Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai defeated the white-robed illusionist with the Asura Dharma Eyes, gained his Dao Heart Stones and treasures, and drew the fear of the other martial artists. When he approached an old man, the old man offered him one Dao Heart Stone in exchange for keeping his qualifications for the Apex Celestial Palace.

• Lin Bai trapped the white-robed man in the Hellscape Illusion, and the man killed himself to escape its torment.
• Lin Bai confirmed the white-robed man's death, took his Storage Bag, and gained two Dao Heart Stones, bringing his total to four.
• Lin Bai collected the man's treasures and illusion manuals, then looked toward the other martial artists on their Dao Heart Stones.
• Lin Bai flew toward an old man, who offered him one Dao Heart Stone and asked to retain his Apex Celestial Palace qualifications.

Lin Bai gathered Dao Heart Stones as he advanced toward the Apex Celestial Palace, where he found Murong Chuan, Jiang Xuansu, and six other powerful martial artists. Murong Chuan arranged for Wu Xianjun to test Lin Bai, setting up a confrontation.

• An old man surrendered a Dao Heart Stone to Lin Bai in exchange for being spared, and other martial artists followed his example.
• Over two or three days, Lin Bai collected more than thirty Dao Heart Stones and moved closer to the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Lin Bai encountered seven martial artists near the palace, including Murong Chuan and Jiang Xuansu, and saw that they had accumulated many Dao Heart Stones.
• Murong Chuan proposed that someone test Lin Bai's strength, and Wu Xianjun volunteered.

Wu Xianjun challenged Lin Bai for the right to remain near the Apex Celestial Palace, while explaining why the powerful martial artists there had not fought among themselves. Lin Bai learned that the group had agreed to target newcomers for their Dao Heart Stones and faced Wu Xianjun’s test.

• Wu Xianjun’s failed attempt to break through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit had driven him and Murong Chuan to seek treasures in the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Wu Xianjun stepped onto Lin Bai’s Dao Heart Stone, and the surrounding powerhouses watched as their stones merged into a platform.
• Wu Xianjun explained that the eight people already there had avoided fighting because their strength was comparable and combat could leave them vulnerable to ambush.
• Wu Xianjun revealed that the group had agreed to test newcomers and take their Dao Heart Stones if they proved too weak.
• Lin Bai understood the arrangement and stood his ground against Wu Xianjun.

Lin Bai fought Wu Xianjun for the right to remain on the Dao Heart Stone, but refused to join the Heng Province Alliance camp. Wu Xianjun unleashed his Big Dipper Seven Seals, and Lin Bai answered with a sword strike that revealed a familiar sword intent.

• Wu Xianjun offered to spare Lin Bai if he surrendered the Dao Heart Stone, but Lin Bai chose to fight.
• Lin Bai withstood Wu Xianjun's probing attacks, though he remained suppressed by the peerless prodigy's speed and skill.
• Wu Xianjun invited Lin Bai to join the Heng Province Alliance, but Lin Bai refused to form an alliance.
• Wu Xianjun warned Lin Bai he would stop holding back, then attacked with Big Dipper Seven Seals: Greedy Wolf.
• Lin Bai's sword light burst from the Greedy Wolf phantom and tore it apart, prompting Murong Chuan to recognize the sword intent and Jiang Xuansu to realize who Lin Bai was.

Lin Bai broke through Wu Xianjun’s first two Big Dipper Seven Seals and revealed that he had been using the fight to hone his abilities. He charged at Wu Xianjun as the latter began his third seal, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai burst out of the Greedy Wolf phantom with his sword and shattered it, surprising Wu Xianjun and revealing his swordsmanship to Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian.
• Wu Xianjun praised Lin Bai’s sword cultivation, then struck him with the Military Destroyer Seal, which barely damaged Lin Bai’s clothing.
• Lin Bai urged Wu Xianjun to unleash all seven seals, and the onlookers realized Lin Bai had been defending to use Wu Xianjun as a whetstone.
• After Wu Xianjun invited Lin Bai to attack, Lin Bai charged at him, and Wu Xianjun began the Great Gate Seal.

Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to trap Wu Xianjun in an illusion, where Wu Xianjun repeatedly attacked illusions of Lin Bai until Murong Chuan warned him. After Wu Xianjun escaped, Lin Bai revealed himself as Qing Luo, the master of the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and Murong Chuan told Wu Xianjun to withdraw.

