Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai used his newly acquired wealth to buy an Alchemy Furnace and a large supply of spiritual herbs from the Black Market. He learned that spiritual flames were unavailable there, so he bought Earth Fire Crystals as a temporary substitute before planning to take the Pill Island assessment.

• Lin Bai counted the spiritual liquid Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng had given him, bringing his total to one million two hundred thousand drops, and decided to buy an Alchemy Furnace and spiritual herbs.
• Sun De showed Lin Bai the Black Market's available Alchemy Furnaces, and Lin Bai chose the Seven Moon Cauldron for seventy thousand drops of spiritual liquid.
• Lin Bai gave Sun De a list of more than ten thousand kinds of spiritual herbs and ordered ten portions of each, then paid three hundred and seventy thousand drops of spiritual liquid for the herbs and cauldron.
• Sun De warned Lin Bai that the Seven Moon Cauldron might have belonged to a slain alchemist and could bring trouble if recognized, and Lin Bai agreed to be careful.
• Sun De explained that the Black Market had no spiritual flames and described Earth Fire Crystals as a temporary substitute, so Lin Bai bought one hundred of them for one hundred thousand drops of spiritual liquid.

After returning from the Black Market with Earth Fire Crystals and an auction token, Lin Bai headed back toward Dragon Breeding Island but was ambushed at sea by five assassins seeking his Tribulation Demon Soul Pill. He drew the Demon Sword and unleashed a powerful strike against them.

• Sun De gave Lin Bai a hundred Earth Fire Crystals and a Heavenly Treasure Pavilion Auction token, then told him that the Heaven's Will Five Elements Formation would be auctioned in seven days.
• Lin Bai left Blackrock Island for Dragon Breeding Island, counted his remaining spirit liquid, and considered whether it would be enough to bid for the formation.
• Beyond the Heavenly Treasure Islands, Lin Bai stopped and confronted five black-clad martial artists who had followed him.
• The assassins demanded Lin Bai's Tribulation Demon Soul Pill and threatened to kill him when he refused.
• The five second-stage Life Extinction Realm martial artists attacked Lin Bai, and he summoned the Demon Sword and struck back with Three Foot Edge.

Lin Bai defeated and killed the five warriors who ambushed him, then returned to Dragon Breeding Island and found it restored. Bao'er explained that Lan Yuxin had repaired the island, and Lin Bai began refining a Cosmos Pill while Bao'er watched.

• Sun De learned that five second-level Life Extinction Realm warriors had targeted Lin Bai and left with Black Market warriors to help him.
• Lin Bai severely wounded the five attackers, killed four with one sword, and slew the last as he tried to flee.
• Sun De arrived after Lin Bai had left, found the five corpses, and concluded that Lin Bai was a skilled sword cultivator.
• Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island and found its palaces and mountains restored to their original state.
• Bao'er told Lin Bai that Lan Yuxin had brought people to repair the island and had left after waiting for him.
• Lin Bai prepared the Seven Moon Cauldron and began refining a ninth-grade Cosmos Pill while Bao'er watched.

Lin Bai refined sixty-nine top-grade Cosmos Pills and gave some to Bao'er, discovering that her Dragon race bloodline had made her body comparable to a Divine Core Realm martial artist despite her being less than half a month old. He then entered seclusion to study the final six forms of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, but the Jade Slip's vision stopped after the first three forms.

• Lin Bai refined three batches of Cosmos Pills, producing sixty-nine top-grade pills, and fed two to Bao'er.
• Lin Bai examined Bao'er and discovered that she was condensing a Divine Core and that pill impurities had accumulated in her meridians.
• Lin Bai gave Bao'er a bottle of ten Cosmos Pills and warned her to save them for when she was hungry.
• Lin Bai entered a secret chamber to cultivate, noting that nearly half of the three months he had were already gone.
• Lin Bai studied Lan Yuxin's Jade Slip containing the final six forms of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, but its ink-wash figure demonstrated only the first three forms before stopping.

