Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi killed the Blood River Demon Realm cultivator Liu Can and helped Xue Zhenggang uncover more infiltrators and the Devil Lord White Bones Statue they had used. Xue Zhenggang gave the statue to Bai Yi for testing, and Bai Yi secretly sensed a response from the Dao-Deriving Mirror.

• Bai Yi killed Liu Can by draining his body, then explained to Xue Zhenggang how he had inferred the Golden Core cultivator was watching over him.
• Bai Yi asked Xue Zhenggang to keep the Golden Peak Sect miners in the secret realm, fearing they might reveal his Sword Intent to the Blood River Demon Realm.
• Xue Zhenggang revealed he had sealed the secret realm and captured two evil cultivators, including one who had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Xue Zhenggang used the Demon-Breaking Blood Arrow Art to locate and retrieve a Devil Lord White Bones Statue hidden near the ravine.
• Bai Yi asked to keep the statue, claiming it could help him hone his Sword Intent, and Xue Zhenggang handed it over.
• Bai Yi activated the Dao-Deriving Mirror's Qi Vibration and quietly sensed a response from the statue.

After completing the Geng Metal Qi Body Refinement, Bai Yi left Titanium Star for Void Insight Dao Academy and used the Devil Lord White Bones Statue to uncover a Blood River Demon Realm ritual. The statue yielded thirty Enlightenment Glimmers before crumbling, and Bai Yi resolved to find the Demon-Breaking Blood Arrow Art and warn the academy about the White Bones Contemplation Statue.

• Xue Zhenggang escorted Bai Yi to the Transfer Light Platform and gave him an AI Intelligent Cargo-Transport Battleship for his journey back to the academy.
• Bai Yi isolated himself in the VIP Reception Room and used the Dao-Deriving Mirror's Qi Vibration on the Devil Lord White Bones Statue.
• Bai Yi saw images of Bloodclaw Dao Robe-wearing Demon Sect disciples sacrificing ordinary people to create Devil Lord White Bones Statues and send them through a passage toward a White Bones Contemplation Statue.
• The Dao-Deriving Mirror formed thirty Enlightenment Glimmers, and Bai Yi concluded he would need to find a statue himself and learn the Demon-Breaking Blood Arrow Art.
• Bai Yi decided to reveal the White Bones Contemplation Statue to the academy when he found a suitable opportunity, then traveled toward Void Insight True Heaven and flew toward the academy.

Bai Yi completed the Hundred-Acupoint Body ahead of schedule, leaving the Mystic Heart Sword Iron and Heaven and Earth Sword Embryo Spirit Treasure as the remaining requirements for his Dao Foundation. True Person Pingyun told him the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Grotto-Heaven Ruins would open in three days, offering a chance to obtain the treasure.

• Bai Yi collected his Dao Two Stage resources and exchanged his monthly Contribution Points for True Spirit Pills and Profound Spirit Qi.
• Bai Yi spent seven days filling his remaining Acupoints and completed the Hundred-Acupoint Body.
• Bai Yi received True Person Pingyun’s message announcing the Sword Sect Secret Realm opening and flew to the teaching building.
• True Person Pingyun explained that the Immortal Alliance and three other Dao Domains had arranged to open the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Grotto-Heaven Ruins in three days.
• True Person Pingyun said the ruins might contain the Heaven and Earth Sword Embryo Spirit Treasure Bai Yi needed for his Dao Foundation.

Bai Yi traveled with True Person Pingyun to the Stellar Base, where he met the other Dao Students preparing to enter the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Secret Realm. Void Insight True Lord arrived, warned Bai Yi to protect himself above all else, and sent the group off aboard a transformed vessel.

• True Person Pingyun guessed Bai Yi would choose the Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation and promised he would have chances to obtain resources at the Ancient Origin Sword Sect.
• Pingyun brought Bai Yi through Subspace to the Immortal Alliance’s border and then to the Stellar Base, where they joined the gathered Dao Students.
• Bai Yi reunited with Yun Yaoyao and Gu Sheng, who explained why they had come, and learned that Zhao Lingjian and two other senior students from Qinghui Daoist Academy were also attending.
• Void Insight True Lord appeared as an External Incarnation, praised Pingyun, and privately warned Bai Yi to prioritize his survival in the Secret Realm.
• Void Insight True Lord activated the hall, transforming it into a shielded vessel that detached from the Stellar Base.

