghe Sage Lord met Min He, Lan Weihai led the juniors toward the Lanhai Sect’s lodging on the city’s third level.

• Fenghe Sage Lord carried Bai Yi and the Lanhai Sect group toward Guanhai City, where the dense spiritual energy nearly forced Bai Yi and the others into Spirit Transformation.
• Fenghe Sage Lord explained that Guanhai City’s Spirit Surge Tide tested visitors’ self-control before the grotto-heaven opened.
• Fenghe Sage Lord and the juniors reached the crowded city gate, where nearly a hundred Sages had gathered for the event.
• Min He greeted Fenghe Sage Lord and noticed that two Lanhai Sect juniors were veiled by saint intent, including Bai Yi, whose intent seemed unusually scorching.
• Fenghe Sage Lord gave Lan Weihai a jade token and went with Min He, instructing the juniors to avoid trouble and find the Listening Sea Pavilion.
• Lan Weihai led Bai Yi and the others through Guanhai City’s layered worlds and up to its third level.

Lan Weihai brought Bai Yi and the Lanhai Sect group to the Listening Sea Pavilion, where he explained the Crimson Heart Pool’s power and the history of Divine Abilities. Their visit was interrupted by Su Qing of the Yunqing Sect, who invited them to a gathering hosted by the Longyang Sect.

• Lan Weihai showed the group the Lanhai Sect’s Listening Sea Pavilion and explained that its Crimson Heart Pool could help Nascent Soul cultivators advance beyond their limits.
• Lan Weihai reflected on how the Lanhai Sect’s founding patriarch and two later ancestors had condensed Divine Abilities, while the sect’s declining fortunes had made its resources coveted by others.
• A voice transmission from Su Qing invited Lan Weihai and the Lanhai Sect disciples to the Canghai Province gathering at Pinghuang Pavilion, but Lan Weihai initially shut out the message.
• Su Qing and two Yunqing Sect prodigies arrived outside the Listening Sea Pavilion, and Lan Weihai opened its formation after she said the invitation came from Xu Ruoshan of the Longyang Sect.
• Su Qing explained that the Longyang Sect was hosting the gathering and urged Lan Weihai not to refuse its invitation.

After the Longyang Sect pressured the Lanhai Sect over ownership of the Listening Sea Pavilion, Bai Yi and the others refined the Crimson Sea Essence and greatly increased their power. Lan Weihai led them to the Pinghuang Gathering, where celebrated sect prodigies were arriving.

• Lan Weihai rejected Su Qing's pressure, then explained that the Longyang Sect wanted to reclaim the Listening Sea Pavilion and that its ownership would hinge on the younger generation's performance in the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.
• Bai Yi entered the Crimson Sea Essence pool and refined its contents, while Lan Weihai, Qin Shi, He Xinlan, and Zhao Yongchen joined him.
• After a day, the pool ran dry; Lan Weihai gained about five percent in reserves, Qin Shi and his companions gained ten percent, and Bai Yi quietly gained five percent by refining more than half the essence.
• Lan Weihai led Bai Yi and the others to Pinghuang Pavilion to see the Longyang Sect prodigy.
• At Pinghuang Pavilion, cultivators watched renowned geniuses including Xue Gu, Gu Xin, and Wang Feng arrive.

At the Pinghuang Gathering, Xu Ruoshan welcomed Lan Weihai, whose arrival drew the attention of Canghai Province’s gathered prodigies. The banquet began with the two geniuses measuring their pressure and techniques, while Bai Yi, Qin Shi, and the others remained overlooked.

• Nascent Soul cultivators discussed Xu Ruoshan’s battle record and his standing as a leading contender for the Dao Ranking.
• Xu Ruoshan announced that the person they were waiting for had arrived, and Lan Weihai entered the Pinghuang Pavilion.
• Xu Ruoshan approached Lan Weihai with the pressure of his way of mountains and metal-stone, but Lan Weihai’s water manifestation held him back.
• Xu Ruoshan praised Lan Weihai’s technique and invited him to the place reserved beside the Longyang Sect, ignoring Bai Yi, Qin Shi, and the others.
• The Pinghuang Gathering’s banquet began, and its lavish food and rare treasures impressed the assembled prodigies.

At the Pinghuang Gathering, Xu Ruoshan presented rare treasures to the gathered sect prodigies, including a Heart-Remnant Stone that revealed the Longyang Sect’s designs on the Lanhai Sect’s Listening Sea Pavilion. The banquet ended with Bai Yi wondering how strong Xu Ruoshan was.

