Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi reached the Bixin Jade Willow Mother Tree and was chosen over Huang Xunyan to receive its Jade Liquid and Bixin Wood Bead. After strengthening his body and advancing his cultivation, Bai Yi refined the bead to push the Minor Five Elements Art past its limit, then the Secret Realm expelled its outsiders.

• Bai Yi reached the Mother Tree’s pool, where Huang Xunyan claimed Bai Yi had arrived too late and explained that the tree chose a recipient through Great Dao resonance.
• Bai Yi touched a willow branch, and the Mother Tree rejected Huang Xunyan and lowered Bai Yi into the Jade Liquid.
• Over two days, Bai Yi absorbed the Jade Liquid, strengthened his body and meridians, and cultivated the Heavy Spirit Scripture to fourth-layer completion.
• Bai Yi swallowed and refined the Bixin Wood Bead, making the Minor Five Elements Art break its limit and granting its Spiritual Power a healing life force.
• A tremor shook the Secret Realm, and its force began expelling Bai Yi and the other outsiders.

Bai Yi defeated Huang Xunyan in the Bixin Jade Willow Tree Secret Realm and then defeated five Li Household geniuses to earn the Crimson Flame Marrow. After refining it and strengthening his Spiritual Power, he received notice that the Four Academies and Ten Palaces Entrance Examination would begin the next day.

• The Secret Realm closed, and Huang Xunyan admitted defeat to Bai Yi before they agreed to meet again at the entrance examination.
• The White Household ancestor reprimanded Huang Antian for the contest and left with Bai Yi for Chiming City.
• Bai Yi defeated five Li Household geniuses in eleven strikes and received the Crimson Flame Marrow from the Li Household ancestor.
• Bai Yi refined the Crimson Flame Marrow, improving his Spiritual Power until its depth could rival that of an ordinary Ninth Layer of Qi Refining cultivator.
• Bai Yi received a message that the entrance examination would begin at noon the next day, with check-in at the Ascension Daoist Grounds at the foot of Buzhou Dao Mountain.

Bai Yi learned the Four Academies and Ten Palaces entrance examination’s structure and the rewards hidden along its first trial before traveling to Giant Peak City. He helped a family reach their destination, then entered the secured station for the Buzhou Dao Mountain examination.

• The Bai family's patriarch explained that Three Hearts Palace would host this year's examination at Buzhou Dao Mountain and described its four rounds and hidden Five Elements spiritual treasures.
• Bai Yi arrived with the patriarch at Giant Peak City, where he was reminded to compete fiercely for scarce Immortal Alliance resources.
• Bai Yi used his examination privileges to book a private hovercar for a family whose son risked being late.
• Bai Yi rode with the family to the Buzhou Dao Mountain special rail station and entered after passing its strict inspections.

Bai Yi learned that the Road to the Mountain examination would be a three-day hunt across Buzhou Dao Mountain, where candidates earned points by eliminating one another. When the examination began and his wristband revealed three nearby candidates, Bai Yi rode his sword toward them.

• A Three Hearts Palace enforcer distributed blood-activated wristbands and announced the rules: candidates would hunt one another across Buzhou Dao Mountain, earning points for each elimination.
• Bai Yi recognized that the wristbands’ protection might not prevent candidates from dying and resolved to aim for first place in all three rounds.
• Bai Yi boarded the train and disembarked from car eight, flying toward the center of Buzhou Dao Mountain.
• Bai Yi waited in a stone-forest area until the wristband map activated at 3:00 p.m. and showed three nearby candidates.
• Bai Yi drew the Heart-Questioning Sword and flew toward the three red dots.

Bai Yi defeated Wang Li and Ou Fengcheng with a single sword each, forcing both students to choose elimination. The ranking list opened with Bai Yi in twenty-third place, and he considered how competing for first place might draw the Academy’s attention.

