Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai fought ten Quasi-Holy Sons from the Western and Northern Courtyards, defeating most of them despite Chen Qing sealing the space against his Wishful Ring. After Lin Bai defeated Kong Mo, Kong Lianxin began forming the Great Bright King Seal.

• Lin Bai summoned the Demon Sword and defeated Zhao Haiqing with one strike, then used the Wishful Ring to ambush Shangguan Qi and another Quasi-Holy Son.
• Chen Qing placed jade tablets around the battlefield and activated the Imprisonment Formation, preventing Lin Bai from using the Wishful Ring.
• Lin Bai used Dragon Slayer Swordplay—Buddha's Wrath to defeat three more Quasi-Holy Sons and wound Leng Qianxue, Kong Lianxin, and Kong Mo as they retreated.
• Kong Mo summoned a five-colored peacock phantom and attacked Lin Bai with a powerful tail feather, but Lin Bai blocked it with his flying swords and struck Kong Mo down.
• Kong Lianxin began changing her hand seals and announced the Great Bright King Seal.

Lin Bai fought Chen Qing and Kong Lianxin while their formations and Great Bright King Seal left him trapped. Just as Leng Qianxue moved in to finish him, Lin Bai revealed his full strength and defeated all three, leaving them to decide whether to continue toward a battle to the death.

• After defeating Kong Mo, Lin Bai faced Kong Lianxin’s Great Bright King Seal and Chen Qing’s Imprisonment and Kill Formations, which trapped him in a stalemate.
• Chen Qing called on Leng Qianxue to strike Lin Bai, and she thrust her sword toward his throat while the onlookers expected him to lose.
• Lin Bai’s three-colored flames appeared, raising his cultivation to the great perfection of the Life Extinction Realm, and his sword intent shattered Leng Qianxue’s sword.
• Lin Bai merged six intents into Exterminate the Immortals, broke Chen Qing’s formation, and sent Chen Qing flying with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai shattered Kong Lianxin’s Great Bright King Seal and sent her flying, then warned Chen Qing, Leng Qianxue, and Kong Lianxin that continuing would become a fight to the death.

After Lin Bai defeated the Western and Northern Courtyards’ Quasi-Holy Sons, the Eastern Courtyard’s fighters began battling one another on Sacred Island. Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin watched as the clashes erupted, with Feng Wenjun facing Shi Zhongxian and no victor yet determined.

• Lin Bai defeated Chen Qing, Leng Qianxue, Kong Lianxin, and the other Quasi-Holy Sons from the Western and Northern Courtyards, who left Sacred Island in defeat.
• Lin Bai challenged the Eastern Courtyard’s Quasi-Holy Sons, and A Ning, the Old Eccentric, and Manzi announced that their courtyard would fight among itself.
• Feng Wenjun attacked Shi Zhongxian after Shi Zhongxian insulted Shi Jiamu, while Hu Qi challenged Tu Ziyun and the Old Eccentric and Manzi faced Leng Yun and Lin Yibing.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers fought Gu Xing and Gu Xi, while Shi Jiamu and Huo Fentian, A Ning and Gu Xing, and Yin Jiuling and Wu He also became opponents.
• Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin watched the battles spread across Sacred Island, and Lin Bai predicted that Hu Qi and Tu Ziyun’s match would be deadlocked and called Feng Wenjun the weakest.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin watched the battles on Sacred Island as several contests ended in rapid succession. The Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, Yin Jiuling, Manzi, A Ning, and Shi Jiamu won, leaving only two pairings still fighting.

• Lin Bai suspected Feng Wenjun had chosen Shi Zhongxian because of Shi Jiamu, while Lan Yuxin explained the Shi Family’s decline after Lin Duo attacked it over twenty years earlier.
• The Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord defeated Gu Xi, who could not believe he had lost.
• Yin Jiuling struck Wu He from within with a deadly force and defeated him.
• Manzi defeated Leng Yun and Lin Yibing with a blow from his bone club while Old Eccentric cheered.
• A Ning defeated Gu Xing, and Shi Jiamu defeated Huo Fentian; only Hu Qi versus Tu Ziyun and Feng Wenjun versus Shi Zhongxian remained unresolved.

