Recaps

Lin Bai used himself as bait to break the Blood Blade Hall martial artists’ formation, then killed four of the seven as the rest fled. The short martial artist called for Holy Son Tang Xia, who watched from a distant snow mountain.

• Meng Qing realized Lin Bai had used his own wounds to lure opponents and their rescuers into a layered trap, then warned the remaining four not to approach.
• Lin Bai killed the wounded man and woman, leaving five Blood Blade Hall martial artists alive.
• Lin Bai deflected the short martial artist’s Alarming Seal and pursued the fleeing group, killing the obese man and another companion.
• The short martial artist called for Holy Son Tang Xia, who stood beneath a banner atop a distant snow mountain.

Tang Xia mobilized the Wind and Snow Formation to attack Lin Bai, briefly weakening the storm across the formation and allowing the scattered Chu warriors to reunite. Lin Bai survived the assault, killed the two fleeing men, and cracked the short warrior’s Alarming Seal, but the battle remained underway.

• After Meng Qing called for help, Tang Xia waved the white jade flag and concentrated the Wind and Snow Formation’s power into Sword Qi aimed at Lin Bai.
• Chen Yule and Qian Hen realized the formation’s power had been redirected, while Huang Qingyun and other Chu warriors used the lull to search for their companions.
• Lin Bai abandoned his pursuit when Tang Xia’s transparent Sword Qi struck, and the short warrior used the Alarming Seal to force him back into the attack’s range.
• Lin Bai survived a Sword Qi strike that tore open the back of his neck, unleashed his Crimson Lotus Sword Intent, escaped the attack, and killed the two fleeing men.
• Lin Bai attacked the short warrior again, and his Heaven Measuring Ruler cracked the Alarming Seal in their clash.

Lin Bai battled the short warrior while Tang Xia repeatedly unleashed the Wind and Snow Formation, ultimately defeating and killing him. The short warrior's final words left Lin Bai reflecting that the Northern and Eastern Domains were fighting for their own people, and that only victory would decide their fate.

• Lin Bai damaged the short warrior's Alarming Seal and pressed his attack, while the short warrior called to Tang Xia for help.
• Tang Xia sent the Wind and Snow Formation's power down again, and Lin Bai drew the short warrior into its range.
• Lin Bai dodged the formation's assault and broke through the Alarming Seal's defense, severely wounding the short warrior.
• Lin Bai pursued the short warrior as the formation's power faded, leaving him unable to resist.
• The short warrior told Lin Bai that conflict with the Northern Domain was inevitable, and Lin Bai reflected on both sides' reasons for fighting before killing him.

Lin Bai killed the short Northern Region martial artist and used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to claim and refine the damaged Alarming Seal. After Huang Qingyun joined him, they set off through the Wind and Snow Formation to seek its Formation Eye, but soon encountered fleeing Eastern Region martial artists pursued by enemies.

• Lin Bai swallowed the Alarming Seal, suppressed its spirit, removed the Heavenly Dao Clan's mark, and branded the weapon as his own.
• Huang Qingyun arrived after sensing the Wind and Snow Formation's power gather, and she confirmed Lin Bai's injuries were not serious.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the gathered power's direction might lead to the Formation Eye, and he and Huang Qingyun set out without waiting for him to rest.
• Lin Bai healed while he and Huang Qingyun traveled through the snowstorm, then heard a furious voice ahead and saw several bloodied martial artists fleeing.
• One fleeing martial artist recognized Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun and begged them to save him.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun rescued a Li Family martial artist from Northern Region pursuers in the Wind and Snow Formation. Huang Qingyun revealed her tremendous strength, but the formation’s controller struck with overwhelming force, leaving Lin Bai determined to find a way to break the formation.

• A bloodied Li Family martial artist asked Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun for help after Northern Region fighters killed his companions and pursued him.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun agreed to protect him, and five Northern Region martial artists confronted them before retreating upon recognizing the pair.
• Huang Qingyun pinned the Northern Region fighters with her power, surprising Lin Bai with her strength.
• The trapped Northern Region fighters called for Holy Son Tang Xia, who unleashed the formation’s power across the area and allowed them to escape.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun dodged the strike, and Lin Bai said he had begun to understand the formation and needed to find a way to break it.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun figured out that killing the person controlling the Wind and Snow Formation could break it, then headed toward the formation’s power source. Lin Bai split the wind and snow with one sword, revealing Tang Xia’s mountain stronghold, and Tang Xia realized they were coming for him.

