Chapter Summaries

The Saint Lords discussed the sealed Immortal Gate, the Sacred Heart Sect and Tianlu Mountain’s plan to sacrifice other sects’ prodigies, and Bai Yi’s strength. They decided to notify the other continents and sects, then the Three Light Heavenly Sea’s tides rose and the ceremony began.

• The Longyang Sect grand elder and other Saint Lords marveled at Bai Yi’s talent and considered how his strength could disrupt the Sacred Heart Sect and Tianlu Mountain’s plans.
• The Saint Lords explained that the two sects had enlisted the hundred sects’ prodigies as stepping stones for their Dao Seeds, hoping to open the Immortal Gate and contact the Glazed Dao Sect.
• The Saint Lords agreed that Bai Yi could become the Dao Seed who opened the Immortal Gate, and chose to inform the other five continents, the Sacred Heart Sect, and Tianlu Mountain.
• Three days later, the Three Light Heavenly Sea’s tides rose as Tide-Watching Ancient Bells rang over Guanhai City.
• Hundreds of millions of cultivators gathered at the Sea-Viewing Wall to watch the spectacle, and some broke through as the tides stirred heaven and earth’s workings.

Cultivators gathered to refine the heavenly and earthly energies brought by the three seas’ tides, while elders explained how the energies could strengthen their luck. After the tides ended, the Six Continents Dao Ranking began to appear, and the gathered cultivators anticipated a contest between Tong Tian and He Cheng.

• A young lineage member questioned why his group had traveled to refine the seemingly ordinary energies, and his uncle rebuked them for complaining.
• After five days, the three seas merged and formed a waterspout that drew the energies and spiritual energy back into its vortex.
• An old man explained that the energies replenished cultivators’ fortune, which could help them when forming their cores and Nascent Souls.
• The plump youth declared that he would become a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator and compete in the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven one day.
• The elders expected Tong Tian of the Sacred Heart Sect or He Cheng of Tianlu Mountain to claim the top Dao Ranking position.
• Golden light from across the Six Provinces formed six scrolls, which merged as the Dao Ranking began to unfurl.

The Six Continents Dao Ranking placed Bai Yi of the Lanhai Sect first, above the famed prodigies He Cheng and Tong Tian, stunning cultivators across the provinces. As the prodigies prepared to enter the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven, Minglang revealed Bai Yi came from the same lower realm and said he likely cultivated the Sword Dao.

• The Six Continents Dao Ranking appeared, naming Bai Yi first, He Cheng second, and Tong Tian third, prompting uproar in Guanhai City.
• Zong Tianyang and the Huangyuan Province prodigies admitted they had never heard of Bai Yi and wondered how he could surpass He Cheng and Tong Tian.
• Hua Dao Student, Feng Caiyi, and Wan Zhong discussed Bai Yi, and Hua Dao Student resolved to see what he was like when the grotto-heaven opened.
• Jian Shier noticed Minglang's reaction to Bai Yi's name and asked whether Bai Yi had come from the lower realm through the Ancient Road.
• Minglang confirmed that he and Bai Yi came from the same realm, but said he knew little about Bai Yi's abilities and would not reveal more.
• Minglang said Bai Yi's Dao was probably the Sword Dao, and Jian Shier reacted with sharpened interest.

Tong Tian and He Cheng dismissed Bai Yi's sudden rise to the top of the Six Provinces Dao Seed Record while revealing their knowledge of the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven. Tong Tian then killed the Sacred Heart Sect and Tianlu Mountain disciples, and he and He Cheng consumed their Essence Blood and living souls.