Hu Qi defeated Tu Ziyun, leaving Feng Wenjun and Shi Zhongxian as the final pair still fighting. After Shi Zhongxian overwhelmed Feng Wenjun, Feng insisted on a fight to the death, and Lin Bai stepped in to threaten Shi Zhongxian if Feng died.

• Hu Qi defeated Tu Ziyun with a single slash, leaving Feng Wenjun's battle with Shi Zhongxian as the last unresolved contest.
• Feng Wenjun's Divine Wind Curse failed to overcome Shi Zhongxian's Martial Soul, and Shi Zhongxian struck him down.
• Lin Bai prepared to challenge Shi Zhongxian, but Feng Wenjun rose from the ruins and insisted he had not lost.
• Feng Wenjun challenged Shi Zhongxian to decide both victory and death, despite warnings from Shi Jiamu, Feng Wujun, and his parents.
• Shi Zhongxian unleashed Chaotic Stone Burial, and Lin Bai confronted him, declaring that Shi Zhongxian would die if Feng Wenjun did.

Feng Wunjun faced Shi Zhongxian’s Martial Soul Secret Method while Lin Bai and their allies held back from interfering. After Shi Zhongxian’s attack made Feng Wunjun disappear and sparked a war threat from Old Freak Feng, Lin Bai and Yin Jiuling sensed that Feng Wunjun was still alive.

• Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, A Ning, Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, Shi Jiamu, the Old Eccentric, and Manzi threatened Shi Zhongxian when he moved to attack Feng Wunjun.
• Feng Wunjun urged his allies not to interfere, and Lin Bai and the others withdrew their power and sat down.
• After Hei Luo Jian Jiu mocked Shi Zhongxian, Shi Zhongxian unleashed Chaotic Stone Burial and trapped Feng Wunjun inside a huge stone sphere that exploded.
• Shi Jiamu collapsed when Feng Wunjun vanished, and Old Freak Feng threatened the Shi Family with war after believing Feng Wunjun had died.
• Lin Bai and Yin Jiuling sensed that Feng Wunjun’s aura remained, and they stopped A Ning and the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord from attacking Shi Zhongxian.

Feng Wenjun survived Shi Zhongxian’s attack by comprehending the essence of the Feng Family’s Wind God Dao Scripture, then unleashed the ancestral divine ability Wind Arises, God Appears. He overwhelmed Shi Zhongxian and exposed the Shi Family martial soul’s limit, leaving Shi Zhongxian begging for his life.

• Feng Wenjun’s faint aura surged as the Wind God Dao Scripture’s voice echoed across the Sacred Island, drawing a Dao resonance from the Feng Family ancestor.
• Feng Wenjun emerged from a tornado, thanked the ancestor for his guidance, and revealed he had used Shi Zhongxian as a whetstone to comprehend the scripture.
• Feng Wenjun unleashed Wind Arises, God Appears, summoning a storm whose power split the Sacred Island and repeatedly crushed Shi Zhongxian’s body.
• Shi Zhongxian’s body reformed ten times before he begged Feng Wenjun to spare him, and Shi Jiamu explained that the Shi Family martial soul could only revive its user ten times in a short period.

Feng Wenjun defeated Shi Zhongxian and explained how his family’s Wind God Dao Scripture let him summon a divine shadow from ancient times. After Lin Bai reflected on the higher realms of martial cultivation, the Sacred Island survivors prepared to settle their internal contest, with Hei Luo Jian Jiu challenging Lin Bai to a three-sword duel.

• Feng Wenjun sent the bloodied Shi Zhongxian away and warned him not to threaten Shi Jiamu again.
• Feng Wenjun told Shi Jiamu he would try to become accustomed to killing, but she urged him to remain true to himself.
• Feng Wenjun explained that he had used his Wind God Dao Scripture to summon an ancient divine shadow and described the Mortal, Spirit, and Dao stages of martial cultivation.
• Lin Bai resolved to keep advancing beyond the Spirit Realm and proposed ending the Sacred Island battle with one-move contests.
• A Ning, the Old Eccentric, the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, Yin Jiuling, the Half-Demon giant beast, and Lan Yuxin said they wanted to fight Lin Bai, while Hua Muqing chose to watch.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu challenged Lin Bai to decide their duel with three swords, pitting the Spirit Sword Dao against the Overlord Sword Dao.

