Recaps

Lin Bai and the other qualified martial artists followed the mechanism man to the Wind God Sect’s last and most powerful Martial Intent Monument, which held Feng Lingzi’s Gentle Sword. Liu Liang entered first to attempt comprehension, while the others waited to see whether he would gain its recognition.

• Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, Liu Liang, Li Jianxing, and Lin Bai followed the mechanism man through a hidden passage to the Martial Intent Monument grounds, where he allowed the unsuccessful challengers to observe.
• Liu Liang and Ye Suxin threatened Lin Bai, but Lin Zier declared that Lin Bai’s life was hers; Lin Bai then urged Li Jianxing to take the Sword Alliance away after comprehending the monument.
• The mechanism man explained that the Wind God Sect’s other monuments had been taken, then revealed a hidden chamber containing a thirty-meter black monument inscribed with Feng Lingzi’s Gentle Sword.
• The mechanism man set the rules for one-hour attempts, and Liu Liang volunteered to go first.
• The mechanism man opened the formation, Liu Liang felt the monument’s powerful Martial Dao Will, and he entered the chamber as the others speculated about what he might achieve.

Liu Liang failed to see the Wind God Art but comprehended first-order Martial Intent, then threatened Ye Suxin and Lin Bai. Ye Suxin also failed to comprehend the monument, and Lin Zier stepped forward next.

• Liu Liang was injured when the monument's restriction drew his mind into a storm-filled world, so he shifted his effort to comprehending its Martial Dao Will.
• Liu Liang comprehended initial-stage first-order Martial Intent and boasted that he would reach the Divine Core Realm or surpass it.
• Liu Liang threatened Ye Suxin and Lin Bai, while Lin Bai dismissed his challenge.
• Ye Suxin spent an hour before the Wind God Art monument but gained nothing and was pulled out by the mechanism man.
• Lin Zier sneered at Liu Liang and silently walked toward the stone monument.

Lin Zier and Li Jianxing comprehended Martial Dao Will from the Martial Intent Monument but could not pierce its defensive formation. Lin Bai also failed to break through the formation, but his Devouring Sword Soul stirred and brought a mysterious soul skill into his mind.

• Lin Zier quickly comprehended Martial Dao Will, then failed to pierce the monument's formation with her spiritual power and was pulled from the chamber.
• Li Jianxing comprehended Martial Dao Will and left without attempting to break the formation.
• Lin Bai approached the monument despite the martial artists' mockery and tried to pierce its formation with his spiritual power.
• The formation repelled Lin Bai's spiritual power and made him spit blood, but his Devouring Sword Soul trembled and sent him the scripture for the Soul Skill: Restriction Break.

Lin Bai awakened the Restriction Break Martial Soul Secret Method and used it to shatter the formation protecting the Wind God Art stone stele. He entered an illusion where Feng Lingzi demonstrated the Gentle Sword, then began returning from the vision after the sword nearly cut his throat.

• Lin Bai discovered that his Devouring Sword Soul had granted him the Restriction Break secret method, which could shatter formations and restrictions.
• Lin Bai used Restriction Break to destroy the stone stele's formation, shocking the puppet and prompting the onlookers to accuse him of cheating.
• The words on the stele drew Lin Bai's mind into an illusion beside a lake, where he met the young Feng Lingzi.
• Feng Lingzi explained that the breeze had inspired him to comprehend the Gentle Sword and said he would demonstrate it once.
• Feng Lingzi's gentle sword nearly slashed Lin Bai's throat, and Lin Bai's mind began withdrawing from the stele.

Lin Bai comprehended part of Gentle Sword, received the Wind God Art, and used a hidden passage to evade the martial artists waiting to ambush him. As he headed for the Time Cultivation Tower, a crowd discovered him and charged in pursuit, demanding the Wind God Art.

