Recaps

Hu Xin'er awakened the Blood God Robe’s Apex Realm power, destroyed the pirates on Turtle Island, and confronted Lin Bai without killing him. She explained her ambitions for Bao'er before sensing several Apex Realm powerhouses approaching.

• Hu Xin'er’s Blood God Robe released Apex Realm power across Turtle Island, and Lin Bai recognized its strength.
• Hu Xin'er annihilated more than eight hundred pirates with one attack, while Hong Lou fled into the forest.
• Hu Xin'er pressed Lin Bai down and slapped him in revenge, but stopped when his Devouring Sword Soul awakened and freed him.
• Hu Xin'er told Lin Bai she would not kill him and said Bao'er could become a Demon God who would find new territories for the Demon Race.
• Hu Xin'er sensed multiple Apex Realm powerhouses approaching Turtle Island and warned Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Hu Xin'er prepared to face three Apex Realm experts, but an awakened Ancient Divine Turtle frightened them away. Bao'er reunited with Lin Bai, while the turtle shrank and settled on her shoulder.

• Hu Xin'er sensed several Apex Realm experts approaching, and Lin Bai and Hu Xin'er prepared to leave Turtle Island and confront them.
• Turtle Island shook as an ancient voice angrily warned the approaching experts that they had disturbed its sleep.
• An enormous crocodile head emerged from beneath the seabed, and Lan Ling, the goateed old man, and the Outer Sect Master left after recognizing the danger.
• Bao'er ran to Lin Bai and said she had caught a giant turtle.
• The crocodile turtle denied being Bao'er's pet, shrank to palm size, and landed on her shoulder as Lin Bai and Hu Xin'er greeted it respectfully.

Lin Bai learned that the Blood God Robe would drain Hu Xin'er's life within three months, but Hu Xin'er chose to keep it. The Ancient Divine Turtle decided to follow Bao'er and take her as its disciple, and Lin Bai reluctantly allowed it while warning the turtle not to harm her.

• The Ancient Divine Turtle shrank to palm size and settled on Bao'er's shoulder, where Bao'er grabbed and kneaded it.
• The turtle warned Hu Xin'er that using the Blood God Robe would drain her life within three months, but Hu Xin'er chose to keep it.
• Lin Bai prepared to leave with Bao'er, but the turtle refused to leave her and announced it wanted to take her as its disciple.
• The turtle privately promised Lin Bai it would not hurt Bao'er, and Lin Bai agreed to let it follow them while threatening it if it had ulterior motives.
• Bao'er continued twisting the turtle's head, and the turtle told Lin Bai to make her stop.

Lin Bai left Turtle Island with Bao'er, Hu Xin'er, and Lord Turtle, then learned that the outer-gate disciples were fighting pirates in the Storm Sea Region. After Bao'er asked to see the battle, Lin Bai agreed to head to Tiger Island, where the pirates were making their last stand.

• Bao'er refused Lord Turtle's repeated pleas to become his disciple, and Lin Bai realized the turtle knew about the Origin Demon and Ling Tianzi.
• Lin Bai and Hu Xin'er left Turtle Island with Bao'er and Lord Turtle, traveling toward Teleportation Island through the bloodied Storm Sea Region.
• Lin Bai gave a wounded outer-gate disciple an Earth Profound Pill and learned that the outer gates had ordered an assault on the pirates.
• The wounded disciple told Lin Bai that the pirates had retreated to Tiger Island and asked him to oversee the battle, but Lin Bai initially declined because inner-gate disciples were not supposed to interfere.
• Bao'er asked Lin Bai to go see the battle, and Lin Bai agreed to take everyone to Tiger Island.

Lin Bai brought Hu Xin'er and Bao'er to Tiger Island, where the outer disciples were stalled by a pirate ambush and a confusing formation in the strait. He stayed to watch, concluding that the formation needed to be broken for the disciples to defeat the pirates, while the crowd of outer disciples continued to dwindle.

