Recaps

At Sky Pillar Mountain, Lin Bai and Lin Zier resumed their fight from the previous year, trading powerful attacks until their collision shattered the mountain. Lin Zier then summoned an ancient altar and called upon heroic spirits, while Ling Tianzi revealed that the Great Wilderness War God she was summoning was named Xing.

• Lin Zier attacked Lin Bai with Primordial Divine Palm, and Lin Bai cast Duan Canghai aside before declaring that he would defeat her.
• Lin Bai unleashed sword attacks, but Lin Zier countered them with Primordial God Extinction Light and Dream of Primordial Times.
• Lin Bai and Lin Zier's next clash destroyed Sky Pillar Mountain, leaving them hovering opposite each other as Lin Zier claimed she had only been warming up.
• Lin Zier summoned an ancient altar and called forth Tiger Bone, Deer Antlers, Snake Fangs, Bull Horns, and Eagle Talons to summon heroic spirits into her body.
• Ling Tianzi told Li Shanqing that the Great Wilderness War God Lin Zier was summoning was named Xing.

Lin Zier summoned the Great Wilderness War God Xing from the ancient Hall of Heroes, and Ling Tianzi explained the origins of the Primordial Goddess Path and Sentient Wishpower. After Xing possessed Lin Zier and vastly increased her power, she struck Lin Bai down with one palm, leaving the duel in her favor.

• Lin Zier summoned the Great Wilderness War God Xing, whose appearance terrified the demonic beasts and stunned the martial artists.
• Ling Tianzi explained that ancient tribes enshrined fallen heroes in Halls of Heroes and that Goddesses could borrow their power through Sentient Wishpower.
• Xing merged into Lin Zier, raising her strength to the Human Core Realm and challenging Lin Bai to continue fighting.
• Lin Bai raised the Azure Song Sword and accepted Lin Zier's challenge.
• Lin Zier crossed the arena in a single step and sent Lin Bai flying hundreds of meters with one palm, while Zhao Longtu celebrated her apparent victory.

Lin Bai fought Lin Zier despite her overwhelming power and her Punishment shield and axe, then unleashed the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art to break her defenses and strike her down. The battle remained unresolved as Lin Zier was left with a grievous wound.

• Lin Bai attacked Lin Zier with his sword techniques, but she shattered his Sword Qi and blocked his attacks with the Shield of Punishment.
• Lin Bai’s Flying Sword forced Lin Zier back, but she retaliated with the Axe of Punishment and battered him into the ground.
• Lin Bai rose and declared that he would reclaim everything he had lost before summoning the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art.
• Lin Bai’s lightning strike shattered Lin Zier’s bronze shield and pierced her shoulder, but Lin Zier answered with another Axe of Punishment attack.
• Lin Bai used his Flying Swords to shatter Lin Zier’s axe, then struck her abdomen with a lightning sword ray, leaving a charred hole.

Lin Bai defeated and killed Lin Zier in the arena, despite Zhao Longtu's attempt to intervene. Zhao Longtu then struck Lin Bai with overwhelming force, leaving him gravely injured as he vowed revenge.

• Lin Bai used the Thunder Sword Art and his flying swords to overpower Lin Zier, while Zhao Longtu prepared to intervene.
• Lin Bai struck Lin Zier with a thunderous sword attack that pierced her chest and shattered her heart.
• Zhao Longtu arrived beside Lin Zier's corpse, mourned her, and swore to exterminate Lin Bai's clan.
• Zhao Longtu blasted Lin Bai more than a thousand meters away with a palm strike, shattering his bones and leaving him coughing blood.

Lin Yue appeared to save Lin Bai from Zhao Longtu and revealed that he was a Sky Realm expert before fighting Zhao Longtu and shattering Floating Island. Lin Bai returned to the martial arena, where Azure Cloud Terrace Palace surrounded him and Spirit Sword Sect, intent on killing them.

• Lin Yue arrived as Zhao Longtu was about to kill Lin Bai, healed Lin Bai with a pill, and said he had arranged the one-year agreement.
• Lin Yue challenged Zhao Longtu, and the two Sky Realm experts fought, breaking Floating Island apart before flying toward the Eastern Sea.
• Lin Bai escaped the collapsing island with his flying sword and returned to Azure Sea Cloud Sky Palace's martial arena.
• Qing Hantian and Zhao Xiansheng ordered Azure Cloud Terrace Palace's disciples to surround Lin Bai and Spirit Sword Sect, while Huo Lingtian demanded revenge for his son.
• Lin Bai accused Azure Cloud Terrace Palace of arranging the teleportation to put him in danger, and Qing Hantian ordered the other martial artists to leave before dealing with Spirit Sword Sect.

