Recaps

The Sixteen Immortal Docks besieged Mooring Moon Bay, but the Xiao Family's Nine Mountains Sea-Suppressing Formation held firm. Wu Yuan lured the Xiao Family's experts away so Serpent Hall could attack from within, though he worried the plan was going too smoothly.

• The Sixteen Immortal Docks' forces attacked Mooring Moon Bay's formation while its higher-ups watched from a ship on the Immortal Corpse River.
• Wu Yuan ordered the Sixteen Immortal Docks' experts to draw out the Xiao Family's fighters and have Serpent Hall prepare to strike from inside.
• Xiao Ji sent the Xiao Family's experts to meet the Sixteen Immortal Docks' main-hall fighters, and both sides battled away from the bay.
• Wu Yuan saw the Xiao Family's experts had left and ordered Serpent Hall to act.
• Wu Yuan's son asked why he seemed unhappy, and Wu Yuan admitted he felt the plan was proceeding too smoothly.

Wu Yuan worried that the Sixteen Immortal Docks' plan was going too smoothly, while his son Wu Dong boasted of his strength. As Mooring Moon Bay descended into chaos, Xiao Ji called on Lin Bai, under the name Qing Luo, to fight without distinguishing friend from foe.

• Wu Yuan warned Wu Dong not to underestimate Xiao Ji, but Wu Dong insisted he could defeat him at the same cultivation level.
• Serpent Hall's hidden fighters and allied forces attacked the Xiao Family across Mooring Moon Bay after the Xiao Family's experts had been lured away.
• Xiao Ji revealed to the Cane-Bearing Elder that he had deliberately exposed the Sixteen Immortal Docks' hidden pawns, and the elder warned him not to lose control of the situation.
• Xiao Ji ordered Qing Luo to fight anyone attacking him, regardless of their identity, to help end the chaos.
• The Cane-Bearing Elder recalled meeting Qing Luo years earlier and agreed to see how much the young man had changed.

Lin Bai left the Xiao Family to defend Mooring Moon Bay and slaughtered hundreds of attackers with his demon sword. Xiao Ji and the Cane-Bearing Elder watched in shock as Lin Bai extracted the dead martial artists’ Dao Fruits and refined them into power.

• A messenger told Lin Bai that Mooring Moon Bay’s Formation Eyes were under attack, and Xiao Ji had ordered him to kill anyone who attacked him after he left the Xiao Family.
• Lin Bai refused to let Zhou Xi accompany him and hurried alone toward the battlefront, where corpses covered the streets.
• Xiao Ji identified Lin Bai to the Cane-Bearing Elder, who recognized that the man leaving the Xiao Family was not Young Master Qing Luo.
• Several attackers rushed Lin Bai, and he killed the first three with a single sword strike before confronting the hundreds behind them.
• Lin Bai charged into the crowd and killed all several hundred martial artists in moments, then extracted their Dao Fruits and refined them into power.

Lin Bai headed for North Moon Pavilion, one of the remaining Formation Eyes in Mooring Moon Bay, after absorbing Dao Fruits and advancing his seventh God Seal. He learned the password used by Sixteen Immortal Docks and approached a Swordfish Gang patrol, which spotted him as he came down the street.

• Lin Bai extracted Dao Fruits from the corpses he had slain and used their power to form his seventh God Seal and restore his other six.
• Xiao Ji and the Cane-Bearing Elder watched Lin Bai head toward North Moon District, where Sixteen Immortal Docks and rebellious families were attacking one of the last two surviving Formation Eyes.
• Lin Bai landed outside North Moon Pavilion and wounded a Calamity Dao Realm warrior who demanded a password, then used Soul Search to learn that the phrase was “The moon sets over the eastern shore; an exiled immortal descends to the mortal world.”
• Lin Bai killed the wounded warrior, absorbed his Dao Fruit, and continued toward North Moon District.
• A Swordfish Gang patrol discussed the Xiao Family’s lack of reinforcements and its promised rewards from Sixteen Immortal Docks before noticing Lin Bai approaching.

