Chapter Summaries

Ji Xiang died after entrusting his Demon Sword to Lin Bai, who awakened the fully bloomed Demon Seed and rose to face the Giant God. Lin Bai severed the Giant God’s arm and head, declaring a personal blood feud with the Giant God Race.

• Ji Xiang told Lin Bai that death freed him from his grief and urged Lin Bai to protect his loved ones with his sword.
• Ji Xiang passed the Demon Sword to Lin Bai and died in his arms, prompting Ling Tianzi to reclaim him as his disciple and vow vengeance on the Giant God Race.
• As Lin Bai gripped the Demon Sword, the Demon Seed in his right eye blossomed into a demon flower, turning his hair blood-red and filling him with strength and a single urge to kill.
• Lin Bai rose from the crater and declared that the Giant God Race’s blood feud was now personal, then charged the Giant God’s eleventh punch.
• Lin Bai slashed upward with the Demon Sword, severing the Giant God’s arm and head.

Lin Bai defeated the Giant God's Will, but the final clash shattered his Divine Pill, destroyed his dantian, and left him crippled. As Bai Xiaoxiao stayed by his side, Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing departed, leaving Lin Bai to find his own way to recover and prepare for the Giant God Race.

• Lin Bai's sword strike shattered the Giant God's Will, but the shock destroyed his Divine Pill and dantian and broke his bones and meridians.
• Bai Xiaoxiao found Lin Bai, gave him pills, and held him as he declared he would return home with her.
• Ling Tianzi recovered wisps of black smoke from Ji Xiang's body, then told Li Shanqing that Lin Bai had to walk his own path.
• Ling Tianzi and Li Shanqing left the Barren Ancient Continent, while Li Shanqing promised to return if Lin Bai needed help.
• Ye Suxin saw that Lin Bai was still alive and left, while Bai Xiaoxiao remained beside him.

Lin Bai survived the Giant God Race’s attack but was left crippled, with his cultivation destroyed. Bai Xiaoxiao carried him to Sky Walled City, where rivals hoped he would be barred from Divine Relic Ridge, as Liu Jingfeng began counting Pass Tokens for the examination rankings.

• After Lin Bai shattered the towering giant, Bai Xiaoxiao used healing pills to stabilize him, and he told her his meridians, bones, divine pill, and dantian were ruined.
• Bai Xiaoxiao carried Lin Bai through rain that turned to snow, and he promised he would never let her down.
• Bai Xiaoxiao brought Lin Bai back to Sky Walled City, where Qin Beiao and Long Qingfeng discussed how his injuries might keep him out of Divine Relic Ridge.
• At Ascension Tower, Pei Ji pitied Lin Bai while Liu Jingfeng declared that no academy would accept a cripple.
• Liu Jingfeng announced that the warriors’ Divine Relic Ridge examination rankings would be decided by their Pass Tokens, with one hundred points awarded for first place.

Lin Bai ranked first in the Divine Relic Ridge trial with 5,121 Pass Tokens, despite his shattered dantian. He secured his place at Divine Relic Ridge through a special trial, and Liu Jingfeng began introducing the nine academies.

• The martial artists exchanged their Pass Tokens for points, and Lin Bai's 5,121 tokens far exceeded everyone else's total.
• Liu Jingfeng announced Lin Bai in first place, followed by Qin Beiao and Long Qingfeng, and awarded the top ten their bonus points.
• Bai Xiaoxiao helped Lin Bai collect his 100-point reward, while Liu Jingfeng threatened to kill him for being crippled.
• Lin Bai reminded Liu Jingfeng that his Yellow Rank One Martial Soul and 1,000-point special trial guaranteed him entry to a Dao Academy.
• Liu Jingfeng announced that disciple admissions would begin and listed the nine academies of Divine Relic Ridge.

Liu Jingfeng introduced the Nine Great Academies, and the successful martial artists chose where to enroll. Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao remained undecided, and when Wu Song invited Bai Xiaoxiao to the Hatchling Dragon Academy, she refused and angered its accepting elder.

