Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi and the Dao Ranking prodigies entered the Ancient-Suppressing Treasure Pagoda, where they discovered Sea Jiao Hall disciples had been turned into Dao-guarding puppets. The puppets reacted to their Sea Jiao Hall tokens and withdrew, while other prodigies rushed toward the treasures.

• Bai Yi agreed to enter the pagoda with Hua Dao Student, Jian Shier, and the other Dao Ranking prodigies.
• The group studied the murals on the stone doors, which revealed that the Sea Jiao Hall had once been one of twelve branch halls of a powerful Dao sect.
• After their Sea Jiao Hall identity tokens opened the doors, Bai Yi and the others entered a star-filled treasure chamber and saw prodigies already gathering karma Dharma Treasures.
• Bai Yi recognized the talisman-covered corpses as Sea Jiao Hall disciples, and Zong Tianyang identified them as sect-guarding Dao Kui.
• Several Dao-guarding puppets descended to attack but sensed the group's Sea Jiao Hall tokens and retreated into the starry sky.
• Other prodigies ignored the danger and hurried onto the Star-Plucking Pavilion toward the treasures.

A Jade Waves Sect true disciple broke the restriction around a karma Dharma Treasure and escaped with it, prompting the Six Provinces prodigies to rush for the remaining treasures. As they began fighting over them, Xu Ruoshan and the other Dao Ranking prodigies entered the fray.

• A Jade Waves Sect true disciple defeated the Dao-guarding puppets, shattered the restriction around a ruyi-shaped karma Dharma Treasure, and fled with it.
• The Six Provinces prodigies rushed onto the Star-Plucking Pavilion and used their Sea Jiao Hall tokens to avoid attacks from the Dao-guarding puppets as they seized the treasures.
• He Xinlan urged Lan Weihai to act, but Lan Weihai waited while Bai Yi watched the treasures disappear.
• Xu Ruoshan charged into the struggle, defeated a Six Provinces prodigy, and took his Storage Ring.
• The Dao Ranking prodigies joined the battle as the remaining karma Dharma Treasures were claimed.

As the Six Provinces' prodigies slaughter one another for karma Dharma Treasures, Bai Yi realizes the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool is a trap tied to the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace. He confronts the remaining contenders and unleashes his sword against their combined attack.

• He Cheng and his shadow watch the prodigies destroy the Dao-protecting puppets and seize the karma Dharma Treasures, explaining that breaking the array will awaken the Tribulation Corpse and spread tribulation qi.
• The Six Provinces' great sects attack and kill lesser sect disciples who obtained treasures, while Bai Yi concludes that the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool's lack of defenses signals a trap.
• Bai Yi recognizes the familiar aura as belonging to the Immortal-Attracting Main Palace and suspects a connection to Tong Tian, He Cheng, the Sacred Heart Sect, and Tianlu Mountain.
• Bai Yi takes a stand before the last three karma Dharma Treasures and declares that, as a true disciple, he will claim them.
• The Six Provinces' prodigies attack Bai Yi together, and he counters with One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Arts, shattering their techniques.

Bai Yi used his Sword Heart to defeat the six-province prodigies and stood before the remaining Karma Dharma treasures. As the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool approached, a blood-mist-covered mass of tentacles emerged, revealing that the pagoda and its array had been corrupted.

• Bai Yi’s sword strike shattered the six-province prodigies’ defenses, and a Jianqing Sect True Disciple identified his power as the Sword Dao’s fourth realm, the Sword Heart Realm.
• Bai Yi sent dozens of Bai Cang Swords against the prodigies, defeated more than a dozen of them, and drove the survivors fleeing.
• The starry sky quieted, leaving Bai Yi beside the three remaining Karma Dharma treasures as Hua Dao Student considered joining forces against him.
• Hua Dao Student, Zong Tianyang, Xu Ruoshan, Jian Shier, and the others sensed blood mist spreading through the void and tentacles devouring the fallen prodigies’ corpses.
• Bai Yi slashed open the void and revealed that blood-red tentacles had bound the Ancient-Suppressing Treasure Pagoda and corroded the Heaven-Covering Mystic Battle Array.
• The six-province prodigies realized that the Karma Dharma treasures had been suppressing the tentacles and suspected the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool had appeared to lure them there.

