Recaps

Lin Bai was overwhelmed by a Corpse Demon empowered by the Corpse Refinement Sect’s Blood Sacrifice Art, but he realized the weakened disciple controlling it was vulnerable. He blocked the Corpse Demon from returning to its master while his four flying swords closed in on the disciple.

• The Corpse Demon battered Lin Bai, whose attacks failed to stop the puppet despite inflicting many wounds.
• Experts in the Ascension Celestial Palace explained that the Blood Sacrifice Art awakened the Corpse Demon’s former Grand Luo Dao Fruit strength and could let it fight a middle-grade Grand Luo Dao Fruit martial artist.
• Lin Bai noticed the distant Corpse Refinement Sect disciple controlling the Corpse Demon and sent his four flying swords to attack him.
• The disciple recalled the Corpse Demon to defend himself, easing the pressure on Lin Bai and exposing the puppet’s dependence on its master.
• Lin Bai intercepted the returning Corpse Demon so his flying swords could reach the weakened disciple.

Lin Bai defeated and killed the Corpse Refinement Sect disciple by keeping the Corpse Demon occupied and destroying the disciple’s body and divine soul. He collected the disciple’s Storage Bag and Corpse Pouch and stored the now-inactive Corpse Demon.

• Lin Bai held off the Corpse Demon while his flying swords shattered the Corpse Refinement Sect disciple’s defenses and pierced his body.
• The Corpse Refinement Sect disciple abandoned his body and sent his divine soul toward the Corpse Demon, hoping to merge with it.
• Lin Bai realized the disciple’s plan and used the Heaven Measuring Ruler to knock the Corpse Demon away from him.
• Lin Bai’s Demon Sword split apart and destroyed the disciple’s divine soul before it could reunite with the Corpse Demon.
• Lin Bai took the disciple’s Storage Bag and Corpse Pouch and stored the motionless Corpse Demon.

Lin Bai killed Gao Tong, a Core Disciple of Corpse Refinement Sect, provoking alarm among the Northern Region martial artists and cheers from the Eastern Region. After securing Gao Tong’s Corpse Demon, Lin Bai went to help Yi Song, whose fight against the Western Region forces was growing more dangerous.

• The elders and ancestors of Corpse Refinement Sect reacted in alarm to Gao Tong’s death, while Emperor Chu mocked them and Eastern Region martial artists celebrated the killing.
• Eastern Region disciples cheered Lin Bai as the Northern Region martial artists endured their anger inside Ascension Celestial Palace.
• Lin Bai collected Gao Tong’s Storage Bag and Corpse Pouch, stored the Corpse Demon, and planned to sell it to the Ten Thousand Demons Corpse Cave.
• Lin Bai saw Huang Qingyun overpowering the Southern Region martial artists while the Black Veil Woman held back, and he decided to aid Yi Song instead.
• The Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom and Yun Qianji ordered their forces to attack Yi Song, but a charging guard sensed Lin Bai’s Sword Qi just before it struck.

Lin Bai arrived to aid Yi Song after defeating the Northern Region martial artists, turning the battle against the Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom and Yun Qianji. The two fled after their guards were killed, and Lin Bai turned his attention toward Huang Qingyun's battlefield.

• Lin Bai charged in and wounded a guard, startling Yun Qianji and the Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom, who realized he had defeated the Northern Region martial artists.
• The Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom and Yun Qianji blamed the Saint of the Corpse Refinement Sect and begged Lin Bai to let them go, but Lin Bai attacked them.
• Lin Bai struck the Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom and his guards, while Yi Song fought Yun Qianji and his guards.
• The Crown Prince of Qi Kingdom and Yun Qianji left two guards each behind to cover their escapes, then fled beyond the volcano.
• Lin Bai and Yi Song killed the four guards, and Lin Bai turned toward Huang Qingyun's battlefield.

Huang Qingyun overwhelmed the Southern Region fighters, while Lin Bai realized the Black Veil Woman was concealing her identity and purpose. The woman was revealed as the Holy Son of the Corpse Refinement Sect, and she remained behind despite the Netherworld Holy Sect's Holy Son escaping.

• Huang Qingyun effortlessly defeated the Southern Region martial artists, and Lin Bai suspected her combat experience came from an ancient reincarnated ancestor.
• The Holy Son of the Netherworld Holy Sect fled the volcano, but the Black Veil Woman refused to leave.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun deduced that the Black Veil Woman had stayed because her plans would fail if she left.
• Huang Qingyun identified the Black Veil Woman as the Holy Son of the Corpse Refinement Sect, who was actually a woman and should be called its Holy Daughter.
• The Black Veil Woman acknowledged Lin Bai's insight and said corpse poison had left her face as rotting flesh beneath her veil.

