Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian fought Murong Chuan and the Heng Province Alliance at the God Sealing Platform, turning their clash into a large-scale battle that marked the start of open war. Lin Bai arrived to watch and saw Jiang Xuansu’s side badly outnumbered, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Jiang Xuansu attacked Murong Chuan after he refused to stop, and Gong Jian joined the fight as Heng Province Alliance warriors rushed to defend their leader.
• The battle around the God Sealing Platform drew thousands of experts and spread the news that the Eternal Devil Sect and the Heng Province Alliance had begun their decisive war.
• Lin Bai heard reports of the battle while searching for Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian, then flew toward the God Sealing Platform.
• Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to observe the battlefield, where Jiang Xuansu fought ten opponents and Gong Jian cut down attackers.
• Lin Bai saw that more than five hundred Heng Province Alliance warriors remained against roughly a hundred survivors on Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian’s side, and feared Jiang Xuansu would lose without another trump card.

Jiang Xuansu’s plan collapsed when Murong Chuan gathered the Heng Province Alliance warriors inside the Apex Celestial Palace, leading to a battle on the God Sealing Platform. Lin Bai decided to help Jiang Xuansu and disguise himself as a Black-Robed Warrior, but she recognized him when he reached her side.

• Murong Chuan summoned the Heng Province Alliance warriors into the Apex Celestial Palace, unraveling Jiang Xuansu’s plan and triggering the melee on the God Sealing Platform.
• Lin Bai considered the danger of the Heng Province Alliance winning and decided to force the Sect Master into open conflict with them by helping Jiang Xuansu’s side.
• Lin Bai disguised himself as a lean man in black robes and charged into the battle, killing a Heng Province Alliance warrior with one punch.
• Lin Bai attacked Murong Chuan, shattered a warrior’s defensive Dao Divine Weapon, and drove Murong Chuan back before joining Jiang Xuansu.
• Jiang Xuansu recognized Lin Bai despite his disguise, and Lin Bai admitted he was hiding because he was forced to live under someone else’s roof.

Lin Bai joined Jiang Xuansu in a bid to kill Murong Chuan and turn the battle around. Unable to use his usual swords without revealing his identity, Lin Bai learned the Overlord Fist on the spot and entered battle while still comprehending it.

• Jiang Xuansu asked Lin Bai for a way to overcome the Heng Province Alliance, and he proposed killing Murong Chuan.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu agreed to attack Murong Chuan, but Lin Bai asked her for a fist or palm technique because he could not reveal his sword arts.
• Jiang Xuansu gave Lin Bai the Overlord Fist manual and explained its immense power and demanding spiritual cost.
• Lin Bai memorized the manual at a glance and briefly contemplated its fundamentals as Murong Chuan ordered the alliance martial artists to attack.
• Jiang Xuansu engaged Murong Chuan while Lin Bai fought Wu Xianjun and four others, comprehending the Overlord Fist as he defended himself.
• Wu Xianjun realized Lin Bai was still in epiphany and grew furious that their combined attacks had failed to defeat him.

Lin Bai used Overlord Fist to break Wu Xianjun’s chains and fight through the Heng Province Alliance, then tested a new way to concentrate his spiritual power into a single attack. He killed five experts with one punch and charged at Murong Chuan, leaving Jiang Xuansu astonished by his unorthodox technique.

• Lin Bai broke Wu Xianjun’s nine chains with Overlord Fist, then realized the technique’s power could increase by converting more spiritual power into a single punch.
• Jiang Xuansu warned Lin Bai that her Black-Robed Warriors could no longer hold the line and were preparing to retreat.
• Lin Bai fought past Wu Xianjun and the others, shattering their attacks as he charged toward Murong Chuan.
• Lin Bai converted two-thirds of his spiritual power into Overlord Fist and annihilated five martial artists with one punch.
• Murong Chuan recognized Overlord Fist, while Jiang Xuansu suspected Lin Bai had transformed the technique through his own comprehension.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu defeated Murong Chuan, whose flight split the Heng Province Alliance and gave the Black-Robed Warriors a chance to counterattack. Lin Bai continued pursuing Murong Chuan while Jiang Xuansu led the slaughter of the alliance’s warriors, leaving Murong Chuan alive but the battlefield a decisive victory for Jiang Xuansu and the Sect Master.

• Lin Bai killed Murong Chuan’s protectors, and Jiang Xuansu joined him in wounding Murong Chuan and forcing him to flee.
• The Heng Province Alliance split between rescuing Murong Chuan and continuing to fight, allowing the Black-Robed Warriors to counterattack and overwhelm those left behind.
• Lin Bai pursued Murong Chuan while Jiang Xuansu returned to direct the battle against the Heng Province Alliance.
• Murong Chuan used treasures and talismans to keep ahead of Lin Bai, who continued the pursuit to occupy his attention.
• Jiang Xuansu and the Black-Robed Warriors killed nearly all of the more than five hundred Heng Province Alliance warriors gathered near the God Sealing Platform, while a few dozen fled wounded.

