Recaps

Lin Bai discovered that the Deep Sea Spring was likely hiding an immortal vein, but Prince Yan caught him spying and gravely wounded him with a Dragon Breath as he fled. Prince Yan stayed to guard the spring and alerted the Flood Dragon Clan, which sent experts to secure the area.

• Lin Bai returned to the Deep Sea Spring and sensed the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit responding to it.
• Lin Bai saw immortal aura rise from the spring and realized an immortal vein might lie beneath it.
• Prince Yan detected Lin Bai, attacked him with water blades, and pursued him as he fled.
• Prince Yan struck Lin Bai with a Dragon Breath, leaving a bloody hole in his abdomen, but Lin Bai escaped on the Dragon Eye Flying Sword.
• Prince Yan recognized Lin Bai's Sword Control Art, decided not to pursue him, and sent word to the Flood Dragon Clan.
• The Flood Dragon Clan's patriarch mobilized many experts to guard the Deep Sea Spring.

After escaping Prince Yan’s dragon breath, Lin Bai returned to Bright Moon Island and slowly recovered from his grievous injuries. He had obtained nine Divine Spirit Tears and learned that the Deep Sea Spring contained a Celestial Vein, and he began considering how to trade that knowledge for the greatest benefit.

• Qin Yao and the others worried about Lin Bai’s trip to the Nine Demon Sea as they traveled toward the sect.
• Lin Bai’s sword-light flight streaked past their spirit boat and crashed through Bright Moon Island’s defensive formation.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to suppress Prince Yan’s dragon-breath power and spent days treating his injuries.
• Lin Bai recognized that Prince Yan had destroyed two of his three flying swords, while the Dragon Eye Flying Sword had survived and helped him escape.
• Lin Bai recalled obtaining nine Divine Spirit Tears and discovering a Celestial Vein beneath the Deep Sea Spring.
• Lin Bai returned to the sleeping palace and weighed how to trade the Celestial Vein information for benefits.

Lin Bai learned that the Hundred Victories Pavilion had refused to honor its wager with Yi Gu and went to seek Qiao Mo's help. After overpowering the Pavilion’s guards on White Mist Island, he found Qiao Mo imprisoned inside a powerful formation.

• Yi Gu and the Crow told Lin Bai that the Hundred Victories Pavilion had withheld the Contribution Points owed to Yi Gu under their wager.
• Lin Bai refused to let the matter go and brought Yi Gu to Qiao Mo's residence to demand an explanation.
• Several martial artists loyal to the Hundred Victories Pavilion blocked Lin Bai and Yi Gu, claiming Qiao Mo was in secluded cultivation.
• Lin Bai cleaved through White Mist Island's defensive formation, kicked the beautiful woman aside, and wounded the other guards.
• Lin Bai reached Qiao Mo's sleeping palace and saw her trapped inside a powerful formation.

Lin Bai and Yi Gu discovered that Qiao Mo had been imprisoned by the Hundred Victories Pavilion after its elders reneged on their agreement with Yi Gu. Wu Xiu threatened to strip Qiao Mo of her position, then proposed that she marry his son Wu Di in exchange for his support.

• Lin Bai and Yi Gu found Qiao Mo trapped inside her bedchamber by the Primal Chaos Golden Light Formation and learned that the Hundred Victories Pavilion had placed her under house arrest.
• Qiao Mo explained that the Pavilion’s elders had broken their promise to let her take over its business and had refused to share the betting-pool profits with Yi Gu.
• Wu Xiu arrived with hundreds of Pavilion martial artists, denied responsibility for the agreement, and announced plans to remove Qiao Mo as young Pavilion Lord.
• Qiao Mo struck the formation in anger and vowed not to let Wu Xiu seize her father’s estate.
• Lin Bai called out Wu Xiu for scheming to take Qiao Mo’s inheritance, and Wu Xiu proposed that she marry his son Wu Di in return for his support.

Wu Xiu and Qi Kun pressured Qiao Mo to marry one of their sons in exchange for support in becoming Pavilion Lord of Hundred Victories Pavilion. After Yi Gu proposed a martial arts tournament to choose her husband, Qiao Mo agreed, leaving Wu Di and Qi Liang ready to compete.

