Recaps

After the freshmen defeated the senior students, Liu Bai collected his winnings and spent much of his Spirit Value on three new elemental arts and two crafting tools. He completed the gathering of all five elements in his body and left determined to develop his abilities before the Freshman Assembly.

• The freshmen won four of their five matches, and Huo Yun handed Liu Bai his Spirit Value Token after losing their bet; it held five hundred thousand Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai distributed some of the winnings to Guo Xiong, An Ran, and his allies, then considered using his remaining Spirit Value to strengthen himself before the Freshman Assembly.
• At the Spirit Value Hall, Liu Bai exchanged three hundred and twenty-five thousand Spirit Value for the Flowing Gold Spirit Transformation Art, the Profound Water Art, the Azure Wood Spiritual Art, a Fire Cloud Furnace, and a Two Poles Cauldron.
• The white-haired old man warned Liu Bai against pursuing too many paths at once, but Liu Bai thanked him and went ahead with the exchange; the old man watched him leave and wondered whether he could fulfill his ambition.
• Liu Bai used his remaining Experience Points to bring the three new arts to Initiation, opening acupoints that gathered metal-, water-, and wood-element spiritual energy alongside his fire and earth elements.

Liu Bai accepted a mission to hunt an Armored Earth Dragon and discovered a nest of five, including a powerful Armored Earth Dragon King. He ambushed them with the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, killing the four smaller beasts and badly wounding the king, which prepared one last desperate attack.

• Liu Bai inspected the Bounty Board in the Mission Hall and learned which dangerous criminals were wanted by the academy.
• Liu Bai persuaded a mentor to approve his Human Grade upper mission to hunt an Armored Earth Dragon, citing his strength and recent victory over Huo Yun.
• Liu Bai spent two days searching before finding five Armored Earth Dragons gathered in a valley.
• Liu Bai secretly set up the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, but the Armored Earth Dragon King attacked before it was complete.
• Liu Bai blocked the king’s strike with a divine mountain and the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon’s power, then brought down the array and killed the four smaller dragons.
• The array pierced the Armored Earth Dragon King with dozens of swords, and the badly wounded beast gathered its strength for a final attack.

Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy after defeating an Armored Earth Dragon King and brought five dragon corpses to complete his mission. Elder Chi Huo took him to the Artifact Forging Institute to test his claimed skill, and Liu Bai began refining Purple Crow Gold with unexpectedly strong fundamentals.

• Liu Bai used his Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon’s bloodline pressure to break the Armored Earth Dragon King’s will, then killed it and collected the five dragons’ cores and corpses.
• Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy in three days and told the middle-aged mentor that one of the five corpses was an Armored Earth Dragon King.
• Elder Chi Huo arrived, offered Liu Bai three hundred thousand Spirit Value for the corpses, and agreed to test Liu Bai after he asked to trade the reward for artifact-forging blueprints.
• Elder Chi Huo brought Liu Bai to the Artifact Forging Institute, where Liu Bai inspected the metals and identified the quality and forging stage of a piece of Purple Crow Gold.
• Liu Bai began the metal’s second and third forging, and Elder Chi Huo watched in growing astonishment at his control and increasingly practiced movements.

Liu Bai impressed Elder Chi Huo with his artifact forging and array skills, earning valuable blueprints, materials, and a Universe Ring before returning to the Freshman District to strengthen his abilities. He spent his Spirit Value on the Ghost Soul Arrow Art and planned to forge his own bow.

• Liu Bai refined the metal to Elder Chi Huo's satisfaction, but declined the offer to join the Artifact Forging Institute and demonstrated his array skills instead.
• Elder Chi Huo gave Liu Bai artifact blueprints, forging insights, a Universe Ring, and the refined materials, and Liu Bai left feeling indebted to him.
• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to advance his Cultivation Methods and Spiritual Arts, absorbed Purple Crow Gold to form Metal Qi, and shaped it into a sword and then an arrow.
• Liu Bai went to the Spirit Value Hall, exchanged five Armored Earth Dragon Spirit Beast Cores for five hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Value, and bought the Ghost Soul Arrow Art.
• When a senior asked how he would use the archery art without a bow, Liu Bai said he would make one himself.

