Recaps

Li Juenian killed a dried corpse in another cavern while Lin Bai fought through a swarm of dried corpses and carved his way into the mountain’s inner chamber. Trapped with no apparent exit, Lin Bai climbed into the golden coffin beside a preserved woman as the corpses entered the chamber.

• Li Juenian found no formation beneath a coffin, killed the dried corpse that rose from it, and wondered what rainbow light had swept through the Immortal Sinking Water.
• Lin Bai carved a passage through the stone wall while fighting off the dried corpses, took a claw strike to the chest, and finally broke through into the mountain’s inner chamber.
• Lin Bai saw a golden coffin guarded by the skeletons of four Grand Luo Dao Fruit powerhouses and suspected the chamber was the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s hidden treasure vault.
• Finding no exit and pursued by the dried corpses, Lin Bai opened the golden coffin, saw a beautiful woman inside, and climbed in before closing the lid.

Lin Bai hid inside a golden coffin, found a Green Jade Fragment on the woman lying within, and watched her awaken. After the Crow burned away the dried corpses, Lin Bai and the Crow fled when the woman sat up.

• Dried corpses flooded into the chamber, and the Crow burned them to ash with Nine-Colored Flames.
• Lin Bai found a Green Jade Fragment set in a ring on the woman inside the coffin, and it entered his dantian when he removed the ring.
• The woman opened her eyes and stared at Lin Bai as the coffin began to open.
• Lin Bai attacked through the coffin’s opening, then recognized the Crow and learned the dried corpses were gone.
• Lin Bai fled with the Crow, who saw the woman sit up in the golden coffin and cried out for them to run.

Lin Bai escaped Celestial Pillar Peak with Li Juenian after encountering a powerful woman in red, then asked the Crow to explain the hidden formations protecting her. The Crow revealed that the ice plain and its formations had been built to sustain the woman, but it could not remember who she was.

• Lin Bai fled Celestial Pillar Peak with Li Juenian, while the Crow escaped ahead of them.
• Outside the peak, Lin Bai recovered as Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals waited for Yi Zien to return.
• Lin Bai summoned the Crow and asked about Celestial Pillar Peak and the woman in red.
• The Crow explained that the ice plain's Snowstorm Seal, Earth Mother Skynet Grand Formation, Dipper Ox Voidless Grand Formation, and Myriad Ages Yin-Yang Grand Formation protected and sustained the woman in red.
• The Crow said the woman had held an extremely high position in the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and possessed formidable strength, but it could not recall her identity.

The Red-Clad Woman awakened at Celestial Pillar Peak and summoned the surviving demons of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to the ice plain. As the Black Demon and the Corpse King answered her call, Lin Bai and the Crow discussed the danger she posed.

• The Red-Clad Woman recognized that Lin Bai carried three fragments and had taken a fourth from her, then called for every surviving demon of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to come to her at once.
• The Black Demon heard the summons, suspected the legend was true, and ordered Sea Beast Island to head for the ice plain.
• The seal on the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave broke, and the Corpse King led its Blood Corpses and other Corpse Puppets toward the ice plain.
• Tianshui Sect disciples saw the Corpse Puppets charging across the Demon Refining Tower and sent messages to warn the sect.
• Outside Celestial Pillar Peak, the Crow warned Lin Bai that the Red-Clad Woman had once swindled him out of valuable treasures and cultivation techniques.

Lin Bai and his companions hid as the Blood Corpses swept across the ice field and the Corpse King and Black Demon arrived at Celestial Pillar Peak. Lin Bai revealed that a Red-Clad Woman beneath the peak had awakened and likely summoned the two taboo beings, leaving the group fearful of what would happen next.

• The Crow sensed danger, warned Lin Bai to leave, and flew away into the snowstorm.
• Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals hurried Lin Bai away from the ice field as Blood Corpses charged toward Celestial Pillar Peak, and the group concealed themselves with a gauze net.
• The Corpse King appeared with the Blood Corpses and Corpse Puppets, while the Black Demon arrived on Sea Beast Island atop a colossal Ao Turtle.
• The Corpse King and the Black Demon entered Celestial Pillar Peak, and the Ao Turtle stopped outside it.
• Lin Bai told Li Juenian and the Five Divine Generals that a Red-Clad Woman beneath Celestial Pillar Peak was awakening and had likely summoned the two taboo beings.

