Recaps

Lin Bai challenged Li Le’s worthiness to join the Kunxu Ten Sons, prompting Li Zhengyi to put his place on hold pending a fight against Li Muzhi. Li Qianqian then attacked Lin Bai with the Great Sky Breaking Art, but he evaded her assault and ended the fight with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, declaring her defeated.

• Lin Bai told Li Zhengyi that Li Le was unworthy of joining the Kunxu Ten Sons, and Li Zhengyi suspended Li Le’s selection until he could fight Li Muzhi after the assessment.
• Li Zhengyi ordered the next battle, and Li Buzheng warned Li Qianqian to attack Lin Bai decisively before he could identify her weaknesses.
• Li Qianqian began the fight by unleashing the Great Sky Breaking Art and forced Lin Bai onto the defensive with a relentless sword assault.
• Lin Bai used the Great Sun-Chasing Art to move behind Li Qianqian, then stopped his Heaven Measuring Ruler just short of her face and declared her defeated.

Lin Bai defeated Li Qianqian and then fought Li Buzheng in an even sword duel. Li Buzheng revealed that he had created a ninth form of the incomplete Dragon Slayer Swordplay, leaving Lin Bai stunned by his achievement.

• Lin Bai explained how Li Qianqian’s eagerness to win had exposed an opening, and Li Qianqian accepted her defeat and left the arena.
• The Grand Elder announced that Li Buzheng would fight next, and Li Zhengyi watched as the two friends agreed to fight without holding back.
• Lin Bai and Li Buzheng exchanged Dragon Slayer Swordplay techniques in a fierce battle that lasted a thousand moves and ended with both fighters retreating.
• Li Buzheng recounted how he had chosen to cultivate the incomplete Dragon Slayer Swordplay and refused to regret that decision.
• Li Buzheng declared that he would create its missing ninth form and unleashed his own sword technique, Dawnbreak, astonishing Lin Bai.

Li Buzheng unleashed the ninth form of his self-forged Dragon Slayer Swordplay against Lin Bai, but Lin Bai countered with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art and both survived the clash. Lin Bai awarded Li Buzheng a Golden Token, while Li Daoyuan and Li Zhaoxing prepared for their coming fights against Lin Bai.

• Li Buzheng attacked Lin Bai with his powerful Ninth Form, Daybreak, and warned him to dodge.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art and met Li Buzheng's strike, destroying the dueling platform in their clash.
• Li Zhengyi and the Grand Elder saw that Lin Bai and Li Buzheng were unharmed, while the spectators were shocked by their swords.
• Lin Bai praised Li Buzheng for forging his own path and gave him a Golden Token, bringing his total to seven, the same as Li Daoyuan's.
• Li Daoyuan said he remained confident against Lin Bai, and Li Zhaoxing said he would do his best when he fought Lin Bai next.

Lin Bai faced Li Zhaoxing and uncovered the weakness of his Great Demon Heaven Shattering Fist, then defeated him in a series of head-on clashes. Li Daoyuan remained the only one of the Kunxu Ten Sons who had yet to take the stage.

• Li Zhaoxing attacked Lin Bai with the Great Demon Heaven Shattering Fist, whose shockwaves struck even when Lin Bai dodged.
• Lin Bai realized the fist technique’s shockwaves were strongest when it hit empty space, so he began meeting Li Zhaoxing’s attacks head-on with his sword.
• Lin Bai and Li Zhaoxing exchanged twenty-nine powerful clashes, and Li Zhaoxing grew badly injured while Lin Bai held on.
• Li Zhaoxing conceded, gave Lin Bai his token, and left the arena to treat his injuries.
• Lin Bai praised Li Zhaoxing’s composure, and Li Daoyuan remained the only one of the Kunxu Ten Sons yet to fight.

After recovering from his previous battles, Lin Bai accepted a mysterious black scabbard from Li Zhengyi before facing Li Daoyuan in the final battle of the Kunxu Ten Sons examination. The Grand Elder identified the gift as the rare Soul Nurturing Scabbard, and the two fighters began their match.

• The Grand Elder gave Lin Bai two hours to recover and ordered Li Daoyuan to prepare for their final battle.
• Li Zhengyi sent Li Buzheng into the Kunxu Divine Tower, and Li Buzheng returned with a black scabbard for his father.
• After Lin Bai recovered, Li Zhengyi gave him the scabbard, which fit the Demon Sword perfectly.
• The Grand Elder revealed that the scabbard was the Soul Nurturing Scabbard, a treasure that could strengthen a weapon and nurture its sword spirit.
• Li Daoyuan stepped onto the fighting platform, and he and Lin Bai exchanged formal greetings as their battle began.

