Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian fought in Wolf Banner Camp, drawing thousands of martial artists to the southern city. The clash ended when Li Guai intervened, and Li Qianqian accused Lin Bai of provoking her.

• Lin Bai blocked Li Qianqian's sword and answered her attack with Buddha's Wrath.
• The battle's shockwaves alarmed Ten Thousand Bones City, and several thousand experts gathered at Wolf Banner Camp.
• The crowd recognized Li Qianqian as the Li family's prodigy and watched as she unleashed the Kunxu Seventy-Two Art, Great Sky Breaking Art, against Lin Bai.
• Li Guai shattered Li Qianqian's attack, sent her flying, and ordered her to stop acting recklessly.
• Li Qianqian challenged Li Guai's assumption that she had started the fight and directed everyone to ask Lin Bai what he had done to her.

After Lin Bai apologized for intruding on Li Qianqian’s cultivation chamber, he learned why the Li Family called her a witch and recalled being condemned himself. Li Fugui then described Ten Thousand Bones City’s military organization and revealed that three of the Seven Prodigy Disciples had arrived as reinforcements.

• Li Qianqian accused Lin Bai of provoking her, but Lin Bai explained that he had entered her secluded cultivation chamber by mistake and offered five thousand Contribution Points as compensation.
• Li Qianqian accepted his apology and spared his arm before leaving, while Li Guai ordered the gathered martial artists to return to their posts.
• Li Fugui told Lin Bai that Li Qianqian was the Second Elder’s daughter, had earned a chance to learn the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts, and was known as one of the Seven Prodigy Disciples.
• Lin Bai explained that he had spoken up because he remembered being condemned and mocked himself, then asked Li Fugui what he had learned about Ten Thousand Bones City.
• Li Fugui reported that Li Guai commanded the Alliance Army, the city’s forces had been divided into four districts and fifteen legions, and Li Zhaoxing and Li Yu had joined Li Qianqian as prodigy disciples in the city.
• Lin Bai concluded that Ten Thousand Bones City faced a dire situation, judging by the powerful reinforcements assembled there.

After learning that the Bone Spirits were besieging Ten Thousand Bones City, Lin Bai joined Wolf Banner Camp on the southern wall as the defenders prepared for battle. The Death Reversal Realm legions charged into the Bone Spirits, and Lin Bai spotted a powerful Bone Spirit bearing a Seven-Colored Divine Spirit Flower.

• Li Tianba confronted Lin Bai about his fight with Li Qianqian, then learned Lin Bai was the Holy Son of Eastern Continent Academy.
• An enemy alert announced that the Bone Spirits were besieging Ten Thousand Bones City, and Li Tianba ordered Wolf Banner Camp to assemble.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui joined the Life Extinction Realm defenders on the southern wall, where tens of thousands of Bone Spirits emerged from the forest.
• The Fifth and Sixth Death Reversal Realm Legions charged from the city to engage the Bone Spirits while the Life Extinction Realm martial artists guarded the wall.
• Lin Bai spotted a Bone Spirit bearing a Seven-Colored Divine Spirit Flower, then watched it tear a Death Reversal Realm martial artist apart.

Lin Bai realized that the first Bone Spirit assault had been a ploy to draw the Death Reversal Legion away from Ten Thousand Bones City. A much larger second wave attacked the city, leaving its Life Extinction Realm defenders to face the Bone Spirits alone as Lin Bai called for battle.

• Lin Bai spotted Bone Spirits bearing rare spirit herbs as the Death Reversal Legion drove back the first wave.
• The Death Reversal Legion pursued the retreating Bone Spirits despite Li Guai's order to regroup inside Ten Thousand Bones City.
• Lin Bai sensed danger, and nearly fifty thousand Bone Spirits—including more than twenty carrying spirit herbs—emerged from the forest.
• Lin Bai identified the first wave as bait meant to lure away the Death Reversal Legion, while Li Tianba and others ordered the city-wall camps to prepare for battle.
• The Bone Spirits climbed the city wall, and Lin Bai told Li Fugui there was no time to hesitate and only one battle remained.

