Recaps

The Liu Family completed its preparations and relocated from Willow City to Northern Azure City after Liu Jingshan broke through to the Heaven Fusion Realm. The chapter ended with the family arriving to find their new manor and the city’s established factions resenting the academy’s apparent favoritism toward Liu Bai.

• Liu Jingshan broke through to the Heaven Fusion Realm, and Liu Bai began constructing a one-use Teleportation Array to Northern Azure City.
• Liu Qingtian and Third Master Liu Ming emerged from seclusion, with Liu Qingtian reaching the peak of the Divine Soul Realm and Liu Ming breaking through to that realm.
• Liu Bai worried that his family’s older men had no wives and resolved to find spouses for Second Master Liu and Third Master Liu.
• Liu Qingtian led several hundred Liu Family members through the Teleportation Array as the Nine Domains’ leaders and Northern Spirit Academy representatives saw them off.
• Tang Shan warned Mu Feng that the Liu Family’s departure could destabilize the Northern Spirit Realm, while Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er discussed striving to enter one of the Five Great Academies.
• Ding Qian arranged for a lavish Liu Manor to be built in Northern Azure City, provoking resentment among the city’s established factions over the academy’s favor toward Liu Bai.

At a banquet introducing the Liu Family to Northern Azure City’s powers, Wu Miao insulted the newcomers, and Liu Bai used an unexplained technique that left him briefly unconscious. Wu Tong accused Liu Bai of harming his son, and the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Lin Tang urged the Lin Family to wait and see how the other great families dealt with the Liu Family, whose territory and businesses threatened their interests.
• Ding Qian invited Northern Azure City’s forces to a banquet, and Liu Bai brought Jiu You, Liu Jingshan, and Liu Qingtian to attend.
• Ding Qian introduced Liu Qingtian, and Wu Miao mocked the Liu Family for taking one-tenth of the city’s territory.
• Liu Bai learned that Wu Miao’s brother Wu Xin had reportedly reached the Supreme Realm, then warned that Northern Azure City would not bear the Liu surname.
• Wu Miao suddenly lost consciousness after Liu Bai looked at him, and Wu Tong accused Liu Bai of attacking his son.

Liu Bai forced the Wu Family to accept the Liu Family’s claim to one-tenth of Northern Azure City, then helped his family grow stronger before preparing to return to Northern Azure Spirit Academy. He left his father and grandfather overseeing the family and gave his two younger brothers a chance to enter the academy through exempt admission slots.

• Wu Yong tried to intimidate Liu Bai into surrendering part of the Liu Family’s territory, but Liu Bai’s thunderous voice felled Wu Miao and other Wu Family experts.
• Wu Tong attacked Liu Bai, but Liu Bai’s Five Elements Divine Light blocked the strike and captured Wu Tong, after which Wu Yong conceded and the other families raised no objections.
• City Lord Ding Qian ended the banquet and warned the factions to keep their conflicts within limits.
• Over the following weeks, Liu Bai helped the Liu Family take over its territory, obtained a Gale Eagle core for Third Master Liu, helped Liu Mubai control the Life Devouring Flame, and gave Liu Yang the Heavenly Origin Sword Art.
• Liu Qingtian broke through to the Heaven Fusion Realm, and Liu Bai told his brothers they could enter Northern Azure Spirit Academy through the Liu Family’s ten exempt admission slots if they reached the Divine Soul Realm before turning eighteen.
• Liu Bai left the Liu Family and headed back to Northern Azure Spirit Academy with Jiu You.

Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy, where he learned that powerful newcomers had reshaped the Heavenly Ranking and that the academy was preparing for the Spirit Academy Competition. He asked Northern Ming Dragon Kun for help reaching the Five Elements Divine Sect, then spent nearly a month learning from the academy’s elders before his prospective guide arrived.

• Jiu You perched on Liu Bai’s head as a Little Black Sparrow, pecked him when he warned others not to touch her, and introduced herself to the Liu Shen Society.
• Guo Xiong told Liu Bai that new students from powerful Northern Azure Continent factions had entered the academy, and Liu Bai saw Xia Youran and Xi Qinghai among the Heaven Piercing Realm students on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Liu Bai asked Northern Azure Dean to summon Northern Ming Dragon Kun, who recognized Jiu You’s bloodline and agreed to contact his old friend about introducing Liu Bai to the Five Elements Divine Sect.
• While awaiting word for nearly a month, Liu Bai learned artifact-forging techniques and diagrams from Elder Chi Huo, received a fifth-grade spiritual array diagram from Elder Sikong, and studied alchemy insights from Elder Kong Qing.
• Northern Ming Dragon Kun’s old friend, the Supreme Elder of the Fire God Sect, headed to the Northern Azure Continent to meet Liu Bai.

