Chapter Summaries

Old Ancestor Ding revealed that the Demon Seal was hidden in the Ice Lake Sea within the Eastern Continent Academy’s outer sect area and rallied Demon Sect descendants to retrieve it. He proposed a full attack on the academy in seven days, shocking the other Sect Masters.

• Old Ancestor Ding summoned the Sect Masters of the Remnant Soul Demon Sect and the Eternal Night Demon Sect to discuss the Demon Sect’s Inheritance Palace.
• Old Ancestor Ding explained that Demon Sect disciples needed the Demon Seal to restore their marks and enter the Inheritance Palace.
• Old Ancestor Ding revealed that a fifty-thousand-year-old remnant soul had located the Demon Seal in the Ice Lake Sea in the Eastern Continent Academy’s outer sect area.
• Old Ancestor Ding said his Life-Death Demon Sect needed the other Demon Sect descendants’ help because millions of outer sect disciples guarded the route to the Ice Lake Sea.
• Old Ancestor Ding proposed that all Demon Sect disciples attack the Eastern Continent Academy in seven days, and the two Sect Masters reacted with shock.

Old Ancestor Ding organized the demon sects to attack Eastern Continent Academy and retrieve the demon seal, while Lan Yuxin warned Lan Ling about a growing gathering near the Sea of Gods and Demons. The chapter ended as the Remnant Soul Demon Sect arrived at the Southern Courtyard, prompting Lan Ling to recognize the attack.

• Old Ancestor Ding persuaded the Eternal Night Sect Master and the Remnant Soul Sect Master to use their guardian treasures and restrain the academy’s defenders while he retrieved the demon seal, and they agreed to attack in seven days.
• Lan Ling told Lan Yuxin that Fu Qingshuang had killed the Central Sacred Nation powerhouses accompanying Mo Wenshen, but Li Zhengyi had rescued Mo Wenshen; Fu Qingshuang planned to stay and wait for another chance to strike.
• Lan Yuxin reported that more than a million unknown martial artists had gathered around the Sea of Gods and Demons, and Lan Ling ordered the outer sect to investigate.
• A tremendous tremor shook the Southern Courtyard, and a voice announced the Remnant Soul Demon Sect’s arrival before Lan Ling recognized that the demon sects had come.

Lin Bai was caught in the Demon Sect's War Soul Banner as its black mist and powerful souls swept across the Southern Courtyard. A Southern Courtyard elder rescued him and brought him to the Lan Clan, where Lan Yuxin confirmed that the Demon Sect had returned.

• Lin Bai left Dragon Breeding Island after the War Soul Banner's black mist engulfed the Southern Courtyard and ignored Courtyard Head Chen's warning to stay on his island.
• Lin Bai fought the banner's souls but was overwhelmed by silver souls and a golden soul until a perfected Death Reversal Realm elder arrived and drove them back.
• The elder carried Lin Bai and several rescued disciples toward the Lan Clan, while Lin Bai saw other disciples killed and their souls absorbed by the mist.
• At the Lan Clan, Lin Bai reunited with Lan Yuxin and Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin confirmed that the Demon Sect had returned and identified the black mist as Yuanmo's War Soul Banner.

As Demon Sect forces attacked the Eastern Continent Academy’s four courtyards, Lin Bai questioned their purpose and learned that the outer sect was also under assault. Su Lingshan and Su Lingsu called for help as millions of attackers massacred disciples, leaving Lin Bai and his companions facing a spreading crisis.

• Lan Yuxin explained that the weakened War Soul Banner still held over a million souls and that the Demon Sect had attacked all four courtyards, killing an Apex Realm expert in the Eastern Courtyard.
• Old Ancestor Ding ordered the Demon Sect’s hidden forces to slaughter every living being in the outer sect, then took Lin Xiaoqing and the others toward the Ice Lake Sea.
• Lin Bai argued that the Demon Sect could not destroy the academy’s foundations, so its coordinated attacks must serve another purpose.
• Su Lingshan contacted Lin Bai in terror and said that attackers were killing disciples throughout the outer sect.
• Su Lingsu told Lin Bai that at least a million powerful attackers had breached the outer sect’s formation and turned it into a scene of devastation.

