Recaps

After their failed attempt to take Arid Dragon City, Di Lin concluded that Qing Luo was the key to the city's resistance and decided to have him killed. The Twenty-Seven Demons agreed to follow Di Lin, despite the risk of provoking the Eternal Devil Sect and exposing the Eternal Demon Alliance.

• Di Lin reassured the Twenty-Seven Demons after their failed operation and they discussed whether the Eternal Devil Sect would send support to Shan Province.
• Di Lin urged the demons to capture Arid Dragon City within a month, before the Eternal Devil Sect's experts could arrive.
• Di Lin argued that Qing Luo had united the city's forces and that killing him would leave them divided and vulnerable.
• The demons warned that killing Qing Luo could bring the Eternal Devil Sect's wrath and expose the Eternal Demon Alliance.
• Di Lin accepted responsibility for the plan to kill Qing Luo, and the Twenty-Seven Demons agreed to carry it out.

Lin Bai feared Arid Dragon City would fall before the Eternal Devil Sect’s experts arrived and realized a night crow had exposed a breach in Fuyun Estate. Di Lin and twenty-six other Demons appeared to pressure Lin Bai into stopping his interference, leaving him to confront the Demon Race’s envoy.

• Lin Bai told Liu Jiangxue he feared Arid Dragon City’s hastily united defenders would fail against the Demon Race and worried about the enemy’s next move.
• After hearing a night crow inside the supposedly sealed Fuyun Estate, Lin Bai ordered Liu Jiangxue to take Liu An'an and alert Zhou Xi, Sun Yao, and Zhong Yuan.
• Twenty-seven shadowy figures appeared around the lakeside pavilion, and Di Lin introduced himself as a representative of the Demon Race.
• Di Lin asked Lin Bai to stop using unexpected tactics in Mountain Province, claiming the Eternal Devil Sect would not interfere.
• Lin Bai challenged Di Lin’s claim that he was merely a minor demon and alluded to the Mirage Demon, while concealing that he knew of the Eternal Demon Alliance.

Di Lin confronted Lin Bai at Fuyun Estate and demanded that he stay there for the next half month while the Demon Race carried out its plan to seize Arid Dragon City. Lin Bai agreed, and Di Lin left two experts to watch over him as the Demon Race prepared for the arrival of the Eternal Devil Sect.

• Zhou Xi, Sun Yao, Liu Jiangxue, and Liu An'an returned to the pavilion after the Mirage Demon's mist made them circle back to Fuyun Estate.
• Di Lin explained that the Twenty-Seven Demons had trapped the estate and told Lin Bai that the Demon Race intended to seize Arid Dragon City within half a month.
• Di Lin asked Lin Bai to remain in Fuyun Estate and not interfere, promising that the Demon Race would not harm him or those around him.
• Lin Bai agreed to stay, explaining that he had only helped defend Arid Dragon City because the Demon Race's advance threatened his ability to leave.
• Di Lin said he would leave two experts in the western pavilion to monitor Lin Bai, and Lin Bai welcomed them to stay.

Lin Bai accepted that he could no longer do more to protect Arid Dragon City and planned to wait in Fuyun Estate while the city faced the Demon Race. He left the city's fate to its defenders and hoped they could hold the City Protection Formation until the Eternal Devil Sect arrived.

• Di Lin ordered Kang Tu and Evil Soul to watch Lin Bai and prevent him and the martial artists of Arid Dragon City from interfering with the Demon Race's plans for half a month.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xi and the others that they should remain peacefully in Fuyun Estate until they could leave in half a month.
• Lin Bai explained that Arid Dragon City lacked powerful experts and could rely only on its City Protection Formation and its Dao God realm martial artists against the Twenty-Seven Demons.
• Lin Bai concluded that Arid Dragon City had to defend the City Protection Formation to the death and endure until the Eternal Devil Sect's experts arrived.

While Lin Bai remained under watch in Fuyun Estate, the Twenty-Seven Demons devastated Treasure Seeking Commerce, prompting Azure Dragon Commerce to pull back its forces and accept further civilian deaths. Zhong Yuan discovered that demons had taken control of Fuyun Estate, but two of them appeared and trapped him and Zhou Xi.

