Chapter Summaries

Fang Yiyun took Lin Bai and the other four chosen disciples to Nine Heavens Island, where he offered to guide their cultivation. He postponed training until the next day and assigned them to catch Azure Spirit Fish for him.

• Ouyang Jing and Tan Jing challenged Lin Bai to a match five months later, and Lin Bai accepted before leaving Spirit Master Island with Fang Yiyun and the others.
• Su Ling and Bei Haiyan encouraged Ouyang Jing and Tan Jing to train hard so they could defeat Lin Bai.
• Fang Yiyun brought Lin Bai, Meng Li, Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Shu Xiang to his overgrown island and showed them his cave dwelling.
• When Lin Bai asked when cultivation would begin, Fang Yiyun said he wanted to eat Azure Spirit Fish from Ten Thousand Islands Lake first.
• Fang Yiyun gave Changsun Yun a map and told the group to prepare to catch Azure Spirit Fish the next day.

Fang Yiyun sent Lin Bai and four other newcomers to the Second Ring to catch Azure Spirit Fish, and Shu Xiang paid for their trip there. As they approached the isolated Crescent Moon Island, Lin Bai suspected Fang Yiyun had another purpose and warned the group to stay alert.

• Fang Yiyun ordered Lin Bai, Changsun Yun, Meng Li, Wu Ming, and Shu Xiang to bring back live Azure Spirit Fish from Crescent Moon Island.
• Changsun Yun checked Fang Yiyun's map, and Wu Ming led the group to the Southern Courtyard Teleportation Island to reach the Second Ring.
• Shu Xiang paid the five's teleportation fee with her spirit liquid, which covered only their trip there.
• Changsun Yun used his spirit boat to carry the group toward Crescent Moon Island.
• Lin Bai noticed that no other islands appeared within hundreds of thousands of li of Crescent Moon Island and warned the others that the journey might be dangerous.

Lin Bai and the others encountered Zhang Cangyun and his outer disciples aboard a Stealth Spirit Boat while traveling to Crescent Moon Island to catch Azure Spirit Fish. Wu Ming warned Lin Bai that the boat's appearance often preceded bloodshed, and Zhang Cangyun's group secretly followed them, planning to steal their catch.

• Wu Ming detected a concealed spirit boat approaching Lin Bai and the others, and identified it as a Stealth Spirit Boat from the Nameless Domain.
• Zhang Cangyun introduced himself and told the inner disciples that Azure Spirit Fish surfaced on the full moon, which was that night.
• Changsun Yun hurried the group toward Crescent Moon Island so they could reach it before dusk.
• Wu Ming told Lin Bai that Stealth Spirit Boats in the Nameless Domain were associated with bloodshed and death.
• Zhang Cangyun and the other outer disciples followed Lin Bai's group, intending to use them to find Azure Spirit Fish and then take it from them.

Lin Bai and the others reached Crescent Moon Island to catch Azure Spirit Fish, but Lin Bai realized the vast school was fleeing from danger. As Meng Li rushed out to catch them, a Giant Demon attacked from beneath the sea.

• Lin Bai, Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Shu Xiang arrived at Crescent Moon Island and rested while Meng Li roasted fish.
• The five introduced themselves by age, with Changsun Yun eldest and Shu Xiang, only seventeen, youngest.
• At midnight, the group spotted Azure Spirit Fish gathering in immense numbers around the island.
• Lin Bai suspected the fish were fleeing, but Meng Li rushed toward them despite Lin Bai's warning.
• A gigantic tentacle rose from the sea and struck toward Meng Li, while Zhang Cangyun watched from the Stealth Spirit Boat and said the Giant Demon had arrived.

Meng Li and the others discovered that the Octopus Sea Dragon Beast guarded the Azure Spirit Fish and hunted martial artists seeking to catch them. Zhang Cangyun traded their lives for five fish and ordered his followers to attack, leaving Lin Bai and his companions fighting for survival on Crescent Moon Island.

• Meng Li was struck by the Octopus Sea Dragon Beast's tentacle while trying to catch an Azure Spirit Fish, and Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, Lin Bai, and Shu Xiang helped him.
• Zhang Cangyun arrived with more than thirty martial artists and explained that the Octopus Sea Dragon Beast used the Azure Spirit Fish as bait to hunt people.
• Zhang Cangyun offered the five inner disciples as tribute, received five Azure Spirit Fish from the Giant Demon, and ordered his followers to kill the group.
• Wu Ming used the Assassin's Way to kill an attacker, and Lin Bai killed another with a sudden burst of sword speed.
• Changsun Yun, Meng Li, Shu Xiang, and the others joined the fight as battle broke out across Crescent Moon Island.