Bai Yi and the Immortal Alliance delegation traveled through the Outer Heavens to the ruined site of the Ancient Origin Sword Sect. There, four hegemonic forces gathered and began opening the remnant domain for a trial of their younger generations.

• Void Insight True Lord piloted the ship through the Outer Domain rift, and Bai Yi saw the vast Gray Realm and its Dao Domains for the first time.
• Void Insight True Lord explained the Mu Fu Clear Heaven Tree and led the ship across the Gray Realm toward the former site of the Ancient Origin Sword Sect.
• The Immortal Alliance arrived at the ruined plane, where ships from the Blood River Demon Realm, Longyan Dao Domain, and Fusheng Dao Domain also appeared.
• Shagu Devil Lord mocked Void Insight True Lord, who retorted alongside the Longyan Dao Domain True Lord, until Senior Ge calmed them and proposed opening the site.
• The four forces placed their sword steles around the remnant domain, stabilizing it as the four steles drew out their sword edges and began to revive it.

Void Insight True Lord sent Bai Yi and the other Dao students into the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Ruins, warning them to kill rivals but retreat if they were outmatched. After arriving alone, Bai Yi slew Metal-Nature Beasts and headed for the ruins’ center, where he found a battle between a Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple and a Blood River Demon Realm cultivator; his sword strike pierced the Blood River cultivator’s summoned skeleton.

• Void Insight True Lord distributed Glazed Light Tokens and told the Dao students they could kill opponents from any domain, but should retreat if they could not win.
• Void Insight True Lord sent the students into the Ruin Domain, and a spatial rift scattered them across the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Ruins.
• Bai Yi killed a Metal-Nature Beast, collected its Blazing Spirit Ore, and flew toward the ruins’ center.
• Bai Yi sensed a Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple fighting a gaunt Blood River Demon Realm cultivator and watched them clash with their techniques.
• Bai Yi launched a blue sword rainbow at the two fighters, forcing the Blood River cultivator to raise a skeleton barrier.
• Bai Yi’s sword rainbow shattered the remnant souls and pierced through the blood-red skeleton.

Bai Yi pursued the gaunt Blood River Sect disciple with the Azure Immortal Sword and pierced his Blood Demon body, but a Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple intervened to save him. The two men joined forces and knocked the sword rainbow back, leaving Bai Yi facing both opponents.

• The gaunt young man fled from Bai Yi's sword strike, but Bai Yi sent more than a dozen sword shadows after him and trapped him in a blizzard of Sword Qi.
• The gaunt young man used blood and Remnant Souls to strengthen his Blood River, then transformed into a Blood Demon and seized the Azure Immortal Sword.
• Bai Yi released a surge of Sword Qi that broke through the Blood Shadows and pierced the gaunt young man's chest.
• Bai Yi struck at the Blood River again, but the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple shielded it with a phantom cauldron and demanded that the gaunt young man fight alongside him.
• The gaunt young man used blood bottles and swallowed a Marrow-Burning Blood Worm Pill to restore his Blood Demon body, then he and the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple struck Bai Yi's sword rainbow together and sent it flying backward.

Bai Yi killed the Blood River Sect and Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciples who had attacked him, then continued into the Ancient Origin Sword Sect ruins. After slaying a Metal-Nature Beast there, he found it had left behind a mysterious Bronze Little Sword.

• Bai Yi used his two Flying Swords to kill the gaunt Blood River Sect disciple and the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple.
• Bai Yi burned both bodies, collected their Storage Rings, and flew toward the center of the Secret Realm.
• A day later, Bai Yi reached the Ancient Origin Sword Sect ruins and saw the shattered mountain peak still giving off traces of Blade Qi.
• A Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Metal-Nature Beast attacked Bai Yi, and the Heart-Questioning Sword killed it with one strike.
• Bai Yi found a palm-sized Bronze Little Sword where the beast’s body had dissipated and sensed that it had formed from ordinary bronze and iron absorbing sharpness.

