Recaps

Lin Bai defeated Ji Yun, whose breakthrough to the Death Reversal Realm came after Lin Bai urged him to leave his extreme isolation behind. With Ji Yun allowed to stay and watch, Lin Bai turned to Qin Tang and Gu Jianfeng and charged into their fight, declaring he would face them both at once.

• Lin Bai overpowered Ji Yun, knocked him off the arena, and spared him while advising him to seek cultivation in the Northern Continent.
• Ji Yun took Lin Bai's words to heart and broke through to the Death Reversal Realm, losing his eligibility for the Quasi-Holy Son selection.
• Ji Yun asked Gu Daozhi to let him remain and watch the battle, and Gu Daozhi agreed on the condition that he not fight.
• Gu Daozhi offered Lan Ling ten top-grade king-level cultivation techniques for Ji Yun, but Lan Ling refused.
• Lin Bai challenged Qin Tang and Gu Jianfeng to fight him together and charged into their battle, shocking the martial artists below the arena.

Lin Bai challenged Qin Tang and Gu Jianfeng at once, provoking them to reveal their strength. He shattered Qin Tang’s four swords of Intent and struck him down with River Crossing, but Qin Tang’s cold smile suggested their battle was not over.

• Lin Bai taunted Qin Tang and Gu Jianfeng and challenged them both to attack him.
• Gu Jianfeng charged Lin Bai as Qin Tang revealed that all four of his Intents had reached Perfection Realm.
• Qin Tang launched four swords of Intent, which Lin Bai destroyed with Flying Swords and Dragon-Seeking.
• Qin Tang used the four swords as a feint and attacked Lin Bai with his fifth, strongest sword.
• Lin Bai protected himself with Azure Wood Divine Lightning and defeated Qin Tang with River Crossing.
• Qin Tang fell at the arena’s edge, then declared that his battle with Lin Bai had only just begun.

Lin Bai defeated Qin Tang’s opening attacks, but Qin Tang revealed that he had secretly arranged four swords of intent into the World Cycle sword formation and trapped Lin Bai inside. Lin Bai countered with his two flying swords, leaving Qin Tang stunned as the formation failed to injure him.

• Lin Bai struck Qin Tang off the platform, prompting Lan Yunbai to wake Lan Qingshui and tell him Qin Tang had been hit.
• Qin Tang rose and revealed that he had secretly positioned four swords of intent around Lin Bai to form a sword formation.
• Lan Qingshui recognized the formation as Qin Tang’s ultimate killing move and feared Lin Bai was in danger.
• Qin Tang unleashed the World Cycle formation, filling it with sword radiance and Sword Qi while warning Lin Bai to surrender.
• Lin Bai summoned two flying swords that cut down every attack, and after a quarter of an hour Qin Tang stared in disbelief as Lin Bai remained unharmed.

Lin Bai defeated Qin Tang by enduring the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation until Qin Tang could no longer sustain it. Gu Jianfeng then challenged Lin Bai, arguing that his secret technique had consumed too much spiritual power, and prepared to finish the battle with one sword strike.

• Lin Bai stood unharmed inside Qin Tang's sword formation as his flying swords deflected its attacks, while Qin Tang exhausted himself and began to bleed.
• Qin Tang admitted defeat, dispersed the sword formation, and said he would return to seek Lin Bai's guidance if he advanced in swordsmanship.
• The martial artists praised Qin Tang's strength and turned their attention to the remaining fight between Lin Bai and Gu Jianfeng.
• Gu Jianfeng claimed Lin Bai's tricolored secret technique was nearing its limit after his battles with Ji Yun and Qin Tang, and Lin Bai remained silent as the others worried.
• Gu Jianfeng drew his sword, pointed it at Lin Bai, and declared that he would end the battle with a single strike.

Lin Bai confronted Gu Jianfeng after his battles with Qin Tang and Ji Yun, then revealed that he still had enough spiritual power to fight and unleashed his fused sword intents against Gu Jianfeng’s Nine Heavens Godslaying Strike. Their swords collided with such force that the martial stage exploded and the Celestial Abode Realm trembled.

• Gu Jianfeng challenged Lin Bai to a final sword fight, while the onlookers expected Lin Bai to be exhausted.
• Lin Bai attacked first with Seeking the Dragon and sent Gu Jianfeng flying, then followed with Turning the River.
• Gu Jianfeng unleashed the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard’s secret art, the Nine Heavens Godslaying Strike.
• Lin Bai combined Slaughter Intent, Aurora Intent, and Rainstorm Intent into Immortal Execution with the help of his Devouring Sword Soul.
• Lin Bai’s Immortal Execution clashed with Gu Jianfeng’s strike, shattering the martial stage and causing tremors and spatial cracks across the Celestial Abode Realm.