• Wang Li and Ou Fengcheng joined forces to ambush Bai Yi as he arrived at the stone forest.
• Bai Yi broke through Wang Li’s fiery attack and struck him down with the Azure Immortal Sword.
• Bai Yi pierced Ou Fengcheng’s venomous defenses, and Ou Fengcheng chose elimination after the wristband barrier protected him.
• Bai Yi tested the wristband’s protection on Wang Li, who then chose elimination as well.
• The ranking list opened, placing Bai Yi twenty-third with two eliminations, and Bai Yi noted that pursuing first place could attract the Academy’s attention.

Bai Yi pursued and eliminated Dao Students across Buzhou Dao Mountain, rising into a tie for fourth on the Hunt leaderboard as contestants fled from his Flying Sword. He anticipated that secret treasures would make the next two days more competitive, while fourteen figures meditated at the mountain’s summit.

• Bai Yi chased down a ponytailed girl riding a Blood Shadow Wolf and forced her to eliminate herself after his sword strikes badly wounded the beast.
• Bai Yi pursued fleeing groups of Dao Students, deflected a bouncing grenade, and eliminated another contestant after a brief fight.
• Bai Yi saw that his elimination count of 33 had put him in a tie for fourth place on the leaderboard.
• Bai Yi wondered whether cultivation techniques, Secret Arts, and Five Elements spiritual treasures would appear in the Hunt’s second round, then flew off to keep pursuing contestants.
• Fourteen figures sat meditating on Meditation Cushions inside a hall at the summit of Buzhou Dao Mountain.

Buzhou Dao Mountain opened its regional treasures, and Bai Yi claimed a crystal core containing a cultivation method after stopping a golden-haired student from eliminating another examinee. He let the rescued student extract the method once and learned that a major secret treasure had appeared to the east.

• The Three Hearts Palace True Person activated the regional secret-treasure deployment, transforming Buzhou Dao Mountain and revealing treasure-filled areas.
• Bai Yi flew toward a newly revealed treasure and spotted two other students approaching it on his wristband radar.
• A golden-haired student attacked a young man for the silver crystal core, but Bai Yi intervened and forced the golden-haired student to choose elimination.
• Bai Yi took the crystal core, identified it as a Second-Generation Neural Carbon-Based Crystal Storage Crystal Core, and let the young man extract its Spirit Stream Method once.
• The young man returned the core to Bai Yi and told him that many students were heading toward an important secret treasure east of their location.

Bai Yi discovered a water-type Five Elements spiritual treasure, the Black Water Profound Liquid, and reached a waterfall where three Daoist Sons were contesting it. As the crowd attacked the Chen Household Daoist Son’s formation, Bai Yi’s sword broke through its weakened node, leaving the formation collapsing.

• Bai Yi sensed a water-type spiritual treasure and hurried toward the waterfall, where he found the Black Water Profound Liquid nearly formed beneath a Heaven-and-Earth Formation.
• Bai Yi learned that the formation’s controller was the Daoist Son of the Chen Household, facing the Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households while more than a hundred Dao Students waited nearby.
• The Daoist Son of the Chen Household refused to share the treasure, and the Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households prepared to attack his Nine Heavens Water-Dividing Formation.
• As the Black Water Profound Liquid neared completion, the burly young man charged the formation and the gathered Dao Students joined the assault.
• The Daoist Sons of the Li and Zheng Households struck the formation alongside the crowd, but the Daoist Son of the Chen Household used the pool’s Spiritual Energy to hold them back.
• Bai Yi sent a sword rainbow into the formation’s weakened node, destroying two waterspout flood dragons and causing the Nine Heavens Water-Dividing Formation to crumble.

Bai Yi revealed his strength as the three Household Daoist Sons joined forces to defend the forming Black Water Profound Liquid from a crowd of attackers. The chapter ended with their attacks clashing against Bai Yi’s Heart-Questioning Sword.

