Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai found the Thunder God Pill inside a Thunder God Lotus in the depths of the lightning sea and escaped with it while Northern Nether Dragon Kun held off the Thunder Spirit. Northern Nether Dragon Kun brought Liu Bai to a forbidden hall in Northern Azure Spirit Academy to see his reward.

• Liu Bai used his Five Elements Divine Lightning to draw out the Thunder God Pill’s aura and followed it to a hidden space beneath the lightning sea.
• Liu Bai discovered the Thunder God Lotus surrounding the Thunder God Pill, bonded with the lotus, and absorbed it into his body.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun distracted the Thunder Spirit and protected Liu Bai as he escaped from the lightning sea with the lotus and pill.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun trapped the enraged Thunder Spirit in an ice prison and identified Liu Bai’s black lotus as a rare Thunder God Lotus.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun took the Thunder God Pill and brought Liu Bai to a guarded hall in Northern Azure Spirit Academy, where he offered to show him his reward.

Liu Bai learned the Five Elements Divine Light Art, fused it with his cultivation, and gained a Five Elements Disc that strengthened his abilities despite his realm falling to peak Heaven Fusion Realm. He then began building a Level Five Spirit Gathering Array for the Liu Shen Society, promising Su Ling'er that she could cultivate alongside her sister once it was complete.

• Northern Abyss Dragon Kun explained the Five Elements Divine Light Art’s origins in the Five Elements Divine Sect and offered to recommend Liu Bai once he reached Supreme Cultivation and brought the art to Initiation.
• Liu Bai fused the Five Elements Divine Light Art, forming a Five Elements Disc that connected his three Spirit Beasts, strengthened his Five Elements Divine Lightning, and increased his combat strength.
• Liu Bai decided to keep cultivating at the Northern Azure Spirit Academy and prioritize completing the Innate Five Spirits rather than pursuing missions for Experience Points and Spirit Value.
• The dean provided Liu Bai with materials and a blueprint for a Level Five Spirit Gathering Array, and Liu Bai studied the blueprint before directing Guo Xiong and the Liu Shen Society members to place fifty pillars.
• Liu Bai comforted Su Ling'er by promising that she and Su Xuan could cultivate together at the Liu Shen Society’s residence once the array was ready.
• Liu Bai inscribed the array’s Spirit Seals and activated the completed formation, drawing vast amounts of spiritual energy into the Liu Shen Society’s residence.

Liu Bai and the Liu Shen Society prepared to join Northern Azure Spirit Academy’s annual Hunting Battle, where hidden talents could challenge the Heavenly Ranking and gain opportunities to improve. At North Sea Plaza, the competitors gathered before Dean Taicang opened the event with his Taicang Divine Sound.

• Liu Bai wondered why the Five Elements Divine Light Art had earned him only eight hundred Experience Points after several days of cultivation, then ended his seclusion and met with Guo Xiong, Su Xuan, Li Jing, An Ran, and Su Ling'er.
• Liu Bai urged the group to focus on the Hunting Battle’s later Spiritual Light Anointment, and they set out to participate alongside freshmen including Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, Crane Demon, and Xu Huang.
• Liu Bai and his companions arrived at North Sea Plaza and saw the statue of the North Sea Dragon Kun; Liu Bai also exchanged looks with Crane Demon, Shen Cangsheng, and Li Xuantong.
• An Azure Luan arrived carrying Elder Chi Huo, the Heaven Seat Elders, and Dean Taicang, whom Liu Bai recognized and whose Taicang Divine Sound astonished the students.

Liu Bai entered the Spiritual Light Realm for the Hunting Battle and discovered that Spirit Soldiers he killed yielded no Spiritual Light, apparently because of his system. He split from Su Xuan’s group and continued hunting Spirit Soldiers with lightning, leaving the others to gather Spiritual Light without him.

• The students discovered that Lin Zheng, Zhou Qingshan, and Gu Tianyan were absent, so Chu Lin sought Liu Bai’s help before Dean Taicang opened the gateway to the Spiritual Light Realm.
• Liu Bai entered the realm with Su Xuan, Li Jing, Su Ling'er, and Guo Xiong, and his group learned about the Spirit Soldiers, Spirit Generals, and Spirit Kings that inhabited it.
• Liu Bai killed a low-grade Spirit Soldier but received no Spiritual Light, then confirmed that Spirit Soldiers he killed left him empty-handed while the others obtained Spiritual Light from their kills.
• Liu Bai told Su Xuan to lead the group onward, gave Su Ling'er three golden thunder pearls for protection, and set off alone.
• Liu Bai ranged across the realm, using lightning to destroy Spirit Soldier groups and even killing a Spirit General that another team had been fighting.