Liu Bai perfected several Spiritual Arts, gaining powerful special abilities, then forged the Gale Bow with Li Jing watching. As the Freshman Assembly approached, Crane Demon resolved to defeat Liu Bai and prove himself the freshmen’s true number one.

• Liu Bai perfected Ghost Soul Arrow Art, Great Sun Sea Burning Palm, and Mountain Shaking Divine Fist, gaining Soul Seize, Sea Burning, and Mountain Shaking.
• Liu Bai recorded Elder Chi Huo’s artifact blueprints and chose materials to forge a Gale Bow suited to his Ghost Soul Arrow Art.
• Liu Bai forged the Gale Bow and tested it by shattering a distant boulder with a Golden Qi Arrow, impressing Li Jing.
• Liu Bai and Li Jing discussed the Freshman Assembly, which was three days away, as the Freshman District grew excited for the competition.
• Crane Demon decided he would defeat Liu Bai at the Freshman Assembly and establish himself as the freshmen’s true number one.

Liu Bai and the other freshmen began the Freshman Assembly, whose new challenge was to reach the summit of Northern Spirit Mountain and claim a flag. The top five would receive Spirit Value and a chance to enter the Spiritual Art Divine Hall, while an undisclosed formidable creature awaited them at the summit.

• Guo Xiong proposed forming a faction, and Liu Bai agreed on the condition that he would be a hands-off boss.
• Su Xuan and the others revealed their breakthroughs, and Qiu Zongsheng led them with the other freshmen to the assembly grounds.
• Heaven Seat Elder Zhu Tian announced that the assembly had changed from an arena competition to a race for a flag atop Northern Spirit Mountain, with the top five earning rewards and access to the Spiritual Art Divine Hall.
• Zhu Tian began the assembly, and Liu Bai's group entered the mountain range while Su Xuan voiced suspicion that the challenge was not as simple as it seemed.
• One elder reminded Zhu Tian that a formidable creature lived at the summit, and Zhu Tian admitted he had deliberately left it out.

Liu Bai and the other freshmen fought through the Spirit Beast tide and climbed Northern Spirit Mountain, where Heaven-grade beasts threatened their progress. After Liu Bai killed a Purple Thorn Leopard, Elder Zhu Tian and the other elders watched him with growing surprise as the race toward the summit continued.

• Liu Bai led his group through the beast tide, and Zhang Heng, Su Ling'er, Shao Rui, and the others fell behind near the foot of Northern Spirit Mountain.
• Liu Bai used Mountain Shaking Divine Fist to kill several hundred high-level Spirit Beasts, astonishing the older students and elders watching.
• Liu Bai's group encountered blood-colored vines, and Liu Bai burned them away before luring out and killing the vine-controlling Purple Thorn Leopard with a golden arrow.
• Liu Bai and his companions heard powerful roars from across Northern Spirit Mountain and continued climbing as other strong freshmen fought Heaven-grade Spirit Beasts.
• Elder Zhu Tian observed Liu Bai's earth- and fire-element spiritual arts and unusual arrow, remarking that the freshman continued to surprise him.

Liu Bai and his companions fought through Ghost Leopards and raced toward the mountaintop as a massive horde of Heaven Tier Spirit Beasts pursued the freshmen. Near the stone platform, with Guo Xiong exhausted and danger closing in, Liu Bai told the others to choose whether to continue uphill or retreat downhill.

• Guo Xiong struck a Ghost Leopard, and Liu Bai’s group discovered six more before fleeing toward the mountaintop.
• The five combined their abilities to trap three Ghost Leopards, while Liu Bai killed two and Guo Xiong held off the others.
• Liu Bai saw at least thirty Heaven Tier Spirit Beasts pursuing other freshmen, including Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Xu Huang, and urged his group toward the stone platform.
• Lin Zheng, Zhou Qingshan, and Gu Tianyan watched the Freshman Assembly and discussed the Punishment Hall’s invitation.
• Liu Bai led his group straight past the stone platform toward the mountaintop, while Li Xuantong and the others suspected they had been left to face the beast horde.
• As Guo Xiong said he could no longer continue, Liu Bai warned that they could not stop and asked the group to choose between going uphill and retreating downhill.

Liu Bai won the Freshman Assembly after reaching the summit first and taking the spirit flag while a mysterious Spirit Beast unleashed magma across Northern Spirit Mountain. After recovering, he entered the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to test whether his Earth Element Spiritual Energy could strengthen his metal-element cultivation.

