Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai repeatedly caught Su Lingshan’s sword attacks with two fingers, then sent him flying and exposed his superior swordsmanship. Jiang Heng challenged Lin Bai to a contest, while Su Lingshan accused him of joining the group to pursue Su Lingsu.

• Lin Bai pulled Su Lingsu out of Su Lingshan’s sword strike and then challenged Su Lingshan to attack him.
• Su Lingshan thrust at Lin Bai, but Lin Bai caught the sword between two fingers and invited him to use his strongest move.
• Su Lingshan unleashed the king-grade technique Turbulent World Winds, but Lin Bai caught the sword again and sent him flying a hundred meters with a mouthful of blood.
• Su Lingsu realized Lin Bai’s swordsmanship far surpassed Su Lingshan’s, while Jiang Heng and the others were stunned by Lin Bai’s skill.
• Jiang Heng challenged Lin Bai to a contest, and Su Lingshan claimed Lin Bai had joined the team to pursue Su Lingsu and insisted she would marry someone like Jiang Heng.

Lin Bai defeated Jiang Heng, a first-level Life Extinction Realm martial artist, with one sword strike after Su Lingshan provoked him. He agreed to fight Jiang Heng again after Jiang Heng mastered his sword art, then revealed that he was an inner-sect disciple.

• Su Lingshan questioned whether Lin Bai had joined the team because he admired Su Lingsu's beauty and praised Jiang Heng as a powerful expert.
• Lin Bai dismissed Jiang Heng's strength, and Jiang Heng challenged him to a fight despite Su Lingsu's attempt to stop them.
• Lin Bai accepted the challenge and defeated Jiang Heng with one sword strike, sending him flying and leaving him vomiting blood.
• Jiang Heng claimed he would fight Lin Bai again after mastering his sword art, and Lin Bai agreed.
• Lin Bai gave his address as the Southern Courtyard on Dragon Breeding Island, and Jiang Heng realized Lin Bai was an inner-sect disciple.

Lin Bai revealed his identity as an Inner Sect prodigy to Su Lingsu, Jiang Heng, and Su Lingshan, then faced the Huang Family Four Fiends, who had come to kill him. The chapter ended as Lin Bai drew his demon sword and the four brothers attacked.

• Lin Bai told Su Lingshan and Jiang Heng where he lived, and they learned he was an Inner Sect disciple.
• Su Lingsu and the others recognized Lin Bai as the prodigy who had defeated challengers at Nine Heavens Primordial Ancestor Mountain and broken through the Flying Dragon Twelve Islands.
• Jiang Heng apologized for challenging Lin Bai, and Lin Bai agreed to let the matter go.
• The Huang Family Four Fiends appeared and declared they had come for Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai confronted the four brothers, drew his demon sword, and prepared to fight as they pounced on him.

Lin Bai fought the Huang Family Four Brothers, who overwhelmed him with their coordinated attacks, until Su Lingsu intervened to protect him. When Su Lingshan rushed to help his sister, Lin Bai shielded him from a fatal blow and shared his understanding of the four realms of swordsmanship.

• The Huang Family Four Brothers attacked Lin Bai together and sent him flying, while Jiang Heng refused to intervene.
• Su Lingsu stepped in to defend Lin Bai, but the Huang brothers dismissed her and threatened her.
• Jiang Heng declined to help, and Su Lingshan condemned him before charging to aid his sister.
• The First Huang Brother struck at Su Lingshan, but Lin Bai appeared and blocked the palm for him.
• Lin Bai told Su Lingshan that swordsmanship had four realms: sword in hand, swordless, the heart follows the sword, and the sword follows the heart.

Lin Bai explained his four Sword Dao realms to Su Lingshan, then faced the Huang Family Four Brothers. He killed the Second, Third, and Fourth Brothers in quick succession, leaving the Huang Family Head as the sole surviving brother.

• Lin Bai described the With-Sword Realm, the Without-Sword Realm, the heart-follows-the-sword realm, and the sword-follows-the-heart realm to Su Lingshan.
• Jiang Heng acknowledged that Lin Bai's Sword Dao understanding surpassed his own, while Su Lingshan thanked Lin Bai for his guidance.
• Lin Bai told Su Lingsu to protect Su Lingshan and stepped forward to confront the Huang Family Four Brothers.
• The four brothers attacked from different directions, but Lin Bai pierced the Third Brother's throat and killed him.
• Lin Bai split the Fourth Brother apart with a sword strike, then chased down and killed the Second Brother, stunning Su Lingsu, Jiang Heng, Su Lingshan, and the Huang Family Head.

