Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai learned about the Barren Ancient Continent’s eras and its ancient battle between the Heaven Swallowing Race and the Giant God Race. The Mountain God gave him Dugu Qing’s scripture-bearing Jade Slip, which Lin Bai accepted before saying it was still not enough.

• The Mountain God recalled giving Dugu Bai, Dugu Yunhe, Ye Changye, and Ye Yuesheng scriptures copied by Dugu Qing, helping them gain a chance to enter the Dao.
• Lin Bai learned that a Heaven Swallowing Race martial artist and a Giant God Race divine general had fought during the Primordial Era, shattering it and ushering in the Ancient Era.
• Lin Bai asked to see Dugu Qing’s scriptures, and the Mountain God handed him a Jade Slip containing a passage about the Heavenly Dao and the Human Dao.
• Lin Bai felt the Jade Slip’s Dao Resonance and accepted it, while the Mountain God warned that it would disintegrate within a year after leaving its home.
• Lin Bai said the Jade Slip still was not enough.

Lin Bai pressured Mountain God into opening the coffin and obtained a withered Dao Fruit once belonging to Dugu Qing. He then tricked Mountain God into revealing that nine of the coffin’s divine weapons could be removed safely, and claimed them.

• Lin Bai threatened to release the Devouring Sword Soul unless Mountain God handed over what lay inside the coffin.
• Mountain God opened the coffin, briefly unleashing a devastating force, and retrieved a withered Dao Fruit for Lin Bai.
• Mountain God explained the Dao Fruit’s connection to the Dao Realm and said it had belonged to Dugu Qing.
• Lin Bai put the Dao Fruit away, then asked Mountain God for half of the coffin’s nine hundred and ninety-nine divine weapons.
• Mountain God revealed that removing nine weapons would not greatly affect the formation, realized Lin Bai had baited him, and Lin Bai declared he would take nine.

Lin Bai left the summit of the Sword God Road with Dao Resonance and a breakthrough to the pinnacle of the Death Reversal Realm, then returned to the Dugu Family. There, he described a cave linked to Dugu Qing and asked Sword Reverent Dugu to honor their bargain.

• The Mountain God gave Lin Bai nine divine weapons, and Lin Bai promised to keep the summit secret while planning to return for more treasures.
• Lin Bai emerged from the Sword God Road at the pinnacle of the Death Reversal Realm, and Dugu Hao and Dugu Yitian recognized the Dao Resonance around him.
• Ye Jianjun resented Lin Bai for taking the fortune he believed was his, and Lin Bai challenged him to meet at Mu Mountain in three days.
• Sword Reverent Dugu led Lin Bai and the Dugu Family back to their main hall, where Lin Bai described a cultivation cave he claimed was Dugu Qing's secluded site.
• Sword Reverent Dugu asked to see the treasure Lin Bai had taken, and Lin Bai asked him to produce the item promised in their bargain.

Lin Bai traded the Fortune Jade Slip to Sword Reverent Dugu for the Water Mirror Sword, then revealed what a cavern mural said about the origins of the Dugu and Ye Clans. The revelation left the Dugu Family questioning its history, while Lin Bai departed determined to kill Ye Jianjun at Mu Mountain.

• Lin Bai secured the emperor-grade Water Mirror Sword before handing Sword Reverent Dugu the Fortune Jade Slip, whose Dao Resonance astonished the Dugu Family.
• Lin Bai told Sword Reverent Dugu that a mural described Dugu Ye taking in Ye Yi and ordering Ye Yi’s descendants to guard the Dugu Clan.
• Sword Reverent Dugu and the Dugu Family martial artists wondered how the Ye Clan rose from guardians to equals of the Dugu Clan, and suspected that the Ye Clan had destroyed records of the past.
• Lin Bai left the Dugu Family after Sword Reverent Dugu asked whether he would go to Mu Mountain, and declared that he could hardly wait to kill Ye Jianjun.

After leaving the Dao Fruit Jade Slip with the Dugu Family, Lin Bai refined the Dao Fruit and gained insights into the Dao Realm. Two days later, he resolved to leave the Sword God Family with Lin Ye and travel to Mu Mountain.

