Recaps

Lin Bai reached Ten Mile Slope to rescue Qi Shaolong and Tiedan, then faced Ye Suxin and the three True Martial Realm demonic beasts she controlled. As the battle began, Lin Bai wounded the Black Demon Wolf with Ten Steps, One Kill.

• Lin Bai severed Xu Shangjie's weapon hand, killed Xu Rui, and freed Qi Shaolong and Tiedan.
• Ye Suxin appeared with the Swallowing Heaven Demon Python, Black Demon Wolf, and Flame Stomping Wild Bull, all True Martial Realm demonic beasts.
• Lin Bai sent Qi Shaolong and Tiedan away before Ye Suxin ordered the three beasts to attack him.
• Lin Bai used Ten Steps, One Kill to pierce the Black Demon Wolf's abdomen and send it flying.

Lin Bai awakened Sword Intent and defeated Ye Suxin’s three True Martial Realm demonic beasts at Ten Mile Slope. He killed Xu Shangjie despite threats from Xu Zailong and the Divine Alliance, then pursued Ye Suxin for using Qi Shaolong and Tiedan to threaten him.

• Lin Bai revealed Sword Intent and killed Ye Suxin’s Flame Stomping Wild Bull, Black Demon Wolf, and Swallowing Heaven Demon Python.
• Lin Bai attacked Xu Shangjie, who pleaded for his life and invoked his brother Xu Zailong and the Divine Alliance.
• Ye Suxin fled toward the Spirit Sword Sect when Lin Bai refused to back down.
• Lin Bai stabbed Xu Shangjie through the heart and cut his body into pieces.
• Lin Bai took Xu Shangjie’s Storage Bag and chased after Ye Suxin.

Lin Bai chased Ye Suxin through Qingyou Mountain and severely wounded her just as she reached the exit. Xiang Tianyi and Xu Zailong helped her, and Lin Bai emerged as she demanded his death.

• The disciples returned from Qingyou Mountain, submitted their tokens to Ji Bei, and waited to hear who had taken first place.
• Xiang Tianyi arrived to watch for Ye Suxin, then reunited with Xu Zailong, whose younger brothers were taking the reexamination.
• Lin Bai pursued the fleeing Ye Suxin and struck her with his Thunder God Sword as she neared the mountain’s exit.
• Ye Suxin flew out of Qingyou Mountain with severe sword wounds, and Ji Bei, Xiang Tianyi, and Xu Zailong recognized her.
• Xiang Tianyi fed Ye Suxin healing pills, and she identified Lin Bai as her attacker and ordered him killed.
• Lin Bai slowly walked out of Qingyou Mountain as the others watched.

After the trial, Lin Bai became an Outer Sect disciple with 321 tokens, while Ji Bei protected him from Xiang Tianyi’s challenge. Nan Lidao revealed that Lin Bai had killed six New Talent Kings, and Lin Bai agreed to face both Xiang Tianyi and Xu Zailong on the Life and Death Arena in three months.

• Lin Bai handed Ji Bei 321 tokens and officially passed the trial, and Ji Bei warned him that Xiang Tianyi and Xu Zailong might target him.
• Xiang Tianyi confronted Lin Bai over Ye Suxin’s injuries, but Ji Bei stopped him from attacking on sect grounds.
• Xiang Tianyi challenged Lin Bai to the Life and Death Arena, and Lin Bai reaffirmed their agreement to fight in three months.
• Nan Lidao arrived and revealed that Lin Bai had killed six New Talent Kings, including Xu Shangjie and Xu Rui.
• Xu Zailong challenged Lin Bai to the Life and Death Arena, and Lin Bai accepted a fight three months later.
• Ji Bei led the successful disciples toward the disciple-recruitment hall, while Xiang Tianyi left with Ye Suxin and Xu Zailong, planning to report the matter to the Young Sect Master after Lin Bai’s scheduled fight.

At the Spirit Sword Sect’s disciple-recruitment ceremony, the elders selected disciples based on the trial rankings, and Lin Bai emerged in first place by a wide margin. The Grand Elder offered to take Lin Bai as his disciple, but Lin Bai refused, leaving the ceremony at a tense turning point.

