Recaps

Lin Bai agreed to pose as Yue Qing’s husband to help protect her as she returned to Haijie City and challenged Yue Zheng. After healing her with the Life-Seeking Sword, the group neared the city, where Lu Ao and Fang Jin remarked that Lin Bai and Yue Qing made a well-matched couple.

• Tang Biao proposed that Lin Bai and Yue Qing pretend to be husband and wife so Yue Qing could borrow the Sword Paragon’s reputation, and both agreed.
• Lin Bai invited Lu Ao and Fang Jin to accompany them to Haijie City, while Tang Biao and the three hundred sword cultivators departed.
• Lin Bai gave Yue Qing the Life-Seeking Sword, and she used it to draw out the poison and heal her wounds.
• After three days aboard the spirit boat, Lin Bai and Yue Qing saw Haijie City approaching, and Lin Bai promised to help her.
• Lu Ao and Fang Jin saw Lin Bai and Yue Qing standing together and called them a match made in heaven.

Lin Bai and Yue Qing arrived in Haijie City, where they pretended to be a married couple before heading to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild headquarters. Yue Qing announced her return and summoned its senior figures, while Tian Kun secretly revealed his hostility toward her.

• Lu Ao and Fang Jin urged Lin Bai and Yue Qing to act more convincingly as a married couple, so Lin Bai put an arm around Yue Qing and she agreed to the pretense.
• Yue Qing explained the Divine Weapon Banquet’s two rankings and said Lin Bai’s Demon Sword ranked third on the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Ranking.
• Lin Bai and Yue Qing began calling each other Bai Lang and Qing Er as the Spirit Boat crossed Haijie City toward the Silver Moon Merchant Guild headquarters.
• Yue Qing met administrator Tian Kun, identified herself as the guild’s heir, and ordered him to summon her second uncle and the senior figures to the council hall while arranging rooms for her friends.
• After Yue Qing left, Tian Kun mocked her and said Vice Guild Master Yue Zheng would soon become guild master, leaving Yue Qing with little value.

Yue Qing returned to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild and summoned its higher-ups, disrupting Yue Zheng and Young Master Yuehua’s plan to claim the Guild Master position. Yue Zheng went to confront her in the council hall, where he masked his hostility by pretending to welcome her warmly.

• Yue Zheng and Young Master Yuehua discussed how they had secured support for Yue Zheng to become Guild Master and revealed that Yue Zheng had poisoned the former Guild Master.
• Tian Kun reported that Yue Qing had returned with Lin Bai, Lu Ao, and Fang Jin, and that she had called the guild’s higher-ups to a meeting.
• Yue Zheng blamed Young Master Yuehua for failing to prevent Yue Qing’s return and ordered him to the council hall.
• Yue Zheng found Yue Qing seated in the Guild Master’s chair, with Lin Bai beside her, and concealed his hostility by warmly welcoming her and scolding Young Master Yuehua for not escorting her home.

Yue Qing convened the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's senior members to seek a vote on becoming guild master, arguing that her lineage and success at the Eastern Branch qualified her. Yue Zheng rallied more than half the members against her, but a representative of the Lin Hai Dynasty's imperial family arrived and declared support for Yue Qing.

• Yue Qing took the guild master's seat and directed Yue Zheng to sit in his vice guild master's place as the senior members gathered.
• Yue Qing called for a vote on her becoming guild master, citing her father's legacy and the Eastern Branch's strong sales under her leadership.
• Yue Zheng realized Yue Qing's years at the branch had built her influence, then objected to her taking over and called her too young and impulsive.
• More than half of the senior members joined Yue Zheng in opposing Yue Qing, while the others remained silent.
• A woman outside the council hall announced that the Lin Hai Dynasty's imperial family supported Yue Qing as guild master.

Princess Yin Shuang arrived at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild council and backed Yue Qing’s bid for the presidency. Her threats silenced the gathered leaders, but Lin Bai and Lu Ao realized her heavy-handed tactics could turn their resentment against Yue Qing.

