Chapter Summaries

Wu Daoyi hunted beasts in Silver Frost Forest, where he was poisoned after seizing a Departed Dragon Blood Crystal and underwent a strange transformation. After Wu Tai found him, Wu Daoyi rejected the promise of a place in the tribe and insisted that only having Wu Meng would make him feel secure.

• Wu Daoyi slew several third-tier Black-Horned Pythons, then lost an arm while escaping the Poison Toad’s poisoned ice spears.
• Wu Daoyi followed the Poison Toad into a canyon and found Black Pythons, Poison Toads, and Black-Haired Monkeys fighting over a Departed Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Wu Daoyi killed the wounded Poison Toad and swallowed the blood crystal, then collapsed after being poisoned as the creatures bowed before him.
• Wu Daoyi’s severed arm regrew covered in black scales, with a clawed hand resembling an azure dragon’s.
• Wu Tai woke Wu Daoyi and rebuked him for entering Silver Frost Forest alone, but Wu Daoyi said he would not accept a place in the White Wolf Tribe unless he had Wu Meng.

Mu Bai learned that Wu Daoyi had been rescued as a child ten years earlier and suspected he was his missing childhood brother, Hai Chen. After finding Wu Daoyi alive in the Silver Frost Forest, Mu Bai tried to make amends and hint at their shared past, but Wu Daoyi remained hostile and unleashed a powerful dragon-shaped punch.

• Wu Daoyi demanded to know who his parents were, then demonstrated the frightening power of his mutated left arm.
• Wu Tai invited Mu Bai to join the three tribes' expedition to an ancient cave abode, and Mu Bai agreed after learning he could keep anything he found.
• Wu Meng told Mu Bai that Wu Daoyi had been rescued ten years earlier, prompting Mu Bai to suspect that Wu Daoyi was the missing Hai Chen.
• Mu Bai hurried to the Silver Frost Forest, found Wu Daoyi with Wu Tai, and apologized for provoking him to go there.
• Mu Bai endured Wu Daoyi's attacks while trying to reconnect with him, until Wu Daoyi's left arm transformed into a dragon and Wu Tai intervened.

Mu Bai tried to learn about Wu Daoyi’s origins while Wu Daoyi shut himself away and pursued his own schemes. Wu Meng identified one of Wu Daoyi’s Soul Marks as a Flying Swan and warned that his power had grown dangerously after absorbing an Ancient Dragon Blood Crystal.

• Mu Bai followed Wu Daoyi back to the tribal residence, where Wu Daoyi locked himself in his room and repeatedly rejected Mu Bai’s attempts to speak with him.
• Mu Bai offered Wu Qian an Extraordinary Pill to call Wu Daoyi out, but Wu Qian was repeatedly thrown away by the door’s defensive formation and ultimately failed.
• Wu Meng told Mu Bai that Wu Daoyi had joined the tribe after Soul Awakening and carried a Flying Swan Soul Mark and a white wolf Soul Mark.
• Wu Huan visited Wu Daoyi, who accused her of siding with Mu Bai and demanded that she seduce and help kill him; she agreed, and Wu Daoyi tore open her clothing.
• Wu Meng warned Mu Bai that Wu Daoyi had swallowed an Ancient Dragon Blood Crystal and might possess the inheritance of a powerful Evil Dragon.

Mu Bai refined antidote pills while Wu Meng watched, and Wu Huan interrupted him with a bold attempt to seduce him. Their confrontation ended with Wu Huan vomiting black blood and Mu Bai giving her a pill as Wu Yuan and Wu Tai arrived.

• Mu Bai decided to prepare Hundred Poisons Pills and Spirit-Guarding Pills for Wu Daoyi before exploring the ancient cave abode.
• Wu Meng watched Mu Bai refine pills and discovered that his jade slip contained valuable fourth-tier pill formulas.
• Wu Huan brought food and wine to Mu Bai, undressed, and tried to draw him away from refining pills.
• Wu Meng confronted Wu Huan, and the two women struck each other while Mu Bai dodged Wu Huan's advances.
• Wu Huan vomited black blood, so Mu Bai fed her a pill and told her to guard her mind and spirit.
• Wu Yuan arrived and nearly struck Mu Bai, but Wu Meng stopped him and explained that Mu Bai was saving Wu Huan.

Mu Bai watched Wu Huan's poisoning leave her insane and learned that Wu Daoyi had also abused Wu Meng. He agreed to kill Wu Daoyi, who challenged him to meet in the Silver Frost Forest at noon the next day.