Bone spirits overwhelmed Ten Thousand Bones City’s walls, forcing Lin Bai, Li Fugui, and the defenders into a desperate battle. Li Qianqian held a gap alone and neared a breakthrough, while Lin Bai and Li Fugui were driven down by the assault; Li Qianqian urged Lin Bai to fight with the strength befitting his identity.

• Lin Bai told Li Fugui that retreat was impossible as bone spirits climbed the walls, and the commanders ordered the defenders to fight.
• Lin Bai and Li Fugui fought ordinary bone spirits while Lin Bai warned that spirits carrying spirit medicines were far more powerful.
• Bone spirits overwhelmed the southern wall, and Li Tianba ordered Wolf Banner Camp to reinforce a gap.
• Li Qianqian used the Great Sky Breaking Art to destroy bone spirits at the gap, earning the defenders’ cheers and nearing a breakthrough.
• A group of bone spirits wounded Li Fugui and knocked him and Lin Bai to the ground as the defenders struggled to hold the walls.
• Li Qianqian mocked Lin Bai, then solemnly urged him to show the strength of the Holy Son of the Eastern Continent Academy and revealed she already knew his identity.

Lin Bai revealed his ninefold intent and used his two flying swords to defend Southern City while Li Qianqian and the commanders fought the Spirit Herb Bone Spirits. When a buzzing sound made the Bone Spirits retreat, Lin Bai concluded that someone was controlling the siege.

• Li Qianqian urged Lin Bai to show the strength of the Eastern Continent Academy's Holy Son, and Lin Bai unleashed nine intents that shocked the martial artists watching.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to break into the first level of the Death Reversal Realm, then sent his two flying swords to annihilate the Bone Spirits on the city wall.
• Li Qianqian took on the approaching Spirit Herb Bone Spirits while Lin Bai guarded the wall, and Li Tianba and the other commanders joined the battle.
• Lin Bai's flying swords kept the Bone Spirits off the wall as the fighting continued for more than an hour, but Li Qianqian and the commanders failed to kill any Spirit Herb Bone Spirits.
• A buzzing sound made the Bone Spirits retreat, and Lin Bai realized that someone was controlling the siege from behind the scenes.

After the bone spirits withdrew, Lin Bai worried that an unseen force was directing their attacks and stayed to help the Li Family. At a council in Ten Thousand Bones City, the commanders reported devastating losses and the disappearance of every Death Reversal Legion, leaving the city dangerously exposed.

• Lin Bai returned to the residence with the wounded Li Fugui, who refused to leave because the southern city’s Eighth and Ninth Legions had been nearly wiped out and the Death Reversal Legion had not returned.
• After half a day passed without news of the Death Reversal Legion, Li Qianqian told Lin Bai that Alliance Army leader Li Guai wanted to see him.
• At the council, the eastern and southern commanders reported severe casualties among their Life Extinction Realm legions and said their Death Reversal Legions had vanished; the western and northern cities faced the same situation.
• Li Tianba warned that the four cities might not withstand another attack, and Li Guai admitted their forces were depleted and the main Death Reversal Legion was missing.
• Li Zhaoxing backed Li Tianba’s assessment, and Li Qianqian identified him to Lin Bai as one of the Seven Prodigy Disciples.

As Ten Thousand Bones City faced another Bone Spirit siege, Lin Bai reported hearing a buzzing sound that might indicate someone was controlling the monsters. Li Guai sent Lin Bai, Li Qianqian, Li Zhaoxing, and Li Le to search outside the city for the missing Death Reversal Legion.

• Li Le and Li Tianba urged Li Guai to bring back the missing Death Reversal Legion, but Li Guai said it had vanished and stopped responding to Voice Transmission Tokens.
• Lin Bai told the commanders that he had heard a strange buzzing sound before the Bone Spirits withdrew and suspected someone was directing the attacks.
• Li Zhaoxing and Li Le dismissed Lin Bai’s claim, but Li Qianqian defended him, and Li Guai ordered an investigation into the sound.
• Li Guai chose Li Qianqian, Li Zhaoxing, Li Le, and Lin Bai to search for the Death Reversal Legion while he reported the battle to the Li family head.
• The four agreed to the mission and left the hall to prepare to depart Ten Thousand Bones City.

