Recaps

Lin Bai and Chen You learned that the Dark World had placed a huge bounty on a woman traveling aboard their spirit vessel, while Lin Bai grew suspicious of Chen You’s familiarity with the Chu Kingdom. The crow then revealed that a battle had broken out inside the ship’s cabin over the woman and rushed off to look for a possible treasure.

• The old fisherman explained to Lin Bai and Chen You that the Dark World’s ten-thousand-purple-gold bounty offered no guarantee that the woman would be taken alive.
• Lin Bai noticed that Chen You knew the Chu Kingdom far better than his claimed background would explain.
• The crow returned to Lin Bai’s shoulder and told him that poisoned passengers and desperate martial artists were fighting inside the ship’s cabin.
• The crow said the attackers had come for a woman and guessed that she carried a treasure.
• The crow hurried into the cabin to search for the treasure, leaving Lin Bai wondering why the Shanhe Trading Company had taken the woman aboard.

The Crow returned from searching a girl's Storage Bag and gave Lin Bai several items, including the Azure Lotus Swordplay manual and a letter about the Holy Church. Lin Bai learned the swordplay but could not uncover its hidden potential, and the spirit boat's night passed without incident.

• The Crow returned to Lin Bai and complained that he had found no treasures in the girl's Storage Bag.
• The Crow handed Lin Bai a jade hairpin, the Azure Lotus Swordplay manual, and a sheepskin letter, after first tossing a dudou into his face.
• Lin Bai examined the jade hairpin, quickly learned the nine sword moves, and sensed they concealed a profound mystery he could not grasp.
• Lin Bai read a letter from Zhang Qian'an to Jinnian thanking him for helping the Holy Church gain control of officials in Ke Province.
• Lin Bai spent the night pondering the swordplay while the spirit boat sailed on, and the martial artists woke at sunrise without anything happening in the cabin.

After an attack on the Shanhe Trading Company’s spirit vessel, He Qiyun learned that Li Guxian’s Storage Bag had been robbed of her family’s heirlooms and the letter that could clear her family’s name. The journey to Wu Wang City continued peacefully, while Lin Bai grew increasingly intrigued by the mysteries of Azure Lotus Swordplay.

• Uncle Zhang reported that most assassins had been defeated, but the Shanhe Trading Company had lost nearly all its guards, so He Qiyun requested reinforcements from her father.
• He Qiyun urged Li Guxian to check her hidden Storage Bag, and Li Guxian discovered that her mother’s jade hairpin, her Lineage’s secret sword manual, and an important letter were missing.
• Li Guxian also discovered that her undergarments had been stolen, and He Qiyun promised to help her recover everything.
• The Shanhe Trading Company’s spirit vessel traveled toward Wu Wang City without further attacks, as Lin Bai spoke with Chen You and continued studying Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Lin Bai concluded that Azure Lotus Swordplay’s creator had achieved profound attainments in the sword path.

Lin Bai and Chen You discussed the likely Dark World assassins aboard their spirit boat and agreed to help Shanhe Trading Company if the danger remained within their abilities. As they neared Ke Province, Chen You revealed that the Blood God Sect operated there, and Lin Bai wondered whether it was the Saintly Church mentioned in a letter.

• Lin Bai told Chen You that many of the temporary guards might be Dark World assassins and predicted an attack before they reached Wu Wang City.
• Chen You vowed to help Shanhe Trading Company, and Lin Bai agreed to assist as long as the attackers were within their power.
• Lin Bai asked whether the Chu Kingdom had religious sects, and Chen You explained that the kingdom suppressed sects while some persisted across its territory.
• Chen You identified the Blood God Sect as an ancient religious sect in Ke Province and described how its Blood God Sutra consumed its practitioners' qi, blood, and vitality.
• Lin Bai connected the sect to the Saintly Church mentioned in the Crow's letter as Chen You explained that the Blood God Sutra's founder had been a powerful Gu Dao expert.

Lin Bai and Chen You anticipated an attack on the Shanhe Trading Company’s spirit vessel, and assassins finally forced the company’s guards to flee with Li Guxian and He Qiyun. After the attackers pursued them, Chen You and Lin Bai joined the fight.

