Chapter Summaries

Xiao Gu reported that the Eastern Region camp appeared to have few warriors, prompting Bu Junfeng to consider an attack. Lin Bai, Meng Qinxian, and Yi Heze then scouted Great Snow Mountain at night, exposing hundreds of Northern Region warriors and leaving Lin Bai to estimate their full force was much larger.

• Xiao Gu told Bu Junfeng that Lin Bai, Meng Qinxian, Yi Heze, Qian Hen, and Shui Mo Dan were among the Eastern Region figures on the island, but admitted he had not carefully counted the ordinary warriors.
• Xiao Gu estimated that only seventy or eighty ordinary Eastern Region warriors were on the island, and Bu Junfeng weighed the possibility of attacking while doubting the estimate.
• Meng Qinxian called out the Northern Region warriors at Great Snow Mountain, bringing Bu Junfeng and the others out of their cavern abodes.
• Bu Junfeng realized Lin Bai and his companions were scouting the camp and ordered hidden warriors to conceal themselves, but hundreds had already gathered in view.
• Lin Bai and Yi Heze counted roughly twenty top-sect Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and several hundred ordinary warriors, then estimated that the Northern Region's full force could number seven or eight hundred.

Lin Bai’s party scouted Great Snow Mountain and exposed the Northern Domain martial artists hiding there. Meng Qinxian nearly killed an East Mountain Clan fighter before the clan’s Saint Son, Wu Hefeng, intervened and began fighting him.

• Lin Bai, Meng Qinxian, and Yi Heze arrived at Great Snow Mountain, catching Bu Junfeng and the Northern Domain martial artists unprepared.
• An East Mountain Clan martial artist attacked Meng Qinxian, but Meng defeated him with a series of devastating punches.
• Wu Hefeng stepped in to save the injured fighter and introduced himself as the East Mountain Clan’s Saint Son.
• Meng Qinxian and Wu Hefeng exchanged attacks, and Wu Hefeng used wind blades that Meng smashed through with his physical strength.
• Wu Hefeng evaded Meng’s punch and appeared behind him holding a black ice-forged sword, drawing Lin Bai and Yi Heze’s attention.

Lin Bai and Yi Heze watched Wu Hefeng use a Mystic Ice Iron Grand Yi Divine Weapon to wound Meng Qinxian, prompting Yi Heze to offer help. Meng Qinxian refused and revealed his own Grand Yi Divine Weapon: a suit of dark-purple armor.

• Yi Heze identified Wu Hefeng’s black ice sword as rare Mystic Ice Iron, a material suited to forging Grand Yi Divine Weapons.
• Wu Hefeng used the sword’s powerful techniques to overwhelm Meng Qinxian, who suffered numerous wounds while dodging the Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai and Yi Heze wondered why Meng Qinxian had not used a Grand Yi Divine Weapon, and Yi Heze offered to take over the fight.
• Meng Qinxian rejected Yi Heze’s help and said he would sever ties with him if he intervened.
• Meng Qinxian summoned dark-purple Grand Yi Divine Weapon armor from his Storage Bag and put it on.

After repeated setbacks in the Hunting Realm, Meng Qinxian accepted the Violet Emperor Armor and let go of his arrogance, undergoing a change in his outlook. His cultivation then broke through to the Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm, while the Overturning Heavens Sect’s elders watched with relief and approval.

• The Overturning Heavens Sect’s ancestors and elders worried that Meng Qinxian had refused to use his Grand Yi Divine Weapon, the Violet Emperor Armor.
• Meng Qinxian reflected on the stronger Holy Sons he had encountered and the defeats he had suffered in the Hunting Realm.
• When the Holy Son of the East Mountain Clan kept him at a distance with a Grand Yi Divine Weapon, Meng Qinxian put on the Violet Emperor Armor as Yi Heze rushed to help him.
• Meng Qinxian’s state of mind changed, and his cultivation broke through from the middle-grade to the Superior-Grade Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• The ancestors and elders praised Meng Qinxian’s growth and said the Hunting Realm had changed him.

Meng Qinxian used the Violet Emperor Armor to overpower the East Mountain Clan Saint Son, but the Soul Refinement Sect Saint Son attacked him with a poisoned arrow. After Meng Qinxian took an antidote, the Soul Refinement Sect Saint Son prepared to shoot again.

• Meng Qinxian donned the Violet Emperor Armor and rushed the East Mountain Clan Saint Son, whose sword attacks failed to slow him.
• Meng Qinxian shattered the East Mountain Clan Saint Son’s defenses with a powerful punch, while the opponent’s bone tablet broke after saving his life.
• As Meng Qinxian prepared to attack again, the Soul Refinement Sect Saint Son secretly shot him in the shoulder with a poisoned ice arrow.
• Meng Qinxian recognized the poison and swallowed the antidote, while the Soul Refinement Sect Saint Son mocked him and blamed the Southern Region’s poison sellers.
• The Soul Refinement Sect Saint Son raised his Grand Yi Divine Weapon bow and fired another ice arrow at Meng Qinxian.

