Chapter Summaries

After Tianshui Sect verified the Celestial Vein but failed to reach an agreement with the Flood Dragon Clan, Lin Bai stayed on Bright Moon Island to recover and study Azure Lotus Swordplay. Yi Gu brought him to Qiao Mo’s martial arts matchmaking competition, where Qiao Mo added a rule requiring every finalist to defeat her.

• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that Tianshui Sect had verified the Celestial Vein and promised to deliver Lin Bai’s agreed rewards after reporting to the Sect Master.
• Lin Bai remained on Bright Moon Island for a month, restoring his soul and studying Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Yi Gu brought Lin Bai to Hundred Victories Pavilion’s crowded Combat Arena to watch Qiao Mo’s martial arts matchmaking competition.
• The presiding elder explained that more than eight hundred competitors would fight across eight arenas, and Qiao Mo would choose her husband from the top four.
• Qiao Mo announced that every competitor who reached the top four had to exchange blows with her and defeat her to be considered worthy of marriage.

Yi Gu secretly registered Lin Bai for Qiao Mo’s marriage-by-combat contest, persuading him to compete for the five million Contribution Points and to keep Qiao Mo from marrying Wu Di or Qi Liang. Lin Bai stepped onto Battle Platform Three, and the contest began with a martial artist charging at him.

• Qiao Mo demanded a chance to choose her husband through martial combat, and Qi Kun and Wu Xiu agreed after Qi Liang and Wu Di said they could defeat her.
• Yi Gu revealed that he had secretly registered Lin Bai and urged him to compete for the Contribution Points and Qiao Mo’s sake.
• Lin Bai agreed to fight but said he would explain himself to Qiao Mo if he won.
• Lin Bai entered Battle Platform Three, where the other contestants mocked his Ninth-Rank Dao God cultivation.
• The presiding elder activated the platforms, the battles began, and one contestant immediately charged at Lin Bai.

Lin Bai fought through the first round of Qiao Mo’s matrimonial tournament while suspecting that Hundred Victories Pavilion was manipulating the matches. The pavilion’s schemes became clear as its arranged fighters targeted threats, leaving Qi Liang and Wu Di poised to advance and pressure Qiao Mo into choosing one of them.

• Lin Bai used a light punch and his Asura Dharma Eyes to knock opponents off Platform Three, while Qi Liang and Wu Di advanced from Platforms One and Two after everyone else conceded.
• Lin Bai noticed that Qi Liang and Wu Di had reached the next round without fighting, giving them an advantage over contestants who had to exhaust themselves.
• Qiao Mo spotted Lin Bai on Platform Three, blushed, and privately considered him a possible choice if she found no one suitable.
• Five fighters on Platform Three coordinated and charged Lin Bai, who retreated as he suspected Hundred Victories Pavilion had arranged the attack.
• Spectators recognized that the pavilion had organized fighters across the platforms to eliminate threats to Qi Liang and Wu Di and leave Qiao Mo with no choice but to select one of them.

Qiao Mo grew more determined to reclaim Hundred Victories Pavilion after Wu Xiu and Qi Kun’s match-fixing was exposed, while Lin Bai broke through their arranged blockade on Platform Three and advanced. The quarterfinals began immediately with a lottery, despite complaints that the fighters had no time to recover.

• The warriors in the stands denounced Hundred Victories Pavilion’s behind-the-scenes manipulation, and Qiao Mo vowed to reclaim its foundation from Wu Xiu and Qi Kun.
• Qi Liang and Wu Di won Platforms One and Two as arranged, while Lin Bai faced five Dao God Peak warriors on Platform Three.
• Lin Bai stopped evading and knocked all five opponents off the platform, winning Platform Three.
• The presiding elder announced that the eight platform winners had reached the quarterfinals and ordered them to draw lots for the next round.
• The stands protested that Hundred Victories Pavilion began the second round without giving the exhausted fighters time to rest.

The martial competition’s rigged draw let Qi Liang and Wu Di advance after their opponents conceded, angering the Sect Master and the crowd. Lin Bai entered the arena to face Ancient Gold Blade, the Combat Arena’s hundred-win champion, who offered him the first strike.

• Qi Liang and Wu Di advanced when their opponents conceded, prompting the audience to roar that the competition was rigged.
• The Sect Master watched the matches through a water mirror and condemned the Hundred Victories Pavilion’s manipulation of the competition.
• Lin Bai drew lot number three and stepped onto the arena against the scarred Ancient Gold Blade.
• The crowd recognized Ancient Gold Blade as the Combat Arena’s only Hundred Victories General and feared Lin Bai would lose.
• Ancient Gold Blade said he would let Lin Bai strike once before drawing his blade, and Lin Bai asked if he was sure.