Qing Hantian ordered the slaughter of everyone connected to Lin Bai, but the Grand Princess and the Blood Sword Master stood against him. The chapter ended with both leaders threatening war if Azure Cloud Terrace Palace tried to kill Lin Bai.

• Qing Hantian ordered Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples to annihilate Lin Bai and everyone connected to him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao declared that Lin Bai was her betrothed and warned Qing Hantian that she would not let the attack go unanswered.
• The Blood Sword Master revealed that Lin Bai was Blood Sword Sect’s Guardian Supreme and drew his sword in support of him.
• Qing Hantian demanded that Bai Xiaoxiao and the Blood Sword Master stay out of the conflict, but both offered to let Spirit Sword Sect leave and refused to allow Lin Bai’s death.
• Bai Xiaoxiao declared that Qing Hantian’s insistence meant war, and the Blood Sword Master threatened to kill any Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists who entered the Eastern Sea.

The Grand Princess and Blood Sword Master surrounded Azure Cloud Terrace Palace with overwhelming forces, leaving Qing Hantian and Zhao Xiansheng facing a war they could not hope to win. The Grand Princess threatened to send five million soldiers to exhaust the sect’s fighters, and Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s martial artists began to waver.

• The fifty-thousand-strong Dragonhawk Legion arrived, and Chu Jiangliu reported that more than two million imperial troops were surrounding or marching toward Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.
• A messenger told Blood Sword Master that ninety thousand Eastern Sea warships had arrived, carrying a vast force of martial artists.
• The Grand Princess declared that she would send five million people for Azure Cloud Terrace Palace to kill before her armies attacked at their leisure.
• Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s martial artists panicked and some sought mercy, while Blood Sword Master vowed that the Eastern Sea’s martial artists would fight to the end.
• Qing Hantian and Zhao Xiansheng were left livid and nearly speechless as the Grand Princess’s threat weakened their side.

Azure Cloud Terrace Palace backed down under pressure from the Grand Princess and Blood Sword Master, allowing Spirit Sword Sect to leave. Lin Bai insisted on claiming his tournament prize, only to discover Azure Cloud Terrace Palace had led him to a fake treasury.

• Qing Hantian chose to spare Lin Bai and ordered Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s disciples to withdraw, while secretly planning to kill Lin Bai later.
• The Grand Princess confirmed Spirit Sword Sect could leave, but Lin Bai stopped to demand the treasure promised to the tournament’s first-place winner.
• Qing Hantian reluctantly ordered a disciple to take Lin Bai to the treasury while the others remained in a tense standoff.
• Lin Bai recognized that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace had brought him to its fake treasury, where he spotted a round stone propping up a table.

Lin Bai found the Heaven Blessing Stone Mirror disguised as a worthless stone in Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s treasury and departed with the Spirit Sword Sect under escort. Qing Hantian and Zhao Xiansheng plotted to ambush them in the Behemoth Mountain Range as the group neared the Spirit Sword Sect.

• Lin Bai recognized the cracked round stone as the damaged Heaven Blessing Stone Mirror, took it, and mocked Qing Hantian for failing to recognize its value.
• Su Jiannan led Lin Bai and the Spirit Sword Sect disciples away on the Flying Roc while the Grand Princess and Blood Sword Master escorted them.
• After the group left, Qing Hantian ordered Zhao Xiansheng to prepare an ambush in the Behemoth Mountain Range and told the other Supreme Elders to guard Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.
• Three days later, the escorts and Spirit Sword Sect reached the Behemoth Mountain Range, where the Blood Sword Master agreed to watch for Lin Bai’s Third Uncle and Zhao Longtu in the East Sea.
• The Blood Sword Master and Grand Princess departed after warning Lin Bai to beware Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s retaliation and stay within the Spirit Sword Sect.

Lin Bai and Su Jiannan traveled toward the Spirit Sword Sect while discussing Jian Xuan’s possible return and Lin Bai’s place in the sect. Qing Hantian ambushed them, and Lin Bai flew off to stop Zhao Xiansheng from pursuing the fleeing Spirit Sword Sect disciples.

