Recaps

Lin Bai escaped the City Lord's Mansion by deceiving more than twenty pursuers with an empty flying sword, then met Tuo Baxin in Verdant City. They planned to wait for the Chu Kingdom's imperial army to attack the city and distract its defenders before entering the treasury beneath the lake.

• Lin Bai lured his pursuers away from Verdant City with an empty flying sword and secretly returned to the city.
• Tuo Baxin found Lin Bai in a dark alley and praised his escape from the City Lord's Mansion.
• Lin Bai told Tuo Baxin that the treasury lay beneath a guarded lake beside the City Lord's retreat chamber, where a Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm monster resided.
• Lin Bai explained that the Chu Kingdom's imperial army had entered the world and that they would wait for its attack to distract Verdant City.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin agreed they would need to act quickly before the imperial army took control of the city and its treasury.

Madam Qianrou warned the City Lord that the Chu imperial family had found Verdant City and learned Lin Bai had escaped. As the City Lord fought an imperial warrior and ordered the city’s evacuation, Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin seized their chance to head for the treasury.

• Madam Qianrou told the City Lord that the Chu imperial family was nearing Verdant City and that Lin Bai had escaped after injuring her.
• The City Lord ordered Hunter Warriors to defend the gates while Madam Qianrou moved the treasury’s resources to Barren City.
• A Chu imperial warrior with Primal Chaos Dao Fruit cultivation appeared above Verdant City, and the City Lord warned that they had to evacuate within an hour.
• The City Lord rose from the lake and clashed with the imperial warrior in the sky.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin watched the battle and rushed toward the unguarded treasury with a bird.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin broke through the lake’s formations and descended toward Verdant City’s underground treasure vault. Madam Qianrou learned that Lin Bai had entered and sent a group of martial artists to kill him while she stayed behind.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin plunged into the lake after the crow confirmed the treasure vault lay below it.
• The two smashed through the lake’s formations and followed the crow down a staircase beneath the lakebed.
• In the Underground Palace, Madam Qianrou directed martial artists as they packed the treasure vault’s rare items into Storage Bags.
• Madam Qianrou sensed Lin Bai’s sword radiance and identified him as the intruder.
• The martial artists handed their Storage Bags to Madam Qianrou and went to confront Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin entered the Underground Palace and found twelve powerful half-demons blocking their way. As Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin began fighting them, Madam Qianrou abandoned the treasure vault and hurried deeper into the palace with a secret-order key.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin passed through the palace’s formations and realized the formations seemed intended to serve as warnings.
• Twelve Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit half-demons confronted Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin in the passageway.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin split the enemies between them, and Lin Bai secretly sent the Crow ahead into the darkness.
• Lin Bai attacked the six half-demons on the right with sword formations, severing one man’s arm and smashing two others into the walls.
• Madam Qianrou heard the battle, took the secret-order key, and hurried deeper into the Underground Palace, leaving the treasure vault behind.

Madam Qianrou opened the Underground Palace’s hidden chambers to retrieve two King Grade Bloodlines, but the crow that had followed her confronted her in the final chamber. She attacked it in a rage, only for the crow to evade her effortlessly as she transformed into her true Demon Race form.

• Madam Qianrou opened a series of secret chambers and reached the innermost room, where she activated a dragon-shaped Automaton Beast and retrieved two King Grade Bloodlines.
• The crow revealed itself on the Automaton Beast’s horn and mocked Madam Qianrou for leading it to the treasures.
• Madam Qianrou attacked the crow, but it dodged every technique and taunted her about Lin Bai.
• Madam Qianrou declared that she had only joined Lin Bai to bear offspring for the Demon Race and said she would send him to hell.
• Madam Qianrou transformed into her true Demon Race form, causing her strength to grow more domineering.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin fought twelve half-demons in the Underground Palace, who revealed their true forms and overwhelmed them with fierce attacks. Tuo Baxin suddenly displayed terrifying physical strength, killing two demons with bare-handed strikes, while Lin Bai remained surrounded by the others.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin discussed the half-demons’ strength and hurried to finish the fight before Lin Bai’s crow collected the Underground Palace’s treasures.
• The twelve half-demons revealed their monstrous true forms and launched a savage assault on Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin.
• The tiger-like and snake-like half-demons broke Lin Bai’s Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation, forcing him to retreat under attacks from six enemies.
• As a demon clawed at Tuo Baxin’s chest, Tuo Baxin seized it, dragged the demon close, and crushed its head with a stomp.
• Tuo Baxin ignored another demon’s illusion and killed it with a punch, leaving the remaining demons frightened and Lin Bai astonished by his strength.