The Red-Clad Woman awakened in Celestial Pillar Peak and learned from the Corpse King and Black Demon that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had been destroyed and its disciples imprisoned in the Demon Refining Tower. Though she could not yet help them escape, she ordered them to inventory the treasures and asked them to assist her with a task.

• The Corpse King entered the cavern and knelt before the Red-Clad Woman, and the Black Demon soon joined him.
• The Red-Clad Woman questioned the two about the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and learned it had fallen a hundred thousand years earlier.
• The Red-Clad Woman recognized that the Black Demon survived through his Demonic Martial Soul and that the Corpse King had sacrificed his former body and cultivation to become a Corpse Puppet.
• The Black Demon and Corpse King explained that the Tianshui Sect had built the Demon Refining Tower to imprison the palace's disciples and seize its treasures.
• The Red-Clad Woman revealed she could not yet break out of the tower, ordered the two to inventory Celestial Pillar Peak's treasures, and told them to help her with one thing.

The Red-Clad Woman ordered the Corpse King and Black Demon to capture Lin Bai and the crow alive, promising them freedom and merit in the Devil Palace. After they split up to hide her revival and hunt for the pair, Lin Bai reunited with Tianshui Sect experts, including Zhou Xinjin, whose hostile gaze drew Li Juenian’s explanation that he was Li Yuanzong and Mu Huqing’s second senior brother.

• The Red-Clad Woman showed the Corpse King and Black Demon portraits of Lin Bai and the crow and ordered them captured alive.
• Black Demon recognized Lin Bai and explained that he was a Tianshui Sect Holy Son candidate and a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The Red-Clad Woman promised the Corpse King and Black Demon freedom and merit if they captured Lin Bai and the crow, then left before Tianshui Sect investigators arrived.
• The Corpse King and Black Demon agreed to conceal the Red-Clad Woman’s revival; the Corpse King went to clean up Celestial Pillar Peak while Black Demon searched for Lin Bai and the crow.
• Yi Zien brought Zheng Yuan and dozens of Tianshui Sect Dao God Realm experts to reunite with Lin Bai and the others outside Celestial Pillar Peak.
• Zhou Xinjin gave Lin Bai a hostile look, and Li Juenian identified him as the Grand Elder’s second direct disciple.

Zhou Xinjin confronted Lin Bai over Mu Huaqing’s death, but Li Juenian defended Lin Bai until Zheng Yuan stopped their standoff. After Lin Bai revealed that a powerful Red-Clad Woman had awakened beneath Celestial Pillar Peak and likely summoned demons, Zheng Yuan decided to investigate the underground palace with Lin Bai leading the way.

• Li Juenian told Lin Bai that Zhou Xinjin, Mu Huaqing’s longtime friend and fellow disciple of the Grand Elder, had emerged from seclusion after hearing of Mu Huaqing’s death.
• Zhou Xinjin confronted Lin Bai with killing intent, and Li Juenian stepped between them and drew his sword to defend Lin Bai.
• Zheng Yuan halted Zhou Xinjin and Li Juenian’s standoff so they could focus on investigating the Demon Refining Tower’s abnormality.
• Long Lanshui explained what had happened at Celestial Pillar Peak, and Lin Bai revealed that a Red-Clad Woman had awakened from a golden coffin beneath it.
• Lin Bai suspected the Red-Clad Woman had summoned the Corpse King and the Black Demon, and warned that she could upset the Demon Refining Tower’s balance.
• Zheng Yuan decided to enter Celestial Pillar Peak with Lin Bai leading the way to assess the Red-Clad Woman and her threat.

Lin Bai led Zheng Yuan and Zhou Xinjin into Celestial Pillar Peak to investigate the Red-Clad Woman, but they found only her golden coffin and encountered the Corpse King and Black Demon. The Corpse King recognized Lin Bai as the man the Sacred Ancestor wanted captured and demanded that Zheng Yuan hand him over.