• Liu Jingfeng explained the Nine Great Academies and told the successful martial artists to consult their accepting elders and choose.
• The assessed martial artists selected academies, while Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao waited; Bai Xiaoxiao said she would go wherever Lin Bai went.
• Long Qingfeng, Qin Beiao, Yao Feng, and Qi Yao chose their respective academies, leaving Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao as the last undecided pair.
• Wu Song invited Bai Xiaoxiao to join the Hatchling Dragon Academy, but she coldly refused.
• The Hatchling Dragon Academy's accepting elder scolded Bai Xiaoxiao and demanded that she join, warning her of the consequences if she did not.

Bai Xiaoxiao refused Wu Song and the Hatchling Dragon Academy, insisting she would stay with Lin Bai despite his crippled condition. When the academy’s recruiting elder attacked her, a mysterious old woman appeared to protect her.

• Wu Song tried to persuade Bai Xiaoxiao to abandon Lin Bai and join him, but she declared her devotion to Lin Bai and praised his endurance against the giant.
• Bai Xiaoxiao challenged the Hatchling Dragon Academy’s geniuses to withstand the giant’s punches, and they could not answer her claim.
• The recruiting elder threatened Bai Xiaoxiao and used his force to injure her, while Wu Song continued taunting her and Lin Bai.
• Bai Xiaoxiao said she would join whichever academy Lin Bai chose, and Lin Bai threatened to kill Wu Song with his own sword.
• The recruiting elder leaped toward Bai Xiaoxiao, but an old woman appeared and struck him with a powerful force, shielding Bai Xiaoxiao.

Wen Yue revealed herself as one of the Five Peaks Lords and Bai Xiaoxiao’s grandmother, then intervened after Hatchling Dragon Academy’s admissions elder and Wu Song threatened Bai Xiaoxiao. She promised to take Bai Xiaoxiao to the Five Peaks and left the two offenders struck down.

• Wu Song insulted Wen Yue, but the admissions elder and the other academies’ elders recognized her and bowed in respect.
• Pei Ji identified Wen Yue as one of the Five Peaks Lords, and Wu Song knelt to apologize.
• Wen Yue recognized Bai Xiaoxiao as the daughter of her son Bai Huatian and said she would personally teach her at the Five Peaks.
• Wen Yue revealed her hatred for Bai Lingfeng, whom Bai Xiaoxiao had believed was her Imperial Grandma’s victim or cause of death.
• Wen Yue demanded compensation from Hatchling Dragon Academy and slapped its admissions elder and Wu Song, sending them flying.

Wen Yue took Bai Xiaoxiao to Five Peaks after reprimanding the Hatchling Dragon Academy, while Lin Bai remained at the disciple-acceptance ceremony with a shattered dantian. Pei Ji then invited Lin Bai to join the Sword Dao Institute and promised help repairing his dantian, on the condition that Lin Bai win first place on the Hero Ranking.

• Wen Yue slapped Wu Song and the Hatchling Dragon Academy elder, demanded ten times the compensation, and warned them not to challenge her.
• Wen Yue gave Lin Bai a healing pill and took Bai Xiaoxiao to Five Peaks, where Bai Xiaoxiao promised to find a pill to repair his dantian.
• With no academy willing to accept Lin Bai, Liu Jingfeng mocked him and urged him to use his privilege to join one by force.
• Pei Ji invited Lin Bai to join the Sword Dao Institute and promised resources and help repairing his dantian if Lin Bai agreed to win the Hero Ranking.
• Lin Bai accepted Pei Ji's condition and vowed to leave the academy and Divine Relic Ridge if he failed to take first place.

After Lin Bai was invited to join the Sword Dao Institute, Pei Ji took him and the other new disciples there, where Lin Bai began learning about the institute and its resources. The chapter left Lin Bai newly arrived and recovering from his injuries as Yuan Qing explained how disciples could cultivate and earn points.

