Recaps

Lin Bai defeated Huang Family Head, who bargained for his life by revealing the Dragon Locking Well and the Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants needed to open it. Lin Bai let Huang Family Head escape with his life after taking his pendant and a recording Jade Slip, and became interested in the dragon corpse said to lie below the well.

• Huang Family Head attacked Lin Bai with flame Jade Slips, but Lin Bai shattered the flames and cornered him.
• Huang Family Head offered information about the Dragon Locking Well in exchange for his life, explaining that eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants were needed to open it.
• Su Lingsu confirmed that the Dragon Locking Well existed and had been sealed by an array left by Lord Yuanmo.
• Huang Family Head revealed that the owners of the other seven pendants planned to open the well together on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, two months later.
• Lin Bai agreed to spare Huang Family Head if he handed over his Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant and recording Jade Slip, then watched him flee.

Lin Bai learned that the Dragon Locking Well would be opened on the fifteenth day of the eighth month and decided to go, hoping to obtain dragon blood. After parting from Su Lingsu and her group, he headed for the depths of Evil Dragon Island.

• Lin Bai listened to the Jade Slip and learned that eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant holders planned to meet at the Dragon Locking Well on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.
• Lin Bai decided to seek the dragon blood beneath the well and planned to use the next two months to improve his cultivation.
• Su Lingsu warned Lin Bai that the surviving pendant holders were likely powerful, while she and her group chose not to enter the island's depths.
• Lin Bai gave Su Lingshan a Sound Transmission Talisman and invited him to seek help with sword-path questions.
• Lin Bai said farewell to the group and flew toward the depths of Evil Dragon Island.

Lin Bai defeated a powerful tree demon in the depths of Evil Dragon Island and absorbed its Spiritual Energy Crystal, but he worried that his limited spiritual power and lack of pills would leave him vulnerable before the Dragon Locking Well opened. He resolved to find a way to earn spiritual liquid and obtain supplies after returning to Dragon Breeding Island, though he still had no way to get pills while trapped on the island.

• Lin Bai killed a tree demon with the third volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and absorbed its Spiritual Energy Crystal.
• Lin Bai recalled that using the sword art against a dozen tree demons half a month earlier had exhausted his spiritual power and nearly cost him his life.
• Lin Bai took his final White Jade Pill and found that he had only a little over seven hundred jin of spiritual liquid and no other pills or magical treasures.
• Lin Bai decided to seek pills and a way to make money after returning to Dragon Breeding Island, but he could not leave Evil Dragon Island before the Dragon Locking Well opened.
• Lin Bai considered obtaining pills from other martial artists but rejected attacking them for their belongings and had no money to buy from them.

Lin Bai decided that hunting demons on Evil Dragon Island would take too long to help him break through, so he set out to buy pills before the Dragon Locking Well opened. After a martial artist tried to kill him, Lin Bai defeated him and learned about Spirit Abundance Mountain, a supply point where martial artists exchanged goods.

• Lin Bai decided to leave Evil Dragon Island after the Dragon Locking Well opened and went searching for martial artists to buy pills.
• Lin Bai approached a second-stage Life Extinction Realm martial artist and asked to purchase pills.
• The martial artist attacked Lin Bai with silver needles and a saber, claiming that stronger martial artists preyed on the weak.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to overpower and severely wound the martial artist.
• The martial artist begged for mercy and told Lin Bai that Spirit Abundance Mountain was a gathering place where Evil Dragon Island martial artists exchanged supplies.

Lin Bai learned that Spirit Abundance Mountain was a disciple-run trading post on Evil Dragon Island and traveled there to buy cultivation resources. After joining a table of eight martial artists, he watched the first trade begin.

• The young man used his Nine Aperture Soul-Stealing Needles to ambush Lin Bai, but Azure Wood Divine Lightning deflected them.
• Lin Bai killed the young man with Soul Search and learned Spirit Abundance Mountain was real and that the man knew the route there.
• Lin Bai took the young man's nine needles, saber, and nearly four hundred jin of spirit liquid, bringing his total to a thousand jin.
• Lin Bai traveled for three days to Spirit Abundance Mountain and read the stele's rules for seating and trading.
• Lin Bai joined a table of eight martial artists, and a gloomy young man traded five hundred jin of spirit liquid for a sword.

Lin Bai traded a strand of Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi to the martial artist in seat two for five thousand catties of spirit liquid, then bought low-grade Qi Return Pills from the martial artist in seat eight. After the gathering ended, Lin Bai left Spirit Abundance Mountain with his purchases.

