Chapter Summaries

After defeating three Heavenly Blade Tribe fighters, Lin Bai challenged the remaining three to attack him together, confident that Li Zhengyi would prevent them from using Death Reversal Realm power. As Baimu launched a powerful fist, Lin Bai dodged and recognized him as a body-refining expert.

• Lin Bai asked the remaining three Heavenly Blade Tribe fighters to attack together, and Li Zhengyi agreed to guard against Death Reversal Realm interference.
• The High Priest sent Sea Dragon, Shanhua, and Baimu to fight Lin Bai as a group.
• Li Zhengyi told the Li Family Grand Elder that Lin Bai had become the Eastern Continent Academy's sole Saint Son by defeating the academy's strongest young geniuses.
• Lin Bai advanced with the Demon Sword as Li Buzheng watched and recalled Lin Bai's earlier feats.
• Baimu attacked Lin Bai with his Mountain Shattering Earth Splitting Fist, but Lin Bai dodged and recognized Baimu as a body-refining expert.

Lin Bai broke free from Shanhua’s Devouring Immortal Vines and defeated him with flying swords, overturning the apparent victory of Baimu, Hailong, and Shanhua. The High Priest recognized Lin Bai’s sword technique as resembling the Broken Sword Tribe’s Blood Sword Art, but realized it was not the same technique.

• Baimu, Hailong, and Shanhua attacked Lin Bai together, trapping him in Devouring Immortal Vines and sending him flying.
• Shanhua offered to release Lin Bai if he admitted defeat, but Lin Bai declared that his warm-up was over.
• Lin Bai’s black light drained the vines’ vitality, allowing him to break free.
• Lin Bai used Flying Swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to shatter Shanhua’s vine shield and defeat him.
• Lin Bai held Shanhua at swordpoint and asked Baimu if he was a body-refining cultivator.
• Baimu and the High Priest identified Lin Bai’s sword technique as resembling the Blood Sword Art, but the High Priest noted that it required no blood sacrifice.

Lin Bai defeated Shanhua and Baimu, prompting the Heavenly Blade Tribe to end the contest and return the Li Family’s people and resources. As Lin Bai left with Li Buzheng, the High Priest decided to tell the Broken Sword Tribe that Lin Bai possessed a powerful Blood Sword Art.

• Li Zhengyi praised Lin Bai’s swordsmanship and promised him divine iron and the Great Sun-Chasing Art after the contest.
• Lin Bai defeated Baimu with two Dragon Slayer Swordplay techniques, leaving him unable to fight.
• Lin Bai challenged Hailong, but the High Priest stopped the contest and returned Li Zhaoyun, the other captives, and the Dragon Mountain resources to the Li Family.
• Li Zhengyi warned the Heavenly Blade Tribe not to repeat its actions and led the Li Family away with Lin Bai and Li Buzheng.
• The High Priest told Hailong that the Broken Sword Tribe would pursue Lin Bai if it learned about his Blood Sword Art.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai used ten Flower Moon Pills to break through to the perfect stage of the Life Extinction Realm and wondered whether Li Zhengyi knew his true identity. Half a month later, Li Buzheng thanked him for helping the Li Family and took him to visit the Kunxu Pagoda.

• Lin Bai swallowed ten Flower Moon Pills over two days and reached the perfect stage of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Lin Bai suspected Li Zhengyi had deliberately given him exactly enough pills because he had recognized Lin Bai as Lin Duo's son, but he remained uncertain whether Li Zhengyi was an enemy or an ally.
• Lin Bai resolved to investigate what had happened more than twenty years ago and leave Kunxu once he learned the truth.
• Li Buzheng visited Lin Bai to thank him for helping the Li Family at Dragon Mountain and invited him to the Kunxu Pagoda to comprehend the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that Li Buxian had been confined to seclusion until she broke through to the Death Reversal Realm, then led him toward the Kunxu Pagoda.

Lin Bai accompanied Li Buzheng to the Kunxu Pagoda, where Li Buzheng explained Kunxu’s travel rules and the importance of the Kunxu World Walker position. They entered the tower’s first level, which held old texts about the distant Spirit World.

• Lin Bai and Li Buzheng were forced to land ten thousand meters from the Kunxu Pagoda and walked the rest of the way.
• Li family disciples whispered doubts about Lin Bai and praised Li Daoyuan as a potential rival.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that only one hundred Kunxu disciples could travel outside each year, and only the World Walker could reveal their identity as a Kunxu Disciple.
• Li Buzheng explained that the World Walker position could lead to control of Kunxu, while Lin Bai said he did not want to interfere in the family matter.
• Li Buzheng described the Kunxu Pagoda’s eighteen levels, and he and Lin Bai entered its first level, which contained miscellaneous studies and old texts about the Spirit World.

