Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai survived the attack and returned across Sword Saint Mountain, killing Wu Jian, Qingfeng Layman, and the Fire Sword Crown Prince. He climbed toward the summit and challenged everyone who wanted him dead to come forward.

• Lin Bai emerged alive, prompting Hua Yuxian and Master Yishan to leave and Ji Bei and the Spirit Sword Sect disciples to celebrate.
• Lin Bai charged back from the fifty-fifth step and killed Wu Jian, despite Wu Jian pleading for his life.
• Lin Bai crossed the mountain with ease, killed six or seven of Qingfeng Layman's allies, and withstood attacks from Qingfeng Layman and the Fire Sword Crown Prince.
• Lin Bai killed Qingfeng Layman and the Fire Sword Crown Prince, declaring that he would destroy the Fireblaze Kingdom imperial clan.
• Lin Bai climbed toward the summit and challenged everyone who still wanted to kill him to face him together.

Lin Bai fought the remnant soul hidden inside the wooden sword on Sword Saint Mountain and survived by awakening the Devouring Sword Soul’s third secret method, Cease War. The remnant soul escaped before revealing who was hunting Devouring Sword Soul owners, leaving Lin Bai to recover and investigate the clan’s genealogy.

• Lin Bai challenged the wooden sword’s voice to reveal how many people wanted him dead, and the remnant soul attacked with power beyond the Human Core Realm.
• Lin Bai used his sword arts, divine abilities, Golden War Body, and Flying Sword against the wooden sword, but its strike badly wounded him.
• As the wooden sword moved in to finish Lin Bai, he comprehended Cease War and shattered it with the Azure Song Sword, revealing the remnant soul within.
• The remnant soul fled to search for new soul wood and told Lin Bai to study the Devouring Sword Soul clan’s genealogy to learn what its past owners had done.
• Lin Bai began treating his injuries, while Jian Qianqiu and the Purple-Robed Elder concluded that Lin Bai had unknowingly done Famous Sword Manor a favor by exposing the remnant soul.

After advancing his sword intent, battle body, and cultivation, Lin Bai raced across the deadly Sky-Crossing Void toward Sword Assembly City and attacked Master Yishan. Master Yishan used a serpent-like possession talisman and transformed into a half-man, half-snake creature to fight back.

• Lin Bai broke through to late second-stage sword intent, advanced to the Golden War Body, and reached the late Half-Step Divine Core Realm.
• Lin Bai saw Su Xingmang and Master Yishan nearing the end of the Sky-Crossing Void, then flew after Master Yishan on his sword.
• Lin Bai struck Master Yishan, and his attack carved a huge scar into the cliff, sending several martial artists falling into the abyss.
• Master Yishan used a possession-type talisman that covered him in scales and transformed him into a half-man, half-snake creature.
• Master Yishan flew at Lin Bai and attacked with a claw, but Lin Bai dodged aside.

Lin Bai broke through Master Yishan’s Serpent God Talisman and killed him with a flying sword. He then pursued Su Xingmang and struck him from behind, leaving the onlookers wondering whether Lin Bai would challenge Famous Sword Manor’s Sword Masters.

• Lin Bai used Withered Blossom to break Master Yishan’s serpentine scales, then countered his Thousand Mountains attack with Burying Snow and a flying sword.
• Master Yishan begged Hua Yuxian for help, but she resented his plea; Lin Bai’s flying sword pierced Master Yishan’s heart and killed him.
• Lin Bai took Master Yishan’s Storage Bag and wondered whether it contained the other half of the Vermillion Bird Seal.
• Lin Bai flew after Su Xingmang and slashed his back, gravely wounding him as Su Xingmang called on Long Guihai and Jian Ruohan to save him.
• The watching martial artists discussed Lin Bai’s attack, while the Purple-Robed Elder judged Lin Bai stronger than Su Xingmang and Jian Qianqiu maintained that Su Xingmang could still contend with him.

Lin Bai rescued himself from Su Xingmang’s attack, then entered Sword Assembly City after a fierce race with Feng Yunxiu and Ye Jianqiu. He took third place, while tensions with Famous Sword Manor’s disciples remained high as the assembly gathered thousands of sword cultivators.

• Jian Ruohan interrupted Lin Bai’s attack on Su Xingmang and warned Lin Bai that Famous Sword Manor’s disciples could overwhelm him, but Lin Bai challenged them all.
• Lin Bai raced toward Sword Assembly City, struck Feng Yunxiu aside, and let Ye Jianqiu claim first place.
• Lin Bai entered Sword Assembly City and sat in third place, behind Ye Jianqiu and Feng Yunxiu, who threatened that Lin Bai would not leave Famous Sword Manor alive.
• Jian Ruohan took fourth place, and the four leading cultivators recovered while more sword cultivators entered the city.
• After half an hour, nearly five thousand sword cultivators had arrived, and Famous Sword Manor disciples occupied sixteen of the top twenty seats.

