Recaps

The Heaven and Earth Gate discussed the Tianshui Sect’s fighters in the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, and the Old Daoist warned that Lin Bai was an exceptional threat. He revealed his scheme to frame Lin Bai for Mu Huaqing’s death and turn Li Yuanzong into an agent, then urged the sect to strike the Tianshui Sect as its Water Mirror Sea plans neared completion.

• The Old Daoist listed the Tianshui Sect experts sent to the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, including Mu Huaqing, Tang Wei, and Lin Bai.
• The Old Daoist told the Heaven and Earth Gate Master that Lin Bai’s strength and schemes made him a greater threat than the sect’s reports suggested.
• The Old Daoist revealed that he had persuaded Li Yuanzong to defect, arranged for him to kill Mu Huaqing, and blamed Mu Huaqing’s death on Lin Bai.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master praised the plan to provoke the Tianshui Sect against Lin Bai and keep Li Yuanzong as a hidden agent.
• The Old Daoist urged the Heaven and Earth Gate to launch a fatal blow against the Tianshui Sect, and the Heaven and Earth Gate Master questioned whether their Water Mirror Sea allies were ready.

The Heaven and Earth Gate planned to destroy the Tianshui Sect by exploiting the Flood Dragon Clan’s weakened state and mobilizing forces in the Water Mirror Sea. The sect prepared a one-year strategy that would lure Tianshui Sect disciples into a trap and use a supposed rescue as cover for an attack.

• The Old Daoist urged the Heaven and Earth Gate Master to incite the Flood Dragon Clan against the Tianshui Sect while it was weakened by Lin Bai killing two Quasi-Dragon Sons.
• The Old Daoist argued that the other demon clans and the Three Great Pirates would join the campaign, while Storm City’s merchants would follow whoever seemed likely to prevail.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master and elders agreed to Elder Ma’s plan to invite the Tianshui Sect’s younger generation to discuss the Dao and compete in martial arts one year later, then surround and kill them.
• Elder Ma was ordered to contact the Water Mirror Sea’s demon clans, pirates, and Storm City clans, while the Heaven and Earth Gate prepared to use them to weaken the Tianshui Sect before launching its own attack.

Lin Bai returned to Tianshui Sect and awaited Li Yuanzong’s next move, while Tang Wei began to suspect Li Yuanzong’s involvement in Mu Huaqing’s death. On Bright Moon Island, Lin Bai watched Yi Gu recover and then playfully attacked him with fallen leaves.

• Zheng Yuan ordered Lin Bai to remain on Bright Moon Island while the sect investigated Mu Huaqing’s death, and sent the other disciples to recuperate.
• Tang Wei questioned how Li Yuanzong had known Mu Huaqing was dead, and Lin Bai said they would have to wait for Li Yuanzong to reveal a flaw.
• Lin Bai told Tang Wei that the sect’s handling of the investigation would test whether it deserved his loyalty.
• Lin Bai returned to Bright Moon Island and saw Yi Gu cultivating amid seven-colored radiance that shattered a falling leaf.
• After Yi Gu finished cultivating, Lin Bai flicked leaves at him, then gathered the forest’s fallen leaves into a dragon that charged toward him.

Lin Bai returned from the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, reported its deadly events, and went into seclusion to heal and advance his cultivation. At the Tianshui Sect, the Grand Elder questioned whether Lin Bai and Tang Wei had conspired to kill Mu Huaqing.

• Lin Bai tested Yi Gu's Seven-Colored Divine Light and learned that Yi Gu's family had never mastered the inherited art.
• Qiao Mo and Qin Yao welcomed Lin Bai, who told them that Pan Hun, Li Lu, Zhao En, Qi Liang, Wu Di, and Mu Huaqing had died in the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Qin Yao suspected Li Yuanzong was involved in Mu Huaqing's death and framing Lin Bai, while Lin Bai said he would handle the matter after healing in seclusion.
• Zheng Yuan presented the sect with evidence gathered by Tang Wei, and the Sect Master showed the Image Recording Pearl to the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder said none of the four suspected fighters could have defeated Mu Huaqing alone and asked whether Lin Bai and Tang Wei had joined forces to kill him.