• Wu Xiu offered to support Qiao Mo's claim to the Pavilion Lord position if she married Wu Di, but Qi Kun arrived and proposed his son Qi Liang instead.
• Wu Di removed the Golden Light Formation trapping Qiao Mo, and he and Qi Liang argued over who she should marry.
• Qiao Mo rejected both men, accusing them of seeking marriage to gain control of Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that Qiao Mo either marry or surrender the Pavilion Lord position, while refusing to promise her father's business would be returned.
• Yi Gu proposed a tournament open to martial artists from across the Chu Kingdom to choose Qiao Mo's husband, and Wu Di and Qi Liang both expressed confidence in winning.
• Qiao Mo agreed to the tournament after Wu Xiu and Qi Kun insisted that marriage was required for her to take charge of the pavilion.

Qiao Mo agreed to a marriage tournament after Wu Xiu and Qi Kun threatened her hold over the Hundred Victories Pavilion. Lin Bai and Yi Gu left White Mist Island after the elders refused to pay Yi Gu his share of the gambling profits, while Qiao Mo remained determined to reclaim her father's estate.

• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun made Qiao Mo agree to a marriage tournament in one month, open to Tianshui Sect disciples at the Dao God Realm, hoping their sons Wu Di and Qi Liang would win her hand.
• Yi Gu confronted Wu Xiu and Qi Kun over the Hundred Victories Pavilion's unpaid share of the betting profits, but they postponed the matter until after the tournament and left.
• Qiao Mo apologized to Lin Bai and Yi Gu for the unpaid Contribution Points and vowed to repay them if she regained the Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Qiao Mo said she would never surrender her father's life's work, then returned to her quarters as Lin Bai and Yi Gu departed.
• Yi Gu asked Lin Bai what he thought of Qiao Mo, and Lin Bai said she lacked experience and had been outmaneuvered by Wu Xiu and Qi Kun.

Yi Gu secretly entered Lin Bai in Qiao Mo’s bride-challenging tournament, while Lin Bai negotiated with Li Zai'en over revealing the location of a Celestial Vein. Li Zai'en learned that a powerful force occupied the vein, leaving the Tianshui Sect to consider Lin Bai’s demands.

• Yi Gu realized the Hundred Victories Pavilion would not return his Contribution Points and secretly registered Lin Bai for Qiao Mo’s tournament.
• Lin Bai summoned Li Zai'en and demanded Three Wonders Disciple status, five million Contribution Points, and information about a Void Ancient Road in exchange for important intelligence.
• Li Zai'en doubted Lin Bai’s demands were worth the information, so Lin Bai revealed that he had discovered a Celestial Vein.
• Li Zai'en questioned why Lin Bai would tell the sect, and Lin Bai explained that a powerful force occupied the vein and he could not seize it alone.

Lin Bai offered Tianshui Sect the location of a Celestial Vein occupied by a rival faction in exchange for three demands. The Sect Master agreed to two demands but kept haggling over the five million Contribution Points, and Li Zai'en carried her latest offer back to Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai told Li Zai'en he had found a Celestial Vein controlled by a faction roughly equal in strength to Tianshui Sect.
• Li Zai'en rang the Overturned Water Bell and told the Sect Master and elders about the Celestial Vein and Lin Bai's offer.
• The Sect Master agreed to make Lin Bai a Three Wonders Disciple and provide a clue to the Void Ancient Road, but objected to his demand for five million Contribution Points.
• The Sect Master first offered ten thousand Contribution Points, while Lin Bai refused and threatened to make the deal with another sect.
• After several trips between Overturned Water Hall and Bright Moon Island, the Sect Master raised her offer to one million Contribution Points, and Li Zai'en went to relay it.

Lin Bai negotiated with the Tianshui Sect for five million Contribution Points, promotion to Three Wonders Disciples, and a clue to a Void Ancient Road in exchange for information about a Celestial Vein. He revealed that the vein was at the Deep Sea Spring in the Water Mirror Sea, and the Sect Master sent three elders to investigate.

• Li Zai'en failed to persuade Lin Bai to lower his price, so he returned to the Overturned Water Hall to report the terms.
• The Sect Master agreed to Lin Bai's demands, and Li Zai'en returned to Bright Moon Island with a formation that let the elders watch and listen.
• Lin Bai revealed that the Celestial Vein was at the Deep Sea Spring and said he had sensed immortal qi there when Divine Spirit Tears appeared.
• Lin Bai explained that the Flood Dragon Clan had since surrounded the Deep Sea Spring, and he urged the sect to investigate his claim.
• The Sect Master ordered the Grand Elder, Fifth Elder, and Eleventh Elder to lead experts to the Deep Sea Spring and verify the information.

The Tianshui Sect learned that the Flood Dragon Clan was hiding a Celestial Vein beneath the Deep Sea Spring and sent elders to investigate. After confirming the vein, the Sect Master prepared to reclaim it, while Prince Yan warned his brother that conflict with the sect was coming.

