Recaps

The old emperor and the gathered experts prepared to resist the Divine Martial Nation, confident that Loulan Ancient Kingdom could withstand an invasion. Lin Bai arrived alone beneath the imperial capital and gave the city three hours to surrender, threatening to kill everyone inside if it refused.

• The old emperor hosted the experts who had come to reinforce Loulan Ancient Kingdom, while Sword Reverent Dugu urged peace and Sword Reverent Ye vowed to fight the Divine Martial Nation.
• A soldier reported that Lin Bai had reached the city gates with only a dozen companions, prompting the gathered experts to boast that they could defeat him.
• Prince Gui and the Qilin Crown Prince persuaded the old emperor to inspect the challenge, and the heroes gathered atop the city wall.
• Seeing Lin Bai ride the Evil Flood Dragon, the old emperor asked why he had come, and Lin Bai declared that he had orders to subjugate the Northern Continent.
• Lin Bai demanded that Loulan Ancient Kingdom open its gates and surrender within three hours, threatening to kill everyone in the imperial capital if it refused.

Lin Bai demanded Loulan Ancient Kingdom surrender and submit to Emperor Xiao, but its leaders rejected his terms. As the deadline expired, Lin Bai prepared to attack the capital despite Sword Reverent Dugu’s attempt to mediate.

• The Evil Flood Dragon’s roar shook Loulan’s City Protection Formation, and Lin Bai ordered it to stay quiet so he would not reveal too much strength.
• Sword Reverent Dugu tried to negotiate peace, and Lin Bai offered to spare the Sword God Family if Loulan surrendered its Imperial Seal and swore the Demonic Heart Oath.
• Loulan’s experts rejected Lin Bai’s terms, while Ye Jianjun confronted him with hostility and concealed plans to avenge Ye Jianjun.
• The three-hour deadline passed, and Lin Bai drew his demon sword and demanded that Loulan Emperor choose whether to surrender.
• Loulan Emperor questioned whether Lin Bai could face Loulan’s million-strong army alone, and Lin Bai prepared to strike the capital.

Lin Bai faced the Loulan Ancient Kingdom’s Scarlet Rose Legion and the Northern Continent’s powerhouses, relying on the Evil Flood Dragon to crush the advancing soldiers. As the heroes joined the battle, A Ning and the others reminded Lin Bai that they needed a chance to earn military merit.

• The Loulan Emperor ordered the Qilin Crown Prince to lead the Scarlet Rose Legion out of the capital and kill Lin Bai.
• A Ning explained the legion’s rare crimson armor, swift warhorses, and strength to Lin Bai.
• The Evil Flood Dragon shattered the legion’s charge with its roar and battered soldiers who could not pierce its scales.
• Feng Wenjun and the others marveled at Lin Bai’s hidden strength as the Scarlet Rose Legion failed to defeat the dragon.
• Sword Reverent Ye rallied the Northern Continent’s powerhouses to attack Lin Bai together.
• Lin Bai prepared to strike, but A Ning and the others called out that they needed enemies left alive to earn military merit.

Lin Bai and his companions fought the powerhouses on the Evil Flood Dragon, while Lin Bai recognized Ye Jianqiu, an old acquaintance who demanded to know where Jian Ruohan was. Ye Jianqiu stabbed Lin Bai, but Lin Bai held back his allies, accepted the blow as repayment for Ye Jianqiu’s care of Jian Ruohan, and sent him away with a warning.

• Lin Bai let A Ning, Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, Hu Qi, and Mo Qing join the fighting, and Hu Qi revealed the formidable power of his hatchet.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers merged into the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, while Hu Qi, Feng Wenjun, and Shi Jiamu battled the gathered powerhouses.
• Ye Jianqiu confronted Lin Bai and demanded to know where Jian Ruohan was, accusing Lin Bai of causing her terrible suffering.
• Ye Jianqiu stabbed Lin Bai, but Lin Bai stopped A Ning and the others from attacking him and pulled the sword from his chest.
• Lin Bai declared his debt to Ye Jianqiu repaid, struck him away, and warned him to leave or become his mortal enemy.

Lin Bai defeated the forces gathered against him, killed Sword Reverent Ye, and broke through the Loulan Ancient Kingdom’s defenses with the Evil Flood Dragon. He entered the capital as its soldiers and residents fled in panic.