• Zhu Changyi praised Xu Ruoshan’s lavish banquet, while Ke Bufan mocked Lan Weihai and the Lanhai Sect.
• Xu Ruoshan explained that the gathering was meant to connect sect geniuses before the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened and help deepen their foundations.
• Crane demons brought out a Nascent Soul Fruit, stirring longing among the gathered prodigies.
• Xu Ruoshan presented a Heart-Remnant Stone, drawing the attention of Lan Weihai, Bai Yi, and the other sect leaders.
• Bai Yi recognized the stone’s value and inferred that the Longyang Sect had prepared it to pressure the Lanhai Sect over the Listening Sea Pavilion.

At the Pinghuang Gathering, the Longyang Sect and other sects offered treasures as stakes, while Xu Ruoshan forced Lan Weihai to stake the Listening Sea Pavilion. The two entered the sealed arena and began their battle, with Xu Ruoshan countering Lan Weihai’s ocean assault with a five-fingered mountain.

• Xu Ruoshan announced the Heart-Remnant Stone as the Longyang Sect’s stake, and Ke Bufan offered the Wind Forest Cloud True Diagram for the Xinyuan Sect.
• He Xinlan explained to Bai Yi that the Pinghuang Gathering’s contests allowed victors to claim stakes and gain an advantage on the Sea Tide Dao Ranking.
• Chief disciples from the sects placed treasures on the cloud platform, and Ke Bufan demanded that Lan Weihai present the Lanhai Sect’s stake.
• Xu Ruoshan revealed that the Longyang Sect intended to reclaim the Listening Sea Pavilion, and Lan Weihai threw the Listening Sea Command Talisman onto the platform before accepting his challenge.
• He Xinlan led Bai Yi and the others into a sealed arena within the pavilion’s void, where Lan Weihai unleashed a vast ocean against Xu Ruoshan.
• Xu Ruoshan transformed his hand into a towering five-fingered mountain and smashed apart Lan Weihai’s oncoming waves.

Xu Ruoshan overwhelmed Lan Weihai with his mountain Dao, treasures, and Black-Yellow Treasure Hall, but Lan Weihai revealed that he had comprehended the Water Marsh Great Dao to the Fourth Realm. Xu Ruoshan countered with an embryonic Fourth Realm mountain Dao, leaving Lan Weihai on the verge of defeat and the Listening Sea Pavilion likely to change hands.

• Xu Ruoshan used his Hundred Mountains Layered Peaks Manifestation to suppress Lan Weihai’s tidal manifestation and drive him back.
• Xu Ruoshan summoned the Black-Yellow Thick Earth Banners and True Dragon Pagoda, but Lan Weihai cut down the pagoda’s yellow dragon with his Sea-Calming Raging-Tide Saber.
• Xu Ruoshan attacked Lan Weihai with the Black-Gold Spear and suppressed his defensive artifacts, pushing him to the brink of defeat.
• Lan Weihai released a drop of profound water and spread a vast water-marsh domain, revealing that his Water Marsh Great Dao had reached the Fourth Realm.
• Xu Ruoshan revealed his Black-Yellow Treasure Hall dharma form and an embryonic Fourth Realm mountain Dao, which began to suppress Lan Weihai’s waters.

Xu Ruoshan defeated Lan Weihai and took the Sea-Hearing Token, leaving the Lanhai Sect’s allies grieving the loss of the Listening Sea Pavilion. Bai Yi then challenged Xu Ruoshan, who had just accepted the other sects’ praise.

• Xu Ruoshan used the Dark Yellow Banner to suppress Lan Weihai’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form and won their day-long duel, claiming the Sea-Hearing Token.
• Ke Bufan gloated over Lan Weihai’s defeat and left, while He Xinlan, Qin Shi, and Zhao Yongchen worried that the Lanhai Sect had been sacrificed by the Saint Lords.
• Bai Yi offered to help the Lanhai Sect secure the Listening Sea Pavilion and said he wanted the Heart-Remnant Stone.
• Bai Yi dismissed Qin Shi’s warning that Xu Ruoshan’s fourth-realm Dao made him too powerful, then vanished after claiming he had not used his full strength.
• Xu Ruoshan accepted the other disciples’ praise and confidence that he would win first place at the Pinghuang Gathering.
• Bai Yi appeared before Xu Ruoshan and asked him to surrender the Sea-Hearing Token and his other winnings.

Bai Yi challenged Xu Ruoshan at Pinghuang Pavilion, but Xu required him to defeat Ke Bufan first. Bai Yi felled Ke Bufan with a single sword strike, leaving Xu’s challenge unanswered.