Ye Jianqiu took first place in the trials, while Lin Bai held third, and a mysterious old woman showed interest in Bai Zhiyuan. Jian Qianqiu closed Sword Assembly City and began addressing the nine thousand qualifiers, then introduced the Purple-Robed Elder as he descended from the clouds.

• Ye Jianqiu took first place ahead of Feng Yunxiu, while Lin Bai placed third and Jian Ruohan placed fourth.
• An old woman awakened Bai Zhiyuan, learned her name and age, and offered to take her as a disciple; Bai Zhiyuan refused to leave before asking Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai sensed the old woman watching him, and she remarked that Ling Tianzi had chosen a dangerous disciple with the Devouring Sword Soul.
• Jian Qianqiu closed Sword Assembly City's gates, leaving more than three thousand sword cultivators outside, and congratulated the nine thousand who had qualified.
• Jian Qianqiu introduced the Purple-Robed Elder, who descended through the air before the gathered sword cultivators.

Dugu Yun, a Sky Realm expert and Divine Relic Ridge’s Premier Sword Cultivator, arrived at Famous Sword Manor and announced a Heavenly Net Pill as the prize for first place. Lin Bai recognized that winning the tournament could help him prepare to face Lin Zier.

• Dugu Yun descended into Sword Assembly City, and the watching martial artists were shocked to learn he was a Sky Realm expert from Divine Relic Ridge.
• Feng Yunxiu respectfully greeted Dugu Yun, while Sword Ruohan told Lin Bai that Dugu Yun was one of Divine Relic Ridge’s three Sect Masters and the dean of its Sword Dao Institute.
• Dugu Yun offered a Heavenly Net Pill to the tournament’s first-place winner.
• Lin Bai recognized the pill’s ingredients and resolved that winning it would help him advance his cultivation and fight Lin Zier.
• Jian Qianqiu urged the sword cultivators to perform well, noting that Dugu Yun might recruit or advise them.

Jian Qianqiu announced the Sword Assembly Tournament’s prizes, including Wood Sword Spring Grass, a Heavenly Net Pill, and an unlearned sword technique, before officially starting the contest. As Sword cultivators began challenging one another, Lin Bai and the other competitors prepared to fight for the rewards and their futures.

• Jian Qianqiu offered the winner an hour to comprehend Famous Sword Manor’s mysterious sword technique, along with fifty million spirit stones, and promised first place Wood Sword Spring Grass.
• Jian Ruohan explained that the complete sword technique had resisted every cultivator’s attempts to learn or unleash it, while Lin Bai focused on winning the Wood Sword Spring Grass.
• Jian Qianqiu and Dugu Yun took their seats as spectators, and Jian Qianqiu declared the tournament officially underway.
• Cheers for Feng Yunxiu, Ye Jianqiu, Jian Ruohan, and Lin Bai rang out from Famous Sword Manor, stirring the competitors’ battle intent.
• Jian Qianqiu set the tournament rules, and Ling Yunhai challenged the sword cultivator ranked two thousand nine hundred.
• Ling Yunhai and his opponent exchanged salutes, drew their swords, and began the first battle.

After two days of challenges among lower-ranked sword cultivators, Jian Ruohan entered the tournament on its final day and challenged Feng Yunxiu for second place. The chapter ended with Feng Yunxiu stunned that she had chosen him instead of Lin Bai.

• Ling Yunhai defeated the swordsman ranked 2,900th and took his position.
• For two days and two nights, sword cultivators outside the top hundred challenged one another while the highest-ranked fighters waited.
• Dugu Yun offered to take Jian Ruohan to Divine Relic Ridge to join the Sword Dao Institute after the tournament, and Jian Qianqiu accepted.
• Jian Ruohan stepped onto the arena and challenged Feng Yunxiu, explaining that she wanted his second-place position more than Lin Bai's third-place spot.

Jian Ruohan challenged Feng Yunxiu, and the two peerless sword cultivators fought on the martial arena. Feng Yunxiu’s Nine Element Sword Box overwhelmed Jian Ruohan’s icy sword domain, leaving her wounded after only three moves.

• Jian Ruohan challenged Feng Yunxiu, and he accepted her battle cry by stepping onto the arena.
• Jian Ruohan released her Ice Soul Divine Sword and Third-Order Sword Intent, turning the arena into an icy sword domain.
• Feng Yunxiu revealed his Nine Element Sword Box and Third-Order Sword Intent, matching and slightly surpassing Jian Ruohan’s power.
• Jian Ruohan attacked with Icy Heaven Snow Cellar, but Feng Yunxiu blocked it with the Beast King Sword from his Nine Element Sword Box.
• Feng Yunxiu used the Striking the Mountain sword to pierce Jian Ruohan’s ice walls and wound her, stunning the audience.