Lin Bai defeated Huang Family Head, who bargained for his life by revealing the Dragon Locking Well and the Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants needed to open it. Lin Bai let Huang Family Head escape with his life after taking his pendant and a recording Jade Slip, and became interested in the dragon corpse said to lie below the well.

• Huang Family Head attacked Lin Bai with flame Jade Slips, but Lin Bai shattered the flames and cornered him.
• Huang Family Head offered information about the Dragon Locking Well in exchange for his life, explaining that eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants were needed to open it.
• Su Lingsu confirmed that the Dragon Locking Well existed and had been sealed by an array left by Lord Yuanmo.
• Huang Family Head revealed that the owners of the other seven pendants planned to open the well together on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, two months later.
• Lin Bai agreed to spare Huang Family Head if he handed over his Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant and recording Jade Slip, then watched him flee.

Lin Bai learned that the Dragon Locking Well would be opened on the fifteenth day of the eighth month and decided to go, hoping to obtain dragon blood. After parting from Su Lingsu and her group, he headed for the depths of Evil Dragon Island.

• Lin Bai listened to the Jade Slip and learned that eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant holders planned to meet at the Dragon Locking Well on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.
• Lin Bai decided to seek the dragon blood beneath the well and planned to use the next two months to improve his cultivation.
• Su Lingsu warned Lin Bai that the surviving pendant holders were likely powerful, while she and her group chose not to enter the island's depths.
• Lin Bai gave Su Lingshan a Sound Transmission Talisman and invited him to seek help with sword-path questions.
• Lin Bai said farewell to the group and flew toward the depths of Evil Dragon Island.

Lin Bai defeated a powerful tree demon in the depths of Evil Dragon Island and absorbed its Spiritual Energy Crystal, but he worried that his limited spiritual power and lack of pills would leave him vulnerable before the Dragon Locking Well opened. He resolved to find a way to earn spiritual liquid and obtain supplies after returning to Dragon Breeding Island, though he still had no way to get pills while trapped on the island.

• Lin Bai killed a tree demon with the third volume of the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and absorbed its Spiritual Energy Crystal.
• Lin Bai recalled that using the sword art against a dozen tree demons half a month earlier had exhausted his spiritual power and nearly cost him his life.
• Lin Bai took his final White Jade Pill and found that he had only a little over seven hundred jin of spiritual liquid and no other pills or magical treasures.
• Lin Bai decided to seek pills and a way to make money after returning to Dragon Breeding Island, but he could not leave Evil Dragon Island before the Dragon Locking Well opened.
• Lin Bai considered obtaining pills from other martial artists but rejected attacking them for their belongings and had no money to buy from them.

Lin Bai decided that hunting demons on Evil Dragon Island would take too long to help him break through, so he set out to buy pills before the Dragon Locking Well opened. After a martial artist tried to kill him, Lin Bai defeated him and learned about Spirit Abundance Mountain, a supply point where martial artists exchanged goods.

• Lin Bai decided to leave Evil Dragon Island after the Dragon Locking Well opened and went searching for martial artists to buy pills.
• Lin Bai approached a second-stage Life Extinction Realm martial artist and asked to purchase pills.
• The martial artist attacked Lin Bai with silver needles and a saber, claiming that stronger martial artists preyed on the weak.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to overpower and severely wound the martial artist.
• The martial artist begged for mercy and told Lin Bai that Spirit Abundance Mountain was a gathering place where Evil Dragon Island martial artists exchanged supplies.

Lin Bai learned that Spirit Abundance Mountain was a disciple-run trading post on Evil Dragon Island and traveled there to buy cultivation resources. After joining a table of eight martial artists, he watched the first trade begin.

• The young man used his Nine Aperture Soul-Stealing Needles to ambush Lin Bai, but Azure Wood Divine Lightning deflected them.
• Lin Bai killed the young man with Soul Search and learned Spirit Abundance Mountain was real and that the man knew the route there.
• Lin Bai took the young man's nine needles, saber, and nearly four hundred jin of spirit liquid, bringing his total to a thousand jin.
• Lin Bai traveled for three days to Spirit Abundance Mountain and read the stele's rules for seating and trading.
• Lin Bai joined a table of eight martial artists, and a gloomy young man traded five hundred jin of spirit liquid for a sword.

Lin Bai traded a strand of Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi to the martial artist in seat two for five thousand catties of spirit liquid, then bought low-grade Qi Return Pills from the martial artist in seat eight. After the gathering ended, Lin Bai left Spirit Abundance Mountain with his purchases.