Bai Yi activated a Bronze Little Sword with Sword Intent and discovered it was an Ancient Origin Sword Sect Sword-Washing Token that could lead him to a surviving private Sword-Washing Pool. He found the hidden underground pool and entered to discover a dark purple blade absorbing its Metal-Nature sharpness.

• Bai Yi used Sword Intent to activate the Bronze Little Sword, revealing it as a Sword-Washing Token containing a miniature Sword-Washing Pool.
• Bai Yi learned that the token pointed toward a swordsmith’s private pool beneath a palace and set off to find it before his time ran out.
• The token guided Bai Yi to a concealed entrance in a ruined stone building, where its activation opened a passage underground.
• Bai Yi descended through the passage and pushed open a stone door, then used the Azure Immortal Sword and Heart-Questioning Sword to repel the sharpness surging from within.
• Bai Yi saw a vast Sword-Washing Pool filled with Spirit Ore, crystals, and swords, while a dark purple blade atop a Sword Mountain absorbed the pool’s Metal-Nature sharpness.

Bai Yi discovered that the Sword-Washing Pool had developed a trace of pure Sword Intent and learned from Wang Deguang’s notes how its Sword-Washing Method could improve Flying Swords and forge Life-bound Flying Sword blanks. He began absorbing the pool’s Sword Intent to strengthen his own understanding.

• Bai Yi sensed immature Sword Intent rising from the Sword Mountain and realized it was the Sword-Washing Pool’s greatest secret.
• Bai Yi found two Jade Slips written by Wang Deguang and read his notes on the pool’s principles and the Sword-Washing Method.
• Bai Yi learned that the pool could temper Flying Swords, refine materials into sword blanks, and help a Sword Cultivator forge a Life-bound Flying Sword.
• Bai Yi stored the Jade Slips and sat before the Sword Mountain with the Azure Immortal Sword floating nearby.
• Bai Yi guided wisps of pure Sword Intent from the Sword Mountain into the phantom Sword Dao image behind him.

Bai Yi absorbed the Sword-Washing Pool’s pure Sword Intent and broke through to Minor Accomplishment, then claimed the Fourth-Rank Acquired Sword Embryo known as the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo. He learned about its origins and the different kinds of Sword Embryos as the chapter ended with him holding a prized treasure that could serve as the foundation for a Life-bound Flying Sword.

• Bai Yi absorbed the pure Sword Intent in the Sword-Washing Pool, causing its swords to tremble and the Sword Mountain’s stored Sword Intent to flow into him.
• Bai Yi’s Sword Intent broke through to Minor Accomplishment, and he demonstrated how it strengthened Spiritual Power by blasting apart a stone statue.
• Bai Yi flew to the Sword Mountain’s peak and seized the purple Sword Embryo, subduing its Sword Qi with his newly strengthened Sword Intent.
• The Sword Mountain collapsed as the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo detached itself and circled Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi identified the treasure as a Fourth-Rank Acquired Sword Embryo and recalled how Wang Deguang had forged it from the Heavenly Punishment Purple Gold Crystal and other materials.
• Bai Yi reviewed the differences between Innate True Intention Sword Embryos, Acquired Spirit Dao Sword Embryos, and Heaven and Earth Sword Embryo Spirit Treasures, including Shen Chen’s use of one as a main material.

After obtaining the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo, Bai Yi emerged into the palace ruins and found Huang Dao being hunted by a Myriad Forms Sect disciple. Bai Yi intervened, killed the attacker in a single exchange, and promised to remove the poison afflicting Huang Dao.

• Bai Yi merged the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo into his Qi Sea and Dantian, considering its potential as his future Life-bound Flying Sword.
• Bai Yi left the cave abode, stored the Sword-Washing Token, and sensed fighting among the geniuses gathered at the central palace.
• A Myriad Forms Sect disciple pursued the poisoned and wounded Huang Dao, revealing that the Longyan Dao Domain and Blood River Demon Realm had lured the Immortal Alliance into an ambush.
• Bai Yi gave Huang Dao Poison-Removing Pills and told him to suppress the poison for ten breaths while he dealt with the attacker.
• The Myriad Forms Sect disciple tried to flee and defend himself with the Myriad Poisons Umbrella, but Bai Yi's Azure Immortal Sword cut through the artifact and killed him.

