Recaps

The Heavenly Blade Tribe's High Priest learned that Lin Bai used techniques linked to the Broken Sword Tribe and ordered an investigation while preparing for Kunxu's retaliation. In Kunxu, Li Zhengyi ordered the Sky Dragon Hall and one hundred elders to mobilize against the Heavenly Blade Tribe and rescue Li Zhaoyun and the other captives.

• The black-clad martial artist reported his failed attempt to capture Lin Bai and Li Buxian to the High Priest.
• The High Priest suspected Lin Bai had a connection to the Broken Sword Tribe and ordered agents in Kunxu to investigate his background.
• The High Priest told the Heavenly Blade Tribe to prepare for Kunxu's retaliation after its fighters captured Li Zhaoyun and other Li Family members at Dragon Mountain.
• Li Buzheng recounted the events at Dragon Mountain to Li Zhengyi, Mo Wenshen, and the Li Family elders.
• Li Zhengyi ordered the Sky Dragon Hall and one hundred elders, including the Grand Elder, to march against the Heavenly Blade Tribe and demand the captives and Dragon Mountain's resources.

Li Buxian and Li Fugui hid in a cave after escaping the Heavenly Blade Tribe, where they found the severely wounded Lin Bai and helped him recover. As they slept, Lin Bai discovered a hidden sword mark on the cave wall that reacted to his blood.

• Li Buxian reassured Li Fugui that the hidden cave would keep them safe and worried about Li Zhaoyun and Lin Bai.
• A crash at the cave entrance led Li Buxian and Li Fugui to find Lin Bai unconscious and covered in blood.
• Li Fugui examined Lin Bai and found that nearly all his bones were broken, eighteen meridians severed, and his organs badly damaged.
• Lin Bai woke, blamed his injuries on a formidable Heavenly Blade Tribe Blood Blade Hall martial artist, and began healing with Earth Profound Pills.
• After three days, Lin Bai had recovered half his strength, while Li Buxian and Li Fugui slept in the cave.
• Lin Bai uncovered a sword mark on the wall, and his blood flowed through it as crimson lines came alive.

Lin Bai awakened traces of his parents in the cave while fighting the blood-colored sword rays and learning Dragon Slayer Swordplay. He heard the missing ninth form named, then watched Lin Duo and Li Subai argue in the projection.

• Lin Bai discovered that the blood-colored sword rays targeted only him and recognized their attacks as moves from Dragon Slayer Swordplay.
• Lin Bai used Dragon Slayer Swordplay to defeat the sword rays after half an hour of studying and practicing them.
• Lin Duo's voice revealed the name of the missing ninth form: Dragon Slaying.
• Lin Bai recognized the figures of Lin Duo and Li Subai as his parents and realized his blood and swordplay had awakened traces they left behind.
• Lin Duo teased Li Subai about her strength and the Kunxu Disciples, prompting her to call him a wooden fish and a rotten wooden fish.

Lin Bai watched Lin Duo demonstrate the ninth move of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, revealing that it was a Dao Art divided into three swords. Lin Duo predicted their future son, Lin Bai, would master and surpass the technique, leaving Lin Bai moved by the revelation and puzzled by the iron sword’s connection to A Ning.

• Lin Duo explained to Subai that he had withheld the ninth move because it was a Dao Art too dangerous for cultivators without a strong foundation.
• Lin Bai recognized the rust-covered iron sword Lin Duo held as the sword A Ning treasured.
• Lin Duo demonstrated Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art, Dragon Slayer Imprisoning Heaven Art, and Dragon Slayer Returning Sea Art, explaining that together they formed the ninth move.
• Lin Bai realized the sword marks on the cavern walls had been made by the second sword, which contained the first eight moves as its foundation.
• Lin Duo told Subai that their future son, Lin Bai, would master the Three Swords Technique and might surpass him, while Subai shyly denied agreeing to bear him a son.

Lin Bai relived a memory of his parents and vowed to rescue them, while his blood awakened Lin Duo’s sword intent in Kunxu. The Central Sacred Nation discovered Lin Bai’s location and ordered Mo Wenshen to find him.

