Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiangsheng defeated Luo Qixing’s assassination attempt but failed to stop him from escaping, then waited in a cave with the wounded Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao for Lin Bai. When Lin Bai arrived, Xu Jiangsheng ambushed him and began a fierce battle.

• Xu Jiangsheng recognized Luo Qixing’s Serpent's Embrace technique, dodged it, and struck Luo Qixing hard enough to nearly shatter his heart.
• Luo Qixing escaped with the Blood Escape Technique, and Xu Jiangsheng returned to Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao to demand Lin Bai’s whereabouts.
• Xu Jiangsheng dragged the wounded Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao into a cave and waited because the Spirit Sword Sect’s markers led Lin Bai there.
• Lin Bai arrived at the cave, where Xu Jiangsheng struck him with a flaming palm; Lin Bai saw Lu Yuan’s severed arm and confronted Xu Jiangsheng.
• Xu Jiangsheng charged Lin Bai with a flaming punch, and Lin Bai countered with the Azure Song Sword and a series of Surging Wind Swordplay techniques that devastated the surrounding area.

Lin Bai fought Xu Jiangsheng in the Qi Tian Mountains, where Xu Jiangsheng revealed his Demonic Martial Soul and unleashed the World Cleansing Fire Lotus. As the flaming lotus erupted, Lin Bai summoned his Devouring Sword Soul to confront it.

• Lin Bai battled Xu Jiangsheng with Surging Wind Swordplay while Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao watched and recognized Lin Bai's strength.
• Xu Jiangsheng revealed that he knew Lin Bai's sword techniques because he had once died beneath them.
• Xu Jiangsheng summoned his Demonic Martial Soul and used the Martial Soul Secret Method, World Cleansing Fire Lotus, creating a colossal lotus of flames.
• The flaming lotus absorbed energy from heaven and earth and erupted, while martial artists across the region and observers in the imperial capital witnessed its power.
• Lin Bai called forth his Devouring Sword Soul as the flaming lotus exploded.

Lin Bai survived Xu Jiangsheng’s Demonic Martial Soul attack and revealed that he also possessed a Demonic Martial Soul. After Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao left the Qi Tian Mountains for treatment, Lin Bai resumed hunting demonic beasts and searched for stronger prey to earn enough points before dusk.

• Lin Bai used the Devouring Sword Soul to split Xu Jiangsheng’s exploding flame lotus and survived its force.
• Xu Jiangsheng recognized Lin Bai’s Demonic Martial Soul, then burned himself into a lump of charcoal before Lin Bai could kill him.
• Zhang Lingdao told Lin Bai that Luo Qixing had severed Lu Yuan’s arm, and Lin Bai vowed to avenge Lu Yuan.
• Lin Bai escorted Lu Yuan and Zhang Lingdao to the guard army, which took them back to the imperial capital for treatment.
• Lin Bai returned to the Qi Tian Mountains and hunted demonic beasts, but after earning only twenty-one thousand points, he searched the forest for Heaven Martial Realm beasts.

Lin Bai hunted demon beasts in the Qi Tian Mountains while seeking enough points to exchange for the Beacon Fire City Flower, then crossed paths with Yi Han and the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists. The chapter ends as Lin Bai and Yi Han face off, with Lin Bai unleashing Sword Intent against Yi Han’s Boundless Sea palm.

• Lin Bai killed a second-level Heaven Martial Realm bear demon and noted that he still needed far more points to obtain the Beacon Fire City Flower.
• After hearing a powerful roar, Lin Bai found Yi Han, Li Luobei, and other Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists fighting a pack led by a third-level Heaven Martial Realm Wolf King.
• The Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists killed the wolves, but Lin Bai used Wind Lightning Divine Wings to sweep away every corpse before they could collect them.
• Yi Han challenged Lin Bai and attacked with Azure Wave Palm, while Lin Bai countered with Surging Wind Swordplay; their first clash left both unharmed.
• Yi Han unleashed the second move of Azure Wave Palm, Boundless Sea, and Lin Bai answered with Sword Intent: Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence.