Liu Bai agreed to join the Fire God Sect and left Northern Azure Spirit Academy with Elder Jinchi, while promising Jiu You he would still travel with her to the Great Luo Heavenly Region. As they began their journey, Jinchi offered to teach Liu Bai the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Art and challenged him to keep up.

• Jinchi judged Liu Bai’s Ice Muscle Jade Bone Body insufficient to inherit the Five Elements Divine Sect’s highest legacy, but decided his cultivation and temperament made him worth recruiting.
• Liu Bai accepted Jinchi’s offer to join the Fire God Sect, and Jiu You made him reaffirm their plan to travel together to the Great Luo Heavenly Region.
• Liu Bai bid farewell to the Liu Shen Society, and Su Ling'er promised to train hard until he returned.
• Jinchi took Liu Bai through a Teleportation Array out of the Northern Azure Continent and tested his flying speed along the way.
• Jinchi offered to teach Liu Bai the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Art, then told him to keep up with half his speed after revealing he had previously used only twenty percent.

Liu Bai traveled with Jin Chi to the Five Elements Continent and entered the Fire God Sect as an Outer Disciple. With nearly three months before the Five Sect Grand Competition, he settled into Fire Dragon Valley and planned to improve his cultivation.

• Liu Bai perfected the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Art but concealed its full speed as he raced Jin Chi toward the Five Elements Continent.
• After a month of travel, Liu Bai arrived on the Five Elements Continent, where the Innate Five Spirits Disc absorbed the dense Five Elements Spiritual Energy around him.
• Jin Chi brought Liu Bai to the Fire God Sect and had him admitted as an Outer Disciple without an assessment.
• A prince with an Elder-level recommendation token complained about Liu Bai's special treatment, but a Fire God Sect disciple rebuked him and he joined the assessment line.
• Qian Song guided Liu Bai to courtyard 1314 in Fire Dragon Valley, where Jiu You urged him to strengthen himself before the Five Sect Grand Competition.

Liu Bai entered the Underground Cave to hunt powerful monsters and gather Experience Points, treasures, and materials. After defeating a Five Elements Beast, he gained a Source of Flame and chose to merge it into his Heart Aperture.

• Liu Bai traveled to the Underground Cave with Jiu You and began hunting its creatures, killing a Crimson Flame Python and many others for Experience Points and Beast Soul Points.
• Liu Bai collected rare refining materials, including Copper Mother, Ten Thousand Year Iron Essence, and Fire Crystal Stones, as he traveled deeper into the cave.
• Jiu You devoured a flock of more than ten thousand Fire Crows before Liu Bai could test whether Five Elements Beasts granted Experience Points.
• Liu Bai killed a powerful Lava Lion with his Black Mysterious Water and received a Source of Flame instead of Experience Points or Beast Soul Points.
• Liu Bai instructed the system to merge the Source of Flame into his Heart Aperture.

Liu Bai discovered the Flame Demons were performing a ritual to claim the Vast Sky True Fire, a powerful flame connected to the Haori Golden Crow and possibly Senior Jin Chi. He stole the flame during its awakening and killed the Flame Demon Chief, then charged toward the remaining four as Jiu You watched in exasperation.

• Liu Bai followed increasingly numerous Flame Demon patrols to a guarded valley, where Jiu You sensed a powerful flame inside a black stone mountain.
• Liu Bai and Jiu You entered the valley and saw five powerful Flame Demons worshipping a Haori Golden Crow statue and the Vast Sky True Fire.
• Jiu You explained the flame's identity and speculated that Senior Jin Chi might have placed it there to nurture it, but Liu Bai decided to take it.
• Liu Bai used the Five-Colored Divine Light to stop the Vast Sky True Fire from drifting to the Flame Demon Chief, then killed the chief with Water Thunder from the Thunder God Lotus.
• Liu Bai charged at the four remaining Flame Demons with his Purple Firmament Sword, while Jiu You criticized him and chose not to intervene yet.