Lin Bai confronted the Black Veil Woman about her identity and the Northern Region’s efforts to kill him, suspecting they were preparing to attack the Eastern Region. She warned that Lin Bai would not be able to leave the Devil Realm or Chu Kingdom while he remained a threat, and that Prince Chen’s ascension to the throne would destroy their brotherly bond.

• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun concluded that the Black Veil Woman might be the Corpse Refinement Sect’s hidden Holy Son, though she refused to reveal her face.
• The Black Veil Woman declared that Lin Bai would not leave alive easily because he was the Northern Region’s public enemy.
• Lin Bai revealed that he came from another small world and questioned why the Northern Region targeted him if he would eventually leave the Devil Realm.
• Lin Bai inferred that the Northern Region might be preparing for war against the Eastern Region, but the Black Veil Woman did not confirm his suspicion.
• The Black Veil Woman warned Lin Bai that the Chu imperial family would not let a bearer of the Supreme Avatar leave and that Prince Chen’s rule would force him to act against his wishes.

Lin Bai seized a mass of Phoenix True Blood after the Corpse Refinement Sect's Holy Son disrupted the Fire Phoenix's nirvana, leaving the creature near death. The Black Veil Woman demanded the blood and summoned four corpse demons when Lin Bai refused.

• The Black Veil Woman warned Lin Bai that the Chu Emperor and Prince Chen would not let him leave the Demon Realm, making Lin Bai suspect he might have to oppose Prince Chen.
• The Corpse Refinement Sect's Holy Son shattered the fireball above the Phoenix Tree, revealing a smaller, life-filled flame and a scarlet treasure amid the fiery rain.
• The Black Veil Woman charged for the treasure, but Lin Bai used his four flying swords to delay her and seized it before Yi Song and Huang Qingyun joined him.
• Yi Song and Huang Qingyun identified the treasure as Phoenix True Blood, and Yi Song explained that returning it might give the Fire Phoenix a chance to complete its interrupted nirvana.
• Lin Bai refused to hand over the Phoenix True Blood, and the Black Veil Woman released four corpse demons from her Corpse Pouch.

The Black Veil Woman summoned powerful Corpse Demons and used them to trap Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song. After strengthening the Corpse Demons with the Divine Armament Art, she left Lin Bai badly injured and facing an even more dangerous assault.

• The Black Veil Woman released four Corpse Puppets and sent them to attack Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song.
• Lin Bai warned Yi Song and Huang Qingyun to target the Black Veil Woman instead of trying to destroy the tireless Corpse Puppets.
• As Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun charged the Black Veil Woman, she summoned two more Corpse Demons, trapping them between attackers.
• The Corpse Demons coordinated their attacks, wounded Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun, and drove Lin Bai a thousand meters away.
• The Black Veil Woman cast the Divine Armament Art, strengthening the Corpse Demons, and one smashed through Lin Bai's sword formation and caved in his chest.

Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to destroy the Black Veil Woman’s five Corpse Demons after her Nether Art overwhelmed him, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song. He then attacked the Black Veil Woman, who opened a rune-covered coffin and began releasing another threat.

• The Black Veil Woman used the Divine Armament Art and Nether Art to strengthen her five Corpse Demons, leaving Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song on the verge of defeat.
• The Black Veil Woman provoked Lin Bai to use his Supreme Avatar, and Lin Bai summoned it to cut all five Corpse Demons in half.
• Lin Bai turned the Supreme Avatar’s sword on the Black Veil Woman, who opened a coffin covered in runes.
• A withered palm struck the coffin’s rim as the lid slowly opened.

Lin Bai used the Phoenix True Blood to complete the Fire Phoenix’s rebirth, even as the Black Veil Woman unleashed a Corpse Puppet with the power of the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit. The reborn Phoenix destroyed the Corpse Puppet and drove the Black Veil Woman away, then turned her attention to Lin Bai, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun.

