Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai effortlessly defeated Wei Feng after Wei Feng insulted him, then accepted Jian Ruohan’s invitation to speak privately. He gave her an Ascension Fruit and explained that it could transform her martial soul into a Transcendent Soul, leaving her stunned by the gift’s value.

• Lin Bai grabbed Wei Feng and wounded his face, then released him after Jian Ruohan reminded him they had important matters to discuss.
• Lin Bai told Wei Feng to learn proper conduct before criticizing others, and Wei Feng apologized in fear.
• Lin Bai went with Jian Ruohan to her boudoir while Wei Feng and Ye Jianqiu discussed Lin Bai’s extraordinary strength and recent arrival at Divine Relic Ridge.
• Lin Bai sealed the room and gave Jian Ruohan an Ascension Fruit as repayment for her help on Martial Intent Mountain.
• Lin Bai explained that the fruit could break the shackles of a martial soul and create a Transcendent Soul, astonishing Jian Ruohan.

Lin Bai gave Jian Ruohan an Ascension Fruit, which transformed her Ice Soul Divine Sword into the Extreme Ice Sword Soul and greatly increased her cultivation. Jian Ruohan thanked Lin Bai and realized she now had the power to catch up with him.

• Jian Ruohan hesitated to accept the precious Ascension Fruit, but Lin Bai insisted that she keep it because it was useless to him.
• Jian Ruohan swallowed the Ascension Fruit while Lin Bai watched over her, and its energy entered her Ice Soul Divine Sword.
• After more than three hours, Jian Ruohan's soul transformed into the Extreme Ice Sword Soul, and her cultivation surged from the fifth level of the Heaven Core Realm to great completion.
• Jian Ruohan tested her new soul by freezing the room, nearly freezing Lin Bai before she noticed his distress and withdrew its power.
• Jian Ruohan thanked Lin Bai for the Ascension Fruit, and Lin Bai predicted her new soul would let her advance rapidly.

Lin Bai joined Jian Ruohan and the others at the monthly Saint Son Challenge Day to observe Ye Jianjun's strength, but no challenger appeared. As Lin Bai prepared to leave, Ye Jianjun sent Meng Yue to invite him to the Holy Son's Mansion, making his hostile intentions clear.

• Lin Bai agreed to accompany Jian Ruohan, Ye Jianqiu, and the others to the First Peak to watch Ye Jianjun fight.
• Jian Ruohan explained that Ye Jianjun had defeated Ji Guan five years earlier and had not shown his full strength since, while Wen Shi, Yan Yu, and Chu Yue served as his trusted aides.
• Lin Bai met Kang Yiyang and Kang Shiyun, and learned that no one had challenged Ye Jianjun for a year because the likely challengers were unavailable or allied with him.
• After waiting until sunset without seeing anyone challenge Ye Jianjun, Lin Bai and his companions prepared to leave.
• Meng Yue approached Lin Bai and invited him to the Holy Son's Mansion on Ye Jianjun's behalf, while Ye Jianjun watched with a smile that alarmed the others.

Lin Bai was summoned to the Holy Son's Mansion, where Chu Yue threatened his friends and the Spirit Sword Sect to make him comply. Lin Bai entered alone and faced a hostile Ye Jianjun beside Ke Han's memorial tablet, while Jian Ruohan and Kang Yiyang waited outside for help.

• Chu Yue invited Lin Bai to the Holy Son's Mansion and threatened to target his friends and the Spirit Sword Sect if he refused.
• Lin Bai agreed to go, warned Chu Yue not to harm his companions, and admitted that he had killed Ke Han.
• Jian Ruohan tried to accompany Lin Bai, but Chu Yue stopped her; Kang Yiyang sent Kang Shiyun to alert her father and followed Lin Bai with Jian Ruohan.
• Chu Yue led Lin Bai into the mansion, where Ye Jianjun, Wen Shi, and Yan Yu awaited him beside Ke Han's memorial tablet.
• Jian Ruohan prepared to enter the mansion, but Kang Yiyang urged her to wait for his father to arrive.

