Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Chen You investigated the missing register that could expose the Blood God Sect’s ties to Ke Province’s City Lord’s Orders. Lin Bai agreed to remain in Ke Province and help the search before continuing to Violet Star City.

• Li Guxian explained that the register vanished after her parents were killed and the Li household was attacked by assassins from several factions.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the register was likely still missing, since the Blood God Sect and the City Lord’s Orders were still hunting Li Guxian for it.
• Chen You warned that involving the Zhao Xing Office could alert their enemies, then suggested using the Dark World’s network to search for the register.
• Li Guxian revealed that her father had collected a letter from Zhang Qian to Zhang Jinnian, linking the Blood God Sect to Tianya City’s City Lord’s Order.
• Lin Bai agreed to stay in Ke Province and help Chen You investigate.

Lin Bai, Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun fled rather than risk bringing danger to the Shanhe Trading Company, while Uncle Zhang went to warn He Qiyun’s father. A Dao God Peak pursuer caught up with them and ordered his men to capture Li Guxian alive and kill the others.

• Lin Bai argued that returning Li Guxian to the Shanhe Trading Company would endanger it, and Li Guxian agreed to leave with Chen You and He Qiyun.
• He Qiyun sent Uncle Zhang to inform her father, while she and Li Guxian joined Lin Bai and Chen You to search for the register.
• The crow sensed approaching assassins, so the group split up and flew away as Uncle Zhang returned toward Wu Wang City.
• A blood attack nearly struck He Qiyun, but Lin Bai pulled her aside and cut through it with Sword Qi.
• The cold-faced Dao God Peak leader caught up with the group and ordered his several hundred followers to take Li Guxian alive and kill the others.

Lin Bai and his companions were surrounded by a hundred martial artists, and he fought them with his flying swords before confronting their leader. The leader revealed his Blood God Armor and gained enough power to drive Lin Bai back, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Bai protected Li Guxian, He Qiyun, and Chen You as his three flying swords killed several Dao God martial artists and held off the attackers.
• The cold man ordered his followers to capture Li Guxian while he fought Lin Bai, but Lin Bai broke the man's arm with a single punch.
• Lin Bai tried to finish the cold man, but his punch struck a barrier-like defense and failed to harm him.
• Li Guxian and He Qiyun identified the cold man as a Blood God of the Blood God Sect, and he emerged wearing living, blood-red armor.
• The Blood God Armor increased the cold man's speed, strength, and defense, and he blasted Lin Bai backward before attacking with a barrage of punches.

Lin Bai defeated a Blood God Sect attacker by using the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to absorb the Blood God, then escaped with Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to Gongling City. After recovering from his wound, he was visited by Li Guxian and He Qiyun while Chen You continued searching for the Dark World entrance.

• The sinister man’s Blood God began draining Lin Bai’s vital blood, but Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to absorb and refine it.
• Lin Bai killed the weakened sinister man and used his three flying swords to eliminate the remaining Blood God Sect martial artists.
• Lin Bai and his companions fled and reached Gongling City after seven teleportations, where they rented rooms at an inn.
• Lin Bai healed his shoulder and recovered his spiritual power while Chen You searched unsuccessfully for the Dark World entrance over the next few days.
• Li Guxian and He Qiyun visited Lin Bai to check on his injury, and He Qiyun questioned him for calling the serious wound superficial.

Lin Bai returned Li Guxian’s stolen belongings, then joined Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun at a Dark World stronghold to seek information about the register. The Dark World quoted them a price of ten thousand purple gold, suggesting it had the information they needed.

• He Qiyun asked Lin Bai for Li Guxian’s Azure Lotus Swordplay manual and dudou, and Lin Bai returned both, though He Qiyun left calling him a pervert.
• Chen You found an entrance to the Dark World and called Lin Bai, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to join him that night.
• Chen You led the group through Gongling City to a hidden Dark World stronghold and submitted their request for help locating the register.
• The Dark World’s representative returned and quoted a price of ten thousand purple gold, and Chen You took this as a sign that it had news about the register.

Chen You paid the Dark World to uncover the history of Li Tianen’s register and the people who knew about it. After learning that Zhang Yunting had betrayed Li Tianen and now led a Blood God Sect branch, Lin Bai and the others concluded that he had the register.

