Chapter Summaries

Long Beibei continued training with Lin Bai as Zhao Yue returned and mocked the swordsmanship he had taught her. Long Yu arrived seeking Zhao Yue and stopped short of grabbing her when Lin Bai confronted him.

• Long Huihuang told Long Xian he would take Long Beibei away from the Azure Dragon Tribe if she lost, while Long Xian warned that Long Ying was plotting rebellion.
• Long Beibei practiced swordsmanship with Lin Bai every day for a month and made rapid progress.
• Zhao Yue returned to Lin Bai's courtyard, watched Long Beibei practice, and criticized Lin Bai for not teaching her better techniques.
• Long Yu came to find Zhao Yue and said he was still trying to get permission for her friend to enter Dragon Pool.
• Zhao Yue told Long Yu not to seek her out until he had found a way, and Lin Bai stopped him as he reached for her hand.

Lin Bai confronted Zhao Yue over her plan to use Long Yu to gain entry to the Dragon Pool, then vowed to find his own way in despite losing his cultivation. Zhao Yue doubted he could succeed but promised to submit to him if he entered through his own ability.

• Long Yu accused Zhao Yue of keeping Lin Bai at her home and claimed she owed him affection, so Lin Bai ordered Lin Ye to throw him over the courtyard wall.
• Lin Bai sent Long Beibei away and told Lin Ye to kill anyone who tried to break into the courtyard.
• Lin Bai demanded to know Zhao Yue's relationship with Long Yu and warned her not to misuse Ye Suxin's body.
• Zhao Yue admitted she had spent a month trying to make Long Yu fall in love with her so they could enter the Dragon Pool, and blamed Lin Bai for ruining her plan.
• Lin Bai declared that he would enter the Dragon Pool without relying on Zhao Yue, and Zhao Yue said she would submit to him if he succeeded on his own.

Lin Bai met Long Huihuang in the forest, agreed to train Long Beibei to defeat Long Yu in exchange for entry to Dragon Pool, and heard the chief’s account of Beibei’s mother’s murder. The next morning, Long Beibei arrived for training, and Lin Bai ordered her to kneel.

• Lin Bai followed a summons to meet Long Huihuang in the forest outside the Azure Dragon Tribe.
• Long Huihuang revealed that an assassin had killed Long Beibei’s mother and everyone in the delivery room on the night Beibei was born.
• Long Huihuang offered Lin Bai entry to Dragon Pool if he trained Long Beibei to defeat Long Yu in a battle a month and a half later, and Lin Bai accepted.
• After Lin Bai left, Long Huihuang told another man that he had sent the Shadow Division to investigate Lin Bai’s origins.
• The next morning, Long Beibei came to Lin Bai’s residence to train, and Lin Bai told her to kneel.

Lin Bai formally accepted Long Beibei as his disciple and trained her for over a month as her contest against Long Yu approached. Meanwhile, Long Ying and Su Dingan worried that Lin Bai might strengthen Long Beibei, but Long Yu remained confident he would defeat her.

• Lin Bai accepted Long Beibei’s kneeling ceremony and made her his disciple, then told her about his master and three martial uncles.
• Lin Bai trained Long Beibei in swordsmanship in his courtyard, and she improved rapidly over more than a month.
• Long Ying learned that Long Beibei was training with Lin Bai and that Lin Bai had defeated Su Dingan and taken the Azure Thunder Sword.
• Su Dingan warned Long Ying that Lin Bai might help Long Beibei transform and derail their plan to ruin her cultivation.
• Long Yu insisted that Long Beibei could not surpass his swordsmanship in a month and a half, while Long Ying promised Su Dingan the Azure Thunder Sword and the Azure Dragon Tribe’s support for the Sword Pavilion Tribe.

After a month of secret training with Lin Bai, Long Beibei returned to the Azure Dragon Tribe for her decisive contest against Long Yu, which would determine the next young patriarch. The martial contest began at Sky Peak, where the crowd overwhelmingly supported Long Yu as the two contestants entered the arena.

• Long Ying urged his allies to endure their grievances until Long Yu defeated Long Beibei and became young patriarch.
• Lin Bai returned with Long Beibei after a month away, and she told Zhao Yue that her master had taught her many things.
• Lin Bai assured Zhao Yue that he had accepted Long Beibei as his disciple for more than access to Dragon Pool, then expressed confidence she could defeat Long Yu.
• Three days later, Lin Bai, Lin Ye, and Zhao Yue arrived at Sky Peak, where the Azure Dragon Tribe's leaders and martial artists had gathered for the contest.
• Long Xian explained that the winner of Long Yu and Long Beibei's battle would become young patriarch and called them into the arena.
• Long Yu and Long Beibei entered as the crowd cheered overwhelmingly for Long Yu.

