Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai sat down and defeated Li Zhaoxing with one move, then continued overcoming the Heng Province Alliance’s Dao Realm fighters as Vice-Alliance Leader Wu sent them out to wear him down. The alliance’s attrition strategy became clear as more than sixty fighters fell, with five hours remaining until sunset.

• Lin Bai caught Li Zhaoxing’s full-strength punch while seated, then shattered his arm and defeated him with a single counterattack.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu had Li Zhaoxing taken away for treatment and refused to summon Shangguan Xiu, who was in seclusion, instead ordering the alliance to keep fighting Lin Bai.
• A Dao Realm martial artist charged Lin Bai with a sword, but Lin Bai found the technique’s flaw, shattered its sword shadows, and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai defeated successive Heng Province Alliance fighters in one move each, eventually beating more than sixty Dao Realm martial artists.
• Watching martial artists recognized that Vice-Alliance Leader Wu was using weak fighters to exhaust Lin Bai before sending a stronger opponent against him.

Lin Bai continued defeating the Heng Province Alliance’s fighters one by one as they tried to exhaust him, then faced Wu Yuanqing, whom Vice-Alliance Leader Wu sent in to claim an easy victory. Lin Bai crushed Wu Yuanqing’s attack and slammed his head into the ground.

• A Heng Province Alliance martial artist warned Lin Bai that the alliance meant to wear him down, but Lin Bai refused to admit defeat and knocked him out with one punch.
• Lin Bai continued sending each successive fighter flying with a single punch while Vice-Alliance Leader Wu watched.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu summoned Wu Yuanqing and told him Lin Bai was exhausted, urging him to win cleanly and bring glory to the alliance.
• Wu Yuanqing entered the arena and challenged Lin Bai, who insulted him and Shangguan Xiu.
• Wu Yuanqing attacked with blades of wind, but Lin Bai seized his wrist and drove his head into the ground with one palm.

Lin Bai continued to dominate the Heng Province Alliance’s relay challenge, defeating Wu Yuanqing and taunting the alliance over its inability to exhaust him. Vice-Alliance Leader Wu called on Shangguan Xiu to fight for the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and Shangguan Xiu entered the arena to face Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai pulled the unconscious Wu Yuanqing from the ground and threw him before Vice-Alliance Leader Wu.
• Lin Bai told Vice-Alliance Leader Wu that the alliance’s fighters could not exhaust his spiritual power, even in a prolonged relay battle.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu’s protectors urged him to continue the challenge, but he decided to summon Shangguan Xiu.
• Shangguan Xiu arrived, explained that he had come to see the excitement, and agreed to fight Lin Bai.
• Shangguan Xiu entered the arena as the alliance’s strongest Dao Realm martial artist, and Lin Bai greeted him before their final battle.

Lin Bai faced Shangguan Xiu, the Heng Province Alliance’s final challenger, after defeating hundreds of martial artists without standing. Shangguan Xiu briefly knocked Lin Bai back, but Lin Bai stood, seized him, and revealed that the Alliance’s champion was no match for him.

• Shangguan Xiu arrived and recognized Lin Bai’s body-refinement strength after probing him with a gust from his folding fan.
• Shangguan Xiu struck Lin Bai with a punch, knocking him back a hundred meters and revealing that he also practiced body refinement.
• Lin Bai rose and mocked the Heng Province Alliance, drawing anticipation from the watching martial artists.
• Shangguan Xiu attacked again with a dragon-shaped blast of sand and dust, but Lin Bai severed it with a palm strike.
• Lin Bai grabbed Shangguan Xiu, sealed his meridians and spiritual power, and questioned whether he was truly the strongest Dao Realm martial artist of the Eternal Devil Sect.

Lin Bai defeated Shangguan Xiu and waited until sunset to claim victory over the Heng Province Alliance, forcing its leader Murong Chuan to promise not to trouble the Sword Hiding Hermitage or Lin Bai’s associates. Lin Bai then asked the alliance to hand over Li Yumen, but learned that Wang Qi had been expelled from both his family and the alliance, leaving Li Yumen’s fate unresolved.