• Lin Bai secretly watched for the two demons in Fuyun Estate while remaining cut off from news outside.
• Zhong Yuan told his father that the Twenty-Five Demons had attacked Treasure Seeking Commerce, killing experts and looting its treasury.
• The president of Azure Dragon Commerce ordered experts recalled to defend the associations and city gates, abandoning the hunt and leaving the city's martial artists exposed.
• Zhong Yuan went to Fuyun Estate, where Zhou Xi claimed Lin Bai was still in secluded cultivation and said the city would have to rely on its own fate.
• Zhou Xi's reaction led Zhong Yuan to realize demons had seized Fuyun Estate, but two demons appeared and surrounded him and Zhou Xi.

Lin Bai called on Li Mojun to intervene after Kang Tu and Evil Soul threatened Zhong Yuan and Zhou Xi, and Li Mojun killed the two Demon Kings with divine thunder. Li Mojun then revealed that the Eternal Devil Sect had sent a massive force to reinforce Shanzhou, leaving Arid Dragon City with powerful reinforcements on the way.

• Kang Tu and Evil Soul threatened to kill Zhong Yuan and Zhou Xi, but Lin Bai confronted them and counted to three.
• Li Mojun descended from the sky and killed Kang Tu and Evil Soul with divine thunder.
• Lin Bai and the others greeted Li Mojun, who explained that he had come to Shanzhou after receiving Lin Bai's letter.
• Li Mojun said the Eternal Devil Sect had sent thousands of Dao Venerable- and Dao Immortal-level experts and more than five hundred Dao God Realm experts to reinforce Shanzhou.
• Li Mojun revealed that he had brought seven experts who had cultivated the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm to Arid Dragon City, and Zhong Yuan joyfully thanked the sect.

After the Twenty-Seven Demons were ordered to retreat from Arid Dragon City, two Great Purity Dao Fruit elders of the Eternal Devil Sect ambushed them and began hunting them down. Lin Bai and Li Mojun went to witness the pursuit, while Li Mojun questioned Lin Bai about the Eternal Demon Alliance.

• Di Lin learned that Li Mojun and the Eternal Devil Sect's reinforcements were approaching, so he ordered the demons to scatter and retreat.
• Ke Yu and the Seventeenth Elder of the Eternal Devil Sect trapped Di Lin's group in an alley and killed several demons as they fled.
• Di Lin escaped while one demon sacrificed himself to hold off the Seventeenth Elder, who pursued Di Lin.
• Li Mojun sensed the battle and went with Lin Bai to investigate, while Lin Bai sent Zhong Yuan to spread news of the reinforcements and left Zhou Xi to protect Sun Yao, Liu Jiangxue, and the others.
• Li Mojun asked Lin Bai whether the Eternal Demon Alliance truly existed as a hidden force within the Eternal Thirteen Provinces.

Lin Bai warned Li Mojun that the hidden Eternal Demon Alliance could be plotting to seize the Eternal Thirteen Provinces, possibly with the Evil Moon Sect's backing. After the crisis in Arid Dragon City was suppressed, Li Mojun headed to the main battlefield while Lin Bai returned to the Azure Dragon Commerce, where a woman teased him about his capture by the demons.

• Lin Bai told Li Mojun that the Eternal Demon Alliance could command demons across the Eternal Thirteen Provinces and might be preparing to overthrow the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Li Mojun ordered Third Elder Ke Yu to take the captured Di Lin back to the sect for strict interrogation.
• Li Mojun left with seven elders for Alarming Sun City and the Azure Thunder Sect, while Lin Bai went to the Azure Dragon Commerce.
• The leaders of Arid Dragon City welcomed Lin Bai and learned that Li Mojun had already departed.
• A woman in the meeting hall teased Lin Bai about being placed under house arrest in Fuyun Estate, and Lin Bai searched the crowd for her.

Lin Bai told the leaders of Arid Dragon City that the Eternal Devil Sect had exterminated the Twenty-Seven Demons, ending the city’s immediate crisis. As he prepared to return to the sect, the three great commercial organizations thanked him with treasures while Qin Yuyan stayed behind to do business in the recovering cities.

