Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai found the Jade Soul Marrow Milk he needed at Mu Lan Pavilion and welcomed Zeng Yuan, who had left the Spirit Taming Sect, into its ranks. After celebrating with his friends, Mu Bai set out east to explore Silver Frost Forest again, while Xi Bazì and Sweet Potato Boy prepared to travel to the Northern Plains.

• Mu Lan gave Mu Bai the last bottle of Jade Soul Marrow Milk, and he paid her ten Other Shore Flowers before accepting a Soul Crystal Bag from Xi Bazì.
• Mu Bai met Zeng Yuan, who had left the Spirit Taming Sect Pill Hall and joined Mu Lan Pavilion as an elder; Mu Bai entrusted the pavilion’s pill supply to him.
• Mu Bai, Xi Bazì, Sweet Potato Boy, Zeng Yuan, Mu Lan, and the Golden Roc drank together through the night.
• Zeng Yuan finished refining a middle-grade Black-Glow Pill from the Silver-Winged Tiger materials, and Mu Bai’s vital essence added another pill mark before he sent it with Xi Bazì to the sect.
• Mu Bai bade farewell to everyone and flew east on the Twin Fish Sword, with the Golden Roc following him; Xi Bazì and Sweet Potato Boy prepared for their Northern Plains journey.

Mu Bai returned to the Silver Frost Forest to seek a Fierce Beast for his third soul spirit, but encountered a fourth-tier Blood Phoenix and tested the power of his Essence Power against it. He escaped the fight and went to rest in a cave, while the Golden Roc disappeared from his mental sense.

• Mu Bai returned to the Canyon beside the Silver Frost Forest, paid his respects to Elder Qing Mao, and found no remains in the sealed cave.
• Mu Bai ventured deep into the Silver Frost Forest, avoiding ordinary third-tier Fierce Beasts as he searched for a suitable third soul spirit.
• A fourth-tier Blood Phoenix attacked Mu Bai, who fought back with the Crow Cauldron, the Twin Fish Sword, and his Essence Power.
• Mu Bai used tangible objects conjured by his Essence Power to hold off the Blood Phoenix, while his Divine Crow Soul Spirit was destroyed by its divine flames.
• The Golden Roc fled when it saw the Blood Phoenix, and Mu Bai chased after them and struck the Blood Phoenix with an azure ray to protect the Roc.
• Mu Bai abandoned the fight and flew away; when he could no longer sense the Golden Roc nearby, he entered a cave to rest.

Mu Bai fought through a cave of Fox-Faced Bats and negotiated with their elderly leader for Jade Soul Marrow Milk. After escaping with some of the marrow milk, he used it to advance the Twin Fish Sword and continued his journey through the Silver Frost Forest with renewed confidence.

• Mu Bai entered the bat cave and used flames and the Crow Cauldron to hold off the Fox-Faced Bats as the Artifact Spirit Ancestor urged him onward toward the Jade Soul Marrow Milk.
• The elderly Fox-Faced Bat attacked Mu Bai with a mind-piercing shriek, but Mu Bai countered with God-Devouring Insects and purple lightning.
• The elderly bat offered Mu Bai half the cave’s treasure in exchange for leaving, and Mu Bai agreed to take only half the Jade Soul Marrow Milk.
• Mu Bai collected two bottles and left, but the Artifact Spirit Ancestor sneaked back to steal half of what remained before fleeing into the Crow Cauldron.
• Mu Bai used his last bottle of Jade Soul Marrow Milk to advance the Twin Fish Sword into a Top-Tier Soul Soldier.

Mu Bai found rare metal-aspected herbs and crystals in a canyon in the Silver Frost Forest, and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor identified the crystals as power from the Immortal Realm. After Mu Bai revealed his Golden-Foil Book and Flying Immortal Scripture, the Artifact Spirit Ancestor warned him to keep his cultivation secret and recounted the Immortal Realm’s ancient invasion of the Origin Realm.

• Mu Bai reunited with the unharmed Golden Roc, then continued through the Silver Frost Forest until he reached a canyon to replenish his depleted Origin Power.
• After meditating for three days and nights, Mu Bai found the Golden Roc eating rare metal-aspected herbs and discovered that the canyon held an abundance of them.
• Mu Bai broke into the canyon wall and uncovered moon-white crystals that could replenish his power.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor recognized the crystals as Immortal Realm power, and Mu Bai explained that the Golden-Foil Book in his Divine Sea guided him to cultivate it.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor warned Mu Bai to keep his Immortal Realm cultivation secret and described how Immortal forces had invaded the Origin Realm over twenty thousand years earlier, killing its cultivators and destroying its lands.

