Chapter Summaries

Celestial Hound Zhenren retrieved the Sword of Impermanence from Zhenren of Good and Evil’s bones, but Chen Qin activated the Life-Death Talisman and took the sword from him. Lin Bai secretly watched the confrontation, and the chapter ended with Chen Qin holding the Emperor Artifact while Celestial Hound Zhenren writhed in agony.

• Chen Qin threatened to activate the Life-Death Talisman unless Celestial Hound Zhenren retrieved the Sword of Impermanence from the bones.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren used a formation and incantations to pass the barrier around the bones and pick up the sword.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren turned on Chen Qin and thrust the sword at him rather than surrendering it.
• Chen Qin activated the Life-Death Talisman, causing Celestial Hound Zhenren to collapse and scream in pain.
• Chen Qin took the Sword of Impermanence from Celestial Hound Zhenren and examined it while Lin Bai remained hidden nearby.

Chen Qin tortured Celestial Hound Zhenren with the Life-Death Talisman and discovered that the Sword of Impermanence would remain powerless until it recognized a master. Lin Bai appeared but seemed weakened, and after stalling Chen Qin, he awaited the arrival of his true self.

• Celestial Hound Zhenren revealed that Zhenren of Good and Evil had cursed the Sword of Impermanence, making it useless to anyone it had not recognized as its master.
• Chen Qin attacked Celestial Hound Zhenren with the sword, but Celestial Hound Zhenren called out to someone hiding in the darkness.
• Lin Bai emerged, and Chen Qin wounded him after noticing that his strength seemed greatly diminished.
• Lin Bai summoned the Demonic Flower to resist Chen Qin, but Chen Qin overpowered him while Celestial Hound Zhenren taunted him.
• Lin Bai told Chen Qin he only needed to stall until someone arrived, and Lin Bai's true self appeared in the passage.

Lin Bai entered the stone chamber, where the Sword of Impermanence recognized him and revealed the legacy of the Zhenren of Good and Evil. Lin Bai used the sword to defeat Chen Qin and began searching his soul.

• Lin Bai arrived in the stone chamber, and the Sword of Impermanence broke free from Chen Qin and flew to him.
• When Lin Bai gripped the sword, the Zhenren of Good and Evil’s voice revealed that the sword held his lifetime’s teachings and ultimate art.
• Lin Bai tossed the sword toward Chen Qin, but it ignored Chen Qin and returned to Lin Bai when he called.
• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art and the Sword of Impermanence to sever Chen Qin’s arm and force him back from his giant form.
• Chen Qin begged Lin Bai to spare him, but Lin Bai struck his crown and began a soul search.

Lin Bai’s attempt to search Chen Qin’s memories triggered a hidden poison that killed him, while a White-Haired Woman prepared to take revenge by targeting the Myriad Beasts Dynasty. Celestial Hound Zhenren revealed that the Demonic Sect had forced him to submit using a Life-Death Talisman and ordered him to help attack the Feng Clan.

• Lin Bai tried to search Chen Qin’s memories, but a White Snake appeared in the darkness and forced him to withdraw before Chen Qin rotted into a pool of pus and blood.
• The White-Haired Woman learned that someone had tried to inspect Chen Qin’s memories and said the poison inside him had already activated.
• The White-Haired Woman and Little Bai set out for the Myriad Beasts Dynasty as part of her revenge plan.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren told Lin Bai that the Demonic Sect had planted a Life-Death Talisman in him after he agreed to submit rather than die.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren explained that Chen Qin had stayed in Fengge Domain while he was ordered to help attack the Feng Clan.

Lin Bai questioned Celestial Hound Zhenren about the Devil Sect and learned that its campaign across the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories was likely revenge aimed at their foremost families. He left with a way to identify the Devil Sect Master's next target, while Celestial Hound Zhenren remained under torture and urged him to cherish Zhenren of Good and Evil’s sword.

