Chapter Summaries

Emperor Chu questioned the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters about the disturbance at the Moon Palace, where Li Mo was accused of spreading a rumor about the Worship Heaven Sect's Ancestor and the Overturning Heavens Sect's Sect Master's wife. Lin Bai persuaded Emperor Chu to have Wu Long seized so the truth could be investigated, then turned Li Mo's accusation tactics against him by warning that failing to punish him could make the Chu Kingdom appear to be provoking war.

• Emperor Chu summoned the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters involved in the Moon Palace disturbance and asked Chen Yule and Lin Bai to explain what happened.
• Meng Qinxian and Nie Shang took responsibility for the dispute and accused Li Mo of insulting their sects by spreading a rumor about their leaders.
• Li Mo denied the accusations and urged Emperor Chu to punish Meng Qinxian, Nie Shang, and their allies for threatening the Chu Kingdom's dignity.
• Lin Bai told Emperor Chu that Wu Long had identified Li Mo as the source of the rumor and asked that Wu Long be questioned.
• Emperor Chu ordered Eunuch Gui to send the Zhao Xing Office to seize Wu Long, and Li Mo looked alarmed.
• Lin Bai warned that if Li Mo had spread the rumor, failing to punish him could make the Chu Kingdom seem to be provoking a war between the two sects.

Emperor Chu punished Li Mo for spreading rumors that nearly sparked a conflict between the Overturning Heavens Sect and the Worship Heaven Sect, then reprimanded both groups involved in the Moon Palace battle. Lin Bai accepted responsibility after Chen Yule and the others defended him, leaving Emperor Chu to decide his punishment.

• Lin Bai argued that Li Mo’s rumor-spreading made Chu appear to be provoking a war with the Seven Nights Divine Sect, and Li Mo denied the accusation.
• Eunuch Gui reported that Wu Long had confessed to hearing the rumor from Li Mo, prompting Emperor Chu to condemn Li Mo for fabricating it.
• Emperor Chu ordered Li Mo to receive fifty strikes of the Heavenly Authority Rod and told the visiting Holy Sons and Holy Daughters to accept punishment from their own elders.
• Emperor Chu reprimanded Chen Yule, Lin Bai, Meng Qinxian, Nie Shang, Yi Heze, and Lu Qingjun for fighting, especially criticizing Lin Bai for breaking the law as a Sword-Bearer Envoy.
• Chen Yule, Meng Qinxian, Nie Shang, Yi Heze, and Lu Qingjun offered to share Lin Bai’s punishment, and Lin Bai insisted on taking responsibility himself.

Emperor Chu ended the Moon Palace dispute by taking Lin Bai’s Sword-Bearer Envoy token and reprimanding the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters. After Li Mo threatened Lin Bai and the group parted ways, Lin Bai returned to the Tianshui Sect residence, where Qiao Mo asked why he had gone to the Bright Moon Pavilion.

• Emperor Chu took Lin Bai’s Zhao Xing Office token as punishment and warned the gathered Holy Sons and Holy Daughters to behave properly.
• Li Mo received fifty strikes from the Heavenly Authority Rod, then threatened Lin Bai and Chen Yule outside the imperial palace.
• Meng Qinxian challenged Li Mo and reminded Dugu Ming that he still held a grudge over the ambush at the Moon Palace.
• Chen Yule and the others agreed to visit the Moon Palace another day before going their separate ways.
• Second Elder, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao met Lin Bai at the Tianshui Sect residence and learned that Emperor Chu had only taken his token.
• Qiao Mo asked Lin Bai why he had gone to the Bright Moon Pavilion, leaving him awkwardly unable to answer.

Lin Bai convinced Qiao Mo and Qin Yao that his visit to Bright Moon Pavilion had been part of his investigation into the Posthumous Child. After they left to search for Orchid Pavilion, the Second Elder remarked on their feelings for Lin Bai, who remembered his wife Bai Xiaoxiao in the Dao Ruins World.

