Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai obtained a Heaven Spirit Embryo to nurture a life-saving clone and found the Sword Formation Tower, which could advance his Flying Sword Dao. After learning that he must master its first-level formation before progressing, he left the Divine Creation Palace when Fisherman told him a friend was urgently calling.

• Fisherman explained the Heaven Spirit Embryo's value and helped Lin Bai place his blood, a soul fragment, and a bone into it to nurture a clone.
• Lin Bai sensed the embryo's vitality and learned from Fisherman that it could eventually serve as a second life.
• Fisherman gave Lin Bai the Sword Formation Tower and explained how Flying Sword Dao users could wield sword formations with their flying swords.
• Lin Bai entered the tower, learned about the first-level Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation, and found that he had to defeat a puppet before reaching the second level.
• Lin Bai left the tower and returned to Fisherman, who reminded him of his agreement concerning the Blood Demon and said a friend was urgently calling for him.
• Fisherman sent Lin Bai out of the Divine Creation Palace.

Lin Bai returned from the Divine Creation Palace to learn that the Heaven Bell had rung eight times, signaling a crisis across the Eastern Ridge. Divine Relic Ridge’s leaders revealed that the Five Venoms Sect had returned and slaughtered the royal clans of nearly every dynasty, while Bai Xiaoxiao feared for the Divine Martial Nation; Lin Bai asked how the Sect Masters planned to respond.

• Lin Bai left the Divine Creation Palace and learned from Jian Ruohan that the Heaven Bell had rung eight times, so he rushed back to Divine Relic Ridge with her and Bai Xiaoxiao.
• At the Five Peaks, Kang Yiyang summoned Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, and Bai Xiaoxiao to a meeting of Divine Relic Ridge’s leaders and elders.
• Ye Wuhuan explained that distress signals had reported attacks across the Eastern Ridge and that a dying messenger had identified the returning Five Venoms Sect as the attacker.
• Ye Wuhuan revealed that the royal clans of nearly all Eastern Ridge dynasties had been slaughtered, and Bai Xiaoxiao anxiously asked whether the Divine Martial Nation had survived.
• Lin Bai asked Ye Wuhuan and the other Sect Masters what they intended to do about the Five Venoms Sect’s return.

Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao rushed back to Lingdong after learning that the Five Venoms Sect had devastated its dynasties, and Lin Bai suspected the attacks served a larger purpose. They reached Divine Martial Nation to find its imperial city in chaos and its palace burning, leaving Bai Xiaoxiao rushing inside to search for her family.

• Dugu Yun and Ye Wuhuan decided to lead Lin Bai and Divine Relic Ridge’s elders to Lingdong, while Zhao Longtu stayed behind to organize reinforcements.
• At Saint Night Dynasty, Ling Wu reported that the Five Venoms Sect had slaughtered the imperial clans of multiple Lingdong dynasties.
• Lin Bai left with Bai Xiaoxiao to return to Divine Martial Nation, while Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun sent elders to defend the remaining imperial clans.
• After traveling nonstop for seven days, Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao saw refugees fleeing Divine Martial Nation’s imperial city and the palace burning.
• Bai Xiaoxiao cried out for her imperial father and flew into the imperial palace.

Lin Bai discovered that Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang had led the slaughter of Divine Martial Nation’s imperial family, then comforted Bai Xiaoxiao as she mourned her parents and relatives. They found the Fifth Princess alive in a secret chamber, where a gravely wounded man welcomed Lin Bai’s return.

• Lin Bai found a dying Chu Family Army soldier, whose memories revealed Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang had attacked the imperial city and killed the imperial family despite Chu Jiangliu and Spirit Sword Sect reinforcements.
• Lin Bai found Bai Xiaoxiao grieving over Bai Huatian and the Old Ruler, and vowed to take revenge on Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang.
• Bai Xiaoxiao searched the palace and mourned her dead siblings and relatives while Lin Bai stayed beside her.
• Bai Xiaoxiao opened a secret chamber in the Fifth Princess’s residence, and Lin Bai stopped his sword when he realized the person inside was Xiao Wu.
• Bai Xiaoxiao reunited with the Fifth Princess, while Lin Bai found a badly wounded, one-armed man in the chamber who said he had waited for Lin Bai to return.

