Chapter Summaries

After the Ancient Origin Sword Pavilion returned to the Lesser Grotto-Heaven, Bai Yi confronted the Quasi-Daoist Sons Qiu Yufeng and Long Muling and revealed his Minor Accomplishment-level Sword Intent. He overwhelmed both with his two swords, but the battle continued as Long Muling realized she could not keep defending.

• Bai Yi and the others calculated that the Secret Realm bell would ring in half an hour, and Gu Sheng offered to come help after twenty minutes.
• As soon as the Sword Pavilion's barrier vanished, Bai Yi confronted Qiu Yufeng and Long Muling and declared that he would take their heads.
• Bai Yi revealed Minor Accomplishment-level Sword Intent and attacked both Quasi-Daoist Sons with the Azure Immortal Sword and the Heart-Questioning Sword.
• Qiu Yufeng countered with the Hidden Dao Sect's Silver Flower Fire-Scale Art, while Long Muling used the Heavenly Qilin Immortal Sect's Myriad Artifacts Tempering the Spirit Method.
• Bai Yi broke through Qiu Yufeng's flames and used an agile sword technique to evade Long Muling's attacks, steadily wearing down their defenses.
• Long Muling recognized that she could not continue defending against Bai Yi's attacks.

Bai Yi used his two swords to break through Long Muling’s defenses and kill her, then turned his full attention to Qiu Yufeng. After Qiu Yufeng’s attempt to burn Bai Yi in a sea of silver flames failed, Bai Yi struck him with a powerful slash, leaving his condition unclear.

• Long Muling activated her armor and Immortal Descent True Method, but Bai Yi overwhelmed her with waves of Sword Intent until she exhausted her Spiritual Power.
• Bai Yi joined the Azure Immortal Sword with the Heart-Questioning Sword, pierced Long Muling’s shield and War General Phantasm, and killed her.
• Qiu Yufeng abandoned his plan to conserve Spiritual Power and charged Bai Yi with silver flames, blossoms, and fallen leaves.
• Bai Yi emerged unharmed from Qiu Yufeng’s sea of silver flames and unleashed a combined green-and-silver Sword Intent Phantasm.
• Qiu Yufeng’s silver flame blossom and silver-leaf Magical Artifact were severed, and he discovered a shallow wound running from his chest to his waist and abdomen.

Bai Yi and the Immortal Alliance disciples defeated the Three Domains’ forces in the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Secret Realm, killing every entrant from the Three Domains. After the survivors returned, the furious Nascent Soul True Lords of the Three Domains confronted Void Insight True Lord, who revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage power.

• Bai Yi killed Qiu Yufeng and took his Storage Rings, completing the deaths of all the Three Domains’ Quasi-Daoist Son-level prodigies in the Secret Realm.
• Gu Sheng and Yun Yaoyao led the Immortal Alliance Dao Students to defeat the remaining Three Domains’ disciples, and Bai Yi used resources from the Storage Rings to redeem the Blood River Sect disciples’ Magical Artifacts.
• The returning disciples crushed their Glazed Light Tokens and reached the Vessel, where Void Insight True Lord welcomed the sixteen survivors out of the twenty-two who had entered.
• Shagu Devil Lord and the other Dao Domains discovered that none of their disciples had returned and demanded an explanation from Void Insight True Lord.
• Void Insight True Lord broke the old fisherman’s fishing line, suppressed Shagu Devil Lord’s blood-sea cries, and confronted the three True Lords with his Nascent Soul Middle Stage power.

After the Immortal Alliance returned from the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Secret Realm, Bai Yi presented three valuable sword inheritances to Void Insight True Lord and received major rewards. He left with three million Contribution Points, Nascent Soul-level exchange access, and permission to use the Sword-Washing Pool for life.

