Recaps

Lin Bai met with Xie Chen, the Spirit Lake Dragon King’s fourth disciple, after Xie Chen secretly summoned him. Xie Chen offered to reveal what lay beneath Spirit Lake and why the Dragon King came to the Demon Realm in return for Lin Bai’s help protecting his family, then explained that his master planned to drain his Water Essence and that the Zhao Family’s influence made the Town Sea Sect unsafe for him.

• Lin Bai welcomed nine elders sent by the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, and they grew furious after learning that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had colluded with martial artists from the Demon Realm.
• After night fell, Lin Bai left the Night King with Old Wen and traveled east of Spirit Lake to meet someone who had secretly contacted him.
• Xie Chen arrived using a water escape and revealed that he had a Water Essence Body, which let him send Lin Bai a message through Spirit Lake’s currents.
• Xie Chen offered to explain what lay beneath Spirit Lake and why the Dragon King came to the Demon Realm if Lin Bai helped his family become the foremost family in Rongzhou.
• Xie Chen explained that the Zhao Family and allied families had suppressed the Xie Family for a thousand years, and that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had accepted him only to harvest his Water Essence for treasure refining.
• Xie Chen told Lin Bai that the Zhao Family had powerful elders in the Town Sea Sect, so joining it would have exposed him to even greater danger.

Lin Bai heard Xie Chen’s account of a hidden Great Mystic Art User’s cave dwelling beneath Spirit Lake and learned that the Spirit Lake Dragon King might soon break its restrictions. After Xie Chen provided a warning signal and returned to Spirit Lake, Lin Bai contacted the Palace Master and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to investigate.

• Xie Chen explained that the Zhao family had pressured his clan and that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had kept him as a source of Water Essence.
• Xie Chen revealed that a cave dwelling, possibly belonging to a Great Mystic Art User, lay beneath Spirit Lake and that the Dragon King had sought Demon Realm Formation Daoists to open it.
• Xie Chen warned that the Dragon King might act within three to five days and gave Lin Bai a jade pendant that would signal when the restrictions were opened.
• Xie Chen used the Water Escape Technique to return to Spirit Lake, and Lin Bai decided to contact the Palace Master and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing.
• Lin Bai met with the Palace Master and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing through the voice transmission chamber and began telling them about his discovery.

Lin Bai learned that Spirit Lake Dragon King planned to reverse the formation concealing a Great Mystic Art User’s relic cave dwelling, and he and Shen Yunfan prepared to enter it. The Devil Palace planned to wait until the formation was opened before attacking Spirit Lake, while Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing traveled to assist.

• Lin Bai told Palace Master and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing that Xie Chen had revealed a possible Great Mystic Art User’s relic cave dwelling beneath Spirit Lake and intended to notify him when the formation was opened.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing inferred that Spirit Lake Dragon King planned to reverse the formation and send lower-realm martial artists inside, and warned Lin Bai that the cave dwelling would be extremely dangerous.
• Lin Bai proposed entering the relic cave dwelling with Shen Yunfan while Old Wen, Elder Yu Ce, and Elder Shen Yuan attacked Spirit Lake from outside; Palace Master approved, and Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing advised delaying the assault until Dragon King was weakened.
• Palace Master ended the meeting and went to confront Great Mystic Art Users from the Demon Realm, while Lin Bai asked Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to bring him books on various cultivation arts.
• Back on the ship, Lin Bai told Elder Shen Yuan to wait for Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing’s arrival and asked Shen Yunfan to prepare for their dangerous expedition; he assigned Old Wen and the elders command of the forces left behind.

Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing arrived at the Spirit Lake and supplied Lin Bai’s forces with a powerful formation artifact and thousands of copied classics. After several days of waiting and study, Xie Chen’s jade pendant shattered, signaling that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had reversed the formation and opened the way to the hidden treasure.

• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing reunited with Lin Bai aboard the Night King and gave Elder Shen Yuan the Five-Thunder Coiling Dragon Formation to help trap the Spirit Lake Dragon King.
• Luo Yuanjing gave Lin Bai a Storage Bag containing thousands of copied classics, then revealed his knowledge of the Night King’s formations by opening a hidden passage to a secret chamber.
• Lin Bai ordered Old Wen to monitor the Spirit Lake and withdrew the Dragon Protector Guard to make the Spirit Lake Dragon King lower his guard.
• Lin Bai spent several days memorizing the classics until Old Wen reported unusual movement at the Spirit Lake.
• Xie Chen’s jade pendant shattered, confirming that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had reversed the formation and opened its restrictions.
• Lin Bai ordered Shen Yunfan to accompany him to the Spirit Lake and commanded Old Wen to lead the Dragon Protector Guard in an attack.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan received Boundary Breaking Beads from Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing to escape the Great Mystic Art User’s cave abode if danger arose. After preparing to enter, they slipped into Spirit Lake and reached the Crystal Palace, where the story left them poised to proceed.

• Old Wen inferred that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had reversed the formation and was preparing to send the group into the cave abode after Xie Chen’s jade pendant shattered.
• Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing gave Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan Boundary Breaking Beads that could break formations and return them to the Night King, but refused Lin Bai’s request for extras.
• Luo Yuanjing gave them jade slips listing the rare materials needed to refine more beads and explained the time and effort required to master unorthodox arts.
• Lin Bai put Old Wen in charge of attacking Spirit Lake and reassured him that the Boundary Breaking Bead could help him escape the cave abode.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan vanished from the Night King, evaded the Spirit Lake Demon Race, and arrived at the Crystal Palace on the lakebed.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan infiltrated the Crystal Palace while the Devil Palace attacked Spirit Lake, after Lin Bai used Devouring Power to cut through its formidable protective formation. They entered undetected as the Spirit Lake Dragon King and most of his forces prepared to resist the assault, leaving the search for the cave dwelling’s treasures underway.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan waited outside the Crystal Palace until Old Wen reported their presence, then the Devil Palace began attacking Spirit Lake.
• Elder Yu Ce struck the Crystal Palace’s formation, drawing the Spirit Lake Dragon King out to confront the Devil Palace while he sent Ao Qing, Xie Chen, and other juniors through the reversed formation toward the cave dwelling.
• The Spirit Lake Dragon King allied with the Demon Race powerhouses remaining inside the palace to hold off the attack and buy time for their juniors.
• Lin Bai used Devouring Power to tear a passage through the Crystal Palace’s defensive formation, then entered with Shen Yunfan before the crack repaired itself.
• Inside the Crystal Palace, Shen Yunfan said he hoped to claim it as his secluded cultivation residence if it survived the coming battle.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan found the cave dwelling entrance in the Crystal Palace, but discovered it was guarded by powerful Demon Realm experts. Lin Bai asked Elder Shen Yuan and Old Wen to draw the guards away, and Old Wen began by unleashing his overwhelming divine sense against Spirit Lake.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan searched the Crystal Palace separately and used a jade mirror to reunite after Shen Yunfan found a courtyard on the eastern side.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan sensed seven or eight Supreme Dao Fruit realm Demon Race experts guarding the courtyard, which they believed contained the entrance to the Great Mystic Art User's cave dwelling.
• Lin Bai sent a message through the jade mirror, asking Elder Shen Yuan and Old Wen to find a way to lure the Demon Race guards away.
• Elder Shen Yuan told Old Wen that Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan were trapped outside the guarded cave entrance, and Old Wen devised a plan to make the Demon Realm martial artists leave it.
• Old Wen unleashed a vast divine sense over Spirit Lake, killing weaker Demon Race members and shaking the Crystal Palace's formations.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered the hidden passage beneath the Spirit Lake and emerged in a vast underground space that seemed like an independent world. There, Lin Bai recognized a glowing beetle as a dangerous Spirit-Exploding Insect just as it detonated.

• Old Wen battered the Crystal Palace’s array with his Divine Sense, while the Demon Race members fled to a chamber that could block Divine Sense searches.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan slipped through the courtyard’s array restriction and found a dark vortex at its center that served as a passage.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered the vortex and endured its crushing pressure before emerging in a vast, dim underground world.
• Shen Yunfan drew a glowing beetle toward him, and Lin Bai recognized it as a Spirit-Exploding Insect moments before it exploded.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered a vast field of Blade-Sword Leaves and discovered it was an insect chamber filled with Spirit-Exploding Insects. As an unseen force directed hundreds of thousands of insects to surround them, the two fought to break through but were battered by the swarm’s explosions.

