Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai defeated Su Min at the Purple Bamboo Tribe’s banquet and learned about the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures’ birthday celebration. He decided to attend next month and ask the renowned artifact refiner to reforge his shattered Demon Sword.

• Lin Bai spotted the real blade in Su Min’s Blood Shadow Soul Severing Sword technique, defeated him, and reclaimed the Azure Thunder Sword.
• The chief of the Purple Bamboo Tribe declared Lin Bai the victor and awarded him all seven bottles of spirit liquid.
• The chief told Lin Bai about the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures’ upcoming five-hundredth birthday celebration, and Lin Bai left with Ye Suxin.
• After leaving the Purple Bamboo Tribe, Lin Bai told Ye Suxin they would attend the celebration to meet Southern Continent’s geniuses.
• Lin Bai revealed that he hoped the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures would reforge the Demon Sword, which had shattered in the battle in the Great Wu Dynasty.

True Monarch of Myriad Treasures prepared for his ninety-ninth birthday celebration, where the martial contest winner would earn a chance to have him refine a Divine Weapon. His divination foretold a nine-black formation and certain death, but he chose to forge the weapon anyway, eager to meet the person who would request it.

• True Monarch of Myriad Treasures's birthday celebration drew the Southern Continent's supreme forces because its martial contest winner would receive a chance to commission a Divine Weapon.
• True Monarch of Myriad Treasures divined nine black pieces and a vanished white piece, which he interpreted as a sign of certain death.
• Hu Qi returned to Fire Lotus Mountain for his master's birthday celebration and urged True Monarch of Myriad Treasures to cancel it and flee.
• True Monarch of Myriad Treasures explained that nine black pieces meant the artifact would become a god-slaying weapon, and declared he would forge it despite the danger.
• True Monarch of Myriad Treasures wondered who would win the contest and what spirit artifact that person would ask him to refine.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye boarded a Star Plucking Pavilion passenger ship at Maple Leaf Wharf to travel along the Man Wu River toward Fire Lotus Mountain for True Monarch of Myriad Treasures's birthday celebration. After Lin Bai silenced passengers who harassed Ye Suxin, he cut off the shoulder of a man who jeered at him, warning that he would kill his provocateurs but not bury them.

• Lin Bai paid for passage for himself, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye aboard the Star Plucking Pavilion ship bound for Fire Lotus Mountain.
• Ye Suxin warned Lin Bai that the Star Plucking Pavilion ships were the weakest and most often attacked, but Lin Bai said they had found no room on the other vessels.
• Passengers made lewd remarks about Ye Suxin, and Lin Bai released his nine sword intents to frighten them into silence.
• The ticket-collecting old man reminded Lin Bai that passengers on the Man Wu River should not meddle in others' affairs or seek trouble.
• After Lin Bai and Ye Suxin went into the cabin, a passenger mocked Lin Bai, and Lin Bai's flying sword cut off the man's shoulder.
• Lin Bai warned the passengers that he would kill anyone who provoked him but would not bury them, leaving the old man fearful.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin traveled aboard the Star Plucking Pavilion's passenger ship across the dangerous Man Wu River, where Ye Suxin pointed out the demon beasts along the banks. After half a month of uneventful sailing, a young woman and her brother recognized Lin Bai and discussed his strength.

• Lin Bai severed a martial artist's shoulder, and Old Wei refused to defend the man, warning passengers to avoid trouble on the Man Wu River.
• The passenger ship set sail, and Ye Suxin explained the dangers of the Man Wu River and warned Lin Bai not to touch its waters.
• After leaving the safe zone around Maple Leaf Wharf, Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye watched the demon beasts along the riverbanks.
• For half a month, Ye Suxin identified the demon beasts for Lin Bai while the ship traveled without further trouble.
• A young woman recognized Lin Bai and asked her brother about him, and he confirmed Lin Bai was the powerful man who had killed an enemy with a flying sword.

Mu Ting and Mu Yu introduced themselves to Lin Bai and Ye Suxin aboard the passenger ship, then Liu Fei confronted the Dragon Scale Tribe siblings over their apparent interest in Lin Bai. The chapter ended with Liu Fei ordering his group to throw Mu Ting and Mu Yu into the Man Wu River.

• Mu Yu and Mu Ting discussed the martial contest at True Monarch of Myriad Treasures' birthday celebration and decided to greet Lin Bai and Ye Suxin.
• Mu Ting introduced himself and Mu Yu to Lin Bai, and Lin Bai introduced Ye Suxin as his fiancée.
• Mu Yu asked Lin Bai about his flying sword technique, and Mu Ting warned her that probing martial artists about their techniques was taboo.
• After Lin Bai and Ye Suxin left, Mu Ting lectured Mu Yu about asking such questions.
• Liu Fei and his companions approached Mu Ting and Mu Yu, accusing the siblings of recruiting Lin Bai to oppose the Evil Ghost Tribe.
• Liu Fei ordered his group to throw Mu Ting and Mu Yu into the Man Wu River.

