Recaps

Lin Bai entered a mountain cave to apologize to a white dragon on Di Wuyan’s behalf, but the dragon attacked as soon as it heard Di Wuyan’s name. Di Wuyan rescued Lin Bai from the dragon’s breath and brought him back outside.

• Di Wuyan agreed to let Lin Bai enter the cave and apologize to the giant beast on his behalf.
• Lin Bai sensed the beast inside the cave and found a beautiful white dragon with wings.
• The white dragon became furious when Lin Bai mentioned Di Wuyan and attacked him with wind blades and a dragon roar.
• The white dragon unleashed blazing dragon breath, but Di Wuyan teleported Lin Bai out of the cave.

Lin Bai watched Di Wuyan face the White Dragon, who nearly killed him but ultimately could not bring herself to do it. Lin Bai urged Di Wuyan to apologize to her himself and make amends, even if doing so cost him his life.

• The White Dragon emerged from the ruins and attacked Di Wuyan while Lin Bai was sent far away from the confrontation.
• Di Wuyan stood still and let the White Dragon approach, determined to die at her hands.
• The White Dragon stopped just short of killing Di Wuyan, then returned to the mountain and disappeared.
• Lin Bai told Di Wuyan that the White Dragon still cared for him and had been unable to kill him.
• Lin Bai urged Di Wuyan to enter the mountain and apologize to the White Dragon himself.

Di Wuyan returned to the cave and reconciled with the White Dragon after offering no resistance and grieving over his past. Lin Bai continued through the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds, reunited with Huang Qingyun, and set out with her to search for the others and hunt giant beasts.

• Di Wuyan stopped Lin Bai from entering the cave for him and went inside alone, while the Chu Emperor allowed him to proceed.
• The White Dragon attacked Di Wuyan, but he neither fought back nor defended himself, and she eventually withdrew.
• Di Wuyan recited the Buddha Scripture and wept, prompting the White Dragon to catch his tears and embrace him as they reconciled for the time being.
• Lin Bai traveled through the hunting grounds and received Huang Qingyun's message that she was nearby and had found no giant beasts.
• Lin Bai met Huang Qingyun on a cliff, and the two decided to continue together while searching for the rest of their group and for giant beasts.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun searched the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds for giant beasts but found a Qian Family puppet that could lead them to Qian Hen. Huang Qingyun explained the immense wealth and strength of the Qian Family as the pair followed the puppet.

• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun traveled together through the hunting grounds while observers in the imperial capital speculated about their alliance.
• After searching for an hour without finding giant beasts, Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun spotted a metallic puppet firefly in the forest.
• Huang Qingyun showed Lin Bai that joining the firefly’s wings revealed the Qian Family crest, and the puppet flew toward Qian Hen.
• Huang Qingyun explained the Qian Family’s vast resources, powerful retainers, and rumored Supreme Divine Weapon, leaving Lin Bai astonished.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun learned why the powerful Qian Family served Chu before rejoining their allies in the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds. Qian Hen revealed a plan to attract giant beasts with Eternal Creation Stone Milk, leaving the group eager to hear how they would use it.

• Huang Qingyun explained that the Qian Family avoided claiming power and supported both sides in conflicts to protect its commercial interests.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun followed a firefly to the mountaintop, where they reunited with Yi Song, Chen Yule, Shui Mo Dan, Qian Hen, and martial artists from several factions.
• Yi Song and Chen Yule told Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun that the group had devised a plan before their arrival.
• Qian Hen revealed that he had prepared Eternal Creation Stone Milk to attract giant beasts in the hunting grounds.
• Chen Yule described the stone milk's extraordinary restorative and cultivation effects, and the gathered martial artists struggled to hide their desire for it.

Qian Hen’s group lured a colossal beast with the scent of Eternal Creation Stone Milk after assigning the disciples to secure the surrounding hunting grounds. A Dragon-Tiger Beast emerged from the storm clouds, and the group prepared to fight.

• Qian Hen proposed using the Eternal Creation Stone Milk to attract colossal beasts, and Lin Bai raised concerns about dangerous beasts and other martial artists.
• Qian Hen suggested claiming the surrounding ten thousand miles and having the disciples guard it, and the group approved the plan.
• Qian Hen placed the jade bottle in a boulder and removed its stopper after the disciples set up arrays and barriers.
• Qian Hen detected an approaching presence on his compass, and the group took their positions as a storm swept toward them.
• Yi Song summoned divine thunder and lashed the clouds apart, revealing a Dragon-Tiger Beast, which Qian Hen recognized.