• Chen You explained that the Blood God Sutra had once spread through the Chu Kingdom but had been suppressed by the Zhao Xing Office.
• Lin Bai and Chen You noticed the deck fall unnaturally silent, then saw someone test the formation guarding the cabin.
• Lin Bai sent the crow to scout and learned that assassins were fighting the Shanhe Trading Company’s guards inside the cabin.
• Uncle Zhang emerged wounded with Li Guxian and He Qiyun, asked the passengers to cover their retreat, and fled with the two women.
• Dozens of martial artists pursued Uncle Zhang, and Chen You drew his sword to help; Lin Bai agreed to go with him.

Lin Bai and Chen You raced to help Uncle Zhang, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun after assassins surrounded them in the forest. Lin Bai drove the attackers off with three flying swords, but Li Guxian recognized him as the thief who had stolen her embroidered bodice and letter.

• Lin Bai and Chen You left the spirit boat and hurried after Uncle Zhang and the two women as hundreds of bounty hunters pursued them.
• Uncle Zhang was wounded while defending Li Guxian and He Qiyun, and the assassins closed in on Li Guxian as their target.
• Lin Bai appeared in front of Li Guxian and repelled the attackers, while the Crow revealed that Lin Bai had her embroidered bodice in his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai unleashed three flying swords, killing or wounding dozens of assassins and forcing the rest to flee.
• Li Guxian realized Lin Bai was the thief who had stolen her embroidered bodice and letter, and Chen You arrived after the assassins had escaped.

After Lin Bai saved the Shanhe Trading Company’s party, He Qiyun confronted him for stealing Li Guxian’s letter, which Lin Bai admitted and returned. Chen You recognized Li Guxian’s family name and asked about her father, Li Tianen, leaving her in tears.

• Uncle Zhang thanked Lin Bai and Chen You for rescuing the party, while Li Guxian blushed after hearing the crow’s remarks about Lin Bai.
• Li Guxian told He Qiyun that Lin Bai had taken her letter, prompting He Qiyun to attack him; Lin Bai stopped her sword with two fingers.
• Chen You and Uncle Zhang defended Lin Bai, but Lin Bai admitted he had taken the letter and returned it to Chen You.
• Chen You read the letter, then asked Li Guxian whether her father was Li Tianen, the Tanhua in the Dao God Martial Examination a hundred years earlier.
• Li Guxian began sobbing in He Qiyun’s arms when Chen You asked whether her father was doing well.

Chen You recounted Li Tianen’s rise and revealed his close knowledge of Li Guxian’s family, prompting Lin Bai and He Qiyun to question his identity. Meanwhile, a Holy Sect hall master ordered hundreds of martial artists to attack Lin Bai’s group after the assassins failed.

• Li Guxian broke down in tears when Chen You asked about her father, and He Qiyun told him that Li Tianen had transformed into the Dao.
• Chen You described Li Tianen’s success in the Chu Kingdom’s martial examinations, his marriage to Princess Leping, and his return to Ke Province to fight the Blood God Sect.
• He Qiyun and Lin Bai questioned Chen You’s identity after hearing how intimately he knew Li Tianen’s history.
• A group of martial artists learned that the assassins had failed to deal with the Shanhe Trading Company and prepared to attack themselves.
• The sinister hall master ordered the group to move quickly and leave no clues, dismissing a subordinate’s suggestion to seek the Sect Leader’s approval.

Chen You revealed that he was Chu Junyou, Prince Chen and Princess Leping’s elder brother, as Li Guxian sought his help against the forces that destroyed her family. She explained how the Blood God Sect had infiltrated Ke Province’s officials and used the imperial court to persecute its enemies.

• Chen You told Li Guxian that he was her Imperial Uncle, and Uncle Zhang and He Qiyun recognized him as Prince Chen, Chu Junyou.
• Chen You asked Li Guxian about her parents, and she knelt and asked him to uphold justice for her family.
• Li Guxian said the Blood God Sect had seized control of thousands of cities in Ke Province and forced her father, Li Tianen, to transform into the Dao.
• Li Guxian recounted how her mother killed herself after Li Tianen’s death and how the city lords then slaughtered the Li Family, leaving her as its sole survivor.
• Li Guxian explained that the Blood God Sect had infiltrated the government and used officials and disguised troops to frame and destroy families and sects; Lin Bai called the scheme “concealing the sky and crossing the sea.”

Li Guxian revealed that the Blood God Sect had framed her father, Li Tianen, after infiltrating Ke Province’s cities, driving him to dissolve into the Dao and Princess Leping to take her own life. Lin Bai persuaded Chen You to pursue the truth despite the danger, and they focused on finding Li Tianen’s register of compromised city lords.