• The Chen Household Daoist Son used a water dragon to defend himself, then joined the Li and Zheng Household Daoist Sons in fighting the surrounding Dao Students.
• The three Daoist Sons held off the attackers until the Black Water Profound Liquid formed above the pool.
• The Chen Household Daoist Son sent a formation flag to claim the spirit treasure, but an azure Sword Light broke through the water dragon’s defenses.
• The Zheng and Chen Household Daoist Sons restrained the azure Sword Light while the Li Household Daoist Son prepared to strike it.
• Bai Yi unleashed the Heart-Questioning Sword, cutting through the water dragon’s frost breath and forcing the Chen Household Daoist Son to call for help.
• The Chen Household Daoist Son strengthened his formation with a Formation Disc as the three Daoist Sons struck Bai Yi’s sword rainbow together.

Bai Yi seized the Black Water Profound Liquid and overwhelmed the Chen, Li, and Zheng Households’ Daoist Sons in battle. After the three escaped with talismans, the other Dao Students fled from Bai Yi as he approached.

• Bai Yi used his swords to snatch the Black Water Profound Liquid from the three Daoist Sons.
• The Chen, Li, and Zheng Households’ Daoist Sons attacked Bai Yi, but his two flying swords fought all three at once and suppressed them.
• Bai Yi unleashed Sword Dao Thunderclap, breaking through the Li and Zheng Daoist Sons’ defenses and sending them into the pool.
• The Chen Household’s Daoist Son escaped with a Supreme-Grade Escape-Light Talisman, and the Li and Zheng Daoist Sons fled after him.
• Bai Yi recalled his swords as the ordinary Dao Students around the pool hurriedly ran into the woods.

Bai Yi rose to first place on the leaderboard by eliminating fleeing Dao Students, then headed for Metal-Stone Cliff in search of the remaining Metal- and Earth-Attribute Spirit Treasures. There, he charged into a crowd fleeing another threat and began cutting through them with his twin swords.

• Bai Yi pursued fleeing Dao Students through the jungle and eliminated twenty or thirty, raising his total to 61 and taking first place.
• A disheveled young man at a snowy cliff noticed Bai Yi's name atop the leaderboard, while a twin-ponytailed woman and her beast Little White also saw the change.
• Bai Yi reached Metal-Stone Cliff and detected two Spirit Treasure auras as a large group of Dao Students rushed toward him.
• The fleeing Dao Students mistook Bai Yi for someone who needed warning, but he attacked them with his twin swords and scattered their ranks.
• Bai Yi swept through the crowd, breaking barriers and eliminating Dao Students as the survivors realized he was even more dangerous than the threat behind them.

Bai Yi defeated Tingyuan Chen Yixing in their contest of swordsmanship and music, but Chen Yixing used a barrier to halt the fight and proposed a bargain. He offered to give up the Metal and Earth spirit treasures if Bai Yi joined the twenty families’ plan to restrict ordinary Dao Students, leaving Bai Yi asking why.

• The other Dao Students fled, leaving Bai Yi to face Tingyuan Chen Yixing, who introduced himself and challenged him.
• Chen Yixing attacked with his Thousand Armies Slaying Song, but Bai Yi’s two Flying Swords broke through his musical weapons and defenses.
• Bai Yi pressed Chen Yixing with a barrage of varied Sword Arts, prompting Chen Yixing to retreat with his family’s Azure Bamboo Escape Technique and admit defeat.
• Chen Yixing raised a mechanical barrier that withstood Bai Yi’s sword strikes, then asked Bai Yi to stop attacking.
• Chen Yixing offered to give up the Metal and Earth spirit treasures if Bai Yi joined the twenty families’ plan to restrict ordinary Dao Students, and Bai Yi asked why.

Bai Yi learned that the Heaven's Peak Battle determined candidates' admission privileges and agreed to help Chen Yixing's group gather Dao Students in the central region of Buzhou Dao Mountain. He then collected two forming spiritual treasures and refined the Black Water Profound Liquid, strengthening his spiritual power.