Long Beibei fought Long Yu in the Azure Dragon Tribe’s decisive battle, revealing swordsmanship that had improved dramatically under Lin Bai’s guidance. Though Long Yu drew his sword and unleashed a powerful attack, Beibei held her ground and began to suppress him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Long Beibei and Long Yu entered the arena, and Long Yu taunted her and insulted her master, prompting her to draw her sword and begin the fight.
• Long Beibei’s refined swordsmanship surprised the crowd and Dou Nianhua, who admitted that he was no longer her match.
• Long Beibei forced Long Yu back and damaged his clothes before continuing her attack.
• Long Yu drew his sword and unleashed a fierce sword technique, but Long Beibei met him evenly and left him no opening.
• Long Huihuang and Long Xian recognized Beibei’s extraordinary swordsmanship and regained hope, while Long Yu grew furious at being suppressed.

Long Yu unleashed the Sword Pavilion Tribe’s Blood Shadow Soul Severing Sword and gravely wounded Long Beibei. Lin Bai remained certain that Long Beibei would win as the fight continued.

• Long Beibei used her improved sword skills to overpower Long Yu and send him crashing into a stone wall.
• Long Yu revealed that he was Su Dingan’s direct disciple and invoked the Blood Shadow Soul Severing Sword, shocking Long Huihuang.
• Zhao Yue explained to Lin Bai that the Blood Shadow Soul Severing Sword was one of the Nine Ghostgod Swords recorded in the Sword Repository.
• Long Yu used blood-shadow transformations to strike Long Beibei from unexpected directions, leaving her gravely wounded.
• Zhao Yue questioned Lin Bai’s confidence in Long Beibei, and Lin Bai again said he was certain she would win.

Long Beibei overcame her severe wounds and Long Yu’s stronger cultivation to win their decisive duel. Her victory secured her position as heir to the Azure Dragon Tribe, while she credited Lin Bai’s teachings for helping her endure.

• Long Yu taunted the badly wounded Long Beibei and demanded that she surrender, but Lin Bai remained confident that his disciple would win.
• Long Beibei rose with the Reaching Heaven Sword Art, boosting her cultivation to the great perfection of the Yang God Realm, then struck Long Yu down with Three Foot Edge.
• Long Beibei prepared her Dragon Slaying sword art, Buddha’s Wrath, and Long Ying shouted while Su Dingan advised Long Yu to attack beneath Long Beibei’s armpit.
• Long Yu followed Su Dingan’s advice, but Long Beibei defeated her in their clash and remained standing in the arena.
• Long Beibei announced her victory as the Azure Dragon Tribe celebrated, and she exchanged a satisfied look with Lin Bai.

After Long Beibei defeated Long Yu and became the Azure Dragon Tribe’s heir, Long Ying and Su Dingan plotted to kill Long Huihuang and Long Beibei while blaming Lin Bai for ruining their plans. Three days later, Su Dingan arrived at Lin Bai’s courtyard with more than twenty powerful fighters and threatened to kill him.

• Long Xian declared Long Beibei the victor and the Azure Dragon Tribe’s young clan master and first heir, and Long Ying accepted the result despite his displeasure.
• Long Yu blamed Lin Bai for teaching Long Beibei her abilities, while Su Dingan warned Long Ying that the Sword Pavilion Tribe expected an explanation for their failed plans.
• Long Ying decided that both Long Huihuang and Long Beibei had to die, and he and Su Dingan arranged to confront them and attack Lin Bai.
• After the three-day celebration, Lin Bai waited for Long Huihuang to fulfill his promise to let him enter the Dragon Pool.
• Su Dingan appeared above Lin Bai’s courtyard with more than twenty powerful fighters and declared that Lin Bai’s time to die had come.

Lin Bai escaped Su Dingan’s pursuit and reached the Azure Dragon Tribe, where Long Ying’s rebellion had left the stronghold in ruins. With the tribe fighting for its survival, Long Beibei escorted Lin Bai to Dragon Pool so he could recover, and he entered alone.

• Zhao Yue used Soul-Chasing Insects to hold off Su Dingan and his allies while Lin Ye carried Lin Bai toward the heart of the Azure Dragon Tribe.
• Lin Bai learned that Long Ying had launched a rebellion and that Long Huihuang was fighting Long Ying’s recruited experts.
• As Su Dingan’s group approached, Lin Bai asked Long Xian to take him to Dragon Pool, and Long Xian told Long Beibei to lead him there.
• Long Chuan allowed Lin Bai to enter Dragon Pool alone, and Lin Bai reached the spirit-filled pool at the end of the canyon.

