Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan killed all the fourth- and fifth-level Spirit Puppets, leaving the remaining third-level puppets for the other disciples. After they split the fifth-level spirit crystals, Jian Ruohan asked Lin Bai to stop calling her Miss Jian Ruohan and use a more familiar name instead.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan charged into the Spirit Puppet horde and killed all eight fifth-level Spirit Puppets while the disciples watched in awe.
• After half an hour, Lin Bai told Ruan Jinhui that the fourth- and fifth-level Spirit Puppets were gone and left the third-level puppets to the disciples.
• Ling Shuang, Ruan Jinhui, and Lu Rui compared their spirit crystals and lamented how many Lin Bai had collected.
• The disciples finished killing the remaining Spirit Puppets, and Lin Bai divided the eight fifth-level spirit crystals evenly with Jian Ruohan.
• Jian Ruohan returned her four crystals to Lin Bai and asked him to call her Ruohan, Han'er, or Ruo Ruo instead of Miss Jian Ruohan.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan reaffirmed their friendship after fighting together, and their teamwork impressed Senior Brother Ruan. The chapter ended with Senior Brother Ruan offering them a two-person Telepathic Sword Formation.

• Lin Bai returned the spirit crystals to Jian Ruohan and accepted her offer of friendship, while Jian Ruohan told him she would stand by him as a friend.
• The escort team regrouped, and Senior Brother Ruan revealed that Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan had killed most of the powerful spirit puppets at the rear.
• Lin Bai said he had obtained seventy-eight fourth-grade spirit crystals and helped Jian Ruohan kill eight fifth-grade spirit puppets, astonishing Qianshan Yun and Red Tiger.
• Jian Ruohan explained that Lin Bai had won the East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator competition after she invited him to participate.
• Senior Brother Ruan praised Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan's coordination and offered them a two-person Combined Sword Formation called the Telepathic Sword Formation.

Senior Brother Ruan taught Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan the dangerous Telepathic Sword Formation, which could let them defeat stronger Spirit Puppets. After three days of practice, the pair reached fifth-grade Martial Intent, and Senior Brother Ruan realized they had successfully cultivated the formation.

• Senior Brother Ruan explained that the Telepathic Sword Formation could backfire if its users lost focus but could help Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan kill sixth-grade Spirit Puppets, so they agreed to learn it.
• Senior Brother Ruan orally taught Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan the formation's mental formula, incantations, sword steps, and other details.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan spent three days comprehending the formation while Ling Shuang kept Lin Bai from joining fights against Spirit Puppets.
• During a rest, the disciples celebrated reaching third-grade Martial Intent, while Ling Shuang revealed she had collected more than a hundred fourth-grade spirit crystals and reached the peak of fourth grade.
• Senior Brother Ruan noticed that Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan had reached fifth-grade Martial Intent, and their expressions confirmed to him that they had cultivated the Telepathic Sword Formation.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan broke through to fifth-order martial intent while cultivating the Telepathic Sword Formation. When a Spirit Puppet horde overwhelmed the middle of the group, they joined the battle to face the more than a hundred Fifth-Level Spirit Puppets the others could not handle.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan discovered that their minds and martial intent resonated, then broke through to fifth order while cultivating the sword formation.
• The group encountered thousands of Spirit Puppets, and Ling Shuang, Qianshan Yun, Ruan Jinhui, and the others charged into the battle while Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan held back.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan agreed to save their strength for stronger Spirit Puppets and watched as the team fought the Fourth- and Fifth-Level opponents.
• More than a hundred additional Fifth-Level Spirit Puppets appeared and sent the guard team reeling, forcing Ruan Jinhui to call for Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan's help.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan charged into the battlefield together, while Qianshan Yun and Red Tiger watched in anticipation of their strength.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan swept through the battlefield, killing the level-five and level-six Spirit Puppets before teaming up to defeat a level-seven Spirit Puppet with the Telepathic Sword Formation. They returned to the team and left the remaining battlefield to Ruan Jinhui and the others, who were stunned by their strength.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan charged into the battlefield and quickly killed more than one hundred and fifty level-five Spirit Puppets, leaving Ling Shuang, Red Tiger, and Qianshan Yun to watch.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan joined forces to kill a level-six Spirit Puppet, then continued hunting the remaining level-six Spirit Puppets.
• A level-seven Spirit Puppet ambushed Lin Bai, and Jian Ruohan joined him to fight it, but its strength overwhelmed them.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan activated the Telepathic Sword Formation and killed the level-seven Spirit Puppet with a combined attack.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan returned after clearing the level-five and level-six Spirit Puppets, and Ruan Jinhui recognized the power of their Telepathic Sword Formation.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan’s group encountered Hua Jingcheng and the Blood Sword Squad, who claimed the Spirit Puppet tide for themselves. As Ruan Jinhui led the alliance away rather than challenge them, Lu Rui revealed Lin Bai’s spirit-crystal haul to Hua Jingcheng.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan finished fighting, and Ruan Jinhui’s team began collecting the remaining Spirit Puppets.
• Hua Jingcheng arrived with the Blood Sword Squad and ordered the alliance to surrender the battlefield.
• Ruan Jinhui identified Hua Jingcheng as a powerful Sword Ranking expert and chose to yield the Spirit Puppets and leave.
• Lu Rui approached Hua Jingcheng and told him that Lin Bai possessed many fifth- and sixth-level spirit crystals, as well as a seventh-level one.

