Recaps

After discovering the flaw in Gao Rui’s swordsmanship, Fang Jin and many martial artists passed the trial, but Gao Rui changed his sword paths to stop further challengers. Lin Bai stepped forward despite his low cultivation and, with a casual sword-finger strike, sent Gao Rui flying, leaving Butler Zhuo Yi astonished.

• Fang Jin exposed the flaw in Gao Rui’s swordsmanship, and other martial artists used it to pass the trial.
• After fifteen challengers passed, Gao Rui changed his sword paths and began defeating those who tried to exploit the flaw.
• Fang Jin urged Lin Bai to take his turn, and Lin Bai challenged Gao Rui despite Butler Zhuo Yi’s doubts about his cultivation.
• Gao Rui unleashed a powerful sword strike at Lin Bai, who pierced through its sword aura and sent him flying with a sword-finger strike.

Lin Bai defeated Gao Rui and joined the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s escort on its journey from Mangshan Town to Haijie City. As the spirit vessel entered Mangshan Ridge, Fang Jin warned Lin Bai to watch for bandits, and they went to the deck to keep an eye out.

• Lin Bai sent Gao Rui flying with a finger, then stopped him from attacking and warned him that he would die within three moves in a real fight.
• Butler Zhuo Yi accepted Lin Bai as one of the recruited guards and led the warriors aboard the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s spirit vessel, warning them to stay off the third level.
• Butler Zhuo Yi learned that the eldest young miss feared enemies from within the Silver Moon Merchant Guild and the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild might prevent her from reaching Haijie City alive.
• Three hours later, the spirit vessel departed Mangshan Town and headed through Mangshan Ridge toward the Qilin Dynasty.
• Fang Jin warned Lin Bai that bandits might attack in Mangshan Ridge, and they went to the deck to look for danger.

As the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's spirit boat crossed Mangshan Ridge, Lin Bai sensed that a Black-Robed Warrior on a giantwood had no intention of attacking and persuaded the guild to leave him alone. After the warrior let them pass, Lin Bai told Fang Jin that a Yang God Realm expert was aboard the boat.

• Gao Rui and Butler Zhuo Yi warned the guards that the guild had previously lost more than seventy experts in an ambush at Mangshan Ridge.
• Lin Bai spotted a Black-Robed Warrior atop a giantwood and sensed no killing intent, but Gao Rui urged the guild to attack first.
• Butler Zhuo Yi chose to heed a woman's order from the third level and continue onward without attacking unless necessary.
• The Black-Robed Warrior watched the spirit boat pass without making a move, and Butler Zhuo Yi acknowledged Lin Bai had been right.
• Lin Bai explained to Fang Jin that the woman aboard the spirit boat was an expert at the Yang God Realm.

As the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s spirit boat neared the Qilin Dynasty, Lin Bai sensed that the seemingly helpless Song Zi was hiding murderous intent. The group rescued her despite his warning and hurried out of Mangshan Ridge, leaving Lin Bai and Fang Jin wary of what lay ahead.

• Lin Bai and Fang Jin saw a sea of flames and corpses across the route through Mangshan Ridge, where Song Zi begged the Silver Moon Merchant Guild to save her.
• Song Zi claimed that villains had attacked her husband and her lineage’s experts, leaving her gravely injured and the only survivor.
• Lin Bai warned Butler Zhuo Yi that Song Zi harbored ill intent, but Gao Rui dismissed his concern and urged the guild to rescue her.
• Butler Zhuo Yi sent Gao Rui to bring Song Zi aboard, then ordered the spirit boat to leave Mangshan Ridge quickly.
• Lin Bai warned Fang Jin to stay alert, and Fang Jin agreed as the spirit boat sped away.

Lin Bai studied sword-creation insights during the spirit boat’s journey and tried to develop a sword technique that could wield all his Intents. He discovered that his Aurora, Rainstorm, and Slaughter Intents violently repelled one another, leaving him injured and searching for a balance between them.

