Recaps

Lin Bai advanced to the third level of the Five Elements Dao Body and left the God Sealing Platform, where Weizhou Alliance martial artists tried to seize his treasures under the guise of protecting him. He killed the attackers and faced the remaining gathered experts.

• Lin Bai sensed his blood and qi transform after advancing to the third level of the Five Elements Dao Body, and concluded that the God Sealing Platform had no more treasures for him.
• Lin Bai decided to leave the God Sealing Platform and consider venturing to the Apex Celestial Palace before the Eternal Trial ended.
• Wu Shanyu, Di Feng, Huang Liang, and other experts watched Lin Bai leave, while Weizhou Alliance martial artists gathered to take his treasures.
• Lin Bai rejected the Weizhou Alliance’s offer of protection and ordered its martial artists to move aside.
• A Weizhou Alliance martial artist attacked Lin Bai from behind, and Lin Bai killed him with a punch before using Square Inch Sword Domain to kill the other attackers.

Lin Bai killed the Weizhou Alliance martial artists who attacked him, then was intercepted by a barefoot old man demanding the ancient zither he had obtained. Lin Bai wounded the old man, but the former Dao God Realm expert unleashed a powerful saber-and-sword assault, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Bai slaughtered the Weizhou Alliance martial artists surrounding him and flew away as the other martial artists hesitated to pursue him.
• A barefoot old man stopped Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over the ancient zither, but Lin Bai refused and challenged him to take it by force.
• The old man attacked with a giant foot, which Lin Bai shattered before appearing behind him and breaking his defensive treasure with a punch.
• The old man admitted he had underestimated Lin Bai, then conjured a saber and sword and launched a devastating attack that swept across the land.

Lin Bai survived the old man’s attacks unharmed and pursued him, determined to kill the Dao God expert before he could seek revenge. The old man used a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman to temporarily reach Dao Immortal strength, injuring Lin Bai and turning the fight in his favor.

• Lin Bai emerged from the old man’s devastating attack without a scratch and realized his physical strength rivaled the Dao Immortal level.
• Lin Bai struck the old man and chased him, refusing to let him escape and threaten him later.
• The old man fled from Lin Bai, who eventually landed a powerful blow that left him badly injured.
• The old man activated a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman, temporarily restoring his cultivation to the Dao Immortal level.
• The old man countered Lin Bai’s next attack and broke through his Five Elements Dao Body, injuring him.

Lin Bai fought the old man, who used a Black God Luck Transfer Talisman to temporarily raise his strength, and eventually killed him with his sword techniques. Lin Bai took the old man's Storage Bag and discovered it contained another talisman.

• The old man activated the Black God Luck Transfer Talisman and attacked Lin Bai, driving him back in a fierce battle that drew distant onlookers.
• Lin Bai noticed the talisman's rune fading and realized its power would soon end, while the old man grew anxious at being unable to defeat him.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and used his flying swords, Square Inch Sword Domain, and Winter's Chill to wound the old man and sever his arm.
• The old man tried to flee, but Lin Bai trapped him with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and killed him with Immortal-Slaying.
• Lin Bai searched the area, collected the old man's treasures, and found another Black God Luck Transfer Talisman in his Storage Bag.

After killing a Dao God Realm martial artist and taking his treasures, Lin Bai traveled to the Apex Celestial Palace, where he encountered a strange void and floating stone slabs. The chapter left him on a moving slab, approaching another martial artist in the darkness.

• Lin Bai searched the old man's Storage Bag, found treasures worth about five million Devil Orbs, and planned to share some Dao Divine Weapons before using the rest to strengthen the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword for seven days to reach the summit of Eternal Mountain and found the Apex Celestial Palace deserted, with a force preventing him from flying.
• Lin Bai stepped onto a White Jade Stone slab, which rose into the air and carried him into a dark void where the palace and other martial artists' slabs remained visible.
• Lin Bai realized that falling from his slab could leave him lost in the darkness, then waited until it began moving toward another slab bearing a martial artist.

Lin Bai entered the Apex Celestial Palace’s stone-slab arena and defeated Wang Chuan after discovering that the slabs brought martial artists together to fight. As Lin Bai held Wang Chuan by the throat, observers said the newcomer could advance another step.

