Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai absorbed Spirit Herb Bone Spirits and souls, reaching the second layer of the Death Reversal Realm and gathering the power of thirteen hundred souls. He fought the Golden Bone Spirit’s White Bone Giant and defeated its ghost, then charged at the giant again.

• Lin Bai shattered more than thirty Spirit Herb Bone Spirits, absorbed their herbs, and broke through to the second layer of the Death Reversal Realm.
• Lin Bai drew souls from the Myriad Souls Battle Banner until he held thirteen hundred, reaching his current limit.
• The Golden Bone Spirit summoned a nearly three-hundred-meter White Bone Giant and a ghost with its Heaven and Earth Three Killings martial soul secret method.
• Lin Bai blocked the White Bone Giant’s strike with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, then trapped the ghost in the Nether Palace and dragged it inside.
• Lin Bai recalled that he could no longer use the Ancient God Scripture and charged at the White Bone Giant with the second form of the Heaven Splitting Sword Method.

Lin Bai shattered Su Xi’s white-bone creature with the Heaven Splitting Sword Method, but Su Xi then unleashed the Ghost Flute’s Martial Soul Secret Method, Human Hell, and began destroying Ten Thousand Bones City. To save the trapped martial artists, Lin Bai revealed his Devouring Sword Soul, and Su Xi recognized him as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• Lin Bai used Mountain Splitter to pulverize Su Xi’s giant white-bone creature and split a vast fissure before Ten Thousand Bones City.
• Su Xi introduced himself as Su Xi and revealed that his martial soul was the Ghost Flute.
• Su Xi played the Ghost Flute and unleashed Human Hell, bringing down thunder, magma, and spatial distortions that destroyed Ten Thousand Bones City and killed thousands.
• Su Xi gave Lin Bai seven breaths to choose between using his Demonic Martial Soul or letting the remaining martial artists die.
• Lin Bai summoned his Devouring Sword Soul, which began absorbing the thunder, magma, and power of the void.
• Su Xi recognized Lin Bai’s martial soul as the Devouring Spirit and identified him as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

Li Zhengyi and more than thirty Li Family powerhouses arrived at the collapsing Bone Wasteland Secret Realm and rescued the survivors, then confronted the Golden Bone Spirit. The Golden Bone Spirit withdrew after warning Lin Bai that his enemies would soon find him, and Li Zhengyi revealed that even Lin Duo and the others had been unable to harm it.

• As Lin Bai prepared to fight the Golden Bone Spirit, Li Zhengyi and more than thirty Li Family powerhouses arrived, and Lin Bai withdrew the Devouring Sword Soul.
• The Li Family powerhouses swept through Ten Thousand Bones City and annihilated its Bone Spirits, while Li Zhengyi took the Myriad Souls Battle Banner and returned it to Li Buzheng.
• Li Zhengyi recognized the Golden Bone Spirit as Su Xi and recalled that Lin Duo had spared it more than twenty years earlier.
• Su Xi refused to fight and left, warning Lin Bai that his race's war with the Giant God Race would soon reach him.
• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai that he and Lin Duo had tried to annihilate Su Xi years earlier but had been unable to harm it.

Lin Bai learned that the Golden Bone Spirit was an increasingly dangerous threat to Kunxu, then returned from the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm to recover and cultivate. As the Li Family prepared for the Ten Sons Battle, Lin Bai began studying the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art.

• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai that the Golden Bone Spirit had survived their attempts to destroy him and could eventually escape the Bone Wasteland Secret Realm and threaten Kunxu.
• Li Zhengyi sent Lin Bai and the injured martial artists back to Kunxu, where Lin Bai brought Li Fugui home and secluded himself to heal.
• After ten days, Lin Bai recovered and reflected on his breakthroughs and martial arts, then began deducing the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art.
• The Li Family worked to rebuild and guard Ten Thousand Bones City while its disciples prepared for the Ten Sons Battle, with six of its Seven Great Prodigies declaring their participation.

After the battle at Ten Thousand Bones City, Lin Bai received a reward from the Li family for his contributions. Li Zhengyi gave him a token that let him make one request of Kunxu, and Lin Bai asked whether he could use it immediately.

• Li Buzheng and Li Qianqian invited Lin Bai to meet Li Zhengyi and discuss rewards for defending Ten Thousand Bones City.
• Li Buzheng told Lin Bai that the battle had caused catastrophic losses and that the city was being rebuilt.
• Li Zhengyi praised Lin Bai’s role in finding the enemy forces and holding off the Bone Spirit army, then discussed what reward would suit him.
• Li Zhengyi offered Lin Bai a token allowing Kunxu to fulfill one request it could accomplish.
• Lin Bai accepted the token and asked if he could make his request immediately, prompting Li Zhengyi to caution him to think carefully.