Tuo Baxin and Lin Bai defeated the Demon Race fighters who surrounded them, revealing their formidable physical strength and swordsmanship. Afterward, Tuo Baxin compared their years of training, revealing that he had tempered his body for two thousand years.

• Tuo Baxin killed the six Demon Race members who had surrounded him, astonishing Lin Bai with his strength.
• Tuo Baxin challenged Lin Bai to show his own strength, and Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and his sword techniques to kill the six members surrounding him.
• Lin Bai struck down the tiger-headed Demon Race fighter with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, shaking the Underground Palace and the City Lord's Mansion above it.
• Tuo Baxin praised Lin Bai's swordsmanship and asked how long he had practiced the sword.
• Lin Bai estimated that he had practiced for twenty or thirty years, and Tuo Baxin revealed that he had tempered his body for two thousand years.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin reached the deepest chamber of the Underground Palace, where they found Madam Qianrou fighting the crow and demanded Verdant City's King Grade Bloodline. Madam Qianrou tricked them with poisoned bottles and escaped, leaving Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin amid the spreading poison.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin resumed their search after defeating the roadblock and followed the crow's aura to the deepest stone chamber.
• They found Madam Qianrou attacking the crow, which flew to Lin Bai and said it had refrained from killing her because of him.
• Madam Qianrou learned that Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin had overcome the twelve Hunter Warriors, and Tuo Baxin revealed that he was the Barbarian Sect's Holy Son.
• At the crow's suggestion, Lin Bai demanded the two bottles of King Grade Bloodline, and Madam Qianrou handed them over before fleeing.
• The crow warned them that the bottles were poisoned, and Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin threw them aside as they burst and released deadly poison.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin recovered two bottles of King Grade Bloodline from Madam Qianrou, but the Verdant City city lord arrived and carried her away. After the city lord withdrew, Lin Bai explained his coerced agreement with the Demon Race and offered Tuo Baxin one bottle, leaving the choice to luck.

• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin cornered Madam Qianrou, and Lin Bai seized the two jade bottles from her.
• The Verdant City city lord swept into the Underground Palace, rescued Madam Qianrou, and left the King Grade Bloodline with Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin as a gift tied to their agreement.
• The city lord withdrew with Madam Qianrou after explaining that reinforcements from the Chu Empire made continuing the fight too risky.
• Tuo Baxin warned Lin Bai not to betray the human race, and Lin Bai said his agreement with the Demon Race had been made under duress and no longer bound him.
• Lin Bai offered Tuo Baxin one of the two sealed bottles of King Grade Bloodline and proposed that they each choose one at random.

Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin chose sealed jade bottles containing King Grade Bloodlines before Zhu Mo found them in the Underground Palace and explained that the Chu State had taken control of the hidden world. The two agreed to keep the Imperial Clan’s embarrassment secret and left to resume the hunt, where they encountered Chen Yunjie and the seven Soul Refinement Sect members.

• Tuo Baxin chose the left jade bottle, and Lin Bai took the other before they sensed someone entering the Underground Palace.
• Zhu Mo found Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin and told them that the Chu State’s forces had subdued the city and were securing the hidden world.
• Zhu Mo said the Imperial Clan would hold the remaining martial artists in the world until the Hunting Realm ended, and Lin Bai warned him about the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm mutated beasts.
• Zhu Mo asked Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin to conceal what had happened, then arranged for them to leave the world and continue the hunt.
• Tuo Baxin remarked on Zhu Mo’s deference to Lin Bai, and Lin Bai left the comment unanswered.
• Lin Bai saw Chen Yunjie and the seven Soul Refinement Sect members leaving the world with them, alive after the turtle shadow had swallowed them.

After the Chu Kingdom seized Verdant City and the Inner Earth World, Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin left with other captured martial artists. Lin Bai separated from the group and walked into the darkness, inviting the seven members of the Soul Refinement Sect to pursue him.

• The Chu Kingdom's armies and the Zhao Xing Office took control of Verdant City while Formation Daoists began sealing the Inner Earth World.
• Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin left the Underground Palace and saw Chen Yunjie, other captives, and the seven members of the Soul Refinement Sect at the city gate.
• The Zhao Xing Office escorted Lin Bai and the others through the barrier and out of the Inner Earth World into the Underground Sea.
• After reaching the surface, Lin Bai suggested that the group split up, and Chen Yunjie and the other martial artists agreed.
• Tuo Baxin offered to travel with Lin Bai, but Lin Bai declined and walked into the darkness after warning the seven members of the Soul Refinement Sect with a hostile look.

