Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai fought to defend Moonrise City as its outnumbered defenders faced the Demon Race and three Demon Kings. Xuan Qing struck Lin Bai with an arrow, and Shu Xiang was gravely wounded while shielding him.

• Lin Bai rescued Wu Ming and joined him in vowing to defend Moonrise City, while Shu Xiang, Changsun Yun, and Meng Li joined the battle.
• Xuan Qing ordered the Demon Kings into the fight, then recognized Lin Bai and shot him with an arrow that pinned him to the ground.
• The three Demon Kings devastated the defenders, and Wu Ming urged the remaining martial artists to flee through the teleportation array.
• As Changsun Yun, Meng Li, and Shu Xiang rushed to Lin Bai, Shu Xiang blocked another arrow and collapsed in his arms.
• Lin Bai roared in grief and fury as a tiny green shoot appeared in his eyes.

As Moonrise City’s defenders retreated, Shu Xiang took an arrow meant for Lin Bai, and Lin Bai awakened a strange demonic flower that turned his hair white. Ignoring Wu Ming’s order to withdraw, Lin Bai advanced alone toward the demon army and summoned his demonic sword as the demons attacked.

• With Moonrise City’s defenders losing ground, Wu Ming prepared to retreat, while Xuan Qing’s arrow wounded Lin Bai and Shu Xiang shielded him from another shot.
• As Xuan Qing fired a third arrow, Lin Bai caught it and revealed white hair and a demonic flower extending from his eye toward his heart.
• Lin Bai handed the wounded Shu Xiang to Wu Ming and walked toward the enemy despite Wu Ming urging him to retreat.
• Xuan Qing fired again, but Lin Bai casually caught the arrow before the Boar Demon King sent tens of thousands of demons charging at Moonrise City.
• As demons attacked him from all sides, Lin Bai called his demonic sword back into his hand and unleashed overwhelming sword radiance and Sword Qi.

Lin Bai slaughtered more than two thousand demons outside Moonrise City, advanced his three Intents to Greater Completion, and broke through to the third stage of the Life Extinction Realm. Serpent Demon King and Fox Demon Queen then attacked him while Boar Demon King led the remaining demons into Moonrise City to destroy its teleportation array.

• Lin Bai killed more than twenty demons, including a seventh-stage Life Extinction Realm demon, with one sword, then charged into the Demon Race despite Wu Ming's warning.
• Lin Bai's slaughter grew more intense as his Slaughter Intent, Aurora Intent, and Rainstorm Intent each reached Greater Completion.
• Lin Bai killed more than two thousand demons, broke through to the third stage of the Life Extinction Realm, and stood atop a mountain of corpses outside Moonrise City.
• Xuan Qing ordered the Demon Kings to hold Lin Bai back while the other demons destroyed Moonrise City's teleportation array.
• Serpent Demon King and Fox Demon Queen attacked Lin Bai, and Fox Demon Queen struck him with a palm that sent him flying and made him spit blood.
• Boar Demon King led the remaining demons past Lin Bai and into Moonrise City to destroy the teleportation array.

Lan Yuxin and more than three thousand Lan Clan martial artists arrived at Moonrise City just as the Boar Demon King’s forces threatened its teleportation array. The Lan Clan froze time throughout the city, routed the demons, and Lan Yuxin killed the Boar Demon King as the Crane Demon King discovered the Lan Clan’s intervention.

• Hua Muqing led tens of thousands of martial artists toward Moonrise City and assured Yang Ying that a certain woman would prevent the city from falling.
• The Boar Demon King’s forces broke into Moonrise City and attacked the teleportation array, while Wu Ming and more than five hundred martial artists vowed to defend it.
• Lin Bai tried to return to the city, but the Serpent Demon King and Fox Demon Queen blocked him until a female voice called out Heaven Sealing Breath.
• Lan Yuxin and more than three thousand Lan Clan martial artists arrived through the teleportation array, froze the demons, and began slaughtering them.
• Lan Yuxin froze the Boar Demon King and killed him with one strike, sending the remaining demons fleeing.
• Xuan Qing sent the Crane Demon King to investigate, and he found the demons frozen inside Moonrise City and recognized the Lan Clan.

Lan Yuxin and the returning alliance forces helped save Moonrise City, forcing Xuan Qing and the Demon Race army to retreat. Lin Bai left the city to pursue Xuan Qing and settle their score.