Lin Bai, Li Qianqian, Li Zhaoxing, and Li Le left Ten Thousand Bones City to search for the Death Reversal Legion. When Lin Bai heard the strange buzzing again, he suspected it would direct bone spirits to attack them, but Li Zhaoxing and Li Le refused to believe him, so Lin Bai and Li Qianqian split off to investigate.

• Li Guai agreed to report Ten Thousand Bones City's battle situation to the Kunxu main family while Lin Bai, Li Qianqian, Li Zhaoxing, and Li Le set out to search for the Death Reversal Legion.
• After traveling tens of thousands of miles through the forest south of the city, Lin Bai heard the strange buzzing and identified its direction as south.
• Li Zhaoxing and Li Le dismissed Lin Bai's warning and mocked him when Li Qianqian urged them to investigate the sound.
• Lin Bai realized that whoever used the buzzing to control bone spirits could use it to make them attack, and he warned the group to leave.
• Li Zhaoxing and Li Le refused to go with Lin Bai, so Li Qianqian joined him to investigate the buzzing while the other two continued searching for the Death Reversal Legion.

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian tracked the strange flute music to a Golden Bone Spirit, who revealed that only the dead and martial artists with Demonic Martial Souls could hear it. The Golden Bone Spirit recognized that Lin Bai possessed a Demonic Martial Soul, while his flute summoned Bone Spirits toward Li Zhaoxing and Li Le.

• A Golden Bone Spirit played a black short flute, raising the Bone Spirits and sending them toward Li Zhaoxing and Li Le.
• Lin Bai headed south to find the source of the buzzing, and Li Qianqian followed him.
• Li Zhaoxing and Li Le encountered a massive army of Bone Spirits as Lin Bai and Li Qianqian approached the mountain.
• Lin Bai and Li Qianqian found the Golden Bone Spirit, who invited them to come closer and explained that his flute was meant for the dead.
• Lin Bai's Devouring Sword Soul reacted to the flute, and the Golden Bone Spirit concluded that Lin Bai possessed a Demonic Martial Soul.

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian confronted the Golden Bone Spirit, who revealed that he had sent the Death Reversal Legion into the deadly Bone Burial Grounds and demanded that Lin Bai join him. Lin Bai refused and attacked, but the Golden Bone Spirit struck him down as hordes of Bone Spirits closed in.

• The Golden Bone Spirit explained that only Lin Bai could hear their conversation and admitted he was attacking Ten Thousand Bones City to escape through the Formation Eye.
• The Golden Bone Spirit said he had sent the Death Reversal Legion into the Bone Burial Grounds, where fewer than one in ten might survive.
• The Golden Bone Spirit invited Lin Bai to join him and demanded that he kill Li Qianqian if he wanted to prove his loyalty.
• Lin Bai approached Li Qianqian but turned his sword on the Golden Bone Spirit instead.
• The Golden Bone Spirit played a black flute, summoned the Bone Spirits, and blasted Lin Bai away with a mysterious force.
• Lin Bai was left vomiting blood as more than ten thousand ordinary Bone Spirits and over a hundred Spirit Herb Bone Spirits charged toward him.

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian escaped the Golden Bone Spirit, who began leading an enormous army of bone spirits toward Ten Thousand Bones City. Lin Bai warned that the city could not withstand him and urged the Li family to evacuate and seal the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm, but Li Qianqian doubted anyone would believe them.

• Lin Bai used the Heaven Measuring Ruler and Great Sun-Chasing Art to break through the bone spirits surrounding him and Li Qianqian, then fled with her.
• The Golden Bone Spirit dismissed their escape as a delay and led a vast army of bone spirits toward Ten Thousand Bones City.
• Lin Bai and Li Qianqian headed back to Ten Thousand Bones City so they could warn the Li family and evacuate its martial artists.
• Lin Bai told Li Qianqian that the Golden Bone Spirit could escape the secret realm and destroy the city, and urged the Li family to evacuate and seal the realm.
• Li Qianqian said they lacked proof and might not convince Senior Li Guai, while Lin Bai explained that the Golden Bone Spirit was a king who could not be held by the secret realm's cage.