Lin Bai used his reward token to ask Li Zhengyi about Lin Duo and the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals. Li Zhengyi revealed that he had betrayed Lin Duo, leaving Lin Bai demanding to know why.

• Lin Bai asked to speak privately with Li Zhengyi, and the others left the hall while discussing the powerful reward token.
• Lin Bai asked who Lin Duo had provoked, and Li Zhengyi answered that it was the Central Sacred Nation.
• Lin Bai asked where Lin Duo was, and Li Zhengyi said he was in the Central Sacred Nation.
• Li Zhengyi chose to answer Lin Bai’s question about the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals’ traitors, naming five: Long Lingxiao, Mo Wenshen, Li Jianyue, Xue Tian, and himself.
• Li Zhengyi crushed Lin Bai’s token and admitted that he had betrayed Lin Duo, prompting Lin Bai to ask why.

Lin Bai learned that Lin Duo and Li Subai were still alive, though imprisoned and barely clinging to life, and Li Zhengyi warned him that investigating the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals could bring disaster. After Lin Bai left the Elders Council, he planned to depart Kunxu after the Ten Sons Battle, while Li Buzheng suspected he had already obtained what he came for.

• Li Zhengyi told Lin Bai how the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals had fared after Long Lingxiao's betrayal and warned him not to investigate their past.
• Lin Bai asked whether Lin Duo was alive, and Li Zhengyi said Lin Duo was imprisoned while Li Subai's soul survived in a soul lamp.
• Li Zhengyi brought up the Kunxu Ten Sons Battle and hinted that it now concerned Lin Bai, but the chapter did not reveal why.
• Li Qianqian and Li Buzheng waited for Lin Bai outside the Elders Council, and Lin Bai left with them without revealing his reward.
• Lin Bai said he would leave Kunxu after the Ten Sons Battle and entered secluded cultivation; Li Buzheng suspected he had already obtained what he wanted.

Lin Bai entered the Li family's Intent Cultivation Valley to cultivate his remaining intents before leaving Kunxu. After paying for ten days, he encountered the valley's powerful intent pressure and wondered why fighting was permitted inside.

• Li Fugui showed Lin Bai the Li family's cultivation grounds and led him to the Intent Cultivation Valley.
• Lin Bai paid the valley's guardian ten thousand Contribution Points for ten days of cultivation.
• Li Fugui warned Lin Bai that the valley was strange and that martial artists were allowed to fight inside.
• Lin Bai crossed the stone stele and was nearly knocked down by the powerful force within the valley.
• Lin Bai realized the valley's pressure came from a formation sealing intents and continued forward, curious about its dangers and permitted fights.

Lin Bai entered the Intent Cultivation Valley and discovered that moving deeper let him hear more of a mysterious voice explaining intent and the limits of martial cultivation. He reached the Fifth Domain under immense pressure, while the old man at the stone stele watched to see how far he could go.

• Lin Bai sat down in the first area and heard an unseen voice describe intent as the power of Heaven and Earth.
• Lin Bai moved farther into the valley and heard the voice explain that martial artists without control over Heaven and Earth’s power would remain trapped at the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai passed through the third and entered the Fourth Domain, where he saw several old men cultivating.
• The old man at the stone stele recognized Lin Bai’s progress and wondered whether the Holy Son of the Eastern Continent Academy could reach the Sixth Domain.
• Lin Bai pressed onward until the Fifth Domain’s crushing force made it difficult for him to move.

Lin Bai endured the pressure in the fifth and sixth areas of Intent Cultivation Valley and realized that the voice was a Dao attain-er preaching his insights. Determined to hear more, he pressed deeper into the valley, but his many techniques and defenses carried him only partway through the next area.

• Lin Bai used the Great Sun-Chasing Art and Reaching Heaven Sword Art to cross the fifth area and enter the sixth, where the pressure knocked him to the ground.
• Lin Bai heard the voice explain intent, the Great Dao, and immortality, and realized that a Dao attain-er was preaching in the valley.
• Lin Bai’s Wind and Cloud Intent and Thunder Intent showed signs of breaking through as he listened, but the preaching abruptly stopped.
• Lin Bai continued forward using flying swords and the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation, then used Azure Wood Divine Lightning to withstand the pressure.
• Lin Bai reached a point where his remaining strength and techniques could carry him no farther, then remembered what Li Fugui had said.

