Chapter Summaries

The Heaven and Earth Gate Master decided to wage war on the Tianshui Sect and assassinate Lin Bai, fearing the sect’s resurgence and its alliance with Prince Chen. He sent forces to prepare an ambush and sent He Chuang’s team to hunt Lin Bai, leaving the Heaven and Earth Gate’s next move underway.

• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master warned that Xiao Cangsheng’s influence and strength made confronting him directly too dangerous, but insisted the Heaven and Earth Gate had to avenge its losses and kill Lin Bai.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master ordered Ma Qiuming to lead a force to the Water Mirror Sea and coordinate a surprise attack on the Tianshui Sect with local powers.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master sent He Chuang and eight Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts to kill Lin Bai before he returned to the Water Mirror Sea.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master gave He Chuang the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror to trap Xiao Cangsheng for up to fifteen minutes while the team attacked Lin Bai.
• He Chuang and his team departed secretly, then tens of thousands of martial artists left the Heaven and Earth Gate through a long-sealed teleportation array.

After Lin Bai’s victory at the Heaven and Earth Gate spread across Chu, the Third Prince and the Heaven and Earth Gate Master plotted to destroy the Tianshui Sect and distract Prince Chen. Old Huo proposed using the Twelfth Prince’s hidden posthumous child to draw Prince Chen away.

• News reached the Third Prince that Lin Bai had killed 124 Heaven and Earth Gate Dao God Realm martial artists, including Qin Mo, and the Third Prince furiously berated the sect.
• The Heaven and Earth Gate Master told the Third Prince he had sent nine Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists after Lin Bai and was preparing to wage war against the Tianshui Sect.
• The Third Prince agreed to let the Heaven and Earth Gate attack the Tianshui Sect while he kept Prince Chen occupied.
• Old Huo revealed that the Twelfth Prince had a posthumous child living with the Desert North Li Family.
• Old Huo advised the Third Prince to capture the child and let Prince Chen learn of it, diverting him from the impending war.

Lin Bai recovered aboard the White Deer Carriage and received two books about the Devil Realm from Xiao Cangsheng. Their journey was interrupted by a deliberate formation, and Xiao Cangsheng confronted the hidden attacker.

• Lin Bai asked Xiao Cangsheng about the books he was reading, and Xiao Cangsheng gave him The World of the Devil Realm and Secrets of the Devil Realm.
• The Crow teased Lin Bai about Xiao Cangsheng's book on beauties, but the White Deer Carriage suddenly began shaking.
• Xiao Cangsheng realized someone had trapped the carriage with a formation and told Lin Bai to stay inside while he went out to investigate.
• Nine pillars of thunder formed a net around the carriage, and Xiao Cangsheng shattered them with a wave of his hand.
• A hidden man taunted Xiao Cangsheng from within a vortex that swallowed his divine sense, and Xiao Cangsheng charged toward the vortex with a gale-summoning palm strike.

Xiao Cangsheng realized the Heaven and Earth Gate had used the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror to trap Lin Bai and began trying to break him out. With the White Deer Carriage under attack and its inner space collapsing, Lin Bai left it to face the enemy himself.

• A hidden attacker revealed the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror and trapped the White Deer carriage inside it.
• Xiao Cangsheng recognized the plan and began breaking open the mirror while warning Lin Bai to hold on.
• Nine black-robed men attacked the White Deer Carriage, hoping to kill Lin Bai before Xiao Cangsheng could reach him.
• The Crow warned Lin Bai that the carriage was close to breaking apart and that he could be lost in the void.
• Lin Bai recalled his request that the Crow take his ashes back to the Barren Ancient Continent, then walked out with the Monster Sword and four flying swords.
• Lin Bai emerged before several Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm experts wielding overwhelming power.

Lin Bai emerged from Xiao Cangsheng’s damaged carriage into the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror, where nine Great Purity Dao Fruit experts from the Heaven and Earth Gate surrounded him. He used the Yellow Springs Demon Bone to fight back and tried to escape the sealed space, but He Chuang struck and shattered his left shoulder.

