Recaps

Bai Zhiyuan fought Zeng Liang but was defeated after he exploited her dwindling true qi and took her sword. Lin Bai stepped forward and offered Zeng Liang the chance to kill himself, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Bai Zhiyuan attacked Zeng Liang with a Grade Nine Earth-level sword technique, but he repeatedly dodged while taunting her.
• Lin Bai told the White Ram City Lord that Bai Zhiyuan would lose because she lacked combat experience and was falling into Zeng Liang’s trap.
• Zeng Liang caught Bai Zhiyuan’s sword between two fingers and struck her, sending her to the ground and taking her weapon.
• Bai Zhiyuan warned Lin Bai and the White Ram City Lord to retreat, but Zeng Liang threatened to kill them and claim White Ram City.
• Lin Bai walked up to Zeng Liang and told him to kill himself if he wanted to keep his corpse intact.

Lin Bai confronted Zeng Liang and revealed overwhelming strength, defeating him despite their vast difference in cultivation. After apologizing to Lin Bai, Bai Zhiyuan joined him and the White Ram City Lord in searching Zeng Liang’s residence, where they rescued more than a hundred young women.

• Lin Bai stepped forward to challenge Zeng Liang, and Zeng Liang thrust Bai Zhiyuan’s Grade Four Spirit Tool at him.
• Lin Bai caught the sword between two fingers and severed Zeng Liang’s sword arm with a single strike.
• Lin Bai ignored Zeng Liang’s taunts and killed him with a sword net of Sword Qi.
• Bai Zhiyuan apologized to Lin Bai, and he accepted without holding a grudge.
• Lin Bai accompanied the White Ram City Lord through Zeng Liang’s residence, where they rescued more than a hundred young women.

After returning to White Ram City, Lin Bai learned about Divine Relic Ridge Academy and resolved to visit it on his journey to find Lin Duo. He sparred with Bai Zhiyuan and prepared to demonstrate his sword intent.

• The White Ram City Lord hosted Lin Bai and Bai Zhiyuan at a banquet, where Bai Zhiyuan asked Lin Bai to teach her swordsmanship.
• Bai Zhiyuan explained that Divine Relic Ridge Academy was the East Ridge Seven Hundred Kingdoms' dominant martial institution, separated from the South Ridge Seventy-Two Kingdoms by the dangerous Primordial Wilds.
• Lin Bai decided to visit Divine Relic Ridge and cross the Primordial Wilds to reach the South Ridge Seventy-Two Kingdoms in search of Lin Duo.
• Lin Bai and Bai Zhiyuan sparred for several hundred exchanges, and Lin Bai eventually defeated her.
• Lin Bai offered to demonstrate his sword intent, shocking Bai Zhiyuan and the White Ram City Lord.

Lin Bai revealed that he had comprehended mid-stage first-rank Sword Intent, astonishing Bai Zhiyuan and White Ram City Lord. After letting them experience it, he learned that the Treasure Pavilion was holding an auction in Cold Mountain City, where he had planned to go.

• Lin Bai told Bai Zhiyuan and White Ram City Lord that he had comprehended mid-stage first-rank Sword Intent, and they marveled that so few people in the Divine Martial Nation possessed Martial Dao Will.
• Bai Zhiyuan asked Lin Bai to release his Sword Intent so she and White Ram City Lord could try to comprehend it, and Lin Bai agreed.
• Lin Bai spread his Sword Intent throughout the City Lord's Mansion, making the surroundings seem like sharp swords and frightening the guards and servants.
• White Ram City Lord lasted three breaths and Bai Zhiyuan lasted fifteen before Lin Bai withdrew his Sword Intent, but neither managed to comprehend it.
• A servant delivered the Treasure Pavilion's invitation to an auction in Cold Mountain City, and Lin Bai asked whether White Ram City Lord would attend.

Lin Bai, White Ram City Lord, and Bai Zhiyuan traveled to Cold Mountain City for Treasure Pavilion’s auction, where Lin Bai learned about the Divine Martial Talent Ranking. The chapter left them discussing the Four Great Sects’ ranked geniuses and Edgeless Sect’s absence from the list.