Liu Bai escaped the Flame Demon pursuit with the Vast Sky True Fire, while Jin Chi arrived too late and began searching for the thief. Back at the Fire God Sect, Liu Bai chose not to use the stolen fire and instead merged a wisp of Jiu You’s Undying Fire, triggering a powerful breakthrough that shook the Outer Disciple courtyards.

• Liu Bai killed four Flame Demons, gained enough Experience Points to exceed 1.4 million, and escaped the Underground Cave with the Vast Sky True Fire.
• Jin Chi sensed the fire’s emergence, rushed to the Blazing Sun Golden Crow Altar, and found the altar empty and the Flame Demons dead.
• Liu Bai returned to the Fire God Sect and decided to break through the Spiritual Energy Tribulation without exposing the Vast Sky True Fire.
• Jiu You gave Liu Bai a wisp of Undying Fire, which he began merging with his spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai spent 350,000 Experience Points as his spiritual energy surged and shook the courtyard, startling nearby Outer Disciples.

After Liu Bai passed the Fire God Sect’s Inner Disciple selection, he and two other candidates were sent to Sunrise Peak to prepare for the Five Sect Grand Competition. He entered Soul Shaking Cave to train against soul pressure, but injured his eyes when he tried to see through its seventh-grade array.

• Liu Bai explained the benefits and dangers of the Spiritual Energy Tribulation and decided to delay the Divine Spirit Tribulation until he could find better protection.
• Liu Bai joined the Inner Disciple selection at Coiling Dragon Square, where he and Yan Xu and Dong Qing occupied arenas without being challenged.
• An elder gave Liu Bai, Yan Xu, and Dong Qing Inner Disciple tokens and took them to Sunrise Peak, where he ordered them to withstand Fifth Grade Soul Shock before the Five Sect Grand Competition.
• Liu Bai entered Soul Shaking Cave and chose a stone chamber to test its Soul Shock Array.
• Liu Bai tried to see through the seventh-grade array with his Virtual Mind's Eye, suffered severe eye pain, and admitted to Jiu You that he had overestimated his abilities.

Liu Bai endured the Soul Shock Array, enhanced his Virtual Mind's Eye, and learned to control the array as he prepared for the Five Sect Grand Competition. After emerging from seclusion, he discovered that Yan Xu and Dong Qing had left the chamber ten days earlier, though both congratulated him on his endurance and predicted he would rank well.

• Liu Bai adapted to increasingly severe levels of Soul Shock and considered spending his Experience Points to improve his Virtual Mind's Eye.
• Liu Bai spent 1.1 million Experience Points to raise Virtual Mind's Eye to advanced level, which let him perceive the array lines and affect Jiu You with its soul power.
• Liu Bai studied the Soul Shock Array while the Five Sect Grand Competition drew near and considered the differences between spiritual arts and divine arts.
• Liu Bai traced the array to its core and gained control of the chamber's Soul Shock Array, though creating a Level Seven array himself remained difficult.
• Liu Bai left seclusion and learned from Yan Xu and Dong Qing that they had emerged ten days earlier after enduring Fifth Grade Soul Shock for ten days at most.

Liu Bai entered the Five Elements Realm for the Five Sect Grand Competition, where the Upper Sect envoys revealed powerful Earthly Sovereigns and announced the trials and rewards. After choosing the gold gate, Liu Bai passed through it and arrived in an unfamiliar world.

• Yan Qianzhong and the Fire God Sect elders opened the passage to the Five Elements Realm, and Liu Bai entered with the gathered disciples.
• The five sects greeted the Upper Sect envoys, whose five Earthly Sovereign attendants created five elemental gates for the competition.
• The envoy announced that competitors would race through the trial, with the winner receiving the ranked Eightieth Five Elements Dharma Body and a Minor Divine Art.
• Liu Bai told Jiu You he was confident of winning first place and warned her to stay out of trouble while he competed.
• Liu Bai chose the gold gate, traveled through its folded-space passage, and arrived in an unfamiliar world.

Liu Bai entered the Metal Element Space, where he absorbed Metal Force and defeated its Golden Ants and White Tiger trial. After the White Tiger’s final explosion, Golden Thunder merged with his spiritual energy, and he comprehended the Golden Thunder Tribulation Minor Divine Art.