• Chen You paid the Dark World ten thousand purple-gold coins for information about Li Tianen’s register.
• The shadow explained that Li Tianen had secretly recorded city lord seals linked to the Blood God Sect before his betrayal and death.
• The Dark World revealed that Li Guxian and He Qiyun knew about the register, and that Zhang Yunting had betrayed Li Tianen and become a Blood God Sect branch master.
• The shadow said no city lord seal had obtained the register and warned the group to act quickly because others were asking about it.
• After leaving, Lin Bai, Chen You, He Qiyun, and Li Guxian independently concluded that Zhang Yunting had the register.

Lin Bai and his companions concluded that Zhang Yunting had the missing register and traveled to Rong'en City to find him. They discovered Zhang Yunting fleeing a devastating attack and pursued him until he collapsed in a mountain range, where Lin Bai found him watching the sunrise.

• Lin Bai reasoned that Zhang Yunting possessed the register and led Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun to Rong'en City to retrieve it.
• The group arrived at dawn and heard a battle raging in the city; Lin Bai explained that others were also hunting the people connected to the register.
• Lin Bai and his companions found East City reduced to ruins, with hundreds of Dao God Realm fighters attacking Zhang Yunting.
• Zhang Yunting used a flying treasure to escape the city, and Lin Bai followed him on his flying sword.
• Zhang Yunting exhausted himself and fell in a mountain range, where Lin Bai found him resting beside a boulder as the sun rose.

Lin Bai retrieved the register from the dying Zhang Yunting, who confessed to betraying Li Tianen before choosing to die. As Lin Bai tried to leave, a Black-Robed Old Man attacked for the register, and after Lin Bai killed him, several more pursuers arrived and surrounded Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai caught up with Zhang Yunting, who handed over the register listing corrupt officials and criminals across Ke Province.
• Zhang Yunting confessed that he had betrayed his benefactor, likely Li Tianen, to the Blood God Sect and then regretted his actions before giving up on his injuries and dying.
• Lin Bai confirmed Zhang Yunting was dead and prepared to leave, but a Black-Robed Old Man attacked him and demanded the register.
• Lin Bai shattered the Black-Robed Old Man's sword attack and killed him with a single punch, then took his Storage Bag.
• A golden net delayed Lin Bai's escape, and several figures arrived and attacked him, demanding that he leave the register behind.

After obtaining the name list, Lin Bai fought off the assassins who pursued him and defeated a powerful short old man. The old man escaped after warning that the Blood God Sect would come for Lin Bai.

• Hundreds of assassins surrounded Lin Bai, and he killed more than fifty of them, causing the rest to retreat.
• Lin Bai collected the dead assassins' Storage Bags and challenged the remaining watchers to attack or leave.
• A short old man at the peak of the Dao God Realm demanded the name list, and Lin Bai refused.
• Lin Bai used his sword formations to wound the short old man and send him flying backward.
• The short old man fled as black smoke after warning that the Blood God Sect would come for Lin Bai, and Lin Bai pursued him with his Asura Dharma Eyes.

Lin Bai killed the short old man, recovered the register, and helped Chen You and Li Guxian prepare to expose the Blood God Sect’s network of corrupt city lords. Chen You, Li Guxian, and He Qiyun departed for the imperial capital while Lin Bai headed toward Sang Province, as the Blood God Sect learned that its plans were in danger.

• Lin Bai tracked down the fleeing short old man with his Asura Dharma Eyes and killed him before his divine soul could escape.
• Lin Bai returned to Rong'en City with the register, and Chen You learned that it implicated more than seventeen thousand city lords in Ke Province.
• Chen You decided to take Li Guxian to the imperial capital to present the register before the Golden Hall, and He Qiyun chose to accompany them.
• Lin Bai declined Chen You’s invitation to go to the imperial capital and left Ke Province by teleportation array to travel toward Sang Province.
• The Blood God Sect’s Sect Leader learned that Chen You had taken the register to the imperial capital and feared the sect’s plans would collapse.

Lin Bai arrived in Violet Star City and searched for the Dark World's entrance so he could ask for information about the Yellow Springs Demon Bone. After weeks of searching, he learned that the inn's shopkeeper was the Dark World's agent and submitted his request.