• Ye Jianqiu attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai wounded him and shattered his sword before Sword Reverent Ye arrived with reinforcements.
• Lin Bai used his three flying swords to slaughter the attacking experts and kill Sword Reverent Ye.
• The surviving experts fled, while the Evil Flood Dragon drove back the Scarlet Rose Legion and Lin Bai ordered it into the imperial capital.
• The Evil Flood Dragon tore through the City Protection Formation and destroyed the East City Gate wall as the Loulan Emperor, the Qilin Crown Prince, and the city’s people fled.

Lin Bai forced the Northern Continent to surrender to the Divine Martial Nation, while the Loulan Emperor summoned the Loulan Ancient Kingdom’s ancestor phantom in a last attempt to resist. Lin Bai recognized the phantom as having Two-Calamity Dao Realm strength, but remained undaunted beside the Evil Flood Dragon.

• Lin Bai and the Evil Flood Dragon blocked the fleeing warriors, and Lin Bai demanded that the Northern Continent surrender.
• Sword Reverent Dugu urged Lin Bai to stop the slaughter, but Lin Bai offered the Sword God Family safe passage and vowed to conquer the Northern Continent.
• The Liu, Zhang, and Li Families and other warriors surrendered, and Lin Bai spared everyone except the Loulan imperial clan.
• The surrendered warriors turned against the Loulan imperial clan, while the Loulan Emperor collapsed and the Qilin Crown Prince panicked.
• Prince Gui urged the Loulan Emperor to use the kingdom’s hidden treasure, so the emperor summoned the ancestor’s phantom with the imperial jade seal.
• Lin Bai sensed that the phantom possessed Two-Calamity Dao Realm strength, but the Evil Flood Dragon claimed it could kill such experts with a sneeze.

Lin Bai shattered Loulan Ancient Kingdom’s last defense and accepted its surrender, securing Northern Continent for Divine Martial Nation. After Zhuo Lian arrived to take control, Lin Bai left the region’s stabilization to him and prepared to head to Southern Continent.

• Evil Flood Dragon destroyed Loulan Ancient Kingdom’s ancestor phantom with a glance, and Prince Gui escaped through black mist after Lin Bai’s flying swords pursued him.
• Loulan Emperor surrendered the imperial jade seal to Lin Bai, and the Scarlet Rose Legion knelt and pledged allegiance to Divine Martial Nation.
• Two days later, Zhuo Lian arrived with the Dragon Legion, and Lin Bai handed him the jade seal and responsibility for stabilizing Northern Continent.
• Lin Bai told Zhuo Lian to keep Loulan Emperor and Qilin Crown Prince alive for now and to watch the Sword God Family’s Ye Clan.
• Lin Bai drank in a tavern amid the chaos and planned to leave for Southern Continent at dawn to see how Chu Jiangliu had arranged matters.

After Lin Bai conquered the Northern Continent and headed toward the Southern Continent, the Divine Martial Nation celebrated while the Central Sacred Nation feared an impending war. The Sacred Emperor took comfort in news that experts from the Ancient Immortal Sect and Zhao Family would soon descend, unaware that Lin Bai was waiting for them.

• Imperial Advisor Shang Lang reported Lin Bai's conquest of the Northern Continent to Bai Xiaoxiao, who praised the victory and rewarded Zhuo Lian and the soldiers.
• The Sacred Emperor's officials warned that Lin Bai's advance threatened the Central Sacred Nation, and the Sacred Emperor dismissed them before consulting the Ninth Ancestor.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that experts from the Zhao Family and Ancient Immortal Sect had entered a secret realm and were the only ones who knew the fragments were in the Barren Ancient Continent.
• The Ninth Ancestor received word that Yu Qiudi and dozens of Ancient Immortal Sect and Zhao Family experts would descend to the Barren Ancient Continent within half a month.
• The Sacred Emperor grew confident that the Central Sacred Nation could hold out until the experts arrived, not knowing Lin Bai was waiting for their descent.

Lin Bai arrived in the Southern Continent and found Chu Jiangliu’s army devastated by the Poison God Family’s contagious poison. Mo Qing went to investigate the poison and try to save the infected soldiers.