• Lin Bai explained that the Northern Region was using the formation to scatter and hunt Chu Kingdom martial artists, and he and Huang Qingyun decided to find its controller.
• A Li Family martial artist chose to accompany Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun as they flew toward the source of the formation’s power.
• Unable to see through the storm, Lin Bai cleaved the wind and snow apart with his sword, letting Huang Qingyun spot a distant mountain with martial artists on its summit.
• Tang Xia received reports that Northern Region fighters were defeating Chu Kingdom martial artists but had not found or killed any top sect Holy Sons or Holy Daughters.
• Tang Xia saw Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun through the momentarily cleared storm and realized they were coming for him.

Tang Xia sensed Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun approaching and fortified the Wind and Snow Formation’s central peak while summoning reinforcements. The Northern Domain fighters guarding him prepared to kill Lin Bai for the promised right to choose Eastern Domain Fertile Land first, though the Heavenly Dao Clan members warned them not to underestimate him.

• Tang Xia activated his flag to direct the Wind and Snow Formation’s power into defenses around his peak and ordered scattered Northern Domain martial artists to return.
• Tang Xia warned the guards at the mountainside that Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun were approaching and told them to hold until reinforcements arrived.
• The Northern Domain fighters discussed the reward for killing Lin Bai, hoping to claim fertile territory for their struggling sects and clans.
• The Heavenly Dao Clan members contrasted their secure Blessed Lands with the other fighters’ desperation to obtain fertile territory.
• The Heavenly Dao Clan members mocked the Purple River Clan’s failure to stop Lin Bai and warned the guards to commit fully if they intended to kill him.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun found the Wind and Snow Formation’s Formation Eye and advanced toward it with a Li Family martial artist who chose to follow despite the danger. As a group of likely Northern Region enemies approached, they told the Li Family martial artist to move farther away and live, leaving him stunned by their concern for his life.

• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun identified the mountain peak as the likely Formation Eye, and the Li Family martial artist overcame his fear and followed them.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun spotted dozens of figures ahead and suspected they were Northern Region death warriors guarding the Formation Eye.
• The Li Family martial artist declared that he was at their service, despite trembling with fear.
• Huang Qingyun told the Li Family martial artist to move farther away, and Lin Bai told him to live well rather than join the coming battle.
• The Li Family martial artist contrasted Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun’s concern for him with Li Mo’s likely willingness to use him as a sacrifice.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun faced a group of martial artists sent by the Wolf Marquis alliance to kill Lin Bai in exchange for fertile land. The challengers revealed their origins and motives, and Lin Bai asked how they intended to divide the reward if they succeeded.

• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun arranged for the Li Family martial artists to stay back as twelve challengers approached through the snowstorm.
• The challengers introduced themselves by their clans and names, while the old man Zhang Yuanqiang said they had come by order of the Meng Qiu martial artist alliance to kill Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai recognized that the challengers came from different forces and asked why they had joined together and what the alliance had promised them.
• A burly martial artist explained that the first to kill Lin Bai would get first choice of a piece of fertile land in the Eastern Region.
• Lin Bai asked whether the challengers planned to give his head and the promised land to Huang Qingyun or the Crying Mountain Clan.

Lin Bai tried to divide the Northern Region alliance by questioning how its members would share the spoils and exposing its contradictions. The twelve martial artists remained determined to kill him, leaving Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun to prepare for battle.

• Lin Bai asked the Northern Region martial artists how they planned to divide his spoils, causing discord among them until the Heavenly Dao Clan disciples reminded them of the fertile land they could claim.
• Huang Qingyun proposed that Lin Bai hold off his opponents while she quickly defeated the two or three martial artists sent to engage her, then joined him.
• Lin Bai challenged the Heavenly Dao Clan’s promises and argued that the alliance was using the nine medium-sized and large clans as cannon fodder, briefly making them waver.
• The Heavenly Dao Clan disciples invoked their clansmen and descendants to restore the nine martial artists’ resolve, and Lin Bai concluded that the clash was unavoidable.
• Lin Bai warned that he could kill more than half the twelve before falling, while Huang Qingyun advised him that keeping a lower profile was sometimes best.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun split the Northern Region attackers, with Huang Qingyun planning to defeat her opponents and support Lin Bai. Surrounded by six martial artists, Lin Bai overwhelmed them and killed two, while Huang Qingyun’s battle remained unresolved.

