Recaps

Lin Bai led the Tianshui Sect disciples into the Hunt Realm and sent them out in groups to hunt while staying within reach of one another. Soon after setting off alone, he was ambushed by an unknown exotic species, and the Chu Emperor learned it was a Cloud Dream Treant.

• Lin Bai and the Tianshui Sect disciples entered the Hunt Realm, where he instructed them to hunt carefully and prioritize survival.
• Lin Bai split the disciples into groups led by senior members, then flew off alone to search for exotic species.
• Lin Bai found that his Telepathic Bracelet showed no allies within a million miles as he surveyed the realm with his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• A Cloud Dream Treant attacked Lin Bai with thousands of spiked, eye-covered vines, trapping him after his flying swords failed to cut them.
• The Chu Emperor watched Lin Bai's battle on a formation light screen, and Eunuch Gui identified the attacker as a Cloud Dream Treant.

Lin Bai was trapped by the regenerative vines of a Cloud Dream Treant and fled into the Hunting Realm’s forest, where living grass and the treant’s vines pursued him. He realized the vines were controlled by a distant main body and began searching for it.

• Eunuch Gui identified the creature trapping Lin Bai as a Cloud Dream Treant, and Emperor Chu said Lin Bai had to survive without relying on his Supreme Avatar.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to cut through the vines, but they regenerated and wounded him.
• Unable to escape through the vines, Lin Bai flew down into the forest, drawing them after him.
• Living grass in the forest shot arrows at Lin Bai, forcing him to defend himself with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation while fleeing the vines.
• Lin Bai concluded the coordinated vines belonged to one variant whose main body was elsewhere, and he began searching for it.

Lin Bai searched for the Cloud Dream Treant’s true body and followed its attacking vines beneath the earth into a hidden underground world. He found and struck the purple tree, but discovered that its leaking sap was deadly poison.

• Lin Bai concluded that the Cloud Dream Treant’s true body was likely beneath the earth and used his flying swords to dig downward while fending off vines.
• Emperor Chu and Eunuch Gui watched Lin Bai’s progress through the projection array and identified his target as the Cloud Dream Treant.
• After digging ten thousand meters down, Lin Bai entered a glowing underground world and spotted a huge tree shadow surrounded by vines.
• Lin Bai illuminated the darkness and revealed a massive purple tree with an old man’s face in its trunk.
• Lin Bai attacked the tree with his flying swords, making it cry out and spray corrosive purple liquid; he realized the tree was poisonous.

Lin Bai fought the poisonous Cloud Dream Treant, but its purple mist trapped him in an illusion where a purple-haired woman tried to seduce him. He saw through the illusion, destroyed her and split the treant in two.

• Lin Bai avoided the Cloud Dream Treant’s corrosive juices and repeatedly attacked it with Sword Qi until it was badly wounded.
• The treant released purple smoke, and Lin Bai saw a naked purple-haired woman pleading for her life and offering to serve him.
• In the Ascension Celestial Palace, Eunuch Gui identified the smoke as the treant’s illusion, while its vines attacked the unresponsive Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai caught a vine and cut down the others, then feigned being captivated by the woman before grabbing her by the throat.
• Lin Bai called the illusion unworthy of him, crushed the woman into purple smoke, and split the Cloud Dream Treant in two with his flying swords.

Lin Bai explored the underground space after killing Purple Tree, collected its poison and a wood-element crystal, and discovered a passage leading to an Underground River. He began catching glowing spirit fish for the pearls inside them.

• Lin Bai confirmed that Purple Tree was dead, collected its poisonous sap and a crystal from its trunk, and stored the tree's body.
• Lin Bai found the bones of several dozen powerful martial artists and discovered a dark passage in the rock wall.
• Lin Bai cautiously followed the winding passage and reached a surging Underground River filled with glowing creatures.
• Lin Bai caught a glowing spirit fish and found a pearl with pure spiritual energy inside it.
• Lin Bai used his spiritual power to catch more than fifty glowing fish from the river.

