Recaps

Lin Bai deduced that Elder Yue Chuanming had long been allied with Elder Shi Renshan as Wang Heng fought the transformed First God Child Yan Congjiao. After the First God Child nearly overwhelmed Wang Heng, Wang Heng revealed the Heaven and Earth Overturning Art and trapped him in a shifting space where he could not control his spiritual energy.

• Lin Bai concluded that Elder Yue Chuanming belonged to Elder Shi Renshan's faction and identified the opposing sides within the sect.
• The First God Child Yan Congjiao used the Supreme Devil Art to transform and break through Wang Heng's Golden Light Mantra, driving him back across the arena.
• Wang Heng re-formed the Golden Light Mantra, repelled the First God Child, and declared that the fight would end.
• The First God Child continued attacking with killing intent, and Wang Heng answered by unleashing the Heaven and Earth Overturning Art.
• The Heaven and Earth Overturning Art overturned the space around the fighters and disrupted the First God Child's spiritual energy, leaving him trapped and unable to counterattack.

Wang Heng defeated Yan Congjiao with the Heaven and Earth Overturning Art, then tried to force Lin Bai to announce the Demon Palace’s defeat. Lin Bai entered the arena to challenge Wang Heng, who backed down and ended the battle.

• Wang Heng trapped Yan Congjiao with Cage and crushed his defenses with Overturning Heaven Palm, leaving Yan Congjiao injured and begging Saint Elder Shi Renshan for help.
• Wang Zhengyang explained that Wang Heng had used only two techniques from the Heaven and Earth Overturning Art, while Lin Bai and the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace reacted with displeasure to the defeat.
• Saint Elder Shi Renshan asked the Palace Lord to end the battle, and the Palace Lord gave him permission to intervene.
• Wang Heng refused to release Yan Congjiao unless Lin Bai personally declared that the Demon Palace admitted defeat.
• Lin Bai descended into the arena with his Supreme Avatar and Crimson Lotus Sword Intent and challenged Wang Heng to test the Golden Light Mantra and Heaven and Earth Overturning Art.
• Wang Heng yielded, released Yan Congjiao, apologized to the Palace Lord, and told Lin Bai they could exchange pointers another time.

Lin Bai nearly challenged the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect after their victory over the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, but stopped at the Palace Lord's command. As the defeated Devil Palace endured public humiliation, visitors from the Demon Realm and Spirit Realm arrived and began disparaging the contest, setting up new tensions.

• Wang Heng apologized to Lin Bai, but Lin Bai kept advancing toward the arena until the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace ordered him to stop.
• Lin Bai withdrew his Supreme Avatar and Crimson Lotus Sword Intent and returned to the spectators, while Yan Congjiao returned to Shi Renshan and received no comfort from him.
• Elder Yao Daogu announced that the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect had won the martial contest, and the crowd's comments deepened the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's humiliation.
• Several young visitors emerged from the void and mocked the contest; Chu Junyou identified them as members of the Demon Race, while Lin Bai recognized the Purple-haired Youth.
• Zhou Jichen of the Qiankun Sect and Long Rui of the Imperial Dragon Race greeted the Palace Lord, who rebuffed both visitors and questioned the Dragon Race's sincerity.

At the Demon Palace’s Renaming Ceremony, Long Rui of the Imperial Dragon Race and Zhou Jichen of Qiankun Sect challenged the Palace’s remaining geniuses, focusing their provocation on Lin Bai. The Palace Lord revealed his old grudge with Qiankun Sect and gave Lin Bai permission to accept the challenge, warning him not to kill Long Rui but allowing him to kill Qiankun Sect’s fighters.