Lin Bai’s pursuit of Murong Chuan was interrupted by a hidden swordsman who accused him of stealing treasures from the White Bone Battlefield on behalf of Young Master Lu. The encounter ended with Gong Jian revealed as Young Master Lu, setting a trap to confirm whether Lin Bai had taken the treasures.

• Lin Bai chased Murong Chuan for nine days and nights, but a powerful Sword Qi from the forest stopped him and allowed Murong Chuan to escape.
• A hidden person addressed Lin Bai as Junior Brother Qing Luo and accused him of disguising himself to steal treasures worth ten million Devil Orbs from the White Bone Battlefield.
• The hidden person offered to forgive the matter if Lin Bai returned the treasures at No. 28 Ding Family Alley in Qilin Town within a month after leaving the Eternal Trial.
• Lin Bai denied knowing Young Master Lu or taking the treasures, then left the forest.
• The hidden person revealed himself as Gong Jian, who had suspected Lin Bai and planned to use the address as bait to confirm his suspicions.

Lin Bai returned to the God Sealing Platform after deducing that Young Master Lu was still probing his identity, and he suspected Meng Qi might be behind the scheme. He learned that Jiang Xuansu’s forces had crushed the Heng Province Alliance, then reaffirmed their wager as the Eternal Trial neared its end.

• Lin Bai reasoned that the Man in the Forest had only guessed his connection to the White Bone Battlefield and suspected Young Master Lu might be among the sect’s leading disciples, possibly Meng Qi.
• Lin Bai returned to the God Sealing Platform and told Jiang Xuansu that Murong Chuan had escaped after someone interrupted his pursuit.
• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that her forces had killed roughly two thousand five hundred Heng Province Alliance warriors, including many Dao God Realm experts.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu reaffirmed their wager: the loser would perform three tasks for the winner if the Heng Province Alliance and Heng Province’s Eight Great Noble Families made trouble for the sect within three months after the trial.
• The Eternal Trial was set to end the following day, while the final month’s killing and looting had made the trial especially brutal.

Lin Bai returned from the Eternal Trial to the Sword Hiding Hermitage and found it safe, then learned that Sun Yao had returned with an unstable Dao Realm breakthrough before being summoned away again. He questioned what experience she had undergone and whether she had used demonic methods to advance.

• Lin Bai was teleported from the Eternal Trial to Wang Province and returned to the Eternal Devil Sect without waiting for Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian.
• Lin Bai reached the Sword Hiding Hermitage, confirmed its formation was intact, and saw that Gu Yuanshan had advanced close to the Apex Realm.
• Lin Bai reunited with Zhou Xi, learned Zhou Xi had failed twice to break through to the Dao Sovereign level, and promised to find him cultivation pills.
• Zhou Xi told Lin Bai that Liu Jiangxue had reached the Quasi-Dao Realm and had left to gain experience with Liu An'an.
• Zhou Xi revealed that Sun Yao had returned three months earlier with an unstable Dao Realm cultivation, then left again after someone summoned her.
• Lin Bai suspected Sun Yao had used demonic methods to break through and asked where she had gone to gain experience.

Lin Bai learned that Sun Yao had left to train after possibly using an unorthodox method to advance, and he worried that she was being led astray. He used the Celestial Cry Pill to break through to the Dao Immortal Realm, while Jiang Xuansu reported the Eternal Trial’s outcome to Li Mojun, who prepared for a possible conflict with Heng Province.

• Zhou Xi told Lin Bai that Sun Yao had left with friends to train, though he did not know where she had gone.
• Lin Bai decided to guide Sun Yao if she returned, then rested for three days before consuming the Celestial Cry Pill.
• Lin Bai broke through from the ninth-grade Dao Venerable level toward the Dao Immortal Realm and continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian reported the Eternal Trial to Li Mojun, and Jiang Xuansu credited Lin Bai with helping secure victory over Murong Chuan.
• Li Mojun said the Eternal Devil Sect must prepare for the Heng Province Alliance and the Eight Great Noble Families, but he hesitated to act first if they made no move.

After emerging from two months of seclusion stronger, Lin Bai learned that the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province had restarted the Dragon Immortal Jade. Jiang Xuansu identified the ordinary-looking pearl sent to him by the Murong Family as a Dragon Immortal Jade.