Lin Bai explored an Underground River in the Hunting Realm, collecting Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish and their valuable spirit pearls. He met Tuo Baxin, the Barbarian Sect’s Holy Son, who offered to buy the pearls for two immortal jades each.

• Emperor Chu and Eunuch Gui watched Lin Bai’s projection and noted that he had found an Underground River in the Cloud Dream Treant’s nest, within the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s territory.
• Lin Bai collected more than fifty Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish, extracted their spirit pearls, and followed the river upstream.
• Lin Bai encountered a mysterious martial artist in the darkness and learned that he was Tuo Baxin, the Barbarian Sect’s Holy Son.
• Tuo Baxin explained that Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish spirit pearls were rare treasures worth about one immortal jade each and offered Lin Bai two immortal jades per pearl.

Lin Bai exchanged his spirit pearls with Tuo Baxin, who then proposed they team up to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. Lin Bai agreed, and they set off upstream toward the Underground River's source, where Tuo Baxin believed the beast was hiding.

• Lin Bai sold Tuo Baxin all seventy-two spirit pearls for one hundred and forty-four immortal jades.
• Tuo Baxin explained that his sect had sent him to find the Dragon Pearl Spirit Fish and hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.
• Tuo Baxin offered Lin Bai everything from the serpent except its soul and essence blood if they hunted it together.
• Lin Bai agreed to join forces with Tuo Baxin despite remaining wary of him.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin traveled upstream toward the river's source, where they expected to find the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin joined forces and traveled toward the Underground River’s source to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. Tuo Baxin warned Lin Bai that the Southern Border Insect Valley had ordered its members to kill him in the Hunting Realm, and they continued toward their target.

• Onlookers watched Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin head upstream together, while the Chu Emperor wondered whether Tuo Baxin could be trusted and noticed other warriors nearby.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin entered a vast underground space near the river’s source and discussed the poisonous plants and creatures that could benefit the Southern Border Insect Valley.
• Tuo Baxin told Lin Bai that the Southern Border Insect Valley had ordered its members to make sure Lin Bai did not leave the Hunting Realm alive.
• Lin Bai thanked Tuo Baxin for the warning, then used his Asura Dharma Eyes to look toward the river’s source as they prepared to hunt the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin explored the enormous Underground Sea to find the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent. After sensing a creature approaching Lin Bai from below, they prepared to fight as a colossal beast burst from the water.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin reached the Underground Sea and agreed to draw out the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent by skimming across the surface.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin split up and searched in opposite directions while keeping within ten thousand meters of each other.
• Tuo Baxin warned Lin Bai not to enter the water and estimated that crossing the sea would take another seventy-two hours.
• Tuo Baxin sensed something rising from the depths and rushing toward Lin Bai, then hurried to his side.
• Lin Bai stopped, readied his swords, and faced a colossal creature as it burst from the water with a deafening roar.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin fought the first-tier exotic beast Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent in the Dark Sea, but its many powers and tough hide overwhelmed Lin Bai. After revealing the beast’s weaknesses, Tuo Baxin proposed a second way to kill it, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• The Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent emerged from the water and battered Lin Bai with its roar and a barrage of elemental powers.
• Lin Bai’s Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation failed to pierce the beast’s hide, and its venomous head lunged at him.
• Tuo Baxin arrived and nearly shattered one of the serpent’s heads with a kick, rescuing Lin Bai.
• Tuo Baxin explained the serpent’s dangerous powers, valuable scales, and ability to regenerate severed heads.
• Tuo Baxin described two ways to kill the serpent: sever all nine heads before they regrew, or target its heart.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin worked together to kill the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent in the Underground Sea while an unseen group watched and waited for them to weaken. The serpent’s corpse was recovered, and the hidden figures remained a threat.