• Lin Bai took Hu Xin'er and Bao'er to Tiger Island with Chen Chen, who explained that pirates and a formation had trapped the outer disciples in a stalemate.
• Lin Bai told Chen Chen he would not join the attack, then observed the strait with Hu Xin'er and Bao'er.
• Lin Bai explained that the academy tolerated the pirates to temper the outer disciples and that its senior forces could eliminate them if they chose.
• Over several days, Lin Bai watched pirates ambush disciples who entered the strait, while the number of outer disciples gathered outside fell from more than two hundred thousand to just over one hundred thousand.
• Lin Bai identified the formation as a mist-like barrier that disoriented intruders and said the disciples needed to break it with force or protect a Formation Daoist studying it.

After seven days at Tiger Island Strait, Lin Bai watched the remaining outer disciples launch a final assault and become trapped in the pirates’ Mystic Mist Formation. The outer elders asked him to break the formation, and Lin Bai agreed to help with that alone.

• Lin Bai watched the outer disciples dwindle to around seventy thousand and predicted that they would soon abandon the operation.
• The outer disciples charged into Tiger Island Strait, where the pirates activated the Mystic Mist Formation and a chaotic battle began.
• Su Lingsu and Su Lingshan entered the mist and took antidotes as pirates attacked the disoriented disciples.
• The outer elders criticized the disciples’ failures and debated whether to intervene, then decided to ask Lin Bai to break the formation.
• Lin Bai questioned whether helping would undermine the outer sect’s trial, but agreed to break the formation without fighting the pirates.

Lin Bai used a single sword strike to break the Mystic Mist Formation trapping the outer sect disciples at Tiger Island Strait. As his spirit boat departed, Su Lingsu and Su Lingshan recognized him, and the elders sent the disciples to finish the pirate purge.

• Lin Bai agreed to help the outer sect elders and declared that one sword would break the Mystic Mist Formation.
• Lin Bai unleashed a streak of black Sword Qi at Tiger Island Strait, then returned to his spirit boat, confident the formation was broken.
• The Sword Qi split the Mystic Mist Formation and dispersed the fog, allowing the outer sect disciples to see one another and the pirates to panic.
• Su Lingsu and Su Lingshan saw Lin Bai returning to his spirit boat and recognized him as the sword cultivator who broke the formation.
• The elders arranged for the outer sect disciples to attack Tiger Island, and the disciples wiped out the pirates.

Lin Bai tested the Heaven Measuring Ruler and realized that wielding it drained his strength, while advancing his cultivation would require scarce resources. Lan Yuxin offered him a Lan Clan recommendation for the upcoming Quasi-Holy Son selection, and he agreed to participate.

• Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island, where Old Turtle tried to recruit Bao'er as his disciple and Hu Xin'er studied the Blood God Robe.
• Lin Bai lifted the Heaven Measuring Ruler and found he could use it three times before exhausting his strength, but would need to reach the fifth level of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body to wield it well.
• Lin Bai considered his shortage of natural treasures and spiritual liquid, then learned from Lan Yuxin that the Quasi-Holy Son selection was about to begin.
• Lan Yuxin explained that Quasi-Holy Sons could enter the Celestial Abode Realm and receive five million units of spiritual liquid.
• Lan Yuxin offered Lin Bai a recommendation from the Lan Clan, and Lin Bai accepted the chance to participate.

Lan Yuxin gave Lin Bai a Lan Clan Recommendation Token so he could enter the Quasi-Holy Son selection, though he would have to pose as her unmarried husband. Lin Bai accepted the token and decided to attend, while Lan Ling revealed the urgency came from old monsters in the Central Sacred Nation who had waited for more than twenty years.