• Lin Bai and Fang Jin reached the borders of Mangshan Ridge without encountering danger, and Lin Bai wondered whether Song Zi had truly been a trap.
• Lin Bai returned to his room and studied more than a hundred thousand books and Jade Slips about creating sword techniques.
• Lin Bai decided to seek a sword technique that could unleash the power of all his Intents, rather than making a separate technique for each one.
• After more than twenty days of study, Lin Bai solidified his three Intents into storms and injured himself when he tried to merge Aurora Intent with Rainstorm Intent.
• Lin Bai raised all three Intents on the Demon Sword to full power, but their clash blasted him away and further cracked the sword.
• Lin Bai concluded that he needed to find a point of balance between the three Intents to create a powerful sword technique.

Lin Bai, injured by the backlash from clashing Intents, met Yue Qing, the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s eldest miss, who recognized him as the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon Dongfang Bai. Yue Qing privately offered him a sword cultivator’s insight from the Sword God Family, and Lin Bai was startled to learn it came from a cultivator nearing the Sword God level.

• Lin Bai began healing his injuries, and Yue Qing and Butler Zhuo Yi came to his room.
• Yue Qing identified Lin Bai as Dongfang Bai after recognizing his image and sensing his powerful sword intent and three clashing Intents.
• Yue Qing dismissed Butler Zhuo Yi and invited Lin Bai to share wine, then removed her veil and asked about the clash of Intents.
• Yue Qing offered Lin Bai an ancient insight left by a Sword God Family cultivator who had nearly reached the Sword God level.
• Lin Bai’s eyes lit up when Yue Qing revealed the source of the sword insight.

Yue Qing gave Lin Bai a quasi-Sword God’s cultivation insights, and their final teaching helped him fuse his Aurora, Torrential Rain, and Slaughter sword intents into a new power. After testing the devastating sword against a mountain, Lin Bai named it Slaying Immortals and returned with Yue Qing to hear her request.

• Yue Qing presented Lin Bai with a book of insights left by a quasi-Sword God, and Lin Bai read it carefully.
• Lin Bai realized that he needed to control the sword with his heart, then fused his three sword intents without rejection or backlash.
• Lin Bai unleashed his new sword across the mountain range, shattering a mountain and carving sword scars across ten thousand miles.
• Yue Qing praised Lin Bai’s comprehension and admitted she had secretly cultivated the Sword Dao while pretending otherwise.
• Lin Bai accepted the insights as a gift, teased Yue Qing about favoring him, and agreed to hear her request aboard the spirit boat.
• Yue Qing asked about Lin Bai’s sword, and Lin Bai named it Slaying Immortals while declining to say whether it came from the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.

Lin Bai agreed to help Yue Qing three times in exchange for the ancient text and gave her three strands of his Sword Qi as tokens. As the spirit vessel continued toward Haijie City, Yue Qing prepared to confront those who had wronged her family and asked her people to investigate Lin Bai’s Immortal Execution sword technique.

• Lin Bai accepted Yue Qing’s offer to act for her three times, provided her requests did not violate his principles, and gave her three strands of Sword Qi.
• Yue Qing asked Lin Bai to conceal his identity, and he agreed to go by Dongfang during their journey to Haijie City.
• Butler Zhuo Yi learned that Yue Qing had secured Lin Bai’s help and recalled how Qi Xuan had demanded she become his concubine before he would assist her.
• Yue Qing told Zhuo Yi to investigate whether the Litian Dynasty had a sword technique called Immortal Execution.
• Yue Qing vowed to stop her second uncle from taking the Silver Moon Merchant Guild presidency and to settle her father’s grudge with him.

Lin Bai refined his self-created Zhu Xian sword art and learned why Yue Qing had been summoned back to Haijie City. Yue Qing faced pressure from Yue Zheng to marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild's Young Master Qian, and her return could put her in grave danger.

