Recaps

Old Ancestor Ding told the eight Emerald Flames that he had sent Lin Bai to the Eastern Continent Academy under the Life-Death Curse Seal’s control, while Lin Bai investigated the seal and discovered his flying sword frightened it. Lin Bai entered the Sword Formation Tower and found a new formation on its second level.

• Old Ancestor Ding revealed that Ding Xian-lai was dead and that he had used the Life-Death Curse Seal to send Lin Bai to the Eastern Continent Academy for the Life-Death Demon Sect.
• The eight Emerald Flames warned Old Ancestor Ding that the seal could expose the sect and ordered him to kill Lin Bai if he escaped control or learned the truth.
• Five days later, Lin Bai recovered from his injuries and found that the Life-Death Curse Seal reacted fearfully to his flying sword.
• Lin Bai entered the Sword Formation Tower and reached its second level, where he discovered the Taiji Dual Polarity Formation.

Lin Bai learned the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation could break the Life-Death Curse Seal and went to the Gu family to forge a second flying sword. After half a month of refining in the Earth Fire Dragon Vein, the forging process was still underway.

• Lin Bai memorized the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation and decided to forge another flying sword to free himself from Old Ancestor Ding's control.
• Lin Bai chose Immaculate Divine Iron as the main material and asked Gu Yuan for access to a place suitable for refining artifacts.
• Gu Yuan brought Lin Bai to the Gu family's ancestral grounds, where the patriarch agreed to let him use the Earth Fire Dragon Vein.
• Lin Bai entered the hottest part of the Earth Fire Dragon Vein and began forging his second flying sword with Immaculate Divine Iron and thousands of other divine irons.
• Half a month passed as Lin Bai continued smelting and shaping the materials in the blazing stone chamber.

Lin Bai emerged from the Gu Clan’s Earth Fire Dragon Vein after spending fifteen days refining a second flying sword, then prepared to travel to the Eastern Continent Academy. At the Profound Heaven Sect’s departure gathering, Ding Huo threatened him with the Life-Death Curse Seal.

• Gu Yuan found Lin Bai unharmed as he came out of the stone chamber, and told him the group would leave for the Eastern Continent Academy the next day.
• Lin Bai thanked the Gu Clan’s patriarch and elders before returning to the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Lin Bai named his newly refined sword the Immaculate Flying Sword, bonded his soul to it, and practiced the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.
• The Sect Master gathered the ten disciples chosen to travel to the Eastern Continent Academy, including Lin Bai, Gu Yuan, and Ding Huo.
• Ding Huo told Lin Bai that the Ancestor had sent him to watch Lin Bai and threatened to disperse the Life Seal; Lin Bai ignored him.

Lin Bai traveled with the Profound Heaven Sect disciples toward the Eastern Continent Academy and learned about the Eastern Mountain Domain and the Academy's location on the Sea of Gods and Demons. The chapter ended when a man came looking for Lin Xiaoqing.

• Grand Elder led Lin Bai and the other disciples out of the Profound Heaven Domain aboard a spirit boat bound for the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ding Huo warned Lin Bai that his life depended on the Life-Death Curse Seal, and Lin Bai decided to wait until they left the Flying Dragon Domain before severing it.
• A month later, the spirit boat reached the Eastern Mountain Domain, where Gu Yuan and the others visited Lin Bai with Lin Xiaoqing.
• Gu Yuan, Chai Ming, and Lei Chong explained the Nine Great Domains and told Lin Bai that the Eastern Continent Academy stood on the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• A man knocked on Lin Bai's door and demanded that Lin Xiaoqing come out.

Lin Bai protected Lin Xiaoqing from Ding Huo’s harassment, then began using his flying swords to remove the Life-Death Curse Seal. Ding Huo gained Old Ancestor Ding’s permission to activate the seal as a warning, unaware that Lin Bai was already destroying it.

• Ding Huo tried to make Lin Xiaoqing dance and grab her, but Lin Bai intervened and drove him away.
• Lin Xiaoqing apologized to Lin Bai, and Gu Yuan, Lin Xiaoqing, Chai Ming, and Lei Chong returned to their rooms.
• Lin Bai used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to split the Life-Death Curse Seal and began destroying its spreading black qi.
• Ding Huo told Old Ancestor Ding that Lin Bai had threatened revenge, and Old Ancestor Ding authorized him to activate the seal but warned him to deactivate it within five days.
• Ding Huo promised Old Ancestor Ding that he would only teach Lin Bai a lesson and would not kill him.

