Chapter Summaries

Li Jiuge returned after crippling the woman who had provided them information, and Lin Bai led the group toward Ice Pillar Peak. As they searched the peak’s maze for the demonic seal, a mysterious voice guided Lin Bai through the passages until he reached a place beneath the Ice Lake Sea.

• Li Jiuge told the group that he had crippled the woman’s dantian, shattered her divine pill, destroyed her cultivation, and sent her away from the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai led his companions east toward Ice Pillar Peak while Old Ancestor Ding learned that Chao Shan and the other Demon Sect ancestors had died.
• Old Ancestor Ding and the black-robed man entered Ice Pillar Peak to search for the demonic seal before Lin Bai arrived.
• Lin Bai and his companions reached Ice Pillar Peak, agreed to split up, and entered its maze of passages to find the seal.
• A mysterious voice guided Lin Bai through a succession of branching passages for an entire day, until he arrived beneath the Ice Lake Sea.

Lin Bai reached the Bronze Gate beneath Ice Lake Sea and found the Demon Seal, but Old Ancestor Ding attacked him before he could take it. After Chen Qin revealed Lin Bai’s identity as the Demon Sect’s final disciple, Lin Bai confronted Old Ancestor Ding over his claim to represent the Demon Sect.

• Lin Bai followed the passageways beneath Ice Pillar Peak to a square where the Bronze Gate stood with the Demon Seal set between its doors.
• Old Ancestor Ding and a man in black arrived, and Old Ancestor Ding struck Lin Bai and sent him flying as he tried to take the Demon Seal.
• Old Eccentric, Yin Jiuling, and Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord arrived and stopped Old Ancestor Ding from reaching the seal.
• The man in black revealed himself as Chen Qin and explained that Lin Bai was the Demon Sect’s final disciple because he possessed its disciple imprint.
• Lin Bai admitted his status and accused Old Ancestor Ding and the others of falsely claiming to be Demon Sect disciples.

Lin Bai defended his claim as the Demon Sect’s orthodox successor against Old Ancestor Ding and Qiu Tianci, the last surviving Demon Sect disciple from fifty thousand years ago. When Lin Bai tried to fight Old Ancestor Ding, a mysterious force suppressed his demon flower, and a young man emerged from the Bronze Gate.

• Lin Bai argued that Old Ancestor Ding and Chen Qin were unqualified to call themselves Demon Sect disciples, while Yin Jiuling, the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, and the Old Eccentric had far greater talent.
• Qiu Tianci revealed himself as the only Demon Sect disciple to survive the battle against the Divine Sect fifty thousand years ago, and Lin Bai showed his own Demon Sect disciple mark and greeted him as Senior Brother.
• Lin Bai explained that he opposed letting cruel descendants such as Old Ancestor Ding control the Demon Sect, but Qiu Tianci insisted that Old Ancestor Ding take Lin Bai’s demon mark.
• Lin Bai raised his cultivation with the demon flower to the seventh level of the Death Reversal Realm, but a mysterious force suppressed it and returned him to the ninth level of the Life Extinction Realm.
• The Bronze Gate opened, and a young man walked out into the light; Lin Bai asked who he was.

The White-Robed Youth advised Yin Jiuling, the Old Eccentric, and the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord about the flaws in their cultivation arts, then revealed himself as Lord Yuanmo. He exposed Qiu Tianci’s use of Gu Cultivation to survive by draining his disciples and annihilated him.

• The White-Robed Youth warned Lin Bai that Heart Demon Implantation had serious drawbacks and advised him to stop cultivating it.
• The White-Robed Youth explained that the Reincarnation Curse had eroded Yin Jiuling’s humanity, and Yin Jiuling respectfully thanked him for the guidance.
• The White-Robed Youth told the Old Eccentric that Reversing Yin and Yang would eventually cause him to regress into an infant and die, then praised the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord’s potential while noting flaws in their art.
• The White-Robed Youth declared that Old Ancestor Ding had violated the Demon Sect’s rules by cultivating its techniques without being a disciple, then exposed Qiu Tianci’s use of Southern Frontier Gu Cultivation to drain his disciples’ life force.
• Qiu Tianci recognized the White-Robed Youth as Lord Yuanmo and pleaded that he had used Gu Cultivation to survive and hoped to revive the Demon Sect.
• Lord Yuanmo told Qiu Tianci to disperse and stop poisoning martial artists, then swept him into ash.

