Recaps

Lin Bai faced the black-robed youth, Ao Qing, and Xie Chen as they unleashed their strongest attacks, but his Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation shattered their assault. He destroyed the black-robed youth’s bat phantom after it forced its way through the formation, while Ao Qing and Xie Chen retreated wounded.

• The black-robed youth warned Ao Qing and Xie Chen that Lin Bai was formidable and urged them to attack with their ultimate abilities before Lin Bai could use his Supreme Avatar or other defenses.
• The black-robed youth summoned his demon core, while Ao Qing and Xie Chen transformed into half-dragon forms and revealed their Dragon Might.
• Lin Bai unleashed his six flying swords and scarlet sword intent as the three opponents attacked from different directions.
• Lin Bai’s Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation tore apart Ao Qing and Xie Chen’s claw attacks, wounding both and forcing them to retreat.
• The black-robed youth’s bat phantom endured the sword formation and reached Lin Bai, who destroyed it with a hundred-zhang scarlet sword ray.

Lin Bai shattered the black-robed young man’s Fiend Shadow and realized that Ao Qing and Xie Chen had both held back rather than help him. The demon tried to flee with several powerful treasures, but Lin Bai destroyed them and caught up to him, leaving him wounded and begging for mercy.

• The black-robed young man suffered a backlash when Lin Bai destroyed his Fiend Shadow, then suspected Ao Qing and Xie Chen of deliberately withholding their strength.
• Lin Bai recognized that the three opponents were divided and decided to target the black-robed young man first.
• The black-robed young man concluded that he could not defeat Lin Bai and fled, throwing out several treasures to cover his escape.
• Lin Bai destroyed the firebird feather, bone dagger, Golden Light Beast demon core, and Flood Dragon reverse scale with his flying swords.
• Lin Bai’s remaining swords broke through the black-robed young man’s defenses and wounded him, prompting him to beg for mercy and call on Ao Qing and Xie Chen to attack.

Formation Fellow Daoist opened the passage to the cave abode’s third layer, and its dragon roar alerted a dragon prince and his father in the Demon Realm. Meanwhile, Xie Chen betrayed Ao Qing and helped Lin Bai turn against their enemies, leaving Lin Bai to attack the black-robed young man.

• Formation Fellow Daoist used his counter-formation to disable the second-layer formation, opening a passage as a powerful dragon roar struck him and exposed the hidden Blood Demon.
• Formation Fellow Daoist and Blood Demon raced into the third layer, while a dragon prince and his father heard the roar and tore through the void to find its source.
• As Lin Bai fought the black-robed young man, Ao Qing and Xie Chen secretly prepared to attack Lin Bai together.
• Xie Chen instead ambushed Ao Qing, severely injuring him, and offered to hold him back while Lin Bai dealt with the black-robed young man.
• Lin Bai accepted Xie Chen’s offer and charged at the black-robed young man.

Lin Bai pursued the black-robed youth, who summoned Old Man Tianfu from a bone fragment and sacrificed most of his essence blood before escaping. After Lin Bai killed the youth, Old Man Tianfu attacked him, and Lin Bai trapped the old man in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, though his sword lights could not pierce the black mist.

• The black-robed youth fled from Lin Bai, but Lin Bai caught up and attacked him with six flying swords.
• The youth used his essence blood to activate a bone fragment and summoned Old Man Tianfu, whose laughter halted Lin Bai and his swords.
• Old Man Tianfu drained two-thirds of the youth's essence blood, then blocked Lin Bai while the weakened youth escaped.
• Lin Bai secretly sent three flying swords after the youth, which killed him as Old Man Tianfu watched without intervening.
• Old Man Tianfu attacked Lin Bai, and Lin Bai trapped him in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, but the sword lights vanished into the old man's black mist.

Lin Bai fought Old Man Tianfu’s split-soul avatar, enduring its strange black-mist arts while seeking to exhaust the power within it. After surviving the avatar’s strongest attacks with the Flash mystic art, Lin Bai declared that its strength had nearly run dry and prepared to counterattack.

• Lin Bai realized that the skinny old man’s black-mist protection could evade the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation, and deduced that the old man could not attack while maintaining it.
• The skinny old man formed black wings, rushed Lin Bai, and knocked away the Overlord Sky Halberd and Mount Tai Sword while mocking Lin Bai for wielding weapons he had not refined.
• Lin Bai inferred that the old man was a split soul whose power could not regenerate, then focused on defending with layered Taiji Two Forms Sword Formations and the Sea God Pearl to drain it.
• The old man unleashed a giant bat phantom, broke through Lin Bai’s defenses, and fired deadly blood rays, but Lin Bai escaped them with the Flash mystic art.
• Lin Bai told the old man that its power was nearly exhausted and sent six flying swords forward, preparing to attack.

Lin Bai killed the black-robed young man and his enormous bat separated soul, then returned to the giant peak to save Xie Chen from Ao Qing. The chapter ended with Lin Bai facing the transformed Flood Dragon after Ao Qing failed to swallow him and was wounded by his Crimson Lotus Sword Intent.