• The martial artist in seat two sought a treasure that could break through an array formation, and Lin Bai offered him a strand of Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai sold the Sword Qi to the martial artist in seat two for five thousand catties of spirit liquid.
• Lin Bai asked the table for healing and spiritual-power-restoring pills, and the martial artist in seat eight offered him low-grade Qi Return Pills.
• Lin Bai bought more than two thousand Qi Return Pills from the martial artist in seat eight for eight hundred catties of spirit liquid.
• After the trading session ended, Lin Bai left Spirit Abundance Mountain with the other martial artists.

Lin Bai headed for the Dragon Locking Well after leaving Spirit Abundance Mountain, while several other Dragon Locking Well contenders also made their way there. Jia Qing arrived to find Lan Heng waiting at the site, where he dismissed the surrounding warriors hoping to profit from the opening.

• Lin Bai used the Sword Control Art to escape Lin Yuanrong, who decided to seek him out after the Dragon Locking Well opened.
• Zhu Jingyi gave up searching the outskirts for Zhu Fei's killer and led his group toward the Dragon Locking Well.
• Zhang Quan returned to Evil Dragon Island after a year, intending to break through at the Dragon Locking Well.
• Lan Heng waited at the Dragon Locking Well for three months, and warriors avoided him because he belonged to the Lan Clan.
• Jia Qing arrived at the Dragon Locking Well, and Lan Heng scoffed at the warriors gathered there hoping to claim a share of the spoils.

Eight holders of Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants gathered at the Dragon Locking Well on Evil Dragon Island to open it. Lin Bai arrived carrying a pendant in place of the missing Zhang Tai, and Zhang Quan prepared to begin opening the well.

• Lan Heng and Jia Qing waited at the Dragon Locking Well as martial artists in the jungle watched for the eight pendant holders to arrive.
• Lin Yuanrong arrived and greeted Lan Heng and Jia Qing, then withdrew after Lan Heng showed little interest in speaking with him.
• Zhu Jingyi and the other pendant holders arrived, and Zhang Quan noted that Zhang Tai was still missing.
• Lin Bai arrived with a Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant and explained that Zhang Tai would not be coming, though he denied killing him.
• Zhang Quan accepted Lin Bai as Zhang Tai's replacement and asked all eight holders to take out their pendants so they could open the Dragon Locking Well.

Zhang Quan and the others used the eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants to open the Dragon Locking Well and descended into its black mist, while the martial artists outside were kept out. At the bottom, Lin Bai discovered that the monsters surrounding the group were Blood Demons created by the Burial God Curse, an origin that contradicted what he believed about the well.

• Zhang Quan and the other seven pressed their Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants into the chains, and Lin Bai placed the final pendant to open the Dragon Locking Well.
• Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, and the others descended into the well, followed by Lin Bai, while the waiting martial artists were repelled by a force at its entrance.
• Lin Bai and the others fell through the black mist for a quarter of an hour, hearing strange cries grow closer as they neared the bottom.
• Lin Bai landed and saw Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, and the others surrounded by monsters.
• Lin Bai recognized the monsters as Blood Demons born from the Giant Gods' blood through the Burial God Curse and wondered why they were beneath the well.

Lin Bai and the others escaped the Blood Demons beneath the Dragon Locking Well and discovered the corpse of a Divine Dragon torn in half beside a Giant God's severed arm. Lin Bai inferred that the Giant God had killed the dragon and that Lord Yuanmo had sealed the Blood Demons; Zhang Quan began stripping scales from the corpse.

• Jia Qing, Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, Zhu Jingyi, and Lin Yuanrong escaped the black mist, and Lin Bai, Zhao Ying, and Li Mo followed.
• Lin Bai and the others found a colossal Divine Dragon corpse and realized it had been torn apart while alive.
• Zhao Ying spotted a gigantic severed arm beside the dragon, and Lin Bai recognized it as belonging to a Giant God.
• Lin Bai recalled a vision of the Giant God tearing the dragon apart and inferred that Lord Yuanmo had sealed the Blood Demons around the remains.
• Zhang Quan began removing the dragon's scales, while Zhu Jingyi discovered that the dragon's blood had crystallized.

Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to cleave the mountain of Dragon Blood after the others failed to take anything from the dragon corpse or severed arm. He left with three Dragon Blood Crystals, while the others watched in astonishment.

