Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai returned to Spirit Sword Sect after killing Zhao Xiansheng and driving off Qing Hantian, only to find Song King and Ning King leading an assault on the sect. The battle at the mountain gate left Spirit Sword Sect heavily outnumbered and suffering casualties.

• Lin Bai told Lu Yuan that Zhao Xiansheng was dead and Qing Hantian had fled, then rushed back to Spirit Sword Sect.
• Ji Bai showed Ji Bei a list of new disciples that included several with Earth Grade martial souls.
• Song King and Ning King arrived at Spirit Sword Sect with more than five hundred Azure Cloud Terrace Palace martial artists and demanded that the disciples either kill themselves or be killed.
• Ji Bei and Ji Bai refused to surrender, and both sides charged into battle at the mountain gate.
• After fifteen minutes, more than a hundred Spirit Sword Sect disciples had been killed or wounded, and blood covered the ground.

Lin Bai returned to the Spirit Sword Sect during the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace’s attack and faced Song King and Ning King. He declared that he had killed Lin Zier and Zhao Xiansheng, leaving the two kings shocked and questioning his claims.

• Song King gravely wounded Ji Bei and Ji Bai, then mocked the Spirit Sword Sect and demanded its disciples surrender.
• Lin Bai arrived on a golden flying sword, and the Spirit Sword Sect disciples celebrated his return.
• Song King asked how Lin Bai had survived the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace, and Lin Bai repeated that the Spirit Sword Sect’s disciples were not inferior.
• Lin Bai told Song King that he had killed Lin Zier, and Ning King challenged the claim.
• Lin Bai stated that Zhao Xiansheng had died too.

Lin Bai killed Prince Ning in a fierce battle, stunning the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace and Spirit Sword Sect disciples. Song King then attacked Lin Bai in revenge and drove his spear toward Lin Bai’s heart.

• Lin Bai deflected Prince Ning’s powerful palm with Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon and wounded him with the flying sword.
• Lin Bai used the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art to strike Prince Ning’s chest wound and kill him.
• The Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples and Ji Bei and Ji Bai were shocked, while the Spirit Sword Sect disciples cheered Lin Bai’s victory.
• Song King attacked Lin Bai with a Grade Six Spirit Tool spear to avenge Prince Ning.
• Song King struck Lin Bai to the ground and thrust his spear toward Lin Bai’s heart.

Lin Bai shattered Song King’s spear, wounded him, and slaughtered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples who attacked. He then struck Song King through the heart with his lightning sword and killed him.

• Lin Bai broke Song King’s Grade Six Spirit Tool spear with the Azure Song Sword and wounded Song King with his flying sword and lightning sword art.
• Song King ordered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace disciples to attack Lin Bai, and Lin Bai killed all four or five hundred of them.
• Lin Bai pursued the badly wounded Song King and overwhelmed him with sword strikes.
• Lin Bai pierced Song King’s heart with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Art, killing him.

After killing Song King and Ning King, Lin Bai returned to White Cloud Peak to recover while the Spirit Sword Sect dealt with the fallen Azure Cloud Terrace Palace fighters. News of Lin Bai’s victories spread across the Divine Martial Nation, establishing the Spirit Sword Sect as a rival to the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.

• Lin Bai absorbed the spiritual blood of Song King and Ning King, then left the cleanup of the battlefield to Su Jiannan and went to rest at White Cloud Peak.
• Su Jiannan ordered the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace corpses sent back and the Spirit Sword Sect’s fallen disciples given proper burials.
• Qing Hantian received the bodies of Song King and Ning King and realized Lin Bai would return to destroy the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.
• Lin Bai found Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing absent, then spent seven days recuperating and cultivating in his quarters.
• Three reports spread: Lin Bai had killed Lin Zier, the Grand Princess had ended her planned attack after the Royal Consort was released, and Lin Bai had slain three Human Core Realm experts.
• The Divine Martial Nation concluded that the Spirit Sword Sect could now stand shoulder to shoulder with the Azure Cloud Terrace Palace.

After recovering, Lin Bai learned that he was close to breaking through to the Human Core Realm and sought Ling Tianzi’s advice on finding defensive treasures for the Giant God's Will. Ling Tianzi explained where Lin Bai could find protection and revealed that he would soon leave the Spirit Sword Sect.

