Chapter Summaries

After reading Xiang Yun’s Ten-Step Sword, Lin Bai spent five days cultivating it before challenging the eleven-win Man-Tearing Lion in the Reincarnation Field. The chapter ended as the match was announced, with gamblers expecting Lin Bai to lose and Su Xianmei watching anxiously.

• Lin Bai studied Xiang Yun’s Ten-Step Sword and learned that its five levels progressed from Ten-Step Kill to Slaughtering Gods with a Thought.
• Lin Bai devoted the five days before his duel to cultivating the sword art.
• Xing Hai confirmed that Lin Bai’s opponent was the Man-Tearing Lion, and Lin Bai vowed to make him regret laughing.
• Lin Bai entered the Reincarnation Field and coldly exchanged taunts with the Man-Tearing Lion before Xing Shu announced their match.
• Gamblers bet heavily on the Man-Tearing Lion, while Su Xianmei watched Lin Bai from a private room and worried about his challenge.

Lin Bai fought and killed the Man-Tearing Lion in the Reincarnation Field, avenging his senior brother Xiang Yun. After the victory was announced, Lin Bai left the arena.

• Xing Shu began the match, and Lin Bai immediately drove the Man-Tearing Lion back with a series of powerful sword attacks.
• The Man-Tearing Lion revealed his golden lion form and taunted Lin Bai, prompting Lin Bai to reveal that he was Xiang Yun’s junior brother.
• Lin Bai charged the Man-Tearing Lion and used “Ten-Step Kill” to behead him in a single strike.
• Lin Bai walked into the passageway, saying he had avenged Xiang Yun with Xiang Yun’s sword technique.
• Xing Shu announced Heaven Rank 9527’s victory.

Lin Bai defeated the Man-Tearing Lion, then spent a month consuming Spirit Awakening Fluid to advance his Aurora Intent to the late stage. He returned to the Reincarnation Field for his third battle, where he faced the twenty-five-win Demon Red Mane.

• Lin Bai killed the Man-Tearing Lion, and the beautiful youth ordered a Demon to secretly investigate Heaven Rank 9527's origins.
• Su Xianmei left the Reincarnation Field after watching Lin Bai win, while the beautiful youth followed her and arranged the investigation.
• Lin Bai consumed all the Spirit Awakening Fluid in his Storage Bag and narrowly advanced his Aurora Intent to the late stage.
• Xing Hai summoned Lin Bai for his third battle, and Lin Bai went with him to the arena.
• The beautiful youth predicted that Red Mane would kill Lin Bai, but Su Xianmei doubted him as the fighters took their places and Xing Shu began the match.

Lin Bai killed Red Mane with one sword and announced that he would fight three opponents in a row the next day. He then defeated all three challengers in quick succession, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Lin Bai killed Red Mane with a single sword, and Xing Shu declared him the victor.
• Lin Bai told Xing Hai he would fight three battles in a row the next day, and Xing Shu announced the challenge to the crowd.
• Nearly four million spectators gathered the next morning to watch Lin Bai's successive fights.
• Lin Bai killed his first opponent with one sword and called for the next challenger.
• Lin Bai slew his second opponent after the man unleashed a flurry of attacks.
• Lin Bai killed a fifty-win fighter before he could finish introducing himself, then left the arena.

After breaking through to the seventh level of the Yin Saint Realm, Lin Bai spent three months studying the sword marks before returning to the arena to fight ten opponents in succession. His first opponent was the two-hundred-win Ghoul, whose Hell of Ghouls trapped Lin Bai in a prolonged battle that ended with the Ghoul summoning an Asura King.

• Lin Bai broke through to the seventh level of the Yin Saint Realm and began studying the sword marks in his room.
• After three months, Lin Bai asked Xing Hai to arrange ten consecutive fights for him that day.
• At the arena, Lin Bai learned that spectators had given him the title Sword Demon in advance and saw that his first opponent was the two-hundred-win Ghoul.
• The Ghoul attacked Lin Bai with his Hell of Ghouls, forcing Lin Bai to evade at range for half an hour.
• Lin Bai charged toward the Ghoul, who summoned a hundred-meter-tall Asura King that cleaved down at him.

Lin Bai defeated the ghoul and nine other opponents, then spent a month fighting in the Reincarnation Field until he reached the eighth level of the Yin Saint realm and earned 351 victories. When he resumed studying the stone wall’s sword marks, they flew toward him, and he wondered if their secret was slaughter.