• Lin Bai reunited with Qin Yuyan in Arid Dragon City and told the commercial leaders that the Eternal Devil Sect elders had killed the Twenty-Seven Demons, including Di Lin.
• Warriors found the demons’ remains and hung their heads above the city gates, restoring peace to Arid Dragon City.
• Qin Yuyan remained in Arid Dragon City to trade with the commercial organizations and later planned to visit Alarming Sun City and the Azure Thunder Sect, while Lin Bai refused to accompany her.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xi, Sun Yao, and the others that they would return to the Eternal Devil Sect the next day.
• The presidents of the three great commercial organizations thanked Lin Bai and presented him with the Violet Sword, the Twelve Celestial Star Orbs, and the Tranquil Radiance Inner Armor.

Lin Bai returned to the Eternal Devil Sect with Zhou Xi, Sun Yao, Liu Jiangxue, and Liu An'an after receiving three treasures from the presidents of Arid Dragon City's commercial guilds. After resting, he reassured Liu Jiangxue that she and her sister could stay and cultivate at the Sword Hiding Hermitage, then sensed an unexpected visitor at its protection formation.

• The presidents of the three commercial guilds gave Lin Bai the Violet Sword, the Twelve Celestial Star Orbs, and the Tranquil Radiance Inner Armor, which he accepted.
• Lin Bai and the others left Arid Dragon City, traveled through several provinces, and returned to the Eternal Devil Sect after seven or eight days.
• Lin Bai entrusted Liu Jiangxue and Liu An'an to Zhou Xi, then slept for three days at the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Lin Bai found Liu Jiangxue troubled by feeling like an outsider and promised she and Liu An'an could remain safely at the hermitage and later petition to join the sect.
• Lin Bai sensed someone striking the Sword Hiding Hermitage's protection formation and wondered why she had come.

Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that Li Yumen had gone missing after trying to find her and visiting the Sword Hiding Hermitage. Lin Bai suspected Young Master Lu and the Bone Race were involved, but concluded that Li Yumen was probably still alive because of the ten million Devil Orbs he had taken.

• Jiang Xuansu struck the Sword Hiding Hermitage’s Mountain Protection Formation with one palm before entering to speak with Lin Bai.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that Li Yumen had gone missing after being turned away from Immortal Buddha Grotto and leaving the Lian Province Alliance.
• Jiang Xuansu said Li Yumen had seemed troubled before vanishing and had visited the Sword Hiding Hermitage several times while Lin Bai was away.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu suspected that Young Master Lu and the Bone Race might have targeted Li Yumen because Lin Bai had ruined their transaction.
• Lin Bai concluded that Li Yumen was likely alive if he had fallen into Young Master Lu’s hands, leaving Jiang Xuansu astonished.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu searched for Li Yumen and visited Senior Sister Yi Mei, hoping she could explain his disappearance. Yi Mei warned them away from the people who had taken him, then collapsed from a grievous Sword Qi injury that Lin Bai began to treat.

• Lin Bai explained that the Bone Clan and Young Master Lu were likely keeping Li Yumen alive to learn where their stolen treasure had gone, and Jiang Xuansu agreed to help confront them.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu went to the Lian Province Alliance and found Senior Sister Yi Mei's residence.
• Yi Mei recognized that they had come to ask about Li Yumen and warned Lin Bai that he had provoked dangerous people and was unlikely to survive.
• Yi Mei suddenly vomited blood and collapsed, and Jiang Xuansu identified that she was injured.
• Lin Bai found destructive Sword Qi tearing through Yi Mei's meridians and used his own Sword Qi to cut it apart and separate its remaining force from her body.

Lin Bai learned that Wang Qi of the Heng Province Alliance had likely led the black-clad men who abducted Li Yumen, after Senior Sister Yi Mei identified the Infant Frost Sword Qi that had injured her. Lin Bai headed to the Heng Province Alliance with Jiang Xuansu, openly challenging its Dao cultivators below the Dao Venerable realm to force it to release Li Yumen.

