Recaps

Rong Yunxin used the Five Vices Bottle to poison Lin Bai and block his pursuit of Xia Jingzhi, but Lin Bai fought back with the Heaven Measuring Ruler. She then protected herself with a Golden Toad Dao Art and attacked him with two White Snakes as he switched to Crimson Lotus Sword Intent.

• Rong Yunxin explained that Violet Vice fused with Lin Bai's killing intent and warned him that the Five Vices Bottle contained four deadlier poisons.
• Lin Bai suppressed the poison, decided to defeat Rong Yunxin quickly, and struck through her corrosive purple smoke with the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Rong Yunxin summoned a Poison Dragon, which Lin Bai crushed with his Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Rong Yunxin changed the bottle's smoke to Azure Poison and used Golden Toad Swallowing the Sun to shield herself, forcing Lin Bai to flee its deadly reach.
• Rong Yunxin sent two White Snakes at Lin Bai with Serpent God's Blessing, and Lin Bai changed his sword intent to Crimson Lotus Sword Intent.

Lin Bai defeated Rong Yunxin with his Crimson Lotus Sword Intent despite the Azure Poison, spared her because she was Southern Border Insect Valley’s Holy Daughter, and took the Five Vices Bottle. He pursued the Golden Toad and caught up with Southern Border Insect Valley’s old ancestor, who questioned what had happened to Rong Yunxin.

• Lin Bai’s Crimson Lotus Sword Intent severed Rong Yunxin’s thumbs, and he pressed his attack even after the Azure Poison invaded his body.
• Lin Bai struck Rong Yunxin and sent her crashing into a mountain, leaving her gravely wounded.
• Lin Bai spared Rong Yunxin because she was Southern Border Insect Valley’s Holy Daughter, took the Five Vices Bottle, and warned her not to interfere again.
• Lin Bai realized Chao Yushi had chosen Star Plucking Mountain to create time for him before reinforcements could reach the imperial capital.
• Lin Bai caught up with the old ancestor of Southern Border Insect Valley on the Golden Toad, and the old ancestor asked what he had done to Rong Yunxin.

Lin Bai fought the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor to rescue Xia Jingzhi, despite being poisoned by the Azure Poison and facing a Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm opponent. He continued attacking with his sword talisman and Sun-Shooting Ballista, leaving the duel unresolved.

• The Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor warned Lin Bai that losing his temper or releasing killing intent would make the Azure Poison spread through his body.
• Lin Bai demanded that the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor hand over Xia Jingzhi, who was inside the Golden Toad, and refused to back down despite the poison.
• The Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor shattered Lin Bai's Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and destroyed his sword talisman.
• Lin Bai brought out the Sun-Shooting Ballista and fired a black-iron spear, blasting the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor off the Golden Toad without injuring him.
• Lin Bai recalled the spear and prepared to fire again, while the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor marveled at his abundant spiritual power.

Lin Bai used the Sun-Shooting Ballista, Nine Dragons Truefire Shroud, and Chaos Divine Lightning against the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor. The Ancestor’s body was destroyed, but his soul escaped and fled into the distance.

• Lin Bai repeatedly fired the Sun-Shooting Ballista, shattering the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor’s defenses and sending him flying.
• The Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor attacked Lin Bai with his Demonic Poison Palm, while the Golden Toad sprayed poisonous mist and interrupted Lin Bai’s channeling.
• Lin Bai trapped the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor and the Golden Toad beneath the Nine Dragons Truefire Shroud.
• Lin Bai hurled the Chaos Divine Lightning, and the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor used the Golden Toad to block it, destroying the toad and freeing Xia Jingzhi.
• Lin Bai fired the Sun-Shooting Ballista again and blasted apart the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor’s remaining body, but the Ancestor’s soul escaped and fled.

Lin Bai captured the grievously wounded Xia Jingzhi but was poisoned and weakened after driving off the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor. As reinforcements from the Li, Zhao, and Sun Families blocked his route to the imperial capital, Bai Yifei and the others arrived to hold them off while Lin Bai carried Xia Jingzhi onward.