• Lin Bai spent five days refining Zhu Xian until the sword art began to take shape.
• Fang Jin and Lu Ao visited Lin Bai and told him the spirit vessel would reach Haijie City in a few days.
• Lu Ao explained that Yue Qing had left the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's headquarters to manage its poorly performing eastern branch and had made its sales surpass the other branches.
• Lu Ao said Yue Zheng had proposed marrying Yue Qing to Young Master Qian to ally with the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild, but Yue Qing had refused.
• Lu Ao revealed that the guild president had died and Yue Zheng had summoned Yue Qing home to discuss the succession, leaving her vulnerable to his demands.

Lin Bai analyzed the danger Yue Qing faced if she returned to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild, then intervened when Song Zi attacked Lu Ao aboard the ship. Song Zi’s unexpected strength forced Lin Bai back one step, and Gao Rui challenged him afterward.

• Lu Ao suggested the old president’s poisoning and death before Yue Qing’s term ended might be connected to Yue Zheng, and Lin Bai reasoned Yue Qing could either marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild’s Young Master Qian or be killed as Yue Zheng’s rival.
• Lin Bai, Fang Jin, and Lu Ao went to the deck, where Gao Rui defeated a sword cultivator in a brutal sparring match and boasted about his strength.
• Lu Ao insulted Gao Rui and Song Zi, prompting Song Zi to attack him with a powerful palm strike.
• Lin Bai stepped in and struck Song Zi with a finger, sending her flying while he was forced back one step.
• Song Zi asked Gao Rui to stand up for her, and Gao Rui challenged Lin Bai over his intervention.

Lin Bai confronted Gao Rui after Song Zi’s attack nearly killed Lu Ao, then defeated Gao Rui’s sword technique and nearly killed him before Song Zi secretly intervened. Butler Zhuo Yi stopped the fight as the spirit boat neared Limitless Peak, but Gao Rui vowed to take revenge after they reached Haijie City.

• Lin Bai challenged Gao Rui’s claim that Song Zi had only intended to teach Lu Ao a lesson, and Gao Rui attacked Lin Bai with his sword.
• Lin Bai blocked Gao Rui’s attack with a finger and shattered his sword technique with a sword of condensed Qi.
• Lin Bai used the Aurora Intent to drive Gao Rui back and aimed a lethal strike at his throat, but Song Zi secretly destroyed the Qi sword and saved him.
• Gao Rui prepared to attack again, but Song Zi tried to calm him and Butler Zhuo Yi ordered everyone to stop fighting as they approached Limitless Peak.
• Gao Rui threatened Lin Bai and Lu Ao after they left the spirit boat, and Lin Bai dismissed his threat before returning to the cabin.

Song Zi reported to Young Master Yuehua that Yue Qing’s spirit ship was nearing Limitless Peak, and learned that Yuehua planned to force Yue Qing to accept his father Yue Zheng’s marriage arrangement or kill her. As Yue Qing approached Haijie City, she anticipated a deadly struggle over the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.

• Song Zi helped the injured Gao Rui return to his room, then secretly contacted Young Master Yuehua with a Shadow Transmission Compass.
• Song Zi reported that Yue Qing’s followers had been killed in Mangshan Ridge, that Gao Rui was under her influence, and that Dongfang was the only other notable fighter aboard the spirit ship.
• Young Master Yuehua told Song Zi to keep acting as an inside agent while he went to Limitless Peak to demand that Yue Qing marry the Young Master of the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild; he threatened to kill her if she refused.
• Yue Qing and Butler Zhuo Yi saw Limitless Peak ahead and discussed their return to Haijie City after four years.
• Yue Qing resolved to prevent Yue Zheng from taking control of the Silver Moon Merchant Guild her father had built.

Yue Qing agreed to meet Yue Hua at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s manor on Limitless Peak, knowing the gathering was a trap meant to prevent her return to Haijie City. Butler Zhuo Yi asked Lin Bai to rescue her if trouble broke out, and Lin Bai agreed.