• Lin Bai’s stone slab merged with Wang Chuan’s, and Wang Chuan tried to trick Lin Bai before launching a surprise sword attack.
• Lin Bai used the Square Inch Sword Domain to evade Wang Chuan’s strike and inferred that the merged slabs were arenas where victors advanced toward the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Wang Chuan kept his distance and attacked with Sword Qi, but Lin Bai resisted the blows and provoked him into a powerful sword strike.
• Lin Bai used the Square Inch Sword Domain to appear behind Wang Chuan and seized him by the throat.
• Martial artists watching from distant slabs expressed surprise at Wang Chuan’s defeat and said Lin Bai could advance.

Lin Bai learned that the stone slabs in the Summit of Extinction were Dao Heart Stones used to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, then killed the young man who tried to ambush him. He gained the man’s stone slab and wondered how many more were needed to reach the palace.

• Lin Bai forced the young man to explain that martial artists joined Dao Heart Stones to form paths toward the Apex Celestial Palace and could fight to seize one another’s stones.
• After the young man explained how to leave, Lin Bai released him and told him to go without his stone slab.
• The young man attacked Lin Bai with Blood Dragon Sword Qi, but Lin Bai shattered it and killed him with a punch.
• The young man’s ownerless Dao Heart Stone merged with Lin Bai’s, doubling the size of Lin Bai’s stone slab.
• Lin Bai spotted martial artists with several Dao Heart Stones and wondered whether Jiang Xuansu and Murong Chuan had reached the palace, as well as how many stones the journey required.

Lin Bai learned how Dao Heart Stones worked and how many were needed to reach the Apex Celestial Palace while facing a white-clad martial artist for control of his stones. After they exchanged threats, Lin Bai prepared to fight.

• Lin Bai decided to hurry onward and moved his Dao Heart Stone toward another martial artist.
• The white-clad man’s Dao Heart Stones joined Lin Bai’s, forming a battle platform, and he challenged Lin Bai to fight for them.
• Lin Bai asked how many Dao Heart Stones were needed to reach the palace, and the man explained that ninety-nine were likely required and that the stones’ number depended on how many martial artists entered.
• The man explained that fewer than fifty martial artists had arrived so far, so many were waiting for more entrants before trying to gather enough stones.
• The white-clad man threatened to defeat Lin Bai, and Lin Bai activated the Square Inch Sword Domain and warned him to surrender or face his retaliation.

Lin Bai fought the white-robed man, whose Myriad Desires Spirit-Bewildering Skill trapped him in an illusion. Lin Bai recognized the deception with his Asura Dharma Eyes, while onlookers watched him struggle against an opponent who had never moved.

• Onlookers mocked Lin Bai for challenging the white-robed man and warned that his illusion art could defeat even accomplished monks.
• The white-robed man struck Lin Bai, who was badly injured despite relying on his Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai attacked with his Square Inch Sword Domain, but the white-robed man repeatedly vanished and evaded his blows.
• As the white-robed man continued attacking, Lin Bai realized the seemingly impossible fight might be an illusion.
• Lin Bai opened his Asura Dharma Eyes and saw that the white-robed man had remained a thousand meters away while Lin Bai acted out the battle in the illusion.
• The onlookers recognized that Lin Bai had fallen victim to the white-robed man's illusion and watched him struggle.

Lin Bai used the Asura Dharma Eyes to break the white-clad man's pollen-based illusion and discovered how it had been created. He turned the tables with his own Hellscape Illusion, leaving the white-clad man trapped in excruciating torment and begging to die.

• Lin Bai broke the white-clad man's illusion with the Asura Dharma Eyes and identified the floating starlight as pollen that had drawn him into it.
• The white-clad man tried to cast the illusion again, but Lin Bai shattered each attempt and revealed that he had escaped.
• Lin Bai met the white-clad man's gaze and trapped him in a scorched wasteland illusion ruled by an enormous ox-headed monster.
• The monster dragged the white-clad man through magma and across a mountain of blades while his illusion-breaking treasures failed.
• The white-clad man called out to Lin Bai and begged him to kill him as the torment shattered his mind.

Lin Bai defeated the white-robed illusionist with the Asura Dharma Eyes, gained his Dao Heart Stones and treasures, and drew the fear of the other martial artists. When he approached an old man, the old man offered him one Dao Heart Stone in exchange for keeping his qualifications for the Apex Celestial Palace.

