Recaps

Lin Bai was captured by Tong Yang’s group and taken to their camp, where they bound him with a Spirit Binding Ring that drained and stored his spiritual power. He remained trapped among the group’s captives, hiding his strength and waiting for a chance to act.

• Tong Yang’s group sealed Lin Bai’s power with a great net, and Ling Ru took his Immaculate Flying Sword while Tong Yang kept the Dragon Eye Flying Sword.
• Jia You took Lin Bai’s Storage Bag, but Tong Yang could not open its seal and dragged Lin Bai through the forest.
• Tong Yang brought Lin Bai to a secluded camp where more than twenty martial artists held captured people as slaves.
• The camp’s martial artists put a Spirit Binding Ring around Lin Bai’s neck, and it absorbed his spiritual power when he tried to circulate it.
• Jia You explained that the rings stored captives’ spiritual power so their captors could use it later.

Lin Bai was imprisoned in a lightning-net cave in the Blackwood Forest Sea, where Shen Shuyao explained that their captors likely planned to sell them to the notorious Pill Demon. He learned about the forest and the Pill Demon’s human-sacrifice alchemy, but remained trapped with the other prisoners.

• Jia You put a Spirit Binding Ring on Lin Bai and locked him in a cave sealed by a lethal lightning net.
• Lin Bai met Li Qiu and learned that the ring drained spiritual power and that Li Qiu had been imprisoned for a month.
• Shen Shuyao said their captors probably intended to sell them to the Pill Demon, who used living martial artists to refine pills.
• Lin Bai learned that Shen Shuyao was born in the Celestial God Tomb and that they were in the perilous Blackwood Forest Sea.
• Shen Shuyao explained that the Pill Demon had fled Silver Moon City after his human-sacrifice alchemy was exposed and had continued refining demonic pills in the forest.

Lin Bai learned that Tong Yang had captured him and his companions to trade them to Pill Demon for Rakshasa Pills. He discovered a way to damage his Spirit Binding Ring as Tong Yang prepared to take the captives to Skywind Cliff in two days.

• Lin Bai learned that Pill Demon had offered Rakshasa Pills for martial artists and would trade publicly at Skywind Cliff in three months, explaining why Tong Yang had captured his group.
• A prisoner warned Lin Bai that Tong Yang's camp held three Dao Realm experts and more than thirty Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists, and Li Qiu feared they were doomed.
• Lin Bai secretly flooded his Spirit Binding Ring with spiritual power until it cracked, discovering the ring's limit and believing it could no longer restrain him.
• Tong Yang's group captured more prisoners, bringing the total in the stone prison to forty-two, while Lin Bai remained the weakest and least conspicuous captive.
• Tong Yang told Jia You that five days remained before the trade and that they would leave for Skywind Cliff the day after their final day of searching; Lin Bai realized they would depart soon.

Lin Bai broke his Spirit Binding Ring and defeated Jia You and three Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists. He freed the other prisoners, giving them a chance to escape as their spiritual power returned.

• At dawn, Lin Bai watched Tong Yang leave the camp with a Dao Realm expert while Jia You arrived to replace the prisoners' Spirit Binding Rings.
• Lin Bai overloaded his Spirit Binding Ring with spiritual power until it cracked, then shattered it and regained his strength.
• Lin Bai struck Jia You and the three Quasi-Dao Realm martial artists with Five-Colored Divine Lightning, then wounded them with Three Thousand Lightning Annihilations.
• Lin Bai used three-colored lightning to shatter the Spirit Binding Rings of the other prisoners, including the cold, aloof woman and Shen Shuyao.
• The freed prisoners recovered their spiritual power and prepared to charge out.

Lin Bai escaped Tong Yang’s camp by releasing the prisoners and using the resulting battle as a distraction, while Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao followed him into the Blackwood Forest Sea. After Lin Bai struggled against the Celestial God Tomb’s gravity, Gu Rong offered to teach him how to adapt if he promised to protect them.

• After their spiritual power returned, the prisoners killed three Quasi-Dao Realm guards, while Jia You escaped and raised the alarm.
• More than forty escaped prisoners attacked the camp’s guards, giving Lin Bai a chance to flee; Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao realized his plan and followed him.
• Lin Bai tried to lose the two women in the forest, then stopped and demanded to know why they were following him.
• After running a hundred miles, Lin Bai collapsed against a tree, weakened by his injuries and the unfamiliar gravity.
• Gu Rong offered Lin Bai a way to adapt to the gravity in exchange for his protection, and explained that she had recognized how carefully he had planned the escape.

