Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai saw Azure Cloud Terrace Palace as the merchant ship sailed into the Eastern Sea and renewed his resolve to take revenge on Lin Zier and the palace. In the ship’s cabin, he discovered that Qi Yang had followed him on Su Cang’s orders and was about to attack.

• After staying in his room for four days, Lin Bai came onto the deck and saw Azure Cloud Terrace Palace towering over the cliffs beside the Eastern Sea.
• Lin Bai recognized the palace’s enduring sword intent and vowed to turn it into a sea of flames when he entered, while considering the spiritual objects he still needed to find.
• After the ship sailed beyond the coast and Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disappeared from view, Lin Bai returned to the cabin and encountered a man waiting in the passage.
• The man revealed himself as Qi Yang, a trusted aide of Su Cang, and said he had followed Lin Bai since he left Spirit Sword Sect on the Young Sect Master’s orders.
• Qi Yang unleashed the power of his sixth-level Heaven Martial Realm cultivation and attacked Lin Bai inside the ship.

Lin Bai fought Qi Yang aboard a merchant vessel but was overwhelmed by Qi Yang’s sixth-level Heaven Martial Realm strength. He escaped using the Wind Lightning Divine Wings, yet Qi Yang pursued him across the sea and struck him into the water.

• Qi Yang attacked Lin Bai, broke through his sword techniques, and wounded him with the Ice Shattering Swordplay.
• Lin Bai used the Wind Lightning Divine Wings to break through the merchant vessel and flee into the sky.
• Qi Yang pursued Lin Bai across the water, while Huo Shu and the other martial artists watched in astonishment.
• Lin Bai relied on his large reserves of true qi to maintain his lead as Qi Yang grew exhausted and consumed spirit pills.
• Qi Yang unleashed another Ice Shattering Swordplay strike, hit Lin Bai in the back, and sent him plunging into the seawater.

Lin Bai used the Thunder God Seal to kill Qi Yang after being driven to the brink of death. He returned to the merchant ship and began healing his injuries, leaving his journey overseas to continue once he recovered.

• Qi Yang wounded Lin Bai with his Ice Shattering Swordplay and tried to claim his treasures before delivering a fatal blow.
• Lin Bai activated the Thunder God Seal and shattered Qi Yang’s sword, then killed him with a thunderous palm strike.
• Lin Bai rested in the sea for half an hour, then flew back to the merchant ship using the Wind Lightning Divine Wings.
• Huo Shu watched Lin Bai return and expressed amazement that a Heaven Martial Realm warrior could fly.
• Lin Bai returned to his room and used the Grand Five Elements Art to heal his injuries.

While Lin Bai recovered aboard a Treasure Pavilion merchant ship, the vessel was attacked at sea by the Mad Shark Gate, a notorious former pirate sect. The chapter ended with the outnumbered guards facing Sha Xing, the sect’s Young Gate Master, as his ship drew alongside.

• Lin Bai woke to arrows, fires, and cries of an enemy attack, then went to the deck and asked Huo Shu what had happened.
• Huo Shu identified the approaching vessel as the Mad Shark Gate and explained its reputation for torturing crews and plundering merchant ships.
• The Mad Shark Gate’s enormous ship drew alongside the merchant ship, carrying roughly two thousand martial artists.
• A golden-robed young man announced that the Mad Shark Gate had arrived and ordered the merchant ship’s crew to await death.
• Huo Shu and the guards recognized the leader as Sha Xing, the Mad Shark Gate’s Young Gate Master, and feared they could not withstand his forces.

Huo Shu and the merchants aboard his ship fought back against Sha Xing and the Mad Shark Gate after negotiations failed. Lin Bai joined the battle and drew the pirates’ attention with his Grade Six Spirit Tool, leaving him to face Zhang Rong as the chapter ended.

• Sha Xing rejected Huo Shu’s offer and ordered the merchant ship’s passengers to kill themselves, so Huo Shu rallied them to fight to the death.
• Sha Xing’s pirates boarded the merchant ship, and Lin Bai joined the battle, cutting down the Mad Shark Gate disciples with his Azure Song Sword.
• Sha Xing offered a hundred thousand spirit stones to anyone who took Lin Bai’s sword, drawing a swarm of pirates toward him.
• Lin Bai swept down the Earth Martial Realm attackers, but Zhang Rong, a third-level Heaven Martial Realm dwarf, confronted him and unleashed a powerful handprint.

Lin Bai killed Old Dwarf, Poison Widow, and more than thirty Mad Shark Gate disciples who attacked him for the reward on his head. Sha Xing then confronted Lin Bai himself.