Lin Bai used the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art to break through the Sixth Domain’s pressure and enter the Seventh Domain, where he began listening to the Dao despite being badly injured. A transmission informed Li Zhengyi that Lin Bai had become the first martial artist in over twenty years to reach the Seventh Domain, shocking Li Buzheng and Li Buxian.

• Lin Bai unleashed Zhu Xian with his nine levels of intent, but the Sixth Domain’s pressure crushed the sword qi and left him gravely wounded at the nine-hundred-meter mark.
• Lin Bai rose and used the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art, briefly dispelling the Sixth Domain’s pressure and crossing into the Seventh Domain.
• The Seventh Domain’s pressure pinned Lin Bai down, but he crawled onto a platform and sat cross-legged to listen to the Dao.
• The old man at the stone stele sent Li Zhengyi a transmission reporting Lin Bai’s breakthrough into the Seventh Domain.
• Li Zhengyi told Li Buzheng and Li Buxian about Lin Bai’s achievement, and both reacted with shock.

Lin Bai heard an enlightened one explain the Great Dao in the Seventh Domain, and all nine of his Intents reached Great Perfection. After leaving the Intent Cultivation Valley, he overheard the old man compare him to Li Subai and stopped in surprise.

• Lin Bai listened to the Dao explanation while enduring the Seventh Domain’s pressure, and his Thunder Intent and Wind and Cloud Intent advanced to Great Perfection.
• Lin Bai realized that all nine of his Intents had reached Great Perfection and reflected on what he had learned about the Great Dao.
• Lin Bai discovered that he had spent twenty-one days in the Seventh Domain and left the Intent Cultivation Valley after the old man summoned him.
• The old man warned Lin Bai not to reveal what he had heard and remarked that he looked like Li Subai.
• Lin Bai stopped and turned back when he heard the old man mention Li Subai.

Lin Bai followed a mysterious black shadow into the Li family's Northern Forest after being promised information about Li Subai. The shadow led him to a gathering of more than a dozen powerful Death Reversal Realm martial artists.

• Lin Bai questioned an old man about Li Subai, but the old man refused to discuss him.
• A black shadow invited Lin Bai to the Li family's Northern Forest three days later, claiming that only he could reveal information about Li Subai.
• After weighing the risks, Lin Bai went to the Northern Forest and followed the shadow deep into the woods.
• The shadow called out that he had brought the person they wanted, and more than a dozen black-clad Death Reversal Realm experts emerged around Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was lured into the Northern Forest and ambushed by seventeen powerful martial artists who planned to cripple him and take him away. After recognizing their Blood Sword Art, Lin Bai learned they belonged to the Broken Sword Tribe’s Black Sword Hall.

• The black shadow revealed that he had lured Lin Bai to the Northern Forest by exploiting Lin Bai’s concern for Li Subai, then departed after demanding payment from the seventeen martial artists.
• The ninth-layer Death Reversal Realm martial artist ordered the others to cripple Lin Bai, and sixteen attackers surrounded him and launched their first assault.
• Lin Bai evaded their attacks, assessed their cultivation levels, and prepared to fight the sixteen attackers with his Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai used his Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to defend against their coordinated sword strikes, delighting the attackers with his flying swords.
• The sixteen martial artists activated the Blood Sword Art, and Lin Bai recognized the technique as belonging to the Broken Sword Tribe before their leader identified them as the Black Sword Hall.

Lin Bai was ambushed by the Broken Sword Tribe, whose warriors sought to capture him and seize his Flying Sword Technique. After enduring their attack, he countered with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and demon sword, killing five men while the remaining Black Sword Hall warriors watched in shock.

• Lin Bai recognized the attackers as members of the Broken Sword Tribe and realized they had used a shadow to lure him away from the Li family.
• Sixteen Broken Sword Tribe warriors attacked Lin Bai with their Blood Sword Art, driving him back and leaving him badly wounded and drained.
• The ninth-level Death Reversal Realm warrior offered to spare Lin Bai if he surrendered the Flying Sword Technique, but Lin Bai mocked the demand and refused.
• Lin Bai drew the Heaven Measuring Ruler, raised his cultivation with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art, and destroyed a flying sword before killing its fifth-level controller.
• Lin Bai killed a second fifth-level warrior with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, then slew three more with Dragon Slayer Swordplay, stunning the Black Sword Hall warriors.

Lin Bai fought the Broken Sword Tribe’s seventeen experts and killed twelve, despite suffering severe injuries. Eight enemies remained as he continued resisting their attempt to seize the Flying Sword Technique.