After learning about the ancient war between the Origin Realm and the Immortal Realm, Mu Bai fought a fourth-rank Silver-Backed Ape and inscribed its soul as his third Soul Mark, reaching the Mighty Realm. Artifact Spirit Ancestor exhausted himself saving Mu Bai and withdrew into the Crow Cauldron, leaving Mu Bai to seek more Soul Crystals to restore him.

• Artifact Spirit Ancestor recounted the Immortal Realm’s devastating invasion of the Origin Realm, and Mu Bai vowed to seek justice for the ancient catastrophe.
• A Silver-Backed Ape attacked Mu Bai, and Artifact Spirit Ancestor used the Crow Cauldron to save him from being eaten.
• Mu Bai followed Artifact Spirit Ancestor’s advice, attacked the ape’s lower body, and seized control of its mind after wounding it.
• Mu Bai copied the Silver-Backed Ape’s soul and completed his third Soul Mark after three days, entering the Mighty Realm.
• Artifact Spirit Ancestor withdrew into the Crow Cauldron after exhausting himself, and Mu Bai agreed to gather treasures or Soul Crystals to replenish him.

Mu Bai sought to strengthen his meridians so he could continue advancing his inner-core cultivation, but his brutal medicinal-bath experiment consumed the Essence Power he had accumulated. He discovered that the power had instead strengthened his body, then spent half a year rebuilding his reserves and repeating the body-refining process.

• Mu Bai explored the Silver Frost Forest with the Golden Roc, gathered rare ingredients, and decided to temper his meridians before forming a golden core.
• Mu Bai refined Body-Refining Pills and boiled medicinal ingredients in the Crow Cauldron, ignoring the Artifact Spirit Ancestor’s protests to climb into the broth himself.
• Mu Bai added the Silver-Backed Ape’s Beast Core to the cauldron, and its potency wrecked his meridians until he passed out.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor and Golden Roc returned with Vermilion Fruits, which the Artifact Spirit Ancestor fed to Mu Bai to help repair his meridians.
• Mu Bai awoke to find his meridians wider and stronger, while his Essence Power had been absorbed into his flesh and raised his strength to nearly fifty thousand shi.
• Mu Bai resumed meditation and, over half a year, replenished his Essence Power while refining his body with pills and further medicinal baths using Beast Cores brought back by the Artifact Spirit Ancestor and Golden Roc.

After more than half a year of cultivation, Mu Bai agreed to return with the Golden Roc and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor to the Blood Phoenix’s territory. The Golden Roc approached her nest again, and the Blood Phoenix noticed him but waited to see what he would do.

• The Golden Roc persuaded the Artifact Spirit Ancestor to take him back to the Blood Phoenix, but she chased him with flames and he fled in terror.
• The Golden Roc returned to Mu Bai’s cave, where the Artifact Spirit Ancestor teased him about his unrequited infatuation.
• Mu Bai decided to test the results of his training by facing the Blood Phoenix again, and the Golden Roc eagerly carried them toward her territory.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor urged the Golden Roc to approach the Blood Phoenix himself, and the roc set off while Mu Bai and the Ancestor watched from afar.
• The Golden Roc crept toward the Blood Phoenix’s nest, and she detected him but held back to see what he was planning.

Mu Bai tried to help Golden Roc court the Blood Phoenix, but their effort was interrupted when a Day Owl attacked her. Golden Roc and Mu Bai joined the battle and drove the Day Owl away, leaving both birds injured.

• Golden Roc fled after accidentally kissing the Blood Phoenix, and Mu Bai shielded him from her attacks before the Artifact Spirit Ancestor tried to match them up.
• Mu Bai made mental power pills for Golden Roc to offer the Blood Phoenix, who stayed in her nest despite smelling their fragrance.
• A Day Owl attacked the Blood Phoenix with corrosive black water, and Golden Roc rushed in to defend her before the owl struck him away.
• Mu Bai caught the injured Golden Roc, then joined the Blood Phoenix in attacking the Day Owl with a sword of metal and stone.
• The wounded Day Owl fled, and Mu Bai went to check on Golden Roc while the Blood Phoenix remained seriously injured.

