Recaps

Lin Bai defeated Lin Yibing with a single sword strike and left the eighth level with the offerings. The puppet overseeing the Primal Demon Eye judged Lin Bai and Yin Jiuling to be the strongest candidates for the Demon Sect, recognizing Yin Jiuling’s cultivation of the Reincarnation Curse.

• Lin Yibing attacked Lin Bai with his Snowdrift Blade Technique, determined to win in one move.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Slaughter Intent and used Three Foot Edge to smash Lin Yibing’s attack and send him flying.
• Lin Bai told Lin Yibing to challenge him on the ninth level, claimed the offerings, and flew away.
• Lin Yibing swore to find Lin Bai and avenge his humiliation, abandoning the offerings.
• The human-shaped puppet praised Lin Bai’s strength, then identified Yin Jiuling as the gray-robed youth cultivating the Demon Sect’s Reincarnation Curse.

Lin Bai rushed through the teleportation arrays to reach the sixth floor, where he hunted puppets for Tribute Red Pearls and searched for a puppet lair. He found a lair already cleared by a powerful martial artist who had destroyed more than five hundred puppets in a single move.

• Lin Bai spent more than eighteen thousand Tribute Red Pearls teleporting from the second floor to the sixth floor, leaving him with a little over three thousand.
• Lin Bai ambushed and killed a giant puppet python, collecting more than two hundred Tribute Red Pearls.
• Lin Bai searched the desolate sixth floor for two days without encountering another martial artist.
• Lin Bai entered a gorge filled with puppet fragments and realized that an unknown martial artist had killed more than five hundred puppets with a single move.
• Lin Bai wondered who the powerful martial artist was and whether they had already left the sixth floor.

Lin Bai and Hu Qi encountered one another at an ape puppet lair on the sixth level and joined forces to fight the puppets. As they battled, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers arrived and decided to test their strength and claim the offerings if they proved weak.

• Lin Bai discovered a jungle lair and was surrounded by hundreds of powerful ape puppets.
• Hu Qi rescued Lin Bai from an attacking puppet and introduced himself as one of the Dragon-Tiger Duelists.
• Lin Bai and Hu Qi agreed to clear the lair together and split the Tribute Red Pearls equally.
• Hu Qi shattered ape puppets with his fists while Lin Bai fought with his sword and Dragon Eye Flying Sword.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers spotted Lin Bai and Hu Qi battling and decided to challenge them for the lair's offerings.

Lin Bai and Tiger defeated more than three hundred Ape Puppets, but the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers appeared to claim the offerings and challenge them. The brothers split up to fight, and after Ling San and Ling Si knocked Lin Bai back with a coordinated attack, Lin Bai stood and prepared to retaliate.

• Lin Bai and Tiger slew more than three hundred Ape Puppets and agreed to split the offerings evenly.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers emerged and introduced themselves as Ling Yi, Ling Er, Ling San, and Ling Si of the Ling Family in Qi Tian Domain.
• Ling Yi and Ling Er attacked Tiger while Ling San and Ling Si engaged Lin Bai.
• Ling San forced Lin Bai backward with a punch, and Ling Si struck him from behind, sending him tumbling across the ground.
• Tiger urged Lin Bai to retreat, but Lin Bai got up, recognized the brothers' coordination, and raised his demonic sword.

Lin Bai and Hu Qi fought the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers in the sixth level’s forest, but the brothers revealed powerful limb-regenerating arts and turned the battle against them. Lin Bai and Hu Qi rose from their wreckage, ready to continue fighting.

• Ling San and Ling Si ambushed Lin Bai with coordinated attacks, but Lin Bai unleashed the Single Word Sword Art and Four Gods Sword Slash, wounding both men.
• Hu Qi held off Ling Yi and Ling Er, then sent them flying with a powerful punch as they reacted to their brothers’ injuries.
• Ling San and Ling Si regenerated their missing legs with spiritual power, while Ling Yi and Ling Er formed spiritual arms; the puppet identified their technique as the Yuanmo Sutra’s Heavenly Crippled Demon Art.
• Ling Si struck Lin Bai with a Heavenly Crippled Kick, sending him through a mountain, while Ling Yi shattered Hu Qi’s arm bones with a blow from his Spirit Arm.
• Lin Bai climbed from the mountain ruins with his Demon Sword, and Hu Qi rose with the demonic tiger’s power raging as he cursed the brothers.

