Recaps

Lin Bai stepped onto the fifth floating platform and shocked the onlookers by defeating stronger opponents with overwhelming strength and speed. He faced Sha Tongtian after Sha Lang revealed Lin Bai had killed Sha Xing, while the Poison Dragon Island Lord secured victory on the fourth platform.

• Lin Bai knocked Kong Qian, a fourth-level Heaven Martial Realm martial artist, from the fifth floating platform with one punch, and sharks devoured him.
• Sha Lang recognized Lin Bai as Sha Xing's killer and ordered Sha Tongtian to avenge his son.
• Sha Tongtian attacked Lin Bai with the Wrathful Sea Blade's Return to Sea Strike, but Lin Bai's Three Immortal Fingers and lightning-fast punch sent him flying.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord's serpent swallowed the last challenger on the fourth floating platform, securing his victory and driving the remaining martial artists toward the second platform.

The victors were decided on four Floating Platforms while Lin Bai continued fighting Sha Tongtian on the Fifth. After Sha Tongtian unleashed his strongest blade, Lin Bai drew his sword, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• The Poison Dragon Island Lord and the Blood Sword Master won their platforms and affirmed their shared desire to protect the East Sea.
• Jin Qiu won the First Floating Platform after a bloody battle, and Iron Fist Xiang Tian revealed his Iron Sea Urchin Soul to claim the Second.
• Sha Tongtian struck Lin Bai with the second blade of the Wrathful Sea Blade Strike, sending him flying and drawing blood.
• Sha Tongtian unleashed the third blade as the martial artists feared Lin Bai could not withstand it.
• After learning that the other four platforms had winners, Lin Bai opened his Storage Bag and drew his sword.

Lin Bai drew the Azure Song Sword and defeated Sha Tongtian on the fifth floating platform. With twenty-five martial artists still there and time nearly gone, Lin Bai gave them three breaths to leave or be killed.

• Hua Qinghai warned that only fifteen minutes remained, while martial artists gave up trying to challenge the other platform victors and Sha Tongtian.
• Lin Bai drew the Azure Song Sword and blocked Sha Tongtian’s third Wrathful Sea Blade Strike with Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence.
• Lin Bai struck Sha Tongtian with Gale Shakes the Sea, sending him into the water and forcing him to admit defeat.
• Hua Qinghai announced that the remaining martial artists would fight one-on-one if time ran out before a winner was decided.
• Lin Bai rejected the tournament plan and gave the twenty-five martial artists three breaths to leave or face death.

Lin Bai killed more than twenty Heaven Martial Realm martial artists on the Fifth Floating Platform with one sword, then revealed his identity as a prodigy from the Spirit Sword Sect. The five victors were chosen to reinforce the seal, while Liu Beixing and Hua Wanqing recognized Lin Bai as the man they wanted to avenge themselves against.

• Lin Bai gave the martial artists on the Fifth Floating Platform three breaths to leave, then used Gentle Sword to kill them all with one strike as time expired.
• Hua Qinghai announced Jin Qiu, Xiang Tian, the Blood Sword Master, the Poison Dragon Island Lord, and Lin Bai as the five victors.
• Lin Bai revealed his name, and the crowd recognized him as the prodigy who had overwhelmed the military's prodigies and slain disciples of the Four Great Sects at Chaoyang Palace.
• Liu Beixing learned that Lin Bai was Yi Han's killer, and Hua Wanqing renewed his hatred of Lin Bai.
• Hua Qinghai introduced the five victors and said their combined strength would help make the journey to reinforce the seal go smoothly.

Hua Qinghai gathered Lin Bai and four powerful Eastern Sea martial artists at the Mad Shark Gate and gave each a hundred Heaven Spirit Pills to prepare for the mission against the great demon. Lin Bai entered secluded cultivation hoping to advance from the second to the fourth stage of the Heaven Martial Realm.