Lin Bai defeated Yi Han and the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists, but Yi Han escaped by sacrificing Li Luobei. Li Luobei asked Lin Bai to kill Yi Han before Lin Bai killed him, and Lin Bai left the Qi Tian Mountains, intending to settle the matter at the state banquet.

• Yi Han lost to Lin Bai, then ordered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists to attack him together.
• Lin Bai used Gentle Sword to kill the more than thirty attackers, leaving Yi Han and Li Luobei as the last opponents.
• Yi Han urged Li Luobei to fight Lin Bai while he fled, and Lin Bai defeated Li Luobei after three moves.
• Li Luobei asked Lin Bai to kill Yi Han and hack him into a thousand pieces, then Lin Bai killed him with a sword.
• Lin Bai collected the demon wolf corpses and left the Qi Tian Mountains, saying he would deal with Yi Han at the state banquet.

Lin Bai returned to the imperial capital while Chu Jiangliu and the other vassal kings’ children gathered to ask Spirit Sword Sect about him. Murong Qi threatened Lin Bai, prompting Chu Jiangliu to threaten Azure Cloud Terrace Palace in return.

• Lin Bai heard martial artists discussing the enormous flame lotus and wondered about the golden-masked man with a Demonic Martial Soul.
• Chen Gong, Lu Yuan, and Zhang Lingdao waited at Central City for Lin Bai, while Murong Qi claimed Lin Bai was as good as dead.
• More than six hundred sons and daughters of the vassal kings arrived together and exchanged their demon beasts for points tokens.
• Chu Jiangliu led the Young Lords and Princesses past Murong Qi to Spirit Sword Sect and asked whether Lin Bai had returned.
• Murong Qi promised that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace would make Lin Bai suffer, and Chu Jiangliu threatened that no disciple of the sect would leave the imperial capital alive if Lin Bai died.

Young Lords and Princesses invited Lin Bai to visit their royal estates to repay his kindness in the Qi Tian Mountains, while Murong Qi doubted that Lin Bai would return. Yi Han later stumbled into Central City and revealed that Lin Bai had killed Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s disciples, leaving Chen Gong celebrating that Lin Bai had avenged Spirit Sword Sect’s fallen disciples.

• Chu Jiangliu and the other Young Lords and Princesses asked Chen Gong to pass along invitations for Lin Bai to visit their royal estates.
• The Young Lords and Princesses left Central City to report what had happened in the Qi Tian Mountains to their feudal kings.
• Murong Qi remarked that Lin Bai probably would not return, and Chen Gong fell silent.
• Yi Han returned badly wounded and told Murong Qi that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s disciples were all dead.
• Yi Han said Lin Bai had killed the disciples and begged Murong Qi to avenge them.
• Chen Gong laughed and declared that Lin Bai had avenged the Spirit Sword Sect disciples who died in the Royal Hunting Garden.

Lin Bai returned from the Royal Hunting Garden after killing the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace warriors, ending years of violence against Spirit Sword Sect disciples. Murong Qi tried to kill him, but Chen Gong intervened; Lin Bai then received 100,000 points and resolved to earn the million he needed for the Beacon Fire City Flower.

• Chen Gong recounted how Azure Cloud Terrace Palace had killed 231 Spirit Sword Sect experts and crippled 420 disciples over the past decade, and declared Lin Bai had avenged them.
• Lin Bai entered the city, and Yi Han urged Murong Qi to avenge the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples.
• Murong Qi attacked Lin Bai, but Chen Gong blocked him and fought him until the imperial guards intervened.
• Murong Qi withdrew with Yi Han, warning Lin Bai and the Spirit Sword Sect that Azure Cloud Terrace Palace would not let the matter go.
• Chen Gong praised Lin Bai, who later submitted the demon beast corpses and received a token worth 100,000 points.
• Lin Bai noted he still needed 900,000 points to obtain the Beacon Fire City Flower and vowed to settle his grudges with Murong Qi.

