Chapter Summaries

After the Celestial Mystery Pavilion identified possible sites for Blood God Sealing Pagodas, Chu Junyou asked Lin Bai to investigate suspicious Fengling City. Lin Bai agreed to locate the pagoda without alerting the Blood God Sect, while Chu Junyou warned him about the city’s powerful lord and his wife.

• For half a month, Lin Bai stayed in Azure Lotus City and periodically taught Li Guxian swordsmanship.
• Jiang Zhen summoned Lin Bai to meet Chu Junyou at the City Lord's Mansion.
• Chu Junyou showed Lin Bai a map marking more than a thousand possible Blood God Sealing Pagoda sites, including Fengling City.
• Chu Junyou explained that Fengling City's lord belonged to the Blood God Sect and that Zhao Xing Office investigators sent there had gone missing.
• Chu Junyou asked Lin Bai to find the pagoda and send word before taking action, and Lin Bai agreed to go.
• Chu Junyou warned Lin Bai not to antagonize Fengling City's lord, a former Three Wonders Disciple of the Wen Tian Sect, or his wife, a legitimate daughter of the Chen Family.

Lin Bai learned that the City Lord of Fengling City had powerful ties to the Wen Tian Sect and the Chen Family, then set out on Prince Chen’s orders to investigate the Blood God Sect’s plans. He evaded surveillance by taking a detour and reached Fengling City, where he entered under the pretext of visiting Bao Heng.

• Chu Junyou explained that Fengling City’s City Lord was a Three Wonders Disciple of the Wen Tian Sect and the Chen Family’s principal son-in-law, and warned Lin Bai to focus on the city while the Chu Kingdom handled the larger political concerns.
• Lin Bai agreed to head to Fengling City immediately, and Chu Junyou promised to send Yi Gu, Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and Zhao Xing Office martial artists to meet him there.
• Lin Bai left Azure Lotus City through the teleportation array to Zhennan City, then slipped away and flew north; Blood God Sect watchers lost track of him and reported his disappearance to the City Lord of Wu En City.
• The City Lord of Wu En City ordered his agents across Ke Province to locate Lin Bai and protect the Holy Religion’s plan to complete the Blood God Sealing Pagoda.
• Lin Bai crossed the dangerous Iron Sword Plains and reached Fengling City after two days of flight.
• At the city gate, Lin Bai claimed he was seeking refuge with Bao Heng of Myriad Valley Hall, and the guards let him enter.

Lin Bai reached Fengling City and met with the Zhao Xing Office contacts hidden at Myriad Valley Hall, where he reunited with Qiao Mo, Yi Gu, Qin Yao, and the others. Bao Heng revealed that the missing Zhao Xing Office investigators had focused on the City Lord’s Mansion before disappearing.

• Lin Bai found Myriad Valley Hall and used a coded exchange with Bao Heng to arrange a secret meeting.
• Bao Heng directed Lin Bai to No. 28, Dingjia Alley, where he revealed his identity as a Zhao Xing Office contact and activated the courtyard formation.
• Lin Bai reunited with Qiao Mo, Yi Gu, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, Elder Liang, Grandma Liu, Ye Guqing, and Ye Guyu.
• Qin Yao told Lin Bai that the group had avoided spies while traveling to Fengling City.
• Bao Heng explained that the Zhao Xing Office investigators he had received vanished after focusing on the City Lord’s Mansion.

Lin Bai learned that Zhao Xing Office agents who died in Fengling City had been investigating its City Lord's Mansion, strengthening his suspicion that the Blood God Sealing Pagoda was there. After studying the city's factions, he explained why Prince Chen could not simply arrest City Lord Luo Cong using Li Tianen's roster, and the group recognized that the powerful forces backing the city lords posed the greatest obstacle.

• Bao Heng told Lin Bai that Zhao Xing Office agents had been especially concerned with the City Lord's Mansion and gave him a map and information on Fengling City's factions.
• Lin Bai questioned Qiao Mo and the others about the city, then concluded that the Blood God Sealing Pagoda might be inside the City Lord's Mansion.
• Qin Yao explained that City Lord Luo Cong was a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artist backed by the Wen Tian Sect and the Chen Family.
• Fang Yuanshu questioned why Prince Chen needed them to gather intelligence, and Lin Bai explained that the roster alone could not prove the suspects' guilt in court.
• Lin Bai and Elder Liang concluded that the forces behind the city lords, rather than the city lords themselves, were the hardest challenge to overcome.

