Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai faced Ling Hai Ri, a powerful swordsman sent to kill him while he was gravely wounded, and defeated him with one sword. The witnesses were horrified by Ling Hai Ri’s death and resolved to flee Ke Province.

• Ling Hai Ri confronted the wounded Lin Bai and said he had come under orders from his ancestor to kill him.
• Ling Hai Ri unleashed the Ling family’s Lingyun Sword Intent, sending a dragon-shaped mass of sword light toward Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai drew his demon sword, used Azure Lotus Swordplay, and cut Ling Hai Ri’s throat with a single strike.
• Ling Hai Ri recognized the Azure Lotus Swordplay before collapsing and dying.
• The martial artists who witnessed the fight learned that Lin Bai had killed Ling Hai Ri and decided to escape Ke Province.

After Ling Hai Ri’s soul lamp went out, Ling Yunbo left the battle atop the Heroes Abode to find Lin Bai, who was fleeing Zhennan City. Ling Yunbo located and struck Lin Bai, leaving him grievously wounded as he tried to escape.

• The Ling Family elders discovered Ling Hai Ri’s soul lamp had gone out and reported his apparent death to Ling Yunbo.
• Ling Yunbo told Zheng Heng he would investigate Ling Hai Ri’s death and search for Lin Bai, then left the battle.
• As the fighting in Zhennan City drove people to flee, Lin Bai decided to leave the city and return after the battle to use its teleportation array.
• Ling Yunbo sensed Lin Bai hiding nearby and threatened to destroy the neighborhood unless he came out.
• Lin Bai fled, and Ling Yunbo’s sword strike pierced through the buildings and hit him, worsening his injuries.

Lin Bai was trapped and nearly killed by Ling Yunbo after Ling Yunbo learned he had killed Ling Hai Ri. A powerful White Skirt Woman intervened, defeated Ling Yunbo, and turned her resentful attention toward Lin Bai.

• Ling Yunbo cornered the badly wounded Lin Bai and demanded to know whether he had killed Ling Hai Ri.
• Ling Yunbo attacked Lin Bai, but the White Skirt Woman struck from afar and destroyed his Sword Qi.
• The White Skirt Woman confronted Ling Yunbo and dismissed his demands to identify herself.
• Ling Yunbo attacked the White Skirt Woman with his full strength, but she shattered his strike and badly wounded him with one palm.
• Ling Yunbo fled, and the White Skirt Woman stayed behind, glaring at Lin Bai with resentment.

Chu Xi, a powerful Tianshui Sect martial artist, rescued Lin Bai from Ling Yunbo and led him to watch the battle over Heroes Abode. She explained that the Great Purity experts were only stalling while both sides waited for reinforcements, which she expected to arrive soon.

• Chu Xi saved Lin Bai from Ling Yunbo, then revealed that she was a Tianshui Sect martial artist and gave her name as Chu Xi.
• Chu Xi led the injured Lin Bai across Zhennan City to a rooftop overlooking the battle at Heroes Abode.
• Lin Bai and Chu Xi watched more than twenty Great Purity experts fight without using their full strength or causing many casualties.
• Chu Xi explained that Zhennan City awaited Zhao Xing Office reinforcements while Zheng Heng and his allies waited for the Blood God Sect, and she predicted both would arrive soon.

Lin Bai recovered while Chu Xi protected him as Zhennan City remained in chaos. On the third day, ten Blood God Sect battle vessels arrived, and Chu Xi explained the immense power and cost of their God of War Cannons.

• Lin Bai questioned Chu Xi about the resentment she had shown when they first met, but she refused to explain, and he continued healing.
• The fighting around the Heroes Abode and the City Lord's Mansion remained a stalemate as unrest spread through Zhennan City.
• At noon on the third day, Lin Bai and Chu Xi saw ten Blood God Sect battle vessels arrive outside Zhennan City.
• Chu Xi explained that the vessels carried God of War Cannons, whose strongest attacks could match a Great Purity Dao Fruit expert but required hundreds or thousands of immortal jades.
• Lin Bai compared the cannons' cost with his own eighty immortal jades and the five-thousand-jade reward he sought.