• Void Insight True Lord drove off the three Nascent Soul True Lords after Bai Yi and the Immortal Alliance Dao Students survived their clash with the Three Domains.
• Void Insight True Lord laughed at Bai Yi's account of encountering disciples from all three domains and returned the group to the Immortal Alliance plane.
• Bai Yi presented Void Insight True Lord with the Sword-Washing Method, the Sword Embryo Forging Method, and the Ancient Origin Myriad Blades Heavenly Hero Sword Canon.
• Void Insight True Lord granted Bai Yi Nascent Soul-level exchange access, three million Contribution Points, lifetime access to the Sword-Washing Pool, and permission to give the Sword Canon to the White Household.
• Bai Yi received confirmation of his rewards and boarded a special ship to return to Void Insight True Heaven.

Bai Yi delivered the Ancient Origin Myriad Blades Heavenly Hero Sword Canon to Lord Ying for recording and received a rare Thousand-Ink Dao-Casting Spirit Heart from True Person Pingyun. After learning that the artifact could strengthen a Dao Foundation, he prepared to break through to Foundation Establishment.

• True Person Pingyun summoned Lord Ying and explained that Bai Yi had clearance to learn of the Immortal Alliance terminal.
• Lord Ying teased Bai Yi with embarrassing personal records before Bai Yi handed him the sword canon to record.
• Lord Ying absorbed the sword canon’s data and said it would accelerate his Basic Sword Art Analysis Method.
• True Person Pingyun gave Bai Yi a rare metal box containing the Thousand-Ink Dao-Casting Spirit Heart, an artifact designed to enhance Dao Foundation comprehension.
• Bai Yi learned what the Spirit Heart could do, bought the remaining Mystic Heart Sword Iron, and set his Cultivation Room to Seclusion mode to attempt Foundation Establishment.

Bai Yi forged the Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation, tempering it with Clear Ferocious Qi, Mystic Heart Sword Iron, and his Sword Intent. As he completed the foundation, Cloudmount Peak’s cultivators recognized that he was attempting a Primordial Dao Foundation and hoped his success would prevent another Four Domains Prodigy Battle tragedy.

• Bai Yi endured two months of refining his body with Geng Metal Qi and formed the embryo of a blade-shaped Dao Foundation from his Essence Blood and Divine Soul.
• Bai Yi tempered the embryo with Clear Ferocious Qi and Mystic Heart Sword Iron, resisting its killing intent with the Enlightenment Glimmer.
• Bai Yi completed the Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation, transformed his Spiritual Power into Profound Void True Power, and fused his Sword Intent with the foundation.
• The Sword Intent’s resonance drew attention from cultivators across Cloudwater Peak and Cloudmount Peak, who identified Bai Yi’s foundation as a Primordial Dao Foundation.

Bai Yi broke through to Foundation Establishment by forming the [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation, then used the Thousand-Ink Dao-Casting Spirit Heart to deepen his understanding until his Sword Intent reached great accomplishment. After refining the Heavenly Evolution Sword and reassuring the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo, he examined the formidable power of his new Profound Void True Power.

• Bai Yi formed the [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation and confirmed his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.
• Bai Yi integrated the Thousand-Ink Dao-Casting Spirit Heart into his Dao Foundation and gained insight into the Sword Dao.
• Bai Yi's Sword Intent reached great accomplishment, and its power carved Sword Marks into the Cultivation Room.
• Bai Yi refined the Heavenly Evolution Sword in a quarter of an hour, but the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo drove it away from him.
• Bai Yi sensed that his Profound Void True Power was more than ten times mightier than his former Spiritual Power.

Bai Yi learned that his Primordial Dao Foundation could grow into an Eclosion Dao Foundation and that only such a foundation could lead to the Mahayana realm or Void Refinement. Void Insight True Lord warned him about enemies in the Outer Domain and gave him two life-saving items; after he reached Foundation Establishment, Bai Yi unlocked the Collection Vault and saw a Nascent Soul-level exchange item.

