Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai hired the crow to alter Descent Mountain’s formation so Barren Ancient Continent travelers would reach a different territory in the Spirit World, while waiting for the right Ancient Immortal Sect experts to descend. He then agreed to help Zhao Tiedan seek the Western Continent’s Sacred Maiden’s hand in marriage.

• The crow explained that he could not remember his distant home, then agreed to hear Lin Bai’s request after Lin Bai offered money.
• Lin Bai asked the crow to change Descent Mountain’s teleportation route without severing the Barren Ancient Continent’s connection to the Upper Realm, and the crow demanded five hundred billion Vermillion Bird Pills.
• Lin Bai wrote an IOU, and the crow agreed to alter the formation so the Ancient Immortal Sect would not detect the change for five hundred years.
• Lin Bai told the crow to watch Descent Mountain and wait for Yu Qiudi or Zhang Chao to descend before changing the formation, explaining that he expected only a few people to know about the fragment.
• Lin Bai met Zhao Tiedan outside the Phoenix Tree Garden and agreed to go to the Western Continent the next day to ask for the Sacred Maiden’s hand in marriage.
• Zhao Tiedan went to fetch A Ning, Feng Wenjun, and the others so they could discuss the journey.

Lin Bai led Zhao Tiedan and their companions toward the Western Continent to ask Holy Maiden Jiuci to marry Zhao Tiedan, despite knowing the Buddha Land would fiercely oppose it. Lin Bai also intended to investigate the Western Continent’s role in the struggle for supremacy, and the group arrived in its territory.

• Lin Bai gathered his companions and concluded that persuading Holy Maiden Jiuci to leave the clergy would be extraordinarily difficult, but decided to try for Zhao Tiedan’s sake.
• Lin Bai obtained an imperial decree from Emperor Xiao, granting Zhao Tiedan the title of Marquis Tiger, and set out with his companions and betrothal gifts.
• News of the marriage proposal spread across the Barren Ancient Continent, prompting Buddhist believers throughout the Western Continent to gather at Buddha’s Fate Temple and oppose it.
• A Ning explained Holy Maiden Jiuci’s exalted status and warned Lin Bai that the proposal would insult the Western Continent’s Buddhist community.
• Lin Bai told A Ning that he also planned to investigate whether the Western Continent’s monks would enter the struggle for supremacy, while still intending to pursue the marriage if Jiuci returned Zhao Tiedan’s feelings.
• Lin Bai and his companions crossed from the Eastern Continent into the Western Continent while chatting and drinking on the dragon’s back.

Lin Bai arrived in the Western Continent with Zhao Ba to propose marriage to Holy Maiden Jiuci, prompting debate at Buddha's Fate Temple over whether she should return to secular life. Jiuci rejected the proposal, while her Martial Uncle warned that Lin Bai had conquered the Southern and Northern Continents and now controlled most of the Barren Ancient Continent.

• Lin Bai traveled across the Western Continent toward Buddha's Fate Temple, where crowds of cultivators had gathered to discuss his marriage proposal for Zhao Ba.
• The faithful urged the abbot to prevent Holy Maiden Jiuci from leaving the Buddhist sect, but the abbot said the choice belonged to her.
• In an ancient monastery, Jiuci stopped chanting when her Martial Uncle told her that Lin Bai had come to propose to her on Zhao Ba's behalf.
• Jiuci laughed and refused to enter the mortal world or marry Zhao Ba.
• Jiuci's Martial Uncle warned that Lin Bai had recently conquered the Southern and Northern Continents and that the Divine Martial Nation controlled two-thirds of the Barren Ancient Continent.

Holy Maiden Jiuci learned that Sword King Lin Bai was approaching Buddha's Fate Temple to arrange Zhao Ba’s marriage to her, while the Buddhist leaders of Western Continent rallied to resist Divine Martial Nation. Lin Bai arrived near the temple with his companions and announced his visit.