• Several figures secretly followed Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin, planning to attack after the pair had suffered heavy losses.
• Tuo Baxin identified the serpent’s heart beneath its nine necks and drew its attention so Lin Bai could strike.
• Tuo Baxin fought the serpent with his physical strength, but its severed head began to regenerate as its other heads trapped him.
• Lin Bai attacked the exposed abdomen with his flying swords and demon sword, piercing the serpent’s heart.
• Tuo Baxin caught the serpent’s corpse before it sank, and Lin Bai dismissed praise of his swordsmanship.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin killed the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent and divided its spoils, then confronted seven Soul Refining Sect disciples who had been waiting in the darkness. The disciples demanded the serpent’s soul and corpse, and Tuo Baxin answered with a threat as the standoff began.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin killed the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent, and Tuo Baxin took its soul and blood essence while Lin Bai claimed its corpse.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin sensed watchers in the darkness and called them out.
• Seven Soul Refining Sect disciples emerged and asked how Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin had discovered them.
• Lin Bai recognized the seven as Northern Region disciples he had seen at the Immortal Abode Restaurant banquet.
• The Soul Refining Sect disciples demanded the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s soul and corpse, and Tuo Baxin mocked their audacity.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin refused to hand over the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent to seven members of the Soul Refining Sect, who had come seeking revenge on Lin Bai. The Soul Refining Sect split its forces to hold Tuo Baxin back while five fighters surrounded Lin Bai, and the battle began.

• Tuo Baxin chose to stand with Lin Bai after the Soul Refining Sect demanded the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent’s soul and bones.
• Tuo Baxin explained that Northern Region sects followed unorthodox paths, including the Soul Refining Sect’s ability to absorb other people’s cultivation power.
• The Soul Refining Sect’s horse-faced leader decided to send two fighters after Tuo Baxin while the other five attacked Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai asked Tuo Baxin to restrain his opponents and buy him time, saying he would handle the rest.
• Tuo Baxin refused the Soul Refining Sect’s demand, and a hunched old man and an old woman moved to restrain him as the horse-faced man and four others surrounded Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought five Soul Refinement Sect disciples at the Underground Sea after Tuo Baxin was pulled away, but their attacks began to overwhelm him. The battle stopped when a Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm mutant erupted from the depths.

• The Soul Refinement Sect’s elders separated Tuo Baxin from Lin Bai, leaving five disciples to surround Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai questioned the five disciples’ motives, and they admitted they wanted to test his strength; he angered one disciple with an insult.
• The woman attacked Lin Bai, and he fused with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone and used the Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to repel her waves.
• A Soul Refinement Sect disciple struck Lin Bai with a powerful Dao Art, and the five disciples pressed their advantage until the five-faced man prepared to hit Lin Bai.
• Fifteen tentacles rose from the Underground Sea, forcing everyone to stop fighting as Lin Bai recognized a mutant at the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.

A Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm variant species interrupted Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin’s fight with the Soul Refinement Sect, forcing both sides to attempt an escape. The monster captured them all and dragged them into the underground river, where Lin Bai considered using his trump card.

• A fifteen-tentacled variant species in the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm emerged, prompting Lin Bai, Tuo Baxin, and the Soul Refinement Sect to abandon their fight and seek a way out.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin attacked to the left while the seven Soul Refinement Sect members struck to the right, but the monster’s tentacles blocked both groups and wounded one sect member.
• Lin Bai severed a tentacle, but it quickly regenerated, while Tuo Baxin smashed two tentacles before others bound him.
• The monster’s tentacles wrapped around Lin Bai, Tuo Baxin, and all seven Soul Refinement Sect members, dragging them beneath the water.
• As the water grew colder and darker, Lin Bai realized ordinary attacks would not help him escape and considered using his trump card.

At the Chu Emperor's Birthday Celebration, the Netherworld Beast dragged Lin Bai beneath the Underground Sea, while damaged projection formations concealed the depths from observers. Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to cut free, then spotted a mysterious light below him.