• Lin Bai used his Grand Yi Divine Weapons to drive off the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor, then collected his weapons while the Chaos Divine Lightning visibly weakened.
• Lin Bai seized Xia Jingzhi, whose dantian and Dao Fruit he had shattered, and set off toward the imperial capital while suffering from Azure Poison.
• A divine light knocked Lin Bai from his flying sword, and Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu confronted him alongside reinforcements from the Li, Zhao, and Sun Families.
• A powerful fist struck Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu and sent them flying as Lin Bai's allies arrived from the Heavenly Guard Battalion and Tianshui Sect.
• Bai Yifei and the others offered to hold off the family forces while Lin Bai took Xia Jingzhi toward the imperial capital.

Lin Bai left the battle at Star Plucking Mountain for the Imperial Capital while Bai Yifei and the others held off the Three Great Clans. On the way, Lin Bai detected an ambush in the mountain forest and faced the encircling warriors.

• Lin Bai agreed to leave for the Imperial Capital while Bai Yifei and the others distracted the Li, Zhao, and Sun Clans.
• Bai Yifei, Yi Zien, and Qin Yao fought Zhao Xiantu, Li Mo, and Sun Miao as the battle began.
• Lin Bai sped toward the Imperial Capital on his flying sword while several hundred clan warriors pursued him.
• Lin Bai stopped before entering a prepared trap and called out the hidden attackers.
• Warriors rose from the surrounding forest and half-surrounded Lin Bai.

At Star Plucking Mountain, Lin Bai faced forces assembled by the Third Prince and prepared to leave with the captured Xia Jingzhi. Chen Yule arrived with the Chen Family’s forces to hold off Wen Tian Sect and Heaven and Earth Gate, while the Chu Emperor’s agents blocked the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm reinforcements.

• Lin Bai identified the Zhao Family, Li Family, Sun Family, Wen Tian Sect, Heaven and Earth Gate, and Southern Border Insect Valley among the forces confronting him, and told them he would take Xia Jingzhi to the Zhao Xing Office.
• Shangguan Tong threatened Lin Bai, but Chen Yule appeared and declared that the Chen Family would protect him.
• Chen Yule brought ninety Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists and five Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm martial artists; he told Lin Bai that Eunuch Gui had stopped the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm reinforcements at the city gate.
• Chen Yule prepared to fight Shangguan Tong and the disciples of Wen Tian Sect and Heaven and Earth Gate while Lin Bai carried Xia Jingzhi toward the imperial capital.

Lin Bai rescued Xia Jingzhi and fought his way through the Third Prince’s forces toward the Imperial Capital, while the Third Prince struggled to stop him. As Lin Bai neared the city, the Third Prince could only hope that two unidentified allies would intervene.

• Chen Yule led eighty or ninety Grand Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts from the Chen Family to reinforce the Wolf Marquis, and Lin Bai sped toward the Imperial Capital.
• The Third Prince received reports that Lin Bai had rescued Xia Jingzhi, fought the Southern Border Insect Valley experts, wounded Rong Yunxin, and seized the Five Vices Bottle.
• The Third Prince deployed the Li Family, Zhao Family, Sun Family, Wen Tian Sect, Heaven and Earth Gate, and Sun Moon Pavilion to block Lin Bai, while the Chu Emperor’s forces intercepted Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm martial artists.
• Lin Bai broke through the encirclement and continued toward the Imperial Capital as the Chen Family held back Wen Tian Sect and Heaven and Earth Gate.
• The Third Prince realized that the Blood Dragon Legion would take custody of Xia Jingzhi if Lin Bai entered the city, and he said they could only rely on two people to stop Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was trapped in the Sun Moon Pavilion’s Dream Shadow Barrier while taking Xia Jingzhi back to the Imperial Capital. Facing the Pavilion’s powerful Two Moons, he refused to surrender, and the confrontation turned toward a fight over Xia Jingzhi.