• Yue Qing received Yue Hua’s message and agreed to meet him at the manor on Limitless Peak before traveling with him to Haijie City.
• Yue Qing told Zhuo Yi she believed Yue Hua’s invitation was a Feast at Hongmen and ordered him to alert Dongfang.
• Zhuo Yi warned Lin Bai that Yue Qing might be in danger and asked him to remember his agreement with her.
• Zhuo Yi knelt and begged Lin Bai to rescue Yue Qing if the manor gathering turned violent.
• Lin Bai promised to save Yue Qing and watched Zhuo Yi go from room to room to brief the guards and martial artists.

Lin Bai and the Guardians arrived with Yue Qing at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild estate, where Yue Hua welcomed her and pressed her to marry the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild's Young Master Qian. Yue Qing refused, while Lin Bai sensed a thousand experts lying in ambush around the estate.

• Yue Hua greeted Yue Qing at the estate and hosted a lavish banquet for her and the Guardians.
• Lu Ao told Lin Bai and Fang Jin that the plainly dressed Li Zong was a powerful Guardian who wielded the Life-Seeking Sword.
• Lin Bai used his Slaughter Intent to detect at least a thousand experts hidden throughout the estate.
• Yue Qing asked about her father's remains, and Yue Hua said they were being kept in an ice coffin until after the Divine Weapon Banquet.
• Yue Hua urged Yue Qing to marry Young Master Qian, but she refused and doubted her father had wanted the match.
• Yue Hua proposed that Yue Qing rest and return to Haijie City with him the next morning.

Yue Hua left Limitless Peak after arranging a covert attack on Yue Qing and those accompanying her. When assassins struck, Lin Bai fought them off and headed for Yue Qing’s residence, leaving Lu Ao and Fang Jin to escape as Li Zong appeared in his path.

• Yue Hua departed for Haijie City after telling Lang Ning and Li Zong to carry out his plans, then reported to his father that Yue Qing had rejected their arrangements.
• Lin Bai sensed blood and killing intent in the estate, then killed a black-clad assassin who attacked him through the window.
• Lin Bai, Lu Ao, and Fang Jin fought off more than thirty peak Yin Saint Realm attackers in the courtyard.
• Lin Bai urged Lu Ao and Fang Jin to flee while he went to protect Yue Qing, citing his promise to Butler Zhuo Yi.
• As Lin Bai crossed the rooftops toward Yue Qing, Li Zong appeared and confronted him, but Lin Bai continued toward her residence.

Lin Bai found Yue Qing surrounded by Lang Ning and more than a hundred martial artists, while Li Zong watched from nearby. Yue Qing fought back, but Li Zong intervened and stood ready to kill her.

• Lin Bai saw Li Zong on a rooftop, then continued searching for Yue Qing instead of pursuing him.
• Lin Bai found Lang Ning's forces surrounding Yue Qing, Butler Zhuo Yi, and her trusted fighters.
• Lang Ning demanded that Yue Qing accept Yue Zheng's demands, but she refused and condemned Lang Ning for betraying her father's kindness.
• Lang Ning ordered his forces to attack, and Butler Zhuo Yi was badly wounded while defending Yue Qing.
• Yue Qing struck Lang Ning with her sword, but Li Zong suddenly attacked and forced her back.
• Li Zong told Yue Qing that Yuehua had ordered him to ensure she never left, then raised his sword to kill her.

Lin Bai arrived just as Li Zong was about to kill the wounded Yue Qing, interrupting the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s attack. He found Butler Zhuo Yi near death and faced Li Zong and Lang Ning.

• Li Zong defeated Yue Qing with the Life-Seeking Sword and left her unable to move.
• Butler Zhuo Yi tried to shield Yue Qing, but Lang Ning stopped him and shattered his heart meridians.
• Li Zong slaughtered Yue Qing’s more than twenty guards and prepared to kill her.
• Lin Bai appeared and blocked Li Zong’s sword, surprising Li Zong and Lang Ning.
• Lin Bai examined Zhuo Yi’s grave injuries while Zhuo Yi urged him to take Yue Qing and flee.