• Li Guxian explained that the Blood God Sect had infiltrated Ke Province’s cities and exposed Li Tianen to a false accusation after learning he planned to report the sect.
• Li Guxian said Li Tianen dissolved into the Dao to prove his innocence and Princess Leping slit her throat before the spirit tablet.
• He Qiyun challenged Chen You’s hesitation, and Lin Bai explained that the potential scale of the infiltration could threaten Chu’s stability.
• Lin Bai urged Chen You to accept the facts and investigate, and Chen You agreed the matter could bring another storm to Ke Province.
• Lin Bai identified Li Tianen’s register of city lords as the key evidence and suggested submitting it to the Zhao Xing Office.

Lin Bai and Chen You investigated the missing register that could expose the Blood God Sect’s ties to Ke Province’s City Lord’s Orders. Lin Bai agreed to remain in Ke Province and help the search before continuing to Violet Star City.

• Li Guxian explained that the register vanished after her parents were killed and the Li household was attacked by assassins from several factions.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the register was likely still missing, since the Blood God Sect and the City Lord’s Orders were still hunting Li Guxian for it.
• Chen You warned that involving the Zhao Xing Office could alert their enemies, then suggested using the Dark World’s network to search for the register.
• Li Guxian revealed that her father had collected a letter from Zhang Qian to Zhang Jinnian, linking the Blood God Sect to Tianya City’s City Lord’s Order.
• Lin Bai agreed to stay in Ke Province and help Chen You investigate.

Lin Bai, Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun fled rather than risk bringing danger to the Shanhe Trading Company, while Uncle Zhang went to warn He Qiyun’s father. A Dao God Peak pursuer caught up with them and ordered his men to capture Li Guxian alive and kill the others.

• Lin Bai argued that returning Li Guxian to the Shanhe Trading Company would endanger it, and Li Guxian agreed to leave with Chen You and He Qiyun.
• He Qiyun sent Uncle Zhang to inform her father, while she and Li Guxian joined Lin Bai and Chen You to search for the register.
• The crow sensed approaching assassins, so the group split up and flew away as Uncle Zhang returned toward Wu Wang City.
• A blood attack nearly struck He Qiyun, but Lin Bai pulled her aside and cut through it with Sword Qi.
• The cold-faced Dao God Peak leader caught up with the group and ordered his several hundred followers to take Li Guxian alive and kill the others.

Lin Bai and his companions were surrounded by a hundred martial artists, and he fought them with his flying swords before confronting their leader. The leader revealed his Blood God Armor and gained enough power to drive Lin Bai back, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai protected Li Guxian, He Qiyun, and Chen You as his three flying swords killed several Dao God martial artists and held off the attackers.
• The cold man ordered his followers to capture Li Guxian while he fought Lin Bai, but Lin Bai broke the man's arm with a single punch.
• Lin Bai tried to finish the cold man, but his punch struck a barrier-like defense and failed to harm him.
• Li Guxian and He Qiyun identified the cold man as a Blood God of the Blood God Sect, and he emerged wearing living, blood-red armor.
• The Blood God Armor increased the cold man's speed, strength, and defense, and he blasted Lin Bai backward before attacking with a barrage of punches.

Lin Bai defeated a Blood God Sect attacker by using the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to absorb the Blood God, then escaped with Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to Gongling City. After recovering from his wound, he was visited by Li Guxian and He Qiyun while Chen You continued searching for the Dark World entrance.

• The sinister man’s Blood God began draining Lin Bai’s vital blood, but Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to absorb and refine it.
• Lin Bai killed the weakened sinister man and used his three flying swords to eliminate the remaining Blood God Sect martial artists.
• Lin Bai and his companions fled and reached Gongling City after seven teleportations, where they rented rooms at an inn.
• Lin Bai healed his shoulder and recovered his spiritual power while Chen You searched unsuccessfully for the Dark World entrance over the next few days.
• Li Guxian and He Qiyun visited Lin Bai to check on his injury, and He Qiyun questioned him for calling the serious wound superficial.

Lin Bai returned Li Guxian’s stolen belongings, then joined Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun at a Dark World stronghold to seek information about the register. The Dark World quoted them a price of ten thousand purple gold, suggesting it had the information they needed.

