Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned that Li Jiuge had not sent the attackers who raided Dragon Breeding Island, leaving the identity of the force targeting Bao'er uncertain. Li Jiuge vowed to settle matters with Lin Bai in the Holy Son Battle, while Lin Bai feared the real culprit would strike again.

• Li Jiuge denied sending the hundred-plus martial artists who attacked Dragon Breeding Island, and Courtyard Head Chen persuaded him and Lin Bai to end their battle.
• Li Jiuge challenged Lin Bai to a fight to the death in the Holy Son Battle, and Lin Bai accepted before leaving Myriad Stars Island.
• Li Jiuge told Miss Xuan to investigate who had tried to provoke Lin Bai into killing him, and ordered her to summon Xinghen back.
• Lan Yuxin put Bao'er to bed, then joined Lin Bai on the cliff as he explained that Li Jiuge probably had not ordered the attack.
• Lin Bai warned Lan Yuxin that the unknown culprit would likely target Bao'er again, and his killing intent intensified.

Gu Lingqi devised a plan to pressure Lin Bai by targeting his allies and involving the Gu family. Mo Baihe and four other Quasi-Holy Sons confronted the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, who realized they were being lured into a trap and fought back.

• Gu Lingqi told eight Quasi-Holy Sons that he would continue targeting Lin Bai and planned to use the Gu family against Yin Jiuling and A Ning.
• Gu Lingqi assigned the Quasi-Holy Sons to capture Lin Bai's other allies, including the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers.
• Three days later, Mo Baihe arrived on Heavenly Crippled Island with Wu Dao, Old Man Liang, Ma Qiankun, and Liu Yunhe to take the four brothers away on the Gu family's orders.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers suspected the summons was a trap, merged into the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, and battled the five Quasi-Holy Sons.

The Ancient Family sent martial artists to force several Eastern Courtyard disciples to attend its banquet. After finding more than a hundred attackers dead, the young man with the rust-covered iron sword warned his companions, but only Yin Jiuling answered.

• Zhao Kun and Zhou Shaoxuan confronted Hu Qi and tried to take him to the Ancient Family Banquet by force.
• An old man and Manzi were approached by three hostile martial artists while roasting a wild boar.
• Feng Wenjun led Shi Jiamu away from her island, where Mo Baihe and more than a hundred martial artists surrounded them and announced the Ancient Family's invitation.
• A man and a woman found more than a hundred dead martial artists on a mountain, then saw a young man carrying a rust-covered iron sword leave.
• The young man sent warnings to his companions, but only Yin Jiuling responded, while he stood among more than a hundred corpses on a black island.

Gu Lingqi’s failed attempts to capture several powerful figures left him reprimanded by Gu Daozhi, who ordered him to stop interfering with Lin Bai until the Holy Son Battle. Ten days later, Lin Bai recovered from his injuries, and Lan Yuxin urged him to let Lord Turtle take Bao’er to Southern Province in search of a dragon inheritance.

• Gu Lingqi berated the Eastern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons for failing to capture their targets, and Mo Baihe reported that the fugitives had vanished or escaped.
• Gu Daozhi explained the fugitives’ abilities and ordered Gu Lingqi to leave the matter alone until the Holy Son Battle, when they would deal with Lin Bai.
• Gu Lingqi accepted the order but vowed not to let his grievance against Lin Bai go.
• Ten days later, Lin Bai told Lan Yuxin that his injuries had healed and described Li Jiuge’s formidable strength.
• Lan Yuxin told Lin Bai that Lord Turtle wanted to take Bao’er to Southern Province to find a Dragon Tomb and urged him to agree for Bao’er’s safety.

Lin Bai reluctantly entrusted Bao'er to Old Turtle, who took her to Southern Province, and resolved to grow stronger. Three days later, A Ning and Yin Jiuling revealed that the Gu Family had targeted them and Lin Bai, leading Lin Bai to suspect Gu Lingqi.

• Old Turtle persuaded Lin Bai that he would protect Bao'er and said he knew Lin Bai's master, Ling Tianzi.
• Lin Bai agreed to let Old Turtle take Bao'er to Southern Province in search of the Dragon Tomb, while Lan Yuxin escorted them out of the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• After Bao'er left, Lin Bai returned to Dragon Breeding Island and vowed to become strong enough to protect those close to him.
• Three days later, A Ning and Yin Jiuling arrived and told Lin Bai that the Gu Family had tried to force them and their allies to attend invitations; some had disappeared, while others had fled or been injured.
• Lin Bai connected the attacks on his friends and family to the Gu Family and remembered Gu Lingqi's threat, recognizing that Gu Lingqi was behind the scheme.