• An old monk told Holy Maiden Jiuci that Lin Bai had conquered Northern and Southern Continents and would reach Buddha's Fate Temple in five days to propose marriage to Zhao Ba.
• After the old monk left, Jiuci remembered Zhao Tiedan and continued chanting alone in the ancient temple.
• Leaders of the seven great Buddhist cities summoned Western Continent’s Buddhist sects and temples to unite and protect Jiuci from Lin Bai.
• Evil Flood Dragon carried Lin Bai and his companions across Western Continent, where they saw countless monks gathered around Buddha's Fate Temple.
• Lin Bai announced that he, A Ning, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, Feng Wenjun, Shi Jiamu, Mo Qing, and Zhao Ba had come to visit Buddha's Fate Temple.

Lin Bai and his companions arrived at Buddha's Fate Temple, where millions of monks had gathered to oppose Zhao Tiedan marrying Holy Maiden Jiuci. The temple's abbot welcomed them and arranged a meeting with Jiuci, while the tense gathering in the side hall left the two sides facing each other like armies.

• Lin Bai and his companions saw millions of monks gathered before Buddha's Fate Temple, and A Ning explained that many had come to stop Zhao Tiedan from marrying Jiuci.
• Lin Bai announced their arrival and paid his respects to the temple as monks below cursed and condemned them.
• Master Liuyun, the temple's abbot, welcomed Lin Bai and his companions, accepted Zhao Tiedan's gifts, and led them through the temple halls.
• Lin Bai asked Master Liuyun to introduce Jiuci, and the abbot invited him and Zhao Tiedan to wait in a side hall while someone summoned her.
• Shi Jiamu whispered to Feng Wenjun that the crowded monks opposite them seemed hostile, and Feng Wenjun silently agreed.

Lin Bai brought Zhao Tiedan to meet Holy Maiden Jiuci at Buddha's Fate Temple, where Zhao Tiedan embraced her in front of the assembled monks and experts. The Buddhist City experts attacked him, but Lin Bai and his companions stopped them, and Master Liuyun calmed the confrontation.

• Master Liuyun had Jiuci enter the hall and introduced her to Lin Bai, Zhao Ba, Mo Qing, and their companions.
• Jiuci's expression changed when she saw Zhao Tiedan, and Zhao Tiedan ran to her and pulled her into an embrace.
• Buddhist City experts attacked Zhao Tiedan, and A Ning, the Heavenly Crippled Four Brothers, and Feng Wenjun intercepted them.
• Lin Bai used a God Seal to badly injure the attackers, while Master Liuyun's Buddhist invocation soothed the gathering.
• Lin Bai told his companions to stand down and called Zhao Tiedan back; Jiuci regained her composure and returned to Master Liuyun's side.

At Buddha’s Fate Temple, Jiu Ci revealed that Zhao Tiedan had saved her and that they were husband and wife in fact. Lin Bai formally proposed that she leave the Buddhist order and marry Zhao Tiedan, but the temple’s leaders had not yet answered when Buddha City’s powerhouses objected and Lin Bai silenced them.

• Lin Bai apologized to Master Liuyun for Zhao Tiedan’s earlier disrespect, then warned the Buddha City powerhouses against causing trouble.
• Jiu Ci recounted how Zhao Tiedan had rescued and cared for her while they hid together for three months, explaining why she had called him Zhao Lang.
• Jiu Ci stated that Zhao Tiedan had dispelled the evil toxin in her body with her consent and that they were husband and wife in fact.
• Lin Bai formally asked Buddha’s Fate Temple to allow Jiu Ci to return to secular life and marry Zhao Tiedan on his behalf.
• When the Buddha City powerhouses shouted their refusal, Lin Bai unleashed his killing intent and sword intent, leaving them too frightened to speak.

Jiu Ci left the Buddhist path and married Zhao Tiedan after Lin Bai secured Master Liuyun’s approval, then returned with them to the Eastern Continent. Meanwhile, experts from the Ancient Immortal Sect and the Zhao Family descended at Descent Mountain, where Yu Qiudi demanded news about the fragments and the prisoners Li Subai and Lin Duo.