• The Divine Martial Nation’s imperial family sent healing pills for Lin Bai, and ten days later he recovered but sensed that he was nearing the Human Core Realm.
• Li Qingxuan returned to the Spirit Sword Sect after a year away, apparently having made an important discovery while searching for Jian Xuan.
• Lin Bai asked Ling Tianzi where he could find three defensive treasures, and Ling Tianzi identified the Thousand Star Pearl in the Sacred Moon Sect’s rear mountains and a protective formation within Divine Relic Ridge’s Three Trials and Five Tribulations.
• Ling Tianzi told Lin Bai that the spiritual light he had infused into Lin Bai was a third protective treasure, and warned that surviving the Giant God's Will would reveal Lin Bai’s position to the Giant God Race.
• Ling Tianzi told Lin Bai that he would soon leave the Spirit Sword Sect and return to his own world, and Lin Bai promised to pursue the pinnacle of the Martial Dao Path.

Lin Bai learned that Jian Xuan had been imprisoned by the Sacred Moon Sect for a hundred years because the sect wanted to uncover a secret he possessed. Li Qingxuan warned that Jian Xuan had likely endured terrible suffering, leaving Su Jiannan and the others to face the grim news.

• Lin Bai watched Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing depart, then resolved to cultivate and find his parents.
• Li Jianxing summoned Lin Bai to the council hall, where Li Qingxuan had returned from her search for Jian Xuan.
• Li Qingxuan told Lin Bai and the elders that Jian Xuan had disappeared in the Great Moon Kingdom and had been taken away by the Sacred Moon Sect.
• Li Qingxuan revealed that Jian Xuan was imprisoned in the sect's forbidden rear mountain and had been held for a hundred years because he possessed a great secret.
• Li Qingxuan said she had called Jian Xuan's name inside the forbidden grounds and heard him answer, but warned that he was likely no longer as they remembered him.

Lin Bai proposed using his promised duel with Sacred Moon King to draw Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts away, allowing Spirit Sword Sect to rescue Jian Xuan from the forbidden ground. Su Jiannan reluctantly accepted the plan after Lin Bai offered to provoke the experts into attending, despite the danger to himself.

• The elders learned from Li Qingxuan that Sacred Moon Sect had held Jian Xuan for a hundred years and agreed that rescuing him was their priority.
• Su Jiannan explained that Sacred Moon Sect’s many Human Core Realm experts made a direct assault too dangerous for Spirit Sword Sect.
• Lin Bai suggested that Sacred Moon Sect’s experts might travel to Forbidden City to watch his duel with Sacred Moon King, leaving the sect unguarded while Spirit Sword Sect rescued Jian Xuan.
• Lin Bai told Li Jianxing to spread a challenge saying Sacred Moon Sect’s experts should come collect Sacred Moon King’s corpse after the duel, provoking them to attend.
• Su Jiannan objected that Lin Bai could be surrounded, but Lin Bai insisted the rescue could not wait, and Su Jiannan reluctantly approved the plan.

Lin Bai provoked the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts into fighting him at the Forbidden City Summit, while the Grand Princess worried that his challenge would spark another war. The chapter ended with Lin Bai sending the Sacred Moon Sect an insulting plaque that enraged its elders.

• Su Jiannan agreed to Lin Bai’s plan, and more than fifty Spirit Sword Sect elders and disciples secretly left for the Great Moon Kingdom.
• Lin Bai declared that the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts should come to the Forbidden City Summit, prompting the Grand Princess to prepare troops and then send an envoy to ask his intentions.
• The Sacred Moon King vowed to kill Lin Bai, and Lin Bai challenged a Sacred Moon Sect Human Core Realm expert instead of the king.
• After several days without a reply, Lin Bai sent the Sacred Moon Sect a bell and a plaque insulting its Human Core Realm martial artists, enraging the sect’s elders.

Lin Bai’s provocation sent the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts toward the Forbidden City Summit, while the Grand Princess ordered troops mobilized and Qing Hantian headed for the Great Moon Kingdom. As the summit drew near, Lin Bai sat in Moon Gazing Pavilion and faced the blade cultivator Li Hai.

• Eight Human Core Realm experts of the Sacred Moon Sect vowed to defeat Lin Bai and set out for the Forbidden City Summit.
• The Grand Princess ordered Chu Jiangliu to mobilize twenty million troops to the southern frontier if Lin Bai died.
• Qing Hantian learned that the Spirit Sword Sect’s leaders had vanished and decided to travel to the Great Moon Kingdom with King Sun and King Li.
• Hundreds of millions of martial artists gathered in the Great Moon Kingdom, where street fights and deaths continued despite the army’s efforts to restore order.
• Li Hai entered Moon Gazing Pavilion, demanded that the man in white leave, and discovered that he was Lin Bai.