• Void Insight True Lord congratulated Bai Yi on forging the Immortal Alliance's fourth Primordial Dao Foundation and confirmed that the Alliance's ancestor had transformed one into an Eclosion Dao Foundation.
• Bai Yi learned that his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation could grow by absorbing Sword Art Dao Resonances and that a Primordial Dao Foundation could lead beyond the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Void Insight True Lord told Bai Yi that two previous Primordial Dao Foundation geniuses had been killed by Nascent Soul True Lords from the other Three Domains and warned him to kill anyone who witnessed his full strength in the Outer Domain.
• Void Insight True Lord gave Bai Yi two devices that could briefly withstand a Nascent Soul True Lord's power.
• Bai Yi upgraded his Terminal permissions to Nascent Soul level and unlocked the Collection Vault, where he found an exchange listing for a modified particle-series auxiliary computer.

Bai Yi ordered the materials needed to form a metal-type Heavenly Spiritual Root and told Bai Shoudao that he had forged a [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation and reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage. He began refining his Spiritual Root in seclusion, with his family’s supplementary materials for the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao on the way.

• Bai Yi ordered Dao-Building Crystal Purification Derivative Material and a Metal Spiritual Root Cultivation Assembly, costing 450,000 Contribution Points.
• Bai Yi called Bai Shoudao and revealed that he had forged a [Profound Void Sword] Dao Foundation and broken through to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Bai Shoudao celebrated Bai Yi’s achievement and agreed to send the supplementary materials Yun Du had collected for cultivating the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao.
• Bai Yi received the two Spiritual Root materials from a delivery robot and began absorbing them through the Spiritual Root Derivation Device in his back.
• The materials fused into Bai Yi’s spinal Life Marrow, gradually erasing the remaining water-like energy and strengthening his Metal Spiritual Root.

Bai Yi reached the Metal-Type Heavenly Spiritual Root stage, received a shipment of cultivation materials and equipment, and comprehended the Qi Refining chapter of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao. He began reshaping his body in medicinal liquid, enduring a process that tore apart and regenerated his flesh and bones.

• Bai Yi completed his transformation into a Metal-Type Heavenly Spiritual Root and experienced its powerful ability to absorb and refine spiritual energy.
• Bai Yi claimed a shipment from Qinghe City containing more than a hundred Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and a pill-refining and processing station.
• Bai Yi refined Blood River Sect disciples' Demonic Artifacts into Enlightenment Glimmers using the Dao-Deriving Mirror.
• Bai Yi comprehended the Qi Refining chapter of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao with the aid of the illusory world in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Bai Yi entered the prepared medicinal liquid and began reshaping his body as the materials' traces of the Great Dao tore apart and regenerated his flesh and bones.

Bai Yi completed the first volume of the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao and condensed a Sword Heart Body, which let him combine several Sword Arts into a stronger, new technique. After nearly seven months in seclusion, he visited the Repository Hall to choose cultivation arts for Foundation Establishment.

• Bai Yi used the Nine Heavens Myriad Blades Swordheart Grass and the Book of the Innate Unity of the Dao to form his Sword Heart Body through intense pain.
• Bai Yi refined more than thirty Sword Arts into five and found his new Sword Heart Body could combine up to seven Qi Refining Realm Sword Arts.
• Bai Yi tested the Heart-Questioning Sword and combined several Sword Arts into a new Sword Art Dao Resonance stronger than Higher Vehicle Qi Refining Sword Arts.
• Bai Yi ended his nearly seven-month seclusion and entered the virtual Repository Hall through his True Disciple Token.
• Bai Yi selected the Mystic Void Condensing Dao Art and the Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword from the Void Insight Thousand Arts Subtle Sword-Commanding Canon.

Bai Yi received the Void Insight Thousand Arts Subtle Sword-Commanding Canon inheritance and left seclusion to head for the orbital light platform. Zhou Yangsheng challenged him outside his mansion, and their fight began with Bai Yi revealing Great Accomplishment Sword Intent.

• Bai Yi comprehended the Mystic Void Condensing Dao Art and Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword, then spent contribution points on Demonic Artifacts.
• Zhou Yangsheng challenged Bai Yi after waiting outside his mansion for three months, drawing the attention of the True Disciples on Cloudwater Peak.
• Bai Yi teased Zhou Yangsheng about his repeated defeats and revealed a Sword Dao Phantasm with Great Accomplishment Sword Intent.
• Zhou Yangsheng attacked with his halberd, but Bai Yi's sword rainbow shattered the blow and transformed into surging waves that struck toward Zhou Yangsheng's chest.