• Celestial Hound Zhenren told Lin Bai that the Devil Sect's Four Great Dharma Kings were powerful Apex Realm experts who prepared targets before the Sect Master attacked.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren said the Devil Sect's campaign looked like revenge rather than a search for resources or treasure, and Lin Bai suspected the Sect Master was using the Devil Sect for her personal grudge.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren explained that the Devil Sect had focused on slaughtering imperial clans and the foremost families of the Nine Territories while leaving most other families intact.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Sect Master was exploiting the chaos to take revenge on the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories, and Celestial Hound Zhenren said finding the Four Great Dharma Kings could reveal her next target.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren said his torture would last seven days and he might not survive, then urged Lin Bai to cherish the sword containing Zhenren of Good and Evil's lifelong knowledge.

Celestial Hound Zhenren recounted Good and Evil Zhenren’s tragic life to Lin Bai, who then agreed to help him find the Four Great Dharma Kings in exchange for sealing his Life-Death Talisman. Lin Bai temporarily suppressed the talisman, and Celestial Hound Zhenren agreed to track the Demon Sect and its next target.

• Celestial Hound Zhenren told Lin Bai how Good and Evil Zhenren sought revenge, learned that his parents had been the original aggressors, and took his own life at twenty-one.
• Lin Bai reflected that Good and Evil Zhenren’s Buddhist compassion may have led him to kill himself, then prepared to leave with the Sword of Impermanence.
• Lin Bai offered to seal Celestial Hound Zhenren’s Life-Death Talisman if he helped locate the Four Great Dharma Kings and report on Demon Sect activity.
• Lin Bai used the Taiji Two Forms Sword Formation to suppress the Life-Death Talisman, easing Celestial Hound Zhenren’s pain and restoring his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai warned that the seal would last only one month, and Celestial Hound Zhenren promised to find the Four Great Dharma Kings and the Demon Sect’s next target.

Lin Bai studied the inheritance sealed in the Sword of Impermanence and gave the sword to his devil body along with techniques it could cultivate. Celestial Hound Zhenren then warned him that the Devil Sect had set its sights on the Myriad Beasts Dynasty and that the Devil Sect Master was already heading there.

• Lin Bai discovered that the Sword of Impermanence was one of the Barren Ancient Continent's seventy-two Emperor Artifacts and read the Zhenren of Good and Evil's inheritance within it.
• Lin Bai found the Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra and Nine Life-Severing Swords suitable for cultivation, but could not use the Demon Clan Undying Body without Phoenix blood or understand the words “Good and Evil are Impermanent.”
• Lin Bai gave the Sword of Impermanence to his devil body, which flew away to cultivate while the Giant God Avatar trained inside the Bronze Gate.
• Celestial Hound Zhenren sent Lin Bai a warning that the Devil Sect's next target was the Myriad Beasts Dynasty and that the Devil Sect Master had already set out for it.

Lin Bai and his companions rushed to the Myriad Beasts Dynasty after learning it was the Demon Sect’s next target, but found Heavenly Heart City devastated by a massacre. Lin Bai suspected most of the attackers had only used the Demon Sect’s name, and the group continued toward the dynasty’s imperial city.

• Lin Bai learned that the Demon Sect planned to target the Myriad Beasts Dynasty and told Lan Yuxin to alert the Order Divine Court.
• After traveling for seven days, Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er arrived at Heavenly Heart City and found it littered with corpses.
• A wounded young martial artist mistook Lin Bai for a Demon Sect member and attacked him, but Lin Bai stopped his sword and proved the group belonged to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• The young martial artist said the attackers had slaughtered nearly all of Heavenly Heart City’s several million martial artists in three days.
• Lin Bai said most of the attackers were likely local martial artists posing as Demon Sect members, then left with Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er for the Myriad Beasts Dynasty’s imperial city.

Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er traveled to the fallen Myriad Beasts Dynasty and found its imperial city devastated, its people slaughtered, and its Nation Guardian Golden Eagle poisoned. After searching the palace, they learned from Lan Ling that he had warned them not to enter the dynasty, and Lan Yuxin told him they were already there.