• Lin Bai defeated Shangguan Xiu, who refused to risk a fight to the death and left in humiliation.
• No one else from the Heng Province Alliance challenged Lin Bai before sunset, so he declared victory and warned the alliance not to target the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Murong Chuan announced that the Heng Province Alliance would honor its bet and stop interfering with Lin Bai, his friends, and his family.
• Lin Bai asked Murong Chuan to hand over Li Yumen, whom he suspected Wang Qi had abducted.
• Vice-Alliance Leader Wu denied the charge, and Murong Chuan confirmed that Wang Qi had been expelled from his family and the Heng Province Alliance.

After clearing the Heng Province Alliance of suspicion, Lin Bai deduced that Young Master Lu had taken Li Yumen and was using him to lure out the thief who stole the Devil Orbs. A letter summoned Lin Bai to White Dragon Ridge, where Jiang Xuansu warned that the Bone Clan could trap and kill him.

• Lin Bai left the Heng Province Alliance after Murong Chuan confirmed Wang Qi had been expelled, and Vice-Alliance Leader Wu was reprimanded that night.
• Lin Bai explained to Jiang Xuansu that Young Master Lu had used Wang Qi to draw him out and would come after him to recover the stolen Devil Orbs.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu returned toward the Sword Hiding Hermitage, where Wu Yuan delivered a letter demanding Lin Bai go to White Dragon Ridge to save Li Yumen.
• Lin Bai paid Wu Yuan ten thousand Devil Orbs for delivering the letter, but Wu Yuan could not identify the sender beyond his black robes and bamboo hat.
• Jiang Xuansu warned Lin Bai that White Dragon Ridge lay in Bone Clan territory and that Young Master Lu could use the Bone Clan to kill him.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu planned to rescue Li Yumen from the Bone clan’s territory, where Young Master Lu had laid a trap for Lin Bai. Lin Bai entered the White Bone Battlefield alone, while Young Master Lu’s forces watched and prepared an ambush at White Dragon Ridge.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu concluded that Young Master Lu had placed Li Yumen in the Bone clan’s territory to lure Lin Bai into a deadly trap.
• Lin Bai decided to go to the White Bone Battlefield to save Li Yumen, despite knowing he and Jiang Xuansu could not face the Bone clan alone.
• Jiang Xuansu proposed informing the Eighth Elder that Young Master Lu would appear at White Dragon Ridge so he would bring reinforcements.
• Lin Bai agreed to risk the Eighth Elder’s anger and asked Jiang Xuansu to arrange the expedition while he went ahead alone.
• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai the Eighth Elder had entered the White Bone Battlefield with experts, and Lin Bai headed alone for White Dragon Ridge.
• A Bone clan member at White Dragon Ridge received Young Master Lu’s message that Lin Bai had arrived.

Lin Bai went to White Dragon Ridge to confront Wang Qi and recover Li Yumen, whom Young Master Lu had handed over to the Bone Race. He found Li Yumen badly injured, learned Wang Qi had tortured him, and faced the Bone Race Honored Ones on the mountaintop.

• Lin Bai arrived at White Dragon Ridge, where Wang Qi and tens of thousands of Bone Race members were waiting in ambush.
• Wang Qi admitted abducting Li Yumen and said Young Master Lu had ordered him kept alive until the treasure was recovered.
• Wang Qi attacked Lin Bai, but the Bone Race Honored One blocked the strike and summoned Lin Bai to the mountaintop.
• Lin Bai found Li Yumen severely wounded, treated him, and reassured him that he knew he had not betrayed him.
• The Yinshan Honored One denied that the Bone Race had harmed Li Yumen, but Wang Qi admitted that he had tortured him.