Lin Bai confronted Ye Jianjun in the Holy Son's Mansion over Ke Han's death and refused to kneel or apologize. Chu Yue attacked him with the Mountain Shatterer Gauntlets, and as their clash shook the mansion, Jian Ruohan rushed inside while Kang Yiyang worried about the consequences.

• Ye Jianjun explained how Ke Han had repeatedly saved and helped him, then demanded that Lin Bai kneel before Ke Han's memorial tablet and accept his death.
• Lin Bai argued that Ke Han had tried to kill him and that he had done nothing wrong by fighting back.
• Chu Yue attacked Lin Bai, and Lin Bai countered with the Supreme Sword technique God-Slaying.
• After thirty exchanges, Chu Yue donned the Mountain Shatterer Gauntlets and struck Lin Bai with a powerful punch.
• Lin Bai used his flying sword technique to meet Chu Yue's punch, shaking the Holy Son's Mansion with their clash.
• Jian Ruohan rushed into the mansion despite Kang Yiyang's warning, leaving him anxious about her risking a capital offense.

Lin Bai was overwhelmed after Wen Shi and Yan Yu joined Chu Yue, but an unknown White-Robed Woman arrived and wounded Wen Shi with a single icy sword strike. She landed beside Lin Bai, leaving Chu Yue and Yan Yu facing a powerful new opponent.

• Wen Shi joined Chu Yue in attacking Lin Bai, and Lin Bai brought out his Azure Flame Gourd, Bloodflame War God Armor, and Restriction Banners to resist them.
• Yan Yu entered the fight, and the three men destroyed Lin Bai's defenses and sent him crashing into the ground with severe injuries.
• Lin Bai rose and counterattacked Chu Yue, but Wen Shi seized the opening and thrust his spear toward Lin Bai's dantian.
• A woman used Extreme Ice Sword Soul and One Sword... Seals the Heavens to strike Wen Shi, freezing and shattering his left arm.
• The White-Robed Woman landed beside Lin Bai as Chu Yue and Yan Yu reacted in alarm.

Jian Ruohan intervened when Ye Jianjun tried to kill Lin Bai in the Holy Son's Mansion, and she and Lin Bai joined forces with the Telepathic Sword Formation to escape. Ye Jianjun overwhelmed Jian Ruohan, but as he moved to kill her, Lin Bai attacked with the Emperor's Heart Sword, startling Ye Jianjun.

• Jian Ruohan arrived to protect Lin Bai and revealed that she had gained a Transcendent Soul from the Ascension Fruit he gave her.
• Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan linked their minds through the Telepathic Sword Formation and drove Chu Yue and Yan Yu back as they tried to flee.
• Ye Jianjun drew the Crimson Emperor Sword and struck at the pair, but Jian Ruohan turned to hold him off and was badly wounded.
• Ye Jianjun prepared to kill Jian Ruohan, so Lin Bai attacked him with a powerful sword strike.
• Ye Jianjun recognized the sword in Lin Bai's hand as Li Ze's Emperor's Heart Sword and demanded to know how Lin Bai had obtained it.

Lin Bai used the broken Emperor's Heart Sword to unleash a devastating strike against Ye Jianjun, but Ye Jianjun emerged unharmed and prepared to kill Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan. As Lin Bai's Demon Seed began to sprout, Peak Lord Kang Xiao intervened and knocked Ye Jianjun back.

• Ye Jianjun recognized Li Ze's Emperor's Heart Sword and tried to claim it, while Lin Bai used its second of three attacks against him.
• Lin Bai's Sword Heart...One Thought devastated the Holy Son's Mansion, but left Lin Bai gravely wounded and Ye Jianjun completely unharmed.
• Ye Jianjun announced that he would kill Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan, and Lin Bai stood up despite his injuries to face him.
• A green sprout emerged from the seed in Lin Bai's pupils as he prepared to fight Ye Jianjun to the death.
• Peak Lord Kang Xiao arrived, struck Ye Jianjun's sword aside, and sent him flying backward.