• Lin Bai watched the phantoms of Lin Duo and Li Subai leave the cave, then vowed to save his parents and surpass his father’s Dragon Slayer Swordplay with his Zhu Xian Swordplay.
• Li Buxian and Li Fugui woke to Lin Bai’s cries, but he reassured them and began cultivating the ninth move of the Dragon Slayer Swordplay.
• Lin Bai’s blood touched the sword marks in the cave, and Lin Duo sensed the disturbance from his prison on a floating island beyond East Continent.
• Lin Duo told Li Subai that their son was in Kunxu, and the man in black realized the Central Sacred Nation had also sensed Lin Duo’s sword intent.
• The man in black threw Li Subai’s bronze lamp into a pool of magma and ordered Mo Wenshen to find Lin Bai; Mo Wenshen was stunned by the message.

Li Zhengyi and Li Buzheng found Lin Bai and Li Buxian hiding in a cave after their battle with the Heavenly Blade Tribe's martial artist. Li Zhengyi recognized Lin Bai, then invited him to accompany them to the Heavenly Blade Tribe as the Li family prepared to confront it.

• Li Buzheng reported that he and Li Zhengyi had found the battle site but no trace of Lin Bai or Li Buxian, and that the Grand Elder was confronting the Heavenly Blade Tribe over seized resources and prisoners.
• Li Zhengyi led Li Buzheng to a hidden cave, where Lin Bai attacked them with his sword before recognizing them and withdrawing.
• Li Buxian reunited with her father and brother, and Li Zhengyi ordered her to copy every book on the Scripture Repository's second floor as punishment.
• Li Zhengyi questioned Lin Bai about his connection to Lan Ling and the Dragon Slayer Swordplay, then stared at him in silence after seeing his face.
• Li Zhengyi sent Li Buxian and Li Fugui back to the clan territory and invited Lin Bai to accompany him and Li Buzheng to the Heavenly Blade Tribe, which Lin Bai accepted.

Li Zhengyi, Li Buzheng, and Lin Bai arrived at the Heavenly Blade Tribe, where the Li family was preparing to force the tribe to surrender Dragon Mountain’s resources and Li Zhaoyun’s group. Mo Wenshen arrived and suddenly fixed a hostile gaze on Lin Bai.

• Li Buzheng thanked Lin Bai for helping Li Buxian and explained that the Li family had surrounded the Heavenly Blade Tribe.
• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai that Lin Duo had occupied the cave more than twenty years earlier and warned him not to mention Lin Duo again.
• Li Zhengyi, Li Buzheng, and Lin Bai reached the Heavenly Blade Tribe and met the Grand Elder, who reported that the tribe had refused to surrender.
• The Grand Elder described four groups sent into the tribe to locate its protective formation, rescue Li Zhaoyun, assassinate its leaders, and capture its outstanding disciples.
• The Grand Elder told Li Zhengyi that Mo Wenshen had arrived, and Mo Wenshen rushed over and turned a cold gaze on Lin Bai.

Mo Wenshen accused Lin Bai of being Lin Duo’s son and tried to take him away for a reward from the Central Sacred Nation. Li Zhengyi defended Lin Bai, but Mo Wenshen continued to taunt him after Lin Bai denied the connection, leaving Lin Bai poised to say something with killing intent in his eyes.

• Mo Wenshen rushed to Li Zhengyi, then charged toward Lin Bai after spotting him, but Li Zhengyi blocked his path.
• Mo Wenshen told Li Zhengyi by voice transmission that the Central Sacred Nation suspected Lin Bai was Lin Duo’s son and would reward whoever captured him.
• Li Zhengyi publicly argued that Lin Bai’s resonance with Lin Duo’s sword intent came from their shared Dragon Slayer Swordplay, not family ties, and Li Buzheng noted that many outsiders had recently entered Kunxu.
• Mo Wenshen asked Lin Bai whether he was Lin Duo’s son, and Lin Bai calmly denied it.
• Mo Wenshen taunted Lin Bai for disowning his father, and Lin Bai, furious but composed, said he had one more thing to tell him.

