Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai traveled to Black Nether Abyss and found the awakened Nine Nether Sparrow, Jiu You, whose failed tribulation was beginning again. He trapped her from the outside world and tried to persuade her into a Bloodline Link, then revealed Northern Sea Dragon Kun Blood Essence as an incentive.

• Liu Jingshan agreed to the Liu Family’s relocation plan and continued seclusion with the Divine Soul Pill while Liu Zong took charge of preparations.
• Liu Bai left Willow City for Black Nether Abyss and found the scorched basin and black volcano where the Nine Nether Sparrow’s egg lay hidden.
• Liu Bai used Golden Crow True Fire to awaken Jiu You, then enclosed her egg with the Innate Five Spirits Disc to stop her Heavenly Tribulation from forming.
• Liu Bai offered to help Jiu You pass her tribulation if she formed a Bloodline Link with him, but she accused him of plotting to deceive her.
• Liu Bai showed Jiu You a Crystal Ball containing Northern Sea Dragon Kun Blood Essence, and she recognized its Divine Beast aura.

Liu Bai and Jiu You formed a Bloodline Link, and he gave her the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun's essence blood to help her recover and reach her peak. Jiu You began crossing her Heavenly Tribulation, battling waves of Black God Thunder as Liu Bai watched and supported her.

• Jiu You agreed to form a Bloodline Link with Liu Bai if he helped her pass the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Liu Bai and Jiu You each offered their essence blood, successfully completing the Bloodline Link.
• Liu Bai gave Jiu You the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun's essence blood, and she transformed into her enormous true form.
• Jiu You's released aura summoned destructive thunderclouds over the Black Nether Abyss, alarming Liu Zong at Willow Manor.
• Liu Bai placed a cyan Wood Thunder barrier around Jiu You to help protect and heal her during the tribulation.
• Jiu You fought the Black God Thunder with storms of black flame as the battle's shockwaves devastated the surrounding mountains.

Jiu You endured the final Black God Thunder and awakened the Undying Fire, completing her transformation as Liu Bai waited nearby. Liu Bai then underwent the Body Tribulation with the Ice Jade Divine Lotus protecting him and emerged with a far stronger body.

• Jiu You charged into the tribulation lightning, and Liu Bai healed her wounds with Wood Thunder.
• Jiu You awakened the Undying Fire and met the final Black God Thunder with a condensed black sparrow form, flattening the surrounding mountains in the blast.
• Liu Bai found Jiu You alive in the crater as violet flames engulfed her transformation, then set up protective sword arrays and began circulating his spiritual energy for the Body Tribulation.
• Liu Bai's bloodfire spread through his body, while the Ice Jade Divine Lotus eased his pain and helped regenerate tempered flesh and blood.
• After another week, Liu Bai awoke from the Body Tribulation with a leaner, denser body and strength enough to kill a late-stage Heaven Piercing Realm cultivator with a punch.

After Jiu You survived her tribulation, Liu Bai persuaded her to stay with him for a year before they traveled to the Great Luo Heavenly Region. He uncovered a powerful formation scroll while arranging the Liu Family's departure, then returned to Northern Spirit Academy, where he encountered a girl named Xiao Qing.

• Jiu You offered to take Liu Bai to the Great Luo Heavenly Region, but Liu Bai convinced her to wait a year while he cultivated, and they agreed to travel together afterward.
• Liu Bai brought Jiu You to Willow Manor, where Liu Zong told him that the Liu Family's relocation was nearly ready and showed him a formation scroll from Yang Gui.
• Liu Bai's system identified the scroll as the level-seven Demon Lotus Spirit Slaying Array, and Liu Bai explained that it could threaten even powerful Supremes.
• Liu Bai agreed to bring his younger brothers back from Northern Spirit Academy and went there himself, while Jiu You returned to his courtyard to rest.
• At Northern Spirit Academy, Liu Bai overheard Xiao Qing criticizing his apparent age and talent; when he turned toward her, she blushed and worried that he had heard.

Liu Bai returned to the Northern Spirit Academy, reunited with his brothers, and helped Liu Mu Bai break through to the Spirit Wheel Realm. He told Instructor Xi that the Liu Family might soon leave the Northern Spirit Realm.

• Liu Bai met Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er at the East Academy, then called Liu Yang over and took him to find Liu Mu Bai.
• Liu Bai explained to Liu Yang that his feud with Mu Chen had begun because Liu Yang resented rumors comparing Mu Chen’s talent with Liu Bai’s.
• Liu Bai gave Liu Yang’s companions Spirit Nurturing Pills and then visited Instructor Xi, who said Liu Mu Bai was preparing to break through to the Spirit Wheel Realm.
• Liu Bai infused medicinal power into Liu Mu Bai, helping him complete his breakthrough and form a crimson Light Wheel.
• Liu Bai told Liu Mu Bai to pack and return with him, then told Instructor Xi that the Liu Family might soon leave the Northern Spirit Realm.

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.