• Lin Bai flew toward the Imperial Capital with Xia Jingzhi but struck the Dream Shadow Barrier and saw the city vanish as an illusion.
• A middle-aged man revealed that Lin Bai had been lured into a trap and that the barrier’s creators had prepared a burial ground for him.
• Lin Bai sensed two Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm experts behind him and turned to face them.
• The white-robed man offered to spare Lin Bai if he surrendered, then demanded Xia Jingzhi; Lin Bai asked who they were.
• The white-robed man identified himself and his companion as the Two Moons of the Sun Moon Pavilion, and the black-robed man challenged Lin Bai to fight for Xia Jingzhi.

Lin Bai tried to escape the sealed battlefield with Xia Jingzhi, but the Third Prince’s two top-tier Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm experts stopped him. The chapter ended with Lin Bai pinned against the barrier and Xia Jingzhi confident that he had won.

• Lin Bai assessed the White-Robed Man and Black-Robed Man as far stronger than the Southern Border Insect Valley Ancestor and realized he faced two upper-grade Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm martial artists.
• Lin Bai merged with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, used the Sea God’s Tears to protect himself, and cleaved a long fissure in the barrier with his sword.
• Lin Bai tried to race through the opening, but the Black-Robed Man struck him with a massive handprint and shattered his attacks.
• The Black-Robed Man pinned Lin Bai against the barrier, while the White-Robed Man approached to take Xia Jingzhi.
• Xia Jingzhi laughed at Lin Bai’s defeat and vowed to make him suffer once his injuries healed.

Pinned by the White-Robed Man’s giant palm seal, Lin Bai awakened Heart Demon Implantation and unleashed the Demon Flower’s power, forcing the two peak Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm men to retreat. The chapter then shifted to a young man on a distant Spirit Realm mountain, who sensed something and began laughing wildly.

• The White-Robed Man and Black-Robed Man attacked Lin Bai while the White-Robed Man moved to seize Xia Jingzhi.
• Lin Bai’s scarlet Demon Flower bloomed as Heart Demon Implantation raised his strength to the lower-grade Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm.
• Lin Bai broke the Black-Robed Man’s palm seal and struck at the White-Robed Man, who retreated to his companion.
• The White-Robed Man and Black-Robed Man decided to fight Lin Bai and escape with Xia Jingzhi as soon as possible.
• On a distant Spirit Realm mountain, a young man sensed something, smiled, and burst into wild laughter.

Lin Bai fought the Two Moons of the Sun Moon Pavilion while protecting Xia Jingzhi, but the two peak Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm martial artists overwhelmed him. Huang Qingyun arrived as their barrier collapsed, and Lin Bai left for the Imperial Capital with Xia Jingzhi while she stayed to face them.

• Lin Bai used the demon flower and the Yellow Springs Demon Bone to raise his strength, but the White-Robed Man and Black-Robed Man still crushed his attacks and badly injured him.
• The White-Robed Man tore off Xia Jingzhi's left hand as Lin Bai tried to protect him.
• The barrier collapsed, and Huang Qingyun arrived and told Lin Bai to take Xia Jingzhi to the Imperial Capital.
• Lin Bai warned Huang Qingyun that the two attackers were peak Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm martial artists, then answered her questions about their methods.
• Huang Qingyun told Lin Bai to leave the fight to her, and Lin Bai flew toward the Imperial Capital with Xia Jingzhi.

Huang Qingyun revealed that the Black-Robed Man and White-Robed Man were warriors of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and used herself as bait so Lin Bai could take Xia Jingzhi to the imperial capital. She unleashed her recovered strength and defeated the Black-Robed Man, while the White-Robed Man pursued Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai flew toward the imperial capital as Huang Qingyun blocked the Black-Robed Man and White-Robed Man from pursuing him.
• Huang Qingyun identified the men as warriors of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and provoked them with her knowledge of their past defeat.
• The White-Robed Man fled to pursue Lin Bai while the Black-Robed Man attacked Huang Qingyun with the Thousand Lifetimes Palm.
• Huang Qingyun revealed her Grand Luo Dao Fruit cultivation and struck the Black-Robed Man through his defenses, sending him flying and spitting blood.