The Five Venoms Sect Leader planned to lure Divine Relic Ridge’s leaders to the Fengyun Dynasty and attack them with poison while securing a divine bone. In the Divine Martial Nation, Lin Bai reunited with Bai Xiaoxiao and the wounded Chu Jiangliu, and Bai Xiaoxiao quickly restored order to the imperial capital.

• Xuan Bo reported that Lin Bai had returned to Lingdong and that Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang had attacked the Divine Martial Nation’s royal clan.
• The Five Venoms Sect Leader ordered the Five Venoms Sect’s forces to gather in the Fengyun Dynasty, spread Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder, and send the Blood Venom Guard to draw in Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun.
• Lin Bai found Bai Xiaoxiao, the Fifth Princess, and the badly wounded Chu Jiangliu in a secret chamber in the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial capital.
• Chu Jiangliu told Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao that Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang had massacred the Chu Family Army and attacked the royal clan.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered troops to secure the imperial capital, gather and bury the dead, and bring the frontier garrisons near the city.

After learning that the Five Venoms Sect had gathered in Fengyun Dynasty and that Miao Shang was there, Lin Bai and Bai Xiaoxiao discussed their next steps. Bai Xiaoxiao chose to become empress and lead Divine Martial Nation toward unifying the world, while Lin Bai promised to support her and continue growing stronger.

• Jian Ruohan told Lin Bai that Five Venoms Sect martial artists and Miao Shang had gathered in Fengyun Dynasty, and that Divine Relic Ridge’s experts were heading there to confront them.
• Lin Bai learned that Famous Sword Manor had escaped the Five Venoms Sect’s attacks and urged Jian Ruohan to warn Jian Qianqiu to prepare for danger.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered Chu Jiangliu to carry out her plans to rebuild Divine Martial Nation’s defenses, then told Lin Bai she wanted to become empress and unify the world.
• Bai Xiaoxiao apologized for abandoning their plan to leave the Martial World together, but Lin Bai embraced her and encouraged her to pursue her ambition.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Lin Bai promised to support each other as she remained to lead Divine Martial Nation and he continued forward to grow stronger.

Bai Xiaoxiao declared herself Emperor Xiao and took control of the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial forces with Lin Bai’s support. Lin Bai then left her to rebuild the capital’s defenses and returned to the Spirit Sword Sect, where Ji Bei welcomed him as the elders discussed the crisis.

• Bai Xiaoxiao sat on the dragon throne and declared herself emperor of the Divine Martial Nation, while Chu Jiangliu and Lin Bai pledged their allegiance.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered the execution of generals who opposed her ascension, and Lin Bai killed them, securing her control of the troops around the capital.
• Bai Xiaoxiao began restoring the imperial city’s defenses as Lin Bai departed for the Spirit Sword Sect to check on its condition.
• A Spirit Sword Sect disciple initially challenged Lin Bai but recognized him, apologized, and led him to the Elders Council.
• Ji Bei and Ji Bai welcomed Lin Bai, and Ji Bei invited him to sit beside him.

Lin Bai told Ji Bei that Divine Relic Ridge had entered Eastern Ridge in force to confront the Five Venoms Sect, then traveled to the Fengyun Dynasty as its imperial capital faced an approaching army. As Miao Shang prepared a trap for the attackers, Ye Wuhuan ordered a direct assault and accepted that innocent people in the city would die.

• Lin Bai reassured Ji Bei about the Divine Martial Nation, described the devastation across Eastern Ridge and Divine Relic Ridge’s intervention, and told the Spirit Sword Sect to stay alert for the Five Venoms Sect.
• Ji Bei explained that the Spirit Sword Sect had absorbed rival forces and become the Divine Martial Nation’s leading sect, but had no news of Jian Xuan.
• Lin Bai left for the Fengyun Dynasty, where Miao Shang and Chancellor Xu prepared the Void-Sealing Formation and Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder for the approaching forces.
• Dugu Yun and Ye Wuhuan arrived outside the Fengyun imperial capital with the Saint Night Dynasty’s army and Divine Relic Ridge’s forces, but their spirit boats were stopped by the Void-Sealing Formation.
• Ye Wuhuan ordered formation masters to break the formation and commanded his forces to kill everyone in the imperial city, despite Dugu Yun’s warning that many residents were innocent.

Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun led an assault on the Fengyun Imperial Capital, where the Five Venoms Sect used Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder and Blood Venom Guards to resist them. As Dugu Yun faced three fighters empowered by Blood Venom Pills, Lin Bai and a mysterious boy carrying a rusted sword arrived outside the capital.

• Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun ordered the Saint Night Dynasty's army and Divine Relic Ridge's martial artists to attack the Fengyun Imperial Capital.
• Miao Shang released Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder, weakening the attackers, and sent Five Venoms Sect disciples to drive them back.
• Dugu Yun cleared the poison with a sword strike and opened a path into the city for the attacking forces.
• Miao Shang sent three Blood Venom Guards, who swallowed Blood Venom Pills and gained temporary Sky Realm power before charging at Dugu Yun.
• Lin Bai arrived at the battlefield, followed by a ragged boy carrying a painting tube that concealed a rusted sword.

Lin Bai and the leaders of Divine Relic Ridge and the Saint Night Dynasty retreated from the Fengyun Dynasty after confronting the Five Venoms Sect’s Blood Venom Guards and Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder. A young man Lin Bai had met before arrived at their camp with a pill that he said could neutralize the poison.

• Lin Bai joined Ye Wuhuan and learned that the Five Venoms Sect’s Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder was weakening their warriors.
• Three Blood Venom Guards used pills to gain temporary Sky Realm strength and fought Dugu Yun.
• Ye Wuhuan ordered a retreat, and Dugu Yun reported heavy casualties and thousands of warriors poisoned by the yellow smoke.
• A young man arrived claiming he could neutralize the powder, and Lin Bai recognized him as the person who had cured Lin Yue’s Serpent Heart Poison.
• The young man handed Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun a pill and said it could neutralize the poison.

Mo Qing offered Dugu Yun and Ye Wuhuan pills that could dispel the Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder, but they remained wary and summoned alchemists to examine them. Lin Bai learned that Mo Qing was a Poison Master from outside East Ridge who had come to study the Five Venoms Sect’s poisons, and the sect leaders postponed their decision until the alchemists arrived.

• Mo Qing gave Dugu Yun and Ye Wuhuan a jade bottle of pills and suggested they test one or have an alchemist examine it.
• Ye Wuhuan asked Mo Qing to stay while he summoned alchemists from the Divine Relic Ridge Pill Dao Academy and sought more powerful experts.
• Lin Bai visited Mo Qing, who explained that he was a Poison Master from outside East Ridge and had come to study the Five Venoms Sect’s three strange poisons.
• Mo Qing told Lin Bai he wanted to refine a poison that no one could dispel.
• Lin Bai told Jian Ruohan, Dugu Yun, and Ye Wuhuan that he thought Mo Qing could be trusted, but Dugu Yun and Ye Wuhuan chose to wait for the alchemists.

Mo Qing’s pill neutralized the Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder, and he gave Divine Relic Ridge its formula without asking for payment. A private exchange revealed that Mo Qing was the heir of the Poison God Family and Dugu Yun was a direct descendant of the Dugu branch of the Sword God Family, while Dugu Yun’s reason for coming remained unresolved.

• The alchemists from the Pill Dao Academy of Divine Relic Ridge arrived, and Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, and Mo Qing went to see whether Mo Qing’s pill could pass inspection.
• Gu Yueqing examined Mo Qing’s pill, and a martial artist swallowed it and recovered his cultivation as the poison was neutralized.
• Mo Qing gave Ye Wuhuan the pill formula for free, explaining that he had come to study the Five Venoms Sect’s extraordinary poisons.
• Mo Qing hinted that he knew Dugu Yun’s origins, and Dugu Yun assured Ye Wuhuan that the formula was safe.
• On a Lonely Mountain, Mo Qing revealed that he was the Poison God Family’s heir and said he had come because the Five Venoms Sacred Ancestor had betrayed the family.
• Mo Qing asked whether Dugu Yun had come for Lin Duo, and Dugu Yun fell silent without answering.