• Lan Yuxin warned Lin Bai that the Quasi-Holy Son selection was brutal and gave him a Lan Clan Recommendation Token.
• Lan Yuxin explained that Lin Bai would need to participate as her unmarried husband, and Lin Bai initially returned the token to protect her reputation.
• Lan Yuxin told Lin Bai to come to the Lan Clan in ten days to leave for the Celestial Abode Realm, and Lin Bai decided to attend the selection after she left.
• Lan Yuxin told Lan Ling what had happened, and Lan Ling said Lin Bai had been right to worry about her reputation.
• Lan Ling dismissed Lan Zhaoqing's likely objections and told Lan Yuxin that the Central Sacred Nation's old monsters could not wait much longer.

Li Jiuge prepared his Southern Courtyard candidates for the Quasi-Holy Son selection and ordered them to target Lin Bai. Lin Bai arrived at the Lan Clan to join the expedition to the Celestial Abode Realm, where he accidentally walked in on a woman bathing.

• Li Jiuge introduced Ji Yun as a secretly cultivated candidate and promised rewards to anyone who killed Lin Bai.
• Li Jiuge arranged for Wang Qing, a guardian of Divine Peak, to cripple Lin Bai’s cultivation.
• Ten days later, Lin Bai left Dragon Breeding Island and traveled to the Lan Clan to join the selection candidates.
• A Lan Clan disciple led Lin Bai to a secluded courtyard to wait for the others.
• Lin Bai followed the sound of splashing water, opened a room’s door, and found a young woman bathing, prompting her to cry for help.

Lin Bai was accused of trespassing into Lan Xinghe’s residence and assaulting his wife, though he insisted the incident had been arranged to frame him. Lan Yuxin tried to investigate, but an Apex Realm elder arrived and demanded Lin Bai be punished immediately.

• Lin Bai entered a room where Lan Lier was bathing, then left after she cried out for help.
• Lan Xinghe arrived with guards, accused Lin Bai of trespassing and misconduct, and ordered them to cripple his cultivation.
• Lin Bai repelled the guards, while Lan Lier ran to Lan Xinghe and supported his accusation.
• Lan Yuxin arrived and questioned Lan Xinghe, who claimed he had married Lan Lier the previous day; she said she would investigate before judging Lin Bai.
• An Apex Realm elder descended and declared Lin Bai’s guilt proven, threatening to punish him himself if Lan Yuxin would not.

Lan Zhaoqing arrived to punish Lin Bai and take his Recommendation Token for Lan Xinghe, but Lan Yuxin defended Lin Bai and challenged the accusations. Lin Bai offered to fight Lan Xinghe and the woman together, leaving Lan Zhaoqing to decide whether to accept.

• Lan Zhaoqing descended and supported Lan Xinghe’s accusation that Lin Bai had trespassed into the Lan Clan’s inner sanctum.
• Lan Zhaoqing proposed crippling Lin Bai’s cultivation and taking his Recommendation Token for another candidate, while Lan Yuxin accused him of using underhanded tactics to favor Lan Xinghe.
• Lan Yuxin vowed to protect Lin Bai and investigate the matter, even if she had to fight Lan Zhaoqing.
• Lin Bai recognized that Lan Zhaoqing wanted his Recommendation Token for Lan Xinghe and challenged Lan Xinghe and the woman beside him to defeat him for it.
• Lan Xinghe accepted the challenge eagerly and urged Lan Zhaoqing to agree.

Lin Bai fought Lan Xinghe for the Recommendation Token and defeated him after drawing the Demon Sword. He then struck down the young woman who joined the fight and demanded to know who had sent her to frame him.

• Lan Xinghe accepted Lin Bai's challenge to decide who would get the Recommendation Token, and Lan Yuxin agreed to the contest.
• Lan Xinghe attacked Lin Bai with a punch, but Lin Bai blocked it with his physical strength before drawing the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai urged Lan Xinghe to use the Lan Clan's Bloodline Inheritance Martial Soul, but Lan Xinghe instead attacked with One Body, Eight Shadows.
• Lin Bai shattered seven of Lan Xinghe's afterimages and struck his true body, sending him flying and spitting blood.
• At Lan Zhaoqing's order, the young woman attacked Lin Bai, but he defeated her and held his sword to her throat.
• Lin Bai demanded that the young woman reveal who had sent her to frame him.