• True Disciples of the Sacred Heart Sect and Tianlu Mountain protested Bai Yi's first-place ranking, while Tong Tian and He Cheng remained calm.
• Tong Tian and He Cheng discussed Bai Yi as a likely prodigy from a lower realm and revealed that the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven contained scattered inheritances of the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Palace.
• He Cheng mocked the Glazed Dao Sect for secretly using the grotto-heaven to make their sects' prodigies compete for its three sea lineages.
• Tong Tian warned He Cheng to watch his words, then killed the True Disciples with his Heavenly Gang manifestation.
• Tong Tian and He Cheng manifested their dark souls and consumed the disciples' Essence Blood and living souls, with Tong Tian's Dao Resonance growing brighter.

As the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened, Bai Yi faced the probing divine senses of the prodigies from the other five provinces. He severed their probing senses and sent five sword-intent slashes toward their tower ships, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• The Sect Master appeared before Tong Tian and He Cheng, ordered them to carry out the lords’ plan against Bai Yi, and warned that failure was not an option.
• The Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven opened at the meeting point of the Three Light Heavenly Sea, and tower ships carrying prodigies from the Six Provinces gathered above the Coral Forest.
• Minglang identified Bai Yi on the Canghai Tower Ship, while Jian Shier sensed that Bai Yi had grasped some measure of sword heart.
• The five other provinces’ prodigies focused their divine senses on Bai Yi, straining the Canghai Province disciples aboard their tower ship.
• Bai Yi opened his eyes, severed the five provinces’ probing divine senses with sword intent, and sent five slashes toward their tower ships.

Bai Yi repelled the five provinces’ prodigies with his Divine Sense Sword Intent as the Mahayana cultivators gathered to open the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven. Once the seashell gate opened, the Six Provinces’ prodigies entered the secret realm, while Bai Yi noticed a strange familiarity in Tong Tian and He Cheng.

• Bai Yi’s Divine Sense swords injured the five provinces’ prodigies, then cut through the combined attacks of nearly seventy of them.
• The Sacred Heart Sect’s patriarch arrived with Tong Tian and He Cheng, praised Bai Yi’s Sword Dao, and summoned the Mahayana cultivators escorting the prodigies.
• The Mahayana cultivators used the Three Seas Dragon Pearl and thirteen dragon scales to summon a three-colored dragon and open the seashell gate to the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.
• The Six Provinces’ prodigies hurried into the spatial vortex, and Bai Yi sensed a faint familiarity in Tong Tian and He Cheng before following them inside.

Bai Yi entered the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven’s sect admission assessment and took its spiritual root and bloodline test. He received the lowest-grade aptitude rating and saw himself placed last in the ranking before proceeding to the second level.

• Bai Yi passed the trial gate’s age and cultivation check and entered the Dao Palace Sea-Serpent Hall assessment.
• Bai Yi approached the jade pillar and took the first trial, which tested spiritual root and bloodline aptitude.
• The test identified Bai Yi as having a single metal heavenly spiritual root and lowest-tier physique and bloodline, giving him the lowest-grade rating.
• Bai Yi appeared last on the prospective disciples’ ranking and suspected the pillar had repeated his test because it had never assessed someone like him.
• Bai Yi dispersed the sword light at his fingertips and headed to the second level.

After receiving a lower-low grade for his Spiritual Root aptitude, Bai Yi excelled in the inheritance-comprehension trial and entered the assessment of Great Dao sensitivity. He perceived a succession of Great Dao manifestations, though the trial’s final result had not yet appeared.

• The prodigies saw Bai Yi receive a lower-low grade Spiritual Root rating, and Tong Tian wondered how he had reached Nascent Soul Perfection so young.
• Bai Yi quickly comprehended the three inheritance arts, demonstrated them, and improved the sword art’s techniques.
• The assessment ranked Bai Yi first with an upper-high grade after only a quarter of an hour.
• Bai Yi entered the Great Dao trial, sat in meditation, and perceived manifestations including the Sword Dao, pure yang, darkness, fist light, water, and flames.

Bai Yi earned an upper-upper rating in the third trial, leaving the other prodigies stunned, while He Cheng suffered backlash after his heavenly soul reacted to Bai Yi’s results. In the fourth trial, Bai Yi swiftly defeated three increasingly powerful opponents before the pale world came to a halt.