• Liu Bai found that the Metal Element Space’s blade-filled air strengthened his lung aperture instead of harming him.
• Liu Bai burned through a swarm of Golden Ants with Undying Divine Fire, collecting Source of Metal and a vast amount of Supreme Gold Essence.
• Liu Bai followed his token toward the center of the space and faced a White Tiger formed from Geng Metal aura.
• Liu Bai trapped the White Tiger with Golden Crow True Fire and Undying Divine Fire, while absorbing its Geng Metal Divine Thunder.
• The White Tiger exploded in a final attack, and the Source of Metal guided Golden Thunder into Liu Bai’s spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai gained control of Golden Thunder and comprehended the Minor Divine Art Golden Thunder Tribulation.

Liu Bai cleared the Wood Element Realm by using Golden Thunder Tribulation to destroy its guardians, then comprehended Wood Thunder after defeating the Azure Dragon. He entered the Earth Element Realm and began wearing down its colossal mountain beast with Wood Thunder.

• Liu Bai used Golden Thunder Tribulation to annihilate the wooden giants and gather Wood Source, while suppressing his Undying Fire so it would not consume the source.
• Liu Bai defeated the wooden Azure Dragon with Geng Metal Divine Thunder and comprehended the Minor Divine Art: Wood Thunder.
• The spectators watched Liu Bai's progress, while Jin Chi briefly suspected him of stealing the Vast Sky True Fire before dismissing the idea.
• Liu Bai entered the Earth Element Realm, where his attacks with the Purple Firmament Sword and Undying Fire barely damaged the moving mountain.
• Liu Bai summoned clouds of Wood Thunder and rapidly stripped away the mountain's Earth Element Spiritual Energy.
• Liu Bai added points to Wood Thunder as he continued wearing down the mountain.

After Liu Bai perfected his Five Elements Divine Lightning, the mountain collapsed into an Abyss that swallowed him and brought him before the Five Emperors Divine Venerable. The ancient expert gave Liu Bai the Immortal True Form Diagram and told him about a Five Elements Spirit Talisman that could help him cultivate the Five Emperors Divine Ability.

• Liu Bai used his Experience Points to perfect the Five Elements Divine Lightning, and its power ground the mountain away to reveal a black Abyss.
• The Abyss pulled Liu Bai inside, while Jin Chi and Yan Qianzhong reassured Jiu You that Liu Bai had encountered the Five Elements Realm’s true opportunity.
• Liu Bai met the Five Emperors Divine Venerable, who explained that the realm had formed from his body and praised Liu Bai’s mastery of the Five Elements.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable offered Liu Bai the Five Emperors Divine Ability in exchange for a future favor once Liu Bai reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Liu Bai bound the Immortal True Form Diagram to his dantian and learned that a Five Elements Spirit Talisman could help him cultivate the divine ability.

Liu Bai entered the Fallen Continent through the Space Gate to seek the Five Elements Spirit Talisman, while Jiu You waited anxiously outside when their bloodline connection weakened. In the desolate land, Liu Bai defeated Water Element Beasts, absorbed their Source of Water, and destroyed a powerful Black Tortoise.

• Liu Bai discovered that the Immortal True Form Diagram had not truly acknowledged him, but the system recorded the Five Emperors Divine ability for him.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable showed Liu Bai the Space Gate to the Fallen Continent and explained that the Five Elements Spirit Talisman lay there; Liu Bai entered because he could not escape the Abyss otherwise.
• Jiu You sensed Liu Bai's connection grow faint, and Jin Chi and Yan Qianzhong later waited with her when he failed to emerge after the Grand Competition.
• Liu Bai explored the desolate Fallen Continent, killed a Water Element Beast, and fused its Source of Water into his kidney aperture.
• A Black Tortoise attacked Liu Bai with Water Thunder, but he remained unharmed and destroyed the beast and the icy peak beneath it with his three Divine Lightnings.

Liu Bai obtained the Five Elements Spirit Talisman at the center of the Land of Demise, but Hun Tian Demon Emperor’s black qi attacked him through the Immortal True Form Diagram. The Five Emperors Divine Venerable’s True Spirit emerged to save Liu Bai and revealed the Demon Emperor’s history and threat.