• Lin Bai agreed to travel with White Ram City Lord and Bai Zhiyuan to Cold Mountain City for Treasure Pavilion’s auction.
• The three arrived in Cold Mountain City and visited Treasure Pavilion before the evening auction.
• Lin Bai learned that the Divine Martial Talent Ranking named the ten young martial artists considered the nation’s most talented.
• Lin Bai saw Lin Zier ranked first and noted that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace held six places while Spirit Sword Sect had only Su Cang at tenth.
• White Ram City Lord described the ranked geniuses and explained that Edgeless Sect’s disciples were too mysterious for Treasure Pavilion to assess.

Lin Bai went to the Treasure Pavilion auction with the White Ram City Lord and Bai Zhiyuan, where he encountered Zhao Mao and other Divine Alliance martial artists. Zhao Mao threatened Lin Bai and Bai Zhiyuan, and the group entered the auction hall as the confrontation was left unresolved.

• Lin Bai told Bai Zhiyuan and the White Ram City Lord that his martial soul was Yellow Rank One, astonishing them despite his sword intent and cultivation.
• Bai Zhiyuan repeatedly asked Lin Bai how he cultivated until he changed the subject and led her and the White Ram City Lord to the auction.
• Zhao Mao and a group of Divine Alliance martial artists recognized Lin Bai and mocked him for planning to challenge Earth Martial Realm martial artists.
• Bai Zhiyuan traded insults with Zhao Mao's companion, leaving her speechless.
• Zhao Mao threatened to kill Lin Bai and Bai Zhiyuan after the auction, then led his group inside.
• The White Ram City Lord led Lin Bai and Bai Zhiyuan toward their private room.

At the Treasure Pavilion auction in Cold Mountain City, Xu Jiangsheng and Shang Tian arrived hoping to obtain the lost Grand Five Elements Art. Su Xianmei opened the auction, and the gathering of the Divine Martial Nation’s three Wealth God Families raised expectations for the items on offer.

• Xu Jiangsheng learned that the Treasure Pavilion would auction the Grand Five Elements Art and vowed to acquire it for himself and his family.
• Shang Tian and Liu Hen discussed the manual, and Shang Tian boasted that its power would let him surpass the inner-palace elites of Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.
• Lin Bai and the White Ram City Lord entered the auction’s prepared room, where Lin Bai recognized Su Xianmei as she took the stage; Bai Zhiyuan scolded both men for staring.
• Su Xianmei welcomed the bidders and named prominent attendees, including Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng.
• Bai Zhiyuan explained to Lin Bai that the Imperial Xu Family, Guangling City Li Family, and Canghai Shang Family were the Divine Martial Nation’s three Wealth God Families.

Lin Bai attended Treasure Pavilion’s auction to obtain demonic beast blood for cultivation and bid against the renowned weapon refiner Di Yun for a bottle of Earth Core Realm demonic beast blood. The bidding left Di Yun furious as he prepared to challenge Lin Bai’s latest offer.

• Su Xianmei opened the auction by presenting a bottle of blood from an Earth Core Realm demonic beast, which Lin Bai recognized as the item he had come to buy.
• Li Yunsuan bid 110,000 spirit stones, then Di Yun identified himself and raised the price to 200,000; Li Yunsuan withdrew rather than offend him.
• Lin Bai bid 210,000 spirit stones, surprising Su Xianmei and the auction crowd.
• Di Yun raised his bid to 220,000 and declared that he was determined to obtain the blood.
• Lin Bai bid 230,000 spirit stones and told Di Yun that he was equally determined to win the bottle.
• Di Yun growled in anger because he needed the blood to forge a Grade Four Spirit Tool.

Lin Bai won the Earth Core Realm demonic beast blood after competing with Di Yun, then arranged to buy more demonic blood from the Treasure Pavilion. The auction continued, and Bai Zhiyuan became interested in a defensive Spirit Tool.