• He Qiyun asked Lin Bai for Li Guxian’s Azure Lotus Swordplay manual and dudou, and Lin Bai returned both, though He Qiyun left calling him a pervert.
• Chen You found an entrance to the Dark World and called Lin Bai, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to join him that night.
• Chen You led the group through Gongling City to a hidden Dark World stronghold and submitted their request for help locating the register.
• The Dark World’s representative returned and quoted a price of ten thousand purple gold, and Chen You took this as a sign that it had news about the register.

Chen You paid the Dark World to uncover the history of Li Tianen’s register and the people who knew about it. After learning that Zhang Yunting had betrayed Li Tianen and now led a Blood God Sect branch, Lin Bai and the others concluded that he had the register.

• Chen You paid the Dark World ten thousand purple-gold coins for information about Li Tianen’s register.
• The shadow explained that Li Tianen had secretly recorded city lord seals linked to the Blood God Sect before his betrayal and death.
• The Dark World revealed that Li Guxian and He Qiyun knew about the register, and that Zhang Yunting had betrayed Li Tianen and become a Blood God Sect branch master.
• The shadow said no city lord seal had obtained the register and warned the group to act quickly because others were asking about it.
• After leaving, Lin Bai, Chen You, He Qiyun, and Li Guxian independently concluded that Zhang Yunting had the register.

Lin Bai and his companions concluded that Zhang Yunting had the missing register and traveled to Rong'en City to find him. They discovered Zhang Yunting fleeing a devastating attack and pursued him until he collapsed in a mountain range, where Lin Bai found him watching the sunrise.

• Lin Bai reasoned that Zhang Yunting possessed the register and led Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to Rong'en City to retrieve it.
• The group arrived at dawn and heard a battle raging in the city; Lin Bai explained that others were also hunting the people connected to the register.
• Lin Bai and his companions found East City reduced to ruins, with hundreds of Dao God Realm fighters attacking Zhang Yunting.
• Zhang Yunting used a flying treasure to escape the city, and Lin Bai followed him on his flying sword.
• Zhang Yunting exhausted himself and fell in a mountain range, where Lin Bai found him resting beside a boulder as the sun rose.

Lin Bai retrieved the register from the dying Zhang Yunting, who confessed to betraying Li Tianen before choosing to die. As Lin Bai tried to leave, a Black-Robed Old Man attacked for the register, and after Lin Bai killed him, several more pursuers arrived and surrounded Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai caught up with Zhang Yunting, who handed over the register listing corrupt officials and criminals across Ke Province.
• Zhang Yunting confessed that he had betrayed his benefactor, likely Li Tianen, to the Blood God Sect and then regretted his actions before giving up on his injuries and dying.
• Lin Bai confirmed Zhang Yunting was dead and prepared to leave, but a Black-Robed Old Man attacked him and demanded the register.
• Lin Bai shattered the Black-Robed Old Man's sword attack and killed him with a single punch, then took his Storage Bag.
• A golden net delayed Lin Bai's escape, and several figures arrived and attacked him, demanding that he leave the register behind.

After obtaining the name list, Lin Bai fought off the assassins who pursued him and defeated a powerful short old man. The old man escaped after warning that the Blood God Sect would come for Lin Bai.

• Hundreds of assassins surrounded Lin Bai, and he killed more than fifty of them, causing the rest to retreat.
• Lin Bai collected the dead assassins' Storage Bags and challenged the remaining watchers to attack or leave.
• A short old man at the peak of the Dao God Realm demanded the name list, and Lin Bai refused.
• Lin Bai used his sword formations to wound the short old man and send him flying backward.
• The short old man fled as black smoke after warning that the Blood God Sect would come for Lin Bai, and Lin Bai pursued him with his Asura Dharma Eyes.

Lin Bai killed the short old man, recovered the register, and helped Chen You and Li Guxian prepare to expose the Blood God Sect’s network of corrupt city lords. Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun departed for the imperial capital while Lin Bai headed toward Sang Province, as the Blood God Sect learned that its plans were in danger.

• Lin Bai tracked down the fleeing short old man with his Asura Dharma Eyes and killed him before his divine soul could escape.
• Lin Bai returned to Rong'en City with the register, and Chen You learned that it implicated more than seventeen thousand city lords in Ke Province.
• Chen You decided to take Li Guxian to the imperial capital to present the register before the Golden Hall, and He Qiyun chose to accompany them.
• Lin Bai declined Chen You’s invitation to go to the imperial capital and left Ke Province by teleportation array to travel toward Sang Province.
• The Blood God Sect’s Sect Leader learned that Chen You had taken the register to the imperial capital and feared the sect’s plans would collapse.