Liu Fei and the Evil Ghost Tribe attacked Mu Ting and Mu Yu, then Liu Fei knocked Mu Yu into the Man Wu River. Mu Ting begged Lin Bai to save her, and Lin Bai went to the deck with Ye Suxin and Lin Ye to help.

• Liu Fei ordered his men to attack Mu Ting and Mu Yu, and Mu Ting was soon trapped by the stronger martial artists.
• Liu Fei struck Mu Yu into the Man Wu River and taunted Mu Ting as she struggled in the water.
• A demon beast’s tongue dragged Mu Yu back beneath the surface while a Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle swooped toward her.
• The old man stopped Mu Ting from jumping into the river, and the passengers watched Mu Yu’s plight without helping.
• Mu Ting rushed to Lin Bai’s cabin, knelt, and explained that Liu Fei had pushed Mu Yu overboard because of their rivalry.
• Lin Bai helped Mu Ting up and went to the deck with Ye Suxin and Lin Ye to save Mu Yu.

Lin Bai jumped into the Man Wu River to rescue Mu Yu, driving off the Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle and severing the Frog Demon's tongue. With both beasts attacking again, he killed the eagle with one sword strike and turned to face the Frog Demon.

• Mu Ting asked Lin Bai to save Mu Yu, while the old man warned Lin Bai against interfering.
• Lin Bai leaped into the river, knocked back the diving Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle, and pulled Mu Yu from the water along with the Frog Demon.
• Lin Bai severed the Frog Demon's tongue, freeing Mu Yu, then knocked the eagle back when it attacked again.
• The Frog Demon and Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle attacked Lin Bai from opposite directions as whirlpools threatened the passenger ship.
• Lin Bai released Mu Yu, killed the Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle with a single sword strike, and faced the gathering Frog Demon.

Lin Bai rescued Mu Yu from the Man Wu River after killing the demons that attacked her, but the passengers demanded that she be thrown back overboard. As the river began churning again, Ye Suxin warned that the demons had arrived.

• Lin Bai killed the Crimson Emperor Demon Hunting Eagle and the Frog Demon, then returned Mu Yu safely to the passenger ship.
• Mu Yu reunited with her brother Mu Ting while Lin Bai checked in with Ye Suxin.
• Liu Fei and the other passengers demanded that Mu Yu be thrown overboard, fearing her rescue had broken the treaty protecting the ship.
• Old Wei explained that the treaty allowed demons to attack any ship that rescued someone who had fallen into the Man Wu River.
• Mu Ting vowed to protect his sister, and Ye Suxin saw the river churning and announced that the demons were coming.

Dragonbone, the Black Water Demon Snake and son of the Blackwater Snake King, accused the humans aboard the passenger ship of breaking the agreement and ordered the river demons to attack. As hundreds of beasts surrounded the ship, Lin Bai sent Lin Ye into battle and prepared to fight with his wooden sword.

• As the river surged, the martial artists moved to throw Mu Yu overboard, but a huge wave struck the passenger ship and Dragonbone appeared atop a pillar of water.
• Dragonbone declared that the humans had broken the agreement, revealed his identity, and ordered the demons to flip the ship.
• Old Wei said that fighting was the only option as thousands of demons gathered, and hundreds of Death Reversal Realm beasts attacked the passenger ship.
• Lin Bai told Ye Suxin to stay aboard and sent Lin Ye to fight; Lin Ye flattened an Iron Scale Beast with one punch.
• Lin Bai stepped forward and raised his wooden sword as sword radiance blazed from it.

Dragon Bone led monsters in an assault on the Star Plucking Pavilion passenger ship, trapping its passengers on the Man Wu River. Lin Bai fought back with his wooden sword and flying swords, wounded Dragon Bone, and pursued it into the water.

• Other passenger ships avoided the besieged Star Plucking Pavilion passenger ship, while nearly five hundred passengers who fled into the air were killed by flying monsters.
• The remaining passengers armed themselves as monsters attacked, and a creature’s tentacles dragged the passenger ship beneath the water.
• Lin Bai cut the tentacles with his flying swords and sent the blades underwater to slaughter monsters, forcing Dragon Bone to abandon its column of water.
• Dragon Bone sent enormous waves toward the ship, but Lin Bai cleaved them apart with his wooden sword.
• Lin Bai struck Dragon Bone with Dragon Slayer Returning Sea Art, wounded it, and chased it into the river for another attack.