• Lin Bai outbid Di Yun for the demonic blood, and Su Xianmei offered Di Yun another bottle to end their dispute.
• Lin Bai announced that he wanted Earth Core Realm, Human Core Realm, and Heaven Core Realm demonic blood, and Su Xianmei promised to reserve a bottle for Di Yun.
• Su Xianmei sold the current bottle to Lin Bai for two hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones and secured him as a buyer for future demonic blood.
• The auction reached its halfway point, and Bai Zhiyuan took an interest in the Amethyst Phoenix Bracelet.

Bai Zhiyuan and Zhao Mao competed for the Amethyst Phoenix Bracelet until Lin Bai joined the bidding and proposed raising the price by one hundred thousand spirit stones at a time. Zhao Mao accepted the challenge, and Lin Bai’s first bid under the new rule brought the price to 240,000 spirit stones.

• Bai Zhiyuan bid against a beautiful woman for the Amethyst Phoenix Bracelet, but stopped when Zhao Mao raised the price to 120,000 spirit stones.
• The beautiful woman and Zhao Mao mocked Bai Zhiyuan, and Zhao Mao mistook her and Lin Bai for a couple.
• Lin Bai began bidding on Bai Zhiyuan’s behalf, provoking Zhao Mao with a challenge to raise the price by 100,000 spirit stones each time.
• Zhao Mao accepted and let Lin Bai bid first, and Lin Bai called out 240,000 spirit stones.

Lin Bai tricked Zhao Mao into paying an outrageous price for the Amethyst Phoenix Bracelet after Bai Zhiyuan decided she no longer wanted it. Meanwhile, Bai Xiaoxiao discovered that Bai Zhiyuan was at the auction and awaited the sale of the Grand Five Elements Art.

• Lin Bai bid up the Amethyst Phoenix Bracelet, but stopped when Zhao Mao raised the price to five hundred and forty thousand spirit stones.
• Zhao Mao realized Lin Bai had been baiting him and was left facing the cost of the overpriced defensive spirit tool as the auction crowd laughed at him.
• Bai Zhiyuan laughed at Zhao Mao, who angrily blamed Lin Bai for the trick.
• Bai Xiaoxiao recognized Bai Zhiyuan in another private room and ordered Steward Fang to track her and bring her back to the imperial capital after the auction.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and several other powerful guests awaited the upcoming sale of the Grand Five Elements Art.

Treasure Pavilion auctioned the Grand Five Elements Art, an ancient Heaven-grade cultivation art that could give its practitioner five times the strength after reaching the Divine Core Realm. Lin Bai resolved to obtain it, but bids from the Wealth God Families and Grand Princess Bai Xiaoxiao began a contest of wealth, ending with Li Yunsuan bidding fifteen million spirit stones.

• Su Xianmei revealed that the auction’s final item was the original Grand Five Elements Art, an ancient Heaven-grade cultivation art from the Five Elements Sect.
• Su Xianmei explained that the art cultivated five spirit vortexes and could let its user wield five times the strength of others at the same level after reaching the Divine Core Realm.
• Lin Bai vowed to obtain the Grand Five Elements Art, while Xu Jiangsheng, Shang Tian, Li Yunsuan, and Bai Xiaoxiao also showed strong interest.
• The bidding began at one million spirit stones, and Zhao Family Head offered five million before Li Yunsuan raised the bid to eleven million.
• Shang Tian and Bai Xiaoxiao joined the bidding, and Li Yunsuan offered fifteen million spirit stones.

The Grand Princess and the three Wealth God Families drove the bidding for the Grand Five Elements Art to forty million spirit stones before Lin Bai entered the contest. Li Yunsuan then raised the bid to forty-six million five hundred thousand spirit stones, leaving Lin Bai to decide whether to continue.