• Lin Bai recognized the glowing insects as Spirit-Exploding Insects and fled with Shen Yunfan as the swarm detonated behind them.
• Lin Bai identified the Blade-Sword Leaves below and realized they had been cultivated as food for the Spirit-Exploding Insects.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan concluded they had entered an insect chamber where the insects had multiplied unchecked, and Lin Bai suspected someone was directing them.
• Lin Bai cut down an attacking swarm with the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, but more insects gathered into a wall and surrounded them.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan tore a gap in the encircling swarm and charged through, enduring repeated explosions that shattered and restored their protective barriers.

The Blood Demon learned that human and Demon Race martial artists had entered the ancient cave dwelling and assigned Sword Robe and Eight-Eyes to deal with them. Meanwhile, Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan fled the Spirit-Exploding Insects but realized a spatial formation was keeping them trapped in the same area.

• The woman in green told the Blood Demon that Demon Race martial artists had triggered the first-level hall’s restrictions, while two human martial artists had been moved into the insect chamber.
• The Blood Demon ordered Eight-Eyes to kill the two humans and Sword Robe to deal with the demons, while three others were told to support them.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan tore through the Spirit-Exploding Insects’ encirclement and fled at full speed, but the insects kept pace.
• Shen Yunfan noticed they had not escaped the insects’ territory despite flying a great distance, and Lin Bai suspected a spatial formation was looping their path.
• Lin Bai concluded the cave dwelling must have been created by a Great Mystic Art User, while he and Shen Yunfan remained trapped with the insects closing in.

Lin Bai concealed himself and Shen Yunfan from the Spirit-Exploding Insects, then used insights into the space’s laws to develop a movement art that carried them across the grassland. Just as they neared its edge, a horn awakened the insects and sent them charging at the pair.

• Lin Bai used the Void Evasion Art’s Undying Pursuit to hide himself and Shen Yunfan from the uncontrolled Spirit-Exploding Insects.
• After flying for three days, Lin Bai applied his observations of the space’s laws to devise a new movement art resembling a spatial jump.
• Lin Bai used the new art to carry Shen Yunfan across the grassland in repeated leaps, and they reached its boundary near a dark-red region.
• A strange horn sounded and awakened the Spirit-Exploding Insects, which charged toward Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan in orderly ranks.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan raised protective screens and used sword flashes to shred the insects attacking them.

Eight-Eyes activated the insect chamber’s control token, turning its Spirit-Exploding Insects against Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan as they neared the exit. The pair fought through the swarm and powerful sword-intent attacks, then Lin Bai used Flash to carry Shen Yunfan onward while both threats gathered again.

• Eight-Eyes watched the insect chamber, then learned from a sinister old man that the Demon Race fighters had wounded Ironheart and were causing trouble elsewhere.
• When Eight-Eyes spotted Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan nearing the exit, he used a black iron token to awaken and direct the Spirit-Exploding Insects toward them.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan found that their concealment technique no longer fooled the intelligent swarm, so they fought toward the exit with sword arts.
• The grassland’s sword-and-saber leaves gathered their sword intent into two iron-black attacks that struck Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan, injuring Shen Yunfan.
• As the sword-intent attacks and insect swarm formed again, Lin Bai grabbed Shen Yunfan and used Flash to carry him through the chamber.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan escaped the Spirit-Exploding Insects and crossed a vast field of Yinhun Soil, where Corpse Immortal Insects joined the pursuit. They fled toward a mountain crowned by a shifting golden-and-silver sun, while Lin Bai sensed that someone was watching them.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan fled the Spirit-Exploding Insects as the Sword Qi dissipated, and swarms of Corpse Immortal Insects emerged from the Yinhun Soil to fight them.
• Lin Bai identified the ground as Yinhun Soil and explained how Corpse Immortal Insects formed and why they were difficult to destroy.
• The Corpse Immortal Insects and Spirit-Exploding Insects stopped fighting and pursued Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan together, leading Lin Bai to suspect someone was controlling them.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan escaped the Yinhun Soil and discovered mountain ranges beneath a giant peak crowned by a sphere that shifted between golden and silver.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan decided to head toward the sphere, and Lin Bai revealed that he had sensed someone secretly watching them.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan tracked down the hidden controller of the insect swarms and discovered he was the Eight-Eyes strange man, a Demon Race native who guarded the cave dwelling for generations. After he revealed that he had gathered five kinds of Strange Insects to fight them, the pair found themselves surrounded.