• Lin Bai asked Mo Qing how he felt about fighting the Poison God Family, and Mo Qing said he would support the Divine Martial Nation without seeking revenge or pleading for the family.
• Lin Bai saw that nearly half of Chu Jiangliu’s army was poisoned and demoralized in the Yong River Mountains.
• Chu Jiangliu reported that a Poison God Family attack had killed over five hundred thousand soldiers and infected more than three hundred thousand with a rapidly spreading poison.
• Mo Qing volunteered to examine the poison, and Lin Bai let him go despite the risk of infection.

Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu decided that the Poison God Family had to be destroyed to secure Southern Continent and protect the Divine Martial Nation. Their discussion was interrupted when Shangguan Cun arrived under orders from the Ancestral Temple of Southern Continent.

• Chu Jiangliu argued that Southern Continent could not be safely ruled while the Poison God Family and its Poison Arts remained, and Lin Bai agreed that the family had to be eradicated.
• Hu Qi, A Ning, and the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers supported destroying the Poison God Family, and Lin Bai ordered a thorough plan and an elite force to hunt down any survivors.
• A soldier announced that Shangguan Cun had come to see Lin Bai, and Lin Bai identified him as a martial artist from the Ancestral Temple of Southern Continent.
• Shangguan Cun greeted Lin Bai in the royal tent and said he had come under orders from the Ancestral Temple's powerful figures.

Shangguan Cun revealed that the Ancestral Temple of the Southern Continent was the Savage Soul Society and offered to mediate the Divine Martial Nation’s takeover of the Southern Continent. Lin Bai accepted, but required a public submission ceremony at the Poison God Family, scheduled for half a month later.

• Lin Bai asked Shangguan Cun whether the Ancestral Temple of the Southern Continent was connected to the Savage Soul Society, and Shangguan Cun confirmed they were the same.
• Shangguan Cun offered to mediate so the Divine Martial Nation could reclaim the Southern Continent without bloodshed and keep it loyal to the nation.
• Lin Bai accepted the offer after consulting Chu Jiangliu, then demanded that the Southern Continent’s tribes and the Poison God Family publicly submit to the Divine Martial Nation.
• Shangguan Cun agreed that the Savage Soul Society would attend the ceremony and set the departure for seven days later.
• Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu agreed to reach the Poison God Family in time to accept the submission within half a month.

Lin Bai planned to use the Savage Soul Society’s peace deal to gather the Southern Continent’s forces at the Poison God Family, then destroy both the Poison God Family and the Savage Soul Society. Seven days later, he and Chu Jiangliu set out with an army, leaving their allies behind for other missions.

• Lin Bai ordered Chu Jiangliu to send two hundred thousand soldiers toward the Poison God Family and prepare another hundred thousand for their departure.
• Lin Bai revealed that he intended to exploit the surrender gathering to destroy the Poison God Family and the Savage Soul Society, which he saw as a threat to the Divine Martial Nation.
• After the Poison God Family announced the Southern Continent’s unconditional surrender, Lin Bai spread word urging its experts and notable forces to attend the gathering.
• Seven days later, Chu Jiangliu led one hundred thousand Chu Family Army soldiers toward the Poison God Family while Lin Bai rode Long Fei above them.
• Lin Bai traveled with Old Man Lone Boat and the Azure Flood Dragon, while the Evil Flood Dragon suppressed its aura to avoid alerting the Savage Soul Society.

Lin Bai and the Chu Family Army traveled to the Poison God Family to accept Southern Province’s surrender while the Savage Soul Society monitored the proceedings. Lin Bai secretly arranged for the Chu Family Army to surround the Poison God Family and prepare to seize its poison strongholds, leaving the attack poised to begin the next morning.

• Old Man Lone Boat accompanied Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu to the Poison God Family, and he and Lin Bai discussed their alliance and the Savage Soul Society’s support.
• Lin Bai learned that Savage Soul Society experts would secretly observe the surrender ceremony, while he arranged for Chu Jiangliu to map Southern Province’s poison arrays and strongholds.
• Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu reached Du Shan City after seven days, and Old Man Lone Boat told them the Poison God Family would receive them the next morning.
• Lin Bai ordered Chu Jiangliu to alert the Chu Family Army, which had gathered around Du Shan City and was ready to surround the Poison God Family on his command.

Lin Bai returned to Southern Continent determined to destroy the Poison God Family, while the Chu Family Army prepared to support him. He reached the Poison God Family’s mountain stronghold for its surrender ceremony, where the region’s leaders had gathered.