• The martial artist in seat two sought a treasure that could break through an array formation, and Lin Bai offered him a strand of Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai sold the Sword Qi to the martial artist in seat two for five thousand catties of spirit liquid.
• Lin Bai asked the table for healing and spiritual-power-restoring pills, and the martial artist in seat eight offered him low-grade Qi Return Pills.
• Lin Bai bought more than two thousand Qi Return Pills from the martial artist in seat eight for eight hundred catties of spirit liquid.
• After the trading session ended, Lin Bai left Spirit Abundance Mountain with the other martial artists.

Lin Bai headed for the Dragon Locking Well after leaving Spirit Abundance Mountain, while several other Dragon Locking Well contenders also made their way there. Jia Qing arrived to find Lan Heng waiting at the site, where he dismissed the surrounding warriors hoping to profit from the opening.

• Lin Bai used the Sword Control Art to escape Lin Yuanrong, who decided to seek him out after the Dragon Locking Well opened.
• Zhu Jingyi gave up searching the outskirts for Zhu Fei's killer and led his group toward the Dragon Locking Well.
• Zhang Quan returned to Evil Dragon Island after a year, intending to break through at the Dragon Locking Well.
• Lan Heng waited at the Dragon Locking Well for three months, and warriors avoided him because he belonged to the Lan Clan.
• Jia Qing arrived at the Dragon Locking Well, and Lan Heng scoffed at the warriors gathered there hoping to claim a share of the spoils.

Eight holders of Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants gathered at the Dragon Locking Well on Evil Dragon Island to open it. Lin Bai arrived carrying a pendant in place of the missing Zhang Tai, and Zhang Quan prepared to begin opening the well.

• Lan Heng and Jia Qing waited at the Dragon Locking Well as martial artists in the jungle watched for the eight pendant holders to arrive.
• Lin Yuanrong arrived and greeted Lan Heng and Jia Qing, then withdrew after Lan Heng showed little interest in speaking with him.
• Zhu Jingyi and the other pendant holders arrived, and Zhang Quan noted that Zhang Tai was still missing.
• Lin Bai arrived with a Dragon-shaped Jade Pendant and explained that Zhang Tai would not be coming, though he denied killing him.
• Zhang Quan accepted Lin Bai as Zhang Tai's replacement and asked all eight holders to take out their pendants so they could open the Dragon Locking Well.

Zhang Quan and the others used the eight Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants to open the Dragon Locking Well and descended into its black mist, while the martial artists outside were kept out. At the bottom, Lin Bai discovered that the monsters surrounding the group were Blood Demons created by the Burial God Curse, an origin that contradicted what he believed about the well.

• Zhang Quan and the other seven pressed their Dragon-shaped Jade Pendants into the chains, and Lin Bai placed the final pendant to open the Dragon Locking Well.
• Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, and the others descended into the well, followed by Lin Bai, while the waiting martial artists were repelled by a force at its entrance.
• Lin Bai and the others fell through the black mist for a quarter of an hour, hearing strange cries grow closer as they neared the bottom.
• Lin Bai landed and saw Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, and the others surrounded by monsters.
• Lin Bai recognized the monsters as Blood Demons born from the Giant Gods' blood through the Burial God Curse and wondered why they were beneath the well.

Lin Bai and the others escaped the Blood Demons beneath the Dragon Locking Well and discovered the corpse of a Divine Dragon torn in half beside a Giant God's severed arm. Lin Bai inferred that the Giant God had killed the dragon and that Lord Yuanmo had sealed the Blood Demons; Zhang Quan began stripping scales from the corpse.

• Jia Qing, Zhang Quan, Lan Heng, Zhu Jingyi, and Lin Yuanrong escaped the black mist, and Lin Bai, Zhao Ying, and Li Mo followed.
• Lin Bai and the others found a colossal Divine Dragon corpse and realized it had been torn apart while alive.
• Zhao Ying spotted a gigantic severed arm beside the dragon, and Lin Bai recognized it as belonging to a Giant God.
• Lin Bai recalled a vision of the Giant God tearing the dragon apart and inferred that Lord Yuanmo had sealed the Blood Demons around the remains.
• Zhang Quan began removing the dragon's scales, while Zhu Jingyi discovered that the dragon's blood had crystallized.

Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to cleave the mountain of Dragon Blood after the others failed to take anything from the dragon corpse or severed arm. He left with three Dragon Blood Crystals, while the others watched in astonishment.