• Wu Xianjun attacked Lin Bai with the Big Dipper Seven Seals, but Lin Bai kept reappearing in his vision.
• Lin Bai revealed that he had used an illusion technique, and Murong Chuan called out to Wu Xianjun to wake him.
• Wu Xianjun found the flaw in the illusion and escaped, while Lin Bai criticized Murong Chuan for intervening.
• Murong Chuan identified Lin Bai as Qing Luo, and Lin Bai dispelled his disguise and explained why he had hidden his face.
• Lin Bai said he would spare Wu Xianjun to repay Murong Chuan for the jade token, and Murong Chuan ordered Wu Xianjun to return, reminding him that Lin Bai had spared him twice.

Lin Bai spared Wu Xianjun after defeating him, while Jiang Xuansu revealed that the Sect Master's faction had begun targeting the Heng Province Alliance. The chapter ended with Jiang Xuansu seeking Lin Bai’s help as they weighed the growing threat at the Apex Celestial Palace.

• Murong Chuan stopped Wu Xianjun from continuing to provoke Lin Bai, and Wu Xianjun surrendered three Dao Heart Stones before returning to his side.
• Jiang Xuansu recognized Lin Bai’s rapid cultivation progress, while Murong Chuan suspected Lin Bai had joined the Sect Master's faction and considered him a future threat.
• Lin Bai asked why the Sect Master had not yet attacked the Heng Province Alliance, and Jiang Xuansu revealed that allies outside were already hunting its martial artists.
• Lin Bai warned that more Heng Province Alliance experts would arrive at the Apex Celestial Palace and strengthen their position against Jiang Xuansu.
• Jiang Xuansu asked Lin Bai to help her, but he declined to commit, explaining that he had avoided killing Wu Xianjun to prevent a costly conflict with Murong Chuan and the alliance.

Jiang Xuansu explained her plan to keep Murong Chuan occupied while the Eternal Devil Sect hunted Heng Province Alliance martial artists, but Lin Bai warned that Murong Chuan was too cunning to underestimate. As the factions faced off outside the Apex Celestial Palace, Murong Chuan decided the Heng Province Alliance could not safely attack and chose to wait.

• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that the sect had altered the Eternal Trial’s formations to track Heng Province Alliance martial artists, and that Gong Jian had come to help her delay Murong Chuan.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that she planned to wear Murong Chuan down until the alliance’s other martial artists came under attack and called for reinforcements.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan might find an unexpected way out of her plan, then sat down to study illusion arts.
• Murong Chuan judged that attacking Jiang Xuansu, Gong Jian, Meng Qi, or Lin Bai could unite them against the Heng Province Alliance, so he decided to keep waiting.

Lin Bai spent days studying illusion texts while the factions before Apex Celestial Palace maintained a wary stalemate. When Kui Long arrived with the Heng Province Alliance, Lin Bai challenged him under the local rule, and Kui Long’s threat left Murong Chuan worried about the outcome.

• The factions held back from attacking one another, and Lin Bai read illusion texts atop the Dao Heart Stone to refine his Asura Dharma Eyes.
• Half a month later, Kui Long arrived and joined the Heng Province Alliance without being challenged.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that the alliance could grow too strong if its members kept arriving unchecked, and Jiang Xuansu urged him to challenge Kui Long.
• Lin Bai invoked the rule that newcomers had to accept a challenge, and Murong Chuan agreed to let him fight Kui Long.
• Kui Long declared that he might kill Lin Bai, alarming Murong Chuan, who knew Kui Long was unlikely to defeat him.

Lin Bai fought Kui Long after Wu Xianjun warned him to avoid Lin Bai’s Asura Dharma Eyes, prompting Lin Bai to unleash his full strength. Lin Bai killed Kui Long and took his Dao Heart Stones, leaving him with the most stones in the battlefield.

• Kui Long merged his Dao Heart Stone with Lin Bai’s and charged at him, while Wu Xianjun warned him not to look into Lin Bai’s eyes.
• Kui Long avoided Lin Bai’s gaze and struck him, sending Lin Bai flying and making him cough up blood.
• Lin Bai activated his Sword Heart and attacked Kui Long with his flying swords and Demon Sword, wounding Kui Long’s hand with Slay the Immortals.
• Lin Bai vanished from Kui Long’s powerful attack and reappeared behind him, then beheaded Kui Long with the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai took Kui Long’s treasures and twenty-one Dao Heart Stones, bringing his total to fifty-seven, and moved his Dao Heart Stone away without looking at Murong Chuan.

Lin Bai killed Kui Long in front of Murong Chuan and provoked the Heng Province Alliance, but Murong Chuan restrained his people from retaliating. Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu discussed Murong Chuan’s threat, and a paper crane arrived with news that left Murong Chuan grim.