Lu Rui betrayed Lin Bai’s alliance by revealing his spirit crystals to Hua Jingcheng, hoping to join the Blood Sword Squad. Zhang Yun demanded Lin Bai’s crystals and the women in the alliance, but the alliance rallied behind Lin Bai and prepared to fight.

• Lu Rui told Hua Jingcheng that Lin Bai possessed valuable spirit crystals and asked to join the Blood Sword Squad.
• Hua Jingcheng sent Lu Rui and Zhang Yun to demand Lin Bai’s spirit crystals, while Zhang Yun threatened the alliance.
• Lu Rui called on Lin Bai to surrender the crystals and urged Jian Ruohan and Ling Shuang to submit to Zhang Yun.
• Zhang Yun demanded the spirit crystals and the two women, threatening to kill the alliance if they refused.
• Red Tiger, Ling Shuang, and the alliance’s disciples rejected Zhang Yun’s demands and rallied for a fight.
• Ruan Jinhui answered Zhang Yun that the alliance was ready for a bloody clash.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan accepted Zhang Yun and Song Huan’s challenge, wagering their spirit crystals against safe passage. They launched separate attacks using the Telepathic Sword Formation, and Lin Bai vanished just as Zhang Yun’s sword was about to strike him.

• Zhang Yun and Song Huan taunted the alliance’s warriors and offered to spare them if someone defeated them.
• Jian Ruohan stepped forward to fight, and Lin Bai joined her, proposing that they face Zhang Yun and Song Huan together.
• Hua Jingcheng approved the challenge, and Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan secretly activated the Telepathic Sword Formation to coordinate their plan.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan charged separately at Zhang Yun and Song Huan, surprising the onlookers.
• Zhang Yun thrust his sword at Lin Bai, but Lin Bai vanished from beneath the incoming blade.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan killed Song Huan and Zhang Yun through coordinated attacks, but Hua Jingcheng refused to honor the agreement and turned on them. The alliance warriors charged the Blood Sword Squad as a battle erupted at Martial Intent Mountain.

• Lin Bai used the Nine Revolution Sword Step to appear behind Song Huan, and Jian Ruohan took advantage of the opening to destroy Song Huan's phantom body.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan joined forces against Zhang Yun, and Lin Bai cut off Zhang Yun's head, destroying his phantom body.
• Ruan Jinhui asked Hua Jingcheng to let Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan leave, but Hua Jingcheng threatened to kill them and pursue them at the Sword Dao Institute.
• The alliance warriors charged Hua Jingcheng and the remaining Blood Sword Squad members, starting a bloody battle.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan joined forces against Hua Jingcheng, using their secret techniques and Telepathic Sword Formation to suppress the eighth-order Sword Ranking expert before his Thousand Shadows technique wounded them and turned the tide. Hua Jingcheng charged at them again, his full power unleashed.

• Ruan Jinhui refused Lin Bai's request to take the alliance martial artists away and urged Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan to target Hua Jingcheng.
• Jian Ruohan used her Ice God World secret method to restrict Hua Jingcheng while Lin Bai attacked with the first revolution of the Nine Revolution Sword Step.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan coordinated through the Telepathic Sword Formation and temporarily suppressed Hua Jingcheng despite their fifth-order strength.
• Hua Jingcheng unleashed his Thousand Shadows secret method, grievously wounding Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan and sending them flying.
• Hua Jingcheng charged at the wounded pair with his eighth-order Martial Intent fully unleashed.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan used their combined sword formation to suppress Hua Jingcheng, then also fought Ning Yunlong to a standstill. After mockery from the watching martial artists, Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong agreed to join forces against them.