Lin Bai and Tiger defeated the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers on the sixth level, forcing them to withdraw before revealing their combined Martial Soul. The brothers vowed to settle the outcome on the ninth level.

• Tiger used Demonic Tiger Fist to shatter Ling Er's and Ling Yi's Spirit Arms with two punches.
• Lin Bai used Three Foot Edge to break Ling San's and Ling Si's Heavenly Crippled Kicks and send them flying.
• Elders watching in Exiled Immortal City marveled at Tiger's strength and Lin Bai's swordsmanship.
• Ling Yi said the brothers had only been testing their opponents and led the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers away without using their Martial Soul.
• The brothers challenged Lin Bai and Tiger to decide victory on the ninth level, and Tiger said he wanted to see their merged strength.

Lin Bai reached the ninth level of Nine Heavens Primordial Ancestor Mountain and learned about the upcoming contest where prodigies would wager their offerings. He arrived at the White Jade Plaza, where Wu He belittled him and told him to stay out of the contest.

• Lin Bai and Hu Qi split the offerings, taking thirty thousand each, and discussed heading to the ninth level.
• Hu Qi explained that the ninth-level martial contest would let victors take their opponents’ offerings and would gather the mountain’s strongest martial artists.
• Lin Bai went directly through the seventh and eighth levels to the ninth level while Hu Qi stayed behind to hunt puppets.
• Lin Bai flew to the White Jade Plaza and met Yin Jiuling and Wu He, along with two other martial artists already waiting there.
• Wu He called Lin Bai an eighth-stage Yang God Realm ant and warned him not to participate in the martial contest.

Lin Bai arrived at White Jade Plaza and learned about the other leading examination candidates, including Yin Jiuling and the Old Eccentric. The Half-Demon Giant Beast joined them, and the Old Eccentric challenged Wu He over his insult.

• Lin Bai recognized the Old Eccentric and greeted Feng Wenjun, who explained that Yin Jiuling had nearly injured Wu He in a single exchange.
• Feng Wenjun described Yin Jiuling as a nine-reincarnation prodigy and said the mysterious Old Eccentric seemed unafraid of him and Wu He.
• The Old Eccentric announced that someone had finally arrived as the Half-Demon Giant Beast charged from the ninth level onto White Jade Plaza.
• The Old Eccentric promised Da Man meat after seven days, and Da Man sat beside him, repeating that he wanted meat.
• Wu He called the Half-Demon Giant Beast another thing that was not human, prompting Lin Bai, Yin Jiuling, and the Old Eccentric to react; the Old Eccentric demanded that Wu He explain his insult.

Wu He insulted Lin Bai, Yin Jiuling, the Old Eccentric, and the Half-Demon giant beast, then boasted that none of them could challenge him. The others answered with challenges of their own, and the chapter ended with the Old Eccentric threatening to beat Wu He and force him to eat his own filth.

• Wu He called Yin Jiuling a freak, mocked the Old Eccentric's aged appearance and the Half-Demon's bloodline, and dismissed Lin Bai as an ant because he was only at the eighth level of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword, but Feng Wenjun stopped him from acting rashly; the Half-Demon giant beast and the Old Eccentric also reacted angrily to Wu He's insults.
• Wu He claimed that only Yin Jiuling among the others could barely fight him, while Feng Wenjun accepted the challenge of facing him in the upcoming prodigy tournament.
• Lin Bai reminded Wu He that the Eastern Continent Academy had changed the examination rules after Lin Duo once slaughtered his way to the White Jade Plaza as its sole survivor.
• Yin Jiuling told Wu He that he did not even qualify to fight him, and the Old Eccentric ended by threatening to beat Wu He and make him eat his own filth.

A Ning arrived on the ninth level and clashed with Wu He after Wu He insulted him, then joined Lin Bai and Feng Wenjun. As more top geniuses gathered, Wu He and Shi Zhongxian agreed to join forces against Lin Bai’s group and other martial artists before holding their own spar.

• A Ning reached the ninth level and mocked Wu He after Wu He called him a beggar, prompting A Ning to threaten him.
• A Ning joined Lin Bai and Feng Wenjun, and the three chatted while more martial artists arrived on the ninth level.
• Five days later, Mu Song, Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, Shi Jiamu, and other top-ranked martial artists arrived.
• Shi Zhongxian met Wu He, and Feng Wenjun told Lin Bai and A Ning that Shi Zhongxian was the heir to the Shi Family of God Stone Domain.
• Wu He and Shi Zhongxian agreed to gather Jian Kong, Lin Yibing, Chen Qin, Leng Yun, and the Five Spirit Children to defeat the martial artists they considered obstacles before sparring each other.