Liu Bai encountered Hua Zinan being chased by members of the Phantom Moon Pavilion and watched him escape using his painting-based cultivation technique. Yue Qing then found Liu Bai and asked him to help investigate a possible Spirit King at her faction’s gathering point, leaving Liu Bai explaining that his kills yielded no Spiritual Light.

• Liu Bai stayed at the peak of the Heaven Fusion Realm to preserve the Experience Points he gained from Spirit Soldiers.
• Hong Xiao and the Phantom Moon Pavilion girls pursued Hua Zinan, who used paintings to fend them off before escaping.
• Yue Qing arrived, recognized Liu Bai through Chu Lin, and explained that she did not hate men despite the rumors about her.
• Yue Qing asked Liu Bai to help at the Phantom Moon Pavilion’s gathering point, where a Spirit King might have appeared, offering one million Spirit Value or another reward.
• Liu Bai told Yue Qing that his cultivation method devoured the Spiritual Light of Spirit Soldiers he killed, so they left no Spiritual Light behind.

Yue Qing recruited Liu Bai and Hua Zinan to hunt a Spirit King, and Liu Bai demonstrated the power of his Fifth Grade spirit array along the way. Hua Zinan entered enlightenment and created a formidable fire cauldron; the group then reached a vast Spirit Soldier gathering point, ready to face its dangers.

• Yue Qing agreed to let Liu Bai hunt at the gathering point while she claimed the Spirit King Core, then went with him to clear up the misunderstanding with Hua Zinan.
• Yue Qing apologized to Hua Zinan and invited him to join her and Liu Bai in hunting a Spirit King; Hua Zinan accepted.
• Liu Bai used his Fifth Grade spirit array to destroy a dangerous gathering point, impressing the Phantom Moon Pavilion members and inspiring Hua Zinan to enter enlightenment.
• Hua Zinan created a fire cauldron with power comparable to a Fourth Grade spirit array and thanked Liu Bai for the inspiration.
• The group traveled for a day and arrived at a vast valley filled with spiritual light and wandering Spirit Soldiers.

Liu Bai, Yue Qing, and Hua Zinan charged through a massive Spirit Soldier gathering to reach the Spirit King, while other powerful cultivators closed in from another direction. As Wei Fan, Luo Gu, and Xing Rui joined forces to claim the Spirit King's spiritual light, Yue Qing promised Liu Bai an additional one million Spirit Value if he helped her obtain it.

• Liu Bai and the Phantom Moon Pavilion group waited on a mountain as Spirit Generals and then the Spirit King emerged from the valley's spiritual light.
• Hua Zinan tricked the waiting groups into charging, and Liu Bai, Yue Qing, and Hua Zinan rode an earth dragon into the valley to fight their way toward the Spirit King.
• Liu Bai used Golden Thunder to destroy Spirit Soldiers and gained Experience Points, then strengthened his aura by investing sixty thousand Experience Points in his Five Elements Divine Light Art.
• Wei Fan, Luo Gu, and Xing Rui agreed to join forces and advanced toward the Spirit King from another direction.
• Yue Qing asked Liu Bai to give his all and offered him another one million Spirit Value if he helped her obtain the Spirit King's spiritual light.

Liu Bai used a grand spirit array to trap and refine the powerful Spirit King while Yue Qing, Hua Zinan, Wei Fan, Luo Gu, and Xing Rui held it off. The Spirit King was being consumed by the array’s crimson flames, though its final fate was not yet confirmed.

• Liu Bai prepared a spirit array as Yue Qing and Hua Zinan protected him, while Wei Fan, Luo Gu, and Xing Rui attacked the Spirit King and had their strikes shattered by its roar.
• Hua Zinan and Yue Qing trapped the Spirit King, but Wei Fan broke their techniques with his Heaven Breaking Spear Art, freeing it and throwing the battlefield into chaos.
• Liu Bai formed a dragon-shaped cauldron array, and Wei Fan, Yue Qing, Hua Zinan, Luo Gu, and Xing Rui joined forces to hold off the Spirit King while it formed.
• Liu Bai warned the others to retreat, then activated the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array and engulfed the Spirit King in crimson flames.
• The Spirit King struggled against the cauldron’s suppression as its spiritual light dimmed and its enormous body began to melt away.