Lin Bai fought Li Daoyuan on the dueling platform, using the Blackwood Scabbard and demon sword to overcome Li Daoyuan’s Kunxu techniques. After Li Daoyuan was sent flying and vomited blood, Lin Bai stood victorious in their clash.

• Li Daoyuan opened the fight with a powerful punch, but the Blackwood Scabbard’s ghostly radiance protected Lin Bai from harm.
• Li Daoyuan used Ten Directions of Annihilation to attack Lin Bai from every direction, and Lin Bai drew the demon sword, whose power had been enhanced by the scabbard.
• Lin Bai shattered all ten strands of Annihilation Qi with a slash, then challenged Li Daoyuan’s claim that Dragon Slayer Swordplay was inferior to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts.
• Li Daoyuan unleashed the Grand Extinction Art and knocked Lin Bai back, but Lin Bai used Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art to break through the technique and send Li Daoyuan flying to the edge of the platform, vomiting blood.

Lin Bai defeated Li Daoyuan and helped determine the Kunxu Ten Sons, then recovered from his injuries with pills provided by the Li family. After healing, he went to confront Li Ge about Li Subai and the Broken Sword Tribe’s attempt to kill him.

• Lin Bai broke Li Daoyuan’s Grand Extinction Art with one sword strike, and Li Daoyuan accepted defeat while promising to challenge him again someday.
• Li Zhengyi named Li Muzhi and Li Le as contenders for the final place; Li Muzhi won their battle and knocked Li Le unconscious.
• Li Zhengyi announced the Kunxu Ten Sons’ rankings, appointed Li Buzheng to represent Kunxu abroad, and said the ten could each cultivate one Kunxu Seventy-Two Art in the Kunxu Divine Tower.
• Lin Bai returned to his residence, accepted the Li family’s healing pills, and spent three days recovering until his strength and old injuries were restored.
• Lin Bai took his demon sword to Li Ge’s remote residence, determined to question him about Li Subai and settle the score over the Broken Sword Tribe’s ambush.

Lin Bai confronted Li Ge about Li Subai and the Kunxu catastrophe more than twenty years earlier, but Li Ge claimed the truth had been concealed and challenged Lin Bai to attack him within the Li Family. Lin Bai drew his demon sword and thrust it at Li Ge, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Bai visited Li Ge at his residence on Changqing Mountain and demanded to know what he knew about Li Subai.
• Li Ge questioned Lin Bai about his interest in Li Subai and how he survived the Broken Sword Tribe's Black Sword Hall; Lin Bai said he killed his pursuers.
• Li Ge said Li Subai's origins and the details of the Kunxu in Turmoil had been erased, and suggested Lin Bai ask the Li Family Head or Grand Elder.
• Lin Bai accused Li Ge of withholding information and threatened to search his memories.
• Li Ge invoked his status as one of the Kunxu Ten Sons and warned Lin Bai against attacking him inside the Li Family, but Lin Bai drew his demon sword and thrust at him.

Lin Bai defeated Li Ge in a fight at Li Ge’s residence, but the Li Family Grand Elder arrived and confronted him over the clash. Lin Bai accused Li Ge of conspiring with the Broken Sword Tribe to lure him into the Northern Forest and asked what punishment the Li Family would impose.

• Lin Bai countered Li Ge’s copied martial techniques, wounded him, and reduced his residence to ruins.
• Li Ge called for help, and the Grand Elder arrived to find him injured and his residence destroyed.
• Li Ge showed the Grand Elder an Image Recording Pearl that portrayed Lin Bai attacking him first.
• The Grand Elder rebuked Lin Bai and asked whether he was provoking the Li Family.
• Lin Bai reminded the Grand Elder of the Heaven Blade Tribe incident and said Li Ge had colluded with the Broken Sword Tribe to lure him into the Northern Forest and attempt to seize him.
• Lin Bai asked the Grand Elder whether Li Ge’s collusion and alleged plot to assassinate the Eastern Continent Academy’s Holy Son were crimes.

Lin Bai exposed Li Ge’s likely role in the ambush in the Northern Forest, forcing him to flee before the Grand Elder could investigate. Li Zhengyi learned that the attackers were experts from the Broken Sword Tribe’s Black Sword Hall and suspected Li Ge had lured Lin Bai there.