• The Black Veil Woman’s Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Corpse Puppet caught the Supreme Avatar’s blade and attacked Lin Bai, who held it off with the avatar.
• Lin Bai resisted the devouring power within him and struck the Phoenix True Blood into the fireball atop the Phoenix Tree.
• The fireball swelled and exploded, and the Fire Phoenix completed her rebirth as a legendary Phoenix.
• The Phoenix incinerated the Corpse Puppet and wounded the Black Veil Woman, who escaped using a life-saving treasure.
• The Phoenix stopped pursuing the Black Veil Woman and fixed her gaze on Lin Bai, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun.

Lin Bai returned the Phoenix True Blood, helping the Fire Phoenix complete nirvana and reveal his true form. The Phoenix thanked Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song with feathers, then said he would join his clansmen in the Demon Realm, leaving the trio to depart the volcanic region.

• The Fire Phoenix burned the Corpse Puppet of the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm to ash, and the Black Veil Woman fled.
• The Phoenix gave Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song a feather each in thanks for helping him undergo nirvana.
• The Phoenix told Lin Bai that his clansmen in the Demon Realm would soon take him away, and warned that he would show no mercy if they met on a future battlefield.
• Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song left the Phoenix's nest, gathered more Fire Spirit Crystals, and passed through the volcano's creatures without being attacked.
• Yi Song told the Eastern Region martial artists that the Fire Phoenix had completed nirvana, and Lin Bai began considering leaving the volcanic region.

Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song left the volcanic region after agreeing to gather their alliance at the volcano before the Hunt Realm’s slaughter phase. Lin Bai sent the Tianshui Sect disciples to spread the word, then headed into a desert to hunt strange beasts.

• Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song decided the volcano was too dangerous for hunting and agreed to meet there again after half a month, before the slaughter phase.
• Lin Bai and the others left the volcanic region, and Lin Bai told Yi Zien and the Tianshui Sect disciples to notify their allies to gather at the volcano.
• Lin Bai parted from Yi Zien and continued alone, defeating several strange beasts along the way.
• Lin Bai reached a vast desert and headed deeper into it after recalling that some beasts on the Tianshui Sect’s hunting list lived there.

Lin Bai searched the lifeless Yellow Sand World and found three nearly dead disciples from the Pacifying Heaven Sword Sect. They said they had been trapped there for seven or eight days and were mysteriously growing weaker, leaving Lin Bai to investigate how the world was affecting them.

• Lin Bai flew across the barren Yellow Sand World for a day without finding any signs of life.
• Lin Bai found three frail martial artists beneath an earthen wall and gave one of them a healing pill.
• The surviving disciple identified the group as members of the Pacifying Heaven Sword Sect from the Ten Thousand Saints Mountain territory.
• The disciple explained that they had entered the Yellow Sand World after arriving in the Hunting Realm and had failed to escape for seven or eight days.
• The disciples said they had grown weaker without sustaining injuries and planned to wait beneath the wall until the Hunting Realm hunt ended.
• Lin Bai wondered why healthy martial artists were suddenly losing their strength.

Lin Bai learned that three Pacifying Heaven Sword Sect disciples had lost their strength and spiritual energy after becoming agitated in the Yellow Sand World, and he gave them pills before leaving to investigate. When he saw them near death on his return route, he continued toward the outside to find out whether he could escape and come back for them.

• Lin Bai questioned the weakened disciples and learned that their spiritual energy had dried up, their life force was fading, and they had found no signs of poison or other warning signs.
• A Pacifying Heaven Sword Sect disciple told Lin Bai that agitation had preceded their symptoms and that giant black scorpions marked with human faces had killed two of their five companions.
• The three disciples decided to wait for the Hunting Realm hunt to end, and Lin Bai gave them healing pills and promised to return if he found a way out.
• Lin Bai watched the disciples settle down, then flew away with detoxification pills ready and began tracking his own growing agitation.
• Lin Bai turned back along his route toward the outside world, passed the earthen city, and saw the three disciples collapsed and close to death, but continued onward to test whether he could escape.

Lin Bai became trapped in the Yellow Sand World and discovered a gigantic mutated scorpion beneath the sand. After driving it away, he observed the yellow sand consume its severed pincer, revealing that the sand itself was alive.

• Lin Bai searched for an exit and the Pacifying Heaven Sword Sect disciples, but found neither and concluded that something was trapping him in the Yellow Sand World.
• A gigantic black scorpion ambushed Lin Bai, and he cut off one of its pincers and crushed the other before it escaped beneath the sand.
• Lin Bai sensed that the yellow sand was drawing on his spiritual power, but found nothing unusual when he examined a handful.
• Lin Bai watched from high above as the yellow sand slowly covered and swallowed the scorpion's severed pincer.
• Lin Bai realized that the yellow sand was alive.

