Recaps

Lin Bai intervened when Cai Yu and Luo Tian used earthfire to sabotage Xie Changqing's alchemy, while the elders refused to help because the two were protégés of Wu Tian Pill Refiner. Lin Bai and Xie Changqing turned the tables on their attackers, and the chapter ended as Cai Yu fought back against them.

• Lin Bai warned the alchemy elders that Cai Yu and Luo Tian were attacking Xie Changqing's furnace, but they refused to intervene.
• Cai Yu told Lin Bai that the elders feared Wu Tian Pill Refiner, his and Luo Tian's master.
• Lin Bai redirected earthfire at Cai Yu and Luo Tian, forcing Cai Yu to stop attacking Xie Changqing and shattering Luo Tian's furnace.
• Xie Changqing recovered and exploded the furnaces of the two other alchemists who had been attacking him.
• Lin Bai and Xie Changqing sent fire dragons at Cai Yu, who retaliated by attacking them both with fire dragons.

Lin Bai protected Xie Changqing from Cai Yu’s sabotage, apparently sacrificing his own pill, but revealed that he had refined it despite the earthfire. Luo Tian recognized Lin Bai as the Eastern Alchemist, leaving Cai Yu and the others stunned.

• Cai Yu attacked Lin Bai and Xie Changqing with earthfire, and Lin Bai held him off so Xie Changqing could finish refining his ninth-grade pill.
• Cai Yu redirected his earthfire toward Lin Bai’s Alchemy Furnace, and the resulting blasts destroyed Cai Yu’s furnace while sending fire into Lin Bai’s Seven Moon Cauldron.
• Cai Yu claimed Lin Bai’s spirit herbs had burned to ashes, while Xie Changqing offered to help him refine another pill before the assessment ended.
• Lin Bai calmly said his pill was finished, then opened his furnace to reveal a lustrous pill amid the earthfire.
• Luo Tian recognized Lin Bai as the Eastern Alchemist, and Cai Yu accused him of cheating.

Lin Bai defended his ninth-grade pill by revealing that he had used the ancient Fire Refinement Technique, disproving Cai Yu’s cheating accusation. After the elders recognized his skill, Lin Bai chose to join the Academy as a ninth-grade alchemist, earning access to a spiritual flame and the ninth floor of the Pill Formula Pavilion.

• Cai Yu accused Lin Bai of cheating because earthfire had burned the herbs in his Alchemy Furnace, and several Academy Alchemists called for Lin Bai to be punished.
• Lin Bai challenged Cai Yu to provide evidence and explained that a pill could still be refined after earthfire entered the furnace.
• Wei Xuan recognized Lin Bai’s method as the ancient Fire Refinement Technique and explained how alchemists had used it before Alchemy Furnaces existed.
• Wei Xuan invited Lin Bai to join the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion Alchemist Association, while an Academy elder also offered him a place.
• Lin Bai chose the Academy, and the elder marked his Identity Token as a ninth-grade alchemist, granting him access to a spiritual flame and the ninth floor of the Pill Formula Pavilion.

Lin Bai passed the alchemist examination, joined the Academy faction, and learned that Cai Yu and Luo Tian planned to target him and Xie Changqing on Refining Heaven Island. He left Pill Island with Hu Xin'er, while Zhao Tian and Sun Ning agreed to secretly search for Fu Qingshuang and spread word that Hu Xin'er was Zhao Tian's woman.

• Wei Xuan dismissed Cai Yu's cheating accusation, and the Academy alchemist welcomed Lin Bai to Refining Heaven Island; Xie Changqing also joined the Academy faction.
• Cai Yu vowed to deal with Lin Bai and Xie Changqing if they came to Refining Heaven Island, while Lin Bai explained to Xie Changqing that Luo Tian had mistaken him for Lin Bai's alias, Dongfang.
• Lin Bai gave Xie Changqing a Sound Transmission Talisman and then went to meet Hu Xin'er after Zi Donglai reminded him he had arrived with her.
• Hu Xin'er told Zhao Tian and Sun Ning to secretly search the Eastern Continent Academy for Fu Qingshuang, then left Pill Island with Lin Bai.
• Zhao Tian told Sun Ning to spread the claim that Hu Xin'er was his woman and to keep searching for Fu Qingshuang.

Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island with Hu Xin'er, who offered to leave if he helped her find Fu Qingshuang. The next day, Lin Bai went to Refining Heaven Island to choose a spiritual flame and seek a pill formula, where Xie Changqing guided him toward Spirit Fire Mountain.

• Lin Bai told Hu Xin'er not to cause trouble on Dragon Breeding Island, and she explained that she was searching for Fu Qingshuang and would leave if he helped find her.
• Lin Bai left Hu Xin'er on Dragon Breeding Island and traveled to Refining Heaven Island to choose a spiritual flame and look for the White Bone Pill formula.
• Xie Changqing met Lin Bai and explained that only alchemists could enter Refining Heaven Island's rear island, where Spirit Fire Mountain and the Pill Formula Pavilion were located.
• Lin Bai and Xie Changqing headed to Spirit Fire Mountain while the alchemists they passed gave Lin Bai strange looks.
• Xie Changqing explained Spirit Fire Mountain's spiritual flames and revealed that he had joined Refining Heaven Island specifically to find a stronger flame.

Lin Bai and Xie Changqing learned how the Spirit Fire Ranking and Flame Road worked as they arrived at Spirit Fire Mountain. Their conversation was interrupted when Cai Yu and Luo Tian mocked Lin Bai over rumors that Hu Xin'er had spent hours with Zhao Tian.

• Lin Bai read the Spirit Fire Ranking, and Xie Changqing explained that spirit fires grew stronger when nurtured inside divine pills.
• Xie Changqing described how walking farther along the Flame Road could earn an alchemist a higher-ranked spirit fire, and said Zhao Tian's father had reached the summit to obtain the fifth-ranked Netherworld Ghost Fire.
• More alchemists arrived and whispered about Lin Bai, while Cai Yu, Luo Tian, and Leng Qianxue approached him and Xie Changqing.
• Cai Yu and Luo Tian publicly mocked Lin Bai, claiming Hu Xin'er had been with Zhao Tian in a private chamber for three or four hours.
• Lin Bai grew angry at the rumors and at Cai Yu and Luo Tian's provocation.

Lin Bai, Xie Changqing, and Leng Qianxue climbed Spirit Fire Mountain’s Flame Road to seek spirit fires while Cai Yu and Luo Tian followed with hostile intentions. Lin Bai reached four hundred zhang and warned that stepping into the gathered flames beside the road would kill even a peak Life Extinction Realm martial artist.

• Lin Bai denied having any relationship with Hu Xin'er and clashed with Cai Yu over his failed Pill Island assessment before Leng Qianxue stopped their argument.
• Leng Qianxue invited Lin Bai and Xie Changqing to climb Flame Road with her, while Cai Yu and Luo Tian resolved to prevent them from obtaining spirit fires.
• Lin Bai learned that the farther he climbed, the stronger the spirit fires he could obtain, and began ascending behind Leng Qianxue and Xie Changqing.
• Lin Bai reached one hundred zhang, then continued as the flames grew stronger and began scorching him at three hundred zhang.
• Lin Bai reached four hundred zhang, where Cai Yu and Luo Tian caught up and mocked him for continuing upward.
• Lin Bai warned Cai Yu and Luo Tian that entering the gathered flames beside Flame Road would kill even a peak Life Extinction Realm martial artist.

Cai Yu and Luo Tian tried to knock Lin Bai into the spirit fire on Spirit Fire Mountain, but he saved himself and later struck them down when they attacked again. As Lin Bai moved to finish them, Xie Changqing warned him that killing them could bring trouble under the rules of Refining Heaven Island.

• Cai Yu and Luo Tian followed Lin Bai beyond five hundred zhang and attacked him, sending him off the Flame Road toward the spirit fire.
• Lin Bai used the power of the Five Elements Divine Pill and the Demon Sword to return to the Flame Road.
• Cai Yu and Luo Tian mocked Lin Bai and attacked him again as he continued forward.
• Lin Bai turned and struck Cai Yu and Luo Tian with the Demon Sword, wounding them and sending them flying backward.
• Lin Bai charged at the injured pair, but Xie Changqing warned him against causing deaths on Spirit Fire Mountain.

