Recaps

Lin Bai sought admission to Dragon Court and was assessed by Yang Hall Vice Hall Master Dong Dian. Dong Dian’s first punch sent Lin Bai flying, and the chapter ended as Lin Bai met the second punch with his demon sword and Mooncleave Sword Technique.

• Lin Bai presented recommendation letters from Shui Yunmeng and Shui Qiudie at Dragon Court’s Administrative Office and learned he had to pass an assessment.
• The Administrative Office brought Lin Bai to Yang Hall, where Vice Hall Master Dong Dian said he must withstand three moves without asking Dong Dian to stop.
• Lin Bai accepted the assessment and unleashed his third-level Apex Realm cultivation, divine lightning, and flying swords against Dong Dian’s first punch.
• Dong Dian’s first punch shattered Lin Bai’s defenses and sent him a hundred meters away, while Dong Dian recognized Lin Bai’s progress in the Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual.
• Lin Bai considered how to face the next attack, then drew his demon sword and unleashed the Mooncleave Sword Technique against Dong Dian’s second punch.

Lin Bai passed Dong Dian’s three-punch test by attacking first and forcing him to throw his final punch, earning admission as a Dragon Court disciple. After recovering, Lin Bai left Dong Dian’s bamboo house but became trapped on a mountain path filled with sword intent.

• Lin Bai attacked Dong Dian with the Nine Moon Severing Swords and Zhu Xian, forcing Dong Dian to strike his third punch before Lin Bai collapsed.
• Dong Dian acknowledged Lin Bai’s strategy and declared that he had passed the test and become a Dragon Court disciple.
• Lin Bai woke in a bamboo house, thanked Dong Dian for treating his injuries, and left to return to the Yang Palace.
• Lin Bai discovered the path behind him had vanished and that he was wandering through the mountain without making progress.
• Lin Bai followed an ancient path to a fork and sensed dense sword intent growing stronger along the way.

Lin Bai discovered the Azure Bamboo Sword technique on Swordless Mountain, and Dong Dian appointed him as a mentor rather than a disciple so he could teach him sword cultivation. Lin Bai then settled into the Sun Palace at Little Yuan Mountain and received his Golden Dragon Ring.

• Lin Bai mapped the ancient roads of Swordless Mountain and realized that their sword intent formed the Azure Bamboo Sword technique.
• Dong Dian explained that he had created the Azure Bamboo Sword in his youth and offered to teach Lin Bai his sword cultivation.
• Lin Bai accepted Dong Dian as his mentor, memorized the mountain’s formation incantation, and was invited to visit Swordless Mountain daily for instruction.
• Lin Bai registered at the Dragon Court administrative office, received an identity ring, and was assigned a residence on Little Yuan Mountain.
• An attendant explained the Sun Palace’s Mentor Hall, Scripture Repository, and monthly supplies, and Lin Bai put on his Golden Dragon Ring.

Lin Bai mastered the Azure Bamboo Sword and found the complete Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual in Yang Hall’s Scripture Repository, then cultivated its five divine lightnings on Little Yuan Mountain. He later told Dong Dian that his cultivation remained at the third level of the Apex Realm and asked how he could advance.

• Lin Bai practiced the Azure Bamboo Sword and, with Dong Dian’s guidance, cultivated it to great accomplishment over half a month.
• Lin Bai found the Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual in the Scripture Repository and copied its complete contents.
• Lin Bai cultivated the five divine lightnings, whose storm drew the attention of Yang Hall’s disciples and authorities; Dong Dian watched from Swordless Mountain and smiled.
• The next day, Lin Bai told Dong Dian that he was still at the third level of the Apex Realm and wanted to find a way to improve his cultivation.

Lin Bai learned that Cloudsoar Tower offered rare pills and elixirs to Yang Hall disciples who defeated its guardians, giving him a way to improve his cultivation. After training with Dong Dian, Lin Bai went to see the tower and arrived at its vast square.