• Lin Bai reflected on how Old Man Lone Boat had once stopped him from destroying the Poison God Family and resolved to uproot it this time, even if the Savage Soul Society intervened.
• Chu Jiangliu told Lin Bai that the Poison God Family had prepared to receive them and that the Chu Family Army was ready; he also recalled the family’s earlier attack that had killed five hundred thousand soldiers.
• Lin Bai rode the Evil Flood Dragon toward the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range as Chu Jiangliu led one hundred thousand soldiers behind him, while onlookers recognized and praised Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu entered the Poison God Family’s stronghold and landed on a floating platform where Old Man Lone Boat, Yu Ru, the family’s leaders, and Southern Continent’s tribal chiefs had gathered.

Lin Bai appeared ready to accept the Poison God Family and Southern Continent tribes’ surrender, but a patrol elder revealed that the Chu Family Army had surrounded the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range. Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu launched their attack, leaving the Poison God Family under assault.

• Yu Ru presented Lin Bai with a surrender document on behalf of the Poison God Family and Southern Continent’s tribes, but Lin Bai did not accept it.
• A Poison God Family patrol elder reported that at least two hundred thousand Chu Family Army soldiers had surrounded the Myriad Poisons Mountain Range and sealed every route out.
• Chu Jiangliu signaled the hidden troops, ordered them to attack, and shouted for the Poison God Family to be flattened.
• The Chu Family Army charged into the Poison God Family, and the mountain range became a battlefield filled with fighting and screams.

Lin Bai ordered the Chu Family Army to destroy the Poison God Family despite the surrender agreement, arguing that leaving it intact would threaten Divine Martial Nation’s rule. Yu Ru rallied Southern Continent’s fighters against the invasion, while Old Man Lone Boat watched the battle unfold and recognized how much Lin Bai had changed.

• Lin Bai told Old Man Lone Boat that the Poison God Family had to be destroyed to secure Southern Continent and prevent future threats to Divine Martial Nation.
• Yu Ru accused the Savage Soul Society of betraying Southern Continent, then called on its fighters to join the Poison God Family in resisting Divine Martial Nation.
• The Chu Family Army’s forces attacked across the Poison God Family, and three hundred thousand soldiers broke through the defenses and linked up with the main force.
• Southern Continent’s fighters joined the counterattack, but the Chu Family Army overwhelmed them and drove them back.
• Yu Ru urged Old Man Lone Boat to help, warning that the Savage Soul Society would have nowhere to hide if Southern Continent fell.
• Old Man Lone Boat sighed and told Lin Bai that he had grown beyond the child he once knew.

As the Chu Family Army battled the Poison God Family, Lin Bai confronted the Savage Soul Society’s leaders and baited them into attacking. He left the fight to the Evil Flood Dragon, who revealed his overwhelming confidence and prepared to face three Dao Realm powerhouses.

• Lin Bai refused the soldiers’ offer to escort him to safety and challenged Old Man Lone Boat to decide whether the Savage Soul Society would attack.
• A short Dao Realm powerhouse appeared, followed by a woman who wielded peach-blossom blades and a black-robed man, bringing the Savage Soul Society’s visible force to three.
• The Savage Soul Society’s leaders tried to recruit the Evil Flood Dragon, believing he was only at the First Calamity Dao Realm, but he rejected them and reported that no other Dao Realm powerhouses were present.
• Lin Bai ordered the Evil Flood Dragon to defeat the three, help the Chu Family Army subdue the Poison God Family, prevent the release of the Yin-Yang Fish, and spare Old Man Lone Boat.
• When the short old man attacked Lin Bai, the Evil Flood Dragon easily deflected his palm, then asked the three Savage Soul Society members how they wanted to die.

Lin Bai watched as the Chu Family Army and Evil Flood Dragon destroyed the Poison God Family and seized Southern Continent, then warned Chu Jiangliu that holding the region would be harder than conquering it. He waited for Old Man Lone Boat to arrive, hoping to enlist his help in stabilizing Southern Continent, and the chapter ended with Old Man Lone Boat asking how Lin Bai planned to rule it.