Yi Song killed a Dragon-Tiger Beast, and Lin Bai asked the group for its demon blood to cultivate spirit medicines. Qian Hen gave Lin Bai a Nine Dragon Ring with nine vast storage spaces, and the group agreed to give him the blood from future hunts.

• Qian Hen explained that the Celestial Mystery Pavilion needed several valuable parts of the Dragon-Tiger Beast, and Yi Song attacked it with thunder.
• Yi Song trapped and killed the Dragon-Tiger Beast after Chen Yule urged him to finish the fight.
• Lin Bai asked for the beast's demon blood, and Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, Yi Song, and the others agreed to give it to him.
• Lin Bai began collecting the blood in jade bottles, and Qian Hen offered him the Nine Dragon Ring as a larger container.
• Qian Hen told Lin Bai that the Nine Dragon Ring held nine spaces, each large enough for a river, and Lin Bai gladly accepted it.

Lin Bai and his allies used the Eternal Creation Stone Milk to lure giant beasts in the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds, and six beasts arrived at once. Chen Yule and Yi Song engaged their opponents as the others prepared to face the remaining beasts.

• Lin Bai collected the Dragon-Tiger Beast's blood in the Nine Dragon Ring, while Qian Hen gathered its corpse for their alliance.
• Emperor Chu watched the hunt and learned that the Qian family had supplied the Eternal Creation Stone Milk; he said he wanted to see how many beasts the six Saint-level martial artists could hunt.
• Qian Hen spotted six approaching beasts on his compass and warned the group to prepare.
• Chen Yule charged at the Bull Demon Python and Holy Light Eagle after stopping the python's underground advance.
• Yi Song went to face the Myriad Blades Centipede, matching its saber art after Huang Qingyun explained its connection to the Celestial Immortal Sect.

Lin Bai, Yi Song, Chen Yule, and Huang Qingyun faced six gigantic beasts drawn to Qian Hen’s jade bottle in the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds. Lin Bai took on the Heaven's Mandate Toad and Three-Headed Demon Wolf, ending the chapter as he unleashed his Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation against them.

• Huang Qingyun explained that Yi Song’s Dao Xuan Transformation Dust Bone had let him master the Celestial Immortal Sect’s scriptures and many forms of combat.
• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf, Heaven's Mandate Toad, and Two-Winged Demon Serpent arrived, and Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun chose their opponents.
• Lin Bai fought the Heaven's Mandate Toad and Three-Headed Demon Wolf while Huang Qingyun fought the Two-Winged Demon Serpent; Chen Yule and Yi Song battled the other beasts.
• The six beasts attacked the hunters as spectators watched, while Qian Hen monitored his compass for more approaching beasts.
• Lin Bai dodged the toad’s corrosive venom and the wolf’s elemental attacks, then summoned four flying swords and activated the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation.

Lin Bai and the others defeated all six colossal beasts guarding the Eternal Creation Stone Milk, with Lin Bai killing Heaven's Mandate Toad and Three-Headed Demon Wolf. Afterward, they collected the demon blood and bones according to their agreement.

• Lin Bai used Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and his swords to kill Three-Headed Demon Wolf after it nearly swallowed him.
• Heaven's Mandate Toad fled ten thousand miles, but Lin Bai's flying swords caught it and pinned it down until it died.
• Chen Yule killed two colossal beasts with Slaughter Sword Intent, Yi Song slew Myriad Blades Centipede, and Huang Qingyun killed Twin-Winged Demon Serpent.
• Qian Hen and Shui Mo Dan praised the group after all six colossal beasts were dead.
• Lin Bai extracted the beasts' demon blood while Qian Hen gathered their bones.

Lin Bai sensed an invisible monster lurking near the group and thwarted its attempt to attack Shui Mo Dan. After a tense standoff, he wounded the creature, revealing that a hidden enemy was among them.