• Zhang Quan, Jia Qing, Zhao Ying, Li Mo, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi failed to remove dragon scales or Dragon Blood Crystals, and Lin Bai explained that others had likely failed as well.
• Zhang Quan urged the group to leave before the Dragon Locking Well closed, and everyone began turning back.
• Lin Bai stayed to try the mountain of Dragon Blood again and infused his demon sword with the Devouring Sword Soul.
• Lin Bai cleaved the mountain open with one strike, stunning the others as they turned to watch.
• Lin Bai picked up three Dragon Blood Crystals, the only pieces he could take with the Devouring Sword Soul at its current level.

Lin Bai cleaved Dragon Blood Mountain and obtained three Dragon Blood Crystals, but Zhu Jingyi attacked him after recognizing the Jade Slip Lin Bai had taken from his slain brother, Zhu Fei. Zhang Quan intervened to protect Lin Bai in exchange for help removing a dragon scale, openly defying Li Jiuge as the confrontation escalated.

• Lin Bai cleaved Dragon Blood Mountain apart and took three Dragon Blood Crystals, prompting Zhu Jingyi to demand the crystals and the method he used.
• Zhu Jingyi attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai blocked the strike with Zhu Fei's Jade Slip, which revealed that Lin Bai had killed Zhu Jingyi's younger brother.
• Lin Bai admitted that Zhu Fei had provoked him, and Zhu Jingyi launched a fierce attack to avenge him and seize the crystals.
• Zhu Jingyi struck Lin Bai through his defenses and sent him flying, but Zhang Quan stepped in and blocked the next attack.
• Zhang Quan asked Lin Bai to remove a dragon scale, then vowed to protect him and dismissed Zhu Jingyi's warning about opposing Li Jiuge.

Zhu Jingyi attacked Lin Bai for the Dragon Blood Crystal while Zhao Ying and Li Moran held Zhang Quan back. Lin Bai survived Zhu Jingyi’s King Grade Martial Skill and launched a counterattack with his two flying swords.

• Zhao Ying and Li Moran revealed they served Li Jiuge and attacked Zhang Quan while Zhu Jingyi charged at Lin Bai.
• Jia Qing refused to help, and Zhang Quan resolved to risk everything to protect Lin Bai and obtain the Dragon Scales.
• Lin Bai swallowed Qi Return Pills, restored his spiritual power, and clashed with Zhu Jingyi using Three Foot Edge.
• Zhu Jingyi struck Lin Bai with the King Grade Martial Skill Ninefold Canglang Waves, leaving him badly wounded but alive.
• Lin Bai activated the Slaughtering Formation and sent his two flying swords toward Zhu Jingyi from within a hundred meters.

Lin Bai wounded Zhu Jingyi with his flying swords, but Zhu Jingyi joined forces with Lin Yuanrong and Lan Heng to seize the Dragon Blood Crystals. Lan Heng attacked Lin Bai with his time-freezing Bloodline Inheritance Martial Soul, and Lin Bai was sent flying while the others reeled at the Lan Clan’s power.

• Lin Bai wounded Zhu Jingyi with his flying swords and followed up with Hidden Dragon in the Abyss.
• Lin Yuanrong intervened to help Zhu Jingyi in exchange for an introduction to Li Jiuge, and the two shattered Lin Bai’s sword strike.
• Lin Yuanrong confronted Lin Bai over the Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi he had bought at Spirit Abundance Mountain.
• Lan Heng demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Dragon Blood Crystals, then used Heavenly Seal Half Breath to freeze time and attack him.
• Lin Bai blocked Lan Heng’s palm with Azure Wood Divine Lightning but was sent flying a hundred meters.
• Zhu Jingyi and Lin Yuanrong were astonished by Lan Heng’s Bloodline Inheritance Martial Soul.

Lin Bai unleashed his strongest sword strike against Lan Heng, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi, then used Giant God Power to overwhelm them. Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi retreated as Blood Demons arrived, and the others began to flee as well.

• Lin Bai combined three intents into one sword strike that wounded Lan Heng, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi, then restored some of his spiritual energy with Qi Return Pills.
• Lin Bai transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and broke through Lan Heng's Heavenly Seal Half Breath, striking him down.
• Lin Bai used Blood Sea Seven Steps to injure Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi, prompting Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi to retreat.
• Blood Demons rushed toward the group, and Lin Bai punched the attackers into bloody mist.
• Zhao Ying and Li Mo left after Zhu Jingyi withdrew.

Lin Bai confronted a Giant God severed arm whose will shattered his Divine Crystal and tried to use his blood and bones to locate and annihilate his relatives. He struck back with the Devouring Sword Soul, but the arm declared that his Heaven Swallowing Race connection and everyone tied to him must be exterminated, leaving him facing another deadly attack.