Lin Bai agreed to protect Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao in exchange for help adapting to the Celestial God Tomb, and they set out to find Fish-Dragon Grass. They reached a chilling, ominous swamp where Shen Shuyao believed the herb might grow.

• Gu Rong deduced that Lin Bai had waited to break the Spirit Binding Rings until enough prisoners could distract the camp’s martial artists and help him escape.
• Lin Bai agreed to do his best to protect Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao, and Gu Rong told him that Fish-Dragon Grass could help him adapt to the tomb’s environment and gravity.
• Shen Shuyao offered to find Fish-Dragon Grass and explained that it grew where extreme cold met extreme heat.
• Shen Shuyao judged that a cold pool lay nine hundred li east, so Gu Rong, Shen Shuyao, and Lin Bai traveled through the forest toward it.
• The three reached a freezing, decayed swamp, and Lin Bai stepped forward despite the danger while Shen Shuyao remained unsure whether Fish-Dragon Grass grew there.

Lin Bai retrieved the Fish-Dragon Grass from a cold pool and awakened the Flood Dragon Serpent lurking beneath it. His Five Thunder Righteous Method failed to harm the beast, which swallowed him whole.

• Lin Bai crossed the cold pool and plucked the Fish-Dragon Grass while Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao waited on the bank.
• Lin Bai saw the colossal creature beneath the pool awaken and freeze under its blood-red gaze.
• Gu Rong recognized the creature as the Flood Dragon Serpent, and she and Shen Shuyao began retreating rather than risk fighting it.
• Lin Bai tried to escape and struck the Flood Dragon Serpent with the Five Thunder Righteous Method, but its horn absorbed the lightning.
• The Flood Dragon Serpent struck Lin Bai with its tongue, coiled him up, and swallowed him.

Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao watched the Flood Dragon Serpent swallow Lin Bai and fled rather than risk saving him. Trapped inside the serpent, Lin Bai unleashed his Devouring Sword Soul, regained his strength by consuming its flesh, and began advancing in cultivation as the serpent screamed beneath the Cold Pool.

• Gu Rong pulled Shen Shuyao away from the Cold Pool after the Flood Dragon Serpent swallowed Lin Bai and dove underwater.
• Gu Rong refused Shen Shuyao’s attempt to save Lin Bai, warning that the serpent was too powerful, and led her away.
• Lin Bai struggled inside the serpent as its crushing force broke his bones, while his remaining spiritual power and Five Thunder Righteous Method failed to damage it.
• Lin Bai released his Devouring Sword Soul, which tore through the serpent’s flesh and restored his spiritual power.
• The Flood Dragon Serpent thrashed and screamed as Lin Bai’s cultivation rose from the seventh stage of the Apex Realm toward the eighth stage.
• Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao heard the serpent’s cries but fled farther away, still believing Lin Bai could not defeat it.

Lin Bai survived being swallowed by the Flood Dragon Serpent and devoured it from within, breaking through to the Apex Realm ninth-layer peak. After eating the Fish-Dragon Grass and claiming the serpent’s lightning-absorbing horn, he recovered and set out to confront Tong Yang.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to kill the Flood Dragon Serpent and advance from the Apex Realm seventh layer to the ninth-layer peak.
• Lin Bai emerged from the cold pool, found Gu Rong and Shen Shuyao gone, and ate the Fish-Dragon Grass to overcome the local gravity.
• Lin Bai returned to the pool, cut off the serpent’s horn, and collected its scales and bone fragments.
• Lin Bai tested the horn and discovered that it absorbed his Five-Colored Divine Lightning without damage.
• After resting for three days and recovering, Lin Bai left his hiding place and declared that he would take back what belonged to him from Tong Yang.

Tong Yang discovered that most of his prisoners had escaped and ordered his camp to head for Skywind Cliff to trade the remaining captives for Rakshasa Pills. Lin Bai found the camp abandoned and set out after Tong Yang, hoping to recover his belongings and flying swords.

• Tong Yang learned from Jia You that Lin Bai had shattered his Spirit Binding Ring and freed the prisoners, costing him more than thirty captives.
• Tong Yang blamed Yan Geng for failing to guard the prisoners, then ordered Yan Geng to stay at his side and Long Gang to lead the camp toward Skywind Cliff with the remaining captives.
• Lin Bai searched the deserted camp and realized Tong Yang had taken his Storage Bag, demon sword, and two flying swords with him.
• Lin Bai reasoned that Tong Yang would go to Skywind Cliff to exchange his remaining prisoners for Rakshasa Pills, and left the camp to pursue him.

Lin Bai was ambushed in the Blackwood Forest Sea by a warrior seeking the horn he carried. He killed the attacker with Five-Colored Divine Lightning and learned the route to Skywind Cliff, along with the horn’s origin and a map of the forest.