• Dong Dian explained that Cloudsoar Tower’s 108 floors held daily treasures guarded by fighters of increasing strength, and said he had conquered the tower seventeen times to obtain pills and elixirs.
• Lin Bai demonstrated his Azure Bamboo Sword for Dong Dian, who praised his rapid progress.
• Lin Bai asked why Dong Dian had abandoned swordsmanship for fists, and Dong Dian said he would explain his grudge later and asked Lin Bai to help avenge it.
• Lin Bai asked the Yang Hall administrative office for directions, then went to Cloudsoar Tower.
• Lin Bai reached the tower’s broad square and stared up at the enormous pagoda.

Lin Bai studied Cloudsoar Tower’s challenges for several days before deciding to try it himself. When the tower’s treasure list revealed a Dragon Bone Pill on the twentieth level, he seized his chance to enter ahead of the other eager disciples.

• Lin Bai read the tower’s rotating treasure list and watched Zhu Jing reach the twenty-first level before being defeated.
• Lin Bai spent several days observing challengers and concluded that their progress depended on the strength of each guardian.
• Lin Bai saw that the day’s twentieth-level treasure was a Dragon Bone Pill that could raise the cultivation of a martial artist below the sixth Apex Realm level by one realm.
• A disciple rushed into the tower to claim the pill but was quickly thrown out, prompting the crowd to charge for the entrance.
• Lin Bai stepped into Cloudsoar Tower ahead of a fast-moving disciple, whose attempt to enter was repelled by the formation.

Lin Bai entered Cloudsoar Tower and defeated a three-star Adamantite Golem on the first floor to claim the Phoenix Crest Herb. He ignored a hostile martial artist and continued to the second floor, where he found the Myriad Flow Pill.

• Lin Bai entered Cloudsoar Tower after its formation barred the martial artist who had tried to get in first.
• A three-star Adamantite Golem attacked Lin Bai, who fought back with Mooncleave Against the Heavens and destroyed the golem by shattering its core.
• Lin Bai took the Phoenix Crest Herb after the formation around it released, then ignored the martial artist’s taunts and headed upstairs.
• Lin Bai reached the second floor and saw a golem guarding the Myriad Flow Pill.

Lin Bai defeated the guardians on Cloudsoar Tower’s lower floors in pursuit of the Dragon Bone Pill, while Zhu Jing arrived to claim the same prize. The chapter left Lin Bai still climbing and Zhu Jing preparing to enter the tower.

• Lin Bai exploited the Adamantite Golem’s weakness on the second floor, defeated it, and collected a Myriad Flow Pill.
• Lin Bai destroyed the five-star golem on the third floor and collected two more Myriad Flow Pills before continuing upward.
• Lin Bai rapidly cleared floors four through nine, then slowed down when he reached the tenth floor.
• Zhu Jing arrived at the square, and Bai Mao told him that a third-stage Apex Realm martial artist was challenging the tower.
• Zhu Jing said he would retrieve the Dragon Bone Pill himself, while Bai Mao dismissed Lin Bai’s chances of reaching the twentieth floor.

Lin Bai advanced through Cloudsoar Tower to the twentieth floor, defying Zhu Jing’s expectations and reaching the Dragon Bone Pill’s guardian, Situ Qingmu. Situ Qingmu began attacking after discovering the strength of Lin Bai’s ninefold sword intent.

• Zhu Jing dismissed Lin Bai’s chances of passing the tower’s early floors and expected to claim the Dragon Bone Pill after Lin Bai was defeated.
• Lin Bai broke through the tenth and fifteenth floors, then continued past the twentieth-floor threshold as Zhu Jing grew increasingly angry and anxious.
• On the twentieth floor, Lin Bai met Situ Qingmu, a seventh-level Apex Realm disciple guarding the Dragon Bone Pill.
• Situ Qingmu challenged Lin Bai to defeat him for the pill, and Lin Bai entered the challenge area and unleashed his ninefold sword intent.
• Situ Qingmu was shocked by Lin Bai’s sword intent, then vanished and launched an attack with streaks of icy sword light.

