Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai used a Corpse Demon Pill and the Ginseng King to break through to the third level of the Apex Realm while fleeing the old monsters pursuing him. He lured nearly half of them away with the Dao Fruit, then stopped on a mountain peak to face the rest, who still intended to kill and search him.

• Lin Bai swallowed a Corpse Demon Pill and rose to the peak of the second level of the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai ate the Ginseng King and broke through to the third level of the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai flew to the northern White Dragon Mountains and stopped fleeing at the Spirit Herb Garden.
• Lin Bai threw the Dao Fruit into the garden, drawing nearly half of the pursuing Apex Realm old monsters away.
• Lin Bai led the remaining pursuers to a mountain peak, where they said they would kill him and search his belongings.

Lin Bai fought off the Apex Realm martial artists who demanded the Dao Fruit, using his sword arts and other abilities to kill many of them. After the fake Dao Fruit he had thrown away was exposed, the searching experts found him battling and were shocked by the strength he displayed.

• Lin Bai refused to surrender the Dao Fruit and killed a seventh-level Apex Realm martial artist from Dongyang City with one sword strike.
• Martial artists from Dongyang City and Overlord Blade City joined the assault, and more than fifty seventh- and eighth-level Apex Realm experts charged Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai fought back with his demon sword, Heaven Measuring Ruler, flying swords, and lightning techniques, gravely wounding opponents and killing many seventh-level experts.
• The experts in the Spirit Herb Garden found the Dao Fruit Lin Bai had thrown away and discovered it was only a stone.
• The experts followed the battle and saw that Lin Bai had killed more than twenty seventh-level Apex Realm martial artists in two or three hours.
• The arriving experts were astonished by Lin Bai's strength and concluded that the Dao Fruit must have empowered him.

Lin Bai and his Giant God Avatar fought hundreds of Apex Realm experts for two days and killed nearly sixty, but both were gravely wounded and close to defeat. As the remaining enemies attacked, the Demon Seed appeared and offered Lin Bai its power again, warning that he would become a demon apostle.

• Lin Bai fought off the Apex Realm experts who sought the Dao Fruit, killing many despite his severe injuries.
• Lin Bai summoned his Giant God Avatar, which revealed the Giant God Race’s Divine Crystal and joined him in battle.
• Lin Bai and the Giant God Avatar fought for two days and two nights, killing nearly sixty Apex Realm monsters while suffering devastating wounds.
• The remaining Apex Realm monsters attacked Lin Bai again as he struggled to stand and fight.
• The Demon Seed appeared to Lin Bai, explained that it could not be cut away from his evil thoughts, and offered him its power in exchange for becoming a demon apostle.

Lin Bai confronted the Demon Seed within himself and accepted its power to escape his predicament and save his parents. As the Demon Seed bloomed and transformed him, a Daoist-robed man in the distant Spirit World reacted in the middle of a chess game.

• Lin Bai recalled how the Demon Seed’s growing power had threatened to consume his humanity, and the blurred figure warned that using it again would make him a Demon Disciple.
• The figure revealed itself as Lin Duo and reminded Lin Bai that his parents were waiting for him; Lin Bai vowed to survive, rescue them, and return to the mountains with Xiao Xiao.
• Lin Bai accepted the Demon Seed’s power, and his white-haired demonic self dissolved into him.
• More than fifty Apex Realm experts watched Lin Bai’s hair turn white and his eyes become scarlet as the Demon Seed bloomed.
• In the distant Spirit World, a Daoist-robed man dropped a chess piece after sensing the Demon Seed’s return.

Li Shanqing asked Ling Tianzi to let him help Lin Bai, whose Demon Seed had entered its second stage, but his master refused and said Lin Bai could overcome Heart Demon Implantation. Li Shanqing stole the Void Heaven Ark to travel to the Barren Ancient Continent, and his Second Senior Sister forced him to take her along.

• Li Shanqing left a chess game and begged Ling Tianzi to let him go to the Barren Ancient Continent to help Lin Bai, but Ling Tianzi refused.
• Ling Tianzi explained that Heart Demon Implantation could help Lin Bai advance if he endured its trials, and revealed that he had left something in the Central Sacred Nation to help suppress Lin Bai's Demon Seed.
• Li Shanqing visited Ling Tianzi's treasure collection site, where he had taken the Void Heaven Ark to travel to the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Li Shanqing admitted to his Second Senior Sister that he planned to help Lin Bai, and she threatened him until he agreed to take her with him.