After Lord Yuanmo’s remnant soul defeated Qiu Tianci and made Old Ancestor Ding surrender the Gods and Demons Sect’s Inheritance Palace, he explained that Yuanmo himself had died ten thousand years ago. He began revealing that Yuanmo and Yuanzu came from the Spirit Ruins Great World, an upper realm beyond the Barren Ancient Continent.

• Lord Yuanmo reduced Qiu Tianci to ashes and spared Old Ancestor Ding because his ancestors had served the Gods and Demons Sect.
• Old Ancestor Ding surrendered the Inheritance Palace and left with Chen Qin, while Lord Yuanmo assured Lin Bai they would forget what had happened.
• Lord Yuanmo told Lin Bai that he was a remnant soul guarding the Gods and Demons Seal, and that Yuanmo had perished alongside Yuanzu ten thousand years earlier.
• Lin Bai recounted the Gods and Demons Sect’s defeat five thousand years ago and explained how Old Ancestor Ding’s descendants had returned to the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• Lord Yuanmo rejected the story that Yuanmo had fallen into demonic ways and revealed that Yuanmo and Yuanzu were not natives of the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Lord Yuanmo explained that the Spirit Ruins Great World was an upper realm surrounded by minor worlds, including the Barren Ancient Continent.

The White-Robed Youth revealed why the Primal Fiend Ancestor and Lord Yuanmo fled the Spirit Realm and explained the history of the fragments said to threaten the Giant God Race. Lin Bai learned that one fragment might remain in the Barren Ancient Continent and resolved to find it before the Giant God Race arrived.

• The White-Robed Youth explained that the Giant God Race had hunted the Heaven Swallowing Race for generations and that the Primal Fiend Ancestor fled the Spirit Realm because she possessed the Devouring Spirit.
• The White-Robed Youth said that Lord Yuanmo and the Primal Fiend Ancestor came to the Barren Ancient Continent to search for fragments that could defeat the Giant God Race, and that three had once been there.
• The White-Robed Youth revealed that the Central Sacred Nation had found one fragment and that Ling Tianzi had taken another, leaving one possibly undiscovered in the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Lin Bai recalled that the Giant God Race could reach the Barren Ancient Continent within ten years and resolved to find the remaining fragment before time ran out.
• The White-Robed Youth recounted how the Primal Fiend Ancestor, broken by the hunt and threatening to destroy the world, begged Lord Yuanmo to kill her; Lord Yuanmo eventually did so and left behind two remnant souls before transforming into the Dao.
• Lin Bai heard how the Giant God Race slaughtered the families and friends of those it pursued, and an icy light spread across his eyes.

The White-Robed Youth appointed Lin Bai Sect Master of the Devil Sect and explained that the Gods and Demons Sect’s mission was to find the fragments. After the White-Robed Youth vanished, Lin Bai held the Devil Seal and learned that the Inheritance Palace’s ninth level contained clues about a fragment.

• The White-Robed Youth explained that the Primal Fiend Ancestor founded the Gods and Demons Sect to search for fragments, and that the sect’s forgotten mission led to the war between the Devil Sect and Divine Sect.
• The White-Robed Youth named Lin Bai the Devil Sect’s Sect Master and gave him the Devil Seal, saying he could use it to recruit disciples such as Yin Jiuling, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, and the Old Eccentric.
• The White-Robed Youth described the Bronze Gate as a lock sealing East Continent’s fortune and warned Lin Bai to protect it because the Gods and Demons Sect would perish if the gate did.
• The White-Robed Youth presented the Devil Sect’s Inheritance Palace and explained that its ninth level contained information about a fragment once found by the Ancestor and Lord Yuanmo.
• The White-Robed Youth bid Lin Bai farewell and vanished into the Bronze Gate.

Lin Bai entered the Demon Sect’s Inheritance Palace and read Yuanmo’s account of searching for fragments with Yuanzu. The account revealed that Yuanzu had been tormented by nightmares and that Yuanmo ultimately killed her to free her; Lin Bai continued reading their story.