Lin Bai battled Situ Qingmu, the sword prodigy guarding Cloudsoar Tower’s twentieth floor, and struggled against his overwhelming speed. Lin Bai revealed his Azure Bamboo Sword, Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual, and flying swords, then struck Situ Qingmu through the window and sent him falling from the tower.

• The elders revealed that Situ Qingmu, a renowned sword cultivator and Dragon Slaying Bureau member, guarded the twentieth floor.
• Situ Qingmu’s swift swordsmanship suppressed Lin Bai and wounded him, but Lin Bai refused to yield.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Azure Bamboo Sword, startling Situ Qingmu, who asked about Lin Bai’s connection to Deputy Palace Master Dong Dian.
• Lin Bai blocked Situ Qingmu’s attack with the Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual and used divine lightning and two flying swords to force him back.
• Lin Bai vanished and struck Situ Qingmu in the chest, sending him through the window and falling toward the ground.

Lin Bai defeated Situ Qingmu on Cloudsoar Tower’s twentieth floor and claimed the Dragon Bone Pill, then refused Zhu Jing’s offer to buy it. The Yang Hall elders realized Lin Bai had been seen in Vice Hall Master Dong Dian’s courtyard, leaving them to reconsider the danger Zhu Jing posed to him.

• Lin Bai defeated Situ Qingmu, the guardian of the twentieth floor, and obtained the Dragon Bone Pill.
• Situ Qingmu praised Lin Bai’s skill and left after they exchanged courteous words.
• Zhu Jing asked Lin Bai to sell him the Dragon Bone Pill, but Lin Bai refused despite Bai Mao’s protest.
• Zhu Jing warned Lin Bai before leaving, and Lin Bai returned to Little Yuan Mountain with the pill.
• Yang Hall elders discussed Zhu Jing’s grudge against Lin Bai, then one recognized Lin Bai from Vice Hall Master Dong Dian’s courtyard.

Lin Bai used the Myriad Flow Pills he found in Cloudsoar Tower to break through to the fourth level of the Apex Realm, while saving the Dragon Bone Pill for later. Zhu Jing learned that Lin Bai had taken the pill, and his mentor ordered him to reclaim it and kill Lin Bai if he resisted.

• Lin Bai counted more than a thousand Myriad Flow Pills from Cloudsoar Tower and decided to save the Dragon Bone Pill until he reached the fifth level of the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai consumed the Myriad Flow Pills during several days of secluded cultivation and broke through to the fourth level of the Apex Realm.
• Zhu Jing told his mentor that Lin Bai had taken the Dragon Bone Pill from Situ Qingmu in Cloudsoar Tower.
• Zhu Jing's mentor told him to find a chance to take back the Dragon Bone Pill and kill Lin Bai if he resisted.

Lin Bai received a Sun Hall order to escort spiritual medicines from Fu Wang Prefecture after remnants of Sword Lake intercepted an earlier shipment. He joined the mission despite suspecting someone had arranged for him to go, and the spirit vessel departed with Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng leading the team.

• A Steward Office attendant delivered Lin Bai an order to escort spiritual medicines from the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion in Fu Wang Prefecture, explaining that Sword Lake remnants had attacked an earlier shipment.
• Lin Bai visited Dong Dian at Swordless Mountain and told him he would leave the next day; Dong Dian encouraged him to gain experience.
• Lin Bai arrived at the Steward Office square and found Shui Yunmeng, Zhu Jing, and other Sun Hall disciples assembled for the mission.
• An elder named Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng as the team leaders, promised each disciple a thousand Nine Clarity Pills, and sent the group off aboard a spirit vessel.
• Lin Bai entered a cabin to rest, where Zhu Jing followed him and hinted that their meeting was no coincidence; Lin Bai accused him of arranging the mission.