Lin Bai’s eyes filled with demonic flowers, his wounds healed, and he turned ruthless as he slaughtered the Apex Realm warriors seeking the Dao Fruit. After fighting through the night, he faced the last survivors and learned the formation had sealed the White Dragon Mountain range, trapping him in the secret realm for a hundred years.

• Lin Bai transformed, healed rapidly, and killed a seventh-level Apex Realm warrior who threatened him.
• Lin Bai summoned the Demon Sword and Heaven Measuring Ruler, mounted the Giant God Avatar, and attacked the warriors.
• Lin Bai and the Giant God Avatar fought the more than fifty Apex Realm warriors, cutting their numbers to a dozen or so by dawn.
• The remaining warriors warned Lin Bai that their sects would seek revenge, but Lin Bai declared he would not spare them.
• The warriors revealed that the formation had closed around the White Dragon Mountain range and would trap Lin Bai in the secret realm for a hundred years.

After the White Dragon Secret Realm closed, the six great forces waited in Green Stone Town for their missing experts before eventually leaving. Lin Bai remained inside, killed the martial artists who confronted him, and trained in the cave before deciding to leave.

• The Zhang Family and other treasure seekers left Green Stone Town after the White Dragon Secret Realm closed, while the six great forces waited for their missing experts.
• Yun Shenyuan learned that the Apex Realm experts who had pursued Lin Bai had not returned and ordered his people to watch the other forces.
• After waiting several days without finding their missing experts, the Crimson Sunset Sect and the other great forces departed Green Stone Town, followed by Dongyang City.
• Lin Bai watched the formation close, killed the martial artists beneath his sword, and entered a cave to recover and practice.
• Lin Bai rejected the Nine Moon Severing Swords and Dragon Slayer Swordplay, practiced the Sword Canon, then stopped when its tenth set required Great Perfection of the Apex Realm and prepared to leave.

Lin Bai left the White Dragon Secret Realm and battled the force trying to seize control of his body, unleashing the Devouring Sword Soul and devastating the surrounding land. After he subdued the struggle and recovered, more than twenty martial artists confronted him, and he declared that he was the strange person they sought.

• Lin Bai broke through the White Dragon Mountains’ formation with his Martial Soul Secret Method and left the Giant God Avatar trapped inside the secret realm.
• The Giant God Avatar warned Lin Bai not to let his inner demon control him, but Lin Bai called himself the Demon Disciple and flew away in agony.
• Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul erupted, creating a vast suction force that destroyed the surrounding landscape and killed martial artists who entered its reach.
• Lin Bai threatened the force fighting for control of his body by invoking its parents, weakening it, then healed his wounds and recovered his spiritual power.
• More than twenty martial artists at the fifth or sixth stage of the Apex Realm questioned Lin Bai about strange people or treasures, and he said that he was the strangest person there.

After the Demon Flower healed him, Lin Bai faced more than twenty martial artists who mistook his red eyes for signs that he was a fiend from the Nether Shadow Sect. He killed two who challenged him and left the others terrified and obedient.

• The River Spirit City martial artists confronted Lin Bai and demanded that he identify himself, suspecting he was a fiend from the Nether Shadow Sect.
• Lin Bai grabbed Zhou Tianjie and crushed his throat after Zhou insulted his eyes.
• Ma Hao apologized and identified the group as martial artists from River Spirit City, prompting the others to bow and apologize as well.
• A Zhang Family martial artist mocked Lin Bai and tried to leave, but Lin Bai's flying sword pierced his throat and killed him.
• Lin Bai asked whether anyone else wanted to leave, and the remaining martial artists stood frozen in fear.

After Lin Bai killed the Zhou and Zhang Family experts, he was overcome by agonizing torment and forced Ma Hao to take him to a secluded courtyard in River Spirit City. The Ma Family kept its distance as Lin Bai’s howls continued for three days, while Ma Hao hoped the poison would kill him or that he would soon leave.

• Lin Bai killed a man with his flying sword, then began suffering intense agony and threatened the surrounding martial artists into finding him a quiet place.
• Ma Hao brought Lin Bai to the Ma Family’s secluded courtyard, where Lin Bai ordered the family to stay away or face death.
• Lin Bai shut himself inside the courtyard and roared in pain, making his torment audible throughout the Ma Family residence.
• Three days later, Ma Hao and the Ma Family’s elders discussed Lin Bai’s howls and prayed that he would die or leave without harming them.

Ma Qingyun led Ma Yuyao and other Ma Family youths to Zhu Xing Courtyard to confront the injured guest after the courtyard was reduced to ruins. A bloodied warrior emerged from the darkness and warned Ma Qingyun that his name foretold a bloody disaster.

