Chapter Summaries

The Eastern Continent Academy's reclusive powerhouses emerged to defend Heaven's Mandate Pass as the Demon Sect's infiltrators and allied kings attacked. The fighting spread across the pass and its walls, where Gu Tianxuan confronted the Lion King over his use of the War God Art.

• The Snake King and Tiger King rebelled inside Heaven's Mandate Pass as the Lion King and Wolf King attacked the Nine Sages Isolation Formation from outside.
• At Gu Daozhi's command, the Outer Sect Master summoned more than a dozen hidden powerhouses, who entered the pass and confronted Old Ancestor Tu Shan and Old Snake.
• Gu Lianxing intercepted Old Ancestor Tu Shan, while Lan Yuanshan froze Old Snake's serpent weapon and began fighting him.
• Lan Yuanqing, Gu Tianxuan, Chen Xinghe, Kong Wu, Shi Ziliang, and Zhang Xifeng confronted the Demon Sect's Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars; Zhang Xifeng and Gu Tianxuan then went outside to face the Lion King and Wolf King.
• Gu Tianxuan questioned the Lion King about possessing the War God Art, and the Lion King challenged the Gu Family's claim to know every ancient technique.

The White-Haired Woman unleashed swarms of Yellow Haze Bees and Corpse-Eating Ants on the battle at Heaven's Mandate Pass, overwhelming the fighters and collapsing every line of battle. The fighting between Gu Tianxuan and the Lion King and between Zhang Xifeng and the Wolf King continued as the battlefield descended into chaos.

• Gu Tianxuan charged the Lion King, while Zhang Xifeng confronted the Wolf King and recognized the Nether Sword Art as the Wolf King attacked with a King Grade Spirit Artifact.
• After three hours, more than half of the Demon Sect's Heavenly Stars had been killed or wounded, and the Snake King and Tiger King had been badly beaten.
• The White-Haired Woman decided to intervene and released tens of thousands of Corpse-Eating Ants and a vast swarm of Yellow Haze Bees toward the battlefield.
• The White-Haired Woman said the bees and ants could kill Yin Saint Realm and Death Reversal Realm martial artists and destroy the formation walls, though they could not kill Great Perfection Apex Realm experts.
• The Yellow Haze Bees poisoned martial artists into pus and blood, while the Corpse-Eating Ants devoured their flesh, causing the battlefield's lines to collapse.

The Devil Sect’s poisonous creatures forced the Eastern Continent Academy’s warriors to retreat to Heaven’s Mandate Pass, where both sides prepared for a full-scale battle. The Devil Sect Master finally appeared atop a giant White Snake, and Lin Bai recognized her as Ye Suxin.

• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered the Eastern Continent Academy’s warriors to retreat and the Chen Family to repair the Nine Sages Isolation Formation after the Devil Sect’s poisonous creatures caused heavy casualties.
• The Tiger King, Snake King, surviving Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, and Devil Sect experts joined the fighting as the academy’s forces regrouped at Heaven’s Mandate Pass.
• Bai Xiaoxiao received word that reinforcements had reached the Jianghai Domain, then asked Lin Bai whether he was ready for the coming battle.
• Bai Xiaoxiao called out the Devil Sect Master, who approached through a passage in her forces atop a White Snake nearly three hundred meters long.
• Lin Bai recognized the White Snake from the past and then saw the barefoot White-Robed Woman riding it; stunned, he dropped his sword and called her Ye Suxin.

Lin Bai recognized the Devil Sect Master as Ye Suxin, the woman he had once tried to revive, and tried to leave the Nine Sages Isolation Formation to reach her. Bai Xiaoxiao stopped him and revealed that she had prepared an ambush, as allies surrounded the Devil Sect and sealed the battlefield with a powerful formation.