• Chen Yixing explained that the year's candidates were rated A, B, or C, with higher ratings granting better admission privileges, and said the group needed to eliminate enough Dao Students to avoid a grade C year.
• Bai Yi agreed to take charge of pursuing and eliminating candidates in the thirty-kilometer southern area, while Chen Yixing planned to compress the remaining area toward Buzhou Dao Mountain's center by noon the next day.
• After Chen Yixing left, Bai Yi followed the aura of a nearly formed spiritual treasure to Goldstone Basin and found a multicolored metal stone and Earth Spirit Liquid forming there.
• Bai Yi waited for the two spiritual treasures to finish forming, collected them, and hid among rocks to refine the Black Water Profound Liquid.
• Bai Yi completed the refinement, turning a qi vortex in his dantian black and increasing his spiritual power by nearly thirty percent.

Bai Yi refined the final Five-Element Spiritual Treasure and formed a Five-Element Spiritual Seed, then flew to rejoin Chen Yixing before turning toward Dao Students marked on his radar to improve his ranking. Meanwhile, Golden Core True Persons watched the examination and praised Bai Yi’s talent and his potential to continue Bai Shoudao’s legacy.

• Bai Yi refined the Variegated Multicolored Stone and Earth Spirit Liquid, completing the five elements and forming a Five-Element Spiritual Seed in his Qi Sea and Dantian.
• Bai Yi left the cave and flew toward his meeting place with Chen Yixing, reflecting on the White Household’s decline and how meeting Chen Yixing had helped him understand the overall evaluation.
• After seeing that he had fallen out of the top ten, Bai Yi flew toward the red dots on his radar to protect his personal ranking while pursuing the overall evaluation.
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles carried eliminated Dao Students away as other Dao Students fled from Bai Yi’s approach.
• Fourteen Golden Core Great Perfection True Persons watched the Dao Students close in on the ordinary candidates and praised the talented Gu Household and Yun Household Daoist Sons.
• True Person Pingyun praised Bai Yi’s mastery of Dao Resonance and sword techniques, saying he could continue Bai Shoudao’s legacy.

Bai Yi continued eliminating Dao Students until the first round ended, finishing in first place with 668 eliminations. He then traveled to the rift valley where the Ten Palaces Trial would begin and waited for the other students and its instructions.

• Lu and the other Dao Students stopped fleeing and chose to face Bai Yi, but he defeated them with a single sword strike.
• Bai Yi reclaimed first place during the night and extended his lead over Gu Sheng and Yun Yaoyao.
• The first round ended when 20,000 Dao Students remained, and Bai Yi was announced as the top-ranked student with 668 eliminations.
• Buzhou Dao Mountain shifted and revealed paths to the rift valley, where the Ten Palaces Trial would take place.
• Bai Yi reached the valley, found a Three Hearts Palace elder waiting there, and sat down to prepare while awaiting the trial's details.

Bai Yi and the other Dao Students were drawn into the Ten Palaces Trial, where he awoke in a vivid battlefield at Buzhou Dao Mountain during the Immortal Alliance War. As the Profound Immortal Upper Sect shattered the defenses, Bai Yi took command of three assault columns and prepared to fight.

• The Three Hearts Palace elder announced that the last 5,400 Dao Students to emerge from the rift canyon would qualify for Ten Palaces Academy and warned them their lives could be in danger if they did not believe in themselves.
• The elder activated an ancient Terminal token, and the canyon's suction pulled all twenty thousand Dao Students inside.
• Bai Yi woke in a wounded body wearing an old neural-link exoskeleton and discovered that his cultivation remained intact, but the Dao-Deriving Mirror was gone from his Sea of Consciousness.
• Bai Yi recognized the devastated battlefield as Buzhou Dao Mountain, where the Profound Immortal Upper Sect's spirit-treasure ships attacked the Immortal Alliance's last stronghold.
• A commander ordered the defenders to deploy their forces and weapons as the Linked-Chain Particle Barrier Defense System began to fail.
• Bai Yi identified himself as commander of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Mobile Light-Assault Columns and joined the defenders in vowing to fight as the barrier shattered.

Bai Yi watched the Immortal Alliance’s defenses clash with a cultivation force and recovered from despair after a sword cry reminded him to hold fast to himself. As the battle continued, he took command of the Sixth Column and prepared its Over-the-Horizon Array Cannons to suppress the attackers.

