Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai used a meal and a fabricated story about Icy Snow Dew to draw information from the armored brawny man about Soul Refinement Sect’s blockade of the Northern Region. The man offered to help Lin Bai leave the God Burial Clan in exchange for benefits.

• Lin Bai treated the armored brawny man and his six guards to a feast and asked about the Northern Region’s blockade.
• The armored brawny man described two earlier blockades and explained that Soul Refinement Sect was hunting the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s Imperial Son and the rescued Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughter.
• Lin Bai pretended he needed to return to the Black Mountain Clan with urgent family business, but struggled to invent a convincing reason.
• The Third God Child mentioned Icy Snow Dew, prompting the armored brawny man to reveal its limited shelf life and assume Lin Bai needed to transport it home.
• The armored brawny man hinted that he knew a way out of the sealed region, and Lin Bai promised him a reward for help.

Lin Bai negotiated with Huang Lin for a way to escape the sealed God Burial Clan by joining a supply convoy, bargaining the price down to forty drops of Icy Snow Dew. He arranged a staged payment and planned to meet Huang Lin again in three days, leaving under the false name Han Feiyu.

• Huang Lin demanded eighty drops of Icy Snow Dew in exchange for smuggling Lin Bai and the others out through a supply convoy, claiming his father and associates could arrange passage through the teleportation array.
• Lin Bai used Old Wen to learn that Icy Snow Dew was an exceptionally rare treasure and that supply convoys were a viable route out of the God Burial Clan.
• Lin Bai bargained Huang Lin down from eighty drops to forty, then proposed that his group leave in three batches and pay ten drops upfront and thirty when the final group entered the teleportation array.
• Lin Bai arranged to meet Huang Lin in the same inn room three days later and gave his false identity as Han Feiyu of the Black Mountain Clan.
• Huang Lin introduced himself as Huang Lin of the God Burial Clan's Huang family.

Lin Bai searched for a way to escape the God Burial Clan, considering a risky disguise as Soul Refinement Sect disciples after learning they could use the teleportation array. On the way back to the Eternal Youth Pavilion, he met secret agents of Chu's Zhao Xing Office, who revealed they had tracked him and intended to help him and the Eastern Region's Holy Sons and Holy Daughters return safely.

• Lin Bai asked the Third God Child to investigate Huang Lin and continued watching the teleportation array plaza for possible ways out.
• Lin Bai saw several groups leave through the array and learned they were Soul Refinement Sect disciples hunting him; he considered using their tokens as a dangerous backup escape plan.
• Lin Bai, Old Wen, and the Third God Child noticed they were being followed in a dark alley and confronted the pursuer.
• An old man proved he was a secret agent of Chu's Zhao Xing Office and explained how the agents had traced Lin Bai through the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's infiltrated intelligence network.
• The Zhao Xing Office agent told Lin Bai that Chu had ordered its agents to help him and the rescued Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters return safely.

Lin Bai met Zhao Xing Office spies at the Soul-melting Grotto and discussed how to rescue the Eastern Domain’s holy sons and Holy Daughters and escape the sealed region. Cloud Woman proposed bribing Northern Domain martial artists, and the group saw Huang Lin as a possible way to begin.

• Lin Bai decided to follow a Zhao Xing Office agent, who led him, Old Wen, and the Third God Child to the Soul-melting Grotto.
• The Third God Child recognized Cloud Woman and was embarrassed when she greeted him by his Northern Domain alias, Xiao Lang.
• Cloud Woman introduced the Zhao Xing Office spies and explained that they could not breach the ice prison or gather enough forces to lead a breakout.
• Lin Bai suggested handing the rescued holy sons and Holy Daughters to the Zhao Xing Office, but Cloud Woman said her agents would support him rather than lead the escape.
• Cloud Woman proposed bribing Northern Domain martial artists to escort them out, and Lin Bai mentioned Huang Lin as a potential contact.
• A Zhao Xing Office spy identified Huang Lin as the son of a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm elder, and Cloud Woman saw him as a possible breakthrough.

Lin Bai and Cloud Woman planned to use Huang Lin to reach the God Burial Clan’s teleportation formation, while Cloud Woman sought Lin Bai’s help in securing Jade Woman’s return to the Eastern Region. The chapter ended with Lin Bai realizing that the women of Soul-melting Grotto hoped to gain pardons by currying favor with him.