• Lin Bai recognized Ye Suxin and recalled how she had died saving him, how he had tried to revive her, and how she later disappeared from her tomb palace.
• Lin Bai ignored Gu Daozhi and Lan Yuxin’s warnings and tried to cross the Nine Sages Isolation Formation to meet Ye Suxin.
• Bai Xiaoxiao admitted she had known the Devil Sect Master was Ye Suxin, but insisted she was no longer the person Lin Bai remembered and blocked his way.
• Ye Suxin invited Lin Bai to join her, while Bai Xiaoxiao accused her of trying to kill him and challenged her over the Devil Sect’s attack.
• Bai Xiaoxiao summoned the Great Wu Dynasty, Sword Domain, Soul Severing Domain, and Jiang Family forces, which surrounded the Devil Sect and joined a great formation to the Nine Sages Isolation Formation.
• Ye Suxin identified the new formation as the Cosmos Sun-Moon Refining God Formation, and Chen Xinghe confirmed that the Chen Family had brought out its crowning masterpiece.

Bai Xiaoxiao’s forces confronted the White-Haired Woman at Heaven’s Mandate Pass, where Mo Qing arrived to help and recognized her as Zhao Yue, a notorious figure from ten thousand years ago. The revelation left Gu Daozhi and the Great Witch Emperor terrified as the battle loomed.

• Old Ancestor Ding reported that the Great Wu Dynasty, the Jiang Family, and warriors from the Sword Domain and Soul Severing Domain had surrounded the White-Haired Woman’s forces.
• Bai Xiaoxiao revealed that she had anticipated the White-Haired Woman’s attack and prepared an ambush at Heaven’s Mandate Pass.
• The White-Haired Woman sent Yellow Haze Bees and Corpse-Eating Ants against the formation, but a cloud of smoke forced the poisonous creatures to retreat.
• Mo Qing descended into the Nine Sages Isolation Formation, greeted Lin Bai, and joined Bai Xiaoxiao’s side.
• Mo Qing recognized the White-Haired Woman as Zhao Yue, explaining that she had once been a Poison God Family disciple who possessed the two poisonous creatures.
• Gu Daozhi and the Great Witch Emperor recognized Zhao Yue from ancient records and feared her return.

Mo Qing confronted Zhao Yue over the Poison God Family’s old pursuit and the turmoil she had caused in the Eastern Continent. He countered her poisonous creatures and captured Little White, leaving Zhao Yue defeated.

• Mo Qing told Zhao Yue he would carry out the Poison God Family’s hunting order, while Zhao Yue threatened to destroy the family after settling matters in the Eastern Continent.
• Zhao Yue sent the Yellow Haze Bees and Corpse-Eating Ants against the assembled fighters, and Mo Qing and Bai Xiaoxiao agreed to divide the battle.
• Mo Qing released Golden Armor Holy Insects to fight the Yellow Haze Bees and planted a Poison Immortal Ancient Tree to kill the Corpse-Eating Ants.
• Zhao Yue unleashed Little White’s poison, but Mo Qing drew a rust-covered iron sword and sent it through the poisonous mist.
• Mo Qing captured Little White in his Beast-Taming Pouch and told Zhao Yue that she had lost.

Bai Xiaoxiao and Mo Qing helped the allied forces defeat the Devil Sect army at Heaven's Mandate Pass, leaving Zhao Yue surrounded and outnumbered. As the other leaders prepared to deal with her, Zhao Yue mocked their clans and dynasties over their history with the Poison God Family.

• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Gu Daozhi and the Chen Family to activate the Cosmos Sun-Moon Refining God Formation and kill the Devil Sect fighters and those posing as them.
• The allied forces attacked from all four directions while their strongest fighters engaged the Devil Sect's leaders and elite ranks.
• The battle raged for three days and three nights, ending with nearly all the Devil Sect forces dead or fled; Mo Qing destroyed Zhao Yue's insects and took her White Snake.
• Bai Xiaoxiao declared that Zhao Yue had lost, but Zhao Yue argued that Mo Qing's intervention had made the difference and urged him to trust his returning memories.
• Surrounded by the allied leaders, Zhao Yue insulted the Nether King Clan, Sword God Clan, Jiang Family, and Great Wu Dynasty for their ancestors' conduct toward the Poison God Family.