Lin Bai and his companions found no signs of trouble elsewhere in Fengling City and suspected the seven great lineages and three sects were allied with Luo Cong. He infiltrated the heavily guarded City Lord’s Mansion at night to investigate, discovering that formations covered nearly every part of the estate.

• Lin Bai concluded that the seven great lineages and three sects might belong to the Blood God Sect because they acted unconcerned about the crisis in Ke Province.
• Lin Bai and his companions agreed that he would enter the City Lord’s Mansion alone while Qin Yao, Yi Gu, and Qiao Mo waited outside and the others remained as backup.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method—Break Restriction to pass through the mansion’s defensive barrier and vault over its wall.
• Lin Bai opened his Asura Dharma Eyes and saw formations, mechanisms, and traps covering the mansion’s paths, buildings, and even its stones and grass.

Lin Bai searched the City Lord's Mansion for intelligence and discovered Luo Cong's wife abusing a crippled woman who was a legitimate daughter of the Chen Family. He revealed himself to the woman in the ruined courtyard, leaving her identity and his intentions unresolved.

• A servant warned the City Lord that Prince Chen had sent martial artists to investigate, and the man in the study told him to handle it as before.
• Lin Bai entered the City Lord's Mansion, found Luo Cong reading in the study, and left when he realized Luo Cong would not depart soon.
• Lin Bai followed a richly dressed woman with a small dog to a shabby courtyard, where she and her servants forced a crippled woman to eat dog food.
• The crippled woman revealed that she was a legitimate daughter of the Chen Family and accused the other woman of taking Luo Cong and power from her.
• After the richly dressed woman left, Lin Bai approached the ruined courtyard and spoke to the crying woman, who demanded to know who was there.

Lin Bai infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion and confronted the imprisoned Chen Family woman, hoping to learn about Luo Cong's connection to the Blood God Sect. She refused to help or seek rescue from her family, and Lin Bai escaped as soldiers searched the estate.

• Luo Cong found footprints near his study, suspected an intruder, and ordered the mansion sealed and searched.
• Lin Bai met the crippled woman, who recognized him as a Tianshui Sect disciple and inferred that he had come to investigate Luo Cong.
• Lin Bai told the woman that Prince Chen had evidence against Luo Cong and would soon bring an army, but she insisted Luo Cong was innocent and refused to testify.
• The woman refused Lin Bai's offer to inform the Chen Family about her imprisonment, despite learning that Chen Yule was in Ke Province.
• When soldiers began searching the mansion, Lin Bai vanished, and the woman denied seeing him while allowing the soldiers to search her room.

Lin Bai was discovered by an elder’s Clairvoyant Divine Eyes while escaping City Lord’s Mansion, and fought through Luo Cong’s eighteen Dao God Realm confidants. He escaped after blocking Luo Cong’s attack, but Luo Cong ordered Fengling City sealed and began a three-day manhunt.

• An elder used the Clairvoyant Divine Eyes to spot Lin Bai near Spring Return Courtyard and alerted Luo Cong.
• Luo Cong sent eighteen peak Dao God Realm confidants to surround Lin Bai as he tried to leave City Lord’s Mansion.
• Lin Bai used the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and his demon sword to kill more than ten attackers and wound the rest.
• Luo Cong attacked Lin Bai with a starry hand, but Lin Bai fused with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, shattered the attack, and escaped Fengling City’s mansion.
• Luo Cong ordered Fengling City sealed and commanded a citywide search for Lin Bai, claiming a Blood God Sect fiend had infiltrated the city.

After Luo Cong branded Lin Bai and his companions as Blood God Sect fiends, they regrouped in Dingjia Alley and learned more about Chen Yun’s ties to Luo Cong and the Chen Family. Bao Heng arrived at the door, leaving the group poised to hear what he had to report.