Badly wounded after fighting through the eastern-suburb mountains, Lin Bai raced toward the Imperial Capital while the White-Robed Man pursued him and tried to seize Xia Jingzhi. With the city almost in reach and his strength nearly spent, Lin Bai considered using one of his two greatest trump cards.

• Lin Bai raced toward the Imperial Capital but was struck from behind by the Black-Robed Man and knocked from the sky.
• The White-Robed Man tried to seize Xia Jingzhi, but Lin Bai intervened with a crimson sword light and continued battling him while heading for the city.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation, the Heaven Measuring Ruler, and repeated sword attacks, but the White-Robed Man shattered them with his overwhelming cultivation.
• The White-Robed Man struck Lin Bai down again with a huge palm, leaving him gravely wounded outside the Imperial Capital as the martial artists on its walls watched.
• Lin Bai struggled to his feet and weighed whether to use the Heaven Swallowing Race's Devouring Power or the Supreme Avatar from the Supreme Path.

Lin Bai revealed his Supreme Avatar rather than expose his Devouring Power, driving back the White-Robed Man and shocking the Imperial Capital. Emperor Chu ordered Xiao Cangsheng to keep Lin Bai safe and win him over, while recognizing that rival forces might soon compete for him.

• Facing the White-Robed Man's attack, Lin Bai chose to reveal the Supreme Avatar instead of using the Heaven Swallowing Race's power.
• Lin Bai's hundred-zhang-tall Supreme Avatar appeared and blasted the charging White-Robed Man backward.
• Martial artists across the Imperial Capital, including members of the Qian Family and Chen Family, recognized the Supreme Avatar and reacted with shock.
• Emperor Chu discussed Lin Bai's potential with Xiao Cangsheng and ordered him to keep Lin Bai safe and try to bring him into the Chu Kingdom.
• Emperor Chu warned that hidden Demon Realm forces might pursue Lin Bai and that the Chu Kingdom should prepare for a battle over the Supreme Avatar.

Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to repel the White-Robed Man, who had tried to seize Xia Jingzhi, but a powerhouse beyond the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm then moved to take him. As more immense palms appeared from the heavens, Lin Bai faced several powerful strangers competing to summon him away.

• Lin Bai manifested his Supreme Avatar and forced the White-Robed Man to abandon his attempt to take Xia Jingzhi.
• A mysterious power sealed Lin Bai in place and reached down from a thunderous vortex with a gigantic black palm.
• Lin Bai struck the White-Robed Man with his Supreme Avatar, sending him flying and ending his attempt to seize Xia Jingzhi.
• A second vortex formed overhead, and another voice invited Lin Bai to the Northern Region as an enormous hand reached for him.
• A third palm appeared in the sky, followed by a fourth and a fifth.

Nine powerful outsiders tried to seize Lin Bai and recruit him, but Chu Xi and Zhang Bailiu brought a coffin containing a Supreme Dao Fruit expert’s resting place to protect him. Xiao Cangsheng drove off the attackers, then told Lin Bai to return to the Imperial Capital.

• Nine vortexes appeared above the Imperial Capital, and nine palms reached for Lin Bai as their masters offered him wealth and resources to join their forces.
• Zhang Bailiu and Chu Xi arrived atop a coffin, and Zhang Bailiu warned the attackers that Lin Bai was the Tianshui Sect’s Holy Son.
• Chu Xi wedged a shovel into the coffin’s crack, releasing a world-destroying aura that shook the attackers but did not make them retreat.
• Xiao Cangsheng emerged from the Imperial Capital and shattered all nine vortexes with a peach blossom petal, warning the outsiders not to act recklessly in Chu.
• Xiao Cangsheng told Lin Bai to return to the Imperial Capital.

Lin Bai brought the defeated Xia Jingzhi to the Imperial Capital, where Xiao Cangsheng's intervention deterred the hidden experts and the Third Prince's forces. Lin Bai handed Xia Jingzhi to Zhu Mo, while the Storyteller watched from a wonton stall and left behind a glimpse of his age and memories.