Lin Bai accepted Hei Luo Jian Jiu’s challenge to exchange three moves, despite the disadvantage of facing an Overlord Sword Dao cultivator. Hei Luo Jian Jiu’s first sword badly wounded Lin Bai, and their second clash destroyed Saint Island, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Hei Luo Jian Jiu agreed to fight Lin Bai, and Lin Bai sent Lan Yuxin, Feng Wenjun, and the others away before the first strike.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu’s first sword shattered Lin Bai’s defenses and sent him flying, while onlookers marveled at his Overlord Sword Dao.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu launched his second sword, and Lin Bai met it with the Heaven Measuring Ruler in one hand and the demon sword in the other.
• Their forces clashed and destroyed Saint Island beyond the formation’s ability to repair, as the watching warriors reacted in shock.

Lin Bai and Hei Luo Jian Jiu fought their final sword duel on the Sacred Island, where Lin Bai’s Heaven Measuring Ruler outlasted Hei Luo Jian Jiu’s Gluttonous Greatsword. Hei Luo Jian Jiu admitted defeat and left, convinced that Lin Bai deserved to become the Eastern Continent Academy’s Saint Son.

• Lin Bai revealed that he had cultivated the Overlord Sword Dao, and Hei Luo Jian Jiu introduced his Gluttonous Greatsword as they prepared to settle their duel with one final sword.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu attacked with his third sword, and Lin Bai countered with the Heaven Splitting Sword Method’s Mountain-Splitting strike.
• The clash injured many watching martial artists, so Gu Daozhi, Lan Ling, and the other elders of the Order Divine Court shielded the area from the aftermath.
• Lin Bai and Hei Luo Jian Jiu were thrown in opposite directions, but both rose with few injuries as cracks covered Gluttonous while the Heaven Measuring Ruler remained intact.
• Hei Luo Jian Jiu conceded defeat, promised to challenge Lin Bai again after repairing Gluttonous, and left believing Lin Bai would become the Eastern Continent Academy’s Saint Son.

Lin Bai revealed the full strength of his two sword paths and defeated several challengers on Sacred Island, leaving the watching martial artists despairing at the gap between them. Five formidable opponents remained as the internal battle continued.

• Lin Bai defeated A Ning, who conceded and left Sacred Island after hinting that he would eventually learn why she had come for him.
• Hu Qi praised Lin Bai’s strength, and Lin Bai realized the crowd saw him as an impossible opponent, strengthening his resolve to surpass even the Giant God Race.
• Lin Bai struck Hu Qi off Sacred Island with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Hu Qi conceded.
• Manzi charged Lin Bai with a bone club, but Lin Bai feinted with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and stopped his demon sword at Manzi’s throat.
• Old Eccentric attacked with speed, but Lin Bai’s flying swords drove him back; Old Eccentric pointed out a drawback of Lin Bai’s two-sword style before leaving with Manzi.
• Yin Jiuling, Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, Shi Jiamu, Lan Yuxin, and Feng Wenjun remained on Sacred Island as the next challengers.

Lin Bai defeated the combined attacks of Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, Lan Yuxin, Yin Jiuling, and the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, earning the title of Saint Son of the Eastern Continent Academy. The others left the Sacred Island, and millions of martial artists bowed to Lin Bai as their new Saint Son.

• Lan Yuxin froze space and time around Lin Bai, but Lin Bai broke free and shattered Shi Jiamu's Chaotic Stone Burial with lightning.
• Feng Wenjun summoned a divine phantom, and Lin Bai destroyed it with Mountain Splitter.
• Yin Jiuling used the Death God Curse to injure Lin Bai, but Lin Bai's flying swords cut apart the curse's power.
• The Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord attacked while Lin Bai was distracted, but Lin Bai countered with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and Demon Sword, forcing him to retreat and ending the battle.
• Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord, Yin Jiuling, and Lan Yuxin left the Sacred Island after congratulating Lin Bai on becoming the Eastern Continent Academy's Saint Son.
• Millions of martial artists hailed Lin Bai as Senior Brother Saint Son and bowed to him.