• Hua Qinghai promised Lin Bai, Blood Sword Master, Poison Dragon Island Lord, Xiang Tian, and Jin Qiu a hundred Heaven Spirit Pills each before they undertook the mission.
• Lin Bai said goodbye to Su Xianmei, who planned to send the collected spirit stones back to the Divine Martial Nation.
• At the Mad Shark Gate, Lin Bai met Poison Dragon Island Lord, Blood Sword Master, Xiang Tian, and Jin Qiu, and agreed to spar with Blood Sword Master after their mission.
• Poison Dragon Island Lord questioned why Lin Bai had joined the Eastern Sea crisis, and Lin Bai explained he had come to cultivate at the Spirit Spring Sea.
• Hua Qinghai gave each of the five martial artists a jade bottle of Heaven Spirit Pills, and they entered separate caves to cultivate.
• Lin Bai opened his bottle and wondered whether its hundred pills could raise him from the second to the fourth stage of the Heaven Martial Realm.

Lin Bai used Heaven Spirit Pills to reach the fourth level of the Heaven Martial Realm, then joined the others as they prepared to travel to the sealing ground. Hua Qinghai revealed that it lay in the deadly, elusive Lost Sea, leaving the group facing a perilous journey.

• Lin Bai refined a hundred Heaven Spirit Pills with the Devouring Sword Soul and broke through from the second to the fourth level of the Heaven Martial Realm.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord, Blood Sword Master, Jin Qiu, and Xiang Tian emerged from seclusion with their cultivation improved.
• Hua Qinghai named Hua Wanqing, Long Feihai, Sun Jiacheng, Qiu Biao, and Sha Tongtian as the other experts joining the expedition, and said Sha Tongtian carried the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman.
• Hua Qinghai assigned Lin Bai and the others to protect the Eight Great Families’ disciples and escort them safely to the sealing ground.
• Hua Qinghai revealed that the sealing ground was in the Lost Sea, which the Blood Sword Master described as a forbidden region filled with deadly beasts that no one had returned from.

Lin Bai and the others sailed toward the Lost Sea, where Lin Bai and Poison Dragon Island Lord questioned the Eight Great Families’ motives and Mad Shark Gate’s plans. After entering the Lost Sea underwater, Lin Bai wanted to visit the Spirit Spring Sea, but Sha Tongtian refused and then warned of enemies.

• Hua Qinghai explained that the Lost Sea was hidden by a magic formation and sent Lin Bai and the others from Fallen God Bay to seal the breach.
• After three days at sea, Lin Bai discussed his suspicions with Poison Dragon Island Lord: Sha Tongtian’s unnecessary martial arts competition and the Eight Great Families’ choice to send others instead of going themselves.
• Poison Dragon Island Lord said he, Blood Sword Master, Jin Qiu, and Xiang Tian had agreed to focus on affixing the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman to the breach.
• Hua Wanqing led the group underwater, explaining that they had to avoid surfacing or they would become trapped in the Lost Sea’s magic formation.
• When Lin Bai sensed the nearby Spirit Spring Sea and asked to visit it, Sha Tongtian refused, insisting the group stay together and go to the breach first.
• Sha Tongtian suddenly called out that enemies were nearby.

Lin Bai and the others were attacked by a massive school of Soul-Devouring Fish Demons in the Lost Sea as a giant beast's roar approached. The Poison Dragon Island Lord stayed behind to hold off the fish while Lin Bai prepared to cut a path through their encirclement, but Sha Tongtian attacked him instead.

• Sha Tongtian warned the group of approaching enemies, and they identified the attackers as Soul-Devouring Fish Demons that traveled in enormous schools.
• The fish demons swarmed the group, killing and injuring them as Lin Bai fought back with the Azure Song Sword.
• A giant beast roared nearby, and Lin Bai and the Poison Dragon Island Lord agreed that the group had to break through the encirclement.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord volunteered to hold back the fish demons while Lin Bai and Blood Sword Master led the others toward safety.
• Lin Bai said he could cut open a passage, but Sha Tongtian challenged him and charged with his battle saber.

Lin Bai and the others escaped the Soul-Devouring Fish Demons by following his Sword Qi, while Poison Dragon Island Lord stayed behind to hold off the horde. As the group hurried toward the sealing grounds, Lin Bai sensed the Primordial Behemoth approaching and stopped them.

