Recaps

Lin Bai and the others registered as members of the Martial Alliance of Divine Relic Ridge and learned about the dangers and hierarchy of the Five Peaks. Lin Bai set his sights on becoming the Holy Son, then heard that Ye Jianjun had won the title five years earlier.

• Jiang Jun brought Lin Bai and the others to complete their registration, where Senior Brother Tan warned them that demons had slaughtered more than a hundred martial artists at a newly discovered Seven Stars Relic.
• Senior Brother Tan inscribed their Identity Tokens, gave them guides and a map, and explained that they could settle only on Third Peak, Fourth Peak, or Fifth Peak.
• Jiang Jun explained that the Holy Son was the strongest martial artist beneath the three Sect Masters and was also known as the future Fourth Sect Master; Lin Bai resolved to pursue the title.
• Jiang Jun explained that Spirit Sons were chosen as the strongest Earth Core Realm martial artists and that Ye Jianjun had risen from Spirit Son to Holy Son five years earlier.
• Ye Jianqiu reacted to Ye Jianjun's name with a faint, strange smile.

Lin Bai and the others chose their residences on the Five Peaks, and Lin Bai settled into Tempest Cave. He studied the Five Peaks Essentials to learn how the peaks were organized and how relics in the Crimson Immortal Sect battlefield were ranked.

• Jiang Jun explained that Spirit Children were the Five Peaks’ backbone and compared them to the Demon Race’s great demons, while Demon Commanders and the Holy Son stood higher in their respective hierarchies.
• Lin Bai chose Tempest Cave on the Fifth Peak, Jian Ruohan chose a nearby residence, Ye Jianqiu and Long Qingfeng chose residences on the Fourth Peak, and Hua Yuxian chose an isolated cave on the Fifth Peak.
• Jiang Jun departed after giving the new disciples their residence tokens and information, and the group headed toward their chosen homes.
• Lin Bai told Jian Ruohan that he intended to become a Spirit Child and then the Holy Son, but kept his reasons secret to protect Lin Duo.
• Lin Bai reached Tempest Cave, tidied it, and read about the Five Peaks, the Spirit Child Hall, and the one-to-nine-star relic classifications.

Lin Bai learned that the Five Peaks concealed the Crimson Immortal Sect’s ruins, then visited Scattering Star Hall to choose a dangerous site where he could grow stronger. He found a newly discovered seven-star direct disciple’s cave residence already contested by a Holy Son and powerful demons.

• Lin Bai read that the Crimson Immortal Sect had been a vast, powerful sect and that the Five Peaks kept its location secret to protect Divine Relic Ridge.
• Lin Bai wondered whether Bai Xiaoxiao lived on the First Peak and decided to visit Scattering Star Hall to find opportunities to improve his strength.
• Lin Bai went to Scattering Star Hall, where he examined ruins of various ranks and their dangers.
• Lin Bai discovered a newly reported seven-star cave residence belonging to a Crimson Immortal Sect direct disciple who had been an alchemist.
• Lin Bai learned that a Holy Son and great demons had already entered the ruin, and that martial artists below the seventh level of the Earth Core Realm were unlikely to survive.

Lin Bai decided to explore the newly discovered Seven Stars Relic for its pills and powerful demons, despite the dangers. Jian Ruohan and Ye Jianqiu urged him to join them at a fourth-level relic, while Dou Ning ridiculed his decision; Lin Bai left after trading insults with Dou Ning.

• Lin Bai chose the Seven Stars Relic as the best place to seek pills, fight demons, and advance his cultivation.
• Lin Bai met Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, and Dou Ning near the relic, and Dou Ning dismissed Lin Bai's Hero Ranking victory.
• Jian Ruohan invited Lin Bai to join their group in exploring a fourth-level relic, but Lin Bai said he planned to enter the Seven Stars Relic.
• Ye Jianqiu warned Lin Bai about the relic's danger, while Dou Ning mocked him and predicted he would die.
• Lin Bai retorted that Dou Ning had never qualified for the Hero Ranking, then left after cautioning Jian Ruohan and Ye Jianqiu.
• Jian Ruohan watched Lin Bai leave with a cold glint and killing intent in her eyes.

Lin Bai traveled from Second Peak to the newly discovered Seven Stars Relic, the mountain abode of a Crimson Immortal Sect direct disciple. After exploring an empty palace, he met Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun, who invited him to join their group for safety.