After learning that Gu Lingqi had orchestrated attacks on his friends to force him to surrender his cultivation technique, Lin Bai went to the Eastern Courtyard while Yin Jiuling and A Ning searched for the survivors. He arrived at Water Ripple Island and challenged the Eastern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons to a fight to the death.

• Lin Bai realized Gu Lingqi had sent attackers against his friends and explained the dispute over his cultivation technique to Yin Jiuling and A Ning.
• Yin Jiuling and A Ning agreed to search for their missing companions while Lin Bai went to the Eastern Courtyard to settle the matter.
• Yin Jiuling searched beyond the Sea of Gods and Demons for the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, Feng Wenjun, and Shi Jiamu, while A Ning searched for Hu Qi, Old Eccentric, and the Half-Demon giant.
• At Old Man Liang’s lecture on Water Ripple Island, Lin Bai’s Battle Standard Banner crashed onto the platform.
• Lin Bai announced that he had come to challenge the Eastern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons and that the contest would decide life and death.

Lin Bai arrived at Water Ripple Island with a Battle Standard Banner and challenged the Eastern Courtyard's Quasi-Holy Son, Old Man Liang. After killing Old Man Liang with one sword, Lin Bai named Ma Qiankun as his next target and flew away with the banner.

• Lin Bai descended onto Water Ripple Island and challenged Old Man Liang, threatening him if he refused to fight.
• Old Man Liang accepted the challenge after the Eastern Courtyard martial artists urged him to defend their honor.
• Lin Bai let Old Man Liang attack three times, dodging each punch without injury.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and killed Old Man Liang with a single strike through the throat.
• Lin Bai picked up the Battle Standard Banner, called out Ma Qiankun, and flew into the sky.

Lin Bai killed three Eastern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons in succession, beginning with Old Man Liang and Ma Qiankun before confronting Wu Dao. He left after killing Wu Dao, while news of the deaths spread through the Eastern Courtyard.

• Lin Bai left Water Ripple Island after killing Old Man Liang, and news of the Quasi-Holy Son’s death spread through both courtyards.
• Lin Bai challenged Ma Qiankun on Qiankun Island and killed him after thirty exchanges with his spear.
• Junior Brother Zhang reported Ma Qiankun’s death, and word spread that two Eastern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons had fallen in one day.
• Lin Bai reached an uninhabited island, where Wu Dao admitted he had helped Gu Lingqi target Lin Bai’s friends.
• Lin Bai killed Wu Dao with one sword and left the island, and a martial artist soon discovered Wu Dao’s body.

After killing three Quasi-Holy Sons, Lin Bai tracked Liu Yunhe to Water Moon Island and killed him when Liu Yunhe tried to attack him. Lin Bai left to seek his next target, while news of the fourth Quasi-Holy Son’s death spread through the Eastern Academy.

• Warriors across the Eastern Academy discussed Lin Bai’s killing of Old Man Liang, Ma Qiankun, and Wu Dao.
• Liu Yunhe hid on Water Moon Island and asked a beautiful woman to conceal his presence.
• Lin Bai found Liu Yunhe and offered to end their dispute if Liu Yunhe gave up his life.
• Liu Yunhe pretended to agree, then attacked Lin Bai, who killed him with one sword.
• Lin Bai left Water Moon Island to find another Quasi-Holy Son, and the Eastern Academy learned of Liu Yunhe’s death.

Lin Bai attacked Zhou Family Island and killed Zhou Shaoxuan, the elders, and hundreds of Zhou Family martial artists before destroying the island’s formation. Zhao Kun and Situ Yuntian joined Mo Baihe, planning to confront Lin Bai together, but Lin Bai arrived on Mo Baihe’s island that evening.

• Zhou Shaoxuan prepared an ambush on Zhou Family Island to avenge his brother Zhou Shaoyu.
• Lin Bai arrived carrying the Battle Standard Banner and demanded that Zhou Shaoxuan face him alone, but Zhou Shaoxuan ordered the Zhou Family to attack.
• Lin Bai killed Zhou Shaoxuan and the elders, slaughtered hundreds of Zhou Family martial artists, and broke the island’s formation.
• Zhao Kun and Situ Yuntian told Mo Baihe that Lin Bai had killed five Quasi-Holy Sons, including Zhou Shaoxuan.
• Mo Baihe, Zhao Kun, and Situ Yuntian decided to join forces against Lin Bai and waited on Mo Baihe’s island.
• Lin Bai arrived on Mo Baihe’s island on the evening of his second day in the Eastern Courtyard.

Lin Bai killed Situ Yuntian, Zhao Kun, and Mo Baihe after they joined forces against him, bringing the number of slain Quasi-Holy Sons to eight. He then headed for the Gu family, arriving at its ancestral archipelago with more than a hundred thousand spectators following him.