• Lin Bai beheaded Kui Long, took his Dao Heart Stone, and mocked Murong Chuan by claiming he had killed Kui Long by accident.
• Lin Bai challenged the Heng Province Alliance martial artists to attack him, but Murong Chuan stopped them and ended the matter.
• Murong Chuan told Wu Xianjun that Lin Bai was powerful enough to kill them and warned that Lin Bai could become a threat to the Heng Province Alliance.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he suspected Murong Chuan would try to kill him, while Jiang Xuansu promised to protect him.
• A paper crane arrived for Murong Chuan, and he read it with a grim expression.

After Murong Chuan received news of the Heng Province Alliance martial artists being hunted outside, he stayed at the Apex Celestial Palace and secretly arranged for the wounded to gather around him. Lin Bai realized that Murong Chuan was rebuilding the alliance inside the palace, threatening Jiang Xuansu’s plan to weaken it.

• Murong Chuan received a message by Heart-Linked Paper Crane, but chose to remain at the Apex Celestial Palace while Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian waited for him to leave.
• Murong Chuan sent out another Heart-Linked Paper Crane after discussing the news with the Heng Province Alliance martial artists.
• Over the following days, wounded Heng Province Alliance martial artists arrived and took refuge beside Murong Chuan.
• Lin Bai deduced that Murong Chuan planned to gather the alliance members and use them to help him enter the palace, then lead them against Jiang Xuansu.
• Jiang Xuansu’s expression darkened as Lin Bai warned that delaying would allow the Heng Province Alliance to become too powerful to oppose.

Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan was gathering the Heng Province Alliance to seize the Apex Celestial Palace’s treasures, prompting her to assemble secluded experts as Black-Robed Warriors. As Murong Chuan prepared to enter the palace, Jiang Xuansu moved to stop him while the two factions faced off.

• Lin Bai explained Murong Chuan’s plan to Jiang Xuansu, who confirmed that the black-robed experts arriving at the Apex Celestial Palace were her people.
• Meng Qi suspected the black-robed experts were secluded sect elders and feared that their presence could spark a bloody conflict.
• Murong Chuan gathered ninety-nine Dao Heart Stones and prepared to enter the Apex Celestial Palace with Wu Xianjun and the old man leaning on a cane.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan would turn against her after obtaining the palace treasures, so she ordered the Black-Robed Warriors to prepare for battle.
• Murong Chuan ordered the Heng Province Alliance warriors to confront the Black-Robed Warriors and rushed toward the palace with Wu Xianjun and the old man.
• Jiang Xuansu blocked Murong Chuan and attacked with a palm seal, prompting him to recognize her Three Imprints of Eastern Arrival technique.

Lin Bai blocked the old man leaning on a cane to claim a chance at the Apex Celestial Palace’s treasures, then fought his powerful Wood Dragon magic treasure. After his attacks failed to damage the dragon, Lin Bai focused on the old man controlling it.

• Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian each blocked a Heng Province Alliance leader, while Black-Robed Warriors fought the alliance’s warriors outside the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Lin Bai challenged the old man leaning on a cane and merged their Dao Heart Stones to form a battlefield.
• The old man avoided Lin Bai’s gaze and used the Myriad Rivers Dragon Song to turn his dragon-carved cane into a Wood Dragon.
• Lin Bai tried to strike the Wood Dragon with his fist and swords, but could not hurt it and was forced to retreat.
• Lin Bai fixed his attention on the old man, who sent the Wood Dragon at him while preparing more defenses.

Lin Bai defeated the old man by cutting through the Wood Dragon's defenses and killing him before the magical treasure could strike. With enough Dao Heart Stones to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, Lin Bai set off while the Bear Province Alliance considered whether to intervene.

• Lin Bai used Azure Sea Torrent to cleave half the Wood Dragon's head, then charged past it toward the old man.
• The Wood Dragon ambushed Lin Bai from behind, but Lin Bai vanished and appeared behind the old man, beheading him.
• The Wood Dragon reverted to a cane, and Lin Bai took it and the old man's treasures before throwing his corpse into the abyss.
• Lin Bai claimed the Dao Heart Stones, giving him enough to reach the Apex Celestial Palace, and headed there while Jiang Xuansu, Murong Chuan, Gong Jian, and Wu Xianjun remained locked in battle.
• Meng Qi saw Lin Bai claim the stones, and Bear Province Alliance martial artists asked whether they should make a move.

Lin Bai reached the Apex Celestial Palace while Meng Qi withdrew rather than risk a clash between the Sect Master and the Heng Province Alliance. Inside, Lin Bai discovered three powerful treasures, but the chapter ended before he chose any of them.