• Shui Mo Dan gave Lin Bai and the others Nectar Pills, then revealed she had several hundred more despite claiming she had few left.
• Lin Bai sensed killing intent behind Shui Mo Dan and struck past her with his Sword Qi and flying swords, then pulled her behind him.
• Qian Hen, Chen Yule, Yi Song, Huang Qingyun, and the others searched the area but could not detect the hidden presence.
• Lin Bai baited the unseen creature with the jade bottle of Eternal Creation Stone Milk and waited with his weapons ready.
• When a deadly chill warned Lin Bai of an attack from behind, his flying swords and Demon Sword struck a transparent barrier and drew blood from the invisible monster.
• Chen Yule and the others realized an invisible monster was among them, while Qian Hen's compass had failed to detect it.

Lin Bai and the others faced a monster that could evade every method of detection while fighting over the Eternal Creation Stone Milk. Lin Bai identified it as a Sky-Covering Lizard, but it vanished again after wounding him.

• Qian Hen concluded that the invisible attacker was a giant beast rather than a martial artist, while the elders and Emperor Chu identified it as a Sky-Covering Lizard.
• Lin Bai spread his sword intent across the mountaintop and watched the surroundings for signs of the hidden monster.
• The Sky-Covering Lizard suddenly attacked Lin Bai from behind, and his swords briefly exposed its lizard form before it tore flesh from his chest.
• Lin Bai slashed the lizard away, but it disappeared again as Chen Yule and the others rushed to guard him.
• Lin Bai described the creature's size and color-changing scales, and Qian Hen named it a Sky-Covering Lizard as Chen Yule warned that the situation was troublesome.

Lin Bai and the others struggled to locate the hidden Sky-Covering Lizard as giant beasts converged on them. Lin Bai stayed behind to face the lizard while Chen Yule and the others went to intercept the approaching beasts.

• Lin Bai took Shui Mo Dan's Hundred-Flower Nectar Pill and recovered his spiritual power and wounds.
• Chen Yule and Qian Hen explained that the Sky-Covering Lizard was a vicious, elusive assassin, and the group failed to find it despite using their abilities and treasures.
• More than a dozen giant beasts charged toward the group, forcing them to divide their forces.
• Lin Bai told Chen Yule, Yi Song, Huang Qingyun, and Qian Hen to fight the incoming beasts while he faced the Sky-Covering Lizard alone.
• Chen Yule rushed into the dust cloud, where the sounds of battling beasts and clashing swords soon rang out.

Lin Bai deliberately lowered his defenses to lure the Sky-Covering Lizard into attacking, gambling that he could read its hunting patterns and strike first. As more giant beasts arrived, he faced the lizard’s long-awaited attack with six weapons aimed behind him.

• Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, Yi Song, and the others fought about a dozen giant beasts while Lin Bai remained locked in a standoff with the hidden Sky-Covering Lizard.
• Qian Hen discovered that more giant beasts were arriving, and Lin Bai decided the team could not afford to wait for the stalemate to end.
• Lin Bai recalled his defenses and stood exposed, inviting the Sky-Covering Lizard to attack while he studied its patterns.
• After about fifteen minutes, Lin Bai sensed the lizard’s deathly aura and swung four flying swords, the demon sword, and the Heaven Measuring Ruler toward his back.

Lin Bai killed the Sky-Covering Lizard after using its ambush pattern to break its concealment, then returned to find the colossal beasts overwhelming Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song. He and Qian Hen joined the battle as the number of beasts continued to grow.

• Lin Bai anticipated the Sky-Covering Lizard's attack from behind and struck it with all six swords, destroying the scales along its spine while suffering a chest wound.
• Lin Bai tracked the exposed Sky-Covering Lizard as it fled and beheaded it with the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai brought the Sky-Covering Lizard's remains to Qian Hen, and Shui Mo Dan gave Lin Bai pills that rapidly healed his injury and restored his spiritual power.
• Qian Hen reported that more than twenty colossal beasts had gathered despite Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song killing several, so Lin Bai went to help them.
• Lin Bai charged into the battle, while Qian Hen sent fifteen Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm puppets to fight alongside Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song.

Lin Bai joined Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song in their battle against the giant beasts after dealing with the Sky-Covering Lizard. With Qian Hen's puppets and Shui Mo Dan's Ascension Immortal Pills supporting them, the four unleashed their full strength and began slaughtering the beasts, while Lin Bai rose to tenth place in the Chu State's Dao God Rankings.