• Qiao Mo and Qin Yao questioned Lin Bai about his visit to Bright Moon Pavilion, while the Second Elder tried to smooth things over.
• Lin Bai explained that he had approached the Zhao, Li, and Sun family Saint Sons to investigate the Posthumous Child and claimed the child was hidden in a Zhao family courtyard.
• Lin Bai said the Posthumous Child was at Orchid Pavilion, though he did not know its location, and Qiao Mo and Qin Yao agreed to investigate in disguise without using their organizations.
• Qiao Mo and Qin Yao left for the imperial capital to search for Orchid Pavilion, and the Second Elder told Lin Bai that both women seemed to care for him.
• Lin Bai said he was already married and thought of Bai Xiaoxiao, whose condition in the Dao Ruins World was unknown to him.

Lin Bai told Prince Chen that the Li family had offended Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect, then revealed he had found the Posthumous Child, a woman hidden by the Third Prince in Orchid Pavilion. He agreed to keep investigating the pavilion’s location discreetly, while news of his victory over the Nine Holy Sons spread across the imperial capital.

• Prince Chen questioned Lin Bai about the brawl at Bright Moon Pavilion, and Lin Bai recounted what had happened.
• Prince Chen said elders from Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect had gone to the palace to demand that the Chu Emperor punish the Li family.
• Lin Bai told Prince Chen that the Posthumous Child was a woman hidden in Orchid Pavilion within the Zhao family, and that Qiao Mo and Qin Yao were investigating its location.
• Lin Bai warned Prince Chen not to send more investigators, so the Third Prince would not move the Posthumous Child; Prince Chen agreed and asked Lin Bai to notify him before the rescue.
• Prince Chen departed, while reports of Lin Bai defeating nine opponents and the Bright Moon Pavilion melee spread through the imperial capital.

Lin Bai and his companions searched the Imperial Capital for half a month before discovering an Orchid Pavilion in a secluded alley near the Zhao Xing Office. They suspected the residence might be where the Third Prince had hidden the Posthumous Child, but had not yet confirmed it.

• Lin Bai, Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, and Ye Guyu searched the Zhao Family's territory but found no trace of Orchid Pavilion.
• Lin Bai considered that Orchid Pavilion might be a private residence rather than an estate belonging to the Zhao Family, while Crow said the search would be difficult.
• Lin Bai and his companions spent half a month touring the Imperial Capital and socializing, while avoiding another visit to Bright Moon Pavilion.
• Qiao Mo told Lin Bai that she and Qin Yao had found a courtyard bearing the name Orchid Pavilion in a secluded alley.
• Lin Bai joined Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, and Ye Guyu at a restaurant overlooking the courtyard, which stood close to the Zhao Xing Office.
• Lin Bai reasoned that the Zhao Xing Office's proximity meant the courtyard could be the Orchid Pavilion where the Posthumous Child was held.

Lin Bai and his companions found an Orchid Pavilion beside the Zhao Xing Office and suspected the Third Prince had hidden the Posthumous Child there. Prince Chen agreed that the location made sense and began considering how to mount a rescue, leaving Lin Bai wondering why he asked about the Heavenly Guard Battalion.

• Lin Bai and Qin Yao realized Orchid Pavilion stood only one street from the Zhao Xing Office, making a quiet rescue difficult.
• Lin Bai left Fang Yuanshu and Ye Guyu to watch Orchid Pavilion while he, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao went to report to Prince Chen.
• Lin Bai explained that Orchid Pavilion's proximity to the Zhao Xing Office made it a likely hiding place for the Posthumous Child, and Prince Chen agreed.
• Prince Chen warned that the Tianshui Sect's ten Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists might not be enough to overcome the Third Prince's forces.
• Prince Chen summoned Zhou Wang and asked how many members of the Heavenly Guard Battalion were in the Imperial Capital, puzzling Lin Bai.