Lin Bai fled Nine Serpent after it devoured the dragon bone and returned to the passenger ship. He warned Old Wei that an even more terrifying creature was approaching, and the ship began fleeing as Nine Serpent closed in.

• Lin Bai chased the dragon bone until a colossal Primordial Behemoth named Nine Serpent emerged from the river.
• Nine Serpent caught, tore apart, and swallowed the dragon bone, then pursued Lin Bai as he escaped on his flying sword.
• Lin Bai returned to the passenger ship and urged Old Wei to flee, warning that something more terrifying than the Blackwater Snake King was coming.
• Old Wei said escaping would badly damage the ship and prevent the passengers from reaching Fire Lotus Mountain, but the passengers pleaded to flee.
• A roar sent the attacking demon beasts scattering, and Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Old Wei saw Nine Serpent approaching as Old Wei drove the passenger ship away.

Lin Bai confronted the Primordial Behemoth Nine Serpent as it pursued the burning passenger ship across the Man Wu River. He stayed behind alone to delay the beast so the ship’s passengers could escape.

• The old man activated the passenger ship’s protective formation, turning its hull into flames as Nine Serpent appeared and devoured the demonic beasts nearby.
• Lin Bai rejected Ye Suxin’s offer to use the Cosmic Beast Taming Art and judged that neither of them could defeat Nine Serpent with their current strength.
• Nine Serpent finished hunting and pursued the passenger ship, while the old man’s forbidden formation failed to shake it off.
• Lin Bai told Ye Suxin and Lin Ye to remain aboard, then struck Nine Serpent with his wooden sword as its heads lunged at the passengers.
• Lin Bai left the ship on his flying sword and faced Nine Serpent alone, promising to hold it back for at most a quarter of an hour.

Lin Bai fought Nine Serpent, a nearly invulnerable Primordial Behemoth, above Man Wu River and tested his Dragon Slaying Skill. He severed one of the beast’s heads, then left as it regenerated, astonishing the watching martial artists and demonic beasts.

• Lin Bai attacked Nine Serpent with his swords, but its scales withstood hundreds of strikes until the Heaven Measuring Ruler finally broke them and drew its fury.
• Demonic beasts and martial artists gathered along Man Wu River to watch Lin Bai battle Nine Serpent.
• After fighting for nearly a quarter of an hour, Lin Bai was blasted from his flying sword and spat blood.
• Lin Bai fused seven hundred and twenty sword paths and used Dragon Slaying Skill: Sword One to sever one of Nine Serpent’s heads.
• Lin Bai flew away, and Nine Serpent quickly grew a new head while the onlookers marveled at his swordplay.

Lin Bai escaped Nine Serpent and caught up with the damaged passenger ship, where the passengers waited for him despite Liu Fei urging them to leave. Seven days later, they reached Hidden Dragon Wharf, where the ship was moored for repairs and the passengers had to make new travel arrangements.

• Lin Bai fled after Nine Serpent recovered, and the behemoth sank beneath the Man Wu River as witnesses later spread an image of their battle across the Southern Continent.
• Liu Fei urged Old Wei to leave without Lin Bai, but the passengers condemned him for his actions aboard the ship, and Old Wei blamed him for provoking the demons.
• Lin Bai returned to the passenger ship wounded, and Old Wei resumed the journey toward Hidden Dragon Wharf because the ship could not reach Fire Lotus Mountain.
• Seven days later, the battered passenger ship arrived at Hidden Dragon Wharf, where Star Plucking Pavilion elders helped moor it.
• Old Wei announced that repairs would take one or two months and offered to refund half the passengers' spirit liquid, while those still bound for Fire Lotus Mountain had to make other arrangements.

Lin Bai and Ye Suxin traveled to Fire Lotus Mountain for the birthday celebration tournament. At the wharf, Chen Zhixiao, the second disciple of True Monarch of Myriad Treasures, welcomed the arriving martial artists and greeted the Nine Li Tribe, whose young genius Li Can had also arrived.

• Lin Bai thanked Mu Ting and Mu Yu, parted from them, and boarded the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's passenger ship with Ye Suxin and Lin Ye.
• Lin Bai and Ye Suxin discussed the possibility of Ye Suxin taming a Primordial Behemoth if it could be severely wounded.
• After a peaceful seven-day voyage, the ship reached Fire Lotus Mountain, where Lin Bai noticed the barren mountains and dense fire spiritual power.
• Chen Zhixiao welcomed the passengers at the wharf and arranged guest rooms for them before leading the Nine Li Tribe elders to their lodgings.
• Chen Zhixiao greeted Li Can, the Nine Li Tribe's young genius, and an elder asked whether the Sword Pavilion Tribe and Earth Emperor Tribe had arrived.

