Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi prepared the C-Zone A-05 fleet for an assault on the Withered Bone Sect and led the stealth fleet toward its target. As the fleet advanced, Withered Bone Sect cultivators forced ordinary people into blood livestock duty, revealing the cruelty Bai Yi's forces were approaching.

• Bai Yi oversaw the fleet’s final preparations and impressed the personnel with his command during the exercises.
• Bai Yi displayed overwhelming True Power, rallied the troops, and ordered the fleet to crush the Withered Bone Sect.
• Bai Yi connected to the flagship’s Divine Sense system and directed a decoy task force to attack the Soul-Losing Sect while the main fleet went into stealth.
• Bai Yi led the concealed fleet toward the Withered Bone Sect, ordering it to approach within two hundred kilometers at silent stealth speed.
• A Withered Bone Sect outer disciple killed a pleading man, refined his blood into a Blood Pill, and threatened the other captives into submission.

Bai Yi’s Sea-Covering-class Fleet launched a surprise long-range assault on the Withered Bone Sect, overwhelming its defenses with heavy cannon and missile fire. As the sect sacrificed captives to keep its formation intact, Bai Yi ordered the fleet to target them and continue striking the formation.

• The Withered Bone Sect’s Sect Master and Great Elder discussed using ten thousand mortals as blood-food to refine pills and strengthen their sect.
• Bai Yi ordered the fleet to drop its optical camouflage and unleash its over-the-horizon weapons against the sect.
• The fleet’s heavy cannons and missiles battered the sect formation, while the Sect Master and Great Elder tried to intercept the attacks.
• The sect’s disciples began sacrificing mortals in the Blood Pool to repair the failing formation.
• Bai Yi ordered Teams Three and Four to target the mortals and told the main cannon to keep firing at the formation and the Sect Master.

Bai Yi’s Sea-Covering-class flagship and its fighters devastated the Withered Bone Sect, destroying its protective formation and killing many of its cultivators. As the Sect Master and two elders launched a desperate attack on the flagship, Bai Yi ordered its defenses reinforced and prepared another barrage.

• The flagship fired Runes Missiles at the Withered Bone Sect’s blood sacrifices, and the Sect Master killed an elder who tried to flee before using his bones to block another missile barrage.
• The flagship’s cannon struck the sect’s protective formation for the third time, collapsing it and destroying a third of the sect’s buildings.
• Eight River-class Aerospace Fighters attacked the wounded Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators, killing several while the Sect Master and Great Elder fought back.
• The flagship shielded a fighter from the Sect Master’s black mist, then released more than two hundred Close-Range Talisman Airspace Mines across the battlefield.
• The Sect Master, Great Elder, and Enforcement Elder charged the flagship, and Bai Yi activated its Second Tier defensive barrier and arranged the fighters into a Bedrock Formation.
• Bai Yi ordered the auxiliary cannons charged and instructed his forces to prepare all remaining interference bombs, mines, and obstructive flying robots.

Bai Yi’s Sea-Covering-class fleet destroyed the Withered Bone Sect and killed its sect master and two Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators. When Black Soul True Person arrived, the fleet withdrew under camouflage, and Bai Yi considered attacking other Foundation Establishment Demon Sects.

• Bai Yi’s fleet used Suppress Character Talisman Jammers, mines, missiles, and heavy cannons to kill the Withered Bone Sect’s sect master and two other demon cultivators.
• The Sea-Covering-class flagship and eight River-class Aerospace Fighters finished off the surviving Foundation Establishment Realm demon cultivators.
• After detecting Black Soul True Person approaching, Bai Yi ordered the fleet to retreat under Optical Camouflage and return for its collected resources later.
• Black Soul True Person arrived at the ruined Withered Bone Sect, absorbed its dead cultivators’ souls into his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and turned back when a dangerous aura emerged near the Two-Realm Boundary.
• Bai Yi canceled a concentrated strike request after Black Soul True Person withdrew, then considered taking resources from other Foundation Establishment Demon Sects.

Bai Yi’s forces moved to the Withered Bone Sect ruins and stripped the sect’s warehouse and surrounding area of resources. He gathered more than three hundred Enlightenment Glimmers and prepared to advance the Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword as the base began producing additional River-class Aerospace Fighters.