• Master Liuyun let Jiu Ci choose whether to leave Buddhism, and Jiu Ci agreed to go with Zhao Tiedan after he encouraged her to follow her heart.
• Lin Bai promised the Buddhist leaders that Zhao Tiedan would treat Jiu Ci well and that the Divine Martial Nation would not send troops into the Western Continent.
• Jiu Ci completed the Buddhist rites, married Zhao Tiedan, and left Buddha’s Fate Temple with Lin Bai and their companions aboard the Evil Flood Dragon.
• At Descent Mountain, a teleportation array brought several dozen experts from the Ancient Immortal Sect and the Zhao Family into the Central Sacred Nation.
• Yu Qiudi asked whether Li Subai and Lin Duo had confessed and demanded to know the whereabouts of the fragments.

Yu Qiudi and ten other Ancient Immortal Sect martial artists descended to the mortal realm and planned to seize the fragments by killing Lin Bai. As Lin Bai learned of their arrival, the Central Sacred Nation challenged him and Emperor Xiao to meet at the Dragon River.

• Yu Qiudi questioned the Sacred Emperor about the fragments, then ordered preparations to capture Lin Bai and wipe out his family.
• The Crow overheard the Ancient Immortal Sect's plans, redirected Descent Mountain's teleportation passage to a treasure-filled location in the Spirit Realm, and warned Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai received the Crow's message while traveling toward Lingnan Imperial City on the Evil Flood Dragon and told A Ning that the battle with the Ancient Immortal Sect was about to begin.
• The Central Sacred Nation delivered a challenge to Emperor Xiao, inviting him and the Sword King to meet the Sacred Emperor for a hunt by the Dragon River.

Divine Martial Nation and Central Sacred Nation mobilized their armies for a decisive battle at Dragon River, while Kunxu learned of the coming conflict. The Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals and other Kunxu fighters set out to join the battle.

• Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao decided to respond to the challenge, and Emperor Xiao summoned Chu Jiangliu as Divine Martial Nation recalled its legions and marched toward Dragon River.
• Central Sacred Nation sent nearly five hundred million soldiers across Dragon River to await the battle.
• Lan Yuxin reached Kunxu with news of the mobilization and Central Sacred Nation's challenge to Emperor Xiao and Lin Bai.
• The Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals realized the Ancient Immortal Sect's experts might have descended and decided to join the fight despite Lin Bai's silence.
• Lin Duo, Li Subai, and the Kunxu fighters, including Li Buzheng, Lan Yuxin, and Hu Xin'er, departed for Dragon River.

The Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals met a powerful, mysterious Slovenly Daoist on their way to the Dragon River and accepted his wine before continuing. As the Divine Martial Nation prepared for battle against the Central Sacred Nation, Lin Bai learned that his former senior brother and sister from the Spirit Sword Sect had arrived at camp.

• The Slovenly Daoist stopped the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals with a display of power and offered them bowls of wine to honor their righteous mission.
• Lin Duo and the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals drank the wine, and the Slovenly Daoist vanished without revealing who he was.
• The Divine Martial Nation and the Central Sacred Nation prepared their armies for a decisive battle across the frozen Dragon River.
• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao that eleven Ancient Immortal Sect experts had descended, including Yu Qiudi, who was nearing the Dao Sovereign realm.
• A guard reported that two visitors claimed to be Lin Bai’s senior brother and senior sister from the Spirit Sword Sect, and Lin Bai hurried out to greet them.

Lin Bai reunited with his Third Senior Brother Li Shanqing and Second Senior Sister Leng Nuan, who warned him that the Giant God Race was searching for the Barren Ancient Continent. They urged him to leave before the enemy found it, and Li Shanqing connected the search to Lin Bai’s killing of Gou Yu.

• Lin Bai introduced Li Shanqing and Leng Nuan as Spirit Sword Sect seniors and privately greeted Li Shanqing as his Third Senior Brother.
• Li Shanqing introduced Leng Nuan as Lin Bai’s Second Senior Sister, and she examined Lin Bai with skepticism.
• Li Shanqing ordered Lin Bai to leave the Barren Ancient Continent, explaining that the Giant God Race intended to attack him.
• Leng Nuan said the Giant God Race could locate the continent within three to five days or, at most, half a month.
• Lin Bai admitted that he had killed Gou Yu, and Li Shanqing explained that Gou Yu’s death had alerted the Giant God Race’s border patrol.