Lin Bai and Li Buzheng explored the Kunxu Pagoda, where Li explained what its levels contained and led Lin Bai to the restricted fourteenth level to view rare divine metals. Lin Bai spotted a rusty, mottled metal whose aura reminded him of a giant god.

• Li Buzheng explained the contents of the Kunxu Pagoda’s public first nine levels and the restricted levels above them.
• Li Buzheng led Lin Bai to the sixth level, where Lin Bai examined divine metals but found none comparable to Immaculate Divine Iron.
• Li Buzheng used a jade talisman authorized by Li Zhengyi to enter the levels above the tenth with Lin Bai.
• Li Buzheng took Lin Bai to the fourteenth level to inspect its precious divine metals.
• Lin Bai spotted a rusty, mottled piece of divine metal and exclaimed that it carried the aura of a giant god.

On Kunxu’s fourteenth level, Lin Bai heard a voice calling to him through his Devouring Sword Soul and followed it to a seemingly ordinary piece of black charcoal iron. The voice revealed that the iron was Chaos Divine Iron and identified Lin Bai as a clansman of the Heaven Swallowing Race, leaving him speaking with a mysterious survivor while Li Buzheng knew nothing of it.

• Lin Bai examined Giant God Bone Iron, and Li Buzheng explained that the Li family had found it in Kunxu but could not forge it.
• Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul reacted to a voice calling him a clansman and urging him to find its source.
• Lin Bai hurried across the fourteenth level as the voice spoke of the Heaven Swallowing Race’s conflict with the Giant God Race and promised a way to resist them.
• Lin Bai found a fist-sized piece of black charcoal iron on a remote cloud, and Li Buzheng explained that no flame could melt it.
• Lin Bai picked up the iron, and the voice identified it as Chaos Divine Iron, one of the strongest divine irons and a weapon against the Giant God Race.

A remnant soul of the Heaven Swallowing Race tells Lin Bai how Chaos Divine Iron was discovered to be capable of shattering a giant god’s body. Before fading away, the senior gives it to Lin Bai and urges him to protect the people he loves.

• The senior recounts how the Giant God Race destroyed his city and killed his family after discovering his Devouring Spirit.
• After years of fleeing and growing stronger, the senior searched for a weapon that could overcome the Giant God Race’s powerful bodies and curse.
• The senior found Chaos Divine Iron on Kunxu Mountain and proved its power by smashing a giant god’s left arm with it.
• The senior shattered the void around Kunxu Mountain as he died, preventing the Giant God Race from claiming the Chaos Divine Iron.
• The senior gave the Chaos Divine Iron to Lin Bai and urged him to protect his family and loved ones.
• Lin Bai thanked the senior and recognized the Chaos Divine Iron as a weapon he could use against the Giant God Race.

Lin Bai honored the fading Senior, kept the Black Charcoal Iron he had received, and went to the eighteenth level of the Kunxu Pagoda to study the Great Sun-Chasing Art. After Li Buzheng departed, Lin Bai stood before the art’s scroll, ready to begin his month of comprehension.

• The Senior’s voice faded after telling Lin Bai to find a fragment, and Lin Bai paid his respects to him.
• Lin Bai refused Li Buzheng’s advice to choose a more valuable divine iron and kept the Black Charcoal Iron as a sword-sharpening tool.
• Li Buzheng led Lin Bai to the eighteenth level, where the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts were stored, and gave him a jade talisman granting one month to study the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that Li Zhengyi had mastered nine arts and that the sword cultivator from more than twenty years earlier had mastered three sword arts.
• After Li Buzheng left, Lin Bai stepped onto the clouds and approached the scroll labeled Great Sun-Chasing Art.

Lin Bai struggled to understand the Great Sun-Chasing Art in the Kunxu Pagoda while Li Zhengyi faced criticism for granting him access to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts. Li Zhengyi decided to summon the elders and make Lin Bai’s opportunity open and just.

• Lin Bai activated the scroll and studied its painting of a man chasing the sun, but after ten days he still could not grasp the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng returned to the Li family ancestral grounds and told Li Zhengyi that Lin Bai had chosen Black Charcoal Iron from the fourteenth level.
• Li Zhengyi said he did not know the iron’s origins and asked whether Lin Bai had begun comprehending the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Li Buzheng questioned why Li Zhengyi had allowed Lin Bai to enter the eighteenth level despite his contributions not matching those of past recipients.
• Li Zhengyi learned that the Elders Council and Kunxu disciples considered his decision improper, then ordered Li Buzheng to summon the elders so Lin Bai could receive the opportunity openly.