Kang Xiao and Wen Yue arrived at the Holy Son's Mansion to protect Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan from Ye Jianjun, who was preparing to fight them. Just as Wen Yue urged Ye Jianjun to end the matter, Sect Master Zhao Longtu appeared and declared that Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan had violated Divine Relic Ridge's rules.

• Kang Xiao arrived with Kang Shiyun and Kang Yiyang, stopped Ye Jianjun from attacking Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan, and said he would protect Lin Bai because of the Kang Family's debt to him.
• Ye Jianjun challenged Kang Xiao, and the two prepared to fight as Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan learned that Kang Xiao had once been the Five Peaks' Holy Son.
• Wen Yue arrived with Bai Xiaoxiao and asked Ye Jianjun to let the matter end; Bai Xiaoxiao rushed to Lin Bai, who made what he thought were his final requests.
• Kang Xiao and Wen Yue reaffirmed that they would protect Lin Bai, while Wen Yue and Kang Xiao recalled their past connection.
• Zhao Longtu appeared atop the mansion's ruins and argued that Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan had to be punished for violating the rules.

Zhao Longtu and Ye Wuhuan declared Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan guilty of trespassing and backed Ye Jianjun’s right to execute them. Dugu Yun arrived with Sword Dao Institute elders and vowed to protect Lin Bai, bringing all three Sect Masters into the confrontation.

• Zhao Longtu appeared at Holy Son’s Mansion and accused Lin Bai of wrongdoing, then challenged Ye Wuhuan to decide his fate.
• Ye Wuhuan declared that Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan had committed a capital crime, and Zhao Longtu urged Ye Jianjun to execute them.
• Ye Suxin protested her father’s decision while Ye Wuhuan remained unmoved.
• Dugu Yun arrived with Pei Ji, Lin Baoyu, and Xue Qing and openly declared that he would shield Lin Bai.
• Dugu Yun said Lin Bai’s mastery of the complete Supreme Sword was worth protecting even at the cost of his own life.

Dugu Yun defended Lin Bai and hinted that he could take Ye Jianjun’s Holy Son position, prompting Lin Bai to agree to a life-or-death duel with Ye Jianjun in half a year. After recovering at the Kang Family Estate, Lin Bai reaffirmed his goal and told Dugu Yun he had comprehended the eighth form of the Supreme Sword; he then said he had a request.

• Dugu Yun declared that Ye Jianjun might lose the Holy Son position in two years, and Lin Bai claimed he would become unrivaled on Divine Relic Ridge within half a year.
• Ye Jianjun challenged Lin Bai to fight for the Holy Son position in half a year, with the loser required to kneel and beg for mercy; Lin Bai accepted a life-or-death duel on the third day of the ninth month.
• Zhao Longtu and Ye Wuhuan left, while Bai Xiaoxiao helped Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan leave the Holy Son's Mansion, and Dugu Yun sent Pei Ji to escort them back to the Sword Dao Institute.
• At the Kang Family Estate, Lin Bai thanked Kang Xiao, Wen Yue, and Dugu Yun for their help and said the Kang Family's debt to him was settled.
• Lin Bai told Dugu Yun that he had comprehended the eighth form of the Supreme Sword and would claim the Holy Son position within half a year, then said he had a request.

Lin Bai learned that Kang Xiao was Divine Relic Ridge’s greatest artifact refiner and entrusted him with repairing Emperor’s Heart Sword. Afterward, Lin Bai gave Bai Xiaoxiao an Ascension Fruit, which she prepared to eat so her spirit could transcend Heaven’s Mandate.

• Lin Bai asked Dugu Yun to help find someone who could repair Emperor’s Heart Sword, and Wen Yue revealed that Kang Xiao was Divine Relic Ridge’s number one artifact refiner.
• Kang Xiao agreed to examine Emperor’s Heart Sword and took it into seclusion, though he warned Lin Bai that he might not be able to repair the grandmaster-forged weapon.
• Bai Xiaoxiao left the Kang Family Estate with Lin Bai and Jian Ruohan, then teased Lin Bai about his closeness to Jian Ruohan and Kang Shiyun.
• Lin Bai brought Bai Xiaoxiao to Tempest Cave and gave her an Ascension Fruit, explaining that it could transform her spirit beyond Heaven’s Mandate.
• Bai Xiaoxiao decided to eat the Ascension Fruit while Lin Bai waited to see what her spirit would become.