• Lin Bai decided he could not spend years cultivating inside the Bronze Gate because he needed to find his parents and prepare his loved ones for the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai brought the Demon Sect’s Inheritance Palace into the Bronze Gate, where the lamplight man confirmed the remnant soul had been freed and then dispersed, leaving an artifact spirit in his place.
• Lin Bai went to the ninth floor and read Yuanmo’s records of how the Central Sacred Nation repeatedly took or passed on the fragments he and Yuanzu sought.
• Yuanmo wrote that Yuanzu’s nightmares and fear of the Giant God Race drove her to slaughter people, and that she begged him to kill her.
• Yuanmo recorded that he finally pierced Yuanzu’s heart; she smiled as she died, and he hoped they could be ordinary siblings in another life.

Lin Bai read Yuan Mo’s warning that the Barren Ancient Continent would be destroyed when a Heaven Swallowing Race martial artist drew the Giant God Race there, and realized the prophecy might refer to him. Determined to find the remaining fragments and protect those around him, he left Ice Pillar Peak with his companions and returned to Dragon Breeding Island.

• Lin Bai read Yuan Mo’s account of the Giant God Race and his prophecy that the Barren Ancient Continent would be destroyed ten thousand years later.
• Yuan Mo urged later Demon Sect disciples to find and cultivate the Heaven Swallowing Race martial artist, and revealed that two fragments were still lost in the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Bai suspected the prophecy referred to him and vowed to find the fragments before the Giant God Race arrived, so he could protect his family and companions.
• Lin Bai spent three days calming himself, then left the Inheritance Palace and told Yin Jiuling and the others he would explain matters on Dragon Breeding Island.
• Lin Bai used the Demon Seal to gather the remaining martial artists and led them out of the Ice Lake Sea as the Demon Sect’s forces were driven from Ice Pillar Peak.
• Lin Bai and his companions returned to Dragon Breeding Island after the Eastern Continent Academy regained a brief period of peace.

On Dragon Breeding Island, Lin Bai revealed that he was the last disciple of the orthodox Demon Sect and declared his intention to become its Sect Master. Several companions accepted Demon Sect marks and entered the Inheritance Palace, while Li Jiuge left after learning Lin Bai's identity and Lan Yuxin warned that revealing it could put him in danger.

• Lin Bai told the group he was the last Demon Sect disciple, and Li Jiuge confronted him over the sect's attack on the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai explained that he had not directed the attack and that the attackers were not part of the orthodox Demon Sect; Li Jiuge left, promising to keep Lin Bai's identity secret and face him in the Saint Son Battle.
• Lin Bai announced that he would take control of the Demon Seal and become Sect Master, then invited Yin Jiuling, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, and the Old Eccentric to join the Demon Sect.
• Lin Bai gave Demon Sect marks to the Old Eccentric, the Half-Demon behemoth, A Ning, Hu Qi, Feng Wenjun, and Shi Jiamu, and the newly marked companions entered the Inheritance Palace.
• Lan Yuxin warned Lin Bai that the Order Divine Court and academy disciples could target him if his identity became known, but Lin Bai said he trusted the group and that Li Jiuge would not betray him.

Lin Bai urged Lan Yuxin and his other friends to grow stronger against the coming calamity as the Eastern Continent Academy crushed the Demon Sect’s assault and pursued its survivors. Five months later, the Holy Son Battle was set to begin in seven days, and Lin Bai called the Quasi-Holy Sons back from the Demon Sect’s Inheritance Palace.

• Lan Yuxin agreed to join the Demon Sect, received its mark, and entered the Inheritance Palace.
• The Eastern Continent Academy defeated the Demon Sect at the Sea of Gods and Demons, then hunted its fleeing disciples across the Eastern Continent and killed twenty-eight Apex Realm experts in the Nameless Domain.
• The Order Divine Court promoted several thousand outer-academy disciples, including Su Lingshan and Su Lingsu, while the surviving Demon Sect disciples fled toward a common destination.
• After the outer-academy islands were rebuilt, the academy announced that the Holy Son Battle would begin in seven days and require every Quasi-Holy Son to participate.
• Lin Bai summoned the Quasi-Holy Sons from the Inheritance Palace and was surprised by how much their auras had strengthened.

