Chapter Summaries

After killing the Overturning Sea General, Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu were pursued by the Water Mirror Demon King, who sought revenge for his subordinate. Lin Bai defeated the third-grade Dao God with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, leaving the demon king dead in the Mystic Water River.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu fled toward Purple Phoenix City after killing the Overturning Sea General.
• The Water Mirror Demon King learned of the general's death and pursued them in his enormous snake form.
• Jiang Xuansu let Lin Bai fight the third-grade Dao God, while warning him to call for help if he was in danger.
• Lin Bai's demon sword could not pierce the demon king's scales, and he was initially forced onto the defensive.
• Lin Bai drew the Heaven Measuring Ruler and wounded the demon king with a powerful slash.
• Lin Bai used his flying swords to disrupt the demon king's vortex, then split the river with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and crushed him.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu reached Purple Phoenix City after Lin Bai killed a snake demon and learned of the Joyous Union Sect’s rapid rise. They arrived at the sect’s branch altar to investigate its bottleneck-breaking cultivation technique and whether Sun Yao was involved, while Lin Bai worried about the sect’s growing power.

• Lin Bai killed the third-grade Dao God snake demon, refined its blood, and left the Mystic Water River with Jiang Xuansu.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu traveled to Purple Phoenix City, where the Joyous Union Sect had subjugated the city’s seven great Lineages.
• Jiang Xuansu wanted to examine the Joyous Union Sect’s technique, while Lin Bai suspected it might explain Sun Yao’s unstable breakthrough.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu heard conflicting rumors about the Joyous Union Sect as they made their way through the crowded city.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu reached the sect’s branch altar, built on the former Zhang family grounds, and saw crowds gathering to join.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu joined the Joyous Union Sect to obtain its Scripture of Joyous Union, which was said to enable rapid breakthroughs without side effects. They left the Pavilion of Eternal Joy with sect identity tokens and copies of the scripture, while Jiang Xuansu criticized Lin Bai for flattering the elder.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered the Pavilion of Eternal Joy, where the Purple-Robed Elder fixated on Jiang Xuansu and invited them to join the sect.
• Lin Bai asked about the sect's requirements and learned that any martial artist could join and cultivate the Scripture of Joyous Union.
• The Purple-Robed Elder claimed the scripture enabled rapid breakthroughs without side effects and promised to give them copies as soon as they registered.
• Lin Bai gave his name and introduced Jiang Xuansu as his elder sister, Jiang Su, and the elder made identity tokens for them.
• The Purple-Robed Elder gave Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu their tokens and copies of the Scripture of Joyous Union, then explained how to receive orders and find lodging.
• After leaving the pavilion, Jiang Xuansu told Lin Bai that his skill at flattering people was more formidable than his swordsmanship.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu investigated the Scripture of Joyous Union and discovered it concealed Heart Demon Implantation, a forbidden art that could let the sect leader harvest his followers’ cultivation. They realized the Joyous Union Sect might have prepared as many as two hundred thousand Dao Seeds, but did not know how powerful its sect leader could become by devouring them.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered Purple Phoenix City and studied the Scripture of Joyous Union in an inn.
• Jiang Xuansu found that the first volume taught a simple qi-refining method, while Lin Bai recognized the second volume as Heart Demon Implantation.
• Lin Bai explained that the second volume formed Dao Seeds that helped followers break through cultivation barriers before the Dao Realm.
• Lin Bai suspected the Joyous Union Sect’s leader alone cultivated the first volume, which formed a Demon Seed to devour the followers’ Dao Seeds and their qi, blood essence, and cultivation.
• Lin Bai estimated that the sect had one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand followers, and Jiang Xuansu wondered how powerful its leader would become by harvesting them.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu alerted the Eternal Devil Sect that the Joyous Union Sect was using the forbidden art of Heart Demon Implantation, prompting the sect to send a large force to Yuezhou. Lin Bai then persuaded Jiang Xuansu to attend a banquet so he could investigate whether Sun Yao had joined the Joyous Union Sect.