Lin Bai emerged from the Underground Sea and headed into the Hunting Realm, then used his powers to obscure a projected array while waiting for the Soul Refinement Sect’s seven disciples. They surrounded him in a valley, and Lin Bai faced them with a bloodthirsty smile.

• The projected array showed Lin Bai and Tuo Baxin reappearing, easing the Barbarian Sect and Tianshui Sect elders while Emperor Chu resolved to keep the Demon Race’s hidden world secret.
• Lin Bai left the Underground Sea and reflected on the mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars as he flew toward the surface.
• Lin Bai sensed that the Soul Refinement Sect’s seven disciples were following him and chose a distant valley with a projected array for their confrontation.
• Lin Bai blocked the valley’s projected array, causing the image of his location to vanish in the Ascension Celestial Palace.
• The seven Soul Refinement Sect disciples landed around Lin Bai and taunted him for not traveling with Tuo Baxin, while Lin Bai greeted them with a cold, killing smile.

The Seven Asuras of Soul Refinement cornered Lin Bai in a valley and explained that their hostility stemmed from the long-running conflict between the Northern and Eastern Regions. The chapter ended with them angrily asking Lin Bai whether he needed to be reminded of what he had done in the imperial capital.

• Chu Xi saw seven Northern Region martial artists approaching Lin Bai’s valley and ordered Eunuch Gui to find out what was happening there.
• Observers identified the newcomers as the Seven Asuras of Soul Refinement, seven powerful martial artists from the Soul Refinement Sect, and suspected they had disabled the valley’s projection formation to target Lin Bai.
• Eunuch Gui secretly sent powerful figures toward the valley while Lin Bai questioned the seven about why they wanted him dead.
• A member of the seven blamed the Eastern Region’s fertile lands and abundant resources for the Northern Region’s hardship, while another revealed that a hidden border war had already been underway for years.
• Lin Bai asked why the Northern Region had singled him out, and the seven angrily demanded that he remember what he had done in the imperial capital.

Lin Bai learned that the Northern Region's martial artists had targeted him because his Supreme Avatar threatened their plans to invade the Eastern Region, then fought seven Soul Refinement Sect experts. He broke through their defenses and killed one of them, leaving the battle ongoing.

• The leader of the seven Soul Refinement Sect experts told Lin Bai that the Northern Region sought his death to protect its invasion plans from a future Supreme of Heaven and Earth.
• Lin Bai warned the seven to leave, but they surrounded him and attacked.
• Lin Bai used his flying swords, Demon Sword, Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Yellow Springs Demon Bone to repel several attackers and reach the upper-grade Great Purity Dao Fruit realm.
• Lin Bai identified the old man as the weak link and pierced through his defenses, killing him with an azure sword ray.

After killing Old Jia, Lin Bai trapped the enraged Soul Refinement Sect members in his Heaven Swallowing Domain and began attacking them. He separated the six companions and struck the beautiful woman with black lightning, leaving her badly wounded.

• Lin Bai killed Old Jia with a sword, enraging the other six members of the Soul Refinement Sect.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Heaven Swallowing Domain and swallowed the six attackers into its dark, endless space.
• The Soul Refinement Sect members tried to escape, but discovered they were trapped inside Lin Bai's Dao Domain.
• Lin Bai used the domain to separate the six companions, preventing them from contacting one another.
• Lin Bai attacked the beautiful woman with black Spring Thunder, shattering her defensive handkerchief and making her vomit blood.

Lin Bai killed Yun Er in the Heaven Swallowing Domain, then fought Che Jing, who proved stronger than the other Soul Refinement Sect members. Lin Bai’s winter technique began draining Che Jing’s blood and spiritual power as Che Jing realized Lin Bai belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• Lin Bai destroyed Yun Er’s protective treasures, killed her with black lightning, and took her Storage Bag.
• Che Jing heard Yun Er’s final plea and confronted Lin Bai, who told him she was dead.
• Furious over his companions’ deaths, Che Jing attacked Lin Bai and cracked the Heaven Swallowing Domain with his strength.
• Lin Bai struck Che Jing with Spring Thunder, the Setting Sun, and Flower Burial, wounding him and forcing him to flee.
• Lin Bai used The Snow Falls! Deep Winter Has Arrived! to drain Che Jing’s strength, blood, and spiritual power, and Che Jing recognized the Heaven Swallowing Race.