Lin Bai used the Bone Race’s need for the stolen treasure to bargain for Li Yumen’s safety and Wang Qi’s death. The Bone Race let Wang Qi leave instead, while Lin Bai remained to hand over the treasure and face his own death.

• Lin Bai told Yinshan Honored One and Hundred Battles Honored One that the treasure was waiting in the city and demanded that they let Li Yumen go and kill Wang Qi.
• Lin Bai argued that the Bone Race needed the treasure and would never spare him, while warning that torture would not make him reveal its location.
• Yinshan Honored One refused to kill Wang Qi at first, but Lin Bai insisted that the treasure would remain out of reach unless the Bone Race accepted his condition.
• Lin Bai explained that his puppet would take the treasure away if he died before ordering it to deliver the goods.
• Yinshan Honored One revealed that Young Master Lu had not objected to Wang Qi’s death, and the Bone Race ordered Wang Qi to leave.
• Wang Qi cursed Lin Bai, Li Yumen, Young Master Lu, and the Bone Race before escaping White Dragon Ridge.

Lin Bai used his Supreme Avatar to escape the two Bone Race Honored Ones on White Dragon Ridge, and the Eighth Elder arrived to fight them. Lin Bai left White Bone Battlefield with Li Yumen while Jiang Xuansu went to assist the Eighth Elder.

• Yinshan Honored One killed Wang Qi, and Lin Bai told the Bone Race Honored Ones he would summon a puppet in exchange for a quick death.
• Lin Bai summoned several hundred Eternal Devil Sect powerhouses, angering the Bone Race Honored Ones, who tried to seize him before help arrived.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Supreme Avatar, whose sword strike split White Dragon Ridge and forced the two Honored Ones to evade, then fled with Li Yumen.
• The Eighth Elder arrived, drove the two Bone Race Honored Ones into the earth, and told Lin Bai to leave while he handled the fight.
• Jiang Xuansu sent Lin Bai toward the exit with Li Yumen and flew back to help the Eighth Elder as three Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists clashed.

Lin Bai returned to the Eternal Devil Sect with the gravely wounded Li Yumen and worried about the Eighth Elder and Jiang Xuansu, who had stayed behind at the White Bone Battlefield. He warned Liu Jiangxue about the dangers of remaining near him, but she vowed to stay by his side; then the Eighth Elder and Jiang Xuansu returned, and Lin Bai asked how the battle had ended.

• Lin Bai brought Li Yumen back to the Sword Hiding Hermitage, treated him with Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk, and helped him escape danger.
• Lin Bai worried that the Eighth Elder and Jiang Xuansu might be outnumbered by the Bone Clan at the White Bone Battlefield.
• Lin Bai told Liu Jiangxue that his enemies could endanger her and An An, and offered them the choice of leaving the Sword Hiding Hermitage for the outer sect.
• Liu Jiangxue said that she and An An would remain with Lin Bai and never betray him.
• The Eighth Elder and Jiang Xuansu returned injured, accepted Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Milk from Lin Bai, and Lin Bai asked whether the battle had been settled.

Lin Bai discussed the threat posed by Young Master Lu and the danger facing the Sword Hiding Hermitage, then went to the Qin Pavilion to collect the pills he had commissioned. Qin Yuyan gave him the finished pills and explained the healing medicine’s limited supply and life-saving effects.

• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, and the Eighth Elder discussed the Bone Race’s attack and the difficulty of tracking down Young Master Lu.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he planned to leave the Sword Hiding Hermitage’s weaker residents better protected and to visit the Qin Pavilion for pills that would help him advance to the Dao Sovereign realm.
• Lin Bai and Zhou Xi traveled to Qilin Town and waited several hours before Qin Yuyan arrived at the Qin Pavilion.
• Qin Yuyan gave Lin Bai one hundred Jade Emperor Pills, one hundred Divine Firmament Pills, and seven Reunion Pills.
• Qin Yuyan explained that Reunion Pills were difficult to refine, but could save someone who had suffered severe injuries.