Lin Bai comprehended and practiced the fourth form of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, Seeking the Dragon, while Bao'er’s appetite for pills and the danger to Dragon Breeding Island remained concerns. Lan Yuxin agreed to join Lin Bai and Bao'er at the upcoming Heavenly Treasure Islands auction, where Lin Bai planned to buy a powerful island-protection formation.

• Lin Bai endured the sword intent of the first four forms of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, then stopped before attempting the dangerous fifth form.
• After half a day of practice, Lin Bai grasped the basics of Seeking the Dragon and split a mountain on Dragon Breeding Island in two.
• Lan Yuxin arrived with Bao'er and explained that she had restored the island and its formation, but warned that the weak formation could be breached again.
• Lin Bai told Lan Yuxin he planned to buy the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation at the upcoming auction and said he had arranged the spirit liquid for it.
• Lan Yuxin agreed to accompany Lin Bai to the Heavenly Treasure Islands auction, and Bao'er persuaded them to take her along.

Lin Bai prepared Bao'er for a trip to the Heavenly Treasure Islands, then refined pills for her and for his own cultivation. He finished making the Heavenly Square and Earth Profound Pills just as Lan Yuxin urged him to hurry to the auction.

• Lan Yuxin urged Lin Bai to let Bao'er visit the Heavenly Treasure Islands, and he agreed after warning her to hide her true form and Dragon Qi.
• Lin Bai refined seven batches of Cosmos Pills and hung them in a Storage Bag around Bao'er's neck; Lan Yuxin was astonished by the pills inside and taught Bao'er to use the bag.
• Lin Bai refined ten batches of Heavenly Square Pills, producing six, then refined ten batches of Earth Profound Pills, producing ninety.
• Lan Yuxin arrived with Bao'er and told Lin Bai the auction on the Heavenly Treasure Islands was about to begin, so they set off.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin arrived at Treasure Mountain Island for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion auction, where Lin Bai used his alchemist status to gain access to a private room. After confronting Zhu Jingyi, Lin Bai remained determined to face Li Jiuge when their three-month deadline arrived.

• Lan Yuxin brought Lin Bai and Bao'er to Treasure Mountain Island amid the crowds gathering for the auction.
• Lin Bai showed his honored-alchemist token and received a private room, while Lan Yuxin urged him to take the Pill Island assessment.
• Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin encountered Zhu Jingyi, who asked whether Lin Bai had reconsidered Li Jiuge's demand; Lin Bai told him Li Jiuge could come find him in three months.
• A young nobleman beside Zhu Jingyi learned that Lin Bai was Li Jiuge's enemy and promised to use his wealth against him at the auction.
• In Heaven Room Number Ninety-Nine, Lin Bai told Lan Yuxin that he had time to prepare for Li Jiuge and would not let him toy with him easily.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin attended a Heavenly Treasure Pavilion auction hosted by Yun Feng, where the first lot was a thirty-thousand-year-old Thousand Dreams Dewdrop Flower. Bidding climbed past one hundred thousand drops of spirit liquid, while Lin Bai chose not to compete for it.

• Lan Yuxin explained that she had visited Dragon Breeding Island to protect Bao'er and warn Li Jiuge that the Lan Clan had ties to Lin Bai.
• Yun Feng opened the auction, and Zhu Jingyi learned that Lin Bai was in Private Room Ninety-Nine under the identity of an alchemist before asking Jia Renfeng to handle the rest.
• Yun Feng revealed the Thousand Dreams Dewdrop Flower as the first item, surprising the auction crowd and catching Lin Bai's interest as an alchemist.
• Bidders in the plaza raised the price to fifty thousand drops of spirit liquid before private-room bidders pushed it above one hundred thousand.
• Lin Bai decided not to bid because buying the flower would leave him with the additional expense of obtaining the other ingredients for a King-Grade Pill.

Lin Bai bought the unwanted Heaven Measuring Ruler, a massive unfinished sword forged from Starry Sky Heavy Iron, after the auction drew no bids. Jia Renfeng then raised the price against him, and Lin Bai realized someone was deliberately targeting him.