• Ji Bei brought more than three hundred surviving martial artists to the disciple-recruitment hall and announced the trial rankings.
• Kong Shuang accepted tenth-place Sun Wang as his disciple, while Zhang Xunlong joined his relative in the elders’ ranks.
• Zhang Yi and Zhao Qian competed for third-place Ye Guxing, who chose Zhang Yi, and Ji Bai accepted second-place Nan Lidao.
• Ji Bei announced Lin Bai’s first-place result of 321 Ordinary Tokens and one Purple Token, drawing the Grand Elder’s personal offer to take him as a disciple.
• Lin Bai refused the Grand Elder because he planned to kill Xiang Tianyi and still wanted Ling Tianzi as his master.

Lin Bai rejected the Grand Elder and asked Ling Tianzi to take him as a disciple, but Ling Tianzi refused and left. The Grand Elder then retaliated by replacing Lin Bai’s promised reward with a difficult, incomplete sword manual, which Lin Bai decided to cultivate anyway.

• Lin Bai refused the Grand Elder’s offer and asked Ling Tianzi to accept him as a disciple, but Ling Tianzi rejected him and departed.
• Lin Bai vowed to become Ling Tianzi’s disciple, while Ji Bei warned him that the Grand Elder might seek revenge.
• Ji Bei prepared three Profound Grade, Fifth Rank sword arts as Lin Bai’s trial reward, but the Grand Elder intervened and gave him the Profound Grade, Third Rank Dragon River Swordplay instead.
• Ji Bei explained that Dragon River Swordplay consumed vital blood to form Dragon Force Sword Qi and that its sword techniques were missing from the incomplete manual.
• Lin Bai said he could replenish his vital blood with demonic beast blood and accepted the challenge of cultivating Dragon River Swordplay.

After rejecting Grand Elder's offer, Lin Bai received the Star Severing Swordplay from Ji Bei and studied both it and the Dragon River Swordplay. He began trying to condense Dragon Force Sword Qi, but his blood and qi were nearly exhausted before he could finish.

• Ji Bei explained that Dragon River Swordplay could produce Dragon Force Sword Qi worth ninety thousand jin of force per strand, then secretly gave Lin Bai the Star Severing Swordplay and warned him not to cultivate the Dragon River Swordplay.
• Lin Bai thanked Ji Bei for his past help and returned to his residence with Qi Shaolong and Tiedan, explaining that he could not peacefully coexist with Grand Elder if he killed Xiang Tianyi in their duel.
• While Qi Shaolong and Tiedan slept, Lin Bai studied the Dragon River Swordplay through the night, memorized it, and destroyed its manual.
• Lin Bai trained for seven days and brought the Star Severing Swordplay to Minor Achievement.
• Lin Bai used the blood of three True Martial Realm demonic beasts to begin cultivating Dragon River Swordplay, but the process nearly drained all the blood and qi from his body halfway through.

Lin Bai survived the dangerous process of condensing one strand of Dragon Force Sword Qi and went to White Cloud Peak to seek Ling Tianzi as his master. Ling Tianzi agreed to test him, offering a path from nominal disciple to formal disciple if Lin Bai met two demanding goals.

• Lin Bai absorbed the blood and qi of three demon beasts to stop the blood dragon from breaking through his dantian, then rejoiced that he had condensed one strand of Dragon Force Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai declined Qi Shaolong and Tiedan's invitation to watch the Outer Disciple martial competition and went to White Cloud Peak instead.
• Li Shanqing told Lin Bai that Ling Tianzi would not accept him, but Lin Bai tricked Li Shanqing and entered the palace to find Ling Tianzi.
• Lin Bai explained that his Third Uncle, Lin Yue, had said only Ling Tianzi could teach him, and Ling Tianzi recognized Lin Duo as Lin Bai's father.
• Ling Tianzi offered to accept Lin Bai as a nominal disciple if he became the number-one Outer Disciple in four months, and as a formal disciple if he became a Core Disciple within one year.