• Bai Yi stirred thirty great Dao manifestations in three days and received an upper-upper rating, keeping his name at the top of the ranking board.
• Xu Ruoshan lost his confidence after seeing Bai Yi’s results, while Tong Tian and He Cheng reacted with jealousy and disbelief.
• He Cheng’s heavenly soul was suppressed by a pair of hazy eyes, and the backlash made him spit blood before he entered the fourth trial with Tong Tian.
• Bai Yi entered the fourth trial and learned he had to defeat as many opponents as possible.
• Bai Yi swiftly defeated a red-haired outer sect woman and a young inner sect man, then killed a beast-taming disciple and his exotic beast.
• The pale world came to a halt after Bai Yi slew the beast-taming disciple.

Bai Yi faced a True Disciple of Sea Jiao Hall, a powerful upper-realm phantom who revealed his sect and formidable strength. As their clash escalated, Bai Yi invoked his full sword arts and prepared One sword-Origin Extinction against the boy’s overwhelming strength.

• A young True Disciple introduced himself as a student of Deepwater Immortal Master from the Third Sea’s Sea Jiao Hall in the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Sect and offered a recommendation to anyone who endured him for a quarter of an hour.
• Bai Yi considered what the sect’s absence from the Origin Realm might mean, then drew the Bai Cang Sword and challenged the boy.
• The boy revealed his Glazed Heaven-Pacifying Body and crushed Bai Yi’s Sword Domain with his enormous palm.
• Bai Yi unleashed his Azure Edge Nascent Soul Dharma Form and cut away nearly half of the boy’s manifested hand with the Bai Cang Sword.
• The boy met Bai Yi’s Guixu sword art with his silver halberd and Fourth Realm of the Great Dao of Strength, stopping the sword’s advance.
• Under the boy’s crushing force, Bai Yi summoned his blood-energy Dharma Form and Golden Crow Dao Mark, then unleashed One sword-Origin Extinction.

Bai Yi faced the young True Disciple’s divine ability, Strength-Bearing Fruit-Heaven-Bearing, and realized that mastering a divine ability was essential to the true path to immortality. After the trial ended, he earned Sea Jiao Hall True Disciple status and entered the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.

• The young True Disciple invoked Strength-Bearing Fruit-Heaven-Bearing, replacing the world’s laws with strength and crushing Bai Yi’s sword domain and body.
• Bai Yi understood how divine abilities let cultivators shape an inner world and transcend heaven and earth, and resolved to condense one.
• The trial voice declared that Bai Yi had completed the Sea Jiao Hall True Disciple trial with an upper-upper grade rating.
• Bai Yi received a purple-blue token that stored his living soul and divine soul imprints and bore the Sea-Turning Wave Jiao mark.
• Karma from the trial ranking flowed into the Dao-Deriving Mirror, where a tiny flower bud formed, and Bai Yi entered the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.

Bai Yi entered Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven and fought through its deadly tides and strange beasts on his way to Pill King Hall. After swiftly overcoming its explosive Pill Demons, he entered the hall and found its vast network of pill-refining spaces.

• Bai Yi used his map to locate Pill King Hall and set out with three days remaining after completing the first four trials in five days.
• Bai Yi killed a giant strange beast that ambushed him and collected two drops of its essence blood.
• Bai Yi cut through the tides and reached Pill King Hall, where he slew a hundred defective Pill Demons before their explosions could harm him.
• Bai Yi used the Sea Jiao Hall token to activate the entrance and pass into Pill King Hall’s second level.
• Bai Yi saw the hall’s many pill-refining spaces and the remnants of its enormous production lines.

Bai Yi looted the intact alchemy spaces on the Pill King Hall’s third layer, collecting dozens of rare fifth-tier pills before venturing into the burning depths. There, he discovered an intact chamber containing a seventh-tier pill and was stunned by its value.

