Recaps

Lin Bai and Zhang Zhengqing reunited in the palace, where Young Master Wu Dao, E Long, had captured and crippled Zhang Tian. E Long demanded that Zhang Zhengqing’s group kill Lin Bai in exchange for Zhang Tian, and Lin Bai planned to hold off E Long while the others rescued Zhang Tian.

• Lin Bai, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Miao met the bloodied Zhang Zhengqing while searching for Zhang Tian, and the group heard E Long call them to the palace entrance.
• E Long threatened to kill Zhang Tian unless the others came out, so Zhang Zhengqing, Lin Bai, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Miao went to confront him.
• The group found Zhang Tian kneeling beside E Long, badly injured, crippled, and near death.
• E Long demanded that Zhang Zhengqing’s group kill Lin Bai in exchange for Zhang Tian, and Zhang Zhengqing refused.
• As E Long began counting down, Lin Bai identified the strength of the Crimson Sunset Sect fighters and told Zhang Zhengqing he would hold off E Long while the others saved Zhang Tian.

Lin Bai and the others rescued Zhang Tian, but he died from his injuries after entrusting his friends with pills he had found. Enraged, they attacked Young Master Wu Dao and his fighters, and a fierce battle began outside the palace.

• Lin Bai struck Young Master Wu Dao and sent him flying while Zhang Zhengqing and the others rushed to rescue Zhang Tian.
• Zhang Zhengqing discovered that Zhang Tian was fatally injured, and Zhang Tian handed him a Storage Bag containing pills he had found for Zhang Miao, Zhang Hu, Lin Bai, and Zhang Zhengqing.
• Zhang Tian died in Zhang Zhengqing's arms, leaving Zhang Miao, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Zhengqing grieving.
• Zhang Zhengqing charged toward Young Master Wu Dao, but Lin Bai stopped him and vowed to avenge Zhang Tian himself.
• Young Master Wu Dao mocked the group, and Lin Bai attacked him as Zhang Zhengqing, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Miao fought the other martial artists.

Lin Bai fought Young Master Wu Dao after killing the five second-level Apex Realm guards, but the Wu Dao Fan’s wind dragons forced him to rely on the Heaven Measuring Ruler. He pierced Young Master Wu Dao’s shoulder with his demon sword, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai killed the five second-level Apex Realm martial artists who blocked his path to Young Master Wu Dao.
• Young Master Wu Dao stopped his third-level Apex Realm protector from intervening and challenged Lin Bai with the Emperor Artifact Wu Dao Fan.
• Young Master Wu Dao’s wind dragons blasted Lin Bai backward, but Lin Bai used the Heaven Measuring Ruler to destroy them.
• Lin Bai shattered attacks from five and then six wind dragons and charged Young Master Wu Dao.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method—Cease War to drive his demon sword through the Wu Dao Fan and into Young Master Wu Dao’s shoulder.

Lin Bai damaged Young Master Wu Dao’s Emperor Artifact and defeated the third-level Apex Realm martial artist who intervened. He abandoned his pursuit of Young Master Wu Dao to rescue Zhang Miao and the others, who remained surrounded by ten enemies.

• Lin Bai pierced the Wu Dao Fan and wounded Young Master Wu Dao, then pressed his attack until Young Master Wu Dao was badly injured.
• A third-level Apex Realm martial artist shielded Young Master Wu Dao and attacked Lin Bai with Magma Iron Hand and Magma World.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Splitting Sword Method’s third form, River Severance, to shatter Magma World and fatally pierce the martial artist’s throat.
• Young Master Wu Dao fled toward the great dark cavern, and Lin Bai turned away from the chase when Zhang Miao was sent flying.
• Lin Bai rescued Zhang Hu and Zhang Miao and regrouped with Zhang Zhengqing as ten first-level Apex Realm martial artists surrounded them.

Lin Bai rescued Zhang Zhengqing, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Miao, killed ten Martial Artists who attacked him, and parted ways with the wounded group. He set off alone to seek more treasures and planned to travel to the location marked on Senior Su Jin's map.

• Lin Bai killed the ten first-level Apex Realm Martial Artists who surrounded him.
• Zhang Zhengqing, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Miao decided to cultivate in seclusion and later seek revenge on Young Master Wu Dao.
• Lin Bai gave Zhang Zhengqing the red-and-yellow stone and promised to come if the group contacted him through the Voice Transmission Token.
• Lin Bai left the underground palace and traveled to a quiet mountain forest to heal and rest.
• Lin Bai studied Senior Su Jin's map and decided to head for its marked location, expecting the journey to take seven days.