After six months of cultivation in the Demon Sect's Inheritance Palace, Lin Bai's companions prepared for the Saint Child Battle, which the Order Divine Court scheduled for seven days later on Saint Island. Lan Yuxin returned to the Lan Clan and revealed to Lan Ling that Lin Bai was the Demon Sect's Sect Master.

• Yin Jiuling, A Ning, the Old Eccentric, and the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers emerged from the Inheritance Palace, resolved to keep refining their cultivation arts, and looked forward to the Saint Child Battle.
• A Ning and the others agreed to face Wu He, Shi Zhongxian, and their allies before holding an internal contest among themselves.
• Lan Yuxin warned Lin Bai that many contenders would challenge him, and Lin Bai said he would leave for Kunxu after defeating Li Jiuge.
• The Order Divine Court announced that the Saint Child Battle would begin on Saint Island in seven days, prompting the academy's martial artists and families to make preparations.
• Lan Yuxin returned to the Lan Clan and told Lan Ling that Lin Bai was the Demon Sect's final disciple and had become its Sect Master after obtaining the Demon Seal.

As the Holy Son Battle approached, the four courtyards prepared their Quasi-Holy Sons and rival factions singled out Lin Bai as a target. Millions gathered outside Sacred Island, where the Quasi-Holy Sons arrived to begin the long-awaited contest.

• Lan Yuxin told Lan Ling that Lin Bai had given her access to the Devil Sect's Inheritance Palace so she could protect herself from the approaching great calamity, and Lan Ling ordered her to prepare for the Holy Son Battle.
• A Northern Courtyard elder urged Leng Qianxue and Chen Qing to defend the courtyard's reputation, and Chen Qing welcomed the chance to challenge the other courtyards.
• A Western Courtyard elder warned that Chen Qing's formations were deadly and entrusted Kong Lianxin and Kong Mo with raising the Western Courtyard's prestige.
• Gu Daozhi demanded that Gu Xing, Gu Xi, Shi Zhongxian, Wu He, and the other warriors he had supported win the Holy Son Battle, while Shi Zhongxian and Wu He vowed to target Lin Bai.
• Su Lingshan and Su Lingsu discussed Lin Bai's chances as millions of warriors gathered outside Sacred Island, and the Quasi-Holy Sons arrived to a great commotion.

The Quasi-Holy Sons from the four courtyards gathered outside Sacred Island as rivalries and alliances began to form. After Lin Bai briefly acknowledged Su Lingsu, the academy elders arrived and Gu Daozhi ordered Sacred Island opened.

• The Eastern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons arrived in rival groups led by the Gu Family and Yin Jiuling, drawing most of the crowd’s attention.
• Chen Qing and Kong Mo agreed that the Northern and Western Courtyards would join forces against disciples of the Eastern and Southern Courtyards.
• Su Lingshan spotted Lin Bai, and Lin Bai noticed Su Lingsu in the crowd and smiled and nodded at her.
• The Southern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons arrived, including Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin, while Su Lingsu felt increasingly distant from Lin Bai.
• The academy’s elders assembled above Sacred Island, and Gu Daozhi ordered the island opened.

The Quasi-Holy Sons entered the Holy Island to compete for the title, and A Ning challenged Jian Kong to start the first fight. As A Ning and Jian Kong prepared to clash, A Ning declared he would win so he could take part in a later internal battle.

• Gu Daozhi announced that the Quasi-Holy Sons would fight on the Holy Island until only one remained, and the losers would lose their qualification.
• The Quasi-Holy Sons entered the Holy Island as Apex Realm powerhouses activated a formation to prevent anyone outside from interfering.
• Lin Bai surveyed the island and saw the rivalries and alliances among the Quasi-Holy Sons, including those targeting him.
• A Ning challenged Jian Kong, who accepted and rose into the air to fight him.
• Lan Yuxin discussed the swordsmen's strength with Lin Bai, and Lin Bai predicted that A Ning would win.
• Jian Kong told A Ning to admit defeat, but A Ning said he would win because he had promised to fight an internal battle afterward.

A Ning defeated Jian Kong with only half her strength, establishing herself as the strongest sword cultivator in the Eastern Courtyard. Li Jiuge then challenged Lin Bai to a fight to the death on Sacred Island, and the two prepared to battle.