• After leaving Tong Yang's camp, Lin Bai traveled through the Blackwood Forest Sea and dodged poisoned arrows fired from concealment.
• Lin Bai found the attacker’s hiding place and struck a tree with the horn, forcing the man to flee into the forest.
• Lin Bai used the horn as bait, seized the attacker when he reached for it, and crippled him with Five-Colored Divine Lightning.
• Lin Bai used Soul Search on the dying man, killing him and taking his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai learned the route to Skywind Cliff, found a map of the Blackwood Forest Sea in the Storage Bag, and discovered the horn’s origin.

After learning the Flood Dragon Serpent's horn could weaken tribulation lightning, Lin Bai realized it was a rare treasure that could aid his future breakthrough into the Dao Realm. He decided to keep it hidden rather than use it openly as a weapon.

• Lin Bai learned that Dao Realm martial artists faced ten deadly lightning tribulations and that a martial artist's Martial Soul affected their chances of surviving.
• Lin Bai learned about four ways to withstand tribulation lightning, including using special treasures such as the Flood Dragon Serpent's horn.
• Lin Bai discovered that Vermillion Bird Pills served as currency in the Celestial God Tomb and that the horn was worth one hundred thousand pills in Silver Moon City.
• Lin Bai recalled killing the Flood Dragon Serpent with the Devouring Sword Soul and decided to keep its horn to help him face future tribulations.
• Lin Bai decided not to carry the horn openly, fearing that other martial artists would try to take it.

Lin Bai learned more about the Dao Realm Tribulation, examined his spoils, and set out for Skywind Cliff. There, Young Master Tong prepared to reclaim the Pill Demon’s treasures as martial artists gathered for the promised Rakshasa Pill exchange.

• Lin Bai worried that his Yellow Rank One Martial Soul would make surviving the Dao Realm Tribulation difficult, then wrapped the Flood Dragon Serpent horn and sorted through his spoils.
• Lin Bai identified the Vermillion Bird Pills, swallowed one, and kept the rest as currency; he discarded the arrow weapons and used the map to locate Skywind Cliff.
• Lin Bai set off toward Skywind Cliff, expecting to arrive around noon the next day.
• Young Master Tong watched martial artists gather at Skywind Cliff and discussed with his old attendant how many might attack the Pill Demon rather than exchange for Rakshasa Pills.
• Young Master Tong said the Tong family would reclaim the Pill Demon’s treasures, which he believed came from a certain place along with the Rakshasa Pill formula.

Lin Bai waited at Skywind Cliff to find Tong Yang while martial artists gathered to trade captives for Rakshasa Pills. Pill Demon arrived at noon and opened a passage for the exchanges, just as a large group led by a young master confronted him.

• Lin Bai searched for Tong Yang, then waited near Skywind Cliff for the trade to begin.
• Two martial artists tried to capture Lin Bai, but he killed them with Five-Colored Divine Lightning.
• Other martial artists saw the corpses beneath Lin Bai's tree and stopped targeting him.
• Pill Demon arrived at noon, opened a passage in Skywind Cliff, and directed traders to exchange their captives through puppets inside.
• Several hundred martial artists led by a graceful young master approached through the clouds and shouted Pill Demon's name.

Tong Liang attacked Pill Demon at Skywind Cliff, but Pill Demon escaped into a cave and invited the martial artists to trade for Rakshasa Pills. Lin Bai followed Tong Yang into the cave, while Pill Demon watched the intruders and prepared to make the Tong family suffer, despite nearing death.

• Tong Liang arrived with hundreds of martial artists and challenged Pill Demon, then destroyed Skywind Cliff with a Flying Sword Dao strike as Pill Demon fled into a cave.
• Tong Liang pursued Pill Demon into the cave, and the martial artists in the Blackwood Forest Sea followed to seek Rakshasa Pills.
• Tong Yang hesitated because Tong Liang might expose his secret deal with Pill Demon, but he chose to enter the cave with his followers and obtain a Rakshasa Pill.
• Lin Bai spotted Tong Yang, chased him through the crowded passage, and followed him into one of the one hundred and eight branches.
• Pill Demon watched the martial artists through floating mirrors and vowed to leave the Tong family with an unforgettable nightmare as his life neared its end.

Pill Demon trapped the martial artists in a sealed square and declared that only the strongest person would be released. As the trapped fighters began battling to prove their strength, Lin Bai was targeted by a black-clad martial artist.

