Recaps

Ji Yanglin accepted Zhang Yi’s challenge despite the elders’ concerns and was defeated, then attacked again and was badly injured. Zhang Yi’s overwhelming aura revealed the gulf between them, while Lin Bai wondered why Zhang Yi had prolonged the fight.

• Ji Yanglin agreed to fight the Divine Dragon Domain’s Zhang Yi, and Zhao Feiyun reluctantly allowed the challenge.
• Ji Yanglin introduced himself as an Eastern Continent Records prodigy ranked 890th and attacked Zhang Yi.
• After exchanging hundreds of blows, Zhang Yi punched Ji Yanglin back onto the spirit vessel and offered him Heaven Nourishing Spirit Liquid as an apology.
• Ji Yanglin ignored the elders’ orders and charged again, so Zhang Yi released a terrifying aura that sent him flying and left him severely injured.
• Lin Bai observed that Zhang Yi could have won in three moves and wondered why he had stretched the fight beyond three hundred.

Zhang Yi defeated one prodigy after another from the Great Spirit Domain, prolonging each fight for hundreds of moves before winning. As Ji Qingqing prepared to challenge him, Lin Bai warned that she was no match for Zhang Yi, drawing the attention of the assembled martial artists.

• Long Xuan challenged Zhang Yi and lost after five hundred moves, despite the Great Spirit Domain’s confidence that he could win.
• Li Shengqi fought Zhang Yi for seven hundred moves before admitting defeat.
• Yun Yihe and then Zhao Hailan challenged Zhang Yi, losing after nine hundred and eleven hundred moves, respectively.
• Zhang Yi called on Ji Qingqing to fight, and Zhao Hailan urged her to attack while Zhang Yi was exhausted.
• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing not to embarrass herself because she could not defeat Zhang Yi, causing the Great Spirit Domain’s martial artists to turn their attention toward him.

Lin Bai warned Ji Qingqing that Zhang Yi had been deliberately prolonging his fights to lure the Great Spirit Domain’s prodigies into challenging him. Despite Lin Bai estimating her chance of victory at less than twenty percent, Ji Qingqing stepped forward because she could not bear to disappoint the watching martial artists.

• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing she was no match for Zhang Yi, then explained that Zhang Yi’s increasingly long fights showed he was pretending to win narrowly and baiting more challengers.
• Zhao Hailan, Yun Yihe, and Ji Qingqing recognized that Lin Bai’s explanation made sense, while Zhao Hailan noted they were already trapped between fighting and refusing to fight.
• Ji Qingqing asked Lin Bai her odds, and he estimated them at less than twenty percent.
• Ji Qingqing left the spirit vessel, saying she would not retreat or disappoint the martial artists watching her.

Ji Qingqing fought Zhang Yi in a contest between the Great Spirit Domain and the Divine Dragon Domain, revealing her swordsmanship after Lin Bai expected her to lose. The chapter ended with Ji Qingqing pressing her attack after Lin Bai judged her chances had risen to seventy percent.

• Ji Qingqing challenged Zhang Yi, while Bai Dongfeng noted that their Eastern Continent Records rankings were close and their match would depend on combat experience.
• After thirty moves, Zhang Yi acknowledged Ji Qingqing's strength and revealed that he ranked five hundred and fifty-fifth, while Ji Qingqing disclosed her five hundred and seventieth ranking.
• Zhang Yi unleashed his full strength and declared Ji Qingqing would lose, leading Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai to believe the outcome was decided.
• Ji Qingqing drew her sword, unleashed late-stage Gale Wind Intent, and struck through Zhang Yi's attacks, sending him flying with sword wounds.
• Ji Qingqing asked Lin Bai how likely she was to win, and after he answered seventy percent, she charged at Zhang Yi with her sword aimed at his throat.