• Ma Hao ordered elders to contact the Zhang and Zhou Families and see whether they would join forces against Lin Bai.
• Ma Qingyun led Ma Yuyao and several Ma Family youths to Zhu Xing Courtyard despite the Patriarch's warning to stay away.
• The youths found Zhu Xing Courtyard destroyed, and Ma Qingyun angrily demanded that its occupant explain the damage.
• An eerie voice answered from the ruins, frightening Ma Yuyao and the other youths while Ma Qingyun tried to hide his fear.
• A pale, blood-covered warrior emerged from the darkness and told Ma Qingyun that he had chosen a bad name and was destined for a bloody disaster.

With Lin Bai’s body controlled by the Demon Seed, he slaughtered the Zhou and Zhang family martial artists who came to demand explanations for their dead kin. He then turned on Ma Qingyun’s group, but Ma Yuyao claimed they had come to offer him medicine, and Lin Bai spared them.

• The Demon Seed controlled Lin Bai’s body as his true will struggled inside him, and the demonic flower healed his fatal wounds.
• Ma Qingyun confronted Lin Bai about the damage to Zhu Xing Courtyard, but Lin Bai kicked him away.
• Four Zhou family martial artists and five Zhang family martial artists arrived seeking explanations for the deaths of their people.
• Lin Bai killed all nine martial artists as they fought or fled.
• Ma Yuyao offered Lin Bai a bottle of pills and said the group had come to help him, so Lin Bai let them live.

Lin Bai confronted Ma Hao and the Ma family after surviving the poison and killing the Zhang and Zhou family martial artists who attacked him. He accepted Ma Hao’s carefully crafted excuse but ordered him to investigate who had betrayed them, while Ma Hao saw Lin Bai’s actions as a chance to unify River Spirit City.

• Lin Bai forced Ma Yuyao to take him to Ma Hao, promising to spare her if she led him there.
• Lin Bai entered the Ma family hall, killed an elder who denied saying Lin Bai had died from poison, and questioned Ma Hao about summoning the Zhang and Zhou families.
• Ma Hao blamed other families for alerting the Zhang and Zhou families and apologized, claiming the Ma family had been too weak to protect Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai accepted Ma Hao’s lie, demanded a new place to stay, ordered him to deliver the attackers’ corpses to their families, and told him to investigate the alleged informant.
• After Lin Bai left, Ma Hao rejected the elders’ suggestion to seek help from the Prefect Guards and called the situation an opportunity to unify River Spirit City.

Ma Hao lured Lin Bai to the Wang Family by pretending they had insulted him, hoping to use Lin Bai against River Spirit City's other forces. Lin Bai confronted the Wang Family under the name Lord Xuan Tong, and the chapter ended as Wang Yunsheng challenged his identity.

• Ma Hao told the Ma Family elders he planned to use Lin Bai's strength to help unify River Spirit City.
• Ma Hao arrived bloodied at Lin Bai's courtyard and falsely claimed the Wang Family had attacked his people and threatened Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai saw through Ma Hao's lie but agreed to visit the Wang Family, and Ma Hao led several hundred Ma Family martial artists there.
• Ma Hao shattered the Wang Family's gate and accused Wang Yunhe and Wang Yunsheng of mistreating Lord Xuan Tong.
• Lin Bai dispersed Wang Yunhe's pressure on Ma Hao, introduced himself as Lord Xuan Tong, and faced Wang Yunsheng's question about who he was.

Lin Bai revealed himself as Xuan Tong and killed Wang Yunhe, Wang Xiu, and the Wang family's three remaining Apex Realm martial artists. With the Wang family's strongest fighters dead, Ma Hao prepared for the Ma family to deal with the survivors.

• Lin Bai identified himself as Xuan Tong and seized Wang Yunhe by the throat when Wang Yunsheng and Wang Yunhe confronted him.
• Wang Xiu arrived to save Wang Yunhe, but Lin Bai killed Wang Yunhe and challenged the Wang family head.
• Wang Xiu attacked Lin Bai with the Crimson Sunset Sect's Magma Iron Fist, and Lin Bai killed him with a strike from the Demon Sword.
• Ma Hao told Lin Bai that the Wang family was connected to those who had betrayed him, and Lin Bai ordered the Wang family wiped out.
• The Wang family's three remaining Apex Realm martial artists charged Lin Bai together, and he severed all three of their heads.

Lin Bai killed the Wang family’s five Apex Realm martial artists, then faced Zhang Cheng and other River Spirit City lineages who accused the Ma family of breaking the alliance pact. Zhang Cheng issued the River Spirit City Edict to summon all fifty-six factions, and Lin Bai decided to wait for them.