• Lin Bai claimed Li Ge had tried to kill him and presented an Image Recording Pearl as evidence, while Li Ge denied the accusation.
• Li Ge tried to destroy the pearl when it neared the Grand Elder, then fled the Li Lineage using the Great Soul Shift.
• Lin Bai revealed that the Image Recording Pearl was empty and chased after Li Ge, promising the Grand Elder he would not kill him.
• The Grand Elder reported the incident to Li Zhengyi, who said he had already learned that Black Sword Hall experts from the Broken Sword Tribe ambushed Lin Bai.
• Li Zhengyi reasoned that Li Ge may have lured Lin Bai to the Northern Forest.

Lin Bai pursued Li Ge to learn about Li Subai, but Li Ge escaped with a forbidden blood technique. Lin Bai lost his trail and was approached by an old man who asked whether he was a friend of the Broken Sword Tribe.

• Li Zhengyi ordered Sky Dragon Hall, Li Buzheng, and Li Qianqian to bring Li Ge back after the Grand Elder warned that Lin Bai might kill him.
• Lin Bai found Li Ge resting in the forest and offered to plead for him if he revealed what he knew about Li Subai.
• Li Ge admitted he had used Li Subai to lure Lin Bai, then attacked with the Blood Sword Art, but Lin Bai shattered the blood-colored sword.
• Li Ge used the Forbidden Art, Blood Escape Technique Across a Million Miles, and fled despite Lin Bai's attempt to stop him.
• Lin Bai searched for Li Ge without success, then an old man from a nearby group of tribal martial artists approached and asked if Lin Bai was a friend of the Broken Sword Tribe.

Lin Bai pretended to be a martial artist from the Broken Sword Tribe after meeting Fang Dehao and learned that he was in the Black Mountain Range, far from his destination. He accepted Fang Dehao’s invitation to spend the night in the Black Mountain Tribe, where any creature left outside after dark was said to die horribly.

• Lin Bai told Fang Dehao that he belonged to the Broken Sword Tribe and asked where he was and how far away the tribe’s ancestral grounds lay.
• Fang Dehao explained that they were in the Black Mountain Range and invited Lin Bai to the Black Mountain Tribe, warning him about the deadly danger after sunset.
• Lin Bai agreed to rest at the tribe and waited while Fang Dehao and his team finished gathering spirit medicines.
• Fang Dehao introduced himself as leader of the ninth herb-gathering team, and Lin Bai gave his name as Dongfang Bai.
• Lin Bai followed Fang Dehao and the herb-gatherers toward the Black Mountain Tribe as night approached.

Lin Bai entered the Black Mountain Tribe under the alias Dongfang Bai and convinced its High Priest, Cui Qing, that he came from the Broken Sword Tribe. At a banquet with the tribe’s leading martial artists, he used his hunt for the Soaring Sky Condor as a pretext to ask about places where the wounded Li Ge might seek help.

• Fang Dehao brought Lin Bai into the Black Mountain Tribe and led him to meet High Priest Cui Qing.
• Lin Bai posed as a Broken Sword Tribe martial artist, and Cui Qing believed his story and invited him to a banquet.
• Cui Qing introduced Lin Bai to the tribe’s elders and promising young martial artists, including two fierce-looking men and a cold woman.
• Lin Bai claimed he was tracking a human-transforming Soaring Sky Condor and asked Cui Qing if there was a nearby place where the wounded creature might recover or find an ally.

Lin Bai accepted Rong Quan’s challenge at the Black Mountain Tribe banquet and easily wounded him with a branch. The warriors watched in astonishment as Lin Bai stood behind Rong Quan, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Rong Quan challenged Lin Bai to demonstrate his swordsmanship, then insulted him when Lin Bai declined to perform casually.
• Lin Bai agreed to fight Rong Quan and faced him in the center of the hall with a branch instead of a sword.
• Rong Quan unleashed his Fierce Tiger Mountain-Splitting Claws, but Lin Bai dodged the attack and struck open Rong Quan’s back with the branch.
• Lin Bai asked Rong Quan whether he still wanted to fight as the assembled warriors marveled at Lin Bai’s movement skill.

Lin Bai defeated Rong Quan with a branch at the Black Mountain Tribe’s banquet, forcing Ding Zhujiu to stop the fight. After the banquet ended, Lin Bai settled into the Wind and Moon Residence, where a young woman assigned by the High Priest prepared his room and offered to guard the door.

• Cui Qing and Fang Dehao recognized Lin Bai’s movement technique and feared Rong Quan was provoking a warrior from the Broken Sword Tribe’s Black Sword Hall.
• Rong Quan charged Lin Bai again, and Lin Bai repeatedly struck him with a branch until he was covered in bloody welts.
• Ding Zhujiu pulled Rong Quan away and warned him to stop; Lin Bai ended the fight, and Rong Quan left the banquet in humiliation.
• Cui Qing apologized and arranged for a warrior to escort Lin Bai to the Wind and Moon Residence, where Lin Bai went to rest.
• A young woman told Lin Bai that the High Priest had sent her to clean his room, then offered to guard outside his door for the night.