• Zheng Yuan ordered Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the others to remain outside and seal the Demon Refining Tower if anything went wrong, then agreed to let Zhou Xinjin accompany him and Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai guided Zheng Yuan and Zhou Xinjin through the Immortal Sinking Water to the Underground Palace, where the Red-Clad Woman was gone and the Corpse King was searching the area.
• Zheng Yuan confronted the Corpse King and ordered him back to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, but the Corpse King refused to take the threat seriously.
• Black Demon identified Lin Bai as the man the Sacred Ancestor had ordered them to capture, and the Corpse King told Black Demon to seize him while he dealt with Zheng Yuan.
• The Corpse King offered to return to his territory if Zheng Yuan handed Lin Bai over.

The Corpse King demanded Lin Bai, then attacked when Zheng Yuan refused to hand him over. As Black Demon sent a horde of puppets to capture Lin Bai, Lin Bai fought back with six swords and began tearing the puppets apart.

• The Corpse King demanded that Zheng Yuan surrender Lin Bai, but Zheng Yuan refused and ordered the Corpse King to return to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave.
• The Corpse King attacked Lin Bai, and Zheng Yuan stepped in to block him; the two fought as Black Demon moved to capture Lin Bai.
• Black Demon awakened the Ao Turtle and hundreds of Celestial Jade Puppets, sealing the exits and surrounding Lin Bai and the others.
• Zheng Yuan told Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin to leave, but Black Demon blocked Lin Bai with demonic flames and sent the puppets after him.
• Lin Bai wielded four flying swords, the Demon Sword, and the Heaven Measuring Ruler, destroying the attacking puppets and shocking the Corpse King with his swordsmanship.

Lin Bai fought Black Demon and the Celestial Jade Puppets, but their combined attacks badly wounded him. He broke through Black Demon’s blockade with Azure Lotus Swordplay and escaped, while Black Demon reformed and recognized the technique as the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s swordplay.

• Lin Bai’s swordsmanship astonished the Corpse King, Zheng Yuan, and Zhou Xinjin, while Black Demon attacked him with Heavenly Burning Hand.
• Lin Bai shattered Black Demon’s flaming palm, then destroyed three squads of Celestial Jade Puppets before the remaining squads unleashed a combined strike that left him gravely wounded.
• Lin Bai used the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to carve a path through the puppets and rush toward the exit.
• Black Demon blocked the exit with Heavenly Burning Hand, but Lin Bai unleashed Azure Lotus Swordplay and destroyed his body with One Sword Obscures the Heavens.
• Lin Bai escaped the cavern, and Black Demon reformed and wondered whether Lin Bai had used the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s swordplay.

Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin escaped the cave into the Immortal Sinking Water, where Black Demon used the deadly pressure and his puppets to capture Zhou Xinjin. Black Demon then held Zhou Xinjin hostage to force Lin Bai to surrender, appealing to the Tianshui Sect’s conscience and sense of justice.

• Lin Bai and Zhou Xinjin escaped the cave, but Celestial Jade Puppets blocked their way through the Immortal Sinking Water.
• Lin Bai fought through the puppets while Zhou Xinjin was gravely injured by the water’s pressure and the attackers.
• Black Demon caught Zhou Xinjin, broke his defensive shield, and sealed his meridians and dantian so he could use him to capture Lin Bai.
• Black Demon appeared before Lin Bai with Zhou Xinjin and threatened to kill him unless Lin Bai surrendered.
• Lin Bai questioned Black Demon’s assumption that he cared about Zhou Xinjin, while Black Demon argued that Tianshui Sect disciples would not abandon a fellow disciple.

Lin Bai fought the Black Fiend, who had captured Zhou Xinjin, and forced him to flee before he could finish him off. Lin Bai rescued Zhou Xinjin and escaped the Immortal Sinking Water, while the Black Fiend’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• The Black Fiend urged Lin Bai to surrender and threatened Zhou Xinjin, but Lin Bai refused to go with him without knowing why he had been targeted.
• Lin Bai attacked with four flying swords and the Dragon Slaying Skill, trapping the Black Fiend in a sword formation.
• The Black Fiend charged into the Dragon Eye Flying Sword to die in a way that let him be reborn, avoiding death by Lin Bai’s Dragon Slaying Skill.
• Lin Bai realized the Black Fiend had escaped again and seized the unconscious Zhou Xinjin.
• Lin Bai carved through the puppets with his sword formation and escaped the Immortal Sinking Water with Zhou Xinjin.