• Lin Bai stayed at Fated Inn and killed Poison God Family experts who tried to escape Myriad Poisons Mountain Range.
• Evil Flood Dragon reported that she had killed three Savage Soul Society members, spared Old Man Lone Boat and the little flood dragon, helped the Chu Family Army, and sealed Ten Thousand Poisons Cave.
• Chu Jiangliu told Lin Bai that the Poison God Family had been destroyed and Southern Continent had been taken, but Lin Bai warned him to prepare for unrest and a long effort to bring the region under control.
• Lin Bai waited at Fated Inn for Old Man Lone Boat, believing his help was necessary to stabilize Southern Continent.
• Old Man Lone Boat arrived and asked Lin Bai how he intended to rule Southern Continent.

Lin Bai secured Old Man Lone Boat’s help to stabilize Southern Continent after threatening to suppress any rebellion with bloodshed. He left Chu Jiangliu in charge of the region and prepared to return to Divine Martial Nation for the coming battle with Central Sacred Nation.

• Lin Bai told Old Man Lone Boat that Divine Martial Nation would claim Southern Continent and crush any rebellion, prompting Old Man Lone Boat to fear a bloody purge.
• Old Man Lone Boat offered to help pacify Southern Continent, and Lin Bai agreed while warning that Divine Martial Nation would resort to force if the effort failed.
• Old Man Lone Boat realized Lin Bai had likely exaggerated his willingness to slaughter the region in order to win his cooperation, but accepted the arrangement to limit further deaths.
• Lin Bai told Chu Jiangliu that Old Man Lone Boat, Earth Emperor Tribe, and Sword Pavilion Tribe would help stabilize Southern Continent, while warning him not to let the region slip beyond Emperor Xiao’s control.
• Lin Bai said he would return to Divine Martial Nation to prepare for the battle with Central Sacred Nation and left Chu Jiangliu responsible for Southern Continent.

Lin Bai returned to Lingnan Imperial City after leaving Chu Jiangliu and Old Man Lone Boat to pacify the Southern Continent, and he discussed the Divine Martial Nation’s security with Bai Xiaoxiao. He then visited the bored Crow, whose complaints reminded him that the Barren Ancient Continent was still home.

• A Ning, Mo Qing, Feng Wenjun, and the others joined Chu Jiangliu in Du Shan City and continued suppressing the Poison God Family’s forces as the Southern Continent descended into chaos.
• Lin Bai rode back to the Eastern Continent, telling his companions that the Southern and Northern Continents would take years to stabilize and that Chu Jiangliu would need to return to the imperial city within half a year.
• Lin Bai met Bai Xiaoxiao in the palace and explained that three members of the Savage Soul Society had been killed while the survivors were unlikely to threaten the Divine Martial Nation.
• Bai Xiaoxiao asked whether Lin Bai would move against the Central Sacred Nation, and he said he would wait for the Upper Realm’s arrival and still had the Crow as a trump card.
• Lin Bai visited the Crow in Phoenix Tree Garden, where it complained about the food and its enforced stay, while Lin Bai explained that he had returned because his family, friends, and home were in the Barren Ancient Continent.

Lin Bai hired the crow to alter Descent Mountain’s formation so Barren Ancient Continent travelers would reach a different territory in the Spirit World, while waiting for the right Ancient Immortal Sect experts to descend. He then agreed to help Zhao Tiedan seek the Western Continent’s Sacred Maiden’s hand in marriage.

• The crow explained that he could not remember his distant home, then agreed to hear Lin Bai’s request after Lin Bai offered money.
• Lin Bai asked the crow to change Descent Mountain’s teleportation route without severing the Barren Ancient Continent’s connection to the Upper Realm, and the crow demanded five hundred billion Vermillion Bird Pills.
• Lin Bai wrote an IOU, and the crow agreed to alter the formation so the Ancient Immortal Sect would not detect the change for five hundred years.
• Lin Bai told the crow to watch Descent Mountain and wait for Yu Qiudi or Zhang Chao to descend before changing the formation, explaining that he expected only a few people to know about the fragment.
• Lin Bai met Zhao Tiedan outside the Phoenix Tree Garden and agreed to go to the Western Continent the next day to ask for the Sacred Maiden’s hand in marriage.
• Zhao Tiedan went to fetch A Ning, Feng Wenjun, and the others so they could discuss the journey.

