Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai helped Chu Jiangliu escape the arrow barrage, and the Grand Princess ordered the Qi Family Army arrested after Tuoba Feng withdrew. Lin Bai learned that Tuoba Feng had brought twenty-five City-Shattering Cannons and asked where they were, leaving Jiayue Pass's defense in urgent danger.

• Lin Bai seized Chu Jiangliu and flew to the city wall, escaping the rain of arrows as Tuoba Feng threatened to destroy Jiayue Pass with City-Shattering Cannons.
• The Grand Princess ordered the arrest of the Qi Family Army and warned that Bai Huatian might threaten the emperor.
• Lin Bai rested in the Grand Princess's quarters while she explained that the Great Moon Kingdom's City-Shattering Cannons had devastated Nanning Pass.
• The Grand Princess said Tuoba Feng had brought twenty-five cannons, which were powerful but huge, difficult to move, and impossible to store in a Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai urged the Grand Princess to keep the cannons away from Jiayue Pass and asked where they were.

Lin Bai agreed to join Chu Jiangliu and the Dragonhawk Legion on a dangerous mission to destroy the Great Moon Kingdom’s City-Shattering Cannons at Nanning Pass before they could be moved to Jiayue Pass. After an interrupted kiss with the Grand Princess, Lin Bai set out with Chu Jiangliu, who promised to explain the operation on the way.

• The Grand Princess showed Lin Bai a map and explained that the City-Shattering Cannons were at Nanning Pass, while Jiayue Pass was threatened if they reached it.
• The Grand Princess revealed that she had brought thirty thousand Dragonhawk Legion soldiers and asked Lin Bai to help destroy the cannons.
• Lin Bai reassured the Grand Princess that he would take the risk, and she kissed him.
• Chu Jiangliu entered and requested permission to lead the Dragonhawk Legion to Nanning Pass; after realizing he had interrupted the Grand Princess and Lin Bai, he offered to return later.
• Lin Bai agreed to go with Chu Jiangliu, and the Grand Princess told Chu Jiangliu to explain the operation on the way.

Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu led ten thousand Dragonhawk Legion soldiers toward Nanning Pass to stop the Great Moon Kingdom’s City-Shattering Cannon Legion. After witnessing the devastation across the southern border, they reached the ruined pass, where Lin Bai left the battle plan to Chu Jiangliu.

• Lin Bai ordered Chu Jiangliu to ready the Dragonhawk Legion, and they set out from Jiayue Pass with ten thousand soldiers.
• As the Dragonhawk Legion flew over the southern border, Lin Bai saw the Black Moon Legion massacring a city, and Chu Jiangliu explained the Great Moon Kingdom’s three strongest legions.
• Lin Bai continued toward Nanning Pass without stopping to rescue the survivors in the hundreds of ravaged cities he passed.
• The Dragonhawk Legion reached Nanning Pass and spotted millions of Great Moon Kingdom troops stationed among the ruined walls.
• Lin Bai told Chu Jiangliu to plan how they would enter the pass and find the City-Shattering Cannons.

Tuoba Feng learned that Lin Bai was accompanying the Dragonhawk Legion to Nanning Pass and led the Moon God Legion there to trap them. Lin Bai infiltrated the pass alone to locate the City-Shattering Cannons, where he caught a Great Moon Kingdom scout and began searching his soul.

• Tang Tianhao told Tuoba Feng that Bai Xiaoxiao had sent ten thousand Dragonhawk Legion soldiers to Nanning Pass and that Lin Bai was with them.
• Tuoba Feng assembled thirty thousand Moon God Legion soldiers and set out for Nanning Pass, while Tang Tianhao ordered Li Xiao to coordinate a two-sided attack.
• Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu discussed finding the hidden City-Shattering Cannons, and Lin Bai chose to infiltrate the pass alone with a command arrow for his escape.
• Lin Bai jumped from the Dragonhawk Steed, opened his Wind Lightning Divine Wings, and approached Nanning Pass while sensing the forest with his Sword Intent.
• Lin Bai caught a camouflaged Great Moon Kingdom scout and used Soul Search on him.

Lin Bai infiltrated Nanning Pass disguised as scout Tian Jiang and used Lin De’s memories to locate the City-Shattering Cannons. He reached the heavily guarded plaza where they were stored and prepared to act.

• Lin Bai gave the army’s password and entered Nanning Pass with Lin De.
• Lin Bai asked where the City-Shattering Cannons were kept, and Lin De grew suspicious and ordered him to remove his cloak.
• Lin Bai revealed his identity, seized Lin De, used Soul Search to learn the cannons’ location, and killed him.
• Lin Bai reached a northern plaza guarded by fifty or sixty thousand warriors and confirmed that the City-Shattering Cannons were stored there.