Li Zhengyi faced opposition from the Li family elders over allowing Lin Bai to comprehend the Great Sun-Chasing Art, so he announced a martial competition whose winners could earn the same privilege. He then urged Li Buzheng to claim first place and become Kunxu's World Walker.

• The Grand Elder argued that Lin Bai was unqualified to cultivate the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts, and the other elders supported him.
• Li Zhengyi acknowledged the elders' objections but said he would not send Lin Bai away after allowing him to enter.
• Li Zhengyi announced a competition for Li family disciples under thirty, with the top ten earning a chance to comprehend the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts and being cultivated as candidates for Lord of Kunxu.
• Li Zhengyi declared that the first-place winner would become Kunxu's World Walker and tasked the Grand Elder with arranging the competition for three months later.
• Li Zhengyi told Li Buzheng that he had created the competition to pressure him and ordered him to win first place; Li Buzheng promised to give it everything he had.

Li Buzheng resolved to win the martial competition after Li Zhengyi urged him to become Kunxu’s Walker of the World, while Li Zhengyi was left alone with sorrowful memories. Lin Bai comprehended the Great Sun-Chasing Art in the Kunxu Pagoda, then emerged and learned from Li Fugui that Li Daoyuan had studied the Grand Extinction Art.

• Li Buzheng left to prepare for the martial competition, determined to take first place and become Kunxu’s Walker of the World.
• After the elders departed, Li Zhengyi sat alone in the Dark Hall and mournfully recited a list of names.
• Lin Bai interpreted the Great Sun-Chasing Art as a pursuit guided by the heart, and the scroll revealed its incantation after he grasped its essence.
• Lin Bai memorized the art, meditated on its insights, and was teleported out of the Kunxu Pagoda when his month there ended.
• Li Fugui met Lin Bai outside the pagoda and told him that Li Daoyuan had comprehended the surface of the Grand Extinction Art.

Lin Bai questioned Li Fugui about Li Daoyuan’s access to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts, then probed him about Lin Duo and Li Subai. After Li Fugui paid Lin Bai ten thousand Contribution Points rather than reveal more, Lin Bai noticed a gaunt young man following them and went into the forest to confront him.

• Li Fugui explained that Li Daoyuan had received permission to practice the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts after Li Buzheng chose the Dragon Slayer Swordplay instead.
• Lin Bai asked Li Fugui who Lin Duo had become involved with in Kunxu, and Li Fugui said the woman was Li Subai.
• Li Fugui refused to say whether Li Subai belonged to the main or collateral branch and paid Lin Bai ten thousand Contribution Points.
• Lin Bai stopped Li Fugui from leaving and pointed out a gaunt young man who had been following them from the Kunxu Pagoda.
• Lin Bai pulled Li Fugui into the forest to find out who was targeting him, and the gaunt young man followed.

Lin Bai and Li Fugui were intercepted in the forest by a weakened sword cultivator who demanded that Lin Bai come with him. After the man revealed his Death Reversal Realm strength and attacked with a blood-powered flying sword, Lin Bai defended himself with his own flying swords, and the stranger revealed that he wanted to take Lin Bai to the Broken Sword Tribe to learn his technique.

• Lin Bai told Li Fugui that the lean young man had followed them since they left Kunxu Pagoda and remained calm as they continued through the forest.
• The lean young man blocked their path and demanded that Lin Bai come with him, threatening to leave him with only one breath if he refused.
• Lin Bai sent Li Fugui to contact the Li Lineage experts while he stayed behind to face the lean man, who revealed his Death Reversal Realm cultivation.
• Lin Bai and the lean man exchanged hundreds of blows before the man wounded Lin Bai with a blood-powered flying sword technique.
• Lin Bai summoned two flying swords to block the attack, and the lean man revealed that he intended to take Lin Bai to the Broken Sword Tribe and learn his complete Flying Sword Technique.

Lin Bai fought a gaunt third-level Death Reversal Realm swordsman who wielded a blood-powered Flying Sword Technique and sought to capture him. Lin Bai shattered the man’s sword with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, forcing him to retreat and leaving the fight at a standoff.

• Lin Bai identified that the gaunt man's Flying Sword Technique consumed blood essence and could not be sustained for long.
• The gaunt man revealed that he needed Lin Bai and planned to take him away before the Li family's experts arrived, then attacked with his sword.
• The gaunt man's flying sword broke through Lin Bai's defenses and struck him, but Lin Bai countered with Buddha's Wrath.
• Lin Bai struck with Mountain Cleaver using the Heaven Measuring Ruler, destroying the gaunt man's blood-red sword and forcing him to retreat.
• The gaunt man recognized Lin Bai's skill in the Spirit Sword Dao, Overlord Sword Dao, and Flying Sword Technique, while Lin Bai warned that he could not be killed and challenged him to continue fighting.