• Lin Bai gave the Dao Fruit Jade Slip to the Dugu Family in repayment for their help and the loan of the Water Mirror Sword.
• In his hut, Lin Bai refined the Dao Fruit and experienced a glimpse of the Dao Realm beyond the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Bai summoned the Devouring Sword Soul, which absorbed the Dao Fruit’s remaining power and filled the hut with voices describing different paths to the Dao.
• After two days of comprehending the Dao voices, Lin Bai spoke with Lin Ye beside the stream and said they would leave for Mu Mountain.
• Lin Bai and Lin Ye bid farewell to the Dugu Family, whose martial artists escorted them out of Mirror Lake toward Mu Mountain.

Sword Reverent Ye learned that Lin Bai was close to the Dugu Family and ordered Ye Jianjun to kill him on Mu Mountain and seize his Storage Bag. Sword Reverent Dugu planned to use Lin Bai’s Jade Slip to reach the Dao Realm before addressing the Ye Clan’s rebellion.

• Sword Reverent Ye and Ye Qingtian suspected the Dugu Family had invited Lin Bai to seek an opportunity on Sword God Mountain.
• Sword Reverent Ye revealed that the Ye Clan had once been the Dugu Family’s slaves and had destroyed inherited records to hide that history.
• Sword Reverent Ye backed Ye Jianjun’s fight against Lin Bai and ordered him to kill Lin Bai and bring back his Storage Bag.
• The Dugu Family elders suspected Lin Bai had hidden treasures, but Sword Reverent Dugu refused to detain the Eastern Continent’s Sacred Son.
• Sword Reverent Dugu celebrated receiving the Dao Resonance Jade Slip, which he believed would help him break through to the Dao Realm.
• Sword Reverent Dugu said he would consider confronting the Ye Clan after he reached the Dao Realm.

Lin Bai waited at Mu Mountain for his decisive battle with Ye Jianjun as martial artists from across the Northern Continent gathered to watch. Dugu Yitian suspected Lin Bai had killed eighteen Ye Clan prodigies, while Emperor Lounan hoped Ye Jianjun would kill Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai settled on a mountaintop in Mu Mountain and drank as spectators gathered nearby.
• Dugu Hao joined Dugu Yitian to watch, and Dugu Yitian said Ye Jianjun would have the advantage in a fight against him but Lin Bai would overwhelmingly defeat him.
• Dugu Yitian concluded that Lin Bai had killed the eighteen prodigies in the Flying Dragon Forest, and wondered whether Ye Jianjun could force Lin Bai to reveal his full strength.
• Emperor Lounan watched Lin Bai from his spirit ship and hoped Ye Jianjun would kill him, though his eunuch warned him against provoking the Eastern Continent Academy.

As martial artists gathered at Mu Mountain to witness Lin Bai’s battle with Ye Jianjun, Qian Mu discussed the wider conflict among the younger generation’s prodigies. Fu Qingshuang and Hu Xin'er arrived and learned the personal tragedy behind Lin Bai’s feud with Ye Jianjun.

• Emperor Lounan noticed the Dugu Family’s Sword Venerables concealed in the clouds and predicted that the clash between Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun would draw attention across the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Qian Mu recognized Lin Bai as the Eastern Continent Saint Son and recalled their grievance over Lin Bai ordering ten thousand jars of Moon River Nectar in Mengu City.
• Qian Mu said the battle would begin a new contest among the younger generation and recalled how Lin Duo, Lan Ling, Li Zhengyi, and Fu Qingshuang had once swept across the continent.
• The Black-Robed Man told Hu Xin'er that Ye Jianjun had driven Lin Bai’s lover to her death at Divine Relic Ridge, and that Lin Bai had retaliated by bloodbathing the South Ridge Seventy-Two Kingdoms.
• Fu Qingshuang and Hu Xin'er arrived at Mu Mountain and watched Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and Ye Jianjun began their long-awaited battle atop Mu Mountain, drawing the attention of powerful observers across the region. Lin Bai revealed his full strength and charged at Ye Jianjun, and their first clash pulverized Mu Mountain.

