Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai used his Heaven Swallowing Domain to break free from the seven Bronze Corpses inside Celestial Pillar Peak, killing four before the remaining three escaped. He fled the peak, while Zhou Xinjin returned badly injured to Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the Five Divine Generals.

• Lin Bai realized the seven Bronze Corpses and the Blood Corpse army had cornered him, leaving him little time before the Corpse King might break free.
• Lin Bai unleashed his Heaven Swallowing Domain and used Spring Thunder, Black Divine Lightning, and his flying swords to destroy the Blood Corpses and kill four Bronze Corpses.
• Three Bronze Corpses found a way out of the domain and escaped, so Lin Bai withdrew it and flew away from Celestial Pillar Peak.
• Yi Zien, Li Juenian, and the Five Divine Generals waited outside the peak, worried by the violent tremors within.
• Zhou Xinjin returned to them with severe injuries and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them.

Lin Bai returned from Celestial Pillar Peak, and the group withdrew toward Demon Refining City to prepare for trouble. A Red-Clad Woman discussed Lin Bai and his fragments with a crow, who warned her against provoking him before flying away.

• Zhou Xinjin told Yi Zien and Li Juenian that Lin Bai had escaped with him, but their suspicion that Zhou had killed Lin Bai grew when Lin Bai did not appear.
• Zhou Xinjin insisted Lin Bai had saved him, while Yi Zien decided to search for Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai returned and said Celestial Pillar Peak had changed, so the group should withdraw to the Demon Refining Tower and then Demon Refining City.
• Zhou Xinjin proposed summoning the martial artists training in the Demon Refining Tower back to Demon Refining City, and the group left the ice plain.
• The Red-Clad Woman told the crow that Lin Bai carried four fragments and asked why the crow would not take them.
• The crow warned the Red-Clad Woman not to target Lin Bai because an expert behind him could bring trouble, then refused to identify the expert and flew away.

Lin Bai and the others returned to Demon Refining City and discussed how to respond to the Red-Clad Woman’s awakening and the weakened seals of Demon Refining Tower. The Red-Clad Woman then asked the Corpse King and the Black Demon about their prison and how they could escape.

• Lin Bai warned Tang Wei to return to the sect, then explained the events at Celestial Pillar Peak and urged the group to summon Tianshui Sect disciples back to Demon Refining City.
• Lin Bai said they should wait for Elder Zheng Yuan and leave further countermeasures to the sect elders, while Yi Zien confirmed the disciples were already being recalled.
• Zhou Xinjin explained that Demon Refining Tower’s sealing formation had weakened because Tianshui Sect had reduced its resources, and Yi Zien warned that an attack on the Formation Eye could make it collapse.
• The Corpse King and the Black Demon apologized to the Red-Clad Woman for letting Lin Bai escape, but she told them to focus on finding a way out of Demon Refining Tower.
• The Corpse King explained that Tianshui Sect’s seals had divided Demon Refining Tower’s containment into an external seal and an internal seal.

The Corpse King and the Black Demon learned that escaping the Demon Refining Tower would not protect them from the Tianshui Sect, while the Red-Clad Woman promised a quiet way out. After the two demons unexpectedly returned to their territories without attacking, Zheng Yuan took Lin Bai and Tang Wei back to the sect, warning that Lin Bai might face greater danger inside the tower.

• The Corpse King explained that leaving the Demon Refining Tower required destroying the formation’s Formation Eye or using a Tianshui Sect Identity Token, and the Red-Clad Woman dismissed the demons’ plan to seize Demon Refining City because the sect could intercept them outside.
• The Red-Clad Woman promised she could help them escape quietly, and the Corpse King and the Black Demon pledged their loyalty and agreed to wait.
• Zheng Yuan returned to Demon Refining City wounded and reported that he had found only the Corpse King and the Black Demon at Celestial Pillar Peak, not the Red-Clad Woman.
• Yi Zien summoned the tower’s disciples to Demon Refining City, where more than eight hundred Dao God Peak fighters prepared for an attack that never came.
• The Corpse King led his Blood Corpse army back to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, while the Black Demon’s sea turtle disappeared into the poisonous miasma around the Thousand Death Islands.
• After the tower remained peaceful, Zheng Yuan ordered Yi Zien to keep watch and took Lin Bai and Tang Wei back to the sect, saying Lin Bai might be safer outside the tower.