Lin Bai confronted Li Hai, Lingdong's second blade cultivator, at the Moon Gazing Pavilion and effortlessly stopped his attacks with a chopstick. He then defeated Li Hai with sword intent carried by wine droplets, leaving the onlookers wondering who he was.

• Li Hai ordered Lin Bai to leave his table, but Lin Bai refused and mocked him as merely Lingdong's second blade cultivator.
• Li Hai drew his blade and attacked Lin Bai, who blocked the first strike and nine more with a single chopstick.
• Lin Bai unleashed overwhelming sword intent, frightening the martial artists in the pavilion and forcing Li Hai to defend himself.
• Lin Bai sent droplets of wine at Li Hai, pierced through his defenses, and left him bloodied at the ninth-floor stairway.

Lin Bai defeated Li Hai at Moon Gazing Pavilion and revealed that anyone seeking revenge could find him at the Spirit Sword Sect, prompting the martial artists to recognize him as East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator. As rumors about Lin Bai spread, the Grand Princess and the Sacred Moon Sect's elders both headed to Moon Gazing Pavilion to find him.

• Lin Bai defeated Li Hai with a few drops of water, then told him to seek revenge at the Spirit Sword Sect before leaving Moon Gazing Pavilion.
• Li Hai and the other martial artists realized Lin Bai was East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator, and exaggerated stories about drinking and consorting with him spread through the imperial capital.
• Chu Jiangliu told the Grand Princess that Lin Bai had been drinking at Moon Gazing Pavilion for several days, so she ordered her regiment to go there and confront him.
• Chen Hao informed twelve Human Core Realm elders of the Sacred Moon Sect that Lin Bai was likely at Moon Gazing Pavilion, and they hurried there to challenge him.

Lin Bai arrived at Moon Gazing Pavilion to find a crowd gathered to see East Ridge’s Premier Sword Cultivator, then reflected on his past humiliation and renewed his resolve to grow stronger. He left the chapter determined to face the Giant God's Will and even the Giant God Race without fear.

• Martial artists packed Moon Gazing Pavilion and the surrounding streets, waiting to see Lin Bai arrive.
• Lin Bai flew through the crowd, entered the pavilion, and learned from the shopkeeper that everyone had come to see him.
• Lin Bai accepted the crowd’s greetings and went to the reserved ninth floor to drink Moon Pearl Tears.
• Lin Bai recalled how he had once been despised for his Yellow Rank One martial soul and renewed his determination to become stronger.
• Lin Bai declared that he would go to Divine Relic Ridge, resist the Giant God's Will, and defeat any Giant Gods who stood in his way.

The Grand Princess confronted Lin Bai over provoking the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts, then learned he planned to lure them away so the Spirit Sword Sect could rescue Jian Xuan. As their decisive battle approached, Lin Bai refused to let her involve the Divine Martial Nation’s army.

• The Grand Princess arrived at Moon Gazing Pavilion with Chu Jiangliu and scolded Lin Bai for challenging the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts.
• Lin Bai comforted the worried Grand Princess and told her that Jian Xuan was being held in the Sacred Moon Sect’s forbidden grounds.
• Lin Bai explained that he planned to draw the Sacred Moon Sect’s experts to the Great Moon Kingdom’s imperial capital, giving Sect Master Su Jiannan and the Spirit Sword Sect elders a chance to rescue Jian Xuan.
• The Grand Princess offered the support of her fifty-thousand-strong army, but Lin Bai forbade her from intervening to prevent war between the two nations.
• Lin Bai vowed to face however many Sacred Moon Sect experts came to the decisive battle the next day without involving the Grand Princess.

Lin Bai deliberately exposed himself at the Moon Gazing Pavilion to draw out the Sacred Moon Sect’s Human Core Realm experts before the martial contest. Twelve arrived, and as Lin Bai faced the Fire King’s attack, another voice demanded that the elder leave Lin Bai’s life to him.

• Lin Bai told Bai Xiaoxiao not to involve the Divine Martial Nation and explained that he planned to help the Sect Master at the Sacred Moon Sect after the Forbidden City Summit.
• When the Sacred Moon Sect’s experts called Lin Bai out, he revealed to Bai Xiaoxiao that he had deliberately made his whereabouts easy to find so he could count their Human Core Realm fighters.
• Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao saw twelve Sacred Moon Sect experts on a rooftop, including two at the second level of the Human Core Realm.
• The Fire King attacked Lin Bai with a palm of flames, but Lin Bai repelled him with a sword strike and taunted him.
• The enraged Fire King charged at Lin Bai again, but an approaching voice told Elder Fire King to stop and leave Lin Bai’s life to that speaker.