• Lin Bai used Second Peak's teleportation formation and arrived in a lifeless canyon three thousand li from the Seven Stars Relic.
• Lin Bai flew to the relic and saw martial artists battling across the mountain as they searched for the direct disciple's cave abode.
• Lin Bai entered a collapsed palace and found strange claw marks on its stone walls.
• Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun arrived with four other martial artists and questioned Lin Bai about why he was exploring alone.
• Lin Bai claimed he had been separated from his friends, and Kang Yiyang invited him to travel with their group.

Lin Bai joined Kang Yiyang’s group as they headed toward the mountaintop, but persuaded them to investigate a small house that others had dismissed as a latrine. Inside, Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun found an ancient stone door behind a weakened restriction, and they approached it expecting something important beyond.

• Wang Yanbo objected to Lin Bai joining the group, but Kang Yiyang insisted that they travel together.
• Lin Bai pointed out a small house beside the palace, and Kang Yiyang decided to investigate it despite Wang Yanbo’s complaints.
• Kang Yiyang’s group entered the house and found rooms that showed it had once been someone’s residence.
• Kang Shiyun broke a weakened array restriction and revealed a decayed stone door at the end of a passage.
• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun approached the stone door, with Kang Shiyun offering to protect him.

Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun found a skeleton in a hidden room, along with treasures and an old map of the mountain’s restrictions and halls. After Lin Bai realized the map could lead him to the Personal Disciple Hall, he rushed outside to find the others facing three Demon Race figures.

• Kang Shiyun broke through the weakened restriction on a stone door, and she and Lin Bai found a dried corpse bearing the same claw marks Lin Bai had seen elsewhere.
• Kang Shiyun opened the corpse’s Storage Bag and found rare materials, treasures for forging a Supreme Martial Spirit Tool, and a Crimson Immortal Sect cultivation manual.
• Lin Bai discovered a hidden box beneath the skeleton and found a map that appeared to show the mountain’s restrictions and the location of the Personal Disciple Hall.
• Lin Bai heard a fight outside and found Kang Yiyang, Kang Shiyun, Wang Yanbo, and the others facing three powerful Demon Race figures.

Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun’s group were attacked by three sixth-level Earth Core Realm members of the Demon Race, and Wang Yanbo fled after sacrificing Wang Chong. With the others defeated and Kang Shiyun in danger, Lin Bai stepped in and revealed his ninth-grade sword intent.

• Kang Yiyang and the others fought the three demons, but Wang Chong was badly injured and Wang Yanbo shoved him toward a demon before escaping.
• The demons killed Wang Chong, then overwhelmed Kang Yiyang, Kang Shiyun, and the remaining disciples.
• A demon lunged at Kang Shiyun, but Lin Bai struck it back with a flash of sword light.
• Lin Bai refused Kang Yiyang’s plea to flee and confronted the three demons, displaying ninth-grade sword intent as he unleashed the first form of the Supreme Sword.

Lin Bai defeated and killed three demon-tiger brothers who had attacked Kang Yiyang, Kang Shiyun, and the others. After revealing his strength, he prepared to leave alone while the injured disciples returned to the Five Peaks.

• Lin Bai fought the three demons with both swords, stunning Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun with his strength.
• Lin Bai met one demon’s attack head-on and killed him with Wandering the World with a Sword.
• The two remaining demon tigers revealed their true forms, and Lin Bai killed them both with Heaven's Collapse.
• Lin Bai stored the three demon-tiger corpses and told Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun that he would leave on his own.
• Kang Yiyang and the injured disciples decided to return to the Five Peaks, while Kang Shiyun reproached Lin Bai for hiding his strength.

Lin Bai reached the Personal Disciple Hall and found warriors and demons locked in a fierce battle outside. After Meng Yue saved him and warned him to leave, Lin Bai killed a demon blocking his way and entered the hall to search for treasures.

• Kang Yiyang led the injured disciples away from the Seven Stars Relic, and Lin Bai used his map to fly toward the Personal Disciple Hall.
• Lin Bai found hundreds of powerful warriors and demons fighting outside the hall and tried to slip past them unnoticed.
• A demon attacked Lin Bai, but Meng Yue killed it and warned Lin Bai that the battlefield was too dangerous for a third-stage Earth Core Realm warrior.
• Meng Yue explained that warriors had fought the demons outside the hall for more than ten days while the great demons and spirit disciples had entered the hall.
• Lin Bai tricked Meng Yue, killed a sixth-stage Earth Core Realm demon with his two swords, and entered the Personal Disciple Hall.

Lin Bai found the Personal Disciple’s pill room, broke its Formation restriction, and collected every pill inside. Five disciples caught him in the act and attacked, leaving a battle about to erupt.

