Recaps

After Lin Bai defeated the Qiankun Sect challengers, the Demon Palace faced the loss of Eternal Night Pass and prepared an expedition to reclaim it. With Li Guxian’s forces gone, Lin Bai built a guard, negotiated a ceasefire with Shi Renshan, and took charge of securing the Palace’s territory.

• Lin Bai defeated Zhou Jichen and eight Qiankun Sect prodigies, then killed Zhou Jichen after his Grandmaster intervened and the Palace Lord confronted the elder.
• The Palace Lord returned from the confrontation as a Tribulation Transcendence Earth Immortal, while Lin Bai received materials and help to reforge his swords.
• After Eternal Night Pass fell to the Northern Region, the Palace Lord ordered Li Guxian to lead an army north, while Lin Bai was tasked with winning support from the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect.
• Lin Bai arranged for the Palace’s experts to reforge his swords and told Wang Zhengyang, Chu Junyou, and Qi Lingyu that the Demon Palace could no longer send reinforcements to Qi Tian Sect.
• Li Guxian secretly departed with fifteen million troops and left Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao with Lin Bai to help manage threats at home.
• Lin Bai formed an expanded Dragon Protector Guard and assigned Hu Zhiyao and Shen Yunfan to gather intelligence and prepare for unrest.
• Lin Bai agreed to a temporary ceasefire with Shi Renshan, secured the Forbidden Guards, and arranged for Shen Yunfan and Hu Zhiyao to command the Deep Probe Guard.
• Yu Ce reported that twenty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm elders had joined the Dragon Protector Guard, and Lin Bai appointed Yu You as a commander while ordering the guard expanded and its recruits monitored.

Lin Bai investigated the massacre of the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect delegations while the Northern Region invasion fueled unrest across Devil Palace territory. After sending forces to suppress rebellions, he traveled to Yunhe Thousand Provinces to investigate the destruction of the He Family.

• Lin Bai took command of the Forbidden Guards, recruited experts into the Dragon Protector Guard, and prepared for trouble as major sects withdrew from the ceremony.
• After the rival sects’ envoys vanished, Lin Bai found their vessels wrecked and their people dead, while Meng Qinxian and Nie Shang survived and accused the Devil Palace of the ambush.
• Image Recording Pearl footage showed Devil Palace martial artists among the attackers, so Lin Bai returned to question those implicated and received six months to explain the massacre.
• Lin Bai ordered an investigation and border preparations, while Shen Yunfan spread rumors that the rival sects had attacked their own envoys and encouraged divisions among them.
• As rebellions spread through Devil Palace territory, Lin Bai sent Duanmu Xin and Hu Xiangdao to restore order and ordered surveillance of other likely flashpoints.
• Shen Yunfan reported that He Family leaders had been assassinated and hundreds of Yunhe Thousand Provinces realms had rebelled, so Lin Bai departed with He Gongwu aboard the Night King.
• In Yunhe Thousand Provinces, Lin Bai learned that the Nine Great Sects and seventy-two major families had divided the region between the rebellious South Bank and the Guo Family-held North Bank.
• Zhang Qin showed Lin Bai intelligence reporting that tens of thousands of He Family members had been killed, and Lin Bai vowed to capture the attackers and explain the massacre.

Lin Bai uncovered the Guo Family’s alliance with the Demon Subjugation Alliance and forced the family to surrender after surviving its assassination attempt. He put the Guo Family to work suppressing the rebellion and joined the hunt for the alliance’s remaining members.

• Lin Bai was ambushed in Yellow Sand City by the Demon Subjugation Alliance, and Old Wen identified the warriors who had delayed him in the void as Netherworld martial artists.
• Lin Bai interrogated captured attackers and learned that the Azure Lotus Sect supported the Demon Subjugation Alliance, while the Devil Palace’s leaders agreed to keep the evidence secret for the time being.
• Lin Bai traveled to Star Province and demanded that the Guo Family pay its tribute, suppress the rebellion, and answer for the He Family envoys’ deaths.
• The Guo Family and Demon Subjugation Alliance attacked Lin Bai inside the Xumi Xuanji Barrier, and Lin Bai recorded their confession to killing the He Family martial artists before fighting back.
• Old Wen and Elder Shen Yuan broke into Lin Bai’s room, helped capture the attackers, and surrounded the Guo Family as its Ancestor offered surrender.
• Lin Bai accepted the Guo Family’s surrender in exchange for its territory and service, then used Soul-Seizing Lamps to control its warriors and ordered it to fight the Nine Sects and Seventy-Two Clans.
• The Guo Family mobilized its forces against the rebellion while Lin Bai and the Devil Palace hunted the Demon Subjugation Alliance, and Lin Bai and Elder Shen Yuan confronted alliance members hiding in Evil Dragon City.

Lin Bai crushed the Yunhe rebellion, imposed terms on the Guo Family, and moved on to Yaotai Thousand Provinces to investigate unrest and balance the Star Palace against the Duanmu Family. He left the regional rulers and Star Palace facing a mutual investigation over the Demon Subjugation Alliance list.

• Lin Bai arranged ransoms for captured Demon Subjugation Alliance warriors, then learned that rebellions had spread across the Devil Palace’s territories and was ordered to help suppress them.
• Elder Shen Yuan took command in Yunhe Thousand Provinces, killed the Heavenly Dao Sect Master, and led the Dragon Protector Guard in destroying rebel sects and clans across the South Bank.
• After the Heaven Dao Sect fell, Lin Bai tasked the He Family with governing Yunhe and required the Guo Family to surrender much of its foundation and send its strongest martial artists to the frontier.
• Lin Bai secretly reached Yaotai Thousand Provinces, met Shen Yunfan and Star Palace’s Liu Hua, and learned of Star Palace’s ancestral claim and its suspected role in the local rebellions.
• Lin Bai consulted the Palace Master and Duanmu Peng, then decided not to grant Yaotai outright to either Star Palace or the Duanmu Family.
• Lin Bai asked Star Palace to investigate the Demon Subjugation Alliance and circulated its list of suspected members to neighboring provincial rulers.
• The Zhou Family Head, the Heaven Sword Sect’s sect master, the Li Family Head, and Wang Qingqing challenged Star Palace’s list, which they said falsely accused their territories.
• Lin Bai proposed that Star Palace investigate the neighboring rulers’ territories while they investigated Yaotai Thousand Provinces.