As the Demon Sect devastated the Outer Sect, Lan Yuxin revealed that its demonic seal might be hidden in the Ice Lake Sea, prompting Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin to rush there. Lan Ling allowed them to go and ordered the Southern Courtyard’s elders to hunt down the invading experts.

• Su Lingsu told Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin that the Outer Sect was being slaughtered while its leaders were tied down by powerful experts.
• Lan Yuxin revealed the legend that the Demon Sect’s demonic seal had been sealed in the Ice Lake Sea, and Lin Bai deduced that the attackers wanted it to access the Inheritance Palace.
• Lin Bai decided to go to the Outer Sect, and Li Jiuge and Lan Yuxin chose to join him.
• Lan Clan elders urged Lan Ling to recall the three Quasi-Holy Sons, but Lan Ling allowed them to leave after Li Jiuge’s father and Fang Yiyun expressed confidence in them.
• Lan Ling ordered all Southern Courtyard elders above the Death Reversal Realm to emerge, sweep through the courtyard, and kill every invading expert.

Lin Bai gathered powerful Quasi-Holy Sons from the Eastern Courtyard to join him, Lan Yuxin, and Li Jiug e at the outer sect's Ice Lake Sea, where he suspected the Demon Sect was targeting them. The group left for the rendezvous, confident their alliance could face whatever awaited them.

• Lin Bai and Li Jiug e contacted Quasi-Holy Sons for help, but most refused to leave their courtyards.
• Lin Bai persuaded A Ning to meet them at the Ice Lake Sea after learning he had no assignment in the Eastern Courtyard.
• Lin Bai invited the Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon giant, who agreed to come for the promised feast.
• Lin Bai recruited Hu Qi, Feng Wenjun, and Shi Jiamu, then secured the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers' help.
• Yin Jiuling agreed to join them, and half of the Eastern Courtyard's Quasi-Holy Sons set out for the outer sect.
• Lan Yuxin called the gathering the Eastern Continent's strongest heaven's pride alliance as the group prepared to face the danger at the Ice Lake Sea.

Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin found Teleportation Island surrounded by souls while Huo Guang fought three Apex Realm attackers. They chose to force their way through the siege to reach the Outer Sect, and arrived on the island as its defenders fought back.

• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin discovered that tens of thousands of souls, including three golden souls, had surrounded Teleportation Island and its teleportation arrays.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Demon Sect planned to cut off support from the Inner Sect before attacking the Outer Sect.
• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin saw Huo Guang battling a War Soul Banner main soul, Old Ancestor Xiang Shan, and Xiao Lin.
• Lin Bai decided the three would break through the encirclement without joining the Apex Realm battle, then head to the Outer Sect.
• Old Ancestor Xiang Shan, Xiao Lin, and the main soul attacked Huo Guang as the island's defenders fought the invading souls.
• Li Jiuge unleashed three divine dragons to destroy more than a hundred souls, and Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin identified themselves to the gathered defenders.

Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin reached Teleportation Island and tried to travel to the outer sect, believing the Demon Sect’s attack on the Southern Courtyard was a feint. Old Ancestor Xiang Shan attacked the teleportation array, and the chapter left the three Quasi-Holy Sons inside it as he slaughtered the disciples guarding them.

• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin told Huo Guang they planned to reinforce the outer sect, and he agreed to send them to its teleportation array.
• Xiao Lin realized the three Quasi-Holy Sons were heading to the outer sect and ordered Old Ancestor Xiang Shan to destroy its teleportation array while he held off Huo Guang.
• Old Ancestor Xiang Shan charged toward the array, and Xiao Lin engaged Huo Guang in battle.
• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin entered the teleportation array as a Teleportation Island martial artist began activating it.
• Old Ancestor Xiang Shan attacked the array, and after Li Jiuge warned the disciples away, Xiang Shan killed more than a hundred of them.

Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin escaped Old Ancestor Xiang Shan through Teleportation Island after a young Southern Courtyard disciple sacrificed himself to buy them time. As they reached the outer sect, Xiang Shan and Xiao Lin moved to destroy its teleportation arrays and continue their assault on the Eastern Continent Academy.

• Old Ancestor Xiang Shan killed the Teleportation Island defenders and rushed toward the array as Lin Bai urged its operator to activate it.
• A teenage disciple chose to confront Xiang Shan to buy time, but Xiang Shan killed him with a single squeeze.
• Lin Bai stopped Li Jiuge from charging into battle, then used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to block Xiang Shan's strike while the teleportation array activated.
• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin teleported away just before Xiang Shan shattered the array, and Lin Bai vowed to settle the score with him.
• Xiang Shan said the array's destruction might have trapped the three in the void, while Xiao Lin ordered Remnant Soul Demon Sect disciples to destroy the outer sect's teleportation arrays.
• Xiao Lin ordered Xiang Shan to keep attacking the Eastern Continent Academy and destroy as many teleportation arrays as possible.

Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin survived void lightning in the spatial wormhole and reached the Outer Sect's Teleportation Island, where the Demon Sect had devastated the defenders. Lin Bai reunited with his allies as Yin Jiuling arrived injured, and the group gathered amid the ongoing battle.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to swallow the void lightning in the wormhole, though the effort left him coughing blood.
• Lin Bai, Li Jiuge, and Lan Yuxin emerged on the Outer Sect's Teleportation Island and found it strewn with corpses as Demon Sect disciples attacked.
• Feng Wenjun met Lin Bai and explained that he and Shi Jiamu had stopped Demon Sect disciples from destroying the island's teleportation formation.
• Feng Wenjun summoned Lin Bai's allies from the surrounding battlefields, including Shi Jiamu, A Ning, Hu Qi, and the Old Eccentric.
• Yin Jiuling arrived through the Eastern Courtyard's teleportation formation and explained that void lightning had injured him after an Apex Realm expert damaged the formation; he had come because he had promised Lin Bai he would.

Lin Bai led the Quasi-Holy Sons away from the besieged Outer Sect Teleportation Island to reach the Ice Lake Sea and end the war, while Li Jiuge overcame his doubts and joined them. At the Ice Lake Sea, Old Ancestor Ding learned that Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Li Jiuge had arrived, giving Prince Darkest Night a chance to challenge the academy’s Quasi-Holy Sons.

• Lin Bai told Li Jiuge that they could not save the Outer Sect disciples by fighting millions of Demon Sect warriors and urged him to help end the war instead.
• Lan Yuxin agreed with Lin Bai and caught up with the group, and Li Jiuge ultimately left the island after vowing to avenge the fallen disciples.
• Lin Bai led Yin Jiuling, A Ning, Old Eccentric, and the others toward the Ice Lake Sea at the center of the Outer Sect Archipelago.
• Old Ancestor Ding told Prince Darkest Night that the Inner Sect’s teleportation arrays had been destroyed and that they had time to search for the Demon Seal.
• Old Ancestor Ding received word that Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Li Jiuge had arrived, and told Prince Darkest Night he could now fight the academy’s Quasi-Holy Sons.

Lin Bai’s group learned that the outer sect was a gigantic talisman and hurried toward the Ice Lake Sea, wary of its power. They found the elders’ residences deserted and, after Li Jiuge apologized to the group’s outcasts, continued toward the sea.