Lin Bai arrived in North Moon District and killed the Swordfish Gang’s vice gang leader and dozens of gang members with his sword. After learning that the lone Quasi-Dao Realm fighter had slain an Eighth Calamity expert, Yan Guang went to investigate while Fourth Uncle Yan continued the attack on North Moon Pavilion.

• The Swordfish Gang’s vice gang leader mistook Lin Bai for a Xiao Family reinforcement and attacked him.
• Lin Bai killed the Eighth Calamity Dao Realm vice gang leader with one sword strike, then slaughtered most of the gang members who charged him.
• Xiao Ji watched Lin Bai fight and was astonished that he could defeat an Eighth Calamity Dao Realm expert while at the Quasi-Dao Realm.
• A surviving Swordfish Gang member used a Sound Transmission Talisman to report Lin Bai’s strength and request support.
• Fourth Uncle Yan told Yan Guang that the Swordfish Gang was fighting a lone Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist who had killed its vice gang leader.
• Yan Guang ordered Fourth Uncle Yan to continue attacking North Moon Pavilion and took people to investigate Lin Bai.

Yan Guang led Serpent Hall experts to investigate the Swordfish Gang’s massacre and found Lin Bai hiding nearby. After Lin Bai revealed his strength and routed the attackers, the survivors fled with Yan Guang, but Lin Bai caught up to them.

• Yan Guang ignored Fourth Uncle Yan’s warning and brought more than twenty Seven-Tribulation Dao Realm experts to investigate the Swordfish Gang’s deaths.
• At Sky Valley Street, Yan Guang’s men found the Swordfish Gang members killed by swift sword strikes, and Yan Guang warned them that the Quasi-Dao Realm killer was hiding nearby.
• Yan Guang used golden insect-like creatures to locate Lin Bai, who emerged from the building and asked the incoming general to give his name.
• Yan Guang introduced himself with a taunt and ordered his men to attack Lin Bai, who recognized their disciplined formation and planned to use their leader’s status to his advantage.
• Lin Bai unleashed Azure Sea Torrent, killing half the Serpent Hall attackers and badly wounding the rest; Yan Guang recognized the Azure Sea Sutra and the survivors fled with him.
• Lin Bai caught up with Yan Guang as he tried to escape.

Lin Bai defeated Yan Guang’s Serpent Hall guards and captured him alive, then prepared a trap while allowing him to call for help. The chapter ended with Yan Guang holding Sound Transmission Talismans and Lin Bai waiting to see whom he would summon.

• The Serpent Hall martial artists tried to flee with Yan Guang, but Lin Bai blocked their path and refused Yan Guang’s offer of support from the Sixteen Immortal Docks.
• Yan Guang ordered the injured martial artists to attack while he escaped, and Lin Bai killed them before striking Yan Guang down without killing him.
• Yan Guang revealed that he was the son of the Serpent Hall Master, but Lin Bai dragged him away and broke his legs when he tried to escape.
• Lin Bai searched an empty street and used three flying swords to carve hidden marks into the surrounding buildings, ground, and sky.
• Lin Bai took Yan Guang’s Sound Transmission Talismans from his Storage Bag and gave them to him so he could call for help.

Lin Bai let Yan Guang call for help, then waited on Gold Cat Street for Fourth Uncle Yan and the Serpent Hall reinforcements to arrive. Fourth Uncle Yan found Yan Guang alive and tried to negotiate with Lin Bai, who offered no explanation for his strange game.

• Lin Bai gave Yan Guang Sound Transmission Talismans and promised to spare him if help arrived within three hours.
• Yan Guang called Fourth Uncle Yan and, with Lin Bai’s prompting, told him he was trapped in the Gold Cat Street district.
• Fourth Uncle Yan gathered more than five hundred Serpent Hall experts and rushed from North Moon Pavilion to rescue Yan Guang.
• Fourth Uncle Yan found Yan Guang injured but alive in the deserted Gold Cat Street district, with Lin Bai watching from a rooftop.
• Fourth Uncle Yan offered to let Lin Bai leave Mooring Moon Bay peacefully if he released Yan Guang, but Lin Bai pointed out that Yan Guang was already free to be rescued.