Ji Qingqing and Zhang Yi traded blows as Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai guided them from their respective Spirit Boats, turning the duel into a contest of tactical advice. When both fighters faced potentially fatal attacks, Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai intervened, appearing between them in midair.

• Ji Qingqing initially drove Zhang Yi back, but Bai Dongfeng called out her weaknesses and guided Zhang Yi to wound her abdomen and break her left leg.
• Lin Bai began directing Ji Qingqing's sword strikes, helping her pierce Zhang Yi's shoulder and sever three of his fingers when he attacked from behind.
• Bai Dongfeng ordered Zhang Yi to attack Ji Qingqing's shoulder, while Lin Bai told her to let the blow land and thrust at Zhang Yi's heart.
• Bai Dongfeng knocked Ji Qingqing's sword away from Zhang Yi's chest, and Lin Bai deflected Zhang Yi's fist away from Ji Qingqing.
• Bai Dongfeng and Lin Bai appeared in midair before the bloodied fighters and exchanged a glance.

Lin Bai confronted Bai Dongfeng for interfering in Zhang Yi and Ji Qingqing’s sparring match, then accepted Bai Dongfeng’s challenge to force an apology. After enduring Bai Dongfeng’s attacks unharmed, Lin Bai launched a powerful sword strike, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Bai Dongfeng accused Lin Bai of inciting Ji Qingqing to nearly kill Zhang Yi, and Lin Bai condemned Bai Dongfeng for interfering in their spar.
• Bai Dongfeng refused to apologize unless Lin Bai defeated him, and Lin Bai accepted the challenge.
• Bai Dongfeng struck Lin Bai with a punch, but Lin Bai blocked it with four streams of Sword Qi.
• Bai Dongfeng unleashed his King Grade Martial Skill, Chaotic Divine Fist, but Lin Bai emerged unharmed.
• Lin Bai declared that he would now make his move and attacked Bai Dongfeng with the Single Word Sword Art, One Horizontal, One Vertical.

Lin Bai defeated Bai Dongfeng and nearly killed him after he refused to apologize, but Senior Zuo Hao rescued Bai and apologized on behalf of the Divine Dragon Domain. Lin Bai learned about spirit liquid and received a warning to be careful in Exiled Immortal City, as the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat entered the Sea of Gods and Demons.

• Lin Bai defeated Bai Dongfeng and demanded that he kneel and admit his mistake, but Bai refused, so Lin Bai moved to kill him.
• Senior Zuo Hao rescued Bai Dongfeng, rebuked him for underestimating Lin Bai, and apologized to the Great Spirit Domain's martial artists.
• Zuo Hao gave Lin Bai ten jin of spirit liquid and explained that it was a valuable currency and source of spiritual power.
• Zhao Feiyun recognized Lin Bai as number five hundred and fifth on the Eastern Continent Records and recited the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's high evaluation of his sword talent.
• Zuo Hao warned Lin Bai to be careful when martial artists from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain entered Exiled Immortal City, then returned to the Divine Dragon Spirit Boat.
• The Divine Dragon Spirit Boat sailed into the Sea of Gods and Demons, while Lin Bai returned to the Ji family's deck with the spirit liquid.

After Ji Yanglin demanded Lin Bai’s spirit liquid, Yun Yihe, Zhao Hailan, and Ji Qingqing opposed him and defended Lin Bai’s claim to it. Ji Yanglin left in anger, while Ji Longyuan reflected that the Yun and Zhao families had gained worthy successors but the Ji family remained in trouble.

• Ji Yanglin claimed that the spirit liquid Lin Bai had brought back belonged to the Great Spirit Domain and demanded that Lin Bai leave it behind.
• Lin Bai set the jade bottle in midair and said Ji Yanglin could have it, prompting Ji Yanglin to smugly approach it.
• Yun Yihe threatened war between the Yun and Ji families if Ji Yanglin took the bottle, and his family backed his command.
• Zhao Hailan joined Yun Yihe in defending Lin Bai and declared that the Zhao family would oppose anyone who took the spirit liquid.
• Zhao Feiyun recognized Zhao Hailan’s authority as young master, while Ji Qingqing warned Ji Yanglin not to force her to act.
• Ji Yanglin abandoned the spirit liquid and left angrily, and Ji Longyuan lamented that the Ji family lacked successors like Yun Yihe and Zhao Hailan.