Lin Bai left the Demon Refining Tower with Tang Wei and Zheng Yuan, warning that the Tianshui Sect faced threats from the Heaven and Earth Gate and the Water Mirror Sea’s forces. After they escaped the tower, Lin Bai realized the elder guarding it had deliberately rerouted his earlier teleportation toward the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, and vowed to settle the score.

• Zheng Yuan arranged for Yi Zien and the others to watch the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave and the Thousand Death Islands while Lin Bai and Tang Wei prepared to leave.
• Lin Bai told Tang Wei that the Tianshui Sect faced possible annihilation from the Heaven and Earth Gate and the Water Mirror Sea’s demon clans and pirates.
• Lin Bai waited for his black crow to return, then joined Zheng Yuan and the others in the teleportation formation.
• Tang Wei reminded Lin Bai that their earlier teleportation had sent them near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, and Lin Bai concluded someone had deliberately changed their destination.
• Lin Bai and the group emerged near the Demon Refining Tower and left without meeting the guarding elder; Lin Bai vowed to settle the score with him.
• The white-haired elder watched Lin Bai depart and told Brother Wu that Lin Bai had escaped the Demon Refining Tower.

Lin Bai learned that Wu Xiu had secretly arranged for his teleportation to the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, then returned to Bright Moon Island and found that Yi Gu, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao had gone to Ke Province to fight the Blood God Sect. He also questioned Crow about the Green Jade Fragment, but its purpose remained unknown.

• Lin Bai realized Wu Xiu, seeking revenge for Wu Di's death, had instructed the teleportation-array Grand Elder to change his destination.
• After leaving the Demon Refining Tower, Lin Bai and Tang Wei returned to the Water Mirror World, while Zhou Xinjin reconsidered whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing.
• Lin Bai found Bright Moon Island empty and discovered Qin Yao's recording explaining that she, Qiao Mo, and Yi Gu had gone to Ke Province to assist the Chu royal family and the Zhao Xing Office against the Blood God Sect.
• Lin Bai wondered why Chu had called on the Five Great Families and Seven Sects to help, then set the question aside.
• Lin Bai questioned Crow about treasures from the Demon Refining Tower and learned that powerful figures across several realms were searching for the Green Jade Fragment.
• Crow admitted he had found some fragments but refused to say more, leaving Lin Bai to consider asking his Master about their purpose in the Spirit Realm.

Zhou Xinjin returned from the Demon Refining Tower and told the Grand Elder what had happened there, while questioning whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing. He left convinced he needed to investigate further and discovered that Wu Xiu and Qi Kun had arranged to send Lin Bai and Tang Wei toward the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave.

• Zhou Xinjin told the Grand Elder that Lin Bai had escaped and described the remnants of the Nine Nether Devil Palace in the Demon Refining Tower.
• Zhou Xinjin praised Lin Bai’s strength, and the Grand Elder recalled that he had once expected Lin Bai and his eldest senior brother to contend for the Holy Son position.
• Zhou Xinjin questioned whether Lin Bai had killed Mu Huaqing, but the Grand Elder insisted that Lin Bai was responsible and rejected the possibility that Li Yuanzong had done it.
• Zhou Xinjin revealed that the teleportation formation had sent Lin Bai and Tang Wei near the Ten Thousand Demon Corpse Cave, then asked whether the Grand Elder had ordered it altered.
• The Grand Elder denied ordering the change and said Wu Xiu and Qi Kun had arranged it, prompting Zhou Xinjin to ask whether his master had knowingly allowed them to target Lin Bai.

Zhou Xinjin tried to stop the Grand Elder from pursuing revenge against Lin Bai before the sect finished investigating Mu Huaqing’s death. He sought out Bai Yifei, who dismissed Lin Bai’s accusation against Li Yuanzong and vowed to deal with Lin Bai himself.