• Liu Bai defeated a Vermilion Bird, comprehended Fire Thunder, and fused all five elemental lightning arts into the Great Divine Art: Five Elements Divine Lightning Art.
• Liu Bai climbed the Five-Colored Divine Mountain and took the Five Elements Spirit Talisman from its summit.
• The Immortal True Form Diagram unleashed black qi that invaded Liu Bai’s body, but the system made the diagram recognize him as its master, and five Emperor Stone Statues drove back the Black Orb’s attack.
• Liu Bai’s blood awakened the Five Emperors Divine Venerable’s True Spirit, who used the Five Elements Spirit Talisman to purge the black threads from Liu Bai’s body.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable identified the attacker as Hun Tian Demon Emperor and explained that he had sealed the Demon Emperor and his army beneath the battlefield; Liu Bai bowed in gratitude.

The Five Emperors Divine Venerable taught Liu Bai the Innate Five Elements Great Law, gave him a Five Elements Spirit Talisman, and sent him through a rift into the Endless Starry Sky as he fought Hun Tian Demon Emperor. Liu Bai sensed Jiu You and flew toward her, while she realized he was stranded and began searching for an Earthly Sovereign who could rescue him.

• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable explained that he would destroy Hun Tian Demon Emperor's Demonic Soul and sent Liu Bai away from the Fallen Continent through a Space Rift.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable taught Liu Bai the Innate Five Elements Great Law, and Liu Bai absorbed the Five Elements Source Power into a spirit talisman within his body.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable gave Liu Bai the Five-Colored Cloud Robe and opened a rift that sent him into the Endless Starry Sky as five giants faced Hun Tian Demon Emperor.
• Liu Bai discovered he could not absorb spiritual energy in the Endless Starry Sky, then transformed into a Golden Crow and flew toward Jiu You using their Bloodline Link.
• Jiu You sensed Liu Bai far away in the Endless Starry Sky and considered seeking help from the Domain Lord of the Great Luo Heavenly Territory or the Northern Nether Dragon Kun.

Jiu You returned to the Northern Azure Continent and enlisted Northern Sea Dragon Kun to rescue Liu Bai from the Endless Starry Sky. Protected by the Immortal True Form Diagram, Liu Bai survived a Space Storm and began the perilous Divine Spirit Tribulation while awaiting help.

• Jiu You told Northern Sea Dragon Kun and the Northern Azure Dean that Liu Bai was stranded in the Endless Starry Sky, and Northern Sea Dragon Kun set out with her to rescue him.
• Liu Bai faced a Space Storm, but the Immortal True Form Diagram protected him from its Spatial Blades.
• The Five Emperors Divine Venerable told Liu Bai to return in three years for the Five Elements Spirit Talisman after destroying the Demonic Soul.
• Liu Bai waited in the starry sky for months, used his remaining pills and the Five Emperors statue's aid to reach the limit of his current realm, and sensed the Divine Spirit Tribulation beginning.
• Liu Bai entered meditation to endure the first Divine Spirit Fire, and the Ice Jade Divine Lotus sent its radiance through the flames toward his Divine Soul.

Liu Bai passed the First Level Divine Spirit Tribulation and was rescued by the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun and Jiu You. During their return journey, he underwent the Second Level Divine Spirit Tribulation and unexpectedly formed a Supreme Sea.

• Liu Bai completed the First Level Divine Spirit Tribulation, greatly increased his spiritual energy, and gained the ability to deploy the three-lotus Demon Lotus Spirit Slaying Array.
• The Northern Abyss Dragon Kun and Jiu You arrived to rescue Liu Bai, and Liu Bai decided not to return to the Five Elements Continent.
• Jiu You remained angry that she had been forced to ask others for help, but Liu Bai and the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun left with her to return to the Spiritual Academy.
• During their five-month journey, Liu Bai drew Five Elements Source Power from the void and began undergoing the Second Level Divine Spirit Tribulation.
• Liu Bai's qi sea filled to its limit, then a black dot swallowed its spiritual energy and opened into a vast five-colored Supreme Sea, astonishing Jiu You and the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun.

Liu Bai returned to the Northern Spirit Academy after manifesting his Supreme Sea, though he still needed to shatter his qi sea to truly enter the Supreme Realm. After receiving the dean’s support and visiting Elder Chi Huo, Liu Bai revealed the Vast Sky True Fire and learned more about it from the Myriad Fires Record.

• Beiming Dragon Kun and Jiu You warned Liu Bai that manifesting his Supreme Sea was only the first step, and they returned with him to the Northern Spirit Academy.
• The Northern Azure Dean welcomed Liu Bai, discovered his Third Divine Spirit Tribulation cultivation and Supreme Sea, and rewarded him with a Qi Breaking Pill.
• The Northern Azure Dean told Liu Bai that the academy’s teams had placed fourth, eighth, and sixteenth in the academy Grand Competition.
• Liu Bai returned quietly, notified Su Xuan and others that he would not visit the Liu Shen Society headquarters, and went to see Elder Chi Huo.
• Elder Chi Huo recognized the Vast Sky True Fire on Liu Bai’s Innate Five Spirits Disc and explained that it was recorded in the Myriad Fires Record.