• Old Dwarf attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai killed him with the Heaven-Shocking Storm, and a shark swallowed his body.
• Poison Widow approached Lin Bai to take his sword, but Lin Bai cut her throat when she tried to get close.
• Poison Widow urged the Mad Shark Gate disciples to attack Lin Bai, and Lin Bai killed more than thirty of them with one sword.
• Lin Bai killed the wounded Poison Widow, whose body was swallowed by a shark.
• Sha Xing leaped from the pirate ship and landed opposite Lin Bai, preparing to fight him.

Lin Bai fought Sha Xing aboard the merchant ship and overwhelmed the Mad Shark Gate young master despite their difference in cultivation. As Lin Bai’s sword strike drove Sha Xing to desperation, Sha Xing unleashed the Great Wave Washes Sand Palm.

• Sha Xing challenged Lin Bai to a fight, and Huo Shu feared the young martial artist would be killed.
• Sha Xing attacked with the Sea Shattering Fist, but Lin Bai countered with the Surging Wind Swordplay.
• Sha Xing used the Sky Rending Palm, and Lin Bai met it with Sword Intent: Gale Shakes the Sea.
• Lin Bai struck with Sword Intent: Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence, breaking through Sha Xing’s Sea Shattering Fist and injuring him despite his Sky Rending Palm.
• Facing Lin Bai’s continuing attack, Sha Xing became desperate and unleashed the Great Wave Washes Sand Palm.

Lin Bai killed Sha Xing and drove Mad Shark Gate from the merchant ship, saving the surviving passengers. The ship hurried toward the City of a Thousand Islands, which appeared on the horizon at dawn.

• Sha Xing survived Lin Bai’s first sword strike but fled when Lin Bai charged again.
• Sha Xing threatened Lin Bai’s family, and Lin Bai pursued him with his Wind and Thunder Wings and killed him with Divine Ability: Gentle Sword.
• With Sha Xing and the other leaders dead, Mad Shark Gate’s disciples retreated after Lin Bai ordered them to leave.
• The surviving martial artists thanked Lin Bai, and Huo Shu ordered the merchant ship to sail for the City of a Thousand Islands.
• At dawn, Lin Bai saw the City of a Thousand Islands on the horizon.

Lin Bai arrived in City of a Thousand Islands after helping Huo Shu's merchant ship survive an attack by Mad Shark Gate. Su Xianmei recognized him, and she led him into the city to catch up while Huo Shu secured the ship's cargo.

• Su Xianmei welcomed Huo Shu's battered merchant ship and asked whether Mad Shark Gate had attacked it and whether its cargo was safe.
• Huo Shu credited a young passenger with saving the crew by killing Sha Xing, a fifth-level Heaven Martial Realm fighter, despite being at the second level himself.
• Huo Shu pointed out Lin Bai, and Su Xianmei recognized him while the ship's martial artists reacted with astonishment at meeting the famous genius.
• Lin Bai confirmed his identity to Huo Shu, who was stunned that the admired Lin Bai had traveled aboard his ship.
• Su Xianmei took Lin Bai by the hand and led him into City of a Thousand Islands, ordering Huo Shu to move the cargo inside and guard it closely.

Lin Bai reunited with Su Xianmei overseas and asked her about the Spirit Spring Sea, which he needed to cultivate a technique before returning for the Spirit Sword Sect's core martial artist assessment. Su Xianmei revealed rumors that the sea formed after a seal containing a great demon cracked, and Lin Bai asked to accompany her to meet the Treasure Pavilion's Eastern Sea representative.

• Lin Bai followed Su Xianmei to the Treasure Pavilion's base, where their close behavior caused a stir.
• Su Xianmei asked Lin Bai about his victory at Chaoyang Palace, but he brushed off her questions and asked why she had gone overseas.
• Lin Bai told Su Xianmei he needed to find the Spirit Spring Sea before his assessment in a month's time, and she agreed to share what she knew after teasing him about a kiss.
• Su Xianmei explained that rumors blamed the Spirit Spring Sea's creation on spiritual energy escaping from a cracked seal beneath the Eastern Sea, where a great demon was said to be imprisoned.
• Su Xianmei said she had transported a treasure meant to reinforce the seal, and Lin Bai asked her to take him to meet the person in charge of the Treasure Pavilion in the Eastern Sea.

Su Xianmei took Lin Bai to meet the Hua family, who managed the Treasure Pavilion’s East Sea branch, on Peach Blossom Island. The young island master, Hua Qianshu, escorted them to a reception hall but barred Lin Bai from entering.