The King of the Sacred Moon arrived at the Moon Gazing Pavilion and offered to kill Lin Bai himself, while Lin Bai vowed to defeat him at the Forbidden City Summit. The King showed interest in the Grand Princess, making Lin Bai visibly jealous as the confrontation remained unresolved.

• The King of the Sacred Moon arrived and halted the fight between Lin Bai and the Sacred Moon Sect's elders.
• The Grand Princess praised the King's reputation, and Lin Bai vowed to cut him down at the Forbidden City Summit the next day.
• The King told the elders he would kill Lin Bai himself, and an elder agreed to leave the task to him.
• The King greeted the Grand Princess warmly and mentioned that he had once traveled with her to the Divine Wind Nation.
• Lin Bai grew jealous when the King expressed interest in the Grand Princess, while she explained how they had met on the journey.

Lin Bai publicly embraced and kissed the Grand Princess to prove their engagement to the Sacred Moon King, provoking his fury and a threat of a duel at the Forbidden City Summit. After Chu Jiangliu was sent to represent the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial family, Lin Bai took the Grand Princess away from the capital.

• The Sacred Moon King invited the Grand Princess to dinner, but Lin Bai accepted on their behalf and pulled her into his arms.
• Lin Bai told the crowd that he and the Grand Princess were engaged with the approval of both their sovereign and his sect master.
• When the Sacred Moon King refused to believe him, Lin Bai kissed the Grand Princess in front of the gathered martial artists.
• The Sacred Moon King threatened to kill Lin Bai at the Forbidden City Summit the next night, then left with the Sacred Moon Sect martial artists.
• The Grand Princess sent Chu Jiangliu to represent the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial family while she went with Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai took the Grand Princess away from the Great Moon Kingdom’s imperial capital on his flying sword.

Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao discussed the Divine Martial Nation’s decline and her possible claim to the throne, then pledged their loyalty to each other. Their reunion was interrupted by a strange winged monster whose poisonous blood endangered Lin Bai.

• At a manor on Lonely Mountain, Lin Bai told the Grand Princess they were alone, and they spent the night together.
• On the balcony, Bai Xiaoxiao worried that the Divine Martial Nation would be swallowed by the Great Moon Kingdom as its resources ran out.
• Lin Bai realized Bai Xiaoxiao might want to become emperor, and promised to serve her as her general and return whenever she called.
• A hairless, winged monster attacked Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao, and Lin Bai severed one of its arms with his sword.
• Lin Bai absorbed the monster’s blood with his Devouring Sword Soul, discovered it was poisonous, and forced the poison out with his true qi.

Lin Bai and the Grand Princess followed a strange monster through a hidden passage and discovered the remains of the vanished Barren Sect. As they searched for the Great Barren Art, more than a thousand powerful monsters poured from a cavern opening, and Lin Bai fled with the Sect Master's Storage Bags.

• The wounded monster escaped through a concealed formation in a stone wall, and Lin Bai and the Grand Princess followed it inside.
• They found a passage strewn with skeletons and swords, and the Grand Princess identified the dead as members of the Barren Sect, which had vanished a thousand years earlier.
• The Grand Princess explained the Barren Sect's Great Barren Art, and she and Lin Bai searched the Storage Bags as they advanced deeper into the passage.
• They reached a cavern where black mist poured from a huge opening, and the Grand Princess spotted the Barren Sect Sect Master's token beside a skeleton.
• When Lin Bai approached the opening, more than a thousand monsters rose from below, led by the creature he had wounded, and Lin Bai grabbed the Sect Master's Storage Bags and ran.

Lin Bai and the Grand Princess escaped the monsters trapped behind the manor’s stone wall and discovered the Barren Sect’s inheritance, the Great Barren Art. They began learning the dangerous technique as Lin Bai prepared to face the Sacred Moon King the next day.

• Lin Bai rescued the Grand Princess from the charging monsters and fled through the stone wall, which the creatures could not cross.
• Lin Bai and the Grand Princess concluded that the monsters could threaten the East Ridge Seven Hundred Kingdoms if they escaped, and agreed to warn the Great Moon Kingdom’s imperial family.
• Lin Bai found the former Barren Sect master’s beast-hide book, which contained the Great Barren Art.
• Lin Bai and the Grand Princess learned that the technique greatly increased strength by draining spiritual energy nearby, but left its user weakened after half an hour.
• Lin Bai and the Grand Princess began cultivating the Great Barren Art as a trump card for desperate fights, including Lin Bai’s coming battle with the Sacred Moon King.