Lin Bai rescued Yue Qing from Li Zong and escaped the Limitless Peak estate, though Li Zong believed the poison on his sword would kill her within seven days. Meanwhile, Song Zi and Gao Rui joined Lang Ning and captured Fang Jin and Lu Ao to lure Lin Bai into a trap.

• Butler Zhuo Yi asked Lin Bai to save Yue Qing, and Lin Bai stopped Li Zong's attack before carrying her away.
• Li Zong used the Thousand Shadows Phantom Sword, but Lin Bai countered with the Sun-Swallowing Sword Art and escaped with Yue Qing.
• Lang Ning learned that Li Zong's Life-Seeking Sword had poisoned Yue Qing and that she would die within seven days.
• Song Zi brought Gao Rui to Lang Ning, and Gao Rui offered to use Fang Jin and Lu Ao to draw Lin Bai out.
• Gao Rui revealed that he had captured Fang Jin and Lu Ao, who furiously condemned his betrayal.

Lin Bai fled the Limitless Peak estate with the gravely wounded Yue Qing, learning that Li Zong’s Life-Seeking Sword had poisoned her and that Butler Zhuo Yi was unlikely to survive. Li Zong intercepted them and revealed his hatred for the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect before attacking Lin Bai with the Thousand Shadows Phantom Sword.

• Lin Bai carried Yue Qing away from the estate after discovering Li Zong had severed seven of her main meridians.
• Yue Qing explained that the Life-Seeking Sword’s poison could only be drawn out by the sword itself and begged to return for Zhuo Yi, but Lin Bai told her Zhuo Yi would not survive more than three hours.
• Yue Qing revealed that Zhuo Yi had been the last family she had left, and Lin Bai continued toward the estate’s exit as pursuers closed in.
• Li Zong intercepted Lin Bai and recognized the Sun-Swallowing Sword Art, while Lin Bai identified Li Zong’s Thousand Shadows Phantom Sword; they realized they were both Purple Robe Disciples of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Li Zong declared his hatred for the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and attacked Lin Bai with Sword Shadow Prison.

Lin Bai fought Li Zong and refused to surrender Yue Qing, despite Lang Ning threatening Lu Ao and Fang Jin. Surrounded by thousands of martial artists, Lin Bai drew the demon sword and launched a counterattack, while Li Zong recognized the legendary weapon.

• Lin Bai defended Yue Qing from Li Zong's attacks as martial artists gathered around them.
• Lang Ning revealed that Lu Ao and Fang Jin had been captured and beaten, then demanded that Lin Bai hand over Yue Qing.
• Lin Bai pretended to surrender Yue Qing, but struck at Lang Ning; Gao Rui rescued him, and Lang Ning ordered everyone to attack.
• Lin Bai set Yue Qing down, drew the demon sword, and killed several hundred martial artists with a single slash.
• Li Zong recognized the demon sword and was stunned by its legendary rank among the Supreme Martial Spirit Tools.

Lin Bai revealed himself as Dongfang Bai, the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon, while protecting Yue Qing from the Silver Moon Merchant Guild. Young Master Yue Hua ordered the guild to kill them both, and Li Zong began his attack.

• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword Purple Radiance, and Li Zong and the surrounding martial artists recognized him as Dongfang Bai, the Sword Paragon.
• Lang Ning consulted Young Master Yue Hua through a Sound Transmission Talisman and told him Dongfang Bai had intervened to protect Yue Qing.
• Young Master Yue Hua ordered Lang Ning to kill Lin Bai and Yue Qing and silence everyone involved.
• Lang Ning offered Lin Bai a chance to leave, but Lin Bai refused to abandon Yue Qing.
• Lang Ning commanded the guild’s fighters to attack, and Li Zong charged at Lin Bai with the Life-Seeking Sword.