Lin Bai survived an attack by a gaunt swordsman from the Broken Sword Tribe, though his injuries left him unable to stop the man from escaping. After Li Fugui’s father reported the ambush, Li Zhengyi mobilized the Kunxu Li Family to search for the attacker, but they found no trace of him.

• Li Fugui’s arrival drove the injured Lin Bai’s attacker to flee before he could be captured.
• Lin Bai told Li Fugui and his father that the attacker used a sword technique marked by blood light, and they identified him as a likely member of the Broken Sword Tribe who coveted Lin Bai’s Flying Sword Technique.
• Li Fugui’s father promised to report the attack to the Elders Council and sent Li Fugui to escort Lin Bai back to recover.
• Li Fugui’s father reported the ambush to the Grand Elder, who informed Li Zhengyi.
• Li Zhengyi flew into a rage and ordered the Kunxu Li Family to search for the attacker, but their efforts over more than ten days uncovered no trace.

The Broken Sword Tribe’s High Priest learned that Lin Bai wielded the Flying Sword Technique and ordered the Black Sword Hall to bring him back alive or obtain the technique. After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai worried that the tribe had targeted him and pondered how to reach the Death Reversal Realm; Li Fugui arrived with news he had not yet revealed.

• A black-robed messenger told the High Priest that Qian Mo had failed but confirmed Lin Bai could use swordsmanship without blood.
• The High Priest ordered the Black Sword Hall to bring Lin Bai back alive or return with the Flying Sword Technique, even if it meant opposing the Kunxu Li Family.
• Lin Bai deduced that the Broken Sword Tribe’s Blood Sword Art was a flawed imitation of the Flying Sword Technique and feared the tribe would target him.
• Lin Bai healed his injuries while Li Buzheng visited, and he learned that Li Buxian remained in seclusion under Li Zhengyi’s orders.
• Li Fugui visited Lin Bai after his injuries healed, and Lin Bai asked what good news had made him so excited.

Li Fugui told Lin Bai about the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm and the upcoming Ten Sons Contest, and Lin Bai joined him to seek a breakthrough. After the teleportation array scattered them, they reunited and flew toward Ten Thousand Bones City, which faced an advancing Bone Tide.

• Li Fugui explained that bone spirits and rare spirit medicines filled the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm, and that the Ten Sons Contest would grant its top ten entrants access to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts.
• Lin Bai learned that Li Buzheng and Li Daoyuan were preparing for the contest and decided to enter the secret realm in hopes of reaching the Death Reversal Realm.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui traveled through a teleportation array beside the Kunxu Pagoda, which sent them to separate locations when the Bone Tide disrupted it.
• Li Fugui found Lin Bai and explained that the Bone Tide was heading for Ten Thousand Bones City, whose destruction could let bone spirits escape into Kunxu.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui flew toward Ten Thousand Bones City alongside other Li family martial artists.

Lin Bai and Li Fugui arrived at Ten Thousand Bones City and learned that a hundred thousand bone spirits had attacked it in the first Bone Tide, far exceeding previous attacks. They registered with the city's military service office and were assigned to the Ninth Legion's Wolf Banner Camp.

• Lin Bai and Li Fugui reached Ten Thousand Bones City and saw the aftermath of a bloody battle outside its walls.
• An armored Li family disciple told them that a hundred thousand bone spirits had attacked the city the previous evening and warned the next Bone Tide might be larger.
• Li Fugui explained that previous Bone Tides had consisted of only a few waves, with the largest reaching around thirty thousand bone spirits.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui registered at the military service office and received assignments to the Ninth Legion.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui reported to the Ninth Legion and were assigned to its Wolf Banner Camp.

Lin Bai and Li Fugui joined Wolf Banner Camp, where commander Li Tianba briefed the recruits on their duty to guard the southern city during the Bone Tide. After Lin Bai accidentally disturbed a woman cultivating in a secret chamber, her demand for his arm led them into a sword fight.

• Lin Bai and Li Fugui found Wolf Banner Camp and joined its ranks as Li Tianba announced that the camp belonged to the Ninth Legion of the Life Extinction Realm and would guard the southern city.
• Li Tianba warned the recruits that they must fight if the Bone Tide entered the city, then dismissed them to their houses.
• Li Fugui left to gather information, while Lin Bai discovered a sealed secret chamber in his house.
• A cold woman emerged from the chamber and demanded Lin Bai leave one arm behind for interrupting her cultivation, rejecting his offer of Contribution Points.
• Lin Bai refused and drew the Demon Sword to block her freezing sword strike, drawing nearby martial artists out to watch.