Jian Ruohan unleashed her Ice Dragon's Breath against Feng Yunxiu, but their clash shattered her treasured sword and left them both wounded. As Feng Yunxiu attacked again and Jian Ruohan faced defeat, a sword flew from Lin Bai's Storage Bag into her hand, and Lin Bai recognized it as Jingmeng.

• Feng Yunxiu mocked Jian Ruohan after overpowering her, but she summoned her Ice Dragon's Breath and launched a devastating attack.
• Feng Yunxiu used the Nine Element Sword Box's third sword, Mountain Shatter, to break Jian Ruohan's treasured sword, and both fighters were injured.
• Dugu Yun learned that Jian Ruohan's shattered sword had been left to her by her mother, while Jian Qianqiu mourned its destruction.
• Feng Yunxiu used the fourth sword, Shadowless, and pressed his attack as Jian Ruohan defended herself with a crystalline ice sword.
• A sword flew from Lin Bai's Storage Bag into Jian Ruohan's hand, and Lin Bai recognized it as Jingmeng.

Jian Ruohan took up Lin Bai’s Startling Dream Sword and used it to defeat Feng Yunxiu, securing second place in the sword cultivator trials. The sword chose Jian Ruohan as its master, and Lin Bai gave it to her, while Jian Qianqiu and Dugu Yun discussed what that might mean for Jian Ruohan’s future.

• Startling Dream flew from Lin Bai’s Storage Bag to Jian Ruohan, who caught it and achieved Sword-Self Unification.
• Jian Ruohan used Ice Dragon’s Breath against Feng Yunxiu’s Mountain-Splitting strike, shattered his sword force, and knocked him down.
• Jian Ruohan held Startling Dream to Feng Yunxiu’s throat, forcing him to concede and confirming her second-place position.
• Jian Ruohan returned Startling Dream to Lin Bai, but the sword resisted him, so he gave it to her as its chosen master.
• Dugu Yun recognized the sword as Azure Song Startling Dream and teased Jian Qianqiu about marrying off his daughter, while Jian Qianqiu looked at Lin Bai with reservations.

Jian Ruohan defeated Feng Yunxiu to claim second place, and Feng Yunxiu later challenged Ye Jianqiu after recovering. Ye Jianqiu effortlessly caught Feng Yunxiu’s sword and defeated him, then refused Dugu Yun’s invitation to join the Sword Dao Institute, saying he would keep seeking an opponent who could defeat him.

• Jian Ruohan defeated Feng Yunxiu and claimed the second-place seat, leaving Feng Yunxiu in fourth place.
• After an hour of recovery, Feng Yunxiu challenged Ye Jianqiu for the title of East Ridge’s Premier Sword Cultivator.
• Feng Yunxiu attacked with the fourth sword of the Nine Element Sword Box, but Ye Jianqiu caught the blade between two fingers.
• Ye Jianqiu kicked Feng Yunxiu off the stage, sending him crashing into a stone wall a thousand meters away.
• Dugu Yun invited Ye Jianqiu to join the Sword Dao Institute, but Ye Jianqiu declined and said he sought defeat rather than first place.

Feng Yunxiu challenged Lin Bai after losing to Ye Jianqiu and Jian Ruohan, and Lin Bai claimed he would defeat Feng Yunxiu within three moves. Feng Yunxiu unleashed three swords at once, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• Ye Jianqiu defeated Feng Yunxiu with a single kick and declared that he sought only one defeat at the Sword Assembly.
• Feng Yunxiu recovered from his injuries and challenged Lin Bai, furious that Lin Bai held third place.
• Lin Bai entered the arena and said that failing to defeat Feng Yunxiu in three moves would count as his loss.
• Feng Yunxiu, enraged by Lin Bai's confidence, summoned the Nine Element Sword Box and launched the Beast King, Mountain Shatter, and Shadowless swords together.

Lin Bai defeated Feng Yunxiu, shattered his treasured sword, and claimed the chance to return to the third seat. Instead, he challenged one of Famous Sword Manor’s Eighteen Sword Lords, and Su Xingmang stepped forward to face him.

• Lin Bai used Golden War Body to withstand Feng Yunxiu’s first two swords without injury.
• Lin Bai shattered Feng Yunxiu’s Grade Six Spirit Tool, Thousand Edge, with Cease the War, then struck him off the martial platform with Gentle Sword.
• Jian Qianqiu announced Lin Bai’s victory, and the Spirit Sword Sect celebrated his triumph over Feng Yunxiu.
• Lin Bai declined to return to the third seat and challenged one of Famous Sword Manor’s Eighteen Sword Lords, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Su Xingmang leaped onto the martial platform and accepted Lin Bai’s challenge.