The Tianshui Sect investigated Mu Huaqing’s death, with Lin Bai and Tang Wei becoming the prime suspects. The Sect Master privately ordered Li Zai'en to protect Lin Bai if he was the killer, while Li Yuanzong gave the Grand Elder an account blaming Lin Bai and Tang Wei for Mu Huaqing’s death.

• The Grand Elder named Yu Lianqin, Tang Wei, and Lin Bai as suspects and vowed to avenge Mu Huaqing, while the Sect Master assigned Li Zai'en to investigate.
• The Sect Master privately told Li Zai'en to report the culprit to her first and said she would protect Lin Bai if he had killed Mu Huaqing.
• The Sect Master ordered Li Zai'en to give Lin Bai and Tang Wei passes to the Demon Refining Tower and keep them there until the investigation was complete.
• The Grand Elder sealed Mu Huaqing’s bones in ice, and Li Yuanzong came to recount what had happened in the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Li Yuanzong claimed that Tang Wei ambushed Mu Huaqing during his fight with Lin Bai, allowing Lin Bai to stab Mu Huaqing through the heart.

After Li Yuanzong blamed Lin Bai and Tang Wei for Mu Huaqing’s death, Li Zai'en arrived on Bright Moon Island to investigate. Lin Bai denied the accusation and claimed Li Yuanzong was the real killer, leaving Li Zai'en unconvinced.

• Li Yuanzong told the Grand Elder that Lin Bai had tried to kill him and that Tang Wei had killed Mu Huaqing during the ensuing fight.
• The Grand Elder ordered Li Yuanzong to tell Li Zai'en everything, while deciding to wait for the investigation before seeking revenge.
• Li Zai'en came to Bright Moon Island with Tang Wei and accused Lin Bai of killing Mu Huaqing.
• Lin Bai agreed to go to the Hall of Law Enforcement but denied guilt and challenged the evidence against him.
• Lin Bai told Li Zai'en that Li Yuanzong had killed Mu Huaqing, and Li Zai'en rejected the claim as impossible.

Lin Bai told Li Zai'en that he suspected Ma Qiuming and Li Yuanzong had conspired to kill Mu Huaqing, though he had no evidence. Li Zai'en agreed to investigate while keeping the accusation secret, and ordered Lin Bai and Tang Wei to stay in the Demon Refining Tower until the case was resolved.

• Lin Bai told Li Zai'en that a Great Purity Dao Fruit powerhouse had attacked him with the Azure Sky Finger and likely wounded Mu Huaqing before someone else delivered the fatal sword strike.
• Lin Bai identified the powerhouse as Ma Qiuming, the Heaven and Earth Gate elder, and suspected Li Yuanzong had joined him to turn the Tianshui Sect's younger disciples against one another.
• Li Zai'en warned that Lin Bai had no evidence and promised not to record or report the accusation while he investigated.
• Lin Bai concluded that the sect intended to protect him because it had sent Li Zai'en to investigate instead of arresting him.
• Li Zai'en gave Lin Bai two Demon Refining Tower passage tokens and said Lin Bai and Tang Wei must stay there until the investigation was complete; Qin Yao, Qiao Mo, and Tang Wei reacted with horror at the tower's name.

Lin Bai learned that the Demon Refining Tower held dangerous remnants and treasures from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, and that Tianshui Sect had ordered him and Tang Wei to enter it. After agreeing to go, Lin Bai planned to break through to the Dao God Peak realm first, and they arranged to meet in the Water Mirror World in half a month.