• Wu Tai learned that Wu Huan had been poisoned and took her away, while Mu Bai warned that she might never recover her sanity.
• Wu Daoyi married Wu Huan despite her madness, and Mu Bai gave Wu Meng Spirit-Guarding Pills for her sister.
• Wu Meng told Mu Bai that Wu Daoyi had defiled her and demanded that he kill him; Mu Bai agreed.
• Wu Huan rushed into Mu Bai's room, insane and chewing porcelain shards, before Wu Meng led her away.
• Wu Daoyi visited Mu Bai, taunted him, and challenged him to meet in the Silver Frost Forest at noon the next day.

Mu Bai fought Wu Daoyi in Silver Frost Forest but was overwhelmed by his strength and Evil Dragon Poison. As Wu Daoyi moved to kill Mu Bai and then attacked Wu Meng, Wu Huan intervened and was killed, leaving Wu Meng to make a desperate stand.

• Wu Daoyi flew to Silver Frost Forest, and Mu Bai followed him there to fight.
• Wu Daoyi and Mu Bai exchanged powerful attacks, but Wu Daoyi’s strength and poison steadily weakened Mu Bai.
• The Crow Cauldron protected Mu Bai from Wu Daoyi’s attacks, but Wu Daoyi continued to overpower him and revealed his Baleful Beast soul spirit.
• Wu Daoyi stabbed toward Mu Bai’s Divine Palace, but Wu Huan appeared and pierced Wu Daoyi’s chest with her sword.
• Wu Daoyi crushed Wu Huan’s blade, stabbed her, and shattered her head before turning to attack Wu Meng.
• Wu Meng looked toward Mu Bai and slashed at Wu Daoyi, vowing to kill the lecher.

Mu Bai fought Wu Daoyi while protecting Wu Meng from waves of Black Pythons and Poison Toads, until the Fox-Faced Bats arrived to help. Mu Bai nearly killed Wu Daoyi, but Wu Tai intervened and took him away, leaving Mu Bai and Wu Meng to escape the Silver Frost Forest and wonder about Wu Daoyi’s strange Soul Spirit.

• Mu Bai severed Wu Daoyi’s left arm and attacked him, but Wu Daoyi summoned Black Pythons and Poison Toads to overwhelm Mu Bai and Wu Meng.
• Mu Bai fought through Wu Daoyi’s attacks and broke his sword, then rescued Wu Meng from the swarming creatures as she and the Silver-Backed Ape were cornered.
• The Fox-Faced Bats arrived to repay Mu Bai for giving them pills, turning the battle against Wu Daoyi’s creatures and giving Mu Bai a chance to strike.
• Mu Bai pierced Wu Daoyi’s shoulder and tore the evil dragon blood crystal from his chest, but Wu Tai blocked Mu Bai from delivering the final blow and carried Wu Daoyi away with Wu Huan’s body.
• Mu Bai and Wu Meng left the Silver Frost Forest, and Wu Meng explained that Wu Daoyi’s Soul Spirit had gained mental power by devouring the lingering obsessions of the dead.

Wu Tai led eight White Wolf Tribe youths across the Dao Sea toward an ancient cave abode, while the tribe’s leaders secretly weighed whether Wu Daoyi was connected to the Eastern Nether Great Tribe. After more than ten days at sea, Wu Tai exposed an illusion made by a giant squid, revealing that only Mu Bai and Wu Daoyi among the youths had seen through it.

• Wu Ping and Wu Tai suspected Wu Daoyi’s Gray Nether Death Qi came from the Eastern Nether Great Tribe and agreed to test his connection before deciding whether to kill him.
• Wu Tai took Mu Bai, Wu Meng, Wu Daoyi, and five other youths aboard a Soul Boat and tested their endurance by increasing its speed without activating its protective barrier.
• Wu Daoyi protected an exhausted young tribesman, and Mu Bai later shielded Wu Meng as the group endured the fierce wind.
• The Soul Boat crossed the Dao Sea for more than ten days, and Mu Bai recalled how the ancient Human-Beast Great Dao had been shattered into four continents.
• The youths mistook a sea beast’s illusion for an island, but Wu Tai destroyed the illusion, captured the giant squid, and rebuked them for failing to detect it.
• Wu Tai gave the squid’s Beast Core to Wu Yuan, while Mu Bai realized that only he and Wu Daoyi among the youths had seen through the illusion.