Bai Yi killed a Myriad Forms Sect disciple, purged Huang Dao’s poison, and rushed to aid Yun Yaoyao and the trapped Ten Palaces Dao Students. After connecting with them through the Terminal, he launched a long-range sword strike at the Myriad Forms Sect’s Quasi-Daoist Son.

• Bai Yi confirmed the Myriad Forms Sect disciple was dead, took his Storage Ring, and removed the poison from Huang Dao’s body.
• Bai Yi flew toward the encircled Dao Students and connected to Yun Yaoyao and the others through the Terminal.
• Yun Yaoyao told Bai Yi that the Ten Palaces disciples were nearing their limits as they fought the Myriad Forms Sect and Blood River Sect geniuses.
• Bai Yi used his Divine Sense to survey the battle and decided to target the Myriad Forms Sect’s Quasi-Daoist Son first.
• Bai Yi unleashed two enormous Sword Intent phantom swords from nine kilometers away and sent them toward the Quasi-Daoist Son.

Bai Yi used his Sword Intent to attack Li Yansheng while Yun Yaoyao and the White Flame-Burning Brightness Beast kept Li Yansheng occupied. Li Yansheng briefly broke through under pressure, but Bai Yi’s second sword killed him and revealed the killer’s name.

• Li Yansheng fought Yun Yaoyao and the White Flame-Burning Brightness Beast with frost techniques.
• Bai Yi launched a Sword Intent strike from a distance, forcing Li Yansheng to raise two defensive Magical Artifacts.
• Yun Yaoyao shattered Li Yansheng’s purple bell-shaped Magical Artifact, and Bai Yi’s sword strike split his Ice Soul Mirror.
• Li Yansheng broke through his Frost Waterfall Jade Formula and evaded Bai Yi’s first fatal strike.
• Bai Yi sent a second sword strike that destroyed Li Yansheng’s frost apparition and pierced his neck and chest.
• As Li Yansheng died, Bai Yi identified himself as the one who slew him.

After Bai Yi killed Li Yansheng, Xue Mozi tried to flee but was held back by Zhao Lingjian and Yun Yaoyao while Bai Yi’s Flying Swords battered him. Bai Yi revealed Minor Accomplishment Sword Intent and began his first strike after breaking through, leaving Xue Mozi facing the descending blow.

• Xue Mozi sensed Li Yansheng’s death and fled, abandoning Zhao Lingjian and Yun Yaoyao.
• Zhao Lingjian blocked Xue Mozi’s escape with his azure sword while Yun Yaoyao attacked him with white flames.
• Bai Yi’s sword rainbow broke through Xue Mozi’s defenses, and his Azure Immortal and Heart-Questioning Swords struck at him from two directions.
• Xue Mozi formed a Blood Demon Body and sent the White Flame-Burning Brightness Beast crashing to the ground.
• Bai Yi arrived and revealed Minor Accomplishment Sword Intent, then sent his Sword Intent phantom plunging toward Xue Mozi.

Bai Yi killed Xue Mozi with his Minor Accomplishment-level Sword Intent and helped Zhao Lingjian regain his confidence as a Sword Cultivator. After the group defeated the remaining attackers, Bai Yi found Mystic Heart Sword Iron among the spoils and traded Crimson-Burning Brightness Grass to Yun Yaoyao, who was delighted to receive it.

• Bai Yi's Sword Intent overwhelmed Xue Mozi, destroying his Blood Demon Body and killing him.
• Zhao Lingjian felt inferior to Bai Yi until Bai Yi's words renewed his resolve, prompting him to thank his senior brother.
• Bai Yi, Yun Yaoyao, and the others killed the disciples who had besieged the Ten Palaces disciples.
• Yun Yaoyao gave Bai Yi the Storage Rings of the Blood River Sect quasi-Demon Son and Myriad Forms Sect quasi-Daoist Son, and Bai Yi found nearly two pounds of Mystic Heart Sword Iron inside.
• Yun Yaoyao gave Bai Yi another piece of Mystic Heart Sword Iron, and Bai Yi repaid her with Crimson-Burning Brightness Grass for her White Flame-Burning Brightness Beast.