• Lin Bai identified the Joyous Union Sect’s scriptures as evidence of Heart Demon Implantation and urged Jiang Xuansu to report the matter to the sect.
• Jiang Xuansu informed the Sect Master and Immortal Buddha Grotto patriarchs, who ordered a force led by three Supreme Unity Realm patriarchs to march on Yuezhou.
• A Joyous Union Sect elder invited Jiang Xuansu and Lin Bai to a banquet in Purple Phoenix City and offered to introduce them to the Dragon Slayer Envoy.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu he suspected Sun Yao had joined the Joyous Union Sect after her cultivation began fluctuating unpredictably.
• Jiang Xuansu agreed to attend the banquet with Lin Bai so they could search for Sun Yao before the sect’s forces arrived.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu attended a Joyous Union Sect banquet at Fu Man Restaurant to investigate Sun Yao, but the envoys’ lecherous behavior made Jiang Xuansu abandon their plan to gather information quietly. She attacked the men and left the Dragon Slayer Envoy badly injured as Lin Bai guarded the exit.

• The Purple-Robed Elder told the Dragon Slayer Envoy and Fox Maiden Envoy that Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu would suit their tastes and arranged for them to attend the banquet.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu entered the private room, where the Dragon Slayer Envoy became fixated on Jiang Xuansu and the Fox Maiden Envoy dismissed Lin Bai as ordinary.
• Jiang Xuansu decided to beat the men and force them to reveal what they knew about Sun Yao, while Lin Bai blocked the doorway.
• The Dragon Slayer Envoy reached for Jiang Xuansu, and she seized his arm and burst its flesh and blood apart.
• The Branch Altar Master attacked Jiang Xuansu, who broke the legs of all three men as Lin Bai watched.

Jiang Xuansu defeated the Joyous Union Sect members at Fulfilled Fortune Tower, allowing Lin Bai to question them about Sun Yao. The Dragon Slayer Envoy revealed that Sun Yao was the Floating Light Envoy, one of the sect’s nine envoys.

• Jiang Xuansu crushed the Dragon Slayer Envoy’s arm and severely wounded the Branch Altar Master.
• Jiang Xuansu killed the Vixen Envoy and forced the Purple-Robed Elder and Branch Altar Master to kneel.
• Lin Bai showed Sun Yao’s portrait to the three survivors and questioned them about her whereabouts.
• The Dragon Slayer Envoy resisted at first, but Lin Bai’s threats broke his resolve.
• The Dragon Slayer Envoy revealed that Sun Yao was the Floating Light Envoy, one of the Joyous Union Sect’s nine envoys.

Lin Bai learned that Sun Yao was the Floating Light Envoy and was due to marry the Joyous Union Sect Leader, so he and Jiang Xuansu decided to reach the sect’s headquarters before the wedding. After the Branch Altar Master and Purple-Robed Elder recognized Lin Bai as Qing Luo, they offered to guide the pair and claimed they were ready to turn against the Joyous Union Sect.

• The Dragon Slayer Envoy told Lin Bai that Sun Yao was at the Joyous Union Sect’s headquarters on Cloudpeak Mountain, preparing to marry its Sect Leader.
• Jiang Xuansu and the others learned that Sun Yao was one of the Nine Envoys, and the Dragon Slayer Envoy, Branch Altar Master, and Purple-Robed Elder recognized Lin Bai as Qing Luo.
• Lin Bai said he would go to the Joyous Union Sect’s headquarters to find Sun Yao before the wedding and repay the debt he owed her, regardless of whether she had joined the sect willingly.
• Jiang Xuansu doubted that Sun Yao had been deceived, reasoning that she had had time and support from the Sword Hiding Hermitage to escape or report the sect.
• The Purple-Robed Elder and Branch Altar Master offered to guide Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu, hoping to earn favor with the Eternal Devil Sect by turning against the Joyous Union Sect.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu spared captured Joyous Union Sect warriors so the Eternal Devil Sect could use them as inside agents, then traveled toward Cloudpeak Mountain. Along the way, they spotted Joyous Union Sect forces attacking the Zhang family, but the reason for the conflict remained unclear.