• Lin Bai and his companions discussed how the Devil Sect had incited resentment and used the chaos of war to plunder resources.
• Lin Bai brought the spirit boat to the Myriad Beasts Dynasty's imperial city, where they found the city destroyed and silent.
• Lan Yuxin identified the dead Nation Guardian Golden Eagle, and Lin Bai determined that potent poison had killed it rather than martial artists.
• Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er searched the imperial palace and found no survivors, only widespread slaughter and looting.
• Lan Ling warned Lan Yuxin by Voice Transmission Token to stay away from the fallen dynasty, and she told him they were already inside its imperial palace.

Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er tried to leave the fallen Myriad Beasts Dynasty's imperial capital for Gold Tree City, but demonic sect warriors surrounded them and attacked. After the trio cut down many attackers, Tiger King arrived, gravely wounded Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er, and offered Lin Bai a chance to surrender.

• Lan Yuxin learned from Lan Ling that Eastern Continent Academy disciples had taken refuge in Gold Tree City, and she, Lin Bai, and Hu Xin'er set out to find them.
• A Death Reversal Realm demonic sect warrior spotted the trio, summoned several hundred more, and they attacked.
• Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er killed more than half the demonic sect warriors, who recognized them as Eastern Continent Academy disciples and tried to notify their envoy.
• Tiger King descended from the clouds and struck the trio, leaving Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er gravely wounded while Lin Bai managed to remain standing.
• Tiger King identified Lin Bai as the Eastern Continent Academy's Holy Son and offered to spare all three if Lin Bai joined the demonic sect.

Lin Bai and his companions were captured after Tiger King gravely wounded them, but Hua Yuxian intervened and took them away. On a lonely mountain, Hua Yuxian unexpectedly called Lin Bai her cousin, leaving Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er stunned.

• Tiger King prepared to kill Lin Bai and his companions, but Hua Yuxian arrived and reminded him of his orders to go to the Soul Severing Domain.
• Lin Bai recognized Hua Yuxian, the former Holy Daughter of the Five Venoms Sect who had joined the Devil Sect as one of its Eight Envoys.
• Hua Yuxian persuaded Tiger King to leave the wounded captives to her, then bound Lin Bai, Hu Xin'er, and Lan Yuxin with a golden rope.
• Hua Yuxian took the three to a lonely mountain outside the imperial city, while Lin Bai signaled Hu Xin'er not to use the Blood God Robe.
• When Lan Yuxin demanded to know why Hua Yuxian had captured them, Hua Yuxian called Lin Bai her cousin, astonishing Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er.

Lin Bai learned that his younger cousin Hua Yuxian had become one of the Devil Sect’s Eight Envoys because the sect held her parents hostage. After Hua Yuxian left, she secretly watched Lin Bai depart and hinted that he would soon meet someone who would surprise him.

• Hua Yuxian freed Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er, then introduced herself as Lin Bai’s younger cousin.
• Lin Bai asked Hua Yuxian about their family and learned that her parents were prisoners of the Devil Sect, forcing her to serve it.
• Hua Yuxian told Lin Bai she planned to rescue her parents and urged him not to ask more before returning to the Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai left with Lan Yuxin and Hu Xin'er aboard a spirit vessel bound for Gold Tree City.
• Hua Yuxian secretly reappeared on Lonely Mountain and wondered how Lin Bai would react when he met her.

Lin Bai, Hu Xin'er, and Lan Yuxin reached Gold Tree City, where the city's overcrowding had led the City Lord to restrict entry. Lin Bai reunited with Eastern Continent Academy disciples and asked the Quasi-Holy Sons why the Myriad Beasts Dynasty had fallen so quickly.