• Blood Sword Master threatened Sha Tongtian, but Hua Wanqing and Lin Bai persuaded him to stand down while Lin Bai prepared to cut through the encircling fish demons.
• Lin Bai used Gentle Sword to carve a path through the horde, and Blood Sword Master extended the opening so the group could escape.
• Lin Bai bowed to Poison Dragon Island Lord, who remained behind to hold off the fish demons, then the group left him behind and continued toward the sealing grounds.
• Sha Tongtian called Poison Dragon Island Lord insignificant, angering Jin Qiu and Xiang Tian, but Lin Bai stopped the dispute and urged everyone onward.
• As the group hurried toward the sealing grounds, the Primordial Behemoth's roars grew louder, and Lin Bai sensed its crushing pressure ahead.

Lin Bai and his companions encountered a colossal sea beast capable of fighting someone in the Divine Core Realm. He stayed behind to hold it off while the others continued toward the sealed land, but his attack barely marked the beast and its counterblow badly wounded him.

• The giant beast appeared, sucked in seawater, and blasted it at Lin Bai and his companions, but Lin Bai carried several of them clear with his Wind Lightning Divine Wings.
• The beast’s roar injured Lin Bai and the others, and Lin Bai told the group to continue while he kept it occupied.
• Hua Qinghai gave Lin Bai a map, and Blood Sword Master, Jin Qiu, Xiang Tian, and the others left for the sealed land.
• Lin Bai slashed the beast’s forehead, but his attack left only a small mark and drew no blood.
• The giant beast rammed Lin Bai, shattering his Silver War Body and sending him flying a thousand meters, badly wounded.

Lin Bai struggled against the enormous behemoth underwater and realized he could not defeat it there. He lured it toward the surface, while the furious roar spread fear through the sea and Poison Dragon Island Lord emerged from a battle with the Soul-Devouring Fish Demons.

• Lin Bai's attacks barely hurt the behemoth, and its blows battered him as he tried to evade it with his Wind Lightning Divine Wings.
• The behemoth tried to swallow Lin Bai, but he wounded the inside of its mouth with his Surging Wind Swordplay and escaped its suction.
• Lin Bai decided to reach the surface despite Hua Wanqing's warning about the formation, then taunted the behemoth into chasing him.
• The behemoth's roar shook creatures across ten thousand miles, and Blood Sword Master, Jin Qiu, Xiang Tian, Qiu Biao, Hua Wanqing, Sha Tongtian, Long Feihai, and Sun Jiacheng fled in fear.
• Poison Dragon Island Lord emerged badly wounded after poisoning the Soul-Devouring Fish Demons, hoped Lin Bai and the others would seal the gap, and Blood Sword Master vowed to give his all before continuing with the team.

Lin Bai fled the depths of the sea while the Primordial Behemoth relentlessly attacked him, hoping to turn the fight in his favor on land. After Lin Bai burst into the sky with the beast in pursuit, the Poison Dragon Island Lord recognized him and flew to help.

• Lin Bai endured the Primordial Behemoth’s roars and water attacks as he raced toward the surface, badly wounded.
• Lin Bai burst out of the sea and flew high into the sky, but the Primordial Behemoth followed him into the air.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord surfaced to heal and witnessed Lin Bai and the enormous Primordial Behemoth erupt from the sea.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord recognized Lin Bai, remembered their agreement to stand together, and flew to save him despite his injuries.

Lin Bai lured the giant beast out of the sea and killed it with his sword techniques, absorbing enough demon blood to reach the peak of the fifth stage of the Heaven Martial Realm. The Poison Dragon Island Lord arrived and was stunned that Lin Bai had slain the ocean’s feared god of death.

• Lin Bai flew to ninety thousand meters above the sea, drawing the giant beast after him and escaping its underwater advantage.
• Lin Bai struck the beast with six sword attacks and the Gentle Sword, then used Wind Severing to split its body in two.
• Lin Bai activated Devouring Sword Soul and absorbed less than one-tenth of the beast’s demon blood, reaching the peak of the fifth stage of the Heaven Martial Realm.
• The beast’s corpse sank into the sea, and Lin Bai lamented that its remaining demon blood had dissolved into the water.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord met Lin Bai, asked if he was all right, and reacted in shock that Lin Bai had killed the ocean’s god of death.