• Lin Bai decided to spare the Branch Altar Master, Purple-Robed Elder, and three Dragon Slayer Envoys so they could help the Eternal Devil Sect root out the Joyous Union Sect.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu sent the three Dragon Slayer Envoys through the teleportation array, where Eternal Devil Sect experts took them into custody.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu captured a Quasi-Dao Realm roc and rode it toward the Joyous Union Sect's mountain gate at Cloudpeak Mountain.
• Lin Bai stopped the roc after spotting hundreds of Joyous Union Sect warriors surrounding a group of fighters in a forest.
• The surviving fighters revealed that the Joyous Union Sect was pressuring the Zhang family to submit, while the Zhang family's young master said they wanted to avoid entanglements with powerful forces.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu discovered that the Joyous Union Sect was attacking the Zhang family of Heavenly Rhythm City to seize its maritime escape route. They intervened as the Zhang family's young master was near death, and Jiang Xuansu revealed Lin Bai's identity as Qing Luo.

• The roc explained that the Zhang family controlled spirit ships and sea routes that could let the Joyous Union Sect flee overseas.
• The Zhang family's young master refused to surrender and charged the Joyous Union Sect followers, but they struck him down and tried to take him alive.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu descended from the sky and killed the followers closing in on the wounded young master.
• Jiang Xuansu announced that Lin Bai was Qing Luo, the new master of the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and the Joyous Union Sect followers and Zhang family's young master stared at him in terror.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu confronted the Joyous Union Sect members who were pursuing Zhang Qing, but the sect members doubted Lin Bai’s identity and attacked. Lin Bai revealed his Dao God Realm cultivation and wiped them out, leaving Zhang Qing alive and grateful.

• Jiang Xuansu challenged the Joyous Union Sect members for targeting the Zhang Family, and Lin Bai promised to protect Zhang Qing.
• The Joyous Union Sect members accused Lin Bai of stealing Qing Luo’s Identity Token and charged at him and Jiang Xuansu.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu revealed their Dao God Realm cultivation, causing the attackers to apologize and turn to leave.
• Lin Bai judged that the Joyous Union Sect members would have killed him if he had been weaker, then attacked them with his flying swords.
• The Joyous Union Sect formed a Combined Attack Formation with a Nine-Headed Serpent phantom, but Lin Bai destroyed it with the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and killed them all.
• Zhang Qing recovered enough to stand and thanked Lin Bai for saving his life.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu uncovered the Joyous Union Sect’s plan to dominate Joy Province through its leader’s wedding and traveled to Cloudpeak Mountain. They arrived at the mountain gate, where Zhu Zhen asked them to identify themselves.

• Lin Bai declined the Zhang Family's Young Lord's invitation to Heavenly Rhythm City and departed with Jiang Xuansu without revealing the Eternal Devil Sect’s plans for Joy Province.
• Jiang Xuansu and Lin Bai concluded that the Joyous Union Sect planned to gather Joy Province’s experts at the wedding and use Dao Seeds to control them and seize power.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu traveled through Joy Province for nine days, witnessing Joyous Union Sect disciples slaughter martial artists and seize resources.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu reached Cloudpeak Mountain, where Zhu Zhen of the Joyous Union Sect’s White Dragon Hall approached and asked their names and origins.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu arrived at the Joyous Union Sect’s wedding gathering in Fragrant Flower Valley, where Lin Bai mingled with guests and learned how the wars in Heng Province had weakened Yue Province’s other powers. He told Jiang Xuansu that turmoil was spreading across the Eternal Thirteen Provinces and left her contemplating the danger of human schemes.