Lin Bai rescued Shu Xiang from Zhang Cangyun, but the Giant Demon dragged them beneath the sea. Lin Bai transformed into a colossal Giant God and began pulling the monster out of the water, while Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, and Meng Li remained surrounded on Crescent Moon Island.

• Zhang Cangyun struck Shu Xiang and kicked her toward the sea as an offering to the Giant Demon.
• Lin Bai knocked away the martial artists surrounding him and grabbed Shu Xiang, but the Giant Demon's tentacles dragged them both underwater.
• Underwater, Lin Bai told the injured Shu Xiang to hold on and called out, “Giant God!”
• Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, and Meng Li fought on despite their injuries, and Wu Ming insisted Lin Bai would emerge alive.
• Lin Bai appeared as a giant above the sea with Shu Xiang on his shoulder, seized a tentacle, and began dragging the Giant Demon out of the water.

Lin Bai defeated the Octopus Sea Dragon Beast and returned to Crescent Moon Island, where he and his companions resolved to pursue Zhang Cangyun and reclaim the Azure Spirit Fish. Zhang Cangyun fled to Lord Honglou’s enormous red spirit boat, where his excuse for taking the fish failed to convince his master.

• Lin Bai dragged the Octopus Sea Dragon Beast from the sea and pummeled it, but let it escape into the bottomless abyss rather than risk encountering more Giant Demons.
• Zhang Cangyun fled Crescent Moon Island after witnessing Lin Bai’s power, while Lin Bai returned and found Shu Xiang and his companions alive but injured.
• Lin Bai, Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Meng Li decided to pursue Zhang Cangyun and reclaim the Azure Spirit Fish, then set off aboard Changsun Yun’s spirit boat with Wu Ming at the helm.
• Zhang Cangyun’s Stealth Spirit Boat emerged beside Lord Honglou’s enormous red spirit boat, and Zhang claimed he had taken the boat to find Azure Spirit Fish for Honglou.
• Lord Honglou took the fish tank and rejected Zhang Cangyun’s explanation, leaving Zhang kneeling and begging for mercy.

Lin Bai and the others caught up with Zhang Cangyun, who had given the Azure Spirit Fish to Lord Honglou, a powerful outsider. Fang Yiyun intervened, recovered the fish, and took Lin Bai’s group back to the inner court, while Lord Honglou kept Zhang Cangyun as a traitor bound by contract.

• Wu Ming piloted the spirit boat to Zhang Cangyun’s boat, where Zhang was kowtowing to Lord Honglou aboard a massive red spirit boat.
• Changsun Yun demanded that Lord Honglou return the five Azure Spirit Fish, but Lord Honglou offered them only if the group defeated his subordinates.
• Fang Yiyun appeared and ordered Lord Honglou to return the fish and leave the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• Lord Honglou returned the fish but showed Fang Yiyun a contract binding Zhang Cangyun to him, and Fang declared Zhang no longer an Eastern Continent Academy disciple.
• Fang Yiyun led Lin Bai and the others to Teleportation Island and returned with them to the inner court, while Lord Honglou ordered Zhang taken away.
• Lord Honglou told Qi Long that Fang Yiyun could not be stopped and that fighting him would have drawn attention across the Sea of Gods and Demons.

Fang Yiyun explained Red Chamber’s mercenary group and began assigning the five disciples specialized training for the next five months. He left Lin Bai without a training plan, saying he could not teach him.

• Fang Yiyun explained that Red Chamber led a mercenary group of former Academy disciples and ranked third among the Ten Great Pirates.
• Fang Yiyun said Zhang Cangyun’s soul contract had made him a traitor to the Eastern Continent Academy, so he had not intervened.
• Fang Yiyun promised Changsun Yun personal swordsmanship lessons and taught Meng Li the Twin Swords Dao.
• Fang Yiyun gave Wu Ming a Jade Slip containing two tasks and offered Shu Xiang a suitable sword technique.
• Changsun Yun pointed out that Fang Yiyun had not given Lin Bai a cultivation plan, and Fang Yiyun said he could not teach Lin Bai.

Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai that he could not teach him because Lin Bai had already surpassed him in several areas, but he pointed him toward Evil Dragon Island as a place to advance his cultivation quickly. Lin Bai chose to enter the dangerous secret realm and was warned to return within five months for the martial arts match against Su Ling and Bei Haiyan.