• Lin Bai followed a hidden shortcut through the Personal Disciple Hall and reached the sealed pill room.
• Lin Bai broke the Formation restriction on the stone door and entered the room, where shelves held many jade bottles of pills.
• Lin Bai identified valuable Yellow Saint Pills, Nine Forging Pills, and other rare pills, then stuffed every bottle into his Storage Bag.
• Five disciples arrived, discovered Lin Bai had taken the pills, and attacked him to seize his Storage Bag.

Lin Bai escaped the pill chamber with its pills, but a pursuit through the Personal Disciple Hall drew a crowd of martial artists and the powerful Shi Banhu. While searching for a way out, Lin Bai came face-to-face with Su Cang, who had become Divine Relic Ridge’s Spirit Son.

• Lin Bai used the Supreme Sword’s Sword Heart Clarity and the Nine Revolution Sword Step to break past five martial artists and flee the pill chamber, deciding to return for a Personal Disciple’s Storage Bag after growing stronger.
• The five men pursued Lin Bai through the Personal Disciple Hall and alerted a gathered crowd that he had taken the pill chamber’s pills, prompting the martial artists to chase him.
• Shi Banhu attacked Lin Bai for the pills, but Lin Bai tossed him a bottle of rotten pills, causing other martial artists to attack Shi Banhu before he killed them and resumed the pursuit.
• Lin Bai searched a map for an escape route as the pursuing crowd announced the Spirit Son’s arrival and claimed Lin Bai had the pills.
• Lin Bai recognized the Spirit Son as Su Cang, his former enemy from the Spirit Sword Sect, and learned that Su Cang had joined Divine Relic Ridge and become its Spirit Son.

Lin Bai fought Su Cang in the Personal Disciple Hall, but Xiang Nong’s ambush left him badly wounded and surrounded by demons and enemies. With the Great Barren Art exhausted and no escape, Lin Bai unleashed one of Dugu Yun’s lifesaving strands of Sword Qi at Su Cang and Xiang Nong.

• Su Cang confronted Lin Bai over their past feud and attacked him with a ninth-grade spirit sword.
• Lin Bai used the Great Barren Art to boost his strength, deflected Su Cang’s strike, and fought back with Sword Heart Clarity.
• Xiang Nong learned Lin Bai had taken the pills from the pill chambers and struck him with a spiked club, sending him into the ruins.
• Lin Bai tried to flee, but four great demons blocked his path while Su Cang cut off his retreat.
• As Su Cang and Xiang Nong charged at him, Lin Bai unleashed one of Dugu Yun’s Sword Qi strands, powerful enough to kill a ninth-stage Heaven Core Realm warrior.

Lin Bai used Dugu Yun's Sword Qi to escape Su Cang and Xiang Nong, then discovered and took the Personal Disciple's remains and Storage Bag as the hall collapsed. He fled the Seven Stars Relic by Flying Sword with the pills and both great fortunes, while his pursuers swore in fury and Lin Bai promised to kill them the next time they met.

• Lin Bai unleashed Dugu Yun's Sword Qi, killing two great demons and forcing Su Cang and Xiang Nong back as the Personal Disciple Hall began to collapse.
• Lin Bai found the Personal Disciple's skeleton in a hidden chamber beneath a quiet room and took the remains and Storage Bag before escaping the hall.
• Su Cang, Xiang Nong, and other martial artists attacked Lin Bai outside, but he rode his Flying Sword into the sky and escaped with the pills.
• Lin Bai warned Su Cang and the Demon Race that he would kill them in their next encounter, while the furious crowd realized he had claimed both great fortunes in the relic.

Lin Bai fell from the sky after the Great Barren Art weakened him, and Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun found and rescued him. When the siblings realized others were hunting the sword cultivator who had taken the Personal Disciple Hall’s treasures, they tried to leave with Lin Bai, but Spirit Son Zhang Xiao became suspicious.

• The Great Barren Art’s weakness made Lin Bai lose control of his spiritual power, and he crashed into the ground from a thousand meters up.
• Kang Shiyun recognized Lin Bai in the crater, and Kang Yiyang carried the badly injured Lin Bai toward the teleportation point.
• At the valley, martial artists discussed a flying third-level Earth Core Realm sword cultivator who had taken the Personal Disciple Hall’s treasures, and the Kang siblings realized they meant Lin Bai.
• Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun tried to leave the valley with Lin Bai to keep him from the nine Spirit Sons and other powerful martial artists.
• Zhang Xiao questioned Kang Yiyang about the injured person on his back and challenged his explanation that Lin Bai was a friend hurt by the Demon Race.

Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun tried to get the gravely wounded Lin Bai out of the teleportation point, but Zhang Xiao exposed him and a horde of martial artists gave chase. The siblings split up to protect Lin Bai, and Kang Shiyun hid with him while he recovered, leaving them worried about Kang Yiyang’s fate.

• Zhang Xiao grew suspicious of Kang Yiyang carrying an injured companion toward the battlefield and tore away the robe covering Lin Bai, revealing his identity to the martial artists at the teleportation point.
• Su Cang, Meng Yue, Shi Banhu, the nine Spirit Children, and more than a thousand martial artists rushed after Lin Bai to seize the treasures from the Personal Disciple Hall.
• Kang Yiyang handed Lin Bai to Kang Shiyun, then carried a wood-stuffed robe as a decoy and fled in another direction to draw most of the pursuers away.
• Kang Shiyun carried Lin Bai into a dense forest, where he apologized for involving her and said he expected his injuries to heal in three days.
• Kang Shiyun dug a small cave into a mountainside and concealed its entrance so Lin Bai could recover while she waited to look for Kang Yiyang.

Lin Bai recovered from the Great Barren Art’s side effects while hiding with Kang Shiyun, but Weng Wei and his men discovered their cave. Weng Wei recognized Lin Bai and threatened Kang Shiyun, intending to toy with her before taking Lin Bai’s treasures.

• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun discussed the Kang Lineage’s code of repaying debts and the cost of Lin Bai’s escape from the Personal Disciple Hall.
• Two days passed, and Lin Bai’s weakness from the Great Barren Art began to fade.
• Kang Shiyun spotted Weng Wei and several fifth-stage Earth Core Realm martial artists approaching, then smeared mud on Lin Bai’s face to hide him.
• Weng Wei cut through the branches at the cave entrance and found Kang Shiyun and Lin Bai.
• Weng Wei’s men identified Lin Bai, and Weng Wei demanded Kang Shiyun endure three palm strikes while he and his men planned to seize Lin Bai’s treasures.

Weng Wei tricked Kang Shiyun into enduring three palms, then broke his promise and attacked her while she was badly injured. As Weng Wei and the other disciples closed in, Lin Bai emerged from the cave and struck Weng Wei between the legs.

• Lin Bai warned Kang Shiyun that Weng Wei was setting a trap, but she agreed to take three palms in exchange for his leaving.
• Weng Wei struck Kang Shiyun three times, severely injuring her, and then refused to honor his promise.
• Kang Shiyun attacked Weng Wei with her spear, but he knocked her down and the disciples surrounded her.
• Lin Bai emerged from the cave with two swords and wounded Weng Wei between the legs.

Lin Bai killed Weng Wei and five Earth Core Realm martial artists, then fled from Wei Tianyi, whose Flying Dragon Fish Martial Soul let him pursue through the air. An anti-airborne formation forced them down in a strange mountain range, where Lin Bai escaped into the forest as Wei Tianyi and other Spirit Sons searched for him; Su Cang arrived carrying the battered Kang Yiyang.

• Lin Bai severed Weng Wei's manhood, killed the five martial artists who attacked him, and then killed Weng Wei as Wei Tianyi's group approached.
• Lin Bai picked up the weakened Kang Shiyun and escaped on his flying sword, while Wei Tianyi activated his Flying Dragon Fish Martial Soul and pursued them through the sky.
• An anti-airborne formation forced Lin Bai and Wei Tianyi to land in an unfamiliar black mountain range, where Wei Tianyi shattered Lin Bai's attacks.
• Lin Bai used the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolution Sword Step to vanish into the forest, and Wei Tianyi began searching for him.
• Shi Banhu, Meng Yue, Su Cang, Zhang Xiao, and other Spirit Sons arrived in the mountain range, with Su Cang carrying the badly wounded Kang Yiyang.

Lin Bai brought the badly injured Kang Shiyun into the newly appeared Black Mountain Range as martial artists entered it in search of the Crimson Immortal Sect’s lost foundation. With Wei Tianyi still pursuing them, Lin Bai prepared to swallow the pills he had taken from the Personal Disciple Hall to strengthen himself.

• Su Cang, Wei Tianyi, Zhang Xiao, and the other Sword Children entered the Black Mountain Range, followed by thousands of powerful martial artists who suspected it held a Crimson Immortal Sect relic.
• Lin Bai carried Kang Shiyun deeper into the range, set her down, and gave her healing pills for her severe injuries.
• Lin Bai began treating his own wounds and decided to refine the pills from the Personal Disciple Hall to raise his cultivation before Wei Tianyi caught up.
• Kang Shiyun warned Lin Bai that swallowing many pills at once was wasteful, but Lin Bai said he did not need a cultivation method to refine them.
• Lin Bai gave Kang Shiyun more high-grade healing pills, and she began recovering while acknowledging that the pills made his pursuers’ greed understandable.

