Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai fought to protect the White-Haired Woman from the Great Witch Emperor’s forces, but more than three hundred Apex Realm experts overwhelmed and nearly killed him. The woman became Ye Suxin again, recognized the dying Lin Bai, and told him who she was.

• The Great Witch Emperor summoned more than three hundred Apex Realm experts, many of them survivors of the Demon Sect upheaval, to surround Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai refused to abandon the White-Haired Woman, so the experts and Gu Lianxing’s group attacked him together.
• After several hundred exchanges, Lin Bai was beaten bloody and left barely alive on the Demon Execution Platform.
• The White-Haired Woman urged Lin Bai to escape, then her silver-white hair turned black and her eyes opened in confusion.
• Ye Suxin saw Lin Bai, crawled to him in tears, and answered that she was Ye Suxin when he asked whether she was Zhao Yue or someone else.

Lin Bai stopped Ye Suxin from taking her own life and vowed to protect her, even as more than three hundred Apex Realm experts attacked. He summoned his Demonic Form, which killed three attackers, while a colossal figure rushed toward the Great Wu Dynasty's imperial city.

• Ye Suxin learned that Lin Bai had sacrificed his status and made enemies for her, and Lin Bai told her he would make the same choice again.
• Ye Suxin took Lin Bai's Demon Sword and tried to kill herself so he could survive, but Lin Bai stopped her with the seventh layer of Invincible Sword Art.
• Lin Bai warned Ye Suxin that only he could save her and stood against the experts when the Great Witch Emperor ordered them to seize him.
• Lin Bai summoned his Demonic Form, which appeared beside him and killed three Apex Realm experts.
• Lin Bai looked beyond the imperial city as a colossal giant charged toward it, shaking the earth with every step.

Lin Bai’s demon body and Giant God Avatar arrived at the Demon Execution Platform, where the Giant God Avatar rescued Ye Suxin. As the avatar carried her away, Lin Bai and his demon body stayed behind to fight the pursuing experts.

• Lin Bai’s demon body, now known as the Sword Demon, appeared behind him and revealed his strength by killing three Apex Realm experts.
• A colossal Giant God Avatar entered Great Witch Imperial City, startling Great Witch Emperor and the assembled martial artists.
• The Giant God Avatar carried Ye Suxin from the platform and began leaving the city while Lin Bai remained behind.
• Great Witch Emperor ordered the experts to stop the Giant God Avatar, and Lin Bai told his demon body to fight them.
• The demon body charged into the Apex Realm fighters and began targeting those below the third level of the Apex Realm.

Lin Bai and the Devil Body fought through the Great Wu Dynasty's forces while the Giant God Avatar tried to leave the imperial city and rescue Ye Suxin. As the battle turned against them, Yin Jiuling broke with the Eastern Continent Academy and intervened to save the Giant God Avatar.

• Lin Bai used the seventh layer of the Invincible Sword Art to kill Apex Realm experts alongside the Devil Body, while the Giant God Avatar struck down another group and headed for the city exit.
• The Great Witch Emperor ordered Gu Lianxing and other peak Apex Realm experts to hold Lin Bai and the Devil Body back as more than three hundred Apex Realm experts attacked the Giant God Avatar.
• The Giant God Avatar was badly wounded and pinned down, while Lin Bai feared the backlash of the Invincible Sword Art would leave him unable to save Ye Suxin.
• Yin Jiuling appeared above the Giant God Avatar and killed several Apex Realm experts with his words, prompting the Great Witch Emperor to demand an explanation from the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Yin Jiuling crushed his Identity Token, declared he was no longer a disciple of the Eastern Continent Academy, and faced the Great Witch Emperor's order to kill him.

Yin Jiuling’s cultivation fluctuated as he began his move, while A Ning and dozens of Eastern Continent Academy’s Quasi-Holy Sons broke their tokens and joined the fight against the Giant God Avatar. The Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon giant also went forward, leaving the gathered warriors facing more than three hundred Apex Realm experts as an unprecedented battle loomed.