• Lin Bai killed the remaining fifth-level Death Reversal Realm martial artists, bringing his tally to seven, but suffered more than thirty sword wounds.
• Lin Bai used his trump cards against the ten stronger survivors and killed a wounded sixth-level martial artist with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, raising his tally to eight.
• Lin Bai killed another sixth-level martial artist with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art after the man tried to cripple his dantian, bringing his tally to nine.
• Lin Bai fused three intents into the Zhu Xian Sword and killed one sixth-level martial artist, then fused six intents and killed two more, bringing his tally to twelve.
• The eight remaining Broken Sword Tribe experts faced Lin Bai as he refused to surrender the Flying Sword Technique and continued fighting.

Lin Bai unleashed Zhu Xian with all nine sword intents fused, badly wounding the ninth-level Death Reversal Realm martial artist and killing two more Black Sword Hall fighters. Gravely injured and seemingly out of strength, Lin Bai stopped the surviving enemy’s sword with his bare hand and drew a bloodstained white robe from his Storage Bag.

• The ninth-level Death Reversal Realm martial artist attacked Lin Bai, who answered with Zhu Xian, fusing all nine intents into one.
• Lin Bai’s sword sent the ninth-level martial artist flying and killed a sixth-level and a seventh-level fighter, bringing his total kills to fourteen.
• Lin Bai collapsed from his wounds and blood loss as the three surviving fighters remained alive.
• The ninth-level martial artist approached Lin Bai and stabbed toward his abdomen, but Lin Bai grabbed the sword with his bare hand.
• Lin Bai taunted the martial artist and pulled a bloodstained white robe from his Storage Bag.

Lin Bai used the Blood God Robe to gain peak Apex Realm power and turn the tables on the Broken Sword Tribe martial artists who had cornered him. He killed two of them and confronted the last survivor, who vowed the tribe would keep pursuing the Flying Sword Technique.

• Lin Bai put on the Blood God Robe, unleashed peak Apex Realm power, and blasted the three Broken Sword Tribe martial artists away.
• Experts at the Li family's ancestral grounds sensed Lin Bai's sudden power, while the chapter explained that the Blood God Robe granted peak Apex Realm strength at the cost of the wearer's vital blood and could be used only three times.
• The surviving Death Reversal Realm ninth-stage martial artist ordered his companions to flee, but Lin Bai's flying swords caught and beheaded them.
• Lin Bai asked the last martial artist whether he accepted his fate, and the man warned that the Broken Sword Tribe would continue hunting Lin Bai for the Flying Sword Technique.
• Lin Bai acknowledged that the tribe wanted to overcome the flaws in its Blood Sword Art and challenged it to come after him.

Lin Bai killed the ninth-level Death Reversal Realm warrior with a single strike after the warrior unleashed the Blood Sword Art: Sword of Blood and Soul. After failing to find the mysterious shadow, Lin Bai sensed Li Zhengyi approaching and removed the Blood God Robe, leaving himself gravely weakened as Li Zhengyi spotted him.

• Lin Bai warned the Broken Sword Tribe warrior that he would be protected if he returned to the Barren Ancient Continent, then invited him to unleash his prepared attack.
• The warrior sacrificed two-thirds of his blood and soul to perform the Blood Sword Art: Sword of Blood and Soul.
• Lin Bai shattered the blood-red sword and killed the ninth-level Death Reversal Realm warrior with a finger strike.
• Lin Bai searched the Northern Forest for the shadow who had brought him there, but found no trace and vowed to Soul Search him if they met again.
• Lin Bai sensed Li Zhengyi approaching, hid the Blood God Robe, and collapsed from weakness as his sword wounds began bleeding again.
• Li Zhengyi flew over the ruined Northern Forest and spotted Lin Bai.

Li Zhengyi found Lin Bai gravely wounded after he defeated a group of Death Reversal Realm martial artists in the Northern Forest and brought him back to the Li family for treatment. Li Buzheng investigated the battlefield and realized Lin Bai had killed every attacker.

• Li Zhengyi found Lin Bai amid the devastation and more than a dozen corpses, gave him a pill, and carried him back to the Li family.
• Li Buzheng and Li Buxian learned that the battered man was Lin Bai, and Li Buzheng identified thirty-six vicious sword marks on his body.
• Li Zhengyi ordered Li Buzheng to investigate the dead attackers and discover who had sent them after Lin Bai.
• Li Buzheng and Sky Dragon Hall examined the battlefield and found evidence of many powerful sword intents and lethal strikes.
• After examining the corpses, Li Buzheng deduced that Lin Bai had killed all the Death Reversal Realm experts who attacked him.