Lin Bai and Chu Xi watched He Yi, the traitorous City Lord of Wu En City, attack Zhennan City with the Blood God Sect’s forces and God of War Cannons. As the assault began, Chu Xi revealed that Zhao Xing Office experts were hidden in the city and had already reached an agreement with Zhennan City’s lord.

• Chu Xi explained that He Yi had betrayed Chu and that his position had given him access to the God of War Cannon.
• Traitors in Zhennan City’s garrison destroyed a formation eye, and a God of War Cannon blast tore through the southern wall and the city beyond it.
• He Yi arrived before the City Lord of Zhennan City, urged him to join the Blood God Sect, and threatened to take the city by force.
• Nine Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts joined He Yi, while Zheng Heng urged the City Lord of Zhennan City to submit.
• He Yi ordered thousands of Dao God Realm martial artists to attack and aimed the cannons at Zhennan City’s Great Purity Dao Fruit experts.
• Lin Bai asked whether Chu Xi would help, and she said Zhao Xing Office experts were hidden in the city and that they could watch events unfold.

The City Lord of Wu En City tried to capture Zhennan City by attacking its defenders and City Lord's Mansion, believing the city had no reinforcements. The Zhao Xing Office commander Zhu Mo revealed himself at the mansion, leaving the City Lord of Wu En City to suspect the battle was a trap laid by His Highness Prince Chen.

• The City Lord of Wu En City divided his forces, sending nine Great Purity Dao Fruit experts to fight Zhennan City's defenders and the remaining warriors to seize the City Lord's Mansion.
• The City Lord of Wu En City claimed Zhennan City had no reinforcements because its teleportation formations had been destroyed, but the City Lord of Zhennan City revealed that another formation remained.
• The City Lord of Zhennan City called for the commander to close the net, and Zhu Mo appeared atop a roof in the City Lord's Mansion.
• Chu Xi told Lin Bai that Zhu Mo was one of the Zhao Xing Office's commanders and explained the organization's ranks and its authority under the Chu Emperor.
• Zheng Heng urged the City Lord of Wu En City to reinforce the mansion, but the City Lord of Wu En City realized Zhennan City might be a trap set by His Highness Prince Chen.

The City Lord of Wu En City realized Prince Chen had lured him into a trap and tried to flee Zhennan City, but Zhu Mo and the Zhao Xing Office’s reinforcements blocked his escape. As the Zhao Xing Office began purging the Blood God Sect and its allies, Lin Bai and Chu Xi watched the battle from a rooftop.

• The City Lord of Wu En City recognized the trap and ordered a retreat, but Zheng Heng pleaded with him to stay and save the Zheng Family.
• The City Lord of Wu En City abandoned his forces and tried to escape alone, but Zhu Mo stopped him and revealed that another teleportation array was hidden in the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The City Lord of Zhennan City explained that Prince Chen had ordered the array built in secret and had deliberately allowed Wu En City’s informants to remain alive.
• Zhu Mo ordered Zhennan City’s residents to stay indoors and commanded the Zhao Xing Office to kill Blood God Sect martial artists and their associates.
• Lin Bai and Chu Xi watched as thousands of Zhao Xing Office experts poured into the city, including thirty-nine Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artists.

Zhu Mo and the Zhao Xing Office reinforcements crushed the Blood God Sect’s attack on Zhennan City, capturing the City Lord of Wu En City and Zheng Heng. After Chu Xi left, a Zhao Xing Office martial artist invited Lin Bai to the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Zhu Mo led the reinforcements in defeating the Blood God Sect’s forces, while the City Lord of Zhennan City pursued Zheng Heng.
• Zhu Mo subdued the City Lord of Wu En City with the Imprisoning Dragon Rope and captured him alive.
• The battle ended with more than three thousand Dao God Realm martial artists dead, several Great Purity experts captured, and a handful escaping.
• Chu Xi told Lin Bai that the victory was only a small step toward defeating the Blood God Sect, whose senior protectors had not appeared.
• Chu Xi vanished when someone approached, and a Zhao Xing Office martial artist invited Lin Bai to the City Lord’s Mansion by order of the City Lord of Zhennan City.