Lin Bai agreed to Ling Tianzi’s trials for a chance to become his disciple, then went to watch the newcomers’ martial competition. The chapter ended with Ge Liang mocking the defeated newcomers and challenging them to face him.

• Lin Bai vowed to win first place in the Outer Disciple Ranking Battles in four months and become a Core Disciple within a year, and Ling Tianzi dismissed his apology for destroying the Hall of Books.
• Li Shanqing told Lin Bai that Ling Tianzi had arranged for him to find the Thunderous Sword Intent Scroll and was considering taking him as a disciple.
• Ling Tianzi explained that Lin Bai’s performance in the Ranking Battles and his progress toward becoming a Core Disciple would test whether his weak martial soul limited his potential.
• Lin Bai went to the newcomers’ martial competition and saw Ye Guxing lose to the established disciple Ge Liang.
• Ge Liang mocked the newcomers and asked whether any of them dared to challenge him.

Lin Bai answered Ge Liang’s challenge at the combat arena despite the gap in their cultivation. He defeated Ge Liang in three sword strikes, leaving the new martial artists cheering.

• Ge Liang taunted the new martial artists after defeating Ye Guxing and Nan Lidao, while Qi Shaolong explained that Lin Bai was cultivating in seclusion.
• Lin Bai revealed himself in the crowd and stepped onto the arena, saying he wanted the ten thousand spirit stones.
• Ge Liang attacked Lin Bai with the Hundred Battles Fist, but Lin Bai countered his first two punches with sword strikes.
• Lin Bai’s third sword, Falling Star Moon Strike, broke Ge Liang’s protective true qi and knocked him off the arena.
• The new martial artists cheered as Lin Bai’s victory stunned the crowd.

Lin Bai defeated three veteran warriors in the new disciples' sparring tournament and collected their spirit stones. After his third victory, he remained on the platform and asked whether anyone else would challenge him.

• Ge Liang refused to accept his loss, but Sun Deshui challenged Lin Bai and bet ten thousand spirit stones.
• Lin Bai defeated Sun Deshui with one sword, and Ge Liang and Sun Deshui handed over a total of thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Lin Bai stayed on the platform to seek more challengers, prompting Zhang Hua to bet ten thousand spirit stones against him.
• Lin Bai broke Zhang Hua's true qi shield and knocked him off the platform, then claimed Zhang Hua's spirit stones.
• After three victories, Lin Bai called for another challenger, leaving Nan Lidao and Ye Guxing astonished by his strength.

After defeating Zhang Hua, Lin Bai used the thirty thousand spirit stones he won to reach the True Martial First Level and prepared to train in the Falling Goose Mountain Range. He went to the Martial Arts Pavilion to find a movement technique and learned that veteran disciples were waiting to ambush him at the Martial Combat Arena.

• Lin Bai left the arena after no one else dared challenge him, then returned to the Novice Courtyard with Qi Shaolong and Tiedan.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb thirty thousand spirit stones and broke through to the True Martial First Level.
• Lin Bai decided to hunt demonic beasts in the Falling Goose Mountain Range to raise his cultivation before fighting Xiang Tianyi and Xu Zailong.
• Lin Bai studied sword intent at the Library and went to the Martial Arts Pavilion to choose a movement technique.
• Nan Lidao invited Lin Bai to travel with him and Ye Guxing, but Lin Bai declined and chose to act alone.
• Ye Guxing warned Lin Bai that veteran disciples planned to ambush him if he went to the Martial Combat Arena.

Lin Bai searched the Martial Arts Pavilion for a movement technique and learned that the Divine Alliance had monopolized its Profound Grade manuals. Li Qingxuan gave him Extreme Shadow Step, but when Lin Bai borrowed it despite an elder’s warning, Zheng Yuhua arrived and discovered that Lin Bai had taken it.