• Lin Bai escaped the City Lord's Mansion and reunited with Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and Yi Gu as soldiers hunted them through Fengling City.
• Lin Bai told Fang Yuanshu and the others that Luo Cong had falsely accused them of being Blood God Sect fiends to justify hunting them.
• Qin Yao explained that Chen Yun had married Luo Cong against her family's wishes, but the Chen Family later supported Luo Cong's rise and Chen Yun remained close to the family.
• Qin Yao revealed that Chen Yun was Chen Yule's biological aunt and had helped raise him, while Chen Yule had once defended her marriage to Luo Cong.
• Bao Heng arrived at the door and expressed relief that Lin Bai had returned safely.

After Fengling City came under martial law, Lin Bai and his companions tried to lie low but were attacked by locals who mistook them for Blood God Sect members. They escaped and sought help from Bao Heng, who secretly served Luo Cong and directed them toward a trap on Kulin Street.

• Bao Heng warned Lin Bai and his companions to stay inside while Fengling City was under martial law.
• Several hundred local martial artists attacked Lin Bai and his companions in Dingjia Alley, accusing them of being Blood God Sect fiends; Lin Bai drove them back and escaped without killing them.
• Lin Bai and the others went to Myriad Valley Hall to ask Bao Heng for another place to hide.
• Bao Heng told Luo Cong that his Wolf Gang men had failed to capture the newcomers, and Luo Cong instructed him to send them to Kulin Street.
• Bao Heng pretended to help Lin Bai by offering an empty residence on Kulin Street, where Luo Cong planned to hunt them down.

Lin Bai and his companions entered Kulin Street to find the residence on Bao Heng’s jade token, but a trap poisoned them with Purple Luo Powder. Luo Cong surrounded them with the Fengling City garrison and revealed that Bao Heng had betrayed them, leaving Lin Bai to confront the truth about the failed spy teams.

• Lin Bai and his companions found Kulin Street, Number Forty-Nine, and used Bao Heng’s jade token to open its entrance.
• Purple Luo Powder burst from the doorway, poisoning everyone and disrupting their senses and spiritual power.
• Luo Cong arrived with seven Dao God Peak experts and the Fengling City garrison, surrounding Lin Bai and his companions.
• Luo Cong identified Lin Bai as the man who had broken into the City Lord’s Mansion and explained that he had tracked Lin Bai by his footprints.
• Lin Bai deduced that Bao Heng had betrayed them and suspected Luo Cong and Bao Heng had also arranged the deaths of the Zhao Xing Office’s spy teams.

Lin Bai and the poisoned Tianshui Sect disciples fought Luo Cong and the garrison on Kulin Street, where Lin Bai used the Azure Lotus Swordplay to clear a path for his companions to escape. He stayed behind to face Luo Cong and fused the Yellow Springs Demon Bone into his body, raising his power as their attacks collided and devastated the street.

• Luo Cong accused Lin Bai and the others of being disguised disciples of the Tianshui Sect and ordered his armored soldiers to attack them.
• Lin Bai told Qiao Mo and the others to scatter and escape, then used his flying swords to repel the soldiers while the poisoned group fought toward the edge of Kulin Street.
• Lin Bai unleashed the Azure Lotus Swordplay against the soldiers surrounding his companions, destroying them and giving Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Yi Gu, and the others a chance to flee.
• Yi Gu threatened Luo Cong before leaving, while Qiao Mo departed with Qin Yao after Lin Bai insisted he could escape on his own.
• Luo Cong attacked Lin Bai, who fused the Yellow Springs Demon Bone into his body; their powers collided and reduced Kulin Street to ruins.

Lin Bai escaped Luo Cong by unleashing the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, but the Purple Luo Powder poison overwhelmed him before he could find shelter. After waking from a vision of Xuantong and the demonic flower, he found himself in the Zhou family residence with Qiao Mo and the others.