After Zhennan City’s battle, Zhu Mo ordered the Zhao Xing Office to exterminate the city’s Blood God Sect collaborators and invited Lin Bai to bring his intelligence to Prince Chen in Azure Lotus City. Lin Bai learned that the purge would kill several million people and left facing the Zhao Xing Office’s ruthless methods.

• Lin Bai followed a summons to the ruined City Lord’s Mansion, where Zhu Mo ordered the Zhao Xing Office to kill every lineage and sect force on his list.
• Zhu Mo recognized Lin Bai from reports about his journey with Prince Chen and praised his swordsmanship, while Lin Bai wondered whether Zhu Mo had noticed his Devouring Power.
• The City Lord told Zhu Mo that Lin Bai had important intelligence about the Blood God Sect and had been hunted by a Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artist.
• Zhu Mo stopped Lin Bai from sharing the intelligence in Zhennan City and told him to report it to Prince Chen in Azure Lotus City instead.
• Zhu Mo explained that the Zhao Xing Office would use an Extinction Formation and Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artists to exterminate more than a dozen lineages, killing several million people.

Lin Bai and Zhu Mo left Zhennan City to take the captured City Lord of Wu En City to Azure Lotus City, but their teleportation array sent them to the devastated Mystic Phoenix City. There, they realized someone had altered the array’s coordinates and found themselves surrounded by masked figures.

• Lin Bai urged Zhu Mo to leave Zhennan City and rescue the Zhao Xing Office captives, while Zhu Mo arranged for the City Lord of Zhennan City to handle affairs in the city.
• Zhu Mo escorted Zheng Heng and eleven captured Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts through Zhennan City’s teleportation array, with Lin Bai accompanying them.
• Lin Bai endured the array’s painful teleportation and reflected on the Chu Kingdom’s Celestial Mystery Pavilion and its influential specialists.
• The group arrived in blood-soaked Mystic Phoenix City instead of Azure Lotus City, and Zhu Mo concluded that someone had changed the teleportation coordinates.
• Blood-masked figures in black robes appeared across the ruined buildings, while Zheng Heng opened his eyes and smiled sinisterly.

Lin Bai and Zhu Mo discovered that the Blood God Sect had massacred Mystic Phoenix City and surrounded them with thousands of Dao God Peak fighters. As the battle began, Zhu Mo carved a path through the siege so Lin Bai and the Zhao Xing Office could escape with the City Lord of Wu En City.

• Zhu Mo learned that Mystic Phoenix City lay southeast of Ke Province and saw that the Blood God Sect had slaughtered its inhabitants.
• Thousands of masked Blood God Sect martial artists surrounded Lin Bai and Zhu Mo, and Zhu Mo explained how their Blood God Sutra let them gain power through sacrifice.
• Lin Bai recognized Protector Zhang by the voice he had heard in Xu Zhong's memories, and Protector Zhang admitted that he had come to retrieve the City Lord of Wu En City.
• Protector Zhang ordered the Blood God Sect to attack, and Lin Bai and Zhu Mo fought back against the overwhelming force.
• Zhu Mo told Lin Bai to escape with the City Lord of Wu En City, then fought off seven Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts and opened a path out.
• Lin Bai followed Zhu Mo's path and charged out of Mystic Phoenix City.

Lin Bai and the four Great Purity Dao Fruit experts escaped Mystic Phoenix City with the bound Lord of Wu En City, only to discover that the Blood God Sect had lured them into a second ambush in the Mystic Phoenix Mountains. Surrounded by masked experts, they learned how the sect had gathered city lords and clan ancestors across Ke Province, while the Lord of Wu En City urged them to submit.