• Lin Bai arrived to help Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song, telling them he had already dealt with the Sky-Covering Lizard.
• Qian Hen sent fifteen humanoid puppets into the battle to restrain the giant beasts.
• Shui Mo Dan gave the group Ascension Immortal Pills that healed injuries and restored spiritual power for about a quarter of an hour.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song took the pills and attacked the giant beasts with renewed strength.
• The four warriors killed giant beasts one after another as martial artists watched from the imperial capital.
• Lin Bai climbed the Divine Armory Pavilion rankings and reached tenth place on the Chu State's Dao God Rankings.

As Lin Bai hunted in the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds, his ranking soared from four hundred and ninety-ninth place to tenth, prompting Emperor Chu to call him the foremost swordsman among Chu Kingdom's younger generation. That praise delighted Tianshui Sect at first, but the Third Elder and Zheng Yuan feared the weight of the emperor's words would put Lin Bai in danger.

• Lin Bai's name climbed from four hundred and ninety-ninth place to tenth on the Chu Kingdom Dao God Rankings, astonishing the martial artists at Divine Armory Pavilion.
• Divine Armory Pavilion's person in charge confirmed that the stone stele's formation was intact and Lin Bai's ranking was genuine.
• Emperor Chu praised Chen Yule, assessed Yi Song's scattered learning, and acknowledged Huang Qingyun's strength while watching the hunt.
• Emperor Chu praised Lin Bai's tactics and swordsmanship, naming him a possible foremost swordsman among Chu Kingdom's younger generation.
• The Chen Family elders grew displeased, Heaven and Earth Gate elders showed killing intent, and the Third Prince regarded Lin Bai coldly.
• The Third Elder and Zheng Yuan realized that Emperor Chu's praise could place Lin Bai in danger.

Emperor Chu named Lin Bai the foremost sword cultivator among Chu’s youth, stirring hostility toward him and the Tianshui Sect. After Lin Bai and his companions killed all twenty-four giant beasts, they gathered their spoils, but new figures arrived from the northwest.

• Emperor Chu’s praise for Lin Bai angered the Chen Family, the Third Prince, and the Heaven and Earth Gate, while the Tianshui Sect’s elders accepted the danger as a chance for the sect to rise.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun killed the last of the twenty-four giant beasts in the Eastern Sky Hunting Grounds.
• Huang Qingyun explained that Yi Song’s wide-ranging studies made it difficult for him to choose the right techniques in battle, and Lin Bai advised him to learn through life-and-death crises.
• Shui Mo Dan gave the group healing pills, while Qian Hen arranged for Lin Bai to collect the beast blood and gathered the beasts’ bones.
• Chen Yule and the others concluded that the hunt was over, but Lin Bai noticed figures flying in from the northwest and landing on a nearby mountain.

After hunting the giant beasts, Lin Bai and his allies faced an attempt by rival Holy Sons to seize half the beasts’ bones. The sides clashed, and Lin Bai confronted Shangguan Tong as the battle began.

• Li Mo, Zhao Xiantu, Shangguan Tong, and Sun Miao arrived and found the giant beasts’ bones, while Qian Hen’s Eternal Creation Stone Milk revealed how the beasts had been lured.
• Zhao Xiantu demanded half the bones, but Chen Yule refused, and both groups prepared to fight despite Lin Bai’s warning about the consequences.
• Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo charged at Yi Song and Chen Yule, while Sun Miao attacked Huang Qingyun.
• Huang Qingyun struck Sun Miao with a palm and sent him flying, as Shangguan Tong challenged Lin Bai and Lin Bai mocked his boasts.

Lin Bai fought Shangguan Tong, the Holy Son of Wen Tian Sect, and overwhelmed him with a rapid series of sword attacks. As Shangguan Tong begged to speak while badly wounded, Lin Bai ignored him and struck again.

• The chapter explained how Wen Tian Sect rose to power after the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was destroyed and described the rivalries among the Chu Kingdom's great forces.
• Shangguan Tong attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai dodged his palm and slashed his left shoulder.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation, breaking through Shangguan Tong's defenses and wounding him repeatedly.
• Lin Bai struck Shangguan Tong with a ten-thousand-foot sword ray, leaving him heavily wounded.
• Shangguan Tong asked Lin Bai to wait so he could speak, but Lin Bai refused and swung his sword at him again.