Lin Bai trapped Che Jing and Bao Yun in his Devouring Dao Domain and overwhelmed them in battle. Che Jing betrayed Bao Yun to secure a chance to escape, then blamed Lin Bai for the brothers’ deaths.

• Che Jing fled Lin Bai through the Devouring Dao Domain and encountered Bao Yun, who joined him against their pursuer.
• Lin Bai appeared, and Che Jing asked Bao Yun to engage him while he prepared an ambush.
• Che Jing’s poisoned short sword failed to surprise Lin Bai, and Lin Bai’s black lightning blasted Bao Yun away.
• Bao Yun realized they were outmatched and suggested finding the others, but Che Jing urged him to flee while he held Lin Bai back.
• As Bao Yun turned to escape, Che Jing stabbed him through the back and crushed his heart.
• Lin Bai questioned Che Jing about the betrayal, and Che Jing blamed him for turning the brothers against one another.

Che Jing used the Soul Refinement Art to consume Bao Yun’s blood and Dao Fruit, then revealed that his sect had developed the technique by studying members of the Heaven Swallowing Race. After Che Jing disclosed that the sect had captured another member of the race, he attacked Lin Bai with strength raised to the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.

• Che Jing absorbed Bao Yun’s blood and swallowed his Dao Fruit, healing his injuries and restoring his strength.
• Che Jing explained that the Soul Refinement Sect’s Soul Refinement Art refined living beings for nourishment and had been derived from studying captured members of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Che Jing told Lin Bai that the sect had captured another member of the Heaven Swallowing Race in the Chu Empire, but did not reveal the captive’s name.
• Che Jing charged Lin Bai and used Bao Yun’s Dao Fruit to activate the Soul Refinement Art’s secret technique, raising his strength to the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.
• Lin Bai regretted letting Bao Yun and Che Jing meet, since he had hoped to observe the Soul Refinement Sect’s methods.

Lin Bai defeated Che Jing and learned that Leng Xingguang had been taken to the Northern Region and imprisoned in the Soul Refinement Sect’s forbidden grounds. The chapter ended with Lin Bai killing Che Jing and taking his Storage Bag, leaving him to plan how to rescue Leng Xingguang.

• Che Jing used a secret technique to boost his strength and attacked Lin Bai, damaging the Heaven Swallowing Domain.
• Lin Bai trapped Che Jing with Heaven Swallowing Five Methods: Palm Dimension and crushed him until he revealed Leng Xingguang’s identity and whereabouts.
• Che Jing said Leng Xingguang was in a dungeon in the Soul Refinement Sect’s forbidden grounds in the Northern Region.
• Che Jing offered to help Lin Bai enter the forbidden grounds, but Lin Bai rejected his offer and killed him.
• Lin Bai took Che Jing’s Storage Bag and regretted losing the chance to use Soul Search on him.

Lin Bai killed the old woman after exposing her attempt to use Wei Zuo and the Soul Refinement Art, then hunted down and killed the hot-tempered man. With two opponents left, he continued through the Heaven Swallowing Domain.

• Lin Bai confronted the old woman, who recognized that Yun Er, Che Jing, and Bao Yun were dead and asked to see her son Wei Zuo.
• Lin Bai refused the old woman's request after realizing she planned to use the Soul Refinement Art, and he killed her with the Demon Sword.
• The hot-tempered man exhausted his spiritual power trying to break out of the Heaven Swallowing Domain and shouted for Lin Bai to appear.
• Lin Bai challenged the hot-tempered man to block one sword strike, then beheaded him and took his Storage Bag.

Lin Bai broke Wei Zuo’s Dao heart, learned that the Soul Refinement Sect had captured Leng Xingguang and taken him to the Northern Region, then killed Wei Zuo. He left with the knowledge that rescuing Leng Xingguang from the sect’s forbidden ground would require careful planning.

• After nearly two hours lost in the dark space, Wei Zuo encountered Lin Bai, who told him he was the last survivor.
• Lin Bai recounted the deaths of Wei Zuo’s companions and revealed that Che Jing had killed Bao Yun, causing Wei Zuo’s Dao heart to collapse.
• Kneeling and begging for his life, Wei Zuo confirmed that the Soul Refinement Sect had captured Leng Xingguang and sent him to the Northern Region.
• Wei Zuo explained that the sect intended to study Leng Xingguang’s devouring power and likely held him alive in its forbidden ground.
• Wei Zuo offered to act as Lin Bai’s inside man, but Lin Bai beheaded him and used the Heaven Swallowing Domain to refine his body and Dao Fruit.