• Princess Yin Shuang entered the council with the Lin Hai Dynasty’s imperial guards and greeted Yue Qing, while Yue Zheng and the other leaders paid her their respects.
• Princess Yin Shuang announced that the royal family supported Yue Qing and ordered the leaders to vote; Yue Zheng was the only one to openly oppose her.
• Princess Yin Shuang ordered a guard to record anyone who voted against Yue Qing and threatened to visit them, frightening a leader into leaving the hall.
• Lin Bai and Lu Ao noted that Silver Frost’s intimidation could anger the guild leaders and push them toward Yue Zheng, who remained confident and silent.
• When the leader who had left returned, Princess Yin Shuang demanded his vote, and he stammered without answering.

Lin Bai warned Yue Qing that Silver Frost’s pressure was turning the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s higher-ups against her. When Yue Zheng tried to have Lin Bai expelled, Yue Qing introduced him as her husband, Dongfang Bai, the Sword Paragon of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect, leaving Yue Zheng unable to dismiss him easily.

• Lin Bai quietly warned Yue Qing to call for a vote before Silver Frost’s pressure further angered the higher-ups.
• Yue Zheng ordered Lin Bai and his companions out of the council hall, and several higher-ups backed him.
• Yue Qing introduced Lin Bai as her husband, Dongfang Bai, and identified him as the Sword Paragon of the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Silver Frost reacted with disbelief and watched Lin Bai with unexplained killing intent.
• Lin Bai presented the Five-Colored Disciple Robe as proof of his identity, shocking Yue Zheng.

Lin Bai proved that he was Dongfang Bai, the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's Sword Paragon, and used his authority to rally the Silver Moon Merchant Guild behind Yue Qing. Yue Zheng still resisted her appointment but proposed an examination, leaving Yue Qing to hear what she must do to qualify.

• Lin Bai presented the Five-Colored Disciple Robe, Sword Paragon Token, and Demon Sword Purple Radiance to prove his identity to Yue Zheng.
• Lin Bai urged the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's leaders to support Yue Qing as president, and nearly all of them agreed.
• Yue Zheng conceded that he could not oppose Lin Bai but argued that Yue Qing needed more training before taking charge.
• Yue Qing cited her five years of strong results at the Eastern Branch and demanded that Yue Zheng state what would prove her qualifications.
• Yue Zheng proposed an examination and promised to support Yue Qing wholeheartedly if she passed, and Yue Qing asked what it was.

Yue Qing accepted Yue Zheng’s test: she had one month to make the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s divine iron sales exceed twice the sales of previous Divine Weapon Banquets. With the senior figures agreeing to support her if she succeeded, she secured time to pursue the guild master position and went to retrieve her father’s body.

• Yue Zheng challenged Yue Qing to double the guild’s previous Divine Weapon Banquet sales within a month, and she accepted.
• The senior figures agreed to support Yue Qing as guild master if she met the sales target.
• Yue Qing asked Yue Zheng for her father’s body so she could bury him, and the council meeting ended.
• Yue Zheng arranged lodging for Lin Bai, Lu Ao, Fang Jin, and Silver Frost, while Yue Qing invited Lin Bai to stay with her.
• Yue Qing requested the guild’s account books and divine iron inventory records for the next day.
• Lin Bai told Yue Qing about his deceased close friend, then left her to manage the test while she went to retrieve her father’s body.

After Yue Qing and Lin Bai discussed their determination to face danger, Princess Yin Shuang arrived and learned why Yue Qing had brought Lin Bai to the courtyard. Lin Bai cultivated for half a month, reached the perfection of the Yin Saint Realm, and then set out with Lu Ao and Fang Jin to see the Divine Iron Ranking announced, where he hoped to find Chai Xu.