• After more than a hundred treasures had been auctioned, Yun Feng presented the Heaven Measuring Ruler and explained that the unfinished weapon weighed thirty-six thousand catties and could become heavier when refined.
• When the hall showed no interest and Yun Feng prepared to remove it, Lin Bai offered eleven thousand spirit fluids to buy it.
• Lan Yuxin questioned why Lin Bai wanted the weapon, and he told her he was buying it for fun.
• In another private room, Zhu Jingyi told Jia Renfeng that Lin Bai had bid, and Jia Renfeng said he would handle the rest.
• Lin Bai raised his bid to twenty thousand spirit fluids, and Jia Renfeng immediately countered with twenty-five thousand, making Lin Bai realize the bidder was targeting him.

Lin Bai bought the Heaven Measuring Ruler for fifty thousand catties of spirit liquid after Jia Renfeng deliberately drove up the price, while Zhu Jingyi mocked him for paying so much for supposedly useless Starry Sky Heavy Iron. Lin Bai revealed that he had a specific use for the weapon and planned to complete its forging, leaving him eager to use it in his Twin Swords Dao.

• Lin Bai and Jia Renfeng repeatedly outbid each other for the Heaven Measuring Ruler until Lin Bai offered fifty thousand catties of spirit liquid and Jia Renfeng stopped.
• Zhu Jingyi and Jia Renfeng mocked Lin Bai for buying Starry Sky Heavy Iron, which they said was too difficult to smelt and was considered scrap iron.
• Ling Xiang delivered the Heaven Measuring Ruler to Lin Bai and told him it had failed to sell at auctions for ten years.
• Lin Bai paid Ling Xiang and told Lan Yuxin that he had a great use for the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Lin Bai thought that mastering the heavy ruler and the Demonic Sword would help him cultivate the Twin Swords Dao and that completing the ruler would make its power shake the Eastern Province.

After securing the Heaven Measuring Ruler, Lin Bai waited for the auction’s final lot, the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation, and learned it could protect an island from attacks below the Ascension Realm. Zhu Jingyi bid on the formation for Li Jiuge, but Lin Bai immediately challenged his offer, leaving the auction in another bidding duel.

• Lin Bai dismissed the crowd’s mockery and remained pleased that he had won the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• As the auction neared its end, Zhu Jingyi told Jia Renfeng that Li Jiuge had sent him to obtain the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation for Myriad Stars Island.
• Yun Feng unveiled the formation scroll and explained that it could protect an island, travel with its owner, and withstand attacks below the Ascension Realm.
• Lan Yuxin noted the formation could help defend Lin Bai’s island if Li Jiuge’s forces attacked, while Lin Bai said that was not his only reason for wanting it.
• Zhu Jingyi opened the bidding at two hundred thousand drops of spirit liquid, and Lin Bai countered with two hundred thousand and one.
• Zhu Jingyi raised his bid to two hundred and ten thousand drops, and Lin Bai answered with two hundred and ten thousand and one, prompting the crowd to recognize their rivalry.

Lin Bai and Zhu Jingyi competed for the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation as Long Yunhai, a Life Extinction Rankings expert, entered the bidding. After Zhu Jingyi revealed that Li Jiuge had entrusted him to obtain it, Long Yunhai backed down.

• Lin Bai bid 270,000 spiritual fluids for the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation, and Long Yunhai raised the offer to 280,000.
• Lan Yuxin explained that Long Yunhai ranked ninety-ninth on the Life Extinction Rankings and described the academy's rankings and Quasi-Holy Sons.
• Long Yunhai revealed his identity and expected the other bidders to yield, but Zhu Jingyi bid 300,000 spiritual fluids.
• Long Yunhai confronted Zhu Jingyi, who said Li Jiuge had entrusted him to bring back the formation.
• Long Yunhai recognized Li Jiuge's status and influence, then withdrew from the bidding.