• Lin Bai followed Tong Yang into a passage, where a stone gate sealed the entrance behind him.
• Lin Bai reached a square where several thousand martial artists read Pill Demon's message announcing the contest and warning they would remain trapped unless the strongest emerged within half a month.
• The martial artists failed to break through the arrays, while Lin Bai watched Tong Yang, Yan Geng, and Long Gang and waited for a chance to act.
• A bald burly Dao Realm expert proposed settling the contest through battle, and clashes erupted across the square.
• A black-clad martial artist attacked Lin Bai with a powerful punch.

Lin Bai fought off attackers in the chaotic melee, then tried to prevent Tong Yang and his allies from waiting out the battle and taking control. He left the Dao Realm fighters reconsidering their clashes and turning their attention toward Tong Yang’s group.

• Lin Bai killed the Apex Realm man pursuing him with Three Thousand Lightning Annihilations, then used the lightning from his horn to repel hundreds of attackers and escape the eastern corner.
• Lin Bai saw Tong Yang, Yan Geng, and Long Gang staying out of the fighting with their group, and realized he needed to separate Tong Yang from his protectors to reclaim his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai approached two battling Dao Realm experts and warned them that Tong Yang’s group planned to attack after the other fighters had weakened each other.
• Lin Bai repeated his warning to other Dao Realm fighters, and the bald man and his opponent agreed to deal with Tong Yang’s group before settling their own fight.

Lin Bai provoked the Dao Realm experts into attacking Tong Yang and his companions, then used the chaos to approach Tong Yang. After Tong Yang revealed his family’s powerful talisman and killed two opponents, Lin Bai struck him with lightning and moved in for the kill.

• Lin Bai incited the Dao Realm experts to turn against Tong Yang and his group, triggering a battle among the fifteen fighters.
• Long Gang and Yan Geng fought multiple Dao Realm experts while Lin Bai slipped toward Tong Yang.
• Tong Yang crushed a Celestial Light Holy Sword Talisman, killing the two Dao Realm experts who had cornered him.
• Lin Bai attacked Tong Yang from behind, striking him with five-colored lightning and sending him crashing into a stone wall.
• Lin Bai thrust the black-cloth-wrapped horn toward Tong Yang’s chest.

Lin Bai failed to kill Tong Yang after a protective pendant saved him, then fled and killed Ling Ru to reclaim the Immaculate Flying Sword. He used the sword against Tong Yang, but another jade talisman blocked the attack and burned away.

• Tong Yang survived Lin Bai’s attack with a protective pendant, healed himself with a pill, and drove Lin Bai into retreat.
• Lin Bai fled through the battlefield as Tong Yang pursued him, then spotted Ling Ru, who had received the Immaculate Flying Sword from Tong Yang.
• Ling Ru attacked Lin Bai, but he broke through her sword light and killed her with the horn before taking her Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai retrieved the Immaculate Flying Sword from Ling Ru’s Storage Bag and activated the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation against Tong Yang.
• Tong Yang blocked the flying sword with another jade talisman, which crumbled to ash and left Lin Bai frustrated.

Lin Bai tried to escape Tong Yang and seize his green jade storage ring, but Tong Yang’s talismans and Dao Realm strength kept him at bay. Lin Bai used Three Variations of Plum Blossoms to exploit Tong Yang’s defenses and severed his arm.

• Lin Bai realized Tong Yang’s green jade ring was likely a storage space holding his treasures and Lin Bai’s own Storage Bag.
• Tong Yang crushed a Hammer Mountain Talisman, but Lin Bai used Five-Colored Divine Lightning and his Golden Dragon Ring to survive the blow as the ring cracked.
• Lin Bai stopped fleeing and baited Tong Yang into shattering a Dharma Body, then attacked with Three Variations of Plum Blossoms.
• Tong Yang blocked Lin Bai’s sword with another protective talisman, but Lin Bai redirected the Immaculate Flying Sword and severed Tong Yang’s arm.

Lin Bai severed Tong Yang’s left arm, took his green jade ring, and tried to leave Skywind Cliff. Pill Demon offered him a secret and an opportunity if he returned to kill Tong Yang, but Lin Bai refused, broke through the stone gate, and escaped as Pill Demon decided he might be more suitable than Gu Chuan.

• Lin Bai used the Immaculate Flying Sword to sever Tong Yang’s left arm and fled while Tong Yang ordered Long Gang and Yan Geng to kill him.
• Pill Demon watched the battles through mirrors and considered Lin Bai and Gu Chuan the only candidates worthy of his attention.
• Lin Bai took Tong Yang’s green jade ring and continued toward the passageway, intent on leaving rather than seeking the Rakshasa Pill.
• Pill Demon offered Lin Bai an opportunity and a secret if he returned to kill Tong Yang, but Lin Bai refused and explained that he wanted to avoid dangerous entanglements.
• Lin Bai cleaved open Pill Demon’s stone gate and escaped, prompting Pill Demon to decide that Lin Bai might be more suitable than Gu Chuan.

