Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai confronted a Giant God severed arm whose will shattered his Divine Crystal and tried to use his blood and bones to locate and annihilate his relatives. He struck back with the Devouring Sword Soul, but the arm declared that his Heaven Swallowing Race connection and everyone tied to him must be exterminated, leaving him facing another deadly attack.

• Lin Yuanrong, Zhu Jingyi, Zhao Ying, Li Mo, Zhang Quan, and Jia Qing fled as Blood Demons swarmed the Dragon Locking Well, and Lin Bai gave Zhang Quan a dragon scale before preparing to leave.
• The Giant God severed arm attacked Lin Bai, declared that he had offended the Giant God by borrowing its power, and shattered the Divine Crystal that sustained his Giant God cultivation.
• The arm began drawing out Lin Bai's blood and bones to trace his blood relatives, including members of the Lin Family and Lin Yue, and threatened to exterminate them.
• Lin Bai refused to let the arm target his Lin clan and summoned the Devouring Sword Soul, which struck the severed arm away.
• The arm recognized Lin Bai as a remnant of the Heaven Swallowing Race, renewed its threat against everyone connected to him, and pointed at him again as he sensed imminent danger.

The Giant God Race’s blood-and-bone lure sent red threads after everyone connected to Lin Bai across multiple regions and worlds. As the threads reached powerful figures and Lin Bai’s family, some sensed the danger or resisted, while the old man recognized the lure and worried about Lin Bai.

• Red threads emerged from Lin Bai’s fused blood and bones and sought out people connected to his bloodline.
• In Divine Martial Nation, threads ensnared members of the Lin Lineage and wrapped around Emperor Xiao, who sensed danger and murmured Lin Bai’s name.
• The White-Haired Woman, Tie Haitang, Lin Yue, and Lin Yue’s daughter were targeted by the threads.
• A pale woman in a Southern Province cave froze a thread before it could reach her neck and ordered it to leave.
• In an unknown world, a young man used jade tablets to form an array that blocked a thread, while an old man caught another and identified it as the Giant God’s blood-and-bone lure.

An old man forged a Stone Sword from Nether Mountain and sent it across the Barren Ancient Continent to sever the blood-red threads targeting those connected to Lin Bai. The sword reached the Dragon Locking Well, where it shattered Lin Bai’s blood and bones and cut the threads, while its use risked drawing the old man into the war between the Giant Gods and the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• The old man with a Dao Bone recognized the Giant God Race’s blood-and-bone guide and forged a Stone Sword, imbuing it with his unbreakable will.
• The Stone Sword severed a red thread near the young man, who warned that its appearance could drag his master into the war between the Giant Gods and the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• The Stone Sword emerged over the Central Sacred Nation, cut two threads, and its voice left Apex Realm experts shaken and bleeding.
• The Stone Sword crossed the Southern Province and the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, cutting threads as cultivators watched in alarm.
• The Stone Sword entered Evil Dragon Island’s Dragon Locking Well, shattered Lin Bai’s blood and bones, and severed the threads around him.

Lin Bai used the Demon Flower and Devouring Sword Soul to cut a finger from the Giant God’s severed arm, but Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword was blasted into spatial turbulence. The awakened divine dragon intervened and warned Lin Bai that he must remove the Demon Seed before entering the Dao or Heart Demon Implantation would consume his mind.

• Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword severed Lin Bai’s blood bones and threads, then attacked the Giant God’s severed arm.
• The Giant God’s remnant will struck the Stone Sword, cracking it, while Lin Bai bloomed the Demon Flower and transformed his hair crimson.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to cut off one of the Giant God’s fingers, but the Giant God’s counterattack hurled the Stone Sword into spatial turbulence.
• Lin Bai vowed to recover Ling Tianzi’s sword and turned his killing intent toward the severed arm.
• The divine dragon revived, declared that its Dragon Clan would end the chaos, and warned Lin Bai to cut out the Demon Seed before entering the Dao.

Lin Bai survived the battle beneath the Dragon Locking Well after Ao Yuan dragged Fu Yao into the void, then stayed to heal rather than face the ambush waiting outside. Zhu Jingyi eventually gave up waiting, but Lin Yuanrong suspected Lin Bai was still alive and planned to kill him for the Dragon Blood Crystal.

