Recaps

Lin Bai led the Eastern Region warriors in an attack on Great Snow Mountain, but the Northern Region’s formation defenses had been changed in advance. He suspected a spy had leaked their plan and decided to press on through the formation despite the danger.

• Lin Bai raised his Azure Lotus Sword Intent as a signal, prompting warriors in the other regions to prepare for battle.
• Lin Bai’s sword strike activated Great Snow Mountain’s formations, which merged into a screen that withstood his attack.
• Jiang Yuan of the Purple River Clan appeared, named the formation the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation, and left an opening for Lin Bai’s forces.
• Lin Bai noticed the formation differed from what their intelligence predicted and suspected the Northern Region knew their attack plan.
• Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan concluded that the Eastern Region had a Northern Region spy, but Lin Bai refused to withdraw and prepared to enter the formation.

Lin Bai and Princess Tinghan led the Eastern Domain martial artists into the Demonic Refinement of All Living Things Formation, where they faced waves of seemingly weak Frozen Skulls. Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo dismissed Princess Tinghan’s warnings and led their followers into the mist to search for the Formation Eye, while Lin Bai let them go.

• Lin Bai suspected a high-ranking Eastern Domain martial artist had betrayed their plans to the Northern Domain, then entered the formation’s opening with Princess Tinghan and the others.
• Lin Bai and the Eastern Domain martial artists fought off Frozen Skulls that emerged from the gray mist and found them easy to defeat.
• Princess Tinghan warned the martial artists not to underestimate the formation, and Chu Zimo ordered the Black Tortoise Battalion to form a defensive line.
• Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo argued that the group should split up to find the Formation Eye, then led their followers away despite Princess Tinghan’s objections.
• Shangguan Tong chose not to join Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo after seeing Lin Bai’s expression, while Lin Bai told Chen Yule and Yi Song to let the departing group go.

Lin Bai let Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo scout ahead through the gray fog, using them to trigger the formation’s dangers while the main force followed. The pair discovered that the Frozen Skulls were disguised Northern Region martial artists when one nearly struck Li Mo down.

• Lin Bai warned Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo not to rush into the formation, but they mocked him and led their followers into the gray fog.
• Lin Bai explained to Chu Tinghan that Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo could scout ahead and reveal the formation’s dangers, then followed them with the main force.
• Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo disparaged Lin Bai and hoped to find the Formation Eye first to restore their reputations and their Lineages’ confidence.
• Li Mo struck a Frozen Skull, but it resisted his palm and attacked him with a saber, forcing him to retreat behind his defensive treasures.
• The skull’s gray fog dispersed to reveal a Northern Region martial artist, who laughed and vanished into the fog.

Lin Bai witnessed the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation let Northern Territory martial artists disguise themselves as Frozen Skulls and ambush the Chu Kingdom fighters. Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu were surrounded by powerful enemies and began losing ground as their companions were slaughtered.

• Lin Bai recognized that the formation allowed Northern Territory martial artists to hide among the Frozen Skulls and attack by surprise.
• Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu warned their companions, but Li Mo wasted a powerful strike destroying an ordinary skull.
• Thousands of skulls surged from the fog, and disguised Northern Territory martial artists killed Chu Kingdom fighters, whose bodies were drained into the formation.
• Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu’s companions begged them for help, but the two began retreating as the slaughter spread.
• Seven or eight Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Northern Territory martial artists revealed themselves and attacked Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu, leaving the pair badly wounded and overwhelmed.

Lin Bai waited until Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu were gravely wounded before ordering Chu Tinghan and the Black Tortoise Battalion to rescue them, then pursued the Northern Region martial artists with Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun. As Lin Bai executed their captives to force them to reveal the formation’s secrets, the formation began to shake under a tremendous force.

• Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu led more than twenty Chu martial artists into an ambush, where Northern Region martial artists used the formation to disguise themselves as skeletons and killed or wounded many of them.
• Chu Tinghan urged Lin Bai to act, but he held back while the Black Tortoise Battalion waited for his order and Shangguan Tong accused him of abandoning Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu.
• Lin Bai ordered Chu Tinghan to attack, and Chu Zimo led the Black Tortoise Battalion into battle, forcing the Northern Region martial artists to retreat and saving Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu.
• Lin Bai, Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun blocked the retreating Northern Region martial artists, and Lin Bai demanded information about the formation before killing them one by one.
• As a frightened Northern Region martial artist began to waver, the formation shook violently and a powerful force spread through it.

Lin Bai and Northern Region pressured captured Northern Region martial artists, prompting them to crush jade pendants and transform into powerful giants. The transformed fighters revealed the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation’s abilities, leaving Northern Region, Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song confronting a new threat.

• Lin Bai killed Northern Region martial artists and threatened the survivors, but their leader killed one who was about to reveal their secrets.
• Northern Region attacked the captives, while their leader crushed a jade pendant to prevent them from betraying the Northern Region.
• The pendant’s power transformed the leader into a four-meter-tall giant, whose punch knocked Northern Region back about a hundred meters.
• Huang Qingyun inferred that the formation was stimulating the captives’ potential, and Chen Yule noted their power approached the Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm.
• Other Northern Region martial artists across the formation crushed their jade pendants and transformed into giants.

Lin Bai and the Chu warriors fought formation warriors who transformed into powerful Nine-Meter Giants, while Han Bing coordinated with the other territories to find a way out of the Gao Rong Hell Prison Formation. The group suspected the transformation was connected to the Giant God Race, but the cause and the formation’s weakness remained unknown.

• A Nine-Meter Giant attacked Lin Bai, and Chen Yule cut off its arm before warning that the transformed warriors had become mindless killers.
• Han Bing contacted the other territories and learned that Chen Yule’s group faced a similar crisis, while no one knew how to break the formation.
• Huang Qingyun organized the Chu warriors into a defensive formation as the giants and hidden formation warriors attacked.
• Huang Qingyun and Yi Song suspected the giants’ power was linked to a branch of the divine race in the Spirit World, and Yi Song identified the Giant God Race as the Heaven Swallowing Race’s sworn enemy.
• Han Bing distributed the Command Talisman and directed everyone to defeat their opponents or search for the Formation Eye.

Lin Bai and the others sought ways to escape the Northern Region formations trapping their groups, and Yi Jinyun used Seven Nights Divine Sect records to identify their weaknesses. She gave Lin Bai and Qi Lingyu ways to break their formations, but the method for Wang Zhengyang's formation remained unknown.

• Wang Zhengyang reported that a thunder formation obscured his group's senses and let Northern Region martial artists launch sneak attacks.
• Yi Jinyun explained that the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation's giants could be stopped by finding a blood pool and piercing the living heart within it, and Lin Bai set out to search for them.
• Yi Jinyun identified Qi Lingyu's formation as the White Bone Underworld Formation and told him to leave the bones, fly east, and seek its weak point.
• Yi Jinyun identified Wang Zhengyang's formation as the Nether Profound Lightning Soul Refining Formation and said the three formations belonged to powerful Northern Region forces.

Lin Bai learned how to break the Nether Profound Lightning Soul Refining Formation and left the battlefield with allied sect martial artists to seek its Formation Eye. Chu Tinghan remained in command, holding off the Northern Region giants and creating time for Lin Bai.

• Yi Jinyun explained that Wang Zhengyang could break the Nether Profound Lightning Soul Refining Formation by finding and striking a distinctive thunderbolt, then locating the formation's boundary while the thunderbolts paused.
• Lin Bai, Wang Zhengyang, and Qi Lingyu thanked Yi Jinyun, agreed to stay in contact, and set out to break their formations.
• Lin Bai returned to Chu Tinghan and said he would search for the Formation Eye with Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, and Yi Song.
• Lin Bai declined Chu Tinghan's offer of the Black Tortoise Battalion, then gathered martial artists from the Tianshui Sect, Chen Family, Sacred Lotus Palace, and Celestial Immortal Sect to accompany him.
• Chu Tinghan dismissed Li Mo and Zhao Xiantu's accusation that Lin Bai was deserting and ordered the Chu Kingdom martial artists to keep fighting the giants.