• The Eight-Eyes strange man asked his companions for reinforcements, but they refused because they were occupied fighting Demon Race warriors elsewhere.
• The Eight-Eyes strange man activated five restriction tokens and summoned Corpse Immortal Insects, Spirit-Exploding Insects, Ironclad Insects, Soul Devouring Beasts, and Hundred-Eyed Insects.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan noticed the Eight-Eyes strange man's deliberately exposed aura and searched for him while questioning him about the cave dwelling.
• Shen Yunfan used Void Tracking Swordplay to force the hidden man out, and Lin Bai blocked his escape as Shen Yunfan wounded him with a sword strike.
• The Eight-Eyes strange man escaped their encirclement, revealed that he was a peak Grand Luo Dao Fruit Demon Race native, and said his ancestors had guarded the cave dwelling for generations.
• The Eight-Eyes strange man summoned five kinds of Strange Insects, and Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan recognized the swarms gathering around them.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan faced the Eight-Eyes monster and five kinds of Strange Insects, including an elusive Soul Devouring Beast, and realized the monster’s restriction tokens were the key to escaping. Lin Bai stayed behind to draw the swarm while Shen Yunfan charged at the monster, but the insects overwhelmed Lin Bai’s sword formations without appearing to diminish.

• Lin Bai recognized the Soul Devouring Beast as the greatest threat among the five kinds of Strange Insects summoned by the Eight-Eyes monster.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan concluded that killing the Eight-Eyes monster and taking his restriction tokens could let them escape the swarm.
• Lin Bai volunteered to hold off the insects while Shen Yunfan broke through to attack the Eight-Eyes monster.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, but the Eight-Eyes monster forced Spirit-Exploding Insects to detonate and the Hundred-Eyed Insects to blast holes through it.
• Lin Bai withdrew the formation and used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to crush large numbers of insects, but their swarms seemed unchanged.

Lin Bai fought Eight-Eyes’s Strange Insects while conserving his spiritual power, but the Soul Devouring Beast and the swarming insects pushed him into danger. After unleashing his Crimson Lotus Sword Domain to wipe out many of them, he kept the reborn Soul Devouring Beast at bay as Shen Yunfan attacked Eight-Eyes, who countered with Ironclad Insects and a bronze hammer.

• Lin Bai retreated while using his sword formation sparingly, but Eight-Eyes summoned the Soul Devouring Beast, which repeatedly bypassed Lin Bai’s defenses and reassembled after his attacks.
• Spirit-Exploding Insects and Corpse Immortal Insects caught Lin Bai, while a Hundred-Eyed Insect’s filament wounded him and the swarm overwhelmed the Sea God Pearl’s shield.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Crimson Lotus Sword Domain, killing most of the Strange Insects in its range, but the Soul Devouring Beast survived and reassembled.
• Lin Bai chose to conserve his remaining spiritual power and stall the Soul Devouring Beast while many Strange Insects remained.
• Shen Yunfan fought through the encirclement and attacked Eight-Eyes, whose Ironclad Insects formed a shield that stopped his sword strike.
• Eight-Eyes revealed the Ironclad Insects’ defensive strength, then spat out dark-green smoke that formed a bronze hammer and hurled it at Shen Yunfan.

Shen Yunfan wounded the Eight-Eyed man with his Void Tracking Swordplay, allowing Lin Bai to identify him as an Eight-Eyed Demon Toad and defeat him. The Demon Toad’s death freed the Strange Insects from his control, and they fled.