After surviving the Soul-Devouring Fish Demons and a giant beast, Lin Bai and the Poison Dragon Island Lord healed enough to locate the Spirit Spring Sea. Lin Bai began condensing the Water Spirit Vortex there while the Poison Dragon Island Lord recovered nearby.

• Lin Bai and the Poison Dragon Island Lord reached a tiny patch of land and began healing their severe injuries.
• Lin Bai studied Hua Wanqing's map, estimated the sealing grounds' direction, and waited while the Poison Dragon Island Lord continued healing.
• Lin Bai and the Poison Dragon Island Lord traveled to the Spirit Spring Sea, which lay near the sealing grounds.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord stayed to heal, and Lin Bai entered the sea to condense the Water Spirit Vortex.
• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the Spirit Spring Sea's spiritual energy and stabilize the vortex.

Lin Bai completed his Water Spirit Vortex, restored himself, and joined Poison Dragon Island Lord in diving to the sealing ground. He reunited with the injured group and revealed that he had killed the giant beast, a claim Poison Dragon Island Lord confirmed.

• Lin Bai condensed the Water Spirit Vortex, filled his three spirit vortices with spiritual energy, and healed his injuries.
• Lin Bai told Poison Dragon Island Lord that Hua Wanqing's map placed the sealing ground beneath the Spirit Spring Sea, and they descended together.
• Lin Bai and Poison Dragon Island Lord found Blood Sword Master, Xiang Tian, Jin Qiu, Hua Wanqing, Qiu Biao, Sun Jiacheng, and Sha Tongtian recovering from injuries after fighting seventh-level Heaven Martial Realm demon beasts.
• Lin Bai said that he had killed the giant beast, but Sha Tongtian, Hua Wanqing, Sun Jiacheng, and Qiu Biao dismissed his claim.
• Poison Dragon Island Lord confirmed Lin Bai's account with a nod, leaving Blood Sword Master, Jin Qiu, and Xiang Tian stunned.

As the group approached the sealed land, Lin Bai grew suspicious of how familiar Sha Tongtian and his companions seemed with the dark seabed. During the journey, Blood Sword Master invited Lin Bai to attend Famous Sword Manor's Sword Assembly with him, where Lin Bai might earn an invitation to Divine Relic Ridge.

• After recovering, the group set out toward the sealed land, with Sha Tongtian assigned to apply the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman while the others guarded him.
• Lin Bai told the Poison Dragon Island Lord that Sha Tongtian, Hua Wanqing, Long Feihai, Qiu Biao, and Sun Jiacheng seemed unusually familiar with the route, but the Poison Dragon Island Lord dismissed his suspicion.
• Blood Sword Master asked Lin Bai whether he would attend Famous Sword Manor's Sword Assembly, and Lin Bai said he might go if his duties allowed.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord explained that Divine Relic Ridge might invite top Sword Assembly performers directly, sparing them its difficult Three Trials and Five Tribulations assessment.
• Blood Sword Master said he would visit Lin Bai at the Spirit Sword Sect after handling his affairs, and they agreed to travel to the Heaven Sword Dynasty together.

Lin Bai and the others reached the sealed breach and discovered that Sha Tongtian and the Eight Great Families had once tried to break it open. Sha Tongtian revealed that they wanted the Great Demon to remove their Slave Seals, while the Poison Dragon Island Lord condemned them for risking the Eastern Sea.

• Sha Tongtian led the group to the Chaotic Stone Formation, where they saw three cracks in the jade seal leaking spiritual energy.
• Sha Tongtian took out the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman but refused to use it, prompting Lin Bai to prepare to attack him.
• The Great Demon spoke from within the seal and revealed that Sha Tongtian and the other members of the Eight Great Families had tried to shatter it.
• Sha Tongtian demanded that the Great Demon remove their Slave Seals in exchange for releasing him and becoming his followers.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord denounced Sha Tongtian for endangering the Eastern Sea and the East Ridge Seven Hundred Kingdoms.

