Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned that the High Priest had sent a maid to watch him and keep him inside the Wind and Moon Residence because strange nighttime sounds drew visiting martial artists into the Black Mountain Range, where they died. As the roars grew louder and the mountains fell into unnatural darkness, Lin Bai watched from the window and wondered if a demonic beast was making them.

• Lin Bai tried to send the maid away, but she admitted the High Priest had ordered her to keep him from leaving or investigating the sounds at night.
• The maid explained that guests who followed the strange sounds into the Black Mountain Range had almost all died there, and Lin Bai agreed to stay until dawn.
• After meditating for two hours, Lin Bai heard the roars and learned from the maid that they continued throughout the night.
• The roars grew louder and seemed to approach the Black Mountain Tribe, so Lin Bai went to the window while assuring the maid he would not leave.
• Lin Bai saw the moonlit sky give way to impenetrable darkness over the Black Mountain Range and wondered if a demonic beast was roaring.

Lin Bai left the Black Mountain Tribe to investigate strange roars and was carried by a mysterious wind into a cavern beneath Black Mountain. He found a blood-stained skeleton holding a parchment scroll, but a sudden surge of danger stopped him from taking it.

• Lin Bai ignored the young girl's pleas and flew out of the Black Mountain Tribe to investigate the roars.
• Lin Bai discovered that unnatural darkness covered Black Mountain and let a strange wind carry him toward its source.
• Lin Bai found that the roars came from a crack in the mountain and followed the wind through its passages.
• Lin Bai cut free of the wind when it headed underground, then descended into a cavern lit by blood-colored light.
• Lin Bai approached a skeleton holding a parchment scroll, but the blood on the cavern floor churned and he demanded that the hidden presence reveal itself.

Lin Bai took the sheepskin scroll from a skeleton and awakened the Blood Demon, a demonic thought formed from the skeleton’s blood essence. After fighting off its attacks, Lin Bai fled toward the crack, with the Blood Demon pursuing him.

• Lin Bai sensed a deadly threat, then rushed to seize the sheepskin scroll as blood churned through the cave.
• The Blood Demon emerged from the blood rain, identified itself as the skeleton’s demonic thought, and tried to drain Lin Bai’s blood.
• Lin Bai defended himself with his sword formation, Azure Wood Divine Lightning, and sword techniques as the Blood Demon attacked in waves.
• The Blood Demon swelled to fill the cave and swallowed Lin Bai, but Lin Bai cut it in two with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art and escaped.
• Lin Bai flew toward the crack while the Blood Demon pursued him as a river of blood.

Lin Bai discovered that the Blood Demon could instantly reassemble after any attack, but his Devouring Sword Soul absorbed the demon’s vital essence and exposed its weakness. The Blood Demon expelled Lin Bai from the underground rift, and Lin Bai later searched for the entrance before deciding to return to the Black Mountain Tribe.

• Lin Bai repeatedly attacked the Blood Demon with his swords and Azure Wood Divine Lightning, but the demon reassembled each time and began draining Lin Bai’s blood.
• Lin Bai activated the Devouring Sword Soul, absorbed the Blood Demon’s vital essence, and broke through from the second to the third level of the Death Reversal Realm.
• The Blood Demon recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and, fearing his martial soul, spat him out and hurled him through the rift.
• Lin Bai emerged into the Black Mountain Range, recovered until dawn, and searched for the rift until noon without finding it.
• Lin Bai decided to return to the Black Mountain Tribe and search for the rift again that night.

Lin Bai returned to Black Mountain Tribe alive after spending the night in Black Mountain Range, then discovered that the sheepskin scroll contained the Three Origins Unite Technique, a method for cultivating two clones from his own blood and bones. He concealed the Blood Demon in the rift from Cui Qing and agreed to stay in the tribe for a few more days.

• Lin Bai surprised Rong Quan and the White-Robed Woman by returning alive on his flying sword as they led martial artists out to gather herbs.
• At Wind and Moon Residence, Lin Bai read the Three Origins Unite Technique and learned it could create two clones from his blood and bones, which could later merge with his original body.
• Lin Bai memorized the scroll and hid it when Cui Qing, Fang Dehao, Rong Quan, the White-Robed Woman, and the young maiden arrived.
• Cui Qing questioned Lin Bai about surviving the night in Black Mountain Range, and Lin Bai claimed he had wandered in the darkness until dawn without encountering anything unusual.
• Lin Bai said a demon might be hiding nearby to recover, while keeping the Blood Demon in the rift secret; Cui Qing let the matter drop and left.

Lin Bai spent ten days studying the sheepskin scroll by day and searching Black Mountain Range at night, but the strange wind and roars never returned. Meanwhile, Li Ge sought Crow’s help to kill Lin Bai, and the chapter ended as Lin Bai tried to leave Black Mountain Tribe and someone blocked his way.