• The Storyteller noticed Xiao Cangsheng's move and decided there was no need for him to intervene.
• Xiao Cangsheng's appearance intimidated the experts lurking around Lin Bai and let him reach the city gates with Xia Jingzhi.
• Three Blood Dragon Legion warriors attacked Xia Jingzhi, but Lin Bai blocked the killing blow with his Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai refused to hand Xia Jingzhi to the Blood Dragon Legion as a whole and entrusted him to Zhu Mo instead.
• The Storyteller left an immortal jade at the wonton stall, and the couple recognized his resemblance to an ancient portrait.

Lin Bai and his allies completed their operation, then withdrew from the eastern outskirts as he escorted Xia Jingzhi toward the Purgatory. Their enemies realized they had lost, while a mysterious woman also received the retreat order and prepared to take a captive to the Purgatory.

• Lin Bai protected Xia Jingzhi from an attack, and Zhu Mo’s forces subdued three Blood Dragon Legion martial artists who had tried to kill her; the three poisoned themselves before they could be questioned.
• Zhu Mo ordered the three attackers’ clans and associates exterminated, then asked Lin Bai to take Xia Jingzhi to the Purgatory; Lin Bai sent out the order for everyone to retreat.
• Bai Yifei, Qin Yao, Meng Hua, Old Li, and the other allied forces withdrew from the eastern outskirts, leaving Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo to conclude that Lin Bai had won.
• Chen Yule withdrew from his fight with Shangguan Tong after the Chen Family elders persuaded him to follow Lin Bai’s order.
• At dawn, a woman who had bound a dying Black-Robed Man’s soul received the retreat order and said she would send him to the Purgatory.

Lin Bai handed the wounded Xia Jingzhi over to Prince Chen and entered the Zhao Xing Office’s Purgatory, where he learned how Chu tortured prisoners to extract secrets. There he recognized the captured younger sister of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace siblings, who begged him to save her.

• Lin Bai arrived at the Zhao Xing Office with Zhu Mo and presented the gravely wounded Xia Jingzhi to Prince Chen for interrogation in Purgatory.
• Prince Chen led Lin Bai and the Blood Dragon Legion through Purgatory’s gates and explained that its prisoners were kept alive because they held secrets or information Chu wanted.
• Lin Bai saw chained prisoners being lashed with God-Striking Whips, which injured both the body and the soul.
• A prisoner with peak Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm cultivation cursed at the guards, who continued to torture him despite his sealed limbs and dantian.
• Lin Bai heard a woman calling for help and recognized the captured younger sister of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace siblings.
• The woman begged Lin Bai to rescue her, insisting she had already revealed everything she knew.

Lin Bai and Prince Chen brought Xia Jingzhi to Purgatory’s first-layer Guard Office and explained his links to the Third Prince, the deaths of the First and Second Princes, and Southern Border Insect Valley. Prince Yu ordered Xia Jingzhi sent to the fifth layer for interrogation, and Lin Bai and Prince Chen departed.

• A jailer flogged a pleading woman in Purgatory as Lin Bai and Prince Chen passed by.
• Zhu Mo led Lin Bai, Prince Chen, and the Blood Dragon Legion into the first-layer Guard Office, where Prince Yu welcomed them.
• Lin Bai told Prince Yu that Xia Jingzhi had joined the Third Prince and used a stolen poison formula to kill the First Prince and Second Prince.
• Lin Bai revealed that Xia Jingzhi had been hidden in Southern Border Insect Valley’s guesthouse and that the valley’s experts had tried to rescue him.
• Prince Yu ordered Xia Jingzhi taken to the fifth layer and demanded that the interrogators uncover his memories and intelligence within half a month.
• Prince Chen reassured Lin Bai that Prince Yu would handle the matter, and the two left the Guard Office.

Lin Bai returned to the Tianshui Sect's temporary residence badly wounded after the operation against the Third Prince, where the sect learned that twenty-six of its forty-seven Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm fighters had died. Zhang Bailiu accepted that the Tianshui Sect sought its own restoration rather than Prince Chen's coronation, and Lin Bai said their objective had already been achieved.