• Lin Bai comprehended the third form of the Myriad Swords Technique but could not use it through his phantom body, then saved Jian Ruohan from Hua Jingcheng with his two-handed sword.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan combined their sword techniques and the Ice God World to suppress Hua Jingcheng despite his greater Martial Intent stage.
• Ning Yunlong, a Fist Ranking expert at the eighth stage of Martial Intent, attacked Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan but was also suppressed by their combined assault.
• Hua Jingcheng proposed that he and Ning Yunlong join forces after hidden martial artists mocked Ning Yunlong for struggling against two fifth-stage fighters.
• Ning Yunlong agreed to join Hua Jingcheng, and the two vowed to defeat Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan within three moves.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan were overwhelmed by Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong, but Lin Ling and the Alliance martial artists sacrificed their chances to stay in Martial Intent Mountain and shield them. They urged Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan to escape and grow stronger, leaving the pair stunned by the Alliance’s support.

• Ning Yunlong and Hua Jingcheng joined forces and sent Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan flying with their first attack.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan accepted that they could not win and prepared to be expelled from the battlefield.
• Lin Ling blocked Hua Jingcheng’s sword strike for Lin Bai, then vanished after urging him to seize the opportunity to fight Spirit Puppets.
• Senior Brother Ruan tried to hold off Ning Yunlong, but Ning Yunlong shattered his phantom body.
• Ling Shuang, Red Tiger, Qianshan Yun, and the other Alliance martial artists formed a wall between Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan and their enemies, urging them to escape.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan escaped Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong with the alliance warriors’ sacrifice, and Lin Bai swore to avenge them by strengthening his martial intent. After advancing to sixth-stage martial intent and hunting Spirit Puppets, they received a bounty message from Zhu Kun seeking a Spirit Puppet marked with the character “Order.”

• The alliance warriors held off Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong, allowing Jian Ruohan to lead Lin Bai away as he vowed to return and kill them all.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan escaped across the Gobi, and Lin Bai resolved to raise his martial intent and avenge the fallen alliance warriors.
• Jian Ruohan gave Lin Bai her share of their spirit crystals, and Lin Bai refined them to break through to sixth-stage martial intent.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan hunted seventh-level Spirit Puppets for more than ten days, but Lin Bai only advanced to the middle stage of sixth-stage martial intent.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan received Zhu Kun’s bounty message offering one thousand seventh-level spirit crystals for information about a Spirit Puppet bearing the character “Order.”
• Jian Ruohan identified Zhu Kun as a Sword Ranking prodigy and one of the Nine Swords of Yun Hai.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan discovered that a special Spirit Puppet carried the Ascension Token and chose to claim it rather than accept the bounty. When the Blazing Sun Celestial Palace was announced to open in three hours, Lin Bai became a beacon for every warrior seeking the token, and Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong arrived to confront them.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan received five bounties from top-ranked academy experts seeking the Spirit Puppet marked 'Token,' and Jian Ruohan suspected it was connected to the Ascension Palace.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan spotted the Token Spirit Puppet in a horde of level-five Spirit Puppets and decided to keep its Ascension Token for themselves.
• Jian Ruohan helped Lin Bai defeat the horde, killed the special Spirit Puppet, and gave him the token; it melted into his hand and marked his brow.
• A pillar of light revealed the Blazing Sun Celestial Palace, and a voice announced that token holders could enter it in three hours.
• Jian Ruohan realized Lin Bai's light would draw pursuers, including the top academy experts, and Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong arrived, calling them fools courting death.

Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan fled with the token as Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong pursued them across the Scorching Gobi. Zhu Kun, ranked ninth on the Sword Ranking, arrived and demanded the token, but Lin Bai refused, leaving Zhu Kun attacking him.

• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan fled when Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong appeared, while Jian Ruohan urged Lin Bai to stay alive.
• Martial artists across the Scorching Gobi spotted the token’s light and notified powerful senior brothers from their academies.
• Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong caught up and attacked Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan, who joined forces in the Telepathic Sword Formation to drive Ning Yunlong back.
• Zhu Kun arrived with a massive Sword Qi and revealed that his eighth-rank sword intent surpassed Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong’s combined martial intent.
• Zhu Kun demanded the token and offered to let Lin Bai serve at his side for three years, but Lin Bai refused.
• Zhu Kun drew his sword and attacked Lin Bai.

Zhu Kun, Blade Fiend, Chu Yi, Wu Qing, and Bai Chen gathered with more than a thousand martial artists to claim Lin Bai’s token. When Lin Bai refused to surrender it, four experts attacked him at once, and Jian Ruohan stepped in to shield him.