• Lin Bai arrived in Violet Star City and admired its prosperity and strategic position on the borders of Sang Province, Cang Province, and Haizhou.
• Lin Bai decided to seek information about the Yellow Springs Demon Bone from the Dark World, whose agents could trade information across the Chu Empire.
• Lin Bai spent several dozen days searching Violet Star City for the Dark World's entrance without success.
• The inn's shopkeeper offered to help Lin Bai and revealed that he was the Dark World's agent in Violet Star City.
• Lin Bai wrote down his request and gave it to the shopkeeper, who went inside to contact the Dark World.

Lin Bai learned that the Yellow Springs Demon Bone was more likely hidden in the Mist Marsh than in Violet Star City’s government office treasury. After preparing for three days, he entered the marsh, where the fog quickly erased his way back and left him lost.

• The manager told Lin Bai that the Dark World’s intelligence pointed to either the government office treasury or the Mist Marsh as the likely hiding place of the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, with the Mist Marsh being more probable.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Demon Bone was likelier to be in the Mist Marsh, where the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s remnants had fled and perished.
• Lin Bai spent three days studying maps and books about the Chu Kingdom and Violet Star City before setting out east.
• Lin Bai reached the Mist Marsh, took an Antitoxin Pill, and entered its dense fog.
• Lin Bai found that the path behind him had vanished, lost his bearings, and continued deeper into the marsh as strange bird cries sounded around him.

Lin Bai wandered through the Mist Marsh, where powerful demon serpents attacked despite showing little intelligence. The Crow recognized fragments of the place and began guiding Lin Bai through the fog, though its changing directions left their destination uncertain.

• Lin Bai entered the Mist Marsh and became unable to find his way back or determine his direction.
• Lin Bai noticed that the marsh was unusually vast and encountered several powerful demon serpents that behaved like wild beasts.
• Lin Bai killed a hundred-zhang demon serpent with a streak of sword light after it attacked him.
• The Crow said it felt as if it had been to the marsh before but could not remember the place clearly.
• The Crow told Lin Bai to head east, then repeatedly changed the direction it indicated, and Lin Bai followed its guidance.

Lin Bai and the crow found a hidden valley in the Mist Marsh, where a strange man nearly killed Lin Bai and forced him into Twilight Mountain. The crow revealed that seven Great Mystic Art Users were buried there and that he had dug up all their graves.

• Lin Bai followed the crow through the Mist Marsh until they found a secluded mountain valley concealed by the Heaven's Will Limitless Union Formation.
• A bolt of divine lightning struck the crow when he flew upward, and a strange man appeared to block Lin Bai's escape.
• Lin Bai's attacks failed to harm the strange man, who crushed his Heaven Swallowing Domain and badly injured him.
• At the crow's urging, Lin Bai fled into the mountains, where the strange man stopped pursuing him.
• The crow identified the place as Twilight Mountain and revealed that seven Great Mystic Art Users were buried there and that he had dug up their graves.

The Crow explained that Great Mystic Art Users in Twilight Mountain had evaded reincarnation and prepared treasures for rebirth, but he had robbed their graves, putting Lin Bai in danger. After two of them attacked, a strange man intervened and led Lin Bai and the Crow out of the mountain.

• The Crow told Lin Bai that Twilight Mountain sheltered seven Great Mystic Art Users and admitted he had stolen from their graves.
• Lin Bai stopped at the mountain boundary while the strange man watched from below, and Twilight Mountain shook as the man confronted someone inside.
• A Great Mystic Art User attacked Lin Bai and demanded that he hand over the Crow, but Lin Bai used his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit to defend them.
• A second attacker sent a sword at Lin Bai, but the strange man knocked it away and pushed Lin Bai and the Crow out of Twilight Mountain.
• The strange man told Lin Bai that the Heaven Swallowing Race bore responsibility for the Great Mystic Art Users’ condition, then offered to escort him out.

Lin Bai left Twilight Mountain with a strange Guardian, who directed him toward the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace treasure and warned him away from the forbidden region. After searching the Mist Marsh with the crow, Lin Bai found a mountain where the Yellow Springs Demon Bone might be, but the crow’s touch on its array sent a pillar of light into the sky and drew an old man’s attention.

• The strange man told Lin Bai the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace treasure was not inside Twilight Mountain and pointed him toward its location.
• The crow said the Guardian was protecting Twilight Mountain’s inhabitants and warned that the appearance of Guardians at forbidden regions heralded chaos in the Demon Realm and Spirit Realm.
• Lin Bai and the crow reached a forest of skeletons and found a broken sword bearing the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s name.
• The crow found an array on a mountain and accidentally triggered a pillar of light, which Lin Bai feared would attract treasure seekers.
• The crow told Lin Bai to use his Devouring Heaven Dao Method to break the array, then said the Yellow Springs Demon Bone was likely there.
• An old white-haired man appeared nearby and stared intently at the mountain.

