Chapter Summaries

After the Blood Cry Bell signaled that Hong Xiao’s training party was under attack, Liu Bai volunteered to race to their rescue, with the enemy suspected to be Blood Dragon Demon Yu Yuan. Dean Taicang authorized the mission and promised Liu Bai five million Spirit Value and a custom Peerless Spirit Artifact if he succeeded; Liu Bai departed at great speed.

• Liu Bai emerged from seclusion after a breakthrough, and Su Ling'er and the Liu Shen Society gathered to congratulate him.
• A crimson beam and the Blood Cry Bell alarmed the academy, and Yue Qing told Liu Bai that Hong Xiao’s training party had triggered the signal.
• Yue Qing explained that more than twenty students, led by Hong Xiao and a senior student, had gone out to train and were now in danger.
• Dean Taicang told the elders that the attackers were likely Blood Dragon Demon Yu Yuan, and Mo You proposed sending the Punishment Hall to rescue the students.
• Liu Bai offered to go ahead of the academy’s support forces, and Dean Taicang authorized him with a reward of five million Spirit Value and a Peerless Spirit Artifact.
• Liu Bai took the location from Dean Taicang and sped off to rescue Hong Xiao’s party.

Yu Yuan trapped Hong Xiao’s team in Flying Sand Domain with a Blood God Array, and Lu Yan and the others sacrificed themselves to help Hong Xiao escape. Yu Yuan moved to turn the survivors into Blood God Sons, but a mysterious rosy light shielded them as golden lightning struck at him.

• Yu Yuan used false information about a Divine Art to lure Hong Xiao’s team into Flying Sand Domain and trap them in his Blood God Array.
• With the Blazing Fire Shield failing, Lu Yan persuaded the other four students to stay behind and help Hong Xiao escape.
• Lu Yan and the others poured their remaining spiritual power into the shield, which shattered in an explosion that disrupted Yu Yuan’s blood tornado and let Hong Xiao flee.
• Yu Yuan found Lu Yan and the four students alive in the crater and sent blood shadows to devour them.
• Colorful Rosy Light covered the five students and repelled the blood mist as golden lightning descended toward Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan summoned his Blood God Sons to face the lightning.

Liu Bai rescued Hong Xiao and the injured academy disciples, captured and later killed Yu Yuan, and returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy for his reward. After awakening more of his Spirit Vein, he asked Elder Chi Huo to forge a lightning-wielding Peerless Spirit Sword, and Chi Huo chose the Purple Firmament Sword.

• Liu Bai found Yu Yuan's blood shadow in the crater, captured him with the Innate Five Spirits Disc, and rescued Hong Xiao and the five injured disciples.
• Liu Bai met Lin Zheng and the other reinforcements, then carried the wounded to Northern Azure Spirit Academy and presented Yu Yuan to Dean Taicang.
• Dean Taicang praised Liu Bai, gave him his mission reward, and told him to claim a Peerless Spirit Artifact from his teacher.
• Liu Bai annihilated Yu Yuan, gained 60,000 Experience Points and 500 Spirit Vein Awakening Points, and used the points to strengthen his Spirit Vein.
• Liu Bai asked Elder Chi Huo for a lightning-compatible Spirit Sword, and Chi Huo selected the Purple Firmament Sword for the forging.

Liu Bai received the newly forged Peerless Spirit Artifact, the Purple Firmament Sword, and learned about Sacred Spirit Mountain and its Sacred Spirit Baptism. Despite Elder Chi Huo’s concern that the Dragon Demon Palace might target him, Liu Bai insisted on seeking permission to join the expedition.

• Elder Chi Huo completed the Purple Firmament Sword, and Liu Bai blood-sacrificed it before it was quenched and subdued.
• Elder Chi Huo gave Liu Bai an ice-blue scabbard that sealed the sword’s energy, and Liu Bai tested the sword’s lightning power.
• Elder Chi Huo warned Liu Bai that the Dragon Demon Palace might retaliate for Yu Yuan’s death, but said it would soon focus on Sacred Spirit Mountain.
• Elder Chi Huo explained that Sacred Spirit Mountain would open in a few months and that its Sacred Spirit Baptism strengthened the Divine Soul and helped cultivators face the Supreme tribulations.
• Liu Bai decided to pursue the Heavenly Sovereign remains and told Elder Chi Huo that he wanted to join the expedition.
• Elder Chi Huo hesitated because of the danger, and Liu Bai argued that his strength could contend with the Northern Azure Continent’s younger elites, including Mo Xingtian.