• Bai Yi decided to take the Pill King Hall and its alchemical legacy back to the Immortal Alliance.
• Bai Yi entered the third layer’s alchemy spaces and collected intact pills, including a fifth-tier pill that was beginning to develop awareness.
• Bai Yi spent half a day gathering more than fifty fifth-tier spiritual pills, three fifth-tier true pills, and hundreds of damaged pills.
• Bai Yi used Fire-Warding Talisman Spirits, a fire-warding pill, and his sword domain to enter the furnace flames and search the damaged chambers.
• Bai Yi found an intact chamber containing a seventh-tier Dragon-Rite Ascending Flood Dragon Three-Lands Pill and reacted with shock.

Bai Yi discovered that the seventh-tier grand pill in the alchemy chamber had formed a golden dragon pill spirit, which the chamber’s formations and furnace flames had been suppressing for ages. He destroyed the spirit with nine God-Slaying Explosives and secured the pill in his Storage Unit.

• Bai Yi used probes to examine the alchemy chamber and saw the cracked grand pill and its golden dragon pill spirit bound inside the furnace flames.
• Bai Yi judged that attacking the pill spirit directly was too risky, so he prepared nine God-Slaying Explosives aboard Blade Cruise Devices.
• Bai Yi sent the explosives into the chamber, where their blasts and the furnace flames destroyed the golden dragon pill spirit and broke the restraints.
• Bai Yi retrieved the seventh-tier grand pill with the Bai Cang Sword and stored it in his Storage Unit.

Bai Yi found the Red Sun Six-Transformation Treasure Gourd but lacked the rank needed to claim it, so he left the Pill King Hall’s upper levels and swept its second layer before heading to a medicinal garden. In the Trial Realm, Tong Tian and He Cheng completed the assessment as Core Disciples, then discovered that Bai Yi had earned True Disciple status.

• Bai Yi revealed the Red Sun Six-Transformation Treasure Gourd behind a mural and learned that only a Hall-Bearing True Disciple could refine it.
• Bai Yi gave up on claiming the gourd, cleared the second layer’s accessible alchemy halls, and flew toward a medicinal garden.
• Tong Tian and He Cheng completed all four assessment stages together and received Core Disciple evaluations.
• Tong Tian raged about the strength of the Golden-Armored Youth and vowed to surpass the upper-realm True Disciples.
• Tong Tian and He Cheng saw the rankings and discovered that Bai Yi had become a True Disciple.

Tong Tian and He Cheng entered the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven to reach the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool and revive the sealed Tribulation Corpse, while Bai Yi’s record-breaking achievement made He Cheng consider capturing him. Tong Tian suspected he was the key to the mission and hoped Bai Yi’s arrival might offer him another fate; the two reached a waterfall in the Fulong Mountain Range.

• He Cheng told Tong Tian that Bai Yi’s supreme-grade result in the fourth trial made him too powerful to capture by force, but urged him to follow the mission plan.
• He Cheng used a Map Jade Talisman to locate the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool beneath the Sea Jiao Hall and led Tong Tian toward a passage their sects had opened.
• Tong Tian privately realized his Heavenly Soul might be linked to the Tribulation Corpse and that he had been raised and trained for this mission.
• Tong Tian rejected He Cheng’s plan to deal with Bai Yi, believing Bai Yi’s arrival might create a chance to change his own fate.
• He Cheng and Tong Tian arrived beneath a waterfall in the Fulong Mountain Range.

He Cheng led Tong Tian into the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Sect's hidden Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool and revealed his plan to destroy the upper realm's Immortal Gates. He then used a Blood Jade Skeleton and the Myriad Tribulations Stone to devour Tong Tian, revealing that Tong Tian's Heavenly Soul was tied to an ancient upper-realm prodigy and a true immortal's legacy.