• Wang Zhengyang and Chu Junyou explained that the Imperial Dragon Race was the dragon race’s royal bloodline and that dragons had an enormous population in the Demon Realm.
• Long Rui asked to spar with a Demon Palace disciple, and Zhou Jichen joined him, turning their requests into public challenges during the Renaming Ceremony.
• Duanmu Lin accused Long Rui and Zhou Jichen of taking advantage of the Demon Palace’s injured geniuses, but they pointed to Lin Bai and the other remaining fighters as possible opponents.
• Wang Zhengyang and Chu Junyou suspected the two visitors had come for Lin Bai because of his recent battle at the frontier, while Lin Bai also wondered whether they held a grudge against the Palace Lord.
• The Palace Lord told Lin Bai that he had killed two Qiankun Sect Great Mystic Art Users while intervening against their slaughter of a city, explaining the sect’s hostility toward the Demon Palace.
• Lin Bai agreed to spar, and the Palace Lord told him not to kill Long Rui but said he could kill Qiankun Sect fighters and that he would handle any fallout.

Lin Bai accepted the Dragon Clan and Qiankun Sect prodigies’ challenge at the Demon Palace ceremony, mocking Zhou Jichen before agreeing to face everyone at once. The chapter ended with Long Rui and Zhou Jichen preparing to fight and the gathered martial artists reacting to Lin Bai’s bold challenge.

• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace told Lin Bai to spare the Dragon Clan but gave him permission to kill Zhou Jichen if the chance arose.
• Long Rui rebuked Zhou Jichen for insulting the Demon Realm and distanced the Dragon Clan from the Qiankun Sect.
• Lin Bai spat wine wrapped in sword intent at Zhou Jichen, drenching him and the nearby Qiankun Sect prodigies, then mocked them as stray dogs.
• Long Rui explained that the Dragon Clan had come to test the Demon Palace’s prodigies and address old resentment over the Palace Lord’s past fights with their clan.
• Lin Bai accepted the challenge and told Long Rui and Zhou Jichen that they could attack him together.
• Chu Junyou worried that Lin Bai was being too arrogant, while Wang Zhengyang believed Lin Bai had the strength to face the gathered prodigies.

Lin Bai challenged the Demon Realm and Spirit Realm prodigies to attack him together, then accepted a life-and-death duel against nine Qiankun Sect disciples. With the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace’s approval, he drew his five flying swords as Zhou Jichen led the others in their first attack.

• Lin Bai insulted the prodigies and ordered them to face him together, angering Zhou Jichen and Long Rui.
• Zhou Jichen led eight Qiankun Sect disciples onto the arena and surrounded Lin Bai, while Long Rui chose to wait and let them fight first.
• Lin Bai silently checked with the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace, who gave him permission to act without restraint.
• The Purple-haired Youth refused to join Long Rui against Lin Bai, hinting that he had learned from a past setback.
• Lin Bai summoned five flying swords and declared the arena match a fight to the death.
• Zhou Jichen ordered the eight Qiankun Sect disciples to attack, and he struck at Lin Bai first.

Lin Bai fought Zhou Jichen and eight other Qiankun Sect prodigies on Ancestor Heaven Mountain, first defending against their assault before killing them one by one. By the end of the chapter, Lin Bai had slain seven of the nine, leaving Zhou Jichen and one other prodigy facing him.

• Lin Bai judged the Qiankun Sect prodigies’ strength and used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to withstand their attacks.
• Lin Bai launched the Heaven and Earth Three Kill Sword Formation, then switched to the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and killed three prodigies as they retreated.
• Lin Bai left his defensive formation and killed another prodigy with the Demon Sword, destroying the man’s soul as well.
• Lin Bai dodged a prodigy’s punch with his Demon Eyes and counterattacked, killing him with the Demon Sword.
• Three more Qiankun Sect prodigies tried to draw Lin Bai’s attention so Zhou Jichen could attack, but Lin Bai anticipated their plan and decapitated them with his flying swords.

Lin Bai killed eight Qiankun Sect prodigies and easily defeated Zhou Jichen, then faced Zhou Jichen’s inherited Great Mystic Art, Qiankun Swordplay. Trapped in a cage of swords with attacks closing in from every direction, Lin Bai appeared to have no way out.