Lin Bai and the Yang Palace disciples arrived at Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City to collect spiritual medicine for delivery to the Yang Palace. As Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng inspected the sealed Storage Bags, an approaching group challenged Xiao Zong’s diligence.

• Lin Bai left his room after the spirit ship reached Fu Wang Prefecture and saw the vast towers of Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City.
• Xiao Zong explained that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion controlled roughly one-third of the Barren Ancient Continent’s wealth and that the Qian Family was its direct lineage.
• Yang Yu welcomed the Yang Palace disciples and led them to a tower where guards protected the spiritual medicine.
• Xiao Zong asked to inspect the medicine, and he and Shui Yunmeng began checking the sealed Storage Bags.
• A group approached and asked whether Xiao Zong distrusted the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

Qian Duoduo, the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s Seventh Young Master, arrived to oversee the spirit herbs and invited Lin Bai to join the Pavilion, but Lin Bai declined. Su Xianmei then took Lin Bai aside, where they reunited and she teased him about neglecting her for Hong Su.

• Qian Duoduo arrived while Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng inspected the spirit herbs, and Xiao Zong explained why he was being cautious.
• Qian Duoduo recognized Lin Bai from the Reincarnation Field and invited him to join the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Lin Bai declined Qian Duoduo’s offer, and Qian Duoduo told him to call him Seventh Young Master.
• Su Xianmei quietly spoke to Qian Duoduo, then led Lin Bai to a corridor overlooking Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City.
• Lin Bai greeted Su Xianmei, apologized for not visiting sooner, and Su Xianmei teased him about spending time with Hong Su.

Lin Bai learned how the Qian Family’s rival factions backed different princes to secure the Wealth God Family’s influence, and heard that the Seventh Young Master had chosen no prince. Before leaving Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City, Lin Bai learned that attackers disguised as Sword Lake cultivators had repeatedly intercepted spiritual medicine shipments bound for Dragon Court, and he set out with the escorting party wary of a wider plot.

• Su Xianmei told Lin Bai that the Seventh Young Master remembered him from the Reincarnation Field and had invited him to join Heavenly Treasure Pavilion if he had nowhere else to go.
• Su Xianmei explained that the Young Master Qian supported the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master backed the Seventeenth Prince, with the winner gaining control of the Qian Family.
• Lin Bai learned that the Seventh Young Master had supported no Imperial Prince, preserving his position through his foresight.
• Su Xianmei warned Lin Bai that attackers posing as Sword Lake sword cultivators had repeatedly robbed Dragon Court’s spiritual medicine shipments and killed their guards.
• Su Xianmei said Heavenly Treasure Pavilion suspected the attackers were targeting Dragon Court and might be searching for something sent to Sun Hall.
• Lin Bai promised to be careful, rejoined Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng, and prepared to leave as Yang Yu offered to escort them out of Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City.

After leaving Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City, Lin Bai learned that Xiao Zong belonged to the Dao Tower, an elite group cultivating potential Dao Realm powerhouses. As the Yang Palace spirit boat headed toward the Divine Capital, Sword Lake remnants prepared an ambush in the Tianbei Mountains.

• The Seventh Young Master told Su Xianmei that he wanted Lin Bai as a powerful ally and revealed that he had secretly chosen a prince to support.
• Zhu Jing taunted Lin Bai aboard the spirit boat, and Lin Bai later told Shui Yunmeng that their hostility began when he took the Dragon Bone Pill from Cloudsoar Tower.
• Shui Yunmeng explained that the Dao Tower admitted only exceptional seventh-level Apex Realm martial artists and trained those with the greatest hope of reaching the Dao Realm.
• The Yang Palace spirit boat traveled toward the Divine Capital, while a group of martial artists spotted it and prepared to attack in the Tianbei Mountains, wary of Xiao Zong.

