Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai rescued his parents, Lin Duo and Li Subai, from Flame Mountain in the Black Prison, then reunited Lin Duo with his old friends. The group set out for the Black Prison’s exit, while Lin Duo accepted the iron sword A Ning had brought from her late father, Red Flower Sky.

• Lin Bai cleaved Flame Mountain apart and carried the severely injured Lin Duo out, with Li Subai’s spirit preserved in a flame.
• Fu Qingshuang and the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals reunited joyfully with Lin Duo, who greeted and teased his old friends.
• Li Subai eagerly asked about Su Xianmei and learned she was waiting in the Divine Capital.
• Lin Duo met Lin Bai’s companions, and A Ning told him that her father, Red Flower Sky, had died after escaping Kunxu.
• Lin Duo gave the iron sword back to A Ning, then Lin Bai led everyone toward the ruined palace that served as the Black Prison’s exit.

Lin Bai stayed behind at Black Prison’s exit to face the Lord of Black Prison and the Black Prison Legion, giving Lin Duo, Li Subai, and the others a chance to escape. He prepared to confront the Lord of Black Prison while his companions held off the soldiers and guarded the teleportation wormhole.

• As Lin Bai and the others approached the exit, he sensed an ambush and revealed the Lord of Black Prison, who demanded that Lin Duo and Li Subai remain imprisoned.
• Lin Bai asked Fu Qingshuang to take his parents and the others to safety, then stayed behind despite Li Subai’s protests.
• Fu Qingshuang dragged Lin Duo and Li Subai toward the teleportation array while A Ning and Lin Bai’s other companions stayed to help.
• The Black Prison Legion surrounded the plaza, and Lin Bai’s group braced to hold them off and prevent the Lord of Black Prison from pursuing the escapees.
• Lin Bai told Mo Qing to guard the teleportation wormhole and stepped forward to face the Lord of Black Prison himself.

Lin Bai and his allies fought the Lord of Black Prison to buy time for Fu Qingshuang, Lin Duo, Chu Jiangliu, and the others to escape the Imperial Palace. The Lord of Black Prison revealed the Emperor Artifact Blood Weeping Blade and struck Lin Bai with a deadly attack, leaving him protected by five-colored thunder.

• Lin Bai explained that he needed to hold off the Black Prison Legion for fifteen minutes so his allies could withdraw before the Central Sacred Nation surrounded them.
• Lin Bai attacked the Lord of Black Prison while Yin Jiuling and the others fought the Black Prison Legion.
• The Lord of Black Prison used the Blood Weeping Blade to blast Lin Bai back and make him cough up blood.
• Hu Qi identified the Blood Weeping Blade as one of the Barren Ancient Continent’s seventy-two Emperor Artifacts and explained how the Lord of Black Prison had obtained it.
• The Lord of Black Prison lunged at Lin Bai’s neck, and five-colored thunder emerged from Lin Bai to shield him.

Lin Bai fought the Lord of Black Prison, who revealed himself as the legendary Blade King and attacked with the three forms of the Asura Blade. Lin Bai defeated him with his sword art and prepared to leave with his companions.

• The Lord of Black Prison crossed a thousand meters in an instant and struck Lin Bai with the Asura Blade, but Lin Bai survived the slash with his five-colored thunder shield.
• Lin Bai recognized the Lord of Black Prison as the Blade King, who explained that he had guarded the Black Prison for a thousand years in exchange for the Blood Weeping Blade.
• Lin Bai waited until his companions had fought the Black Prison army for about a quarter of an hour, then faced the Lord of Black Prison as his sword intent reached its peak.
• The Lord of Black Prison unleashed the Asura Blade’s second form, Asura, and Lin Bai met it with his flying swords, sword formation, and three figures created by Three Variations of Plum Blossoms.
• After several hundred exchanges, the Lord of Black Prison used the third form, Crowning the King, but Lin Bai answered with Night Ends, Dawn Arrives and killed him.
• Lin Bai tossed the Lord of Black Prison’s head aside, gave the Blood Weeping Blade to Hu Qi, and told the others to leave.