• Bai Xiaoxiao, Shang Tian, Li Yunsuan, and Xu Jiangsheng competed for the Grand Five Elements Art, pushing the bid higher as martial artists watched.
• Shang Tian withdrew at twenty-nine million spirit stones, Bai Xiaoxiao withdrew at forty million, and Xu Jiangsheng conceded to Li Yunsuan.
• Lin Bai surprised the auction by bidding forty million five hundred thousand spirit stones, and he told the White Ram City Lord and Bai Zhiyuan he was determined to obtain the art.
• Li Yunsuan raised the bid to forty-one million spirit stones, and Lin Bai answered with forty-one million five hundred thousand.
• After consulting the Cold Mountain City Treasure Pavilion's manager, Li Yunsuan offered a final bid of forty-six million five hundred thousand spirit stones and told Lin Bai the art would be his if he raised it again.

Lin Bai won the Grand Five Elements Art at auction for forty-seven million spirit stones and bought all the Treasure Pavilion’s available demon blood. He stayed in the Pavilion’s secret chamber to prepare for a breakthrough, while Su Xianmei warned him that powerful martial artists might target him.

• Lin Bai outbid Li Yunsuan for the Grand Five Elements Art, stunning the auction’s attendees with his wealth.
• Lin Bai followed Su Xianmei to a secret room, inspected the tome, and confirmed that it was genuine.
• Lin Bai bought the Treasure Pavilion’s remaining demon blood, paying Su Xianmei for it along with the cultivation art.
• Su Xianmei told Lin Bai that Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng were at the sixth level of the Earth Martial Realm, while Bai Xiaoxiao might have reached the Heaven Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai asked to cultivate in the Pavilion’s secret chamber, and Su Xianmei allowed him to stay for three days.

Lin Bai used demon blood to advance to the third level of the Earth Martial Realm, then studied the Grand Five Elements Art and prepared to cultivate its spirit vortices. He left the secret chamber wary that Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng might still be hunting him in Cold Mountain City.

• Lin Bai absorbed Earth Core Realm demon blood and broke through to the first level of the Earth Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai consumed the rest of his demon blood over three days and reached the third level of the Earth Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai studied both volumes of the Grand Five Elements Art and learned that its Five Elements spirit vortices could greatly increase his true qi and battle prowess.
• Lin Bai memorized the upper volume and resolved to condense spirit vortices when he found suitable spirit items.
• Lin Bai considered whether Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng had left Cold Mountain City and anticipated another fight if they were still searching for him.

Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng learned that Lin Bai had killed members of the Xu Family and planned to confront him when he left the Treasure Pavilion. Bai Xiaoxiao caught Bai Zhiyuan after her three-month escape, then questioned whether she had fallen in love with Lin Bai when she threatened to harm herself to make Bai Xiaoxiao save him.

• Li Yunsuan showed Shang Tian and Xu Jiangsheng Lin Bai’s cultivation record, revealing his rise through the Spirit Sword Sect and his killings of Xu Zailong and Xu Shangjie.
• Xu Jiangsheng vowed to avenge the Xu Family, while Li Yunsuan called Lin Bai an unparalleled genius.
• Bai Xiaoxiao caught the exhausted Bai Zhiyuan outside Cold Mountain City and scolded her for secretly leaving the imperial city.
• Bai Zhiyuan recounted meeting Lin Bai and learning that he had subdued Zeng Liang, and Bai Xiaoxiao warned that the three Wealth God Families were preparing to move against him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao refused to risk the imperial family by helping Lin Bai, so Bai Zhiyuan pressed a dagger to her throat and begged her to save him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao asked Bai Zhiyuan whether she had fallen in love with Lin Bai.

After breaking through to the third level of the Earth Martial Realm, Lin Bai left the Treasure Pavilion and was ambushed outside Cold Mountain City by Li Yunsuan, Xu Jiangsheng, Shang Tian, and their men. He refused to surrender the Grand Five Elements Art and killed Shang Tian with a sword strike, while the others remained present.

• Lin Bai emerged from three days of cultivation in Su Xianmei's secret chamber and left the Treasure Pavilion despite her warning about the informants.
• The informants followed Lin Bai out of Cold Mountain City and reported his movements to Li Yunsuan, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng.
• Xu Jiangsheng shot a golden arrow at Lin Bai, who dodged it before confronting the three young masters and their martial artists.
• Li Yunsuan and Shang Tian demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Grand Five Elements Art, but Lin Bai refused.
• Shang Tian attacked Lin Bai with his blade, and Lin Bai countered with Sword Intent and pierced Shang Tian's throat.

