Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai discovered the hidden Hall of the People after Jiang Yan’s battle with Overlord Blade City revealed its entrance. Inside, Jiang Yan and Yun Shenyuan’s groups clashed with Overlord Blade City over the pill treasures, leaving Lin Bai entering as the battle began.

• Jiang Yan was cornered by Overlord Blade City, whose fight caused the cliff to collapse and expose the Hall of the People.
• Lin Bai recognized the cave as one of the White Dragon Sect’s three great divine halls and entered after Jiang Yan and the Overlord Blade City martial artists.
• Inside the hall, Lin Bai found Jiang Yan and Overlord Blade City facing Yun Shenyuan and more than thirty martial artists from Dongyang City.
• Jiang Yan urged Yun Shenyuan to join forces against Overlord Blade City before Shen Qianlang arrived, while Overlord Blade City proposed that each group seek the treasures independently.
• Yun Shenyuan chose to fight, and the martial artists from Dongyang City and Overlord Blade City attacked each other.

Lin Bai followed Jiang Yan into the Apex Realm passageway, where they fought over the pills stored in a vast cave. Jiang Yan swallowed incompatible pills to boost his power and went mad, and the chapter ended with him turning his attack on Shen Qianlang.

• Lin Bai entered the Apex Realm passageway and found Jiang Yan stuffing the cave’s medicine bottles into his Storage Bag.
• Jiang Yan attacked Lin Bai, who struck back with the Demon Sword and left him unable to resist.
• Jiang Yan swallowed pills from hundreds of bottles, causing his body to crack and his cultivation and strength to surge.
• Lin Bai fought Jiang Yan with his sword techniques and other abilities, but Jiang Yan kept swallowing more pills and became strong enough to match him.
• Warriors from Overlord Blade City and Dongyang City arrived, and Jiang Yan charged at Shen Qianlang, starting a fight between the Jiangning City and Overlord Blade City warriors.

In the Hall of the People, Jiang Yan attacked Shen Qianlang, blaming Overlord Blade City for slaughtering nearly everyone from Jiangning City. As the three groups fought over the pills, Jiang Yan swallowed every pill in his Storage Bag and began swelling toward an apparent explosion.

• The martial artists from Overlord Blade City and Dongyang City entered the Apex Realm passage and arrived in the Hall of the People, where they sought pills for Apex Realm cultivators.
• Jiang Yan confronted Shen Qianlang and charged at him, recounting how Overlord Blade City had killed the people of Jiangning City until he was the only one left.
• Jiang Yan fought Shen Qianlang with strength amplified by the pills he had already consumed, while Lin Bai and Yun Shenyuan recognized the danger of intervening.
• Lin Bai began looting medicine bottles, and Yun Shenyuan ordered Dongyang City’s martial artists to seize pills; Shen Qianlang likewise sent Overlord Blade City’s fighters to gather them.
• Jiang Yan declared that Overlord Blade City would get none of the pills, swallowed everything in his Storage Bag, and began swelling rapidly as he charged at Shen Qianlang.

Jiang Yan self-detonated to kill Shen Qianlang, destroying the Hall of the People and killing nearly everyone inside. Lin Bai escaped with pills, but Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan stopped him and demanded a share, leaving a confrontation imminent.

• Jiang Yan consumed pills and self-detonated, unleashing a force that destroyed the Hall of the People and flattened everything within a thousand miles.
• Lin Bai, Shen Qianlang, and Yun Shenyuan escaped, while the other warriors from Dongyang City and Overlord Blade City died in the blast.
• Yun Shenyuan and Shen Qianlang lamented the loss of their warriors and the pills, while Lin Bai left with the medicine bottles he had taken.
• Shen Qianlang stopped Lin Bai, accused him of lying about visiting a palace, and demanded the pills he had taken from the Hall of the People.
• Yun Shenyuan demanded one-third of Lin Bai's pills, but Lin Bai refused to hand them over as killing intent gathered between them.

Lin Bai faced Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan as the two prodigies joined forces to seize his pills, but he broke their assault and escaped. The chapter left Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan reacting to a summons about the Ascension Hall while the onlookers marveled at Lin Bai's swordsmanship.

• Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan surrounded Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over his pills.
• Shen Qianlang attacked Lin Bai with his saber, and Yun Shenyuan joined in with Dongyang City's Imperial Fist.
• Lin Bai used Azure Wood Divine Lightning and two advanced Mooncleave Swordplay techniques to shatter their attacks and send them flying.
• Lin Bai escaped into the clouds, while Shen Qianlang vowed to make him pay when they met again.
• Yun Shenyuan and Shen Qianlang received a Voice Transmission Token message about the Ascension Hall and left to search for pills and treasures.
• The watching martial artists marveled that Lin Bai had held off both prodigies and escaped.