Lin Bai tried to save Ye Suxin, whose sleeping soul was bound to Zhao Yue’s, from being destroyed when the powerful factions decided to execute the Devil Sect Master. He defied them and warned that if they killed her, he would become an enemy more terrifying than Zhao Yue.

• Great Witch Emperor, the Sword God Clan, the Nether King Clan, and Gu Daozhi agreed to scatter the Devil Sect Master's soul and ordered her execution.
• Lin Bai asked the White-Haired Woman about Ye Suxin, and Mo Qing used a Soul-Seeking Insect to confirm that Ye Suxin's soul was still alive but weak and bound to the other soul.
• Mo Qing said he had no way to separate the souls without risking Ye Suxin's death, and the White-Haired Woman explained that the Inverted Yin-Yang Formation had bound their souls together.
• Lin Bai opposed the execution, saying he did not want Ye Suxin's soul destroyed with Zhao Yue's, while Gu Daozhi and the other leaders insisted on carrying out their decision.
• Lin Bai warned the assembled powerhouses that killing the woman would make him Eastern Continent's most terrifying enemy.

Lin Bai prevented the Eastern Continent’s leaders from killing Zhao Yue while another soul remained inside her, and secured six months to find a way to separate them. The chapter left Zhao Yue bound for imprisonment in the Great Wu Dynasty’s Dragon Imprisoning Abyss as Lin Bai accepted the terms.

• The Great Witch Emperor attacked Lin Bai, but Lan Yuanshan and Lan Yuanqing intervened on Lan Ling’s orders to protect him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao supported Lin Bai’s demand to spare the soul inside Zhao Yue, then clashed verbally with the Great Witch Emperor.
• Lin Bai promised to find a way to separate the souls, and Gu Daozhi gave him half a year before Zhao Yue and the other soul would be executed.
• The Great Witch Emperor demanded that Zhao Yue be held in the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss in the Jianghai Domain, and Lin Bai agreed.

After the Eastern Continent’s victory over the Demon Sect, Lin Bai faced the White-Haired Woman’s execution being delayed for six months and resolved to find a way to separate her soul from Ye Suxin’s. Bai Xiaoxiao returned to the Myriad Kingdoms Domain to prepare for a possible war against the entire Eastern Continent, while Lan Yuxin left to learn about Lin Bai’s past.

• The domains’ leaders ordered the White-Haired Woman taken to the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss and set her execution for six months later.
• Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao discussed Zhao Yue and Ye Suxin’s fused souls, and Lin Bai vowed to find a way to separate them before the execution.
• Bai Xiaoxiao left the Great Wu Dynasty’s imperial capital with Chu Jiangliu and warned him to prepare for a battle against the Eastern Continent’s martial artists.
• Lan Yuxin asked Lin Bai about his past and his relationship with the White-Haired Woman; when he refused to tell her, she left Jianghai Domain to find out herself.
• At dawn, Lin Bai went to Mo Qing’s residence to meet the ally who had traveled from the Southern Continent to aid the Eastern Continent.

Lin Bai thanked Mo Qing for helping counter Zhao Yue’s poison, then visited the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss to seek a way to separate Zhao Yue’s and Ye Suxin’s fused divine souls. He entered the abyss and came face-to-face with Zhao Yue, the Five Poisons Sacred Master.

• Mo Qing told Lin Bai that separating Zhao Yue’s divine soul from Ye Suxin’s would be extremely difficult and promised to search the Poison God Family’s ancient texts for a solution.
• Mo Qing left the Jianghai Domain to return to the Southern Continent, while Lin Bai headed toward the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss.
• Lan Yuanqing warned Lin Bai that the Order Divine Court was considering abolishing his Holy Son position and cautioned him about Zhao Yue’s unpredictable methods.
• Lin Bai entered the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss, where spiritual power was sealed, and followed the stone lamps to a cave.
• Zhao Yue recognized Lin Bai, and he identified her as the Five Poisons Sacred Master.

Lin Bai learned that Ye Suxin’s soul remained trapped inside Zhao Yue and sought a way to separate them safely. Lan Ling revealed that the Sword God Family’s Water Mirror Sword could do it, and Lin Bai discovered that Fu Qingshuang belonged to the family.

