Chapter Summaries

Liu Chongen and the Grand Elder planned to recruit Qing Luo and attack the Yunling Li Family, while the Evil Moon Sect suspended the Evil Moon Grand Feast’s martial contests for a month. The chapter ended with the Eternal Devil Sect’s representatives summoned to Moon God Mountain to investigate Li Baiyue, with Qing Luo sent separately from the others.

• Liu Chongen agreed to consider recruiting Qing Luo after the Evil Moon Sect determined the depth of Qing Luo’s ties to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• The Grand Elder reported that his forces had reached the Yunling Li Family and planned to provoke unrest there in seven days.
• Luo Wuling warned Liu Chongen that the Eternal Devil Sect and Yunling Li Family were too injured to continue competing, so Liu Chongen suspended the contests for one month.
• The Evil Moon Sect announced the suspension across Star City and opened Moon Province to the visiting sects and martial artists.
• Evil Moon Sect disciples summoned Gong Jian, Meng Qi, Jiang Xuansu, and Qing Luo to Moon God Mountain to help investigate Li Baiyue, then separated Qing Luo from the other three.

Lin Bai played a chess endgame with the Grand Elder of the Evil Moon Sect and turned a seemingly hopeless position into a draw. The Grand Elder then told Lin Bai that the sect had found a lead about the deaths of the Eternal Devil Sect disciples and claimed Li Baiyue had returned to the Li Family in Yunling.

• A disciple brought Lin Bai to a cliff, where he studied a stone chessboard and made a move that revived the surrounded black pieces.
• The white-haired old man appeared, introduced the endgame, and played against Lin Bai as the two extended the contest across many moves.
• Lin Bai repeatedly sacrificed black pieces to preserve his position and eventually forced a draw, insisting that he had not lost.
• The old man praised Lin Bai’s strategy and revealed that he was the Grand Elder of the Evil Moon Sect.
• When Lin Bai asked about the investigation, the Grand Elder claimed Li Baiyue was at the Li Family in Yunling, concealing that he had fabricated the story.

The Grand Elder lied to Lin Bai about Li Baiyue’s connection to the Yunling Li Family while gauging whether the Eternal Devil Sect would fight the family. He revealed that the Evil Moon Sect planned to attack Yunling in seven days and wanted the Eternal Devil Sect to hunt Li Baiyue if he escaped.

• The Grand Elder claimed Li Baiyue was a member of the Yunling Li Family and had been escorted back to Yunling.
• The Grand Elder suggested reconciling with the Yunling Li Family, and Lin Bai angrily rejected the idea, demanding vengeance for the Eternal Devil Sect’s dead disciples.
• The Grand Elder praised Lin Bai’s resolve and disclosed that the Evil Moon Sect planned to destroy the Yunling Li Family in seven days.
• The Grand Elder explained that the Eternal Devil Sect would need to search for Li Baiyue during the battle, since he might escape if the Li Family was defeated.
• Lin Bai reacted to the plan with shock and renewed killing intent toward Li Baiyue.

Lin Bai learned that the Evil Moon Sect was preparing to destroy the Yunling Li Family and invited the Eternal Devil Sect to kill Li Baiyue. Liu Fuyun agreed to send Jiang Xuansu, Qing Luo, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian to Yunling while he stayed in Star City, and the four set out through a teleportation array.

• The Evil Moon Sect Grand Elder told Lin Bai that his sect would destroy the Yunling Li Family but would leave capturing Li Baiyue to the Eternal Devil Sect.
• Lin Bai returned to the Eternal Devil Sect's residence and told Liu Fuyun about the Evil Moon Sect's offer and the danger that Li Baiyue might escape.
• Liu Fuyun agreed that Jiang Xuansu, Qing Luo, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian would go to Yunling while he guarded Star City.
• Lin Bai and the others met the Grand Elder, received a map of Yunling, and entered a teleportation array bound for the region.

Lin Bai and the other Eternal Devil Sect members reached Li Family City in Yunling Qin Province and met with Evil Moon Sect disciple Gu Jin to coordinate their search for Li Baiyue. Gu Jin said the sect was monitoring Li Baiyue’s whereabouts, while Lin Bai remained unsure how the Evil Moon Sect planned to confront the vast Yunling Li Family.

• Lin Bai led the four Eternal Devil Sect members east through Yunling and, five days later, arrived at Li Family City.
• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian entered the city, found an inn, and contacted the Evil Moon Sect’s experts.
• Gu Jin arrived at the inn and told the group that the Evil Moon Sect was watching for news of Li Baiyue and would arrange their operation when the time was right.
• Gu Jin explained that Li Baiyue was likely a genius secretly cultivated by the Li Family, making him difficult to locate despite his prominence.
• Lin Bai asked when the Evil Moon Sect would act, recalling the Grand Elder’s seven-day deadline, but remained uncertain how the sect would defeat the Li Family.