• Yin Jiuling’s cultivation shifted between the Apex Realm and the ninth level of the Death Reversal Realm as he made his move.
• A Ning crushed his Identity Token, declared himself A Ning of the Ice Lake Sea, and killed a first-level Apex Realm expert with a sword strike.
• Hu Qi and several Quasi-Holy Sons joined A Ning, while Feng Wenjun and Shi Jiamu broke their tokens and went to help Lin Bai despite the Great Witch Emperor’s objections.
• The Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers joined the fight and fused into the Heavenly Crippled Demon Lord.
• Fang Yiyun, Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, Shu Xiang, and Meng Li followed, then the Old Eccentric and the Half-Demon giant set out as well.
• Dozens of Quasi-Holy Sons gathered around the Giant God Avatar as more than three hundred Apex Realm experts surrounded them, and battle threatened to begin.

The Old Eccentric revealed the Longevity Tablet, a demonic weapon that revived everyone whose name he inscribed, and used it to protect Lin Bai and the others from the Apex Realm experts. The group gained three days of immortality, while Lin Bai continued to suffer the destructive backlash of the Invincible Sword Art as his body repeatedly healed and broke apart.

• The Great Witch Emperor ordered the rebels killed and sent Wu He to deploy the Heavenly Witch Army around the imperial city.
• As the Apex Realm experts injured A Ning, Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, and the others, A Ning demanded that the Old Eccentric use his promised treasure.
• The Old Eccentric revealed the Longevity Tablet, wrote his name and the names of his allies in blood, and identified himself as Man Ziyan.
• The tablet healed the wounded and restored their spiritual power, while Manzi took the tablet onto his back to protect it.
• Hu Qi survived having his head crushed, and Lin Bai's body repeatedly healed and was destroyed again under the Invincible Sword Art's backlash.
• Feng Wenjun realized the group could not die and charged the Apex Realm experts without fear.

Old Eccentric used the Longevity Tablet to make himself and his allies repeatedly revive as they tried to escort the giant out of the imperial city. Bai Xiaoxiao prevented Liu Jiangyun and Yin Ling from joining the fight by revealing that her troops were poised to attack their clans, while Zhuo Lian waited for her order.

• Fu Qingshuang and Lan Ling explained that the Longevity Tablet granted three days of invulnerability in exchange for half the user's remaining lifespan.
• Old Eccentric ordered his allies to clear a path for the giant, and they launched suicidal attacks to push back the Apex Realm experts.
• Liu Jiangyun and Yin Ling prepared to attack, but Bai Xiaoxiao warned them that she had sent ten million troops to each of their territories.
• Bai Xiaoxiao showed Liu Jiangyun and Yin Ling Voice Transmission Tokens and said they could confirm the threat within half an hour, stopping them from acting.
• Zhuo Lian's army waited outside the Sword God Clan and Nether King Clan grounds as he awaited word from the Great Wu Dynasty and Bai Xiaoxiao's order.

At the Demon Execution Assembly, Bai Xiaoxiao declared war on the Great Wu Dynasty, and Chu Jiangliu revealed overwhelming strength by driving back Liu Jiangyun. Lan Ling identified the armor behind Chu Jiangliu’s power as the Celestial Armor of the Dao, leaving the Sword God Clan and Nether King Clan facing a warning to stay out of the conflict.

• Bai Xiaoxiao declared war on the Great Wu Dynasty and warned other martial artists not to interfere.
• The Great Witch Emperor accepted the declaration and ordered his forces to kill Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Liu Jiangyun attacked Bai Xiaoxiao, but Chu Jiangliu intercepted him and wounded him with one sword.
• Chu Jiangliu warned Liu Jiangyun and Yin Ling not to involve their domains in the dynastic struggle.
• Lan Ling explained that Chu Jiangliu’s armor was the Celestial Armor of the Dao, which gathered the power of heaven and earth into his attacks.

Bai Xiaoxiao exposed how she had weakened the Great Wu Dynasty and forced the Sword Domain and Nether King Clan to stand down after Chu Jiangliu revealed the Celestial Armor of the Dao. She then ordered an attack on the imperial city to create chaos and help the Sword King escape.