• Lin Bai recovered from the White-Robed Youth’s sword strike, then spent an hour comprehending part of Gentle Sword.
• The puppet gave Lin Bai the Wind God Art and revealed a hidden passage after the other martial artists left the Martial Arts Pavilion.
• Lin Bai told Li Jianxing to lead the Sword Alliance’s martial artists out of the ruins and warned him that he could escape on his own.
• Lin Bai took the hidden passage toward the core region and planned to cultivate in the Time Cultivation Tower.
• A large group of martial artists spotted Lin Bai near the core region and charged after him, shouting for him to hand over the Wind God Art.

Lin Bai fled into the Wind God Sect's core area while hundreds of martial artists pursued him for the Wind God Art, and Lin Zier injured him with a powerful palm strike. He entered the Time Cultivation Tower to train for three months, leaving his pursuers outside to wait.

• Lin Bai tried to escape the pursuing martial artists, but Liu Liang and Ye Suxin chased him as news spread that he carried the Wind God Art.
• As Lin Bai approached the core area, Lin Zier struck him from behind with the Primordial Divine Palm, and he retaliated with Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence before being wounded and hurled inside.
• Lin Bai reached the Time Cultivation Tower and learned that three months of cultivation for one day outside cost one hundred million spirit stones.
• Lin Bai paid the stone man and entered the tower, telling Lin Zier and the others to wait for his return.
• Liu Liang asked to enter, but the stone man explained that only one disciple could cultivate in the tower at a time.

Lin Bai entered the Time Cultivation Tower to cultivate while Lin Zier, Liu Liang, Ye Suxin, and Zhang Qun waited outside for him to emerge. He began condensing the Golden Spirit Vortex, but it drained his true qi and blood before he absorbed the medicinal power of the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree.

• Liu Liang learned Lin Bai had paid for three months in the Time Cultivation Tower and threatened Ye Suxin if she did not agree to become his woman.
• Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, Liu Liang, and Zhang Qun decided to wait outside for Lin Bai to emerge the next day.
• Lin Bai entered the Time Cultivation Tower and found that its spiritual energy conversion was too slow for his cultivation needs.
• Lin Bai began using the Grand Five Elements Art and the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree to condense a Golden Spirit Vortex.
• The newly formed Golden Spirit Vortex drained Lin Bai's true qi and began consuming his blood and qi, so he used his Devouring Sword Soul to absorb the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree's medicinal power.

Lin Bai absorbed the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree’s medicinal power to stabilize a Golden Spirit Vortex, then practiced the Gentle Sword and advanced his cultivation inside the Time Cultivation Tower. He reached the seventh stage of the Earth Martial Realm with only half a month left, hoping the remaining spiritual energy would carry him to the eighth stage before facing Lin Zier.

• Lin Bai absorbed the Gilded Ancient Divine Tree’s medicinal power and stabilized the Golden Spirit Vortex, giving him a second reservoir of true qi.
• Lin Bai considered how difficult it would be to find four more spiritual objects and afford Myriad Year Spirit Herbs, then set aside the problem to cultivate.
• Lin Bai practiced Feng Lingzi’s Gentle Sword inside the Time Cultivation Tower and reached minor mastery after repeated training.
• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Sword Soul and absorbed the tower’s spiritual energy, advancing through the fifth and sixth stages to the seventh stage of the Earth Martial Realm.
• Lin Bai found the tower’s spiritual energy depleted with half a month remaining and wondered whether the final supply would let him reach the eighth stage.

Lin Bai emerged from the Time Cultivation Tower after reaching the eighth level of the Earth Martial Realm and confronted Lin Zier, Ye Suxin, Zhang Qun, and Liu Liang. When Liu Liang attacked with his newly comprehended Martial Intent, Lin Bai countered with his Sword Intent and Wind Tribulation.