Young Master Wu Dao revealed that he was the Nineteenth Prince of the Holy Zhao Clan and took control of the Prefect Guards, planning to use them after recovering. After healing and following Su Jin’s map, Lin Bai reached a desolate northern region of the White Dragon Mountain Range to search for a hidden cave abode.

• Young Master Wu Dao ordered a passing group of Prefect Guards to stop, and their leader mocked him for being gravely wounded.
• Young Master Wu Dao struck the leader, showed his Golden Token, and revealed himself as the Nineteenth Prince; the Prefect Guards knelt and greeted him.
• Young Master Wu Dao crushed the leader’s throat, learned where the Prefect Guards were scattered, and ordered them to help him recover before playing cat and mouse.
• Lin Bai recovered for three days, followed Su Jin’s map for seven days, and arrived at the northern mountains of the White Dragon Mountain Range.
• Lin Bai searched the desolate region for the cave abode whose formation Sword Lake had once detected.

Lin Bai searched White Dragon Mountain for ten days without finding the hidden entrance until Bai Man suggested that appearances could be deceptive, leading him to follow the wind and discover a gorge filled with spirit medicines. The chapter left him at the entrance to what had once been the White Dragon Sect’s spirit-medicine cultivation grounds.

• Lin Bai searched the marked area for ten days, found no entrance, and used his Soul Skill: Restriction Break to check for a spell formation.
• Bai Man of the Water Cloud Sect arrived, told Lin Bai that the area was unlikely to contain treasures, and mentioned that her treasure-seeking compass had missed a buried palace.
• Lin Bai realized the entrance might be concealed by an illusion and followed the wind with his eyes closed.
• Lin Bai tracked a fragrance of spirit medicines to a gorge where the White Dragon Sect had once cultivated them.
• Lin Bai saw that the surviving spirit medicines in the gorge were rare treasures despite years of neglect.

Lin Bai discovered that the White Dragon Sect’s Spirit Herb Garden was an illusion created by a spirit-born Ginseng King. After exposing the deception and destroying the demon god illusion, he trapped the fleeing Ginseng King in his sword formation.

• Lin Bai found countless spirit herbs in the valley but discovered that he could not touch any of them.
• Lin Bai meditated at the valley entrance for seven days and noticed a human-shaped Ginseng King moving among the herbs.
• Lin Bai realized the Ginseng King had created the illusions by absorbing the spirituality of the garden’s dying herbs.
• The Ginseng King revealed itself as a demon god and attacked Lin Bai, who cut the illusion apart with the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai saw the Ginseng King flee underground, pursued it with two flying swords, and trapped it in the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.

Lin Bai captured the Ginseng King in the White Dragon Sect’s Spirit Herb Garden and concealed his prize from Fairy Miaoyu. After he left, Fairy Miaoyu reported that the Ginseng King might be in his possession and received orders from her master to obtain it or find the Longevity Pill.

• Lin Bai trapped the Ginseng King in a sword formation, severed its Ling Zhi, and took it for himself.
• Lin Bai recognized the Ginseng King’s value for refining pills and decided to store it until he left the White Dragon Secret Realm.
• Fairy Miaoyu arrived at the valley after the illusion vanished, and Lin Bai pretended he knew nothing about the Ginseng King before leaving.
• Fairy Miaoyu told her master that someone had entered the Spirit Herb Garden and might have taken the Ginseng King; her master ordered her to find the Ginseng King or the Longevity Pill.
• Fairy Miaoyu searched the shattered valley, found no useful spirit herbs, and concluded that Lin Bai had taken the Ginseng King.

Lin Bai searched the White Dragon Secret Realm for more treasures as its closing date drew near, while avoiding the growing violence among its martial artists. He watched a badly wounded Jiangning City martial artist leap from a cliff while Overlord Blade City disciples pursued him.

• Lin Bai left the valley, wary that Fairy Miaoyu suspected he had found the Ginseng King, then hurried toward the core region to search for more treasures.
• Lin Bai reflected on his Saint Blood Pills, Corpse Demon Pill, and Ginseng King, and continued exploring the palace complex while searching for the Hall of the People and the Hall of Ascension.
• As the secret realm neared its end, desperate martial artists began robbing and killing one another, and Lin Bai fought off those who targeted him.
• Lin Bai spotted more than thirty Overlord Blade City disciples surrounding a white-clad martial artist from Jiangning City and watched without intervening.
• The wounded Jiangning City martial artist killed five pursuers as he fled, then leaped from a cliff with the Overlord Blade City disciples close behind.
• Lin Bai watched the two groups clash in midair as the Jiangning City martial artist ran out of strength to escape.