Lin Bai learned that the High Priest had sent a maid to watch him and keep him inside the Wind and Moon Residence because strange nighttime sounds drew visiting martial artists into the Black Mountain Range, where they died. As the roars grew louder and the mountains fell into unnatural darkness, Lin Bai watched from the window and wondered if a demonic beast was making them.

• Lin Bai tried to send the maid away, but she admitted the High Priest had ordered her to keep him from leaving or investigating the sounds at night.
• The maid explained that guests who followed the strange sounds into the Black Mountain Range had almost all died there, and Lin Bai agreed to stay until dawn.
• After meditating for two hours, Lin Bai heard the roars and learned from the maid that they continued throughout the night.
• The roars grew louder and seemed to approach the Black Mountain Tribe, so Lin Bai went to the window while assuring the maid he would not leave.
• Lin Bai saw the moonlit sky give way to impenetrable darkness over the Black Mountain Range and wondered if a demonic beast was roaring.

Lin Bai left the Black Mountain Tribe to investigate strange roars and was carried by a mysterious wind into a cavern beneath Black Mountain. He found a blood-stained skeleton holding a parchment scroll, but a sudden surge of danger stopped him from taking it.

• Lin Bai ignored the young girl's pleas and flew out of the Black Mountain Tribe to investigate the roars.
• Lin Bai discovered that unnatural darkness covered Black Mountain and let a strange wind carry him toward its source.
• Lin Bai found that the roars came from a crack in the mountain and followed the wind through its passages.
• Lin Bai cut free of the wind when it headed underground, then descended into a cavern lit by blood-colored light.
• Lin Bai approached a skeleton holding a parchment scroll, but the blood on the cavern floor churned and he demanded that the hidden presence reveal itself.

Lin Bai took the sheepskin scroll from a skeleton and awakened the Blood Demon, a demonic thought formed from the skeleton’s blood essence. After fighting off its attacks, Lin Bai fled toward the crack, with the Blood Demon pursuing him.

• Lin Bai sensed a deadly threat, then rushed to seize the sheepskin scroll as blood churned through the cave.
• The Blood Demon emerged from the blood rain, identified itself as the skeleton’s demonic thought, and tried to drain Lin Bai’s blood.
• Lin Bai defended himself with his sword formation, Azure Wood Divine Lightning, and sword techniques as the Blood Demon attacked in waves.
• The Blood Demon swelled to fill the cave and swallowed Lin Bai, but Lin Bai cut it in two with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art and escaped.
• Lin Bai flew toward the crack while the Blood Demon pursued him as a river of blood.

Lin Bai discovered that the Blood Demon could instantly reassemble after any attack, but his Devouring Sword Soul absorbed the demon’s vital essence and exposed its weakness. The Blood Demon expelled Lin Bai from the underground rift, and Lin Bai later searched for the entrance before deciding to return to the Black Mountain Tribe.

• Lin Bai repeatedly attacked the Blood Demon with his swords and Azure Wood Divine Lightning, but the demon reassembled each time and began draining Lin Bai’s blood.
• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Sword Soul, absorbed the Blood Demon’s vital essence, and broke through from the second to the third level of the Death Reversal Realm.
• The Blood Demon recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and, fearing his martial soul, spat him out and hurled him through the rift.
• Lin Bai emerged into the Black Mountain Range, recovered until dawn, and searched for the rift until noon without finding it.
• Lin Bai decided to return to the Black Mountain Tribe and search for the rift again that night.

Lin Bai returned to Black Mountain Tribe alive after spending the night in Black Mountain Range, then discovered that the sheepskin scroll contained the Three Origins Unite Technique, a method for cultivating two clones from his own blood and bones. He concealed the Blood Demon in the rift from Cui Qing and agreed to stay in the tribe for a few more days.

• Lin Bai surprised Rong Quan and the White-Robed Woman by returning alive on his flying sword as they led martial artists out to gather herbs.
• At Wind and Moon Residence, Lin Bai read the Three Origins Unite Technique and learned it could create two clones from his blood and bones, which could later merge with his original body.
• Lin Bai memorized the scroll and hid it when Cui Qing, Fang Dehao, Rong Quan, the White-Robed Woman, and the young maiden arrived.
• Cui Qing questioned Lin Bai about surviving the night in Black Mountain Range, and Lin Bai claimed he had wandered in the darkness until dawn without encountering anything unusual.
• Lin Bai said a demon might be hiding nearby to recover, while keeping the Blood Demon in the rift secret; Cui Qing let the matter drop and left.