• Lin Bai used the tower’s remaining spiritual energy to break through to the eighth level of the Earth Martial Realm and stabilize his cultivation.
• As Lin Bai left the tower, his Sword Qi struck Liu Liang and forced him back, stunning Zhang Qun and Ye Suxin.
• Lin Bai challenged Lin Zier and learned that Ye Suxin and Zhang Qun had come on Su Cang’s orders to kill him.
• Lin Bai dismissed Liu Liang as unworthy to fight him, provoking Liu Liang to attack with the Fire Fiend Sky-Burning Fist and Martial Intent.
• Lin Bai answered Liu Liang’s punch with his Sword Intent and the third move of Surging Wind Swordplay, Wind Tribulation.

Lin Bai defeated Liu Liang with one sword strike and killed him when he tried to flee. Ye Suxin released her Three-Headed Dragonhawk while Zhang Qun attacked Lin Bai, whose counterstrike broke Zhang Qun’s signature technique and left him considering retreat.

• Liu Liang attacked Lin Bai with the Fire Fiend Sky-Burning Fist, but Lin Bai defeated him with Furious Slash and revealed his Sword Intent.
• Warriors outside the core region mistakenly believed Lin Zier had defeated Liu Liang until Lin Bai identified himself as the victor.
• Liu Liang threatened Lin Bai and tried to escape, but Lin Bai caught up and split him in two with a sword strike.
• Ye Suxin released her Three-Headed Dragonhawk, and Zhang Qun attacked Lin Bai with the Three Immortal Fingers.
• Lin Bai used Gale Shakes the Sea to shatter Zhang Qun’s Three Immortal Fingers and stepped toward him, saying he would take the martial technique.

Lin Bai defeated Zhang Qun and killed the Three-Headed Dragonhawk, absorbing its demonic blood and advancing to the Silver War Body. He killed Zhang Qun and struck Ye Suxin as she fled, but did not know whether she survived.

• Lin Bai defeated Zhang Qun’s Three Immortal Fingers, then killed the Three-Headed Dragonhawk by severing one head and absorbing its demonic blood.
• Lin Bai’s Bronze War Body advanced into the Silver War Body, and he declared himself the strongest within the Earth Martial Realm.
• Zhang Qun blocked Lin Bai’s attack on Ye Suxin, confessed that he liked her, and urged her to flee and seek Su Cang’s revenge.
• Lin Bai used Soul Search on Zhang Qun to learn the Three Immortal Fingers, then killed him.
• Lin Bai struck Ye Suxin with Wind Silence as she escaped the core region, but he did not know whether she had died.

Lin Bai fought Lin Zier after Ye Suxin fled and Liu Liang and Zhang Qun died, but Lin Zier’s powerful attacks left him gravely wounded. He refused to surrender and stood to face her final palm.

• Lin Bai turned to face Lin Zier, who challenged him to a decisive duel while onlookers dismissed his chances.
• Outside the Wind God Sect ruins, Zhao Xiansheng ended his chess game with Bai Xiaoxiao in a single move, revealing that he had already secured her defeat.
• Lin Zier struck Lin Bai with a punch, and he counterattacked with Surging Wind Swordplay, but she shattered his sword qi and hit him with Primordial Divine Palm.
• Lin Zier pierced Lin Bai’s chest with Primordial God Extinction Light, leaving him badly wounded and declaring that she had finally trampled him.
• Lin Bai rose despite his injuries and refused to surrender, so Lin Zier prepared a final palm to kill him.

Lin Bai and Lin Zier traded their strongest attacks in a near-fatal battle, and both fell grievously wounded. The chapter ended as one of them struggled to his feet, leaving the spectators unsure who had won.

• Lin Bai shattered Lin Zier’s Primordial Divine Palm with Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence, cutting her shoulder and charging at her.
• Lin Zier unleashed her Martial Soul’s Dream of Primordial Times secret art, forcing Lin Bai to use his newly comprehended Gentle Sword Martial Intent.
• Lin Bai’s Gentle Sword briefly left Lin Zier tranquil and unable to control her qi, but Zhao Xiansheng’s warning snapped her back to her senses.
• Lin Zier blocked Lin Bai’s attack with her grafted Jade Human Race arm, and their sword-and-palm collision sent them both flying with grave injuries.
• As the martial artists wondered who had won, one of the fallen fighters slowly rose and leaned on his sword.