Lin Bai defeated Gu Jianfeng in the arena and prepared to cripple him, but Gu Daozhi intervened with the Nine Transformations Dragon Finger. Lin Bai retaliated by destroying Gu Jianfeng’s dantian and divine pill, leaving Gu Daozhi furious.

• Lin Bai emerged from the dust standing over the defeated Gu Jianfeng, and the martial artists watching celebrated his victory.
• Lin Bai mocked Gu Jianfeng’s poor mastery of the Nine Heavens Godslaying Strike and moved to cripple him for harming Lan Clan disciples.
• Gu Daozhi sent a divine dragon formed by the Nine Transformations Dragon Finger into Lin Bai, then lifted Gu Jianfeng away and warned Lin Bai against harming the Gu Family’s disciple.
• Lin Bai accused Gu Daozhi of interfering in the arena and used his flying swords to shatter Gu Jianfeng’s dantian and divine pill.
• Gu Daozhi voiced his anger at Lin Bai and declared that he would remember him.

Lin Bai crippled Gu Jianfeng despite Gu Daozhi’s intervention, then recovered before beginning his ascent of the Divine Peak. At the end of the path he chose, he encountered Wang Qing, a Quasi-Holy Son of the Southern Courtyard with whom he already had a grudge.

• Lin Bai’s flying swords pierced Gu Jianfeng’s dantian and divine pill, crippling his cultivation before Gu Daozhi could stop him.
• Lin Bai took the Ascension Token and healed while the battles continued; three days later, Lan Qingshui told him Qin Tang and Gu Lingqi had passed the Divine Peak’s trial.
• Lin Bai learned that Qin Tang and Gu Lingqi were the only new Quasi-Holy Sons and decided to ascend the Divine Peak.
• Lan Qingshui warned Lin Bai that Eastern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons might attack him to curry favor with the Gu Family, and Lin Bai set out up the mountain.
• Lin Bai chose the far-left white jade staircase and found Wang Qing waiting beneath a banyan tree at its end.
• Wang Qing praised Lin Bai’s rise and his conflicts with Li Jiuge and the Gu Family while greeting him with a smile Lin Bai sensed was cruel.

Lin Bai sparred with Wang Qing, who pretended to reconcile before suddenly striking him with lethal force. After surviving the blow, Lin Bai confronted Wang Qing, who admitted the lost inheritance was one reason he wanted him dead and revealed there were two more.

• Wang Qing apologized to Lin Bai and proposed a sparring match, promising to let him pass afterward.
• Lin Bai and Wang Qing exchanged more than a thousand moves while both appeared to hold back.
• Wang Qing suddenly unleashed his full Quasi-Holy Son strength and punched Lin Bai in the chest, sending him flying and badly injuring him.
• Lin Bai recognized that Wang Qing had tricked him and prepared to fight back with his Demon Sword and two flying swords.
• Wang Qing admitted he wanted revenge because Lin Bai had cost him Lord Yuan Zu's inheritance, then said two other reasons also compelled him to kill Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought Wang Qing, who sought to kill him for a chance to become an Order Divine Court elder’s disciple and win favor with the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard. Lin Bai turned the fight around with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, leaving Wang Qing gravely wounded as he praised the weapon’s power.

• Wang Qing revealed that Li Jiuge had promised to recommend him to his father if he crippled Lin Bai, and that he also hoped to curry favor with the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard.
• Wang Qing demanded that Lin Bai cripple his own cultivation, but Lin Bai refused and Wang Qing attacked him with the Star-Plucking Hand of the Firmament.
• Lin Bai used sword techniques and the Zhu Xian strike, but Wang Qing withstood them and continued his assault.
• Lin Bai brought out the Heaven Measuring Ruler to block Wang Qing’s punch, then lifted it to counterattack.
• Lin Bai struck Wang Qing with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, crushing much of his body and sending him flying more than five thousand meters.

Lin Bai defeated Wang Qing, crippled his cultivation, and reached the Divine Peak Spirit Pool, where he began absorbing its spiritual energy. As Qin Tang and Gu Lingqi noticed the speed of Lin Bai’s cultivation, Gu Lingqi grew greedy for his technique.