As the prodigies gathered on the ninth level before the final battle, Wu He and Shi Zhongxian formed one faction while Lin Bai, A Ning, Feng Wenjun, and Hu Qi stood apart. The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers arrived last and, after Wu He rejected them, joined Hu Qi’s side.

• Jian Kong and the other prodigies arrived on the ninth level and gathered with Wu He and Shi Zhongxian, while Lin Bai’s group noticed the emerging divide.
• Hu Qi declined Wu He’s invitation and joined Lin Bai, prompting Wu He to threaten him.
• Feng Xiangtian, Bing Wuling, and other prodigies joined Wu He’s faction, while Zi Donglai and Xie Changqing declined to participate in the battle.
• Nearly five thousand martial artists waited in the White Jade Plaza for the battle of prodigies to begin the next day.
• Wu He ordered the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers to leave, so Hu Qi invited Ling Yi and his brothers to join his group.

As the final battle of heavenly prides approached, Wu He and Shi Zhongxian formed a Heaven's Pride Alliance, while Lin Bai's side was labeled the Monster Alliance. The sun rose over the Sea of Gods and Demons, signaling that the battle was about to begin.

• Shi Zhongxian invited Yin Jiuling to join the Heaven's Pride Alliance, but Yin Jiuling refused and stood with Lin Bai's group.
• The factions took shape, with Wu He and Shi Zhongxian leading the Heaven's Pride Alliance and Lin Bai's allies forming the opposing Monster Alliance.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu arrived with Ding Huo, Lin Xiaoqing, Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, and Chai Ming, then joined Wu He's faction; Ding Huo and Hei Luo Jian Jiu fixed their attention on Lin Bai.
• Zi Donglai and Xie Changqing discussed the alliances and assessed the strengths of both sides as observers watched from Exiled Immortal City and the Eastern Continent Academy.
• At sunrise, the martial artists across Nine Heavens Primordial Ancestor Mountain, Exiled Immortal City, and the Eastern Continent Academy watched as the battle of heavenly prides was set to begin.

The Battle of Heaven's Prides began as Heaven's Pride Alliance and Monster Alliance faced off in the arena. Tu Ziyun and Hu Qi, Yin Jiuling and Lin Yibing, and Jian Kong and A Ning entered battle, while Lin Bai watched.

• Wu He announced the start of the final day of the disciple-recruitment trial and the Battle of Heaven's Prides.
• Tu Ziyun challenged Hu Qi, and the two began their dragon-and-tiger battle.
• Lin Yibing challenged Yin Jiuling, who claimed he had used only ten percent of his strength when he defeated him before.
• Jian Kong challenged the monsters' sword cultivators, and A Ning stepped forward to fight him instead of Lin Bai.
• Jian Kong mocked A Ning's rusty sword, and the two began their sword battle.

Battles broke out across White Jade Plaza as the Monster Alliance’s fighters faced Heaven’s Prides, and Huo Fentian and Hei Luo Jian Jiu both challenged Lin Bai. The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers took on Hei Luo Jian Jiu, leaving Lin Bai to face Huo Fentian.

• Leng Yun and Feng Wenjun began exchanging powerful punches, while Chen Liang and Zuo Hao argued over who would win.
• Lin Bai observed the ongoing fights as Old Eccentric urged him and the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers to join the battle.
• Huo Fentian and Hei Luo Jian Jiu both challenged Lin Bai, each insisting that Lin Bai was his opponent.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers offered to fight Hei Luo Jian Jiu so Lin Bai could face Huo Fentian.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu accepted the four brothers’ challenge and pointed his massive greatsword at them.

Lin Bai faced Huo Fentian on the ninth level and survived his flames before defeating him with a single sword strike. Huo Fentian was left injured with his martial soul shattered, while the other battles continued.

• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers used their divine art to restore their spiritual limbs and surrounded Hei Luo Jian Jiu.
• Huo Fentian challenged Lin Bai, knocked him back, then unleashed World-Burning Flames that swallowed him.
• Lin Bai emerged unharmed from the fireball, breaking it apart with four streaks of Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai struck Huo Fentian with Three Foot Edge, sending him flying and shattering his martial soul.
• Zi Donglai and Xie Changqing expressed disbelief that Lin Bai had defeated Huo Fentian with one strike.