Lin Bai used Yan Guang as bait to draw in the Serpent Hall warriors and slaughtered more than five hundred of them with the Three Kill Sword Formation. He killed Fourth Uncle Yan, then forced Yan Guang to keep calling for reinforcements while Lin Bai refined Dao Fruits and formed a seventh God Seal.

• Lin Bai taunted Fourth Uncle Yan and killed the Serpent Hall warriors who tried to rescue Yan Guang.
• Lin Bai activated the Three Kill Sword Formation and annihilated the Serpent Hall warriors who attacked him.
• Fourth Uncle Yan tried to seize Yan Guang, but Lin Bai stopped him and beheaded him.
• Lin Bai told Yan Guang he was baiting experts from the Sixteen Immortal Docks and threatened to kill him unless he called for reinforcements.
• Lin Bai refined the Dao Fruits into a seventh God Seal and set up the Three Kill Sword Formation again.

Lin Bai used Yan Guang to lure thousands of Sixteen Immortal Docks experts into his Three Kill Sword Formation and killed them, advancing his God Seals toward completion. After Yan Guang ran out of contacts, he summoned Wu Dong, who arrived in Sakura Street as Lin Bai waited for him.

• Lin Bai killed successive waves of Sixteen Immortal Docks reinforcements, while his God Seals condensed to the eighth and the phantom of the ninth appeared.
• When Yan Guang said he had no one left to contact, Lin Bai prepared to kill him, but Yan Guang pleaded for his life and chose another Sound Transmission Talisman.
• Yan Guang contacted Wu Dong, the son of Wu Yuan and a favored disciple of the Candle Dragon Sect, and asked him to bring powerful reinforcements.
• Wu Dong told Wu Yuan about Yan Guang's plea, then flew to Mooring Moon Bay after his father agreed.
• Lin Bai set the Three Kill Sword Formation on Sakura Street and waited; after night fell, Wu Dong arrived and greeted the injured Yan Guang.

Wu Dong arrived in Sakura Street to rescue Yan Guang and challenged Lin Bai, while Xiao Ji told the Cane-Bearing Elder how insignificant Lian Province’s cultivators were within the Eternal Devil Sect. Lin Bai overwhelmed Wu Dong with Azure Sea Torrent, leaving Wu Dong bloodied and defeated.

• Wu Dong arrived in Sakura Street and dismissed Yan Guang’s warning, judging Lin Bai’s formation clumsy and its Formation Eye easy to find.
• Lin Bai traded taunts with Wu Dong, then evaded hundreds of attacks after Wu Dong smashed the buildings around them.
• Xiao Ji told the Cane-Bearing Elder that Lian Province’s alliance was the weakest within the Eternal Devil Sect and that even Xiao Ji had been an ordinary disciple there.
• Lin Bai challenged Wu Dong to withstand one sword and unleashed Azure Sea Torrent, breaking through Wu Dong’s defenses and sending him flying as he spat blood.

Lin Bai defeated Wu Dong, but Wu Yuan arrived and struck him down before he could finish the fight. Lin Bai unleashed the Three Kill Sword Formation and fled as Wu Yuan attacked him from afar.

• Lin Bai overwhelmed Wu Dong with sword intent, leaving him badly wounded and unable to resist.
• Wu Dong called for his father, and Wu Yuan left the tower ship to rush into Mooring Moon Bay.
• Xiao Ji revealed that he had allowed the attack to expose Sixteen Immortal Docks' hidden agents and planned to conquer them.
• Lin Bai moved to kill Wu Dong, but Wu Yuan intervened, shattered Lin Bai's attack, and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai deployed the Three Kill Sword Formation to break Wu Yuan's restraint and ran, while Wu Yuan struck at him from a distance.

Xiao Ji intervened when Wu Yuan attacked Lin Bai, then confronted Wu Yuan over the Sixteen Immortal Docks’ assault on Mooring Moon Bay. Wu Yuan revealed his peak Dao Venerable cultivation and his Red Hill City allies, including the man who helped kill Xiao Ji’s father, as the battle began.