• Ao Yuan revealed his identity as a Dragon Race member and dragged Fu Yao, a remnant of the Giant God Race, into the void after Fu Yao threatened Lin Bai and his clan.
• The demonic flower and Lin Bai's transformed appearance faded, and he collapsed with severe injuries after the battle.
• Lin Bai decided to remain beneath the Dragon Locking Well and spent two months healing, while Zhu Jingyi and nearly five hundred martial artists waited outside to ambush him.
• After the formation closed and another month passed without Lin Bai emerging, Zhu Jingyi concluded he had died and left with the others.
• Lin Yuanrong stayed behind, believing Lin Bai was alive, and planned to kill him and take the Dragon Blood Crystal to earn Li Jiuge's favor.

After healing beneath the Dragon Locking Well, Lin Bai refined three Dragon Blood Crystals and broke through to the first stage of the Life Extinction Realm. He resolved to retrieve Ling Tianzi’s lost Stone Sword and began weighing whether to sever his Heart Demon Seed, while accepting that rebuilding his Ancient God Scripture cultivation would take years.

• Lin Bai woke after two months of healing beneath the Dragon Locking Well and found that Dragon Blood Mountain and the dragon corpse’s treasures were gone.
• Lin Bai refined three Dragon Blood Crystals with the Devouring Sword Soul and advanced from the peak of the Great Perfection of the Yang God Realm to the first stage of the Life Extinction Realm.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Lin Bai vowed to recover Ling Tianzi’s Stone Sword, which had been swept into spatial turbulence.
• Lin Bai recalled warnings from the dragon corpse, Ling Tianzi, and Xiao Xiao that Heart Demon Implantation was twisting his nature, and decided to seek a way to resolve its flaw before entering the Dao.
• Lin Bai concluded that the shattered Divine Crystal and severed meridians made restoring his Ancient God Scripture cultivation difficult and potentially too time-consuming.

Lin Bai emerged from the Dragon Locking Well after two months and learned that Master Fang’s deadline was nearly up. He killed Lin Yuanrong, who had been waiting to steal the Dragon Blood Crystal, but Lin Yuanrong revealed Lin Bai’s identity to Li Jiuge’s allies before he died.

• Lin Bai escaped the formation covering the Dragon Locking Well and discovered that two months had passed since it opened.
• Lin Yuanrong confronted Lin Bai, intending to kill him and take the Dragon Blood Crystal for Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and Dragon Slayer Swordplay to defeat Lin Yuanrong.
• Lin Yuanrong sent a message to Zhu Jingyi identifying Lin Bai as the martial artist who had obtained three Dragon Blood Crystals and urging him to notify Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai killed Lin Yuanrong, then felt a sense of foreboding as he noticed the Sound Transmission Talisman.

Lin Bai left Evil Dragon Island and arrived at Spirit Master Island as the martial contest between Fang Yiyun, Master Su, and Bei Haiyan began. He reached the island just as Tan Jing and Ouyang Jing mocked him for being absent, leaving the contest about to start.

• Lin Bai put away Lin Yuanrong's Storage Bag and traveled from Evil Dragon Island to Nine Heavens Island.
• Martial artists gathered on Spirit Master Island for the contest between Fang Yiyun, Master Su, and Bei Haiyan after five months of training their disciples.
• Fang Yiyun's disciples had reached the Life Extinction Realm, while Ouyang Jing and Tan Jing prepared to challenge them.
• Tan Jing and Ouyang Jing mocked Lin Bai for not appearing, and Changsun Yun, Meng Li, Shu Xiang, and Wu Ming defended him.
• Lin Bai arrived on Spirit Master Island, answered the mockery, and apologized to Fang Yiyun for keeping him waiting.

Lin Bai arrived at Spirit Master Island as Fang Yiyun proposed a wheel battle, with his disciples defending the arena against Su Ling and Bei Haiyan’s ten disciples. Meng Li defeated Luo Song with his Twin Swords Dao, leaving the contest underway.

• Lin Bai arrived, and Su Ling and Bei Haiyan agreed to Fang Yiyun’s plan for a wheel battle.
• Fang Yiyun sent Meng Li to defend the arena, and Bei Haiyan chose Luo Song to challenge him.
• Luo Song attacked Meng Li, but Meng Li repelled him with a greatsword and the Overlord Sword Dao.
• Meng Li used his short sword to pierce Luo Song’s shoulder and knock him out of the arena.
• Lin Bai recognized Meng Li’s Twin Swords Dao as Fang Yiyun confirmed its name.

Meng Li used the Twin Swords Dao to defeat Luo Song and Pan Feiyang, while Lin Bai explained cultivation as a way to overcome one’s shortcomings. Changsun Yun then won two battles before Wu Ming took his place.