Lin Bai recovered his spiritual power and sorted through medicine bottles he had taken from the Hall of the People, finding that nearly all contained ruined poison pills. He discovered one bottle of Ziwei Pills, kept the unusable pills in case he could make use of them later, and set off to search for more treasures before the White Dragon Secret Realm closed.

• Lin Bai escaped Shen Qianlang and Yun Shenyuan, then traveled for three days before resting beneath an old tree and restoring his spiritual power.
• Lin Bai inspected the medicine bottles from the Hall of the People and found that most held pills spoiled into poison pills.
• Lin Bai discovered ten usable Ziwei Pills, which could advance the cultivation of martial artists at the fifth stage of the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai recalled that Jiang Yan's self-destruction had destroyed the Hall of the People and its remaining pills, then accepted that he could not recover what he had missed.
• Lin Bai collected the poison pills instead of discarding them and flew off to seek more treasures.

Lin Bai joined the Zhang Family at the mountain hiding Ascension Hall, where Zhang Zhengqing explained that the hall contained a Dao Fruit left by a White Dragon Sect expert. The forces gathered around the mountain prepared to contend for it as Zhang recounted how greed over the Dao Fruit had led to White Dragon Sect’s destruction.

• Lin Bai received Zhang Zhengqing’s message about Ascension Hall and rushed to the mountain east of White Dragon Sect’s core area.
• Lin Bai joined Zhang Zhengqing, Zhang Miao, and Zhang Tianxiang as martial artists from powerful sects and clans gathered around the mountain.
• Zhang Zhengqing explained that a Formation Daoist had activated three formations, revealing Ascension Hall above the clouds.
• Zhang Zhengqing told Lin Bai that the hall held a Dao Fruit left by a White Dragon Sect expert who had died facing heavenly tribulation.
• Zhang Zhengqing recounted how forces across the Central Plains attacked White Dragon Sect to seize the Dao Fruit, destroying the sect while failing to find Ascension Hall.

Lin Bai learned how the White Dragon Sect had hidden its Three Great Divine Halls and protected its Dao Fruit behind three powerful formations. After the Earth Formation killed the formation experts sent to break it, the Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects gathered to force their way through before the secret realm closed.

• Zhang Zhengqing explained that the White Dragon Sect's Dao Fruit lay in Ascension Hall and that only the first martial artist to cross the Earth, Flora, and Sky Formations could enter.
• Zhang Zhengqing warned Lin Bai that Guardian Stone Spirits guarded the Earth Formation, and one killed a Formation Daoist who approached the mountain.
• Over seven days, the Guardian Stone Spirits killed the formation experts sent by the Three Great Clans, the Three Great Sects, and other martial artists.
• The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects paused their attempts as the secret realm's closing drew near.
• At dawn, the powerhouses of the Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects gathered before the mountain, and Lin Bai suspected they planned to force their way through.

The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects forced their way into the mountain by having their strongest fighters distract the Guardian Stone Spirits, leaving the other martial artists behind. As more Stone Spirits awakened, Lin Bai and Zhang Tianxiang decided they had to move before the array fully unfolded.

• Zhang Tianxiang urged the Zhang Family martial artists to seize the chance to reach the Dao Fruit and led them toward the mountain.
• The Three Great Clans and the Three Great Sects attacked together, with their strongest fighters holding off the Guardian Stone Spirits while their allies entered the mountain.
• The remaining martial artists realized they had been delayed by the six powers, and Zhang Tianxiang told Zhang Zhengqing they had to cross the first array quickly to catch up.
• Several young martial artists charged at the mountain, awakening more Guardian Stone Spirits, including a hundred-zhang-tall Stone Spirit that crushed those beneath its fist.
• Lin Bai warned Zhang Tianxiang that the array was growing more active and urged him to charge through before stronger Stone Spirits awakened; Zhang Tianxiang agreed.

Lin Bai and the other martial artists charged toward the mountain peak as the Earth Formation awakened and Guardian Stone Spirits blocked the route. After a rival knocked Lin Bai into the path of a massive stone spirit, Lin Bai severed its arm with Dragon Slayer Swordplay and entered the mountain.

• Lin Bai warned Zhang Zhengqing to be careful, then raced toward the mountain peak as the factions attacked the Guardian Stone Spirits.
• Lin Bai forced back a Guardian Stone Spirit and crossed the battlefield, but a bloodied martial artist struck him into the path of a hundred-zhang stone spirit.
• The stone spirit shattered Lin Bai's attacks and sent him flying, while the martial artist who had used him as a shield entered the mountain.
• Lin Bai saw another mountain awaken as a stone spirit and realized the formation was growing stronger, so he attacked the blocking spirit with Mooncleave Swordplay.
• Lin Bai unleashed Dragon Slayer Swordplay, severed the stone spirit's arm, and rushed into the mountain.

