Recaps

Lin Bai and Li Guxian led the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace through Pure Yang Sect’s defenses, using Lin Bai’s concealed Devouring Power to breach its formations. After Phoenix Valley joined the final battle and Shen Qi’s plan collapsed, the Pure Yang Sect surrendered, leaving Lin Bai and Li Guxian to weigh how to preserve stability in its territory.

• Lin Bai and Li Guxian used the crystal ball containing Lin Bai’s Devouring Power to break Nine Abyss City’s formation, then captured the city and advanced through Pure Yang Sect’s defensive lines.
• Guan Tian Sect and Cloudmist City fell to the Demon Palace, while Li Guxian ordered attacks that killed many defenders and the Pure Yang Sect prepared its remaining forces.
• Pure Yang Sect ambushed Lin Bai and Li Guxian on their way to the fifth line, but Lin Bai broke the barrier and reinforcements helped defeat and capture the attackers.
• Li Guxian’s army breached Yong’an City and won after a bloody battle, prompting Lin Bai to propose striking at Pure Yang Sect’s leadership.
• Li Guxian drew Pure Yang Sect’s forces to Sacred Water City, where Phoenix Valley revealed its alliance with the Demon Palace and joined the attack on the sixth line.
• Lin Bai broke the sixth line’s formation, and the allied armies overwhelmed Pure Yang Sect as many defenders surrendered and the Sect Master declared the sect defeated.
• Shen Qi rejected surrender, but Duanmu Peng, Lei Qin, and other Great Mystic Art Users stopped him, while the Pure Yang Sect Sect Master regained control and sent Shen Yuan with a surrender letter.
• Li Guxian and Lin Bai agreed to accept the Pure Yang Sect’s surrender to preserve stability and prevent Phoenix Valley from expanding unchecked.

After securing the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory, Lin Bai faced challenges to his authority from the First God Child and the Shi Family. He gathered support from the Demon Palace’s elders and allies while preparing to contest their control before the Renaming Ceremony.

• Li Guxian forced the Pure Yang Sect to surrender territory and deploy troops, while Lin Bai and the Demon Palace secured its submission.
• The Demon Palace planned to rename the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory, and Lin Bai returned to cultivation as the First God Child expanded his influence within the Council of Elders.
• After reaching the mid-stage of the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm, Lin Bai visited Yi Gu and promised the Seven Nights Divine Sect he would uphold their agreement despite rumors about his position.
• Lin Bai met with Meng Qinxian and Nie Shang, who proposed a martial contest to settle the dispute over the former Seven Nights Divine Sect territory.
• Lin Bai killed Forbidden Guards and a Dao Child who blocked the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s entry to the Demon Palace, then ordered Li Guxian to secretly strengthen his armies and record the First God Child’s supporters.
• Lin Bai and his allies planned to expose the Shi Family’s thefts, with Shi Wei identified as a possible witness against Shi Yuqing and Shi Renshan.
• The First God Child’s faction removed He Gongji from command of the Demon Subduing Guard and made competing territorial promises to powerful families.
• Lin Bai promised several allied families official grants of territory and gained the pledges of Zhou Yurong, Hao Yu, and Yuan Chenhuan to support him against the Shi Family.

Lin Bai challenged Yan Congjiao’s handling of the visiting sects, while the Palace Lord approved expanding the Demon Palace’s forces and postponed the plan against the Shi Family until after the Renaming Ceremony. As Qi Tian Sect struggled against the Southern Region and Burial Sky Smoke, Lin Bai and his allies weighed aid and outside threats before preparing for the ceremony’s martial contest.

• Lin Bai met the Palace Lord, learned more about the Heaven Swallowing Race and the Shi Family, received territorial documents, and was told to postpone an attack that could draw the Giant God Race’s attention.
• Lin Bai discussed the Western Region’s upheaval and the suspected Netherworld plot with Chu Junyou and Wang Zhengyang, while they considered how the Northern Region might exploit instability in the East.
• Lin Bai confronted First God Child Yan Congjiao at the Council of Elders for demanding that visiting sects return old treasures, and the Saint Elders ordered Yan to apologize or face a century at Contemplation Cliff.
• Lin Bai and his allies heard Qi Lingyu describe Qi Tian Sect’s crisis, including the Southern Region’s invasion and the deadly Burial Sky Smoke, and urged him to seek the Three Ancient Forces’ intervention while arranging supplies and limited aid.
• Wang Zhengyang revealed that Chu had encouraged the Western Region’s civil war, and Lin Bai and his companions considered whether outside Great Mystic Art Users were stirring conflict across the Devil Realm.
• The Palace Lord set the Renaming Ceremony for two months later, asked Lin Bai to suspend the Shi Family plan until afterward, and approved Lin Bai’s secret expansion of the Nine Underworlds Army and Skyguard Legion.
• Lin Bai hosted young martial artists at a banquet, reviewed the Demon Palace’s contest roster, and confirmed that Yan Congjiao, Duanmu Lin, Shen Yunfan, Mo Guyu, and Zhao Yuanchen would compete.
• Lin Bai’s companions judged him stronger than the gathered prodigies after his fight with Bu Junfeng, but Lin Bai said Bu Junfeng had surrendered while they both could still continue.

Lin Bai gathered support from several God Child families while Hu Zhiyao’s plan exposed the First God Child’s allies for selling stolen Demon Palace treasures. The Palace Lord approved Lin Bai’s territorial grants, but the Edicts remained with the Demon Palace until the struggle was settled.

• Lin Bai met Hu Zhiyao and the other God Children, discussed threats from the other regions, and refused to move against the First God Child before the Renaming Ceremony.
• Duanmu Lin and Shen Yunfan pledged their families’ support to Lin Bai, and Hu Zhiyao later secured her family’s backing after its elders weighed the danger of siding with the Shi Family.
• Lin Bai learned that Shi Renshan controlled much of the Demon Palace’s guard forces, then enlisted allies and the Dragon Protector Guard to strengthen his position.
• Hu Zhiyao, Mo Guyu, and Zhao Yuanchen trapped the First God Child’s commanders Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai with evidence that they had stolen and sold Demon Palace treasures to enemy sects.
• Lin Bai and the other God Children confronted the First God Child at Flower Plucking Valley, where the traders testified against him before the gathered martial artists.
• Saint Elder Duanmu Peng ordered an investigation, imprisoned Jiang Zhihuan and Shi Yunhai, and placed the First God Child in seclusion while Lin Bai openly declared his bid for leadership.
• The Palace Lord reprimanded Lin Bai for causing trouble before the Renaming Ceremony, warned him that Shi Renshan might retaliate afterward, and discussed Lin Bai’s difficult cultivation.
• Lin Bai obtained the Palace Lord’s approval for twenty-seven Thousand Province Edicts and told his allies that their families could begin ruling the territories, but the Edicts would stay with the Demon Palace until the situation was settled.