• Zhou Xinjin warned the Grand Elder that ignoring Wu Xiu and Qi Kun’s actions against Lin Bai would damage his reputation, but the Grand Elder insisted on avenging Mu Huaqing and left for the Overturned Water Hall.
• Zhou Xinjin decided to seek help from Bai Yifei, the Grand Elder’s First Senior Brother and a leading Holy Son candidate.
• Bai Yifei listened as Zhou Xinjin recounted Mu Huaqing’s death, Li Yuanzong’s testimony, Lin Bai’s defense, and the Grand Elder’s inaction toward Wu Xiu and Qi Kun.
• Bai Yifei rejected Lin Bai’s claim that Li Yuanzong killed Mu Huaqing and said he would deal with Lin Bai without waiting for the sect’s investigation.

Bai Yifei emerged from seclusion and joined Grand Elder’s effort to send Lin Bai out of the Tianshui Sect so they could kill him over Mu Huaqing’s death. Lin Bai learned that he had been ordered to assist the Chu imperial clan in Ke Province, while Li Zai'en admitted the investigation still had not cleared him.

• Bai Yifei told Zhou Xinjin they had to wait until Lin Bai left the sect before taking action against him.
• Bai Yifei and Zhou Xinjin discussed the Blood God Sect’s rise in Ke Province as a chance to draw Lin Bai out.
• Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that Bai Yifei had emerged from seclusion and that Grand Elder had secured an order sending Lin Bai to Ke Province.
• Lin Bai questioned why the Chu imperial clan needed the Five Great Families and Seven Sects to help suppress the Blood God Sect.
• Li Zai'en said the evidence showed a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm powerhouse had been present when Mu Huaqing died, but it still did not prove Lin Bai’s innocence.

Li Zai'en told Lin Bai that the Sect Master saw him as a stronger candidate than Bai Yifei to lead the Tianshui Sect, then arranged a reward for his dangerous journey to Ke Province. Lin Bai agreed to travel alone, while the Sect Master accepted that his coming clash with Bai Yifei could decide the sect’s future.

• Li Zai'en praised Lin Bai's composure and said the Sect Master believed he was better suited than Bai Yifei to become the Tianshui Sect's Saint Son.
• Li Zai'en offered Lin Bai a choice of a Divine Weapon and a Mystic Art or Dao Art, but Lin Bai asked to exchange the reward for immortal jades.
• Li Zai'en promised Lin Bai five thousand immortal jades if he returned safely from Ke Province, and Lin Bai agreed to go alone and set out the next day.
• Li Zai'en reported Lin Bai's decision to the Sect Master and warned that the Grand Elder and Bai Yifei planned to kill him in Ke Province.
• The Sect Master said she could not openly oppose the Grand Elder and regarded the coming contest between Lin Bai and Bai Yifei as a chance to resolve the Tianshui Sect's turmoil.

Lin Bai traveled from Tianshui Sect toward Ke Province, passing Xuanhuo Island, where the sect had memorialized his dragon-slaying feat. Meanwhile, Bai Yifei learned that Lin Bai had been sent ahead alone, and his expression darkened.

• After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai received orders to go to Ke Province, while the Sect Master and Li Zai'en arranged for him to travel separately from the sect's party.
• Lin Bai left Bright Moon Island, crossed the Water Mirror Sea, and heard fellow disciples praise his victory over the Flood Dragons.
• The spirit boat detoured past Xuanhuo Island, where murals of Lin Bai slaying dragons inspired the travelers and embarrassed Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai reached Storm City late the following night.
• The next day, Zheng Yuan led a second group toward Ke Province, and Bai Yifei learned Lin Bai had already gone ahead alone.

Bai Yifei suspected Lin Bai had fled and sent the Five Immortals of East Isle to capture him, while the Sect Master chose not to intervene and prepared to enter seclusion. Lin Bai traveled through the teleportation arrays toward Ke Province and reached its borderlands safely.