Lin Bai rescued Meng Qinxian from Bu Junfeng’s Black Ice arrow, and the former friends faced each other as enemies. Bu Junfeng let Lin Bai’s group withdraw, then ordered the Northern Region forces to gather and prepare a raid on their camp.

• Bu Junfeng attacked Meng Qinxian with a Black Ice arrow that shattered the shield created by the Violet Emperor Armor.
• Lin Bai knocked the arrow away and revealed himself to Bu Junfeng, whom he had met and befriended at the Immortal Abode Restaurant.
• Lin Bai told Meng Qinxian and Yi Heze to withdraw, and Bu Junfeng stopped the Northern Region martial artists from pursuing them.
• Bu Junfeng ordered the Northern Region martial artists to return to the Great Snow Mountain and announced plans to raid the Eastern Region camp.
• The Northern Region forces gathered at the Great Snow Mountain and built arrays that turned it into a fortress.

Lin Bai and the returning scouts revealed that hundreds of elite Northern Region martial artists had fortified the Great Snow Mountain and were hunting the scattered Eastern Region fighters. As Lin Bai predicted a raid before dawn, flaming arrows suddenly descended on the island.

• Meng Qinxian, Lin Bai, and Yi Heze returned from scouting the Great Snow Mountain and reported its defenses and the Northern Region forces there.
• Qian Hen and Lin Bai realized the Northern Region had united its martial artists and was using the mountain as a fortified base to attack the Eastern Region fighters one by one.
• Qian Hen reported that the island's main defensive array was complete, though many smaller arrays remained unfinished.
• Lin Bai told everyone to rest and recover while they prepared for what came next.
• Lin Bai suspected Bu Junfeng would attack before the Eastern Region fighters could gather, then saw countless flaming arrows fall toward the island before dawn.

Lin Bai and the Eastern Domain martial artists defended their island when a large Northern Domain force surrounded it. They held behind Qian Hen’s formation while Bu Junfeng ordered his Formation Daoist to break through within two days.

• Northern Domain martial artists launched a rocket attack on the island, but Qian Hen’s golden formation shielded it.
• Lin Bai gathered the Eastern Domain leaders and identified Bu Junfeng, Luan Tang, Wu Hefeng, and Meng Lei among the attackers, but did not see the Black Veil Woman.
• Qian Hen advised Lin Bai to hold the island and wait for reinforcements because the formation would take two or three days to break.
• Lin Bai ordered the Eastern Domain martial artists to guard the formation’s Formation Eyes and keep most of their forces hidden.
• Bu Junfeng questioned a Formation Daoist about breaking the formation, then gave him two days to begin the breach.

Lin Bai refused Bu Junfeng’s attempt to lure him away from the Eastern Region alliance, and the two discussed the Northern Region’s harsh conditions and their opposing duties. Bu Junfeng acknowledged that war was unavoidable, and their conversation ended with both recognizing how few choices they truly had.

• Bu Junfeng approached Lin Bai above the island’s golden barrier and invited him to drink elsewhere, hoping to weaken the Eastern Region alliance by drawing away its leader.
• Qian Hen warned Lin Bai not to leave the alliance, and Lin Bai firmly declined Bu Junfeng’s invitation.
• Bu Junfeng described the Northern Region’s endless snow and clouded skies, and Lin Bai expressed admiration for its people while maintaining that they would remain enemies when necessary.
• Bu Junfeng declared that the Northern Region would advance despite Lin Bai’s Supreme Avatar, and Lin Bai recognized the immense effort behind its preparations for invasion.
• Bu Junfeng questioned why Lin Bai defended the Demon Realm despite coming from the lower realms, and Lin Bai replied that people were often pushed into duties they could not simply refuse.
• Bu Junfeng said he wished he could drink with Lin Bai until dawn, as both men acknowledged their helplessness before the conflict.

After Bu Junfeng withdrew and left the battlefield to the Northern Domain martial artists, their taunts pushed the Eastern Domain alliance toward open rebellion. Lin Bai struggled to keep the alliance together and sought advice, but no one had a solution as Meng Qinxian urged him to open the formation and fight.