Lin Bai arrived in Violet Star City and searched for the Dark World's entrance so he could ask for information about the Yellow Springs Demon Bone. After weeks of searching, he learned that the inn's shopkeeper was the Dark World's agent and submitted his request.

• Lin Bai arrived in Violet Star City and admired its prosperity and strategic position on the borders of Sang Province, Cang Province, and Haizhou.
• Lin Bai decided to seek information about the Yellow Springs Demon Bone from the Dark World, whose agents could trade information across the Chu Empire.
• Lin Bai spent several dozen days searching Violet Star City for the Dark World's entrance without success.
• The inn's shopkeeper offered to help Lin Bai and revealed that he was the Dark World's agent in Violet Star City.
• Lin Bai wrote down his request and gave it to the shopkeeper, who went inside to contact the Dark World.

Lin Bai learned that the Yellow Springs Demon Bone was more likely hidden in the Mist Marsh than in Violet Star City’s government office treasury. After preparing for three days, he entered the marsh, where the fog quickly erased his way back and left him lost.

• The manager told Lin Bai that the Dark World’s intelligence pointed to either the government office treasury or the Mist Marsh as the likely hiding place of the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, with the Mist Marsh being more probable.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Demon Bone was likelier to be in the Mist Marsh, where the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s remnants had fled and perished.
• Lin Bai spent three days studying maps and books about the Chu Kingdom and Violet Star City before setting out east.
• Lin Bai reached the Mist Marsh, took an Antitoxin Pill, and entered its dense fog.
• Lin Bai found that the path behind him had vanished, lost his bearings, and continued deeper into the marsh as strange bird cries sounded around him.

Lin Bai wandered through the Mist Marsh, where powerful demon serpents attacked despite showing little intelligence. The Crow recognized fragments of the place and began guiding Lin Bai through the fog, though its changing directions left their destination uncertain.

• Lin Bai entered the Mist Marsh and became unable to find his way back or determine his direction.
• Lin Bai noticed that the marsh was unusually vast and encountered several powerful demon serpents that behaved like wild beasts.
• Lin Bai killed a hundred-zhang demon serpent with a streak of sword light after it attacked him.
• The Crow said it felt as if it had been to the marsh before but could not remember the place clearly.
• The Crow told Lin Bai to head east, then repeatedly changed the direction it indicated, and Lin Bai followed its guidance.

Lin Bai and the crow found a hidden valley in the Mist Marsh, where a strange man nearly killed Lin Bai and forced him into Twilight Mountain. The crow revealed that seven Great Mystic Art Users were buried there and that he had dug up all their graves.

• Lin Bai followed the crow through the Mist Marsh until they found a secluded mountain valley concealed by the Heaven's Will Limitless Union Formation.
• A bolt of divine lightning struck the crow when he flew upward, and a strange man appeared to block Lin Bai's escape.
• Lin Bai's attacks failed to harm the strange man, who crushed his Heaven Swallowing Domain and badly injured him.
• At the crow's urging, Lin Bai fled into the mountains, where the strange man stopped pursuing him.
• The crow identified the place as Twilight Mountain and revealed that seven Great Mystic Art Users were buried there and that he had dug up their graves.

The Crow explained that Great Mystic Art Users in Twilight Mountain had evaded reincarnation and prepared treasures for rebirth, but he had robbed their graves, putting Lin Bai in danger. After two of them attacked, a strange man intervened and led Lin Bai and the Crow out of the mountain.

• The Crow told Lin Bai that Twilight Mountain sheltered seven Great Mystic Art Users and admitted he had stolen from their graves.
• Lin Bai stopped at the mountain boundary while the strange man watched from below, and Twilight Mountain shook as the man confronted someone inside.
• A Great Mystic Art User attacked Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over the Crow, but Lin Bai used his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to defend them.
• A second attacker sent a sword at Lin Bai, but the strange man knocked it away and pushed Lin Bai and the Crow out of Twilight Mountain.
• The strange man told Lin Bai that the Heaven Swallowing Race bore responsibility for the Great Mystic Art Users’ condition, then offered to escort him out.