• Lin Bai considered searching Haijie City for Chai Xu, who could repair his Demon Sword, and Ye Fenghuo, whom he intended to kill.
• Yue Qing returned after her father's funeral and told Lin Bai that Yue Zheng had poisoned her father, then discussed their persistence in pursuing their goals.
• Princess Yin Shuang burst into the courtyard and threatened Lin Bai, but Yue Qing explained the events at the Limitless Peak estate, and Yin Shuang apologized for misunderstanding him.
• Yue Qing said she would regain control of the Ten Guardians after becoming guild master, while Yin Shuang agreed not to act impulsively against Yue Zheng.
• Lin Bai cultivated in the courtyard for half a month and broke through to the perfection of the Yin Saint Realm.
• Lu Ao and Fang Jin invited Lin Bai to see the Divine Iron Ranking announcement, and he agreed, hoping Chai Xu would be there.

Lin Bai, Lu Ao, and Fang Jin visited Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to inspect the Divine Iron Ranking and ask about Chai Xu and Ye Fenghuo. Lin Bai paid two billion spirit stones for their whereabouts, and Si Yu promised to provide their addresses once they arrived in Haijie City.

• Lin Bai learned that Yue Qing had boosted Silver Moon Merchant Guild's sales through military orders and the support of Reaching Heaven Sword Sect's outer sect disciples.
• Lin Bai, Lu Ao, and Fang Jin examined the Divine Iron Ranking, where Immaculate Divine Iron remained first and Starfall Iron Essence ranked second.
• The eight great merchant guilds announced upcoming auctions of highly ranked divine irons, including Silver Moon Merchant Guild's Starfall Iron Essence.
• Lin Bai asked Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's maid Si Yu to find Chai Xu and Ye Fenghuo, paying two billion spirit stones for their addresses.

Lin Bai learned that Chai Xu was in Haijie City and that Ye Fenghuo held a high position in the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild, where he had brought a renowned flying sword. The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion arranged a meeting with Chai Xu, and its inspection envoy hinted that Ye Fenghuo was about to make a move in Haijie City.

• Si Yu returned Lin Bai’s two hundred million spirit stones and told him Chai Xu had been living quietly in Haijie City for three months.
• Si Yu revealed that Ye Fenghuo had arrived in Haijie City half a year earlier, held a high position in the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild, and had brought a flying sword expected to rank in the top ten of the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Ranking.
• Lin Bai asked the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to arrange a meeting with Chai Xu, and Si Yu agreed to act as intermediary.
• After Lin Bai left, Si Yu reported to the qipao-clad inspection envoy, who ordered her to arrange the meeting and wondered whether Ye Fenghuo planned to make his first move in Haijie City.
• Five days later, a Heavenly Treasure Pavilion martial artist told Lin Bai that Chai Xu had agreed to meet him at the pavilion the following day.

Lin Bai visited Chai Xu at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to ask him to repair the cracked Demon Sword. Chai Xu said the repair would be difficult but possible, then demanded to know what had damaged the sword.

• Lin Bai arrived alone at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, where Si Yu brought him to meet the disheveled artificer Chai Xu.
• Chai Xu said he would only forge a weapon worthy of the top ten on the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Ranking, and Lin Bai assured him his request concerned a peerless weapon.
• Lin Bai showed Chai Xu the cracked Demon Sword and asked him to restore it.
• Chai Xu explained that the sword had been forged by Grandmaster Zhang Zhong, whose work had drained the seventh-stage Yang God Realm artificer to death.
• Chai Xu said he could repair the Demon Sword, then questioned Lin Bai about what had damaged it.

Lin Bai negotiated with Chai Xu to repair the cracked Demon Sword and potentially forge seventy-two swords from Immaculate Divine Iron. Chai Xu kept the Demon Sword for a half-month repair, while Lin Bai stayed in Haijie City and learned that Zhuo Lian and Jing Shu were on their way there.

• Lin Bai told Chai Xu that the Demon Sword had clashed with a broken Poseidon Halberd, and Chai Xu agreed to attempt its repair.
• Lin Bai gave Chai Xu a Jade Slip describing a request to forge seventy-two swords using Immaculate Divine Iron, and Chai Xu agreed to consider long-term cooperation.
• Lin Bai left the Demon Sword with Chai Xu, who promised to repair it within half a month and gave Lin Bai his address.
• Lin Bai contacted Zhuo Lian, learned that Zhuo Lian and Jing Shu would reach Haijie City in about half a month, and told them to travel carefully.
• Lin Bai returned to the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.