• Meng Li defeated Luo Song with the Twin Swords Dao, astonishing Lin Bai and Bei Haiyan.
• Pan Feiyang attacked Meng Li, but Meng Li overwhelmed him until he conceded.
• Lin Bai explained that cultivation meant working to make up for one’s shortcomings, and Fang Yiyun said Lin Bai’s understanding surpassed theirs.
• Fang Yiyun sent Changsun Yun to replace the exhausted Meng Li, and Changsun Yun won both battles decisively.
• Wu Ming took the field after Changsun Yun.

Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Meng Li won six matches in succession for Fang Yiyun, and Shu Xiang then narrowly defeated Ying Tianchao. Tanjing overwhelmed Shu Xiang in their match and attacked her even after she tried to surrender, leaving her badly injured at Fang Yiyun's feet.

• Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and Meng Li defeated six of Su Ling and Bei Haiyan's disciples without losing a match.
• Fang Yiyun sent Shu Xiang to fight, and she defeated Ying Tianchao after a lengthy struggle.
• Su Ling and Bei Haiyan sent Tanjing to face Shu Xiang, hoping he would secure a victory for their side.
• Tanjing struck Shu Xiang hard enough to make her vomit blood and fly across the arena.
• Shu Xiang tried to surrender, but Tanjing kicked her out of the arena and she crashed at Fang Yiyun's feet.

After Tan Jing brutally attacked Shu Xiang even after she surrendered, Fang Yiyun decided to send Lin Bai into the martial contest. The chapter ended with Lin Bai agreeing and walking toward the arena.

• Tan Jing kicked the injured Shu Xiang out of the arena, provoking anger from Meng Li, Changsun Yun, and Wu Ming.
• Su Ling and Bei Haiyan argued that Tan Jing had followed the contest rules, then asked Fang Yiyun about Shu Xiang's condition.
• Fang Yiyun reassured everyone that Shu Xiang would recover and announced that he would teach Su Ling and Bei Haiyan's disciples a lesson.
• Fang Yiyun ordered Lin Bai to go up and beat them to death.
• Lin Bai said, "All right," and walked toward the Martial Arts Arena.

Lin Bai faced Tan Jing in the Martial Arts Arena after Fang Yiyun accepted the challenge on his behalf. Tan Jing unleashed the mid-grade King Grade Martial Skill Palm Thunder and believed he had won, but Fang Yiyun told him to look behind him.

• Fang Yiyun agreed to let Lin Bai and Tan Jing settle the challenge while the mentors watched from the sidelines.
• Tan Jing attacked Lin Bai with Palm Thunder, a mid-grade King Grade Martial Skill that Bei Haiyan had taught him.
• Tan Jing's strike exploded across the Martial Arts Arena, and the spectators assumed Lin Bai had been defeated.
• Tan Jing celebrated his victory and challenged Fang Yiyun to send up another disciple.
• Fang Yiyun questioned whether Tan Jing had really won and told him to look behind him.

Lin Bai survived Tan Jing’s Palm Thunder with Protective Lightning and then overwhelmed him with a single punch. Tan Jing admitted defeat, but Lin Bai slapped out all his remaining teeth anyway.

• Tan Jing’s Palm Thunder failed to hurt Lin Bai, and Fang Yiyun recognized Lin Bai’s Protective Lightning.
• Fang Yiyun explained Protective Lightning as a natural defense formed through a symbiotic bond with the power of heaven and earth.
• Tan Jing attacked again, but Lin Bai’s lightning web stopped him ten meters away.
• Lin Bai declared he could defeat Tan Jing without a sword and knocked him flying with one punch.
• Lin Bai slapped Tan Jing across the face, knocking out all his teeth, as Tan Jing begged him to stop.

Lin Bai continued beating Tan Jing despite his surrender, relying on rules Bei Haiyan and Su Ling had established. When Bei Haiyan tried to attack Lin Bai, Fang Yiyun severed his arm, and Tan Jing apologized to Shu Xiang and fled; Lin Bai then challenged the remaining disciples, including Ouyang Jing.

• Lin Bai beat Tan Jing around the Martial Arts Arena and demanded that he kneel and apologize to Shu Xiang.
• Bei Haiyan ordered Lin Bai to stop, but Lin Bai and Fang Yiyun pointed out that Bei Haiyan and Su Ling had set no rule against attacking after surrender.
• Bei Haiyan charged into the arena to cripple Lin Bai, and Fang Yiyun severed Bei Haiyan's arm with a single sword strike.
• Bei Haiyan apologized to Fang Yiyun, who spared him after warning him to leave.
• Tan Jing knelt before Shu Xiang, apologized, and fled after Lin Bai let him go.
• Lin Bai challenged the other disciples, while Ouyang Jing avoided his gaze and showed no desire to fight.