• Lin Bai shattered the Sword Qi inside Senior Sister Yi Mei and treated her injuries while he and Jiang Xuansu waited for her to wake.
• Senior Sister Yi Mei told Lin Bai that black-clad men had defeated her friends and abducted Li Yumen, and that their leader used the Infant Frost Sword Qi associated with Wang Qi.
• Senior Sister Yi Mei warned Lin Bai not to provoke Wang Qi or the Heng Province Alliance, but Lin Bai left with Jiang Xuansu to demand Li Yumen's release.
• On the way, Lin Bai made a banner challenging every Dao cultivator below the Dao Venerable realm in the Heng Province Alliance, alarming the martial artists who saw it.

Lin Bai carried a banner into Heng Province Alliance territory and publicly challenged its Dao Realm warriors, wagering Sword Hiding Hermitage against the Alliance's willingness to leave it alone. Vice-Alliance Leader Wu confronted him, and Lin Bai accused the Alliance of sending assassins after Sun Yao and Zhou Xi.

• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that he suspected the Heng Province Alliance or Young Master Lu had abducted Li Yumen, and said he intended to settle matters with the Alliance.
• Lin Bai carried a banner declaring his challenge through sect territory, drawing thousands of onlookers, while Jiang Xuansu secretly followed.
• At the Heng Province Alliance's entrance, Lin Bai challenged every warrior below the Dao Sovereign Realm and wagered Sword Hiding Hermitage against the Alliance's future conduct.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu arrived with several hundred protectors, and Lin Bai accused the Heng Province Alliance of sending warriors to assassinate Sun Yao and Zhou Xi.

Lin Bai challenged the Heng Province Alliance, wagering the Sword Hiding Hermitage to secure safety for his friends and family from further harassment. Vice-Alliance Leader Wu accepted the challenge, and Li Zhaoxing arrived as the first opponent, boasting that he would defeat Lin Bai in three moves.

• Lin Bai revealed that the Heng Province Alliance had tried to assassinate his friends and family in Shan Province, prompting martial artists to discuss the alliance’s conduct.
• Lin Bai rejected Vice-Alliance Leader Wu’s offer to let the matter go and wagered the Sword Hiding Hermitage against the alliance’s promise to leave his friends and family alone.
• The alliance’s guardians urged Vice-Alliance Leader Wu to accept, confident that their Dao Realm fighters would defeat Lin Bai before sunset.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu accepted Lin Bai’s challenge and set sunset as the deadline, with Lin Bai choosing the space beneath the battle flag as the arena.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu summoned Li Zhaoxing, who arrived and declared that he would defeat Lin Bai in three moves.

Lin Bai sat down and defeated Li Zhaoxing with one move, then continued overcoming the Heng Province Alliance’s Dao Realm fighters as Vice-Alliance Leader Wu sent them out to wear him down. The alliance’s attrition strategy became clear as more than sixty fighters fell, with five hours remaining until sunset.

• Lin Bai caught Li Zhaoxing’s full-strength punch while seated, then shattered his arm and defeated him with a single counterattack.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu had Li Zhaoxing taken away for treatment and refused to summon Shangguan Xiu, who was in seclusion, instead ordering the alliance to keep fighting Lin Bai.
• A Dao Realm martial artist charged Lin Bai with a sword, but Lin Bai found the technique’s flaw, shattered its sword shadows, and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai defeated successive Heng Province Alliance fighters in one move each, eventually beating more than sixty Dao Realm martial artists.
• Watching martial artists recognized that Vice-Alliance Leader Wu was using weak fighters to exhaust Lin Bai before sending a stronger opponent against him.

Lin Bai continued defeating the Heng Province Alliance’s fighters one by one as they tried to exhaust him, then faced Wu Yuanqing, whom Vice-Alliance Leader Wu sent in to claim an easy victory. Lin Bai crushed Wu Yuanqing’s attack and slammed his head into the ground.