• Zhu Mo held off seven Blood God Sect martial artists in Mystic Phoenix City and sent Lin Bai and the others away with the Lord of Wu En City.
• Lin Bai followed the four Great Purity Dao Fruit experts into the Mystic Phoenix Mountains, where five more experts and a host of Blood God Sect martial artists awaited them.
• The four escorts and Lin Bai realized that the Blood God Sect had deliberately let them leave the city to separate them from Zhu Mo and defeat them in smaller groups.
• One escort explained that the Blood God Sect had corrupted city lords and prominent families throughout Ke Province, accounting for the many masked Great Purity Dao Fruit experts.
• The Lord of Wu En City, He Yi, urged the escorts to submit to the Blood God Sect, and one of them condemned him for betraying his homeland.

Lin Bai and the four Great Purity Dao Fruit experts confronted the Lord of Wu En City over his slaughter of innocents and learned that Azure Lotus City had sent for reinforcements. With the Blood God Sect closing in, Lin Bai fled into the Mystic Phoenix Mountains with the captive Lord of Wu En City while the four experts stayed behind to hold off their pursuers.

• The Lord of Wu En City defended his massacre by claiming the strong devoured the weak, but Lin Bai argued that everyone was bound by rules and that the Lord was merely a lackey of the Blood God Sect.
• The Lord of Wu En City threatened Lin Bai as five Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artists and hundreds of Dao God Realm martial artists charged toward them.
• A Great Purity Dao Fruit expert said reinforcements from Azure Lotus City were on their way and urged the group to hold out without fighting head-on.
• The four experts told Lin Bai to escape with He Yi while they held off the attackers, and Lin Bai agreed to split up and draw the pursuers away.
• Lin Bai used the Flying Sword Devil Sect's Sword Control Art to flee into the Mystic Phoenix Mountains with the Lord of Wu En City, while the four experts turned to face the Blood God Sect.

Lin Bai fled the Blood God Sect with the Wu En City Lord and hid in a fox’s cave while awaiting reinforcements from Azure Lotus City. After discovering that the Mystic Phoenix Mountains’ demon clans were helping the Blood God Sect track him, he returned to the cave and realized he could not hide there for long.

• Lin Bai escaped pursuit with the Wu En City Lord using the Sword Control Art and hid him in a mountain cave.
• Lin Bai treated his injuries while the Wu En City Lord warned that the Blood God Sect would keep trying to rescue him.
• A wild fox arrived at the cave, and Lin Bai agreed to return its dwelling after half a month.
• Lin Bai sensed an approaching group, took the Wu En City Lord, and left before the Spirit Fox Clan experts reached the cave.
• The Spirit Fox Clan experts searched the cave and ordered their clan to hunt for Lin Bai, confirming his suspicion that the Mystic Phoenix Mountains’ demon clans had joined the Blood God Sect.

Lin Bai hid the Lord of Wu En City in a cave, but a wild fox alerted the Spirit Fox Clan and brought its fighters back to confront him. Lin Bai slaughtered most of the clan’s experts, while the injured Lord of Wu En City secretly sent a blood signal into the sky.

• The Lord of Wu En City explained to Lin Bai the Fox Clan’s ranks of mortal foxes, spirit foxes, and immortal foxes.
• A wild fox spoke human language and shouted for an elder, so Lin Bai killed it, but its call summoned the Spirit Fox Clan.
• The Spirit Fox Clan’s middle-aged elder demanded that Lin Bai hand over the Lord of Wu En City, and Lin Bai refused.
• Lin Bai fought the clan’s experts and killed more than half of them, leaving the middle-aged elder severely injured and retreating.
• The Lord of Wu En City snapped off a finger and sent its blood light into the sky as a signal.