• Qin Yao explained that Tianshui Sect had imprisoned the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's leaders in the Demon Refining Tower a hundred thousand years ago, and their traps and creations still made it dangerous.
• Qin Yao described the tower's hidden treasures, including the demonic leaders' inheritances and techniques that had contributed to Tianshui Sect's Dao Arts.
• Tang Wei told Lin Bai that two of the other Saint Child candidates were training inside the tower and warned that a token destroyed inside would leave its holder trapped.
• Tang Wei argued that entering the tower was safer than remaining in the sect while the Grand Elder targeted them, and Lin Bai agreed to follow the Sect Master's order.
• Lin Bai said he needed time to use the Sky Peak Divine Radiance Pill and reach the Dao God Peak realm, so he and Tang Wei arranged to set out after meeting in the Water Mirror World in half a month.

Lin Bai broke through to the Dao God Peak realm and spent half a month stabilizing his cultivation. He then joined Tang Wei and reached the Demon Refining Tower, where an elder warned them of its dangers before opening the way inside.

• Lin Bai refined the Sky Peak Divine Radiance Pill and broke through from Ninth-Rank Dao God to Dao God Peak in three days.
• Lin Bai spent more than ten days consolidating his cultivation, then said farewell to Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and Yi Gu before leaving Bright Moon Island.
• Lin Bai met Tang Wei in the Water Mirror World, and they traveled east to the mist-covered outer region.
• Tang Wei showed the guard her Demon Refining Tower token, and an old man opened a path through the white mist.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei reached the nine-story Demon Refining Tower, where an elder checked their tokens and warned that losing them inside would leave them unable to return.
• The elder opened a path to the tower entrance, and Lin Bai and Tang Wei prepared to enter.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei entered the Demon Refining Tower and found themselves in the Lightless Forest, where Tang Wei identified their route toward Demon Refining City. After Lin Bai destroyed a Blood Corpse that ambushed them, more growls surrounded them, and Tang Wei warned that escaping the forest might not be easy.

• Lin Bai and Tang Wei entered the Demon Refining Tower and arrived in a ghost-filled forest scattered with skeletons.
• Lin Bai released the Crow to search for treasures after arranging to split their finds evenly, while Tang Wei identified the area as the Lightless Forest.
• Tang Wei explained that the tower contained one inner realm divided into four dangerous regions and recommended that they head for Demon Refining City.
• Lin Bai sensed danger, knocked Tang Wei out of the way, and used his four flying swords to destroy a Blood Corpse that attacked them.
• Tang Wei recognized the monster as a Blood Corpse, and shrill growls rose through the forest as she warned Lin Bai they might not leave easily.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei fought their way through tens of thousands of poisonous Blood Corpses in the Lightless Forest, and Tang Wei identified the nearby Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave as their likely source. A Bronze Corpse emerged and overpowered Lin Bai, leaving him injured as Tang Wei remained trapped among the Blood Corpses.

• A swarm of Blood Corpses rushed Lin Bai and Tang Wei, and they fought while retreating through the poisonous horde.
• Tang Wei explained that the Blood Corpses came from the Corpse Refinement Sect’s techniques, which the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had seized after destroying the sect.
• Tang Wei suspected the Blood Corpses had emerged from the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave and warned that it held Bronze Corpses and had claimed the lives of everyone who entered seeking treasure.
• A gaunt creature attacked Lin Bai, and he recognized that its strength matched the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• The Bronze Corpse shattered Lin Bai’s Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and sent him flying as Tang Wei was kept from helping by the surrounding Blood Corpses.

Lin Bai fought a powerful Bronze Corpse while Tang Wei was trapped among countless Blood Corpses. He helped Tang Wei escape, but the Bronze Corpse blocked his own path and showed signs of intelligence as Lin Bai attacked it with the Heaven Measuring Ruler.

• Tang Wei tried to aid Lin Bai but was pulled back into the Blood Corpses, leaving Lin Bai to face the Bronze Corpse alone.
• The Bronze Corpse teleported in to attack Lin Bai, and its blows cracked three of his four flying swords.
• Lin Bai struck the Bronze Corpse with the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation, but its bronze bones left it unharmed.
• Tang Wei told Lin Bai to escape without her, so he sent two flying swords to carry her out of the Blood Corpses.
• The Bronze Corpse blocked Lin Bai's escape, and his Heaven Measuring Ruler strike missed when the creature dodged, making him suspect it had developed intelligence.