As Lin Bai’s allies stormed the Imperial City, Prince Rong realized Lin Bai might be rescuing Lin Duo from the Black Prison and rushed to aid the Emperor. Chu Jiangliu’s forces held the palace gates until Lin Duo and the others emerged from the passage, where they learned of Bai Xiaoxiao’s betrothal to Lin Bai.

• An alert reported that an unidentified force had broken through thirteen palace gates and reached the Hall of All Living Beings, prompting the first-grade Army Marquises to lead their troops toward the Imperial City.
• Prince Rong deduced that Lin Bai’s true target was the Black Prison and led his forces away from Fengbo Prefecture, while Mo Wenshen realized the same and followed with the remaining experts.
• Chu Jiangliu waited with thirty thousand Apex Realm soldiers for Lin Bai to emerge, under an agreement to withdraw if an hour passed without his return.
• A passage opened above the shattered Emperor’s Throne, and Fu Qingshuang, Xun Zhizang, Lin Duo, and the others came out.
• Chu Jiangliu introduced himself to Lin Duo and explained that Lin Bai was betrothed to Bai Xiaoxiao of the Divine Martial Nation.

As Lin Duo’s allies prepared to leave the imperial city, Sacred Nation reinforcements blocked their way and Prince Rong’s forces confronted them. Lin Duo taunted his old enemies as both sides prepared to fight, while Lin Bai remained elsewhere in the Black Prison.

• Li Subai celebrated that Lin Bai had found a wife, while Lin Duo criticized him for neglecting martial and sword cultivation.
• Chu Jiangliu persuaded the others to withdraw from the imperial city, but a transmission warned that First-Class Army Marquises had arrived and fighting had begun near the palace gates.
• The Army Marquises, Four Great Princes, Mo Wenshen, the Dragon Lord, and the Phoenix Lord entered and found Lin Duo with Chu Jiangliu’s group.
• Lin Duo taunted Mo Wenshen, who urged the Army Marquises to capture Lin Duo and return him to the Black Prison.
• Prince Rong threatened to kill Lin Duo and Lin Bai, then ordered the Army Marquises to attack as Chu Jiangliu rallied his soldiers.

Prince Rong and the Central Sacred Nation forces confronted Lin Duo and the Divine Martial Nation legion in the imperial city, and the standoff erupted into a major battle. Seventh Young Master and Su Xianmei watched from the Son of Heaven Palace, waiting to learn whether Lin Duo’s forces could break out.

• Prince Hua asked the Dragon Lord, Phoenix Lord, and the chiefs of the Dragon Slaying Bureau and Hanging Sword Bureau to summon their experts to the imperial city.
• Lin Duo deferred to Chu Jiangliu, who explained that the legion had to break through the imperial city quickly before reinforcements arrived and then split into smaller groups to escape.
• Chu Jiangliu ordered the Divine Martial Nation legion to charge, and his opening strike against the eighteen first-rank Army Marquises began the war between the two nations.
• The Central Sacred Nation and Divine Martial Nation legions clashed in the imperial city, deploying formations, weapons, and other defenses amid widespread explosions.
• Su Xianmei wanted to join the battle, but Seventh Young Master told her that she could only wait and hope the others broke out.

As Chu Jiangliu’s army struggled to break out of the imperial city, Lin Duo proposed targeting the enemy commander and sent Fu Qingshuang to distract Prince Rong. Lin Duo then got Monk Jiufeng drunk, and the monk charged Prince Rong, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Chu Jiangliu’s repeated attempts to break through Prince Rong’s encirclement failed, and his army suffered heavy casualties.
• Lin Duo suggested drawing the enemy commander away, and Chu Jiangliu agreed that it could open a path for the army to escape.
• Lin Duo sent Fu Qingshuang to attack Prince Rong, but more than twenty guards surrounded and restrained him.
• Lin Duo gave Monk Jiufeng a jar of wine, and Xun Zhizang warned Chu Jiangliu that the monk became dangerous when drunk.
• Monk Jiufeng charged Prince Rong and shattered his defenses with a punch, gravely wounding him.