Liu Bai consulted Elder Chi Huo about merging the Vast Sky True Fire and designing a Five Elements battle armor, then returned home and learned how the Liu Family had grown in his absence. After Ding Qian told him the academy wanted him back for matters concerning the Spirit Road, Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy, where he found that Jiu You had spent much of his Spirit Value.

• Elder Chi Huo explained that Liu Bai could safely merge the Vast Sky True Fire with his Golden Crow True Fire, and helped him plan a Five Elements battle armor set.
• Liu Bai spent three days working with Elder Chi Huo on the armor designs before leaving to visit his family.
• Liu Qingtian told Liu Bai about the Liu Family's progress, Liu Ming's marriage, and Liu Mubai receiving the family's Seed Quota for Northern Azure Spirit Academy.
• Liu Bai refined pills for the family but abandoned his plan to make a Heaven Enlightenment Pill because the Liu Family lacked the ingredients.
• Ding Qian told Liu Bai that the academy had summoned him, likely because of the Spirit Road and its final King Conferment Assessment.
• Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy and called back Jiu You, then noticed she had spent much of his Spirit Value cultivating in the Eighth-grade Spirit Gathering Array.

Liu Bai agreed to host the Northern Azure Spirit Academy’s arena for the Spirit Road’s King Battle and traveled with Dean Taicang into the Spirit Road space. There, he joined the deans of the Five Great Academies as they gathered to observe the trial.

• The Northern Azure Dean asked Liu Bai to host the Northern Azure Spirit Academy’s final King Battle Arena, and Liu Bai accepted after learning the task carried a five-million-point reward.
• Jiu You reminded Liu Bai that their one-year agreement had less than three months remaining, then took his Spirit Value Token.
• Liu Bai traveled with Dean Taicang through the Mirror of Judgment and arrived in the ancient world above the Spirit Road.
• The Northern Azure Dean explained that participants could strengthen their spiritual bodies by hunting Spirit Beasts, making survival in the dangerous Spirit Road possible.
• Liu Bai entered the observation hall with Dean Taicang, where the deans of the Five Great Academies assembled, including Dean Tian Song, Wu Tianwang, Dean Tang Qiu, and Dean Tian Sheng.

At a gathering of the Five Great Spirit Academies, Liu Bai accepted a three-move spar with a Black-Robed Elder from Sacred Spirit Academy and revealed his powerful techniques. The elder deployed his Nether Spring Dharma Body, and Liu Bai activated the Demon Lotus Spirit Slaying Array, Three-Lotus Form.

• Dean Taicang introduced Liu Bai as a student of Northern Azure Spirit Academy, surprising the other deans.
• Dean Tian Sheng challenged Liu Bai’s strength, and the Black-Robed Elder offered to take three of his moves.
• Liu Bai struck the Black-Robed Elder with Golden Thunder, forcing the elder to take him seriously.
• Liu Bai formed a spirit array, shocking the deans and prompting the Black-Robed Elder to summon his Nether Spring Dharma Body.
• Liu Bai activated the Demon Lotus Spirit Slaying Array, Three-Lotus Form.

Liu Bai overwhelmed a Sacred Spirit Academy elder with his spirit array and divine lightning, while the Spirit Road’s young contenders waited for the King Title Battle. The chapter ended with Wen Qingxuan joining Luo Li, hinting at an unusually close connection between them.

• Liu Bai’s Demon Lotus Spirit Slaying Array corroded the Black-Robed Elder’s Netherworld Yellow Spring Diagram, forcing the elder to concede the move before agreeing to continue.
• Liu Bai summoned Fire Thunder and Golden Thunder, which melted and shattered the elder’s Yellow Spring ice defense and shook the Spirit Road below.
• Ji Xuan, Yang Hong, and Qiu Beihai discussed the disturbance and awaited the King Title Battle, with Ji Xuan reassuring his companions about their strength.
• Luo Li sat by a lake thinking of someone until Wen Qingxuan arrived, took her hand, and exchanged an unusually intense gaze with her.