• Fu Qingshuang and Lan Ling identified Chu Jiangliu’s armor as the Celestial Armor of the Dao, which gathered heaven and earth’s power for its attacks.
• Bai Xiaoxiao threatened to destroy the Sword Domain and Soul Severing Domain, but Wu He reported that the Heavenly Witch Army had turned against the Great Wu Dynasty after its commander was assassinated.
• Bai Xiaoxiao admitted that she had arranged the assassination to inflame resentment among the army’s original soldiers and throw the imperial city into disorder.
• Liu Jiangyun and Yin Ling promised not to interfere in the struggle for supremacy, and Bai Xiaoxiao warned them not to act against her forces.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to attack the southern gate, let the Heavenly Witch Army enter, and activate the ambushes in the imperial city so they could help the Sword King escape.

Bai Xiaoxiao and Chu Jiangliu orchestrated an uprising inside the Great Wu Dynasty’s imperial city, turning the Heavenly Witch Army’s march into a wider conflict. The fighting spread to the Demon Execution Platform, where the army met a crowd already thrown into chaos.

• Chu Jiangliu ordered the imperial guards and Chu Family Army to seize the southern gate and coordinated the plan with agents inside the city and the Heavenly Witch Army.
• The imperial guards and Chu Family Army opened the southern gate, allowing the five-million-strong Heavenly Witch Army to enter the imperial city.
• A Bai Xiaoxiao-aligned commander urged the Heavenly Witch Army to demand justice from the Great Witch Emperor, and the soldiers advanced into the city.
• Bai Xiaoxiao’s agents provoked a clash between the Heavenly Witch Army and Great Wu Dynasty imperial guards, sparking widespread fighting as the army pressed toward the Demon Execution Platform.
• Several thousand agents in the crowd attacked nearby warriors, igniting a battle among the millions gathered at the Demon Execution Platform.
• The Heavenly Witch Army arrived at the Demon Execution Platform, and the panicked crowd attacked it, beginning another fierce battle.

Bai Xiaoxiao’s plan plunged the Great Wu Dynasty’s imperial city into chaos, allowing Lin Bai and the others to escape the Apex Realm experts surrounding them. Lin Bai fled toward the Giant God Avatar as soldiers from the Divine Martial Nation sacrificed themselves to hold his pursuers back.

• Millions of martial artists beneath the Demon Execution Platform attacked one another, then clashed with the Heaven Heavenly Witch Army as it charged into the city.
• The Great Witch Emperor sent more than five hundred Apex Realm experts to suppress the rebellion, while Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to send soldiers to free Lin Bai and distract his enemies.
• Chu Jiangliu’s soldiers charged the Apex Realm experts, separating Gu Lianxing and the others from Lin Bai, and a commandant urged Lin Bai to escape.
• The commandant and former Divine Martial Nation troops revealed that they had once fought alongside Lin Bai and insisted on giving their lives to help him flee.
• Lin Bai rescued Lin Ye and the demonic avatar, then flew toward the Giant God Avatar as the Divine Martial Nation’s Imperial Guards cleared its path out of the city.
• The Great Witch Emperor ordered his forces to stop Lin Bai and the demoness from escaping.

Lin Bai escaped the imperial city with Ye Suxin and his allies, but Gu Daozhi and several powerful elders pursued them. Lin Bai separated from the Giant God Avatar to draw Gu Daozhi away, while Old Eccentric warned that the Longevity Tablet's power would fail if Lin Bai traveled too far from it.

• The Great Witch Emperor called on Gu Daozhi and four Eastern Continent elders to pursue Lin Bai, and they sped after the escaping Giant God Avatar.
• Lin Bai thanked his allies for choosing to help him rescue Ye Suxin, while Old Eccentric warned that Manzi sensed danger approaching.
• Gu Daozhi attacked the Giant God Avatar with power close to the Dao Realm and knocked it to the ground.
• Lin Bai urged his allies to flee, then took Ye Suxin and flew away as the Giant God Avatar charged in the opposite direction.
• Gu Daozhi pursued Lin Bai, and Old Eccentric warned him that the Longevity Tablet's power would disappear beyond a hundred thousand li.

Lin Bai fled with Ye Suxin but was cornered by five Eastern Continent powerhouses. After he refused to surrender, they attacked, shattered his Demon Sword, and left him grievously injured and stripped of his cultivation.