Lin Bai defended Lin Duo against Mo Wenshen, who left to investigate outsiders in Kunxu after Li Zhengyi intervened. As the Li Family prepared to negotiate with the Heavenly Blade Tribe, Li Zhengyi hinted that Lin Duo had once explained why the Li Family’s ancestors had not conquered all of Kunxu.

• Lin Bai declared that he regarded Lin Duo as his master and threatened Mo Wenshen for disrespecting him.
• Mo Wenshen nearly attacked Lin Bai, but Li Zhengyi stopped him; Mo Wenshen then left to investigate everyone who had entered Kunxu in the past three days.
• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai that martial artists could die at any time, and Lin Bai accepted his warning.
• The Li Family Grand Elder reported that the groups searching for the tribe’s formation and rescuing Li Zhaoyun had failed, while the group capturing the Heavenly Blade Tribe’s descendants and disciples had succeeded.
• Lin Bai argued that the Heavenly Blade Tribe would not exchange its captives for Li Zhaoyun and the others, and Li Zhengyi explained that the captives gave the Li Family leverage for negotiations.
• Li Zhengyi said that a remark from Lin Duo had helped him understand why the Li Family’s ancestors had not wiped out Kunxu’s tribes, then asked Lin Bai to guess what it was.

Li Zhengyi explained why the Li family had spared the Kunxu tribes, arguing that external rivals had prevented the family from falling into internal strife. He promised to help Lin Bai with the Dragon Slaying Swordplay, then approached the Heavenly Blade Tribe after negotiations failed, leaving the High Priest alarmed by his arrival.

• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai that Lin Duo had warned the Li family that eliminating every Kunxu rival would eventually lead to internal conflict and weaken the family.
• Li Zhengyi praised Lin Duo and offered to teach Lin Bai the Dragon Slaying Swordplay whenever he needed help.
• Lin Bai asked what had caused the deaths of so many Kunxu experts over twenty years earlier, but Li Zhengyi deferred his answer when the Grand Elder returned.
• The Grand Elder reported that the Heavenly Blade Tribe had refused to hand over Dragon Mountain's cultivation resources or Li Zhaoyun and the others.
• Li Zhengyi led Lin Bai, Li Buzheng, and the Grand Elder to the Heavenly Blade Tribe's Mountain Protection Formation, where the tribe's martial artists and High Priest reacted with alarm.

Li Zhengyi proposed seven martial contests to settle the Li Family’s dispute with the Heavenly Blade Tribe over Dragon Mountain’s resources and captured clansmen. After both sides prepared their fighters and captives, Li Buzheng stepped forward to fight first while Lin Bai watched.

• Li Zhengyi confronted the Heavenly Blade Tribe’s High Priest and proposed seven contests, with each victory earning the Li Family one-seventh of the spiritual medicine and the return of a core disciple.
• Li Zhengyi released the captured Heavenly Blade Tribe warriors, and the High Priest agreed to the contests and asked for three hours to prepare.
• The High Priest returned with seven portions of spiritual medicine and presented Li Zhaoyun and six other captured Li Family members.
• The Li Family Grand Elder objected to Lin Bai fighting first and urged Li Buzheng to take the opening match instead.
• Li Buzheng stepped forward to face the Heavenly Blade Tribe, while Lin Bai remained on the sidelines.

Li Buzheng fought Qing Yun in the first round, but Qing Yun broke his cultivation seal and severely injured him before Li Zhengyi killed him. As the Heavenly Blade Tribe sent Kumu to face Lin Bai in the second round, Lin Bai recognized the High Priest’s scheme.

• The High Priest sent Qing Yun, a Blood Blade Hall martial artist with suppressed Death Reversal Realm cultivation, to fight Li Buzheng.
• Li Zhengyi accepted the arrangement but warned that any fighter who exceeded the Life Extinction Realm would be killed and cost the Heavenly Blade Tribe the round.
• Li Buzheng gained the upper hand against Qing Yun, but Qing Yun erupted with seventh-stage Death Reversal Realm power and struck him.
• Li Zhengyi killed Qing Yun, while the High Priest conceded the round and returned a Li Family Core Disciple and part of the spirit medicines.
• The High Priest sent Kumu to fight in the second round, and Lin Bai went to Li Buzheng and said he had understood the Heavenly Blade Tribe’s scheme.