Lin Bai fought off a horde of Blood Corpses near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave until the Sentient Sealing Demon Talisman suppressed the cave and drove the monsters away. After Tang Wei and Yi Zien arrived, they realized Lin Bai and Tang Wei’s teleportation had likely been deliberately redirected into danger.

• Lin Bai tried to escape the Blood Corpses but was trapped and forced to fight them while the Bronze Corpse searched for an opening.
• A golden light descended on the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, became the Sentient Sealing Demon Talisman, and drove the Bronze Corpse and Blood Corpses away.
• Tang Wei arrived with Yi Zien and his Five Divine Generals, and Lin Bai confirmed he was unharmed.
• Yi Zien explained that entrants should have been teleported to Demon Refining City, not the Lightless Forest near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei realized someone had deliberately altered their teleportation location, possibly the elder guarding the Demon Refining Tower.

Yi Zien rescued Lin Bai and Tang Wei from the Lightless Forest and brought them to Demon Refining City, where he offered them a place to stay. The chapter leaves Lin Bai questioning whether Yi Zien himself can be trusted after receiving a warning about trusting anyone in the city.

• Yi Zien explained that he had found Tang Wei and Lin Bai after investigating the red light from the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, whose seal could hold for only a quarter of an hour.
• Yi Zien led Lin Bai and Tang Wei safely out of the Lightless Forest, and they reached Demon Refining City half a month later.
• Yi Zien told Lin Bai that at least a thousand Tianshui Sect martial artists were inside the Demon Refining Tower, mostly training outside the city and searching for treasures.
• Yi Zien offered Lin Bai and Tang Wei rooms in his clean residence and said they could ask him for help.
• Yi Zien warned Lin Bai and Tang Wei not to trust people in Demon Refining City too easily, and Lin Bai asked whether they could trust him.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei questioned whether Yi Zien could be trusted after their escape from the Lightless Forest, then Lin Bai explored the lawless Demon Refining City. The chapter left him entering Heaven's Grace Street and telling a Black-Robed Man that his companions had died.

• Yi Zien told Lin Bai and Tang Wei that he would withdraw from the Holy Son competition if either proved more suitable, and he left Long Lanshui to assist them.
• Tang Wei asked Lin Bai whether Yi Zien could be trusted, then returned to her room to treat her injuries.
• Lin Bai left the residence despite Long Lanshui warning him that Demon Refining City was dangerous and its martial artists could not be trusted.
• Lin Bai surveyed Demon Refining City, memorized its streets, and noticed that Heaven's Grace Street was unusually busy.
• Lin Bai entered Heaven's Grace Street, approached a Black-Robed Man beneath a lantern, and claimed that his companions had died.

Lin Bai explored Heaven's Grace Street after claiming his companions had died, learning about a dangerous treasure hunt and the trading services in Heaven's Grace Pavilion. With Long Lanshui guiding him, he toured Demon Refining City and then returned to Yi Zien's residence.

• A Black-Robed Man invited Lin Bai to join a team searching the Vaultpeak Mountains, where a Human Corpse Fiend guarded rumored treasures, and mentioned Yi Zien's recent expedition there.
• Lin Bai declined the invitation, noting that even Yi Zien had been injured, and continued along Heaven's Grace Street.
• Lin Bai met Long Lanshui outside Heaven's Grace Pavilion and learned that Yi Zien had assigned her to protect him.
• Long Lanshui explained that Heaven's Grace Pavilion sold information and traded treasures using Tianshui Sect Contribution Points.
• Long Lanshui showed Lin Bai around Demon Refining City, and he returned to Yi Zien's residence.