Ding Huo came to Lin Bai’s residence to punish him and threaten Lin Xiaoqing, but Lin Bai was meditating while removing the Life-Death Curse Seal. The chapter left Ding Huo stunned after Lin Bai revealed that he had already removed it.

• Ding Huo ran into Lin Xiaoqing and Gu Yuan on his way to Lin Bai’s residence and told them he planned to settle accounts with Lin Bai.
• Ding Huo smashed Lin Bai’s protected door and found him meditating, while Gu Yuan and the others rushed in to defend him.
• Ding Huo threatened Lin Xiaoqing and demanded that she go with him, but Gu Yuan intervened and refused to let him harm her or Lin Bai.
• Ding Huo demanded that Lin Bai kneel and apologize, then tried to activate the Life-Death Curse Seal inside him.
• Lin Bai opened his eyes and revealed that he had removed the Life-Death Curse Seal, leaving Ding Huo disbelieving.

Lin Bai confirmed that he had removed the Life-Death Curse Seal and attacked Ding Huo before he could alert Old Ancestor Ding. Emerald Flames engulfed Ding Huo, and when they faded, he rose with eerie green eyes, prompting Lin Bai to suspect that he was no longer himself.

• Lin Bai tested Ding Huo's hand seal several times and confirmed that the Life-Death Curse Seal had been completely removed.
• When Ding Huo tried to use a Sound Transmission Talisman to contact Old Ancestor Ding, Lin Bai grabbed him and warned that he would seek revenge on the ancestor once he was strong enough.
• Ding Huo broke free and tried to flee, so Lin Bai used his flying swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to strike him down.
• Emerald Flames erupted around Ding Huo and burned him as he cried out that the ancestor had doomed him.
• After the flames sank into his body, Ding Huo rose with green eyes and an unfamiliar aura, and Lin Bai asked who he was.

Lin Bai fought Ding Huo, whose power had surged to the Life Extinction Realm, while the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation's flying swords protected him. Ding Huo admitted he was not the real Ding Huo and prepared a devastating punch as the Grand Elder refused to intervene.

• Ding Huo ambushed Lin Bai, but the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation's Defensive Formation blocked his punch.
• Lin Bai counterattacked with the Four Gods Sword Slash and raised his cultivation with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art, but Ding Huo shattered his Sword Qi and drove the battle into the clouds.
• Ding Huo admitted he was not Ding Huo and said Lin Bai had to die for breaking free of the Life-Death Curse Seal.
• The Grand Elder arrived at the shattered spirit boat but refused to intervene, hoping either Lin Bai or Ding Huo would be killed.
• Ding Huo unleashed an aura that reached the Life Extinction Realm and punched toward Lin Bai with overwhelming force.

After Ding Huo gravely wounded Lin Bai, Lin Bai fled across the sky for three days and reached Looking North City, where he escaped through a teleportation array bound for Great Spirit Domain. Ding Huo arrived too late to stop the teleportation and nearly shattered the array.

• Ding Huo shattered Lin Bai's defenses with a punch, but Lin Bai used his two flying swords to flee while badly injured.
• Ding Huo pursued Lin Bai for three days and three nights, while the Grand Elder, Gu Yuan, and the others watched without intervening.
• Lin Bai spotted Looking North City and learned that its teleportation array was about to send travelers to Great Spirit Domain.
• Lin Bai paid one hundred thousand spirit stones and entered the array just as Ding Huo reached the plaza.
• Ding Huo struck the array and nearly shattered it, but Lin Bai had already been teleported away.

Qiu Lin revealed that he had taken over Ding Huo’s body after Lin Bai broke the Life-Death Curse Seal, and he and Old Ancestor Ding made plans to hunt Lin Bai. Lin Bai escaped a collapsing spatial wormhole but was struck by black lightning and fell unconscious in an unknown place.

• Qiu Lin told Old Ancestor Ding that Lin Bai had broken the Life-Death Curse Seal and escaped toward Pengshi Island in the Great Spirit Domain.
• Qiu Lin and Old Ancestor Ding agreed to pursue Lin Bai separately, with Qiu Lin following the Profound Heaven Sect’s group and Old Ancestor Ding heading to the Great Spirit Domain.
• Lin Bai realized Ding Huo’s strike had destabilized the spatial wormhole and that he could no longer reach his intended destination.
• Lin Bai rode his flying sword toward an irregular teleportation point, but black lightning struck him and knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Bai escaped the wormhole as it shattered and fell from the sky toward an unknown stretch of land.