Feng Caiyi revealed that flesh-and-blood gu insects had secretly influenced the Six Provinces prodigies inside the Ancient-Suppressing Treasure Pagoda, while Bai Yi remained unaffected. After Bai Yi killed Ke Bufan, he deduced that the intruders had used the prodigies and their Sea-Jiao Palace Tokens to target the Sea-Jiao Palace’s last resort, and He Cheng appeared to claim responsibility for the scheme.

• Feng Caiyi identified the flesh-and-blood gu insects beneath the mist and warned everyone to seal their connection to heaven and earth.
• Jian Shier explained that Bai Yi’s Sword Heart Realm had kept the gu insects from reaching him.
• When Ke Bufan accused Bai Yi, Bai Yi killed him with two sword strikes, including his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Hua Dao Student and the other prodigies distanced themselves from Ke Bufan, then asked Bai Yi whether he had found a way out.
• Feng Caiyi and Bai Yi concluded that the scheme had used the Six Provinces prodigies and their Sea-Jiao Palace Tokens to target the Sea-Jiao Palace’s last resort.
• He Cheng emerged from the darkness, praised Bai Yi, and claimed he alone had orchestrated the scheme.

He Cheng revealed the heavenly soul within him and declared that the true immortal’s revival would spread tribulation qi through the connected worlds. As He Cheng attacked Bai Yi and the heavenly soul’s ally targeted the other prodigies, He Cheng erased Hua Dao Student and challenged Bai Yi to explain what he had seen in the attack.

• Wan Zhong accused Tianlu Mountain and the Sacred Heart Sect of secretly discovering the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool, and He Cheng laughed at him.
• Bai Yi asked He Cheng to reveal the heavenly demon controlling him, and He Cheng’s heavenly soul emerged from his body.
• The heavenly soul explained that the worlds would be reduced to chaos when the true immortal revived, while another heavenly soul formed to attack the prodigies.
• He Cheng dismissed the other prodigies to face Bai Yi, then erased Hua Dao Student with a palm strike that cut him off from heaven and earth.
• He Cheng asked Bai Yi what he had understood from the strike, and Bai Yi identified its incineration Dao as a divine ability.

Bai Yi unleashed his Sword Dao against He Cheng, cutting through his Burning Silence Divine Ability and forcing him to invoke the Heavenly Flame Yellow Dao Art’s law domain. He Cheng then expanded his Divine Ability and slammed Bai Yi into the Star-Plucking Tower, leaving the clash unresolved.

• He Cheng attacked Bai Yi with the Burning Silence Divine Ability, but Bai Yi’s Sword Domain severed its palm imprint and sent Sword Qi past He Cheng’s brow.
• He Cheng recognized Bai Yi’s Sword Heart and launched annihilating flames and talismanic inscriptions, which extinguished most of Bai Yi’s sword attacks.
• Bai Yi caught the Bai Cang Sword and unleashed three sword strikes, breaking He Cheng’s defenses and forcing him to summon the yellow heaven and deep earth law domain.
• He Cheng expanded Burning Silence within his law domain, erased Bai Yi’s Sword Domain, and struck him against the Star-Plucking Tower.

Bai Yi survived He Cheng’s annihilating attack and fused demonic energy, bloodline power, and Sword Intent to pierce He Cheng’s Divine Ability world. As Bai Yi pressed forward, He Cheng unleashed the full power of the Annihilating Flame Divine Ability, and the chapter ended with Bai Yi’s sword and Golden Crow wings dissolving beneath its golden light.

• After He Cheng destroyed the Star-Plucking Tower and thought Bai Yi was gone, Bai Yi emerged from the ruins amid Golden Crow flames and demonic energy.
• Bai Yi fused three Dao Paths and wounded He Cheng by cutting through the annihilating world surrounding him.
• He Cheng summoned the Yellow Path Heavenly Palace and sealed ten thousand miles of void, suppressing Bai Yi with his Divine Ability world.
• Bai Yi fused his three Dao Paths completely and used precise sword strikes to break through He Cheng’s annihilating attacks as he advanced.
• He Cheng lost control of his Heavenly Soul and unleashed the full Annihilating Flame Divine Ability, causing Bai Yi’s Bai Cang Sword and Golden Crow wings to melt away.