• Su Xianmei explained that the Treasure Pavilion’s overseas branch was managed by the Hua family of Peach Blossom Island, while she served as an inspection envoy.
• After lunch, Su Xianmei and Lin Bai sailed from the City of a Thousand Islands to Peach Blossom Island.
• Hua Qianshu welcomed Su Xianmei and led her and the Treasure Pavilion guards through the island’s peach grove toward a banquet prepared by his father.
• Hua Qianshu stopped Lin Bai outside the reception hall, saying that guards were not qualified to enter.

Su Xianmei and Lin Bai arrived at Peach Blossom Island and met Hua Qinghai, his sons Hua Wanqing and Hua Qianshu, and Liu Beixing, one of the Azure Sea Cloud Sky Palace’s Seven Kings. The men were captivated by Su Xianmei, while Lin Bai watched quietly beside her.

• Hua Qianshu tried to keep Lin Bai and the Treasure Pavilion guards outside, but Su Xianmei brought Lin Bai in as her younger brother.
• Hua Qianshu warned the guards not to wander around Peach Blossom Island, and Su Xianmei and Lin Bai discussed his arrogance.
• Hua Qinghai welcomed Su Xianmei and Lin Bai, then told them that his son Hua Wanqing and Liu Beixing were visiting the island.
• Hua Qinghai introduced Hua Wanqing and Liu Beixing, who both focused their attention on Su Xianmei.
• Hua Qinghai introduced Hua Qianshu, and Su Xianmei praised him while Lin Bai noticed all three men staring at her.

At a banquet on Peach Blossom Island, Lin Bai drank a whole jug of potent Peach Blossom Wine and remained composed. When Hua Qianshu performed the island’s swordplay, Lin Bai called it average as a false answer and terrible as the truth, provoking Hua Qianshu’s fury.

• Hua Qinghai hosted Su Xianmei and Lin Bai at a banquet and introduced Peach Blossom Wine as a rare, powerful specialty of Peach Blossom Island.
• Hua Qianshu warned that one cup could incapacitate Lin Bai, but Lin Bai drank an entire jug and stayed on his feet.
• Su Xianmei rejected invitations to travel around the Eastern Sea while Hua Qianshu and the others described its sights.
• Hua Qianshu performed Peach Blossom Swordplay and asked Su Xianmei to judge it, but she directed him to ask Lin Bai instead.
• Lin Bai called Hua Qianshu’s swordplay average as his false answer and terrible, flashy, and impractical as his true answer.
• Hua Qianshu erupted in anger and aimed his sword momentum at Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought Hua Qianshu after Su Xianmei wagered that Peach Blossom Island would let him see its martial power divine stele if he won. Lin Bai disarmed Hua Qianshu with a peach blossom branch, but Hua Qianshu attacked him from behind, prompting Lin Bai to prepare to defeat him decisively.

• Lin Bai insulted Peach Blossom Island's swordplay, and Hua Qianshu challenged him to a fight, demanding that the loser kneel and kowtow.
• Su Xianmei proposed that if Lin Bai won, Hua Qianshu would let him see the divine stele; Hua Qinghai accepted the wager.
• Lin Bai refused to draw his sword and dodged Hua Qianshu's first two attacks while criticizing his swordplay.
• Lin Bai struck Hua Qianshu's wrist with a peach blossom branch, making him drop his sword and declaring that he had won.
• Hua Qianshu denied losing and attacked Lin Bai from behind, but Lin Bai knocked his sword away and vowed to make him accept defeat.

Lin Bai defeated Hua Qianshu and entered the Nine Twists Eight Immortals Formation to reach Peach Blossom Island’s divine stele. He broke through its barriers and uncovered the words “Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon.”

• Lin Bai beat Hua Qianshu until Hua Qinghai admitted defeat and had servants take his son away for treatment.
• Lin Bai refused Hua Wanqing’s challenge and asked to see the divine stele, so Hua Qinghai led him and Su Xianmei to the peach-blossom grove.
• Hua Wanqing explained that the Nine Twists Eight Immortals Formation could trap martial artists, but Lin Bai entered the grove anyway.
• Lin Bai used his Martial Soul Secret Method, Break the Restriction, to shatter the formation and reach the divine stele.
• Lin Bai broke the barrier around the stele and read the four words carved at its tip: “Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon.”

Lin Bai comprehended the four sword moves of Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon from a stone stele, then watched it vanish into the sea. He returned to the others, who assumed he had failed to pass the formation.