• Lin Bai saw through the Qiankun Sect prodigies’ formation, killed the three who drew his attention, and defeated Zhou Jichen with Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire Slash.
• Wang Zhengyang and Chu Junyou praised Lin Bai’s effortless victory as spectators on Ancestor Heaven Mountain marveled at his strength.
• Zhou Jichen saw his eight junior brothers and sisters dead, swore the Qiankun Sect would avenge them, and refused to admit defeat.
• Zhou Jichen unleashed the Qiankun Sect’s inherited Great Mystic Art, Qiankun Swordplay, and trapped Lin Bai inside a cage of countless swords.
• Zhou Jichen sent sword phantoms attacking Lin Bai from every direction, leaving him seemingly trapped in a dead end.

Lin Bai used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to withstand Zhou Jichen’s Qiankun Swordplay, while Wang Zhengyang recognized the formation as a lost inheritance of the Flying Sword Immortal Sect. The chapter left Chu Junyou wondering whether anyone from that sect was watching from the void.

• Wang Zhengyang explained that the Qiankun Sect had existed for a long time and compared its possible revivals to the return of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, prompting Chu Junyou to question whether a sect remained the same after generations of change.
• Zhou Jichen unleashed Qiankun Swordplay, surrounding Lin Bai with countless sword shadows and sending them at him from every direction.
• Lin Bai defended himself with two Taiji Two Forms Sword Formations, causing Zhou Jichen’s sword shadows to vanish against the light screens.
• Zhou Jichen continued attacking, hoping to exhaust Lin Bai’s defenses, while Lin Bai stayed calm and relied on Zhou Jichen’s limited spiritual power and his own range of countermeasures.
• Wang Zhengyang identified Lin Bai’s defense as the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and said it belonged to the lost Dao tradition of the Flying Sword Immortal Sect.
• Wang Zhengyang revealed that the Flying Sword Immortal Sect had searched the Three Realms and Six Paths for its nine lost sword formations, and Chu Junyou looked toward the void, wondering whether the sect’s experts had witnessed Lin Bai using one.

Lin Bai broke through Zhou Jichen’s defenses and killed him despite a Qiankun Sect Great Mystic Art User’s intervention. The Demon Palace Palace Master stopped the elder’s attack and confronted the powers watching from the void.

• Chu Junyou and Wang Zhengyang speculated that Flying Sword Immortal Sect experts might recognize Lin Bai’s sword formation and approach him secretly.
• Lin Bai wore down Zhou Jichen until his sword shadows weakened, then broke through them and attacked with his Demon Sword and five flying swords.
• Zhou Jichen called for his Grandmaster, who captured Lin Bai’s flying swords and struck at him, but Lin Bai used the Supreme Avatar to delay the blow and killed Zhou Jichen.
• The Great Mystic Art User crushed four of Lin Bai’s flying swords and injured him, while the Palace Master of the Demon Palace shattered the elder’s fist with a shout.
• The Palace Master rose into the void and demanded to know what the assembled powers meant by intervening.

After Lin Bai killed the nine Qiankun Sect prodigies, the dragon clan and Demon Realm prodigies apologized and the banquet resumed. Lin Bai learned that the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace had killed Qiankun Sect’s Great Mystic Art User, confirming rumors that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence realm.

• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace and three Great Mystic Art Users entered the void to deal with Qiankun Sect’s Great Mystic Art User, while Luo Yuanjing kept the banquet going.
• Purple Luo admitted that Lin Bai had defeated him before and nearly killed him, explaining why he had kept his distance from the other prodigies.
• A Great Mystic Art User from the Flying Sword Immortal Sect seized Lin Bai’s Dragon Eye Flying Sword, promising to return it after the Demon Palace Renaming Ceremony.
• Long Rui and the Demon Realm prodigies apologized, and Luo Yuanjing ended the confrontation and invited them to join the banquet.
• The Palace Lord of the Demon Palace returned, welcomed the guests, and led everyone in a toast.
• Wang Zhengyang and Chu Junyou told Lin Bai that the Palace Lord had killed Qiankun Sect’s Great Mystic Art User and had proven himself to be a Tribulation Transcendence Earth Immortal.