• Lin Bai trapped the white-robed man in the Hellscape Illusion, and the man killed himself to escape its torment.
• Lin Bai confirmed the white-robed man's death, took his Storage Bag, and gained two Dao Heart Stones, bringing his total to four.
• Lin Bai collected the man's treasures and illusion manuals, then looked toward the other martial artists on their Dao Heart Stones.
• Lin Bai flew toward an old man, who offered him one Dao Heart Stone and asked to retain his Apex Celestial Palace qualifications.

Lin Bai gathered Dao Heart Stones as he advanced toward the Apex Celestial Palace, where he found Murong Chuan, Jiang Xuansu, and six other powerful martial artists. Murong Chuan arranged for Wu Xianjun to test Lin Bai, setting up a confrontation.

• An old man surrendered a Dao Heart Stone to Lin Bai in exchange for being spared, and other martial artists followed his example.
• Over two or three days, Lin Bai collected more than thirty Dao Heart Stones and moved closer to the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Lin Bai encountered seven martial artists near the palace, including Murong Chuan and Jiang Xuansu, and saw that they had accumulated many Dao Heart Stones.
• Murong Chuan proposed that someone test Lin Bai's strength, and Wu Xianjun volunteered.

Wu Xianjun challenged Lin Bai for the right to remain near the Apex Celestial Palace, while explaining why the powerful martial artists there had not fought among themselves. Lin Bai learned that the group had agreed to target newcomers for their Dao Heart Stones and faced Wu Xianjun’s test.

• Wu Xianjun’s failed attempt to break through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit had driven him and Murong Chuan to seek treasures in the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Wu Xianjun stepped onto Lin Bai’s Dao Heart Stone, and the surrounding powerhouses watched as their stones merged into a platform.
• Wu Xianjun explained that the eight people already there had avoided fighting because their strength was comparable and combat could leave them vulnerable to ambush.
• Wu Xianjun revealed that the group had agreed to test newcomers and take their Dao Heart Stones if they proved too weak.
• Lin Bai understood the arrangement and stood his ground against Wu Xianjun.

Lin Bai fought Wu Xianjun for the right to remain on the Dao Heart Stone, but refused to join the Heng Province Alliance camp. Wu Xianjun unleashed his Big Dipper Seven Seals, and Lin Bai answered with a sword strike that revealed a familiar sword intent.

• Wu Xianjun offered to spare Lin Bai if he surrendered the Dao Heart Stone, but Lin Bai chose to fight.
• Lin Bai withstood Wu Xianjun's probing attacks, though he remained suppressed by the peerless prodigy's speed and skill.
• Wu Xianjun invited Lin Bai to join the Heng Province Alliance, but Lin Bai refused to form an alliance.
• Wu Xianjun warned Lin Bai he would stop holding back, then attacked with Big Dipper Seven Seals: Greedy Wolf.
• Lin Bai's sword light burst from the Greedy Wolf phantom and tore it apart, prompting Murong Chuan to recognize the sword intent and Jiang Xuansu to realize who Lin Bai was.

Lin Bai broke through Wu Xianjun’s first two Big Dipper Seven Seals and revealed that he had been using the fight to hone his abilities. He charged at Wu Xianjun as the latter began his third seal, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai burst out of the Greedy Wolf phantom with his sword and shattered it, surprising Wu Xianjun and revealing his swordsmanship to Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian.
• Wu Xianjun praised Lin Bai’s sword cultivation, then struck him with the Military Destroyer Seal, which barely damaged Lin Bai’s clothing.
• Lin Bai urged Wu Xianjun to unleash all seven seals, and the onlookers realized Lin Bai had been defending to use Wu Xianjun as a whetstone.
• After Wu Xianjun invited Lin Bai to attack, Lin Bai charged at him, and Wu Xianjun began the Great Gate Seal.

Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to trap Wu Xianjun in an illusion, where Wu Xianjun repeatedly attacked illusions of Lin Bai until Murong Chuan warned him. After Wu Xianjun escaped, Lin Bai revealed himself as Qing Luo, the master of the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and Murong Chuan told Wu Xianjun to withdraw.

• Wu Xianjun attacked Lin Bai with the Big Dipper Seven Seals, but Lin Bai kept reappearing in his vision.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had used an illusion technique, and Murong Chuan called out to Wu Xianjun to wake him.
• Wu Xianjun found the flaw in the illusion and escaped, while Lin Bai criticized Murong Chuan for intervening.
• Murong Chuan identified Lin Bai as Qing Luo, and Lin Bai dispelled his disguise and explained why he had hidden his face.
• Lin Bai said he would spare Wu Xianjun to repay Murong Chuan for the jade token, and Murong Chuan ordered Wu Xianjun to return, reminding him that Lin Bai had spared him twice.