After Fang Yiyun and Lin Bai won the contest on Spirit Master Island, Lan Ling told Lan Yuxin about Fang Yiyun’s former rivalry with Lin Duo and learned that the Crimson Tower and other intruders had returned to the Sea of Gods and Demons. Back on Nine Heavens Island, Lin Bai asked Fang Yiyun where he could obtain spirit liquid quickly.

• Su Ling and Bei Haiyan admitted defeat after Lin Bai and Fang Yiyun won, and Fang Yiyun left with Lin Bai and the others.
• Lan Ling recounted how Lin Duo had defeated Fang Yiyun seven times in the Death Reversal Realm, driving Fang Yiyun to shatter his cultivation and swear not to enter that realm until Lin Duo reached its summit.
• Lan Yuxin told Lan Ling that the Crimson Tower had returned to the Sea of Gods and Demons and that its members and other infiltrators had killed disciples who discovered them.
• Fang Yiyun cooked Azure Spirit Fish for Lin Bai and the others on Nine Heavens Island.
• Lin Bai told Fang Yiyun that his trip to Evil Dragon Island had shown him that he needed spirit liquid, then asked where he could obtain it quickly.

After learning that the Island of Destiny offered missions for spirit liquid, Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island to recover and plan his next move. He found the island destroyed and confronted Zhu Jingyi and his men, who attacked him on orders to seize the Dragon Blood Crystal.

• Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai that he could earn spirit liquid by selling treasures at the Heavenly Treasure Islands or accepting missions on the Island of Destiny.
• Lin Bai thanked Fang Yiyun, said farewell to Changsun Yun, Meng Li, Wu Ming, and Shuxiang, then returned to Dragon Breeding Island.
• Lin Bai found Dragon Breeding Island's defensive formation shattered and its buildings and landscape reduced to ruins.
• Zhu Jingyi appeared with more than a dozen martial artists and admitted they had destroyed the island as a gift for Lin Bai.
• Zhu Jingyi ordered his men to kill Lin Bai and bring the Dragon Blood Crystal to Senior Brother Li, and Lin Bai fought back with his sword arts.

Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island and attacked Zhu Jingyi and his men for destroying it and seeking the Dragon Blood Crystal. After Lin Bai defeated Zhu Jingyi and killed the others, Senior Brother Li appeared behind him.

• Lin Bai recognized that Zhu Jingyi had destroyed Dragon Breeding Island after Lin Yuanrong alerted him that Lin Bai was alive.
• Lin Bai killed the first five attackers with the Single Word Sword Art and struck Zhu Jingyi down with Three Foot Edge.
• Zhu Jingyi urged his remaining men to attack for Senior Brother Li's reward, but Lin Bai killed them with the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation.
• Lin Bai pressed his sword to Zhu Jingyi's throat and dismissed his threats about Senior Brother Li.
• Senior Brother Li appeared behind Lin Bai as Zhu Jingyi called for his help.

Li Jiuge arrived at Dragon Breeding Island and demanded that Lin Bai surrender the Dragon Blood Crystal and his Storage Bag. Lin Bai refused, and Li Jiuge prepared to attack him himself.

• Li Jiuge appeared above the ruins of Dragon Breeding Island as martial artists surrounded the island.
• Li Jiuge blasted Lin Bai away with a flick of his finger, allowing Zhu Jingyi to escape and report that Lin Bai had the Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Li Jiuge demanded the Dragon Blood Crystal, claiming that anything he wanted belonged to him, but Lin Bai said he had already refined it.
• Zhu Jingyi argued that Lin Bai could not have refined the crystal and urged Li Jiuge to search Lin Bai's Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai refused to surrender his Storage Bag, and Li Jiuge extended a finger to attack him himself.

Li Jiange attacked Lin Bai on Dragon Breeding Island and demanded the Dragon Blood Crystal, while Myriad Stars Island’s fighters prevented Lin Bai from escaping. Just as Li Jiange moved to kill him, Zhang Xianqi arrived and asked him to spare Lin Bai in return for his younger brother’s debt of gratitude.

• Li Jiange struck Lin Bai with overwhelming force, but Lin Bai refused to surrender the Dragon Blood Crystal.
• Li Jiange attacked Lin Bai again, and Lin Bai tried to flee on his flying sword before a ninth-level Life Extinction Realm martial artist knocked him back onto the island.
• Li Jiange took Lin Bai’s two flying swords and threatened to kill him, while Lin Bai vowed to return if he survived.
• Zhang Xianqi appeared and asked Li Jiange to let Lin Bai go because his younger brother owed Lin Bai a favor.
• Zhang Quan descended onto Dragon Breeding Island and helped the badly injured Lin Bai to his feet.