Lin Bai fell from a black lightning vortex into the Celestial Peak Mountain Range in the Great Spirit Domain, where Di Hong and his companions found him. After waking, Lin Bai took their healing pills and absorbed the blood of their slain beast while learning where he had landed.

• Di Hong and his companions killed a Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to obtain armor for their young lady’s Eastern Continent Academy examination.
• A vortex of black lightning appeared overhead and dropped the severely injured Lin Bai into the mountain range.
• Di Hong approached Lin Bai, but Lin Bai’s flying swords threatened him until Di Hong backed away and Lin Bai regained consciousness.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai healing pills, which Lin Bai took before absorbing the beast’s blood to heal himself.
• Di Hong told Lin Bai they were in the Great Spirit Domain’s Celestial Peak Mountain Range and asked how he had emerged from the black lightning passage.

Lin Bai explained that a damaged spatial wormhole had forced him to escape before reaching his destination, leaving him badly injured. Di Hong invited him to recover at the Ji Family’s home, and Lin Bai accepted as the group prepared to return to the Celestial Peak Mountain Range.

• Lin Bai told Di Hong that a teleportation wormhole from Looking North City had begun to collapse, forcing him to escape through black lightning.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai a place to heal at his Lineage near the Celestial Peak Mountain Range, and Lin Bai accepted.
• Third Brother Yang collected the giant beast’s corpse, while Lin Bai apologized for absorbing its demon blood and Di Hong told him not to worry about it.
• Third Brother Yang explained that Di Hong had spent three months searching for a Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to make armor for his daughter Qingqing, who was about to enter the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai thought of his missing father, Lin Duo, and resolved to reach the Eastern Continent Academy and find him.

Di Hong’s monster-hunting team was ambushed by Third Master Li and the Li family, who demanded the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast. Di Hong and his companions were defeated, leaving the beast’s whereabouts and Lin Bai’s next move unresolved.

• Di Hong and Lin Bai encountered Third Master Li and more than twenty Li family martial artists as they left the Celestial Peak Mountain Range.
• Third Brother Yang explained that the Ji and Li families competed for control of the mountain range, and Third Master Li tried to recruit Di Hong before demanding his beast.
• Di Hong refused to surrender the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, so Third Master Li ordered his martial artists to attack.
• Di Hong told Third Brother Yang to take Lin Bai away, but Third Master Li blocked their escape and Third Brother Yang joined the fight.
• The Li family overwhelmed Di Hong’s wounded team, and Third Master Li demanded to know where the beast was.

Di Hong and his companions were forced to surrender the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast to Third Master Li, who then ordered their cultivation crippled. Lin Bai intervened with his flying swords, but Third Master Li attacked him, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Third Master Li threatened Di Hong's group and tortured Third Brother Yang to make them hand over the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast.
• Di Hong reluctantly ordered Third Brother Yang to give up the beast's corpse to save the others.
• After receiving the corpse, Third Master Li ordered his men to cripple Di Hong and his companions despite promising to let them leave alive.
• Lin Bai struck the Li family warriors with two flying swords and told Third Master Li to leave.
• Third Master Li demanded Lin Bai's swords and lunged at him, while Di Hong and Third Brother Yang feared Lin Bai would be killed.

Lin Bai used his two flying swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to kill Third Master Li and the Li Family martial artists. Badly wounded after the fight, he left the Celestial Peak Mountain Range with Di Hong and Yang San.

• Third Master Li attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai's flying swords struck him back and pierced his palm.
• Third Master Li demanded Lin Bai's swords in exchange for the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, so Lin Bai unleashed the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and sent his swords after him.
• Lin Bai trapped Third Master Li and the Li Family martial artists in the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation, then activated the Slaughter Formation after Third Master Li broke free.
• The flying swords killed the remaining Li Family martial artists and chased down Third Master Li, cleaving him to death.
• Lin Bai's injuries worsened, so Di Hong supported him while Yang San retrieved the Black-Armored Mang Rhinoceros Beast, and they hurried back to the Ji Family.

After recovering from severe injuries in Ji Family City, Lin Bai accompanied Di Hong to deliver the newly forged armor for Di Hong’s daughter, Ji Qingqing. Di Hong’s smile faded when Lin Bai asked why she did not live with him.