Lin Bai used Divine Firmament Pills to cultivate in seclusion and broke through to the Dao Venerable Realm after two months. He emerged to find Li Yumen recovering at the Sword Hiding Hermitage and received congratulations from those around him.

• Qin Yuyan explained the effects of the Reunion Pill and told Lin Bai that one hundred Divine Firmament Pills could help him reach the Dao Venerable Realm.
• Lin Bai gave Li Yumen a Reunion Pill, instructed Zhou Xi to care for him, and began refining the Divine Firmament Pills in seclusion.
• Li Yumen woke after seven days and stayed at the Sword Hiding Hermitage to recuperate instead of returning to the Lian Province Alliance.
• After two months, Lin Bai emerged from seclusion with a Dao Venerable aura, having consumed all one hundred Divine Firmament Pills.
• Lu Yuanshan congratulated Lin Bai on his breakthrough, while Liu Jiangxue and Liu An'an noticed his aura nearby.
• Lin Bai greeted the recovering Li Yumen, and the two agreed that neither was to blame for the injuries he had suffered.

Lin Bai stabilized his cultivation at the first-grade Dao Venerable level and reviewed his weapons and abilities while worrying about reaching his family in another world. Qin Yuyan arrived at the Sword Hiding Hermitage and offered him news of a valuable place to cultivate.

• Lin Bai spent half a month stabilizing his Dao Venerable cultivation and gave Li Yumen a Reunion Pill, which awakened her seven days later.
• Lin Bai re-refined his flying swords and assessed his sword techniques, Five Elements Dao Body, Supreme Avatar, and Devouring Dao Fruit.
• Lin Bai concluded that he needed either Dao God cultivation or a minor-completion Five Elements Dao Body to leave the Devil Realm and search for his family and friends.
• Qin Yuyan visited the Sword Hiding Hermitage, congratulated Lin Bai on his breakthrough, and offered to tell him about a place where he could improve his cultivation.

Qin Yuyan told Lin Bai and Li Yumen about the deadly Asura Battlefield and invited Lin Bai to join the Qin Pavilion’s expedition to gather Other Shore Flowers. Lin Bai was interested in entering the sealed territory, and Qin Yuyan offered him a guard position on the journey.

• Qin Yuyan explained that cultivation resources were scarce and described the Asura Battlefield as a dangerous place with opportunities for advancement.
• Li Yumen identified the Asura Battlefield and recounted the destruction of the Asura Sect, whose millions of members had been turned into undying puppets.
• Qin Yuyan explained that the Eternal Devil Sect had sealed off the region with a barrier requiring a jade token for entry, and that its treasures and spiritual herbs remained largely untouched.
• Lin Bai said he wanted to visit the Asura Battlefield even if he gained little from it.
• Qin Yuyan revealed that the Qin Pavilion planned to enter the battlefield to collect blooming Other Shore Flowers and offered Lin Bai a guard position.

Lin Bai agreed to join Qin Pavilion’s expedition to the Asura Battlefield after Qin Yuyan’s father promised to protect the Sword Hiding Hermitage. At Qin Pavilion, Lin Bai met the expedition’s leader and discovered that Jiang Xuansu had also joined the trip.

• Qin Yuyan persuaded Lin Bai to accompany Qin Pavilion to the Asura Battlefield and arranged for her father, the Second Elder, to safeguard the Sword Hiding Hermitage.
• Lin Bai studied records about the Asura Battlefield for half a month, then traveled to Qin Pavilion in Qilin Town for the expedition.
• Lin Bai met Elder Chen, the expedition’s leader, and observed the gathered warriors, including two other Dao God experts.
• Jiang Xuansu arrived, explained that Qin Yuyan had persuaded her to join and said the Sect Master wanted her to gain experience alongside Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai realized Qin Yuyan had arranged for Jiang Xuansu to accompany the expedition and marveled at her clever planning.