• The Grand Elder led three elders and several hundred Tianshui Sect martial artists into the Nine Demon Sea despite the Flood Dragon Clan's warning.
• Prince Yan confronted the Tianshui Sect forces and fought the Grand Elder while the Eleventh Elder slipped away to inspect the Deep Sea Spring.
• The Eleventh Elder discovered an enormous Celestial Jade Celestial Vein beneath the spring and reported that the Flood Dragon Clan had begun excavating it.
• After receiving the report, the Grand Elder forced Prince Yan back and withdrew the Tianshui Sect forces from the Nine Demon Sea.
• Prince Yan told his brother that the Deep Sea Spring had been exposed, and his brother said he would prepare to negotiate while urging Prince Yan to excavate quickly.
• The Grand Elder and the Eleventh Elder returned to the Overturned Water Hall, where the Sect Master eagerly welcomed confirmation of the Celestial Vein.

After Tianshui Sect verified the Celestial Vein but failed to reach an agreement with the Flood Dragon Clan, Lin Bai stayed on Bright Moon Island to recover and study Azure Lotus Swordplay. Yi Gu brought him to Qiao Mo’s martial arts matchmaking competition, where Qiao Mo added a rule requiring every finalist to defeat her.

• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that Tianshui Sect had verified the Celestial Vein and promised to deliver Lin Bai’s agreed rewards after reporting to the Sect Master.
• Lin Bai remained on Bright Moon Island for a month, restoring his soul and studying Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Yi Gu brought Lin Bai to Hundred Victories Pavilion’s crowded Combat Arena to watch Qiao Mo’s martial arts matchmaking competition.
• The presiding elder explained that more than eight hundred competitors would fight across eight arenas, and Qiao Mo would choose her husband from the top four.
• Qiao Mo announced that every competitor who reached the top four had to exchange blows with her and defeat her to be considered worthy of marriage.

Yi Gu secretly registered Lin Bai for Qiao Mo’s marriage-by-combat contest, persuading him to compete for the five million Contribution Points and to keep Qiao Mo from marrying Wu Di or Qi Liang. Lin Bai stepped onto Battle Platform Three, and the contest began with a martial artist charging at him.

• Qiao Mo demanded a chance to choose her husband through martial combat, and Qi Kun and Wu Xiu agreed after Qi Liang and Wu Di said they could defeat her.
• Yi Gu revealed that he had secretly registered Lin Bai and urged him to compete for the Contribution Points and Qiao Mo’s sake.
• Lin Bai agreed to fight but said he would explain himself to Qiao Mo if he won.
• Lin Bai entered Battle Platform Three, where the other contestants mocked his Ninth-Rank Dao God cultivation.
• The presiding elder activated the platforms, the battles began, and one contestant immediately charged at Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought through the first round of Qiao Mo’s matrimonial tournament while suspecting that Hundred Victories Pavilion was manipulating the matches. The pavilion’s schemes became clear as its arranged fighters targeted threats, leaving Qi Liang and Wu Di poised to advance and pressure Qiao Mo into choosing one of them.

• Lin Bai used a light punch and his Asura Dharma Eyes to knock opponents off Platform Three, while Qi Liang and Wu Di advanced from Platforms One and Two after everyone else conceded.
• Lin Bai noticed that Qi Liang and Wu Di had reached the next round without fighting, giving them an advantage over contestants who had to exhaust themselves.
• Qiao Mo spotted Lin Bai on Platform Three, blushed, and privately considered him a possible choice if she found no one suitable.
• Five fighters on Platform Three coordinated and charged Lin Bai, who retreated as he suspected Hundred Victories Pavilion had arranged the attack.
• Spectators recognized that the pavilion had organized fighters across the platforms to eliminate threats to Qi Liang and Wu Di and leave Qiao Mo with no choice but to select one of them.

Qiao Mo grew more determined to reclaim Hundred Victories Pavilion after Wu Xiu and Qi Kun’s match-fixing was exposed, while Lin Bai broke through their arranged blockade on Platform Three and advanced. The quarterfinals began immediately with a lottery, despite complaints that the fighters had no time to recover.

• The warriors in the stands denounced Hundred Victories Pavilion’s behind-the-scenes manipulation, and Qiao Mo vowed to reclaim its foundation from Wu Xiu and Qi Kun.
• Qi Liang and Wu Di won Platforms One and Two as arranged, while Lin Bai faced five Dao God Peak warriors on Platform Three.
• Lin Bai stopped evading and knocked all five opponents off the platform, winning Platform Three.
• The presiding elder announced that the eight platform winners had reached the quarterfinals and ordered them to draw lots for the next round.
• The stands protested that Hundred Victories Pavilion began the second round without giving the exhausted fighters time to rest.