• A demon from the Joyous Union Sect welcomed Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu and arranged their stay in Fragrant Flower Valley ahead of the wedding banquet.
• Lin Bai shared wine with the gathered martial artists and heard them criticize the Joyous Union Sect’s growing power in Yue Province.
• Lin Bai learned that battles over the Dragon Immortal Jade and the Eternal Devil Sect’s conflict with the Eight Great Noble Families had killed many experts and left Yue Province vulnerable.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that forces across the Eternal Thirteen Provinces were watching for opportunities amid the turmoil.
• Lin Bai warned Jiang Xuansu that rumors and the human heart could be more dangerous than blades, and she fell into deep thought.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu attended the Joyous Union Sect Leader’s wedding, where they heard that the sect had spread rumors linking Sun Yao to the Eternal Devil Sect. The guests’ belief that the Joyous Union Sect was backed by the Eternal Devil Sect helped explain its growing power, and Lin Bai ended the chapter by challenging Jiang Xuansu’s speculation about his motives.

• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, and martial artists from Hundred Flowers Valley arrived at Cloud Saint Mountain for the Joyous Union Sect Leader’s wedding.
• Lin Bai told the gift registrar that he was a longtime friend of the Sect Leader’s wife and would give her a present at the banquet, then joined Li Yunqi and the other guests on a low Spirit Platform.
• Lin Bai spotted the Zhang family of Heavenly Rhythm City seated above the other guests, apparently seeking justice after the Joyous Union Sect’s attempted assassination of their young master.
• Li Yunqi and other guests repeated rumors that Sun Yao had been a concubine of an Eternal Devil Sect genius, and said many Yue Province sects had surrendered because they thought the Joyous Union Sect belonged to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Jiang Xuansu suggested that Lin Bai might have sent Sun Yao to build a power base against the Eternal Devil Sect, and Lin Bai asked whether he would need such a plan to destroy the sect.

Su Kong and Sun Yao’s wedding at Cloud Saint Mountain was interrupted when the Zhang Clan Head publicly questioned Sun Yao’s past and accused the Joyous Union Sect of attacking his son. Sun Yao’s expression changed when he learned Qing Luo was in Music Province, and Su Kong demanded to know what explanation the Zhang Clan Head wanted.

• Su Kong and Sun Yao ascended Cloud Saint Mountain for their wedding, and Lin Bai recognized them from their past in Mountain Province.
• Su Kong thanked the guests and declared that he and Sun Yao would face adversity together as husband and wife.
• The Zhang Clan Head publicly questioned Sun Yao about her past with an unparalleled genius of the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Sun Yao said she had been a servant, not a concubine, and denied that the Joyous Union Sect was connected to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• The Zhang Clan Head accused Joyous Union Sect members of trying to capture his son and said Qing Luo had rescued him.
• Sun Yao reacted sharply to news that Qing Luo had arrived in Music Province, while Su Kong asked the Zhang Clan Head what explanation he wanted.

At the Joyous Union Sect wedding, Lin Bai revealed himself as Qing Luo, the Eternal Devil Sect genius Sun Yao had once followed, and confronted her and Su Kong. Sun Yao thanked Lin Bai for his past kindness but chose to remain with Su Kong.

• The Zhang Clan Head accepted Su Kong's assurances and postponed confronting the Joyous Union Sect after judging it too powerful to oppose.
• Jiang Xuansu challenged Sun Yao about the peerless genius she had once followed, and Lin Bai answered that she had not invited him, so she could not know he would stay away.
• Lin Bai rose into the sky with Jiang Xuansu, and the Zhang Clan Head and gathered martial artists recognized him as Lord Qing Luo.
• Lin Bai mocked Su Kong and the Joyous Union Sect, then told Sun Yao to return to Sword Hiding Hermitage with him.
• Sun Yao thanked Lin Bai for bringing her to the Eternal Devil Sect but declared that she wanted to choose her own path and asked him to bless her relationship with Su Kong.

At Sun Yao and Su Kong’s wedding, Lin Bai tried to take Sun Yao away, believing the Joyous Union Sect would bring her ruin, but she insisted she had chosen to stay. As Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu prepared to leave, Ke Yu arrived with a vast Eternal Devil Sect force, turning the confrontation into a looming crisis.