Lin Bai exposed Lan Xinghe’s plot to frame him, but Lan Zhaoqing tried to dismiss it as a misunderstanding. After Lan Yuxin took Lin Bai to prepare for the Quasi-Holy Son selection, she told her father Lan Ling what had happened, and Lan Ling summoned Lan Zhaoqing to answer for it.

• Lin Bai cut off the woman’s arm and forced her to reveal that Lan Xinghe had paid her to frame him and take his Recommendation Token.
• Lan Zhaoqing struck the woman unconscious and dismissed her accusation as a misunderstanding, while Lin Bai left with Lan Yuxin.
• Lan Yuxin introduced Lin Bai to the Lan Clan members joining the Quasi-Holy Son selection and said they would depart for the Celestial Abode Realm in half an hour.
• Lan Yuxin told Lan Ling that Lan Zhaoqing and Lan Xinghe had attacked Lin Bai, and Lan Ling sent for Lan Zhaoqing.
• Lan Zhaoqing went to Lan Ling’s lakeside residence and faced the Lan Clan leader, a former Holy Son of the Eastern Continent Academy.

Lan Ling punished Lan Zhaoqing for making Lan Yuxin unhappy over Lin Bai, sending him into seclusion at Contemplation Cliff. Meanwhile, Lin Bai and the Southern Courtyard arrived for the Quasi-Holy Son selection, where rival martial artists recognized him and some planned to attack him for Li Jiuge’s reward.

• Lan Ling told Lan Zhaoqing that Lin Bai was Lan Yuxin’s fiancé and ordered him to resign from his positions and remain at Contemplation Cliff until the Lan Clan faced a crisis.
• Lan Zhaoqing handed over his positions to Lan Xinghe and went into seclusion at Contemplation Cliff.
• Lin Bai and the Southern Courtyard group traveled through Secret Realm Island’s teleportation array to the Celestial Abode Realm, where more than two hundred consummate Life Extinction Realm martial artists had gathered.
• Qin Tang recognized Lin Bai from their encounter on Dead Island and warned the Eastern Courtyard martial artists not to fight him.
• Ji Yun and the other martial artists recommended by Li Jiuge discussed killing Lin Bai in the Celestial Abode Realm to claim Li Jiuge’s reward.

Gu Daozhi announced the rules for the Quasi-Holy Son selection, sending the martial artists through a dangerous forest toward the divine peak. As Lin Bai raced through the forest, an assassin sent by Li Jiuge ambushed him with silent arrows.

• Gu Daozhi explained that martial artists had one month to reach the divine peak and pass one of eight Quasi-Holy Sons guarding its paths.
• The eight Quasi-Holy Sons left first, and Lin Bai and the other martial artists departed half an hour later.
• Lin Bai sped through a forest where a formation made the divine peak seem farther away than it was.
• Lin Bai sensed killing intent and dodged a silent arrow that vanished after striking a tree.
• An unknown attacker revealed that Li Jiuge had ordered him to kill Lin Bai, then fired strange arrows at him from four directions.

Lin Bai fought off Tan Ying’s spiritual-power arrows during the journey to the divine peak, while Tan Ying escaped and regrouped with Ji Yun and the other Southern Courtyard candidates. Lin Bai then encountered Lan Yunbai surrounded and badly wounded by Eastern Courtyard martial artists.

• Tan Ying attacked Lin Bai with invisible black arrows, but Lin Bai found him with his flying swords and forced him to flee after striking him with sword intent.
• Tan Ying reunited with Ji Yun and the other nine candidates, and Ji Yun led them onward to find Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai saw the corpse of a Northern Courtyard participant and continued toward the divine peak as martial artists began attacking one another.
• Lin Bai heard Lan Yunbai use Heavenly Seal Half Breath and found him grievously wounded by a group of Eastern Courtyard martial artists led by Gu Lingqi.
• Lan Yunbai challenged Gu Lingqi to fight him one-on-one.