Lin Bai defeated Huo Fentian and took all but one of his tributes, then faced Shi Jiamu after Shi Zhongxian ordered her to fight him. Lin Bai’s sword shattered Shi Jiamu’s body into stone, and Lan Ling identified her power as the God Stone Martial Soul.

• Lin Bai defeated Huo Fentian, who surrendered more than ten thousand tributes and vowed to settle the score later.
• Wu He and Shi Zhongxian mocked Huo Fentian, and Shi Zhongxian ordered Shi Jiamu to defeat Lin Bai, threatening her parents.
• Shi Jiamu challenged Lin Bai and attacked him with the Sacred Spirit Great Compassion Palm despite his warning that she was no match for him.
• Lin Bai broke Shi Jiamu’s palm attack and struck her with his demon sword, shattering her body into chunks of stone.
• Lan Ling recognized Shi Jiamu’s Martial Soul as the Shi Family’s God Stone Martial Soul.

Lin Bai battled Shi Jiamu and discovered that her God Stone Martial Soul let her body break apart and regenerate, leaving her unharmed as she repeatedly wounded him. When Shi Jiamu tried to kill him, Lin Bai caught her palm while lying bloodied on the ground.

• Lin Bai struck Shi Jiamu, but she transformed into stones and reassembled through the God Stone Martial Soul.
• Wu He and Shi Zhongxian explained the power of the Shi Family’s inherited martial soul as Lin Bai recognized its near-immortality.
• Lin Bai repeatedly attacked Shi Jiamu, but she regenerated from every wound and drove him back with her palm strikes.
• After hundreds of blows, Shi Jiamu remained unharmed while Lin Bai was covered in blood, and the Old Eccentric prepared to intervene.
• Shi Jiamu aimed a killing palm at Lin Bai’s head, but Lin Bai caught her hand and raised his blood-red eyes.

Lin Bai revealed his Emperor Grade Nether Palace Martial Soul and used the Book of Life and Death to attack Shi Jiamu’s soul, overcoming the protection of her God Stone Martial Soul. Shi Jiamu refused to admit defeat and kept advancing despite her soul being devastated, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Lin Bai caught Shi Jiamu’s attack, knocked her away, and rose despite his injuries as onlookers assumed he could not overcome her God Stone Martial Soul.
• Lin Bai summoned his Nether Palace Martial Soul and erased Shi Jiamu’s name from the Book of Life and Death, making her spit blood.
• Zi Donglai identified Lin Bai’s technique as a soul attack that could bypass the God Stone Martial Soul, and Lin Bai struck Shi Jiamu again until she collapsed.
• Lin Bai demanded that Shi Jiamu surrender, but she charged again, so he erased her name repeatedly and warned that another attack could shatter her soul.
• Shi Jiamu collapsed as her life force faded, then struggled back to her feet and continued toward the Nether Palace, insisting she could not lose.

Shi Jiamu continued fighting Lin Bai despite her soul and body being nearly destroyed, driven by her refusal to lose and Shi Zhongxian’s threats against her parents. Lin Bai let her strike and catch him as she collapsed, and she bit his shoulder while repeating that she could not lose.

• Shi Jiamu rose after Lin Bai’s three soul attacks and staggered toward him despite warnings that another attack would destroy her soul.
• The Old Eccentric urged Shi Jiamu to concede, but Shi Zhongxian ordered her to defeat Lin Bai and threatened her parents.
• Lin Bai left the Nether Palace and, moved by Shi Jiamu’s stubbornness, chose not to attack her again.
• Shi Jiamu reached Lin Bai and struck his chest with her last strength, but the blow barely moved him.
• As Shi Jiamu collapsed, Lin Bai caught her, and Shi Zhongxian’s threat made her bite Lin Bai’s shoulder and whisper, “I can’t lose...”

Lin Bai conceded his fight to Shi Jiamu and gave her nearly all his Tribute Red Pearls, then defended her when Shi Zhongxian mocked her. Shi Zhongxian and Wu He’s insults drove Lin Bai, the Old Eccentric, and the Half-Demon giant beast to attack Heaven's Pride Alliance, beginning a chaotic battle.

• Lin Bai conceded to Shi Jiamu, caught her as she collapsed, and gave her his Tribute Red Pearls so she could heal.
• Shi Zhongxian mocked Shi Jiamu and demanded that she hand over her Tribute Red Pearls, prompting Lin Bai to challenge him.
• Shi Zhongxian insulted Shi Jiamu, Lin Bai, and their allies, and Lin Bai declared Shi Jiamu a Heaven's Pride worthy of respect.
• When Shi Zhongxian and Wu He mocked Lin Bai’s threat, Lin Bai charged at Heaven's Pride Alliance with his Demon Sword.
• The Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon giant beast joined Lin Bai’s attack, and a chaotic battle erupted as Shi Jiamu watched them fight for her.