Bai Yi and Yun Yaoyao collected resources from the defeated Outer Domain disciples before the Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion emerged above the broken Dao Mountain. As disciples from the four domains gathered outside, the pavilion announced that Sword Sect prodigies could enter to receive the inheritance.

• Bai Yi searched the Storage Rings and gave Yun Yaoyao Mystic Heart Sword Iron, Demonic Artifacts, and Flame-related spiritual items while Zhao Lingjian distributed pills to the Ten Palaces disciples.
• The Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion burst out of the Lesser Grotto-Heaven, and Bai Yi, Yun Yaoyao, Zhao Lingjian, and another disciple headed toward it.
• Bai Yi and Yun Yaoyao reached the pavilion plaza, where they met Qiu Yufeng of the Hidden Dao Sect and a woman from the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect.
• Gu Sheng arrived and greeted Bai Yi and Yun Yaoyao, unsettling Qiu Yufeng and the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect disciple with the Immortal Alliance's gathering of prodigies.
• After disciples from the four domains assembled, a voice from inside the pavilion announced that the Zhou Tian Period had arrived and Sword Sect prodigies could enter for the inheritance.

Bai Yi entered the Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion and passed its first two inheritance assessments, choosing the Heavenly Evolution Sword and preparing to ignore the Spiritual Root treasures. The chapter left him on the Pavilion’s second level, considering how he could finish upgrading his Metal Spiritual Root after returning to the Immortal Alliance.

• Bai Yi, Yun Yaoyao, and Gu Sheng agreed to kill the other cultivators after they brought out the Sword Pavilion’s treasures.
• Bai Yi passed the first-level assessment by manifesting a river of Spiritual Power and chose the Heavenly Evolution Sword, awakening it with his Sword Intent.
• Bai Yi climbed to the second level and passed its assessment by manifesting a vast sea of Spiritual Power.
• Bai Yi dismissed the Spiritual Root treasures and reflected that the Immortal Alliance could improve his roots with Dao-Building Crystals and its Spiritual Root Derivation Device.

Bai Yi obtained the Purifying Malevolent Upper Qi, completing the materials needed to forge his Dao Foundation, then reached the Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion’s Third Layer. There, he challenged the sword wills of the Ancient Origin Sword Sect’s predecessors and received two inheritance rewards.

• Bai Yi selected the Purifying Malevolent Upper Qi from the Sword Pavilion’s treasures and subdued its murderous Sword Qi with his Sword Intent.
• Bai Yi stored the Purifying Malevolent Upper Qi and realized he now had the materials to forge his Dao Foundation and break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Bai Yi reached the Third Layer, where an old man explained that releasing his Sword Intent would awaken the mountain and grant him an inheritance reward.
• Bai Yi unleashed his Sword Intent, awakening illusory figures of Ancient Origin Sword Sect cultivators and their Cloud-Cluster Swords.
• Bai Yi challenged the figures with Questioning the Heart and Azure Immortal, and his own Cloud-Cluster Sword joined theirs.
• The figures acknowledged Bai Yi before vanishing, leaving him a Jade Slip and a nine-leaf spirit herb as inheritance rewards.

Bai Yi obtained the Ancient Origin Myriad Blades Heavenly Hero Sword Canon and the Nine Heavens Myriad Blades Swordheart Grass from the Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion, gaining a treasured sword cultivation path and the final core ingredient for his cultivation plans. When he emerged, disciples from the other three domains watched him with greed, and he chose to face Qiu Yufeng and Long Muling while Gu Sheng and Yun Yaoyao dealt with the others.

• Bai Yi studied the Ancient Origin Myriad Blades Heavenly Hero Sword Canon and learned it recorded the Primordial Dao Foundation [Sword Myriad Blades] and its later cultivation techniques.
• Bai Yi recognized the Nine Heavens Myriad Blades Swordheart Grass as the Sword Dao treasure needed to cultivate the first chapter of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao.
• Bai Yi took both treasures and was expelled from the Sword Pavilion's inner space after his Sword Intent and long stay there drew attention.
• Qiu Yufeng and Long Muling watched Bai Yi with suspicion and planned to report his discovery to their True Lords.
• Bai Yi told Gu Sheng and Yun Yaoyao to handle the other three-domain disciples while he faced Qiu Yufeng and Long Muling alone.