• Ye Jianjun arrived at Mu Mountain, and Lin Bai sent Lin Ye down the mountain before confronting him alone.
• Emperor Lounan, Qian Mu, Sword Reverent Ye, Sword Reverent Dugu, and other observers prepared to witness the battle.
• Ye Jianjun drew a King Grade Spirit Artifact and vowed to repay Lin Bai for his humiliations, while Lin Bai recalled Ye Suxin's death and unleashed his killing intent.
• Lin Bai revealed his ninth-level intent, Three-Colored Divine Lightning, Demon Sword, and Heaven Measuring Ruler, astonishing the watching experts.
• Ye Jianjun charged at Lin Bai, and the two swords collided, shattering the ground and pulverizing Mu Mountain.

Lin Bai fought Sword Reverent Ye and discovered that Ye’s sealed Sword Soul World was actually a God-Rank Soul. Sword Reverent Ye revealed that the Sword God Family had hidden his true Martial Soul, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Lin Bai and Sword Reverent Ye clashed, and their attacks caused Mu Mountain to collapse.
• Sword Reverent Ye used the One Sword Art, but Lin Bai’s Three-Colored Divine Lightning shielded him from its sword flashes.
• Lin Bai sent two flying swords to occupy Sword Reverent Ye, then fused his Ninefold Intent Domains and struck with Nine Intentions as One: Exterminate the Immortals.
• Sword Reverent Ye revealed his Sword Soul World Martial Soul in its true God-Rank form and explained that the Sword God Family had sealed it when he was sent away to cultivate.
• Sword Reverent Dugu, Emperor Lounan, Qian Mu, Dugu Hao, and Dugu Yitian reacted with shock to Sword Reverent Ye’s God-Rank Soul.

Ye Jianjun unleashed his God-Rank Sword Soul World and attacked Lin Bai with eighteen Emperor Grade Sword Souls and their secret methods. As the overwhelming strike bore down on him, Lin Bai gathered mist around himself and prepared to answer with the Mist Sword Art.

• Ye Jianjun revealed his God-Rank Sword Soul World, while Lin Bai put away the Heaven Measuring Ruler and challenged him to fight.
• Ye Jianjun summoned the Vile Sword Soul and Myriad Beast Sword Soul, prompting Emperor Lounan and Sword Reverent Dugu to recognize souls taken from vanished or slain martial artists.
• Ye Jianjun unleashed eighteen Emperor Grade Sword Souls and their Martial Soul Secret Methods in a combined attack against Lin Bai.
• The onlookers declared Lin Bai defeated, but Lin Bai calmly gathered white mist around himself as Dugu Yitian and Dugu Hao questioned whether the Mist Sword Art could withstand Ye Jianjun's attack.

Lin Bai used the Mist Sword Art to unleash Dugu Bai’s Three Extinction Sword against Ye Jianjun’s eighteen Martial Soul Secret Methods. The world-destroying strike shattered Ye Jianjun’s Martial Soul and turned the battle in Lin Bai’s favor.

• Lin Bai summoned the Mist Sword Art as Ye Jianjun’s eighteen Martial Soul Secret Methods closed in, while the Dugu and Ye families doubted he could withstand them.
• Lin Bai recalled the clay figure in Dugu Bai’s cave dwelling and used the Mist Sword Art to force out Dugu Bai’s Three Extinction Sword.
• Sword Reverent Dugu recognized the Sword of World Destruction, while Sword Reverent Ye reacted in disbelief because the Ye Clan had supposedly destroyed its formula and killed its practitioners.
• Lin Bai’s Three Extinction Sword collided with Ye Jianjun’s eighteen Martial Soul Secret Methods, flattening everything within a thousand kilometers of Mu Mountain.
• Lin Bai’s strike shattered Ye Jianjun’s Sword Soul World and Martial Soul, making him spit blood and reversing the battle.

Lin Bai defeated Ye Jianjun at Mu Mountain and discovered that he had faced Ye Jianjun's true body. As Lin Bai tried to kill him despite Sword Reverent Ye's intervention, two hidden flying swords severed Ye Jianjun's head just as something about his body seemed to change.