Bai Xiaoxiao consumed the Ascension Fruit and awakened the powerful Nethergod Seal, then told Lin Bai about her time in Southern Ridge and her decision to abandon her ambition to become emperor. They agreed to seek a quiet life together after finding Lin Bai’s parents, though Lin Bai remained burdened by the Giant God Race.

• Bai Xiaoxiao’s Martial Authority Seal shattered after she consumed the Ascension Fruit, and she awakened the Nethergod Seal as her cultivation rose to the ninth level of the Heaven Core Realm.
• Bai Xiaoxiao tested the Nethergod Seal’s command over Lin Bai, but his Devouring Sword Soul resisted its pressure.
• Bai Xiaoxiao told Lin Bai that her grandmother had taken her to Southern Ridge, where she saw a thriving martial world filled with experts and powerful dynasties.
• Bai Xiaoxiao said she had abandoned her ambition to become emperor and wanted to find Lin Bai’s parents before settling somewhere peaceful with him.
• Lin Bai agreed to their plan but ended the chapter thinking of the Giant God Race as an enemy he still had to face.

Lin Bai prepared for his six-month agreement to defeat Ye Jianjun by focusing on cultivation and beginning to comprehend the Ancient God Scripture. After spending all his points on body-tempering pills without reaching its entry stage, he received word that Gong Chan had found the seller of the Eternal Sand.

• Lin Bai planned to raise his cultivation to the pinnacle of the Heaven Core Realm before facing Ye Jianjun and entering the Divine Creation Palace.
• Bai Xiaoxiao left Tempest Cave with Lin Bai's map to explore the Crimson Immortal Sect battlefield while he secluded himself to study the Ancient God Scripture.
• Lin Bai spent half a month organizing the scripture's teachings about cultivating physical strength and flesh rather than spiritual power.
• Lin Bai spent more than fifty million points on body-tempering pills, but despite growing to three meters tall, he still had not reached the Ancient God Scripture's entry stage.
• Gong Chan told Lin Bai she had found the seller of the Eternal Sand and arranged a meeting for the next afternoon at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

Lin Bai met Jin Liang and the All-Seeing Eyes team to ask about the golden sand, then agreed to join them on an expedition to find its source and a rumored Spirit Herb Garden. After learning that the team’s dead former member, Ke Han, had been favored by the Holy Son, Lin Bai suspected the expedition could be dangerous and began planning to prepare.

• Gong Chan introduced Lin Bai to Jin Liang and his five sworn brothers, the treasure hunters known as the All-Seeing Eyes.
• Jin Liang refused to reveal where the team had found the golden sand, but offered to take Lin Bai there on their next trip.
• Jin Liang revealed that the site might contain a large Spirit Herb Garden, and Lin Bai agreed to join the expedition departing in three days.
• Lin Bai thanked Gong Chan with a token worth one hundred thousand points, and she warned him that the team might not protect him if danger arose.
• Gong Chan told Lin Bai that the team’s deceased former member was Ke Han, a favorite of the Holy Son, and Lin Bai resolved to prepare carefully before leaving.

Lin Bai discovered that Jin Liang had led him to Crimson Immortal Sect’s inner sect Treasures Pavilion, where Jin Liang’s group hoped to learn about the Eternal Sand. The group entered a hidden canyon containing two intact mountains of rare spirit medicines and ores, while Lin Bai secretly left behind a streak of black light.

• Lin Bai checked Crimson Immortal Sect’s map and realized their destination was the inner sect Treasures Pavilion.
• Jin Liang told his companions to let Lin Bai find something valuable before attacking him, so he would not become suspicious and flee.
• Jin Liang brought Lin Bai to a ruined area and had Ling Yu open the concealment formation hiding a canyon.
• Lin Bai followed the group through the portal and secretly left behind a streak of black light.
• Lin Bai saw a mountain of rare spirit medicines and a mountain of ores, including Eternal Sand, and wondered why they remained intact.