The martial competition’s rigged draw let Qi Liang and Wu Di advance after their opponents conceded, angering the Sect Master and the crowd. Lin Bai entered the arena to face Ancient Gold Blade, the Combat Arena’s hundred-win champion, who offered him the first strike.

• Qi Liang and Wu Di advanced when their opponents conceded, prompting the audience to roar that the competition was rigged.
• The Sect Master watched the matches through a water mirror and condemned the Hundred Victories Pavilion’s manipulation of the competition.
• Lin Bai drew lot number three and stepped onto the arena against the scarred Ancient Gold Blade.
• The crowd recognized Ancient Gold Blade as the Combat Arena’s only Hundred Victories General and feared Lin Bai would lose.
• Ancient Gold Blade said he would let Lin Bai strike once before drawing his blade, and Lin Bai asked if he was sure.

Lin Bai defeated Ancient Gold Blade despite the Hundred Victories Pavilion forcing them to rematch, then advanced to the final four. Qiao Mo invited the remaining contestants to fight her, and Lin Bai’s unexpected presence disrupted the pavilion’s plan to leave only Wu Di and Qi Liang.

• Lin Bai kicked Ancient Gold Blade off the platform, but the presiding elder declared the match invalid and ordered them to fight again.
• Ancient Gold Blade attacked Lin Bai with his blade, but Lin Bai seized him, crushed his throat and soul, and killed him.
• The presiding elder declared Lin Bai the winner, and Lin Bai joined Qi Liang, Wu Di, and another martial artist in the final four.
• Qiao Mo came onto the platform and said that anyone wishing to marry her had to defeat her; the fourth contestant conceded and left.
• The spectators realized the pavilion had arranged contestants to manipulate the outcome, but Lin Bai’s appearance had disrupted its plan.

Qiao Mo tested her suitors in one-move duels and decisively defeated Wu Di, stunning the Combat Arena. Qi Liang then faced her using a large collection of defensive and offensive treasures, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qiao Mo challenged Wu Di, Qi Liang, and Lin Bai to fight her before they could become her husband.
• Wu Di accepted first and unleashed a powerful punch at Qiao Mo.
• Qiao Mo struck Wu Di with a palm that shattered his attack and sent him flying from the arena.
• Wu Xiu rushed to his injured son, while the spectators cheered Qiao Mo's victory.
• Qi Liang stepped forward and deployed numerous defensive and offensive treasures against Qiao Mo.

Qiao Mo defeated Wu Di and Qi Liang, then faced Lin Bai in the final match of the martial competition for a bride. Lin Bai withstood her attack and defeated her in one move, leaving him as the competition’s winner.

• Qiao Mo evaded Qi Liang’s treasures and struck him down with one palm.
• Lin Bai told Qiao Mo she was not his opponent, but agreed to their one-move contest when she insisted.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun discussed the consequences if Lin Bai defeated Qiao Mo.
• Qiao Mo’s palm struck Lin Bai, but his body remained unharmed.
• Lin Bai seized Qiao Mo by the neck before she could defend herself, then set her down and declared himself the winner.

Lin Bai defeated Qiao Mo in one move, but Qi Kun and Wu Xiu accused her of throwing the match and tried to disqualify him from her choice. Lin Bai defied the elders and challenged one of them to fight, stunning the Combat Arena.

• Lin Bai seized Qiao Mo by the throat before she could react, and Qiao Mo admitted defeat.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu interrupted Qiao Mo before she could announce her choice and accused her of deliberately losing to Lin Bai.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu demanded that Lin Bai be disqualified so Qiao Mo would have to choose between Qi Liang and Wu Di.
• Lin Bai called the elders old dogs, rejected their authority, and challenged one of them to spar with him.
• The crowd was shocked that Lin Bai, a Ninth-Rank Dao God, had challenged a Great Purity expert.

Lin Bai challenged Qi Kun and revealed strength that let him fight a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm expert. The battle continued in the Combat Arena as Qi Kun unleashed a Dao art against Lin Bai.

• Qiao Mo warned Lin Bai against challenging a Grand Yi Elder, but Lin Bai insisted he knew what he was doing.
• Qi Kun attacked Lin Bai, who knocked him back with a punch powered by his formidable physical strength.
• Qi Kun trapped Lin Bai beneath an invisible palm, but Lin Bai cut it apart with his demonic sword.
• Lin Bai unleashed a storm of Sword Qi that forced Qi Kun back, and Qi Kun countered by shattering the Sword Qi and charging with a Dao art.