Lin Bai faced Kumu in the second battle, knowing the Heavenly Blade Tribe intended to wound him and preserve its advantage in the contest. He defeated Kumu before the old man could unleash his Death Reversal Realm power, securing another victory for the Li Family.

• Kumu challenged Lin Bai, and Li Zhengyi allowed Lin Bai to fight despite the Grand Elder's objections.
• Lin Bai recognized the High Priest's scheme and resolved to defeat Kumu quickly or steadily.
• Lin Bai charged into Kumu's blade-light storm and split it apart with Dragon Slayer Swordplay: Buddha's Wrath.
• As Kumu began to release his Death Reversal Realm power, Lin Bai used Wishful Ring to appear behind him and subdue him.
• The High Priest acknowledged Lin Bai's tactic, while the Li Family celebrated the victory and Li Buzheng praised Lin Bai.

Lin Bai defeated Kumu and began his third match against Blood Moon, who broke his cultivation seal and nearly killed him with a powerful arrow. The arrow vanished just before striking Lin Bai, leaving him stunned and looking toward Li Zhengyi.

• Lin Bai defeated Kumu, and Li Zhengyi rewarded him with ten Flower Moon Pills.
• The High Priest returned one-seventh of the spirit medicines and a Li family martial artist after Lin Bai won the match.
• The High Priest sent Blood Moon to fight Lin Bai in the third match.
• Blood Moon unleashed crimson arrows while Lin Bai evaded and defended against them.
• Blood Moon broke his cultivation seal and fired a ninth-level Death Reversal Realm arrow that shattered Lin Bai's defenses.
• The arrow vanished just before hitting Lin Bai, and Lin Bai looked toward Li Zhengyi in confusion.

Li Zhengyi saved Lin Bai from Blood Moon and killed Blood Moon with the Great Star Plucking Hand. With Li Zhengyi guarding against Death Reversal Realm attacks, Lin Bai defeated Crow in the third battle and challenged the Heavenly Blade Tribe to send out a fighter for the fourth.

• Li Zhengyi stopped Blood Moon's arrow from killing Lin Bai, then killed the fleeing Blood Moon with the Great Star Plucking Hand.
• Li Zhengyi reassured Lin Bai that he would stop any opponent above the Life Extinction Realm from harming him, and Lin Bai prepared to fight without holding back.
• The High Priest sent Crow to fight Lin Bai in the third match, and Crow attacked with the Demonic Sound Disorienting Formation.
• Lin Bai used Martial Soul Secret Method—Break the Ban to shatter Crow's formation, then struck him down without letting him unleash Death Reversal Realm cultivation.
• Lin Bai kicked Crow back to the High Priest, vowed to kill him before leaving Kunxu, and called for the Heavenly Blade Tribe's fourth fighter.

After defeating three Heavenly Blade Tribe fighters, Lin Bai challenged the remaining three to attack him together, confident that Li Zhengyi would prevent them from using Death Reversal Realm power. As Baimu launched a powerful fist, Lin Bai dodged and recognized him as a body-refining expert.

• Lin Bai asked the remaining three Heavenly Blade Tribe fighters to attack together, and Li Zhengyi agreed to guard against Death Reversal Realm interference.
• The High Priest sent Sea Dragon, Shanhua, and Baimu to fight Lin Bai as a group.
• Li Zhengyi told the Li Family Grand Elder that Lin Bai had become the Eastern Continent Academy's sole Saint Son by defeating the academy's strongest young geniuses.
• Lin Bai advanced with the Demon Sword as Li Buzheng watched and recalled Lin Bai's earlier feats.
• Baimu attacked Lin Bai with his Mountain Shattering Earth Splitting Fist, but Lin Bai dodged and recognized Baimu as a body-refining expert.