Li Shanqing and Leng Nuan warned Lin Bai that Gong Jun and the Giant God Race’s border patrol were coming to the Barren Ancient Continent to find Gou Yu’s killer. Lin Bai refused their offer to help him escape, determined to protect his family and the continent himself, and his senior siblings left for the Spirit World.

• Li Shanqing explained that Gong Jun had led more than a dozen Giant Gods to the Barren Ancient Continent in search of the person who killed Gou Yu.
• Leng Nuan said she and Li Shanqing could give Lin Bai a fifty percent chance of escaping, but Lin Bai hesitated over leaving the continent and his family behind.
• Bai Xiaoxiao urged Lin Bai to leave with his senior siblings, but he refused because he feared implicating them and abandoning the people of the Barren Ancient Continent.
• Lin Bai told Li Shanqing and Leng Nuan that he would go into hiding alone and revealed that he had already slain a Giant God.
• Leng Nuan left the royal tent, and Li Shanqing told Lin Bai to find him at the One Word Dao Sect if he survived before departing with her.

Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao that he would leave the Barren Ancient Continent after defeating the Central Sacred Nation to escape the Giant God Race, and she struggled with the prospect of his departure. He asked the Crow how to hide the continent from the Giant God Race, and the Crow hinted that a way might exist.

• Lin Bai explained to Bai Xiaoxiao that he planned to destroy the Central Sacred Nation, secure the Barren Ancient Continent, and then flee the Giant God Race.
• Bai Xiaoxiao broke down at the thought that Lin Bai might never return, but he urged her to strengthen the Divine Martial Nation and vowed to seek power to fight back.
• Bai Xiaoxiao summoned Chu Jiangliu and the others to plan the campaign while concealing her grief from them.
• Lin Bai met the Crow by the Dragon River and learned that the Crow could not hide the Barren Ancient Continent from the Giant God Race's search.
• The Crow hinted that despite the apparent dead end, there might be a way to conceal the continent.

Lin Bai realized the Giant God Race could threaten him through his friends and family, so the Crow advised him to move them beyond the Barren Ancient Continent. He began evacuating his loved ones and prepared to face the pursuing Giant God Race alone.

• The Crow explained that the Giant God Race could find Lin Bai’s loved ones through the Barren Ancient Continent, but moving them elsewhere would break its leverage over him.
• Lin Bai decided to evacuate his friends and family, then walked to the Divine Martial Nation’s royal tent, where Lin Duo, Li Subai, the Peach Mountain Eighteen Immortals, and Kunxu experts had gathered.
• Lin Bai summoned a colossal black sword and told the group to leave the Barren Ancient Continent for another minor world, explaining that the Giant God Race was coming.
• Bai Xiaoxiao agreed to leave, while Lin Duo and Li Subai worried about Lin Bai staying behind to draw the Giant God Race away.
• Lin Bai told his parents that the Evil Flood Dragon had gone to fetch Su Xianmei, Tie Haitang, Hong Su, and the others, and urged them to depart as soon as everyone arrived.

The Central Sacred Nation launched a night raid on the Divine Martial Nation’s camp, and Lin Bai flew to confront Yu Qiudi and the Ancient Immortal Sect experts. As Bai Xiaoxiao entrusted Chun Han with protecting the nation’s holdings, Lin Bai attacked Yu Qiudi after he taunted him about killing his maternal grandfather.

• Yu Qiudi agreed to let the Sacred Emperor attack the Divine Martial Nation’s camp while he focused on finding Lin Bai, Lin Duo, and Li Subai and obtaining the fragments.
• The Central Sacred Nation crossed the Dragon River at midnight and attacked the Divine Martial Nation’s camp.
• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao to prepare for the retreat and promised to destroy the Central Sacred Nation’s imperial clan and kill the Ancient Immortal Sect’s arrivals.
• Bai Xiaoxiao appointed Chun Han to temporarily govern the Divine Martial Nation and protect its holdings while they were away.
• Lin Bai flew to the Central Sacred Nation’s royal tent and challenged Yu Qiudi and the other arrivals from the Ancient Immortal Sect.
• Yu Qiudi identified himself, demanded the fragments, and taunted Lin Bai about killing his maternal grandfather, prompting Lin Bai to send three flying swords at him.