Lin Bai learned that the Palace Lord had killed a Qiankun Sect Great Mystic Art User, establishing the Demon Palace’s power after its martial contest defeat. As the banquet continued, news arrived that the Northern Region had invaded the Eastern Region and captured Eternal Night Pass, prompting the Palace Lord to blame the Shi Family commander of the Demon Subduing Guard.

• Lin Bai realized the Palace Lord had used his killing of nine Qiankun Sect prodigies as grounds to kill Qiankun Sect’s Great Mystic Art User and demonstrate the Demon Palace’s strength.
• The banquet’s later contests helped restore the Demon Palace’s standing, while sect leaders learned of the Palace Lord’s power and watched Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect react grimly.
• An imperial elder informed Crown Prince Chu Junyou that the Northern Region had invaded, and the Palace Lord told Lin Bai that Eternal Night Pass had fallen after a feint drew Prince Liang toward Horizon Pass.
• Prince Liang and the Demon Palace’s Demon Subduing Guards joined Chu’s army to hold back the Northern Region’s advance and requested reinforcements.
• Lin Bai learned that about two million Demon Subduing Guards were stationed in the borderlands, and the Palace Lord blamed the Shi Family, whose member commanded the force, for losing Eternal Night Pass.

The Northern Region invaded the Devil Realm Eastern Region and captured Eternal Night Pass, forcing Lin Bai and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to prepare for war while trying to prevent the conflict from escalating into an Immortal War. At the council, Elder Shi Renshan accepted the Shi Family's responsibility for the fortress's fall and asked to lead the reinforcements.

• Lin Bai and the Palace Master discussed the Northern Region's invasion, the need to retake Eternal Night Pass, and the danger of an Immortal War if other realms intervened.
• The Palace Master, Lin Bai, and the other leading figures worried that the Western Region might join the Southern and Northern Regions in attacking the Devil Realm Eastern Region.
• Lin Bai spoke with the Slovenly Daoist, who warned him not to take every burden upon himself and reminded him that Lin Bai did not belong in the Devil Realm, then disappeared.
• The Palace Master summoned the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's senior martial artists and revealed a message reporting that Eternal Night Pass had fallen to a surprise attack.
• The Palace Master questioned Elder Shi Renshan over the Shi Family's failure to defend the pass, and Shi Renshan asked permission to lead troops to the front line and make amends.

Lin Bai and Li Guxian maneuvered to transfer the Shi Family’s armies under new commanders after the loss of Eternal Night Pass. The Palace Master approved Li Guxian’s expedition to reclaim the lost territory, while Shi Renshan was left to manage logistics.

• Shi Renshan volunteered to lead troops to the front lines and atone for the Shi Family’s loss of Eternal Night Pass.
• Lin Bai consulted Li Guxian, who advised against letting Shi Renshan command the army and proposed taking control of the Sea Guard Legion, Divine Mountain Guard, and Demon Subduing Guard.
• Lin Bai recommended Li Guxian as commander, with He Gongji, Yao Daogu, and Zhao Fengxia leading the three armies, while Shi Renshan handled logistics.
• Shi Renshan objected that removing the three armies would leave the Huang Long Thousand Provinces undefended, but Li Guxian argued that the Nine Underworlds Army and Skyguard Legion could protect it.
• The Palace Master ordered Li Guxian to lead ten million troops north with Saint Elder Duanmu Peng and reclaim the lost territory.

The Palace Master assigned Li Guxian to lead the expedition, gave Shi Renshan responsibility for reorganizing territory and tributes, and ordered Lin Bai to suppress forces opposing the Devil Palace. He then sent Lin Bai to the treasury with Luo Yuanjing to reforge his swords and obtain more pills, where they began selecting materials.