• Lin Bai searched the movement technique shelves and met Li Qingxuan, leader of the Sword Alliance, who invited him to spar with its sword cultivators.
• Li Qingxuan explained that Divine Alliance disciples kept Profound Grade martial arts in circulation among themselves, then gave Lin Bai Extreme Shadow Step to borrow.
• The elder on guard warned Lin Bai that Zheng Yuhua of the Divine Alliance expected to borrow Extreme Shadow Step, but Lin Bai insisted on taking it.
• Zheng Yuhua arrived to claim Extreme Shadow Step, learned it had already been borrowed, and recognized Lin Bai after one of his companions pointed him out.

Lin Bai clashed with Zheng Yuhua over borrowing Extreme Shadow Step, then mastered the skill and headed to Falling Goose Mountain Range to train. There, Zheng Yuhua learned Lin Bai had arrived and enlisted his powerful brother Zheng Yuqing to pursue him while the Divine Alliance prepared to hunt a powerful demonic beast.

• Zheng Yuhua demanded that Lin Bai surrender Extreme Shadow Step and slap himself, but Lin Bai refused and mocked him.
• The Martial Arts Pavilion elder stopped Zheng Yuhua from attacking Lin Bai and warned him to obey the sect’s rules.
• Lin Bai practiced Extreme Shadow Step for three days and nights, reached minor mastery, and left for Falling Goose Mountain Range after instructing Tiedan and Qi Shaolong.
• Zheng Yuhua learned Lin Bai had entered the mountain range and told Zheng Yuqing that he planned to kill him and take back the martial skill.
• Zheng Yuqing agreed to go after Lin Bai, while more than five hundred Divine Alliance warriors gathered to help Wen Yuanjia hunt a ninth-level Profound Martial Realm demonic beast.

Lin Bai killed a third-level True Martial Mountain-Suppressing Bear and absorbed its qi and blood, reaching the peak of the first level of the True Martial Realm. He then met six martial artists who invited him to hunt in a demonic beast lair containing a sixth-level True Martial beast, and he eagerly considered the possible gains.

• Lin Bai found and fought a third-level True Martial Mountain-Suppressing Bear, overcoming its tough hide and powerful attacks to kill it with Falling Star Moon Strike.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the bear’s qi and blood, advancing from the early stage to the peak of the first level of the True Martial Realm.
• Six martial artists arrived, and Lin Bai stored the bear’s corpse before telling the dark-faced young man that he had killed it.
• The dark-faced young man invited Lin Bai to explore a demonic beast lair with a sixth-level True Martial demonic beast, and Lin Bai grew excited at the prospect of advancing further.

Lin Bai joined Sun Qian and the Sword Alliance on an expedition to the Exploding Ape Nest, hoping to test his swordsmanship and possibly join the alliance. After the group entered the canyon and found no Exploding Apes, Lin Bai sensed danger and felt someone watching him.

• Sun Qian invited Lin Bai to hunt Exploding Apes with the Sword Alliance, explaining the spoils and commission rules.
• Lin Bai agreed to join the mission and learned about the alliances within the Spirit Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai and Sun Qian arrived at the canyon, where Huang Feng questioned Lin Bai’s presence before leading the Sword Alliance inside.
• Lin Bai noticed that the canyon was strangely quiet and warned Sun Qian that no Exploding Apes had appeared.
• Lin Bai sensed someone watching him, roared, and turned to look.

Lin Bai sensed a Burst Ape watching the Sword Alliance group and warned Huang Feng that they were surrounded, but Huang Feng dismissed him and continued into the canyon. Lin Bai left with Sun Qian, and the Burst Apes launched an ambush with boulders, leaving the remaining martial artists trapped as Lin Bai and Sun Qian fled.

• Lin Bai spotted a Burst Ape spying near the canyon entrance and warned Huang Feng that the group was likely encircled.
• Huang Feng and the Sword Alliance martial artists mocked Lin Bai, and one blue-robed man attacked him before Lin Bai knocked his sword aside and left the canyon.
• Sun Qian chose to believe Lin Bai, broke with Huang Feng, and followed him out.
• Huang Feng led the remaining Sword Alliance martial artists deeper into the canyon as Burst Apes rolled enormous boulders down from both mountainsides.
• The falling boulders crushed and pinned more than a dozen martial artists, and Lin Bai urged Sun Qian to run toward the canyon entrance.