The White Wolf Tribe’s soul boat encountered a huge Sea Dragon in the Dao Sea, and Wu Tai, Mu Bai, and Wu Daoyi fought it after its green mist suppressed their Soul Power. The group killed the beast and salvaged its remains, while Mu Bai offered its Beast Core to refine pills for Wu Tai before the upcoming cave-abode treasure hunt.

• Wu Tai warned everyone as a giant Sea Dragon attacked the soul boat and its green mist cut off the cultivators’ Soul Power.
• Wu Tai fought the Sea Dragon, and Wu Daojian briefly helped before its tail knocked him into the sea; Mu Bai rescued him and brought him back aboard.
• Mu Bai and Wu Daoyi joined Wu Tai in battle, and Mu Bai tore open the Sea Dragon’s belly, removed its Beast Core, and plunged into the Dao Sea.
• The group cut up the Sea Dragon and loaded its remains onto the soul boat, while Wu Tai explained that a half-demon Sea Dragon would have been beyond their strength.
• Mu Bai offered to refine the Beast Core into pills to help Wu Tai recover, and Wu Tai accepted; Wu Daoyi remained displeased.

Mu Bai and Wu Meng refined supreme-grade Bloodbirth Pills from the sea dragon’s remains, then began refining its Beast Core into Colossal Strength Pills. After a night of drinking and remembering Ling'er, Mu Bai returned to find Wu Meng exhausted and took over the dangerous refinement while she slept beside him.

• Wu Meng and Mu Bai refined supreme-grade Bloodbirth Pills, which Wu Tai and Wu Daojian took to heal their injuries.
• Wu Meng returned to the cabin with Mu Bai to refine the sea dragon’s Beast Core into Colossal Strength Pills, while Wu Daoyi resented their closeness.
• Mu Bai remembered childhood nights with Ling'er as he watched the moon and stars over the sea, then drank with Wu Daojian until dawn.
• Mu Bai returned to find Wu Meng barely able to sustain the medicinal liquid in the Pill Furnace, so he supplied her Soul Power and took over.
• Wu Meng fell asleep from mental exhaustion as Mu Bai continued refining the Beast Core, struggling to keep his attention on the furnace.

Mu Bai completed three four-mark Giant Strength Pills with Wu Meng, then joined the White Wolf Tribe as it met the Star Great Tribe and Eastern Nether Great Tribe at the ancient cave abode. The three tribes sent six squads, including Mu Bai and Wu Meng’s team, into the outer abode to compete for weapons.

• Mu Bai refined the Sea Dragon Beast Core into three Giant Strength Pills, and Wu Meng praised his skill.
• Wu Tai accepted one pill for himself while Mu Bai kept one and gave another to Wu Meng.
• Wu Tai and the White Wolf Tribe arrived at the ancient cave abode, where they met Xing Mu and the Star Great Tribe, then Du Xiang and the Eastern Nether Great Tribe.
• The three chiefs agreed to send their young cultivators into the outer abode to compete for its twelve high-grade weapons before joining forces to enter the inner abode.
• Xing Mu revealed the island by removing the concealment formation, and the six squads set off in different directions; Mu Bai and Wu Meng were teamed with Wu Daojian and Wu Daoyuan.

Mu Bai’s team fought fierce beasts on the island, shared their high-tier loot according to each member’s strengths, and entered a trapping formation to rescue Wu Daoyuan. The chapter ended as Mu Bai’s Green Duckweed Sword Technique struck one of the two Fire Sparrows, with the formation battle still underway.

• Mu Bai warned Wu Daojian, Wu Meng, and Wu Daoyuan about the island’s fierce beasts and illusion formations as they explored together.
• The team defeated an Ancient Giant Lizard, and Mu Bai collected its Beast Core and gave the high-tier crystalline shield to Wu Daojian.
• After the team slew a Black Python, Mu Bai awarded its high-tier Black Spear to Wu Daoyuan and declared that spoils would be distributed according to each member’s strengths.
• Wu Daoyuan flew into a trapping formation and was attacked by two peak third-tier Fire Sparrows, so Mu Bai, Wu Daojian, and Wu Meng entered to help him.
• The four struggled against the Fire Sparrows and suffered burns; when Mu Bai’s mental light screen failed, he used the Green Duckweed Sword Technique to strike one of the birds.

Mu Bai killed two Fire Sparrows while protecting Wu Meng and helping Wu Daojian and Wu Daoyuan survive, then shared the spoils with his companions. The trial ended, and as the group returned to the tribes’ vessels, Wu Daoyi seethed at Wu Meng wearing Mu Bai’s robe while Du Xiang criticized their slow arrival.