Lin Bai refused to hear Pill Demon's secret, but Pill Demon overpowered him and took him to a hidden valley. There, Lin Bai agreed to listen, and Pill Demon declared that Lin Bai would have regretted leaving without hearing the secret.

• Lin Bai tried to leave Skywind Cliff, but Pill Demon appeared and insisted that Lin Bai was the person he had been seeking.
• Pill Demon knocked away Lin Bai's Immaculate Flying Sword, seized him, and carried him across Blackwood Forest Sea to a hidden valley.
• Pill Demon said the restrictions at Skywind Cliff would eventually be opened by Silver Moon City's powerhouses, who would likely kill the martial artists trapped inside.
• At the valley, Lin Bai questioned Pill Demon about the Alchemy Furnace and the rumor that he had refined Rakshasa Pills using living people.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the rumor had been spread to justify killing Pill Demon, earning his approval and prompting him to compare Lin Bai favorably with Gu Chuan.
• Lin Bai agreed to hear the secret, and Pill Demon said Lin Bai would have regretted leaving because he was the stupidest person in the world.

Pill Demon told Lin Bai that the Celestial God Tomb originated from a battle between the Heaven Swallowing Race and thousands of Dao Lords, whose techniques and treasures were hidden there. He revealed that array master Kong Lu once found the treasure trove and left behind a map in his tomb residence, which Pill Demon had discovered and entered.

• Pill Demon explained that a battle involving the Heaven Swallowing Race and three thousand Dao Lords caused the Celestial God Tomb to sink into the void.
• Pill Demon said the Heaven Swallowing Race member subdued the wounded Dao Lords and made them record their techniques before hiding their scriptures and treasures in the tomb.
• Pill Demon told Lin Bai that lower-realm martial artists had long searched for the rumored treasure trove.
• Pill Demon explained that Kong Lu spent three thousand years searching the Celestial God Tomb and found the treasure trove, but was betrayed and gravely wounded before he could retrieve its contents.
• Pill Demon said Kong Lu built a tomb residence, hid his possessions there, and left a map to the treasure trove.
• Pill Demon revealed that he had found Kong Lu's tomb residence and entered it.

Pill Demon told Lin Bai how he discovered Kong Lu's Tomb and revealed that Seventh Sister and Tong Xiuyun had betrayed him to learn its location. He began explaining that Seventh Sister had secretly poisoned him, leaving his story unfinished.

• Pill Demon said he had found the outskirts of Kong Lu's Tomb, where he collected Storage Bags containing the Rakshasa Pill recipe, but had not dared enter.
• Pill Demon agreed to tell Lin Bai the tomb's location after explaining how its location had leaked.
• Pill Demon recounted meeting Seventh Sister, helping her, and becoming her partner before he learned of Kong Lu's Tomb.
• After Pill Demon returned from searching for the tomb, he kept its exact location from Seventh Sister and began refining Rakshasa Pills to prepare for an expedition.
• Pill Demon caught Seventh Sister with Tong Xiuyun, who attacked him and tried to force him to reveal the tomb's location, so Pill Demon fled to Blackwood Forest Sea.
• Pill Demon said Seventh Sister had secretly poisoned him after he returned from Kong Lu's Tomb.

Pill Demon revealed that Tong Xiuyun had poisoned him with Ninefold Cold Return to Spirit and offered Lin Bai the location of Kong Lu Tomb in exchange for an oath of revenge. Lin Bai swore to kill Tong Xiuyun and Seventh Sister before leaving the Celestial God Tomb, received the map, and recovered his Storage Bag.

• Pill Demon told Lin Bai that Tong Xiuyun had poisoned him and that he had only about half a month to live.
• Pill Demon offered to share the route to Kong Lu Tomb if Lin Bai swore to take revenge on Tong Xiuyun and Seventh Sister, but Lin Bai refused to promise to destroy the Tong family.
• Pill Demon explained the Demonic Heart Oath, and Lin Bai vowed to kill Tong Xiuyun and Seventh Sister before leaving the Celestial God Tomb, unless they died first.
• Pill Demon gave Lin Bai a map to Ziwei Mountain in the Fallen Star Mountain Range, where Kong Lu Tomb could be found.
• Lin Bai asked Pill Demon to remove the restriction from Tong Yang's green jade ring, and Pill Demon returned it so Lin Bai could retrieve his Storage Bag.