• Zhu Mo offered to show Lin Bai the nine levels of Purgatory, but Lin Bai coughed blood, so Prince Chen insisted he return to recover.
• Blood Dragon Legion martial artists escorted Lin Bai to the Tianshui Sect's temporary residence, where disciples helped him into the meeting hall.
• Zhang Bailiu ordered an immediate casualty count and learned that only twenty-one of the Tianshui Sect's forty-seven fighters had returned; all the survivors were severely wounded.
• Bai Yifei reported that Lin Qianyu, Zhang Jinling, and others had not returned, while Zhang Bailiu reassured the disciples that the Zhao Xing Office had taken the Holy Son and Xia Jingzhi into Purgatory.
• Zhang Bailiu asked whether the sacrifices had been made to put Prince Chen on the throne, and Lin Bai clarified that the Tianshui Sect wanted to rise again, regardless of who became Emperor of Chu.
• Lin Bai said the Tianshui Sect had already achieved its objective, and ordered the finest healing pills from Prince Chen's treasury to be sent to the sect.

Lin Bai told Zhang Bailiu that his investigation of Xia Jingzhi had doomed the Third Prince and fulfilled the Tianshui Sect’s bargain for a chance at revival. Though Lin Bai intended to remain the sect’s Holy Son for now, Zhang Bailiu warned that the Chu Emperor and other powerful forces might not let him leave the Demon Realm alive.

• Lin Bai explained that Xia Jingzhi’s ties to the Southern Border Insect Valley could expose the Third Prince to charges of meddling in Chu Kingdom affairs and poisoning the First and Second Princes.
• Lin Bai said the Third Prince’s faction included the Wen Tian Sect, Heaven and Earth Gate, Li Family, Zhao Family, and Sun Family, which the Chu imperial clan would likely suppress after the battle.
• Zhang Bailiu asked Lin Bai to stay as Tianshui Sect’s Holy Son, while Lin Bai said their wager was fulfilled but he would remain in the Chu Kingdom for a while longer.
• Zhang Bailiu warned that Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar had attracted powerful figures and that the Chu Emperor might prevent him from leaving, or kill him rather than let him join another force.
• Lin Bai’s expression turned cold as he considered Zhang Bailiu’s warning.

After the battle, Lin Bai considered the uproar over his Supreme Avatar and the Demon Realm’s efforts to keep him, but said his path lay outside the Demon Realm. He checked the allied forces’ losses and left their rewards and affairs to Prince Chen.

• Zhang Bailiu offered Lin Bai support if he stayed in the Demon Realm, but Lin Bai postponed the decision and returned to recover.
• Lin Bai met the Crow, who urged him to consider his cultivation resources; Lin Bai said he would rather find his master in the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Bai visited the Heavenly Guard Battalion outpost and learned that thirty of its fifty-three deployed warriors had died and twenty-three had returned.
• Lin Bai told Old Li and Meng Hua to send the casualty list to His Highness Prince Chen, who would handle the dead warriors’ affairs.
• Lin Bai met Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun, who reported that the Chen Family and Sacred Lotus Palace had lost only a few warriors each.

After the battle, Lin Bai met with Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun, then went to Prince Hong Estate to discuss Xia Jingzhi’s imprisonment and the danger of an attempt on his life. He was reassured that Purgatory was nearly impossible to infiltrate, and the group agreed to wait for the Zhao Xing Office’s conclusion.

• Lin Bai told Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun that Xia Jingzhi had been handed over to Prince Yu in Purgatory, and they discussed the Third Prince’s possible involvement in the princes’ deaths.
• Lin Bai thanked Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun for their help, and they warned that his exposed Supreme Avatar could draw the attention of forces across the Demon Realm.
• Lin Bai went to Prince Hong Estate, where Chao Yushi, Zhang Linghu, Liu Canhong, and others welcomed him and praised the estate’s role in blocking the Third Prince’s reinforcements.
• Lin Bai worried that the Third Prince might bribe someone in Purgatory to kill Xia Jingzhi, but Chao Yushi and Liu Canhong assured him that Purgatory was difficult to infiltrate.
• Lin Bai accepted that Xia Jingzhi was secure in Purgatory and agreed to wait for the Zhao Xing Office to announce its conclusion.