• The Palace Master appointed Luo Yuanjing to distribute expedition supplies and tasked Shi Renshan with managing territories and tribute collection to keep the Shi Family loyal.
• The Palace Master ordered Lin Bai to persuade the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect to help fight the Northern Region and to eradicate forces opposing the Devil Palace.
• After the Council of Elders ended, the Palace Master assured Lin Bai that his Dragon Eye Flying Sword would be returned and offered treasury materials to replace his destroyed swords.
• The Palace Master asked Luo Yuanjing to reforge Lin Bai's main sword into a Grand Yi Divine Weapon and provide him with more pills.
• Luo Yuanjing told Lin Bai he could rely on the Divine Halls for support, then used a jade token to take him into the treasury's Void World.
• Luo Yuanjing led Lin Bai toward the stored metals and asked what materials he wanted for his flying swords.

Lin Bai visited the Demon Palace Treasury with Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to find materials for reforging his flying swords. After seeing the treasury’s vast collection and learning how its puppet guardians and registers worked, Lin Bai asked whether it held rare divine metals such as Burial Dragon Emperor Gold and Divine Tears Immortal Gold.

• Lin Bai saw Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm puppets guarding the treasury and learned that the Demon Palace had inherited the Devil Puppet Sect’s Puppet Art.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing introduced Lin Bai to Elder Luo, a lifelong treasury guardian who specialized in refining and maintaining puppets.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing asked Elder Luo to summon the treasury’s guardians and prepare their registers for an inspection of resources ahead of Li Guxian’s Northern Region expedition.
• Lin Bai entered the treasury’s materials palace and learned that its register listed the treasures stored throughout the Demon Palace’s eighty-seven materials palaces.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing explained how divine metals were used to forge weapons, prompting Lin Bai to ask whether the treasury possessed rare metals for his four flying swords.

Lin Bai chose rare Burial Dragon Emperor Gold and five-element spiritual objects to forge new flying swords, while Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing offered to help upgrade his supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapon with a Grand Yi Refining Crystal. The swords could take a year to complete unless the Palace Master assisted, so Lin Bai planned to ask for his help.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing explained that the treasury held ninety-two jin of Burial Dragon Emperor Gold, enough for Lin Bai to forge his flying swords.
• Lin Bai chose Burial Dragon Emperor Gold as the primary material and selected spiritual objects for earth-, wood-, fire-, and water-type flying swords, leaving the fifth sword’s material undecided.
• Luo Yuanjing said he could forge Lin Bai’s five swords within a year, or possibly in two or three months if the Palace Master helped smelt the metal.
• Luo Yuanjing revealed a Grand Yi Refining Crystal and explained that it could help a supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapon advance to the Grand Yi Divine Weapon level.
• Lin Bai agreed to ask the Palace Master for help and apologized after mistakenly asking Luo Yuanjing how the secret crystal was refined.

Lin Bai arranged for Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing and the Palace Master to reforge his Demon Sword and flying swords, then recovered the Dragon Eye Flying Sword and entered its inheritance. He reached the Sword Formation Tower’s sixth level, discovered the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and its six demanding sword recipes, and sent the materials list to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to assess.

• Lin Bai handed Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing the Demon Sword and asked him to reforge it, learning that Luo Yuanjing believed its Chaos Divine Iron had not been fully utilized.
• Lin Bai asked the Palace Master to help with the reforging, and the Palace Master agreed to assist while leaving a divine sense avatar to handle Demon Palace affairs.
• The Palace Master returned the Dragon Eye Flying Sword after a Great Mystic Art User from the Flying Sword Immortal Sect finished examining it.
• Lin Bai arranged a confidential meeting at the Imperial Palace with Saint Son Wang Zhengyang, Saint Son Qi Lingyu, Crown Prince Chu Junyou, and others for the next afternoon.
• Lin Bai entered the Dragon Eye Flying Sword’s Sword Formation Tower and reached its sixth level, where he studied the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and its six sword recipes.
• Lin Bai copied the formation’s materials and refining methods and sent them to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to determine whether the Demon Palace could gather what was needed.