Lin Bai entered the Plants Formation and learned that martial artists had to nourish flowers with seeds and other martial artists to grow Nine-Colored Flowers and reach the next stage. After killing the man who explained the rule, Lin Bai found a golden seed and prepared to use his blood on it.

• Lin Bai passed the Guardian Stone Spirit and hurried along the White Jade Ancient Road into the Plants Formation.
• A flower bud attacked Lin Bai, and he split it open to reveal a living martial artist from the Crimson Sunset Sect, who escaped.
• Lin Bai encountered the martial artist who had previously used him to distract the Guardian Stone Spirit, learned the formation's rules, and killed him.
• Lin Bai learned that Nine-Colored Flowers were required to pass the formation and that flowers grew by devouring martial artists.
• Lin Bai found a golden seed, cut his fingertip, and let a drop of blood fall onto it.

Lin Bai used a blood-bound flower bud to hunt martial artists in the White Dragon Secret Realm, absorbing their spiritual power and flowers to grow his own. With less than ten days before the realm closed, he confronted a flower bud bearing a Seven-Colored Flower.

• Lin Bai entered the flower bud and discovered he could sense his surroundings and control its vines and movement.
• Lin Bai killed two flower-bud riders and absorbed their spiritual power, then concluded that flower-bud combat favored young martial artists.
• Lin Bai slew a Hunyuan Sect martial artist whose flower bud bore a One-Colored Flower, absorbing it and blooming a petal of his own.
• Lin Bai hunted for five days and grew a second-colored petal, but worried he would not reach a Nine-Colored Flower before the realm closed.
• Lin Bai shattered a fleeing martial artist’s flower bud, then learned that a pursuer bearing a Seven-Colored Flower was approaching and charged to meet it.

Lin Bai destroyed the bud of a Seven-Colored Flower, then escaped an eighth-layer Apex Realm martial artist who recognized his Sword Lake sword art. He hid among a massive melee of flower buds and began slaughtering them to strengthen his own bud.

• Lin Bai fought the Seven-Colored Flower's owner with Dragon Slayer Swordplay, then broke his bud with Sword Scripture: Tears of the Jianghu.
• The old man revealed himself as an eighth-layer Apex Realm martial artist and accused Lin Bai of being a Sword Lake remnant.
• Lin Bai fled from the old man, having absorbed the Seven-Colored Flower's spiritual power and gained a second color on his bud.
• Lin Bai reached a melee involving hundreds of buds, including flowers with up to eight colors, and disappeared into the crowd to evade the old man.
• A Three-Colored Flower attacked Lin Bai, and he destroyed it, absorbed its spiritual power, and continued fighting to strengthen his bud.

Lin Bai slaughtered flower buds to absorb their spiritual power and advanced from a Third-Colored Flower to a Nine-Colored Flower. After his breakthrough drew attackers from across the mountain, he fought through them and headed for the mountaintop to enter the Third Formation.

• Lin Bai killed flower buds until his bud reached the Seventh Color, then turned his attention to stronger opponents.
• Lin Bai killed seven Seven-Colored Flower buds and advanced to the Eighth Color.
• Lin Bai attacked and killed all seven Eight-Colored Flower buds, despite their attempt to join forces against him.
• Lin Bai’s Ninth-Colored Flower sent a pillar of light into the sky, drawing flower buds and martial artists eager to seize it.
• Lin Bai killed the attackers in his path and headed for the mountaintop, seeking entry to the Third Formation.

Lin Bai fled in his flower bud with the Nine-Colored Flower while an eighth-stage Apex Realm old man pursued him. Hunyuan Sect experts killed the old man, but five other powerful forces gathered to claim the flower, leaving Lin Bai surrounded and under pressure to hand it over.

• An eighth-stage Apex Realm old man attacked Lin Bai’s flower bud and pursued him after Lin Bai escaped using the Great Sun-Chasing Art.
• Hunyuan Sect experts intervened to stop the old man, then killed him when he tried to leave.
• The Hunyuan Sect demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Nine-Colored Flower, but the Crimson Sunset Sect arrived and offered to protect him in exchange for it.
• Overlord Blade City, the Water Cloud Sect, Dongyang City, Gourd Mountain, and other powerful groups gathered, bringing the six forces into a tense standoff.
• The Water Cloud Sect urged the groups to obtain the flower before deciding who would keep it, and the Crimson Sunset Sect again ordered Lin Bai to hand it over.

Lin Bai refused to give the Nine-Colored Flower to any of the six great forces and raced for the mountaintop while their experts attacked him. He reached the entrance to the Third Formation and escaped inside with the flower, while the six forces were left outside and spotted another Nine-Colored radiance.