Lin Bai used the ancient pills to advance to the sixth level of the Earth Core Realm and complete the second layer of Python Dragon Transformation. He then searched the personal disciple’s skeleton and discovered a damaged Supreme Martial Spirit Tool, the Emperor’s Heart Sword.

• Lin Bai swallowed pills until he advanced from the third to the sixth level of the Earth Core Realm, while Kang Shiyun watched in shock.
• Lin Bai used the remaining body-refinement pills to cultivate the second layer of Python Dragon Transformation, enduring a painful shedding of his skin.
• Lin Bai explained that the completed technique let him withstand attacks from Heaven Core Realm experts, and Kang Shiyun worried about his growing strength.
• Lin Bai examined the personal disciple’s skeleton and found a Storage Bag containing a cracked sword, a blueprint, and a thick book.
• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun recognized the sword as the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Emperor’s Heart, which could unleash its power only three more times.

Lin Bai found Emperor's Heart Sword, a complete map of the Crimson Immortal Sect, and the diary of its former personal disciple, Li Ze. The diary revealed how the sect fell to monsters, leaving Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun with the account of its destruction.

• Lin Bai learned that Emperor's Heart Sword could be used three more times before it shattered, then stored it away.
• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun discovered that the sheepskin scroll was a complete map of the Crimson Immortal Sect, and Lin Bai decided to keep it.
• Lin Bai opened Li Ze's diary and learned that the Crimson Immortal Sect required at least a first-grade Heaven-level Martial Soul for entry.
• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun read how Li Ze forged Emperor's Heart Sword, placed third among more than nine hundred thousand inner disciples, and became a personal disciple.
• Li Ze's diary recounted a fifteen-year battle against monsters, the deaths of the sect's disciples and Sect Master, and the Crimson Immortal Sect's destruction.

After reading Li Ze’s diary about the Crimson Immortal Sect’s destruction, Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun realized they were in Black Radiance Soul Mountain and set out to find its altar to awaken a second spirit. Their search was interrupted by Shi Banhu, and Lin Bai attacked him to test his new strength.

• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun read Li Ze’s diary, which described the Crimson Immortal Sect fighting an unknown monster for fifteen years before being destroyed.
• Lin Bai recognized the Black Mountain Range on their map as Black Radiance Soul Mountain, where Crimson Immortal Sect personal disciples could attempt to awaken a second spirit.
• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun searched the mountain for its altar but found no trace of it after half a day.
• Shi Banhu arrived and confronted Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun over their past encounter.
• Though Kang Shiyun urged him to flee, Lin Bai drew his swords and charged at Shi Banhu.

Lin Bai defeated and killed Shi Banhu, then learned that Su Cang was the only Heaven Core Realm martial artist nearby and that the Spirit Child Battle would take place in a month. As Kang Shiyun explained the Saint Child challenge, Lin Bai spotted what might be the Second Martial Soul Altar.

• Lin Bai overpowered Shi Banhu with his sword techniques and sent him flying despite Shi Banhu's God Slaying Blade martial soul secret method.
• Lin Bai questioned Shi Banhu, learned that Su Cang was the only Heaven Core Realm martial artist present, and killed him.
• Kang Shiyun told Lin Bai that the Spirit Child Battle was a month away and explained how martial artists could challenge the Saint Child.
• Lin Bai pointed toward a distant structure and asked Kang Shiyun if it was the Second Martial Soul Altar.

Lin Bai activated the Second Martial Soul Altar using the rune Fisherman had left on him, which identified him as a direct disciple of the Crimson Immortal Sect. He entered the Soul Storage Space to challenge the Martial Soul Awakening Road, while Fisherman revealed that Lin Bai belonged to the Devouring Clan.

• Lin Bai and Kang Shiyun found the Second Martial Soul Altar, but it recognized Lin Bai as a Crimson Immortal Sect direct disciple and cast Kang Shiyun off.
• Lin Bai recalled that Fisherman had left the rune on his forehead and realized it granted him access to the altar.
• The altar transported Lin Bai to the Soul Storage Space, where a voice explained the martial soul grades and the challenge to awaken a second martial soul.
• Lin Bai stepped onto the Martial Soul Awakening Road and attacked the first Spirit Puppet with his Purple Cloud Sword.
• Fisherman told an ancient white-haired elder that Lin Bai was a member of the Devouring Clan, and the elder said they should prepare for events to end through him.