Lin Bai and the Sword Alliance warriors were trapped in the canyon by the Exploding Apes, and Huang Feng tried to lead them in a counterattack. After the Ape King nearly killed him, Huang Feng offered to betray the warriors in exchange for his life, and the Ape King agreed to let him act.

• Lin Bai and the Sword Alliance warriors found the canyon exit sealed by a massive Cyan Rock wall, which Lin Bai and Huang Feng could not break.
• Huang Feng blamed Lin Bai for the ambush, but Sun Qian spotted the Exploding Apes descending into the canyon.
• Huang Feng rallied the Sword Alliance warriors to fight the more than a hundred Exploding Apes, while Lin Bai prepared to defend himself.
• Huang Feng attacked the Ape King, but the Ape King knocked him into a crater and nearly killed him.
• Huang Feng begged the Ape King for mercy and promised to bring it warriors to eat, then agreed to kill the Sword Alliance warriors after the Ape King accepted.

Huang Feng betrayed the Sword Alliance martial artists, killing them to bargain for his escape while Lin Bai fought the apes and raised his cultivation. After Lin Bai killed a powerful ape, Huang Feng turned his attention to him, with only Sun Qian and two other young men left alive.

• The Ape King ordered the apes to retreat, and Huang Feng revealed he had agreed to feed the Sword Alliance martial artists to the apes in exchange for his freedom.
• Huang Feng killed two martial artists and threw their bodies to the Ape King as the others tried to flee, but the apes cut them down.
• Lin Bai killed apes to absorb their power and broke through to the second level of the True Martial Realm.
• The Ape King sent a powerful ape after Lin Bai, who dodged its attack with Extreme Shadow Step and killed it with a sword strike.
• The Ape King roared at Huang Feng, who abandoned the remaining martial artists and charged at Lin Bai; only Sun Qian and two other young men remained.

Lin Bai slaughtered Explosive Apes to absorb their blood essence and advance to the third stage of the True Martial Realm while Huang Feng repeatedly attacked him. Lin Bai then shattered Huang Feng’s strongest sword strike, leaving Huang Feng stunned.

• Huang Feng abandoned the Sword Alliance fighters and struck Lin Bai from behind, but Lin Bai turned to killing Explosive Apes to strengthen himself.
• Lin Bai used the Thunder God Sword to cut down groups of Explosive Apes and absorbed their blood essence, astonishing Sun Qian and the surviving Sword Alliance martial artists.
• Huang Feng feared Lin Bai might join the Sword Alliance and attract Li Qingxuan’s attention, so he struck Lin Bai again and sent him crashing into a stone wall.
• Lin Bai absorbed more blood essence and broke through to the third stage of the True Martial Realm before attacking Huang Feng.
• Huang Feng’s Godwind Swordplay injured Lin Bai, but Lin Bai countered with Falling Star Moon Strike and shattered Huang Feng’s strongest attack.

Lin Bai split Huang Feng’s Boundless Storm, wounded him, and killed him despite Huang Fei’s threat. He then slaughtered the apes in the canyon and charged at the enraged Ape King, hoping to gain enough vital blood force to break through.

• Lin Bai cleaved Huang Feng’s tornado apart with Falling Star Moon Strike and struck him with Heavenly Star of Isolation.
• Huang Feng threatened Lin Bai with his brother Huang Fei, but Lin Bai beheaded him.
• Lin Bai dismissed Sun Qian’s warning about provoking Huang Fei and the Divine Alliance, then turned to fight the Ape King.
• Lin Bai cut down dozens of apes, including a fifth-level True Martial Realm ape, while absorbing their vital blood force.
• The enraged Ape King leaped down before Lin Bai, who charged at it while hoping to reach the fourth level of the True Martial Realm.

Lin Bai killed the Ape King and its remaining apes, then broke through to the fourth level of the True Martial Realm. As he and Sun Qian celebrated their survival, Divine Alliance martial artists entered the canyon.