• Bai Yi relocated the base to the Withered Bone Sect ruins and sent Exploration Robots and Resource Robots to recover the sect’s spoils.
• Bai Yi disabled wartime monitoring on Lei Guanghong’s and Cao Zhiyuan’s Terminals, then assigned the recovered manuals, Blood Pills, Spirit Stones, and Spirit Ore for distribution, research, and production.
• Bai Yi collected the warehouse’s Demonic Artifacts and razed the warehouse after finding no hidden doors.
• Old Liu reported a vein containing three thousand units of Second-Tier Spirit Ore, and Bai Yi ordered Mining Robots manufactured to extract it.
• Bai Yi used the Demonic Artifacts to draw energy toward the Dao-Deriving Mirror, gaining more than three hundred and ten Enlightenment Glimmers.

Bai Yi comprehended and completed the second sword of the Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword, demonstrating power that shocked the soldiers at the base. He tested the technique in a backup Cultivation Room and resolved to keep improving his cultivation as well as his combat strength.

• Bai Yi studied the Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword and drew Profound Void Sword Qi into the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo.
• Bai Yi unleashed a sword that destroyed the Cultivation Room wall, while Lei Guanghong, Cao Zhiyuan, and the soldiers watched in shock.
• Bai Yi completed the second sword, Fierce Edge, and moved to a backup Cultivation Room after telling the others to arrange repairs.
• Bai Yi tested the first sword at one percent power and considered how the first two swords could let him defeat Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators.
• Bai Yi reflected that raising his cultivation realm remained essential even with his ability to fight above his level.

Bai Yi used his stock of Spirit Stones to cultivate for half a month, then led the strengthened A-05 Fleet to destroy the Soul-Losing Sect. The fleet escaped before Black Soul True Person could catch it, and Bai Yi divided the sect’s meager spoils among the soldiers.

• Bai Yi spent more than seven hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones cultivating, refining each one in fifteen minutes and increasing the True Power in his Qi Sea and Dantian.
• During Bai Yi’s recovery, Lei Guanghong secured mining and retention rights, and the Fleet Base produced two River-class Aerospace Fighters and recruited twelve promising pilots.
• Bai Yi assembled the fleet and launched the second extermination plan against the Soul-Losing Sect.
• The fleet destroyed the Soul-Losing Sect in seven minutes, and the Armored Squadron plundered its valuables before Bai Yi ordered a retreat.
• Black Soul True Person arrived too late to find the fleet and returned to his sect, while Bai Yi divided the Soul-Losing Sect’s Spirit Stones and artifacts among the base’s soldiers.

Bai Yi led the fleet in campaigns that destroyed the Foundation Establishment Demon Sects around Black Soul True Person, while cultivating and refining seized Demonic Artifacts. After mastering Bright Thunder and defeating a Sleepless Sect grand elder, he broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Bai Yi directed the fleet to destroy the Corpse Blood Sect, then expanded the base into its territory and discovered two Second Tier spirit ore deposits.
• Bai Yi used a feint to seize the Dust Demon Sect, but the raid cost a River-class Aerospace Fighter and soldiers, so he ordered increased compensation for the fallen soldiers' families.
• Over six months, Bai Yi led four more campaigns, eliminating the nearby Foundation Establishment Demon Sects while losing five River-class Aerospace Fighters and suffering damage from Black Soul True Person's attack.
• Bai Yi spent nearly three hundred Enlightenment Glimmers to master Bright Thunder, the third sword of substance from the Heavenly Profound Seven Ultimate Sword.
• During the campaign against the Sleepless Sect, Bai Yi and his allies faced two Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivators, and Bai Yi killed one grand elder in five minutes.
• After nearly a year of cultivation, Bai Yi used spirit stones to break through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Bai Yi used the Virtual Network to master a hundred Qi Refining sword arts and strengthen his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation. As its sword tip took shape, a mysterious sword vision pulled him from the network and appeared before him.