• Lin Yuanrong, Zhu Jingyi, Zhao Ying, Li Mo, Zhang Quan, and Jia Qing fled as Blood Demons swarmed the Dragon Locking Well, and Lin Bai gave Zhang Quan a dragon scale before preparing to leave.
• The Giant God severed arm attacked Lin Bai, declared that he had offended the Giant God by borrowing its power, and shattered the Divine Crystal that sustained his Giant God cultivation.
• The arm began drawing out Lin Bai's blood and bones to trace his blood relatives, including members of the Lin Family and Lin Yue, and threatened to exterminate them.
• Lin Bai refused to let the arm target his Lin clan and summoned the Devouring Sword Soul, which struck the severed arm away.
• The arm recognized Lin Bai as a remnant of the Heaven Swallowing Race, renewed its threat against everyone connected to him, and pointed at him again as he sensed imminent danger.

The Giant God Race’s blood-and-bone lure sent red threads after everyone connected to Lin Bai across multiple regions and worlds. As the threads reached powerful figures and Lin Bai’s family, some sensed the danger or resisted, while the old man recognized the lure and worried about Lin Bai.

• Red threads emerged from Lin Bai’s fused blood and bones and sought out people connected to his bloodline.
• In Divine Martial Nation, threads ensnared members of the Lin Lineage and wrapped around Emperor Xiao, who sensed danger and murmured Lin Bai’s name.
• The White-Haired Woman, Tie Haitang, Lin Yue, and Lin Yue’s daughter were targeted by the threads.
• A pale woman in a Southern Province cave froze a thread before it could reach her neck and ordered it to leave.
• In an unknown world, a young man used jade tablets to form an array that blocked a thread, while an old man caught another and identified it as the Giant God’s blood-and-bone lure.

An old man forged a Stone Sword from Nether Mountain and sent it across the Barren Ancient Continent to sever the blood-red threads targeting those connected to Lin Bai. The sword reached the Dragon Locking Well, where it shattered Lin Bai’s blood and bones and cut the threads, while its use risked drawing the old man into the war between the Giant Gods and the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• The old man with a Dao Bone recognized the Giant God Race’s blood-and-bone guide and forged a Stone Sword, imbuing it with his unbreakable will.
• The Stone Sword severed a red thread near the young man, who warned that its appearance could drag his master into the war between the Giant Gods and the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The Stone Sword emerged over the Central Sacred Nation, cut two threads, and its voice left Apex Realm experts shaken and bleeding.
• The Stone Sword crossed the Southern Province and the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, cutting threads as cultivators watched in alarm.
• The Stone Sword entered Evil Dragon Island’s Dragon Locking Well, shattered Lin Bai’s blood and bones, and severed the threads around him.

Lin Bai used the Demon Flower and Devouring Sword Soul to cut a finger from the Giant God’s severed arm, but Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword was blasted into spatial turbulence. The awakened divine dragon intervened and warned Lin Bai that he must remove the Demon Seed before entering the Dao or Heart Demon Implantation would consume his mind.

• Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword severed Lin Bai’s blood bones and threads, then attacked the Giant God’s severed arm.
• The Giant God’s remnant will struck the Stone Sword, cracking it, while Lin Bai bloomed the Demon Flower and transformed his hair crimson.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to cut off one of the Giant God’s fingers, but the Giant God’s counterattack hurled the Stone Sword into spatial turbulence.
• Lin Bai vowed to recover Ling Tianzi’s sword and turned his killing intent toward the severed arm.
• The divine dragon revived, declared that its Dragon Clan would end the chaos, and warned Lin Bai to cut out the Demon Seed before entering the Dao.

Lin Bai survived the battle beneath the Dragon Locking Well after Ao Yuan dragged Fu Yao into the void, then stayed to heal rather than face the ambush waiting outside. Zhu Jingyi eventually gave up waiting, but Lin Yuanrong suspected Lin Bai was still alive and planned to kill him for the Dragon Blood Crystal.

• Ao Yuan revealed his identity as a Dragon Race member and dragged Fu Yao, a remnant of the Giant God Race, into the void after Fu Yao threatened Lin Bai and his clan.
• The demonic flower and Lin Bai's transformed appearance faded, and he collapsed with severe injuries after the battle.
• Lin Bai decided to remain beneath the Dragon Locking Well and spent two months healing, while Zhu Jingyi and nearly five hundred martial artists waited outside to ambush him.
• After the formation closed and another month passed without Lin Bai emerging, Zhu Jingyi concluded he had died and left with the others.
• Lin Yuanrong stayed behind, believing Lin Bai was alive, and planned to kill him and take the Dragon Blood Crystal to earn Li Jiuge's favor.