Yue Zheng plotted with the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild to stop Yue Qing’s shipment of Supreme Martial Spirit Tools after her sales surged and threatened his bid to retain power. The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s envoy learned of the attack plan and sent Si Yu to warn Dongfang Bai.

• Yue Qing’s sales nearly doubled the Silver Moon Merchant Guild’s previous annual total, winning support from guild leaders and alarming Yue Zheng and Yue Hua.
• Yue Hua revealed that Yue Qing had ordered more than eight hundred thousand weapons from Seven Luminaries Starfall Mountain, due to arrive in Haijie City the next evening.
• Yue Zheng ordered Yue Hua to contact the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild and prevent the shipment from reaching the city.
• The Wolf Pack Merchant Guild’s guild master met secretly with Yue Zheng, then dispatched five hundred Yin Saint Realm martial artists led by Ye Fenghuo and accompanied by seven Yang God Realm experts toward the White Dragon Sea.
• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion envoy learned of the deployment and ordered Si Yu to warn Dongfang Bai at the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.

Lin Bai received his restored demon sword from Chai Xu and arranged for his friends to meet the weaponsmith about forging their weapons. Si Yu warned Yue Qing that the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild had sent a large force toward the White Dragon Sea, and Yue Qing suspected Yue Zheng was about to act against her.

• Chai Xu brought Lin Bai the fully repaired demon sword and agreed to wait for Lin Bai's friends to arrive before discussing their weapons.
• Lin Bai told Yue Qing that the spirit tools she had ordered would let her meet Yue Zheng's requirements before the Supreme Martial Spirit Tool Ranking was announced.
• Si Yu informed Lin Bai and Yue Qing that Ye Fenghuo had left Haijie City for the White Dragon Sea with seven Yang God Realm experts and five hundred peak Yin Saint Realm experts.
• Si Yu noted Yue Qing's large order of Supreme Martial Spirit Tools, then left without explaining the connection to the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild.
• Yue Qing concluded that Yue Zheng was about to make his move and ordered someone to invite Princess Yin Shuang.

Yue Qing learned that Yue Zheng might be targeting her shipment of Supreme Martial Spirit Tools, so she sent Silver Frost and Lin Bai to protect it. Lin Bai deduced that the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild would ambush the shipment at Sky Wolf Island, and the Imperial Guards changed course to confront them.

• Yue Qing told Silver Frost that the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild had sent forces toward the White Dragon Sea and asked her to protect the shipment.
• Lin Bai volunteered to accompany Silver Frost, and Yue Qing gave them Jade Slips containing the shipping route.
• Yue Qing summoned the Silver Moon Merchant Guild's senior members after Lin Bai and Silver Frost departed.
• Lin Bai studied the route and concluded that the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild would ambush the spirit vessel at Sky Wolf Island rather than Returning Dragon Bay.
• Silver Frost ordered the Imperial Guards to head for Sky Wolf Island and prepare for combat.

Ye Fenghuo and the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild ambushed a Seven Luminaries Starfall Mountain spirit ship carrying Supreme Martial Spirit Tools at Sky Wolf Island. With sound transmissions blocked, Yang Yuan and the other escorts were forced into battle against the guild’s stronger forces.

• Ye Fenghuo ordered the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild’s death warriors to slaughter the travelers on Sky Wolf Island and prepared the island for an ambush.
• Ye Fenghuo explained that Yue Zheng had revealed the shipment’s route and that Sky Wolf Island was the best place to attack it.
• The Wolf Pack Merchant Guild attacked the approaching spirit ship, but its five Yang God Realm elders drove back the first wave of attackers.
• The Soul-Reaping Scholar revealed that a formation prevented anyone from sending a sound transmission, and Yang Yuan realized the ship could not call for help.
• The Wolf Pack Merchant Guild’s seven Yang God Realm experts attacked Yang Yuan and the other four elders while the death warriors fought the ship’s guards.