Lin Bai accepted the spirit liquid from Ji Qingqing, Yun Yihe, and Zhao Hailan, then discovered that his Devouring Sword Soul could refine it like demon blood and advance his cultivation. As the Ji family’s spirit vessel reached Exiled Immortal City, Ji Qingqing avoided explaining her strained relationship with her father, Di Hong.

• Ji Qingqing, Yun Yihe, and Zhao Hailan gave Lin Bai the spirit liquid as thanks for defending the Great Spirit Domain’s dignity.
• Lin Bai used his Devouring Sword Soul to refine all ten jin of spirit liquid and found that it boosted his cultivation much like demon blood.
• Lin Bai watched spirit vessels from across Eastern Continent converge on Exiled Immortal City and spoke with Ji Qingqing about why he had traveled with the Ji family.
• Lin Bai told Ji Qingqing that she still cared about her father, Di Hong, but she insisted that he did not deserve her concern and walked away.
• The Ji family’s spirit vessel arrived at Exiled Immortal City.

Lin Bai learned that his father, Lin Duo, had once defeated the Eastern Continent’s prodigies so decisively that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain was later ostracized and lost its recruitment qualifications. When Li Tiankui insulted the abandoned manor, Lin Bai declared it his homeland and confronted him.

• Wen Jia led the Great Spirit Domain martial artists through Exiled Immortal City and explained that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s manor had been abandoned.
• Wen Jia said Lin Duo had provoked the Eastern Continent’s prodigies, defeated them, and left the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s martial artists facing years of persecution.
• Lin Bai realized the notorious sword cultivator was his father and reflected that Lin Duo had been even more arrogant than he was.
• Li Tiankui and four companions mocked the Myriad Kingdoms Domain and damaged its manor while Wen Jia urged the group onward.
• Lin Bai stayed behind, called the manor his home, and challenged Li Tiankui after hearing him threaten the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s people.

Lin Bai openly revealed that he was a warrior from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, provoking Li Tiankui of the Azure Hero Domain. Li Tiankui explained that a sword cultivator from Lin Bai’s Domain had caused the Azure Hero Domain’s apprenticeship slots to collapse more than twenty years earlier, and Wen Jia described how that battle led to hostility toward the Myriad Kingdoms Domain.

• Lin Bai declared to Li Tiankui that he was a warrior from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, despite Yun Yihe and Zhao Hailan trying to conceal his identity.
• Lin Bai gave his name and Eastern Continent Records ranking, and Wen Jia checked the book and confirmed he was ranked five hundred and fifth.
• Li Tiankui said the Azure Hero Domain had lost fifteen hundred prodigies to a Myriad Kingdoms Domain sword cultivator more than twenty years earlier and vowed to avenge them.
• Wen Jia explained that the Eastern Continent Academy adjusted each Domain’s apprenticeship qualifications according to how many candidates passed its examination.
• Wen Jia said the sword cultivator’s battle caused apprenticeship qualifications across the Domains to plummet and made warriors from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain targets of hostility.

Lin Bai defended the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence from Li Tiankui, stopping just short of killing him after learning that killing was forbidden in Exiled Immortal City. Lin Bai stayed at the ruined residence, and Wen Jia later came to visit him.