Mu Bai continued cultivating in the Canyon’s crystal vein while the Artifact Spirit Ancestor and Golden Roc endured their lonely separation. When the Golden Roc brought the Blood Phoenix back, they shared a feast and drinks, and the Blood Phoenix chose a nest in the cliffs, leaving Mu Bai free to cultivate.

• The Blood Phoenix healed the Golden Roc with Phoenix Spirit Qi after accepting his pills, and Mu Bai returned to the Canyon cave.
• Mu Bai mined hundreds of metal-aspect crystals, continued cultivating, and refined pills for himself, the God-Devouring Insects, and the Golden Roc.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor complained about the Golden Roc’s absence, tried to befriend the Canyon monkeys, and grew lonely until the Golden Roc returned with the Blood Phoenix.
• Mu Bai, the Artifact Spirit Ancestor, the Golden Roc, and the Blood Phoenix shared a feast and drank liquor with the monkeys.
• The tipsy Blood Phoenix flew toward the full moon, then settled in a Canyon cliff nest while Mu Bai resumed cultivating.

Mu Bai's cultivation advanced greatly over another year, and he prepared to repay the bat demonic beast before returning to fight beside Blood Phoenix. When a Demon-Transformed owl threatened them, the silver-haired granny who had once helped Mu Bai appeared and killed both owls, then greeted Artifact Spirit Ancestor as a senior.

• Mu Bai cultivated for another year, refined pills to repair the bat demonic beast's soul, and realized his nascent inner core needed an opportunity to take shape.
• Mu Bai joined Blood Phoenix in battle against Day Owl, striking him with Fusion Thunder and pursuing him with the Twin Fish Sword.
• A second, Demon-Transformed owl appeared to protect Day Owl and threatened to take Blood Phoenix, while Artifact Spirit Ancestor faced him in his Divine Crow form.
• The silver-haired granny appeared, destroyed both owls, and was recognized by Mu Bai as the woman who had once given him a Hemp Robe.
• Blood Phoenix paid her respects to the granny, who bowed to Artifact Spirit Ancestor and offered him jade soul from Silver Frost Forest.

Mu Bai learned that the Silver Frost Forest had once been the Silver Frost Sacred Domain, destroyed during the Immortal Race's invasion, and resolved to pursue his revenge before seeking the Sacred Domain. After more than two years, he left the forest, parting from the Golden Roc and Blood Phoenix and continuing toward the Eastern Ridge.

• The silver-haired old woman offered Mu Bai a Ten Thousand Beasts Seal, and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor urged him to claim it so they could enter the Sacred Domain.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor revealed that the Silver Frost Forest had once been the Silver Frost Sacred Domain, which fell resisting the Immortal Race.
• Mu Bai decided to leave after his cultivation stalled, erased the Golden Roc's mental brand, and departed while the Golden Roc and Blood Phoenix escorted him for thousands of li.
• Mu Bai gave the Blood Phoenix twelve jars of liquor and received her Phoenix Spirit Qi before continuing on alone.
• Mu Bai left soul-repair pills at the Fox-Faced Bats' cave, and the Fourth Tier bat recognized his gift as an effort to make amends and help their ancestor.
• Mu Bai traveled onward at a speed far beyond what he could manage five years earlier.

Ten years after the Haibei Tribe’s destruction, Mu Bai returned to White Wolf City to settle old debts and search for Mi Yan, only to learn she had moved elsewhere. He set up in the street as an alchemist, drawing a crowd with his supreme-grade pills, and his fame reached the White Wolf Tribe, where Wu Yuan and Alchemist Hong Dao decided to meet him.

• Mu Bai revisited the ruined Haibei Tribe, vowed to find its surviving members and rebuild it, then set out to collect the blood debt.
• Mu Bai went to the Peony Pavilion seeking Mi Yan, learned she had been reassigned to another branch, and left one hundred thousand Soul Crystals with the shopkeeper.
• Mu Bai set up a street stall and astonished White Wolf City by refining supreme-grade Healing Pills and third-level Divine Thought Pills for its residents.
• Mu Bai spent three days refining pills for a long, orderly crowd while the short, stout shopkeeper watched and the news spread through the city.
• Wu Yuan discussed Mu Bai with Alchemist Hong Dao, while Wu Meng and Wu Daoyi listened; Hong Dao then proposed that they go meet the street alchemist.