• Tong Tian infused the Myriad Tribulations Stone with his Essence Blood, allowing it to open a hidden passage beneath the waterfall.
• He Cheng and Tong Tian entered the passage and opened a massive stone gate with the Myriad Tribulations Stone.
• Tong Tian saw the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool, its flood dragon remains, treasure pagoda, and golden koi that embodied the Karma of heaven and earth.
• He Cheng explained the pool's role in anchoring the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Sect's realms and declared that the upper-realm Immortal Gates exploited lower worlds.
• He Cheng revealed that Tong Tian's fate had been decided and used a Blood Jade Skeleton to seal and drain Tong Tian's blood energy, body, bones, and Living Soul.
• He Cheng said Tong Tian's Heavenly Soul was the remnant body of an ancient prodigy and that Tong Tian carried the legacy of a true immortal from the Heavenly Gang Formless Immortal Gate.

He Cheng absorbed Tong Tian’s essence blood and cultivation into the blood-jade skeleton, then entered the Nine Abysses World Sea True Water. In the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven, Bai Yi harvested a jiao dragon and used the radiance of a rare lotus to lure three cultivators into surrendering their map jade talismans.

• He Cheng stored the blood-jade skeleton and strolled through the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool’s restrictions into the Nine Abysses World Sea True Water.
• Bai Yi killed a mixed-blood jiao dragon, collected its tendon and essence blood, and claimed the Three True Jade Dew Dao Lotus it had guarded.
• Bai Yi reviewed his map and recalled gathering herbs and refining legacies at the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven’s medicinal garden and Heavenly Crafts Workshop.
• Bai Yi infused the lotus with origin power to make its Dao resonance shine, attracting three cultivators from the Six Provinces.
• Bai Yi trapped the three arrivals in his sword domain, identified their desire to continue exploring, and demanded their map jade talismans in exchange for letting them go.

Bai Yi learned that the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool was a hidden karmic treasure in the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven. The pool emerged amid a cataclysmic upheaval, and the prodigies raced toward it as it settled among the clouds.

• Bai Yi examined the prodigies’ Map Jade Talismans and questioned a Liuyuan Sect disciple about the Winter Extreme Cold Land and the underwater world.
• The Liuyuan Sect disciple explained the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool’s connection to Sea Jiao Hall, sect karma, and the possibility of forming Divine Abilities.
• The disciple said the great sects had searched for the pool for more than four hundred thousand years without finding it, and Bai Yi prepared to release the three prodigies.
• The Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven convulsed as a jiao dragon emerged from a vortex dragging a treasure pagoda, which the Liuyuan Sect disciple recognized as the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool.
• The Liuyuan Sect disciple and the other prodigies rushed toward the pool, which rose into the clouds as spiritual energy chains connected it to the grotto-heaven and karmic koi appeared in its waters.

He Cheng placed Blood Jade Marrow into the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool’s formation and prepared to sever the Upper Realm sects’ legacy through their own disciples. As the Six Provinces’ prodigies gathered, the Dao Ranking geniuses waited for Bai Yi, whose arrival they sensed at the end.

• He Cheng and his heavenly soul discussed the fall of the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Sect and prepared to begin their plan to sever its branch worlds.
• Chief disciples from the Hundred Sects ambushed and killed the first prodigies to reach the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool, then entered the pagoda.
• Top Dao Ranking prodigies, including Hua Dao Student, Zong Tianyang, Jian Shier, and Wan Zhong, arrived at the pool, prompting others to flee.
• He Xinlan told Lan Weihai that Bai Yi had not yet appeared, and Lan Weihai said Bai Yi would arrive in time.
• Xu Ruoshan teased He Xinlan about being Lan Weihai’s dao companion, and Lan Weihai confirmed his ancestor intended to arrange their betrothal.
• Xu Ruoshan and the other waiting Dao Ranking prodigies sensed a rainbow light approaching and realized Bai Yi had arrived.