After Lin Bai won the Holy Son Battle, the martial artists and elders recognized him as the Eastern Continent Academy’s Holy Son and tenth elder of the Order Divine Court. Lan Ling gave him a token to travel to Kunxu, but when Lan Ling raised his promised marriage to Lan Yuxin, Lin Bai insisted he would not marry until he found his parents.

• Lin Bai put away the Heaven Measuring Ruler and Demon Sword as martial artists from all four courtyards bowed and paid respects to him as Senior Brother, the Holy Son.
• Li Jiuge, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, Lan Yuxin, and other prominent disciples congratulated Lin Bai, while Gu Xing, Gu Xi, Shi Zhongxian, and Wu He refused to bow.
• Gu Daozhi declared Lin Bai the Holy Son for the next thirty years and the Order Divine Court’s tenth elder, and Lan Ling gave him a token containing the route to Kunxu.
• Lan Ling reminded Lin Bai of his promised marriage to Lan Yuxin, but Lin Bai said he would not marry until his parents, Lin Duo and Li Subai, were present.
• Lan Yuxin realized that Lin Bai would not marry anyone unless his parents were found.

Lin Bai chose a Nine Profound Divine Pill over a King Grade Spirit Artifact and a fragment of the Primal Ancestor Sutra as his Holy Son reward. After celebrating with his friends, he announced he would leave Eastern Continent Academy for Kunxu and revealed plans to leave the Demon Seal and the Demon Sect's Inheritance Palace in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain.

• Gu Daozhi offered Lin Bai the Ascension Sword, the Primal Ancestor Sutra fragment, and the Nine Profound Divine Pill as congratulatory gifts.
• Lin Bai rejected the sword and scripture because he was content with the Demon Sword and already possessed the Demon Sect's Inheritance Palace, then chose the pill.
• Gu Daozhi accepted Lin Bai's choice, declared the Holy Son battle over, and dismissed everyone from Sacred Island.
• After recuperating for ten days, Lin Bai hosted a three-day banquet on Dragon Breeding Island and told his friends he planned to cultivate in Kunxu for a year.
• Yin Jiuling, Hu Qi, and A Ning also said they planned to leave Eastern Continent Academy and travel.
• Lin Bai said he would leave the Demon Seal and the Demon Sect's Inheritance Palace with Bai Xiaoxiao in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, and Yin Jiuling asked whether Kunxu was dangerous.

Lin Bai entrusted the Baleful Intent and the Demon Sect Inheritance Palace to Yin Jiuling before preparing to travel to Kunxu, where he expected his departure to shake the Eastern Continent. After bidding farewell to his companions, he spoke with Fang Yiyun about his rivalry with Lin Duo and challenged him to reconsider why he had been left out of the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals.

• Lin Bai gave Yin Jiuling the Baleful Intent and the Demon Sect Inheritance Palace, explaining that he feared they might be lost if he met with disaster in Kunxu.
• Feng Wenjun and the others promised to help Lin Bai if he encountered trouble, and nine days later they left Dragon Breeding Island to travel separately.
• Lin Bai visited Nine Heavens Island to say goodbye to Changsun Yun, Wu Ming, and the others, but learned they had gone to cultivate in a secret realm.
• Fang Yiyun told Lin Bai how Lin Duo repeatedly defeated him and how he shattered his cultivation rather than remain in the Death Reversal Realm while Lin Duo was there.
• Lin Bai told Fang Yiyun that his fixation on fame and his decision to give up had cost him a place among the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals, leaving Fang Yiyun speechless.

Lin Bai left Nine Heavens Island and met Lan Ling, who warned him that Kunxu would be extremely dangerous and urged him not to go. Lin Bai refused to abandon his search for the truth and set out for Kunxu, leaving Lan Ling and the others worried about his fate.

• Lin Bai urged Fang Yiyun to let go of his obsession, then learned Fang had guessed his identity and heard him warn that Kunxu would be fatal.
• After Lin Bai left Nine Heavens Island, Fang Yiyun released his long-held obsession and broke through from the Life Extinction Realm into the Death Reversal Realm.
• Lan Yuxin welcomed Lin Bai to the Lan Clan, where Lan Ling greeted him as his nephew and asked him not to go to Kunxu.
• Lan Ling refused to explain the past, warning that Kunxu would bring Lin Bai pain, but Lin Bai insisted on finding the answers himself and departed.
• Lan Yuxin questioned why Lan Ling had not stopped Lin Bai, and Lan Ling said nobody could shake Lin Bai's resolve.
• Lan Ling told several figures that Lin Bai had gone to Kunxu, prompting them to fear that Mo Wenshen and Li Zhengyi would kill him.