Lin Bai questioned the Evil Moon Sect’s account of Li Baiyue’s return and suspected that someone had trapped the sect, the Li Family, and their group in a larger scheme. He and Jiang Xuansu found no direct clues in Li Family City, but learned that Li Family warriors were gathering and that a secret meeting had ended badly, with Second Master Li frequently mentioned.

• Gu Jin told Lin Bai and his companions to wait in Li Family City while the Evil Moon Sect carried out its plan against the Li Family.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian that the Grand Elder’s story about Li Baiyue contained contradictions and that they might be pawns in a wider plot.
• Meng Qi urged Lin Bai to focus on finding Li Baiyue before the Li Family was destroyed, and Lin Bai agreed to investigate with Jiang Xuansu.
• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu spent the afternoon listening for rumors in a restaurant but heard no useful information about Li Baiyue or the conflict.
• Lin Bai told Jiang Xuansu that Li Family warriors had recently returned in large numbers, a secret high-level meeting had ended with its attendees looking grim, and people repeatedly mentioned Second Master Li.

The Li Family's leaders debated whether to fight the Evil Moon Sect or seek peace, weighing the dangers of defeat against the loss of their reputation. The Li Family Head finally chose war as the Evil Moon Sect's forces gathered in the city.

• The Grand Elder urged the Li Family to fight, while Second Master Li warned that other sects would exploit a costly battle.
• Second Master Li and the Grand Elder argued until the Li Family Head ordered them to stop.
• The Li Family Head acknowledged the risks of both war and peace but struggled to choose a course of action.
• The Grand Elder warned that the Evil Moon Sect could attack within three to five days and pressed the Family Head to decide.
• The Li Family Head chose to fight, exciting the Grand Elder's faction and dismaying Second Master Li's faction.

After the Li Family Head chose war with the Evil Moon Sect, Second Master Li’s supporters urged him to seize the Family Head position from the Mountain Pass Branch. The Evil Moon Sect revealed that it was encouraging the plot to divide the Li Family, while Ancestor Qin went to demand the Li ancestors’ surrender.

• The Li Family Head ordered the Grand Elder to gather the Lineage’s experts for war against the Evil Moon Sect.
• Second Master Li drank in despair as Pacifist Faction members urged him to keep trying to save the Li Family.
• Li Yunhu urged Second Master Li to take back the Family Head position for the Mulberry Field Branch, and Second Master Li began to consider it.
• Seven Evil Moon Sect experts discussed how the dispute between Second Master Li and the current Family Head could spark internal conflict.
• The Evil Moon Sect experts learned that Ancestor Qin had taken the Nine Hells World Refining Shroud to persuade the Li Family ancestors to kneel and surrender.

Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu learned that the Li Family was preparing for an internal power struggle, while the Evil Moon Sect revealed it had secretly engineered the conflict over many generations. The story left them waiting to watch Second Master Li challenge the current Li Family Head that night.

• Lin Bai and Jiang Xuansu searched Li Family City for information about Li Baiyue but found no rumors about him.
• On the fourth day, Gu Jin invited Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian to watch events unfold near the Li Family's core territory.
• Gu Jin explained that Second Master Li had once been passed over for the position of Li Family Head and would likely try to reclaim it that night.
• Gu Jin revealed that the Evil Moon Sect had nurtured Li Yunhu to provoke Second Master Li's buried resentment and spark the family conflict.
• Gu Jin said the Evil Moon Sect had been preparing to deal with the Yunling Li Family for tens of thousands of years.

The Yunling Li Family prepared for a confrontation with the Evil Moon Sect, but its leaders divided over whether to fight or submit. Second Master Li openly challenged the Li Family Head for control, leaving the family on the verge of internal conflict.

• The Grand Elder reported that Li Family disciples had returned and the family was ready for the Evil Moon Sect.
• Warmonger Faction elders urged the Li Family to strike first, but Second Master Li argued that they should apologize and wait.
• The Li Family Head rejected Second Master Li's advice and declared that battle was unavoidable.
• Li Yunhu defended Second Master Li and denounced the Li Family Head, who ordered him taken to the death prison.
• Second Master Li revealed his Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm cultivation and demanded that the Li Family Head temporarily yield his position.

Lin Bai, Gu Jin, and their companions watched the Li Family’s internal rebellion erupt after Second Master Li demanded that the Family Head step down. The battle devastated the Li Family residence, while Gu Jin explained that destroying a powerful family required more than killing its leaders and that the story of the Li Family’s survival remained unresolved.