Liu Bai let Yue Qing deliver the final blow to the Spirit King, then used Experience Points to break through into the early phase of the Heaven Transformation Realm. After his allies agreed to share the valley’s remaining Spirit Soldiers and Spirit Generals, Liu Bai defended the Phantom Moon Pavilion’s blockade and continued hunting while students at Northern Azure Spirit Academy watched the battle in shock.

• Liu Bai kept his grand array in place while Yue Qing killed the weakened Spirit King and collected its Spirit King Spirit Crystal.
• Liu Bai spent his remaining 10,000 Experience Points to reach the early phase of the Heaven Transformation Realm, and Yue Qing congratulated him.
• Yue Qing and Liu Bai agreed with Wei Fan’s group to divide the remaining Spirit Soldiers and Spirit Generals among their four factions.
• Hong Xiao blocked returning teams from entering the valley, and Liu Bai’s sword array drove them away when they tried to force their way through.
• Liu Bai continued killing Spirit Soldiers and Spirit Generals, while students watching at Northern Azure Spirit Academy marveled at the array that had slain the Spirit King.

After Liu Bai’s Spirit King victory made him famous across Northern Azure Spirit Academy and the Spiritual Light Realm, he gathered with his companions at the foot of Spirit Light Mountain as the Hunting Battle neared its end. He met Su Xuan, Su Ling'er, Yue Qing, and the others, while the surrounding students watched him as a celebrated contender.

• Dean Taicang praised Liu Bai’s achievement, while Elder Chi Huo and a Spirit Array Institute elder argued over claiming him as a student and called on the possibility of another powerful figure.
• Shen Cangsheng tested his newly learned Judgment Divine Art against Spirit Soldiers and resolved to use Liu Bai’s strength as motivation.
• Chu Lin heard that Liu Bai and Yue Qing had killed a Spirit King and bitterly wondered why Liu Bai had not asked him to help.
• Liu Bai parted from Yue Qing’s group, accumulated one million Experience Points, and headed toward Spirit Light Mountain for the Hunting Battle’s final stage.
• Liu Bai reached Spirit Light Mountain and reunited with Su Xuan, Su Ling'er, Guo Xiong, Yue Qing, and other prominent students, drawing the crowd’s attention as Su Ling'er asked about his Spirit King victory.

Liu Bai challenged the final Guardian atop Spirit Light Mountain with a powerful arrow and forced the battle to a draw, winning the Hunting Battle’s final stage for the students. After receiving a Spirit King-level spiritual crystal and a special Spiritual Light Anointment opportunity, he offered the crystal for auction instead of claiming the benefit himself.

• Liu Bai drew his Origin Opening Moon Chasing Bow and struck at the mountaintop Guardian from thousands of zhang away.
• The Guardian countered with Heaven River Sword Art, Galaxy Descent, and the attacks collided in a massive spiritual energy storm that shook Spirit Light Mountain.
• The Guardian declared that Liu Bai had passed the final stage, and the elders confirmed the students’ victory and their eligibility for Spiritual Light Anointment.
• The elders awarded Liu Bai a Spirit King-level spiritual crystal and told him to visit the Punishment Hall in three days for a special anointment.
• Liu Bai asked whether someone else could receive the special anointment with the crystal, then announced that he would auction it to the highest bidder.

Liu Bai sold the Spirit King Spirit Crystal to Chu Lin in exchange for Spirit Value and information about an Azure Spirit Bird, then returned from the Hunting Battle and received an offer of Array Dao guidance from Sikong Ling. He told Elder Chi Huo about the offer, who approved of it and revealed that Ling Xi had once defeated Sikong Ling in an array contest.