• Lin Bai and Cloud Woman agreed that Huang Lin, a wealthy heir with access to the teleportation formation, was their best lead, and Cloud Woman instructed Jade Woman to question him discreetly.
• Cloud Woman explained that Jade Woman and the other women of Soul-melting Grotto had been sent from the Eastern Region after their families were condemned, and she asked Lin Bai to help Jade Woman return home.
• Lin Bai agreed to seek a pardon for Jade Woman once he returned safely to the Eastern Region, and promised she would not be sent to another pleasure house.
• Lin Bai asked Cloud Woman for alternatives to approaching Huang Lin, but she said they should try him first and expected Jade Woman to make contact within a day or two.
• Cloud Woman invited Lin Bai to stay at Soul-melting Grotto until his planned meeting with Huang Lin, and Old Wen told him that the other women hoped to win pardons by pleasing him.

Lin Bai returned to Eternal Youth Pavilion after meeting with Soul-melting Grotto and learned that God Burial Clan guards had inspected the pavilion fifteen times. He sent the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace warriors off to hide separately, then explained to the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters why he had rescued them and hinted that their homeland had fallen into chaos.

• Lin Bai ended his meeting with Cloud Woman, promised to report Soul-melting Grotto’s merits to the Zhao Xing Office, and left for Eternal Youth Pavilion.
• A Zhao Xing Office spy reported that God Burial Clan guards had inspected Eternal Youth Pavilion fifteen times, heightening Lin Bai’s concern that their hiding place would be exposed.
• Lin Bai offered the recovering Nine Underworlds Demon Palace warriors the choice to leave the operation or continue with him, then arranged for most to hide separately and claim their rewards later.
• Dugu Ming accused the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace of playing a contradictory game, and Lin Bai explained that it had first used the Northern Region to restrain the Eastern Region before rescuing the captives to prevent further devastation.
• Mo Nan asked what had happened in the Eastern Region, and Lin Bai said it had become chaotic, leaving the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters alarmed and eager to learn more.

Lin Bai learned how the Devil Realm had changed while the Eastern Region holy sons and daughters were frozen, then prepared to leave the Northern Region with help from the Zhao Xing Office. He met Huang Lin to negotiate, but Huang Lin said his superiors wanted a higher price for the risky deal.

• Lin Bai told the Eastern Region holy sons and daughters that the Northern Region was under lockdown and that he was arranging a way out with the Zhao Xing Office.
• Leng Xingguang explained that Soul Refinement Sect had captured him after discovering he belonged to the Heaven Swallowing Race, and Lin Bai identified Devouring Stone as the material that absorbed his power.
• Lin Bai invited Leng Xingguang to cultivate at the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, but Leng Xingguang refused and planned to return to his sect.
• Lin Bai had most of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace warriors leave Eternal Youth Pavilion to avoid attracting attention while he awaited news from Soul-melting Grotto and Huang Lin.
• A spy reported that Cloud Woman had investigated Huang Lin and provided Lin Bai with Icy Snow Dew for the negotiation, while the Zhao Xing Office promised protection.
• Lin Bai met Huang Lin at a restaurant, and Huang Lin said his superiors were dissatisfied with the offered price because the deal carried too much risk.

Lin Bai negotiated with Huang Lin to leave the sealed God Burial Clan by paying fifty drops of Icy Snow Dew. After handing over a twenty-drop deposit, Lin Bai and his companions prepared to disguise themselves as Soul Refinement Sect supply couriers and teleport to the Black Water Clan.

• Huang Lin demanded more than the original forty drops of Icy Snow Dew, and Lin Bai negotiated a total payment of fifty drops, including ten reserved for Huang Lin and his father.
• Lin Bai agreed to pay twenty drops as a deposit and the remaining thirty after leaving the God Burial Clan.
• Huang Lin said he would disguise Lin Bai and roughly thirty companions as Soul Refinement Sect supply couriers and send them through the teleportation array in one group.
• Lin Bai chose the Black Water Clan as their destination, and Huang Lin accepted the plan.
• Lin Bai gave Huang Lin the twenty-drop deposit, and Huang Lin told them to collect robes and Identity Tokens the following evening and return early the day after to leave.
• After Huang Lin departed, the Third God Child said preparations in the Black Water Clan were nearly complete, and Lin Bai hoped the escape would proceed smoothly.

Lin Bai prepared to lead the Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace martial artists out of the God Burial Clan disguised as Soul Refinement Sect disciples. As they gathered near the teleportation array, Cloud Woman signaled that the Zhao Xing Office was watching over them, and the operation was poised to begin.