Lin Bai killed Shang Tian after breaking through his defenses and then fought Xu Jiangsheng, who accused him of killing members of the Imperial Xu Family. As Lin Bai closed in to exploit Xu Jiangsheng’s weakness as an archer, Xu Jiangsheng summoned his seventh-grade Profound Grade martial soul, the Golden Crow Bow.

• Lin Bai used Sword Intent to pierce Shang Tian’s defenses, then countered the Heavenly Blade Nine Slashes with Surging Wind Swordplay and killed him.
• Xu Jiangsheng shot a golden arrow at Lin Bai, while Liu Hen warned that the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace and Shang Family would seek revenge for Shang Tian’s death.
• Xu Jiangsheng questioned Lin Bai about killing Xu Zailong and Xu Shangjie, and Lin Bai admitted to both killings.
• Lin Bai shattered Xu Jiangsheng’s arrows and charged in to attack at close range.
• Xu Jiangsheng summoned his Golden Crow Bow martial soul as Lin Bai closed in.

Lin Bai fought Xu Jiangsheng after Xu revealed his Golden Crow Bow Soul, then overwhelmed him after revealing his true cultivation. Xu Jiangsheng was left gravely wounded and called on Li Yunsuan to attack.

• Xu Jiangsheng summoned his Golden Crow Bow Soul and fired nine flaming arrows, but Lin Bai dodged them after his sword failed to cut them down.
• Xu Jiangsheng rained hundreds of arrows on Lin Bai, who cleaved them apart with the second form of Surging Wind Swordplay, Wind Silence.
• Xu Jiangsheng coveted Lin Bai's Earth Grade Nine sword skill, but Lin Bai revealed that he had concealed his cultivation and was at the third level of the Earth Martial Realm.
• Xu Jiangsheng deduced that Lin Bai possessed the Grand Five Elements Art, and Li Yunsuan grew eager to seize the cultivation method.
• Lin Bai struck Xu Jiangsheng with a sudden sword attack, shattered his Golden Crow Bow Soul, and left him gravely wounded and unable to fight.
• Xu Jiangsheng shouted at Li Yunsuan to attack.

Lin Bai survived Li Yunsuan’s Azure Dragon Combat Art and challenged him to withstand a single sword strike in return. Lin Bai’s Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence obliterated Li Yunsuan and flattened the surrounding forest, leaving Xu Jiangsheng stunned.

• Li Yunsuan attacked Lin Bai with the Azure Dragon Combat Art, battering him and hurling him a thousand meters away.
• Lin Bai stood up, revealing that his Bronze War Body had helped him survive Li Yunsuan’s attack.
• Lin Bai demanded that Li Yunsuan take one move from him, and Li Yunsuan prepared the Mystic Tortoise Shell, the Golden Shield Talisman, and protective true qi.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Surging Wind Swordplay’s sixth form, Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence, and Li Yunsuan fled from the descending Sword Qi.
• The Sword Qi destroyed Li Yunsuan’s defenses, killed him and his accompanying martial artists, and flattened the forest within ten thousand meters.

Lin Bai killed Xu Jiangsheng, Li Yunsuan, and the other pursuers, then returned to the Spirit Sword Sect. At the battlefield, Bai Xiaoxiao realized Lin Bai had won and comprehended Martial Dao Will from the sword intent he left behind, while Xu Jiangsheng unexpectedly revived and vowed to pursue Lin Bai.

• Xu Jiangsheng accepted his death after Lin Bai killed Li Yunsuan, then burned himself to charcoal and died.
• Lin Bai collected the dead martial artists’ Storage Bags and returned to the Spirit Sword Sect seven days later.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Bai Zhiyuan found the devastated battlefield; Bai Xiaoxiao concluded Lin Bai had killed the pursuers and comprehended Martial Dao Will from his lingering sword intent.
• Bai Xiaoxiao decided she and Bai Zhiyuan should build ties with Lin Bai, and the sisters left for the imperial capital.
• Eight days after his apparent death, Xu Jiangsheng burst out of the charcoal and declared that he would come for Lin Bai.