Lin Bai, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye arrived at Fire Lotus Mountain and settled into guest lodgings ahead of True Monarch of Myriad Treasures' birthday celebration. Meanwhile, Chen Zhixiao and his fellow disciples planned to stop a prophesied calamity by targeting the powerful young contestants, despite their master's apparent willingness to face it.

• Chen Zhixiao told the Nine Li Tribe's powerhouses that Yan Ji and Su Tingzong had arrived, while Bai Qing's whereabouts remained unknown.
• A Fire Lotus Mountain servant showed the visitors the Mountain Cauldron, a King Grade Spirit Artifact, and explained the mountain's defenses and the arrangements for the birthday celebration.
• Lin Bai chose quiet lodgings for himself, Ye Suxin, and Lin Ye, and they rested after their journey.
• Chen Zhixiao joined his four fellow disciples in a palace, where the stern eldest disciple said Fifth Junior Brother had predicted that a Heaven Defier seeking a weapon would bring their master a calamity.
• The eldest disciple urged the others to target Li Can, Yan Ji, Su Tingzong, and other possible contest winners, and they agreed to prepare his plan.

Lin Bai arrived at Fire Lotus Mountain and learned that the strongest young fighters from three tribes had come to compete for the chance to have a weapon reforged. A Seven-Colored Divine Light appeared near the forbidden area beneath the main peak, and Lin Bai found a group gathered around the well from which it shone.

• Lin Bai studied a map of Fire Lotus Mountain while Ye Suxin told him about the scenic spots and the powerful geniuses gathered for the birthday celebration.
• Ye Suxin named Li Can, Yan Ji, and Su Tingzong as likely rivals, and Lin Bai said he would find out how strong they were when they fought.
• A Seven-Colored Divine Light suddenly shot into the sky near the main peak, and Lin Bai left to investigate while Ye Suxin stayed behind.
• Lin Bai used the map to identify the light's source as a forbidden area and cautiously approached it.
• Lin Bai found several martial artists gathered around a well radiating the Seven-Colored Divine Light, and they turned to look at him.

Lin Bai and seven other powerful martial artists followed the Seven-Colored Divine Light into a mysterious gray world, where Qinxin, the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures’ third disciple, revealed herself. Su Tingzong demanded to know why she had lured them there.

• Yan Ji explained that only a select group of martial artists could see the Seven-Colored Divine Light and invited them to investigate the well.
• Yan Ji, Su Tingzong, Feng Siyun, and the other martial artists entered the well, followed by Lin Bai, who realized the light was a teleportation array.
• Lin Bai and the seven others arrived in a gray, hazy world, where a woman welcomed them and named several of the guests.
• Li Can challenged the unseen woman, and the mist parted to reveal Qinxin beneath a red-leaved tree.
• Yan Ji recognized Qinxin as the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures’ third disciple, and Su Tingzong asked why she had lured them there.

A middle-aged man sealed Lin Bai and seven other young talents inside the Withered Well Painting, where Miss Qinxin said they would have to stay and play chess and the zither with her. Lin Bai chose to listen to her music while Liu Yuan proposed capturing her to force their escape.

• A middle-aged man turned the Seven-Colored Divine Well into a scroll and trapped Lin Bai and the others inside the Withered Well Painting until his master's birthday celebration ended.
• Miss Qinxin told the eight newcomers that she wanted them to exchange pointers with her in chess and the zither and confirmed that they could not leave.
• Liu Yuan, the scholar, and the irritable woman each objected to staying, but Qinxin refused their requests and began playing her zither.
• Yan Ji recognized that Qinxin had deliberately lured them into the scroll world, while Su Tingzong questioned her treatment of guests.
• Lin Bai sat down to listen to Qinxin's zither, and Liu Yuan suggested that the eight of them capture her to make her let them go.

Liu Yuan and the short-tempered woman failed to harm Qinxin, who revealed that she controlled the Well-Depths Scroll and could keep the group trapped. Lin Bai suspected she was preventing them from competing at the True Monarch of Myriad Treasures’ birthday celebration, but Qinxin avoided answering and resumed playing the zither.

• Liu Yuan and the short-tempered woman attacked Qinxin together, but an invisible barrier blocked their strike.
• Yan Ji recognized the space as the Well-Depths Scroll, and Qinxin confirmed that the Emperor Artifact gave her control over the world inside it.
• Qinxin knocked Liu Yuan and the short-tempered woman away with a finger, demonstrating that the trapped martial artists could not defeat her.
• Lin Bai asked when Qinxin would release them, and she said she would let them out when she deemed the time right.
• Lin Bai suggested Qinxin was keeping them from the birthday celebration and its championship, but she declined to explain and began playing the zither again.