• Lin Bai merged with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, forced Luo Cong back, and fled Kulin Street.
• Luo Cong ordered a citywide search for Lin Bai and his companions, offering a lavish reward for information.
• Lin Bai hid his aura in East City, wandered into North City, and collapsed in an alley as the Purple Luo Powder poison took hold.
• In his consciousness, Lin Bai saw the demonic flower in his reflection and heard Xuantong's laughter despite having severed the Demon Seed.
• Lin Bai awoke in the Zhou family residence, where his sword intent wrecked the courtyard before Qiao Mo calmed him and explained that Elder Zhou had saved them.

After Elder Zhou rescued Lin Bai and his companions, they sheltered at the Zhou Family while Fengling City remained under lockdown. Lin Bai told His Highness Prince Chen that he had a plan to bring Fengling City down without a fight, but had not yet revealed its details.

• Lin Bai learned that Elder Zhou had rescued them because he wanted to protect Ke Province from the returning Blood God Sect.
• Elder Zhou explained how he had tracked the Zhao Xing Office teams and warned that the city was searching for Lin Bai and his companions.
• Lin Bai assured everyone that Fengling City would calm down within half a month to a month, and they agreed to remain at the Zhou Family.
• Lin Bai used a magic array to contact His Highness Prince Chen and recounted what had happened in Fengling City.
• Lin Bai asked His Highness Prince Chen for help with a plan that he claimed would make Fengling City collapse without a fight.

Prince Chen Chu Junyou told the Chen Family that Zhao Xing Office reports claimed Chen Yun was abused and imprisoned by Luo Cong, despite the family believing she was well. Chen Yule and the Chen Family elders left to confront the truth, while Chu Junyou was left recalling his past feelings for Chen Yun.

• Chu Junyou summoned the Chen Family elders, Chen Yule, and other Chen Family martial artists to his study for a conversation.
• Chu Junyou asked about Chen Yun, and the Chen Family elder said she lived in Fengling City with her husband, Luo Cong, and was doing well.
• Chu Junyou revealed that Zhao Xing Office had reported Luo Cong crippled Chen Yun's cultivation, confined her, and forced her to eat dog food, then pretended he believed the report was false.
• Chen Yule rejected Chu Junyou's claim that the report was mistaken, vowed to tear Luo Cong apart, and stormed out with the Chen Family elder and martial artists.
• Chu Junyou watched the Chen Family leave, drank wine, and sorrowfully remembered the day he first met Chen Yun.

Chen Yule and a Chen Family elder set out for Fengling City to punish Luo Cong, while Lin Bai waited for allies and then led an assault on Bao Heng at Myriad Antiquity Hall. Bao Heng’s trap failed, and Lin Bai’s group confronted him after his guards were defeated.

• Chen Yule decided to go to Fengling City, and a Chen Family elder agreed to accompany him to avenge Chen Yun and defend the family’s honor.
• Luo Cong ordered a citywide search for Lin Bai and his companions, who recovered at the Zhou Family residence while Lin Bai waited for reinforcements.
• Lin Bai told Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and Fang Yuanshu that he was waiting for someone capable of dealing with Luo Cong and planned to settle accounts with Bao Heng first.
• Lin Bai led his companions to Myriad Antiquity Hall, where they split up to defeat Bao Heng’s hidden guards while Lin Bai, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao entered the rear courtyard.
• Bao Heng revealed his plan to summon hundreds of guards and the City Lord’s troops, but Fang Yuanshu, Yi Gu, Meng Po, the Ye Siblings, and the others arrived and showed that his guards could not respond.
• Fang Yuanshu threw the bloodied, dead girl from the front hall before Bao Heng, and Elder Liang claimed she had been dangerous despite her delicate appearance.

Lin Bai captured Bao Heng and searched his memories, learning that the Blood God Sealing Pagoda was hidden in an Underground Palace beneath the City Lord's Mansion. Bao Heng begged for death rather than face the Zhao Xing Office, but Lin Bai left him to be handed over to them.