• Lin Bai asked Gu Jin whether they would intervene, and Gu Jin said the Li Family’s vast reach made its destruction a gradual task.
• The Li Family’s defensive formation shattered, revealing Second Master Li and the Family Head facing off with their supporters.
• Second Master Li declared that he would temporarily remove the Family Head to save the Li Family, but the Family Head ordered him seized.
• Second Master Li and the Family Head’s branches clashed, and their battle reduced much of the Li Family residence to ruins.
• Meng Qi asked whether the Evil Moon Sect could destroy the Li Family, and Gu Jin explained that the family’s million members and rival powers made outright extermination difficult.

A Grand Luo Dao Fruit expert intervened in the Li Family’s succession dispute and ordered Li Junhu to yield the family head position to Second Master Li. Fei Lingzi then led the Evil Moon Sect to the Li Family and demanded that they hand over Li Baiyue for attacking the Eternal Devil Sect.

• A Grand Luo Dao Fruit expert appeared above the Li Family compound and forced the fighting martial artists to stop.
• The old beggar ordered Li Junhu to return the family head position to the Mulberry Field Branch, and Second Master Li took over.
• Gu Jin noted that the Li Family had made a wise choice, while Lin Bai wondered what would happen to Li Baiyue.
• Second Master Li invited the Evil Moon Sect to reveal themselves, and Fei Lingzi led its experts out of hiding.
• Fei Lingzi said the Evil Moon Sect had come to demand Li Baiyue and give the Eternal Devil Sect justice.

The Evil Moon Sect pressed the Yunling Li Family to surrender Li Baiyue, the man accused of killing an Eternal Devil Sect disciple. After checking its genealogy and examining all eighteen clan members with that name, the group found no match, leaving the killer’s identity unresolved.

• Fei Lingzi demanded that the Yunling Li Family hand over Li Baiyue, and the beggar old man and Second Master Li said they did not know anyone by that name.
• Second Master Li checked the family genealogy and summoned all eighteen Li Baiyues listed there.
• Gu Jin brought Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian to identify the suspects.
• Meng Qi and Gong Jian examined all eighteen and said none was the Li Baiyue they had seen.
• The beggar old man insisted the Li Family had no such person, and Fei Lingzi accepted that the killer might not belong to the family.

After the Evil Moon Sect forced the Yunling Li Family to replace Li Junhu with Second Master Li, Lin Bai questioned the Sect’s account of Li Baiyue’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, Li Junhu reassured Second Master Li and advised him on managing the family’s angry clansmen.

• Seven days after the Li Family’s upheaval, Fei Lingzi led the Evil Moon Sect and Lin Bai’s group back to the sect, leaving Second Master Li and the elders with forced smiles.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Evil Moon Sect had pressured the Li Family into changing leaders and suspected its Old Ancestor had persuaded the beggar old man to intervene.
• Lin Bai wondered whether the Li Family or the Evil Moon Sect’s Grand Elder had lied about Li Baiyue being a Li Family disciple, and continued seeking answers about Li Baiyue’s attack on the Eternal Devil Sect.
• After the Evil Moon Sect departed, clansmen from the Li Family’s branches and direct lines confronted Second Master Li over his surrender without a fight.
• Li Junhu told Second Master Li that the clansmen’s anger was natural and praised his willingness to bear disgrace for the Li Family.
• Second Master Li asked Li Junhu for help handling the elders, and Li Junhu began advising him on how to stabilize them.

Li Junhu and Second Master Li staged the Li Family’s leadership change to avert war with the Evil Moon Sect, while the sect secretly sought medicines to revive the Moon God. Back in Star City, Lin Bai and his companions learned that the identity of Li Baiyue remained unexplained.

• Li Junhu and Second Master Li arranged a staged conflict that put Second Master Li at the head of the Li Family and kept Li Junhu directing events behind the scenes.
• Fei Lingzi reported the outcome to the Evil Moon Sect, and the Grand Elder gave Liu Chongen the treasures and medicines taken from the Li Family to revive the Moon God.
• Liu Chongen praised the Grand Elder’s deception and promised to report the sect’s heroes to the Moon God after the revival.
• Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, and their companions heard increasingly exaggerated rumors about the Evil Moon Sect forcing the Li Family to replace its head.
• Lin Bai and the others met Liu Fuyun, who wondered who Li Baiyue was after the Li Family denied that such a person existed.

Young Master Bai Yue reconsidered his plans after a Li Family elder warned him to stop using the Yunling Li Family’s identity to cause trouble in Star City. He chose to seek the map first, while the Evil Moon Sect’s change to the Evil Moon Grand Feast competition rules stirred new unrest across Evil Moon Thousand Provinces.

