Arc 248The Birthday Celebration Approaches
As factions courted Lin Bai for his Supreme Avatar, he formed a hunting alliance, reunited with Jiang Xuansu, and learned the truth about the Third Prince’s crimes. With the Chu Emperor’s birthday celebration near, Prince Chen prepared to expose Xia Jingzhi’s confession while the Seven Nights Divine Sect and Ten Thousand Saints Mountain pursued their own interests in Lin Bai.
- Prince Chen offered Lin Bai protection and a temporary place in Chu, but Lin Bai left to consider the proposal and warned that the princes’ rivalry could lead to civil war.
- Lin Bai hosted the realm’s sects, joined Qian Hen’s hunting alliance, and traded the Five Vices Bottle to Southern Border Insect Valley for a way to draw Azure Poison from his body.
- At banquets with the Flying Sword Devil Sect and Qi Tian Sect, Lin Bai faced recruitment efforts and reunited with Jiang Xuansu, who wept when they met.
- Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu discussed her place at Qi Tian Sect and his plan to leave for the Dao Ruins World after the birthday celebration, before Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and Fallen Immortal joined them at the tavern.
- Prince Chen showed Lin Bai Xia Jingzhi’s confession, which revealed the Third Prince’s role in poisoning the First and Second Princes and framing the Twelfth Prince.
- Lin Bai passed Chao Yushi’s advice to Prince Chen, who decided to report the conspiracy to the Chu Emperor while preparing for the Third Prince’s possible retaliation.
- Yi Gu introduced Lin Bai to Yi Jinyun and the Seven Nights Divine Sect, whose elders planned to use her marriage to draw Lin Bai into their faction.
- Long Qiu told Lin Bai that Ten Thousand Saints Mountain had found the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal’s former cave abode, and Lin Bai explained that he had developed its later sword techniques himself.