Bai Yi defeated He Cheng with a sword strike, but Black Soul’s insect arts rescued He Cheng’s remnant spirit and overwhelmed the Six Provinces prodigies. As the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven began to tremble, Black Soul and the remnant spirit prepared to break the formation and revive the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse, leaving Bai Yi gravely injured and facing a desperate predicament.

• Bai Yi’s Dao-Deriving Mirror awakened as he fused his three Dao Paths and cut through He Cheng’s Annihilating Flame Divine Ability, leaving He Cheng’s body split apart and his remnant spirit fading.
• Black Soul’s insects rescued He Cheng’s remnant spirit while Black Soul’s insect tide overwhelmed Zong Tianyang, Jian Shier, Xu Ruoshan, and the other Six Provinces prodigies.
• He Cheng’s remnant spirit praised Bai Yi’s skill, and he and Black Soul argued over who should deal with Bai Yi before the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven trembled and He Cheng’s black jade token shattered.
• He Cheng’s remnant spirit ordered Black Soul to kill the remaining prodigies and break the formation to revive the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse.
• Black Soul crushed Xu Ruoshan with a hand of flesh-and-blood gu insects and devoured his body, while Zong Tianyang charged at the insect tide in a desperate attempt to escape.

Bai Yi opened a temporary path through the void so Lan Weihai and the other survivors could escape the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven to the Origin Realm. As the grotto-heaven’s ancient coffin was exposed and its captors revealed their plans, the Dao Ranking prodigies fled into chaos, while Lan Weihai’s companions urged him to escape.

• Bai Yi recovered part of his strength, stored the three Karma Dharma Treasures, and rescued Lan Weihai, He Xinlan, Qin Shi, and Zhao Yongchen from the insect tide.
• Bai Yi told the group to activate their Saint Intent and escape when he severed the void, and Qin Shi, Zhao Yongchen, and He Xinlan urged Lan Weihai to prioritize his survival.
• The removal of the three treasures caused the sea of stars to collapse, revealing a bronze coffin bound by chains and Great Dao nails.
• The remnant soul of the Immortal Sect of Annihilating Flame's direct disciple laughed over the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Immortal Sect's failure and explained the plan to plunge the Heaven and Earth Source Realms into Tribulation Qi.
• Bai Yi struck open a fissure through the void and rushed toward the Origin Realm, while the other Dao Ranking prodigies activated their Saint Intent and followed.

The remnant soul of the Immortal Sect of Annihilating Flame awakened the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse by feeding it the Blood Jade Skeleton, and Bai Yi and the other cultivators were dragged back into the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven. The corpse’s power began turning the surviving prodigies into blood mist, leaving Lan Weihai grieving He Xinlan and Bai Yi facing an overwhelming threat.

• Lan Weihai refused He Xinlan’s pleas to flee, choosing to remain beside her and their senior brothers.
• The remnant soul used the Blood Jade Skeleton and Tribulation Qi to break the Great Dao Chains and Nails binding the Bronze Golden Stone Coffin.
• The True Immortal Tribulation Corpse reached from the shattered coffin and, with a touch, restored Bai Yi’s severed barrier and pulled those who had escaped into chaos back into the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.
• Zong Tianyang and other surviving prodigies disintegrated into blood mist that flowed into the coffin, while Bai Yi realized Saint Intent might not protect him for long.
• Qin Shi and Zhao Yongcheng exploded into blood mist, followed by He Xinlan, who died before she could finish speaking to Lan Weihai.

The True Immortal Tribulation Corpse awakened after recovering its eyes, destroying the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven and revealing that Immortal Venerable Myriad Ages of Crowned Sorrow had ordered it to direct tribulation qi down the Ancient Road. Bai Yi survived its overwhelming aura and drew the corpse’s attention.

• Lan Weihai unleashed his Saint Intent to attack the direct disciple’s remnant soul, but the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse sat up and dispersed Lan Weihai into a drop of blood.
• The True Immortal Tribulation Corpse refined Black Soul into the coffin, and the direct disciple offered it the two sealed orbs containing its eyes.
• The corpse restored its eyes, causing the Bronze Golden Stone Coffin, Ancient-Suppressing Treasure Pagodas, and Heavenly Pool to turn to dust as its power swept through the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven.
• The direct disciple told the corpse that Immortal Venerable Myriad Ages of Crowned Sorrow had instructed him to break the seal and have it direct tribulation qi down the Ancient Road.
• The corpse accepted the order and noticed that Bai Yi, though only a Nascent Soul Cultivator, could barely withstand its aura.