After defeating Lin Zier, Lin Bai was stopped from killing her by Zhao Xiansheng, the supreme elder of the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace. Zhao spared Lin Bai and promised that Lin Zier would face him in six months, leaving Lin Bai vowing vengeance against the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.

• Lin Bai stood despite his wounds, approached the defeated Lin Zier, and raised his sword to kill her.
• Zhao Xiansheng attacked from beyond the Wind God Sect's formation and sent Lin Bai flying, saving Lin Zier.
• Zhao Xiansheng told Lin Zier to learn from her defeat, then dismissed Lin Bai as trash because of his Yellow Rank One Soul.
• Lin Bai challenged Zhao Xiansheng's judgment and declared that he would defy his fate and make the world tremble at his name.
• Zhao Xiansheng carried Lin Zier away and said she would await Lin Bai at the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace in six months.
• Lin Bai vowed to reduce the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace to scorched earth and repay Zhao Xiansheng's humiliation a hundredfold.

Ling Tianzi stopped Li Shanqing from attacking the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace, explaining that Lin Bai and Lin Zier had become each other’s heart demons and that Lin Bai had to overcome them himself. After recovering from his wounds, Lin Bai left the Wind God Sect ruins to return to the Spirit Sword Sect, where he met Bai Xiaoxiao and Bai Zhiyuan.

• Li Shanqing offered to destroy the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace, but Ling Tianzi told him that Lin Bai needed to face Lin Zier himself to strengthen his martial path.
• Ling Tianzi left to guide Li Qingxuan and prepare to reveal matters to the Spirit Sword Sect, while Li Shanqing secretly gave Lin Bai a healing pill.
• After Zhao Xiansheng departed with the wounded Lin Zier, Lin Bai vowed to defeat them at the Four Great Sects Tournament and began healing with the Grand Five Elements Art.
• Lin Bai recovered over three days, then set out for the Spirit Sword Sect with half a month remaining before his promised challenge at the Cliff of No Return.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Bai Zhiyuan greeted Lin Bai outside the Wind God Sect ruins.

After leaving Withered Mountain Ridge, Lin Bai was ambushed by Luo Qianqiu and a group of Edgeless Sect assassins seeking the Wind God Art. Lin Bai repelled their first attack with a single sword strike, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Bai thanked Bai Xiaoxiao for helping him escape Zhao Xiansheng and said goodbye to her and Bai Zhiyuan before leaving Withered Mountain Ridge alone.
• Luo Qianqiu and a dozen Edgeless Sect assassins confronted Lin Bai in the woods and demanded the Wind God Art.
• Lin Bai refused to hand over the technique and drew the Evil Wind Sword as Luo Qianqiu ordered his men to attack.
• Lin Bai used Surging Wind Swordplay, Gale Shakes the Sea, to send the attacking assassins flying and make them spit blood.

Lin Bai shattered Luo Qianqiu and the Edgeless Sect assassins’ Rakshasa Ghost Formation and defeated them. He spared Luo Qianqiu after hearing that Liu Xuan was fighting Ye Suxin in a forest to the east.

• Luo Qianqiu and the assassins formed the Rakshasa Ghost Formation, creating a powerful giant ghost to attack Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai dodged the ghost’s attacks and struck back with his sword, but could not pierce its defenses.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method, Break Restriction, to destroy the formation and kill the assassins, leaving Luo Qianqiu alive.
• Lin Bai stopped before killing Luo Qianqiu when Luo claimed to have news about Ye Suxin.
• Luo Qianqiu told Lin Bai that Liu Xuan was fighting Ye Suxin in a forest three li to the east.