After healing beneath the Dragon Locking Well, Lin Bai refined three Dragon Blood Crystals and broke through to the first stage of the Life Extinction Realm. He resolved to retrieve Ling Tianzi’s lost Stone Sword and began weighing whether to sever his Heart Demon Seed, while accepting that rebuilding his Ancient God Scripture cultivation would take years.

• Lin Bai woke after two months of healing beneath the Dragon Locking Well and found that Dragon Blood Mountain and the dragon corpse’s treasures were gone.
• Lin Bai refined three Dragon Blood Crystals with the Devouring Sword Soul and advanced from the peak of the Great Perfection of the Yang God Realm to the first stage of the Life Extinction Realm.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Lin Bai vowed to recover Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword, which had been swept into spatial turbulence.
• Lin Bai recalled warnings from the dragon corpse, Ling Tianzi, and Xiao Xiao that Heart Demon Implantation was twisting his nature, and decided to seek a way to resolve its flaw before entering the Dao.
• Lin Bai concluded that the shattered Divine Crystal and severed meridians made restoring his Ancient God Scripture cultivation difficult and potentially too time-consuming.

Lin Bai emerged from the Dragon Locking Well after two months and learned that Master Fang’s deadline was nearly up. He killed Lin Yuanrong, who had been waiting to steal the Dragon Blood Crystal, but Lin Yuanrong revealed Lin Bai’s identity to Li Jiuge’s allies before he died.

• Lin Bai escaped the formation covering the Dragon Locking Well and discovered that two months had passed since it opened.
• Lin Yuanrong confronted Lin Bai, intending to kill him and take the Dragon Blood Crystal for Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and Dragon Slayer Swordplay to defeat Lin Yuanrong.
• Lin Yuanrong sent a message to Zhu Jingyi identifying Lin Bai as the martial artist who had obtained three Dragon Blood Crystals and urging him to notify Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai killed Lin Yuanrong, then felt a sense of foreboding as he noticed the Sound Transmission Talisman.

Lin Bai left Evil Dragon Island and arrived at Spirit Master Island as the martial contest between Fang Yiyun, Master Su, and Bei Haiyan began. He reached the island just as Tan Jing and Ouyang Jing mocked him for being absent, leaving the contest about to start.

• Lin Bai put away Lin Yuanrong's Storage Bag and traveled from Evil Dragon Island to Nine Heavens Island.
• Martial artists gathered on Spirit Master Island for the contest between Fang Yiyun, Master Su, and Bei Haiyan after five months of training their disciples.
• Fang Yiyun's disciples had reached the Life Extinction Realm, while Ouyang Jing and Tan Jing prepared to challenge them.
• Tan Jing and Ouyang Jing mocked Lin Bai for not appearing, and Changsun Yun, Meng Li, Shu Xiang, and Wu Ming defended him.
• Lin Bai arrived on Spirit Master Island, answered the mockery, and apologized to Fang Yiyun for keeping him waiting.

Lin Bai arrived at Spirit Master Island as Fang Yiyun proposed a wheel battle, with his disciples defending the arena against Su Ling and Bei Haiyan’s ten disciples. Meng Li defeated Luo Song with his Twin Swords Dao, leaving the contest underway.

• Lin Bai arrived, and Su Ling and Bei Haiyan agreed to Fang Yiyun’s plan for a wheel battle.
• Fang Yiyun sent Meng Li to defend the arena, and Bei Haiyan chose Luo Song to challenge him.
• Luo Song attacked Meng Li, but Meng Li repelled him with a greatsword and the Overlord Sword Dao.
• Meng Li used his short sword to pierce Luo Song’s shoulder and knock him out of the arena.
• Lin Bai recognized Meng Li’s Twin Swords Dao as Fang Yiyun confirmed its name.

Meng Li used the Twin Swords Dao to defeat Luo Song and Pan Feiyang, while Lin Bai explained cultivation as a way to overcome one’s shortcomings. Changsun Yun then won two battles before Wu Ming took his place.

• Meng Li defeated Luo Song with the Twin Swords Dao, astonishing Lin Bai and Bei Haiyan.
• Pan Feiyang attacked Meng Li, but Meng Li overwhelmed him until he conceded.
• Lin Bai explained that cultivation meant working to make up for one’s shortcomings, and Fang Yiyun said Lin Bai’s understanding surpassed theirs.
• Fang Yiyun sent Changsun Yun to replace the exhausted Meng Li, and Changsun Yun won both battles decisively.
• Wu Ming took the field after Changsun Yun.