Yang Yuan’s escort was wiped out by Wolf Pack Merchant Guild, and Ye Fenghuo revealed that he wanted the Supreme Martial Spirit Tools Yue Qing had ordered. Just as Ye Fenghuo was about to kill Yang Yuan, Sword Paragon Dongfang Bai arrived, and the two enemies faced each other.

• White-Faced Scholar and the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild fighters killed nearly all of Seven Luminaries Starfall Mountain’s guards and Yang God Realm experts, leaving Yang Yuan to fight alone.
• Yang Yuan detonated the Sky Yang Bracelet, but Ye Fenghuo split its flames with a sword strike and appeared on Sky Wolf Island.
• Ye Fenghuo demanded the Supreme Martial Spirit Tools from Yang Yuan, who held up the Storage Bag and refused to surrender without a fight.
• Ye Fenghuo struck at Yang Yuan, but a hundred-zhang Sword Qi forced him to retreat and cleaved Sky Wolf Island in two.
• Dongfang Bai arrived in a Five-Colored Disciple Robe, recognized Ye Fenghuo as the enemy tied to his wife and child’s deaths, and faced him as Ye Fenghuo greeted him as Sword Paragon.

Lin Bai arrived on Sky Wolf Island to protect Yang Yuan and the Supreme Martial Spirit Tools, then openly challenged Ye Fenghuo. Ye Fenghuo ordered his allies to kill Lin Bai, and Lin Bai began fighting all seven Yang God Realm experts at once.

• Lin Bai told Yang Yuan that Princess Yin Shuang was bringing reinforcements and promised to protect him and the Supreme Martial Spirit Tools.
• Lin Bai confronted Ye Fenghuo, his killing intent revealing his hatred over Ye Suxin’s death.
• Ye Fenghuo decided Lin Bai had to die and ordered Soul-Reaping Scholar to attack him while Ye Fenghuo went after Yang Yuan.
• The White-Faced Scholar and the other six Yang God Realm experts joined the attack on Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai drew the Demonic Sword and sent seven sword shadows against the seven attackers, beginning a fierce battle.

Lin Bai survived the combined assault of seven Yang God Realm experts and killed them with a single sword strike. He then turned his killing intent toward Ye Fenghuo, who was left stunned by Lin Bai’s strength.

• The grizzled old man attacked Lin Bai with the Asura Finger, but Lin Bai dodged and severed his left arm.
• The seven Yang God Realm experts attacked together, blasting Lin Bai away and shattering Sky Wolf Island, but Lin Bai emerged unharmed.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to raise his strength to the Yang God Realm and united three intents in his Immortal Execution strike.
• Lin Bai’s sword killed the grizzled old man, the Blue-Faced Brute, the White-Faced Scholar, and the other four Yang God Realm experts.
• Lin Bai turned his killing intent toward Ye Fenghuo, who stared at the dead experts in disbelief.

Lin Bai arrived as Ye Fenghuo was about to kill Yang Yuan and revealed that he had slain seven Yang God Realm experts, including the White-Faced Scholar and the Blue-Faced Brute. Driven by the deaths of his wife and son, Lin Bai confronted Ye Fenghuo, who answered with a powerful King Grade sword technique.

• Ye Fenghuo wounded Yang Yuan and prepared to finish him, but Lin Bai roared his name and interrupted the attack.
• Ye Fenghuo saw that Lin Bai had killed the seven Yang God Realm experts, and Lin Bai forced him back with several sword strikes.
• Yang Yuan warned Lin Bai that Ye Fenghuo had reached the second stage of the Yang God Realm and urged him to join forces, but Lin Bai refused.
• Lin Bai declared that Ye Fenghuo had to die for murdering his wife and son, and his killing intent formed a blood-red mist around him.
• Ye Fenghuo unleashed the King Grade Azure Feather Swordplay, Thousand Plumes, and Yang Yuan warned Lin Bai not to face it head-on.