Gu Lingqi and a group of Eastern Courtyard Gu Family martial artists tried to cripple Lan Yunbai, but Lin Bai arrived and rescued him. Gu Lingqi failed to recruit Lin Bai and ordered his followers to attack them both, promising to join the fight.

• Gu Lingqi revealed that the Eastern Courtyard Gu Family planned to cripple Lan Clan disciples and that Gu Jianfeng was among their experts.
• Gu Lingqi ordered more than a dozen Life Extinction Rankings experts to cripple Lan Yunbai, who prepared to fight rather than lose his cultivation.
• Lin Bai struck down the attackers and rescued Lan Yunbai, then challenged Gu Lingqi for bullying him with a group.
• Gu Lingqi offered Lin Bai a place in the Gu Family, but Lin Bai refused and said he would protect Lan Yunbai as Lan Yuxin's fiancé.
• Gu Lingqi ordered his followers to kill Lin Bai and Lan Yunbai, saying he would fight alongside them.

Lin Bai fought Gu Lingqi and the Eastern Courtyard martial artists, killing the group before Gu Lingqi revealed his hidden strength and unleashed the Gu Family's ultimate art. Lin Bai broke free of the attack and struck Gu Lingqi in the back with Overturning the River.

• Gu Lingqi ordered a dozen Eastern Courtyard martial artists to attack Lin Bai, who fought them with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and Seeking the Dragon.
• Lin Bai used the Wishful Ring to move among his opponents and killed the martial artists one by one.
• Gu Lingqi punched Lin Bai back, then admitted he had hidden his strength while pretending to be a wastrel.
• Gu Lingqi used Demonic Hand World-Devastating Kill to trap Lin Bai in an enormous black palm.
• Lin Bai broke the black palm with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation, then struck the fleeing Gu Lingqi in the back with Overturning the River.

Lin Bai severely wounded Gu Lingqi, who escaped with a jade talisman, then learned that the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard was targeting the Lan Clan's disciples in the Celestial Abode Realm. Lin Bai took the injured Lan Yunbai toward the Divine Peak, while Gu Jianfeng arrived to meet Gu Lingqi.

• Lin Bai struck Gu Lingqi with Dragon Slayer Swordplay and forced him to flee using a jade talisman.
• Lin Bai collected the Storage Bags of the defeated experts and found Lan Yunbai gravely injured.
• Lan Yunbai told Lin Bai that the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard had long feuded with the Lan Clan and that Gu Jianfeng had entered the selection to target Lan Clan disciples.
• Lan Yunbai explained that Lan Yuxin had killed every Gu Family martial artist who entered the Celestial Abode Realm the previous year.
• Lin Bai escorted Lan Yunbai toward the Divine Peak, where Lan Yuxin could protect him.
• Gu Jianfeng approached the recovering Gu Lingqi, who told him that Lin Bai was an opponent.

Gu Lingqi recovered while Gu Jianfeng destroyed the sword energy Lin Bai had left in him and set off to pursue Lan Yunbai. Lin Bai and Lan Yunbai reached the Divine Peak, where Lin Bai watched the Ascension Token arena bouts until Qin Tang challenged him publicly.

• Gu Jianfeng criticized Gu Lingqi for wasting years pretending to hide his talent, then removed Lin Bai's sword energy from Gu Lingqi's body.
• Gu Lingqi warned Gu Jianfeng about the powerful sword cultivator accompanying Lan Yunbai, but Gu Jianfeng left confident he had no rival in the Life Extinction Realm except Fang Yiyun.
• Lin Bai and Lan Yunbai reached the Divine Peak, and Lan Yunbai explained that groups of eight fought for Ascension Tokens before challenging the Quasi-Holy Son.
• Lin Bai watched a Western Courtyard martial artist win an Ascension Token and climb the Divine Peak, while Ji Yun and the Southern Courtyard martial artists noticed Lin Bai's arrival.
• Qin Tang, ranked first on the Life Extinction Rankings, called Lin Bai out to spar, and Lin Bai neither accepted nor refused.