Prince Chen assigned fifty Heavenly Guard Battalion experts to help Lin Bai rescue the Posthumous Child, and Lin Bai began planning the operation. He sent the crow to investigate Orchid Pavilion and awaited its report.

• Prince Chen told Zhou Wang to gather fifty Heavenly Guard Battalion experts at Southern Garden Courtyard and place them under Lin Bai's command.
• Prince Chen explained that the Heavenly Guard Battalion consisted of Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists loyal to him and entrusted the Posthumous Child's rescue to Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai discussed Prince Chen's forces with Qiao Mo and Qin Yao, then returned to the Tianshui Sect's imperial-capital residence to plan the rescue.
• Lin Bai identified the unknown guards at Orchid Pavilion and the risk of intervention by the Zhao Xing Office and the Third Prince as obstacles.
• Lin Bai sent the crow to investigate whether the Posthumous Child was at Orchid Pavilion and how many experts guarded it.
• The crow returned that night and boasted to Lin Bai that it had succeeded.

Lin Bai learned that Orchid Pavilion held the Posthumous Child and her mother, guarded by two formations and more than seventy Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists. He prepared a plan and went with Qiao Mo and Qin Yao to meet Prince Chen’s assembled forces, where fifty martial artists awaited instructions.

• The Crow reported that Orchid Pavilion was guarded by rival groups of experts and described the formations protecting the compound and the two women inside.
• Lin Bai concluded that the Posthumous Child and her mother were in Orchid Pavilion and asked the Crow to guide him during the operation.
• At dawn, Lin Bai gave Qiao Mo and Qin Yao Sword Qi to help them break formations, then led them toward Southern Garden Courtyard.
• Lin Bai, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao joined Fang Yuanshu and Ye Guyu as the only Tianshui Sect participants in the operation.
• Fifty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists gathered inside Southern Garden Courtyard, where Meng Hua wondered why Prince Chen had summoned them.

Lin Bai gathered fifty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists under Prince Chen’s orders to rescue the Twelfth Prince’s Posthumous Child, whom the Third Prince had secretly brought to the imperial capital. After explaining the mission, Lin Bai led the group from the Southern Garden Courtyard toward the Orchid Pavilion.

• Fifty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists waited in the Southern Garden Courtyard for Prince Chen’s orders.
• Lin Bai arrived with Qiao Mo and Qin Yao and confirmed that all fifty martial artists had gathered.
• Lin Bai told them the Posthumous Child was in the imperial capital and that the Third Prince had brought him from the Desert North Thousand Provinces.
• The martial artists agreed to help rescue the Posthumous Child and asked Lin Bai for instructions.
• Lin Bai led the fifty-odd martial artists through the imperial capital toward the Orchid Pavilion.

Lin Bai gathered more than fifty Heavenly Guard Battalion martial artists in a tavern near Orchid Pavilion and explained his plan to infiltrate it alone to find the Posthumous Child. His companions and the others urged him to reconsider because Orchid Pavilion was guarded by more than seventy Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists.

• Fang Yuanshu warned Lin Bai that the tavern waiter was one of the Third Prince's men, so the group kept their conversation cautious.
• Lin Bai's forces entered the tavern in small groups and disguised themselves as tourists and family members while secretly reporting their arrival.
• After more than fifty martial artists assembled, Lin Bai revealed that Orchid Pavilion held the Posthumous Child and was guarded by Zhao family and Third Prince forces beside the Zhao Xing Office.
• Lin Bai proposed infiltrating Orchid Pavilion alone and bringing the Posthumous Child out while the others waited outside to receive them.
• Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Old Li, Meng Hua, and many other martial artists urged Lin Bai not to enter alone.

Lin Bai planned to infiltrate Orchid Pavilion alone to rescue the Posthumous Child while Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others waited outside to provide support. With the crow’s help, he bypassed the surrounding formations and entered Orchid Pavilion, where powerful martial artists’ auras filled the grounds.

