Recaps

Lin Bai used the Duanmu Family’s massacres to force a territorial settlement that redistributed Yaotai Thousand Provinces and its neighbors. After years of suppressing rebellions, he was summoned to investigate vanished cities in Ninghai Thousand Provinces and found a vast crater where Black Stone City had stood.

• Lin Bai gave Duanmu Hong a list of suspected Demon Subjugation Alliance members, and the Duanmu Family’s ensuing massacres brought Star Palace and neighboring rulers to demand Devil Palace intervention.
• Lin Bai exposed the killings to the Palace Master and negotiated a new division that gave Star Palace two-thirds of Yaotai Thousand Provinces, resource-rich lands to the Duanmu Family, and territories to four neighboring rulers.
• Lin Bai secured territorial exchanges with the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zhou Family, Qinghe Island, Li Family, and Duanmu Family, then persuaded the Star Palace Master to sign the settlement.
• Lin Bai announced the new borders at a banquet, and Duanmu Yang named the family’s new territory the Eternal Evergreen Thousand Provinces.
• Lin Bai left Yaotai Thousand Provinces and spent five or six years suppressing rebellions while conflicts continued across the Devil Palace’s borders.
• The Palace Master summoned Lin Bai to Ninghai Thousand Provinces after cities began vanishing, and Lin Bai found a vast crater where Black Stone City had been.
• Wang Changhai told Lin Bai that thirty or forty cities had disappeared, witnesses had reported a shadowy martial artist casting spells, and frightened residents were fleeing Ninghai Thousand Provinces.

Lin Bai hunted down a Heaven Swallowing Race rebel in Jade Sea City, then killed Di Xuanzi and learned more about flying swords and treasure refining. When the Devil Palace found Demon Realm intruders hiding at Spirit Lake, the Dragon King refused a search, and Lin Bai prepared to bring nine Supreme Dao Fruit Realm fighters to the Night King.

• Lin Bai and Old Wen tracked the city-devouring fiend to Jade Sea City, where Lin Bai defeated him, absorbed his soul and Devouring Power, and took the Fire Phoenix Spirit Pearl.
• Di Xuanzi confronted Lin Bai over the Fire Phoenix Spirit Pearl and used a teleportation array to take him to Snow Province, where Lin Bai killed him after a fierce battle.
• Lu Yunbo revealed his connection to the Flying Sword Immortal Sect, taught Lin Bai about flying-sword art, and gave him texts on spiritual materials, runes, and treasure refining.
• Lin Bai led the Devil Palace party to Spirit Lake, where the Dragon King refused to let them search for Demon Realm warriors and warned that he could retaliate against the Palace.
• After the Dragon King denied harboring intruders, Lin Bai withdrew while the Dragon King secretly prepared selected disciples to enter a cave dwelling.
• Lin Bai learned that the Night King could act as a mobile grand teleportation array and ordered it activated as nine Supreme Dao Fruit Realm warriors arrived through the connected array.

Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan entered the opened cave abode beneath Spirit Lake, survived its insect-filled chambers, and fought their way toward its summit. After killing the guardian who controlled the insects, Lin Bai reached the cave’s Demon Race fighters and seized a formation disk, but the former allies turned against him.

• Lin Bai learned from Xie Chen that the Spirit Lake Dragon King sought a relic cave beneath the lake and planned to open it, then arranged with the Devil Palace to enter while its forces attacked from outside.
• After Xie Chen’s jade pendant shattered, Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan reached the Crystal Palace, slipped through its defenses, and entered the cave abode as Old Wen’s assault drew away its guards.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan escaped a looping grassland filled with Spirit-Exploding Insects and Corpse Immortal Insects, then confronted Eight-Eyes, who controlled five kinds of Strange Insects.
• Lin Bai killed the Eight-Eyed Demon Toad with his flying swords, ending his control of the insects, and he and Shen Yunfan continued toward the cave abode’s mountain peak.
• Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan found Dong Qi, Ning Shuang, Xie Chen, and other demons battling cave-dwelling demons and five ancient beasts, then joined the fight without trusting the proposed alliance.
• As the woman in blue used a formation disc to summon golden lightning, Lin Bai and Shen Yunfan fought the cave-dwelling demons while the black-robed young man’s group secretly sought advantage.
• Lin Bai used his Blinking technique to kill the azure snake and take its formation disk, then rejected the black-robed young man’s renewed alliance as the demons turned against him.