• Lin Bai disguised his voice, refused to hand over the Nine-Colored Flower, and fled toward the mountaintop as hundreds of Apex Realm experts pursued him.
• The Hunyuan Sect, Water Cloud Sect, Crimson Sunset Sect, and Gourd Mountain attacked Lin Bai's flower bud, damaging it and leaving him badly wounded.
• Lin Bai used Three-Colored Divine Lightning to fend off the attackers, revealing his identity to the Hunyuan Sect, which realized he had the Longevity Pill.
• The Dongyang City Yun Family shattered Lin Bai's lightning defense, and Overlord Blade City prepared a deadly blade strike as he neared the mountaintop.
• Lin Bai plucked the Nine-Colored Flower, used his flying sword to reach the formation, and entered the Third Formation after warning the six great forces that he would remember their actions.
• The six great forces stopped outside because they lacked the Nine-Colored Flower, then flew toward another ray of Nine-Colored radiance from the mountain peak.

Lin Bai entered the Third Formation, where countless paving stones held formations that trapped anyone who chose the wrong path to Ascension Hall. He used the Martial Soul Secret Method to pass through the formations and left Yun Shenyuan stunned as he continued toward the hall.

• Lin Bai reached the square before Ascension Hall and found Young Master Wu Dao, E Long, Zuo Song, Shen Qianlang, Yun Shenyuan, Li Qingxin, and Bai Man trapped on separate paving stones.
• Bai Man warned Lin Bai that only one route through the square’s formations led safely to Ascension Hall, but Lin Bai stepped onto the next stone and became trapped.
• Lin Bai decided he could not afford to advance by slowly studying each formation because Shen Qianlang was already near the hall and the Dao Fruit was at stake.
• Lin Bai used the Martial Soul Secret Method, Mirror Break, to cross the formations and move forward without being stopped.
• Yun Shenyuan watched Lin Bai pass, tried to imitate him, and was thrown backward by the formation.

Lin Bai ignored the other martial artists and entered Ascension Hall, where he found and experienced the Dao Fruit. He stored it away, vowed to restore the White Dragon Sect if he attained the Dao, and watched the sect patriarchs’ portraits burn to ash.

• Lin Bai walked through the floor formation without restraint, passed the trapped martial artists, and entered Ascension Hall.
• Lin Bai examined the portraits of the White Dragon Sect’s former patriarchs and found a small, shriveled Dao Fruit in a jade box.
• Lin Bai held the Dao Fruit and witnessed countless lives and aspects of existence, realizing it revealed the Eternal Dao Realm.
• Lin Bai returned the Dao Fruit to its box, stored it in his Azure Gourd, and bowed to the White Dragon Sect patriarchs, promising to restore the sect if he attained the Dao.
• The portraits inside Ascension Hall burst into flames, and a faint voice spoke of mortal dreams and the passage of time.

Lin Bai obtained the Dao Fruit inside Ascension Hall, but Zhao E Long used the Central Province Grand Formation to destroy the hall, accidentally collapsing the three great formations. With the factions learning Lin Bai had the Dao Fruit, they joined the Crimson Sunset Sect in pursuing him.

• Zhao E Long drew on the Central Province Grand Formation and struck Ascension Hall to destroy Lin Bai and the Dao Fruit.
• Lin Bai escaped the blast after witnessing the portraits burn, but Ascension Hall was destroyed and the Sky, Flora, and Earth Formations collapsed.
• The factions realized Ascension Hall had been the Formation Eye, and their elders reached the plaza as trapped martial artists were freed.
• Zhao E Long ordered the Crimson Sunset Sect elders to kill Lin Bai and seize the Dao Fruit.
• The Crimson Sunset Sect attacked Lin Bai, and the Water Cloud Sect, Overlord Blade City, Gourd Mountain, and Dongyang City also charged after him.

With the six great powers pursuing him, Lin Bai fled through the White Dragon Secret Realm while his injuries worsened. As the realm’s closure drew near, he used Saint Blood Pills to break through to the second level of the Apex Realm and prepared to take another pill.

• Hundreds of experts from the six great powers attacked Lin Bai, and he escaped the mountaintop using the Sword Control Art.
• Zhang Hu recognized Lin Bai, but Zhang Tianxiang refused to let the Zhang family intervene against the six great powers.
• Lin Bai spent three or four days fleeing through the White Dragon Secret Realm as the pursuers struggled to catch him and warned that the realm would close in three days.
• Lin Bai decided that reaching the fifth level of the Apex Realm could let him defeat his pursuers, then swallowed hundreds of Saint Blood Pills and broke through to the second level.
• Lin Bai took a pill from the Azure Gourd as he continued his escape.