Bai Yi defeated Zhou Yangsheng in a fierce Foundation Establishment battle, but Zhou Yangsheng’s battle intent grew stronger even in defeat. After Zhou Yangsheng left to undertake a True Disciple mission, Bai Yi learned that demons had been appearing frequently in the Immortal Alliance.

• Zhou Yangsheng summoned his [Heaven-Tyrant] Dao Foundation and clashed with Bai Yi’s Sword Intent, forcing Bai Yi to reveal his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation.
• Bai Yi overwhelmed Zhou Yangsheng with a storm of Sword Intent and formless swords, shattering his golden battle halberd and defeating him.
• Bai Yi noted Zhou Yangsheng’s battle intent had grown stronger despite his loss, gave him Spirit-Recovery Pills, and compared him to a little Saiyan.
• Zhou Yangsheng vowed to reforge his Dao Foundation through a lightning tribulation after reaching Spirit Transformation, then left in a bronze war chariot to carry out a True Disciple mission.
• True Disciple senior brothers congratulated Bai Yi and told him demons had been appearing frequently in the Immortal Alliance.

Bai Yi reported the White Bones statue to True Person Pingyun, then traveled to the Immortal Alliance Ancestral Star while mastering the first layer of the Mystic Void Condensing Dao Art. At Tianyue City's traffic center, staff recognized his True Disciple status and escorted him to a VIP reception room.

• Bai Yi sent True Person Pingyun the information he had learned about the White Bones statue, and Pingyun said he would report it to the Immortal Alliance.
• Bai Yi boarded an Aerospace Battleship and used thirty-six Enlightenment Glimmers over four days to master the first layer of the Mystic Void Condensing Dao Art, doubling his total True Power.
• The battleship arrived at Tianyue City, where Bai Yi transferred to the civilian transport system for his flight to Qunlan City.
• Several Luying Sect Dao Students noticed Bai Yi, while a Tianyue Academy student approached Xiaorou and offered to ask him for a favor.
• The area manager and flight staff interrupted the Tianyue Academy student and invited Bai Yi to VIP Reception Room No. 1 after confirming his True Disciple status.

Bai Yi revealed himself as a True Disciple of Void Insight Dao Academy at the departure hall, astonishing the crowd and frightening students who had mocked him. He offered a Tianyue Academy student advice on building a Dao Foundation, then arrived in Qinghe City and headed to Qing River Central Court.

• The regional manager identified Bai Yi as a True Disciple of Void Insight Dao Academy, and the departure hall erupted in awe.
• A frightened Tianyue Academy student expected punishment, but Bai Yi steadied him and advised him that he could pursue a Middle Vehicle Dao Foundation.
• Bai Yi declined to share his Flying Immortal Account but welcomed the Luying Sect students as fellow travelers before boarding.
• The Tianyue Academy student thanked Bai Yi excitedly, and airline staff upgraded his group to a Deluxe Family Cabin.
• Bai Yi landed at Qinghe City Transit Rail Center, left the station, and took a driver to Qing River Central Court.

Bai Yi returned to the White Household Manor after reaching Foundation Establishment and reunited with his family. He gave his parents and Third Great-Grandfather valuable pills, then explained how his gains in the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Secret Realm had earned him a huge reward, prompting Bai Shoudao to claim the Changqing Origin Enlightenment Fruit.

• Bai Yi flew into the White Household Manor, where the household members celebrated his return and Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• Bai Yi reunited with Bai Shoudao, Bai Yunqi, Bai Guoshan, Li Qing, and Bai Xiaojing at the Lakeside Pavilion.
• Bai Yi gave his parents Mortal-Shedding Qi-Blood Pills and gave Bai Yunqi a Life-Prolonging Pill and a Body-Healing Hundred-Spirit Pill.
• Bai Yi offered Bai Shoudao a Changqing Origin Enlightenment Fruit, but Bai Shoudao refused until he heard about Bai Yi's rewards from the Ancient Origin Sword Sect Secret Realm.
• After learning Bai Yi had received three million contribution points from the Void Insight True Lord, Bai Shoudao took the fruit and said he deserved it for preparing Bai Yi's resources.