• A mysterious Spirit Beast caused magma pillars and giant molten hands to erupt across the mountain, forcing Liu Bai, Su Xuan, and the other competitors to flee or press onward.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, and Crane Demon broke through a towering magma waterfall, but Liu Bai had already reached the summit and claimed the spirit flag.
• Elder Zhu Tian declared Liu Bai first in the Freshman Assembly and ranked the remaining top five by their arrival at the summit.
• After several days of recovery, Liu Bai reviewed his rewards, including more than one hundred thousand Experience Points, 510 Beast Soul Points, five hundred thousand Spirit Value, and a chance to choose a Divine Art.
• Liu Bai spent four thousand Spirit Value to enter the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array and settled on a quiet peak to test using Earth Element Spiritual Energy to enhance his metal-element spiritual energy.

Liu Bai entered the Spiritual Art Hall to choose a spiritual art and followed a mysterious summons to its core. He obtained a five-colored scroll connected to the Five Elements, though its identity and power remained unknown.

• Liu Bai checked his cultivation progress and decided to save his Experience Points until after choosing a Divine Art.
• Liu Bai met Su Xuan, Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Crane Demon outside the Spiritual Art Hall, where Elder Zhu Tian explained that powerful spiritual arts had Guardians they needed to defeat or pass.
• Liu Bai entered a river of light, briefly found a Spirit-grade High-tier Sky Burning Fire Spiritual Art, and continued deeper instead of taking it.
• Liu Bai sensed his Five Elements Spiritual Energy guiding him toward the core, where a five-colored vortex repelled the powerful balls of light.
• Liu Bai used his Five Elements Spiritual Energy to dissolve the vortex and reveal a five-colored scroll, which descended into his hand.

Liu Bai obtained the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art, but its Guardian required him to withstand three attacks using Five Elements Fusion. He raised the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art to its highest level, fused his five elemental spiritual energies, and faced the Guardian’s first strike, which clashed with his punch and tore open a Space Rift.

• Liu Bai received the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art after the Spiritual Art Hall guided him to it, while Elder Zhu Tian learned that the chosen freshman was Liu Bai.
• The Guardian told Liu Bai he had to endure three attacks and warned that he would die from one strike if he could not achieve Five Elements Fusion.
• Liu Bai spent 22,000 Experience Points to raise the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art to its highest level, gaining the Ice Muscle Jade Bone physique and a further 20% reduction in Experience Point requirements.
• Liu Bai merged his five types of spiritual energy into a chaotic-colored sphere and told the Golden Light Shadow to attack.
• The Golden Light Shadow struck Liu Bai, whose punch met its palm without an explosion; their collision produced a Space Rift that shocked Elder Zhu Tian and the other observers.

Liu Bai raised his cultivation during a brutal three-move trial, defeated the Golden Light Shadow, and obtained the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art. After the Freshman Assembly ended, he and Su Xuan went to the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to recover and cultivate.

• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to strengthen his spiritual energy, then attacked the Golden Light Shadow and survived its three moves despite severe injuries.
• Liu Bai claimed the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art after passing the Guardian's test, and Elder Zhu Tian warned him to cultivate it cautiously.
• Su Xuan, Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Crane Demon returned to the Spiritual Art Hall, where Elder Zhu Tian announced that three freshmen had obtained Divine Arts and two had obtained quasi-Divine Arts.
• Elder Zhu Tian credited the five freshmen with Spirit Value and declared the Freshman Assembly over.
• Liu Bai and Su Xuan chose to cultivate in the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array, where Liu Bai rapidly absorbed spiritual energy as his injuries began to heal.

Liu Bai mastered the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art, recovered and strengthened his cultivation, then learned that Guo Xiong had built the Liu Shen Society. Elder Chi Huo recruited him for a dangerous Earth Grade High Rank investigation in Azure Cloud City, and Liu Bai accepted the mission and set out.