• Huang Qingyun told Lin Bai to draw six attackers away while she dealt with the three targeting her, as the Heavenly Dao Clan’s fighters and Tang Xia stood ready to support the enemy.
• Lin Bai led the six Northern Region martial artists into the wind and snow, where they surrounded him and challenged his confidence in his strength.
• Lin Bai dodged the Crying Mountain Clan woman’s sword and counterattacked, then used his flying swords and Heaven Measuring Ruler to drive her and the White Dragon Clan elder back.
• Lin Bai blocked the remaining attackers’ combined assault and killed one with One Sword Obscures the Heavens.
• Lin Bai pursued the childlike martial artist and cut him in two, killing two of the six attackers.

Lin Bai killed the six martial artists who had surrounded him, then evaded Tang Xia’s Wind and Snow Formation. He turned his attention toward Tang Xia, who realized the formation had become difficult to use against him.

• Lin Bai defeated the White-Faced Scholar’s inherited sword art and killed him, then used the Void Evasion Art to ambush and annihilate the burly man.
• Lin Bai attacked the White Dragon Clan old man and the Crying Mountain Clan woman, forcing them to call for Saint Son Tang Xia’s help.
• Tang Xia activated the Wind and Snow Formation, but Lin Bai killed the Crying Mountain Clan woman and the White Dragon Clan old man before retreating beyond its reach.
• Tang Xia cursed the small and mid-sized lineage warriors and admitted Lin Bai had learned to counter the formation’s attacks.
• Lin Bai looked through the snowstorm toward Tang Xia and smiled, making Tang Xia shudder and break into a cold sweat.

Huang Qingyun was trapped by the Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists and could not reach Lin Bai, while a mysterious power began to awaken within her. Lin Bai appeared unharmed after defeating his attackers, leaving the Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists stunned.

• Huang Qingyun initially gained the upper hand against three Northern Territory martial artists, but three Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists joined the fight and disrupted her plan.
• The Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists focused on delaying Huang Qingyun, taunting her as she struggled to break free and reach Lin Bai.
• Huang Qingyun’s anger and guilt stirred a mysterious power within her as she feared Lin Bai was in danger.
• Lin Bai arrived beside Huang Qingyun unharmed, surprising the Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists and revealing that he had dealt with his attackers.
• The Heavenly Dao Clan martial artists cursed the Northern Territory martial artists for failing to kill Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun confronted three disciples of the Heavenly Dao Clan after Huang Qingyun killed the three Northern Region martial artists they had abandoned. The disciples attacked Lin Bai together, and the chapter ended with him countering their assault as one closed in for close combat.

• Huang Qingyun pursued and killed the three fleeing Northern Region martial artists while Lin Bai held off the three disciples of the Heavenly Dao Clan.
• Lin Bai condemned the disciples for exploiting the weaker Northern Region lineages, but they argued that the weak had no right to choose.
• The three disciples demanded that Lin Bai kill himself, and he challenged them to take his head if they could.
• The disciples surrounded Lin Bai and attacked with twin swords, nine skulls that released corrosive smoke, and a bronze bell that struck his body and divine soul.
• Lin Bai shattered the black smoke with his sword light and counterattacked with a sword strike and four flying swords, but the bell wielder retreated as the twin-sword fighter rushed in to engage him.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun helped turn the battle against the Northern Domain warriors, while Dao Fruit and Taiyi Dao fought the Heavenly Dao Clan. Several warriors admitted defeat and were teleported out, but some were killed before the teleportation power could carry them away.

• Lin Bai split three opponents apart despite his grievous wounds, giving Huang Qingyun the chance to defeat a Northern Domain warrior who had burned his Dao Fruit.
• The defeated warrior admitted defeat, but Taiyi Dao killed him before the Hunting Realm formation could teleport him out, sending his headless corpse back to the Ascension Celestial Palace.
• Taiyi Dao joined Dao Fruit's fight against the Northern Domain warriors and drew one opponent away, easing the pressure on him.
• Taiyi Dao battered a Heavenly Dao Clan warrior until he admitted defeat, and the Hunting Realm formation teleported him away.
• Che Fubin killed another warrior before the teleportation power could remove him, while Dao Fruit and Che Fubin remained evenly matched.

Tang Xia and Huang Qingyun led Liang Jieyao and the others to the mountain containing the Wind and Snow Formation’s Formation Eye, where they confronted Holy Son Houye. The group began fighting Houye as Tang Xia recovered from his injuries and searched for an opening.