Lin Bai and the others were ambushed by the Eight Great Families, whose leaders revealed why they had tried to free the great demon and explained the costly seal they needed to repair. The chapter left Lin Bai and his wounded allies surrounded by the families’ experts, with the great demon still refusing to undo their Slave Seals.

• Sha Tongtian declared that the Eight Great Families wanted to leave the East Sea, and the Poison Dragon Island Lord attacked him.
• Sha Lang and more than thirty ninth-level Heaven Martial Realm experts emerged from the darkness, struck down the Poison Dragon Island Lord, and attacked Lin Bai and his allies.
• Hua Qinghai appeared and admitted that he and the Eight Great Families had set a trap for Lin Bai and the others.
• Hua Qinghai explained that their ancestors had been bound by Slave Seals to guard the great demon and that the families wanted the demon to remove those seals so they could leave the East Sea.
• Hua Qinghai revealed that the great demon had refused their request and that repairing the opening in the seal would cost fifty-six billion spirit stones.

Hua Qinghai revealed how the Eight Great Families had deceived the East Sea into donating spirit stones and planned to frame the Poison Dragon Island Lord and Blood Sword Master. Jin Qiu betrayed Lin Bai and joined Hua Qinghai, while the Great Devil rejected Hua Qinghai’s final offer.

• Hua Qinghai said the Eight Great Families had spread fear of the Great Devil and collected ten quadrillion spirit stones from East Sea martial artists, keeping the surplus after buying the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman.
• Hua Qinghai explained that the Eight Great Families planned to kill Lin Bai, the Poison Dragon Island Lord, and the Blood Sword Master, then blame them for breaking the seal and claim credit for saving the East Sea.
• Jin Qiu ambushed Lin Bai and revealed he was one of the Seven Kings of Azure Cloud Terrace Palace, hired by Hua Qinghai for ten billion spirit stones and seeking revenge for Yi Han.
• Hua Qinghai described how the Eight Great Families would use the deaths of the Poison Dragon Island Lord and the Blood Sword Master to become heroes and advance their plan to undo the Slave Seal.
• Hua Qinghai offered the Great Devil one final chance to help remove the Slave Seal, but the Great Devil laughed dismissively.

The Great Demon rejected Hua Qinghai’s offer and warned that he would one day escape and destroy the world. After Hua Qinghai resealed the formation, he turned against Lin Bai and his allies, and Zhou Yang stayed behind so the others could flee and expose the Eight Great Families.

• The Great Demon condemned Hua Qinghai and the Eight Great Families, claiming the weakening seal would not hold him forever.
• At Hua Qinghai’s command, Sha Tongtian used the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman to seal the cracks and silence the Great Demon.
• Hua Qinghai gathered the Eight Great Families’ experts against Lin Bai, the Poison Dragon Island Lord, the Blood Sword Master, and Xiang Tian.
• The Poison Dragon Island Lord, whose real name was Zhou Yang, urged the others to escape and reveal the Eight Great Families’ deception.
• The Blood Sword Master fled, and Hua Qinghai sent Qiu Family and Azure Wave Gate experts after him.
• Lin Bai vowed that if Zhou Yang died, the Eight Great Families would pay for it.

Lin Bai watched the Poison Dragon Island Lord and Xiang Tian die while the Eight Great Families hunted him through the Lost Sea. Cornered and badly wounded, he broke through the Chaotic Stone Formation’s barrier and escaped inside as his pursuers mistakenly declared him dead and left.

• Sha Lang wounded Lin Bai, while the Poison Dragon Island Lord died fighting the attackers after Hua Qinghai killed his Poison Dragon Beast and the Dragon Gate leader pierced him with arrows.
• Xiang Tian shielded Lin Bai from Sha Lang and Hua Qinghai’s attacks, then forced Lin Bai to leave; Hua Qinghai and Sha Lang killed Xiang Tian as Lin Bai fled.
• Experts from the Qiu Family and Azure Wave Gate wounded Lin Bai and reported that they had killed the Blood Sword Master.
• Surrounded by the Eight Great Families, Lin Bai vowed to avenge the dead and destroy them, then used his Martial Soul Secret Method to break through the Chaotic Stone Formation’s barrier.
• The Eight Great Families’ attacks struck the formation barrier without harming it, and Hua Qinghai led them away believing Lin Bai was dead.