• Zheng Yuan refused Bai Yifei permission to leave the spirit boat, so Bai Yifei sent a message asking the Five Immortals of East Isle to capture Lin Bai.
• Elder Liu and the other four agreed to hunt Lin Bai, gathered their supplies, and departed Tianhe Archipelago.
• Li Zai'en reported their departure to the Sect Master, who decided Lin Bai could handle them and announced she would enter seclusion for two or three months.
• The Sect Master left Flower Valley in disguise after assigning Li Zai'en and the Grand Elder authority to decide matters during her seclusion.
• Lin Bai left Storm City and traveled through Haizhou and other provinces by teleportation array, reaching the borderlands outside Ke Province.

Lin Bai arrived at Xiu Ling City and found its teleportation plaza in chaos as martial artists tried to flee the fighting in Ke Province. Three wounded men claiming to be Zhao Xing Office agents accused the Li Family of joining the Blood God Sect, but the Li Family persuaded the crowd to reject their claims, and someone finally called for the family to stop.

• Lin Bai teleported to a city outside Ke Province as martial artists crowded the plaza, desperate to leave the province.
• A powerful clash shook Xiu Ling City and destroyed buildings in the East City, sending the plaza into panic and disorder.
• Several hundred Li Family martial artists pursued three wounded men to the teleportation plaza, where the men identified themselves as Zhao Xing Office agents and accused the Li Family of joining the Blood God Sect.
• A Li Family elder called the three men Blood God Sect infiltrators who had tried to destroy the city’s main teleportation array, and the crowd accepted his account.
• The three men pleaded for help and displayed a Zhao Xing Office Golden Token, but the crowd stayed silent to avoid offending the Li Family.
• As the Li Family moved to take the men away, someone in the plaza shouted, “Wait!”

At the teleportation array plaza, Li Family elder tried to seize three men accused of being Blood God Sect agents, while the men insisted they were Zhao Xing Office martial artists with information that could save Ke Province. As fighting erupted, Lin Bai secretly stopped the men carrying them away and demanded proof of their identities.

• A burly man named Zhang Yi challenged the Li Family elder’s account, but the elder defended the capture and ordered the three men taken away.
• The three men appealed to the crowd’s concern for Ke Province, prompting martial artists to secretly aid them and several hundred to attack the Li Family.
• Lin Bai saw six Li Family martial artists take the three men away and slipped out of the plaza after them.
• In a secluded alley, Lin Bai knocked all six Li Family martial artists unconscious with a single Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai asked the three men whether they were from the Zhao Xing Office, then demanded to know why he should believe them.

Lin Bai rescued three Zhao Xing Office agents from the Li Family and verified their identities by examining Jiang Lie’s memories. The memories revealed that the Blood God Sect had infiltrated the Li Family and that the agents had uncovered a major secret in Wu En City, which Lin Bai asked Xu Zhong to explain.

• Lin Bai knocked out the six Li Family warriors and questioned the three agents, who showed him their Zhao Xing Office gold badges.
• Lin Bai introduced himself as a Tianshui Sect Three Wonders Disciple and offered to examine the agents’ memories to establish whether they were Blood God Sect members.
• Jiang Lie volunteered for the memory examination despite its potentially fatal consequences, and Lin Bai searched his memories.
• Lin Bai learned that Jiang Lie, Xu Zhong, and Zhou He had formed a covert investigation squad and fled to the Li Family after uncovering a major secret in Wu En City and being hunted by the Blood God Sect.
• Jiang Lie died after Lin Bai examined his memories, and Lin Bai asked Xu Zhong what the squad had discovered in Wu En City.

Lin Bai rescued Xu Zhong and Zhou He from the Li Family in Xiu Ling City, then learned that the Blood God Sect’s forces had infiltrated much of Ke Province. As they flew toward Azure Lotus City, where Prince Chen commanded the allied forces, a Li Family spirit ship caught up to them.