Lin Bai challenged Zhu Jingyi for the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation despite Zhu Jingyi invoking Li Jiuge’s name, and their bids climbed to eight hundred thousand spirit liquid. Short on funds, Lin Bai offered Yun Feng a treasure from a jade bottle for appraisal so he could raise the money to continue bidding.

• After Zhu Jingyi invoked Li Jiuge’s name, the auction hall fell silent and the bidding for the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation stalled at three hundred thousand spirit liquid.
• Lin Bai bid three hundred thousand and one spirit liquid, then traded increasingly high bids with Zhu Jingyi until Zhu Jingyi offered eight hundred thousand.
• Lin Bai fell silent because he had only a little over seven hundred thousand spirit liquid, and Lan Yuxin offered him two hundred thousand to help buy the formation.
• Lin Bai declined Lan Yuxin’s offer and asked Yun Feng to appraise a treasure he could sell on the spot.
• Lin Bai tossed Yun Feng an ordinary-looking jade bottle as the martial artists in the hall watched and speculated about its value.

Lin Bai sold a Tribulation Pill to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion for five hundred thousand Spirit Fluids, then used the money to win the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation for one million. The auction ended with Yun Feng hinting that a pill worth even more than the formation would headline the next grand auction.

• Yun Feng identified the pill in Lin Bai's jade bottle as a Tribulation Pill and offered five hundred thousand Spirit Fluids for it.
• Lin Bai accepted Yun Feng's offer, and Ling Xiang delivered the Spirit Fluids to his private room.
• Lin Bai bid one million Spirit Fluids for the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation, leaving Zhu Jingyi unable to compete.
• Yun Feng awarded the formation to Lin Bai and announced that the next grand auction's final treasure would be a pill worth more than the formation.
• Ling Xiang delivered the formation to Lin Bai and questioned his claim that the Spirit Fluids were long-term savings.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin activated the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation to protect Dragon Breeding Island, where Bao'er fell into a deep sleep as she began condensing her Divine Core. A message that the Divine Demon Realm would open in two months drew Lan Yuxin's attention, and she revealed that the sealed Demon Sect Martial Hall was rumored to lie within it.

• Lin Bai received the Heavenly Intent Five Elements Formation from Ling Xiang and left Treasure Mountain Island with Lan Yuxin and Bao'er.
• Lin Bai placed the formation's scroll in Bao'er's hidden cave on Dragon Breeding Island and activated the formation to shield the island.
• Bao'er grew drowsy and fell asleep in Lan Yuxin's arms as Lin Bai explained that she was beginning to condense her Divine Core and would awaken with Divine Core Realm cultivation.
• Lan Feng sent Lan Yuxin word that the Divine Demon Realm would open in two months, prompting her to prepare to return to the Lan Clan.
• Lan Yuxin told Lin Bai that the Divine Demon Realm contained the sealed battlefield of the Gods and Demon Sects and was rumored to hold the Demon Sect Martial Hall.

Lan Yuxin warned Lin Bai that the Divine Demon Realm might be a trap targeting the newly chosen Demon Sect disciple, but Lin Bai resolved to enter it and prepare for the dangers ahead. Seeking the strength to wield the Heaven Measuring Ruler and cultivate the Twin Swords Dao, he asked Fang Yiyun for a body-tempering technique and learned about the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body.

• Lan Yuxin told Lin Bai that the Demon Sect's Martial Hall was sealed in the Divine Demon Realm and suspected the Order Divine Court had timed its opening to lure him out.
• Lin Bai told Lan Yuxin he would enter the Divine Demon Realm in two months, despite the dangers posed by the other courtyards' disciples and Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai tried to lift the Heaven Measuring Ruler but could not, so he decided to seek a body-tempering technique and spend his spirit liquid on it.
• Lin Bai visited Fang Yiyun on Nine Heavens Island and admitted he wanted to cultivate the Twin Swords Dao.
• Fang Yiyun offered to teach Lin Bai the first five layers of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body, the technique he and Meng Li cultivated.