Lin Bai carried Cai Yu and Luo Tian up Spirit Fire Mountain’s Flame Road, using his Devouring Sword Soul to withstand the flames while they burned. He left them at the nine-hundred-zhang mark, arguing that their deaths would be their own fault, as Leng Qianxue and Xie Changqing watched.

• Xie Changqing stopped Lin Bai from killing Cai Yu and Luo Tian directly, warning that Spirit Fire Mountain was not the place to kill.
• Lin Bai seized Cai Yu and Luo Tian and carried them beyond the eight-hundred-zhang mark, where his Devouring Sword Soul absorbed the spirit fire’s power.
• At nine hundred zhang, the flames destroyed Cai Yu and Luo Tian’s defenses and began burning their bodies as they begged Leng Qianxue to save them.
• Leng Qianxue was shocked that Lin Bai had surpassed her limit and urged him to stop, but Lin Bai said Cai Yu and Luo Tian had brought their fate upon themselves by pressing onward.
• Xie Changqing praised Lin Bai’s steady conduct, ruthless actions, and precise swordsmanship, while Cai Yu begged Lin Bai for mercy and blamed Luo Tian.

Lin Bai spared Cai Yu and Luo Tian after Leng Qianxue and Xie Changqing pleaded for them, then climbed to the summit of Spirit Fire Mountain and claimed the ninth-ranked Icy Azure Fire. He descended with Xie Changqing, while news of his achievement spread across Refining Heaven Island.

• Cai Yu and Luo Tian blamed each other for targeting Lin Bai, and Leng Qianxue and Xie Changqing asked Lin Bai to spare them.
• Lin Bai let Cai Yu and Luo Tian live, warning them not to provoke him again and explaining that he did not want to implicate Xie Changqing.
• Lin Bai climbed beyond the nine-hundred-zhang mark to the summit of Spirit Fire Mountain, astonishing Leng Qianxue, Xie Changqing, and the alchemists below.
• The Icy Azure Fire appeared before Lin Bai, and he claimed it and placed it upon his divine pill.
• Lin Bai and Xie Changqing descended the mountain together, and word of Lin Bai obtaining the Icy Azure Fire spread throughout Refining Heaven Island.

Lin Bai obtained a White Bone Pill formula and used the spiritual medicines he bought to refine pills for cultivating the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body. After a month of arduous training, he perfected its second layer and greatly strengthened his body.

• Xie Changqing warned Lin Bai that others might covet his newly acquired Icy Azure Fire, then parted ways with him.
• Lin Bai found the White Bone Pill formula in the Pill Formula Pavilion and paid one hundred thousand units of spiritual liquid to borrow it.
• Lin Bai spent his remaining two hundred thousand units on nine sets of White Bone Pill ingredients and returned to Dragon Breeding Island.
• Lin Bai refined more than one hundred and twenty supreme-grade White Bone Pills and began cultivating the second layer of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body.
• Lin Bai consumed all his White Bone Pills and perfected the second layer after a month, leaving his body strong enough to catch an ordinary Supreme Martial Spirit Tool barehanded.

After testing his strength following his Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body cultivation, Lin Bai visited Nine Heavens Island and learned that the Divine Demon Realm would soon open. Fang Yiyun urged him to seek resources there to cultivate the third layer and warned him about the realm’s deadly forbidden areas.

• Lin Bai found that his body could resist his demon sword and that he could lift the Heaven Measuring Ruler with both hands, though he could hold it for only five breaths.
• After resting for two days, Lin Bai traveled to Nine Heavens Island, where he reunited with Fang Yiyun, Changsun Yun, Shu Xiang, Wu Ming, and Meng Li.
• Fang Yiyun explained that the Divine Demon Realm would open in seven or eight days and that warriors below the Death Reversal Realm could enter.
• Fang Yiyun warned Lin Bai about the Nine Mountains, One Sea, and other perilous sites in the Divine Demon Realm, where great treasures could be found.
• Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai the realm was the best place to gather resources for cultivating the third layer of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body and mentioned that the Demon Sect’s martial inheritance palace was rumored to lie there.