• Lin Bai and Bu Junfeng parted on respectful terms, agreeing to meet again if they both survived the battle.
• Bu Junfeng withdrew with Luan Tang and several Heavenly Dao Clan Saint Sons, while Northern Domain martial artists began provoking the Eastern Domain forces behind the formation.
• Meng Qinxian and other Eastern Domain martial artists demanded that Lin Bai open the formation so they could fight, but Lin Bai and Qian Hen recognized the provocation as a trap.
• The Eastern Domain alliance fractured into smaller factions as its members began to doubt Lin Bai and ignore his orders.
• Lin Bai asked Qian Hen and the others how to handle the growing mutiny, but they had no answers, and Meng Qinxian again proposed opening the formation to fight.

Lin Bai calmed the furious Eastern Region martial artists by announcing a decisive battle against the Northern Region in two days, buying time for reinforcements to arrive. He prepared to fight regardless, even if the island’s defenders became sacrificial pawns.

• Meng Qinxian demanded that Lin Bai open the formation and fight the Northern Region martial artists, even if the Eastern Region defenders died.
• Lin Bai considered the likely heavy casualties and decided that preserving the Eastern Region’s strength and waiting for reinforcements was wiser.
• Lin Bai told every Eastern Region martial artist that they would open the formation and fight at dusk two days later, urging them to recover and prepare.
• Qian Hen recognized that Lin Bai had given the defenders hope to keep them united, then asked whether the promised battle would really happen.
• Lin Bai said they would fight even without reinforcements, accepting that the island’s defenders might all die to inspire the rest of the Eastern Region.

Lin Bai kept the Eastern Region martial artists united while the Northern Region camp continued its assault on their island. As both sides prepared for a decisive battle in two days, Qian Hen warned that the defensive formation would eventually fall, though not for at least three to five days.

• Bu Junfeng learned that the Eastern Region martial artists had stopped reacting to the Northern Region's insults and suspected Lin Bai had restored order among them.
• Bu Junfeng ordered the Northern Region martial artists to keep taunting the defenders while their Formation Daoists worked to break through the light curtain.
• Lin Bai and Qian Hen watched the Northern Region camp as the Eastern Region martial artists prepared for battle, with no news yet from Yi Song, Nie Shang, or Chu Tinghan.
• Qian Hen told Lin Bai that Northern Region Formation Daoists were searching for a weak point in the formation and estimated it would take at least three to five days to break it.

Lin Bai and Qian Hen discussed the coming battle as the island’s formation weakened, and Qian Hen sensed that Lin Bai was missing part of himself. Two days later, the Eastern Domain fighters prepared to attack, while Qian Hen warned that their inexperience with war put them at a disadvantage against the Northern Domain.

• Lin Bai told Qian Hen that the formation would take two or three days to break and urged him to flee if the coming battle went badly.
• Qian Hen said Lin Bai seemed to lack a certain thought, and Lin Bai privately connected this absence to Xuantong, whom he had cut away with the Demon Sword.
• Lin Bai and Qian Hen redirected their conversation, and two days passed as the decisive battle approached.
• Eastern Domain martial artists gathered around the island, ready to charge once the formation opened.
• Qian Hen warned that the Eastern Domain fighters, unused to war, could not rely on hot blood against the Northern Domain’s battle-hardened martial artists.

With no word from Chu Tinghan, Yi Song, or the others, Lin Bai prepared to lead the Eastern Region martial artists into battle as dusk fell. He ordered everyone to charge out of the island, but many martial artists secretly planned to stay behind and ambush the Northern Region forces instead.

• After two days without reinforcements, Lin Bai accepted that he had to honor his deadline and begin the battle at sunset.
• Lin Bai warned Qian Hen, Shui Mo Dan, and the others to prioritize staying alive if the fight went badly.
• Lin Bai assigned Qian Hen and Shui Mo Dan to guard the island while he, Meng Qinxian, and Yi Heze would hunt the Northern Region's Saint Sons.
• Lin Bai transmitted an order for every Eastern Region martial artist to leave the island when the formation opened and fight the Northern Region forces.
• Many martial artists dismissed Lin Bai's order and privately agreed to remain at their chosen ambush sites until the Northern Region entered the island.

Bu Junfeng realized that Lin Bai had been forced by the Eastern Domain martial artists’ anger into a decisive battle, and warned that Lin Bai might target the Northern Domain Holy Sons. At sunset, Lin Bai ordered the formation opened and led a charge against the Northern Domain, while most of the Eastern Domain fighters stayed hidden to ambush them.

• Northern Domain scouts reported that Eastern Domain martial artists had gathered in the island’s shadows, and Bu Junfeng ordered his forces to prepare for a decisive battle after sunset.
• Bu Junfeng explained to Luan Tang that Lin Bai was being pressured by the Eastern Domain martial artists and warned that Lin Bai might target the Northern Domain Holy Sons.
• Luan Tang stepped back when Bu Junfeng identified them as likely targets, then moved beside him again after Bu Junfeng mocked his fear.
• At sunset, Lin Bai ordered Qian Hen to open the formation and called on the Eastern Domain martial artists to attack.
• Lin Bai led Meng Qinxian, Yi Heze, Bai Yifei, Zhou Xinjin, and a portion of the Eastern Domain fighters into the Northern Domain ranks, while most of the others remained hidden to ambush them.