• Lin Bai practiced the Slashing Wind and Withered Flower moves, recalling Murong Yeshen as he studied the meaning of a life that ended like a withered flower.
• Lin Bai learned the Burying Snow and Chilling Moon moves and understood them as expressions of a sword cultivator’s regrets and yearning for immortality.
• Lin Bai bowed to the stele, and its inscriptions changed to urge him to go forth boldly and not wait until old age to regret his choices.
• The stele’s remaining power dispersed, and the wind weathered it away as Lin Bai regretted never learning the senior’s name.
• Lin Bai returned from the peach grove after half an hour, and Liu Beixing expressed surprise while Hua Wanqing mocked him for supposedly failing the Nine Twists Eight Immortals Formation.

Lin Bai comprehended the divine ability on the Hua Family’s stele and revealed that he had mastered Martial Dao Will, provoking Hua Wanqing and shocking the family. After Su Xianmei ended the confrontation, the group returned to the pavilion, where she presented Hua Qinghai with the Sea-Suppressing Talisman.

• Hua Qinghai entered the formation and discovered that the divine stele had vanished after Lin Bai comprehended its ability.
• Hua Wanqing demanded that Lin Bai write down the divine ability and threatened him with his sword.
• Lin Bai released his sword intent, forcing Hua Wanqing to retreat and revealing that he had comprehended Martial Dao Will.
• Su Xianmei stopped the confrontation and led the group back to the seaside pavilion to discuss the purchase.
• Huo Shu brought out the golden jade talisman, and Su Xianmei identified it as the Sea-Suppressing Talisman.

Hua Qinghai explained that the Hua family and other East Sea martial artists guarded a sealed Great Demon, and they hoped the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman could repair a breach in its seal. Su Xianmei demanded payment for the talisman, and Hua Qinghai revealed that the Hua family could not cover the remaining fifty billion spirit stones alone.

• Huo Shu handed the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman to Su Xianmei, who verified it and passed it to Hua Qinghai.
• Hua Qinghai revealed that a Great Demon was sealed beneath the East Sea and that the Hua family’s inherited Slave Seals would kill them if the demon emerged.
• Hua Qinghai explained that an ancient powerhouse had ordered his ancestors and other East Sea sects to guard the seal, and that the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman was meant to repair a breach someone had forced open.
• Lin Bai and Su Xianmei learned that the talisman cost fifty-six billion spirit stones, with fifty billion still owed after the deposit.
• Hua Qinghai said the Hua family could not pay the remaining balance alone, and Lin Bai asked who else would contribute.

The Eight Great Families agreed to gather five hundred billion spirit stones for the Treasure Pavilion and warned that a great demon threatened the East Sea. Lin Bai and Su Xianmei headed to Fallen God Bay, where East Sea martial artists were assembling, while Lin Bai remained intent on finding Spirit Spring Sea and the demon’s seal.

• Hua Qinghai explained that the ancestors of the Eight Great Families had been bound by Slave Seals and promised Su Xianmei that they would gather the five hundred billion spirit stones within three days.
• Su Xianmei told Lin Bai that the Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman had been crafted by grandmaster-level talisman masters from the Central Sacred Nation, then returned with him to the City of a Thousand Islands.
• Lin Bai spent his days with Su Xianmei and his nights comprehending the Four Swords of Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon, while news spread that a great demon was about to emerge.
• The Hua Family summoned Su Xianmei and Lin Bai to Fallen God Bay to pay the balance and send powerful martial artists to reinforce the seal; Lin Bai chose to go despite Su Xianmei’s warning.
• The Eight Great Families and martial artists from across the East Sea converged on Fallen God Bay, while Lin Bai resolved to discover the location of Spirit Spring Sea and the sealed demon.

Lin Bai and Su Xianmei arrived at Fallen God Bay with the Treasure Pavilion’s merchant ship to deliver a Sea-Suppressing Jade Talisman and collect the remaining payment. Sha Lang threatened Su Xianmei and clashed with Lin Bai, but Hua Qinghai urged them to set the dispute aside until they dealt with the great demon.

• Huo Shu guided the Treasure Pavilion’s ship through Fallen God Bay and into the Mad Shark Gate’s plaza.
• Lin Bai told Su Xianmei he knew the Mad Shark Gate because he had killed its Young Gate Master, Sha Xing.
• Sha Lang insulted Su Xianmei and demanded that she entertain his men in exchange for the remaining five hundred billion spirit stones.
• Lin Bai drew his Azure Song Sword and confronted Sha Lang to defend Su Xianmei.
• Hua Qinghai stopped Sha Lang from escalating the fight by reminding him that the great demon could emerge and destroy them all.
• Lin Bai warned Su Xianmei that Sha Lang was a ninth-level Heaven Martial Realm martial artist and would be difficult to defeat.