• Lin Bai rejected Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others’ offers to accompany him, set the operation for midnight, and told them to leave if he had not returned after three hours.
• At midnight, Lin Bai left the tavern alone, changed into black robes, and put on a purple-gold rose mask.
• The crow warned Lin Bai that hidden formations and Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm guards protected the alley leading to Orchid Pavilion.
• Lin Bai used the Forbidden-Breaking Art to cross the alley without triggering its formations, then followed the crow to a less guarded courtyard wall.
• Lin Bai cut through the formation curtain and entered Orchid Pavilion, sensing powerful Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm auras throughout the grounds.

Lin Bai infiltrated Orchid Pavilion to find the Posthumous Child, but the estate was crowded with powerful guards. Crow taught him the Void Evasion Art, allowing him to escape detection for now, though Lu Hu sensed an intruder and the guards began investigating.

• Lin Bai entered Orchid Pavilion and spotted several Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists guarding the estate.
• Lin Bai asked Crow to locate the Posthumous Child, and Crow passed him the Void Evasion Art.
• Crow helped Lin Bai grasp the art's basics, enabling him to erase his aura and conceal his presence.
• Crow warned Lin Bai that someone was approaching, and Lin Bai swiftly slipped away using the technique.
• Lu Hu detected an unfamiliar aura where Lin Bai had been hiding, while the White-Robed Young Master and Zhu Pin discussed the possible intruder.

Lin Bai used the Void Evasion Art to infiltrate Orchid Pavilion and followed the Crow toward the Posthumous Child while Lu Hu and the others searched for the intruder. He reached a courtyard where the Crow had seen a mother and daughter, but the White-Robed Young Master stood guard at its entrance.

• Lu Hu warned Zhu Pin and the White-Robed Young Master that an intruder who evaded Orchid Pavilion’s defenses must be exceptionally powerful, so they split up to guard the Posthumous Child, alert the experts, and search the grounds.
• Lin Bai stayed hidden behind a boulder with the help of the Void Evasion Art, then followed the Crow when they decided to find the Posthumous Child before the search closed in.
• The Crow led Lin Bai through Orchid Pavilion’s corridors and formations, while Lu Hu and a Daoist nun discovered that someone had silently pierced one of her formations.
• The Daoist nun agreed to notify the Third Prince as Lu Hu continued searching, both fearing that the intruder would reach the Posthumous Child.
• The Crow led Lin Bai to a courtyard where he had seen a mother and daughter, but the White-Robed Young Master appeared at the entrance and stood guard.

Lin Bai and the Crow reached the courtyard where the Posthumous Child was held, but the White-Robed Young Master and Old Drunkard guarded it. Lin Bai sent the Crow to steal treasures and draw the guards away, leaving him a chance to rescue the Posthumous Child.

• Lin Bai found the White-Robed Young Master waiting outside the courtyard and realized the guards had been alerted.
• Old Drunkard arrived to help guard the courtyard, and Lin Bai recognized that fighting both men would risk attracting Orchid Pavilion’s other martial artists.
• Lin Bai asked the Crow whether it had found any treasures during its earlier visit, and the Crow admitted that it had.
• Lin Bai offered the Crow permission to take Orchid Pavilion’s treasures and told it to make a commotion so he could rescue the Posthumous Child.
• The Crow agreed to draw the guards’ attention and flew off, boasting that the martial artists could not hurt it.

A black crow stole the Purple-Robed Elder’s newly refined pill inside Orchid Pavilion and escaped his attacks. The furious elder told Lu Hu and the gathered martial artists that he could not sense any cultivation from the bird.

• Lin Bai watched Old Drunkard and White-Robed Young Master from the shadows as they sensed someone watching them.
• The Purple-Robed Elder finished refining a pill meant to help him advance to the middle-grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• A black crow swallowed the pill, then evaded the Purple-Robed Elder’s attacks and flew away.
• More than fifty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artists gathered after the elder’s attacks damaged Orchid Pavilion.
• The Purple-Robed Elder told Lu Hu that a crow had stolen his pill and that he had sensed no cultivation from it.