Lin Bai discovered that the Yellow Sand World itself was alive and was trapping its inhabitants, so he searched for clues to escape. He found an ancient, strangely preserved city and reached a temple at its center.

• Emperor Chu and the sect leaders watched Lin Bai struggle through the Yellow Sand World, while Eunuch Gui secretly sent martial artists to stand by in case Lin Bai needed help.
• Lin Bai realized the grains of sand were living creatures that trapped people and slowly devoured them, and decided to search for a way out.
• Lin Bai kept his distance from the sand, fought off several variant beasts, and flew onward through the Yellow Sand World.
• Lin Bai found an intact but abandoned clay city and wondered why the yellow sand had not swallowed it.
• Lin Bai searched the city and discovered a temple where its center would normally have held a City Lord's Mansion.

Lin Bai discovered an intact city in the Yellow Sand World and found a shrine dedicated to the Yellow Sand Goddess, whose statue might be protecting the city from the sand. After moving the statue and uncovering a passage beneath it, he jumped inside to search for a way out, and the statue slid back to seal the entrance.

• Lin Bai searched the abandoned city and found an ancient shrine with a statue labeled Yellow Sand Goddess.
• Lin Bai deduced that the shrine or the woman it depicted might be keeping the yellow sand from swallowing the city.
• Lin Bai examined the statue, pushed it backward, and revealed a narrow, seemingly bottomless passage beneath its pedestal.
• Lin Bai prepared himself and jumped into the passage, after which the statue returned to its original position and sealed the opening.

Lin Bai descended through a seemingly bottomless passage beneath the Yellow Sand Goddess’s statue and found a route leading back up beneath its lotus seat. As he listened through a narrow opening, he learned that martial artists from the Northern Territory were pressuring Princess Chu Tinghan to marry Holy Son Meng Lei.

• Lin Bai descended through the dark passage on his flying sword and found a right-angled underground corridor.
• Lin Bai followed the corridor, discovered another passage rising toward the surface, and concluded that it led beneath a divine statue in another city.
• Lin Bai carefully pushed open the statue’s lotus seat and heard martial artists arguing outside.
• Lin Bai learned that the Northern Territory group belonged to the Heaven’s Dao Clan and was demanding that Chu Tinghan accept a marriage to Meng Lei.
• Lin Bai listened as the group’s spokesman claimed Meng Lei’s offer was a blessing and the narration explained how the Heaven’s Dao Clan had united nine clans.

Lin Bai hid beneath a divine statue while Chu Tinghan stalled Holy Son Meng Lei’s marriage proposal. Meng Lei revealed he had drugged her and moved to take advantage of her, leaving Lin Bai concealed nearby as the confrontation escalated.

• Lin Bai realized the voices outside belonged to Northern Region martial artists who were pressuring Chu Tinghan to marry Holy Son Meng Lei.
• Chu Tinghan told Meng Lei she would discuss the marriage with Prince Liang after the Hunting Realm, using her father’s approval to stall him.
• Meng Lei proposed forcing Prince Liang to accept the marriage by taking advantage of Chu Tinghan, and she rejected him and struck back despite her injuries.
• Meng Lei revealed he had secretly used Rain Dew Cloud Incense from the Southern Border Insect Valley to drug Chu Tinghan.
• Meng Lei’s companions congratulated him and went outside, while Lin Bai remained hidden beneath the statue.

Lin Bai overheard Holy Son Meng Lei using Rain Dew Cloud Incense to incapacitate Chu Tinghan and hesitated over whether to intervene. After the Chu Emperor ordered him to save her, Lin Bai emerged from beneath the divine statue to act.

• Lin Bai felt the incense's effects while hiding beneath the divine statue and sealed his meridians to suppress them.
• Holy Son Meng Lei revealed that Rain Dew Cloud Incense would soon leave Chu Tinghan unable to resist, while Lin Bai suspected Meng Lei had backing from the Northern Region.
• The Chu Emperor and the Ascension Celestial Palace watched Chu Tinghan weaken as Holy Son Meng Lei approached her.
• The Chu Emperor sent Lin Bai the command to save Chu Tinghan, and Lin Bai immediately rushed out from beneath the statue.
• The Chu Emperor told Prince Liang that Lin Bai had gone to intervene, easing Prince Liang's worry.