After leaving the Eastern Continent Academy, Lin Bai traveled toward the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, while the Gu Family debated whether to recruit or kill him. He reached White Dragon City in the Hundred Flowers Domain and hired Zhao Qian to guide him.

• Lin Bai left Dragon Breeding Island and traveled through the Sea of Gods and Demons toward the Myriad Kingdoms Domain.
• Gu Daozhi told the Gu Family elders that recruiting Lin Bai would be difficult, so they should try to recruit him first and kill him if that failed.
• Lin Bai recalled that the Academy's Heart was the formation eye of a great formation and a cultivation ground reserved for the Saint Son.
• After a month of travel, Lin Bai arrived in White Dragon City and startled its Yin Saint Realm powerhouses with his aura.
• Zhao Qian offered to guide Lin Bai around the city, and Lin Bai hired him and asked him to find an inn.
• Zhao Qian opened the jade bottle Lin Bai gave him and recognized the spirit liquid inside.

Lin Bai arrived in White Dragon City in the Hundred Flowers Domain and learned that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, led by the female emperor and King Chu, had rapidly conquered much of the Southern Corner. After hearing that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain had taken the Profound Heaven Domain and its army was heading toward the Hundred Flowers Domain, Lin Bai quietly blamed Xiao Xiao for moving too quickly.

• Lin Bai rewarded Zhao Qian with ten jin of spirit liquid, and Zhao Qian led him to the White Dragon Inn.
• Zhao Qian told Lin Bai that the Hundred Flowers Domain was famous for the beauty of its people and that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain had risen under a new female emperor.
• Lin Bai overheard inn patrons say that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain had conquered the Profound Heaven Domain and that King Chu's army might already be in the Hundred Flowers Domain.
• Zhao Qian explained that the Myriad Kingdoms Domain had brought more than fifty domains under its control and now ruled a third of the Southern Corner's 180 domains.
• Lin Bai studied the map and muttered that Xiao Xiao was too impatient, then denied saying anything when Zhao Qian asked.

Lin Bai learned that Myriad Kingdoms Domain had subdued the 180 Domains of the Southern Corner and returned to its capital, where he entered Chu Jiangliu’s manor. The chapter left him inside the manor as children practiced swordsmanship nearby.

• Zhao Qian told Lin Bai about the Southern Corner Divine Nation and a powerful group of unidentified martial artists gathered in the region.
• Qi Tian announced Emperor Xiao’s amnesty edict, giving Hundred Flowers Domain three days to surrender or face Divine Martial Nation’s army.
• Zhao Qian reported that Hundred Flowers Domain and nearly all the Southern Corner had submitted to Myriad Kingdoms Domain, and Lin Bai left White Dragon City.
• Lin Bai returned to Lingnan Imperial City and saw that the capital had changed and that envoys from the surrendered territories had gathered there.
• Lin Bai passed the empty Iron-Blooded Sword King Manor, entered Chu Jiangliu’s manor, and heard children practicing swordsmanship.

Lin Bai secretly entered Chu King Manor and reunited with the Fifth Princess, Chu Jiangliu’s wife, while meeting their young son, Xuan'er. The Fifth Princess recognized Lin Bai and sent the guards away, then went to fetch wine as Lin Bai told Xuan'er to keep practicing the sword.

• Lin Bai watched Xuan'er practice swordsmanship, caught his wooden sword, and told him to strengthen his fists and grip first.
• Xuan'er proudly described his father, Chu Jiangliu, as the God of War, and Lin Bai laughed at the change in his old companion’s fortunes.
• Lin Bai asked the old man in hemp clothing to fetch wine, but the old man challenged the unknown intruder and warned him to leave.
• The Fifth Princess arrived with pastries, recognized Lin Bai, and stopped the hidden guards from attacking him.
• Lin Bai recalled their earlier meetings and told the Fifth Princess to fetch wine while Xuan'er continued practicing his sword.