Lin Bai led a small group of Eastern Domain martial artists off the island, while many others ignored his order and stayed behind to ambush the Northern Domain. Bu Junfeng unleashed the Northern Domain’s Calamity Wind on the island, destroying it and sweeping away the martial artists trapped there.

• Lin Bai, Meng Qinxian, Yi Heze, and the others fought their way off the island, while most Eastern Domain martial artists stayed behind to hide.
• Bu Junfeng learned that more Eastern Domain martial artists remained on the island than had followed Lin Bai out.
• Bu Junfeng ordered the Northern Domain martial artists to release the Calamity Wind from a jade bottle.
• Qian Hen warned Lin Bai that the Calamity Wind could tear apart even a Primal Chaos Dao Fruit, and Lin Bai realized it was heading for the island.
• Lin Bai urgently warned the martial artists on the island to flee, but the Calamity Wind pulverized the island and swept many of them away.

Calamity Wind annihilated the island and most of the Eastern Region martial artists, leaving Lin Bai and a small group surrounded by the Northern Region forces. Bu Junfeng demanded their surrender, while Lin Bai recognized that escape would not be easy.

• Calamity Wind destroyed the island and killed nearly everyone caught in its path, while a few Holy Sons and Holy Daughters survived with severe injuries.
• Lin Bai used his Asura Dharma Eyes to search the ruins and found only seven or eight survivors beyond the group gathered around him.
• Qian Hen counted just over fifty Eastern Region martial artists remaining and urged Lin Bai to break out before they faced the Northern Region's superior numbers.
• Lin Bai saw Bu Junfeng and other top sect Holy Sons approaching and warned that leaving would not be easy.
• Bu Junfeng described how Calamity Wind repeatedly destroyed Northern Region settlements and demanded that Lin Bai and the others surrender.

After the Calamity Wind destroyed the island and devastated the Eastern Domain forces, Lin Bai gave his allies the choice to surrender or fight. A Seven Absolutes City disciple rejected surrender and rallied the Eastern Domain to resist the Northern Domain invaders.

• Bu Junfeng urged Lin Bai to surrender and promised to spare the Eastern Domain martial artists’ lives.
• Lin Bai explained the dire situation and let his allies decide whether to surrender or fight on.
• A Seven Absolutes City disciple asked whether Lin Bai would surrender with them.
• Lin Bai said he would not submit or become anyone’s lapdog, even though he was willing to do anything else.
• The Seven Absolutes City disciple declared that his sect would never yield and challenged the Northern Domain martial artists to fight.

The disciples of Seven Absolutes City refused to surrender to the invading Northern Region forces, and their courage rallied the Eastern Region martial artists around Lin Bai to fight. Bu Junfeng recognized the unity and resolve that had kept the Northern Region from conquering the East, while the two sides faced each other without settling their fate.

• A disciple of Seven Absolutes City declared that his sect would never surrender, inspiring the Eastern Region martial artists to reject capitulation.
• Bu Junfeng asked about Seven Absolutes City and learned that the top sect followed the doctrine “Chivalry and justice first.”
• A Chen Family martial artist, disciples of Celestial Immortal Sect, Shui Mo Dan, and others joined the refusal to surrender.
• The Eastern Region martial artists with Lin Bai, including Meng Qinxian and Yi Heze, prepared to fight to the death.
• Lin Bai told Bu Junfeng that no one would surrender, and Bu Junfeng reflected on how the Eastern Region united against outside invaders.

Lin Bai challenged Bu Junfeng to a battle to the death, offering the Eastern Region martial artists’ surrender if he lost and the Northern Region’s withdrawal if Bu Junfeng fell. Bu Junfeng hesitated between accepting the dangerous duel and refusing it, until a Northern Region martial artist attacked Lin Bai.

• Bu Junfeng demanded Lin Bai surrender or die, and Lin Bai refused as the Northern Region martial artists prepared to attack.
• Lin Bai stopped the fighting and proposed a duel with Bu Junfeng that would determine whether the Eastern Region martial artists surrendered or the Northern Region withdrew.
• Qian Hen, Meng Qinxian, Yi Heze, and other Eastern Region martial artists urged Lin Bai not to risk his life, while Bu Junfeng weighed the danger against the effect of refusing.
• A Northern Region martial artist attacked Lin Bai before Bu Junfeng could decide whether to accept the challenge.