Bai Yi reunited with the White Household, gave Bai Xiaojing a cultivation fruit, and enjoyed a warm family dinner before Bai Yundu reported that Liu Chenran had arranged a Ten-Schools Competition in Qinghe City. Bai Shoudao recognized Liu’s maneuver as a bid to claim Qinghe, leaving the family facing a struggle over its territory and resources.

• Bai Shoudao accepted the Changqing Origin Enlightenment Fruit and reflected on the regrets of his past.
• Bai Yi gave Bai Xiaojing a Three-Part Crimson Flame Fruit after teasing her about forgetting her gift.
• Bai Shoudao prepared the Spirit Fish while the family joked, played chess, and gathered for dinner.
• Bai Yundu told Bai Shoudao that Liu Chenran had secured approval to hold the Ten-Schools Competition in Qinghe City and invited him as an observer.
• Bai Shoudao explained that Liu Chenran hoped to take control of Qinghe, which the Immortal Alliance had entrusted to the White Household.

Bai Shoudao decided to attend the Ten-Schools Competition with Bai Yi rather than surrender Qinghe to Liu Chenran, who was determined to establish his family there. At the stadium, Bai Yi's protected status as a recognized high-potential talent astonished the spectators and academy representatives.

• Bai Shoudao told Bai Yi that they would attend the competition and defend the White Household's interests in Qinghe.
• Liu Chenran learned that the White Household's Daoist Son was a True Disciple of Void Insight Dao Academy, but resolved to fight for Qinghe anyway.
• Crowds filled True Law Stadium as rumors spread that Liu Chenran planned to establish a Second-Rate Academy in the city.
• Students from ten Second-Rate Academies arrived, and Liu Chenran took his seat with their academic affairs representatives.
• Bai Shoudao and Bai Yi arrived aboard a Warship, and the cameras could show Bai Yi only as a blurry shadow.
• Liu Chenran and the representatives recognized that Bai Yi was protected by the Immortal Alliance's High-Privilege Talent Protection Mechanism.

Bai Shoudao and Bai Yi attended Qinghe City's Dharma combat exchange, where Bai Yi’s status as a Four Academies True Disciple drew the crowd’s attention. Liu Chenran launched the competition and promoted his plans for a Qinghe Academy, while Bai Yi watched the matches begin and anticipated the schools’ efforts to counter him.

• The ten schools’ representatives deferred to Liu Chenran as Bai Shoudao and Bai Yi arrived and took seats in the viewing stands.
• Xiao Sa announced Bai Yi’s identity as a Four Academies True Disciple, prompting spectators to crowd around and try to see him.
• Liu Chenran addressed the citizens, promoted his plan to establish a Second-Rate Academy in Qinghe, and opened the Dharma combat competition.
• Bai Shoudao remarked on Liu Chenran’s political skill, while Bai Yi identified several academy teams as likely opponents meant to deal with him.
• Elite Dao Students from the ten schools entered the arena, and two Qi Refining students demonstrated Magic Arts at Dao Resonance Perfection.

At a ten-school combat exchange, Liu Chenran arranged for Foundation Establishment cultivators to challenge Bai Yi and damage the White Household’s reputation. After Guo Zhenlin, a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, claimed the exchange’s prize and challenged Bai Yi, Bai Yi accepted and prepared to show what a True Disciple of the Four Academies could do.

• A Yuanmu Academy student defeated a Hemu Formation Academy student, and Bai Yi criticized his shallow grasp of Magic Art.
• Two Foundation Establishment Early Stage Dao Students entered the exchange, astonishing the spectators, while Bai Shoudao recognized Liu Chenran’s scheme.
• Guo Zhenlin of Mingyuan Academy, a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, defeated his opponent and won first place.
• Guo Zhenlin refused Liu Chenran’s offer to become his master and instead challenged Bai Yi before the crowd.
• Bai Yi rose into the air, released his True Power, and accepted Guo Zhenlin’s challenge.