• Lin Bai's deduced Three Extinction Sword shattered Ye Jianjun's martial soul and left him gravely wounded, securing Lin Bai's victory.
• Lin Bai approached Ye Jianjun and confirmed that he had fought Ye Jianjun's true body rather than his clone.
• Lin Bai lunged to kill Ye Jianjun, but Sword Reverent Ye struck from the clouds with sword intent and forced Lin Bai back.
• Sword Reverent Dugu refused to intervene, saying the Sword God Family should not take sides.
• Lin Bai's two hidden flying swords attacked Ye Jianjun's neck as Sword Reverent Ye failed to stop them.
• Ye Jianjun's body flushed and seemed to rekindle before the flying swords crossed and severed his head.

After Lin Bai killed Ye Jianjun in their agreed life-and-death battle, Sword Reverent Ye prepared to retaliate, risking a wider conflict between the continents. Sword Reverent Dugu and Emperor Lounan intervened to stop him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Bai killed Ye Jianjun with his flying swords, though the victory left him feeling that something was wrong.
• Sword Reverent Ye appeared above the clouds, furious over Ye Jianjun's death, while Emperor Lounan and Qian Mu considered the threat of a continental war.
• Sword Reverent Ye moved to attack Lin Bai after the battle, but Sword Reverent Dugu confronted him and warned that killing Lin Bai would bring disaster upon the Ye Clan.
• Sword Reverent Ye rejected Sword Reverent Dugu's warning and challenged him, prompting Sword Reverent Dugu to stand in his way.
• Emperor Lounan raised his spirit vessel and declared that he would not allow Sword Reverent Ye to bully Lin Bai.

Lin Bai escaped the Northern Continent after killing Ye Jianjun and secured the Water Mirror Sword, then returned to the Eastern Continent with Fu Qingshuang and Hu Xin'er. He arrived to find the continent’s political landscape transformed by the Demon Sect war, with the identity of its second great dynasty still unrevealed.

• Emperor Lounan warned Sword Reverent Ye that killing Lin Bai in the Northern Continent could provoke war, and Lin Bai escaped while the three powers faced off.
• Lin Bai wondered why Ye Jianjun’s aura had seemed to shift before his death, then decided to return to the Eastern Continent with the Water Mirror Sword.
• Fu Qingshuang and Hu Xin'er met Lin Bai on his way east, and Fu Qingshuang agreed to accompany him back.
• Lin Bai, Fu Qingshuang, and Hu Xin'er crossed into the Eastern Continent, where the war’s aftermath had left three great sword domains and the Great Wu Dynasty rising in power.

The Great Wu Dynasty and Divine Martial Nation emerged as rival powers after the Demon Sect’s upheaval, with Bai Xiaoxiao expanding her nation across the East Sacred River. As the Great Witch Emperor worried about the Divine Martial Nation’s strength, Wu He proposed a plan to attract powerful figures from across the Eastern Continent.

• The Divine Martial Nation rose under Bai Xiaoxiao’s leadership and came to rival the Great Wu Dynasty across the East Sacred River.
• Bai Xiaoxiao’s forces defeated the Great Wu Dynasty’s army in White Stone Domain, killing thirty-six generals and hundreds of thousands of martial artists.
• The Great Witch Emperor and Wu He discussed the threat posed by Bai Xiaoxiao, Shang Lang, Chu Jiangliu, and the Divine Martial Nation’s growing strength.
• Wu He told the Great Witch Emperor that he had a plan to draw powerful figures from across the Eastern Continent, and the emperor asked what it was.

Wu He persuaded the Great Witch Emperor to use Zhao Yue’s execution as a Demon Execution Assembly to draw the Eastern Continent’s martial artists to the Great Wu Dynasty. Bai Xiaoxiao accepted the invitation, ordered the Sword King Lin Bai to be informed, and prepared the Divine Martial Nation for war.