Lin Bai fought Ye Fenghuo through the latter’s King Grade Azure Feather Swordplay, sustaining severe wounds before blinding him and answering his White Phoenix technique with Annihilate the Immortals. Their strongest attacks collided above Sky Wolf Island, leaving Yang Yuan stunned by their power.

• Ye Fenghuo used the Azure Feather Swordplay, a King Grade Martial Skill he had earned after revealing the mysterious fragment to the Reaching Heaven Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai charged through Ye Fenghuo’s sword rays despite his injuries, and the two fought through hundreds of exchanges as Sky Wolf Island broke apart beneath them.
• Lin Bai pierced Ye Fenghuo’s left eye, provoking Ye Fenghuo to unleash Azure Feather: White Phoenix.
• Lin Bai merged Slaughter Intent, Rainstorm Intent, and Aurora Intent into Annihilate the Immortals.
• Ye Fenghuo’s White Phoenix and Lin Bai’s Annihilate the Immortals clashed in the sky as Yang Yuan realized either attack could kill him.

Lin Bai and Ye Fenghuo were both gravely wounded after their swords collided, and Ye Fenghuo tried to kill Lin Bai with a sentient flying sword. The sword recognized Lin Bai as its master, leaving Ye Fenghuo to suspect that Lin Bai was someone he believed had died three years earlier.

• Lin Bai and Ye Fenghuo's sword techniques collided, leaving them both severely injured and nearly out of spiritual power.
• Ye Fenghuo summoned a sentient golden flying sword from his Storage Bag and commanded it to kill Lin Bai.
• The flying sword stopped before Lin Bai, who revealed that it was his sword, Longjing.
• Longjing joyfully circled Lin Bai, astonishing Ye Fenghuo and Yang Yuan.
• Ye Fenghuo recognized Lin Bai as someone he thought had died in Lingdong and struggled to believe he had become the Sword Paragon in only three years.

Lin Bai revealed his identity to Ye Fenghuo and killed him after learning that Ye Fenghuo had helped slaughter Lin Bai’s wife and unborn child. Lin Bai then wiped out the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild fighters on Sky Wolf Island, where Silver Frost found him kneeling in grief.

• Lin Bai proved his identity to Ye Fenghuo by sending his flying sword through Ye Fenghuo’s dantian and destroying his cultivation.
• Lin Bai shattered Ye Fenghuo’s limbs one by one as he confronted him about the past.
• Ye Fenghuo taunted Lin Bai by revealing that Lin Bai’s wife and unborn child had been slaughtered, and Lin Bai reduced Ye Fenghuo to dust with his flying sword.
• Lin Bai’s flying sword hunted down and killed the Wolf Pack Merchant Guild members who had participated in the mission around Sky Wolf Island.
• Silver Frost arrived with the Lin Hai Dynasty imperial guards, found Lin Bai kneeling in a pool of blood, and brought him and Yang Yuan toward the Silver Moon Merchant Guild.

After killing Ye Fenghuo on Sky Wolf Island, Lin Bai returned to Haijie City and continued recovering while Yue Qing and Silver Frost considered the secrets behind his hatred. Yue Zheng vowed revenge, but Demon Saint Hantian of Ten Thousand Demons Valley appeared and offered him a chance to kill Lin Bai immediately.

• Silver Frost and Yang Yuan returned to Haijie City with Lin Bai, and Yang Yuan recounted how Lin Bai had killed seven Yang God Realm experts and brutally slain Ye Fenghuo.
• Yue Qing brought healing pills to Lin Bai, who said he had reasons for killing Ye Fenghuo and warned her to watch for Yue Zheng’s hidden cards.
• After Yue Qing left, Lin Bai reflected that five targets remained and began healing his injuries.
• Yue Zheng and Yue Hua blamed Lin Bai for ruining their shipment plans, and Yue Zheng vowed to settle accounts with him after becoming guild president.
• Demon Saint Hantian of Ten Thousand Demons Valley blasted open Yue Zheng’s study doors and urged him to kill Lin Bai without waiting.