• The Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province announced that they would restart the Dragon Immortal Jade, while Murong Chuan remained in Heng Province.
• Lin Bai broke through to the first-grade Dao Immortal realm, improved his weapons, and left seclusion after two months.
• Zhou Xi told Lin Bai that a Murong Family disciple had delivered a white pearl during his seclusion.
• Lin Bai discovered he could not sense anything special about the pearl and asked Zhou Xi about recent events in the sect and Heng Province.
• Jiang Xuansu visited Lin Bai and identified the pearl as a Dragon Immortal Jade, explaining that the Eight Great Noble Families had announced its revival half a month earlier.

Jiang Xuansu explained the origin and power of Dragon Immortal Jade to Lin Bai, who received her jade and became interested in competing for more. They also discussed the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province preparing for war with the Eternal Devil Sect, whose disciples and secluded martial artists were being recalled.

• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that Dragon Immortal Jade came from a buried dragon statue and could generate Dragon Qi when enough pieces were fused, helping martial artists cultivate and break through to the Great Purity Dao Fruit.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province had restarted the Dragon Immortal Jade initiative, allowing martial artists to fight for the scattered jade.
• Jiang Xuansu gave Lin Bai her Dragon Immortal Jade, and the two pieces fused but produced no Dragon Qi.
• Jiang Xuansu said the Eight Great Noble Families had not retaliated for Lin Bai killing Heng Province Alliance martial artists and that Murong Chuan and many others had returned to Heng Province.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu concluded that the Eight Great Noble Families were preparing for war, while the Sect Master recalled traveling disciples and brought secluded martial artists out of seclusion.

Lin Bai prepared to leave the Eternal Devil Sect and travel to Heng Province, where warriors were gathering to fight over the restarted Dragon Immortal Jade. He headed toward Millennial City while criticizing the sect’s failure to exploit the situation against the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province.

• Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that Heng Province would soon descend into chaos over the Dragon Immortal Jade and warned him that Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm warriors might join the fighting.
• Lin Bai gave Zhou Xi several Dao Divine Weapons for Liu Jiangxue, Liu An'an, Sun Yao, and Zhou Xi, and asked him to oversee the Sword Hiding Hermitage while he was away.
• After waiting half a month for Liu Jiangxue and the others to return, Lin Bai left the Eternal Devil Sect and bought a map in Qilin Town before setting out for Heng Province.
• Lin Bai flew toward Heng Province, expecting Dragon Immortal Jade holders to gather there and considering how the Eternal Devil Sect could have used the jade’s restart to strike at the Eight Great Noble Families.
• Su Yu lamented that the Eternal Devil Sect had wasted its chance and predicted that the Eight Great Noble Families would grow stronger by recruiting warriors drawn to Heng Province.

Lin Bai traveled to Millennial City to observe the contest for the Dragon Immortal Jade and learn what the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province were planning. He arrived before the powerful competitors and rented a room overlooking the arenas for two years at a cost of sixty thousand Devil Orbs.

• Lin Bai decided that his main purpose in Heng Province was to investigate the Eight Great Noble Families rather than risk his life pursuing the Dragon Immortal Jade.
• Lin Bai traveled to Millennial City and heard that the Su Family of Cloud Mountain City had been wiped out amid the fighting over the jade.
• Lin Bai explored Millennial City and found its fifteen arenas still empty because the powerful competitors had not yet arrived.
• A shop assistant showed Lin Bai a luxurious room with a terrace overlooking all fifteen arenas.
• Lin Bai agreed to rent the room for two years after the shop assistant quoted a price of sixty thousand Devil Orbs.

Lin Bai rented a room in Millennial City for two years and settled in as night fell. When fighting broke out nearby, a pursued woman begged him for help, and he let her hide inside his room just as her pursuers asked whether he had seen her.

• Lin Bai paid seventy thousand Devil Orbs to rent an inn room for two years, and the innkeeper accepted the deal after learning he was a disciple of the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai watched the quiet streets of Millennial City from his terrace as night fell.
• Lin Bai sensed a fight nearby and saw flames surge through the streets as martial artists rushed to investigate.
• A wounded woman fled to Lin Bai's defensive formation and pleaded for help, claiming villains had tried to abduct her.
• Lin Bai opened the formation and let the woman hide in his room, then watched her pursuers pass and ask if he had seen her.

Lin Bai rescued an injured woman pursued by Zhang family martial artists, then discovered she carried twelve Dragon Immortal Jades and took them along with her Storage Bag. After she woke and demanded her belongings back, Lin Bai questioned her about her pursuers, but she claimed they were after her beauty and gave no convincing explanation.

• Lin Bai misdirected the martial artists searching for the injured woman, then stabilized her wounds after she fainted.
• Lin Bai discovered the woman carried twelve Dragon Immortal Jades, took them all, and hid her Storage Bag while she remained unconscious.
• After three days, the woman woke, noticed her belongings were missing, and confronted Lin Bai to demand them back.
• The woman attacked Lin Bai but reopened her wounds, and Lin Bai easily deflected her strike.
• Lin Bai questioned her about her pursuers, and she identified them as martial artists from the Zhang family of Barren City in Hengzhou before claiming they wanted her beauty.