Lin Bai subdued the Wu En City City Lord after he used a severed finger to send a blood-light signal summoning reinforcements. Surrounded by the Three Great Demon Clans and Blood God Sect martial artists, Lin Bai fought back against the clans’ hundreds of experts.

• The Wu En City City Lord severed a finger to release a blood-light signal and boasted that reinforcements would save him.
• Lin Bai sealed the Wu En City City Lord’s six senses, then left the cave to face the gathered forces outside.
• Lin Bai found several hundred experts from the Spirit Fox Clan, Demon Tiger Clan, and Long Ying Clan, but no Great Purity Dao Fruit martial artists.
• Lin Bai warned the Three Great Demon Clans to stop aiding the Blood God Sect, but they refused and demanded that he hand over the Wu En City City Lord.
• Lin Bai attacked with his four flying swords, killing many enemies as the Three Great Demon Clans joined forces and charged him.
• Lin Bai met the charging demons head-on with his demon sword and Heaven Measuring Ruler, cutting and crushing his opponents.

Lin Bai used the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit’s Devouring Power to replenish his strength while fighting the Three Great Demon Clans, then awakened his killing intent and nearly wiped out the demons hunting him. A Great Purity Dao Fruit expert of the Long Ying Clan arrived, furious over the deaths of his clansmen.

• The Three Great Demon Clans changed their tactics and tried to exhaust Lin Bai by surrounding him and attacking without committing to a direct fight.
• Lin Bai secretly absorbed the qi and blood of the slain beasts, using the Devouring Power to heal his injuries and restore his spiritual power.
• The demons realized Lin Bai remained at peak strength as their own power dwindled, and Lin Bai's killing intent awakened.
• Lin Bai attacked with the Demon Sword and Heaven Measuring Ruler, killing more than three hundred demon martial artists or driving them away.
• A Great Purity Dao Fruit expert of the Long Ying Clan appeared and condemned Lin Bai for killing members of his clan.

Lin Bai faced the Great Purity Dao Fruit expert of the Long Ying Clan after killing the clan members on the battlefield. He trapped the old man in his Heaven Swallowing Domain and unleashed its attacks, setting up his ultimate killing move.

• A furious Great Purity Dao Fruit expert of the Long Ying Clan appeared and struck Lin Bai with two smoke dragons, sending him flying and leaving him injured.
• Lin Bai realized he needed stronger means to kill Great Purity Dao Fruit experts and cleared the battlefield by killing the remaining wounded demon-clan fighters.
• Lin Bai activated his Five Elements Dao Body and fused the Yellow Springs Demon Bone into himself, then clashed with the old man in close combat.
• Lin Bai trapped himself and the old man inside his Heaven Swallowing Domain, where the old man transformed into his hundred-zhang-long Long Ying form and tried to break free.
• Lin Bai struck the old man with Spring Thunder, Fading Sun, Buried Flowers, and Winter's Wrath, then prepared to unleash Palm Dimension.

Lin Bai used Palm Dimension to destroy Long Ying Old Ancestor’s body, but the ancestor’s soul escaped. After Lin Bai’s Heaven Swallowing Domain vanished, the City Lord of Wu En City recognized Lin Bai’s Devouring Power and explained why powerful Demon Realm lineages sought members of the Heaven Swallowing Race.

• Lin Bai unleashed Palm Dimension and pulverized Long Ying Old Ancestor’s body, but Long Ying Old Ancestor escaped as a soul.
• The City Lord of Wu En City woke and recognized the Heaven Swallowing Race’s Devouring Power in Lin Bai’s domain.
• Lin Bai questioned why the City Lord of Wu En City would keep his identity secret, but the City Lord initially refused to explain.
• As Lin Bai recovered by refining energy from monster beast bones, the City Lord of Wu En City described the Demon Realm’s struggle for power.
• The City Lord of Wu En City told Lin Bai that powerful lineages sought to use the Heaven Swallowing Race as a fierce and vicious dog.