• Lin Bai killed the five Apex Realm martial artists of the Wang family, and Ma Hao arranged for him to return to his residence.
• Zhang Cheng and other powerful lineages arrived, accused Ma Hao of breaking River Spirit City’s alliance pact, and threatened to exterminate the Ma family.
• Ma Hao told Lin Bai that the Zhang and Zhou families had targeted him before, prompting Lin Bai to ask whether all their Apex Realm experts had arrived.
• Zhang Cheng declared that the factions would destroy Lin Bai and the Ma family, then fired a command arrow to issue the River Spirit City Edict.
• Ma Hao explained that the edict summoned the experts of all fifty-six factions, and Lin Bai said they would wait for them.

Zhang Cheng summoned the forces of River Spirit City to punish the Ma family, but Lin Bai slaughtered the attackers. Zhang Cheng was the only one left alive.

• Zhang Cheng showed the gathered martial artists the dead members of the Wang family and accused the Ma family of violating the alliance agreement.
• The fifty-six forces agreed to attack the Ma family and seize its territory and resources.
• Zhang Cheng urged the martial artists to kill Lin Bai, and several hundred Apex Realm experts charged at him and the Ma family.
• Lin Bai killed ten attackers with his flying swords, then drew the Demon Sword and swept through the crowd.
• Lin Bai killed every attacker except Zhang Cheng, while Ma Hao and the Ma family watched in fear.

Lin Bai devastated the Wang family residence and killed Zhang Cheng, then left River Spirit City to seek stronger opponents. Ma Hao moved to take control of the city, but seven days later Zhang Cheng’s elder brother, Commandant Zhang, returned and Ma Hao blamed the massacre on a demon.

• Lin Bai approached Zhang Cheng amid the ruins, but Ma Hao killed Zhang Cheng after he exposed Ma Hao’s plan to use Lin Bai against River Spirit City’s powerful families.
• Lin Bai told Ma Hao that the Ma family was now the city’s strongest force and left to find and kill more powerful experts.
• Ma Hao ordered the dead Apex Realm martial artists sent to their families and summoned representatives from the city’s fifty-six forces to discuss a change in leadership.
• Over the next seven days, Ma Hao prepared to rule River Spirit City and secretly ordered people to follow Lin Bai and discover his destination.
• Commandant Zhang returned with the Dragon River Prefect Guards and threatened the Ma family, while Ma Hao claimed that a demon had slaughtered the Zhang family’s Apex Realm martial artists.

Ma Hao sent Commandant Zhang after the white-haired killer, whom Zhang identified as Lin Bai, while the killer continued slaughtering Apex Realm martial artists across Dragon River Prefecture under the name Xuan Tong. A month later, Ma Hao had seized control of River Spirit City, and the Dragon River Prefect faced more than a hundred invitations as the violence spread.

• Ma Hao told Commandant Zhang that the killer had headed east and urged him to pursue the man, while secretly hoping Lord Xuan Tong would kill Zhang and planning a backup strategy.
• Commandant Zhang reached Heaven's Spirit City and learned from the Zhao Family that Lin Bai had slaughtered its Apex Realm martial artists and those of other major families.
• Commandant Zhang ordered the Prefect Guards to alert surrounding cities and report any sightings of Lin Bai.
• Over the next month, the white-haired sword cultivator challenged and killed Apex Realm martial artists across hundreds of cities, giving his name as Xuan Tong.
• Ma Hao took control of River Spirit City and trembled at the news of Xuan Tong's rampage, while the Dragon River Prefect stared furiously at more than a hundred invitation cards.

Dragon River Prefect struggled to respond to the deaths Profound Eye had caused across the prefecture, while the Hanging Sword Bureau sent Sword Envoy Dan Xiaonan to investigate a cryptic warning. Dan Xiaonan arrived without knowing who she was meant to investigate and explained that she had been assigned to Dragon River Prefecture as one of four Sword Envoys dispatched to separate locations.

• Dragon River Prefect received appeals from cities whose martial artists Profound Eye had killed and lamented that his whereabouts were impossible to discover.
• A Prefect Guard announced the arrival of three members of the Hanging Sword Bureau, and Dragon River Prefect welcomed them into the mansion.
• Dan Xiaonan presented her token and told Dragon River Prefect that she had come under orders to investigate someone.
• Dragon River Prefect asked whom she intended to investigate, but Dan Xiaonan said she did not know.
• Dan Xiaonan explained that the Heavenly Surveillance Bureau's phrase, "Dragon River Boat, Demon Star Crossing," had led four Sword Envoys to investigate four possible locations, and she had been assigned to Dragon River Prefecture.