Lin Bai emerged from the black Dao Domain after apparently annihilating the seven Soul Refinement Sect disciples, then flew southeast as Emperor Chu’s hidden experts watched without intervening. Back in Ascension Celestial Palace, the witnesses praised Lin Bai’s strength while Zhang Bailiu publicly questioned why Soul Refinement Sect had pursued him.

• Three imperial experts secretly watched the valley and identified the black sphere as a Dao Domain formed from the Heaven Swallowing Race’s devouring power.
• The experts spotted Tuo Baxin observing from a distant peak and relayed their findings to Emperor Chu, who ordered them to keep watch without interfering.
• After about two hours, the black sphere vanished, and Lin Bai reappeared alone, took the Storage Bag from the old man’s corpse, and flew southeast.
• Emperor Chu told the experts not to follow Lin Bai or confront Tuo Baxin, and the three left after confirming that the seven Soul Refinement Sect disciples had not reappeared.
• The projection formation recovered, and Ascension Celestial Palace’s spectators inferred that Lin Bai had defeated all seven disciples; Chu Xi and Zhang Bailiu breathed a sigh of relief.
• Zhang Bailiu asked aloud why Soul Refinement Sect had pursued Lin Bai so relentlessly, prompting questions about the grudge between them.

Zhang Bailiu reminded the gathered sects that the Northern Region’s attacks on Lin Bai threatened the Eastern Region as a whole, while Lin Bai recovered and searched the Soul Refinement Sect members’ belongings. He then unsealed a Demon Race King Grade Bloodline, subdued its resistance, and considered the deadly risks of refining it.

• Zhang Bailiu questioned why the Northern Region martial artists pursued Lin Bai, prompting the gathered regions to remain silent as Eastern Region leaders regarded the North with hostility.
• Lin Bai flew away from the valley, healed his wounds in seclusion, and interfered with nearby projection arrays.
• Lin Bai searched the seven Soul Refinement Sect members’ Storage Bags and found few valuables, only a little over two hundred pieces of immortal jade, and several Northern Region materials and demonic manuals.
• Lin Bai opened the jade bottle containing the Demon Race’s King Grade Bloodline, and the blood escaped and formed a fiery-red phoenix.
• Lin Bai used his devouring power to calm the blood, then recalled that refining true blood could kill him and had a very low success rate.

Lin Bai risked refining Phoenix Race true blood to gain an innate divine ability, enduring the destruction of his body until the Phoenix power fused with him. He survived and awakened Phoenix Nirvana.

• Lin Bai recognized the drop of true blood as belonging to the Phoenix Race and decided to refine it while keeping his devouring power ready to erase it if it went out of control.
• The true blood spread through Lin Bai's body and began burning away his blood, organs, bones, skin, and hair.
• Lin Bai tried to refine the true blood with the Five Elements Scripture, but it had no effect, while the Green Jade Fragment protected his heart, sea of consciousness, spine, and dantian qi sea.
• Lin Bai released his devouring power and endured as the true blood burned his body to ash.
• A phoenix phantom emerged from the flames and merged into Lin Bai, restoring his body and granting him the innate divine ability Phoenix Nirvana.

After gaining the Phoenix Race’s Phoenix Nirvana ability and advancing his Five Elements Dao Body, Lin Bai entered a vast volcanic region in the Hunting Realm to search for fire-element spiritual objects and prey. A nearby volcano suddenly erupted as he cautiously explored its depths.

• Lin Bai discovered that fusing with the Demon Race’s true blood had granted him Phoenix Nirvana, which could restore his injuries and power, and strengthened his body to the minor accomplishment stage of the Five Elements Dao Body.
• Lin Bai realized he still needed immortal jade to advance his cultivation and decided to hunt in the Hunting Realm for prey he could exchange for it.
• Lin Bai searched for allies but found no one within the Telepathic Bracelet’s range, then encountered a vast volcanic region that might contain Fire God Trees and other fire-element spiritual objects.
• Lin Bai cautiously entered the volcanic region, where intense fire-element spiritual power forced him to strengthen his defenses as he flew inward.
• A volcano Lin Bai passed suddenly trembled and erupted, spewing boiling magma and dense black smoke.