• Lin Bai carried Ye Suxin away from the Giant God Avatar, but Gu Daozhi pursued them as they left the Longevity Tablet's protection and Lin Bai's injuries worsened.
• Song Yunhe, Li Fu, and Su Cheng blocked Lin Bai's escape routes while Zhang Yushan and Gu Daozhi closed in behind him.
• Lin Bai refused Gu Daozhi's demand to surrender his sword and Ye Suxin, and Su Cheng's golden radiance cracked the Demon Sword when Lin Bai attacked.
• Zhang Yushan's Slaughter Blade shattered the Demon Sword, and Song Yunhe's ghosts knocked Lin Bai to the ground.
• The Invincible Sword Art faded, leaving Lin Bai's body ruined, his dantian severely damaged, and his Five Elements Divine Pill cracked.

As Lin Bai lay dying, several powerful figures prepared to take him and Ye Suxin away until Fu Qingshuang arrived and challenged them. Fu Qingshuang's allies appeared one after another, leaving the five opponents facing a group of Peach Mountain cultivators and Monk Jiufeng.

• Ye Suxin held the gravely wounded Lin Bai and mourned as Zhang Yushan, Su Cheng, and Song Yunhe discussed killing him.
• Gu Daozhi objected when Zhang Yushan prepared to seize Lin Bai and Ye Suxin, but Zhang Yushan moved to take them anyway.
• Fu Qingshuang arrived with a sweeping sword attack that forced Zhang Yushan, Gu Daozhi, Song Yunhe, Su Cheng, and Li Fu to retreat.
• Fu Qingshuang identified himself as a Peach Mountain cultivator and challenged the five men to fight him together.
• Su Yanhua, Xun Zhizang, Bai Mu, and Monk Jiufeng appeared behind the opponents and revealed that Fu Qingshuang had not come alone.

Fu Qingshuang and the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals confronted the Central Sacred Nation’s hunters, while Ye Suxin escaped with Lin Bai. The fighting left Zhang Yushan, Song Yunhe, and Su Cheng dead, with Li Fu and Gu Daozhi still battling.

• Zhang Yushan, Song Yunhe, Su Cheng, Li Fu, and Gu Daozhi prepared to fight Fu Qingshuang, Xun Zhizang, Su Yanhua, Bai Mu, and Monk Jiufeng.
• Xun Zhizang told Ye Suxin to take Lin Bai away, and Lin Bai’s flying swords carried them far across the Eastern Continent.
• Bai Mu defeated Zhang Yushan with his Teach Heaven Hand and killed him with a second strike of the ruler.
• Su Yanhua destroyed Song Yunhe’s Soul Summoning Banner, then killed him with a sword slash.
• Xun Zhizang overwhelmed Su Cheng with Divine Weapons and killed him with the Sun-Shooting Arrow.
• Fu Qingshuang kept Li Fu at a disadvantage, while Monk Jiufeng and Gu Daozhi fought to a standstill.

Fu Qingshuang spared Li Fu and Gu Daozhi after defeating them, then searched for the missing Lin Bai and Ye Suxin. After their flying swords carried them across Eastern Continent and crashed in a remote forest, Ye Suxin found Lin Bai near death and called Zhao Yue for help.

• Fu Qingshuang defeated Li Fu but let him leave for Kunxu, and Gu Daozhi withdrew after warning her about the Central Sacred Nation and another war in Eastern Continent.
• Lan Ling revealed that Lin Bai and Ye Suxin had escaped on flying swords and that Lin Bai was still alive, so Fu Qingshuang asked Xun Zhizang to help find them.
• Bai Xiaoxiao, Yin Jiuling, and the others also searched for Lin Bai as the flying swords carried him and Ye Suxin across Eastern Continent for ten days.
• The flying swords ran out of power and crashed in an isolated forest, where Ye Suxin found Lin Bai gravely injured and nearly out of time.
• Ye Suxin called Zhao Yue, causing the left half of her hair and face to turn white and take on a cold, demonic expression; Zhao Yue said Lin Bai would not live more than three hours.

Zhao Yue agreed to save Lin Bai in exchange for Ye Suxin’s divine soul, but stopped devouring it before Ye Suxin was destroyed. She healed Lin Bai’s bodily injuries, though his dantian and divine elixir remained drained of potential.