Lin Bai spared Shangguan Tong after learning that Heaven and Earth Gate disciples had trapped Tianshui Sect disciples inside a mountain, then flew southeast to rescue them. The elders watching the projection saw the besieged disciples’ formation nearing collapse as Lin Bai raced toward them.

• Lin Bai stopped his sword when Shangguan Tong threatened the Tianshui Sect disciples and revealed that Heaven and Earth Gate disciples were attacking them.
• Chen Yule assured Lin Bai he could handle Shangguan Tong and Li Mo, so Lin Bai kicked Shangguan Tong into a mountain and flew southeast.
• Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, Elder Liang, Meng Po, Ye Guqing, and Ye Guyu sheltered inside a mountain while Qin Yao struggled to maintain their formation against more than twenty Heaven and Earth Gate disciples.
• The Tianshui Sect elders watched anxiously as the formation weakened, while the Heaven and Earth Gate elders celebrated the attack and Emperor Chu remarked that Lin Bai was heading toward the battle.

Ke Ling and the Heaven and Earth Gate captured Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the other Tianshui Sect disciples, then prepared to execute them as the Chu Emperor and sect elders watched. Lin Bai arrived just as their lives were in danger.

• Ke Ling revealed that the Heaven and Earth Gate intended to destroy the Tianshui Sect and ordered his disciples to break through the formation surrounding the Tianshui Sect group.
• Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, Elder Liang, Meng Po, Ye Guqing, and Ye Guyu fought back, but the outnumbered and wounded group was captured.
• Ke Ling ordered the captives forced to their knees and declared that he would execute them before the projection formations.
• The Third Elder of the Tianshui Sect and Zheng Yuan protested as the Chu Emperor condemned Ke Ling's humiliation of the captives.
• The Chu Emperor announced that Lin Bai had arrived, and Lin Bai flew toward Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others.

Lin Bai arrived just as Ke Ling and the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples were about to execute Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the other Tianshui Sect disciples. He protected them, then fought the Heaven and Earth Gate forces, leaving the battle underway as his slaughter began.

• Ke Ling ordered the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples to kill Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the other kneeling Tianshui Sect disciples.
• Lin Bai sent Sword Qi across the battlefield, shielded the Tianshui Sect disciples, and arrived on his flying sword.
• Lin Bai checked Qiao Mo and Qin Yao, then refused Ke Ling's demand to surrender and prepared to fight the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples.
• Lin Bai knocked back the first attackers and declared that none of the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples would leave alive.
• Lin Bai fought with his swords and weapons, killing five Heaven and Earth Gate disciples with his flying sword formation.

Lin Bai killed five Heaven and Earth Gate disciples, then faced eighteen more who formed the Eight Desolations Formation. He broke the formation with the Devouring Heaven Dao Method and attacked the gravely wounded disciples.

• Lin Bai destroyed the bodies and souls of five Heaven and Earth Gate disciples with a single sword strike.
• Ke Ling directed eighteen disciples in forming the Eight Desolations Formation while three others waited to attack.
• The formation empowered its members' attacks to Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm strength and trapped Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai revealed the Devouring Heaven Dao Method and shattered the formation with one sword strike.
• Lin Bai charged the wounded disciples, attacking them with his swords and the Heaven Measuring Ruler.

Lin Bai slaughtered the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples and drove Ke Ling to use a life-saving talisman to escape. He sent Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others toward Chen Yule for protection, then pursued Ke Ling by tracking the Sword Qi he had left in his body.

• Lin Bai broke the Eight Desolations Formation and killed the eighteen disciples who had formed it.
• Lin Bai defeated Ke Ling and the three remaining disciples, killing all three as they tried to intervene.
• In the Eastern Sky Immortal Palace, the Heaven and Earth Gate elders threatened the Tianshui Sect, while the Third Elder and Zheng Yuan defended Lin Bai and the Chu Emperor watched without intervening.
• Lin Bai overwhelmed Ke Ling in close combat, but Ke Ling escaped with a jade talisman that teleported him away.
• Lin Bai gave Qiao Mo a flying sword and sent the group to Chen Yule, then used his Sword Qi to track Ke Ling and pursue him.