Lin Bai recovered his injuries and cultivation in the Dragon Pool, where the Devouring Sword Soul showed him visions of a mysterious tomb, a severed arm, and the Demon Sword. He emerged to find Long Chuan and the others facing Su Dingan and seven Apex Realm experts, and stepped in as the battle was about to overwhelm them.

• Lin Bai entered the Dragon Pool, whose spiritual energy healed his injuries and restored his dantian and divine pill.
• As the Devouring Sword Soul absorbed the pool's energy, Lin Bai saw visions of a great tomb, a martial artist taking a severed arm from a coffin, and the Demon Sword before the images vanished.
• Lin Bai tried to use Soul Search on the Dragon Pool but saw no further visions, then heard anguished screams from outside the canyon.
• Su Dingan and more than a hundred martial artists confronted Long Chuan, Long Beibei, Zhao Yue, and Lin Ye, demanding that Long Chuan surrender the Dragon Pool.
• Seven Apex Realm experts attacked Long Chuan and the others, but Lin Bai emerged from the canyon and struck them with a powerful sword ray.

Lin Bai confronted Su Dingan and seven Apex Realm martial artists seeking to recover the Azure Thunder Sword. He killed three of them with ease, leaving the rest to realize he might be a fourth legendary genius of the Southern Province.

• Su Dingan revealed that the Azure Thunder Sword was meant to help Long Ying claim the Azure Dragon Tribe chieftain’s position, and the seven Apex Realm martial artists demanded that he recover it.
• Lin Bai ignored Long Chuan’s warning and stepped forward to fight the seven, while Zhao Yue expressed confidence in his strength.
• The seven Apex Realm martial artists attacked Lin Bai from different directions, but he vanished and countered with his flying swords and wooden sword.
• Lin Bai killed three of the seven Apex Realm martial artists, and the four survivors retreated in shock.
• The remaining four suspected Lin Bai was a legendary genius and wondered whether he was the Southern Province’s fourth, after Su Tingzong, Bai Qing, and Yan Ji.

Lin Bai fought off the Sword Pavilion Tribe’s warriors and killed all seven Apex Realm attackers, though Su Dingan escaped. Long Chuan and Long Beibei then asked Lin Bai to help the Azure Dragon Tribe, which was still in battle.

• The four Apex Realm martial artists learned Lin Bai was a Rogue Cultivator and decided to kill him, then revealed their Sword Pavilion Tribe swords and attacked.
• Lin Bai killed two Apex Realm martial artists with his sword techniques and Three-Colored Divine Lightning.
• The remaining two Apex Realm martial artists fled, but Lin Bai killed them with his flying swords while Su Dingan escaped.
• The other black-clad men scattered, and Long Beibei praised Lin Bai as Long Chuan recognized his formidable strength.
• Long Chuan and Long Beibei asked Lin Bai to help the Azure Dragon Tribe in its ongoing battle.

Lin Bai led Long Beibei through the burning Azure Dragon Tribe and taught her that martial arts existed to protect others and resist injustice. After cutting through the attackers to reach Azure Dragon Mountain, he learned that the cave entrance was filled with the Poison God Family’s Dark Soil, but Zhao Yue said she could dispel it.

• Lin Bai agreed to help Long Beibei and explained that she should cultivate to protect the people and things she valued.
• Lin Bai and Long Beibei entered the tribe’s forbidden grounds while Lin Bai killed the martial artists who tried to stop them.
• Long Beibei and Long Chuan explained that Azure Dragon Mountain held the formation eye and was likely where her father had gone to defend the tribe.
• Lin Bai cut through the black-clad attackers with his flying swords and wooden sword, then reached the cave at the foot of Azure Dragon Mountain.
• Zhao Yue recognized Dark Soil from the Poison God Family inside the cave and said she could dispel it.

Lin Bai and his companions reached the Azure Dragon Mountain cave, where Long Ying had trapped Long Huihuang and the Azure Dragon Tribe elders with Netherworld poison. Lin Bai fought Long Ying while Zhao Yue revealed that she had created the poison and gave the elders an antidote, leaving Long Huihuang to join the battle.

• Long Ying surrounded Long Huihuang and the Azure Dragon Tribe elders in the cave, explaining that he had spent more than ten years preparing his coup and poisoned every exit with Netherworld.
• Lin Bai, Zhao Yue, Long Beibei, Long Chuan, and Lin Ye arrived, and Long Ying ordered his men to kill them all.
• Lin Bai attacked Long Ying but was outmatched by the Apex Realm expert, while Zhao Yue gave Long Huihuang and the elders Antitoxin Pills.
• Long Huihuang swallowed a pill and confirmed it worked, then Zhao Yue revealed that she had created Netherworld and left the battlefield.