• Nine Heaven and Earth Gate experts broke through Xiao Cangsheng’s carriage, and Lin Bai emerged into the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror’s dark inner space.
• He Chuang and the other experts surrounded Lin Bai and prepared to kill him before Xiao Cangsheng could enter.
• Lin Bai fused with the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, blocked an expert’s palm with his sword, and wounded the attacker.
• Lin Bai tried to flee, but the nine experts joined forces and closed in on him.
• Lin Bai used the Devouring Heaven Dao Method to test the space and then tried to break open the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror, but He Chuang shattered his left shoulder with a palm.

He Chuang crippled Lin Bai and revealed that the Heaven and Earth Gate had infiltrated the Tianshui Sect and murdered Qiao Mo’s father. As He Chuang moved to kill him, Lin Bai unleashed the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit’s Devouring Power inside the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror.

• He Chuang shattered Lin Bai’s shoulders, destroyed his Demon Sword attack, and inflicted 124 cuts on him.
• He Chuang told Lin Bai that Ma Qiuming was leading an assault on the Tianshui Sect and that Wu Xiu and Qi Kun were Heaven and Earth Gate spies.
• He Chuang admitted that Wu Xiu and Qi Kun had killed Qiao Mo’s father after he uncovered their identities.
• He Chuang prepared to kill Lin Bai, but Lin Bai challenged him to try and remained still as He Chuang struck.
• Lin Bai summoned a black vortex with the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit and unleashed its Devouring Power throughout the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror.

Lin Bai unleashed the Heaven Swallowing Race’s Devouring Power against He Chuang and eight elders of the Heaven and Earth Gate, then summoned his Heaven Swallowing Supreme Avatar when they pushed through the storm to attack him. The avatar shattered their defenses and struck the nine elders, killing one as Lin Bai ordered it to finish them off.

• Lin Bai’s Devouring Power destroyed He Chuang’s attack and began consuming the elders’ defensive treasures.
• He Chuang recognized Lin Bai as a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race and urged the eight other elders to use protective treasures and kill him.
• He Chuang and the eight elders spent more than ten defensive treasures forcing their way through the storm, but the Dao Divine Weapon arrow He Chuang fired at Lin Bai was crushed.
• The nine elders closed in on Lin Bai, who summoned his Heaven Swallowing Supreme Avatar and formed a sword from Devouring Power.
• The avatar’s sword strike shattered the elders’ defenses, wounded them, and killed one lower-grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artist.

Lin Bai’s devouring storm and Supreme Avatar shattered the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror and overwhelmed the Heaven and Earth Gate elders. After Xiao Cangsheng killed the escaping elders, Lin Bai stopped the storm and collapsed, leaving the devastated landscape behind.

• Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar battered He Chuang and the eight other Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists until the Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror began to crack.
• The Mystic Heaven Ancient Mirror exploded, and Lin Bai’s devouring storm spread across the land as Xiao Cangsheng recognized the Devouring Power and Supreme Avatar.
• Five wounded Heaven and Earth Gate elders escaped the storm, but Xiao Cangsheng killed He Chuang and the others while Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar killed the remaining four.
• Xiao Cangsheng urged Lin Bai to stop before innocents were caught in the storm, and Lin Bai withdrew his power and collapsed.
• The Crow chastised Lin Bai for failing to stay vigilant, and Xiao Cangsheng gave him a healing pill beside the vast crater left by the storm.

After Xiao Cangsheng rescued Lin Bai from the Heaven and Earth Gate’s attack, Lin Bai began healing on a remote mountain while Xiao Cangsheng and the Crow discussed the coming conflict between the Heaven and Earth Gate and the Tianshui Sect. The chapter leaves them anticipating a battle tied to the struggle between Prince Chen and the Third Prince for the throne of Chu Kingdom.