Lin Bai recovered for seven days before gathering with Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, Meng Li, and Shu Xiang on Secret Realm Island as a huge crowd prepared to enter the Divine Demon Realm. After Lan Wu warned the Southern Courtyard disciples about dangers from rival courtyards and the three-month deadline, the portal opened and the martial artists began entering.

• Lin Bai left Nine Heavens Island, spent seven days recovering on Dragon Breeding Island, and told Hu Xin'er he would be away for up to half a year.
• Lin Bai reached Secret Realm Island and reunited with Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, Meng Li, and Shu Xiang among roughly one hundred thousand martial artists.
• Lin Bai spotted the Southern Courtyard's Quasi-Holy Sons, including Lan Yuxin, Li Jiuge, Hua Muqing, Zhang Xianqi, and Wang Qing.
• Li Jiuge told Zhu Jingyi he would deal with Lin Bai if they met in the Divine Demon Realm, or visit Dragon Breeding Island afterward.
• Lan Wu warned the Southern Courtyard disciples to watch for martial artists from the other three courtyards and to leave through the teleportation array within three months.
• A pillar of light descended on Secret Realm Island, and Lan Wu ordered the martial artists to enter the Divine Demon Realm.

Lin Bai entered the Divine Demon Realm and found himself separated from his companions in a bleak mountain range. After Eastern Courtyard martial artists drove the Southern Courtyard away, Lin Bai discovered a Spirit Immortal Root as he left the mountains.

• Lin Bai and the other martial artists entered the Divine Demon Realm, where he arrived in a gray, bone-strewn mountain range without Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, Meng Li, or Shu Xiang.
• Lin Bai spotted ten-thousand-year-old Sunrise Grass, but an Eastern Courtyard martial artist killed the Southern Courtyard disciple who had claimed it and seized the herb.
• Hundreds of Eastern Courtyard martial artists claimed the mountain range and forced the outnumbered Southern Courtyard martial artists, including Lin Bai, to leave.
• As Lin Bai neared the edge of the mountain range, he found a Spirit Immortal Root beneath a withered tree and cut off a section with his Demon Sword.

Lin Bai obtained a Spirit Immortal Root in the mountain range, killed an Eastern Courtyard martial artist who tried to take it, and secretly ventured deeper after realizing the Eastern Courtyard was clearing the area to search for a treasure. He discovered more than twenty Eastern Courtyard martial artists battling a powerful monster and spotted a shining ring on its finger.

• Lin Bai cut a three-foot section of Spirit Immortal Root from a withered tree and refused to surrender it to an Eastern Courtyard martial artist.
• Lin Bai killed the sixth-level Life Extinction Realm martial artist with one sword strike and escaped from the other Eastern Courtyard fighters.
• Lin Bai learned that the Eastern Courtyard was searching the mountain range under Quasi-Holy Son Situ Yuntian's orders, then secretly headed into its depths.
• Lin Bai heard a tremendous boom and roar and found more than twenty great-perfection Life Extinction Realm martial artists besieging a monster.
• Lin Bai recognized the monster as a dead martial artist and noticed a gleaming golden ring on its right index finger.

Situ Yuntian and more than twenty Eastern Courtyard martial artists fought a devil corpse for its ring, suffering heavy losses before destroying it. A dying Southern Courtyard martial artist passed the ring to Lin Bai, who refused to surrender it when Situ Yuntian demanded it.

• Situ Yuntian and more than twenty Life Extinction Realm martial artists attacked the devil corpse, which killed many of them before Situ Yuntian destroyed it.
• Situ Yuntian and the four surviving martial artists prepared to claim the ring, but a dark-skinned Southern Courtyard martial artist snatched it and fled.
• Situ Yuntian struck the fleeing martial artist down, and the man handed the ring to Lin Bai before dying.
• Situ Yuntian demanded the ring from Lin Bai, who gripped it tightly and refused to hand it over.