Lin Bai discovered the hidden Hall of the People after Jiang Yan’s battle with Overlord Blade City revealed its entrance. Inside, Jiang Yan and Yun Shenyuan’s groups clashed with Overlord Blade City over the pill treasures, leaving Lin Bai entering as the battle began.

• Jiang Yan was cornered by Overlord Blade City, whose fight caused the cliff to collapse and expose the Hall of the People.
• Lin Bai recognized the cave as one of the White Dragon Sect’s three great divine halls and entered after Jiang Yan and the Overlord Blade City martial artists.
• Inside the hall, Lin Bai found Jiang Yan and Overlord Blade City facing Yun Shenyuan and more than thirty martial artists from Dongyang City.
• Jiang Yan urged Yun Shenyuan to join forces against Overlord Blade City before Shen Qianlang arrived, while Overlord Blade City proposed that each group seek the treasures independently.
• Yun Shenyuan chose to fight, and the martial artists from Dongyang City and Overlord Blade City attacked each other.

Lin Bai followed Jiang Yan into the Apex Realm passageway, where they fought over the pills stored in a vast cave. Jiang Yan swallowed incompatible pills to boost his power and went mad, and the chapter ended with him turning his attack on Shen Qianlang.

• Lin Bai entered the Apex Realm passageway and found Jiang Yan stuffing the cave’s medicine bottles into his Storage Bag.
• Jiang Yan attacked Lin Bai, who struck back with the Demon Sword and left him unable to resist.
• Jiang Yan swallowed pills from hundreds of bottles, causing his body to crack and his cultivation and strength to surge.
• Lin Bai fought Jiang Yan with his sword techniques and other abilities, but Jiang Yan kept swallowing more pills and became strong enough to match him.
• Warriors from Overlord Blade City and Dongyang City arrived, and Jiang Yan charged at Shen Qianlang, starting a fight between the Jiangning City and Overlord Blade City warriors.

In the Hall of the People, Jiang Yan attacked Shen Qianlang, blaming Overlord Blade City for slaughtering nearly everyone from Jiangning City. As the three groups fought over the pills, Jiang Yan swallowed every pill in his Storage Bag and began swelling toward an apparent explosion.

• The martial artists from Overlord Blade City and Dongyang City entered the Apex Realm passage and arrived in the Hall of the People, where they sought pills for Apex Realm cultivators.
• Jiang Yan confronted Shen Qianlang and charged at him, recounting how Overlord Blade City had killed the people of Jiangning City until he was the only one left.
• Jiang Yan fought Shen Qianlang with strength amplified by the pills he had already consumed, while Lin Bai and Yun Shenyuan recognized the danger of intervening.
• Lin Bai began looting medicine bottles, and Yun Shenyuan ordered Dongyang City’s martial artists to seize pills; Shen Qianlang likewise sent Overlord Blade City’s fighters to gather them.
• Jiang Yan declared that Overlord Blade City would get none of the pills, swallowed everything in his Storage Bag, and began swelling rapidly as he charged at Shen Qianlang.

Jiang Yan self-detonated to kill Shen Qianlang, destroying the Hall of the People and killing nearly everyone inside. Lin Bai escaped with pills, but Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan stopped him and demanded a share, leaving a confrontation imminent.

• Jiang Yan consumed pills and self-detonated, unleashing a force that destroyed the Hall of the People and flattened everything within a thousand miles.
• Lin Bai, Shen Qianlang, and Yun Shenyuan escaped, while the other warriors from Dongyang City and Overlord Blade City died in the blast.
• Yun Shenyuan and Shen Qianlang lamented the loss of their warriors and the pills, while Lin Bai left with the medicine bottles he had taken.
• Shen Qianlang stopped Lin Bai, accused him of lying about visiting a palace, and demanded the pills he had taken from the Hall of the People.
• Yun Shenyuan demanded one-third of Lin Bai's pills, but Lin Bai refused to hand them over as killing intent gathered between them.

Lin Bai faced Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan as the two prodigies joined forces to seize his pills, but he broke their assault and escaped. The chapter left Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan reacting to a summons about the Ascension Hall while the onlookers marveled at Lin Bai's swordsmanship.

• Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan surrounded Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over his pills.
• Shen Qianlang attacked Lin Bai with his saber, and Yun Shenyuan joined in with Dongyang City's Imperial Fist.
• Lin Bai used Azure Wood Divine Lightning and two advanced Mooncleave Swordplay techniques to shatter their attacks and send them flying.
• Lin Bai escaped into the clouds, while Shen Qianlang vowed to make him pay when they met again.
• Yun Shenyuan and Shen Qianlang received a Voice Transmission Token message about the Ascension Hall and left to search for pills and treasures.
• The watching martial artists marveled that Lin Bai had held off both prodigies and escaped.