• Xiao Cangsheng carried Lin Bai away from the battlefield, where arriving warriors found a vast crater and news of the destruction spread across Chu Kingdom.
• On a mountaintop, Lin Bai took healing pills and began treating his injuries so he could return to the Tianshui Sect before the Heaven and Earth Gate attacked.
• The Crow scolded Xiao Cangsheng for taking so long to break the Heaven and Earth Gate’s Grand Yi Divine Weapon, and Xiao Cangsheng explained its power.
• The Crow warned Xiao Cangsheng that the Heaven and Earth Gate and Tianshui Sect would soon clash over the Water Mirror Sea, bringing legendary old powers back into the conflict.
• The Crow explained that the sects backed opposing princes, and Xiao Cangsheng said the Chu Emperor was more likely to choose Prince Chen, though the Third Prince’s ruthlessness suited an emperor.

After recovering enough to travel, Lin Bai agreed to help Xiao Cangsheng secure Prince Chen’s ascension in exchange for a future opportunity. As Lin Bai headed back toward Tianshui Sect, Heaven and Earth Gate learned that He Chuang and eight elders had died and hurried to advance its attack.

• Lin Bai recovered about seventy percent of his strength and left with Xiao Cangsheng on a spirit boat to warn Tianshui Sect about Heaven and Earth Gate’s plans.
• Xiao Cangsheng offered to keep Lin Bai’s secrets and grant him an opportunity if Lin Bai helped Prince Chen ascend the throne.
• Lin Bai agreed, explaining that he already intended to support Prince Chen so he could eventually reach the Tianquan Great World.
• Xiao Cangsheng said the opportunity would come after the Chu Emperor’s Birthday Celebration in two years and told Lin Bai to heal before they reached Water Mirror Sea.
• Heaven and Earth Gate learned that He Chuang and eight other elders’ soul lamps had gone out, and its Master blamed Xiao Cangsheng for their deaths.
• Heaven and Earth Gate’s Master ordered Ma Qiuming to prepare to act against Tianshui Sect and rushed toward Water Mirror Sea.

Ma Qiuming began Heaven and Earth Gate’s attack on Tianshui Sect by targeting Water Mirror Sea’s World Sealing Formation. He confronted Yu Guang, the retired guardian of a formation eye, and deliberately let him summon Tianshui Sect’s defenders.

• Ma Qiuming learned that He Chuang and the other hunters had died and that Lin Bai might return to Water Mirror Sea within three days.
• Ma Qiuming coordinated with a Tianshui Sect insider, who revealed details about the World Sealing Formation and the Black Tortoise Formation on Sea Heart Island.
• Ma Qiuming ordered his black-clad martial artists to begin their operation, while the Heaven and Earth Gate Master approached with the coffins of several ancestors.
• Ma Qiuming found Yu Guang on a solitary island and revealed that the mountain behind him contained a Formation Eye of the World Sealing Formation.
• Yu Guang crushed his emergency token to alert Tianshui Sect, but Ma Qiuming revealed that he had been waiting for him to do so.

Tianshui Sect discovered that Yu Guang had been killed and the World Sealing Formation Eye he guarded had been destroyed. The Grand Elder suspected the Heaven and Earth Gate was targeting the formation and warned Sect Master Chu Xi that more attacks might follow.

• The Grand Elder sensed Yu Guang’s token shatter and sent three elders with three hundred Dao God Peak martial artists to investigate.
• The Third Elder found Yu Guang dead, while the Fourth Elder confirmed that the World Sealing Formation Eye had been destroyed; the elders concluded that several unknown experts had attacked them deliberately.
• The Grand Elder learned that Duan Wen had also crushed his token and sent the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Elders to guard three other formation sites.
• The Grand Elder told Chu Xi and Tianshui Sect’s gathered elders that Yu Guang’s death and the destroyed Formation Eye were likely the Heaven and Earth Gate’s retaliation for Lin Bai killing its experts.

Tianshui Sect’s elders decided to activate the World Sealing Formation to surround the Heaven and Earth Gate forces on the Water Mirror Sea. Ma Qiuming learned the formation still worked despite the destruction of its supposed Formation Eye and suspected Tianshui Sect had lured them into a trap.