Lin Bai infiltrated the square where the City-Shattering Cannons were hidden, seized Mu Wanke, and used Soul Search to learn how to operate the weapons. He killed Mu Wanke and took the City-Shattering Pearls, but a hundred thousand guards then charged at him.

• Lin Bai discovered that a hundred thousand soldiers guarded the square and met Mu Wanke, the cannon corps commandant.
• Lin Bai took Mu Wanke hostage and forced him into the square, where he found the concealed garment hiding the City-Shattering Cannons.
• Mu Wanke broke free and raised the alarm, summoning the guards as Lin Bai caught him and used Soul Search to search his memories.
• Lin Bai learned that City-Shattering Pearls powered the cannons, killed Mu Wanke, and took the pearls from his Storage Bag.
• The guards discovered Mu Wanke was dead and charged at Lin Bai with their Long Glaives.

Lin Bai seized control of the City-Shattering Cannons at Nanning Pass and used them to devastate the guard soldiers and destroy the weapons. As the Dragonhawk Legion prepared to support him, he continued firing at the remaining cannons.

• Lin Bai fought through the charging guards, tore away a Cloak of Concealment, and revealed more than twenty City-Shattering Cannons.
• Lin Bai used a City-Shattering Pearl to activate a cannon and fired twice, killing more than fifty thousand guard soldiers.
• Li Xiao learned the cannons had been attacked, while Chu Jiangliu recognized their blasts and ordered the Dragonhawk Legion to prepare to support Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai aimed the cannon at the other City-Shattering Cannons and began destroying them, counting off as he fired.

Lin Bai infiltrated Nanning Pass and destroyed most of its City-Shattering Cannons before fleeing under attack. A Dragon-Piercing Ballista bolt pierced him, but Chu Jiangliu rescued him as the Dragonhawk Legion retreated, with Li Xiao pursuing.

• Lin Bai destroyed twenty-two City-Shattering Cannons, then realized two of Tuoba Feng’s twenty-five cannons were missing.
• As hundreds of thousands of soldiers converged, Lin Bai flew away and destroyed the cannon he had been piloting with Wind Slash.
• Li Xiao ordered the crossbow battalion to fire and then launched nine Dragon-Piercing Ballista bolts at Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai shattered eight bolts with three sword attacks, but the ninth pierced his abdomen and sent him crashing down.
• Chu Jiangliu arrived with the Dragonhawk Legion, caught the falling Lin Bai, and led the legion in retreat.
• Li Xiao ordered the Light Cavalry Battalion and Crossbow Battalion to pursue the Dragonhawk Legion.

Tuoba Feng pursued Lin Bai and the Dragonhawk Legion after killing Li Xiao for failing to protect Nanning Pass. As the wounded Lin Bai led the retreat toward the Fallen Cloud Mountains, Tuoba Feng ordered the Moon God Legion to prepare its Quake Arrows.

• Tuoba Feng arrived at Nanning Pass, heard that Lin Bai had destroyed twenty-three City-Shattering Cannons, and killed Li Xiao.
• Tuoba Feng led fifty thousand soldiers in pursuit of the Dragonhawk Legion and promised the troops a promotion if they destroyed it.
• Lin Bai treated his severe wound and told Chu Jiangliu that he had found twenty-three cannons but could not locate the last two.
• Tuoba Feng's ranged troops shot down dragonhawks as the legion fled toward the Fallen Cloud Mountains.
• After learning the Dragonhawk Legion was heading into the mountains, Tuoba Feng ordered the Moon God Legion to ready its Quake Arrows.

Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu’s Dragonhawk Legion were devastated by Tuoba Feng’s Quake Arrows, leaving only a little over a thousand survivors. Surrounded by fifty thousand troops and urged to surrender, Lin Bai refused and faced Tuoba Feng with his sword drawn.

• Tuoba Feng’s Quake Arrows exploded among the Dragonhawk Legion, killing all its Dragonhawks and bringing down thousands of soldiers.
• Lin Bai used his Wind Lightning Divine Wings to save Chu Jiangliu, but a Quake Arrow blast wounded him and reopened the injury in his abdomen.
• Tuoba Feng surrounded Lin Bai and the survivors, revealed that King Qi had helped the Great Moon Kingdom invade, and offered Lin Bai power and marriage if he surrendered.
• Lin Bai refused to betray Divine Martial Nation, and the Dragonhawk Legion’s surviving soldiers rejected Tuoba Feng’s offer to spare those who knelt.
• Tuoba Feng ordered the Moon God Legion to kill the Dragonhawk soldiers, leaving Lin Bai and Chu Jiangliu alone before his fifty thousand troops.
• Tuoba Feng demanded that Lin Bai kneel, but Lin Bai drew the Azure Song Sword and vowed to die rather than beg for mercy.