Lin Bai returned to Spirit Sword Sect after defeating his opponents and counted the spoils from their Storage Bags, then went to the Mission Hall to report on his four-star mission. Elder Su mocked him for supposedly failing, but Lin Bai produced the mission scroll and White Ram City Mission Token.

• Lin Bai counted the contents of the Storage Bags, collecting more than a hundred million spirit stones and a Grade Four Spirit Tool bow, but finding no top-grade Five Elements spiritual objects or high-level movement technique.
• Lin Bai discarded the empty Storage Bags, spent seven days stabilizing his cultivation at the Earth Martial Realm Third Level, and went to the Mission Hall to hand in his mission.
• Elder Zhang welcomed Lin Bai back and was astonished by his breakthrough from the Profound Martial Realm Ninth Level to the Earth Martial Realm Third Level.
• Elder Su assumed Lin Bai had failed the mission, mocked him, and demanded proof that he had completed it.
• Lin Bai slapped the mission scroll and White Ram City Mission Token onto the table.

Lin Bai proved that he had completed the White Ram City mission, revealed his breakthrough to the third level of the Earth Martial Realm, and became an inner disciple of Spirit Sword Sect. He accepted the coming challenge at the Cliff of No Return and posted a huge bounty for rare spirit medicines needed to cultivate the Grand Five Elements Art.

• Lin Bai presented his mission scroll and Mission Token, and Elder Zhang verified that he had completed the mission to kill Zeng Liang.
• Elder Su discovered Lin Bai had reached the third level of the Earth Martial Realm and warned him that Divine Alliance experts would challenge him at the Cliff of No Return in three months.
• Lin Bai refused Elder Zhang's advice to hide and accepted the challenges, then received his inner disciple robes and Identity Token.
• Lin Bai asked Elder Zhang about top-grade Five Elements spirit items and learned they were nearly impossible to find in Divine Martial Nation.
• Lin Bai offered ten million spirit stones for each ten-thousand-year-old spirit medicine of the five elements and one million for reliable information about its whereabouts.

Lin Bai went to the inner sect training rooms to cultivate, where he discovered that the Divine Alliance was barring Sword Alliance members from using them because they had protected him. The chapter left Lin Bai facing the conflict he had unknowingly caused between the two factions.

• Lin Bai heard that the Li, Xu, and Shang Families had offered a combined bounty of one hundred and forty million spirit stones for the killer of their descendants, but he believed no one could identify him.
• Lin Bai paid three million spirit stones to reserve Training Room 79 for a month after learning that useful demon blood was unavailable.
• The elder recognized Lin Bai and praised his cultivation and future prospects.
• Lin Tianfeng and Divine Alliance members dragged Sword Alliance martial artists from the training rooms and forbade them from returning, blaming the Sword Alliance for helping Lin Bai.
• A martial artist explained that the Divine Alliance had been targeting the Sword Alliance since it protected Lin Bai after the outer sect tournament, then asked Lin Bai his name.
• Lin Bai revealed that he was Lin Bai.

Lin Bai intervened when Lin Tianfeng was about to kill Wang Hao, then challenged the Divine Alliance to face him alone. Lin Tianfeng insisted on fighting Lin Bai himself and attacked, leaving their battle about to begin.

• The Divine Alliance defeated the Sword Alliance martial artists, and Lin Tianfeng threatened to kill Wang Hao when he refused to insult his allies.
• Lin Bai struck at Lin Tianfeng to stop him, then introduced himself and checked on Wang Hao and the other Sword Alliance martial artists.
• Lin Tianfeng demanded that Lin Bai kneel and cripple his dantian, but Lin Bai challenged the entire Divine Alliance to fight him alone.
• Lin Tianfeng stopped the other Divine Alliance martial artists so he could claim the credit for capturing Lin Bai, then launched a ferocious punch at him.