Liu Bai began refining pills to strengthen his skills before Sacred Spirit Mountain opened, while Dean Taicang discussed whether the Northern Azure Spirit Academy would let him participate. The chapter ended with Taicang offering Liu Bai a chance to prove his strength to the academy elders.

• Elder Chi Huo agreed to speak with Dean Taicang about Sacred Spirit Mountain after Liu Bai promised to reach the Heaven Piercing Realm before it opened.
• Liu Bai bought ingredients for four types of pills and returned to find Su Xuan and the others diligently cultivating.
• Liu Bai used the Fire Cloud Furnace and Golden Crow True Fire to refine batches of Taiyuan Pills and Solid Body Pills, achieving a ninety-percent formation rate.
• Liu Bai began cautiously refining Divine Soul Pills and Solid Soul Pills.
• Dean Taicang told the elders that Liu Bai had requested to participate in Sacred Spirit Mountain and proposed letting him prove his strength before they decided.

Liu Bai broke through to the Heaven Piercing Realm before the gathered students of the Northern Azure Spirit Academy, with his Divine Soul already unusually condensed. After returning to his body, he discovered that the five bolts of lightning in his Five Elements Spiritual Aperture had begun responding to his summons.

• The Liu Shen Society’s spiritual radiance drew students across the academy, including the Heavenly Ranking’s top figures, to watch Liu Bai’s breakthrough.
• Li Xuantong lamented Liu Bai’s rapid progress, while Shen Cangsheng urged him to focus on his own cultivation.
• Yue Qing told Hua Zinan that she wondered whether Liu Bai might encounter Xia Youran at Sacred Spirit Mountain.
• Liu Bai’s condensed Divine Soul left his body, absorbed the scattered spiritual lights, and roamed through the sky, confirming his breakthrough into the Heaven Piercing Realm.
• Liu Bai realized that his cultivation had advanced more than halfway through the initial Heaven Piercing Realm and that the five lightning bolts in his Spiritual Aperture were beginning to lend him their power.

Liu Bai sought permission to represent Northern Azure Spirit Academy at Sacred Spirit Mountain, and Dean Taicang tested his combat strength with two Punishment Spirit Battle Puppets. Liu Bai destroyed them with his sword techniques, earning approval to compete and leaving the academy astonished by his power.

• Liu Bai asked Dean Taicang to let him participate in the Sacred Spirit Mountain event, and the Dean agreed to assess his strength first.
• Dean Taicang brought Liu Bai to the Punishment Platform and set two late Heaven Piercing Realm Punishment Spirit Battle Puppets as his test.
• Liu Bai dodged the puppets' attacks with lightning and struck them with Myriad Thunder Sword Control Art techniques.
• Liu Bai's thunder sword qi tore apart both battle puppets, impressing Dean Taicang and the gathered Punishment Hall members.
• Dean Taicang approved Liu Bai as Northern Azure Spirit Academy's representative, and news of his strength spread through the academy.

Liu Bai supplied the Liu Shen Society with discounted Divine Soul Pills, drawing attention to his alchemy skills across the academy. After advancing to Fourth-grade Spirit Pill Master through his own practice, he received a visit from Spirit Pill Institute elder Ming Shi, who suspected he had just refined a fourth-grade pill.

• Liu Bai gave Guo Xiong several hundred Divine Soul Pills to stock in the Liu Shen Society warehouse at a price below the academy's.
• The Liu Shen Society's pill sales spread rumors that Liu Bai could refine high-quality Divine Soul Pills, catching Elder Chi Huo and the Spirit Pill Institute's attention.
• Elder Kong Qing became interested in Liu Bai, and Ming Shi went personally to visit him at the Liu Shen Society headquarters.
• Liu Bai spent several months studying alchemy and succeeded in refining his first Fourth-grade Spirit Pill without using Experience Points.
• Ming Shi sensed the pill spiritual energy at Liu Bai's headquarters, met with him, and asked whether the pill he had just refined was fourth-grade.

Liu Bai left Northern Azure Spirit Academy to compete for the Sacred Spirit Baptism at Sacred Spirit Mountain, traveling to Sacred Spirit City with Zhu Tian and Mo You. He arrived at Sacred Spirit Pavilion several days before the mountain opened, while the two elders went upstairs to meet other faction leaders.