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian returned to Ten Thousand Bones City and reported that the Death Reversal Legion was trapped in the Bone Burial Grounds. Li Qianqian also revealed that a Golden Bone Spirit was controlling the bone spirits and trying to break out of the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm, leaving the hall stunned.

• Lin Bai and Li Qianqian returned to the council hall, where Li Zhaoxing and Li Le accused them of abandoning their posts and leaving the pair to be attacked by bone spirits.
• Li Qianqian and Li Zhaoxing argued over who was to blame until Li Guai ordered everyone to stop and told the injured men to rest.
• Li Qianqian announced that she and Lin Bai had found the Death Reversal Legion, and Lin Bai explained that the bone spirits had lured it into the Bone Burial Grounds.
• Li Guai said the Death Reversal Legion had little chance of escaping the Bone Burial Grounds without powerful rescuers.
• Li Qianqian told Li Guai that a Golden Bone Spirit with a mysterious short flute controlled the bone spirits and sought to tear apart Ten Thousand Bones City to escape the secret realm.
• The martial artists in the hall reacted in shock to the news that someone was controlling the bone spirits.

Lin Bai and Li Qianqian warned Li Guai that the Bone Spirits’ controller was too powerful to defeat and urged everyone to evacuate the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm. When the warriors doubted them, Lin Bai chose to leave, warning that staying would lead to everyone’s deaths.

• Li Qianqian told Li Guai that Lin Bai wanted the warriors to evacuate and have the Li Clan seal the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Lin Bai said that even the thousands of Death Reversal Realm experts and tens of thousands of Life Extinction Realm warriors could not defeat the Bone Spirits’ controller.
• Li Zhaoxing and Li Le questioned Lin Bai and Li Qianqian’s claims and argued that evacuation would abandon the trapped Death Reversal Legion.
• As the warriors began doubting them, Lin Bai said he would return to Kunxu and walked out of the council hall despite Li Zhaoxing and Li Le’s taunts.
• Li Guai asked whether an Apex Realm powerhouse could solve the crisis, and Lin Bai warned that staying would leave everyone in Ten Thousand Bones City with no way to escape before taking his leave.

Lin Bai tried to evacuate Li Fugui from Ten Thousand Bones City after warning that a Golden Bone Spirit could destroy it, but the city’s leaders had refused to listen. When Li Buzheng arrived seeking answers, Lin Bai revealed that the spirit controlled the bone spirits with the Demonic Martial Soul.

• Lin Bai told Li Fugui that Ten Thousand Bones City could not withstand the Golden Bone Spirit and persuaded him to leave for Kunxu.
• Li Fugui agreed to leave with Lin Bai after hearing that the Death Reversal Legion was trapped and the Life Extinction Realm Legion had suffered heavy losses.
• Li Buzheng and Li Qianqian arrived, and Li Buzheng asked whether Lin Bai knew the Golden Bone Spirit’s origins and whether the Li Family had any alternative to evacuating.
• Lin Bai asked Li Buzheng if he had heard of the Demonic Martial Soul, startling him, Li Qianqian, and Li Fugui.
• Lin Bai explained that the Golden Bone Spirit had formed a short flute from black smoke and used the Demonic Martial Soul to control the bone spirits.

Lin Bai warned Li Buzheng that a Golden Bone Spirit with a Demonic Martial Soul threatened the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm, prompting Li Buzheng to begin an evacuation and alert the Li Family. Before Lin Bai and Li Fugui could leave Ten Thousand Bones City, an enormous Bone Spirit army arrived, leaving the defenders with no choice but to fight.

• Lin Bai explained the danger posed by the newly awakened Golden Bone Spirit, and Li Buzheng ordered the Li Family martial artists to withdraw and arranged to have the secret realm sealed.
• Lin Bai told Li Fugui that Li Buzheng would secretly verify his warning, and the two prepared to return to Kunxu.
• Lin Bai heard the Golden Bone Spirit's flute as the city sounded the alarm, and he and Li Fugui realized they could not leave.
• Li Buzheng sent Li Tao to investigate Lin Bai's claim, but a violent tremor brought both men to the city wall.
• Li Tao and Li Buzheng saw at least two hundred thousand Bone Spirits, including the Golden Bone Spirit and several thousand Spirit Herb Bone Spirits, while Lin Bai and Li Fugui watched from another section of the wall.