Monk Jiufeng and Feng Lingzi disrupted Prince Rong’s forces as the battle continued, while Feng Lingzi’s ominous reputation drove Prince Rong to the brink of madness. Bai Mu then revealed the Cosmos Brush and attacked Prince Rong with conjured mountains and a mighty river.

• Monk Jiufeng fought through Prince Rong’s forces, forcing the Bureau Chief of the Dragon Slaying Bureau to engage him.
• Feng Lingzi approached Prince Rong and delivered an extravagant good-fortune omen, which terrified Prince Rong because Feng Lingzi’s predictions usually meant disaster.
• Lin Duo, Xun Zhizang, Bai Mu, and Li Subai laughed at Prince Rong’s reaction, while Prince Rong ordered the Bureau Chief of the Hanging Sword Bureau to kill Feng Lingzi.
• A conjured mountain crashed down toward Prince Rong, crushing hundreds of martial artists before dissolving.
• Mo Wenshen identified Bai Mu’s weapon as the Cosmos Brush, and Bai Mu summoned a mighty river that surged toward Prince Rong.

Bai Mu and Xun Zhizang attacked Prince Rong with the Cosmos Brush and the Starfall Diagram, but the Dragon Slaying Bureau arrived with more than five hundred powerful fighters and turned on Lin Duo. As Lin Duo faced their assault with his strength nearly spent, Fu Qingshuang rushed to save him, and time suddenly seemed to stop.

• Bai Mu used the Cosmos Brush to drive Prince Rong into retreat while Prince Rong waited for reinforcements from the Dragon Slaying Bureau.
• Xun Zhizang opened the Starfall Diagram and sent meteors crashing down around Prince Rong, but a Dragon Slaying Bureau fighter destroyed the meteor threatening him.
• More than five hundred Dragon Slaying Bureau powerhouses arrived by imperial decree, and the Dragon Slaying Bureau Chief ordered them to capture Lin Duo.
• Bai Mu intercepted one of the attackers while the others charged Lin Duo, slaughtering the soldiers who tried to protect him.
• Fu Qingshuang broke through Prince Rong's guards and raced toward Lin Duo, but time suddenly seemed to stop.

Lan Ling and Lan Yuxin arrived at the Imperial City and joined Lin Duo and his allies against the Central Sacred Nation. Lan Ling used his Time-Space God Eyes to freeze enemies and aid Fu Qingshuang and Su Yanhua in battle.

• Lan Ling froze the battlefield and struck down hundreds of Dragon Slaying Bureau experts with one palm.
• Lan Ling told Prince Rong that he and Lan Yuxin had withdrawn from the Lan Clan, then greeted Lin Duo and embraced him.
• Lan Ling reassured Lin Duo and Li Subai, while Lan Yuxin paid her respects and Li Subai examined her approvingly.
• Lan Ling froze Prince Rong's personal guards, allowing Fu Qingshuang to kill hundreds with one sword strike.
• Lan Ling froze the Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord as they attacked Su Yanhua, giving her a chance to strike them.

Lan Ling froze the Central Sacred Nation’s forces and turned the battle in the Divine Martial Nation’s favor, but Mo Wenshen escaped after Li Zhengyi stopped his attack on her. Li Zhengyi reunited with Li Subai and Lin Duo, then demanded that Lin Duo call him elder brother.

• Lan Ling restrained the Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord, while Su Yanhua wounded the Phoenix Lord and the Dragon Lord escaped using a secret art.
• Lan Ling used Heaven Sealing: Nine Breaths to freeze the Central Sacred Nation’s soldiers, allowing the Divine Martial Nation’s forces to counterattack.
• Mo Wenshen broke free, sneaked behind Lan Ling, and tried to stab her, but Li Zhengyi appeared and seized him by the throat.
• Mo Wenshen used a bloody talisman to blast himself and Li Zhengyi apart, then fled before Li Zhengyi could catch him.
• Li Zhengyi greeted Lan Ling and looked at Li Subai in Lin Duo’s flame, then demanded Lin Duo call him elder brother.