Bai Yi fled the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse through the chaos after the Flood Dragon Corpse failed to hold it back. His Sea Jiao Hall Direct Disciple Token then released the Water Marsh Great Dao, summoning a figure who recognized Bai Yi as a True Disciple of the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Immortal Sect.

• The True Immortal Tribulation Corpse examined Bai Yi, shattered the tip of his Bai Cang Sword, and nearly seized him.
• The Flood Dragon Corpse struck the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse, giving Bai Yi time to escape into the chaos.
• Bai Yi followed his Divine Sense toward the Origin Realm's world barrier while using pills to resist the chaos and the Dao-Deriving Mirror to endure his sword's damage.
• The True Immortal Tribulation Corpse quickly returned atop the ruined Flood Dragon Corpse and pursued Bai Yi.
• The Flood Dragon Corpse dissolved into Bai Yi's Sea Jiao Hall Direct Disciple Token, which enveloped the area in the Water Marsh Great Dao.
• A flowing-water figure appeared, and the True Immortal Tribulation Corpse panicked as the figure recognized Bai Yi as a True Disciple of the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Immortal Sect.

Su Changliu revealed himself as a lingering consciousness of True Lord Xuanbo Guangji and rescued Bai Yi while destroying the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven and the True Immortal tribulation corpse. Bai Yi emerged on a vast jade-green lotus leaf in the depths of chaos, where a seven-colored droplet gathered.

• Su Changliu entrusted Sea Jiao Hall's final inheritance to Bai Yi and sent him away in a lotus of flowing water.
• Su Changliu suppressed the True Immortal tribulation corpse, then shattered the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven and destroyed the corpse.
• Su Changliu's final consciousness dissipated, but the True Immortal tribulation corpse survived as a tiny bead of blood and fled into chaos.
• Bai Yi's lotus carried him through the deep void toward a lotus leaf, where he opened his eyes beside a seven-colored droplet.

Bai Yi discovered the Sea Jiao Hall inheritance and was named its sole Hall-Inheriting Direct Disciple by the Jiaolong Remnant Soul. After stabilizing the remnant with a Divine Soul Flower, he learned that ancient souls were returning during tribulations, leaving the Jiaolong shocked that Bai Yi seemed unaware of basic Upper Realm knowledge.

• Bai Yi found jade talismans and a meditation cushion beside the Great Dao Lotus, and the Jiaolong Remnant Soul emerged from his token.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul assessed Bai Yi and declared him the sole Hall-Inheriting Direct Disciple of Sea Jiao Hall.
• Bai Yi questioned the Jiaolong about the True Lord and learned it had been the jiaolong that held down the Ancient-Suppressing Treasure Pagoda.
• Bai Yi grabbed and shook the Jiaolong Remnant Soul, blaming its failure against the Tribulation Corpse for nearly getting him killed.
• Bai Yi used a Divine Soul Flower to stabilize the Jiaolong Remnant Soul, which explained that ancient souls were powerful figures awakened by tribulation qi.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul realized Bai Yi did not know about ancient souls and asked whether he was even still in the Upper Realm.

The Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained that the Upper Realm’s upheaval was a cycle in which heaven and earth awakened the Ancient Souls of past ages to destroy present cultivators. He revealed that Bai Yi was chosen to inherit the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Immortal Sect’s legacy and guided him to the sect’s Dao sanctuary.

• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul learned that Bai Yi came from an Ancient Road beneath the World Sea and began to believe he could bear the True Lord’s hopes.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained that heaven and earth triggered each great tribulation to restore balance, awakening Ancient Souls from past ages to fight the present age’s cultivators.
• Bai Yi learned that the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Immortal Sect had been destroyed as the first battlefield of the current great tribulation.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained that the sect selected Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators to help them develop their Divine Abilities and Inner Worlds.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul merged a Divine Soul imprint with Bai Yi’s Sea Jiao Hall True Disciple Token and formed water steps to the Dao sanctuary.
• Bai Yi climbed the water steps and sat on the cushion at the square table.