Lin Bai gathered Chen Yule, Yi Song, Huang Qingyun, and other Chu warriors to search for the Formation Eye of the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation using a clue about a blood pool and heart. After Huang Qingyun suggested sensing the cold directly, the group followed the increasingly low temperature deeper into the gray mist.

• Lin Bai told Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun that a Seven Nights Divine Sect expert had escaped the formation by finding and destroying a blood pool and heart in an exceptionally cold area.
• Huang Qingyun observed that the Northern Territory warriors in the battle seemed to be expendable pawns, while the Northern Territory's strongest forces had yet to appear.
• Lin Bai led more than thirty Chu warriors away from the battlefield and around Frozen Skulls that guarded the misty space.
• Huang Qingyun explained that she had removed her spiritual energy shield to sense subtle changes in temperature, and Lin Bai, Chen Yule, and Yi Song did the same.
• The group continued past the Frozen Skull guards and sensed that the temperature was gradually dropping.

Jiang Yuan watched the battle from the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation’s control point while the Purple River Clan waited for both sides to weaken. Lin Bai’s group suddenly appeared at the formation eye, where they found the blood pool and beating heart, and Jiang Yuan prepared to fight them.

• Jiang Yuan and the Purple River Clan warriors watched the Northern Region and Chu Empire forces fight, hoping to attack after both sides were exhausted.
• Jiang Yuan noticed Lin Bai leave the main battlefield with more than twenty warriors, but the formation-control compass could not track them.
• Jiang Yuan ordered his warriors to find Lin Bai, then heard Lin Bai’s voice and saw him arrive with Chen Yule, Huang Qingyun, Yi Song, and other Chu Empire experts.
• Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to spot the bloody light and recognized that the group had found the formation eye.
• Jiang Yuan recovered from his surprise, judged that his more than forty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm warriors could win, and declared the place Lin Bai’s burial ground.

Lin Bai and his allies found a blood pool and heart behind the Purple River Clan, which Huang Qingyun believed might be the formation’s eye. As the factions clashed, Lin Bai headed for the blood-lit area to investigate while Huang Qingyun held off Jiang Yuan.

• Huang Qingyun identified the blood pool and heart through the gray mist, and Lin Bai agreed with Chen Yule and Yi Song to destroy them even though they were unsure whether they were the formation’s eye.
• Jiang Yuan ordered more than forty Purple River Clan martial artists to attack after Chen Yule and Yi Song taunted him.
• Chen Yule and Yi Song led their forces into battle while Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun guided the Sacred Lotus Palace and Tianshui Sect disciples toward the blood light.
• Jiang Yuan intercepted Lin Bai, but Huang Qingyun blocked his palm strike and stayed behind to hold him off.
• Lin Bai ordered the Tianshui Sect disciples to assist the others, then continued toward the blood pool and heart alone.

Lin Bai reached the heart of the Blood Pool and discovered a beating heart from the Giant God Race powering the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation. An old man revealed the Purple River Clan’s role in the Northern Region’s plan and explained that killing Lin Bai would earn the clan a prime piece of land in the Eastern Region.

• Huang Qingyun held off Jiang Yuan as Lin Bai entered the gray mist alone and approached the altar at the Blood Pool’s heart.
• Lin Bai climbed the altar and found a still-beating Giant God Race heart submerged in the pool.
• An old man told Lin Bai that the Purple River Clan had used the heart of a dying Giant God to build the formation and prevent the dead race member from becoming a monster.
• The old man explained that the Purple River Clan had joined the Northern Region’s plan to earn the right to choose fertile land after the conquest.
• The old man said that killing Lin Bai would be enough to secure the Purple River Clan’s priority in choosing land in the Eastern Region.