• Bai Yi watched supermagnetic kinetic cannons devastate the advancing cultivators, while agile Foundation Establishment cultivators destroyed cannon formations with their Magic Arts.
• Bai Yi lost hope amid the slaughter, but a sword cry within him restored his focus and helped him understand what it meant to hold fast to himself.
• Hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators raised the Water Net Eight Directions Formation, whose Water Elephant Incarnation absorbed cannon fire and attacked the fortress defenses.
• Heavy Proton Implosion Medium-Range Guided Missiles dispersed the Water Elephant Incarnation, but the formation reformed and led Qi Refining cultivators through the first cannon cluster.
• The First Mobile Light Mecha Regiment attacked the advancing cultivators, and Bai Yi acknowledged orders for the Mobile Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Columns.
• Bai Yi ordered the Sixth Column to assemble Over-the-Horizon Array Cannons in three-person teams and use terminal assistance for precise suppressive fire.

Bai Yi and the defenders of True Thousand Mountains fought the Profound Immortal Upper Sect’s invading army as its cultivators broke through the fortress’s outer defenses. The battle escalated when the fortress unleashed its hidden lasers and aerospace battleships, but Golden Core experts emerged to confront them.

• Bai Yi used a Sniper Cannon to kill Qi Refining cultivators and taught soldiers to fire when their targets channeled Spiritual Power, bringing down hundreds before the enemy adapted.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators and Spirit Treasure Ships overwhelmed the mechas and perimeter guns, triggering True Thousand Mountains’ Crimson War Level and evacuation orders.
• Shen Weisheng refused to evacuate his research lab, warning that the fortress’s fall would leave humanity facing annihilation and that the Profound Immortal Upper Sect might soon have a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• As the Profound Immortal Upper Sect’s fleet approached, True Thousand Mountains revealed Particle-Focusing Lasers that destroyed many Spirit Treasure Ships and launched thousands of Aerospace Battleships.
• More than thirty Golden Core figures flew out from the enemy fleet, and one crushed an Aerospace Battleship with Golden Core True Essence.

Mu Lu True Person led the Profound Immortal Upper Sect’s forces in an assault on True Thousand Mountains, but the fortress activated its Finality System and trapped the invaders in a spatial formation. A Nascent Soul True Lord appeared and resisted the fortress’s devastating earth-vein attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Mu Lu True Person ordered more than thirty Golden Core True Persons to destroy True Thousand Mountains’ outer defenses, allowing Qi Refining cultivators and Spirit Treasure Ships to advance.
• Bai Yi and the soldiers prepared to defend the fortress as the invaders pressed forward.
• The Finality System activated, raising mechanical towers and creating spatial rifts that destroyed ships and killed thousands of cultivators.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord appeared aboard the leading Spirit Treasure Ship, and his might wounded Bai Yi and felled many soldiers.
• True Thousand Mountains released a crimson-black pillar of light that broke through the Nascent Soul True Lord’s Jade Seal and struck his defenses.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord used his Dharma Aspect and the Great Dao of Wind to suppress the pillar, declaring that the fortress’s accumulated power was still insufficient.

A hidden earth-vein strike badly wounded the Nascent Soul True Lord, but he destroyed True Thousand Mountains’ main peak and killed hundreds of thousands. With the fortress breached, Bai Yi rallied the surviving soldiers and fought the invading cultivators, revealing formidable Sword Intent.

• A compressed earth-vein beam shattered the Separation Fire Mysterious Wind Shield and pierced the Nascent Soul True Lord, but he survived by sacrificing much of his Nascent Soul’s vitality.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord retaliated with a palm strike that reduced True Thousand Mountains’ main peak to rubble, killed hundreds of thousands, and breached the fortress.
• Bai Yi urged the grieving survivors to keep fighting and opened fire on the advancing Qi Refining cultivators, while Heavy Mechas engaged Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Bai Yi dodged spells and shot down cultivators attacking the fortress, as soldiers reported heavy losses over their communications channel.
• Bai Yi refined a Flying Sword with Sword Intent and beheaded a Qi Refining, Ninth Layer elder with a streak of Sword Light.