• Li Tiankui and the Azure Hero Domain martial artists blamed Lin Bai's domain for their losses and attacked him over the disciple qualifications.
• Lin Bai nearly pierced Li Tiankui's throat before Wen Jia warned that killing inside Exiled Immortal City would revoke his examination qualification.
• Lin Bai spared Li Tiankui, kicked him away, and warned him to stay clear of the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence.
• Lin Bai gave Ji Qingqing a Sound Transmission Talisman and entered the abandoned Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, while Wen Jia led the Great Spirit Domain martial artists away.
• After exploring the ruined manor, Lin Bai heard Wen Jia announce himself outside and invited him in.

Lin Bai waited for Wen Jia to bring Formation Daoists to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, but learned that Guangyang Domain martial artists had beaten Wen Jia and threatened the builders. Lin Bai vowed to deal with them and ordered Wen Jia to lead him to the Formation Daoists.

• Wen Jia offered to find Formation Daoists in Southern City to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, and Lin Bai accepted his help.
• Lin Bai declared that he would uphold his father’s reputation and make those who scorned the Myriad Kingdoms Domain regret it.
• After waiting an hour, Lin Bai found Wen Jia bruised and crying outside the residence.
• Wen Jia explained that Guangyang Domain martial artists had beaten him and warned the Formation Daoists not to repair the residence.
• Lin Bai demanded to know who had hurt Wen Jia, then told him to lead the way to the Formation Daoists.

Lin Bai went with Wen Jia to the Formation Master Estate to request repairs for the Myriad Kingdoms Domain's estate, but the Formation Masters refused and insulted him. Lin Bai severed Qiao Jian's arm and demanded that every Formation Master who refused to help leave behind an arm.

• Wen Jia led Lin Bai to the Formation Master Estate and explained that its Formation Masters repaired houses to earn a path to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Chen Zhen refused to send a Formation Master to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain's estate, while Qiao Jian insulted Lin Bai and told him to leave.
• Lin Bai asked why the Formation Masters believed they could afford to offend his domain, then asked Wen Jia what punishment applied if no one died.
• Lin Bai swiftly severed one of Qiao Jian's arms with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai told the Formation Masters to leave behind an arm each if they would not repair the estate, and offered to sever them himself.

Lin Bai left the Formation Master Estate after Chen Zhen agreed to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, then took Wen Jia to confront the Guangyang Domain over Wen Jia’s beating. After challenging the domain’s prodigies, Lin Bai faced Zhang Hua, who admitted he had injured Wen Jia.

• Chen Zhen agreed to send ten Formation Daoists to repair the estate in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, and Lin Bai left with Wen Jia.
• Lin Bai told Wen Jia they would go to the Guangyang Domain’s estate to confront those who had beaten him.
• Lin Bai shattered the Guangyang Domain’s gate and challenged its gathered martial artists, while more than a dozen Life Extinction Realm powerhouses watched.
• Zhang Hua admitted he had beaten Wen Jia, and the old man in hemp clothes allowed Lin Bai to challenge any of the Guangyang Domain’s prodigies.
• Lin Bai called Zhang Hua forward to fight and warned him that he hoped his bones were as hard as his mouth.

Lin Bai challenged Zhang Hua at the Guangyang Domain residence and defeated him with one punch, without drawing his sword. When Guangyang Domain’s elders tried to stop him from leaving, Lin Bai agreed to fight more of their martial artists.

• Lin Bai ignored Wen Jia’s pleas and confronted Zhang Hua, who boasted of being one of the Ten Prodigies of Guangyang.
• Zhang Hua attacked Lin Bai with a powerful punch, but Lin Bai shattered his right arm with one punch and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai mocked Zhang Hua and prepared to leave with Wen Jia, while the watching martial artists and elders reacted in shock.
• Guangyang Domain’s Life Extinction Realm experts ordered Lin Bai to stop and threatened to keep him from leaving unharmed.
• Lin Bai accepted their demand for more fights and challenged the martial artists of Guangyang Domain to come forward.

Lin Bai returned to the arena and challenged Guangyang Domain's martial artists, defeating Chen Shaoning and more than three hundred prodigies with a single punch each. After no one else would step forward, a man in white emerged from the crowd and challenged him.