• Pei Ji warned Lin Bai to stay at the Sword Dao Institute until his dantian recovered and took him back with the new disciples.
• Pei Ji led the disciples aboard a Spirit Boat, which carried them from Sky Walled City across the Barren Ancient Mountain Range to the Sword Dao Institute.
• Lin Bai and the other new disciples arrived at the Sword Dao Institute and marveled at its buildings and powerful residents.
• Yuan Qing welcomed the recruits and gave each of them a map, the Divine Relic Ridge Guide, and a room token.
• Yuan Qing explained the institute's lectures, point system, Mystic Art Valley, Sword Arts Pavilion, and Martial Intent Mountain.

Lin Bai planned to repair his dantian and seek new sword arts, then arrived at Shadow Mountain with Tang Bufan, who helped him reach his assigned residence. A woman inside the residence attacked them with her aura, worsening Lin Bai’s injuries and drawing his killing intent.

• Lin Bai identified the Pill Dao Academy as a possible way to repair his dantian and reviewed the cultivation resources available at Divine Relic Ridge.
• Yuan Qing led the new disciples to Shadow Mountain, where Lin Bai learned that his assigned residence was Number Eighty-One.
• Tang Bufan introduced himself, supported the injured Lin Bai, and revealed that his own residence was Number Eighty.
• Lin Bai and Tang Bufan searched Shadow Mountain and entered Residence Number Eighty-One.
• A woman inside the residence claimed Lin Bai had trespassed and unleashed her Human Core Realm third-stage aura, causing Lin Bai to spit blood and glare at her with killing intent.

Lin Bai was driven from Residence No. 81 after a woman crushed his residence token, and Tang Bufan took him in while seeking an elder’s help. As Lin Bai rested and considered how to repair his dantian, he discovered a formula for the Heaven Mending Pill and began planning how to obtain its ingredients.

• The woman at Residence No. 81 crushed Lin Bai’s token and forced him and Tang Bufan to leave, then tearfully said she was keeping the residence for Bai Yu.
• Tang Bufan brought Lin Bai to the empty Residence No. 80 and offered to let him stay while he went to find an elder.
• Lin Bai rested and found that Senior Wen Yue’s pills were healing his injuries, but he focused on repairing his dantian before pursuing cultivation resources.
• Lin Bai searched the Great Demon’s pill-dao memories and found the Heaven Mending Pill formula, which required nine primary materials and nine hundred auxiliary materials.
• Lin Bai identified Flood Dragon Blood, Vermillion Bird Marrow, and Dragon-Tiger Bone as key ingredients and wondered whether the Pill Dao Academy had Flood Dragon Blood.

Lin Bai learned why Murong Xu had driven previous occupants from Residence Number Eighty-One and faced Yuan Qing’s contemptuous refusal to help him reclaim it. He planned to repair his dantian at the Pill Dao Academy, then take back the residence himself.

• Tang Bufan brought Elder Yuan Qing to meet Lin Bai and seek help reclaiming Residence Number Eighty-One.
• Yuan Qing explained that Murong Xu drove out residents because she was waiting for Bai Yu, her missing beloved and Senior Murong Hai’s disciple.
• Yuan Qing refused to intervene in Shadow Mountain disputes, insulted Lin Bai, and told him to leave the Sword Dao Institute.
• Lin Bai warned Yuan Qing not to interfere when he eventually caused a commotion on Shadow Mountain and vowed to reclaim his residence himself.
• Lin Bai asked Tang Bufan to let him stay for three more days before he went to the Pill Dao Academy to repair his dantian.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Bai set out for the Pill Dao Academy to find materials and a trusted alchemist who could make a Heaven Mending Pill to repair his dantian. On the way, he met Fan Yitong, who invited him to watch chief senior disciple Gu Yueqing publicly refine the Human Sovereign Pill.