• Wu He proposed building a Demon Execution Platform and inviting the Eastern Continent’s martial artists to witness Zhao Yue’s execution, and the Great Witch Emperor approved the plan.
• The Eastern Continent Academy and the Great Wu Dynasty announced the assembly for one month later, prompting martial artists from destroyed dynasties and territories to travel to the Great Wu Dynasty.
• Bai Xiaoxiao consulted Shang Lang and Chu Jiangliu about the invitation and asked where Lin Bai was; Chu Jiangliu said Lin Bai had gone to the Northern Continent and had not returned.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered scouts to monitor the Great Wu Dynasty, instructed the Shadow Division to get word of the assembly to Lin Bai, and agreed to attend on the fifteenth day of the ninth month.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to mobilize the army and prepare for war.

Lin Bai returned to the Eastern Continent and learned that the Eastern Continent Academy and the Great Wu Dynasty planned to execute Zhao Yue before his six-month deadline expired. After receiving permission to visit Zhao Yue, he left for the Great Wu Dynasty, while Lan Yuxin began explaining Lin Bai and Ye Suxin’s history to Lan Ling and Fu Qingshuang.

• Lin Bai, Hu Xin'er, Fu Qingshuang, and Lin Ye returned to the Eastern Continent, where Lin Bai heard disciples discussing the Demon Execution Assembly.
• Lan Yuxin told Lin Bai that Crown Prince Wu He had persuaded the Eastern Continent Academy and the Great Wu Dynasty to call an assembly to execute Zhao Yue.
• Lan Ling explained that eight of the Order Divine Court’s nine elders had approved the assembly, while he alone opposed it because the Eastern Continent’s martial artists demanded revenge for the war’s devastation.
• Lin Bai protested that the six-month deadline had not expired and received Lan Ling’s token granting him permission to visit Zhao Yue in the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss.
• Lin Bai left for the Great Wu Dynasty, and Lan Yuxin began telling Lan Ling and Fu Qingshuang what had happened between Lin Bai and Ye Suxin.

Lan Yuxin told Fu Qingshuang how Ye Suxin died protecting Lin Bai, prompting Fu Qingshuang to question those responsible for guarding the Myriad Kingdoms Domain. Lin Bai reached Dragon Imprisoning Abyss to visit Zhao Yue but was stopped by Prince Qingyang, leaving the two in a tense standoff.

• Lan Yuxin told Fu Qingshuang that Ye Suxin had carried Lin Bai's child, fused souls with Zhao Yue, and died protecting Lin Bai from Ye Jianjun.
• Fu Qingshuang learned that Lin Bai had killed Ye Jianjun before the Sword Reverent and demanded to know why Xun Zhizang and Su Yanhua had failed to help him at Divine Relic Ridge.
• Lin Bai brought Lin Ye to the Jianghai Domain and reached Dragon Imprisoning Abyss, where he showed the guards Lan Ling's token and asked to see Zhao Yue.
• Lan Yuanqing initially allowed Lin Bai to enter, but Prince Qingyang stopped him and cited the order barring anyone from visiting Zhao Yue before the Demon Execution Assembly.
• Lin Bai challenged Prince Qingyang to stop him by force, but Prince Qingyang hesitated because Lin Bai was the Eastern Continent Academy's Saint.

After obtaining the Great Witch Emperor’s permission to enter the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss, Lin Bai set out with Lin Ye but was intercepted by a group of Apex Realm martial artists. He wounded one attacker and demanded to know whether they served the Gu family or the Great Wu Dynasty.

• Prince Qingyang agreed to let Lin Bai enter the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss if the Great Witch Emperor also gave permission, so Lin Bai flew to the imperial capital.
• The Great Witch Emperor gave Lin Bai a token, then discussed with Wu He how to prevent Lin Bai from rescuing the witch; Wu He proposed imprisoning him until the Demon Execution Assembly ended.
• Lin Bai and Lin Ye headed back toward the Dragon Imprisoning Abyss, but more than a dozen black-clad Apex Realm martial artists surrounded them and demanded that Lin Bai come with them.
• Lin Bai fought the attackers and severed one martial artist’s arm with a sword stroke, then asked whether they belonged to the Gu family or the Great Wu Dynasty.