Lin Bai spared Wu Xianjun after defeating him, while Jiang Xuansu revealed that the Sect Master's faction had begun targeting the Heng Province Alliance. The chapter ended with Jiang Xuansu seeking Lin Bai’s help as they weighed the growing threat at the Apex Celestial Palace.

• Murong Chuan stopped Wu Xianjun from continuing to provoke Lin Bai, and Wu Xianjun surrendered three Dao Heart Stones before returning to his side.
• Jiang Xuansu recognized Lin Bai’s rapid cultivation progress, while Murong Chuan suspected Lin Bai had joined the Sect Master's faction and considered him a future threat.
• Lin Bai asked why the Sect Master had not yet attacked the Heng Province Alliance, and Jiang Xuansu revealed that allies outside were already hunting its martial artists.
• Lin Bai warned that more Heng Province Alliance experts would arrive at the Apex Celestial Palace and strengthen their position against Jiang Xuansu.
• Jiang Xuansu asked Lin Bai to help her, but he declined to commit, explaining that he had avoided killing Wu Xianjun to prevent a costly conflict with Murong Chuan and the alliance.

Jiang Xuansu explained her plan to keep Murong Chuan occupied while the Eternal Devil Sect hunted Heng Province Alliance martial artists, but Lin Bai warned that Murong Chuan was too cunning to underestimate. As the factions faced off outside the Apex Celestial Palace, Murong Chuan decided the Heng Province Alliance could not safely attack and chose to wait.

• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that the sect had altered the Eternal Trial’s formations to track Heng Province Alliance martial artists, and that Gong Jian had come to help her delay Murong Chuan.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that she planned to wear Murong Chuan down until the alliance’s other martial artists came under attack and called for reinforcements.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan might find an unexpected way out of her plan, then sat down to study illusion arts.
• Murong Chuan judged that attacking Jiang Xuansu, Gong Jian, Meng Qi, or Lin Bai could unite them against the Heng Province Alliance, so he decided to keep waiting.

Lin Bai spent days studying illusion texts while the factions before Apex Celestial Palace maintained a wary stalemate. When Kui Long arrived with the Heng Province Alliance, Lin Bai challenged him under the local rule, and Kui Long’s threat left Murong Chuan worried about the outcome.

• The factions held back from attacking one another, and Lin Bai read illusion texts atop the Dao Heart Stone to refine his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• Half a month later, Kui Long arrived and joined the Heng Province Alliance without being challenged.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that the alliance could grow too strong if its members kept arriving unchecked, and Jiang Xuansu urged him to challenge Kui Long.
• Lin Bai invoked the rule that newcomers had to accept a challenge, and Murong Chuan agreed to let him fight Kui Long.
• Kui Long declared that he might kill Lin Bai, alarming Murong Chuan, who knew Kui Long was unlikely to defeat him.

Lin Bai fought Kui Long after Wu Xianjun warned him to avoid Lin Bai’s Asura Dharma Eyes, prompting Lin Bai to unleash his full strength. Lin Bai killed Kui Long and took his Dao Heart Stones, leaving him with the most stones in the battlefield.

• Kui Long merged his Dao Heart Stone with Lin Bai’s and charged at him, while Wu Xianjun warned him not to look into Lin Bai’s eyes.
• Kui Long avoided Lin Bai’s gaze and struck him, sending Lin Bai flying and making him cough up blood.
• Lin Bai activated his Sword Heart and attacked Kui Long with his flying swords and Demon Sword, wounding Kui Long’s hand with Slay the Immortals.
• Lin Bai vanished from Kui Long’s powerful attack and reappeared behind him, then beheaded Kui Long with the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai took Kui Long’s treasures and twenty-one Dao Heart Stones, bringing his total to fifty-seven, and moved his Dao Heart Stone away without looking at Murong Chuan.

Lin Bai killed Kui Long in front of Murong Chuan and provoked the Heng Province Alliance, but Murong Chuan restrained his people from retaliating. Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu discussed Murong Chuan’s threat, and a paper crane arrived with news that left Murong Chuan grim.