• Houye decided to concede and teleported out of the Hunting Realm while Huang Qingyun let him go.
• Tang Xia and Huang Qingyun broke through the formations around the mountain and led the group toward its summit.
• Tang Xia healed on the way and recovered much of his strength, while he and Liang Jieyao anticipated that Houye would call back Northern Territory martial artists.
• Houye refused to surrender the formation flags and fought Huang Qingyun using the Wind and Snow Formation’s power.
• Tang Xia watched the battle and spotted an opening in Houye’s defense.

Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun joined forces against Tang Xia, overwhelming him despite his Wind and Snow Formation and Heart-Protecting Bone. The chapter ended with Huang Qingyun striking Tang Xia in the chest and leaving him badly wounded as Northern Region fighters rushed to help.

• Tang Xia blocked Lin Bai's flying swords, then used the Wind and Snow Formation to drive Huang Qingyun back from her attack.
• Huang Qingyun struck Tang Xia with a secret art from the Sacred Lotus Palace, but he countered with the Heavenly Dao Clan's Eight Demons Mountain-Suppressing Fist and sent her flying.
• Lin Bai joined Huang Qingyun, and his flying swords, Demon Sword, and Heaven Measuring Ruler forced Tang Xia onto the defensive.
• Tang Xia summoned the Grand Yi Divine Weapon Heart-Protecting Bone to block Huang Qingyun's palm, but Lin Bai then struck him with the Mount Tai Sword and Overlord Sky Halberd.
• Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun pressed their advantage until Huang Qingyun landed a palm on Tang Xia's chest, drawing blood as Northern Region fighters called out that they were coming.

Tang Xia was pressured by Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun until Northern Region martial artists arrived to reinforce him. Chen Yule then reached the mountaintop, and Lin Bai sent him to attack Tang Xia and seize the banner that could break the Wind and Snow Formation.

• Huang Qingyun struck Tang Xia and sent him flying, but five Northern Region martial artists arrived and prepared to attack Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun.
• Two Northern Region martial artists bypassed Huang Qingyun and charged Lin Bai, but a distant sword strike drove them back.
• Chen Yule arrived after following Lin Bai's Azure Lotus Sword Intent through the Wind and Snow Formation.
• Lin Bai explained Tang Xia's role and the formation to Chen Yule, then told him to attack Tang Xia and take the white banner.
• Chen Yule agreed to face Tang Xia while Huang Qingyun held off the Northern Region martial artists and Lin Bai offered support.

Chen Yule attacked Tang Xia to seize the Wind and Snow Formation banner, but Northern Region martial artists arrived just in time to save Tang Xia. As Chen Yule and the newcomers fought, Yi Song reached the mountaintop and found Lin Bai badly wounded.

• Chen Yule charged Tang Xia and fought him with the Chen Family's Lingbo Sword Intent while Lin Bai watched.
• After about fifty-six exchanges, Chen Yule broke through Tang Xia's defenses and nearly killed him with three successive slashes.
• Dozens of Northern Region martial artists arrived and disrupted Chen Yule's sword, saving Tang Xia before they joined battle against Chen Yule.
• Huang Qingyun held the advantage against five Northern Region martial artists, while Lin Bai recovered from his wounds.
• Yi Song arrived at the mountaintop, recognized that the Northern Region martial artists had rushed back to defend their lair, and asked Lin Bai why he was so badly injured.

Lin Bai explained how Tang Xia had inflicted his severe wounds, and Yi Song attacked the exhausted Northern Region martial artist to seize the formation flag. As Northern Region reinforcements approached, Tang Xia escaped Yi Song’s killing strike by using a shattered jade pendant.

• Lin Bai refused Yi Song’s healing pills, described the battle, and urged him to take Tang Xia’s formation flag.
• Yi Song confronted Tang Xia and attacked him with the Nine Immortal Divine Fire, suppressing him with the three-colored flames.
• Lin Bai recognized that Yi Song’s flames seemed connected to the Crow but could not recall why.
• Yi Song struck at Tang Xia with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning as Northern Region martial artists rushed toward them.
• Lin Bai charged in to help Yi Song, who vanished and attacked Tang Xia with a wind blade.
• Tang Xia’s ancient jade pendant shattered and transported him a thousand meters away, saving him from Yi Song’s strike.

Yi Song revealed the Celestial Immortal Sect’s incomplete Wind Immortal Art and nearly killed Tang Xia with its Severing Wind Blade. Tang Xia decided to abandon the Wind and Snow Formation and regroup, leaving Lin Bai alive for now.