Bai Yi used the Nine-Leaf Sea Lotus and Mind-Awakening Meditation Cushion to prepare for Spirit Transformation, while the Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained how heavenly source origin qi could help him form a Divine Ability. As the qi repaired the Dao-Deriving Mirror, it produced a sword of heaven and earth that Bai Yi used to begin carving out his inner world.

• Bai Yi followed the Jiaolong Remnant Soul's instructions and focused his mind as the Nine-Leaf Sea Lotus closed around him.
• Bai Yi saw Origin Power forming a miniature world in his Dantian, and the Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained how cultivators used heavenly source origin qi to establish an inner world.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul released the True Lord's stored heavenly source origin qi into Bai Yi's Divine Soul, Dantian, and meridians.
• The heavenly source origin qi flowed into the Dao-Deriving Mirror, removing its rust and healing some of its cracks.
• A sword relief appeared on the Dao-Deriving Mirror, and a sword of heaven and earth flew into Bai Yi's Dantian.
• Bai Yi formed a phantom of himself in his Dantian and brought the sword down toward the turbid heaven and earth and the Origin Power vortex.

Bai Yi condensed his sword-type divine ability, broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm, and formed the inner heaven and earth known as Sword Heaven and Earth. The Flood Dragon Remnant Soul told him to use the True Lord’s legacy to comprehend and integrate more divine abilities.

• Bai Yi fused his sword Dao comprehension with Heavenly Source Origin Qi and formed a sword intent heaven and earth in his dantian.
• Bai Yi drew on spiritual Qi and top-grade spiritual stones to transform his elemental power and break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Bai Yi’s Sword Heaven and Earth expanded to a radius of two li and replaced his dantian as his true inner heaven and earth.
• The Flood Dragon Remnant Soul praised Bai Yi’s sword talent and divine ability, then said he could receive the items left by the True Lord.
• The Flood Dragon Remnant Soul explained that Bai Yi should use the legacy to comprehend more divine abilities and integrate them into his inner heaven and earth.

The Jiaolong Remnant Soul revealed treasures left by the True Lord to help Bai Yi strengthen his Spirit Transformation foundations and catch up with upper-realm prodigies. He gave Bai Yi several rare resources and explained how they would help stabilize his inner world, leaving more treasures emerging from the spatial passage.

• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul unlocked a spatial passage and revealed treasures left for the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Sect.
• He gave Bai Yi a sixth-tier Dao-Nurturing Heart-Protecting Pill and explained how it could stabilize his inner world and help him comprehend other great Dao.
• Bai Yi asked why cultivators could not expand their inner worlds after stabilizing their foundations, and the Jiaolong Remnant Soul praised his insight.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul explained the advantages of upper-realm descendants and presented Bai Yi with a Heaven and Earth Bright-Origin Fruit to build up his Dao essence reserves.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul revealed two more lotus leaves bearing treasures to steady Bai Yi's mind as he comprehended Divine Abilities from other great Dao.

Bai Yi used the Dao-Nurturing Heart-Protecting Pill to integrate the Pure Yang Divine Ability into his Inner World, then began refining the Heaven and Earth Bright-Origin Fruit to stabilize and strengthen his Dao Essence reserves. The Jiaolong Remnant Soul watched in disbelief as Bai Yi completed the new ability in less than a month and immediately moved on to the next treasure.

• Bai Yi swallowed the Dao-Nurturing Heart-Protecting Pill, accelerating the growth of his Inner World and restoring his direct comprehension of the Great Dao.
• Bai Yi formed the Golden Crow into a blazing pure yang sun and integrated it into his Inner World, creating the Divine Ability-Illuminating the World.
• Bai Yi combined the pure yang fire with his Sword Intent, greatly expanding the Divine Ability's range and its powers of suppression and enhancement.
• Bai Yi decided to stabilize his Dao Essence reserves before attempting further integrations, then swallowed and began refining the Heaven and Earth Bright-Origin Fruit.
• The Jiaolong Remnant Soul gaped as Bai Yi finished integrating the Pure Yang Divine Ability in less than a month and began refining another treasure.