• Wu Yuan repelled Lin Bai’s strike against Wu Dong and attacked Lin Bai, but Xiao Ji arrived and dispersed Wu Yuan’s storming palm.
• Xiao Ji accused Wu Yuan of disguising the Sixteen Immortal Docks’ warriors as Xuanzhou fighters, while Wu Yuan demanded Mooring Moon Bay’s surrender.
• Xiao Ji refused to surrender, and Wu Yuan unleashed his peak Dao Venerable power, forcing Lin Bai away.
• Wu Yuan summoned more than a dozen Dao Venerables from Red Hill City, including Zhang Zun and Du Yunyong.
• Du Yunyong admitted that he and Wu Yuan had killed Xiao Ji’s father, and Xiao Ji revealed his long-standing desire for revenge.

Xiao Ji revealed that he had reached the Dao Immortal realm and used the Dragon Suppression Seal to annihilate Wu Yuan, Du Yunyong, and the other Sixteen Immortal Docks experts. After Xiao Ji left to attack the docks’ remaining forces, Lin Bai gathered Dao Fruits and condensed his ninth God Seal.

• Wu Yuan and Du Yunyong led dozens of Dao Sovereigns in an attack on Xiao Ji, but his aura alone wounded them all.
• Xiao Ji revealed he had been a Dao Immortal since before returning to Lianzhou and said he had waited five years to destroy his enemies.
• Wu Yuan and Du Yunyong ordered a retreat, but Xiao Ji unleashed the Dragon Suppression Seal, whose golden dragon killed them and the other experts.
• Xiao Ji explained the seal’s power and danger to Lin Bai, then left to attack the remaining Sixteen Immortal Docks experts.
• Lin Bai gathered Dao Fruits from corpses across Mooring Moon Bay and condensed his ninth God Seal.

After Mooring Moon Bay defeated the Sixteen Immortal Docks, Lin Bai considered how to survive the ordinary tribulation and Heaven’s Wrath Tribulation and chose the Eternal Devil Sect as his best chance to find resources and protection. Xiao Ji told him the sect’s disciples had arrived at the Candle Dragon Sect and urged him to maintain his Qing Luo identity before they went there together.

• Lin Bai returned safely to the Xiao Family and told Zhou Xi that the Xiao Family had won, and two days later news spread that Xiao Ji had slaughtered nearly all the Sixteen Immortal Docks’ leaders.
• Lin Bai secluded himself to stabilize his nine God Seals, then weighed the difficulties of cultivating his Dao Body, finding a tribulation-evading treasure, or locating a Blessed Land.
• Lin Bai decided to seek help from the Eternal Devil Sect and hoped to use Qing Luo’s identity to enter its ranks.
• Xiao Ji told Lin Bai that Mooring Moon Bay would take control of the Immortal Corpse River and that Elder Huang Hang had invited him to the Candle Dragon Sect in three days.
• Xiao Ji urged Lin Bai to remember that he was Qing Luo and to keep a low profile, hinting that he knew Lin Bai’s identity was not what it seemed.

Lin Bai agreed to enter the Eternal Devil Sect under Qing Luo’s identity and join the Lian Province Alliance in exchange for Xiao Ji’s help. Xiao Ji explained the danger of the growing conflict between the Eternal Thirteen Provinces and the Crimson Moon Eighteen Provinces, and Lin Bai prepared to bind himself to the alliance despite its precarious position.

• Lin Bai told Xiao Ji he wanted to go to the Eternal Devil Sect, and Xiao Ji asked him to join the Lian Province Alliance if he was admitted.
• Lin Bai revealed his real name and explained that Qing Luo had died after Lin Bai found him near Zhan Mountain City.
• Xiao Ji warned Lin Bai not to reveal that he had taken Qing Luo’s identity because he could be branded a spy amid rising tensions between the provinces.
• Xiao Ji arranged a story to explain Qing Luo’s changed appearance and said he was helping the Lian Province Alliance recruit Lin Bai, whose strength impressed him.
• Lin Bai agreed to join the Lian Province Alliance and help it when needed if he entered the Eternal Devil Sect.