A powerful crow stole pills and Madam Xiao’s Yin-Yang Twin Jade in Orchid Pavilion, drawing the martial artists into a search while Lin Bai waited for the guards to leave the Posthumous Child’s courtyard. The crow’s escape left Lu Hu gravely injured, and Lin Bai remained hidden, waiting for an opening.

• Lu Hu and the Purple-Robed Elder realized that the crow’s cultivation was likely far beyond theirs after it stole pills and escaped their attacks.
• The crow stole Madam Xiao’s Yin-Yang Twin Jade, insulted her, and fled as Lu Hu’s Divine Sense Technique provoked it to strike him down with a shout.
• Madam Xiao offered to journey with anyone who helped recover her pendant, and the gathered martial artists agreed to search Orchid Pavilion together.
• Zhu Pin and Lu Hu suspected the crow was the Imperial Capital Thief and concluded that it had not come for the Posthumous Child.
• Lin Bai stayed hidden near the Posthumous Child’s courtyard, hoping the search would draw away the Old Drunkard and White-Robed Young Master.

Lin Bai discovered that the Posthumous Child was Li Chuyin and found her imprisoned with her mother, Li Qiaoyun, in Orchid Pavilion. After revealing that Prince Chen had sent him to rescue them, he took them toward the exit, where Lu Hu and Zhu Pin arrived and recognized him.

• Old Drunkard and the White-Robed Young Master realized a black crow had infiltrated Orchid Pavilion and hurried away to protect their treasures, then returned to test whether anyone was hiding nearby.
• After the two men finally left, Lin Bai used his Formation-Breaking Art to open the formation sealing the courtyard.
• Lin Bai met Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin, confirmed that Li Chuyin was the Twelfth Prince's daughter, and told them Prince Chen had sent him to rescue them.
• Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin agreed to leave with Lin Bai, who carried them on his flying sword toward Orchid Pavilion's exit.
• Lu Hu and Zhu Pin arrived at the courtyard and saw Lin Bai with the mother and daughter.

Lin Bai tried to escape Orchid Pavilion with the Posthumous Child and her daughter, but Lu Hu and Zhu Pin confronted him. Zhu Pin attacked with the Four Symbols Divine Art, and Lin Bai defeated him with the Heaven Measuring Ruler as he continued his escape.

• Lu Hu and Zhu Pin found Lin Bai with the Posthumous Child and her daughter, and Lin Bai sent them flying toward Orchid Pavilion's exit.
• Zhu Pin attacked Lin Bai with the Four Symbols Divine Art, revealing that he was a Grand Yi Elder of the Four Symbols Sect.
• Lin Bai defended the mother and daughter while Zhu Pin pressed forward with his dragon, tiger, and Vermilion Bird attacks.
• Lin Bai wielded the Heaven Measuring Ruler and shattered Zhu Pin's Four Symbols techniques, including his Black Tortoise defense.
• The Heaven Measuring Ruler sent Zhu Pin crashing before Lu Hu, gravely wounded and near death.

Lin Bai rescued the Posthumous Child and her mother from Orchid Pavilion after defeating Zhu Pin and resisting Lu Hu’s Divine Sense Technique. As Lu Hu rallied the guards to intercept him, Lin Bai broke through the main gate and emerged to meet Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, Fang Yuanshu, Old Li, and the Heavenly Guard Battalion.

• Lin Bai struck Zhu Pin with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, leaving him barely alive.
• Lu Hu attacked Lin Bai with the Divine Sense Technique, but the Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit absorbed and refined the attack into soul power.
• Lin Bai trapped Lu Hu in an illusion with the Asura Dharma Eyes and escaped Orchid Pavilion with the Posthumous Child and her mother.
• Lu Hu broke free, realized Lin Bai had escaped, and alerted the more than seventy guards to intercept him at the main gate.
• Lin Bai shattered Orchid Pavilion’s gate and formation, and Old Li led the Heavenly Guard Battalion toward him.