• Zhang Quan, Jia Qing, Zhao Ying, Li Mo, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi failed to remove dragon scales or Dragon Blood Crystals, and Lin Bai explained that others had likely failed as well.
• Zhang Quan urged the group to leave before the Dragon Locking Well closed, and everyone began turning back.
• Lin Bai stayed to try the mountain of Dragon Blood again and infused his demon sword with the Devouring Sword Soul.
• Lin Bai cleaved the mountain open with one strike, stunning the others as they turned to watch.
• Lin Bai picked up three Dragon Blood Crystals, the only pieces he could take with the Devouring Sword Soul at its current level.

Lin Bai cleaved Dragon Blood Mountain and obtained three Dragon Blood Crystals, but Zhu Jingyi attacked him after recognizing the Jade Slip Lin Bai had taken from his slain brother, Zhu Fei. Zhang Quan intervened to protect Lin Bai in exchange for help removing a dragon scale, openly defying Li Jiuge as the confrontation escalated.

• Lin Bai cleaved Dragon Blood Mountain apart and took three Dragon Blood Crystals, prompting Zhu Jingyi to demand the crystals and the method he used.
• Zhu Jingyi attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai blocked the strike with Zhu Fei's Jade Slip, which revealed that Lin Bai had killed Zhu Jingyi's younger brother.
• Lin Bai admitted that Zhu Fei had provoked him, and Zhu Jingyi launched a fierce attack to avenge him and seize the crystals.
• Zhu Jingyi struck Lin Bai through his defenses and sent him flying, but Zhang Quan stepped in and blocked the next attack.
• Zhang Quan asked Lin Bai to remove a dragon scale, then vowed to protect him and dismissed Zhu Jingyi's warning about opposing Li Jiuge.

Zhu Jingyi attacked Lin Bai for the Dragon Blood Crystal while Zhao Ying and Li Moran held Zhang Quan back. Lin Bai survived Zhu Jingyi’s King Grade Martial Skill and launched a counterattack with his two flying swords.

• Zhao Ying and Li Moran revealed they served Li Jiuge and attacked Zhang Quan while Zhu Jingyi charged at Lin Bai.
• Jia Qing refused to help, and Zhang Quan resolved to risk everything to protect Lin Bai and obtain the Dragon Scales.
• Lin Bai swallowed Qi Return Pills, restored his spiritual power, and clashed with Zhu Jingyi using Three Foot Edge.
• Zhu Jingyi struck Lin Bai with the King Grade Martial Skill Ninefold Canglang Waves, leaving him badly wounded but alive.
• Lin Bai activated the Slaughtering Formation and sent his two flying swords toward Zhu Jingyi from within a hundred meters.

Lin Bai wounded Zhu Jingyi with his flying swords, but Zhu Jingyi joined forces with Lin Yuanrong and Lan Heng to seize the Dragon Blood Crystals. Lan Heng attacked Lin Bai with his time-freezing Bloodline Inheritance Martial Soul, and Lin Bai was sent flying while the others reeled at the Lan Clan’s power.

• Lin Bai wounded Zhu Jingyi with his flying swords and followed up with Hidden Dragon in the Abyss.
• Lin Yuanrong intervened to help Zhu Jingyi in exchange for an introduction to Li Jiuge, and the two shattered Lin Bai’s sword strike.
• Lin Yuanrong confronted Lin Bai over the Forbidden-Breaking Sword Qi he had bought at Spirit Abundance Mountain.
• Lan Heng demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Dragon Blood Crystals, then used Heavenly Seal Half Breath to freeze time and attack him.
• Lin Bai blocked Lan Heng’s palm with Azure Wood Divine Lightning but was sent flying a hundred meters.
• Zhu Jingyi and Lin Yuanrong were astonished by Lan Heng’s Bloodline Inheritance Martial Soul.

Lin Bai unleashed his strongest sword strike against Lan Heng, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi, then used Giant God Power to overwhelm them. Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi retreated as Blood Demons arrived, and the others began to flee as well.

• Lin Bai combined three intents into one sword strike that wounded Lan Heng, Lin Yuanrong, and Zhu Jingyi, then restored some of his spiritual energy with Qi Return Pills.
• Lin Bai transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and broke through Lan Heng's Heavenly Seal Half Breath, striking him down.
• Lin Bai used Blood Sea Seven Steps to injure Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi, prompting Lin Yuanrong and Zhu Jingyi to retreat.
• Blood Demons rushed toward the group, and Lin Bai punched the attackers into bloody mist.
• Zhao Ying and Li Mo left after Zhu Jingyi withdrew.