• The Eight-Eyed man attacked Shen Yunfan with Xuan Qing Demonic Energy, but Shen Yunfan used Void Tracking Swordplay to strike him repeatedly.
• The Eight-Eyed man unleashed Destructive Golden Light, destroying Shen Yunfan’s sword lights and forcing him to emerge injured.
• Lin Bai recognized the Eight-Eyed man as an Eight-Eyed Demon Toad and confronted him over the ancient conflict between humans and demons.
• Lin Bai attacked with the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation while Shen Yunfan held back the Soul Devouring Beast and the other Strange Insects.
• The wounded Demon Toad repeatedly used Destructive Golden Light, but Lin Bai’s flying sword ring broke through it and killed him.
• The Strange Insects and Soul Devouring Beast lost their controller and disappeared, and Shen Yunfan rejoined Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan defeated the Eight-Eyed Demon Toad, obtained its Destructive Golden Light, and collected five tokens they could not yet control. After hearing an explosion from the mountains, they headed toward it, suspecting the cave dwelling might be connected to the Myriad Realms Treasure Vaults.

• Lin Bai refined the Eight-Eyed Demon Toad’s remains into Destructive Golden Light and gave the treasure to Shen Yunfan.
• Lin Bai examined the five insect-control tokens but could not overcome their restrictions, so he stored them to take to Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan searched the battlefield, found no other valuable remains, and took pills to restore their spiritual power.
• A thunderous boom sounded from the mountains near the enormous peak, and Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan suspected other beings were there.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan speculated that the cave dwelling might be a Myriad Realms Treasure Vault and headed into the mountains.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan explored a vast mountain chain and headed for its summit, where other cultivators were already fighting. An air-restricting formation forced them to climb on foot, and they discovered a meditation cushion woven from Heavenly Secret Grass that Shen Yunfan could not remove.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan surveyed the mountain chain and suspected its original master had used it to raise spirit beasts and spirit insects.
• Lin Bai chose to head for the highest peak, where palaces and pavilions stood among the clouds and fighting had begun at the summit.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered the peak’s range and were forced to land by a powerful air-restricting formation.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan followed the White Jade Ancient Road for several hours and found a vermilion pavilion overlooking a mountain range.
• Lin Bai identified the pavilion’s meditation cushion as Heavenly Secret Grass, and Shen Yunfan explained that he had once received only one drop of Heaven Mending Liquid.
• Shen Yunfan tried to take the cushion, but a restriction held it in place, so Lin Bai told him to ask the Devil Palace for it later.

Fellow Daoist Array and the blood-robed young man, Fellow Daoist Blood Demon, plotted against each other as they sought to open the restriction to the cave abode’s third level. On the first level, Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan reached the mountain summit and discovered two Demon Race factions fighting over the immortal palace complex.

• Fellow Daoist Blood Demon urged Fellow Daoist Array to hurry and open the third-level restriction, while Fellow Daoist Array dismissed the intruders and secretly prepared to break it alone.
• After Fellow Daoist Blood Demon left, Fellow Daoist Array set up a defensive formation and began breaking the restriction, unaware that Fellow Daoist Blood Demon was secretly watching and intended to kill him once it opened.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan failed to remove the treasures on the mountain and continued toward the summit, with Lin Bai deciding not to expose his Devouring Power for treasures he did not need.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan concealed themselves near the summit and saw Dong Qi, Ning Shuang, Xie Chen, and other Demon Race martial artists battling another Demon Race group accompanied by five strange beasts.
• Lin Bai recognized the five beasts as Primordial Wilds Breeds but judged their bloodlines impure and called them Primordial Ancient Beasts instead.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan watched the Spirit Lake Demon Race struggle against the cave abode’s Demon Race, five ancient beasts, and deadly golden lightning. After the Demon Bat Clan’s young man exposed their hiding place and proposed an alliance, Lin Bai agreed to emerge and join the battle.

• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan observed the golden lightning kill another Spirit Lake Demon Race member while the cave abode’s Demon Race and five ancient beasts kept the attackers suppressed.
• The black-robed young man called out Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan’s hiding place and proposed that they join forces against the cave abode’s Demon Race.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan discussed the risks of allying with the stronger Spirit Lake Demon Race, then decided to act and emerged from hiding.
• Ao Qing recognized Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan, while the black-robed young man greeted them and welcomed Lin Bai’s help.
• The black-robed young man explained that his Demon Bat Clan’s innate abilities let him detect their concealment technique.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan rejected a proposed alliance with the Demon Realm martial artists, suspecting they would be betrayed once the cave-dwelling demons were defeated. The cave-dwelling demons launched a surprise attack with the palace’s restriction lightning, killing two demons, and Lin Bai identified the woman in green as the one controlling it.

• Lin Bai learned that fifteen demons had entered the cave dwelling and that seven had been killed, then questioned the woman in green about the place’s original master.
• A black-robed Demon Realm martial artist urged Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan to join forces, but Lin Bai refused because he expected the demons to betray them.
• The woman in green and the other cave-dwelling demons attacked after secretly gathering the palace’s restriction lightning.
• Lin Bai, Shen Yunfan, and the black-robed martial artist dodged the lightning, while two bolts struck and annihilated two demons.
• Lin Bai spotted the formation compass in the woman in green’s hand and concluded that killing her would weaken the enemy’s control over the lightning.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan joined forces with the Spirit Lake Demon Race to target the woman in blue and seize her formation disc, which controlled the palace’s lethal golden lightning. As the battle spread, Lin Bai distracted the five ancient beasts with his flying swords, then dodged a lightning strike using a movement technique he had learned in the insect chamber.

• The woman in blue used the formation disc to send golden lightning at Lin Bai and the others, while Lin Bai realized that her lightning was the Cave Abode demons’ main weapon.
• Lin Bai told Shen Yunfan they had to seize the formation disc, then demanded that the black-robed young man’s group fight without expecting him to reveal his strongest treasures for them.
• The black-robed young man secretly planned to use the Cave Abode demons to wear down Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan, while Ao Qing agreed and Xie Chen considered warning Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai sent six flying swords against the five ancient beasts, but the beasts and the old spider demon restrained them and prevented the sword formation from forming.
• Lin Bai charged toward the woman in blue with the Demon Sword, but she unleashed golden lightning at him, and he escaped its strike by shifting thirty zhang away with a technique from the Void Evasion Art.

Lin Bai coordinated with the Demon Race to attack the cave-dwelling demons while secretly planning to let the two sides weaken each other over the formation disc. As the fight continued, he reflected on the Demon Race’s cultivation, bloodlines, and inherited mystic arts.

• Lin Bai refused to activate his Supreme Divine Weapon or Supreme Avatar and assigned the Demon Race to fight the woman in blue and her companion while he and Shen Yunfan restrained the elders.
• Lin Bai told Shen Yunfan to hold back because the Demon Race would provoke the cave-dwelling demons into fighting desperately once it seized the formation disc.
• Shen Yunfan entangled the skinny old man, while Lin Bai freed the Dragon Eye Flying Sword from the pockmarked old woman’s spider silk and attacked her.
• The black-robed young man, Ao Qing, and the other demons attacked the woman in blue and her companion, but the woman used the formation disc to summon golden lightning that killed one demon.
• Lin Bai observed the fighters and considered how the Demon Race’s physical strength, innate mystic arts, and bloodline-based inheritance differed from human cultivation.

Lin Bai exploited the demons’ negotiations to kill the azure snake and seize its formation disk, then faced the Spirit Lake Demon Race while Shen Yunfan fought the cave-dwelling demons. The chapter ended as both sides divided the battlefield and prepared to battle.

• The azure snake and black snake transformed into their true forms, and the azure snake proposed joining forces with the Spirit Lake Demon Race to attack Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan.
• Lin Bai used his newly comprehended Blinking technique to reach the azure snake and kill it with one sword strike, taking its formation disk.
• The black-robed young man proposed renewing the alliance against the humans, but Lin Bai rejected him and prepared to fight the demons.
• Shen Yunfan killed the gaunt old demon and drew the black snake and the spider-form old woman away from Lin Bai.
• The black-robed young man sent Dong Qi and Ning Shuang to fight Shen Yunfan, while he, Ao Qing, and Xie Chen confronted Lin Bai.