• Eunuch Gui identified the tentacles that seized Lin Bai as those of the Netherworld Beast.
• The Celestial Mystery Pavilion's Formation Daoists told the Chu Emperor that someone or some breed had damaged the projection formations.
• The Chu Emperor ordered Zhu Mo to take three thousand Dragon Scale Guards, the Blood Dragon Legion, and Formation Daoists to investigate the Underground Sea.
• Lin Bai activated his Supreme Avatar and cut through the tentacle restraining him.
• Lin Bai saw a strange light far below in the darkness and watched it instead of immediately trying to escape.

After escaping the underwater beast, Lin Bai discovered a vast Inner Earth World beneath the Hunter Realm and crossed into it. While exploring its cultivated spirit fields, he encountered a three-headed tiger whose strength had reached the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.

• Lin Bai escaped the tentacle, searched for Tuo Baxin, and then investigated a glimmer beneath the water.
• Lin Bai found a transparent barrier separating the underwater river from a sunlit world beneath the earth and passed through it.
• Lin Bai explored the unfamiliar, spirit-energy-rich Inner Earth World and discovered extensive spirit fields planted with spirit medicines.
• A strange beast attacked Lin Bai near the fields, and a three-headed tiger with the strength of the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm emerged from the forest.

Lin Bai fled a devastating encounter with a three-headed tiger and became trapped in a misty marsh. He met Chen Yule there, but the dim gemstones on Lin Bai’s Telepathic Bracelet made him realize something was wrong just as Chen Yule offered him a pill.

• The three-headed tiger attacked Lin Bai, whose sword techniques failed to pierce its hide, and he escaped after suffering serious injuries.
• Lin Bai flew into a mist-shrouded marsh and discovered that retreating did not take him out of the region.
• Lin Bai took healing pills and continued searching the marsh for a way out.
• Chen Yule emerged from the mist, told Lin Bai he had encountered mutants too, and proposed they travel together.
• Chen Yule handed Lin Bai a life-saving pill, and Lin Bai noticed that all twelve gemstones on his Telepathic Bracelet were dim.

Lin Bai exposed the man posing as Chen Yule and discovered he was a Grand Luo expert who served a powerful presence in the Inner Earth World. The old man took Lin Bai, pretending to be gravely wounded, toward Verdant City, leaving Lin Bai to investigate the people and aberrant species there.

• Lin Bai noticed that his Telepathic Bracelet showed no allies nearby and tested the fake Chen Yule by asking where they had first met.
• The fake Chen Yule failed to recall their first meeting, so Lin Bai attacked him with four flying swords and demanded to know if he was an aberrant species.
• The impostor transformed into a wrinkled old man, revealed his Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm strength, and struck Lin Bai into the marsh.
• The old man said he would not kill Lin Bai for now and ordered him to come to Verdant City.
• The old man asked the Mirage King to open a path through the mist, then carried Lin Bai toward Verdant City.

Lin Bai was captured and taken to a hidden city inside the Hunting Realm, where martial artists and half-demons lived together. At the City Lord’s Mansion, he recognized Madam Qianrou as a member of the Demon Race, and she hinted that she had noticed how unusually composed he was.

• Old Zhang captured Lin Bai in the Mist Marsh and brought him to an ancient city hidden within it.
• A man on the city wall told Old Zhang that someone else had already captured seven or eight martial artists.
• As Old Zhang led Lin Bai through the city, Lin Bai noticed that about half its residents were half-demons.
• Old Zhang took Lin Bai to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Madam Qianrou questioned and appraised him.
• Lin Bai calmly identified Madam Qianrou as a member of the Demon Race, and she praised his composure.

Lin Bai was taken to Verdant City’s dungeon, where he learned that the captors recorded the identities and backgrounds of randomly chosen martial artists. He found several other prisoners there and began investigating why they had been captured.