• Hu Qi sensed that the outer-sect buildings resembled traps, and Yin Jiuling identified the outer sect as a gigantic talisman that could unleash immense power.
• Lin Bai agreed to deal quickly with any Demon Sect members in the Ice Lake Sea and told everyone to stay alert as they approached it.
• The group found the outer-sect elders’ residences deserted, and Feng Wenjun explained that the elders had fled or gone to support the disciples.
• Li Jiuge apologized to Yin Jiuling, Old Eccentric, the Half-Demon behemoth, and the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers for having looked down on them.
• A Ning asked Li Jiuge to treat the group to drinks after the crisis, and Lin Bai led everyone into the Ice Lake Sea.

Lin Bai and his companions entered the Ice Lake Sea to find the Demon Sect and the demonic seal. After Yin Jiuling wounded Flying Snow Young Master from afar, the Demon Sect’s nine young masters set out to intercept them while Old Ancestor Ding continued searching for Ice Pillar Mountain.

• Feng Wenjun explained the Ice Lake Sea’s origins and forbidden status as Lin Bai led the group into its frozen storms.
• Flying Snow Young Master sensed the newcomers and was wounded when Yin Jiuling met his distant gaze.
• Old Ancestor Ding learned Lin Bai had arrived and warned Prince Darkest Night not to underestimate him.
• Prince Darkest Night and the other eight young masters went to confront Lin Bai, while Old Ancestor Ding ordered Lin Xiaoqing, Lei Chong, Chai Ming, and Gu Yuan to keep the group away from Ice Pillar Mountain.
• Yin Jiuling told Lin Bai that an enemy had discovered them and that they had exchanged a move; Lin Bai concluded the Demon Sect had not yet obtained the demonic seal.

Lin Bai and the other Quasi-Holy Sons confronted the Demon Sect's Nine Young Masters in Ice Lake Sea, and the two groups began fighting. The battle continued as the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers united into the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord.

• Prince Darkest Night identified the Demon Sect's Nine Young Masters and challenged Lin Bai's group to fight.
• Flying Snow Young Master trapped Lin Bai and the others in a Snow Tomb, but Lin Bai's sword strike broke them free.
• Yin Jiuling used his power against the Nine Young Masters, destroying the iceberg beneath them.
• A Ning attacked Prince Darkest Night while Chasing Wind Young Master struck Ling Yi and sent him flying.
• Ling Yi called on his brothers to unite, and the four became the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord.

Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord overwhelmed Chasing Wind Young Master, while Feng Wenjun stepped forward to fight Young Master Lan and revealed his resolve to become stronger. After Lan’s attacks injured him, Feng Wenjun unleashed a strange black wind and vowed to destroy those who had harmed his loved ones.

• Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord caught Chasing Wind Young Master’s punch, mocked him for calling the brothers cripples, and outpaced him in the air.
• Young Master Lan challenged the Quasi-Holy Sons, and Feng Wenjun stepped in before Lin Bai could fight him.
• Feng Wenjun refused Shi Jiamu’s pleas to stop, saying he wanted to become strong enough to protect her and those he cared about.
• Young Master Lan used his brush techniques to trap Feng Wenjun and send him flying, but Feng Wenjun rose and reflected on his past failures.
• Feng Wenjun unleashed a destructive black wind and vowed to turn everyone who had harmed his loved ones to ashes, as Young Master Lan began another attack.

Feng Wenjun revealed his mastery of the Feng Family’s Wind God Dao Scripture and overwhelmed Young Master Lan, while Shi Jiamu intervened to defeat and kill Rain Lotus Prince. The other Nine Young Masters were left stunned by her power as she stood beside Feng Wenjun.

• Feng Wenjun shattered Young Master Lan’s Six Strokes Form Kill and unleashed the Myriad Destruction Wind Curse, prompting his parents in the Feng Family to celebrate his enlightenment.
• Feng Wenjun used Gale Thousand Blade Kill to trap and batter Young Master Lan.
• Rain Lotus Prince attacked Feng Wenjun from behind, but Shi Jiamu blocked her strike and challenged her.
• Shi Jiamu fought Rain Lotus Prince, endured her punch by dispersing into stones, and trapped her with the Shi Family’s Chaotic Stone Burial.
• Shi Jiamu crushed Rain Lotus Prince beneath a mass of stones, leaving the other Nine Young Masters and Lin Bai shocked.
• Feng Wenjun told Shi Jiamu he was supposed to protect her, and she smiled and said he could do so next time.