• Di Hong brought Lin Bai and the others safely back to Ji Family City and distributed healing pills among them.
• Lin Bai shut himself in a guest room and used the Five Elements Scripture and healing pills to treat his injuries.
• After ten days of recovery, Lin Bai met Di Hong, who invited him to see the armor forged for Ji Qingqing.
• Lin Bai joined Di Hong and the others, then asked why Ji Qingqing did not live with her father.
• Di Hong looked awkward, and Third Brother Yang and the others reacted unhappily to Lin Bai’s question.

Di Hong brought Lin Bai to the Ji family's main residence to see his daughter Ji Qingqing, whom the family had trained apart from him. When Ji Qingqing arrived with other aristocratic disciples, Lin Bai saw that she treated Di Hong coldly and that her companions looked down on him.

• Di Hong explained that Ji Qingqing lived in the Ji family's main residence because the Lineage valued her martial talent, while he lived in the western city with Third Brother Yang and the others.
• Di Hong registered at the Affairs Hall and gave Ji Longjun a Storage Bag so he would arrange a meeting with Ji Qingqing.
• Di Hong offered to have Lin Bai travel to the Eastern Continent Academy with the Ji family's martial artists, but Lin Bai hesitated because he preferred to travel freely.
• Ji Longjun announced that Ji Qingqing and the others had finished seclusion, and five young aristocratic disciples entered the rear hall.
• Di Hong greeted Ji Qingqing, but one of the young men stopped him and scolded him for approaching a higher-ranking clan member, leaving Lin Bai to recognize the estrangement between father and daughter.

Di Hong tried to give Ji Qingqing armor he had risked his life to obtain, but she rejected it and treated him coldly. Three days later, Lin Bai’s injuries had healed, and he found Di Hong drinking alone beneath the moon.

• Ji Yanglin and the other Ji Family youths scolded Di Hong for approaching Ji Qingqing, who refused the armor he had prepared for her.
• Third Brother Yang revealed Di Hong’s efforts and injuries, and Ji Qingqing agreed to let Lin Bai travel with the Ji Family to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing told Lin Bai the Ji Family would leave in five days, but Lin Bai said he could travel there on his own.
• Di Hong returned to his residence with the rejected armor while Third Brother Yang and the others angrily defended him.
• Lin Bai cultivated until his injuries healed, then found Di Hong drinking alone beneath the moon and went to speak with him.

Di Hong told Lin Bai how he had met and married Ji Qingqing’s mother, who later died protecting him from the Li clan, and asked Lin Bai to watch over Ji Qingqing at the Eastern Continent Academy. Lin Bai agreed to travel with the Ji clan’s warriors and promised to return Di Hong’s armor to Ji Qingqing, though he remained troubled by her behavior.

• Di Hong recounted how Ji Qingqing’s mother gave up her chance to attend the Eastern Continent Academy to be with him, then died protecting him from the Li clan when Qingqing was nine.
• Di Hong explained that Ji Qingqing had endured scorn from the Ji clan after her mother’s death and asked Lin Bai to protect her on the journey to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Di Hong offered Lin Bai armor he had made for Ji Qingqing and knelt to plead with him to accept the task.
• Lin Bai agreed to travel with the Ji clan’s warriors and said he would give the armor to Ji Qingqing once they arrived.
• Lin Bai parted from Di Hong the next morning, then reflected that he had agreed because Di Hong had once saved his life and had made a father’s plea.

Lin Bai joined the Ji family’s group traveling to Eastern Continent Academy, where he planned to take the disciple selection examination. After Ji Qingqing warned him about the deadly competition and mocked his cultivation, Lin Bai predicted that arrogant disciples from prestigious clans would be the first to die.

• Di Hong and the others met Lin Bai and accompanied him to Ji Family City’s central square for the departure.
• Ji Qingqing introduced Lin Bai to Elder Ji Longyuan, who allowed him to travel with the Ji family to Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing warned Lin Bai not to expect the Ji family’s help during the examination, while Ji Yanglin mocked him for traveling with them.
• Ji Qingqing showed Lin Bai his room on the spirit boat and cautioned him about the powerful competitors and deadly examination.
• Lin Bai dismissed Ji Qingqing’s warning and said that arrogant disciples from prestigious clans would be the first group to die.

Lin Bai recovered aboard the Ji Family’s spirit boat and considered the threats posed by Di Huo and Old Ancestor Ding, as well as his plans to find Lan Ling and investigate the Life-Death Curse Seal. The boat stopped at Cloud Firmament Mountain to meet the other five great families, where their elders began exchanging greetings and barbs.