Lin Bai confronted a Lower-Grade Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm elder of the Purple River Clan at the blood pool, while the elder revealed the Northern Region’s ambition to seize the Eastern Region. As the elder attacked Lin Bai, Huang Qingyun turned to face Jiang Yuan, who had been keeping her from reaching the blood pool.

• The Purple River Clan elder told Lin Bai that the Chu forces were tied down and that Wolf Marquis had no chance of changing the battle’s outcome.
• Lin Bai learned that the elder was a Lower-Grade Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm ancestor who hoped to advance by taking the Eastern Region’s resources.
• Lin Bai challenged the elder’s confidence, and the elder attacked him with Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm power.
• Chu Tinghan and Qian Hen realized that Lin Bai and his companions had found the Formation Eye and that the elder was likely moving against them.
• Jiang Yuan revealed that he had deliberately let Lin Bai go toward the blood pool because the elder was waiting there, then kept Huang Qingyun from reaching Lin Bai.
• Huang Qingyun stopped trying to reach the blood pool and faced Jiang Yuan with a chilling, unfamiliar killing intent.

Lin Bai fought the low-grade Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm elder of the Purple River Clan, using the Yellow Springs Demon Bone to raise his cultivation and gain the upper hand. He sent the elder flying with One Sword Obscures the Heavens, but their battle remained unresolved.

• The Purple River Clan elder summoned ice dragons and attacked Lin Bai, whose weapons shattered one dragon but could not overcome the cultivation gap.
• The elder created nine ice dragons, prompting Lin Bai to fuse with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone and raise his cultivation to the high-grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• Lin Bai attacked with his four flying swords, demon sword, and Heaven Measuring Ruler, destroying the ice dragons as he advanced on the elder.
• The elder retreated and tried to cast more techniques, but Lin Bai used the Void Evasion Art to close in and unleash One Sword Obscures the Heavens.
• Lin Bai shattered the elder's spiritual power shield and sent him flying a thousand meters.

Lin Bai fought the Purple River Clan elder, who wielded a Grand Yi Divine Weapon and overwhelmed him with the Purple River Clan’s North Wind Swordsmanship. After revealing that he could wield three Grand Yi Divine Weapons, Lin Bai realized that their power alone could not defeat a Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm opponent and devised a new plan.

• The Purple River Clan elder was forced back by Lin Bai, then drew his black-ice sword and attacked with the North Wind Swordsmanship.
• The elder’s sword Qi wounded Lin Bai, but Lin Bai used the Sea God Pearl to shield himself from the barrage.
• Lin Bai brought out the Overlord Sky Halberd and Mount Tai Sword, using them to break through the elder’s attacks.
• The Purple River Clan elder caught the Mount Tai Sword’s blow with one hand and declared that Grand Yi Divine Weapons could not defeat him.
• Lin Bai recognized that his weapons could at least hold the elder back and came up with a plan.

Lin Bai used the Mount Tai Sword and the Overlord Sky Halberd to distract a Purple River Clan elder before summoning his Supreme Avatar. As the battle continued, the Ascension Celestial Palace watched the Northern Region’s attempt to kill Lin Bai unfold, while the Purple River Clan’s ancestors denied responsibility.

• Lin Bai realized the Grand Yi Divine Weapons could not kill the Purple River Clan elder, so he used them to occupy the elder’s attention and summoned his Supreme Avatar.
• Bu Junfeng sensed Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar awakening and waited within the core formation, confident Lin Bai would survive and that they would have a chance to fight their opponents.
• The Ascension Celestial Palace observed that Qi Lingyu, Wang Zhengyang, and Yi Jinyun had entered the general formation, while the Chu Kingdom’s martial artists remained trapped in the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation.
• The observers concluded that the Purple River Clan was trying to kill Lin Bai and noted that its Primal Chaos Dao Fruit Realm elder had forced him to use the Supreme Avatar.
• Purple River Clan ancestors denied ordering the attack and promised Emperor Chu they would punish the clan members responsible.

Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar overwhelmed the Purple River Clan elder’s ancestral Talisman Finger Bone, shattering its golden shield after six strikes. With his protective treasure destroyed, the elder unleashed the Purple River Sword Intent and charged at Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai summoned his Supreme Avatar while the Purple River Clan elder used a Talisman Finger Bone to create a golden shield that repelled the Overlord Sky Halberd and Mount Tai Sword.
• Lin Bai struck the shield repeatedly with the Supreme Avatar’s black jade greatsword, gradually dimming its light and cracking the finger bone.
• The sixth strike shattered the golden shield and broke the Talisman Finger Bone.
• The Purple River Clan elder prepared to fight Lin Bai to the death and unleashed the Purple River Sword Intent, sending a surging river of Sword Qi toward him.

Lin Bai defeated the Purple River Clan elder, discovered that the Supreme Avatar could unleash only nine swords, and destroyed the altar sustaining the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation. The heart teleported away, but the formation collapsed and the trapped martial artists returned to normal.

• Lin Bai used the Supreme Avatar’s seventh and eighth swords to shatter the Purple River Clan elder’s dao art and physical body, but the elder’s soul escaped with the Grand Yi Divine Weapon.
• Lin Bai realized the Supreme Avatar had nearly exhausted its power and concluded that it could unleash at most nine swords before dissipating.
• Lin Bai took a vital-energy-restoring pill prepared by His Highness Prince Chen and recovered some strength as the Supreme Avatar faded.
• Lin Bai destroyed the altar, causing the blood pool to evaporate and the heart within it to teleport away through a hidden formation.
• The Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation lost its power, its gray mist dispersed, and the Northern Territory martial artists returned to their original forms.

Huang Qingyun emerged after the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation broke, carrying Jiang Yuan’s head and revealing that she had killed both his body and soul. Emperor Chu and the Sacred Lotus Palace publicly apologized to the Northern Region, but their exchange made clear they were celebrating Jiang Yuan’s death.

• The Giant God Race’s heart was teleported away, breaking the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation, and Chu Kingdom martial artists slaughtered the weakened Northern Region fighters.
• Huang Qingyun came out of the gray mist carrying Jiang Yuan’s severed head and told Lin Bai she had rushed to help him after sensing his danger.
• Huang Qingyun confirmed that Jiang Yuan’s body and soul were both dead, and Lin Bai reassured her that the Sacred Lotus Palace would have Emperor Chu’s support if the Purple River Clan sought revenge.
• Emperor Chu pretended to rebuke Huang Qingyun for killing his guest, then privately celebrated her victory.
• A Sacred Lotus Palace elder apologized to the Purple River Clan and promised to punish Huang Qingyun, while the Northern Region martial artists recognized the performance.

Huang Qingyun killed Jiang Yuan, the Purple River Clan's Divine Son, as the Eastern Region broke through the Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation. After regrouping and resting, Lin Bai and the Chu Kingdom warriors prepared to enter the next formation while learning that the other territories faced dangerous, unexplained General Formations.

• Huang Qingyun's killing of Jiang Yuan drew cheers from Eastern Region warriors and Chu Kingdom spectators, while the Purple River Clan's elders grieved but could not demand punishment after Emperor Chu rebuked Huang Qingyun and Sacred Lotus Palace apologized.
• The Frozen Hell Imprisonment Formation dissipated, and the Eastern Region warriors regrouped around Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun, learning that Huang Qingyun had killed Jiang Yuan.
• Chu Tinghan ordered the Eastern Region warriors to rest for an hour before attacking the next formation, and Lin Bai contacted the other territories through his Command Talisman.
• Qi Lingyu, Wang Zhengyang, and Yi Jinyun described their territories' General Formations as a devouring sea of blood, a freezing cavern filled with monsters, and an ancient battlefield haunted by wandering souls.
• After asking the other territories to stay in contact, Lin Bai and the Chu Kingdom warriors finished resting and set out for their General Formation.