• Lin Bai ignored the young girl who came to Wind and Moon Residence and entered Black Mountain Range, where he waited through the night for the strange wind and roars.
• Lin Bai repeated his search for the strange fissure for ten days while studying the sheepskin scroll during the day.
• Li Ge, still injured by the backlash from his forbidden technique, secretly went to Heavenly Blade Tribe and asked Crow to help kill Lin Bai in exchange for the location of a Li family herb garden.
• Crow agreed to join Li Ge, who said he had contacted other experts to ensure Lin Bai’s death.
• Lin Bai decided to leave Black Mountain Tribe and find Li Ge, but someone blocked his way at the tribe’s outskirts.

Lin Bai tried to leave Black Mountain Tribe, but High Priest Cui Qing confronted him and demanded to know how he survived Black Mountain after dark and whether he had found a Spirit World martial artist's cave dwelling. When Cui Qing's warriors attacked, Lin Bai killed five of them and escaped, warning Cui Qing that further treasure-hunting would bring destruction upon the tribe.

• Lin Bai headed out of Black Mountain Tribe, but Cui Qing and the tribe's strongest warriors blocked his way and questioned him about his nightly trips into Black Mountain.
• Cui Qing explained that his tribe had searched for generations for a Spirit World martial artist's cave dwelling and threatened to imprison and torture Lin Bai if he withheld what he knew.
• Lin Bai denied finding the cave dwelling or any treasure, and Cui Qing ordered his warriors to cripple him and take him to the dungeon.
• Lin Bai killed one fifth-level Death Reversal Realm attacker with Buddha's Wrath and four more with Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art.
• Lin Bai escaped on a flying sword and warned Cui Qing that searching for treasure in Black Mountain would bring annihilation upon the tribe.

After searching Kunxu for Li Ge, Lin Bai discovered that an unknown force was tracking his movements and arranging to meet at Heaven Mountain. He headed there to confront whoever was behind it.

• Cui Qing ordered the Black Mountain Tribe to search for Lin Bai after he escaped.
• Crow told Li Ge that scouts had spotted Lin Bai near the Black Mountain Tribe, and Li Ge said he had arranged help before setting out with Crow to find him.
• After recovering his spiritual power, Lin Bai continued searching for Li Ge and flew over a dense forest.
• A young man reported Lin Bai's eastward route to someone over a Voice Transmission Token and arranged to meet at Heaven Mountain.
• Lin Bai appeared behind the young man, but the man killed himself before revealing who he had contacted.
• Lin Bai found the cracked token and an empty Storage Bag, suspected the young man was a dead warrior, and headed for Heaven Mountain.

Lin Bai confronted Li Ge and Crow atop Tianshan, where the two had set a trap for him. He killed Crow and turned to capture Li Ge alive so he could search his memories and take him back to Kunxu.

• Lin Bai recognized Li Ge and Crow as the men who had tracked him and dismissed their threat.
• Lin Bai shattered Li Ge's three Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts with a single sword strike, leaving him wounded.
• Crow summoned a formation of crows whose cries attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai broke the formation and slew every crow with one sword.
• The destruction of his crows severely wounded Crow, and Lin Bai charged him before he could recover.
• Lin Bai broke Crow's defenses and killed him, then turned his attention to Li Ge.

Lin Bai faced Li Ge’s prepared ambush on Black Mountain as the Broken Sword Tribe, Gold Silver Mountain assassins, and Black Mountain Tribe converged on him. Surrounded by powerful enemies, he remained defiant while Tai Biao and Cui Qing each made demands.

• After Lin Bai struck down Crow, he attacked Li Ge, but a hidden force knocked him back.
• Tai Biao arrived with fifteen ninth-stage Death Reversal Realm warriors from the Broken Sword Tribe’s Black Sword Hall and demanded Lin Bai surrender the Flying Sword Technique.
• Li Ge revealed that he had hired nine great-perfection Death Reversal Realm assassins from Gold Silver Mountain to help kill Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai challenged any other enemies to come forward, and Cui Qing arrived with six Black Mountain Tribe warriors to block his retreat.
• Cui Qing demanded to know what had happened in the Black Mountain Range, while Tai Biao again offered to end the Broken Sword Tribe’s grudge if Lin Bai handed over the Flying Sword Technique.

Lin Bai was cornered on Sky Mountain by the Black Mountain Tribe, the Broken Sword Tribe, and nine assassins from Gold Silver Mountain. He activated the Blood God Robe, unleashed overwhelming power, and began his counterattack by targeting Cui Qing.