After Mo Qing’s antitoxin pills protected the attackers from the Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder, Divine Relic Ridge and the Saint Night Dynasty army broke into Fengyun Imperial City. Miao Shang sent out ten Blood Venom Guards, and Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, and Dugu Yun flew to confront them.

• The alchemists from the Pill Dao Academy refined and distributed more than a hundred thousand Antitoxin Pills over seven days.
• Chancellor Xu told Miao Shang that the three Blood Venom Pill users had died, and Miao Shang dismissed their deaths as an expected effect of the pills.
• Miao Shang learned that Divine Relic Ridge had attacked again and ordered the Merit-Dissolving Deathly Powder released.
• The attackers took Mo Qing’s pills, resisted the poison, killed the Five Venoms Sect disciples who charged out, and entered the city.
• Miao Shang ordered ten Blood Venom Guards to attack, and they drove the invading martial artists back with their Sky Realm strength.
• Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, and Dugu Yun took antitoxin pills and flew toward the city gates to fight the Blood Venom Guards.

Lin Bai and the Divine Relic Ridge experts attacked the Blood Venom Guards at the imperial capital’s gate, while Miao Shang revealed that he had destroyed the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial clan. Miao Shang and Chancellor Xu fled into the mountains, where a vast Living Dead Legion appeared beneath an empress on a White Bone Dragon Throne.

• Lin Bai, Jian Ruohan, and Dugu Yun fought the Blood Venom Guards, killing several with ease.
• Miao Shang taunted Lin Bai by claiming he had personally dealt with the Divine Martial Nation’s imperial clan, then attacked him with the Five Venoms Immortal Palm.
• Lin Bai shattered Miao Shang’s attack, and Chancellor Xu fled while Miao Shang turned and ran from Lin Bai.
• Lin Bai explained that he had driven Miao Shang toward someone waiting in the mountains.
• Nearly a hundred thousand corpses emerged from the mountains, and Dugu Yun recognized the Living Dead Legion as Jian Ruohan announced that the woman on the White Bone Dragon Throne had arrived.

Bai Xiaoxiao arrived with an army of corpses and killed Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang for their crimes against the imperial families. She declared that she would ascend the throne of the Divine Martial Nation as Emperor Xiao, while Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun agreed to help eliminate the Five Venoms Sect.

• Bai Xiaoxiao confronted Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang, who recognized her and prepared to fight.
• Bai Xiaoxiao ordered the corpses to attack, and they overwhelmed Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang.
• Chancellor Xu and Miao Shang begged for mercy, but Bai Xiaoxiao ordered the corpses to tear them apart until they died.
• Bai Xiaoxiao met Jian Ruohan, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Lin Bai on the city wall as Ye Wuhuan's forces entered the city and the Five Venoms Sect's disciples fled.
• Bai Xiaoxiao announced that she would become the ruler of the Divine Martial Nation, rename the dynasty Emperor Xiao, and hold her enthronement ceremony in three years.
• Ye Wuhuan told Lin Bai that the Five Venoms Sect's leaders were missing from Wind and Cloud Imperial City, leaving only their Saint Son behind.

Lin Bai and the others realized the Five Venoms Sect had lured Divine Relic Ridge’s forces away to seize the divine bone. They rushed back too late, and Hua Yuxian’s group took the bone just as they arrived.

• Bai Xiaoxiao suspected the Five Venoms Sect’s attack was a trap, and Lin Bai and Dugu Yun realized the divine bone was the sect’s target.
• Lin Bai and Dugu Yun suspected Hua Yuxian had revealed the divine bone’s location and hurried back to Divine Relic Ridge with Ye Wuhuan, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Jian Ruohan.
• The group found Zhao Longtu absent from Divine Relic Ridge and traveled through the Crimson Immortal Sect battlefield toward the divine bone.
• Dugu Yun revealed that he had left more than a thousand Spirit Puppets and three Sky Realm Spirit Puppets guarding the divine bone.
• Zhao Longtu, Hua Yuxian, Blade Fiend, and more than five thousand hidden agents defeated the Spirit Puppets, and Hua Yuxian took the divine bone.
• Lin Bai and the others arrived to find the Spirit Puppets’ corpses and confirmed that the Five Venoms Sect had seized the divine bone.