Ten Thousand Bones City prepared for a desperate defense against a vast Bone Spirit horde while waiting for reinforcements from the Li family. As the attack began and the defenders were overwhelmed, Lin Bai and Li Fugui joined the fight, with much of the promised time still left on the incense.

• Lin Bai told Li Fugui that activating the teleportation array would cause panic and ruin the city's defenses, and Li Buzheng said the Li family’s experts would arrive after one stick of incense burned.
• Li Buzheng promised to open the teleportation array if the reinforcements failed to arrive and the city could no longer be defended, while Lin Bai and Li Fugui agreed to fight.
• Alliance Leader Li Guai assigned the Death Reversal Realm experts to the first battle line and the Life Extinction Realm martial artists to the second, rekindling hope among the defenders.
• The Golden Bone Spirit played its black flute, sending the Bone Spirits charging at Ten Thousand Bones City as its Spirit Herb Bone Spirits restrained the Death Reversal Realm experts.
• Ordinary Bone Spirits reached the city walls, and Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and prepared to fight alongside Li Fugui while the incense had barely begun to burn.

Ten Thousand Bones City’s defenders were overwhelmed by the Bone Spirits until Li Buzheng arrived with the Myriad Souls Battle Banner. After activating its dangerous Myriad Souls Possession, he gained power near the Apex Realm and charged out to confront the Golden Bone Spirit.

• Bone Spirits broke through Ten Thousand Bones City’s defenses, killing many Life Extinction Realm martial artists and forcing Lin Bai and the others to retreat.
• Li Buzheng appeared above the city with the Myriad Souls Battle Banner and used its power to destroy the Bone Spirits on the walls.
• Li Fugui explained that the banner granted strength through the souls it contained but could inflict devastating backlash on its wielder.
• Li Buzheng activated Myriad Souls Possession, rapidly increasing his strength and crushing Bone Spirits with a single step.
• Li Buzheng charged beyond Ten Thousand Bones City to fight the Golden Bone Spirit.

Li Buzheng attacked a Golden Bone Spirit outside Ten Thousand Bones City, but its soul attack overwhelmed him and triggered a curse against the city's defenders. As martial artists began dying from the curse, Lin Bai activated his Devouring Sword Soul to resist it.

• Li Buzheng left Ten Thousand Bones City carrying the Myriad Souls Battle Banner and attacked the Golden Bone Spirit with the Dragon Slayer Swordplay's ninth move, Buddha's Wrath.
• The Golden Bone Spirit survived the strike without a mark and counterattacked by playing a short flute, using a soul attack to wound Li Buzheng.
• The Golden Bone Spirit played the Martial Soul Secret Method, Soul Transference Curse, causing strange black Talisman Seals to appear on martial artists' foreheads.
• Tens of thousands of martial artists on the city walls screamed as the curse crushed their souls, and Li Fugui also began suffering severe pain.
• Lin Bai felt the force spreading through his body from the Talisman Seal and activated the Devouring Sword Soul to resist.

Lin Bai used the Myriad Souls Battle Banner and the herbs carried by Spirit Herb Bone Spirits to rapidly raise his strength so he could hold back the Golden Bone Spirit. As Lin Bai continued fighting, the Golden Bone Spirit recognized something about his Demonic Martial Soul and resolved to leave.

• Lin Bai caught the wounded Li Buzheng, took the Myriad Souls Battle Banner, and learned how to use it.
• Lin Bai used Myriad Souls Possession to absorb five hundred souls, then swallowed the Nine Profound Divine Pill and broke through to the first level of the Death Reversal Realm.
• Lin Bai killed Spirit Herb Bone Spirits and refined their herbs, breaking through to the second level of the Death Reversal Realm and absorbing more than a thousand souls.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven Measuring Ruler and Mountain Cleaving to kill more than thirty Spirit Herb Bone Spirits and seize their herbs.
• The Golden Bone Spirit recognized that Lin Bai's Martial Soul could rapidly absorb the herbs' medicinal power, recalled a war between two clans, and decided he had to leave.