• The ghoul summoned the Asura King, but Lin Bai destroyed it with one sword and then killed the ghoul with the Ten-Step Sword.
• Lin Bai stayed in the arena and killed nine more opponents, earning ten victories that day.
• Lin Bai returned to his residence, noted his cultivation and Aurora Intent breakthroughs, and continued trying to understand the stone wall’s sword marks.
• Over the next month, Lin Bai fought ten battles nearly every day and absorbed the demonic blood of almost three hundred Demon Race experts.
• Lin Bai reached the eighth level of the Yin Saint realm and accumulated 351 victories, becoming famous as the Sword Demon in the Reincarnation Field.
• The sword marks detached from the wall and slashed toward Lin Bai, who endured their pain and wondered whether their secret was slaughter.

Lin Bai struggled to understand his Slaughter Intent and decided to seek its meaning through combat. At the Reincarnation Field, he faced Green Armor, whose famed tortoiseshell defense was challenged by Lin Bai’s demon sword, Zihuang.

• Blood from Lin Bai’s robes stirred the sword marks into a storm of shadows, helping him glimpse the beginnings of Slaughter Intent.
• Lin Bai spent half a month pondering his intent while Xing Hai repeatedly visited, then agreed to accept the challenges sent by nearly five hundred Reincarnators.
• Lin Bai decided he would pursue the meaning of Slaughter Intent through slaughter because contemplation had brought him no answers.
• Xing Hai brought Lin Bai to the battleground, where Xing Shu announced Green Armor as his first challenger.
• Green Armor hid inside his tortoiseshell armor and mocked Lin Bai, who kicked him into a wall before drawing Zihuang, the demon sword.

Lin Bai fought through the Reincarnation Field while seeking to understand the meaning of slaughter, killing every challenger as he pursued Slaughter Intent. After seven days and seven nights, Xing Shu and Xing Hai pulled him from his trance when he had reached 999 victories, leaving him stunned by the corpses and the shocked crowd around him.

• Lin Bai killed Green Armor after rejecting his surrender, then asked Blood Wave and the next challenger what slaughter meant before killing them too.
• Lin Bai continued defeating challengers, rejecting their different explanations of slaughter and insisting on fighting beyond his scheduled ten battles.
• Xing Hai approved Lin Bai’s continued fights as he remained absorbed in comprehending Slaughter Intent and defeated more than a hundred opponents.
• Lin Bai fought for seven days and seven nights, during which his cultivation advanced to the ninth level of the Yin Saint Realm.
• Xing Shu and Xing Hai forcibly ended Lin Bai’s trance after he reached 999 victories, and Lin Bai looked around in astonishment at the corpses and the millions of spectators.

After fighting for seven days and seven nights, Lin Bai discovered he had reached the ninth layer of the Yin Saint Realm and earned 999 victories in the Reincarnation Field. He chose to face the deadly final battle in ten days, then began preparing to leave and continue pursuing the Slaughter Intent.

• Lin Bai learned from Xing Hai that he had fought without awareness for seven days and seven nights, reached the ninth layer of the Yin Saint Realm, and won 999 battles.
• Xing Hai explained that Lin Bai’s ten-step domain had protected him while he was lost in his comprehension.
• Lin Bai asked Xing Hai to arrange his thousandth battle, and Xing Hai warned that nobody had ever survived the final fight.
• Lin Bai confirmed that he would fight the final battle in ten days, and Xing Hai wished him luck.
• Lin Bai reflected on his incomplete comprehension of the Slaughter Intent, resolved to leave the Reincarnation Field, and began recovering for the fight.

Lin Bai reached the Thousand-Win Battle, where he learned he had to face all twelve Reincarnation Envoys to win his freedom. The envoys introduced themselves and told him that defeat meant serving the Reincarnation Field forever or dying.

• The Thousand-Win Battle drew millions of spectators to the Reincarnation Field as Lin Bai prepared for the final fight.
• Xing Hai led Lin Bai to the arena, where Xing Shu revealed that the Twelve Reincarnation Envoys were his opponents.
• Lin Bai recognized Xing Shu, Xing Hai, and Xing Hu among the twelve envoys, who had each lost a previous Thousand-Win Battle and chosen to serve the arena.
• The envoys introduced themselves, including Xing She, Xing Niu, Xing Hou, Xing Wu, Xing Mo, Xing You, Xing Xu, Xing Tu, and Xing Long.
• Xing Shu told Lin Bai that victory would grant him freedom, while defeat would leave him to choose between eternal service and death.

Lin Bai learned that his thousand-victory battle required him to defeat the Twelve Reincarnation Envoys to earn his freedom, while losing meant death or a life serving the Reincarnation Field. He resolved to knock them all down, and the battle began when Xing You attacked.