• An elder defended Lin Bai’s actions at the Heaven and Earth Gate, and Li Zai'en clarified that the Grand Elder meant to warn them about the prepared enemy rather than disparage Lin Bai.
• Sect Master Chu Xi ordered the World Sealing Formation activated, despite Li Zai'en pointing out that it could also shut Lin Bai out.
• The golden World Sealing Formation rose over the Water Mirror Sea, astonishing Ma Qiuming and the Heaven and Earth Gate experts because they believed they had destroyed its Formation Eye.
• Ma Qiuming questioned Wu Xiu, who insisted he had revealed the correct Formation Eye and advised that the Heaven and Earth Gate proceed with its plan.
• Ma Qiuming ordered Wu Xiu to break through the Black Tortoise Formation while he handled the World Sealing Formation, then suspected the destroyed Formation Eye had been a decoy set by Tianshui Sect.

Ma Qiuming realized the Heaven and Earth Gate had triggered a suspicious formation while attacking the Tianshui Sect’s World Sealing Formation, and ordered his forces to destroy all seventy-two suspected Formation Eyes. Lin Bai arrived at the sealed Water Mirror Sea, entered through a gap he opened with a technique of the Heaven Swallowing Race, and Xiao Cangsheng foresaw widespread turmoil in the Chu Kingdom.

• Ma Qiuming learned that the Formation Eye guarded by Yu Guang had been a suspicious formation despite the Heaven and Earth Gate’s earlier inspection, and concluded their Formation Daoists had misidentified it.
• Ma Qiuming heard that the Flood Dragon Clan would send only junior helpers, then ordered his forces to destroy all seventy-two Formation Eyes to break the World Sealing Formation.
• Lin Bai and Xiao Cangsheng arrived at the Water Mirror Sea and found the World Sealing Formation activated, preventing anyone from entering or leaving.
• Xiao Cangsheng said he would remain a bystander because intervening could make the White Deer Academy appear to take sides in the conflict between the Tianshui Sect and the Heaven and Earth Gate.
• Lin Bai used a technique of the Heaven Swallowing Race to open a gap in the World Sealing Formation and entered the Water Mirror Sea.
• Xiao Cangsheng watched the formation close and sighed that the clash between the two great sects would plunge the Chu Kingdom into major turmoil.

Lin Bai entered the Water Mirror Sea and found the Zhao Family, a branch of the Heaven and Earth Gate, attacking Tianshui Sect disciples near Storm City. After rescuing the disciples, he faced a Zhao Family warrior who planned to capture him.

• Lin Bai entered the Water Mirror Sea, sent the crow to scout, and discovered that the World Sealing Formation blocked his Voice Transmission Token.
• Lin Bai saw beacon fires over the Stormwind Archipelago and rushed to help seven Tianshui Sect Three Wonders Disciples pursued by Zhao Family warriors.
• The disciples told Lin Bai that the Zhao Family had attacked them while they searched for members of the Qin Family.
• Lin Bai recalled the Zhao Family's influence in Storm City and learned that the family was a branch of the Heaven and Earth Gate.
• A Zhao Family warrior recognized Lin Bai, doubted that he had defeated He Chuang, and drew his sword, intending to capture him for the Heaven and Earth Gate.

Lin Bai rescued the surviving Tianshui Sect disciples from the Zhao Family and learned that the Zhao Family had ambushed them near Storm City, where they were seeking the Qin Family Head. He sent a warning about Wu Xiu and Qi Kun to the Grand Elder with the disciples, then went to Storm City alone, while Ma Qiuming learned of Lin Bai’s return and dispatched Dai Xuan and Ding Mu to kill him.

• A young Zhao Family prodigy attacked Lin Bai, who killed him with the Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation and then slew the fleeing Zhao Family members.
• Lin Bai questioned the surviving Three Wonders Disciples and learned that the Zhao Family had ambushed their party near Storm City after the Grand Elder ordered them to find the Qin Family Head.
• Lin Bai gave the disciples a Jade Slip warning that Wu Xiu and Qi Kun were traitors, then headed to Storm City while they returned to the sect.
• A Heaven and Earth Gate expert killed the disciples, found Lin Bai’s Jade Slip, and reported its contents to Ma Qiuming.
• Ma Qiuming concluded Lin Bai was likely in Storm City and sent Dai Xuan and Ding Mu with black-clad martial artists to bring back his head.