• A Heng Province Alliance martial artist warned Lin Bai that the alliance meant to wear him down, but Lin Bai refused to admit defeat and knocked him out with one punch.
• Lin Bai continued sending each successive fighter flying with a single punch while Vice-Alliance Leader Wu watched.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu summoned Wu Yuanqing and told him Lin Bai was exhausted, urging him to win cleanly and bring glory to the alliance.
• Wu Yuanqing entered the arena and challenged Lin Bai, who insulted him and Shangguan Xiu.
• Wu Yuanqing attacked with blades of wind, but Lin Bai seized his wrist and drove his head into the ground with one palm.

Lin Bai continued to dominate the Heng Province Alliance’s relay challenge, defeating Wu Yuanqing and taunting the alliance over its inability to exhaust him. Vice-Alliance Leader Wu called on Shangguan Xiu to fight for the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and Shangguan Xiu entered the arena to face Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai pulled the unconscious Wu Yuanqing from the ground and threw him before Vice-Alliance Leader Wu.
• Lin Bai told Vice-Alliance Leader Wu that the alliance’s fighters could not exhaust his spiritual power, even in a prolonged relay battle.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu’s protectors urged him to continue the challenge, but he decided to summon Shangguan Xiu.
• Shangguan Xiu arrived, explained that he had come to see the excitement, and agreed to fight Lin Bai.
• Shangguan Xiu entered the arena as the alliance’s strongest Dao Realm martial artist, and Lin Bai greeted him before their final battle.

Lin Bai faced Shangguan Xiu, the Heng Province Alliance’s final challenger, after defeating hundreds of martial artists without standing. Shangguan Xiu briefly knocked Lin Bai back, but Lin Bai stood, seized him, and revealed that the Alliance’s champion was no match for him.

• Shangguan Xiu arrived and recognized Lin Bai’s body-refinement strength after probing him with a gust from his folding fan.
• Shangguan Xiu struck Lin Bai with a punch, knocking him back a hundred meters and revealing that he also practiced body refinement.
• Lin Bai rose and mocked the Heng Province Alliance, drawing anticipation from the watching martial artists.
• Shangguan Xiu attacked again with a dragon-shaped blast of sand and dust, but Lin Bai severed it with a palm strike.
• Lin Bai grabbed Shangguan Xiu, sealed his meridians and spiritual power, and questioned whether he was truly the strongest Dao Realm martial artist of the Eternal Devil Sect.

Lin Bai defeated Shangguan Xiu and waited until sunset to claim victory over the Heng Province Alliance, forcing its leader Murong Chuan to promise not to trouble the Sword Hiding Hermitage or Lin Bai’s associates. Lin Bai then asked the alliance to hand over Li Yumen, but learned that Wang Qi had been expelled from both his family and the alliance, leaving Li Yumen’s fate unresolved.

• Lin Bai defeated Shangguan Xiu, who refused to risk a fight to the death and left in humiliation.
• No one else from the Heng Province Alliance challenged Lin Bai before sunset, so he declared victory and warned the alliance not to target the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Murong Chuan announced that the Heng Province Alliance would honor its bet and stop interfering with Lin Bai, his friends, and his family.
• Lin Bai asked Murong Chuan to hand over Li Yumen, whom he suspected Wang Qi had abducted.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu denied the charge, and Murong Chuan confirmed that Wang Qi had been expelled from his family and the Heng Province Alliance.

After clearing the Heng Province Alliance of suspicion, Lin Bai deduced that Young Master Lu had taken Li Yumen and was using him to lure out the thief who stole the Devil Orbs. A letter summoned Lin Bai to White Dragon Ridge, where Jiang Xuansu warned that the Bone Clan could trap and kill him.