• Lin Bai suspected Hua Yuxian had concealed the truth but chose not to press her before traveling to Gold Tree City with Hu Xin'er and Lan Yuxin.
• At Gold Tree City, an armored guard announced that only Yin Saint realm martial artists could enter and that entrants had to acknowledge the City Lord as their master.
• Lin Bai showed his Identity Token and entered the city after identifying himself as the Eastern Continent Academy's Holy Son.
• The guard escorted Lin Bai to East City, where he reunited with Quasi-Holy Sons Leng Qianxue, Chen Qing, Zhang Xianqi, and Hua Muqing.
• Lin Bai asked the Quasi-Holy Sons why the Myriad Beasts Dynasty had fallen despite his warning that the Demon Sect would target it.

After the Myriad Beasts Dynasty fell to the Devil Sect through rebellions and infiltrators, Lin Bai learned that the Eastern Continent Academy had found a way to counter the threat. He and Lan Yuxin returned to the academy while Zhang Xianqi and the others organized its scattered disciples to follow.

• Zhang Xianqi explained that rebel legions and martial artists disguised as Devil Sect members had helped the Devil Sect breach the Myriad Beasts Dynasty's imperial city before its master arrived.
• Leng Qianxue and Chen Qing described how even Eastern Continent Academy disciples and other martial artists wore black robes to blend into the Devil Sect when their cities fell.
• Lin Bai acknowledged that the group had done what it could, but said the Devil Sect's methods were difficult to defend against.
• Lan Ling contacted Lan Yuxin and ordered her, Lin Bai, and the academy's martial artists to return to the Eastern Continent Academy, saying they had found a way to deal with the Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin left for the academy while Zhang Xianqi and Chen Qing arranged for the disciples in Gold Tree City and the Myriad Beasts Dynasty to return.

Lin Bai returned to the Order Divine Court, where the academy’s leaders gathered to discuss how to stop the Demon Sect. The proposed plan came from Bai Xiaoxiao, now Emperor Xiao of the Divine Martial Nation, who arrived with Li Jiange and Chu Jiangliu.

• Lin Bai, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er reached the Order Divine Mountain and joined the assembled leaders and Quasi-Holy Sons of the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Lin Bai learned that Fang Yiyun had recovered his cultivation and broken through to the Apex Realm, and Fang Yiyun credited Lin Bai with helping him overcome his inner obstacle.
• Gu Daozhi announced that someone outside the Order Divine Court had devised a way to deal with the Demon Sect and asked Li Jiange to bring that person up the mountain.
• Li Jiange arrived with silver-armored soldiers, Chu Jiangliu, and Bai Xiaoxiao, whom he introduced as Her Majesty Emperor Xiao of the Divine Martial Nation.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Lin Bai greeted each other before the gathered martial artists.

Bai Xiaoxiao analyzed the Devil Sect’s invasion and concluded that its apparent motive was revenge, while Lin Bai suggested someone was using the sect’s name to conceal a personal agenda. The chapter ended with Bai Xiaoxiao asking the Order Divine Court to investigate whether the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories had once jointly offended someone.

• Lin Bai was surprised to learn that Eastern Continent Academy had invited Bai Xiaoxiao, and Wu He questioned whether she could help against the Devil Sect.
• Bai Xiaoxiao argued that the Devil Sect sought revenge rather than territory, wealth, status, cultivation resources, women, or power, and identified the imperial and foremost families as its targets.
• Gu Daozhi explained that the Devil Sect and Eastern Continent Academy had once been the Gods and Demons Sect, whose internal struggle had driven the Devil Sect from the Sea of Gods and Demons.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Gu Daozhi wondered why the Devil Sect attacked the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories instead of targeting Eastern Continent Academy directly.
• Lin Bai suggested that someone was using the Devil Sect’s identity to cover a personal objective, and Bai Xiaoxiao asked the Order Divine Court to investigate whether the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories had jointly offended someone.

Lan Ling recounted how Zhao Yue, a five-soul martial artist from the Southern Continent, had once devastated the Jianghai Domain after the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories tried to capture her. Bai Xiaoxiao appeared to recognize a hidden implication in Zhao Yue’s story, leaving Lin Bai suspicious that she knew more than she had revealed.