Lin Bai battled Qi Kun, a Great Purity Dao Fruit expert, and used their fierce exchange to seek a breakthrough in Azure Lotus Swordplay. After both fighters were injured, Qi Kun and Wu Xiu decided Lin Bai was a future threat, and Qi Kun attacked him with a Dao Art.

• Lin Bai unleashed Azure Lotus Swordplay against Qi Kun, hoping their battle would help him break through to its second stage.
• Lin Bai and Qi Kun exchanged several hundred moves over a quarter of an hour, leaving both badly wounded and astonishing the arena’s spectators.
• Qi Kun recognized Lin Bai’s formidable strength and feared his future rise, while Wu Xiu urged him to kill Lin Bai because of the threat he posed to them.
• Lin Bai sensed Qi Kun’s killing intent and challenged him, prompting Qi Kun to hurl his First-Rank Dao Art, the God Extinction Spear of Thunder, at him.

Qi Kun unleashed a Dao art against Lin Bai, who risked death to gain insight into Azure Lotus Swordplay and survived when a new sword light broke the attack. Li Zai'en stopped the confrontation after the thunder injured spectators, and Qi Kun and Wu Xiu had to abandon their plan to kill Lin Bai.

• Qi Kun attacked Lin Bai with the Dao art Thunder God Extinction Spear, while Lin Bai suppressed his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and faced the strike with Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Under the pressure of the thunder, Lin Bai reorganized the scriptures of Azure Lotus Swordplay and gained a new sword move that shattered most of the attack.
• The thunder’s aftershock damaged the spectator stands and killed martial artists before Li Zai'en arrived and destroyed the remaining thunder.
• Li Zai'en condemned Qi Kun for trying to kill Lin Bai and revealed that the sect had promoted Lin Bai to a Three Wonders Disciple.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu accepted that Li Zai'en’s intervention made it impossible to kill Lin Bai, and the confrontation ended.

After Lin Bai defeated Qi Kun, Qiao Mo declared him her chosen husband and demanded the Hundred Victories Pavilion honor its promise to let her take charge. Wu Xiu and Qi Kun tried to stop the marriage by insisting Lin Bai marry into the family, but Lin Bai agreed, prompting Zuo Tiancheng to offer him a different marriage alliance with Zuo Xintang.

• Li Zai'en stopped Lin Bai and Qi Kun's battle, then departed after protecting Lin Bai from further conflict.
• Lin Bai healed his wounds and challenged Wu Xiu and Qi Kun's claims that Qiao Mo had deliberately let him win.
• Qiao Mo declared Lin Bai her husband and reminded the elders that they had promised to let her take over the Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that Lin Bai marry into the family, or the marriage would be canceled, and Lin Bai agreed.
• Zuo Tiancheng offered to marry his granddaughter Zuo Xintang to Lin Bai if Lin Bai gave up on Qiao Mo.

Zuo Tiancheng, Qin Changqing, and Yi Gu competed to win Lin Bai over with marriage offers and promises of powerful support. With the crowd awaiting his answer, Lin Bai began to speak but had not yet chosen.

• Zuo Tiancheng offered Lin Bai a marriage alliance with Zuo Xintang and promised to bring his parents to the Demon Realm.
• Qin Changqing proposed that Lin Bai marry Qin Yao and promised twice what the Zuo Family could provide.
• Fang Yuanshu reacted angrily to Qin Changqing's offer, while Qin Yao remained quiet.
• Yi Gu invited Lin Bai to the Seven Nights Divine Sect and claimed he could arrange a marriage with any woman there.
• Lin Bai smiled and began to answer as the crowd waited for his decision.

Lin Bai rejected marriage alliances with the Qin and Zuo Families and chose to marry Qiao Mo, but Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that he become the Tianshui Sect's Saint first. After vowing to claim the position, Lin Bai went with Yi Gu and the Crow to White Mist Island, where they found Qiao Mo weeping over her father's death and the upheaval in her life.

• Lin Bai thanked the Qin and Zuo Families for their offers but said he would marry Qiao Mo and join the Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that Lin Bai bring a betrothal gift, then made his marriage conditional on becoming the Tianshui Sect's Saint.
• Lin Bai accepted the challenge and warned Wu Xiu and Qi Kun not to obstruct him once he became Saint.
• Lin Bai, Yi Gu, and the Crow went to White Mist Island after the martial competition ended.
• Lin Bai and his companions found Qiao Mo crying outside her sleeping palace, grieving how her father's death had upended her life.