• Lin Bai fought the sixth-level True Martial Ape King, severing its arm and wounding it with his swordplay.
• As the Ape King gathered spiritual energy to self-detonate, Lin Bai used Sword Intent with Falling Star Moon Strike to split it in two.
• Lin Bai devoured the Ape King's vital energy and broke through to the fourth level of the True Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai killed the five remaining apes, wiping out the group and rescuing Sun Qian and the other two Sword Alliance martial artists.
• Someone shattered the stone wall sealing the canyon exit, and Divine Alliance martial artists strode inside.

Lin Bai faced Zheng Yuqing and the Divine Alliance after they demanded he surrender Extreme Shadow Step. Though badly injured by Zheng Yuqing, Lin Bai killed Zheng Yuhua and more than twenty Divine Alliance martial artists while escaping the canyon, and Zheng Yuqing pursued him.

• Zheng Yuhua and Zheng Yuqing confronted Lin Bai and demanded Extreme Shadow Step, while Zheng Yuqing struck Sun Qian aside when he tried to intervene.
• Zheng Yuqing revealed his True Martial Realm ninth-level strength, shattered Lin Bai's sword techniques, and badly wounded him with a punch.
• Lin Bai fled toward the canyon exit, where Zheng Yuhua and more than twenty Divine Alliance martial artists blocked his way.
• Lin Bai unleashed Starry Sky Severance and killed the Divine Alliance martial artists, then split the wounded Zheng Yuhua in half with Falling Star Moon Strike.
• Lin Bai escaped the canyon without taking Zheng Yuhua's Storage Bag, and Zheng Yuqing chased after him, swearing to kill him.

Lin Bai escaped Zheng Yuqing’s pursuit through the Falling Goose Mountain Range and headed toward a powerful disturbance, where he found Wen Yuanjia and the Divine Alliance hunting an Eight-Winged Dragon Serpent. Zheng Yuqing followed him to the scene, leaving Lin Bai near the Divine Alliance and two enemies from his past.

• Lin Bai killed more than twenty martial artists in one sword strike, then fled the canyon as Zheng Yuqing pursued him for killing Zheng Yuhua.
• Li Qingxuan arrived at the canyon, learned that Lin Bai had killed the Ape King horde and Huang Feng had betrayed the group, and feared Lin Bai was in danger.
• For seven days, Zheng Yuqing chased Lin Bai across the Falling Goose Mountain Range, while Lin Bai survived several near-fatal attacks using Extreme Shadow Step.
• Wen Yuanjia gathered more than five hundred Divine Alliance martial artists and led them to hunt the Eight-Winged Dragon Serpent before it completed its transformation.
• Lin Bai sensed the battle’s power and went to investigate; Zheng Yuqing caught up and revealed that Wen Yuanjia’s group was hunting the serpent.
• Lin Bai saw Xu Zailong and Xiang Tianyi among the attackers, along with a confident young man facing the Eight-Winged Dragon Serpent.

Lin Bai watched the Divine Alliance kill the Eight-Winged Dragon Serpent, then was discovered and recognized by Zheng Yuqing, Xiang Tianyi, and Xu Zailong. Wen Yuanjia sent the three after him, and they charged as Lin Bai fled down the hillside.

• Lin Bai weighed whether to seize the Ninth-Level Profound Martial demonic beast while the Divine Alliance fought it.
• Wen Yuanjia ordered Zheng Yuqing to join the battle, and Zheng Yuqing set aside his search for Lin Bai to help.
• The Eight-Winged Dragon Serpent tried to escape, but Zheng Yuqing, Xiang Tianyi, Xu Zailong, and Su Qilin used Yin-Yang Hooks to drag it down, and Wen Yuanjia killed it.
• A Divine Alliance martial artist spotted Lin Bai on the hillside, and Zheng Yuqing, Xiang Tianyi, and Xu Zailong recognized him.
• Wen Yuanjia sent Zheng Yuqing, Xiang Tianyi, and Xu Zailong to kill Lin Bai, and the three charged after him as he ran.