Fang Yiyun taught Lin Bai the incomplete Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body and explained how its transformations could strengthen the physical body. Lin Bai agreed to enter the Wildlands Secret Realm to find Mountain-Moving Rabbits and Hundred Refinements Grass, while learning that his fellow disciples were already there fighting the Demon Race.

• Fang Yiyun gave Lin Bai the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body scroll and explained the differences between qi cultivation and body refinement.
• Fang Yiyun said the incomplete art could unlock the body's treasures five times, while its complete nine transformations might contend with the Apex Realm or form a Dao Body.
• Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai that the art had helped him cultivate the Twin Swords Dao and that he had found it in a great secret realm.
• Fang Yiyun asked Lin Bai to catch Mountain-Moving Rabbits in the Wildlands Secret Realm and find Hundred Refinements Grass to ease the pain of cultivating each Tribulation Moon.
• Fang Yiyun explained the secret realm's Demon Race, its blood curse against martial artists above the Life Extinction Realm, and that Meng Li, Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, and Shu Xiang were there.
• Lin Bai agreed to go to the Wildlands Secret Realm and said he would prepare before setting out.

Lin Bai began cultivating the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body and discovered that even its First Tribulation Moon Seal was painfully demanding but greatly strengthened his body. He headed to the Wildlands Secret Realm seeking Hundred Refinements Grass and learned that Nanxi City had been destroyed, setting the stage for a counterattack by the remaining main cities.

• Lin Bai formed the First Tribulation Moon Seal, endured intense pain, and found that ten breaths of cultivation had increased his strength by five hundred jin.
• Lin Bai decided to seek Hundred Refinements Grass in the Wildlands Secret Realm, left a Sound Transmission Talisman for Bao'er, and departed Dragon Breeding Island.
• At the Wildlands Secret Realm Teleportation Palace, Lin Bai heard that the Demon Race had destroyed Nanxi City and slaughtered its martial artists.
• Zhang Lingkong introduced himself to Lin Bai and proposed that they team up in the Wildlands Secret Realm.
• Zhang Lingkong explained that the Divine Demon Realm’s upcoming opening had drawn away half the experts, leaving Nanxi City vulnerable to attack.

Lin Bai traveled to Tide City in the Wildlands Secret Realm after Nanxi City was destroyed, while Zhu Jingyi followed him with a group from Myriad Stars Island. In Tide City, Zhu Jingyi claimed to be acting on Li Jiuge’s orders as he approached the city’s martial alliance leader.

• Zhu Jingyi learned Lin Bai had left for the Wildlands Secret Realm and decided to pursue him, hoping Lin Bai would die there and the blame would fall on the Demon Race.
• Lin Bai waited with Zhang Lingkong in the teleportation palace, where officials announced the destruction of Nanxi City and began gathering martial artists to support the realm.
• Zhu Jingyi arrived with Myriad Stars Island martial artists and claimed Li Jiuge had sent them to reclaim Nanxi City, while Lin Bai suspected Zhu Jingyi had come for him.
• The teleportation formation sent Lin Bai and more than two thousand martial artists to Tide City, where they found a battered city near Nanxi City.
• Yang Ying introduced himself as the leader of Tide City’s newly formed martial alliance, and Zhu Jingyi told him Li Jiuge had sent him to investigate and offer help.

Yang Ying recruited martial artists into Tide City’s legions and sought volunteers to scout Nanxi City ahead of a planned offensive. Zhu Jingyi singled out Lin Bai for the dangerous mission, and Lin Bai’s refusal drew a crowd of insults.

• Yang Ying assigned martial artists to three legions by cultivation level and offered participants fifty thousand units of spirit liquid; Lin Bai joined the Third Legion after Zhang Lingkong urged him to stay.
• Yang Ying announced plans to attack Nanxi City in half a month and asked for scouts with concealment or speed abilities, but no one volunteered.
• Zhu Jingyi pointed to Lin Bai as a suitable scout, but Lin Bai denied having the necessary abilities and refused to join.
• Zhu Jingyi and several martial artists accused Lin Bai of cowardice, and the crowd joined in jeering at him.
• Lin Bai listened to the insults as frost gathered across his face.