Lin Bai charged into the Heaven's Pride Alliance and fought Lei Zidong, the number-one prodigy of the Thunder Domain. Lin Bai killed him, leaving the martial artists watching the ninth-level battles stunned.

• Ding Huo advised Gu Yuan and the others to wait until Lin Bai and the Heaven's Pride Alliance were both weakened before attacking, and led his group to retreat.
• Lei Zidong attacked Lin Bai with his Thunder Dragon Shakes the Heavens Fist while Feng Xiangtian and Bing Wuling engaged the Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon behemoth.
• Lin Bai was struck by Lei Zidong's thunder halberd and sent flying, then used the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to pierce Lei Zidong's chest.
• Lei Zidong begged Lin Bai to spare him and threatened that the Thunder Domain would hunt him down, but Lin Bai killed him with a sword through the throat.

After killing Lei Zidong, Lin Bai faced Chen Qin, the Sky North Domain Heaven's Pride whose body had reached the Life Extinction Realm. Lin Bai's sword could barely mark Chen Qin, and Chen Qin blasted him back, revealing the danger of their coming fight.

• Lin Bai killed Lei Zidong, shocking the martial artists and Elders gathered on the ninth level.
• Shui Qingling withdrew from Wu He and Shi Zhongxian's Heaven's Pride Alliance after condemning their insults toward Shi Jiamu.
• Chen Qin left the alliance and challenged Lin Bai, confident that his strength surpassed Lin Bai's swordsmanship.
• Lin Bai struck Chen Qin, but his sword only left a faint mark on Chen Qin's body.
• Chen Qin revealed that his physical strength had reached the Life Extinction Realm and blasted Lin Bai more than a thousand meters away.

Chen Qin unleashed the ancient technique Celestial Phenomenon and used his hundred-zhang form to overpower Lin Bai. Lin Bai revealed the Ancient God Scripture, transformed into a giant of his own, and sent Chen Qin flying into the forest.

• Chen Qin activated Celestial Phenomenon and grew into a hundred-zhang giant.
• Chen Qin kicked Lin Bai a thousand meters away, then raised his foot to crush him as onlookers feared Lin Bai could not fight back.
• Lin Bai used the Ancient God Scripture and Giant God Power to transform into a hundred-zhang giant.
• Chen Qin swung a fist at Lin Bai, who caught it with one hand and punched Chen Qin in the abdomen, sending him into the forest.

Lin Bai crushed Chen Qin in their giant forms until Chen Qin’s master took control of his body and turned the fight around with War God’s Roar. As Chen Qin attacked, Lin Bai endured the devastating sound waves and became interested in learning the mystic art for Giant God Power.

• Lin Bai overwhelmed Chen Qin in their battle on the ninth level, leaving him bloodied and unable to fight back.
• As Lin Bai prepared to finish Chen Qin, Chen Qin called on his master, who took control of his body.
• Chen Qin’s master blasted Lin Bai away and used War God’s Roar, cracking the islands and severely injuring Lin Bai.
• The humanoid puppet recognized War God’s Roar, while Ding Huo sensed a fleeting familiar aura within Chen Qin.
• Lin Bai realized the roar might suit Giant God Power and resolved to pursue such a mystic art as Chen Qin’s master charged at him.

Lin Bai defeated Chen Qin on the ninth level, forcing him to surrender his Tribute Red Pearls and flee before Lin Bai could kill him. Back on the White Jade Plaza, Lin Bai challenged Wu He and Shi Zhongxian to fight him together, and they prepared to face him.

• Lin Bai used Blood Sea Seven Steps to shatter Chen Qin's Celestial Phenomenon and leave him gravely wounded.
• Chen Qin gave up all his Tribute Red Pearls and was teleported from the ninth level to the first before Lin Bai's final punch could land.
• Lin Bai collected Chen Qin's remaining offerings and returned to the White Jade Plaza as onlookers praised his victories over four Heaven's Prides.
• Zi Donglai and Xie Changqing discussed Lin Bai's hidden trump cards and considered whether he could challenge Wu He and Shi Zhongxian.
• Lin Bai told Wu He and Shi Zhongxian to attack him together, dismissing them as losers despite the Old Eccentric's warning.