• Lin Bai revealed that Bao Heng's men outside had been dealt with, then demanded to know where the Blood God Sealing Pagoda was.
• Lin Bai searched Bao Heng's memories and discovered that Luo Cong had recruited him into the Blood God Sect after he found a hidden passage beneath Luo Cong's study.
• Bao Heng's memories revealed that the Underground Palace contained a blood-red tower being built by puppet servants and Formation Daoists, and that Bao Heng had helped Luo Cong eliminate two Zhao Xing Office spy teams.
• Lin Bai ordered Elder Liang to cripple Bao Heng and hold him for the Zhao Xing Office, but Elder Liang stopped Bao Heng from killing himself.
• Terrified of the Zhao Xing Office, Bao Heng revealed that the Blood God Sealing Pagoda was in the Underground Palace beneath the City Lord's Mansion, with its entrance in the study.
• Lin Bai refused to question Bao Heng further and left him despairing on the ground.

Lin Bai confirmed that the Blood God Sealing Pagoda was beneath Fengling City's City Lord's Mansion and informed Prince Chen, who ordered him to keep Luo Cong alive until the Zhao Xing Office could question him. Chen Yule arrived in Fengling City demanding Luo Cong, leaving the city and the Zhou Family shaken by his power.

• Qiao Mo and Qin Yao told Lin Bai that Bao Heng had revealed the Blood God Sealing Pagoda's location beneath the City Lord's Mansion.
• Lin Bai contacted Chu Junyou and reported the pagoda's location and the entrance in Luo Cong's study.
• Chu Junyou said Zhu Mo would head to Fengling City and instructed Lin Bai to prevent Chen Yule from killing Luo Cong before the Zhao Xing Office questioned him.
• Chen Yule cleaved Fengling City's formation and demanded that Luo Cong appear, while the city's generals learned his identity and hurried to report to the City Lord.
• Luo Cong hid and sent urgent messages seeking help as Chen Yule and the Chen Family elder arrived.
• Lin Bai, Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Elder Liang, and Meng Po watched Chen Yule from the Zhou Family and recognized his overwhelming strength.

Lin Bai explained that he had alerted Chen Yule to Chen Yun’s mistreatment so the Chen Family could confront Luo Cong, while he hoped to keep Luo Cong alive long enough for Prince Chen and Zhu Mo to investigate the Blood God Sect. Chen Yule reached Fengling City and challenged Luo Cong, whose excuse that Chen Yun was in seclusion was questioned by a powerful Chen Family elder.

• Lin Bai told Yi Gu, Qin Yao, and Qiao Mo that he had informed Prince Chen about Chen Yun’s situation, prompting Chen Yule to rush to Fengling City.
• Lin Bai explained that Prince Chen wanted to question Luo Cong about the Blood God Sect and that Zhu Mo was expected within three days, so Luo Cong could not be killed yet.
• Chen Yule demanded entry to the City Lord’s Mansion, and Luo Cong appeared and ordered the formation opened.
• Luo Cong claimed Chen Yun had entered seclusion to break through, but Chen Yule doubted the story because the Zhao Xing Office had reported that her cultivation was crippled.
• A Chen Family elder challenged Luo Cong’s excuse, and Luo Cong realized the elder was a Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit expert.

Lin Bai intervened as the Chen Family prepared to leave Fengling City, exposing Luo Cong’s abuse of Chen Yun and revealing that Prince Chen had sent him as a special envoy. Luo Cong realized Lin Bai had found the evidence that could bring him down, while Chen Yun remained hidden inside the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Luo Cong refused to let the Chen Family Elder and Chen Yule visit Chen Yun, but Chen Yun spoke from inside the City Lord’s Mansion and claimed she was safe in secluded cultivation.
• The Chen Family Elder’s divine sense could not penetrate the formation around the mansion, and Lin Bai’s companions worried that Chen Yun’s voice made the Chen Family less likely to act against Luo Cong.
• Lin Bai flew to the Chen Family’s group and accused Luo Cong of abandoning Chen Yun after ruining her reputation, while saying Chen Yun was still covering for him.
• Luo Cong ordered his men to kill Lin Bai, but the Chen Family Elder recognized him as a Three Wonders Disciple of the Tianshui Sect.
• Lin Bai identified himself as a special envoy of the Zhao Xing Office sent by Prince Chen and reminded Luo Cong that they had fought twice before.
• Luo Cong realized Lin Bai had discovered Chen Yun’s situation and that she was the trump card that could bring him down.