Lin Bai returned to the battlefield in the Divine Capital and found Lin Duo’s forces nearly overwhelmed. He rejected Chu Jiangliu’s plan to sacrifice the remaining soldiers and prepared to open a path through Prince Rong’s army, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Li Zhengyi arrived alone, clashed with Prince Rong, and joined the fighting as the imperial city descended into chaos.
• Lin Bai, A Ning, Yin Jiuling, and the others emerged from the Wormhole Passage and found the battle still raging within the imperial city.
• Lin Bai reunited with Chu Jiangliu and Lin Duo, learned that more than half their fighters had fallen, and refused a plan to save Lin Duo by sacrificing the remaining soldiers.
• Lin Bai ordered Chu Jiangliu to gather the scattered troops and told the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals to return as the survivors assembled.
• Prince Rong taunted Lin Bai and vowed to cut off his own head if Lin Bai survived; Lin Bai accepted the wager.

Lin Bai unleashed his Quasi-Dao Realm Giant God Avatar to break through the imperial city and lead his surviving forces out of the Divine Capital. Seven Army Marquises defected with nearly five million troops, opening a route for Lin Bai to escape.

• Lin Bai sent out his Giant God Avatar, whose second Divine Crystal had awakened and whose cultivation had reached the Quasi-Dao Realm.
• The Giant God Avatar attacked Prince Rong’s forces, killing Su Linghai and Tan Gang, while Lin Bai ordered Chu Jiangliu and the others to fight their way out of the imperial city.
• Lin Bai’s warriors followed the Giant God Avatar through the city, cutting down Central Sacred Nation soldiers as Prince Rong called for them to be stopped.
• Lin Bai called on Marquis Tianwei and six other Army Marquises to choose whether they wanted to live, and Marquis Tianwei led nearly eight hundred thousand soldiers in the Tianwei Army to defect.
• Marquis Blood Moon, Marquis Qiyao, Marquis Yu, Marquis Beining, Marquis Ziyun, and Marquis Minggong also defected, bringing nearly five million soldiers into the fight against the Central Sacred Nation.
• Marquis Yu told Lin Bai that the defecting armies would open a path for him to leave the Divine Capital and meet their forces outside.

Lin Bai and Lin Duo fought their way out of the imperial city as the Sacred Emperor Zhao Chenhai tried to stop them with the Imperial Jade Seal and threats of the Zhao Family’s power. After Lin Bai’s group escaped the city, a Gray-Robed Old Man appeared, and Lin Bai recognized him as a Dao Realm expert.

• Seven Army Marquises led nearly five million soldiers to aid Chu Jiangliu and the others as Lin Bai’s group fought its way toward the imperial city’s exit.
• The Sacred Emperor Zhao Chenhai descended with the Imperial Jade Seal, warned Lin Duo that the Zhao Family’s ancestors could crush any rebellion, and tried to halt their escape.
• Lin Bai rejected the Sacred Emperor’s offer to delay them, struck the Imperial Jade Seal with the Demon Sword, and cut off one of its corners.
• After half an hour of fighting, Lin Bai and the others broke out of the imperial city and fled through the mist-covered Son of Heaven Palace along a route prepared by the Seventh Young Master and Su Xianmei.
• A Gray-Robed Old Man walked out from the imperial city, and Lin Bai recognized the power of a Dao Realm expert.

The Ninth Ancestor arrived to force Lin Duo to surrender a treasure, threatening to slaughter everyone in the Divine Capital if he refused. Lin Bai summoned the Black Warriors from the Burial River, and the Black Heaven Old Ancestor appeared as the armies charged out of the city.

• The Ninth Ancestor appeared and demanded that Lin Duo hand over the treasure in exchange for rewards and entry to the Spirit Realm.
• The Ninth Ancestor threatened to kill everyone gathered in the Central Sacred Nation if Lin Duo refused.
• Lin Bai threw an Azure Gourd at the Ninth Ancestor, and it released a turbid river filled with Black Warriors.
• Lin Bai revealed that the Black Heaven Old Ancestor had agreed to serve him for a price.
• Lin Bai ordered the three armies to advance at full speed and charge out of the Divine Capital.