Lin Bai assessed his cultivation needs and decided that breaking through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm required fortuitous opportunities, miraculous pills, and especially immortal jade. He sought information at Heaven's Grace Pavilion, where the Demonic Spirit charged him for an obvious answer, leaving him with fewer Contribution Points and a price for immortal jade.

• Lin Bai concluded that cultivation was his greatest weakness and resolved to seek immortal jade and resources in the Demon Refining Tower.
• After resting for two days, Lin Bai told Long Lanshui he was going to Heaven's Grace Pavilion before beginning his cultivation there.
• Lin Bai entered an unused information chamber and asked the Demonic Spirit how to obtain immortal jade.
• The Demonic Spirit told Lin Bai that each immortal jade cost fifty thousand Contribution Points and charged him ten thousand points for the information.
• Lin Bai calculated that his remaining 3.49 million Contribution Points could buy only sixty-nine immortal jade and cursed the profiteering pavilion.

Lin Bai learned that breaking through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm required extensive preparation and paid Heaven's Grace Pavilion 360,000 Contribution Points for information about the Thousand Death Islands and Sea Beast Island. After consulting Yi Zien, Lin Bai and Tang Wei prepared to search Sea Beast Island for Celestial Jade and set out two days later.

• Lin Bai considered using his Great Purity Evergreen Pill to break through but decided to wait until he had made more preparations.
• Lin Bai asked Mo Ling where to cultivate and learned that newcomers searched the Thousand Death Islands for Celestial Jade Puppets.
• Lin Bai paid another 300,000 Contribution Points to learn that Sea Beast Island held many Celestial Jade Puppets and a rumored treasure trove.
• Lin Bai left Heaven's Grace Pavilion, then told Yi Zien he planned to explore the Thousand Death Islands.
• Tang Wei asked to accompany Lin Bai, and he agreed.
• Two days later, Lin Bai and Tang Wei set out for the Thousand Death Islands.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei entered Death Islands, a poisonous sea, using Antitoxin Pills prepared by Qiao Mo. After finding the first island deserted and its traces of battle picked clean, they heard a tremendous disturbance and discovered martial artists fighting on another island.

• Lin Bai and Tang Wei reached Death Islands and learned its toxic miasma could corrode even powerful martial artists, so they took Antitoxin Pills Qiao Mo had prepared.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei flew through the poisonous sea and landed on an island, where they found signs of an old battle but no living creatures or puppets.
• Tang Wei concluded that the island’s puppets had been destroyed long ago, and Lin Bai and Tang Wei continued deeper into Death Islands.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei heard a roar that sent huge waves through the poisonous water and flew toward it, finding martial artists fighting on an island.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei found three Tianshui Sect disciples fighting a powerful Celestial Jade Puppet on a ruined island in the Thousand Death Islands. They joined the battle, and the chapter ended with Lin Bai discovering that the puppet could match his Five Elements Dao Body in a direct clash.

• Lin Bai and Tang Wei watched as the Black-Robed Man, revealed to be a puppet, fought three peak Dao God realm martial artists and killed one of them.
• The two surviving Tianshui Sect disciples called for help and offered to share the treasures on the Celestial Jade Puppet, so Lin Bai and Tang Wei joined the fight.
• Tang Wei struck the puppet with her golden ring while Lin Bai's sword rays tore away its robes, exposing its steel body and lifeless male face.
• Lin Bai learned that the puppet's celestial jade core was hidden beneath the armor in its chest as Tang Wei struggled to hold it back.
• Lin Bai stepped in to protect Tang Wei and traded a punch with the Celestial Jade Puppet, and both were knocked back ten steps.

Lin Bai defeated a Celestial Jade Puppet and discovered that a human head had been grafted onto its mechanical body. After the dying man warned him to be careful, Lin Bai buried him and wondered whether the other puppets on the Thousand Death Islands had been made the same way.