Lin Bai prepared to earn more points at the imperial banquet tournament, where he planned to take the points of his enemies and claim a Beacon Fire City Flower. As the banquet approached, Azure Cloud Terrace Palace prepared Yi Han to kill Lin Bai, while King Qi remained unaware that the hostages in the Qi Tian Mountains had been rescued.

• Lin Bai learned that Qi Rui, Luo Qixing, Wan Xia, and Zhan Feng led the point rankings, and he vowed to take their points and avenge Lu Yuan.
• Chen Gong gave Lin Bai a Heaven-Prosperity Pill to restore his strength before the imperial banquet tournament.
• Murong Qi gave Yi Han a Golden Saint Pill and a Ghost Immortal Talisman, ordering him to kill Lin Bai at the banquet.
• Qi Rui told King Qi that the captured Young Lords and Princesses were secured in the Qi Tian Mountains, unaware that Lin Bai had already rescued them.

At the Divine Martial Nation’s state banquet in Chaoyang Palace, Lin Bai and the Spirit Sword Sect entered amid taunts from Azure Cloud Terrace Palace and renewed expectations that Lin Bai could restore the sect’s standing. The princes and military lords arrived, but Qi King Manor and Qi Rui were conspicuously absent.

• The banquet’s guests entered Chaoyang Palace in order, with merchants, officials, the Four Great Sects, princes and military lords, and finally the imperial family.
• Chen Gong urged Lin Bai to help Spirit Sword Sect avoid another humiliating defeat, while Lu Yuan expressed confidence in him.
• Murong Qi taunted Chen Gong and predicted Azure Cloud Terrace Palace would win; Yi Han threatened Lin Bai, who vowed to fulfill Li Luobei’s dying wish and kill him.
• The Four Great Sects entered Chaoyang Palace and took their assigned seats as the princes and military lords were called in.
• The princes and military lords arrived, but Qi King Manor and Qi Rui were missing, and the other lords proceeded to their seats.

At the Divine Martial Nation’s state banquet, Chu Jiangliu publicly thanked the Grand Princess for saving his life and pledged the Chu King Manor’s support to the imperial family. King Chu backed his son, retired, and secured Chu Jiangliu’s inheritance of the title and command of the manor’s million elite soldiers, leaving King Qi furious.

• Bai Huatian began the state banquet after King Qi and Qi Rui arrived late, signaling the Qi King Manor’s defiance of the imperial family.
• After three rounds of wine, Chu Jiangliu thanked Bai Xiaoxiao for saving his life and offered the Chu King Manor’s support to her and the imperial family.
• King Qi challenged whether Chu Jiangliu could speak for the Chu King Manor, and King Chu affirmed that his son’s words represented the manor.
• King Chu announced his retirement and asked Bai Huatian to pass the Chu King Manor’s title to Chu Jiangliu.
• Bai Huatian approved Chu Jiangliu’s inheritance and asked if he would command the manor’s million elite soldiers, and Chu Jiangliu agreed as King Qi seethed.

At the state banquet, Chu Jiangliu became head of the Chu King Manor, and Lin Xiaotian pledged the Lin King Manor’s support to Bai Xiaoxiao. More than seven hundred lords then swore allegiance to her, giving the imperial family command of over fifteen million troops and leaving it with the upper hand over the Qi King Manor.

• Bai Huatian granted Chu Xiang the title of Duke Protector of the Nation and named Chu Jiangliu the new head of the Chu King Manor.
• King Qi and Qi Rui discussed how the Chu King Manor had escaped the Qi Tian Mountains and threatened to destroy it if it refused to submit.
• Lin Xiaotian pledged the Lin King Manor’s support to Bai Xiaoxiao, and Lin Xia confirmed that he could speak for the manor.
• The Twin Sword King thanked Bai Xiaoxiao for rescuing his son and pledged the Twin Sword Royal Estate’s support.
• More than seven hundred lords rose to swear allegiance to Bai Xiaoxiao, enraging King Qi and stunning Qi Rui.
• Bai Huatian praised Bai Xiaoxiao for gaining the lords’ support, while Lin Bai concluded that the imperial family now had the upper hand over the Qi King Manor.