Lin Bai defeated Ancient Gold Blade despite the Hundred Victories Pavilion forcing them to rematch, then advanced to the final four. Qiao Mo invited the remaining contestants to fight her, and Lin Bai’s unexpected presence disrupted the pavilion’s plan to leave only Wu Di and Qi Liang.

• Lin Bai kicked Ancient Gold Blade off the platform, but the presiding elder declared the match invalid and ordered them to fight again.
• Ancient Gold Blade attacked Lin Bai with his blade, but Lin Bai seized him, crushed his throat and soul, and killed him.
• The presiding elder declared Lin Bai the winner, and Lin Bai joined Qi Liang, Wu Di, and another martial artist in the final four.
• Qiao Mo came onto the platform and said that anyone wishing to marry her had to defeat her; the fourth contestant conceded and left.
• The spectators realized the pavilion had arranged contestants to manipulate the outcome, but Lin Bai’s appearance had disrupted its plan.

Qiao Mo tested her suitors in one-move duels and decisively defeated Wu Di, stunning the Combat Arena. Qi Liang then faced her using a large collection of defensive and offensive treasures, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qiao Mo challenged Wu Di, Qi Liang, and Lin Bai to fight her before they could become her husband.
• Wu Di accepted first and unleashed a powerful punch at Qiao Mo.
• Qiao Mo struck Wu Di with a palm that shattered his attack and sent him flying from the arena.
• Wu Xiu rushed to his injured son, while the spectators cheered Qiao Mo's victory.
• Qi Liang stepped forward and deployed numerous defensive and offensive treasures against Qiao Mo.

Qiao Mo defeated Wu Di and Qi Liang, then faced Lin Bai in the final match of the martial competition for a bride. Lin Bai withstood her attack and defeated her in one move, leaving him as the competition’s winner.

• Qiao Mo evaded Qi Liang’s treasures and struck him down with one palm.
• Lin Bai told Qiao Mo she was not his opponent, but agreed to their one-move contest when she insisted.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun discussed the consequences if Lin Bai defeated Qiao Mo.
• Qiao Mo’s palm struck Lin Bai, but his body remained unharmed.
• Lin Bai seized Qiao Mo by the neck before she could defend herself, then set her down and declared himself the winner.

Lin Bai defeated Qiao Mo in one move, but Qi Kun and Wu Xiu accused her of throwing the match and tried to disqualify him from her choice. Lin Bai defied the elders and challenged one of them to fight, stunning the Combat Arena.

• Lin Bai seized Qiao Mo by the throat before she could react, and Qiao Mo admitted defeat.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu interrupted Qiao Mo before she could announce her choice and accused her of deliberately losing to Lin Bai.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu demanded that Lin Bai be disqualified so Qiao Mo would have to choose between Qi Liang and Wu Di.
• Lin Bai called the elders old dogs, rejected their authority, and challenged one of them to spar with him.
• The crowd was shocked that Lin Bai, a Ninth-Rank Dao God, had challenged a Great Purity expert.

Lin Bai challenged Qi Kun and revealed strength that let him fight a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm expert. The battle continued in the Combat Arena as Qi Kun unleashed a Dao art against Lin Bai.

• Qiao Mo warned Lin Bai against challenging a Grand Yi Elder, but Lin Bai insisted he knew what he was doing.
• Qi Kun attacked Lin Bai, who knocked him back with a punch powered by his formidable physical strength.
• Qi Kun trapped Lin Bai beneath an invisible palm, but Lin Bai cut it apart with his demonic sword.
• Lin Bai unleashed a storm of Sword Qi that forced Qi Kun back, and Qi Kun countered by shattering the Sword Qi and charging with a Dao art.

Lin Bai battled Qi Kun, a Great Purity Dao Fruit expert, and used their fierce exchange to seek a breakthrough in Azure Lotus Swordplay. After both fighters were injured, Qi Kun and Wu Xiu decided Lin Bai was a future threat, and Qi Kun attacked him with a Dao Art.

• Lin Bai unleashed Azure Lotus Swordplay against Qi Kun, hoping their battle would help him break through to its second stage.
• Lin Bai and Qi Kun exchanged several hundred moves over a quarter of an hour, leaving both badly wounded and astonishing the arena’s spectators.
• Qi Kun recognized Lin Bai’s formidable strength and feared his future rise, while Wu Xiu urged him to kill Lin Bai because of the threat he posed to them.
• Lin Bai sensed Qi Kun’s killing intent and challenged him, prompting Qi Kun to hurl his First-Rank Dao Art, the God Extinction Spear of Thunder, at him.