Lin Bai recovered his spiritual power and sorted through medicine bottles he had taken from the Hall of the People, finding that nearly all contained ruined poison pills. He discovered one bottle of Ziwei Pills, kept the unusable pills in case he could make use of them later, and set off to search for more treasures before the White Dragon Secret Realm closed.

• Lin Bai escaped Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan, then traveled for three days before resting beneath an old tree and restoring his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai inspected the medicine bottles from the Hall of the People and found that most held pills spoiled into poison pills.
• Lin Bai discovered ten usable Ziwei Pills, which could advance the cultivation of martial artists at the fifth stage of the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai recalled that Jiang Yan's self-destruction had destroyed the Hall of the People and its remaining pills, then accepted that he could not recover what he had missed.
• Lin Bai collected the poison pills instead of discarding them and flew off to seek more treasures.

Lin Bai joined the Zhang Family at the mountain hiding Ascension Hall, where Zhang Zhengqing explained that the hall contained a Dao Fruit left by a White Dragon Sect expert. The forces gathered around the mountain prepared to contend for it as Zhang recounted how greed over the Dao Fruit had led to White Dragon Sect’s destruction.

• Lin Bai received Zhang Zhengqing’s message about Ascension Hall and rushed to the mountain east of White Dragon Sect’s core area.
• Lin Bai joined Zhang Zhengqing, Zhang Miao, and Zhang Tianxiang as martial artists from powerful sects and clans gathered around the mountain.
• Zhang Zhengqing explained that a Formation Daoist had activated three formations, revealing Ascension Hall above the clouds.
• Zhang Zhengqing told Lin Bai that the hall held a Dao Fruit left by a White Dragon Sect expert who had died facing heavenly tribulation.
• Zhang Zhengqing recounted how forces across the Central Plains attacked White Dragon Sect to seize the Dao Fruit, destroying the sect while failing to find Ascension Hall.

Lin Bai learned how the White Dragon Sect had hidden its Three Great Divine Halls and protected its Dao Fruit behind three powerful formations. After the Earth Formation killed the formation experts sent to break it, the Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects gathered to force their way through before the secret realm closed.

• Zhang Zhengqing explained that the White Dragon Sect's Dao Fruit lay in Ascension Hall and that only the first martial artist to cross the Earth, Flora, and Sky Formations could enter.
• Zhang Zhengqing warned Lin Bai that Guardian Stone Spirits guarded the Earth Formation, and one killed a Formation Daoist who approached the mountain.
• Over seven days, the Guardian Stone Spirits killed the formation experts sent by the Three Great Clans, the Three Great Sects, and other martial artists.
• The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects paused their attempts as the secret realm's closing drew near.
• At dawn, the powerhouses of the Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects gathered before the mountain, and Lin Bai suspected they planned to force their way through.

The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects forced their way into the mountain by having their strongest fighters distract the Guardian Stone Spirits, leaving the other martial artists behind. As more Stone Spirits awakened, Lin Bai and Zhang Tianxiang decided they had to move before the array fully unfolded.

• Zhang Tianxiang urged the Zhang Family martial artists to seize the chance to reach the Dao Fruit and led them toward the mountain.
• The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects attacked together, with their strongest fighters holding off the Guardian Stone Spirits while their allies entered the mountain.
• The remaining martial artists realized they had been delayed by the six powers, and Zhang Tianxiang told Zhang Zhengqing they had to cross the first array quickly to catch up.
• Several young martial artists charged at the mountain, awakening more Guardian Stone Spirits, including a hundred-zhang-tall Stone Spirit that crushed those beneath its fist.
• Lin Bai warned Zhang Tianxiang that the array was growing more active and urged him to charge through before stronger Stone Spirits awakened; Zhang Tianxiang agreed.

Lin Bai and the other martial artists charged toward the mountain peak as the Earth Formation awakened and Guardian Stone Spirits blocked the route. After a rival knocked Lin Bai into the path of a massive stone spirit, Lin Bai severed its arm with Dragon Slayer Swordplay and entered the mountain.

• Lin Bai warned Zhang Zhengqing to be careful, then raced toward the mountain peak as the factions attacked the Guardian Stone Spirits.
• Lin Bai forced back a Guardian Stone Spirit and crossed the battlefield, but a bloodied martial artist struck him into the path of a hundred-zhang stone spirit.
• The stone spirit shattered Lin Bai's attacks and sent him flying, while the martial artist who had used him as a shield entered the mountain.
• Lin Bai saw another mountain awaken as a stone spirit and realized the formation was growing stronger, so he attacked the blocking spirit with Mooncleave Swordplay.
• Lin Bai unleashed Dragon Slayer Swordplay, severed the stone spirit's arm, and rushed into the mountain.