• Lin Bai offered to free Sun Yao from the Dao Seed and take her to safety, but she repeatedly said she loved Su Kong and would remain with him.
• Su Kong stepped between Lin Bai and Sun Yao, accused Lin Bai of bullying her, and summoned the Joyous Union Sect’s disciples to defend the wedding.
• Jiang Xuansu explained that Lin Bai had come only to repay Sun Yao’s past kindness, and Sun Yao said their debts were settled.
• Lin Bai gave Sun Yao one last chance to leave, but she refused as guests from allied sects condemned him.
• Ke Yu arrived in the sky with tens of thousands of Eternal Devil Sect martial artists, including thousands of Dao God Realm experts.

Ke Yu arrived at Cloud Saint Mountain with thousands of Eternal Devil Sect experts and declared war on the Joyous Union Sect for using Heart Demon Implantation to control martial artists. As witnesses and victims turned against the sect, Su Kong and Sun Yao fled and tried to rally its disciples to fight back.

• Ke Yu rebuked a middle-aged martial artist for insulting the Eternal Devil Sect, then sent Jiang Xuansu and Lin Bai away from the confrontation.
• Ke Yu rejected Su Kong's request to witness his wedding to Sun Yao and announced that the Eternal Devil Sect had come to destroy the Joyous Union Sect.
• Ke Yu presented extracted Dao Seeds and witnesses from Purple Phoenix City as evidence that the Joyous Union Sect used Heart Demon Implantation.
• Hundreds and thousands of Joyous Union Sect martial artists knelt and begged Ke Yu to extract their Dao Seeds, while the Zhang Clan and other Joy Province factions pledged support to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Sun Yao used two supreme-grade Dao Divine Weapons to force Ke Yu back as she and Su Kong retreated; Su Kong claimed only he could remove the Dao Seeds and urged the Joyous Union Sect disciples to fight.

Lin Bai watched the Eternal Devil Sect destroy the Joyous Union Sect after Sun Yao refused his offer to leave with him. The battle ended with Sun Yao and Su Kong escaping and unleashing a Grand Yi Divine Weapon, whose possible connection to Heart Demon Implantation left Lin Bai suspicious.

• Ke Yu gave Sun Yao a chance to leave with Lin Bai, but she stayed and Su Kong ordered the Joyous Union Sect to fight the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Jiang Xuansu led Lin Bai away from Cloud Saint Mountain as Ke Yu wounded Su Kong and Sun Yao, and Lin Bai lamented Sun Yao's choices.
• The Eternal Devil Sect overwhelmed the Joyous Union Sect, which was destroyed within half a day as its members surrendered or fled.
• Sun Yao and Su Kong escaped Ke Yu amid the chaos, then unleashed a Grand Yi Divine Weapon that forced Ke Yu back.
• Jiang Xuansu explained how Dao Divine Weapons advanced into Grand Yi Divine Weapons, and Lin Bai wondered whether the weapon was connected to Heart Demon Implantation.

Lin Bai pursued Su Kong and Sun Yao as they fled Cloudpeak Mountain and became trapped by their pursuers. Wan Wei tried to force Su Kong to remove his Dao Seed, but an unknown swordsman struck before he could hurt Sun Yao.

• Ke Yu used a Grand Yi Divine Weapon to hold back the fire dragon while Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu pursued Su Kong and Sun Yao.
• Lin Bai located the fleeing couple, who were pursued by the Eternal Devil Sect, Yuezhou sects, and former Joyous Union Sect members.
• Wan Wei struck Su Kong and Sun Yao down, and the pursuers surrounded them.
• Wan Wei asked the pursuers for permission to make Su Kong remove his Dao Seed, then threatened Sun Yao when Su Kong refused.
• An unseen sword strike severed Wan Wei's snake-transformed arm as he attacked Sun Yao.