• Huang Lin sent Lin Bai and the Third God Child Soul Refinement Sect robes and Identity Tokens for a supply-transport team, while Cloud Woman promised Zhao Xing Office support throughout their escape.
• Lin Bai told the hidden Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters that they could leave the God Burial Clan the next day and ordered them to wear the disguises; Mei Lin protested but eventually changed into the robes.
• The Third God Child gave the Second God Child his disguise and explained that he considered Lin Bai a capable candidate for Imperial Son, though he had not yet decided whom to support.
• Lin Bai gathered the group at midnight, warned Mei Lin and Dugu Ming not to jeopardize the operation, and sent everyone from the Eternal Youth Pavilion in batches.
• The disguised group assembled in a dark passage near the teleportation array, where Cloud Woman passed by and nodded to Lin Bai.

Lin Bai and the disguised Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters escaped the God Burial Clan by posing as Soul Refinement Sect disciples escorting resources, with Huang Lin and his men joining them. After they reached the Black Water Clan, Lin Bai unexpectedly ordered a teleportation array to the Moon Mountain Clan, leaving Huang Lin unsure of his plan.

• Huang Lin met Lin Bai at dawn and confirmed that his men were ready to help the group leave through the teleportation array.
• Lin Bai led the disguised group to the array plaza and presented Huang Lin's jade token as proof they were Soul Refinement Sect disciples escorting resources.
• A yellow-robed elder verified the token and ordered Huang Lin to escort Lin Bai's group, allowing them to enter the teleportation cavern.
• Lin Bai, Huang Lin, and the others teleported safely from the God Burial Clan to the Black Water Clan.
• At the Black Water Clan, Lin Bai presented their tokens and ordered the guards to prepare a teleportation array to the Moon Mountain Clan, surprising Huang Lin.

Lin Bai and his companions escaped the God Burial Clan’s territory, reached the Purple River Clan, and changed out of their conspicuous Soul Refinement Sect robes while planting false trails. The Third God Child then reported that the God Burial Clan had discovered their hideout at the Eternal Youth Pavilion, though the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace spies had withdrawn safely.

• Lin Bai paid Huang Lin the remaining thirty drops of Icy Snow Dew, and the Black Water Clan teleported Lin Bai and his companions to the Moon Mountain Clan.
• Lin Bai chose to travel through the Purple River Clan, and the group used their Soul Refinement Sect identities to pass through dozens of clans and reach it.
• Lin Bai explained that the group would change clothes and use decoys in Soul Refinement Sect robes to confuse anyone pursuing them.
• The Third God Child arranged for desperate outlaws to wear the discarded robes and travel to different clans, while Lin Bai and his companions changed into ordinary Northern Region clothing.
• The Third God Child told Lin Bai that the God Burial Clan had found the secret chamber at the Eternal Youth Pavilion, but the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace spies had already withdrawn.

The Soul Refinement Sect traced Lin Bai’s escape route through the God Burial Clan and ordered the Purple River Clan to seal its teleportation arrays. Lin Bai slipped away just before the order arrived, leaving the Soul Refinement Sect suspicious of the Purple River Clan’s records.

• The Soul Refinement Sect discovered that Lin Bai had stayed at Eternal Youth Pavilion, and the God Burial Clan’s investigation revealed that Huang Lin and his family had helped him leave by teleportation array.
• Huang Lin revealed that Lin Bai had traveled from the God Burial Clan to the Black Water Clan and then the Moon Mountain Clan, leading the Soul Refinement Sect elder to identify the Purple River Clan as his likely destination.
• The Soul Refinement Sect sent its forces toward the Purple River Clan and ordered the clan to seal its teleportation arrays, while assigning the Huang family to serve as vanguards at the border.
• Lin Bai led his group to the Purple River Clan’s teleportation plaza and used prepared identities and travel permits to leave before the Soul Refinement Sect’s order arrived.
• After bribing the array operator, Lin Bai and his group teleported onward and continued fleeing through the Northern Region’s clans.
• The Soul Refinement Sect elder questioned the Purple River Clan about its operating arrays and challenged the suspicious travel records of people claiming to be from the Desolate North Clan.

Lin Bai used decoys and shifting identities to evade the Soul Refinement Sect’s pursuit through the northern region. After the pursuers lost his trail, the Soul Refinement Sect elders ordered them to wait at the Xuanjing Clan, where Lin Bai would have to pass to return to the Eastern Region.