• A Ning countered Jian Kong's Nine Heavens Godslaying Strike and overwhelmed him after revealing she had only used fifty percent of her strength.
• Jian Kong admitted defeat and left Sacred Island, while the martial artists declared A Ning the strongest sword cultivator in the Eastern Courtyard.
• Li Jiuge reminded Lin Bai of their agreement and challenged him to settle their conflict in a battle to the death.
• Lin Bai accepted Li Jiuge's challenge, and the two faced each other above Sacred Island.
• Li Jiuge revealed the fourth transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon and vowed to kill Lin Bai because he was the sect master of the Demon Sect.

Lin Bai and Li Jiuge fought a devastating duel on the Sacred Island, with Li Jiuge unleashing the fourth transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon. Lin Bai won, and as Li Jiuge lay near death, Ji Yun and Miss Xuan pleaded with Lin Bai to spare him.

• Li Jiuge revealed his fourth Divine Dragon and attacked Lin Bai with the White Dragon Holy Sword, but Lin Bai countered his swordplay and broke through his defenses.
• Lin Bai and Li Jiuge exchanged powerful techniques until their attacks collided, injuring both and shaking the Sacred Island.
• Li Jiuge unleashed the Myriad Dragons Sword Slash while Lin Bai answered with the seventh form of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, destroying half the Sacred Island in their clash.
• Li Jiuge fell gravely wounded and admitted defeat, while Lin Bai remained standing with serious injuries.
• Xing Hen cried out for Li Jiuge, and Ji Yun and Miss Xuan pleaded with Lin Bai to spare his life.

Lin Bai defeated Li Jiuge in their life-or-death battle but refused to kill him, chastising him and his father for mistaking pride for the way of a martial artist. Li Jiuge was left to reconsider his choices, while Lin Bai returned to healing and Li Jiuge's father thanked him.

• Li Jiuge accepted defeat and urged Xinghen, Ji Yun, Miss Xuan, and his father to move on without him.
• Lin Bai approached Li Jiuge with the Demon Sword, but slapped him instead of killing him and condemned his father for raising a powerful fighter without teaching him how to live.
• Lin Bai told Li Jiuge that he had defeated him without using half his strength and called him worse than an ant for choosing death over enduring defeat.
• Lin Bai spared Li Jiuge and offered him a chance to enter Dragon Breeding Island, urging him to reflect on humility and what it meant to be a true martial artist.
• Lin Bai returned to the mountain peak to heal, and Li Jiuge's father bowed and thanked him for sparing Li Jiuge and for his words.

After Li Jiugе withdrew, Chen Qing and Kong Mo defeated Southern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons Wang Qing and Fang Yi. The Northern and Western Courtyards continued challenging Southern Courtyard disciples, leaving Lin Bai to face a coordinated effort to weaken his side.

• Xinghen escorted the defeated Li Jiugе off the Sacred Island after Li Jiugе questioned whether he had chosen the wrong path.
• Chen Qing trapped Wang Qing in a formation, crushed him until he admitted defeat, and withdrew the formation only after Fang Yi intervened.
• Kong Mo challenged Fang Yi and broke his arm after gaining the advantage, forcing Fang Yi to admit defeat.
• Leng Qianxue challenged Chen Qing and defeated him after a hundred moves.
• Kong Lianxin challenged Zhang Xianqi as the Northern and Western Courtyards continued targeting Southern Courtyard Quasi-Holy Sons.

After Southern Courtyard lost another Quasi-Holy Son, Lin Bai challenged all ten Quasi-Holy Sons of the Western and Northern Courtyards at once. The ten accepted and attacked him together, while Lin Bai called for his sword.

• Kong Lianxin defeated Zhang Xianqi, leaving Southern Courtyard with only Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hua Muqing still in the contest.
• Hua Muqing prepared to leave Saint Island, but Chen Qing stepped forward to challenge her.
• Lin Bai interrupted Chen Qing and challenged every Quasi-Holy Son from the Western and Northern Courtyards.
• All ten Quasi-Holy Sons, including Chen Qing, Kong Mo, Kong Lianxin, and Leng Qianxue, surrounded Lin Bai and accepted the fight.
• Kong Mo attacked as Chen Qing activated a hidden Thousandfold Formation, and Lin Bai called, “Sword, come!”