Lin Bai copied the materials and forging methods for six sword formations and sent the list to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing, who secured the Demon Palace’s agreement to supply the rare materials. The Palace Master gathered several Great Mystic Art Users to reforge Lin Bai’s flying swords and Demon Sword, and the group entered the furnace to begin.

• Lin Bai prepared forging instructions and material lists for six sword formations, then had Old Wen deliver them to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing.
• Lin Bai failed to reach the seventh floor of the Sword Formation Tower and planned to forge his weapons before meeting his visitors and warning Li Guxian about the coming war.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing showed Lin Bai’s list to the Palace Master, who agreed to release the Demon Palace’s scarce materials and invited experts to help forge the weapons.
• The White-Robed Man identified Lin Bai’s sword formation as the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and examined the Demon Sword made from Chaos Divine Iron.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing gathered the materials as the White-Robed Man, the Purple-Robed Man, Saint Elder Lei Qin, and Old Angler assembled under the Palace Master’s supervision.
• The six Great Mystic Art Users entered the smelting furnace to reforge Lin Bai’s flying swords and Demon Sword.

Lin Bai told the leaders of Chu, Ten Thousand Saints Mountain, and Qi Tian Sect that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace would send Goddess Li Guxian to reclaim Eternal Night Pass but could not reinforce Qi Tian Sect. As the three delegations prepared to leave and their territories faced mounting threats, they agreed to stay in contact while the Eastern Region braced for war.

• Lin Bai summoned Wang Zhengyang, Chu Junyou, and Qi Lingyu to explain that Li Guxian would lead fifteen million martial artists to retake Eternal Night Pass.
• Lin Bai apologized that the Demon Palace could no longer send the promised reinforcements to Qi Tian Sect, and Qi Lingyu warned that the crisis could decide the Eastern Region’s survival or destruction.
• Wang Zhengyang predicted the Western Region would attack Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and announced that its delegation would leave to prepare defenses.
• Qi Lingyu announced that the Qi Tian Sect delegation would leave, while Chu Junyou promised to use Zhao Xing Office agents to seek an antidote to Burial Sky Smoke.
• Chu Junyou and Wang Zhengyang said their forces would return to their territories and prepare for war, and the three leaders agreed to stay in contact before parting from Lin Bai.

Li Guxian briefed Lin Bai on the forces she had secretly assembled for the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s war with the Northern Region and outlined how he should manage the territory while she was away. She prepared to depart secretly, leaving Lin Bai roughly half a month before the army’s departure became widely known and local enemies began to stir.

• Dao Child Yu You told Lin Bai that Li Guxian had finished preparing to leave secretly that night, and Lin Bai went to meet her.
• Li Guxian said she would take about fifteen million troops, including the armies of Phoenix Valley and the Pure Yang Sect, along with Saint Elder Duanmu Peng, two-thirds of the Eternal Elders, and nearly all the God Children and Goddesses.
• Li Guxian left God Child Shen Yunfan and Goddess Hu Zhiyao with Lin Bai, explaining that Elder Shi Renshan’s faction had been weakened and was unlikely to threaten him soon.
• Li Guxian advised Lin Bai to use Nie Shang and Meng Qinxian to delay conflict with the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect, while winning over their pro-peace factions.
• Li Guxian warned Lin Bai that the Demon Subjugation Alliance, especially the Azure Lotus Sect, could exploit the power vacuum after the army left.
• Li Guxian planned to move the army secretly to conceal its departure and give Lin Bai about half a month before the news spread and unrest began.

Lin Bai sent Li Guxian and the Demon Palace’s forces off to the Northern Region, then watched the Qi Tian Sect’s envoy depart and reflected on how he had begun to care about the Devil Realm. Old Wen told him that his loneliness had eased after he reunited with the Palace Master, someone who shared his fate and burdens.