Lin Bai escaped Celestial Pillar Peak and tried to convince Zhou Xinjin that Li Yuanzong had killed Mu Huaqing, but Zhou Xinjin remained silent. The Corpse King sent Bronze Corpses to hunt Lin Bai, who then appeared above the Blood Corpse army.

• Lin Bai broke through the puppet horde, rescued Zhou Xinjin, and used a healing pill and spiritual energy to revive him.
• Lin Bai told Zhou Xinjin that Li Yuanzong might have killed Mu Huaqing and pointed to the Azure Sky Finger marks and the sword wound as evidence.
• Zhou Xinjin questioned Lin Bai’s account but said nothing as Lin Bai left on his flying sword.
• The Black Demon reported Lin Bai’s escape to the Corpse King, who summoned Bronze Corpses and ordered them to capture Lin Bai.
• As the Bronze Corpses searched above the Blood Corpse army, Lin Bai flew over them on his sword.

Lin Bai tried to escape Celestial Pillar Peak but was pursued by seven intelligent Bronze Corpses and swarmed by Blood Corpses. He blocked the attackers and attempted to break through, only to face a Corpse Capture Net.

• Lin Bai left Zhou Xinjin in a safe location and flew away from Celestial Pillar Peak to find Yi Zien.
• Lin Bai sensed a pursuer in the snowstorm and dispersed an arrow of corpse aura with his flying sword formation.
• Seven Bronze Corpses attacked Lin Bai, and he recognized them as intelligent Corpse Puppets sent by the Corpse King.
• Lin Bai fought off the surrounding Blood Corpses and blocked attacks from two Bronze Corpses with Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Lin Bai tried to flee, but four Bronze Corpses cast a Corpse Capture Net over him.

Lin Bai used his Heaven Swallowing Domain to break free from the seven Bronze Corpses inside Celestial Pillar Peak, killing four before the remaining three escaped. He fled the peak, while Zhou Xinjin returned badly injured to Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the Five Divine Generals.

• Lin Bai realized the seven Bronze Corpses and the Blood Corpse army had cornered him, leaving him little time before the Corpse King might break free.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Heaven Swallowing Domain and used Spring Thunder, Black Divine Lightning, and his flying swords to destroy the Blood Corpses and kill four Bronze Corpses.
• Three Bronze Corpses found a way out of the domain and escaped, so Lin Bai withdrew it and flew away from Celestial Pillar Peak.
• Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the Five Divine Generals waited outside the peak, worried by the violent tremors within.
• Zhou Xinjin returned to them with severe injuries and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them.

Lin Bai returned from Celestial Pillar Peak, and the group withdrew toward Demon Refining City to prepare for trouble. A Red-Clad Woman discussed Lin Bai and his fragments with a crow, who warned her against provoking him before flying away.

• Zhou Xinjin told Yi Zien and Li Juenian that Lin Bai had escaped with him, but their suspicion that Zhou had killed Lin Bai grew when Lin Bai did not appear.
• Zhou Xinjin insisted Lin Bai had saved him, while Yi Zien decided to search for Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai returned and said Celestial Pillar Peak had changed, so the group should withdraw to the Demon Refining Tower and then Demon Refining City.
• Zhou Xinjin proposed summoning the martial artists training in the Demon Refining Tower back to Demon Refining City, and the group left the ice plain.
• The Red-Clad Woman told the crow that Lin Bai carried four fragments and asked why the crow would not take them.
• The crow warned the Red-Clad Woman not to target Lin Bai because an expert behind him could bring trouble, then refused to identify the expert and flew away.

Lin Bai and the others returned to Demon Refining City and discussed how to respond to the Red-Clad Woman’s awakening and the weakened seals of Demon Refining Tower. The Red-Clad Woman then asked the Corpse King and the Black Demon about their prison and how they could escape.