Mu Bai, posing as Yu Yi, accepted Wu Yuan’s invitation to stay with the White Wolf Tribe after impressing its elders with his pill refinement. As he grew closer to Wu Meng, gossip spread through White Wolf City, and Wu Daoyi resolved to assert himself.

• Mu Bai refined a Supreme Venerable Pill beyond supreme grade, astonishing Alchemist Dao Hong and Wu Meng.
• Wu Yuan invited Mu Bai to visit the White Wolf Tribe, and Mu Bai introduced himself as Yu Yi from the Northern Plains.
• Wu Yuan welcomed Mu Bai to his manor, where Mu Bai met Wu Meng and learned more about the tribe and its promising young cultivators.
• Wu Meng guided Mu Bai through White Wolf City, and the two discussed pill refinement as gossipers spread rumors about them.
• Wu Daoyi heard that Mu Bai was walking with Wu Meng and decided to make a forceful move to claim her attention.

Mu Bai helped Wu Meng refine Ice-Soul Pills, but rejected the jade hairpin she offered and left her heartbroken. The next day, Wu Meng showed him her herb field and a vein of Wood-Attribute Crystals, which Mu Bai harvested before their story continued.

• Mu Bai toured White Wolf City with Wu Meng, then followed her to her alchemy chamber and refined three Ice-Soul Pills for her.
• Wu Meng offered Mu Bai an Emerald Double-Butterfly Jade Hairpin, but he returned it and left; she was left in tears as he heard her play the zither that night.
• Wu Meng invited Mu Bai to explore the Hunting Grounds, where she showed him the herb field she had cultivated and explained how green stones helped her plants grow.
• Mu Bai recognized the green stones as Wood-Attribute Crystals and accompanied Wu Meng to the cave where she had found them.
• Wu Meng offered Mu Bai some crystals, and he used the Twin Fish Sword to collect several hundred into his Mustard Seed Bag.

Mu Bai fought a red-scaled giant tiger while Wu Meng waited in vain for the White Wolf Tribe’s rescuers, then carried her back to the teleportation array. There, Wu Daoyi accused Mu Bai of being a spy and provoked him into a duel, which Mu Bai accepted.

• Mu Bai offered Wu Meng two Extraordinary Pills, and she accepted them as a gift after teasing him about his feelings.
• A red-scaled giant tiger attacked Mu Bai and Wu Meng, while Wu Tai and Wu Yuan watched the battle from the tribe’s ancestral temple.
• Mu Bai held off the tiger until his strength began to fail, then carried Wu Meng to the teleportation array and escaped.
• Mu Bai and Wu Meng arrived at the tribe, where Wu Daoyi confronted them and accused Mu Bai of having a scheme against the White Wolf Tribe.
• Wu Meng defended Mu Bai, but Wu Daoyi provoked him, and Mu Bai drew the Twin Fish Sword to accept a duel.

Mu Bai, posing as Yu Yi, defeated Wu Daoyi’s challenge and became the talk of the White Wolf Tribe, then deliberately provoked Wu Daoyi by offering him Beast Cores. Wu Daoyi’s pride and desire for Wu Meng remained undiminished as the chapter ended with him angrily shutting himself in his room.

• Wu Daoyi and Mu Bai fought with Soul Power and weapons, then revealed their Third-Level physical strength; Mu Bai proved stronger and forced Wu Daoyi onto the defensive.
• Wu Yuan stopped the sparring match, and Mu Bai praised Wu Daoyi before leaving with Wu Meng; the tribespeople began to question Wu Daoyi’s standing and celebrate Yu Yi’s arrival.
• Wu Daoyi vowed to claim Wu Meng and the White Wolf Tribe, then told Wu Huan he would leave for Treasure-Gathering City and asked her to accompany Wu Meng to the Peach Blossom Banquet.
• Mu Bai arrived at Wu Daoyi’s room and offered him two Fourth-Level Black-Horned Python cores, claiming they could help him become a Flesh Body Xiu Zun.
• Wu Daoyi rejected the cores and Mu Bai’s taunts, while Wu Huan came out to defend him; Wu Daoyi scolded her and slammed his door shut.