Lin Bai and the Sun Palace martial artists were ambushed by Sword Lake remnants, whose hidden formation wounded Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng. Lin Bai escaped, then suspected Shui Yunmeng was the attackers’ true target and turned back to pursue her.

• Several hundred black-clad Sword Lake remnants surrounded Lin Bai’s spirit boat and demanded the Sun Palace’s spiritual herbs.
• Xiao Zong refused, and the Sun Palace martial artists fought back, overwhelming the attackers with their superior cultivation.
• The Sword Lake leader retreated as a hidden formation struck Xiao Zong and Shui Yunmeng, seriously injuring them.
• Xiao Zong gave Shui Yunmeng the Storage Bag and ordered the Sun Palace martial artists to flee; Shui Yunmeng told Lin Bai to regroup at the Divine Capital Dragon Court.
• Lin Bai escaped the battlefield, realized the ambush was likely aimed at Shui Yunmeng, and turned back toward the direction she had fled.

Lin Bai tracked Shui Yunmeng to a forest, where a large force of black-clad martial artists had cornered her and demanded an item. After clearing the guards around the forest, he arrived as she faced the remaining attackers and began fighting them.

• Lin Bai remembered his promise to help the Iron Sword Marquis Estate and flew in the direction Shui Yunmeng had fled.
• Lin Bai found Shui Yunmeng surrounded by more than seventy black-clad martial artists and discovered four groups guarding the forest perimeter.
• Lin Bai killed the martial artists guarding the perimeter before returning to Shui Yunmeng's location.
• The leader demanded that Shui Yunmeng hand over an item, but she refused and prepared to fight the remaining attackers.
• Lin Bai appeared beside Shui Yunmeng and told her to rest while he dealt with the men in black.
• Lin Bai charged into the attackers with his Demon Sword, flying swords, and Five-Colored Divine Lightning.

Lin Bai rescued Shui Yunmeng from an ambush, killing the attackers and revealing his battlefield killing skill. After identifying their leader as Zhu Jing, Lin Bai killed him when he admitted plotting to murder Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai charged into the forest and slaughtered the martial artists surrounding Shui Yunmeng, defeating their leader with the Five-Colored Divine Lightning and his flying swords.
• Lin Bai told the stunned Shui Yunmeng that all he had learned in life was how to kill, and she recognized his battlefield killing skill.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had killed the men in black waiting outside the forest and identified the leader as Zhu Jing.
• Zhu Jing removed his mask and admitted he had planned to kill Lin Bai while taking the spirit medicine from Shui Yunmeng.
• Lin Bai killed Zhu Jing after hearing his confession, despite Zhu Jing insisting that his Sun Hall status protected him.

Lin Bai carried the injured Shui Yunmeng to Heavenly Might City, where Mo Lang sheltered her and agreed to summon her father and the Iron Sword Army. After Lin Bai questioned why the attackers wanted the spiritual medicines, Shui Yunmeng revealed that one of them concealed tiny drawings and words on its leaves.

• Lin Bai killed Zhu Jing and carried the badly wounded Shui Yunmeng away from the forest toward Heavenly Might City.
• The remaining men in black found Zhu Jing's body and followed Lin Bai and Shui Yunmeng toward Heavenly Might City.
• Three days later, Lin Bai and Shui Yunmeng reached Heavenly Might City, where Mo Lang welcomed them and arranged a secluded courtyard and medicines.
• After recovering enough to emerge, Shui Yunmeng asked Mo Lang to contact her father and send the Iron Sword Army to escort her.
• Shui Yunmeng showed Lin Bai a spiritual medicine from the Storage Bags and revealed that tiny drawings and words appeared on its leaves.

Shui Yunmeng explained that the spirit medicine contained a gap in the Eternal Sky Defense Formation, a secret capable of destroying the Divine Capital and drawing several powerful factions into a struggle over it. Lin Bai realized that he and Shui Yunmeng were now targets, and they considered who had sent the attackers they had faced.