• Mu Bai used a golden mental sword to kill the Fire Sparrow attacking Wu Meng, caught her as she fell, and gave her an Injury-Healing Pill.
• Mu Bai and Wu Daojian fought the remaining Fire Sparrow while Wu Daoyuan pinned it to a cliff with the Black Spear.
• Mu Bai gave Wu Meng the Spirit-Gathering Pearl and let Wu Daojian and Wu Daoyuan keep their soul soldiers, insisting they would need them for the trial.
• The leaders received a Jade Slip transmission announcing the trial had ended because all twelve high-tier soul soldiers had been claimed.
• Mu Bai and his companions returned to the tribes’ vessels, where Wu Daoyi grew furious at Wu Meng wearing Mu Bai’s robe and Du Xiang disparaged their slow arrival.

Mu Bai’s team won the White Wolf Tribe the trial by presenting three rare high-tier battle weapons, drawing attention from the other tribes and prompting Wu Yuan to claim Mu Bai as a prospective son-in-law. Wu Yuan then revealed that he knew Mu Bai was the survivor of the Haibei Tribe massacre ten years earlier and warned him that he was not yet strong enough to seek revenge.

• Du Tian and Du Zhong reported four high-tier Soul Soldiers for the Eastern Nether Great Tribe, while Xing Yun and Xing Hui reported three for the Star Great Tribe.
• Mu Bai announced that Yu Yi’s team had acquired a Crystal Shield, a Black Spear, and a Spirit-Gathering Pearl, giving the White Wolf Tribe the best result.
• Wu Yuan publicly called Mu Bai his worthy nephew and claimed he was a suitable match for Wu Meng, while Wu Daoyi left in anger and Du Xiang flew toward the inner residence.
• After the elders departed, Wu Yuan privately asked Mu Bai whether he was the survivor Hai Ya had taken away during the tribe’s competition ten years earlier.
• Wu Yuan identified Mu Bai’s alchemy as the clue that exposed him and warned that his current strength could not defeat a mighty Xiu Zun.
• Mu Bai accused the White Wolf Tribe of abandoning the Haibei Tribe during the massacre, and Wu Yuan admitted their failure while telling him the time for revenge had not yet come.

Mu Bai learned that the Qinghe Tribe had exposed his identity and resolved to demand justice for his tribe, while refusing the White Wolf Tribe’s offer of marriage and aid. After the inner residence’s formation opened, Wu Daoyi, Du Tian, and Xing Yun confronted him, and Mu Bai began fighting Wu Daoyi.

• Wu Yuan explained that the Qinghe Tribe had informed the Eastern Nether Great Tribe about Mu Bai, and offered White Wolf Tribe support if Mu Bai married Wu Meng.
• Mu Bai rejected the offer, vowed to kill Wu Daoyi, and learned that Hai Zhan and three children from his tribe were in Hundred Refinement City.
• While the three tribes’ seniors spent more than ten days breaking the inner residence’s formation, Mu Bai meditated and Wu Daoyi cultivated ties with other young talents.
• The formation opened onto a vast Mustard Seed Space, and Mu Bai raced toward it as Wu Daoyi, Du Tian, and Xing Yun followed him.
• Wu Daoyi and Du Tian accused Mu Bai of being a spy, while Xing Yun offered to help him if he married into the Star Great Tribe; Mu Bai challenged them and attacked Wu Daoyi.
• Mu Bai overpowered Wu Daoyi in their sword fight, forcing him to retreat and activate his transformation.

Mu Bai fought Wu Daoyi, Du Tian, and Xing Yun alone, overpowering them with his transformations and mental attacks until Wu Meng and two tribesmen intervened. He entered the island’s inner abode, where he found the tribes’ Xiu Zun and elders trapped in a deadly formation instead of finding treasures.

• Mu Bai broke Wu Daoyi’s transformation and endured Xing Yun’s Soul Arrows before using a Giant Strength Pill to strengthen his body and drive Wu Daoyi back.
• Mu Bai struck Xing Yun’s mind with a sword-shaped brand, bringing her under his control, then clashed mental attacks with Du Tian’s suona and forced the three opponents apart.
• Wu Meng arrived with Wu Daojian and Wu Daoyuan, handed Mu Bai the Spirit-Gathering Pearl, and blocked Wu Daoyi while the others confronted Du Tian and Xing Yun.
• Du Tian and Xing Yun withdrew, and Wu Daoyi fled after being left alone against Mu Bai and the three White Wolf tribesmen.
• Mu Bai returned the Spirit-Gathering Pearl to Wu Meng, flew into the island’s inner abode, and found the tribes’ Xiu Zun and elders struggling inside a formidable trapping formation.