Xiao Ji brought Lin Bai and his companions to Candle Dragon Sect, where they were received as guests ahead of a meeting with Eternal Devil Sect disciples. As they settled into Kongming Mountain, a commotion broke out on the spirit path outside.

• Xiao Ji spread rumors that Qing Luo had recovered from severe injuries but looked completely different, allowing Lin Bai to assume his identity openly.
• After preparing affairs at Mooring Moon Bay, Xiao Ji led Lin Bai, Zhou Xi, Sun Yao, Xiao Lie, and others to Candle Dragon Sect to visit Huang Hang.
• The group traveled to Candle Dragon Sect, where a steward welcomed Xiao Ji and explained that the Lian Province Alliance had sent thirty-two experts, including Li Yumen.
• Zhou Xi and Sun Yao told Lin Bai that Li Yumen and the other named experts were renowned former geniuses of Lian Province.
• The steward escorted the group to Kongming Mountain, where they heard a noisy commotion coming from the spirit path.

Xiao Ji reunited with Li Yumen and learned that the Crimson Moon Divine Sect was secretly aiding Xuanzhou in its invasion of Lianzhou. Lin Bai warned that the scheme was meant to provoke the Eternal Devil Sect into escalating the conflict, and Xiao Ji introduced him to the gathered disciples as a powerful nominal disciple.

• Lin Bai and Xiao Ji encountered Li Yumen and more than twenty Eternal Devil Sect disciples, who were angry that Elder Huang Hang had forbidden them from fighting in Lianzhou.
• Li Yumen invited Xiao Ji for a drink before leading him to his courtyard, where he explained that Crimson Moon Divine Sect disciples were secretly helping Xuanzhou attack Lianzhou.
• Li Yumen and the other disciples complained that they could not stand aside while their home region was invaded, but Xiao Ji urged them to hear Lin Bai's view.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the Crimson Moon Divine Sect had deliberately exposed its involvement to lure the Eternal Devil Sect into a larger war.
• Xiao Ji introduced Lin Bai as Qing Luo, a nominal disciple from the Qing Lineage, and told Li Yumen that Lin Bai was very strong.

Lin Bai traveled with Li Yumen and other Eternal Devil Sect disciples from Lian Province to Heng Province, where the sect’s Eternal Mountain Range stood. After months of travel, they arrived near the sect and saw its magnificent mountain halls in the clouds.

• Li Yumen encouraged Lin Bai after learning that Qing Luo’s family had been betrayed and Clearwater City destroyed.
• Huang Hang asked Lin Bai to remain in Candle Dragon Mountain until the Eternal Devil Sect disciples were ready to return.
• Xiao Ji told Lin Bai that Huang Hang was sending Li Yumen and others back to report on Lian Province’s crisis, and Lin Bai joined them with Zhou Xi and Sun Yao.
• Li Yumen explained their route through the provinces, and the group traveled by teleportation arrays and spirit vessel for months before entering Heng Province.
• Lin Bai and the others reached the vicinity of the Eternal Mountain Range and saw the Eternal Devil Sect’s pavilions rising above the clouds.

Lin Bai arrived at the Eternal Devil Sect and registered to take its entrance examination, which had three trials. After receiving his examination date, he encountered Wu Xiangwen with Li Yumen in the plaza.

• Li Yumen showed Lin Bai and Zhou Xi the Eternal Devil Sect’s outer region and explained that Lin Bai would need to pass an examination to enter the inner sect.
• Li Yumen described the three trials: comprehending a Mystic Art, fighting opponents, and climbing the Celestial Palace stairways.
• The steward at Heaven’s Mandate Hall stamped Lin Bai’s Identity Token and scheduled his examination for three days later.
• Lin Bai and Li Yumen left the hall, where Wu Xiangwen appeared and drew angry looks from Li Yumen and the Lian Province Alliance martial artists.

Lin Bai and the Lian Province Alliance encountered Wu Xiangwen and Wu Yuanlin, who threatened to target him during the entrance trial. Lin Bai refused to postpone the trial and settled in a mountain dwelling, where he prepared for the three tests and worried most about the Enlightenment Trial.