• Liu Bai used Experience Points to bring the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art to Initiation and later raised his Flowing Gold Spirit Transformation Art to the seventh layer while recovering from his injuries.
• Liu Bai returned to the Freshman District and found Guo Xiong had organized nearly a thousand students into the Liu Shen Society.
• Li Jing told Liu Bai that Elder Chi Huo had requested to see him, so Liu Bai went to the Spirit Artifact Courtyard and watched the elder forge Mysterious Crow Iron Essence.
• Elder Chi Huo offered Liu Bai an Earth Grade High Rank mission to investigate the Xie Family's destruction and the sale of its goods at an auction in Azure Cloud City.
• Liu Bai accepted the mission for one million Spirit Value, completed the procedures, exchanged for life-saving pills, and departed.

Liu Bai traveled to Azure Cloud City to investigate the Xie Family items being sold at the annual auction. After identifying a shill bidding on the Origin Opening Moon Chasing Bow, he watched another buyer win it and left the auction with that person in his sights.

• Liu Bai reached the boundary of the Northern Azure Spirit Academy and probed its protective array before continuing toward Azure Cloud City.
• Liu Bai arrived in Azure Cloud City, disguised himself, and entered the Nine Summers Merchant Guild auction to look for items from the Xie Family.
• Liu Bai watched the auction and learned that Spiritual Artifacts could sell for far more Spirit Coins than their academy Spirit Value equivalents.
• Liu Bai recognized that a bidder was acting as a shill for the Origin Opening Moon Chasing Bow and tested him with a bid.
• An unidentified buyer bid 4 million Spirit Coins for the bow, and Liu Bai left the auction focused on the person who had won it.

Liu Bai ambushed Fan Jiu and Elder Lin after they tried to kill him, then captured Fan Jiu and tortured him for information about the Xie Family’s destruction. Fan Jiu finally named Yu Yuan as the person who ordered Twilight City to help destroy the Xie Family.

• Fan Jiu ordered Elder Lin to attack Liu Bai, who had followed them from the auction, and Elder Lin struck him down.
• Liu Bai used Five Elements Divine Lightning to cripple Elder Lin, then shot Fan Jiu with the Gale Bow and shattered his qi sea.
• Liu Bai killed Elder Lin, earning a first-kill reward of 100,000 Experience Points and one Spirit Vein point, then took Fan Jiu away to question him.
• Fan Jiu denied that Twilight City had any part in the Xie Family’s destruction, so Liu Bai tortured him with Wood Thunder to attack his Divine Soul.
• Liu Bai posed as an envoy of Dragon Demon Palace, and Fan Jiu revealed that Yu Yuan had asked his father to help destroy the Xie Family.

After killing Fan Jiu, Liu Bai completed the Five Elements Fusion of his spiritual energy but was exposed by a trace left by Fan Jiu’s father, Fan Tong. As Liu Bai neared the Northern Azure Spirit Academy, Fan Tong intercepted him and began fighting in earnest, determined not to let him escape.

• Liu Bai killed Fan Jiu, gained Experience Points and Spirit Vein Points, and raised the Azure Wood Spiritual Art to the seventh level, triggering independent Five Elements Fusion.
• A spiritual trace from Fan Jiu’s corpse revealed Liu Bai as the killer to Fan Tong, who burned to avenge his son and set out from Twilight City with powerful experts.
• Liu Bai burned Fan Jiu’s corpse and hurried toward the Northern Azure Spirit Academy while Fan Tong and his men searched the route in a Wind God Boat.
• Fan Tong caught up with Liu Bai and attacked after Liu Bai tried to pass himself off as Lin Hei of the Lin Family.
• Liu Bai used Wood Thunder to break through Fan Tong’s Blood Demon Sky, then relied on his Ice Muscle Jade Bone Body to purge the Blood Demon Hand’s impurities and shattered it with Geng Metal Divine Thunder.
• Fan Tong realized Liu Bai had killed Fan Jiu and Elder Lin by himself, then prepared to use his full strength to capture him before he could reach the academy.

Liu Bai fought Fan Tong, raised his cultivation during the battle, and forced Fan Tong to flee before reaching Northern Azure City. Safe at last, he inspected the spoils taken from Fan Jiu and Elder Lin and found a fragmented Blood Demon Secret Codex that might be valuable to the academy.