Jin Liang brought Lin Bai to two treasure mountains and tried to learn the origin of the golden sand, but Lin Bai saw through the trap and fled. Jin Liang and his companions pursued him as Wen Shi ordered them to kill Lin Bai before he could escape.

• Jin Liang explained that powerful restrictions protected the spirit medicines and divine metals on the two treasure mountains.
• Lin Bai questioned why the treasures had been left in plain sight and pointed out that their spiritual nature had continued to grow.
• Jin Liang and the other five pressed Lin Bai to reveal what he knew about the golden sand, but Lin Bai refused and suddenly fled toward the mountain.
• Jin Liang ordered his companions to pursue Lin Bai and told Wen Shi through a Sound Transmission Talisman that Lin Bai had entered the array.
• Wen Shi blamed Jin Liang for the failed ambush and ordered the group to kill Lin Bai, while Jin Liang revealed his ambition to seize the treasures and overthrow Ye Jianjun.

Ye Jianjun’s allies plotted to kill Lin Bai at the treasure mountain, while Lin Bai reached Spirit Herb Mountain and was struck back by its powerful formation guardian. Surrounded by Wen Shi, Jin Liang, and nearly thirty peak Heaven Core Realm warriors, Lin Bai refused to flee and faced them.

• Ye Jianjun told Yan Yu and Chu Yue that his true self wanted him to guard the treasure mountain and wait for his arrival in Dongzhou.
• Lin Bai ignored Jin Liang’s pursuit and rushed toward Spirit Herb Mountain, hoping to collect spirit medicines and advance his cultivation.
• A demon tiger formed from the mountain’s black mist struck Lin Bai and knocked him off the stone path.
• Wen Shi arrived with nearly thirty peak Heaven Core Realm warriors, and Jin Liang and five other allies joined him to confront Lin Bai.
• Jin Liang revealed that the All-Seeing Eyes served Ye Jianjun, and Wen Shi admitted that they had eliminated potential rivals to support him.
• Lin Bai rejected Wen Shi’s claim that he would die and declared that he was not going to escape.

Lin Bai broke through Spirit Herb Mountain’s restrictions with the Purple Cloud Sword and devoured its precious herbs to raise his cultivation. After reaching the seventh level of the Heaven Core Realm, he prepared to face Wen Shi and Jin Liang, just as Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao finally arrived.

• Lin Bai used the Purple Cloud Sword to breach Spirit Herb Mountain’s restrictions, while Ling Yu mistook it for a Formation Breaking weapon.
• Lin Bai broke through the restrictions around spirit herbs and swallowed them directly, including a seventy-thousand-year-old Netherworld Divine Spirit Flower and a ninety-thousand-year-old Bone-Eating Mysterious Mushroom.
• The formation spirit stopped Wen Shi, Jin Liang, and their companions from pursuing Lin Bai as he consumed more herbs and advanced to the seventh level of the Heaven Core Realm.
• Lin Bai turned to confront Wen Shi and Jin Liang, saying he could now fight a Heaven Core Realm grand completion cultivator.
• Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao arrived beneath the treasure mountains, and Lin Bai angrily asked why they had taken so long.
• Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao released their powerful auras as they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao arrived to help Lin Bai, and Wen Shi ordered Ling Yu’s group to fight the women while he and Jin Liang went after Lin Bai. Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao overwhelmed their attackers with their Transcendent Souls, leaving Ling Yu’s forces at the mercy of Bai Xiaoxiao’s corpse puppets.

• Wen Shi recognized Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao, then ordered Ling Yu to attack them while he and Jin Liang went to kill Lin Bai.
• Jian Ruohan charged into Ling Yu’s group and killed several martial artists with her ice-powered sword.
• Bai Xiaoxiao summoned the Nethergod Seal and raised the martial artists Jian Ruohan had killed as corpse puppets.
• The corpse puppets turned on Ling Yu and his companions, and Bai Xiaoxiao ordered them to slaughter the group.
• Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao acknowledged each other’s formidable Transcendent Souls.