• Lin Bai reassured Wen Jia and invited Guangyang Domain's martial artists to fight him.
• Chen Shaoning attacked Lin Bai but was sent flying by a single punch and admitted defeat.
• More than a hundred Guangyang Domain prodigies took turns challenging Lin Bai, and he defeated each with one punch.
• Lin Bai taunted the defeated fighters and Zhang Hua, then prepared to leave when no one else came forward.
• A gloomy man in white stepped out of the crowd and challenged Lin Bai, drawing cheers from Guangyang Domain's martial artists.

Lin Bai faced Mu Song, the Guangyang Domain's top-ranked fighter, and defeated him with a single sword strike. The Guangyang Domain's final hope fell, leaving Lin Bai victorious at its residence.

• Mu Song challenged Lin Bai, revealing that he ranked ninety-eighth on the Eastern Continent Records and specialized in the Assassin's Path.
• Mu Song's perfected Gale Wind Intent and dagger strike cut Lin Bai's throat, forcing Lin Bai to retreat for the first time.
• Mu Song used his Martial Soul Secret Method, Thousand Shadows God Extinction Slash, to attack Lin Bai with countless afterimages and saber lights.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art's Third Scroll and Single Word Sword Art to shatter Mu Song's attack.
• Lin Bai's sword strike sent Mu Song flying and left the Guangyang Domain defeated.

Lin Bai defeated Mu Song and the geniuses of Guangyang Domain, then returned to find the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate repaired. Wen Jia revealed that his parents, Wen Cheng and Jin Lu, were executed as traitors and had been close friends with a sword cultivator from Myriad Kingdoms Domain.

• Lin Bai criticized Mu Song's flashy assassin techniques after defeating him, then left Guangyang Domain's estate with Wen Jia.
• The Guangyang Domain experts ordered their geniuses to return to cultivation and reprimanded Zhang Hua for causing the trouble.
• Lin Bai and Wen Jia returned to the repaired Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, and Chen Zhen explained that its formations had restored the buildings.
• Wen Jia told Lin Bai that his parents were executed by the Eastern Continent Academy and that he had been exiled to Exiled Immortal City for life.
• Wen Jia revealed that Wen Cheng and Jin Lu had been close friends with a sword cultivator from Myriad Kingdoms Domain more than twenty years earlier.

Lin Bai learned from Wen Jia that Wen Jia’s parents, Wen Cheng and Jin Lu, were sworn brothers with Lin Duo and were executed by the Eastern Continent Academy. He resolved to investigate their deaths and seek Lan Ling and Kunxu for answers, then left Wen Jia with a record book and pills as Wen Jia returned to his work in Exiled Immortal City.

• Lin Bai promised to investigate Wen Jia’s parents and offered to help him, moving Wen Jia to tears.
• Wen Jia revealed that the taboo swordsman’s name was Lin Duo and that Lan Ling had told him his parents were Lin Duo’s sworn brothers.
• Lin Bai connected Lan Ling to the path toward Kunxu and suspected someone had deliberately erased Lin Duo’s traces.
• Wen Jia gave Lin Bai the Eastern Continent Records and accepted pills from him before returning to work in Exiled Immortal City.
• Lin Bai vowed to get Wen Jia out of Exiled Immortal City, feeling responsible for the deaths of Wen Jia’s parents.

After Lin Bai moved into the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, five renowned prodigies from Eastern Continent gathered to discuss his victory over Guangyang Domain and decided to challenge him. That night, Lin Bai studied Eastern Continent Records and assessed the strongest warriors he might face.

• Chen Zhen and the other Formation Daoists repaired the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, and Lin Bai moved in as news of his victory over Guangyang Domain spread through Exiled Immortal City.
• Feng Wenjun, Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, Hui Xi, and Shi Jiamu discussed Lin Bai at Welcome Immortals Restaurant and agreed to test his strength.
• The five prodigies left the restaurant and headed for the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence.
• Lin Bai studied Eastern Continent Records, noted that he was ranked five hundred and fifth, and looked over the top ten prodigies.