• Lan Yuxin arrived at Moonrise City with the Lan Clan and displayed the Boar Demon King’s head, shocking Xuan Qing and the other Demon Kings.
• Hua Muqing and the alliance leaders returned with tens of thousands of martial artists and told Lan Yuxin that the other main cities had fallen.
• Xuan Qing decided Moonrise City could no longer be taken and ordered the Demon Race forces to withdraw.
• Lin Bai confronted Yang Ying and the alliance leaders about their failed efforts to reclaim Nanxi City, while Hua Muqing confirmed Li Tianying was a traitor.
• Lin Bai reminded Hua Muqing that he had kept his promise to hold Moonrise City, then left to pursue Xuan Qing despite Lan Yuxin’s and Hua Muqing’s calls.

After Five Demon City’s forces retreated from Moonrise City, Lin Bai pursued them and confronted the Fox Demon Queen. He overpowered her and forced her to lead him to Great Elephant City in search of Xuan Qing.

• Xuan Qing ordered the remaining Five Demon City troops to retreat after Lan Yuxin and Hua Muqing returned to Moonrise City.
• The Fox Demon Queen, Crane Demon King, and Serpent Demon King discussed their defeat and the Boar Demon King’s death as they fled.
• A demon warned the Demon Kings that Lin Bai was pursuing them, and the Fox Demon Queen went to intercept him.
• The Fox Demon Queen tried to seduce Lin Bai, but he resisted and defeated her with his sword.
• Lin Bai seized the Fox Demon Queen and ordered her to take him to Great Elephant City, where Xuan Qing might have gone.

Lin Bai followed the Fox Demon Queen east, but she tricked him into bringing him to Five Demon City instead of Great Elephant City. He arrived with her captive and wounded, confronting the Wolf, Crane, and Serpent Demon Kings as the Wolf Demon King attacked him.

• Lin Bai forced the Fox Demon Queen to point out the route to Great Elephant City and carried her east.
• The Crane and Serpent Demon Kings returned to Five Demon City, reporting that the Boar Demon King had died and that the Fox Demon Queen had stayed behind to deal with Lin Bai.
• The Wolf Demon King prepared to search for the Fox Demon Queen, but Lin Bai arrived at Five Demon City with her in his grip.
• Lin Bai realized the Fox Demon Queen had deliberately led him to Five Demon City, then released and severely wounded her.
• The Wolf Demon King charged at Lin Bai after seeing the Fox Demon Queen hurt.

Lin Bai defeated the Fox Demon Queen’s three remaining allies and captured her alive after killing them. When thousands of demons pursued him, he destroyed Five Demon City with a single sword and escaped with the Fox Demon Queen.

• The Wolf, Crane, and Serpent Demon Kings attacked Lin Bai together, but he drove them back with Dragon-Seeking.
• Lin Bai killed the Crane Demon King and Serpent Demon King, then severed the Wolf Demon King’s head despite the Fox Demon Queen urging him to flee.
• Lin Bai seized the Fox Demon Queen and flew away as thousands of demons charged out of Five Demon City to attack him.
• Lin Bai unleashed Immortal Execution, annihilating the pursuing demons and destroying Five Demon City before fleeing with the Fox Demon Queen.

After destroying Five Demon City, Lin Bai kept the Fox Demon Queen alive because he wanted her to watch him confront Xuan Qing in Great Elephant City. Hu Xin'er agreed to take him there after he accepted her conditions not to kill or force himself on her, but she stopped him before they left.

• Lin Bai destroyed Five Demon City with the Zhu Xian Sword after the other demons fled.
• Lin Bai carried the Fox Demon Queen to a lonely mountain and restrained her when she attacked him.
• Lin Bai told the Fox Demon Queen he wanted her as an audience for his confrontation with Xuan Qing in Great Elephant City.
• Hu Xin'er agreed to guide Lin Bai to Great Elephant City on the conditions that he would not kill her or force himself on her.
• Lin Bai accepted both conditions and told Hu Xin'er to lead the way, but she stopped him again.

Lin Bai brought Hu Xin'er to Great Elephant City, intending to find Xuan Qing, while news of Five Demon City’s destruction spread through the Wildlands Secret Realm. At the city, Lin Bai recognized Uncle Yuan, defeated him, and killed the Demon Race fighters who attacked.

• Hu Xin'er guided Lin Bai toward Great Elephant City while warning that Xuan Qing might not be there.
• Lin Bai carried Hu Xin'er to the city and found it less populated than he expected.
• Uncle Yuan confronted Lin Bai, recognized him as the human sword cultivator from outside Nanxi City, and attacked.
• Lin Bai wounded Uncle Yuan with a sword strike.
• The Demon Race fighters charged Lin Bai, who killed them with a single slash.