• Bai Yi advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage after spending more than 4,700 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and several thousand contribution points' worth of pills.
• Bai Yi tested his stronger True Power and judged that, with his sword techniques and other advantages, he might be able to kill Black Soul True Person, though he still needed to grow stronger.
• Bai Yi connected to Void Insight True Heaven's Virtual Network and began studying the Sword Arts in Void Insight Dao Academy's library to reinforce his Dao Foundation.
• Bai Yi comprehended the Flourishing Flower Shadowless Sword Art and the Raging Waves Sword Art to Dao Resonance Perfection, engraving their patterns onto his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation.
• After Bai Yi perfected a hundred Qi Refining sword arts, the tip of his Dao Foundation solidified, its sword resonance erupted, and a vision of a pure sword light appeared as his remaining Enlightenment Glimmers burned.

Bai Yi perfected his First Realm Sword Intent and strengthened his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation while in seclusion. He emerged and gathered the expanded fleet to announce an attack on Black Soul True Person, a Golden Core great demon, leaving his soldiers shocked by his power.

• Bai Yi reached First Realm Sword Intent Perfection and found that his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation reinforced his True Power by about fifty percent.
• Bai Yi left seclusion, ordered the Fleet Base to assemble, and learned that its personnel and aerospace forces had grown substantially during the past year.
• Lei Guanghong reported the fleet's new ships and equipment to Bai Yi, including a Sea-Covering-class flagship and twenty-eight River-class Aerospace Fighters.
• Bai Yi announced that the fleet would attack and kill Black Soul True Person, the Golden Core great demon guarding the remaining Demon Sects.
• Lei Guanghong warned that attacking with only one flagship was risky, and Bai Yi revealed his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation and overwhelming True Power, stunning the assembled soldiers.

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Bai Yi ordered A-05 Base’s fleet to launch an operation against Black Soul True Person. Liu Mingyang received Bai Yi’s message about his abilities and was stunned by the strength of the young cultivator.

• Lei Guanghong and Cao Zhiyuan felt the force of Bai Yi’s Sword Intent and recalled his earlier victory over a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection demon cultivator.
• Cao Zhiyuan and Lei Guanghong rallied the soldiers to shout for the destruction of the Black Soul Old Thief, and Bai Yi ordered the base to enter Level One Combat Readiness.
• After the fleet completed its preparations, Bai Yi deployed the Sea-Covering-class flagship and thirty-eight River-class fighters, linking them with Myriad Things Hyperlink and concealing them with Optical Camouflage.
• Bai Yi requested a joint operation against Black Soul True Person and sent Liu Mingyang an encrypted message describing his cultivation, sword techniques, and Sword Intent.
• Liu Mingyang’s doubts about the operation vanished after reading Bai Yi’s message, but he was left stunned that a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator had perfected the first realm of Sword Intent.

Bai Yi led the A-05 fleet to attack Black Moon Sect while Black Soul True Person prepared to defend it and summon reinforcements. The fleet's opening barrage was swallowed by Black Soul True Person's Ten Thousand Souls Banner, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Liu Mingyang approved Bai Yi's plan to exterminate Black Moon Sect and ordered nearby Immortal Alliance fleets to intercept demonic reinforcements.
• Bai Yi ordered Lei Guanghong and the fleet to seal Black Soul True Person's escape routes while he held him off for twenty minutes.
• Black Soul True Person detected the fleet, ordered Black Moon Sect's leaders to summon support from four other sects, and moved to test the fleet's strength against the Sect-Protection Grand Array.
• The Sea-Covering-class Main Warship fired missiles, particle beams, and a Golden Core-level lightning attack at Black Moon Sect.
• Black Soul True Person used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to destroy the lightning attack and swallow the fleet's missiles.