• Lin Bai left the Heng Province Alliance after Murong Chuan confirmed Wang Qi had been expelled, and Vice-Alliance Leader Wu was reprimanded that night.
• Lin Bai explained to Jiang Xuansu that Young Master Lu had used Wang Qi to draw him out and would come after him to recover the stolen Devil Orbs.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu returned toward the Sword Hiding Hermitage, where Wu Yuan delivered a letter demanding Lin Bai go to White Dragon Ridge to save Li Yumen.
• Lin Bai paid Wu Yuan ten thousand Devil Orbs for delivering the letter, but Wu Yuan could not identify the sender beyond his black robes and bamboo hat.
• Jiang Xuansu warned Lin Bai that White Dragon Ridge lay in Bone Clan territory and that Young Master Lu could use the Bone Clan to kill him.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu planned to rescue Li Yumen from the Bone clan’s territory, where Young Master Lu had laid a trap for Lin Bai. Lin Bai entered the White Bone Battlefield alone, while Young Master Lu’s forces watched and prepared an ambush at White Dragon Ridge.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu concluded that Young Master Lu had placed Li Yumen in the Bone clan’s territory to lure Lin Bai into a deadly trap.
• Lin Bai decided to go to the White Bone Battlefield to save Li Yumen, despite knowing he and Jiang Xuansu could not face the Bone clan alone.
• Jiang Xuansu proposed informing the Eighth Elder that Young Master Lu would appear at White Dragon Ridge so he would bring reinforcements.
• Lin Bai agreed to risk the Eighth Elder’s anger and asked Jiang Xuansu to arrange the expedition while he went ahead alone.
• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai the Eighth Elder had entered the White Bone Battlefield with experts, and Lin Bai headed alone for White Dragon Ridge.
• A Bone clan member at White Dragon Ridge received Young Master Lu’s message that Lin Bai had arrived.

Lin Bai went to White Dragon Ridge to confront Wang Qi and recover Li Yumen, whom Young Master Lu had handed over to the Bone Race. He found Li Yumen badly injured, learned Wang Qi had tortured him, and faced the Bone Race Honored Ones on the mountaintop.

• Lin Bai arrived at White Dragon Ridge, where Wang Qi and tens of thousands of Bone Race members were waiting in ambush.
• Wang Qi admitted abducting Li Yumen and said Young Master Lu had ordered him kept alive until the treasure was recovered.
• Wang Qi attacked Lin Bai, but the Bone Race Honored One blocked the strike and summoned Lin Bai to the mountaintop.
• Lin Bai found Li Yumen severely wounded, treated him, and reassured him that he knew he had not betrayed him.
• The Yinshan Honored One denied that the Bone Race had harmed Li Yumen, but Wang Qi admitted that he had tortured him.

Lin Bai used the Bone Race’s need for the stolen treasure to bargain for Li Yumen’s safety and Wang Qi’s death. The Bone Race let Wang Qi leave instead, while Lin Bai remained to hand over the treasure and face his own death.

• Lin Bai told Yinshan Honored One and Hundred Battles Honored One that the treasure was waiting in the city and demanded that they let Li Yumen go and kill Wang Qi.
• Lin Bai argued that the Bone Race needed the treasure and would never spare him, while warning that torture would not make him reveal its location.
• Yinshan Honored One refused to kill Wang Qi at first, but Lin Bai insisted that the treasure would remain out of reach unless the Bone Race accepted his condition.
• Lin Bai explained that his puppet would take the treasure away if he died before ordering it to deliver the goods.
• Yinshan Honored One revealed that Young Master Lu had not objected to Wang Qi’s death, and the Bone Race ordered Wang Qi to leave.
• Wang Qi cursed Lin Bai, Li Yumen, Young Master Lu, and the Bone Race before escaping White Dragon Ridge.

Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to escape the two Bone Race Honored Ones on White Dragon Ridge, and the Eighth Elder arrived to fight them. Lin Bai left White Bone Battlefield with Li Yumen while Jiang Xuansu went to assist the Eighth Elder.

• Yinshan Honored One killed Wang Qi, and Lin Bai told the Bone Race Honored Ones he would summon a puppet in exchange for a quick death.
• Lin Bai summoned several hundred Eternal Devil Sect powerhouses, angering the Bone Race Honored Ones, who tried to seize him before help arrived.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Supreme Avatar, whose sword strike split White Dragon Ridge and forced the two Honored Ones to evade, then fled with Li Yumen.
• The Eighth Elder arrived, drove the two Bone Race Honored Ones into the earth, and told Lin Bai to leave while he handled the fight.
• Jiang Xuansu sent Lin Bai toward the exit with Li Yumen and flew back to help the Eighth Elder as three Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists clashed.