Qin Yuyan assembled a party to travel to the Asura Battlefield, persuading Jiang Xuansu to join by saying Lin Bai would be there. After learning about the dangers surrounding the Other Shore Flower and its immense value, the group prepared to depart for Jiang Province.

• Qin Yuyan used Lin Bai’s name to persuade Jiang Xuansu to join the expedition, strengthening the party with her presence.
• Jiang Xuansu warned Lin Bai that the Asura Battlefield was dangerous and explained that the Other Shore Flower grew in the perilous Valley of Certain Death.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that the Other Shore Flower was coveted because it could produce Mystic Dao Immortal Pills, which were worth hundreds of thousands of Devil Orbs each.
• Qin Yuyan arrived, asked Elder Chen to confirm the party’s numbers, and announced that they would travel to Jiang Province through the teleportation array.

Lin Bai and Qin Pavilion’s martial artists traveled to Jiang Province and entered the Asura Battlefield in search of the Other Shore Flower. The group learned that rival factions had arrived ahead of them, and Lin Bai wondered whether Alien Race creatures had appeared in the sealed territory.

• At Qin Yuyan’s instruction, Elder Chen confirmed the group’s numbers, and the martial artists followed Qin Yuyan through a teleportation array to Jiang Province.
• Elder Chen led everyone aboard Qin Pavilion’s spirit boat toward the Asura Battlefield, while Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu suspected other factions would also pursue the Other Shore Flower.
• After five days, Qin Yuyan presented a jade token to Luo Xun, the City Lord of Luo City, who said rival factions had left for the battlefield three days earlier.
• Elder Chen distributed jade tokens, and Qin Yuyan led the group across the boundary into the Asura Battlefield, warning everyone to keep their tokens safe.
• Lin Bai entered the marshy battlefield with Jiang Xuansu and wondered whether Alien Race creatures had emerged there.

Qin Yuyan’s group traveled into the Asura Battlefield in search of the Other Shore Flower, and Fang Gang warned them that the direct route crossed the deadly Black Wind Mountains and Bone Sea Swamps. As the group rested, Lin Bai advised Qin Yuyan to take the direct route and recognized that many guards would push for a detour to avoid risking their lives.

• Qin Yuyan consulted her map and explained that she was unfamiliar with the Asura Battlefield, while Fang Gang warned the group to stay together.
• Fang Gang saw that their route passed through the Valley of Certain Death and described the Beast Puppets, poisonous creatures, and other dangers in the Black Wind Mountains and Bone Sea Swamps.
• Fang Gang said a detour was possible but would take much longer and would still expose the group to danger, so Qin Yuyan paused to consider their options.
• Qin Yuyan privately asked Lin Bai for his opinion, apologized for deceiving Jiang Xuansu, and said she trusted Lin Bai’s and Fang Gang’s instincts.
• Lin Bai urged Qin Yuyan to take the direct route before rivals reached the Other Shore Flower, and pointed out that the guards would likely favor a safer detour because they would be paid either way.

Qin Yuyan chose to lead Qin Pavilion’s group through the Black Wind Mountains and Bone Sea Swamps rather than risk losing time on a detour to the Valley of Certain Death. After dissenters failed to sway the group, the team set out with Fang Gang, Lin Bai, and Jiang Xuansu scouting ahead.

• Lin Bai, Fang Gang, and Qin Shu suspected that Jiang Hu and a dozen other martial artists wanted to avoid danger while still collecting Qin Pavilion’s commission.
• Qin Yuyan decided to take the direct route through the Black Wind Mountains and Bone Sea Swamps, and Elder Chen announced her decision to the group.
• Jiang Hu tried to rally the martial artists against the route, but most stayed silent or supported Qin Yuyan’s authority, and he dropped his objection.
• Qin Yuyan assigned Fang Gang, Lin Bai, and Jiang Xuansu to scout ahead while Elder Chen and Qin Shu guarded the rear.
• Fang Gang led Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu toward the Black Wind Mountains, unaware that Jiang Xuansu was the Holy Daughter.