• Lin Bai warned Tang Wei to return to the sect, then explained the events at Celestial Pillar Peak and urged the group to summon Tianshui Sect disciples back to Demon Refining City.
• Lin Bai said they should wait for Elder Zheng Yuan and leave further countermeasures to the sect elders, while Yi Zien confirmed the disciples were already being recalled.
• Zhou Xinjin explained that Demon Refining Tower’s sealing formation had weakened because Tianshui Sect had reduced its resources, and Yi Zien warned that an attack on the Formation Eye could make it collapse.
• The Corpse King and the Black Demon apologized to the Red-Clad Woman for letting Lin Bai escape, but she told them to focus on finding a way out of Demon Refining Tower.
• The Corpse King explained that Tianshui Sect’s seals had divided Demon Refining Tower’s containment into an external seal and an internal seal.

The Corpse King and the Black Demon learned that escaping the Demon Refining Tower would not protect them from the Tianshui Sect, while the Red-Clad Woman promised a quiet way out. After the two demons unexpectedly returned to their territories without attacking, Zheng Yuan took Lin Bai and Tang Wei back to the sect, warning that Lin Bai might face greater danger inside the tower.

• The Corpse King explained that leaving the Demon Refining Tower required destroying the formation’s Formation Eye or using a Tianshui Sect Identity Token, and the Red-Clad Woman dismissed the demons’ plan to seize Demon Refining City because the sect could intercept them outside.
• The Red-Clad Woman promised she could help them escape quietly, and the Corpse King and the Black Demon pledged their loyalty and agreed to wait.
• Zheng Yuan returned to Demon Refining City wounded and reported that he had found only the Corpse King and the Black Demon at Celestial Pillar Peak, not the Red-Clad Woman.
• Yi Zien summoned the tower’s disciples to Demon Refining City, where more than eight hundred Dao God Peak fighters prepared for an attack that never came.
• The Corpse King led his Blood Corpse army back to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, while the Black Demon’s sea turtle disappeared into the poisonous miasma around the Thousand Death Islands.
• After the tower remained peaceful, Zheng Yuan ordered Yi Zien to keep watch and took Lin Bai and Tang Wei back to the sect, saying Lin Bai might be safer outside the tower.

Lin Bai left the Demon Refining Tower with Tang Wei and Zheng Yuan, warning that the Tianshui Sect faced threats from the Heaven and Earth Gate and the Water Mirror Sea’s forces. After they escaped the tower, Lin Bai realized the elder guarding it had deliberately rerouted his earlier teleportation toward the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, and vowed to settle the score.

• Zheng Yuan arranged for Yi Zien and the others to watch the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave and the Thousand Death Islands while Lin Bai and Tang Wei prepared to leave.
• Lin Bai told Tang Wei that the Tianshui Sect faced possible annihilation from the Heaven and Earth Gate and the Water Mirror Sea’s demon clans and pirates.
• Lin Bai waited for his black crow to return, then joined Zheng Yuan and the others in the teleportation formation.
• Tang Wei reminded Lin Bai that their earlier teleportation had sent them near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, and Lin Bai concluded someone had deliberately changed their destination.
• Lin Bai and the group emerged near the Demon Refining Tower and left without meeting the guarding elder; Lin Bai vowed to settle the score with him.
• The white-haired elder watched Lin Bai depart and told Brother Wu that Lin Bai had escaped the Demon Refining Tower.

Lin Bai learned that Wu Xiu had secretly arranged for his teleportation to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, then returned to Bright Moon Island and found that Yi Gu, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao had gone to Ke Province to fight the Blood God Sect. He also questioned Crow about the Green Jade Fragment, but its purpose remained unknown.

• Lin Bai realized Wu Xiu, seeking revenge for Wu Di's death, had instructed the teleportation-array Grand Elder to change his destination.
• After leaving the Demon Refining Tower, Lin Bai and Tang Wei returned to the Water Mirror World, while Zhou Xinjin reconsidered whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing.
• Lin Bai found Bright Moon Island empty and discovered Qin Yao's recording explaining that she, Qiao Mo, and Yi Gu had gone to Ke Province to assist the Chu royal family and the Zhao Xing Office against the Blood God Sect.
• Lin Bai wondered why Chu had called on the Five Great Families and Seven Sects to help, then set the question aside.
• Lin Bai questioned Crow about treasures from the Demon Refining Tower and learned that powerful figures across several realms were searching for the Green Jade Fragment.
• Crow admitted he had found some fragments but refused to say more, leaving Lin Bai to consider asking his Master about their purpose in the Spirit Realm.