• Lin Bai combined the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and the Crimson Lotus Sword Domain to destroy the enormous bat separated soul, though the attack consumed half his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai found the black-robed young man's corpse and confirmed that the man had no storage treasure.
• A dragon roar shook the cave abode, and Lin Bai hurried back to the giant peak, where Ao Qing had revealed his Flood Dragon form and badly wounded Xie Chen.
• Lin Bai blocked Ao Qing's divine lightning with his sword formation and told the injured Xie Chen to rest.
• Ao Qing attacked Lin Bai by trying to swallow him, but Lin Bai's Crimson Lotus Sword Intent wounded Ao Qing's mouth and forced him to retreat.

Lin Bai battled Ao Qing, surviving the Flood Dragon’s roar and attacks before wounding him with his sword formations. He trapped Ao Qing in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and tore his body apart, but Ao Qing remained alive.

• Ao Qing used his dragon roar and tail to break through Lin Bai’s defenses and nearly struck his head, but Lin Bai severed Ao Qing’s tail with the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Lin Bai formed the Heavenly Wings Four Symbols and Taiji Two Forms sword formations, battering Ao Qing until the Flood Dragon unleashed his Azure Origin Divine Thunder.
• Lin Bai cut apart the remaining thunder and pressed his attack as Ao Qing admitted defeat only through his attempt to invoke the Spirit Lake Dragon King’s status.
• Lin Bai trapped Ao Qing in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation and tore his dragon body apart, but Ao Qing survived with formidable vitality.

Lin Bai killed Ao Qing by devouring his demon core, then returned to the colossal peak as Shen Yunfan defeated the remaining enemies. Ning Shuang survived at Xie Chen’s request and offered to share what she knew about the cave dwelling.

• Ao Qing abandoned his body and fled inside his demon core, but Lin Bai stopped him with the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and trapped him in the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Formation.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to devour Ao Qing’s demon core, restoring much of his spiritual power and healing some injuries.
• Lin Bai returned to the colossal peak, where he found Xie Chen gravely wounded and Shen Yunfan fighting Dong Qi and Ning Shuang; Xie Chen explained that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had tampered with his cultivation technique.
• Lin Bai promised to arrange for Xie Chen to join the Devil Palace’s Ninth Divine Hall and said the Devil Palace would investigate the Town Sea Sect’s dealings with the Demon Race.
• Shen Yunfan killed Dong Qi and nearly killed Ning Shuang, but Lin Bai ordered him to spare her after Xie Chen pleaded for her life.
• Ning Shuang thanked Lin Bai and offered to tell him what she knew about the cave dwelling.

Lin Bai learned that the Spirit Lake Dragon King sought an ancient cave abode because it held the remains of a Dragon Clan predecessor, which could help him rival a true dragon without transforming. Ning Shuang revealed that the cave abode had multiple layers and other powerful lifeforms, leaving Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan to face mysteries beyond the dragon remains.

• Lin Bai questioned Ning Shuang, and she admitted the Spirit Lake Dragon King had taken her in because she possessed a Three-Yin Constitution and used her as a furnace.
• Ning Shuang explained that the Spirit Lake Dragon King had come from the Demon Realm to seek an ancient cave abode connected to the Dragon Clan.
• Ning Shuang said that only eighteen Dragon Clan predecessors' remains remained unrecovered, and only one had fallen in antiquity, making him the likely owner of the cave abode.
• Ning Shuang revealed that the Spirit Lake Dragon King wanted the dragon bones to strengthen his Flood Dragon body enough to face a true dragon without transforming.
• Lin Bai found no dragon remains in the visible space, and Ning Shuang disclosed that the cave abode had at least two layers and contained other powerful lifeforms.

Lin Bai learned that the cave dwelling had a second level and found a golden command token inside Ao Qing’s body that could open the way there. After Lin Bai and the others entered the next space, a Golden Crow guardian attacked them, and the chapter ended with the four fleeing through the token’s golden door.

• Ning Shuang told Lin Bai that the first level was an insect chamber and that Ao Qing had likely known how to reach the cave dwelling’s true treasury on the second level.
• Xie Chen retrieved a bone Storage Space from Ao Qing’s corpse, and Lin Bai found a golden command token inside it.
• Lin Bai took Xie Chen and Ning Shuang’s Soul Blood and gave it to Shen Yunfan to control, then examined the palace complex and its strange golden sun.
• Lin Bai tried to pull down the golden sun, awakening a three-legged Golden Crow phantom that attacked the group with scorching flames.
• Lin Bai activated the command token and led Shen Yunfan, Xie Chen, and Ning Shuang through a golden door, escaping the Golden Crow.

The Devil Palace and the Spirit Lake Dragon King remained locked in a standoff while Lin Bai was inside the cave abode. Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing appeared after sensing an arrival, and a mighty Violetgold Dragon King emerged from the void, leaving the Spirit Lake Dragon King shocked.

• The Spirit Lake Dragon King decided to stall the Devil Palace while waiting for Ao Qing to retrieve an item from the cave abode, planning to abandon Spirit Lake afterward.
• Elder Yu Ce urged the increasingly unstable Elder Shen Yuan to rest, and Elder Shen Yuan criticized the Yu family for refusing to risk everything.
• Old Wen asked Saint Elder Luo Yuanjing whether their plan was safe, and Luo Yuanjing revealed that someone was approaching.
• Luo Yuanjing appeared above the Night King, startling the Spirit Lake Dragon King, who prepared for a possible attack.
• A violetgold dragon shadow crossed the void, and the Violetgold Dragon King tore open a passage into the Devil Realm with another figure beside him.