• Lin Bai recovered fully after three days, confirmed that his sword intent remained despite losing his dantian and cultivation, and decided to seek ingredients and an alchemist for a Heaven Mending Pill.
• Tang Bufan complained that martial techniques at the Sword Dao Institute cost far more points than hunting demonic beasts earned; he offered to escort Lin Bai, but Lin Bai declined.
• Lin Bai left the Sword Dao Institute and traveled through the mountains to the Pill Dao Academy, hoping to find a skilled alchemist he could trust.
• Lin Bai encountered crowds hurrying to watch Gu Yueqing refine the Human Sovereign Pill, one of the Pill Dao Academy's three extraordinary pills.
• Fan Yitong introduced himself to Lin Bai and explained the event, then invited him to go watch Gu Yueqing refine the pill.

Lin Bai learned about the Pill Dao Academy’s rare alchemists and its three wondrous pills as he went with Fan Yitong to watch Gu Yueqing attempt to refine the Human Sovereign Pill. He hoped to assess her talent and possibly teach her to make the Heaven Mending Pill, and the chapter ended with a vast crowd waiting for her at the arena.

• Fan Yitong praised Gu Yueqing as a Rank Five Alchemist and explained that the Pill Dao Academy’s dean was only Rank Eight, while king-ranked alchemists were extraordinarily rare.
• Fan Yitong told Lin Bai about the Human Sovereign Pill, Earth Venerable Pill, and Heaven Saint Pill, which could each raise a martial artist’s cultivation by one minor realm in a corresponding core realm.
• Fan Yitong explained that Gu Yueqing was attempting to refine the Human Sovereign Pill, one of the academy’s three wondrous pills.
• Lin Bai decided that if Gu Yueqing showed talent, he might teach her to refine the Heaven Mending Pill using the alchemical knowledge in his memories.
• Lin Bai and Fan Yitong joined nearly a hundred thousand martial artists gathered at the Pill Dao Academy’s arena to watch Gu Yueqing refine the pill.

A huge crowd gathered at the Pill Dao Academy to watch Gu Yueqing refine the Human Sovereign Pill, drawn by both the rare pill and her fame as one of Divine Relic Ridge’s beauties. After Lin Bai and Fan Yitong waited with the crowd, Gu Yueqing arrived, leaving Lin Bai impressed by her beauty.

• News of Gu Yueqing’s public Human Sovereign Pill refinement drew nearly two hundred thousand martial artists to the Pill Dao Academy’s grounds.
• Lin Bai and Fan Yitong joined the crowd, where Fan Yitong searched for Chou Yun Kui, Gu Yueqing’s admirer and a Hero Ranking monster, but did not find him.
• As the crowd grew impatient, Gu Yueqing arrived in white, and Fan Yitong greeted her excitedly.
• Lin Bai saw Gu Yueqing and praised her as a woman who seemed to belong in the heavens.

Gu Yueqing arrived at Pill Dao Academy’s arena to publicly refine the Human Sovereign Pill, drawing the attention of the crowd and the protection of Chou Yun Kui. Lin Bai watched her prepare, considering whether she could help him refine the Heaven Mending Pill.

• Gu Yueqing entered the arena, and Chou Yun Kui leaped to her side and threatened the crowd for staring at her.
• The martial artists cursed Chou Yun Kui, but Gu Yueqing asked him to let the guests be, and he withdrew his killing intent.
• Gu Yueqing welcomed the crowd and said she would refine Pill Dao Academy’s three wondrous pills, promising to give away the pills if she succeeded in making the Human Sovereign Pill.
• Lin Bai decided Gu Yueqing might be his best choice to help refine the Heaven Mending Pill if her skills met his standards.
• After preparing herself for a quarter of an hour, Gu Yueqing activated a sealing formation and brought out a bronze pill furnace.

Gu Yueqing began refining the Human Sovereign Pill with the Crimson Sun Cauldron and the Heaven-and-Earth spirit flame, the Prosperity Lotus Flame. Lin Bai spotted conflicts among the ingredients she added and concluded she would fail to produce the pill.