• Lin Bai beheaded Kui Long, took his Dao Heart Stone, and mocked Murong Chuan by claiming he had killed Kui Long by accident.
• Lin Bai challenged the Heng Province Alliance martial artists to attack him, but Murong Chuan stopped them and ended the matter.
• Murong Chuan told Wu Xianjun that Lin Bai was powerful enough to kill them and warned that Lin Bai could become a threat to the Heng Province Alliance.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he suspected Murong Chuan would try to kill him, while Jiang Xuansu promised to protect him.
• A paper crane arrived for Murong Chuan, and he read it with a grim expression.

After Murong Chuan received news of the Heng Province Alliance martial artists being hunted outside, he stayed at the Apex Celestial Palace and secretly arranged for the wounded to gather around him. Lin Bai realized that Murong Chuan was rebuilding the alliance inside the palace, threatening Jiang Xuansu’s plan to weaken it.

• Murong Chuan received a message by Heart-Linked Paper Crane, but chose to remain at the Apex Celestial Palace while Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian waited for him to leave.
• Murong Chuan sent out another Heart-Linked Paper Crane after discussing the news with the Heng Province Alliance martial artists.
• Over the following days, wounded Heng Province Alliance martial artists arrived and took refuge beside Murong Chuan.
• Lin Bai deduced that Murong Chuan planned to gather the alliance members and use them to help him enter the palace, then lead them against Jiang Xuansu.
• Jiang Xuansu’s expression darkened as Lin Bai warned that delaying would allow the Heng Province Alliance to become too powerful to oppose.

Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan was gathering the Heng Province Alliance to seize the Apex Celestial Palace’s treasures, prompting her to assemble secluded experts as Black-Robed Warriors. As Murong Chuan prepared to enter the palace, Jiang Xuansu moved to stop him while the two factions faced off.

• Lin Bai explained Murong Chuan’s plan to Jiang Xuansu, who confirmed that the black-robed experts arriving at the Apex Celestial Palace were her people.
• Meng Qi suspected the black-robed experts were secluded sect elders and feared that their presence could spark a bloody conflict.
• Murong Chuan gathered ninety-nine Dao Heart Stones and prepared to enter the Apex Celestial Palace with Wu Xianjun and the old man leaning on a cane.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan would turn against her after obtaining the palace treasures, so she ordered the Black-Robed Warriors to prepare for battle.
• Murong Chuan ordered the Heng Province Alliance warriors to confront the Black-Robed Warriors and rushed toward the palace with Wu Xianjun and the old man.
• Jiang Xuansu blocked Murong Chuan and attacked with a palm seal, prompting him to recognize her Three Imprints of Eastern Arrival technique.

Lin Bai blocked the old man leaning on a cane to claim a chance at the Apex Celestial Palace’s treasures, then fought his powerful Wood Dragon magic treasure. After his attacks failed to damage the dragon, Lin Bai focused on the old man controlling it.

• Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian each blocked a Heng Province Alliance leader, while Black-Robed Warriors fought the alliance’s warriors outside the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Lin Bai challenged the old man leaning on a cane and merged their Dao Heart Stones to form a battlefield.
• The old man avoided Lin Bai’s gaze and used the Myriad Rivers Dragon Song to turn his dragon-carved cane into a Wood Dragon.
• Lin Bai tried to strike the Wood Dragon with his fist and swords, but could not hurt it and was forced to retreat.
• Lin Bai fixed his attention on the old man, who sent the Wood Dragon at him while preparing more defenses.

Lin Bai defeated the old man by cutting through the Wood Dragon's defenses and killing him before the magical treasure could strike. With enough Dao Heart Stones to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, Lin Bai set off while the Bear Province Alliance considered whether to intervene.

• Lin Bai used Azure Sea Torrent to cleave half the Wood Dragon's head, then charged past it toward the old man.
• The Wood Dragon ambushed Lin Bai from behind, but Lin Bai vanished and appeared behind the old man, beheading him.
• The Wood Dragon reverted to a cane, and Lin Bai took it and the old man's treasures before throwing his corpse into the abyss.
• Lin Bai claimed the Dao Heart Stones, giving him enough to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, and headed there while Jiang Xuansu, Murong Chuan, Gong Jian, and Wu Xianjun remained locked in battle.
• Meng Qi saw Lin Bai claim the stones, and Bear Province Alliance martial artists asked whether they should make a move.