• Xu Zhong questioned Lin Bai’s identity and withheld information, while Lin Bai demanded to know what the investigators had discovered in Wu En City.
• When Li Family martial artists converged on them, Lin Bai took Xu Zhong and Zhou He away on his flying sword.
• The Li Family elder learned that a man in white had rescued the investigators and ordered his people to search for and kill them.
• Xu Zhong told Lin Bai that the allied forces were gathering in Azure Lotus City under Prince Chen, Chu Junyou.
• A spirit ship flying the Xiu Ling City Li Family banner pursued Lin Bai, Xu Zhong, and Zhou He as they traveled toward Azure Lotus City.

Lin Bai, Xu Zhong, and Zhou He fled from Xiu Ling City, but the Li Family's spirit boat repeatedly tracked them down. Xu Zhong suspected a Blood God Sect traitor among them, and the chapter ended with him offering Lin Bai permission to search his memories and asking him to kill Zhou He if Xu Zhong died.

• Lin Bai spotted the Li Family of Xiu Ling City's spirit boat pursuing them and sped away with Xu Zhong and Zhou He.
• Xu Zhong said neither he nor Zhou He bore any tracking marks, and Lin Bai confirmed the spirit boat kept finding them despite repeated changes of direction.
• Lin Bai and Xu Zhong concluded the Li Family was either using a hidden tracking mark or receiving secret information from a traitor.
• Xu Zhong accused Zhou He of being the traitor, citing the Blood God Sect's discoveries in Wu En City and Xiu Ling City.
• Zhou He denied the accusation and refused Lin Bai's memory-searching technique, fearing it could kill him or leave him a fool.
• Xu Zhong offered to let Lin Bai search his memories and asked him to take their intelligence to Prince Chen in Azure Lotus City, then kill Zhou He if Xu Zhong died.

Lin Bai exposed Zhou He as a Blood God Sect spy and killed him after Zhou unleashed his Blood God. The Li family’s martial artists caught up and surrounded Lin Bai and Xu Zhong, leaving them trapped.

• Lin Bai prepared to perform Soul Search on Zhou He, who suddenly attacked him with a dagger, but Lin Bai crushed Zhou He’s arm and stopped him.
• Zhou He summoned a Blood God and confessed that he had infiltrated the Zhao Xing Office and supplied information to the Blood God Sect.
• Lin Bai used the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to destroy the Blood God and kill Zhou He, then collected his Storage Bag.
• The Li family’s experts caught up with Lin Bai and Xu Zhong and surrounded them after arriving on their spirit vessel.

The Li Family surrounded Lin Bai and Xu Zhong, intending to capture them before Xu Zhong could report the family’s ties to the Blood God Sect. Lin Bai slaughtered the ordinary Dao God fighters and faced the seven Dao God Peak elders, then summoned a four-sword formation to counter their attack.

• The Li Family’s seven Dao God Peak experts and more than twenty other fighters surrounded Lin Bai and Xu Zhong.
• Xu Zhong threatened to report the Li Family to the Zhao Xing Office for serving the Blood God Sect, making the Li Family determined to kill them before he could escape.
• The Li Family elder ordered his fighters to seize Lin Bai and Xu Zhong, and Xu Zhong apologized for dragging Lin Bai into the conflict.
• Lin Bai summoned four flying swords and killed the charging Dao God fighters with ease.
• The seven Dao God Peak elders coordinated an attack on Lin Bai, who formed a sword formation with four divine-beast phantoms to meet them.

Lin Bai fought off seven Li Family Dao God Peak martial artists, then faced the Li Family Old Ancestor, a Great Purity Dao Fruit expert. Unable to win before reinforcements could arrive, Lin Bai took Xu Zhong and fled.

• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation to kill five of the seven Li Family attackers and badly wound the other two.
• The Li Family Old Ancestor appeared, learned Lin Bai was from the Tianshui Sect, and attacked him without fear of retaliation.
• Lin Bai defended against the Old Ancestor's palm strike and was blasted back a thousand meters with only a trace of blood.
• Lin Bai decided the fight risked leaving him trapped when reinforcements arrived, so he used three flying swords to force the Old Ancestor back, grabbed Xu Zhong, and fled.