Black Soul True Person fought the Immortal Alliance fleet at the Black Moon Sect, confident that no Golden Core cultivators opposed him. A White Robe swordsman then severed his attack and the surrounding soul mist, leaving Black Soul True Person stunned when he sensed the swordsman was only at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Black Soul True Person checked the Immortal Alliance fleet for Golden Core cultivators, then retreated into the Black Moon Sect's protective formation when the fleet continued advancing.
• Black Moon Sect demonic cultivators jeered at the Immortal Alliance, while Lei Guanghong and Cao Zhiyuan ordered the Sea-Covering-class flagship to attack again.
• Black Soul True Person used his Ten Thousand Souls Banner and the Resentment-Nian Floating Life Art to absorb the flagship's thunder-art beam, then attacked it with a giant Ghost Shadow.
• A dazzling sword strike cut through the Ghost Shadow and black soul mist, revealing a young man in a White Robe beneath the sunlight.
• Black Soul True Person recognized the man's Great-Completion Sword Intent and prepared to flee, but his Divine Sense revealed the swordsman was at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Bai Yi, a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Sword Cultivator, confronted Black Soul True Person and used his Great-Completion Sword Intent to hold off the Golden Core demon. As Black Soul True Person unleashed his Dao Foundation and a colossal Ghost Shadow, the battle remained unresolved and the fleet watched in fear.

• Black Soul True Person realized Bai Yi was only at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and was shocked that he possessed Great-Completion Sword Intent.
• Bai Yi attacked with Arrowhead, but Black Soul True Person’s Ghost Shadows swallowed the Sword Light and he vowed to refine Bai Yi into his Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Black Soul True Person launched his Ten Thousand Demons Finger Art, and Bai Yi countered with Fierce Edge before dodging the Ghost Shadows and striking back.
• Bai Yi focused on holding Black Soul True Person off for twenty minutes while the Immortal Alliance fleet gained the advantage over the Black Moon Sect.
• Black Soul True Person summoned his Dao Foundation, expanded the soul mist across a twenty-kilometer area, and revealed a colossal Ghost Shadow that frightened both forces.

Bai Yi held off Black Soul True Person while the Immortal Alliance fleet destroyed the Black Moon Sect, and Black Soul summoned nearby Golden Core reinforcements. As the battle reached the end of Bai Yi’s twenty-minute mission, he stopped dodging and brought down his Sword Seal.

• Black Soul True Person sent skeletons to attack the demonic cultivators below, but Bai Yi shattered one before it could strike a sky fighter.
• Bai Yi took a Returning True Pill and continued evading Black Soul True Person, while the fleet neared the end of its attack on the Black Moon Sect.
• Black Soul True Person crushed a blood-red token, summoning Golden Core cultivators stationed across the surrounding region.
• Liu Mingyang ordered fleets to intercept the incoming reinforcements and broadcast surveillance footage of Bai Yi to Immortal Alliance troops.
• Yun Yaoyao, Gu Sheng, and Zhou Yangsheng watched Bai Yi battle Black Soul True Person as soldiers across the Alliance saw the footage.
• When the mission’s twenty minutes ended, Bai Yi swallowed two Returning True Pills, stopped dodging the pursuing Ghost Shadows, and brought down his Sword Seal.

Bai Yi revealed his Profound Void Sword Primordial Dao Foundation and fought Black Soul True Person with his perfected Sword Intent. The battle left Black Soul True Person stunned when Bai Yi’s Dantian produced a fourth-tier Acquired Spirit Dao Sword Embryo.

• Bai Yi unveiled his Profound Void Sword Dao Foundation and cut through Black Soul True Person’s soul mist with Arrowhead Sword Intent.
• Black Soul True Person merged with hundreds of thousands of resentful souls to form a towering Ghost King and launched his Myriad Ghosts Soul-Sacrifice Great Technique.
• Bai Yi unleashed Fierce Edge with his perfected Sword Intent and nearly twenty percent of his Profound Void True Power, tearing through the soul mist.
• Black Soul True Person summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, formed a net of soul mist, and sent his Black Soul Needle toward Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi’s Purple Light Sword Embryo blocked the Black Soul Needle, leaving Black Soul True Person astonished by its fourth-tier aura.

Bai Yi used the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo to unleash two powerful attacks against Black Soul True Person, inspiring the watching Immortal Alliance soldiers with hope. Though his strength was fading, Black Soul True Person summoned a hell of resentful souls and sent them swarming toward Bai Yi.