Mu Bai traveled to the Taoyuan Tribe with Wu Meng and Wu Huan, drawing attention by arriving with both women and giving gifts to the gathered tribespeople. Wu Daoyi learned of their arrival and vowed to kill Mu Bai at the Peach Blossom Banquet.

• Wu Meng invited Mu Bai to the Taoyuan Tribe, and Wu Huan joined them for the journey.
• Wu Huan made Mu Bai ride her pink embroidered handkerchief and deliberately flew the Twin Fish Sword around White Wolf City to embarrass him.
• Mu Bai took control of the Twin Fish Sword, held Wu Meng and Wu Huan close, and flew with them toward the Taoyuan Tribe.
• Mu Bai introduced himself as Yu Yi and gave Soul-Returning Pills to the gathered tribespeople, then handed Tao Hang a Supreme Venerable Pill and urged him to become a Xiu Zun.
• Wu Daoyi heard that Mu Bai had arrived with Wu Meng and Wu Huan and vowed to make the Taoyuan Tribe his grave.

Mu Bai visited the graves of Tao Lan and Wu Meng’s mother, then joined the Taoyuan Tribe’s Peach Blossom Banquet and impressed its guests with a sword contest against Tao Hang. The gathering brought the neighboring tribes’ youths closer, but Mu Bai remained focused on gaining strength and avenging his tribe.

• Mu Bai knelt at Tao Lan’s grave, and Wu Meng arranged offerings at the graves of Tao Lan and her mother as snow began to fall.
• Tao Hang invited Mu Bai and the others to the Taoyuan Tribe, where Mu Bai gave Wu Meng an illustrated collection of Pill Formulas for the tribe to use.
• Mu Bai demonstrated his control of Soul Power by forming peach petals into sword formations, and Tao Hang challenged him with the Taoyuan Tribe’s Peach Soul Sword Formation.
• Mu Bai and Tao Hang fought with their petal-based sword formations until fireworks announced the banquet, then embraced as the gathered youths applauded.
• Tao Hang and Mu Bai encouraged the neighboring tribes to exchange skills and unite, while Mu Bai drank with them but kept his goal of avenging his tribe.

The Peach Blossom Banquet turned into a battle when Wu Daoyi and Zhan Hong arrived to kill Mu Bai. Wu Huan was gravely wounded, Mu Bai was badly injured protecting her, and Wu Yuan persuaded Zhan Hong to stop attacking.

• Mu Bai, Tao Hang, Wu Meng, and Wu Huan shared cultivation insights with the young talents at the banquet, which lasted until dawn.
• Wu Daoyi and his master, Zhan Hong, arrived, and Mu Bai confronted them as Zhan Hong attacked him.
• Tao Hang and the young talents faced Wu Daoyi, but Wu Daoyi stabbed Wu Huan when she questioned his intentions.
• Mu Bai tried to heal Wu Huan and protect her from Zhan Hong, who blasted them into a wall and severely injured Mu Bai.
• Wu Yuan arrived and pleaded with Zhan Hong to spare Mu Bai, then offered him a Soul Crystal Bag, and Zhan Hong agreed to leave the matter to the White Wolf Tribe.

After the Peach Blossom Banquet’s violence, Mu Bai returned to the White Wolf Tribe and continued concealing his plans while Wu Meng and Wu Huan worried over him. Wu Meng and Mu Bai played the qin and xiao together in the garden as Wu Huan watched.

• Wu Yuan stopped Wu Daoyi from killing Tao Hang, and Wu Daoyi angrily left after Mu Bai offered him two Black-Horned Python Beast Cores.
• Wu Yuan took the injured Wu Huan and Mu Bai back to the White Wolf Tribe, while Tao Hang and the other youths departed the Taoyuan Tribe.
• Mu Bai secluded himself and considered how Wu Daoyi’s possible death could hurt the White Wolf Tribe’s hopes for its future.
• Wu Daoyi flew to Silver Frost Forest, determined to prove his strength by achieving a breakthrough there.
• Wu Meng and Wu Huan visited Mu Bai, who teased Wu Huan before accepting Wu Meng’s Healing Pills.
• Wu Huan suggested that Wu Meng and Mu Bai play music together, and they performed the qin and xiao in the garden.