Lin Bai crippled Luo Qianqiu and pursued Ye Suxin into the eastern forest, where he discovered the aftermath of a massacre. He found Ye Suxin cornered by Liu Xuan and the surviving Blazing Fire Palace warriors, who lit Ecstasy Incense to subdue her and everyone nearby.

• Lin Bai released Luo Qianqiu after shattering his dantian, then rushed east to hunt Ye Suxin.
• Lin Bai found the corpses of more than a hundred Divine Alliance warriors and over two hundred Blazing Fire Palace warriors.
• Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu cornered the wounded Ye Suxin in a valley after the Blazing Fire Palace slaughtered the Divine Alliance warriors protecting her.
• Liu Xuan ordered his men to light Ecstasy Incense, whose fragrance would spread for a thousand meters and overwhelm anyone who inhaled it with lust.

Ye Suxin was trapped by Liu Xuan and the Blazing Fire Palace martial artists, who used Ecstasy Incense to weaken her. Lin Bai arrived and killed Liu Xiu, leaving Liu Xuan to face him.

• Ye Suxin reached the end of Flower Valley and warned Liu Xuan not to provoke her, but he threatened her and boasted of his plans for her and Lin Bai.
• The Ecstasy Incense took effect, leaving Ye Suxin weak as Liu Xuan revealed what he had done.
• Lin Bai entered Flower Valley and killed one of Liu Xuan's martial artists with a Sword Qi strike.
• Liu Xiu blocked Lin Bai's attack and used the Flame Great Handprint, but Lin Bai shattered it with Wind Silence.
• Liu Xiu summoned his Flame Spirit Fox Martial Soul, but Lin Bai destroyed it with Wind Calamity and split Liu Xiu in half.

Lin Bai killed Liu Xiu, Liu Xuan, and the other Blazing Fire Palace martial artists, then succumbed to the effects of Ecstasy Incense with Ye Suxin. He left the valley after sparing her, but followed her toward the Spirit Sword Sect to protect her from further danger.

• Lin Bai slew Liu Xiu and the Blazing Fire Palace martial artists who charged at him, then struck down Liu Xuan as he tried to escape.
• Lin Bai moved to kill Ye Suxin, but Ecstasy Incense took effect and left both of them unable to control their true qi or resist its influence.
• After three days and nights, Lin Bai woke beside Ye Suxin and chose not to kill her, then gave her clothes and left the valley.
• Ye Suxin awoke, vowed revenge on Lin Bai, and left for the Spirit Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai appeared behind Ye Suxin and followed her from a distance, fearing the Blazing Fire Palace martial artists might attack her.

After Ye Suxin destroyed Lin Bai’s home, Lin Bai struggled to understand what their encounter meant and spent three days alone on White Cloud Peak. He decided to set aside his feelings for now, focus on catching up to Lin Zier, and seek a Myriad Year Spirit Herb before leaving to check on the Sword Alliance.

• Ye Suxin found Lin Bai’s residence empty, destroyed it in anger, and left while Lin Bai watched from a distance.
• Lin Bai asked Li Shanqing to let him stay on White Cloud Peak, where he spent three days silently brooding over his relationship with Ye Suxin.
• Ling Tianzi told Li Shanqing that a woman was troubling Lin Bai and instructed him to leave Lin Bai alone.
• Lin Bai concluded that he would take responsibility for Ye Suxin if she wanted him to, but otherwise he would treat their encounter as a dream.
• Lin Bai put his romantic worries aside, considered how to obtain the spirit herbs needed to condense five spirit vortexes, and decided to check whether Kong Fang and Li Jianxing had returned to the Sword Alliance.

Ye Suxin returned to the Divine Alliance and told Su Cang that Lin Bai had grown too strong for her to defeat, so Su Cang arranged for Murong Yeshen to kill him. Lin Bai returned to the Sword Alliance and found Qian Dongjin accusing and beating Ye Beibei; Li Jianxing confronted Qian Dongjin as the Sword Alliance gathered to defend her.