• The Soul Refinement Sect elder and the Purple River Clan elder agreed to investigate the teleportation routes Lin Bai might have taken.
• Lin Bai’s decoys, disguised as Desert North Clan martial artists, led the Soul Refinement Sect pursuers away while Lin Bai and his companions waited at the Cold Mountain Clan and took a different route.
• Mei Lin and Dugu Ming urged Lin Bai to kill the pursuers, but Lin Bai warned that attacking could let the Soul Refinement Sect locate them and reveal that the chase was a trap.
• The Soul Refinement Sect pursuers caught the decoys, learned they had been paid to keep teleporting, and sent them to the border as cannon fodder.
• The Soul Refinement Sect elder reported that Lin Bai had escaped again, and the elders ordered him to stop pursuing and wait at the Xuanjing Clan with support from the border forces.

Lin Bai reached the Black Flame Clan with the Eastern Region’s holy sons and daughters and warned that the Soul Refining Sect was likely waiting for them at the Xuanjing Clan. As the group rested and prepared to travel onward, the Northern Region’s forces gathered at the Xuanjing Clan, where they learned Lin Bai had entered their territory to rescue the Eastern Region’s captives.

• Lin Bai chose to rest at the Black Flame Clan, and most of the Eastern Region’s holy sons and daughters followed him while Mei Lin and Dugu Ming set off alone.
• Lin Bai had the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s informants alert the Yang Sect and the Profound Darkness Holy Sect that Mei Lin and Dugu Ming were heading toward danger at the Xuanjing Clan.
• Lin Bai explained that the Soul Refining Sect had likely stopped pursuing them because it planned to ambush them at the Xuanjing Clan, the route back to the Eastern Region.
• Lin Bai ordered the group to recover at the Black Flame Clan and asked the sects to send experts to meet their holy sons at the Xuanjing Clan.
• Lin Bai realized four months had passed, exceeding the agreed schedule for the martial competition, and wondered whether the Eastern and Northern Regions had already begun fighting.
• At the Xuanjing Clan, Bu Junfeng, Luan Tang, and Shen Xinghe learned that Lin Bai had entered the Northern Region to rescue the Eastern Region’s holy sons and daughters.

Lin Bai learned that Northern Region forces were searching for him and the rescued Eastern Region Saints and Holy Daughters, while the Zhao Xing Office moved them to a safe house. Suspecting the regions’ high-order martial artists were clashing in the void, Lin Bai decided to wait for Mei Lin and Dugu Ming to create an opportunity to cross the border.

• Tang Xiong ordered Northern Region martial artists to search the Xuanjing Clan and surrounding clans for Lin Bai and the rescued Saints and Holy Daughters.
• A Zhao Xing Office undercover agent warned Lin Bai that the search was spreading toward the Black Flame Clan and escorted his group to another safe house.
• The agent told Lin Bai that Chu, the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, and allied sects knew of their return, but their experts had gathered at Horizon Pass.
• Lin Bai concluded that Northern Region high-order martial artists had intercepted the Eastern Region’s rescuers, leaving his group to find its own way across the border.
• Lin Bai ordered the Zhao Xing Office agent to monitor Mei Lin and Dugu Ming, then said they should wait for the two to draw attention and possibly bring rescue forces into the conflict.

Lin Bai planned to use Mei Lin and Dugu Ming’s attempt to reach the Xuanjing Clan to draw the Northern Region’s attention and create a chance for the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters to escape. As Northern Region searches intensified, he prepared the group for a dangerous teleportation, hoping they could flee without triggering an immortal war.

• Lin Bai reasoned that high-level experts from both regions were watching each other and that their intervention could escalate the conflict into an immortal war.
• Lin Bai ordered the Zhao Xing Office and Nine Underworlds Demon Palace spies to give Mei Lin and Dugu Ming teleportation tokens and authorization to travel to the Xuanjing Clan.
• Lin Bai told the Third God Child to prepare the Eastern Region’s Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and check their life-saving and communication treasures.
• Northern Region martial artists searched the Black Flame Clan, but Zhao Xing Office spies kept Lin Bai and his companions’ hiding place undiscovered.
• Lin Bai explained that Mei Lin and Dugu Ming would draw the Northern Region’s attention at the Xuanjing Clan, allowing the others to teleport there and escape amid the resulting chaos.
• Mo Nan questioned whether Lin Bai had deliberately made Mei Lin and Dugu Ming bait, and Lin Bai denied forcing them to leave the group.