Lin Bai entered Storm City and discovered that the Zhao Family was using claims of a Nine Underworlds Demon Palace invasion to justify eliminating rival lineages. He found the Qin Family under siege and overheard its elders arguing over whether to surrender a Formation Eye to the Zhao Family.

• Lin Bai broke into Storm City and heard the Zhao Family announce that fifteen lineages had colluded with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and would be wiped out.
• Lin Bai avoided Zhao Family patrols and found the Qin Family Residence surrounded by thousands of Zhao Family warriors trying to break its protection formation.
• Lin Bai slipped into the Qin Family Residence and reached the council hall, where the family’s elders and disciples gathered to discuss the siege.
• The Qin Family Head asked whether Tianshui Sect warriors had arrived, and an elder replied that the City Protection Formation kept them out.
• The Second Elder proposed handing over the Formation Eye to satisfy the Zhao Family, prompting the other elders to accuse him of betraying Tianshui Sect.

The Qin Family rejected the Zhao Family’s demand to surrender the Formation Eye and chose to fight, despite being outnumbered and overpowered. As the Zhao Family began to overwhelm them, an unknown expert struck from the clouds and sent an elder flying.

• Lin Bai learned that the Qin Family guarded the Formation Eye of the World Sealing Formation of the Water Mirror Sea for the Tianshui Sect.
• The Qin Family Head persuaded the elders that surrendering the Formation Eye would not save them, and the family resolved to fight the Zhao Family.
• The Zhao Family broke through the Qin Family Residence’s defensive formation and demanded the Formation Eye in exchange for sparing the young descendants.
• The Zhao Family attacked, and its forces gradually pushed the Qin Family into defeat.
• An unseen swordsman descended from the clouds and struck a Zhao Family elder away from the Qin Family Head.

Lin Bai arrived in locked-down Storm City and stopped the Zhao Family from carrying out its planned extermination of the Qin Family, challenging the claim that the sect had ordered it. When the Zhao Family exposed its hostility and attacked him, its forces also resumed their assault on the Qin Family and searched for the Water Mirror Sea's World Sealing Formation's Formation Eye.

• A Zhao Family Elder blasted apart the clouds, and Lin Bai descended into Storm City, startling the Qin and Zhao Families.
• Qin Xing begged Lin Bai to save the Qin Family, and Lin Bai said he had come to seek them out and would not stand by.
• A Zhao Family Elder claimed the Qin Family had colluded with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and asked Lin Bai not to interfere.
• Lin Bai demanded to see Sect Master Chu Xi's order and postponed the Qin Family's extermination when the Zhao Family could provide no written order.
• The Zhao Family Elders turned hostile, and one declared that the Qin Family and Tianshui Sect would both die before attacking Lin Bai.
• The Zhao Family ordered its forces to kill the Qin Family and locate the Formation Eye of the Water Mirror Sea's World Sealing Formation.

Lin Bai defeated the Zhao family’s elders and drove back their attack on the Qin family, then searched the Fifth Elder’s soul for information about the Heaven and Earth Gate. After learning that Storm City had no Great Purity Dao Fruit experts but that its protection formation was controlled by the Zhao Family Head, Lin Bai asked whether the Water Mirror Sea’s World Sealing Formation eye was safe.

• Lin Bai used the Heaven’s Will Four Symbols Sword Formation and his demon sword to destroy the Zhao elders’ Black Dragon Sky-Turning Formation.
• Lin Bai’s flying swords killed seven Zhao elders, and he searched the dying Fifth Elder’s soul, learning that the Zhao family was a hidden pawn of the Heaven and Earth Gate and that the Zhao Family Head controlled Storm City’s protection formation.
• Lin Bai sent his flying swords through the Zhao family fighters, helping the Qin family survive as their enemies fell or fled.
• The Qin Family Head thanked Lin Bai, who immediately asked whether the Water Mirror Sea’s World Sealing Formation eye was safe.