• Liu Bai declined Ming Shi's invitation because he was preparing for Sacred Spirit Mountain, and Ming Shi gave him a bottle of Fifth-grade Yuan Ling Pills.
• Liu Bai reassured Su Xuan, Guo Xiong, and the Liu Shen Society that he had reached the middle Heaven Piercing Realm before departing with Zhu Tian and Mo You.
• Dean Taicang explained that the five academy deans had to attend to matters concerning the Spirit Road, then sent Liu Bai's group through a spatial passage.
• Liu Bai learned from Zhu Tian and Mo You that rival factions had already begun competing on the journey to Sacred Spirit Mountain, and the group reached Sacred Spirit City without incident.
• Zhu Tian warned Liu Bai that lone experts might attack him without restraint, then described the ancient Heavenly Sovereign's pressure surrounding Sacred Spirit Mountain.
• Mo You brought Liu Bai and the group to Sacred Spirit Pavilion, where Zhu Tian and Mo You went upstairs to meet old friends while Liu Bai waited below.

Liu Bai learned about the formidable young cultivators competing to enter Sacred Spirit Mountain and watched Dao Xuan arrive, then joined the Northern Azure Spirit Academy at the mountain as it began to open. With the crowd poised to enter, Mo You warned Liu Bai about the realm’s dangers and the lethal competition for the Sacred Spirit Baptism.

• Zhou Jian identified Liu Bai’s strongest competitors and warned him that Dao Xuan, a blade-wielding expert who had likely reached the Body Tribulation, was especially dangerous.
• Dao Xuan entered the hall, and his blade intent silenced the crowd before he took a seat and let the oppressive aura fade.
• As Sacred Spirit Mountain’s opening drew near, Liu Bai waited in Sacred Spirit City while waves of spiritual energy grew increasingly violent and the mountain became visible.
• Liu Bai arrived at the mountain with the Northern Azure Spirit Academy’s elders, saw the Dragon Demon Palace’s leaders and Mo Xingtian among the gathered competitors, and recognized Xia Youran of the Nine Summers Merchant Guild.
• Sacred Spirit Mountain began to open, and Mo You warned Liu Bai about deadly spatial hazards and the risk that other entrants would attack him for the limited Sacred Spirit Baptisms.

Liu Bai entered Sacred Spirit Mountain, gathered valuable treasures, and killed an attacker before a group of cultivators tried to rob him. As spatial winds swept through the mountains, Liu Bai escaped their path, but a robber attacked him and was killed by a flash of golden light.

• Liu Bai entered Sacred Spirit Mountain and sensed that its spiritual energy fed the Five Elements Divine Lightning within him.
• Liu Bai found a blood-red Jade Mushroom and killed a same-realm cultivator who tried to take it, earning experience and Spirit Vein Awakening Points.
• Liu Bai continued searching for treasures, then faced eighteen Heaven Piercing Realm cultivators who demanded that he hand over his gains.
• As a spatial-wind hurricane approached, Liu Bai broke through a wind barrier to seize another treasure and prepare to flee.
• The leader of the group attacked Liu Bai with Twin Dragon Strangler, but Liu Bai charged forward and a flash of golden light killed the attacker.

Liu Bai spotted what he believed was the Heavenly Sovereign Bone inside a deadly tornado storm and charged toward it under the protection of the Five Elements Divine Light and the Innate Five Spirits Disc. As onlookers expected him to die, he survived the storm’s Spatial Wind Blades and was about to reach its center.

• Liu Bai saw a jade-white object glowing inside the strongest tornado and suspected it was the Heavenly Sovereign Bone.
• Liu Bai flew toward the storm while other Sacred Spirit Mountain entrants watched, and Mo You and Zhu Tian worried as Yellow Dragon Sovereign mocked them from outside.
• Liu Bai reached the slope near the tornado and used the Innate Five Spirits Disc to strengthen his defenses before charging in.
• Several competitors followed Liu Bai into the storm, but its Spatial Wind Blades killed or badly wounded them.
• The onlookers discovered that Liu Bai had withstood the Spatial Wind Blades and was nearing the center of the storm.