At the allegiance ceremony, Bai Xiaoxiao questioned how she had saved the feudal lords, and Lin Bai claimed he had rescued them in her name. After the emperor appointed Lin Bai a high-ranking commander, Chu Jiangliu moved to impeach the Qi King Manor, provoking King Qi.

• Bai Xiaoxiao asked the Young Lords and Princesses when she had saved their lives, and Chu Jiangliu identified Lin Bai as their rescuer.
• Lin Bai said Bai Xiaoxiao had entrusted him to protect the feudal lords’ heirs, and Bai Xiaoxiao accepted his explanation and thanked him.
• Qi Rui received word that Qi Fang and a thousand members of the Qi Family Army had died in battle in the Qi Tian Mountains dungeon, and he and King Qi realized Lin Bai had rescued the heirs.
• Bai Huatian appointed Lin Bai Commandant of the Imperial Guards and Bai Xiaoxiao’s personal guard, granting him command of one hundred thousand soldiers.
• Chu Jiangliu proposed joining the seven hundred and twenty-eight feudal kings to impeach the Qi King Manor, and King Qi angrily confronted him.

Chu Jiangliu impeached King Qi for imprisoning the feudal lords’ Young Lords and Princesses, and presented evidence that Qi Fang and Qi Family Army soldiers had been involved. Bai Huatian spared King Qi’s life but ordered him to hand over eight million troops to the Grand Princess.

• Chu Jiangliu accused King Qi of ordering the capture and imprisonment of the feudal lords’ Young Lords and Princesses in the Qi Tian Mountains.
• Chu Jiangliu presented the corpses of Qi Family Army soldiers, including Qi Fang, as evidence, and accused King Qi of using the captives to force their fathers to surrender military authority.
• Bai Huatian ordered the Imperial Guards to execute King Qi, but King Qi blamed Qi Fang and pleaded for mercy.
• Bai Huatian spared King Qi after officials and feudal kings pleaded for him, but demanded that he transfer eight million troops to the Grand Princess.

Bai Huatian stripped Qi King Manor of authority over eight million troops and kept King Qi and Qi Rui in the imperial city while Bai Xiaoxiao took control. King Qi vowed that Qi King Manor would recover and ordered Qi Rui to kill Lin Bai, leaving Lin Bai facing the hostility of Qi Rui and the military clan's geniuses before the state banquet competition.

• Lin Bai explained to Zhang Lingdao that reclaiming eight million troops' authority weakened Qi King Manor without provoking King Qi into immediate rebellion.
• King Qi surrendered eight golden military tallies to Bai Huatian, who gave them to Bai Xiaoxiao and ordered her to take over the troops.
• Bai Huatian ordered King Qi and Qi Rui to remain in the imperial city for three months, and King Qi returned to his seat supported by Qi Rui.
• The Xu Clan head reflected on Xu Jiangsheng's absence and expected him to be reborn stronger after Lin Bai killed him.
• King Qi reassured Qi Rui that Qi King Manor could still make a comeback and ordered him to kill Lin Bai.
• Chen Gong warned Lin Bai that Qi Rui and the military clan's geniuses would target him at the state banquet martial competition, but Lin Bai remained unfazed.

After Lin Bai’s actions helped the imperial family strip Qi King Manor of eight million troops, Bai Xiaoxiao thanked him and offered him a place in the Divine Martial Nation. Lin Bai reaffirmed his loyalty to his homeland but said his path lay beyond it, as the national banquet martial competition was about to begin.

• Bai Huatian announced that the national banquet martial competition would begin at midnight and gave its participants time to prepare.
• Bai Xiaoxiao asked Lin Bai what had happened in the Qi Tian Mountains, and Lin Bai explained how he rescued the young nobles and helped the imperial family win their allegiance.
• Bai Xiaoxiao thanked Lin Bai for helping the imperial family regain military command, while Lin Bai credited Chu Jiangliu’s role in impeaching King Qi.
• Bai Xiaoxiao offered Lin Bai a fief and a title if he joined the Divine Martial Nation, but Lin Bai declined and promised to return if his homeland ever needed him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao warned Lin Bai that Qi Rui and Qi King Manor’s military geniuses would target him in the competition, and Lin Bai accepted the challenge.
• After the banquet guests finished drinking, Bai Huatian invited the young talents under twenty to compete for everyone’s entertainment.