Lin Bai fought Yu Qiudi’s followers and reclaimed the Demon Sword from Zhang Chao, who had taken it years earlier. The battle left Yu Qiudi and the others facing Lin Bai’s growing strength, while Lin Bai held the recovered sword.

• Yu Qiudi demanded that Lin Bai reveal what he wanted, but Lin Bai provoked him and fought the five men around him.
• Lin Bai activated six God Seals and used the Three Kill Sword Formation to wound all five men, then killed three and left another unable to fight.
• Zhang Chao blocked Lin Bai’s attack with the Demon Sword, and Lin Bai revealed that the sword had belonged to him.
• Lin Bai overwhelmed Zhang Chao, severed the hand holding the Demon Sword, and reclaimed it without touching the blade directly.

After Zhang Chao revealed the Demon Sword, Yu Qiudi learned it was one of the Barren Ancient Continent’s Ten Great Demonic Weapons and suspected it dated back to the creation war. Greedy for the ancient treasure, Yu Qiudi rejected Zhao Jingmen’s offer to retrieve it and stepped forward to kill Lin Bai himself.

• Zhang Chao explained that he had secretly kept the Demon Sword after taking it from Lin Bai, hoping to break its three seals.
• The Sacred Emperor and the Ninth Ancestor identified the sword as one of the Ten Great Demonic Weapons and recounted its legendary appearances.
• Yu Qiudi reasoned that the Demon Sword could be a relic of the creation war that shattered the Spirit Realm into the Three Thousand Worlds.
• Zhang Chao apologized for hiding the sword, and Yu Qiudi dismissed his apology while claiming the treasure for himself.
• Zhao Jingmen offered to kill Lin Bai and retrieve the Demon Sword, but Yu Qiudi refused and advanced toward Lin Bai with overwhelming power.

Lin Bai resisted Profound Eye’s urge to claim the Demon Sword and put it away before Yu Qiudi demanded the treasures. Yu Qiudi attacked with Ancient Immortal Sect arts, and Lin Bai fought back with his swords and treasures, ending the chapter with a sudden Immortal-Slaying thrust.

• Lin Bai felt Profound Eye’s intense yearning for the Demon Sword, shattered Zhang Chao’s severed arm, and stored the sword without touching it.
• Yu Qiudi emerged and demanded Lin Bai hand over the fragments and Demon Sword, but Lin Bai refused and challenged him.
• Yu Qiudi used the Ancient Immortal Sect Mystic Art Chess Pinch to crush Lin Bai, but Lin Bai’s three flying swords broke the forceful palm.
• Yu Qiudi attacked with a powerful fist technique, and Lin Bai met him with the Three Kill Sword Formation, the Demon Sword, and the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Lin Bai sent out the Three Kill Sword Formation to distract Yu Qiudi, then thrust at him with Immortal-Slaying.

Lin Bai faced Yu Qiudi’s Fist of the Great Luo Cave Heaven and revealed the strength of his Sword Heart. He broke through Yu Qiudi’s defenses and drove him to plead for Zhao Jingmen’s help.

• Yu Qiudi used talismans from his Storage Bag to block Lin Bai’s Zhu Xian Sword, then unleashed the Fist of the Great Luo Cave Heaven.
• Zhang Chao and Zhao Jingmen praised Yu Qiudi’s trump card as it created a domain and sent a devastating punch at Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai used his Sword Heart to strengthen his sword intent and shattered Yu Qiudi’s fist force with a powerful strike.
• Lin Bai’s sword broke through Yu Qiudi’s protective treasures and wounded him as he tried to retreat.
• Yu Qiudi begged Zhao Jingmen and the Zhao Family’s powerhouses to intervene before Lin Bai killed him.