Lin Bai searched for Xuan Qing by destroying Great Elephant City and then Demon Tiger City, growing stronger as he absorbed demon blood. He and Hu Xin'er headed next for Ice Heart City, where she hoped another Demon Race lord could stop him.

• Lin Bai killed more than a hundred Demon Race fighters, severed Uncle Yuan's arm to force him to answer, then killed him after learning Xuan Qing was absent from Great Elephant City.
• Lin Bai absorbed the demons' blood and broke through to the fourth level of the Life Extinction Realm before destroying Great Elephant City and threatening to raze all eighteen main Demon Race cities unless they handed over Xuan Qing.
• Hu Xin'er led Lin Bai to Demon Tiger City, where Lin Bai defeated its lord in three strikes and killed him.
• Lin Bai cleaved Demon Tiger City apart and absorbed demon blood from its fleeing inhabitants before asking Hu Xin'er to take him to the next city.
• Hu Xin'er named Ice Heart City as their next destination, and Lin Bai carried her toward it.

After Lin Bai destroyed sixteen Demon Race cities, Xuan Qing saw a chance for Great Elephant City to unite the demons under Xuan Ling and sent everyone to gather at Sky Desolate City. Hu Xin'er secretly redirected Lin Bai to Barbaric Mountain City, but he stopped at a canyon to collect rare spirit herbs, giving her more time to assemble the demons against him.

• Xuan Ling and Xuan Kong learned that Lin Bai had destroyed sixteen cities and that the demons were demanding they hand over Xuan Qing.
• Xuan Qing urged his father and brother to gather the Demon Race at Sky Desolate City, defeat Lin Bai, and use the crisis to unify the demons under Great Elephant City.
• Hu Xin'er secretly read a message and persuaded Lin Bai to head for Barbaric Mountain City instead of Sky Desolate City.
• A Mountain-Moving Rabbit attacked Lin Bai, who destroyed its boulder and killed it as Hu Xin'er explained Barbaric Mountain City's spirit medicines.
• Lin Bai collected more than a hundred stalks of Hundred Refinements Grass and entered a cave to rest, while Hu Xin'er welcomed the delay as time to gather tens of thousands of demons at Sky Desolate City.

Lin Bai reached Great Perfection in the First Tribulation Moon of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body after repeatedly tempering his body with Hundred Refinements Grass. He and Hu Xin'er then found Barbaric Mountain City deserted, and Lin Bai destroyed it before heading with her toward Sky Desolate City, where the Demon Race had gathered to kill him.

• Lin Bai cultivated the First Tribulation Moon in a cave, using Hundred Refinements Grass to heal his body until the first layer of the Crimson Moon Nine Tribulation Body reached Great Perfection.
• Lin Bai tested his strength by lifting the Heaven Measuring Ruler, but could hold it for only three breaths, and he wondered how to cultivate the second layer without Hundred Refinements Grass.
• Lin Bai met Hu Xin'er, who was astonished by his improved physique, and the two flew to Barbaric Mountain City.
• Lin Bai found Barbaric Mountain City empty because its Demon Race members had followed Xuan Ling's order to gather in Sky Desolate City, then destroyed the city.
• Lin Bai took Hu Xin'er toward Sky Desolate City, while she privately believed it would be his burial ground.

Xuan Qing gathered the Demon Race in Sky Desolate City and prepared the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation to kill Lin Bai. Lin Bai arrived with Hu Xin'er, faced the assembled army, and demanded that Xuan Qing be handed over.

• Xuan Qing took control of Sky Desolate City and ordered Jade Slips describing the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation distributed among more than fifty thousand Demon Race members.
• The Demon Race set up the formation outside Sky Desolate City, and Xuan Qing waited for Lin Bai to arrive.
• Lin Bai reached the city with Hu Xin'er, who explained the formation's purpose and warned that escape would be impossible once he entered it.
• The Demon Race recognized Lin Bai as the White-Haired Sword Cultivator and accused Hu Xin'er of betraying them, while Xuan Kong reacted in disbelief.
• Lin Bai demanded that the Demon Race hand over Xuan Qing, and Xuan Qing stepped forward and greeted him by name.

Lin Bai entered Xuan Qing’s Ten Tribulations Demon Formation and broke through its first five formations with his sword. As he advanced into the black mist, Xuan Qing activated the sixth formation, sending towering black mountains crashing down on him.