• Fan Tong overwhelmed Liu Bai with Crimson Spiritual Energy, but Liu Bai countered with Five Elements Fusion and fought him at close range.
• Liu Bai used experience points to raise five Cultivation Methods, advanced to the middle stage of the Heaven Fusion Realm, and attacked Fan Tong with the Great Sun Sea Burning Palm and Five Elements Divine Thunder Art.
• Fan Tong escaped through the thunderclouds, and Liu Bai changed routes before reaching Northern Azure City and recovering his spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai inspected the Cosmic Bracelets from Fan Jiu and Elder Lin, finding three High-grade Spirit Artifacts, millions of Spirit Coins, pills, and three Spirit-grade High-tier Spiritual Arts.
• Liu Bai identified the Blood Demon Secret Codex fragment as a possible Divine Art and considered completing it with the system before exchanging it with the academy.

After completing his mission, Liu Bai collected his reward, exchanged for and fused with a Golden Lion-Tiger Beast Spirit Beast Core, then evolved the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon. Zhang Heng arrived to report that older students had surrounded Su Xuan and the others, prompting Liu Bai to rush to their aid.

• Liu Bai told Elder Chi Huo about his dangerous mission, and Elder Chi Huo upgraded it to a Heaven-grade Low-tier mission and rewarded him with Spirit Value and forging materials.
• Liu Bai submitted the mission at the Mission Hall and received the remaining Spirit Value, bringing his total above two million.
• Liu Bai spent two million Spirit Value on a Golden Lion-Tiger Beast Spirit Beast Core, returned to his residence, and fused with it.
• Liu Bai learned that the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast could evolve into an Ancient Golden Lion-Tiger Beast, while his Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon could evolve into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon for three hundred Beast Soul Points.
• Liu Bai used three hundred Beast Soul Points to evolve the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon.
• Zhang Heng told Liu Bai that older students had surrounded Su Xuan and the others in the Level Six Spirit Array area, and Liu Bai reacted with alarm.

Su Xuan’s group was cornered by the Black Tortoise Pavilion and Iron Cavalry Society over the Heavenly Spirit Lotus Seeds until Liu Bai arrived and overwhelmed their members with Golden Lightning. He demanded compensation, and the chapter ended with Liu Xuan and Bai Ran facing him above the Spirit Gathering Array as the crowd awaited their response.

• Liu Feng demanded Su Xuan’s Heavenly Spirit Lotus Seeds, and Guo Xiong was wounded while defending her group.
• Huo Yun arrived with the Iron Cavalry Society and joined Liu Feng in pressuring Su Xuan’s group.
• Liu Bai arrived, rejected Liu Feng’s offer to recruit him, and demanded one million Spirit Value from each group after seeing Guo Xiong’s wound.
• Liu Bai struck down members of both forces with Golden Lightning, then demanded that their leaders come and pay compensation.
• Bai Ran and Liu Xuan arrived, and Liu Bai faced them above the Spirit Gathering Array.

Liu Bai fought Liu Xuan after the Iron Cavalry Society withdrew, gaining the upper hand with his Spirit Beast Core. Liu Xuan summoned the Black Tortoise Divine Art, and Liu Bai prepared to counter with Earth Thunder.

• Bai Ran agreed that the Iron Cavalry Society had been at fault and paid Liu Bai five hundred thousand Spirit Value before leaving with his group.
• Liu Xuan refused to back down and attacked Liu Bai, but Liu Bai gained the advantage in their first exchange.
• Liu Xuan summoned his Dragon Turtle, while Liu Bai revealed a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon and the two Spirit Beasts collided.
• The resulting blast sent Liu Xuan into a mountain and left Liu Bai battered, though Liu Xuan realized he had lost the exchange.
• Liu Xuan used the Black Tortoise Divine Art to transform his Dragon Turtle’s manifestation, and Liu Bai prepared to counter with the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art’s Earth Thunder.

Liu Bai defeated Liu Xuan and rose to thirteenth on the Heavenly Ranking, drawing attention across Northern Azure Spirit Academy. After sharing his Spirit Value with Su Xuan and the others, he planned to move out of the Freshman District, strengthen his combat abilities, and pursue a dangerous Heaven-grade mission.