Lin Bai led the Divine Martial Nation’s battered army out of the Divine Capital while Black Heaven Old Ancestor held off the Ninth Ancestor. As the Central Sacred Nation’s forces pursued and the Sacred Emperor devastated their ranks, Lin Bai stayed behind to confront him so the others could escape.

• Lin Duo praised Lin Bai for his preparations, while Li Zhengyi kept his distance despite the painful history behind his choices.
• Lin Bai ordered Black Heaven Old Ancestor to hold back the Dao Realm experts and led the three armies out of the Divine Capital.
• Black Heaven Old Ancestor blocked the Ninth Ancestor and sent the Black Warriors to delay the Central Sacred Nation’s pursuers.
• The Central Sacred Nation’s army chased the retreating Divine Martial Nation forces, and the Sacred Emperor used the imperial jade seal to kill thousands.
• Lin Bai asked his uncles to escort Lin Duo and the others onward, then stayed behind to hold off the Sacred Emperor.

Lin Bai stayed behind in Divine Capital to hold off the Sacred Emperor and fifteen other Quasi-Dao Realm experts while his allies escaped. As the fierce battle continued, Jian Ruohan flew from the pavilion to attack Marquis Yuankang after he wounded Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai told Li Zhengyi and the others to escape while he held off their pursuers, and they continued toward the gates of Divine Capital.
• The Sacred Emperor left Prince Rong and Prince Gui to deal with Lin Bai, but Lin Bai’s sword strike forced the Sacred Emperor and eleven Army Marquises to stop.
• Lin Bai fought the Sacred Emperor, the Dragon Lord, the Phoenix Lord, and the eleven Army Marquises, trading blows with them in a stalemate despite their combined assault.
• Zhao Yue, Tie Haitang, Hong Su, and Jian Ruohan watched Lin Bai’s battle from a pavilion as Zhao Yue urged the others not to worry.
• After Marquis Yuankang injured Lin Bai, Tie Haitang summoned a divine bow of flame, while Jian Ruohan flew toward Marquis Yuankang amid a wave of freezing cold.

Jian Ruohan arrived in Divine Capital and killed Marquis Yuankang to protect Lin Bai, then joined the battle against the Sacred Emperor. Tie Haitang and Hong Su also appeared, and Zhao Yue came into view as the fighting continued.

• Jian Ruohan froze Marquis Yuankang and shattered him, then told Lin Bai to withdraw from Divine Capital.
• Jian Ruohan avoided Lin Bai’s questions about her condition and struck him aside to intercept the Sacred Emperor’s attack.
• Jian Ruohan clashed with the Sacred Emperor, and Tie Haitang wounded him with a fire arrow from her divine bow.
• Hong Su played the Seventeen Musicians’ Grand Sun Celestial Sound Demon-Slaying Tune, nearly catching Prince Rong off guard.
• Lin Bai recognized Zhao Yue as she approached the battlefield.

Lin Bai confronted Zhao Yue and learned why she, Jian Ruohan, Tie Haitang, and Hong Su had gathered and considered going to the Spirit World. Jian Ruohan, Tie Haitang, and Hong Su chose to stay and help Lin Bai face the Central Sacred Nation, while Zhao Yue agreed to return to the Eastern Continent as Lin Bai turned to deal with the Sacred Emperor and Prince Rong.

• Zhao Yue explained that she wanted to reach the Spirit World to find a way to separate herself from Ye Suxin without dying, and that Jian Ruohan’s changed Ice Jade Poison also required a cure.
• Zhao Yue said Tie Haitang wanted to scout the Spirit World for Lin Bai, while Hong Su wanted to escape the life of a canary kept in a cage.
• Jian Ruohan, Tie Haitang, and Hong Su decided to stay and help Lin Bai rather than leave for the Spirit World immediately.
• Lin Bai ordered Zhao Yue to return to the Eastern Continent and told the other three to leave with the Divine Martial Nation’s army before he caught up with them.
• Zhao Yue summoned hundreds of Demonic Sect warriors, including the Wolf King, Lion King, Tiger King, and Snake King, as Lin Bai faced the Sacred Emperor and Prince Rong.