Qi Kun unleashed a Dao art against Lin Bai, who risked death to gain insight into Azure Lotus Swordplay and survived when a new sword light broke the attack. Li Zai'en stopped the confrontation after the thunder injured spectators, and Qi Kun and Wu Xiu had to abandon their plan to kill Lin Bai.

• Qi Kun attacked Lin Bai with the Dao art Thunder God Extinction Spear, while Lin Bai suppressed his Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and faced the strike with Azure Lotus Swordplay.
• Under the pressure of the thunder, Lin Bai reorganized the scriptures of Azure Lotus Swordplay and gained a new sword move that shattered most of the attack.
• The thunder’s aftershock damaged the spectator stands and killed martial artists before Li Zai'en arrived and destroyed the remaining thunder.
• Li Zai'en condemned Qi Kun for trying to kill Lin Bai and revealed that the sect had promoted Lin Bai to a Three Wonders Disciple.
• Qi Kun and Wu Xiu accepted that Li Zai'en’s intervention made it impossible to kill Lin Bai, and the confrontation ended.

After Lin Bai defeated Qi Kun, Qiao Mo declared him her chosen husband and demanded the Hundred Victories Pavilion honor its promise to let her take charge. Wu Xiu and Qi Kun tried to stop the marriage by insisting Lin Bai marry into the family, but Lin Bai agreed, prompting Zuo Tiancheng to offer him a different marriage alliance with Zuo Xintang.

• Li Zai'en stopped Lin Bai and Qi Kun's battle, then departed after protecting Lin Bai from further conflict.
• Lin Bai healed his wounds and challenged Wu Xiu and Qi Kun's claims that Qiao Mo had deliberately let him win.
• Qiao Mo declared Lin Bai her husband and reminded the elders that they had promised to let her take over the Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that Lin Bai marry into the family, or the marriage would be canceled, and Lin Bai agreed.
• Zuo Tiancheng offered to marry his granddaughter Zuo Xintang to Lin Bai if Lin Bai gave up on Qiao Mo.

Zuo Tiancheng, Qin Changqing, and Yi Gu competed to win Lin Bai over with marriage offers and promises of powerful support. With the crowd awaiting his answer, Lin Bai began to speak but had not yet chosen.

• Zuo Tiancheng offered Lin Bai a marriage alliance with Zuo Xintang and promised to bring his parents to the Demon Realm.
• Qin Changqing proposed that Lin Bai marry Qin Yao and promised twice what the Zuo Family could provide.
• Fang Yuanshu reacted angrily to Qin Changqing's offer, while Qin Yao remained quiet.
• Yi Gu invited Lin Bai to the Seven Nights Divine Sect and claimed he could arrange a marriage with any woman there.
• Lin Bai smiled and began to answer as the crowd waited for his decision.

Lin Bai rejected marriage alliances with the Qin and Zuo Families and chose to marry Qiao Mo, but Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that he become the Tianshui Sect's Saint first. After vowing to claim the position, Lin Bai went with Yi Gu and the Crow to White Mist Island, where they found Qiao Mo weeping over her father's death and the upheaval in her life.

• Lin Bai thanked the Qin and Zuo Families for their offers but said he would marry Qiao Mo and join the Hundred Victories Pavilion.
• Wu Xiu and Qi Kun demanded that Lin Bai bring a betrothal gift, then made his marriage conditional on becoming the Tianshui Sect's Saint.
• Lin Bai accepted the challenge and warned Wu Xiu and Qi Kun not to obstruct him once he became Saint.
• Lin Bai, Yi Gu, and the Crow went to White Mist Island after the martial competition ended.
• Lin Bai and his companions found Qiao Mo crying outside her sleeping palace, grieving how her father's death had upended her life.

After the husband-selection tournament ended in a farce, Qiao Mo focused on cultivation while Lin Bai promised to help her reclaim Hundred Victories Pavilion. Lin Bai advanced his Azure Lotus Swordplay, and Tianshui Sect and the Flood Dragon Clan agreed to settle their dispute over the Deep Sea Spring’s Celestial Vein with a martial competition one month later.

• Lin Bai explained that he had entered the tournament to help Yi Gu reclaim Contribution Points, and Qiao Mo thanked both men before deciding to focus on cultivation and regain Hundred Victories Pavilion through her strength.
• Yi Gu vowed to make Qi Kun and Wu Xiu pay, and he, Lin Bai, and Qiao Mo drank together before Lin Bai and Yi Gu left White Mist Island at midnight.
• The tournament’s farcical end damaged Qi Kun and Wu Xiu’s standing, and Sect Master harshly berated them at an Elder Council meeting.
• Lin Bai cultivated on Bright Moon Island and entered the second stage of Azure Lotus Swordplay, discovering three moves but remaining unsure whether the art had reached the level of a Dao technique.
• Tianshui Sect and the Flood Dragon Clan clashed over how to divide the Deep Sea Spring’s Celestial Vein profits and mobilized forces in the Nine Demon Sea.
• The two forces agreed to hold a martial competition for Dao God martial artists one month later to determine the division of the Celestial Vein’s benefits.