Hua Yuxian and Zhao Longtu revealed themselves as Five Venoms Sect members after Dugu Yun, Ye Wuhuan, and Lin Bai returned to Divine Relic Ridge. As Hua Yuxian fled with the divine bone, Lin Bai recognized the Demon Sword in the Blade Fiend’s hands and faced another revealed traitor: the Fist Dao Academy’s Dean.

• Hua Yuxian and Zhao Longtu learned that Dugu Yun, Ye Wuhuan, and Lin Bai had returned, and they prepared to force their way out with the divine bone.
• Hua Yuxian admitted the Five Venoms Sect had plotted for twenty years to seize the divine bone, while Zhao Longtu urged the others to submit to the sect.
• Ye Wuhuan attacked Hua Yuxian, but the Blade Fiend blocked him with the Demon Sword, which Lin Bai recognized.
• Hua Yuxian escaped using Dark Serpent Flash, and Dugu Yun pursued her while Zhao Longtu moved to stop him.
• The Fist Dao Academy’s Dean confronted Lin Bai and revealed himself as another Five Venoms Sect member.

Lin Bai and his allies fought Blade Fiend, Zhao Longtu, the Fist Dao Academy’s dean, and thousands of warriors while trying to stop Hua Yuxian from escaping with the divine bone. Lin Bai broke through the dean’s attack to go after Hua Yuxian, but the dean rose from his wounds and renewed their duel.

• Blade Fiend led more than five thousand warriors against Lin Bai and his allies, while he, Zhao Longtu, and the Fist Dao Academy’s dean each engaged a different opponent.
• Ye Wuhuan urged the others to stop Hua Yuxian from leaving with the divine bone, but Jian Ruohan and Bai Xiaoxiao remained pinned down and Dugu Yun could not break free.
• Lin Bai told Ye Wuhuan to reclaim the Demon Sword from Blade Fiend, then summoned his flying sword to attack the Fist Dao Academy’s dean.
• Lin Bai’s sword barrage wounded the dean and sent him flying, but the dean survived and charged Lin Bai to avenge his grandson.
• The dean unleashed the Five Saints Mock Heaven Scripture’s Myriad Evils Extinguishing Fist, and Lin Bai countered with Do Not Ask.

Lin Bai killed the Fist Dao Academy Dean and pursued Hua Yuxian, but Meng Po intervened and helped her escape Divine Relic Ridge. Lin Bai returned to the First Peak, where he learned Zhao Longtu had been captured and planned to question him about the Five Venoms Sect and the divine bone.

• Lin Bai used Don't Ask, One Sword to kill the Fist Dao Academy Dean, then left the battle to pursue Hua Yuxian.
• Lin Bai caught up with Hua Yuxian near the Nine Academies and demanded to know whether the Five Venoms Sect's undertaking required a divine bone.
• Meng Po appeared and blocked Lin Bai's attack with a serpent formed from her power.
• Meng Po trapped Lin Bai with nine black serpents, then escaped with Hua Yuxian while Lin Bai fought his way free.
• Lin Bai returned to the First Peak and learned the Blade Fiend had escaped, Zhao Longtu had been captured, and the other Five Venoms Sect agents had been killed.
• Lin Bai asked Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun to bring Zhao Longtu to him so they could learn the Five Venoms Sect's plans and headquarters.

Lin Bai, Dugu Yun, and Ye Wuhuan interrogated the captured Zhao Longtu and learned that the Five Venoms Sect had planted three hundred agents in Divine Relic Ridge. The chapter ended with them discovering that more than two hundred agents had risen to high-ranking positions, including sect master and academy dean roles.

• Ye Wuhuan questioned Zhao Longtu about his ties to the Five Venoms Sect, while Dugu Yun explained how Lin Duo had spared him twenty years earlier.
• Zhao Longtu confessed that he had joined Divine Relic Ridge as one of three hundred Five Venoms Sect agents sent to search for the divine bone, and named the dean of the Fist Dao Academy as another agent.
• A hidden agent among the high-ranking elders tried to kill Zhao Longtu, but Lin Bai killed him with a sword strike.
• Zhao Longtu wrote down the names of the three hundred agents, and Ye Wuhuan and Dugu Yun realized that over two hundred had become high-ranking elders, sect masters, or academy deans.