Lin Bai led Zhao Tiedan and their companions toward the Western Continent to ask Holy Maiden Jiuci to marry Zhao Tiedan, despite knowing the Buddha Land would fiercely oppose it. Lin Bai also intended to investigate the Western Continent’s role in the struggle for supremacy, and the group arrived in its territory.

• Lin Bai gathered his companions and concluded that persuading Holy Maiden Jiuci to leave the clergy would be extraordinarily difficult, but decided to try for Zhao Tiedan’s sake.
• Lin Bai obtained an imperial decree from Emperor Xiao, granting Zhao Tiedan the title of Marquis Tiger, and set out with his companions and betrothal gifts.
• News of the marriage proposal spread across the Barren Ancient Continent, prompting Buddhist believers throughout the Western Continent to gather at Buddha’s Fate Temple and oppose it.
• A Ning explained Holy Maiden Jiuci’s exalted status and warned Lin Bai that the proposal would insult the Western Continent’s Buddhist community.
• Lin Bai told A Ning that he also planned to investigate whether the Western Continent’s monks would enter the struggle for supremacy, while still intending to pursue the marriage if Jiuci returned Zhao Tiedan’s feelings.
• Lin Bai and his companions crossed from the Eastern Continent into the Western Continent while chatting and drinking on the dragon’s back.

Lin Bai arrived in the Western Continent with Zhao Ba to propose marriage to Holy Maiden Jiuci, prompting debate at Buddha's Fate Temple over whether she should return to secular life. Jiuci rejected the proposal, while her Martial Uncle warned that Lin Bai had conquered the Southern and Northern Continents and now controlled most of the Barren Ancient Continent.

• Lin Bai traveled across the Western Continent toward Buddha's Fate Temple, where crowds of cultivators had gathered to discuss his marriage proposal for Zhao Ba.
• The faithful urged the abbot to prevent Holy Maiden Jiuci from leaving the Buddhist sect, but the abbot said the choice belonged to her.
• In an ancient monastery, Jiuci stopped chanting when her Martial Uncle told her that Lin Bai had come to propose to her on Zhao Ba's behalf.
• Jiuci laughed and refused to enter the mortal world or marry Zhao Ba.
• Jiuci's Martial Uncle warned that Lin Bai had recently conquered the Southern and Northern Continents and that the Divine Martial Nation controlled two-thirds of the Barren Ancient Continent.

Holy Maiden Jiuci learned that Sword King Lin Bai was approaching Buddha's Fate Temple to arrange Zhao Ba’s marriage to her, while the Buddhist leaders of Western Continent rallied to resist Divine Martial Nation. Lin Bai arrived near the temple with his companions and announced his visit.

• An old monk told Holy Maiden Jiuci that Lin Bai had conquered Northern and Southern Continents and would reach Buddha's Fate Temple in five days to propose marriage to Zhao Ba.
• After the old monk left, Jiuci remembered Zhao Tiedan and continued chanting alone in the ancient temple.
• Leaders of the seven great Buddhist cities summoned Western Continent’s Buddhist sects and temples to unite and protect Jiuci from Lin Bai.
• Evil Flood Dragon carried Lin Bai and his companions across Western Continent, where they saw countless monks gathered around Buddha's Fate Temple.
• Lin Bai announced that he, A Ning, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, Mo Qing, and Zhao Ba had come to visit Buddha's Fate Temple.

Lin Bai and his companions arrived at Buddha's Fate Temple, where millions of monks had gathered to oppose Zhao Tiedan marrying Holy Maiden Jiuci. The temple's abbot welcomed them and arranged a meeting with Jiuci, while the tense gathering in the side hall left the two sides facing each other like armies.

• Lin Bai and his companions saw millions of monks gathered before Buddha's Fate Temple, and A Ning explained that many had come to stop Zhao Tiedan from marrying Jiuci.
• Lin Bai announced their arrival and paid his respects to the temple as monks below cursed and condemned them.
• Master Liuyun, the temple's abbot, welcomed Lin Bai and his companions, accepted Zhao Tiedan's gifts, and led them through the temple halls.
• Lin Bai asked Master Liuyun to introduce Jiuci, and the abbot invited him and Zhao Tiedan to wait in a side hall while someone summoned her.
• Shi Jiamu whispered to Feng Wenjun that the crowded monks opposite them seemed hostile, and Feng Wenjun silently agreed.