Lin Bai learned that the Tianshui Sect and the Flood Dragon Clan would hold a high-stakes hunting competition in Storm City, with both sides recalling their Dao God fighters and offering enormous rewards. Qiao Mo decided to participate, while Lin Bai suspected the competition was connected to the Celestial Vein and concealed a larger conflict.

• Yi Gu and Qiao Mo visited Lin Bai on Bright Moon Island and told him about the competition scheduled for a month later in Storm City.
• Qiao Mo explained that the sect had recalled all its Dao God fighters, making the event seem more like preparation for war than an ordinary competition.
• Yi Gu described the three-day hunt, its token rewards, and the limit of fifty fighters per side; Qiao Mo added that a single Commander Token would be worth ten times an ordinary token.
• Qiao Mo said she would enter to earn Contribution Points, attract the sect's attention, and investigate her suspicion that the competition concealed a major secret.
• Lin Bai recalled the Quasi-Dragon Sons Ao Jie and Ao Qing and suspected the competition was tied to the Celestial Vein.

Lin Bai criticized Tianshui Sect’s martial competition with the Flood Dragon Clan, arguing that the sect’s preparations would draw dangerous attention to both sides and their Celestial Vein. He proposed portraying the contest as revenge for slain disciples, leaving Li Zai'en and the Sect Master to consider the excuse.

• Qiao Mo and Yi Gu sensed a powerful gaze from beyond the clouds, excused themselves, and left Lin Bai to receive his hidden guest.
• Lin Bai called the Tianshui Sect Master and the Flood Dragon Clan patriarch utterly foolish, prompting Li Zai'en to appear and question him.
• Li Zai'en explained that the competition’s tokens would determine how the Celestial Vein’s benefits were divided, while Commander Tokens could shift each side’s share by ten percent.
• Lin Bai argued that Tianshui Sect’s disciples were outmatched by the Flood Dragon Clan’s Quasi-Dragon Sons and criticized the sect for offering large rewards and recalling its Dao God disciples.
• Lin Bai warned that the mass summons would alarm rival forces and that news of the Celestial Vein could bring disaster upon Tianshui Sect and the Flood Dragon Clan.
• Lin Bai suggested claiming that the Flood Dragon Clan had killed hundreds of Tianshui Sect disciples, giving the competition a public pretext; Li Zai'en and the Sect Master considered his proposal.

Lin Bai agreed to join the Tianshui Sect's martial competition against the Flood Dragon Clan in exchange for the rewards the sect had promised him. Li Zai'en then revealed that the Seven-Colored Splendor Immortal Leaf might still be hidden in an old Tianshui Sect secret realm.

• The Tianshui Sect spread a story that the Flood Dragon Clan had slaughtered its disciples to explain why it valued the martial competition so highly.
• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that the Tianshui Sect hoped to divide the Celestial Veins six-four with the Flood Dragon Clan and would accept no less than seven-three.
• Li Zai'en invited Lin Bai to compete and seize tokens for the Tianshui Sect, while Lin Bai demanded the promised Contribution Points and news about a Void Ancient Road.
• Lin Bai agreed to participate after Li Zai'en promised the sect would fulfill its rewards once the Celestial Veins matter was settled.
• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that a secret realm in the Spring Lake Sea Region had once contained the Seven-Colored Splendor Immortal Leaf, and that its hidden planting area might remain undiscovered.

Elder Li revealed that the Tianshui Sect had a hidden second secret realm where rare medicinal herbs grew, and gave Lin Bai a one-use key to retrieve the Seven-Colored Splendor Immortal Leaf with Tang Wei. Lin Bai traveled to the Spring Lake Sea Region and contacted Tang Wei, then waited for her to find him.

• Elder Li explained that the Tianshui Sect secretly sent disciples into a second secret realm to harvest medicinal herbs, which matured faster there and could not safely be transplanted.
• Elder Li gave Lin Bai a one-use key to the second secret realm and said Tang Wei would accompany him to retrieve the Seven-Colored Splendor Immortal Leaf.
• Elder Li told Lin Bai that he would refine Sky Peak Divine Radiance Pills if Lin Bai gathered the necessary herbs, and Lin Bai decided to leave the next day.
• Lin Bai traveled to the Spring Lake Sea Region and admired its peaceful scenery.
• Lin Bai contacted Tang Wei with the Voice Transmission Token, gave her his location, and waited by the sea for her to arrive.