• Lin Bai used the Heaven Measuring Ruler to leave Wang Qing gravely injured, then severed his divine pill, dantian, and meridians instead of killing him.
• Wang Qing warned Lin Bai that Li Jiuge and the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard would seek revenge, and Lin Bai welcomed the challenge before leaving.
• Lin Bai reached the spirit pool, where Qin Tang congratulated him on becoming the Southern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Son and explained their limited cultivation time.
• Lin Bai used part of his Devouring Sword Soul to draw spiritual energy from the pool and began trying to advance from the eighth to the ninth level of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Qin Tang increased his cultivation to keep pace with Lin Bai, while Gu Lingqi suspected Lin Bai possessed a powerful technique and coveted it for the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard.

Lin Bai broke through to the ninth level of the Life Extinction Realm and advanced the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body to its fourth layer while cultivating at the Divine Peak Spirit Pool. As the Celestial Abode Realm neared opening, Qin Tang remarked that Lin Bai had become powerful enough to defeat him in three swords.

• Lin Bai broke through to the ninth level of the Life Extinction Realm, then stabilized his cultivation and began practicing the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body.
• Gu Lingqi recognized Lin Bai's technique and greedily planned to take it for the Gu Family of the Eastern Courtyard and its Ancient and Modern Pavilion, while Qin Tang noticed his intentions.
• Lin Bai broke through to the fourth layer of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body and spent the remaining time consolidating his gains.
• At dawn on the final day before the Celestial Abode Realm opened, Lin Bai learned that only he, Qin Tang, and Gu Lingqi had reached the Divine Peak.
• Qin Tang told Lin Bai that his strength had grown so much he could likely defeat him with three swords.

After becoming the Southern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Son, Lin Bai rejected Gu Lingqi’s offer to buy his techniques and said he would not visit the Gu Family. His deeds spread across the Eastern Continent, while Mo Wenshen was sent from the Central Sacred Nation to investigate Lin Duo and his wife and search for something.

• Gu Lingqi offered to buy Lin Bai’s cultivation technique and the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body, but Lin Bai refused and agreed to Gu Lingqi’s bet that he would visit the Gu Family within three months.
• Qin Tang warned Lin Bai that Gu Lingqi and the Gu Family were dangerous, while Lin Bai said he planned to enter seclusion for six months to a year.
• Lan Yuxin congratulated Lin Bai on becoming the Southern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Son, and he returned to the Southern Courtyard with her as Qin Tang left for the Eastern Courtyard.
• News spread that Lin Bai had defeated three sword cultivators, crippled Gu Jianfeng, and crippled Wang Qing, making him famous across the Eastern Continent.
• A prince in the Central Sacred Nation sent Mo Wenshen back to the Eastern Continent to investigate Lin Duo and his wife and search for something.

After returning from the Celestial Abode Realm, Lin Bai cared for Bao'er and trained on Dragon Breeding Island, mastering the Heaven Splitting Sword Method with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and Demon Sword. He left the island afterward to visit Fang Yiyun on Nine Heavens Island, while Old Turtle secretly planned to take Bao'er to Southern Province.

• Lin Bai returned the Lan Clan warriors' situation to Lan Yuxin, then went back to Dragon Breeding Island and reunited with Bao'er.
• Lin Bai spent time with Bao'er, earned more than a million spirit liquids in the Black Market, and refined pills for her.
• Lin Bai found he could lift the Heaven Measuring Ruler with one hand and practiced the Twin Swords Dao with it and the Demon Sword.
• Old Turtle praised Lin Bai's talent and decided to take Bao'er to Southern Province to seek the dragon clan's bloodline cultivation method.
• Lin Bai practiced for a month, mastered the Heaven Splitting Sword Method, and left Dragon Breeding Island the next day to visit Fang Yiyun on Nine Heavens Island.

Lin Bai visited Fang Yiyun on Nine Heavens Island and asked to spar so he could improve his Twin Swords Dao. Their battle lasted three days and three nights before they finally stopped.

• Lin Bai found Fang Yiyun mourning the absence of his disciples, who had entered secluded cultivation after returning from the Divine Demon Realm.
• Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai that the Gu Family had pressured the Eastern Courtyard to make the Southern Courtyard hand him over, but assured him he was safe.
• Lin Bai asked Fang Yiyun to spar with him, revealing that he had cultivated the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body to the fourth layer.
• Lin Bai and Fang Yiyun fought on a mountain peak, and the battle's commotion drew Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, Shu Xiang, and Meng Li to watch.
• Lin Bai and Fang Yiyun fought for three days and three nights before stopping.

After sparring with Fang Yiyun, Lin Bai went to Exiled Immortal City to bring Wen Jia to him for instruction. He arrived as laborers were beating Wen Jia for believing Lin Bai would free him from his Sin Slave status, and intervened just as they tried to cripple him.