• Bai Xiaoxiao asked whether the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories had once offended the same person, and Wu He dismissed the possibility.
• Lan Ling revealed that the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories had angered Zhao Yue ten thousand years earlier, and the Order Divine Court elders reacted with alarm.
• Lan Ling explained that Zhao Yue had possessed a Five-Life Martial Soul and fled from the Southern Continent’s Poison God Family into the Eastern Continent.
• Lan Ling recounted how the Great Wu Dynasty and other powers tried to capture Zhao Yue, prompting her to spread deadly poisonous mist across the Jianghai Domain.
• Lan Ling said the Poison God Family eventually helped the Ten Dynasties and Nine Territories kill Zhao Yue, while Gu Daozhi insisted she could not still be alive.
• Bai Xiaoxiao looked shaken by the account, and Lin Bai suspected she was concealing a secret about Zhao Yue.

Bai Xiaoxiao proposed uniting the surviving warriors of the Sword Domain and Soul Severing Domain in the Jianghai Domain for a final battle against the Devil Sect, but the Order Divine Court split evenly and Gu Daozhi abstained. Lin Bai then invoked the promise that he would become the Court’s tenth elder.

• Bai Xiaoxiao urged the Sword Domain and Soul Severing Domain to abandon their territories and gather in the Jianghai Domain, while Jian Kong refused to leave his homeland.
• Bai Xiaoxiao called for the Eastern Continent’s warriors to unite against the Devil Sect and warned that the final battle would shape the continent’s future.
• The nine elders debated Bai Xiaoxiao’s proposal, and their votes split four to four.
• Gu Daozhi pondered for over an hour before abstaining, leaving the proposal undecided.
• Lin Bai reminded the elders that they had promised he would become the Eastern Continent Academy’s tenth elder.

Lin Bai joined the Order Divine Court as its tenth elder and cast the deciding vote to send Eastern Continent forces to Jianghai Domain to fight the Demon Sect. On Dragon Breeding Island, Bai Xiaoxiao revealed her plans to seize nearby territories, and Lin Bai asked if she intended to divide the realm into three.

• Gu Daozhi and the other elders accepted Lin Bai as the tenth elder of the Order Divine Court.
• Lin Bai voted with Bai Xiaoxiao to send the Blade Domain and Soul Severing Domain forces to Jianghai Domain, making the vote five to four in favor.
• Gu Daozhi announced an all-out war and called on martial artists above the Sky Realm to join the defense against the Demon Sect.
• Bai Xiaoxiao declined Li Jiuge's offer of lodging and followed Lin Bai to Dragon Breeding Island with Chu Jiangliu.
• Lin Bai challenged Bai Xiaoxiao over her intentions, and she admitted she planned to seize three dynasties and three territories near the 180 Domains of the Southern Corner.
• Bai Xiaoxiao named the lands she wanted, and Lin Bai asked whether she planned to divide the realm into three.

Lin Bai learned that Bai Xiaoxiao planned to use the war against the Devil Sect to establish Divine Martial Nation as one of three major powers in Eastern Continent. Bai Xiaoxiao kept the Devil Sect Master’s identity from him, fearing that the truth would devastate him if the Devil Sect lost.

• Bai Xiaoxiao explained that Divine Martial Nation would claim the south while Great Wu Dynasty and Jianghai Domain expanded east, leaving the rest of Eastern Continent divided among competing powers.
• Lin Bai warned Bai Xiaoxiao that Jianghai Domain and Great Wu Dynasty could become rivals, and Bai Xiaoxiao said she intended to secure the southern territories before they could act.
• Lin Bai questioned Bai Xiaoxiao about her reaction to the names Devil Sect Master and Zhao Yue, but she denied hiding anything and changed the subject.
• Bai Xiaoxiao left Lin Bai and went to the shore, where Chu Jiangliu asked whether she had reached an agreement with the Sword King.
• Bai Xiaoxiao admitted she feared Lin Bai would blame her or break down if he learned the truth about Devil Sect Master, and Chu Jiangliu urged her to let events unfold.
• Bai Xiaoxiao worried aloud whether Lin Bai could bear seeing her again.