At the state banquet, Lin Bai fought Qi Rui and won, nearly killing him before King Qi intervened. Lin Bai claimed Qi Rui’s points, while King Qi ordered Zhan Feng and the other military-family geniuses to wear Lin Bai down and kill him.

• Bai Huatian opened the state banquet’s martial competition, where victors could claim their opponents’ Hunting Grounds points.
• Qi Rui challenged Lin Bai, blaming him for the Qi King Manor’s troubles and vowing to kill him.
• Lin Bai and Qi Rui exchanged attacks, and Lin Bai’s Sword Intent and Azure Song Sword overwhelmed Qi Rui’s Hundred Battles Fist.
• Lin Bai wounded Qi Rui severely and tried to kill him, but King Qi intervened and Chen Gong stopped King Qi’s attack.
• Bai Huatian ruled that Lin Bai would not be punished, awarded him Qi Rui’s points token, and ordered Qi Rui taken for treatment.
• King Qi instructed the military-family geniuses to challenge Lin Bai in succession and told Zhan Feng to strike last and kill him.

After defeating Qi Rui, Lin Bai challenged the Four Great Sects but was met by Xiao Jian, a military-clan genius from the Qi King Manor. Lin Bai defeated Xiao Jian with one sword and took his points, while King Qi prepared to send another fighter against him.

• Lin Bai invited Wan Xia, Yi Han, and Luo Qixing to fight, but they refused and directed his attention to the Qi King Manor's remaining geniuses.
• Xiao Jian stepped onto the martial stage and declared that he would kill Lin Bai with one saber.
• Xiao Jian summoned his Martial Soul Mantis and unleashed Army Sweeping Strike, but Lin Bai countered with Gale Shakes the Sea.
• Lin Bai shattered Xiao Jian's blade aura and Martial Soul, struck him off the stage, and claimed his points.
• Xiao Jian apologized to King Qi, who dismissed his defeat and asked who would fight Lin Bai next.

After defeating Xiao Jian, Lin Bai faced Wang Fang, a Qi Family Army centurion who used the Netherwind Movement Technique. Wang Fang wounded Lin Bai with a surprise attack, but Lin Bai prepared to answer the challenge with his own speed.

• Lin Bai defeated Xiao Jian with a single sword strike, and Bai Huatian decided to win him over by offering beauty after ruling out power, wealth, and prestige.
• Wang Fang challenged Lin Bai, and the martial artists identified his Netherwind Movement Technique as a ninth-grade Earth-rank technique.
• Wang Fang vanished from the arena and cut Lin Bai's arm with a black dagger when Lin Bai failed to track him.
• King Qi promoted Wang Fang to Myriad Commander and promised him the rank of Commandant if he defeated Lin Bai.
• Chu Jiangliu warned Lin Bai about Wang Fang's movement technique, and Lin Bai said he would show Wang Fang what true speed meant.

Lin Bai faced Wang Fang’s Netherwind Movement Technique and stunned the crowd by catching Wang Fang’s wrist before his attack could land. He then outsped Wang Fang, struck him down, and left the audience wondering whether Lin Bai’s movement technique was Heaven-Rank.

• Wang Fang used his Netherwind Movement Technique to vanish repeatedly and taunted Lin Bai, announcing that he would cut off Lin Bai’s right arm.
• Wang Fang’s slash nearly reached Lin Bai, but Lin Bai caught his wrist and stopped the blade three feet above his shoulder.
• Wang Fang dismissed the catch as luck and vanished into his movement technique again.
• Lin Bai disappeared from the platform, kept pace with Wang Fang, and struck him with the Azure Song Sword.
• Wang Fang was blasted out of his movement technique, fell bleeding onto the platform, and the martial artists concluded that Lin Bai’s speed far surpassed his.