Liu Bai seized a Heavenly Sovereign’s finger bone from the spatial storm and fled into hiding, where Five Elements Divine Lightning awakened the bone and released its essence blood. The essence blood transformed his body, forming an Ice Jade Divine Lotus, while the lightning began repeatedly destroying and healing his flesh.

• Liu Bai pierced the Wind Dragon, grabbed the Heavenly Sovereign’s finger bone, and used his Five Elements Divine Lightning to endure its pressure before escaping the dispersing storm.
• Liu Bai outran the treasure seekers, hid deep inside a mountain using the earth element’s Five Elements Divine Light, and examined the unresponsive finger bone.
• Liu Bai sent the five bolts of lightning in his Five Elements Spiritual Aperture to circle the finger bone, awakening it until it shattered and released the Heavenly Sovereign Essence Blood.
• The golden essence blood merged into Liu Bai’s body, whose agony eased as an icy current formed a nine-petaled Ice Jade Divine Lotus that greatly strengthened his body and recovery.
• The five bolts of lightning grew purer and flooded Liu Bai’s qi sea, ravaging his flesh as the Ice Jade Divine Lotus repeatedly healed his wounds.

Liu Bai reached the Nine Heavens Ladder after strengthening his body and unlocking more of the lightning power in his Five Elements Spiritual Aperture. He claimed a place on the second level by defeating Jia Bing with a lightning strike from his eyes, then met Xia Youran as tensions over a proposed merchant-guild marriage alliance surfaced.

• Liu Bai examined his strengthened body and newly awakened lightning power before heading to the Sacred Spirit Baptism site.
• Liu Bai arrived at the Nine Heavens Ladder, sped past the chaotic battlefield, and struck Jia Bing down when he tried to stop him from reaching the upper levels.
• Liu Bai joined the seven cultivators on the second level, while observers including Elder Zhu Tian and the Lord of Mo You Hall welcomed his safe arrival.
• Xia Youran introduced herself to Liu Bai, and they discovered that they had both studied at the Northern Azure Spirit Academy.
• Dong Yuan teased Liu Ying about the Shadow Merchant Guild's proposed marriage alliance with Xia Youran, provoking Liu Ying's anger.

Liu Bai faced Mo Xingtian’s attempt to drive him off the second level of Sacred Spirit Mountain and fought back with powerful spiritual arts. After both revealed Peerless Spirit Artifacts, they began another clash, leaving the onlookers expecting Liu Bai’s sword to be at a disadvantage against Mo Xingtian’s heavy spear.

• Xia Youran explained to Liu Bai that those higher on the Nine Heavens Ladder received more Sacred Spirit Baptism Power, while the second level remained in a stalemate beneath Dao Xuan.
• Mo Xingtian demanded that Liu Bai descend, but Liu Bai refused and challenged him to prove his strength.
• Mo Xingtian attacked with a powerful spiritual energy strike, and Liu Bai blocked it before countering with ten Death Seals that damaged Mo Xingtian’s arm.
• Mo Xingtian summoned the Dragon Demon Palace’s Dragon Devouring Demonic Spear, and Liu Bai revealed an Azure Blue Longsword that Zhu Tian said he had earned by completing the bounty mission to hunt Blood Dragon Demon Yu Yuan.
• Liu Bai slashed at Mo Xingtian with his Peerless Spirit Artifact as Liu Ying and others dismissed the sword’s chances against the heavy spear.

Liu Bai defeated Mo Xingtian with Golden Thunder after destroying his demonic spear and forbidden talisman, but Mo Xingtian’s death prompted Black Dragon Sovereign to attack him. Trapped by the Fifth Grade Supreme’s power, Liu Bai spent Experience Points to raise his cultivation to the limit of the Heaven Piercing Realm, where he needed to pass the Body Tribulation to advance further.

• Liu Bai cut through Mo Xingtian’s demonic dragon with the Purple Firmament Sword, badly damaging the Dragon Devouring Demonic Spear.
• Mo Xingtian used the Dragon Devouring Demonic Talisman, but Liu Bai’s Golden Thunder burned it away and killed him.
• Black Dragon Sovereign attacked Liu Bai while Yellow Dragon Sovereign and Red Dragon Sovereign intercepted Zhu Tian and Mo You.
• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to break through to the late Heaven Piercing Realm, then raised his cultivation to its limit but could not advance without passing the Body Tribulation.