A pillar of light drew martial artists to Demon Palace Mountain in the Mist Marsh, where Lin Bai found an unbreakable barrier. As experts gathered and failed to breach it, Lin Bai decided to wait for an opening or for Leng Xingguang to arrive.

• A pillar of light rose from the Mist Marsh, prompting martial artists across Violet Star City to rush toward it, while the Zhang family alerted the Devil Palace experts.
• Lin Bai reached Demon Palace Mountain before dozens of Great Purity Dao Fruit experts arrived and discovered the barrier blocking entry.
• Lin Bai tried to push through the invisible barrier, then hid among the gathered martial artists as they prepared to attack it.
• Eight Great Purity Dao Fruit experts attacked the barrier together, but the Crow explained that only destroying its creator's body or a Primal Chaos Dao Fruit powerhouse could break it.
• More experts and representatives of Chu Kingdom's great lineages arrived over several days, while Lin Bai and the Crow waited for an opportunity or Leng Xingguang.

Lin Bai and the Crow discussed the treasures in Demon Palace Mountain before the Sang Province Chen Family seized control of the Mist Marsh and drove out other martial artists. Suspecting the Chen Family had found a way to breach the barrier, Lin Bai decided to investigate before Leng Xingguang arrived.

• Lin Bai asked why the Great Mystic Art Users near Twilight Mountain had not claimed Demon Palace Mountain's treasures, and the Crow explained that they considered the Yellow Springs Demon Bone insignificant.
• Lin Bai asked whether the Crow had stolen a Supreme Divine Weapon, and the Crow denied having one and suspected he had lost his memory after being beaten.
• A Chen Family expert announced that all outsiders must leave the Mist Marsh or be killed, and the Chen Family's Pegasus Cavalry enforced the order.
• Lin Bai pretended to leave rather than fight the Dao Immortal cavalry, while other martial artists who resisted were killed.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Chen Family intended to enter Demon Palace Mountain and decided to sneak back in and investigate before Leng Xingguang arrived.

Lin Bai returned to Demon Palace Mountain and watched the Chen Family use Qilin Golden Insects to break through its barrier. As rival forces arrived, the Celestial Immortal Sect’s Yi Song proposed that three factions explore the mountain together, leaving the treasures to whoever could claim them.

• Lin Bai slipped past the Pegasus Cavalry and hid near Demon Palace Mountain, where he saw the Chen Family preparing to breach its barrier.
• The Crow recognized the mosquitoes released by a black-robed elder as Qilin Golden Insects from the Southern Border Insect Valley and said they could chew through the barrier.
• After the insects opened a gap, a bald Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm cultivator tried to rush inside, but three Chen Family experts stopped him and a battle began.
• Yi Song, the Celestial Immortal Sect’s Holy Son, arrived with two Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts, followed by Huang Qingyun, the Sacred Lotus Palace’s Holy Daughter, and her guards.
• Yi Song proposed that the Chen Family, the Sacred Lotus Palace, and the Celestial Immortal Sect explore the mountain together, forbidding Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts from fighting and letting those who could claim treasures keep them.

The Chen Family, Celestial Immortal Sect, and Sacred Lotus Palace agreed to send their Dao God warriors into Demon Palace Mountain while their Great Purity experts stayed out of the contest. Lin Bai slipped in amid a diversion by Nine Underworlds Demon Palace warriors and encountered the mountain’s deadly Fiend Shadows.

• Chen Yule arrived and persuaded the Chen Family to let its younger warriors compete alongside the Celestial Immortal Sect and Sacred Lotus Palace.
• Chen Yule, Yi Song, and Huang Qingyun led their Dao God warriors through the opening into Demon Palace Mountain.
• Nine Underworlds Demon Palace warriors drew the Great Purity experts away with a thunderstorm, allowing Lin Bai to enter behind a mass of black mist.
• Lin Bai shattered one demon warrior who attacked him and flew toward the mountainside as the factions converged inside the mountain.
• Fiend Shadows attacked the invading warriors, and Lin Bai broke one apart before flying onward to avoid being trapped among them.