Lin Bai emerged from hiding in the divine statue hall and rescued the gravely wounded Chu Tinghan from Holy Son Meng Lei. He overwhelmed Meng Lei and the two Heaven's Dao Clan martial artists, leaving the fight unresolved as the three men were sent flying.

• After Chu Emperor ordered him to save Chu Tinghan, Lin Bai left the cave and found Meng Lei advancing on her while she was wounded and poisoned.
• Lin Bai slashed at Meng Lei and appeared in front of Chu Tinghan, who urged him to kill Meng Lei and promised a reward from Prince Liang's Estate.
• Meng Lei recognized Lin Bai as Wolf Marquis, boasted that others were watching him, and called in the two Heaven's Dao Clan martial artists guarding the temple.
• Lin Bai struck Meng Lei with one sword slash, sending him through an earthen wall.
• The tall and short martial artists attacked Lin Bai together, but he knocked both of them flying with four flying swords and the Heaven Measuring Ruler.

Lin Bai fled underground with Chu Tinghan as Rain Dew Cloud Incense overwhelmed him and Holy Son Meng Lei and his companions collapsed under its effects. Lin Bai tried to suppress the poison in a hidden chamber, but Chu Tinghan’s embrace and breath made it flare up again.

• Lin Bai weakened as Rain Dew Cloud Incense took effect, then escaped with Chu Tinghan through an opening beneath the temple’s divine statue.
• Holy Son Meng Lei ordered his two companions to pursue them and bring Chu Tinghan back, but all three succumbed to the poison and lost their reason.
• Lin Bai carried Chu Tinghan through the underground passage, then carved out a chamber and attempted to suppress the poison.
• Chu Tinghan called to Lin Bai and embraced him from behind, causing the poison’s effects to surge and undoing his efforts.

After Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan woke from their poisoned encounter in the Yellow Sand World, they argued over what had happened and Lin Bai revealed his Heaven Swallowing Domain had concealed them from the Ascension Celestial Palace. Chu Tinghan decided to use the incident to secure a marriage alliance, while Lin Bai tried to leave.

• In the Ascension Celestial Palace, Lin Bai's Heaven Swallowing Domain disrupted the projection arrays, hiding him and Chu Tinghan from view.
• Lin Bai awoke underground beside the injured Chu Tinghan and remembered what had happened while they were both poisoned.
• Chu Tinghan recalled that she had approached Lin Bai first, then considered using their encounter to bring him into Prince Liang's Estate.
• Lin Bai told Chu Tinghan that the Heaven Swallowing Domain had blocked the palace's view and urged her to finish dressing before withdrawing it.
• Chu Tinghan recognized Lin Bai's Devouring Power and demanded that he take responsibility by marrying her.

Chu Tinghan insisted that Lin Bai marry her, while Lin Bai struggled with the consequences of their relationship and his loyalties to Chu. As they traveled through the Yellow Sand World, she revealed that the Northern Soul Refining Sect's Saint Son had killed her guards and badly injured her.

• Chu Tinghan proposed marriage to Lin Bai, but he rejected her and argued that the martial world contained both extreme evil and extreme good.
• Lin Bai left through the passage, and Chu Tinghan followed despite her injuries until he stopped and let her catch up.
• Chu Tinghan told Lin Bai that she had entered the Hunting Realm separately from her siblings and had a poor relationship with them.
• Chu Tinghan revealed that the Northern Soul Refining Sect's Saint Son had killed her guards and wounded her, forcing her to escape into the Yellow Sand World with a life-saving treasure.
• Chu Tinghan asked Lin Bai what the Yellow Sand World was, but he did not know either.

Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan followed an underground passage into a vast palace and discovered a lifelike statue of the Yellow Sand Goddess. When Lin Bai sensed that the statue was alive, it attacked them, sending him flying and leaving the already-injured Chu Tinghan badly wounded.

• Chu Tinghan told Lin Bai that she knew little about the Hunting Realm because she had grown up with her father’s military campaigns.
• Lin Bai explained how he found the underground passage and led Chu Tinghan toward its candlelit end.
• Chu Tinghan recognized the lamps’ Merfolk Fish Oil and realized someone had recently replaced it.
• Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan entered an underground palace, found a statue of the Yellow Sand Goddess, and discovered nine passages each.
• Lin Bai suspected that the Yellow Sand Goddess was the yellow sand itself, then sensed life in the statue’s foot.
• The statue came alive and struck at them; Lin Bai was sent flying, and the injured Chu Tinghan collapsed against a wall, coughing blood.