Recaps

Lin Bai returned to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, where he faced the First God Child and learned the truth about his ties to the Palace Master and the Heaven Swallowing Race. Li Guxian revealed the palace’s plan to rebuild its power, and the arc ended with Lin Bai preparing for a seven-fight contest against the Northern Region.

• Prince Liang asked Lin Bai to return to Chu, but a mutiny at Horizon Pass forced Lin Bai to flee with Old Wen and Dao Child Yu You.
• Chen Yule told Lin Bai that signs of an unprecedented calamity had appeared across the Demon Realm, Spirit Realm, and Netherworld.
• At Eternal Night Pass, Lin Bai confronted the First God Child, killed Shi Renshan and Wu Qisheng, and drew the attention of He Gongji and the Martial God Sect.
• Daoist Chai recognized Lin Bai as Ling Tianzi’s disciple, while the Palace Lord refused to hand Lin Bai over and agreed to pause hostilities as the ancient powers mediated.
• The Palace Lord revealed that he had brought Lin Bai to the Devil Realm at Lin Bai’s master’s request and confirmed that they belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Lin Bai learned that Leng Xingguang and other young elites were imprisoned by the Soul Refining Sect, and agreed to help rescue them when the Demon Palace’s plans were ready.
• Li Guxian explained that the Demon Palace’s apparent campaigns had concealed its true goal of rebuilding its power, and that coordinated attacks had weakened the Seven Nights Divine Sect.
• Li Guxian proposed a best-of-seven contest between the Eastern and Northern Regions over the disputed provinces, and Lin Bai invited Qi Lingyu and Wang Zhengyang to join the Eastern Region’s fighters.

As the Eastern and Northern Regions edged toward war, Li Guxian arranged a five-battle contest and gathered Eastern Region support. With the competition set for three months later, Lin Bai left for the Northern Region to help rescue imprisoned Holy Daughters and Leng Xingguang.

• Daoist Chai reported that Huangzi would not relent, and the leaders considered a martial contest as their best chance to avert war between the regions.
• Tang Xiong revived a proposal for each side to choose seven prodigies, while the Heavenly Dao Clan patriarch revealed Black Water Clan, his secretly trained grandson, as a powerful contender.
• The Northern Domain selected its fighters, and the three ancient factions consulted Prince Liang and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace about the contest.
• Goddess Li Guxian gave Lin Bai and the First God Child contest treasures, then negotiated with Wang Zhengyang and Qi Lingyu to secure Eastern Region cooperation and plan for threats from the West and South.
• Li Guxian named Wang Zhengyang, Qi Lingyu, Lin Bai, the First God Child, and Huang Qingyun as the Eastern Region team, and Chu Junyou pledged Chu’s support for the contest.
• After meeting Lin Bai and Li Guxian, the Crown Prince and Prince Liang discussed Chu’s ambitions and the dangers of their plans.
• Li Guxian agreed to the contest, which Daoist Chai set for five battles at Heaven Sword Peak in three months, with the first side to win three declared the victor.
• Li Guxian sent Lin Bai to join the Second and Third God Children in rescuing imprisoned Holy Daughters and Leng Xingguang, and Lin Bai departed for the Northern Region by a concealed route.

Lin Bai traveled through the Northern Region to gather the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and plan a rescue of the Eastern Region’s captives. After Senior Gu Yun uncovered the Soul Refinement Sect’s defenses and drew away a Great Mystic Art User, Lin Bai led the team into the Abyssal Fissure.

• Lin Bai and Old Wen crossed the snowbound Northern Region in disguise, reached the God Burial Clan, and met the Second and Third God Children.
• Lin Bai learned that most Northern Region forces had gathered near the border and organized a rescue of the Eastern Region’s captives held by the Soul Refinement Sect.
• Lin Bai planned an infiltration and retreat through the God Burial Clan and Black Water Clan teleportation networks, then assembled the Demon Palace forces at Azure God Mountain.
• Shi Yanguang disguised Lin Bai and the God Children as Soul Refinement Sect disciples and led them through the sect’s defenses toward the Abyssal Fissure.
• Senior Gu Yun infiltrated the fissure, found Mo Nan and the other captives in ice prisons, and discovered a Heaven Swallowing Race prisoner below them.
• Gu Yun scouted the deeper caverns and reported hundreds of cultivators, powerful experts, and a Great Mystic Art User guarding the fissure.
• Lin Bai ordered the rescue after Gu Yun lured the Great Mystic Art User away, then cut through the fissure’s formation and led the team inside.
• Soul Refinement Sect experts discovered the intruders as Lin Bai plunged deeper into the Abyssal Fissure.

Lin Bai rescued the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters from the Soul Refinement Sect, then arranged their escape through the Northern Region’s guarded clans. With the border still blocked and war looming, he planned to use Mei Lin and Dugu Ming’s movements at the Xuanjing Clan to create an opening.

• Lin Bai and Old Wen fought the Soul Refinement Sect while Lin Bai broke into the ice prison and freed Mo Nan, Li Xuanqiu, Wu Chen, Leng Xingguang, and the other captives.
• Lin Bai led the rescued group out of the Abyssal Fissure, and the Palace Lord of the Demon Palace teleported them away from the Soul Refinement Sect’s pursuit.
• Lin Bai brought the group to the God Burial Clan, where he negotiated with Huang Lin to smuggle them through the teleportation array disguised as Soul Refinement Sect couriers.
• Lin Bai led the disguised group through the Black Water Clan, the Moon Mountain Clan, and other Northern Region clans while decoys diverted the Soul Refinement Sect’s pursuers.
• Lin Bai rested at the Black Flame Clan after Mei Lin and Dugu Ming left for the Xuanjing Clan, and learned that the Soul Refinement Sect might be waiting there to ambush them.
• Lin Bai discovered that allied rescuers were held at Horizon Pass, leaving his group to find its own way across the border.
• Lin Bai arranged for Mei Lin and Dugu Ming to draw attention at the Xuanjing Clan while the remaining group prepared to teleport there amid the confusion.