• Zhao Yue told Lin Bai that his actions had brought Ye Suxin to ruin, while Ye Suxin briefly struggled to speak through Zhao Yue before Zhao Yue suppressed her again.
• Lin Bai left the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss and vowed to find a way to separate the souls and kill Zhao Yue.
• Lan Ling summoned Lin Bai back to the Eastern Continent Academy and explained that the Water Mirror Sword could safely cleave apart the fused souls.
• Lan Ling told Lin Bai that the Sword God Family’s ancestral land was in the Northern Continent and that Fu Qingshuang was one of its disciples.

Lin Bai entered the Northern Continent alone to seek the Water Mirror Sword, while Hu Xin'er returned to search for Fu Qingshuang. As Lin Bai stopped to recover his spirit power, the Soul-Reaping Thirteen prepared to ambush him for a massive bounty.

• Lin Bai and Hu Xin'er parted at the Eastern Continent's border, with Hu Xin'er returning to look for Fu Qingshuang and Lin Bai heading north.
• Lin Bai crossed into the Northern Continent, a harsh desert ruled by the Sword God Family, and continued toward the Water Mirror Sword.
• After traveling for seven days and nights, Lin Bai stopped on a bare mountain to restore his spirit power.
• The Soul-Reaping Thirteen tracked Lin Bai and decided to attack before the Seven Sword Immortals and Heavenly Wolf Assassination Squad could reach him.
• The Soul-Reaping Leader ordered the other twelve members to begin their planned ambush, eager to claim Kunxu's bounty on Lin Bai.

The Soul-Reaping Thirteen, assassins from the Faceless Ones, ambushed Lin Bai in the Northern Continent for the bounty on his head. They trapped him in a formation and launched a coordinated attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The chapter explained that the Faceless Ones' bounty list drew assassins to Lin Bai after he traveled alone to the Northern Continent.
• The Soul-Reaping Thirteen, who had followed Lin Bai since the battle in Jianghai Domain, surrounded him on a mountain and revealed their identities.
• Lin Bai identified the seven masked assassins before him and detected three more hidden nearby and three archers farther away.
• The Soul-Reaping Leader boasted that the team had completed 150 assignments and claimed their formation would keep Lin Bai trapped for half an hour.
• The Soul-Reaping Thirteen attacked from several directions, while three arrows flew toward Lin Bai from a distant mountain.

Lin Bai defeated nearly all of Soul-Reaping Leader's assassins on the mountain, but Soul-Reaping Leader escaped despite being badly wounded. Three days later, the Seven Sword Immortals searched the battlefield for Lin Bai, while the Heavenly Wolf Assassination Squad learned they still had a chance to find him.

• Lin Bai used his flying swords to kill three archers, then slew three men hiding in ambush.
• Lin Bai killed most of the six assassins who charged him alongside Soul-Reaping Leader.
• Soul-Reaping Leader fled while Lin Bai fought the last two assassins, and Lin Bai killed them before pursuing him with his flying swords.
• Soul-Reaping Leader survived his wounds and escaped the mountain as Lin Bai chased after him.
• Three days later, the Seven Sword Immortals inspected the corpses, concluded Lin Bai was in the Northern Continent, and split up to search.
• A young Heavenly Wolf Assassination Squad member told the Spirit Emperor that the Seven Sword Immortals had not found Lin Bai, and the Spirit Emperor ordered him to watch their movements.

Lin Bai pursued the Soul-Reaping Leader into the Northern Continent and encountered Ban Ye and his disciples near the dangerous Serpentwood Forest. As they prepared to travel together to Blackwater City, the Soul-Reaping Leader fled from deep within the forest.

• Lin Bai entered the Serpentwood Forest and was nearly attacked by a Yellow-Banded Serpent before Ban Ye killed it with one punch.
• Ban Ye explained that the forest held countless Yellow-Banded Serpents and a powerful Snake King, and offered to take Lin Bai to Blackwater City.
• Lin Bai accepted Ban Ye’s offer, hoping to gather information about the Northern Continent and find the Sword God Family.
• A powerful aura erupted from the forest, and the Soul-Reaping Leader came sprinting out in panic.
• Lin Bai recognized the Soul-Reaping Leader, whom he had been pursuing.