• Bai Yi emerged from the void, offered Xu Ruoshan Dragon Origin Pills, and challenged him to a fight.
• Ke Bufan crushed Bai Yi’s pill bottle and attacked, but Xu Ruoshan stopped him and said Bai Yi must first defeat Ke Bufan.
• Ke Bufan tried to drag Bai Yi into a Spatial Secret Realm, but Bai Yi erased his lightning and struck once with Sword Intent.
• Bai Yi’s sword strike shattered Ke Bufan’s artifact robes and wounded him, and the terrified Ke Bufan fled.
• Bai Yi asked Xu Ruoshan whether defeating Ke Bufan was enough.

Bai Yi revealed that he was a sword cultivator who had reached the Sword Dao Fourth Realm and challenged Xu Ruoshan after defeating Ke Bufan with one strike. Four hours later, Xu Ruoshan finished recovering and rose to face Bai Yi.

• Bai Yi reminded Xu Ruoshan that he had fulfilled the condition for a duel, and Xu Ruoshan accepted after taking a True Essence Pill.
• Xu Ruoshan planned to use the Dark Yellow Banner and his Nascent Soul Dharma Form to defend against Bai Yi’s sword, then set their battle for four hours later.
• The sect disciples at the Pinghuang Gathering were shocked that an Ancient Road newcomer had defeated Ke Bufan and challenged Xu Ruoshan.
• He Xinlan, Qin Shi, and Zhao Yongchen returned with Lan Weihai and learned that Bai Yi had severely wounded Ke Bufan with a single sword strike.
• Lan Weihai realized that Bai Yi’s sword was his true Dao and that he had not used his full strength against them.
• After four hours, Xu Ruoshan finished refining the pill and stood to face Bai Yi, who invited him to begin.

Bai Yi faced Xu Ruoshan in Pinghuang Pavilion’s deeper space, where Xu unleashed his mountain manifestation and Dark Yellow Banners against Bai Yi’s sword. Bai Yi steadily suppressed him, and his Sword Qi then hurtled toward the watching Chief Disciples.

• Xu Ruoshan challenged Bai Yi to test his sword and entered Pinghuang Pavilion’s deeper space, drawing the sect disciples and Chief Disciples to watch.
• Xu Ruoshan summoned his Black-Gold Spear, Nascent Soul Dharma Form, and hundred-mountains manifestation, then struck Bai Yi with a mountain-like blow.
• Bai Yi drew the Bai Cang Sword and severed Xu Ruoshan’s mountain momentum with a sweeping slash, forcing Xu to block his next attack with the Dark Yellow Banners.
• Xu Ruoshan used the banners to form a ten-thousand-li mountains-and-rivers array, but Bai Yi continued to intercept his spear strikes and suppress him with sword light.
• Xu Ruoshan dodged Bai Yi’s latest sword strike, whose torrent of Sword Qi severed the void and hurtled toward the watching Chief Disciples.

Bai Yi’s Bai Cang Sword forced Zhu Changyi to use his Dao-protecting treasure and pushed Xu Ruoshan to unleash his strongest mountain art. As Xu Ruoshan’s mountain descended, Bai Yi began a devastating counterstrike called Origin Extinction.

• Bai Yi’s sword qi severed Zhu Changyi’s flame dragon, forcing him to use his Fire-Pattern Plantain Fan to burn the strike away.
• Xu Ruoshan endured Bai Yi’s repeated attacks but feared the sword intent would grievously wound his soul, then prepared a secret art he had meant to use against two other opponents.
• Bai Yi named his sword the Bai Cang Sword as Xu Ruoshan fused himself with his mountain aspect and brought its crushing might down on him.
• Lan Weihai and Zhao Yongchen worried they could not help Bai Yi, but Bai Yi smiled and summoned an immense azure sword aspect.
• Bai Yi unleashed Origin Extinction, and his sword strike split Xu Ruoshan’s mountain and severed heaven and earth.

Bai Yi defeated Xu Ruoshan with his sword heart and claimed the Sea-Hearing Token and the sects’ stakes. He gave the token to Lan Weihai, then the Mahayana cultivators watched the battle and recognized the depth of his sword Dao.

• Xu Ruoshan admitted defeat, gave Bai Yi the Sea-Hearing Token, and escaped with a Spirit Talisman.
• The great sects’ chief disciples conceded the stakes to Bai Yi and hurriedly left Pinghuang Pavilion.
• Bai Yi gave the Sea-Hearing Token to Lan Weihai as repayment for the Lanhai Sect’s guidance, then collected the stakes and departed.
• Min He and the other Mahayana cultivators watched Bai Yi’s final sword strike and realized he had long since condensed a complete sword heart.
• Fenghe Sage Lord argued that Bai Yi’s entry into the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven would benefit Canghai Province’s heritage.