Lin Bai studied the Eastern Continent Records and resolved to raise his cultivation before the master-disciple assessment. As Feng Wenjun and others arrived at the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, Luo Yong attacked Lin Bai over a blood feud from more than twenty years earlier.

• Lin Bai reviewed the top ten on Eastern Continent Records and noted that the first nine came from the Nine Great Domains, while Hei Luo Jian San came from the Nameless Domain.
• Lin Bai judged that he could likely rank among the top fifty but needed higher cultivation, and planned to reach the eighth or ninth level of the Yang God Realm before the assessment.
• Lin Bai sensed five auras entering the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate and called for the visitors to reveal themselves.
• Feng Wenjun arrived with Lu Heng, Hui Xi, and Xiang Shen, while an unknown black figure appeared by the lake and challenged the Myriad Kingdoms Domain over an old blood feud.
• The black figure attacked Lin Bai with Nine Heavens Swordplay, and Xiang Shen and the others identified him as Luo Yong, the Heavenfall Sect's foremost genius.

Lin Bai faced Luo Yong, the number-one prodigy of Heavenfall Sect, after Luo attacked the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s lakeside pavilion. Lin Bai caught Luo’s Nine Heavens Swordplay and sealed him beneath the lake, while Feng Wenjun and the others watched.

• Feng Wenjun, Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, Hui Xi, and Shi Jiamu watched the commotion from a secluded rooftop instead of intervening.
• Luo Yong revealed himself as the number-one prodigy of Heavenfall Sect of Yun Hai Domain and attacked Lin Bai with Nine Heavens Swordplay.
• Lin Bai caught the true sword among Luo Yong’s nine sword images, impressing Feng Wenjun and Lu Heng.
• Lin Bai overpowered Luo Yong and pinned him beneath the lake with a spiritual-power seal, saying he would release him after Yun Hai Domain and Heavenfall Sect apologized.

Lin Bai gave the hidden martial artists three breaths to reveal themselves as guests or leave, then hosted those who came forward at his lakeside pavilion. As the deadline continued, the mysterious A Ning arrived, and Lin Bai noticed the ordinary, bloodstained sword on his back.

• Lin Bai pinned Luo Yong beneath the lake and warned the hidden visitors to show themselves as guests or leave within three breaths.
• Feng Wenjun explained Lin Bai’s ultimatum, while Shi Jiamu, Lu Heng, and Xiang Shen refused to come forward as guests.
• Feng Wenjun introduced himself to Lin Bai and sampled the wine; Hui Xi soon joined them and greeted Lin Bai.
• A Ning entered the pavilion, claimed he had come for wine, and drank alone despite his formidable aura being absent from the Eastern Continent Records.
• Lin Bai noticed that A Ning carried an ordinary rusted sword with the scent of fresh blood on its blade.

Lin Bai drove off more than seven hundred prodigies who had trespassed in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, suppressing them beneath the lake. He then confronted Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, and Shi Jiamu, the three strongest intruders, as Feng Wenjun, Hui Xi, and A Ning watched.

• Lin Bai used a secret art to raise his cultivation to the perfected Yang God Realm and attacked the hidden Lou Ting, defeating and suppressing him beneath the lake.
• Lin Bai defeated Yu Rusheng of the Great Jade Sect and threw him into the lake.
• Lin Bai rapidly defeated and suppressed more than seven hundred intruding prodigies from across the Eastern Continent.
• Shi Jiamu dismissed the defeated prodigies as weaker than the top hundred, while Xiang Shen regretted not joining Lin Bai’s drinking party.
• Lin Bai appeared before Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, and Shi Jiamu and challenged them; Feng Wenjun noted that all three ranked in the Eastern Continent Records’ top hundred.