• Liu Bai accepted Chu Lin's offer of three million five hundred thousand Spirit Value and information about an Azure Spirit Bird in exchange for the Spirit King Spirit Crystal.
• Liu Bai distributed Spiritual Light to Su Xuan and the others before the elders ended the Hunting Battle and sent the participants out of the Spiritual Light Realm.
• Liu Bai, Yue Qing, and Chu Lin appeared above Northern Underworld Plaza, and an elder told Yue Qing and Chu Lin to receive their Spiritual Light Anointments in three days.
• Sikong Ling introduced himself as an elder of the Spirit Array Institute and invited Liu Bai to seek his guidance in the Array Dao.
• Liu Bai went to Elder Chi Huo and told him about Sikong Ling's offer, and Elder Chi Huo praised Sikong Ling's ability and recalled Ling Xi's victory over him.

Liu Bai passed Sikong Ling’s spirit-array test by deciphering and breaking a combined array, earning the elder’s offer of guidance. The chapter ended with Liu Bai asking how to reach the Mind's Eye realm and Sikong Ling beginning to explain what it required.

• After Lin Zheng and the others joined the Punishment Hall, Liu Bai became the top-ranked student on the Heavenly Ranking, while the Liu Shen Society members discussed their improved cultivation.
• Liu Bai visited Sikong Ling’s bamboo-forest residence and entered the elder’s array to prove his talent.
• Liu Bai endured the array’s attacks while identifying it as a combined array made from two fourth-grade arrays.
• Liu Bai destroyed both array cores, broke the array, and reached Sikong Ling at the stone platform.
• Sikong Ling praised Liu Bai’s cultivation, Array Dao, and artifact-refinement talent, then invited him to ask for guidance.
• Liu Bai asked how to reach the Mind's Eye realm, and Sikong Ling explained that it required talent, experience, and comprehension.

Liu Bai studied Combined Spirit Arrays, acquired new resources and a lightning sword art, then traveled to Emerald Screen Mountain to seek the Azure Spirit Bird. He arrived during an Emerald Secluded Palace Spirit Pill Trade Fair, where a crowd gathered around the famed Sacred Spirit Pill.

• Sikong Ling gave Liu Bai the complete Hundred Scrolls of Array Dao and advised him to master Primary Spirit Arrays before attempting Mind's Eye.
• Liu Bai learned more about Combined Spirit Arrays and created the Lesser Thousand Spirit Sword Array, which the system recognized as complete.
• Liu Bai spent six million Spirit Value on a Blackwater Mysterious Snake and the Myriad Thunder Sword Control Art, then mastered the art and formed five lightning swords.
• Liu Bai set out for Emerald Secluded Valley to obtain the Azure Spirit Bird and reached Emerald Screen Mountain after three days of travel.
• Liu Bai joined tens of thousands gathered for the Emerald Secluded Palace's Spirit Pill Trade Fair, where Xue Yan interrupted Liu Si to ask about the Sacred Spirit Pills.

Liu Bai entered Emerald Secluded Valley for its trade fair, unaware that Liu Si and the sinister Master Lingyun planned to exploit his talent. At the fair, Liu Bai encountered Wan Niang, witnessed her fight with Xue Yan, and saw Master Lingyun halt them with overwhelming power.

• Liu Bai introduced himself to Liu Si as a young cultivator from Nine Origins Mountain, and Liu Si promised to help him obtain Sacred Spirit Pills.
• Liu Si reported Liu Bai’s age, cultivation, and lack of powerful backing to Master Lingyun, who ordered him to act against the young genius.
• Master Lingyun forged three high-grade Sacred Spirit Pills with black flames that revealed his sinister nature.
• At the trade fair, Wan Niang approached Liu Bai, but Xue Yan taunted her about her past and provoked her into a fight.
• Master Lingyun arrived and stopped Wan Niang and Xue Yan with his pressure, leaving Liu Bai to question the true extent of his strength.

Liu Bai attended Master Lingyun’s auction of Sacred Spirit Pills and discovered that the pills concealed refined lingering consciousnesses capable of taking over cultivators’ bodies. After destroying the consciousness that entered him, Liu Bai suspected Master Lingyun was using the pills to prey on the powerful cultivators who consumed them.

• Master Lingyun explained the Sacred Spirit Pills’ extraordinary effects, and the gathered cultivators competed fiercely to buy them.
• Liu Bai watched the pills sell while Liu Si led the buyers away to consume theirs; Master Lingyun then offered Liu Bai three reserved pills, which Liu Bai bought for five million Spirit Coins.
• Alone in a cultivation chamber, Liu Bai ground up a low-grade pill and analyzed its potent, unusually pure spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai detected a strange airflow within the pill’s energy and used his Five Elements spiritual energy and Five Thunders to restrain it.
• When Liu Bai’s divine sense touched the airflow, a lingering consciousness tried to invade his soul, but a thunderclap erased it.
• Liu Bai concluded that Master Lingyun’s pills concealed a dangerous scheme to take over the bodies of cultivators who consumed them.