Mu Bai joined Xing Mu and the others inside a defensive formation as a deadly Sword Formation trapped them, and they coordinated with Xing Yun and Xing Hui to break it using the stars. Just as the sword rain vanished, a mysterious white-robed woman attacked Xing Mu, and Mu Bai seemed to take the strike in his place, though he remained unharmed.

• Mu Bai entered Xing Mu's defensive formation, where Du Xiang tried to throw him back out and Wu Tai intervened as the men argued over how to escape the Sword Formation.
• Xing Mu explained that Xing Yun needed to raise a Star-Guiding Formation outside, and Du Xiang sent her the plan through a split consciousness while Wu Tai opened a gap in the Sword Formation.
• Xing Yun and Xing Hui drew power from the Bi Xiu star cluster and channeled it into their Star Mother-and-Son Spears.
• Xing Mu and Xing Yun struck the same point in the Sword Formation from opposite sides, shattering it and ending the sword rain.
• A white-robed woman appeared behind Xing Mu and attacked him, but she passed through Mu Bai before vanishing, leaving him dazed but apparently unharmed.

Mu Bai disrupted Du Xiang’s attempt to capture a pureblood Three-Legged Golden Crow, took the World Tree, and escaped the ancient cave abode. After the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s youths attacked him, Mu Bai killed Du Tian, Wu Daoyi, and the tribe’s remaining pursuers before summoning the Divine Crow and heading for Eastern Ridge.

• Mu Bai entered the ancient cave abode and found the three tribes trying to capture a Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Mu Bai attacked Du Xiang, freeing the Golden Crow, then took the World Tree at the Artifact Spirit Ancestor’s urging.
• The Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s eight youths ambushed Mu Bai outside, but he killed Du Tian and escaped their first attack.
• Wu Daoyi blocked Mu Bai’s path, and Mu Bai defeated and killed him while Xing Yun and Wu Meng held off the other attackers.
• Mu Bai killed the Eastern Nether Great Tribe’s remaining youths, declared his identity, and flew toward Eastern Ridge on the Divine Crow.

After escaping the Eastern Nether Great Tribe, Mu Bai learned from the Artifact Spirit Ancestor that the sapling he had found was a reborn fragment of the World Tree and planted it in his Divine Sea. He recovered while cultivating at sea, then set out to return to the cave abode and seek the Moon Sea Pearl.

• Xing Yun grew curious about Mu Bai, while Wu Meng mourned his departure, and an Eastern Nether elder discovered that Du Zhong had survived.
• Mu Bai flew north to evade pursuit, and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor explained the World Tree’s origins and the cultivation realms beyond the Dao Zun Realm.
• Mu Bai planted the World Tree sapling in his Divine Sea and learned that the breath soil could supply earth-attribute essence qi.
• Du Xiang left to pursue Mu Bai, while Wu Tai and Xing Mu led their tribes away from the cave abode; Wu Meng felt relief at Wu Daoyi’s death but grieved Mu Bai’s departure.
• After meditating at sea for more than ten days and recovering, Mu Bai traveled toward the cave abode to find the Moon Sea Pearl, still unable to descend far into the Dao Sea.

Mu Bai returned to the ruined cave abode, found Wu Meng’s handkerchief, and searched the Moon Sea for the Moon Sea Pearl. Entering an illusion that cast him as a faithful husband and scholar, he was waylaid on Erlang Mountain and spent two years teaching bandit children before a chance to escape arose.

• Mu Bai returned to the island, found Wu Meng’s handkerchief, and kept it before entering the plundered cave abode to seek the Moon Sea Pearl.
• Mu Bai searched the Moon Sea and found an illusionary courtyard, where a portrait drew him into a story about a devoted husband named Mu Bai and his wife Ruohua.
• In the illusion, Mu Bai traveled toward the capital for the examinations but was detained by a government official and Erlang Mountain’s bandits, who made him teach their children.
• Mu Bai remained faithful to Ruohua despite the advances of a young widow, who was later beheaded after Chief Ge caught her with another bandit.
• Mu Bai spent two years trapped on Erlang Mountain, and heaven finally gave him a chance to leave.