• Lin Bai and Fang Yiyun ended their three-day spar, and Fang Yiyun admitted he had won by only half a move.
• Lin Bai left Nine Heavens Island for Exiled Immortal City to find Wen Jia and bring him to Fang Yiyun.
• Laborers mocked Wen Jia for waiting for Lin Bai and doubted he could ever escape his Sin Slave status.
• Wen Jia insisted Lin Bai would keep his promise, but the laborers beat him and threatened to cripple his cultivation.
• A surge of spiritual energy sent the laborers flying, and an icy voice warned them they were looking to die.

Lin Bai rescued Wen Jia from servants who were beating him and let him retaliate before asking whether his anger had faded. When Exiled Immortal City’s guards tried to imprison Wen Jia and dismissed his rights as a Sin Slave, Lin Bai confronted them, his killing intent rising.

• Lin Bai arrived as servants tried to cripple Wen Jia’s cultivation, blasted them away, and identified himself as the Southern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Son.
• Wen Jia recognized Lin Bai, cried with relief, and beat the servants who had bullied him while they begged for mercy.
• Exiled Immortal City guards arrived and ordered Wen Jia seized for assaulting the servants.
• Lin Bai reassured Wen Jia, asked if his anger had faded, and prepared to take him away when Wen Jia said it had.
• The guard captain demanded Wen Jia be imprisoned for a year, but Lin Bai pointed out that the servants had attacked first and tried to cripple him.
• The guards insisted Wen Jia was only a Sin Slave and declared him guilty, prompting Lin Bai’s killing intent to emerge.

Lin Bai protected Wen Jia from Exiled Immortal City's guards and revealed himself as the Southern Courtyard's Quasi-Holy Son. He declared Wen Jia his sworn younger brother and refused to let anyone mistreat him, even someone in the Death Reversal Realm.

• Lin Bai struck the guards' captain with a flying sword after the captain threatened him and dismissed Wen Jia as a Sin Slave.
• Lin Bai overwhelmed the guards with his cultivation and showed his Identity Token, revealing that he was the Southern Courtyard's Quasi-Holy Son.
• The guards recognized Lin Bai and begged him for mercy, while Ren Tiangao arrived and greeted him.
• Lin Bai criticized the guards for accusing Wen Jia without investigating, and Ren Tiangao dismissed Wen Jia as a lowly Sin Slave.
• Lin Bai told Ren Tiangao that he and Wen Jia had sworn brotherhood and warned that he would not let anyone bully Wen Jia.
• Wen Jia wept behind Lin Bai, moved by the protection he had never received before.

Lin Bai took Wen Jia out of Exiled Immortal City despite Ren Tiangao’s warning and brought him to Fang Yiyun for instruction. Fang Yiyun agreed to teach Wen Jia his parents’ secret arts, though he denied taking him as a disciple.

• Lin Bai declared Wen Jia his brother and threatened to fight Ren Tiangao if he tried to stop him from leaving Exiled Immortal City.
• Lin Bai took Wen Jia away, and Ren Tiangao reported the matter to Lan Ling before leaving to inform the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lan Ling recalled Wen Jia’s parents and vowed to keep their child safe.
• Lin Bai brought Wen Jia to Fang Yiyun, who initially rejected him and warned Lin Bai not to reveal his connections to Lan Ling or Lin Duo.
• Fang Yiyun agreed to teach Wen Jia the secret arts his parents had practiced, and Wen Jia knelt and called him Master despite Fang Yiyun’s protests.

More than a hundred black-clad martial artists broke into Dragon Breeding Island to capture Bao'er while Lin Bai was away. Lin Bai returned in time to kill the first intruder and left Bao'er with Old Turtle as he went to confront the rest.

• More than a hundred black-clad martial artists used Formation Breaking Pearls to breach Dragon Breeding Island and searched for Bao'er.
• Old Turtle noticed the intruders heading for Bao'er and watched as one found her sleeping and prepared to take her away.
• Old Turtle challenged the intruder, but the man dismissed him and reached for Bao'er.
• Lin Bai appeared in the room and killed the intruder with the Demonic Sword.
• After confirming Bao'er was safe, Lin Bai asked Old Turtle to watch over her and went to face the remaining intruders.

Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island and fought more than one hundred black-clad martial artists who tried to seize or kill Bao'er. He killed them all, but their suicides and poison kept him from learning who had sent them.

• Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island, sensed intruders, and went to check on Bao'er as the black-clad martial artists learned he was back.
• The attackers split into two groups: one engaged Lin Bai while the other rushed into Bao'er's palace to take or kill her.
• Lin Bai sent two flying swords to guard Bao'er, and they killed the more than twenty martial artists who entered her room; Old Turtle recognized Lin Bai as Ling Tianzi's successor in the sword dao.
• Lin Bai used his Demon Sword and flying swords to kill the attackers who remained outside the palace.
• The surviving attackers fled, but each one Lin Bai caught either killed himself or died from poison before he could reveal their employer.
• Lin Bai killed the final attacker in the forest and learned nothing about who had sent the intruders.

After black-clad martial artists attacked Dragon Breeding Island to capture Bao'er, Lin Bai suspected Li Jiuge and set out alone for Myriad Stars Island to confront him. He left Lan Yuxin to protect Bao'er while Old Turtle secretly planned to persuade her to take Bao'er to the Southern Province.

• Lin Bai told Lan Yuxin that the organized group of 108 Life Extinction Realm martial artists had come for Bao'er, and they suspected Li Jiuge had sent them to use her as leverage for the Dragon Blood Crystal and other treasures.
• Lin Bai declared he would make Li Jiuge pay for targeting Bao'er and decided to go to Myriad Stars Island alone.
• Lan Yuxin offered to accompany Lin Bai, but he asked her to stay and guard Bao'er in case more attackers came.
• Old Turtle reassured Lan Yuxin about Lin Bai and secretly decided to persuade her to take Bao'er to the Southern Province.
• Lin Bai arrived alone at Myriad Stars Island, the Southern Courtyard's gathering place for prodigies.

Lin Bai arrived at Myriad Stars Island and cleaved apart its famed defensive formation with one sword strike. As more than a hundred experts converged on him, he demanded that Li Jiuge come out or he would bathe the island in blood.

• A young man told his younger companion that Southern Courtyard disciples could enter Myriad Stars Island by passing Ascension Island’s test.
• Lin Bai walked toward Myriad Stars Island, ignored the young man’s warning, and gathered black radiance around himself.
• The young man recognized Lin Bai as the sword cultivator who had defeated three opponents in the Celestial Abode Realm.
• Lin Bai formed an enormous sword phantom and shattered the Myriad Stars Grand Formation with a single strike.
• More than a hundred experts flew toward Lin Bai as he entered Myriad Stars Island and demanded that Li Jiuge appear.

Lin Bai invaded Myriad Stars Island and demanded that Li Jiuge face him. After killing more than fifty attackers with his flying swords, he confronted the survivors, and Miss Xuan arrived.

• Lin Bai split the Myriad Stars Grand Formation and entered the island, demanding to see Li Jiuge.
• More than a hundred Myriad Stars Island martial artists attacked Lin Bai despite his warning to stay back.
• Lin Bai used his flying swords to kill over fifty attackers, forcing the survivors to retreat beyond a hundred meters.
• Lin Bai threatened to bathe Myriad Stars Island in blood unless Li Jiuge appeared.
• Miss Xuan arrived, and the surviving martial artists greeted her with relief.

Lin Bai stormed Myriad Stars Island and demanded to see Li Jiuge, but Miss Xuan said Li Jiuge was away and tried to stop him. When Miss Xuan attacked, Lin Bai crushed her strike and seized her by the throat.

• Lin Bai confronted Miss Xuan and demanded to know where Li Jiuge was.
• Miss Xuan said Li Jiuge was not on Myriad Stars Island and ordered Lin Bai to leave.
• Lin Bai ignored Miss Xuan's warnings and continued toward her, insisting he would not leave without seeing Li Jiuge.
• Miss Xuan revealed that she was one of Myriad Stars Island's three great experts and attacked Lin Bai with a powerful palm strike.
• Lin Bai used his physical strength to crush Miss Xuan's attack, pull her toward him, and grab her throat.

Lin Bai defeated Miss Xuan and entered Li Jiuge’s secluded courtyard to wait for him. After overpowering Miss Xuan again when she used her Martial Soul Secret Method, Lin Bai discovered a Spirit Field filled with rare herbs.

• Lin Bai shattered Miss Xuan’s attack, seized her, and carried her into the heartland of Myriad Stars Island as its martial artists watched in fear.
• Lin Bai entered Li Jiuge’s secluded courtyard despite Miss Xuan’s warning, and the martial artists outside surrounded it rather than follow him in.
• Miss Xuan broke free with her Martial Soul Secret Method and attacked Lin Bai, but he struck her down with Dragon Seeker and warned her not to attack again.
• Lin Bai spotted a Spirit Field containing more than a hundred kinds of rare spirit herbs and realized their fragrance had drawn his attention.