Liu Bai secretly raised his cultivation while Liu Si used his dark green flame to devour Xu Liang and deliver his essence to Ling Yun. When Liu Bai emerged, Ling Yun revealed his Life Devouring Flame and tried to consume him, but Liu Bai answered with five-colored radiance.

• Liu Bai destroyed the Sacred Spirit Pills and secretly raised his cultivation to the late Heaven Transformation Realm over three days.
• Liu Si used his dark green flame to devour Xu Liang, then brought the refined spirit, blood, and soul essences to Ling Yun.
• Liu Bai emerged from seclusion after five days, and Liu Si escorted him to Ling Yun's hall.
• Ling Yun revealed his Life Devouring Flame and declared that he would strip Liu Bai of his power and make him nourishment.
• Liu Bai stopped pretending to be afraid and met Ling Yun's attack with brilliant five-colored radiance.

Liu Bai overcame Ling Yun’s Life Devouring Flame and defeated him in battle, then killed Liu Si as Emerald Secluded Palace’s disciples fled. With Ling Yun dead, the sect fell apart, leaving Liu Bai to consider how to find the Azure Spirit Bird amid the chaos.

• Liu Bai blocked Ling Yun’s Life Devouring Flame with the Five Elements Divine Light and fought back with his Senluo Death Seals and close-combat attacks.
• Liu Bai wounded Ling Yun, whose Soul Summoning Art failed to affect him because Liu Bai had never taken a Sacred Spirit Pill.
• Liu Bai struck Ling Yun with six thunder swords, then used the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art to kill him.
• Liu Bai killed the fleeing Liu Si with the Ghost Soul Arrow Art, and Emerald Secluded Palace’s disciples scattered.
• Liu Bai reflected that he had come to find the Azure Spirit Bird rather than destroy the sect.

Liu Bai killed Xue Yan, seized Ling Yun’s Life Devouring Flame, and took the Azure Spirit Bird’s core and materials from Emerald Secluded Palace. He recorded the sect’s alchemy codex and several Spiritual Arts, then left to examine his gains as fighting began outside the valley.

• Liu Bai killed Xue Yan with the Myriad Thunder Sword Control Art after Xue Yan attacked him to avenge Ling Yun.
• Liu Bai sealed Ling Yun’s Life Devouring Flame and forced an Emerald Secluded Palace disciple to lead him to the Azure Spirit Bird.
• Liu Bai killed the sealed Azure Spirit Bird, extracted its Spirit Beast Core, and collected its body materials and medicinal herbs.
• Liu Bai visited Emerald Secluded Palace’s Scripture Repository, recorded seven Spirit-grade High-tier Spiritual Arts, and copied the upper volume of the Azure Sheep Pill Codex and its ten pill formulas.
• Liu Bai left Emerald Secluded Palace without taking any physical texts, then settled in a mountain hollow to sort through his gains as battle cries sounded from the valley.

Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy after mastering the Rainbow Transformation Art and learned that he had missed a difficult exchange event with Cang Hui Academy. He then secluded himself to fuse the Azure Spirit Bird’s essence soul, and after forty-nine days condensed the Innate Five Spirits Disc, leaving him eager to test its future power against Mu Chen’s Pagoda Tower.

• Liu Bai maxed out the Rainbow Transformation Art, learned the formulas in the Azure Sheep Pill Codex, and returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy in a day and a half.
• Su Ling'er told Liu Bai that Cang Hui Academy had challenged the academy, where Yue Qing and Chu Lin helped secure a hard-fought victory while Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong rose to eighth and ninth on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Liu Bai entered seclusion to fuse the Azure Spirit Bird’s essence soul and condense the complete Innate Five Spirits.
• After forty-nine days, a five-colored Light Wheel appeared above the Liu Shen Society headquarters, displaying five Spirit Beasts and briefly pressing down on everyone nearby.
• Liu Bai saw the completed Innate Five Spirits Disc hovering in his qi sea space and wondered how it compared with Mu Chen’s Pagoda Tower.