Lin Bai spent ten days studying the sheepskin scroll by day and searching Black Mountain Range at night, but the strange wind and roars never returned. Meanwhile, Li Ge sought Crow’s help to kill Lin Bai, and the chapter ended as Lin Bai tried to leave Black Mountain Tribe and someone blocked his way.

• Lin Bai ignored the young girl who came to Wind and Moon Residence and entered Black Mountain Range, where he waited through the night for the strange wind and roars.
• Lin Bai repeated his search for the strange fissure for ten days while studying the sheepskin scroll during the day.
• Li Ge, still injured by the backlash from his forbidden technique, secretly went to Heavenly Blade Tribe and asked Crow to help kill Lin Bai in exchange for the location of a Li family herb garden.
• Crow agreed to join Li Ge, who said he had contacted other experts to ensure Lin Bai’s death.
• Lin Bai decided to leave Black Mountain Tribe and find Li Ge, but someone blocked his way at the tribe’s outskirts.

Lin Bai tried to leave Black Mountain Tribe, but High Priest Cui Qing confronted him and demanded to know how he survived Black Mountain after dark and whether he had found a Spirit World martial artist's cave dwelling. When Cui Qing's warriors attacked, Lin Bai killed five of them and escaped, warning Cui Qing that further treasure-hunting would bring destruction upon the tribe.

• Lin Bai headed out of Black Mountain Tribe, but Cui Qing and the tribe's strongest warriors blocked his way and questioned him about his nightly trips into Black Mountain.
• Cui Qing explained that his tribe had searched for generations for a Spirit World martial artist's cave dwelling and threatened to imprison and torture Lin Bai if he withheld what he knew.
• Lin Bai denied finding the cave dwelling or any treasure, and Cui Qing ordered his warriors to cripple him and take him to the dungeon.
• Lin Bai killed one fifth-level Death Reversal Realm attacker with Buddha's Wrath and four more with Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art.
• Lin Bai escaped on a flying sword and warned Cui Qing that searching for treasure in Black Mountain would bring annihilation upon the tribe.

After searching Kunxu for Li Ge, Lin Bai discovered that an unknown force was tracking his movements and arranging to meet at Heaven Mountain. He headed there to confront whoever was behind it.

• Cui Qing ordered the Black Mountain Tribe to search for Lin Bai after he escaped.
• Crow told Li Ge that scouts had spotted Lin Bai near the Black Mountain Tribe, and Li Ge said he had arranged help before setting out with Crow to find him.
• After recovering his spiritual power, Lin Bai continued searching for Li Ge and flew over a dense forest.
• A young man reported Lin Bai's eastward route to someone over a Voice Transmission Token and arranged to meet at Heaven Mountain.
• Lin Bai appeared behind the young man, but the man killed himself before revealing who he had contacted.
• Lin Bai found the cracked token and an empty Storage Bag, suspected the young man was a dead warrior, and headed for Heaven Mountain.

Lin Bai confronted Li Ge and Crow atop Tianshan, where the two had set a trap for him. He killed Crow and turned to capture Li Ge alive so he could search his memories and take him back to Kunxu.

• Lin Bai recognized Li Ge and Crow as the men who had tracked him and dismissed their threat.
• Lin Bai shattered Li Ge's three Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts with a single sword strike, leaving him wounded.
• Crow summoned a formation of crows whose cries attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai broke the formation and slew every crow with one sword.
• The destruction of his crows severely wounded Crow, and Lin Bai charged him before he could recover.
• Lin Bai broke Crow's defenses and killed him, then turned his attention to Li Ge.

Lin Bai faced Li Ge’s prepared ambush on Black Mountain as the Broken Sword Tribe, Gold Silver Mountain assassins, and Black Mountain Tribe converged on him. Surrounded by powerful enemies, he remained defiant while Tai Biao and Cui Qing each made demands.

• After Lin Bai struck down Crow, he attacked Li Ge, but a hidden force knocked him back.
• Tai Biao arrived with fifteen ninth-stage Death Reversal Realm warriors from the Broken Sword Tribe’s Black Sword Hall and demanded Lin Bai surrender the Flying Sword Technique.
• Li Ge revealed that he had hired nine great-perfection Death Reversal Realm assassins from Gold Silver Mountain to help kill Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai challenged any other enemies to come forward, and Cui Qing arrived with six Black Mountain Tribe warriors to block his retreat.
• Cui Qing demanded to know what had happened in the Black Mountain Range, while Tai Biao again offered to end the Broken Sword Tribe’s grudge if Lin Bai handed over the Flying Sword Technique.