• Lin Bai recovered from his injuries, confirmed that the Life-Death Curse Seal had vanished, and resolved to investigate its origins after reaching the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai learned from Ji Qingqing that the Ji Family’s spirit boat had stopped at Cloud Firmament Mountain to meet the other five families traveling to the academy.
• Lin Bai saw the spirit boats of the Li, Zhang, Yun, Long, and Zhao Families and observed the hostility between the Ji and Li Families.
• Li Leng accused Ji Longyuan of arriving late, but Ji Longyuan denied it, and Zhao Feiyun clarified that the Ji Family had arrived on time.

At the gathering of the six great families, Lin Bai dismissed their celebrated young prodigies and their Eastern Continent Records rankings as unimpressive. He did not know he himself ranked five hundred and fifth, though his current strength could push him much higher.

• Zhao Feiyun praised Ji Yanglin and Ji Qingqing, and Ji Longyuan named the promising disciples of the other great families.
• The young prodigies exchanged challenging looks as Lin Bai surveyed them and called them passable.
• Ji Qingqing warned Lin Bai not to provoke the prodigies, but he argued that their rankings and strength were insufficient for the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Ji Qingqing revealed that she ranked five hundred and seventieth, and Lin Bai said anyone outside the top hundred was merely an ant.
• Lin Bai remained unaware that he ranked five hundred and fifth, and the chapter noted that his stronger cultivation could improve his position by hundreds of places.

Lin Bai cultivated aboard the Ji family's spirit vessel as the six great lineages traveled toward the Eastern Continent Academy. On Pengshi Island, the Gray-Robed Old Man learned Lin Bai had survived and was headed to the Academy, then killed the experts who had told him and sent Qiu Lin to pursue Lin Bai.

• The six great lineages departed together for the Eastern Continent Academy, and Lin Bai returned to his room to cultivate toward the seventh level of the Yang God Realm.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man arrived on Pengshi Island and asked its Life Extinction Realm experts to identify Lin Bai.
• A Li family expert recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Ji family's party and reported that he had killed twenty-nine Li family martial artists with two flying swords.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man confirmed Lin Bai had survived the spatial upheaval and learned that he had left for the Eastern Continent Academy ten days earlier.
• The Gray-Robed Old Man killed the gathered experts, warned Qiu Lin to kill Lin Bai before he joined the Academy, and departed for the Divine-Demon Sea.
• The six great lineages suppressed news of the killings after learning a Death Reversal Realm expert was responsible.

Lin Bai broke through to the seventh level of the Yang God Realm as the Ji family’s spirit ship approached the Sea of Gods and Demons. He arrived at its edge with the other candidates, where an enormous spirit ship from an unknown domain passed by.

• Lin Bai broke through to the early stage of the seventh level of the Yang God Realm and considered how he might fare against the Eastern Continent’s peerless prodigies.
• Ji Qingqing told Lin Bai that the spirit ship was in the Jianghai Domain and would reach the Sea of Gods and Demons before arriving at Exiled Immortal City the following day.
• The six great lineages’ spirit ships reached the Jianghai Domain’s border, and Lin Bai and the other candidates came onto the decks to look at the sea.
• Ji Yanglin insulted Lin Bai and told him to keep away from Ji Qingqing, but Lin Bai’s stare frightened him before Lin Bai walked off to drink.
• Ji Yanglin accused Lin Bai of trying to curry favor with the Ji family as the group from the Great Spirit Domain was mocked by people aboard a massive, lavish spirit ship that flew past.

The Divine Dragon Spirit Boat from the Divine Dragon Domain arrived above the Great Spirit Domain’s ships, and Zhang Yi challenged its young martial artists. After Zhang Yi’s companions taunted them, Ji Yanglin accepted the challenge, despite Lin Bai’s doubts about the consequences.

• A golden Divine Dragon Spirit Boat appeared above the Great Spirit Domain’s ships, aweing Lin Bai and the others with its imposing aura.
• Zhang Yi descended from the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat and announced that he wanted to test the Great Spirit Domain’s geniuses.
• Zhao Feiyun tried to defer the challenge until the Apprentice Qualification Battle in Exiled Immortal City.
• The Divine Dragon Domain’s martial artists mocked the Great Spirit Domain, and Zhang Yi promised to provide healing pills for anyone injured.
• Lin Bai predicted that the challenge could crush the Great Spirit Domain’s fighters’ confidence, but Ji Yanglin accepted it anyway.