• Lin Bai arrived at Mo Baihe's island and rejected Mo Baihe's offer to resolve their conflict peacefully.
• Mo Baihe, Situ Yuntian, and Zhao Kun attacked Lin Bai together, but Lin Bai used the Wishful Ring to kill Situ Yuntian with one sword.
• Zhao Kun fled but turned to fight when Lin Bai caught up, and Lin Bai killed him.
• Lin Bai pursued Mo Baihe, who blamed Gu Lingqi and the Gu family for ordering their attack; Lin Bai killed Mo Baihe and declared he would settle accounts with the Gu family.
• Lin Bai left the island carrying the Battle Standard Banner and headed for the Gu family as thousands of martial artists followed him.
• Lin Bai arrived at the Gu family's ancestral archipelago by dawn, followed by more than a hundred thousand spectators.

After killing eight Eastern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons, Lin Bai went to the Gu Family Archipelago to challenge Gu Lingqi. As the Southern Courtyard and the Lan Clan watched his move, Lin Bai waited outside the Gu Family’s territory for an answer that did not come.

• Miss Xuan told Li Jiuge that Lin Bai had slain eight Quasi-Holy Sons and was heading to the Gu Family, so Li Jiuge took her to the Eastern Courtyard to see what happened.
• Lan Clan elders urged Lan Ling to dissolve Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin’s engagement, but Lan Ling refused and said Lin Bai’s actions could reveal the Gu Family’s strength.
• Lan Guo suggested that Lin Bai might kill some of the Gu Family’s Secluded Prodigies, and Lan Ling agreed that the Lan Clan could learn from the confrontation.
• Lin Bai arrived at the Gu Family Archipelago with the Battle Standard Banner and asked an old man to summon Gu Lingqi for a challenge.
• After the old man went to seek Gu Lingqi’s response, Lin Bai waited outside the archipelago for an hour, but no one returned.

Lin Bai entered the Gu Family alone to face Gu Lingqi in the Martial Arts Arena, while Lan Yuxin and Li Jiuge were turned away at the archipelago. The chapter left Lin Bai and Gu Lingqi facing off as Gu Lingqi vowed to defeat him and force him to hand over his cultivation technique.

• The Gu Family admitted Lin Bai but barred the hundreds of thousands of Eastern Courtyard martial artists from entering.
• Lan Yuxin and Li Jiuge arrived to pay their respects, but the Gu Family refused to receive them; Li Jiuge told Miss Xuan to find out what happened to Lin Bai inside.
• Lin Bai followed the old man to the Martial Arts Arena, where thousands of Gu Family disciples watched him enter alone.
• Lin Bai planted his Battle Standard Banner in the arena and challenged Gu Lingqi to come down and fight.
• Gu Lingqi faced Lin Bai and promised to beat him until he handed over his cultivation technique, while Lin Bai mocked him about their past encounter.

Lin Bai challenged Gu Lingqi beneath the Battle Standard Banner and used his sword and Wishful Ring to evade Gu Lingqi’s attacks, but his strike could not pierce Gu Lingqi’s body. The duel remained unresolved as Gu Lingqi revealed armor beneath his skin.

• Lin Bai declared that his challenge against Gu Lingqi would decide victory, defeat, life, and death, and Gu Lingqi attacked with the Gu family technique Demonic Hand World-Devastating Kill.
• Lin Bai shattered one of Gu Lingqi’s black palms and used the Wishful Ring to appear behind him, but Gu Lingqi escaped after the Gu family warriors warned him.
• Lin Bai criticized the Gu family disciples for interfering, drawing their anger, while they continued to call out his position to Gu Lingqi.
• Lin Bai used the Wishful Ring to appear and vanish around Gu Lingqi before thrusting his sword into Gu Lingqi’s chest.
• Lin Bai’s Demon Sword could not pierce Gu Lingqi’s flesh, and Gu Lingqi blasted him five hundred meters away before armor emerged beneath his skin.

Lin Bai faced Gu Lingqi after Gu Lingqi revealed the Gu family's God-Devouring Battle Armor and withstood hundreds of sword strikes. Lin Bai unleashed his Martial Soul Secret Method, Stop the War, and shattered the armor, leaving the Gu family and Gu Daozhi stunned.

• Gu Lingqi revealed the God-Devouring Battle Armor, one of only two in the Gu family's possession, and claimed it made him nearly invulnerable to warriors of his realm.
• Lin Bai struck the armor hundreds of times but could not leave a mark, while Gu Lingqi and the Gu family disciples mocked him and demanded that he surrender.
• Lin Bai declared that he would break the armor and explained that he disliked using his sword strike because it could destroy a precious weapon.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method, Stop the War, and his sword shattered the God-Devouring Battle Armor.
• The Gu family disciples and Gu Daozhi stared in shock at the destroyed armor.