Lin Bai challenged all eighteen Sword Lords of Famous Sword Manor to attack him together, then fought them to a stalemate before breaking their strongest combined assault. He urged them to use the Myriad Stars World-Illuminating Sword Formation, leaving the arena stunned.

• Lin Bai clarified that he wanted all eighteen Sword Lords to attack him at once, shocking Sword Assembly City and spectators across the East Ridge Seven Hundred Kingdoms.
• Jian Qianqiu authorized the eighteen Sword Lords to fight together, and they surrounded Lin Bai with their swords drawn.
• Long Guihai led Su Xingmang and the other Sword Lords in a coordinated attack, while Lin Bai defended himself with his sword techniques and Golden War Body.
• The eighteen Sword Lords unleashed their strongest swords, but Lin Bai used Sword intent and the divine ability Wind Slaying to shatter their techniques and send them flying.
• Lin Bai told the Sword Lords to use the Myriad Stars World-Illuminating Sword Formation, suggesting he had been waiting for them to bring it out.

Lin Bai shattered the Myriad Stars World-Illuminating Sword Formation and defeated Famous Sword Manor’s eighteen sword masters in Sword Assembly City. He stopped Su Xingmang from conceding and prepared to punish him despite Jian Ruohan’s plea and Jian Qianqiu’s offer of an apology.

• Long Guihai and the other sword masters activated the Myriad Stars World-Illuminating Sword Formation against Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai used his Golden War Body, Martial Soul Secret Method, and Withered Flower ability before breaking the formation with the Break-the-Restriction Sword.
• Lin Bai struck down the eighteen sword masters, leaving Su Xingmang on the arena while Jian Qianqiu and the crowd watched in shock.
• Lin Bai stopped Su Xingmang from conceding and refused Jian Ruohan’s request to spare him.
• Jian Qianqiu offered to apologize for Su Xingmang, but Lin Bai remained unmoved and said apologies could not undo slaughter.

Lin Bai crippled Su Xingmang for harming Bai Zhiyuan and threatened to destroy Famous Sword Manor if she was hurt. Dugu Yun invited Lin Bai to Divine Relic Ridge, but Lin Bai revealed he already had invitations from three academies and left his choice open.

• Lin Bai destroyed Su Xingmang's dantian, limbs, bones, and meridians, then warned Jian Qianqiu that he would raze Famous Sword Manor if anything happened to Bai Zhiyuan.
• Dugu Yun invited Lin Bai to join the Sword Dao Institute and gave him an invitation letter.
• Lin Bai showed Dugu Yun his invitations from the Hatchling Dragon Academy and the Heavenly Sound Academy, leaving the martial artists astonished.
• Dugu Yun urged Lin Bai to choose the Sword Dao Institute, but Lin Bai said he had no plans to go to Divine Relic Ridge yet.
• Dugu Yun gave Long Guihai Black Jade Limb Restoration Balm to treat Su Xingmang, and Lin Bai joked that he would cut off the restored limbs again, frightening Su Xingmang into fainting.

Lin Bai challenged Ye Jianqiu for the position of East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator, and their battle began with both revealing formidable sword techniques. Ye Jianqiu drew his sword and accused Lin Bai of suppressing his cultivation as the duel continued.

• Lin Bai entered the arena and challenged Ye Jianqiu to give him the defeat he sought.
• Ye Jianqiu accepted, saying Lin Bai was one of the few sword cultivators who could make him draw his sword.
• Lin Bai attacked with his Wind Lightning Divine Wings and Mountains and Rivers Eternal Silence, breaking Ye Jianqiu's sword-finger strike.
• Ye Jianqiu drew a Grade Six Spirit Tool and sent Lin Bai flying back three hundred meters.
• Ye Jianqiu pressed his attack and claimed Lin Bai was still suppressing his cultivation, while Feng Yunxiu vowed to surpass them both.

Lin Bai and Ye Jianqiu fought to a standstill before unleashing their strongest attacks to decide East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator. Ye Jianqiu revealed his Heaven-Rank Soul and used Sword River Submergence, leaving Lin Bai trapped in the sword river and drenched in blood.

• Lin Bai stopped suppressing his cultivation and fought Ye Jianqiu at full strength, but neither gained the advantage after more than a thousand rounds.
• Dugu Yun and Jian Qianqiu judged the duel evenly matched, while Jian Ruohan accepted that she would place third among East Ridge's sword cultivators.
• Lin Bai and Ye Jianqiu unleashed their true qi and clashed with their divine abilities, Taiyi Creates Water and Burying Snow.
• Ye Jianqiu revealed his Heaven-Rank Soul, a sword river, and activated his Martial Soul Secret Method, Sword River Submergence.
• Ye Jianqiu's sword shadows engulfed Lin Bai, pierced his Golden War Body, and left him covered in blood.