Lin Bai was nearly killed by Tuoba Feng, but Li Daohan and the Southern Domain Myriad Cities Alliance arrived and rescued him. Tuoba Feng retreated toward Nanning Pass, ordering the City-Shattering Cannons sent to Jiayue Pass as he threatened Lin Bai and the woman he loved.

• Tuoba Feng struck Lin Bai with the Mount Tai Seal and left him gravely wounded, then moved in to kill him.
• Li Daohan ambushed Tuoba Feng as the Myriad Cities Alliance emerged from the Fallen Cloud Mountains and attacked the Moon God Legion.
• Li Daohan rescued Lin Bai and called Chu Jiangliu to escape with them through the fighting.
• Tuoba Feng ordered his forces to retreat to Nanning Pass and commanded the City-Shattering Cannons to advance toward Jiayue Pass within seven days.
• The Myriad Cities Alliance pursued the retreating forces until the City-Shattering Cannons Legion arrived from Nanning Pass, then withdrew into the Fallen Cloud Mountains.

While recovering in the Fallen Cloud Mountains, Lin Bai heard five-year-old Niu Niu fear that the Great Moon Kingdom’s invasion would keep her from living to six. Ling Tianzi’s message revealed that Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul could refine martial artists’ blood, giving him renewed resolve to fight and protect her.

• Thirty-four survivors gathered outside the hut while Lin Bai recovered from his wounds and learned that the Great Moon Kingdom’s Black Moon Legion was devastating the southern border.
• Niu Niu brought Lin Bai meat soup and asked whether she would live until next year; Lin Bai struggled to promise her safety.
• Lin Bai opened the brocade pouch Ling Tianzi had given him and found instructions explaining that the Devouring Sword Soul could refine martial artists’ blood as well as demonic beasts’ blood.
• Lin Bai realized the ability could give him the strength to fight the army, promised Niu Niu that she would live to a hundred, and vowed that the war would end soon.

Lin Bai sent Chu Jiangliu and Li Daohan to reinforce Jiayue Pass while he headed to Hejian City, promising to force the Great Moon Kingdom to withdraw within ten days. In Hejian City, the Grand Tutor prepared a new Moon Piercer Bow, Quake Arrows, and other supplies for the front lines.

• Lin Bai learned that Li Daohan had reached the fourth level of the Heaven Martial Realm and told him and Chu Jiangliu to take the Myriad Cities Alliance warriors to Jiayue Pass.
• Lin Bai left Nanning Pass alone, vowing that the Great Moon Kingdom would withdraw within ten days.
• Lin Bai surveyed Hejian City, a Great Moon Kingdom supply hub guarded by roughly one hundred thousand soldiers.
• A black-armored soldier reported that the imperial weapon-refining team had forged a Grade Six Moon Piercer Bow and a little over a thousand Quake Arrows.
• The Grand Tutor ordered fifty thousand elite soldiers to deliver the weapons, arrows, healing pills, and other supplies to Jiayue Pass, and commanded the imperial teams to keep producing supplies.

Lin Bai infiltrated Hejian City, killed a black-armored messenger carrying the Moon Piercer Bow and Quake Arrows, and searched his memories. He then confronted the Grand Tutor and attacked him, but the Grand Tutor knocked his sword aside and threatened him with Hejian City's million soldiers.

• Lin Bai killed the black-armored man, searched his memories, and took the Moon Piercer Bow, Quake Arrows, and healing pills from his Storage Bag.
• Lin Bai refined the black-armored man's essence blood, then entered the City Lord's Mansion in Hejian City.
• The Grand Tutor confronted the unseen intruder, and Lin Bai revealed that he had come to borrow the Grand Tutor's head.
• Lin Bai attacked the Grand Tutor with the Azure Song Sword, but the Grand Tutor deflected the blade and boasted that Hejian City commanded a million soldiers.

Lin Bai defeated the Grand Tutor and forced him to contact Tuoba Feng with a Shadow Transmission Compass, demanding that he withdraw the Great Moon Kingdom’s troops. Tuoba Feng saw Lin Bai holding his teacher hostage but had not yet decided whether to withdraw.

• Lin Bai defeated the Grand Tutor with his sword and held him at blade point, demanding that the Great Moon Kingdom withdraw its troops.
• The Grand Tutor revealed he could contact Tuoba Feng using a Shadow Transmission Compass and activated it.
• Tuoba Feng, marching toward Jiayue Pass, answered the compass and promised his teacher a royal title after conquering the Divine Martial Nation.
• Lin Bai took the compass and threatened to kill the Grand Tutor unless Tuoba Feng withdrew his troops immediately.
• Tuoba Feng raged at Lin Bai and struggled with the ultimatum as the Grand Tutor pleaded for him to withdraw.