• Xing Shu explained that Lin Bai had to defeat the Twelve Reincarnation Envoys to leave, while losing left him the choice of joining them or dying.
• Lin Bai considered whether he could escape after joining the envoys, then concluded he had to defeat them all.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword, signaling his resolve as the Twelve Reincarnation Envoys prepared to fight and spectators watched.
• Lin Bai told Xing Shu he would adapt to circumstances and said he planned to knock every envoy flat.
• Xing You launched the first attack against Lin Bai with a force like collapsing mountains and overturning seas.

Xing You attacked Lin Bai with his Light Splitting Intent and initially knocked him down, but Lin Bai revealed his Ten-Step Kill technique and nearly slew him. Xing Shu rescued Xing You at the last moment, leaving Lin Bai facing both the danger of the interrupted duel and the interference of another opponent.

• Xing You unleashed a storm of black lightning and wind, then blasted Lin Bai over five hundred meters with the explosive power of his Light Splitting Intent.
• Bai Hou identified Xing You as the former Light Emperor, while Bai Ling claimed he could kill him within a hundred moves.
• Lin Bai told Xing You that he had also cultivated a light-based Intent and charged in, intending to draw him within ten steps.
• Xing Hai warned that Lin Bai's Ten-Step Kill made the space within ten steps an absolute domain, but Xing You continued closing in.
• Lin Bai unleashed Ten-Step Kill and slashed toward Xing You's throat, but Xing Shu emerged from underground and dragged Xing You out of the sword's path.

Lin Bai fought the Twelve Reincarnation Envoys and was overwhelmed by their coordinated attacks, so he used their confidence against them. He forced Xing She and Xing Shu to concede, then turned to face the remaining envoys.

• Xing Shu intervened to save Xing You from Lin Bai’s near-fatal sword strike.
• The Twelve Reincarnation Envoys revealed that Xing You had been testing Lin Bai and attacked him together.
• The envoys battered Lin Bai until he decided to lure them into his ten-step absolute domain.
• Lin Bai baited Xing She into striking him from behind, then trapped her and Xing Shu with simultaneous sword attacks.
• Xing She and Xing Shu conceded, and Lin Bai turned toward the remaining Reincarnation Envoys.

Lin Bai forced Xing She and Xing Shu out of the arena with a twin-sword attack, then faced Xing Mo’s Pocket Trapping Immortal Formation and the assault of Xing Hu and Xing You. He shattered the formation, drove Xing You to surrender, and sent Xing Hu flying, though Xing Hu survived by blocking with his ax.

• Lin Bai used two swords to force Xing She and Xing Shu out of the arena, revealing his Twin-Sword Style to Xing Hai and Xing Long.
• Xing Mo trapped Lin Bai in the Pocket Trapping Immortal Formation and sent Xing Hu and Xing You to attack him.
• Lin Bai unleashed black light from his sword and shattered Xing Mo’s formation in an instant.
• Xing You surrendered and left the arena, while Xing Hu blocked Lin Bai’s Ten-Step Kill with his ax and was sent flying.
• Xing Hu complained about Xing Mo’s formation, and Xing Mo angrily admitted that Lin Bai had broken through it instantly.

Lin Bai shattered Xing Mo’s formations and defeated Xing Hu, bringing the number of Reincarnation Envoys he had beaten to five. As Xing Niu, Xing Hou, Xing Wu, and Xing Tu launched a combined assault, Lin Bai faced the next challenge.

• Xing Mo activated 108 powerful formations, but Lin Bai destroyed them with one sword strike, and Xing Mo admitted defeat.
• Lin Bai attacked Xing Hu and shattered his axe with a barrage of sword strikes; Xing Hu surrendered before Lin Bai’s Ten-Step Kill could reach him.
• With Xing She, Xing Shu, Xing Mo, Xing You, and Xing Hu defeated, Lin Bai faced the seven remaining Reincarnation Envoys.
• Xing Niu, Xing Hou, and Xing Wu attacked Lin Bai with overwhelming force, and Xing Tu joined them with twin blades.

Lin Bai used his hidden Hundred-Step Kill to turn back the combined attack of five Reincarnation Envoys and force them all to surrender. The spectators were left stunned, while Bai Ling suspected Lin Bai had deliberately concealed the technique until the five were caught off guard.