Lin Bai accepted Gu Jianfeng’s challenge after Gu Jianfeng returned the gravely wounded Lan Qingshui to Lan Yunbai and insulted Lin Bai. The two took their places on the martial platform as the crowd watched in alarm.

• Qin Tang invited Lin Bai to spar, and Lin Bai agreed that they might fight when an opportunity arose.
• Ji Yun said he wanted to spar with Qin Tang and readied his sword.
• Gu Jianfeng and Gu Lingqi arrived carrying the badly wounded Lan Qingshui, whose cultivation had been crippled.
• Lan Yunbai gave Lan Qingshui pills, and the unconscious man warned him to flee from Gu Jianfeng.
• Gu Jianfeng challenged Lin Bai and called him a dog of the Lan Clan, while Lin Bai taunted him in return.
• Gu Jianfeng took the vacant martial platform, and Lin Bai joined him to begin their fight.

Lin Bai, Gu Jianfeng, Qin Tang, and several other sword cultivators gathered on the fighting platform, but the required eight fighters had not yet assembled. Qin Tang called for three martial artists to join merely to activate the platform’s formation.

• Gu Jianfeng and Lin Bai waited on the platform until Qin Tang joined them, drawing excited attention from the crowd and the Quasi-Holy Sons.
• Gu Jianfeng said he would deal with Lin Bai and then Qin Tang, while Qin Tang welcomed the chance to spar with both sword cultivators.
• Ji Yun of the Southern Courtyard stepped onto the platform, greeted the group, and told Lin Bai that Li Jiuge had sent his regards.
• Yang Yilong of the Northern Courtyard joined the four sword cultivators, but no other martial artists dared to take the stage.
• Qin Tang asked three junior martial artists to join the platform just to complete the required eight and activate its formation, and three volunteered.

Qin Tang opened the battle by defeating Yang Yilong with one sword, while Lin Bai and Ji Yun clashed and Qin Tang fought Gu Jianfeng. The chapter left Lin Bai facing Ji Yun’s powerful frost aura and the revealed Frost Wasteland Sword.

• Three martial artists volunteered to join the platform, but jumped off once the formation activated.
• Yang Yilong charged Qin Tang and was defeated with a single sword, leaving only Lin Bai, Ji Yun, Qin Tang, and Gu Jianfeng on the platform.
• Ji Yun blocked Lin Bai from reaching Gu Jianfeng, and the two exchanged several hundred moves.
• Qin Tang challenged Gu Jianfeng, and their battle appeared evenly matched as their sword intents clashed.
• Lin Bai and Ji Yun separated after a fierce exchange, while Lan Qingshui recognized Ji Yun’s sword as the Frost Wasteland Sword.

Ji Yun revealed the Frost Wasteland Sword and unleashed his powerful frost swordplay against Lin Bai. Lin Bai countered Ji Yun’s killing strike with his peak Dragon Slayer Swordplay, and their clash shattered the arena’s formation, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ji Yun explained that the Frost Wasteland Sword was a treasured weapon from the Eastern Continent Academy and claimed that Lin Bai, Qin Tang, and Gu Jianfeng would all fall to him.
• Ji Yun attacked Lin Bai with Great Snow Mountain Swordplay, and Lin Bai defended with Azure Wood Divine Lightning and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.
• Ji Yun struck Lin Bai with Icefield Ballad and sent him flying, while Lin Bai wiped away his blood and said the fight was interesting.
• Ji Yun invoked the Martial Soul Secret Method, Wrath of the Snow Kingdom, and brought a crushing frost attack down on Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai raised his cultivation with Reaching Heaven Sword Art and countered with the Demon Sword’s Seeking the Dragon strike.
• Lin Bai and Ji Yun’s swords collided, shattering the arena’s formation and injuring the martial artists watching below.