• Cui Qing and Tai Biao offered to leave if Lin Bai revealed what happened inside Black Mountain and handed over the Flying Sword Technique, but Lin Bai refused.
• Cui Qing and Tai Biao ordered their warriors to attack Lin Bai, while Li Ge sent the nine assassins from Gold Silver Mountain after him.
• Surrounded and badly injured by the enemies’ combined pressure, Lin Bai put on the Blood God Robe and released power that shook Sky Mountain and blasted his attackers away.
• Lin Bai declared that everyone who attacked him would die and chose the Black Mountain Tribe as his first target.
• Lin Bai used the Great Sun-Chasing Art to appear before Cui Qing and thrust his sword toward Cui Qing’s throat.

Lin Bai killed the Black Mountain Tribe’s High Priest and all the warriors who had come to attack him. He also slaughtered the Broken Sword Tribe’s fighters and Gold Silver Mountain’s assassins, leaving only Li Ge alive atop Heaven Mountain.

• Lin Bai pierced Cui Qing’s defenses and killed the Black Mountain Tribe’s High Priest, then slew the tribe’s other six warriors.
• Lin Bai charged into the Broken Sword Tribe’s ranks, killing several fighters and gravely wounding others with his Demon Sword.
• The Broken Sword Tribe’s survivors fled, but Lin Bai pursued them with his flying swords and killed them all, including Tai Biao.
• Lin Bai attacked the nine Gold Silver Mountain assassins as they tried to escape and killed them with his swords.
• Lin Bai stood among the bodies atop Heaven Mountain, with only the stunned Li Ge left alive.

After defeating the experts on Sky Mountain, Lin Bai used Soul Search on Li Ge to look for clues about Li Subai and Lin Duo, but found that Li Ge knew nothing. Lin Bai uncovered Li Ge's lonely childhood and betrayal of the Li family, then left him alive but without pity.

• Lin Bai confronted the terrified Li Ge and used Soul Search to examine his memories.
• Lin Bai found no information about Li Subai or Lin Duo and concluded that only Li Zhengyi and the Grand Elder might know what happened more than twenty years earlier.
• Lin Bai learned that Li Ge had been neglected and bullied as a child, then used his martial soul's ability to imitate cultivation methods and martial skills to trade with Crow and other tribal martial artists.
• Lin Bai discovered that Li Ge had sold the Li family's intelligence, including information that led to the Battle of Dragon Mountain and the deaths of Li family martial artists.
• Lin Bai ended the Soul Search and condemned Li Ge for betraying the Li family, though he left him alive because of his promise to the Grand Elder.

Lin Bai returned Li Ge to the Li family and told Li Zhengyi he had already learned what he needed, then announced that he was leaving Kunxu. Li Zhengyi tried to persuade him to stay, even offering to arrange a marriage with Li Qianqian.

• Lin Bai put away the Blood God Robe as Li Buzheng, Li Qianqian, and other Li family martial artists arrived at Tianshan and found corpses scattered across the summit.
• Lin Bai handed the unconscious Li Ge to Li Buzheng and agreed to return to Kunxu to bid farewell to Li Zhengyi.
• After Li Ge awoke, the Li family tortured him for ten days, but he refused to reveal the truth.
• Lin Bai visited Li Zhengyi and the Grand Elder, said he had already obtained the answers he wanted from Li Ge, and announced his departure.
• Li Zhengyi urged Lin Bai to remain in Kunxu and offered to arrange his marriage to Li Qianqian.

Lin Bai declined Li Zhengyi’s suggestion that he marry Li Qianqian and arranged to leave Kunxu for the Eastern Continent. As he prepared to depart, Mo Wenshen returned and confronted Li Zhengyi over letting Lin Bai go.

• Li Zhengyi asked Lin Bai about the woman he loved, and Lin Bai said she was extraordinary before declining to marry Li Qianqian.
• Lin Bai arranged to leave in three days, received a token from Li Zhengyi, and agreed that Li Buzheng would escort him out of Kunxu.
• Lin Bai said goodbye to Li Buzheng, Li Fugui, and others, and news of his departure spread through the Li Family.
• Mo Wenshen heard that Li Buzheng would escort Lin Bai out at dawn and stormed into Li Zhengyi’s main hall.
• After the elders left, Mo Wenshen demanded to know why Li Zhengyi had allowed Lin Bai to leave without consulting him.

Mo Wenshen confronted Li Zhengyi over his support for Lin Bai, accusing him of preparing Kunxu to help Lin Bai because he believed Lin Bai was Lin Duo and Li Subai’s son. The argument ended with Mo Wenshen reminding Li Zhengyi that he, too, had betrayed Lin Duo and could become a target of Lin Bai’s revenge.