Zhou Xinjin returned from the Demon Refining Tower and told the Grand Elder what had happened there, while questioning whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing. He left convinced he needed to investigate further and discovered that Wu Xiu and Qi Kun had arranged to send Lin Bai and Tang Wei toward the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave.

• Zhou Xinjin told the Grand Elder that Lin Bai had escaped and described the remnants of the Nine Nether Devil Palace in the Demon Refining Tower.
• Zhou Xinjin praised Lin Bai’s strength, and the Grand Elder recalled that he had once expected Lin Bai and his eldest senior brother to contend for the Holy Son position.
• Zhou Xinjin questioned whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing, but the Grand Elder insisted that Lin Bai was responsible and rejected the possibility that Li Yuanzong had done it.
• Zhou Xinjin revealed that the teleportation formation had sent Lin Bai and Tang Wei near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, then asked whether the Grand Elder had ordered it altered.
• The Grand Elder denied ordering the change and said Wu Xiu and Qi Kun had arranged it, prompting Zhou Xinjin to ask whether his master had knowingly allowed them to target Lin Bai.

Zhou Xinjin tried to stop the Grand Elder from pursuing revenge against Lin Bai before the sect finished investigating Mu Huaqing’s death. He sought out Bai Yifei, who dismissed Lin Bai’s accusation against Li Yuanzong and vowed to deal with Lin Bai himself.

• Zhou Xinjin warned the Grand Elder that ignoring Wu Xiu and Qi Kun’s actions against Lin Bai would damage his reputation, but the Grand Elder insisted on avenging Mu Huaqing and left for the Overturned Water Hall.
• Zhou Xinjin decided to seek help from Bai Yifei, the Grand Elder’s First Senior Brother and a leading Holy Son candidate.
• Bai Yifei listened as Zhou Xinjin recounted Mu Huaqing’s death, Li Yuanzong’s testimony, Lin Bai’s defense, and the Grand Elder’s inaction toward Wu Xiu and Qi Kun.
• Bai Yifei rejected Lin Bai’s claim that Li Yuanzong killed Mu Huaqing and said he would deal with Lin Bai without waiting for the sect’s investigation.

Bai Yifei emerged from seclusion and joined Grand Elder’s effort to send Lin Bai out of the Tianshui Sect so they could kill him over Mu Huaqing’s death. Lin Bai learned that he had been ordered to assist the Chu imperial clan in Ke Province, while Li Zai'en admitted the investigation still had not cleared him.

• Bai Yifei told Zhou Xinjin they had to wait until Lin Bai left the sect before taking action against him.
• Bai Yifei and Zhou Xinjin discussed the Blood God Sect’s rise in Ke Province as a chance to draw Lin Bai out.
• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that Bai Yifei had emerged from seclusion and that Grand Elder had secured an order sending Lin Bai to Ke Province.
• Lin Bai questioned why the Chu imperial clan needed the Five Great Families and Seven Sects to help suppress the Blood God Sect.
• Li Zai'en said the evidence showed a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm powerhouse had been present when Mu Huaqing died, but it still did not prove Lin Bai’s innocence.

Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that the Sect Master saw him as a stronger candidate than Bai Yifei to lead the Tianshui Sect, then arranged a reward for his dangerous journey to Ke Province. Lin Bai agreed to travel alone, while the Sect Master accepted that his coming clash with Bai Yifei could decide the sect’s future.

• Li Zai'en praised Lin Bai's composure and said the Sect Master believed he was better suited than Bai Yifei to become the Tianshui Sect's Saint Son.
• Li Zai'en offered Lin Bai a choice of a Divine Weapon and a Mystic Art or Dao Art, but Lin Bai asked to exchange the reward for immortal jades.
• Li Zai'en promised Lin Bai five thousand immortal jades if he returned safely from Ke Province, and Lin Bai agreed to go alone and set out the next day.
• Li Zai'en reported Lin Bai's decision to the Sect Master and warned that the Grand Elder and Bai Yifei planned to kill him in Ke Province.
• The Sect Master said she could not openly oppose the Grand Elder and regarded the coming contest between Lin Bai and Bai Yifei as a chance to resolve the Tianshui Sect's turmoil.