• Young Master Bai Yue admitted he had underestimated Li Junhu and discussed whether to pursue the map or keep pressuring the Yunling Li Family.
• A Li Family elder visited Young Master Bai Yue and warned the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to stop using the Yunling Li Family’s identity or risk being exposed and trapped in Evil Moon Thousand Provinces.
• After the elder left, Young Master Bai Yue restrained his anger and ordered his followers to set the Li Family aside and retrieve the map first.
• Young Master Bai Yue recalled that he suspected Lin Bai or Leng Xingguang had taken the map and that his attempt to pressure the Yunling Li Family had failed.
• Rumors about the Yunling Li Family’s crisis spread, and the Evil Moon Sect changed the Dao God realm competitions at the Evil Moon Grand Feast from team battles to individual battles.

The Evil Moon Sect changed the Dao God competition from team battles to individual battles after serious injuries left the Eternal Devil Sect and Yunling Li Family unable to compete as teams. Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian entered for the Eternal Devil Sect, and the new competition began in Star City with numbered matchups about to be announced.

• The Evil Moon Sect replaced the Dao God team battles with individual battles, resetting the points and allowing every willing Dao God martial artist to enter.
• Liu Fuyun told the Eternal Devil Sect’s Dao God martial artists that they could choose whether to participate, and Lin Bai, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Gong Jian volunteered.
• Lin Fen, Li Shenyun, Meng He, and Meng Lian withdrew because they were still seriously injured, so Liu Fuyun submitted a roster of four participants.
• Three days later, Luo Wuling announced the individual-battle rules at the Star City Arena and explained that matching number plaques would determine opponents.
• An Evil Moon Sect disciple delivered four number plaques to the Eternal Devil Sect, and Liu Fuyun handed them to Lin Bai and the other participants.

Lin Bai and the others watched the martial arts tournament begin with a shocking first-round match between Wan Zizhen and Song Zhenqin. Wan Zizhen endured Song Zhenqin’s full assault without injury, forcing him to concede, while Lin Bai recognized Wan Zizhen’s extraordinary physical body.

• Luo Wuling explained that the tournament tokens would change numbers after each round and called the first contestants into the arena.
• Wan Zizhen and Song Zhenqin, two top-ten finishers in the previous Evil Moon Dao God Rankings, faced off in the first match.
• Song Zhenqin struck Wan Zizhen and then attacked him relentlessly for a quarter of an hour, but Wan Zizhen remained unharmed.
• Song Zhenqin admitted defeat, and Wan Zizhen returned to the Evil Moon Sect’s seats.
• Meng Qi and Gong Jian marveled at Wan Zizhen’s toughness, while Jiang Xuansu asked Lin Bai what path he followed; Lin Bai praised his incredible physical body.

Wan Zizhen defeated Song Zhenqin without attacking, revealing an indestructible body and a mysterious history that even Liu Fuyun could not fully explain. After the matches continued, Jiang Xuansu won the Eternal Devil Sect’s first bout and left her opponent bloodied but alive.

• Song Zhenqin admitted defeat after his punches failed to hurt Wan Zizhen.
• Liu Fuyun explained that Wan Zizhen was a mysterious Evil Moon Sect prodigy who wore down opponents with his formidable body and had even defeated Leng Xingguang.
• Wan Zizhen noticed Lin Bai watching him, met his gaze, and smiled, leaving Lin Bai uneasy.
• The martial contests continued until Luo Wuling called contestant number nine, and Jiang Xuansu entered the arena.
• Jiang Xuansu broke through her opponent’s defenses with a palm strike, and he admitted defeat when she pursued him.

Jiang Xuansu advanced with a one-palm victory while Meng Qi and Gong Jian were eliminated, then Lin Bai began his match against Snow Sect disciple Ye Yuqing. Ye Yuqing wounded him with her Dao Domain and unleashed a barrage of ice attacks, leaving Lin Bai retreating and defending.

• Jiang Xuansu defeated her opponent with one palm, while Meng Qi and Gong Jian lost their matches and were comforted by Liu Fuyun and the other disciples.
• Luo Wuling called token number 81, and Lin Bai entered the arena amid cheers from the crowd.
• Ye Yuqing of the Snow Sect faced Lin Bai, and the match began after Luo Wuling checked their tokens.
• Ye Yuqing unleashed her Dao Domain, and a concealed wind blade cut Lin Bai's cheek.
• Lin Zhiwei angrily insulted Ye Yuqing from the stands, while Elder Zhou tried to restrain him.
• Lin Bai attacked Ye Yuqing and shattered her ice dragon, but her ice fragments formed a frozen layer that sent sharp icicles at him, forcing him to retreat and defend with his Five Elements Dao Body.