• Ye Suxin told Su Cang that Lin Bai had reached the eighth level of the Earth Martial Realm and that she could not kill him.
• Su Cang decided to have Murong Yeshen, an expert ranked eleventh on the Inner Sanctum Top 100 Ranking, kill Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai returned to the Sword Alliance, whose members had been preparing to search for him at the Wind God Sect.
• A Sword Alliance warrior reported that Qian Dongjin had captured Ye Beibei, claiming she stole pills from the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Qian Dongjin brought the badly injured Ye Beibei to the Sword Alliance, where she denied stealing the pills and the warriors accused him of framing her.
• Li Jianxing ordered Qian Dongjin to stop as he tried to leave, and Qian Dongjin challenged him to fight.

Lin Bai stepped in to defend the Sword Alliance after Qian Dongjin humiliated its members and challenged them. Lin Bai’s Wind Tribulation sword strike overwhelmed Qian Dongjin, leaving the Divine Alliance fighter wounded and shocked by his strength.

• The Sword Alliance members revealed that the Divine Alliance had recently killed five of their martial artists, injured more than thirty, and crippled Xun Jie’s left hand.
• Qian Dongjin taunted the Sword Alliance and challenged Li Jianxing, who prepared to fight despite knowing the gap in their strength.
• Lin Bai stopped Li Jianxing and volunteered to fight, promising to preserve the Sword Alliance’s fighting spirit.
• Lin Bai unleashed the third stance of Surging Wind Swordplay, Wind Tribulation, and overpowered Qian Dongjin’s punches and Mountain River Shattering Fist.
• Lin Bai’s sword Qi sent Qian Dongjin flying with wounds across his body, and Lin Bai calmly identified himself.

Lin Bai confronted Qian Dongjin and learned that top-ranked Divine Alliance experts Li Daohan and Murong Yeshen had returned ahead of the challenge at the Cliff of No Return. After crippling Qian Dongjin, Lin Bai left for the night, resolved to face the Divine Alliance at dawn.

• Lin Bai revealed his identity to Qian Dongjin and declared that he would defeat the Divine Alliance at the Cliff of No Return the next day.
• Qian Dongjin warned Lin Bai that Li Daohan and Murong Yeshen had returned, and Li Jianxing explained their reputations and strength.
• Lin Bai defeated Qian Dongjin, severed his left arm and meridians, and destroyed his dantian.
• Lin Bai told the Divine Alliance martial artists to meet him at the Cliff of No Return at dawn, and they carried Qian Dongjin away.
• Li Jianxing urged Lin Bai not to go, but Lin Bai dismissed the danger and left the Sword Alliance headquarters.

Ye Suxin confronted Lin Bai over his past actions, stabbed and kicked him, and demanded a fair duel, but Lin Bai refused to fight or kill her and promised to take responsibility by marrying her. His resolve to act with a clear conscience advanced his sword intent, and after Ye Suxin left, the badly injured Lin Bai encountered Murong Yeshen.

• Ye Suxin learned that Lin Bai had injured Qian Dongjin and hurried to the Sword Alliance, while Murong Yeshen followed after hearing she was seeking revenge.
• Ye Suxin stabbed Lin Bai in the chest, but stopped the sword before it pierced his heart when he did not dodge or draw his weapon.
• Lin Bai refused to kill Ye Suxin and offered to marry her, but she angrily wounded him twice more and insisted they settle their grudge in a fair fight later.
• Lin Bai's determination to take responsibility and keep a clear conscience advanced his sword intent to the late stage of first-grade sword intent, and Ye Suxin left.
• As Lin Bai staggered toward White Cloud Peak, Murong Yeshen introduced himself, and Lin Bai recognized the inner sect's undefeated legend.