Lin Bai fled Situ Yuntian and four injured Eastern Academy experts after stealing a ring they believed was the Wishful Ring. To escape them, he joined a crowd heading toward the City of the Living Dead and entered it just as Situ Yuntian caught up.

• Situ Yuntian struck Lin Bai, but the Azure Wood Divine Lightning shielded him from most of the attack, and Lin Bai fled with the ring.
• Lin Bai cut through the Eastern Academy martial artists guarding the mountain range, killing three and forcing the rest back.
• Situ Yuntian told his four companions that the ring might be the Demon Sect's quasi-king-grade Wishful Ring, which could teleport its user, and they continued the pursuit after taking pills.
• Lin Bai blended into a crowd of martial artists heading toward a shattered city filled with demon corpses.
• Lin Bai recognized the city as the City of the Living Dead and entered it to escape Situ Yuntian, who had caught up behind him.

Lin Bai escaped Situ Yuntian in the City of the Living Dead and discovered that the Wishful Ring could teleport him a short distance. After killing a Northern Courtyard martial artist who tried to rob him, Lin Bai prepared to explore the city.

• Lin Bai entered the City of the Living Dead and hid in a ruined residence while Situ Yuntian and four companions searched for him.
• After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai examined the golden ring, identified it as the Wishful Ring, and activated its teleportation power.
• Lin Bai teleported to another street and realized the ring could move him instantly to a point within roughly ten thousand meters.
• A Northern Courtyard martial artist attacked Lin Bai to take his Storage Bag and treasures, but Lin Bai killed him with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai took both Storage Bags and resolved to explore the City of the Living Dead using the Wishful Ring.

After killing a Northern Courtyard warrior, Lin Bai found three Jade Slips that revealed the Devil Sect’s war against the God Sect and the fall of Sky Blue City. He deduced that the Heavenly Spirit Spring lay beneath the city’s central plaza, broke through the ground, and began descending toward it.

• Lin Bai searched the Northern Courtyard warrior’s Storage Bags and discovered three intact Jade Slips describing the Devil Sect’s rebellion, the Devil Corpse Curse, and the God Sect’s desperate defense of Sky Blue City.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Devil Sect sought Lord Yuanmo’s sealed grounds and that the Heavenly Spirit Spring had helped the God Sect resist before Sky Blue City fell.
• Lin Bai avoided Devil Corpses as he searched the city for the Heavenly Spirit Spring, witnessing a dozen-odd warriors get slaughtered by Devil Corpses.
• Lin Bai examined the central plaza’s faded formation runes and decided the Heavenly Spirit Spring was buried beneath it.
• Lin Bai repeatedly struck the plaza with his Demon Sword, opened a deep hole, and descended after hearing a collapse below.

Lin Bai found the Heavenly Spirit Spring beneath the central square and absorbed it into his Azure Gourd. When Situ Yuntian and four companions arrived to seize the spring and the Wishful Ring, Lin Bai escaped using the ring’s power, leaving Situ Yuntian furious.

• Lin Bai discovered a milky-white pool beneath the square and identified it as the withered Heavenly Spirit Spring.
• Lin Bai used the Azure Gourd to absorb the spring’s remaining water.
• Situ Yuntian and four companions arrived, recognized Lin Bai, and attacked to take the Azure Gourd and Wishful Ring.
• Lin Bai fought them off, then used the Wishful Ring to escape with the Azure Gourd.
• Situ Yuntian vowed to kill Lin Bai after losing both the Wishful Ring and the Heavenly Spirit Spring.

Lin Bai escaped the City of the Living Dead, refined the Heavenly Spirit Spring and Spirit Immortal Root, and broke through to the seventh layer of the Life Extinction Realm. Elsewhere, Zhu Jingyi’s group cornered Meng Li, Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Shu Xiang and attacked them.