• Meng Qi decided not to stop Lin Bai and led the Bear Province Alliance away from the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Jiang Xuansu, Murong Chuan, Gong Jian, and Wu Xianjun saw Lin Bai head for the palace and reacted to the deaths and fighting around them.
• The Dao Heart Stone joined with the Apex Celestial Palace to form a path, and Lin Bai crossed it to enter the palace.
• Lin Bai found the God Hunter Sword, a supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapon capable of enslaving demonic souls.
• Lin Bai discovered a Great Purity Evergreen Pill that could help a Dao Divine realm martial artist reach the Great Purity Dao Fruit.
• Lin Bai examined a 100,000-Year Blood Spirit Ginseng that could heal, strengthen cultivation, or extend lifespan by five thousand years.

Lin Bai entered the Apex Celestial Palace and took all three treasures by breaking the formations that were supposed to limit him to one. He escaped on the Dao Heart Stone and left Murong Chuan believing the treasure he wanted was still inside.

• Lin Bai examined the God Hunter Sword, Great Purity Evergreen Pill, and 100,000-Year Blood Spirit Ginseng, then found the warning that only one treasure could be taken.
• Lin Bai chose the Great Purity Evergreen Pill but used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and Dao Law Breaking Restriction to break the formations and take the other two treasures as well.
• Lin Bai hurried out of the Apex Celestial Palace before other martial artists could discover what he had taken, then returned to the Dao Heart Stone and left the area.
• Murong Chuan asked Lin Bai which treasure he had taken, and Lin Bai claimed that Murong Chuan's desired treasure remained inside.
• Jiang Xuansu attacked Murong Chuan again, drawing him back into battle.

Lin Bai left the Apex Celestial Palace with all three treasures, while Gong Jian and Jiang Xuansu found the palace empty after defeating Wu Xianjun and Murong Chuan. Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian feared Murong Chuan would gather the Heng Province Alliance to seize the Great Purity Evergreen Pill, and Lin Bai watched Murong Chuan leave, expecting trouble for Jiang Xuansu.

• Gong Jian defeated Wu Xianjun, who severed his Dao Heart Stones and fled, then entered the Apex Celestial Palace and found all three treasures missing.
• Jiang Xuansu defeated Murong Chuan, who severed his Dao Heart Stone and escaped with the Heng Province Alliance's warriors.
• Jiang Xuansu entered the palace and found the treasures gone; she and Gong Jian realized Lin Bai had taken only one and wondered where the other two were.
• Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian discussed Murong Chuan's likely attempt to gather the Heng Province Alliance and seize the Great Purity Evergreen Pill, then left the palace with the Black-Robed Warriors.
• Lin Bai watched Murong Chuan leave the palace and concluded that Murong Chuan would suspect Jiang Xuansu or Gong Jian had taken the pill.

Murong Chuan gathered more than seven hundred Heng Province Alliance warriors after Jiang Xuansu defeated him, then led them to confront her and Gong Jian at the God Sealing Platform. Lin Bai followed events from afar and wondered whether Jiang Xuansu would need his help as Murong Chuan began accusing the Black-Robed Warriors of attacking his alliance.

• After fleeing Apex Celestial Palace, Murong Chuan collapsed from his injuries and ordered Wu Xianjun to summon the Heng Province Alliance warriors for a counterattack.
• Lin Bai left Apex Celestial Palace with the three treasures and watched the alliance gather before setting out to find Jiang Xuansu.
• More than seven hundred Heng Province Alliance warriors assembled and searched Eternal Trial for Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian.
• A warrior reported that Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian were at the God Sealing Platform, and Murong Chuan led his forces there.
• Murong Chuan confronted Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian, claiming that Black-Robed Warriors had been hunting Heng Province Alliance members.

Murong Chuan used the Heng Province Alliance’s grudge against the Black-Robed Warriors to provoke Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian, while seeking the Great Purity Evergreen Pill. Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian prepared to intervene in the battle, bringing their confrontation with Murong Chuan to a head.

• Murong Chuan claimed the Black-Robed Warriors had wronged the Heng Province Alliance, while Jiang Xuansu warned him against allowing a massacre.
• Gong Jian and Jiang Xuansu realized Murong Chuan’s warriors were watching them and that the alliance’s real target was the two of them.
• Murong Chuan asked whether Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian had obtained the Great Purity Evergreen Pill, and Jiang Xuansu wondered whether Lin Bai had taken all three treasures from the Apex Celestial Palace.
• Murong Chuan ordered the Heng Province Alliance warriors to attack the Black-Robed Warriors, and the two groups began fighting near the God Sealing Platform.
• Jiang Xuansu ordered the fighters to stop, then threatened to intervene when Murong Chuan refused; Gong Jian drew his sword as Jiang Xuansu gathered her power.