Lin Bai learned from the Grand Tutor that Tuoba Feng’s invasion was driven by his love for Consort Yun, who could make him withdraw his army. After searching the Grand Tutor’s memories and crippling him, Lin Bai flew off toward Consort Yun while the Grand Tutor ordered the city sealed and warned the imperial capital.

• Tuoba Feng refused to save the Grand Tutor, crushed the Shadow Transmission Compass, and ordered his ten-million-strong army to advance toward Jiayue Pass.
• The Grand Tutor told Lin Bai that Consort Yun had a deep relationship with Tuoba Feng and that Tuoba Feng’s campaign was meant to secure the throne so he could be with her.
• Lin Bai used Soul Search on the Grand Tutor, then spared his life but destroyed his dantian before flying away.
• The Grand Tutor ordered his forces to seal the city and kill Lin Bai, then sent word to the imperial city that Lin Bai’s target was Consort Yun.

Lin Bai raced to the Great Moon Kingdom’s imperial palace to find Consort Yun and stop Tuoba Feng from destroying Jiayue Pass. He secretly entered the Forbidden City and discovered that the emperor had placed guards around Consort Yun because Lin Bai was coming to abduct her.

• Lin Bai escaped the soldiers at Hejian City and set out to reach the Great Moon Kingdom within five days.
• After two days and nights of travel, Lin Bai arrived above the Forbidden City, exhausted but with some true qi remaining.
• Lin Bai slipped into the imperial palace by following eunuchs and palace maids carrying washing supplies.
• Lin Bai saw Consort Yun with the aged emperor and recognized her as the Great Moon Kingdom’s famed beauty.
• The emperor told Consort Yun that Lin Bai was headed to the capital to abduct her and that guards would protect her until the Second Prince returned.

Lin Bai broke into the Great Moon Kingdom's Forbidden City and abducted Consort Yun, whom the Emperor had been discussing with her. He left the Emperor alive and threatened to kill Consort Yun unless Tuoba Feng withdrew his troops.

• The Emperor of the Great Moon Kingdom told Consort Yun that Lin Bai was a powerful genius and promised to capture him for her after the Second Prince's victory.
• Lin Bai burst into the bathing room and revealed himself as the Lin Bai they had been discussing.
• Lin Bai killed the palace maids and eunuchs, then seized Consort Yun.
• The Emperor attacked Lin Bai, but Lin Bai struck him down and demanded that he make Tuoba Feng withdraw his troops or Consort Yun would die.
• Lin Bai carried Consort Yun out of the Forbidden City with his Wind Lightning Divine Wings, while the Emperor called for help.

After the Emperor ordered the imperial city sealed, Lin Bai tried to escape with Consort Yun but was stopped by Quake Arrows and Meng Xiao’s troops. Lin Bai fought back with more Quake Arrows and charged at Meng Xiao, determined to take Consort Yun with him.

• The Emperor ordered the Moon God Defense Array activated and the city searched for Lin Bai.
• Meng Xiao activated the array as Lin Bai flew toward the city wall with Consort Yun, who urged him to surrender.
• A Quake Arrow struck Lin Bai, and Consort Yun hit him from behind, sending him crashing into a building before she escaped.
• Meng Xiao arrived with more than a thousand soldiers, and Consort Yun asked him to capture Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai fired nine Quake Arrows at Meng Xiao and his troops, then detonated the arrow Meng Xiao had caught.
• Lin Bai charged at Meng Xiao with the Azure Song Sword and declared that he would take Consort Yun with him.

Lin Bai was overwhelmed by Meng Xiao and the Imperial Guard’s Quake Arrows, but he unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul to destroy the soldiers surrounding him. After absorbing their vital blood, Lin Bai recovered from his wounds and advanced to the seventh level of the Heaven Martial Realm, while Meng Xiao and the other generals looked on in terror.

• Lin Bai cleaved Meng Xiao’s Grade Five Spirit Tool saber in two, but Meng Xiao retreated with Consort Yun as Imperial Guard reinforcements arrived.
• Meng Xiao ordered the troops to fire Quake Arrows and form a shield of light, knocking Lin Bai back and leaving him vulnerable to the arrows’ explosions.
• The Moon God Legion soldiers charged Lin Bai and wounded him as the Quake Arrows’ force made it difficult for him to defend himself.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Devouring Sword Soul, which drained the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers and drew spiritual power from nearby buildings.
• Lin Bai absorbed the soldiers’ vital blood, healed his wounds, replenished his true qi, and broke through to the seventh level of the Heaven Martial Realm.