• Xing Wu, Xing Hou, Xing Tu, Xing Niu, and Xing Xu attacked Lin Bai from five directions, believing their combined force would defeat him.
• Lin Bai revealed his sword intent and challenged the five to kill him, then vanished as he unleashed the second layer of Ten-Step Sword, Hundred-Step Kill.
• Lin Bai's sword struck at all five Reincarnation Envoys, breaking Xing Niu's defense and reaching each of their throats.
• Xing Niu, Xing Tu, Xing Wu, Xing Hou, and Xing Xu each surrendered to escape Lin Bai's sword.
• The spectators and Bai Huang, Bai Hou, and Bai Ling were stunned, and Bai Ling wondered whether Lin Bai had hidden his technique to catch the five off guard.

Lin Bai defeated Xing Hou and the other Reincarnation Envoys, while Xing Hai surrendered without fighting and left Xing Long as his final opponent in the Thousand-Victory Battle. Xing Long drew the Mountain River Sword and revealed that he knew the full extent of Lin Bai’s sword arts and intents.

• Lin Bai’s sword strike forced Xing Hou, Xing Niu, Xing Wu, Xing Xu, and Xing Tu to surrender, and Xing She and Xing Hu mocked them afterward.
• Xing She and Xing Hu pointed out Xing Hai and Xing Long as Lin Bai’s remaining opponents, warning that Xing Long was the greater threat.
• Xing Hai surrendered without fighting and explained that he had recognized Lin Bai was too strong, while trusting Xing Long to face him alone.
• Xing Long told Lin Bai why Xing Hai had surrendered, then drew the Mountain River Sword and described its origins and forging material.
• Xing Long praised Lin Bai’s swordsmanship and named the sword arts and intents he had mastered, surprising Lin Bai by revealing he had also heard about Lin Bai’s Slaughter Intent.

Xing Long explained the nature of the Slaughter Intent, helping Lin Bai realize that it arose from the intent to kill within one's heart. When Xing Long challenged him to fight for his freedom, Lin Bai awakened the Slaughter Intent and attacked him.

• Lin Bai questioned Xing Long after he recognized the origins of several sword arts and martial intents.
• Xing Long described slaughter in many forms and told Lin Bai to ask himself what slaughter meant.
• Lin Bai realized that his earlier battle lacked the intent to kill, and understood that the Slaughter Intent began in the heart and manifested through blood.
• Xing Long demanded that Lin Bai kill him if he wanted freedom, and Lin Bai's killing intent awakened the Slaughter Intent across the Reincarnation Field.
• Lin Bai attacked Xing Long with the Aurora Intent, but Xing Long shattered his attacks and countered with a fierce sword thrust.

Lin Bai and Xing Long clashed with their Slaughter Intents and fought fiercely in the Reincarnation Field. Xing Long unleashed Life Severing Sword Qi, and Lin Bai recognized it as matching the sword marks in Heaven Rank 9527's room, but Xing Long did not explain the connection.

• Xing Long revealed his Slaughter Intent and attacked Lin Bai, insisting that Lin Bai would remain a slave in the Reincarnation Field.
• Lin Bai declared that he had to leave to find his parents and avenge Ye Suxin, then unleashed his own Slaughter Intent against Xing Long.
• Lin Bai and Xing Long fought as their sword strikes scarred the Reincarnation Field, while Bai Ling watched and admitted he would need to fight them to know whether he could win.
• Xing Long called for the fight to decide victory and defeat, then unleashed Life Severing Sword Qi.
• Lin Bai recognized that Xing Long's sword strike matched the marks in Heaven Rank 9527's room and asked what connection Xing Long had to it, but Xing Long did not answer.

Lin Bai defeated Xing Long in the final battle of the Reincarnation Field’s Thousand-Victory Battle and won his freedom, though he failed to learn whether Xing Long had left the sword scars in Room Heaven Rank 9527. The Demon Emperor and Eight Sovereigns invited Lin Bai to a banquet, and Xing Hai warned him that the factions would try to recruit him and that the gathering was a trap.

• Lin Bai used the Ancient God Scripture to withstand Xing Long’s sword and met his attack with Hundred-Step Kill, and their clash left the arena buried in dust.
• When the dust cleared, Lin Bai was standing and Xing Long lay gravely wounded, conceding the battle and declaring Lin Bai free to leave.
• Lin Bai asked Xing Long whether he had made the sword scars in Room Heaven Rank 9527, but Xing Long left without answering.
• Xing Hai and the other Reincarnation Envoys revealed that Xing Long had been the first of them and that he could not leave the Reincarnation Field, but Xing Hai refused to explain why.
• A eunuch invited Lin Bai to a banquet hosted by the Demon Emperor and Eight Sovereigns, and Xing Hai warned him that the gathering was a Hongmen banquet.