After recovering from his injuries in the Chaotic Stone Formation, Lin Bai tried to leave but was forced to fight the great demon’s Black Smoke Wolves. He revealed his Devouring Sword Soul, absorbed the wolves’ spiritual energy, and reached the sixth level of the Heaven Martial Realm, prompting the demon to declare that Lin Bai would become its new body.

• Lin Bai spent three days healing while the great demon watched and spoke to him from within the Chaotic Stone Formation.
• When Lin Bai tried to leave, the great demon summoned a Black Smoke Wolf and ordered it to attack him.
• Lin Bai killed the wolf with Wind Severing, but the great demon unleashed thousands more and sent them charging at him.
• As the wolves began tearing into him, Lin Bai revealed his Devouring Sword Soul and absorbed them all.
• The spiritual energy from the wolves advanced Lin Bai to the sixth level of the Heaven Martial Realm, and the great demon recognized his Demonic Martial Soul and announced it would use Lin Bai as its new body.

The Great Devil’s Hermit Crab Martial Soul possessed Lin Bai and began devouring his soul, seeking to take his body. Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to damage the Great Devil, devour much of his memories, and escape the Chaotic Stone Formation, leaving the Great Devil trapped and furious.

• The Great Devil emerged from the Chaotic Stone Formation as a giant lobster and merged into Lin Bai’s body, intending to seize it with his Hermit Crab Martial Soul.
• As the Great Devil gnawed at Lin Bai’s soul, Lin Bai summoned the Devouring Sword Soul and slashed apart the Great Devil’s martial soul.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method, Soul Search, to devour much of the Great Devil’s memories and force him out of Lin Bai’s body.
• Lin Bai cut open the formation and escaped into the Lost Sea, while the formation sealed behind him and trapped the Great Devil.
• The Great Devil raged inside the formation, unable to remember which parts of his past Lin Bai had devoured.

After escaping the Lost Sea, Lin Bai recovered and sorted through the memories his Devouring Sword Soul had taken from the Great Demon. He learned about the demon’s body-seizing Martial Soul, inherited the memories of an alchemy grandmaster, and discovered a cultivation technique called Heart Demon Implantation.

• Lin Bai used Hua Wanqing’s sea chart to leave the Lost Sea, found an uninhabited island, and healed his injuries.
• Lin Bai sorted through the Great Demon’s memories and realized the Devouring Sword Soul had defeated the demon’s Demonic Martial Soul.
• Lin Bai learned that the Great Demon’s Martial Soul let him devour souls, take over bodies, and acquire their memories, and he feared the demon would come after him.
• Lin Bai discovered that the Great Demon had been an alchemy grandmaster and had left behind extensive knowledge, experience, and pill recipes.
• Lin Bai found a small portion of the memories describing a cultivation technique called Heart Demon Implantation.

Lin Bai cultivated Heart Demon Implantation, condensed its uncontrollable Demon Seed, and resolved to take revenge on the Eight Great Families after reaching the sixth level of the Heaven Martial Realm. He boarded Feng Hua's ship to travel to the City of a Thousand Islands and attend the families' celebration banquet.

• Lin Bai learned that Heart Demon Implantation could triple his combat power when its Demon Seed bloomed, but he could not control when it happened and demonic transformation made cultivators bloodthirsty.
• Lin Bai cultivated the art on a deserted island and condensed a Demon Seed in his right eye, deciding to treat it as a trump card.
• After devouring the Black Smoke Wolf, Lin Bai reached the sixth level of the Heaven Martial Realm and set out to avenge Poison Dragon Island Lord, Xiang Tian, and Blood Sword Master by killing martial artists of the Eight Great Families.
• Feng Hua and Mu Wan offered Lin Bai passage to the City of a Thousand Islands, where the Eight Great Families were holding a celebration banquet.
• Lin Bai accepted the ride and said he planned to attend the banquet, concealing his intent for revenge.