• Wu Xiangwen mocked Li Yumen and the Lian Province Alliance, then told Wu Yuanlin to attack Lin Bai during the trial three days later.
• Lin Bai stopped Li Yumen from confronting Wu Xiangwen and answered Wu Yuanlin's threat with a warning of his own.
• Li Yumen and the other Lian Province martial artists urged Lin Bai to change his trial date, but he refused and said he would pass.
• Lin Bai, Zhou Xi, and Sun Yao found an empty dwelling by a stream and prepared to stay there before the trial.
• Lin Bai considered the Enlightenment, Battle, and Celestial Palace Trials and decided that the Enlightenment Trial was his greatest uncertainty.

Lin Bai prepared for the Eternal Devil Sect examination and discovered that martial artists from other provinces despised those from Lian Province. He reached Heaven's Mandate Hall and waited for the examination to begin while Wu Yuanlin and his followers mocked him.

• Pang He and several other martial artists approached Lin Bai, but withdrew or sneered after learning he was from Lian Province.
• Zhou Xi and Sun Yao warned Lin Bai to be careful before he set out for Heaven's Mandate Hall.
• Lin Bai showed his Identity Token, passed the checkpoint, and took a meditation cushion in the crowded examination square.
• Lin Bai observed the five elderly examiners and the varied martial artists gathered to take the examination.
• Wu Yuanlin and his followers recognized Lin Bai and mocked him for coming from Lian Province, but Lin Bai ignored them and waited calmly.

Lin Bai waited with the other candidates for the Eternal Devil Sect's entrance assessment, while Wu Yuanlin and his companions threatened him. The drunken Martial Uncle Yan delivered the wrong scripture, so the elders began the Enlightenment Trial using the difficult 'Four Intentions of Extinction' and allowed the candidates one hour to memorize it.

• Wu Yuanlin told his companions to target Lin Bai during the assessment, while Lin Bai ignored their provocations.
• A drunken Martial Uncle Yan arrived late and gave the elders the 'Four Intentions of Extinction' instead of the 'Six Harmonies Art.'
• The elders decided they could not replace the scripture and lowered the passing requirement to grasping some of its surface.
• The elders announced the Enlightenment Trial and gave the candidates one hour to memorize the 'Four Intentions of Extinction.'

Lin Bai and the other examinees began the Eternal Devil Sect’s examination by trying to memorize the difficult Four Intentions of Extinction. He resisted using the Devouring Sword Soul to cheat and gradually began piecing together the scripture as he studied it.

• Senior Brother Zhang announced that examinees would be tested on the Four Intentions of Extinction, provoking angry protests from Hengzhou martial artists who had expected the Six Harmonies Art.
• Senior Brother Zhang suppressed the complaints and said the examinees only needed to grasp the technique’s superficial meaning to pass.
• Senior Brother Zhang activated the scroll, revealing golden characters that the examinees struggled to memorize as the scripture’s Dao intent disrupted their minds.
• Lin Bai saw other examinees use talismans and secret arts to help themselves, but chose not to use the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the scripture’s Dao intent.
• Lin Bai repeatedly read the scripture, gradually memorizing more characters and filling in gaps in his understanding.

Lin Bai memorized the Four Intentions of Extinction and entered a vision of the changing seasons to comprehend its meaning. After cycling through spring, summer, autumn, and winter ninety-nine times, he mastered the art’s seasonal transformations, leaving the trial’s other participants still trying to comprehend it.

• Senior Brother Zhang collected the scripture after the one-hour study period and gave the martial artists three days to comprehend it before seeking approval to enter the second trial.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had memorized the entire scripture and began studying it in a state of sudden enlightenment.
• Lin Bai experienced a vision of the world passing through spring’s growth, summer’s heat, autumn’s destruction, and winter’s snow.
• After the seasonal cycle repeated ninety-nine times, Lin Bai understood the Four Intentions of Extinction and learned to make Heaven and Earth transform with his gestures and steps.