Lin Bai broke free from Shanhua’s Devouring Immortal Vines and defeated him with flying swords, overturning the apparent victory of Baimu, Hailong, and Shanhua. The High Priest recognized Lin Bai’s sword technique as resembling the Broken Sword Tribe’s Blood Sword Art, but realized it was not the same technique.

• Baimu, Hailong, and Shanhua attacked Lin Bai together, trapping him in Devouring Immortal Vines and sending him flying.
• Shanhua offered to release Lin Bai if he admitted defeat, but Lin Bai declared that his warm-up was over.
• Lin Bai’s black light drained the vines’ vitality, allowing him to break free.
• Lin Bai used Flying Swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to shatter Shanhua’s vine shield and defeat him.
• Lin Bai held Shanhua at swordpoint and asked Baimu if he was a body-refining cultivator.
• Baimu and the High Priest identified Lin Bai’s sword technique as resembling the Blood Sword Art, but the High Priest noted that it required no blood sacrifice.

Lin Bai defeated Shanhua and Baimu, prompting the Heavenly Blade Tribe to end the contest and return the Li Family’s people and resources. As Lin Bai left with Li Buzheng, the High Priest decided to tell the Broken Sword Tribe that Lin Bai possessed a powerful Blood Sword Art.

• Li Zhengyi praised Lin Bai’s swordsmanship and promised him divine iron and the Great Sun-Chasing Art after the contest.
• Lin Bai defeated Baimu with two Dragon Slayer Swordplay techniques, leaving him unable to fight.
• Lin Bai challenged Hailong, but the High Priest stopped the contest and returned Li Zhaoyun, the other captives, and the Dragon Mountain resources to the Li Family.
• Li Zhengyi warned the Heavenly Blade Tribe not to repeat its actions and led the Li Family away with Lin Bai and Li Buzheng.
• The High Priest told Hailong that the Broken Sword Tribe would pursue Lin Bai if it learned about his Blood Sword Art.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai used ten Flower Moon Pills to break through to the perfect stage of the Life Extinction Realm and wondered whether Li Zhengyi knew his true identity. Half a month later, Li Buzheng thanked him for helping the Li Family and took him to visit the Kunxu Pagoda.

• Lin Bai swallowed ten Flower Moon Pills over two days and reached the perfect stage of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Lin Bai suspected Li Zhengyi had deliberately given him exactly enough pills because he had recognized Lin Bai as Lin Duo's son, but he remained uncertain whether Li Zhengyi was an enemy or an ally.
• Lin Bai resolved to investigate what had happened more than twenty years ago and leave Kunxu once he learned the truth.
• Li Buzheng visited Lin Bai to thank him for helping the Li Family at Dragon Mountain and invited him to the Kunxu Pagoda to comprehend the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that Li Buxian had been confined to seclusion until she broke through to the Death Reversal Realm, then led him toward the Kunxu Pagoda.

Lin Bai accompanied Li Buzheng to the Kunxu Pagoda, where Li Buzheng explained Kunxu’s travel rules and the importance of the Kunxu World Walker position. They entered the tower’s first level, which held old texts about the distant Spirit World.

• Lin Bai and Li Buzheng were forced to land ten thousand meters from the Kunxu Pagoda and walked the rest of the way.
• Li family disciples whispered doubts about Lin Bai and praised Li Daoyuan as a potential rival.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that only one hundred Kunxu disciples could travel outside each year, and only the World Walker could reveal their identity as a Kunxu Disciple.
• Li Buzheng explained that the World Walker position could lead to control of Kunxu, while Lin Bai said he did not want to interfere in the family matter.
• Li Buzheng described the Kunxu Pagoda’s eighteen levels, and he and Lin Bai entered its first level, which contained miscellaneous studies and old texts about the Spirit World.

Lin Bai and Li Buzheng explored the Kunxu Pagoda, where Li explained what its levels contained and led Lin Bai to the restricted fourteenth level to view rare divine metals. Lin Bai spotted a rusty, mottled metal whose aura reminded him of a giant god.