• Xuan Qing gathered more than fifty thousand Demon Race members before Sky Desolate City and used them to form the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation.
• Lin Bai left Hu Xin'er behind and entered the black mist, where Xuan Qing activated the First Formation, Formation of a Million Mighty Lions.
• Lin Bai shattered the First Formation with Slay the Immortals; Break the Formation and destroyed the iron spheres of the Second Formation with Seeking the Dragon.
• Lin Bai defeated the ghosts of the Third Formation with Rainstorm Intent and blasted apart the warrior monks of the Fourth Formation with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai erased the seventy-two Demon Sages conjured by the Fifth Formation, then faced the sixth formation as black mountains came crashing down toward him.

Lan Yuxin arrived at Sky Desolate City as Lin Bai fought through the Demon Race’s Ten Tribulations Demon Formation. After Lin Bai broke the eighth formation and rescued her, Xuan Qing unleashed the ninth formation.

• Lan Yuxin and thousands of martial artists arrived outside Sky Desolate City, where they recognized the black fog as the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation.
• Lan Yuxin learned that Lin Bai had entered the formation and charged inside despite Lan Feng’s warning.
• Lin Bai shattered the sixth and seventh formations, while Xuan Ling recalled how a White-Haired Sword Cultivator had once reached the ninth formation before being defeated.
• Lan Yuxin reached Lin Bai as the eighth formation attacked, but the Four Saintly Images struck her and sent her flying.
• Lin Bai rescued Lan Yuxin and destroyed the four statues with one sword strike.
• Xuan Qing called forth the ninth formation, the Demon Dragon Formation.

Lin Bai broke Xuan Qing’s Ten Tribulations Demon Formation, including its final Demon God Finger, and left Xuan Qing defeated. As the Demon Race began to withdraw, Lin Bai charged toward Xuan Qing atop Sky Desolate City.

• Xuan Qing activated the ninth formation, the Demon Dragon Formation, but Lin Bai cleaved the dragon apart and suffered no harm.
• Xuan Qing ignored Xuan Kong and Xuan Ling’s warnings and used a golden skull to summon the tenth formation, the Demon God Finger.
• Hu Xin'er recognized the finger’s Death Reversal Realm power as it descended toward Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai used his Devouring Sword Soul and Martial Soul Secret Method to split the Demon God Finger and disperse the black mist covering Sky Desolate City.
• Xuan Qing collapsed after the formation shattered and ordered the Demon Race to withdraw and scatter; Lin Bai charged toward him.

After breaking the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation, Lin Bai pursued and killed Xuan Qing and his father, Xuan Ling, reaching the fifth level of the Life Extinction Realm. He then turned on Hu Xin'er and attacked her as she arrived in the forest.

• Lan Yuxin led the human martial artists in an assault on the Demon Race after the Ten Tribulations Demon Formation was broken.
• Lin Bai killed Xuan Kong with one sword and pursued Xuan Ling and Xuan Qing as Hu Xin'er followed him.
• Lin Bai struck Xuan Ling with sword rays, then killed him when he attacked.
• Lin Bai killed Xuan Qing and refined his demonic blood, breaking through to the fifth level of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Hu Xin'er arrived, and Lin Bai attacked her with his sword before she could defend herself.

As the Demon Flower began to wither, Lin Bai’s strength declined, but he sealed Hu Xin’er before she could take revenge and escaped to recover. He realized the Demon Flower had bloomed for eighteen days—longer than ever—and feared it might one day never wither.

• Lin Bai’s strength suddenly declined as the Demon Flower began to wither, interrupting his attempt to kill Hu Xin’er.
• Hu Xin’er tried to strike Lin Bai, but he counterattacked and wounded her before his weakening power prevented him from killing her.
• Lin Bai sealed Hu Xin’er’s dantian and demon core, then flew away while the Demon Flower completely withered.
• Lin Bai reached a secluded cave on Lonely Mountain, swallowed an Earth Profound Pill, and spent half a day recovering.
• Lin Bai recalled that the Demon Flower had bloomed for eighteen days and worried that the Demon Seed was increasingly affecting his mind and might one day never wither.

Lin Bai worried that the Demon Flower would eventually consume him and decided to destroy it before entering the Dao. As he prepared to leave the Wildlands Secret Realm, he spotted the sealed Fox Demon Queen in danger from two Demon Race members.

• Lin Bai reflected on the Demon Flower's eighteen-day bloom and resolved not to let it bloom again before he entered the Dao.
• Lin Bai reviewed his gains in the Wildlands Secret Realm, recovered for half a day, and set out for Moonrise City to leave the Southern Courtyard.
• Hu Xin'er, still unable to use her cultivation after Lin Bai sealed it, encountered a rat demon and a toad demon in a canyon.
• The two demons threatened Hu Xin'er and the toad demon caught her with his tongue as she tried to flee.
• Hu Xin'er despaired and vowed to take revenge on Lin Bai if she was defiled.