• Su Jiannan praised Lin Bai for killing Lin Zier and said Li Qingxuan had found clues to Jian Xuan’s whereabouts in the Great Moon Kingdom.
• Su Jiannan told Lin Bai that the Spirit Sword Sect would always be his home, and Lin Bai accepted his words warmly.
• Qing Hantian struck their Flying Roc out of the sky, while Zhao Xiansheng pursued the fleeing Spirit Sword Sect disciples.
• Lin Bai flew after Zhao Xiansheng to hold him back, leaving Su Jiannan to face Qing Hantian.

Lin Bai returned to face Zhao Xiansheng and sent the Spirit Sword Sect disciples fleeing to safety. Their battle began with Zhao Xiansheng unleashing a powerful water-based attack at Lin Bai.

• Zhao Xiansheng pursued the Spirit Sword Sect disciples as Lu Yuan led them back to seek Ji Bei's help.
• As Zhao Xiansheng attacked the fleeing disciples, Lin Bai arrived, shattered his palm strike, and ordered Lu Yuan and the others to leave.
• Lin Bai confronted Zhao Xiansheng over their old grudge and vowed to kill him.
• Zhao Xiansheng attacked with his water spiritual power, but Lin Bai countered with Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon and blocked his palm.
• Zhao Xiansheng used Azure Sea's Smile, firing a piercing stream of water spiritual power toward Lin Bai's chest.

Lin Bai fought Zhao Xiansheng, whose Divine Core Realm spirit body initially withstood Lin Bai’s attacks. Lin Bai broke through Zhao Xiansheng’s defenses with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art and killed him with a lightning sword through the heart.

• Zhao Xiansheng’s attacks battered Lin Bai, and his spirit body shrugged off Lin Bai’s Azure Song Sword strike.
• Lin Bai wounded Zhao Xiansheng’s spirit body with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art, then pressed his attack and struck the same chest wound again.
• Lin Bai used nine flying swords to block Zhao Xiansheng’s escape routes as he aimed another lightning sword at the wound.
• Lin Bai’s sword pierced Zhao Xiansheng’s heart and destroyed his internal organs, killing him.

After killing Zhao Xiansheng, Lin Bai joined Su Jiannan against Qing Hantian and helped wound him, but Qing Hantian escaped after revealing that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace forces were attacking the Spirit Sword Sect. Lin Bai hurried back to defend the sect while Su Jiannan remained behind to recover.

• Lin Bai absorbed Zhao Xiansheng's spiritual blood, took his belongings, and flew toward Su Jiannan's battle with Qing Hantian.
• Lin Bai arrived and revealed Zhao Xiansheng's corpse, shocking Qing Hantian, then joined Su Jiannan in the fight.
• Lin Bai's attacks wounded and drove Qing Hantian back, allowing Su Jiannan to strike him hard.
• Qing Hantian announced that Human Core Realm experts and elite disciples from Azure Cloud Terrace Palace had been sent to attack the Spirit Sword Sect, then fled.
• Su Jiannan urged Lin Bai to return to the sect instead of pursuing Qing Hantian, and Lin Bai flew off to help.

Lin Bai returned to Spirit Sword Sect after killing Zhao Xiansheng and driving off Qing Hantian, only to find Song King and Ning King leading an assault on the sect. The battle at the mountain gate left Spirit Sword Sect heavily outnumbered and suffering casualties.

• Lin Bai told Lu Yuan that Zhao Xiansheng was dead and Qing Hantian had fled, then rushed back to Spirit Sword Sect.
• Ji Bai showed Ji Bei a list of new disciples that included several with Earth Grade martial souls.
• Song King and Ning King arrived at Spirit Sword Sect with more than five hundred Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists and demanded that the disciples either kill themselves or be killed.
• Ji Bei and Ji Bai refused to surrender, and both sides charged into battle at the mountain gate.
• After fifteen minutes, more than a hundred Spirit Sword Sect disciples had been killed or wounded, and blood covered the ground.

Lin Bai returned to the Spirit Sword Sect during the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s attack and faced Song King and Ning King. He declared that he had killed Lin Zier and Zhao Xiansheng, leaving the two kings shocked and questioning his claims.

• Song King gravely wounded Ji Bei and Ji Bai, then mocked the Spirit Sword Sect and demanded its disciples surrender.
• Lin Bai arrived on a golden flying sword, and the Spirit Sword Sect disciples celebrated his return.
• Song King asked how Lin Bai had survived the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace, and Lin Bai repeated that the Spirit Sword Sect’s disciples were not inferior.
• Lin Bai told Song King that he had killed Lin Zier, and Ning King challenged the claim.
• Lin Bai stated that Zhao Xiansheng had died too.