• The Immortal Alliance soldiers cheered as Bai Yi appeared poised to slay the Golden Core demon, and Liu Mingyang saw hope in his performance.
• Bai Yi unleashed Fierce Edge with the Purple Spirit Clear Void Sword Embryo, but Black Soul True Person blocked it with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and their collision devastated the Black Moon Sect's mountain gate.
• Bai Yi recovered quickly and struck again with Fierce Edge, shattering Black Soul True Person's ghostly arms before his sword storm dissipated.
• Black Soul True Person sensed Bai Yi's fading aura, transformed into a hell of resentful souls, and used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to pull the dead demon cultivators' souls into his attack.
• Black Soul True Person sent tens of thousands of resentful souls toward Bai Yi as Bai Yi invoked a thunder technique.

Bai Yi killed Black Soul True Person with the Bright Thunder sword technique, then claimed his Storage Ring as Immortal Alliance soldiers celebrated his victory. As Liu Mingyang learned that the fleet had intercepted four more Golden Core demons, he prepared to seize the opportunity.

• Bai Yi unleashed Bright Thunder, destroyed Black Soul True Person's soul-fog purgatory and Ten Thousand Souls Banner, then killed him with three strikes from the Heart-Questioning Sword.
• Bai Yi took Black Soul True Person's Storage Ring and received cheers from nearby soldiers, aircraft crews, and Immortal Alliance bases across the region.
• Immortal Alliance soldiers hailed Bai Yi as their strongest prodigy, while Zhou Yangsheng, Yun Yaoyao, and Gu Sheng returned to cultivation, determined not to fall further behind.
• Liu Mingyang praised Bai Yi's strength and considered whether he could reach the Sword Momentum Realm while still at Foundation Establishment.
• A report told Liu Mingyang that the fleet had intercepted four Golden Core demons sent as reinforcements, and he called for the Immortal Alliance to claim the opportunity.

After recovering from his duel with Black Soul True Person, Bai Yi tried to rejoin the war in Black Blood Territory and secured missions against nearby Foundation Establishment Demon Sects. The half-year war ended with the Immortal Alliance in control, and Bai Yi learned his fleet had been reassigned while he was to return to the Dao Academy.

• Liu Mingyang ordered every fleet in Cangshan Small Realm into the war, and the Immortal Alliance destroyed the blood-food kingdoms before defeating the Golden Core Demon Sects in Black Blood Territory.
• Bai Yi woke at the A-05 Fleet Base, learned the war was underway, and pleaded with Liu Mingyang to let his fleet fight.
• Liu Mingyang assigned Bai Yi more than ten nearby Foundation Establishment Sects to exterminate, and Bai Yi led his fleet through the missions while avoiding Golden Core Demon Lords.
• After Liu Mingyang killed the last Golden Core Great Perfection Demon Cultivator, the war ended and the Immortal Alliance placed both realms under wartime control.
• Bai Yi counted his twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and other spoils, then learned his fleet was reassigned to garrison the Immortal Alliance Ancestral Star while he returned to the Dao Academy to recover and complete his coursework.

Bai Yi returned to Void Insight True Heaven after the battle, rested, and examined Black Soul True Person’s possessions before using his plundered Demonic Artifacts to restore another corner of the Dao-Deriving Mirror. The mirror awakened Dao-Comprehension Luminescence and the Pure Yang Flame, whose effects Bai Yi began to learn.

• Bai Yi gave his remaining pills to Lei Guanghong and Cao Zhiyuan, then returned to Void Insight True Heaven aboard an Aerospace Starfield Battleship.
• New True Disciples greeted Bai Yi on Cloudwater Peak, and he advised them to temper their unstable auras before returning to his mansion to rest.
• After two days, Bai Yi registered for his Sixth Dao Stage courses and inspected Black Soul True Person’s Storage Ring, finding spirit stones, demonic materials, and three Soul Infant Fruits.
• Bai Yi fed hundreds of Demonic Artifacts to the Dao-Deriving Mirror, removing the rust from one corner and causing its power to change.
• Bai Yi learned that Dao-Comprehension Luminescence could help him understand how to cross cultivation bottlenecks and that the Pure Yang Flame could use Spirit Stones to accelerate the growth of his flesh and blood cells.