• Ye Suxin offered her divine soul to Zhao Yue if Zhao Yue saved Lin Bai, and Zhao Yue demanded that she surrender it first.
• Ye Suxin quieted her martial soul and let Zhao Yue devour nearly half of her divine soul, but Zhao Yue stopped and spared what remained.
• Zhao Yue used her gecko martial soul to heal Lin Bai’s shattered meridians, broken bones, and damaged organs.
• Zhao Yue concluded that Lin Bai’s dantian and divine elixir had lost all their potential and could only recover through many treasures and time.

Lin Bai awakened with his spiritual power gone and learned that Zhao Yue had saved him by taking over Ye Suxin’s body, while Ye Suxin remained alive. Lin Bai agreed to help Zhao Yue with a task in the Southern Continent, but first they set out for the Divine Martial Nation as Eastern Continent’s factions placed a massive bounty on him.

• Lin Bai woke in the forest and discovered his meridians had healed but his dantian and divine pill were depleted after using the Invincible Sword Art.
• Zhao Yue revealed that Ye Suxin had offered her body to save Lin Bai, then admitted she had spared Ye Suxin’s divine soul and promised to return her body if Lin Bai helped her.
• Lin Bai agreed to Zhao Yue’s request and chose to visit the Divine Martial Nation first, hoping its treasures could help restore his dantian and divine pill.
• Zhao Yue carried Lin Bai to a city, where they bought a spirit boat and a map before setting out for the Divine Martial Nation.
• News spread that Lin Bai had rescued the Devil Sect Master and that Zhang Yushan, Song Yunhe, and Su Cheng had died pursuing him, prompting several factions to issue wanted orders.
• The bounty on Lin Bai’s head across Eastern Continent rose to nine hundred billion units of spirit liquid.

Lin Bai returned to the Divine Martial Nation with Zhao Yue after escaping the Great Wu Dynasty, badly injured and carrying a bounty of nine hundred billion spirit liquid. He reunited with Bai Xiaoxiao and his companions at the Listening Wind Pavilion, where they began planning to restore his cultivation.

• Lin Bai examined the bounty on his head as Zhao Yue piloted their spirit boat toward the Divine Martial Nation, and he reflected on his crippled cultivation and shattered demon sword.
• Three days later, Lin Bai and Zhao Yue reached the imperial city, where Lin Bai asked Chu Jiangliu to arrange a meeting with Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Bai Xiaoxiao tearfully embraced Lin Bai at the Listening Wind Pavilion and ordered that she would receive no visitors for ten days.
• Bai Xiaoxiao told Lin Bai that Yin Jiuling, A Ning, and the others were recuperating in the Divine Martial Nation, then Chu Jiangliu brought them to the pavilion.
• Lin Bai recounted his escape and injuries to his companions, and Bai Xiaoxiao ordered spiritual treasures from the Divine Creation Palace to help restore his divine pill and dantian.
• Lin Bai apologized to his companions for bringing the Eastern Continent's condemnation upon them and bowed in guilt.

After the Demon Execution Platform battle, Lin Bai’s allies left Divine Martial Nation to pursue their own paths, while Bai Xiaoxiao prepared to face Great Wu Dynasty’s growing alliance with Eastern Continent Academy. Lin Bai sent his demon body and Giant God Avatar away on separate missions and began restoring his cultivation in Listening Wind Pavilion.

• Lin Bai’s companions explained their plans to leave Eastern Continent, and Fang Yiyun said he would travel across the continents with Wu Ming, Changsun Yun, Shu Xiang, and Meng Li.
• Three days later, Old Eccentric, Yin Jiuling, and the others departed Divine Martial Nation, and Bai Xiaoxiao told Lin Bai that many had been forced to leave Eastern Continent because they had supported him.
• Bai Xiaoxiao described the threat posed by Great Wu Dynasty’s thousands of Apex Realm martial artists and its growing ties to Eastern Continent Academy, while Lin Bai advised her to seek help from the Lan Clan if they joined forces.
• Lin Bai sent his demon body to Nameless Domain to watch the Faceless Ones and sent the Giant God Avatar back to the Bronze Gate for cultivation resources.
• Chu Jiangliu delivered heavenly treasures, and Lin Bai began absorbing spirit medicines to restore his cultivation while Lin Ye guarded him.