Lin Bai prepared to use Dugu Ming and Mei Lin as bait to create a distraction at the Xuanjing Clan, then lead the Eastern Domain martial artists to escape. After Dugu Ming and Mei Lin teleported there, Lin Bai’s group followed under false Northern Domain patrol identities, arriving as a bloody confrontation seemed likely.

• A Zhao Xing Office spy reported that Dugu Ming and Mei Lin had reached a teleportation array, and Lin Bai ordered the Eastern Domain Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace martial artists to prepare to act.
• Lin Bai explained that the group needed to escape the Xuanjing Clan, and told everyone to flee or scatter if the plan went wrong; he also agreed to keep Leng Xingguang beside him.
• After learning that Dugu Ming and Mei Lin had teleported, Lin Bai’s group disguised themselves as Northern Domain patrol-team inspectors and headed to the Black Flame Clan’s teleportation array.
• Lin Bai convinced the array guards to send the group to the Xuanjing Clan, where they braced for a possible battle.
• Dugu Ming and Mei Lin, unaware that Zhao Xing Office spies were tracking them, used the provided credentials to teleport from the Black Flame Clan to the Xuanjing Clan.

Mei Lin and Dugu Ming entered the Xuanjing Clan disguised as Northern Region martial artists, but a Soul Refining Sect elder exposed them and defeated their escape attempts. As the elder prepared to capture them, two powerful forces breached the clan’s defensive array and reached for the pair, prompting an angry snort from within the clan.

• Mei Lin and Dugu Ming used Zhao Xing Office credentials to pass inspection at the Black Flame Clan and teleport into the Xuanjing Clan.
• The crowded Xuanjing Clan’s guards checked their credentials and initially allowed them to leave the teleportation plaza.
• Ghost Shadows from a Soul Refining Banner detected their Eastern Region aura, and its elder ordered them to remove their disguises.
• Dugu Ming fled with a talisman while Mei Lin escaped in a flash of light, but the Soul Refining Sect elder and other Northern Region powerhouses intercepted and wounded them, revealing their identities.
• As the elder swept black mist toward the captured Holy Sons, the Xuanjing Clan’s defensive array shook and began to rupture; a shadowy palm reached for Dugu Ming and divine radiance shot toward Mei Lin.
• An unhappy cold snort sounded from within the Xuanjing Clan as the two forces descended.

Yang Sect and Profound Darkness Holy Sect experts tried to rescue Mei Lin and Dugu Ming from the Xuanjing Clan, but the Soul Refinement Sect ancestor overwhelmed them and the confrontation erupted into a larger battle. Meanwhile, Lin Bai and the other Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters teleported from the Black Flame Clan toward the chaos, despite warnings of the danger.

• The Soul Refinement Sect ancestor shattered the rescue techniques of the Yang Sect elder and Profound Darkness Holy Sect ancestor, then challenged them to withstand three moves before taking their Holy Sons back.
• The Yang Sect elder and Profound Darkness Holy Sect ancestor attacked together to seize Mei Lin and Dugu Ming, but the Soul Refinement Sect ancestor fought them off with his Soul Refining Banner.
• Bu Junfeng noticed that the other Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters, including Lin Bai, were missing from the Xuanjing Clan and wondered what Lin Bai was planning.
• More Eastern Region and Northern Region experts joined the fighting, turning the Xuanjing Clan into a chaotic battlefield.
• At the Black Flame Clan, Lin Bai insisted that the cultivator activate the teleportation array despite warnings that Supreme Dao Fruit Realm experts were fighting at their destination.
• The teleportation array activated and sent Lin Bai and the others to the Xuanjing Clan.

Lin Bai and the Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters teleported into the Xuanjing Clan during a Supreme-level battle and tried to escape east. Bu Junfeng discovered them and blocked their way, but Old Wen restrained him and the other two Holy Sons, giving the group a chance to flee.

• Lin Bai and the Eastern Region group arrived in the Xuanjing Clan and received instructions from their allies, including He Gongji, to escape east.
• Lin Bai and the others left the teleportation array and headed toward the eastern defensive formation while the battle drew attention away from them.
• Bu Junfeng spotted their arrival, alerted the Northern Region martial artists, and joined Shen Xinghe and Luan Tang to block their route.
• Lin Bai secretly asked Old Wen and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace powerhouses to hold off the three Holy Sons while the Eastern Region group escaped.
• Old Wen sealed Bu Junfeng, Shen Xinghe, and Luan Tang, and Lin Bai sent the Eastern Region Holy Sons and Holy Daughters racing toward the clan’s eastern edge.