Liu Bai survived the Black Dragon Sovereign’s attack, claimed a place on the Nine Heavens Ladder, and received the Sacred Spirit Baptism. Outside Sacred Spirit Mountain, the Northern Sea Dragon Kun revealed his Earthly Sovereign power, crushed the Dragon Demon Palace’s threat, and left Liu Bai to absorb the baptism.

• Liu Bai unleashed the Five Elements Divine Lightning to withstand the Black Dragon Sovereign’s attack, though the clash badly injured him and weakened his lightning.
• Liu Bai stepped onto the first level of the Nine Heavens Ladder, and Dao Xuan allowed him to stand beside him as the Sacred Spirit Baptism descended.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign attacked Zhu Tian and Mo You outside Sacred Spirit Mountain, but the Northern Sea Dragon Kun appeared and immobilized him with spatial power.
• The Northern Sea Dragon Kun summoned a Heaven and Earth Aspect, destroyed the Black Dragon Sovereign’s body, suppressed his Divine Soul, and annihilated the Yellow Dragon Sovereign and Red Dragon Sovereign.
• The Northern Sea Dragon Kun told Zhu Tian and Mo You to watch over Liu Bai, then departed while Liu Bai and the others absorbed the golden raindrops inside Sacred Spirit Mountain.

Liu Bai completed the Sacred Spirit Baptism, condensed three Baptism Crystals, and left Sacred Spirit Mountain as it closed. He learned the Northern Azure Spirit Academy had destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace, then sought permission to move his family and began considering a return to the Northern Spirit Realm.

• Liu Bai absorbed the remaining Baptism Power and condensed three Baptism Crystals, impressing Dao Xuan, who introduced himself as a member of the Heavenly Saber Sect.
• Liu Bai and the others left Sacred Spirit Mountain, and Zhu Tian told Liu Bai that Northern Sea Dragon Kun had killed the Black Dragon Sovereign and led the Northern Azure Spirit Academy in wiping out the Dragon Demon Palace.
• Liu Bai considered returning to the Northern Spirit Realm to claim an opportunity he had left behind.
• Liu Bai asked Elder Chi Huo for permission to move the Liu Family to Northern Azure City, and Elder Chi Huo suggested they ask the newly returned dean.

Liu Bai returned to the Northern Spirit Realm after arranging for the Liu Family to settle in Northern Azure City, bringing gifts and the prospect of a powerful new ally. His family feared he had been expelled from the academy, then celebrated his strength and dismissed Mu Chen as no match for the Liu Domain.

• The Northern Azure Dean granted the Liu Family one-tenth of Northern Azure City's land, and Liu Bai prepared a teleportation array and exchanged for Northern Sea Dragon Kun blood essence.
• Liu Bai spent a month refining pills and forging Spiritual Artifacts, received guidance from Elder Kong Qing, and then left the Northern Azure Spirit Academy.
• After a long journey, Liu Bai returned to Willow Manor, where his family anxiously assumed he had been expelled from the academy.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had reached the peak of the Heaven Piercing Realm, convincing his father and uncles that he had returned by choice.
• Liu Bai explained that Mu Chen had been expelled from the Spirit Road after a major incident, and the Liu Family concluded that the Liu Domain could now rule the Northern Spirit Realm.

Liu Bai offered his family treasures and pills as he urged them to move from the Northern Spirit Realm to Northern Azure City. His father and uncles agreed to prepare for the move, and Liu Bai went to bring the news and pills to his grandfather.

• Liu Bai persuaded Liu Qingtian, Liu Zong, and Liu Ming to leave the Liu Domain for Northern Azure City by showing them a mountain of pills and Spiritual Artifacts.
• Liu Bai gave Liu Ming the mid-grade Ming Hong saber and Liu Zong the mid-grade Mountain Breaking Sword, then offered Liu Qingtian a high-grade Thunder Dragon Spear.
• Liu Qingtian refused the spear so Liu Bai could keep it for the stronger enemies he would face, and Liu Bai revealed his Peerless Spirit Artifact, the Purple Firmament Sword.
• Liu Bai reassured his father and uncles that his academy mission had been safe, then gave them pills to improve their cultivation and help the family grow stronger.
• Liu Qingtian sent Liu Bai to visit his grandfather, who was in seclusion, and bring him pills and news of Liu Bai's achievements.