• Liu Bai defeated Liu Xuan, who accepted his loss and transferred him one million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai's victory placed him thirteenth on the Heavenly Ranking, prompting celebration among the Liu Shen Society and reactions from Li Xuantong, Crane Demon, Elder Chi Huo, and the bald old man.
• Liu Bai gave one million Spirit Value equally to Su Xuan and the other three, then decided that his fame and need for stronger cultivation arrays made it time to leave the Freshman District.
• Liu Bai searched the Spirit Value Hall for a fifth-grade array diagram and chose the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array for 1.3 million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai planned to exchange several Spiritual Arts and Spirit Artifacts for Spirit Value and prepare for a dangerous Heaven-grade mission, then returned to the Spirit Value Hall and saw a familiar face.

Liu Bai exchanged Spirit Value for an Ancient Golden Crow core and the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, then spent ten days fusing with the Golden Crow. After accepting a mission to exterminate the Fan Family of Twilight City, he began assembling a squad and recruited Li Xuantong.

• Northern Sea Dragon Kun recognized Liu Bai's plans to build Innate Five Spirits and promised guidance in exchange for future help after Liu Bai grew stronger and mastered the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art.
• Liu Bai exchanged Spirit Arts and High-grade Spirit Artifacts for the Ancient Golden Crow core and Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, leaving him with one million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai spent ten days suppressing and fusing with the Ancient Golden Crow, then raised the array to Initiation level.
• At the Mission Hall, Liu Bai accepted an upper heaven-grade team mission to exterminate the Fan Family of Twilight City, joining a squad led by Chu Lin and promising to gather his own five-person team.
• Liu Bai asked Li Xuantong to join his squad, explained the mission's danger and reward, and Li Xuantong agreed.

Liu Bai assembled a five-person team for a dangerous mission against the Fan Family of Twilight City and joined Chu Lin’s stronger team. After Liu Bai revealed his past victories and his ability to use a Grade Five spiritual array, the group agreed to plan their attack after gathering more information near Twilight City.

• Liu Bai recruited Shen Cangsheng and Xu Huang, completing his team with Su Xuan and Li Xuantong.
• Liu Bai’s team met Chu Lin’s group at the Mission Hall, where the older students doubted the freshmen could handle the mission.
• The Mission Hall elder revealed that Liu Bai had killed a Heaven Transformation Realm elder and the young city lord, then driven back Fan Tong.
• Liu Bai described the Fan Family’s remaining strength and said its losses from attacking the Xie Family had weakened it considerably.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had a Grade Five spiritual array that could help defeat the Fan Family if they prepared and lured the targets into position.
• Chu Lin proposed gathering more information near Twilight City before deciding on a detailed plan.

Liu Bai devised a plan to draw out the Fan Family and prepared a concealed fifth-grade array near Twilight City. Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong returned safely after being watched, but a pursuer followed them to the forest as Fan Tong ordered Twilight City's experts to assemble.

• Liu Bai warned Xu Huang to rest, and the two teams traveled for nearly ten days before stopping in a forest near Twilight City.
• Liu Bai proposed sending only one or two people to scout the city, and Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong volunteered to lure the Fan Family.
• Liu Bai set up the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array across the forest and showed the others where they would be safe when it activated.
• Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong entered Twilight City, attracted the attention of hidden watchers, then left without being attacked directly.
• A hidden pursuer followed Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong and reported their accomplices to Fan Tong, who ordered Twilight City's experts to assemble.
• Liu Bai sensed an unfamiliar aura entering the forest after Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong returned.

Liu Bai secretly killed a scout, then activated the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array to trap and incinerate Fan Tong and the Twilight City attackers. The array left the Northern Azure Spirit Academy group alive but exhausted, and the chapter ended with them guarding Liu Bai as he recovered.

• Liu Bai killed the late Heaven Fusion Realm scout with his Ghost Soul Arrow Art before the scout could reveal anything suspicious about the array.
• Fan Tong arrived with his experts and ordered them to attack Chu Lin and the Northern Azure Spirit Academy group, who sheltered behind Chu Lin’s Mysterious Sky Mirror.
• Liu Bai activated the hidden Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, which formed a giant flaming cauldron around the battlefield.
• Fan Tong tried to escape in his spirit boat, but the cauldron wall stopped him and the array’s flames burned him and most of his forces to death.
• Liu Bai earned 150,000 Experience Points and 100 Spirit Vein Points, then ended the array and took pills to restore his spiritual energy.
• Chu Lin and the others left the magma lake and guarded Liu Bai while he recovered.