• Zhu Kun began attacking Lin Bai, but stopped when Blade Fiend arrived; more powerful experts soon joined them.
• Chu Yi, Wu Qing, and Bai Chen arrived, drawing a huge crowd as the top experts from the five academies gathered around Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan.
• The experts demanded Lin Bai hand over his token, while Zhu Kun claimed it belonged to the Sword Dao Academy and Blade Fiend offered Lin Bai protection in exchange for it.
• Lin Bai refused to give up the token and taunted the experts to fight among themselves; they realized he was stalling for time.
• Zhu Kun, Wu Qing, Bai Chen, and Chu Yi attacked Lin Bai together, and Jian Ruohan rushed forward to block Zhu Kun’s strike.

Lin Bai fled as Zhu Kun, Chu Yi, Wu Qing, and Bai Chen pursued him, and Jian Ruohan sacrificed herself to hold them back. After carving through the surrounding warriors and forcing the four experts back with the second form of the Sword Dao Institute's Supreme Sword, Lin Bai continued to flee with thousands in pursuit.

• Lin Bai escaped the four eighth-stage martial-intent experts, while Jian Ruohan used Ice God World to delay them.
• Zhu Kun, Wu Qing, Bai Chen, and Chu Yi attacked together and shattered Jian Ruohan's illusionary body, dispersing her domain.
• Lin Bai vowed to avenge Jian Ruohan and the others who had died, then charged through thousands of warriors sent to stop him.
• Lin Bai cut his way out of the encirclement with his twin swords and several powerful techniques.
• Lin Bai unleashed the second form of the Sword Dao Institute's Supreme Sword, killing hundreds and forcing the four experts back.
• Wu Qing, Zhu Kun, Chu Yi, Bai Chen, and thousands of warriors resumed the chase, beginning a pursuit across the Scorching Gobi.

Lin Bai used his speed and the Spirit Puppets to evade the martial artists pursuing his Ascension Token while waiting for the immortal palace to appear. With fifteen minutes left, the pursuers found him, and Zhu Kun struck Lin Bai so hard that his phantom body began to collapse.

• Lin Bai fled Wu Qing, Chu Yi, Zhu Kun, Bai Chen, and thousands of martial artists, using the Nine Revolution Sword Step to widen the gap.
• Lin Bai charged into a Spirit Tide, discovered that the Spirit Puppets did not attack him, and hid among them as they attacked his pursuers.
• The pursuers entered the Spirit Tide, and Lin Bai used the chaos to stay hidden while watching the immortal palace emerge.
• Zhu Kun, Bai Chen, Wu Qing, and Chu Yi joined forces to clear the Spirit Puppets as the time remaining dwindled.
• A disciple spotted Lin Bai, and Zhu Kun's flying sword struck him, sending him crashing to the ground with his phantom body close to collapse.

Lin Bai escaped the attacks of Zhu Kun, Chu Yi, Wu Qing, and Bai Chen just as the Ascension Bridge appeared and carried him to the Heavenly Palace. He entered the palace while his pursuers vowed to wait for him outside and kill him when he returned.

• Lin Bai used the Nine Revolution Sword Step and his sword techniques to evade the four martial artists as they chased him toward the Heavenly Palace.
• Bai Chen and Wu Qing struck Lin Bai, and Zhu Kun launched a sword attack that seemed certain to kill him.
• The Ascension Bridge descended, shielding Lin Bai from Zhu Kun's sword and allowing him to enter the Heavenly Palace with the Ascension Token.
• Lin Bai celebrated his survival and warned Zhu Kun, Chu Yi, Wu Qing, and Bai Chen that he would kill them after leaving the palace.
• Hua Jingcheng and Ning Yunlong reminded the four that Lin Bai had a Yellow Rank One martial soul, and Zhu Kun swore to wait outside and kill him.

Lin Bai entered the Blazing Sun Celestial Palace and met a mysterious fisherman inside its world. As the fisherman roasted a fish, he began explaining the heavens and earth to Lin Bai, leaving Lin Bai listening closely for guidance.

• Lin Bai ascended the 999 steps and entered the Blazing Sun Celestial Palace, finding a world with an island, a sea, and a fisherman.
• Blade Fiend refused to join Zhu Kun and the others in waiting to ambush Lin Bai, warning them that Lin Bai had stirred up great turmoil in Eastern Ridge.
• The fisherman caught a fish, invited Lin Bai to sit, and revealed that Lin Bai was the 7,200th person to enter the Celestial Palace.
• After the fish remained uncooked for an hour, the fisherman praised Lin Bai's comprehension and began explaining the heavens and earth, martial dao, and the sea of stars.