Lin Bai destroyed Gu Lingqi’s God-Devouring Battle Armor and killed him after learning that Gu Lingqi had targeted his island and friends. He then challenged the Gu family’s younger generation, and Gu Daozhi offered a huge reward to anyone below the Death Reversal Realm who could defeat him.

• Lin Bai shattered Gu Lingqi’s God-Devouring Battle Armor with one sword, leaving Gu Lingqi gravely injured.
• Lin Bai questioned Gu Lingqi about the attacks on Dragon Breeding Island and his friend, then condemned him for driving away Lin Bai’s friends and relative.
• Gu Daozhi’s warning cough failed to stop Lin Bai from beheading Gu Lingqi, and Lin Bai challenged the Gu family disciples to fight him.
• Gu Daozhi appeared above the arena and offered ten million drops of spiritual liquid, an imperial-grade martial technique, and entry to the Ancient and Modern Pavilion to any Gu family disciple below the Death Reversal Realm who defeated Lin Bai.

Lin Bai defeated the Gu family fighters sent against him and punished more than a hundred disciples who had insulted him by crippling their cultivation. Gu Daozhi finally summoned Gu Tianqing, one of the Gu family’s Secluded Prodigies, leaving the crowd alarmed.

• Gu Yuan challenged Lin Bai for a reward and was killed by a single sword strike.
• More than twenty Gu family martial artists fought Lin Bai in succession, but he killed each of them within three sword strikes.
• When no one else would enter the arena, Lin Bai dragged insulting Gu family disciples down from the viewing platform and crippled their cultivation.
• In an hour, Lin Bai had killed more than twenty Gu family martial artists and crippled more than a hundred others.
• Gu Daozhi ordered someone to call Gu Tianqing, and the Gu family martial artists recognized him as one of their Secluded Prodigies.

Gu Tianqing, a Gu family Secluded Prodigy, challenged Lin Bai with three powerful sword-intent strikes but failed to defeat him. Lin Bai then vanished and launched a sudden attack at Gu Tianqing’s throat.

• Gu Daozhi summoned Gu Tianqing and promised him a chance to enter the Ancient and Modern Pavilion if he defeated Lin Bai.
• Gu Tianqing arrived and demanded that Lin Bai cripple his cultivation, warning that he would kill him if they fought.
• Gu Tianqing attacked with three increasingly powerful sword-intent techniques, while Lin Bai retreated and countered with the Dragon Slayer Swordplay.
• Lin Bai used his Flying Swords to tear apart Gu Tianqing’s third attack and pointed out that Gu Tianqing had failed to keep his promise to slit his own throat.
• Gu Tianqing claimed Lin Bai had merely earned the right to be his opponent, but Lin Bai vanished and thrust his sword toward Gu Tianqing’s throat.

Lin Bai killed Gu Tianqing in the arena, prompting Gu Daozhi to summon the Gu family's remaining Secluded Prodigies, Gu Xing and Gu Xi, to face him. Gu Xing challenged Lin Bai and was struck down by Lin Bai's Flying Swords, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Bai used his Flying Swords to trap Gu Tianqing and killed him with a sword strike to the throat.
• Gu Daozhi summoned Gu Xing and Gu Xi, warning them about Lin Bai's swordsmanship, defensive skills, and teleportation treasure.
• Gu Xing challenged Lin Bai and attacked him with a technique that filled the arena with countless clones.
• Lin Bai's Flying Swords destroyed most of Gu Xing's illusions, found his true body, and sent him flying.

Lin Bai crippled Gu Xing and gravely wounded Gu Xi, but Gu Daozhi intervened and attacked him. As Gu Daozhi moved to kill Lin Bai, Lan Ling appeared and sealed everyone in the Martial Arts Arena except Lin Bai in space-time.

• Lin Bai crippled Gu Xing and kicked him before Gu Daozhi, then repelled Gu Xi when he rushed to intervene.
• Gu Xi used the Myriad Dragon Extinction Seal, but Lin Bai's Zhu Xian sword strike shattered it and gravely wounded him.
• Gu Daozhi struck Lin Bai to save Gu Xi, then tried to kill Lin Bai as the Gu Clan demanded vengeance.
• The entire Martial Arts Arena froze in space-time, and Gu Daozhi recognized the Heaven Sealing Art as a technique of the Lan Clan.
• Lan Ling emerged from the void, and Lin Bai saw him for the first time.