After Rain Lotus Prince died, Young Master Lan trapped Feng Wenjun and Shi Jiamu in a painting while the other Demon Sect Young Masters joined the battle. Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon beast held off two pursuers so Lin Bai could fly toward four figures above the clouds who seemed to be directing the fighting.

• Young Master Lan used his blood as ink to paint Feng Wenjun and Shi Jiamu into a deadly world, then vanished with them.
• Lin Xiaoqing, Gu Yuan, Chai Ming, and Lei Chong arrived as Lin Bai assessed the ongoing battles and prepared to confront them.
• The remaining four Demon Sect Young Masters attacked Lin Bai, but Li Jiuge and Hu Qi engaged Soulshift Prince and Skyflower Prince.
• Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon beast offered to handle the Demon Sect Young Masters and urged Lin Bai to investigate the four figures above the clouds.
• Lin Bai flew toward the figures, while Old Eccentric stopped two pursuing Young Masters with a show of force.

Old Eccentric and Manzi joined the battle against Icefire Prince and Thunder Prince while Lan Yuxin held the fort. Lin Bai confronted Lin Xiaoqing and the three Demon Sect cultivators possessing his friends, then grievously wounded all three with one sword strike.

• Old Eccentric asked Lan Yuxin to hold the fort, then went with Manzi to fight Icefire Prince and Thunder Prince.
• Manzi struck the Ice Lake Sea with his bone club, and the Demon Sect princes fought the Eastern Academy’s Quasi-Holy Sons and other allies across the battlefield.
• Lin Bai flew above the clouds to confront Lin Xiaoqing, Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, and Chai Ming over their possession of his friends’ bodies.
• Lin Xiaoqing rejected Lin Bai’s demand that the Demon Sect leave his friends’ bodies and ordered Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, and Chai Ming to attack him.
• Lin Bai used Overturning the River to send all three attackers flying and grievously wound them with one sword strike.

Lin Bai fought Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, Chai Ming, and Lin Xiaoqing after their green flames raised their power to the Death Reversal Realm. He spared their unconscious bodies but destroyed the four Life-Death Demon Sect elders who fled from them, leaving the battle at the Ice Lake Sea ongoing.

• Lin Bai wounded Gu Yuan and the others, then demanded they leave his friends' bodies behind.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Chong, Chai Ming, and Lin Xiaoqing ignited green flames and reached the Death Reversal Realm.
• Lin Bai unleashed his fused six-intent Immortal-Slaying sword strike, forcing the four to abandon their bodies and flee as green flames.
• Lin Bai stopped his sword before the unconscious four and caught them as they fell.
• Lin Bai sent his returning flying swords after the four fleeing flames, and the swords destroyed the Life-Death Demon Sect elders within them.

After Lin Bai won, Lan Yuxin froze space and time, allowing their allies to defeat the Demon Sect’s nine young masters. Skyflower Prince survived and revealed that Senior Ding and the Demon Sect disciples were at Ice Pillar Peak, but Li Jiuge pursued him after Lin Bai ordered it.

• Lin Bai checked that Gu Yuan and the others were unconscious but alive after his victory.
• Lan Yuxin used Heaven Sealing Three Breaths to freeze space and time, while Lin Bai ordered his allies to kill everyone except one opponent.
• Yin Jiuling, A Ning, Li Jiuge, Heaven Crippled Demon Lord, and Manzi killed the Demon Sect princes they faced, while Hu Qi spared Skyflower Prince.
• Skyflower Prince told Lin Bai that Senior Ding and the Demon Sect disciples were at Ice Pillar Peak, one hundred thousand miles east, then fled.
• Lin Bai sent Li Jiuge after Skyflower Prince, and Li Jiuge returned half an hour later.