• Lin Bai sent Tang Wei back and used four flying swords to break open the Celestial Jade Puppet’s chest, exposing the celestial jade inside.
• The wounded puppet fled, but Lin Bai pursued it and severed all four of its limbs.
• As Lin Bai pried out the celestial jade, the puppet regained some consciousness and pleaded for help before dying without finishing its warning.
• Lin Bai examined the puppet and found that its head was a martial artist’s skull attached to a body forged from steel.
• Lin Bai took the celestial jade, buried the dead man, and wondered whether all the Thousand Death Islands’ puppets had been made this way.

Lin Bai left the island after finding little of value on the Celestial Jade Puppet, while a sinister figure retrieved the buried puppet and recognized Lin Bai as a threat to its plans. Back at the others, two martial artists ambushed Tang Wei for the treasures, but Lin Bai returned and defeated them, leaving them alive for questioning.

• Lin Bai buried the puppet and departed, then a black figure emerged from the poisonous water, retrieved it, and reflected on Lin Bai and the Tianshui Sect’s fortune.
• While Lin Bai was away, two injured martial artists ambushed Tang Wei, claiming they wanted to kill her and seize the Celestial Jade Puppet’s treasures.
• Tang Wei fought back with her golden ring, but the two men overwhelmed her and planned to kill her before Lin Bai returned.
• Lin Bai came back sooner than the men expected and confronted them as they attacked him together.
• Lin Bai shattered their attacks with his flying swords and left both men alive so he could question them.

Lin Bai questioned two defeated attackers about the puppets on the Thousand Death Islands and the dangers of Sea Beast Island, then killed them when they tried to escape. He returned to Tang Wei and began recovering while considering what he had learned.

• Lin Bai crippled the two men who had ambushed Tang Wei, then asked her to heal while he questioned them.
• The men explained that puppets were powered by spirit stones, Dao Fruits, or celestial jade, and that Sea Beast Island held many valuable Celestial Jade Puppets.
• They warned that only Senior Brother Li Lingtian had ever escaped Sea Beast Island after hunting there, and that he left the Demon Refining Tower afterward.
• The men secretly prepared an escape art and fled, but Lin Bai sent two flying swords after them and killed them.
• Lin Bai returned to Tang Wei and sat down to heal and recover his spiritual power.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei searched the Thousand Death Islands for Sea Beast Island, which held many Celestial Jade Puppets. After Senior Brother Wu reported finding it at Withered Leaf Island, they arrived and saw the enormous island on the back of a dragon-headed tortoise puppet, but could no longer contact him.

• Lin Bai told Tang Wei that Sea Beast Island contained many puppets, including valuable Celestial Jade Puppets, and that he had paid 360,000 Contribution Points for the information.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei traveled the Thousand Death Islands for a month, killing Dao Fruit Puppets but finding no sign of Sea Beast Island.
• Senior Brother Wu contacted Lin Bai and said Sea Beast Island was at Withered Leaf Island.
• Lin Bai and Tang Wei followed Senior Brother Wu's map to Withered Leaf Island and spotted Sea Beast Island atop a gigantic dragon-headed tortoise puppet.
• Lin Bai failed to reach Senior Brother Wu by Voice Transmission Token and suspected that he and his group had entered Sea Beast Island.

Lin Bai and Tang Wei boarded Sea Beast Island, unaware that a black shadow had lured them there by impersonating Senior Brother Wu. The shadow held Wu and five others captive and forced Wu to agree to help target Lin Bai by threatening his pregnant wife, Lian Mei.

• Lin Bai and Tang Wei decided to investigate Sea Beast Island together and flew onto the Ao Tortoise's back.
• A black shadow saw them arrive, ordered the Ao Tortoise to carry the island away, and returned to the cave where six captives were chained.
• The shadow revealed that it had used Senior Brother Wu's Voice Transmission Token and imitated his voice to summon Lin Bai.
• Wu refused to betray Lin Bai, while his five companions urged him to comply and save their lives.
• The shadow threatened Lian Mei and revealed that she was pregnant, prompting Wu to agree to help in exchange for her and the child's safety.