Lin Bai killed Prince Ning in a fierce battle, stunning the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace and Spirit Sword Sect disciples. Song King then attacked Lin Bai in revenge and drove his spear toward Lin Bai’s heart.

• Lin Bai deflected Prince Ning’s powerful palm with Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon and wounded him with the flying sword.
• Lin Bai used the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art to strike Prince Ning’s chest wound and kill him.
• The Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples and Ji Bei and Ji Bai were shocked, while the Spirit Sword Sect disciples cheered Lin Bai’s victory.
• Song King attacked Lin Bai with a Grade Six Spirit Tool spear to avenge Prince Ning.
• Song King struck Lin Bai to the ground and thrust his spear toward Lin Bai’s heart.

Lin Bai shattered Song King’s spear, wounded him, and slaughtered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples who attacked. He then struck Song King through the heart with his lightning sword and killed him.

• Lin Bai broke Song King’s Grade Six Spirit Tool spear with the Azure Song Sword and wounded Song King with his flying sword and lightning sword art.
• Song King ordered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples to attack Lin Bai, and Lin Bai killed all four or five hundred of them.
• Lin Bai pursued the badly wounded Song King and overwhelmed him with sword strikes.
• Lin Bai pierced Song King’s heart with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art, killing him.

After killing Song King and Ning King, Lin Bai returned to White Cloud Peak to recover while the Spirit Sword Sect dealt with the fallen Azure Cloud Terrace Palace fighters. News of Lin Bai’s victories spread across the Divine Martial Nation, establishing the Spirit Sword Sect as a rival to the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.

• Lin Bai absorbed the spiritual blood of Song King and Ning King, then left the cleanup of the battlefield to Su Jiannan and went to rest at White Cloud Peak.
• Su Jiannan ordered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace corpses sent back and the Spirit Sword Sect’s fallen disciples given proper burials.
• Qing Hantian received the bodies of Song King and Ning King and realized Lin Bai would return to destroy the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.
• Lin Bai found Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing absent, then spent seven days recuperating and cultivating in his quarters.
• Three reports spread: Lin Bai had killed Lin Zier, the Grand Princess had ended her planned attack after the Royal Consort was released, and Lin Bai had slain three Human Core Realm experts.
• The Divine Martial Nation concluded that the Spirit Sword Sect could now stand shoulder to shoulder with the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.

After recovering, Lin Bai learned that he was close to breaking through to the Human Core Realm and sought Ling Tianzi’s advice on finding defensive treasures for the Giant God's Will. Ling Tianzi explained where Lin Bai could find protection and revealed that he would soon leave the Spirit Sword Sect.

• The Divine Martial Nation’s imperial family sent healing pills for Lin Bai, and ten days later he recovered but sensed that he was nearing the Human Core Realm.
• Li Qingxuan returned to the Spirit Sword Sect after a year away, apparently having made an important discovery while searching for Jian Xuan.
• Lin Bai asked Ling Tianzi where he could find three defensive treasures, and Ling Tianzi identified the Thousand Star Pearl in the Sacred Moon Sect’s rear mountains and a protective formation within Divine Relic Ridge’s Three Trials and Five Tribulations.
• Ling Tianzi told Lin Bai that the spiritual light he had infused into Lin Bai was a third protective treasure, and warned that surviving the Giant God's Will would reveal Lin Bai’s position to the Giant God Race.
• Ling Tianzi told Lin Bai that he would soon leave the Spirit Sword Sect and return to his own world, and Lin Bai promised to pursue the pinnacle of the Martial Dao Path.

Lin Bai learned that Jian Xuan had been imprisoned by the Sacred Moon Sect for a hundred years because the sect wanted to uncover a secret he possessed. Li Qingxuan warned that Jian Xuan had likely endured terrible suffering, leaving Su Jiannan and the others to face the grim news.

• Lin Bai watched Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing depart, then resolved to cultivate and find his parents.
• Li Jianxing summoned Lin Bai to the council hall, where Li Qingxuan had returned from her search for Jian Xuan.
• Li Qingxuan told Lin Bai and the elders that Jian Xuan had disappeared in the Great Moon Kingdom and had been taken away by the Sacred Moon Sect.
• Li Qingxuan revealed that Jian Xuan was imprisoned in the sect's forbidden rear mountain and had been held for a hundred years because he possessed a great secret.
• Li Qingxuan said she had called Jian Xuan's name inside the forbidden grounds and heard him answer, but warned that he was likely no longer as they remembered him.