• Lin Bai used the Wishful Ring to leave the City of the Living Dead and fled to a remote forest to avoid Situ Yuntian.
• Lin Bai refined the Heavenly Spirit Spring with the Devouring Sword Soul and raised his cultivation to the sixth-layer peak of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Lin Bai consumed the remaining Heavenly Spirit Spring and refined the Spirit Immortal Root, breaking through to the seventh layer of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Lin Bai assessed his increased strength, rested briefly, then resumed searching for treasures in the Divine Demon Realm.
• Zhu Jingyi’s martial artists pursued Meng Li, Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Shu Xiang; Zhu Jingyi ordered them to kill the men and spare Shu Xiang.

Lin Bai encountered Shu Xiang fleeing three Myriad Stars Island martial artists and saved her from capture. After killing two pursuers and subduing the third, he demanded to know where Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Wu Ming were.

• Lin Bai spotted the wounded Shu Xiang being pursued by three eighth-level Life Extinction Realm martial artists.
• One pursuer struck Shu Xiang down, and another moved to destroy her cultivation before Lin Bai intervened and severed the attacker’s arm.
• Shu Xiang told Lin Bai that Zhu Jingyi had sent the men to capture her and that Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Wu Ming had stayed behind to help her escape.
• The three martial artists attacked Lin Bai, who killed two with a single sword stroke and left the third alive.
• Lin Bai pressed his blade to the surviving martial artist’s neck and demanded to know where Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Wu Ming were.

Lin Bai learned that Zhu Jingyi had captured Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Wu Ming to send them into the deadly Myriad Extinction Grotto-Heaven, and he went to rescue them with Shu Xiang. After entering the canyon, Lin Bai reached its bottom and discovered a poisonous Dead River that dissolved anything falling into it.

• Lin Bai interrogated a warrior and learned that Zhu Jingyi had taken Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Wu Ming to scout the Myriad Extinction Grotto-Heaven.
• Lin Bai and Shu Xiang followed the warrior to the canyon, where tens of thousands of warriors had gathered and Zhu Jingyi, Wang Qing, Mo Baihe, and Zhang Qian were believed to have entered.
• Lin Bai released the warrior and entered the canyon alone, while Shu Xiang followed him despite his orders to wait outside.
• Lin Bai descended through the mist-filled canyon and heard screams from below before reaching its bottom.
• Lin Bai found a Dead River whose water dissolved a stone and watched it corrode a warrior to bones.

Lin Bai entered the Myriad Extinction Grotto-Heaven while pursuing Zhu Jingyi and discovered that its dark interior was a sea of corpse oil where martial artists had to travel on white bones. He found a Netherworld Lotus and moved to claim it, but a powerful martial artist attacked him.

• Lin Bai attacked Zhu Jingyi outside the grotto and demanded to know where Meng Li, Changsun Yun, and Wu Ming were, but Wang Qing intervened and urged him to set aside the feud.
• Mo Baihe and Zhang Qian entered the Myriad Extinction Grotto-Heaven, followed by martial artists from the Eastern and Northern Courtyards.
• Lin Bai ignored Wang Qing and chased Zhu Jingyi into the grotto, where he learned he could move only by controlling the white bones floating on the Dead River.
• Lin Bai spotted a Netherworld Lotus growing in the dark-green liquid, realized the river might be corpse oil, and approached the lotus to pick it.
• A ninth-level Life Extinction Realm martial artist rushed toward Lin Bai and struck at him, claiming the Netherworld Lotus for himself.

Lin Bai survived an Eastern Court martial artist’s attack, killed him, and absorbed the Netherworld Lotus to strengthen his cultivation. He then reunited with Wu Ming, who revealed that the Myriad Extinction Grotto-Heaven contained a legacy connected to Lord Origin Ancestor.

• An Eastern Court martial artist knocked Lin Bai toward the deadly water, but Lin Bai used the Wishful Ring to teleport back onto the white bones.
• Lin Bai fought the martial artist with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and Dragon-Seeking, sending him into the water to die, then took his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai uprooted the Netherworld Lotus and absorbed its spiritual power with the Devouring Sword Soul, advancing his cultivation without breaking through.
• Lin Bai encountered Wu Ming, who said he had been separated from Changsun Yun and Meng Li.
• Wu Ming told Lin Bai that the grotto contained cultivation techniques left by disciples of Lord Origin Ancestor, revealing it as a legacy of the Divine Sect.