Lin Bai warned Ban Ye not to rescue the Soul-Reaping Leader, but Ban Ye went anyway, and the fleeing assassin lured hundreds of powerful Yellow-Banded Serpents toward them. The group was surrounded, and Ban Ye prepared to open a path for the young people to escape as Lin Bai readied his Demon Sword.

• Lin Bai urged Ban Ye to leave the Soul-Reaping Leader to the Yellow-Banded Serpents, but Ban Ye went to save him despite the young people’s pleas.
• Ban Ye struck one serpent and tried to join forces with the Soul-Reaping Leader, who instead rushed toward Lin Bai and the others before changing course and fleeing.
• Hundreds of Yellow-Banded Serpents poured out of Serpentwood Forest and surrounded Lin Bai, Ban Ye, and the young people.
• Ban Ye realized the serpents were too strong for him to defeat and warned the young people to flee when he opened a gap.
• Lin Bai put his hand on the Blackwood Scabbard, ready to draw the Demon Sword, as the young people finally understood their danger.

Ban Ye and Lin Bai confronted hundreds of powerful earth serpents, and Ban Ye revealed his mastery of the Five Elements Divine Lightning Manual while trying to save the Tang Family youths. After Ban Ye was gravely wounded, Lin Bai stepped in and slaughtered the earth serpents with his sword.

• Ban Ye urged Lin Bai and the young men and women to escape while he held off the earth serpents, but they refused and charged into battle.
• An earth serpent struck the young men and women down, and Ban Ye unleashed black divine lightning to destroy more than a dozen serpents and save them.
• The remaining earth serpents overwhelmed Ban Ye, severely injured him, and prepared to swallow him.
• Lin Bai killed a seventh-level Death Reversal Realm earth serpent with one sword strike and drew the rest toward himself.
• Lin Bai unleashed a powerful sword slash that cut the attacking earth serpents apart.

Lin Bai slaughtered the Earth Serpents attacking Ban Ye’s group, prompting the Earth Serpent King to mistake him for a Sword Son and offer him Black Gold Divine Iron. After the group escaped, Ban Ye explained that the Sword God Family was supposedly atop the Summit of the Azure Sky, which he said was the sky above them.

• Lin Bai used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art to kill the Earth Serpents attacking him and Ban Ye’s group.
• A strange sound made the Earth Serpents retreat, and the Earth Serpent King sent Lin Bai Black Gold Divine Iron while calling him a Sword Son.
• Lin Bai accepted the divine iron and left with Ban Ye and the young men and women, warning the Earth Serpents not to attack again.
• The Earth Serpent King recognized Lin Bai’s Reaching Heaven Sword Art as an inheritance technique of the Sword God Family and ordered the Earth Serpents to stay in the forest.
• After reaching a safe place, Ban Ye told Lin Bai that the Sword God Family stood atop the Summit of the Azure Sky in the Northern Continent.
• Lin Bai asked where the Summit of the Azure Sky was, and Ban Ye pointed to the sky above them, leaving Lin Bai confused.

Ban Ye explained how the Sword God Family selected disciples and why reaching its hidden mountain gates was difficult. Lin Bai learned that he would need to attract the family’s attention through exceptional sword talent or win the dangerous Sky Sword City tournament.

• Ban Ye told Lin Bai that the Sword God Family had closed its gates and that only invited martial artists could enter.
• Ban Ye explained that the family’s scouts sought outstanding sword cultivators and gave Li Wenyuan as an example of a prodigy they had invited.
• Ban Ye told Lin Bai that the Sky Sword City tournament offered another route to an invitation from the Sword God Family.
• Ban Ye explained that contestants had to cross the deadly Cloud Dream Marsh and then win the tournament in Sky Sword City.
• Lin Bai understood that both paths to the Sword God Family were exceptionally difficult.