Lin Bai killed Li Zong with a single sword after the former Reaching Heaven Sword Sect disciple attacked him, then swiftly killed Gao Rui and freed Lu Ao and Fang Jin. Song Zi surrendered and blamed Young Master Yuehua as Lin Bai’s companions learned he was the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon, Oriental Bai.

• Li Zong attacked Lin Bai with Ten Thousand Shadows Seizing Souls, but Lin Bai shattered his technique with the Sun-Swallowing Sword Art.
• Li Zong charged again, and Lin Bai combined the Aurora, Slaughter, and Rainstorm Intents in Slaying Immortals to cleave him in two.
• Lin Bai appeared before Gao Rui and killed him with a swift sword strike.
• Song Zi begged Lin Bai for her life, blamed Young Master Yuehua, and released Lu Ao and Fang Jin.
• Lu Ao and Fang Jin joined Lin Bai and realized that he was Oriental Bai, the Sword Paragon of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.

Lin Bai defeated Li Zong, while Lu Ao and Fang Jin killed Song Zi, leaving Lang Ning to rally the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s forces against him. The attack stalled when Tang Biao and more than three hundred sword cultivators revealed themselves as outer sect disciples of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect and saluted Lin Bai as the Sword Paragon.

• Lin Bai left Song Zi to Lu Ao and Fang Jin, who killed her after a hundred moves.
• Lang Ning ordered the martial artists to attack Lin Bai and promised them rewards from Young Master Yuehua.
• Tang Biao killed a martial artist who moved to attack Lin Bai, then identified himself as an outer sect disciple and saluted Lin Bai as the Sword Paragon.
• Lang Ning urged the remaining martial artists to attack, but Che Lun and more than three hundred sword cultivators joined Tang Biao and paid their respects to Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai recognized that the sword cultivators were outer sect disciples, and Yue Qing realized that their arrival had given them a chance to survive.

Lin Bai’s identity as the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s Sword Paragon prompted Tang Biao and more than three hundred outer sect disciples to defend him against the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s attackers. After the fight, Tang Biao explained the Sword Paragon’s authority across Lingnan, leaving Lin Bai newly aware of the influence he could wield.

• Tang Biao and the sword cultivators confronted Butler Langning, who ordered the martial artists to attack rather than risk the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s retaliation.
• The sword cultivators fought the larger force to a standstill, while Butler Langning fled and Lin Bai pursued and killed him.
• Tang Biao and the sword cultivators defeated the remaining martial artists, then reunited with Lin Bai and pledged their loyalty to the sect.
• Lin Bai thanked the disciples and declined Tang Biao’s offer to rally more outer sect members against the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.
• Tang Biao explained that the Sword Paragon could call on outer sect disciples throughout Lingnan, and Lin Bai realized the full authority of his position.

After rescuing Yue Qing, Lin Bai agreed to help her reclaim the Silver Moon Merchant Guild because she wanted to recover her father’s remains. Tang Biao proposed that Yue Qing and Lin Bai pretend to be husband and wife so she could return to Haijie City under the protection of Lin Bai’s status as Sword Paragon.

• Lu Ao and Fang Jin thanked Lin Bai for rescuing them, and Lin Bai remembered that Yue Qing was still poisoned by the Life-Seeking Sword.
• Yue Qing offered Lin Bai one strand of Sword Qi as payment for saving her and another in exchange for helping her take the Silver Moon Merchant Guild back from Yue Zheng.
• Tang Biao warned Lin Bai that openly using the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect’s influence to install Yue Qing as guild master could damage the sect’s reputation and bring punishment from the Sect Leader Sword Reverent.
• Yue Qing refused Lin Bai’s offer to treat her poison and insisted on returning to Haijie City to reclaim her father’s remains and protect the guild he had founded.
• Moved by Yue Qing’s words about being someone’s child, Lin Bai accepted her Sword Qi and agreed to help her.
• Tang Biao proposed that Lin Bai and Yue Qing pretend to be husband and wife, giving Yue Qing protection while she worked to win the guild’s upper ranks through her ability to earn profits.