Lin Bai and the Chu warriors entered the General Formation, where Tang Xia of the Heavenly Dao Clan challenged them to break the Wind and Snow Formation. The formation’s blizzard separated Lin Bai from the others, leaving him alone in the storm.

• After resting, Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan led the Chu warriors toward the General Formation on the next snow mountain.
• Tang Xia, Holy Son of the Heavenly Dao Clan, introduced the Wind and Snow Formation and invited Lin Bai to break it.
• Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan realized the Northern Region’s formations differed from their intelligence, and Lin Bai warned the other territories that the simplified formation might still be powerful.
• Lin Bai and the Chu warriors entered the Wind and Snow Formation, where freezing winds and swirling snow attacked their defenses.
• Lin Bai heard someone cry out behind him, but when he turned, the Chu warriors had vanished and only the storm remained.

Lin Bai was isolated from the other Chu Empire martial artists inside the Wind and Snow Mountain Formation, where strange sword-wielding figures attacked him. He encountered seven Northern Region martial artists who planned to fight him together with the formation’s power.

• Lin Bai discovered that the formation had separated him from his companions, and the other three territories warned him that it was likely designed to kill its victims one by one.
• Transparent figures with formidable swordsmanship attacked Lin Bai from the wind and snow, but he destroyed them with his flying swords.
• Lin Bai tried to pursue one of the figures for clues, then sped away when more appeared and continued attacking him.
• Seven Northern Region martial artists confronted Lin Bai and claimed they could challenge his Supreme Avatar by fighting together with the formation’s power.
• One of the seven dismissed the idea that the Supreme Avatar made Lin Bai invincible and argued that only those who survived could be called true heaven’s favored.

Lin Bai refused the seven Heavenly Dao Clan disciples’ offer to withdraw from the Wind and Snow Formation, so they attacked him together. Emperor Chu learned that the fighters belonged to the secret Blood Blade Hall and that their leader was Meng Qing.

• The seven disciples of the Heavenly Dao Clan urged Lin Bai to stop interfering in the Northern Region’s invasion, but he refused to leave the Wind and Snow Formation.
• The seven surrounded Lin Bai and launched a coordinated attack that kept him on the defensive.
• Meng Qing used the Grand Yi Divine Weapon Alarming Seal against Lin Bai, who dodged with the Void Evasion Art and relied on the Sea God Pearl for protection.
• Emperor Chu ordered Eunuch Gui to investigate the seven warriors’ origins.
• Eunuch Gui reported that the seven were members of the Heavenly Dao Clan’s Blood Blade Hall and identified their leader as Meng Qing of the Meng Clan.

Lin Bai faced Meng Qing and six other attackers, struggling against their coordinated tactics and Meng Qing's Alarming Seal. He deliberately let Hua Niang wound him, then used her trapped sabers to strike her and bait the sword-wielding young man into his attack, as the remaining fighters rushed to help.

• Eunuch Gui reported Meng Qing's history as a former Meng Clan Holy Son candidate to Emperor Chu, who noted that the Zhao Xing Office had recorded him.
• Meng Qing attacked Lin Bai with the Alarming Seal, and Lin Bai blocked it with the Heaven Measuring Ruler while his flying swords forced back the six other attackers.
• Lin Bai repeatedly tried to attack the six, but they fled whenever he turned on them while Meng Qing kept pressuring him with the seal.
• Lin Bai deliberately exposed an opening, and Hua Niang struck his shoulder with her twin sabers, which he held in place with spiritual power.
• Lin Bai sent Hua Niang flying with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, then feigned pursuit and struck the young swordsman who rushed to rescue her.
• The other four attackers moved to rescue the injured pair, and Meng Qing warned them that Lin Bai was luring them to their deaths.