Lin Bai questioned Donghe Ling about the Dragon Immortal Jade and learned how merchant associations sold jade locations and how her team stole and sold the treasures. After spotting a shadow that had watched him for two days, Lin Bai warned Donghe Ling to leave and kept the thirteen Dragon Immortal Jades for her protection.

• Lin Bai teased Donghe Ling and refused to return the Dragon Immortal Jade until she explained why her team had pursued it.
• Donghe Ling explained that her team had stolen thirteen Dragon Immortal Jades and sold them for a fortune, including one that fetched three million Devil Orbs at Qin Pavilion.
• Donghe Ling told Lin Bai that the Eight Treasures Pavilion sold Dragon Immortal Jade locations for one hundred thousand Devil Orbs each and sometimes sold the same information to many buyers.
• Donghe Ling said her team had used purchased information to steal a Dragon Immortal Jade from the Young Master of the Zhang Family in Barren City.
• Lin Bai spotted a black shadow that had watched him for two days, warned Donghe Ling to leave, and said he would hold the thirteen Dragon Immortal Jades until she found her friends.

Lin Bai realized a watcher was targeting him and let Donghe Ling stay while he held on to her thirteen pieces of Dragon Immortal Jade. Two or three days later, a group of twelve martial artists confronted him over the jade, and Lin Bai challenged them to fight at the arena.

• Lin Bai saw a shadowy figure flee and concluded the watcher was after him, not Donghe Ling.
• Lin Bai refused to return Donghe Ling’s Dragon Immortal Jade until she reunited with her friends, and she chose to stay with him.
• Over the next two or three days, Lin Bai learned more from Donghe Ling about the struggle over the Dragon Immortal Jade.
• Lin Bai spotted dozens of experts gathering near the inn and sent the drunken Donghe Ling inside before inviting them to settle matters at the arena.
• Twelve martial artists surrounded Lin Bai at the arena and admitted they had come for the Dragon Immortal Jade based on information from the Eight Treasures Pavilion.

Lin Bai fought twelve masked warriors who had tracked him down for the Dragon Immortal Jade. He killed them all, collected their treasures, and reflected that Eternal Devil Sect disciples were harder to kill.

• Lin Bai learned the warriors had bought information about the Dragon Immortal Jade and tracked Qing Luo to Millennial City.
• The twelve masked warriors attacked Lin Bai together, and he killed one with a single sword strike.
• The remaining eleven formed a combined attack formation, but Lin Bai shattered it with his sword.
• Lin Bai's three flying swords killed eight more warriors, leaving only the three Dao Immortals.
• Lin Bai killed the three Dao Immortals with his Overlord Fist, Demon Sword, and flying swords, then collected their Storage Bags and treasures.

After killing twelve martial artists who came seeking the Dragon Immortal Jade, Lin Bai found information linking the jade to Yu Xiang of the destroyed Plum Blossom Mountain Manor. A powerful stranger named Li Meng then invited Lin Bai to join a group pursuing the Dragon Immortal Jade.

• Lin Bai secretly collected the twelve dead men's treasures and later found two Eight Treasures Pavilion scrolls naming Qing Luo and Yu Xiang as Dragon Immortal Jade leads.
• Donghe Ling told Lin Bai that Plum Blossom Mountain Manor had been slaughtered and that its young master, Yu Xiang, had escaped with several others.
• Lin Bai suspected Yu Xiang might still possess the Dragon Immortal Jade but decided against targeting him, since he had already suffered the destruction of his Lineage.
• Li Meng appeared outside Lin Bai's terrace and invited him to join a dangerous business deal involving several Dragon Immortal Jade targets.

Old Man Li Meng recruited Lin Bai to help break the Combined Attack Formations used by their powerful targets, offering him an equal share of the Dragon Immortal Jade. Lin Bai accepted and planned to meet the team in three days, while keeping the Flame Spirit as a dangerous last resort if Li Meng betrayed him.

• Old Man Li Meng asked Lin Bai to join his four-person team because Lin Bai could break Combined Attack Formations.
• Li Meng explained that the team would hunt powerful martial artists and divide the Dragon Immortal Jade among its members.
• Donghe Ling asked to join, but Li Meng warned that she was too weak to be useful against their targets.
• Lin Bai agreed to join on the condition that the Dragon Immortal Jade be divided equally, and Li Meng set their meeting for the east gate of Millennial City in three days.
• Lin Bai told Donghe Ling he suspected Li Meng was a Dao God and revealed that the Flame Spirit sealed in the Azure Gourd could challenge him, though releasing it could endanger everyone.