Lin Bai and Long Huihuang fought Long Ying until the Azure Dragon Tribe's Ancestor arrived and crushed the rebellion. Long Ying revealed that the Sword Pavilion Tribe had blackmailed him into helping seize Dragon Pool, and the chapter ended with his scheme in ruins.

• Long Huihuang used Zhao Yue's antidote to cure the Azure Dragon Tribe warriors, then joined Lin Bai in fighting Long Ying.
• The Azure Dragon Tribe's Ancestor appeared, killed the retreating black-clad attackers, and turned the battle against Long Ying.
• Long Ying surrendered and begged the Ancestor to spare his son Long Yu, while Long Huihuang demanded an explanation for his betrayal.
• Long Ying said the Sword Pavilion Tribe had sent his wife to manipulate him and had threatened him after she killed Long Huihuang's wife and others during Long Beibei's birth.
• Long Ying admitted he had cooperated with the Sword Pavilion Tribe to protect Long Yu and help them take Dragon Pool.

After the Azure Dragon Tribe began rebuilding, Zhao Yue asked Lin Bai to help annihilate the Poison God Family, but he refused, fearing the ancient lineage’s strength. Zhao Yue ended their bargain and threatened to take Ye Suxin’s body with her when she went to face the Poison God Family alone, forcing Lin Bai to choose whether to follow her.

• Long Ying revealed that he could not name the woman behind the attack, begged the Azure Dragon Tribe to spare Long Yu, and killed himself by severing his heart meridian.
• The Azure Dragon Tribe’s ancestor urged Long Huihuang to rebuild the tribe and sought outside reinforcements against the Sword Pavilion Tribe.
• Seven days later, Lin Bai recovered from his injuries while the Azure Dragon Tribe began its reconstruction.
• Zhao Yue told Lin Bai that she wanted him to help annihilate the Poison God Family, but Lin Bai refused, calling the plan impossible and suicidal.
• Zhao Yue ended their deal and prepared to go alone, threatening to take Ye Suxin’s body with her and leave Lin Bai to decide whether to follow.

Lin Bai used the Water Mirror Sword to separate Zhao Yue’s soul from Ye Suxin’s, and Ye Suxin eventually awakened. He stayed with her as she recovered while the Azure Dragon Tribe began rebuilding.

• Lin Bai chose to use the Water Mirror Sword to separate Zhao Yue and Ye Suxin’s entwined souls rather than go with Zhao Yue.
• After half an hour of careful work, Lin Bai separated the souls, and Zhao Yue’s soul vanished as Ye Suxin collapsed.
• Lin Bai cared for Ye Suxin for three days until she woke and proved her identity by recalling the sword scar he had left on her back.
• Lin Bai stayed with Ye Suxin for half a month and told her about his journey, while the Azure Dragon Tribe began to rebuild.
• Long Beibei visited Lin Bai and Ye Suxin, asked about Ye Suxin’s poor condition, and offered to request healing pills.

Lin Bai decided to leave the Azure Dragon Tribe with Ye Suxin and search Southern Continent for pills to heal her soul. After saying farewell, he left Long Beibei cultivation scrolls and departed with Ye Suxin.

• Long Beibei visited Lin Bai and mourned her mother, while Ye Suxin comforted her.
• Lin Bai proposed returning to Eastern Continent to seek soul-healing pills, but Ye Suxin refused because she did not want to be near Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Lin Bai agreed to travel across Southern Continent with Ye Suxin and search for pills before considering a return to the Divine Martial Nation.
• Lin Bai told Long Huihuang and Long Beibei that Ye Suxin's soul injury was the reason they had to leave the Azure Dragon Tribe.
• Lin Bai gave Long Beibei scrolls containing his cultivation arts, then left the Azure Dragon Tribe with Ye Suxin.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin searched the Green Cloud Mountain Range for a Flower of Non-Being that could heal Ye Suxin’s soul. They reached Heaven and Earth Peak, where three factions had gathered, while demonic beasts fled the mountain’s depths.

• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin traveled to the Green Cloud Mountain Range after a merchant told Lin Bai that a Flower of Non-Being grew there.
• Lin Bai sensed that most of the mountain’s demonic beasts were weak, but Ye Suxin noticed them fleeing the depths in panic.
• Lin Bai piloted the spirit boat toward Heaven and Earth Peak, where the Flower of Non-Being was said to be found.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin saw three factions surrounding Heaven and Earth Peak, and Lin Bai warned that he would not show them mercy if they sought the flower.