Lin Bai proposed using his promised duel with Sacred Moon King to draw Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts away, allowing Spirit Sword Sect to rescue Jian Xuan from the forbidden ground. Su Jiannan reluctantly accepted the plan after Lin Bai offered to provoke the experts into attending, despite the danger to himself.

• The elders learned from Li Qingxuan that Sacred Moon Sect had held Jian Xuan for a hundred years and agreed that rescuing him was their priority.
• Su Jiannan explained that Sacred Moon Sect’s many Human Core Realm experts made a direct assault too dangerous for Spirit Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai suggested that Sacred Moon Sect’s experts might travel to Forbidden City to watch his duel with Sacred Moon King, leaving the sect unguarded while Spirit Sword Sect rescued Jian Xuan.
• Lin Bai told Li Jianxing to spread a challenge saying Sacred Moon Sect’s experts should come collect Sacred Moon King’s corpse after the duel, provoking them to attend.
• Su Jiannan objected that Lin Bai could be surrounded, but Lin Bai insisted the rescue could not wait, and Su Jiannan reluctantly approved the plan.

Lin Bai provoked the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts into fighting him at the Forbidden City Summit, while the Grand Princess worried that his challenge would spark another war. The chapter ended with Lin Bai sending the Sacred Moon Sect an insulting plaque that enraged its elders.

• Su Jiannan agreed to Lin Bai’s plan, and more than fifty Spirit Sword Sect elders and disciples secretly left for the Great Moon Kingdom.
• Lin Bai declared that the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts should come to the Forbidden City Summit, prompting the Grand Princess to prepare troops and then send an envoy to ask his intentions.
• The Sacred Moon King vowed to kill Lin Bai, and Lin Bai challenged a Sacred Moon Sect Human Core Realm expert instead of the king.
• After several days without a reply, Lin Bai sent the Sacred Moon Sect a bell and a plaque insulting its Human Core Realm martial artists, enraging the sect’s elders.

Lin Bai’s provocation sent the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts toward the Forbidden City Summit, while the Grand Princess ordered troops mobilized and Qing Hantian headed for the Great Moon Kingdom. As the summit drew near, Lin Bai sat in Moon Gazing Pavilion and faced the blade cultivator Li Hai.

• Eight Human Core Realm experts of the Sacred Moon Sect vowed to defeat Lin Bai and set out for the Forbidden City Summit.
• The Grand Princess ordered Chu Jiangliu to mobilize twenty million troops to the southern frontier if Lin Bai died.
• Qing Hantian learned that the Spirit Sword Sect’s leaders had vanished and decided to travel to the Great Moon Kingdom with King Sun and King Li.
• Hundreds of millions of martial artists gathered in the Great Moon Kingdom, where street fights and deaths continued despite the army’s efforts to restore order.
• Li Hai entered Moon Gazing Pavilion, demanded that the man in white leave, and discovered that he was Lin Bai.

Lin Bai confronted Li Hai, Lingdong's second blade cultivator, at the Moon Gazing Pavilion and effortlessly stopped his attacks with a chopstick. He then defeated Li Hai with sword intent carried by wine droplets, leaving the onlookers wondering who he was.

• Li Hai ordered Lin Bai to leave his table, but Lin Bai refused and mocked him as merely Lingdong's second blade cultivator.
• Li Hai drew his blade and attacked Lin Bai, who blocked the first strike and nine more with a single chopstick.
• Lin Bai unleashed overwhelming sword intent, frightening the martial artists in the pavilion and forcing Li Hai to defend himself.
• Lin Bai sent droplets of wine at Li Hai, pierced through his defenses, and left him bloodied at the ninth-floor stairway.

Lin Bai defeated Li Hai at Moon Gazing Pavilion and revealed that anyone seeking revenge could find him at the Spirit Sword Sect, prompting the martial artists to recognize him as East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator. As rumors about Lin Bai spread, the Grand Princess and the Sacred Moon Sect's elders both headed to Moon Gazing Pavilion to find him.

• Lin Bai defeated Li Hai with a few drops of water, then told him to seek revenge at the Spirit Sword Sect before leaving Moon Gazing Pavilion.
• Li Hai and the other martial artists realized Lin Bai was East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator, and exaggerated stories about drinking and consorting with him spread through the imperial capital.
• Chu Jiangliu told the Grand Princess that Lin Bai had been drinking at Moon Gazing Pavilion for several days, so she ordered her regiment to go there and confront him.
• Chen Hao informed twelve Human Core Realm elders of the Sacred Moon Sect that Lin Bai was likely at Moon Gazing Pavilion, and they hurried there to challenge him.