Lin Bai entered the Plants Formation and learned that martial artists had to nourish flowers with seeds and other martial artists to grow Nine-Colored Flowers and reach the next stage. After killing the man who explained the rule, Lin Bai found a golden seed and prepared to use his blood on it.

• Lin Bai passed the Guardian Stone Spirit and hurried along the White Jade Ancient Road into the Plants Formation.
• A flower bud attacked Lin Bai, and he split it open to reveal a living martial artist from the Crimson Sunset Sect, who escaped.
• Lin Bai encountered the martial artist who had previously used him to distract the Guardian Stone Spirit, learned the formation's rules, and killed him.
• Lin Bai learned that Nine-Colored Flowers were required to pass the formation and that flowers grew by devouring martial artists.
• Lin Bai found a golden seed, cut his fingertip, and let a drop of blood fall onto it.

Lin Bai used a blood-bound flower bud to hunt martial artists in the White Dragon Secret Realm, absorbing their spiritual power and flowers to grow his own. With less than ten days before the realm closed, he confronted a flower bud bearing a Seven-Colored Flower.

• Lin Bai entered the flower bud and discovered he could sense his surroundings and control its vines and movement.
• Lin Bai killed two flower-bud riders and absorbed their spiritual power, then concluded that flower-bud combat favored young martial artists.
• Lin Bai slew a Hunyuan Sect martial artist whose flower bud bore a One-Colored Flower, absorbing it and blooming a petal of his own.
• Lin Bai hunted for five days and grew a second-colored petal, but worried he would not reach a Nine-Colored Flower before the realm closed.
• Lin Bai shattered a fleeing martial artist’s flower bud, then learned that a pursuer bearing a Seven-Colored Flower was approaching and charged to meet it.

Lin Bai destroyed the bud of a Seven-Colored Flower, then escaped an eighth-layer Apex Realm martial artist who recognized his Sword Lake sword art. He hid among a massive melee of flower buds and began slaughtering them to strengthen his own bud.

• Lin Bai fought the Seven-Colored Flower's owner with Dragon Slayer Swordplay, then broke his bud with Sword Scripture: Tears of the Jianghu.
• The old man revealed himself as an eighth-layer Apex Realm martial artist and accused Lin Bai of being a Sword Lake remnant.
• Lin Bai fled from the old man, having absorbed the Seven-Colored Flower's spiritual power and gained a second color on his bud.
• Lin Bai reached a melee involving hundreds of buds, including flowers with up to eight colors, and disappeared into the crowd to evade the old man.
• A Three-Colored Flower attacked Lin Bai, and he destroyed it, absorbed its spiritual power, and continued fighting to strengthen his bud.

Lin Bai slaughtered flower buds to absorb their spiritual power and advanced from a Third-Colored Flower to a Nine-Colored Flower. After his breakthrough drew attackers from across the mountain, he fought through them and headed for the mountaintop to enter the Third Formation.

• Lin Bai killed flower buds until his bud reached the Seventh Color, then turned his attention to stronger opponents.
• Lin Bai killed seven Seven-Colored Flower buds and advanced to the Eighth Color.
• Lin Bai attacked and killed all seven Eight-Colored Flower buds, despite their attempt to join forces against him.
• Lin Bai’s Ninth-Colored Flower sent a pillar of light into the sky, drawing flower buds and martial artists eager to seize it.
• Lin Bai killed the attackers in his path and headed for the mountaintop, seeking entry to the Third Formation.

Lin Bai fled in his flower bud with the Nine-Colored Flower while an eighth-stage Apex Realm old man pursued him. Hunyuan Sect experts killed the old man, but five other powerful forces gathered to claim the flower, leaving Lin Bai surrounded and under pressure to hand it over.

• An eighth-stage Apex Realm old man attacked Lin Bai’s flower bud and pursued him after Lin Bai escaped using the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Hunyuan Sect experts intervened to stop the old man, then killed him when he tried to leave.
• The Hunyuan Sect demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Nine-Colored Flower, but the Crimson Sunset Sect arrived and offered to protect him in exchange for it.
• Overlord Blade City, the Water Cloud Sect, Dongyang City, Gourd Mountain, and other powerful groups gathered, bringing the six forces into a tense standoff.
• The Water Cloud Sect urged the groups to obtain the flower before deciding who would keep it, and the Crimson Sunset Sect again ordered Lin Bai to hand it over.