• Lin Bai warned Li Guxian about hidden threats in the Demon Palace’s territory and asked Saint Elder Duanmu Peng to protect her on the Northern Region expedition.
• Lin Bai met Duanmu Lin, Mo Guyu, Zhao Yuanchen, and Saint Elder Duanmu Peng, urging them to be careful as they prepared to leave.
• Li Guxian, several God Children, and the Demon Palace’s forces departed for the borderlands while the Qi Tian Sect’s envoy mission left the territory.
• Lin Bai told Old Wen that he had once considered himself a passerby in the Devil Realm but had begun caring about its fate.
• Old Wen explained that Lin Bai had changed because he was lonely and had found kin in the Palace Master, who shared his destiny and burdens.

Lin Bai recognized that the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace had eased his loneliness and made the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace feel like home. He then planned how to restore order across the Demon Palace’s territory, counter the Demon Subjugation Alliance and potential unrest, and expand the Dragon Protector Guard.

• Lin Bai discussed his loneliness with Old Wen and realized that the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace had become the elder who gave him a sense of belonging.
• Lin Bai met with Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao, who explained that Shi Renshan would lead efforts to restore order across the territory.
• Lin Bai assigned Hu Zhiyao to gather intelligence on the Demon Subjugation Alliance and tasked Shen Yunfan with organizing maps and territorial information in preparation for unrest.
• Lin Bai told Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao that Li Guxian had already made arrangements concerning the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect.
• Lin Bai ordered Shen Yunfan, Hu Zhiyao, Old Wen, and Yu You to form an expanded Dragon Protector Guard, and decided that Old Wen and Yu You would lead its recruitment.

Lin Bai agreed to a temporary ceasefire with Elder Shi Renshan so the Devil Palace could confront threats within and beyond its territory. After they divided their responsibilities, Lin Bai asked Shi Renshan to hand over the Forbidden Guards and Deep Probe Guard.

• Hu Zhiyao proposed recruiting martial artists from the Nine Great Palaces’ families to expand the Dragon Protector Guard, and Old Wen and Yu You took charge of the arrangements.
• Dao Child Yu You reported that Elder Shi Renshan had invited Lin Bai to meet him at dawn, and Lin Bai went to the bamboo grove with Old Wen.
• Shi Renshan argued that the Shi Family remained powerful despite Yan Congjiao’s defeats and that conflict between their factions would leave the Devil Palace vulnerable.
• Lin Bai accepted Shi Renshan’s proposal for a temporary ceasefire while they dealt with enemies threatening the Devil Palace.
• Lin Bai agreed to handle the Overturning Heavens Sect, Worship Heaven Sect, and Demon Subjugation Alliance, then asked Shi Renshan to hand over the Forbidden Guards and Deep Probe Guard.

Lin Bai negotiated with Elder Shi Renshan to take command of the Forbidden Guards and place Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao in the Deep Probe Guard, while the two agreed to divide responsibility for restoring order across the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s territory. He then began expanding the Dragon Protector Guard and entrusted its recruitment to Yu Ce and Yu You, leaving Old Wen to watch them for signs of disloyalty.

• Lin Bai secured the Forbidden Guards from Elder Shi Renshan, who refused to surrender the Deep Probe Guard but agreed to appoint Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao as commanders.
• Lin Bai and Shi Renshan agreed to share information and divide the work of suppressing unrest and rebuilding order throughout the Demon Palace’s territory.
• Yu Ce reported that about twenty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm elders from several Divine Hall families had come to join the Dragon Protector Guard.
• Lin Bai appointed Yu You as one of the Dragon Protector Guard’s nine commanders and ordered Yu Ce and Yu You to expand the guard to over a hundred members within a month.
• Old Wen warned Lin Bai that Yu Ce and Yu You’s family supported the Shi Family, and Lin Bai asked him to monitor them for suspicious behavior.