• Gu Yueqing brought out the Grade Nine Spirit Tool Crimson Sun Cauldron and more than nine hundred precious spirit medicines.
• Gu Yueqing revealed the Prosperity Lotus Flame, which Lin Bai identified as a rare sacred flame born amid war and said it could refine supreme sacred pills.
• Gu Yueqing began the alchemy, placing the spirit medicines into the cauldron in stages while controlling the flame with the Flame Control Art.
• Lin Bai examined the ingredients Gu Yueqing added and judged that the Nine Lives Grass, Coiling Dragon Root, and Sacred Land Fruit had conflicting medicinal properties.
• Lin Bai concluded that Gu Yueqing would be unable to refine the Human Sovereign Pill.

Lin Bai correctly predicted that Gu Yueqing would fail to refine the Human Sovereign Pill, and she promised to try again in three months. As Gu Yueqing prepared to leave, an unknown voice declared that she would never succeed unless she improved her pill-refining skills.

• Lin Bai watched Gu Yueqing refine the Human Sovereign Pill and privately identified mistakes in her ingredient order and spiritual flame control.
• Despite Lin Bai’s warning that the medicinal fragrance signaled failure, the crowd mocked him and insisted Gu Yueqing was about to succeed.
• The Crimson Sun Cauldron exploded, Gu Yueqing suffered backlash, and Lin Bai explained that her mistakes had caused the failure.
• Gu Yueqing apologized to the crowd and announced she would prepare for another attempt in three months, while her supporters encouraged her.
• As Gu Yueqing turned to leave, someone in the crowd declared that she would fail again unless she learned the medicines’ properties, improved her flame control, and understood the pill.

Lin Bai challenged Gu Yueqing’s knowledge of the Human Sovereign Pill after her failed refinement and questioned what the Pill Dao Pharmacopoeia taught about Nine Lives Grass. He left the crowd stunned by claiming the accepted account of the herb’s nature was wrong.

• Lin Bai told Gu Yueqing that her failed refinement showed she did not understand medicinal theory, spiritual flames, or the Human Sovereign Pill.
• Gu Yueqing acknowledged she had been unable to explain why her cauldron exploded, while Chou Yun Kui and the Pill Dao Academy elders angrily defended her.
• Lin Bai asked Gu Yueqing where Nine Lives Grass came from, and she repeated the Pill Dao Pharmacopoeia’s description of it growing in places of extreme yin.
• Lin Bai declared her answer wrong and explained that Nine Lives Grass grew in places of extreme cold, survived ten years beneath snow before breaking through the soil, and matured after enduring a hundred years of wind and snow.

Lin Bai challenged the Pill Dao Academy’s medicinal canon, explaining that the Nine Lives Grass and Coiling Dragon Root were yin-attributed and that Gu Yueqing’s misunderstanding of them had ruined her pill refinement. When the academy elders and Chou Yun Kui attacked Lin Bai, the Pill Dao Academy’s Dean arrived and stopped them.

• Lin Bai explained that Nine Lives Grass grew best in extreme cold and that the Pill Dao Academy’s extreme-yin cultivation produced weaker medicinal power.
• Lin Bai questioned Gu Yueqing about Coiling Dragon Root and corrected her claim that its spirituality was yang-attributed, explaining that it was yin-attributed and required a yin-yang balance for pill refinement.
• Lin Bai revealed that Gu Yueqing’s use of the Coiling Dragon Root and Nine Lives Grass had allowed yin energy to overwhelm the Holy Yang medicinal power and ruin her batch of pills.
• Chou Yun Kui and the Pill Dao Academy elders became enraged and charged at Lin Bai, threatening to punish him.
• The Pill Dao Academy Dean appeared, blasted the attackers away, and drew respectful greetings from Gu Yueqing, Chou Yun Kui, Fan Yitong, and the gathered martial artists.