• Shui Yunmeng told Lin Bai that a traitorous Formation Daoist had created a gap in the Eternal Sky Defense Formation and that the information had been passed on through a spirit medicine.
• She explained that the Hanging Sword Bureau had killed people who knew about the gap, while several factions fought to seize the spirit medicine during its journey to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion City.
• Shui Yunmeng revealed that she learned the secret through her father's guards and that only she, Lin Bai, her father, Wude Marquis, the Crown Prince, and the Seventeenth Prince knew about it outside the Formation Hall.
• Lin Bai recognized that he and Shui Yunmeng had become targets and worried that the Crown Prince and Seventeenth Prince might use the gap in their struggle for the throne.
• Shui Yunmeng wondered whether their attackers served the Crown Prince, the Seventeenth Prince, or Wude Marquis, but Lin Bai said they were not soldiers because they lacked the killing intent of troops.

Lin Bai and Shui Yunmeng realized the spirit medicine was a political weapon, but Xiao Zong led an attack on their courtyard to seize it and frame the Crown Prince. Xiao Zong revealed himself as a servant of the Seventeenth Prince, and Shui Yunmeng refused to let either prince use the Eternal Sky Defense Formation’s opening as a weapon.

• Shui Yunmeng stored the spirit medicine and agreed they should return it to Dragon Court, but Mo Lang arrived wounded and was killed by the attackers.
• Xiao Zong’s men surrounded the courtyard and demanded that Shui Yunmeng surrender the spirit medicine.
• Lin Bai exposed the masked leader as Xiao Zong by pointing out the weakness of the mountain formation and the attackers’ knowledge of their route.
• Xiao Zong admitted he served the Seventeenth Prince and planned to frame the Crown Prince for Shui Yunmeng’s death, forcing the Iron Sword Marquis to choose sides.
• Shui Yunmeng refused to surrender the spirit medicine, warning that the princes must not use the Eternal Sky Defense Formation’s opening in their struggle for the throne.

Shui Yunmeng refused to give Xiao Zong the spirit medicine, so Lin Bai cut open a rift to help her escape while he stayed behind to face more than three hundred attackers. He unleashed the Five Thunder Righteous Method and destroyed the City Lord's Mansion along with the black-clad men, then left Heavenly Might City.

• Shui Yunmeng refused to hand the spirit medicine to Xiao Zong, and Xiao Zong ordered his men to kill her and Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai opened a rift with his sword and sent Shui Yunmeng through it, while Xiao Zong pursued her.
• More than three hundred black-clad warriors surrounded Lin Bai at the City Lord's Mansion, where the Mo Lang Lineage and nearly everyone else had been slaughtered.
• Lin Bai summoned Five-Colored Divine Lightning and unleashed the Five Thunder Righteous Method, destroying the City Lord's Mansion and killing the black-clad men.
• Lin Bai paid his respects to Senior Mo Lang and flew out of Heavenly Might City.

After destroying the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Bai flew into the mountains and intervened as Xiao Zong cornered Shui Yunmeng. Lin Bai and Xiao Zong fought to a standstill until Xiao Zong unleashed his Starfall Fist, leaving Lin Bai facing its overwhelming force.

• The martial artists of Heaven's Might City watched a thunder-wreathed figure destroy the City Lord's Mansion and fly away, and Prince Fu's Estate received word of the incident.
• Xiao Zong struck Shui Yunmeng into a mountain and demanded the spirit medicine, but Shui Yunmeng refused to hand it over.
• As Xiao Zong moved to kill Shui Yunmeng, Lin Bai arrived and wounded him with two flying swords.
• Lin Bai offered to spare Xiao Zong if he let Shui Yunmeng go, but Xiao Zong rejected the offer and fought him.
• After hundreds of exchanges without either fighter gaining the upper hand, Xiao Zong unleashed his Starfall Fist, and Lin Bai sensed he could not easily withstand it.