• Yi Song’s Severing Wind Blade struck Tang Xia, but Tang Xia’s shattered life-saving necklace saved him from death.
• The Celestial Immortal Sect’s ancestor identified Yi Song’s technique as the Severing Wind Blade from the Wind Immortal Art, astonishing the martial artists in the Ascension Celestial Palace.
• Yi Song said the Celestial Immortal Sect held only an incomplete Wind Immortal Art, though he had learned enough to threaten Tang Xia.
• Tang Xia judged that he could not defeat Yi Song or safely leave the Hunting Realm without undermining the Northern Region alliance.
• Tang Xia chose to abandon the Wind and Snow Formation, regretting that he had not killed the gravely wounded Lin Bai.

Lin Bai broke the Wind and Snow Formation after Tang Xia fled, and the Chu alliance regrouped to count its heavy casualties. Chu Tinghan arranged for the badly injured and dispirited warriors to stay behind, while Zhao Xiantu and Li Mo used the opportunity to withdraw.

• Tang Xia tossed Yi Song the formation flag and escaped, and Lin Bai crushed the flag to dispel the Wind and Snow Formation.
• The Chu warriors regrouped with the Northern Region warriors; most of the latter fled, while the Chu factions counted their casualties and found more than fifty warriors missing.
• Lin Bai advised Chu Tinghan to leave behind the seriously injured and those who had lost their fighting spirit, and she agreed to organize their withdrawal.
• Chu Tinghan created a register for those staying behind, and Zhao Xiantu claimed his injuries and exhaustion forced him to withdraw.
• Li Mo also asked to stay behind, and Chu Tinghan realized that he and Zhao Xiantu were using their supposed exhaustion as an excuse to avoid moving forward.

After Lin Bai recovered from his injuries with Shui Mo Dan’s miraculous blood, he questioned Qian Hen about how he kept finding her. The chapter left Lin Bai healed and suspecting that Qian Hen had feelings for Shui Mo Dan.

• Shui Mo Dan told Lin Bai that Qian Hen had found and protected her again, while Lin Bai wondered how he located her so easily each time.
• Shui Mo Dan cut her wrist and gave Lin Bai a bowl of her fragrant blood, which she said she had been told was a sacred medicine.
• Lin Bai drank the blood, and the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit refined it, restoring his injuries, meridians, and bones.
• Lin Bai asked Shui Mo Dan why her blood healed injuries, but she said she did not know and declined to explain further.
• Qian Hen asked whether Lin Bai had recovered, and Lin Bai thanked him before asking if Qian Hen had feelings for Shui Mo Dan.

Qian Hen told Lin Bai how Shui Mo Dan saved his life with her blood and asked him to protect her if she ever faced danger. He warned Lin Bai that the Chu Kingdom would not let him leave after the Chu Emperor's Birthday Celebration.

• Lin Bai asked whether Qian Hen had feelings for Shui Mo Dan, and Qian Hen explained that he regarded her as a younger sister and worried about her vulnerability.
• Qian Hen revealed that Shui Mo Dan had the intelligence of a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl and recounted meeting her while recovering at the Danxia Sect.
• Qian Hen told Lin Bai that Shui Mo Dan gave him her blood, which cured his strange poison and other hidden ailments.
• Qian Hen asked Lin Bai to protect Shui Mo Dan if she faced hardship, and Lin Bai promised to help her and their other friends in danger.
• Qian Hen warned Lin Bai that the Chu Kingdom would not let him leave the Hunting Realm after the Chu Emperor's Birthday Celebration.

Sun Miao and Shangguan Tong agreed to stay and help the Chu Kingdom, and the rested martial artists prepared to enter the third formation of the Demonic Refinement Lin Bai Grand Formation. They entered Black Water Divine General’s dangerous Qian Minghang General Formation, with its hazards still unknown.

• Lin Bai asked Sun Miao and Shangguan Tong whether they would stay, and both pledged to help despite their personal grudges.
• Marquis introduced the Qian Minghang General Formation and warned that it was Black Water Divine General’s dangerous secret inheritance.
• Sun Miao asked the others about the formation, but neither they nor the Chu Kingdom’s martial artists knew its origin.
• Qian Minghang coordinated with the other territories while the Chu Kingdom’s martial artists rested and prepared to proceed.
• Sun Miao led the Chu Kingdom’s martial artists into the Qian Minghang General Formation.