• Li Buzheng explained the contents of the Kunxu Pagoda’s public first nine levels and the restricted levels above them.
• Li Buzheng led Lin Bai to the sixth level, where Lin Bai examined divine metals but found none comparable to Immaculate Divine Iron.
• Li Buzheng used a jade talisman authorized by Li Zhengyi to enter the levels above the tenth with Lin Bai.
• Li Buzheng took Lin Bai to the fourteenth level to inspect its precious divine metals.
• Lin Bai spotted a rusty, mottled piece of divine metal and exclaimed that it carried the aura of a giant god.

On Kunxu’s fourteenth level, Lin Bai heard a voice calling to him through his Devouring Sword Soul and followed it to a seemingly ordinary piece of black charcoal iron. The voice revealed that the iron was Chaos Divine Iron and identified Lin Bai as a clansman of the Heaven Swallowing Race, leaving him speaking with a mysterious survivor while Li Buzheng knew nothing of it.

• Lin Bai examined Giant God Bone Iron, and Li Buzheng explained that the Li family had found it in Kunxu but could not forge it.
• Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul reacted to a voice calling him a clansman and urging him to find its source.
• Lin Bai hurried across the fourteenth level as the voice spoke of the Heaven Swallowing Race’s conflict with the Giant God Race and promised a way to resist them.
• Lin Bai found a fist-sized piece of black charcoal iron on a remote cloud, and Li Buzheng explained that no flame could melt it.
• Lin Bai picked up the iron, and the voice identified it as Chaos Divine Iron, one of the strongest divine irons and a weapon against the Giant God Race.

A remnant soul of the Heaven Swallowing Race tells Lin Bai how Chaos Divine Iron was discovered to be capable of shattering a giant god’s body. Before fading away, the senior gives it to Lin Bai and urges him to protect the people he loves.

• The senior recounts how the Giant God Race destroyed his city and killed his family after discovering his Devouring Spirit.
• After years of fleeing and growing stronger, the senior searched for a weapon that could overcome the Giant God Race’s powerful bodies and curse.
• The senior found Chaos Divine Iron on Kunxu Mountain and proved its power by smashing a giant god’s left arm with it.
• The senior shattered the void around Kunxu Mountain as he died, preventing the Giant God Race from claiming the Chaos Divine Iron.
• The senior gave the Chaos Divine Iron to Lin Bai and urged him to protect his family and loved ones.
• Lin Bai thanked the senior and recognized the Chaos Divine Iron as a weapon he could use against the Giant God Race.

Lin Bai honored the fading Senior, kept the Black Charcoal Iron he had received, and went to the eighteenth level of the Kunxu Pagoda to study the Great Sun-Chasing Art. After Li Buzheng departed, Lin Bai stood before the art’s scroll, ready to begin his month of comprehension.

• The Senior’s voice faded after telling Lin Bai to find a fragment, and Lin Bai paid his respects to him.
• Lin Bai refused Li Buzheng’s advice to choose a more valuable divine iron and kept the Black Charcoal Iron as a sword-sharpening tool.
• Li Buzheng led Lin Bai to the eighteenth level, where the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts were stored, and gave him a jade talisman granting one month to study the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that Li Zhengyi had mastered nine arts and that the sword cultivator from more than twenty years earlier had mastered three sword arts.
• After Li Buzheng left, Lin Bai stepped onto the clouds and approached the scroll labeled Great Sun-Chasing Art.

Lin Bai struggled to understand the Great Sun-Chasing Art in the Kunxu Pagoda while Li Zhengyi faced criticism for granting him access to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts. Li Zhengyi decided to summon the elders and make Lin Bai’s opportunity open and just.

• Lin Bai activated the scroll and studied its painting of a man chasing the sun, but after ten days he still could not grasp the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng returned to the Li family ancestral grounds and told Li Zhengyi that Lin Bai had chosen Black Charcoal Iron from the fourteenth level.
• Li Zhengyi said he did not know the iron’s origins and asked whether Lin Bai had begun comprehending the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng questioned why Li Zhengyi had allowed Lin Bai to enter the eighteenth level despite his contributions not matching those of past recipients.
• Li Zhengyi learned that the Elders Council and Kunxu disciples considered his decision improper, then ordered Li Buzheng to summon the elders so Lin Bai could receive the opportunity openly.