• Fang Yiyun praised Lin Bai’s swordsmanship, spiritual power, and physical strength, then admitted he could not guide Lin Bai’s cultivation.
• Lin Bai said he wanted to become the foremost person of his generation in the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Fang Yiyun explained that Evil Dragon Island held Spiritual Energy Crystals and was filled with Life Extinction Realm martial artists, making it both a valuable cultivation site and a dangerous one.
• Lin Bai rejected the idea of waiting a year to reach the Life Extinction Realm and decided to go to Evil Dragon Island.
• Fang Yiyun warned Lin Bai that other martial artists might be more dangerous than the island’s monsters and ordered him to return within five months for the match against Su Ling and Bei Haiyan.

Lin Bai traveled to Secret Realm Island to enter the year-round Evil Dragon Island Secret Realm, where he hoped to cultivate despite his low cultivation and the danger awaiting him. As the daily teleportation approached, four young men rushed into the palace just in time.

• Lin Bai left Dragon Breeding Island and flew to Secret Realm Island after reviewing what he had learned about secret realms and Evil Dragon Island.
• Lin Bai found the Evil Dragon Island Secret Realm palace and asked its guardian for permission to enter.
• The guardian warned Lin Bai about the secret realm’s danger, then told him to wait for the daily teleportation.
• Lin Bai took a seat and observed that most of the waiting martial artists were at the first to third levels of the Life Extinction Realm.
• As the teleportation time approached, four young men hurried into the palace and celebrated that they had arrived before it began.

Lin Bai refused to surrender his seat in the teleportation hall to the Huang Family Four Brothers, defeating Huang Family Third Brother when he attacked. The four brothers entered Evil Dragon Island with plans to take revenge on Lin Bai.

• The old man explained that the teleportation array could send only one thousand martial artists to Evil Dragon Island each day and that only three seats remained for the four Huang brothers.
• The Huang Family Four Brothers demanded Lin Bai give up his seat, but Lin Bai refused despite warnings about their reputation as the Huang Family Four Fiends.
• When Huang Family Third Brother attacked Lin Bai, Lin Bai drew his sword and held it to Third Brother’s throat, forcing the brothers to back down.
• The old man led the martial artists to the teleportation array as it was about to activate.
• Huang Family Head told Third Brother they would make Lin Bai wish he were dead on Evil Dragon Island, and the brothers forced another martial artist to surrender his seat before entering the island.

Lin Bai was teleported to Evil Dragon Island, where he encountered and killed a Mist Demon with his Azure Wood Divine Lightning. He collected the demon’s Spiritual Energy Crystal and continued deeper into the black forest.

• Lin Bai entered the teleportation formation and saw the Huang Family Four Brothers glare at him as he was transported away.
• Lin Bai arrived alone in a gloomy black forest on Evil Dragon Island and cautiously explored his surroundings.
• A Mist Demon attacked Lin Bai, but he discovered it feared thunder and destroyed it with the Azure Wood Divine Lightning Sword.
• Lin Bai collected the Mist Demon’s Spiritual Energy Crystal, absorbed its spiritual power, and headed deeper into the forest in search of more demons.

Lin Bai hunted Mist Demons on Evil Dragon Island to raise his cultivation, but a powerful Stone Demon forced him to retreat until a White-Robed Woman rescued him. After recovering and returning to the forest, he killed another Mist Demon and was confronted by three young men who recognized him from Secret Realm Island.

• Lin Bai killed Mist Demons for Spiritual Energy Crystals but remained stuck at the eighth level of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai entered a mountain range, where a Stone Demon at the second level of the Life Extinction Realm badly injured him.
• A White-Robed Woman killed the Stone Demon, warned Lin Bai that the mountains held stronger demon beasts, and took the Stone Demon's Spiritual Energy Crystal.
• Lin Bai returned to the forest, healed for three days, and resumed hunting Mist Demons.
• After Lin Bai killed another Mist Demon, three young men mocked him and said they had seen him on Secret Realm Island.

Lin Bai clashed with Zhu Fei and two other Life Extinction Realm martial artists after they tried to seize his Spiritual Energy Crystal. After they overwhelmed him in battle, Lin Bai invoked the third volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art.

• Lin Bai ignored three martial artists who mocked him, but they blocked his path and demanded his Spiritual Energy Crystal.
• Lin Bai refined the crystal with his Devouring Sword Soul and broke through from the eighth to the ninth stage of the Yang God Realm.
• Zhu Fei and the others refused to let Lin Bai pass, so he attacked them with the Three-Foot Azure Edge technique.
• Zhu Fei and his companions evaded Lin Bai’s sword and struck him together, sending him crashing into the ground and spitting blood.
• Lin Bai rose, judged that he could not defeat them without using the Reaching Heaven Sword Art, and unleashed its third volume as three-colored flames spread over him.

Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art’s third volume to raise his cultivation and killed Zhu Fei and his two companions after they tried to seize his secret method. Zhu Fei’s elder brother, Zhu Jingyi, learned of his death deep within Evil Dragon Island.

• Lin Bai raised his cultivation from the ninth level of the Yang God Realm to the Life Extinction Realm and killed two of Zhu Fei’s companions.
• Zhu Fei used his Martial Soul Secret Method and a defensive Jade Slip to withstand Lin Bai’s attacks, then pleaded for his life and invoked his elder brother Zhu Jingyi.
• Lin Bai ignored Zhu Fei’s threats and killed him, then took the three men’s Storage Bags and left.
• Deep within Evil Dragon Island, Zhu Jingyi saw that his token had cracked and announced that his younger brother was dead.

After consolidating his cultivation and hunting Mist Demons, Lin Bai broke through to the great perfection of the Yang God Realm and set out for the Heaven Valley Mountain Range. There, a group of five martial artists warned him of the dangers and offered to travel with him.

• Lin Bai searched Zhu Fei's Storage Bags and found five White Jade Pills, a Jade Slip capable of blocking a fifth-level Life Extinction Realm strike, and a little over a hundred jin of Spiritual Liquid.
• Lin Bai learned Zhu Fei's elder brother, Zhu Jingyi, was on Evil Dragon Island, but set the matter aside and spent three days consolidating his cultivation.
• Zhu Jingyi found Zhu Fei's corpse and ordered the martial artists on the island's outskirts to locate his killer, dead or alive.
• Lin Bai spent a month hunting more than three hundred Mist Demons and broke through to the great perfection of the Yang God Realm.
• Lin Bai returned to the mountain range, where a woman told him it was called the Heaven Valley Mountain Range and offered to travel with him through its dangerous territory.

Lin Bai joined Su Lingsu’s group as they entered the Heaven Valley Mountain Range to hunt demons. After Lin Bai detected a stone demon’s ambush and helped the group defeat it, they continued their hunt together.

• Su Lingsu invited Lin Bai to travel with her group, and he agreed after her brother Su Lingshan and Jiang Heng dismissed him.
• Su Lingsu introduced Lin Bai to the group and proposed that they divide their demon-hunting spoils equally each evening.
• As the group traveled through the Heaven Valley Mountain Range, Lin Bai noticed Su Lingshan’s admiration for Jiang Heng and listened to Jiang Heng explain swordsmanship.
• Lin Bai sensed an approaching enemy and warned Su Lingsu’s group about a stone demon’s ambush.
• Su Lingsu struck the second-level Life Extinction Realm stone demon, and Lin Bai and the others joined forces to kill it.

Su Lingsu led the group through the Heaven Valley Mountain Range, distributing the day’s Spiritual Energy Crystals before taking the night watch. Lin Bai learned that she had sacrificed her own cultivation resources and chance to enter the inner sect to help her brother, Su Lingshan, and warned her that she had only one year left to qualify.

• Su Lingsu and the others slew forty-two stone demons and collected their Spiritual Energy Crystals as they traveled through the Heaven Valley Mountain Range.
• At dusk, Su Lingsu divided the forty-two crystals equally, then gave her own share to Su Lingshan.
• Su Lingsu stayed on watch while Lin Bai and the others rested, and Lin Bai later offered to take over for her.
• Su Lingsu explained that she had used her cultivation resources to help Su Lingshan enter the Eastern Continent Academy, delaying her own progress toward the inner sect.
• Lin Bai warned Su Lingsu that martial artists’ potential and martial paths could decline after thirty, and she realized she had only one year left to enter the inner sect.

Lin Bai’s warning made Su Lingsu reconsider sacrificing her cultivation for Su Lingshan, but she still struggled to break free from her family’s expectations. Su Lingshan provoked Lin Bai into a confrontation, and the chapter ended with the two poised to clash after Lin Bai stopped Su Lingshan’s sword from striking Su Lingsu.

• Lin Bai reminded Su Lingsu that entering the inner sect after age thirty would be extremely difficult, and she thanked him but remained conflicted about Su Lingshan.
• Jiang Heng grew angry when he saw Lin Bai talking with Su Lingsu, and Su Lingshan accused Lin Bai of harassing his sister.
• Jiang Heng proposed a spar between Lin Bai and Su Lingshan, but Lin Bai initially refused and started to leave.
• Su Lingshan called Lin Bai a coward, prompting Lin Bai to turn back and accept the challenge.
• Su Lingsu stepped between the fighters, but Su Lingshan thrust his sword toward her, and Lin Bai pulled her aside and caught the blade between two fingers.
• Lin Bai flung Su Lingshan’s sword away and challenged his actions, while the others woke and reacted in alarm.