• Mo Wenshen challenged Li Zhengyi for letting Lin Bai leave Kunxu, while Li Zhengyi insisted Lin Bai was a free guest and could go whenever he wished.
• Mo Wenshen cited Li Zhengyi’s gifts to Lin Bai—including access to the Kunxu Seventy-Two Arts, the Kunxu Divine Tower, and an unconditional favor—as evidence that Li Zhengyi was paving the way for him.
• Mo Wenshen accused Li Zhengyi of helping Lin Bai because Lin Bai was Li Subai’s son and therefore Li Zhengyi’s nephew; Li Zhengyi denied that Lin Bai was Lin Duo’s son.
• Mo Wenshen argued that Li Zhengyi wanted Kunxu ready to support Lin Bai against the Central Sacred Nation, while Li Zhengyi grew furious at the accusation.
• Mo Wenshen reminded Li Zhengyi that he had submitted to the Central Sacred Nation and betrayed Lin Duo, warning that Lin Bai might seek revenge against him.

Mo Wenshen gathered seven Kunxu High Priests and a sect leader to help him seize Lin Bai, despite having no proof that Lin Bai was Lin Duo’s son. The group entered the Li family at dawn, while Li Buzheng headed toward Li Family Village to prepare to return to the Eastern Continent.

• Mo Wenshen threatened Li Zhengyi not to interfere or warn Lin Bai, then left the Li family ancestral grounds.
• Mo Wenshen summoned six tribal High Priests and the Gold Silver Mountain Sect Leader to Lonely Mountain, promising to report their aid to the Central Sacred Nation.
• Mo Wenshen told the seven that he wanted to capture Lin Bai and use them to keep the Li family in check.
• The High Priests of the Broken Sword Tribe and Heavenly Blade Tribe agreed to help, driven by their hatred of Lin Bai.
• At dawn, Mo Wenshen and the seven experts entered the Li family, while Li Buzheng left Lin Bai’s residence and headed for Li Family Village to prepare to return to the Eastern Continent.

Lin Bai prepared to leave Kunxu for the Eastern Continent, but Mo Wenshen blocked the passage and tried to force him to the Central Sacred Nation. Lin Bai recognized that the recruitment was a pretext to capture him, and Mo Wenshen compared Lin Bai’s killing intent to Lin Duo’s.

• Lin Bai bade farewell to Li Buzheng and Li Buxian and set out for the passage leading to Li Family Village.
• Lin Bai sensed danger when he encountered Mo Wenshen waiting at the passage, and Li Buzheng stepped in to protect him.
• Mo Wenshen claimed the Central Sacred Nation wanted to recruit Lin Bai, but Lin Bai refused to go.
• Mo Wenshen attacked and threatened to take Lin Bai by force, while Lin Bai told Li Buzheng that Mo Wenshen intended to capture him.
• Lin Bai faced Mo Wenshen directly, and Mo Wenshen said Lin Bai’s murderous gaze resembled Lin Duo’s.

Lin Bai used the Blood God Robe to match Mo Wenshen’s Apex Realm strength and fought him with several sword techniques and weapons. Mo Wenshen withdrew and summoned the Broken Sword High Priest and Heaven Blade High Priest to attack Lin Bai, leaving him facing two new enemies.

• Mo Wenshen attacked Lin Bai, who evaded and donned the Blood God Robe to gain peak Apex Realm strength.
• Lin Bai drew his demon sword and fought Mo Wenshen, who wielded a King-grade Spiritual Artifact.
• After a hundred exchanges, Lin Bai used the Heaven Measuring Ruler and two flying swords to force Mo Wenshen back.
• Mo Wenshen retreated and called on the Broken Sword High Priest and Heaven Blade High Priest to cripple Lin Bai.
• The Broken Sword High Priest and Heaven Blade High Priest emerged beside Mo Wenshen and fixed their attention on Lin Bai.

Lin Bai faced the Heaven Blade High Priest and the Broken Sword High Priest after Mo Wenshen withdrew, and battled the Broken Sword High Priest’s powerful Blood Sword Art. He broke through the High Priest’s attacks and counterattacked, but his Demon Sword strike was blocked, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Mo Wenshen stopped attacking and left Lin Bai to face the Heaven Blade High Priest and the Broken Sword High Priest.
• The Heaven Blade High Priest reminded Lin Bai of their past encounter and introduced the Broken Sword High Priest, who bore a grudge over Lin Bai’s killing of Broken Sword Tribe warriors.
• The Broken Sword High Priest attacked with the Blood Sword Art, and Lin Bai used his flying swords and Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to defend himself.
• The Broken Sword High Priest unleashed Nether Mountain, shattering Lin Bai’s sword formation and making him spit blood.
• The Broken Sword High Priest sent a sea of blood filled with sword shadows at Lin Bai, but Lin Bai split it with the Dragon Slayer Drawing Sword Art.
• Lin Bai charged the Broken Sword High Priest with his Demon Sword, but the High Priest’s blood-colored flying sword blocked the strike.