• Madam Qianrou ordered Old Zhang to take Lin Bai to the dungeon, but Old Zhang refused to answer Lin Bai’s questions about Verdant City and its captives.
• A jailer fastened a deadly formation collar around Lin Bai’s neck and locked him in a cell with eight martial artists.
• The prisoners recognized Lin Bai as Wolf Marquis, and Chen Yunjie explained that a Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm attacker had abducted him after he became separated from his clan.
• Lin Bai found that his Telepathic Bracelet could not send messages from the dungeon and learned that the other prisoners came from top sects across the Demon Realm.
• Chen Yunjie said the captors had made the prisoners write down their identities and backgrounds, leaving Lin Bai convinced that Verdant City cared deeply about who they were.

Lin Bai refused to reveal his identity to the people holding him in Verdant City, while Madam Qianrou tried to determine whether he belonged to the Chu imperial clan. She left without learning the truth and decided to interrogate Chen Yunjie instead.

• A jailer ordered Lin Bai to write down his identity and origins, but Lin Bai left the paper blank.
• Madam Qianrou learned that the prisoners had called Lin Bai Wolf Marquis and ordered the jailer to question him about his background.
• When the jailer found the blank paper, Lin Bai dismissed his threats and called for Madam Qianrou to speak with him directly.
• Madam Qianrou entered the cell and asked Lin Bai about his origins, and Lin Bai claimed to be part of the Chu imperial clan.
• Madam Qianrou doubted Lin Bai was royalty and left without pressing him further.
• Madam Qianrou told the jailer to bring Chen Yunjie out so she could interrogate him.

Lin Bai stayed in Verdant City to uncover its secrets while concealing that he could break his restraint collar. Madam Qianrou questioned Chen Yunjie about Lin Bai and learned that he was the Tianshui Sect's Saint.

• Lin Bai considered the collars harmless to him and decided to keep investigating Verdant City.
• A jailer took Chen Yunjie from the cell, and Lin Bai warned him to keep quiet.
• Madam Qianrou questioned Chen Yunjie in a torture room about why he called Lin Bai Wolf Marquis.
• Chen Yunjie resisted at first, then revealed Lin Bai was a trusted confidant of Prince Chen and might be rewarded with a title if Prince Chen took the throne.
• Chen Yunjie identified Lin Bai as the Tianshui Sect's Saint, shocking Madam Qianrou.

After Chen Yunjie revealed Lin Bai’s identity, Madam Qianrou weighed the consequences while receiving envoys in Verdant City. She met the Demon Race envoy and then faced a Nine Underworlds Demon Palace delegation demanding resources.

• Chen Yunjie admitted that he had told Madam Qianrou Lin Bai was the Holy Son of Tianshui Sect and a favorite of Prince Chen, leaving Lin Bai with little control over the situation.
• Madam Qianrou decided Lin Bai’s identity posed little threat because Tianshui Sect had declined, then learned that both the Demon Race and Nine Underworlds Demon Palace envoys had arrived.
• Madam Qianrou greeted the Demon Race envoy, her uncle, and her cousin Jingming, who complained about the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s growing demands.
• Madam Qianrou and Jingming went to the council hall, where Song Caiying introduced himself as a Slaughter Immortal Sect elder and demanded the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s share of Verdant City’s resources.

The Demon Race and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace argued over their alliance and the Demon Race’s failure to deliver the promised rare bloodlines. Song Caiying threatened Verdant City’s survival, and Madam Qianrou asked for time to prepare, leaving the envoys three days to wait.

• Jingming accused the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace of demanding resources without fulfilling its promises, while Song Caiying insisted the Demon Race had delayed its obligations.
• Song Caiying listed the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s past assistance to Verdant City and demanded the rare bloodlines specified in their pact.
• Jingming lost his temper and revealed his snake-demon features after Song Caiying threatened the Demon Race.
• Madam Qianrou tried to soothe Song Caiying and explained that her people had been unable to obtain the promised bloodlines.
• Song Caiying warned that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace might abandon its alliance and destroy Verdant City if the Demon Race returned empty-handed.
• Madam Qianrou asked for time to prepare, and Song Caiying gave her three days.